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SeSSion i - Th u r S d ay 27T h May aT 10.30a M
Botany Lots 1-175
Birds Lots 176-312
Other Natural History Lots 313-323
SeSSion ii - aT 2.00p M
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English Literature and History Lots 614-660
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Science and Medicine Lots 747-753
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❦ Botany
The first part of the botanical library of the late Mike Walpole (1933-2009)
removed from Loughborough, Leicestershire and sold by order of the executor.
The second and final part will be sold on Thursday 23rd September 2010.
Mike Walpole was born in Loughborough, and apart from 2
years National Service, spent his life in and around the town. He
qualified as a chartered accountant in 1955, and in 1959 joined the
Leicestershire hosiery company of Towles Ltd. He became Finance
Director and Company Secretary, retiring in 1994 when the firm
was taken over.
He remained a trustee of the pension fund, resisting pressure to
increase their holding of Towles’ shares during the difficult times
that followed the takeover, and he thus played
a considerable part in ensuring
that when Towles ceased
trading in 1997 there was
still a realistic pension
pot. I remember his story
of one of the meetings,
packed with high powered
financial advisers, where he
started by asking everyone
present to say how much
their presence was costing
the pensioners.
His knack of asking
searching questions was also
useful in his parallel careers
as field naturalist and book
collector. Locally he was a
major force in the Loughborough
Naturalists’ Club, and played an
important part in ensuring that
the Charnwood Lodge Estate became the Shirley Clarke Nature
Reserve. Nationally he was honorary treasurer of the Botanical
Society of the British Isles 1971-97 and was elected an honorary
member of the society in 1991.
His book collecting started at a very early age. Ann, his wife for over
50 years, remembers his biking off to visit bookshops in their courting
days. We have been able to document much of his buying from the
invoices which we have matched with some of the books. Halliday of
Leicester seems to have been the first shop where he bought seriously -
the Disciples edition of Cuvier at £60 for instance - and he appreciated
that such prices would not maintain (nor did they of course). We
reproduce two bookplates which seem to
belong to this early stage in the library - but
he hardly ever used them, and his pencilled
initials on the rear endpaper are the most
consistent sign of his ownership.
1. Arnell (Sigfrid) and others. Il l u s t r at e d m o s s f l o r a o f
fe n n o s c a n d I a, 2 vol. in 7 parts, Lund & Stockholm, 1954-69 §
Brotherus (V.F.) Die Laubmoose Fennoskandias, Helsinki, 1923,
illustrations, wrappers; and others, v.s. (27). £40 – £80
He soon found his way to the two major natural history bookshops
of the time, Bernard Quaritch, 10 Grafton St. Mayfair and Wheldon
& Wesley in Lytton Lodge near Hitchin. They specialised in
serious natural history and he bought extensively from them both,
becoming a welcome figure to Howard Radclyffe at the former (he
even elicited a reluctant smile from E H Boxall, the dour head of
department) and Charles, and later H K Swann at the latter. Charles
Traylen in Guildford appreciated the beauties of natural history
books which might appeal to those outside a specialised circle, and
several of the highlights of the collection - the Redouté for instance
or the 16th Cent. panel portrait of Gerarde were bought from him.
In 1968, sixty items from the collection were exhibited
for six days at the
Loughborough School
of Librarianship, the
only public showing
Mike permitted. In his
introduction to the brief
catalogue, he hopes to
spread appreciation of
the delights of natural
history illustration, and
he ends by thanking his
many friends in the book
trade “without whom this
exhibition would not have
been possible”.
British botany was always at the centre of the collection, and
Mike sometimes sold Continental to buy British, so some 20% of
the exhibition books are no longer in the collection. He was a bold,
even a reckless buyer if there was a book he wanted; an essential
ingredient in any serious collector.
I remember the sale at Christies in1988, of Lord Bute’s
Botanical Tables, one of 12 copies. The estimate was £8/10,000
and we settled on a bid of £20,000. He was very put out when I
relinquished the book at £32,000 and was only mollified when
I said that we had been bidding against Mrs Mellon. He always
intended a bibliography of British floras - a more accessible and
less compressed Simpson was what he had in mind - but this
alas never came to fruition. I hope that our detailed cataloguing,
particularly of the second sale, the British botany, will document
at least some of his discoveries in the endlessly fascinating field
of natural history bibliography.
John Collins
2. Barkman (J.J.) Ph y to s o c I o l o g y a n d e c o l o g y o f c ry P to g a m I c
e P I P h y e s, 2 vol., plate margins a little cockled, Assen, 1958 §
Nowak (H.) Mitthyridium in Ozeanien, Vaduz, 1980 § Renzaglia
(Karen) A comparative developmental investigation of Metzgeriales
(Hepatophyta), Vaduz, 1982 § Tixier (P.) Contribution a la connaissance
des Cololejeunoideae, Vaduz, 1985, illustrations, original cloth or
boards; and others, similar, 8vo (35). £100 – £200
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3. Barrelier (Jacques) Pl a n ta e P e r ga l l I a m, hI s Pa n I a m e t
Ita l I a m o P u s P o s t h u m u m e d I t u m an t o n I I d e JussIeu engraved title
(duplicated, as usual), 334 engraved plates, mostly of plants, but
including crabs, star fish, etc., minor water-stains, contemporary
English calf, gilt spine, bit worn and scuffed, flyleaf with scribbled
inscription that the book was bought for a guinea on 15 Dec. 1774
signed D[uke] of Ancaster, and with 18th century Bertie bookplate
(3 battering rams; motto “Virtus Arriete Fortior”), bought by MW
from Halliday of Leicester in 1965 and original invoice inserted,
[Hunt 432], folio, Paris, 1714. £1000 – £1500
* * * “Barrelier, a Dominican priest who botanized widely in France,
Spain and Italy, collecting many unknown plants, was preparing
this edition for publication and already had the plates engraved
in Rome (by an unknown artist) when he died suddenly in 1673.
His manuscripts were later destroyed in a fire. Antoine de Jussieu
discovered the plates nearly 40 years later and had them published
with his own text” [S. Massey], Hoffman sale lot 187
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Lot 4
4. Bateman (James) th e or c h I d a c e a e o f me x I c o & gu at e m a l a.
one of 125 copies, lithographed title (foxed and frayed), 20 (of 40)
fine hand-coloured lithographs (numbered I-XX; lacking the second
half), with text, some margins a bit frayed, minor creasing, original
lithographed wrapper to part 3 bound in (this gives the limitation),
marbled boards, later cloth spine worn and loose, cutting pasted
inside front cover (lot 563; Hardwick Court, Chepstow; the book
was purchased by W&W for MW for £85 in 1963; letter inserted),
large folio, [1837]. £10000 – £15000

Lot 5
5. Bateman (James) vIgnettes f r o m mr. bateman’s or c h I d a c e a e o f
me x I c o a n d guatemala, 27 vignettes by George Cruikshank, printed
on India paper and laid down, original red cloth, g.e., bit worn, joints
repaired, inscribed by her brother to Margaret Wathen “Knypersley
Hall Dec. 10 1844”, bought from Foyles in 1980 for £145, invoice
inserted, oblong 8vo, Cook & Co., 1844. £200 – £300
* * * The first vignette (arms of Queen Adelaide) is not in the list of
plates (but neither is the title) and is perhaps special to this copy. The
recipient was Bateman’s daughter, who married Obadiah Wathen.
The final plate shows the eiphyte house at Knypersley Hall, the
Batemans moved over the fields to Biddulph Grange c.1840.
Lot 6
6. [Bauer (Ferdinand) and William Westall] or I g I n a l
wat e r c o l o u r d r aw I n g s f o r t h e v I g n e t t e v Ie w s o f mo u n t at h o s &
Ph y s c u s (t I t l e Pa g e s o f v o l. 8 & 9, sI b t h o r P, fl o r a gr a e c a) each
approximately 135 x 190mm., old gilt mounts, pencil captions on
versos, [c.1800 ]. (2). £1000 – £1500
* * * Sibthorp himself died before any of his Flora Graeca was
published, and the task of seeing it through the press fell on his
executors, John Hawkins and Thomas Platt. The former died in
1841 and Platt inherited many drawings and working papers. These
were purchased in 1923 from Wheldon & Wesley by G.C. Druce
(see Bodleian Library Record, II, 75-76; W.T. Stearn, Sibthorp,
Smith, the ‘Flora Graeca’, Taxon, 1967) who bequeathed them to
the Botany School at Oxford, and they form part of the basis of
the recent book by Lank The Flora Graeca Story, 1999. However
in 1930 Druce gave these two drawings to Major General Thomas
Bell Lindsay Churchill, CB, CBE, MC (1907-90), and he sold
them at Sotheby’s on 22nd March 1977, lot 247, when they were
purchased by Wheldon & Wesley for Mike Walpole. When I took
these in at the book counter at Sotheby’s (it was over thirty years
ago) I did ask the General when he had been given them, but
was too overawed to ask any further. His parents were in Ceylon
and then Hong Kong, and he was sent to the Magdalen College
School in Oxford, just round the corner from the Botanic Garden;
he and Druce presumably met then. In 1930 he was a recently
commissioned captain in the Manchester Regiment, shortly to
depart for Burma, his distinguished career as a Commando in the
Eastern Mediterranean lay in the future. The Botany School have
only the first 7 vignettes (Lank p.211 says the last 3 “no longer
exist”!), and they are in similar style to those present here. Apart
from the vignette to vol.10 (still unaccounted for) the present lot
is likely to be the only opportunity to buy originals for one of the
great botanical masterpieces.
Lank misunderstands Druce’s part in the transmission of
the Platt papers stating(for instance) that some views of the
Mediterranean “were not prepared for Sibthorp as they were
acquired in the 1930s after the death of GC Druce and not after
the death of Sibthorp “ (p. 108). Bauer visited Mount Athos in
1787 and a drawing survives; the executors used Westall to work
up his sketches into watercolours for the titlepages of the Flora.
see Lank, pp. 210-11 “Westall; designing the last frontispieces”
Lank’s suggestion that a third artist - Imrie - was involved
seems very unlikely as the published version of Mount Athos
is signed in the plate by Westall.
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7. Bennett (A.W.) th e f l o r a o f t h e a l P s, 2 vol., 1896; the same, 2
vol., 1900, coloured plates, original cloth, first a bit loose § Gremli
(A.)The Flora of Switzerland, cloth, J.E. Lousley’s copy, with his
booklabel, [Stafleu 2146 records only an undated title, without
a London imprint], London, Nutt ,“printed at Zurich” ,1889;
and others, including a bundle of offprints, v.s. (50).
£50 – £100
8. Billberg (G.J.) ek o n o m I s k b o ta n I k 2 parts, all published, 12
hand-coloured plates, a fine copy in original printed wrappers,
8vo, Stockholm, 1815-16. £400 – £600
* * * This attractive work was hardly known until some 20 years
ago (not in Pritzel, Nissen or Stafleu, but see Jackson 499) when a
concealed remainder surfaced, now absorbed.
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9. Blunt (Wilfred) and W.T. Stearn. ca P ta I n co o k’s fl o r I l e g I u m,
o r I g I n a l s u b s c r I b e r’s c o P y, number 93 for Mike Walpole
(subscribers’ list loosely inserted), 30 plates printed from the
original copper-plates, original half black morocco, by Zaehnsdorf,
cloth case, folio, Royal College of Art, Lion and Unicorn Press,
1973. £3000 – £4000
* * * Banks directed the preparation of the plates and had 3 sets of
proofs pulled. These were used to make lithographic copies for Sir
William Hooker’s Flora antarctica, 1844-47. and James Britten’s
IIlustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770, 1900-05.
Apart from the proofs the present publication is the only authentic
printing of these magnificent copper plates. The full set (apart from
5 lost by the Royal College) were subsequently printed by Editions
Alecto as Banks’ Florilegium, 35 vol., 1980-90; but the nature of
the plates makes it clear that the colour printing used in this edition
is historically implausible; see Bridson, Printmaking, 19. The only
occurrence of Banks’ proofs for sale seems to be William Pamplin’s
closing catalogue part III, Feb.1863 item 405 a volume of 28 plates
lettered “Botany Bay plants by Sir Joseph Banks” pencil notes by
Brown. It did not sell at a guinea and was lot 562 in J.C. Stevens’
sale of the remaining stock on 13/14 Oct. 1863.

10. Bonnier (Gaston) fl o r e c o m P l e t e I l l u s t r e e e n c o u l e u r s d e
fr a n c e, suIsse e t be l g I q u e, 13 vol. in 6, 721 coloured photogravure
plates after Julie Poinsot, [Stafleu 123], Neuchatel & Paris, [1911-
35] § Rouy (Georges) Flore de France, 15 vol., (the Conspectus
bound as last vol.), portrait, the W.A. Shoolbred (1852-1928,
surgeon and botanist) -J.E. Lousley (1907-76, botanist) copy,
with former’s signature and latter’s booklabel and a letter from
the author (about Shetland Ranunculus) bound in, [Stafleu 9706,
9712], Asnieres, etc.,1893-1927, texts browned, binder’s cloth, the
first a bit worn, 8vo (21). £60 – £120
Lot 11
11. Book auction catalogues. a c o l l e c t I o n o f fr e n c h n at u r a l
h I s t o ry b o o k a u c t I o n c ata l o g u e s, 16 in one vol., contemporary
half leather, rubbed, a few priced, several with the stamp of Albert
Foulard, 7 Quai Malaquais, Paris, who presumably collected them,
the binding suggests an origin in the reference library of Herman
of Paris, much sold by Pierre Beres in the 1970s (in tea chests, in
Hodgson’s rooms), 8vo, Paris, 1879-88. £400 – £600
* * * Includes some very rare, and perhaps unique catalogues; two of
them (Beclard, Grasset) are n o t In br I d s o n & Ja c k s o n Naturalists’
libraries. The following short title list excludes 4 anonymous sales
(one of Coleoptera) and is by collector. Durieu de Maisonneuve,
dircteur du Jardin botanique de Bordeaux, 1879; M.G. Delafosse,
professeur au Museum d’histoire naturelle, 1879; [Alexandre ?]
Leymerie, 1883; [Francois] Gervais, professeur au Museum, 1883;
R.Tournouer, president de la Societe geologique de France, 1883;
Adolphe Boucard, [pt. 1, apparently all published], 1883; Dr. P***,
1887; Maurice Girard, 1887; J. Beclard, professeur de physiologie,
1887; D*** & L***, professeur d’histoire naturelle, 1888; Alexandre
Perard, 1888; Arthur Grasset, voyageur-naturaliste, 1888.
12. Braithwaite (Robert) th e sP h a g n a c e a e o r P e at -mosses o f
eu r o P e a n d no rt h am e r I c a, 29 partly hand-coloured lithographs,
original cloth, publisher’s name ‘Bogue’ lettered at base of spine,
contents loose and some margins a little frayed, [Stafleu 701],
1880; the same, a plain copy in a remainder binding, base of
spine lettered ‘London’, 1880 § Welch (Winona) A Monograph
of the Fontinalaceae, illustrations, cloth, dust-jacket, The Hague,
1960 § Schuster (R.M.) Studies on Cephaloziellaceae, plates,
wrappers, Lehre, 1972 § Sjodin (Ake) Index to Distribution Maps
of Bryophytes, 2 vol., boards, Uppsala, 1980 § Engel (John)
and others. Bryological contributions presented in celebration of
Rudolf M. Schuster, illustrations, wrappers, Berlin, 1988; and
others, bryology, v.s. (c. 50). £100 – £200
Lot 13
13. Brookshaw (George) a n e w t r e at I s e o n f l o w e r Pa I n t I n g, o r
e v e ry l a d y h e r o w n d r aw I n g m a s t e r, title + pp. 46 (13-20 have 58
colour samples), plain plate of ‘strokes’, 12 engraved plates, each
in 2 states, plain and hand-coloured, contemporary diced russia,
neatly rebacked, bought by MW from Francis Edwards in 1963,
and the original invoice inserted, 4to, printed for the author by J.
Innes, 1812. £300 – £500
* * * First edition under Brookshaw’s name. What seems to be
essentially the same work was first published anonymously in 1797
[Henry 1167] and then under the pseudonym of G. Brown 1799-
1803 [Henry 522]. Our edition is Henry 518, citing only Kew ,
and her text collation of this is pp. [ii], 36, [2] ; there is no copy on
Copac or World Cat., the earliest being 1816. A printer’s imprint is
found on p.30 (but not on p.46) suggesting that this was published
in two parts. Brookshaw seems to have started as a cabinet maker
and switched to drawing master in mid career; see Lucy Wood’s
article in Apollo, May 1991.
14. Brotherus (V.F.) so m e n e w s P e c I e s o f au s t r a l I a n mosses
d e s c r I b e d, offprint, original wrappers, inscribed by the author to
Emile Bescherelle (1828-1903, bryologist), Helsinki, 1890 § Scott
(G.) and others. The mosses of southern Australia, illustrations,
cloth, dust-jacket, 1976; and others, v.s. (c 20). £40 – £80
15. Bruch (Philipp) and others. bry o l o g I a eu r o Pa e a, 6 vol., 640
lithograph plates, contemporary German binding of half roan, bit
worn, marbled paper sides, inscription on first pastedown by V.V.
M.C. who records the cost of the book and the binding in code (first
cmh; 2nd a), later a Linnean Society duplicate, with discrete stamp
on one title and duplicate notes in pencil, their sale at Christie’s
28.1.74 lot 160, £350 W&W for MW, [Stafleu 844], Stuttgart,
1836-55 § Schimper (W.P.) Musci Europaei novi, vel Bryologiae
europeae supplementum, 4 fascicules in 2 vol., 40 lithograph
plates, original printed wrappers, rebacked, [Stafleu 10.688],
Stuttgart, 1860, 4to (8). £600 – £800
* * * “Das Fundamentalbuch fur die Kenntnis der Europaeischen
Laubermoose” (Junk, Rara, 132-3 but “quarum 112 tabulae
photographicae”); “a master piece” (Margadant, p. 70); “probably
the most outstanding bryological publication of the 19th Century”
(Stafleu, Taxon, May 1972). A number of sets have early
photographic copies of some plates, as the publisher tried to make
up his overs; this set has original lithographs throughout.
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Lot 16
16. Brunfels (Otto) he r b a r u m v I va e e I c o n e s, fIrst e d I t I o n o f t h e
fIrst Pa rt, title within allegorical border, Strasburg coat of arms,
both printed in red and black, 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves, 86
full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz, with the blank B4, but without
the final blank, minor repair to blank margin of first four leaves,
some minor water-stains, generally a nice unsophisticated copy,
17th(?) century signature of Miguel Bunillo on title (trimmed),
bookplate of William Borrer (1781-1862, Sussex botanist) is
possibly added, old vellum, bit worn, ties partly defective, invoice
from Hammond (1976; £1400) inserted, [Adams B2923], folio,
Strasburg, Schott, 1530. £3000 – £5000
* * * The bibliography of this great book seems somewhat unexplored.
The Plesch copy, for instance had the misprint Eiconeb on title, and
index printed in red; this copy has Eicones and index in red; the
copy reproduced in Grolier 33a has Eicones and index in black.
The second edition of 1532 is completely reset, the most noticeable
feature being the smaller gothic type used for the captions; why
this was introduced is an interesting question. Stevenson in his
cataloguing of the 1532 edition [Hunt 30] compared it with the
1530 edition in NY Academy of Medicine ; from which it is clear
that there are text variants in the1530, since this copy does not
entirely agree with the New York copy. He remarks that the book is
“full of bibliographical puzzles which would take many months of
research and comparing of copies to solve”.
“Hans Weitz was a brilliant and original artist who set new
standards of truth and beauty for the printed herbal these vigorous,
well-observed drawings remind us of Durer, and much of Weiditz’s
work has in fact been falsely attributed at one time or another to
that great master, or to Burgkmaier. “ -Blunt, p. 62.
Lot 18
Lot 17
17. Brunfels (Otto) he r b a r u m v I va e e I c o n e s, 2 vol. in 1, second
editions, first title within allegorical border, Strassburg coat-ofarms,
both printed in black, 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves,
135 full-page or near full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz, first vol.
with the two blank leaves, but without the final blank in the 2nd
vol., few minor stains, but a very nice set in contemporary Italian
limp vellum, lettered Herbario Duo on front cover, slightly later
paper label (Erbolario; in red and black) is perhaps German and
there are a number of early ink class marks on preliminary blank
which suggest a monastic library, head of spine a bit frayed, ties
missing, bought from Junk in 1977 with invoice inserted, [Adams
B2925, but without his 3rd vol.], folio, Strassburg, Schott, 1532-
36. £3000 – £5000
18. Bulliard (Pierre) fl o r a ParIeIensIs, 6 vol. in 5, handcoloured
engraved title in first vol., printed titles to vol.2-5, 640
hand-coloured engraved plates, each with a leaf of text, but lacking
the introduction including 2 plates (“manque souvent “ - Gilbert
) and other possible prelims (see Plesch sale lot 106 & Gilbert,
1952), a nice set in early 20th century half pink morocco, t.e.g.,
spine with gilt and onlaid roses in dark red, various inscriptions
of Rev. William Okes (Gonville & Caius; in the college living of
Wheatacre, All Saints, Norfolk, from 1832 to his death in 1858),
8vo, Paris, Didot, 1776-80. £800 – £1200

19. Burdet (Herve) and others. ou v r a g e s b o ta n I q u e s a n c I e n s d e
la b I b l I o t h e q u e d e s co n s e rvato I r e et Ja r d I n b o ta n I q u e s d e la vIlle
d e ge n e v e, o n e o f 30 c o P I e s sPecIally b o u n d In f u l l P I g s k I n, the gilt
block on the front cover (gilt in ordinary copies) blocked in black,
and the spine lettering different, numerous plates, Geneva, 1985 §
Hatton (R.G.) The Craftsman’s Plant-Book, original edition, coloured
frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original cloth, bit faded, 1909 §
Stevenson (J.A.) An Acccount of fungus exsiccati, wrappers, Lehre,
1971; and 15 others, similar, v.s (18). £100 – £200
* * * The specials of the Burdet were announced in the prospectus,
but are not detailed in the book itself.
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20. C. (M.) a c o l l e c t I o n o f b o ta n I c a l d r aw I n g s. mc d e l[I n e av I t]
68 watercolour drawings, in an attractive style, perhaps based on
the Botanical Magazine, though these are larger and more spacious,
manuscript title and each plate with leaf of manuscript description,
one plate once removed and stuck back with stamp paper, 3 others
removed, contemporary straight-grain green morocco, gilt frame
sides with star and floral swags, gilt spine, g.e., a bit worn and
loose, 4to, [c. 1800-20]. £200 – £400
21. Camus (E.G.) Ic o n o g r a P h I e d e s o r c h I d e e s d’eu r o P e, 4 vol.
atlas with 110 coloured and plates 111-122 plain (not 112, fide
Stafleu 971), loose in cloth-backed portfolio, text in wrappers,
Paris, 1921-29 § Nelson (Erich) Gestaltwandel und Artbildung
Orchidaceen europas, 2 vol., limited to 700 copies, coloured plates,
original cloth, Montreux, 1962; and others, orchids, including a
bundle of offprints, v.s. (28). £100 – £200
22. Candolle (Augustin-Pyramus de) or g a n o g r a P h e v e g e ta l,
2 vol., 60 engraved plates, with the half-titles which read ‘Cours
de botanique; premiere partie’ [all published], a nice copy in
contemporary half pink calf, by [Jerome] Bruyere [of Lyons],
bought from Gilhofer in 1974 (invoice inserted), [Stafleu 1004],
8vo, Paris, 1827. £150 – £200
* * * “Fundamental textbook for its period, giving a wealth of details
concerning the organs of plants” - Magadant, p. 78.
23. Cave (R.) and Geoffrey Wakeman. ty P o g r a P h I a n at u r a l I s,
n u m b e r 313 o f 330 c o P I e s, 5 plates, including several original
nature prints, quarter morocco, Wymondham, Brewhouse, 1967 §
Gunther (R.T.) The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides, original edition,
plates, cloth, Oxford, for the author, 1934 § Hudson (Noel) An early
English version of Hortus Sanitatis, illustrations, cloth, dust-jacket a
bit soiled, 1954; and others, similar, v.s. (27). £100 – £200
24. Chaumeton (Francois Pierre) ab r e g e d e l a f l o r e m e d I c a l e,
fa I s a n t s u I t e a u dI c t I o n a I r e d e s sc I e n c e m e d I c a l e s 100 colour
printed plates, mostly by P.J.F. Turpin, irregularly numbered as in
the full scale Flore medicale (Stafleu 1091), edges a bit browned,
recent calf, the prospectus bound in, name Geo. S. Elliot on title,
8vo, [Paris], Panckoucke, 1821. £200 – £300
* * * The prospectus calls for 100 plates, and explains “Les
numeros des figures et du texte etant ceux de la grande edition”.
The work seems to be scarce (only the University of Georgia copy
located, dated 1826) but probably is often catalogued with the
Dictionnaire.
Lot 25
25. Clusius (C.) ra r I o r u m a l I q u o t stIrPIum P e r Pa n n o n I a m,
au s t r I a m & v I c I n a s q u a s d a m P r o v I n c I a s o b s e rvat o r u m h I s t o r I a
fIrst e d I t I o n, fIrst Issue, 361 woodcuts by (probably) Gerard van
Kampen after Dieter van der Bocht, few headlines just trimmed,
minor water-stains, a slightly browned copy in 18th century
English calf, recently rebacked (see below), bound (as often) with
the Stirpium nomenclator Panonicus, Victorian ms. index bound at
the end, [Voet 1007, 1009], 8vo, Antwerp, Plantin, 1583-84.
£800 – £1200
* * * A complete copy of the first issue, conforming to Voet; for the
second issue Clusius forced Plantin to reprint the final gatherings
and add an index; see Voet 1008 for the details.This copy, however,
has been incorrectly ‘perfected’ with photostats from the second
issue, presumably before 1980 when the first vol. of Voet was
published.
26. Coats (Alice) th e b o o k o f f l o w e r s, n u m b e r 17 o f 100 sPecIal
c o P I e s, plates, full leather binding, slip-case, 1973 § Sitwell (S.)
and W. Blunt. Great Flower Books, n u m b e r 90 o f 295 sPecIal
c o P I e s, signed by the authors, half morocco, slip-case, 1956; and
others, similar, folio et infra (42). £150 – £200
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27. Coste (H.) fl o r e d e s c r I P t I v e e t I l l u s t r e e d e l a fr a n c e, 10
vol., text-illustrations, main work in binder’s cloth, the 7 parts of
the supplement in wrappers, Paris, 1901-90 § Nodier (Charles)
Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d’Ecosse, fIrst e d I t I o n,
folding map, 3 hand-coloured plates (one of a chef du clan, the
other 2 botany, by Bory de St. Vincent), contemporary prize calf,
gilt, joints repaired, arms of Institution Hallays-Dabot [Paris], on
covers, Paris, 1821; and others, v.s. (20). £60 – £120
28. Cotton (A.D.) cry P t o g a m s f r o m t h e fa l k l a n d I s l a n d s,
c o l l e c t e d b y mr s. va l l e n t I n 1915 § Dixon (H.N.) A Contribution
to the Moss Flora of Borneo, 1935 § Arnell (S.) Hepatics from
Tristan da Cunha, Oslo, 1958 § Chopra (R.) Taxonomy of Indian
Mosses, New Delhi, 1975 § Whittier (H.) Mosses of the Society
islands, Gainesville, 1976, illustrations, first 3 wrappers, bit worn,
other 2 original cloth; and others, similar, mostly offprints, 8vo (c.
30). £40 – £60
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Lot 29
29. Curtis (William) fl o r a lo n d I n e n s I s, 6 parts in 3 vol., 435
hand-coloured plates on 432 sheets, bound in systematic order,
second edition, (using the Walpole criteria of the ornamental rules
dividing the Latin and English descriptions), bound without some of
the fasicule indices, dedication to the Earl of Bute and the optional
extras of subscribers’ lists and the catalogue of Settle plants, 1777-
89; the same, new edition, edited by W.J. Hooker, vol.IV, 159 handcoloured
plates on 150 sheets (the last 6 are from vol.4), 1821, 582
hand-coloured plates in total, a few browned but generally in good
condition, the text in some places a bit worn, used or repaired, one
leaf with portion torn away, small holes and dust-soiling, bound
in four vol. mid 20th century half green morocco, partly uncut,
probably a made up set, bought from W&W in 1961 for £120 with
two letters inserted , folio £6000 – £8000
* * * The fourth volume supplies most (but not all) of the additional
plates proper to the new edition. Mike Walpole’s paper, Notes on
Flora Londinensis (J. Soc. Bib. Nat Hist, 1976) distinguishes for
the first time a contemporary reprint of Curtis.
“The copy at Sothebys this week fetched £200 a good deal more
than we expected, but we did in fact consider that the book was
due for a rise. However, the copy we are selling you was purchased
from another bookseller at his price, which was a good deal lower
than we should have paid, if it was up to us to name the price.” -
HK Swann, in one of the W&W letters.

Lot 30
30. Cuvier (Georges L.C., Baron) le r e g n e a n I m a l Pa r u n e
r e u n I o n d e d I s c I P l e s d e cu v I e r 22 vol. in 20, engraved title, 993
plates of which c.870 are finely coloured by hand, minor foxing,
a good set in contemporary half red morocco, gilt tops, spines
faded and a little scuffed, contemporay bookplate of C.Milligan,
bought by MW from Halliday of Leicester, with the original invoice
inserted, 4to, Paris, [1836-49]. £2000 – £3000
* * * th e m a g n I f I c e n t dI s c I P l e s e d I t I o n. A very full account of the
work, including a detailed collation, is given by Colonel Cowan (J.
Soc. Bib. Nat. Hist., Vol.8, pp.32-64). The last four copies to occur
at auction have all had the correct number of plates counted, but all
were catalogued as imperfect as Cowan was unconsulted.
Lot 31
31. Darwin (Charles) on t h e va r I o u s c o n t r I va n c e s b y w h Ic h
brItIsh a n d f o r e I g n o r c h I d s a r e f e rt I l I z e d b y I n s e c t s, fIrst
e d I t I o n, 33 text-woodcuts by G.B. Sowerby II, inner blank margin
of title slightly damaged by adhesion, contemporary half plum calf,
marbled sides and edges, rubbed, [Freeman 800], 8vo, 1862.
£100 – £200
* * * “His first botanical book The orchids were well chosen to
illustrate Darwin’s insistence on the adaptive nature of floral
morphology, and they also served to emphasize additional points
made by Darwin in the Origin” - R. Ornduff, Darwin’s botany
Taxon, 1984.
32. Descole (H.R.) ge n e r a e t s P e c I e s P l a n ta r u m ar g e n t I n a r u m,
5 vol. in 7, all published, 810 plates (156 coloured), original cloth,
folio, Buenos Aires, 1943-56. £100 – £200
33. Dioscorides. [co d e x v I n d o b o n e n s I s m e d I c u s gr a e c u s I d e r
os t e r r e I c h I s c h e n nat I o n a l b I b l I o t h e k] coloured facsimile, without
the vol. of commentary published 5 years later, tawed pigskin over
wooden boards, large and heavy folio, [Graz, Akademische Druk],
[1965]. £60 – £120
Lot 34
34. Dodoens (R.) tr I u m P r I o r u m d e stIrPIum h I s t o r I a; Po s t e r I o r u m
t r I u m d e stIrPIum h I s t o r I a 2 vol. in 1, 439 + 272 woodcuts,
without text except for brief descriptive note beside each plant,
device on titles and enlarged version at the end of the first part,
portrait of the author on first title verso, the second part without
the 8 leaves of appendix (added later as the anomalous signature
EE8 makes clear), with the blank leaf at the end of the first part,
contemporary ms. notes in an English hand, extensive note on
the last blank page (which has thus clearly always been the last)
starts with motto Adultaire q[ua?]tre marriage Roupre, followed
by notes on heliotrope and chicory (one paragraph crossed out
but recoverable), 19th century vellum, the Chetham’s library copy,
with gilt coat-of-arms of Humphrey Chetham on front cover and
Manchester Library bookplate, bought by MW from Junk, with their
description inserted, [Hunt 608 (first part only); Adams D723],
8vo, Antwerp, Joannes Loes, 1553-54. £800 – £1200
* * * “First edition of Dodoens’ second botanical book. It contains
only the illustrations(and very brief notes) taken from his
Cruydeboeck these two small books were practical for those who
could not afford the more elaborate Cruydeboeck” - Hunt. The
woodblocks recur in later Dodoens books; in April 1581 Plantin
brought about 1000 of them from Loes’ widow.
Trium was particularly aimed at medical students, and other
annotated copies are British Library and de Belder .The
annotations in this copy are in a strictly contemporary English
hand. They start with the English name of the plant, and then (in
a very difficult hand, with some admixture of Latin among the
English)give medical uses; see for instance p.1 with a long list of
what Southernwood is “good for”
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35. Dodoens (R.) fl o r u m e t c o r o n a r I a r u m o d o r ata r u m q u e
a lt e r a e d I t I o, imperfect copy, lacking the first two leaves (supplied
in photostat and bound in), all the 109 woodcut illustrations
present, by A. Nicolai and G. van Kampen after Pieter van der
Borcht, a few with old colour, with the last leaf of approbation,
recent half calf, [Voet 1098], 8vo, Antwerp, Plantin, 1569.
£100 – £200
36. [Dozy (F.) and J.H. Molkenboer.] Pr o d r o m u s f l o r a e bat ava e .
vo l. II Pt. I-II (mu s c I, lI c h e n e s e t c. c o m P l e t e) 2 parts in 1 vol.,
3 fine lithographed plates by A.J. Kouwels, half green leather,
bit worn, [Stafleu 679, the whole work], [Leiden], sumptibus
societatis, 1851-53 § Hampe (G.E.L.) Icones muscorum, 3 parts in
1 vol., 30 lithographed plates, unbound, in original wrappers and
lithographed wrap-around wrapper, [Stafleu 2347], Bonn, 1844;
and 6 others, similar, including a vol. of moss papers collected by
R. Braithwaite (1824-1917, bryologist), 8vo (8). £50 – £100
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Lot 37
37. Dumont d’Urville (Jules S. C.) vo ya g e d e l a co rv e t t e
l’as t r o l a b e. at l a s [o n ly] bound in 5 vol., vignette title (7 copies),
printed list of plates (omits the entomology), double engraved
“Tableau synoptique”, portrait, 580 lithographed plates and maps,
173 coloured or partly coloured, the total including 3 plates in two
states, faint blind-stamp (signed with the publisher’s initials) which
guarantees the paper in most lower margins (found in several of
the great French voyages about this date), a trifle of foxing, but a
very nice copy in contemporary full French scarlet leather, spine
gilt with contents and small tool of the Astrolabe, minor wear to
joints, the J.W. Six copy, with his booklabel in the hydrography,
bought from Lawson in 1973 for £1300 with invoice inserted, folio,
Paris, 1833. £20000 – £30000
* * * Lacking the 8vo text, but a complete set of the magnificent
folio plates ; conforming to the BM (NH) cat. II, 603. As well as the
bis plates called for in the table des planches, this copy has three
plates (176, 177 & 189) in the Histoire du Voyage in two states,
lithographed by Lermercier, or (probably the cancels) one by A.
Belin & two by Richebois aine.
J.W. Six van Vromade had a library of natural history distinguished
by its fine condition; it was sold in two sales, The Hague, 1932 &
Amsterdam, 1936.

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Lot 38
38. Dumortier (Barthelemy C.) he Pat I c a e eu r o Pa e. Ju n g e r m a n n I a e
eu r o Pa e, 4 hand-coloured lithographs, contemporary boards,
original front wrapper pasted on, spine a bit worn, [Stafleu 1570],
Brussels & Leipzig, 1874 § Pabst (Gustav) Cryptogamen-Flora
Flechten und Pilze; Lebermoose, 3 parts in 1 vol., 12 (uncoloured),
25 (mostly coloured, a few partly coloured) + 8 (partly coloured),
lithographs, original cloth, rebacked, [Stafleu 7175-6], Gera,
1875-77, 8vo and folio (2). £60 – £120
39. Dykes (W.R.) th e ge n u s Ir I s, half leather, repaired, rubbed,
cutting about the author pasted to title, and a letter from him
and some cuttings inserted, Cambridge & Chicago, 1913; Notes
on Tulip Species, original cloth, dust-jacket a little worn, the
prospectus inserted, 1930, t.e.g., other eges uncut, coloured plates,
folio (2). £300 – £400
* * * 4pp. A.L.s. Charterhouse, Godalming, 8.xii.18: “The
Californian species mostly do very well here, but my soil is so poor
& sandy that ”
Lot 40
40. [Ehret (Georg Dionysius) or Simon Taylor] rI v I n a c a n e s c e n s.
(rI v I n a h u m u l I s; r o u g e P l a n t, o r b a b y PePPer) bodycolour on
vellum, c.340 x 500mm., mounted on thin card within painted
green frame, unsigned, caption with reference to Linnaeus Species
Plantarum p.177, the drawing numbered 134, auction cutting
(1960-70s; probably Sotheby’s; attributed firmly to Ehret) partly
pasted to verso, [c. 1800]. £100 – £200
* * * We cannot trace the sale; verso of the cutting is lot 204 a Gould
pencil sketch for Birds of Australia of Honey-*** dated 10th Feb.
1849 which may provide a clue. Pencilled beneath the Ehret is what
looks like a hammer price of £280.
The lettering, the numbering, and the mount agree with other
drawings in an album at Knowlsey; vol.VIII plants by Ehret &
Taylor. Calman p.114 gives the provenance of Lord Derby’s
vellums and it seems likely that our Rivina came from Sir Ashton
Lever or Lord Bute. Simon Taylor, 1742-90, his drawings “are a
painstaking imitation of Ehret’s style, often deceptively close to
the manner of the original” - Calman. We should like to thank Dr.
John Edmondson and Kirstin Waibel for help with the cataloguing
of this lot.
41. Ekart (T.P.) sy n o P s I s J u n g e r m a n n I a r u m In ge r m a n I a 13
lithographed plates, foxing, and few stains, contemporary half
cloth, [Stafleu 1658], Coburg, 1832 § Brotherus (Viktor) Etudes sur
la Distribution des Mousses au Caucase, wrappers, worn, inscribed
by the author to J.F. Duthie (1845-1922, Indian botanist), [Stafleu
813], Helsingfors, 1884 § Warnstoff (Carl) Die europaischen
Torfmoose, original half cloth, bit soiled and rubbed, [Stafleu
16.746], Berlin, 1881 § Pilous (Zdenek) and others. Klic k urcovani
mechorostu CSR, illustrations, cloth, dust-jacket [only the NHM
copy on Copac], Prague, 1960; and others, similar (includes some
pamphlets), v.s. (c. 40). £60 – £120
Lot 42
42. [Fourcade (Charles)?] an a l b u m o f d r I e d mosses a n d f e r n s,
c o l l e c t e d In lu c h o n a n d e n v I r o n s. 54 leaves, specimens mounted
two to a page, French captions in neat manuscript, names followed
by locations, and sometimes the season, mounted in an album,
contemporary half green morocco, gilt, a little scuffed but in nice
state, bought from W&W in 1985 for £70, with their invoice inserted,
oblong 4to, [? Luchon], [c. 1860-70]. £200 – £400
* * * Luchon, Esquierry, Cazeril, Vallee de Lys, lac d’Oo, Cascade
de Montaubon, lac Bleu, etc. The fact that the album is carefully
guarded throughout partly explains the excellent state of the
specimens.

Lot 43
43. Fourcade (Charles) he r b I e r c o l l e c t I o n d e P l a n t e s m e d I c I n a l e s
I n d I g e n e s printed title, 2 leaves of index, 120 leaves, most with 2
dried specimens and printed text pasted in, contemporary cloth,
worn, Luchon, Champol, 1872. £300 – £500
* * * Not in Sayre, though it does contain a few cryptogams. All
Fourcade’s collections are very rare. Copac has only the Kew copy
of Herbier; plantes des Pyrenees (there was another copy of this in
our sale 20.8.09 lot 265) and the Bib. Nat. & a library in Lyons have
a Herbier agricole, 1874 His Traite de botanique, 1884 of which
some copies have specimens as additional illustrations seems to be
just as rare. The specimens in this example are generally in very
nice state.
44. Frye (Theodore C.) and Lois Clark. he Pat I c a e o f no rt h
am e r I c a, 5 vol. in 2, illustrations, binder’s cloth, Seattle, 1937-47
§ Lawton (Elva) Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest, plates, cloth,
dust-jacket, Nichinan, 1971 § Ireland (Robert) Moss Flora of the
Maritime Provinces, cloth, Ottawa, 1982, illustrations; and others,
similar, v.s. (c. 50). £100 – £200
Lot 45
45. Fuchs (L.) co m m e n ta I r e s t r e s e x c e l l e n s d e l’h y s t o I r e d e s
P l a n t e s n o u v e l l e m e n t t r a d u I c t z e n l a n g e fr a n c o I s e. fIrst fr e n c h
e d I t I o n, translated by Eloy de Maignan, 509 woodcuts of plants,
with the 2 blank leaves bb4 & Z8, issue with *** at line 6 of title,
the title a little frayed and soiled, but a nice copy in contemporary
vellum, sewing guards from a 15th century liturgical manuscript,
minor wear, ties partly defective, later spine lettering, in an illfitting
morocco box by Sangorski, old Jesuit library inscription
partly ereased from title, bought of Quaritch, ex. the Willis King
III sale, with cutting and invoice inserted, [Hunt 60 (imperfect);
Adams F1105], folio, Paris, Gazeau, 1549.
£4000 – £6000
46. Fuchs (L.) de h I s t o r I a stIrPIum a c c e s s I t IJs, s u c c I n c ta a d m o d u m,
fIrst e d I t I o n of this pocket version, with 516 small woodcuts by
Clement Bussy, after the 1542 orginals, contemporary, probably
Lyonese calf, sparingly gilt with central device and fleurons at
corners, bird tool in compartments of the spine, spine hatched at
top and bottom, a style that (in England) is assocated with Oxford,
joints repaired, ownership inscription Ex lib. Joaun. Tsalii(?) 1629
at head of title, booklabel of Pierre Lambert, [Adams F1102; Hunt
61], 8vo, Lyons, Arnoullet, 1549. £300 – £500
47. Fuchs (L.) de h I s t o r I a stIrPIum, portrait and 516 woodcuts,
title guarded and blank portions renewed, minor browning and
stains, without the blank leaf, recent calf, the book resewed, 15th
century manuscript sewing guard preserved at end, Society of
Apothecaries bookplate transferred to the new binding (ms. note
“From the library at Chelsea Garden 1832”), bought from Junk
with invoice and description inserted, [Adams F1103], 8vo, Lyons,
Balthazar Arnollet, 1551. £400 – £600
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Lot 48
48. Fuchs (L.) Pl a n ta r u m e f f I g I e s a c q u I n q u e d I v e r s I s l I n g u I s
r e d d I ta e device on title, portrait on verso, 516 woodcuts by Clement
Bussy, with the two blank leaves, contemporary brown morocco,
sides with central diamond filled with conventional ornament
was perhaps once gilt, blue edges, head of spine renewed, leaf
at end with few notes in elegant 16th century French hand, 18th
century name on title: Joannis Nep[omucene] Raffay, the Kenneth
Mackenzie-New York Hort. Soc.-Quaritch copy with their collation
note at the end (not in the Rick Watson catalogue or the Christie’s
sale in 1997), bought from Quaritch with invoice inserted, [Adams
F1126], 12mo, Lyons, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1552. £800 – £1200
49. Gessner (C.) hIstorIa P l a n ta r u m. fa k s Im Il e a u s g a b e h e r a u s g e g e b e n
v o n heInrIch zoller [ a n d o t h e r s] 8 vol., limited to 550 copies, high
quality reproduction of watercolours in Erlangen University Library,
original half vellum, slip-cases, part invoice from Quaritch inserted,
folio, Zurich, Urs Graf, 1972-80. £300 – £500
* * * “Gessner’s illustrations were at last published in eight volumes
the woodcut illustrations of Gessner’s time could not do justice to
these delicate and beautiful drawings” - Blunt, p,. 86
Lot 50
50. Gillet (Claude C.) and J.H. Magne. no u v e l l e f l o r e
f r a n c a I s e t r o I s I e m e e d I t I o n, 2 vol., interleaved throughout, c.130
wat e r c o l o u r s o f rIvIera f l o w e r s on the interleaves, by the Rev.
A.C. Smith, and his note that he bought the book in Menton in April
1878 and had it bound and interleaved in July, half calf, rubbed,
[Stafleu 5222], 8vo, Paris, 1873. £200 – £300
* * * The Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, 1822-98, was the rector
of All Saints, Yatesbury, Calne, from 1852 to c.1878 (he sold
the advowson in 1882); perhaps, like old Braithwaite of Much
Matchingham, he had been ordered to the south of France by his
doctor. His watercolours are attractive and generally well annotated
with date and place. He is best known as the author of The Birds of
Wiltshire, 1887 but also wrote The Attractions of the Nile, 1865.
51. Grove (A.) a suPPlement to elw e s ’ m o n o g r a P h o f t h e g e n u s
lIlIum, part 1 only, engraved title, by W.G. S[mith] after W.H. F[itch],
4 fine hand-coloured lithogaphs after Lilian Snelling, original
wrappers, dusty and a bit worn, folio, 1933. £50 – £100
52. Hahn (Gotthold) mo o s-he r b a r I u m, 90 original specimens,
mounted on 10 leaves, loose in original printed portfolio (which
has a printed key to the specimens pasted inside front and back
board), ties and one flap missing, [Sayre p. 210], 4to, Gera, 1882.
£100 – £150
* * * Hahn’s Die Lebermoose Deutchlands, 1885 (Stafleu 2265) has
12 plates keyed to these specimens.
53. Heathcote (Evelyn) fl o w e r s o f t h e en g a d I n e, d r aw n f r o m
n at u r e. 224 hand-coloured plates, original cloth, scuffed, 8vo,
Winchester, printed for the author, 1891. £100 – £200

Lot 54
54. Hedwig (Johann) th e o r I a g e n e r at I o n I s e t fructIfIcatIonIs
P l a n ta r u m c ry P t o g a m I c a r u m lI n n a e I fIrst e d I t I o n, 37 handcoloured
engraved plates, by J.S. Capieux, bound without the errata
leaf at the end, contemporary mottled calf, worn and repaired,
bookplate removed, [Stafleu 2526], 4to, St. Petersburg, 1784.
£500 – £800
* * * Beneath the imprint Capieux sculp. 1783 on the first plate is
added in ms et nativ; coloirib; express: . The same inscription, in
the same hand, is found on plate 1 of the Plesch copy of Hedwig’s
Fundamentum, 1782 (sale 1975, lot 329); as I wrote then, “it is
difficult not to believe that this is Capieux himself”.
Lot 55
Lot 56
55. Hedwig (Johann) th e o r I a g e n e r at I o n I s e t fructIfIcatIonIs
P l a n ta r u m c ry P t o g a m I c a r u m lI n n a e I fIrst e d I t I o n, 37 uncoloured
engraved plates, by J.S. Capieux, title backed and motto on verso
penned onto backing sheet, original boards, uncut, spine very worn,
inscribed to [Richard] Pulteney by [Charles] Hatchett (1765-1847,
chemist) on Feb. 22 1792 and with considerable annotation by
Pulteney (his books sold by Sotheby’s in 1802), later in the Sion
College collection, sold in 1938 with release stamp, [Stafleu 2526],
4to, St. Petersburg, 1784. £100 – £200
* * * The book was probably given to Pulteney during the West
Country tour undertaken by Hatchett, Thomas Rackett and Tiberio
Cavallo in 1792; see R.H. Jeffers, Richard Pulteney and his
correspondence, Proc. Linn Soc., 1960, p. 25.
56. Hedwig (Johann) de s c r I P t I o et a d u m b r at I o m I c r o s c o P I c oa
n a ly t I c a m u s c o r u m f r o n d o s o r u m. 4 vol. in 2 vignette title, 160
hand-coloured plates, a large copy in contemporary half sheep, rather
worn but sound, contemporary flyleaf inscription, ”cet exemplaire
en papier fort et tres grand a coute trois cent quarante francs”,
bookplate of “Museo Mouton-Fontenille Academiae Lugdunensis”
(Marie Jacques Mouton-Fontenille, 1769-1837, “director of the
natural history cabinet at Lyon; pensioned off in 1830 because of his
ultra-royalist attitude” Stafleu III, 610), later in a Sotheby’s sale of
the 1970s with a lot ticket in the hand of John Collins, [Stafleu 2527],
folio, Leipzig, 1787-92. £2000 – £3000
* * * “Distinguished above all for exact and patiently repeated
observations, Hedwig’s work depended on the skillful use
of dissection and the compound microscope He recorded his
observations in accurate drawings the figures in his Descriptio are
among the most accurate and beautiful illustrations of mosses of
his own or any other period.” - P.W. Richards, DSB, VI, 219-20.
57. Hedwig (Johann) de s c r I P t I o e t a d u m b r at I o m I c r o s c o P I c oa
n a ly t I c a m u s c o r u m f r o n d o s o r u m, vol.1-3 only (of 4), vol.1 :
vignette title, 40 hand-coloured plates, lacking sig. Y (pp. 83-86)
with contemporary ms. note of imperfection at base of title (partly
trimmed away), old half purple roan, gilt spine, joints worn,
bookplate removed, vol.2 and 3: 80 uncoloured engraved plates,
contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut, worn and loose, [Stafleu
2527, 4 vol.], folio, Leipzig, 1787-92; the lot sold not subject to
return £100 – £200
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Lot 58
58. Hedwig (Johann) th e o r I a g e n e r at I o n I s e t fructIfIcatIonIs
P l a n ta r u m c ry P t o g a m I c a r u m lI n n a e I. re t r a c ta e t a u c ta. second
edition, plain plate of lens investigation of a moss, 42 handcoloured
engraved plates, by J.S. Capieux, contemporary half calf,
worn and backstrip missing, contemporary inscription “Fraulein
Julia par Dr. Shlund London”, on front pastedown, at some time
catalogued for Sotheby’s by Dr. Feisenburger, with lot ticket (174)
author name in his hand, [Stafleu 2526], 4to, St. Petersburg,
1798. £300 – £400
Lot 59
Lot 59
59. Hedwig (Johann) sP e c I e s m u s c o r u m f r o n d o s o r u m o P u s
P o s t h u m u m e d I t u m a fr I d e r I c o sc h wa e g r I c h e n. fIrst e d I t I o n,
folding table, 77 hand-coloured plates, after drawings by the
author, without the additional leaf p.353 “not available at the time
of the original publication of the book” (Margadant), recent half
cloth, uncut, [Stafleu 2532], Leipzig & Paris, 1801; Supplementum
primum (-quartum), 4 vol. in 3, 326 hand-coloured plates (I- XXXV
+ III*), some minor stains, the part issue titles not preserved (as
was intended),several plates with cancel captions pasted on, and
one (plate 259) changed in ms. (see Margadant, p. 222), binder’s
cloth, spines faded, 2nd title with contemporary inscription
“zu Turnero auctor” (? Dawson Turner, 1775-1858; he wrote a
commentary on Hedwig), 4th title with what seems to be a paper
duty stamp “Vertrag vom 13 Mai 1848”, later stamp and release
stamp of Royal Microscopical Society on titles but nowhere else,
[Stafleu 11.427; Margadant pp. 217-23], Paris, 1811-42, 4to (5).
£2000 – £3000
* * * The starting point for the nomenclature of mosses,(except
Sphagnaceae). “Hedwig has often been called the Linnaeus of
Bryology”; PA Florschutz, in the introduction to the 1960 reprint,
(a copy of which is included with the lot).
Complete copies are very rare outside the old botanical libraries;
auction records over the last 35 years show a copy with the first
supplement only(in 1976) and the Horticultural Society of New
York-de Belder copy which made £1200 hammer in 1987.

60. Hegi (Gustav) IllustrIerte fl o r a v o n mIttel-eu r o Pa, 7 vol.
in 13, fIrst e d I t I o n, 280 plates, of which 253 are chromolithographs,
original decorative cloth, several vol. a little worn, booklabel of K.
Pogge, [Stafleu 2571], folio, Munich, [1906-31]. (13). £200 – £400
61. [Henderson (Claude W.)] so m e bu t t e r f l I e s o f ne w gu I n e a
& t h e a d J a c e n t I s l a n d g r o u P s manuscript title, 8 leaves of thin
card (265 x 420mm.,), with 23 watercolour figures, unbound,
[Loughborough], c.1963. £100 – £200
* * * Exhibited: Natural history illustration 1485-1968 from the
collection of Michael Walpole, Loughborough, School of Librarianship,
1969, item 51, part of one sheet illustrated. This exhibition with a
16pp catalogue, was the only public showing of MW’s remarkable
collection (and, he told me, he regretted even that).
62. Hoefnagel (Jacob) ar c h e t y Pa s t u d I a q u e Pat r Is [a] 50 engraved
plates only (of 52), lacking 7 & 12 from the first part, trimmed to
borderlines and mounted, occasional minor defects, and soiling,
modern vellum, oblong 4to, [Hollstein 17-64; Berlin Kat. 4409],
Frankfurt, [15]92. £6000 – £8000
Lot 62
Lot 60 Lot 61
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Lot 63
63. Hooker (Sir William J.) mu s c I e x o t I c I, l a r g e Pa P e r c o P y, an
imperfect copy in parts, comprising parts 1-14, 16-22 (of 23), 167
(of 176) fine hand-coloured plates, lacking plates 113-119 of part
15 & plates 174-75 of part 22, and all the final part (text only), also
present are duplicates of plates & text 5-8 sewed into both parts 1
& 2 (which might raise problems of when they were published),
original printed wrappers (except the first part, plain), rather worn
and defective in places, [Stafleu 2990;Margadant, Hooker 3], 4to,
1818-20. £150 – £200
* * * “No.1 2s 6d and no.II 5s. A few copies are printed in 4to, with
the plates coloured, No.I price 4s and No.II 8s” - advert slip tipped
into part 4, partly quoted by Stafleu from this copy. As against
Margadant the part numbers are printed, and, additional to Stafleu,
pl.158 was published one part late.
Lot 64
Lot 66
64. Hooker (Sir William J.) a ce n t u ry o f In d I a n o r c h I d s, 101
hand-coloured lithographs, after C.G. Dass, L. Singh and other
Indian artists, portrait of Roxburgh to the memoir of him by G.King,
minor foxing, loose in original portfolio, trifle worn, ties missing,
contents in good state, [Stafleu 2984], 4to, Calcutta, 1895.
£1500 – £2000
* * * The Stationery Office code includes the number printed; in this
case 360 copies. This is often found on oriental official printing,
but rarely at home.
65. Hoppe (D.H.) and J. Sturm. ca r I c o l o g I c a g e r m a n I c a 112
hand-coloured plates, contemporary English calf, gilt spine,
rubbed, coniferous bookplate of KG Lazenby, 12mo, Nuremberg,
1835. £100 – £120
* * * Sedges; published as 7 Hefte of Deutschlands Flora; see
Stafleu 13.335 p. 69.
66. [Hortus Sanitatis].- ort u s s a n I tat I s. de h e r b I s & P l a n t I s
a n I m a l I b u s & r e P t I l I b u s P I s c I b u s l a P I d I b u s title within woodcut
border, 3 full-page woodcuts, upwards of 1050 column-width
woodcuts, about half of plants, the rest of animals and everyday
scenes (eg milking a goat), with the final blank, title with inscription
removed from blank portion and blank corners renewed, about
15 leaves of index with similar marginal repairs (cc6 the most
extensive) but text not affected, the cut of two pigs coupling (on
A4) altered in ink, generally a clean and crisp copy in old vellum,
recased, a few contemporary notes (eg K6, much in the index)
are in Latin, [Hunt 12], folio, Venice, B. Benalius & G. Tacuino,
1511. £12000 – £15000
* * * “First edition printed in Italy, and the first to include the
pseudo-Galenic tract De Facile Acquisibilibus.Tacuino’s woodcut
title-border, which incorporates dolphins’ heads in the floral design,
was used in several works from that press and became ’one of the
most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth-century’
(Mortimer 238)” - [Stephen Massey], Christies NY, 4 June 1997
lot 69 (a similar copy to the above, $18,000; it reappeared in the
Freilich sale in 2001 and made $24,000; both hammer prices).

67. Host (N.T.) Ic o n e s e t d e s c r I P t I o n e s g r a m I n u m au s t r I a c o r u m,
4 vol., 400 hand-coloured plates after drawings by Johann
Ibmayer, a clean copy, small repair to blank portion of first three
titles (probably removal of a small stamp), contemporary English
straight-grain red morocco, sparingly gilt, g.e., b y he n ry wa lt h e r,
with his ticket in the first vol. (rubbed, joints repaired), bought from
Junk in 1979, with invoice and cat. cutting inserted, folio, Vienna,
1801-09. £10000 – £15000
* * * “While it was still in course of publication praised for the
‘elegance and correctness’ of its plates. Both adjectives are justified;
the botanical details, in particular, are beautifully done and often - to
those of us who think of grass as being simply green - surprisingly
colourful Host, the namesake of the Hosta, was personal physician
to the Austrian Emperor, Francis II. He established a botanic
garden for the cultivation of Austrian plants, in the grounds of the
Belvedere in Vienna ” - Coats, 92.
68. Hulten (Eric) th e a m P h I-at l a n t I c P l a n t s; th e c I r c u m P o l a r
P l a n t s, 3 vol., wrappers, 2 inscribed to J.E. Lousley (1907-76,
botanist), Stockholm, 1958-71; Flora of Alaska, original cloth,
dust-jacket, Stanford, 1968; and others, mostly similar, v.s. (c.25).
£100 – £150
69. Hunger (F.W.T.) th e h e r b a l o f P s e u d o-aP u l e I u s, n u m b e r 75
o f 200 c o P I e s, plates, original boards, white cloth spine a bit soiled,
folio, Leiden, 1935. £50 – £100
Lot 67
70. Hunt (Peter) a b o o k o f o r c h I d Pa I n t I n g s b y Ja m e s f. wa l f o r d,
n u m b e r 29 o f 490 c o P I e s, signed by the artist, half vellum, slip-case,
1972; and 2 others, orchids, folio (3). £50 – £100
Lot 71
71. Hunt (Peter) or c h I d a c e a e n u m b e r 134 o f 620 c o P I e s, 40
coloured plates by Mary Grierson, full vellum, g.e., slip-case,
several letters from the publishers inserted, large folio, Bourton
Press, 1973. £150 – £200
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Lot 72
72. Husnot (Pierre Tranquille) mu s c I ga l l I a e. 19 vol., each c.50
specimens, the first 17 vol. re-arranged in alphabetical order of
specimens, the last 2 parts nos. 851-959 as issued, each specimen
with printed caption, possibly lacking 3 leaves of specimens, and
with only one leaf of index, generally in good state in the original
portfolios, with printed labels, ties intact, invoice from W&W
inserted, [Sayre p. 219 ; Stafleu II, p.372], 8vo, Caen, [1870-1970];
sold not subject to return £300 – £500
* * * Very rare in commerce; Sayre records 6 sets, of which 3 are
complete (but they may have been distributed among the general
herbaria). The only auction sale with a number of exsiccatae was the
Eton sale(Bonhams Oct 15th, 1996) and this had no Husnot at all.
Lot 73
73. Husnot (Pierre Tranquille) he Pat I c a e ga l l I a e, fascicules
I-III only (of IX), each with printed title, list of contents, and 25
specimens, 75 in total, each with printed label, loose in original
portfolios, invoice from W&W (for £15) inserted, [Sayre p. 218
; Stafleu II, p. 372], 8vo, Caen, [1870-75]; sold not subject to
return £120 – £180
* * * Sayre lists only the Helsinki copy; Stafleu adds another 12 sets.
74. Husnot (Pierre Tranquille) sP h a g n o l o g I a e u r o Pa e a, 4
lithographed plates, E.D. Marquand’s copy (1848-1918, Guernsey
botanist), with his signature and a 4pp. ms. key inserted, [Stafleu
3153], Caen & Paris, 1882; Flore Analytique et Descriptive des
Mousses du Nord-Ouest, 2 lithographed plates, [Stafleu 3150],
Caen & Paris, [1873], original printed wrappers, bit soiled worn;
and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6). £50 – £100
75. Inoue (Hiroshi) Il l u s t r at I o n s o f Ja Pa n e s e he Pat I c a e; nI h o ns
a n ta I r u I z u k a n 2 vol., plates, boards, slip-cases [only the BL copy
on Copac “the Japanese and English texts each contain information
not in the other”], Tokyo, 1974 § Mitten (W.) On the species of
Musci and Hepaticae recorded from Japan, lithographed plate,
wrappers, bit worn, [not in Stafleu], 1891; and others, similar, v.s.
(21). £60 – £120
76. Jacquin (N.J.) alPInIa c o m o s a ( Pl. 202 f r o m Ic o n e s P l a n t.
r a r.) hand-coloured engraving, [Vienna], [1786] § E.M.L.
three watercolours of Gladiolus gracilis, G. spathacens, Erica
cerinthoides, each c.50 x 165mm., mounted as one, [c.1920]; and 9
other botanical plates, mostly hand-coloured (11). £50 – £100
77. Jussieu (A.L. de) ge n e r a P l a n ta r u m, fIrst e d I t I o n, minor
foxing, contemporary half sheep, worn, 8vo, Paris, 1789.
£200 – £300
* * * “Antoine Laurent de Jussieu is today acknowledged to have
been one of the most intuitive and perceptive specialists in plant
classification that the world has yet produced.” - Hunt 703
78. Kleinhans (Rodolphe) al b u m d e s m o u s s e s d e s e n v I r o n s
d e Pa r I s 30 plates, each with a leaf of text, lithographed after
the author’s handwriting, minor soiling, later cloth, [Stafleu
3720], Paris, 1869 § Balsamo[-Crivelli] (G.G.) and J. de Notaris.
Prodromus bryologicae mediolanensis, original printed wrappers,
uncut, spine worn, [Stafleu 292], Milan, 1834; and 4 others, 8vo
and folio (6). £100 – £150
Lot 79
79. Kniphof (J.H.) bo ta n I c a In o r I g I n a l I s u e h e r b a r I u m v I v u m.
ce n t u r [II] nature printed title, 97 plates only (of 100), nature
printed in colours, contemporary half calf, worn and repaired,
folio, Halle, 1758. £500 – £800

Lot 80
80. Knoop (J.H.) be s c h r I J v I n g e n a f b e e l d I n g e n va n d e b e s t e
s o o rt e n va n a P P e l e n e n P e e r e n (vr u c h t b o o m e n e n v r u c h t e n;
Pl a n ta g I e-g e wa s s e n) 3 parts in 1 vol., 39 hand-coloured plates
(12 apples, 8 pears, 19 soft fruit), minor soiling but a nice copy in
recent half calf, gilt, uncut, perhaps a Bayntun binding, bought from
Hammond, with invoice inserted, folio, Amsterdam & Dordrecht,
1790. £800 – £1200
* * * First published in 1758. “The fruit monographs are among the
earliest books on the subject to be illustrated with coloured plates,
the Pomologia ones packed with a dozen or so varieties, each with
a label giving its time of ripening.” Raphael, Oak Spring Pomona,
, p. 131.
81. Lange (Jacob E.) fl o r a a g a r I c I n a d a n I c a, 5 vol. in 2, 200
coloured plates after watercolours by Lange, half dark red morocco,
by Maltby of Oxford, spines a bit rubbed and faded, obituary of
Lange by A.A. Pearson inserted, bought from Quaritch with their
stock number at the end, [Stafleu 4178], folio, Copenhagen, 1935-
40. £200 – £300
Lot 82
82. Langhorne (Joanna Asquith, b.1945) fI n e wat e r c o l o u r o f a
y e l l o w f l o w e r e d Ir I s, on board, c.330 x 570mm., signed in pencil
and dated 14.8. [19]84. £150 – £200
* * * J.A.Langhorne was tutored by John Nash and Mary Grierson;
she was an official artist at Kew 1973-80, and produced over 80
plates for Curtis, see S. Sherwood, Contemporary Botanical
Artists, 120-121.The invoice from Watch House rare books,
which accompanies the drawing, states that the plant was from the
Rothschild collection.
83. Law (Joy) ca P ta I n co o k’s f l o r I l e g I u m; a n o t e o n I t s
P r o d u c t I o n, n u m b e r 93 o f 175 c o P I e s, plates, quarter morocco,
Lion & Unicorn Press, 1976 § Grieve (M.) A Modern Herbal, 2
vol., plates, original cloth, 1931 § Lisney (A.A.) A Bibliography
of British Lepidoptera, plates, original cloth, 1960 § Catalogue of
the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2 vol., 500 copies
printed according to the SO code, both interleaved, the supplement
clearly an internal copy, annotated with press marks, and subject
notes, half morocco, and very worn boards, 1899-1919; and others,
similar, v.s. (38). £100 – £200
84. Lawalree(Andre) and others. P.J. re d o u t e. facsImIle P r I n t s
m a d e f r o m m o s t ly u n P u b l I s h e d o r I g I n a l d r aw I n g s, 2 copies,
coloured plates, loose in original half leather portfolio, Regensburg
& Pittsburgh, 1972; and 3 others, similar, folio (5). £40 – £80
Lot 85
85. Lestiboudois (Francois-Joseph) bo ta n o g r a P h I e b e l g I q u e les
Plantes d a n s les P r o v I n c e s sePtentrIonales d e la fr a n c e, 23 folding
engraved tables (several badly folded, but complete), contemporary
half green vellum, base of spine defective, contemporary inscription
“Le chev[al]ier Le Vavasseur, officier d’artillerie” , a Geneva
duplicate, with 1922 sale stamp, the Kenneth Mackenzie-Hort. Soc.
of New York-Quaritch copy, with the donative bookplate, [Stafleu
4429], 8vo, Lille, 1781. £50 – £100
86. Lindenberg (Johann) sP e c I e s h e Pat h I c a r u m, 5 parts in 1
vol., 67 hand-coloured lithographs, without the part issue titles,
contemporary half leather, bit worn, [Stafleu 4632 calls for a plate
39 in error; Junk, Rara, I, 66 is correct], Bonn, 1839[-55] § Ekart
(Tobias) Synopsis Jungermanniarum in Germania, 13 lithographed
plates, contemporary boards, worn, [Stafleu 1658], Coburg, 1832,
some foxing, 4to (2). £60 – £120
87. Lindman (C.A.M.) bI l d e r u r no r d e n s f l o r a 3 vol., third
edition, 663 attractive chromolithograph plates, binder’s cloth,
neat, 8vo, Stockholm, 1922-26. £80 – £120
* * * Stafleu 7247 (note) records that the plates were prepared for a
continuation of Palmstruck, Svensk botanik, 1802-43, but never used.
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Lot 88
88. Linnaeus (C.) bI b l I o t h e c a b o ta n I c a.f u n d a m e n t o r u m
b o ta n I c o r u m. 2 parts in 1 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, nice copy in
contemporary calf, gilt spine a bit worn, emblematic ex-libris of
[Joannes Baptiste Verdussen] with motto “Virtus pietas homini
tutissima” on both pastedowns, [Soulsby 250; Stafleu 4710-11],
8vo, Amsterdam, Schouten, 1736 [1735]. £1500 – £2000
* * * “The Bibliotheca is a concise history of botany in a dry
enumerative but very efficient style. Linnaeus describes the
development of botanical science by subdividing botanical authors
in various categories the often englightening and amusing names for
the various categories of botanists show not only a good knowledge
of the literature but also an awareness of the fact that botanical
history is human history” - Stafleu, Linnaeus, p. 35
This first edition is rare. There is no auction record for the last 35
years, but the de Belder copy was in lot 473 in the von Hoffman sale
at Christie’s (New York, 5 June 1997) amongst other Linnean items
and Rick Watson had a copy in his Cat.9 (1998; £1550). One might
assume that this was the same copy, but the bindings don’t agree.
Lot 89
89. Linnaeus (C.) ho rt u s cl I f f o rt I a n u s engraved title and 36
engraved plates, mostly after drawings by Ehret, a very nice clean
copy in contemporary Scandinavian half calf, marbled sides,
edges, and endpapers, minor wear to joints and corners furbished,
bought from Wheldon’s with their cost code, John Heller’s paper on
the book inserted (includes, inter alia, a learned discussion of the
catalogue of Clifford’s botanical library which occupies 17pp. of
preliminaries), folio, Amsterdam, 1737. £800 – £1200
* * * “Marks the beginning of a new era in botanical illustration and
foreshadows the golden century of great flower-book production.”
Stearn, introduction to Species Plant. facsimile, 1957, p. 44. Later
he quotes a letter from Gronovius to Richardson “I assure you it is
one of the most curious books ever printed. But it is strange that Mr.
Cliffort, who is at the whole expense, will not sell a single copy,
being resolved only to make presents of the book, or to exchange
it for other curiosities. Almost all my new plants from Virginia are
curiously described there ” (p. 49)

Lot 90
90. Linnaeus (C.) cl a s s e s P l a n ta r u m, fIrst e d I t I o n, contemporary
mottled calf, gilt spine , rather worn, with a v e ry r a r e PrIvIlegIe
bound at the end (see below), bought from Bjorck & Borjesson
in 1984 with invoice inserted, [Soulsby 332; Stafleu 4720], 8vo,
Leiden, Wishoff, 1738. £700 – £900
* * * “Linnaeus published three systems of his own, of which the
sexual system has had the greatest impact. He set down his rules
for systems in his Fundamenta botanica of 1736 but elaborated
them further in his much less known but equally interesting Classes
plantarum published in Leiden in 1738 consists of a review of 16
‘universal’ and 13 ‘partial’ systems of plants of other authors as
well as of his own.” - Stafleu, Linnaeus, .p.115.
The book collates pi4, A-YY4. The leaves are numbered partly in
columns and partly in pages; the former begins at col. 5 ( not 1, pace
Soulsby & Stafleu; the Bodley collation has this correct and has Y2
blank at end); no folding plate is called for (pace Macclesfield lot
57). The privilege, which is from the States of Holland and West
Friesland to Wishoff, lists 5 books including this Classes. It fills 3
pages with the final three pages of the last gathering being blank.
Two of the other books listed are Linnaeus published by Wishoff in
1737, viz the Genera (but this is a 4to) and the Critica; we could
not trace a copy of our privilege in either of these. None of the
bibliographies, either printed or electronic, call for the privilege
in the Classes and it is not in the two copies from Linnaeus’ own
library in the Linnean Society. However they have a third copy,
presented to them by the great bibliographer Jonas Dryander on
their foundation in 1788 and this contains these two leaves; it is the
only other copy we have been able to trace.
91. Linnaeus (C.) am o e n I tat e s a c a d e m I c a e, vol.1-9 only (of 10),
a mixed set, the last 3 vol. being from the revised Schreber edition,
engraved plates (lacking one plate in vol.6), some browning, recent
half morocco, bought from W&W in 1979 with invoice inserted,
[cf Stafleu 4753-54], 8vo, Stockholm, 1749; Amsterdam, 1752;
Amsterdam & Leiden, 1756; Leiden, 1760-64; Erlangen, 1789-85;
sold not subject to return £200 – £300
92. Linnaeus (C.) sP e c I e s P l a n ta r u m, 2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, s e c o n d
Issue, with the three cancelled leaves E6, F5 & R2 in vol.1, some
foxing as usual, contemporary English calf, gilt spines, worn,
labels renewed, bought of W&W, [Soulsby 480], 8vo, Stockholm,
Salvius, 1753. £600 – £1200
* * * The first volume was published in May; by the time the second
volume was published in August the cancels had been actioned,
since the index refers to the corrected texts.
93. Linnaeus (C.) fl o r a s u e c I c a e d I t I o s e c u n d a, a u c ta e t
e m e n d ata, folding engraved plate of Linnaea borealis (small
tear in blank margin, without loss), contemporary Scandinavian
calf, gilt spine, rather scraped and worn, early signature partly
erased from title, slightly later one O.F.L. Ewsel (?) added and a
note on abbreviations on flyleaf, [Soulsby 409; Stafleu 4731], 8vo,
Stockholm, Salvius, 1755. £60 – £120
Lot 94
94. Linnaeus (C.) sPecIes P l a n ta r u m, 2 vol., second edition, engraved
portrait, contemporary English speckled calf, labels missing, joints
cracking, considerable 18th century annotation in an unidentified
hand, mostly giving English names, and some locations, [Soulsby
500], 8vo, Stockholm, Salvius, 1762-63. £400 – £600
* * * The first edition “abounds in misprints and many taxonomic
judgements recorded there were later revised In the second edition
Linnaeus tried to make good its deficiencies and added material
that had come to hand meanwhile The third edition of 1764 is
essentially a re-issue of the second editon These three are the only
editions published during the lifetime of the author.” - W.T. Stearn,
introduction to the 1957 facsimile, p.135.
The annotation is of considerable interest and seems to have a West
Indian or American bias. The hand varies but this may be a reflection
of advancing age rather than different persons; the details suggest an
experienced botanist (eg p.793 “Linnaeus hic confundit duas species
); a connection with the Collinson circle is a possibility.
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Lot 95
95. Linnaeus (C.) ge n e r a P l a n ta r u m e d I t I o s e x ta, without the
portrait sometimes found, contemporary calf, rebacked, front cover
off, the Duke of Buccleugh copy with contemporary bookplate and
gilt cypher on covers, later bookplate of Ashton Allis, [Soulsby 305;
Stafleu 4823], Stockholm, 1764; Classes plantarum, fIrst e d I t I o n,
some browning, later half calf, gilt, front cover off, contemporary
name F.M. Shelund (?) on title and Linnaeus’ Cryptogamia (col.
483-4) and Scheuzer’s grasses (col. 561-72) with much annotation
presumably in his hand, [Soulsby 332; Stafleu 4720], 8vo, Leiden,
1738. (2). £300 – £500
* * * One of the notes in the Classes reads “Illus: Linne propria
manu scriptsit GB (?)”
96. Linnaeus (C.) ge n e r a P l a n ta r u m e d I t I o s e x ta, without the
portrait sometimes found, later half green calf, title creased,
[Soulsby 305; Stafleu 4823], Stockholm, 1764; Supplementum
plantarum systematic vegetabilium generum plantarum editionis
sextae, contemporary English calf, gilt spine, the Burton Constable
copy, with William Constable’s bookplate, [Soulsby 574; Stafleu
4854], Braunschweig, 1781 [1782]. (2). £150 – £200
Lot 98
97. Linnaeus (C.) sP e c I e s P l a n ta r u m; a facsImIle I n t r o d u c t I o n b y
w.t. st e a r n, 2 vol., cloth, dust-jackets a bit worn, the prospectus
inserted, Ray Society, 1957-59 § Bryk (Felix) Bibliotheca Linnaeana
I (of 2), limited to 100 copies, wrappers, bit worn, Stockholm,
1923 § Wise (Rosemary) In the Footsteps of Linnaeus, 2 coloured
prints, c.290 x 460mm., each 30/250 copies, signed and captioned
in pencil, and with printed keys, 1988; and 11 others, similar, v.s.
(15). £60 – £120
98. Loddiges (George & Conrad) th e b o ta n I c a l c a b I n e t, 20 vol.,
c o m P l e t e s e t, l a r g e Pa P e r, 20 engraved titles, 2000 hand-coloured
plates plus the 3 uncoloured plates (2 of hothouses), contemporary
calf, bound for Thomas Joseph Trafford, with his bookplate, and
crest in top compartment of spines, inherited by Sir Humphrey de
Trafford, Bart. (some wear, 7 vol. repaired, 12 rebacked neatly
to style), bought from Traylen in 1970 for £525, copy of invoice
inserted, [Stafleu 4914], 4to, 1817-33. £6000 – £8000
* * * “The quarto edition has fully coloured plates; those of the
duodecimo are partially coloured ”. In 1879 a family member
reported that the work could not be reprinted “the whole of the
2000 copper plates were stolen by one of Loddiges men from his
library in the Garden” - Stafleu.

Lot 99
99. [Mattioli (P.A.) ne w kr e u t e r b u c h d u r c h ge o r g I u m ha n d s c h
v e r d e u t s c h t dI s t I l l I e r o f e n] lacks the first seven leaves (signature
1 plus first leaf of signature 2), and the last leaf zz6 with colophon,
the first surviving leaf mounted and defective, though the portrait
of Mattioli is more or less intact, the rest of the book, with upwards
of 810 woodcuts in good crisp state apart from a few water-stains
(mostly marginal), old speckled calf over wooden boards, rebacked,
bought from Halliday of Leicester in 1964 for £42, invoice inserted,
[Hunt 91, complete; not in Adams], folio, [Prague, G. Melantrich],
[1563]. £1000 – £2000
* * * A complete set of the woodcuts of plants. “First edition in
German; first appearance of the fine series of large woodcuts made
by Gieorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck” - Hunt.
Lot 100
100. Maw (George) a m o n o g r a P h o f t h e g e n u s cr o c u s, 81 handcoloured
plates, coloured map, 2 double tables, attractive vignette
views, minor browning, original cloth, rather roughly repaired,
bought from W&W in 1972, invoice inserted, 4to, 1886.
£800 – £1200
101. Mee (Margaret) fl o w e r s o f t h e br a z I l I a n fo r e s t s n u m b e r
87 o f 100 sPecIal c o P I e s, w It h a n o r I g I n a l wat e r c o l o u r b y t h e
a rt I s t, mounted at the front and signed by her, original full vellum,
gilt, slip-case a little worn, invoice from Quarich inserted, folio,
Tryon, 1968. £1800 – £2200
Lot 102
102. Meymott (Jane Carolina) an at t r a c t I v e a l b u m o f
wat e r c o l o u r s, c o m P r I s I n g; Pa P h I l I o; Ph a l a e n a; [ f l o w e r s ] [b I r d s
a n d m o n k e y s] 57 very attractive watercolours, mostly of butterflies
and flowers (34, comprising the first two divisions; each of these
has a lettered title in black), the remaining plates comprise flowers
(12), and animals (11), one illustration signed ECM and dated 1831,
the early drawings with elaborate ms. captions, some suggesting a
West Indian or other exotic provenance, contemporary pink calf,
tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., gilt green leather label with artist’s
name and date on front pastedown, quotation from Traylen (£105;
1965) inserted, 4to, 1834. £800 – £1200
* * * Following the first title are two watercolours; the first perhaps
an unfinished presentation plate, initials I.F. surmounting trompe
l’oeil drawings, and flowers, the second a coat-of-arms, presumably
that of the Meymott family. There is a possible connection with
Charles Meymott, 1813-67 homeopathic doctor and cricketer; in
1855 a Miss Meymott attended a fund raising Bazaar at the London
Homeopathic Hospital.
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Lot 103
103. Micheli ( Pietro Antonio) no va P l a n ta r u m g e n e r a, 108
engraved plates, each with engraved dedication to a patron (we
illustrate 2 of the English ones), recent vellum, signature of J.S.
Albrecht (?) on title, and a few notes on plate margins perhaps
in his hand, invoice from W&W inserted, [Stafleu 5974], folio,
Florence, 1729. (2). £600 – £800
* * * “Micheli was the first author to employ a microscope in the
study of cryptogams the vast number of new fungi, lichens and
liverworts described and the accuracy of his illustrations testify to
the author’s patient and critical observations. In this work which
has been termed epoch-making by bryologists, lichenologists
and mycologists alike, we see the start of a system for cryptogam
classification many facets of which are still being built on today
“ - Hawkesworth, in the introduction to the 1976 reprint (a copy of
which is included with the lot).
Lot 104
104. Mougeot (Jean Baptiste) and others. st I r P e s c ry P t o g a m a e
vo g e s o-rh e n a n a e, fascicule XIII only (of 15), printed title, 100
actual specimens, with printed captions, numbered 1201-1300, the
specimens generally in good condition, original boards, printed
label, bit soiled and worn, [Sayre pp. 37-8] 4to, Vivot, 1850.
£60 – £120
105. Munting (Abraham) ve r a h e r b a br I ta n n I c a (al o I d a r I u m)
2 parts in 1 vol., an imperfect copy, lacking the printed title (portrait
on verso) to first part, and with 23 (of 24) engraved plates, lacking
that at p.28, second part with first plate only, lacking the other 7,
some water-stains, contemporary calf, worn, 18th century Coward
College [Market Harborough] library bookplate, 4to, Amsterdam,
1680; sold not subject to return £50 – £100
106. Mutis y Bosio (Jose C.B.) fl o r a d e l a re a l e x P e d I c I o n
b o ta n I c a d e l nu e v o re I n o d e gr a n a d a, 6 vol. only (i.e.
vol.1,7,8,27,30 and 44), numerous plates, many coloured, original
full calf, one in half calf, folio, Madrid, 1954-76. £100 – £200
* * * All published up to 1980; since then ten or so further volumes
have appeared, but the work is still far from completion.
Lot 107
107. Necker (N.J. de) me t h o d u s m u s c o r u m, folding plate,
contemporary marbled boards, the Kenneth Mackenzie (1877-
1934, amateur botanist)-Horticultural Society of New York-
Quaritch copy, with their collation note at the end, [Stafleu 6666],
Mannheim, 1771 § Nees von Esenbeck (C.G.D.) Naturgeschichte
der Europaischen Lebermoose, 4 vol., 2 lithographed plates, some
marginal water-stains, contemporary boards, somewhat worn and
scuffed, with the booklabel of Carl F.P. von Martius (1794-1868,
botanist) and pasted in three inscriptions to him from the author
(blue paper; probably from the original wrappers), [Stafleu 6689],
Berlin, 1833-38, fIrst e d I t I o n s; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (9).
£200 – £400

Lot 108
108. Nees von Esenbeck (C.) and others. bry o l o g I a ge r m a n I c a,
2 vol. in 3, 43 hand-coloured plates, 3 folding tables, with the
interesting leaves of advertisements at the end of vol.2 & 3,
contemporary half sheep, worn, 2 backstrips missing, old stamp
erased from titles, inscription Lejeune ?D[octor] M[edicus]
veuv[e] 1832 on pastedowns (headed with 1927, probably a
classmark), stamp Ex Libris Prevost on titles, [Margadant 188-89;
Stafleu 6682], Nuremberg, 1823-31 § Nemnich (P.A.) Worterbuch
der Naturgeschichte in der Deutschen [& 8 other languages], minor
stains, later cloth, Hamburg & Leipzig, [1796-98], 8vo and 4to
(4). £200 – £400
109. Nelson (Erich) dIe or c h I d e e n de u t s c h l a n d s Munich,
Selbstverlag, 1931; Gestaltwandel und Artbildung der Orchidaceen
Europas, 2 vol., 700 copies printed, Montreux, 1962; Monographie
und Ikonographie der Orchidaceen-Gattungen Serapias [usw.], 2
vol., Montreux, 1968; the same, Dactylorhiza, 2 vol., Montreux,
1976, coloured plates in portfolios, original cloth, the first a bit
worn, folio and 4to (7). £100 – £150
110. Nissen (Claus) dIe n at u rw I s s e n s c h a f t l I c h e Il l u s t r at I o n,
Bad Munster, 1950; Die illustrierten Vogelbucher, Stuttgart, 1953;
Die botanische Buch-illustration zweite Auflage, Stuttgart, 1966;
Die zoologische Buch-illustration, 2 vol., bound without the 4
leaves of prelims in vol.1, vol.2 in parts, inserted in binding case,
Stuttgart, 1966-78, 4to and 8vo, original editions, original cloth or
boards (5). £50 – £100
111. Nissen (Claus) he r b a l s o f f I v e c e n t u r I e s, n u m b e r 99 o f 100
c o P I e s w It h en g l I s h t e x t (there were another 200 in German), 50
original leaves from herbals and later botanical works (includes 12
incunables, and a coloured plate from Jacquin’s Hortus botanicus
vindobonensis, 1770), mounted and with printed captions, original
canvas portfolio, 92pp. text in wrappers strapped inside front cover,
as published, bought from Marlborough in 1963 for £75 (invoice
inserted), folio, Zurich, etc., 1958. £1500 – £2000
112. Nissen (Claus) tI e r b u c h e r a u s f u n f Ja h r h u n d e rt e n, n u m b e r
42 o f 200 c o P I e s, 60 original leaves, ranging from incunables (2) to
Meyer’s British Birds, many coloured, mounted and with captions,
original canvas portfolio, printed labels, 110pp. text in pocket
inside front cover, folio, Munich etc., 1968. £2000 – £3000
* * * No English edition appeared, so there were 100 fewer copies
of the animals as opposed to the plants.
113. [Odo, of Meung] ”Macer Floridus” ma c r I d e m at e r I a
m e d Ic a d e h e r b I s a c P l a n t I s v u l g a r I b P l a n t I s P e r e g r I n I s.l a P I d I b u s
a c g e m m Is , device on title and last leaf, some water-stains but a
crisp copy, recent boards, some contemporary annotation in a
German hand seems to be adding vernacular names, bought
from E.P. Goldschmidt with invoice inserted, [Adams O66], 8vo,
Frankfort, Christian Egenolph, 1540. £300 – £500
* * * VD 16 records 9 copies, and notes that the work was edited by
Janus Cornarius.
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Lot 114
114. Oeder (G.C.) and others. Ic o n e s P l a n ta r u m s P o n t e n a s c e n t I u m In re g n I s da n I a e e t
no rv e g I a e f l o r a e da n I c a e; su P P l e m e n t u m. 54 fascicules in 18 vol., a c o m P l e t e s e t, 3240 handcoloured
engraved plates, mostly with Latin text, but four fascicules with German text and one
with Danish (no. 32), a few fascicules with early 20th century reprinted text, sometimes avowed
(fasc.28,1902; fasc.46, 1933), sometimes not, some of the accompanying plates presumably restrikes
from the original copper-plates, first nine vol. uniformly bound in contemporary marbled sheep, gilt
spines, contents lettered, minor wear and worming (the latter not touching the plates), a few plate
margins folded in so that details were not trimmed, remaining nine vol. in later half calf, gilt, bill and
correspondence inserted, from which it appears that MW bought the first 9 vol. from Hammond of
Sutton Coldfield (1963; £500!) and the rest from Ole Dam (Boghallen, Copenhagen; inserted letters
show a dispute about the reprints) in 1975, [Stafleu 7001 & 7008], folio, Copenhagen, 1764-1874.
£20000 – £30000
* * * “With 3240 plates, ranks among the finest national floras ever compiled. The Danish realm at its
inception included Holstein, Denmark, Norway, Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. The Flora
Danica accordingly illustrated plants from all these, not simply modern Denmark.” - Blunt, 187-
88. The printing history of the text is very complex, and this copy does not entirely agree with the
collation in Stafleu; e.g. our vol.1 first title is dated 1764 (his 1766) and the text collates pp.10;6;6
(as against his 12;12;10) but is clearly complete.

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115. Oeder (G.C.) en u m e r at I o P l a n ta r u m f l o r a e d a n I c a e early
19th century cloth, leather label, a trifle spotted and rubbed,
[Stafleu 7006], Copenhagen, 1770; and 3 others, similar, v.s. (4).
£80 – £120
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Lot 116
116. Palmstruck (J.W.) sv e n s k a b o ta n I k, Vol. 1-11 part 1, 738
engraved plates only (of 774), of which all but 36 (nos. 577-94 &
721-38) are coloured by hand, lacking the last 2 parts, of the final
volume (which is much the rarest) with plates 739-774, first 8 vol.
in contemporary Scandinavian half calf, rubbed, the last 3 vol. in
original parts, uncut, printed wrappers, the 1843 Register inserted,
bought from Hagelin & Gidland in 1980, with invoice inserted, [cf.
Stafleu 7247], 8vo, Stockhom, 1802-30; the lot sold not subject to
return (11). £1000 – £1500
Lot 117
117. Passe (Crispin van de) ho rt u s f l o r I d u s, 5 parts in 1 vol.,
Latin text issue, engraved title, 2 other printed titles (summer &
autumn), 5 frontispieces and 220 plates of flowers on 161 leaves,
texts on facing versos, exceptions are all accounted for except for
last plate of summer: cariophylus, a few figures lightly coloured, a
nice if probably made up copy, title mounted and a couple of tiny
marginal defects, some other margins renewed, early 20th century
dark green morocco, gilt, g.e., by Riviere, bought from W&W
cat.110 item 2266 for £180 in 1967, the original invoice (which
lists much else) inserted, oblong 8vo, Arnheim, Jansson, 1614.
£5000 – £7000
* * * Comprises; [sPrIng] plate of garden, with points of compass,
plates 1-41; ae s ta s, printed title with Utrecht & Arnheim imprint,
garden plate, plates 1-20; au t u m n u s, printed title with Utrecht &
Arnehim imprint, engraved leaf, Epigramma. Flora naturae. signed
A.B., garden plate, plates 1-25 + 25bis (the narcissus bulb) + Radix
utriusque cyclamini (unumbered); [w I n t e r], garden plate, plates
1-12, [a lt e r a Pa r s], title “Cognoscite lilia agri”, plates 1-120, all
but 53 & 120 two to a leaf. Spencer Savage’s paper in The Library,
1923 starts to attack the issue points of this complex work; however
it can only really be applied to undisturbed copies in contemporary
bindings, otherwise brain fever ensues.
“The most striking feature of the figures is the degree of atmosphere
that has been achieved with so difficult and mechanical an
instrument as the burin In many of de Passe’s plates the plants are
shown growing in the soil, the artist’s eye-level being chosen so
low that the flat Dutch landscape gives place to a plain sky against
which the flower and leaves are firmly patterened. The book, like
Camerarius thus anticipates Thornton’s Temple of Flora. Delightful
touches of humour enliven de Passe’s work: bees and butterflies
hover about the flowers; insects crawl among the leaves; a little
mouse gnaws contentedly at an uprooted corn ” Blunt, p. 109.

Lot 118
Lot 117
118. Poiret (Jean L.M.) Le c o n s d e FL o r e, 3 vol., 2 engraved
tables (one very large), 64 plates, printed in colours and finished
by hand, mostly after drawings by Turpin, the text to the 2nd vol.
runs to p.158 (159) as called for by Stalfeu in the 4to issue (he says
there should be 174pp. in this 8vo, but the last page describes the
last plate, so it is hard to think anything is missing), contemporary
half calf, gilt, head of last spine a bit defective, [Stafleu 8115], 8vo,
Paris, Pancoucke, 1819-20. £200 – £300
* * * “Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the
greatest natural genius of all the French botanical painters of his
day in particular his drawings of botanical details have rarely been
surpassed. The Lindley library possesses the originals of Poiret
and Turpin’s Lecons de Flore (1819-20) his work shows great
indebtedness to the tradition of van Spaendonck and Redoute;
Goethe much admired it and regretted that the artist was not at hand
to make illustrations for the Metamorphose der Pflanzen.” Blunt,
pp. 205, 208-9.
119. Quaritch (Bernard) nat u r a L h i s t o ry c ata L o g u e s; 1881,
1902, 1907, 1912 & 1916 5 vol., cloth, first worn, second the
Thomas Parkin-Francis Edwards copy, 1881-1916; and c. 80 other
Quaritch natural history catalogues (some 30 bound in 3 vol., cloth),
a file of MW correspodence with the firm; and c.200 others, similar
(Junk, John Chancellor, Summerfield, etc.), v.s.; sold not subject to
return (c. 300). £100 – £200
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Lot 114
120. Redouté (Pierre Joseph) Le s Li L i a c é e s, 8 vol., First e d i t i o n, engraved portrait, plain plate of
Amaryllis bulb, 486 plates printed in colours and finished by hand, with the half-titles (except vol.2)
and the rare dedication to Chaptal, first state of plate 95 and both states of plate 428 (see Plesch
sale, lot 626), some minor offset or foxing but a very nice large copy, uncut, and the plate marks
visible (they are usually trimmed away, as in Hunt copy), half orange morocco, gilt, by Sangorski &
Sutcliffe, a printed livraison wrapper (mounted with slight loss) bound at the end of each vol., the
Major Albert Pam copy (OBE, 1875-1955, banker and collector), with his bookplate, featuring the
orchid Pamianthe, sold Sotheby’s May 7th 1956 lot 83 to Sawyer, for £900 (lot 84 was a Les Roses
with plates in 2 states, bought by Traylen for £1400), then item 394 in their catalogue (? 183) (cutting
inserted; £5000), bought by MW from Traylen in 1972 for £9,500 with the original invoice inserted,
[Stafleu 8747 “280 copies”], folio (c.545 by 355mm.), Paris, chez l’auteur, 1802-16.
£100000 – £150000
* * * When Major Pam’s books were sold the catalogue justly stated that his books were all selected
copies in fine condition. He published an autobiography Adventures and Recollections in 1945, but it
has only a disappointing half paragraph on his book collecting; it was perhaps one of those things that
a gentleman did not discuss.
The Jardin de la Malmaison and the Liliacees “constitute the highest peak of Redouté’s artistic and
botanical achievment; both books are among the most important monuments of botanical illustration
ever to be published This magnificent publication brings Redouté to the top of his artistic career and
amply justifys his fame as one of the most eminent botanical illustrators of all time.” - A catalogue
of Redouteana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library, 1963, p. 21.

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121. Reichenbach (H.G. Ludwig) ic o n e s F L o r a e g e r m a n i c a e
e t h e Lv e t i c a e, vol.1-21 only (of 25) bound in 28, 2674 fine handcoloured
engraved plates, with plates 320-23 in vol.9 which Stafleu
says were never published, contemporary half roan, gilt, bit worn,
nice woodcut bookplate of George Roffavier (1775-1866, French
botanist), and with some discrete annotation (mostly reconciling
plate numbers, which are something of a nightmare), some of the
later vol. with Edinburgh bookplate of a member of the Napier
family (motto: “Usque fidelis” ; crest of a conifer), perhaps Walter
G. Napier (d.1934, botanist), bought from Frank Hammond in
1963 for £475 (invoice inserted), [Stafleu 8885], folio, Leipzig,
1834-67; sold as a periodical, not subject to return
£3000 – £5000
* * * High quality plates, finished with varnish, and in some cases
silver pigment - for the willows. The first vol. title is Agrostographia
germania “although not provided with an Icones title page it
counts as its first volume.” - Stafleu. The work was issued in at
least 4 different versions (see Stafleu), several of which have partly
coloured or uncoloured plates. The final part was not published
until 1914.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 121
Lot 122
122. [Rice paper drawings] a s u i t e o F r i c e pa p e r d r aw i n g s o F
b i r d s. 12 watercolours of birds, each c.200 x 120mm., blue fabric
frames, some cracks and tears but mostly in good state, mounted
in original fabric album, worn, ties partly missing, 19th century
inscription “GW Buxton from MA”, oblong 8vo, [Canton, possibly
Lamquoi], c.1840-50. £500 – £800
123. Saule (Marcel) La g r a n d e F L o r e i L L u s t r e e d e s py r e n e e s,
First e d i t i o n, 330 plates by Helene Saule-Sorbe, original cloth,
dust-jacket, Milan, 1991 § Aeschimann (David) and others. Flora
Alpina, 3 vol., numerous coloured plates, original boards, slipcase,
Berne, 2004 § Beckett ((Kenneth) Encyclopaedia of Alpines,
2 vol., 2 copies, coloured plates, original cloth, 1993-94; and
others, similar, v.s. (24). £100 – £200

Lot 124
124. Schimper (Wilhelm P.) sy n o p s i s m u s c o r u m e u r o pa e o r u m,
First e d i t i o n, folding coloured distribution map, 8 uncoloured
lithographs, some foxing and minor stains, old half cloth,
signature of Rudolf Uechtritz (1838-86, botanist at Breslau) and
a reasonable amount of annotation by him, [Stafleu 10.685],
Stuttgart, 1860 § Geheeb (Adalbert) Bryologia atlantica; die
Laubmoose der atlantischen Inseln, 2 parts, 20 chromolithograph
plates, original wrappers, [Stafleu 1983], Stuttgart, Bibl. Bot. heft
73, 1910 § Lindenberg (Johnann B.W.) Monographia hepaticarum
generis plagiochilae, 33 partly coloured lithographs, text rather
browned, part of the Species Hep., the second title is bound after
the preliminaries, contemporary half leather, faded and a bit worn,
[see Stafleu 4632; Junk Rara, I, 66]; and 3 others, 8vo and folio
(6). £200 – £300
Lot 125
125. Schkuhr (Christian) be s c h r e i b u n g u n d ab b i L d u n g
d e r ri e d g r a s e r n, 2 vol., portrait, 93 hand-coloured plates,
contemporary half leather, i n t e r L e av e d t h r o u g h o u t w i t h a m i d-
19t h c e n t u ry en g L i s h pa rt i a L t r a n s L at i o n in m a n u s c r i p t, (alas we
cannot see any indication of the botanist concerned), binding a bit
scuffed, bought from W&W with an (incorrect) note of imperfection
on the flyleaf, [Stafleu 10.728], 8vo, Wittenberg, Verfasser, 1801-
06. £300 – £500
Lot 126
126. Schlechtendal (Diedrich) and others. FL o r a v o n
de u t s c h L a n d F u n F t e au F L a g e. re v i d i rt, v e r b e s s e rt v o n dr.
er n e s t ha L L i e r, 30 vol., upwards of 3200 chromolithograph plates,
without the General-Register of 1888, publisher’s half leather, gilt,
minor chips and rubbing to some spines but a sound set, bought
from Quaritch, [Stafleu 10.754], 8vo, Gera, 1880-87.
£1000 – £1500
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127. Schmidel (Casimir Christoph) ic o n e s p L a n ta r u m e t
a n a Ly s e s pa rt i u m e d i t i o ii. 3 parts in 1 vol., 75 fine hand-coloured
engraved plates, minor marginal worming, half calf, rubbed,
manuscript names added at foot of some early plates, title verso with
cancelled 19th century stamps of Royal Library at Berlin (Jammas
11, not after 1840) and the Ducal library of Mechlinburg-Strelitz at
Neustrelitz, bought from Quaritch with their stock number at end,
and invoice inserted, [Stafleu 10.854], folio, Erlangen, 1793-97.
£1000 – £1500
128. Seguier (J.F.) and others bi b L i o t h e c a b o ta n i c a, second
edition, title correctly dated (it looks as if the numerals have
been adjusted), contemporary calf, gilt spine, worn, bought from
Marlborough in 1981 (order, invoice, and catalogue cutting
inserted), [Stafleu 11.624, with a very long note], Leiden, Haak,
1760 § Miltitz (Friedrich von) Handbuch der botanischen Literatur,
with the 2 titles, interleaved, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn,
front cover off, [Stafleu 6080a], Berlin, 1829, 8vo and 4to (2).
£100 – £150
* * * Seguier is “a re-issue of the old sheets [1740] with a new titlepage
and the addition of Gronovius’ Auctuarium” - Stafleu p. 486.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 127
Lot 129
129. Seringe (Nicholas Charles) co L L e c t i o n d e m o u s s e s d e
L a suisse, 1ere centaine [all publshed], 100 leaves with original
specimens, printed captions, nos. 16 & 83 have a packet of spores,
but no specimen (this may be correct), and the label to the first is
partly defective, loose in contemporary cartonage cover (backstrip
worn), [Sayre p. 254], Berne, 1809; and a herbarium of labelled
Hepaticae;Jungermannia, 38 specimens, names but no locations,
[c.1820], 4to and 8vo (2). £100 – £200
* * * Sayre records the NHM & Geneva copies, and a third in the trade

130. Sibthorp (J.) FL o r a gr a e c a, coloured title to vol.2 (cut
down, soiled), 44 hand-coloured plates (odd; between 500-681 +
768, 774; from vol. 6-8), some soiling, loose in old covers, folio,
[1825-35]; sold not subject to return £500 – £1000
Lot 131
131. Sillen (Olof Leopold) mu s c i F r o n d o s i sc a n d i n av i a e
e x s i c c at i, 2 vol., titles, list of contents, 506 specimens, mounted
on 80 leaves, with printed captions, a little dusty but in very good
state, original leather-backed cloth, title blocked in gilt, first vol.
with presentation slip pasted to title (from the author to Count A.G.
Oxenstierna, and with the latter’s heraldic label in blue on white),
folio, Gavle, 1875-84. £500 – £700
* * * Sayre, pp.254-5 records only 2 copies, NY Botanic Garden &
Uppsala; no copy on Copac, and no copy at Kew.
Lot 132
132. Sims (T.R.) ch e c k L i s t (ha n d b o o k) o F t h e bry o p h y ta o F
so u t h aF r i c a, 2 vol., hectographed from the author’s handwriting,
boards, spines faded, both inscribed to Miss Owen, and 2 letters
from Sims to her inserted, together with several lists of mosses,
[Stafleu 11.993-94], 8vo, Maritzberg, 1915-16. £100 – £200
* * * Enthusiastic letters ; “your present sending - which is one of
the best that has ever come out of the Little Berg.”
Lot 133
133. Spieghel (Adriaan van den) is a g o g e s in r e m h e r b a r i u m
[cata L o g u s p L a n ta r u m ho rt i ac a d e m i c i Lu g d u n o-bat av i ad o L F o
vo r s t i o a c c e s s i t in d e x pL a n ta r u m i n d i g e n a r u m q u a e prope
Lu g d u n u m n a s c u n t u r] 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved title, second
edition of the first text, first edition of the second, few minor waterstains,
old vellum, red edges, bit soiled, old inscription “ex libris
Bernardini Ben.(?)”, later stamp and signature on title verso Mario
Pedro Arata is probably the Argentine painter and printmaker
(1891-1946), bought from Hunersdorff in 1976 (invoice inserted),
12mo, Leiden, Elzevier, 1633. £150 – £200
* * * The Isagoges is “the first book to give detailed instructions for
the forming of a collection of dried plants” (Hunt 184, first edition
1606). The Catalogus by Adolphus Vorstius (1597-1663) is the
first edition of the second printed catalogue of the famous Leiden
botanic garden, founded in 1587; there were 4 succeeding editions,
all separate publications, the last in1658 (see Dryander III, 102).
The list of Leiden plants (Anon in Dryander III, 140, but Vorstius
must surely be likely) seems to be the second Dutch local flora,
preceded by Pilleterius on the island of Walcheren, 1610.
134. Spruce (Richard) on ce p h a L o z i a, o n e o F 200 c o p i e s,
original printed wrappers, a little soiled, Malton, printed for the
author, 1882; Hepaticae Amazonicae et Andinae, 22 lithographed
plates, without the alternative title in English or the leaf of preface,
sometimes found, contemporary half purple calf, bit worn, bought
from W&W with their invoice enclosed, [Stafleu 12.712-713],
Edinburgh, 1884[-85]; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (4).
£100 – £200
* * * “100 years after its publication, it is still the single most useful
volume on South American hepatics “ Buck, in the introduction to
the reprint of the 2nd work, 1984.
135. Stapf (O.) in d e x L o n d i n e n s i s, to i L L u s t r at i o n s o F FL o w e r i n g
p L a n t s, F e r n s a n d F e r n a L L i e s 8 vol. (including 2 vol. Supplement),
original cloth, some in dust-jackets, Oxford, 1929-41 § Tralau
(Hans) and others. Index holmensis [later: holmiensis]; a world
phytogeographic index, Vol.1-7 only (of 10), original cloth, Zurich,
Stockholm, 1969-92 § Kuchler (A.W.) International Bibliography
of Vegetation Maps, 4 vol., wrappers, the first vol. (cloth) a reprint,
Lawrence & Naarden, 1965-[71]-70; and others, botany, v.s. (39).
£50 – £100
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136. Stearn (W.T.) th e au s t r a L i a n F L o w e r pa i n t i n g s o F Fe r d i n a n d
ba u e r, o n e o F 515 c o p i e s, coloured plates, half leather, cloth case,
large folio, Basilisk Press, 1976. £100 – £200
137. Steenis (C.J. van) th e m o u n ta i n F L o r a o F Java , coloured
plates by Mir Hamzah and Moehamad Toha, cloth, Leiden, 1972
§ Hoehne (F.C.) Iconografia do Orchidaceas do Brasil, coloured
plates by Ruth Carvalho, original half leather, Sao Paulo, 1949;
and 2 others, v.s. (4). £60 – £120
138. Stephani (Franz) sp e c i e s he pat i c a r u m, 6 vol., contemporary
black leather, bit worn, last vol. stained on covers, W.H. Pearson’s
copy (1849-1923, cryptogamic botanist), with his signature and a
few inserted notes, [Stafleu 13.000], Geneva, 1900-24 § Wijk (R.
van der) Index muscorum, 5 vol., original cloth, faded, Utrecht,
1959-69 § Husnot (Pierre, editor) Revue bryologique, vol.1-20 in
4, text a bit browned, lithographed plates, first 17 vol. in 2, half
calf, neat, the other 3 (with a lot of duplication) in 2 vol., binder’s
cloth, Caen, 1874-93 § British Bryological Society. Transactions,
vol.1-11, plates, binder’s cloth, Cambridge & Oxford, 1951-80, 4to
and 8vo; sold not subject to return (26). £150 – £200
* * * The Stephani is “of great importance to all hepaticologists
because it gives a monographic enumeration of all liverworts
known at the time” - P. Geissler, Taxon, vol.39, p. 254.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 139
139. Stephenson (John) and James Morss Churchill. me d i c a L
b o ta n y, 4 vol. in 2, 185 hand-coloured plates, of which 7 (22, 45,
104, 109, 132, 154 & 160 are double), some plates just trimmed,
some minor soiling (the double plates tend to be the worst), 19th
century stamp of the Medical Society of Edinburgh on plate versos,
recent half blue leather [by Mr. Coleman, of Red Lion Square],
bound for Quaritch, with their faint pencil code at the end, [Stafleu
13.011], 8vo, 1831. £800 – £1200
* * * One (only) of the auction records mentions a frontispiece, but
there is no sign of it elsewhere and it is almost certainly a ghost.
140. Stern (F.C.) a s t u d y o F t h e g e n u s pa e o n i a, coloured plates
after Lilian Snelling, 1946; Snowdrops and Snowflakes, plates, 1956,
original cloth; and 11 others, similar, folio et infra (13). £50 – £100
Lot 141
141. Stones (Margaret, b. 1920) Fi n e wat e r c o L o u r o F Fr i t i L L a r i a
imperiaLis on board, gilt and black lined mount, c.290 x 430mm.,
signed on the leaf, caption with name of plant and “ACW 1259
62.426 Cult. Kew 7.4.1972” £150 – £200
* * * “For many years she worked as an independent painter at
Kew and from 1957 to 1981 she was a major contributing artist
to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. She has had 17 solo exhibitions
”; Sherwood, Contemporary Botanical Artists, 196-97. With the
drawing is the original invoice from Colnaghi (no.22 in their Stones
exhibition of 1974).
142. Streuil (C.A., cure of Magnee, Belgium) [he r b a r i u m],
ie r e pa rt i e, 50 specimens, each neatly mounted with manuscript
captions, marbled paper portfolio, ms. title in paper heart pasted
on, letter from Streuil to [J.P.B.] Delessert inserted, 4to, [c.1845].
£50 – £100
* * * The letter is dated 1848, talks of a journey to Beaufays (both this
and Magnee are SW of Liege) and speaks with great admiration of
Delessert’s hebarium “One of the most considerable private herbaria
of his time” - Stafleu I, 614. However by the time this letter was
written Delessert had died, so it was probably never sent.
Lot 143
143. Sturm (Jacob) de u t s c h L a n d s FL o r a iii ab t h e i L u n g: die
pi L z e de u t s c h L a n d s, b e a r b e i t e t v o n L.p.F.di t m a r [a n d o t h e r s] 7
vol., 464 hand-coloured plates, 19th century half brown morocco,
neat, bound in manuscript indices in French with references to
Saccardo, in purple ink, later in the collection of [E.W.] Mason
(1890-1975, mycologist) with his notes of a collation with BM(NH)
copy, and a letter to him from Arthur Anselm Pearson (1874-1954,
mycologist) inserted (“The end of the fungus season leaves me
not quite so pressed with work ” dated 28.12.43), [Stafleu 13.335,
pp.70-71], 12mo, Nuremberg, 1817-53. £400 – £600

144. Sturm (Jacob) FL o r a v o n de u t s c h L a n d z w e i t e, u m g e a r b e i t e t e
au F L a g e, 15 vol., 888 chromolithographed plates, text a bit
browned, original printed cloth, bit scuffed, the Lacaita copy, with
the joint bookplate of Charles C. Lacaita (1853-1933, botanist and
bibliographer) and his wife Mary, later in the Quaritch stock, from
whom MW bought it, [Stafleu 13.335, p. 71], small 8vo, Stuttgart,
1900-07. £150 – £250
Lot 145
145. Sturm (Jacob) and others. de u t s c h L a n d s FL o r a, ab t. i
[ph a n e r o g a m i s c h e ge wa c h s e]. heFte 1-96 (L a c k i n g 47-49, 58, 61
& 69) 90 parts only (of 96), lacking 47-49, 58, 61 & 69, (a number
of the later Hefte have double numeration), c.1400 hand-coloured
plates, original wrappers, 60 in contemporary board cases, rest worn
and loose, and several parts defective (too thin),the bulk bought from
Junk in 1976, with invoice inserted, Nuremberg, 1798-1855; together
with two copies of the Uebersicht (index) 1839, one interleaved and
annotated; and c. 40 duplicate parts, in worn wrappers, with another
c.600 hand-coloured plates, [Stafleu 13.335],12mo; sold not subject
to return, (c. 120). £900 – £1200
* * * “it is easy to be carried way by the bulk and grandeur of the costly
folio works, that more humble volumes of great merit and utility
recieve less than their due appreciation. Such a work is Deutschands
Flora Sturm deliberately chose this minute fomat in order to make
a knowledge of the German flora available by pictures to as many
as possible and as cheaply as possible. Despite their smallness they
carry a surprising amount of detail. “ Blunt & Stearn, pp. 259-60.
As is usual such small popular books have a lower survival rate than
larger ones; the last copy at auction was nearly 20 years ago, when
Hefte. 1-40 made £1400 hammer to Mytze.
146. Sturm (Jacob) and others. de u t s c h L a n d s FL o r a ii
ab t h e i L u n g . cry p t o g a m i e. he F t e 1-29 29 parts in 25 (19/20,
22/23, 26/27 & 28/29 in one), lacks 30-31, the algae, c.460 handcoloured
plates, original printed wrappers, worn and loose, [Stafleu
13.335, pp 69-70], Nuremberg, 1798-1835; and a duplicate copy
of Hefte1-8, in 1 vol., c.120 hand-coloured plates, contemporary
cartonage binding, bit worn, Nuremberg, 1798-1805; and 2 odd
parts, in Schuber, 12mo; the lot sold not subject to return (28).
£100 – £200
Lot 147
147. Sullivant (William S.) mu s c i aL L e g h a n i e n s e s a ma ry L a n d i a
u s q u e a d ge o r g i a m p e r t r a c t i s m o n t i u m, 2 vol., printed titles &
half-titles, 2 leaves index, 292 specimens with printed labels on
blue paper, mounted on 100 leaves, 2 specimens with taxonomic
note signed R.B., original black cloth, backstrips (defective)
lettered with title, [Sayre 258-60], folio, Columbus, Ohio, 1845.
£2000 – £3000
* * * Contents in very nice state, despite the worn binding. It was
originally intended that about 50 copies should be prepared;
however the list of recipients (printed in A.D. Rodgers, ”Noble
fellow” William Starling Sullivant, 1940, 314-15) lists only 26
copies + 9 to Asa Gray “his share in full”; most of them were
probably taken apart to be integrated into herbaria. The labels were
also printed separately, without specimens; the first edition was
almost all destroyed by Sullivant, the revised edition was printed
in 100 copies, of which 25 were in black cloth, with the title on the
spine. Sayre records only 2 copies of the specimens, and 3 of the
labels and there was no copy in the Eton sale.
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148. Sullivant (William S.) th e m u s c i a n d h e pat i c a e o F t h e
un i t e d stat e s c o n t r i b u t e d to t h e s e c o n d e d i t i o n o F gr ay ’s
ma n u a L o F bo ta n y, pp. i-iv, (8), 9-121 (122), 22 plates (of which
I-VIII are grasses, IX-XIV are Filices and Lycopodiaceae, and
XV-XXII are Musci; according to the list of plates and title these
latter should be I-VIII), lower margins rather water-stained,
contemporary dark green cloth, publisher’s cypher on front cover,
marbled edges, [agrees with 2 copies on World Cat.; not mentioned
by Stafleu 13.403], New York, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1871;
Icones muscorum mosses peculiar to the eastern United States, 129
engraved plates, original black cloth, trifle worn, contemporary
bookplate of J.A. Swan, lacks the supplement published 10 years
later, [Stafleu 13.409], Cambridge, MA, 1864 § Austin (Coe)
Musci appalachiani; supplement 1 [only one published], decorative
wrappers, bit soiled, Closter NJ (printed at Oquawka, Ill.), 1878
§ Weber (William Alfred) and Patricia Nelson. Key to Genera
of Colorado Mosses, [16]pp.text + folding leaf of instructions
+ orange slip ‘random-access key ‘+ 203 green punched cards
+ 1 yellow overlay card, together in card box, [Boulder], 1972
(slip ‘revised edition 1974’ pasted on) § Tuckerman (E.) and C.C.
Frost. A Catalogue of Plants growing without cultivation within
thirty miles of Amherst College, water-stained, original printed
wrappers, chipped, [Stafleu 15.284; 5 entries on World Cat.],
Amherst, 1875; and two others, similar to the third, v.s. (7).
£60 – £120
* * * Punch card keys must have had a short floruit, and a very short
survival span. No copy of the Weber on Copac or World Cat.(!)
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 149
149. Tournefort (J.P.) in s t i t u t i o n e s r e i h e r b a r i a e 3 vol., third
edition, vol. 2 & 3 with factotum title (view of Jardin des plantes),
489 engraved plates by Claude Aubriet, contemporary vellum, bit
warped but a nice copy, copy of the invoice from Bernard Halliday
of Leicester inserted (1965; cost £22), 4to, Leiden, 1719.
£300 – £500
* * * “Claude Aubriet attracted the attention of Tournefort, who
commissioned him to make the engravings for his celebrated Elemens
de botanique, 1694 which in its later Latin version Institutiones rei
herbariae 1700 had so far-reaching an effect on plant classification
by defining the genera. These illustrations, made no doubt under
Tournefort’s direct supervision, are remarkable for the accuracy of
their dissections.” - Blunt, p. 124. This is the final edition of the work
and has more plates than the two preceeding ones.
150. Trattinnick (Leopold) th e s a u r u s b o ta n i c u s, 80 fine handcoloured
plates, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, binding a bit
worn but sound, the Plesch copy with his bookplate (sale 16 March,
1976, bought for £3500 by Wheldons for MW), folio, [Dunthorne
307; Stafleu 14.879] , Vienna, sumptibus editoris, [1805]-19.
£15000 – £20000
* * * “The plates are of high quality, with careful and precise
colouring” (Stafleu); “superb Amaryllis plates a beautiful work,
finely coloured” (Dunthorne).
Lot 151
151. Trattinnick (Leopold) die e s s b a r e n sc h wa m m e d e s
oe s t e r r e i c h i s c h e n ka i s e r s ta at e s, First e d i t i o n, 30 hand-coloured
plates, contemporary half cloth, bought from Junk, with invoice
inserted, [Stafleu 14.880], 8vo, Vienna & Trieste, 1809 [1807].
£200 – £300
* * * “Eines der fruhesten popularen Piltzbucher “ - Volbracht 2121.
152. Trelease (William) and others. ha r r i m a n aL a s k a s e r i e s,
vol. V, cryptogamic botany only, plates, original cloth, an offprint
of Trelease’s introduction (wrappers, worn; on superior paper to
the book), loosely inserted, Washington, 1910 § Schuster (Rudolf)
The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, 6 vol., original
editions, illustrations, cloth, one vol. rather stained, but not
stuck together, New York, 1966-92 § Frye (T.B.) and Lois Clark.
Heptaticae of North America, 5 vol. in 2, illustrations, the note that
a mimeographed bibliography accompanies the first part has been
struck out (it doesn’t), binder’s cloth, neat, Seattle, 1937-47, 8vo
(9). £50 – £100

Lot 150
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Lot 153
153. Trew (C.J.) pL a n ta e s e L e c ta e, First e d i t i o n, general title and 10 section titles, all illuminated
in red and gold, 3 fine mezzotint portraits (Trew, Ehret, Haid; the 4th portrait of Vogel is normally
missing when the decuria titles are present, according to Cleveland; it probably belongs to the
supplement, 1790-92 which he edited), 100 m a g n i F i c e n t h a n d-c o L o u r e d p L at e s a F t e r d r aw i n g s b y
eh r e t, first portrait creased, few marginal water-stains, otherwise a good copy in a contemporary
English binding of diced russia, thin gilt border on sides, gilt spine (joints repaired, somewhat worn),
18th century bookplate of Joshua Smith, with motto “marte et ingeni(o)” (probably the MP for
Devizes, d.1819 who landscaped Earlestoke Park), folio, [Hunt 539; Cleveland 429], [Nuremberg],
1750-73. £20000 – £30000
* * * Calmann pp.95-97 gives a full acount of the production of the book, held up by the 7 years war
and Trew’s advancing years, and ends by quoting modern verdicts. “C. Nissen wrote ‘the Plantae
selectae became t h e m o s t b e a u t i F u L ge r m a n p L a n t-b o o k; even among foreign works there are few
which could compete with it’”.

Lot 153
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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 154
154. Tutin (T.G.) and others. FL o r a e u r o pa e a, 6 vol., cloth, dustjackets
a bit worn, Cambridge, 1964-83; and 14 others, similar,
mostly the Atlas, but including three number of The tea phytologist,
8vo and 4to (20). £100 – £200
* * * The Tea phytologist, an entertaining jeu d’esprit of the Cambridge
Dept. of Botany includes such things as a plate of herbarium labels
(“I would rather not name this. F.J.H 1906”), the Flora Europa
football team, and Waiting for Godwit. Loosely inserted is a lively
retrospect by D.A. Webb (extr. Taxon) “There were at least two
desks in Central Europe on which unanswered telegrams from the
editorial committee lay thick as autumn leaves in Vallombrosa.”
Lot 155
155. Vaillant (Sebastien) bo ta n i c o n pa r i s i e n s e, folding engraved
map, portrait, 33 engraved plates by Wandelaar after Claude Aubriet,
contemporary sheep, block printed endpapers in red and green, bit
scraped and worn, but sound, engraved bookplate of Bon du Charmel
with Montaigne motto “Qu scay je?” (no. 2686 in manuscript),
inscription of Dr. John. Schnell on flyleaf, folio [Hunt 470; Stafleu
15.748], Leiden & Amsterdam, 1727. £500 – £700
156. Vaillant (Sebastien) bo ta n i c o n pa r i s i e n s e, folding engraved
map, 33 engraved plates by Wandelaar after Claude Aubriet, but
lacking the portrait, some water-stains, a large, perhaps large
paper, copy in recent half calf, [Hunt 470; Stafleu 15.748], folio,
Leiden & Amsterdam, 1727. £400 – £600
157. Veitch (James H.) ho rt u s v e i t c h i i; a h i s t o ry o F t h e r i s e a n d
p r o g r e s s o F t h e n u r s e r i e s a c c o u n t o F t h e b o ta n i c a L c o L L e c t o r s
numerous plates, special edition on hand-made paper and in half
purple morocco, t.e.g., uncut (standard copies are in red cloth),
folio, private circulation, 1906. £100 – £150
158. Wager (Horace A.) a c h e c k List o F t h e mosses o F so u t h aF r i c a,
wrappers, soiled, staples rusting, [Stafleu 16.477], Pretoria, 1917 §
Arnell (S.) Hepaticae of South Africa, illustrations, cloth, dust-jacket,
Stockholm, 1963; and 8 others, similar, v.s. (10). £30 – £50
Lot 159
159. Wagner (Hermann) cry p t o g a m e n-he r b a r i u m, Li e F e r u n g
i-v; ii. se r i e i-iv Lieferung I-V; II. Serie I-IV (all published),
c.220 actual specimens, neatly mounted with captions “printed
on the pages to which the specimens are attached” (Sayre), in the
original 9 parts, printed wrappers, loose in original black cloth
portfolio, stamped with title, ties broken, slightly dusty, but in good
state, [Sayre, pp.53-54], 8vo, Bielefeld, Helmich, [1852-62].
£150 – £250
160. Weber (Joseph Carl) die aL p e n p F L a n z e n de u t s c h L a n d s u n d
d e r sc h w e i z v i e rt e au F L a g e, 4 vol., 400 hand-coloured plates,
a nice copy in original cloth, gilt, Munich, 1880; and 5 others,
similar, 8vo et infra (9). £100 – £150
161. Wheldon (John) a c o L L e c t i o n o F n at u r a L h i s t o ry c ata L o g u e s
30 catalogues in 2 vol., running between No.110 & New Series
1-58 (at this stage Wheldon issued less than 50% natural history
catalogues), slightly dusty but in good state, several with notes of
items ordered, binder’s cloth, bit worn, bound as part of a run of
“Trade Catalogues; Science”, perhaps for Quaritch, London, Great
Queen St., 1895-1912; Catalogue of astronomical & geological
works, original wrappers, ib., 1881 § Botanical catalogue, later
wrappers, ib.,1886 § Wheldon & Wesley, New Series. Catalogues
84-159, 76 catalogues in 10 vol., binder’s cloth, 1956-82; and others,
including earlier and later catalogues, 2 box files of correspondence
of the firm (mostly HK Swann) with MW, etc., 8vo; sold not subject
to return, 8vo (qty). £100 – £200
* * * Apart from the file set (Maggs Cat. 1364, item 505; now in a
private collection) there are slim pickings elsewhere. Copac has
1857-8, 1860 at Cambridge & a run from 1912 at NLW; the Dutch
Catalogus has 1856 & 4 catalogues 1908-19.

162. Wiggins (Ira) and others. FL o r a o F t h e ga L a pa g o s i s L a n d s,
fine copy in dust-jacket, Stanford, 1971 § Leighton (Frances) The
genus Agapanthus, Cape Town, 1965, plates, original cloth; and
others, mostly floras, v.s. (c. 50). £50 – £100
Lot 163
163. Willmott (Ellen Ann) ge n u s ro s a, 2 vol., 132
chromolithograph plates, 83 uncoloured illustrations, all after
Alfred Parsons (“his best botanical illustrations” - Blunt),
publisher’s quarter dark green morocco, t.e.g., original wrappers
bound in, small stain on front cover of first vol. otherwise a nice
set, bought at Sotheby’s 14.v.63 (“The distinguished natural history
collection of the late A.W.H. Harvey”), lot 531 by W&W for MW,
with letter inserted, 4to, 1910-14. £1500 – £2000
* * * The plates are possibly German; the printers are not mentioned
in the acknowledgements or on the illustrations; Parsons appears
only on the title-pages.
Lot 164
164. [Winkler (Karl G. Adolf)] “A. Carex “ Le i d e n u n d
Fr e u d e n d e s b o ta n i k e r s ( iL L u s t r at i o n e n z u r d e u t s c h e n FL o r a
zw e i t e, v e r m e h rt e au s g a b e) in Fe d e r-ze i c h n u n g e n v o n a.
ca r e x. 2 parts, 30 + 51 lithographed caricatures of botanists, and
caricature human illustrations of botanical names, original yellow
lithographed wrappers, loose, [Stafleu 17.937], small 4to, Berlin,
H. Muller, 1870. £400 – £600
* * * Extremely rare; we can trace only two copies of the 2 parts;
one in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, the other in Engler’s offprint
collection at Stanford (Dudley herbarium; not on world Cat.). The
former includes an 8pp. Rand-glossen by “Myosurus minimus
“ not present here, and the second part is the first edition of 1864
(coloured plates, but only 31 of them). Notre Dame has a copy
of the second part (only) and that seems to be a complete roster.
Several German libraries on KVK appear to have other copies, but
when checked these are the 1976 or 1982 reprints.
“The cartoons illustrate the joys and hardships of a field botanist in
central Europe” - Stanford.
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165. [Wonnecke (Johann, of Cube)] [ga rt d e r ge s u n d h e i t] 246
leaves only (of 248), 2 columns, 40 lines, lacking the first leaf with
full-page woodcut (supplied in reasonable facsimile) and the final
blank, some 400 text woodcuts, based on those in the 1485 first
edition, c o L o u r e d in a c o n t e m p o r a ry h a n d, a somewhat soiled
copy (the index leaves are most used), with a few minor defects
(k3 short, but stains agree; corner torn from q1 with loss of a
few words, a few repairs without loss (eg q6), 16th century blindstamped
pigksin, 2 rolls with portrait medallions, outer with the
great men of the reformation (Erasmus, Luther, Huss, Melanchton)
quite likely bound in or near Lindau, which went reformed in 1528,
some wear and old repairs, clasps intact, ownership inscription at
the end of Phillip Bausle, Burger of Lindau, 1564, on front flyleaves
19th century notes on the history of the text, with reference to Miltitz
etc. by G.H.Peurbaund (?) of Dabroth bei Lauend (?) 1873, printed
label of ”Bibliotheca Julinska” the library of Alfred Potocki
(1817-89, politician and Austrian minister of agriculture; he seems
to have had a number of herbals; a Tabernomontanus of 1613 with
the same provenance is currently on the market), partly pasted over
this, bought from Francis Edwards in 1971 for £1800, with invoice
inserted, [BMC II, 535-6; Hunt 6; Goff G103], folio, Ulm, Conrad
Dinckmut, 31 March, 1487. £12000 – £15000
* * * The British library copy lacks 2 leaves and Hunt 8 leaves; both
are without the frontispiece also missing here. ISTC lists 17 copies in
Germany, but about two thirds are imperfect, some consisting of a few
leaves only. Of the 4 copies in the US 3 are imperfect, and the 4th is
made up. No copy of this edition at auction in the last 35 years.
First published in Mainz in 1485 “indisputably the most
splendid and important of the incunabula herbals one of the first
incunabula on a scientific subject written in the vernacular.”
Blunt & Raphael, p. 115.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 165
166. Wood (William) cata L o g u e o F a n e x t e n s i v e a n d va L u a b L e
c o L L e c t i o n o F t h e b e s t w o r k s o n n at u r a L h i s t o ry, a r r a n g e d in
c L a s s e s a c c o r d i n g to t h e Li n n e a n s y s t e m; Fi r s t a n d s e c o n d
e d i t i o n s, 2 vol., first with hand-coloured frontispiece, and the
prospectus for Wood’s Index Test., original boards, uncut, worn,
bookplate of J.W. Gutch, second with 3 hand-coloured plates,
original boards, rebacked, worn, [Soulsby 163-164 (as Systema
naturae, appendix)], 8vo, 428 Strand, 1824-39 Tavistock St.,
1832. £200 – £400
* * * William Wood, 1774-1857, FRS, author of Freeman 4144-50
was also an important natural history bookseller; these seem to be
his only surviving catalogues. BBTI gives his dates as 1839-46 and
cites only the second address. David Allen, Books and Naturalists,
226 says he started in The Strand in 1815. Copies often occur with
uncoloured plates.

Other Properties
Lot 167
167. Alisova-Klobukova (Eugenia Nikolaevna, 1889-1962)
[co m m o n spring F L o r a in t h e vicinity o F t h e ni k o L s k-ussurisk
m o u n ta i n s], 24 bifolia only (of 25; lacking 5, Populus tremula),
e a c h w i t h a n o r i g i n a L s p e c i m e n, 2 additional bifolia (title, index),
some specimens a bit worn, original printed boards, stained
and worn, [apparently unrecorded], Nikolsk-Ussurisky, 1919 §
[Arboretum of the Maritime Forestry Society], 250 copies printed,
18pp., self wrappers, worn, Vladivostock, 1923 § Tolmacheff (V.J.)
Berrys and Fruits in Markets of Northern Manchuria, illustrations,
wrappers, Harbin, 1932; and a quantity of others, similar, v.s.; sold
not subject to return (qty). £100 – £200
* * * A number of very rare items, apparently from the archive
of I.V. Kozloff. It includes a copy of his offprint Notes on the
Plants collected by Mr. Arthur de C[arle] Sowerby in Eastern
China, Shanghai, 1950, ms. notes on vinegar and vodka making,
contemporary photographs of the Soviet far east, etc.
Lot 168
168. Botanical.- a n a L b u m o F b o ta n i c a L s t u d i e s, 52 original
watercolour studies of various plants on 33 leaves, some captioned
and dated in pencil below, some soiling, quarter morocco album,
worn, oblong 8vo, [France], 1877. £250 – £350
Lot 169
169. Brunfels (Otto) to m u s herbarii iii, First e d i t i o n, 118 leaves only
(of 122, lacking I6, L6, M5 & P3), top half of E1 & M2 cut away, 90
woodcuts by Weiditz and others, mostly full-page, some worming, upper
outer corner rotted away (mostly blank, woodcut generally unaffected),
half calf [by Bernard Middleton], [Adams B2925, 3rd vol], folio,
Strassburg, Schott, 1536; sold not subject to return. £300 – £400
170. [Colla (Luigi Aloysius) ho rt u s r i p uL e n s i s] the 40 lithograph
plates only, unsigned and possibly proofs, without text, old boards, worn,
[cf Stafleu 1166], [Turin, 1824] § Dickson (James) Fasciculus plantarum
cryptogamicarum Britanniae, parts 1 & 4 [only], 6 plates, original
wrappers, uncut, worn, [cf Stafleu 1442], 1785[-1801]; and 5 others,
botany odds; sold not subject to return, v.s. (8). £80 – £100
Lot 171
171. [L’Heritier de Brutelle (C.L.) st i r p e s n o va e a u t m i n u s
c o g n i ta e. Fa s c. 7.] 12 plates after Redouté, printed in colours and
finished by hand, numbered LXXXVI-XCVII, minor stains but in
good state, later half red leather, scuffed, bound for [Neil Boyd]
McEacharn (1885-1964, created the Villa Taranto garden. lake
Maggiore), with his bookplate and name at base of spine, folio,
[Paris, c.1805]. £500 – £1000
* * * L’Heritier published only plates I-LXXXIV (plus bis plates)
in his lifetime and the additional plates (up to 39 of them) are
extremely rare; they probably stem from the author’s posthumous
sale in 1805. “only a few copies generally in black and white but
in the HBL and W copies they are all colored we must accept them
as effectively published” - Bucheim, Huntia 2, pp. 43-45. None
of the 15 copies sold at auction since 1976 contain more than 91
plates (even the stupendous Duke of Marlborough copy; $210,000
in 1997) and several had less.
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Lot 172
172. Loudon (Jane Webb) th e La d i e s’ FL o w e r-ga r d e n o F
or n a m e n ta L pe r e n n i a L s, vol 1 only (of 2), 43 hand-coloured
lithograph plates only (of 45), occasional light spotting or soiling,
one plate tipped in and affected by insects, contemporary covers
further covered in cloth, front hinge detatched, worn, 4to, 1843.
£600 – £800
Lot 173
173. Morison (Robert) pL a n ta r u m historia un i v e r s a L i s
ox o n i e n s i s, parts 2 & 3 [all published] in 3 vol. (including
plate vol), First e d i t i o n, half-title in part 3 only, part 2 folding
frontispiece (with relating text tipped-in on image), part 3 engraved
portrait, engraved Sheldonian vignettes on titles and 292 engraved
illustrations on 152 leaves, some light browning and staining,
occasional foxing (sometimes heavy in text vol.), part 2 with one
or two plant specimens loosely inserted, part 3 with marginal
wormhole in gutter, plate vol. with a few marginal ink annotations,
contemporary panelled calf, worn, covers detached, [Henrey 259],
folio, Oxford, 1680-99. £1000 – £1500
* * * First edition of Morison’s work which aimed to construct a
logical and natural system of plant classification. Part I, on trees
and shrubs, was never published.
Lot 174
174. Tenore (Michele) FL o r a na p o L i ta n a, vol.3-5 only, 150 stippleengraved
plates (of 250), printed in colours and finished by hand,
no titles or letterpress, 2 plates with short marginal tear, a couple
slightly creased, generally clean and crisp, contemporary half calf
over marbled boards, rather worn, [Stafleu & Cowan 13.901; Nissen
1939; Pritzel 9142], folio, Naples, [1811-38]; sold as a collection of
plates, not subject to return £8000 – £12000
* * * Fi r s t e d i t i o n o F t h i s v e ry r a r e ita L i a n r e g i o n a L F L o r a. Stafleu
records only three copies, one of which is incomplete and one of
which is on microfiche. Copies rarely appear at auction (4 copies
in the last 35 years, only 2 of which were complete). The work
describes not only the indigenous plants of Naples, but also some
of the rare exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens of which
Tenore was director. Two separate appendices were published in
1823 and 1826. The plates are by Carlo and Raffaele Biondi, Carlo
Cataneo, Clener, Raf. Estevan, Filippo Imperato, Nic. Morghen,
Ant. Pinto, Nicco Ricci, Vin. Scarpati and Luigi Vocaturo after
Federigo Denhardt, Gius. Lettieri and Steurnal.
175. Willkomm (H.M.) pr o d r o m u s F L o r a e hi s pa n i c a e, 4 vol.
(includes the r a r e supplement), First e d i t i o n, half dark green
morocco, marbled edges, by Riviere, joints worn and corners
stubbed, armorial bookplate of John Gray and motto Tenebro, last
vol. in later cloth, [Stafleu 17.851, 871], 8vo, Stuttgart, 1870-93.
£300 – £400

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The remaining portion of the library of the late Peter Tate (1926-2009),
removed from Loudwater, Rickmansworth, and sold by order of the executors.
Part-time bird tour leader 1970-89. Treasurer BOC 1962-74.
Chairman Stocker’s Lake (reserve) Management Committee,
Herts and Middx Trust for Nature Conservation 1982-90. Author
East Anglia and its birds, 1977, A century of bird books, 1979,
2nd ed. 1985, Swallows, 1981. Birds men and books, 1986, The
Swallow, 1986, The nightjar,
1989, Flights of fancy, birds in
myth, 2007: lightly adapted from
John Pemberton’s Who’s who
in ornithology these are Peter’s
ornithological credentials.
He spent his working life
as a stockbroker with Lazarus
Brothers, in Broad Street Place
EC2, and his book collecting was
influenced by the senior partner
George Lazarus. George was a
collector of modern firsts who,
rather than following fashion,
adopted the unusual criterion of
collecting only those authors he
read and liked; see Anthony Rota
in The Book Collector, 1955.
Inspired by his boss, Peter took
to dropping in to Quaritch and
chatting to Howard Radclyffe;
many of his best books came
from this source. His collection really took off when Quaritch
bought part of the collection of Capt. Vivian Hewitt (1888-1965).
“…in 1965 the fabulously wealthy English eccentric Vivian
Hewitt died, leaving his affairs in chaos. Throughout his life he
had collected furiously on a number of fronts and at his death
his vast assemblage of possessions was left crammed into his
176. Atkinson (T.W.) tr av e L s in t h e r e g i o n s o F t h e upper a n d
L o w e r am o o r, tinted frontispiece, folding map, 1860 § St. John
(H.C.) Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon, plates,
folding map, Edinburgh, 1880; and 6 others, 8vo (8). £50 – £100
177. Babington (Churchill) cata L o g u e o F t h e bi r d s o F su F F o L k,
1884-86 § Ticehurst (C. B.) A History of the Birds of Suffolk, 1932
§ Hele (N. F.) Notes or jottings about Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 1870,
plates, original cloth; and c.55 others, similar, including a run of
the Suffolk Naturalists Society Transactions vol. 1-39 (1929-2003),
v.s. (c.60). £75 – £100
178. Baker (E. C. Stuart) in d i a n bu s ta r d s [in d i a n sa n d g r o u s e;
th e bu L b u L s o F no rt h ca c h a r], 3 vol., offprints, colour plates, all
inscribed, vol.3 to ‘Aunt Sophie with the author’s love’, original
cloth or half calf, 1892-1913; and 6 others, mostly Finn, 8vo (9).
£100 – £150
❦ Birds
house, many of the items…still in the boxes in which they had
been delivered” Fuller, Great Auk, p. 228. Certainly some of
the books Quaritch bought were still in booksellers’ parcels; they
formed the basis of Quaritch Cat. 868 (see reproduction) though
the Hewitt provenance was not mentioned.
The other main source of Peter’s
books was another eccentric, viz.
Ronald Courtenay Witting, who
was for many years at Rowland
Ward, and edited the 11th edition of
their Records of Big Game. Africa,
1962. His large and decaying house
at West Horsley was stuffed with
books, many with his neat pencil
collation note which we reproduce.
Peter commissioned a bookplate,
apparently from Allan Harris, who
illustrated his The Swallows, and
it is found in
most of the
books in his
collection. A
portion of this
was sold by
Maggs in 2003
(cat. 1348) and
Bloomsbury
are delighted to be selling the final part of this attractive library.
Peter was a long time member of the Royal Observer
Corps, and Pemberton gives his unbird interest as ‘twitching
aircraft types not previously come across’; he had a substantial
collection of aeronautical books which will be sold in a sale in
our Godalming rooms on 17th June.
179. Bannerman (David Armitage) th e bi r d s o F t h e british
is L e s, 12 vol., First e d i t i o n, numerous colour plates by George
E.Lodge, captioned tissue guards, 2 a.L.s. F r o m t h e a u t h o r to
‘my de a r tat e ’ each 4pp. and with interesting ornithological
detail both loosely inserted, original buckram, dust-jackets, spines
a little browned as usual, some fraying at edges, 4to, Edinburgh &
London, 1953-63. £100 – £150
180. Bannerman (David Armitage) th e bi r d s o F t h e ba L e a r i c s,
1983; Birds of Cyprus, 1958 § Stewart (P.F.) and S. J. Christensen.
A Check List of the Birds of Cyprus, typescript, [Nicosia, 1971],
the first two with plates and illustrations, original cloth, dustjacket,
the last with original wrappers; and c.20 others, similar,
some pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.23). £60 – £80
181. Barrett-Hamilton (Gerald E. H.) a hi s t o ry o F british
ma m m a L s , 21 original parts, parts 1-7 original printed wrappers,
rest in later wrappers, 1910[-11] § Medway (Gathorne-Hardy,
Baron) The Wild Mammals of Malaya, original cloth, dust-jacket,
Kuala Lumpur, 1969 § Harper (Francis) Extinct and Vanishing
Mammals of the Old World, original printed wrappers, New York,
1945, plates, some colour; and c.110 others, vertebrates, some
pamphlets, v.s. (c.130). £100 – £150

182. Barrington (F. J. F., F.R.C.S.) bi r d s at co L i n d a L e [ho s p i ta L
nw9], 10pp., manuscript note by ‘W.S.’ giving background to
pamphlet on front cover, original wrappers, [Ballance lists only
the Edward Gray copy], Colindale Handcrafts, [1941] § Eales-
White (Major J. C.) Bird Life in Richmond and District, spotted,
original printed wrappers, [Ballance quotes only wrappers],
[1935] § Lockley (R. M.) Birds of the Green Belt, original cloth,
a very good copy in dust-jacket, 1936; and c.95 others, including
a continuous run of London Bird Reports from 1936-2006, mostly
bound in cloth, 8vo (c.100). £200 – £300
183. Barrington (Richard) th e mi g r at i o n o F bi r d s, a s o b s e rv e d
at ir i s h L i g h t h o u s e s, folding map, original cloth, rubbed, [1900]
§ Kennedy (P. G.) An Irish Sanctuary: Birds of the North Bull,
plates, original cloth-backed boards, Dublin, 1953; and c.18
others, on Irish birds, many pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.20).
£200 – £400
184. [Bennett (E.T.)] th e g a r d e n s a n d m e n a g e r i e o F t h e
zo o L o g i c a L so c i e t y, 2 vol., illustrations by Edward Lear and
others, original cloth, printed labels, 1830-31 § Montagu (G.)
Ornithological Dictionary, 3 vol. in 2, coloured frontispiece,
24 engraved plates in the supplement, similar but not identical
contemporary calf, gilt spines, rubbed, London, 1802-Exeter, 1813;
and 9 others, 8vo (13). £150 – £200
185. Bewick (T.) british b i r d s, 2 vol., seventh edition of the Land
Birds & fifth edition of the Water Birds, both with supplements,
wood-engraved illustrations, original grey boards, pink printed
labels, uncut, somewhat worn and defective, [Roscoe 24-25c & 26-
27c], demy 8vo, 1821; and a rough copy of the first edition, 8vo
(4). £100 – £150
186. Bonhote (J. L.) and N. C. Rothschild. ha r r o w bu t t e r F L i e s
a n d mo t h s, 2 vol., plate by Frohawk, original vellum-backed
printed boards, Harrow, 1895-97 § Morley (Claude) The Coleoptera
of Suffolk, original printed wrappers, Plymouth, 1899 § Punnett
(R. C.) Mimicry in Butterflies, Cambridge, 1915 § Hammond (C.)
The Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1977 § Russwurm
(A. D. A.) Aberrations of British Butterflies, Farringdon, 1978,
plates, some colour, the last three original cloth, the last two with
dust-jackets; and c.95 others, Invertebrates, mostly butterflies, v.s.
(c.100). £200 – £300
187. Booth (E.T.) ro u g h no t e s o n t h e bi r d s o b s e rv e d d u r i n g
t w e n t y-F i v e y e a r s s h o o t i n g a n d c o L L e c t i n g in t h e british is L a n d s,
3 vol., 114 uncoloured lithographs, without the 2 maps, old red
cloth, worn and stained, folio, 1881-87. £150 – £200
188. Brabourne (Wyndham W. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd.
Baron) and Charles Chubb. th e b i r d s o F so u t h am e r i c a.
vo L.i [a L i s t o F t h e b i r d s; a L L p u b L i s h e d o F t h e t e x t] pp. xx, 540,
inscribed by Chubb to Arthur George Bennett of Port Stanley,
interleaved throughout and annotated by Bennett, with ms. note
on title ‘corrections for Falkland Islands 1912 to 1945’ (but there
is at least one note dated 1949), cloth, worn and loose, roughly
rebacked, 4to, [1912]. £150 – £200
* * * “Owing to the death of Lord Brabourne at Neuve-Chapelle in
1915 only vol.1 of the text has been published” (Copac). Stanley
published A List of the Birds of the Falkland Islands, 1926 and a
copy of this is included in the lot.
189. [Brereton (J. J.), M. Dilke and Peter Scott.] ad v e n t u r e s
a m o n g bi r d s, L i m i t e d e d i t i o n s i g n e d b y a L L t h r e e a u t h o r s, James
Fisher’s copy (with a presentation inscription ‘from Daddy’),
illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and a little
browned, Oundle, 1926; and 23 others, by or illustrated by Peter
Scott, v.s. (24). £60 – £80
190. British Ornithologists Union. th e ib i s, a m a g a z i n e o F g e n e r a L
o r n i t h o L o g y. 149 vol., a c o n t i n u o u s r u n F r o m c o m m e n c e m e n t in
1859 to 2007, very numerous colour plates, those in the first 50 years
hand-coloured, original red cloth, gilt, the last 30 vol. or so in amateur
cloth, the last 3 vol. in parts as issued, 8vo & 4to, 1859-2007; sold as
a periodical, not subject to return. £3000 – £5000
* * * Comprises: the first 14 series (6 vol. each) continued as vol. 85
-149 ; includes a number of supplements and index vol.
a F i n e, c o m p L e t e r u n - r a r e t h u s.
191. Brown (Leslie H.) and others. th e bi r d s o F aF r i c a, 7 vol.,
1982-2004 § Hall (B. P.) and R. E. Moreau. An Atlas of Speciation
in African Passerine Birds, 1970 § Clancey (Dr. P. A.) The Rare
Birds of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, 1985 § Cave (Col. F.
O.) and James Macdonald. Birds of the Sudan, Edinburgh, 1955
§ Houlihan (Patrick F.) The Birds of Ancient Egypt, Warminster,
1986, plates, some colour, all but the last original cloth with dustjackets,
the last original wrappers; and c.110 others, on Birds of
Africa, v.s. (c.120). £300 – £400
192. Brusewitz (Gunnar) wi n g s a n d se a s o n s, Stockholm, 1980
§ Berg (Arnoud B. van den) and others. Avifauna van Nederland,
2 vol., second edition, 2001 § Blotzheim (Urs N. Glutz von) and
others. Die Brutvögel der Schweiz, Aarau, 1962 § Aus Deutschlands
Vogelwelt, cigarette cards pasted in, Altona, 1932 § Vara Svenska
Fåglar I Ton, set of original 45 rpm records, original cloth box,
[c.1960], the first two plates, the first three original cloth or boards,
the fourth original wrappers; and c.65 others, on Birds of Europe,
v.s. (c.70). £200 – £300
193. Buick (T. Lindsay) th e my s t e ry o F t h e mo a, New Plymouth,
1931 § Gill (Brian) New Zealand’s Extinct Birds, Auckland, 1991 §
Fuller (Errol) The Great Auk, Southborough, 1999, plates, original
cloth, dust-jackets, the first a bit worn; and 12 others, similar, v.s.
(15). £100 – £150
194. Butler (Arthur Gardiner) bi r d s o F gr e at britain a n d
ir e L a n d, 2 vol., 107 chromolithograph plates of birds after
H.Grönvold and 8 of eggs after F.W. Frohawk, tissue guards,
some spotting, binder’s cloth, new endpapers, [1904-08] § Gray
(George Robert) The Genera of Birds, a bundle of loose parts with
c.60 uncoloured lithographs, loose in wrappers, [c.1840-50]; and a
bundle of others, including vol.1 of the first mentioned, 4to & folio;
sold not subject to return. (sm qty). £100 – £200
195. Chapman (Abel) wi L d spa i n, L a r g e pa p e r c o p y, c. 257 x
160mm., 1893; Wild Norway, 1897, plates, original cloth, little
rubbed; and another, 8vo £100 – £150
196. Chapman (Abel) me m o r i e s , 1930 § Elwes (H. J.) Memoirs
of Travel, Sport and Natural History, 1930 § Lodge (George E.)
Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist, 1946 § Palmer (A. H.) The Life
of Joseph Wolf, 1895, plates, original cloth, the second and third
with dust-jackets; and c.100 others, similar, including a run of The
Journal (later Archives) of the Society for the Bibliography of
Natural History, vol. 1-35 (1936-2008: lacking vol.12 part 3), v.s.
(c.105). £75 – £100
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197. Collins (William, publishers) th e ne w nat u r a L i s t Li b r a ry,
134 vol., First e d i t i o n s, original cloth, dust-jackets, one or two a
little worn, mostly in nice state, 8vo, 1945-2009. (134).
£2000 – £3000
* * * Comprising: main series no.1-111 (including both editions of
no.82), Monographs no.1-22 (a complete set).
a v e ry n i c e s e t, e a c h v o L u m e b o u g h t n e w o n p u b L i c at i o n.
198. Collins (William, publisher).- Corbet (P. S.) dr a g o n F L i e s,
n u m b e r 186 o F 400 s p e c i a L Ly-b o u n d c o p i e s, original leather, g.e.,
slip-case, 2008; and c.25 others, New Naturalist, including nice
copies of: 55, 56, 60, 62-3, v.s. (c.25). £150 – £200
199. D’Urban (W. S. M.) th e bi r d s o F de v o n, 1892 § Loyd
(Lewis R. W.) The Birds of South East Devon, 1929 § Davis (Peter)
A List of the Birds of Lundy, Lundy Field Society, 1954, plates
and illustrations, occasional foxing, the first three original cloth,
rubbed, the second with stained dust-jacket, the third original
wrappers; and c.70 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.75). £75 – £100
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Lot 200
200. David (Armand) and M.E. Oustalet. Le s o i s e a u x d e L a
ch i n e, 2 vol., 124 hand-coloured plates by M. Arnoul, small foreedge
stains in text vol. and inscription (probably a chop) erased
from title and half-title, some foxing and browning, original blue
cloth, scuffed and a bit soiled, first vol. with new endpapers, second
vol. rather roughly repaired, with Ronald Courtenay Witting’s
initals and collation note (dated March 1963) at front, royal 8vo,
Paris, Masson, 1877. £800 – £1200
201. Davis (William James) th e b i r d s o F ke n t, frontispiece,
folding map, original cloth, recased, Dartford, Davis, 1907 §
Kennedy (Alexander) The Birds of Berkshire & Buckinghamshire,
4 photographic plates, coloured by hand, original cloth, scuffed,
front inner joint repaired, [Goldschmidt , Truthful Lens, 96], Eton,
1868; and 2 others, 8vo and folio (4). £100 – £200
* * * The second mentioned is the first photographically illustrated
bird book.
202. Dharmakumarsinhji (R. S.) bi r d s o F sa u r a s h t r a,
Bhavnagar, [1954] § Ali (S.) The Birds of Sikkim, 1962 § Smythies
(B. E.) The Birds of Burma, second edition, Edinburgh, 1953,
plates, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.30 others, Birds in India,
v.s. (c.35). £60 – £80
203. Dole (Sanford) bi r d s o F t h e hawa i i a n i s L a n d s s e c o n d
e d i t i o n, original printed wrappers, [Forbes 3260, 6 copies],
Hononlulu, Thrum, 1879 § Hume (A.O.) My Scrap Book Oology
and Ornithology, all published, half leather, worn, Calcutta, 1869
§ Allouse (Bashir) Birds of Iraq, 3 vol., plates, wrappers, Baghdad,
1960-62; and others, similar, 8vo and 4to (22). £100 – £200
Lot 204
204. Dresser (H.E.) a h i s t o ry o F t h e b i r d s o F eu r o p e, 9 vol.,
First e d i t i o n, 723 lithograph plates (721 hand-coloured) after
Keulemans, Neale, Wolf and Thorburn, early issue, the first 5
vol. with temporary titles, the substitute pictorial titles bound
with the index as vol.6, the plates (apart from the supplement)
without the stamped numbers which were added later, first 8 vol.
in contemporary half green morocco, gilt, t.e.g., the last vol. added
and in slightly later half maroon morocco, t.e.g., [Anker 120; Fine
Bird Books p.92; Nissen IVB 267], large 4to, Privately published
for subscribers by the author, 1871-96. £5000 – £7000
205. Faber (Friedrich) pr o d r o m u s d e r i s L a n d i s c h e n or n i t h o L o g i e,
First e d i t i o n, half calf, bound for Aalborg Skole, with his stamp on
title and initials at base of spine (spine slightly wormed, text not
affected), 8vo, Copenhagen, 1822. £100 – £150
* * * The first book on the ornithology of Iceland; includes 2 pages
on the Great Auk. (“Dieser so seltene Vogel ”).

206. Fisher (A. K.) th e haw k s a n d ow L s o F t h e un i t e d stat e s,
25 chromolithograph plates, Washington, 1893 § Goss (N. S.) A
Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, Topeka, 1886 § Brandt
(Herbert) Alaska Bird Trails, colour plates by Allan Brookes and
others, Cleveland, 1943 § Wood (Charles) The Birds of Swan Point
Cemetery, plates, Providence, 1981, original cloth, the third in dustjacket;
and c.125 others, mostly Birds in America, v.s. (c.130).
£150 – £200
207. Forshaw (Joseph M.) au s t r a L i a n pa r r o t s, Melbourne,
1969; the same, second edition, Sydney, 1985 § Barrett (Charles)
Parrots of Australia, Melbourne, 1949 § Cayley (Neville) The
Fairy Wrens of Australia, 1949 § Hindwood (K. A.) and E. S.
Hoskin. The Waders of Sydney, Sydney, 1955, plates, all but the
last original cloth, dust-jackets, the last original cloth-backed
wrappers; and c.35 others, on Australasian Birds, v.s. (c.40).
£200 – £300
208. Forster (Thomas) ob s e rvat i o n o n t h e swa L L o w t r i b e, 5
wood-engraved plates by E. Willis, original boards, uncut, worn,
backstrip renewed, inscribed by the author to James Sowerby,
and with the Sowerby’s Museum inscription on title, 1817 § Blyth
(E.) The Natural History of the Cranes, 6 plates (2 coloured),
contemporary half cloth, J.H. Gurney’s copy, for the author, 1881 §
Grieve (Symington) The great Auk, plates, original cloth, scuffed,
1885; and others, cuckoo, etc., v.s. (21). £200 – £300
209. Frederick II, Emperor. de a rt e v e n a n d i c u m av i b u s, 2 vol.,
coloured facsimile of the ms. plus vol. of commentary, original calf
and half calf, slip-case, folio, Graz, 1969 § Russow (K.E.) Bruno
Liljefors, plates, original half morocco, gilt, dust-jacket a bit worn,
Stockholm, 1929; and four others, folio (7). £50 – £100
210. Gatke (Heinrich) he L i g o L a n d, Edinburgh, 1895 § Snow (D. W.,
editor) Proceedings of the XIV International Ornithological Congress,
Oxford, 1966 § Ratcliffe (D.) A Nature Conservation Review, 2 vol.,
1977 § Sibley (C. G.) Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World,
New Haven, 1990, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets; and
c.35 others, similar, v.s. (c.40). £75 – £100
211. Gladstone (Hugh S.) ha n d b o o k to Lo r d Li L F o r d’s co L o u r e d
Fi g u r e s, interesting A.L.s. from Howard Radclyffe about Lilford
loosely inserted, original cloth-backed printed boards, 1917; and 3
others, similar, 8vo & 4to (4). £60 – £80
212. Glegg (William E.) a hi s t o ry o F t h e bi r d s o F essex, 1929 §
Christy (Miller) The Birds of Essex, 2 copies, Chelmsford, 1890 §
Laver (H.) The Mammals, Reptiles and Fishes of Essex, Chelmsford,
1898, plates, original cloth; and c.30 others, including a run of the
Essex Naturalist (1888-1901), 8vo (c.35). £60 – £80
213. Gould (John) an i n t r o d u c t i o n to t h e b i r d s o F gr e at britain,
original cloth, inscribed by Gould to John Clarke Hawkshaw
(1847-1921, engineer) and with his bookplate, for the author, 1873
§ Catalogue of a Collection of Birds belonging to H.B. Tristram,
contemporary cloth, by Andrews of Durham, with his ticket, Osbert
Salvin’s copy, Durham, Advertiser Office, 1889; and 7 others, v.s.
(9). £150 – £200
214. Gould (John) mo n o g r a p h o F t h e pi t t i d æ, 1988; A Monograph
of the Ramphastidæ, 1988, full size facsimile reprints, colour plates,
original cloth, Melbourne, Hill House; and 13 others, by the same,
v.s. (15). £60 – £80
215. [Grant (Maurice Harold)] “Scolopax”. a bo o k o F
t h e sn i p e, 1904 § McKelvie (Colin Laurie) The Book of The
Woodcock, 1990 § Owen (Myrfyn) Wildfowl of Europe, 1977,
plates and illustrations, occasional foxing, original cloth or
boards, the last two with dust-jackets; and 8 others, similar, 8vo
& 4to (11). £60 – £80
216. Gray (George Robert) cata L o g u e o F t h e bi r d s o F t h e
tro p i c a L is L a n d s o F t h e paciFic oc e a n, original cloth-backed
boards, 1859 § Armstrong (J. S.) Hand-List to the Birds of Samoa,
original cloth, dust-jacket, 1932 § Hagen (Yngvar) Birds of
Tristan da Cunha, original wrappers, Oslo, 1952 § Ryssen (W. J.
van) The Birds of the Tristan da Cunha Group, original wrappers,
Cape Town, 1976 § Staub (F.) Birds of the Mascarenes, original
cloth, dust-jacket, Port Louis, Mauritius, [1976] § Bregulla (H.
L.) Birds of Vanuatu, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oswestry, 1992,
some with illustrations; and c.40 others, similar, 8vo (c.45).
£100 – £200
217. Gurney (J.H.) on t h e c o m pa r at i v e a g e s t o w h i c h b i r d s L i v e,
offprint, revised in ms. with a considerable number of additions
and corrections, binder’s cloth, with c.70 other offprints by the
same, probably bound for Dr Sydney H. Long, Hon. Sec. of the
Norfolk and Norwich, with his initials at base of spine, minor
wear, 8vo, 1867-1922. £100 – £200
218. Hachisuka (Masa U.) a co m pa r at i v e ha n d Li s t o F t h e bi r d s
o F Ja pa n a n d t h e british is L e s, Cambridge, 1925; A Handbook of
the Birds of Iceland, 1927; The Dodo and Kindred Birds, 1953,
the second and third mentioned with plates, original cloth, the
first and third with dust-jackets, 4to (3). £150 – £200
219. Hachikusa (Masa U.) va r i at i o n s a m o n g bi r d s (ch i e F Ly
gam e bi r d s), 1928; Birds of Jehol, 1935 § The Feathers of
Japanese Birds in Full Scale, text in Japanese, folding poster
loosely inserted, original cloth, 2004, colour plates, the first two
original printed wrappers, all Tokyo; and c.20 others, Japanese
Birds, v.s. (c.25). £100 – £200
220. Harting (J. E.) the bi r d s o F mi d d L e s e x, tinted lithographed
frontispiece, 1866 § Harrison (J. G.) Handbook of the Birds of
the Malvern District, Bickley, 1941 § Norris (C. A.) Notes on the
Birds of Warwickshire, Birmingham, 1947 § Peake (E.) Birds in a
Rectory Garden, Huntingdon, 1944, all but the last original cloth
or boards, the last original wrappers; and c.95 others, similar,
8vo (c.100). £75 – £100
221. Harting (J. E.) hi n t s o n t h e ma n a g e m e n t o F ha w k s ,
original boards, rebacked, 1884 § Michaelis (H. von) Birds of the
Gauntlet, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1952 § Upton (Roger) A Bird
in the Hand, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1980, illustrations, some
colour; and c.35 others, similar, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.40).
£60 – £80
222. Harting (J.E., editor) th e zo o L o g i s t, 67 vol. (including
duplicates), a L o n g iF b r o k e n r u n, plates, previous owners include
F. W. Frohawk, Miller Christie and Ronald Witting, various
bindings, 8vo, 1843-1916; sold as a periodical, not subject to
return. £100 – £200
* * * Comprises: first series vol. 1, 4-6, 17 & 19; second series vol.
2, 4-9 & 11; third series vol. 1, 3-4, 6-20 and fourth series vol.
1-20 (complete).
Important Books and Manuscripts
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223. Harvie-Brown (J.A.) sk e t c h o F t h e o r n i t h o L o g y o F t h e
L o w e r pe t c h o r a, offprint, ms. sketch map tipped in, leather,
rubbed, bound with 7 similar offprints, probably from Harvie-
Brown’s library (a bookplate has been removed), [HB 75], 8vo,
Glasgow, 1876. £200 – £300
* * * The others include: H. Seebohm and J.A. Harvie-Brown, Notes
on the Birds of the lower Petchora, 2 coloured plates of eggs, and
hand-coloured map, e x t r a-illustrated by the insertion of 4 fine
watercolours of eggs, 1876. This is HB 77 where it is noted that the
map did not appear in the original Ibis paper, and the 8pp. appendix
is also new. Following this is a ms. note of the recipients of 11
copies of what is probably this paper (though the source is not
correctly given); perhaps 12-15 copies were printed.
224. Harvie-Brown (J.A.) traveLs o F a nat u r a L i s t in no rt h e r n
eu r o p e: Norway, 1871; Archangel, 1872; Petchora, 1875, 2 vol.,
plates, maps and illustrations, half-titles, n.d. § Gurney (J. H.)
Rambles of a Naturalist in Egypt & other Countries, [1876] §
Moseley (H. N.) Notes by a Naturalist on the “Challenger”, 2 colour
plates, folding map, 1879, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little
rubbed; and 10 others, similar, 8vo (14). £100 – £150
225. Haverschmidt (F.) bi r d s o F su r i n a m, Edinburgh, 1968 § Sick
(Helmut) Birds in Brazil, Princeton, 1993 § Fjeldsa (Jon) Birds of
the High Andes, Copenhagen, 1990, plates, the first two original
cloth with dust-jackets, the last original boards; and c.90 others,
Birds in South America, v.s. (c.95). £75 – £100
226. Helm (Christopher).- a co L L e c t i o n o F t h e or n i t h o L o g i c a L
pu b L i c at i o n s o F ch r i s t o p h e r he L m (s o m e cr o o m he L m), 57 vol.,
plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, 1992-2007; and 14 others, Pica
Press, 8vo (71). £75 – £100
227. Hewitson (W.C.) co L o u r e d i L L u s t r at i o n s o F t h e e g g s o F
british b i r d s, 2 vol., tree calf, spines worn, bookplate of John
Clerk Brodie, 1846 § Morris (Rev. F.O.) A Natural History of the
Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., original green cloth, gilt,
bit worn, bookplate of Charles Sanderson, 1875, coloured plates,
8vo (5). £100 – £200
228. Holmberg (A.) and others. pa J a r o s s u d a m e r i c a n o s, n u m b e r xv
o F 24 c o p i e s, duplicate set of the plates, and an o r i g i n a l wat e r c o l o u r
b y ax e L am u c h a s t e g u i, heightened with gum arabic and signed, the
colophon signed by the authors, full red morocco, the separate plates
in a matching portfolio (front joint breaking), together in original slipcase,
folio, Buenos Aires, 1947. £300 – £400
229. Howard (H.E.) th e british wa r b L e r s, 2 vol. in the original
11 parts (1-9 + 6[*], 9*), 51 plain and 35 chromolithograph plates,
12 maps, original cloth-backed printed boards, [Anker 213; Nissen
454], royal 8vo, 1907-14. £200 – £300
230. Howard (H.E.) th e british wa r b L e r s, 2 vol. 51 plain and 35
chromolithograph plates, 12 maps, a large copy in modern cloth,
[a binding by Peter Tate], [Anker 213; Nissen 454], royal 8vo,
1907-14. (2j3). £50 – £100
231. Hoyo (Josep del) and others. ha n d b o o k o F t h e bi r d s o F t h e
wo r L d, vol.1-13, Barcelona, 1992-2008 § Cramp (Stanley) and
others. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North
Africa, vol.1-9, Oxford, 1977-94, plates, original cloth, dust-jackets;
and c.130 others, on Birds, v.s. (c.150). £100 – £200
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
232. Hudson (W.H.) on L i b e r at i n g c a g e d b i r d s, coloured
illustration by Gronvold, first issue with address at 23 Queen’s
Gate, [Payne A32a], RSPB, [1914]; Roff and a Linnet, [Payne
A35a], Humanitarian League, 1918, First e d i t i o n s, wrappers, F r o m
de n t, t h e p u b L i s h e r’s a r c h i v e, marked up in pencil for publication
in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ 1920; and 9 others, by the same, 2 with the
same provenance, 8vo and 4to £100 – £150
233. Im Thurn (Everard F.) bi r d s o F ma r L b o r o u g h, H. W. Feilden’s
copy with bookplate, Marlborough, 1870 § Whitaker (J.) Notes on the
Birds of Nottinghamshire, Rowland Ward’s copy with his bookplate,
Nottingham, 1907 § Chislett (Ralph) Birds on the Spurn Peninsula,
part 1 [all published], original wrappers, Hull, 1958, all but the last
original cloth; and c.10 others, similar, 8vo (c.15). £50 – £100
234. Ingersoll (Ernest) bi r d s in Le g e n d, Fa b L e a n d Fo L k L o r e,
1923 § Hulme (F. E.) Natural History, Lore and Legend, 1895 §
Swainson (C.) Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds,
1885, the first two original cloth, the last binder’s cloth, scuffed; and
c.50 others, similar, 8vo & folio (c.55). £60 – £80
235. Ingram (Geoffrey C. S.) and H. Morrey Salmon. bi r d s
o F gL a m o r g a n, original wrappers, ‘with the author’s compliments’
inscribed on upper cover, Cardiff, William Lewis, 1936 § Buxton
(John) and R. M. Lockley. Island of Skomer, original cloth,
dust-jacket, 1950 § Lockley (R. M.) and others. The Birds of
Pembrokeshire, original cloth, Cardiff, [1949], plates, occasional
spotting; and c.30 others, Welsh birds, many pamphlets, v.s.
(c.30). £60 – £80
236. Irby (L.H.) th e o r n i t h o L o g y o F t h e s t r a i t s o F gi b r a Lta r
s e c o n d e d i t i o n, r e v i s e d a n d e n L a r g e d, 8 chromolithograph plates
after Thorburn, 6 plain plates mostly after Willoughby Verner, 2
folding maps, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., joints repaired,
folio, 1895; and the W.H. Mullens copy of the first edition, original
cloth, 1875, folio and 8vo £200 – £300
* * * The first edition has the same 2 maps, but no other
illustrations.
237. Iredale (Tom) bi r d s o F ne w gu i n e a, 2 vol., colour plates by
Lilian Medland, original half leather, slip-case, Melbourne, 1956 §
Ogilvie-Grant (W.R.) Report on the Birds collected in Dutch New
Guinea, 8 colour plates, original wrappers, Ibis Supl., 1915; and 3
others, v.s. (6). £100 – £150
238. Jackson (Christine Elizabeth) bi r d iL L u s t r ato r s, n u m b e r
7 o F 45 s p e c i a L Ly-b o u n d c o p i e s s i g n e d b y t h e a u t h o r, and with
the title-vignette printed in blue, original half morocco, 1975 §
Heilmann (Gerhard) The Origin of Birds, plates, original cloth,
1926 § Keulemans (Tony) Feathers to Brush, limited edition,
colour plates, original half morocco, Deventer, 1982; and c.85
others, similar, v.s. (c.90). £75 – £100
239. Jackson (Christine Elizabeth) di c t i o n a ry o F bi r d art i s t s
o F t h e wo r L d, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Woodbridge,
1999; and c.30 others, miscellaneous, v.s. (c.30). £60 – £80
240. Jardine (Sir William) hu m m i n g-b i r d s, 2 vol., 1833 § Selby
(P.J.) Parrots, 1836, hand-coloured plates, those in the second
mostly after Edward Lear, original cloth, uncut, trifle worn,
Edinburgh, Naturalist’s Library; and 14 others, Naturalist’s Library,
ornithology (17). £300 – £400

241. Jardine (Sir William) and others. th e n at u r a L i s t’s L i b r a ry;
i c h t h y o L o g y 6 vol., complete set, hand-coloured engraved plates,
original cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1835-43. £250 – £350
242. Jardine (Sir William) and others. th e n at u r a L i s t’s L i b r a ry;
e n t o m o L o g y 7 vol., complete set, includes ‘Bees’, hand-coloured
engraved plates, original cloth, 2 vol. a bit worn, 8vo, Edinburgh,
1835-41. £250 – £350
243. Jardine (Sir William) and others. th e n at u r a L i s t’s L i b r a ry;
m a m m a L i a 13 vol., complete set, includes ‘whales’ & ‘dogs’ 2 vol.,
hand-coloured engraved plates, original cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh,
1833-42. £250 – £350
244. Jardine (Sir William) and others. ma g a z i n e o F z o o L o g y a n d
b o ta n y, 2 vol., all published under this title, 33 engraved plates
(1-18 +1* xvi 2; 1-13), some hand-coloured, including a double
plate of Victoria regia, few margins just trimmed, old cloth, worn,
not uniform, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1837-38. £150 – £200
* * * Vol.1 contains a paper by J.S. Henslow, Description of two new
species of Opuntia, pp.466-69 + pl. XIV, drawn by Henslow and
engraved by Lizars. “I have named this interesting cactus after my
friend C. Darwin Esq., who has recently returned to England, after
a five year absence, on board his HMS Beagle ”; both of the cacti
are from the Galapagos, and this is among the earliest publications
of any of the Beagle material.
245. Jourdain (F.C.R.) th e t r u t h a b o u t t h e k i t e, 2 leaves,
privately printed, 1932 § Goodwin (Derek) and Beryl Patricia Hall.
Bird Room Ballads, [32]pp., without the 2pp. typescript postscript
in the Tring copy, wrappers, [printed for the authors], [1969] §
Witherby (Diana) The Heat and the Cold, cloth, dust-jacket,
inscribed and with a letter (to Darling Tony [Witherby]; “I was
full of dismay when I heard that old Cyril was determined to review
it.”) inserted, 1965; and others, including a spoof issue of British
Birds, an imperfect but heavily annotated list of birds, with a letter
from G.M. Mathews to ? dear Gordon inserted, an odd part of the
8vo Meyer, etc. etc., v.s.; sold not subject to return (c. 40).
£100 – £200
246. Krause (Georg) oo L o g i a u n i v e r s a L i s pa L a e a r c t i c a, 78
parts, all published, 158 chromolithograph plates, loose in original
wrappers, one or two detached at spine, in two cloth slip-cases,
4to, Stuttgart, [1906-13]. £800 – £1200
247. Lack (David) is L a n d bi o L o g y i L L u s t r at e d b y t h e L a n d
b i r d s o F Ja m a i c a, Oxford , 1976 § Ffrench (Richard) A Guide to
the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, Wynnewood, Penn., 1973 §
Paterson (Andrew) Birds of the Bahamas, Vermont, 1972 § Bond
(James) Check-List of Birds of the West Indies, second edition,
Philadelphia, 1945, all but the last with illustrations, occasional
spotting, all but the last original cloth with dust-jackets, the last
original cloth-backed boards; and c.15 others, similar, 8vo (c.20).
£40 – £60
248. Lloyd (L.) sc a n d i n av i a n a d v e n t u r e s, 2 vol., coloured map,
12 tinted plates, long inscription from the author to Admiral Sir
Charles Napier “ in hopes that after he has muzzled the Russian bear
”, 1854; The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway,
second edition, folding map in pocket, 48 chromolithograph and 4
woodcut plates, 1867, original green cloth, gilt, shaken and a bit
worn, 8vo (3). £150 – £200
249. Loche (Victor) cata L o g u e d e s m a m m i F e r e s e t d e s o i s e a u x
o b s e rv e s e n aL g e r i e, contemporary half red morocco, bound at
the end a relevant offprint with 2 hand-coloured plates, inscribed
by the author to ? Aronthomages “Premier Lieutenant” in
Algeria, later acquired by F.C.R. Jourdain, with his signature,
Paris, [1858] § Finsch (Otto) On a Collection of Birds from
North-Eastern Abyssinia with notes by the collector, William
Jesse, folding map, 4 hand-coloured plates, recent cloth, 1869,
8vo and 4to (2). £100 – £200
250. Lubbock (Richard) obs e rvat i o n s o n t h e Fa u n a o F
nor F o L k, Norwich, 1845; another edition, 1879 § Emerson (P.
H.) Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, 1895,
plates, original cloth, the first worn; and c.15 others, similar,
Patterson etc., 8vo (c.20). £60 – £80
251. [Martinet (F.N.) histoire d e s o i s e a u x, p e i n t s d a n s t o u s
L e u r s a s p e c t s,] 46 charming hand-coloured plates (only),
English calf, worn, front cover off, name W. Bucklow at base of
spine, [Paris, c. 1790] § du Bus (Bernard, Vicomte) Esquisses
Ornithologiques, Liv. 2-4 (lacking the first part), 32 handcoloured
plates only (6-37), loose in original printed wrappers,
Brussels, 1846-48 § Jardine (Sir William) Contributions to
Ornithology for 1851 (1852), 2 vol. in 1, 12 plates (2 coloured)
+ 20 plates (6 coloured), several trimmed, binder’s cloth,
wrapper bound at end, Edinburgh, 1851-52; and 6 others, all
with coloured plates, v.s.; sold not subject to return (11).
£150 – £200
252. Meinertzhagen (Col. R.) pir at e s a n d pr e d at o r s, plates,
Edinburgh, 1959 § Delacour (Jean) The Pheasants of the World,
colour plates by J. C. Harrison, 1951, original cloth, dustjackets;
and 5 others, by Delacour, 4to (7). £100 – £150
253. Moulton (J. C.) gui d e t o t h e co L L e c t i o n o F bo r n e a n
bir d s, plates, original cloth bound at the ‘Sarawak Gazette’
Office on 22/07/1914 with label on front pastedown, stained,
[Kuching], Sarawak printing office, 1914 § Ogilvie-Grant (W.
R.) Report on the Birds Dutch New Guinea, colour plates,
binder’s cloth, Ibis, 1915 § Smythies (B. E.) The Birds of
Borneo, colour plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Edinburgh,
1960; another copy, second edition, colour plates, original
cloth, dust-jacket, Edinburgh, 1968; and c.10 others, similar,
8vo (c.15). £100 – £200
254. Mullens (W.H.) and others. a g e o g r a p h i c a L b i b L i o g r a p h y
o F british o r n i t h o L o g y, F.c.r. Jo u r d a i n’s c o p y, with his
detailed and meticulous annotation, binder’s cloth, 1920 §
Morris (Rev. F.O.) Letters to the “Times” about Birds, etc.,
original cloth, scuffed, [1879] § Witherby (H.F.) Forest Birds,
plates, original cloth, the author’s copy, with his bookplate,
and a letter to him inserted, 1894 § Ennion (E.A.R.) and N.
Tinbergen. Tracks, plates, cloth, dust-jacket, letter from Ennion
to “Dear Mr. Tate” inserted, Oxford, 1967; and 11 others, 8vo
(15). £100 – £200
255. Pashley (H. N.) not e s o n t h e bi r d s o F cL e y, no r F o L k,
F.c.r. Jo u r d a i n’s c o p y with his monogram, 1925 § Riviere (B.
B.) A History of the Birds of Norfolk, 1930 § Taylor (Moss)
Guardian Spirit of the East Bank R. A. Richardson, Sherringham,
2002, plates, original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets; and
c.70 others, similar, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.75).
£100 – £200
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256. Paton (E. Richmond) th e bi r d s o F ha r e s h aw m u i r, revised
and reprinted, map, original wrappers, Kilmarnock, 1925 § Gray
(Robert) The Birds of the West of Scotland, tinted lithographed
plates, spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn, lacking front
free endpaper, Glasgow, 1871 § St. John (Charles) Note Books
1846-1853, illustrations, original cloth, Edinburgh, 1901 § Baxter
(Evelyn V.) The Geographical Distribution and Status of Birds
in Scotland, map, original cloth, dust-jacket, nibbled and soiled,
Edinburgh, 1928 § Harvey-Brown (J. A.) 2nd-9th Report on the
Migration of Birds, one inscribed by W. E. Clarke to G. E. Lodge,
original wrappers, worn, 1881-89; and c.40 others, on Birds
in Scotland, including vol. 1-11 of Scottish Birds 1958-81, v.s.
(c.45). £200 – £300
257. Pearson (H.J.) be y o n d pe t s o r a e a s t wa r d; th r e e s u m m e r s
a m o n g t h e b i r d s o F ru s s i a n La p L a n d, 2 vol., plates, original green
cloth, gilt, nice copies, 1899-1904; and 3 others, similar, 8vo and
4to (5). £200 – £300
258. Peters (James Lee) and others. ch e c k-List o F t h e bi r d s o F
t h e wo r L d, 17 vol. (a complete set including the only vol. published
of the second edition), original cloth, Cambridge, Ma., 1931-87 §
Thorpe (Adrian) The Birds of Edward Lear, limited edition, colour
plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, torn, The Ariel Press, 1975 §
Ripley (S. Dillon) Rails of the World, colour plates, original cloth,
dust-jacket, Boston, 1977; and c.180 others, on Birds, v.s. (c. 200).
£150 – £200
259. Peterson (Roger Tory) th e Fi e L d gu i d e art, 2 vol., Boston
& New York, 1990 § Andrade (Carlos Selva) Love Life of the Birds,
Buenos Aires, 1952 § Fleming (C.A.) George Edward Lodge:
Unpublished Bird Paintings, 1983, plates and illustrations, some
colour, original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets; and c.20
others, similar, folio & large 4to (c.25). £100 – £150
260. Pollard (H.B.C.) wi L d F o w L & wa d e r s, colour plates by Frank
Southgate, original vellum-backed boards, 1928 § Arnold (E. C.)
British Waders, colour plates, original cloth, a little stained, dustjacket,
rubbed, Cambridge, 1924 § Howard (Eliot) A Waterhen’s
World, plates by Lodge, original cloth, dust-jacket, Cambridge,
1940; and 19 others, similar, v.s. (22). £100 – £150
261. Poyser (Trevor and Anna, publishers) an e x t e n s i v e
c o L L e c t i o n o F t h e i r b o o k s o n b i r d s, 85 vol., plates, original cloth
with the distinctive white ground dust-jackets, 8vo & folio, 1973-
84. £400 – £600
262. Prentis (Walter) no t e s o n t h e bi r d s o F ra i n h a m, 1854
§ Ticehurst (Norman F.) A History of the Birds of Kent, plates,
Rowland Ward’s copy with his bookplate, 1909, original cloth; and
c.25 others, similar, some pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.30). £60 – £80
263. Read (Robert H.) List o F b i r d s o F t h e L o w e r br e n t va L L e y,
28pp., drophead title, bound with four others (one with 2 handcoloured
plates by Keulemans), contemporary calf, worn, 8vo,
[Ealing], from 19th Report of Ealing Natural Science Soc.,
[1896]. £50 – £100
* * * Not in M&S or Ballance; only the NHM copy on Copac, with
a slightly different title.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
264. Ridgway (Robert) bi r d s o F t h e ga L a pa g o s ar c h i p e L a g o,
binder’s cloth, original wrappers bound in, Washington, 1896 §
Eiseley (Loren) Galapagos: the Flow of Wildness, 2 vol., colour
photographic illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, slip-case,
Sierra Club, Ca., [1968]; and 7 others, on the Galapagos, v.s. (10).
£100 – £150
265. Salomonsen (Finn) gr o n L a n d s F u g L e; t h e b i r d s o F gr e e n L a n d,
52 coloured plates by Aage Gitz-Johansen, folding coloured map,
original blue cloth, stamped in red to a design by the artist, a little
rubbed, folio, Copenhagen, 1950-51. £200 – £300
Lot 266
266. Seebohm (Henry) or n i t h o L o g i c a L n o t e b o o k, may 1860
to Ju n e 1866 120pp. text, with 20pp. index, c.20 sketches, by
Seebohm (one coloured) and a number of feather samples pasted
in, contemporary vellum, gilt., g.e., loosely inserted a description
of another volume of the diary, 1869-72, identically bound, for sale
with the Traylens in the 1980s (priced £4,500, but with 12 coloured
drawings), 4to, 1869-72. £1200 – £1800
* * * An absolutely charming manuscript, mostly birding in
Northern England; Sheffield, Derby, etc., with a visit to Norwich.
The sketches include a number of musical examples of bird song.
267. Seebohm (Henry) co L o u r e d Fi g u r e s o F t h e eg g s o F british
bi r d s, Sheffield, 1896 § Butler (A. G.) Birds’ Eggs of the British
Isles, a little stained, considerable annotation perhaps by H. E.
Marshall, 1907, colour plates of Birds’ Eggs, original cloth, the
second worn; and 5 others, on Birds’ Eggs, v.s. (7). £60 – £80

268. Seebohm (Henry) a m o n o g r a p h o F t h e tu r d i d a e o r Fa m iLy
o F t h r u s h e s, 2 vol., portrait, 149 hand-coloured lithographs by
Keulemans, contemporary half scarlet morocco, t.e.g., minor
scuffing but in nice state, A.J. Dearden’s copy (of Walcot Hall,
Stamford, Lincs; he had a large ornithological collection, the best
of which was sold at Hodgsons in 1963), with his signature dated
1924, and cutting from (probably) his purchase tipped in (it cost 14
guineas), 4to, [1899-1902]. £2000 – £3000
269. Selous (Edmund) th e bi r d wat c h e r in t h e sh e t L a n d s, 1905
§ Saxby (Henry L.) The Birds of Shetland, Edinburgh, 1874 §
Wiglesworth (J.) St. Kilda and Its Birds, Liverpool, 1903 § Duncan
(Neil) and others. The Boreray 1980 Expedition, typescript, 1981,
plates and illustrations, occasional foxing, the first two original
gilt pictorial cloth, the third contemporary half morocco, the
last original wrappers (faded); and c.70 others, similar, many
pamphlets, v.s. (c.75). £60 – £80
270. Sharpe (R.B.) a m o n o g r a p h o F t h e aL c e d i n a e: o r Fa m iLy
o F k i n g F i s h e r s, plain plate of detail, coloured map of family
relationships (trimmed), 137 hand-coloured plates only (of 140,
lacking pls.26, 43 & 112, these supplied in plain facsimile), some
foxing, old half roan, 4to, published by the author, 1868-71.
£800 – £1200
271. Sharpe (R.B.) cata L o g u e o F t h e passeriFormes o r p e r c h i n g
b i r d s in t h e coLLection o F t h e british mu s e u m. Fr i n g iL L i F o r m e s:
pa rt i & iii [o n Ly] 2 vol., 28 hand-coloured lithographs, some by
Keulemans, original brown cloth, Cat. Birds, X & XII, 1885-88 § Lynes
(H.) Review of the Genus Cisticola, 2 vol., coloured plates, cloth, not
uniform, 1930; and others, including 8 vol. of The Naturalists’ Library,
8vo; sold not subject to return (24). £150 – £200
Lot 268
Lot 272
272. Sharpe (R.B.) and CW Wyatt. a m o n o g r a p h o F t h e
hi r u n d i n i d a e o r Fa m iLy o F swa L L o w s, 2 vol., 103 hand-coloured
plates, 26 partly coloured maps, 15 double-page tables, last few
leaves of index a little soiled but generally a clean copy in later half
brown leather, t.e.g., 4to, 1885-94. £2500 – £3000
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Lot 273
273. Sharpe (R.B.) and others. cata L o g u e o F t h e b i r d s in t h e
british mu s e u m, 27 vol., 387 coloured plates (214 hand-coloured,
rest very skilful chromolithographs) mostly by Keulemans, 3 vol.
with library stamps on plate versos (one of these an official copy,
with BM stamps), vol.14 with ink spots on fore-edge, a made up
but respectable set, original cloth, some wear, vol.3 rebacked, 8vo,
1874-98. £1000 – £1500
* * * A complete set, rare thus.
274. Sharpe (R. B.) and others. buLLetin o F t h e british
or n i t h o L o g i s t s’ cL u b, vol. 1-62, original cloth, the 2 Migration vol.
in half calf, 1893-1941 § British Trust for Ornithology. Bird Study,
vol.1-43 in 32, binder’s cloth, some later vol. rather amateur, 1954-
1996; and c.15 others, similar, 8vo (c.100). £60 – £80
275. Simpson (Francis) FL o r a o F su F F o L k, Ipswich, 1982 § Petch (Dr.
C. P.) Flora of Norfolk, 2 vol. including supplement, Norwich, 1968-
75 § Jermy (S. T.) Flora of Essex, Colchester, 1974, plates, supplement
in original wrappers, the rest original cloth with dust-jackets; and c.80
others, similar, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.85). £60 – £80
276. Skinner (E.R.) [List o F t h e b i r d s o F british in d i a], [iv],
44pp., lacking the front wrapper, with title, loose, staples rusting,
annotation of Indian taken species, with clutch sizes, the list
clearly used as a template to sell eggs, St. Mary Cray (printed in
Nottingham), 1905 § Catalogue (List) of birds’ eggs in the collection
of Philip Crowley, 96pp., original printed wrappers, [only the
NHM copy on Copac], Croydon, 1883; and 6 others, similar, 8vo
(8). £100 – £200
* * * Skinner was probably Kenneth L. Skinner trading as an egg
dealer under his father’s name (he is listed in the trade section for
birds’ eggs in Upcott Gill’s Naturalists Directory 1902-03); Cole,
pp. 51-2. .
277. Skutch (A. F.) LiFe o F t h e ta n a g e r, 1989; Life of the
Woodpecker, 1985, plates, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.20
others, some by the same, v.s. (c.20). £60 – £80
278. Slater (H.H.) ma n u a L o F t h e b i r d s o F ic e L a n d, 3 plates,
coloured map, original cloth, F.C.R. Jourdain’s copy with his
monogram on endpaper, and notes, Edinburgh, 1901; and 4 others,
similar, 8vo (5). £100 – £150
279. Smith (A.C.) th e bi r d s o F wiLtshire, 1887 § Arnold (E. C.)
Birds of Eastbourne, Eastbourne, 1936 § Taverner (J. H.) Wildfowl
in Hampshire, Winchester, 1962, original cloth, the last with dustjacket;
and 12 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (15). £60 – £80
280. Snow (David) th e co t i n g a s, 1982 § Goodwin (Derek)
Crows of the World, 1986; Estrildid Finches, 1982; Pigeons and
Doves, 1983, colour plates, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.155
others, similar, including 12 vol. of the OUP Bird Families series,
v.s. (c.160). £300 – £400
281. Sterland (W. J.) th e bi r d s o F sh e rw o o d Fo r e s t, 4 lithograph
plates, 3 hand-coloured, original cloth, scuffed, 1869; Descriptive
List of the Birds of Nottinghamshire, inscribed, original cloth,
stained, Mansfield, 1879 § Robson (Thomas) Birds of the Derwent
Valley, later cloth, Consett, 1896 § A Selection of the Birds of
Teesmouth, original wrappers, Stockton, 1965; and c.70 others,
similar, many pamphlets, v.s. (c.75). £100 – £200
282. Stevenson (H.) th e bi r d s o F no r F o L k, 3 vol., portrait, 4
hand-coloured plates, 4 tinted lithograph views, a nice copy in
full dark green morocco, t.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf,
minor rubbing, 8vo, 1866-90. £150 – £200
283. Strickland (M. J.) a gu i d e to t h e bi r d s o F ba h r a i n,
duplicated, Muharraq, R.O.A.C. Press, 1969 § Adamian (M. S.) A
Field Guides to the Birds of Armenia, Yerevan, 1997 § Shirihai (H.)
The Birds of Israel, San Diego, 1996 § Gallagher (M.) The Birds
of Oman, 1980, illustrations, the first two original wrappers, the
rest original cloth with dust-jackets; and c.55 others, similar, v.s.
(c.60). £75 – £100
284. Swayne (Major H. G. C.) th r o u g h t h e hi g h L a n d s o F si b e r i a,
plates and map, original cloth, rubbed, Rowland Ward, 1904 §
Hagerup (A. T.) The Birds of Greenland, original wrappers, spine
repaired with tape, Boston, 1891 § Levick (G. M.) Natural History
of the Adélie Penguin, plates, original wrappers, 1915 § O’Brien
(R.) Report of the University of Dundee: North East Greenland
Expedition 1972, original wrappers, Dundee, [1973]; and c.35
others, similar, v.s. (c.40). £100 – £200

Lot 285
285. Sweet (Robert) th e british wa r b L e r s, 16 hand-coloured
plates, issue of the text with final signature E2 [pp. 45-48] which
has short descriptions of plates 10-16 but the names do not agree
with the fuller text placed opposite the plates, and this was perhaps
intended to be cancelled, half calf, worn, bound at the end 2pp.
from a letter apparently from Sweet (perhaps a copy) “as soon as
I can procure the remainder of the species I intend to have them
figured and will then publish the second part ”, inscription “Altena
Palace library” on flyleaf and signature (trimmed) on title of Sarah
Anne Bright, 8vo, for the author, 1823. £150 – £200
286. Swinhoe (Robert) th e nat u r a L hi s t o ry o F ha i n a n 7 parts
in 1 vol., nonce collection, 5 coloured plates (4 coloured by hand),
original printed boards, worn, inscribed by the author to Tegetmeier
(1816-1912, pigeon fancier) with a letter and Swinhoe’s obituary
inserted, 8vo, 1871. £100 – £150
* * * “I was at the Crystal Palace I enjoyed myself but could not get
the Pigeons to coo much.”
287. Tait (William C.) th e bi r d s o F po rt u g a L, 1924 § Verner
(Willoughby) My Life Among the Wild Birds in Spain, 1909;
The Natural History Diaries, Otley, 2002 § Partida (Fernando
Barrios) Nomads of the Strait of Gibraltar, Tarifa, 2007, plates and
illustrations, occasional spotting, the first three original cloth, the
last original boards, the third with dust-jacket, all slightly rubbed;
and c.30 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.35). £60 – £80
288. Tunnicliffe (C. F.).- Calcraft (Helen) un c L e da n’s
bi r d bo o k, original cloth, endpapers and mounted front cover
illustration by C. F. Tunnicliffe, [1944] § Priestley (Mary) A Book
of Birds, illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe, original cloth with rare
dust-jacket misprinting artist’s name as ‘Tunnycliffe’, wrapper
defective in places, 1937 § Lockley (R. M.) The Cinnamon Bird,
colour plates by Tunnicliffe, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1948 §
Tunnicliffe (C. F.) Shorelands Summer [& Winter] Diary, 2 vol.,
original cloth, dust-jackets, 1952-92; and c.20 others, illustrated by
the same, v.s. (c.25). £150 – £200
289. Vaurie (C.) ti b e t a n d i t s b i r d s, n u m b e r 4 o F 65 speciaL
c o p i e s, signed by the author, and with a note from the publisher to
PT about dinner with Vaurie, original half red morocco, gilt, t.e.g.,
by Sangorski, 1972; and a copy of the standard edition, in dustjacket,
8vo (2). £100 – £200
290. Vorobyov (K. A.) bi r d s o F t h e ussuriski re g i o n, colour
plates, Moscow, 1954 § Sevastyanov (A.) The Physiology of Birds,
Tallin, 1967, texts in Russian, original cloth; and 48 others, Russian
Birds, v.s. (c.50). £40 – £60
291. White (Gilbert) th e nat u r a L hi s t o ry a n d an t i q u i t i e s o F
se L b o r n e First e d i t i o n, 2 engraved vignette titles, 7 engraved
plates, several folding, Halifax Circulating Library label, dated
1816, on front pastedown and their stamp on plates, later label of
the Halifax Lit. & Phil., the book soiled in places, and the plates
rubbed and with slight loss at the folds, half calf, worn, rebacked
and furbished, 4to, 1789. £500 – £700
292. White (Gilbert) th e n at u r a L h i s to ry a n d a n t i q u i t i e s o F se L b o r n e
n e w e d i t i o n, 2 vignettes, 10 engraved plates (1 hand-coloured), half
russia, gilt, repaired, 4to, 1813; and 5 others, early White (includes
the first volume only of the large paper issue of the mentioned item,
limited to 50 copies), 8vo and 4to (6). £150 – £200
293. White ( Gilbert) th e nat u r a L hi s t o ry a n d an t i q u i t i e s o F
se L b o r n e, edited by Thomas Bell. 2 vol., First issue with the Greek
and Latin quotations incorrectly given at p.xvii, 1877; another
edition, L a r g e pa p e r c o p y, second issue with the Greek and Latin
quotations correctly given at p.xi, and the list of contents reprinted to
agree, 1877; another edition, edited by Grant Allen, illustrations by
E. H. New, 2 copies, uncut, 1900; another edition, colour plates by G.
E. Collins, 1911, all original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.80 others,
by or about Gilbert White, v.s. (c.85). £200 – £300
Lot 294
294. White (Gilbert) an at t r a c t i v e c o L L e c t i o n o F m at e r i a L
g at h e r e d b y r.b.sh a r p e F o r h i s e d i t i o n o F wh i t e’s se L b o u r n e.
2 vol., comprising: portfolio: c.15 letters, c.15 contemporary
photographs of Selbourne and surrounds, and c.10 plates (4
engravings from the first edition, a proof of a Keulemans plate from
Sharpe’s edition, etc.), modern plastic loose leaf folder; Notebook,
c.120 pp., notes and transcripts by or for Sharpe, including White
wills, church warden’s accounts, etc., cloth-backed binding a bit
worn, 4to and 8vo, [c. 1895-1905]. £300 – £500
* * * “Dear Dr. Sharpe, In order to ascertain whether Mr. Holt White
has taken extracts from the unpublished Pennant Letters direct from
the MS or had simply copied then from your book, I have collated
several of the said extracts as you wished and have found several
instances of slight errors in your book, occuring again in his ” Eva
J Jeayes, British Museum, 1902, other correspondents include J.E.
Harting and W.H. Hudson (2). We reproduce the photograph of the
The Annual Court [Leet] meeting.
Sharpe “paid many visits to the district of Selborne and became so
enamoured of the spot that he purchased a small piece of ground in
the neighbourhood and there built himself a cottage ” - obituary of
RBS, included with the lot.
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295. Wilkinson (E. S.) sh a n g h a i bi r d s, 1929; The Shanghai
Bird Year, 1935 § Touche (J. D. D. la) A Handbook of the Birds of
Eastern China, 2 vol., 1925-34 § Caldwell (H. & J.) South China
Birds, [2 copies], stamped 339 ?limitation, [1931], plates, some
colour, all original cloth, rubbed, the last in dust-jacket, all but the
third Shanghai; and c.20 others, Birds in China, v.s. (c.25).
£200 – £300
296. Witherby (H.F., editor) british bi r d s, vol.1-98, 1907-2005
§ Alauda: Revue internationale d’Ornithologie. vol.24-64 in 29,
Paris, 1956 -95 L’Oiseau et la Revue Française d’Ornithologie,
vol.26-50 in 27, Paris, 1956-80, plates, mostly binder’s cloth, a
few of the later vol. loose in cases, 8vo; sold not subject to return
(c.160). £100 – £200
297. Witherby (H.F.) and others. th e ha n d b o o k o F british bi r d s,
5 vol., First e d i t i o n, 1938-41 § Lack (David) Darwin’s Finches,
Cambridge, 1947; Population Studies of Birds, Oxford, 1966;
Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds, 1968 § Huntley
(Brian) and others. A Climatic Atlas of European Breeding Birds,
Durham, 2007, illustrations, all but the last original cloth with
dust-jackets, the last original boards; and c.150 others, on Birds,
v.s. (c. 160). £200 – £300
* * * The first mentioned is rarely found in such good condition.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Other Properties
298. Bird Stamps. ch r i s t i n e Ja c k s o n’s o w n c o L L e c t i o n o F b i r d
stamps, 21 York & Byron stamp albums, the stamps arranged in
systematic order (vol.1 Struthioniformes to Pelecanifromes; vol. 21
Fringillidae to Ploceidae), upwards of 5800 mint stamps mounted
in Howid strips, together with some ancilliary material, c.1970-
2003. (box). £2500 – £3000
* * * Could justly be called the definitive collection, since Christine
Jackson wrote the first book on the subject; Collecting Bird Stamps,
Witherby, 1977 and all the illustrations in the book are from the
present collection. Also included are the manuscript and proofs of
her book (and correspondence with the publisher), the bronze medal
and certificate awarded by the British Philatelic Society, several other
books on the subject, including those by Eliasson and Lanspeary,
packets of commemorative stamps issued by the GPO and the US
postal authorities (US BIrds; WIldlife America) and some used bird
stamps. A more detailed description is available on request.
Lot 298
299. [Bowdich (Sarah)] ta x i d e r m y F o r t h e u s e o F m u s e u m s a n d
traveLLers, second edition, 5 engraved plates, recent half cloth,
bit browned, 1821 § Clancey (P.A.) Gamebirds of Southern Africa,
coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket a bit worn, Cape Town,
1967; and others, similar, 8vo and 4to (14). £50 – £100
Lot 300
300. Donovan (Edward) th e nat u r a L hi s t o ry o F british bi r d s,
vol.1-5 only in 3 (of 10), 124 hand-coloured engraved plates, plates
generally clean but foxing and light offsetting to text, bookplate of
James Coates Sowerby on front pastedowns, contemporary green
straight-grain morocco, gilt, spines gilt with morocco labels, g.e.,
rubbed, spines a little faded, [Nissen 257], 8vo, for the Author,
1799. £2000 – £3000

301. [Dresser (H.E.) th e bi r d s o F eu r o p e], 87 hand-coloured
plates only (46 plovers etc; 41 ducks etc.), by Keulemans, disbound,
in two brown paper parcels, ex-Quaritch, marked up in Howard
Radclyffe’s hand, 4to, [1871-96]. (2). £100 – £200
302. [Gould (John) th e bi r d s o F eu r o p e] 8 uncoloured lithographs
by Edward Lear, disbound, blank margin of one plate damaged,
folio, [1832-37]. £50 – £100
Lot 303
303. Gould (John) th e bi r d s o F asia, vol.1, 2 & 3 only, First
e d i t i o n s, 229 hand-coloured plates by Gould, H.C. Richter and W.
Hart, vol.1 plate list with closed tear, plate 10 and opposite text
leaf with repaired tear, one or two plates stained, vol.2 plate 43
with closed tear approx 85mm. long, all with occasional foxing
and offsetting and a few small closed tears to edges, Wadhwan
State private library bookplate on front pastedowns, paper label
on spines and ink shelf number on title, contemporary morocco,
t.e.g., rubbed, [Nissen, 368; Fine Bird Books, p.78; Anker 178;
Wood p.365], folio, by the Author, 1850-83.
£15000 – £20000
* * * Vol. 1 (76 plates): Birds of Prey, Owls, Swifts, Swallows, Beeeaters,
Kingfishers, Rollers, Eurylaimes and Trogons.
Vol. 2 (75 plates): Pericrocoti, Flycatchers, Sun-birds, Nuthatches,
Tits and Orioles.
Vol. 3 (78 plates): Thrushes, Phyllornis, Bluebirds, Garrulaxes,
Suthoras and Paradoxornis.
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304. [Gould (John) a mo n o g r a p h o F t h e ra m p h a s t i d a e o r Fa m iLy
o F to u c a n s], 20 uncoloured lithographs, 8 by Edward Lear, some
imprints trimmed, disbound, folio, [1852-54]. £60 – £120
305. Gould (John) an in t r o d u c t i o n to t h e tr o c h i L i d æ, o r Fa m iLy
o F hu m m i n g bi r d s, First s e pa r at e e d i t i o n, p r e s e n tat i o n c o p y F r o m
t h e a u t h o r, half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, original cloth,
rebacked, preserving original backstrip, stained, 8vo, 1861.
£350 – £450
* * * The presentation inscription reads ‘Mrs. Amherst, presented
by, the author, August ?1st, 1862’.
306. [Gould (John) th e bi r d s o F gr e at britain] 39 uncoloured
lithograph plates, disbound, folio, [1862-73]. £100 – £200
307. Greene (W.T.) pa r r o t s in ca p t i v i t y, 3 vol., First e d i t i o n s, 81
wood-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue
guards, small ink stamp on reverse of plates some gatherings slightly
sprung with occasional tape reinforcement to gutters, later ownership
inscription on preliminary blank ff., original blind-tooled cloth with
gilt illustration to upper covers, worn at corner-tips, otherwise
externally very good, large 8vo, 1884-87. £1200 – £1800
308. Legge (W.V.) a hi s t o ry o F t h e bi r d s o F ce y L o n, First e d i t i o n,
key plate, coloured, map, 34 hand-coloured plates by Keulemans,
minor worming in first few leaves, title loose, some browning, few
blank margins frayed, one or two tears repaired, later binder’s cloth,
[Anker 284; Fine Bird Books p.115; Nissen 539; Wood p.430], 4to,
published by the author, 1880. £3500 – £4000
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Lot 309
309. Levaillant (Francois) histoire nat u r e L L e d e s oi s e a u x
d’aF r i q u e, 6 vol., half-titles, 300 engraved plates, printed in colour
and finished by hand, 4 double-page, a few with imprints/captions
trimmed, one slightly creased, a few short tears, foxing, vol.5 with
light water-stain to inner lower corner throughout, 20th century
red half crushed morocco, gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, t.e.g.,
4to, Paris, 1799-1808. £8000 – £12000
* * * A handsome set of the issue with J.J.Fuchs to imprint of vol.1-3
and Delachaussée to vol.4-6.
310. Macgillivray (W.) a hi s t o ry o F british bi r d s, 5 vol., First e d i t i o n,
26 engraved plates, later tree calf, by Holloway of Birmingham, joints
repaired, 2 new labels, 8vo, 1837-52. £200 – £250
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311. Meyer (Henry Leonard) Il l u s t r at I o n s o f BrItIsh BI r d s,
4 vol., lithographed titles and plate lists, 319 hand-coloured
lithograph plates, most with guards, some foxing, contemporary
green half morocco, gilt, g.e., spines very slightly faded, [Nissen
627; Sitwell p.123], folio, [1835-41]. £5000 – £7000
* * * A very good set. This issue with no dates on title-pages. “With
the possible exception of Lord Lilford’s Birds, this is the finest
and most complete atlas of portraits of British avifauna (with their
eggs) ever published”, Wood p.462.
312. Smythies (Bertram E.) BI r d s o f Bu r m a , fIrst e d I t I o n, colour
plates with captioned guards, folding map, bookplate of Ernst
Mayr, loosely inserted prospectus, T.L.s. from the author to “Dear
Dr. Mayr”, and folded/worn dust-jacket, original cloth, hinges
repaired, text block resewn and reglued, 8vo, Rangoon, American
Baptist Mission Press, 1940. £400 – £600
* * * According to the author’s typed letter “only 1000 copies of the
first edition were printed, and most of these were left behind when
their owners walked out of Burma in 1942; we heard subsequently
on good authority that the Japs collected many copies and took
them off to Tokyo where they were housed in the library of the
Royal Veterinary College, later destroyed in an air raid.”
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313. a g r o u p o f 8 a l l e g o r I c a l p l at e s, classical scenes relating
to horticulture and pomology, by or after Poussin, Bloemaert,
Reni, and others, hand-coloured engravings, each c.305 x 205mm.,
foxing, slight spotting, 17th century; with 4 similar plates also
related to horticulture (12). £150 – £250
314. Blankaart (Steven) sc h o u-B u r g d e r rupsen, w o r m e n ,
m a ’d e n e n v l I e g e n d e d I e r k e n s, [ee r s t e n de e l; a l l p u B l I s h e d] fIrst
e d I t I o n, engraved title, 16 engraved plates, as described in the
text, with the extra plates 17-22, a l l c o l o u r e d B y a c o n t e m p o r a ry
h a n d, t o g e t h e r w It h 13 wat e r c o l o u r s o f B I r d s, 10 on blank leaves
at beginning and end, the other 3 on blanks in the book (title verso,
N8, O1), contemporary vellum, bit soiled, the Macclesfield copy
(sale I, lot 14) with South Library bookplate and blindstamp on
first few leaves as usual, contemporary number 803 on first blank,
18th century Shirburn pressmark VIII.e.39, 8vo, Amsterdam, Jan
ten Hoorn, 1688. £6000 – £8000
* * * The additional plates are rarely found; both Dryander II,
211 & Hagen 56 call for 16 plates, as does Copac (the British
Library copy). They, and the bird plates, may be connected with
the unpublished continuation, the manuscript for which is in the
Royal Library at The Hague (they seem not to have the book itself).
Blanckaart was a doctor but also an artist; he practised painting as
well as paper-cutting (papieren snijkunst); perhaps we have here an
example of his art.
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Lot 315
315. Bloch (Marcus Elieser) [Ic h t h y o l o g I e, o u h I s t o I r e
n at u r e l l e], a bound group of 55 plates, original hand-coloured
engravings, a few part-printed in colours, each c.200 x 360mm.,
marginal damp-staining to a few plates and occasional slight
surface dirt, otherwise generally clean and the colours bright,
later vellum-backed marbled board, manuscript title on spine,
oblong folio, [c.f. Nissen 415], folio, [Berlin, 1782-85].
£3000 – £4000

Lot 316
316. Donovan (Edward) th e nat u r a l hI s t o ry o f BrItIsh In s e c t s,
vol.1-10 only in 5 (of 16, 6 vol. published later), 360 engraved
plates, all but a few hand-coloured or partly so, tissue guards, errata
leaves at end of vol.1, 2, 3, 5 & 6, plates generally clean but foxing
and light offsetting to text, one or two leaves slightly defective at
fore-edge where badly opened, bookplate of James Coates Sowerby
on pastedowns, contemporary half green morocco, spines gilt with
morocco labels, g.e., rubbed, spines a little faded, [Nissen 1142],
8vo, for the Author, 1792-1801. £1000 – £1500
* * * Donovan originally planned the work to be complete in 10
vols, but later added a further six after an interval of several years.
317. Donovan (Edward) nat u r a l hIs t o ry o f t h e Insects o f In d I a,
new edition, 58 hand-coloured engraved plates, a few ff. and plates
loose, a few plates lightly foxed, but generally all in good condition,
text ff. spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, upper hinge broken, some
fraing, a little loss on upper cover, 4to, 1842. £700 – £900
Lot 318
318. Donovan (Edward) nat u r a l hI s t o ry o f t h e In s e c t s o f
In d I a , 44 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 57), a few plates
lightly foxed, contemporary half tan morocco, rubbed and worn,
4to, T.Bensley, 1800 [-04]. £600 – £800
319. G[urney] (R.H.J.) me m o Ir o f Jo h n he n ry gu r n e y, limited to
50 copies, portrait, original cloth, rubbed, inscribed by the author
to Mrs. (Eliza) Brightwen, and with a note of the limitation, [no
copy on Copac], Norwich, privately printed, 1893 § [Harting (J.E.)
and T. Southwell]. Memoir of the late John Henry Gurney, 8pp.,
offprint from ‘The zoologist’, original cloth, 1890; and 5 others,
Gurney interest, v.s. (7). £200 – £300
Lot 320
320. Hoefnagel (Jacob) [ar c h e t y pa s t u d I a q u e pat r Is a ], 23 plates
only, comprising [pars secunda], plates 1-5 & 8-12 & pars tertia,
engraved title (not called for in part 2) + plates 1-12 (complete),
later restrikes from the original plates, some soiling, 2 insect plates
by W. Hollar inserted, a large copy in recent half calf [by Bernard
Middleton], bound as 4to, [Frankfurt, 1592 (but c. 1740?)].
£600 – £800
321. Humphreys (Henry Noël) th e ge n e r a o f BrItIsh mo t h s,
2 vol., pictorial title, 62 hand-coloured engraved plates, 2pp.
advertisements, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth, slightly rubbed,
g.e., large 8vo, [c.1860]. £450 – £550
322. Humphreys (Henry Noël) th e ge n e r a a n d sp e c I e s o f
BrItIsh Bu t t e r f l I e s, hand-coloured pictorial title, 32 handcoloured
engraved plates, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth, slightly
rubbed, g.e., large 8vo, [c.1860]. £250 – £350
323. Sharrock (J.) and others. th e nat u r a l hI s t o ry o f ca p e
cl e a r Is l a n d, illustrations by Robert Gilmor, original cloth, dustjacket,
a nice copy, Berkhamstead, Poyser, 1973 § Priestley (Sir
Raymond) and others. Antarctic research; a review of British
scientific achievement, plates, cloth, slip-case, the map in a
separate porfolio, 1964; and others, v.s. £50 – £100
en d o f mo r n I n g sessIon
sa l e w Il l r e c o m m e n c e at 2.00pm p r e c I s e ly
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co m m e n c I n g at 2.00pm p r e c I s e ly
❦ Books from the Library at Crowe Hall, Bath
An elegant mansion in the Regency style, set in a superb landscaped garden just outside the centre
of Bath, Crowe Hall was until recently the home of John Barratt, an eccentric schoolmaster and
historian. To walk into the magnificently gloomy library at Crowe was to enter an Edwardian
time-capsule, in which a fabulous treasury of rare books had been miraculously preserved from the
ravages of time.
The collection was built up by three generations of the family and reflects their remarkably
eclectic tastes and interests. Barratt’s grandfather, a doctor in Bristol, collected antiquarian books
about Bath, Bristol and the West Country as well as many first editions of 19th and early 20th
century novels. This strand of the collection was augmented by Barratt’s father, the eminent scientist
and industrialist Sir Sydney Barratt. Sir Sydney was also passionately interested in art, architecture,
furniture, gardening and natural history, and acquired many classic and rare editions of works in
these areas.
John Barratt continued to add to the collection after his father’s death in 1975, with a
particular interest in history and travel. An adventurous traveller himself, he loved to prepare
for his journeys to remote places by exploring exotic byways of world history in front of a
blazing log-fire in his library, which had something of the atmosphere of a gentleman’s club in
the years before World War One.
Further books from Crowe Hall will be offered in our Bibliophile sale on Thursday 17 June.

Lot 324
324. Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) th e hI s t o ry o f t h e aB B e y
ch u r c h o f st. pe t e r’s we s t m I n s t e r, 2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, engraved
portrait and plan, 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates, browned,
some foxing and spotting, later half calf over contemporary
marbled boards, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery, 213], 4to, 1812.
£300 – £400
Lot 325
325. Berain (Jean) or n e m e n s d e pe I n t u r e e t d e sc u l p t u r e, q u I
s o n d a n s l a ga l e r I e d’ap o l l o n, a u ch at e a u d u lo u v r e, e t d a n s l e
gr a n d ap pa rt e m e n t d u ro y a u pa l a I s d e s tu I l l e r I e s, fine engraved
pictorial title by Scotin after Berain, 11 plates by Jean Berain 13
plates by Chauveau and 4 plates by Lemoine, generally crisp and
clean, a few spots or minor marginal stains, [Paris], 1710 B o u n d
a f t e r 41 engraved plates of medallions from the reign of Louis
XIV by de la Boissiere, c o n t e m p o r a ry r e d m o r o c c o w It h g I lt a r m s
o f lo u I s XIv, covers with wide foliage scrolling borders, spine in
compartments and gilt, lacking 2 labels, joints split, but holding
firm, rubbed and scuffed, n.d. [18th century], folio £750 – £1000
ar c h I t e c t u r e & de s I g n
Lot 326
326. Bridgens (Richard) fu r n I t u r e w It h ca n d e l a B r a a n d
In t e r I o r de c o r at I o n, hand-coloured engraved title and 59 plates
on 58 sheets, 1 double-page, 2 plates (including double-page) with
repaired tear through image, the single plate across whole image,
contemporary morocco-backed cloth, rebacked, preserving original
backstrip, corners worn, cloth soiled, folio, William Pickering,
1838. £1000 – £1500
327. Busby (C.A.) a se r I e s o f des I g n s f o r vIl l a s a n d cou n t ry
ho u s e s. ad a p t e d w It h e c o n o m y to t h e comf o rt s a n d to t h e
el e g a n c e s o f mod e r n lIfe, fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title, 24 engraved
plates, 14 sepia-printed aquatints, water-stained at lower corner,
within platemark, but miraculoulsy not touching images, original
boards, ?later cloth spine, original paper label to spine, corners
worn, 4to, 1808. £300 – £400
Lot 328
328. Chippendale (Thomas) or n a m e n t s a n d In t e r I o r de c o r at I o n s
In t h e old fr e n c h style, 2 engraved pictorial titles and 49
plates, John Weale, 1834 B o u n d w It h Johnson (Thomas) A Book
of Ornaments, engraved pictorial title and 3 plates, John Weale,
1834 B o u n d w It h Lock (M.) ?and others A Book of Ornaments, 16
engraved plates, John Weale, 1834 B o u n d w It h 28 engraved plates of
window designs and interiors, n.d., Chippendale plates in generally
good clean condition ( a few spots), many of others spotted or foxed,
modern calf, spine gilt, 4to £750 – £1000
* * * A superb selection of plates. The Chippendale is rare.
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Lot 329
329. Dart (Rev. John) we s t m o n a s t e r I u m, o r t h e hI s t o ry a n d
an t I q u I t I e s o f t h e aB B e y ch u r c h o f st. pe t e r s, we s t m I n s t e r, 2
vol., engraved titles, frontispiece (1 folding), portrait, 7 plates of
subscriber’s Arms and 126 plates, a few folding, list of subscribers,
some water-staining to last few ff. of vol.1, a few tears to folding
plates, contemporary panelled calf, joints split, but holding firm,
rubbed and scuffed, folio, James Cole, [c.1723]. £250 – £350
Lot 330
330. Elsam (Richard) hI n t s f o r Im p r o v I n g t h e co n d I t I o n o f
t h e pe a s a n t ry By pr o m o t I n g co m f o rt In t h e I r ha B I tat I o n s, halftitle,
11 aquatint plates, all but 1 hand-coloured, light offsetting,
occasional spotting or small areas of soiling, original printed
boards, sympathetically rebacked, slightly worn, soiled, [Abbey,
Life, 15], folio, 1816. £600 – £800
Lot 332
331. Fry (Priscilla A.) Il l u s t r at I o n s o f en g l I s h po r c e l a I n,
ea rt h e n wa r e, a n d en a m e l gl a s s , engraved frontispiece, portrait
of the author, signed beneath, A.L.s. from Hugh Owen, mounted
plates, many colour, contemporary red morocco, upper cover with
gilt armorial centre-piece, 4to, Cotham, Bristol, privately printed,
1913. £200 – £300
* * * Hugh Owen, writer on ceramics.
332. Lawford (Henry) al B u m [o f] de s I g n s f o r so fa s, &c.,
17 hand-coloured lithographed designs, linen-backed, folding
concertina style into original cloth, a little soiled and frayed, a
charming set of designs, narrow 4to, 1855. £600 – £800
Lot 333
333. Leeds Pottery.- [pat t e r n Bo o k], 71 fine engraved plates
depicting several hundred items, ?lacking engraved title page, a
few folding, a few with contemporary ink prices and notes, 1 folding
plate with repaired tears, slight loss to centre of image, replaced
in later ink, some foxing and soiling, engraved bookplate of John
Rutherfurd, later half calf, rebacked, preserving original, rather
worn, backstrip, rubbed, [c.1814]. £800 – £1200
* * * The pottery was founded in 1770 and took the name Hartley,
Greens & Co. in 1775. Its creamware designs rapidly established it
as a serious rival to Wedgwood. The first Leeds Pottery catalogue,
with 45 plates, appeared in 1783; a l l e d I t I o n s a r e n o w r a r e.
334. lo n d o n ca B I n e t Bo o k o f pr I c e s (th e), engraved pictorial
title and 20 plates only (?of 29), title laid down and with a minor
marginal tear, occasional spotting or finger-soiling, 20th century
half reversed calf, 4to, [c.1788]. £150 – £200

Lot 335
335. Loudon (John Claudius) a tr e at I s e o n fo r m I n g, Im p r o v I n g,
a n d ma n a g I n g co u n t ry re s I d e n c e s , 2 vol., half-titles, 32 engraved
plates, engraved overlay in untrimmed state, 2 additional engraved
views bound in at end, offsetting, a few minor stains, lightly
browned, modern half calf over old marbled boards, boards rubbed
and faded, 4to, 1806. £500 – £700
* * * Includes agriculture and gardens.
Lot 337
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336. Malton (James) an essay o n BrItIsh co t ta g e ar c h I t e c t u r e,
second edition, half-title, 23 sepia-engraved aquatint plates, plate
15 dated 1800 and 22 & 23 1803, the rest 1798, contemporary half
calf, rather worn, but holding firm, 4to, 1804. £300 – £400
* * * With two additional plates not included in the first edition.
337. Morris (Richard) essays o n la n d s c a p e ga r d e n I n g, a n d o n
u n I t I n g pI c t u r e s q u e effect w It h ru r a l sc e n e ry , fIrst e d I t I o n,
half-title, 6 aquatint plates, 3 hand-coloured and 3 sepia (2 with
overslips), text spotted, original boards, original printed label to
spine (chipped with some loss), joints splitting, but holding firm,
corners worn, lightly soiled, [Abbey, Life, 40], a good copy, folio,
1825. £1000 – £1500
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Lot 338
338. Pain (William) th e pr a c t I c a l ho u s e ca r p e n t e r, fifth
edition, 147 engraved plates, a few double-page, some light soiling
or spotting, later calf, covers detached, corners worn, rubbed, 4to,
I. and J. Taylor, 1794. £300 – £400
Lot 339
339. Palladio (Andrea) th e fI r s t Bo o k o f ar c h I t e c t u r e, third
edition, engraved additional pictorial title and 66 plates, some
marginal staining, occasional spotting, contemporary calf,
rebacked, new upper cover, old cover corners worn, rubbed, small
4to, for N. Simmons, 1676. £400 – £600
Lot 340
340. Papworth (John Buonarotti) ru r a l re s I d e n c e s, consisting
of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small
Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings, fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title, 27
hand-coloured aquatint plates, with the final blank, water-staining
to c.pp.11-15, occasional spotting or light foxing, contemporary
cloth, faded and stained, [Abbey Life 45; cf.Berlin Kat. 2321, 1832
edition], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1818. £500 – £700
Lot 341
341. Papworth (John Buonarotti) hI n t s o n or n a m e n ta l
ga r d e n I n g: c o n s I s t I n g o f a s e r I e s o f d e s I g n s f o r g a r d e n B u I l d I n g s
, fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title, sepia-printed aquatint plan with overslip,
27 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, a few illustrations and
diagrams in text, some offsetting and spotting, contemporary cloth,
chipped label to spine, faded, [Abbey, Life, 46; Berlin Kat. 3436],
4to, R.Ackermann, 1823. £600 – £800
* * * The fine aquatint plates include an aviary, dairy, ice house,
laundry, poultry house, Venetian tent, a bath and an apiary.

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342. Percier (C.) & P.F.L. Fontaine. re c u e I l d e dé c o r at I o n s
In t é r I e u r e s, fine engraved head-piece and 80 hand-coloured
plates, plates with some soiling and spotting , a few with marginal
browning, a few slightly frayed at edges, 20th century half red
crushed morocco, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, Paris, 1812.
£400 – £600
* * * Includes many ornate and luxurious beds, chairs and curtains.
343. Pilkington (Rev. Matthew) th e ge n t l e m a n’s a n d
co n n o I s s e u r’s dI c t I o n a ry o f pa I n t e r s, occasional ink marginalia
or notes, a few small stains, engraved bookplate of Duke of
Somerset, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, preserving
original gilt backstrip, rubbed and spotted, 4to, for T. Cadell,
1770. £150 – £200
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Lot 344
344. Plaw (John) fe r m e or n e e; o r ru r a l Im p r o v e m e n t s, 38 sepia
aquatint plates, ink spot to outer margin of title, marginal foxing,
some damp-staining, a few spots within images, contemporary half
calf, spines gilt, spine ends chipped, upper joint split, but holding
firm, rubbed, 4to, I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library,
1796. £300 – £400
345. Price (Uvedale, Sir) an essay o n t h e pI c t u r e s q u e, 2
parts in 1, light water-staining to outer margin of part of part 2,
contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, 8vo, J.Robson, 1794-1795.
£150 – £200
* * * The second part is A letter to H. Repton.
346. Pyne (William Henry) th e hI s t o ry o f t h e ro ya l re s I d e n c e s,
3 vol., l a r g e pa p e r c o p y, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates, crisp
and clean internally, modern blue half crushed morocco, spines
in compartments and richly gilt, slight fading to spines, [Abbey,
Scenery, 397; Tooley 389], folio, 1819. £3000 – £4000
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347. Repton (Humphry) sk e t c h e s a n d hI n t s o n la n d s c a p e
ga r d e n I n g. Collected from designs and observations now in the
possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen for whose use
they were originally made , fIrst e d I t I o n, with 83pp. Appendix and
‘explanation of plates’ f. at end, half-title, 16 aquatint plates of
which 10 hand-coloured with overlays (3 double-page, 1 folding, 4
plates with 2 overlays) and 6 uncoloured (4 with overlays, the other
two touched up with partial tinting or colouring), wood-engraved
tail-piece, lacking half-title, occasional spotting, Appendix with
some browning and spotting, contemporary burgundy half morocco,
gilt, slightly spotted, rubbed at extremities, [Abbey Scenery 388;
Henrey 1269], oblong folio, by W.Bulmer & Co. for J. & J.Boydell
and G.Nicol, [1794]. £5000 – £7000
* * * th e a u t h o r’s fIrst B o o k. The work was compiled from his famous
‘Red Books’ which were drawn up for prospective clients and included
watercolours with overlays showing before and after scenes.
348. Repton (Humphry) oB s e rvat I o n s o n t h e th e o ry a n d
pr a c t I c e o f la n d s c a p e ga r d e n I n g, fIrst e d I t I o n, stipple-engraved
frontispiece portrait by W.Holl after S.Shelley (spotted), 11 handcoloured
aquatint plates (9 with overlays, 1 folding), 13 engraved
plates (mostly aquatint, some tinted, 3 with overlays, 1 doublepage)
and 3 engraved plans (1 hand-coloured), 11 aquatint
illustrations in text, 2 with overlays, wood-engraved illustrations,
offsetting, occasional spotting, folding plate with two repaired
tears, endpapers damp-stained, engraved bookplate of Samuel
Gardiner, hinges reinforced, contemporary green straight-grain
morocco, by H. Walther, covers with triple gilt filet borders, spine in
compartments and richly gilt, water-stained, [Abbey Scenery 390;
Berlin Kat. 3431], 4to, J.Taylor, 1803. £4000 – £6000
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349. Repton (Humphry) fr a g m e n t s o n t h e th e o ry a n d pr a c t I c e
o f la n d s c a p e ga r d e n I n g, 42 aquatint plates and plans, 21 handcoloured
(3 folding), others tinted, aquatint vignettes, 13 plates and
2 vignettes with overlays, light offsetting, else clean, modern green
half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red and blue
leather labels, a few scuff marks to spine, [Abbey Scenery 391],
4to, 1816. £6000 – £8000
Lot 350
350. Robertson (William) de s I g n s In ar c h I t e c t u r e f o r ga r d e n
ch a I r s, sm a l l gat e s f o r vI l l a s, pa r k en t r a n c e s, av I a ry s,
te m p l e s, Bo at ho u s e s , fIrst e d I t I o n, hand-coloured aquatint
frontispiece and 24 plates, offsetting, original boards, joints split,
soiled, [Abbey, Life, 63], oblong folio, R. Ackermann, 1800.
£1200 – £1400
* * * Rare.

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Lot 351
351. Robinson (Peter Frederick) de s I g n s f o r or n a m e n ta l vIllas
third edition, lithographed pictorial title and 96 plates, 1836; Village
Architecture, lithographed frontispiece and 40 plates, 1837, both
workes foxed, uniformly bound in later morocco-backed cloth,
morocco labels to upper covers, rubbed, 4to (2). £600 – £800
Lot 352
352. Rutter (John) de l I n e at I o n s o f fo n t h I l l a n d I t s aB B e y,
l a r g e pa p e r c o p y, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional
pictorial title and plate, 10 engraved plates, large folding plan,
hand-coloured in outline, engraved vignettes, double-page
genealogical table, engraved plates spotted, original boards,
original engraved pictorial label to upper cover, sympathetically
rebacked, corners worn, rubbed and soiled, [Abbey, Scenery, 418],
a good copy, folio, 1823. £400 – £600
* * * Home of William Beckford, author of Vathek.
353. Sandby (William) th e hI s t o ry o f t h e ro ya l ac a d e m y o f
art s, 2 vol., e X t r a-I l l u s t r at e d w It h c.90 e X t r a e n g r av e d p l at e s,
most on india paper, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and
plates, handsome later red crushed morocco by Morrell, spines in
compartments and richly gilt, t.e.g., thick 8vo, 1862. £200 – £300
Lot 354
354. Sheraton (Thomas) th e ca B I n e t dI c t I o n a ry c o n ta I n I n g
a n eX p l I n at I o n o f a l l t h e t e r m s u s e d In t h e ca B I n e t, ch a I r &
up h o l s t e ry Br a n c h e s, 86 engraved plates, some folding, list
of subscribers, a few plates trimmed, affecting captions, a few
repaired tears, some repaired, some foxing, staining or soiling,
contemporary calf, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, 1803.
£250 – £350
Lot 355
355. Smith (George) th e ca B I n e t-ma k e r a n d up h o l s t e r e r’s
gu I d e, c.149 engraved plates, 34 hand-coloured, offsetting, some
foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving
original gilt backstrip, rubbed, 4to, 1828. £400 – £600
Lot 356
356. Thomson (James) re t r e at s: a se r I e s o f de s I g n s f o r
co t ta g e s, vI l l a s, a n d or n a m e n ta l Bu I l d I n g s, second edition, 41
engraved plates, 31 hand-coloured aquatints, offsetting, library
stamp and ink signature to title, light soiling to recto of 1 plate
and verso of 2 plates (charcoal powder??), else plates in very
good bright condition, a few marginal marks, contemporary half
morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, [cf.Abbey, Life, 76, 1827 edition], 4to,
1840. £400 – £600

357. Whitaker (Henry) ca B I n e t ma k e r & up h o l s t e r e r’s
tr e a s u ry o f de s I g n s, engraved pictorial title and 79 plates, foxed,
contemporary half calf, upper hinge broken, corners worn, rubbed,
4to, n.d. [c.1850]. £300 – £400
Lot 358
358. Wright (William) gr o t o s q u e ar c h I t e c t u r e, o r ru r a l
am u s e m e n t , new edition, 28 engraved plates, 3pp. advertisments,
lacking frontispiece, ink ownership inscription of William Wheeler
to title, title soiled and spotted, text lightly browned, contemporary
half calf, upper cover detached, rather worn, 8vo, for I. Taylor,
[c.1790]. £200 – £300
lI t e r at u r e & hI s t o ry
Lot 359
359. Binding.- Bo o k o f co m m o n pr ay e r (th e) handsome
contemporary red morocco, covers with wide scrolling floral and
foliage borders, spine in compartments and richly gilt, slightly
soiled, a little rubbing, g.e., [Gaskell 19], large 8vo, Cambridge,
John Baskerville, 1762. £300 – £400
Lot 360
360. Walpole (Horace) an e c d o t e s o f pa I n t I n g In en g l a n d, 4 vol.,
plus A Catalogue of Engravers, 5 vol. in total, vol.1-3 and 5 second
edition, vol.4 fIrst e d I t I o n, engraved frontispiece, title vignette and
112 plates, including 9 in the Catalogue of Engravers, vol.1 and 2
water-staining to foot, mostly marginal but within some plates and
touching text on a few ff., offsetting, t h e Jo h n he ly -hu t c h I n s o n
c o p y, with engraved bookplates, attractive contemporary red
straight-grain morocco, gilt, covers with gilt floral and butterfly
corner-pieces, spines faded, 3 reapirs to covers, rubbed, [Hazen
p.62], 4to, Strawberry-Hill, 1765. £500 – £700
Lot 361
361. [Johnson (Samuel)] a Jo u r n e y to t h e we s t e r n Is l a n d s o f
sc o t l a n d, second edition, 6-line errata, original boards, repaired,
soiled, preserved in a modern cloth chemise and slip-case, 8vo,
W.Strahan and T. Cadell, 8vo, 1775. £250 – £350
362. Johnson (Samuel) th e lI v e s o f t h e mo s t em I n e n t en g l I s h
po e t s, 4 vol., fIrst s e pa r at e e d I t I o n, engraved portrait frontispiece,
occasional spotting, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt and
with red morocco label, chipping to heads of spines, 8vo for C.
Bathurts [&c.], 1781. £150 – £200
Lot 363
363. Beckford (William) an ar a B I a n ta l e, fr o m a n u n p u B l I s h e d
m a n u s c r I p t [vat h e k], fIrst e d I t I o n, errata f., a few engraved
illustrations, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, title with
some staining and lightly soiled, repaired tear to lower margin of
D3, a few small stains, new endpapers, modern polished brown
calf, gilt, spine very slightly faded, g.e., [Rothschild 352], 8vo, for
J.Johnson, 1786. £300 – £400
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364. Knight (Richard Payne) an an a ly t I c a l In q u I ry I n t o t h e
pr I n c I p l e s o f ta s t e, second edition, occasional light spotting,
contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, 8vo, 1805.
£80 – £120
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Lot 365
365. Jenkins (James) th e ma rt I a l ac h I e v e m e n t s o f gr e at
BrItaIn, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and vignette title,
hand-coloured engraved dedication, 51 hand-coloured aquatint
plates, paper guards, occasional spotting, but plates generally in
very good, bright, condition, contemporary half red straight-grain
morocco, gilt, spine marked, corners worn, rubbed, [Abbey, Life
365; Tooley 281], still a very good copy, folio, [1815].
£750 – £100
Lot 366
366. Baker (Mary) ca r a B o o: a na r r at I v e o f a sIng u l a r
Im p o s I t I o n, p r a c t I s e d u p o n t h e Ben e v o l e n c e o f a lad y r e s I d I n g
In t h e vIcInIty o f t h e cIt y o f BrI s t o l, fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title,
engraved portrait frontispiece by N. Braithwhite and folding
engraved plate by E.Bird, some light spotting, final two leaves with
marginal repairs, affecting a couple of letters of text, later half calf,
8vo, Bristol & London, 1817. £400 – £600
* * * The account of an elaborate hoax. In early 1817 a young
woman arrived at Almondsbury in Gloucestershire speaking in a
language which the villagers could not understand. Apparently of
oriental descent, she was taken in by a local couple and became
something of a cause celebre.
From interpretation of various signs, gestures and words it was
claimed she was Caraboo, a princess of Javasu in the Indian
Ocean who had been captured by pirates and sold to the captain
of a brig. She had escaped by jumping ship, swimming ashore and
then eventually, after six weeks of wandering, found herself at
Almondsbury.
The local newspapers of Bath and Bristol gave her increasing
attention but after about ten weeks she was exposed as Mary
Wilcocks, the daughter of a shoemaker Thomas Wilcocks and
Mary Burgess of Witheridge, Devon. She was also known as Mary
Baker, the name of her supposed first husband.
367. Ruskin (John) mo d e r n pa I n t e r s, 5 vol. in 4, engraved plates,
occasional spotting, bookplates of Belton House, contemporary
polished calf, spines richly gilt and with red and green leather labels,
vol.5 joints starting but holding firm, some scuffing to covers, 1848-
1856; The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., engraved plates, contemporary
dark green morocco, spines gilt, spines slightly darkened, rubbed,
1853; and 2 others, Ruskin, v.s. (10). £200 – £300
368. Clarendon (Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of) th e hI s t o ry o f t h e
re B e l l I o n a n d cIvIl wa r s In en g l a n d, 7 vol., attractive navy blue
crushed half morocco, gilt, spines in compartments, 1 raised band
damaged, but intact, 8vo, Oxford, 1849. £200 – £300
Lot 369
369. Chaucer (Geoffrey) po e m s , 6 vol., engraved portrait
frontispiece, a little water-staining, handsome contemporary
burgundy morocco, gilt, upper covers with gilt Aldine anchor
devices, spine in compartments, raised bands edged in gilt, some
light spotting and soiling, rubbed at extremities, but generally an
attractive set, g.e., William Pickering, 1852. £200 – £300
370. Kinglake (A.W.) th e In va s I o n o f t h e cr Im e a : It’s orIgIn,
a n d a n ac c o u n t o f I t s pr o g r e s s, 8 vol., folding maps and plans,
modern half red morocco, spines gilt, covers rubbed, 8vo, 1863-
1887. £250 – £350

Lot 371
371. Surtees (Robert Smith) [wo r k s], 6 vol., comprising:
Handley Cross, Ask Mama, Plain or Ringlets, Mr Romford’s
Hounds, Hawbuck Grange, Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour, handcoloured
plates (1 loose), illustrations, original pictorial cloth,
gilt, some spines very slightly faded, one with small abrasions,
generally near fine, 8vo, [c.1880] £200 – £300
372. Blackmore (R. D.) ch r I s t o w e l l. a da rt m o o r ta l e., 3 vol.,
ink ownership inscription to front pastedowns and periodically
throughout all 3 vol., occasional spotting or finger-soiling, original
cloth, slightly cocked, spines faded, corners frayed, rubbed, 8vo,
1882. £150 – £200
Lot 373
373. Kipling (Rudyard) th e Ju n g l e Bo o k [- th e se c o n d Ju n g l e
Bo o k], 2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n s, frontispiece and illustrations by
J.L.Kipling and others, 2pp. advertisements at end of Second,
occasional foxing or spotting, original blue gilt-pictorial cloth,
Jungle Book cocked, both rubbed at extremities, g.e., 8vo, 1894-
95. £500 – £700
Lot 374
374. Wilde (Oscar) rav e n n a. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June
26, 1878, from the Newdigate Prize Poem series, original printed
wrappers, splitting at spine, [Mason 1], 8vo, Oxford, Thomas
Shrimpton, 1878. £180 – £220
* * * The author’s first separately published work.
375. Wilde (Oscar) lo r d art h u r sav Il e ’s cr Im e & o t h e r s t o r I e s,
fIrst e d I t I o n, [one of 1500 copies for domestic circulation], pencil
markings to one p., spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally
very good, original salmon boards with lettering, devices and price
printed in brown, shelf-lean, slightly rubbed and darkened at spine,
split to paper at lower joint, some other light rubbing and surface
marking, [Mason 345], 8vo, 1891. £150 – £200
376. Wilde (Oscar) In t e n t I o n s, fIrst e d I t I o n, [one of 1500
copies], spotting and minor marking to endpapers, original green
buckram, lettered in gilt with gilt decorations by Charles Ricketts,
uncut, [Mason 840], 8vo, 1891. £120 – £180
Lot 377
377. Wilde (Oscar) la d y wI n d e r m e r e’s fa n: A Play About a Good
Woman, fIrst e d I t I o n, [one of 500 copies], 14pp. advertisements
dated September 1893 and printers f. at end, bookplate of Lily
Antrobus, internally excellent, original salmon cloth with gilt
decorations by Charles Shannon, slight dulling to spine, uncut,
[Mason 357], 8vo, 1893. £500 – £700
Lot 378
378. Wilde (Oscar) a wo m a n o f no Im p o rta n c e, fIrst e d I t I o n,
one of 500 copies, 14pp. advertisements dated March 1894 and
printer’s f. at end, bookplate of Lily Antrobus on front pastedown,
internally fine, original salmon cloth, gilt decorations by Charles
Shannon, spine slightly dulled, uncut, [Mason 364], 8vo, 1894.
£350 – £450
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Lot 379
379. [Wilde (Oscar)] th e Ba l l a d o f re a d I n g ga o l, B y c.3.3.,
fIrst e d I t I o n, partly unopened, ink name on front free endpaper,
original two-tone buckram some marking and light soiling, uncut,
[Mason 371], 8vo, 1898. £400 – £600
Lot 380
380. [Wilde (Oscar)] an Id e a l hu s B a n d, fIrst e d I t I o n, one of
1000 copies, internally fine, original salmon cloth, gilt decorations
by Charles Shannon, shelf-lean, rubbed at corner-tips, spine very
slightly dulled, tiny amount of water-speckling, otherwise very
good, [Mason 385], 8vo, 1899. £500 – £700
Lot 381
381. [Wilde (Oscar)] th e Im p o rta n c e o f Be I n g ea r n e s t: A Trivial
Comedy for Serious People, fIrst e d I t I o n, number 150 of 1000
copies, very light foxing scattered throughout, original salmon
cloth, gilt decorations by Charles Shannon, a little light surface
marking, overall a near fine, sharp example, [Mason 381], 8vo,
1899. £750 – £1000
382. Wilde (Oscar) lo r d art h u r sav Il e ’s cr Im e . A Study of
Duty, pirated edition, “one of 300 copies”, original printed blue
wrappers, a very good copy, [Mason 598], small 4to, “Privately
Printed”, n.d. [c.1904]. £100 – £150
383. Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) th e ho u n d o f t h e Ba s k e rv I l l e s,
fIrst s e pa r at e e d I t I o n, 13 plates by Sidney Paget only (of 16),
contemporary ink inscription and small blind-stamp on front flyleaf,
original gilt- & black-pictorial cloth, slight shelf lean, spine
slightly sunned, corners rubbed, 8vo, 1902. £150 – £200
Lot 384
384. Conrad (Joseph) th e re s c u e, fIrst e d I t I o n, bookplate,
original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, browned at spine with some loss
near head, otherwise very good, 8vo, 1920. £150 – £200
385. Austen (Jane) th e no v e l s, 5 vol., limited edition, half-titles,
colour frontispieces, plates, endpapers foxed or spotted, original
cloth-backed marbled boards, spines slightly soiled, a good set,
8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923. £300 – £400
386. Plutarch. th e lI v e s o f t h e no B l e gr e c I a n s a n d ro m a n e s,
8 vol., n u m B e r 23 o f 100 c o p I e s s I g n e d B y t h e a rt I s t, decorations
by Thomas Lowinsky, original half morocco, by Morley, spines
gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a near fine set, 8vo, Oxford, printed at the
Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1928.
£250 – £350

387. Avon.- Nattes (John Claude) Bat h , Il l u s t r at e d B y a
se r I e s o f vIe w s half-title, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette,
28 plates and a near full-page illustration, occasional spotting,
some offsetting, modern chestnut straight-grain morocco, gilt, by
Bayntun Riviere, Bath, [Abbey Scenery, 41; Tooley 340], folio,
1806. £3000 – £4000
* * * “The comparative scarcity of the book would appear to argue
for a limited circulation” (Abbey).
Lot 388
388. -. Rowlandson (Thomas) th e co m f o rt s o f Bat h , 12 aquatint
plates by Thomas Rowlandson, 1 with partial later hand-colouring,
a few small stains, occasional spotting, original printed upper
wrapper bound in (soiled), later half calf, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery,
40], oblong 4to, 1858. £600 – £800
Lot 387
tr av e l & to p o g r a p h y
Lot 389
389. -. Woodroffe (R.) a se r I e s o f vIe w s In t h e cI t y o f Bat h ,
18 fine mounted hand-coloured aquatint plates on india paper,
some spotting, mostly marginal, a few marginal tears, but plates
generally in very good condition, original pictorial wrappers,
torn, with some loss, soiled, [Abbey, Scenery, 46], oblong 4to, C.
Duffield, [c.1840]. £1000 – £1500
* * * A rare copy of this charming work. We have been able to trace
only one other copy at auction in the last 25 years.
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Lot 390
390. Britain.- Daniell (William) a vo ya g e r o u n d gr e at BrItaIn,
8 vol. in 4, fIrst e d I t I o n, aquatint vignette dedication leaf, 308
hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after Daniell, each within
grey wash border, plus one uncoloured aquatint plate of Kemaes
Head in vol.1, without the map, errata leaf at end of vol.1, vol.1
with 2 leaves (pp.123/4 and pp.125/6) on thicker paper, vol.2
corner of one leaf torn (no loss of text), occasional light soiling and
offsetting, but generally very clean internally, contemporary diced
russia, stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked but attractively giltdecorated
spines, edges rubbed, corners worn, [Abbey, Scenery
16; Tooley 177], 4to, 1814-25. £7000 – £9000
* * * “The most important colour plate book on British Topography”
(Tooley). An index chart was also published, but is not usually
included, the work being complete without it (Tooley)

Lot 391
391. -. Gilpin (William) [wo r k s o n t h e pI c t u r e s q u e], c.11 vol.
in 8, sepia aquatint plates, offsetting, attractive contemporary tree
calf, spines in compartments and richly gilt, each with 2 citron
and 1 dark green morocco label, vol. 5 (Forest Scenery) covers all
but detached and head of spine damaged, but still present, a few
joints starting, but holding firm, vol.10/11 upper cover scuffed, all
rubbed, g.e., 8vo, [c.1786-1809]. £600 – £800
* * * A handsome set. Comprises the principal works: Observations
Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty Cumberland and
Westmorland, 2 vol., 1786; Highlands of Scotland, 2 vol. in 1,
1789; Remarks on Forest Scenery, 2 vol., 1791; West of England,
1808; Wye & South Wales, 2 vol. in 1, 1789 bound with An Essay
on Prints, 1802; Western parts on England, 1808; Observations
on the Coast of Hampshire 1804 bound with Observations on
Cambridge, Norfolk 1809, along with a few other smaller works
in later editions.
Lot 392
392. -. Lysons (Rev. Daniel and Samuel) ma g n a Br I ta n n I a;
B e I n g a co n c I s e to p o g r a p h I c a l ac c o u n t o f t h e se v e r a l co u n t I e s
o f gr e at BrItaIn, 6 vol. in 10, engraved plates and maps, some
double-page, a few hand-coloured, some plates trimmed, occasional
foxing and marginal staining, e X t r a-I l l u s t r at e d w It h u p wa r d s o f
130 e n g r av e d p l at e s, contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt,
g.e., 4to, 1806-22. (8). £1000 – £1500
* * * A handsome set.
393. Dorsetshire.- Hutchins (John) th e hI s t o ry a n d an t I q u I t I e s
o f t h e co u n t y o f do r s e t, 4 vol., third edition, c.127 engraved
plates and plans, a few minor spots or marks, later burgundy half
calf, spines gilt, folio, 1861-1870. £500 – £700
Lot 394
394. England.- Turner (J.M.W.) pI c t u r e s q u e vIe w s In en g l a n d
a n d wa l e s, 2 vol., l a r g e pa p e r c o p y, p r o o f p l at e s, 96 engraved
plates, some marginal damp-staining, original green morocco,
richly gilt, rubbed, g.e., 4to, 1838. £700 – £900
395. Ireland.- Bartlett (W.H.) and others. th e sc e n e ry a n d
an t I q u I t I e s o f Ir e l a n d, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispiece map, 2
additional pictorial titles and 118 plates, some marginal foxing,
contemporary green morocco, gilt, rebacked in modern green
morocco, rubbed, 4to, [c.1860]. £200 – £300
396. Scotland.- Murray (Hon. Mrs.) a co m pa n I o n a n d useful
gu I d e to t h e B e a u t I e s o f sc o t l a n d, to t h e la k e s o f we s t m o r e l a n d,
cu m B e r l a n d, a n d la n c a s h I r e, half-title, occasional light spotting,
later half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, 8vo, for the author, 1799.
£200 – £300
Lot 397
397. Staffordshire.- Shaw (Stebbing) th e hI s t o ry a n d an t I q u I t I e s
o f sta f f o r d s h I r e, Vol. I and II Part I [all published], l a r g e pa p e r
c o p y, engraved folding county map and plan of Wolverhampton, 82
engraved plates, folding genealogical tables, offsetting, occasional
spotting, handsome contemporary chestnut straight-grain russia,
?by L.Staggemeier and Welcher, t h e sIr ma r k ma s t e r m a n sy k e s
c o p y, with his central gilt arms to covers, covers with wide scrolling
borders, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, rubbed, g.e.,
folio, J.Nichols, 1798-1801. £600 – £800
* * * Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, sale at Evans’ rooms,
part 3, June 1824, lot 581, sold to Thorpe for £17.
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Lot 398
398. Africa.- Baker (Sir Samuel White) th e al B e rt n’ya n z a,
gr e at Ba s I n o f t h e nI l e, 2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, engraved portrait
frontispiece, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps, 1 folding, 13
plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth,
gilt, a few minto ink spots to vol.2, 8vo, a very good copy, 1866.
£150 – £200
Lot 399
399. -. Stanley (Sir Henry Morton) In da r k e s t af r I c a, 2 vol.,
fIrst e d I t I o n, frontispieces (1 portrait) 3 folding colour maps,
plates, illustrations, 2pp. advertisements at end of vol.2, lightly
foxed, bright and clean original pictorial cloth, gilt, small vol.2
nick to head of spine, 1 corner slightly frayed, a very good set, 8vo,
1890. £200 – £300
Lot 402
Lot 400
400. Greece.- Major (Thomas) th e ru I n s o f pæ s t u m , o t h e rw I s e
po s I d o n I a In ma g n a gr æ c I a, 25 fine engraved plates, fine engraved
head-pieces, minor water-staining to corners of a few ff., lightly
browned, later half calf over old marbled boards, boards rubbed
and scuffed, [Berlin Kat 1894; Blackmer 808; Cicognara 2680;
Fowler 187; Harris 538], a very good copy, folio, T. Major, 1768.
£1000 – £1500
* * * The first detailed account of the ruins, discovered in 1746.
401. Italy.- [Beckford (William)] Ita ly ; w It h sk e t c h e s o f spa I n
a n d po rt u g a l, second edition, half-titles, modern mottled half calf,
spines gilt, 1834; and another copy of the same, without half-titles,
8vo (4). £200 – £300
402. -. Buonaiuti (B. Serafino) Ita l I a n sc e n e ry, r e p r e s e n t I n g t h e
ma n n e r s, cu s t o m s, a n d amu s e m e n t s o f t h e dIf f e r e n t stat e s o f
Ita ly , text in English and French, 32 fine hand-coloured stippleengraved
plates, 1 engraved sheet of music, some light offsetting,
occasional spotting (mostly to text), a few small stains, engraved
bookplates to front pastedown, handsome contemporary olive
straight-grain morocco, blind-stamped floral centre-pieces within
wide dcoartive scrolling borders, spine in compartments, gilt,
slightly rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 164], a very good copy, folio,
1806. £500 – £700

403. -. Italian Lakes.- vI a g g I o pI t to r I c o e sto r I c o a I tr e la g h I
ma g g I o r e, d I lu g a n o, e co m o , 46 fine hand-coloured aquatint
plates, occasional spotting or marking, but generally in very good
condition, contemporary calf-backed boards, red leather label to
spine, rubbed, oblong 4to, Milan, 1818. £6000 – £8000
* * * Rare. We have only been able to trace one other copy at auction
since 1987.
Lot 403
404. -. Piozzi (Hester Lynch) oB s e rvat I o n s a n d re f l e c t I o n s m a d e
In t h e co u r s e o f a Jo u r n e y t h r o u g h fr a n c e, Ita ly a n d ge r m a n y,
2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, 6pp. advertisements at end, sig.B with a few
small blue stains to inner margins, occasional light spotting, new
endpapers, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, spine gilt with red
and green morocco labels, [Rothschild 1551], 8vo, for A. Strahan
and T. Cadell, 1789. £200 – £300
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Lot 405
Lot 406
Lot 408
405. -. Smollett (Tobias) tr av e l s t h r o u g h fr a n c e a n d Ita ly , 2
vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, half-titles, some browning, occasional spotting,
contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, spines gilt and with
a red morocco label, covers rubbed, [Rothschild 1921], 8vo, R.
Baldwin, 1766. £200 – £300
406. -. Volpari, publisher (A.) 55 ve d u t e d I ro m a e tI v o l I,
engraved pictorial title and 52 (of 55) views, some spotting or
foxing, mostly marginal, original wrappers, stitching perished,
creased, oblong folio, Rome, A. Volpari, 1870. £300 – £400
407. Mediterranean.- Boswell (James) an ac c o u n t o f co r s I c a,
fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title, engraved folding map, occasional light
spotting, a few small marks, contemporary polished calf, upper
joint split, corners slightly worn, rubbed, [Gaskell, 473; Rothschild
442], 8vo, Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and
Charles Dilly, 1768. £200 – £300
408. Middle East.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) pe r s o n a l
na r r at I v e o f a pI l g r I m a g e to el-me d I n a h a n d me c c a h, 3 vol.,
fIrst e d I t I o n, v o l.3 p r e s e n tat I o n c o p y f r o m t h e a u t h o r, (in a
secretary’s hand), half-title to vol.3 only (not called for in vol.
1 and 2), 3 lithographed frontispieces (2 chromolithographed,
1 tinted), 11 lithographed plates (3 chromolithographed, rest,
bar 1, tinted), 4 maps or plans, 3 folding, terracotta pastedowns
with printed advertisements, 24pp. publisher’s catalogue at end
of vol.1, occasional spotting, a few endpapers foxed, a few ff.
or plates working loose, engraved bookplate of William Henry
Sykes, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers with black
ornamental borders, spines darkened, some fraying to spine ends
and corners, rubbed at extremities, [Penzer pp.49-50 ‘very rare’],
8vo, 1855-1856. £4000 – £6000
* * * sc a r c e In t h e o r I g I n a l c l o t h.
“In 1853 Burton travelled in disguise as an Indian Muslem on a
pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. The publication of his account of
the journey brought him fame as an adventurer and also as a man of
considerable knowledge about Arabs, their customs and way of life.
The Present work reflects Burton’s attraction to the Arabs and his
belief that Islam is an equal to Christianity and Judaism.” (Ghani).

Lot 409
409. -. Lortet (Louis) la sy r I e d’a u J o u r d’h u I, vo ya g e s d a n s l a
ph é n I c I e. le lI B a n e t l a Ju d é e 1875-1880, half-title, large folding
colour map, plates and illustration, original richly decorated
morocco, gilt, rubbed at extremities, g.e., a very good copy, folio,
Paris, 1884. £300 – £400
Lot 410
410. Mountaineering.- Collie (J. Norman) clImBIng o n t h e
hIm a l aya a n d o t h e r mo u n ta I n ra n g e s, fIrst e d I t I o n, half-title,
frontispiece, 3 folding colour maps, 17 plates, 1 double-page,
endpapers foxed, original cloth, corners bumped, lightly marked
andd spotted, t.e.g., [Neate C94; Perret 1059; Yakushi C315], a
very good copy, 8vo, 1902. £300 – £400
Lot 411
411. Polar.- Franklin (Capt. John) na r r at I v e o f a Jo u r n e y to
t h e sh o r e s o f t h e po l a r se a, In t h e ye a r s 1819, 20, 21, 22, fIrst
e d I t I o n, 4 folding engraved charts, 30 plates, 11 handcoloured
aquatints, offsetting, a few marginal water-stains, some foxing or
spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, corners worn, rubbed,
[Abbey, Travel, 635; Sabin 25624], a good copy, 4to, 1823.
£400 – £600
Lot 412
412. -. Mawson (Sir Douglas) th e ho m e o f t h e Bl I z z a r d, B e I n g
t h e st o ry o f t h e au s t r a l a s I a n an ta r c t I c eX p e d I t I o n, 1911-1914,
2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, frontispieces, 1 of which a portrait, plates,
some colour, 3 folding maps in pocket at end of vol.2, endpapers
and verso of folding maps foxed, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a
vol.1 rubbed, vol.2 lightly soiled, [Spence 773; Taurus 100], 4to,
1915. £300 – £400
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Lot 413
413. -. Shackleton (Ernest H.) and others, editors th e so u t h po l a r tIm e s , 3 vol., vol.1 and 2
number 223 of 250 copies, vol.3 number 100 of 350 copies, half-titles, frontispieces, numerous
plates, maps and illustrations, some chromolithographed, after Herbert Ponting, Edward Wilson and
others, a few ff. loose in vol.1 only (normally many more are loose as the gutta percha has perished
in the majority of copies), fine original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, w It h o r I g I n a l d u s t-J a c k e t s, those
to vol.1 and 2 with a few small tears, chips and small holes, minor loss, vol.3 torn with some loss,
including section c.6.5 x 10cms from lower panel, all dust-jacket spines browned and water-stained
at foot, [Spence 1094; Taurus 42], 4to, 1907-1914. £15000 – £20000
* * * th e B e s t c o p y o f t h I s c o r n e r s t o n e to a n y c o l l e c t I o n o f an ta r c t I c a w e h av e s e e n; m a d e e v e n
m o r e d e s I r a B l e B y t h e p r e s e n c e o f t h e e X c e e d I n g ly r a r e d u s t-J a c k e t s. The bindings are tight and
the gilt lettering and rope-work design fresh and bright.

Lot 414
414. Portugal.- Bradford (The Rev. William) sk e t c h e s o f t h e
co u n t ry, ch a r a c t e r, a n d co s t u m e In po rt u g a l a n d spa I n, Made
during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in
1808 and 1809, 2 parts in 1, first part text in English and French,
hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 54 plates, some offsetting,
marginal tear to upper left corner of ‘View on the Tagus’, not
affecting image, but plates generally in very good, bright, condition,
handsome contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, richly
gilt, g.e., [Abbey, Travel, 135; Colas 421; Tooley 108], a sumptuous
copy, 4to, [1809-1810]. £750 – £1000
* * * The second part deals with military costume and contains 13
hand-coloured plates.
nat u r a l hI s t o ry
Lot 415
415. Birds.- Howard (H.Eliot) th e BrItIsh wa r B l e r s, 9 parts in 2
vol., half-titles, errata, 85 plates, including 35 chromolithographed,
the rest photogravure, by Henrik Grönvold, 12 maps, contemporary
half black morocco, gilt, rubbed at extremities, t.e.g., 4to, 1907-
1914. £200 – £300
Lot 416
416. -. Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) a hIs t o ry o f BrItIsh BI r d s,
6 vol., second edition, 365 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates,
original pictorial cloth, gilt, corners worn, 8vo, 1870. £300 – £400
417. -. Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) a nat u r a l hI s t o ry o f t h e
ne s t s a n d eg g s o f BrItIsh BI r d s, 3 vol., second edition, colourprinted
wood-engraved plates, occasional spotting, near fine
original pictorial cloth, gilt, a very good set, 8vo, 1870-1871.
£200 – £300
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Lot 418
418. Botany.- Curtis (William) fl o r a lo n d I n e n s I s, edited by
George Graves, 3 vol., only of 5, second edition, 428 fine handcoloured
engraved plates, very occasional spotting, some very light
offsetting, but generally In v e ry g o o d c r I s p a n d c l e a n c o n d I t I o n w It h
B r I g h t c o l o u r I n g, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving
original backstrips, rubbed and scuffed, folio, 1817-1821.
£3000 – £4000
Lot 419
419. -. Elwes (Henry John) and Augustine Henry. th e tr e e s
o f gr e at BrItaIn & Ir e l a n d, 8 vol. (including index) in 7, vol.1-5
with colour frontispiece, 7 colour-printed titles, portrait and 412
plates, occasional spotting, contemporary navy blue half crushed
morocco, spines gilt, a few chips, rubbed, some soiling, 4to,
Edinburgh, Privately Printed, 1906-13. £750 – £1000
Lot 420
420. -. Hogg (Robert) and Henry Graves Bull, editors.
th e he r e f o r d s h I r e po m o n a, 2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, 77 fine
chromolithograph and 4 plain plates, illustrations, some foxing
but tissue guards have largely protected the plates, small marginal
hole/tear to one plate, errata slip in vol.1, contemporary dark blue
half morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, very occasional
slight rubbing, overall a handsome set, [Great Flower Books, p.59-
60; Nissen 294], large 4to, Hereford & London, 1876-85.
£3000 – £4000
* * * “One of the finest fruit books ever issued.” Great Flower Books

Lot 421
421. -. Loudon (Jane Webb) BrItIsh wI l d fl o w e r s, half-title, 60
hand-coloured lithographed plates, plate 3 yellow hand-colouring
smudged, plate 19 frayed at edges, some damp-staining to inner
margin of plate 40, a few plates at end spotted, original pictorial
cloth, gilt, spine faded, spine ends and corners frayed, stained and
marked, 4to, 1849. £400 – £600
Lot 422
422. Gardens.- Dezallier D’Argenville (Antoine Joseph) th e
th e o ry a n d pr a c t I c e o f ga r d e n I n g, second edition, title in red
and black, 38 folding engraved plates, 3pp. advertisements,
woodcut illustrations, occasional spotting, endpapers browned,
contemporary calf, rebacked, covers rubbed and scuffed, Bernard
Lintot, 1728. £250 – £350
* * * Provenance: Robert Melville, ?Governor of Grenada, the Grenadines,
Dominica, St. Vincent and Tobago, founder of the botanical gardens at
St. Vincent (ink inscription dated 1779 to front free endpaper); Whyte
Melville (bookplate); Francis Gray Smart (bookplate).
Lot 423
423. -. ga r d e n s ol d a n d ne w: t h e co u n t ry ho u s e a n d I t s ga r d e n
en v I r o n m e n t, 3 vol., plates and illustrations, some chapter-heading
vignettes by Arthur Rackham, original pictorial cloth, the last in
near fine dust-jacket, [1900]; and a duplicate of vol.1 (rebound),
folio (4). £300 – £400
424. -. Gilpin (William) pr a c t I c a l hI n t s u p o n la n d s c a p e
ga r d e n I n g, 16 lithographed plates, 2pp. advertisements at end, a
few plates trimmed to image, original cloth-backed boards, original
paper label to spine, spine faded, corners a little worn, a few light
stains to boards, 8vo, 1832. £200 – £300
425. -. Gilpin (William) pr a c t I c a l hI n t s u p o n la n d s c a p e
ga r d e n I n g, 16 lithographed plates, a few trimmed to image,
endpapers damp-stained or spotted, occasional spotting, 1832
B o u n d w It h Donaldson (Prof.) An Essay on Top-Dressing Land
with Mineral Manures , 1851, later half calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo
£150 – £200
426. -. [Marshall (William)] pl a n t I n g a n d ru r a l or n a m e n t, 2
vol., second edition, half-titles, contemporary half green straightgrain
morocco, spines in compartments and gilt, spines slightly
faded, rubbed at extremities, very good copies, 8vo, for G. Nicol
[&c.], 1796. £100 – £150
Lot 427
427. -. or n a m e n ta l fl o w e r ga r d e n a n d sh r u B B e ry (th e), 4
vol., half-title, 283 (of 288) hand-coloured engraved plates, some
heightened with gum arabic, tissue guards, occasional spotting,
but plates generally in good condition with bright colouring,
original morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, 8vo, 1854.
£2000 – £3000
428. -. Whately (Thomas) oB s e rvat I o n s o n mo d e r n ga r d e n I n g,
second edition, I1 repaired tear within text, loss of part of 1 letter,
but with no loss of sense of text, contemporary speckled calf, a few
marks, 8vo, for T. Payne, 1770. £150 – £200
429. White (Rev. Gilbert) a nat u r a l I s t’s ca l e n d a r, 1 handcoloured
engraved plate, offsetting, contemporary speckled calf,
sympathetically rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo, for B. and J.
White, 1795. £100 – £150
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The Property of a Gentleman
The following 160 lots were collected by the vendor’s father,
mostly between the 1940s & 1970s.
430. à Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) th e co m Ic hI s t o ry o f en g l a n d,
2 vol., fIrst e d I t I o n, fIrst Issue with half-titles in red, 1847; The
Comic History of Rome, fIrst e d I t I o n, fIrst Issue with “Bradbury
and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street” imprint on title, [1851], both with
hand-coloured plates by John Leech, illustrations, some spotting
and browning, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, the first
with faded spines, [Tooley 295 & 298], 8vo (3). £100 – £150
Lot 431
431. à Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) th e co m Ic hI s t o ry o f ro m e , fIrst
e d I t I o n In t h e o r I g I n a l 10 pa rt s (In 9), part IX/X later issue with
imprint of Bradbury, Agnew & Co. on title, 10 hand-coloured plates
by John Leech, illustrations, with 4pp. Comic Rome Advertiser &
16pp. Guild of Literature prospectus in Part I and advertisement
slip on blue paper for Dickens’ ‘New Story’ in Part VII, a little
soiled and browned, plates lightly offset, original blue printed
wrappers with advertisements, slightly soiled, preserved in later
cloth folder and red morocco slip-case (a little rubbed), [Abbey,
Life 435; Tooley 298], 8vo, [1851]. £200 – £300
Lot 432
432. Abel (Clarke) na r r at I v e o f a Jo u r n e y In t h e In t e r I o r o f
ch I n a, fIrst e d I t I o n, 19 engraved plates by T.Fielding and others,
all but 2 aquatint, 8 hand-coloured, and 4 engraved maps, 3 folding,
wood-engraved illustrations, errata slip bound in, some foxing and
offsetting, one plate almost detached, contemporary half calf, spine
gilt, a little rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 537; Tooley 1], 4to, 1818.
£400 – £600
* * * Including botanical and zoological plates. The author was
naturalist to Lord Amherst’s embassy to China.
Lot 433
433. [Alken (Henry) qu a l I f I e d ho r s e s a n d un q u a l I f I e d rI d e r s,
o r th e re v e r s e o f sp o rt I n g ph r a s e s], the set of 7 hand-coloured
etchings, all trimmed to border but including caption at foot, no
title, one plate with very slight spotting, another with crease across
lower corner, loose in modern cloth portfolio, [Schwerdt I p.20;
Siltzer 69; Tooley 44], c.200 x 270mm., S. & J.Fuller, 1815.
£600 – £800
* * * The first of Alken’s coloured books. “A humorous set depicting
hunting accidents drawn in vigorous style. Alken’s colouring is
seen at its best in books of this class.” Schwerdt.

Lot 434
434. Alken (Henry) Il l u s t r at I o n s f o r la n d s c a p e sc e n e ry, fIrst
e d I t I o n, 24 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings by Alken, all with
multiple vignettes, plates 5 & 18 undated & unnumbered, some
soiling, plate 5 a little stained, a few other minor stains, original
boards with paper label on upper cover, rubbed and marked,
corners worn, rebacked, [Abbey, Life 89, note], oblong 4to, 1821.
£150 – £200
* * * Depicting military, rural, nautical and sporting subjects.
Lot 435
435. Alken (Henry) Il l u s t r at I o n s to po p u l a r so n g s, frontispiece
and 43 plates (lacking “A southerly Wind ” but with duplicates
of “The Sportsmen all rode ” and “When in Death ”), all handcoloured
soft-ground etchings, borders with water-colour wash,
some borders spotted and stained, final plate (second “The
Sportsmen all rode ”) torn and repaired, bookplate of Henry
H.Cochrane, original half red roan with gilt-stamped roan label on
upper cover, spine gilt, rubbed, [Tooley 37], oblong folio, 1826.
£200 – £300
Lot 438
Lot 436
436. Alken (Henry) ch a r a c t e r I s t I c sk e t c h e s o f hu n t I n g a n d
sh o o t I n g, with Caricatures of Middlesex Sporting, 24 handcoloured
soft-ground etchings, some light spotting, margins
browned and with water-staining at foot, original glazed &
embossed orange wrappers with black label titled in gilt on upper
cover, rubbed, rebacked in cloth, preserved in two modern cloth
slip-cases, one with paper spine labels, faded, [cf.Schwerdt I p.11-
12; Tooley 19], oblong 4to, J.Dickinson, [plates dated 1825-26].
£800 – £1200
* * * Tooley lists only one similar title, with 12 hunting plates;
Schwerdt lists two similar titles, each with 12 plates of shooting and
hunting respectively. This is a combination of Schwerdt’s two titles.
Lot 437
437. Barnes (John) a to u r t h r o u g h t h e wh o l e o f fr a n c e, handcoloured
folding engraved map, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates
of coaches, carts and streetsellers, 4pp. advertisements at end,
some light offsetting, contemporary roan-backed boards, rubbed,
spine worn at head and foot, 1815. £100 – £150
438. Barrett (Elizabeth) and Robert Browning. tw o po e m s ,
fIrst e d I t I o n, 16pp., original cream printed wrappers, slight foxing
to upper wrapper, preserved in later green calf portfolio with cloth
flaps, gilt, by Bayntun, spine faded, 8vo, 1854. £150 – £200
* * * This booklet was printed by Elizabeth’s sister, Arabella Barrett,
to sell at a charity bazaar held to benefit a refuge for destitute girls;
it has been estimated that 300 copies may have been printed. It
provided a model for Thomas J.Wise’s notorious forgeries.
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Lot 439
439. Barrow (Sir John) tr av e l s In ch I n a, fIrst e d I t I o n, handcoloured
aquatint portrait frontispiece and 4 hand-coloured
aquatint or stipple-engraved plates, 3 other engraved plates, 2
double-page, occasional spotting to text, later half morocco, g.e.,
[Abbey, Travel 531; Tooley 84], 4to, 1804. £300 – £400
Lot 440
440. Barrow (Sir John) a vo ya g e to co c h I n c h I n a, fIrst e d I t I o n,
20 hand-coloured aquatint plates and plans, 2 folding, folding
engraved map with routes and boundaries supplied in red and
green (a little offset), very light offsetting from plates, bookplate of
Thomas Munro, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper joint split, spine
ends worn, [Abbey, Travel 514; Tooley 86], 4to, 1806.
£750 – £1000
* * * This is the first illustrated English work on what was then
Cochin China and is now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited
Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Rio de Janeiro; a description of
that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da
Cunha, the ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin
China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as
it describes finding Captain Cook’s Resolution transformed into a
smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article
covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of
South Africa
Lot 441
441. Bellasis (George Hutchins) vIe w s o f sa I n t he l e n a, fIrst
e d I t I o n, 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after
Bellasis, title with marginal soiling and a few small tears at edges
repaired, another at tip of lower outer corner of plate V, modern
half dark green morocco, uncut, original buff printed wrappers
bound in (a little spotted, small tears at edges repaired), [Abbey,
Travel 309; Tooley 87], oblong folio, 1815 [plates watermarked
1811]. £1000 – £1500
Lot 442
442. Benson (Robert) sk e t c h e s o f co r s I c a, fIrst e d I t I o n, halftitle,
aquatint frontispiece and 4 plates, a l l h a n d-c o l o u r e d, errata
leaf at end, plates a little browned, later half blue morocco, uncut,
spine faded, [Abbey, Travel 76, one plate only coloured, as usual],
8vo, 1825. £200 – £300
Lot 443
443. Binding.- Fitzgerald (Edward) ru B a Iyat o f om a r kh ay ya m,
contemporary crushed red morocco, sides gilt with broad border
onlaid in citron and dark blue, similarly gilt spine, g.e. inner gilt
dentelles, white silk liners, 8vo, 1909. £200 – £300
* * * Unsigned, but perhaps a Zaehnsdorf binding.

Lot 444
444. -. Philip, Comte d’Artois. LE s av E n t u r E s ro M a n E s q u E s
d’apres un ancien manuscrit par Mme Alice Hurtel, apparently
a special copy on papier de chine, illustrations, some printed
in colours, green morocco, E L a b o r at E Ly g i Lt b y sir Ed wa r d
suL L i va n, broad gilt borders with onlaid roses in red, shaped
central oval of citron and brown, with Sullivan initials in centre
of both covers, surrounded by border of carnations (petals onlaid
in red on front cover), similarly gilt spine, with slightly uncertain
lettering, minor rubbing but in good state, small 4to, Paris,
Hurtel, 1883. £300 – £500
Lot 445
445. bo u q u E t Pa r L a n t (LE) d u fL E u r i s t E aM at E u r , engraved
throughout on both sides of sheet, hand-coloured portrait
frontispiece of Mme. du Barry, hand-coloured view and 48 fullpage
illustrations of flowers with verse below and song opposite,
all by Chevalier, light soiling and staining, mostly marginal,
contemporary sheep, rather worn, [only 1 other copy found, in
Bibliothèque Nationale], Paris, Lamy, 1780 § Del[anglard] (C.-
F.-P.) Oracles de Flore, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette
of rose, 2 engraved plates listing flowers and 6 hand-coloured
botanical plates (each with 6 flowers), names at head of title,
another cut away from head of first leaf of text, text lightly foxed,
contemporary black calf elaborately stamped in blind, g.e., rubbed,
joints split, repairs to spine ends, Paris, Janet, [c.1850], 12mo (2).
£200 – £300
Lot 446
446. Bowdich (T. Edward) Ex c u r s i o n s in Ma d E i r a a n d Po rt o
sa n t o, during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to
Africa , first E d i t i o n, 22 lithographed plates, 4 hand-coloured, 3
folding, with final leaf (blank but for imprint), title a little browned,
foxed affecting plain plates but coloured plates clean, w i t h 1 1 2PP.
a u t o g r a P h M a n u s c r i P t b y t h E a u t h o r concerning Ashantee and
Ethiopian customs tipped to sheet and loosely inserted, original
boards, uncut, paper label on spine, slightly rubbed and marked,
spine chipped at head, [Abbey, Travel 190], 4to, 1825.
£500 – £700
* * * Bowdich obtained a writership in the service of the Africa
Company and went to Cape Coast Castle in 1814. He negotiated a
treaty with the king of Ashanti granting peace to British settlements
on the Gold Coast. He returned to England in 1818, and in 1822
again went to Africa where, on reaching the mouth of the River
Gambia, he contracted a fever from which he died. The work
contains botanical and zoological plates and descriptions.
Lot 447
447. british bo ta n y , 28 hand-coloured engraved plates,
advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink inscription at head of
preface, original patterned cloth, paper spine label, a little rubbed
and marked, spine faded, Dublin, 1835 § [Fitton (Sarah Mary)]
Conversations on Botany, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, one
double-page, lightly browned, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed,
1817, 8vo & 12mo (2). £180 – £220
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Lot 448
448. Brown (J.H., of Brighton) sP E c t r o P i a; o r su r P r i s i n g
sP E c t r a L iL L u s i o n s; s h o w i n g gh o s t s E v E ry w h E r E, a n d o f E v E ry
c o L o u r, First Series, fourth edition, 16 plates, all but three handcoloured,
original cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed, 4to,
1865. £200 – £300
* * * The introduction explains, “the following Illusions are founded
on two well-known facts; namely, the persistency of impressions,
and the production of complementary colours, on the retina.”
Lot 449
449. [Bunbury (Henry)], “Geoffrey Gambado”. an ac a d E M y
f o r gr o w n ho r s E M E n, 2 parts in 1 vol., 29 hand-coloured etched
plates by Rowlandson, lightly browned, text foxed, original boards,
uncut, paper label at head of spine, rubbed, corners bumped, spine
defective at foot, 8vo, 1809. £200 – £300
450. [Bunbury (Henry)], “Geoffrey Gambado”. an ac a d E M y f o r
gr o w n horsEMEn, 2 parts in 1 vol., hand-coloured aquatint portrait,
additional vignette title and 27 plates by Rowlandson, original
boards, rubbed, recased, later cloth drop-back box with morocco
label and slip-case, 1825 § [Goodhall (Walter)] The Sportsman’s
Pocket Companion, hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece by
J.Berryman, woodcut illustrations of game birds, spotted, later half
red morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt, t.e.g., others
uncut, J.Bailey, [c.1815], 12mo (2). £200 – £300
451. Caldecott (Randolph) gr a P h i c Pi c t u r E s, 1883; More Graphic
Pictures, 1887; Last Graphic Pictures, 1888; Gleanings from the
Graphic, 1889, all with plates and illustrations by Caldecott,
most colour, some foxing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards,
rubbed, oblong folio (4). £60 – £80
Lot 452
452. Cambridge.- gr a d u s a d ca n ta b r i g i a M; o r nE w un i v E r s i t y
gu i d E b y a br a c E o f ca n ta b s, 8pp. publisher’s catalogue on yellow
paper, half-title, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates of university
costumes and scenes, some light spotting, original boards, uncut,
rubbed and spotted, paper spine label chipped, 8vo, 1824.
£120 – £180
Lot 453
453. Campbell (Rev. John) tr av E L s in so u t h af r i c a b E i n g
a na r r at i v E o f a sE c o n d Jo u r n E y in t h E in t E r i o r , 2 vol., first
E d i t i o n, half-titles, folding hand-coloured engraved map, 12 handcoloured
aquatint plates, vol.1 lacking Directions to Binder leaf and
3pp. advertisements at end (as often) but with final leaf (blank but
for imprint), vol.2 lacking errata slip, plates offset but otherwise a
generally clean copy, vol.1 with an engraved portrait of the author
tipped in at beginning (foxed), contemporary mottled calf, gilt,
a little rubbed, rebacked with gilt spines & red morocco labels,
[Abbey, Travel 328; Tooley 127], 8vo, 1822. £300 – £400
Lot 454
454. Carr (Sir John) ca L E d o n i a n sk E t c h E s, o r a to u r t h r o u g h
sc o t L a n d in 1807, first E d i t i o n, folding aquatint frontispiece and
11 plates, all hand-coloured, frontispiece foxed, some other foxing
and offsetting, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed,
[Abbey, Scenery 488, uncoloured copy], 4to, 1809. £100 – £150

Lot 455
455. Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) do n qu i x o t E d E L a Ma n c h a,
translated by Charles Jarvis, 4 vol., half-titles, 24 hand-coloured
aquatint plates by J.Clark, occasional light spotting, original
boards, uncut, original paper label mounted on front pastedown
of vol.1, a little rubbed, corners bumped, rebacked preserving old
paper labels, preserved in modern cloth drop-backed box, [Abbey,
Life 238; Tooley 140], 8vo, 1819. £200 – £300
Lot 456
456. Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de).- [Hayman (Francis)] th E
sPirit o f cE rva n t E s; o r, do n qu i x o t E ab r i d g E d, 4 hand-coloured
aquatint plates, some spotting to text, upper hinge broken, original
cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine, uncut, rubbed and
marked, preserved in cloth drop-back box, [Abbey, Life 239], 8vo,
1820. £150 – £200
Lot 457
457. [Chatto (William Andrew)], “John Careless.” th E oL d
En g L i s h ‘sq u i r E, first E d i t i o n, half-title, 24 hand-coloured aquatint
plates, a little offset, later half red calf, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt,
g.e., spine a little faded, [Abbey, Life 387; Tooley 128], large 8vo,
1821. £200 – £300
Lot 458
458. [Clowes (George)] a Pi c t u r E s q u E to u r b y t h E nE w ro a d
f r o M ch i av E n n a, over the Splügen, and along the Rhine, to Coira, in
the Grisons, first E d i t i o n, half-title, 13 hand-coloured lithographed
plates by F.Calvert after Clowes, title, text and tissue guards spotted
but plates clean, original pink boards with printed paper label on
upper cover, uncut, rubbed, spine worn and split, [Abbey, Travel
58; Tooley 148], 4to, 1826. £1000 – £1500
Lot 459
459. [Combe (William) th E th r E E to u r s o f do c t o r sy n ta x],
comprising: The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the
Picturesque, 1812; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of
Consolation, 1820; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of
a Wife, 1821, 3 vol., second edition of vol.1, the rest first E d i t i o n s,
second issue of vol.2 with second state of plate 15 (corrected to
“Skimmington”), hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 &
3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson,
4pp. advertisements at end of vol.1 & 3, some foxing and soiling
particularly in vol.1, one or two marginal tears and repairs, vol.2
& 3 original boards, vol.1 later matching boards, all uncut, vol.2 &
3 rubbed, vol.2 rebacked, vol.3 with wear to spine ends and joints
split, [Abbey, Life 266-267; Tooley 427-429], 8vo, R.Ackermann,
1812-20-[21]. £400 – £600
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Lot 460
460. [Combe (William)] th E En g L i s h da n c E o f dE at h, 2 vol.,
1815-16; The Dance of Life, [Abbey, Life 264], 1817, together 3
vol., first E d i t i o n s, additional vignette title in vol.1 & 3 and 98
plates by Thomas Rowlandson, all hand-coloured aquatints, some
soiling and browning, final plate of vol.1 shaved at fore-edge and
reinforced, one plate in vol.2 torn at edge (repaired), a few other
small tears and repairs, later black morocco, gilt, by Rivière and
Son, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., some cracks to joints, spines
very slightly rubbed, [Abbey, Life 263-264; Tooley 410-411], 8vo,
R. Ackermann £600 – £800
* * * “Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the
essential pivots of any colour plate library ” Tooley
Lot 461
461. [Combe (William)] a hi s t o ry o f Ma d E i r a, first E d i t i o n,
hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title vignette and 26 plates,
4pp. advertisements at end, some light soiling, mostly marginal,
tear to upper margin of title and to fore-edge of final plate just
touching image, original red roan-backed boards, spine gilt,
rubbed, corners bumped, upper joint split and spine worn at foot
(crudely reinforced with tape), [Abbey, Travel 189; Colas 1455;
Tooley 150], 4to, Ackermann, 1821. £1000 – £1500
462. [Combe (William)] th E hi s t o ry o f Jo h n n y qu a E gE n u s,
t h E Li t t L E fo u n d L i n g o f t h E L at E do c t o r sy n ta x, first E d i t i o n,
24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, rather
soiled and stained, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, uncut,
rubbed, spine a little faded, [Abbey Life 268; Tooley 413], 8vo,
R.Ackermann, 1822. £150 – £200
463. [Combe (William), imitation] th E ad v E n t u r E s o f do c to r
co M i c u s, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial additional title and 14
plates, rather soiled and browned, plates offset, later calf, gilt, by
J.Larkins, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, original upper
printed wrapper bound in at end (stained and defective, laid down),
[Abbey Life 255; Tooley 431], 8vo, 1815. £150 – £200
Lot 464
464. [Combe (William), imitation] th E to u r o f do c t o r sy n ta x
t h r o u g h Lo n d o n, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title
and 18 plates, some marginal spotting or soiling, later burgundy
morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut,
spine slightly rubbed and faded, [Tooley 434], 8vo, 1820.
£120 – £180
Lot 465
465. [Combe (William), imitation] th E to u r o f do c t o r Pr o s o d y
t h r o u g h sc o t L a n d , first E d i t i o n, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates
in the style of Rowlandson, the first plate by George Cruikshank,
the rest by C.Williams and W.Read, some foxing and offsetting
but plates generally clean, title with small repair to fore-edge,
bookplate removed from front pastedown, bookseller’s ticket of
T.Walsh of Dublin, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine chipped
at head and foot, upper joint repaired, [Abbey Life 277; Cohn 675;
Tooley 433], 8vo, 1821. £150 – £200

Lot 466
466. Compton (Thomas) th E no rt h E r n ca M b r i a n Mo u n ta i n s,
o r a to u r t h r o u g h no rt h wa L E s, first E d i t i o n, first issuE b o u n d
f r o M t h E o r i g i n a L 10 Pa rt s, 30 hand-coloured aquatint plates
by Compton, Baily & Havell after Compton, contemporary ink
signature at head of title, title and text foxed, some plates with
marginal foxing or soiling but generally clean, contemporary half
red roan, a little worn, rebacked in red calf, spine gilt, [Abbey,
Scenery 522; Tooley 155], oblong 4to, 1817. £800 – £1200
Lot 467
467. Concanen (Edward) a nE w Mat r i M o n i a L La d d E r, handcoloured
aquatint additional pictorial title, 18 plates and tail-piece
by Charles Hunt after Onwhyn, very light marginal soiling, modern
cloth preserving original red pictorial gilt cloth on boards, joints
rubbed, 4to, [c.1840]. £200 – £300
gE o r g E cr u i k s h a n k
Lot 468
468. Mi d n i g h t ME r r i M E n t, o r a no c t u r n a L ra M b L E t h r o u g h
st.gi L E s’s, first E d i t i o n, 42pp., hand-coloured etched frontispiece
by Isaac and George Cruikshank (soiled and frayed at edges,
repaired), text lightly browned, nineteenth century calf, gilt, spine
gilt with morocco label, t.e.g., original blue printed wrappers
bound in (laid down), a little soiled, [Cohn 556], 8vo, [1805].
£150 – £200
Lot 469
469. Andrewes (George) a di c t i o n a ry o f t h E sL a n g a n d ca n t
La n g u a g E s, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Isaac and
George Cruikshank, with final leaf of “Sixty Orders of Offenders’’
and advertisement, frontispiece soiled and slightly frayed at lower
edge (laid down), text a little browned and with small chip to
fore-edge of first leaf, engraved bookplate of Thomas Stephens of
the Inner Temple, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red
morocco label, slightly rubbed, [Cohn 29], 8vo, George Smeeton,
[c.1810]. £200 – £300
Lot 470
470. Charlotte (Princess).- au t h E n t i c ME M o i r s o f t h E LifE o f
Pr i n c E s s ch a r L o t t E, tenth edition, etched portrait by George
Cruikshank, with an additional hand-coloured aquatint of Warwick
House (the Princess’s residence) bound in, 1817; Authentic
Particulars of the Death of the Princess Charlotte and her infant,
tenth edition, 1817; A Most Correct Account of the Funeral of the
Princess Charlotte , fifth edition, 1817, together 3 works in 1 vol., all
with engraved frontispiece by George Cruikshank (2 portraits and
folding plate of funeral procession), later dark red morocco, gilt, by
Rivière & Son, t.e.g., others uncut, all grey printed wrappers bound
in, [Cohn 134, 137 & 132], W.Hone § Real or Constitutional House
that Jack Built (The), fifth edition, wood-engraved illustrations by
Cruikshank, later mottled calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, morocco spine
label, g.e., 1819, 8vo (2). £150 – £200
Lot 471
471. En g L i s h M a n’s ME n t o r (th E). th E Pi c t u r E o f t h E Pa L a i s ro ya L
, first E d i t i o n, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece by George
Cruikshank, title in red and black, 6pp. advertisements at end, some
light soiling or browning, later half blue morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g,
slightly rubbed, [Cohn 274], 12mo, 1819. £150 – £200
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472. Moore (Francis, physician) th E ag E o f in t E L L E c t: o r
cL E r i c a L sh o w f o L k a n d wo n d E r f u L Lay f o L k, hand-coloured
etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank, rather foxed, later half
calf, William Hone, 1819 § [Daniel (G.)] The Modern Dunciad,
etched frontispiece by Cruikshank, later blue morocco, gilt, by
Rivière & Son, 1814, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, [Cohn 574 &
223], 8vo (2). £150 – £200
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 473
473. [Political Pamphlets] th E Po L i t i c a L ho u s E t h at Ja c k bu i Lt,
44th edition, William Hone, 1820; The Queen’s Matrimonial
Ladder, 40th edition, with folding pictorial ladder on card loosely
inserted in pocket at end, Hone, 1820; The Man in the Moon, 5th
edition, Hone, 1820; “Non mi Ricordo!”, 28th edition, Hone, 1820;
The Political “A, Apple-Pie”, 5th edition, for the Author, 1820;
The Political Queen that Jack Loves, 13th edition, n.d.; A Political
Lecture on Heads. By the Black Dwarf, 4th edition, 1820; The
Kettle abusing the Pot, 6th edition, 1820; The Dorchester Guide;
or, a House that Jack Built, 4th edition, for the Author, n.d.; The
Real or Constitutional House that Jack Built, 12th edition, 1820;
The New Pilgrim’s Progress or, a Journey to Jerusalem, 1820, all
with wood-engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, some
spotting and staining, original wrappers, the last printed, uncut,
some water-stained, preserved in contemporary half roan box,
rubbed, spine faded, 8vo (11). £120 – £180
Lot 474
474. Hunt (Henry) in v E s t i g at i o n at iLchEstEr ga o L i n to t h E
c o n d u c t o f wiLLiaM br i d L E, t h E g a o L E r , first E d i t i o n in b o o k f o r M,
etched portrait frontispiece of Bridle by George Cruikshank, 4 other
engraved portraits only, probably by Robert Cruikshank (of 5, lacking
Mr.Anstice the County Surveyor), with the supplementary address ‘To
the Sheriff, Magistrates, Freeholders of Somerset’ at end but lacking
that to Mr. Baron Graham, some foxing, later half burgundy morocco,
uncut, a little rubbed, spine faded, [Cohn 421; Goldsmiths’ 23262,
lacking Graham address], 8vo, 1821. £100 – £150
* * * The author was a radical politician who had been incarcerated
in Ilchester gaol for his involvement in the Peterloo Massacre of
1819. He was released in 1822 and brought a series of complaints
against the prison particularly the gaoler, William Bridle, instigating
an Inquiry into prison conditions.
Lot 475
475. th E Lo v E r s’ Pa n o r a M a; o r cu P i d’s va g a r i E s o n
st.va L E n t i n E’s day , 24pp., engraved title, 12 hand-coloured
vignettes by George and Robert Cruikshank including one on title,
some light spotting, contemporary blue wrappers, uncut, preserved
in burgundy silk folder and slip-case (rubbed), [Cohn 510], 12mo,
Hodgson & Co., n.d. £300 – £400
* * * A second issue of the work, previously published as Cupid’s
Vagaries, or the Lover’s Panorama on St.Valentine’s Day.
476. do L Ly a n d t h E rat , o r t h E br i s k E t fa M iLy , hand-coloured
etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank, 4pp. advertisements
at end, later half blue morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, g.e., spine very
slightly faded, 1823 § Dibdin (C.) Songs, Naval and National, first
E d i t i o n, 12 plates by Cruikshank, original pictorial cloth, gilt,
slightly faded, 1841, [Cohn 246 & 231]; and 3 others, Cruikshank,
[Cohn 496, 658 & 759], 8vo et infra (5). £180 – £220
Lot 477
477. Cruikshank (George) Po i n t s o f hu M o u r, Parts I & II in 1 vol.,
second issues, etched plates and wood-engraved illustrations by
Cruikshank, all on india paper and mounted, some light offsetting,
bookplate of Robert Pinkney, later dark blue straight-grained
morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, t.e.g., very slightly rubbed
at edges, [Cohn 176], 8vo, 1823-24. £150 – £200

Lot 478
478. Greenwood (Thomas) th E dE at h o f LifE in Lo n d o n; o r, to M
& JE r ry’s fu n E r a L , first E d i t i o n, folding hand-coloured aquatint
frontispiece by George Cruikshank (creased at fore-edge but not
affecting image), small ink stain to lower edge of title and some
leaves, later half blue morocco, by R.Wallis, t.e.g., others uncut,
[Cohn 368], 8vo, [1823]. £400 – £600
* * * Scarce.
Lot 479
479. [Apel (C.)] dEr fr E i s c h ü t z travEstiE, b y sEPtiMus gL o b u s, Esq.,
first E d i t i o n, 12 hand-coloured etched plates by George Cruikshank
after Alfred Crowquill, later mottled calf, gilt, by Bedford, spine gilt
with red morocco labels, t.e.g., others uncut, original printed wrappers
bound in at end (trimmed and window mounted), a little rubbed at
edges, [Cohn 36], 4to, 1824. £150 – £200
Lot 480
480. [Forrester (Charles Robert)], “W.F.von Kosewitz”.
Ec c E n t r i c ta L E s, first E d i t i o n, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates
by George Cruikshank after Alfred Crowquill (Alfred Henry
Forrester), one or two with light marginal soiling, one with small
tear to fore-edge, one becoming loose, original cloth-backed
boards, uncut, rubbed, corners bumped, paper spine label chipped,
[Cohn 471], 8vo, 1827. £200 – £300
Lot 481
481. [Collier (John Payne)] Pu n c h a n d Ju d y, first E d i t i o n, 24
hand-coloured etched plates by George Cruikshank, wood-engraved
illustrations, without the advertisement slip, slight marginal soiling
to some plates, text lightly foxed, bookplate of J.Leveson Douglas
Stewart of Glenogil, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, by W.Pratt,
spine gilt with red morocco labels, t.e.g., others uncut, [Cohn 150;
Osborne 872, second edition], 8vo, 1828. £150 – £200
482. O’Neill (John) th E bL E s s i n g s o f tE M P E r a n c E , fourth
edition, engraved portrait and 4 hand-coloured etched plates
by George Cruikshank, soiled and browned, contemporary half
calf, by S.Kaufmann, 1851 § Diverting History of John Gilpin
(The), 2 advertisement leaves at end, a little soiled, original
printed wrappers, spine worn, Charles Tilt, 1828 § Pardoe
(Julia) Lady Arabella: or, the Adventures of a Doll, original
cloth, gilt, spine ends worn, a few ink stains, [1856] § History
of Jack & the Bean-stalk, plates a little foxed, original pictorial
wrappers, soiled, [1854], all illustrated by George Cruikshank,
rubbed, [Cohn 620,169, 525 & 197]; and 2 others, Cruikshank,
[Cohn 774 & another], 8vo et infra (5). £100 – £150
Lot 483
483. [Bowles (Caroline A.)], “Baroness de Katzleben”. th E
cat ’s ta i L: b E i n g t h E hi s t o ry o f ch i L d E ME r L i n. a ta L E, 32pp.,
half-title, 3 hand-coloured etched plates by George Cruikshank,
lightly browned, later cloth, morocco spine label, slightly rubbed
and marked, [Cohn 124], 8vo, 1831. £120 – £180
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Lot 484
484. bE E a n d t h E wa s P (th E). a fa b L E, in vE r s E, 16pp., 4 etched
plates by George Cruikshank, without the 8pp. advertisements at
end (as often), later mottled calf, gilt, by F.Bedford, spine gilt with
red morocco labels, g.e., 1832 § [Bowles (Caroline A.)], “Baroness
de Katzleben”. The Cat’s Tail: being the History of Childe Merlin,
32pp., half-title, 3 etched plates by Cruikshank, lightly browned at
edges, original printed wrappers, a little soiled, 1831, [Cohn 65 &
124], 8vo (2). £150 – £200
Lot 485
485. [Cruikshank (George) a co M i c aL P h a b E t], 24 handcoloured
etched plates, all mounted on stubs, some light foxing or
soiling, contemporary half red morocco, by Tout & Sons, spine gilt,
t.e.g., others uncut, [Cohn 189], 12mo, [?1837]. £200 – £300
Lot 486
Lot 486
486. [Cruikshank (George) a co M i c aL P h a b E t], 24 hand-coloured
etched plates folding concertina style into original pictorial boards
(advertisement in Tilt’s shop dated 1837 on lower cover), preserved
in old board drop-front box (joints split), [Cohn 189], 12mo, 1836
but later. £150 – £200
Lot 487
487. [Dickens (Charles)] Mo r E hi n t s o n Et i q u E t t E , first E d i t i o n,
advertisement leaf, half-title, title-vignette and illustrations by
George Cruikshank, advertisment leaf and 4pp. catalogue at end,
original pictorial limp blue cloth, gilt, slight marks on lower cover
and corners a little bumped but a good copy, [Cohn 242], small
8vo, 1838. £100 – £150
Lot 488
488. [Thackeray (William Makepeace) and Charles Dickens.]
th E Lo v i n g ba L L a d o f Lo r d bat E M a n, first E d i t i o n, first issuE
with “wine” instead of “vine” line 2 stanza V p.13, 12 etched
plates by George Cruikshank including page of musical notation,
8pp. advertisements at end, lightly foxed, original limp pictorial
cloth, gilt, bookseller’s ticket of W. & T. Evans of Cork inside rear
cover, lightly rubbed and marked, spine slightly faded, [Cohn 243],
12mo, 1839. £300 – £400
* * * Thackeray wrote the verses which were edited by Dickens who
also wrote the tongue-in-cheek scholarly notes and preface.

Lot 489
489. gE o r g E cr u i k s h a n k’s oM n i b u s, first E d i t i o n in t h E o r i g i n a L
9 Pa rt s, engraved frontispiece, portrait and plates, most by
Cruikshank, wood-engraved illustrations, with advertisements and
slips, some on coloured paper, no Advertising Sheet No.V as in
Cohn, some foxing and staining, original cream printed wrappers
with advertisements, Parts I & II with ink signatures at head of
upper wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, preserved in cloth dropback
box (spine faded), [Cohn 190], 8vo, 1841-42. £200 – £300
* * * There are a few minor differences to the advertisements listed
in Cohn:‘Periodical Works’ at end of Part I is printed on pink paper
not blue or white as in Cohn, and the advertising sheets in Parts VII
& VIII are numbered accurately.
Lot 490
490. gE o r g E cr u i k s h a n k’s oM n i b u s, s i g n E d PrEsEntation c o P y f r o M
t h E a u t h o r/a rt i s t to dr.st E b b i n g inscribed at head of half-title,
engraved portrait, etched plates, illustrations, some soiling, a few
leaves slightly frayed at edges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little
rubbed, corners bumped, recased, new endpapers, 1842 § Wight
(John) More Mornings at Bow Street, 8pp. advertisements, halftitle,
etched frontispiece, illustrations, frontispiece foxed, original
cloth-backed boards, paper label, uncut, rubbed and faded, boards
spotted, 1827 § [Clarke (W.)] Three Courses and a Dessert, 8pp.
advertisements at end, illustrations, 2 leaves torn and repaired at foreedge,
later half burgundy morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine
gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1830, all illustrated by George Cruikshank,
[Cohn 190, 845 & 144], 8vo (3). £200 – £300
491. Brough (Robert B.) th E LifE o f sir Jo h n fa L s ta f f, half-title,
20 etched plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends a little
worn, [1858] § Mayhew (Henry & Horace) The Good Genius that
turned Everything into Gold, 4 etched plates, illustrations, later
mottled calf, gilt, by Grieve of Edinburgh, spine gilt, t.e.g., small
abraded patch on upper cover, original gilt pictorial cloth covers
bound in at end, 1847 § Gore (Mrs.) New Year’s Day, a Winter’s
Tale, half-title, 4 etched plates, 8pp. advertisements at end, front
free endpaper defective, original cloth, gilt, soiled, spine browned,
[1846], [Cohn 96, 543 & 357]; and 4 others, Cruikshank, [Cohn 11,
60, 782 & cf.702], v.s. (7). £200 – £300
Lot 492
492. Mayhew (Henry & Horace) wh o M to Ma r ry a n d ho w to
gE t Ma r r i E d!, first E d i t i o n in t h E o r i g i n a L 6 Pa rt s, 12 etched plates
by George Cruikshank, those in Part I a little foxed, advertisements,
original yellow printed wrappers with advertisements, a little rubbed
and soiled particularly Parts I & II, Part II with ink signature at
head of upper wrapper, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box,
[Cohn 545], 8vo, [1848]. £200 – £300
Lot 493
493. Mayhew (Henry & Horace) wh o M to Ma r ry a n d ho w to gE t
Ma r r i E d!, first E d i t i o n in b o o k f o r M, half-title, title-vignette and
12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, cropped slightly shaving a
few plates, final plate with small tear to fore-edge (repaired), later
calf, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt with morocco labels, g.e.,
[Cohn 545], 8vo, [1848]. £150 – £200
Lot 494
494. Mayhew (Horace) th E to o t h-a c h E, first E d i t i o n, first issuE
with advertisements pasted inside covers, 43 etched illustrations
by George Cruikshank on three conjoined sheets and folding
concertina style, one join partly split, slightly soiled and rubbed
at folds, folding into original hand-coloured pictorial boards, ink
signature dated 1849 at head of front pastedown, rather rubbed
and soiled, spine reinforced and torn at head, [Cohn 547], 12mo,
D.Bogue, [1849]. £150 – £200
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Lot 495
495. Mayhew (Henry) 1851: o r, t h E ad v E n t u r E s o f Mr. a n d
Mr s. sa n d b o y s a n d fa M iLy , first E d i t i o n in t h E o r i g i n a L 8 Pa rt s,
later issue with the slip “Just Published” inserted before p.65 in
part 3, pictorial title and 10 etched plates by George Cruikshank,
most folding or double-page, with all advertisements as called
for in Cohn, plates foxed, original green pictorial wrappers with
advertisements, a little soiled and marked, Part VIII with pp.225-
238 supplied from another copy (smaller) and also rear wrapper
(different advertisement on rear cover), preserved in slip-case and
outer half morocco slip-case resembling a bound volume, a little
rubbed, [Cohn 548], 8vo, [1851]. £150 – £200
Lot 496
496. Blakey (Robert) oL d fa c E s in nE w Ma s k s, first E d i t i o n, halftitle,
etched frontispiece and additional pictorial title by George
Cruikshank (foxed), occasional light spotting to text, bookplate of
Francis Frederick Fox and bookseller’s ticket of William George’s
Sons Ltd. of Bristol, original blind-stamped claret cloth, spine
pictorial gilt, spine faded and worn at head, [Cohn 75; Westwood
& Satchell p.34], 8vo, 1859. £150 – £200
* * * The last and most elusive book by the angling writer, including
chapters on pike and eels as well as a long account of trout and
salmon fishing on the Tweed during the 1790s.
497. Cruikshank (George) a di s c o v E ry c o n c E r n i n g gh o s t s: w i t h
a r a P at t h E “sPirit-raPPErs”, second edition, [Cohn 210], 1864 §
Four Rare Etchings by the celebrated George Cruikshank, drawn
and etched for O’Neill’s “Blessings of Temperance”, 1876, both
with plates or illustrations by George Cruikshank, lightly soiled
at edges,original printed wrappers, soiled and slightly frayed, the
first with upper wrapper torn; and 3 others on or illustrated by
Cruikshank, 8vo et infra (5). £100 – £150
ro b E rt cr u i k s h a n k
Lot 498
498. british da n c E o f dE at h (th E), hand-coloured aquatint
frontispiece by Robert Cruikshank, letterpress title with vignette
and decorative border of skulls and winged timers, 18 handcoloured
aquatint plates after Van Assen, all offset, bookplate of
Malacrida, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, [Tooley 111],
8vo, Hodgson and Co., [1813]. £200 – £300
Lot 499
499. [Cruikshank (Robert)] LE s s o n s o f th r i f t, first E d i t i o n,
hand-coloured engraved title and 12 plates by Robert Cruikshank,
with advertisement leaf at end (often lacking), some light soiling
and browning, plates a little offset, original cloth, paper spine
label, uncut, rubbed, spine faded, corners bumped, [Abbey, Life
276; Tooley 165], 8vo, 1820. £150 – £200

Lot 500
500. [Hibbert (George, editor and translator)] ta L E s o f t h E
co r d E L i E r ME ta M o r P h o s E d, o n E o f 64 c o P i E s, texts in Italian,
English and French, etched title-vignette and 10 illustrations by
Robert Cruikshank, all on india paper and mounted, some foxing,
aL b E rt M.co h n’s c o P y w i t h h i s b o o k P L at E, bookseller’s ticket of
Robson Kerslake, contemporary calf, gilt, by Rivière, spine gilt,
uncut, slightly rubbed at edges, 4to, printed at the Shakespeare
Press by W.Bulmer and W.Nicol, 1821. £150 – £200
* * * Privately printed for the bibliophile George Hibbert who had
bought the manuscript at the sale of the library of Count Borromeo
of Padua in 1817.
Albert M Cohn, author of George Cruikshank. A Catalogue
Raisonné 1806-1877, published in 1924 and still the definitive
work on the younger Cruikshank.
501. Egan (Pierce) th E LifE a n d Ex t r a o r d i n a ry ad v E n t u r E s o f
sa M u E L dE n M o r E hay wa r d, denominated the Modern Macheath
, hand-coloured etched portrait by Robert Cruikshank after Mrs.
Smart, engraved facsimile leaf, soiled and stained, later half
morocco, by G.Walters, t.e.g., spine gilt and slightly faded, 1822
§ Brighton!! A Comic Sketch, half-title, plates, original printed
wrappers, soiled, 1830 § [Birch (J.)] Fifty-One Original Fables,
title in red and black, plates and illustration, contemporary half
calf, spine gilt, rubbed, 1833 § [Barker (M.H.)] Jem Bunt, first
E d i t i o n, etched pictorial title and plates, a little soiled, cropped,
Mexborough bookplate, later half red morocco, by Bayntun, spine
gilt, g.e., [1841], all illustrated by Robert Cruikshank; and another
illustrated by the Cruikshanks, 8vo et infra (5). £200 – £300
502. Westmacott (Charles Molloy) Po i n t s o f Mi s E ry; o r fa b L E s
f o r Ma n k i n d, first E d i t i o n, half-title, 20 wood-engravings by
Robert Cruikshank including 10 hand-coloured plates, a few
with light marginal soiling or staining, modern half mottled calf,
by Bayntun, g.e., spine gilt, 1823; The Punster’s Pocket-Book by
Bernard Blackmantle, engraved portrait, wood-engraved plates
by Robert Cruikshank, nineteenth century half green morocco, by
Worsfold, spine gilt, 1826, both spines a little faded, 8vo (2).
£150 – £200
Lot 503
503. [Cruikshank (Robert) co M i c a L i t i E s], no title or text, 24
hand-coloured etched plates by Robert Cruikshank, later half green
morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded, 12mo, [1830].
£200 – £300
Lot 504
504. [Hempel (Charles William)] th E co M M E r c i aL to u r i s t; o r,
gE n t L E M a n tr av E L L E r. a sat i r i c a L Po E M, fourth edition, half-title,
5 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Cruikshank, a little
soiled and browned, upper hinge weak, original cloth, paper spine
label, rubbed and cockled, corners bumped, spine a little worn,
[cf. Abbey, Life 305 & Tooley 259, 1822 edition], 1839; w i t h t h E
5 o r i g i n a L coPPEr P L at E s f o r t h E b o o k, c.250 x 150mm. or 150 x
250mm. (6). £300 – £400
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505. Davenport (W.) hi s t o r i c a L Po rt r a i t u r E o f LE a d i n g Ev E n t s
in t h E LifE o f aL i Pa c h a, vi z i E r o f EP i r u s , first E d i t i o n, half-title,
6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by G.Hunt after W.Davenport,
advertisement leaf at end, some light spotting and offsetting, a few
small adhesion spots to plate V, original boards, paper label on
spine, a little rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 206; Atabey 325; Blackmer
454], folio, 1823. £2000 – £3000
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Lot 506
506. Dawe (George, printer) th E LifE o f a no b L E M a n, 9 handcoloured
aquatint plates, no title or text as issued, light marginal
soiling, faint creasemark across one corner of first plate, later red
morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g.,
one or two marks to lower cover, [Abbey, Life 310], 4to, [c.1825].
£400 – £600
* * * Depicting a young nobleman’s decline from his inheritance to
ruin through women, the turf, cards, moneylenders and a duel.
Lot 505
507. Dibdin (Charles) LifE in Lo n d o n; o r, t h E La r k s o f Lo g i c,
to M, a n d JE r ry, an Extravaganza, in three acts , second edition, handcoloured
etched frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank, text foxed, first
two leaves frayed and reinforced at fore-edge, later half calf, t.e.g.,
others uncut, spine faded, 1822 § Moncrieff (W.T.) Tom and Jerry an
Operatic Extravaganza, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece by Robert
Cruikshank (marginal soiling), some light spotting, original pink
printed wrappers, uncut, soiled and creased, spine defective, preserved
in old cloth portfolio, 1826, 8vo (2). £150 – £200
Lot 508
508. Dickens (Charles) Mr. ni g h t i n g a L E’s di a ry, with the rare
hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Pailthorpe (not always
issued with the book), endpapers with advertisements printed
in pink, original brown cloth blocked in black and titled in gilt,
very slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy,
preserved in later red morocco slip-case with flap, spine gilt, tab to
flap becoming detached, [Eckel p.185], 16mo, Boston, 1877.
£300 – £400
* * * The original edition in 1851 seemed to been have produced in
an incredibly small number of copies, possibly as few as three. The
work was originally by Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, but Dickens
provided so many alterations that it is now attributed more to him
than Lemon.

Lot 509
509. Dickens (Charles).- [Browne (Hablot K.)], “Phiz”. Mr.
ra L P h ni c k L E b y’s “h o n E s t” c o M P o s u r E, o r i g i n a L s t E E L P L at E
for ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ engraved by Hablot K.Browne “Phiz”,
mounted in velvet frame, together with a print from the plate
(rather foxed and browned) and letter of authentication from the
publishers in old straight-grain morocco case, gilt, a little worn,
upper joint split, 4to, 1838. £300 – £400
Lot 510
510. Dix (John) Pr o g r E s s o f in t E M P E r a n c E, from the Original
Paintings by E.V.Rippingille with Poetical Illustrations, 6 handcoloured
engraved plates after Rippingille, a little soiled and
browned, some plates reinforced at inner margin, modern half
green morocco, spine gilt, original brown printed wrappers bound
in (a little rubbed), uncut, oblong small folio, Bristol and London,
[c.1840]. £150 – £200
Lot 511
511. E[gerton] (M[ichael]) ai ry no t h i n g s , first E d i t i o n, 23 handcoloured
aquatint plates by George Hunt after Egerton, rather
foxed and soiled mostly affecting text but some plates with marginal
staining, plates offset, contemporary half calf, rubbed, [Abbey, Life
290; Tooley 206], 4to, 1825. £600 – £800
Lot 512
512. Egan (Pierce) LifE in Lo n d o n , first E d i t i o n, second issue
with footnote on p.9 and first sheet of music unnumbered, half-title,
hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 35 plates by Isaac, Robert
& George Cruikshank, wood-engraved vignettes, 6pp. engraved
musical notation on 3 folding sheets (lightly foxed), title washed at
head and spotted, some light offsetting, plates a little cropped with
loss to a few imprints, a good copy in later blue morocco, gilt, by
Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., joints and corners
a little rubbed, spine very slightly faded, [Abbey Life 281; Cohn
262; Tooley 196], 8vo, 1821; w i t h wat E r c o L o u r o va L P o rt r a i t o f
Eg a n, captioned in ink below, margins a little soiled and creased
at one edge, image c.135 x 110mm. a n d a c i r c u L a r Pat c h b o x w i t h
h a n d-c o L o u r E d E n g r av i n g o f LifE in Lo n d o n o n L i d based on ‘Tom
and Jerry “masquerading it” among the Cadgers’ plate opposite
p.346 but in reverse, lacquered, a few small scratches, 90mm.
diameter (3). £300 – £400
Lot 513
513. [Egan (Pierce), imitation] rE a L LifE in ir E L a n d, hand-coloured
aquatint frontispiece and 18 plates by Alken, Heath and others,
frontispiece from another copy (soiled & torn, laid down), browned,
plates soiled, later crushed burgundy morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son,
spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., [Abbey, Life 282; Tooley 201], 8vo,
1821 [but some plates dated 1822]. £200 – £300
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Lot 514
514. Ellis (Henry) Jo u r n a L o f t h E Pr o c E E d i n g s o f t h E Lat E
EMbassy to ch i n a, first E d i t i o n, engraved portrait frontispiece
and 3 maps (1 large and folding), 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates,
errata leaf at end, maps foxed, some very light offsetting to plates,
text a little foxed and soiled, ex-library copy with stamp on verso of
portrait and folding map, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners
worn, rebacked in morocco, spine a little faded, [Abbey, Travel
536; Tooley 208], 4to, 1817. £400 – £600
Lot 515
515. [Engelbach (Lewis)] naPLEs a n d t h E ca M Pa g n a fELicE in a
sEriEs o f LEttErs , hand-coloured aquatint additional decorative title
with vignette of Vesuvius, 3 hand-coloured maps and plans (1 folding)
and 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson and
others, with list of plates at end, occasional light spotting and soiling,
tear to fore-edge of Cc2 (repaired, no loss), later half blue morocco,
by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 166; Tooley 228], 8vo,
R.Ackermann, [1815]. £400 – £600
516. Farquhar (Ferdinand) th E rE L i c k s o f a sa i n t. a r i g h t
M E r r y ta L E, half-title, hand-coloured etched frontispiece by
Rowlandson, 1816 § [Britton (John)] The Pleasures of Human Life,
hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title,
5 hand-coloured etched plates by Rowlandson, marginal staining
to frontispiece and title, 1807, both original boards, uncut, paper
spine labels, rubbed, the second a little stained and with spine
worn and defective, 16mo (2). £150 – £200
517. Fellowes (W.D.) a visit to t h E Mo n a s t E ry o f La traPPE, in 1817,
third edition, 15 engraved plates including 12 hand-coloured aquatints
by I.Clark after the author, text foxed but plates clean, contemporary
red straight-grain morocco, gilt, a little worn, 1820 § Glances at
Character, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 7 plates
by I.Clark, lightly soiled, later half morocco, spine gilt, 1814 Select
Comic Tales. From the Best Authors, hand-coloured etched
frontispiece and vignette-title, a little browned, original blue printed
boards, slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, 1813 § Thackeray (W.M.) The
Book of Snobs, advertisement leaf, half-title, illustrations, original
pictorial green wrappers, soiled and browned, 1848; and another,
illustrated, 8vo et infra (5). £150 – £200
Lot 518
518. Fielding (Theodore Henry) british ca s t L E s , lacking halftitle,
25 hand-coloured aquatint plates, text foxed but plates clean,
modern half blue morocco, spine gilt and slightly faded, g.e.,
[Abbey, Scenery 20; Tooley 214], oblong 4to, 1825. £300 – £400
Lot 519
519. Fielding (Theodore Henry) a Pi c t u r E s q u E dE s c r i P t i o n o f
t h E ri v E r wy E, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, all
neatly numbered in ink in contemporary hand, ink signature at head
of title, marginal staining to one or two plates, original blind-stamped
cloth, a little rubbed, spine faded and slightly worn at ends, [Abbey,
Scenery, 550; Tooley, 218], 4to, 1841. £500 – £700
Lot 520
520. Fore-edge Painting.- Howard (Henry, Earl of Surrey)
th E Po E M s , Aldine Edition of the British Poets, engraved portrait
(foxed), front free endpaper torn, contemporary red morocco, g.e.,
w i t h a f o r E-E d g E Pa i n t i n g o f shiPs at s E a beneath the gilt, joints and
corners a little rubbed, 12mo, 1831. £150 – £200

Lot 521
521. fr E n c h co s t u M E, no text, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates,
original buff wrappers with aquatint maritime vignette & title by
R.Havell on upper wrapper, slightly soiled, spine chipped at head,
12mo, Rodwell, 1826. £150 – £200
* * * Depicting the costumes of the women of Normandy.
Lot 522
522. G. (A.P.D.) skEtchEs o f Po rt u g u E s E LifE, Ma n n E r s, co s t u M E
a n d ch a r a c t E r, half-title, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates,
engraved plate of music, plates offset, some a little foxed, later half red
morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt and slightly faded, g.e., [Abbey,
Travel, 141; Tooley 453], 8vo, 1826. £500 – £700
Lot 523
523. Goldsmith (Oliver) th E vi c a r o f wakEfiELd, 24 handcoloured
aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, with 3 duplicate
plates (trimmed, 1 mounted at beginning, the other 2 bound in), some
light spotting and browning, bookplate of S.A.Thompson Yates, later
green morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, g.e., spine gilt and faded,
[Tooley 436], 8vo, Ackermann, 1817. £200 – £300
Lot 524
524. [Grasset de Saint-Saveur (Jacques)] an 4M E d E L a
ré P u b L i q u E fr a n ç a i s E. 1795. co s t u M E s d E s rE P r é s E n ta n s d u
PE u P L E, Membres des deux Conseils, du Directoire Exécutif ,
hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title and 15 plates by
Labrousse after St.Sauveur, advertisement leaf at end, text foxed
and with light marginal water-staining but plates generally clean,
contemporary printed paste-paper boards with printed pink paper
label mounted on upper cover, also manuscript note of St.Sauveur’s
address, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, [Colas 1294], 8vo, Paris, Deroy,
1795. £200 – £300
Lot 525
525. Greenaway (Kate) bi rt h d ay bo o k f o r ch i L d r E n, s i g n E d
P r E s E n tat i o n c o P y f r o M t h E a u t h o r to ha r r i s o n wE i r sE P t.1880
inscribed on presentation leaf at beginning, original pictorial cloth
with circular illustration mounted on upper cover, [1880]; Songs for
the Nursery, original pictorial cloth, [1880]; Language of Flowers,
foxed, original boards, [1884] § Ranking (B.M.) and T.K.Tully.
Flowers and Fancies, contemporary limp calf, spine faded, 1883 §
Mavor (W.) The English Spelling-Book, original pictorial boards,
spine browned, 1885, all with plates or illustrations by Kate
Greenaway, many colour, rubbed, 8vo et infra (5). £200 – £300
* * * Harrison Weir (1824-1906), animal artist and author.
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Lot 526
526. Greenaway (Kate).- Ruskin (John, editor) da M E wi g g i n s
o f LE E, a n d h E r sE v E n wo n d E r f u L cat s , P r E s E n tat i o n c o P y f r o M
Jo h n ru s k i n to sa r a h an g E L i n a ac L a n d inscribed on front free
endpaper, woodcut illustrations by Kate Greenaway, book-label of
Sarah Angelina Acland annotated with manuscript explanation of
inscription on front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very
slightly rubbed at edges, 8vo, Orpington, 1885. £250 – £350
* * * The inscription reads, “Angie/ From her poor little/ Hearth-
Cricket/ 29th November, 1885”. The note on the book-label
explains, “This book was given to her by Mr. Ruskin, who called
himself a ‘Cricket’ in consequence of one of the household asking
how a man could be a cricket (meaning critic).”
Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) was the daughter of the
physician Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900). Ruskin and
Acland met as undergraduates at Oxford and remained lifelong
friends.
Lot 527
Lot 527
527. Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) gE r M a n
Po P u L a r st o r i E s, translated from the Kinder und Hans Märchen ,
2 vol., first En g L i s h E d i t i o n, vol.1 second issue, half-titles, etched
vignette titles and 20 plates by George Cruikshank, those in vol.2
printed in brown, 12pp. advertisements at end of vol.1 but vol.2
without 12pp. advertisements at beginning and 2pp. at end, small
tear to upper edge of plate opposite p.217 in vol.1 (repaired, no
loss), small hole to p.iv-v (advertisement) in vol.2 with loss of two
letters, H gathering in vol.2 with some foxing, otherwise a fine copy
in later calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt in compartments with
morocco labels, g.e., very slight rubbing to extremities, small stain
to upper cover of vol.2, [Cohn 369], 12mo, C.Baldwyn, 1823 and
London, James Robins & Co., and Dublin, Joseph Robins Jun. &
Co., 1826. £1200 – £1800
Lot 528
528. Hardy (Joseph) a Pi c t u r E s q u E a n d dE s c r i P t i v E to u r in t h E
Mo u n ta i n s o f t h E hi g h Py r E n E E s, first E d i t i o n, P r E s E n tat i o n c o P y
f r o M t h E a u t h o r inscribed on front free endpaper, engraved map,
24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, mounted as issued, map foxed,
very slight offsetting from plates, original green cloth, paper label
on spine, uncut, a little rubbed and spotted, spine label slightly
chipped, spine faded and worn at head and foot, [Abbey, Travel
210], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1825. £400 – £600

Lot 529
529. Hassell (John) th E ca M E r a ; o r, art o f dr aw i n g in wat E r
co L o u r s, first E d i t i o n, folding plate in 3 states (1 outline, 2
aquatint, 1 hand-coloured), advertisement leaf at end, plain
aquatint plate lightly soiled and partly detached at inner margin,
original boards with printed paper label on upper cover, uncut,
rubbed, a little worn at corners and spine ends, [Abbey, Life 142],
8vo, 1823. £150 – £200
* * * Scarce.
Lot 530
530. Heath (William) fo r E i g n Mi L i ta ry co s t u M E, engraved and
hand-coloured throughout with pictorial title and 6 plates, each of
4 vignettes, title very lightly soiled, modern half crimson morocco
with gilt-stamped roan label on upper cover, g.e., oblong folio,
Thos. McLean, 1823. £600 – £800
Lot 531
531. [Heath (William)] Ma r c h o f in t E L L E c t (th E), 6 handcoloured
etched plates by Robert Seymour, each with six vignettes,
some light foxing or browning, original blue wrappers, uncut,
upper wrapper foxed, lower renewed, preserved in modern cloth
portfolio, [Not in Abbey or Tooley], oblong folio, Thos.McLean,
1829. £200 – £300
* * * The subjects of the plates are Fashionable, Mechanical,
Philosophical, Philanthropical, Professional and Political.
Lot 532
532. [Heath (William)] a sE a r c h a f t E r t h E “co M f o rta b L E:”
being the adventures of a little gentleman of small fortune, 6
hand-coloured etched plates by Robert Seymour, each with many
vignettes, some light soiling, mostly marginal, original printed
wrappers, uncut, rather soiled and marked, lower wrapper a
little frayed at edges, becoming loose, preserved in modern cloth
portfolio, [Abbey, Life 318], oblong folio, Thos.M’Lean, 1829.
£200 – £300
* * * The subjects of the plates are Frolic & Fashion, Rural
Retirement, Arts & Sciences, Travelling I & II, Courtship.
533. [Heath (William)] a sE a r c h a f t E r t h E “co M f o rta b L E:”
being the adventures of a little gentleman of small fortune, 6
hand-coloured etched plates by Robert Seymour, each with many
vignettes, soiled and stained, plate 2 defective at lower edge and
plates 5 & 6 torn (all repaired), original printed wrappers, soiled
and marked, some tears repaired, rebacked, [Abbey, Life 318],
oblong folio, Thos.M’Lean, 1829. £150 – £200
Lot 534
534. Hogarth (William) and others. an ac c o u n t o f wh at sE E M E d
Mo s t rE M a r k a b L E in t h E fi v E day s PE r E g r i n at i o n , first E d i t i o n,
9 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Hogarth and others, title a
little browned, plates with light marginal staining to fore-edge just
affecting border of final plate, modern half tan morocco with giltstamped
calf label on upper cover, [Abbey, Life, 307], oblong folio,
for R.Livesay, 1782. £1000 – £1500
* * * Account of Hogarth’s jaunt with his friends from the Bedford
Arms Tavern in Covent Garden to the Isle of Sheppey.
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Lot 535
535. Holbein (Hans) th E da n c E o f dE at h; f r o M t h E o r i g i n a L
d E s i g n s , 2 engraved portraits and 31 plates by Wenceslaus Hollar,
all hand-coloured, light marginal soiling or spotting, contemporary
red straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed, rebacked, spine gilt,
8vo, 1816. £150 – £200
Lot 536
536. Holderness (Mary) nE w russia. Jo u r n E y f r o M ri g a to t h E
cr iM E a , first E d i t i o n, 3 hand-coloured lithographed costume
plates, 2 plain lithographed plates, 1 folding, errata slip at end,
costume plates clean, others foxed, some other spotting to text,
contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, [cf. Atabey 588, second
edition; Not in Abbey or Tooley], 8vo, 1823. £250 – £350
Lot 537
537. Honan (Michael Burke, editor) th E an d a L u s i a n an n u a L,
f o r Mdcccxxxvii, first E d i t i o n, 12 hand-coloured lithographed
costume plates by Gauci and Hullmandel, some heightened with gum
arabic, musical notation, some spotting and soiling, mainly affecting
text, original pink cloth, covers with title and figure of dancing girl in
gilt within elaborate blind-stamped border, g.e., rubbed and faded,
a few small stains to upper cover, corners worn, rebacked, [Colas
1476; Palau 11860], 4to, 1836. £700 – £900
* * * The plates include bullfighters and bandits.
Lot 538
538. Howitt (Samuel) a nE w wo r k o f an i M a L s, 56 etched plates,
a L L h a n d-c o L o u r E d, marginal foxing and soiling, contemporary
half russia, rubbed, spine worn at head and foot, split to foot of
upper joint, [cf.Schwerdt I p.252, edition with 100 plates; Nissen
2018], 4to, Edward Orme, 1811. £400 – £600
Lot 539
539. Ibbetson (Julius Caesar), J.Laporte and J.Hassell. a
Pi c t u r E s q u E gu i d E to bat h , br i s t o L ho t-wE L L s, t h E ri v E r av o n,
a n d t h E a d J a c E n t c o u n t ry, first E d i t i o n, lacking half-title, with
16 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, errata/advertisement leaf at
end, a clean copy, later half green morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others
uncut, spine faded, [Abbey, Scenery 38; Tooley 277], 4to, 1793.
£400 – £600
Lot 540
540. Ireland.- EM a n c i Pat i o n; o r PE t E r, Ma rt i n, a n d t h E sq u i r E.
a ta L E in rh y M E. to which is added as short account of the present
state of the Irish Catholics, folding etched frontispiece by “Lunar
Caustic” (a little browned), later blue morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf,
g.e., spine faded, [2 copies only listed on COPAC, British Library
and Oxford], 8vo, [1808]. £150 – £200

Lot 541
541. Ireland (Samuel) Pi c t u r E s q u E viE w s o n t h E ri v E r th a M E s
, 2 vol., half-titles, hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial
titles and 52 plates, 2 engraved maps, woodcut illustrations, some
foxing, boards, uncut, a little rubbed, [cf.Abbey, Scenery 430, 1792
edition], 8vo, 1801-02. £350 – £450
Lot 542
542. Ireland (Samuel) Pi c t u r E s q u E viE w s o n t h E ri v E r ME d w a y ,
half-title, leaf of verses, hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial
title and 28 plates, engraved map, woodcut illustrations, advertisement
leaf at end, some plates foxed, contemporary diced russia, gilt, a little
rubbed, rebacked in calf, spine gilt, corners repaired, [Abbey, Scenery,
428], 8vo, T. & J.Egerton, 1793. £300 – £400
Lot 543
543. Ireland (Samuel) Pi c t u r E s q u E viE w s o n t h E uPPEr, o r
wa rw i c k s h i r E av o n, first E d i t i o n, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint
additional pictorial title and 29 plates, engraved map and 2 etched
portraits, woodcut illustrations, plates foxed, modern half green calf,
spine faded, [Abbey, Scenery 427], 8vo, 1795. £300 – £400
Lot 544
544. [Jermyn (Laetitia)] th E bu t t E r f Ly co L L E c to r’s va d E
ME c u M, first E d i t i o n, engraved title and 2 hand-coloured plates,
some foxing and offsetting, contemporary marbled boards, uncut,
rubbed, spine crudely repaired at head with sticky tape, 8vo,
Ipswich and London, [c.1824]. £80 – £120
Lot 545
545. Johnson (Capt.James) Li v E s a n d ad v E n t u r E s o f t h E M o s t
cE L E b r at E d hi g h way M E n, st r E E t ro b b E r s, &c., hand-coloured
engraved frontispiece, engraved title with decorative vignette
border depicting robberies, drinking scenes and executions, and 8
hand-coloured aquatint plates, some light spotting, contemporary
half red morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly
rubbed at edges, 8vo, [1822]. £150 – £200
Lot 546
546. [Johnson (Charles)] ch ry s a L; o r t h E ad v E n t u r E s o f a
gu i n E a: b y a n ad E P t, 3 vol., first E d i t i o n, half-titles, 15 handcoloured
aquatint plates, advertisement leaf at end, occasional
spotting, light offsetting from plates but a good copy, bookplate of
Frederick Greenwood, handsome contemporary burgundy straightgrain
morocco, gilt, spines gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, spine of vol.1
worn at head, [Tooley 283], 8vo, 1821. £150 – £200
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Lot 547
547. Johnston (Robert) tr av E L s t h r o u g h Pa rt o f t h E ru s s i a n
EM P i rE a n d t h E co u n t ry o f Po L a n d, first E d i t i o n, half-title, 2
engraved maps, 21 plates, all but one hand-coloured aquatints,
wood-engraved plate of agricultural implements and illustration
of mammoth skeleton in text, with the List of Plates leaf (often
missing), some foxing and offsetting, slight staining to one or two
plates, Egremont bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary half
red morocco, pine gilt, rubbed, slight wear to head of spine, [Abbey,
Travel 15; Tooley 286], 4to, 1815. £400 – £600
Lot 548
548. König (Frans Niklaus) no u v E L L E coLLEction d E co s t u M E s
suissEs d E s xxii ca n to n s; nE u E sa M M L u n g v o n schwEizErtrachtEn ,
text in French and German, 60 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates
after König, Lory and Andern, tissue guards, ink inscription on title
(partly crossed out), contemporary green morocco-backed glazed
green boards, spine gilt, g.e., slightly rubbed, spine faded, [Colas1654],
Zurich, Orell, Füssli & Co., [c.1818]. £600 – £800
Lot 549
549. Latrobe (Rev. Christian Ignatius) Jo u r n a L o f a visit to so u t h
af r i c a, in 1815, a n d 1816. With some account of the missionary
settlements near the Cape of Good Hope, first E d i t i o n, folding
engraved map with routes supplied in red and blue, 4 engraved
outline panoramas and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, foxed at
beginning and end affecting title, otherwise very clean, 19th century
half sheep, spine gilt with red morocco label, a little rubbed, [Abbey,
Travel 325; Tooley 292], 4to, 1818. £500 – £700
* * * Latrobe was appointed by the Moravian Church to select a site
for a third mission station at the Cape.
Lot 550
550. Laurent (Peter Edmund) rE c o L L E c t i o n s o f a cL a s s i c a L
to u r t h r o u g h va r i o u s Pa rt s o f gr E E c E, tu r k E y, a n d ita Ly , first
E d i t i o n, 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates, plate of facsimile, text
foxed and browned but plates clean, original boards, uncut, a
little rubbed, rebacked in cloth, [Abbey, Travel 204; Atabey 680;
Blackmer 959; Tooley 293], 4to, 1821. £600 – £800

Lot 551
551. Le Sage (Alain René) th E ad v E n t u r E s o f giL bL a s d E
sa n t i L L a n E, translated by Tobias Smollett, 3 vol., half-titles, 15
hand-coloured aquatint plates, light offsetting to titles, text foxed,
later boards, uncut, a little rubbed, splits to joints, 8vo, 1819.
£150 – £200
Lot 552
552. [Little (Thomas)] co n f E s s i o n s o f a n ox o n i a n, 3 vol., first
E d i t i o n, ?lacking half-titles, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates
by J.Findlay, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, rather browned,
plates offset, handsome later crushed green morocco, gilt, by
Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt in compartments, uncut, [Not in Abbey or
Tooley], 12mo, J.J.Stockdale, 1826. £400 – £600
* * * Scarce.
Lot 553
553. [Lory (Gabriel, the younger)] Pi c t u r E s q u E to u r t h r o u g h
t h E ob E r L a n d in t h E ca n t o n o f bE r n E, in sw i t z E r L a n d, handcoloured
engraved map and 17 fine hand-coloured aquatint
plates, occasional light marginal soiling, original roan-backed
boards, uncut, rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, [Abbey,
Travel 57; Tooley 26], large 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1823.
£1500 – £2000
* * * Including an account of the first ascent of the Jungfrau and
Finsteraarhorn by the Meyer brothers in 1812 (p.60).
Lot 554
554. Lyall (Robert) th E ch a r a c t E r o f t h E ru s s i a n s, a n d a
d E ta i L E d hi s t o ry o f Mo s c o w, first E d i t i o n, 23 engraved plates,
14 aquatint of which all but one hand-coloured including folding
panorama of the Kremlin, 3 others folding, and large folding
engraved map of Moscow (torn and repaired), some light foxing,
mostly to uncoloured plates and map, later half morocco, spine
gilt, [Abbey, Travel 227], 4to, 1823. £800 – £1200
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Lot 555
555. M’leod (John, surgeon) vo ya g E o f his Ma J E s t y’s sh i P
aL c E s t E, a L o n g t h E co a s t o f co r E a, to t h E is L a n d o f LE w c h E w,
second edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 handcoloured
aquatint plates, 4pp. catalogue at end, occasional light
spotting, engraved bookplate of Erskine of Dun, original boards,
uncut, paper spine label, a little rubbed, corners bumped, [Abbey,
Travel 559], 8vo, 1818. £120 – £180
Lot 556
556. Maddock (James) th E fL o r i s t’s dirEctory; o r, a trEatisE o n t h E
cu Lt u r E o f fLowErs , first E d i t i o n, engraved title and 6 plates, 4 handcoloured,
some spotting and soiling, modern half calf, for the Author,
1792 § Martyn (Thomas) Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations to
illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, 38 hand-coloured engraved
plates, advertisement leaf at end, later red morocco, gilt, by W.H.Smith
& Son, uncut, 1788, 8vo £200 – £300
Lot 559
Lot 557
557. Malcolm (James Peller) an E c d o t E s o f t h E Ma n n E r s a n d
cu s t o M s o f Lo n d o n, d u r i n g t h E Ei g h t E E n t h cE n t u ry, 3 vol., first
E d i t i o n, 50 engraved plates including 12 hand-coloured costume
plates, some light spotting and browning, original printed label
mounted on rear free endpaper, engraved bookplate, handsome
later mottled calf, spine gilt with black morocco labels, t.e.g.,
others uncut, very slightly rubbed at edges, cloth slip-case, 4to,
1808. £150 – £200
Lot 558
558. [Mitford (John)] My co u s i n in t h E ar M y : o r Jo h n n y
nE w c o M E o n t h E PE a c E Es ta b L i s h M E n t, 16 hand-coloured aquatint
plates by I.Cruikshank, C.Williams and others, plates a little shorter
than text, frontispiece offset on title, some other offsetting, some
spotting, later crushed red morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt
in compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, a few spots to upper cover,
spine very slightly faded, [Abbey, Life 370; Tooley 166], 8vo,
1822. £200 – £300
559. Morris (Richard) Essays o n La n d s c a P E ga r d E n i n g, a n d o n
u n i t i n g Pi c t u r E s q u E EffEct w i t h ru r a L sc E n E ry , first E d i t i o n,
half-title, 6 aquatint plates, 3 hand-coloured and 3 sepia (2 with
overslips), some light marginal soiling but plates clean, original
boards, uncut, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked (slightly worn at
head of spine), [Abbey Life 40], 4to, J.Taylor, 1825.
£1000 – £1500

Lot 560
560. Napoleon.- ca r n E t d’u n vo ya g E u r, ou Recueil de Notes
Curieuses sur la Vie, les Occupations, les Habitudes de Buonaparte
a Longwood Sainte-Hélène , advertisement leaf, half-title, 3 handcoloured
aquatint plates (a little browned), original cream printed
wrappers, uncut, soiled and slightly frayed at edges, preserved in
later cloth portfolio and slip-case (spine faded), [Abbey, Travel
313], 8vo, Paris, 1819. £120 – £180
Lot 561
561. [Papworth (John B.) and others.] Po E t i c a L sk E t c h E s o f
sc a r b o r o u g h, first E d i t i o n, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates by
Rowlandson after J.Green, one leaf with small tear to fore-edge
repaired, cropped, a fine copy in later crushed dark blue morocco,
gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, g.e., [Abbey Scenery 297; Tooley
422], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1813. £200 – £300
Lot 562
562. Papworth (John Buonarotti) hi n t s o n or n a M E n ta L
ga r d E n i n g: c o n s i s t i n g o f a s E r i E s o f d E s i g n s f o r g a r d E n b u i L d i n g s ,
first E d i t i o n, lacking half-title, sepia-printed aquatint plan (lacking
overslip, lower margin defective where slip torn away), 27 handcoloured
aquatint plates, plate 2 with ‘Gates and Fences’ caption
pasted over ‘Park Entrances’, a few illustrations and diagrams in
text, a little soiled, 19th century half calf, bookseller’s ticket of Rees
Davies of Hull on front pastedown, rather worn, [Abbey, Life 46;
Berlin Kat. 3436], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1823. £500 – £700
* * * Including an aviary, dairy, ice house, laundry, poultry house,
Venetian tent, a bath and an apiary.
Lot 563
563. Pa r i s E t s E s En v i r o n s. Pr o M E n a d E s Pi t t o r E s q u E s, half-title,
engraved title with hand-coloured vignette and 10 hand-coloured
engraved plates, tissue guards, text a little foxed, contemporary ink
inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary calf elaborately
stamped in blind with architectural design around a central blank
medallion, spine gilt, g.e., slightly rubbed, 12mo, Paris, [c.1820].
£150 – £200
Lot 564
564. Pettigrew (Thomas Joseph) a hi s t o ry o f Eg y P t i a n Mu M M iE s
, first E d i t i o n, P r E s E n tat i o n c o P y f r o M t h E a u t h o r to dr co P L a n d
inscribed on front free endpaper, half-title, list of subscribers, 13
engraved or lithographed plates, 4 hand-coloured, 2 heightened
with gold, errata leaf, frontispiece offset on title, plates foxed and
water-stained at lower outer corner, original cloth-backed boards,
paper label on upper cover, a little worn particularly at spine ends,
splits to joints, [Cohn 644], 4to, 1834. £300 – £400
* * * Ten of the thirteen plates are by George Cruikshank and the one
of beetles by J.O.Westwood. Pettigrew was a surgeon and antiquary
who conducted researches into medical history and biography and
contributed to archaeological journals.
James Copland (1791-1870), physician and writer on medicine.
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565. Poulson (George) th E hi s t o ry a n d an t i q u i t i E s o f t h E
sE i g n i o ry o f ho L d E r n E s s, in the East-Riding of the County of York,
2 vol., engraved plates, maps and plans, many folding, a few handcoloured,
foxed, particularly at beginnings and ends, bookplate of
John Knowsley Thornton, contemporary half calf, a little worn,
4to, Hull, 1840-41. £100 – £150
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 566
566. [Raspe (Rudolph Erich)] su r P r i s i n g ad v E n t u r E s o f t h E
rE n o w n E d ba r o n Mu n c h a u s E n, c o n ta i n i n g si n g u L a r tr av E L s ,
folding frontispiece and 8 plates by Rowlandson, all hand-coloured
etchings, a little soiled and browned, final plate frayed at fore-edge
(repaired), original boards, uncut, a little worn, rebacked, 12mo,
Thomas Tegg, 1809. £200 – £300
Lot 567
567. Raye (Charles) a Pi c t u r E s q u E to u r t h r o u g h t h E is L E o f
wi g h t, 24 hand-coloured plates, one etched, the rest aquatint,
tissue guards, occasional spotting, mostly marginal, plates
generally clean, original half roan with gilt-stamped roan label on
upper cover, a little rubbed and stained, corners and spine ends
worn, [Abbey, Scenery 349; Tooley 206], oblong 4to, 1825.
£600 – £800
Lot 568
568. [Roberts (Lt.-Col. David)] th E Mi L i ta ry ad v E n t u r E s o f
Jo h n n y nE w c o M E , first E d i t i o n, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates
by Thomas Rowlandson, lightly browned, later crimson morocco,
gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., [Abbey, Life
378; Tooley 417], 8vo, 1815. £150 – £200
Lot 569
569. Rowlandson (Thomas) [co u n t ry fa c E s], set of 6 handcoloured
circular etchings by Rowlandson after Woodward, plate 1
a little browned, all with stains in corners from glue on verso where
previously tipped into album, diameter 190mm., 1799; and 2 other
coloured etchings after Rowlandson (8). £300 – £500
Lot 570
570. Rowlandson (Thomas).- an n a L s o f sP o rt i n g, b y ca L E b
qu i z E M, Es q r. a n d h i s va r i o u s c o r r E s P o n d E n t s, first E d i t i o n, handcoloured
folding etched frontispiece, vignette title and 27 plates by
Rowlandson and Woodward, a little spotted and browned, plates
offset, modern boards with original printed wrappers mounted on
covers, uncut, a little rubbed, [Schwerdt II p.119], 12mo, Thomas
Tegg, 1809. £300 – £400
Lot 571
571. Rowlandson (Thomas) ad v i c E to sP o rt s M E n, ru r a L o r
ME t r o P o L i ta n selected from the original notes, &c. of Marmaduke
Markwell, Esq., first E d i t i o n, half-title, 16 hand-coloured etched
plates by Rowlandson, rather browned, text foxed, original boards,
uncut, rubbed, rebacked, [Schwerdt II p.14; Tooley 407], 12mo,
Thomas Tegg, 1809. £300 – £400

Lot 572
572. Rowlandson (Thomas) ro w L a n d s o n’s ch a r a c t E r i s t i c
sk E t c h E s o f t h E Lo w E r or d E r s, intended as a companion to the new
picture of London, first E d i t i o n, 54 hand-coloured etched plates by
Rowlandson (lacking ‘Placard/Lottery Prizes’ but with duplicate
of ‘Cooper’), a little browned, slip with “Fifty-Four Engravings”
pasted over part of title, nineteenth century calf, gilt, spine gilt and
labelled ‘London Cries’, g.e., a little rubbed, joints cracked, crude
repair to foot of spine with sticky tape, [Tooley 424], 12mo, 1820.
£300 – £500
Lot 573
573. Rowlandson (Thomas) sk E t c h E s f r o M nat u r E , 16 handcoloured
etched plates only (of 18, lacking White Lion Inn, M’sex
and Newport, Isle of Wight), many with aquatint, tissue guards
spotted but plates very clean, with facsimile portrait of Rowlandson
mounted as frontispiece, handsome contemporary calf with triple
rule border and floral cornerpieces in gilt, by Larkins, spine gilt
in compartments with green calf labels, g.e., inner gilt dentelles,
very slightly rubbed at edges, [Abbey, Scenery 33; Tooley 426],
4to, [1822]. £500 – £700
* * * Views include Strawberry Hill but most are of Cornwall.
Lot 574
574. Schoberl (Frederic) th E wo r L d in Mi n i at u r E: Ja Pa n, 20
hand-coloured engraved plates, lightly offset, contemporary half
calf, spine gilt with floral motifs, slightly rubbed at edges, [Abbey,
Travel 6; Tooley 281], 12mo, R.Ackermann, [1823]. £200 – £300
Lot 575
575. [Shelley (Percy Bysshe)], “The Hermit of Marlow.” “wE
Pi t y t h E PL u M a g E, bu t fo r g E t t h E dy i n g bi r d”, An Address to the
People on The Death of the Princess Charlotte, 16pp., first and last
leaves browned, slight creasing to lower edge of first leaf (title),
with the original stitching but broken, preserved in old marbled
portfolio, rubbed, [Granniss pp.43-44; Wise p.46], 8vo, London,
Thomas Rodd, [c.1843]. £250 – £350
* * * Rare. Originally issued in 1817, no copy of the first edition is
known. Thomas Rodd issued the above reprint in or about 1843
and stated that the author printed only twenty copies of the original.
Wise states “no example of this mysterious original has ever been
unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd’s own statement has ever
been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing
or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or
any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed,
that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth, and that
Rodd’s so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual
princeps of the Address.”
Lot 576
576. Sotheby (William) a to u r t h r o u g h Pa rt s o f wa L E s,
so n n E t s, od E s, a n d o t h E r Po E M s , first E d i t i o n, P r E s E n tat i o n c o P y
f r o M t h E a u t h o r “to Miss sta b L E s a.d. 1814” inscribed at head of
title, half-title, 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates by S.Alken, most
after J.Smith, some plates rather browned, one torn across corner
affecting image (repaired), dav i d LL o y d gE o r g E’s c o P y w i t h h i s
E t c h E d b o o k P L at E o n f r o n t Pa s t E d o w n, contemporary straightgrain
morocco, ruled and stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., a little
worn, [Abbey, Scenery 513; Tooley 462], 4to, 1794. £300 – £400
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Lot 577
577. Spilsbury (Francis B.) Pi c t u r E s q u E sc E n E ry in t h E ho Ly
La n d a n d sy r i a, second edition, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates,
light offsetting from plates, frontispiece and title loose, engraved
book-label of James Baldwin Brown of the Inner Temple on front
pastedown, original boards, gilt-stamped red morocco label on
upper cover, slightly rubbed, rebacked and recornered in red
straight-grain morocco, [Abbey, Travel, 383; cf.Tooley 464, 1819
edition], 4to, 1823. £400 – £600
Lot 578
578. Stoddart (John) rE M a r k s o n Lo c a L sc E n E ry & Ma n n E r s
in sc o t L a n d, 2 vol., engraved vignette titles, folding engraved
map with routes supplied in red, 26 hand-coloured aquatint plates
only (of 32), text a little foxed and browned but plates clean, one
plate and adjacent leaf of text torn and repaired (text leaf rather
crudely), contemporary calf, spine with wide raised bands, a little
worn, [Abbey, Scenery 483], 8vo, 1801. £200 – £300
Lot 580
Lot 579
579. Strutt (Joseph) gL i g-ga M E n a an g E L-dE o d, o r th E sP o rt s
a n d Pa s t i M E s o f t h E PE o P L E o f En g L a n d, first E d i t i o n, engraved
frontispiece and 39 plates, all printed in sepia and hand-coloured,
a little browned, some light foxing, engraved bookplate of Samuel
Peace Pratt, 19th century dark blue straight-grained morocco, gilt,
spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, 4to, 1810. £150 – £200
580. Sullivan (Dennis) a Pi c t u r E s q u E to u r t h r o u g h ir E L a n d,
first E d i t i o n, 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates, very light soiling
to title, plates clean, modern half green morocco, spine gilt and
slightly faded, g.e., [Abbey, Scenery 460; Tooley 469], oblong 4to,
1824. £2000 – £3000
581. [Surtees (Robert Smith)] Jo r r o c k s’s Ja u n t s a n d Jo L L i t i E s,
first E d i t i o n in b o o k f o r M, etched plates by Phiz, 1838; Hawbuck
Grange, etched plates by Phiz, n.d.; “Ask Mama”, first E d i t i o n
in b o o k f o r M, hand-coloured plates by John Leech, some foxing,
contemporary calf, gilt, by Root & Son, spine a little faded, 1858;
“Plain or Ringlets?”, hand-coloured additional pictorial title and
plates by John Leech, later red morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, 1860,
the first two uniform later half morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, all with
gilt spines featuring sporting motifs, t.e.g., all but the third with
original pictorial gilt cloth spines and upper covers bound in at
end, 8vo (4). £200 – £300

Lot 582
582. [Surtees (Robert Smith)] “ask Ma M a ”; o r, th E ri c h E s t
co M M o n E r in En g L a n d, first E d i t i o n, first issuE, in t h E o r i g i n a L
13 Pa rt s, 13 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, woodengraved
illustrations, with all advertisements/slips as called for
(some on yellow paper), some light spotting or soiling, original
red printed wrappers with advertisements, a little rubbed, edges
slightly frayed with one or two chips, spines a little worn, preserved
in later cloth slip-cases, spine faded, [Schwerdt II p.233; Tooley
472], 8vo, 1858. £200 – £300
Lot 583
583. [Surtees (Robert Smith)] “PL a i n o r ri n g L E t s?”, first E d i t i o n
in t h E o r i g i n a L 13 Pa rt s (in 12), hand-coloured etched pictorial title
and 12 plates by John Leech, wood-engraved illustrations, without
the 12pp. list of works by Bradbury and Evans at end of final part
but with tipped-in advertisements for Ackermann in several parts,
very occasional spotting, one plate lightly creased, but a good set
in original red printed wrappers with advertisements, Ackermann
label at foot of a few upper wrappers, very slightly rubbed and
soiled, small chip to one edge, preserved in later cloth drop-back
box and slip-case, [Schwerdt II p.238; Tooley 477], 8vo, 1860.
£200 – £300
Lot 586
Lot 584
584. [Surtees (Robert Smith)] Mr. fa c E y ro M f o r d’s ho u n d s, first
E d i t i o n in t h E o r i g i n a L 12 Pa rt s, 24 hand-coloured etched plates by
John Leech and Hablot K.Browne, wood-engraved illustrations, with
all advertisements/slips as called for (some on coloured paper) except
slip for ‘The Belle of the Village’ in part VII, some light spotting, a
good set in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements,
all upper wrappers titled “Mr.Romford’s Hounds”, very slightly
rubbed, preserved in later cloth slip-cases, spine faded, [Schwerdt II
p.237; Tooley 475], 8vo, 1864-65. £150 – £200
Lot 585
585. Thornton (Alfred) do n Ju a n, 2 vol., first E d i t i o n, 31 handcoloured
aquatint plates, occasional spotting and soiling, one plate
slightly creased, another with short tear repaired, later red morocco,
spines gilt, vol.1 with original printed wrappers bound in at end, [Abbey,
Life 323; Tooley 486], 8vo, 1821-22. £200 – £300
* * * “The first volume is a parody of Mozart’s and Byron’s Don
Juan, the second an imitation of Egan’s Life in London.” Abbey
586. Wallis (Edward, publisher) th E is L E o f wi g h t
ci r c u M n av i g at o r, from actual views taken on the spot, 19
hand-coloured aquatint views on conjoined sheets and folding
concertina style, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title mounted on
verso of second view (soiled and spotted), views a little soiled with
occasional browning, folding into original floral embossed cloth
with title and vignette in gilt on upper cover, a little rubbed and
faded, rebacked preserving original spine, [Abbey, Travel 476],
c.110 x 2840mm., E.Wallis, [c.1820]. £750 – £1000
* * * Scarce.
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Lot 587
587. White (John) Jo u r n a L o f a vo ya g E to nE w so u t h wa L E s,
first E d i t i o n, engraved vignette title, list of subscribers, 65 handcoloured
engraved plates, 4pp. advertisements at end, title and
tissue guards foxed, plates very clean, Dd2 soiled, old ink signature
of J.W. Rimington Wilson on front pastedown, also book-label of
Westdean Library, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red
morocco label, rubbed, a little worn at edges and spine ends, splits
to joints, [Ferguson 97], 4to, 1790. £3500 – £4500
* * * Including 30 ornithological plates, 9 botanical and 24
zoological.
Lot 588
588. Wigstead (Henry) rE M a r k s o n a to u r to no rt h a n d so u t h
wa L E s, first E d i t i o n, half-title, engraved additional title and 22
hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and others,
advertisement leaf at end, plates lightly soiled, occasional spotting,
contemporary half roan, uncut, a little worn, especially corners
and spine ends, [Abbey, Scenery 516, uncoloured copy], 8vo, 1799
[engraved title 1800]. £400 – £600
Lot 589
589. Witton (P.H., artist) viE w s o f t h E ru i n s o f t h E Pr i n c i Pa L
ho u s E s d E s t r o y E d d u r i n g t h E ri o t s at bi r M i n g h a M, 8 aquatint
plates by W.Ellis after P.H.Witton, a L L h a n d-c o L o u r E d, each with
accompanying leaf of descriptive text in English and French, plates
with tissue guards, no title as issued, spotting to one or two plates,
some marginal soiling and water-staining but images generally
bright and clean, old cloth with gilt-stamped morocco label on
upper cover, uncut, a little rubbed and spotted, original printed
wrappers bound in (soiled and creased, contemporary ink signature
at head of upper wrapper slightly cropped), [Abbey, Scenery 48,
uncoloured copy], oblong 4to, [J.Johnson], 1791 [plates dated
1792]. £400 – £600
* * * Scarce. The views include the house and “elaboratory” of
Dr.Priestley, and Baskerville House, the residence of John Ryland
Esq. (formerly that of John Baskerville the printer).

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Lot 590
Lot 592
❦ Continental Literature
and History
Other Properties
590. Bible, Latin. [bi b L E], s i n g L E L E a f , [from Jeremiah], double
column, 48 lines plus headline, headlines supplied in red and blue,
2-line initial supplied in blue with large marginal flourish in red,
another 10-line marginal decoration in red, chapter numbers XXIX
and XXX supplied in red, ruled in black, folio, 402 x 301mm.,
Mainz, Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1462.
£1500 – £2000
* * * An attractive leaf from the first dated Bible.
591. Blockbook Leaf.- ar s Mo r i E n d i [in s P i r at i o n a g a i n s t
dE s Pa i r], single leaf from a blockbook, contemporary handcoloured
woodcut printed on one side of the leaf only, a few small
repairs to verso, mounted and preserved in a folding cloth case,
4to (leaf size 248 x 188mm., actual woodcut 212 x 155mm.), South
Germany, [c.1470-80]. £15000 – £20000
* * * This image is the ninth in the series of eleven images and shows
the dying man being watched over and protected from despair by
a vision of Christ’s crucifixion, with St Peter, Mary Magdalene
(carrying a jar of ointment) and an angel standing by his deathbed,
a cockerel on the bedstead and animals in the foreground.
A rare survival, one of only two leaves known from this edition.
Provenance: H.P. Kraus, catalogue 193 (1993), where it was
offered with another woodcut leaf (Temptation against Faith) from
the same blockbook.
Reference: W.L. Schreiber, Manuel de l’amateur de la gravure sur
bois et sur metal (Leipzig, 1902), Ars moriendi group I.V
592. Poggio Florentinus. historia fi o r E n t i n a, t r a n s L at E d b y
Ja c o b u s Po g g i u s, first E d i t i o n o f t h i s t r a n s L at i o n, 116 ff., including
final blank f., 41 lines, Roman type, large decorated initials on a1
and a3 in gold and colours, coat-of-arms in gold and colours at
foot of a1 (little scuffed), large panel in lower margin of a2, with
miniature of 2 putti, one on rocks, the other with a lion, decorated
with flowers and foliage, blank capital spaces, some with guideletters,
faint ownership inscription at head of title ‘Collegii Barie
(?) Soc. Jesu’, note on fly-leaf, with catalogue cutting pasted in,
bookplates on back of front free endpaper, title lightly soiled and
with small crease at foot, sporadic spotting elsewhere, heavier
to a few ff., handsome 18th century red morocco, spine gilt in
six compartments, with floral decoration, rules on covers, inner
dentelles, marbled endpapers, little rubbed, covers scratched, g.e.,
[BMV V 215; Goff P873], folio, Venice, Jacobus Rubeus, 1476.
£4000 – £6000
* * * A handsome copy of this work that covers Florentine history in
the period 1350-1455.

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Lot 593
593. Bible, French. LE s Pa r a b o L L E s s a L o M o n f i L s d E d av i d a P P E L E E s P r o v E r b E s. - LE s Pa r o L L E s d u f i L z d E d av i d d i c t E s
E c c L E s i a s t E. - Li v r E d E s a P i E n c E, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in French, 104 ff., collation: i-v8, vi6, vii 8, viii10,
ix-xiii8, including blank (except for ruling) final ff. in vi and viii, original foliation on most of first 18 ff., 23 lines,
written in brown ink in a handsome lettre bâtarde, 30 2- or 3-line initials in gold on blue and white backgrounds, many
1-line initials in gold on red or blue and white, and a few on brown and gold, 3 large miniatures (c.130 x 120mm.)
with 4 lines of text beneath, ruled in red, staining, heavy in places, seriously affecting the last miniature, and a number
of other ff., wrinkling throughout, small hole in lower border of the second miniature, s i g n at u r E ‘La r o c h E f o u c a u L d’
at f o o t o f first P., armorial bookplate on first fly-leaf of H.C.Embleton, sixteenth-century brown morocco, covers
with double blind-stamped roll, paste-downs made up of fragments of an early liturgical book, printed in red and
black, rubbed, rebacked, covers repaired, 4to, c.240 x 160mm., Northern France, late 15th century.
£10000 – £15000
* * * A fine manuscript, though sadly affected by water-damage, of three of the ‘sapiental’ books of the Bible associated
with King Solomon: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Wisdom, in the bible historiale version by Guyart des Moulins, based
on Peter Comestor’s Latin Historica Scholastica. The miniatures depict (f. 1r) Solomon enthroned, with a group of
courtiers beside him, insructing his son Rehoboam, in an architectural setting, with a glimpse of a hilly landscape
visible through an open door; (f. 47r) Solomon enthroned between two groups of courtiers (or students?). behind
them a wall, and behind that glimpses of landscape; (f. 64r) Solomon seated at a large desk, writing on a scroll, in an
architectural setting, with shelves of books high up on either side, with lansdcape visible through a window above. The
three miniatures are in similar architectural borders, predominantly in gold, with coloured pillars on either side, and a
tasseled cord on the right, on which a small golden manikin is climbing, at the foot a gilt pedestal on which is a panel
or scroll with 4 lines of text.
Provenance: from the La Rochefoucauld family library, with signature at foot of first page very similar to that found in books
in the Bibliothèque du Château de la Roche-Guyon, sold by Sotheby’s in Monaco, 9th Dec, 1987 (cf lot 753), though unlike
the books in that sale, this manuscript has neither the library stamp on title, nor the family arms on the covers.

Lot 594 Lot 595
594. Hermes Trismegistus. De p o t e s tat e e t s a p i e n t i a De i, 40ff.
only (of 44, lacking sig f), initial and final blank leaves present,
28 lines, Roman letter, occasional marginal soiling, later vellum,
[Goff H79; Hain 8460], small 4to, Venice, Lucas Domenici, 15
May 1481. £2000 – £3000
* * * Provenance: 18th century inscription on first blank “Ex dono
Cl. V. Antonii Bettini Fanen. A.1794.”
595. Aristotle. or g a n o n, edited by Nicoletus Vernia, commentary
by Averroes, 116ff. (?of 119, lacking blank q10 and ?initial and
final blank), double column, 66 lines and headline, italic letter,
initial spaces, woodcut printer’s device printed in red to final text
f. (z8), occasional early ink marginalia, a1 browned and stained,
a few wormholes, affecting part of a letter or two on several ff.,
occasional foxing or spotting, a few stains, some marginal repairs,
especially to upper gutters, old wooden boards, rebacked in
antique style calf, lacking clasps, upper corners of boards worn,
some worming, rubbed, [not in BMC, Goff A-962; HC 1660],
folio, Venice, Andreas Torresanus de Asula and Bartholomaeus de
Blavis, 1483. £4000 – £6000
* * * Rare. First in a series of separately issued parts of the works of
Aristotle by the Venice based printers. Averroes was an Andalusian
Muslim polymath. Some consider him the founding father of
secular thought in Western Europe.
596. Jerome (Saint) th e Ly f f o f t h e oL D e au n c y e n t ho Ly fa D e r s,
s i n g L e iLLustrateD Leaf, double column, 41 lines plus headline, 3
woodcuts, marginal soiling, small folio, 277 x 200mm., [Westminster,
Wynkyn de Worde], [not after 21 August 1495]. £300 – £400
Lot 596
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597. Pacioli (Luca) Di v i n a pr o p o rt i o n e, first e D i t i o n, title and final leaf with woodcut of the
tree of proportion and proportionality in red and black, woodcut initials, some criblé, diagrams
in margins, woodcut illustrations including the human head, 3 architectural subjects, the alphabet
(without Z) & the suite of polyhedral shapes, t h e L at t e r a f t e r Le o n a r D o D a vi n c i, some early ink
annotations in Italian, washed, trimmed and with some paper repairs (to blank margins and wormholes)
and the lower half of the final leaf (woodcut of tree of proportion) supplied in good facsimile,
2 leaves bound out of order, modern brown calf in period style with clasps, cloth drop-back box,
[Mortimer, Harvard Italian 346], folio (trimmed down to a 4to size), Venice, Alessandro & Paganino
de Paganini, 1509. £35000 – £50000
* * * A professionally restored copy of one of the great renaissance books. Pacioli was born in Borgo
Sansepolcro and entered the Franciscan order sometime between 1470 and 1476 where he taught
mathematics, first as a tutor and then as a lecturer at the University of Perugia.
In 1496 he went to Milan, where he met Leonardo da Vinci, who drew the various figures of polyhedra
for this work. He completed the work in 1498 and dedicated it to his Milanese patron, Ludovico il
Moro. It was eventually published in Venice in 1509 with the addition of a short tract on architecture
and an Italian version of Piero della Francesca’s De quinque corporibus regularibus.

Lot 597
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598. Dahlberg (Edward) [pa n o r a m a o f fu n e r a L o f Ki n g ch a r L e s
X o f sw e D e n t h r o u g h st o c K h o L m], from Pufendorf’s Sieben
Buecher von denen Taten Carl Gustavs, Koenigs in Schweden,
linen-backed, 335 x 4580mm., Stockholm, 1696. £1500 – £2000
* * * The engraving (which has been deacidified, cleaned, pressed
and laid on linen by a professional conservator) comprises 14 plates
(12 full plates and 2 half-plates). Along the top 59 heraldic shields
are depicted while along the bottom are a series of cartouches with
an index. The funeral procession makes up the main body of the
engraving with a panorama of Stockholm in the middle-distance.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 599
599. Bourdalouë (Louis) se r m o n s , 16 vol., engraved frontispiece
portrait, h a n D s o m e Ly b o u n D in f u L L c o n t e m p o r a ry r e D s t r a i g h tg
r a i n m o r o c c o, multiple elaborate gilt borders and corner-pieces,
gilt edges and dentelles, spines gilt compartments with floral
devices and pointillé lines, silk endpapers, g.e., 8vo, Paris, chez
Rigaud, 1707-34. £600 – £800
* * * Louis Bourdalouë (1632-1704), French Jesuit & preacher,
renowned for his adaptability and coherence as a preacher, of
whom Voltaire was an admirer, and in particular for the work he
did in Languedoc after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Lot 600
600. Goor (Thomas Ernst van) be s c h ry v i n g D e r sta D t en La n D e
va n br e D a , title printed in red & black, 4 engraved plans and maps
and 15 plates (a few with repaired tears), occasional browning
(partly powdered-out), washed, some leaves repaired (occasionally
affecting text), contemporary vellum, soiled, rebacked and resewn,
new endpapers, folio, The Hague, 1744. £600 – £800
Lot 598
Lot 601
601. La Fontaine (Jean de) Le s am o u r s D e ps y c h é e t D e cu p i D o n,
4 stipple-engraved plates in the first state before titles, by Madame
de Mouchy, C.Bonnefoy and Colibert after M.Schall, 19th century
full straight-grain morocco by De Samblanx & J. Weckesser, gilt
decorated covers, gilt spines, g.e., card marbled slip-case, [Cohende-Ricci
582], 4to, Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.
£1000 – £1500
Lot 602
602. Florian (Jean Pierre Claris de) ga L at é e, ro m a n pa s t o r a L;
imité D e ce rva n t e s, L a r g e pa p e r c o p y, 4 colour-printed plates before
letters by Cazenave and Colibert after Monsiau, 19th century
full straight-grain morocco by De Samblanx & J. Weckesser,
gilt decorated covers, gilt spines, g.e., small hole top right-hand
corner to upper cover, card marbled slip-case, [Cohen de Ricci
400] 4to, Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793.
£1000 – £1500

Lot 603
603. Gessner (Salomon) mo rt D’ab e L, p o ë m e , translated by
Hubert, stipple-engraved frontispiece and 5 plates by Colibert,
Casenave and Clément after Monsiau, all printed in colours, all
plates in first state (before numbering), small paper flaw to edges
of title and D1, 19th century full straight-grain morocco by De
Samblanx & J. Weckesser, gilt decorated covers, full gilt decorated
spines, g.e., card marbled slip-case, [Cohen-de-Ricci 436], 4to,
Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793. £1000 – £1500
Lot 604
604. Vadé (J[ean] J[oseph]) oe u v r e s po i s s a r D e s, o n e o f 100
L a r g e pa p e r c o p i e s, from an edition limited to 300, 4 engraved
plates by Clément after Monsiau printed in colours, ‘l’An IV’
has been erased from the imprint on the title, some minor foxing,
19th century full straight-grain morocco by De Samblanx & J.
Weckesser, gilt decorated covers, full gilt decorated spines, g.e.,
card marbled slip-case, [Cohen-de-Ricci 1005], 4to, Paris, Defer
de Maisonneuve, 1796. £800 – £1200
Lot 605
605. Delacroix (Eugene).- Shakespeare (William) ha m L e t,
16 lithographed plates by Eugene Delacroix, occasional light
finger-soiling, Russian bookplate on front pastedown, original
cloth, a little rubbed and faded, folio, Paris, 1864.
£2000 – £3000
* * * “De nos jours, elle compte toutefois parmi les créations
importantes de l’artiste, l’une de celles où il mit l’essentiel de son
âme” (Musée Delacroix).
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The Property of a Lady
606. Marx (Karl) Da s Ka p i ta L. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie Erster Band, first e D i t i o n,
i n s c r i b e D b y t h e a u t h o r to professor e.s. be e s Ly on verso of title, with further contemporary
inscription ?by Beesly below, inscription offset slightly onto printed dedication p., bound in later
half morocco, [PMM 359], 8vo, Hamburg & New York, 1867. £25000 – £35000
* * * “th e ne w re L i g i o n” Printing and the Mind of Man, 1967.
“Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital, Karl Marx’s work is principally a polemic against
capitalists and the capitalist mode of production, and it is this polemical tone which is its chief
charm.” Athenæum review of English edition, 1887.
The first volume of Marx’s magnum opus, and the only one to be published in his lifetime, the further
two volumes published posthumously under the editorship of Friedrich Engels. su c h p r e e m i n e n t
w o r K s s i g n e D a n D/o r i n s c r i b e D t h u s b y ma r X a r e i n c r e D i b Ly s c a r c e, with no comparable titles
seemingly appearing at auction in the last twenty-five years.
This is an excellent association copy, inscribed to Karl Marx’s friend Professor Edward Spencer
Beesly (1831–1915), positivist of the August Comte school of thought, historian, and one of the
founding editors of the Fortnightly Review.
In 1868, when Marx & Engels were trying to develop international momentum for the economic
philosophy contained in this work, they contacted the Fortnightly Review via Beesly to see if it
would be interested in publishing a critique of Das Kapital; at the time Marx wrote to Engels: “Prof.
Beesly, who is one of the triumvirate which secretly runs this rag, has declared, he is ‘morally
certain’ (it depends on him!) a criticism would be accepted” [8th January 1868].
An eventual review was passed on to the then chief editor John Morley by Beesly, but Morley
apparently found the piece unreadable and would not allow publication, even after Beesly
had suggested Marx could try and make the article less dry and more popularist in tone. Beesly
subsequently suggested Marx & Engels contact The Westminster Review, but nothing seems to have
come of this either.
The further inscription, possibly by Beesly, reads “Died 14 March 1883”, the date of Marx’s death.

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607. Marx (Karl) au t o g r a p h Le t t e r s i g n e D [to professor
eD wa r D sp e n c e r be e s Ly], 1p., English & French, some light folds,
marginal browning, 8vo, [London], 14 October 1871, mentioning
an enclosed carte-de-visite (see below), briefly referencing the then
editor of the Pall Mall Gazette Frederick Greenwood, with a short
section in French quoting Voltaire, and intimating an imminent
visit from Jenny Marx (née von Westphalen) to Professor Beesly’s
wife; with Karl Marx’s carte-de-visite, s i g n e D & i n s c r i b e D b y h i m
to ‘Madame E.S.Beesly”, 100 x 60 mm., London, 15 October 1871
(2). £7000 – £10000
* * * The French section reads “Ce n’est pas Frederic le Grand. Vous
savez que Voltaire, dans sa retraite suisse, avait auprès de lui un
jésuite, nommé Adam, qu’il était accoutumé à representer à ses
visiteurs en disant: ce n’est pas le premier des hommes!”
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 608
Other Properties
608. Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) pr e s t u p L e n i e i na K a z a n i e
[cr i m e a n D pu n i s h m e n t], 2 vol., first e D i t i o n, half-titles bound
after titles, lightly browned throughout, ink stains to fore-edge
of vol.2 bleeding into margin, ink stamps to titles, contemporary
Russian half sheep over pebbled cloth, rubbed, [Kilgour 280], 8vo,
St. Petersburg, 1867. £15000 – £20000
* * * Rare first edition of Dostoevsky’s most important novel. Only
five other sets have appeared at auction in the last thirty years.The
words izdanie ispravlennoe (“revised edition”) on the title-pages
refer only to the earlier magazine appearance in Russki vestnik,
1866/67.

Lot 609
609. Tolstoy (Count Leo N.) vo i n a i mir [wa r a n D pe a c e], 6
vol., first e D i t i o n, half-titles, some foxing and browning, vol.1
in contemporary Russian sheep-backed pebbled cloth, vol.2-6 in
uniform contemporary Russian calf-backed boards, rubbed, some
repairs to leather, spines with title and volume numbers stamped in
blind, [Kilgour 1195], 8vo, Moscow, 1868-69.
£15000 – £20000
* * * a v e ry g o o D c o m p L e t e c o p y o f o n e o f t h e g r e at e s t n o v e L s o f
t h e 19t h c e n t u ry, rarely found in the six-volume format as most
sets were bound into three.
Lot 610
610. Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) be s y [th e possesseD],
3 vol., first e D i t i o n, half-titles, light water-stain through all 3 vol.,
some other darker staining, mostly to margins but significantly
affecting last c.20 leaves in vol.2, contemporary half russian sheep
over pebbled cloth, rubbed, in modern morocco-backed marbled
board drop-back box, [Kilgour 281], 8vo, St. Petersburg, 1873.
£12000 – £16000
* * * “As a political tract, a portrayal of sick minds, and a study of
the manipulation of groups, The Possessed remains Dostoevsky’s
masterpiece.” Victor Terras.
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Lot 611
611. Tolstoy (Count Leo N.) an n a Ka r e n i n a, 3 vol., first
(c o m p L e t e) e D i t i o n, sporadic foxing or soiling, generally clean,
early 20th century half calf over contemporary marbled boards,
vol.1 hinges weak, vol.3 upper hinge broken and binding becoming
loose, [Kilgour 1196], 8vo, Moscow, 1878. £6000 – £8000
* * * a v e ry g o o D c o p y o f a r g u a b Ly to L s to y’s greatest w o r K , the
tragic story of Anna Karenina’s love affair with Count Vronsky, the
inspiration for which apparently derived from an occasion when
Tolstoy arrived at a railway station shortly after a young woman, who
had been the mistress of a nearby landowner, had committed suicide.
Lot 613
Lot 612
612. Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) br at ’ya Ka r a m a z o v y
[th e br o t h e r s Ka r a m a z o v], 2 vol., first e D i t i o n, half-titles, foxing
, soiling and some light water-staining, modern half Russian sheep
over contemporary pebbled cloth, vol.2 recased, [Kilgour 286],
8vo, St. Petersburg, 1881. £8000 – £12000
* * * Provenance: small ink stamp of Arthur Behrens on title of vol.1.
613. Barthou (Louis) La vie a m o u r e u s e D e ri c h a r D wa g n e r,
manuscript, 104pp. not including blank leaves, written in blue
ink on recto only except for one page, on light blue paper, large
margin to each page for corrections, each leaf mounted on guards,
contemporary full tan morocco by Marius Michel, leather doublures,
patterned silk free endleaves, marbled endpapers, lettered in gilt,
bookplate of Louis Barthou on front endpaper, 4to, [ Paris,1925].
£1200 – £1500
* * * Barthou was Prime Minister of France in1913 and he also
held a number of ministerial positions before and after WW1. His
biography of Richard Wagner was also translated into English by
Henry Irving Brock as The Prodigious Lover: New Aspects in the
life of Richard Wagner.

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Lot 614
614. Wollstonecraft (Mary) a vi n D i c at i o n o f t h e ri g h t s o f
wo m a n: with strictures on political and moral subjects, vol.I (all
published), first e D i t i o n, very light marginal browning to a few
ff., but overall internally very good, contemporary marbled boards
with 19th century half calf, [PMM 242], 8vo, for J.Johnson, 1792.
£1500 – £2000
* * * A powerful yet rational essay on the dynamic of the relationship
between men & women, and how equality is a right of all women
but is repressed through the lack of education available to them.
Sadly it was the author’s personal life that garnered more interest
than her role as a proto-feminist, largely due to the well-intentioned
but somewhat damaging Memoir published by her husband William
Godwin in 1798, following Wollstonecraft’s death after delivering
their only child together, Mary Shelley.
❦ English Literature and History
The Property of a Collector
wi L L i a m mo r r i s a n D o t h e r w o r K s, m a n y r e L at i n g to so c i a L i s m
Lot 615
615. Dickens (Charles) ha r D ti m e s. For these Times, first e D i t i o n
in book form, half-title, internally very good, original, primary
green moiré cloth binding, with ‘Price 5/-’ to foot of spine, spine
browned, light circular mark to uper cover, but overall a very good
copy, 8vo, 1854. £400 – £600
* * * “[Hard Times] stamps and records the reality of Dickens’s emotion
on a great many things that were often considered unphilosophical
grumblings, but which since have swelled into the immense
phenomena of the socialist philosophy. To call Dickens a Socialist is a
wild exaggeration ” G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, 1903.

616. Morris (William) th e go D o f t h e po o r, John Drinkwater’s
copy with his signature to head of title, original pink sewn
wrappers, offprint from the Fortnightly Review, 1868; The Pilgrims
of Hope. A Poem, in thirteen books, John Drinkwater’s copy with
his signature to head of front fly-leaf, original printed wrappers,
a n e X c e L L e n t c o p y, [Harry Buxton Forman], “brought together
from ‘The Common Weal’”, 1886, first e D i t i o n s, both preserved in
uniform green cloth chemise bearing bookplate of Oliver Sylvain
Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, and John Drinkwater, 8vo (2).
£200 – £300
* * * The second mentioned was the subject of some controversy,
not least for Forman’s apparent association with T.J. Wise, but
regardless was defined as being one of only a “dozen or two copies”
he produced.
617. Morris (William, designer, author and visionary socialist,
1834-96) au t o g r a p h Le t t e r s i g n e D to fr a n K Ki t z, 2pp., 8vo,
Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 7th September 1872, telling him
that he has provided a reference for him, “I have written to Mr.
Moore by this post telling him that you worked with us [?as a dyer]
for about 2 years (is that right) and that you worked satisfactorily
and knew your business: also that we parted with you because we
were reducing our staff”, folds, some soiling. £200 – £300
* * * Frank Kitz, born Francis Platt (1849-1923), anarchist and dyer.
618. Morris (William) th e De c o r at i v e art s An Address
Delivered before the Trades’ Guild of Learning, first issue, t.J.
[co b D e n-]sa n D e r s o n’s c o p y with ink signature to upper cover,
Ellis & White, [1878]; Chants for Socialists, original pink sewn
wrappers, Socialist League, 1885; Art and Socialism, large paper
edition of the Leek Bijou reprint, advertisements, original pictorial
wrappers, 1884; A Summary of the Principles of Socialism written
for Democratic Federation, issue without adverts and in white
decorative wrappers, ink stamp on last p. and title, 1884; Socialists
at Play, original pink sewn wrappers, South Place Institute, 1885;
How I Became a Socialist, portrait, edition in printed green
wrappers, 1896; and 16 others, Morris pamphlets, all from the
collection of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, all
housed in his later uniform brown buckram chemise with bookplate,
v.s. (22). £400 – £600
Lot 616
619. Morris (William).- Crane (Walter, artist) so c i a L i s t Le a g u e:
Hammersmith Branch, membership card, 4pp. with red-printed
design by Walter Crane on first p., c.1880 § Morris (William) The
God of the Poor, original wrappers, splitting at spine, otherwise very
good, the Office of “Justice”, 1868 § Marx (Karl) Wage-Labour and
Capital, translated by Joynes, original wrappers, some marking and
chipping, preserved in modern buckram chemise, 1885 § Morris
(William) Monopoly, or How Labour is Robbed, ink name on title,
preserved in modern buckram chemise, Hammersmith Socialist
Society, 1893 § Municipal School of Art (The). Catalogue of an
Exhibition of the Work of William Morris, plates, tissue-guards,
original printed wrappers, worn at edges and corners with slight
browning, Manchester, 1908 § William Morris Society. The Work
of William Morris, one of 2000 copies, this inscribed to William
Morris Society co-founder and Honorary Treasurer Freeman Bass,
illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, [1965]; and a small
quantity of others relating to William Morris, including auction
catalogues, pamphlets, related 20th century correspondence, and
various periodical publications by the William Morris Society, v.s.
(sm.qty). £300 – £400
620. Morris (William, designer, author and visionary socialist,
1834-96) au t o g r a p h Letter s i g n e D to th o m a s ar m s t r o n g, 3pp.,
8vo, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 24th July 1883, referring to
judging an art competition, “… since you ask me my views; in such
work as you are adjudging I should consider whether the likeness
of a scholars’ work to something before the public came from
looking at the latter & getting it into his head, or from deliberately
copying it with his drawing with the original before him as our
friend has obviously done: in the latter case I shouldn’t think he
deserved a prize”, and a acquiring a well designed object for the
?South Kensington Museum, “I hope you bought the key, which was
certainly one of the most beautifully small piece of metal work I ever
saw, the execution quite astonishing”, folds. £300 – £400
* * * Thomas Armstrong (1832-1911), artist and applied arts
administrator; became Director of the Art Division of the
Department of Science and Art; friend of William Morris.
621. Morris (William) [so c i a L i s m], a collection of Morris’s
pamphlets, including Socialist League material, contained in 5 vol.,
vellum or half vellum, 8vo & 16mo (5). £100 – £150
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622. Morris (William, designer, author and visionary socialist,
1834-96) 18 au t o g r a p h Le t t e r s s i g n e D a n D 3 po s t c a r D s s i g n e D
to t h e re v. Jo h n gLasse, m i n i s t e r o f t h e oL D gr e y f r i a r s Ki r K,
eD i n b u r g h, 57pp.(excluding postcards) & 14 envelopes, 8vo,
Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 10th February 1886 - 11th March
1895, on Morris’s political work and showing his standpoint on
parliamentary activities from the Socialist League point of view
and others, many relating to arrangements for lectures & journeys
in Scotland, “My position to Parliament and the dealings of
Socialists with it, I will now [try] to state clearly. I believe that
the Socialists will certainly send members to Parliament when
they are strong enough to do so: in itself I see no harm in that,
so long as it is understood that they go there as rebels, and not
as members of the governing body prepared by passing palliative
measures to keep ‘Society’ alive”; relations with George Bernard
Shaw and the Fabians, “The attitude of Shaw also and his Fabians
is rather difficult to get over: they are distinctly pushing forward
that very useful association of lecturers as the only sound socialist
body in the country: which I think is nonsense”, and sending Glasse
a book, “I am sending you a large paper copy of my new book [A
Tale of the House of the Wolfings] (which I hope will not encumber
your shelves too much) as a memento of the jolly week we had
together”, folds (21). £6000 – £8000
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* * * an eX c e p t i o n a L c o L L e c t i o n o f pa rt i a L Ly u n p u b L i s h e D L e t t e r s
D e ta i L i n g wi L L i a m mo r r i s’s s o c i a L i s t p h i L o s o p h y. 7 unpublished
letters and postcards comprise: 2 March, 28 February, 14 March,
12 October, 16 October 1888; 3 October, 11 October 1889. 17
February 1890 letter partially published.
Rev. John Glasse (1848-1918), minister of the Old Greyfriars Parish
Kirk, Edinburgh; attached to the Social-Democratic Federation and
later, the Socialist League.
Provenance: 14 letters published in Unpublished Letters of William
Morris, introduced by R. Page Arnot, 1951.
623. Carpenter (Edward) ch a n t s o f La b o u r: a so n g bo o K o f t h e
pe o p L e , frontispiece and pictorial title by Walter Crane, woodcut
decorations, original red-pictorial brown cloth, 8vo, 1888; plus a
mounted 19th century photograph of William Morris, inscribed on
the reverse from “Ted” [Edward Carpenter] (2). £80 – £120

Lot 624
624. Morris (William) th e ro o t s o f t h e mo u n ta i n s , first
e D i t i o n, o n e o f 250 c o p i e s o n wh at m a n pa p e r, original Morris
chintz patterned cloth, lettered on spine in gilt, a very good copy,
uncut, [Forman 47], small 4to, Chiswick Press for Reeves &
Turner, 1890 [1889]. £500 – £700
* * * “This book so satisifed its author that he never reprinted it at
his Kelmscott Press. He declared it to be the best-looking book
issued since the seventeenth century.” Forman.
Lot 626
Lot 625
625. Morris (William) Le t t e r s o n so c i a L i s m, first e D i t i o n, o n e o f
30 c o p i e s o n pa p e r, from an overall limitation of 34, 4pp. facsimile
letter bound in, Ashley Library device, Kelmscott House library
bookplate and bookplate of William Morris Society co-founder and
Honorary Treasurer Freeman Bass, original japanese paper boards
lettered in gilt to spine, covers rubbed, spine darkened, uncut,
[T.J.Wise], The Ashley Library, 1894. £200 – £300
626. Wells (H.G.) th e ti m e ma c h i n e: an in v e n t i o n, first e D i t i o n,
blind-stamped ‘presentation copy’ on title, author & francophile
William Henry Helm’s copy with his pencilled name and occasional
highlighting, original printed wrappers, browned and torn with
some loss, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Wells 4],
8vo, 1895. £600 – £800
* * * Wells’ sci-fi classic, reflecting many of his own socialist
leanings and the increasing anxiety at industrialisation and the
yearning for a more atavistic lifestyle. Some speculate that several
of the characters contained are caricatures or representations of
fellow socialists of renown, including William Morris, possibly as
‘the Silent Man’, alongside other Fabians.
sc a r c e to s u rv i v e t h i s i n ta c t in t h e w r a p p e r s; this edition was
published simultaneously with the first issue cloth edition.
627. Morris (William) an aD D r e s s De L i v e r e D at the distribution
of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of
Art, 1898; Art and the Beauty of the Earth, 1898; Some Hints on
Pattern-Designing, 1899; Architecture and History and Westminster
Abbey, 1900; Art and its Producers, and the Arts & Crafts of Today,
1901; and 5 duplicates, a L L first e D i t i o n s, some tipped-in or loose
related ephemera, original cloth-backed boards, some light surface
soiling, 8vo, Chiswick Press (10). £200 – £300
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628. Morris (William) th e ho L L o w La n D and other contributions
to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, printed in red & black in
the Kelmscott Golden type, b o u n D in c o n t e m p o r a ry g r e e n p i g s K i n
b y Kat h a r i n e aD a m s, gilt foliate dentelles, with binder’s mark,
lettered in gilt to spine, spine sunned, g.e., 8vo, Chiswick Press,
1903. £400 – £600
* * * An attractive copy from the library of Kelmscott Manor; Adams
was a friend of Jenny & May Morris, and a highly regarded binder
of her time and within the Arts & Crafts movement, working for
the likes of Morris, Emery Walker, Sir Sydey Cockerell, St. John
Hornby and Fairfax-Murray. She was particularly renowned for her
pointillé style of gilt-work.
629. Morris Family Archive.- Morris (Jane, embroiderer
and artist’s model, wife of William Morris, 1839-1914), Jenny
Morris (eldest daughter of William & Jane Morris, 1861-1936)
and May Morris, designer and craftswoman, younger daughter
of William & Jane Morris, 1862-1938. ar c h i v e c o m p r i s i n g:
Postcard signed from Jane Morris, 1 Autograph Letter signed (in
pencil) from Jenny Morris, 14 Autograph Letters (1 incomplete)
and 2 Postcards signed from May Morris, all to Ada [Morris]
and 7 photographs & an engraving of members of the Morris
family, 44pp. & postcards, 4to & 8vo, various places including:
Speldhurst [Kent], 8 Hammersmith Terrace [London], Kelmscott
Manor [Gloucestershire], SS Minnetonka & no place, Sunday, 10th
October 1909 - 31st December 1931 & n.d., Ja n e mo r r i s, legal
and domestic matters, “Many thanks… for getting the law business
through so well. I am relieved and glad to have it over… . May’s
friend Miss Sloane told me of the cook… I liked her clean looks,
got her character same day, a good one of a year - but is said to be
touchy-tempered - age 45 - £24”; Je n n y mo r r i s, on her sedentary
life, “Just before dinner George took me such a lovely walk over
those recreation grounds of Faversham”, and during the ?Great
War, “Nurse & I had such a splendid view yesterday evening of
the search lights from Sheppey… the whole sky seemed lit up”;
may mo r r i s, on a variety of subjects, including much about her
sister Jenny, “Jenny is going on very nicely, and enjoying life as
far as she is allowed, the dear sweet one. Her foot is a wonder of
recovery. I always hate leaving her and have a secret howl. But I
know quite well that the visit is a strain on her nerves and must
not be prolonged”, and other matters, including her father’s legacy,
“I am lecturing on my Father’s Art on Friday. Wish me luck”, the
erection of cottages at Kelmscott Manor in memory of her mother,
“Dear, do you remember making 2 or 3 very practical criticisms of
the plans of the cottages? I can’t recall what they were. I enclose
the small plan (please return) in case the sight of it will remind you
of something you thought missing, or better altered”, on financial
matters and leaving her London home permanently, “Well, my
news is that my income has dropped… and I have to give up No. 8.
So Ive had a beastly time, fussing and considering what to do. The
long & short of it is, after consulting my lawyer… I was advised to
sell the remainder of the lease… Miss Sloane has taken it over…
What the move will cost, goodness knows. I am up here to begin
packing my own clothes & papers… . On the top of all this Ada,
the big barn (the Carpenters barn) at Kelmscott is dangerous and
will have to be practically rebuilt. So I have to sell out some capital,
as I can’t do it out of income. I’m trying to sell some of the fine
furniture that I can’t possibly place at Kelmscott, but haven’t found
purchasers yet. I can’t bear to send these pieces to the auction rooms
but want to sell to friends who will appreciate their having come
from Kelmscott House, and even Queen Square”, and a little later,
“I stood on the doorstep of the empty house yesterday and watched
the vans slowly chuff away - and that’s my London life gone… .
My dear, what luck I have had - perfect weather for packing and
moving and for delivery down here; now the men are gone (they
slept here) just the deluge!”, and her editorship of The Collected
Works of William Morris, (24 vol., 1910-15), “My present bunch of
books XIII to XVI will be out in August. I’m working on the next
already - the printers want them. I shall go down to Mother when
she wants me. She gives me no news”, ph o t o g r a p h s, including: 2
identical portraits of William Morris, group portrait of Jane, Jenny,
May & ?Ada Morris in the garden of Kelmscott Manor, May Morris
at her weaving loom in Kelmscott, s i g n e D a n D i n s c r i b e D b y may
mo r r i s, “With much love Kelmscott: June 1922 May Morris” &
“Ernest Hall Oxford” ?photographer and Kelmscott Manor, folds,
some slight creasing (sm.qty). £2000 – £3000
630. Hitler (Adolf).- Dreyer (Dr. Johannes) De u t s c h L a n D u n D
en g L a n D in i h r e r po L i t i K u n D presse im Ja h r e 1901, p r e s e n tat i o n
c o p y to hi t L e r, with latter’s bookplate, original printed wrappers,
upper joint splitting, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box,
8vo, Berlin, 1934. £100 – £150
631. Blake (William) Je r u s a L e m, a facsimile of the illuminated
book, one of 250 copies for the Trianon Press, colour plates
throughout, original blue buckram, with publisher’s prospectus,
together in original cloth-backed patterned board drop-back box,
4to, Trianon Press, [c.1950]. £100 – £150

Lot 632
632. [Fitzherbert (Sir John)] su rv e y i n g e, woodcut architectural
border, black letter, marginal worming, not affecting text, tape
repair to margin of sig.C7, light water-stain to lower margin, some
other light soiling, late 19th century morocco-backed boards, upper
cover detached, lower third of backstrip missing, [STC 11008],
Thomas Berthelet, 1539. £2000 – £3000
* * * Includes a chapter on the laws and tenures relating to angling,
entitled “Of mylnes, severall fishyng, and commen fyshyng, what
they be worth in the yere.”
Other Properties
Lot 633
633. Thucydides. th e hy s t o ry writtone by Thucidides the
Athenyan of the Warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians
and the Athenyans, translated by Thomas Nicholls , first e D i t i o n in
en g L i s h, title with elaborate woodcut border incorporating initials
of Edward IV, lacking errata leaf at end, title defective with severe
loss to border (laid down), old ink signature at head of dedication
and with a few ink annotations or markings, a little soiled and
stained, ?stab-holes affecting first third of volume with some loss,
2Diii, 2Niv & vi and 2Ov all with lower margin cut or torn away
(with loss of final line on recto of 2Ov, and torn). last few leaves
with hole to upper margin, modern morocco with contemporary
blind-stamped calf mounted on boards (rubbed), red morocco label,
[STC 24056], folio, [by William Tylle], [1550]; sold not subject to
return £3000 – £4000
634. Windsor, Berkshire.- Li b e r re c o r D o r u m b u r g i f i n e v i L L e
D e n o va w y n D e s o r… [w i t h L at e r n o t e s o n t h e h i s t o ry a n D p e o p L e
o f t h e c o r p o r at i o n], manuscript in Latin and English, on vellum,
98pp., ruled in red, presentation inscription on front pastedown:
““Robert Blunt Windsor Presented by Miss Egelston, daughter of
the late Alderman Egelston Died 13th Aug 1836” and an A.L.s.
from J. Edward Davis of 1 Elm Court, Temple to Robert Blunt
explaining the Ms., 1849” tipped-in on front free endpaper, slightly
yellowed and creased, some edges a little soiled, hinges a little
weak, eighteenth century half vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to, 1597-
1863. £1000 – £1500
* * * “A fine is a final agreement or conveyance upon record for
conveying… lands and tenements acknowledged in open court by
the… defendant to be the property of the plaintiff.” - J. Edward
Davis.
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The Property of a Gentleman
635. [Shakespeare (William) co m e D i e s, histories, a n D tr a g e D i e s.
Published According to the true Originall Copies. The Second
Impression], s e c o n D c o L L e c t e D e D i t i o n, printed in double-column,
woodcut decorations and initials, 6 later ms. ff. bound in supplying
additional section of Cymbeline, A1 (‘To the Reader’), A2 (title
with portrait) and A5 (commendatory verses) plus 8 ff. of main
text (c2 and last 7 ff.) all replaced in modern facsimile, 7 further
preliminary ff. supplied from another, slightly shorter copy, A1 (first
f. of The Tempest) mounted & silked, 4 other ff. silked, a few ff. with
later repair to fore-corners, some minor marking and browning,
with very occasional 18th century marginalia, handsomely bound
in full antique-style calf with terracotta morocco spine label by
Bayntun, [STC 22274a; Greg III, p.1113-1115], folio [332 x 226
mm.], [Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard
Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632].
£30000 – £40000
* * * The second folio edition, and one of the most important editions
of Shakespeare’s collected writings.
“Though many errors were introduced in the course of reprinting,
the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthorised,
revision.” Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to
the Restoration, vol.III, p.1113-1115.
The facsimile leaves are supplied from the 1909 Methuen edition,
sympathetically toned to fit.

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636. Bentham (Jeremy) pa n o p t i c o n: o r, t h e in s p e c t i o n-ho u s e,
part 1 only, ?as issued (without the 2 postscripts), pp.[iv], 122,
[2], some ink and pencil corrections, [see Chuo pp.108-112],
Dublin, T.Byrne, Printer, no.15 Parliament Street, 1791; b o u n D
w i t h Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France, drophead
title, ink note at foot of first leaf “Written just before the
departure of Mr. Talleyrand on the occasion of the rupture. Copy
given to Talleyrand’s secretary, Gallois, who talked of translating
it”, pencil marginalia ?in Bentham’s hand (in most places cropped
by the binder), [ESTC T103431; Goldsmiths’ 15631], 1793; b o u n D
w i t h Supply without Burthen; or Escheat vice Taxation, 2 parts
in 1, p r e s e n tat i o n c o p y i n s c r i b e D o n t i t L e “to th e ri g h t ho n. e.
bu r K e f r o m t h e au t h o r” a n D in a n o t h e r h a n D “n o t s e n t”, part
2 bound after part 1, title to part 2 with extensive ink annotations
to verso and a few pencil notes (including the initials J.B.), in
Bentham’s hand, and some ink corrections to text, [ESTC T48958;
Goldsmiths’ 16310; Chuo pp.132 & 142], for J.Debrett, 1795;
b o u n D a f t e r Bergman (Sir Torbern) An Essay on the Usefulness
of Chemistry, first en g L i s h e D i t i o n, for J.Murray, 1783, together 4
works in 1 vol., some foxing, particularly to first mentioned work,
contemporary russia, gilt, worn, upper cover detached, spine
lettered in gilt, 8vo £6000 – £8000
* * * possibLy be n t h a m’s o w n o r p r o o f c o p i e s, with his annotations,
in ink and pencil, as well as other corrections made by a printer
or secretary. The Panopticon would appear to pre-date the “first”
edition (also Dublin, 1791, but with imprint “Thomas Byrne”),
which in turn pre-dated the London edition with the inclusion of
the two postscripts written by Bentham. Our copy does not have a
preface as called for by Chuo and the main body of text includes
a number of ink and pencil corrections (possibly by Bentham),
suggesting an earlier issue than the one commonly regarded as
the first edition. Arnold Muirhead A Jeremy Bentham collection
(The Library, 5th series, vol.1, no. 1, June 1946, pp.6-27) writes:
“ Bentham on his return from Russia was able to interest the
Irish Government in the scheme, and it was printed by order of
the Chancellor, Sir John Parnell, for private distribution among
members of the Government, although, of course, the matter got
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Other Properties
no further. No copy of such an issue appears to be known, but
there seems no doubt that it was printed, for Bentham, sending a
copy of the book to George III says in a letter, dated 11 May 1791,
quoted by Bowring: ‘the enclosed copy printed in Dublin is in the
imperfect state in which by mistake it has been sent to me I am
reprinting it ‘, and a note dictated to Bowring in 1821 says: ‘The
main body of the Panopticon was sent to the press at Dublin by Sir
John Parnell’.”
The ink notes on the verso of the title to part 1 of Supply without
Burthen, read:
“Mem. Anno 1796. At a dinner at Mr. Moreton Pitt’s in Arlington
Street, Mr Rose (then Secretary of the Treasury) in the presence
of Mr William Pitt (then Minister) took me aside, & told me that
they had read my Pamphlet on Law Taxes, that the reasons against
them were unanswerable, and it was determined there should be no
more of them.
Ao 1804 July 10,12,14,18. This being in the number of
Mr.Addington’s Taxes, Mr Pitt, upon returning to Office, took up
all those Taxes in the lump. On the above days, the Tax was opposed
in the House of Commons: and Mr Wyndham, according to the
report in the Times, on one of those days, spoke of this pamphlet
as containing compleat information on the subject, observing at the
same time, that it was out of print. On behalf of Administration,
nothing like an answer to any of the objections was attempted: only
the Attorney general said that, the addition proposed to those Taxes
was no more than equal to the depretiation of money.
Mr Addington, before this, had recourse to the Tax on Medicine here
spoken of (p.21) so that, in the course of his short Administration,
he had contrived to find out & impose the two worst species of
taxation possible. Compare this with Denmark, and its Courts of
Natural Procedure called Reconciliation Courts.” The last few
words (here shown in italics) are in a ?different or later hand to that
of the rest of the notes. There are also some pencil notes including at
the head “Note to the 2. edition” and replacing the names Moreton
Pitt and Rose with initials. The foot is signed in pencil “J.B.”
The pencil notes (cropped) to National Convention, would also
appear to be in Bentham’s hand, although due to the trimming and
some offsetting, they are hard to decipher.

Lot 637
637. Smith (Adam) an in q u i ry i n t o t h e nat u r e a n D ca u s e s o f
t h e we a Lt h o f nat i o n s, 3 vol., eighth edition, half-titles, lightly
browned, handsome contemporary tree calf, gilt, spines with red
and green morocco labels, a little rubbed, neat repairs to corners
and spine ends, 8vo, for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Davies,
1796. £1000 – £1500
* * * Including the introductions to the third and fourth editions.
638. Panoramas.- Bullock (William) a co m pa n i o n to t h e
Li v e r p o o L mu s e u m, seventh edition, wood-engraved frontispiece,
Bath, for the proprietor, 1809 § Christ Rejected. Catalogue of the
Picture painted by Benjamin West , 1814 § M. (A.D.) Description
of the Picture, Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple, painted by
Benjamin West , 1812 § [Hale (James W.)] Account of the Siamese
Twin Brothers, engraved frontispiece, [1830] § Burns (Robert) The
Jolly Beggars: a Cantata, one fold-out leaf, n.d. § Description of a
View of the Battle of Navarin, folding engraved frontispiece, 1828
§ Description of the View of the Battle of Vittoria now exhibiting
in Henry Aston Barker’s Panorama, folding wood-engraved plate
at end, 1814 § A Short Description of Badajoz , folding woodengraved
plate at end, 1813 § Description of the Field of Battle
near Waterloo, folding wood-engraved plate, prospectus leaf at
end, 1816 § Military Carriage of Napoleon Buonaparte (The),
folding engraved frontispiece, 1816 § Catalogue of the Waterloo
Museum, 97, Pall Mall (A), 1815 § Explanation (An) of the View
of Rome, folding wood-engraved plate at end, 1817 § Description
of the View of Athens, folding etched plate at end, 1818 §
Description (A) of the City of La Valetta, and the surrounding
country of Malta, ?lacking plate, n.d. § Description of a View of
Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land, folding etched frontispiece with
short tear, 1831 § Description of a View of the Island and Harbour
of Bombay, folding etched frontispiece, 1831 § Description of a
View of the Town of Sydney, New South Wales; the Harbour of
Port Jackson , folding etched frontispiece, 1829 § Madras, painted
by Wm. Daniell, R.A. and E.T.Parris; from drawings made by Mr.
Aug. Earle now exhibiting in Coromandel Place, ?lacking plate,
[1829] § Description of a View of the City of Calcutta , folding
etched frontispiece, 1830 § Description of a View of the City of
Mexico, folding etched frontispiece, 1826 § Description of a View
of the City and Harbour of Amsterdam, folding etched frontispiece,
1830 § Description of a View of the City of Paris, folding etched
frontispiece, 1830 § Explanation of the View of the Interior of the
City of Paris, folding wood-engraved frontispiece slightly torn,
later inserted leaf of ms. notes, 1815 § Explanation of the View
Lot 638
of Paris, from Montmartre, folding wood-engraved frontispiece,
1814 § Brief Account of the Origin of the City of London (A),
drop-head title, folding plan, n.d. § Under the Patronage of His
Majesty: Description of the Eighteen Views of the British Diorama
and Physiorama exhibiting at the Royal Bazaar, 1830 § Petit
Louvre (The), being the Original Drawings from the Distinguished
Paintings that adorned the Louvre, during the Reign of Napoleon
Buonaparte, 1827 § Ottley (William Young) A Descriptive
Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, 1832 § Plan
(The) and New Descriptive Catalogue of the European Museum,
1806, together 29 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, worn,
8vo £4000 – £6000
* * * A rare collection of so many Barker and Burford panoramas
together. The panorama (from the Greek, “all-embracing view”)
was devised and patented in the 1780s by the Scottish portrait
painter Robert Barker. He opened the first custom-built panorama
near leicester Square in 1794, and after his death in 1806 it
continued to prosper under his son Henry Aston Barker and his
former pupil John Burford.
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639. [Holstein (Anthony Frederick)] is a D o r a o f mi L a n, 5
vol., without half-titles, advertisment ff. at end of vol.1 & 4,
some spotting, 2 ink names at head of each title, 1 crossed-out,
contemporary half calf, spines gilt, rubbed, little damage to ends of
spines, joints scuffed, 12mo, Henry Colburn, 1811.
£2000 – £3000
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The Property of a Lady
640. Austen (Jane) pr i D e a n D pr e J u D i c e, 3 vol., first e D i t i o n, halftitle
to vol.2 and 3 only, lacking in vol.1, vol.1 D7 lower corner
torn just touching text but no loss, vol.3 E1 torn and defective
at inner margin with slight loss of text to both sides, a few other
marginal tears and defects, generally clean, vol.1 lacks rear free
endpaper, engraved bookplate of William Kemmis, contemporary
tan straight-grain half morocco over marbled boards, spines with
seven gilt rules and lettered and numbered also in gilt, leather a
little rubbed, some peeling to marbled paper on vol.1 and 2 upper
covers, marbled edges to the same pattern as the boards, [Gilson
A3; Keynes 3], 12mo, for T.Egerton, 1813.
£20000 – £30000
* * * a v e r y g o o D c o p y o f au s t e n’s m a J o r w o r K in a
c o n t e m p o r a ry bi n D i n g.
Provenance: possibly the William Kemmis (1836-1900) of
Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. An indecipherable ink inscription is visible
on the recto of the front pastedowns over which the bookplates
have been pasted, probably mid-late 19th century.

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Lot 641
641. Austen (Jane) no rt h a n g e r ab b e y: a n D pe r s u a s i o n, 4 vol.,
first e D i t i o n, half-title in vol.I only (a11), lacking in remaining vol.,
vol. IV lacking P7 & 8 (final blanks), pencil signatures at head of
titles, some foxing and browning, B10 in vol.III defective at lower
outer corner with loss to 6 lines on p.19 (repaired), I11 & 12 in vol.
IV slightly defective at upper outer corner just touching first line of
pp.173-4 (repaired), one or two small marginal tears, modern calf
preserving old sprinkled calf on boards and gilt spines (rubbed),
[Gilson A9], 12mo, John Murray, 1818. £1500 – £2500
Lot 643
Lot 642
642. Mackay (Charles, poet and writer, 1812-89) th e
sa L a m a n D r i n e o r Lo v e a n D im m o r ta L i t y: a ro m a n c e, au t o g r a p h
m a n u s c r i p t c o r r e c t e D b y t h e a u t h o r, title and 150pp., written on
rectos only, numerous ink corrections, slightly browned, bookplate
with initials CM on front pastedown, original calf, gilt, rubbed, sm.
4to, last section inscription: “June 13th 20 minutes to three PM”,
14th August 1841. £2000 – £3000
* * * ‘th e po e t o f t h e pe o p L e’
“Mackay believed passionately that poetry conveyed truths superior
to those of political economy, had an exalted view of his own calling
as poet, and, looking back on his career in 1887, wrote that he was
‘painfully conscious’ that his ‘worst’ literary work had been the
most popular while the best had received ‘slight or no recognition’
(Mackay, Through the Long Day, 2.394).” - Oxford DNB.
643. Egan (Pierce) bo X i a n a; o r sK e t c h e s o f an t i e n t & mo D e r n
pu g i L i s m, 5 vol., engraved frontispiece, title (dated 1812) and
47 plates, occasional foxing and soiling, vol.1 ink presentation
inscription tipped-in at beginning, later half calf, new endpapers,
8vo, 1823-9. £1000 – £1500

644. aL D i n e eDit i o n (th e) o f t h e british poet s, vol.I-LVII,
series half-titles, engraved frontispieces, title vignette devices,
h a n D s o m e Ly b o u n D in L at e r c r u s h e D h a L f m o r o c c o in va r i o u s
c o L o u r s w i t h m a r b L e D b o a r D s, by Maclehose of Glasgow, raised
bands and neat gilt lettering to spines, some spines with slight loss
of tone, overall an excellent run, t.e.g., 8vo, 1866-92 (57).
£3000 – £4000
* * * “This excellent edition of the English classics, with their
complete texts and scholarly introductions, are something very
different from the cheap volumes of extracts which are just now so
much too common.” St James’s Gazette, 1896.
A magnificent continuous run of one of the definitive 19th century
compilations of poerty. Poets present comprise Chaucer, Surrey,
Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Prior, Swift, Parnell,
Pope, Young, Butler, Thomson, Akenside, Churchill, Collins, Gray,
Falconer, Beattie, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, White and Scott (the
last, 5 vol., is number 17 of 150 large paper sets).
645. Stage Coach.- H[oare] (C[harles] A.R., previously Master of
the Vale of White Horse hounds, stage coach owner) to n b r i D g e,
Lo n D o n a n D se v e n oa K s co a c h be g u n en D e D, manuscript account
book,on blue paper, 342pp., ruled throughout, a few slight marks,
original vellum, ink title and initials “JLH” and “CARH” on upper
cover, yellowed and soiled, edges and corners worn, rebacked in
vellum, watermarked “W. Stradling 1863”, folio, Friday 1st May
1868 - 21st August 1872. £1200 – £1800
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* * * a u n i q u e r e L i c o f a b y g o n e a g e.
Starts with a list of fares, including “London to Dulwich Inside 2. 0/
Outside 1.6.” Other destinations include: London to Crystal Palace,
Beckenham, Farnborough, Riverhead and Sevenoaks. Each page is
divided into columns listing the passengers’ names, the destinations,
the number and locations of their seats, and the fares paid.
“Towards the end of the season of 1867, Mr. Charles Hoare started
a coach between Beckenham and Sevenoaks. This developed the
following year into the Sevenoaks coach, starting from Hatchett’s
[White Horse Cellar, in London], and this carried such good loads,
that in 1868 its proprietor carried it on to Tunbridge Wells, to the
delight of thousands who have since enjoyed the exquisite scenery
it has introduced them to. Since 1868 the Brighton has continued
a single coach; but several new candidates for public favour have
appeared.” - Old and New London, p. 262, vol. IV, 1878.
“Mr. Charles Hoare appeared for the second year in the role of
coach proprietor; but this time ran from London to Sevenoaks
instead of between Beckenham and Sevenoaks, with Comley as
professional coachman, and Ike Simmons as guard. Mr. Hoare’s
coach was another link to the past. It was one of the mails built
in the year 1831 by Wright, and when it was bought by Messrs.
Holland & Holland (by whom it was let to Mr. Hoare on the usual
mileage terms) it had V.R. and a crown on it, a proof that it had seen
mail service during the reign of Her Majesty.” - Henry Charles Fitz
Roy, Duke of Beaufort, Driving, pp. 277-278, 1890.
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646. Tenniel (Sir John) and Charles Lutwidge, “Lewis Carroll”.
au t o g r a p h L e t t e r s i g n e D f r o m t h e a rt i s t & i L L u s t r ato r Joh n
te n n i e L to cha r L e s Lut w i D g e Dog D s o n, 3 pp. on a single sheet
folded to make 4 pp., comprising 140 words with an original rough
ink sketch at head of first page, 8vo, Portsdown Road, [London],
June 1, 1870, t h e L o n g-L o s t “wa s p in a wig” L e t t e r, in which
Sir John Tenniel discusses revision of an illustration for Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, and proposes
the omission of the Wasp episode from the book. The letter was
reproduced in facsimile in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
[London, 1898; New York, 1899] by Dodgson’s nephew Stuart
Dodgson Collingwood, but the location of the original document
has been a mystery for more than a century.
The contents of the episode itself were unknown until Dodgson’s
own galley proofs appeared at auction in 1974. In 1977 a scholarly
edition of the narrative was published, containing a copy of the
facsimile originally provided by Collingwood.
Despite the fact that Dodgson and Tenniel are immortally linked in
literary history, it is well known that the relationship between author &
artist was a prickly and difficult one. Tenniel found the Rev. Dodgson
to be pedantic and overbearing in his direction of the project of
illustrating Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and tried to evade the
chore of illustrating its sequel. After the publication of Through the
Looking Glass Tenniel turned down later proposals from Dodgson,
claiming that he had entirely abandoned book illustration. Tenniel
himself was not always easy-going: it was at his insistence that the
first printing of Alice was suppressed, because the artist felt that the
illustrations had been too faintly printed, and he was apparently quite
hostile to the wasp passage; Collingwood quotes Tenniel as declaring
that “a Wasp in a Wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art,” a
phrase that does not appear in this letter.
Both parts of this brief letter are important. Tenniel heads the letter
with a rough but clear sketch of the nightmarish railway-carriage
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episode from Chapter Three: Alice is depicted seated across from a
billy goat and a man dressed in white paper, while a station guard
peers at her with opera glasses through the carriage window. In his
first paragraph Tenniel suggests that when the train leaps the brook
at the end of this passage, it would be preferable for the jarred Alice
to seize the goat’s whiskers than the hair of an old woman whom
Dodgson had evidently originally written into the scene. Tenniel’s
proposal was clearly successful, as there is no old lady in the
published text or illustration.
Then Tenniel goes on to confront his waspish adversary: “Don’t
think me brutal, but I am bound to say that the ‘wasp’ chapter
does not interest me in the least, & [that (crossed out)] I can’t see
my way to a picture. If you want to shorten the book. I can’t help
thinking—with all submission—that there is your opportunity.”
Again Tenniel got his way, and the peevish wasp disappeared for
more than a century.
It seems that little or none of the working correspondence between
Dodgson & Tenniel has survived, so this note furnishes a unique
glimpse of the process of developing and perfecting the Alice
books. A fair quantity of Tenniel’s sketches have been preserved,
but this may well be the only spontaneous drawing of its type.
The text of the letter and the drawing have been available since
1898, thanks to Collingwood; but this small sheet of paper is the
irreplaceable original, creased and lightly soiled, with a couple of
neat docketing numbers, but overall very good, housed in modern
cloth drop-back box. £15000 – £20000
* * * th e L e g e n D a ry Lo n g-Lo s t wa s p in a wig L e t t e r
[Collingwood, Life and Letters, pp.146-148.; Gardner, editor, The
Wasp in a Wig, passim.; Lewis Carroll Handbook” pp. 63-64, 232;
Schiller, Census [of] Sir John Tenniel’s original drawings to [the
Alice books] contained in Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. An
1865 printing ,pp. 54-106 (but not mentioning this sketch)]

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Lot 647
Other Properties
647. [Wilde (Oscar)].- [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], “Mark
Twain”. th e pr i n c e a n D t h e pa u p e r, first e D i t i o n, b i n D i n g s t at e
a, i n s c r i b e D b y os c a r wi L D e on page following dedication, “For
Joe Mack / from his / friend / Oscar Wilde, / affectionately / New
York / May. 11. / ‘82.”, frontispiece, illustrations, some wear to
page edges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, hinges skilfully restored,
housed in quarter morocco solander box, gilt, [BAL 3402], small
4to, Boston, 1882. £5000 – £8000
* * * The identity of ‘Joe Mack’ is to date unknown.
648. Stevenson (Robert Louis) Ki D n a p p e D, being Memoirs of the
Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, first e D i t i o n, first
issue, with “business” on p.40 and advertisements coded ‘5G.4.86’
& ‘5B.4.86’, folding colour map, almost completely lacking halftitle,
Hatchlands bookplate, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on
spine, shelf-lean, corners and spine ends slightly worn, general
rubbing to edges, 8vo, 1886. £200 – £300

Lot 649
649. Wilde (Oscar) a ho u s e o f po m e g r a n at e s, first e D i t i o n,
[one of 1000 copies], 4 plates by Charles H.Shannon, woodcut
title, decorations and patterned endpapers by Charles Ricketts, ink
contemporary signature at head of title, original cloth comprising
green spine and off-white covers decorated in red & gilt, spine
lettered in gilt, uncut, a little rubbed and browned, spine slightly
stained, [Mason 347], small 4to, 1891. £400 – £600
* * * “Mr. Shannon is the drawer of dreams, and Mr. Ricketts is the
subtle and fantastic decorator.” Oscar Wilde, in letter to The Speaker,
December 5 1891, in defense & praise of this publication.
This is one of Ricketts & Shannon’s early collaborations, before
they went on to form the Vale Press in 1896.
Lot 650
650. Casanova De Seingalt (Jacob) th e me m o i r s, 12 vol., L i m i t e D
L a r g e pa p e r e D i t i o n o n J a pa n e s e v e L L u m, vol.1 with no limitation,
vol.2-8 one of 50 copies, vol.9-12 one of 3 copies, without
(?lacking) plates, bookplate of George Ansley, contemporary
turquoise/green straight grain morocco, gilt, spines elaborately
gilt-stamped in compartments with raised bands and morocco
labels, g.e., occasional slight scuffing but overall a sumptuous set,
8vo, Privately Printed, 1894. £1000 – £1500
Lot 651
651. Cosway Style Binding.- Du Haussay (Mme Nicolle) th e pr i vat e
me m o i r s o f Lo u i s Xv, o n e o f 505 c o p i e s, frontispiece, bookplates
of Estelle Doheny on front endpapers, full crushed red morocco, by
sa n g o r s K i a n D sutcLiffe, with full gilt decoration and floral onlays to
covers and spine, inside front cover with dark blue leather doublure
gilt extra, inset w i t h p o rt r a i t m i n i at u r e o f Lo u i s Xv w e a r i n g t h e
to i s o n D’or, in metal frame surrounded by recessed gilt-tooling,
watered silk endleaves, gauffered edges, housed in contemporary full
niger morocco box, gilt, the lower hinge carefully and almost invisibly
repaired, 8vo, 1895. £1800 – £2200
Lot 652
652. Cosway Binding.- Napier (George) th e ho m e s a n D ha u n t s
o f sir wa Lt e r sc o t t, ba rt., numerous illustrations throughout,
full dark green morroco, miniature inlaid to the upper cover of
Sir Walter Scott and his dog, under bevelled glass, gilt thistle
decoration surround, silk end leaves and doublures, full gilt
decorated spine, t.e.g., others uncut, signed on the fore-edges of
the covers, ‘Cosway Binding Invented by J.H.Stinehouse’, bound
by Riviere, upper and lower joints skilfully repaired, bookplate to
endpaper, 8vo, Glasgow, 1897. £1500 – £2000
* * * Limitation slip bound in before half-title, Cosway Binding No.
854 signed by the inventor, John Stonehouse and the miniaturist
Miss Curry.
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Lot 653
653. Stoker (Bram) Dr a c u L a, first e D i t i o n, first issue, i n s c r i b e D
f r o m t h e a u t h o r to mr s w.s. gi L b e rt on front fly-leaf, minor
spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally fine, original canaryyellow
cloth with lettering and single-roll borders & rules in red,
some very light surface marking, but overall a n e X c e L L e n t, c L e a n
& s h a r p c o p y, housed in custom-made black buckram drop-back
box, felt-lined, lettered in gilt, 8vo, Archibald Constable, 1897.
£7500 – £10000
* * * A wonderful, completely unsophisticated, copy of the scarce
first issue published in May 1897, with no advertisements as issued
and printed on slightly thicker stock.
The contemporary inscription reads “To Mrs. W.S. Glibert with
Bram Stoker’s very warm regards, 12/7/97”. Mrs W.S. Gilbert who
was the wife of William Schwenck Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan
fame, was a friend of Stoker. Some mild controversy was attached
at the time to the friendship that existed between Gilbert and
Stoker’s young wife, Florence, as they often socialised together
and the former was seen by some as something of a “decadent”.
Lot 654
654. Crowley (Aleister [formerly Edward Alexander], author
and occultist, 1875-1947) ro n D e L s & so n g s &c., au t o g r a p h
m a n u s c r i p t s i g n e D m i n i at u r e n o t e b o o K, in pencil, 65pp. excluding
blanks, reverse entries, autograph pencil inscriptions: “About
1898… or earlier AC.” and “E. Aleister Crowley fecit” and
inscriptions in another hand: “Bought in Amsterdam?” in pencil
and “Very early MSS by A.C./Early MSS A.C.”, 1f. loose, some
slight browning, upper hinges split, original roan, rubbed, remains
of paper on covers, tail of spine chipped, g.e., 70 x 48mm., [c.
1898]. £6000 – £8000
* * * un p u b L i s h e D h o m o e r o t i c v e r s e b y ‘th e gr e at be a s t’ a s a
y o u n g m a n .
Perhaps connected with or inspired by Jerome Pollitt, Crowley’s
intimate at Cambridge.
“At the age of twenty [1895] Crowley went up to Trinity College,
Cambridge, to study for the natural sciences tripos… . In October
1897 a fevered vision convinced him that all human endeavours
are ephemeral, with one exception - the magical tradition. He
dedicated himself to esoteric studies and sought initiation by
genuine magi. po e t ry g r e at Ly at t r a c t e D h i m, and it was probably
Shelley’s ‘Alastor, or, The Spirit of Solitude’ that inspired Crowley
to call himself Aleister, a deliberate repudiation of his given name.
In White Stains, Crowley exhibited homosexual sentiments. He
was intimate with Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt, a young stage
performer who came to mistrust Crowley’s ‘spiritual’ ambition;
they separated in 1898.” (Oxford DNB). Crowley still prefixes
“Aleister” with “E[dward]”.

Other Properties
Lot 655
655. Joyce (James) uLysses, second printing, first en g L i s h
e D i t i o n, number 1509 of 200 copies on handmade paper, 7 pp.
errata, unopened, loosely inserted, lower corner first few pp. little
creased, blue paper wrappers, rubbed, front cover partly loose,
edges of covers frayed, chipped and creased, ends of spine chipped,
[Slocum & Cahoon 18], 4to, Published for the Egoist Press,
London, by John Booker, Paris, 1922. £500 – £700
Lot 656
656. Rilke (Rainer Maria) th e st o ry o f t h e Lo v e a n D De at h o f
co r n e t ch r i s t o p h e r ri L K e, t r a n s L at e D b y b.J.mo r s e, typescript,
no. 2 of 3 copies, signed by the translator, bookplate of Castello di
Duino, half cloth, rubbed & marked, 4to, Osnabrück, 1927,
£1000 – £1500
* * * ‘Three typed copies of this edition were made. This is No.
2 and belongs to His Highness, The Prince of Thurn and Taxis.
{Signed] B.J. Morse, Osnabruück, 23/II 1931’. Castello di Duino,
near Trieste, a residence of the Princes von Thurn und Taxis, the
inspiration for Rilke’s Duino Elegies, conceived while he was
visiting Princess Maria von Thurn und Taxis, one of his major
patrons.
Lot 657
657. Radclyffe-Hall (Marguerite) th e we L L o f Lo n e L i n e s s,
first e D i t i o n, first issue, i n K p r e s e n tat i o n inscription f r o m un a
tr o w b r i D g e, ra D c Ly f f e ha L L’s L o v e r, to ri c h a r D ba L D r i D g e on
front free endpaper dated “Rome 1960” and with pencil inscription
which reads “Richard see p.50”, original cloth, edges very slightly
rubbed, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, edges nicked with small loss
to corners and spine ends, 8vo, 1928. £600 – £800
* * * Recognised as the first novel in the English language to openly
address lesbianism; its publication provoked a fierce outcry and
lead to an obscenity trial that concluded with the book’s ban
and an order that all copies should be destroyed.
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Lot 658
658. Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) eu r o p e un i t e, sp e e c h e s
1947 a n D 1948, first e D i t i o n, s i g n e D p r e s e n tat i o n inscription o n
f r o n t f r e e e n D pa p e r, original cloth, ends of spine little knocked,
spine and covers little marked, dust-jacket, frayed and chipped at
head and foot with some loss, 8vo, 1950. £600 – £800
* * * Inscribed ‘To Donald Wolfit from Winston S. Churchill’.
Sir Donald Wolfit (1902-1968), actor and theatre manager.
Lot 659
659. Golding (William) Lo r D o f t h e fL i e s, first e D i t i o n, original
cloth, very light mottling to cloth, dust-jacket, slight browning to
fore-edges, very slight darkening to spine, otherwise fine, 8vo,
1954. £1500 – £2000
* * * An excellent copy of Golding’s dark, allegorical classic.
660. poe m o f t h e mo n t h cL u b, collected edition, comprising
all 48 broadsides from the four folios, limited editions signed by
the poets, Betjeman’s with autograph correction, fine and loose
as issued together in original half sheep portfolio with printed
boards, cloth ties, light marking & staining, folio, 1970-77.
£200 – £300
* * * Poets present include Seamus Heaney, W.H.Auden, Philip
Larkin, Robert Graves, Ruthven Todd, Brian Patten, Kathleen
Raine, Kingsley Amis and Fleur Adcock.

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Lot 661
661. B. (J.L.) th e Bu t t e r f ly’s fu n e r A l, first e D i t i o n, engraved
frontispiece and 11 plates coloured by hand, 10 incorporating text,
original printed wrappers, slightly worn,16mo, John Wallis Jun.,
1808. £1000 – £1500
* * * Only two copies of this rare sequel to The Butterfly’s Ball have
been sold at auction. There appears to be no copy in the British
Library.
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Lot 662
662. Bartholomew Fair.- A De s c r i p t i v e po e m o f BA rt h o l o m e wfA
i r, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth of both Sexes,
written by Ben. Johnson the younger, 8 engraved plates including
frontispiece, slightly offset, short split in inner margin of C1, original
Dutch floral boards, 16mo, H. Turpin, [c.1780]. £2500 – £3500
* * * An e x c e l l e n t c o p y o f t h i s r A r e c h i l D r e n’s B o o k. Only one
copy has appeared at auction in the last 35 years. The poem uses
the mayor’s stop at Newgate on his way to open the fair as an
opportunity to introduce the cautionary tale of a young man lured
into crime by his “temporary wife”. Once at the fair the reader is
introduced to Harlequin and Columbine, a merry Andrew, a rope
dancer, Te-de-dol [Tiddy Doll, the gingerbread baker], Mr.Punch
and his family, and the various wares on sale. A second part
describes the local institutions such as the Blue Coat School and
Charterhouse, and Smithfield market with its cheating jockeys.
where politicians of the day are compared to the cattle drovers.
Lot 663
663. ch r i s t m A s ho l i D Ay s, a poem written for the amusement &
instruction of all good masters and misses in the known world
by Tommy Tell-Truth. B.A., the Lilliputian Historian, engraved
frontispiece, pictorial title and two plates, slightly offset, two leaves
slightly spotted, original Dutch floral boards, small 8vo, H. Roberts
and H. Turpin, [imprints dated 1767]. £3500 – £5000
* * * The British Library Catalogue lists an edition of [?1765],
14pp. 16mo, issued by the same publishers. The present edition is
unrecorded, with the 84 stanza poem followed by “A Collection of
Letters from several Pretty Masters and Misses for the imitation
of others”.

Lot 664
664. Cranmer (Thomas, Archbishop) cAt e c h i s m u s, t h At is to
s Ay A s h o rt e in s t r u c t i o n i n t o ch r i s t i A n re l i g i o n for the synguler
commoditie and profite of children and yong people, title within
pictorial border, large illustration of Edward VI on verso, 26
illustrations in text, one signed in full by Hans Holbein, another
with initials, two repeated, one in text, the other above colophon, the
third and fourth leaf supplied in facsimile, contemporary inscription
on previous page noting their omission, other annotations in
Latin and presentation inscription on endleaf, a later note on the
author around margin of title, repeated passage on L1 deleted in
red, a few other contemporary markings, small library stamp on
four leaves erased, contemporary panelled calf, tooled in gilt and
blind, rebacked, lacking ties, various pieces of bibliographical
information and translation of the Latin inscriptions inserted,
[STC 5994], small 8vo, [N. Hill for] Gwalter Lynne, 1548.
£3000 – £4000
* * * This is the third issue listed in STC, all printed in the same
year. The work is a translation of Justus Jones’ Latin version of
the Kinderpredigt, and one of the earliest illustrated books for
children.
Lot 665
665. [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] “Lewis Carroll”. Al i c e’s
AD v e n t u r e s in wo n D e r l A n D, second (first published) edition, woodengraved
illustrations after John Tenniel, tissue guard between
frontispiece and title, original cloth gilt, g.e., by Burn, small stain
on both covers, joints worn, corners and top and bottom of spine
slightly worn, in morocco-backed fitted case, [Williams,Madan,
Green and Crutch 46], 8vo, Macmillan, 1866 [1865].
£7500 – £10000
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Lot 666
666. Goldsmith (Oliver) Dr. go l D s m i t h’s ce l e B r At e D el e g y
o n t h At gl o ry o f h e r se x, mr s. mA ry Bl A i z e, first e D i t i o n, title
and 12 plates incorporating text, coloured by hand, slightly soiled,
inscription on title dated 1810, original printed wrappers, soiled
and worn, spine repaired, [Moon 391(1)], 16mo, J.Harris, 1808.
£1000 – £1500
Lot 667
667. Jo u r n e y o f go o D y fl i t c h A n D h e r co w (th e), 16 engraved
illustrations coloured by hand, one forming frontispiece, another
on title, original stiff wrappers, slightly worn, pictorial label with
title coloured by hand on upper cover, 8vo, John Marshall, 1819.
£800 – £1200
* * * This unusual verse tale in which Goody Flitch and her cow
visit a magical cat appears to be completely unrecorded.
Lot 668
668. [Martin (Sarah Catherine)] ol D mo t h e r hu B B A r D, 12
engraved plates incorporating title and text, coloured by hand,
original wrappers, engraved labels with full title “Old Mother
Hubbard and her Dog” and imprint on upper cover, restitched,
16mo, G. Martin, [watermarked 1810]. £1000 – £1500
* * * There is only one record of the Martin version sold at auction, titled
The History of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, and dated [c.1812].
The barber and seamstress verses are not included here, otherwise the
wording of the verses is almost identical to the Harris version.
Lot 669
669. Nicholson (William).-Williams (Margery) th e ve lv e t e e n
rA B B i t, Or How Toys Become Real, first e D i t i o n, 7 illustrations,
3 double-page, the remainder full page, and decorated endpapers
by William Nicholson, lithographed in colour, original pictorial
boards and dust-jacket, in fitted case, 4to, Heinemann, 1922.
£8000 – £12000
* * * An excellent c o p y, with the bookplate of Ruari McLean and others.

Lot 670
670. [Perrault (Charles)] histoires o u co n t e s D u te m p s pAsse, avec des Moralitez, first s t At e
o f t h e s e c o n D e D i t i o n, engraved pictorial title “Contes de ma Mere Loye”, preceding letterpress
title, 8 engraved pictorial headpieces, small hole in lower margin of A8, another in C6 slightly
affecting one letter of text, small piece torn from upper margin of G11 and G12, contemporary calf,
covers with blind-tooled lining at edges and fleurons at corners, compartments of spine and edges
of covers with gilt decoration, small 12mo, [Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes] Suivant la Copie, à
Paris, 1697. £40000 – £60000
* * * An e x c e l l e n t c o p y o f t h e u n A u t h o r i s e D p r i n t i n g, issued the same year as the first edition
published by Claude Barbin, with the pictorial title and headpieces copied from the original
engravings of Antoine Clouzier printed in reverse. Bo t h 1697 e D i t i o n s A r e e x t r e m e ly r A r e, with
only six copies in all offered at auction in the last thirty years. The eight stories by Perrault include
six of the most popular fairy tales ever written: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard,
Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Tom Thumb.
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Lot 671
Lot 672
671. pe t e r pi p e r’s pr A c t i c A l pr i n c i p l e s of Plain and Perfect
Pronunciation, wood-engraved frontispiece and 24 illustrations
coloured by hand, original stiff printed wrappers, slightly soiled,
[Moon 629 (5)], 8vo, [watermarked 1824]. £500 – £750
* * * The book comprises a series of alliterative verses including the
first appearance of “Peter Piper pick’d a Peck of Pepper”.
672. Topsell (Edward) th e hi s t o ry o f fo u r-f o o t e D Be A s t s A n D
se r p e n t s, whereunto is now added The Theatre of Insects by T.
Muffet, 3 parts in 1 vol., second edition, revised, corrected and
inlarged by J[ohn] R[owland], half-title, numerous woodcut
illustrations, one repeated on title, B4 and B5 repaired at inner
margin, short tear in lower margin of M1, lower outer corner of Bb3
repaired, small holes in Cc3, Rr6, Oo5, and 4U3, split in Hh4, and
wormhole in 4P5-5D4, all slightly affecting text, a few other short
marginal tears, the majority repaired, contemporary rough calf,
repaired at top of spine, with the bookplate and pencil annotations
of Sidney Roscoe and three earlier labels, [Wing G.624], folio, E.
Cotes, 1658. £3000 – £4000
* * * Roscoe’s notes and markings were presumably made while
researching the origin of the illustrations in Boreman’s Description
of Three Hundred Beasts [Roscoe J41], about sixty of which are
derived from those in Topsell’s natural history.

Other Properties
Lot 673
673. Dahl (Roald) th e gr e m l i n s f r o m t h e wA lt Di s n e y
pr o D u c t i o n, first e D i t i o n, 12 full-page and 1 double-page colour
illustrations, black & white vignette illustrations, original clothbacked
pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at extremities, D u s t-
J A c k e t, faded and creased at edges, a very good example, 4to, New
York, 1943. £600 – £800
* * * Dahl’s first book, scare in dust-jacket.
Lot 674
674. Dahl (Roald) ch A r l i e A n D t h e ch o c o l At e fA c t o ry, first
e D i t i o n, first issue, illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, original
cloth, dust-jacket, minor creasing, very minor tears at extremities,
head and tail of spine and corners, ink name to front free endpaper,
overall a fine example, 8vo, New York, 1964. £700 – £900
675. Dulac (Edmund).- Quiller-Couch (A.T.) th e sleeping Be A u t y,
number 911 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist, 30 tipped-in colour
plates by Edmund Dulac, a few creased, rebound in full blue morocco,
elaborate gilt and embosed design to covers and spine, lettered in
blind on spine, t.e.g., others uncut as issued, Hodder & Stoughton,
[1910]; Andersen (Hans) Stories, number 380 of 750 copies signed
by the artist, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 27 plates by Edmund
Dulac, damp-stain to first 20pp, rebound in quarter vellum over
marbled boards, original spine laid down, t.e.g., others uncut, Hodder
& Stoughton, 1911, 4to (2). £800 – £1200
676. -. Andersen (Hans Christian) st o r i e s , number 410 of 750
copies signed by the artist, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 27
plates by Edmund Dulac, patterned endpapers, original vellum,
gilt, lacking ties, soiled and rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to,
Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. £600 – £800
Lot 677
677. Grahame (Kenneth) th e wi n D in t h e wi l l o w s, first e D i t i o n,
frontispiece by Graham Robertson, original gilt-pictorial cloth,
rubbed at extremities, minor partial discolouration near head of
upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, housed in custom morocco dropback
box by Bayntun-Riviere replicating book’s upper cover and
spine design in gilt, 8vo, 1908. £2500 – £3000
Lot 678
678. Grahame (Kenneth) th e wi n D in t h e willows, n u m B e r 14 o f
250 c o p i e s s i g n e D B y t h e A rt i s t, colour illustrations and map endpapers
by E.H. Shepard, original full green morocco, gilt, g.e., publisher’s
slip-case, A n excellent c o p y, 8vo, 1971. £1500 – £2000
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Lot 679
679. Lewis (C.S.) th e li o n, t h e wi t c h A n D t h e wA r D r o B e, first
e D i t i o n of the first of the Narnia series, colour frontispiece and
plain illustrations by Pauline Baynes, bookseller’s small sticker on
front pastedown, original cloth, lightly sunned at extremities, slight
shelf lean, dust-jacket, sympathetic restoration to corners, spine
ends and spine image, but in effect A n u n u s u A l ly g o o D e x A m p l e,
preserved in custom-made cloth chemise and morocco slip-case,
8vo, 1950. £2500 – £3500
Lot 680
680. Lewis (C.S.) [th e ch r o n i c l e s o f nA r n i A], 7 vol., comprising
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, contemporary ink ownership
inscription on front free endpaper, jacket with light partial browning,
3 chips from top edge, spine ends and corners slightly worn, 1950;
Prince Caspian, contemporary ink ownership inscription on halftitle,
jacket slightly damp-affected at lower edge, a few small splits
with slight loss, 1951; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, light
foxing to earlier ff., small ink name and bookseller’s small sticker
to front endpapers, light foxing to jacket, minor chipping to corners
and spine ends, 1952; The Silver Chair, small ink name to head
of front free endpaper, jacket spine faded, neat restoration work
to spine ends and corners, 1954; The Horse and his Boy, small
ink name and bookseller’s small sticker to front endpapers, fraying
with small splits and slight loss to corners and spine ends, spine
slightly sunned, 1954; The Magician’s Nephew, ink inscription on
front free endpaper, otherwise very good, 1955; The Last Battle,
jacket slightly rubbed at spine edges and fore-corners, overall a
very good copy, 1956, first e D i t i o n s, plates, illustrations and maps
by Pauline Baynes, original cloth/boards, dust-jackets, 8vo.
£5000 – £7000
Lot 681
681. [Martin (Sarah Catherine)] th e co m i c AD v e n t u r e s o f ol D
mo t h e r hu B B A r D A n D he r Do g, second edition, pictorial title-page,
dedication, and 14 illustrations, each with accompanying verse,
engraved throughout, original printed wrappers, backed and newly
sewn, 16mo, J.Harris, 1st May, 1806. £600 – £800
Lot 682
682. Meggendorfer (Lothar) co m i c Ac to r s, 8 full-page coloured
illustrations, the moving parts operated by levers, in good working
order, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, contemporary
inscription to head of preface, slightly worn at head and tail of
spine, folio, H. Grevel & Co., [c.1890]. £600 – £800

Lot 683
683. Milne (A.A.) [th e ch r i s t o p h e r ro B i n B o o k s], 4 vol.,
comprising When We Were Very Young, second issue with roman
numeral present on contents p., slightly torn to head of jacket
spine with minor loss and tape-burn on inside, spine darkened
and rubbed, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, map endpapers by Shepard,
small closed tear to head of spine, 1926; Now We Are Six, pictorial
endpapers by Shepard, jacket spine slightly darkened, 1927; The
House at Pooh Corner, pictorial silhouette endpapers by Shepard,
very light discolouration near jacket spine, 1928, first e D i t i o n s,
first impressions, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, original giltpictorial
cloth, fine, sharp copies, t.e.g., dust-jackets by Shepard,
some minor rubbing to extremities, but overall a very good set,
housed in modern cloth slip-case, 8vo. £2000 – £3000
kAy ni e l s e n
Lot 684
684. Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) in po w D e r A n D cr i n o l i n e,
n u m B e r 127 o f 500 c o p i e s s i g n e D B y t h e A rt i s t, 26 tipped-in colour
plates and illustrations by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue guards,
pastedowns and endpapers lightly foxed, original pictorial vellum,
gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities, some scratches to back cover,
t.e.g., others uncut, contemporary cloth slip-case, a very good
copy, 4to, [1913]. £1200 – £1500
685. Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur Thomas) in po w D e r & cr i n o l i n e,
24 mounted colour plates by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue guards,
occasional foxing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine
gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities, front hinge cracked, slightly
soiled, [1913] § [Asbjørnsen (Peter Christen) and Jørgen E.Moe],
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 24 tipped-in colour plates
by Kay Nielsen, plain illustrations and decorations, original yellow
pictorial cloth lettered in black, spine slightly darkened, [1914],
4to (2). £400 – £600
Lot 686
686. Asbjørnsen (Peter Christen) and Jørgen E.Moe. eA s t o f
t h e su n A n D we s t o f t h e mo o n, number 5 of 500 copies signed
by the artist, 25 mounted colour plates by Kay Nielsen, captioned
tissue guards, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial vellum, gilt,
silk ties detached but loosely inserted, original board slip-case,
4to, [1914]. £8000 – £12000
* * * A near fine copy of this magnificent work, hard to find in such
good condition.
Lot 687
687. Andersen (Hans Christian) fA i ry tA l e s, number 222 of 500
copies signed by the artist, 12 mounted colour plates by Nielsen,
captioned tissue guards, other illustrations and decorations,
original pictorial vellum, gilt, slight foxing to limitation leaf, t.e.g.,
others uncut, cloth slip-case, 4to, [1924]. £1800 – £2200
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Lot 688
688. Andersen (Hans Christian) fA i ry tA l e s, first ni e l s e n t r A D e
e D i t i o n, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen, illustrations,
some spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, a fine copy,
4to, [1924]. £500 – £800
Lot 689
689. Grimm (Jakob Ludwig & Wilhelm Carl) hA n s e l A n D
gr e t e l A n D o t h e r s t o r i e s, number 32 of 600 copies signed by the
artist, decorative title in red and black and 12 tipped-in colour
plates by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue guards, black & white
plates, one plate and pages opposite with slight crease, original half
white parchment over orange paper sides, leather lettering label,
spine slightly darkened, original publisher’s slip-case, soiled, 4to,
New York, [1925]. £800 – £1200
Lot 690
690. Pogány (W.A., “Willy”).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) th e
ri m e o f t h e An c i e n t mA r i n e r, number 237 of 525 copies signed by
the artist, printed in black and colours and elaborately ornamented
throughout, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Willy Pogány, several
creased at corner, original pictorial calf, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut,
some light spotting and rubbing at edges and surface at corners,
also tail of spine rubbed with small loss, otherwise a good copy,
4to, [1910]. £500 – £700
This lot is sold on behalf of the Oak Tree Fine Press
Proceeds from the sale of this lot will go to help
children with HIV/Aids
Lot 691
691. Pullman (Philip) [his DA r k mAt e r i A l s], 3 vol., first e D i t i o n s,
first impressions, v o l.i first issue, A l l s i g n e D B y t h e A u t h o r w i t h
f u rt h e r A u t o g r A p h t e x t q u o t e B e l o w, slight toning to page edges,
original boards, dust-jackets, vol.I with Carnegie prize sticker, vol.
II with slight shelf lean, otherwise fine copies, 8vo, 1995-2000.
£1800 – £2200

Other Properties
692. Pullman (Philip) [his DA r k mAt e r i A l s], 3 vol., comprising
Northern Lights, first issue, w i t h A n e A r f u l l-pA g e o r i g i n A l
c o l o u r i l l u s t r At i o n B y t h e J A c k e t A rt i s t DAv iD sc u t t D e p i c t i n g
A l e t h i o m e t e r w i t h A n A i r s h i p B e l o w A n D ior e k Byr n i s o n A B o v e
on front free endpaper, w i t h o u t Carnegie prize sticker, 1995; The
Subtle Knife, w i t h A n e A r f u l l-pA g e o r i g i n A l c o l o u r i l l u s t r At i o n
B y t h e J A c k e t A rt i s t DAv iD scut t D e p i c t i n g t h e s u B t l e k n i f e
c u t t i n g t h r o u g h pA p e r/D i m e n s i o n s, 1997; The Amber Spyglass,
w i t h A n e A r f u l l-pA g e o r i g i n A l c o l o u r i l l u s t r At i o n B y t h e J A c k e t
A rt i s t DAv iD sc u t t D e p i c t i n g t h e s p y g l A s s A n D A n e y e on front free
endpaper, 2000, first e D i t i o n s, the last s i g n e D B y t h e A u t h o r on
title, original boards, dust-jackets, e x c e l l e n t c o p i e s, 8vo.
£4000 – £6000
* * * An excellent set of the trilogy that made Philip Pullman a
world-wide literary phenomenon; the wonderfully vibrant original
illustrations complement each title perfectly.
Lot 692
Lot 693
693. Pullman (Philip).- Scutt (David) [his DA r k mAt e r i A l s], 3
original giclée prints depicting the cover designs by David Scutt
for Pullman’s trilogy, each one of 150 signed by both the artist &
the author, from an overall limitation of 495, each blind-stamped
Charlock Editions containing limitation details, all actual images
c.390 x 265 mm., n.d. £220 – £280
* * * The double-signed limitation of 150 copies is not currently on
general release.
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Lot 694
694. Rowling (J.K.) hA r ry po t t e r A n D t h e ph i l o s o p h e r’s st o n e,
first pA p e r B A c k e D i t i o n, slight toning to pages, original pictorial
wrappers, minor edge rubbing, otherwise very good, 8vo, 1997.
£800 – £1200
* * * Published simultaneously with the hardback edition.
Lot 695
695. [Rowling (J.K.)], “Kennilworthy Whisp”. qu i D D i t c h
th r o u g h t h e Ag e s, s i g n e D B y J.k.ro w l i n g, DA n i e l rA D c l i f f e
& ru p e rt gr i n t on title, 2001; “Newt Scamander”. Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them, s i g n e D B y em m A wAt s o n ,
ro B B i e co lt r A n e & mA g g i e sm i t h on title, 2001, first Am e r i c A n
e D i t i o n s, first impressions, illustrations, original boards, fine
copies, no dust-jackets as issued, but without the publisher’s slipcase
often accompanying the pair, 8vo, New York (2).
£1000 – £1500
* * * The two volumes issued in between Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire and the Order of the Phoenix, net profits from which went
to Comic Relief. Seemingly scarce to find signed by the author. An
excellent, complementary pair signed thus with several of the key
actors from the film series.
Lot 696
696. Sewell (Anna) Bl A c k Be A u t y, first e D i t i o n, frontispiece,
8pp. advertisements, large contemporary ownership inscription
on blank recto of frontispiece, some marking, mostly to margins,
original cloth, Carter variant C, neatly rebacked preserving
original backstrip, slightly rubbed, later endpapers in style of
originals, 8vo, Jarrold & Sons, [1878]. £1000 – £1500
Lot 697
697. Wain (Louis) so m e B o y’s pussies, 15 colour illustrations
including front and rear covers, original boards, red cloth
spine, slightly faded, boards rubbed at edges, some early pencil
annotions, 4to, Raphael Tuck & Sons. Ltd., [c.1925].
£200 – £300

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❦ Private Press and Limited Editions
Lot 698
698. Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) lA m iA , is A B e l l A, th e
ev e o f sA i n t Ag n e s & o t h e r p o e m s , n u m B e r 26 o f 500 c o p i e s, title
in red and black with decorative wood-engraved border, initials
in red and blue, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings,
original sharkskin-backed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g.,
others uncut, spine faded, [Chanticleer 62], small folio, Waltham
St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. £350 – £450
Lot 699
699. -. Chaucer (Geoffrey) th e cA n t e r B u ry tA l e s, 4 vol., n u m B e r
222 o f 485 c o p i e s, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustrations
and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red, blue and black,
small contemporary ink name and date on front free endpaper,
original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski &
Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spines faded but otherwise a good
copy with corners slightly bumped, [Chanticleer 63], small folio,
Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31.
£3000 – £4000
* * * on e o f t h e finest i l l u s t r At e D B o o k s o f t h e 20t h c e n t u ry.
Lot 700
700. Ernst (Max) histoire nAt u r e l l e, n u m B e r 146 o f 306
c o p i e s s i g n e D B y t h e A rt i s t, t h i s o n e o f 250 o n v é l i n, 34 collotype
plates after frottages, introduction by Jean Arp, loose as issued in
contemporary cloth-backed boards with ties, paper label on upper
cover, lower edge of upper cover bumped, spine a little stained,
folio, Paris, 1926. £1500 – £2000
* * * The reproduced frottages were executed c.1925. In the following
passage, Ernst describes the beginning of the technique as he sat
one evening in a hotel, staring excitedly at cracks in the floorboards.
“To sustain my potential for meditation and hallucination, I made
a series of sketches on the floorboards by arbitrarily placing a few
sheets of paper on them and then began to rub on them with black
pencil. When I closely scrutinized the sketches thus made - ‘the
dark areas and other, delicately lit half-dark areas’ - I was amazed
at the sudden intensification of my visionary capabilities and the
hallucinatory result of the contrasting pictures.” Max Ernst cited in
W. Spies, Max Ernst: Frottages, London, 1986.
The Property of a Gentleman
Lot 701
701. Procktor (Patrick).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) th e ri m e
o f t h e An c i e n t mA r i n e r, n u m B e r viii o f xxv speciAl c o p i e s w i t h 4
A D D i t i o n A l p r i n t s A n D s i g n e D B y t h e A rt i s t, from an edition limited
to 140, aquatint portrait and 11 plates by Patrick Procktor, some
printed in colours, additional aquatints all numbered & signed in
pencil and loose in pocket at end, original black morocco-backed
blue-grey morocco, upper cover blocked with gilt albatross and
ship at sea, spine titled in gilt, uncut, slip-case, 4to, [printed by
Will Carter] for Editions Alecto, 1976. £1000 – £1500

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702. Bartoli (Pietro Santi) AD m i r A n D A ro m A n A r u m A n t i q u i tAt u m
A c v e t e r i s s c u l p t u r A e v e s t i g i A, 2 vol., [first A n D s e c o n D e D i t i o n],
engraved titles, dedications & 160 plates only (of 161, the second
edition lacks plate 84), a little spotted and soiled, contemporary
calf, rebacked, joints cracking, rubbed, [cf.Berlin Kat. 4203],
oblong folio, Rome, [n.d.] & 1693. £2000 – £3000
* * * 31 plates which appear in the first edition were suppressed for
the second edition and replaced by 34 plates.
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 704
❦ Architecture & Design
Lot 702
703. Bonomi (Joseph, 1739-1808) De s i g n f o r t h e ce i l i n g o f
t h e Dr Aw i n g ro o m At fisherwick pA r k, stA f f o r D s h i r e, pen and
watercolour, 490 x 685mm., 19 1 4 x 27in., scale at foot, repaired
tears and small losses at sheet edges, verso with the small ink
stamp of the RIBA (where the drawing was on deposit) endorsed in
pencil “Returned to owner”. £2500 – £3500
* * * Provenance: By descent from Joseph Bonomi to the present
owner. A group of drawings by Bonomi from this collection was
sold in these rooms, 1 June 2000, lots 80-87.
Arthur Chichester, Baron Fisherwick, later 1st Marquess of
Donegal (1739-1799) bought the Tudor manor house of Fisherwick
and rebuilt it as a grand Palladian mansion. Bonomi was engaged
in 1787 and designed a summer house for the Park as well as
furniture and this ceiling for the principal drawing room of the
house. The design provides alternatives for the cornice, frieze and
borders surrounding the three painted panels. The project was a
collaboration between Bonomi and his friend J.F.Rigaud whose
paintings, with its centrepiece of Apollo in his Chariot, completed
the ceiling. The stucco work was by Joseph Rose and the colouring
and gilding by Pastorini and Borgnis.
The house was demolished 1814-1816.
The present drawing is illustrated in Peter Meadows, Joseph
Bonomi Architect 1739-1808, An Exhibition of Drawings from
Private Collections, London, RIBA, 1988, Fig.19.
704. Bonomi (Joseph Jnr., 1796-1878) D e s i g n f o r A p u B l i c
f o u n tA i n, south elevation of a sandstone fountain and rising
column with sundial, surmounted by a bronze statue in the Greek
style, representing Earth in the figure of a woman with hands
raised in praise to God, with a detail of the statue’s front facing
east, watercolour and ink over pencil, 485 x 295mm., framed and
glazed, with an extensive, 6pp., explanatory letter, containing an
alternative design for a cast iron fountain, pasted on backboard,
this signed with initials and dated, 1871. £500 – £750
* * * The letter on the verso is addressed from the Soane Museum,
where Bonomi had controversially been appointed curator in
1861, to “My dear Allanson”, probably Charles Allanson of
Harrogate, husband of Bonomi’s sister Justina. It describes
in some detail the “octangular column to be made in your best
native sandstone”, the allegorical significance of the large statue
(“the principal expense”), and his alternative design for an iron
fountain, complete with “iron umbrella”.

705. Clérisseau (Charles-Louis, 1721-1820) ro m A n ru i n s: A g r o u p
o f fourteen “v e D u t e D i fA n tA s i A”, drawings in pen, black ink with
grey and, occasionally, brown wash over etched outlines, six 355 x
294mm. (14 x 11.5in.) to 395 x 315mm. (15.5 x 12.25in.), remainder
175 x 175mm. (7 x 7in.), one circular, to 288 x 193mm. (11.3 x 7.6in.),
light browning to two drawings, a few old creases and very small
rubbed spots; with 3 drawings of geological features by another(?)
hand and a group of engraved studies of the human body from an 18th
century drawing book, mounted on large folio sheets of laid paper, a
disbound section of a larger album, 1760s or 1770s (14).
£5000 – £7000
* * * Provenance: from the collection of the architect James Paine, 1717-
1789. Paine visited Rome in 1755. (Ironically, as a confirmed Palladian,
he was to lose commissions in 1765 at both Nostell Priory and Kedleston
Hall to James Adam who completed the houses in neo-classical style.)
Charles-Louis Clérisseau, artist, architect and archaeologist, won the
Prix de Rome in 1746 and studied under Pannini at the French Academy
in Rome from 1749 to 1754. There he absorbed the influence of his
close friends Piranesi and Winckelman and after 1754 became tutor
in architectural drawing and theory first to William Chambers then to
Robert Adam with whom he travelled widely between 1754 and 1757.
His influence on the Adam brothers’ developing neo-classical style
was immense. McCormick (op. cit.) concludes an account of their
relationship thus: “Therefore, the true beginning of the Adam style,
with its wealth of delicate ancient-inspired decorations, vaulted ceilings,
screens of columns, niches, and rooms in a great variety of shapes,
derives from Clérisseau.”
The present group of drawings all appear to be vedute di fantasia,
imaginative works incorporating elements drawn from observation.
Drawing over an etched outline was a not uncommon technique for 18th
century artists but the circular drawing of a mausoleum or sepulchral
hall illustrated here appears to be Clérisseau’s only composition over an
etching to be hitherto recorded. Two other examples are known. One is
Lot 705
in the vast collection of Clérisseau’s drawings bought by Catherine the
Great in 1779 and now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. It is illustrated
as no.59 in the Louvre catalogue (see below) and described as the only
example of a drawing over etching in that collection. The other, with
minor variations of detail and shading, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
A version in gouache - Clérisseau’s more usual medium - is in Sir John
Soane’s Museum (Inv. P.97).
The dating of his drawings is problematic since he produced many with
only minor variations over a period of more than three decades. He was
selling drawings to Grand Tourists by 1753, exhibited his architectural
capricci in London in the early 1770s and continued to work in similar
style in St. Petersburg and Paris well into the 1780s. A date between
1760 and 1780 for the present group appears most probable.
References: Thomas J. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the
Genesis of Neo-Classicism, 1990; Charles-Louis Clérisseau: dessins du
musée de l’Ermitage Saint-Petersburg, Musée du Louvre, 1995.
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706. Diesel (Matthias) erlustierenDe Au g e n w e i D e in vorstellung
he r r l i c h e r gArten u n D lu s t g e B A u D e, Part I (of 3), engraved
throughout with pictorial title and 50 plates of garden views, title with
light soiling and staining to fore-edge just affecting border, [Berlin
Kat. 3330], Augsburg, Jeremias Wolff, [c.1720] bound with a further
39 engraved plates by Wolff, Engelbracht, Weigel and others from a
variety of series including views of Venice, Switzerland, Bavaria and
the four seasons, a little browned at edges, together in contemporary
half calf, worn, folio £2000 – £3000
707. [Great Exhibition] th e A rt J o u r n A l illustrAteD c AtA l o g u e;
t h e i n D u s t ry o f A l l n At i o n s. very numerous text-illustrations, extrAillustrAteD
with 16 plates (13 h A n D-c o l o u r e D v i e w s, from Mighty
London, an anaglyptograph, 2 tinted lithographs by Lacchesi), with
the extra articles at the end not found in standard copies (collation
at Wellcome, but this copy has a 3rd pp. viii), elaborate binding of
green morocco, sides with cental sunk panel with strapwork ornament,
red onlays and vine border, broad inner dentelles in similar style, red
and gilt endpapers, edges elaborately gilt and gauffed (6 diamonds
coloured in blue), by [George] Gregory of Bath, with his pallet at top
of front pastedown, front joint somewhat worn, signature of Marion
Edwards, 1852 on title, folio, George Virtue, 1851. £600 – £800
* * * Copac records three copies of a special edition bound by J.&
J. Leighton; these have a portrait and three views added, but all are
uncoloured. This is a very early Gregory binding; the firm was founded
in 1846.
708. Shin-Bijutsukai. th e ne w mo n t h ly mA g A z i n e o f vA r i o u s
De s i g n s B y th e fA m o u s Art i s t s o f to-DAy , 58 issues, textile and
wallpaper designs, over 2000 colour and line woodblock prints,
some heightened with gold or silver, some folding, original printed
wrappers with English and Japanese titles as issued, original silk
ties, slip-cases, a fine collection, each issue c.240 x 1164mm.,
[c.1900]. £12000 – £15000
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Lot 707
Lot 708
Lot 709
709. Speckle (Daniel) Ar c h i t e c t u r A v o n ve s t u n g e n , first e D i t i o n,
title in red & black with engraved architectural border by Matheus
Greuter, woodcut coat-of-arms of Julius Herzog von Braunschweig
(the dedicatee), tail-pieces and initials, 21 engraved plates, all but
one double-page but many bound with text between two parts, with
additional R1 &2 leaves following signature R and errata leaf at
end with typographical border, a few contemporary ink annotations,
title a little soiled and water-stained, some other light soiling and
staining, a little wormed affecting hinges but intact, eighteenth
century half vellum over marbled boards, spine titled in manuscript
and split at head, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 3516; Cockle 789], folio,
Strasbourg, Bernhart Jobin, 1589. £1200 – £1800
* * * Advanced treatise on fortification and town planning by the
architect responsible for the fortification of Gibraltar.

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710. [Valle (Giambattista della)] vAllo l i B r o c o n t i n e n t e
Appertenente à cA p i tA n i i, ritenere & f o rt i f i c A r e u n A ci t tA
c o n B A s t i o n i , title with pictorial woodcut border by Eustachio
Celebrino, 3 woodcut initials, 21 woodcut illustrations, 10 full-page,
26 typographical battle formations, final leaf with woodcut printer’s
device, wormhole to fore-edge of second half, becoming worse to last
few leaves with loss of a few letters, slight staining to title, otherwise
a very clean copy, modern limp vellum preserving old stained vellum,
split to upper joint, [Breman 328; Cockle 765, note], 8vo, Venice,
heirs of Piero Ruano, 1550. £600 – £800
Lot 711
711. White (Ethelbert) s t u D i e s f o r th e BA l l e t s russes, including
12 scenes from La Boutique Fantasque, Prince Igor, Thamar,
Firebird and others, 13 pencil studies of individual dancers,
rehearsal scenes and costume designs, and an original program
cover design for Thamar, the 12 ballet scenes comprised of 4
pen and ink line drawings and 8 outline lithographs, some with
touches of hand-colouring, 7 with additional watercolour overlays
on tissue, also with 2 further tissue designs and 9 slightly reduced
printed copies of the scenes, 42 s h e e t s in t o ta l, some signed, most
taped at corners into mounts, all preserved in transparent sleeves
in a modern album, c.1920. £1000 – £1500
* * * The end of the First World War saw the return of Diaghalev’s
Ballets Russes to more venues in England than before, opening
performances to a wider public. This inspired Cyril W. Beaumont
to publish programs, and accompanying books and prints, to cater
for the growing demand. Ethelbert White (1891-1972) was one of
the artists engaged to illustrate these, being taken by Beaumont to
watch performances and observe backstage, this work now forming
part of an important record of the Ballets Russes at that time.
Lot 712
712. Wine Trade.- A g o o D c o l l e c t i o n o f p r i n t e D e p h e m e r A,
including over 50 trade cards of wine merchants, vineyards,
producers and distillers, several printed in colours on carte
porcelaine, c.65 labels for burgundy and beaujolais (dated vintages
1854 to 1861), champagne (10), absinthe (6), cassis (9) and others,
commercial correspondence, bills etc from wine merchants (15
sheets) and related items, 150 in all, all but a few French, various
sizes, many in colour, generally in excellent condition, neatly
mounted in a modern ring-binder, 4to, some earlier and some later
but the great majority c.1820-1870. £1000 – £1500
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713. Camden (William) Br i tA n n i A: o r A ch o r o g r A p h i c A l
De s c r i p t i o n o f gr e At BritAin A n D ir e l A n D, 2 vol., third Gibson
edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black, 51
double-page/folding engraved maps by Robert Morden and others,
9 engraved plates of coins, engraved and woodcut illustrations, one
full-page, contemporary ink inscription on titles, a little browned,
some soiling, slight worming to a few margins, modern calf, spines
gilt, a little faded, folio, R. Ware, J. & P.Knapton, T.Longman &
others, 1753. £1000 – £1500
Lot 714
714. [Gardner (Thomas)] A po c k e t-gu i D e to t h e en g l i s h
tr Av e l l e r, Being a Compleat Survey and Admeasurement Of
all the Principal Roads and most Considerable Cross-Roads in
England and Wales, 100 engraved double-page strip road maps,
some browning, damp-staining to some corners towards end,
contemporary calf, rebacked to style, rubbed, 4to, J.Tonson &
J.Watts, 1719. £700 – £900
715. Nattes (John Claude) A gr A p h i c A n D De s c r i p t i v e to u r o f
t h e un i v e r s i t y o f ox f o r D, 2 parts only, as published, first e D i t i o n,
engraved title, 4 full-page and 1 vignette tinted lithographs by
Pugin, some very minor foxing, original printed upper covers laid
down, restored and resewn to style, housed in cloth solander box,
[Abbey, Scenery, 274], folio, 1805. £3000 – £5000
716. Owen (John) and Emanuel Bowen. Br i tA n n i A De p i c tA o r
og i l B y im p r o v ’D, engraved title, 4ff. of table and 273pp. of county
and strip road maps, pp.41 & 43 slightly stuck together, a few pages
at head cropped affecting edges of maps or headings, later half
calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, slip-case, 8vo, for Tho. Bowles, 1720.
£700 – £1000
The Property of a Lady, from the library of Edwin William
Ganderton (1888 - 1963)
717. Ackermann (Rudolph) th e mic r o c o s m o f lon D o n, 3 vol.,
first e D i t i o n, e A r ly issue w i t h s e v e r A l o f AB B e y’s 12 “k e y plAtes” in
first s tAt e (nos.3, 4, 5, 7 & 11, and possibly 6 & 8), wood-engraved
pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves (that in vol.1 loose),
104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin,
offsetting from plates but plates generally clean, text lightly browned,
modern dark blue morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, g.e., [Abbey Scenery
212; Tooley 7], 4to, [1808-10]. £2500 – £3500
* * * Early issue bound from the original parts, with text and plates
watermarked 1807-08, the 13 errata at end of vol.3 uncorrected
(except that of “coustom” on p.218 of vol.1 as in the Abbey copy),
and the Contents leaf in vol.1 headed “Contents”. However the
imprint of the wood-engraved title to vol.2 does not have a comma
after “Bensley” but that in vol.1 does.
❦ Travel and Topography
Lot 715
Lot 717
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Lot 718
718. Boydell (John & Josiah) vi e w s A n D sc e n e ry o n t h e ri v e r
th A m e s , 2 vol., engraved frontispiece of Father Thames, 2 large
folding engraved maps by J.Cooke, 75 hand-coloured aquatint
plates after J.Farington only (of 76, lacking plate 10, View of
Blenheim at p.86), 3 double-page, pp.5-6 in vol.2 creased, foxing to
a few leaves & plates and some light offsetting but plates generally
clean, bookplate of Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton on front
pastedowns, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, elaborately
gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, vol.1 rebacked preserving old gilt spines,
extremities rubbed, [cf. Abbey, Scenery 432 & Tooley 102], folio,
printed by W.Bulmer & Co., n.d. [some plates watermarked 1808].
£1500 – £2000
* * * A reissue of Boydells’ History of the River Thames of 1794-96.
With A.L.s. to Ganderton from F.W.Cooper loosely inserted,
presenting him with the work “ as a memento of our ten years work
together. Hard work made light by our most happy friendship.”
They were both involved in the 1947 negotiations leading to the
naturalisation of railway wagons.
Lot 719
719. Bone (Muirhead & Gertrude) ol D spA i n, 2 vol., number 191
of 265 copies signed by the author and artist, plates by Muirhead
Bone, some colour, original pigskin, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1936;
w i t h A c c o m pA n y i n g p o rt f o l i o c o n tA i n i n g 2 o r i g i n A l D ry p o i n t s,
both signed in pencil and tipped into aperture mounts (one lacking
aperture part), loose in original pigskin-backed board portfolio,
spine worn, folio (3). £500 – £700
* * * The 2 original drypoints are The Apse, Leon Cathedral and
Roman Bull excavated at Merida. Loosely inserted are 2 T.Ls.s. to
Mr. Ganderton about the prints, plus his invoice and receipt from
Colnaghi & Co, all dated 1952.
Other Properties
Lot 720
720. Arrowsmith (Aaron) eu r o p e, with vignette view of
Ironbridge, lower right, and oval portrait of Sir Joseph Banks,
lower left, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 1275 x
1495mm., dissected and linen-backed, browning and faint spotting,
lower sheet edge chipped, not affecting map, 1798.
£1200 – £1800
Lot 721
721. Association Sytin, publishers. th e gr e At re f o r m, 6 vol.,
Ju B i l e e eD i t i o n, text in Russian, plates and illustrations, some
colour and mounted, occasional browning, hinges weak, bookplate
on front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and slightly
soiled, 4to, Moscow, 1911. £1000 – £1500
Lot 722
722. Billmark (Carl Johan) pA n o r A m A D e st o c k h o l m, Pris du
Dôme de l’Église de l’Île de l’Amirauté, lithographed panorama,
on 4 sheets, joined, 275 x 2145mm., pin holes to corners, some
spotting, mostly marginal, slight surface dirt and minor splitting
at foot of folds, folding into publisher’s printed boards, map of
Stockholm on verso, rubbed, edges worn, 4to, with 16pp. text in
French, spotted, first page soiled, stitched but detached from
boards, n.d. [c.1850]. £1000 – £1500

Lot 723
723. Blaeu (Johan) no v u m itA l i A e t h e At r u m, s i v e A c c u r AtA D e s c r i p t i o ipsius u r B i u m, pA l At i o r u m,
s A c r A r u m A e D i u m &c., 4 vol. in 2, letterpress titles printed in red & black, 4 additional engraved
titles, 4 engraved double-page maps, 251 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates only (of
279 according to plate index, lacking plates LX-LXXXVII in vol. IV), a few plates slightly browned,
otherwise generally strong impressions, Ericsbergs Bibliothek bookplate, contemporary full
calf, slightly worn, gilt arms of Theodor Ankarcrona on upper board, richly gilt spines in nine
compartments, with red labels, marbled edges, folio, [Berlin Kat.2683], The Hague, Rutgert
Christophle Alberts, 1724. £40000 – £60000
* * * Theodor Ankarcrona (1687-1750), Swedish admiral, governor of Stockholm, and member of
the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Lot 724
724. Carey (H. C.) and J. Lea. th e ge o g r A p h y, hi s t o ry A n D
stAtistics o f Am e r i c A A n D t h e west in D i e s, 10 folding hand-coloured
maps, 4 folding tables (including 3 hand-coloured) and 5 folding
engraved plates, one or two marginal tears, Earl of Ellenborough’s
bookplates on front pastedown, hinges weak, contemporary calf,
joints splitting, rubbed, 8vo, 1823. £300 – £400
Lot 725
725. Carter (Howard) and A.C.Mace. th e to m B o f tu t-An k h-
Am e n , 3 vol., first e D i t i o n s, plates, some light foxing, upper hinge
of vol.2 & 3 reinforced with sticky tape, original cloth with panel
of gilt scarab mounted on upper covers, vol.1 very slightly rubbed
at edges, dust-jackets rubbed and frayed at edges with slight loss
(vol.3 edges reinforced with sticky tape on verso causing slight
discolouration), 8vo, 1923-27-33. £1000 – £1500
Lot 726
726. Chinese School. [tA i yi illustrAtions o f t h e ei g h t tr i g r A m s
BAttle p l A n s], 6 double-page illustrations depicting bird’s-eye
views of various troop formations, some with muskets and banners,
gouache with pen and ink, each c.400 x 480mm., five with red paper
text panels laid on, all splitting on the central fold, some surface dirt,
contemporary patterned cloth boards, worn and soiled, title label
pasted on, folio, early 19th century. £800 – £1200
* * * This work almost certainly relates to the Eight Trigrams
Rebellion of 1813, when various sects of the millenarian White
Lotus religion believed the time right to bring about the end of
the Ch’ing Dynasty and usher in a new age of eternal blessings.
They planned uprisings in a number of cities in Northern China,
including Beijing, but despite their tight organisation, these were
soon suppressed, not least because of the high visibility of their
flamboyant banners. (see Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in
China, YUP, 1976).

Lot 727
727. Dodwell (Edward) A cl A s s i c A l A n D to p o g r A p h i c A l to u r
t h r o u g h gr e e c e, 2 vol., first e D i t i o n, folding map (with small
tear where carelessly opened), 74 engraved plates (including 8
from another edition), 2 hand-coloured, some folding or doublepage,
one mounted, wood-engraved illustrations in text, foxed
and browned, some offsetting, vol. II marginal water-stain in
upper right corner, hinges weak, contemporary half morocco over
marbled boards, rubbed, spines faded, [Weber I, 62; Atabey 356;
Blackmer 492], 4to, 1819. £1500 – £2000
* * * Dodwell was one of the most energetic of his generation of
travellers. A great collector and archaeologist, he opened numerous
tombs and kept much of their content. When he died he had 115
bronzes and over 140 vases, most of which (including the famous
Dodwell vase) were bought by the Glypthtek in Munich.
Atabey and Blackmer both call for a folding map and 66 engraved
plates, this copy has a folding map and 74 engraved plates (66 as
called for and an additional 8 from another edition).
Lot 728
728. Eikan Shiryaku (Ying-Huan Chih-Lueh) ge o g r A p h y o f
t h e wo r l D, 10 vol., text in Chinese, 42 folding maps, including 2
colour, some staining to edges, one vol. with marginal burn-mark
affecting 2 maps and some text leaves, ink presentation inscription
to Raphael Pumpelly ‘with the compliments of his pupil’, original
yellow wrappers sewn in Japanese style with printed paper labels,
some soiling, one stained, 4to, Toyko, Osaka & Kyoto, 1861.
£2000 – £3000
* * * Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923) was an American geologist and
explorer. He conducted surveys in Japan and China at the request
of the respective governments in the 1860s. He is credited with
making the first extensive survey of the Gobi desert.
Lot 729
729. Feodorovna Romanova (Alexandra, Empress of Russia).-
th i s my Al B u m, text in Russian, 60 mounted halftone prints,
ranging in size from 49 x 70mm. to 112 x 89mm., lightly spotted,
a few ink annotations, original decorated boards, edges a little
rubbed, rebacked, 4to, Petrograd & Moscow, [c.1915].
£1000 – £1500
* * * This album, containing a collection of 60 images of the Royal
Family, was produced for charity and is rarely found complete as
it is here.
730. No Lot.
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Lot 731
731. Germany.- A l A r g e A n D c o m p r e h e n s i v e collection o f p r o pA g A n D A p o s t c A r D s, documenting the
establishment of the Third Reich, 1933-1939 and the course of the war 1939-1945, including a small
group of First World War cards, c.130 portraits of Hitler, some by his official photographer Heinrich
Hoffmann, others from paintings by Willy Exner, Bruno Jacobs, Otto Hoyer and others, a series of 23
for Nuremberg Reichsparteitage, portraits of combatants and Aryan women by Wolfgang Willrich, 2
series illustrating flags and standards by Gottfried Klein and Werner von Axster-Heudtlass, special
issue cards for exhibitions including “Der ewige Jude” and other covers for stamp collectors, views
of the Reichskanzlei, Berlin and other buildings in Munich, Nuremberg etc., photographic portraits
of officers by Hoffmann and many other subjects by or after Graf, Janesch, Hohlwein, Engelhardt-
Kyffhäuser, Lorenz, Schweitzer and others, over 800 cards, each c.14.5 x 10cm., 5 3 4 x 4in., the
majority in colour, many postally used and with special cancellations, a few with minor defects but
generally in excellent condition, each preserved in a clear plastic folder and mounted in modern ring
binders, c.1914-1945; with a secondary collection of German postcards including First World War,
“Gruss Aus” series, scenic subjects, ships and c.350 views of Nuremberg, over 700 cards, some in
albums, remainder loose, 1890s-1950s; sold with F.Castella, Propaganda Postkarten, 3 vols, 1988-93
and another price guide (over 1500). £8000 – £10000
* * * Provenance: Raymond Bartlett (1931-1999), by descent to the present owner. This is the
remaining portion of his extensive collection of the stamps and postal history of Germany.

Lot 732
732. Gerning (Baron Johann Isaak von) A pi c t u r e s q u e to u r
A l o n g t h e rh i n e, f r o m me n t z to co l o g n e, first en g l i s h e D i t i o n,
24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one with small marginal stain,
double-page engraved map hand-coloured in outline, list of
subscribers, some offsetting and light browning, a few small stains,
modern leather-backed boards, new endpapers, [Abbey, Travel
217], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1820. £1000 – £1500
* * * An attractive copy with plates in early state, i.e. without
plate numbers in top right corner, and with good impressions and
colouring.
Lot 733
733. Hellert (J.J.) no u v e l At l A s p h y s i q u e, p o l i t i q u e e t h i s t o r i q u e
D e l’em p i r e ot t o m A n, engraved title, 2 folding historical tables,
39 engraved maps, city and battle plans (including Constantinople
and Vienna), 5 folding, a few spotted, text leaves also spotted,
contemporary roan-backed cloth, spine gilt-lettered, rubbed, folio,
Paris, Bellizard, Dufour et Cie., 1844. £1800 – £2200
Lot 734
734. in D i A.- An g l o-in D i A n A l B u m o f t h e pA r i s h fA m i ly, including
numerous watercolour sketches by Rev. William Parish, illustrating
letters describing life as chaplain to the Hon. East India Company
in Bengal, mostly Dacca and Chittagong, including his first-hand
account of the build-up to the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1825,
watercolours with pen and ink, a few pencil drawings, and numerous
aquatints, engravings and stipple-engravings, these generally of
English or decorative interest, interspersed with poetic and didactic
writings, in a green morocco album, gilt-tooled, rubbed, 4to, mid
19th century. £800 – £1200
* * * William Parish, and his wife Elizabeth, arrived in Bengal,
then north eastern India, now Bangladesh, in 1823. They were
stationed in Dacca until 1830, during which time William also
served as chaplain to the 44th and 54th Regiments camped at
Chittagong. Among the 35 views and small costume and natural
history studies are several illustrations within letters, or fragments
of letters, detailing daily life and ministry, and, in particular, being
in the Chittagong camp in the immediate build-up to the assault on
Arakan in Burma, in March 1825. Some helpful modern notes on
the Parish family, other people, places and events featured in the
album, accompany this lot.
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Lot 735
735. Issartier (Paul) no t i c e s u r u n pr o J e t D’As c e n s e u r p o u r l e
mo n t-Bl A n c, 2 lithographed plates and a map, slightly browned,
original printed wrappers, spotted and slightly soiled, 8vo,
Marseille, 1896. £750 – £1000
* * * Rare. We have handled only one other copy, sold in 2002 for £950.
Lot 737
Lot 736
736. Jomard (M., editor) vo yA g e A l’oA s i s D e sy o u A h , d’après
les matériaux recueillis par M. le Chevalier Drovetti et M. Frédéric
Cailliaud, first e D i t i o n, half-title, engraved map, 19 lithographed
plates and plans, foxed throughout but some plates worse than
others, date in ink arabic numerals at foot of title, contemporary
morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, spine worn and chipped
at head, folio, Paris, 1823. £1000 – £1500
* * * Scarce account of Cailliaud’s expedition in 1819 to the Siwa
oasis and Drovetti’s subsequent exploration in 1820.
737. Leth (Hendrik de) ni e u w e As t r o n o m i s c h e ge o g r A p h i s c h e
e n hi s t o r i s c h e At l A s, lacking the additional engraved title, 40
folding engraved maps and plates only (of 41), many hand-coloured
in outline, all repaired/reinforced on verso of fold, occasional
spotting, broken, bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary half
vellum, rubbed, joint splitting, 8vo, Amsterdam, [c.1749].
£1200 – £1800

The Property of a Gentleman
738. Maritime Atlas.- co A s t i n g pi l o t (th e). De s c r i B i n g t h e
se A-co A s t s, cA p e s, he A D l A n D s, so u n D i n g s, sA n D s, sh o A l s, ro c k s
A n D DA n g e r s. th e BAy s , ro A D s, hA r B o u r s, ri v e r s A n D po rt s o f
en g l A n D, sc o t l A n D, ho l l A n D, ze A l A n D, fl A n D e r s A n D fr A n c e
, 15 engraved charts on 17 sheets, all but one double-page and/
or folding, and one of St.Malo on penultimate text leaf, woodcut
illustrations of coastal views, Scotland and North Britain with
outer right edge defective and renewed with some loss (approx.
1 inch), Chart of Newcastle Trade in 2 parts, the second trimmed
at left edge within platemark but presumably as issued to adjoin
the first part, upper right corner of The River of Thames defective
and renewed, Part of Sussex single-page and trimmed at left edge
within platemark previously attached to preceding chart of Isle of
Wight, some other repairs but mostly marginal, washed and pressed
throughout, modern half morocco over marbled boards, folio, for
J.Mount and T.Page, 1769. £4000 – £6000
* * * We have been able to trace only one other copy of this atlas, the one
held by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, which collates
as this copy (pp.2, 40, 16 plates), but has one chart missing from our
copy (British Channel), whilst ours has one missing from theirs.
Our copy has been restored by a professional conservator and
included in the lot are the original calf covers, the endpapers, stubs
and some of the stitching. The original front pastedown bears
pencil inscriptions reading “James Palmer’s Book 7 Jan’ry 1770”
and beneath another exactly the same but the date “1 Jan’ry”.
One of the original rear endpapers bears a larger (later) scrawled
inscription of ?J.O.Simmons, Mansfield and “P.E. Island” beneath.
A front endpaper bears a contemporary index of the charts, the first
four in ink in a contemporary hand, the rest in pencil in a later hand.
There are also several calculations in pencil which we assume to
indicate when the book changed ownership (or similar event) as
they all bear the number 1769 (date of publication) and another
figure (1815, 1821 and 1900) and a calculation of the difference.
Lot 738
The charts present in our copy are:
1) The River of [sic] Thames
2) North Sea
3) Newcastle Trade from the South Foreland to Newcastle
4) As above (other part)
5) Sea Coast of Scotland
6) East Coast of Scotland and North Britain
7) England, Flanders and Holland
8) Flanders
9) Zealand
10) Holland from the Maes to the Texel
11) England, Scotland and Ireland
12) Isle of Wight
13) As above (other part, single sheet Part of Sussex)
14) Plymouth Sound
15) Irish Sea
16) Ireland and part of England
17) England to the Streights [of Gibraltar]
18) The Haven of St. Malo (in text)
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Other Properties
Lot 739
739. Meares (John) vo yA g e s D e l A ch i n e A l A co t e no r D-ou e s t
D e l’Am e r i q u e, 4 vol. (including Atlas), vol.1-3 half-titles, engraved
portrait of Meares and 27 plates and maps, some folding or doublepage,
occasional spotting, a few marginal water-stains, ink stamp
on titles and a few text leaves, vol.3 T6 marginal repair, later half
calf, new endpapers, 8vo & 4to, Paris, F.Buisson, [1794].
£1000 – £1500
Lot 740
740. [Parks (Fanny)] wA n D e r i n g s o f A pilgrim, in s e A r c h o f
t h e pi c t u r e s q u e, D u r i n g fo u r-A n D-tw e n t y y e A r s in t h e eA s t;
w i t h re v e l At i o n s o f life in t h e ze n A n A, 2 vol., first e D i t i o n, 49
lithograph plates, 20 hand-coloured or chromolithograph, some
tinted, and a folding panorama of the Himalayas in pocket at end
of vol.1, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, corners
and spine ends rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 476], large 8vo, 1850.
£750 – £1000
741. Saint-Julien (Charles de) vo yA g e pi t t o r e s q u e e n russie,
half-title, 21 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured, occasional
spotting, marginal water-staining throughout, a few small nicks to
edges, modern half morocco over old boards, a little rubbed, new
endpapers, 8vo, Paris, [c.1850]. £200 – £300
Lot 742
742. Scott (Capt. Robert Falcon) th e vo yA g e o f t h e Di s c o v e ry,
2 vol., first e D i t i o n, p r e s e n tAt i o n c o p y f r o m t h e A u t h o r to sir
Di g h t o n pr o B y n half-titles, photogravure frontispieces, 2 folding
maps in pockets at end (slightly browned), plates and maps, some
colour, some double-page, vol.1 bookseller’s ticket tipped-in at
front, occasional foxing, original blue cloth, raised gilt medallions
on upper cover, spines very slightly faded, edges rubbed, vol.1
crease along spine, t.e.g., 8vo, [Spence 1051; Taurus 41], 1905.
£3000 – £4000
* * * su p e r B A s s o c i At i o n c o p y, f r o m A n AvA l h e r o to A m i l i tA ry o n e.
Inscription reads: “Sir Dighton Probyn with the compliments of
the author.”
General Sir Dighton Probyn VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, ISO (21
January 1833 - 20 June 1924) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross,
the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry that can be
awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Lot 743
743. Space.- A l A r g e c o l l e c t i o n o f p h o t o g r A p h s, issued by Nasa
and the Astro-Electronics division of RCA (Radio Corporation
of America), c.40 on the Gemini and Apollo missions including
astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn, the Apollo 11 crew and
a few moon views, the remainder documenting TIROS and other
early weather satellites including some of the first views of the
earth’s surface from space, each 20 x 25cm., 8 x 10in., many in
colour, generally in very good condition, some duplicates, loose in
an archival box, 1960s-1970s (over 200). £400 – £600
* * * Illustration: The first complete view of the world’s weather
taken by TIROS IX, 13 February 1965.

Lot 744
744. Vallardi (Giuseppe) [ve D u t i D i ve n e z i A] small engraved
map of Venice (trimmed and mounted), 36 engraved plates, washed
and rebound in modern pigskin, slip-case, oblong 8vo, Milan,
[c.1820]. £400 – £600
746. [Wilde (Oscar)].- Holland (Vyvyan) A ne w Ar c t i c Di A ry,
o r th e pe r i l s o f no rt h e r n eu r o p e, 78pp., unpublished typescript,
photographic frontispiece, 22 original photographs, folding map
and newspaper cuttings, contemporary half blue morocco, lettered
in gilt, t.e.g., 4to, n.p., February 2-23, 1937. £1000 – £1500
* * * A typescript representative of the travelling high society of
the interwar years made by Richard Temple, a director of the
Savoy Hotel, and Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde’s second son.
Visits were made through Scandinavia, and Germany for the
benefit of Temple to establish contacts. Holland outlines their
experiences of seeing the Northern Lights, fun and frolics, and
with Nazi customs officials.
Lot 746
Lot 745
745. Weigel (Johann Christoph) At l A s po rtAt i l i s, title in red
and black, 2 plates of spheres and winds, and 27 maps (?of 28),
including double-hemisphere celestial chart and world, Europe, Asia
and Africa, engraved maps in original hand-colouring, occasional
slight surface dirt, some marginal damp-staining, one text leaf with
a short tear, early owner’s inscription on title, contemporary full
calf, rubbed, spine and label creased, 8vo, Nuremberg, 1717.
£1200 – £1800
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Lot 747
747. Crusius (Dr. Louis) Th e An T i k A m n i A CA l e n d A r, 1897-1901
r A r e, the complete set of 5, those for 1897-1900 containing 6
sheets of 2 months each, 1901 having 4 sheets of 3 months each,
chromolithographs, each c.255 x 175mm., all with pairs of punch
holes and original string ties, above, upper sheet of each set with
slight surface dirt, each sheet for 1897 and 1900 with a soft vertical
crease, a small surface loss and rust spots to advertisement on
verso of last sheet of 1897, damp-staining to lower left corner of
sheets of last three calendars, St. Louis, The Antikamnia Chemical
Company, 1897-1901. (5). £2500 – £3500
* * * Dr. Louis Crusius (1862-1898) was the son of a German
newspaper publisher in Wisconsin. He became a printer’s
apprentice, later moving to Texas to work for his uncle, a doctor, in
his drugstore. From here, he progressed to the St. Louis College of
Pharmacy, graduating in 1882, before opening his own drug store
in partnership with his brother-in-law. He qualified as a doctor
in 1890, then became a medical college lecturer and eventually
professor of histology. His medical caricatures had originally been
created for display in his drugstore window. He published many
of them in “Funny Bone” in 1893, then went on to sell them for
advertising, having produced enough for this 5-year series before
his premature death in 1898.
❦ Science and Medicine
Lot 748
748. Euclid. Th e el e m e n T s o f Ge o m e T r i e, translated by Henry
Billingsley, preface by John Dee, firsT e d i T i o n in en G l i s h, title
within ornate woodcut pictorial border depicting mathematicians,
philosophers, geographers and the disciplines of astronomy,
geometry, arithmetic and music, amongst others, large woodcut
initial and smaller ones throughout, woodcut diagrams, those in
book 11 including 30 (only) with paper overslips (a few loosely
inserted), errata at end, large woodcut portrait of John Daye above
colophon, lacking folding table, 3E1 supplied in ?17th century
(possibly later) pen and ink facsimile, title with a couple of letters
and date added in ink and water-stained, marginal ink stain to
2O4, upper corner of Ss1&2 torn away, affecting side note to recto
of Ss2, MM2 partially repaired tear within text at head,small hole
in YY3, affecting a couple of letters, errata ff. EEE2&3 creased
and frayed, that with colophon verso torn at upper and lower inner
corner, with some loss of text, occasional water-staining and soiling,
contemporary panelled calf, upper cover all but detached, lower
joint with small split at head, corners worn, rubbed, [Honeyman
1008; STC 10560; Sparrow 58; Thomas-Stanford 41], folio, John
Daye, [1570]. £4000 – £6000
* * * The first complete English translation. ODNB calls the preface
“The most influential of all Dee’s published works”.
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Lot 749
749. Galilei (Galileo) mAT h e m AT i C A l di s C o u r s e s C o n C e r n i n G
Tw o n e w sC i e n C e s r e l AT i n G To me C h A n i C k s A n d lo C A l mo T i o n,
translated by Thomas Weston, second edition in English, title in red
and black, engraved plate of tables, wood-engraved illustrations
and diagrams within text, advertisement f. at end, title with later
ink calculations, occasional ink marginalia and underlining to first
c.100pp., water-stained, occasionally causing some light spotting,
for J. Hooke, 1730 b o u n d w iT h Bardwell (Thomas) The Practice of
Painting and Perspective Made Easy, firsT e d i T i o n, imprimatur f. at
beginning, 6 engraved plates, some water-staining, S. Richardson
for the author, 1756, front free endpapers water-stained and frayed,
contemporary calf-backed boards, covers detached, rather worn,
4to £4000 – £6000
* * * ‘The first modern textbook of physics, a foundation stone
in the science of mechanics’ (Grolier, Science). The two new
sciences are the engineering science of strength of materials and
the mathematical science of kinematics.
Lot 750
750. Maxwell (James Clerk) A Tr e AT i s e o n el e C T r i C i T y A n d
mA G n e T i s m, 2 vol., firsT e d i T i o n, half-titles, with errata slip in
vol.1 only, 20 lithographed plates, illustrations, 15pp. publshers’
catalogue at end of vol.2 with “Just Published” by entry for this work
on p.10, bookplate on front pastedowns with inscription “Herbert
Goldstein/ Cambridge, June 1950” in ink, original maroon cloth,
rubbed, spines worn and faded, vol.1 with chip to spine with slight
loss to title and another at foot, vol.2 spine repaired, preserved in
modern cloth drop-back box, morocco label on spine, [PMM 355],
8vo, Oxford, 1873. £3000 – £4000
* * * “May well be judged the greatest theoretical physicist of the
19th century Einstein’s work on relativity was founded directly
upon Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to
equate Faraday with Galileo and Maxwell with Newton.” PMM.
Herbert Goldstein (1922-2005), American physicist.

Lot 751
751. Newton (Sir Isaac) A le T T e r C o n TA i n i n G h i s ne w Th e o ry
A b o u T li G h T A n d Co l o r s , firsT e d i T i o n, ‘Philosophical
Transactions’ No.80 (pp.3075-3098: Newton pp.3075-3087, the
remainder comprising an article on East Indies and Index to vol.6),
2 woodcut diagrams, extensive underlining to text, lightly browned,
bookplate of John Crerar Library of Chicago on front pastedown,
modern calf ruled and stamped in blind to style, spine gilt with red
morocco label, 4to, 1672. £5000 – £7000
* * * ne w T o n ’s firsT P u b l i s h e d w o r k A n d T h e b A s i s o f T h e m o d e r n
T h e o ry o f l i G h T A n d C o l o u r.
Lot 752
752. O’Brien (Bonaventura) Th e s e s mAT h e m AT i C o-Ph i l o s o P h i C A e,
engraved armorial plate after title, folding engraved plate at
end, dedication on verso of title to Thomas Alexander Baron of
Bietagh de Moynalty, contemporary inscriptions on front free
endpaper recto and verso one recording Bietagh’s death in 1768,
contemporary calf, gilt-stamped border largely rubbed off, 4to, n.p.
[1764]. £300 – £400
* * * Rare, not traced on COPAC or in ESTC. Doctoral thesis by
a member of the Irish seminary at Prague, under the direction of
Antony de Burgh. Possibly part of a larger collection of theses as
this has no imprint on title, but apparently complete in itself.
Lot 753
753. Watson (James D.) Th e do u b l e he l i x, firsT en G l i s h e d i T i o n,
s i G n e d b y T h e A u T h o r on front free endpaper, diagrams, very light
spotting and staining to fore-edge towards end, original boards,
dust-jacket, price-clipped, very slightly frayed at edges, 8vo,
1968. £750 – £1000
* * * The first appearance in book form of Watson’s account of the
discovery of the structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, in which
he explains the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the double helix.
This model was largely based on work Rosalind Franklin had
been doing on DNA using x-ray diffraction techniques, which her
associate Maurice Wilkins had passed on to Watson & Crick.
“Like nothing else in literature, it gives one the feel of how creative
science really happens. It opens a new world for the general nonscientific
reader”. C.P. Snow.
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the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid,
or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which
the specialist staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute
discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods.
(b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for loss or
damage to goods of any kind whether caused by negligence
or otherwise unless goods are covered by insurance effected
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by negligence or otherwise including any claims for conversion
will be limited to the amount of insurance cover effected in
accordance with the provisions of clause 12(a) above.
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the seller no later than twenty-eight days after the day of the
auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum
due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit
the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the
receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer
will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until
after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the
event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale
his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.
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Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots the Auctioneer may in this
event charge the seller such cancellation charges as may
be deemed necessary by the Auctioneer to compensate the
Auctioneer for all expenses and other losses involved in or
resulting from such cancellation and without limitation to the
above such compensation shall be not less than the vendor’s
commission and the buyer’s premium chargeable on the middle
estimate of the auction price of the lot or lots withdrawn and
any other expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots.
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apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein.
16. The Auctioneer accepts no responsibility in connection with
the commissioning of their staff to bid for any lots. Reserves
and commissions given by telephone are accepted at sender’s
risk and must be confirmed in writing before the date of sale.
17. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with English Law.
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catalogue description, in accordance with section 7 of the
Conditions of Sale and Business. Solely as a convenience,
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writing), make reference to damage and/or restoration. We
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such a reference does not imply that an item is free from defects
or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply
the absence of any others.
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If, on collation, any NAMED items in this catalogue prove
defective, in text or illustration, the purchaser may reject the
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in respect of lack of list of plates, inserted advertisements,
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plates, nor in respect of defects mentioned in the catalogue or
announced at the time of sale.
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working days of the sale.
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cheaply as is allowed by other bids and such reserves as are
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the United Kingdom. Any item containing ivory will require a
CITES licence before it can be exported from the EU.
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be removed. For purchases over £300 Overseas customers are
asked to provide a banker’s draft drawn on a UK bank if they
wish to clear books immediately after a sale.
Commission Rates
Vendors. The commission payable by the vendor on the
hammer price is 12.5% for property in excess of £3,000
and 15% below that amount. Special rates are negotiable
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amount cannot be more than 12,500 Euros per lot. The amount
is calculated as follows:
Royalty For the portion of the Hammer Price (in Euros)
4.00% up to 50,000
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Invoices will, as usual, be issued in Pounds Sterling. For the
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being agreed by prior arrangement. If items are subsequently
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DREWEATTS DONNINGTON PRIORY
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A George III mahogany and crossbanded serpentine
fronted chest of drawers, circa 1770
Estimate: £8,000-12,000
A pair of Continental sculpted white
marble models of recumbent lions,
second half 19th century,
18cm high, 28cm long
Estimate: £800-1,200
Clocks, Furniture, Works of Art & Carpets
Donnington Priory, Wednesday 26th May 2010 at 10am
Please contact: donnington@dnfa.com
Donnington Priory
Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2JE
t +44 (0) 1635 553 553 f +44 (0) 1635 553
599
donnington@dnfa.com
www.dnfa.com/donnington
Viewing
Saturday 22nd May 9.00am - 12.30pm
Monday 24th May 9.00am - 6.00pm
Tuesday 25th May 9.00am - 4.30pm
Wednesday 26th May from 8.30am
An Irish George III mahogany kneehole
secretaire bookcase, circa 1760
Estimate: £2,000-3,000
A Victorian tulipwood,
kingwood and gilt metal
mounted side cabinet,
in French style, circa 1890
Estimate: £2,000-3,000
A George III parcel giltwood mirror, in ‘Chinese
Chippendale’ style, circa 1780, 134cm high, 70cm wide
Estimate: £1,500-2,000
A William and Mary oyster walnut cabinet,
circa 1690, on a George II walnut stand, circa 1740
With an accompanying handwritten letter, inscribed
‘said to have belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds’.
Esimate: £4,000-6,000
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