Books & Ephemera Wednesday 21 September 2016 - 12noon Viewing: Tuesday 20 September 9.00am - 5.00pm & morning of sale
4 Rackham (Arthur) illust: The Ring of the Niblung, 1939, William Heinemann, first edition, 4to, 25 colour illustrations, blue cloth with dust cover The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, 1910. Wm. Heinemann, 4to, 34 tipped-in colour plates, gilt tooled cloth Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, 1911, Wm. Heinemann, 4to, 30 tipped-in colour plates, gilt tooled cloth; all translated by Armour (Margaret) (3) £100 - 150
Live bidding is available at: 5 Rackham (Arthur) illust: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1928, George G. Harrap, 4to, 8 colour plates, gilt tooled leather £50 - 70 1 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998, Ted Smart (The Book People), 2nd Impression, with Official Bloomsbury Children's Books bookplate bearing signature, dust wrapper £100 - 150 2 Dulac (Edmund) illust: Sinbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights, n.d. (1914), Hodder and Stoughton, 4to, 23 tipped-in colour plates idem, Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, n.d. (1916), Hodder and Stoughton, 4to, 15 tipped-in colour plates, green gilt tooled cloth idem, Princess Badoura, n.d. (1912), Hodder and Stoughton, 4to, 10 tipped-in colour plates, gilt tooled ivory cloth, heightened in green; together with another volume (4) £70 - 100 3 Heath Robinson (W.) illust: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1913, Constable & Co Ltd. 4to, signed by the artist and numbered 23 of 100, 16 tipped in colour plates together with b/w, gilt tooled vellum idem, Bill the Minder, 1912, Constable & Co. 15 tipped in colour plates (one missing), gilt tooled green cloth (2) £400 - 600
6 Rackham (Arthur) illust: The Romance of King Arthur, 1917. Macmillan & Co. 8vo, 16 colour plates together with 8 b/w, gilt tooled blue cloth ibid, three further titles (4) £50 - 70 7 Menpes (Mortimer) illust. & Menpes (Dorothy) text: World's Children, June 1903, A & C Black, 4to, signed Edition De Luxe No. 322 of 500, t.e.g. tooled vellum £40 - 60 8 Stacpoole (H. De Vere) Poppyland, n.d. John Lane The Bodley Head, illustrated by Leighton Pearce, 17colour plates, blue boards; together with a large assortment of illustrated children's volumes, various authors and illustrators (qty) £100 - 200
9 Rackham (Arthur) illustrator: The Ingoldsby Legends, 1922, octavo edition,
12 col. plates, full calf gilt by Riviere, a.e.g.;
together with Walton & Cotton, The Compleat Angler, 1927,
quarto, wood engravings by E. Fitich-Dalgish, boards, d.w. (2)
14 Morpurgo (Michael) & Blake (Quentin) Edit: The Birthday Book in aid of The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts. 2008, Jonathan Cape, signed by both the editors, no. 487/500 £50 - 70
£80 - 120
10 King (Jessie M.) illustrator: A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, [1915], Methuen & Co, 4to, col. pictorial title,
16 tipped-in col. plates, (plate at p.2 bears signature), pictorial cloth (some spotting) with Pogany (Willy) illustrator: Parsifal, 87/525 copies, vellum gilt, signed (2)
£150 - 300
11 Pogany (Willy) illustrator: Tannhauser, A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner, n.d., Harrap & Co, 4to, col. & b/w.
illus, full vellum gilt, Limited Edition 273/525 copies, signed £150 - 350
12 Pogany (Willy) illustrator: Lohenginn … after the Drama of Richard Wagner, n.d., Harrap & Co, 4to, col. & b/w.
illus, full vellum gilt (covers a little bowed), Limited Edition 160/525 copies, signed uniform with "Parsifal", 44/525 copies (2) £200 - 300
13 Beardsley (Aubrey) illust. The Lysistrata of Aristophanes, London 1967 reprint of 1897 original, New York, Odyssey Publications, 236 of 515 with extra solander case £50 - 70
15 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone, 1998, Ted Smart (The Book People), 4th Impression idem, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998, Ted Smart (The Book People), 3rd Impression idem, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999, Ted Smart (The Book People), 3rd Impression; all with dust wrappers (3) £100 - 200 16 Charles Mozley (1914-1991) The Railway Children original cover illustration, oil on paper, 29cm x 18.5cm; together with book, published by J M Dent, reprinted 1978, ex-library copy, dustwrapper (2) £500 - 700 17 Hatherell (W.) illust. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, n.d. Hodder & Stoughton, Edition De Luxe No. 196 of 250, signed by illustrator, 22 colour plates, vellum bound, gilt tooled (boards warped) Milne (A.A.) A Gallery of Children, 1925, London, Stanley, Paul & Co, 12 colour plates, blue cloth boards (2) £100 - 150 18 Blyton (Enid) Two handwritten school reports for Marjorie Wisdom aged 6, Summer term 1923, and Alan Wisdom aged 8 Christmas term 1922, the latter on headed paper 'Southernhay, Hook, Surbiton, Surrey', both signed Enid Blyton N.F.U. (both stained) (2) £100 - 150
19 Ross (Johnny) written and illust. The Biggin Hill Frescoes, 1975, London, Lion & Unicorn Press, folio, no. 8 of 100, signed, cloth boards £60 - 90 20 Wodehouse (P.G.) The Head of Kays, 1905, London, Adam & Charles Black, first edition, 8vo, 8 b/w illustrations illustrated maroon cloth boards (worn and foxed, Sunday School label stuck to inside cover) £150 - 200 21 Lear (Edward) The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense, n.d. Fred. Warne & Co. Copyright Edition, oblong 8vo, green cloth boards, dust wrapper ibid The Pelican Chorus and Other Nonsense Verses, n.d. Frederick Warne & Co. illust. Leslie Brooke, illustrated cover (2) £60 - 80 22 Schwartzbourg (The Princess Hesse) A Rare and Choice Collection of Queens & Kings and other things, n.d. (c.1880) the whole imprinted in gold and many colours by the Brothers Daklziel at their Camden Press, published Chatto & Windus, folio, cloth boards (poor condition, contents loose) £80 - 120 23 Dulac (Edmund) illust. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, n.d. Hodder & Stoughton, 14 colour plates, blue cloth boards ibid Stories from the Arabian Nights, n.d. Hodder & Stoughton, 20 colour plates, orange boards with three other Dulac illustrated volume and two others (7) £80 - 120
24 [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] Sixteen various titles including: Robinson (W. Heath) illust. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, n.d. Hodder & Stoughton, 16 colour plates, yellow cloth boards Russell Flint (William) illust. Le Morte Arthur, 1927 Reprint, Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society, blue cloth boards Hudson (Gwynedd M.) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, n.d, Hodder & Stoughton, 11 plates, frontispiece missing, blue cloth boards with thirteen others (13-condition mostly worn) £100 - 200 25 JOHNS (Capt. W) Biggles Gets His Men, 1950, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper ibid Biggles and the Black Mask, 1964, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper ibid Biggles Forms a Syndicate, 1961, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper ibid Biggles and the Black Raider, 1953, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper together with 28 other Biggles hardback titles, some first editions and some with dust wrappers (32-mostly worn) £150 - 200 26 Potter (Beatrix) Ginger and Pickles, 1909, Warne, first edition, 8vo, original green boards idem, The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1905, Warne, 8vo, original boards printed in silver idem, The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1908, Warne, first edition, 8vo large format, original maroon boards printed in gold and green (3) £200 - 300 27 Potter (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet, 1906, Warne, first edition, wallet format oblong duodecimo, original pale blue linen, dark blue lettering [Linder p.426] £250 - 350
28 Potter (Beatrix) Thirteen early titles including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester with others, various dates, Warne (13) £400 - 600
33 Wood (Lawson) Twelve various illustrated titles, n.d. Frederick Warne & Co. including Mrs Purr, Mrs Waddle, Mrs Polly, Mrs Cackle and eight others (good condition) (12) £50 - 70
29 Child (Harold) trans. Aucassin & Nicolette, 1911, A & C Black, illustrated by A Anderson, brown, blue and gilt tooled cream cloth boards; together with eight other illustrated books (9) £80 - 120
34 Caldecott (Randolph) illust. Five various illustrated titles including Ewing (Juliana Horatia) Jackanapes etc. together with two Caldecott miniature picture books and an assortment of other period titles (16) £100 - 150
30 Cross (Helen Reid) A Song to Mary, circa 1930, original illuminated copy, illustrated frontispiece, title page, 10 ink and gilt verse pages, crown 8vo, bound with card boards, gilt tooled title to spine; together with two handwritten letters on headed paper from Cross to Mr Branagan, dated 11 July and August 3 1930 (3) £80 - 120
35 Frink (Dame Elisabeth) illus. Aesop's Fables, 1968, R. Alistair McAlpine Pub. Ltd. & Leslie Waddington Prints, landscape quarto, signed and inscribed 'Helena and David with Love from Lis 18 June 1977', designed and printed at the Curwen Press on Zerkall Butten paper, edition of 250, with four pencil signed original lithographs included, bound in yellow and orange leather by Mansell, gilt tooled £1000 - 1500
31 Macmillan & Co Ten illustrated volumes incl. Irving (Washington) Old Christmas, illustrated by R. Caldecott; Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield, illustrated by Hugh Thomson etc. all last decade 19th Century, with gilt tooled green cloth boards (10) £80 - 120 32 Greenaway (Kate) A collection of various illustrated books including a miniature Alphabet, miniature Almanack's for 1924 to 1929 inclusive, Birthday Book for Children, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and two others (11) £80 - 120
36 Harrison (Florence) illustrator: Christina Rossetti Poems, n.d., Blackie & Son Ltd, 4to, intro. by Meynell (Alice), 36 col. plates & b/w illus, t.e.g. original cloth gilt £200 - 300 37 Taylor (G.P.) Shadowmancer, 2003, Faber & Faber, Special Edition, signed by the author, dustwrapper £100 - 200 38 Paolini (Christopher) Eragon, 2003, Alfred A. Knopf, signed by the author, dust wrapper; idem, Eldest, 2005, Doubleday, signed by the author, dust wrapper (2) £300 - 500
39 [CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND ANNUALS] Various titles, mostly circa 1920's and 30's, including The Children's Circus Book, Zoo Saints and Sinners, The Blue Book of Children's Stories, mostly in good condition (37) £60 - 80 40 Smith (Dodie) The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956, London, Heinemann, first edition, illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnson, blue cloth boards, with dust wrapper (spine faded) £80 - 120 41 Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, September 1941 reprint, Faber & Faber, dust wrapper ibid Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, ditto ibid The Weald of Youth, 1942, ditto ibid Siegfried's Journey, 1945, ditto (4) £50 - 70 42 Calet (Jean Jaques) A True and Minute Account of the Destruction of the Bastille, 1789, printed by W. Browne and J Warren...sold for the Author by C. Stalker, translated from the French by an English Gentleman, 8vo, later bound, calf spine and corners with red Morocco gilt tooled title strip, marbled boards (foxing) £50 - 70 43 Merryweather (F. Somner) Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, 1933, The Woodstock Press, 1st Edition, with dust wrapper; together with six other volumes (7) £50 - 70 44 Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, 1964, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, with dust wrapper £50 - 70
45 Fleming (Ian) The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, with dust wrapper £50 - 70 46 Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, with dust wrapper £50 - 70 47 [BOND/FLEMING] A collection of Ian Fleming and James Bond related books and ephemera including The Spy Who Loved Me, 1965, Jonathan Cape, 6th Impression; From Russia With Love, n.d. Book Club, rare early edition, with various others etc. (qty) £150 - 200 48 Dickens (Charles) Seven volumes, each containing two novels, n.d. Chapman & Hall, green Morocco spine with red Morocco titles, gilt tooled (7) £100 - 150 49 Southerne (Thomas) Oroonoko: A Tragedy … The Second Edition, 1699, Printed for H.Playford, quarto, pp.[6],
58 (chipped, repairs 20th c. calf)
8 other vols, incl.. Grosier, A General Description of China, 1788, volume 1 only (folding frontis, folding map present) (9) £100 - 200 50 MacDonald Fraser (George) Eight Flashman titles, hardback first editions, with dust wrappers; together with three other titles by same author (11) £60 - 90
51 [AMERICANA/SATIRICAL PRINTS, etc] The Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books for MDCCLXVIII, Volume The Third [only], 1768, H. Beevor, 8vo, engr. frontis & 5
55 Hume (David) Dialogues concerning Natural Religion … The Second Edition, 1779, 8vo, half title present,
later quarter calf;
plates (1 folding) correct as per plate list at end, pp.354-375 “Account of the American Controversy”, other American content passim, untrimmed in contemp quarter calf
together with Locke (John) Elements of Natural Philosophy …, sold by J. Thomson, no date, 12mo, calf, portrait (2) £80 - 120
52 Camden (William) Remaines Concerning Britain …, 1657, Printed for Simon Waterson and Robert Clavell, 4to,
56 Lawrence (D.H.) Women in Love, 1921, London, Martin Secker, first edition, brown cloth boards; together with Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood, 1954, J.M. Dent & Sons, first edition, with dust wrapper; with three others (5) £50 - 70
£150 - 250
3ff. incl. portrait frontis, pp.411 (1) with the usual mispagination, later half calf; together with Baker (Richard) Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1670, folio, lacks add. engr. title Fuller, Church-History, 1655, folio, 2 plates
only
and misc. antiquarian, some defects (qty) £100 - 200 53 Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1791, Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 8vo, three vols, 6th
Edn., contemp. calf (rubbed, hinges cracked, one label gone) (3) £150 - 300
54 [Osborne (Thomas)] Memoirs Relating to the Impeachment of Thomas Earl of Danby, (now Duke of Leeds), in the year 1678, 1710, John Morphew, 8vo,
panel calf (worn);
Works of Mr Francis Beaumont and Mr John Fletcher in Seven Volumes, 1711, Jacob Tonson, 7 vols, portraits, panel calf, bookplate of John, Earl of Loudoun (8) £150 - 250
57 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892, London, George Newnes, The Strand Library, cloth boards; ibid The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,1894, London, George Newnes, The Strand Library, illustrations by Sidney Paget, cloth boards; ibid Uncle Bernac, A Memory of the Empire, 1897, London, Smith, Elder & Co, red cloth boards (3) £100 - 150 58 [Sharp (Cuthbert) compiler:] The Bishoprick Garland, 1834, Nichols, octavo,
4 plates (of which 2 are music), text vignettes, presentation copy to Lady Williamson, limited print run of 150 copies, full green morocco by Birdsall £200 - 300
59 [Defoe (Daniel)] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe …, 1719, Printed for W.Taylor, 8vo, folding
double-hemisphere map frontis (slight erosion in left margin), pp.[8], 373, [11], calf (worn, cover off, erosion to text block lower left, etc); ESTC N47837 variant with p.220 numbered 120 £100 - 200
60 Clarendon (Edward Earl of) History of the Rebellion Begub in the Year 1641, 1704, Oxford, Printed at the Theater, three volumes, folio, restored and rebound, quarter calf; together with another (4) £100 - 150 61 [PASTON LETTERS] FENN (John) Original Letters Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV [etc], 1787, 1789, 1823, 5 vols, quarto, addition eng. pict.
titles, 47 plates (some hand-col'd), 1 folding table, contemp calf (bindings worn) (5) £150 - 250
62 Waugh (Evelyn) Decline and Fall, 1928, Chapman & Hall, first edition, (proper names on p.168,169), original boards (worn) £80 - 120 63 Greene (Graham) The End of the Affair, 1951, Wm. Heinemann, first edition, with dustwrapper (stained and torn) ibid The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, 1950, Wm. Heinemann (2) £50 - 70 64 Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, Jonathan Cape, first edition, with dust wrapper £80 - 120
65 Ishiguro (Kazuo) The Remains of the Day, 1989, Faber & Faber, with signed publisher's label, dust wrapper £50 - 70 66 Wells (H.G.) The First Men in the Moon, 1901, London, George Newnes, first edition, blue cloth boards (worn, faded and stained) ibid Ann Veronica, 1909, London, T. Fisher unwin, first edition, red cloth boards (poor condition) (2) £60 - 80 67 Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, 1964, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition; The Man With The Golden Gun, May 1965, Jonathan Cape, 2nd Impression; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, Jonathan Cape, 4th Impression; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, Jonathan Cape, 1st combined edition; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1964, Jonathan Cape, 6th Impression; all with dust wrappers (5) £150 - 200 68 [BINDINGS] An assortment of good bindings, mostly 19th/20th Century in date, including works by Shakespeare, Scott, Macaulay etc (qty) £100 - 150 69 Reed (Eliot)- pseudonym of Eric Amber and Charles Rodda Skytip, 1951, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, with dust wrapper £50 - 70 70 Le Carre (John) The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, 1963, Gollancz, first edition, signed by author, blue cloth boards, dust wrapper £300 - 500
71 Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper £80 - 120 72 Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper £50 - 70 73 Fleming (Ian) Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, Jonathan Cape, first edition of two together, dust wrapper ibid You Only Live Twice, 1964, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (2) £50 - 70 74 Shute (Nevil) A Town Like Alice, 1950, Heinemann, first edition, dust wrapper ibid On the Beach, 1957, Heinemann, firt edition, dustwrapper ibid The Rainbow and the Rose, 1958, Heinemann, first edition, dust wrapper with three others by author (6) £200 - 300 75 Maxwell (Sir William Stirling) Don John of Austria or Passage From the History of the Sixteenth Century 1547-1578, 1883, London, Longmans, two volumes Royal 8vo, publisher's olive decorated cloth, illustrated throughout (2) £40 - 60 76 Coxe (William) History of the House of Austria, 1807, London, Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons for T. Cadell & W. Davies, three volumes 4to, contemporary half calf (3) £50 - 70
77 Palmer (Samuel) illust. Illustrations of Milton's Minor Poems, handwritten list and ten pencil numbered and inscribed engravings, in titled quarter cloth folio with marbled boards £500 - 700 78 Caulfield (James) Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, 1819, 4 vols, Large
Paper Copies, 153 plates only, plus 3 not called for, contemp calf (rebacked, some offsetting), bookplates John Arden, & small label for Battle Abbey (4, with all faults)
£100 - 200
79 Literature and Poetry A collection of 19th and early 20th Century volumes including Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling, Goldsmith and Borrow, some good bindings (17) £40 - 60 80 [LITERATURE] Wells (H.G.) The Food of the Gods and How It Came To Earth, 1904, Macmillan & Co. cloth boards ibid The Bulpigton of Blup, n.d. (1933) Hutchinson & Co, black cloth Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur) The Refugees, 1893, Longmans, Green and Co, New Edition, blue cloth Kipling (Rudyard) Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, Macmillan & Co, red cloth Waugh (Evelyn) When The Going Was Good, 1946, Duckworth, yellow cloth (5) £50 - 70
81 Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur) Sir Nigel, 1906, London, Smith, Elder & Co. red cloth boards ibid Uncle Bernac, 1897, London, Smith, Elder & Co. red cloth boards ibid The Expolits of Brigadier Gerard, 1899, London, George Newnes Ltd. red cloth boards ibid The White Company, 1893, London, Smith, Elder & Co. 8th Edition, red cloth boards together with seven other titles by author (11) £150 - 250 82 Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur) The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902, London, George Newnes Ltd, first edition, 15 b/w illustrations (one missing, p.310) original illustrated red cloth boards £300 - 500 83 Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1898, London, George Newnes Ltd. 5th Edition, blue cloth boards ibid The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1897, London, G. Newnes Ltd. green cloth boards ibid The Valley of Fear, 1915, London, John Murray, 2nd Impression, red cloth boards ibid The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1905, London, G. Newnes Ltd. dark blue cloth boards ibid His Last Bow, 1917, London, John Murray, red cloth boards with five other Holmes titles (10) £200 - 300 84 [PAMPHLETS] Collection of 11 pamphlets & sermons, 17th c. & 18th c., incl. Wray (William) The Rebellious City Destroyed, 1682; The Reformed Kalendar, or, an Essay towards altering our Julian Kalendar …, 1701; Three Speeches against continuing the Army, 1718; Sherlock (W.) A Sermon … for The Late Glorious Victory … at Blenheim .., 1704, (bound with 3 other
sermons), all disbound or in later wrappers
(11) £200 - 400
85 Hilton (James) Goodbye Mr Chips, Oct. 1934 reprint, Hodder & Stoughton, signed 1st Impression, 4 b/w illustrations, with dust jacket (foxing) £50 - 70 86 Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, 1928, Faber & Gwyer Ltd. first edition, blue cloth boards ibid Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1930, Faber & Faber, first edition, blue cloth boards ibid Sherston's Progress, 1936, Faber & Faber, first edition, blue cloth boards (3) £50 - 70 87 [Shelley (Mary)] The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein … Second Edition, 1826, Henry Colburn, 3 vols, 8vo, vol.1 lacks pp.155-158, later
half-calf (worn);
together with misc pamphlets and acts re slavery; Leigh Hunt's Journal, 2 vols, folio, 1834/5; & small q. of other diverse material (qty) £150 - 200 88 Bligh (William) The Narrat[ive] of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, 1790, Nicol,
quarto, folding frontis, three maps/charts (two folding), title page torn with loss of 'ive' from 'Narrative'), half calf (some wear) £1000 - 2000
89 Dedijer (Vladimir) Tito Speaks, His Self Portrait and Struggle With Stalin, 1953, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1st edition, inscribed and signed in Yuogoslavian to Kenneth Pridham from Tito, dustwrapper (damaged) £50 - 70
90 Churchill (T.O.) Life of Lord Viscount Nelson … Third Edition, 1811, L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, quarto,
portrait frontis, 4pp. facsimile letter, 10 plates only ( of which 2 folding), old half calf (repairs) £70 - 100
91 [NAPOLEONIC ERA MIDSHIPMAN'S MANUSCRIPT LESSON BOOK] approx 120pp. of ink notes, diagrams and maps (2 U.K. coastline; 1 x double hemisphere world map showing North & South America, New Holland, etc); the text divided into relevant captioned sections: Lunar Observations [various methods], Dead Reckoning, Plane Sailing, Drafting, Azimuths, etc; case studies in the "Oblique Sailing" section, e.g. "To find the Bearing and distance between the Fleet, & the Frigate, after the Capture of the Pirates …" suggest the lesson book to be of naval origin; internal evidence suggests dating to be ca.1811/1812; the paper and the binding are of the period & continental, the text English £700 - 1000 92 Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York, 1823, printed for Longman, Hurst et al. in 2 vols, folio, red Morocco spine and corners, marbled boards. Provenance: Bookplate of Stephen Francis-Eustace Scrope (2) £150 - 200 93 Purey-Cust (Very Revd. A.P.) The Heraldry of York Minster, 1890-1896, Leeds: Richard Jackson, in 2 vols, vol 1 no. 144/300, vol 2 no. 237/300, folio, both with eleven colour plates together with b/w, blue cloth boards, gilt tooled; together with two other Yorkshire related volumes (4) £50 - 70
94 [PAMPHLETS] The Darlington Pamphlet or, County of Durham Intelligencer, Number III Friday June 5th 1772 to Number XXIV Friday 30th October 1772 (incomplete) bound as one, folio (damaged) £50 - 70 95 SYKES family, of the East Riding of Yorkshire a q. of misc. deeds, documents & manuscripts, mainly early 19th c (some 18th) relating to Joseph Sykes, including a fine quarto ms. by the surveyor Thos. Spenceley of Cottingham, “Survey of an Estate in the Several Parishes of Cottingham, Skidby, Kirk Ella, Ferriby and Rowley …, 1839”, in limp straight-grain red morocco gilt (map not present); Trust Account Ledger of the Executors of Joseph Sykes, etc (qty) £100 - 200 96 [YORKSHIRE SOCIAL HISTORY] small tin deedbox containing 6 cash ledgers covering the period 1824-1867, mainly relating to Hull lawyer Samuel Lightfoot; and a quantity ms. & other material relating to the Aske, Saltmarshe & Smythe Egginton families (qty) £100 - 200 97 [YORKSHIRE SOCIAL HISTORY] a large quantity (10 box files) of mainly 19th c legal documents, indentures, wills, financial transactions etc, mostly paper (some vellum), various Yorkshire families & professions (qty) £150 - 250 98 Lysons (David) The Environs of London, 1792-6, Printed by A Strahan for T. Cadell, 4 volumes only, 4to, 3
map frontispieces, 4 engr. titlepages with vignettes, 1 engr. dedication, 60 plates (a few with modern colouring), 2 folding pedigrees, 20thc. maroon calf (4) £150 - 300
99 Richardson (T.M., artist) Etchings of Antiquities in Newcastle upon Tyne, [1827, 1828], Newcastle, M.A. Richardson, quarto, etched pictorial title-page;
51 etched or lithographed plates, contemp. diced calf (rebacked)
£200 - 400
100 [NEWCASTLE] Report of the Trial of Watson against Carr …, 1823, Newcastle, Printed for John Sykes, pp.[4], 36, vignette on t.p., later half leather; together with [Mitchell (W.A.)] The Letters of Tim. Tunbelly. Gent., Fred Burgess, Newcastle, Vol. 1 [all published], 1823, Newcastle upon Tyne, Printed and Published by W.A. Mitchell,
octavo, litho frontis, old boards (paper reback)
(2) £100 - 200
101 [DURHAM SHIPBUILDING] A Victorian apprentice indenture from the Ford Dock Yard, named Thomas Robson and master Thomas Gales, dated 22nd January 1847, printed, hand completed and signed & sealed in wax, 24.5cm x 35.5cm £50 - 70 102 [BENTHAM, N. YORKS] the wages notebook, stock purchase ledger & original b/w photo (of the shop & staff) for Foster's Family Grocer & Confectioner, Bentham, the entries covering 1921-1955 (wages), 1901-1913 (stock) (3) £50 - 80
103 [WESTMORLAND PAMPHLETS] a volume of 12 pamphlets bound by Fazakerley, including: A Compendious Tour through part of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire, written for Rural Festivity … Written in Short hand at Crakenthorp Mill, near Appleby …, 8pp., Carlisle, Jolie, 1815 Harrison (T.) An Impartial Narrative of the Riotous Proceedings which took place in Kendal …, pp.20, Kendal, Airey & Bellingham, 1818 An Acount of Mr Brougham's Visit to the Freeholders of the East and West Wards …, title page, p.[26] verso, pp.27-48 [i.e. a continuation of a previous publication], Kendal, 1818 and 8 other pamphlets [bookplate of W.P. Dobson] £200 - 300 104 [CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND PAMPHLETS] 2 volumes of bound pamphlets & offprints, 38 in all, original wrappers, printed between 1880 & 1922, mostly Kendal imprints, incl. Lees (T.) Parish Church of St. Andrew, Greystoke, 1889, with 3 mounted photographs Whitehead (H.) Bells of Penrith Parish Church, 1889, Penrith and 36 others, some presentation copies, later cloth, bookplate of W.P. Dobson (2) £150 - 250 105 [Briggs (John)] Letters from the Lakes …, 1825, Kirby Lonsdale, Printed and Sold by Arthur Foster,
12mo, lacking one leaf of prelims, untrimmed; bound in later cloth, with:
Postlethwaite (J.) Geology of the English Lake District …, Keswick, 1897 and: a bound volume of PAMPHLETS which includes: A Protest against the Extension of the Railways in the Lake District, by Robert Somervell … and a Preface by John Ruskin, [1876], Windermere (2) Ex-libris W.P. Dobson £150 - 250
106 [Hollingshead, (John)] attributed to: A Cursory View of a Proposed Canal from Kendal, to the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal Leading to the great Manufacturing Town of Manchester …, [1771?], pp.56, folding plan by Burdett and Beck dated 1769, 19th c. calf
(spine sellotaped); blank strip torn from title-page upr. margin)
Ex-libris W.P. Dobson £200 - 400
107 [RYDAL HALL] H.M.C. … The Manuscripts of S.H. Le Fleming, Esq., of Rydal Hall, 1890, H.M.S.O., later cloth £50 - 100 108 [MANUSCRIPT] Goss (Thomas) A Survey of Lands Lying in the Counties of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire belonging to Sir Michel Le Fleming, Bart., 1770, quarto, 14ff. manuscript, contemp.
quarter calf, bookplate of W.P. Dobson
£100 - 200
109 Symons (G.J.) The Floating Island in Derwentwater, its History & Mystery, [1888], illus, original cloth
(some pages loose);
and 8 others of Westmorland & Cumberland interest (9) £100 - 200
110 Baines (Edward) Yorkshire, Past and Present...n.d. William Mackenzie, four volumes, gilt embossed cloth boards Ross (Frederick) The Ruined Abbeys of Britain, n.d. William Mackenzie, folio, cloth boards Drake (Francis) Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York...1736, London, printed by William Bowyer for the author, illustrated with copper plates, folio, calf bound (damaged) Whittock (Nathaniel) The Oxford Drawing Book, n.d. Oxford, published by Bartlett & Hinton (7) £100 - 150 111 Morris (Rev. F.O.) editor County Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain & Ireland, published William Mackenzie, 7 volumes, red cloth boards, gilt tooled Fletcher (J.S.) A Picturesque History of Yorkshire, Caxton Publishing, 6 volumes (13) £100 - 150 112 Whellan (Francis) History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, 1894, London, Ballantyne & Hanson et al, second edition, quarter black Morocco Fordyce (William) The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, n.d. Newcastle, T. Fordyce, in 2 volumes, uniformly quarter calf bound (3) £50 - 70
113 [YORK] Drake (Francis), Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, 1736, William Bowyer for the Author, folio, "Royal
Paper" copy, i.e. Large Copy on fine paper, mezzotint portrait frontis & 61 engr. plates (incl. folding & double-page), text illus incl. full-page, later diced calf gilt (upr. cover hanging), a.e.g., First Edition with ms. note recording that the author gave this copy to his niece, Frances Barnard; the note in her hand and dated York, Sept. 20th, 1767 £300 - 400
114 Monkhouse W.) , Bedford (F.) & Fawcett (Joshua) The Churches of York …, 1843, Published by H. Smith, York, 4to, pictorial tinted litho title,
engr. ded'n., 23 tinted litho plates & 3 plates of floor plans, original cloth (backstrip gone, cover loose); together with Shaw (P.) An Old York Church, All Hallows in North Street, 1908, Ltd Edn 320/500 Frere (W.H.) Graduale Sarisburiense, 1894, Quaritch, Ltd Edn 19/300 (3) £100 - 150
115 [COUNTY ATLAS] Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Bearing a New Set of County Maps …, 1793, Printed for John Cary, quarto, general map & 46
county maps, all with contemp. hand-colouring, half calf (amateur reback) £150 - 300
116 Allen (T.) The History of the County of Lincoln, n.d. (circa 1840), London & Lincoln, Sanders, 2 volumes bound as 1, small folio, contemporary half calf, folding map, county map, 40 plates £80 - 120
117 Allen (T.) A New and Complete History of the County of York....Illustrated with a Series of Views Engraved on Steel After Original Drawings by Nathaniel Whittock, Dec 1 1828, London, I.T. Hinton, 6 volumes, contemporary half calf, 148 steel engraved plates (6) £100 - 150 118 Allom (Thomas) Pickering (G.) &c.. illust. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland, illustrated, volume 3 (only) n.d. (circa 1820), London, Fisher et al.. 4to, contemporary moire cloth, 66 steel engraved views on 33 plates Allom (Thomas) illust. The Counties of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, And Rutland, illustrated, n.d. London, Fisher, Son, & Co (2) £70 - 100 119 Ashbourn: The History and Topography of Ashbourn, the Valley of the Dove..Illustrated by Numerous Original Drawings on Stone, and Wood Cuts 1839, Dawson & Hobson, contemporary calf, 20 lithographic plates £50 - 70 120 Baker (Oliver) Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood. 1888, Ludlow, G. Woolley, 4to, contemporary brown half Morocco, etched frontispiece, text illustrations £40 - 60 121 Billings (Robert William) Architectural Illustrations and Descriptions of the Cathedral Church at Durham...1843, London, Boone, with Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham, 1846, Durham, George Andrews, two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary maroon half Morocco, plates throughout (2) £80 - 120
122 Black: A and C Black, three volumes relating to Yorkshire: Home (G.) Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes, 1907, 2nd edit. ibid Yorkshire Dales and Fells, 1906, 1st edit. ibid Yorkshire Vales and Wolds, 1908, 1st edit. publisher's cloths, a.e.g., coloured plates (3) £40 - 60 123 Britton and Brayley, The Beauties of England and Wales (Volume for Cumberland only), 1802, London, contemporary half-calf. extra illustrated, 38 plates £40 - 60 124 Calvert (F.) Picturesque Views and Descriptions of Cities, Towns, Castles and Mansions... in Staffordshire and Shropshire...Engraved on Steel by Mr T Radclyffe... Historical and Topographical Illustrations by William West, 1st April 1830/July 1st 1831, Birmingham William Emans, 2 volumes, 4to, uniformly bound in modern half-calf, 73 steel plates in all (2) £80 - 120 125 Cave (H.) Antiquities of York, Drawn and Etched, 1813, London, Ackermann. folio, contemporary half Morocco, engraved title page, plates, pp (vi), 21 £80 - 120 126 Dayes (Edward) The Works...Containing an Excursion through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, Illustrative Notes by Edward Brayley...1805, London, T. Maiden, contemporary half-calf, portrait, engraved title-page, plates pp359 £50 - 70
127 Farrington (J.) The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland and Cumberland deliniated...Descriptions...by Thomas Hartwell Horne, 1816, London, printed for T. Cadell, tall folio, publisher's pink cloth. engraved double-page map, 43 copper engraved plates £150 - 200 128 Farrington (J.) artist Britannia Depicta; A series of Views... Part VI Containing Thirty-One Views in Derbyshire, Engraved from Drawings made by J Farington, 1818, London for T. Cadell, oblong folio, black quarter Morocco, 31 copper engraved plates £100 - 150 129 Halfpenny (Joseph) Fragmenta Vetusta of Remains of Ancient Buildings in York, 1807, York, tall folio, original cloth boards, 34 plates with accompanying text £50 - 70 130 Hunter (Jospeh) Hallamshire The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York.... a New and Enlarged edition by the Rev.Alfred Gatty, 1869, London, large folio, contemporary calf-backed purple cloth, steel engraved plates £50 - 70 131 Hutchinson (W.) A View of Northumberland with an Excursion to the Abbey of Melrose in Scotland in 1776, 1778, Newcastle, T. Saint, 2 volumes 4to, later half-calf, 2 engraved title pages, 20 copper-engraved plates, 2 folding plates (2) £80 - 120 132 Macculloch (J.) Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Including The Isle of Man..., 1819, London, Archibald Constable, 2 volumes, full contemporary calf (atlas of plates missing) (2) £50 - 70
133 Omerod (George) The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 1819, 3 volumes folio, contemporary full-calf, coloured maps and copper plates (3) £150 - 200 134 Orde (John Walker) The History and Antiquities of Cleveland, Comprising the Wapentake of East and West Langbargh, North Riding, County York, 1846, London, Simpkin & Marshall, tall 4to, contemporary half-calf, wood engraved text illustrations, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, 2 folding genealogical tables, folding County map, geological map, 11 plates £80 - 120 135 Pearson (W.) A Selection of Antiquities in the County of Salop, 1824, London, Jeffrey, folio, contemporary half sheep, 43 plates £80 - 120 136 Pennant (Thomas) The Journey from Chester to London, 1782, London, printed for J. White, 4to, rebound in modern 3/4 Morocco, engraved title-page, 22 copper-engraved plates £80 - 120 137 Pennant (Thomas) A Tour From Downing to Alston Moor, London 1801, Bound with a Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate and Bimham Crags, 1804, London, 4to bound as one, contemporary half calf, (lacks 1 plate) £60 - 80 138 Pont (Timothy) Cuninghame Topographised... 1604-1608. With Continuous Illustrative Notices by the Late James Dobie of Crummock....1876, Glasgow, John Tweed, 4to, original boards, large folding map, plates and text illustrations £50 - 70
139 Price (John) An Historical and Topographical Account of Leominster, and Its Vicinity, 1795, Ludlow, J. Procter, later grey boards, 7 aquatint and soft-round etched plates £60 - 80 140 Radclyffe (C.W.) Memorials of Rugby...Drawn on Stone..Printed by Day and Haghe... Historical and Descriptive Notices, 1843, Rugby, J.S Crossley, large folio, contemporary calf backstrip, coloured lithographic title-page, 24 lithotint plates with leaf of descriptive text £150 - 200 141 Rhodes (E.) Peak Scenery or Excursions in Derbyshire....Engravings by W.B. and Geo. Cooke, from Drawings Made by F.L. Chantrey (4 parts), 1818-1823, London, printed for the author, large folio, full contemporary straight grain Morocco over wooden boards, each with 29 copper-engraved plates £100 - 150 142 Rhodes (E.) Yorkshire Scenery; or Excursions in Yorkshire...Engraved by G Cooke...From Drawings Made for the Purpose by T.C. Hofland, W Cowen, R Thompson &c...1826, London, printed for the author, 4to, original boards, 7 copper-engraved plates £50 - 70 143 Rimmer (Alfred) Summer Rambles Around Manchester, Reprinted with Additions from the Manchester Guardian, n.d. (circa 1890), Manchester, John Heywood, small 4to, original dark blue cloth, many plates and text illustrations, one of 250 numbered large paper copies £40 - 60
144 Robertson (David) A Tour Through the Isle of Man; To Which is Subjoined a Review of Manks history 1794, London, printed for the author by E. Hodson..Sold by Mr Payne etal. royal 8vo, contemporary full mottled calf, engraved map, 8 sepia aquatint plates. Provevance: Halstead Place £100 - 150 145 Shaw (Rev. Stebbing) The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798, 1801, London, Nichols, 2 volumes tall folio, large paper copy, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, 2 folding maps, many copper-engraved plates (2) Provenance: Stafford Hall £800 - 1200 146 Smith (W.) A New and Complete History of the County of Warwick...Illustrated by a Series of Views, 1829, Birmingham, William Emans, 4to, contemporary half-calf, engraved title, 62 steel plates, engraved map £50 - 80 147 Thoroton: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire; Republished with Large Additions, 1797, London, 3 volumes small folio, later half-calf, folding map, plates throughout (3) £150 - 200 148 Throsby (J.) Select Views in Leicestershire n.d. (1789) with the Supplementary Volume to the Leicestershire Views, 1790, London, 2 volumes tall 4to, later maroon half Morocco, copper plates throughout, folding map to supplementary (2) £120 - 180
149 Whitaker (T.D.) The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, In The County of York... Many Additions, Corrections, 1812, London, small folio, later 3/4 Russia, marbled boards, many aquatint plates £80 - 120 150 Beilby, Knott & Beilby Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire,1829, folio, Birmingham red half Morocco, a.e.g. 32 plates, 12 vignettes £200 - 300 151 Dugdale (Sir William) Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1730, London, printed for John Osborn & Thomas Longman, 2nd edition, 2 volumes folio contemporary calf (2) £300 - 500 152 Gastineau (Henry) illust. Wales Illustrated, In a Series of Views....n.d. (circa 1830) 4to, contemporary cloth, 85 steel plates of North Wales £40 - 60 153 Peck (Francis) Academia Tertia Anglicana; or, the Antiquarian Annal of Stanford, 1727, London, printed for the author, folio, contemporary calf, backstrip worn, 33 engraved plates, first edition Provenance: Charles Ormston Eaton bookplate £120 - 180 154 Surtees (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 1816-1840, London, Printed by and for Nichols, Son, and Bentley, four volumes, folio (4) £300 - 500
155 Baines (Edward) History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 1836, London, Fisher & Son, & Co, 4 volumes, modern quater calf by Canterbury Bookbinders (4) £200 - 300 156 Wright (James) The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, 1684, London, Printed for Bennet Griffin, folio, calf bound Provenance: Cashel Library £100 - 150 157 Of Mary Ann Cotton interest: A Collection of Letters and a Photograph, comprising: -A contemporary portrait photograph of Cotton, stamped to reverse John Stoddart, Photographer, Shaw Wood Gardens, Durham and hand inscribed M A Cotton, 10.2cm x 6.5cm -Letter from George Smith of Bishop Auckland to Cotton in Durham Jail, dated February 1873, blue envelope -Letter from Charles Murray, Stockton-on-Tees, to Geo. Hedley, dated 24th Feb. 1873, promising to find a good defence counsel for Cotton -Letter to Cotton, indistinctly signed, dated 22nd Feb. 1873, regarding selling her possessions -Letter to Cotton, postmarked Feb 12th 1873 informing her that Mr Blackwell received her letter and that he has been retained by Mr Smith, acting for Mr Chapman solicitor, to defend her. Indistinctly signed (Hedley?) Elson Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, black edged envelope -Letter from Geo. Smith, Bishop Auckland, to Mr Murray stating that either he or Mr Blackwell will defend her, blue paper -Letter dated 27th Feb. 1873 promising money raised by a committee to pay for defence -Letter to Cotton from William & Sarah Edwards, West Auckland, wishing her well and reassuring her that her daughter is being cared for -Letter from Matthew Neale, dated March 21st 1873 to Cotton (9)
Mary Ann Cotton was found guilty of murdering, by poisoning, three of her husbands and is strongly suspected of also murdering 11 of her children. She was hanged on the 24th March 1873 at Durham Jail. Provenance: By descent, ancestor of vendor was Matron at Durham Jail £500 - 700 158 Of Coal Mining and Colliery interest: A seven page Indenture on vellum, dated May 2nd 1830, relating to village of Hawthorn Provenance: Forster Family £50 - 70 159 Clarke (William Nelson) Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting … County of Berks, 1824, Oxford,
quarto, 6 folding pedigrees, calf (rebacked/rubbed)
£50 - 80
160 The Religious Tract Society Six titles: Russian, London, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Pictures, n.d. illustrated coloured cloth bindings Album of Scottish Scenery- A Series of Views...by D Roberts et al London, T.J. Allman, containing 26 b/w plates, embossed blue boards, heightened in gilt (7) £70 - 100 161 Turner (J.M.W. artist:) Richmondshire Illustrated by Twenty Five Engravings, ca.1890, Virtue & Co, folio, 20
engr. plates, Limited Edition numbered 273 of 500 copies on india paper, publishers half leather, t.e.g. £100 - 150
162 Clarkson (Christopher) The History of Richmond, in the County of York, 1821, Richmond, Printed for the Author,
quarto, folding map frontis., add. engr. pictorial title-page, 16 plates (some foxing), 2 folding pedigrees, numerous text illus., recent half calf; together with the 1995 “Index” (2) £100 - 150
163 McCall (H.B.) The Early History of Bedale in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1907, London, Elliot Stock, red cloth boards; together with various local interest books and publications etc. (17) £50 - 70 164 Austew-Leigh (R.A.) Bygone Eton, 1936, Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co, fourth re-issue, folio, brown cloth Besant (Sir Walter) London in the Eighteenth Century, 1925, A & C Black, reprint, green dust wrapper (2) £40 - 60 165 Indenture Rough Draft of a Mining Wayleave, Lease (1789) Between Sir Ralph Milbank of the one part, William Peareth of Usworth house in the county of Durham of the second part, whereas Sir John Thorold, Sir Francis Mackenzie? and Sir Ralph Milbank are seized as tenants in common of the wayleaves and mines, and which the said Ralph Milbnak hath agreed to demise his 1/3 share of the said mines to the said William Peareth for the term of 14 years, at Harraton outside. £50 - 70
166 Collieriers Thomas Donnison and George Rutherford versus William Peareth, Donnison and Rutherford assigned divers freehold and leasehold estates consisting chiefly of collieries and coal mines which were transferred to the said William Peareth in 1757 absolutely, for him to manage and work etc to clear Donnisons and Rutherford debts of about £13,000 £50 - 70 167 Welsh Collieries Three folders comprising Welsh coal shipping certificates, Welsh coal contracts and correspondence, covering the period February, 1937 to December, 1939, export sales of Welsh coal to Italy £50 - 70 168 Lambton collieries Various interesting accounts from the Sunderland fitting office, shipping of coals, coals received and moved, bills, receipts of suppliers, sales of coals, coke, bricks etc, River Wear Dues, circa 1889 £50 - 70 169 Coal mining related Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the several matters relating to coal in the United Kingdom volumes 1,2 and 3, 1871, presented to both houses of parliament £50 - 70 170 Coal mining related Sadler & Co Ltd report of directors, 1933, The Horden Collieries Ltd Brochure, 1929, The Horden Collieries reports and balance sheets 1912/1914/1916/1917/1921, interim and final share dividends, plus houses for sale to shareholders Whitworth park coal co. lease documents and detailed monthly financial statements, 1937 to 1941 £50 - 70
171 Coal mining Official report of the explosion at Easington Colliery, County Durham, 1951, plan of the comparative sections of the coalfields of Newcastle, Glasgow and Yorkshire, 1860. NCB Durham division, Thrislington Colliery, proposed single shifting, proposals and plans 1960 Durham County, mining federation board Datal rates at colliers, NCB Durham division 1951 £50 - 70 172 Late 18th century legal draft documents, of Northeast interest 1 - Copy of case, respecting the sum of £16,040 share interest invested the joint stock of South Sea annuties settled on the marriage of Lord and Lady Ravensworth 2 - In Chancery, Liddle widow against Andrew Robinson Bowes and Lady Strathmore, draft of bill 3 - Copy of indictment plea, the King against Lamesley, for not repairing a common highway 4 - Other miscellaneous drafts of articles and a deed £50 - 70 173 Hetton Indenture A very rough draft of a 1797 lease Of three parts between Patrick Lyon of the 1st part, John Clutterbuck of Warkworth? and his wife Mary of the 2nd part and Mary Lyon of the 3rd part The first two parties have agreed to demise to Mary Lyon all udivided shares of the coals and coal mines for the term of sixty years all that parts of estates listed (with tenants) etc. Hetton area, with full and free liberty, power and authority to sink, win, work and make pits and pits etc. For the winning of coals and for wayleaves for getting the coals to the staith etc £50 - 70
174 Indenture Rough draft of a 1782 way leave lease Between John Lambton of Harraton, general in his Majestys Forces etc and William Peareth etc For a lease to WM Peareth of Lambtons main waggon way and bye ways laid over Rickleton Lane, and also laid over Lambtons Land of Rickleton and Harraton, from Peareths Birtley collieries, unto and from the his (Peareths) Staiths now erected or hereafter to be erected at Chatershaugh and Fatfield upon the River Wear, for a term of 31 years, in consideration of certain rent and other clauses £50 - 70 175 Coal Mining Interest Three handwritten draft late 18th century legal documents (3) £50 - 70 176 Jarrow Colliery Accident printed poster for a sermon by Rev Blythe Hurst, September 19th, 1845, 43cm x 27.5cm £50 - 70 177 Britain in Pictures Eighty publications from series, various dates, published Collins, London, with dust covers; with six related books (86) £100 - 150 178 [YORKSHIRE NEWSPAPERS] A bound elephant folio of newspapers, 1828-1830, various titles including The Yorkshire Gazette, The Leeds Intelligencer, The York Chronicle, The York Courant, etc £100 - 200
179 [YORKSHIRE INTEREST] a collection of manuscripts, comprising 16 indentures, deeds, etc, ranging in date from 1617-1797 (& one earlier) relating to property in Warlabye Moor, North Allerton & elsewhere; a Charles II vellum toll pass for men of Easingwold, Soreby, etc; and 4 paper documents, of which one the 1774 codicil of Lady Sarah Talbot of York, bequeathing jewellery, etc (21) £300 - 500 180 Pratt (L.) A Case. Yorkshire is divided into three Ridings or Divisions, each of which has a distinct Commission …, March 15, 1755, folio
broadside, printed one-side only, no publication line (folds, short tears, etc); and another document, part printed, in vellum (a/f) (2)
£50 - 100
181 NEWTON-KYME a collection of mainly 19th c. documents relating to the parish, school, charities, property, etc, incl. ms. copies & updates of “A true Note and Terrier of all the Glebe Lands [etc] belonging to the Rectory of Newton Kyme … 1684”; material relating to Dame Ursula Barwick's charities, incl. part printed early 19th c. apprenticeship indentures; 18th c. ms. bills for the new parsonage, etc, etc £200 - 300 182 Johnson (Dr. Samuel) A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland A New Edition, 1785, London, Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, errata leaf after title page, 8vo, original boards £80 - 120
183 Frost (Charles) Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull...Illustrated with Engravings, Etchings, and Vignettes, 1827, London, printed and published by J.B. Nichols, original marbled boards Sheahan (James Joseph) General and Concise History and Description of the Town and Port of Kingston-Upon-Hull, 1864, London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, cloth boards (2) £80 - 120 184 [Yorkshire History] The Century's Progress Yorkshire, 1893, The London Printing & Engraving Co. various illustrations, cloth boards Clough (Robert T.) The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales, 1962, published by the author, no.972/1000 signed, dustwrapper (2) £30 - 50 185 Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, [1953], col. & b/w.
photo illus, full blue morocco ruled in blind & gilt, labels, gilt signature on upr. cvr., slipcase - perhaps a de-luxe publisher's binding for presentation (but unsigned, no limitation leaf?)
£100 - 150
186 Amundsen (Roald) The South Pole, An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1910-1912, 1912, London, John Murray, in 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth boards (2) £200 - 300
187 Stanley (Henry M.) The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 1885, London, Sampson Low et al, 2 volumes, cloth boards ibid Through the Dark Continent, 1878, London, ditto, 2 volumes, cloth boards ibid In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governer of Equatoria, 1890, ditto, 2 volumes, cloth boards; together with another (7) £100 - 150 188 Kippis (A.) A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World performed by CAPTAIN JAMES COOK …, 1878, Bickers & Son, 12 mounted photographs, full
contemp. calf gilt
193 Patterson (Raymond M.) The Buffalo Head, 1961, William Sloane Associates, first edition; ibid The Dangerous River, 1955, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. 2nd impression both signed and inscribed by author, dust wrappers together with three letters from author (5) £50 - 70 194 Neale (Adam) Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey, 1818, Printed for Longman [et al.], quarto, h-col'd aquatint
frontis., & 9 (of 10) h-col'd aquatint plates (i.e. lacks plate 2) period style calf by Frost
£100 - 150
£80 - 120
189 Morton (H.V.) In Search of South Africa, n.d. Methuen & Co, signed edition 352 of 500, blue cloth boards, cardboard sleeve Mecklenburg (The Duke Adolphus Frederick of) In the Heart of Africa, 1910, Cassell & Co, illustrated, orange cloth boards (worn) (2) £60 - 80 190 TAVERNIER (Jean Baptiste) Collection of Travels through Turkey into Persia, and the East-Indies … together with a Relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, 1684, Printed for Moses Pitt, folio, pp.[32] incl.
2 t.p.'s, 184, 195-264, 1f. part-title, pp.214,[6], 113, [1], 1f. part-title, pp. [6], 154, 1f. adverts, 1f. map key, pp.87, [1], 66, 1f. "Catalogus", 31 plates only (incl. 1 double-page & 4 double-sided), 2 folding maps, text illus., modern vellum (some plates cropped) £1500 - 2000
192 Stanley (Henry M.) Through the Dark Continent, 1899, G Newnes, 2 vols, illustrated red cloth covers (2) £80 - 120
195 Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, & C., 1851, Richard Bentley, lge octavo, map
frontis., 20 tinted litho. plates, original blue cloth gilt (ticket of Remnant & Edmonds on rear paste down), First Edition £300 - 500
196 Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & C., 1852, Richard Bentley, lge 8vo,
2 maps, 20 tinted litho plates, 4 pp. adverts, original blue cloth gilt with binder's ticket on rear paste down, First Edition (repair to inner hinge) £200 - 400
197 Lear (Edward) Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, 1870, Bush, lge 8vo, map & 40
wood-engraved plates, text vignettes, original cloth gilt-lettered, First Edition £100 - 150
198 Forster (George) A Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5, 1777, two volumes, quarto, large
203 Bewick (Thomas) A History of British Birds, 1805, Newcastle,
£1500 - 2000
204 Dicks (John) A New Gardener's Dictionary; or The Whole Art of Gardening, 1769, Printed for Francis Blyth, folio, engr. frontis., vignette on t.p., &
folding Northern Hemisphere map loose at front; errata leaf vol. 1. present, contemp. calf (worn, some spotting) (2)
199 Anderson (G.W.) A New, Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority... Account of Captain Cook's First, Second Third and Last Voyages...Aided Very Materially by a Practical Officer who Sailed in the Resolution Sloop and other gentlemen of the Royal Navy, n.d. (1784-86) Alex Hogg, substantial folio, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with brown leather, 156 copper-engraved plates and map (half map missing) £800 - 1000 200 Edwards (Lionel) illust: The Passing Seasons, n.d. Country Life Ltd. folio, no. 73/150, containing 18 pencil signed prints, orange cloth, gilt tooled (wear and foxing) £200 - 300 201 Stubbs (George) The Anatomy of the Horse, 1938, G. Heywood Hill, folio, 15 fold-out b/w illustrated tables, brown cloth spine, gilt tooled £50 - 70 202 Edwards (Lionel) illust: A Sportsman's Bag, n.d. Country Life, no. 599/650, 18 colour plates, orange cloth; with another copy, 314/650, brown boards, gilt tooled; with two others (4) £60 - 80
octavo, 2 vols, wood engravings throughout, old calf (rebacked), Second Edition, large paper, page size 235mm by 145mm (2) £150 - 250
14 plates, reversed calf (rebacked) £200 - 400
205 [BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS] A spectacular collection of 18th & 19th c. BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS, housed loose within a fine 19th c. black morocco album. Contents include: 1) 11 watercolours painted on vellum by George Dionysius EHRET (1708-1770), all signed and titled, 480mm by 330mm average, dates between 1758-1768, misc. subjects, some with insects. Pencil provenance notes at the foot of each: with eight from the Arnos Grove sale of 1907, and three from “Beckford”. 2) 4 botanical watercolours on paper by Ferdinand BAUER (1760-1826), signed but not dated. 3) 5 other botanical watercolours painted on vellum, one signed “Ann Lee, 1772”. 4) 5 other botanical watercolours on paper, including one signed and captioned by John Frederick Miller “from St Lucia … to Mr Forsyth, Gardiner to Kensington, 1794”. 5) misc. other works, prints & approx 25 fine mid 19thc botanical & mycological watercolours, by “E.F.” Overall condition of the collection excellent, a few pieces with mount marks verso £5000 - 8000
206 Couch (Jonathan) A History of the Fishes, 1868-1869, Groombridge and Sons, 4 vols, 252 col. plates,
original gilt-stamped blue cloth, a bright set
(4) £300 - 500
207 Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph) The Book of Duck Decoys, their Construction, Management, and History, 1886, Van Voorst,
4to, col. frontis & 13 col. tinted lithos, text illus., bevel edged cloth gilt;
together with Wright & Dewar, The Ducks of India, 1925, 22 col. plates, cloth (2) £100 - 200 208 Morris (F.O.) A History of British Birds, 1870, Bell and Daldy, 6 vols, 2nd Edn., 8vo, 364 of 365 (lacking 1
plate from vol. 4) col. plates, green cloth gilt
(6) £100 - 200
209 Lee (Oswin) Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, 1897 & 1899, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 4 vols, lge 4to, 4 pictorial title-pages, 160
photographic plates, quarter morocco/pictorial gilt cloth (4)
211 Nicholson (George) The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, 1885, 2 vols, 4to, chromo plates, full ripple-grain green calf gilt (2) £80 - 120 212 Morris (F.O.) Natural History of British Moths, 1872, Bell and Daldy, 4 vols, 4to, 132 col. plates, green cloth gilt (4) £200 - 400 213 Lambert (Henry) Flore Naturelle, Paris, Librairie de Arts Decoratifs, folio, containing 18 plates La Flore Decorative, folio, containing 28 coloured plates (2) £500 - 700 214 Aldin (Cecil) Hunting Scenes, 1936, Eyre 7 Spottiswoode, folio, red cloth boards Sparrow (Walter Shaw) Henry Alken- The Sport of our Fathers, 1927, Williams & Norgate, folio, red cloth boards Masefield (John) & Seago (Edward) The Country Scene, 1937, Collins, folio, cloth boards together with four others related (7) £200 - 300
£200 - 300
210 Chalmers (Patrick) Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore, 1935, Collins,
4to, 16 col. plates by Winifred Austen, Limited Edtiion, 91/150 copies signed by author & artist, later half morocco;
together with Millais (J.G.) The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901,
4to, b/w. plates, half-vellum
Pollard (Hugh), Wildfowl & Waders, 1938, col.
plates by Frank Southgate, numbered 447/950 copies Dawson, Marsh & Mudflat, 1931, 4to illus by Winifred Austen (4) £200 - 300
215 British Association for the Advancement of Science at Cheltenham a sammelband of material bound in a single octavo volume, all 1856, including pamphlets, broadsides, circulars, and a large linen-backed sheet of signatures of members and office holders, including George Rennie, James Naismyth, Charles Daubeny, Adam Sedgwick, John Phillips, William Whewell, Roderick Murchison, Henry Rogers, et alia £300 - 500
216 Dana (J.D.) A System of Mineralogy, 1844, New York, Wiley & Putnam, 2nd Edn., octavo, 4 plates,
original cloth (rebacked with most of original spine, one or two institutional blindstamps);
together with another edn. New Haven, 1849 (with all faults) & volume I only of Cleaveland's Elementary Treatise, Boston, 1816 (3) £150 - 200 217 Cleaveland (Parker) An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology … in the United States of America, Second Edtiion, 1822, Boston, 2 vols, octavo,
folding hand.col'd map & 5 folding plates, later vellum (some browning (2)
£200 - 300
218 Jameson (Robert) A Treatise on the External, Chemical and Physical Characters of Minerals … Third Edition, 1817, octavo, 8 plates, original boards
(worn, library stamps)
and five other works in 6 vols. (7) £100 - 150 219 Klein (J.) Tentamen Methodi Ostracologicae sive Disposito Naturalis Cochlidum et Concharum …, 1753, Leiden, quarto, 12 plates, contemp.
calf (worn, browning to contents), contemp. bookplate of Dr. Henr. Petit £100 - 150
220 Lucas (Jean Andre Henri) Tableau Méthodique des Espèces Minérales …, 1806, Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Cie., octavo,
Vol.I only (2nd vol published 1813); portrait frontis., 1 folding plate, quarter calf (worn);
together with Hany (R.J.) An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy, 1807, 2 vols, plates 1-8 & 12-24,
half calf (covers off)
Baudrimont (A.) Traité Elementaire de Mineralogie, [1835], Paris, 12 plates (4) £200 - 400
221 Owen (Richard) A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, 1846, Van Voorst, 8vo, folding table, text illus., half calf; together with Parkinson (J.) Outlines of Oryctoglogy, 1830, 10 plates (2) £100 - 150 222 Sprat (T.) History of the Royal Society of London … Third Edition, 1722, quarto, frontis & 2 folding
plates, contemp. calf, bookplate of Francis Marden;
together with Aitken (A.) & C.R.) Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, 1807, 2 vols, quarto, library cloth (3) £100 - 150 223 Phillips (John) The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire … Subscribers' Edition, 1853, Murray, octavo, 36 plates, later quarter calf; together with Stewart (D.R.) Treatise on the Law Relating to Mines, Quarries and Minerals in Scotland, 1894 Jukes-Browne (A.) The Building of the British Isles, 1888 (3) £80 - 120 224 WALLERIUS (Johan Gotch) Systema Mineralogicum …, 1778, octavo, 2
vols, disbound (mod. cloth covers), Vol. I. with frontis portrait, & folding plate (loose); Vol. 2 lacks title, 2 leaves of preface loose, folding plate (loose) - with all faults (2) £500 - 700
225 BARBA (Alvaro Alonso) & others A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises, Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals …, 1738, Jephson for Olive Payne, 12mo, 4 pats in 1
vol., engraved plate & advert present, text illus, divisional titles/continuous register, contemp. calf (rebacked)
Provenance: “Micah Hall, 1747” on title,; vide Sotheby's 1979 £200 - 300 226 [GARDENING] Lawson, William, A New Orchard and Garden …, [1623 - imprint nearly cropped away but enough discernible for identification], I.H. for Roger Jackson, 4to, woodcut vignette to title &
other illus., (lacks blank 04, notes cropped in margin p.11; tear in gutter of 03; old calf rebacked) £200 - 300
227 Morris (F.O.) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 1864, Groombridge & sons, 3
vols, 225 col. plates, original green cloth stamped in gilt & blind (4)
£100 - 200
228 Morris (F.O.) A History of British Birds … Second Edition, 1870, George Bell & Sons, 6 vols, 365 col.
plates, original cloth stamped in gilt & blind (4) £200 - 300
229 Dixon (Charles) Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 1900, Sheffield, quarto, 41 col. plates,
(mostly chromos), pictorial cloth
£100 - 150
231 Pritt (Thomas E.) Yorkshire Trout Flies, 1885, Goodall and Suddick, 164 of 200, with twelve lithographic plates, (11 handcoloured), original gilt tooled green cloth. Provenance: Bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie, Combe Court £300 - 500 232 Salviano (Hippolyto) Aquatilium Animalium Historiae, Liber Primus, Cum Eorumdem Formis, Aere Excusis, Rome 1554, with engraved title page with a portrait of the author beneath the combined arms of Pope Paul III and Marcellus II, with Al Lettore Antonio Larreri, March 1559 and 80 (one missing) copper-engravings of aquatic creatures by Lafrerey (Antoine) and Beatrizet (Nicholas), folio, vellum binding. Provenance: handwritten Ex Libris: Joannis Baptae Decourcelles 4 August 1694 £2000 - 3000 233 Richardson (Captain) Horsemaship; or, the Art of Riding and Managing a Horse, Adapted for the Guidance of Ladies and Gentleman...1853, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, five engraved plates, red Morocco spine, mottled boards £40 - 60 234 [Gough (Richard)] Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain applied to illustrate the History of Families, Manners, Habits and Arts …, 1786, 1796, J. Nichols for the Author, 2 vols or 5 parts (each with title page), bound in 5 vols, large folio (Large
Paper copy? page size: 49cm by 32cm), vignettes, 270 plates, 3 folding pedigrees, contemp.diced calf, expertly rebacked) (5) £300 - 500
230 Dixon (Charles) Twenty one Ornithological volumes by author, various dates and publishers, mostly cloth boards in fair condition (21) £100 - 150
235 Humphreys (Henry Noel) The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing, 1853, London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co, small folio, including 13 chromolithographs in colours and gold together with wood-engraved illustrations, in original leather back pierced papier mache boards, later spine; together with a collection of books and publications relating to early printing, including Caxton etc. (qty) £100 - 150 236 Brees (S.C.) Second Series of Railway Practice, 1840, 4to, 61 b/w plates, later cloth; with two other related volumes (3) £80 - 120 237 [MEDICINE] [Gibson (Thomas)] The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized …, 1682, Printed by Mr Flesher for T. Flesher,
octavo, pp.[8], 510, with 13 engraved plates, contemp. calf (worn, cords showing), First Edition, with imprimatur leaf present £100 - 200
238 [MEDICINE, etc} Bell (Charles) Observations on Injuries of the Spine and of the Thigh Bone …, 1824, Thomas Tegg,
quarto, 9 litho plates (some folding), half-calf; and 5 other vols (8) £70 - 120
239 Trimmer (Sarah) A Geographical Companion, 1811, J. Harris,
12mo, 8 folding h-col'd maps (incl. World, but lacking G.B.), contemp. roan; together with Book of Common Prayer [bound with other titles], ca.1870, Bagster, 8vo, chromo
divisional titles, bound by Birdsall
Merryweather (Mrs I.A.) Hermit of Eskdaleside, 1833, Whitby, boards Simon (André) Art of Good Living, 1929, limited edition Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, n.d., chromo plates, half leather (5) £150 - 200 240 HOLY BIBLE (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated …, 1639, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, Cambridge, 4to in 8's,
[page size 23cm by 17cm], collation: 8ff. (n.n.), pp.918 (loss to *2 of the prelims; lacks pp.257/8 & pp.899/900; other minor losses to margins affecting marginal notes; pp.817/8 with selo repair); preceded by BCP, London 1637 (a/f) & Whole Book of Psalms, Buck & Daniel, Cambridge, 1639, contemp calf,
disbound, spine gone, pages loose (sold with all faults)
£200 - 300
241 Raffald (Elizabeth) The Experienced English Housekeeper … New Edition, 1811, 8vo, frontis & 3 plates (2 folding), calf (worn; upr. cvr. off); together with The Good Husbandman's Jewel … Hundredth Edition, Preston, W. Smith, ca.1800, 12mo,
pp.24 woodcuts (minor defects & losses) and 8 other misc. vols, some defects (10) £100 - 200
242 Ford (John Walker) "Omniana", 8vo manuscript copy book,
so-titled on front paste-down, approx. 400 pp. of ms. commonplace material, incl. 4pp. a.l.s. from Ford's cousin, Jacob Bell, relating the origins of Landseer's painting "The Sleeping Bloodhound", red morocco ruled in gilt, bookplate of Ford;
together with 2 other vols in the same hand (3) £100 - 200
243 [Ford (Isaac, of Manchester)] manuscript account book running from 1754-1770, small 4to, vellum bound, pencil
provenance note signed J.W. Ford, 1871, on f.e.p.
£100 - 200
244 [FULFORD HALL, YORK] "Edward Vyvyan Ford Esq., Fulford Hall, York, Inventory of the Contents … 1934", black
morocco gilt bound typescript by Oliver Kitchen & Flynn;
together with [same provenance] a 19th century manuscript cookery book (2) £100 - 200 245 SCRAP ALBUM a 20th c. quarto volume, with diverse contents including 11 watercolours of Calabrian costumes, ca.1825; 3 “Geography Bewitched!” caricature maps by Dighton for Bowles & Carver, n.d. (trimmed); early 20th c. photos of Exmoor & elsewhere, in all approx. 40 pages £200 - 400
246 [EROTICA] Verlaine (Paul) Les Amies Femmes, Au Depens De Deux Cent Cinquante Disciples D'Hippocrate Verlaine (Paul) La Trilogie Erotique, Edition Illustre, Bruxelles, 1931 A. De M. Gamiani ou deux nuits d'exces, Edition Realisee together with another erotic publication and various other ephemera (qty) £1000 - 1500 247 Hawley (W.M.) Japanese Swordsmiths Revised, 1981, Hollywood, 4to., original boards with a quantity of others on Japanese swords, netsuke and Japanese Art (qty) £200 - 300 248 [“BREECHES” BIBLE] The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke …, 1611, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 4to in 8's, [203mm by 150mm
page size], severely defective, i.e. lacks all after Malachi, cropped, corners with loss & repairs, recased, rebacked etc.; together with 5 other vols, 17th c & later (6, sold with all faults) £150 - 250
249 Mercier (Mrs Jerome) The Last Wolf: A Story of England in the Fourteenth Century, [ca.1910], illus, original cloth; together with Collingwood (W.G.) Thorstein of the Mere, 1895, illus, original cloth The Red Riding Hood Playmate, [ca.1876],
quarto, col. illus, cloth gilt
and 10 other miscellaneous vols (13) £150 - 250
250 After Joseph Mallord William Turner The Three Swords hand coloured aquatint with etching, private plate circa 1821, depicting swords of Cromwell, Fairfax & Lambert, preserved at Farnley Hall, each striking relevant document, description opposite, folded, titled Prerogative and Privilege, 30cm x 24cm, stuck down on paper, some damage and discolouration Provenance: From a private collection £500 - 700 251 [RAILWAY INTEREST] A collection of fourteen panoramic Scottish carriage prints, various views after Sidney Causter, J McIntosh Patrick, Frank Sherwin, John E. Aitken, Jack Merriott, Kenneth Steel, unframed, each 25.5cm x 53cm (14) £500 - 700 252 Bible, English [The Bible and Holy Scriptures …], [1560, Geneva, Rowland Hall], lacks all before f.9 (c.i.), lacksf.220 (Ii.iii), f.273 (Zz.i), misbound, lacks f.276 (Zziiii), and all after f.385 (Cccc.iii) Malachi, Ch.4, v.6, i.e. no N.T. title, no colophon, etc; other depredations include: dd.iiii with tear & hole nn.iiii & oo.ii with loss to lower corner; small burn hole S.s.i., loss of notes in margin of Vv.iii, loss to foot of text of Zz.i & Zz.ii; old repairs to lower corner of first ff.; some cropping to headlines; woodcuts present in text, and double-page woodcut map “The Division of the land of Cannan”, inserted at f.103; and double-age woodcut “The forme of the T[em]ple & citie restored”, (cropped at foot, loss in fold at top), inserted at f.357, page size 230mm by 150mm Binding: late 19th c. mottled calf by Cooper's of Croydon (upper cover starting) Provenance: engraved bookplate of Frederick John Horniman Biblical Library, with ms. accession number “A.V./18”, and blindstamped/headed paper for Surrey House Museum with ms., description of the present work affixed to f.f.e.p Sold with all faults [Note: the so-called Geneva Bible of 1560 is the first English Bible printed in Roman type] £1000 - 1500
253 Rodin (Auguste) Les Cathedrales de France, 1914, Librairie Armand Colin, introduction par Charles Morice, quarter calf with marbled boards £80 - 120 254 Bible (The Devotional Family) Fawcett (John) 1811, London, Printed by C. Baldwin, 2 volumes, folio, quarter vellum Ellies (Lewis) A New Ecclesiastical History...1698, London, printed for Abel Swall, 8th Volume, folio, leather bound Blomfield (Rev E.) The History of the Martyrs, 1810, printed by Brightly & Co. Bungay, 2 volumes, cald spines, marbled boards (5) £250 - 350 255 Rothschild (M.D.) Hand-Book of Precious Stones, 1890, New York, cloth; together with Kunz (G.F.) Rings, 1917 (covers worn) Streeter (E.)( Precious Stones and Gems, their History …, 1877, illus, (underlining in text) (3) £80 - 120 256 [SCIENCE FICTION] A large collection of Science Fiction Book Club titles, 1950's-1980's, hardback with dust wrappers; together with various sci-fi magazines and publications including Sci-Fi Quarterly, New World etc. (large qty) £300 - 500
257 [“BREECHES” BIBLE] The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke …, 1611, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 4to in 8's, [page size: 210mm
by 155mm], ornamental woodcut titled & *3 of prelims only, ff.395 (recto 394, ie 394 misnumbered); ornamental N.T. title & 3ff (n.n.), ff.441-554; followed by incomplete “Concordance”' minor faults include: f.434, NT title backed; small hole f.212; f.322 torn with slight loss; headlines partially cropped, etc; old calf rebacked; with all faults £300 - 500
258 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] Book of Common Prayer, 1791, Paris, Printed by P. Didot Sen., and Sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 12mo, blue straight-grian
morocco, elaborately stamped in blind, rebacked with original spine, fore-edge painting of an Isle of Wight church [Yaverland or Walton?], bookplate of John Wolstenholme Cobb, pencil note “purchased of Mr Edwards of Halifax”, later slipcase £200 - 300
259 Holy Bible (The) 1783, Cambridge, Printed by John Archdeacon,
8vo, bound with BLP, 1771 & Psalms, 1787, green straight grain morocco (rebacked); together with BCP, Oxford, 1796, quarto, red morocco
(upper cover off)
Missale Romanum, Venice, 1723 Lemprieres Classical Dictionary, 1830 Doering's Horace, Oxford, 1831 (5) £150 - 200 260 "A Scheame of Trade betweene England and [ffrance] the Comodiites of the Native product & Manufacture of each Country as itt was carryed on betw[een] Mich. 1668 to Mich. 1669" double page manuscript detailed account, unknown hand, showing the balance of trade considerably in England's favour, (folds, one or two holes and losses, ink stamp verso "Clayton MSS."), England 17th century £100 - 200
261 [MANUSCRIPTS] 1) 2pp. & integral blank, in a secretarial hand, Alex Forbes to Commodore J.T. Duckworth, re provisioning by the government contractor, Kingston, Jamaica, 1796 2) 1p. (& integral blank) a.l.s., Sec. of State William Bromley to the Duke of Ormond re “requisitorial letters … in behalf of the Holstein Troops …”, Whitehall, 16th Nov. 1713 3) American ms. promissory note for $450, 1817 4) another, later, similar 5) a ms bond, England, 1830 (5) £100 - 200 262 The Graphic Illustrated Weekely Newspaper, Volume 1 to 3, December 1869 to June 1871 inclusive, folio, gilt tooled blue cloth boards (3) £50 - 70 263 Matthews (B.) Bookbindings, Old and New, Notes of a Book-lover, with an Account of the Grolier Club, New York, by Brander Matthews, 1896 George Bell & Sons, with interesting worked vellum relief cover; together with five related book binding volumes (6) £50 - 70 264 Brown (Ivor) Shakespeare, 1949, Collins, signed by author and various actors including Robert Shaw etc. dustwrapper MacQueen Pope (W.J.) Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1945, W.H. Allen, dust wrapper (2) £40 - 60
265 [TRAVEL PASSES, etc] small q. of ephemera, part-printed, mostly travel passes, naturalisation papers of the Swiss-born/Yorkshire based “general dealer” Pellegrino Vassalli, mostly 19th c. (qty) £50 - 100
271 Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel) Old Castles and Priories in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, drawn and engraved..1728, oblong folio, half morocco, contianing 24 various landscape views £150 - 200
266 Coltman (Nathaniel) A New Map of the County of York, n.d. published by Laurie and Whittle, in slip case; together with eight other folding maps (mostly worn) (8) £80 - 120
272 Bennet (Richard) A New & Correct Post Map of the Great Roads and Cross Roads through England and Wales...n.d. (circa 1775), London, printed for Robert Sayer, handcoloured engraving on 16 paper segments, laid on linen, framed and glazed £100 - 150
267 Ortelius (Abraham), Turcici Imperii Descriptio, nd. [1570-1579],
hand-coloured map, 38cm x 50cm, stain to lower margin, framed and glazed [Al-Qasimi p30]; £200 - 400 268 Moll (Herman) Asia - To the Right Honourable William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, This Map of Asia According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated, nd. [c1720], large engraved map,
hand-coloured in outline, formed from two sheets, impression 58cm x 97cm, framed and glazed £80 - 120
269 Mercatorum (Gerardum) Scotland D'Ecosse, n.d. circa 1595, handcoloured engraved map, script to reverse, 34.5cm x 46cm £150 - 200 270 Stobie (Matthew) A Map of Roxburghshire or Tiviotdale, engraved by John Bayley, handcoloured map on 24 paper sections, laid on linen, with titled slipcase (torn) £80 - 120
273 A large quantity of 20th Century Cartographic reference works with reproduced maps including Camden's Britannia 1695 by David and Charles Reprints, and a folio of assorted reprints etc. (qty) £200 - 300 274 A collection of Antiquarian maps and prints including Bowen road maps, Yorkshire related, portrait engravings and others, 17th to 19th century, mostly framed (18) £300 - 500 274A [MAPS] Barclay's Dictionary, 1813, quarto, frontis, pict.
title, 12 plates, 18 maps with hand-colouring (3 folding. incl. world), half calf, sold with all faults £70 - 120
275 Speede (John) The West Ridinge of Yorkeshyre with the most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described, 1618, handcoloured engraving, Chap. 40 to reverse, framed and glazed 40cm x 52cm £120 - 180
276 Bowen (Emanuel) An Accurate Map of the County Palatine of Durham...published 1777, handcoloured, 41.5cm x 50cm, mounted, unframed Greenwood (C&J) Map of the County of Northumberland...published 1831, handcoloured, 61cm x 62cm, unframed with a North-West View of Beverley Minster, published 1816 and a panoramic South View of Scarborough (4) £100 - 150 277 Saxton (Christopher) descr. Speede (John) publ. Montgomeryshire, 1610, hand-coloured, Book 2 Chap. 10 to reverse, 41cm x 53cm Morden (Robert) South Wales, handcoloured, 39cm x 44cm (2) £100 - 150 278 Reynolds: The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames New Edition, 1887, James Reynolds and Co. handcoloured concertina, paper laid on linen, green cloth boards Wyld (J.S.) A New Map of England & Wales Projected Upon the Trigonometrical Operations made for the General Survey of the Kingdom, n.d. (19th Century) handcoloured 42 paper sections laid on linen, 126cm x 72cm (2) £60 - 90 279 [GEOLOGY] Loaders (T.B.) Scientific & Commercial Map of England & Wales, mounted on roller to be hung, 110cm x 130cm (a/f) £50 - 100 280 [GEOLOGY] Geological Survey of Great Britain-Cornwall, four maps (missing Lizard) 85cm x 110cm, (4) £200 - 300
281 [GEOLOGY] Four various 19th Century folding maps: Stanford (Edward) England Geological c.1875 Phillips (John) Geological Map of the British Isles, 1862 Gardiner (J) Geological Map of England & Wales, 1826, with green calf case together with another (4) £150 - 200 282 Colton (G.W.) Colton's General Atlas, 1863, New York, J.H. Colton, folio, disbound, numbered as required 1-113 (One Hundred and Eighty Steel Plate Maps and Plans (title) but without Flags, Heights and Virginia. Maps with hand-coloured wash, decorative engraved borders £600 - 800 283 KITCHIN (Thomas) Four handcoloured engraved maps of Ireland from the London Magazine: The Province of Ulster, circa 1750, 18cm x 23.5cm The Province of Connaught, circa 1750, 18cm x 23.5cm The Province of Munster, circa 1750, 18cm x 23.5cm The Province of Leinster, circa 1750, 24cm x 18cm with another (5) £100 - 150 284 Geological Survey of England and WalesWakefield 248 published by Major James, 30th November 1854, 27 printed sections on paper.laid on canvas, with gilt tooled leather slip-case; together with three other maps (4) £60 - 90
285 Speede (John) The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne Described with the Armes of them that have been Earles therof since the Conquest, n.d. circa 1614, handcoloured engraved map, Chap 32. to reverse, 39cm x 51cm; together with handcoloured map of the East Riding of Yorkshire (2) £300 - 500 286 Speede (John) The Countie Westmorland and Kendle the Cheif Towne Desccribed with the Armes of such Nobles as have been Earles of either of them n.d. (circa 1675) handcoloured, chapter 44 to reverse, framed and glazed 38cm x 50cm £100 - 150 287 Speede (John) The West Ridinge of Yorkshyre with the most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described, 1610, handcoloured engraving, Chap 41. description to reverse, unframed (stained) 38cm x 51cm £80 - 120 288 Bacon: Survey Map of Derby, Nottingham and Leicester, n.d. (late 19th Century) handcoloured twenty five sections on paper, laid on linen, original titled cloth boards (worn), 116cm x 91cm £40 - 60 289 [PHOTOGRAPHY] Corsica, 1927, containing numerous typed-titled stuck down b/w views incl. Napoleon's House, leather spine, cloth boards gilt tooled; together with Collection de Douze Vues de Waterloo (foxed) (2) £50 - 70
290 PHOTOGRAPH/SCRAPBOOK dated 1872, compiled by Charles Lennox Bruce Cumming, of the Madras Civil Service (arrived in India 1867 - retired 1888), folio, containing interesting photographs of India, also Aden, Port Said, Malta, Europe, cuttings etc. (worn) £50 - 70 291 [PHOTOGRAPHY] Two late 19th Century albums of sepia and b/w images comprising many British & Continental topographical views including Yorkshire- Richmond, Fountains Abbey etc. one album gilt tooled red leather, the other red cloth titled SCRAPS (2) £50 - 100 292 Everard (John) Portrait of a Model, 1939, London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd, introduction by Charles Simpson, R.I. 46 b/w plates with dust wrapper £50 - 70 293 [PHOTOGRAPHY] Three early 20th century photographic albums: - WWI regimental b/w & sepia images, Herts Regt. album with green cloth boards, titled -Alpine, British and Near Eastern/North African images, large album with green cloth boards and smaller album (incomplete) with grey cloth boards (3) £150 - 200 294 [PHOTOGRAPHY] Two photograph albums containing images from 1935 worldwide trip on RMS Laconia, including Canary Isles, Trinidad, Grenanda, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Portugal, Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Italy & France; together with RMS stamped travel alarm clock with ship's wheel frame, 11cm in diameter (3) £80 - 120
295 [PHOTOGRAPHY] Litchfield (E.) The Witch of Ghoom, late 19th Century handcoloured enlarged photograph, hand written label to reverse: An Old Thibetan Beggar woman who frequents the railway station of Ghoom near Darjeeling, Bengal, enlarged from photograph, coloured from memory, E. Litchfield, Dp. Supt Survey of India, Burma, Dec 1899, framed and glazed 67.5cm x 52cm £200 - 300 296 [PHOTOGRAPHY] A pair of late 19th Century panoramic sepia photographs of Nice (Panorama de Nice) and Monaco (Panorama de la Principaute de Monaco), both titled, framed and glazed, 21cm x 56cm; together with a b/w photograph of Scarborough Castle, 29.5cm x 24.5cm, framed and glazed (3) £100 - 150 297 [Sutcliffe (Frank Meadow): studio of:] “Women of Staithes”, unsigned b/w photograph on satin grain paper, old mount, captioned in pencil, unframed, 25cm by 29cm £80 - 140 298 Heraldry Knight & Rumley's Specimens of Crests of the Nobility & Gentry of the United Kingdom ..., 1827, Griffiths, quarto, engraved title, 26
engraved plates (some foxing), original cloth-backed boards;
with two albums of crests and monograms and three others (6) £60 - 80
299 Lucy (Mary Elizabeth) Biography of the Lucy Family of Charlecote Park, 1862, Privately Printed by Emily Faithfull & Co, 4to, frontis & 4 plates, full calf gilt by
Bedford
Provenance: Stoneleigh Abbey; Hugh Murray; together with [Buckler (B.)] Stemmata Chicheleana, or A Genealogical Account of Some of the Families derived from Thomas Chichele …, Oxford, 1765; plus “Supplement”, Oxford, 1775 (3) £200 - 400 300 Carter (Matthew) Honor Redivivus; or the Analysis of Honor and Armory; Reprinted … The Third Edition, 1673, Printed for Henry Herringman, 8vo, engraved
armorial as frontis., add. engr. title and 9 costume plates, modern quarter calf;
together with [Leigh (Gerard)] The Accedence of Armorie, [1597?, s.n., s.l., s.a.]. quarto, woodcut title &
6ff (n.n.) 135ff., 1f. (ie, lacks S8, colophon), folding woodcut at end old calf rebacked
Provenance: Audenham House, Gerald Matthew Bayliss, Hugh Murray, Bradford Citty Lib., J.G. Sebright, 1825 Heylyn (p.) A Help to English History, 1680 (3) £150 - 300 301 Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry … The Sixth Edition, 1724, Printed by T.W., folio, engr. frontis & 63
plates, sprinkled calf gilt rebacked with original spine;
together with Yorke (James) The Union of Honour. Containing the Armes …, 1640, lacks add. engr. title; New and Compleat Sett of all the Coats of Arms …, 1741, Printed for S. Harding, trimmed
and laid down in a contemp 4to volume, rebacked (3)
£100 - 200
302 [HERALDRY, GENEALOGY, etc] Edmondson (Joseph) A Complete Body of Heraldry, 1780, for the Author, 2 vols, folio,
frontis & 24 plates, contemp. calf (rebacked),
and a collection of other works including Nisbet, Systems of Heraldry, 1816, 2 vols Robson, The British Herald, 1830, Sunderland, 3 vols Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, ca.1830, 3 vols and 9 other works in 17 vols (27) £300 - 500 303 Anderson (James) The Royal Genealogies...1732, London, printed for the author by James Bettenham, two parts in one, folio, calf spine, marbled boards £100 - 150 304 Betham (Rev. William) Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World...1795, London, printed for the author by W. Bennett, folio, contemporary half calf, 716 tables £150 - 250
307 Douglas (Sir Robert) Baronage of Scotland Containing An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdon,1789, Edinburgh, Sold by Bell & Bradfute et al. folio illustrated with engravings of the Coat of Arms, contemporary quarter calf £200 - 300 308 Dugdale (William) The Baronage of England, or An Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of English Nobility, 1675, London, Printed for Tho. Newcomb et al. 3 volumes folio in 2, contemporary calf rebacked, first edition (2) £150 - 200 End of Sale For full terms and conditions please refer to our website: www.tennants.co.uk This listing is for guide purposes only and is not definitive – lots may be added, altered or withdrawn at any time before the sale. Tennants Auctioneers Harmby Road
305 Blakeway (Rev. John Brickdale) Sheriffs of Shropshire...1831, Shrewsbury, printed by Wm. & Jn. Eddowes, some crests hand coloured Ditto, 1886 edition, both folio (2) £100 - 150 306 Crawfurd (George) Peerage of Scotland...1716, Edinburgh, printed for the author: Sold by George Stewart, folio contemporary calf £200 - 300
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