Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

TOPOLSKI, Feliks. Panoramas. London: Quartet Books, 1977. First edition, signed and dated by the artist, 4to (289 x 282mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Pictorial card cover (small corner crease). - And twenty-one more volumes, mostly illustrated, some signed (22).

JENNINGS, Louis J. Rambles Among the Hills, in the Peak of Derbyshire and the South Downs. London: John Murray, 1880. First edition, 8vo (187 x 118mm.) Numerous illustrations, 32pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth with a gilt leaf to upper cover, gilt titles to spine (bumped to spine ends). - And twenty-one more volumes relating to the countryside (including Samuel Wood's 'The Tree Planter and Plant Propagator', 1880, 8vo) (22).

COLLINS, Arthur. The Peerage of England… the fifth edition. London: 1779-1784. 9 vols. (including supplemental vol.), 8vo (214 x 127mm.) 194 engraved armorial plates to vols. 1-8, 34 to supplement. (Light spotting or browning.) Contemporary speckled calf (extremities slightly rubbed). - And five more leather-bound volumes (Tobias Smollett's 'History of England', 1804, 5 vols., 8vo) (14).

ADOLPHUS, J.H. Memoirs of Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain. London: Jones & Co., 1821. Hand-coloured portrait frontispieces, hand-coloured decorative titles, 13 hand-coloured engraved plates. (Some spotting and browning.) [Bound with:] The Last Days, Death, Funeral Obsequies, &c. of Her Late Majesty Caroline. London: 1822. 5 hand-coloured plates. (Some spotting.) 3 vols. in 2, 8vo (207 x 124mm.) Contemporary mottled calf (extremities rubbed, rebacked, old spine laid down, endpapers replaced). - And four other volumes (including ['Voyages and Travels of Her Majesty Caroline Queen of England'] with decorative title supplied from Memoirs, and J. Adolphus's 'A Correct, Full and Impartial Report of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline', 1820, 8vo, both bound to match) (6).

MILITARY. - A. HUGO. France Militaire. Histoire des Armées Françaises de Terre et de Mer. Paris: chez Delloye, 1833-1838. 5 vols., 4to (274 x 182mm.) Numerous engraved plates and maps. (Light spotting.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (joints worn, crude repair to spine of volume IV, old repair to head of volume V). Provenance: Heinrich Musculus (small bookplate to front pastedowns).