Tolkien, J.R.R.The Silmarillion (1977, in dj, folding map, ink inscription on flyleaf); Unfinished Tales (1980, in dj, folding map); The Book of Lost Tales (1983, 2nd imp, in dj); The Treason of Isengard (1989, in dj); the Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (2009, in dj).With Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth (1982, in dj) and Helms, Randel, Tolkien and the Silmarils (1981, in dj). [7] £50 - 60
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Trollope, AnthonyThe Way We Live Now. Chapman & Hall, 1875. 8vo (2 vols). Half leather over marbled boards, spine of I with restoration to head; 40 illus by Lionel G. Fawkes. First edition. £100 - 200
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Wodehouse, P.G.Young Men in Spats. Herbert Jenkins, 1936. 8vo, org. green cloth, lettered and decorated in black, in dust-jacket (priced 7/6 on spine, with 19 Wyndham Martin titles on lower flap, Nightmare Castle and Spies of Peace at foot of flap); provenance: ink MSS gift inscription on ffep dated May 21st 1936. Stated first printing.idem The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, [1949]. 8vo, org. orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black, in clipped dj. Stated first printing.idem Week-end Wodehouse. Herbert Jenkins, 1951. 8vo, org. green cloth, in unclipped dj (priced 12/6); provenance: owner's MSS ink inscription on ffep dated 1953. First published in this edition. [3] £200 - 300
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Yeats, William ButlerLast Poems and Plays. New York: The Macmillan Co, 1940. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped dj. First ed. £100 - 200
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Careme, AntoninLe Patissier Pittoresque. Paris: Impremerie de Firmin Didot, 1828. 8vo, half red coarse-grain morocco over marbled boards, add. eng. tit. to plates, 125 plates (numbered 1-123 with 2 others), signed by Careme on verso of half-title as issued. Third ed.Perhaps the masterpiece of the Ancien Regime's cuisine, Careme's book sought to unite patisserie with poetry, music and scuplture as an artistic expression. He served Talleyrand, Napoleon, the Prince Regent, Tsar Alexander I, and James Mayer Rothschild across a long and successful career. £300 - 500
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AnonA Comparative View of the Nominal Value of the Silver Coin in England and France. Printed for J. Burd, 1760. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; pp. 20.A study of the advantages for French traders owing to the strong nominal value of the French silver currency. £60 - 80
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Anon.The Female Aegis or, The duties of women from childhood to old age, and in most situations of life exemplified. Sampson Low, 1798. 8vo, later half leather over marbled boards; frontis. supplied in facsimile.From that strange period when an author could recommend educational reforms for young women whilst at the same time striving to allay fears that such an increase in knowledge would distract them from their domestic duties. The book is at pains to recognise the skills and capabilities of women, whilst simultaneously positioning those skills within the traditional spheres expected of women. A wife should be capable of running the domestic economy and should be educated enough to educate her children when young, but should take as their highest goal the care of their of family, rather than personal achievement. £60 - 80
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Des-Cartes, ReneOpera Philosophica. Editio Ultima. [no imprint], 17th c. pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [6 (Dedication (5), blank)], [13 (epistola)], [13 (Index)], 241, [1 (blank)]; numerous figures to text. Bound with Specimina Philosophiae sev Dissertatio de Methodo. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1656. pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [14 (Index (13), (Lectori Suo 1)], 290; numerous figures to text. And Passiones Animae. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1656. pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [2 (IAd Lectorem)], [14 (Epistola Prima (13)), 1 (Responsio)], [2 (Epistola Secunda, Responsio)], 115 [5 (Index)]. And Meditationes de Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1658. pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [4 (Epistola)], [4 (Ad Lectorem and Contents), 226. And Appendix; Continens Obiectiones Quintas & Septimas. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1657. pp. 199, blank, 106 [lacking to end]. All bound as one, no boards, just text block. £150 - 250
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Hobbes, ThomasThe Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Never before collected together. London, 1750. Folio, full calf, joints cracking; pp. i-ii, [4], iii-xxviii, 697, [3 (index)]; eng. port. frontis., add. eng. tit. for Leviathan; damp-stained with some mould to front and rear, w.a.f.. First collected ed. £200 - 300
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Simson, RobertThe Elements of Euclid with Notes Critical and Geometrical and Euclid's Data. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762. 8vo, full calf; figures to text. Second ed., the first to include Euclid's Data.With a second copy, Printed for F. Wingrave et all, 1806. 8vo, full calf; 3 folding plates, figures to text. Thirteenth ed., with Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. [2] £80 - 120
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Cook, Louisa S.Geometrical Psychology or the Science of Representation. George Redway, 1887. 8vo, org. cloth; coloured figures, all as called for. £60 - 80
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Mercuriale, GirolamoHieronymi Mercurialis de Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex. Venice: Apud Iuntas [Lucantonio Giunta], 1601. 4to, full leather; 23 full-page and one double-page illus, printer's device on title and at colophon, decorated initials and tail-pieces. Fourth ed.First published in 1569, this was one of the first books on sports medicine. Mercuriale stressed the importance of excercise for health, drawing heavily on the classical world for support. £100 - 200
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History of MedicineThornton, Bonnell, M.B. The Battle of the Wigs An Additional Canto to Dr Garth's Poem of the Dispensary. Printed by J. Lister, 1768. 8vo, wrappers.Samuel Garth's poem The Dispensary was a mock-heroic commentary on the plan to establish a free dispensary for the poor at the Royal College of Physicians. The argument against coming mainly from apothecaries, who feared a diminution of their incomes. This piece draws on a similar style and literary precedent to satirise the arguments between Fellows and Licentiates. The Physicians draw on the services of butchers to guard the College as "...what alliance more exactly suits?/Man-killers leagued with those who slaughter brutes." This does not suffice however as the Licentiates use blacksmiths to force the gates. The end comes when Pluto, in pantomimic undertaker guise comes and restores unity by reminding them all "In this one point yes never disagree,—-/Ye're all unanimous—-about the fee."Along with four sermons preached before the Governors of the London-Hospital Mile End and one before those of Addenbrooke's, 1754-82. Four also including patient statistics, accounts and subscriber lists. £80 - 120
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Bell, ThomasThe Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Teeth. S. Highley, 1835. 8vo, later half calf over marbled boards; 11 plates (half-title supplied in facsimile); provenance: G. Burch, Dental Surgeon (bookplate to verso of title). Second ed. £100 - 200
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A Water Drinker (pseud.) [Montagu, Basil]Some Enquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors. Printed for J. Johnson & Co., 1814. 8vo, contemporary leather-backed marbled boards; 4 eng. plates (?of 5), 2 eng. vignettes to text. First ed.A strange and free-wheeling denunciation of liquors of all kind and in all ways, which draws on classics, myths and philosophers to score its points. What is striking (certainly at this date) is the use of confessionals. Whilst later Temperance pamphlets would make regular use of this device, it was unheard of at this point. The work draws on a Romantic inspiration, most especially in its anonymous (and definitely not autobiographical) "Confessions of a Drunkard" by William Lamb. This piece predates even de Quincey, making it perhaps the first confessional of its kind. A strange proto-Temperance work, twenty years too early. £80 - 120
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Peake, G.The Tree of Misery and Death. c.1880. Hand-coloured lithograph, framed and glazed.Temperance propaganda showing the evils and horrors that drink causes. It shows the roots (pubs and spirits) feeding into the trunk of moderation and finishing with the flourishing tree of disgrace, debt, death and all the other social ills which the Movement traced to drink. £50 - 60
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Besler, Basilius; Kilian, W (fec.)Caryophyllus multiplex, maximus, variegatus [Carnations], Decimusquartus Ordo. Fol. 9 from Hortus Eystettensis, nd [1st ed. 1613, 2nd ed. 1640, 3rd ed. C.1750]. Hand-coloured copper engraving, mounted one-sided, Latin text to verso.An engraving from the astounding botanical work on the gardens of Eichstätt, commissioned by Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen from Besler. The work took 16 years to complete and the Bishop would be dead before it was complete. The work survived not only the Bishop, but the gardens themselves, as they were destroyed by invading Swiss troops during the Thirty Years War. The original copperplates were used to print a second and third edition, so we are unable to be certain the edition from which this plate comes. £100 - 200
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Agricultural EconomicsA collection of works on rural economy and land management from the 19th and 20th century, including:Cobbett, William, The English Gardner (1838); Anon, A Dissertation on the Nature of Soils and the Properties of Manure (1833); and two prize-winning essays by William Dickinson on the agriculture of East and West Cumberland (1850-3). There are also academic works by significant authorities like J.A. Venn and HMSO pamphlets on land utilisation and agricultural development. [qty] £60 - 80
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Marshall, William. The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties. G. Nicol, 1790. 8vo (2 vols). contemporary half calf over marbled boards; folding plan.idem The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire. G. Nicol, 1796. 8vo (2 vols). Leather-backed boards, spines detaching; lacking map. Second ed.Bailey, John. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Durham. Richard Phillips, 1810. 8vo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, upper board detached but present; folding hand-coloured frontis. map, 7 plates (6 folding). [5] £80 - 100
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Ellis, WilliamEllis's Husbandry. Printed for W. Nicholl, 1772. 8vo (2 vols). Later half leather over marbled boards; frontis. in I. First ed. £150 - 250
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Young, ArthurAnnals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts Vols III-XIII. Variously printed for the Author, 1785-90. 8vo (11 vols). Contemporary half leather over marbled boards; variously illustrated.With Vol II of Young's Farmer's Letters, 1771.Young's labour of love was intended to put the newest developments in agriculture before as wide an audience as possible and included contributions from various sources, including William Pitt the Younger (himself a keen agricultural innovator and improver). [12] £100 - 200
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Dalton, JohnMeteorological Observations and Essays. Printed for W. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; J. Phillips, George Yard; and W. Pennington, Kendal, 1793. 8vo, org. cloth-backed boards (upper board and first four quires detached but present), most upper edges unopened; figures to text, letterpress tables. First ed.As well as his contributions to chemistry, Dalton was also a significant force in moving meteorology from folklore to science. This work - his first publication - was based largely on observations he had made in Kendal. It was intended as a textbook, but contained original theories which would later lead to understanding of partial pressure, the composition of air and gaseous expansion under constant pressure. £600 - 800
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Sopwith, ThomasAn Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale, in Cumberland and Durham; comprising descriptive sketches of the scenery, antiquities, geology, and mining operations, in the upper dales of the rivers Tyne, Wear, and Tees. Alnwick: W. Davison, 1833. 8vo, org. mauve cloth, paper label to spine; colour plan frontis., figures to text.Simonin, L.; Bristow, H.W. (trans.)Mines and Miners.; or Underground Life. William Mackenzie, [1868]. 4to, org. decorative cloth; plates, coloured maps, figures to text. £80 - 120
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Phillips, John. The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire. John Murray, 1853. 8vo, org. green cloth, spine detaching; 36 lithographic plates, all but frontis. bound towards rear, pp.16 publisher's list at end dated November 1852; provenance: bookplate of Edmund Backhouse. Subscribers' ed.idem Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire. Part II The Mountain Limestone District only. John Murray, 1836. 4to, org. cloth; 25 numbered plates at rear, add. plate loosely inserted.Myrtle, Andrew Scott. Practical Observations on the Harrogate Mineral Waters. John Churchill and Sons, 1869. 8vo, org. cloth; photo. port. frontis. Second ed. with additions. [3] £80 - 100
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A Veteran Sportsman (pseud.) [Taplin, William]The Sportsman's Cabinet, or, a Correct Delineation of the Various Dogs Used in the Sports of the Field. Printed for the Proprietors by J. Cundee, 1804. 4to (2 vols). Full contemporary diced calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in two and at foot with date, others with others with gilt stag tool, gilt ruled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; add. eng. tit and frontis. in both, 12 engraved plates in each volume, decorative tail-pieces by Bewick; provenance: the Schwerdt copy (decorative bookplate to ffep). First ed. £200 - 300
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HuntingWicksted, Charles The Cheshire Hunt; A Song. Chester: Printed for the Publisher, by T. Griffith, 1837. 8vo, org. pink moire cloth (upper joint starting, board loose but attached); 2 plates; provenance: Douglas Peter Crossman (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown).A rare item, the Schwerdt copy sold in 2006 in the Duke of Gloucester sale at Christie's.Schwerdt II p. 294 "Very rare. We have never heard of another copy."[Hawke, Martin] Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire. A new hunting song, to the tune of Ballynamonaora. Pontefract: Printed and Published by John Fox, 1806. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; decorative woodcut headpiece. Third ed., "with very considerable additions".The first edition of this work was published in 1804. The author was first identified in the 1840 edition by the Middle Hill Press. [2] £150 - 250
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FishingA Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Newcastle: Emerson Charnley, 1836. 8vo, org. green cloth; vignettes on all titles; provenance: Henry A. Sherwin — Chas M. Metzel (their fishing bookplates at front).Being a bound run of Herbert Boaz, The Angler's Progress (1820, pp.7-8 misbound before p.3); W.G.T. The Tyne-Fisher's Farewell to his Favourite Stream on the Approach of Winter (1834); and issues of The Fisher's Garland for 1821-1832, individual titles to all.Boaz, Herbert The Angler's Progress. J.H. Burn, 1820. 8vo, modern marbled boards, upper board with red morocco lettering piece; 12 woodcuts; provenance: ex-libris Schwerdt I — John A. McKinley (bookplates at front). Second ed. (though same date as Newcastle ed. above). £80 - 120
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Adams, JohnAn Analysis of Horsemanship; Teaching the Whole Art of Riding, in the Manege, Military, Hunting, Racing, and Travelling System. Albion Press for James Cundee, 1805. 8vo (3 vols). Half blue calf over marbled boards; pp: I: xxxvi, [2], 261, [3], II: [2], 321, [1], III: [2], 288, [22]; frontis in all vols, 17 plates (five folding) [all present as called for, but sadly lacking moveable horse head and bridle in II]; provenance: The Cavalry Club library (bookplates to upper pastedowns). First ed. £100 - 150
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Butler, ArthurBirds of Great Britain and Ireland. Order Passeres. Brumby and Clarke. [1907-8]. 4to (2 vols). Org. cloth-backed boards, t.e.g.; Vol I: 4 coloured egg plates, 56 coloured bird plates; Vol II: 4 coloured egg plates, 51 coloured bird plates (all as called for). Second edition. £80 - 100
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Cooper, William T.; Forshaw, Joseph M.The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Collins, 1977. Folio, org. cloth in dj in slipcase; full page colour illus and b/w maps and illus to text. First ed. £80 - 100
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County HistoryComprising: North Riding Records (1884-92, 9 vols) and The New Series (1894-7, 4 vols); Translations of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (1980-91, 7 vols); York Civic Records (1939-42, 3 vols); and Archaeologia Aeliana 1930-72, 16 vols and 2 duplicates). [41] £60 - 80
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British Topographical PoetryBird, James. The Value of Slaughden. Halesworth: T.Tippell, 1819. 8vo, ?org. boards.Booker, Luke. Malvern. Dudley: J. Rann, 1798. 8vo, cloth-backed marbled boards, upper board almost detached, no half-tit, with advert leaf.[Greswell, William]. The Monastery of St Werburgh. H. Smith, 1823. 8vo, later boards.Giffard, James. Thornton Abbey. J.G. and F. Rivington, 1838. 8vo, wrappers.Polwhele, Mr. The Influence of Local Attachment, with Respect to Home. Truro: N. Michell for Cradoc and Joy, 1810. 8vo, text block only. [5] £100 - 200
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Shepherd, Thomas H. London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century. Jones & Co., 1829. 4to, black-calf-backed marbled boards; two eng. tit., vi, 20 (London in the Nineteenth Century, incomplete), 172 (Metropolitan Improvements), one map, 182 engravings on 89 sheets (first sheet torn and restored). A hybrid edition of two works.Various engravers. Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire. Birmingham: Beilby, Knott and Beilby, 1829. Folio, leather-backed boards, upper board detached but present; 12 vignettes to text, 32 proof plates on India paper as called for, water-staining and foxing. First ed.Wickes, Charles. Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England. William Mort and Ackermann & Co., 1853-4 & 1854-5. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth; 26 and 24 plates.Roscoe, Thomas. Wanderings in North Wales together with South Wales. Tilt, Simpkin & Co., 1836. 8vo (2 vols). Half plum morocco over marbled boards; 51 and 48 plates. [6] £200 - 300
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British Inland WaterwaysA collection of works on and relating to the inland waterways of Britain. These include on uses and problems of canals, novels and stories like William Black's Strange Adventures of a House-Boat (1893) and even canoeing in William Bliss' 1934 guide to the same. These twenty-two works include important sources such as De Salis' Bradshaw's Canals (1904, possibly later map at rear), George Westall's Inland Cruising (1908), pleasant reflections, such as Austin Neal's Canals, Cruises and Contentment, adventuresome yarns like Emma Smith's Maidens' Trip (1948), intriguing ephemeral items such as Shirley Ginger's Simple Steps to Roses and Castles and Ken Keay's Canal Colours and even books on crossing Ireland and Europe. [22] £100 - 200
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Wentworth WoodhouseCopper engraved plate for "Yorkshire the seat of the Rt. Honble. Thos. Lord Malton Baron Malton", showing front view of house. This view formed the central section of a larger panorama of the house "The Design of the Principal Front of Wentworth House in Yorkshire, the seat of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Lord Malton, Baron Malton".Together with ten other prints of views of the house, various mediums and dates, and three other items relating to the family. [14] £80 - 120
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Cornish LiteraturePendennis, Launcelot. Cornish Carelessness. Plymouth: Rowe, 1830. 8vo, half cloth.Woodley, George. Cornubia. Printed by Mitchell & Co., Truro for Longman, Hurst et al, 1819. 8vo, wrappers, upper wrapper and first pages detached but present.Kessell, Andrew. The Two Adams. Truro: Printed by W. Harry, 1799. 8vo, unbound pamphlet.Hogg, Thomas. St Michael's Mount. Truro: Printed by Jospeh Tregoning for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1811. 4to, org. boards. [4] £80 - 100
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Page, William (ed.). The Victoria County History of Durham. Archibald Constable, 1905-7 and St Catherine Press, 28. 4to (3 vols). Org. red cloth; b/w plates. Subscribers' ed. of Constable vols, first of St Catherine's.Ornsby, Rev. George. Sketches of Durham. Durham, George Andrews, 1846. 8vo, org. cloth, spine lost; four lith. plates, illus to text; pp. vi, 226, Addenda leaf; unsigned authorial gift inscription on ffep.Hutchinson, William. The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine. S. Hodgson and Messrs Robinson, 1785-93. 4to (3 vols). Full calf, joints cracking; plates.With Longstaffe's Richmondshire (1852) [8] £100 - 200
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Whitaker, Rev. Thomas. The History and Antiquities of Craven. Printed by J. Nichols and Son...For W. Edwards and Son..., 1805. 4to, half calf, upper joint cracked, board still attached; plates and pedigrees as called for (bar Clitheroe Castle), some hand-coloured, some restoration to plates. First ed.Miall, L.C. The Geology, Natural History and Pre-Historic Antiquities of Craven in Yorkshire. Leeds: Joseph Dodgson, 1878. 4to, org. cloth, upper hinge broken, board still attached; 2 coloured plates. Extract from 3rd ed. of Whitaker's Craven.A Native of Craven. The Dialect of Craven. William Crofts, 1828. 8vo (2 vols). Cloth-backed boards, spines cracking with loss. Second ed., with enlargement. [4] £80 - 100
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Gibson, F.The Poetical Remains, with other Detached Pieces. Whitby: Printed and Sold by R. Rogers, 1807. 8vo, half leather over marbled boards, pp. half-tit., verso blank, xiv, 134, ffep loose but present, loss to lower corner of pp.67-8 not affecting text; bound with I.A.M. The Hermit of Eskdaleside. Whitby: Printed and Published by R. Kirby, 1833. pp. tit. verso blank, 30.Idem Streanshall Abbey: or, the Danish Invasion. Whitby: Printed by Thomas Webster, 1800. 8vo, text block only; frontis., vignette to tit.; pp. [i-iv], v, [6-9], 10-101, blank. [2] £100 - 150
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Atkin, MichaelBeggars Bridge. Scarborough: Bracken Press, 1977. Folio, eighteen plates on 10 loose leaves, in a leather-backed folder with marbled boards, signed and numbered on tit., other leaves initialled and numbered. Limited ed., no. 24 of 75. £350 - 450
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Benson, Robert; Hatcher, HenryOld and New Sarum or Salisbury. John Bowyer Nicholls and Son, 1843. Folio, half leather; port. frontis., 23 plates, plans and vignettes to text. First ed., produced to continue Sir Richard Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire. £60 - 100
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Derbyshire, George. Dunstable. Printed for the Author, c.1830. 8vo, green cloth. First ed.An enthusiastic homage to Dunstable by a local historian, featuring an account of Dun the Robber. This notorious highwayman was said to have so infuriated Henry I that the king ordered the area cleared and the town founded there. £80 - 100
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Farren, RobertDrawn and Etched. 4to, half calf; 30 plates (25 signed by Farren), dated variously c.1879-1886.idem Cambridge and its Neighbourhood. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1881. Folio, later half calf over marbled boards; eng. tit., three eng. plates, eng. vignette, eng. dedication, eng. contents, 25 eng. plates with separate eng. titles for each. Large paper copy, seemingly limited (though no specified limitation), signed and numbered '4' by Farren on most plates. [2] £100 - 200
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Lewis, Frederick Christian. Scenery of the River Dart. F.C. Lewis, 1821. Folio, recent half green morocco over boards, org. paper label on upper board; eng. half tit., eng. tit., eng. dedication, 36 sepia eng. plates.Salaman, Malcolm C. The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Halton and Truscott Smith, 1923. Folio, leather-backed boards; 96 plates. Limited ed. no. 36 of 200, large paper copy. With 12 (of 16) additional plates in envelope.Foster, Birket. Pictures of English Landscape. George Routledge, 1881. Full vellum gilt; 30 engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. India Proof ed., limited no. 291 of 1000. [3] £200 - 300
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M[ary] D. B[ethuen]The River Mole, or Emlyn Stream. Privately Printed, in Aid of the Fund for Building National Schools at Lethrede, 1839. 8vo, full leather, boards with blind borders, upper board and spine lettered directly in gilt, a.e.g.; frontis, add. eng. tit., 6 engravings as called for. £60 - 80
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Improving ReadingThe Cheap Magazine. Haddington: Printed and Published by George Miller and Son, 1813-4. 8vo (2 vols). half calf over marbled boards; woodcut vignettes to text; provenance: Compton Mackenzie (his bookplate to upper pastedowns).A curious thing, being published for the stated aim of "Prevention of Crimes", apparently "By alluring the Young and Thoughtless to a taste for reading subjects of real utility". Evidently the publishers had been affected by the shocking scenes on the Edinburgh streets the previous year and hoped to help avoid such in future. In a refreshing turn, they blame the parents for neither demonstrating a proper interest in reading, nor encouraging the early development of literacy in their children, such that those children could take to reading instead of rampaging around the Tron Kirk mugging passers-by over Hogmanay. Mackenzie was an ardent Scottish nationalist, and as such this Lothian produced curio would seem entirely suited to his library. £80 - 100
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[Maude, Thomas]Viator, a Poem: or A Journey from London to Scarborough, by way of York. Published by B. White, T. Becket, and J. Walter, 1782. 8vo, text block only (retaining a previous leather spine).A poem from the 18th-century tradition of topographical journeys, inspired by Gay's Journey to Exeter. In it's departure from London it makes a common play of comparing the noisy and noisome town with the classical rural scenes. Interestingly though, he does admit that the frequent carts, past which the traveller must squeeze, give a good sense of the health of British business, a level-headed view at odds with similar Romantic pastoral offerings. £60 - 80
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Richardson, William (eng.); Churton, Rev. Edward (text)The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire. York: Robert Sunter, 1843 [but later dates on plates to 1855]. Folio (2 vols). Half black morocco over marbled boards; 32 (of 35) lithographed plates (some tinted) in vol. I, 44 (of 45) plates likewise in vol. II but with three additional plates in II (views of Jervaulx and Rosedale and plans for the Parish Church of Nun-Monkton). ?Second ed. [2] £200 - 300
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Turner, J.M.W. (illus.); Reinagle, R.R.(text); Cooke, W.B. (eng.)Views in Sussex consisting of the Most Interesting Landscape and Marine Scenery in the Rape of Hastings. John Murray and W.B. Cooke, 1819. Folio, cloth-backed boards; map and five plates after Turner. Sole ed., only published part. Scarce work. £400 - 600
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Saxton, Christopher; Kip, WilliamNorthamtoniae Comitatus. c.1637.Jansson, J.Norfolciae Descriptio. Amsterdam, c.1636. and Suffolciae. c.1644.Gardner, J.Greenock. c.1832. All framed and glazed and hand-coloured. [4] £100 - 150
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