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Tuesday, 17th March 2020
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LOT 3141
LOT 3141
MILITARY. A List of the Officers of the Army… a List, also, of the Officers of the Militia, And the Fencible and Provincial Forces in Great-Britain. London: War Office, 1782. First edition, 8vo (207 x 124mm.) (Browning, light spotting to pastedowns.) Contemporary half-calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rubbing, and bumped to extremities). Note: covers one year of the American War of Independence. Provenance: John Atkinson (bookplate to the front pastedown).
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LOT 3142
LOT 3142
CULPEPER, Nicholas. The English Physician, enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines Made of Herbs. London: J. Barker, R. Banister, et al., [circa 1790.] (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss to last leaf.) Modern half-calf, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced). - And twelve further literary volumes (including George Chapman's translation of 'The Iliads of Homer', 2 vols., 1843, 8vo) (13).
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LOT 3143
LOT 3143
INDIA. - T. Holbein HENDLEY. Ulwar and Its Art Treasures. London: W. Griggs, 1888. Folio, (370 x 269mm.) Additional chromolithographed title, portrait and 78 numbered mostly chromolithographed plates, 2 double-page, numerous illustrations in text, some coloured. (Lacking two plates, some spotting to preliminaries, plate margins and to tissue-guards.) Original decorative cloth, t.e.g. (wear to spine ends, splitting to spine panel, rubbing to extremities, tape repair to upper hinge). Note: a pioneering study of Mughal art treasures based on the collection of the Maharaja of Uwer, Mangal Singh.
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LOT 3144
LOT 3144
MUSIC. - W. Henry, Arthur F., and Alfred E. HILL. Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work. London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1902. First edition, 4to (292 x 206mm.) 31 plates, mostly in colour, captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text. (Toning to margin.) Original vellum-backed green cloth with Stradivari coat-of-arms in red and gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (soiling to lower cover). Note: W.E. Hill & Sons, established in 1762, are a preeminent firm of violin and bow makers, still operating today.
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LOT 3145
LOT 3145
LAMBARDE, William. An Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in England and Wales. London: Fletcher Gyles, 1730. First edition, 4to (246 x 193mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 2pp. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached, rubbing). Provenance: Francis Fane Lambarde (bookplate of author's descendant to the front pastedown, dated 1908).
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LOT 3146
LOT 3146
GRIFFITHS, [Julius]. Travels in Europe, Asia Minor and Arabia. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805. First edition, 4to (258 x 202mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 5 plates, 2 folding, including a map with routes hand-coloured, a view of Constantinople, and a double-page view of the death of the author's travelling companion. (Browning throughout, offsetting, including onto the plates, frontispiece loose, map with repairs to verso, small tear, long contemporary gift inscription on title.) Contemporary calf (boards detached, spine with loss). Provenance: Captain Griffith (bookplate to the front pastedown). The Griffith family copy (the book was published with an 's' wrongly added to the author's surname).
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LOT 3147
LOT 3147
[ANDREWES, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester]. Tortura Torti: Sive, Ad Matthaei Torti Librum Responsio, qui nuper editus contra Apologiam. London: Robert Barker, 1609. 4to (223 x 155mm.) Text in Latin, wood-cut ornaments to title, decorative initials and head and tail-pieces, errata leaf to rear. (Browning, small marginal ink-spot between A4-D2, front and rear blanks replaced.) 18th century calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). [STC 626].
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LOT 3148
LOT 3148
CAREW, Richard. The Survey of Cornwall, and An Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. London: Samuel Chapman, Daniel Browne, James Woodman, 1723. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (224 x 169mm.) 1p. publisher's advertisement before title, title in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments. (Browning, occasional spotting, corner creases to pp. 59-65.) Contemporary speckled panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the second compartment, repeating foliate gilt to the rest (paper label to spine, rubbing to spine). Provenance: Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury (armorial bookplate verso of the title).
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LOT 3149
LOT 3149
QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste de. - John EVELYN (translator). The Compleat Gardner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Garden… to which is added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693. First English edition, folio (309 x 199mm.) Title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of de Quintinye by Elder, 11 engraved plates, 2 folding, 11 engraved vignette illustrations. (Minor soiling to margins, name inscribed to title, insect damage from a*-H, initial blank loosening.) Contemporary calf, five raised bands to the spine (lacking the lettering piece to the spine, some loss to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: irregular pagination, as usual, collates complete: n2, a*4, b4, b**1, c*4, [a]4, [b]3, B-O4, P-Q6, R-Z4, Aa4, Bb2, B-P4, Q2, T-Z4, Aa-Dd4, [a]2, A-K4. [KEYNES, 227].
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LOT 3150
LOT 3150
YOUNG, William. The History of Athens, politically and philosophically considered. London: J. Robson, 1786. Second edition, 4to (263 x 206mm.) Appendix to rear. (Browning, spotting to front and rear leaves, marginal loss to p.389.) Contemporary diced calf, gilt borders, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to spine ends, some staining to covers, front pastedown lifting). Note: first published in 1777 under the title 'The Spirit of Athens', this work garnered Young a measure of praise and fame before embarking on his political career and his colonial governorship of Tobago. Provenance: Caroline Young, daughter of the author (name in pencil to initial blank); C. Hutton (name in pencil to title).
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LOT 3151
LOT 3151
COKE, Thomas. A Commentary on the New Testament. London: for the author, 1803. 2 vols., 4to (279 x 218mm.) (Occasional spotting, loose rear blank to volume one.) Near contemporary cloth, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some fading to covers and wear to spine ends).
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LOT 3152
LOT 3152
PINDAR, Peter. 'John WALCOTT'. [Poetical Satires]. London: G. Kearsley, 1778-1789. 19 pamphlets bound as one, mixed editions, 4to (269 x 198mm.) Mezzotint portrait frontispiece, 4 etched caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson. (Browning, occasional spotting, occasional stamp to titles and other leaves, small repair verso the frontispiece.) 20th century brown half-calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced). Provenance: Grimsby Library (occasional stamps to leaves).
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LOT 3153
LOT 3153
METASTASIO, Pietro. Opere. Paris: la Vedova Herissant, 1780-1782. 9 vols. only (of 12). Large 8vo (258 x 199mm.) 26 engraved plates, tissue-guards. (Mild toning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary straight-grain morocco covers, gilt lettering to spines, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, some surface loss, slight fading). Note: lacking vols. 4, 7 and 10. Provenance: Mary Hamilton, diarist and niece of Emma Hamilton (bookplates to front pastedowns and ink signatures) (9).
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LOT 3154
LOT 3154
TOPOGRAPHY. - John COLLINSON. The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset. London & Bath: R. Crutwell, 1791. 3 vols., 4to (228 x 226mm.) 11 engraved plates, indices to rear. (Lacking map, lacking 29 plates and half-titles, occasional spotting.) Later brown half-calf, red lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Mrs. V. Dickinson (ink name to first text leaves); Ronald Giles Daubeny (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And eight further volumes of related interest (including Edward Miller's 'The History and Antiquities of Doncaster and its Vicinity', [1804], 4to) (11).
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LOT 3155
LOT 3155
ELIZABETH I. [Certain Sermons of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches at the time of Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory and now Thought to be Reprinted by Authority from the King's most Excellent Majesty]. London: John Norton for Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Black letter, engraved initials and head and tail-pieces, colophon to rear. (Marginal damp-staining, lacking title and lacking a1-a2, minor soiling, corner cut from 'Contents'.) [Bound with:] The Second Tome of Homilies, of Such Matters as were Promised and Entitled in the former part of Homilies. London: John Norton et al., 1635. Black letter, engraved initials and head and tail-pieces. (Marginal damp-staining, minor soiling.) Folio (272 x 187mm.) Contemporary calf (worn). - And a related volume (Thomas Fuller's 'The Holy State', 1648, 8vo) (2).
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LOT 3156
LOT 3156
TRAVEL. - J. COOTE (publisher). A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels comprising whatever is Valuable of this Kind in the most Celebrated English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish and Danish writers… the whole being a General Survey of Europe. London: J. Coote, 1760. 4to (258 x 196mm.) 52 engraved plates, including 8 maps, 7 folding. (Lacking pp.7-8, one leaf loose, one plate loosening and another with chipping, browning, occasional soiling and creasing, rear leaf loose.) Contemporary calf, blind-tooled lettering to spine (some loss to spine ends, heavily rubbed).
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LOT 3157
LOT 3157
REYNOLDS, John. The Triumphs of Gods Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of Murther. London: Edward Griffin for William Lee, 1639. Second complete edition, folio (286 x 177mm.) Title, dedication to Charles I, engraved ornaments and initials, separate divisional titles. (Lacking preliminaries before title, corner loss to title, lacking leaves after last text leaf, Ecc2, lacking pp.167-168, pp.181-192, pp.262-263 and pp.336-337, heavy soiling to Uu5-Uu6, occasional marginal loss, minor soiling, numerous contemporary ink scrawls, browning.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, worn). Note: scarce edition. Provenance: Mary Gransden (ink signature in book IV).
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LOT 3158
LOT 3158
[HARTLEY, J.] History of the Westminster Election, containing Every Material Occurrence, from its Commencement on the First of April to the final Close of Poll, on the 17th of May. London: for the editors, 1785. Second edition, 4to (266 x 201mm.) Folding etched frontispiece and 13 more engraved plates only (of 16) by Thomas Rowlandson, 10 folding, 1 folding chart to rear. (Small closed tear to frontispiece, browning, intermittently heavy damp-staining, occasional soiling to plates, lacking errata leaf.) Contemporary red half-morocco, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to all extremities).
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LOT 3159
LOT 3159
TOPOGRAPHY. - L. FUSSELL. A Journey Round the Coast of Kent. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. 8vo (207 x 127mm.) 1 folding engraved map coloured in outline. (Some browning, occasional spotting, lacking initial blank and pp.239-246.) Later brown half-calf (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). - And three further volumes (including 'The History of Guildford, the County Town of Surrey', 1801, 8vo) (4).
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LOT 3160
LOT 3160
MANUSCRIPT. - C.T.R SCOVELL. The Log of the 'Godwit', being the Record of a Voyage of over 7,000 miles from England to India in a 25-ton Yacht. [N.p.:] 1903. Privately printed 'dummy' copy, 8vo (212 x 134mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, includes 4pp. of hand-written notes to the rear in the author's hand on 'Expenses' and 'Ships Stores', hand-written annotations to the text by the author. (Initial blank lacking, toning.) Contemporary black half-morocco, gilt titling to spine (damp-staining to upper cover). Note: with some technical detail, the author logs in diary form the incidents during the crossing of the 'Godwit' from Gosport to Bombay between 24th October 1902 to the 3rd March 1903. With a crew of five and a trusted skipper the yacht sets out from Gosport and, inevitably, many of the entries relate the weather and the miles logged, the reading of sea charts and chronometers, but also the various stops at Malta, Athens, Cairo and Suez to see the sights, sending two of the crew home by steamer and instead recruiting cheaper Arab sailors en route. Finally, having reached Bombay there is the reflection 'nothing will ever induce me to attempt a similar voyage without a motor'. - And three related volumes (Dixon Kemp's 'Yacht Racing Calendar', 1888-1890, 8vo) (4).
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