Pierce (Michael) and others. '...So Few: a folio dedicated to all who fought and won the Battle of Britain 10th July - 31st October 1940', number 43 of 401 copies, signed by the creative team with 25 tipped-in silhouette portraits of surviving pilots by Michael Pierce, all signed in pencil by the artist and subjects and with photographic plates of them & their related memorabilia and facsimile accounts, in original RAF blue morocco upper cover inlaid with pilot`s wings and blocked in gilt, with accompanying leaflet in original cloth drop-back box, 4to Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1990.Some minor dents to the edges of the outer slipcase, with surface wear - the book itself has no apparent damage.
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Cecil ALDIN (ill): Cecil Aldin's Painting Books, No. 3: The Cat and Dog Book. Lawrence and Jellicoe, no date, c1920, with 10 pictures to colour, of which 6 are uncoloured, Tear to two pages, without loss; PLUS Two others, both With All Faults: No.2, The Farm-Yard; & American No. 2, The Poultry Book; Rough and Tumble. Frowde, H&S, no date (1913), with 24 colour plates. 4to. Pictorial covers; one plate with the facing page damaged (stuck together & separated); one page torn with loss (not affecting the text), a few crayon marks, including a couple of small ones to the margin of one plate; How to Draw Dogs. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1935, 1st. Edn. DW, with tears & missing part of the spine; VG; Jack and Jill. Henry Frowde, no date (1914). 1st. Edn. All 24 colour plates present. 4to. Pictorial boards, rubbed and spine torn & detached; Just Among Friends. Eyre And Spottiswoode, 1934, 1st. Edn. 4to. Covers rubbed, Good+; Berkshire Vale. Oxford, Blackwell, 1927, 1st. Edn. Folio. VG; Dogs of Character. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1927, 1st. Edn. 4to. Very Good; Ratcatcher to Scarlet. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933, 3rd. Edn. 4to. Covers little rubbed; VG (10)
BINDINGS: A large collection, including: Hearne, T: The Itinerary of John Leland, Vols. 1 to 6 of 9 bound in 2 vols. J Fletcher, Oxford, 1745, With a folding plate, and a list of subscribers. Cont. full leather; Walker, J: The Sufferings of the Clergy in the Times of the Grand Rebellion. 1714, 1st. Edn. Two parts in one volume. PP: [4], li, [17], 1- 204, 1-436. Folio, Cont. full panelled calf and later spine; Foxe's Book of Martyrs, c1860; Strutt: The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1833 & 34; Etc. (qty,)
Cecil ALDIN (ill): Bunnyborough. Humphrey Milford, no date, (1919), 1st. Edn. Folio. With colour title page and all 16 colour plates present. Pictorial boards, rubbed; MAC. Frowde and H&S, no date (1912), 1st. Edn. 4to. Pictorial boards. All 24 colour plates present, BUT text page to plate V missing, and supplied in Photostat; Emanuel: A Dog Day. 1904 reprint, with 28 colour plates. Pictorial boards, rubbed; A Gay Dog. 1905, 1st. Edn. With 24 colour plates. 4to. Pictorial boards, corner of upper cover chewed off, o/w VG; The Twins. Henry Frowde, no date (1910). 1st. Edn. All 24 colour plates present. 4to. Pictorial boards, rebacked & inner hinges strengthened with tape. Good+; The Bunch Book, For Dog Lovers Only. 1932, 1st. Edn. Spine a little faded, VG. (6)
Green (Valentine) The History and Antiquities of the City and Suburbs of Worcester, London: for the author by W. Bulmer, 1796, 2 volumes, rebacked gilt tooled diced red calf, later title and volume labels, armorial bookplate for Joseph Jones, marbled endpapers and edges, portrait frontispiece, vignette title, 14 plates to volume 1, fold out map to volume 2, vignette frontispiece and 9 plates to volume 1; together with Wild (Charles) An Illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, London: by the author, 1823, large folio, large paper edition, original boards with pasted paper label to front board, twelve engraved plates (3)A Gloucestershire book collectorGreen: later rebacked retaining original boards with spine replaced and new title labels, first few pages of volumes 2 disbound, fold tear to fold out map, scattered foxing throughout, pastedowns with browned edges, boards rubbed and corners bumped.Wild: boards worn with loss and dampstains, text clean with plates foxed
Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey: An Illustrated History and Description of Fonthill Abbey, London: by Charles Knight and Co, 1823, folio, original boards rebacked in green leather, half title, frontispiece and additional engraved title, armorial vignette title, 11 plates fold out map. fold out tables, frontispiece, additional title and one further plate coloured, final armorial device for John RutterA Gloucestershire book collector
World Travel & Other Subjects to include: Petavius (D.) Rationarium temporum in partes duas, Libros tredecim, distributum, Leiden: Peter Van der Aa, 1710, 8vo, contemporary blind stamped vellum, three folding maps, lacking other plates and maps, title in red and black, device to title; The New and Complete Book of Martyrs ... being Fox's Book of Martyrs, London: for Alex Hogg, n.d., folio, frontispiece and multiple further plates full calf, poor condition and not collated; together with various volumes on antique collecting
Atkyns (Robert) The Ancient & Present State of Glocestershire, London: T. Spilsbury for W. Herbert [et al.], 1768, large paper copy, folio, second edition, contemporary diced calf, gilt spine with title and date labels, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates for William Beauchamp Lygon and Lord Northwick, 5 engraved plates of arms, some double page, folding map of Gloucestershire, 64 double page plates, one engraved mapA Gloucestershire book collector
Lysons (Samuel) An Account of Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucester, London: sold by Cadell & Davies, 1797, large folio, engraved handcoloured title and dedication page, two introductions, one in English and the other in French, 40 plates, of which several double page and most hand-coloured, later neatly rebound with calf spine and corners and marbled boards, marbled endpapers; Inscribed 'Catherine Susanna Lysons, the gift of her father Danl. Lysons, April 8th 1830'A Gloucestershire book collectorrebound with new endpapers, spotting and browning to text pages throughout, plate on p 20 imprinted on facing page, plate 2 with darkening to margins around plate. Volume complete
A collection of uniformly rebound books on Tapestries and Embroidery in brown half calf with orange cloth boards to include: Blazkova (J.) Wandteppiche, Prague: Artia, 1957, folio; Goebel (Heinrich) Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York: Brentanos, 1924, folio; Thomson (W. G.) A History of Tapestry, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906, 4to; Kendrick (A. F.) A Book of Old Embroidery, London: The Studio, 1921, 4to; Vallance (Aymer) William Morris, London: George Bell, 1909, 4to; Hunter (George Leland) Decorative Textiles, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1918, folio; Thomson (W. G.) Tapestry Weaving in England, London: Batsford, 1914, folio (7)The Library of Raymond Benardout
Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Dorset from an actual Survey made in the Years 1825 & 1826 ... London: Greenwood, Pringle & Co, 1826, large folio (58cm x 64.5cm), part calf and marbled boards, 6 engraved plates of the map sections, including a vignette of 'Melcombe Regis near Weymouth' A Gloucestershire book collectorChorley's, December 2009, lot 70; Christie's, September 1985, Lot 47 Front board detached, spine gilt and worn with losses, interior clean with some marginal wear
Dryden (John) Fables, Ancient and Modern, first edition, half-title, unsigned leaf 4O2 (Table, numbered 565 on recto) bound after *D2, [Pforzheimer 326; Wing D2278], for Jacob Tonson, 1700, bound with Poems on Various Occasions, R4 small hole affecting few letters, a few minor marginal paper-flaws, for Jacob Tonson, 1701, together 2 works in 1 vol., armorial bookplates, book-label of J.O. Edwards, some light browning and spotting, occasional soiling or light staining, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt and with morocco label (chipped), joints and extremities worn, rubbed, joints split but covers holding; and 3 others Dryden, folio (4)
Apraxine (Pierre) Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, limited edition, offset lithograph frontispiece and 199 plates by Richard Benson, original calf backed boards, very light surface marks to calf, original slipcase (light staining), preserved in original publisher's cardboard box, elephant folio, Meriden, White Oak Press, 1985. *** "A tour-de-force for offset lithography" - Grolier Club, Century for a Century, p94. A superbly printed book, presenting pictures from one of the world's important photography resources. These images, selected by Pierre Apraxine, curator of the Gilman collection, illustrate the work of over one hundred photographers. The scope ranges from the experimental daguerrotype of the early 1840's to the pioneering photographs by Robert Frank and Diane Arbus of the mid 1950s and 1960s.
HAMILTON (Vereker M.) and Stewart M. FASSON. Scenes in Ceylon, [1881], oblong folio, title in red and black, 20 plates, slight mottling and mould staining to fore margin of first few leaves, some reinforcing, not affecting plates, scattered faint spotting, pictorial morocco-backed boards, some paint splatter spots, rubbed and wornWe do not offer in house shipping.Jentel, Mailboxes or Pack and Send may be able to help youThere is several instances of foxing thorughout the book particualarly on the flyleaves before and aft of the book. There are various marks throughout the book and multiple pages with tears at the bottom of the pages which have been repaired with masking tape, along with a few pages in the centre which have fold creases (one of which with a tear along the crease line). There is bubbling to the front cover and wear to the back of the cover. Please refer to the additional images for further detail.
Literature, various. ELIOT (T S) Four Quartets, 1st edition, in book form, London: Faber & Faber, 1944, 8vo, slight ripple to contents in places, cloth in dust jacket; GREENE (G) Our Man in Havanna, 1st edition, 1958, dust jacket, slightly stained rear panel; The Comedians, 1966, 1st edition, dust jacket; CARROLL (Lewis) Through the Looking Glass, 1928, colour plates, calf, chipped spine; BARBER (Mary) Some Drawings of Ancient Embroidery Thirty Specimens, Sotheran 1880, folio, colour plates, contents loose, original cloth; DULAC (E) Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, no date, 4to, tipped in colour plates, some toning, cloth; DICKENS (C) & W. COLLINS. No Thoroughfare, Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1867, 8vo, paper wrapper; The Ladies' Cabinet, Nov. 1834, 12mo, 4 coloured costume plates, paper wrapper;
Architecture and Building. NEWLANDS (James) The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant, 1869, folio, plates, half morocco, some rubbing; NICHOLSON (P) The New Practical Builder, 1823, 2 vols., (text and plates), modern binding; The Builder's and Workman's New Director, 2 vols., (text and plates), 1852, 4to, rebacked; Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet Making, 1826, 4to, plates, modern half calf; JOHNSON (W) The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, 1853, 4to, plates, worn half calf; with others similar, some toning and use staining to contents. Sold not subject to return
PALLADIO (Andrea) The Four Books of Architecture, translated by Isaac Ware, [2nd edition, 1755], no date, London: for the Author, folio, advert leaf, each part with an engraved undated title page, engraved plates (pl. V of Book 2 torn with slight loss at head), general age toning, some typical use staining, previous owner's name dated 1845 to general title, recased in a modern half binding; SALMON (William) Palladio Londinensis; or, the London Art of Building, 4th edition, London 1752, small 4to, 52 engraved plates as required, including folding, modern reverse calf binding
London. History and architecture. GALER (A M) Norwood and Dulwich, 1890. small 4to, illustrated, original pictorial cloth; SYKES (C S) Private Palaces, 1985, dust jacket; PHILLIPS (H) Mid-Georgian London, Collins 1964, 4to, dust jacket; KEENE, BURNS & SAINT. St Paul's, 2004, folio, dust jacket; PEARCE (D) London's Mansions, Batsford 1986, dust jacket; The Book of Watford, a portrait of our Town c1800-1987, dust jacket; BYRNE (A) Bedford Square, 1990, slip case; etc (32)
Country Pursuits. WALTON & COTTON. The Complete Angler, 5th edition 1791, 12mo, plates, modern binding; FRANCIS (F) A Book on Angling, 6th edition, 1885, 8vo, coloured plates, modern binding; PAYNE-GALLWEY (Sir R) The Fowler in Ireland, 1882, 8vo, illustrated, modern binding; The Sportsman's Dictionary, 1778, 4to, lacks frontis, all other plates present, double column text, tree calf, rebacked preserving spine strip; MILLAIS (J G) The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901, 4to, photogravure plates, binding stained with torn spine strip; The Complete Art of Fowling, Pt. IV, pp.119-173, folio, woodcut illustrations, modern half morocco; others (9)
ORDNANCE SURVEY DOMESDAY BOOK, Facsimile of the Part relating to Suffolk, 1863, folio, lithographic printing, a good clean copy in modern half morocco; PAGE (Augustine) A Topographical and Genealogical History of the County of Suffolk, 1847, thick 8vo, well bound in half morocco by Root and Son
BARTHES (Roland) Erte (Romain de Tirtoff), Parma: Franco Maria Ricci 1972, folio, no.1869/2000 copies, mounted colour plates, slip case; The Speaking Toybook, no date, circa 1900, oblong 8vo, 6 colour plates of animals with pulls to one side operating their sounds, rear board unglued revealing mechanism, original pictorial binding; Raccolta di Ercolano, di Pompei, di Stabia, vol. of uncoloured line engravings circa 1830, modern covers; AUSTIN (S) The Story without an End, 1874, large 8vo, 15 colour plates, light marginal staining, original cloth, rebacked; LANG (A) The Brown Fairy Book, 1st edition 1904, cloth; The Green Fairy Book, 1892, bright cloth gilt; WILDE (O) Salome, Boston 1912, 8vo, illustrated by Beardsley, library blindstamp to 1st leaf; etc (13)
THORNTON (R), THE TEMPLE FLORA OR GARDEN OF THE BOTANIST, POET, PAINTER, PHILOSOPHER, limited edition, No 392, with two plates in sleeve and commentary book, large folio, ¼ green leather with pictorial board, The Folio Society, 2008, in folding box, (1).Condition Report: Books and two plates in good condition, clean and bright. Back cover of main book with light single line scuff. Folding case with some knocks and rubbing to edges and corners.
CHAUCER (C), THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER, a facsimile of the original, limited edition, 701/1000, bound by Smith Settle at Otley, Yorkshire, in Nigerian goatskin, The Folio Society, 2002, with folding case (1).Condition Report: Book in good condition with very slight rubbing to the bottom of one corner and minimal knock to the page edges of page block. Case with a couple of minor scuffs, knocks to all four corners, a little dusty and with very minor rubbing.
Nimrod, British Field Sports, Sporting: British Field Sports, Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1838, Folio viii, 144pp, with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page with vignette, 21 full-page engraved plates, very light foxing to plates. later red binding Charles James Apperley (1777-1843), known by his pen name 'Nimrod', was a celebrated British sportswriter and hunting correspondent. Apperley gained popularity for his vivid and enthusiastic accounts of hunting, horseracing, and other field sports. Born into a family with military connections, Apperley spent much of his early life immersed in equestrian culture. His writings appeared in the 'Sporting Magazine' and brought a fresh, authoritative voice to the literature of British sporting life. "Nimrod" is best remembered for his detailed descriptions of hunts, horses, and the intricacies of rural sporting life. His works often blended humor, knowledge, and insightful social commentary, making him a beloved figure in 19th-century sports literature. Apperley's later years were spent living abroad due to financial struggles, but his legacy as a sporting writer endured, with "Nimrod" remaining synonymous with British hunting culture. Sporting: British Field Sports is a folio edition from 1838, edited by Charles James Apperley under his famous pen name "Nimrod." This lavishly illustrated volume is a treasure trove of British sporting life, capturing the essence of field sports such as hunting, shooting, and angling. The book features large engravings and vignettes based on paintings by celebrated artists including Thomas Gainsborough, Edwin Landseer, and others. The 21 full-page plates, along with numerous in-text vignettes, bring to life scenes of British countryside sporting events, making this an artistic and cultural masterpiece. In addition to the visual elements, the literary contributions of well-known figures such as Thomas Hood and John Hamilton Reynolds enrich the text with observations on sporting life and field sports techniques.
British Topography. A large collection of early 20th Century & modern British topography & county histories, including Feet of Fines for Essex, 2 volumes, edited by R. E. G. Kirk, Colchester: The Society at the Museum in the Castle, 1899-1928, contemporary uniform quarter morocco, 8vo, London Town Past and Present, 2 volumes, W. W. Hutchings, London: Cassell and Company, 1909, contemporary uniform black half morocco, large 8vo, and Domesday Book reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)
Domesday. The Millennium Edition of Great Domesday Book, 6 volumes, Alecto Historical Editions, 2000, comprising 2 facsimile volumes bound in embossed calf replicating the 12th century Winton Domesday, each contained in a beige suede bag with ties, together with 2 translation volumes and Index volume, each in quarter linen, plus a set of maps in a matching solander box, and the publisher's prospectus in original envelope, folioQTY: (7)NOTE:Limited edition, 138/450 copies. The Millennium Edition contains the complete text of the Domesday survey as a facsimile. The binding is a replica of the English Romanesque binding on the Winton Domesday - the earliest known Domesday binding.
Valckenier (Pieter). Das Verwirrte Europa. Oder Politische und Historische Beschreibung Der in Europa, fürnehmlich in dem Vereinigten Niederlande und in dessen Nachbarschafft seither dem Jahre 1664. entstandenen und durch die gesuchte allgemeine Monarchie der Frantzosen verursachten blutigen Kriegen und leidigen Empörungen nebenst deroselben Ursachen und Gründen. Fürgestelt in vier Teilen..., Nebenst den Authenticquen Copeyen der Briefe und gewissen Berichten..., 4 parts plus Copeyen der Briefe and register, Amsterdam: Jacob von Meurs, Johannes von Someren, Hendrich & Diederich Boom, 1677, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red and black with woodcut device, 19 engraved portraits and 17 double-page engraved plates and plans, separate title and register to Copeyen der Briefe, occasional toning and minor spotting, lacking free endpapers, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, folio, together with:Marnix van St. Aldegonde (Philips van). Binenkorb des Heil. Röm. Im[m]enschwarms, seiner Hummelszellen (oder Him[m]elszellen) Hurnaussnäster, Brämengeschwürm und Wespengetöss. ... Durch Jesuwalt Pickhart..., Gedruckt zu Christlingen [i.e. Strasbourg?]: Ursino Gottgwinn, c.1600, title in red and black with woodcut illustration also in red and black (title reattached at gutter), few woodcut illustrations, browning and occasional damp-stains, 19th-century brown half morocco, gilt decorated spine, 8vo,Cornelius (Cornelissen Van Den Steene). Commentarii in IV Evangelia..., 2 volumes in one, Leiden: Jacobum Canier, Antonium Beaujollin, Antonium Laurens, 1685, half-title to first volume, titles in red and black with printer's woodcut device, light worm trails to margins of few leaves, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, some wear to extremities, folio,Baronio (Cesare). Le Corps des Annales sacrées et ecclésiastiques..., 2nd edition, Paris: Jacques d'Allin, 1655, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black with woodcut device and early signature, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, worn at head and foot of spine, folio, Luis (de Granada). Catechisme et introduction au symbole de la foy..., Paris: Louis Boullenger, 1654, title printed in red and black with engraved portrait illustration (with tear and small hole to image, insect hole to one letter of first word in title, early ink annotation to fore-margin), light damp-stain to upper and lower margins of initial leaves, margins of last few leaves repaired, contemporary vellum, light wear to extremities, folio,Bible [German]. Biblia: das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Ubersetzung und mit den Vorreden und Randglossen Martin Luthers, mit neuen Vorreden, Summarien, Weitla¨usigen Parallenen, Anmerkungen und geistlichen Anwendungen, auch Gebeten auf jedes Capitel, wobey zugleich No¨thige Register beygefu¨get sind. Ausgefertiget unter der Aufsicht und Direction Christoph Matthai Pfaffen, 8 volumes, Speyer: Ludwig Bernhard Frideich Gegel 1767-70, additional engraved title to first volume, some toning and occasional spotting, contemporary speckled sheep, joints cracked, spines worn, volume 7 lacking title label, 8vo, together with:Geier (Martin). Allgegenwarth Unsers Allsehenden Gottes Nach Anleitung etlicher Biblischen Sprche in dessen Furcht zu sein- und seines Nhesten Erbauung betrachtet..., Leipzig: Christian Michael, 1672, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound with Geiern (Martino). Liebe zu Gott und dem Nähesten: nach anleitung LII. biblischer Sprüche, Dresden: Johann Fritzschens and Michael Günthers, 1677, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title, browning throughout, sewing partly broken, text-block split with some gathering detached, contemporary vellum, upper joint split at head, split to head of spine, covers dust-soiled and marked, thick 8vo,Liturgies - Lutheran Church. Vollständiges Marburger Gesang-Buch: Zur Ubung der Gottseligkeit, in 615 Christlichen und trostreichen Psalmen und Gesängen Herrn D. Martin Luthers und anderer Gottseliger Lehrer, Ordentlich in XII..., Marburg and Frankfurt: Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1774, woodcut frontispiece and additional title, bound with an incomplete copy of Evangelia und Episteln, auf alle Sontage, Marburg and Frankfurt: Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1773 at rear of volume, lacking all after p.96, damp-staining and browning throughout, upper hinge broken, contemporary deerskin(?) over wooden boards, leather to spine and lower board very worn, lacking one clasp, 12mo QTY: (15)NOTE:Marnix van St. Aldegonde (Philips van) - A reprint of the pamphlet against the Catholic Church, first published in 1576, being an accurate translation of the Dutch Beyenkorf by Philipp von Marnix, without deletions or changes, but with numerous additions. The work was translated and edited by the Strasbourg writer Johann Fischart (1546-1591), who studied in Flanders, Paris and Tübingen and received his doctorate in law in Basel. He was initially a Lutheran, but then became a Calvinist in Basel and in his writings he vehemently opposed the Papacy and the Jesuits.Valckenier - A further two volumes of the first work listed were published in 1680 and 1683.Bible [German] - Not in Darlow and Moule. The volumes in the German Bible comprise the following, First part: the five books of Moses, Second part: from the book of Joshua to Ezra, Third part: from the book of Ezra to the Book of Solomon, The fourth and fifth part: the major and minor prophets, Sixth part: the apocryphal books, Seventh and eighth part: the New Testament.
Johnson Payne (Charles, pseud. Snaffles). Flower (Mark, Donald Crawford & Caroline Juler), Charles Johnson Payne, Snaffles, Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints, Millwood Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 1983, additional half-title, tipped in letter from H.R.H. Princess Anne with auto-pen signature, 82 tipped in colour prints, including several folding (complete as list) each with facing explanatory text, catalogue of the artist's work at rear, signed and limited by publisher on a label to the front pastedown, limited edition of 314/750, publisher's quarter morocco gilt, contained in the publisher's red cloth book box, with additional printed label to the upper siding, oblong folio, together with Jones (Henry). The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones, text by Peter J. S. Olney, Foreword by Sir Peter Scott C.B.E. DSC, London: Threshold Harrap, 1987, additional half-title with limitation of 244/350 and signed by Peter Olney, 60 tipped-in colour prints, publisher's blue half morocco gilt, oblong folio, contained in a contemporary blue cloth solander box, solander box a little dusty, with Edwards (Lionel). A Sportsman's Bag, Country Life Books Ltd. 1937. additional half-title, colour printed frontispiece and 17 (complete) colour plates, publisher's green cloth gilt, boards a little stained and rubbed, 4to, with Johnson Payne (Charles, pseud. Snaffles). 'Osses and Obstacles, published by Collins, 1935, additional half-title, numerous monochrome plates and vignettes throughout, publisher's cloth, boards faded, worn and a little rubbed, 4to, plus De Trafford (Sir Humphrey F., editor). The Foxhounds of Great Britain and Ireland, Their Masters and Huntsmen, London: Walter Southwood & Company, 1906, colour frontispiece, inserted errata slip, numerous black and white illustrations throughout including 3 full-page gravures, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Dennis Fortescue Bowles to the front pastedown, publisher's red half-morocco gilt, faded and a little rubbed, folio, with another 11 books similar, including examples by or after, Lionel Edwards, Alfred Munnings, Cecil Aldin and Michael Lyne, various sizes and conditionQTY: (16)
Books. Seven shelves of Egyptology and other ancient civilizations, early 20th c and later, including Westbrook (Raymond, editor), A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, two volume set, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003, hb, 8vo; David (A. Rosalie), Religious Ritual at Abydos (c.1300 BC), first edition, Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1973, original wrappers, 4to; Maspero (G.), The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldæ, with Map and Over 470 Illustrations and Plans, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894, original pictorial cloth, spine with faults, 8vo; Budge (E.A. Wallis), The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, volumes I-III, 1904, ex-lib, but clean, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; Petrie's History of Egypt, volume I, third edition, London: Methuen & Co, 1897, blue cloth, 8vo; Allen's Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, 4to; further reference works and academic imprints, including ancient Egyptian language and literature, hieroglyphs and epigraphy, some papyrus studies and transcripts, magic, medicine and mummification, tombs and archaeology, some exhibition catalogues, Folio Society, other ancient civilizations, 'coffee table' books, mixed bindings and sizes
U2 BOX SET CD AND LP COLLECTION INCLUDING CARDBOARD BOOMBOX SPEAKER - a collection of 3 U2 CD and LP box sets and a US cardboard boombox speaker. Collection to include: The Joshua Tree portable cardboard boombox speaker, The Joshua Tree - 4xCD 30th anniversary super deluxe edition, includes 84-page hardback book of photographs by The Edge from the original Mojave Desert Joshua Tree shoot (1986), folio of 8 rare 12" Anton Corbijn colour prints - Island (00602557482577), Achtung Baby - 6xCD 4xDVD super deluxe 20th anniversary limited edition box set, includes a 92-page hardback book and 16 12" Achtung Baby art prints - Mercury (00602527793702), Songs Of Surrender - 4xLP 180g black vinyl numbered box set (No 39718) (still sealed) - Island (00602445495580). The collection is generally in Ex+ condition.
Percier, Charles, 1764-1838, and Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, 1762-1853, Palais, maisons, et autres édifices modernes, dessinés à Rome, folio, with bookplate monogrammed P H-J for Philip Hewat-Jaboor and paper label for A.E. CHAMBELLAN Papetier. Rue du Bouloi No. 1., Paris: Chez les auteurs, au Louvre et P. Didot l'ainé, imprimeur-librairie, 1798Provenance: Property from the Private Estate of Philip Hewat-Jaboor. Footnotes: Note: This was the first book to introduce the Empire Style with its mixture of Roman, Greek, Italian, and Egyptian elements. Percier and Fontaine were Napoleon and Josephine's primary architects, and their work was inspired during a stay in Rome just after Percier had won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1786. The plates are of interior views, details, and exterior elevations to gardens. This is the second edition, published in the same year as the first, with only a slightly different title-page, and complete with the rare subscribers’ list. Millard I, 133; cf. Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung 2733 ; Cicognara 3822 (eds. 1798).
A group of Folio Society books comprising Great Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, First Folio, Robert Louis Stevenson The Body Snatcher and Other Stories, Nancy Mitford The Sun King, and Robert Louis Stevenson The Isle of Voices and Other Stories, together with various other vintage books including a leather bound Bible, a tartan covered Robert Burns book of poems and songs, John Donald Edinburgh the New Town, and an Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Valentini (Agostino) La Patriarcale Basilica Lateranense, 2 vol. in 1, half-title, 136 engraved plates, occasional foxing, book-label of the art historians Peter & Linda Murray, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Rome, 1832-34 § Letarouilly (Paul) Édifices de Rome Moderne, 3 plate vol. only, lacking rare 8vo text vol., engraved portrait, additional title and plates, light foxing, modern cloth, Paris, 1856-58 § Tatham (Charles Heathcote) Etchings, representing the best examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; drawn from the originals of Rome, list of subscribers, 100 etched plates only (of 102, lacking Grand Antique Barberini Candelabra plates for January and April 1799), loose in binding, later morocco, for the Author, 1799 § Nicolai (H.G., editor) Das Ornament der Italienischen Kunst des XV.Jahrhunderts, photogravure plates after Alfred Noack, contemporary half morocco, bit worn, Dresden, 1882 § Runge (L.) Der Glockenthurm des Doms zu Florenz, German & French text in double-column, engraved plate and large chromolithographed plate of the campanile on 3 sheets, marginal foxing, broken and loose, in contemporary board folder, lacking ties, spine worn, Berlin, 1853, all rubbed or worn; and 4 others, Italian, large folio; sold not subject to return (11)
Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The), edited by W.O.E.Oesterley, number 105 of 204 copies, printed in red and black, engraved plates and head-piece by Lettice Sandford, original pictorial cream buckram, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, lightly soiled with a couple of marks to upper cover, [Chanticleer 110], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.*** An infrequently seen book from the Golden Cockerel Press.
Golden Cockerel Press.- Hartnoll (Phyllis) The Grecian Enchanted, number 9 of 60 specially-bound copies signed by the author and artist and with an additional suite of aquatint plates and an unused one, from an edition limited to 360, title printed in pink and green with vignette and decorative border, 7 collotype plates after aquatints by John Buckland Wright, 9 additional aquatint plates printed from the copper plates loose in pocket at end, HNF book-label, original pictorial two-tone grey and pink morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, fighting cocks by JBW in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very slightly rubbed, cloth slip-case (faded), [Cock-a-Hoop 189; Reid A65], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952.
Drawings & Prints.- Ornament.- Moelder (Charles de) and others. Composite album of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century engravings of ornament, 14 engravings, including plates 1-6 of what was subsequently Suite N in Thomas Bowles’s 'A Compleat Book of Ornaments', various sizes, largest 210 x 290 mm (8 1/4 x 11 1/3 in), all are trimmed to or just within their plate marks and mounted on album leaves, most with old glue marks, most notably at their outer corners but some within images, nicks and losses, 19th century quarter morocco, marbled boards, Birmingham Assay Office Library stamp to front free endpaper, scuffed and slightly worn, oblong folio, [17th and 18th century]; together with a largely disbound copy of Charles Perrault's 'Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour, en l'année 1662', with many plates missing or damaged with losses; and 3 separate suites of vedute by Francois Vivares, Sebastien le Clerc, and Ludwig Richter, all loose, 18th and 19th century (5)Provenance:[Moelder] Sale. Forum Auctions, Birmingham Assay Office Library, 26th March 2020, lot 292 [part lot]
Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture..., engraved title and 64 plates, 4pp. publishers' catalogue at end (folio & folding), occasional foxing or soiling, mostly marginal, contemporary tree sheep, rebacked and recornered, new endpapers, [cf. BAL 1728 & Harris 411, other 1790s issues], I. & J. Taylor, [c.1797] § [Aikin (Edmund), C.A.Busby & others.] Designs and Examples of Cottages, Villas, and Country Houses..., 67 plates, 55 engraved (some aquatint), the rest wood-engraved, original blind-stamped cloth, John Weale, 1857 § Goodwin (Francis) Rural Architecture [Cottage Architecture], First & Second Series & 2 supplements, together 4 parts bound in 2 vol., second edition, supplements first edition, engraved frontispiece and 98 aquatint plates and plans, some foxing and offsetting, ink signature of John Worlledge, Ingham, modern bookplate of George Vernon, original cloth, vol.1 recased, John Weale, 1835 § Brooks (S.H.) Designs for Cottage and Villa Architecture, 111 engraved plates, foxed, book-label of architect Roderick Gradidge, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, [c.1839], all rubbed, the second and third faded, 4to (5) *** The second item is a compilation of reissued plates from Aikin's Designs for Villas and Busby's Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses, with a few more recent designs for houses in Italianate or Gothic styles in Harwich, Brighton and London. The third was originally published as Domestic Architecture in 2 volumes in 1833-34, then this second edition as Rural Architecture with supplements titled Cottage Architecture in 1835.
Hoskins (George Gordon) Designs for Chimney Pieces, only edition, 56 plates, slight spotting to title, plates lightly browned, bookplate of the Liverpool-based architect James O'Byrne with A.L.s. to him from Tho.Harrison & Co., Ironfounders of Liverpool loosely inserted, original decorated cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, small splits to upper joint, Darlington, 1871 § Clayton (John) A Collection of the Ancient Timber Edifices of England, tinted lithographed title, lithographed dedication and 26 tinted lithographed plates including several views, some foxing, bookplate of the Art Workers Guild (cancelled), contemporary morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, spine worn & defective, 1846; and 4 others, English, including a Coleson Wallpapers sample book of 1941, folio & obling folio (6)*** The first is a scarce collection of designs by a Darlington architect and dedicated to Alfred Waterhouse, the most prominent architect in the north of England at the time. Hoskins acted as clerk of works for two of Waterhouse’s commissions in the Darlington area in the 1860s. The second includes plates of some of the most notable black-and-white half-timber buildings in Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire, some no longer extant today.
Serlio (Sebastiano) Architettura...in sei libri divisa, [edited by Salustio Piobbici], title with elaborate woodcut border and portrait on verso, woodcut part titles and numerous illustrations, some full-page, 12 full-page engraved illustrations of doorways at end of Book V and another of 4 illustrations of Quadrato Geometrico on final leaf (engraved vignette & colophon to verso), with 2 half sheets of errata & woodcut illustrations bound in at pp.245 & 332, staining to lower margin of last few leaves with a couple of small repairs, Tt4 with short tear to inner margin repaired, a good clean tall copy, later half vellum over paste-paper boards, spine titled in manuscript, entirely uncut, soiled and stained, [BAL 1975, 357mm. tall; Fowler 332; not in Berlin Kat. or Cicognara], folio (c.405 x 260mm.), Venice, Gio.Giacomo Hertz, 1663.*** A very large, clean, untrimmed copy of a seemingly unrecorded issue of this collected folio edition of Serlio, containing illustrated texts of his Books I-V and also his 'Libro Estraordinario', and reusing the original woodblocks last used for editions of Serlio issued by the Venetian publisher Melchiore Sessa in the 1550s and early 1560s. The intervening Venetian editions of 1566, 1584 and 1619 had all been in a reduced size quarto format and had been printed from different woodblocks. The edition exists in two states, one with the imprint of Combi & Le Nou (BAL 2975), and this one, seemingly unrecorded and perhaps the earlier of the two, with the G.G.Hertz imprint. It contains two half sheets of errata, the BAL copy contains the one at p.332 but not that at p.245, which appears to be unrecorded.
King (Daniel) The Vale-royall of England· Or, The County Palatine of Chester Illustrated...Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants...Of the civil government. Of the trade..., first edition, engraved additional heraldic title, folding engraved maps of Cheshire & the Isle of Man, double-page plan of Chester, 11 plates of coats-of-arms and 5 other plates, some folding, engraved illustrations, one full-page of coats-of-arms, plate of 'Hugh Lupus' with two short tears to fore-edge (repaired), one or two other minor repairs, Macclesfield copy with embossed stamp to title and North Library bookplate, old manuscript list of plates to front free endpaper, early 18th century polished calf, gilt, spine gilt with morocco label, a little rubbed, a few scuffs, [Wing K488], folio, by John Streater, 1656.*** Handsome copy of a work in fact written by William Smith, William Webb and Samuel Lee, and the part devoted to the Isle of Man by James Chaloner. King wrote the preface and edited the work while Wencelaus Hollar provided the engravings. It includes an engraved vignette illustration of Crewe Hall which must be one of the very earliest illustrations in a printed book of a post-mediaeval English country house.
Wright (Thomas) Universal Architecture, Book 1. Six Original Designs of Arbours, vol.1 only (of 2), first edition, title in red & black with engraved vignette by M.Darly, list of subscribers also with engraved vignette, 12 engraved plates and plans, without the preliminary leaf ‘The Method of Executing the Design A (-F)’ (?issued later as not apparently missing), light stain to upper outer corner of title, a couple of marginal spots, stab-holes to upper or lower margins, contemporary marbled boards with paper label titled in manuscript "Designs of Arbours No1" on upper cover, a little rubbed and soiled, [Harris 951; BAL 3720, defective copy of Book I only, lacking 2 of the 12 plates), oblong folio, for the author, 1755.*** One of the great rarities of the literature of English eighteenth-century garden architecture, with fine impressions of the plates and in a contemporary binding. Thomas Wright (1711-1786) had had an initial career as a writer of books on astronomy, but had begun by the late 1740s to design garden buildings and to remodel country houses for a network of aristocratic English patrons. He announced in 1753 his intention to publish a volume of his designs for garden architecture, to be issued in three instalments covering “arbours, grottos and alcoves”, but the publication was dependent on his securing sufficient subscribers and it was not until 1755 that the present Book I, on arbours, appeared in print. The imaginative designs include a domed temple, an arbour “of the parasol kind”, an aviary, a hermitage and a platform for open air entertainment. Sadly he was unable to attract the required number of subscribers and although Book II, on grottos, followed in 1758, Book III, on alcoves, was never published."There are no other pattern-books of grottos, rustic buildings and ruined follies, nor at that time were there any books of architectural design so attractively presented in complete landscape settings." (Harris)
Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], [one of 260 copies], printed in red and black with text in Ptolemy type, side-notes in Blado Italic, chapter headings designed by Graily Hewitt, initials by Eric Gill, book-labels of H.Harvey Frost [printed at the Kelmscott Press], and Samuel & Marie-Louise Rosenthal, original white pigskin, by the W.H.Smith bindery, spine titled in gilt and with seven raised bands, lightly rubbed and soiled, [Hornby XXXVII], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1930.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Agostini (Antonio, Archbishop of Tarragona) Dialoghi...intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials and illustrations of coins, browned in parts, contemporary ink signature of Martin Bowes with his engraved bookplate, contemporary limp vellum, [Cicognara 2726], Rome, Filippo de' Rossi, 1650 § Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Gli antichi sepolcri, ovvero mausolei Romani, ed Etruschi, engraved title vignette and 108 plates numbered 1-110 (with additional plates 1 & 4, and 2 additional numbered 72, but lacking 9, 10 & 60-63), engraved bookplate of William Wynne of Inner Temple and his ink note of acquisition to front pastedown, modern book-label of the art historians Peter & Linda Murray, contemporary vellum, Rome, Domenico de’ Rossi, 1727, a little rubbed & soiled, folio (2)*** Bartoli’s work, first published in 1697, records the sculptured tombs, painted ceilings and mosaic pavements discovered in recent excavations in the grounds of the Villa Corsini in Rome, and of other notable tombs and mausoleums in and around Rome, including the tomb of Caecilia Metella, the pyramid of Caius Cestius, and the mausoleum of Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo).
Livius (Titus) The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua, translated by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, large woodcut device to title, woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth I to title verso, woodcut portrait of Livy to verso of A4, woodcut initials and headpieces, bound without initial blank, loss to title fore-edge with sympathetic repair, copious ink marginal notes in an early hand, occasional ink and pencil underlining and marginal notes in different later hands, ex-Campion Hall library with occasional neat ink-stamps and faint shelfmark to title verso, 4N5 with tiny rust hole affecting odd letter, 6C3 with loss to bottom affecting woodcut devices, occasional faint water-staining, mostly marginal, light soiling to title, odd faint spot, later reverse calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt lozenge with initial 'W. D.' to boards, [STC 16613; Pforzheimer 495.], folio, by Adam Islip, 1600. *** A good copy of the first edition in English of Livy's Roman History translated by Philemon Holland, with some interesting marginal notes. "Holland's first book, the first complete rendering of Livy into English, was published in 1600 when he was nearly fifty. It was a work of great importance, presented in a grand folio volume of 1458 pages, and dedicated to the queen. The translation set out to be lucid and unpretentious, and achieved its aim with marked success. It is accurate, and often lively, and although it does not attempt to imitate the terseness of Latin, it avoids prolixity." - Oxford DNB.
A very large quantity of wallpaper pattern books from the 20th century including Zoffany Archive Folio, Hamilton Weston, Archibald Knox, Mulberry, Watts of Westminster, The Design Archives, Houles Paris, Coles, Sanderson, The Temple Newsome Collection of Original Wallpapers and the Country House Collection by Stothert & Miles book of samples and trimmings book by Watts of Westminster (49).Condition Report: The books are all in a used condition but most contain the original wallpapers.
The Book of Ui Maine otherwise called The Book of the O'Kelly's edited by R.A.S. MacAlister. introduction and indexes Dublin. Stationery Office. Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts Series. 1942. Historic text, written by ten scribes in Ui Maine, eight of them remained anonymous, besides the principal scribe, Adhamh Cuisin, and Faolan Mac an Ghabhann na Sceal. Very large folio. Lovely copy in cloth
Folio and other books, comprising Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Betjeman Selected Poems, Nelson and Emma, Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, Spy Bedside Book, English Journey JB Priestley, Mortimer (John). Rumpole, The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Book of Mediterranean Food, Thomas Hardy and other books. (1 shelf)
Dante Alighieri.: Divina Commedia. (Mit Kommentar von Cristofor Landino und Würdigung Dantes durch Marsilio Ficino). (Auf dem letzten bedruckten Blatt:) Florenz, Niccolo di Lorenzo, 30. August 1481. Fol. Römische Type, Kommentar um die Verse gedruckt; 57 bis 60 Zeilen (inkl. Kopfzeile). 361 unnum. Bl. (statt 372 Bl.; Prooemium: 10 statt 14 Bl., ohne das erste und letzte weisse Bl. und ohne das erste und achte bedruckte Blatt; Inferno: 153 Bl. statt 154, ohne das erste weisse Bl.; Purgatorio: 107 Bl. statt 108, ohne das erste weisse Bl.; Paradiso: 91 statt 96 Bl., ohne die beiden bedruckten Bl. 85/86[L1-2] und die letzten drei weissen Bl.). Mit einer in Rot und Schwarz eingemalten grossen Initiale zu Beginn des ersten Canto und zwei in den Text eingedruckten Kupferstichen (wiederholt) zu Beginn des zweiten und dritten Cantos. Pergamentband des späten 19. Jhs. Mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschildchen. (Dieses lädiert). ISTC id00029000. GKW 7966. BMC VI, 628. Goff D-29. Mambelli 2311. Erste in Florenz gedruckte Commedia-Ausgabe, die erste mit dem sehr umfangreichen Kommentar von Cristofor Landino und der "Gratulatio" von Marsilio Ficino. Wie üblich nur mit zwei in den Text gedruckten Kupferstichen. Bis auf vier Textblätter und die weissen Blätter vollständiges Exemplar. "Niccolo di Lorenzo of Florence is the only printer thus far far encountered that did not abandon copper engraving after the first asttempt. He conceived the idea of the first illustrated Dante. At the head of each of the one hundred cantos he planned for an engraving. A magnificent folio resulted, but the illustrations give an almost perfect picture of the difficulties which he was not able to surmount. Of the one hundred engravings contemplated, only nineteen were finished. No copy is known to-day in which more than three of these are printed on the same page with the text, but in the bottom margin of the page - simply because the printer in setting up the type had forgotten to leave space for it! To-day, we invariably find it badly cropped. The balance of the nineteen engravings - and only a ferw copies contain this full number - are alwys pasted in. Some authorities have endeavoured to relate the engravings to Botticelli's designs, and to attribute them to the Florentine engraver Baccio Baldini. The discovery of a real series of Botticelli drawings for Dante, now at Berlin, which must be dated after 1490, has made rather short shrift of this theory." (Philip Hofer, Early Book Illustration in the Intaglio Medium, I, in: Print Collector's Quarterly vol. 21, No. 1, 1934, S.218ff.). "In most copies only the first and second plates are printed on the book's own paper, the others being ommited altogether or seprately printed and pasted on their places. In a few, of which this is one, the plate for Canto II is repeated at the head of Canto III. These illustrations influenced those of the Brescia and Venice editions of 1488 and 1491." (Katalog Dyson Perrin, No. 23). Das vorliegendeExemplar weist diesselbe Eigentümlichkeit auf. Da vorliegende Exemplar wurde zu Beginn des 20. Jhs. mit 22 Faksimiles der originalen Kupferstiche versehen. Sehr reizvoll ist an diesem Exemplar, dass die im Druck fehlenden Verse - die mit grossem Aufwand gemachte Ausgabe ist nicht sehr zuverlässig! - von einer zeitgenössischen Hand ergänzt wurden (Inferono Canto VI 3 Verse, Canto XXX 4 Verse; Purgatorio Canto XXXII 6 Verse und Paradiso Canto XVI 4 Verse). Eine weitere Eigenheit dieses Exemplars ist, dass die Recto-Seite des zweiten Blattes des Purgatorio nicht bedruckt, die Verso-Seite hingegen korrekt bedruckt ist. Durchgehend fingerfleckig, ebenfalls zahlreiche Bräunungen und schwacher Stockfleckenbefall. Das erste vorliegende Blatt stark fleckig, im Falz verstärkt und mit einigen Löchern. Einige weitere Blätter des Prooemiums im Falz verstärkt Der Unterrand des ersten Blattes des Inferno weggeschnitten und durch ein Faksimile des originalen Kupferstiches ersetzt; aussderdem Riss, im Falz unterlegt. Eine Reihe weiterer Blätter mit alten Ausbesserungen in den Rändern und an den Ecken. Auf einigen Blättern Besitzeintrag " Ex libris Nuti" oder "Io Franco Nuti"; ein Francesco Nuti gehörte zu den Spendern für das Dante-Monument in Santa Croce in Florenz.
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