Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MOTORING. - Simon MOORE. The Immortal 2.9 Alfa Romeo 8C2900. Washington: Parkside Publications, Inc., 2008. Revised edition, signed by the author on the title, 4to (263 x 264mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Small mark to index, toning.) Original maroon cloth, mounted illustration to upper cover (slight rubbing to mounted illustration). - And a further two related volumes (including Rainer Simon's 'BMW 328 From Roadster to Legend', gift inscribed by the author, 1996, 4to) (3).

MOTORING. - Pascal COURTEAULT. Automobiles Voisin 1919-1958. London: White Mouse Editions, 1991. Limited edition, this being number 1111 of 3500 copies, oblong 4to (265 x 327mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, text in French with the supplement English translation by Peter Hull. (Toning.) Original blue cloth with chrome-effect decal panel mounted to the upper cover, slipcase (slight rubbing to extremities). Note: 3500 copies were planned, but only 2000 actually published.

METALLURGY. - H.G. DINES. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England. London: HMSO, 1969. 2 vols., second impression, 8vo (243 x 148mm.) Photographic illustrations, numerous geological maps in rear envelopes. (Toning.) Original orange cloth, dust-jackets (rubbing to spine ends). - And a further nine volumes of books on minerals and mining and two geological survey maps of Great Britain, sheet 1 and 2, 1957 (13).

ROBINSON, William. Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years' Work round an Old Manor House. London: John Murray, 1911. First edition, folio (392 x 284mm.) Etched frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard, 36 illustrations, including 4 full-page plates. (Toning.) Original green cloth-backed boards (staining to upper cover, label to base of spine). Provenance: W.R. Gillet (bookplate to front pastedown); Crawley Reference Library (label to front pastedown and stamp verso the title-page). - And a further fourteen volumes relating to Sussex, all ex-library (including the Pear Tree Press publication of W.J. Ibbett's 'Ten Lyrics', 1924, 4to) (15).

ART REFERENCE. - Alastair DUNCAN. Art Deco Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2016. First edition, 4to (307 x 235mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original white cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further thirty-eight volumes related to art (including Carsten-Peter Warncke's and Ingo F. Walther's 'Pablo Picasso', 2 vols., 1992) (39).

ART REFERENCE. - Raphael MASSON and Véronique MATTIUSSI. Rodin. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2004. Large 8vo (308 x 236mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original grey cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further forty-five volumes of art reference books (including the first volume of Vivian Endicott Barnett's 'Kandinsky Aquarelles, Catalogue Raisonné', 1992, 8vo) (46).

ART REFERENCE. - Werner SPIES. John William GABRIEL (translator). Max Ernst Collages. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. 4to (313 x 245mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further nineteen volumes related to art (including Giorgo and Guido Guastalla's 'Marino Marini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Works', 1993, 4to) (20).

ART REFERENCE. - Barbara Buhler LYNES. Georgia O'Keeffe, Catalogie Raisonné. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 2 vols., 4to (315 x 266mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original black cloth, dust-jackets, slipcase (2).

ART REFERENCE. - Tobias G. NATTER (editor). Egon Schiele, the Complete Paintings 1909-1918. Cologne: Taschen, 2017. Folio (393 x 288mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, dust-jacket.

PHOTOGRAPHY. - June NEWTON (editor). Helmut Newton. Cologne: Taschen, 2009. Folio (370 x 262mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original white cloth, dust-jacket (slight crease to top of spine), includes the multi-lingual booklet, the perspex bookstand and original publisher's box (small tear). Note: this is the 10th anniversary issue of the original SUMO, a book that weighed in at 35.4 kg.

ART REFERENCE. - Zheng Xinmiao (editor). Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings. New York and London: Abbeville Press, 2011. First edition, second impression, folio (420 x 319mm.) Numerous illustrations, many folding. Original stitched pictorial wrappers, decorative portfolio box. - And a further ten volumes of art reference (including Paul Joannides's 'Masaccio and Masolino, a Complete Catalogue', 1993, 4to) (11).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - David GENTLEMAN (illustrator). Edward THOMAS. London: Folio Society, 2017. Limited edition, this being number 16 of 1250 copies signed by the artist David Gentleman, 8vo (243 x 169mm.) Introduction by Andrew Motion, numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green morocco-backed paper-covered boards, slipcase. - And a further limited edition volume published by the Folio Society (Rupert Brooke's 'Selected Poems', 2015, 8vo) (2).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). The Bible, with the Apocrypha, King James Version. London: Folio Society, 2008. 8vo (273 x 174mm.) Original red cloth, t.e.g., slipcase. - And a quantity of approximately seventy further volumes published by the Folio Society (including Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', 2014, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Leo TOLSTOY. Anna Karenina. London: Folio Society, 2008. 8vo (233 x 153mm.) Introduction by Helen Dunmore, coloured illustrations by Angela Barrett. Original pictorial cloth, slipcase. - And a further twenty-seven volumes published by the Folio Society (including Alain-Fournier's 'Le Grand Meaulnes', 2008, 8vo) (28).

COSTUME DESIGN. - Leopold VERCH. Verch & Flothow. Charlottenburg, Berlin: [n.p.: circa 1900.] 49 leaves of photographic illustrations exhibiting the wears of Verch & Flothow, including numerous theatrical hats, swords and spears and armour. (Lacking title page and some leaves, minor soiling, tear to one leaf, stamps.) [Bound with:] Obronski, JMPEKOVEN & Cie. Berlin: [n.p.: circa 1900.] Numerous illustrations of theatrical costumes and props, including swords, daggers, hats, bows and arrows, shields and head-dresses. (Browning, paper repairs to last leaves, lacking title, some pencil annotation.) Oblong 4to (274 x 378mm.) Later red cloth (rubbing, fading). Note: Leopold Verch was an important German costume designer and distributor for theatre and film in the early 20th century.

ETCHINGS. - Paul SANDBY and M. CHATELAIN. A Collection of Landskips, and Figures, &c., on Twenty-Nine Copper-Plates… They merit a Place in the Cabinets of the Curious, and are Useful Studies to those who would draw Landskips with Taste and Effect. London: Robert Sayer, 1773. Folio, (374 x 248mm.) Letterpress title, 31 engraved plates on 29 sheets, 18 by Paul Sandby and 13 by Chatelain. (All of the Chatelain are heavily damp-stained, 6 of the Sandby's are heavily damp-stained, 3 of the remaining Sandby's have small paper-repairs to insect damage in the margins; they and the rest also have minor soiling to margins, 6 of those Sandby's have pencil annotation to the lower margin.) Disbound. Note: rare. Sandby's etchings were to illustrate Allan Ramsey's pastoral comedy 'The Gentle Shepherd', possibly as a memorial to him after his death in 1758.