Pelargoniums. Charles Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough. 1851. Strongly recommends the following New Pelargoniums; it will be sufficient to observe that he has the entire Stock of the beautiful varieties raised by E. Forster, Esq. and G.W. Hoyle, Esq.: strong Plants will be ready the first week in October.
Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Letterpress. Sheet: 215mm x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), folded once.
A four-page catalogue of new Pelargoniums offered for sale in 1851 by Charles Turner's Royal Nursery. Charles Turner (1818-1885) was the head gardener of the Royal Nursery during the mid nineteenth century and specialised in Pelargoniums.
[Ref: 42773] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
A Fasciculus of Eight Drawings on Stone of Groups of Birds &c. by John Hancock. This whole being representations of Specimens Stuffed and Contributed by the Author the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. [Inside titles:] Hooded Falcon. [&] Struggle with the Quarry. [&] Gorged Falcon. [&] The Dead Gull. [&] Leopard Cub Reposing. [&] Black Game & Ptarmigan. [&] The Laemmer-Geyer of the Alps. [&] The Laemmer-Geyer of the Alps.
Hullmandel & Watlton, Lithog: London.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Published by the Author. 1853.
Bound portfolio with original covers; eight lithographic plates; notices; list of subscribers. 551 x 381mm (21¾ x 15"). Covers worn along spine. Some foxing.
A collection of lithographs produced for the Great Exhibition. John Hancock (1808-1890), was highly regarded as an expert in the study of ornithology and attained a national reputation as an accomplished taxidermist. He was a member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne from its inception in 1829. As his prowess in the art of taxidermy increased he was often called upon to prepare specimens for the local gentry. In order to advertise his talents further afield he created a selection of dramatic taxidermy mounts which he displayed at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London in1851. He later produced a large folio book of lithographs of the mounts on display 'A Fasciculus of Eight Drawings on Stone of Groups of Birds etc…', published in 1853.
[Ref: 31021] £850.00
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Nicholsons' Lithographic Drawings, Taken from Nature, in the Vicinity of Liverpool. Non-Subscriber's Copy, price £1 10s each Part.
Printed by C.M. Willich, Westminster, and Published by S. & G. Nicholson, Liverpool. [n.d., c.1821.]
Folio, printed wrappers; 13 lithographic plates as called for, loose. Wrappers torn, original stitching lost.
The first half of Samuel & George Nicholson's 'Twenty-Six Lithographic Drawings; views in the vicinity of Liverpool', published complete in 1821, although the text of the finished work tells that 'The many accidents, chemical phenomena, and unaccountable failures incident to lithographic printing very much retarded the appearance of the present work...'. The plates are Birkenhead Priory; Hale Hut; Childwell Church; Toxteth Park; Lydiate Abbey; Dingle, Toxteth Park; Knowsley Hall; Ormskirk; Runcorn; Halton Castle; Speke Hall; Green-Bank; & Wavertree. An advert on the back lists the plates in the second part. Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 31560] £390.00
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Patrice ou les Pionniers de l'Amérique du Nord par M. de Chavannes
Tours, A.d Mame et C.ie, Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1854
Small 12vo book, embossed with gilt decoration and coloured lithograph on cover and gilt text on spine. One woodcut illustration. On frontis in ink Elizabeth Watson Dec 18, 1855; 128pp, 130 x 85mm ( 5¼ x 3¼") Some pages slightly stained.
Children's book from the 'Bibliothèque des petits enfants' recounting the adventures of emmigrants to North America and including an illustration of the protagonist Patrice hiding from a hostile Native American.
[Ref: 31408] £140.00
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Volta della Sala Borgia nel Palazzo Vaticano Ove Sono Espressi I Pianeti le Ore del Giorno ed I Segni Dello Zodiaco dall'Immortal Raffaele Sanzio D'urbino.
Folio, original blue wrappers; eight etchings, each c. 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Apparently complete. Covers worn, some spotting.
A study of the fresco on one ceilings of the Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. The first plate, which contains the title as above, shows the complete ceiling, but wrongly ascribes the work to Raphael rather than Bernardino di Betto (known as Pinturicchio). Executed between 1492-4, the designs include Zodiac signs and illustrations of the bodies of the solar system as Roman gods in chariots, shown as detail in the other seven plates. Each of these is printed from two plates: an oval for the central illustration and a rectangular one for the decorative border.
[Ref: 31140] £350.00
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The First Annual Dinner of the Second-Hand Booksellers' Association held at The Criterion, Thursday, 23rd January, 1908. Reprinted from "The Clique," The Recognised Organ of the Second-hand Book Trade. The Clique was established in 1809 to facilitate intercourse and business between Booksellers, and is not supplied to the General Public. Subscription 6/6 per annum Post Free...Gentlemen,-This time I say gentlemen advisedly, for although I have heard of Lady booksellers, no Suffragette has yet claimed the right of admission to our Honourable Association...The Song of the Association. (As sung at the Dinner)...
[n.d. c.1908.]
Letterpress, four pages, 4to: 254 x 158mm (10 x 6¼").
Notes on the first annual dinner of the Second-hand Booksellers' Association, the precursor to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association; the pamphlet includes the words to the 'Song of the Association'.
[Ref: 30453] £75.00
Books and Pictures from the Estate of the Late Mr. George Allen. For Sale. May be seen at 156, Charing Cross Road London.
No.11. February 1909.
8vo, catalogue, 16 pages, 10 plates (including 8 illustrations showing 43 pieces of Martinware, very scarce. 230 x 157mm (9 x 6¼"). Some toning.
A scarce sale catalogue of items from the estate of George Allen (1832-1907), best known as the publisher of John Ruskin (who is represented in the catalogue by a series of etchings, and several watercolours). He was an avid collector of Martin-Ware, of which 100 are offered.
[Ref: 30363] £550.00
The Clique. No. 1,122. Private. For the Trade Only. Issued every Saturday. P.M. Barnard, 10 Dudley Road,. Tunbridge Wells. Owing to my system of issuing Classified Catalogues, I am a large buyer in various subjects I am ask no discount from the Booksellers who put me on their earliest list for catalogues. I examine most carefully MS. copy of catalogues sent to me, and order as much as possible thus saving seller the expense of printing...Reports desired by Maggs., 109 Strand, London, W.C., Scarce Books, Prints, Autographs, including First Edition of Stevenson, Hardy, Meredith and Kipling. Also rare Australian books and pamphlets. All reports receive immediate and careful attention. See inside for weekly "Desiderata".
30 Rivercourt Road, London W. Registered Telegraphic Address-"Clicourt, London." Telephone-485 Chiswick. May 11. 1912.
Letterpress pamphlet, 48 pages. 247 x 159mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Paper toning and soiling.
A magazine with book sellers and dealers of Great Britain, including Maggs Bros, London, listing their wants and desires.
[Ref: 30341] £25.00
1885. Proposed Restoration of the Ancient Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. West Smithfield, E.C. Founded by Rahere, 1103-1123. General Restoration Committee... Present Condition of the Church and Prospects of Restoration…Report for Proposed Restoration…Subscriptions…Plan of St. Bartholomew the Great Smithfield Shewing secular encroachments. [&] List of Contributions and Views Shewing Present Condition of the Ancient Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. West Smithfield E.C. 1885.
[For the photograph views.] Ink-photo. Sprague & Co. London.
April 27th, 1885.
Two letterpress 4to pamphlets, each of 2 pages double-sided; the latter containing ink photo images. 255 x 210mm. 10 x 8¼".
The Priory Church was founded in 1123 as part of a monastery of Augustinian Canons, and later dissolved in 1539 and the nave demolished. Under Queen Mary, there was a brief period during which Dominican friars resided over the church, until it reverted to being a Parish Church under Queen Elizabeth I. Various parts of the building were damaged or destroyed through the centuries until restoration began in the 19th century, first in the 1860s and then, under Sir Aston Webb. Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) was an English architect; this restoration acting as his first major work. He is responsible for the Queen Victoria Memorial, the principal façade of Buckingham Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum's main building; amongst many others nationwide.
[Ref: 15593] £70.00
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The Quaker; A Comic Opera, by Charles Dibdin. Adapted for Theatrical Representation: As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-Book. By Permission of the Managers. The Lines distiguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation.
London: Printed for John Cawthorn, 5, Catherine Street, Strand, Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. 1805. Printed by T. Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand.
Programme. 8vo. 153 x 100mm. 6 x 4". Nicks and tears, no binding.
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814), British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter, born in Southampton, the son of a parish clerk. The Quaker was written in 1775.
[Ref: 14479] £75.00
A Catalogue of useful and entertaining Books, printed for, and sold by J. Cooke, Pater-noster Row, London, and most other Booksellers and News-carriers in England. - I. - Published by the King's Authority. The Christian's Preparation…-II.- Every Patient his Own Doctor; Or, the Sick Man's Triumph over Death and the Grave…-III-The Complete Sportsman; Or, Counrty Gentelman's Recreation…-IV.- A Companion for the Fire-Side; Or, Winter Evening's Amusement…….-XX.- The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha…-XXI.- The Moder Book-Keeper; Or, Book-Keeping Made Perfectly Easy.
[London. Cooke, 1770.]
Letterpress. Four page 8vo pamphlet. 210 x 134mm. 8¼ x 5¼".
Booksellers' Advert.
[Ref: 15516] £60.00
[Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich Islands during the years 1821 and 1822. With miscellaneous remarks on the past and present state, and political prospects of those countries.]
[By Gilbert Farquhar Mathison.]
[London: C. Knight, 1825.]
Book, 8vo (205 x 130mm, 8 x 5"), xii. 478 pp., in contemporary green morocco, spine gilt. One folding chart and three coloured aquatint plates, lacking one plate and titlepage. Extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed. Light staining to some plates, interior generally good. Dedication leaf almost detached.
The author sailed from Lisbon to Rio in 1821, visiting the Swiss settlement of Nova Friburgo. He then boarded an American brig destined for Chile and Peru, and at Callao he took another ship to the Sandwich Islands. Includes a folding map of the Sandwich Islands and colour plates depicting Peruvian women. Abbey calls for four plates, but the copy in the Hill collection contains only three, as this copy. Abbey Travel: 700. British Library: 002422190.
[Ref: 13339] £250.00
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A Report of the State of the Sheffield General Infirmary, (Open to the Sick and Lame Poor of any Nation) From Missummer 1801, to Midsummer, 1802.
By the Committee of Accounts, Appointed by the Statutes of the Charity to Prepare the Same.
T.Pierson, Printer, Sheffield. [n.d., watermarked 1802.]
Folio letterpress broadsheet, 4pp., with engraving on front. Sheet (opened) 475 x 605mm, 18¾ x 23¾". Splits in folds, one tear.
With lists of the receipts and payments, patients admitted and discharged, legacies and subscribers. Sheffield General Infirmary was founded in 1792, becoming the Royal Infirmary in 1897, closing in 1980. The original building, as shown in the engraving, is now Heritage House, a Grade II* listed building.
[Ref: 9048] £650.00
Reims en Campagne.
M.Merian fecit.
[Frankfurt, Merian, c.1650.]
Engraved map. Sheet 210 x 330m 8¼ x 13". Trimmed and laid on card.
Map-view of Rheims, north-east of Paris. Cathedral of Reims (Rheims), the most mythical one in France, where the coronation of the French kings took place.
[Ref: 23607] £70.00
Dick Whittington And His Wonderful Cat; And The Butterflies' Ball And Grasshoppers Feast, And The Troublesome Rats Of Morocco.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Play script, letterpress pamphlet, 12mo (185 x 120mm, 7¼ x 4¾"). In non-original wrapper titled in ink mss. front cover. Glued to scrap sheet.
Dick Whittington and His Cat is a folk tale that has often been adapted for stage pantomimes and plays. It tells of a poor boy in the 14th century who becomes a wealthy merchant and eventually the Lord Mayor of London because of the ratting abilities of his cat. The character of the boy is named for a real life person, Richard Whittington, but there is no evidence that Whittington had a cat.The first recorded pantomime version of the story was in 1814, starring Joseph Grimaldi as Dame Cecily Suet, the Cook. The pantomime adds another element to the story, rats, and an arch villain, the Pantomime King (or sometimes Queen) Rat, as well as the usual pantomime fairy, the Fairy of the Bells. Other added characters are a captain and his mate and some incompetent pirates. In this version, Dick and his cat "Tommy" travel to Morocco, where the cat rids the country of rats. The Sultan rewards Dick with half of his wealth.
[Ref: 10642] £80.00
King Charles I and the Heads of the Noble Earls, Lords and others, who suffered for their Loyalty in the Rebellion and Civil-Wars of England. With their Characters engraved under each Print, extracted from Lord Clarendon. Taken from the Original Pictures of the Greatest Masters, many of them Sir Anthony Van Dyke's, and all the Heads accurately engraved by Mr. Geo. Vertue,
London: Printed for J.Ryall and R.Withy, Book and Printsellers, at Hogarth's Head, opposite Sailsbury-Court, Fleet Street. [1757.]
Folio, disbound, lacking front board; engraved frontis, 10 numbered plates containing 19 portraits as called for in the index. Damp stain on frontis.
The frontis. has the portraits of the six Stuart monarchs and the Duke of Glocester. The plates include Charles I, Archbishops Laud & Juxon, the earls of Stafford, Litchfield & Caenarvon, and Royalist soldiers Harry Slingsby & George Lisle.
[Ref: 13278] £950.00
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Souvenirs de la Belgique. Album Contenant Douze Vues Des Plus Beaux Monuments Du Pays Et Un Plan de la Ville de Bruxelles.
Chez Gerard, Lithographe, Rue de la Bergere, No.6, a Bruxelles, pres du Marche au Bois. [n.d., c.1853.]
Book, oblong 4to (230 x 295mm, 9 x 11½"), 12 lithographs on india laid paper and one fold-out map of Brussels 1853, complete as issued. In original printed wrappers with title and vignette to cover. Wrapper scuffed and rubbed, plates good. Tear to map.
Souvenir book of views in Brussels, Belgium, each one captioned in English, French and German, aimed at foreign visitors to the city.
[Ref: 11469] £270.00
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Remarks On The Proportionate Quantities Of Rain At Different Seasons In Oxford.
By Stephen Peter Rigaud, M.A. Savilan Professor Of Astronomy.
Oxford, Printed By S. Collingwood, Printer To The University, For The Ashmolean Society. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
Printed pamphlet, 8vo, 210 x 130mm, 8¼ x 5". Complete as issued, lacking wrapper. Light age toning as normal, titlepage with stains.
The author is Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774 - 1839), mathematical historian and astronomer. British Library system number: 00273614.
[Ref: 9519] £30.00
Relation en Forme de Journal du Voyage et Sejour, que Le Serenissime et Tres-Puissant Prince Charles II Roy de la Grand Bretagne, &c, A fait en Holland, depuis le 25. May, jusques au 2 Juin 1660.
A La Haye, Chez Adrian Vlacq. M,DC,LX, Avec Previlege des Estates de Hollande & West-Frise.
Folio, contemporary vellum, spine cracked, inner hinges strained, cloth ties; title with engr. vignette, pp. (ii) + 108; engr. frontis. portrait & 6 engr. plates, all folding. Some minor worming at in text margins at rear, one plate affected with a small pair of holes.
Charles II's state visit to Holland, shortly after the Restoration.
[Ref: 1234] £1,800.00
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Culs De Lampe [annotated in red crayon].
39 leaves of engraved and manuscript decorative vignettes of typographical, calligraphic and architectural interest, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes makeshift titlepage and 1 blank end paper in unmarked blue 19th century stamped binding. Sheet 230 x 310mm. Evidence of age to binding, extremities frayed.
An album that contains pen and ink drawings, woodcuts and engravings, often composed of animal or botannical forms, designed to enhance text sheets or serve as chapter delineators, or at the beginning or end of pages in decorative manuscript or printed volumes. Cut out from their original broadsheets and glued to the album pages, often text shows through from verso. There is a series of what appear to be roundell designs for mouldings for ceilings, or possibly frames, in sepia ink. Also included are ornate French titlepages, and empty frames for text, both pen and ink and printed, composed of decorative rococo natural forms and allegorical figurative motifs. An interesting collection put together in the 19th century that must be viewed.
[Ref: 173] £750.00
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Engravings fron the Works of Henry Liverseege. With a Memoir by George Richardson, author of 'Patriotism,' 'Miscellaneous Poems,' &c.
London: George Routledge and Sons, and L.C. Gent. 1875
Folio, cloth binding with gilt embellishment. 440 x 310mm. 17¼ x 12¼".
Containing 38 engravings from paintings by Henry Liverseege (1803-32). Also contains an engraving of William Bradley's portrait of him. Liverseege was born, and died, in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Manchester Institution amongst other institutions. Many of his works are now in Manchester City Galleries. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 12086] £150.00
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[Pair of albums of Chinese watercolours on rice paper; with] A Lantern Seller.
[Albums n.d., c.1830?, Lantern Seller n.d, c.1860.]
Two albums, 130 x 155mm, silk-covered boards; 8 watercolours of figures, & 17 watercolours of lanterns and decorations. Lantern seller a tinted lithograph, sheet 200 x 130mm.
A fine collection of Chinese watercolours in fine colour.
[Ref: 1270] £2,500.00
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One Day from the Diary of a Stag, January 29, 1846, Dedicated by Permission to the Countess of Stradbroke, by Mrs. David Hanbury.
With Illustrations by Edward Robert Smyth.
London: Ackermann & Co., 96, Strand; Dobbs & Co, 134 Fleet Street; and F.Pawsey, Ipswich. [n.d., c.1846.]
Oblong 4to, maroon morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; etched title, half title, pp. 7, etched frontis. & five plates. Plates all backed with linen.
An account of a stag hunt, including a run through Ipswich.
[Ref: 2945] £420.00
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Original Sketches, Drawn and Engraved on Stone.
By Henry Stretton, Esq.
Subscribers' Copies to be had of Mr. Paul Gauci, 9, North Crescent, Alfred Place; and of Mr. Worsfold, 161, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Original blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt on front board, hinges strained; title, dedication, list of 180 subscribers, 10 tinted lithographic plates, printed by Paul Gauci. Some spotting.
One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 8840] £450.00
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Designs by Mr. R.Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.
London: Printed for R.Dodesley, in Pall Mall, MDCCLIII.
Folio, half calf, hinges strained; half-title, title with engr. vignette; pp. 35 (one side printed) + (iv)(Epitaph & Explanation of the Prints), faint browning throughout; 6 full-page engr. plates and 12 engr. vignettes in the text.
Six 'Odes' by Gray, each with a frontispiece, head & tailpiece, most signed by T.S.Müller.
[Ref: 2819] £600.00
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Reports by the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the navigation of the River Thames: together with the minutes of evidence (with appendices.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
London: printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printed to the Queen's most excellent majesty, for her majesty's office. 1879
Quarto in wrappers, 330 x 210mm. 13 x 8¼". Consisting of title page, contents, four coloured maps and 'minute by the president of the board of trade'. Foxing and edges tatty with tears
Four coloured maps showing the Thames from London Bridge to Southend and Sheerness, bound together. Originally accompanied a report on the navigation of the river. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11303] £240.00
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Das Vater Unser eines Underwaldners.
erfunden von J. Martin Usteri in Zürich ausgeführt und in Tuschmanier geäzt von Marquard Wocher in Basel
Freiburg im Breisgau in der Herderschen Kunsthandlung. [n.d., c.1814.]
4to. Cover and 8 leaves of calligraphic lithograph text, with 8 aquatint plates.330 x 240mm. 13 x 9½". Some foxing on pages but not on plates; loosely bound.
Usteri's anti-French series of illustrations and one of his most important works. The aquatints depict the Schwarzer September ('Black September'), as the bloody rebellion of the Swiss Nidwalden against the invading French revolutionary troops in September 1798 became known. 600 houses were burned down and a large number of women and children perished. The illustrations follow a Nidwald mountain shepherd and his young nephew accompanied by a text based on the Lord's Prayer.
[Ref: 8909] £420.00
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The Battle Ground Of The Eights The Thames The Isis The Cam.
Drawn & Etched by R. Farren 1884.
Cambridge Macmillan And Bowes.
Oblong folio, etched titlepage and nine etched plates, plates c.145 x 200mm. Edition limited to 200 copies. Binding scuffed and frayed with odd water stain. Plates good, faint evidence of foxing.
Includes attractive views on the Thames at Chiswick and Putney, punting on The Isis, and fishing on The Cam. The decorative titlepage with attractive vignette of a swallow and reeds signed in pencil by the artist, who has also captioned each plate in pencil. Robert Farren rarely signed his work. He lived and worked in Cambridge where he owned a print business.
[Ref: 7427] £380.00
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Erinnerung an Dresden und Umgebung.
[n.d., c.1840. Flyleaf annotated in ink "E.L. Hi(illegible). Dresden Aug 24th 1869."]
Book, 23 steel engravings by various artists (largest 260 x 330mm, smallest 235 x 190mm) bound to style into red morocco binding, oblong folio (300 x 410mm). Binding scuffed and rubbed; damage to spine. Plates generally good: strong impressions some with relatively light foxing/staining.
'Souvenir of Dresden and its Environs.'
[Ref: 7428] £750.00
Cirque. 24 gravures au canif par Tilmans. Preface Par Maurice De Laborderie.
Editeur L'Imagerie Francaise Limoges 1946.
24 coloured limited-edition woodcuts, complete as index. Disbound, with titlepage and text sheets, in paper-covered card wrappers with lettered cover bearing vignette of three clown's faces. Presented in original printed card sleeve. Tear in cover paper lower left. Foxing to wrappers and title page, plates good. Outer sleeve scuffed and missing two short sides.
A collection of vibrant illustrations of circus acts, each captioned lower left and signed 'Tilmans' in pencil lower right. Stamped 'No 12', of an edition limited to 130. By Belgian artist Émile Henri Tilmans (1888 - 1960).
[Ref: 7715] £580.00
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Views of Toronto. Descriptive Letterpress.
[Anon., Canadian, n.d., 1858?]
Small letterpress pamphlet, 12mo (160 x 100mm, 6¼ x 4"), 16pp. incl. printed wrapper, very scarce item. A little foxed, generally fine.
Supplement to a series of souvenir engravings (lacking) of views and principal buildings in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The text is taken from 'Nelson's Hand-Book to the City of Toronto'. Se Library and Archives Canada: 895665697.
[Ref: 26707] £320.00
[Almanac] Parker's Ephemeris For the Year of Our Lord 1774. The Eighty-Fifth Impression.
London, Printed by J. Emonson, for the Company of Stationers. [Price Nine-Pence Stitched.]
Small woodcut and letterpress booklet, printed in red and black; 12mo (160 x 100mm, 6¼ x 4"), lacking original binding and with later detached brown paper wrapper. A little soiled and stained; contents generally good.
A miscellany of general and historical information, including astronomical, astrological, and meteorological charts/tables, calendars, and a few decorative woodcut vignettes. Title page with woodcut portrait of George Parker (1651-1743), almanac maker. In 1690 Parker commenced the publication of an almanac with the title 'Mercurius Anglicanus; or the English Mercury,' which was continued under his name until 1781. In 1707 the name of the publication was changed to 'Parker's Ephemeris.' With pen ownership inscription 'Thomas Cadbird' to title page. See BL General Reference Collection P.P.2465.
[Ref: 26708] £110.00
The Triumph of Temper, A Poem. In six Cantos. By William Hayley, Esq. 0 VOI CH' AVETE GL' INTELLETTI SANI MRATE LA DOTTRINA, CHE SI ASCONDE SOTTO' IL VELAME DEGLI VERSI STANI. DANTE, inferno, Cant 9. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. M.DCC.LXXXI.
4to, Half calf, marble boards, worn. Lacking half title, pp. xii + 166.
William Hayley [1745-1820], English poet, biographer, and patron of the arts. In writing this essay Hayley was sincerely of the opinion that he was defending the "old maids" of the community. When women reviled him for the publication, he professed himself deeply grieved. Hayley is best remembered for his friendships with William Blake, the great pre-Romantic poet, painter, and designer, and with the 18th-century poet William Cowper. He was also a patron of less well-known writers, including the poet and novelist Charlotte Smith. Hayley is also recalled for his well-meant but destructive patronage of George Romney, a painter whom he persuaded to continue the “drudgery of face-painting” when Romney would have preferred to paint ideal subjects.
[Ref: 13620] £180.00
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Prospectus and Specimens of the Wood Engravings... [for] The Oriental Album; or Historical, Pictorial and Ethnographical Sketches Illustrating the Human Families in the Valley of the Nile, Their Costumes, Usages, Habits, Modes of Life, &c.&c.&c.
By E. Prisse, Esq.
James Madden, Publisher, 8, Leadenhall Street, London... M.DCCC.XLVII [1847].
Publisher's advertisement prospectus illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes, very scarce prospectus. 4 pages, folio (555 x 380mm, 21¾ x 15"). Includes List of Plates; with publisher's printed red labels glued to first and last page. Some soiling, generally good.
Achille Prisse d'Avennes's 'Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot...'. Prisse travelled through Egypt in the guise of an Arab. He excavated at Thebes from 1839 to 1843 with the botanist George Lloyd (1815-1843), to whom the work is dedicated and whose portrait forms the frontispiece. It was Lloyd who encouraged Prisse to begin the series of drawings which forms this work, but Lloyd accidentally shot himself so did not live to see its publication. The text is by James Augustus St. John who travelled extensively in Egypt and Nubia in 1832-33.
[Ref: 27490] £260.00
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J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
London, Published June 30, 1791, by John Lockington, Engraver, Saville Passage, near Hanover Square.
Oblong 4to, stitched with marbled paper covers, tatty and torn; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for. Some defects to plates.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3934] £950.00
J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
Published 1st. Jany. 1812. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet St. London.
Oblong 4to, limp boards; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3935] £1,250.00
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[Collection of 48 plates of Portugese costume & trades.]
Palhares lith. T. da Palha 15.
48 coloured lithographs with gum arabic highlights, each c. 245 x 320mm. Some plate with minor stains 6 laid on board.
[Ref: 4653] £2,800.00
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[Collection of Prints by Elias Martin.]
[Drawn by Elias Martin, engraved by Elias Martin or Johan Frederick Martin.]
[No 1. Leicester Street, London: Elias Martin, c.1778.]
Small folio, contemporary boards rebacked with morocco; 25 stipple plate, most printed in sanguine, many interleaved with the original tissue. Mint.
Elias Martin, A.R.A. Swedish, born Stockholm in 1739, died Stockholm 1818. He came to London in 1768, becoming a Royal Academy student the next year and was elected A.R.A in 1770. He returned to Stocholm in 1780. This collection of fine stipples, etchings and engravings after Elias Martin's drawings were engraved by him and his younger brother, Johann Frederick, and were published by Elias, most dated 1778, the others undated.
[Ref: 4104] £5,500.00
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The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations.
Prepared under the Authority of the Board of Trade by Robert Jackson, Esq., Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen.
Published for the Committee of Lloyd's by Spottiswoode & Co., 54 Gracechurch Street, London. Entered at Satationers' Hall, 1885.
8vo, half calf with blind-illus. boards, spine distressed, inner hinges strained; pp. 38 (ads) + xvi + 238; three colour plates of flags.
[Ref: 3411] £120.00
The Andalusian Annual, For MDCCCXXXVII.
Edited by Michael Burke Honan, Esq., Author of 'The Court and Camp of Don Carlos.'
London: John Macrone, St. James's Square. 1836.
Book, 4to (310 x 245mm. 12¼ x 9¾"), sheet music and lyrics to thirteen Spanish songs and dances with background text, illustrated by 12 fine hand coloured lithographic plates of principal characters by M. Gauci. 162 pp. In full contemporary embossed brown morocco with gilt spine and gilt stamped title with vignette to cover. Very scarce. Spine detached. Binding scuffed and rubbed. Interior good, occasional spotting, plates in vivd colour.
British Library: 004419129.
[Ref: 11947] £2,300.00
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Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Being a Large Collection of Designs of their Paling of different Kinds, Lattice Work, &c. For Parks, Paddocks, Terminations for Vistos, Ha Ha's Common Fence and Garden, Paling, both close and open, Chinese Stiles, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Windows, &c. To Which are added, Several Designs of Chinese Vessels, Ewers, Ganges Cups, Tureens, Garden Pots, &c.
The Whole neatly engraved on Twelve Copper-Plates, from real Chinese Designs, improved by P.Decker, Architect.
Printed for the Authorm and Sold by Henry Parker and Elizabeth Bakewell, opposite Birchin-Lane, in Cornhill; and H.Piers and Partner, at the Bible and Crown, near Chancery-Lane, Holborn. MDCCLIX. Price 3s.
Part 2 only. Oblong 4to, wrappers, disbound, edges worn; title & 12 engraved plates. Some worming.
Designs for fences, windows and pailings, with some plates decorated with vases etc.
[Ref: 11565] £480.00
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Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages. Engraved in Mezzotinto, by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner, and R. Dunkarton.
London: printed by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street. 1816. [published by S. Woodburn, No. 112, St. Martin's Lane.]
Folio; fine calf binding, hinges broken, modern slipcase. Gilt edged pages. Ex libris plate of Joseph Gould, Balliol College, inside front cover.
Plates as follows: 1. Queen Elizabeth; 2. Mary Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley; 3. James the First; 4. James the First and his Royal Progeny; 5. Henry, Prince of Wales; 6. Charles , Prince of Wales, afterwards King; 7. Frederick, King of Bohemia; 8. Oliver Cromwell; 9. Charles the Second, King of England; 10. Christian the Fourth of Denmark, with his Son Frederick; 11. Maximilian, Emperor of Germany; 12. Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany; William the First, Prince of Orange; 14. Henry the Fourth, King of France; 15. Henry the Great, King of France, as he lay in State.
[Ref: 12084] £1,500.00
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Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege.
London. Published by Hodgson, Boys and Graves. Printsellers to his Majesty. Pall Mall. And Grundy and Goadsby, Manchester.
Folio, marble cover, spine in compartment with decorative gilt. 430 x 290mm. 17 x 11½". Some plates foxed. Ex libris plate of John Hall inside cover.
Containing 35 engravings from paintings by Henry Liverseege (1803-32). Also contains an engraving of William Bradley's portrait of him. Liverseege was born, and died, in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Manchester Institution amongst other institutions. Many of his works are now in Manchester City Galleries.
[Ref: 12090] £160.00
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Library Edition of the Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Second Series only.
Published by Henry Graves & Company Printsellers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall; London.
Folio. Morocco binding with decorative gilt on spine in compartments. Marble paper inside cover. 510 x 360mm. 20 x 14¼". 100 plates. Occasional staining.
Large book containing one hundred engravings after works by Landseer by a variety of engravers, with brief comments supplying information about the paintings after which each engraving was produced.
[Ref: 12091] £650.00
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Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. by J. Scott, G.H. Every, G.Sanders, and other Eminent Engravers.
Published by Henry Graves & Company, Printsellers & Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall, London. [n.d., c.1880.]
Folio, half morocco binding with gilt spine in compartments. 510 x 370mm. 20 x 14½". Marble paper inside cover, gilt front edge. 125 proof mezzotints interleaved on indian paper. Bookplate of Francis H.D.C. Whitmore inside front cover. Light foxing but images unaffected.
Complete volume of 125 engravings from the works of Thomas Gainsborough, divided into portraits, royal portraits and fancy subjects.
[Ref: 12075] £950.00
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come.
By John Bunyan. Illustrated by W. Strang.
London John C. Nimmo MDCCCXCV [1895].
Fourteen etched plates including illustrated titlepage (Bunyan's wife reading the bible to him), complete as list, each mounted and presented in original portfolio (360 x 295mm, 14¼ x 11½"). Each plate c.170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), initialled W.S. (William Strang) in plate. Portfolio with original printed title label to upper cover, numbered '41' in ink, from an edition limited to 50, and signed by Strang. All covers detached and broken at spine; boards generally scuffed and rubbed. Some spotting to plates, mostly marginal, and original mounts.
The scenes depicted in the evocative etchings by William Strang R.A. R.E. (Scottish, 1859 - 1921) are listed on an original label pasted to the inside front cover. Chief pupil of Alphonse Legros, Strang was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881. 'The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come' is a Christian allegory by John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), first published in 1678.
[Ref: 13730] £680.00
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Historical Illustrations of the Chateau d'Eu from its foundation to the present day; with full and authentic details of the recent visit of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and her royal consort, to His Majesty the king of the French, and his August family.
By Joseph Skelton, F.S.A. author and engraver of the architectural antiquities of Oxfordshire, etc. The text by M.J. Vatout, Counsellor of State and first librarian to the King. The English department by the Rev. C.J. Furlong, A.M.
London, F.G. Moon, publisher to Her Majesty, Threadneedle-Street. 1844. Printed by A. and H. Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, 56.
Large folio, fine contemporary calf binding with gilt border and crest, decorative spine in compartments. Gilt page edges. 21 plates as called for. Front cover detached, edges rubbed. Staining to back cover
Includes list of subscribers and text describing the plates. The crest on the front is that of Percy, Duke of Northumberland. The Dukedom was created on 22 October 1766. The book therefore possibly comes from the library at Alnwick or Syon. With thanks to Thomas Woodcock, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, for identifying the crest of Percy, Duke of Northumberland.
[Ref: 12518] £550.00
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Sketches of Corsica; -or, a Journal Written during a Visit to that Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry of the People.
By Robert Benson, M.A. F.L.S.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row. MDCCCXXV. [1825.]
Book, first edition, 8vo (210 x 130mm, 8¼ x 5"), hand coloured aquatint and 4 sepia (including frontispiece), wood-engraved vignette titlepage, 195 pp. Contemporary brown calf with gilt border decoration and gilt stamped banded spine inscribed 'Bensons Corsica'. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed. Spotting to plates, generally light, offsetting to coloured plate. Otherwise good.
Robert Benson (1797 - 1844), recorder of Salisbury, was the youngest son of the Rev. Edmund Benson, priest-vicar of Salisbury Cathedral, and was born in that city. In 1823 he went to Corsica as one of the commissioners to carry into effect the bequests of General Paoli, and on his return he published this book. Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli (Pascal Paoli, 1725 – 1807), was a Corsican patriot and leader, the president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica. Paoli designed and wrote the Constitution of this first democratic republic of the modern age himself. It was a representative democracy asserting that the elected Diet of Corsican representatives had no master. Abbey Travel: 76.
[Ref: 11921] £420.00
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(Ireland, William Henry.) [Something concerning Nobody.] [Edited by Somebody. Embellished with fourteen characteristic etchings.]
[Plates etched by G. M. Woodward.]
[London: Robert Scholey, 1814.]
Fourteen sepia etchings (complete, including frontispiece) attributed to George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), glued into green paper pamphlet, front wrapper annotated in ink. Only edition, 8vo (210 x 135mm, 8¼ x 5¼"). Etchings trimmed within platemarks (lacking text and original binding).
Each captioned plate shows the 'Nobody' character - a large head on small shoulders placed on his legs so that he has no body - in different everyday situations. A real curiosity. British Library: 010250214.
[Ref: 12610] £230.00
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Hogarth Moralized. Being a Complete Edition of Hogart's Works. Containing near Fourscore Copper-Plates, most elegantly engraved. with an Explanation, Pointing out the many Beauties that may have hitherto escaped Notice; and a Comment on their Moral Tendency. Calculated to improve the Minds of Youth, and, convey Instruction, under the Mask of Entertainment. Now First Published, With the Approbation of Jane Hogarth, Widow of the late Mr. Hogarth.
London: Sold by S. Hooper, at the East Corner of the New Church in the Strand; and Mrs Hogarth, at her House in Leicester-Fields. MDCCLXVIII [1768].
8vo, fine contemporary crushed morocco gilt, a.e.g.; pp. (iv)+viii+212+viii, 78 engraved plates, complete, fine binding. Occasional foxing and toning; bookplate of Alexander Copland on endpaper, old ink mss. ownership inscription on title.
A charming volume containing miniature versions of Hogarth's prints engraved by Corbould and Dent, and a commentary by the Rev.d John Trusler.
[Ref: 27788] £850.00
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