Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ARCTIC. - John ROSS. Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: Orlando Hodgson, [n.d. circa 1836]. Reprint, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 11 plates. (Text cracked at p.10, toning, lacking blanks.) Near contemporary blue cloth, blind-stamped, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, wear to spine ends).

TRAVEL. - George SANDYS. A Relation of a Journey begin in An. Dom: 1610. Foure Bookes Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy. London: [by Thomas Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1637. Fourth edition, folio signed in 6s. (271 x 180mm.) Engraved architectural title, 45 engraved illustrations in the text. (Lacking 12 leaves to rear, all after Bb5, with later ('yellow') hand-colouring to title and to many of the illustrations, small hole to title, lacking map and panorama, browning, minor soiling.) Late 18th century half calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing). Provenance: James Maitland Shairp (name inscribed to first text leaf); Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). [Blackmer 1484]. - And a further travel- related volume (the second edition of W.D. Fellowes's 'A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817' with all twelve of the hand-coloured plates, 1818, 8vo) (2).

TRAVEL. - Paul HENTZNER. Travels in England, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, translated by Horace, Late Earl of Orford. London: Edward Jeffery, 1797. First edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) 11 engraved plates, 6 tinted, including the frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth. (Spotting to the tinted plates and front and rear leaves, toning.) Near contemporary blue straight grain morocco, g.e. (rubbing, especially to spine). Provenance: Max Teichman Derville (bookplate to the front-free endpaper); Theodore H. Broadhead (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further ten volumes relating to travel (J.P. Malcolm's 'Excursions in the Counties of Kent, Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, and Somerset, in the Years 1802, 1803, and 1805', 1814, 8vo) (11).

SCOTLAND. - William NICOLSON. The Scottish Historical Library: containing a Short View and Character of Most of the Writers, Records, Registers, Law-Books, &c, Which may be Serviceable to the Undertakers of a General History of Scotland, Down to the Union of the Two Kingdoms. London: T. Childe, 1702. 8vo (193 x 114mm.) Appendix and index to rear. (Browning throughout, irregular pagination, text continuous.) Contemporary panelled calf, brown morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: Samuel James, Baron Waring, industrialist (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further four volumes relating to Scotland (including 'George Combe's 'The Constitution of Man, considered in Relation to External Objects', 1836, 4to) (5).

NATURAL HISTORY. - Thomas BELL. A History of British Reptiles. London: John van Voorst, 1839. First edition, with a tipped-in 3pp. a.l.s. by Thomas Bell, 8vo (209 x 133mm.) Numerous woodcut illustrations. (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Near contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. (rubbing to extremities). Note: the 27-line letter discusses specimens of field mice. Provenance: R.H. Valpy (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further six volumes related to natural history (including T.C. Eyton's 'A History of the Rarer British Birds', 1836, 8vo, with a presentation inscription from the author, and [Edward T. Bennet's] 'The Tower Menagerie', 1829, 8vo) (7).

BOOTH, J. and T. EGERTON (publisher). The Battle of Waterloo containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, with Circumstantial Details, Previous, During, and After the Battle. London: J. Booth and T. Egerton, 1815. Fifth edition, 8vo (218 x 131mm.) Title, in 2 parts, 2 folding engraved maps with hand-colouring, 2 folding panoramic plates. (Some browning and spotting to the panormas, toning, small tear to one map, spotting to rear blank.) Near contemporary black morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt titling to spine (rubbing to spine ends). Provenance: B. Hollingsworth (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further volume (Edward, Earl of Clarendon's 'History of the Grand Rebellion Compleated', 1717, 8vo) (2).

GAMBLING. - Charles PERSIUS. ['Charles Dunne']. The Academicians of 1823; or, the Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the Clubs of St. James's. London: Lawler and Quick, 1823. 8vo (190 x 108mm.) Half title, engraved frontispiece of 'La Roulette' with hand-colouring, 2 related newspaper articles tipped-in to preliminaries. (Occasional browning, spotting verso frontispiece, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary maroon morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (rubbing, sunning to spine, endpapers replaced). Provenance: John Gerard Heckscher (bookplates to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).

CIVIL WAR. - Thomas GUMBLE. The Life of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, &c, with Remarks Upon His Actions. London: by J.S. for Thomas Basset, 1671. First edition, 8vo (178 x 105mm.) (Lacking portrait frontispiece, without errata leaf to rear, marginal loss to Ee7, occasional browning, minor soiling, unidentifiable name to title, offsetting of last leaf onto rear blank.) Near contemporary mottled calf, brown morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, tips restored). Note: there is a variant with an errata leaf to rear. Provenance: Stanley Crowe (pencil name to front pastedown). [ESTC R17075].

[STEVENSON, Robert Louis.] The Trial of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin, for the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. Edinburgh: for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1753. First edition, small 4to (190 x 118mm.) Folding map, appendix. (Map bound at rear with tape repairs to verso, lacking leaf Gg5, ink stain to N2, marginal tears to Gg2 and Nn2, a later tipped-in front blank, browning, minor soiling.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: James Stewart was hung while proclaiming his innocence. Robert Louis Stevenson used a fictionalised account of the murder in his novel 'Kidnapped'. The case has failed to rest. As recently as 2008 there were attempts to re-open the investigation and prove James Stewart's innocence. Provenance: Society of Procurators, Perth (bookplate to front pastedown).

WYCLIFFE, John. A Smaller Biblia Pauperum… with the Propre Descrypciouns thereoff extracted from the Originall Texte off John Wiclif. London: The Grasshopper for Unwin Brothers, 1884. Facsimile edition, 8vo (196 x 138mm.) Woodcut illustrations. (Toning, browning to endpapers.) Original decorative vellum, bosses and clasps (minor soiling). - And a further related facsimile (John Ashton's 'The Legendary History of the Cross', 1887, 8vo [lacking initial blank] (2).

AUBREY, John. Letters Written by Eminent Person in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are added Hearne's Journeys to Reading and to Whaddon Hall… and Lives of Eminent Men. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme et al., 1813. 3 parts in 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (214 x 124mm.) (Spotting to front and rear leaves, occasionally within, toning.) Contemporary brown half calf over buckram-covered boards bound by Seton and Mackenzie, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some ripple to the cloth of volume 1, light rubbing). - And a further five volumes related to biography (including Izaak Walton's 'Lives', 1807, 8vo) (7).

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicholas Edme. Les Contemporaines, ou Avantures des plus jolies Femmes de l'age present. Leipzig, Pars: Buschel, 1780. Volume 1 (only, of 42). 12mo (166 x 102mm.) 6 engraved plates. (Paper repair to margin of title and last two leaves, toning, blanks replaced.) Early 20th century red half morocco (fading to spine, rubbing, endpapers replaced). Note: this is the first volume of the epic erotic roman-fleuve that was eventually completed in forty-two volumes. - And a further seven volumes in French (including an early French Bible [lacking titles], 8vo, and a further volume relating to France 'Fabliaux or Tales, Abridge from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries by M. Le Grand', 1796, 8vo) (9).

BEWICK, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1805. 2 vols., third and second editions, large 8vo (255 x 155mm.) Large paper copy, numerous wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes. (Toning, occasional soiling to preliminaries, small corner loss to title of volume 1.) Near contemporary brown diced morocco, gilt turn-ins (rebacked, rubbing to extremities) (2).

BEWICK, Thomas (illustrator). - Julia BOYD (editor). Bewick Gleanings: Being Impressions from Copperplates and Wood Blocks, Engraved in the Bewick Workshop. Newcastle: Andrew Reid, 1886. Limited edition, being number 92 of 250 copies signed by the editor, 4to (234 x 178mm.) 54 engraved copper plates with tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text, in 2 parts, folding facsimile of a letter from Bewick. (Toning.) Original black half morocco over green morocco covered boards bound by Andrew Reid, gilt titling to spine, t.e.g. (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: [?] Training College (small stamp to margin of p.29). - And a further six volumes relating to Bewick (including James Thomson's 'The Seasons…embellished with Engravings on Wood by Bewick from Thurston's Designs', 1805, 4to, and the Emerson Charnley edition of Thomas and John Bewick's 'Select Fables', 1820, 8vo) (7).

BEWICK, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle: Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1811. Sixth edition, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations by Bewick, publisher's advertisement verso last text leaf. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two green morocco lettering pieces to the spine (sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, upper joint splitting). Provenance: Charles Carter (name-plate to front pastedown). - And three further volumes (including [Arnaud Berquin's] 'The Looking-Glass Mind; or, Intellectual Mirror', 1798, 12mo) (4).

PAMPHLETS. - [George CRUICKSHANK] (illustrator) and William HONE. The Political House that Jack Built. London: William Hone, 1819. Third edition. 13 woodcuts by Cruikshank, 24pp. text. (Minor soiling to title, toning.) [Bound with:] 'Prospects of the Apocryphal New Testament'. London: William Hone, 1821. (Heavy browning to title). [Bound with:] [Richard WHATELEY]. 'Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte'. London: J. Hatchard, 1821. [Bound with:] [William HONE]. ''Non Mi Ricordo!' &c &c &c'. London: William Hone, 1820. Fifth edition. 3 woodcut illustrations by George Cruikshank. (Dust-soiling.) [Bound with:] 'The Miraculous Host Tortured by the Jew, under the Reign of Philip the Fair in 1290'. London: William Hone, 1822. Fourth edition. [Bound with:] 'Aspersions Answered: an Explanatory Statement Addressed to the Public at Large'. London: William Hone, 1824. (Some loss to the title, text unaffected, toning.) [Bound with:] 'The First Trial of William Hone'. London: William Hone, 1817. Sixth edition. (Some spotting to title.) [Bound with:] 'The Second Trial of William Hone'. London: William Hone, 1818. Sixth edition. [Bound with:] 'The Third Trial of William Hone'. London: William Hone, 1818. Ninth edition. (Toning.) [Bound with:] 'Trial by Jury and Liberty of the Press'. London: William Hone, 1818. Second edition. (Some browning.) Small 4to (204 x 128mm.) Near contemporary green buckram, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some fading, minor staining). Provenance: 'Pro Republica' (unnamed bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further volume (being 30 bound tracts published by the Religious Tract Society, the Gospel Tract Society and the Village Sermon Society) (2).

WORDSWORTH, William. Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown et al., 1835. First edition, 8vo (171 x 100mm.) Half title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, errata slip to rear. (Toning, title loose.) Original [?] green cloth over boards, original paper label to spine (rebacked with spine laid-down, rubbing to extremities, endpapers replaced). - And a further sixteen volumes relating to 19th century poetry (including S.T. Coleridge's illustrated 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 1858, 8vo, and the first edition of William Hazlitt's 'Lectures on the English Poets', 1818, 8vo, and in the original cloth 'Lectures on the English Comic Writers' by William Hazlitt, 1819, 8vo) (17).

DICKENS, Charles. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, 12mo (166 x 96mm.) 2pp. publisher's advertisements to front, engraved frontispiece and vignette to additional title, illustrations by J. Tenniel, J. Leech and others. (Toning, occasional light spotting, several corner creases, ink-spot to fore-edge, marginal damp-stain to frontispiece and additional title.) Original red cloth with gilt wreath to upper cover, g.e. (slight loss to spine panel ends, extremities rubbed). - And a further fourteen literary volumes (including 'Reynard the Fox, translated by the late Thomas Roscoe' illustrated by A.T. Elwes and John Jellicoe, [circa 1873], 4to) (15).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1749. Several engraved plates, with Apocrypha, NT with separate title dated 1749, and 'Book of Common Prayer' with title dated 1749. (Paper repair and large tear to first leaf of Genesis, A3, several plates laid-down or with paper repairs, browning, genealogical history to initial blank with some names cut out.) [Bound with:] 'A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation'. London: R. Ware, 1745. (Browning.) 8vo (243 x 182mm.) Late 19th century blind-stamped calf, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Mrs. D. Thomson (gilt name to upper cover). - And a further five Bibles, one related work, and one volume (of 2) of an early 17th century translation of Pindar [circa 1624], 24mo) (8).