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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps and Ephemera | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 4th December 2019 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing Details: Tuesday 3 December 10.00am to 5.00pm Morning of sale |
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| Auction Lots - Page 4 | |||
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| Saxton, Christopher; Hole, William (eng.)West Riding and North Riding. [1610]. Framed and glazed.From Camden's Britannia. The maps have no text on the verso, so cannot be the 1607 issue. There is also no plate number on either map. Likely owing to the position of the Scale, the North Riding never had a plate number added The West Riding did in the 1637 edition, which would suggest they were from the 1610 reprint. [2] £150 - 250 |
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| Morden, RobertBuckinghamshire; Sussex; and Warwickshire. Swale and Churchill, unknown editions. Hand-coloured, framed and glazed. [3] £80 - 120 |
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| 150 | |||
| Kitchin, ThomasA Plan of the River Tees from Portrack to Yarm with the Adjacent Roads. 18th century. Framed and glazed. £80 - 120 |
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| Bell, I.T.W.Lambert's Map of the River Tyne Between Hedwin Streams, above Newcastle on Tyne, and the place called Spar Hawke in the Sea. Newcastle: M & M.W. Lambert, [c.1860]. Folding map, dissected and laid down on linen, hand-coloured, with later pencil annotations, to fold between leather boards (upper board detached and clasp lost).The map shows "Docks, Towns, Villages, Manufactories, Colleries & Coal Staiths". It has been dated via annotations which records that Mitchell's Iron Shop only started in 1852 and Jarrow Dock was commenced in 1853 and opened in 1859. £60 - 80 |
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| Collins, Capt. GreenvilleA New & Exact Survey of the River Dee or Chester-Water. 1689 [1693]. Uncoloured, mounted. £80 - 100 |
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| 152 | |||
WarwickshireSaxton and Kip, Warwici comitatus, c.1610. Hand-coloured, framed and glazed.Owen and Bowen, two strip road maps (plates 30 and 184, Britannia Depicta), c.1750. Hand-coloured, framed and glazed.With one other by Thomas Moule. [4] £80 - 120TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION |
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| 153 | |||
| Ortelius, AbrahamFrisia Occidentalis. Depicted by Sibrandus Leo of Leeuwarden, 1579 [but likely c.1608, vide infra]. Hand-coloured in wash, Italian text on verso.Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and is held to be the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The date given is based on the text on the verso. The page is numbered 54, the last line is left aligned, and ends "huomo letteratissimo". This agrees with Ort 81 (as listed by http://www.orteliusmaps.com/book/ort81.html) suggesting 300 copies of this edition of the map were printed. £80 - 120 |
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| 154 | |||
| Cook, Capt. JamesCaptain Cook's Voyages Round the World...Including Capt. Furneaux's Journal Of His Proceedings during the Separation of the Ships With a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. and An Abridgement of Foster's Introduction to his History of Northern Discoveries on the progress of navigation. To which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay; With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Newcastle: Printed by M. Brown at the Bible, in the Flesh-Market, 1790. 8vo (3 vols of 4 (of 2 bound in 4). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; pp. I: i-xxvi, 27-564; II: 565-692 [end of First Voyage], [693-694], 695-1004 [Second Voyage], [1005], 1006-1022 [Rules for preserving the health of seamen]; IV: 499-779 [Third Voyage], [780-2], 783-863 [North Pole], [864]-870 [Foster's Shipbuilding], [871-2], 873-953 [Governor Phillip], [954]-796 [(i.e. 976 [2 (Directions to Binder)), Animals]; I: port. frontis., map (torn with loss of folding half), 6 plates; II: one plate (of 3); IV: 15 plates (Death of Cook folding). Later, seemingly rare, provincial edition.This edition appears to have been issued first in parts (as there are various signatures in parts at foot of some pages). The additional material was added to draw in the reading public.Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bib. Vol. I, 190. ESTC N26645 £200 - 300 |
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| 155 | |||
| Decker, CoenraetDe Stadt Coylang and I'Casteel Goelegoele opt Eylandt Ceram, 1720. Mounted, hand-coloured in wash.Two prints relating to the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Dutch East-India Company). According to information on the reverse of the prints, the identity of Coylang is unclear, but there is a Ceram Sea in the Mollucas Group of Islands, Indonesia. The largest island is called Binaija and the largest town on that island, Bula. The prints show the ships and men of the VOC, so whereever they are, they were clearly of interest to the Dutch trading company. [2] £60 - 80 |
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| 156 | |||
| Stevenson, Robert LouisTravels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 8vo, org. decorative cloth, cloth splitting at joints but boards attached; frontis. (ink mark to upper corner). First ed. £100 - 200 |
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| 157 | |||
| Londonderry, Frances Anne Vane, MarchionessA Journal of a Three Months' Tour in Portugal, Spain, Africa &c. Printed for the Author by J. Mitchell & Co., 1843. 8vo, pink cloth; port. frontis., three plates. Subscribers ed., the proceeds were to go to the erection of an Infirmary at Seaham Harbour. £60 - 80 |
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| 158 | |||
| C.P.Switzerland 1890. Folio, half leather, upper board loose but attached; approx. 100 pages, of which 20 are MSS, the rest featuring photographs and photographic prints, travel brochures, maps and similar ephemera.A heady and excitable journal of a child from Abbeyleix's first trip abroad with family, through the Alps from Switzerland to Italy. The journal records the tourist's journey through delightful views and travel stories. The account includes a description of a trip on the Rigibahn rack railway, with two accompanying photographs of the railway in action, which appears to have been more interesting than the English church service in Lucerne. Other towns mentioned include Bale, Bellagio, and Pontresina.Together with another photo album, dated in MSS 1880 on the first page, of European tourist scenes and landscapes, folio, decorative cloth, c. 35 leaves with varying numbers of images on recto only, including the Rigi-bahn, the baths of Pfeffers, and the old streets of San remo. [2] £100 - 200 |
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| 159 | |||
| [Ellis, George]Memoir of a Map of the Countries comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an account of the Caucasian Nations and Vocabularies of their Languages. Printed for J. Edwards, 1788. 4to, reversed calf, upper board loose but still attached, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. 80; large folding map by S.J. Neele, hand-coloured in outline (tear to inner margin entering plate but not affecting image).An uncommon work, generally attributed to George Ellis (based on a note with the BL copy). Ellis produced this cultural, historical, linguistic and topographical account after two years in Russia with the British Legation.Lowndes (1834), p.659 £500 - 700 |
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| 160 | |||
| Staehlin [Jacob von]Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, collected from the conversation of Several Persons of Distinction at Petersburgh and Moscow. J. Murray, J. Sewell, and W. Creech, 1788. 8vo, full contemporary calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece to spine. First ed.Von Staehlin was a teacher, author, poet and master of fireworks to the Russian court. This work is perhaps his most famous, effectively an oral history, collecting and presenting anecdotes to draw a picture of his subject, rather than present a traditional history. £150 - 250 |
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| 161 | |||
| VoltaireHistoire de L'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand. [Geneva: Cramer], 1759 [1760]-63. 8vo (2 vols). Full mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering-piece in one, lettered directly in one, others with gilt floral panel, gilt roll-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; vignettes to titles, title in I printed in red and black, decorative head- and tail-pieces, two folding maps, hand-coloured in outline, in I (short tear to inner margin on first, affecting plate). First ed.Bonneval Claude Alexandre count de [Humbaracht Ahmet Pacha] [spurious]Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval, from his Birth to his Death: shewing, the motives which induced him to quit the Service and Dominions of France; his Entrance into and sudden Rise in the Imperial Armies; his Exploits in Italy, Hungary, &c. his Quarrel with the Marquis de Prie, and its Consequences; the true Cause of his Disgrace at the Court of Vienna; and the Reasons which occasioned him to seek an Azylum amongst the Turks; with his various Fortunes, while in the Service of the Porte. E. Withers et al, 1750. 8vo, full calf; port. frontis. First ed. £100 - 200 |
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| 162 | |||
| Nolan, EdwardThe History of the British Empire in India and the East. James S. Virtue, [1857-9]. 8vo (2 vols bound in 8 parts). Org. red decorative cloth; eng. titles, 63 steel engraved plates, 8 double-page maps, with publisher's advertisements, volume titles, contents and plate lists in rear of VIII; provenance: The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China (bookplates to upper pastedowns, small white ink numbers to spines). [8] £80 - 100 |
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| 163 | |||
| Newbolt, Sir HenryAutograph letter signed 'Henry Newbolt', St Giles Mount, Winchester, 21 Dec. 1907, to 'My Dear Fry', sending him unpublished works of Mary Coleridge and mentioning that Robert Bridges had not seen all of these when writing his article in the Cornhill that year. Newbolt was a close friend of Coleridge's and after her death edited a volume of her works - the first to officially name her, rather than her pseudonym 'Anodos'. With a copy of This Island Race, 1899.Fortescue, Hon. JohnThe Royal Visit to India 1911-1912. Macmillan & Co., 1912. 8vo, org. decorative cloth; b/w photos, folding plan at rear. From the library of Sir H. George Fordham, with an ALS from the author to Sir George on Windsor Castle paper, thanking him for writing favourably about the book.With Curzon of Kedleston, British Government in India (2 vols, Third Imp.), India A Record and Review of Indian Affairs, Jan. to Dec. 1896, and Scott, In a Scarlet Coat and The Onlooker Book of Verse (published in Bombay). [7] £60 - 80 |
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| 164 | |||
| British Army in India and AfghanistanVetch, Maj. George The Gong: or, Reminiscences in India. Edinburgh: James Hogg, 1852. 8vo, org. blind decorated cloth; 4 plates.Hobday, Maj. E.A.P. Sketches on Service during the Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897. 8vo, org. cloth; 71 plates after drawings and photographs. First ed.Army HQ India The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account. Calcutta:Govt. of India Central Publications Branch.1925. 8vo, org. boards; lacking first map, all others as called for, w.a.f.Turner, W. A Soldier's Guide to India. Karachi: the Educational Publishing Company, 1942. 12mo, org. wrappers; b/w photo illus.With three others. [7] £100 - 200 |
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| 165 | |||
| India, Pakistan, and the North-West FrontierA varied collection of ephemera and other works relating to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, both during and after the Raj. It includes linguistic, cultural, and historical detail, and is both academic and popular in nature. The items cover from the 19th into the 21st centuries, with plates and illustrations from 19th-century sources such as The Graphic and The Illustrated London News along with modern photocopies and news cuttings. There are also maps (such as two Government of Pakistan surveys c.1960s) and academic pamphlets from the Royal Asiatic Society. The works cover a wide spread of issues including religious tensions, with three 1948 Lahore publications studying the violent conflict between the AKAL FAUJ and RSSS in the Punjab and Kashmir. Along with this are various books (some published in the area) including a Baedeker guide (1914); a Report of the Indian Statutory Commission (1930); Kanu Desai's study of Mahatma Gandhi (1932) and Parkash Singh's Temple of Bread (signed by the author, 1964). £80 - 120 |
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| 166 | |||
| Sale, Lady Florentia A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2. John Murray, 1843. 12mo, blue half calf; folding map, plan. First ed.A huge popular success, this book by "the Grenadier in Petticoats", laid bare the terrible failures of organisation and discipline surrounding the British retreat from Kabul, laying the blame squarely at General Elphinstone's feet. She spent some time in captivity after the fall and the book describes the experiences of the hostages, as well as the events which led to their taking.With Eyre, Lieut. Vincent The Military Operations at Cabul...With a Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan. John Murray, 1843. 8vo, half blue calf; folding map. Fourth ed.Another account of the events of the fall of Cabul from an eye-witness and subsequent prisoner. £150 - 250 |
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| 167 | |||
| [Maurice, Thomas]An Elegiac and Historical Poem, sacred to the Memory and Virtues of the Honourable Sir William Jones containing a Retrospective Survey of the Progress of Science, and the Mohammedan Conquests in Asia. Printed for the Author, and Sold by Himself, 1795. 4to, modern half cloth over marbled boards; pp. 39, blank, [4 (notes)], [4 (Proposals for a new work for subscription)].Although dated as the first edition of the poem (1795), an advertisement makes reference to the call for a second edition which has allowed the author to correct errors and make amendments as needed. The poem begins as a homage to Gray and moves through a dramatic history of the wars and conquests of India, coming naturally to the eulogised arrival of the British, all within a poetical day-night, and finishing with a study of Jones. £100 - 200 |
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| 168 | |||
| Chugtai, Abdur Rehman (illus); Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan [Mirza Ghalib] (poet)Murraqqa-e-Chughtai. Lahore: Jahangir Book Club, [1928]. 4to, decorative cloth gilt; illustrated by Chughtai (lacking last two illustrations (poss. on one plate)).Chughtai was an artist from Lahore. He had a distinctive style (combining calligraphic design with Mughal styles) and drew inspiration from Abanindranath Tagore's wash technique. His striking visual style here illustrates the poetry of Mirza Ghalib. Born in 1796 in Agra, Ghalib began writing poetry in Persian, Urdu and Turkish whilst only 11 years old. He became one of the greatest poets of these languages, though his fame only reached its height after his death. This production may have been partially funded by the Maharani of Cooch as a dedication to the Nizam of Hyderabad and features forewords by Dr James Cousins and Dr Sir Mohammed Iqbal. A beautiful combination of words and imagery and one of the great productions of this period of pre-Partition India. £100 - 200 |
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| 169 | |||
| Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1904. 8vo, org. green decorative cloth; folding map, 51 plates as called for. First edition. A rare account of the British Raj's favourite summer retreat.Hardinge of Penshurst, Lord On Hill and Plain. John Murray, 1933. 8vo, org. cloth in dj; 16 photographic plates as called for; provenance: authorial gift inscription on ffep. First ed.With The British in India, a pamphlet published in conjunction with the opening of the British in India Museum in Colne, 1971, pp.38, 9 b/w illus after photos. [3] £60 - 80 |
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| 170 | |||
| Raja Udaji Rao Puar of DharDriving in India. Bombay: Printed at the Times Press, 1911. 8vo, org. red cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated with gilt whip; port. frontis., 14 photographic plates; provenance: authorial Christmass gift to "the Hon Miss Trollope" (gift inscription on the frontis. verso). First ed.A scarce book on coaching and driving horse-drawn vehicles in India, we have only been able to trace one auction record in 2002. £150 - 250 |
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| 171 | |||
| Younghusband, Capt. F.E.The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. John Murray, 1896. 8vo, green cloth; 18 plates, 4 folding maps (one loose in rear pocket). First ed.idem India and Tibet. John Murray, 1910. 8vo (in 2 vols). Cloth-backed boards; 26 plates, 2 coloured maps folded to throw clear. First ed.idem; Molyneux, Maj. E. (illus.)Kashmir. A & C Black, 1911. 8vo, org. decorative cloth; 70 colour plates, map and loosely inserted advert for Menpes India. Reprint.With The Queen's Commission (1891, 2nd ed.); Wonders of the Himalaya (1924, 1st ed.); and The Light of Experience (1927, 1st ed.) [7] £200 - 300 |
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| 172 | |||
| Schomberg, R.C.F.Unknown Karakoram. Martin Hopkinson, 1936. 8vo, org. blue cloth; all plates as called for; provenance: Royal Central Asian Society Library (bookplate on upper pastedown, 'duplicate dispose' in pencil on ffep). First ed.idem Between the Oxus and the Indus. Martin Hopkinson, 1935. 8vo, org. blue cloth; all plates as called for. First ed. [2] £50 - 60 |
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| 173 | |||
| British ColoniesFour albums of photographs, 1910s-20s, includes views of Jamaica, (Newcastle), Malta, Egypt (Khartoum) and the Raj (Karachi). The photographs show military and associated civilian life, with earthworks, Naval vessels, and parades, alongside group photos on the beach, tourist scenes and local people. The pictures capture colonial life, with its fashions, uniforms and 'Surrey in the Tropics' transplanting of English rural life to foreign climes, as well as something of the globetrotting life British military service implied at the time. With an album relating to St Paul's Girls School and a number of loose, similar photographs and two letters from Field Marshall Montgomery and Maurice Macmillan MP. £150 - 250 |
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| 174 | |||
| Cape TownPhotographic panorama of Cape Town (unknown photographer), looking towards Lion's Head, Table Mountain and Devil's Peak, comprising four photographs, framed and glazed, c.1902 (pre the Boer War POW camp on Green Point Common). £300 - 400 |
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| Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo. Indaba My Children. Blue Crane Press, [1964]. 8vo, publisher's green half leather; full-colour frontis., illus to text; signed by author to title, and Editor and Sponsor to their forewords. Deluxe ed.Tracey, Hugh. Lalela Zulu. African Music Society, [1948]. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped jacket; authorial gift inscription to ffep. First ed.Tyrrell, Barbara. Tribal Peoples. Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968. 4to, org. cloth in dj; illus. First ed. [3] £60 - 80 |
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| 176 | |||
| Rossouw, Fransie; Vockerodt, ElizabethA South African Bibliography to the Year 1925 (4 vols) with The Supplement and Indexes (2 vols). Mansell, 1979 and Cape Town: South African Library, 1991-97. 4to (6 vols). Red cloth, upper boards and spines lettered in gilt. £100 - 150 |
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| 177 | |||
| Roberts, Dr Austin. The Birds of South Africa. H.F. & G. Witherby, 1940. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped jacket; coloured plates; gift inscription on ffep. First ed.Fairbridge, Dorothea; Ussher, Lancelot (illus.). The Pilgrim's Way in South Africa. Humphrey Milford, 1928. 4to, org. cloth in clipped dj; coloured frontis., b/w plates; gift inscription from Ussher on ffep. First ed.Warner, Brian; Rourke, John. Flora Herscheliana. Houghton: The Brenthurst Press, 1996. 4to, org. boards in dj; illus. Limited ed. of 850 standard copies.With three others on the natural history of South Africa. [6] £80 - 100 |
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| 178 | |||
| The Brenthurst Series. The Jameson Raid. Brenthurst Press, 1996. 4to, org. boards in dj. Limited ed. of 850 standard copies. With The Siege of Mafeking vols 1+2. Houghton: Brenthurst Press, 2001. 4to (2 vols). Org. boards in dj. Limited ed. of 850 standard copies.With Boyden, Guy & Harding, Ashes and Blood (1999); Hackett, South African War Books (1994); and two others. [7] £80 - 100 |
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| 179 | |||
| South AfricaPicard, H.W.J. Grand Parade. Cape Town: C. Struik, 1969. 4to, publisher's full green leather; photos and illus. Signed limited ed., no. 20 of 75.Bradlow, Edna and Frank. Thomas Bowler of the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1967. 4to, org. cloth in damaged jacket; colour frontis. loose but present, b/w and colour plates. Limited ed., no 533 of 1100 (1000 standard), signed by both authors.Gerard, R. Flags Over South Africa. Pretoria: Pretoria Technical College, 1952. 8vo, half leather in glassine wrapper; colour illus. Limited ed., no. 29E of 300, signed by Gerard. With loosely inserted essay by Gerard, signed by author.Along with seven others including the South African Who's Who (1908) and The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom (1996). [10] £80 - 100 |
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| 180 | |||
| Cape TownPanorama. Valentine & Sons, c.1900, likely from their Souvenir Album. £60 - 100 |
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| 181 | |||
| Catlin, GeorgeLetters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers and edges; I: errata slip, b/w plates after Catlin's sketches numbered 3-114 [no 2 + 23, but with 100 1/2, 113+114 present], with add. unnumbered frontis., map, and three plates between pp.148-54; II: numbered plates 115-312 [lacking 137, 142, 149, 159, 246, 247, 271, 272], unnumbered map and chart. First ed., first issue of I (with 'Frederick' on p.104), second ed. (from title-page) of II.A hugely important first-hand account of the lives of Native American tribes with a wealth of anthropological and cultural information as well as detailed and exciting pictures. £200 - 300 |
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| 182 | |||
| Hawley, FrankMiscellanea Japonica: being Occasional Contributions to Japanese Studies. Kyoto: Privately Printed for the Author, 1954-58. 4to (2 vols). Org. boards in djs, hand-made paper; I: facsimile journal page, II: one plate; provenance: a gift from Hawley to his mother (his card on upper pastedowns with MSS note). First and only edition, vol. I limited edition of 100.Volume 1 is an extract from the journal of John T. Comerford, an English surgeon who was in Japan 1864-65. Volume II appears to be an extract from a larger work on Japanese whaling (pp. 51-102), which was also limited. Hawley intended the whaling work to be three volumes, but it seems only the first was completed. There is a loosely inserted prospectus (also limited to 300 copies) which explains the genesis of the whaling book.Whilst the main book can be traced, the origin of this offprint is not as clear. It does not appear to have been intended as the prospectus (given the inclusion of one here) but is clearly labelled as an offprint. It has been possible to trace a few other copies of this separate volume in addition to the completed work, but we remain unclear as to why this offprint exists. A rare thing with an excellent provenance. £200 - 400 |
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| Peary, R.E.Nearest the Pole. Hutchinson, 1907. 8vo, org.black cloth; numerous photographic plates. First UK ed.Chapman, F. SpencerNorthern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition. 1930-31. Chatto & Windus, 1932. 8vo, org. cloth; numerous photographic plates. First ed.Lyon, Capt. G.F.The Private Journal of Capt. G.F. Lyon. Barre: Imprint Society, 1970. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards, in slip-case; illus. by James Houston. Limited edition, numbered 836 of 1950, signed by artist.with three others [6] £80 - 120 |
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| Mountaineering and PolarA collection of books inc.:Nansen, Farthest North (1897, English 1st, 2 vols, cloth; Scott, Voyage of the Discovery (1905, 1st, 2 vols, org. cloth, w.a.f.); Younghusband, Everest: The Challenge (1936, 2nd revised ed, cloth); Lewis, Arthur, The Life and Work of E.J. Peck Among the Eskimos (1905, 1st, cloth); Peaks, Passes & Glaciers 3rd Series (1932, cloth); Smythe, Mountaineering Holiday (1941, 2nd ed (1st in this form), clipped dj); Lunn, Arnold, Mountain Jubilee (1944 reprint, dj) with twelve others. [21] £80 - 100 |
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| Nansen, FridtjofFarthest North. Archibald Constable, 1897. 8vo (2 vols). Org. green cloth gilt; illus. with full-page plates and charts and to text. First English edition. £60 - 80 |
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Shackleton, ErnestThe Heart of the Antarctic. William Heinemann, 1909. 8vo (2 vols). Org. blue cloth; all maps, plans, and plates as called for inc. three loose maps and panorama in pocket at rear and errata slip. First ed. £200 - 300 RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND LITURGY |
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| TheologyLaw, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. William Innys, 1732. 8vo, full leather, later rebacked, boards with gilt panelling, gilt roll-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Second ed.Patrick, Simon. The Christian Sacrifice. R. Royston, 1676. 8vo, later leather; add. hand-coloured title, hand-coloured frontis. Fourth ed., corrected.Russian Orthodox Church. Service Book. New York: Association Press, 1922. 8vo, org leather, upper board with gilt Orthodox Cross, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt over red. Limited ed. bound for presentation purposes, no. 38 of 50, with gift inscription to the Archbishop of York. Archbishop Garbett Library bookplate stamped 'Withdrawn' to upper pastedown.With six others including Robert Lowth on Isaiah and an 1846 ed. of Foxe's Martyrs. [9] £80 - 120 |
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| Catholic LiturgyBreviarium Romanumex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridenti restitutum. Venice: Apud Cieras, 1674. 4to (in 8s), full early tree calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked retaining original spine, spine decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, two metal clasps (one detached but present), a.e.g.; printed in red and black, 11 full page eng. illus; provenance: Nashdom Abbey, Burnham (blind stamp to ffep). Occasional signs of restoration with slight affect to text. Bound with Officium de Septem Doloribus B. Mariae Virginis and Officium S. Caietani Confessoris (both same imprint) and with Officia Propria Sanctorum (seemingly from an unknown smaller work, mounted on larger paper to fit the binding).Horae DiurnaeBreviarii Romani ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridenti restituti...Venice: Sumptibus Pauli Balleonii, 1707. 8vo, full black leather,sometime rebacked, boards ruled in gilt with two metal clasps, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; printed in red and black, eng. vignette to title, 4 eng. plates. Bound with a 54-page MSS Festa Sanctorum, dated 1709 at head of p.1.Missale RomanumEx Decreto Sacro-Sancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum. Lugduni: Petrus Valfray, 1730. 4to, full later leather, later fabric place holders to margins; printed in red and black, vignette to title, 3 full-page engravings, decorative woodcut tailpieces in red, plainsong to text. Bound with Supplementum Speciale ad Missale Romanum. J. Booker, 1811 and Missae Propriae Sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti. James Marmaduke, 1758. Some signs of restoration throughout.The Liturgy of the HoursNew York: Catholic Book Publishing Corporation, 1975. 8vo (4 vols). Full limp leather (different colour for each vol), upper boards with central cross in blind, spines lettered directly in gilt, coloured markers, with loosely inserted bookmarks in each, also with Supplement in org. wrappers, all in black slipcase decorated with gilt cross as boards.Ordinis Fratrum Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis Proprium Missarum. Curia Generalis O.S.M., 1965. 4to, red cloth, place markers to page edges, three coloured markers; printed in red and black. [5] £100 - 200 |
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| 189 | |||
| Bagshaw, EdwardTwo Arguments in Parliament. The First concerning the Cannons, the Second concerning the Premunire upon those Cannons. George Miller, 1641, 8vo, calf-backed marbled boards.Bagshaw was a Puritan Royalist, who incurred Laud's displeasure for suggesting Parliament could be held without Bishops. He sat in the Long Parliament and joined the King at Oxford, as a result he was later imprisoned by Parliamentary forces. It was during this imprisonment that completed much of his writing. £80 - 100 |
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| Faithfull Fleet, Emily (illus.); St. Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana (text)Te Deum laudamus. London: Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press, 1868. 8vo, org. blue cloth over beveled boards (corners restored with tape), boards with gilt fillet borders enclosing central crowned titles, in gilt on upper and blind on lower, a.e.g.; 29 chromolithograph plates and 9 pages of explanatory text. Second ed.Esther Faithfull Fleet was a book illustrator whose children included John Faithfull Fleet, a historian and Indologist; George Rutland Fleet, a successful actor; and Herbert Cecil Fleet, a Vice-Admiral. Her sister Emily was a driven advocate for women's advancement. She founded the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859 and followed this by setting up the Victoria Press in 1860. The Press only employed women as compositors (though with men to teach the process and carry out manual labour). Surprisingly, this did not sit well with the print union, who engaged in sabotage. The Press flourished, however, and its success led to Faithfull being appointed Printer-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria. Te Deum Laudamus was dedicated to Victoria, with her permission.This is one of two books published by the Press that used chromolithography. Both were illuminated by Fleet, the other being 38 Texts. M. & N. Hanhart printed 38 Texts as well and were known early on for their chromolithography, having done the plates for Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament. The book is a masterpiece of Victorian design, comparable to that of Jones and Humphreys. As with other 19th century arts, it sees art history as a broad palette, a visual dictionary to use as the text inspired. The result is a swirl of colours and symbols, merging Egyptian, Flemish, Celtic, Spanish and English medieval styles with contemporary ideas about colour. The book is simultaneously a proto-Arts and Crafts expression of Victorian Christian celebration and a potent symbol of women's struggle for elevation against Victorian society - ultimately recognised by the highest woman in the country. £60 - 80 |
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| [Oldham, John]Garnets Ghosts, Adressing to the Jesuits, met in private Caball, just after the MURTHER of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey. [London, 1679]. Folio, later leather-backed marbled boards; pp. 4 (last with tape restoration). First printing, later published in Four Satyrs upon the Jesuits.The work plays upon contemporary fears of a Popish plot, as fuelled by the self-described informer Titus Oates. Godfrey was the magistrate chosen by Oates to take possession of his papers, supposedly describing a Catholic plot to kill Charles II. After taking Oates and Israel Tonge's depositions Godfrey became erratic and paranoid. He became convinced he would be assassinated. Unlike other paranoids, he was indeed killed in one of England's most enduring unsolved crimes. Godfrey would be found dead in a ditch on 17th October 1678. He had been strangled, and his neck broken, before his dead body was impaled with Godfrey's own sword. He had died 4-5 days before he was found. Oates used the murder to further his own anti-Catholic agenda - three men would be executed on the dubious confession of a Catholic servant of the Queen - but its generally believed the three were innocent. Whatever the cause of his death, his ghost was a convenient dramatic figure, appearing to various Catholic figures (including the Earl of Danby and the Pope) in service of the anti-Catholic hysteria which Godfrey's murder engendered.ESTC R32248, Wing O235 With The True Protestant Lettany, [1680]. An anti-Catholic poem inspired by the same fervour which surrounded Godfrey's death. [2] £100 - 200 |
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| [Mawer, John]Letters in Answer to Some Queries Sent to the Author, concerning the genuine Reading of the Greek Text, I Tim. iii. 16. York: Printed by C. Ward, in Coney-Street, 1758. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; pp. 42, [2 (advert, verso blank)].This work was produced in response to the publication of two letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc. Newton was involved in the debate about the Truth of the Trinity versus Arian beliefs. Newton believed that certain critical Biblical verses were corrupted, and as such, cast doubt on the authenticity of the Trinity. Newton refused to ever directly and publicly assault the foundation of the Church, and as such his views were more commonly revealed in the answers of his opposite numbers such as Mawer. £60 - 80 |
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| Pack, Richardson, MajorReligion and Philosophy: A Tale with Five other Pieces. Printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet, 1720. 8vo, later marbled wrappers.Pack was a professional soldier and writer who produced miscellaneous verse and essays on the classics, in the manner of the time. Edmund Curll appears to have published all his work. Curll, by contrast, was a bookseller, pornographer, literary pirate, writer of possibly libellous hack biographies of the newly departed, and inveterate publisher of anything he could get hold of, no matter of what sort, as long as it sold. £60 - 80 |
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| Whitaker, Rev. E.W.A Dissertation on the Prophecies relating to the Final Restoration of the Jews. Canterbury: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby, 1784. 8vo, wrappers; pp. viii, 91, [1].Part of a wider debate about the meaning of Ezekiel 25-48, this work deployed archaeological, historical, linguistic and even astronomical learning to attempt to contextualise the language of Ezekiel with Protestant ideological desires. £60 - 80 |
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| Biblia SacraTestamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive Libri Canonici Priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a Deo Traditi. Hanover: Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Joannis Aubrii, 1602. 8vo, full vellum, sometime rebacked in same, boards with central gilt block; pp. [8], 1063, blank, 456 [321-336 'XX1-8 misbound at p;. 208, all present'], [8]; vignettes on OT and NT titles, floriated initials.Features Apocrypha. The New Testament uses the de Beza translation in parallel with Tremellius, the marginalia supplied by Junius. With two later versions. [3] £150 - 250 |
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| Wycliffe, John (trans.)A Smaller Biblia Pauperum. Imprynted atte the sign off The Grasshopper, bye Unwin Brothers, 1884. 8vo, org. parchment gilt, two metal clasps; title printed in red and black, 38 woodcuts.The woodcuts which form this work had been previously unknown, possibly never having been published since their first production, likely c.1450. The blocks were first used to produce a limited edition for the 1877 Caxton Exhibition. After which, this reduced size edition was published. In order to best present the blocks the paper was hand-made in a 15th century style in Holland; the binding was executed after a contemporary book in the British Library; and the English text was that of the so-called "Wycliffe Bible", being the best known English text of the period (even if it had been banned by the Church authorities at the time). £60 - 80 |
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