Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

GRIMBLE, Augustus. The Deer Forests of Scotland. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1896. Limited edition of 500 copies, 4to (287 x 213mm.) Plates after Archibald Thorburn. (Spotting to some plate margins). Contemporary parchment-backed boards with paper titling (rubbing to all extremities, browning). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And two illustrated works on hunting (3).

PROSTITUTION. - [Giovanni Battista LORENZI (editor)]. Leggi e Memorie Venete Sulla Prostituzione Fino Alla Caduta Della Republica. Venice: A Spese Del Conte Di Orford, 1870-1872. Privately printed limited edition of 150 copies, this being number 33, folio (322 x 227mm.) Title in red and black, mounted frontispiece, 3 mounted plates, initials in red, 2 lithographic plates, errata leaf. (Browning to margins, occasional spotting.) Contemporary brown morocco, gilt titling, motif to upper and lower covers, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Note: a 4pp. a.l.s from Rawdon Brown, scholar of Venetian history to Lord Houghton. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

PROSTITUTION. - [Giovanni Battista LORENZI (editor)]. Leggi e Memorie Venete Sulla Prostituzione Fino Alla Caduta Della Republica. Venice: A Spese Del Conte Di Orford, 1870-1872. Privately printed limited edition of 150 copies, this being number 100, folio (322 x 227mm.) Title in red and black, mounted frontispiece, 3 mounted plates, initials in red, 2 lithographic plates, errata leaf. (Browning to margins, occasional spotting.) Contemporary brown morocco, gilt titling, motif to upper and lower covers, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

POLYGAMY. - Diego Garcia de TRASMIERA. De Polygamia et Polyuiria… Libri Tres. Palmero: apud Decium Cyrillum, 1638. Folio (295 x 193mm.) Additional engraved title, title-page in red and black. (Some offsetting, corner creases to rear leaves.) 18th century panelled calf with elaborate ruled and decorative blind-stamping, five raised bands with red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some loss to top of spine, rubbing to all extremities, minor loss to rear endpaper). Provenance: Thomas Aynscombe (name in ink to foot of the additional title); Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

PORTUGAL. - Manuel II, King of Portugal. Early Portuguese Books 1489-1600 in the Library of His Majesty the King of Portugal… described by H.M. King Manuel. London: printed at the University Press, Cambridge for Maggs Bros, 1929-1935. 3 vols., limited edition of 650 copies, Large 4to (327 x 244mm.) Text in English and Portuguese, profusely illustrated. (Moderate spotting to preliminaries.) Original orange buckram, Royal crest in gilt to upper covers (sunning to spines, somewhat affected by damp). Note: extensive and detailed with collations and historical notes. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to two front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection.

ROXBURGHE CLUB. - David Nichol SMITH (editor). The Letters of Thomas Burnet to George Duckett 1712-1722. Oxford: printed for presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1914. 4to (294 x 216mm.) Frontispiece, title in red and black. (Browning to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Half maroon morocco, gilt ruled, t.e.g. - And another copy of the same volume. Note: loosely inserted a 1p. a.l.s. from Richard Monckton Milnes congratulating his son on the publication of this Roxburghe Club volume. Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection (2).

EXHIBITIONS. - Sir H. Llewellyn SMITH, et. al (editors). Reports on the Present Position and Tendencies of the Industrial Arts as indicated at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Paris, 1925… with an Introductory Survey. London: Department of Overseas Trade, 1927. 4to (281 x 219mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous plates. (Toning to margins.) Contemporary blue morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt borders, gilt turns-ins, t.e.g. (scuffing to lower cover). Note: a tipped-in 2pp. a.l.s. from Prince Arthur of Connaught (Queen Victoria's grandson) addressed to 'Lord Crewe' and written on 'Department of Overseas Trade' headed paper. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And two other volumes (3).

JUVENAL. Decii Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae Decem et Sex… Auli Persii Flacci Satirae Sex. London: Charles Whittingham, 1845. 4to (350 x 236mm.) Red woodcut borders throughout. (Occasional spotting, uncut leaves.) Contemporary morocco-backed boards (rubbing to all extremities, fading). Provenance: Monckton Milnes (ink inscription to the front free endpaper); Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And eight more volumes, mostly classical literature (9).

HATCHETT, Charles. On the Spikenard of the Ancients. London: Printed by W. Nichol, [n.d. but 1836]. Signed by the author on the title-page, 4to (279 x 215mm.) Folding lithographed plate. (Occasional spotting.) Publisher's maroon cloth (sunning to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And three related volumes (4).

WELLESLEY, Arthur, Duke of WELLINGTON. [Memorials of the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington N.p.: n.d. but circa 1852]. Folio (410 x 274mm.) A bound collection of memorials and ephemera relating to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, including an invitation to the funeral to Mr. Milnes with black wax seal, a plan of St. Pauls, a.l.s., a 'Service and Anthems to be Used Upon Thursday the 18th Day of November 1852' and 'The Duke's Funeral: a Poem by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle' inscribed from the author. (Occasional spotting.) Contemporary black half-morocco, titled in gilt to the spine, g.e. (extremities slightly scuffed and rubbed). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

FIRST WORLD WAR. - M. Leon BONNAT. Album National de la Guerre… Publié par Le Comité de la 'Fraternité dea Artistes'. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, [n.d. but 1915]. Limited edition of 200 copies, this out of series, folio (355 x 271mm.) Frontispiece, decorative title, 59 lithographed plates with captioned tissue-guards after Monet, Bonnard, Degas, Vuillard, Rodin et al. Contemporary red half-morocco, decorative gilt borders, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

MANUSCRIPT. - Thomas BLORE. Documents and Drawing Illustrative of Blore's History of Rutland. [N.p.: n.d. circa 1811.] Folio (362 x 258mm.) Comprising a handwritten title-page with 65pp. of hand-written text (transcripts of charters pertaining to Braunston, Exton, Hambleton, North Luffenham, Manton, Normanton, Okeham, Ridlington, Ryhall and Tikencote) numerous water-colour illustrations within, 6 double-paged genealogical tables, 21 water-coloured plates of seals, some with hand-written captions and at the rear a tipped-in 2pp. a.l.s from Thomas Blore. (Browning to margins, occasional spotting.) Late 19th century red morocco, double and triple fillet borders, gilt turn-ins (rubbing to extremities and some surface wear). Note: Thomas Blore wrote two parts of his history of Rutland, only 1 of which was published (vol. 1 part 2) which was published in 1811. Provenance: Lord Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

MILLAIS, John Guille. The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Duck. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Limited edition of 600 large paper copies, this number 271, large 4to (340 x 299mm.) Additional pictorial title-page, chromolithographed frontispiece with tissue-guard, 41 coloured plates (8 by Archibald Thorburn) and 6 photogravures, 25 uncoloured plates. (Moderate spotting to preliminaries, toning to margins, some creasing to tissue-guards.) Publisher's green half-cloth, t.e.g (bumping to spine ends, occasional mark). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

JONES, Alfred E. The Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia. London: privately printed by W.H. Smith & Son at the Arden Press, Letchworth, 1909. 4to (310 x 236mm.) Titles in red and black, 50 plates. Original brown half-morocco (minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

CHINA. - Robert Lockhart HOBSON. A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David. London, the Stourton Press, 1934. Limited edition of 650 copies, this number 319, large 4to (400 x 286mm.) Roman and Italic types designed especially for the book by Eric Gill, text in English and Chinese, 180 coloured plates. Original Chinese silk by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (minor soiling). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

BIBLE, In English. The New Testament translated by William Tyndale… edited by N. Hardy Wallis. Cambridge: printed for the Royal Society of Literature at the University Press, 1939. Limited edition of 500 copies, this number 4, 4to (286 x 218mm.) Frontispiece, 23 plates. (Minor spotting to half-title.) Contemporary red morocco, Royal Arms in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g (mild soiling to covers), slipcase (some fading and minor marks). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

AFRICA. - Georges-Marie HAARDT and Louis Audouin-DUBREUIL. La Croisiére Noire… Expedition Citroen Centre-Afrique. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1927. First edition, limited to 2500 copies, 4to (277 x 239mm.) Tipped-in title over coloured map, numerous plates. (Occasional spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original brown morocco blocked in black and red, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (lightly scuffed), original slipcase (slightly discoloured). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle. L'Ingenue Libertine… Eaux-Fortes de Dignimont. Paris: 1928. Limited edition of 250 copies, this number 166 on Holland paper, 4to (285 x 230mm.) 13 engraved pates with tissue-guards and an extra suite of 15 tinted plates, rough-cut page ends. (Some pages uncut.) Card covers, glassine wrapper (two creases to the spine, slight browning to the wrapper), contained within marbled boards, paper titling to spine, matching slip-case (some fading and wear to the slipcase). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

LEIGHTON, Clare. Woodcuts… Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. First edition, limited edition of 450 copies, this one number 399 signed by Clare Leighton to the limitation page, 4to (316 x 245mm.) Floral vignettes to the preliminaries, 40 woodcuts tipped-in onto 36 leaves with captioned tissue-guards, plus 1 untitled tipped-in woodcut of a mouse to the rear. Original brown cloth with tipped-in woodcut to upper cover, gilt titles to spine (somewhat affected by damp). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.