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Printed Books, Maps & Documents
Polar Travel & Exploration
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PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS
OLD MASTER & MODERN PRINTS
15 JUNE 2017
Manner of Charles Heaphy (1820-1881). View of Lambton Harbour, Wellington, New Zealand, circa 1840, oil on canvas, unsigned,
62 x 74 cm (24.5 x 29 ins), contemporary burr walnut frame
Est: £3,000-5,000
For further information and consignment advice please contact Nathan Winter
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PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS
POLAR EXPLORATION: THE PAUL LYSLEY COLLECTION & OTHER PROPERTIES
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY & NATURAL HISTORY
ANTIQUARIAN HERALDRY, LITERATURE & SCIENCE
10 May 2017
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CONTENTS
Travel & Exploration
1-51
Polar Exploration from Private Collections
52-104
The Paul Lysley Collection of Polar Travel
105-187
British Topography
188-206
Natural History
207-227
Maps
228-330
Decorative Prints & Original Art
331-386
Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera
387-408
Classical Records
409-414
Antiquarian
415-481
Art & Architecture
482-497
General Literature
498-517
Quantity
518-576
Cover illustrations:
Front cover: lot 93
Inside front cover: lot 363
Nash (Joseph). Views of the Interior and Exterior of Windsor Castle, London: Thomas M’Lean, 1848, coloured title and
dedication, 25 chromolithographed plates finished by hand and mounted on card with gold outlines, gutta percha perished,
publisher’s half morocco and blue velvet, rubbed, folio (720 x 530mm)
Abbey, Scenery 360; Tooley 339.
Estimate: £3,000-5,000 (14 June 2017)
FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2017
Thursday 11 May
Motoring, Cycling, Maritime & Railway History
Motoring Collectables & Literature, Bicycles & Models
in association with Transport Collector Auctions
Friday 12 May
Military, Aviation & Naval History, Medals, Arms & Armour
Stamps & Coins
Wednesday 14 June
Printed Books, Maps & Documents
British Topography including Yorkshire
Fine Bookbindings: Renaissance to Arts & Crafts
Decorative Arts & Design
Thursday 15 June
Paintings & Watercolours & Drawings
Old Master & Modern Prints
Ceramics, Oriental Works of Art
Silver, Objets D’Art, Jewellery & Furniture
Wednesday 19 July
Printed Books, Maps & Documents
Thursday 20 July
Modern Literature & First Editions
Children’s & Illustrated Books
Peepshows, Games, Victorian Greetings Cards & Playing Cards
Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
To commence at 10am
Lot 1
Lot 3
1 Anson (George). A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL,
I, II, III, IV... compiled from papers and other materials... by Richard
Walter, 1st edition, 1748, 42 folding engraved maps, plates and
charts, subscribers list, occasional light soiling and a few small
inksplashes, lacking front endpaper, previous owner signature,
small booklabel, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine
relaid, rubbed, 4to
Sabin 1646.
(1)
£400-600
2 Bacon (Reginald). Benin, the City of Blood, 1st edition, London
& New York: Edward Arnold, 1897, half-title, black & white
frontispiece and plates, folding map, 16pp. publisher’s catalogue
at rear, edges untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, light fading to
spine, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
3 Baedeker (Karl). Rheinstein, Erinnerungsblatter fur Alle, welche
die Burg besuchen, 1st edition, Koblenz, 1837, 88 pp., some
spotting and old damp staining throughout, original printed green
paper wrappers, some corner creasing and a little tear at foot of
spine, 12mo
Rare.
(1)
£300-400
4 Baker (Samuel White). The Albert N’Yanza, Great Basin of the
Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 volumes, 1st edition,
1866, portrait frontispiece to volume I, colour lithograph
frontispiece to volume II, two colour maps (one folding), woodengraved illustrations, a few minor spots, volume I frontispiece and
title detaching at gutter, bookplate to volume I (residue from
bookplate removal to volume II), original green cloth gilt, spine ends
a trifle rubbed, one or two corners bent, 8vo, together with The Nile
Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran
Arabs, 1st edition, 1867, portrait frontispiece (top margin partially
excised) two maps (one folding), wood-engraved plates, a few
spots, endpapers renewed, original blue cloth gilt, rebacked with
part of spine relaid, 8vo
5 Baretti (Joseph). A Journey from London to Genoa, through
England, Portugal, Spain, and France, 4 volumes in two, Dublin:
Printed by T. Ewing, 1770, armorial bookplate of Alexander Stewart
of Ards, County Donegal (1827-1904) to upper pastedowns,
contemporary mottled calf, morocco title label to each and gilt
armorial stamp of Alexander Stewart to upper panels of spines,
some insect damage and wear to boards, 12mo
(3)
(2)
Lot 4
£200-300
5
£100-150
Lot 6
6 Blackwood (Lady Alicia). Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea,
2 volumes, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1857, 21 tinted lithographed views
including some double-page and folding, some spotting, dustsoiling and old damp staining, several marginal closed tear repairs,
and some outer corner fraying, authoress’s presentation
inscription to Charles Hort inscribed to upper wrapper and title
upper margin of first volume, original linen-backed printed
wrappers, somewhat soiled and a little creased and frayed at
margins, large folio
Abbey, Travel 242; Blackmer 148.
(2)
£700-1000
7 Blainville (J. de). Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland
and Italy..., Translated... by Dr Turnbull, Mr Guthrie, and others, 3
volumes, 1767, titles printed in red and black, 46 folding engraved
maps and views, some occasional spotting or browning,
contemporary polished calf, gilt-decorated spines, heavily rubbed
and joints cracked, 4to
(3)
£150-200
8 Bourgeois (Charles). [Recueil de vues et fabriques pittoresques
d’Italie], circa 1810, lacking title and preliminaries, 175 uncoloured
engraved views on ninety-six sheets, each with tissue guard, slight
worming to first few leaves, some spotting and staining throughout,
last few pages with erratic pagination, later endpapers, later
quarter calf with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and worn, folio
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
(1)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
6
£500-800
9 Braun (Georg, and Hogenberg, Franz). Civitates Orbis Terrarum,
3 volumes, [1572 - 1618], facsimile edition, published The World
Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1964, numerous
uncoloured prints including some folding, publisher’s cloth gilt,
folio, together with British Museum & Edgeworth Press
(publishers), London, 37 etchings of London Views (1636 - 1667) by
Wenceslaus Hollar, published 1980, thirty-seven uncoloured prints
and panoramas of London, each mounted or stored in ‘envelopes’,
large panorama of London backed with linen, limited edition of
250, descriptive catalogue in pocket on inside board, publisher’s
wood and cloth folio box with brass clasps, large folio, with another
nine volumes of facsimile atlases published by Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum, all folio, and a facsimile of Giambattista Nolli’s ‘Pianta
Grande di Roma; originally published in 1746, large folio
(14)
12 Campbell (Alexander Duncan). A Grammar of the Teloogoo
Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo, Peculiar to the Hindoos
Inhabiting the North Eastern Provinces of the Indian Peninsula. By
A.D. Campbell, of the Honorable East India Company’s Civil Service
of the Madras Establishment, Member of the Board of
Superintendence for the College of Fort St. George, 3rd edition,
Madras: Printed at the Hindu Press, 1849, half-title present, one
folding table, 18 page appendix at rear, hinges repaired,
contemporary half calf, recent reback, board edges worn, 8vo,
together with Rhenius (Rev. C.T.E.), A Grammar of the Tamil
Language, with an Appendix, 3rd edition, Madras: Printed for the
Propietor, by P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press, 1853, hinges
cracked, contemporary half calf, spine worn with loss, 8vo
(2)
£200-300
£100-200
10 Breval (John Durant). Remarks on Several Parts of Europe,
Relating Chiefly to their Antiquities and History. Collected Upon the
Spot in Several Tours Since the Year 1723..., 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition,
1738, 41 (of 43) engraved plates including 21 folding or double-page,
Addenda bound in at rear, old dampstain to lower outer corner of
early leaves and inner margins of final leaves, scattered spotting or
marginal browning, a few closed tears to text leaf margins and one
plate, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, folio
This is a continuation of a work with the same main title published in 1726.
The work here confines itself to descriptions of the antiquities and
monuments of Sicily, Italy and France.
(1)
£300-500
13 Conolly (Lt. Arthur). Journey to the North of India, Overland
from England, through Russia, Persia and Affghaunistaun, 2
volumes, 1st edition, 1834, engraved frontispiece to each, folding
map (with closed tears and reinforcements to verso), bound
without advertisement leaf, occasional light toning, manuscript
shelf numbers to titles, front hinges tender, booklabels,
contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, tear at head of
volume I spine and one corner chipped, 8vo
11 Brooke (T.H.). A History of the Island of St. Helena, from its
discovery by the Portuguese to the year 1806..., printed for Black,
Parry, and Kingsbury, booksellers to the Honorable East-India
Company, 1808, lacking frontispiece, title with Colonial Office
Library oval inkstamp, 6 pages publisher’s advertisements at end,
later cloth, a little rubbed with gilt classification number of foot of
spine, 8vo, together with Forsyth (William), History of the Captivity
of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, 3 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray,
1853, occasional marks, original blindstamp green cloth, modern
reback, with endpapers renewed, covers rubbed and marked, 8vo,
plus others relating to St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Falkland Islands,
etc, including Hudson Ralph Janisch, Extracts from the St. Helena
Records, published St. Helena, Guardian Office, 1885 (modern
rebinding), Edwin F. Hatfield, St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope:
Or, Incidents in the Missionary Life of the Rev. James M’Gregor
Bertram, New York, 1852, Arnold Chaplin, A St. Helena Who’s Who,
2nd edition, 1919, etc., mainly 20th century publications, mostly 8vo
(45)
Yakushi C331. Conolly coined the phrase ‘The Great Game’ to describe
Britain’s imperial rivalry with Russia.
(2)
£300-400
£150-200
7
17 Geographica Classica: The Geography of the Ancients so far
describ’d as is contain’d in the Greek and Latin Classicks, in the
Maps of the Old World... A Collection long wanted, and now
publish’d for the use of schools, 5th edition, printed for
Christopher Browne, and sold by... Mr. Knapton, Mr. Wilkin, Mr.
Bettesworth..., 1727, title printed in red and black, 28 (of 29) doublepage engraved maps, including map of Greece partly folding (frayed
to folds, and with a little loss to central lower edge), lacking number
25, Scriptural Geography, some light marks and minor waterstain
to lower portion towards rear of volume, later green cloth, rubbed
and some wear, with backstrip deficient, small 4to
14 Cook (James). Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the
Pacific Ocean, on Discovery..., a new edition, compared with, and
corrected from, the voyage published by authority, E. Newbery,
1785, half-title, engraved folding frontispiece and folding map
(several closed tears), 9 plates, occasional heavy spotting or light
browning, long closed tear to leaf S1 without loss of text and leaves
S4/5 near detached, ownership inscription of John Rocke Junr.,
Eton, July 1796, to front pastedown, contemporary calf, some wear,
joints cracked and vertical split to spine, 8vo
(1)
£200-300
Based on John Rickman’s ‘Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage’ (1781), but
edited and extensively revised by David Henry and intended to form the
sixth volume of his ‘An Historical Account of all the Voyages Round the
World, Performed by English Navigators’ (1773-75). Uncommon.
(1)
£200-300
15 Davis (John Francis). The Chinese: A General Description of the
Empire of China and its Inhabitants, 2 volumes, circa 1840,
engraved plates, oval ink stamps to titles, some spotting and light
staining to upper inner hinges of volume 1, original cloth gilt,
rubbed, volume 1 slightly damp wrinkled, small 8vo, together with
Seidenfaden (Erik), Guide to Bangkok with Notes on Siam, 1st
edition, Siam, 1927, 2 coloured plans including 1 folding, black and
white illustrations and commercial adverts, original gilt-decorated
limp cloth, rubbed and partly faded on spine, 8vo, plus Crow
(Carl), The Travelers’ Handbook for China (including Hongkong),
3rd revised edition, Shanghai, [1933], folding maps and plans and
commercial adverts at rear, a little soiling, original limp cloth gilt,
rubbed and a little frayed, small 8vo, plus other China, Hong Kong
and Asia travel and guide book interest, mostly 20th century
(40)
18* Goldie (Charles Frederick, 1870-1947). A Warm Day, 1905,
chromolithograph, signed and dated in the image, 40.5 x 32.5cm
(16 x 12.75 ins) mount aperture, with printed title in separate
aperture below, contemporary gilt frame, glazed
(1)
£200-300
19 Hall (Captain Basil). Account of A Voyage of Discovery to the West
Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an Appendix,
containing charts, and various hydrographical and Scientific
Notices... and a Vocabulary of the Loo-Choo Language by H.J.
Clifford, 1st edition, 1818, eight fine hand-coloured aquatint plates
after William Havell, one uncoloured aquatint, one engraved plate,
5 engraved maps, including two folding, some offsetting from maps,
a few light spots, all edges gilt, contemporary full calf, covers with
gilt anthemion border roll, rebacked with original spine relaid, 4to
16
Desnos (Louis Charles). Atlas General Méthodique et
Elémentaire pour l’étude de la Geographie et de l’Histoire
moderne..., published Paris, 1770, decorative double page
engraved title, seven double page engraved plates of globes,
armillary spheres and celestial plans, forty-four double page maps
and fifteen double page maps of regions of France (complete), all
with contemporary outline colouring, bookplate of Mde. Casteele,
President au Parlement de Flandres, contemporary half mottled
calf with gilt decorated spine, some rubbing and wear, folio
(1)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£200-300
Abbey Travel 558. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “Viscountess
Castlereagh, from the Author”. Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh (17721829) was the wife of Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, British Foreign
Secretary from 1812.
(1)
£1000-1500
£2000-3000
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Lot 16
Lot 19
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Lot 20
20 Hamilton (Alexander, Madison, James & Jay, John). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, written in favour of the New Constitution,
as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787, volume II only, 1st edition, New-York: printed and sold by J. and A. M’Lean,
1788, vi + 384 pages, first issue, with Essay No. LXX mis-numbered LXXX, and with the spine lettered ‘2’, final leaf with short-closed tear to
fore-margin, worm track near foot of lower inner margin to the rear endpaper, also affecting the final 3 leaves, and touching a few letters
(without loss of legibility), minor soiling to first and last leaf, original publisher’s paper-backed grey-blue boards, 12mo (162 x 102mm)
Printing and the Mind of Man 234. Sabin 23979. Church 1230. Evans 21127. First edition of the second volume of essays explaining the newly drafted Federal
Constitution of the United States, and described as ‘one of the new Nation’s most important contributions to the theory of Government’ (Printing and the
Mind of Man). This second volume also contains the complete text of the Constitution, together with the resolutions of the Constitutional Convention.
Alexander Hamilton (1739-1802), James Madison (1751-1836) and John Jay (1745-1829) collaborated in the present work to support the new plan of government
by countering the objections of its detractors in a highly detailed and reasoned manner. All copies in original boards are extremely rare. The Garden copy
of both volumes I and II was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 9 November 1989, lot 164, and the Davidson copy was sold at Christie’s New York, 8 December 2015,
lot 243. Christie’s New York sold a further non-matching set on 14 December 2016, lot 134.
(1)
£7000-10000
21 Hillary (Edmund). High Adventure, 1st edition, 1955, colour
frontispiece, maps and illustrations, previous owner inscription to
front pastedown, original cloth (fading at spine ends), dust jacket,
a few chips and tears, 8vo, signed by the author (as “Ed Hillary”)
and George Lowe, 1989 at foot of preface leaf, together with The
Crossing of Antarctica, by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary,
1st edition, 1958, colour and monochrome illustrations, map
endpapers, original blue cloth, spine faded, 8vo, signed by the
authors and George Lowe, plus The Ascent of Everest, by John
Hunt, 1st edition, 1953, illustrations, previous owner inscription,
original cloth, spine a little faded, 8vo, signed by Edmund Hillary
(as “Ed Hillary”) to title, and additionally to dedication leaf along
with George Lowe, Charles Wylie and Alfred Gregory, with other
mountaineering and Tibetan related including Sir Edmund Hillary’s
View from the Summit, 1999, signed, Perceval Landon’s Lhasa, 1st
edition, 1905 and F.S. Smythe’s The Spirit of the Hills, 1935
(20)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
22* India. Jakatallah & Dodabetta, Cannanore, June 1855,
watercolour on paper, signed with initials W.S.H., sheet size 294 x
353mm (11.5 x 14 ins), mounted, with contemporary ink title
inscription pasted to verso, together with another similar
watercolour by the same hand, titled ‘Summit of the Drough’,
Tippoo’s fort on the Neilgherries, Cannanore, March 1855, signed
with initials, and dated 1874, sheet size 295 x 452mm (11.6 x 17.75
ins), mounted, with contemporary ink title mounted to verso, plus
4 large views in India, 2 in brown ink and wash, one in watercolour,
and one in black crayon on paper, after William Hodges’ Views in
India, unsigned, 40.5 x 53.5cm (16 x 21 ins) and similar, each laid
down on early backing card with wash mount, rubbed and some
soiling, mostly to edges, and one other watercolour related drawing
of Indian dancers on wove paper (unfinished)
(7)
£200-300
10
£300-400
Lot 24
23 Johnston (Harry H.). The Uganda Protectorate, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, 1902, 48 colour plates, nine folding maps, a few spots, top
edge gilt, original black cloth, upper covers with inset portrait
blocked in gold, a little rubbed, 4to, together with British Central
Africa. An Attempt to give some account of a portion of the
Territories under British Influence North of the Zambezi, 1st
edition, 1897, maps and illustrations, frontispiece detaching with
marginal repair, a few leaves with repaired tears, Bradford Library
and Literary Society ink stamps, later calf-backed boards, some
fading, 8vo
(3)
24 La Motraye (Aubry de). Travels through Europe, Asia, and into
Part of Africa; Containing a Great Variety of Geographical,
Topographical, and Political Observations on those Parts of the
World..., 3 volumes in 2, volumes 1 & 2 3rd edition, volume 3 1st
edition, 1732, volume 1 with 2 folding maps and 20 (of 28) engraved
plates including 12 folding, volume 2 with 2 folding maps and 8 (of
16) engraved plates, including 4 folding, volume 3 with folding map
and 10 engraved plates including frontispiece (complete), some old
dampstaining and occasional browning, volume 1 with one tiny hole
to text leaf not affecting legibility, one map and two plates with
marginal repairs, one just affecting image, volume 2 with one leaf
torn with some loss to outer corner not affecting text and one map
with marginal repair, repaired fold split and small loss to upper
margin, volume 3 with a little worming to upper margin of last plate
and end matter, armorial bookplate of Balantyre to second volume
(removed from pastedown to volume 1), contemporary mottled calf
gilt, some wear and joints cracked, folio
£150-200
Though lacking sixteen plates, the rarer volume 3 is complete.
(2)
£600-800
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Lot 25
25 Lattre (Jean). Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur
toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre par Plusiers Auteurs, 2
volumes, published Paris, 1762 - 1771, decorative title to each
volume, advertisment and list of contents, one plate of Ptolemaic
spheres and seventy-six (complete as lists) double page engraved
maps by Bonne, Janvier and Rizzi-Zannoni, all with contemporary
outline colouring, hinges and joints weak, contemporary boards,
spines partially lacking, worn and stained, folio
(2)
£2000-3000
26 Liddell (T. Hodgson). China. Its Marvel and Mystery, 1st edition,
1909, 40 colour plates, scattered light spotting, original blue cloth
gilt, spine a little faded with light stains, 4to, together with Russia,
A & C Black, 1913, folding sketch map, colour and monochrome
illustrations, some light spotting, original pictorial cloth, lower
corner bumped, thick 8vo, plus The South American Year-Book
1903-1904, compiled and edited by S.M. Gluckstein, second year
of issue, illustrations and advertisements, some light spotting and
toning, previous owner signature, original red cloth gilt, some
fading to spine, 8vo, with 13 others, mainly A & C Black publications
including Canada, The Holy Land, Italian Lakes, France, Belgium, a
few reprinted
(16)
27* Lindsay (George Topp). View of Port Louis, in the Island of
Mauritius, circa 1810, fine coloured aquatint by T. Sutherland after
George Topp Lindsay, 27.5 x 35cm (10.8 x 13.75 ins) mount aperture,
together with another similar colour aquatint view of Part of the
British Army, forming before Port Louis, Mauritius, 1st December
1810, 23 x 35cm (9 x 13.75 ins) mount aperture, matching old oak
frames, glazed
£100-150
(2)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
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£200-300
28 Livingstone (David). Missionary Travels and Researches in South
Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the
Interior of Africa, 1st edition, 1857, folding tinted lithographed
frontispiece, engraved portrait, two folding maps (one contained
in rear pocket), 8 pp. Murray catalogue at end dated November 1,
1857, one tinted plate and wood-engravings, scattered spotting,
bookplates, hinges broken, original brown blindstamped cloth,
spine a little faded with creases, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
29 MacFarlane (Charles). Our Indian Empire: Its History and
Present State, from the earliest settlement of the British in
Hindostan, to the close of the year 1846, 2 volumes, 1st edition,
1848, frontispiece to each, folding map (with closed tear), woodengraved illustrations, a few spots, volume II lacking rear endpaper,
original red cloth gilt, a few splits to joints and spine ends, 8vo,
together with The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951,
by Eric Shipton, 1st edition, 1952, photographic illustrations,
endpapers with light partial toning, dust jacket, a few chips and
tears, 4to, plus My Khyber Marriage. Experiences of a Scotswoman
as the Wife of a Pathan Chieftain’s Son, by Morag Murray Abdullah,
1st edition, 1934, monochrome frontispiece, a little light spotting,
original cloth (slight fading to extremities), dust jacket, small chips
and creases, 8vo, with other Himalaya and India interest including
Picturesque India, by W.S. Caine, 1890, Bradshaw’s Through Routes
to the Capitals of the World and Obverland Guide to India, Persia
and the Far East, 1903 (ex libris), John Hunt’s Ascent of Everest, 1st
edition, 1953 and Our Everest Adventure, 1954 and Wilfred Noyce’s
South Col, 1954
(36)
£150-200
Lot 30
30 Madagascar. Remarques sur l’Estat de L’Isle Dauphine au commencem[ent] de l’année 1668, contemporary manuscript account in
French on the situation and prospects of the Island of Madagascar, written by an unnamed officer or similar figure in the second fleet sent
to the island by the French Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 36 pages written in a neat italic hand on laid paper, with Jesuit watermark of
a circle with the letters IHS surmounted by a cross, and another watermark of a shield enclosing 3 small double-ruled circles, with the
letters LL above, sheet size 270 x 195mm (10.6 x 7.7 ins), bound in Middle Hill light brown plain boards (by Bretherton, with his printed ticket
to front pastedown, dated 1850), slim folio
Philipps Manuscript 3542. An early and highly important manuscript description of the state of the French Colony in Madagascar, which attempts to put the
record straight in relation to the true prevailing conditions on the island, including the climate, coastal topography, water supply, availability of food and
prevalance of tropical disease. The second fleet consisted of 10 ships which set sail from La Rochelle on March 14th 1666, under the command of the Marquis
de Mondevergue, and included a total of 1589 people, including 421 officers and crew, 212 soldiers, and 956 merchants, settlers and craftsmen. After a long
and hazardous voyage via Brazil and Table Bay, 9 of the 10 ships arrived in early March 1667. The manuscript describes the gradually worsening conditions
for the colonists, bordering on starvation, and describes in detail the uncertainty regarding the arrival of ships of the fleet with provisions for the colonists
at Fort Dauphin. The French King was to abandon the colony just two years later, by a decree of the 12th November 1670. The manuscript would appear to
have been written around March 1668, as towards the end of the text, there is reference to the hoped-for return of the convoy that had been sent to Surat
in October 1667, consisting of the Couronne, the Saint-Jean, and the Saint-Louis, which did not return to Fort Dauphin until June of 1668.
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£700-1000
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32 Madagascar. Voyages to Madagascar, also, A History Thereof,
during the Reign of Radama and notes made on a voyage to the
Island of Mombassa in HM Ships Phaeton and Andromache, 1817
and 1825, by Lieutenant T. Locke Lewis of the Royal Engineers,
1817-25, original manuscript in brown ink on laid paper,
watermarked Yeeles & Medhurst, and dated 1813, 93 numbered
pages, and large folded manuscript map of the Island (some fraying
to edges, and repaired to central folds), folding manuscript plan of
Tamatave Bay in pencil, plus an autograph letter acknowledging
Lieutenant Lewis’s manuscript and returning it to him, from Sir
Robert Farquhar, Governor Mauritius, dated Reduit, 2 June 1821,
and another autograph letter from Charles Telfair of Bois Cheri,
Mauritius, dated May 21 1821, thanking Lieutenant Lewis for his
permission to make extracts from his manuscript journal, both
bound in at the front of the manuscript, contemporary red stiff
paper boards, with handwritten title to upper cover, worn with
some loss to spine, small 4to (23.5 x 18.5cm)
Thomas Locke Lewis Lieutenant (and later Captain) in the Royal Engineers
married Anna Maria Peile in 1830 and died at Ibsley, near Exeter on 17th
November 1852. This important manuscript account of Madagascar was
published in edited form in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
for 1835, pages 230-242. The account provides detailed information on the
Ovah people of Madagascar, the reign of King Radama, local customs,
economy and language, and includes an alphabet of the Ovah language
written by Lewis on board HMS Phaeton dated 3rd July 1817. Charles Telfair
(1778-1833) was an Irish botanist, who established botanical gardens in
Mauritius and Reunion, following his return to the Island in 1816, having
previously visited the Island as a ship’s surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was
also Vice President of the Literary and Scientific Society of Mauritius.
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£400-600
31 Madagascar. Journal of a voyage to Madagascar by Lieutenant
Samuel Pasfield Oliver, RA and Aide de Camp, 1862, manuscript
account written in a clear and neat hand with occasional pen and
ink sketches and diagrams, a total of approximately 300 pp., initially
numbered pp. 1-228 and ending mid sentence, followed by 2 contents
leaves and a separately paginated ‘Diary of our trip to Bourbon’,
interleaved with blanks, additionally 7 pp. notes on Madagascar, 6 pp.
botanical notes and 16 pp. description of the revolution in
Madagascar loosely inserted, original gilt-titled album label for Oliver
dated 1862 pasted to modern front endpaper with modern typed
notes of provenance, contents partly detached, old cloth with typed
paper label to spine, rubbed and slightly marked, 8vo
According to the typed notes at front, this manuscript on Madagascar was
first published in Oliver’s anonymous book ‘Madagascar and the Malagasy’
[1866], and the second edition was published in his book ‘On and Off Duty,
Leaves from an Officer’s Note-book’, 1881; the text of this manuscript is
closer to that printed in this second edition. Though it looks as though a
section of some sixty pages has been torn and removed from the end of
the Madagascar section, this may largely be a description of Mauritius
rather than the journal itself.
Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907), geographer and antiquary, received a
commission in the Royal Artillery in 1859 and then went out to China and
Japan. In 1861 he was transferred to Mauritius, and went thence to
Madagascar where he spent some months exploring, witnessing the King’s
coronation. An autograph letter signed from Major General M.C. Johnstone,
under whom Oliver served on the mission, welcoming Oliver to the
expedition is tipped in at the front of the volume. Oliver made a second
brief visit to the island in June 1863 following the King’s ‘assassination’.
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33* Mauritius. A group of 4 manuscript abstracts of staff pay relating
to the commanding of the Leeward District of the Isle of Mauritius,
1813-15, the earliest to Captain Archibald Cameron, 27th Regiment,
Major of Brigade to Colonel Sir Edward Gerard Butler, commanding
the Leeward District, Mauritius, 25 December 1813 to 24 February 1814
(9s/6d per day), the others for pay to Colonel/Brigadier General Sir
E.G. Butler, commanding the Leeward District, Mauritius, 25 February
to 24 April 1814 (/2s/9d per day), plus duplicate of the same, the last
for the period 25 February to 31 March 1815 (£1/2s/6d per day), all
written in neat and tabulated form longitudinally on rectos of folio
sheets (watermarked 1811), the first with signature of Cameron, the
others signature of Butler, plus dated official countersignatures, a
little minor spotting, soiling and marginal fraying, folio
Sir Edward Gerard Butler (1770-1824). He had a distinguished military career
and served with the 87th Regiment in the West Indies in 1797 at Trinidad
and Puerto Rico, where he remained in garrison until 1802. In 1804 he was
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and with the 87th was ordered to form part
of the expedition to South America. ‘In both the attack on Montevideo and
Whitelocke’s attempt on Buenos Aires, the 87th had 17 officers and 400
men killed or wounded, Butler especially distingushed himself. From 1807
to 1810, while the 2nd battalion, under Colonel Hugh Gough, was serving in
the Peninsula, the 1st battalion of the 87th, under Butler, garrisoned the
Cape of Good Hope. In 1810 he was second in command of a force ordered
from the Cape to assist Major-General Abercromby in the capture of
Mauritius, but it was already taken when they arrived’ (ODNB).
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£150-200
34 Mendes Pinto (Fernando). The Voyages and Adventures...during his
Travels ...in...Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam,
Pegu, Japan..., 1st English edition, 1653, title in red and black, lacking
the final (?blank) leaf, occasional browning and ink library stamps,
repairs to many inner margins and some worming and repairs to final
third of work, some running heads slightly trimmed, ownership of Robert
Storie, dated 1679, at end, recent quarter morocco gilt, small folio
Wing M1706. Sold not subject to return.
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£500-700
Lot 34
35 Merian (Matthaeus & Martin Zeiler). Topographia Italiae, das ist: Warhaffte und Curiose Beschreibung von gantz Italien, 2 parts in one,
Frankfurt, Matthaei Merians Seel. Erben, 1688 [but circa 1700], additional engraved title, engraved title with woodcut vignette (both leaves
slightly trimmed to blank fore-margin), fifty-one of 53 fine double-page & folding engraved views, maps and plans only (folding panoramas
of Rome & Venice present), small paper flaw with slight skinning to text leaf facing Rome plate, Vesuvius plate with repaired closed tear to
upper right corner touching image, folding plate of Rome cut along top edge of image and neatly repaired, modern light brown morocco
faded to spine, remnants of contemporary gilt decorated spine panels relaid, folio
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£4000-6000
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36 O’Reilly (Bernard). Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the
North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, Illustrated in a Voyage
to Davis’s Strait, During the Summer of 1817, 1st edition, printed
for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818, engraved map frontispiece
and two folding maps, eighteen engraved and aquatint plates
(some offset to text), publisher’s advertisement leaf at rear,
scattered spotting and some water-staining, hinges repaired,
untrimmed, modern quarter calf over contemporary boards,
covers somewhat rubbed and soiled, and edges a little worn, 4to
Abbey, Travel, 633.
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£300-500
37 Pallas (Peter Simon). Travel through the Southern Provinces of
the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794, 2 volumes, 1st
English edition, 1802-1803, 47 (of 52) engraved and aquatint plates
including 24 folding and 38 hand coloured, 4 double-page maps,
28 vignettes to text including 22 hand coloured, occasional spotting
and light offsetting, mostly to text, 1 plate browned at marginal
fore-edge, closed tear repair to inner margins of 3 leaves of
preliminaries in volume 1, armorial bookplates of Sir Marcus
Somerville, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, some
edge wear, recent calf gilt rebacks with leather spine labels, 4to
Lacks the following five plates: Peculiar Domestic Cat; Common Arnaut;
Trukhman with Bow; Two Tartar Mountaineers; Crimean Camel. Abbey,
Travel 222. Tooley 357.
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£400-600
38 Roberts (Field Marshall Frederick Sleigh of Kandahar). FortyOne Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, 2
volumes, 13th edition, 1897, engraved frontispieces (loose in
volume 1), plates and folding maps, volume 1 half-title inscribed by
the author ‘I have great pleasure in writing my name in Mrs.
Hoffman’s copy of my book, Roberts FM, Bradford, 3rd May 1899’,
hinges split & worn, original dark blue cloth gilt, lightly frayed at
head & foot of spines, 8vo
Lot 36
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40* Sierra Leone. Three original pencil sketches of British colonial
buildings in Sierra Leone, circa 1857, each titled in pencil to verso
‘Commandant’s Residence, Pam Pram, Gold Coast’, ‘Lower Town,
Pam Pram from the Upper Town’, & ‘Abandoned Fort at Apolonia
from the Beach’, pencil on wove paper, each with central vertical
crease, the first two titled in a contemporary hand in pencil to
verso, the third similarly titled below the image, each 175 x 252mm
(6.9 x 10 ins)
Apolonia Fort, to the east of Cape Apolonia and about 30 miles from Asinee,
had been abandoned since at least 1840.
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£100-150
41
Sleeman (Lieutenant-Colonel W.H.). Rambles and
Recollections of an Indian Official, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1844, 32
chromolithographed plates, a little minor spotting, armorial
bookplates, contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo
Abbey Travel 466.
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39 Said-Ruete (Rudolph). Said bin Sultan (1791-1856), Ruler of
Oman and Zanzibar, His Place in the History of Arabia and East
Africa, 1st edition, 1929, black and white plates, folding map, some
spotting, author’s signed presentation inscription to front free
endpaper, dated at London, 30 May 1934, ‘To Countess Cave of
Richmond in remembrance of her association with Zanzibar as a
token of esteem and sympathy given by the author’, original cloth
gilt, slightly rubbed and a few minor marks, 8vo
£150-200
42 South Sea Islands. Manuscript journal and log of a voyage from
Valparaiso in Chile on the west coast of South America to the
Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti and Pitcairn Island, 29th August
1836-February 3rd 1837, 21 pages of neatly handwritten manuscript
in pale brown ink, on laid paper watermarked J. Simmons 1834,
with outer plain paper wrapper titled to upper cover ‘Actaeon.
Remarks on the South Sea Islands. 1837’, stitched, some soiling and
marks to covers, slim folio (330 x 210mm, 13 x 8.25 ins)
Rare signed presentation copy of this biography of Said bin Sultan written
by his grandson.
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£400-600
An important manuscript account of a voyage in HMS Actaeon from South
America to Pitcairn, via the Marquesas, Resolution Bay, Hiva-Oa, Oahu in
the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Papeete in Tahiti, and landing in January 1837
at Pitcairn, written by the ship’s master George Biddlecombe [later Sir
George Biddlecombe, 1807-1878], and signed at the end by the ship’s
captain The Right Honorable Lord Edward Russell (1805-1887). The text
provides interesting and detailed information on the geography and
weather, including detailed records of winds and positional data, as well as
observations on the climate and people encountered, including the
missionaries Rodgerson and Stalworthy at Resolution Bay in the Marquesas
or French Polynesia, particulars from Thomas Ebrile, Master of the
Amphitrite, a Tahitian merchant ship, and refers to four Englishmen living
on Pitcairn, three of which are married to natives and have families. The
account includes details of the discovery of a small group of three islands
unknown to western navigators, and named Actaeon Islands. Some of the
content of this journal appears to have been published, although in a partial
and altered way, in the Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1838 (see
pages 13-14, 73-75, 225-226).
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£200-300
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43 Speke (John Hanning). Journal of the Discovery of the Nile, 1st
edition, 1863, portrait frontispiece, two folding maps contained in
rear pocket (torn without loss), publisher’s list at end, woodengraved illustrations, one or two light spots, endpapers renewed,
original brown cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, 8vo
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£200-300
44 Stanley (Henry M.). In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and
Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2 volumes, 1st edition,
1890, two folding maps (with short closed tears), wood engraved
illustrations, a few minor spots, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo,
together with The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central
Africa, from 1865 to his Death. Continued as a Narrative of his Last
Moments and Sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants
Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1874,
portrait frontispiece to volume I, two folding maps (one contained
in volume I rear pocket), wood engravings, publisher’s list at end, a
few scattered spots, endpapers renewed, original cloth, recased
with most of original cloth relaid, some fading and stains, 8vo, with
H.M. Stanley’s How I Found Livingstone, 1872 (two copies, one first
edition rebound with defective map, the other 2nd edition)
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£150-200
46 Tierra del Fuego. A few particulars relating to a proposed
Mission to the Indians in the Straits of Magelhaen, signed by Captain
Allen F. Gardiner, Rio de Janeiro, 16 February 1844, 7 pp. manuscript
in a neat clerical hand, signed and dated by Captain Gardiner
above caption title at head and at end, slight dust soiling, original
stitching, split on spine, album adhesion remains along spine of final
page (blank), laid paper with watermark dated 1844, folio
45 The Society of Dilettanti. Ionian Antiquities, volume 1 only, 1st
edition, 1769, 28 full-page engraved plates after N. Revett and W.
Pars, numerous etched and engraved head- and tailpieces, some
spotting and light browning throughout, old light damp staining to
marginal extremities and repair to upper outer corner of title,
contemporary calf, rebacked and edges partly restored, large folio
(555 x 410mm)
An interesting and important document which begins: ‘My attention for
some years has been turned towards the aborigines of the Southern Section
of South America, more particularly to the Tribes on the borders of Chile,
commonly known by the name of Aracecarcians. To collect information and
prepare the way for the ultimate establishment of a Mission among them,
under the superintendence of the Church Missionary Society, for the sole
object of several journeys undertaken at different periods and at
considerable intervals between the years 1838 and 1842. In the course of
these journeys, commenced from Valparaiso, Coneipeion and Valdivia,
communications with the Indians were opened and access was obtained to
some of their frontier locations’. Gardiner continues to give an account of
various journeys from Valparaiso etc.; opposition of friars and their influence
on chiefs; embittered feeling of the Indians against all foreigners; approach
from the south by way of Falkland Islands; suggests Gregory Bay and Oazy
Harbour as first missionary stations; presence of families from Tierra del
Fuego; language difficulties; antipathy of Fugians; inability for Church
Missionary Society to raise funds, etc.
Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851) was a British Royal Navy officer and
missionary to Patagonia. After his brief naval career he began missionary
work in Africa in 1834. His first visit to Tierra del Fuego took place in 1842. In
1844 a special society was formed for South America, which took the name
of the Patagonian Missionary Society. Unable to establish a mission Gardiner
returned to England in June 1845. On a later mission to Picton Island in 1850
Gardiner and his small team all gradually died of starvation. Gardiner
published several works including ‘A Visit to the Indians on the Frontiers of
Chili’, 1840; ‘A Voice from South America’, 1847.
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£300-400
The first sponsored publication of the Society of Dilettanti, the work
eventually reaching 5 volumes published over a 136-year period. Blackmer
1566; Harris 849.
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£700-1000
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47* Transportation to America. Original manuscript payment order by Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), British Prime Minister, Whitehall,
March 7, 1723, manuscript in brown ink on cream laid paper, signed by Walpole, and additionally signed by Charles Turney and R. Edgcumbe,
ordering the payment of 64 to Jonathan Forward of London, Merchant, ‘For the Allowance of Four Pounds per head for and upon Sixty six
Malefactors who were lately lying in Newgate in the City of London under Sentence of Transportation. Which said Malefactors were received
by order of the said Jonathan Forward on board the ship Anne Captain Thomas Wrangham Comr: to be transported to His Mats Plantacons
in America, some marks and minor stains, some light creases where previously folded, laid down, sheet size 38 x 24cm, later framed, glazed
The transportation of British convicts to the colonies in America and the West Indies first began in 1617, having been authorised by James I in 1615, but ceased
to function by the end of the 17th century due to objections by the colonies themselves and the plantation owners. Consequently, an Act of Parliament was
passed in 1718 ‘for the more effectual transportation of felons’, and the first contract between the Treasury and a London agent was established in the same
year with Jonathan Forward, a London merchant (as named in the present document). The 66 convicts, of whom apparently 29 were women would have
been transported to Carolina or Virginia. The ship Anne had been a slaver from 1717 to 1720, and conditions on board would have been miserable (See Walter
Blumenthal, Brides from Bridewell, 1962, pages 19-25). The present document would originally have been accompanied by a certificate containing the lists
of prisoners to be taken from Newgate.
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£1000-1500
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48 Vidal (Emeric Essex). Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied with
Descriptions of the Scenery, and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of those Cities and their Environs, R. Ackermann, 1820,
24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, including four folding, scattered light spotting and occasional offsetting to text, top edge gilt, later
burgundy half morocco, spines lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, 333 x 250mm, 4to
Abbey Travel 698; Colas 3000; Sabin 99460; Tooley 495. Early issue with Whatman and IIS & S 1818 watermarks. “The only notable colour plate book in English
dealing with the Argentine” (Tooley).
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£2000-3000
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50 Whitehead (George). In the Nicobar Islands, 1st edition, Seeley,
Service & Co., 1924, monochrome plates after photographs, 12
page publisher’s list at rear, dated Autumn 1924, original yellow
cloth, lettered in black, a few minor marks (generally a very good
copy), together with Evans (Walter), The Island Builders of the
Pacific, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1930, monochrome
plates after photographs, a few spots to preliminary leaves, original
yellow cloth gilt, lightly marked, plus Churchward (Colonel James),
The Lost Continent of Mu, 1st English edition, [1931], monochrome
plates, light spotting to preliminary leaves, original blue cloth gilt,
rubbed and a little faded to spine, and other early 20th century
travel, all cloth-bound, including Jeuan du Berrie, Under the
Cannibal Curse, 1st edition, [1938], John Houston Craige, Cannibal
Cousins, 1st edition, [1935], Stuart Cloete, The African Giant, 1st
edition, 1956, etc., all 8vo
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51 World in Miniature. Shoberl (Frederic, editor), Persia,
containing a brief description of the country; and an account of
its government, laws and religion and the character, manners and
customs, arts, amusements &c. of its inhabitants, 3 volumes
(bound in one), published R. Ackermann, circa 1825, title page to
each part, twenty-nine (of thirty) engraved plates with
contemporary hand colouring, lacking ‘Woman of the Harem’,
occasional spotting, text block detached, all edges gilt,
contemporary cloth gilt, worn, 12mo in sixes, together with Austria,
volume 2 only (of two), published R. Ackermann, circa 1825,
printed title, twenty-three engraved plates wth contemporary
hand colouring, slight spotting and staining, contemporary boards
with printed paper label to spine, worn, 12mo in sixes, with Turkey
volumes 5 & 6 only (of six), bound in one, published R. Ackermann,
circa 1825, printed titles, thirty-two engraved plates with
contemporary hand colouring, a few leaves torn at corners, lacking
last few leaves, text block detached, all edges gilt, contemporary
cloth gilt, worn, 12mo in sixes, plus Venning (Mary Anne), A
Geographical present: being descriptions of the Principal
Countries of the World, 2nd edition, published Darton, Harvey and
Darton, 1818, printed title, fifty-nine (only of sixty), engraved plates
with contemporary hand colouring, one plate with juvenile
scribbling, a few marginal closed tears, last page torn with loss,
remains of old library label to front pastedown, contemporary
quarter morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, 12mo
49 Warburton (Eliot). The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance
and Realities of Eastern Travel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1845, tinted
lithograph frontispieces, advertisement leaf at end of each volume,
wood-engraved illustrations, light spotting at front, original
blindstamped cloth gilt, spines faded, small shelf number label at
head of volume I spine, 8vo
Blackmer 1771.
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£100-150
£100-150
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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POLAR EXPLORATION
FROM SEVERAL PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
54 Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912, translated
from the Norwegian by A.G. Chater, 2 volumes, 1st edition in
English, 1912, portrait frontispieces, two folding colour maps, halftone illustrations, a few minor spots, light toning to endpapers,
contemporary presentation inscription to front endpapers, top edge
gilt, original red cloth, spines a little faded, 8vo
52 Amedeo (Luigi, Duke of the Abruzzi). On the “Polar Star” in the
Arctic Sea... translated by William Le Quex, 2 volumes, 1st English
edition, 1903, photogravure frontispieces, two folding maps
contained in volume II rear pocket, photogravure and monochrome
illustrations, including folding panoramas, bookplates, original
green cloth gilt, volume I spine and lower cover with some mottled
dampstains, 4to, together with Paul B. du Chaillu’s The Land of the
Midnight Sun, 2 volumes, 1881 (lacking folding map in rear pocket)
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£300-500
£100-150
53 Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram, ” 1910-1912,
Translated from the Norwegian by A.G. Chater, 2 volumes in one,
London: John Murray; & New York: Lee Keedick, 1925,
photographic portrait frontispiece and ten plates, one full-page
map, charts & diagrams to text, front free endpaper inscribed by
Amundsen “General Hector with hearty thanks for all courtesy,
Waldorf Jan. 30th 1925”, some toning throughout (mostly to
margins), original blue cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo
Spence 21. In the Autumn of 1924 Amundsen travelled to the United States
to recoup his fortunes by lecturing and writing for various newspapers.
Whilst in New York he stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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£1000-1500
55 Amundsen (Roald). “The North West Passage”. Being the
Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Gjoa” 1903-1907,
1st English edition, 2 volumes, 1908, portrait frontispiece to volume
I, folding colour map at end of each volume, half-tone illustrations,
top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, very small indentation to
volume I upper board, 8vo
Bright copy.
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56 Amundsen (Roald). “The North West Passage”. Being the
Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Gjoa” 1903-1907, 2
volumes, 1st edition in English, 1908, portrait frontispiece to
volume I, two folding maps (repairs to versos), half-tone
illustrations, previous owner inscription to frontispiece versos, top
edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, small faded patch to volume I
upper cover, spines lightly faded, slight lean, 8vo
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£150-200
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Lot 53
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57 Arctic Voyages. A collection of Arctic and North-West Passage voyages by William Edward Parry, John Franklin and Frederick William
Beechey, 1821-1831, comprising: Parry (William Edward), Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1819-20 in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper, 1st edition, 1821, 20 engraved and aquatint plates
and charts, some folding, bound with A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage for the Discovery for a North-West Passage
in the Years 1819-20. Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History, 1824, six engraved plates by John Curtis, first few preliminary
leaves with repaired tear, one folding chart with small repair to verso (Sabin 58860); Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a
North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla, 1st edition,
1824, 31 engraved and aquatint plates and charts, eight folding maps and panoramas at end (Sabin 58864); Narrative of an Attempt to
Reach the North Pole, in Boats Fitted for the Purpose, and Attached to His Majesty’s Ship Hecla, in the Year MDCCCXXVII, 1st edition,
1828, six engraved plates and charts, folding map at end (Sabin 58868); Franklin (John), Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar
Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22, 1st edition, 1823, 30 engraved plates, including 11 hand-coloured aquatints, four folding maps at end
(Sabin 25624); Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826 and 1827... Including an Account
of the Progress of a Detachment to the Eastward by John Richardson, 1st edition, 1828, 31 engraved plates, six folding maps (Sabin 25628);
Beechey (Frederick William), Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed
in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28, 2 parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1831, 23 engraved plates, three folding charts
(Sabin 4347), some overall occasional offsetting and scattered light spotting, all bound without any half titles and advertisements,
contemporary uniform polished calf gilt (Parry’s North Pole near uniform), first four voyages rebacked with most of original spines relaid
(Parry’s Second Voyage lacking one spine label), a few joints cracking, a little rubbed, 4to
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£4000-6000
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59 Back (Sir George). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to
the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the
Arctic Ocean in the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835, 1st edition, 1836, 16
uncoloured engraved and lithographed plates, folding map (repair
to verso), a few plates close-trimmed shaving imprint, some light
spotting, bookplate, contemporary burgundy morocco, edges a
little rubbed, 8vo, together with Narrative of an Expedition in
H.M.S. Terror, undertaken with a view to Geographical Discovery
on the Arctic Shores in the Years 1636-7, 1st edition, 1838, 12
uncoloured lithographed plates, folding map (reinforced to verso),
small marginal tear and loss to p. 329, scattered spotting,
endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, rebacked, a little
rubbed, 8vo
58* Arctic Ocean. Three Crowns. W. Spit[s]bergen, Midnight, July
1869, pencil & watercolour on paper of the Three Crown Mountains,
Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, with Sir James Lamont of Knockdow’s
steam yacht ‘Diana’ depicted in the middle distance, monogrammed
and dated ‘WL July 69’ in two places lower right, captioned to mount,
23.5 x 47.5cm (9.25 x 18.75 inches), framed & glazed
Sabin 2613 and 2617 respectively.
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£500-800
Label to back board suggests the artist is a William Livesey and continues
“printed on the back of this watercolour in a modern hand. ‘Sir James
Lamont of Knockdow, Argyll, Steam yacht, Diana, in the middle distance’.
Sir James Lamont M.P. & Deputy Lieut for Co. Bute FGS & FRGS, author of
‘Seasons with the Seahorses’ and this Expedition, 1876”. Sir James Lamont,
Bt. (1828-1913) was a Scottish explorer, particularly known for his travels in
the Arctic; he also travelled to Africa and the West Indies. In 1869 he built
the Diana, a three-masted Schooner of 251 tons, with auxiliary steam,
specially designed for Arctic travel, and in that year and the two following
years he made further expeditions to the Polar seas. An account of these
voyages appeared in 1876 under the title of ‘Yatching in the Artic Seas’.
(1)
£100-150
60 Barrington (Daines). The Possibility of Approaching the North
Pole Asserted, A New Edition, with an Appendix, containing papers
on the same subject, and on a North West Passage, by Colonel
Beaufoy, printed for T. and J. Allmann, 1818, half-title present,
folding engraved map frontispiece of the North Pole, title with
wood engraved vignette showing men hunting a bear on pack ice,
some pale spotting to preliminary leaves (generally in clean
condition), contemporary half calf gilt, with gilt motifs of a sailing
ship and falcon to spine, rubbed and a small loss to head and foot
of spine, 8vo
Sabin 3629.
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£100-150
61 Barrow (John). A Chronological History of Voyages into the
Arctic Regions; Undertaken chiefly for the purpose of Discovering
a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic
and Pacific: From the Earliest Periods of Scandinavian Navigation,
to the Departure of the Recent Expeditions under the Orders of
Captains Ross and Buchan, 1st edition, 1818, folding engraved map
(partial light offsetting), three letterpress engravings at end, bound
without half title, a little light spotting, contemporary calf, head of
spine chipped with loss, joints cracking, 8vo
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Lot 59
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Lot 63
62 Beechey (Frederick William). A Voyage of Discovery towards
the North Pole, performed in His Majesty’s Ships Dorothea and
Trent, under the command of Captain Buchan, R.N., ; 1818; to
which is added, a summary of all the early attempts to reach the
Pacific by way of the Pole, 1st edition, Richard Bentley, 1843, halftitle present, folding lithographed map, 6 full-page plates,
including 2 folding lithographed panoramas, spotting to first and
last few leaves and to single-page plates, one or two short closed
tears to the folding panoramas, without loss, presentation
inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper ‘Second Prize
presented to John Hanbury by the Worshipful Company of Brewers
as a Reward for General Proficiency in the Sixth Class. Xmas 1860’,
signed by the headmaster, contemporary gilt-decorated full calf,
with gilt coat of arms of the Brewers Company School in Islington,
London, rubbed and some marks and waterstaining to covers,
minor fraying to head of spine, 8vo
Hill (2004) 97. Sabin 4349. An attempt by Captain Buchan and Sir John
Franklin to reach the Bering Strait via the North Pole, in which Beechey was
Lieutenant. The second part refers to earlier attempts made by Barents,
Hudson, Baffin, Tschitschagoff and Phipps.
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£400-600
64 Bragg (Benjamin, pseudonym). A Voyage to the North Pole,
Accompanied by his Friend Captain Slapperwhack; with An
Account of the Dangers and Accidents they experienced in the
Frozen Seas of the Polar Circle. Also, the Manner of their Wintering
on the Island of Spitzberg, and Discovery of the Polar Continent,
1st edition, 1817, half-title, engraved frontispiece and folding map
at rear, browning throughout and occasional spotting, late
19th/early 20th century quarter morocco gilt, light wear to
extremities, 12mo
63 Belcher (Edward). The Last of the Arctic Voyages: being a
narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the
command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir
John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54. With notes on the
natural history, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas
Bell, J.W. Salter, and Lovell Reeve, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Lovell
Reeve, 1855, 4 maps, including 3 folding, 36 lithographed plates,
including 12 coloured, a few light spots (generally in clean
unmarked condition internally), marbled edges and endpapers,
near-contemporary polished full calf, gilt decorated spine, with
red morocco title label, brown morocco volume labels renewed,
rubbed and some marks, large 8vo
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£300-400
65 Chappell (Lieut. Edward). Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s
Bay in His Majesty’s Ship Rosamond, Containing some Account of the
North-Eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting that
Remote Region, 1st edition, 1817, folding engraved map, four
engraved plates, some offsetting and spotting, top edge gilt, later
green half morocco, spine a little rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America; Effected
by the Officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company During the Years 183639, by Thomas Simpson, 1st edition, 1843, lacking maps, a few spots,
bindstamp to title, bookplate, contemporary half calf, spine faded
with small burnholes, 8vo, plus Arctic Explorations: The Second
Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ‘54, ‘55, by
Elisha Kent Kane, 2 volumes, Philadelphia & London, 1856, steelengraved portrait frontispieces, additional titles, 18 plates, three
maps, wood engraved illustrations, some light spotting, endpapers
renewed, later green half morocco, original gilt spines relaid, a little
rubbed with small chips to spine labels, 8vo, with two others
Abbey, Travel 645. Hill 106. Sabin 4389. Attractive and generally
unblemished copy of Belcher’s final expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin. The work contains detailed records of meteorological phenomena,
and natural history. The decision of the Captain to abandon 4 ships that
were ice bound in Wellington Channel in 1854 led to his court-marshall,
and although aquitted, he was severely criticised by the public.
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£1000-1500
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£200-300
68 Cook (Captain James). A Voyage to the South Pole, and Round
the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and
Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775... In which is
included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the
Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777, engraved
portrait frontispiece to first volume (with contemporary ownership
inscription and ink sketch of a naval officer to recto, (inscribed
'James Llewellyn Lewis 1778'), 60 (of 62) engraved plates, maps and
charts, with the 2 missing maps supplied in photocopy facsimile
(Chart of Discoveries Made in the South Pacific Ocean & Chart of
the Southern Extremity of America), some plates with old soiling
and creases, occasional tears and minor repairs, a few plates
cropped affecting publisher's imprint, the second volume lacking
title (A1), Ccc1 with upper half of the leaf torn away and missing,
text defective at end (lacking all after Eee1, page 394),
contemporary tree calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to edges, joints
cracked (upper joints rehinged with front endpapers renewed), 4to
66 Chappell (Lieut. Edward). Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s
Bay in His Majesty’s Ship Rosamond, Containing some Account of
the North-Eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting
that Remote Region, 1st edition, J. Mawman, 1817, folding engraved
map frontispiece (ink stain to margin at head, spotted), four
engraved plates and few wood engravings to text, ink ownership
stamp to title, scattered spotting and some offsetting to text,
hinges repaired, late 19th century black half sheep, extremities
slightly rubbed, 8vo
Sabin 12005.
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£200-300
Hill 358. Sabin 16245. Printing and the Mind of Man 223. Cook's second
voyage in search of Terra Australis, the supposed southern continent, in
which he crossed the Antarctic Circle and discovered Easter Island, Norfolk
Island, Tahiti, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and South Georgia.
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£500-800
67 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley). The Worst Journey in the World.
Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1922, colour and
monochrome maps and illustrations, including folding panoramas,
scattered light spotting, previous owner inscription to frontispiece
versos, two small wormholes to volume I front endpaper, spare spine
labels tipped-in at front, public library labels to rear pastedowns,
original linen-backed boards, some toning and soiling, 8vo
Spence 277.
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69 Cook (Captain James). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making
Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the
Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's
Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778,
1779 and 1780, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, printed by H. Hughs, 1785,
plus Atlas issued for the first French edition, entitled Cartes et
Figures du Troisieme Voyage de Cook, Paris, 1785, Atlas volume
containing 81 copper engraved plates, maps and plans only,
lacking plates 36, 45, 59 (supplied in facsimile), 69 (supplied in
facsimile), 75 and 76, many plates partly untrimmed, and
generally in good condition, but with some creases to folding
plates, minor marginal waterstains and occasional light spotting,
plate 68 (Vue de Karakakooa), with some defects and loss to the
image, and repaired, together with 7 engraved charts only
contained in the first text volume (plates 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 19 & 82),
the text volumes generally with good margins, occasional minor
spotting, bound in contemporary calf, worn with covers detached,
except volume 1 and Atlas rebound in modern antique-style full
calf with contrasting red and green gilt spine labels, 4to
£400-600
Hill 361. Sabin 16250. The first official account of Cook's Third Voyage. Sold
with all faults not subject to return.
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£700-1000
70 Dennett (John Frederick). The Voyages and Travels of Captains
Ross, Parry, Franklin and Mr. Belzoni, 1835, additional engraved
title, letterpress title bound after p. 540, 11 engraved plates and
portraits, some spotting and waterstains, modern calf-backed
boards, 8vo, together with The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross,
to the Arctic Regions, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage;
Performed in the Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33. To which is prefixed
an Abridgement of the Former Voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry &
Other Celebrated Navigators to the Northern Lattitudes..., by
Robert Huish, 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title,
map and six plates, letterpress title detaching, light spotting,
contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, with three others:
Robert Huish’s Narrative of the Voyages and Travels of Captain
Beechey... and of Captain Back..., 1836 (lacking portrait of
Beechey), John Barrow Junior’s A Visit to Iceland, 1835 and An
Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, 1847
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Lot 68
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£200-300
Lot 69
71 Ellis (William). An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty’s
Ships Resolution and Discovery during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in search of a NW Passage between the
continents of Asia and Amercia. Including a faithfull account of all their discoveries and the unfortunate death of Captain
Cook, 2 volumes, 1st edition, G. Robinson, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1782, half-titles present, folding engraved chart of
the Pacific Ocean, and 21 copper engraved plates by W. Walker, J. Heath, E. Scott and J. Collyer after drawings by William
Ellis, occasional light spotting and minor offsetting from plates to adjacent text leaf (contents generally in clean condition),
contemporary ink signature of H. Stamford to front pastedown of first volume, contemporary sprinkled full calf gilt, rubbed
and some wear with covers to second volume detached and joints to first volume cracked, second volume lacking title
and volume labels to spine, 8vo
Sabin 22333. Hill 555. Important account of Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific between 1776 and 1780 including Cook’s fatal stop at
Hawaii, which preceeded the official account by two years. William Ellis was assistant surgeon to both ships, and the attractive plates
based on drawings by Ellis himself, are, according to Hill, among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the
Northwest.
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£1500-2000
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72 Fisher (Alexander). A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the
Arctic Regions, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years
1819 & 1820, 1st edition, 1821, two engraved maps (one folding),
illustrations, bound without half title?, red ink stamp to title and
page 185, scattered spootting, armorial bookplate of Castle Kelly,
contemporary half calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, together
with A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse
Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe’s “Welcome, ” in His Majesty’s Ship
Griper, in the Year MDCCCXXIV, by Captain G.F. Lyon, 1st edition,
1825, folding engraved chart (linen-backed), seven engraved
plates, some spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, upper cover
detached, some wear to spine, 8vo, with four others: Thomas
M’Keevor’s A Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, During the Summer of 1812,
1819 (lacking one plate), Chevalier de la Poix de Freminville’s Voyage
to the North Pole, in the Frigate Syrene..., 1819 and Letters Written
During the Late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea, by
an Officer of the Expedition, 1821 (lacking the map and three
plates), all three published by Sir Richard Phillips and part of his
‘Voyages and Travels’ publications, circa 1819-1824 and The
Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in his Intended
Discovery of a North-West Passage into the South Sea, 2nd edition,
1740 (lacking map)
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£200-300
74 Franklin (Sir John). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the
Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, John
Murray, 1824, 4 folding engraved maps, including one with outline
hand-colouring, occasional very light marginal spotting, pale
waterstain to lower outer corners, at front of first volume,
untrimmed, original boards with printed spine labels, a little
rubbed and some marks, rebacked retaining original spines, 8vo
73 Forster (John Reinhold). History of the Voyages and Discoveries
made in the North..., 1st English edition, printed for G.G.J. and J.
Robinson, 1786, three folding engraved maps (two a little creased
and with short handling tears), half-title present, publisher’s
advertisement leaf at rear, one or two light finger-marks to titlepage, marbled endpapers, contemporary tree calf, gilt decorated
spine, rubbed and some minor wear to extremities, 4to
Sabin 25625. Arctic Bibliography 5195. First published in 1823 and an
immediate success, Franklin’s first polar expedition, also known as the
Coppermine Expedition, was the first of his three attempts to discover and
map the Northwest Passage. Disorganised and poorly planned, the party of
20 men had been reduced to 9 by starvation and suspected murder
amongst the group, before they were rescued by native tribesmen. As a
result of the public interest and appreciation of Franklin’s heroic efforts on
the expedition, he became known as ‘the man who ate his boots’.
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£200-300
Sabin 25138. A clean copy in an attractive contemporary binding.
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£500-800
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78 Hooper (William Hulme). Ten Months among the Tents of the
Tuski, with Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in search of Sir
John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst,
1st edition, 1853, four tinted lithogtraphed plates, two uncoloured
plates, folding map at end, bound without half title, light spotting
front and rear, presentation inscription, all edges gilt,
contemporary green morocco gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo,
together with Journal of a Voyage in Baffin’s Bay and Barrow Straits,
in the Years 1850-1851, Performed by H.M. Ships “Lady Franklin”
and “Sophia, ” under the command of Mr. William Penny, in search
of the Missing Crews of H.M. Ships Erebus and Terror, by Peter C.
Sutherland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1852, six lithographed plates
(including four colour), two folding maps (both supplied in
facsimile), library and previous owner stamps, later half calf,
spines a little faded, 8vo, plus A History of Shipwrecks and
Disasters at Sea, from the most Authentic Sources, 2 volumes,
Constable’s Micellany of Original and Selected Publications
volumes LXXVIII & LXXIX, 1833, additional engraved titles, wood
engravings, a few spots, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 12mo,
with other polar related including a couple of odd volumes
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£200-300
75 Goodsir (Robert Anstruther). An Arctic Voyage to Baffin’s Bay
and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin, 1st
edition, John Van Voorst, 1850, half-title inscribed ‘To Mr Robert
Macadam from the author’, tinted lithograph frontispiece, folding
map, 8pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, removed oval ink stamp to title
and adhesive stain to final advert leaf, dust & finger soiling, some
spotting & marks throughout, endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt,
neatly rebacked preserving original spine and corners repaired, 8vo
Sabin 27931. One of the scarcer titles relating to the Franklin rescue efforts.
The volume consists of extracts from a journal kept in 1849.
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£700-1000
76 Graah (Captain W.A.). Narrative of an Expedition to the East
Coast of Greenland, sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in
search of the Lost Colonies... translated from the Danish by the
Late G. Gordon Macdougall, for the Royal Geographical Society of
London, 1st English edition, 1837, large folding chart (a little toned
and spotted), 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, original green
cloth, some fading to lower cover, 8vo
Sabin 28179.
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79 Jackson (Frederick George). A Thousand Days in the Arctic,
with Preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClintock, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, 1899, five folding maps (few with discreet strengthening to
folds), folding panorama, numerous black & white illustrations from
photos, upper blank margins of both volumes with ownership
signature of Albert Armitage (a member and officer on the same
expedition), scattered spotting, top edge gilt, remainder
untrimmed, original cloth gilt, strengthend at head & foot of spines,
volume 1 with small area of wear to lower joint, large 8vo
£150-200
77 Hakluyt Society. 22 volumes, 1849-1988, including Narratives
of Voyages Towards the North-West in Search of a Passage to
Cathay and India 1496-1631, by Thomas Rundall, 1849, A True
Description of Three Voyages by the North-East Towards Cathay
and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and
1596, by Gerrit de Veer, edited by Charles T. Beke, 1853 (with a
presentation inscription from the editor), The Three Voyages of
William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595 and 1596), 1876,
the Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, 1881, Danish Arctic
Expeditions, 1605 to 1620, 2 volumes, 1897, and Early Dutch and
English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century, 1904,
original cloth, some fading, one in half calf, a few in dust jackets
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Albert Borlase Armitage (1864-1943) was a Scottish polar explorer and
captain in the Royal Navy. Between 1884 and 1897 he was a member, and
second-in-command, of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz
Josef Land, and was involved in the 1895 rescue of explorer Fridtjof Nansen
and his men. Armitage was then Robert Falcon Scott’s navigator and
second-in-command on the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica. The other
members included Ernest Shackleton, George Mulock, Edward Wilson,
Charles Royds, & Frank Wild etc. On this expedition, he became the first
person to walk on the Antarctic or Polar Plateau.
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£250-350
£200-300
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Lot 81
80 Joppien (Rudiger & Bernard Smith). The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, volumes 1-3, in 4,
volumes 1 & 2 reprint edition, 1985, volume 3 1st edition, 1988, numerous colour and black
and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, folio
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£100-150
81 Kane (Elisha Kent). The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, A Personal
Narrative, 1st edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853, 552, [8]pp., 3 maps & charts
(including one folding), 5 mezzotint plates (including frontispiece), 8 tinted lithograph plates,
one wood engraved plate and numerous wood engraved vignettes to text, 8 pages of adverts
at rear, scattered spotting throughout, original cloth gilt, joints and head & foot of spine
strengthened & repaired, some refurbishing to spine and corners, light cracking to joints, 8vo
Sabin 36998. Very rare first edition of the classic of arctic exploration, more often found in the re-issue
of 1854. 4, 000 copies were originally printed and bound awaiting distribution in Harper’s warehouse when
a fire destroyed the building and majority of copies on December 10, 1853. The plates were stored in a
vault and escaped damage. Harper’s quickly printed a new edition bearing the 1854 date. Only a few copies
of the 1853 edition had been issued before the fire.
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£1000-1500
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82 Kane (Elisha Kent). Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell
Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ‘54, ‘55, 2 volumes,
first edition, Philadelphia & London, 1856, engraved portrait
frontispiece and additional engraved title to each volume, eighteen
engraved plates., two folding maps & one single-page map,
numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, titles with
contemporary ownership inscription of Conway Shipley with his
bookplate to upper pastedowns, some scattered spotting, 19th
century tan half calf, gilt decorated spines (browned), extremities
rubbed, 8vo, together with Kane (Elisha Kent), The United States
Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal
Narrative, new edition, New York & Philadelphia, 1857, engraved
portrait frontispiece, folding map and five plates, numerous wood
engraved illustrations to text, scattered spotting throughout, verso
of front free endpaper inscribed “Conway M. Shipley Esqr. with Lady
Franklin’s kind regards, New York, Oct 23. 1860”, with Conway
Shipley’s bookplate to upper pastedown, 19th century tan half
morocco, gilt decorated spine (near matching other volumes in lot),
extremities rubbed and scuffed, dampstain at foot of spine, 8vo
83 Koldewey (Robert Johann). The German Arctic Expedition of
1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the 'Hansa' in the Ice, 1st
English edition, Sampson Low, 1874, chromolithographed
frontispiece and 3 chromolithographed plates, 2 coloured maps
at rear, including one large folding (closed tear repaired), numerous
wood engraved illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, late 19th
century bookplate of John Browne to front pastedown, original green
cloth, blocked in silver, and with spine blocked in gold, bevelled
edges, a very good copy in bright condition, thick 8vo
Books on Ice 4.3. Very good copy.
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£200-300
84 M’Clintock (Captain Francis L.). The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the
Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sie John
Franklin and His Companions, Boston: Ticknor and Field, 1860,
wood engraved frontispiece, four folding maps & one single-page,
13 plates and one folding facsimile manuscript, toning, spotting and
few marks, front free endpaper inscribed ‘Presented to the Ladies’
College , Victoria, Vancouver Island by Jane Franklin, 1861’, and with
later ownership signature in blue ball point pen, original cloth,
rebacked, preserving original spine, 8vo
Sabin 37001 (first title). Each volume with book label ‘De la Bibliotheque du
Comte de Chambord (Henri V de France, duc de Bordeaux) Né en 1820,
Acquise par Magg Bros. Ltd. de Londres’ to upper pastedowns. Conway
Shipley served as artist on board the Bulldog expedition of Sir Leopold
McClintcock in 1860. The expedition was to survey for the purpose of a
cable between Europe and North America. Lady Franklin inscribed the
volume while in New York during a North American tour.
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£300-400
Lady Jane Franklin (1791-1875) was the second wife of the English explorer
Sir John Franklin. During her husband’s period as Lieutenant-Governor of
Van Diemen’s Land, she became known for her philanthropic work and her
travels throughout south-eastern Australia. After John Franklin’s
disappearance, she sponsored or supported several expeditions to
determine his fate, including the 1857 expedition led by Francis Leopold
McClintock,
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£100-150
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Lot 85
85 Moss (Edward L.). Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the
Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, 1st edition, 1878, colour map, 16
mounted chromolithographed plates, illustrations, a few light
spots, hinges tender, all edges gilt, original blue decorative cloth
gilt, spine with small tears at end, some edge wear, folio
Edward Moss served as surgeon aboard the flagship Alert, on the 1875-76
Nares British Arctic expedition and also as artist with the plates ‘from
Drawings made on the spot by the author’.
(1)
£800-1200
86 Nansen (Fridtjof). “Farthest North”. Being the Record of a
Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen
Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with
an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram, 2 volumes, 1st
English edition, 1897, folding maps, colour and monochrome
illustrations, a few minor spots, contemporary previous owner
inscription and bookplates of John Camm Buckley, original green
cloth gilt, large 8vo
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£150-200
Lot 86
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88 Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery
of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and
Griper, 1st edition, 1821, 20 engraved maps, aquatint plates and
charts, advertisement leaf at end, errata slip, some light offsetting,
contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little
rubbed, 4to, together with Journal of a Second Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and
Hecla, 1st edition, 1824, 39 engraved maps, aquatint plates and
folding charts, occasional offsetting and light spotting and water
stains, bound uniformly as above with original spine relaid, 4to
Sabin 58860 and 58864 respectively.
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89 Peary (Robert E.). Northward Over the “Great Ice”. A Narrative
of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap
of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897, 2 volumes,
1st English edition, 1898, portrait frontispieces, folding map at end
of volume II, maps and illustrations, endpapers a little toned, top
edge gilt, original blue cloth, upper covers with small vignettes
blocked in silver, one or two corners a little bumped, 8vo, together
with Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the
Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906, 1st English
edition, 1907, two folding maps, illustrations (frontispiece
detaching), light toning to endpapers, original cloth gilt, head of
spine chipped, light dampstains to lower cover, large 8vo, plus
Peary’s North Pole, 1st English edition, 1910
87 Nares (Captain Sir G.S.). Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea
during 1875-6 in H.M. Ships ‘Albert’ and ‘Discovery’, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, 1878, two folding maps (one repaired to verso with small
loss), six mounted Woodburytype photographs, illustrations, 32 pp.
publisher’s catalogue at end, a little light spotting and toning,
original green cloth, volume I rebacked with original spine relaid,
a little rubbed, 8vo
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£700-1000
£200-300
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£150-200
90 Phipps (Constantine John). A Voyage Towards the North Pole
undertaken by His Majesty’s Command 1773, 1st edition, printed by
W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for J. Nourse, 1774, half-title present,
folding engraving map frontispiece, with closed tear repaired, now
linen-backed, 14 engraved plates and maps, mostly folding, 11
folding letterpress tables, some marks and soiling, several plates
linen-backed, Halifax circulating library bookplates to front
pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed and some wear,
modern reback, with outer corners renewed, 4to
Lot 91
Hill 1351. Sabin 62572. In 1773, Phipps was appointed Commander of an
expedition to discover whether the Arctic Ocean might be free of ice in the
open sea, and in consequence provide a route to the Pacific. His expedition
proved otherwise, although his detailed scientific reports provided highly
useful information, including the first European description of the polar
bear and the ivory gull. On board the Carcass was a young midshipman by
the name of Horatio Nelson.
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£500-800
91* Polar Expedition. A collection of first day covers, circa 196070, comprising 40 for Antarctica including a set of 4 for the
Expedition Antarctique Francaise en Terre Adelie 1967-1969 (25
December post mark), Australian Antarctic Territory, United States
Antarctic Research Program etc., together with 26 for the Arctic
including 1963 Scottish East Greenland Expedition signed by the
Deputy Leader on 27 August 1963, British Antarctic Survey Argentine
Islands etc.
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92* Ponting (Herbert George, 1871-1935). Mount Erebus in
eruption, [1911], circa 1911, gelatin silver print mounted on card,
slightly rubbed and marked, corners a little creased and small tear
with loss top left, pencil number 163 lower left, ‘Herbert G. Ponting,
copyright’ ink stamp to mount verso, label now deficient, 33 x
44.5cm (13 x 17.5 ins), framed and glazed
£100-150
This photograph is similar to S0023376 held at the Royal Geographical Society.
‘Of all the scenes photographed in the Antarctic, that of Mt Erebus in eruption
was the most difficult to secure. It would have been folly to attempt to drag
the heavy apparatus up the volcano’s side, but by stroke of good luck and
through the special telephoto-lens, taken along especially to film events at a
distance, a remarkably clear picture was obtained of this sudden volcano in
action’, Herbert Ponting, ‘The Student’s Journal’, 42(10), 1913, p.328.
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£400-600
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Lot 93
93* Ponting (Herbert George, 1871-1935). “The Southern Party”,
[1911], carbon print, showing Captain Scott and other members of
the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, blindstamped
‘H.G. Ponting, Copyright’ lower right, printed paper label to verso,
some spots and pinhead wormholes (largely to snow in lower part
of image), 320 x 440mm, in partly broken and wormed
contemporary frame
95 Rae (John). Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the
Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847, 1st edition, 1850, bound without the
two maps and advertisements at end, title with clear tape repair
to verso, marginal offsetting to title, light toning at end, front
endpaper with blindstamp and piece torn away at head, original
blindstamped green cloth, one or two small faint stains, 8vo
Arctic Bibliography 14097; Sabin 67428. Provenance: Charles Murray
Adamson, his signature to title, and a 2 pp. autograph letter signed by John
Rae and dated 1876, to Adamson, recalling their conversation about natural
history and not being able to accept a dinner invitation at the present time
(a little toned). Rae’s 1846-7 Expedition was commissioned by the Hudson’s
Bay Company to map and explore the arctic coast of Canada from Repulse
Bay to Simpson’s easternmost point, and established that Boothia Felix was
a peninsula and not an island. Pencil note at front states that the Staton &
Tremane copy also lacks the maps and ‘we know of 2 other copies which also
lacks them. It would appear that some copies were published without them’.
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£500-800
‘Photographed before leaving for the Great Ice Barrier, in January, 1911, to
lay depots of provisions for the Polar Party the ensuing year. (Left to right)
P.O. Crean, P.O. Keohane, Lt. Gran, Capt. Scott, P.O. Forde, Mr. Meares,
Mr. Cherry-Garrard, Capt. Oates, Dr. Atkinson; sitting Dr. Wilson and Lt.
Bowers’. No. 101 Fine Art Society Exhibition catalogue.
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£700-1000
94 Priestley (Sir Raymond & Raymond J. Adie). Antarctic Research.
A Review of British Scientific Achievement in Antarctica, 1st edition,
1964, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, some light
spotting, original cloth, separate map portfolio, slipcase (some
fading and stains), 4to, together with The Antarctic Chef. The Story
of the Life of Charles Green, the cook on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s
Expeditions to Antarctica on the ‘Endurance’ in 1914 and the ‘Quest’
in 1921, compiled by his nephew Roy Cockram, 1999, illustrations,
original ring binder with author presentation inscription, with other
polar, mainly Shackleton-related including Roland Hunter’s
Shackleton, 1985 and South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last
Expedition 1914-17, edited by Peter King, 1991 edition
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96 Rich (E.E.). The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company 16701870, 2 volumes, Hudson’s Bay Record Society, 1958-59, colour
frontispieces, folding map, partly unopened, map endpapers,
previous owner inscription of Michael Browne Rich to half titles, top
edge gilt, original blue cloth, spines faded, 8vo, limited edition
number 6, together with two other Hudson’s Bay Record Society
publications: Cumberland House Journals and Inland Journal 177582, 2 volumes, First and Second Series, 1951-52, limited edition
1033, and John Rae’s Correspondence with the Hudson’s Bay
Company on Arctic Exploration 1844-1855, 1953, limited edition,
this copy unumbered, volumes XIV, XV, XVI, XXI & XXII of The
Hudson’s Bay Record Society series
£70-100
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£100-150
Lot 97
97 Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders of
the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the
Purpose of Exploring Baffin’s Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability
of a North-West Passage, 1st edition, John Murray, 1819, folding
engraved map frontispiece and 31 engraved, etched & aquatint
plates, panoramas, charts and maps, including several folding and
several hand-coloured (includes engraved “Explanation” leaf with
observational chart), few engraved diagrams and illustrations to
text, errata slip present, occasional spotting, offsetting and
dampstaining to few leaves, hinges repaired, contemporary
marbled boards with modern half calf, gilt decorated spine, 4to
Abbey Travel 634; Sabin 73376; Books on Ice 2.5.; Pilling 3386. “Ross’s
expedition had some notable achievements including the confirmation of
William Baffin’s description of Baffin’s Bay exactly two hundred years earlier
... His encounter with a previously unknown group of native people whom
he referred to as ‘Arctic Highlanders’ was memorably drawn by Sackheuse
and known through its reproduction in Ross’s volume ... In effect Ross
began a new era in Arctic research” - Books on Ice. Includes a
“Comparative List of the Northern and Southern Eskimaux Language, ” as
well as a list of “Words the Same in Both Dialects” (pages 122-23).
(1)
£1000-1500
98 Ross (Sir 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, 2 volumes (including
Appendix), 1st edition, A.W. Webster, 1835, engraved frontispiece to
each, folding uncoloured engraved map (some offsetting and a short
handling tear), forty-eight plates and charts, fifteen coloured (volume
one with three colour-printed mezzotints; Appendix with eleven
hand-coloured lithographs and one hand-coloured engraving), some
spotting and light toning, one or two short marginal tears, first volume
with endpapers renewed and armorial bookplate of Aldennam House
Herts on front pastedown, rough-trimmed, Appendix with stitching
partially broken and some leaves starting, original patterned blue
cloth, some marks and fading, first volume rebacked, 4to
Abbey, Travel, 636; Sabin 73381.
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Lot 98
£500-800
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99* Scott Expedition. An original advertisement for a lecture
given by Commander Evans, C.B. R.N. on The Scott Expedition held
on Friday 24th October [1913] in Tunbridge Wells, printed in black
and white, showing a portrait photograph of Evans in full dress, the
reverse side with am expedition group photograph of Oates, Scott,
Evans, Bowers and Wilson, 7.5 x 9cm (3 x 3.5ins), right side corner
torn off
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£50-80
102 Snow (W. Parker). Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir
John Franklin. A Narrative of Every-Day Life in the Arctic Seas, 1st
edition, 1851, additional colour lithographed title, folding map,
three colour lithographed plates, scattered light spots,
contemporary owner inscription, rear hinge a little tender, original
blue cloth gilt, one or two small bumps and marks, 8vo
100 Scott (Captain Robert F.). The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’, 2
volumes (volume I 1st edition, volume II 2nd impression), 1905,
photogravure frontispieces, folding map contained in rear pockets
(a little toned), numerous half-tone illustrations, scattered light
spotting, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spines a little faded
and rubbed at ends, thick 8vo, together with Scott’s Last
Expedition, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1913, portrait frontispieces,
folding map at end of each volume, colour and monochrome
illustrations, a little light spotting, contemporary ownership
inscription to volume I endpaper, top edge gilt, original blue cloth,
joints slightly rubbed, thick 8vo
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Abbey Travel 638; Sabin 85560.
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103 South Polar Times. The South Polar Times, 3 volumes,
Centenary Edition, Orskey-Bonham-Niner, 2002, facsimile colour
and monochrome maps and illustrations, loose prospectus,
original blue cloth, upper covers with inset colour illustrations, 4to
Limited edition of 350, this copy unumbered.
(3)
£150-200
104 Wild (Commander Frank). Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story
of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by
Dr. A.H. Macklin, 1st edition, 1923, colour frontispiece, numerous
half-tone illustrations, previous owner inscription to front
endpaper, original cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed to extremities (a
very good copy), thick 8vo
£200-300
101 Shackleton (E.H.). The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story
of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, 1909, photogravure frontispiece to each, three folding
maps and folding panorama contained in volume II rear pocket, 12
colour plates, half-tone illustrations, errata slip to volume II,
occasional scattered spotting, volume I front hinge a little tender,
top edge gilt, original cloth, upper covers blocked in silver, some
fading to volume I, a little rubbed with a few marks, 4to, together
with South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, new
impression, December 1919
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£400-600
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£200-300
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£200-300
THE PAUL LYSLEY COLLECTION OF POLAR TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
105 Amedeo (Luigi, Duke of the Abruzzi). On the “Polar Star” in
the Arctic Sea, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, Hutchinson, 1903,
numerous monochrome photographic illustrations, plates and
illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue-green cloth gilt, heavily
rubbed, large 8vo, toghether with Nansen (Fridtjof), The First
Crossing of Greenland, translated by Hubert Majendie Gepp, 2
volumes, 1st English edition, Longmans, Green, 1890, folding maps,
numerous monochrome plates, some light scattered spotting,
original blue cloth blocked in silver, rubbed and with one or two
puncture marks to upper cover of first volume, some fading to
spines and edges of covers, 8vo, plus Barrow (Sir John), Voyages
of Discovery and Research within the Arctic regions, from the year
1818 to the present time, 1st edition, John Murray, 1846, engraved
portrait frontispiece, single page map and large folding map (the
latter with closed tear repaired) at end, 16-page publisher’s list at
rear, dated January 1846, original blindstamped cloth, rubbed and
some soiling and discolouration to edges, modern reback, 8vo, and
other polar travel and exploration, all North Pole interest, including
Nansen, Through Siberia, 1914, Steen, Terrestrial Magnetism
(Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the “Fram”
1898-1902, No. 6), Kristiania, 1907, Peary, Northward over the Great
Ice, 2 volumes, 1898, Huish, The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross,
1835, Nansen, Farthest North, 2 volumes, 1898, etc., mostly original
cloth, generally rubbed and marked, mostly 8vo
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£200-300
107* Amundsen (Roald). A portrait plaque of Roald Amundsen, the
rectangular bronze uniface plaque by IL Rui of Oslo, showing a bust
to the left of Amundsen, the dates below of his principal
explorations to the North West Passage, South Pole and North Pole,
47 x 77mm, extremely fine and scarce
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872-1928), was a Norwegian
explorer, who led the Antarctic expedition of 1910-12 which was the first to
reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. In 1926, he was the first
expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole. In 1928 while
taking part in a rescue mission in the Arctic seeking missing crew for the
airship Italia, Amundsen’s aircraft disappeared along with Amundsen and 5
crew members.
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£200-300
106 Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram, ” 1910-1912,
translated from the Norwegian by A.G. Chater, 2 volumes, 1st
edition in English, 1912, portrait frontispieces (volume I detached),
two folding colour maps, half-tone illustrations (one detached in
volume I), a little minor spotting, some toning to endpapers, top
edge gilt, original red cloth, spines a little rubbed and faded, small
split to volume II upper joint, 8vo
108 Amundsen (Roald). My Life as an Explorer, 1st English edition,
Heinemann, 1927, monochrome plates and illustrations, original
dark blue cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, together with Nansen
(Fridtjof), Hunting & Adventure in the Arctic, 1st English edition,
J.M. Dent, 1925, portrait frontispiece, monochrome illustrations,
original dark green cloth, a little rubbed, plus Cook (Frederick A.),
My Attainment of the Pole, being the record of the expedition that
first reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909 with the final summary
of the Polar Controversy, 1st edition, New York, Polar Publishing
Co., 1911, numerous monochrome plates after photographs,
original brown cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, large 8vo, and
other early 20th century polar biographies, and related, including
Markham, Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, 1909, Traill, The
Life of Sir John Franklin, 1896, Amundsen, My Polar Flight, circa
1927, Chapman, Northern Lights, 1934, The Voyage of the
Chelyuskin, 1935, Chapman, Watkins’ Last Expedition, 1934, etc.,
all original cloth, generally in good condition, 8vo
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£300-500
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£150-200
Lot 109
Lot 110
109 Beechey (Frederick William). Narrative of a Voyage to the
Pacific and Bering’s Strait, to co-operate with the Polar
Expeditions: performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the
command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., in the years 1825, 26, 27,
28, 2 volumes, New Edition, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,
1831, 3 folding or double-page engraved maps, 23 engraved and
lithographed plates, some waterstaining and spotting to plates and
maps (contents nevertheless generally in clean condition), marbled
endpapers, 19th century dark green half calf gilt, with maroon
morocco labels to spines, 8vo
111 Bergman (Sten). Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled & Skis..., 1st
English edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1927, monochrome plates
after photographs, title lightly spotted, original yellow cloth, slightly
rubbed and marked, together with Bilby (Julian W.), Among
Unknown Eskimo, an account of 12 years intimate relations with
the primitive eskimo of ice-bound Baffin Land, 1st edition, Seeley,
Service & Co., 1923, monochrome plates after photographs,
original black cloth in good condition, plus Bergman (Brown R.N.
Rudmose), A Naturalist at the Poles, The Life, Work & Voyages of
Dr. W.S., Bruce, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1923,
monochrome plates after photographs, original black cloth
lettered in blue, minor fraying to extremities, and Amundsen (Roald
& Ellsworth, Lincoln), First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1st American
edition, New York, George H. Doran, 1927, monochrome plates
after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, and other arctic travel
and exploration, all early 20th century publications, including
Lowell Thomas, Kabluk of the Eskimo, 1932, J. Douglas Hoare, Arctic
Exploration, 1906, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Arctic Prairies, 1912,
A.W. Greely, Handbook of Alaska, 1909, etc., all original cloth,
generally in clean condition, 8vo
Arctic Bibliography 1228n. Forbes 774. Howes B309. A good copy of the
second octavo edition, first published in quarto in the same year. Beechey’s
account is notable for descriptions of the coast of Alaska, as well as Pitcairn
Island, Hawaii and California.
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£300-500
110 Belcher (Captain Sir Edward). The Last of the Arctic Voyages;
Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance... In Search
of Sir John Franklin, During the Years 1852-53-54. With Notes on
the Natural History, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen,
Thomas Bell, J.W. Salter, and Lovell Reeve, 2 volumes, 1st edition,
1855, four maps (two contained in volume II rear pocket), 36
lithographed plates, including 12 hand-coloured, 24 pp.
advertisements bound at end of volume I, endpapers renewed,
original blue cloth gilt, modern calf rebacks, 8vo
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Abbey Travel 645; Sabin 4389. The last British expedition to search for Sir
John Franklin. Eventually forced to abandon four of the five ice-bound
ships, the whole party returned home in 1854 aided by two supply ships at
Beechey Island.
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£400-600
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£200-300
Lot 112
Lot 114
112 Borchgrevink (C.E.). First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an
Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900, 1st edition,
1901, photogravure portrait frontispiece detached, light offset to
title), three folding colour maps at end, numerous half-tone
illustrations, 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, top edge gilt,
original blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt and silver, 8vo
Spence 152. A bright copy.
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Lot 115
116 Byrd (Richard Evelyn). Little America. Aerial Exploration in the
Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole, Author’s Autograph Edition,
G.P. Putnam, New York & London, 1930, portrait frontispiece,
folding map, half-tone illustrations, untrimmed in original half
vellum, spine slightly discoloured, 8vo
Limited edition 522/1000 signed by author and publisher.
(1)
£300-500
113 British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Meteorology, by G.C.
Simpson, volumes 1-3, Calcutta & London, 1919-23, numerous folding
charts, King’s College Library ink stamps, original cloth, volume 3
upper joint splitting at head, some fading, 4to, together with three
other reports from the expedition: Terrestrial Magnetism, by Charles
Chree, 1921, Glaciology, by C.S. Wright & R.E. Priestley, 1922 and F.
Debenham’s Report on the Maps and Surveys, 1923 (all ex-libris)
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£100-150
114 [Brown, Robert Neil Rudmose, et al.] The Voyage of the
“Scotia”. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic
Seas by Three of the Staff, 1st edition, 1906, two folding colour
maps, numerous half-tone illustrations, closed tear to List of
Illustrations leaf, scattered light spotting, endpapers renewed, top
edge gilt, original grey pictorial cloth, spine lettering faded, a little
rubbed, 8vo
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£200-300
115 Bull (Henrik Johan). The Cruise of the ‘Antarctic’ to the South
Polar Regions, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1896, 12 monochrome
plates, including frontispiece (complete), 32-page publisher’s
catalogue at rear, front free endpaper removed, ownership
signature to half-title of Will Colbeck, dated 1901, edges roughtrimmed, front hinge slightly cracked, original blue cloth with title
and illustration to upper cover blocked in silver, slightly rubbed
(generally a good copy), 8vo
Spence 210. Taurus 14. Bull’s two year whaling expedition took in Tristan da
Cunha, the Prince Edward Islands, Kerguelen, Campbell and Possession
Islands. His landing at Cape Adare was the first confirmed landing on the
Antarctic Continental mainland.
(1)
£300-400
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
Lot 117
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£100-150
117 Charcot (J.B.). Le “Francais” au Pole Sud, Journal de
l’Expedition Antarctique Francaise 1903-1905, 1st edition, Paris,
Flammarion, 1906, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations
after phtographs, folding map at rear, top edge gilt, contemporary
gilt-decorated olive green morocco-backed boards, with original
pictorial upper wrapper bound-in, very slightly rubbed to
extremities, and sunned to spine, with a silver gelatin photographic
print of Charcot’s arctic exploration vessel the ‘Pourquoi Pas’
loosely inserted at front, large 8vo, together with 2 others related
(Dans la Mer du Groenland, Montreal, 1937 & Jean-Baptiste
Charcot 1867-1936, Yacht Club de France, 1937), plus Gerlache
(Adriene), Voyage de la ‘Belgica’, Quinze Mois dans l’Antarctique,
2nd edition, Paris & Brussels, 1902, numerous monochrome
illustrations, top edge gilt, contemporary three-quarter green
morocco, rubbed and spine sunned, and two others related
including Shackleton, Mon Expedition au Sud Polaire 1914-1917,
Tours circa 1918
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£200-300
119 Conway (Sir Martin). No Man’s Land, A History of Spitsbergen
from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific
Exploration of the Country, 1st edition, Cambridge University
Press, 1906, numerous plates and maps, including 2 contained in
pocket at rear, original green cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed
(generally a very good copy), 8vo, together with Royal Geographical
Society. Arctic Geography and Ethnology. A Selection of Papers
on Arctic Geography and Ethonology, reprinted, and presented to
the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the President, Council and
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, 1st edition, John
Murray, 1875, folding charts, etc., original blue cloth gilt in bright
condition, plus Hartwig (G.), The Polar World: A popular
description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions
of the Globe, new edition, 1892, wood engraved illustrations,
original green cloth gilt in bright condition, all 8vo
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120 Cook (Captain James). An Account of the Voyages undertaken
by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the
Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by
Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain
Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up
from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders,
and from the papers of Joseph Banks, by John Hawkesworth, 3
volumes, 1st edition, 1773, together with A Voyage Towards the
South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships
the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and
1775, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1777, and A Voyage to the Pacific
Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making
Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere..., 3 volumes, 1st edition,
1784, text only, lacking all engraved maps, charts and plates, some
spotting and toning, a few repaired tears, modern coth-backed
boards, 4to
118 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley). The Worst Journey in the World,
Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1922, half titles, colour
frontispiece to each, colour and monochrome maps and plates,
one folding panorama in volume I with splits and tape
reinforcements, some spotting, later cloth-backed boards, paper
labels to spines lifting, 8vo
Spence 277.
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£100-150
£200-300
A set of all three of Cook’s voyages.
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£500-800
121 Crantz (David). The History of Greenland: Containing a
Description of the Country, and its Inhabitants: And Particularly, a
Relation of the Mission, carried on for above these Thirty Years by
the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that
Country, 2 volumes in one, 1st English edition, 1767, two folding
engraved maps (one with tear along one fold, one fore edge a little
frayed), seven engraved plates, a couple of marginal tears and
losses to contents leaves, some spotting and soiling, modern half
calf, 8vo
Sabin 17417.
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123 De Long (George W.). The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship
and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, edited by his wife, Emma
De Long, 2 volumes, 1st US edition, 1884, numerous wood engraved
illustrations, etc., original pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and
some marks (generally a good copy), thick 8vo, together with Kane
(Elisha Kent), The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin, a personal narrative, 1st edition, New York, 1854,
monochrome mezzotint plates, wood engraved illustrations to text,
folding map, single library inkstamp to title verso, original cloth gilt,
rubbed and minor fraying to extremities, and a few other marks,
8vo, plus Hall (Charles Francis), Arctic Researches and Life Among
the Esquimaux: being the narrative of an expedition in search of
Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862, 1st edition, New
York, 1865, wood engraved illustrations, light waterstain to front
endpapers and frontispiece, original cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed
to extremities, with minor loss to head and foot of spine, some
fading to spine and edges, 8vo, and other 19th century American
polar exploration, all published in the United States, including
Proceedings of the Proteus Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief
Expedition of 1883, Washington, 1884, William E. Chandler, Letter
from the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the loss of the steamer
Jeannette, 1883, Giles B. Harber, Report... of his search for the
missing people of the Jeannette Expedition, 1884, Robert Peary,
Northward over the Great Ice, 2 volumes, New York, 1898,
Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, My Arctic Journal, 1893, etc., all
original cloth or similar, rubbed and one volume, Arctic Experiences
re-cased (generally good condition), 8vo
£300-400
122 Davis (Charles Henry). Narrative of the North Polar Expedition.
U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding, 1st
edition, Washington, 1876, four maps, steel-engraved plates, some
light spotting, hinges tender, original red cloth gilt, joints and edges
rubbed, 4to, together with Narrative of the Second Arctic
Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay,
Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King
William’s Land, and also among the Eskimos During the Years 1864’69, Washington, 1879, folding linen-backed map contained in rear
pocket, folding maps, photographic and engraved plates,
occasional offsetting and slight toning, original green cloth gilt, a
litttle rubbed, 4to, plus Report of the International Polar
Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Response to the Resolution
of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884,
Washington, 1885, maps and illustrations, a few colour, Royal
Geographical Society of Australia and other ink stamps, a few
spots, original cloth, spine lettering and covers partially faded, 4to,
with four others including The Ziegler Polar Expedition 1903-1905,
Scientific Results... edited by John A. Fleming, Washington, 1907
(some rodent damage to spine and edges), and The Peary Auxillary
Expedition of 1894, by Henry G. Bryant, Philadelphia, June 1895
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127 Franklin (John). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the
Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22, 1st edition, 1823, 19
engraved plates, 11 hand-coloured aquatint plates, four folding
maps, errata slip, bound without half title, a couple of closed
marginal tears, some offsetting and light spotting and stains, later
blue half calf, 4to
Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 25624.
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£300-500
124 Dennett (John Frederick). The Voyages and Travels of Captains
Ross, Parry, Franklin and Mr. Belzoni; forming an interesting history
of the manners, customs, and characters of various nations, 2
volumes, William Wright, 1835, engraved title to first volume with
vignette illustration of eskimos conversing on the ice, second
volume with printed title, 11 engraved plates (complete), marbled
edges and endpapers, inner hinges restrengthened, contemporary
black half stained half calf gilt, 8vo
See Sabin 19582 for the 1826 edition of this work.
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£150-200
125 Drygalski (Erich von). Zum Kontinent des Eisigen Sudens,
Deutsche Sudpolarexpedition fahrten und forschungen des
“Gauss” 1901-1903, Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1904, half-title,
photogravure frontispiece, numerous plans, charts and
monochrome illustrations after photos, folding map at rear, nearcontemporary black cloth, 4to, together with Amundsen (Roald),
Die Eroberung des Sudpols, Die norwegische Sudpolfahrt mit dem
Fram 1910-1912, 2 volumes, Bern, Georg Sommerfeld, 1912, plus
Mawson (Douglas), Leben und Tod am Sudpol, 2 volumes, 2nd
edition, Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1922, monochrome plates and
illustrations to each work, original cloth, generally in clean
condition, 8vo
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128 Franklin (John). Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in
1819-20-21-22: With a Brief Account of the Second Journey in
1825-26-27, 4 volumes, 1829, half titles for volumes II-IV, folding
map, 23 engraved plates and portraits, one or two light spots,
armorial bookplates, contemporary half calf gilt, slightly rubbed,
12mo, together with Parry (W.E.), Three Voyages for the Discovery
of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole, 5 volumes, 1831,
folding map, 12 engraved plates, some light spotting and toning,
contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt, rebacked, original
spines relaid, a little rubbed, 12mo
£100-150
126 Dumont d’Urville (Jules S-C). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans
l’Oceanie, sur les Corvettes L’Astrolabe et La Zelee, 9 volumes (of
10), Paris, Gide, Editeur, 1841-46, half-title to each volume, 7
folding maps, a few closed tears to folds, early ownership signature
of Alban Stuart to front endpapers or half titles, and with
presentation inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper to Captain
J. Threlfall Bragg, Ship Empress of the Sea with Mr. & Mrs Stuart’s
best wishes for his happiness and prosperity, Hill House, Irvine
Street, Liverpool, May 6th/61, contemporary quarter calf gilt,
rubbed and some wear to extremities, 8vo
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£300-400
129 Franklin (John). Narrative of a Second Expedition to the
Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827, 1st
edition, 1828, 31 engraved plates, six folding engraved maps,
frontispiece and maps detached, occasional light spotting and
water stains, disbound, 4to
Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 26228. Binding copy.
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£150-200
131 Graah (Captain W.A.). Narrative of an Expedition to the East
Coast of Greenland, sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in
search of the Lost Colonies, translated from the Danish, by G.
Gordon Macdougall, 1st English edition, John W. Parker, 1837,
folding engraved frontispiece map of Greenland (some spotting),
16 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end, original blue/green
cloth gilt, rubbed and a little fraying and minor wear to joints and
head and foot of spine, some fading, together with M’Clintock
(Captain), The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative
of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his
Companions, 1st edition, John Murray 1859, wood engraved
illustrations, folding map, etc., original blue cloth gilt, rubbed and
some fraying to head of spine, plus M’Dougall (George F.), The
Eventful Voyage of HM Discovery Ship ‘Resolute’ to the Arctic
Regions in search of Sir John Franklin, 1857, folding engraved
frontispiece chart, with hand-colouring, some spotting to
preliminary leaves, title with some staining, colour lithographed
plates and wood engraved illustrations, some marginal spotting
throughout, original blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some
soiling and faded to spine (restrengthened), and other 19th century
polar exploration, including Isaac Hayes, An Arctic Boat Journey in
the Autumn of 1854, Boston, 1860, & The Open Polar Sea: A
Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the
Schooner United States, New York, 1867, E. Vale Blake, Arctic
Experiences, New York, 1874, Sir John Leslie and others, Narrative
of Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions, 3rd
edition, revised, Edinburgh, 1832, Narrative of the Recent Voyage
of Captain Ross to the Arctic Regions in the years 1829-33, and a
Notice of Captain Back’s Expedition, 1st Amercian edition, New
York, 1835, etc., all bound in original cloth, mostly gilt lettered or
decorated, generally rubbed, mainly 8vo
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130 Golden Cockerel Press. A Voyage Round the World with
Captain Cook in H.M.S. Resolution, by Anders Sparrman,
Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter, Golden Cockerel Press,
1944, wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, folding map, slight
toning to colophon, top edges gilt, original green buckram gilt, folio
Limited edition 331/350. Cockalorum 162.
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132 Greely (Adolphus W.). Three Years of Arctic Service, An
account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the
attainment of the Farthest North, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New York,
Scribner’s, 1886, 9 maps (including one in pocket at rear of second
volume) and wood engraved illustrations, with printed compliments
slip from the author tipped in to title of first volume, original dark
blue pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, a little
discolouration to foot of spine of second volume, thick 8vo,
together with Amundsen (Roald), ‘The North West Passage’, being
the record of the voyage of exploration of the ship ‘Gjoa’ 19031907, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, Archibald Constable, 1908,
monochrome plates after photographs, original dark green cloth
gilt, rubbed and some soiling, and some fraying to extremities,
large 8vo, plus Kennan (George), Siberia and the Exile System, 1st
edition, New York, Century Co., 1891, wood engraved illustrations,
top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo,
and other polar travel and exploration, all North Pole interest,
including a copy of Markham’s A Polar Reconnaissance, being the
voyage of the ‘Isbjorn’ to Novaya Zemlya in 1879, 1st edition, 1881,
lacking the plate of Gubina Bay, some soiling and wear, Johansen,
With Nansen in the North, 1899, Nansen, Eskimo Life, 1st English
edition, 1893, etc, mostly original cloth, generally marked or with
some wear, mostly 8vo
134 Johansen (Hjalmar). Med Nansen pa 86 degrees 14’, Mina
minnen fran den Norska Polarexpeditionen, 1st edition, Stockholm,
Albert Bonniers, 1898, numerous monochrome illustrations,
including many after photographs, inner hinges partly broken,
original gilt-decorated dark green cloth in bright condition, except
frayed along rear joint, 8vo, together with Amundsen (Roald),
Nordvest-Passagen, Beretning om Gjoa-Ekspeditionen 1903-1907,
1st edition, Kristiania, 1907, numerous monochrome illustrations,
contemporary related news cutting pasted to verso of half-title,
original gilt-decorated red cloth, slightly rubbed (generally a very
good copy), plus Sydpolen, Den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram
1910-1912, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Kristiania, 1912, numerous
monochrome illustrations, including many after photographs,
original pictorial blue cloth gilt, some minor stains, but generally
an attractive copy, and other Norwegian polar exploration,
various, all printed in Norwegian or German, including Koolemans
Beynon, De Reis der Pandora naar de Noordpoolgewesten in den
zomer van 1875, Amsterdam, 1876, Amundsen, Die Eroberung des
Sudpols, 2 volumes, Bern, 1912, etc., mostly bound in original cloth,
8vo, Theodor Zeilau, Fox-Expeditionen i Aaret 1860 over Faeroerne,
Island og Gronland, 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1861, etc.
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135 Koldewey (Robert Johann). The German Arctic Expedition of
1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the ‘Hansa’ in the Ice, 1st
English edition, Sampson Low, 1874, chromolithographed
frontispiece and 3 chromolithographed plates, 2 coloured maps at
rear, including one large folding (closed tear repaired), numerous
wood engraved illustrations, inner hinges cracked, original green
cloth gilt, heavily rubbed and some fraying and wear to extremities,
thick 8vo, together with Payer (Julius), New Lands Within the Arctic
Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship ‘Tegetthoff’
in the years 1872-1874, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, Macmillan,
1876, chromolithographed frontispiece (with oval library inkstamp
to upper outer corner), wood engraved illustrations, double-page
map at front of second volume, occasional library inkstamp, some
scattered spotting, original cloth, rubbed, fraying and wear to
spines, with some loss (cloth partly detached), 8vo, plus Nares
(George S.), Narrative of A Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6
in HM Ships ‘Alert’ and ‘Discovery’, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Sampson
Low, 1878, 6 mounted woodburytype photographs, one (of 2) maps,
wood engraved illustrations, etc., some waterstains to first few
leaves and to top margins, and occasional marks elsewhere, later
green cloth gilt retaining original spines, soiled and marked, with a
little fraying, 8vo (with small inkstamp to head of each title
Ellesmere Land Expedition), and other arctic travel and exploration,
including Nansen, In Northern Mists, 2 volumes, 1911, Greely, Three
Years of Arctic Service, 2 volumes, 1886, Conway, The First Crossing
of Spitsbergen, 1897, D. Murray Smith, Arctic Expeditions from
British and Foreign Shores, from the earliest times to the expedition
of 1875-76, Southampton, Charles H. Calvert, 1877, Nansen, The First
Crossing of Greenland, 2 volumes, 1890, & Mawson, The Home of the
Blizzard, 2 volumes, [1915], mostly original cloth, generally with some
wear, mainly large 8vo
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£200-300
133 Hooper (William Hulme). Ten Months among the Tents of the
Tuski, with Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir
John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst,
1st edition, 1853, half title (reinforced at gutter), folding map at
end with outline colour (repaired to recto and verso), four tinted
lithographed plates (frontispiece with small marginal repair), two
uncoloured plates, illustrations, some toning and light spotting,
modern cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo
Abbey Travel 641; Sabin 32883.
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£150-200
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£200-300
£200-300
Lot 137
Lot 138
136 Lyon (Captain George F.). The Private Journal of Captain G.F.
Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, During the Recent Voyage of Discovery
under Captain Parry, new edition, 1825, bound with A Brief
Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay,
through Sir Thomas Rowe’s “Welcome”, in His Majesty’s Ship
Griper, in the Year MDCCCXXIV, 1st edition, 1825, folding charts
and engraved plates, correct as listed for each volume, some
offsetting and scattered spotting, recent half calf gilt, 8vo
(1)
139 Markham (Albert Hastings). A Polar Reconnaissance, being The
Voyage of the “Isbjorn” to Novaya Zemlya, in 1879, 1st edition,
Kegan Paul, 1881, 10 wood engraved illustrations, including 6 fullpage (complete), inner hinges a little loosened, original dark blue
cloth gilt, a little rubbed and one or two minor marks, spine lightly
dulled (generally in good condition), 8vo
Scarce account of the private expedition of Sir Henry Gore-Booth to the
Kara Sea.
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£200-300
137 Lyon (Captain George F.). The Private Journal of Captain G.F.
Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under
Captain Parry, 1st edition, 1824, engraved frontispiece, folding map
and six plates, some offsetting and scattered light spotting,
contemporary previous owner inscription of Thomas Davies at head
of title, small previous owner stamps to front endpapers,
contemporary half calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed, 8vo
Sabin 42853.
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£150-20
138 M’Lean (John). Notes of a Twenty-Five Years’ Service in the
Hudson’s Bay Territory, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Richard Bentley,
1849, half-title to first volume, occasional minor marks to margins,
modern antique-style half morocco gilt, 8vo
Sabin 43514. Working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, M’Lean was the first
white man to cross the Labrador Peninsular. His account is regarded as a
classic of wilderness travel.
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£200-300
Lot 139
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Lot 141
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140 Mawson (Sir Douglas). The Home of the Blizzard. Being the
Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, 2
volumes, 1st edition, 1915, photogravure frontispiece to each, three
folding maps (with manuscript title to each on versos) contained in
volume II rear pocket, numerous maps and illustrations, scattered
light spotting, hinges tender, original blue cloth, upper covers with
vignette blocked in silver, edges rubbed, small indentation to
volume II upper cover, a few marks, thick 8vo
(2)
£200-300
141 McLean W. and E.H. Shackleton. “O.H.M.S.” An Illustrated
Record of the Voyage of S.S. “Tintagel Castle” Conveying Twelve
Hundred Soldiers from Southampton to Cape Town March 1900,
1900, 59 pp., half-tone illustrations, previous owner signature to title
and frontispiece verso, text block detached, staple rust, original
boards, spine and edges rubbed witn a few chips, small folio
Early Shackleton publication.
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£100-150
142 Nansen (Fridtjof). “Farthest North”, Being the Record of a
Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and the Fifteen
Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an
Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram, 20 original parts,
[1898], folding colour chart, numerous illustrations, a few colour,
occasional light spotting and some marginal fraying, original
wrappers, a few chips and tears, some soiling, contained in modern
cloth folder and bookform slipcase, 4to
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£100-150
143 No Lot
Lot 142
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Lot 144
144 Nansen (Fridtjof). “Farthest North”. Being the Record of a
Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen
Months’ Sleigh Journey, 2 volumes, 1st edition, George Newnes,
1898, monochrome illustrations, original gilt-decorated pictorial
cloth in bright condition (one or two minor marks), together with
Peary (Robert E.), The North Pole, 1st edition, Hodder &
Stoughton, 1910, monochrome plates after photographs, tissueguard to frontispiece partly torn, original pale blue cloth gilt,
generally in bright condition, large 8vo, plus Charcot (Jean), The
Voyage of ‘Why Not?’ in the Antarctic, the Journal of the Second
French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910, Toronto, Musson Book
Company, circa 1911, title with perforated stamp O.F.M. Quebec,
monochrome plates after photographs, original light blue cloth gilt,
very slightly rubbed, minor marks towards foot of spine (generally
in bright condition), large 4to
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145 Nordenskjold (Dr. Otto G. & Dr. J.G. Andersson). Antarctica
or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 1st English edition,
1905, folding maps (one with clear tape mark to verso), colour and
half-tone illustrations, previous owner signatures to front
endpaper, original cloth gilt, rebacked, original spine relaid, a few
light marks, 8vo
Spence 860.
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£150-200
146 North-West Passage. An Act for giving a publick Reward to
such Person or Persons, His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall
discover a North West Passage through Hudson’s Streights, to the
Western and Southern Ocean of America, Thomas Baskett, 1745,
pp. 483-486, one or two light spots, disbound, folio
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£150-200
Lot 147
Lot 145
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147 Northwest Passage. Papers relative to the recent Arctic
expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and the crews of H.M.S.
‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, 1st edition, printed by George Edward Eyre
and William Spottiswoode, 1854, title and 225 pages, 4 (of 5) folding
lithographed maps and charts, lacking the second of three folding
charts at rear of volume, wood engraved illustrations to text,
contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio
Arctic Bibliography 45241. Offical account of the search for Sir John
Franklin after all 129 men on the expedition to complete the NW Passage
died in 1846 and 1847, when their ships HMS Erebus and Terror were
trapped by ice on 12 September 1846.
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£300-500
Lot 149
148 Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery
of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific:
Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and
Griper, with an Appendix, Containing the Scientific and Other
Observations, 1st edition, 1821, 20 engraved maps, plates and
charts, some folding (one or two tears along folds), some offsetting
and scattered spotting, Hertfordshire County Library ink stamp to
title verso, together with [Journal of a Third Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
1826], 10 engraved maps and plates, including two folding, lacking
frontispiece, title and all before page vii, light offsetting, both
volumes bound in modern tan half calf, spines with red labels and
gilt decoration, 4to
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£300-400
150 Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Second Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and
Hecla, 1st edition, 1824, 31 engraved plates, some aquatint, 8
engraved charts, including four folding, four folding panoramas,
small insect damage to top corners, some offsetting and light
spotting, a few water stains, contemporary green half calf, spine
rubbed with insect damage at head, 4to
149 Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Second Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and
Hecla, 1st edition, 1824, 31 engraved plates, some aquatint, 8
engraved charts, including four folding, four folding panoramas,
some offsetting and light spotting, contemporary blindstamped
calf, joints cracked, some small worming to covers, 4to
Sabin 58864.
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Sabin 58864.
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£200-300
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£200-300
151 Parry (William Edward). Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the
North Pole, in Boats Fitted for the Purpose, and Attached to His
Majesty’s Ship Hecla, in the Year MDCCCXXVII, 1st edition, John
Murray, 1828, 3 engraved maps, including one large folding map at
rear (repaired to folds), 4 engraved plates, some spotting, marginal
waterstains towards rear of volume, library inkstamp to title verso,
modern green library cloth, 4to, together with other 18th and 19th
century related travel, including Daines Barrington, The Possibility
of Approaching the North Pole Asserted, new edition, with an
appendix, 1818 (ex-library copy), Tancred Robinson, An Account of
Several Late Voyages and Discoveries, 1711, defective copy, lacking
3 charts, wormtrack to some leaves affecting letters, Samuel
Hearne, A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort, in Hudson’s Bay, the
Northern Ocean, Dublin, 1796, with 8 (of 9) plates only, lacking plate
1 (NW view of Prince of Wales’s Fort), Arctic Miscellanies, 1852 (exlibrary copy), Loss of the Lady Hobart Packet; of the Hon. East India
Company’s Ship Cabalva; and of the Centaur and Litchfield Menof-War, 1824, Sir John Barrow, Voyages of Discovery and Research
witin the Arctic Regions, 1846, James Weddell, Voyage Towards the
South Pole, 1825, etc., mostly with some defectives, several
bindings worn, mainly 8vo
Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
(11)
£200-400
152 Peary (Robert E.). Nearest the Pole, A Narrative of the Polar
Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 19051906, 1st English edition, Hutchinson, 1907, colour frontispiece,
monochrome plates after photographs, top edge gilt, original black
cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with Trevor-Battye (Aubyn),
Ice-Bound on Kolguev, A Chapter in the Exploration of Arctic
Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the
island, 1st edition, Archibald Constable, 1895, monochrome plates
and illustrations, some scattered spotting, top edge gilt, original
two-tone cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks and soiling to upper
cover, plus Prichard (H. Hesketh), Through Trackless Labrador,
with a chapter on fishing by G.M. Gathorne-Hardy, 1st edition,
William Heinemann, 1911, monochrome plates, mostly after
photographs, original red cloth gilt in bright condition, in dust
wrapper, torn with some loss to head of spine, and three others
similar (Mikkelsen, Lost in the Arctic, 1913, Northern Lights, 1932 &
Peter Freuchen, Arctic Adventure, 1936, all large 8vo)
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£100-150
153 Phipps (Constantine John). A Voyage Towards the North Pole:
Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command, 1773, 1st Dublin edition,
1775, half title, folding engraved chart, folding engraved plate,
several tables, including a few folding (one or two closed tears), a
few small marginal burnholes and spots, contemporary calf, spine
a little rubbed, some worming to covers, 8vo
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Lot 153
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156* Polar Postcards. A group of approximately 100 polar and
related postcards, various dates, including a group of 8 photo
postcards showing scenes from Byrd’s Second Antarctic expedition,
each cancelled and postmarked ‘Little America Antarctica’, 31
January 1934, with second cancellation for San Francisco, 25
March, 1935, each with printed message that the card was carried
to Antarctica on the SS Heart of Oakland and countersigned by
Robert A.J. English, plus 39 postcards printed by Kawin & Co.,
Chicago, circa 1909, a few with messages and postally used, plus
others various including other items of polar ephemera and related
including cigarette cards and postal history, approximately 180
items in total
154* Polar Postcards. In Nacht und Eis. Polarexpedition von Dr
Fridtjof Nansen, 1898, a set of 12 chromolithograph postcards by
Alfred Goldfeld (Series 1016), all postally unused, together with
original printed paper envelope, slightly rubbed and browned, 140
x 90mm
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£100-150
155* Polar Postcards. A group of 55 mostly vintage postcards
relating to Shackleton and Scott Antarctic expedition, circa 190410, including some real photographic postcards and some
reproductions from photographs by Ponting and others, showing
ships, expedition members, etc., some postally used, including 6
cards with pre-printed message endorsing Plasmon biscuits and
chocolate by Shackleton and 13 ‘Canterbury Times’ New Zealand
Series of Antarctic Pictures series, all postally sent from Wellington
New Zealand, circa 1904, to Miss Douglas in Bwlch, Breconshire
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£200-300
157 Rasmussen (Knud). The People of the Polar North. A Record,
Compiled from the Danish Originals and Edited by G. Herring, 1st
edition in English, 1908, folding colour map, illustrations by Count
Harald Moltke, one or two text leaves roughly opened, some toning
to endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue cloth, small indentation
to lower cover, spine ends a trifle rubbed, large 8vo
£150-200
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£100-150
158 Rasmussen (Knud). Greenland by the Polar Sea, The Story of
the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup,
translated by Asta and Rowland Kenney, 1st English edition,
Heinemann, 1921, half-title, 8 colour plates, including frontispiece,
monochrome illustrations, including some after photographs,
folding colour map at rear, original green cloth blocked in silver,
spine dulled and some light sprinkled spotting, 4to, together with
Mikkelsen (Ejnar), Lost in the Arctic, being the story of the
‘Alabama’ Expedition, 1909-1912, 1st English edition, Heinemann,
1913, portrait frontispiece, folding map, monochrome illustrations
after photographs, original dark green cloth blocked in silver,
rubbed to joints and edges, 4to, plus Nansen (Fridtjof), Through
Siberia, The Land of the Future, translated by Arthur G. Chater, 1st
English edition, Heinemann, 1914, portrait frontispiece,
monochrome illustrations after photographs, some light spotting,
original dark blue cloth gilt, rubbed and gilt to spine dulled, 4to,
and Jackson (Frederick George), The Great Frozen Land, Narrative
of a Winter Journey across the Tundras and a sojourn among the
Samoyads, edited from his journals by Arthur Montefiore, 1st
edition, Macmillan, 1895, half-title, 2 folding maps, monochrome
illustrations, some scattered spotting, original dark blue cloth gilt,
a little rubbed and centre of spine with some marks, 8vo, plus other
late 19th and early 20th century polar travel and exploration,
including Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924 (bright
copy), A.P. Low, Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to
the Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune
1903-1904, Ottawa, 1906 (good copy), Nordenskiold, the Voyage of
the Vega round Asia and Europe, New York, Macmillan, 1882, A.R.
Glen, Under the Pole Star, the Oxford University Arctic Expedition,
1935-36, 1st edition, 1937, Amundsen, My Polar Flight, 1st edition,
circa 1927, Stefansson, The Adventure of Wrangel Island, 1st English
edition, 1926, etc., all original cloth (2 volumes in contemporary
leather bindings), generally in good condition, 8vo
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160 Richardson (Sir John). Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal
of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea, in
Search of the Discovery Ships Under Command of Sir John
Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North
America, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1851, 10 colour or tinted
lithographed plates, folding coloured map on thin paper, with some
toning and repairs to folds, some scattered spotting, contemporary
half stained calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Back
(Captain George), Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the
Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic
Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, & 1835, 1st edition, John Murray,
1836, folding engraved map at rear, with one short closed tear
repaired with sellotape, 16 engraved and lithographed plates
(complete), some light spotting to plates, contemporary half calf,
rubbed and some marks, plus Franklin (John), Narrative of a
Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-2122, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1824, half-titles present,
3 (of 4) folding engraved charts, lacking the Route from Slave Lake,
all loose, contemporary plain quarter cloth, rubbed and some
marks, all 8vo
Sabin 71025: “Filled with details of personal experiences of Indian Life. The
appendix contains a comparative of dialects spoken by the Eskimo”. Sir
John Richardson (1787-1865) was surgeon and naturalist to Sir John
Franklin’s arctic expeditions in 1819-22, and 1825-27, commanding one of
the three expeditions in search of Franklin in 1848.
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£300-500
161 Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery, made Under Orders of the
Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the
Purpose of Exploring Baffin’s Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability
of a North-West Passage, 1st edition, 1819, three folding engraved
charts, large folding engraved view, fifteen hand-coloured
engraved and aquatint plates, nine uncoloured plates, four
engraved tables (three folding), errata slip, small later engraved
overslip of Baffin’s Bay trimmed and adhered to frontispiece chart,
final Appendix leaf with tears at gutter, some offsetting and
scattered light spotting, previous owner signature at head of title,
contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed
with some wear, 4to
£200-300
159 Richards (R.W.). The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-17 (Scott Polar
Research Institute Special Publication No. 2), 1st edition,
Cambridge, 1962, photographic frontispiece, original maroon cloth
gilt in dust wrapper, slim 8vo, together with Price (A. Grenvelle),
The Winning of Australian Antarctica, Mawson’s B.A.N.Z.A.R.E.
Voyages 1929-31, 1st edition, Angus & Robertson, 1963, folding
charts, monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth gilt in dust
wrapper, very slightly rubbed to extremities, large 8vo, plus
Filchner (Wilhelm), To the Sixth Continent, The Second German
South Polar Expedition, translated and edited by William Barr,
Erskine Press, 1994, numerous monochrome illustrations, original
blue cloth gilt, 4to, and other modern polar history and adventure,
all modern scholarly publications, including Erich von Drygalski,
The Southern Ice-Continent, The German South Polar Expedition
aboard the Gauss 1901-1903, Erskine Press, 1989, folio, The Adelie
Blizzard, Mawson’s forgotten newspaper 1913, Adelaide, State
Library of South Australia, 2010, folio, Robert Keith Headland, A
Chronology of Antarctic Exploration, Quaritch, 2009, folio, signed
copy, Arctic Press, Caedmon Press, Erskine Press, Arctic History
Press, etc., mostly original cloth in dust wrappers, 4to/8vo, VG
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Abbey Travel 634; Sabin 73376. Account of Sir John Ross’s first Arctic
expedition to search for the North-West Passage. The expedition confirmed
the discovery of Baffin Bay (by William Baffin in 1616) and whilst sailing further
west encountered what Ross thought were a landlocked range of mountains
(named the ‘Croker Mountains’ after John Croker, First Secretary to the
Admiralty). He then returned to England, despite the protestations of other
officers, including William Parry, James Ross and Edward Sabine, who all
thought a more thorough exploration of the ‘mountains’ was warranted. This
led to a life-long dispute with Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the
Admiralty over his account, who promptly despatched a second Arctic
expedition in 1819, under the command of Parry.
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£800-1200
162 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. Including the Reports
of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, and the Discovery
of the Northern Magnetic Pole, 1st edition, 1835, 31 engraved and
lithographed charts and plates, a few hand-coloured, some
offsetting and light spotting, library ink stamps and bookplate of
Gloucester City Libraries, contemporary half calf, upper cover
detached, rubbed and scuffed, 4to
£200-300
Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381.
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£150-200
Lot 161
163 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. Including the Reports
of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, and the Discovery
of the Northern Magnetic Pole, 1st edition, 1835, 31 engraved and
lithographed charts and plates, a few hand-coloured, some
offsetting and scattered spotting, contemporary diced calf gilt,
rubbed and scuffed with tears at spine ends, 4to
Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381.
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Lot 162
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£150-200
165 Scott (Captain Robert F.). Scott’s Last Expedition, volume 1
only (of 2), 1st edition, 1913, photogravure frontispiece, numerous
monochrome illustrations, with an inscription and signature on
page five by J J Kinsey, the New Zealand representative on the
expedition, together with an signed autograph letter of Kinsey
tipped into inside cover and several photographs provided by him,
top edge gilt, remainder rough trimmed, original blue cloth, rubbed
with dampstain to lower cover, thick, 8vo,
164 Rymill (John). Southern Lights. The Official Account of the
British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937, 1st edition, 1938,
numerous monochrome and sepia plates and illustrations after
photographs, original green cloth, with gilt spine label, a very good
copy, large 8vo, together with Hurley (Frank), Argonauts of the
South, 1st American edition, Putnam’s, 1925, folding map,
monochrome plates after photographs, top edge gilt, original dark
green cloth gilt, plus Ponting (Herbert G.), The Great White South,
1st edition, Duckworth, 1921, monochrome plates after
photographs, original dark blue cloth gilt, spine very lightly faded,
and with one or two short tears to extreme head and foot, and
Thomson (Sir C. Wyville), The Voyage of the ‘Challenger’, The
Atlantic, a preliminary account of the general results of the
exploring voyage of HMS Challenger during the year 1873 and the
early part of the year 1876, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1877,
monochrome wood engraved plates, maps, including many folding,
occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated
green cloth, rubbed, plus other Antarctic travel and exploration,
including Hugh Mill, The Siege of the South Pole, 1905 (very good
copy), J. Gordon Hayes, Antarctica, a treatise on the Southern
Continent, 1st edition, 1928, John King Davis, With the “Aurora” in
the Antarctic 1911-1914, circa 1919, Lars Christensen, Such is the
Antarctic, 1st English edition, 1935, Elsie Bernacchi, Saga of the
“Discovery”, 1st edition, 1938, signed by the author and with
presentation inscription to Walter Barlow to title, and with
handwritten note dated November 12th 1938 by the author loosely
inserted, etc., all original cloth, generally in good condition, 8vo
Spence 1016 for the first work.
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Kinsey, a Christchurch NZ based solicitor, was a long term friend of Scott
and on Scott’s advice had acted as attorney to Shackleton’s expedition of
1908. Scott appointed him his agent in New Zealand for the ill fated Terra
Nova expedition in 1910, and Kinsey used his considerable business
accumen to obtain the best possible commercial deals for the cashstrapped venture. When Scott and his party arrived at Christchurch, Kinsey
housed both Scott and his wife and provided a string of social parties to
raise funds, culminating in the ‘Terra Nova Garden Party’ when ‘anyone who
was anyone’ was invited to meet Scott. The present volume bears Scott’s
appreciation of Kinsey on page 5 under which Kinsey has written ‘This
testimony is much appreciated by me. J J Kinsey, Christchurch, NZ
28/6/14’. The autograph letter loosely inserted inside the front cover
mentions that Kinsey is sending two photographs he has taken for inclusion
in the book (still present) - one of the original illuminated memorial signed
by the London Committee of the British Antarctic Expedition when they
presented him with the book in 1913, and the second of the last letter
written by Scott to Kinsey in the last few days of his life. This is of particular
interest in that it contains a derogatory reference to Sir Edward Evans,
saying that he was a man who was not to be trusted - a reference which
was expunged from the published version of the text.
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£200-300
£200-300
Lot 165
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166 Scott (Captain Robert F.). Scott’s Last Expedition, 2 volumes,
1st edition, 1913, photogravure frontispiece to each, folding charts,
colour and monochrome illustrations, contemporary previous
owner inscription to front endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue
cloth, edges slightly rubbed, thick 8vo
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£150-200
167 Seemann (Berthold). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald
during the Years 1845-51, under the Command of Captain Henry
Kellett, R.N., C.B.;Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and
Three Cruizes to the Arctic Regions in search of Sir John Franklin,
2 volumes, 1st edition, 1853, two tinted lithograph plates, folding
colour map (all linen backed along with titles), bound without half
titles and advertisements, some offsetting, spotting and marginal
toning, later red cloth, spines faded, 8vo
Lot 169
Hill 1546; Howes S271; Sabin 78867. Seemann was the naturalist aboard the
Herald, which set out to measure the hydrography of the Pacific Ocean and
subsequently searched for the lost Franklin Arctic expedition.
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£200-300
168 Shackleton (Ernest). South, The Story of Shackleton’s Last
Expedition 1914-1917, new impression, December 1919,
monochrome plates after photographs, original dark blue cloth ,
blocked in silver, rubbed and frayed to upper joint and to head and
foot of spine and extremities, outer corners bumped, large 8vo,
together with Scott (Robert F.), The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’, 2
volumes, 2nd impression, 1905, some colour and numerous
monochrome plates, mostly after photographs, top edge gilt,
original dark blue cloth, rubbed and soiled, with some fading and
discolouration, some fraying to extremities, thick 8vo, plus Taylor
(Griffith), With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, Smith, Elder,
1916, monchrome plates after photographs, illustrations to text,
some light spotting, original green cloth, rubbed and some
discolouration, recased with original spine laid down, large 8vo,
and other Antarctic travel and exploration, including Scott,
L’Ultima Spedizione, 2 volumes, 1st Italian edition, Milan, 1914,
Fricker, The Antarctic Regions, 1904 (rebound), Gerald S. Doorly,
The Voyages of the ‘Morning’, 1st edition, 1916 (good copy), Murdoch,
From Edinburgh to the Antarctic, 1894, etc., all original cloth, 8vo
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170 Sparrman (Anders). Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, et
Autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et Principalement dans
le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres..., 3 volumes, 1st edition in
French, Paris, 1787, half titles, folding engraved frontispiece to
volume 1, folding engraved map, fifteen folding engraved plates, a
few minor spots, bookplate, contemporary calf gilt, joints cracked,
few repairs to spines at head & foot, corners repaired, bindings
worn, 8vo
£200-300
169 South Polar Times. The South Polar Times, 4 volumes,
Centenary Edition, 2002-2010, numerous facsimile maps and
illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, upper covers with inset colour
illustrations, 4to
Volumes I-III limited edition 36/350, volume IV limited edition of 500, this
copy unumbered.
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£300-500
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£300-500
171 Staehlin (J. von). An Account of the New Northern Archipelago, Lately Discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka and
Anadir. To which is Added a Narrative of the Adventures of Four Russian Sailors, who were cast away on the Desert Island of EastSpitzbergen: Together with some Observations on the Productions of that Island, &c. Translated from the German Originals at the Desire
of several Members of the Royal Society, 1st edition in English, 1774, half title, folding engraved map by Thomas Kitchin, hand-coloured in
outline (restrengthened with contemporary paper to verso), title with engraved vignette (with light offsetting), advertisement leaf at end,
blindstamps at front, contemporary owner signature to front pastedown, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracking,
8vo
ESTC T110706; Howes S863; Sabin 90063. Staehlin’s work is in two parts, the first compiled from Russian traders who explored the region between 1764 and
1767 and discovering the Aleutian, Kodiak and Unalashka islands, the second composed of reports to the Russian senate via chanceries in Irkutsk and
Kamchatka, The map shows Alaska as an Island.
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£1000-1500
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
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172 Sverdrup (Otto). New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions,
translated from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn, 2 volumes,
1st English edition, 1904, portrait frontispiece to volume I, two
folding colour maps contained in volume II rear pocket, half-tone
illustrations, one or two short marginal tears, a little toned front
and rear, original blue cloth, upper covers blocked in silver, spines
a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo
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£150-200
173 Tristan (Da Cunha). Log of the Proceedings of Her Majesties
Ship Thalia, Charles Hope Esqr. Captain - Kept by Mr William
Cockrane, autograph manuscript recording a voyage from
Chatham to Tristan de Cunha in 1841, approximately 40 pages, pen
and ink sketch of the Thalia’s ‘stowage of hold’ loosely inserted,
some fraying to old margins including inner margins, loose in
marbled wrappers with old paper repair to spine, worn, slim folio
Provenance: Dr B.E. Juel-Jensen. The 46-gun fifth rate frigate HMS Thalia
was launched in 1830, and broken up in 1867. From the 28th August 1841 until
1845, the ship voyaged to the East Indies and the Pacific via Tristan de Cunha.
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£100-150
174 Wenyon (Charles ). Across Siberia on the Great Post-Road,
2nd edition, Charles H. Kelly, 1898, portrait frontispiece, and
monochrome illustrations after photographs, folding map, original
green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together with Grenfell (Wilfred
Thomason), Adrift on An Ice-Pan, 1st edition, 1910, monochrome
plates after photographs, original pictorial cloth, very slightly
rubbed (generally a very good copy), plus Du Chaillu (Paul B.), The
Land of the Midnight Sun, new edition, 1899, monochrome wood
engraved illustrations, folding map, contemporary maroon half
morocco gilt, a little rubbed, and Kippis (Andrew), A Narrative of
the Voyages Round the World performed by Captain James Cook,
Bickers & Son, 1878, monochrome plates, some light spotting to
margins, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated green cloth,
very slightly rubbed (generally a good copy), plus other various
travel and polar exploration, including Abruzzi, Farther North than
Nansen, 1901, Lachambre & Machuron, Andrée and his Balloon,
1898, M. Douglas, The White North/Breaking the Record, both
Thomas Nelson, 1899, J. Arthur Bain, Life and Explorations of
Fridtjof Nansen, new edition, revised, circa 1900, etc., mostly late
19th/early 20th century, mostly original decorated cloth, but
including some prize bindings, 8vo
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Lot 172
£150-200
175 Whitehead (P.J.P.). Forty Drawings of Fishes, made by the
artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three
voyages to the Pacific 1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80, British Museum,
1968, colour and monochrome plates, original dark blue cloth gilt
in bright condition, in dust wrapper, large folio, VG, together with
Joppien (Rudiger & Smith, Bernard, editors), The Charts & Coastal
Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages, Volume Two, The Voyage of the
Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775, 1st edition, Hakluyt Society,
1992, colour frontispiece, some colour and numerous monochrome
illustrations, original dark blue cloth gilt in slightly frayed and
marked dust wrapper, large folio, plus Rosenman (Helen, editor),
An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas by
Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C Dumont d’Urville, 2
volumes, University of Hawaii Press, 1987, colour and monochrome
illustrations, original cloth gilt, with slipcase, large 8vo, and other
similar modern publications on early voyages, including A.M. Lysagt,
Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766, 1971, J.C.
Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook, 1974, The Three
Voyages of Martin Frobisher, facsimile edition, 1971, Hakluyt Society
publications, 14 volumes, etc., many in dust wrappers, mostly 8vo
(25)
176 Wild (Frank). Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest.
From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A.H. Macklin,
1st edition, 1923, colour frontispiece, numerous half-tone
illustrations, scattered light spotting, original blue pictorial cloth
gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, thick 8vo
£200-300
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£200-300
177 Wilkes (Charles). Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 5
volumes, 1st edition, Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1845, 14 folding
engraved maps and tables only, now linen-backed, 64 engraved
plates, and other illustrations to text, titles relined, occasional
soiling, and with circular library inkstamp to verso, old bookplate
of Liverpool Free Public Library to rear pastedown of each volume,
contemporary half morocco, heavily worn, with joints cracked or
covers detached, gilt library classification number to foot of each
spine, 8vo
Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
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180 Goodwin (William B.). The Truth About Leif Ericsson and the
Greenland Voyages, 1st edition, Boston, Meador Publishing, 1941,
monochrome illustrations after photographs, etc., original blue
cloth gilt, minor fraying to extreme foot of spine, large 8vo, together
with Green (Fitzhugh), Peary, The Man Who Refused to Fail, 1st
edition, New York, G.P. Putnam’s, 1926, monochrome illustrations
after photographs, original blue cloth, slightly rubbed, plus Bilby
(Julian W.), Nanook of the North, 1st edition, 1925, monochrome
illustrations after photographs, original green cloth gilt, and
Worsley (Commander Frank), First Voyage in a Square-Rigged Ship,
1st edition, 1938, original cloth in dust wrapper, plus other polar
travel exploration, all 20th century publications, 8vo
£200-300
(approx. 70)
£100-200
181 Markham (Sir Clements R.). The Lands of Silence, A History of
Arctic and Antarctic Exploration, 1st edition, Cambridge University
Press, 1921, monochrome plates after photographs and other
illustrations, original blue cloth, blocked in silver, in heavily frayed
dust wrapper, large 8vo, together with Stefansson (Wilhjalmur), The
Friendly Arctic, The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions, 1st
American edition, New York, Macmillan, 1921, monochrome plates
after photographs, maps, etc., original dark blue cloth gilt in bright
condition, in soiled and slightly frayed dust wrapper, thick 8vo, plus
Mirsky (Jeannette), To The Arctic! The Story of Northern
Exploration, 1st edition, 1949, folding map at rear, monochrome
plates, original light blue cloth in dust wrapper, 8vo, and Bagshawe
(Thomas Wyatt), Two Men in the Antarctic, an expedition to Graham
Land 1920-1922, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1939,
monochrome plates after photographs, etc., some spotting to foreedges, original cloth in dust wrapper, a little marked and minor
fraying to extremities (restrengthend to head and foot of spine
verso), plus other polar travel and exploration, all early to mid 20th
century publications, all original cloth in dust wrappers, 8vo
(60)
182 Houston (C. Stuart). Arctic Artist, The Journal and Paintings
of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822, 1st edition,
Canada, 1994, colour and monochrome illustrations, original black
cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with Huntford (Roland), The
Shackleton Voyages, 1st editon, 2002, numerous monochrome
illustrations, original boards in price clipped dust jacket, large 4to,
and Rose (Lisle A.), Assault on Eternity, Richard E. Byrd and the
Exploration of Antarctica 1946-47, 1st edition, Naval Institute Press,
USA, 1980, monochrome illustrations, minor spotting to fore-edge,
original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed and
chipped to foot, 8vo, plus other modern polar travel and
exploration reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/4to
178 Wilkins (Sir Hubert). Under the North Pole. The WilkinsEllsworth Submarine Expedition, 1st edition, [New York], 1931,
photographic portrait frontispiece by Hal Phyfe, signed within the
plate, sketch map, half-tone illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder
untrimmed, original half cloth, spine decorated in gilt, small closed
tear at head, slight toning to boards, 8vo
Limited Edition de Luxe, 197/275, signed by Wilkins and Sloan Danenhower,
and additional signed presentation inscription by Wilkins, to verso of
frontispiece.
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£300-500
(approximately 75)
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£150-200
183 Ross (M.J.). Ross in the Antarctic, The Voyages of James Clark
Ross in Her Majesty’s Ships Erebus & Terror 1839-1843, 1st edition,
1982, monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket,
covers slightly marked and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together
with Cameron (Ian), To the Farthest Ends of the Earth, 1st edition,
1980, numerous monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in
dust jacket, covers slightly toned, spine lightly rubbed to head, 4to,
and Aldridge (Don), The Rescue of Captain Scott, 1st edition, 1999,
monochrome illustrations, plus endpaper maps, original white
cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other modern Polar travel and
exploration reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/4to
179 Mittelholzer (Walter). By Airplane Towards the North Pole, An
Account of An Expedition to Spitzbergen in the Summer of 1923,
1st English edition, 1925, monochrome plates after photographs,
folding map, original blue cloth gilt in facsimile dust wrapper,
together with Beckett (J. Angus), Iceland Adventure, The Double
Traverse of Vatnajokull by the Cambridge Expedition, 1st edition,
Witherby, 1934, monochrome plates after photographs, folding
map, original pale blue cloth, rubbed and marked, plus Lindsay
(Martin), Sledge, The British Trans-Greenland Expedition 1934, 1st
edition, 1935, monochrome plates after photographs, original dark
blue cloth, a little marked, and other miscellaneous 20th century
polar travel and exploration, various, mostly original cloth, 8vo
(approx. 100)
£200-300
(approximately 75)
£100-1200
60
£150-200
184 Houston (C. Stuart, editor). Arctic Ordeal, The Journal of
John Richardson Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin 1820-1822, 1st
edition, Canada, 1984, monochrome illustrations, original blue
cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned and rubbed to head and
foot, covers slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot with minor
tears, 8vo, together with Skelton (Judy, editor), The Antarctic
Journals of Reginald Skelton “Another Little Job for the Tinker”,
1st edition, 2004, numerous monochrome illustrations, original
black cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly faded to head, large 8vo,
and Savours (Ann, editor), Edward Wilson, Diary of the Discovery
Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904, 1st edition, 1966,
colour and monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust
jacket, covers rubbed to head and foot with some minor loss, 8vo,
plus Butler (Angie), The Quest for Frank Wild, 1st edition, 2011,
signed by the authors to the title page, monochrome illustrations,
original blue cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern polar
travel and exploration reference, mostly original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(approximately 75)
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY
£150-200
185 Coleman-Cooke (John). Discovery II In The Antarctic, The
Story of British Research in the Southern Seas, 1st edition, 1963,
monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in price clipped dust
jacket, 8vo, together with Nanton (Paul), Arctic Breakthrough,
Franklin’s Expeditions 1819-1847, 1st edition, Canada, 1970,
monochrome folding map to rear, original brown cloth in dust
jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and
Quartermain (L.B.), South To The Pole, The Early History of the
Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica, 1st edition, 1967, monochrome
illustrations including map frontispiece, gutters repaired with tape,
original tan cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed to head and oot,
8vo, plus other modern polar travel and exploration reference,
mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(approximately 75)
188 Badeslade (Thomas & Toms, William Henry). Chorographia
Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and
Wales..., published C. Hitch & W. H. Toms, 1745, title page trimmed
with loss to printed margin, some staining, dedication, four double
page engraved general maps of England and Wales and seven
double page tables and forty-two double page maps of British
counties, all with bright contemporary outline colouring, some
maps split and torn along central fold with occasional loss, some
adhesion damage, all plates stuck ‘back-to-back’, modern
endpapers, modern calf gilt, 8vo
Chubb CLXXV.
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£150-200
189 Beattie (William). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places and
Coast Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by views taken on the
spot by W. H. Bartlett..., published George Virtue, 1842, additional
decorative half title, engraved portrait of Queen Victoria, 123 of 124
uncoloured engraved plates (lacking Berwick lighthouse), each with
tissue guard, some spotting and staining, all edges gilt,
contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and
worn at extremities, sidings a little stained, 4to
186 Drygalski (Erich von). The Southern Ice-Continent, The
Greman South Polar Expedition Aboard the Gauss 1901-1903,
Chippenham, . 1989, monochrome illustrations, original brown
cloth, large 8vo, together with Law (Philip & Béchervaise, John),
Anare, Australia’s Antarctic Outposts, 1st edition, OUP, 1957,
numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth
in dust jacket, covers worn with loss to head, large 4to, and Tarver
(Michael C.), S.S. Terra Nova (1884-1943), From the Arctic to the
Antarctic Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Shpi, 1st edition,
Devon, 2006, signed by the author to the title page, numerous
monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, large
8vo, plus other modern polar travel and exploration reference,
mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(approximately 75)
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£120-180
190 Beattie (William). Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Views
taken expressly for this work by Messrs. T. Allom, W. H. Bartlett and
H. McCullloch, 2 volumes bound in one, 1838, two additional
decorative half titles, folding engraved map of Scotland with long
closed handling tear, 117 (of 118) uncoloured engraved plates, some
spotting and staining, last few leaves heavily stained, text block
partially split, rear hinge and joint weak, upper board detached,
contemporary half calf, worn and frayed, 4to, together with Jones
(& Co., publishers), Jones’ Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles
&c. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and
Ireland..., Series of Scottish Seats, circa 1830, decorative
calligraphic title, sixty-eight engraved views on thirty-four sheets,
slight spotting throughout, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt
decorated calf, rubbed and worn, 4to, with Shepherd (Thomas H.),
Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: or Edinburgh in the
nineteenth century..., 1829, additional decorative title, 101
engraved plates on forty-eight sheets, spotted and water stained
throughout, endpapers torn, some partially lacking, all edges gilt,
lacking upper board and spine, rear board detached, 4to
£150-200
187 Beaglehole (J.C.). The Life of Captain James Cook, Stanford
University Press, California, 1974, original blue cloth in dust jacket,
8vo, together with Lysaght (A.M.), Joseph Banks in Newfoundland
and Labrador, 1766, His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections, 1st
edition, 1971, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations
including folding plates, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers
slightly rubbed, large 4to, and Mitchell (T.C., editor), The British
Museum Yearbook 3, Captain Cook and the South Pacific, 1st
edition, 1979, monochrome illustrations, original green cloth in dust
jacket, 4to, plus other modern polar, travel and exploration, mostly
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(approximately 75)
£150-200
£150-200
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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£80-120
191 Coates (Charles). The History and Antiquities of Reading, 1st
edition, Printed for the Author, 1802, 2 plans including one folding
(closed tears), 6 aquatint plates, extra-illustrated with engraved
plates and plans (a few detached), some occasional spotting or
browning, contemporary marbled boards with soiled and worn
linen backstrip, covers near-detached, 4to
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£100-150
192 Dodsley (R. & J. publishers). England Illustrated, or a
Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography and
Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil of England and Wales with Maps
of the several Counties..., 2 volumes, 1764, titles and preface,
slight worming to margins of first few leaves, fifty-two engraved
maps by Thomas Kitchin, some maps with sparse later outline
colouring, one folding map of England and Wales, torn, frayed,
repaired and laid on later linen, twenty-nine engraved town and
city views, numerous topographical vignettes to text thoughout,
some staining, spotting and tears throughout, pencil and ink
marginalia throughout, mostly on the verso of the maps, later
endpapers, modern half calf gilt with marbled sidings, 4to
195 Harris (John). The History of Kent, one volume (all published),
published and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719, lacking portrait
frontispiece, printed title, large folding engraved map of Kent with
near contemporary outline colouring, frayed and split along old
folds, with two additional maps of Kent (not called for), one by Robert
Morden with old folds and early outline colouring, frayed and worn
and laid on stiff paper, and another by John Speed (Henry Overton
edition), near contemporary outline colouring, inset map of
Rochester, old folds, frayed with slight loss to one strapwork margin,
with two (only of forty-two), prospects of manor houses, engraved
by Johannes Kip, both with near contemporary hand colouring,
contemporary half calf, boards detached, rubbed and worn, folio
Sold as a collection of prints and maps, not subject to return.
(2)
£400-600
193 Fisher (Son & Co. pub.). Fisher’s County Atlas of England and
Wales compiled from Authentic surveys and corrected to the
present time..., [1842 - 1845], frontispiece of a folding map of
England & Wlaes, title and preface, forty-seven (complete)
engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including two
double page, occasional spotting, title page and first and last few
leaves detached, contemporary half calf, boards detached,
lacking spine, heavily worn and frayed, folio
Chubb DIV. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
(1)
£100-200
Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return.
(1)
£400-600
194 Hamilton (N.E.S.A., editor). The National Gazetteer of Great
Britain and Ireland; or Topographical Dictionary of the British
Isles..., 12 volumes, circa 1865, additional decorative titles, sixtysix double page lithograpic maps by W. Hughes, some maps loose,
contents a little shaken, publisher’s blue cloth with gilt decorated
spines, some wear and soiling, 8vo, together with Brabner (J. H.
F.), The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, published
William Mackenzie, 6 volumes, circa 1895, numerous monotone
topographical plates and sixty-eight double page lithographic
maps and one folding map, publisher’s cloth gilt, worn and rubbed,
bumped at extremities, large 8vo, with Lewis (Samuel), [Lewis’s
Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales..., ], atlas volume
only, circa 1840, lacking titles and preliminaries, maps of England
and Wales and Yorkshire crudely repaired on verso with sellotape,
forty-one (only) uncoloured engraved maps, including thirteen
folding, a few maps with closed tears affecting image, lacking the
folding map of London, publisher’s cloth gilt, stained, faded and
worn, slim 4to, plus two other atlases by Letts and Philips and an
incomplete copy of Bejamin Pitts Capper’s county atlas, various
sizes and condition
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196 Harrison (Walter). A New and Universal History, Description
and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough
of Southwark, and their Adjacent Parts. Including not only all the
Parishes within the Bills of Mortality, but the Towns, Villages,
Palaces, Seats, and Country, to the extent of Twenty Miles round,
Comprising a Circle of Near One Hundred and Fifty Miles, London:
J. Cooke, 1775, engraved frontispiece, 101 engraved plates and
maps (including two folding maps), list of subscribers, occasional
scattered spotting, light offsetting and some dampstaining,
contemporary calf backed marbled boards, red morocco title
label, joints split and marbled sides torn with loss, worn, folio
(1)
£200-300
197 Hobbes (Thomas, of Malmesbury). De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being
the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-Shire, Commonly Called The
Devil’s Arse of Peak, 1st English edition, 1st issue, William Crook,
1678, [2], 84, [adverts 8]pp., lacking final blank, manuscript
signature W. Croome & also Sophia A. Croome to title, few other
signatures throughout, Brett-Smith copy with pencil note to verso
of free endpaper, late 18th century half calf, slight wear to
extremities, slim 8vo
£150-200
Wing H2224, Macdonald and Hargreaves 10 - apparently the earliest issue,
and page 82 is misprinted ‘84’ and 83 misprinted ‘85’ which is not recordd
there. The poem is an account of a tour undertaken by Hobbes and his
patron the Earl of Devonshire, to whom the book is dedicated. It was
published without Hobbes’ knowledge a year before his death.
(1)
£200-300
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
62
Lot 199
198 Hunter (Rev. Joseph). South Yorkshire. The History and
Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster in the Diocese and
County of York, 2 volumes, published J.B.Nichols and Son, 1828 1831, engraved portrait frontispiece with some spotting, list of
subscribers, two double page engraved maps with contemporary
hand colouring, one uncoloured engraved town plan of Doncaster
and fifteen engraved plates, some spotting, top edge gilt, joints
strengthened, later quarter morocco gilt, spine a little worn and
frayed, folio
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200 Martineau (Harriet). A Complete Guide to the English Lakes,
Illustrated from Drawings by T.L. Aspland, and W. Banks..., to which
are added an account of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Mosses
of the District, and a complete Directory, published Windermere
& London, [1855], (the Author’s own copy), engraved frontispiece,
eighteen plates (some folding), and folding geologically handcoloured engraved map by John Ruthven, decorative endpapers
in green & gilt, all edges gilt with gauffered edges incorporating the
initials H.M. (for Harriet Martineau), contemporary gilt decorated
maroon morocco by Alexander Bank Jnr. of Edinburgh, joints
slightly cracked, 8vo, together with Dawn Island, A Tale, 1st edition,
Manchester, 1845, engraved frontispiece & additional title,
occasional light spotting and finger soiling, lacking front free
endpaper, original gilt decorated cloth, rubbed, slim 8vo, with
[Mogridge, George], Loiterings Among the Lakes of Cumberland
and Westmoreland, by the author of “Wanderings in the Isle of
Wight”, London: Religious Tract Society, [1849], one full-page
engraved illustration, ink stamp to title and front free endpaper,
hinges cracked, original cloth rubbed & worn, square 8vo, plus
Miller (Mrs. F. Fenwick), Famous Women, Harriet Martineau,
Boston, 1887, original cloth, 8vo
£100-150
199 Jones (Inigo). [The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain,
Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored, by Inigo
Jones ... To which are added, the Chorea Gigantum, or Stone-Heng
Restored to the Danes, by Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webbs
Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored, in Answer to Dr. Charletons
Reflections; with Observations upon the Orders and Rules of
Architecture in use among the Ancient Romans. Before the Whole
are Prefixed, Certain Memoirs Relating to the Life of Inigo Jones;
with his Effigies..., as also Dr. Charleton’s, by P. Lombart; and four
new views of Stone-Heng, in its Present Situation: with above
twenty other Copper-Plates, and a Compleat Index to the Entire
Collection, 3 parts in one, London: D. Browne Junior, J. Woodman
& D. Lyon, 1725], [10], 72, [10], 48, [6], 228, [14]pp., lacking both
frontispiece of Inigo Jones and general title, front free endpaper
also lacking, each part with separate title page, pagination and
register, fourteen engraved plates only of 15 (comprising 5 singlepage, including portrait Walter Charleton by Pierre Lombart, 5
folding & 3 double-page), few engraved illustrations & diagrams to
text, imprint at foot of final leaf of index with hole, sewing partly
broken and few leaves loose & two creased at gutter, some spotting
& toning to plates and also to text margins with some dust soiling,
hinges crudely strengthened with bookcloth, near contemporary
panelled calf, amateur bookcloth reback, torn with loss, covers
loose, rubbed & worn, folio
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ESTC T41443, Fowler, 159. A collection, made up of the second edition of
each work. Imprint of the Vindication .. reads: “printed for G. Conyers, J.
and B. Sprint, B. Lintot, D. Browne junior, J. Woodman and D. Lyon .. “.
(1)
£300-400
63
£150-250
201 Noble (T. & T. Rose). The Counties of Chester, Derby,
Leicester, Lincoln and Rutland Illustrated from original drawings
by Thomas Allom, circa 1830, additional decorative title, seventytwo engraved views on thirty-six sheets, some staining, all edges
gilt, contemporary burgundy crushed morocco gilt, worn at
extremities, 4to, together with Rose (Thomas), The Northern
Tourist. Seventy-three Views of Lake and Mountain Scenery etc. in
Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, 1833,
additional decorative title, engraved frontispiece, 218 engraved
views on 109 sheets, each with tissue guard, some spotting and
staining throughout, hinges cracked, all edges gilt, contemporary
half morocco gilt, worn at extremities, upper siding stained, 4to,
with another copy similar, plus Holmes (Thomas, publisher),
Holmes’s Great Metropolis or Views and History of London in the
nineteenth century..., circa 1850, additional decorative title, fifty
engraved plates, near contemporary presentation inscription to
front endpaper, later biro ownership signature to front pastedown,
all edges gilt, publisher’s cloth with gilt illustration to upper board,
worn and frayed at extrmities, 8vo
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203 Robinson (Thomas). An Essay Towards a Natural History of
Westmorland and Cumberland ..., 2 parts in one, 1st edition, 1709,
advert leaf at rear, front free endpaper with manuscript inscription
‘Joh: Hare Richmond Herald Prelium 2s. 1709’ and following three
pages with manuscript notes relating to the monuments and
inscriptions in the parish church at Kendal, with transcriptions, few
scattered spots, contemporary panelled calf, title label deficient,
joints slightly cracked, wear at head & foot of spine, 8vo
John Hare FSA (c.1668-1720), Richmond Herald 1704-1707.
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204 Stowe - Buckinghamshire. Nineteen Days’ Sale at Stowe...,
The Ducal Estate of Stowe Near Buckingham..., Messrs. Jackson
Stops will sell by Auction, at Stowe House, on Monday, July 4th,
1921, at 1 o’clock the Freehold of the Historic Mansion & Estate
Extending to about 1, 400 Acres..., on the Eighteen Days following
(from July 5th to July 28th Excluding Saturdays, at 11 o’clock
Precisely each day) will be Sold the Contents of the Mansion...,
1921, colour lithograph plans (some folding), black & white plates,
light spotting to endpapers and hinges cracked, original clothbacked boards, printed upper board with inset pictorial panel and
stamped catalogue number 1380, short tear to upper joint, light
fraying to extremities, folio
£100-150
(1)
(1)
£100-150
206 Wood (Anthony). Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all
the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most
Ancient and Famous University of Oxford ..., 2 volumes, 2nd
edition, very much Corrected and Enlarged; with the Addition of
above 500 New Lives from the Author’s Original Manuscript, 1721,
title to each volume in red and black, some spotting and browning,
armorial bookplate of Thomas Henry Graham to upper
pastedowns, cloth hinge repairs, 20th century half calf retaining
19th century paste-paper boards, folio
£150-200
(2)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£80-120
205 Wilson (W., pub.). The Post-Chaise Companion: or Travellers
Directory through Ireland..., To which is added a Dictionary or
Alphabetical Tables shewing the distance of all the Principal Cities,
Boroughs, Market and Sea Port Towns in Ireland from each other,
published for the author, Dublin, 1786, engraved frontispiece,
calligraphic title, dedication and advertisment, introduction and
list of subscribers, three double page engraved plates, list of tables
and index, an engraved folding map of Ireland and an errata slip
bound at rear, bookplate of Edward Lane esq., some staining to
endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary tree calf, rebacked but
retaining original gilt decorated spine, a little bumped and worn,
8vo
202 Osborne (E.C. & W., publishers). Osborne’s Guide to the
Grand Junction, or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester
Railway, with the Topography of the Country through which the
Line passes, and complete guides to the Towns of Birmingham,
Liverpool and Manchester, Birmingham, 1838, large folding
engraved map, engraved illustrations and advertisements, a little
light offsetting and a few spots, original blindstamped cloth, spine
a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
64
£80-120
NATURAL HISTORY
210 Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds, 2 volumes,
Newcastle, 1826, woodcuts throughout, preface leaf toned in
volume 1, occasional spotting, contemporary straight-grain calf,
spines rubbed and faded with a little wear at head and foot, joints
slightly cracked at head, 8vo
207 Abercrombie (John). The Complete Kitchen Gardener, and
Hot-Bed Forcer; with the Thorough Practical Management of HotHouses, Fire-Walls, and Forcing-Houses, and the Improved Modern
Culture of the Pinery-Stoves, and Pine-Apples..., 1st edition, 1789,
half-title, publisher’s advertisements at rear, generally toned,
contemporary calf, rubbed with some wear, joints splitting, spine
split vertically (but holding), 12mo, together with Jones (William),
The Gardener’s Receipt Book: containing methods for Destroying
all kinds of Vermin and Insects Injurious to the Garden, with
Preventives and Cures for the Different Diseases of Plants. And
Directions for the Preservation of Trees, Fruits, Flowers, &c. &c.,
2nd edition, 1849, publisher’s advertisements at rear, original
blind-stamped cloth, decorative gilt-stamped title to front cover,
rubbed and a little fraying to extremities, 12mo, plus two others
related: Magic Plants: being a Translation of a Curious Tract
Entitled De Vegetalibus Magicis, written by M.J.H. Heucher (1700),
edited by Edmund Goldsmid, with an appendix ‘Confessions of
Witches Under Torture’, privately printed, Edinburgh, 1886 (one of
275 small-paper copies); An Essay on Cottage Allotment, or Field
Garden Cultivation by John Nowell, 2nd edition, Huddersfield, 1844
(4)
(2)
211 Blanco (Antonio). Tratado Elemental de Botanica TeoricoPractico, 2 volumes bound in one, Valencia, Jaime Martinez, 1834,
half-title and printed title to each volume, two wood engraved tailpieces, contemporary full tree calf gilt, rubbed to spine, 8vo
Author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed to head of title ‘Al Sor.
D.F. Jabier de Quinto’.
(1)
£100-150
212 Butler (Arthur G.). Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order
Passeres, Illustrated by H. Gronvold and F.W. Frohawk, 2 volumes,
[1904-08], 115 colour plates of birds and including 8 of eggs, some
occasional spotting, heaviest at front and rear with some inner
marginal browning at front of volume 1, top edge gilt, original cloth
gilt, rubbed, old damp stain at foot of spine of volume 1, 4to
(2)
£150-200
£100-150
213 Dezaillier d’Argenville (Antoine Joseph). La Theorie et la
Pratique du Jardinage, oul’on traite a fond des beaux jardins
appellez communement les jardins de plaisance et de proprete’...,
3rd edition, Paris: Jean Mariette, 1732, thirty-eight engraved plates
(comprising 34 double-page and 4 folding), numerous woodcut
illustrations to text, initial two plates close trimmed and third plate
with short closed tear at fore-edge, occasional toning and spotting,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints and spine
cracked and worn at head & foot, board corners worn, 4to
208 [Ardène, Jean Paul de Rome d’]. Traité des Renoncules. Dans
lequel outre ce qui concerne ces Fleurs, on trouvera des
Observations Physiques, et Plusieurs Remarques utiles, soit pour
l’Agriculture, soit pour le Jardinage, Paris: Ph. N. Lottin & AugustinMartin Lottin, 1746, engraved frontispiece, six engraved plates (4
folding), some spotting mostly to margins, contemporary speckled
sheep, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, together with Delille (Jacques),
Les Jardins, Poëme, new edition, Paris, 1801, engraved
frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with
green morocco labels, 8vo, plus Martyn (John), Publii Virgilii
Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with
an English Translation and Notes, 3rd edition, 1811, ten engraved
plates, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with green
morocco title label, joints cracked, 8vo
Hunt 421; Johnston 324 (first edition); cf. Henrey II: pp.491-493. The original
French work appeared anonymously in Paris in 1709, and in the opinion of
M.L. Gothein: ‘Never before did a book lay down the principles of any style
so surely and so intelligibly in instructive precepts.’ The popularity of the
work is attested by the fact that it was published five times in Paris, three
times at the Hague and three times in London” (Henrey).
(1)
£200-300
Hunt 526. One of the first French monographs of the genus ranunculus.
(3)
£150-250
209 Baigent (William). A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing, 1st
edition, [Newcastle: privately printed, 1937[, portrait frontispiece
and 5 plates, a little spotting, original blue morocco gilt, a little
rubbed, together with the accompanying 164 specimens of hackles
mounted on 11 captioned cards (2 specimens with loss, the mounts
in original window-mounted slipcases, spotted and warped),
remains of original blue box for mounted flies, 4to
Limited to approximately 65 copies.
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£100-150
£300-500
65
215 Dodd (James Solas). An Essay Towards a Natural History of the
Herring, 1st edition, 1752, half-title lacking, six leaves of contents
& one leaf of ‘Proposals for Printing by Subscription a Compleat
Natural History of Esculent Fish’ at rear, folding engraved
frontispiece present (torn, repaired and re-lined), contemporary
half calf, soiled and worn, with old adhesive repairs, 8vo, together
with [Orson, B.], Facts and Experiments on the Use of Sugar in
Feeding Cattle..., 1st edition, 1809, disbound, 8vo, plus three others
related: The New Farmer’s Kalendar; or Monthly Remembrancer,
for all Kinds of Country Business..., by an Experienced Farmer [John
Lawrence], 1st edition, extracted from Philip Miller’s The Complete
Gardener & Farmer, Dublin, 1800; On the Supply of Employment and
Subsistence for the Labouring Classes, in Fisheries, Manufactures,
and the Cultivation of Waste Lands..., by Thomas Bernard, 1st
edition, 1817; Four Letters on Lowndes’s Bay Salt..., by Thomas
Lowndes, 1st edition, 1822, all disbound
First item: ESTC T85866; Kress S.3915 & S.3916. Dodd’s book is of
importance for its detailed information concerning the herring and the
British herring industry.
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£100-150
214 Dietrich (David). [Flora Universalis], volume 2 only, [1832 - 1848],
333 engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, all plates
with near contemporary ink manuscript numbers above the image
but inside the plate mark, lacking all preliminaries and titles, later
endpapers, later quarter morocco with gilt decorated spine, folio
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
(1)
£500-800
216 [Duppa, Richard]. The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean
System of Botany. Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and
Indiginous Plants, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1816, 240 engraved plates,
all except three with hand-colouring, occasional minor marks
(generally in clean condition), contemporary gilt decorated full
calf, rebacked preserving original spines, recent morocco labels,
extremities rubbed, 8vo
Nissen BBI 566.
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Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
66
£500-800
217 Evelyn (John). Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the
Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions: as it was
delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th Day of October, 1662...,
Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of
Standing Groves, 1st edition, York, 1776, engraved portrait
frontispiece by Bartolozzi, forty engraved plates (one folding), folding
table at rear, list of subscribers, some toning, occasional spotting &
few marks, hinges cracked, early 20th century half calf, 4to
(1)
221 Markham (Gervase). Markhams Farewell to Husbandry or, the
enriching of all sorts of Barren and Sterile grounds in our
Kingdome, to be as fruitful in all manner of Graine, Pulse, and
Grasse, as the best grounds whatsoever..., 3rd edition, revised &
corrected, Nicholas Okes for John Harison, 1631, few woodcut
illustrations and decorative initials, occasional light spotting, 20th
century brown quarter morocco, slim 4to, together with The
Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: or, A Direction to the Husbandman, for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the
Grounds within the Wealds of Kent and Sussex, and may generally
serve for all the grounds in England..., [2nd edition], revised,
inlarged & corrected, Nicholas Okes for John Harison, 1631, [4],
24pp., few manuscript annotations, modern wrappers, slim 4to
£200-300
218 Falconry. A Falcon in the Field..., by Jack Mavrogordato, 1st
edition, 1966, colour frontispiece, plates and black & white
illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, together with Desert
Hawking II, by Harry McElroy, 1st edition, 1977, black & white
illustrations, front free endpaper inscribed by the author ‘Eric
[Furness], Best of luck with the Harris. I’ve flown a few that were
most impressive!, Harry McElroy, May 10, 78’, original green cloth
gilt in dust jacket, 4to, together with Falconry and Hawking, by
Phillip Glasier, 1st edition, 1978, colour plates and black & white
illustrations, front free endpaper inscribed ‘To Eric Furness from
the author’, original boards in dust-jacket, 4to, with A Hawk for the
Bush, by Jack Mavrogordato, revised edition, 1973, black & white
illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, 4to, plus other falconry
related including Hawks, Falcons & Falconry, by Frank L. Beebe, 1st
edition, 1976, inscribed to Eric Furness by Philip Glasier, original
boards in dust jacket, 4to, Falconry, by Humphrey ap Evans, 1st
edition, Edinburgh, 1973, half-title inscribed by the author to Eric
Furness, original boards in dust jacket, 4to, and Falconry in Arabia,
by Mark Allen, 1st edition, 1980, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo
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STC 17374 & STC 17364.
(2)
222 Markham (Gervase). Markhams Farewell to Husbandry: or, the
Enriching of all sorts of Barren and Steril grounds in our Kingdome,
to be as fruitful in all manner of Graine, Pulse, and Grasse, as the
best grounds whatsoever..., 4th edition, revised, corrected &
amended, together with many new additions, Edward Griffin for
John Harison, 1638, few woodcut illustrations and decorative initials,
occasional light spotting, 20th century quarter calf over printed
marbled boards, slim 4to, together with The Inrichment of the Weald
of Kent: or, A Direction to the Husband-man, for the true ordering,
manuring, and inriching of all the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent
and Sussex, and may generally serve for all the grounds in England...,
revised, inlarged & corrected, Anne Griffin for John Harison, 1636,
[4], 24pp., modern printed marbled boards, slim 4to
STC 17375 & STC 17365.
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£300-400
219 Linden (Jean & Lucien, and Rodigas, Emile). L’Illustration
Horticole revue Mensuelle des Serres et des Jardins, a broken run
of approximately 140 issues, 1882 & 1883, 1885 & 1886 & 1896, most
editions in duplicates, approximately 140 parts, including
duplicates, numerous chromolithographic plates, publisher’s
printed paper wrappers, 8vo
(approx.140)
£100-150
£100-150
223 Maxwell (Robert, of Arkland). The Practical Husbandman:
Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Papers on Husbandry, &c., 1st
edition, Edinburgh, 1757, folding engraved plate at rear, letterpress
notice to title verso with author’s signature, some light spotting,
dampstaining to lower outer corners of few leaves, contemporary
speckled calf, 8vo, together with Cotton (Charles), The Genuine
Works of ..., containing II. Scarronnides or Virgil Travestie, II. Lucian
Burlesque, or the Scoffer Scoft, III. The Wonders of the Peake, IV.
The Planters Manuel, 1st collected edition, 1715, folding engraved
frontispiece of Chatsworth, eight engraved plates (one with
repaired closed tear), contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine
rubbed, joints slightly cracked, 8vo, with Robinson (Thomas), An
Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland.
Wherein an Account is given of their several Mineral and Surface
Productions..., 1st edition, 2 parts in one, 1709, some browning and
finger soiling, hinges repaired, contemporary blind panelled sheep,
rebacked, board corners worn, 8vo, with [Harte, Rev. Walter],
Essays on Husbandry..., 2 parts in one, 1764, five engraved plates
and numerous woodcut illustrations, contemporary speckled calf,
joints cracked at head, 8vo, plus four other 18th & early 19th
century related
£150-200
220 Manwood (John). A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest:
Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in
force, but also the originall and beginning of Forests..., also a
Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is...., Collected,
as well out of the Common Lawes and Statutes of this Land, as also
out of sundrie learned anncient Authors, and out of the Assises of
Pickering and Lancaster..., Whereunto are added the Statutes of
the Forest..., London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1615,
lacking first & last blank leaves, black letter text, light worm trail to
lower blank margins of initial few leaves, some early manuscript
annotations and underscoring, scattered light spotting, early 20th
century bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie of Kininvie,
Banffshire (1909-1991, Son of 19th Earl of Rothes) to upper
pastedown, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked and some corners repaired, 4to
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STC 17292; Goldsmiths 434; Kress 345. The second and much enlarged
edition of the earliest treatise on English Forest laws, by a barrister of
Lincoln’s Inn, who was also game-keeper of Waltham Forest, and Justice
of the New Forest.
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Lot 227
224 Scott (Peter). Wild Chorus, 1st edition, Country Life, 1938, 24
mounted colour plates, black and white plates, top edge gilt,
remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt in rubbed and soiled
slipcase, 4to
Signed limited edition, 1, 051/1, 250 copies.
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226 Tegetmeier (W.B.). The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breeding
and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry, their
Qualities and Characteristics; to which is added “The Standard of
Excellence in Exhibition Birds, ” Authorized by the Poultry Club,
1867, additional colour title, and twenty-eight colour plates plates,
wood engraved full-page plates & illustrations by Harrison Weir,
hinges split, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated cloth, some soiling,
extremities frayed, large 8vo, together with Fulton (Robert), The
Illustrated Book of Pigeons with Standards for Judging, Cassell,
Petter, Galpin & Co., circa 1880, fifty chromolithograph plates
(including frontispiece with adhesive tape repaired closed tear to
image), wood engraved plates & illustrations, some spotting, sewing
a little weak and some gatherings sprung, upper hinge split, all edges
gilt, original cloth blocked in gilt & black, frayed to joints, head & foot
of spine and board edges, 4to
£100-150
225 Switzer (Stephen). The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener’s
Recreation: or, an Introduction to Gardening, Planting, Agriculture,
and the other Business and Pleasures of a Country Life, 1st edition,
printed for B. Barker, and C. King, 1715, engraved frontispiece,
single short worm-track towards fore-edge, affecting first few
leaves, early ink ownership inscription of W.E. Mousley, Etwall
Vicarage, dated 1842 to head of title, faint early ink ownership
signature to front free endpaper, C2 and C3 with brown stain,
contemporary Cambridge pannelled calf, front joint cracked, old
adhesive repairs to upper cover, 8vo
ESTC T60866. Henrey 1410.
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227 Ward (Rowland). The Naturalist’s Life Study in the Art of
Taxidermy, printed for private circulation, 1913, portrait
frontispiece, black & white illustrations to text, occasional light
spotting, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, upper cover slightly
scuffed & few marks, 4to
£200-400
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MAPS
All lots unframed unless otherwise stated
230 Australasia. Carte de L’Australie ou Nouvelle Hollande,
published Paris, 1865, Untitled Admiralty chart of Moreton Bay,
1876, Carte de La Tasmanie, 1847, Moreton Bay, 1870 [and] untitled
chart of New Zealand and the Pacific archipelago, circa 1860,
together five French and British Admiralty sea charts, long closed
tear affecting the chart of Moreton Bay, occasional spotting,
various sizes and condition
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228 Allegorical map. Woelfle (Alphons), Karte des Bücherlandes
[A Map of the Land of Books], published Munich [1938], woodblock
printed map with contemporary outline colouring, laid on later stiff
paper, 360 x 250mm, together with Hadol (Paul), La Carte de
Tendre en 1869, published in L’Eclipse, 1869, a hand coloured
engraved allegorical ‘moral’ map showing the dangers of everything
from debt to absinthe, map size 330 x 260mm, French text and
caricatures to verso
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231 Australia. Bellin (Jacques Nicolas), Carte reduite des Terres
Australes..., published Paris, 1753, hand coloured engraved map,
old folds, 210 x 285mm
Originally published in Prevost’s ‘Histoire Generale des Voyages’. A
geographically naive ‘pre Cook’ map showing the Eastern coastline of
Australia running unbroken from Tasmania up to New Guinea.
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£300-500
232 Balearic Islands. Laurie & Whittle (publishers), A Correct Map
of the Island of Minorca by John Armstrong Esqr. Engineer in
Ordinary to His Majesty with many additions and Improvements,
1794, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, two inset
maps of Mahon harbour and a general map of the Western
Mediterranean and two inset views of Mahon and St Philip’s castle,
some offsetting, long split along central fold, 440 x 550mm,
together with Porcacchi (Tomaso), Descrittione dell Isola di
Maiorica, published Venice, circa 1600, uncoloured engraved map
with Italian text below and on verso of map, 105 x 145mm, with
another copy similar, with Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria), Isola di
Maiorica, circa 1695, uncoloured engraved map, orientated to the
south, Italian text above, below and on verso of map, map size 170
x 250mm, with another copy with some marginal staining and
juvenile crayon in margins, plus Basire (J.), An Exact Draught of the
Bay and Harbour of Vigo, Plan of Cardona..., Plan of the Town and
Castle of Lerida..., [and] Plan of the Camp of Tarragona, circa 1750,
four uncoloured engraved plans of Spanish Catalonian towns, old
folds, some creasing, occasional spotting, each approximately 385
x 475mm, and Cumberlage (S.A., publisher), The Island of Minorca
from the best Authorities, 1781, uncoloured engraved map, old
folds, inset map of the harbour of Mahon, 185 x 230mm
£70-100
229 American state maps. A mixed collection of eighteen maps,
19th century, engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring,
with examples by A. J. Johnson, S. Augustus Mitchell and
J.H.Colton, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition
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£100-150
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£200-300
233 Balearic Islands. Goos (Abraham), De Custen van Valencia en
Catalonia..., als meede de Eylanden van Majorca, Minorca en Yvica,
circa 1665, uncoloured engraved sea chart orientated to the
northwest, slight staining, some marginal fraying, slight abrasion
and wear to printed surface, some worming along central fold,
repaired on verso, 400 x 520mm, together with Mount (J. & Page
T.), The Coast of the Mediterranean Sea from C.Tenelles to C.Bon
including the Islands of Minorca and Sardinia, circa 1760,
uncoloured engraved sea chart, compass rose and numerous
rhumb lines, some staining and pencil annotations, split and worn
along central fold, strengthened on verso, 560 x 835mm, with
Weller (Edward, engraver), Balearic Islands Majorca & Minorca
from Spanish Government Surveys 1890 - 3, published by The
Admiralty, 1897, uncoloured chart laid on linen, some staining and
offsetting, 655 x 990mm, plus Imaz (José Gomez, surveyor), Mar
Mediterraneo. Islas Baleares. Plano de la Isla de Cabrera y
adyacentes..., published Madrid, 1893, uncoloured Spanish sea
chart, horizon profile, old folds, some wear and abrasion to folds,
990 x 620mm
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£150-200
236 Bill (John). Staffordshire [and] Herefordshire, [1626], two
engraved maps, Staffordshire with later outline colouring and near
contemporary ink marginalia below image, slight text showthrough,
Herefordshire with closed repaired tear affecting image, slight
staining, each approximately 90 x 125mm, English text on verso
234* Berkshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Bercheria vernacule Barkshire,
published Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, 385 x 500mm, mounted, framed
and glazed, together with Saxton (Christopher & Hole William),
Comitatus Bercherie vulgo Barkshyre qui olim sedes Atrebatum,
[1637], hand coloured enrgaved map, 235 x 330mm
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£100-150
237 Bremen. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Brema, circa
1598, hand coloured engraved town plan, slight creasing, 365 x
490mm, Latin text on verso, together with Merian (Matthaus),
Basilea, Basel, circa 1640, uncoloured engraved town plan, slight
fraying to margins, 270 x 350mm
235 Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire described, published
Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved
map, panorama of Windsor Castle, strapwork cartouche and
compass rose, slight adhesion to central fold, small closed tear
affecting image, slight staining, 385 x 510mm, English text to verso
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£100-200
238 British county maps. A mixed collection of approximately
fifty-five engraved maps, 18th & 19th century, including engraved
county maps by Thomas Moule with seven with contemporary hand
colouring, and twenty-nine strip road maps by Jeffery and Kitchin,
two maps of England and Wales by Mallet and a small Robert
Morden map of Durham, occasional duplicates, various sizes and
condition
£150-200
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242 British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
sive Britannicar Insularum descriptio, [1571], hand coloured
engraved map orientated to the west, occasional repaired
marginal closed tears, 350 x 505mm, Latin text on verso
239 British Islands. Lea (Philip), A Map of the Isle of Wight,
Portsea, Halinge, also the Islands of Jarsey & Garnsey which are
part of Hampshire, circa 1690, eight engraved maps on one sheet
(as published) with outline colouring, 365 x 485mm
Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.16.
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an inset town plan of Newport, together with maps of the Isle of Man, Holy
Island, the Scillys, Guernsey and Jersey.
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£300-500
£200-300
240 British Isles. Jansson (Jan), Insularum Britannicarum Acurata
Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelli, published
Amsterdam, circa 1650, engraved map by Pieter van den Keere
after Abraham Ortelius, contemporary outline colouring,
orientated to the west, large decorative cartouche, compass rose
and numerous rhumb lines, 395 x 515mm, Latin text on verso,
mounted
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£100-150
243 British Isles. Magini (Giovanni), Britanicae Insulae, [1597],
uncoloured engraved map, 130 x 175mm, together with Porcacchi
(Tomaso), Inghilterra, circa 1572, engraved map orientated to the
west, light hand colouring, English text on verso, 110 x 145mm, with
Cluver (Philip), Britannicarum Insularum Typus, circa 1629, hand
coloured engraved map orientated to the west, 120 x 125mm, plus
Mercator (Gerard), Anglia Scotia et Hibernia, circa 1610,
uncoloured enrgaved map, some dust soiling and staining largely
confined to margins, 135 x 180mm, German text on verso, and De
Fer (Nicholas), Britannicarum Insularum Typus, circa 1688, hand
coloured engraved map, 150 x 170mm, with Jollain (Gerard),
Angleterre Ecosse et Hibernie, circa 1653, uncoloured engraved
map, some dust soiling and staining largely confined to margins, 130
x 175mm
241 British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Britannicarum Insularum
typus, [1603], hand coloured engraved map orientated to the west,
large strapwork cartouche, marginal worm tracks repaired on
verso, not affecting image, 365 x 505mm, Latin text on verso
Published in the ‘Parergon’.
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£200-300
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£200-300
247 Cheshire. Swire (W. & Hutchings W.F.), A Map of the County
Palatine of Chester, Divided into Hundreds & Parishes from an
accurate survey, made in the years 1828 & 1829, published Henry
Teesdale, 1830, large engraved map with contemporary hand
colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title,
compass rose, table of reference and an uncoloured vignette of
the south west view of Chester cathedral, slight staining and
offsetting, marbled endpapers, 960 x 1320mm, contained in a
contemporary tree calf book box with contrasting morocco label
to spine, inside cover with a scratched signature of Robt.
Stephenson, rubbed at extremities
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£200-300
244 British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
sive Britannica Insularum descriptio, [1608 - 1612], engraved map
with contemporary hand colouring, orientated to the east, slight
oxidisation to watercolour some professional repairs to verso, 350
x 500mm, Italian text on verso
Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.16
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£200-300
245 Carmarthenshire. Speed (John), Caermarden both shyre and
towne described, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell,
[1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Carmarthen,
large strapwork cartouche and compass rose, 385 x 510mm, English
text on verso, together with Denbighshire, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset
town plan of Denbigh, 380 x 510mm, English text on verso
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248* Cheshire. Jansson (Jan), Cestria comitatus palatinus. The
Countye Palatine of Chester, published Amsterdam, circa 1648,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight
offsetting, 385 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£120-180
246* Celestial Charts. Set of six large untitled celestial charts,
published Dean & Son, 1840, engraved charts on a gnomonic
projection with contemporary outline colouring, engraved by J & C
Walker, each approximately 680 x 640mm, mounted, framed and
glazed in uniform modern gilt mouldings
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£100-200
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Lot 247
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249* Cheshire. Van Keulen (Gerard), Aftekeening van de Rivier Dee
of Chester Water als ook de Rivier Mersey of Liverpoole geleegen
aen de West kust van Engeland int Canal St George..., published
Amsterdam, circa 1730, uncoloured engraved sea chart, inset map
of the Solway Firth, compass roses and numerous rhumb lines, 515
x 590mm, framed and glazed, together with Collins (Captain
Greenville), A New & Exact Survey of the River Dee of ChesterWater..., circa 1700, uncoloured engraved sea chart, decorative
cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, toned
overall, 450 x 570mm, framed and glazed
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253 Colophon. A Book Collectors’ Quarterly, part six, 1931,
decorative title, numerous illustrations throughout, limited edition
of 3000, verso of rear blank with an allegorical map by T. M. Cleland
‘The Sea of Matrimony with Principal Points of Peril for Matrimonial
Mariners’, printed in blue and white, map size 85 x 130mm,
publisher’s decorative printed boards, a little soiled on rear siding,
4to, together with Sheridan (Louisa, editor), The Comic Offering
or Ladies’ Melange of Literary Mirth, 3 volumes, published Smith,
Elder and Co., 1831 (2 copies) and 1833, additional decorative
titles, numerous cartoons and illustrations throughout, the 1831
volumes with two allegorical maps ‘Chart of Celibacy, Bachelors
[and] Chart of Celibacy, Ladies, the 1833 volume with an allegorical
map ‘Figurative Geography’, hinges weak, uniform blind stamped
calf, worn at extremities, 8vo bound in sixes, with Lefort (L.,
publisher), Voyage sur le Mer du Monde, published Lille, 1861,
additional half title, engraved frontispiece, disbound engraved
folding allegorical map of ‘Carte du Voyage sur La Mer du Monde,
map size 125 x 175mm, old library label to front pastedown,
publisher’s cloth gilt, 8vo, plus an incomplete volume of
Düsseldorfer Monateshefte, Volumes 1 & 2, 1848 - 1849, numerous
wood engravings and lithographic caricatures throughout,
contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, 4to
£100-150
250* Cheshire. Speed (John), The Countye Palatine of Chester
with that most ancient citie described, published Henry Overton,
circa 1710, hand coloured enrgaved map, inset map of Chester,
slight overall toning, some fraying to margins with slight loss, three
corners torn with slight loss, crudely replaced in pencil facsimile,
central fold frayed and worn, laid on later card, 380 x 505mm,
mounted, framed and glazed, together with Saxton (Christopher
& Hole William), Cestriae Comitatus Romanis Legionibus et
Coloniis olim insignis vera et absoluta descriptio, circa 1610, hand
coloured engraved map, ‘open book’ cartouche, 260 x 305mm,
mounted, framed and glazed
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£100-200
£80-120
251* Cheshire. Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of the County
Palatine of Chester divided into its Hundreds..., published T. & J.
Bowles and Robert Sayer, circa 1764, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, toned overall, laid on card, 540 x
710mm, framed and glazed, together with Kitchin (Thomas),
Cheshire drawn from the best Surveys &c..., circa 1780, hand
coloured engraved map, 145 x 225mm, mounted, framed and
glazed
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£70-100
254* Commemorative china. Victoria, Queen & Empress, Jubilee
Year 1887, octagonal plate illustrated with transfer illustrations of
the queen and the Prince of Wales, heraldic crests of Australia,
Canada, Cape Colony and India and a hemispheral map of the
world highlighting the British Empire, with figures illustrating the
balance of trade within the empire, gilding to rim is worn, produced
by Nestle and Huntsman, pattern number 63164, 240mm diameter
252* Chile. Blaeu (Johannes), Chili, published Amsterdam, circa
1640, hand coloured engraved map orientated to the east,
strapwork cartouche, mileage scale, half compass and numerous
rhumb lines, 355 x 480mm, mounted, framed and double glazed,
Latin text on verso
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£150-200
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£70-100
257* Derbyshire. Speed (John), Anno Darbieshire described,
published John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand
coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Derby and inset view of
Buxton well, elaborate strapwork cartouche and compass rose,
central fold strengthened on verso, two small rust holes to image,
one marginal closed tear affecting image, two other small repaired
closed tears, 385 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted, framed
and double glazed
255 Cumberland. Speed (John), Cumberland and the ancient citie
Carlile described with many memorable antiquities therein found
observed, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676],
uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Carlisle, some fraying
to margins, one small closed tear affecting image, 390 x 510mm,
English text on verso
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£150-200
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256 Das Plaket. Published November 1915, German periodical with
numerous illustrations and tipped in plates of propoganda posters,
several in colour, including folding double caricature maps of
Europe after Paul Hadol and Walter Trier ‘Karte von Europa im
jahre 1870..., [and] Karte von Europa im jahre 1914, each map
approximately 290 x 390mm, colour printed boards, 4to, together
with Kriegsflugblatter des Simplicissimus, Nos. 1 - 28, 1914 - 1915,
numerous black and white caricatures, later envelope stuck to rear
pastedown containing two colour printed propoganda
‘Kriegsbilderboden’ and one black and white ‘Flugblatt, each
approximately 430 x 320mm
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£100-150
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258 Derbyshire. Speed (John), Anno Darieshire described,
published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Derby and a vignette of Buxton,
slight staining, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
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£150-200
259 Devon & Cornwall. A collection of eleven maps, 17th - 19th
century, nine hand coloured engraved maps including Robert
Morden maps of both counties, a Saxton/Kip map of Cornwall with
trimmed vertical margins, a Saxton/Lea map of Devon, torn with
slight loss and other maps by Moule, Owen & Bowen, Seller, Cary
and Laurie, various sizes and condition
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£150-250
260 Devon. Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of Devon Shire
divided into its Hundreds, drawn from the best authorities,
assisted by the most approved modern maps..., published
Carington Bowles, Robert Sayer & Robert WIlkinson, circa 1785,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later
enhancement, large decorative cartouche, inset plan of Plymouth,
some mount and marginal staining, 540 x 685mm, together with
Morden (Robert), Wiltshire, [1695 or later], hand coloured
engraved map, 350 x 415mm, with Cary (John), Surrey, 1787,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight mount
staining, 220 x 270mm
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£100-150
261* Embroidered map. The Americas, circa 1810, embroidered
map of North & South America with silk embroidered flowers
decorating each corner, some water staining, 375 x 375, framed
and glazed in a near contemporary stained oak frame
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£300-500
262 England & Wales. Merry (Tom, pseud. William Mecham), Map
of England, A Modern St. George and the Dragon!!!, published St.
Stephen’s Review, 1888, colour lithographic allegorical map,
repaired marginal closed tear, slight creasing, remains of juvenile
crayon to verso, 505 x 320mm
A satirical map illustrating the 1886 Irish Home Rule crisis. The map was
published in the Conservative leaning St.Stephens Review. It shows the Tory
leader, Lord Salisbury, as a rather corpulent St George, spearing the dragon
Gladstone, who was the Liberal Prime Minister. Gladstone’s tongue is
labelled ‘ Home Rule’.
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£150-200
Lot 262
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265* Europe. Briet (Philip), Roma Gentium Domina, published
Paris, circa 1650, engraved map with contemporary outline
colouring, inset map of central Italy (the area which represents the
birth of the Roman empire), uncoloured strapwork cartouche, 315
x 510mm, mounted, framed and glazed
263 England & Wales. Speed (John), The Kingdome of England, 1st
edition, published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], hand
coloured engraved map with costumed figures in the vertical
margins, trimmed to neatline, central fold split and worn, margins
and central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, 385 x 515mm,
English text on verso, repairs causing some loss to text
(1)
£100-150
R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, no.318.
(1)
£100-200
266 Europe. Emanuel (Walter, translator), Alerte! Les Chiens
Aboient! (The dogs are barking), published Johnson, Riddle and
Co., [1915], bright serio-comic chromolithographic map, old folds,
a few with short splits along fold lines, French description at base
of map, retaining publisher’s printed paper wrappers, upper cover
a little frayed and detached, 545 x 710mm
A surprisingly uncommon French language edition of this famous caninethemed satirical map of the state of the various nations at the beginning of
World War I.
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£300-500
264 Europe. Souvenir handkerchief of Europe, circa 1914, cotton
handkerchief, printed in red & blue, 335 x 345mm, together with
Philip (George & Son Ltd. publishers), Daily Mail War Map, circa
1914, colour printed map folding map of Europe’ laid on linen, with
inset tables showing the strength of the armies, navies and aircraft
and the war funds available to the protagonists at the start of the
Great War, 545 x 780mm, contemporary cloth boards with printed
label to upper cover, with Map ‘game’, Jeu de la Victoire, circa
1918, colour printed dice and counter board game using the
progress of World War I in an oval game with sixty-two squares, old
folds, published as a supplement to ‘Bulletin No.8 de la Conference
au Village, 260 x 355mm
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267 France. Bertius (Pieter), A collection of approximately sixty
miniature maps, circa 1620, engraved map of regions of France,
some duplicates, a few with later hand colouring, each
approximately 100 x 135mm, mostly with Latin text on verso, various
condition, together with Ortelius (Abraham), A collection of
approximately eighty miniature maps, circa 1610, engraved maps
of regions of France, occasional duplicates, each approximately
80 x 105mm, various condition
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£70-100
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£200-300
268 France. A mixed collection of twenty-three maps of France,
17th - 19th century, regional maps, town plans and military maps
of France, including examples by De Fer, Basire, Munster, Cassini,
Bonne, Hilton, De Vaugondy, Schenk and De Lisle, various sizes and
condition
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£100-150
272 Germany. Delarochette (Louis Stanislas D’Arcy), Map of the
Empire of Germany including all the states comprehended under
that name with the Kingdom of Prussia &c., published Laurie &
Whittle, 1794, large engraved map on four conjoined sheets,
contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured cartouche and
mileage scale, old folds, 1020 x 1220mm
269 France. Ortelius (Abraham), Galliae veteris typus, [1595], hand
coloured engraved map, 395 x 490mm, Latin text on verso
Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps no. 196.
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(1)
£200-300
273 Germany. A mixed collection of twenty-six maps, 17th - 19th
century, engraved maps of the country and regional maps, with
examples by Muller, Bertius, Cluverius, Chatelain, Moll, Zatta,
Wilkinson, Vandermaelan, Sanson, De Vaugondy and Jaillot,
occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition
£100-150
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£100-200
270 France. Hondius (Henricus), Galliae supra omnes in hac forma
editiones locupletissima et exactissima descriptio, published
Amsterdam, circa 1633, hand coloured engraved map, large
decorative cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines,
375 x 500mm, German text on verso
271 Fullarton (Archibald, publisher). A collection of thirty-four
county maps, circa 1840, uncoloured engraved maps, many with a
topographical vignette, some spotting and water staining, each
approximately 265 x 190mm, together with another sixteen county
maps of various counties, including examples by Bowles, Lewis,
Smith, Cary and Letts, various sizes and condition
274 Gloucestershire. Speed (John), Glocestershire contrived into
thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall
devisions. The Citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed with the
armes of such noble men as have bene dignified with ye titlles of
Earles & Dukes thereof, published Thomas Bassett & Richard
Chiswell, [1676], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of
Gloucster and Bristol, slight overall toning, 390 x 515mm, English
text on verso
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£150-200
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£200-300
275 Gloucestershire. Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of the
Counties of Gloucester and Monmouth divided into their
respective hundreds..., published Robert Wilkinson, Carington
Bowles and Robert Sayer, [1785], engraved map with contemporary
outline colouring and some later enhancement, large decorative
cartouche, 540 x 695mm, together with Morden (Robert),
Glocestershire, circa 1701, hand coloured engraved map, 160 x
205mm, with Badeslade (Thomas & Toms William), A Map of
Glocester-shire North-west from London, 1742, hand coloured
engraved map, 150 x 150mm, plus another eight county maps with
examples by Lewis, Archer, Aiken, Hall, Seller/Grose, Wallis and
Kitchin, various sizes and condition
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£100-150
277 Herefordshire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), The County
of Hereford resurveyed, circa 1690, uncoloured engraved map,
inset map of Hereford, slight staining, 375 x 505mm
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£150-200
278 Herefordshire. A collection of twenty county maps, 17th 19th century, engraved maps, including examples by Fullarton,
Rocque, Smith, Oddy, Wallis, Cary, Blaeu, Schenk & Valk, Teesdale,
Van der Aa, Weller, Walker, Letts, Saxton/Hole and Greenwood,
occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition
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276* Grenada. Bellin (Jacques Nicolas), Carte de L’Isle de la
Grenade, published Paris, 1760, hand coloured engraved sea chart,
inset horizon profile, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines,
stamp of ‘La Depot de la Marine’, 890 x 580mm, mounted, framed
and glazed
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£120-180
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£200-300
Lot 279
Lot 281
279 Herefordshire. A collection of approximately sixty-five maps,
17th - 19th century, engraved maps, several with hand colouring,
including examples by Van den Keere, Van Langeren, Owen &
Bowen, Leigh, Miller, Darton, Pigot, Cary, Badeslade & Toms,
Cowley, Gibson, Wallis, Butters, Seller, Ramble, Mercator, Collins,
Morden, Rocque, Kitchin and Blome, some duplicates, various sizes
and condition
(approx.65)
£300-500
280* Herefordshire. Speed (John), Hereford-Shire described with
the true plot of the Citie Hereford as alsoe the Armes of thos Nobles
that have bene intituled with that Dignitye, published John Sudbury
& George Humble, circa 1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset
town plan of Hereford, central fold partially split, strengthened on
verso, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso, mounted, framed and
double glazed, together with Blaeu (Johannes), Herefordia
comitatus Hereford-Shire, published Amsterdam, circa 1645,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 415 x 505mm,
framed and double glazed, Dutch text on verso
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£100-200
281 Ireland. Rocque (John), A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland,
divided into Counties, Provinces and Baronies..., published Laurie
& Whittle, 1794, large engraved map on four conjoined sheets,
contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the British Isles, code
and descriptive table, large uncoloured cartouche, old folds, slight
creasing and dust soiling, 1235 x 980mm
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282 Ireland. Lea (Philip), An Epitome of Sr. William Petty’s large
survey of Ireland..., circa 1690, uncoloured map engraved by
Sutton Nicholls, inset map of the British Isles showing Ireland in
relation to Britain as a whole, old folds, narrow margins, some
fraying to margins with slight loss, left hand vertical margin
extended, some spotting and staining, 480 x 555mm, together with
Speed (John), Merionethshire, published Henry Overton, circa
1710, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, slight fraying to
margins, backed with archival tissue, 380 x 505mm, with Braun
(Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Znaymum vulgo Znaym, Moraviae
civitas primaria, published Cologne, circa 1620, uncoloured
engraved city prospect, 320 x 500mm, mounted
£300-500
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£300-500
283 Isle of Man. Speed (John), The Isle of Man exactly described
and into several Parishes divided witrh every towne, village, baye,
creke and river therein contened..., published Thomas Bassett &
Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, strapwork
cartouche and mileage scale, small closed tear affecting image,
slight fraying to margins, 385 x 510mm, English text to verso,
together with Holy Iland, Garnsey, Farne [and] Jarsey, published
Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], four uncoloured
engraved maps on one sheet (as published), small hole affecting
image, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
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285 Kip (Johannes). Tunbridge Wells, The West Prospect of
Gloucester City, The North Prospect of Gloster Cathedral [and]
Glocester City Tho: Brown Esq. Alderman, circa 1720, four
uncoloured town prospects and views, each approximately 350 x
425mm, together with Glostershire AD 1712, uncoloured engraved
double page map originally published in Sir Robert Atkyns ‘The
Ancient and Present State of Glostershire’, 345 x 410mm
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£150-200
286 Leicestershire. Speed (John), Leicester both Countye and
Citie described, The Honorable famylies that have had the titles
of Earls thereof with other accidents therein observed, published
Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved
map, inset town plan of Leicester, 385 x 510mm, English text on
verso, together with Rutlandshire with Oukham and Stanford her
bordering neighbour newely described, published Thomas Basett
& Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset town
plans of Oakham and Stamford, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
£150-200
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£150-200
284* Japan. Imari blue and white Japanese ‘map dish’, Tempo
period, circa 1840, blue and white dish with a stylised raised map
of Japan, blue ‘swag’ design under rim, two chips to rim, long crack
across base, 250 x 290mm
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£70-100
287 Lincolnshire. Speed (John), The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne
described with the armes of them that have bene Earles thereof
since the conquest, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell,
[1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Lincoln, large
strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, 385 x
510mm, English text on verso
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
80
£200-300
290 Maps. A mixed collection of approximately 130 maps, mostly
19th century, including twenty double page engraved maps by
George Philip, circa 1852, with contemporary outline colouring,
with others by Tallis, Arrowsmith, Bonne, Levasseur, Weller,
Johnson, Migeon and Harmsworth, various sizes and condition
(approx.130)
£300-400
288 London. Lee (Kerry), London. Bastion of Liberty, published
by The Travel Association of the United Kingdom..., circa 1946,
large chromolithographic pictorial map of London, a little browning
and staining to margins, laid on board, 1010 x 1250mm
A charming portrait of the artist Kerry Lee (1902 - 1988) can be seen in the
lower right corner, his name signed on an easel with his faithful dog Jim
sitting by his side.
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£150-250
291
Minorca. Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of), Carte
Topographique de l’Isle Minorque..., 1757, engraved map with
contemporary hand colouring, two engraved views below map of
Mahon and Fort St. Philippe, large column of German text displayed
in a strapwork border, slight creasing, slight dust soiling largely
confined to margins, 440 x 545mm, together with Bellin (Jacques
Nicolas), Carte des Isles de Majorque Minorque et Yvice, 1740,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large compass
rose and numerous rhumb lines, two inset maps of the port of
Mahon and a map of the western Mediterranean, trimmed to
neatline and laid on near contemporary paper, 415 x 580mm
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£150-250
292
Montgomeryshire. Speed (John), Montgomery Shire,
published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Montgomery, slight staining, 385
x 515mm, English text on verso, together with The Countie of
Radnor described and the shyre townes sittuatione, published
Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved
map, inset town plan of Radnor, torn with loss along central fold,
repaired on verso, 390 x 505mm, English text on verso, with
Breknoke both shyre and towne described, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset
town plan of Brecknock, large strapwork cartouche, 385 x 510mm,
English text on verso
289* Map game. The Silver Bullet or the Road to Berlin,
manufactured by R.Farmer and Son, circa 1916, a British wartime
dexterity puzzle in the form of a stylised map charting the Allied
advance on Berlin, manufacturer’s instructions printed on a label
to verso of frame, 240 x 165mm
(3)
The game comprises of a small wooden glazed box in which a silver ball
bearing is manipulated through a simple maze littered with military
obstacles and battlefield hazards such as mined roads and destroyed
bridges. The maze shows the route of the Allied advance to Berlin with cities
such as Cologne, Dresden, Hanover and Potsdam along the way. If the
advancing army’s silver ball is lost down one of the many traps and holes it
magically re-appears in the bottom left hand corner allowing the player to
try again. The instructions on the verso explain the finer points of a simple
but difficult game of manual dexterity.
(1)
£50-80
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£150-200
296 Nottinghamshire. Speed (John), The Countie of Nottingham
described, the shire townes situation and the Earls there of
observed, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676],
uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Nottingham, large
strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 515mm, English text
on verso
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£100-200
297 Ogilby (John). The Continuation of the Road from London to
Barwick, beginning at Tuxford & extending to York (2 copies), and
The Continuation of ye extended road from Barstable to Truro,
circa 1680, three hand coloured engraved strip road maps, slight
fraying to the margins of the ‘Barstaple to Truro’ map, each
approximately 355 x 445mm
293 National Geographic Magazine (publishers). Northern and
Southern Hemispheres, 1943, large colour printed map, old folds,
520 x 1020mm, together with The British Isles, 1949, large
decorative colour map with the margins decorated with portraits
and topographical views, old folds, 800 x 660mm, with A Map of
the Heavens, 1957, large colour map, hemispheral charts printed
on verso, 680 x 1035mm, plus Historic and Scenic Reaches of the
Nation’s Capital, 1938, large decorative map of the North Eastern
United States, the margins decorated with portraits and
topographical scenes, old folds, 650 x 770mm, and Historical Map
of the United States, 1953, large colour printed map, old folds, 645
x 1020mm, with another six maps similar, various sizes and
condition
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(3)
298 Ordnance Survey. A mixed collection of approximately 250
ordnance survey and folding maps, 19th & 20th century, including
Wyld (James), Railway Map of England, Wales and Scotland, drawn
from the Triangulation of the Ordnance Survey, circa 1855,
engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised
and laid on linen, on two sheets, inset railway gradient profiles,
some dust soiling and staining, edging silk partially detached, each
sheet approximately 990 x 1340mm, contained in a contemporary
card slipcase with paper label to upper board, label torn with loss,
with another thirty folding maps including British and overseas,
ordnance survey and touring maps, together with approximately
150 ordnance survey maps of Cornwall from the six inch series, 20th
century, mostly later issues, several duplicates, with approximately
fifty large scale Ordnance survey maps, including maps of
Yorkshire, various sizes and condition
£150-250
294* New York. Asher & Adams, Eleven regional maps, originally
published in the ‘New Topographical Atlas and Gazetteer of New
York..., ’, circa 1870, eleven double page lithographic maps with
contemporary outline colouring, each approximately 320 x 550mm,
nine in uniform black and gilt frames
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(approx.250)
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£70-100
£100-150
299 Oxfordshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Oxonium comitatus vulgo
Oxford Shire, published Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with
contemporary hand colouring, slight showthrough, 385 x 505mm,
Latin text and a hand coloured engraving of the Rollright stones on
verso, together with Morden (Robert), Oxford Shire, [1695 or later],
hand coloured engraved map, 420 x 360mm, with Gibson (John),
Oxford Shire, [1759 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 110 x
65mm, plus two other county maps by Robert Morden and John
Cary
295 North America. Arrowsmith (Aaron), Untitled map of South
East America including Northern Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and
Kentucky, 1802, engraved map with contemporary outline
colouring, one sheet (of four) from Arrowsmith’s large scale ‘A Map
of the United States of North America drawn from a number of
Critical Researches’, first published in 1796, this state being the 4th,
slight marginal fraying, slight dust soiling and spotting, slight
staining to central fold, 625 x 720mm
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£100-150
(5)
£300-500
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£200-300
303 Sea charts. A mixed collection of approximately forty-four
charts, mostly late 19th and 20th century, Admiralty charts of
India, the Red Sea, France, England, Norway, Papua New Guinea,
Singapore, Scotland, Mediterranean and South America, several
duplicates, various sizes and condition
(approx.44)
£100-200
300 Oxfordshire. Jansson (Jan), Provincia Oxoniensis, Oxfordshire,
circa 1644, hand coloured engraved map, large strapwork
cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 490mm, German text on verso
An unusual early edition published in the appendix of the Hondius/Jansson
atlas.
(1)
£200-300
304* Shropshire & Staffordshire. Drayton (Michael), Untitled map,
[1612 or later], hand coloured engraved allegorical map, 255 x
335mm, framed and glazed
301 Reference (). A mixed collection of approximately ninety map
reference books and facsimile atlases, 20th century, including
reference works by Skelton, Beresiner, Booth, Potter and Black with
several on Ordnance Survey maps, together with several facsimile
atlases including Blaeu’s ‘Atlas Maior’, plus a broken run of
approximately fifty editions of ‘Map Colletor’s Circle’, various sizes
and condition
(approx.140)
(1)
£120-180
305 Sicily. Jansson (Jan), Siciliae veteris typus, published
Amsterdam, circa 1630, hand coloured map, engraved by Abraham
Goos, inset plan of Syracuse harbour and an inset list of towns,
regions and geographical features, 385 x 485mm, Latin text on
verso
302 Scotland. Ortelius (Abraham), Scotiae tabula, [1601 or later],
hand coloured engraved map orientated to the west, 360 x 480mm,
no text on verso
Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.18.
(1)
£100-150
(1)
£200-300
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£150-200
308 Somerset. Schenk (G. & Valk P.), Somersettensis comitatus
Somersetshire, circa 1720, engraved map with contemporary
handcolouring, some oxidisation to old watercolour, slight staining,
375 x 500mm, together with Morden (Robert), Somersetshire, [1695
or later], hand coloured engraved map, slight creasing, 360 x
420mm, with Van den Keere (Pieter), Somersetshire, circa 1620,
hand coloured engraved map, slight staining, 85 x 120mm, English
text on verso, plus another three county maps of with examples by
Moule, Cary and Fullarton, various sizes and condition
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£100-150
306 Sicily. De L’Isle (Guillaume), Carte de L’Isle et Royaume de
Sicile, published Amsterdam by Jean Covens & Cornelius Mortier,
circa 1735, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring,
inset map of Malta and Gozo, 485 x 580mm, together with Mercator
(Gerard), Siciliae Regnum, circa 1610, hand coloured engraved
map, toned overall with old tape staining to margins but not
affecting image, 340 x 480mm, French text on verso
(2)
£200-300
309* South Africa. Horsburgh (James, hydrographer), Chart of the
South-east coast of Africa, published 1818 [but late 20th century
impression], uncoloured sea chart engraved by J.Bateman, inset
plan of the River Knysna and a vignette view of the entrance of the
River Knysna bearing N.N.E., 520 x 725mm, framed and glazed
Pulled from the original plate on the request of an employee of the
Hydrographic office on his retirement.
(1)
£70-100
310 Staffordshire. Bowen (Emanuel), An Improved Map of the
County of Stafford divided into its hundreds..., published T & J
Bowles and Robert Sayer, circa 1764, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured decorative
cartouche, 700 x 535, together with An Accurate Map of Hereford
Shire divided into its Hundreds, published T & J Bowles and Robert
Sayer, circa 1764, engraved map with contemporary outline
colouring, large uncoloured decorative cartouche, 525 x 700mm
Two county maps originally published in ‘The Large English Atlas’.
(2)
£100-200
311 Staffordshire. A collection of twenty county maps, mostly 18th
& 19th century, engraved maps, including examples by Dix, Blome,
Moule, Ellis, Langley, Smith, Cole & Roper, Pigot, Harrison,
Teesdale, Greenwood, Cary and Philip, occasional duplicates,
various sizes and condition
307
Sicily. Merian (Matthaus), Sicilia Regnum, published
Nuremberg, circa 1640, hand coloured engraved map, very small
rust hole on central fold, 270 x 350mm, together with Ortelius
(Abraham), Sicilia, circa 1605, uncoloured engraved map, some old
tape staining to margins, 100 x 130mm, with Mercator (Gerard &
Hondius. H.), Sicilia, circa 1610, uncoloured engraved map, 150 x
185mm, Latin text on verso, plus De Fer (Nicolaus), Isle et Royaume
de Sicile, published Paris, circa 1705, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, laid on larger sheet with
descriptive text, slight staining, map size 230 x 340mm, with two
other maps of Sicily by Seale and Meyer
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
(20)
£150-250
312* Staffordshire. Speed (John), Stafford, Countie and Shire
Towne with the ancient Citie Lichfeild described, published
Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, hand coloured
engraved map, inset town plans of Stafford and Lichfield, laid on
card, 385 x 510mm, framed and glazed
(1)
£200-300
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£100-150
313* Staffordshire. Jansson (Jan), Salopiensis comitatus cum
Staffordiensi. Shropshire & Staffordshire, published Amsterdam,
circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring,
420 x 530mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Blaeu
(Johannes), Staffordiensis comitatus vulgo Stafford Shire,
published Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, slight overall toning, slight
spotting, central fold a little stained, 415 x 505mm, framed and
glazed, with Saxton (Christopher & Kip William), Staffordiae
comitatus pars olim Cornauiorum, circa 1637, hand coloured
engraved map, some old tape staining to central fold, 275 x
380mm, framed and glazed, plus Morden (Robert), Staffordshire,
[1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 425 x 370mm,
mounted, framed and glazed, descriptive text fixed to rear of frame
Not examined out of frames.
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£100-200
314 Staffordshire. A collection of approximately fifty-five maps,
17th - 19th century, engraved maps, many with hand colouring,
including examples by Luffman, Gibson, Ramble, Cary,
Kitchin/Jefferys, Cowley, Owen & Bowen, Van den Keere, Miller,
Wallis, Badeslade & Toms, Van Langeren, Leigh, Whittaker, Phillips,
Seller, Rocque, Kitchin, Morden, Blome, Bowen, Osborne and Moll,
some duplicates, various sizes and condition
(approx.55)
£300-500
315* Staffordshire. Speed (John), Stafford, Countie and Towne
with the ancient Citie Lichfeild described, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], hand coloured engraved map,
inset town plans of Stafford and Lichfield, elaborate strapwork
cartouche and mileage scale, slight thinning to image, central fold
strengthened on verso, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso,
mounted, framed and double glazed
Lot 311
(1)
£150-200
316 Suffolk. Speed (John), Suffolke described and divided into
Hundreds. The situation of the fayre towne Ipswich shewed, with
the armes of the most noble families that have bene either Dukes
or Earles both of that Countie as also of Clare, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset
town plan of Ipswich, short split at head and foot of central fold,
385 x 515mm, English text on verso
(1)
Lot 314
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£200-300
318 Tithe map. The Parish of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, 1842,
manuscript tithe map on four conjoined sheets. laid on linen, some
fraying to margins, some damage affecting image, slight staining
and dust soiling, fifteen sheets of ruled vellum attached to upper
margin giving details in manuscript of tithes and rents paid, overall
size 1260 x 1050mm, contained in near contemporary painted metal
map tube with hinged lid and carrying handle, tube length 1160mm
(1)
£150-250
317 Surrey. Smith (William), Surriae comitatus continens in se
oppida Mercatoria..., published John Overton, circa 1680, hand
coloured engraved map, some fraying, creasing and repaired
closed tears to margins, 380 x 480mm
An uncommon map prepared for Hans Woutneel’s proposed but
unpublished atlas. A later issue by John Overton of one of only twelve
completed county maps which are sometime referred to as the
‘anonymous series’.
(1)
£600-900
319* Trinidad & Tobago. Van Keulen (Johannes), Pas kaart van Rio
Oronoque met d’eylanden Trinidad, Tabago, Granada, Granadillos
and Bequia..., published Amsterdam, circa 1683, engraved sea chart
with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the island of
Tobago, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, slight oxidisation
of old watercolour, 520 x 590mm, mounted, framed and glazed
(1)
Lot 318
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£300-500
Lot 320
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320* Venezuela. Van Keulen (Johannes), Pas kaart vande zee
kusten van Veneçuela met de Byleggende Eylanden door vooght
geometra, published Amsterdam, circa 1680, engraved sea chart
with contemporary outline colouring, orientated to the south, inset
maps of Curacao and Tortuga, large decorative cartouche,
compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 515 x 580mm, mounted,
framed and glazed
323 Wales. A mixed collection of approximately sixty maps, 17th 19th century, engraved maps of Welsh counties, road maps and
regions, including examples by Van den Keere, Owen & Bowen,
Saxton/Kip, Moll, Kitchin, Morden, Stockdale and Weller, some
duplicates, various sizes and condition
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324 Wiltshire. Saxton (Christopher & Kip William), Wiltoniae
comitatus herbida planicie nobilis vulgo Will Shire pars olim
Belgarum, [1610], hand coloured engraved map, 280 x 355mm,
together with Blome (Richard), A Mapp of Wiltshire with its
Hundreds, circa 1673, hand coloured engraved map, old folds,
closed tear to lower right corner, repaired on verso, 326 x 260mm,
with Morden (Robert), Wiltshire, circa 1701, hand coloured
engraved map, 225 x 175mm, plus Gibson (John), Wiltshire, [1759
or later], hand coloured engraved map, 110 x 65mm, with four other
county maps of Wiltshire by John Cary, John Aiken, Emanuel Bowen
and Thomas Moule
(approx.60)
£300-500
(8)
£200-400
£150-200
321 Wales. Blaeu (Johannes), Wallia Principatus vulgo Wales,
published Amsterdam, [1645 or later], engraved map with
contemporary hand colouring, decorative cartouche, slight
spotting largely confined to margins, slight text show through, 390
x 505mm, Latin text on verso
John Booth. Antique Maps of Wales, no.14.
(1)
£150-250
325 World. Bajo la Zarpa Británica breve historia del militarismo
Inglés, circa 1915, large colour printed map showing the British
Empire coloured in red with the member states linked by chains, a
Spanish anti-British map propoganda map (the title translates as
‘In the British Claw’, old folds, slight spotting and creasing, 780 x
1090mm, together with Was Frankreich von Deutschland geraubt
hat, und was es noch rauben will!, published Berlin, circa 1918,
colour printed poster with three inset maps of Europe showing the
territory lost and gained by the German empire in 1547, 1786 and
1812, torn with slight loss to printed surface in lower right and left
corners, replaced in facsimile, 460 x 580mm
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322 Wales. Ortelius (Abraham), Cambriae typus auctore Humfredo
Lhuydo, Denbigiense Cambrobritano, [1598], hand coloured
engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 375
x 500mm, French text on verso
Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no. 21.
(1)
£200-300
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£100-150
328 Yorkshire. Speed (John), The West Ridinge of Yorkeshyre with
the most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described, published Roger
Rea, circa 1662, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of
York, some marginal closed tears central fold frayed with closed
tears, repaired and strengthened on verso, slight dust soiling and
offsetting, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
£100-200
326 World. Magini (Giovanni), Universi Orbis Descriptio, Venice
[1596 or later], hand coloured engraved map, after Abraham
Ortelius, slight creasing, Italian text on verso, 140 x 180mm
R.W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, no. 195.
(1)
£100-150
327 Yorkshire. Ordnance Survey (publishers), First edition of the
‘1 inch’ series, sheet numbers 85, 93, 94, 95, 96 & 104, together
with sheets 91, 92, 97, 98, 99 & 101, published in the 1840s and
1850’s but this is the 1865 electrotype form, together twelve large
uncoloured maps, sectionalised and laid on linen, each sheet
approximately 635 x 950mm, marbled endpapers, contained in two
contemporary cloth slip cases with dust caps and printed paper
labels to spines, together with Stockdale (John), Untitled map
sheet of part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1809, one (of twenty)
large uncoloured engraved sheets that made up Stockdale’s large
scale map of Yorkshire, 615 x 700mm, plus a collection of thirty-one
‘Old Ordnance Survey Maps’ of Yorkshire and its surroundings from
‘The Godfrey Edition’ and the reprint edition of the one-inch series,
late 20th century, various sizes, with four other facsimile Yorkshire
Ordnance survey maps, all in good or very good condition
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329 Yorkshire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), York-Shire
described by Ch. Saxton. Many additions and corrections as ye
Roads, Wapontakes &c. by. P. Lea, published George Willdey,
circa 1730, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring on
two conjoined sheets, old folds, margins and some folds
strengthened and repaired on verso, cancelled library stamp to
verso, 530 x 730mm
Originally published in Willdey’s ‘The Shires of England & Wales’.
(1)
£400-600
330 Yorkshire. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the West Riding of
York from an actual survey made in the years 1817 & 1818, Map of
the North Riding of the County of York from an actual survey made
in the years 1817 & 1818 [and] Map of the East Riding of the County
of York, from an actual survey made in the years 1831 & 1832,
published 1834, three large maps engraved by J. & C. Walker,
contemporary hand colouring, slight offsetting, each
approximately 630 x 765mm
£100-200
(3)
Lot 328
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
88
£150-200
DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART
All lots unframed unless otherwise stated
333* Bath. Hawkins (G.), Bath from Beacon Hill, published Wm.
Everitt, Pultney Bridge, Bath, circa 1840, uncoloured lithograph
after J. Syer, some spotting, largely confined to margins, 300 x
430mm, together with Byrne (W. & Schuman J.), South East View
of the City of Bath, published W.Byrne, 1792, uncoloured engraving
after T.Hearne, some spotting, largely confined to margins, 360 x
480mm
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£200-300
331* Antiphonal. Eight antiphonal leaves, late 18th century, eight
folio antiphonal leaves on wove, heightened with gouache and gilt
remarques and vignettes, illustrated on both sides, each 455 x
310mm
Paper is watermarked J.Whatman 1794.
(8)
£200-300
332* Bartolozzi (Francesco). [The Death of Arcite], circa 1790,
stipple engraving after William Hamilton, printed in colours,
trimmed with loss of title, 365 x 460mm, verre eglomisé mount,
framed and glazed, together with Schiavonetti (Nicolo), The last
interview of Lewis the Sixteenth with his family, published Colnaghi
& Co., 1794, stipple engraving after C. Benazeek, printed in colours,
title repeated in French, trimmed to image on three margins, 365 x
425mm, verre eglomisé mount, framed and glazed, with Cardon
(Anthony), The Right Honble. Willm. Pitt, 1801, hand coloured
stipple engraving after H.Eldridge, trimmed to neatline, 375 x
280mm, verre eglomisé mount, framed and glazed, plus one other
similar
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£100-150
334* Besler (Basilius). Caryophyllus multiplex flore albo, published
Nuremberg [1613 or later], hand coloured engraving, slight text
showthrough, 475 x 395mm, mounted
Originally published in ‘Hortus Eystettensis’.
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89
£200-300
Lot 335
Lot 339
335* Blenheim Palace. Campbell (Colen), Two architectural
elevations of Blenheim Palace, circa 1715, hand coloured
engravings, old folds, each approximately 260 x 625mm, together
with a similar elevation of Greenwich hospital and another of
Wanstead house by the same hand, mounted, framed and glazed
in uniform washline mounts and gilt mouldings
All originally published in ‘Vitruvius Britannicus’.
(4)
340* Cooper (Thomas Sidney). Three lithographs after T. S.
Cooper, circa 1850, three hand coloured lithographs of donkeys
and horses, each approximately 300 x 400mm, together with three
lithographs of cattle after Riffaut and Valentin, two with later hand
colouring, published in Pairs by Lemercier, titles in French, each
approximately 280 x 360mm, with Claude (Louis), Four steeple
chasing etchings, circa 1950, four coloured etchings (including
three duplicates), signed and titled in pencil by the artist below the
image, some spotting and staining, occasional marginal closed
tears, each approximately 470 x 600mm
£150-200
336*
British topographical views. A large collection of
approximately 3600 engravings, mostly 19th century, uncoloured
engraved topographical views, including many of Wales, London,
Ireland, Lancashire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cambridgeshire
and Hertfordshire, occasional duplicates, small format, various
condition
(approx.3600)
(10)
£70-100
£200-300
337*
British topographical views. A mixed collection of
approximately 130 prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings
and lithographs of Northern counties including Durham,
Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and the Isle of Man,
various sizes and condition
(approx.130)
£70-100
338* British topographical views. A mixed collection of
approximately 315 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century,
prints and engravings, mainly of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and
Bristol, with examples by Tombleson, Winkles, Byrne, Rawle and
Smith, several duplicates, small format, various sizes and condition
(approx.315)
£70-100
341* Cooper (Thomas Sidney). Ten lithographs of cattle, horses
and sheep, 1839, hand coloured lithographs, some plates with
some spotting and staining, occasional duplicates, each
approximately 290 x 420mm
339* Caricatures A mixed collection of approximately 250
cartoons and caricatures, mostly 19th century, engravings,
etchings and lithographs including examples by Leech, Woodward,
Heath, Pine, Cruickshank, Bunbury and Hunt, occasional
duplicates, various sizes and condition
(approx.250)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
(10)
£100-150
90
£200-300
342* Cooper (Richard). Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Lord
Viscount Nelson..., published Edward Orme, 1806, hand coloured
engraving after W.M.Craig, 485 x 575mm, mounted, framed and
glazed, with engraved key plate to verso of frame, together with
Hellyer (Thomas), Battle of the Nile. This plate representing the
English squadron leading into the Bay of Shoals is with permission
dedicated to Lord Nelson, the officers, seaman and marines...,
published J.Brydon, 1800, hand coloured engraving after James
Weir, long repaired closed tear affecting image, 480 x 705mm,
mounted, framed and glazed
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£100-150
344* Fashion. Couts (Joseph), Four engravings originally published
in the ‘Tailor’s Cutting-Room’, circa 1860, four mixed method
engravings with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately
260 x 185mm, uniform line and wash mounts and burl walnut frames
with gilt ‘rope’ bevel
(4)
£70-100
345* Foreign topographical views. A mixed collection of
approximately 110 engravings, mostly 18th century, uncoloured
engravings, including approximately thirty views of the Pacific, and
approximately forty views from Middleton’s ‘New and Complete
System of Geography’ with others similar, some duplicates, various
sizes and condition
(approx.110)
£100-200
346* French Military Cartoons. A group of 13 French cartoon
sketches, circa 1880s, pen, ink and watercolour on paper,
relating to French and British military campaigns in Egypt,
Madagascar and the Far East, each captioned including Gordon
au Soudan, Entrée du Nadhi à Berber, Chasseur d'Afrique, Au
Tonkin, Furia Francesce à Madagascar, Grand bal offert par
Gordon aux enfants du Soudan, Souvenir de Paris 1884, Le
passage du poteau fixe & Au poteau d'Arrivée - Winning Post, etc,
11 x 23cm (4.25 x 9 ins), and similar, mounted
(13)
£150-200
343* Educational Posters. Fourteen school posters, published
Carl Gerold’s Sohn, Vienna, circa 1950, large chromlithographic
posters of dogs, domestic fowl, trees and fungus, some duplicates,
each approximately 800 x 620mm
347* George Washington. Six engravings relating to George
Washington, 19th century, uncoloured engravings of portraits,
genre and military scenes, mostly large folio, various condition
(14)
(6)
£70-100
91
£70-100
348* Glass painting. The Battle of Marengo, between the French
& Austrians, June 18, 1800, J. Hinton, January 10, 1801, attractive
glass painting showing Napoleon on a white charger swaying the
battle in his favour, 26 x 36cm, contemporary black painted wood
frame, together with Africa, circa 1800, allegorical glass painting
showing an elaborately dressed African armed with a bow and
arrows with a wounded Tiger in the background, glass cracked, 35
x 25cm, later stained wooden frame, with Europe [and] Asia, circa
1800, allegorical representation of the two continents as two young
women, some damage to image, 24 x 34cm, near contemporary
stained wooden frame
(3)
£200-300
350* Gould (John and Richter, H.C.). Chlorostilbon Portmanni
[and] Gluacis Fraseri, originally published in ‘A monograph of the
Trochiledae, or family of Humming-birds’, [1841 - 1861], two
lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, each
approximately 520 x 320mm
349*
Gould (John and Richter, H.C.). Parus Cristatus,
Montifringilla Ruficollis, Stigmatops Albo-auricularis, Geocichla
Schistacea [and] Circus Cyaneus, circa 1870, five hand coloured
lithographs, each approximately 490 x 350mm, mounted, together
with Slyper (H.J.), British Birds No.2 [and] British Birds No.4,
published RSPB, 1961, two large colour photolithographic posters
with multiple images of birds on each sheet, each approximately
600 x 870mm. framed and glazed
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(2)
351* Hunt (Charles). Kershaw’s Hitchin Coach, published William
Spooner, 1850, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, after
W.Shayer, toned overall, slight surface abrasion, 500 x 740mm,
framed and glazed in near contemporary ‘birds-eye’ maple frame,
together with Harris (John), Pulling up to Unskid, published Messrs.
Fores, 1843, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, trimmed
with loss of title and plate mark, title replaced in manuscript in
mount aperture, 450 x 680mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£150-200
(2)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£200-300
92
£70-100
353* Lance (George, 1802-1864). Pair of lithographs of fruit in
still life, circa 1850, pair of lithographs after George Lance with
contemporary hand colouring, 345 x 425mm, mounted, framed and
glazed in modern uniform gilded relief frames
(2)
£100-150
352* India. A mixed collection of approximately sixty prints and
engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings, lithographs and
drawings of topographical views, genre and social scenes, natural
history, military and portraits, including a watercolour of the
Greater Adjutant stork titled ‘Bengal Adjutant’ showing the bird
standing by a human skull, with engraved topographical views after
S.Prout and J.M.W.Turner and four lithographs after H. L. Fraser,
various sizes and condition
354* Levaillant (Francois). Three engravings of Toucans, originally
published in ‘Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d’Afrique’, [1796 1802], three hand coloured engravings of Toucans, slight spotting,
each approximately 420 x 320mm
(approx.60)
(3)
£300-500
£100-200
355 London. Leigh (Samuel, publisher), The Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond exhibiting every object on both Banks of
the River with a concise description of the most remarkable places, and a General View of London, circa 1824, uncoloured engraved
aquatint panorama by John Clark entitled ‘View of London (from the Adelphi)’, 205 x 1650mm, slight staining and a second panorama entitled
‘Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond’, uncoloured folding aquatint panorama showing both banks of the River Thames, on
multiple conjoined sheets, some fraying and dust soiling to margins, old folds, some splitting along old folds, titles repeated at either end
of the panorama, 210 x 19200mm (approximately), the two panoramas affixed to the inner boards of the portfolio, supplied with the booklet
of descriptive text, booklet bound in publisher’s pink paper wrappers, upper cover and title detached, later cloth portfolio with heavily
frayed contemporary decorative printed label to upper siding, first panorama contained in a later ‘envelope pocket’ with contemporary
printed label, second panorama loose, binding size 240 x 340mm
Rare when found with booklet of descriptive text. Abbey Life no. 494.
(1)
£500-800
Lot 355
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356* London. A mixed collection of approximately 375 prints, 18th
& 19th century, engravings and aquatints, a few with contemporary
hand colouring, some duplicates, various sizes and condition
(approx.375)
£100-150
357* London. Baynes (T. M.), A lithographic sketch of the North
Bank of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge
shewing the Proposed Quay and some other Improvements
suggested by Lt. Col. Trench..., printed C.Hullmandel, published
Hurst and Robinson, 1825, printed prospectus and ten uncoloured
lithographic panoramas (complete), publisher’s printed wrappers
with printed title to upper cover, upper cover with some spotting,
lacking rear wrapper, each sheet 260 x 640mm
Abbey Life 496.2
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360* Neopolitan School. S/S Woodcock, circa 1910, gouache
painting of a British merchant steamship passing infront of Mount
Vesuvius, titled below image, unsigned, 405 x 785mm, framed and
glazed
(1)
361 New York A mixed collection of approximately 120 prints of
New York, 19th century, engravings and lithographs of New York,
occasional duplicates, some with hand colouring, mostly small
format but various sizes and condition
£400-600
(approx.120)
Not examined out of frame and if not possible to roll will be expensive to
ship overseas.
(1)
£500-800
£300-500
359* Nelson (Admiral Horatio). Sir Horatio Nelson when wounded
at Teneriffe night of July 1797, Lieutenant Nelson volunteering to
board a prize in a violent gale Novr. 20th. 1777, The San Nicolas &
San Josef carried by boarding February 14th 1797 [and] The
Immortality of Nelson, published Cadell & Cavies, 1809, together
four hand coloured engravings after R. Westhall and B. West, each
approximately 285 x 205mm, each with uniform verre eglomise
mounts and gilt frames, together with Golding (R.), Nelson in
Victory’s cockpit mortally wounded October 21st 1805, uncoloured
engraving after B. West, 300 x 240mm, framed and glazed, with
another five engravings relating to Nelson, various sizes and
condition, all framed and glazed
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Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£200-300
362* New York. Mottram (Charles), New York, published F. & G.
W. Smith, New York, 1855, very large hand coloured engraving,
some repaired closed tears affecting image, mostly to the sky, 820
x 1310mm, framed and glazed
358* London. Bird’s-Eye view of London as seen from a Balloon,
published The Graphic, 1884, large uncoloured aerial panoramic
view of London after W. L. Wyllie and H. W. Brewer, old folds, 880 x
1110mm
(1)
£150-200
£70-100
94
365* Orchids. Odontoglossum Macranthum, Cypripedium Gladys,
Masdevallia Radiosa, Cypripedium Curtisii, Cypripedium Veitchii,
Cypripedium Cobbiae, Cattleya Mendelii Amabilis [and] Masdevallia
Chimaera Wallisii, circa 1900, together eight watercolour studies
of orchids, each approximately 350 x 255mm, well mounted framed
and glazed in uniform ‘wash line’ mounts and gilt beaded frames
363* New Zealand. Wilson (Fredk. J. Wilson, publisher), Dunedin
from Little Paisley, circa 1850, lithograph with contemporary hand
colouring, 205 x 280mm, mounted, framed and glazed
Rare.Otago was founded as a Free Church of Scotland settlement, but most
of the settlers came to escape hardship or advance themselves
economically rather than for religious reasons. The weaving industry in
Paisley was in recession through much of the 1840s, and many left there
for New Zealand, particularly Otago and this resulted in part of Dunedin
became known as Little Paisley.
(1)
£200-300
These watercolours are unsigned but are very reminiscent of the
chromolithographs produced by Jean J. Linden for his iconography of
orchids.
(8)
£200-300
366* Orme (Daniel). To His Majesty, This historical engraving of
that unprecedented event in Lord St. Vincents Victory of Admiral
Nelsons boarding the two Spanish Ships and the reception of the
Spanish admirals sword on board the San Joseph on the 14th of
February 1797..., 1800, uncoloured mixed method engraving after
Edward Orme, 505 x 610mm, framed and glazed
(1)
364* North American Indians Greenough (F. W., publisher), J-AwBeance a Chippeway chief, Spring Frog a Cherokee chief,
Kai-Pol-E-Quah White nosed fox, Se-Loc-Ta a Creek chief [and]
Micanopy A Seminole chief, the first published Key & Biddle,
Philadelphia 1836, the remainder published F. W. Greenough,
Philadelphia, 1836, together five lithographs with contemporary
hand colouring, Kai-Pol-E-Quah heavily toned, Spring Frog with
worm track affecting title, all with some spotting and staining, each
approximately 380 x 285mm, framed and glazed
(5)
£70-100
367* Paris. Twenty-three engravings of views in Paris, circa 1700,
engravings of palaces and royal residences in Paris and its environs
by De Fer, De Poilly and others, after Perelle, including fifteen with
hand colouring, together with the title page, each approximately
225 x 320mm
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£200-300
95
£200-300
368* Pine (John). Pair of engravings showing the progress of the
Spanish Armada, circa 1740, two engravings with the central panel
printed in blue with the borders decorated with the portraits of
naval officers, dignitaries and noblemen associated with the battle,
each approximately 360 x 595mm, framed and glazed
(2)
£200-300
369* Pollard (Robert). To the Right Honorable Earl St. Vincent, K.B.
&c. &c. This print representing the destruction of the whole Danish
line of defence in Copenhagen Roads by a Division of His Majesty’s
Baltic fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, 2nd
April 1801..., published William Jeffryes, 1801, aquatint after
N.Pocock, contemporary hand colouring, some staining, 460 x
630mm, framed and glazed, together with Holden (Albert W.),
[Saluting the Admiral], published Pears, 1904, chromolithograph,
slight surface abrasion, trimmed to image, 705 x 470mm, mounted,
framed and glazed, with Godfrey (J.), Lord Nelson explaining to the
officers the plan of attack previous to the Battle of Trafalgar,
published Edward Orme, 1806, uncoloured engraving of Lord Nelson
and his officers seated around a table, shown above a battle plan of
the French, English and Spanish ships during the battle of Trafalgar,
frayed with slight loss to corners, laid on card, toned overall, 425 x
250mm, framed and glazed, plus a small uncoloured engraved
portrait of Lord Nelson, 135 x 85mm, framed and glazed
(4)
£100-150
370*
Porcelain designs. Garnier (Edouard), Sixteen
chromolithographic plate and vase designs, published Maison
Quantin, Paris, circa 1880, sixteen chromolithographic designs
displayed in multi-aperture mounts in four matching frames (two
sets of three and two sets of five), each print approximately 320 x
230mm, framed and glazed in uniform artisan mouldings, overall
size 1425 x 590mm
(4)
£200-300
371* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 440
prints, engravings and maps, mostly 19th century, including British
topographical views, botany, natural history, Ordnance Survey
maps, and field sports, with examples by Shepherd, Tallis, Finden,
Gastineau, Godfrey, Step, Morris and Scot, various sizes and
condition
(approx.440)
£70-100
372* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 500
prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, prints,
engravings, mezzotints and lithographs of portraits, topographical
scenes, medicine, sporting, marine & military, dried flower
specimens, genre, classical, architecture, natural history and
‘Hogarth’, various sizes and condition
(approx.500)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
Lot 370
£150-200
96
376* Ribbon picture. Triple image print, circa 1850, linen ‘ribbon
strips’ with a three masted man of war and a bouquet of flowers
printed on either side of the linen, with a back picture of a pretty
girl, aperture 535 x 405mm, contemporary verre églomisé glass
with a later gilt frame
373* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 190
prints & engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings, lithographs
and prints, including genre, classical, natural history,
topographical views, portraits, costume, juvenile and botany, most
are mounted but approximately twenty are framed and glazed,
various sizes and condition
(approx.190)
A clever Victorian conversation piece which presents the viewer with three
different subjects depending on the angle that the picture is viewed from.
(1)
£250-350
£200-300
374* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 130
prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings and
lithographs, including coaching, military, ‘Baxter licensee’ prints,
watercolours, classical, sporting and portraits, occasional
duplicates, various sizes and condition
377* Rome. Bowles (Thomas), The Inside of St. Pauls Church...,
...Plazza Navona..., ...Seat of Lodovisi..., [and] the Piazza de
Popolo, published Robert Sayer, 1750, four hand coloured
engravings, each trimmed to image on three margins, each
approximately 255 x 400mm, mounted, framed and glazed in
uniform ‘chessboard’ veneered frames
(approx.130)
(4)
£100-150
375* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 600
prints, engravings and photographs, mostly 19th & 20th century,
including a quantity of engravings, prints and photographs relating to
China and Hong Kong, plus others including sporting, natural history
and a large quantity of engravings originally published in ‘The Graphic’
and ‘The Illustrated London News’, various sizes and condition
(approx.600)
£200-300
378* Rome. Seven engraved views from Domenico Amici’s Nuova
Raccolta delle Vedute Antiche et Moderne dell’Alma Citta di Roma,
1833-41, 7 engraved plates, titled Tempio di Giove Statore, Foro
Romano, Obelisco Mattejano, Esterno della Basilica di S. Maria
Maggiore, Fontana dell’acqua Felice, Obelisco Esquilino & Obelisco
Vaticano, variously dated 1833-41, some marginal spotting, plate
size 225 x 290mm and similar, matching black frames, glazed
£80-120
(7)
£100-150
379* Shaw (George & Miller John Frederick). Ten plates originally
published in ‘Cimelia Physica. Figures of Rare and Curious
Quadrupeds, Birds &c....’, [1796], ten hand coloured engravings of
birds, mammals and botany, each approximately 300 x 450mm
(10)
Lot 376
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£250-350
380* Soiron (Francois Davide). St. James’s Park, published
Colnaghi & Co., 1790, large oval stipple engraving after G.Morland,
printed in colours and finished by hand, slight creasing and dust
soiling, 460 x 530mm, mounted, framed and glazed
(1)
£200-300
Lot 382
381* St. Helena. The Island of St. Helen belonging to the East India
Company of England published Robert Sayer, circa 1760, engraved
view of St. Helena after J.Van Ryne, contemporary hand colouring,
260 x 405mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Clark
(J.), James Town St Helena looking to Ladder Hill Barracks, Col.
Doveton’s House near Sandy Ridge St. Helena and one other
untitled view, published Black Parry & Co., 1814, three aquatints
after James Watkin, contemporary hand colouring, each
approximately 165 x 225mm, mounted, framed and glazed
(4)
£100-150
382* Twining (Elizabeth). Fourteen lithographs originally published
in ‘Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, [1849-55],
lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, slight dust soiling,
each approximately 400 x 290mm
(14)
£300-500
Lot 383
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
98
383* Van Houtte (Louis). A collection of ninety botanical prints,
originally published in ‘Flore des Serres et des Jardins l’Europe’,
[1845 - 1880], double-page chromolithographs, old folds, some
duplicates, each approximately 335 x 230mm
(90)
£100-150
384* Vanity Fair. A collection of fifteen ‘special issues’, 1885 1902, fifteen chromolithographs, each approximately 370 x
500mm, in good condition
385* Wagstaff (Charles Edward). A Lady spinning, circa 1840,
uncoloured mixed method engraving on india wove after Richard
Buckner, repaired closed tear affecting image, 585 x 465mm, verre
eglomisé glass, modern ornate gilt moulding, together with Young
(John), The Golden Eggs, circa 1790, uncoloured mezzotint after
R. M. Payne, trimmed to image on three margins, 595 x 440mm,
mounted, framed and glazed in modern painted frame with silver
gilt beaded slip
The titles comprise of:- Cycling in Hyde Park, Au Bois de Boulogne,
Newmarket 1885, On the Heath, A Masters Meet, Tattersall’s 1887, A General
Group, At Cowes, Empire Makers and Breakers, On the Terrace, The Lobby
of the House of Commons 1886, Bench and Bar, Heads of the Law, The Lord
Protect us [and] In Vanity Fair,
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£150-250
(2)
£200-300
386
Weinmann (Jean Guillaume).
Phytanthoza Iconographia sive Conspectus
aliquot Millium..., volume 2 (only), published
Regensberg, 1739, titles in Latin & German
and printed in red & black, contents
partially excised with forty-eight (only)
mixed
method
engravings
with
contemporary hand colouring, including
one double-page, occasional spotting and
staining, cancelled library stamp to first
title, all edges gilt, near contemporary
panelled calf, frayed and worn, folio
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to
return.
(1)
£300-500
99
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA
387* Art & Auction Trade. An archive of approximately 90 letters
to Abraham and Lionel Myers (and later John and Lindo), art and
antiques dealers of New Bond Street and Saville Row, from clients
all over Europe and the USA, in English, French and German, circa
1853-1890, but principally about 1869, the letters concerning
pictures and frames, silver, Wedgwood & Worcester ware, clocks
etc., and financial matters, as well as auction commissions, some
referring to Christie, Manson & Woods, letters from collectors
(Aldred and Lionel de Rothschild, for instance) and artists (Irving
Montagu, William Yeames and others), including letters of
complaint, together with unrelated letters by artists, several
submitting works for an exhibition in Manchester, including Alfred
Edward Chalon, W.P. Frith (1865), G.R. Ward (1858), George
Cattermole (1857), Richard Redgrave, William Etty, John Callcott
Horsley (concerning an illustration for ‘The Deserted Village’),
Laurence Alma Tadema, Henry Gastineau, Edwin Landseer (two,
one signed with initials), H.W. Pickersgill, G.F. Watts and A.E. Chalon
(inviting Richard Lane to view the Queen’s portrait, 1838), and other
miscellaneous correspondence
(approx. 90)
£400-600
389* Browning (Robert, 1812-1889). Autograph letter signed
‘Robert Browning’, 19 Warwick Crescent, [London], 6 August 1880,
to Mrs [William Ewart] Gladstone, ‘I shall leave London in a day or
two, and very likely may find myself eventually in that Venice where
I was so fortunate as to meet your illustrious husband last year. Will
you let me say how glad and grateful I am that the possible calamity
which seemed impending is at length - one may venture to trust averted? My name has not been mentioned with those of the many
inquirers at Downing Street: but, as I was early aware of the threat
and danger (at a dinner on Saturday) so I think few of the outside
‘Public’ were more constantly informed of what was the hour’s hope
or fear’, continuing to add his congratulations, heavy spotting and
marginal offsetting from previous mounting, adhesion remains to
top and bottom margin of verso, 2 pp., 8vo
This probably relates to the Irish Home Rule debate. At the time Gladstone
and Browning were against the cause of Irish Home Rule. A few years later
Gladstone was to change his mind but Browning, a great admirer of
Gladstone, was against him on this matter.
(1)
£300-500
390 [Eton College]. “Cornish.” An Ode to the Future Vice-Provost
of Eton, 1893, for Solemn Music Arranged by A.M. Goodhart, MA,
Mus. B., [?Eton, 1893], 3 pp. printed text including title, 7 & 21 pp.
manuscript music (‘Cornish Overture’ and ‘Cornish’, words by A.C.
James, music arranged by A.M. Goodhart), 2 related watercolours
tipped in, all edges gilt, contemporary vellum gilt with coloured
armorials to upper cover, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to
388* Bonds and Share Certificates. A group of more than 200
certificates, mid-19th century to early 20th century, including
examples from UK, China, Russia, Mexico, USA, Canada, France,
Morocco, etc., many with attractive vignettes and coupons
(approx. 200)
£200-300
Arthur Murray Goodhart (1866-1941) was a British composer and organist,
as well as being a house master at Eton College; Arthur Coleridge James
was an assistant master (1864-1899).
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£70-100
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391 Farmer’s Ledger. A manuscript ledger of a farmer, John
Borham Jr., 1740-51, 169 ruled leaves, mainly concerning arable
farming (wheat, flour and bran), plus the sale of seeds, turnips, coal
and ‘to a years Bread Baked for ye Poor due at Christmas... .4.0d’,
engraved stationer’s label of John Pickard to front pastedown,
some spotting throughout, contemporary vellum with gilt clasps,
rubbed and soiled, narrow folio
Provenance: Ex collection Roger Warner
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394* Historical autographs. A large collection of letters, largely
Italian Germa and French, including Francois de Montmorency,
Marshal of France (LS 1578), and other historical, scientific and
literary letters from circa 1800 to 1940, included is a group of 19
autograph letters signed from the Italian lawyer Giuseppe Ducci to
his cousin Angiolo Ducci in Poppi, 1793-1802 where dated, a cheque
signed by Prince Andrea Corsini (1837), a long letter signed by
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1848), an autograph letter
signed of Duke Nicholas of Wüttemberg (1889) and a box of
correspondence largely addressed to Dr Ludwig Weil in London,
circa 18801-1950 but including some earlier material, including an
autograph letter signed of the German biographer and diplomat
Karl Varnhagen von Ense (1857)
£100-150
392* George IV Coronation. An admission ticket to the Royal
Central Pavilion for the Coronation of King George IV, [1821],
printed in blue on card with royal crest to left and embossed stamp
(‘Entry Royal Pavilion’) lower right, officially signed and with
manuscript number 1107 and name of recipient (?)J. Bennett
inscribed vertically, a little soiled, 9 x 15cm, mounted beneath a
hand-coloured engraving of the Prince Regent (published Thomas
Kelly, 1815), the whole framed and glazed (61 x 42cm)
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(2 box files)
£100-150
395* Hong Kong & China. An assorted group of ephemera, 19th
and mostly 20th century, including an original copy of The Morning
Post, 13 February 1840, containing a report on the Opium Wars, 2
copies of St James’s Chronicle and General Evening Post, 21-24
October & 2-5 December 1843, the first with a front page
description of the day’s events with Britain declaring Hong Kong a
permanent possession of the British crown, the second with
reports on the opium trade, plus a small group of documents and
letters relating to Robert Styles, 1862/73, some from Hong Kong,
Singapore and Shanghai, plus a disbandment parade programme
of the Hong Kong regiment, 2 September 1991, signed by the last
Governor Christopher Patten and General Sir Michael Rose, one
issue of Navy and Army Illustrated magazine, 14 March 1887,
including photographs of Hong Kong Volunteer Regiment, a Hong
Kong club notice from 1903 listing rules for the billiard room, a
group of 7 Hong Kong luggage labels, an original edition of
Chairman Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’, 1966, a circular relief plaque of
Mao and a framed montage of badges of him, various guides,
pamphlets and assorted ephemera
393* Gladstone (William Ewart, 1809-1898). Autograph letter
signed ‘W.E. Gladstone’, 41 Parliament Street, London, SW, 12
February, circa 1890s, to Mrs Stuart, ‘I have no difficulty at all.
Amongst other things I remember breaking the law by shooting
close to the road when you were driving by’ and continuing to say
that he looks forward to her book which he will pass on to his sister
after reading, black-edged mourning paper, 2 pp. with integral
blank, a little creasing and dust-soiling, 8vo, together with an
autograph letter signed from Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to
Mrs Gladstone, 16 October 1889, regretfully declining an invitation,
some spotting, toning and split to left margin, 2 pp., 8vo, plus
letters to Gladstone from Lord Acton and Stafford Northcote, 4
further letters to Mrs Stuart from various correspondents and
envelopes with signatures of Lord Russell (addressed to Gladstone,
seal to verso), A.J. Balfour, Palmerston, Hicks Beach, Earl Spencer
and the Prince of Wales (initialled A.E. and addressed to Gladstone,
31 December 1883)
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£300-500
(a carton)
£150-200
396* Hong Kong - WWII. Two mimeographed information sheets,
17 & 18 September 1945, the first giving a description of the signing
ceremony of the surrender of the Japanese in Hong Kong as
described by officers of HMS Montclare, the second with their
description of some of the realities of life in Hong Kong, and a
programme of entertainment performed by the crew, 1 page and
2 pages, some spotting, punch holes, tipped on to mounts, together
with a Harvest Thanksgiving programme by a Methodist group on
HMS Montclare at Hong Kong, October 1945, a photograph of the
group with names identified to paper mount, plus 3 copies of Hong
Kong News, 20 January, 23 January & 16 May 1945, printed during
the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, plus a copy of the
Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 September 1946 and 3
related items of cuttings
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£100-150
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£100-150
Lot 397
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397 Manuscript Receipt Book. A manuscript recipe book
belonging to Mall Crossman, 1683-1686, 86pp., laid paper, written
in brown ink to rectos and versos, in several different hands, first
leaf with inscription with flourishes on recto ‘Mall: Crossman :- Her
Booke :- 1686’, and further inscriptions ‘Gualterus Clopton’ and
‘Maria Crossman’, and on verso ‘Ffor Mrs. Eliz. Smith att Mr Doman
house at Kennett near Newmarkett’ and ‘To Mr. Robert Brereton att
Clement Inn beyond Temple bear’, approximately 200 culinary
recipes and medical receipts, many leaves with initials ‘SCB’, large
brown stain throughout, one leaf almost entirely torn away (with
small remains at gutter), sheet size 25.5 x 17.5cm (10 x 7ins), original
limp vellum binding bound in (creased and stained), modern
panelled cream cloth, with gilt lettered spine label, 4to, together
with a bound typescript of the manuscript, containing an
introduction by Peter Edden, small folio
398* Miscellaneous historical documents and letters, 19th
century, including Duff Cooper (LS, 1943 with filing holes); Duke of
Wellington (2 autograph letters signed, 1844 and no date with a free
frank signed); Richard Cobden to Joseph Cooper asking for help
(‘ours is a case of necessity’); Pozzo di Borgo (in French, to Charles
Culling Smith informing him that Bardaxi had been appointed
Spanish minister at St Petersburg, and hoping that there was better
news, 1812); William Wilberforce, 1829, 2 pp. but incomplete, 8vo;
Isabel Burton, 1 page, on mourning paper declining to lecture (‘I
only lost my husband 10 months ago & am still very broken down’),
8vo; H.P. Liddon (1876); Arthur Orton (‘R.C.D. Tichborne’), to the
editor of the Standard asking for subscriptions to be paid; George
Goschen, to Playfair, 1878; Angela Burdett Coutts, 4 pp., 1877; Mary
Carpenter, from the National Indian Association, 2 pp., 1871;
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson on a postcard, 1872; Richard Wellesley,
1st Marquess, to William Courtenay asking for a blank proxy ‘to the
Board of Green Cloth’, 1833; Viscount Castlereagh, signed passport
for the Rev M. Wrench, 1817 (rather worn); Samuel Whitbread
sending Hargrave’s letter in the case of Thanet (copy included), 21
February 1815 (the year of his suicide); Sir Benjamin Hall to the
editor of The Sun sending a correction, 1839, and many others,
some evidence of former mounting
A remarkable early cookery book, compiled by a Suffolk family. Much of the
copperplate is probably that of Mrs. Crossman’s husband, who refers to
her as “honeykin” or “wiffo”. We have been unable to establish the identity
of Mall (presumably Maria) Crossman, but according to a marginal note she
was “bloodily akin” to John Brundish, Rector of Whelnetham (1652-1724),
whose recipe ‘To Roast a Shoulder of Mutton in Blood’ appears near the
front of the volume.
A note beneath the Rector’s recipe reads “I beg good Cos Crosse feed not
me nor my Honeykin with such damn’d French dishes”. It follows a recipe
‘To make a Ragoon of Veal’, which ends “then dish it Garnish it & it will be
a Dish to poyson the Devill”.
The variety of recipes and their ingredients indicate a certain sophistication
in late Stuart cooking. Claret, white wine, and cider was used, and there
was clearly an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as a wide
variety of spices and herbs. Oranges and lemons were plentiful (one recipe
calls for forty oranges), as were salmon and oysters, and of course all kinds
of game. The Crossman’s kitchen was clearly not ill-equipped, with “tinn
panns” for baking, tea cups for measuring, a chocolate mill for whisking
ingredients, and presumably some kind of clock or hourglass, as cooking
times are often given.
Superstitions jostle amongst the practical details; a recipe ‘To make a very
good Cake’ for a wedding advises “dispose of the Rest to ye young Ladys
that are unmarried, to lay under their pillows, that they may dream of their
bridegroom.” Even more nonsensical is ‘A precious Receit as good as how
to make the countess of Kent’s Powder’ which calls for the flowers of salt
petre, the juice of the powder of grind-stone and the yolks of several eggs
to be “larded with the bacon that grew of the ear of a black she hog” before
boiling the concoction in best saw dust “about twice as long as the old
woman was kissing the further end of her Cowe”. On the same page is a
marginal note “when you are in Gloucestershire drink mine & my Honykins
health... & my little Boyes, who is in a close plott but not a dissenters plott”.
Written in 1683, this certainly refers to William Russell’s execution in July
that year for his part in the Rye House Plot, an attempt to murder Charles
II as he travelled from Newmarket to London. “A receipt for any Infections
of Plague or Spotted Feavour” is a reminder that the Great Plague of
London, which began in 1665, was not solely confined to the capital. The
epidemic spread to other towns and cities, including Norwich, Colchester
and Ipswich, and its effects would have been fresh in the memories of Mall
and her family.
On the final page is a curious poem in rhyme on the subject of unrequited
love entitled ‘Ah Cruel beauty now’, followed by the rather charming
epilogue “Madame your Humble Servant most Entirely wishes more joys to
you than In the Sea are fishes or In the Ayre are fowls; or on the Earth are
flowers or drops of Rain in a Hundred Thousand Showers.”
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£1500-2000
(a folder)
£400-600
399 Naval Broadside. By the King. A Proclamation, for Granting
the Distribution of Prizes during the Present Hostilities..., Given at
our Court at St James’s, the Seventeenth Day of April..., printed
by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1793, engraved royal crest
and caption title, triple column, laid paper, a little spotting and
creasing, minor wear to vertical crease in lower part of text not
affecting print, small tears to right margin, one page, 61 x 49.5cm
ESTC locates four copies (National Archives & British Library) of which three
are printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan.
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£200-300
400 Naval Broadside. By the King, A Proclamation, Appointing the
Distribution of Prizes Taken, and the Bounty for Taking or
Destroying Ships of War, or Privateers, of the Enemy, from the
Time of His Majesty’s Declaration of War against Spain, Given at
Her Court at St James’s, the Twenty Sixth Day of July..., printed by
Mark Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1762, engraved
royal crest and caption title, wood-engraved initial letter, single
column, some spotting, light browning and dust-soiling, marginal
creasing and fraying not affecting letterpress, one page, 58 x 44cm
ESTC locates three copies (British Library x 2 including one mutilated, and
Huntington Library).
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£200-300
401 Railways. A group of approximately 44 letters largely relating
to the Great Western Railway, principally to Charles Alexander
Saunders, secretary of the GWR, circa 1850s/1860s, mostly from
the nobility, pasted or tipped into an album, half calf, worn, 4to
Includes: William Malins (to Spencer H[oratio] Walpole), chairman of the
board, 6 March 1856, complaining of the manner in which directors had
been elected; Lord Macclesfield, soliciting a position as a porter for his
footman; the Marquess of Worcester (2), writing on behalf of his father, the
Duke of Beaufort, one (7 October 1852) on the desirability of a line through
the centre of Monmouthshire, preferably built by the GWR, and giving
details of the towns the railway should serve; Russell Gurney, about GWR
debentures; Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, 1 September 1857, complaining that
an important letter had not been dispatched by the right train; Earl Howe,
1851, soliciting an appointment for a guard; Lord St Leonards, 1858, to the
directors, complaining of the large salary voted to the Secretary; the
Marquess of Bath, about the expenses of a train to Plymouth, etc.
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£200-300
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402 Scrap album. An album of cuttings and autographs compiled
by Sir Algernon Edward West (1832-1921), late 19th and early 20th
century, mostly press cuttings relating to West, mostly after his
time as Private Secretary to Gladstone, but including autograph
letters and related, mostly to West, including from Lord Battersea,
Lord Kilbracken, C.H. Whitbread, Sir Henry Lucy and others, a total
of approximately 40 leaves, contemporary calf gilt, worn with
leather loss, folio
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405 Scrap albums. Three scrap albums, 19th century, including
one containing many uncoloured engraved British and foreign
topographical views, partially excised, contemporary half
morocco, worn, folio, with another containing pencil drawings,
partially disbound, contemporary half morocco, worn and frayed,
folio, and one other containing watercolours of landscapes and
natural history subjects, partially excised, the last album with
association to the Tuke family, hinges and joints crudely repaired
with sticking plaster, decorative morocco boards, rubbed and
worn, large 8vo
£70-100
403* Scrap Album. An early 19th century folio scrap album
containing engravings, illustrations, portraits, some caricatures
and a few drawings and watercolours, mostly 18th and early
19th century, over 1000 prints and engravings, some handcoloured,
all mounted on original blue backing paper,
contemporary half calf, heavily worn with covers detached, large
thick folio (40.5 x 26cm, 16 x 10.25 ins)
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406 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Elegiac Sonnets, and Other
Poems, by Charlotte Smith, volume 1 only, 9th edition, 1800,
Thackeray’s copy, engraved portrait frontispiece and 4 plates,
advert leaf at rear, some annotations by Thackeray, including to
half-title verso, ‘To my mind the following verses are very fine
indeed, W.M. Thackeray’ and then copying the first two verses of
Elegy printed on p. 63, the printed Elegy itself having marginal
comments in Thackeray’s hand, two other initialled comments by
Thackeray, ‘A capital book’ to portrait recto and ‘Very finely
expressed’ at foot of Sonnet XXXVI on p. 36, some spotting and
browning throughout, disbound with only detached lower calf
board present, small 8vo
Contents include illustrations to Cook's Voyages, French illustrated
literature, British topographical views, natural history, Thomas Bewick,
military campaigns and history, armorials and bookplates, fashion
plates, etc.
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£300-500
404 Scrap albums. Five scrap albums, 19th century, including one
album containing engravings and aquatints of French historical
interest, classical and historical scenes and portraits, partially
excised, later half morocco , worn and frayed, folio, with a
disbound album of Oxford views, many from the ‘Oxford Almanac’,
partially excised, lacking boards, folio, with three others similar,
containing scraps, engravings and lithographs, including British and
foreign topographical views, portraits and natural history, all
disbound and partially excised, various bindings, folio
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£200-300
407* Vellum deeds. A group of approximately 70 folding vellum
deeds, mostly 19th century, including mortgages, conveyances,
etc., relating to various properties and counties, many with seals,
generally somewhat soiled
(a carton)
£150-200
£300-400
408 WWII. Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs 1940, published
Admiralty, London, 1947, 144 pp. mimeographed typed text, one
plan, original linen-backed printed wrappers, rubbed and soiled,
slim folio
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Lot 406
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£200-300
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£70-100
CLASSICAL RECORDS
409* 10-inch Classical Records. A collection of approximately 140
classical 10-inch records (33rpm) from the 1950s and early 1960s
by the popular composers, conductors, orchestras, musicians and
vocalists, including some very collectible recordings such as
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Handel: Concerto Grosso with
Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra (Columbia
SBO 2751, ED1 version with blue/silver label), Bach: Partita No 1 and
Mozart: Sonata No 8 with Dinu Lipatti on Piano (Columbia 33C 1021,
ED1 version with blue/gold label), Mozart String Quartet No 14 with
the Haydn Quartet in Brussels (Telefunken LGM 65011), Jewels of
Song with Beniamino Gigli (HMV BLP 1099, ED1 version, no stereo
exists), Neapolitan Songs with Beniamino Gigli (HMV BLP 1034),
Richard Strauss: Sechs Lieder from Poems by Clemens Brentano
with Erna Berger as Soprano (Deutsche Grammophon DG 16042),
Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with Alfredo
Campoli on Violin and Eduard van Beinum conducting the LPO
(Decca LX 3001, orange/gold label, no SXL exists), Mozart:
Serenade in E Flat Major with Karl Haas conducting the London
Baroque Ensemble (Parlophone PMB 1002), Richard Strauss: Four
Last Songs with Lisa Della Casa as Soprano and Karl Bohm
conducting the VPO (Decca LW 5056, ffrr black/gold label), Vivaldi:
Bassoon Concerto with Henri Helaerts on Bassoon, Marcello: Oboe
Concerto with Roger Reversy on Oboe and Ernest Ansermet
conducting (Decca LX 3100, ffrr orange/gold label), Wagner: The
Ride of the Valkyries with Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the
VPO (Decca LW 5106, ffrr black/gold label), together with many
other excellent recordings of the period, the majority of records
would appear to be in very good or excellent condition
(2 cartons)
410* 7-inch Classical Records. A collection of approximately 125
classical 7-inch records from the 1950s and 1960s covering most
of the famous composers, conductors, orchestras, musicians and
vocalists on popular record labels such as HMV, Decca, Columbia
and Deutsche Grammophon, including artists such as Artur
Rubinstein, Gerald Moore, Leopold Stokowski, Vladimir Horowitz,
Hans Hotter, Flor Peeters, Maria Callas, Antal Dorati, Kathleen
Ferrier and many others, organ music recorded in Tewskesbury
Abbey, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Saint Mary Redcliffe in Bristol,
Guildford Cathedral, Bangor Cathedral, St. Sulpice and Notre
Dame Cathedral in Paris, Christ Church in Oxford, Salisbury
Cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral, Blackburn Cathedral, Ely
Cathedral and several others, some choral and opera music also
included, a very interesting collection of 7” records in very good to
excellent condition
(a carton)
£200-300
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£70-100
411* Classical Records. A collection of approximately 240 classical
records (12” LPs), including records from the collectible Decca
SXL-series (SXL 2258, 6000, 6127, 6173, 6177, 6271, 6493, 6624, 6699,
6719, 6773, 6813, 6869), a number of TAS-listed records (HMV ASD
3117, ASD 2889, ASD 2486, ASD 3266, ASD 2673 and ASD 3345 plus
Decca SXL 6000 and SXL 6624), a number of other good quality
recordings from the popular ASD-series on the HMV label (ASD
2533, 2962, 2954, 2400, 2884, 2356, 2963, etc), some good
examples of Decca LXT-series mono recordings such as LXT 5112
(Mozart Divertimento No 15 in B Flat Major), LXT 5459 (Highlights
from Le Nozze Di Figaro) and lXT 5443 (Highlights from Don
Giovanni), examples of other mono recordings such as Columbia
33CX 1231 (Maria Callas sings Operatic Arias) and some from the
popular ALP-series on the HMV label (ALP 1854, 1794, 1678, 1846,
1743, 1731, etc), some records on the collectible Lyrita label,
together with other good quality and interesting recordings such
as Nimbus 2117 (Christian Hocks on Cello and Martin Jones on Piano
playing Zoltan Kodaly and Frank Bridge sonatas) and Qualiton LPX
11426-27 (Haydn: Six Sonatas for Violin and Viola with Denes Kovacs
on Violin and Geza Nemeth on Viola), the majority of these records
would appear to be in very good or excellent condition
412* Classical Records/Box Sets. A collection of 41 classical
record box sets covering many of the popular composers,
conductors, orchestras and musicians, including The Complete
Haydn Piano Sonatas (Volumes 1 to 5) with John McCabe on Piano
(5 stereo box sets with 16 LPs, Decca 1HDN100/2, 2HDN103/5,
3HDN106/8, 4HDN109/11, 5HDN112/15), Mahler: The Nine
Symphonies with Sir Georg Solti conducting the LSO (3 stereo box
sets with 15 LPs, Decca 7BB 173/177, 7BB 178/182, 7BB 183/187),
Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos with Arthur Grumiaux on Violin and
Sir Colin Davis conducting the LSO (3-LP, Philips 6768 365), Bach:
Yehudi Menuhin Plays the Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas and
Partitas (3-LP, HMV SLS 5045), Beethoven: The Five Piano
Concertos with Vladimir Ashkenazy on Piano and Sir Georg Solti
conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (4-LP, Decca SXLG
6594-7), Puccini: Madama Butterfly with Mirella Freni, Luciano
Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig and Robert Kerns and Herbert von
Karajan conducting the VPO (3-LP, Decca Stereo SET 584/6),
Schumann: The Four Symphonies with Bernard Haitink conducting
the Concertgebouw Orchestra (3-LP, Philips 412 852-1), together
with many other good quality box sets, the majority of records
would appear to be in very good or excellent condition
(2 cartons)
(a carton)
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£300-400
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£100-200
413 Classical Records. A collection of approximately 100 classical
records / LP’s, including some from the popular Decca SXL-series
and HMV ASD-series such as Handel: Twelve Grand Concertos with
The Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Neville
Marriner (Volumes I, II and III, Decca SXL 6369-71), Handel:
Overtures & Sinfonias with Richard Bonynge conducting the English
Chamber Orchestra (Decca SXL 6360), Wagner: Das Rheingold with
Georg Solti conducting the VPO (Decca 4-LP box SET 382/4),
Jacqueline Du Pre playing the Elgar Cello Concerto and Janet
Baker performing Sea Pictures with the LSO conducted by Sir John
Barbirolli (HMV ASD 655), Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Two
Pianos and Orchestra and Symphony No 8 with Vronsky and Babin
playing and Sir Adrian Boult conducting the LPO (HMV ASD 2469),
other HMV records such as ASD 521, ASD 2494, ASD 2474, ASD 3326,
ASD 2501, together with other quality records by popular
composers and musicians on record labels such as Deutsche
Grammophon, Supraphon, Heliodor, Philips and others, the
majority of records would appear to be in very good condition
(a carton)
414* Classical Records. A collection of approximately 320 classical
records and 16 box sets by the popular composers, conductors,
orchestras, musicians and vocalists, including some TAS-listed titles
such as Pineapple Poll (ballet) by Sir Arthur Sullivan with Charles
Mackerras conducting the RPO (HMV CSD 1399, first pressing with
gold/green rim), Vaughan Williams: JOB - A Masque for Dancing with
Sir Adrian Boult conducting the LSO (HMV ASD 2673), Gustav Holst:
Savitri, a Chamber Opera in One Act and Choral Hymns from the
RIG VEDA with Janet Baker and Robert Tear (Argo ZNF 6) and Dance
Music from the Time of Praetorius (Archiv / DGG 198166), about 25
records on the Deutsche Grammophon label such as Lieder von
Richard Strauss with Soprano Evelyn Lear and Erik Werba on piano
(DGG 138910 SLPM red stereo) plus others from the 138xxx and 139xxx
series, many records from the popular Decca SXL-series such as
Mozart: Horn Concertos 1-4 with Barry Tuckwell and Peter Maag
conducting the LSO (Decca SXL 6108, Wbg ED2) plus others such as
SXL 6237, 6328, 6332, 6383, 6431, 6526, 6578, 6619, 6692, 6795, 6923
and SET 301 & 356, Mozart: Symphony No 28 & 29 with Peter Maag
conducting L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Decca LXT 2840
mono, no stereo exists of this recording), T.S. Eliot reads Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (Argo oval RG 116), many examples
from the popular HMV ASD-series such as ASD 299, 388, 481, 540,
592, 655, 2329, 2358, 2437, 2857, 3431, 3896 and others, collectible
artists such as David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin and Maria Callas, a
small quantity of choral / organ music, plus many good quality
recordings on other popular record labels, the majority of these
records would appear to be in very good condition
£70-100
(3 cartons)
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£200-300
ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE & SCIENCE
Including Heraldry from the Library of Major Antony Tavener
416 Ashmole (Elias). The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the
most Noble Order of the Garter, 1st edition, printed by J. Macock,
Nathanel Brooke, 1672, [12], 130, 135-136, 149-720, [105]pp.,
preliminary license-to-print leaf present, title in red and black,
engraved portrait of Charles II by William Sherwin (not present in
all copies), and thirty-six engraved plates (including 16 double page
& 5 single-page with armorials printed to both sides), many by
Wenceslaus Hollar, engraved illustrations to text, final errata leaf
present, blind stamp to title, ink stamp to upper margin of license
leaf, verso of title and plates and one or two other leaves of text
(mostly faint), few short closed tears mostly to margins, occasional
dampstains, contemporary signature of Robert Clayton to front
free endpaper and armorial bookplate of ‘Sir Robert Clayton of the
City of London Knight Alderman & Mayor thereof Ano. 1679’, and
with partially removed 20th century bookplate, hinges repaired,
contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving original spine and
morocco title label to spine, corners repaired, folio
Wing A3983, ESTC R225555 (calls for 34 leaves of plates). This volume
appears to be the reissue, with pp.717-719 reset and various mispaginations
corrected, of the 719p. edition. Includes the double-page fireworks plate.
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£300-500
417 Badham (Charles David). A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses
of England..., 1st edition, Reeve, Brothers, 1847, twenty-one
lithographed plates (mostly hand-finished chromolithographs), ex
libris, with oval ink stamp at head of title and on reverse of plates,
light toning and occasional marks, library ink stamps on front
endpapers,
hinges
repaired,
rough-trimmed,
original
blindstamped brown cloth gilt, rebacked, preserving original spine,
spine and corners rubbed, tall 4to, together with Alison (William
Pulteney), Observations on the Famine of 1846-7, in the Highlands
of Scotland and in Ireland, as Illustrating the Connection of the
Principle of Population with the Management of the Poor, 1st
edition, William Blackwood, 1847, half-title and final page toned,
20th century red half morocco, slim 8vo, plus Cambrensis
(Giraldus, pseudonym), Proposals for Enriching the Principality of
Wales: Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of his Countrymen,
2nd edition, Glocester: printed by R. Raikes, for the Author, 1762,
faint stain to title, loosely contained in modern wrappers, slim 8vo
in 4s, plus thirty-eight others relating to plants, nutrition, cookery,
etc., 19th and 20th century
415 Accum (Fredrick). A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from
Native Fruits; Exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the
Art of Wine Making Depends; The Fruits Best Adapted for Home
made Wines, and the Method of Preparing Them, 1st edition, 1820,
title with hand-coloured engraved vignette, half-title, publishers
catalogue at rear (containing several reviews of Accum’s Treatise
on Adulterations of Food), front hinge splitting after endpapers,
contemporary quarter green morocco with gilt-lettered spine,
rubbed and some wear to spine ends, 8vo, together with
Morewood (Samuel), An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of
Both Ancients and Moderns in the use of Inebriating Liquors.
Interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes..., with an Historical View
of the Extent and Practice of Distillation..., by Samuel Morewood,
Surveyor of Excise, 1st edition, 1824, embossed stamps of ‘H.M.
Board of Customs & Excise Library’, with accompanying ink number,
to upper outer corners of first four leaves, preliminary blank (toned)
with 19th century armorial bookplate of Stephen Dowell (1833-1898)
and ink inscription ‘Presented to the Inland Revenue Library April
1896’, boards lacking, spine intact with some wear, 8vo
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Lot 419
418 Barclay (Robert). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity,
as the same is held forth, and Preached, by the People Called, in
Scorn, Quakers..., 6th English edition, 1736, 8 pp. publisher’s
adverts at rear, some old damp staining including resultant purple
mark to some fore-edges, old sellotape adhesion remains to titlepage, armorial bookplate of Honorable Alexander Hume
Campbell to front pastedown, contemporary calf, worn, upper
cover detached, 8vo, together with two contemporary (?)copy
letters, the first from George Whitehead to Robert Barclay
[presumably the eldest son of Robert, also Robert Barclay, 16721747, who succeeded to Ury on the death of his father], dated at
London, 15 October 1713, 3 pp., docketed ‘concerning the
affirmation’, the second being Robert Barclay’s answer to George
Whitehead, Ury, 5 November 1713, a long two-page letter written
across the whole width of the paper and seemingly in the same
hand as the first letter, both a little spotted and soiled and a few
minor fold splits, folio
419 Bentham (Jeremy). Chrestomathia: being a Collection of
Papers, explanatory of the Design of an Institution...for the Use of
the Middling and Higher Ranks in Life, 2 part in one, 1st collected
edition, printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss, 1816-1817, half-title
present, part 2 title ‘Chrestomathia; part II... being an Essay on
Nomenclature and Classification; including a Critical Examination
of the Encyclopedical Table of Lord Bacon...’, five folding letterpress
tables, final leaf of first part (H1) with short closed tear to upper
blank margin, occasional spotting, front pastedown with bookplate
of Armorer Donkin, engraved by Thomas Bewick, front free
endpaper with small bookbinder’s ticket: Lubbock Bookbinder
St.N.C.Yd. Newcastle, marbled endpapers and edges,
contemporary green calf, gilt and blind decorated, front board
detached, spine and edges toned to brown, slightly rubbed &
marked, 8vo
Armorer Donkin (1779-1851) was a Newcastle solicitor. In this work Bentham
proposes not only that suitable secondary education should be extended
to include the ‘middling’ classes, but he also emphasises the teaching of
science and reduces the importance of Latin and Greek.
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£300-400
Though both letters are apparently signed, both appear to be in an identical
hand, though whether either is known or published previously has not been
ascertained. George Whitehead (1637-1724) was a Quaker leader and writer
who addressed successive monarchs on behalf of the Friends.
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£200-300
420 Bentham (Jeremy). The Book of Fallacies: from Unfinished
Papers... by a Friend, 1st edition, 1824, scattered spotting, foreedge and tail untrimmed, contemporary boards, lightly rubbed &
marked, front cover with small stain to lower right corner, together
with another copy of the same, scattered spotting, modern quarter
calf, gilt lettered spine label, plus Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in
the form of a Catechism..., 2nd edition, with Notes and Alterations,
1818, including ‘A Sketch of the Various Proposals for a Constitutional
Reform... drawn up by Mr. Meadly...1812’, minimal spotting, B1 with
small hole affecting a couple of letters on each side, front
pastedown with light staining and surface loss, contemporary half
calf, antique-style reback, original spine label relaid, all 8vo
The ‘friend’ who edited Bentham’s unfinished manuscripts for ‘The Book
of Fallacies’ was Peregrine Bingham the younger, one of the contributors
to the ‘Westminster Review’ and a legal reformer.
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£200-300
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Lot 422
421 Berkeley (George). A Treatise Concerning the Principles of
Human Knowledge..., to which are added Three Dialogues
between Hylas and Philonous..., 1st collected edition, printed for
Jacob Tonson, 1734, separate title to part 2, some spotting and
occasional toning, later half sheep, red calf title label to spine,
marbled sides a little worn, 8vo
423 Boyle (Francis, 1st Viscount Shannon). Discourses Useful for
the Vain Modish Ladies and their Gallants..., 2 parts in one, 1st
edition, printed for J. Taylor, 1696, title, a8, a1 (contents leaf), BD8, E6, A-M8, N4, a few marks, A2, A7 & A8 close-trimmed at tail
with some loss of catchwords and signature, hinges strengthened,
contemporary mottled calf with red morocco label to spine, a little
rubbed, 8vo
First collected edition, and second edition of the Treatise (1st edition 1710);
third edition of the Dialogues (1st edition 1713).
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£300-400
ESTC R222490; Wing S2963A.
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422 [Berkeley, George]. Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher. In
Seven Dialogues, Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion,
against those who are called Free-Thinkers, 2 volumes, 1st edition,
printed for J. Tonson, 1732, engraved vignette to both titles, each
title with old ownership inscription to upper blank margin,
contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, a little marked & worn,
spines darkened and somewhat worn with loss of three endcaps,
volume one joints split, front board loose, 8vo, together with Hume
(David), Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 volumes, New
Edition, printed for T. Cadell, 1784, scattered spotting mainly
affecting first and last few leaves, volume two with ink ownership
inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary marbled calf, gilt
spines with contrasting labels, spines somewhat rubbed & worn
with losses to endcaps, volume one with corner of title label
deficient (clipping one letter) and slight split to spine, three joints
split, corresponding boards loose, 8vo
ESTC T86056 and T33495 respectively.
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Lot 423
£300-500
424 Boyle (Robert). A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing.
And a Dissuasive from Cursing, 1st edition, R.R. for Thomas
Cockerill, 1695, without portrait frontispiece, 18th century book
label J. Jones pasted to verso of title, later calf, 8vo, together with
Bordelon [Laurent], The Management of the Tongue. Under these
following Heads. 1 Of Conversation. 2 The Babbler. 3 The Silent
Man. 4 The witty Man. 5 The Droll. 6 The Jester. 7 The Disputer. 8
The Opiniater. 9 The Heedless and Inconsiderate Man. 10 The
Complimenter. 11 The Man, who praises others. 12 The Flatterer. 13
The Lyar. 14 The Boaster. 15 The Ill Tongue. 16 The Swearer. 17 The
Promiser. 18 The Novelist. 19 The Tale-Bearer. 20 The Adviser. 21
The Reprover. 22 The Instructer. 23 The Man, who trusts others,
or is trusted with a Secret. 24 The Tongue of Women. 25 The
Language of Love. 26 The Complaining Man. 27 The Comforter.
Done out of French, London: D. Leach for H. Rhodes, 1706,
annotation at foot of title, contemporary panelled calf, gilt
decorated spine lacking title label, joints cracked, worn at head &
foot of spine and to board corners, 8vo
£200-400
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£150-200
425 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Don Juan, Cantos I-XVI,
mixed editions, 2 volumes, 1820-24, Cantos I-V new edition, Cantos
VI-XVI 1st editions, half titles for each part, a few spots, contemporary
diced calf, spines labelled ‘Lord Byron’s Poems’ and ‘Vol. IX & X’,
volume IX upper joint cracking with wormtrack at foot, 8vo
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£100-150
426 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The History of the
Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641, 3
volumes, mixed editions, Oxford, 1707 (vol. 1), 1704 (vols. 2 & 3),
half-title and engraved portrait frontispiece to each, engraved
vignette to title-page of each, decorative head & tailpieces,
marbled endpapers with later maroon bookcloth hinges,
contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated
spines, boards with blind & double gilt line decoration to borders,
gilt embossed armorial of Newstead Abbey to centre of each
board, some darkening to spines and boards, folio
428 Dallaway (James). Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the
Science of Heraldry in England. With Explanatory Observations on
Armorial Ensigns, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Gloucester, 1793,
engraved title with oval aquatint vignette, large engraved armorial
to dedication leaf, 27 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured,
folding pedigree, several engraved illustrations to text, some
spotting to title and margins to final few leaves, contemporary half
calf, rubbed and some marks, modern good-quality reback, large
4to
The gilt armorial incorporates the monogram of Thomas Wildman (17871859) who had been a schoolfellow at Harrow with Lord Byron, the owner
of Newstead Abbey. Due to financial difficulties Byron had endeavoured to
sell his family home. Wildman purchased the property in 1818. He also
amassed a large collection of Byron memorabilia, including many of his
books. In 1857 Wildman published Newstead Abbey: its present owner [Col.
Thomas Wildman] with reminiscences of Lord Byron.
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£200-300
£150-200
Ex libris Raymond Lister, with bookplate to front pastedown.
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429 [Dring, Thomas]. A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and
Gentlemen that have compounded for their Estates, 1st edition,
London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1655, short closed tear to title
at gutter, lacking final two blank leaves at rear of volume (L7 & L8),
light dust-soiling, minor dampstain to margins of few leaves, 20th
century sheep by the Ancient House Bindery of Ipswich, spine
rubbed and worn, 8vo (Wing D2187, ESTC R20399), together with
Mackenzie (George), The Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland
Farther Cleared and Defended, against the Exceptions lately offerd
by Dr. Stillingfleet, in his Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph...,
London: Joseph Hindmarsh, 1686, lacking geneological table,
spotting throughout, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind
panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, with Heylyn (Peter), A Help to English
History, Containing a Succession of all the Kings of England..., as
also of all the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Bishops thereof..., And
since his Death, continu’d to this present year, 1709. With the
Coats of Arms of the Nobility, Blazond, 1709, woodcut armorials to
text, manuscript notes to endpapers and throughout volume, some
spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary blind panelled speckled
calf, joints cracked, 12mo, plus [Strachey, John], An Index to the
Records, with Directions to the several Places where they are to
be found. And short Explanations of the different kinds of Rolls,
Writs, &c. To which is added, a List of the Latin Sir-Names, and
Names of Places..., 1739, ownership signature to title,
contemporary calf, joints cracked, slight loss at foot of spine, 8vo
427 Commines (Philippe de). Les Memoires de Messire Ph. de
Commines, Chevalier Seigneur d’Argenton, sur les principaux faicts
& gestes de Louys XI. & de Charles VIII. son fils, rois de France. En
ceste derniere edition ont esté corrigees plusieurs fautes
notables, & queleques obmissions..., Paris, Pierre Le-Mur, 1615,
title with engraved coat-of-arms, woodcut initials, etc., light
waterstain towards front of volume, contemporary full vellum, worn
with a little loss, mainly to spine and upper cover, folio
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£100-150
(4)
£200-300
430 Dutens (Louis). Oeuvres Melees, 2 parts in 1 volume, printed
by W. & C. Spilsbury, Snow-Hill, 1797, half-titles, folding table, final
errata leaf, engraved vignette bookplate showing Aldenham Abbey
with shelf mark, contemporary tree calf gilt, gilt-decorated spine
with red leather label, arms of William Stuart of Aldenham Abbey
in gilt on covers, a little wear to extremities, 4to
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Lot 428
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432 Froissart (Sir John). Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and
the Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward
II. To the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French
edition... by Thomas Johnes, 2 volumes, Routledge, 1868,
chromolithograph frontispieces, additional titles and plates, all
edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco, gilt decorated spines,
4to, together with Darwin (Erasmus), The Botanic Garden; a Poem
in Two Parts. Part I Containing the Economy of Vegetation, Part II
the Loves of the Plants, with Philosophical Notes, 2nd & 3rd
editions, 1791, engraved frontispiece to each part and 18 plates
(including ‘Fertilisation of Egypt’ by William Blake), occasional
spotting, offsetting and staining, modern dark brown morocco, 4to,
with [Huddesford, George], Salmagundi; a Miscellaneous
Combination of Original Poetry: Consisting of Illustions of Fancy...,
1791, additional engraved title with ink monogram & crest at foot,
scattered spotting, near contemporary half calf, spine faded, slim
4to, plus Cowley (Abraham), The Works of Abraham Cawley, 4th
edition, 1674, engraved portrait frontispiece, smudged armorial
ink stamp to page 1 (D1), contemporary ownership inscriptions to
front blank of Rachel Bradshaigh 1679 & 1700 (paper repairs to foremargin), recent endpapers, contemporary blind panelled calf,
modern reback and corner repairs, folio
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£200-300
433 Giles (Herbert Allen). A Chinese-English Dictionary, 1st
edition, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yokohama & Singapore,
1892, ends p. 1354 (Yun) and lacking pp. 1355-1415 (including Index
of the radicals), pp. 1387-1415 separately bound, contemporary half
calf, rubbed and marked, spine labels defective, thick 4to
This was the first Chinese-English encyclopedic dictionary containing over
13, 000 Chinese character head entries arranged in the Wade-Giles system.
(1)
£100-150
434 Glanvill (Joseph). Essays on Several Important Subjects in
Philosophy and Religion, 1st edition, Printed by J.D. for John Baker
& Henry Mortlock, 1676, few marks to margins, Large Paper copy
on thicker paper, contemporary calf, rebacked, board corners
rubbed and showing, 4to, together with Plus Ultra: or, the Progress
and Advancement of Knowledge Since the Days of Aristotle. In an
Account of some of the most Remarkable Late Improvements of
Practical, Useful Learning: To Encourage Philosophical Endeavours.
Occasioned by a Conference with one of the Notional Way, 1st
edition, James Collins, 1668, imprimatur leaf present, short
repaired closed-tear to E8, some worm trails mostly to upper
margins, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo, with A Praefatory
Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, The Doctor of Warwick. Wherein the
Malignity, Hypocrisie, Falshood of his Temper, Pretences, Reports,
and the Impertinency of his Arguings & Quotations in his
Animadversions on Plus Ultra, are discovered, 1st edition, A. Clark
for J. Collins, 1671, some dust-soiling & spotting, hinges repaired,
contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus Two Choice and
Useful Treatises: the One Lux Orientalis; or an Enquiry into the
Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Praeexistence of
Souls. Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of Providence. In
Relation to Mans Sin and Misery. The Other, a Discourse of Truth,
by the late Reverend Dr. Rust Lord Bishop of Dromore in Ireland.
With Annotations on them both, 1st edition, James Collins & Sam.
Lowndes, 1682, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with
small repaired hole at foot, neat repair to fore-edge margin of final
leaf of dedication, some dust-soiling and few dampstains, hinges
repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo
431 Evelyn (John). Fumifugium: or The Inconvenience of the Aer,
and Smoak of London Dissipated. Together with some Remedies
Humbly Proposed..., 1st edition, first issue, printed by W. Godbid
for Gabriel Bedel and Thomas Collins, 1661, [xii], 26pp., first issue
with ‘Published by His Majesties Command’ on title-page, leaf A3
with long diagonal repaired closed tear, some toning and
occasional spotting, close-trimmed at head with some loss of
running titles, without the final blank (as usual), bound with modern
blank leaves at rear, modern blind panelled calf, small 4to
Keynes, Evelyn Bibliography, 23; Wing E3488. Rare first edition of the first
English book on pollution and town planning. John Evelyn advocates the
relocation of some of the more harmful of London’s industries, including
brewing, dying and lime-burning, as well as the planting of trees to remedy
the city’s failing air quality.
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£400-600
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£300-500
437 Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... to which is added, a
Treatise of Honour, Military and Civil ..., 6th edition, with large
additions, 1724, title printed in red & black, 17 engraved portrait
plates and 48 engraved armorial plates (including frontispiece of
the Royal Arms installed at front of chapter on the King), numerous
woodcut armorial shields to text (one or two neatly handcoloured), occasional spotting, browning & dust-soiling, later
endpapers, hinges split, contemporary calf, rebacked, board
edges and corners worn & showing, rubbed, folio
Moule CCCCLXXV, ESTC T140947.
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£200-300
438 Hales (Stephen). Philosophical Experiments: Containing
Useful, and Necessary Instructions for such as undertake long
Voyages at Sea. Shewing how Sea-Water may be made Fresh and
Wholsome..., How Biscuit, Corn, &c. may be secured from the
Weevel, Meggots, and other Insects. And Flesh preserv’d in hot
Climates, by Salting Animals whole..., 1739, half title present, one
engraved plate, advert leaf at rear, light dampstain at rear,
contemporary calf, joints cracked, title label lacking, 8vo, together
with King (John), An Essay on Hot and Cold Bathing, 1737, engraved
frontispiece with repaired closed tear, repair to title fore margin,
some browning and spotting mostly to margins, 20th century
boards, joints cracked and loss at head & foot of spine, 8vo, with
Smith (Hugh), A Treatise on the Use and Abuse of Mineral Waters:
Also Rules necessary to be observed by Invalids who visit the
Chalybeate Springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together
with some Remarks on the immoderate use of Sea Water, London:
Printed for the Author, [1776], 24pp., scattered spotting, disbound
8vo, plus two others similar, both disbound
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£200-300
435 [Glover, Robert]. Nobilitas Politica vel Civilis. Personas scilicet
Distinguendi, et ae origine inter Gentes, ex Principum gratia
nobilitandi Forma...., Quo tandem & apud Anglos, qui sint Nobilium
Gradus, & quae ad Nobilitatis Fastigia euehendi Ratio, oftenditur,
1st edition, London: William Jaggard, 1608, [8], 110, [2], 111-190pp.,
initial blank present, printer’s woodcut device to title, nine
engraved illustrations (some full-page, including one folding),
decorative woodcut initials, bound without final leaf S1 “Nobilitatis
politicae origo” and final blank S2, ink stamp Bibliotheca Hereiana
to front free endpaper, bookplate removed from upper pastedown,
contemporary vellum, slim folio
STC 11922, S111376.
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£300-400
436 Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... to which is added, a
Treatise of Honour, Military and Civil ..., 6th ed., with large
additions, 1724, frontispiece lacking, title printed in red & black
with signature ‘T. Wemyss, 1792’ (lined to verso), 17 engraved
portrait plates and 47 engraved armorial plates, numerous
woodcut armorial shields to text (one or two neatly handcoloured), occasional dust & finger soiling, few marks & marginal
dampstaining, some repairs to margins, first & last few leaves
detached, armorial bookplate of Edward Swynfen Jervis (1815-1896)
of Aston Hall, Staffordshire contemporary calf, boards detached,
worn, folio (Moule CCCCLXXV), together with Strutt (Joseph), Horda
Angel-cynnan: or, a Compleat View of the Manners, Customs,
Arms, Habits, &c. of the Inhabitants of England, from the Arrival
of the Saxons, till the Reign of Henry the Eighth. With a Short
Account of the Britons, during the Government of the Romans,
volumes 1 & 2 (of 3), London: Sold by Benjamin White, 1775, 128
engraved sepia plates, errata slip present in volume 2,
contemporary calf, contrasting morocco labels to spines, joints
slightly cracked, 4to, contained together in slipcase
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439 Herodotus. Historiarum libri IX, edited by Henri II Estienne,
Frankfurt: Marnius & Aubrius, 1608, woodcut device on title and on
final blank recto, Greek and Latin double-column text, title-page
slightly browned, a little browning and old damp stain to lower
outer corner of early leaves, upper hinges cracked, contemporary
vellum with blind-stamped arabesque to covers and leather label
to spine, slightly rubbed and soiled, wear to head of spine and
upper joint cracked, lacks ties, folio
£150-250
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£200-300
440 [Hicks, George]. Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano
Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta, Oxford: E Theatro
Sheldoniano, 1711, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red
& black with engraved illustration, errata slip pasted to rear free
endpaper, contemporary decorative paper covered boards, upper
joint split and spine a little torn, worn, slim 8vo (ESTC T109106),
together with [Cottonian Library], A Report from the Committee
Appointed to View the Cottonian Library, and such of the Publick
Records of this Kingdom, as they think proper, and to Report to
the House the Condition thereof..., [1732], drop title, edges
untrimmed, 20th century quarter reversed calf, marbled boards
with vellum tipped corners, red morocco title label, folio, with
Henshall (Samuel), The Saxon and English Languages Reciprocally
Illustrative of each other; the Impracticability of Aquiring an
Accurate Knowledge of Saxon Literature, though the Medium of
Latin Phraseology, Exemplified in the Errors of Hickes, Wilkins,
Gibson, and other Scholars, and a New Mode Suggested of
Radically Studying the Saxon and English Languages, London:
Printed for the Author, 1798, advertisement leaf before title, some
dust-soiling and spotting, edges untrimmed, original wrappers
(detached), stitched as issued, slim 4to, plus one other early 20th
century related pamphlet
443 [Johnstone, Christian Isobel]. The Cook and Housewife’s
Manual: a Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and
Family Management..., by Mistress Margaret Dods, 4th edition,
revised and enlarged, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1829, a few spots
and light finger-soiling, small water stain to some lower blank
corners, hinges split, contemporary half calf gilt, a little faded and
marked, extremities worn, 12mo, together with The Housekeeper’s
Receipt-Book, or, the Repository of Domestic Knowledge;
Containing a Complete System of House-keeping, formed upon
Principles of Experience and Economy and Adapted to General
Use..., published by the Editor, 1815, five engraved plates (of seven)
including frontispiece, some damp staining towards head, affecting
plates, lacking pp.161-168, front pastedown with early ink ownership
inscriptions including ‘Mr Wm Gosling died 24th November 1858’,
contemporary speckled and flecked sheep, front cover detached,
rear joint split, rubbed and some wear, 8vo, plus two others
related: Hints for the Table: or the Economy of Good Living. with a
Few Words on Wines by [John Timbs], 2nd edition, 1859, original
blind-stamped cloth, decorative gilt-stamped title to front cover,
8vo; The General Receipt Book, containing an Extensive Collection
of Valuable Receipts, connected with Domestic Economy by James
Laughton, 1849, disbound, 12mo
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£200-300
£100-150
441 Hume (David). Exposé Succinct de la Contestation qui s’est
élevée entre M. Hume, et M. Rousseau, avec les pieces
Justificatives, 1st edition, a Londres, 1766, title with decorative
vignette in the shape of a stemless goblet, untrimmed, original
wrappers, spine with losses, tall 12mo
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£150-200
442 Jacobite Rebellion. The History of the Late Rebellion; Raisd
against His Majesty King George, by the friends of the Popish
Pretender..., By a lover of the prosperity and peace of GreatBritain [Peter Rae], Drumfries: printed by Robert Rae, and sold by
him, and by Mr. John Martin in the Parliament Closs, Edinburgh,
John Wilson in Glasgow, Bailie Duncan in Kilmarnock, and other
Booksellers, 1718, title torn with loss of letterpress (repaired and
loss provided in manuscript), battle diagram illustration, leaf U3 &
2S3 torn to lower outer blank margins, few annotations, some
toning, dust-soiling spotting and marks, early 19th century half calf,
lacking title label, boards detached and worn, 4to (ESTC T93987),
together with Patten (Robert), The History of the Late Rebellion:
with Original Papers, and Characters of the Principal Noblemen
and Gentlemen Concern’d in it, 2nd edition, with large additions,
1717, contemporary speckled calf, lacking title label, joints cracked,
and some wear, 8vo
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£100-150
Lot 444
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444 [Law, John & others]. Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid,
Vertoonende de Opkomst, Voortgang en Ondergang der Actie,
Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden,
Gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX. Zynde een Verzameling van alle
de Conditien en Projecten van de Opgeregte Compagnien... in
Nederland... Als meede Konst-plaaten, Comedien en Gedigten...,
[Amsterdam], 1720, folding engraved frontispiece, (torn along
gutter margin and closed tear), title printed in red & black,
seventy-one engraved plates, maps & plans only of 74? (including
some folding & double-page, some with letterpress), some
remounted and lined to verso, one double-page plate detached &
torn with major loss, few other leaves & plates with closed tears
etc., occasional spotting and some marginal dust-soiling,
contemporary gilt panelled and decorated mottled calf, joints
cracked and torn at head & foot of spine, board corners worn &
showing, folio
445 [Locke, John]. A Letter Concerning Toleration. Licensed,
Octob 3. 1689. The Second Edition Corrected, printed for
Awnsham Churchill, 1690, a little dust-soiling, double rule at foot
of title trimmed, split to upper margin of front free endpaper,
contemporary calf gilt, rubbed and slight wear to joints, 12mo (129
x 79mm)
The first of four essays, this first essay was published in Latin in 1689 and
then later the same year in an English translation by William Popple. The
Letters on Tolerance ‘combine with the Treatises of Government to provide
a classic example of empirical approach to social and political economy
which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy’
(PMM, p. 98). Wing L2748; Yolton 4.
(1)
£1000-1500
446 Machiavelli (Niccolo). The Works of the Famous Nicholas
Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in
Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into
English, London: John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery,
1680, erratic pagination, light dust-soiling & few marks,
contemporary calf, remnants of paper label to spine, joints
cracked, rubbed & worn, folio
Contains various pieces in prose and verse on the financial transactions of
John Law and others, brought together under a general title page. Sabin
28932; Kress 3217. Sabin states that the complement of plates ranges from
60 to 74.
(1)
£700-1000
Wing M129, ESTC R13145.
(1)
£400-600
447 Mackenzie (George). Observations Upon the Laws and
Customs of Nations, as to Precedency, Edinburgh: Printed by the
Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1680, [18], 92, 89-92pp., upper margin
of title with early 18th century signature of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729)
as Norroy King of Arms, errata leaf & ‘Advertisement from the
author, to be subjoyned to the third chapter of the precedency’
present, lacking portrait frontispiece, bound with The Science of
Herauldry, Treated as a part of the Civil Law, and Law of Nations:
Wherein Reasons are given for its Principles, and Etymologies for
its harder Terms, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew
Anderson, 1680, additional engraved title (slightly cropped),
twenty-four engraved plates only (of 30), two plates trimmed to
image and laid down, M2 torn with loss and closed tear to Z1,
copious manuscript annotations throughout both works in Peter Le
Neve’s hand, some soiling, browning, dampstaining and marks,
occasional fraying & wear to margins, 19th century bookplate of
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843, 6th son of George
III), 20th century half morocco, faded, small folio
Wing M186 & M204.
(1)
£300-500
448 Mandeville (Bernard de). Free Thoughts on Religion, The
Church, and National Happiness, 1st edition, Printed and sold by
T. Jauncy & J. Roberts, 1720, light toning & spotting, modern
panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label,
8vo, together with An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the
Usefulness of Christianity in War, London: John Brotherton, 1732,
browning to endpapers, hinges repaired, contemporary panelled
calf, neatly rebacked, morocco title label, 8vo, with The Fable of
the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on
Charity and Charity-Schools. And a Search into the Nature of
Society, 2 volumes, 6th edition, 1732, scattered spotting,
contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco
labels (one deficient), joints cracked and some wear, 8vo
(4)
£300-400
449 Martin (John, illustrator). The Paradise Lost of Milton, volume
2 (of 2) only, 1827, half-title, 9 (of 10) mezzotint plates, some
browning, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated morocco,
slightly rubbed and faded, large 8vo
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115
£150-200
451 Meyrick (Samuel Rush). A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour,
as it Existed in Europe..., 3 volumes, 1824, half-titles, additional
engraved titles, 80 engraved plates (70 hand-coloured),
(occasional offsetting), 19 hand-coloured initials, some spotting
throughout, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, contemporary red
half calf gilt over cloth, all heavily rubbed with some slight wear,
rebacked with original spines relaid, folio
450 May (Thomas). A Breviary of the History of the Parliament of
England. Expressed in three Parts: 1. The Causes and Beginnings of
the Civil War of England. 2. A short mention of the Progress of that
Civil War. 3. A compendious Relation of the Original and Progress
of the Second Civil War. First written in Latine, & after into English,
2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Cottrel, for Thomas Brewster,
1655, engraved portrait frontispiece, some dust & finger-soiling,
early 19th century calf, joints split, spine & extremities rubbed &
worn, 8vo (Wing M1396, ESTC R31201), together with Allington (John,
Rector of Uppingham), The Regal Proto-Martyr; or, The Memorial
of the Martyrdom of Charles the First. In a Sermon preached upon
the first Fast of Publick Appointment for it. An Appendix to the
Grand Conspiracy, London: Printed by J.W. for W. Gilbert, 1672,
upper blank margin of A3 torn with repaired closed tear, occasional
light spotting, early 20th century sheep, rebacked, slim 4to (Wing
A1214, ESTC R14382), with English Civil War, An Exact and most
Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and
Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides, the
Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty... begun at Hicks-Hall on
Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660. And continued (at the SessionsHouse in the Old-Bayley) until Friday, the nineteenth of the same
Moneth..., London: Printed for R. Scott, T. Basset, R. Chiswell & J.
Wright, 1679, lacking preliminary imprimatur leaf, spotting and
browning, sewing broken and pages loose with some fraying, later
endpapers, contemporary calf, boards detached lacking spine,
worn, 8vo (Wing N1404, ESTC R17120), plus two others
(5)
(3)
£300-500
452 Milton (John). The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton, 2
volumes, London: Jacob Tonson, 1720, engraved portrait
frontispiece to each volume, engraved vignette to titles, upper
margin of volume 1 title with signature ‘Caroline Walter... 1773’, and
volume 2 title with ‘Ann Dawley her book’, list of subscribers
present, engraved tailpieces, volume 1 with 11 pages of late
18th/early 19th century manuscript and volume 2 with 5 pages of
similar manuscript, being near exact copies of excerpts from
Samuel Johnson’s critical obsevations on Milton’s poetical works
from ‘The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets’ published for C.
Bathurst in 1781 and both bearing the name Dr. Johnson, with
similar marginal notes and annotations throughout (some
manuscript leaves close-trimmed at margins), some scattered
spotting and toning, armorial bookplate of Richard Collyer Andree
to upper pastedowns, near contemporary marbled calf, gilt
decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, gilt decoration
borders to boards, light rubbing & wear, joints a little cracked at
head & foot, 4to
£200-300
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£300-400
453 Miscellaneous antiquarian, 18th & 19th century, mostly
French, German and Latin texts including odd volumes, mostly
small format and leather bound, some rubbing and wear
(approx. 80)
£150-200
454 Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin de). Le Oeuvres, 8 volumes,
new edition, Paris, 1718, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume
1 and few engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf, gilt
decorated spines, small 8vo, together with Demoustier (CharlesAlbert), Lettres a Emilie sur la Mythologie par C.A. Demoustier, 6
volumes in three, Paris, 1819, engraved portrait frontispiece and
numerous plates, scattered spotting, with Cours de Morale et
Opuscules en vers et en prose, Paris, 1804, engraved portrait
frontispiece, scattered spotting and dust-soiling, contemporary
uniform marbled calf, gilt decorated spines, slight wear to
extremities, small 8vo
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£100-150
455 More (Henry). A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity,
the First Part Containing a Careful and Impartial Delineation of the
True Idea of Antichristianism in the Real and Genuine Members
thereof, such as are Indeed Opposite to the Indispensable
Purposes of the Gospel of Christ, and to the Interest of his
Kingdome, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, printed by J. Flesher for W.
Morden, 1664, imprimatur leaf repaired to upper outer corner, title
printed in red and black, scattered light spotting and some toning,
occasional browning and marginal fraying at head, contemporary
calf, rebacked & corners repaired, joints slightly cracked and
board edges rubbed, folio
Wing M2666.
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
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£200-300
456 Murray (Lindley). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lindley
Murray: In a Series of Letters, Written by Himself, with a Preface,
and a Continuation of the Memoirs, by Elizabeth Frank, York, 1826,
engraved portrait frontispiece (spotted and offset to title),
engraved facsimile plate at rear, 4 pp. publisher’s adverts at front,
occasional spotting, untrimmed, original boards with printed
paper label to spine, soiling and wear, joints cracked, 8vo, together
with an autograph letter signed from John Owen to Lindley Murray,
18 February 1817, thanking him for this Grammar, talking about his
ill health, talking at length about the publication and reception of
his book on the history of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 4
pp. including integral address panel, seal tear, 4to
John Owen (1766-1822), Missionary Society administrator.
(2)
£100-150
457 Newman (Cardinal John Henry). The Dream of Gerontius, 1st
edition, London: Burns, Lambert, and Oates, 1866, 55pp., original
pale yellow chalk glazed endpapers, ownership inscription to front
free endpaper ‘A. Chilton, Sandew Hill, Chislehurst’, label removed
to front pastedown with light skinning, original brown limp cloth gilt,
slightly rubbed to extremities, slim 16mo in 8s, (11.3 x 7.6cm)
Rare.
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£300-500
458 Order of the Garter. The Statutes of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, 1766, two hand-coloured armorial plates, scattered
spotting, armorial bookplate of Edward Duke of Cumberland (17711851) and his ink stamp to title verso, all edges gilt, early 19th
century straight grain navy morocco gilt, slim 4to
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Lot 457
£150-250
459 Pamphlets. An Account of the Late Insurrection in Ireland, in
which is Laid Open, the Secret Correspondence between the
United Irish and the French Government, through Lord E.
Fitzgerald, Mr A O’Connor, J. Quigley, and others, together with a
Short History of the Principal Battles between the King’s Forces
and the Insurgents..., printed and sold by the booksellers, 1798, 24
pp., bound with The Address of the Society of United Irishmen of
Dublin, to the Irish Nation, no plate, publisher or date, [1793?], 12
pp., old brown damp stain to inner margins and the resulting small
paper tears affecting a few printed words but not sense, bound
with [Berry, Edward], An Authentic Narrative of the Proceedings
of the Squadron under Admiral Nelson, from the time it Sailed
from Gibraltar to the Conclusion of the Glorious Battle of the Nile,
2nd edition, with explanatory notes, Huddersfield, 1798, 24 pp.,
some dust-soiling, bound with An Abstract of an Act, to Prevent
Unlawful Combinations amongst Journeymen to Raise Wages, &c,
past the 19th of July 1799, Leeds, [1799?], 12 pp., some spotting and
dust-soiling, old manuscript arithmetic at foot of final page, bound
with Watson (Richard), An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of
Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine..., 7th edition, 1796, 111 pp.,
numerous contemporary ink marginalia and a full-page note to
final blank page (signed ‘M. Husband’) explaining that his belief in
the authenticity and genuineness of the bible is more fervent than
ever, some spotting and soiling, bound with [Fox, William], A
Summary of the Evidence Produced before a Committee of the
House of Commons, relating to the Slave Trade. The 7th edition...,
1792, drop-head title, 8 pp., some soiling, bound with 7 further
pamphlets including 3 plays and 2 further Yorkshire printings, some
occasional soiling or browning and a few repairs, modern half
sheep over marbled boards, rubbed, 8vo
Of the titles listed only that by Watson is located by ESTC (N30105).
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Lot 459
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Lot 464
460 Peacham (Henry). The Compleat Gentleman. Fashioning him
absolut, in the most necessary and commendable Qualities
concerning Minde or Body, that may be required in a Noble
Gentleman. Whereunto is Annexed a Description of the order of a
Maine Battaile or Pitched Field, eight severall wayes: with the Art
of Limming and other Additions newly Enlarged, 2 parts in one,
2nd edition (1st complete edition), Francis Constable, 1634,
additional engraved title (trimmed to plate mark and remargined,
early signatures & few old ink marks), first title with ink trails &
overwriting, woodcut armorial illustrations etc., early signature of
various owners to four blank fore-margins, some dust-soiling,
toning and light dampstaining, 18th century speckled calf,
sympathetically rebacked, preserving red morocco title label,
corners repaired, small 4to
462 Priestley (Joseph). Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To
which is added, the History of the Philosophical Doctrine concerning
the Origin of the Soul, and the Nature of Matter; with its Influence on
Christianity, especially with Respect to the Doctrine of the Preexistence of Christ, 1st edition, 1777, engraved frontispiece, errata
present, contemporary calf, lacking title label, joints slightly cracked,
8vo, together with A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism,
and Philosophical Necessity, in a Correspondence between Dr. Price,
and Dr. Priestley. To which are added, by Dr. Priestley, an Introduction,
Explaining the Nature of the Controversy, and Letters to several
Writers who have animadverted on his Disquistions Relating to Matter
and Spirit, or his Treatise on Necessity, 1778, inscript at head of title
rubbed through, occasional light spotting, contemporary marbled
boards with modern calf spine, morocco title label, 8vo, with The
Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated; being an Appendix to
the Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is added an
Answer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hatrtley’s Theory of the
Mind, 1777, scattered spotting, recent endpapers, contemporary calf,
rebacked, 8vo, and Miscellaneous Obsevations Relating to Education.
More especially, as it respects the Conduct of the Mind. To which is
added, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Eduction for Civil and Active
Life, Bath: R. Cruttwell for J. Johnson, 1778, manuscript date written
to lower blank margin of title, half-title discarded and lacking final
advert leaf at rear, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original
spine and red morocco title label, corners repaired, 8vo, plus
Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education. More Especially as
it Respects the Conduct of the Mind, 2nd edition, Birmingham: M.
Swinney for J. Johnson, 1788, two advert leaves at rear, some
spotting, modern calf, 8vo
STC 19504. The first edition to contain ‘The Gentlemans Exercise’ which
was also published separately [STC 19509, the above being the variant ‘J.M.’
imprint]. The first edition appeared in smaller format in 1622, and this 1634
edition is the first to contain the additional material on “limming” or
“drawing and painting in Oyle”.
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£300-400
461 Pope (Thomas). Essays on Several Subjects, 1st edition, 1691,
blank A4 bound as A1, E3 torn to blank fore-edge margin, small burn
mark to C7, browned and spotted, later endpapers, 18th century
calf, modern reback and corners repaired, 8vo (Wing B3348),
together with De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry..., Whether
Ancient or Modern, 1st edition, 1694, toning, spotting and dustsoiling, slight staining to final leaf, later endpapers, contemporary
calf, rebacked, modern title label, 4to (Wing B3347)
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
Lot 465
£150-200
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£400-600
Lot 466
463* Revolving Bookcase. An Edwardian
oak revolving bookcase with hinged
reading stand, encompassing 36 leatherbound volumes of Encyclopaedia
Britannica, on ceramic castors, 89cm high
x 68cm square
(1)
£150-200
464 Salmon (William). Seplasium. The
Compleat English Physician: Or, the
Druggist’s Shop Opened. Explicating all the
Particulars of which Medicines at this day
are Composed and Made... In X. Books, 1st
edition, printed for Matthew Gillflower...
and George Sawbridge, 1693, half-title
with repair to upper right corner, with
associated clipping of word on verso, Lll7
and Sss2 also with small repairs minimally
affecting text, Table of Diseases toned,
some light spotting mainly towards rear,
contemporary calf, rebacked, a little
rubbed, extremities slightly worn, thick 8vo
(ESTC R37144; Waller 8426; Wing S452),
together with Dolæus (John), Systema
Medicinale, A Compleat System of Physick,
Theorical and Practical. In Six Books...
Translated out of Latin into English, 1st
English edition, printed for T. Passinger,
1686, portrait frontispiece, verso of title
with small ink library stamp at foot, section
M misbound, with early ink annotations,
occasional early ink marginalia, modern
half-calf, thick 8vo (Wing D1830A)
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465 Sandford (Francis). A Genealogical
History of the Kings of England, and
Monarchs of Great Britain, &c., from the
Conquest, Anno 1066, to the Year 1677, 1st
edition, printed by Tho. Newcomb, for the
Author, 1677, title printed in red and black,
six engraved plates (5 double-page) and
numerous illustrations (including many
full-page), including some by Wenceslaus
Hollar & Richard Gaywood, woodcut
initials, errata leaf at end, bound with
folding single-sheet broadside before title
‘In Reges Angliae a Gulielmo Primo usque
ad Carolum Secundum Britanniarum
Monarcham Distica, London: apud
Radulphum Needham, 1671’, occasional
spotting mostly to first & last few leaves,
manuscript inscriptions to verso of front
free endpaper ‘bought for 6L (lot 1670) at
the sale of the Stourhead Library at
Sotheby’s - Aug 7th 1883’, armorial
bookplate of John Byram to upper
pastedown, hinges repaired, early 19th
century gilt decorated diced calf, neatly
rebacked preserving original spine, crest
& armorial of the Hoare family to upper &
lower spine compartments, folio
466 Sandford (Francis). The History of the
Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty,
and Most Excellent Monarch, James II...
and His Royal Consort Queen Mary:
Solemnized in the Collegiate Church of St.
Peter in the City of Westminster, Thursday
the 23 of April, Being the Festival of St.
George, in the Year of Our Lord 1685, 1st
edition, [London], In the Savoy: Printed by
Thomas Newcomb, 1687, imprimatur leaf
present (detached), title printed in red and
black with armorial vignette, twenty-one
double-page engraved plates and plans
only (of 30, includes banquet table plan,
but lacking fireworks & banquet plates etc.)
and one single-page plate, some plates &
leaves with tears & repairs, occasional
marks, dampstains, browning & spotting
etc., front free endpaper with signatures of
three Garter King of Arms, Sir Alfred ScottGatty dated Feb 1911, Gerald W. Wollaston
and G.R. Bellew, also with armorial
bookplate of Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty to
upper pastedown, early 19th century half
calf, 20th century paper label to upper
board, lower joint cracked & upper board
detached, worn, folio
Wing S651 (Genealogical History) & Wing I121,
ESTC R221133 (In Reges Angliae).
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£300-500
Wing S652.
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£200-300
467 Selden (John). Titles of Honor, 3rd edition, Carefully
Corrected, with Additions and Amendments by the Author,
London: Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for John Leigh, and are to
be Sold at the Bell, 1672, engraved portrait frontispiece, near
contemporary signature John Blachford to title and oval ink stamp
to fore-margin, few woodcut illustrations, 20th century half calf,
morocco title label to spine, upper joint partly split, spine faded,
folio (Wing S2440, ESTC R22094), together with Dallaway (James),
Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry
in England. With Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns, 2
parts in one, 1st edition, Gloucester: R. Raikes for T. Cadell, 1793,
additional engraved title with aquatint vignette, numerous
engraved plates (some hand-coloured), some dampstaining and
spotting, armorial bookplate of Frank Charles Beazley FSA of
Birenhead 1908, contemporary diced calf, rebacked and corners
repaired, 4to
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472 [Topsell, Edward]. The Reward of Religion. Delivered in Sundrie
Lectures upon the Booke of Ruth..., seene and allowed, printed by
John Windet, 1601, folding table, slight damp fraying to blank inner
margins of final leaves and now partially detached, contemporary
ownership signature of Mary Dickinson to final page (blank), remains
of front endpaper detached and with contemporary ownership
name of Godfrey Youngman, hinges weak, contemporary limp
vellum, rubbed and soiled with small hole to lower cover, 8vo
STC 24129.
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473 Trinder (William Martin). The English Olive-Tree; or, a Treatise
on the Use of Oil and the Air Bath: with Miscellaneous Remarks on
the Prevention and Cure of Various Diseases, Gout, Rheumatism,
Diabetes, &c., 3rd edition, to which are subjoined, Chymical
Experiments on the Barnet Well Water, Herts., printed for the
Author, [1812], half-title present, marbled edges, disbound, slim
8vo, together with Meyer (Henricus), Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis,
de Chlorosi Virginum..., Leiden: Joh. & Herm. Verbeek, 1728,
vignette title-page, preceded by additional engraved title, woodcut
initial letters and head-piece, modern grey wrappers, slim 4to, plus
[Trusler, John], An Easy Way to Prolong Life, By a Little Attention
to What we Eat and Drink..., the fifth edition improved, printed for
the Author, circa 1780, half-title and final (blank) page soiled, some
light spotting and toning, modern wrappers (marked and with slight
loss at head of spine and upper cover), slim 8vo, plus six others
related, including Lectures on Diet and Regimen, by A.F.M. Willich,
3rd edition, 1800, disbound, and Sure Methods of Improving Health
and Prolonging Life, by Thomas John Graham, 1827, original clothbacked boards worn and detached
£200-300
468 Sennert (Daniel). Epitome Naturalis Scientiae, 3rd revised and
corrected edition, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1632, woodcut device to
title and at end of text, final blank present, folding woodcut plate
(a little creased and soiled), closely trimmed at lower margin
occasionally shaving catchwords, some spotting and dust-soiling,
small old damp stain to upper outer corner of early leaves,
contemporary calf, scuffed and soiled, some edge wear, 8vo
STC 22231.
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£100-150
469 Stahl (Daniel ). Regulae Philosophicae sub titulis XXII.
comprehnsae..., 1st edition, published Roger Daniel, 1658, small
brown stain to inner margin of final leaves, early printed leaf used
as endpapers, contemporary calf, soiled, a little wear and joints
cracked, 12mo
Wing S5166.
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£150-200
This book was first published in German in 1834. Hunter & Macalpine, Three
HundredYears of Psychiatry, pp. 687, 849. Elizabeth Hack is probably the
sister of Samuel Tuke, Tuke having married Priscilla Hack, daughter of James
Hack of Chichester in 1810. Samuel Tuke (1784-1857), asylum reformer,
philanthropist and Quaker minister, emphasised that asylum architecture
should provide the facility of inspection for patients and attendants. In
this work he indicates his belief in the overriding importance of 'moral
agency' in the treatment of insanity.
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£500-800
£150-250
471 Taylor (Jeremy). A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of
Ireland, printed at Dublin by John Crook... and reprinted at London
for Tho. Johnson, 1664, imprimatur leaf, light marginal dustsoiling, contemporary sheep, 4to
Wing T320.
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474 [Tuke, Samuel]. On the Construction and Management of
Hospitals for the Insane; with a Particular Notice of the Institution
at Siegburg, by Maximilian Jacobi, Translated by John Kitching,
with Introductory Observations, &c, by Samuel Tuke, 1st English
edition, 1841, 3 folding plates at rear, inscribed to 'Eliz.th Hack
from the Editor, Chichester, 10.11.[18]41', possibly in Samuel Tuke's
hand, original cloth with spine label, rubbed and partly faded,
spine browned and slightly frayed at extremities, 8vo
470 [Stephens, Edward]. Observations upon a Treatise Intituled,
of Humane Reason, 1st edition, 1675, worm holes to lower margins
at gutter, armorial bookplate of Earl of Macclesfield South Library
and first two leaves with blind embossed armorial, contemporary
sheep, spine torn, covers loose, 12mo (Wing S5430. An answer to
Martin Clifford’s Theological ‘Treatise of Humane Reason’, 1674),
together with Longinus (Dionysius), The Works of Dionysius
Longinus, O the Sublime: or, A Treatise Concerning the Sovereign
Perfection of Writing. Translated from the Greek. With some
Remarks on the English Poets, by Mr. Welsted, 1712, light dustsoiling and spotting, bookplate of Earl of Macclesfield North Library
and title & following leaf with blind embossed armorial, hinges
repaired, contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked, recent red
morocco title label, 8vo
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£150-200
£100-150
120
475 Tuke (Samuel). Practical Hints on the Construction and
Economy of Pauper Lunatic Asylums; Including Instructions to the
Architects who Offered Plans for the Wakefield Museum, and a
Sketch of the Most Approved Design, York, 1815, 55 pp., folding
plan, publisher’s advert to final leaf verso, some dust-soiling,
browning and damp staining towards rear, together with Report of
the Committee of Inquiry into the Rules and Management of the
York Lunatic Asylum, York, 1814, 52 pp., some old spotting and
marginal dampstaining, numeric pencil marks to one margin,
original printed wrappers, frayed and soiled with marginal dampstaining, plus [Tuke, Samuel], A Complete Collection of the Papers
Respecting the York Lunatic Asylum, Published Originally in the
York Newspapers, During the Years 1813, 1814, and 1815, York, 1816,
84 pp. including printed wrappers, list of related pamphlets printed
to inside rear wrapper with notice of a newly published work tipped
in, errata to lower wrapper verso, some spotting, all stitched as
issued, slim 8vo, plus two copies of a related printed flyer by
William Tuke, 1813, one page and one page with integral blank, 4to
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£300-500
476 Vincent (Augustine). A Discouerie of Errours in the first Edition
of the Catalogue of Nobility, Published by Raphe Brooke, Yorke
Herald, 1619. And printed heerewith word for word, according to
that Edition. With a Continuance of the Successions, from 1619.
untill this present yeare, 1622. At the end whereof, is annexed a
Review of a later Edition, by him stolne into the world. 1621,
London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1622, woodcut armorial
illustrations throughout, volume interleaved with blanks with early
19th century manuscript annotations and pedigrees, lacking initial
blank and errata leaf at rear, some leaves cropped to running titles
and page numbers, initial leaves creased, stained & soiled, general
spotting, toning and dust-soiling throughout, armorial bookplates
of John Towneley & William Clarke Vincent, 18th century calf,
rebacked, upper board near detached, rubbed & some wear, 4to
(STC 24756), together with an incomplete copy of The Accedence
of Armorie by Gerard Leigh, London: Printed by Richard Tottell, 1591
Lot 474
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477 Wadsworth (James). The Copies of Certaine Letters which
have passed between Spaine and England in matter of Religion.
Concerning the generall Motives to the Romane obedience.
Betweene Master James Wadesworth... and W. Bedell..., 1st
edition, printed by William Stansby, 1624, title page with woodcut
printers device, O2 with small repaired closed tear to blank margin,
T4 & V1 with old ink trials to blank margins, 19th century half
morocco (endpapers renewed), armorial bookplate of ‘F. Arthur
Wadsworth’ to front pastedown, extremities rubbed, small 4to,
together with Watts (Isaac), The Knowledge of the Heavens and the
Earth made easy: or, The First Principles of Astronomy and
Geography Explain’d by the Use of Globes and Maps..., 2nd edition
corrected, printed for J. Clark and R.Hett, 1728, title printed in red
and black, six folding engraved diagrams at rear, some minor
fraying to extreme fore-edges, contemporary calf, somewhat
marked and rubbed, rebacked, 8vo
ESTC S119341 & T81776 respectively.
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Lot 475
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£150-200
478 [Walker, Obadiah]. Of Education. Especially of Young
Gentlemen. In Two Parts, fifth impression, Oxford: Printed at the
Theater for Amos Curteyne, 1687, half-title with early manuscript
ownership, engraved vignette to title, occasional dust-soiling,
contemporary mottled sheep, joints a little cracked, lacking title
label and some loss at head of spine, 12mo, together with Quillet
(Claude), Callipaedia, &c. et Scaevolae Sammarthani
Paedotrophia, 2 parts in one, 1709, lacking final blank, hinges
repaired, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo in 4s, with Shepherd
(W., Joyce, J., Carpenter, Lant), Systematic Education: or,
Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature
and Science; with Practical Rules for Studying each Branch of
useful Knowledge, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, 1822, eight engraved
plates, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary diced calf,
gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, extremities
lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus four other 18th & early 19th century related
pamphlets, including Orders for the Regulating the Sunday School,
held in the Methodists’ Chapel in Howden, 1809, The Village School
Improved..., by John Poole, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1813, and The True
Christian Method of Educating the Children both of the Rich &
Poor..., by Thomas Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1745
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481 William III. An Account of the wicked Design of Poysoning the
Prince of Orange before he came out of Holland. Also a Relation
from the City of Orange of a strange Meteor, representing a Crown
of Light, that was there seen in the Air, May 6th, 1688. In a Letter
from a Gentleman in Amsterdam, to his Friend in London. Octob. I.
1688, 4pp., drop title, lower outer blank corner of A1 torn, colophon
‘printed in the year 1688’, modern calf backed marbled boards, slim
4to (Wing A424A), together with The Prince of Orange His
Declaration: Shewing the Reasons why he Invades England. With a
Short Preface, and some Modest Remarks on It, 1st edition,
London: Randal Taylor, 1688, 32pp., disbound 4to (Wing W2331), with
A Hellish Murder Committed by a French Midwife, on the Body of
her Husband, Jan. 27. 1687/8. For which she was Arraigned at the
Old-Baily, Feb. 22. 1687/8 and Pleaded Guilty. And the Day following
received Sentence to be Burnt, 1st edition, London: R. Sare &
Randal Taylor, 1688, [4], 39, [1]pp., light dust-soiling, disbound 4to
(Wing H1384), plus four other disbound pamphlets published 1688
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ART & ARCHITECTURE
£200-300
479 Ward (William). An Essay on Grammar, as it may be applied to
the English Language. In Two Treatises. The one Speculative..., The
other Practical..., London: Robert Horsfield, 1765, early signature
to title, some dampstaining and spotting, contemporary calf, 4to,
together with [Lily, William], A Short Introduction of Grammar
Generally to be used; Compiled and set forth for the bringing up
of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin
Tongue. To which are added useful Observations by way of
Comment out of ancient and late Grammarians, Oxford: At the
Theater, 1714, engraved frontispiece, early signature to title, bound
with [Lily, William], Brevissima Institutio seu ratio Grammatices
Cognoscendae..., Additis subinde Observationibus utilissimis, ex
Despauterio, Alvaro, Sanctio, Vossio, Busbeio, & quotquot nuper
scripsere, Grammaticis Latinis, quae universam artem
Grammaticam exhauriunt, Oxford: è Theatro Sheldoniano, 1714,
woodcut device to title, contemporary blind panelled calf, 8vo, and
[Lily, William], A Short Introduction to the Latin tongue. First
compiled for the use of the English College at Douay, 17th edition,
1793, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with red
morocco title label, upper joint cracked, slim 12mo in 6s, plus three
other early 19th - early 20th century related
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£200-300
482 Birmingham School of Art. The Torch, A journal produced by
students of the city of Birmingham School of Printing, Nos. 1, 2 &
3, 1933, 1938 & 1950, numerous colour and monochrome and
illustrations, typographic examples, etc, advertising and layout,
etc., including woodcut illustrations by Bernard Sleigh, R.
Thornton and others, all original cloth gilt, very slight rubbed, last
volume faded to spine and with some spotting, folio/4to, together
with a collection of approximately 70 other fine printed books
and pamphlets, all printed by the Birmingham School of Printing,
under the direction of Leonard Jay, circa 1930-50, including The
Song of Songs, translated by Havelock Ellis, decorated by Bernard
Sleigh, 1937, Fourteen Addresses delivered to students of the
Birmingham Municipal School of Art, 1892-1924, 1942, Hero &
Leander by Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rose Thornton and
Ivy Ellis, 1932, Modern Linotype Typography & Of Making Many
Books There Is No End, by Leonard Jay, both 1931, Speculations
on the Contemporary Painter by John Minton, 1952, etc., all clothbound or in printed wrappers, stitched as issued, various sizes
(many slim 8vo)
Provenance: Ex libris F.G. Moseley. A full list of the contents of this lot is
available from the Auction Office.
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£200-400
£200-300
483 Blossfeldt (Karl). Art Forms in Nature, Examples from the
Plant World Photographed Direct From Nature, 1st edition in
English, Zwemmer, 1929, 120 collotype plates, original green cloth
gilt in pictorial dust jacket and card slipcase, dust jacket a little
creased, soiled and frayed with minimal loss, spine slightly
darkened, slipcase somewhat soiled and worn, 4to
480 Webster (Noah). A Dictionary of the English Language...,
reprinted by E.H. Barker, Esq. of Thetford, Norfolk, from a Copy
Communicated by the Author, and Containing many Manuscript
Corrections and Additions, 2 volumes, 1831-32, triple column,
occasional light spotting or browning, some column heading words
unabbreviated in old manuscript, old ink presentation note to front
free endpaper of both volumes ‘Given to Wm. Layton Lowndes’ with
armorial bookplate and name label offsetting visible below,
endpapers renewed, contemporary polished calf, rebacked with
contrasting spine labels, rubbed and scuffed with surface leather
loss, 4to
(1)
£200-300
484 Boyd (Julia, editor). Bewick Gleanings: being impressions from
copperplates and wood blocks, engraved in the Bewick Workshop...,
to which are added, Lives of Thos. Bewick and His Pupils, with
impressions from other wood blocks collected by or lent to the
author, 1st edition, printed and published by Andrew Reid,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1886, numerous wood engraved illustations,
including many full-page, top edge gilt, original black full morocco
gilt, rubbed to joints and a little wear to extremities, 4to
The first UK edition of what has remained the standard English dictionary
in the United States. ‘Webster succeeded in breaking the fetters imposed
upon American English by Dr Johnson, to the ultimate benefit of the living
languages of both countries’ (PMM).
(2)
£200-300
Limited Small Paper edition 105 of 250 copies, signed by Bewick’s daughter,
Julia Boyd.
(1)
£150-200
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
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485 Bury (Jean Baptiste Marie). Modeles de
Serrurerie, choisis parmi ce que Paris offre de
plus remarquable sous le rapport de la forme, de
la decoration et de la surete; accompagnes des
details qui doivent en faciliter l’execution et
suivis d’un abrege de l’Art du serrurier..., part 1
only (of 2), Paris: Bance Aine, 1826, additional
engraved decorative title, fifty-six engraved
plates only of wrought iron work (of 73), scattered
spotting mostly to general title & text, some
dampstaining (mostly light & to margins), short
worm trail to lower blank margin of text and
plates, early 20th half brown pigskin, marbled
paper sidings torn with loss, slim folio, together
with Thiollet (Francois), Serrurerie et fonte de
fer recemment executees. Application aux
planchers et combles, aux ponts, escaliers et
machines diverses, &. Ornemens en fonte ajustes
aux portes, devantures de boutique, grilles,
rampes d’escalier, candelabres, cheminees,
poeles, Paris: Bance aine, 1832, engraved title,
seventy-two engraved plates, dampstained &
spotting, contemporary marbled boards with
remnants of calf spine, worn, folio
(2)
£150-200
486 De Dienes (Andre). Marilyn, published
Taschen, 2002, colour and black and white
photographs, original pictorial boards (small
brown stain upper right), 4to, together with the
original staple-bound pamphlet of magazine
covers featuring Marilyn Monroe and a vertically
folded and stapled facsimile of the volume’s
original typed manuscript notes, all contained in
the original oversize facsimile Kodak box, split on
two folds with tape repairs, large 4to
Limited edition 3, 681/20, 000 copies.
(1)
£70-100
487 Debaecker (Leonce). Manufactures de
Poeles & Cheminées en Faience [so titled to
upper cover], Paris, 92 Rue de la Roquette (30
Passage Charles Dallery), [1886], double-page
chromolithograph title (Manufacture de Faience
pour Poeles & Cheminées de Victor Vogt, L.
Debaecker Succr., Paris), and 23 colour
lithographed plates of decorative stoves in
faience, printed by Jaubert, Paris, and single leaf
printed price list at end, dated Janvier 1886, title
re-hinged, original cloth lettered in gilt to upper
cover, rubbed and some soiling, and minor wear
to extremities, modern reback, large slim folio
(490 x 335mm)
(1)
£300-500
Lot 487
488 Gourlier (Charles Pierre & others). Choix d’Edifices Publics Projetes et
Construits en France depuis le Commencement du XIXme Siecle, 3 volumes, Paris:
Louis Colas, 1825-1850, 383 engraved plates and plans, four double-page tables,
occasional spotting, volume 3 with some dampstaining mostly to margins,
contemporary quarter morocco, upper joint of volume 1 cracked, some outer
corners to boards broken, some wear to extremities, large folio
(3)
£150-200
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Lot 489
489 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666). [Eightytwo prints engraved..., from the original pictures and drawings of
Guercino in the collection of His Majesty, published J. & J. Boydell,
circa 1800], lacking titles and preliminaries, seventy-four (only of
82) engraved plates after Guercino by Bartolozzi, Basire, Dalton,
Vitalba and others, printed in sanguine and black, lacking the
double page plate, with additional loosely inserted print, some
staining throuhout, lacking boards, folio
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
(1)
491 Marks (Hayward). Proofs of Some Early Nineteenth Century
Woodblocks for Tea and Tobacco Papers, with a note on their use,
privately printed in Kensington, 1948, wood engraved illustrations,
including 5 folding, printed on coloured papers, bookplate of
Richard Martin Baxter, dated Birmingham 1960 to front pastedown
(signed by the owner), contemporary quarter orange cloth, with
paper label to spine, lightly sunned, 4to
Limited edition of 50 copies, printed by the author.
(1)
492 Munby (A.N.L.). The Phillipps Manuscripts. Catalogus Librorum
Manuscriptorum im Bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Holland Press
facsimile edition, 1968, colour portrait frontispiece, original cloth
gilt, in dust jacket (with insect damage whole & surface wear), folio
(limited to 500 copies printed), together with Kraus (H.P.),
Catalogue 153. Bibliotheca Phillippica, Manuscripts on vellum and
paper from the 9th to the 18th centuries from the Celebrated
Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, The Final Selection,
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1979, portrait frontispiece, colour and
halftone plates, price list loosely inserted, original cloth, rubbed,
folio, plus Phillips (Sir Thomas), Catalogus Manuscriptorum in
Bibliothecis Angliae, Cambriae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, 1833, [Middle
Hill, Middle Hill Press, c.1838], 24pp., caption title, some browning
& spotting, initial leaves loose, contemporary boards, spine worn
& torn, pencilling to upper cover, slim folio (an early version of
Holzenberg 38 prior to the printing of the title page)
490 Leslie (C.R.). Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq.,
R.A., James Carpenter, 1843, 22 monochrome mezzotints, plus
portrait frontispiece, some spotting to margins, contemporary gilt
decorated plum quarter morocco in later gilt decorated brown half
calf slipcase, marked and rubbed with minor loss to edges, folio,
together with Parris (Leslie), Constable, A New York Private
Collection, 2 volumes including Supplement, privately published,
New York, 1994, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations,
uniform original grey wrappers, large 8vo, and Beckett (R.B.,
editor), John Constable’s Correspondence, volumes 1-4, plus
further documents (5 volumes in total), mixed editions, 1964-76,
monochrome illustrations, volume 3 is ex library with associated
stamps, all original green cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded
and rubbed, 8vo, plus approximately 40 further volumes of
Constable reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/folio
(approximately 48)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£150-200
£500-800
(3)
£200-300
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£150-200
493 Normand (Charles Pierre Joseph). Recueil Varie de Plans et de
Facades, Motifs Pour de Maisons de Ville et de Campagne, des Monumens
et des Establissemens Publics et Particuliers, Paris: 1815, engraved title torn
to fore-edge margin & lined to verso (ink stamp to right margin), general title
& following leaf also lined to verso, engraved frontispiece and sixty-two
engraved plates, some dampstaining and mottling, dust-soiling and marks,
edges untrimmed, early 20th century brown half pigskin, marbled sidings
to boards torn with some loss, oblong folio, together with Thiollet (Francois),
Choix de Maisons, Edifices et Monuments publics de Paris et de ses
environs ... construits pendant les annees 1820 a 1829. Edition augmentee
de 14 planches..., volume 3 only, Paris: Bance Aine, 1838, sixty-one
engraved plates (mostly folding), title creased, dampstaining, mottling and
spotting throughout, comtemporary paste-papers, torn & worn, oblong
folio, plus D’Espouy (H. & Seure, Georges), Monuments Antiques releves
et restaures par les Architectes pensionnaires de l’Academie de France a
Rome..., volume 1 only (of 3), Paris: L’Institut de France, [1906], sixty-five
photo gravure sepia plates (some folding), loosely contained in original
portfolio, marked and worn, folio
(3)
£100-150
494 Paley (Morton D., illustrator). William Blake’s Illuminated Books,
volumes 1-6, The William Blake Trust, 1991-95, numerous colour
illustrations, uniform black cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, together with
Erdman (David V.), William Blake’s Designs for Edward Young’s Night
Thoughts, volumes 1 & 2, complete edition, OUP, 1980, numerous
monochrome illustrations, uniform original blue cloth in dust jackets, and
slipcase, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, folio, and Perry-Lehmann
(Meira, editor), There Was A Man In The Land Of Uz, William Blake’s
Illustrations to the Book of Job, Israel, 1992, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus
approximately 30 further volumes of William Blake’s Writings, edited by G.E.
Bentley, Jr., volumes 1 & 2, 1978, 3 late 19th century and mid 20th century
Blake exhibition catalogues, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/folio
(approximately 40)
495 Palladio (Andrea). The Four Books of Architecture, Isaac Ware, [175355], publishers advertisement leaf, four engraved titles (the first trimmed
and laid-down), letterpress title-page lacking, 212 engraved plates,
including 205 full-page (complete), plus illustrations to text, intermittent
damp staining to head, slightly affecting some plates, ownership signature
of John Marshall to front pastedown, dated 1795 (repeated to rear
pastedown), and later signatures of William Calder Marshall and Norman
L. Goodwin to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, somewhat worn
and soiled, folio, together with Freart (Roland), A Parallel of the Ancient
Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who
have Written upon the Five Orders..., Fourth Edition, with the Addition of
The Elements of Architecture: Collected by Sir Henry Wotton, printed by
T.W., 1733, title printed in red and black, with large woodcut vignette, early
ink signatures of John Marshall dated 1795 at head and tail of title,
numerous copper engravings to text, many full-page, occasional marks
and finger-soiling, ink signatures to front free endpaper and final printed
page, hinges split, contemporary reverse calf, rubbed and some wear, folio
ESTC T491630/T117369. Harris 692: the 1755 edition of Palladio was published in
parts, starting in September 1753.
(2)
£500-800
496 Strawberry Hill. A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry
Hill Collected by Horace Walpole, printed by Smith and Robins, [1842],
lithographic portrait frontispiece on india paper (some spotting),
additional wood-engraved title, occasional spotting and toning, original
printed green paper covered upper board bound in at front, near
contemporary black half morocco, gilt decorated spine and title in gilt to
upper board, rubbed & scuffed to extremities, 4to
(1)
Lot 495
£200-300
£150-200
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497 Tuer (Andrew W.). The Book of Delightful and Strange
Designs, being One Hundred Facsimile Illustrations of the
Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter ..., 1st edition,
Leadenhall Press, [1893], one original Japanese stencil
bound in as frontispiece, introductory text in English,
German and French, numerous black & white plates, gutta
percha perished and contents loose, some browning,
original cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine and
upper cover, rubbed and some marks, oblong 8vo
(1)
£100-150
GENERAL LITERATURE
Lot 499
498 Admiralty. Drawings of the Flags in Use at the Present Time by Various Nations, September 1907, 169 numbered colour lithographed
plates, plus some bis plates and inserts, most with tipped in captions facing, errata slips tipped in, contemporary cloth gilt, rubbed and
some fraying to joints, small folio
Sold not subject to return.
(1)
£100-150
499 Barrie (J.M.). The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899, [Privately Printed, 1899], half tone illustrations including some
full-page, some adhesive tape residue to title &verso of final leaf, original limp Japanese vellum wrappers, front wrapper with title lettered
in gilt, later glassine wrapper, small 4to (147 x 116mm), together with J.M. Barrie’s Allahakbarries C.C. 1899, foreword by Don Bradman, 1st
edition, London: James Barrie Publishers Ltd., 1950, black & white illustrations, original cloth gilt in slightly spotted & frayed dust jacket,
small 8vo
A rare association copy with the title-page verso signed in pencil by the team members J.M. Barrie (capt., author of Peter Pan etc.), T.L. Gilmour, E.T. Reed
(cartoonist, Punch etc.), Owen Seaman (author & editor of Punch), Bernard Partridge (artist & illustrator, principal artist for Punch), Sydney Pawling (Heinemann
publishers), A.E.D. Mason (novelist), Augustine Birrell ‘on approval’ (KC, author & Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), W.M. Meredith (Director
of Constable Publishers), Philip Carr, Hesketh Prichard (explorer & author) and in ink by H.J. Ford (artist, author & illustrator). title & dedication inscribed in
pencil by Dorothy Barnard ‘occasional scorer for the Allahakbarries’ dated 1899 and verso of final leaf also with pencil signature of cricket player F.D. Millet.
Barrie’s team of authors and artists was founded in 1887. According to his own account in The Greenwood Hat, ‘Allahakbar’ was African for ‘Heaven help us’,
and his less than skilfull team therefore became the “‘Allahakbars’, aftewards changed with complimentary intention to ‘Allahakbarries’ (see Janet Dunbar,
J.M. Barrie, 1970, p. 111). Broadway was both where the team played and the name of their opponents. This celebratory publication of the annual engagement
is very rare, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends of Barrie’s. Taylor p. 28; Padwick 1296.
(2)
£2000-3000
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
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500 Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator). Morte Darthur, 2 volumes,
1893-94, photogravure frontispiece to each, black and white plates
and illustrations, scattered light spotting, contemporary previous
owner inscription and bookplate, top edges gilt, original decorative
cloth gilt, spines a little toned, a few light marks, 4to, limited edition
of 1500, with two others illustrated by Beardsley: The Rape of the
Lock, 1897 and Salome, 1902
(4)
502 Bull (Rene, illustrator). The Russian Ballet by A.E. Johnson,
1st edition, Constable & Co., 1913, colour and monochrome plates
and illustrations by René Bull, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed,
endpapers lightly spotted, original gilt-decorated full vellum, some
light marks and rear cover with some light staining (generally a
good copy), 4to
Limited edition 83/100, signed by the illustrator.
(1)
£400-600
£250-350
503 Carlyle (Thomas). Montaigne and other Essays Chiefly
Biographical, Now first collected, with Foreword by S.R. Crockett,
London: James Gowans & Son, 1897, photogravure portrait
frontispiece, endpapers spotted with ink stamp to front pastedown,
top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter japanese
vellum gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo
Large Paper copy 45/75.
(1)
£70-100
504 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, Hodder and
Stoughton, [1909], twenty tipped-in colour plates within decorative
borders, half-title toned, scattered spotting, front free endpaper
with early ink ownership inscription, original red cloth gilt, spine
lightly faded with fraying to ends, front cover with damp stain, 4to,
together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Grimm’s Fairy Tales,
William Heinemann, [1925], forty colour plates, one with frayed
edges, light spotting affecting first few leaves, hinge split between
frontispiece and title-page, front free endpaper with contemporary
ink inscription, original red cloth gilt, faded and somewhat marked,
spine extremities frayed (some slight loss at head), 4to
(2)
505 Elizabeth II. The Coronation Album, published The
Collector's Book Club, 1953, containing mounted photographs and
reproductions mounted alongside text on stiff card leaves, and a
folder at rear containing UK coins and first day covers,
introduction signed by the Marquess of Aberdeen at end, original
crushed blue morocco gilt with the crowned ER monogram to
upper cover and spine, a little rubbed, oblong folio
501 Bicycling: Its Rise and Development, A Text Book for Riders,
1st edition, Tinsley Bros, 1874, [8], 79 pp., full-page illustration at
end of preliminary leaves, a few vignette illustrations and
decorations to text, a little soiling and marginal fraying, closed tear
repairs to margins of title and following leaf not affecting text, small
tear with loss to upper outer corner of pp. 15/16 affecting one letter
and page number, original wrappers with plain backstrip and
manuscript label to spine, pictorial upper cover, some soiling and
fraying, old marginal tape repair to upper cover, slim 8vo
(1)
£100-150
Limited edition, 54/252 copies, being one of 200 copies containing
'United Kingdom Coins and First Day Covers of this Realm'.
(1)
£100-150
£100-150
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Lot 510
506 Folio Society. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William
H. Prescott, 1994, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, by T.E.
Lawrence, 2000, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, by Admiral Lord
Cochrane, 2005, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame,
2005, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, 1998, together with
101 further volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, plus 14 volumes
without slipcase, G/VG, 8vo
(120)
509 Hutchinson (Horace G., ed.). Golf Greens and GreenKeeping, 1st edition, Country Life, 1906, half-tone plates, one
double-page plan, occasional light spotting, front free endpaper
with presentation inscription to Chorleywood Golf Club dated
March 1931 and also with later inscription beneath, original red
cloth gilt, very slight fading to spine & faint mark to rear cover, 8vo
Donovan & Murdoch, 1906.
(1)
£200-300
510 Illustrated London News. 141 volumes, a lengthy continuous run,
volumes 1-138, (including three duplicates) 1842-1910, numerous
wood engravings, chromolithographs, maps, advertisements and
steel engravings, with folding and panoramic plates, retaining several
of the city panoramas including Edinburgh (1845), Dublin (1846), Paris
(1848) and Rome (1850), the July-December 1878 (the Cypress volume)
is present, all publisher’s original gilt decorated cloth, a few boards
are detached and an occasional spine is frayed or lacking but
otherwise in bright sound condition, folio, plus 2 supplements
507 Folio Society. The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand
and One Nights, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, 4th printing, 2001,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence, 2000, The Complete
Plays, 8 volumes, by William Shakespeare, 7th printing, 2007, The
Once and Future King, by T.H. White, 2003, Cider with Rosie, by
Laurie Lee, 2003, togethe with 21 further volumes, all original cloth
in slipcases, VG, 8vo
(33)
£70-100
508 Grace (William Gilbert). Cricket, 1st edition, Bristol & London,
1891, portrait frontispiece and engraved plates, a few minor marks,
top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original black half morocco
gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed, a little wear to
extremities, 4to
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Large paper issue, limited to 652 numbered copies, of which this is number
32, signed by the author. The subscribers’ list at rear indicates that no. 32
was given to Lord Hawke (1860-1938), captain of England and Yorkshire.
There is now no bookplate to front pastedown but evidence of one having
been removed.
(1)
£300-500
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(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£100-150
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£3000-5000
Lot 510
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511 Keynes (John Maynard). A Treatise on Money, 2 volumes, 1st
edition, 1930, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and faded on
spines, upper covers a little marked, 8vo
(2)
515 Taylor (Joshua). The Lure of the Links, 1st edition, London:
Heath Cranton, [1920], 3 pages of adverts at rear, some gatherings
strengthened and resewn, browned throughout, endpapers
renewed, recent cloth reback spine, 8vo, together with Allingham
(Richard), Letters of a Modern Golfer to His Grandfather. Being the
Correspondence of Richard Allingham, Esq., Arranged by Henry
Leach, 1st edition, London: Mills & Boon, [1910], half-title with
publisher’s book list to verso, portrait frontispiece dampstained to
lower outer corner, 32 page publisher’s catalogue at rear,
occasional light spotting and browning, oval ink stamp to front free
endpaper, original cloth gilt, spine torn at head & frayed at foot,
covers dampstained & mottled, 8vo
£100-150
512 Kipling (Rudyard, 1865-1936). The Seven Seas, 21st edition,
Methuen & Co., 1917, frontispiece and title within red decorative
border, signed by Kipling to title, all edges gilt, original red limp
roan gilt, joints and spine worn, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
513 Punch, Or, The London Charivari, 79 volumes, a broken run,
1846-1945,
numerous monochrome illustrations, mixed
contemporary and modern cloth, and leather bindings, some
boards and spines rubbed with loss, G/VG, large 8vo
(79)
(2)
£100-150
516 V. Olympiaden. Olympiska Spelen i Stockholm 1912, I Bild och
Ord..., Stockholm, 1912, official Olympics report with illustrations
from photographs and text in Swedish, English, French and
German, all edges gilt, original padded morocco with gilt motif to
upper cover, rubbed and scuffed, some wear to spine with slight
loss at head and foot, oblong folio
£100-150
(1)
£200-300
517 Young (Sidney). The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London,
Compiled from their Records and other Sources, by Sidney Young,
One of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of
Barbers of London, with illustrations by Austin T. Young, London:
Blades, East & Blades, 1890, photogravure portrait frontispiece,
few chromolithograph & black & white plates, subscriber’s list
present, title with various inscriptions of previous owners including
Robert George Hovenden (large paper copy subscriber), ‘Presented
to the Superintendent of the Academy of Gentlemens Hairdressing
K.R. Hoskin’, ‘ P. Glaus, Presented to the Academy of Gentlemen
Hairdressing (London) 1955’, ‘December 1977, Philip Haring Q.D.H.
Gentlemens Hairdressing Salon, Bush House, Strand, W.C.2’,
bookplate of the Worshipful Company of Barbers of the City of
London, cloth hinge repairs, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed,
original red morocco, gilt armorial to centre of upper board,
modern reback, board edges rubbed, large 4to
Limited Large Paper edition 6/60.
(1)
£100-150
QUANTITY
518 Allinson (Francesca). A Childhood, 1st edition, published by
Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937, monochrome
wood engravings by Enid Marx, some minor spotting, original blue
cloth in dust jacket, covers toned and slightly worn with repairs to
flaps and spine, 8vo, together with Welch (Denton), Maiden Voyage,
2nd printing, 1946, monochrome frontispiece and illustrated
endpapers, original yellow cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly
rubbed, 8vo, and Menen (Aubrey), The Prevalence of Witches, 1st
edition, 1947, some minor spotting, original green cloth in dust
jacket, designed by Edward Bawden, slight spotting to covers with
loss to head and foot, 8vo, plus other early to mid 20th century 1st
edition fiction and literature including Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de
la Mare, Rex Whistler, Sacheverell Sitwell, all original cloth, many
in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
514 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Fairy Tales of the Brothers
Grimm, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1st edition, Constable &
Company, 1909, 439 (of 40) tipped-in colour plates, lacking the
illustration facing page 90, a few minor corner creases, some minor
marginal marks and dampstain to lower outer corners at front of
volume (final leaf of list of illustrations repaired to lower outer
corner), original gilt-decorated red cloth, rubbed and some fraying
to extremities, re-cased, retaining original spine, 4to, together with
Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Green Willow and Other Japanese
Fairy Tales by Grace James, 1st edition, Macmillan & Co., 1910, 40
tipped-in colour plates, a few with marginal corner creases,
original gilt-decorated blue cloth, a little rubbed, joints
restrengthened, plus Dulac (Edmund), Edmund Dulac’s PictureBook, Hodder and Stoughton, circa 1915, 10 (of 18) tipped-in colour
plates, a few leaves loose, original gilt-decorated light blue cloth,
a little rubbed and some minor marks, spine lightly faded, all 4to
(3)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
(2 cartons)
£200-300
130
£100-150
519 Dionysius. Sancti Patris Nostri Epiphanii Constantiae Sive
Salaminis in Cypro, 2 volumes, Cologne, 1682, titles printed in red
and black with large engraved vignettes, half-title and engraved
frontispiece to volume 1, some browning throughout, some marginal
worming to last half of volume 1 and at end of volume 2, old stain
to lower margin of volume 1, modern calf-backed cloth, slight
wear, together with Lohner (Tobias), Instructissima bibliotheca
manualis concionatoria in qua de virtutibus, vitiis, sacramentis,
Johann Dillingen: Caspar Bencard, 1695, half-title, title in red
and black with engraved vignette, some spotting, browning and
light dampstaining, small hole to inner margin of Bb4 with minor
loss of letters and one side note affected by loss to foremargin of
Cc1, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards,
some marks and wear, plus Baudrand (Michael Antonius),
Lexicon Geographicum; in quo universi orbis Urbes, Provinciae,
Regna, Maria, & Flumina recensentur, 2 volumes in one, Paris:
Francis Muguet, 1670, titles with printer's woodcut device, double
column, library label of Bishop Phillpotts Library, Truro to front
pastedown, modern half calf, a little leather loss due to label
removal, all folio, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian including
some further folios
523 Fun. New Series, a broken run, volumes 1-58 (1862-1917),
numerous monochrome illustrations, all uniform original gilt
decorated plum cloth, boards slightly marked, and spines faded,
some with loss to head and foot, large 8vo, plus 3 volumes of
Punch, 1892-1915
(3 cartons)
(a carton)
(2 cartons)
524 Graves (Robert). The Transformations of Lucius, otherwise
known as The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius, Penguin, 1950,
limited edition 570/2000, signed by the author to rear limitation
page, period inscription to front endpaper, contemporary half
vellum to marbled boards, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot,
8vo, together with Burns (J.A.), Porpoises & People, circa 1925,
printed for private circulation, inscribed by the author to front
endpaper, monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, original
half vellum, boards lightly rubbed, spine slightly marked, 4to, and
Risco (Alberto), Angel y Apostol, Madrid, 1923, limited edition
205/1000, signed by the author opposite limitation page, tipped in
monochrome photograph, some minor marks, original gilt
decorated full vellum, 8vo, plus 17 further early 20th century vellum
bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to
£200-300
(2 cartons)
(2 cartons)
£70-100
527 Lindley (Augustus F.). Adamantia. The Truth about the South
African Diamond Fields..., 1873, 8 monochrome maps including
folding, colour armorial frontispiece, bookplate to front
pastedown, some light spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth,
boards and spine slightly rubbed with minor loss to head and foot,
8vo, together with Wolff (Joseph), Narrative of a Mission to
Bokhara in the years 1843-1845..., volumes 1 & 2, 2nd edition, 1845,
9 monochrome illustrations, period inscriptions to front endpapers,
some light toning, uniform original embossed green cloth, boards
and spines slightly faded, marked and rubbed to head and foot,
8vo, and Payn (James), Leaves from Lakeland, 1858, some minor
spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly rubbed
to head and foot, 8vo, plus other 19th century and modern
Egyptian, African and miscellaneous travel and topographical
reference, all original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£100-150
522 Catlow (Agnes). Popular Greenhouse Botany..., 1857, 20
colour plates, period inscription to front endpaper, some light
spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco, boards
and spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Friar Park, Henleyon-Thames, Guide for the Use of Visitors, 3rd edition, 1910,
numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting,
contemporary gilt decorated green half calf, boards slightly
rubbed and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and other late 19th and
early 20th century botany and natural history reference, mostly
original cloth, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(2 cartons)
£70-100
526 Leroux-Dhuys (Jean-Francois). Cistercian Abbeys, History
and Architecture, 1998, numerous colour illustrations, original
green cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, large 4to,
together with Carola (Leslie Conran, editor), The Irish, A Treasury
of Art and Literature, 1993, numerous colour and monochrome
illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, spine slightly faded,
large 8vo, and Brasey (Edouard), Dragons, Little People, Fairies,
Trolls and Elves, 2002, numerous colour illustrations, original blue
cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large
8vo, plus other modern Celtic and mythology reference, all original
cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£100-150
521 Beckford (Peter). Thoughts Upon Hunting. In a Series of
Familiar Letters to a Friend, 3rd edition, printed by J. Easton, 1784,
some minor marks, modern gilt decorated brown three quarter
morocco, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with
Mitchell (O.M.), the Orbs of Heaven: Or, The Planetary and Stellar
Worlds, 10th edition, 1858, numerous monochrome illustrations,
some light toning and spotting, period inscription to front
pastedown, original embossed brown cloth, spine faded and
rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Stanley (Arthur P.), Historical
Memorials of Canterbury, 1855, 8 monochrome illustrations, some
light marks, period inscriptions to front endpapers, original cloth,
spine faded and rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and early 20th
century miscellaneous literature and hunting reference, some
leather bindings, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(a carton)
£150-200
525 Lawson (Cecil C.P.). A History of the Uniforms of the British
Army, volumes 1-5, reprint editions, 1969-70, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, ex library copies with associated stamps
and marks, uniform original red cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly
faded and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with other mid20th century and modern military reference and related including
WWII, some German language, mostly original cloth, some in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
520 Baker (Richard). A Chronicel of the Kings of England from the
Time of Ye Romans Government unto the Death of King James,
printed for H. Sanbridge, 1683, monochrome engraved title,
chipped and repair, some light toning and marks, new endpapers,
later calf spine retaining contemporary embossed full calf boards,
rubbed with minor loss, folio, together with Langewis (Laurns &
Wagner, Frits A.), Decorative Art in Indonesian Textiles,
Amsterdam, 1964, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations,
original boards in glassine wrapper, cover slightly rubbed to head
and foot, large 8vo, and other mostly art reference and related,
mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(4 cartons)
£50-80
(2 cartons)
£100-150
131
£100-150
528 Military. A collection of modern military reference, including
publications by Ian Allan, Pen & Sword, P.S.L., Spellmount, mostly
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 cartons)
533 Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Cranford, by Mrs. Gaskell, with
a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, published Macmillan & Co.,
1894, black & white frontispiece and illustrations, occasional
spotting, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth gilt, few minor
marks, 8vo, together with Our Village, by Russell Mitford, 1893, The
Story of Rosina and other Verses by Austin Dobson, 1895, each
illustrated by Thomson, all in original decorative cloth gilt, 8vo, plus
other similar books, illustrated by H.M. Brock, R. Caldecott & C.
Hammond etc., all in original decorative cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other
miscellaneous leather & cloth bound volumes, including Pratt’s
Flowering Plants, 4 volumes, 1899, Chaffers’ Marks and Monograms
on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain, 1897 etc.
£70-100
529 Kelly (Christopher). An Authentic History and Entertaining
Description of the World and its Inhabitants... forming a Complete
Universal Geography..., a New Edition, Edited by Thomas
Bartlett, 2 volumes, Thomas Kelly, [1841], engraved maps and
plates, some heavy spotting, disbound, 4to, together with The City
Remembrancer: Being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague
at London, 1665, Great Fire, 1666, and Great Storm, 1703..., 2
volumes in 1, 1769, half-titles, some heavy spotting, contemporary
half calf, worn, thick 8vo, plus Astle (Thomas), The Origin and
Progress of Writing..., Printed for the Author, 1784, engraved
plates including some folding, contemporary quarter morocco over
marbled boards, worn, 4to, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian
(a carton)
(a carton)
534 Delany (Patrick). Observations Upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks
on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, printed for Robert
Main, Dublin, 1754, pencil annotation to title page, some minor
marks, contemporary tan full calf, boards and spine lightly rubbed,
8vo, together with Bacon (Francis & Tenison, Thomas), Baconiana.
Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of
Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans..., printed by J.D., 1679, black
and white engraved portrait frontispiece, pencil annotation to
head of title page, some light toning and marks, later calf spine
retaining contemporary calf boards, rubbed with minor loss, 8vo,
and Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Cicero’s Three Books Touching the
Nature of The Gods, Done into English..., printed for Joseph
Hindmarsh, 1683, period annotation to head of title page, some
minor marks and spotting, contemporary mottled calf, boards
slightly rubbed, spine cracked with minor loss to head, 8vo, plus
other 17th-19th century reference and literature, including The
British Novelists, with an Essay and Prefaces... by Mrs. Barbauld,
volumes 1-21, 23-50, 1820, uniform contemporary gilt decorated
red straight grained morocco, 8vo, all leather bindings, some gilt
decorated, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo, all leather
bindings, some gilt decorated, condition is generally good/very
good, 8vo
£200-300
530 North (Thomas). North’s Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble
Grecians & Romanes Compared Together By That Grave Learned
Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeroneon,
volumes 1-5, The Nonesuch Press, 1929, limited edition 1426/1550,
monochrome illustrations, uniform original brown cloth, boards
rubbed to head and foot, spine labels slightly chipped, large 8vo,
together with Verne (Jules), The Moon-Voyage, circa 1876, colour
frontispiece, monochrome adverts to front and rear endpapers,
loose binding, spine partially detached, original illustrated boards,
rubbed with some loss, 8vo, and Mannig (Frederic), The Middle
Parts of Fortune, Somme & Anore, volumes 1 & 2, The Piazza Press,
1916, limited edition 442/500, original brown cloth in slipcase,
slightly rubbed to foot, 8vo, and other 19th and 20th century
miscellaneous literature, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(a carton)
£150-200
531 Teriade (E.). Verve. The French Review of Art, Nos. 5-6,
France, July-October 1939, numerous colour and monochrome
illustrations, illuminations and lithographs including Henri Matisse
and Paul Klee, some light marks, partially disbound, spine missing
and front cover detached with loss, folio, together with Prévert
(Jacques & Ribemont-Dessaignes, G.), Joan Miro, Paris, 1956, 119
colour and monochrome illustrations, including folding plates,
original boards in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head and
foot, 4to, and other modern art reference, mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(a carton)
(6 shelves)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£400-600
535 Bower (Archibald). The History of the Popes, from the
Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, volumes 1 &
2, 2nd edition, printed for the author, George Rice, 1749,
bookplates to front pastedowns, some light marks and offsetting,
uniform contemporary full calf, boards and spines rubbed with
some loss, some boards partially detached, large 4to, together
with Parnell (Thomas), Poems on Several Occasions, 7th edition,
printed by A. Reilly, Dublin, 1744, later inscription to title page,
some light marks, some worming from page 149 to rear pastedown,
contemporary calf, boards and spine rubbed to head and foot,
8vo, and Dilly (C., publisher), The Observer: Being A Collection of
Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, volumes 1-4, 2nd edition, 178788, ex libris stamps to front pastedowns, some minor marks,
uniform contemporary gilt decorated tree calf, 8vo, plus other 18th
and 19th century reference, including history and theology, mostly
leather bindings, some odd volumes, condition is generally
good/very good, 8vo/folio
£100-150
532 “The Sportsman”, editor. British Sports and Sportsmen, 2
volumes, Shooting and Deerstalking, limited edition 171/1000, BigGame Hunting and Angling, limited edition 537/1000, both 1912,
numerous photogravures and monochrome illustrations,
bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform publisher’s original gilt
decorated red full morocco, boards lightly rubbed, folio, together
with Barnes (Frank C.), Cartridges of the World, 2nd edition,
Chicago, 1969, numerous monochrome illustrations, previous
ownership stamp to the half title, modern gilt decorated red three
quarter morocco, 4to, and Masters (John), The Complete Indian
Angler, 1st edition, 1938, 35 colour and monochrome illustrations,
period inscription to front pastedown, some minor spotting,
original green cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and
foot, 4to, plus 7 further volumes sporting related reference, mostly
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(a carton)
£150-200
(5 shelves)
£100-150
132
£300-500
536 Cramp (Stanley, editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe of
the Middle East and North Africa, volumes 1-5, 8 & 9, 1st editions,
OUP, 1977-94, numerous colour and black and white illustrations,
original blue cloth in dust jackets, some spines slightly faded and
rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with Pottle (Frederick
A.), The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell 17621776, 7 volumes, mixed editions, 1951-63, all original blue cloth,
lacking dust jackets, some spines faded, 8vo, plus other 19th
century and modern natural history and miscellaneous reference,
including Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge History of Literature, some
leather bindings, mostly cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
541 Military. A large collection of modern military reference and
biography, including Army Lists and publications by Conway, Pen &
Sword, Arms & Armour press, Sutton, Schiffer Military History,
mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(6 shelves + a carton)
542 Blyth (R.H.). Haiku, volumes 1-4, mixed printings, Japan, 196770, numerous colour and monochrome plates, ex libris stamp to
volume front endpaper, all original cream cloth in dust jackets,
covers slightly rubbed with some minor loss, 4to, together with
Blavatsky (H.P.), From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan,
reprinted, 1908, loss to head of front endpaper, original blue cloth,
boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Oakley (E.S.), Holy
Himalaya, 1905, 18 monochrome illustrations, including
frontispiece, with tissue guard, some minor spotting, original gilt
decorated blue cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus
other early 20th century and modern spiritual and theological
reference, including publications by Oxford, A. & C. Black,
University of Chicago Press, mostly original cloth in dust jackets,
some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£100-150
537 Blomfield (Reginald). A History of French Architecture, from
the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV 1661-1774, volumes
1 & 2, 1921, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor
marks, uniform original brown cloth, 8vo, together with Hitchcock
(Henry Russell), Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany, 1st
edition, 1968, numerous black and white illustrations, original black
cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large
4to, and Clark (Willene B.), The Stained Glass Art of William Jay
Boton, Syracuse University Press, 1992, numerous black and white
illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other
modern architecture reference, mostly original cloth in dust
jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
(6 shelves)
£70-100
£150-200
539 Lloyd (John E.). A History of Carmarthenshire, volumes 1 & 3,
1st editions, Cardiff, 1935-39, numerous black and white plates,
previous ownership stamps to front endpapers, some light marks,
uniform original gilt decorated red cloth, boards and spines slightly
rubbed and faded, large 8vo, together with H.M.S.O. (Publisher),
An Inventory of The Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire,
volumes 1-3, 1st editions, 1956-64, numerous black and white
illustrations, uniform original green cloth in dust jackets, spines
slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and Williams
(Glanmor, editor), Glamorgan County History, volumes 2-4, mixed
editions, Cardiff, 1974-84, numerous black and white illustrations
and plates, all original blue cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly
rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, plus other modern Wales
topographical and historical reference, mostly original cloth in dust
jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
(3 shelves)
£150-200
544 Hugo (Victor). Les Travailleurs de la Mer, 3 volumes, Brussels,
1866, half-titles, some spotting, contemporary half calf with
leather spine labels, rubbed, 8vo, together with other mostly
leather-bound 19th and early 20th-century French literature and
history, plus a few earlier
(3 shelves)
£200-300
545 Burroughs (William). The Naked Lunch, 1st UK edition, 1964,
original cream boards in dust jacket, spine lightly marked, 8vo,
together with Sassoon (Siegfried), Memoirs of An Infantry Officer,
1st edition, 1930, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor
toning, original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers toned, rubbed and
chipped, with minor loss to head and foot, 8vo, and Barker (Clive),
Mister B. Gone, 2007, limited edition 136/1000, signed by the
author to the limitation page, original black cloth in slipcase, 8vo,
plus Huxley (Aldous), Brave New World, 1st edition, 1932, some
minor spotting, original blue cloth in facsimile dust jacket, spine
slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and other modern 1st edition
fiction, including George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, P.G. Wodehouse,
Ronald Welch, Richard Jefferies, F. Scott Fitzgerald, mostly original
cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
£200-300
540 Newman (John Henry). A Letter Addressed To His Grace The
Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent
Expostulation, 1875, some light spotting, original wrappers, bound
in modern marbled boards, 8vo, together with other 19th and early
20th century theological reference, including Missale Romanum ex
decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini resitutum..., 1869, some
leather bindings, some foreign language, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
£150-200
543
H.M.S.O., publisher. An Inventory of the Historical
Monuments in the County of Northampton, volumes 3 & 4, 1st
editions, 1980-82, numerous monochrome illustrations, both
original cloth in dust jackets, and slipcases, large 4to, together with
Marion-Jones (Gwyn I.), The Vernacular Architecture of Brittany,
An Essay in Historical Geography, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1982,
numerous monochrome illustrations, original black cloth in dust
jacket, large 4to, and Paton (Henry M., editor), Accounts of the
Masters of Works, for Building and Repairing Royal Palaces and
Castles 1529-1649, volumes 1 & 2, 1st editions, H.M.S.O., 1957-82,
original blue cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed and
chipped to head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern archaeological
and architectural reference, including publications by Oxford,
Cambridge, Edinburgh, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/folio
538 Aviation. A large collection of modern Air Force and aviation
reference, including publications by Airlife, Putnam, Ian Allan, A. &
C. Black, H.M.S.O., mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/folio
(5 shelves)
£200-300
£100-150
(3 shelves)
133
£200-300
546 Young (Edward). Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality,
printed for Chapman & Company, circa 1790, 15 monochrome
engravings, some spotting and marks, front board partially
detached, spine rubbed with some loss, 8vo, together with Fuseli
(Henry), Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy
March 1801, printed for J. Johnson, 1801, monochrome engraved
portrait frontispiece, title page and one monochrome illustration,
Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy..., 2nd
series, 1830, monochrome engraved title, 2 volumes, bound in 1,
bookplate to front pastedown, later inscription to front endpaper,
some light spotting and marks, modern brown half morocco
retaining contemporary marbled boards, 4to, and Cassell (John,
publisher), The Illustrated Exhibitor, A Tribute to the World’s
Industrial Jubilee..., 1851, numerous monochrome illustrations
including folding and full page, some light spotting and marks,
contemporary gilt decorated brown half calf, boards and spine
slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century art history,
reference and related, mostly original cloth, some leather
bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio
(6 shelves)
550 Larrosa (Aurelio Torrente & Wilkin, Karen). Miró, 16 Late
Masterworks, New York, 2001, numerous colour and monochrome
illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly
rubbed to head, large 4to, together with Conrads (Margaret C.),
Winslow Homer and The Critics, Forging a National Art in the 1870s,
Princeton University Press, USA, 2002, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to,
and Pressly (William L.), A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger
Shakespeare Library “As Imagination Bodies Forth”, Yale University
Press, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, original orange
cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, large 8vo, plus other modern art
reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback
editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
551 Bartram (Michael). The Pre-Raphaelite Camera, Aspects of
Victorian Photography, 1985, numerous monochrome illustrations,
original brown cloth in dust jacket, 4to, together with Jones
(Stephen, et al), Frederic, Lord Leighton, Eminent Victorian Artist,
1996, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original blue
cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Read (Benedict & Barnes, Joanna,
editors), Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, Nature and Imagination in
British Sculpture 1848-1914, 1st edition, 1991, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, original plum cloth in dust jacket, 4to,
plus other modern Pre-Raphaelite and miscellaneous art
reference, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some
paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£200-300
547 Sarjeant (William A.S.). Geologists And The History of Geology,
An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978, volumes 15, 1st edition, Arno Press, 1980, uniform original orange cloth, 8vo,
together with Nuland (Sherwin B.), The Origins of Anesthesia,
Alabama, 1983, limited edition 374 of an unspecified limitation,
bookplate to front pastedown, publisher’s original gilt decorated
blue morocco, all edges gilt, 8vo, and Osler (William), Biblotheca
Osleriana..., Oxford, 2000, original blue cloth in dust jacket, 4to,
plus other mostly modern bibliographical reference, including
publications by Cambridge, Columbia University Press, Sotheby’s,
some ex library copies with associated stamps, mostly original
cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
(3 shelves)
£150-200
552 Williamson (George C.). Life and Works of Ozias Humphry,
R.A., The Bodley Head, 1918, unspecified limited edition of 400,
numerous monochrome illustrations, including portrait frontispiece
with tissue guard, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor
toning, publisher’s original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards
slightly worn with minor loss, large 4to, together with McKechnie
(Sue), British Silhouette Artists and Their Work 1760-1860, 1st
edition, 1978, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations,
original green cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Ball (Johnson),
Paul and Thomas Sandby, Royal Academicians, An Anglo-Dutch
Saga of Art, Love and War in Georgian England, 1st edition, 1985,
numerous monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust
jacket, spine slightly toned and rubbed to head, large 4to, plus
other modern art and antique reference, including publications by
Antique Collectors’ Club, Phaidon Press, Cambridge, Oxford,
Batsford, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some
paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
£200-300
548 Cary (Henry Francis). The Vision; Or, Hell, Purgatory, and
Paradise, of Dante Alighieri, volumes 1-3, 3rd edition, 1831, some
minor spotting, uniform modern red morocco spines retaining
contemporary gilt decorated calf boards, slightly rubbed to head
and foot, 8vo, together with Moore (Edward), Studies in Danite,
volumes 1-4, OUP, 1968-69, uniform original blue cloth in dust
jackets, spines slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo,
and Botticelli, The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, 2000,
numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original boards,
oblong 4to, plus other 19th and 20th century Dante reference and
literature, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some foreign
language and paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
£150-200
(3 shelves + a carton)
£200-300
£200-300
549 Aleson (Robyn). British Paintings at The Huntington, 2001,
numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth
in dust jacket, large 4to, together with Graves (Algernon), The
British Institution 1806-1867, facsimile edition, Bath, 1969, original
green cloth in price clipped dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with
tear to head of front, 4to, and Macleod (Catherine, et al), Painted
Ladies, Women at the Court of Charles II, 2001, numerous colour
and monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket,
4to, plus other mostly modern British and Irish art and artist
reference, including publications by Oxford, Batsford, Penguin,
many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperback
editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
553 Dückers (Rob & Roelofs, Pieter). The Limbourg Brothers,
Nijmegen Masters at the French Cart 1400-1416, Netherlands,
2005, numerous colour illustrations, original green cloth in dust
jacket, large 4to, together with Weinglass (D.H.), Prints and
Engraved Illustrations By and After Henry Fusel, A Catalogue
Raisonné, 1st edition, 1994, numerous monochrome illustrations,
original green cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed, large 4to
and Hartley (Keith, et al, editors), The Romantic Spirit in German
Art 1790-1990, circa 1995, numerous colour illustrations, original
wrappers, spine creased and slightly rubbed to head and foot,
large 4to, plus other modern European and miscellaneous art
reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some
paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
(3 shelves)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£150-200
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£150-200
554 Georg (S.A., publisher). Catalogue De Très Beaux Livres, De
l’Epoque Romantique Imprimés entre les années 1803-1848, 1929,
monochrome plates, plus colour frontispiece, some minor toning,
modern gilt decorated green half morocco to marbled boards, 4to,
together with Churchill (W.A.), Watermarks in Paper, in Holland,
England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and their
Interconnection, 3rd impression, Amsterdam, 1967, 578
monochrome illustrations, original brown cloth in dust jacket,
covers slightly marked and rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, and
Smith (Charles John), Historical and Literary Curiosities, consisting
of Fac-similes of Original Documents..., 1845, 10 monochrome
engravings to rear, some minor spotting and marks, contemporary
gilt decorated brown half calf, boards slightly rubbed, hinges
cracked, large 4to, plus other late 19th century and modern
bibliographical reference and related, mostly original cloth, some
in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
558 McNaughton (Arnold). The Book of Kings, A Royal Genealolgy,
volumes 1-3, Garnstone Pres, 1973, monochrome illustrations,
uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth in slipcase, folio, together
with Anglo (Sydney), The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, A
Collotype Reproduction of the Manuscript, volumes 1 & 2, Oxford,
1968, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original
green cloth in dust jackets and slipcase, spines slightly rubbed to
head and foot, 8vo & 4to and, Reese (M.M.), The Royal Office of
Master of the Horse, 1976, numerous colour and monochrome
illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed
and marked, large 4to, plus other mostly modern heraldry
reference and related, many original cloth, some in dust jackets,
G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
559 Paperbacks. A large collection of approximately 1400 Penguin
paperbacks, including fiction, non-fiction, biographies, all original
wrappers, G/VG, 8vo
£200-300
555 Aspinall (A., editor). The Later Correspondence of George III,
volumes 1-5, mixed editions, CUP, 1963-1970, uniform original blue
cloth in price clipped dust jackets, volume 1 spine slightly faded
with repaired tears, 8vo, together with Coales (John), Twelve
Generations, Gleanings from the Coales Family Archives, Somerset,
2000, signed by the author to the title page, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, original green cloth in dust jacket, large
4to, and other modern heraldic reference and related, including
14 volumes of The Harleian Society Publications, mostly original
cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
(14 shelves)
(6 shelves)
£100-150
561 Tillotson (John). The Works of The Most Reverend..., volumes
1-3, mixed editions, 1710-20, monochrome engraved portrait
frontispiece to volume 1, period inscriptions to head of title pages,
bookplate to volumes 1 & 2 front pastedowns, some light toning and
spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards and
spines rubbed with some minor loss, large 8vo, together with
Collier (Jeremy), An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly
of England..., volumes 1 & 2, 1708-14, monochrome engraved
frontispiece to volume 1, period inscriptions to both title pages, exlibrary copies with associated marks and stamps, some toning and
light spotting, uniform contemporary full calf, all boards detached,
rubbed with some loss, folio, and other 17th & 19th century
antiquarian literature, including Sacrosancta Concilia, 9 volumes,
a broken run, volumes 1-16, 1671-72, mostly leather bindings,
condition is generally good, 8vo/folio
£150-200
(5 shelves)
£200-300
£200-300
562 Woolf (Virginia). The Captain’s Death Bed, And Other Essays,
1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1950, period inscription to front
endpaper, original brown cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned
and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Whistler (Rex,
illustrator), Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Anderson, reprinted,
1953, numerous monochrome illustrations, later gilt decorated full
calf bound by Bayntun, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Terayama
(Shuji), Phototheque Imaginaire de Shuji Terayama: Les Gens de la
Famille Chien-Dieu, 1st edition, Tokyo, 1975, colour and
monochrome illustrations, mostly from photos, a few spots to one
leaf at rear, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed and a little
frayed, small folio, plus other early 20th century and modern
literature including The Mighty World of Marvel Pin-Up Book, by
Stan Lee, 1st edition, 1978, mostly original cloth, many in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
557 Walpole (Horace). Letters... to George Montagu, Esq. from
the Year 1736 to the 1770, 2nd edition, 1819, some spotting,
modern boards with remains of original spine label, 4to, together
with Clarke (William), Repertorium Bibliographicum, or, Some
Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries, 1819, extraillustrated with approximately 50 additional portraits, some
spotting, armorial bookplates of James Comerford and
Cornelius Walford, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and
faded on spine, plus a second copy in straight-grain green morocco
gilt, plus Thane (John), British Autography, A Collection of FacSimiles of the Hand Writing of Royal and Illustrious Personages,
with their Authentic Portraits, 3 volumes, [1819], engraved titles,
engraved plates with tinted backgrounds throughout,
contemporary calf, some corner wear, morocco gilt rebacks,
rubbed, 4to, plus other bibliography and libraries interest
(3 shelves)
£150-200
560 Topography. A large collection of early 20th century and
modern UK topographical and miscellaneous travel reference,
including publications by Batsford, A. & C. Black, Hakluyt Society,
mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
556 Sherwood (George, editor). The Pedigree Register, 3
volumes, no date, circa 1916, contemporary green half calf gilt,
rubbed, small folio, together with Seton (George), The Law and
Practice of Heraldry in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1863, author's
presentation inscription to half-title, later quarter calf gilt,
slightly stained, 8vo, plus Thoms (William J.), The Book of the
Court..., 1838, engraved portrait frontispiece, spotted and offset
to title, original cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid,
darkened and soiled, 8vo, plus other heraldry and genealogy
interest, mostly 19th century and early 20th century, many
leather-bound and including 26 volumes of The Genealogist in nonmatching bindings
(3 shelves)
£150-200
(6 shelves + a carton)
£200-300
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£150-200
563 Hammond (Henry). A Collection of Such Answers and
Discourses, wherein The Doctrine of the Church of England,
Concerning Church-Festivals, and Baptizing Infants, is defended
against Mr. Cawdrey and Mr. Tombes, volume 2 only, 1658, The
Baptizing of Infants Reviewed and Defended from the Exceptions
of Mr. Tombes..., 1655, A Reply to the Catholick Gentlemans
Answer to the most materiall parts of the Booke of Schisme...,
volume 3 only, 1654, The Disarmers Dexterities Examined. In a
Second Defence of the Treatise of Schisme, 1656, all printed for
Richard Royston, 4 volumes bound in one, some light marks and
spotting, modern gilt decorated half calf, 4to, together with Russel
(Richard), A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Diseases
of The Glands..., 5th edition, 1769, 2 monochrome plates, plus
frontispiece, ex-library copy with associated stamps, some minor
marks and spotting, split front and rear gutters, contemporary full
calf, spine and hinges split, rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and
Caesar (Julius), Caii Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii De Rebus A Caesare
Getis Commentarii..., Glasgow, 1750, bookplate to front
pastedown, repair to fore-edge of title page, some light spotting,
new endpapers, modern calf spine retaining contemporary full
calf, boards slightly rubbed, folio, plus other 17th & 19th century
literature and miscellaneous reference, some foreign language,
mostly leather bindings, some odd volumes, condition is generally
good/very good, 8vo/folio (approximately 150 volumes)
(6 shelves)
567 Morier (James). The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, 1897,
numerous monochrome illustrations, period inscription to front
endpaper, some light spotting, original red cloth, boards and spine
slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other early 20th century and
modern travel reference, including Baedeker’s Guides, Freya Stark,
H.V. Morton, Sacheverell Sitwell, Gerald Durrell, all original cloth,
mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(6 shelves)
568 Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of miscellaneous
reference, including military, history, engineering, transport,
mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
£300-500
(6 shelves)
(6 shelves)
Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 19.5%
(Lots marked * 23.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
£150-200
571 Bell (Quentin). Virginia Woolf, A Biography, volumes 1 & 2, 4th
& 2nd impressions, 1972, monochrome illustrations, original grey
cloth in dust jackets and slipcase, covers slightly rubbed with loss
to head, 8vo, together with Williamson (Henry), The Flax of Dream,
circa 1930, The Innocent Moon, 1961, It Was The Nightingale, 1962,
The Power of the Dead, 1963, Lucifer Before Sunrise, 1967, all 1st
editions, some light spotting, all original cloth in dust jackets,
spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and De La Mare
(Walter), Winged Charot, 1st edition, 1951, original yellow boards
in dust jacket, covers slightly marked, loss to foot of spine, 4to, plus
other modern 1st edition fiction, biography and historical
reference, including Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, C.P. Snow,
Hammond Innes, William Harwood, all original cloth, mostly in dust
jackets, G/VG, also includes a carton of mixed 19th century prints
£200-300
566 Poyser (T. & A.D., publishers). Birds in Ireland, by Clive D.
Hutchinson, 1989, Scotland’s Nature in Trust, by J. Laughton
Johston, 2000, Flight Identification of European Raptors, by R.F.
Porter, et al, 1974, Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland, a History
Survey, by John Parslow, 1973, Bird Observations in Britain and
Ireland, by Roger Durman, 1976, (ex library copy with associated
marks), all 1st editions, numerous monochrome illustrations, all
original cloth in dust jackets, some price clipped, 8vo, together with
other mostly modern avian and natural history reference, mostly
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(5 shelves + a carton)
£200-300
570 Natural History. A large collection of modern natural history
reference, including publications by T. & A.D. Poyser, David &
Charles, Unwin Animal Library, mostly original cloth in dust jackets,
G/VG, 8vo/folio
£150-200
565 Finberg (Alexander J.). The History of Turner’s Liber
Studiorum, with a new Catalogue Raisonné, 1924, limited edition
34/650, signed by the author to limitation page, numerous
monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, contemporary grey
cloth, slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4o, together with
Wilton (Andrew), Turner, Girtin and Bonington, A New York Private
Collection, published privately, 2001, numerous colour and
monochrome illustrations, original grey cloth in slipcase, large 8vo,
and Finberg (A.J.), The National Gallery. A Complete Inventory of
the Drawings of The Turner Bequest..., volumes 1 & 2, 1909, some
light toning, uniform original green cloth, spine slightly rubbed to
head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern Turner and watercolour
reference, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some
paperback editions, some duplicates, 8vo/4to, G/VG
(5 shelves)
£100-150
569 Essick (Robert N.). The Separate Plates of William Blake, A
Catalogue, Princeton University Press, 1983, numerous colour and
monochrome plates, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed
with wear and minor loss to head and foot, 4to, together with
Bindman (David), The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake,
1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, original brown cloth in
price clipped dust jacket, spine slightly faded, folio, and Damon (S.
Foster), The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake, A Blake Dictionary,
Brown University Press, USA, 1965, ex library copy with associated
stamps and marks, original blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket,
spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, plus other modern
William Blake reference and biography, mostly original cloth, some
in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
564 Railway. A large collection of modern railway, steam and
locomotive reference and related, including publications by P.S.L.,
Ian Allan, O.P.C., Alan Sutton, Blandford, mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(6 shelves)
£100-150
(6 shelves & 2 cartons)
£100-150
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£200-300
572 Haskins (Sam). Cowboy Kate & Other Stories, 1965, November
Girl, 1967, both 1st editions, numerous monochrome full page
illustrations, original grey boards in dust jackets, covers slightly
rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with Beaton (Cecil), New
York, 1st edition, 1938, numerous monochrome illustrations, plus
colour frontispiece, some minor spotting, original yellow cloth,
spine slightly faded, 8vo, and Burroughs (William), Naked Lunch,
3rd printing, New York, 1959, original black cloth in dust jacket,
covers slightly rubbed, spine lightly faded, 8vo, plus other modern
biography and literature, including theatre reference, all original
cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(6 shelves)
575 Snape (Andrew). The Anatomy of an Horse... Printed by M.
Flesher for the Author, 1683, 48 (of 49) engraved plates, lacks
initial blank and portrait frontispiece (supplied in facsimile), a few
closed tear repairs and a few ink spots, occasional spotting or
browning, contemporary calf, antique-style reback and corners
restored, folio, together with Raleigh (Walter), The History of the
World, in Five Books..., 2 volumes, 11th edition, 1736, engraved
portrait frontispiece, cut down and relaid, titles in red and black,
8 double-page maps, modern amateur half morocco gilt with
embossed library stamp to upper covers and gilt classification
number at foot of spines, folio, plus Gray (Thomas), Designs by
Mr R. Bentley, For Six Poems by Mr T. Gray, Printed for J. Dodsley,
1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, engraved
vignettes, a few old ink marginalia, some spotting,
contemporary mottled calf, some edge wear, rebacked with
original spine relaid, folio, plus other miscellaneous mostly
antiquarian including a partly defective copy of The Historie of
Foure-Footed Beastes (1607), literature, history, natural history,
art, magic, etc.
£100-150
573 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Stories from Hans Anderson, 1911,
28 colour tipped in illustrations, including frontispiece with
detached tissue guard, some minor toning and spotting, split front
and rear gutters, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards slightly
marked, spine light faded and rubbed, large 8vo, together with
Kipling (Rudyard), Just So Stories, 1902, monochrome illustrations
by the author, some light marks, front and rear gutters repaired
with archive tape, original illustrated red cloth, boards and spine
slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Pennell (E.R. & J.), The
Life of James Whistler, volumes 1 & 2, 1908-09, numerous
monochrome plates and illustrations, some light spotting, uniform
original yellow cloth spines to brown boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo,
plus other late 19th and early 20th century illustrated and
children’s literature, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth,
some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
(3 shelves)
576 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall). A Bibliographical Antiquarian and
Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in
Scotland, 2 volumes bound in 4, 1838, extra-illustrated with
engraved views and plates, some spotting, modern half calf with
contrasting leather spine labels, large 8vo, together with Roscoe
(Thomas), Wanderings and Excursions in North [& South] Wales, 2
volumes, circa 1840, each with 50 engraved plates including
additional titles, folding map to each, some heavy spotting, inner
hinges cracked, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rubbed,
8vo, plus Rose (Thomas), Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham
& Northumberland Illustrated..., 1838, 70 engraved views, mostly
two to a page, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed,
spine torn at head, 4to, plus other 19th and 20th-century travel
and topography
£200-300
574 Natural History. A large collection of modern natural history
reference, including publications by Batsford, Blandford, P.S.L.,
David & Charles, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG,
8vo/folio
(6 shelves)
£500-800
£150-200
(3 shelves)
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£200-300
MILITARY & AVIATION
MARITIME & TRANSPORT HISTORY
MEDALS, STAMPS & COINS
12 MAY 2017
A 1929 Schneider Trophy silver-plated presentation piece by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, finely modelled with a Supermarine
S6 on naturalistic base, inscribed 'Winner Schneider Trophy 1929, World Speed Record 357 M.P.H., Supermarine Rolls Royce
S6', 11cm wingspan, base 10cm long.
From the D’Arcy Greig Collection.
Est: £2,000-3,000
For further information please contact Henry Meadows or Chris Albury
[email protected]
[email protected]
PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS
OLD MASTER & MODERN PRINTS
15 JUNE 2017
Attributed to Lam Qua (active 1825-1860). Mandarin scholar in his study, oil on canvas,
44.5 x 35cm (17.5 x 13.75 ins), period giltwood frame.
Estimate £2000-3000
For further information and consignment advice please contact Nathan Winter
[email protected]
CERAMICS, ORIENTAL WORKS OF ART
SILVER, OBJETS D’ART, JEWELLERY & FURNITURE
15 JUNE 2017
A collection of Chinese jade carvings, Ming & Qing Dynasties, various estimates
For further information and consignment advice please contact Henry Meadows
[email protected]
Bronze Head of Buddha, Thailand,
Ayutthaya Period, 15-16th Century.
Estimate £2000-3000
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Nathan Winter
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Henry Meadows
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Colin Meays
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Paul Rasti
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buyer's cheque has been cleared.
5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to
clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with
the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights:
(i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall
pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale
after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus
shall belong to the seller.
(ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract.
(b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or
lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the
Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge
the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot
per day.
(c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he
has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.
6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the
Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any
lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any
lot on which a reserve has been placed.
(b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller
accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer
the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special
expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot.
(c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by
private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from
the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.
7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue,
brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested
should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and
neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the
correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the
Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied
warranties are hereby excluded.
8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of
any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery
and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the
same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the
sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the
entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of
the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded.
"A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive.
(b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount
paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was
made out by the Auctioneer.
9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance
with 4(d) hereof.
10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be
delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will
be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by
the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose
of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the
saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability
to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods
to theAuctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.
11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's
premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks
of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage.
The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in
the case of unsold lots the lower estimate, or in the case of loss or
damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the
Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the
auction value of such goods.
(b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss,
theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the
owner’s written instructions.
12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty
days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of
the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will
not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any
cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the
Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the
seller hereunder lapses.
13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to
sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in
respect of the lot or lots.
14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation
and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if
incorporated herein.
15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
English Law.
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PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS
British Topography including Yorkshire
Fine Bookbindings: Renaissance to Arts & Crafts
Decorative Arts & Design
14 JUNE 2017
John Gould. The Birds of Great Britain,
25 original parts (complete), 1862-1873.
Fine uncut copy with superb hand-colouring,
heightened with gum-arabic
Est: £30,000-40,000
Further entries invited. Please contact Nathan Winter, Chris Albury, Colin Meays or John Trevers
[email protected] | 01285 860006
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