Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

PICKERING, William (publisher). The Book of Common Prayer as Printed at Edinburgh 1637. Commonly called Archbishop Lauds. London: 1844. 4to (341 x 220mm.) Printed in facsimile, some leaves printed in red and black, most black letter. (Occasional heavy spotting.) Contemporary calf, bound to style and blocked in blind, g.e. (extremities lightly scuffed).

ARROWSMITH, John. The London Atlas of Universal Geography, exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World. London: 1842[-1849]. Folio (550 x 343mm.) Engraved throughout, title, contents leaf and 67 double-page engraved maps, all hand-coloured in outline, all with finger tabs to fore-edge, maps listed and numbered 1-50 and dated 1842 then an additional 17 unnumbered and unlisted maps with some later dates to 1849, extra-illustrated with an outline map of Europe published by George Phillip & Son. (Tabs dust-soiled, a few minor small tears near tabs, minor light browning or soiling, title soiled and with minor tears, a few repaired with tape, contents with small tears and reinforced along fore-edge, extra map with repaired tear.) Contemporary half-morocco, morocco label to upper cover with title in gilt (rebacked, extremities somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Note: this atlas was originally published in 1834, with this new edition appearing in 1842. This copy is enhanced by an additional 17 Arrowsmith maps as follows: 'Sketch of the Acquisitions of Russia', 1842; 'Ionian Islands and Malta', 1844; 'West Coast of Africa', 1843; 'The River Niger', 1843; 'Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope', 1848; 'Asia Minor', 1842; 'The Caspian Sea, Khivah, and the surrounding country', 1841; 'The Punjab', 1849; 'Australia' (2 sheets), 1848; 'The Maritime Portion of South Australia', 1840; 'New Zealand', 1844; 'Texas', 8th June 1843; 'Jamaica', 1848; 'The Leeward Islands', 1842; 'The Windward Islands', 1842; 'British Guiana', 1842. The map of Texas is particularly important, Martin and Martin in 'Maps of Texas and the Southwest' state that it is 'probably the first to show the full extent of Texas's claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas's boundaries until the Compromise of 1850... [and] the best information on Texas geography available in Europe'. There are four known issues of the Texas map with varying dates from 1841 to 1843 and one later issue dated 1858.

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh: Sir D. Hunter and J. Bruce, 1822. 4to (310 x 237mm.) (Some light browning and occasional spotting.) Contemporary green straight-grain morocco, elaborately tooled in blind and with triple fillet borders in gilt, the upper cover with centrally placed initial 'W', gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.N. Beckett (decorative manuscript quotes pasted to endpapers).

COMMON PRAYER, In English. A New Family Prayer-Book, containing the Book of Common Prayer... the second edition. Winchester: printed by J. Wilkes, 1784. Tall 4to (235 x 137mm.) Engraved frontispiece. (Minor damp-stain to inner top corner of some leaves.) Contemporary red calf, spine gilt, g.e. (extremities slightly rubbed, small scuffs to covers). Provenance: signature to front-free endpaper dated 1896. - And three more of related interest (4).

EUSEBIUS, Caesariensis. Praeparatio Evangelica… de Demonstratione Evangelica Libri Decem. Paris: Sumptibus Michaelis Sonnii et al., 1628. 2 parts in 1 vol., folio (351 x 224mm.) Title in red and black, large printer's device to title, decorative initials, headpieces, dual text in Greek and Latin. (Creasing to initial blanks front and rear, browning.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, front board loosening).

[CHRYSOSTOM, John. Opera Graece]. Eton: [printed by M. Bradwood], 1610. Vol. 1 only (of 8), folio (357 x 219mm.) Woodcut initials. (Lacking title and frontispiece.) 18th century calf (rebacked in 19th century, minor rubbing). Note: scarce. The works of John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, were one of the first books to be published by Eton College. Publishing details taken from colophon. Provenance: David Jones (name in ink to rear leaves). - And with three further volumes, two of them also related to the preaching of John Chrysostom ('Sancti Patris Ioannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani', vols. 2 & 3 only, 1621, folio) (4).

BINDINGS. The New Testament. London: Longman, Green et al., 1865. 4to (237 x 184mm.) Numerous illustrations from Old Master woodcuts, ownership initials in decorative varicoloured ink to front-free endpaper. (Browning to margins, spotting to front-free endpaper.) Contemporary morocco, elaborately tooled in black, incorporating line, roll and foliate tools with cornerpieces and roundels in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). - And ten more related volumes (11).

BIBLE, In Latin. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V Pontificis Max Jessu Recognita et Clementis VIII. Venice: Nicolaum Pezzana, 1710. 4to (297 x 181mm.) Additional engraved title, title in red and black with large engraved vignette, historiated initials, numerous engraved illustrations. (Browning and moderate spotting throughout.) 20th century half-calf over paper covered boards, paper title label to spine (replaced endpapers and front and rear blanks, fading to lower cover). - And nine further volumes (10).

NASH, Paul (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsommer Nights Dreame. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1924. Limited edition, this number 545 of 550 copies, 4to (319 x 238mm.) 5 colour plates by Paul Nash with tissue-guards and 9 black and white illustrations. (Some browning to margins.) Original cloth-backed boards (minor spotting to lower edge), dust-jacket (browning, creasing to upper edge). - And two further illustrated Shakespeare volumes ('Love Labour's Lost' and 'King John' from the Limited Editions Club, 1939-1940, 4to) (3).

BINDINGS. - Alexander POPE. The Works. London: C. & J. Rivington, et al, 1824. 10 vols., 8vo (216 x 130mm.) Portrait frontispieces to vols. I and II, folding facsimile letter to vol. I. (Some heavy spotting to plates and surrounding leaves.) Contemporary speckled calf (all neatly rebacked, extremities somewhat rubbed and lightly scuffed, stitching weak to front pastedowns). Provenance: Oliver Bell (bookplate to front pastedowns). - And twenty-six more, all leather-bound (36).

[TOMS, William John]. Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. London: George Bell, 1849-1896. 27 vols., 8vo (202 x 156mm.) (Mild toning.) Contemporary half-calf over marbled paper boards, red and black morocco lettering pieces (rubbing to all extremities, a few boards loosening, loss to top of spine of vol. 7 only, black lettering pieces to spines after 1857 vol.). Note: a complete run of the first series, 12 volumes (1849-1855), 3 volumes of the 2nd series (1855-1857), 5 volumes of the 7th series (1886-1891), and 7 volumes of the 8th series (1893-1896). - And two 'Index' volumes from 1898 and 1902. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplates to the front pastedown) (29).

WILDE, Oscar. The Portrait of Mr W.H. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. First edition in book form, 12mo (133 x 84mm.) Title in red and black. (Mild toning, gift inscription from 1902 on the front-free endpaper.) Card cover with self-wrapper, red and black titles to front panel and spine (browning, creasing to spine). - And nineteen more literary volumes (including Dante's 'La Vita Nuova', [n.d. but circa 1910], 4to) (20).

MIDDLE EAST. - William Perry FOGG. Arabistan: or, The Land of 'The Arabian Nights'. Being Travels Through Egypt, Arabia and Persia to Bagdad. Chicago: Louis Lloyd & Co., 1875. First edition, 8vo (195 x 127mm.) Frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations within the text. (Mild toning.) Original gilt and black-tooled decorative upper cover and spine (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: H.A. Potter (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further thirty-one volumes relating to Africa and the Middle East (including James Bonwick's 'Pyramid, Facts and Fancies', 1877, 8vo) (32).

AFRICA. - T.I. DUN. From Cairo to Siwa, Across the Libyan Desert With Armoured Cars. Cairo: E. & R. Schindler, 1933. Limited, first edition, this being one of 750 copies, 4to (328 x 249mm.) Folding map, 2 tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations including wood-cuts from students at the Cairo School of Fine Art, a hieroglyphic bookplate (as issued) to front pastedown. (Surface wear to the plates, moderate spotting, a gift inscription to the front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial cloth-backed boards (wear to spine ends). Note: this is an account of a trip across the Libyan desert and Siwa Oasis in 1932 by the major of the Xllth Royal Lancers, undertaken in an armoured Rolls-Royce car. - And a quantity of volumes relating to the Sahara, Africa, and the Middle East (including a signed copy of Gilbert Watson's 'The Voice of the South', 1905, 8vo) (a quantity).

[BURKE, Edmund]. The Annual Register, or, A View of the History, Politics and Literature. London: 1787-1813. 53 vols., mixed editions, 8vo (210 x 129mm.) 4 folding maps to the rear of 1763 by Thomas Kitchin showing North America, France, India and Germany. (Occasional spotting, browning.) 20th century cloth with black morocco lettering pieces to the spines. Note: a run of the Annual Register for the years 1758-1812, lacking the volume for 1775. Containing a wealth of material relating to European and international politics and culture. Volume for 1776 has the 9pp. declaration of the American Independence. It also contains the first publication in part of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'. The 1787 edition has an early printing of the United States constitution. - And with a 'General Index' volume, 1826. Provenance: West Sussex Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (54).

WISDEN, John. Cricketer's Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co., and J. Whittaker and Sons and Sporting Handbooks. 1906-1950. 28 vols., 8vo (157 x 96mm.) Advertisements, the photographic plates to earliest volumes (1906-1913), numerous illustrations. (Toning to margins, occasional creasing.) Black cloth to volumes 1906-1908 and 1910, brown cloth for 1913, original card wrappers to 1909, 1911, 1922, 1924, and for the remaining volumes except brown cloth for 1946-1950 (front board of 1907 detached, wear to spines, creasing, some tearing to card wrappers). - And one further related volume ('An Index to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1985, 8vo). Note: a run of Wisden volumes for 1906-1911, 1913, 1922, 1924, 1931-1939, 1941-1950. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (29).

[STURM, Johann Christop.] Mathesis Juvenilis: Or, a Course of Mathematicks for Young Students. London: printed for D. Midwinter, 1708. Vol. 2 only (of 3), first English edition, 8vo (194 x 123mm.) 29 engraved plates, 1 folding. (Browning, minor spotting, front and rear blanks replaced.) 20th century half-calf over plain paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: contains chapters on opticks, catoptricks, dioptricks and spherical astronomy.

FISHER, W.B. (editor). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge: the University Press, 1968-1996. 5 vols. in 6 only (of 7), mixed editions, 8vo (229 x 146mm.) Numerous maps and illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jackets (light rubbing and slight fading to spines). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to front pastedown) (6).