Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (307 x 236mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Light browning, labels to pastedowns and stamps verso the title-page, scattered spotting.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (minor soiling to covers, small area of loss to cloth of lower cover). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to the front pastedown).

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (344 x 215mm.) Numerous hand-coloured crests. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal tear with loss to p.209, repairs to half-title.) Near contemporary black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities).

EYRE, George and William SPOTTISWOODE (publisher). Metropolitan Police. General Orders and Regulations. Revised, Amended, and Consolidated. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1873. 4to (329 x 203mm.) Numerous printed bound-in amendments and updates. (Toning, some annotation ink to margins.) Near contemporary full calf, lettering in gilt to upper cover, black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, rubbed to extremities, scuffing to covers, endpapers replaced). Note: the Metropolitan Police force was established in 1829. Provenance: Charles Murdoch (ink name inscribed to title-page). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey.

[TYPESCRIPT.] - Richard FOUNTAIN. The Second and Third German Reichs, Extracts on German History From 1871 to 1965. London: [N.p.], 1966. 2 vols. Large 8vo (328 x 202mm.) 2 mounted frontispieces, several hand-drawn maps, plans and genealogies, includes typescript of Bernadotte E. Schmitt's 'Triple Alliance and Triple Entente' and Lewis Namier's 'Men Who Floundered into the War', essays by Richard Fountain and chronological tables of German history, 'Appendices' and bibliography and 58pp. index to rear of volume 2. (Toning to margins, browning.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spines (fading to gilt). Note: in the preface, Richard Fountain - who was lecturer in Modern European History at the London Academy- writes that he was initially inspired to create a work for students of German history because he realised that Bernadotte E. Schmitt's influential essay 'Triple Alliance and Triple Entente' had not been published in this country. With some amendments, he typed it out, but the work soon expanded to include his own essays and transcriptions of recordings (2).

MANUSCRIPT. - Ina Mary WEBB. [A diary written by a student at boarding-school. Bedford: N.p.:] January-July 1902, 59pp., manuscript, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single legible and tightly written hand on lined paper detailing the daily activities of Ina and her friend's lives at Howard College, Bedford, numerous blank leaves to rear. (Toning, some offsetting of ink.) Original maroon buckram (sunned to spine, inner hinge weakening). Note: in addition to the daily whirl of school activities, Ina and her best friend Flossie have agreed to each keep a diary of their year at school. There are many certainties in their world, every hour is filled with improving lessons in needlework, music, Shakespeare and painting and any spare time is spent playing games of salta, whist and ping-pong. There is barely any time for reflection but occasionally Jamesian details seep through ('Mr Mott came to dinner. He had Harry Royce's umbrella with him'), occasionally the regressive drama of teenage life is expressed ('I went to bed at 8pm, found I wasn't well (how awful). I felt very much like dying, but got on alright'). On the 22nd of July the diary suddenly ends: 'Flossie's father was ill and she had been sent for so I helped her dress'. Maybe they both stopped writing their diaries after this news. Or, maybe, Ina stopped because, ever practical, she knew that on the 25th July, 'we go home'.

KIRBY, William F. European Butterflies and Moths. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. 4to (275 x 203mm.) 62 lithographed plates, all hand-coloured but 1. (Toning, spotting to first and last leaves). Near contemporary red half calf over burgundy buckram boards (spotting to covers, rubbed to extremities). - And a further three volumes (including part 1 of 'Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal' edited by E. Sibly, [circa 1798], 4to) (4).

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (308 x 232mm.) Half-title, 4pp. 'Subscribers', 42 aquatint plates engraved by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured map, 1 folding plate and 1 double-paged, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning, occasional minor spotting especially to plate margins, 9 of the plates are facsimiles including 1 folding and 1 double-paged, front blank replaced and rear blank lacking.) 20th century brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, bumped and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Alex E. Murray (ink inscribed to half-title and title page); West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and stamps to title-page).

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1850. First edition, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Half-title, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 44 lithographed plates, including 2 hand-coloured and 2 double-paged. (Toning, occasional chipping or small, marginal tears, minor marginal soiling to first few leaves, lacking blanks, ink number on title and stamp verso.) 20th century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards (rubbing with surface loss to spine, extremities rubbed and marks to lower cover, endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).

TRADE CATALOGUES. The Architects' Standard Catalogues. London: The Standard Catalogue Co., Ltd., 1927-1929. 4 vols., 4to (298 x 236mm.) Title-pages in red and black, numerous advertisements for ironmongery, plumbing, electrics, carvings, tiling and masonry, printed tab dividers and many loose merchant's receipts. (Some creasing to dividers, toning, spotting to endpapers, marginal insect damage to title-page of volume four.) Original green cloth (fading, minor soiling to covers) (4).

BIBLE, In English. The Universal Family Bible: or, a Christian's Divine Library… illustrated with Notes Theological… The Whole Forming a Complete Commentary… by the Reverend Henry Southwell. London: J. Cooke, 1776. Folio (380 x 241mm.) Engraved frontispiece and numerous copper-engraved plates, OT only. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (minor loss to spine ends, minor scuffing). Provenance: 'Padmore' family (genealogy ink inscribed verso frontispiece).

RALEIGH, Walter. The History of the World, in Five Books. London: J.J. and P. Knapton, G. Conyers et al., 1733. Seventh edition, folio (359 x 218mm.) (Lacking portrait frontispiece, lacking all plates and maps, facsimile title-page.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. - And a further eight volumes ('The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments' with commentary by Adam Clarke, 1817-1825, 8 vols., large 8vo). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (9).

LAVATER, Johann Kaspar. Physiognomical Sketches. London: J. Luffman, [1802.] Folio (382 x 270mm.) Engraved title-page, 4pp. 'Biographical Account of Lavater', 50 plates engraved by John Luffman. (Spotting and browning to most plates, marginal damp-staining to many.) Near contemporary straight-grain half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: 'R.G.A.' (ink name inscribed to front pastedown).

DUMAS, Alexander. [The Works.] London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1894-1899. 49 vols., 8vo (184 x 118mm.) Frontispieces, tissue-guards. (Toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt to spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing, occasional mark to covers) (49).

MOTOR-RACING. - Maurice HAMILTON. Formula One: The Champions. London: White Lion Publishing, 2020. First edition, first impression, 4to (305 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Slight toning.) Original pictorial boards. - And a further thirty volumes relating to classic cars and motor-racing (31).

GEOLOGY. - P.I. MARTIN. A Geological Memoir on a Part of Western Sussex; with Some Observations Upon Chalk-Basins, the Weald-Denudation, and Outliers-by-Protusion. London: John Booth, 1828. First edition, 4to (282 x 215mm.) Folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece map, folding table, 3 hand-coloured plates to rear. (Some tears along creases of frontispiece with repairs to verso, offsetting and spotting to preliminaries, occasional browning and toning, lacking front blank, three small ink annotations.) 20th century orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine (gilt reference number erased, endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (label to front pastedown and stamp verso title). - And a further four volumes mainly relating to Sussex (including Frederick Dixon's 'The Geology of Sussex; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex', 1878, 4to) (5).

CRUNDEN, John. Convenient and Ornamental Architecture, Consisting of Original Designs, for Plans, Elevations, and Sections: Beginning with the Farm House, and Regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa. London: for the author and W. Webley, 1770. 4to (267 x 172mm.) 4pp. publisher's catalogue after 'Preface', 26pp. 'Explanation of the Plates', 57 engraved plates by Isaac Taylor numbered 1-70, including 14 folding. (Spotting to title-page and pastedowns, occasional browning.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (inner hinge weakening, light rubbing). Provenance: George de Ligne Gregory, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown); John Fowler (ink name to front pastedown). - And a further six volumes (including the plate volume of Peter Nicholson's 'The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion', [1823], 4to) (7); the property of Donald Church.

MANUSCRIPT. [An account book for the Aldenham Estate, Hertforshire. N.p.: 1918-1939.] 526pp., manuscript, folio (432 x 275mm.) 24pp. of tabulated index in red and black, 502pp. in a single legible hand relating to rents, tithes, petty cash, repairs and to money spent on the woods and gardens. (Toning, paper label remains to front-free endpaper.) Contemporary reversed calf with brass trim to edges (worn). Note: Aldenham House was the seat of the Gibbs family . It was known especially for its gardens, its flowering trees and shrubs grown by Vicary Gibbs. After his death in 1932, the estate's huge collection of plants was auctioned by Sotheby's. The account book ends in 1939 when the house was requisitioned by the BBC as an overseas broadcasting station.

BACON, G.W. (publisher). Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1896. Folio (345 x 276mm.) Half-title, title in red and black, 68 double-paged lithographed maps, including 65 county maps, census tables, index and gazetteer to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, toning.) Later red half morocco over red cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (rebacked, scuffing to lower cover).

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.