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BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
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CONTeNTS
Tuesday 24 March 2015 at 11.00
Lots
General Printed Books 1-63
Art and Architecture 64-81
Continental Printed Books 82-103
The property of Jacob Peter Mayer (1903-1979),
sold by order of the Executors of the late Mrs. Mayer 104-125
Maps and Atlases 126-143
Curiosity Maps 144-151
Travel 152-311
British Topography 312-327
Natural History 328-357
From the Library of the late Dr. Frances Jarrett,
Head of the Fern Section at Kew, 1962-1983 358-360
Science and Medicine 361-370
English Literature 371-416
Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 417-480
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BARBA (ALVARO ALONSO)
TUeSDAy 24 MARCH 2015 AT 11.00 The Second Book of the Art of Mettals, wherein is Taught the Common
Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver, second edition, engraved plate,
Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and modern quarter calf [Wing B682], Samuel Mearne, 1674--SWEERTIUS
other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any (F.) Epitaphia ioco-seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica,
saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to Belgica, woodcut device in title, modern boards, Koln, B. Gualtherius,
the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal 1623--GOUFFÉ (JULES) The Royal Cookery Book, half-title, modern
of purchases. quarter calf, Sampson, Low, 1869--FRANCATELLI (CHARLES ELMÉ)
The Royal Confectioner, fifth edition, publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt,
Chapman and Hall, 1887--APPERLEY (CHARLES JAMES, “Nimrod”)
geNeRAL PRINTeD BOOKS
Memoirs of The Life of the late John Mytton Esq., second edition,
1• additional engraved title, 18 hand-coloured engraved plates, publisher’s
pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., upper cover detached, R. Ackermann,
AeRONAUTICA
1837--BORMANN (CHARLES) The Shrapnel Shell in England and
BRUEL (FRANCOIS-LOUIS) Histoire aéronautique, par les monuments,
in Belgium, ink stamps, publisher’s cloth, Brussels, 1859, plates,
peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines a 1830, NUMBER
illustrations, 8vo; and 19 others (25)
71 OF 325 COPIES, half-title, 200 tipped-in plates (many colour),
£300 - 500
contemporary red half morocco gilt by Bumpus, t.e.g, folio (352 x
270mm.), André Marty Editeur, Paris, 1909 5•
£600 - 800
BIBLIOgRAPHy
2• [BARROIS (J.)] Bibliotheque protypographique, ou Libraries des
Fils du Roi Jean, plates, contemporary russia, rather worn, Paris,
ANgLINg
1830--GOODWIN (G.) A Catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester,
KELSON (GEORGE M.) The Salmon Fly: How to Dress It and How to
tinted frontispiece, publisher’s cloth, Not published, 1888--SMITH (J.J.)
Use It, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, 8 chromolithographed
American historical and literary Curiosities... fifth edition, plates, cloth,
plates, illustrations, publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt, later morocco
New York, 1852, 4to and folio; and upwards of 25 others, similar (small
spine, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 4to, By the Author, 1895
quantity)
£200 - 300
£300 - 400
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ARCHAeOLOgy
BIBLIOgRAPHy
BROOKE (WILLIAM HENRY) ‘Site of the Barrow where upwards of 100
CAVE (R.) Typographia naturalis, ONE OF 330 COPIES, plates, including
roman urns were found - swords/ small Helmet, Bit of Bridle, Horses
two original nature printed plates, original quarter leather, bit worn,
Bones &c. in a field on the estate of Broome Hall near Eye, Suffolk,
slipcase, Brewhouse, Wymondham, 1967--SIMON (A.L.) Bibliotheca
seat of Marquia Cornwallis’; ‘Fragments of Roman Urns discovered on
gastronomica, proof copy, wrappers, interleaved, 1953--BUCOP The
the estate of Marquis Cornwallis near Eye, Suffolk’; ‘Roman Urn about
British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 4 vol., cloth, rubbed, 1955-58
8 inches in diameter discovered with about 100 others in a field near
(34)
Broom Hall, Suffolk, Marquis Cornwallis/ Mr. Grimes, Gamekeeper’;
£300 - 400
untitled image of 2 urns with their dimensions inscribed, 4 drawings
in pen, ink and washes, uniformly mounted on paper, images 130 x 7•
190mm., Abbey Farm [Eye Cemetery], 21 October, 1818 (4)
BIBLIOgRAPHy
£700 - 900
JENKINSON (HILARY) The later Court Hands in England, 2 vol., cloth
and half cloth, in original slipcase, worn, Cambridge, 1927--LEROQUAIS
Brooke’s drawings of the unearthing of the sixth-century Anglo-Saxon
(V.) Supplement aux Livres d’Heures manuscrits, wrappers, worn,
(not Roman) cemetery on the estate of Broome Hall near Eye, Suffolk,
Macon, 1943--GREENE (BELLE DA COSTA) Exhibition of Illuminated
are significant from an archaeological point of view since, before their
Manuscripts, boards, New York, PML, 1933, plates, folio; and others,
discovery, little was known about the Eye dig itself: they confirm its exact
similar (23)
location, reveal the placement of mounds or barrows (previously not fully
£300 - 400
understood) and indicate the depth of the dig itself.
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Though William Henry Brooke (1772-1860) is known principally as a
BIBLIOgRAPHy
portrait painter, book illustrator and satirical draughtsman, he did a
MEYIER (K.) Codices Vossiani Latini, 4 vol. in 3, binder’s cloth, Leiden,
number of archaeological studies of sites and vistas in Suffolk. These
1973-1984--PUTTICK and SIMPSON. Catalogue of... historical
drawings are unsigned, but the particular style and handwriting are
Manuscripts and autograph Letters of the late Francis Moore, plates,
clearly Brooke’s. (Rev. H. Creed, ‘On the Castle and Honour of Eye’,
publisher’s cloth, bit loose, prices and buyer’s names in manuscripts,
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 11, Part 1, 1855,
26 -30 April, 1856--Scrapbook of Portraits, Kings, Princes, Politicians...
pp. 117-124; Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818, ii. pp. 131-133 account of
15th-19th Cent., approx. 85 leaves, neatly mounted, approx. 250
the dig on 29 July 1818 by ‘Viator’; DNB).
engraved or lithographed portraits, most with manuscript captions and
facsimile specimens of their handwriting, half leather album, c.1850,
8vo, 4to and folio; and upwards of 55 others (quantity)
£300 - 400
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BINDINg BINDINgS
GILBERT (W.S.) The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a FIELDING (HENRY) The Works, 10 vol., Bickers, 1871--GRENVILLE
Savoyard... with 350 Illustrations by the Author, reprint of 1904 edition, (CHARLES) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William
green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere and Sons, cover with gilt titles IV, 3 vol., 1874; A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-
and pictorial scene featuring Archibald Grosvenor and ‘An elderly naval 1852, 3 vol., 1885; A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from
man’ (see p.101), rear board with jester and gilt proverb (see p.299), 1852-1860, 1887, Longmans--POPE (ALEXANDER) The Works, 8 vol.,
figures in coloured morocco onlays, within gilt frames with cornerpieces, Longman, 1847--BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 5
very faint dampstain at lower fore-edge, otherwise fine, 8vo, Macmillan, vol., John Murray, 1831, contemporary half calf, morocco, 8vo (31)
1926 £400 - 600
£300 - 400
12•
See illustration on preceding page. BINDINgS
GARDINER (SAMUEL R.) History of England 1603-1642, 10 vol., 1905;
10• History of England 1642- 1644, 4 vol., 1897; History of England 1649-
BINDINgS 1650, 4 vol., contemporary uniform calf, 1903, Longmans--CHAPMAN
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) “Lewis Carroll”. Alice in Wonderland, (GEORGE) Chapman’s Dramatic Works, 3 vol., John Pearson,
red morocco by Bayntun, Macmillan, 1948--GALSWORTHY (JOHN) 1873--GASKELL (ELIZABETH C.) The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 2 vol.,
The Forsyte Saga, Heinemann, 1912; A Modern Comedy, 1929; End Smith, 1857--WEBSTER (JOHN) The Works, 3 vol., William Pickering,
of the Chapter, Heinemann, 1935, half morocco by Sangorski and 1830--STRICKLAND (AGNES) Lives of the Queens of England, 6 vol.,
Sutcliffe--INGOLDSBY (THOMAS) The Ingoldsby Legends, half morocco George Bell, 1896--CAMPBELL (JOHN) Lives of the Lord Chancellors,
by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Macmillan, 1936--KIPLING (RUDYARD) 10 vol., John Murray, 1856--DEFOE (DANIEL) The Novels and
The Two Jungle Books, Macmillan, red calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Miscellaneous Works, 7 vol., George Bell, 1880, contemporary calf and
1926--HAMERTON (PHILIP) The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A., morocco half calf, morocco, gilt decoration to spine sections, 8vo (50)
by Zaehnsoorf, Seeley, Jackson, 1879--CARLYLE (THOMAS) The £500 - 700
French Revolution, 3 vol., half morocco by Riviere, James Fraser,
1837--LANG (ANDREW, edited by) The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 13•
1898; The Book of Romance, 1903; The Red True Story Book, 1895; BINDINgS
The True Story Book, 1917, Longmans, Green; The Life and Letters of GREEN (JOHN RICHARD) A Short History of the English People, 4 vol.,
John Gibson Lockhart, 2 vol., Nimmo, 1897; The Library, Macmillan, Macmillan, 1892--MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) The History of
1881, and a quantity of other finely bound books, calf and morocco by England, 6 vol., Macmillan, 1913--BURNET (BISHOP) History of his Own
Bayntun, Sangorski and Sutcliffe and others, 8vo (quantity) Time, 2 vol., William Smith, 1840--HALLAM (HENRY) Introduction to the
£300 - 500 Literature of Europe, 3 vol., 1843; View of the State of Europe During the
Middle Ages, 3 vol., 1837; The Constitutional History of England, 3 vol.,
1832, John Murray--FROUDE (JAMES ANTHONY) History of England,
12 vol., Parker, 1862, morocco, half morocco and calf, 8vo (33)
£300 - 500
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BINDINgS BINDINgS
KINGLAKE (ALEXANDER WILLIAM) The Invasion of Crimea, 8 vol., SYMONDS (JOHN ADDINGTON) The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti,
engraved plates (some folding), William Blackwood, 1863--GIBBON 2 vol., NUMBER 54 OF 112 COPIES, portrait frontispiece, numerous
(EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 photographic plates, bookplate of Christopher Lethbridge, ochre half
vol., T. Cadell, 1828--NAPIER (W.F.D.) History of the War in the Peninsula morocco gilt, boards with slight spotting, royal 8vo, John C. Nimmo,
and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6 vol., 1893; The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi, 2 vol., NUMBER 36 OF
Frederick and Warner, 1892--GROTE (GEORGE) A History of Greece 210 COPIES with duplicate engravings, portrait frontispiece, several
from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary engravings hand-coloured, armorial bookplate of Samuel S. Joseph,
with Alexander the Great, 12 vol., John Murray, 1884, contemporary calf ochre morocco gilt, royal 8vo, John C. Nimmo, 1890--BOCCACCIO
and half calf, gilt panelled spines, 8vo (34) (GIOVANNI) The Decameron, 2 vol., with additional plates, mottled calf
£400 - 600 gilt with ornate flower-tooled gilt panels between raised bands of spine,
small 4to, Henry F. Bumpus, 1906--HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Complete
15• Works, engraved portrait, additional title and numerous plates, calf
BINDINgS - OCCULT gilt, board panels with fleur-de-lys lattice within foliate-tooled borders
FRAZER (JAMES GEORGE) The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and on blue and russet inlay, slightly rubbed at extremities, large 4to, The
Religion, 12 vol. (including Bibliography & Index volume), third edition, London and Publishing Company, [c.1860], first 3 mentioned bound by
modern green half morocco, gilt panelled spines, t.e.g., 8vo, Macmillan, Zaehnsdorf; and 15 others (22)
1914-1917 £300 - 500
£300 - 500
19
See illustration overleaf. BINDINgS
TAYLOR (JAMES) The Pictorial History of Scotland, 2 vol., Virtue,
16 [1859]--MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) Critical and Historical
BINDINgS Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3 vol., Longman,
RANKE (LEOPOLD VON) A History of the England Principally in the 1846--CONGREVE (WILLIAM) The Works, 2 vol., J. Wenman,
Seventeenth Century, 6 vol., Oxford, Clarendon, 1875--GOLDSMITH 1778--STERNE (LAURENCE) The Works of Laurence Sterne, 4 vols., J.
(OLIVER) The Works, 4 vol., John Murray, 1854--WHEATLEY (HENRY Johnson; T. Becket, 1808--THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) The
B.) The Historical and the Posthumous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Works, 12 vol., Smith and Elder, 1878--FORD (HENRY) The Dramatic
Wraxall, 5 vol., Bickers, 1884, morocco and calf, 8vo and a quantity of Works, 2 vol., Edinburgh, George Ramsay, 1811--The Tryal of Dr.
other bindings (quantity) Henry Sacheverell before the House of Peers, London, House of Peers,
£300 - 500 1710--CLARENDON (EDWARD) The History of the Rebellion and Civil
Wars in England, 6 vol., Oxford, Clarendon, 1807, calf and half calf (32)
17 £250 - 350
BINDINgS
SWIFT (JONATHAN) The Works, 19 vol., 1824--DRYDEN (JOHN)
The Works, 18 vol., 1821, contemporary diced calf, later spines, 8vo,
Edinburgh, Constable (37)
£300 - 500
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BINDINgS BINDINgS
THACKERAY (WILLIAM) The Works, 13 vol., Smith, 1895--MOTLEY RAWLINSON (GEORGE) The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient
(JOHN LOTHRUP) The Rise of Dutch Republic, 3 vol., Frederick Warne, Easter World, 4 vol., 1862-1867; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy,
[1886]--SIDNEY (PHILIP) The Works, 3 vol., Taylor, 1725--GAIRDNER 1873, uniform red half morocco by Bayntun, t.e.g.; History of Herodotus,
(JAMES, editor) The Paston Letters, 3 vol., Constable, 4 vol., contemporary vellum, armorial device gilt on covers, red and
1895--SMOLLETT (TOBIAS) The Works, 6 vol., Edinburgh, Stirling & green morocco labels, 1880--ROLLIN (M.) The Ancient History, 8 vol.,
Slade, 1820, half calf and half morocco, 8vo (33) fifteenth edition, contemporary calf, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, [c.1823],
£300 - 500 plates, maps, 8vo; and upwards of 45 others, including another edition
of Rollin (quantity)
21• £300 - 500
BINDINgS
WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSEL) The Malay Archipelago: The Land of 24
the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 8 CHURCHILL (wINSTON)
engraved plates (including frontispieces), 7 maps, numerous illustrations, Presentation signature (“Winston S. Churchill”), subscribed by him
lacking two folding maps and half-titles, Macmillan, 1869--LENORMANT “12-1. 18”, on an album leaf , inscribed below by a collector “The Right
(FRANÇOIS) A Manual of the Ancient History of the East, 2 vol., Asher Honourable Winston Churchill/ Minster of Munitions”; with Admiral
& Co., 1869-1870--ROBINSON (EDWARD) Physical Geography of Jellicoe’s signature overleaf, framed and glazed, unexamined out of
The Holy Land, John Murray, 1865--WACE (HENRY) Christianity frame, overall 240 x 270 mm., 12 January 1918
and Morality, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876, occasional spotting, £300 - 400
presentation bookplate of Glasgow University, calf gilt by Maclehose of
Glasgow, with university gilt stamp on cover, 8vo; and 18 others, largely 25•
prize bindings as above (24) CIDeR
£300 - 500 WORLIDGE (JOHN) Vinetum Britannicum: or A Treatise of Cider,
and Other Wines and Drinks Extracted From Fruits Growing in This
22• Kingdom. With the Method of Propagating All Sorts of Vinous Fruit-
BINDINgS Trees. And a Description of the New-Invented Ingenio or Mill, For The
BROWNING (ROBERT) Poetical Works, 2 vol., 1907--PALEY (WILLIAM) More Expeditious Making of Cider. And Also the Right Way of Making
The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2 vol., Faulder, Metheglin and Birch-Wine, 2 parts in 1, second edition, engraved
1788--MILLON (CHARLES) Politique d’Aristotle, 3 vol., Paris, Artaud, frontispiece, two engraved plates, two full-page engraved illustrations,
1803--CREASY (EDWARD) The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, 7 pages (blank recto of frontispiece and endpapers) of notes on
Bentley, 1893, contemporary calf--DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) Tancred, 3 the growing of apples and pears in an early hand, occasional light
vol., FIRST EDITION, bookplates of Oliver Brett, and W.A. Foye (Beeleigh dampstaining, small trace of worming in margin of some leaves, early
Abbey), publisher’s cloth-backed boards, preserved in fleece-lined ownership inscription of T. Aldenhey, contemporary calf, worn, upper
morocco gilt case boxes, Henry Colburn, 1847, 8vo; and 18 others, cover detached [Wing W3609; Bitting p.504 ], 8vo, T. Dring, 1678
mostly calf or half calf (29) £300 - 400
£300 - 400
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CRICKeT
WARNER (PELHAM FRANCIS) Cricket in Many Climes, FIRST EDITION,
W.G. GRACE’S COPY SIGNED by him inside upper cover, numerous
photographic plates, publisher’s decorative cloth, light soiling, 8vo,
William Heinemann, 1900
£150 - 200
27•
eNCyCLOPAeDIAS
CHAMBERS (EPHRAIM) Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of
Arts and Sciences, 5 vols., engraved frontispiece, plate vol. 5 with 144
engraved plates and 6 type specimen leaves (several folding), armorial
bookplates of George Herring and William Andrews, contemporary calf
gilt, worn at extremities, hinges cracking, one board detached, folio, J.F.
and C. Rivington, 1786--CRABB (GEORGE) Universal Technological
Dictionary, 2 vols., 60 engraved plates, faint offsetting, final leaf and
defective half-title (vol. one) laid down, bookplate of Alfred T. Everitt,
contemporary half calf, worn, backstrips detached and near detached,
4to, Baldwin and Cradock, 1833, occasional spotting, titles with library
stamps, library bookplates; and 11 others (18)
£300 - 400
28•
eNgRAVINgS
CUITT (GEORGE) Wanderings and Pencillings Amongst Ruins of the
Olden Time, 73 etched plates, title and other vignette illustrations on
india paper, mounted, occasional spotting, contemporary green half
morocco, a little rubbed, g.e., folio, Nattali, 1848--HOGARTH (WILLIAM)
The Works ... With ... Descriptions...By the Rev. John Trusler, 2 vol.,
engraved plates, spotting, contemporary half roan, rubbed, 4to, Jones,
1833 (3), sold as a collection of plates
£200 - 300
29•
ePHeMeRA
BALLOONING. Two announcements of Balloon Ascents by Mr.
Green from Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, wood-engraved illustrated
broadsides, approximately 250 x 110mm., 1845--Album compiled by
Frederick Locker-Lampson, containing a number of tipped-in periodicals
and other printed material, bookplate of Frederick Locker[-Lampson]
designed by H. Stacy Marks, contemporary half vellum, lettered in ink on
spine, [1846-1883]--DEVON - ESTATE SALES BY AUCTION. In Devon.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the Farringdon Estate ... Within
Six Miles of the City of Exeter ... Sold by Auction by Mr. Geo. Robins 27
... June the 9th, 1836, folding lithographed map with inset vignette of
house; In North Devon ... The Manor and Splendid Seat Called Buckland 30•
Filleigh ... Mr. George Robins ... 9th of June, 1836, lithographed plate fACSIMILe LUTTReLL PSALTeR
with two inset views of house and grounds, folding lithographed map, BROWN (MICHELLE P.) The Luttrell Psalter, NUMBER 87 OF 1480
browning, both interleaved, with notes and prices in ink (?auctioneer’s COPIES, leaves printed in colours, light blue morocco by Smith Settle,
copy), later cloth, spine titled “Robins Sales 1822-1836”, Printed by bevelled edges, decorated gilt border to upper board designed by David
Alfred Robins, 1836--[BERQUIN (ARNAUD)] Blindman’s Buff: or, the Eccles, calf title label to spine, g.e., folio; Commentary [companion
Wicked Boy Reformed, first separate English edition, 3 engraved volume], cloth backed boards, 8vo, both housed in solander box, A
plates, contemporary ownership inscriptions on recto of frontispiece, FINE COPY, The Folio Society, 2006 (2)
original wrappers, soiled, spine defective [Moon ‘John Harris’s Books £300 - 500
for Youth 1801-1843’, 44 (1); not in COPAC], 16mo, J. Harris, 1804-
-[MORE (HANNAH)] The History of Mr. Fantom, the New-Fashioned The first full facsimile edition of the Luttrel Psalter. The original held by
Philosopher, and His Man William, woodcut illustration on title, modern the British Library, MS 42130, was bought for the nation in 1929, it was
wrappers, Dublin, W. Watson, [c.1815-1818]--The Pleasant and at that time the highest price ever paid for a manuscript.
Delightful History of Jack and the Giants, 2 parts in one vol., stitched
as issued, Nottingham, Printed for the Running Stationers, [1800]--
The Famous History of the Valiant London ‘Prentice, folded as issued,
unopened, Printed for the Honourable Company of Walking Stationers,
[?1790]--Jamie and Nancy of Yarmouth’s Garland, folded as issued,
[Edinburgh], Printed this Present Year [c.1770-1790]--The Repentance
and Happy Death, of the Celebrated Earl of Rochester, folded as issued,
unopened, Nottingham, Sutton, [1814], woodcut illustrations, various
sizes; and others (small quantity)
£200 - 300
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