Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition, large paper copy, 8vo (214 x 134mm.) Photographic frontispiece, 9 further plates including 4 illustrations by Vanessa Bell. (Toning to text and plate margins.) Original tan cloth (some spotting to upper cover and spine), dust-jacket (toning, minor staining to upper panel, closed marginal tear to lower panel).

BIDEN, Joe. Promise me, Dad. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (218 x 130mm.) (Mild toning.) Original white cloth, dust-jacket.

[LANGLEY, Batty. The Builder's Compleat Assistant, or a Library of Arts and Sciences. London: circa 1740.] Plate volume only, 8vo (236 x 140mm.) 70 double-paged engraved plates bound on stubs, 2 plates with later hand-colouring. (Lacking preliminary leaves and 7 plates, plate 1 with excised section, several with tears along the fold, browning, some chipping to margins.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbed, soiling, upper cover loosening). Note: ownership inscription dated 1784. Provenance: Thomas Ellenden (name inscribed to initial blank and verso plate 2); the property of Donald Church.

[CAMPBELL, Colen. Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, containing the Plan, Elevations and Sections of the Regular Buildings both Publick and Private in Great Britain. London: circa 1717-1731.] Folio (453 x 288mm.) 101 loose engraved architectural plates, including 25 double-paged, after plans by Campbell, Inigo Jones, Hawksmoor, Rocque and others, three engraved title-pages, two of which are the undated additional titles, but including the third volume title-page in red and black, calligraphic dedication to King George, 9pp. and 10pp. text leaves for 'Explanation of the Plates'. (Toning, browning and minor spotting to margins.) Disbound. Note: the plates all come from volumes 1-3. There are 42 from volume 1, 41 from volume 2 and 18 from volume 3. The plates from the first two volumes might be from later editions, rather than the first edition of 1717. The plates from volume 3 are from the 1731 edition, which came out six years after the first edition. Provenance: the property of Donald Church.

MANUSCRIPT. [An apothecary's hand-written pharmacopeia. N.p.: circa early 19th century-late 19th century.] 228pp., manuscript, 8vo (178 x 113mm.) 26pp. unnumbered of tabulated index, 202pp. of chemical recipes and solutions used by a working apothecary in Chesterfield, and with additions and amendments throughout the 19th century. (Soiling, spillage and finger-marks throughout.) Contemporary calf (scuffing, light rubbing). Note: contains recipes for medicating both humans and animals ('diarrhoea in calves', 'pigs powders', 'infants carminative mixture', 'whooping cough', various remedies for 'toothache' and the overall less worrying 'hair oil scent'), as well mixtures for polishing wood. Provenance: George Sampson, chemist (stamp to initial blank); F.W. Dutton, chemist (stamp to initial blank).

HERBAL. - Nicholas CULPEPER. The English Physitian Enlarged with Three Hundred, Sixty, and Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this. London: John Streater, 1671. 8vo (169 x 115mm.) Title, 'Alphabetical Table of Herbs', 17pp. 'Table of Diseases' and 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning, occasional minor soiling, damp-staining to last leaves, blanks replaced, marginal ink scribble to D4-D5.) Near contemporary calf (surface loss to lower cover, rebacked, endpapers replaced).

HERBAL. - Thomas VICARY. The Englishman's Treasure, With the True Anatomie of Mans Body… whereunto are annexed many Secrets appertaining to Chyrurgerie, with divers excellent approved Remedies for all Captaines and Souldiers, that travel either by Water or Land. London: by B. Alsop, and Thomas Favvcet, 1641. 4to (175 x 123mm.) Black letter, woodcut frontispiece, decorative and inhabited woodcut initials, and head and tail-pieces. (Leaves T2-T3 replaced in facsimile, paper repairs to two initial blanks, marginal damp-staining Q1-R1 and to margins of rear leaves, closed marginal tear to Kk4, occasional browning, marginal paper repair to last leaf Rr2, ink annotation to fourth blank and last leaf, history of the books repair in ink to rear pastedown.) Mid-20th century brown calf, original calf laid-on to both covers (endpapers replaced). Note: Thomas Vicary was an early English physician, described as 'but a meane practiser in Maidstone… that had gained his knowledge by experience, until the King advanced him for curing his sore leg'. Provenance: William Hoar (name inscribed on first blank); Richard Hoar (name inscribed to fourth blank); Thomas Hoar (gift inscribed to on the fourth blank).

COOKERY. - E. SMITH. The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of Upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts. London: J. and J. Pemberton, 1736. Seventh edition, 8vo (199 x 118mm.) A calligraphic name-plate in manuscript to the front pastedown. (Lacking all folding plates, lacking leaf A2, occasional spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf, blind-tooled, a later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: Henrietta Williams (name-plate in ink to the front pastedown); Elizabeth Nicholson (ink name inscribed to initial blank).

HERBAL. - Nicholas CULPEPER. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London Dispensatory Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, now living of the said Colledg. London: Peter Cole, 1659. 'Sixt Edition', 8vo (170 x 116mm.) Title with double row of typographic ornament, separate title for 'Key to Galen's Method of Physick' dated 1658, also with double row of typographic ornament, 'Table of Compounds' and 'Table of Diseases' to rear, erratic pagination. (Lacking half-title, trimming to headlines with no loss, spotting to Gg6-Gg7, minor chipping to leaf margins, several ownership claims in late 17th century manuscript hand, rear blank with paper repair.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and corners repaired, endpapers replaced). Provenance: James Clarke (name ink inscribed to initial blank, and within text).

HERBAL. - Joseph MILLER. Botanicum Officinale; or a Compendious Herbal: Giving an Account of all such Plants as are now used in the Practice of Physick, with their Descriptions and Virtues. London: E. Bell, 1722. First edition, 8vo (198 x 119mm.) Engraved headpieces and initials, 10pp. 'Index Rerum' to rear, 10pp. 'Table of English Names', 2pp. 'An Explanation of Some Abbreviation…'. (Occasional spotting and minor soiling, marginal tear to *3, initial blank replaced, illegible names inscribed to rear pastedown.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco lettering piece to spine (spine ends and corners repaired, minor scuffing). Provenance: Robert Willan (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).

HERBAL. - James NEWTON. A Compleat Herbal… containing the Prints and the English Names of Several Thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c. London: E. Cave, 1752. First edition, 8vo (186 x 111mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of J. Newton, 175 engraved plates, 7pp. 'Index' to rear. (Browning to title, marginal paper repair to plate 145.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some loss to the lettering piece, light rubbing). Note: Newton was a botanist and physician, but he also ran an asylum for the mentally ill in London. He began his herbal in 1680 but died before it was completed and it was published posthumously by his grandson. Provenance: Antonia Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); Francis Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); E.R. Massy (pencil name inscribed to initial blank).

HERBAL. - John GERARD. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes… very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson. London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition, folio signed in 6s (331 x 214mm.) Engraved architectural title by J. Payne, numerous botanical woodcut illustrations throughout, woodcut initials, 'Appendix' to rear, indices for both Latin and English terms, 'The Table of Vertues' to rear and last leaf 'An Advertisement to the Readers' being Bbbbbbb5. (Light spotting and browning throughout, occasional minor soiling, part of p.491 replaced in facsimile, title laid-down, marginal repairs to dedication leaf and 'An advertisement to the Reader' with some loss of text to latter, blanks replaced.) 18th century reversed calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked in reversed calf, corners repaired, staining and scuffing to covers). Provenance: George Gill (ink name rear pastedown); S.L. Nussey, Potternewton Hall (name-plate to the front pastedown).

HILL, John. The British Herbal: an History of Plants and Trees, Natives of Britain, Cultivated for Use, or Raised For Beauty. London: for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. First edition, large paper copy, folio (448 x 281mm.) Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 75 engraved plates all hand-coloured in a contemporary hand, title in red and black, engraved title vignette and dedication with engraved coat-of-arms also hand-coloured, double-column text, 3pp. index to rear. (Light spotting to title-page, browning and intermittent spotting, plate 1 and 39 with corner losses, first text leaves with heavier spotting.) Contemporary calf with foliate gilt to spine compartments (lacking lettering piece, fading to gilt, rubbing to extremities, joints splitting). Provenance: Charles Butler Clough (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown).

[TYPESCRIPT.] - Havelock ELLIS. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1908.] Vol. 6, 'Sex in Relation to Society', 279pp., original typed manuscript, loose leaf (257 x 203mm.). Comprising the typed leaves of chapters I, 2, 4 and 5 of volume 6 of 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex', with ink annotations and two hand-written leaves, titles in manuscript hand to chapters 1 and 2. (Browning, chipping and minor creasing to margins, large tear to first two leaves of chapter 1.) Pin-bound to left corner. - And includes seven published booklets by Havelock Ellis, four of which are signed by him ('The Symbolism of Dreams', 1910, 8vo, 'Variation in Man and Woman', 1903, 8vo, 'Mescal: A Study of a Divine Plant', 1902, 8vo and 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Being the First Section of Volume Three', 1903, 8vo, and a further three unsigned booklets: two copies of 'The Sexual Impulse in Women', 1902, and 'The Conquest of the Venereal Diseases', 1908, 8vo). Also includes a 2pp. a.l.s. from Havelock Ellis to architect Maurice Bingham Adams. Note: Ellis and Adams were both early members of the socialist 'Fellowship of the New Life', a precursor to the Fabian Society. Ellis mentions the fellowship in the context of helping the husband of novelist Olive Schreiner write a biography of her.

PEAR TREE PRESS. - Eleanor FARJEON. A Sussex Alphabet. Sussex, Flansham: The Pear Tree Press, 1939. Limited edition, this being number 39 of 220 copies only, 4to (286 x 213mm.) 11 lino-cut illustrations in colour by Sheila M. Thompson. (Toning, stamps to margins and to title-page.) Original pictorial boards (label to base of spine, some loss to spine panel). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to front pastedown).

PHOTOGRAPHY. - William KLEIN. Life Is Good & Good for You In New York, Trance Witness Revels. London [Geneva:] Roto-Sadag for Photography Magazine, 1956. First U.K. edition, 4to (276 x 212mm.) Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. (Lacking the mock tourist brochure, mild toning.) Original black cloth (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (price-clipped, loss with tear to bottom of spine, rubbing to extremities).

[HALASZ, Gyula.] 'Brassaï' (photographer). - Daniel Henry KHANWEILER. The Sculptures of Picasso. London: Rodney Philips, 1949. First English edition, 4to (310 x 236mm.) Numerous uncoloured photographic illustrations by Brassaï, text translated from the French by A.D.B. Sylvester. (Toning, spotting to pastedowns and front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards (lettering faded to spine, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Bernard' (gift inscribed to in green ink on the front-free endpaper).

DULAC, Edmund (illustrator). Stories From Hans Andersen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Limited edition de luxe, this being out of series and numbered '0000' of 750 copies signed by Dulac, 4to (307 x 244mm.) 28 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac. (Marginal spotting and browning to some leaves.) Original vellum boards, gilt decoration to upper cover (lacking ties, minor soiling to rear cover).

DETMOLD, Edward J. (illustrator). - Maurice MAETERLINCK. The Life of the Bee. London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1912. Reprint, 4to (177 x 217mm.) 13 mounted colour plates. (Toning, occasional light spotting, marginal tear to plate of 'The Old Bee-Keeper'. Original pictorial cloth (slightly chipped spine ends). Provenance: Harry Simpson (school prize certificate to initial blank).