Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

PHOTOGRAPHY. - David BAILEY. Trouble and Strife. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. First edition, signed by David Bailey, 4to (242 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations of Bailey's wife, Marie Helvin, introduction by Brian Clarke. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small mark to upper cover, lightly rubbed). - And a further two volumes by David Bailey, both signed ('NY JS DB 62', 2007, 4to, and 'Pictures that Mark Can Do', 2007, 4to) (3).

COOKERY. - Marco Pierre WHITE. White Heat. London: Pyramid Books, 1990. First edition, signed by Marco Pierre White, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations by Bob Carlos Clarke. (Toning.) Original grey boards, dust-jacket (closed tear to upper panel). - And a further signed volume by Marco Pierre White (the 25th anniversary edition of 'White Heat', 2015, 4to) (2).

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623, from the Chatsworth Copy in the Possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1902. Limited edition, this being number 913 of 1000 copies signed by Sidney Lee. Folio (368 x 228mm.) Introduction by Sidney Lee, list of Subscribers. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary white buckram-backed boards, paper labels mounted to spine (rubbing to extremities).

GEOLOGY. - A. Leith ADAMS. Monograph on the British Fossil Elephants. London: for the Palaeontological Society, 1877-1881. 4to (272 x 202mm.) Numerous lithographed plates, 2 folding maps at rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and to maps and verso plates.) Contemporary burgundy half morocco over buckram covered boards (lower cover detached, rubbing). - And a further seventeen miscellaneous volumes (18).

COTGRAVE, Randle. A French-English Dictionary… with Another in English and French. London: by W.H. for Octarian Pulleyn, 1650. 4to (317 x 202mm.) Title, separate title with architectural border for the 'English-French' section, engraved tailpiece. (Paper repair to title, browning, minor soiling, lacking blanks). Near contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, both covers detached).

[RUBENS, Peter Paul.] Missale Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. Iussu Editum. Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1630. Title in red and black with the Last Supper engraved vignette, double column text in red and black, 10 engraved plates after Rubens and 10 engraved borders, historiated initials in black and red, musical notional in black and red, red tailpieces. (Browning, several leaves with marginal damp-staining, some text affected, marginal paper repairs to Z1-Z4, Aa1-Aa4 and Hh3-Hh5, blanks replaced.) [Bound with:] Missae Propriae Festorum Ordinis Fratrum Minorum. Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1613. Engraved vignette to title, double-column text in red and black, historiated initials in red and black. (Corner damp-stain to title, minor creasing, browning.) 4to (347 x 224mm.) Near contemporary calf (rebacked, heavily rubbed, wear to spine). Provenance: Francis Warneford (bookplate to front pastedown).

MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Butterflies. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860. Large 8vo (252 x 153mm.) 71 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 2 uncoloured plates. (Occasional browning and spotting.) Original green cloth, blind-stamped and with pictorial gilt (minor marks to lower cover). - And a further two copies of the same book, dated 1870 and 1890 (3).

ITALY. - [Ennio QUIRINO.] Sculture del Palazzo della Villa Borghese Detta Pinciana. Rome: Pagliarini, 1796. 2 vols., 8vo (270 x 135mm.) 2 engraved vignettes to titles, 220 engraved plates of Roman statuary, including 29 folding. (38 plates excised, occasional adjacent plate also cut, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown morocco, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (lightly rubbed, endpapers replaced). - And a further 2 volumes relating to art (Eugène Muntz's 'Histoire de L'Art Pendant la Renaissance', 2 vols. (of 3), 1889-1891, 4to) (4).

WELLS, H.G. The Works… Atlantic Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924-1927. 28 vols. Limited 'Atlantic Edition', signed by H.G. Wells, this being number 393 of 620 copies for Great Britain, 8vo (223 x 149mm.) Signed by Wells on the limitation page of volume 1, portrait photogravure frontispiece. (Toning.) Near contemporary burgundy half morocco over red cloth-covered boards, bound by Bayntun of Bath, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. Provenance: Neville Blond, textile industrialist and philanthropist (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further two volumes by H.G. Wells, also bound by Bayntun ('An Experiment in Autobiography', 2 vols., 1934, 8vo) (30).

[SWIFT, Jonathan.] 'Lemuel GULLIVER'. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 8vo (181 x 118mm.) Numerous illustrations by Charles E. Brock. (Toning.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. (minor marks to lower cover). - And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1898, 8vo) (12).

LATHAM, Robert Gordon. A Dictionary of the English Language... founded on that of Samuel Johnson. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. et al., 1866-1870. 2 vols. in 4, 4to (274 x 210mm.) (Toning, spotting to blanks and verso endpapers.) Contemporary red half morocco over buckram (sunning to spines, some fading, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Francis Ricardo (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further sixteen miscellaneous volumes (including a fourth edition of Thomas Wood's 'A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law', 1730, folio, and a second edition of 'Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, Improved and Enlarged by the Late Dr. Thomas Morell', 1823, 4to) (20).

MOTOR-RACING. - Doug NYE and Geoffrey GODDARD. Dick and George, the Seaman-Monkhouse Letters, 1936-1939. London: Palawan Press, 2002. Limited edition, this being number 541 of 1500 copies, large 8vo (288 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further two volumes related to motor-racing (Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón's 'The Brothers Rodriguez', 2009, 4to, and Chris Nixon's 'Kings of the Nurburgring', 2005, 8vo) (3).

MOTOR-RACING. - Alan HENRY. Fifty Years of Ferrari. Somerset: Haynes Publishing, 1997. First edition, signed by Ferrari driver Phil Hill on the half-title, 4to (253 x 250mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twelve volumes related to motor-racing, including three more signed volumes (Alan Wilson's 'Driven by Desire', signed by racing-driver Desiré Wilson, 2011, 8vo, and Peter Redman's 'Goodwood Remembered', signed by the author, 2007, 8vo, and, signed by the owner of Goodwood - the Duke of Richmond - 'The Glory of Goodwood', 1999, 4to) (13).

BURDEN, Philip D. The Mapping of North America. Rickmansworth, Herts: Raleigh Publications, 1996-2007. 2 vols., folio (354 x 258mm.) Numerous coloured and uncoloured illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original maroon cloth, dust-jackets.

CAMBODIA. - Pierre DIEULEFILS. Indo-Chine Pittoresque & Monumentale, Ruies D' Angkor Cambodge. Cambodia, Hanoi: P. Dieulefils, [1907.] Oblong folio (273 x 374mm.) Dedication leaf, introduction in English, French and German, 1 colour plate of King Sisowath of Cambodia, 67 heliogravure plates after photographs with tissue-guards captioned in three languages. (Spotting verso the front-free endpaper, one or two finger-marks to preliminaries.) Original white half morocco over snakeskin-style paper-covered boards (inner hinge weakening, surface wear, some loss to spine). Note: Pierre Dieulefils was a French photographer who set up in Hanoi in 1888 and was the first professional photographer to document Cambodia and Vietnam.

ANTIQUITIES. - O.M. DALTON. Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era with Examples of Mohammedan Art and Carvings in Bone. London: British Museum and Longmans & Co. et al, 1909. 4to (279 x 216mm.) 125 plates, numerous illustrations in the text. (Toning, 1 plate loose.) Original blue cloth (light rubbing to extremities). - And five further volumes related to antiquities and art reference (including volume 2 of W. Bode's 'Die Italienischen Bronzen', 1904, 4to, and O.M. Dalton's 'Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East', 1901, 4to, and three volumes of the 'Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs', 1904-1905, 4to) (6).

HOLME, Charles (editor). Representative Art of Our Time. London: Offices of 'The Studio', 1903. 8 vols., folio (424 x 296mm.) 48 plates tipped-in. (Toning, corner crease to two text leaves.) Original blue card covers, string-bound (browned to margins, vol. 1 disbound), contained within cloth-backed portfolio (soiled, lacking ties). Note: contains a mezzotint by Max Pietschmann 'The Bathers', a lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, work by J. Pennell, D.Y. Cameron, Edgar Cahahine and a woodcut by W.O. Nieuwenkamp.

LAVOISNE, C.V. Lavoisne's Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas upon the plan of Le Sage: Exhibiting the Origin, Descent, and Marriages, of all the Royal Families, from the Earliest Records, to the year 1839…Revised, Collated, and Considerably Enlarged by John Satchell. London: J. Barfield. Fourth edition, folio (469 x 315mm.) Title, 75 double-paged engraved genealogical tables, including 26 maps, most leaves hand-coloured. (Toning, lacking front blank.) Red morocco over original marbled paper-covered boards, with red morocco labels mounted to upper cover and spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

STEWART, Basil. Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, folio (378 x 230mm.) Numerous colour and monochrome plates, captioned tissue-guards. (Spotting to pastedowns and occasionally within, toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket with mounted illustration (chipping, creasing to extremities, a damp-stain at spine). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket.