Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

NALSON, John. The Common Interest of King and People: Shewing the Original, Antiquity and Excellency of Monarchy, Compared with Aristocracy and Democracy. London: Jonathan Edwin, 1678. Second edition, 8vo (183 x 111mm.) Title, 1p. publisher’s advertisement to rear. (Lacking frontispiece, title browned to margins, illegible name to front pastedown.) Contemporary calf (some loss to spine ends, extremities heavily rubbed). Note: Nalson was a Tory pamphleteer, historian and clergyman whose arguments for monarchy were, partly, utilitarian.

SEARLE, Ronald (illustrator) and Bill RICHARDSON and ALLEN ANDREWS. Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition, signed by Ronald Searle, 4to (229 x 224mm.) Numerous coloured and black and white illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further sixteen volumes (including a signed limited first edition of Osbert Lancaster’s ‘Classical Landscape With Figures’, 1947, 8vo, and Robin Maugham’s ‘The Servant’, 1948, 8vo, and ‘The Technique of a Life Affair’ by ‘A Gentlewoman’ [Doris Langley Moore], 1928, 8vo) (17).

ROSSETTI, Christina G. Goblin Market and Other Poems. London and Glasgow: Gowans and Gray Ltd., 1914. No. 7 Gowan’s International Library, 12mo (143 x 90mm.) (Toning, light spotting to half-title.) Original wrappers designed by Jessie M. King (browned). – And a further ten volumes of poetry (11).

SLAVERY. – Thomas CLARKSON. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. 1 vol. only (of 2). First edition, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) 2 engraved plates, 1 folding. (Browning to folding plate, marginal tear to a crease, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (upper cover detached). Provenance: Ingestre Hall (bookplate to front pastedown).

WILSON, Alexander. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States… with a Continuation by Charles Lucian Bonaparte… the Illustrative Notes, and Life of Wilson, by Sir James William Jardine. London & Edinburgh: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot, Stirling & Kenney, 1832. 3 vols., 8vo (214 x 128mm.) Half- titles, 98 engraved plates by Lizars after Wilson, including portrait frontispiece to vol. 1. (Some plate margins shaved, light to moderate spotting to most plates, occasional browning, illegible ink name to title of vol. 1.) 20th century half calf over original cloth, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some fading and dust-soiling to the cloth, extremities rubbed) (3).

GOLBERRY, Silvester Meinrad Xavier. Travels in Africa. Performed During the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the Western Countries of This Continent… translated by William Mudford. London: M. Jones, 1803. 2 vols., first English edition, 12mo (176 x 101mm.) 3 engraved folding maps, 7 engraved plates, 14pp. ‘Index’ to rear of volume two, errata verso last leaf. (Toning, occasional light spotting, short closed tear to B2 of volume two.) Contemporary calf (extremities rubbed, lacking lettering pieces to spines). Note: Louis XVI, irritated by Captain Cook’s naval exploits for England, encouraged Golberry to travel to Africa. At the end of his account, Golberry celebrates the end of French slavery in Africa. However, Napoleon soon restored it (2).

AMERICA. – Mary HOWITT. A Popular History of the United States of America. London: Longmans, Brown, Green et al., 1859. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) 22 plates. (Toning.) Near contemporary black half morocco, gilt lettering to spines (extremities rubbed and surface rubbing to covers). Provenance: Edmund Francis Davis (bookplates to front pastedowns). – And a related volume (W.G. Brownlow’s ‘Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession’, 1862, 8vo) (3).

AMERICA. – George CAITLIN. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London: David Bogue, 1844. 2 vols., fourth edition, 4to (253 x 154mm.) 3 maps, including 1 folding map of the Indian localities, 177 lithographed plates, 10pp. ‘Appendix’ to rear of volume 2. (Damp-staining to all the plates, mild spotting only to the folding map, lacking 3 blanks, some pencil annotation and underlining.) 21st century green half morocco, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Note: rare. George Caitlin initially practiced law, like his father, but soon gave it up to travel and study art. After meeting a tribal delegation of Indians on his travels, he became eager to preserve a record of them and he devoted the rest of his life to rendering them and their way of life (2).

MURRAY, Charles Augustus. Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835, & 1836. Including A Summer Residence With the Pawnee Tribe of Indians… and a Visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (228 x 132mm.) 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces of American Indians. (Toning, lacking half-title to volume 1, lacking blanks, occasional spotting.) 21st century dark brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced) (2).

SOUTHEY, Thomas. A Chronological History of the West Indies. Longman, Rees et al., 1827. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (214 x 130mm.) Half-titles to vols. 1 and 2, errata leaf bound-in at start of vol. 2. (Toning, blanks replaced.) Mid-20th century brown half morocco, gilt lettering to spines (browned to edges, endpapers replaced) (3).

AMERICA. – Frances TROLLOPE. Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832. 2 vols., second edition, 8vo (198 x 115mm.) Half-titles, 24 lithographed plates by Ducote after Hervieu, 1p. publisher’s advertisements to rear of vol. 2. (Toning, light spotting to plate margins, lacking blanks.) 21st century green half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Note: Frances Trollope was the mother of Anthony, the novelist. In 1827 she took most of her family to the Nashoba Commune, a utopian community in America. After the community failed, Frances moved her family to Cincinnati but financial difficulties saw them return to England three years later. She hadn’t formed a favourable opinion of America (2).

MARTINEAU, Harriet. Society in America. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (187 x 111mm.) (Toning.) 21st century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black and tan morocco lettering pieces to spines (endpapers replaced). Note: one of the earliest and most comprehensive accounts of American life and culture, including observations on economics, politics and slavery (3).

HALL, Basil. Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (189 x 114mm.) Folding hand-coloured engraved map of the United States and Canada, 1 folding table. (Toning, lacking half-titles, a 3-inch tear to map.) 21st century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (3).

UNITED STATES. – James STUART. Three Years in North America. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (190 x 113mm.) Large folding engraved map. (Toning, browning to titles, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half calf, grey morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Note: an account of travels around Eastern America via North Carolina. – And a related volume (Francis Lieber’s ‘The Stranger in America’, the first British edition, [1835], 8vo) (3).

AMERICA. – James BUCHANAN. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. First edition, 8vo (233 x 140mm.) Appendix, 6pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning.) 21st century brown half morocco, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced).

CAREY, Henry Charles and Isaac LEA. The Geography, History and Statistics of America and the West Indies; Exhibiting a Correct Account of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of the Various Kingdoms, States and Provinces of the Western Hemisphere, to the Year 1822. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1823. First U.K. edition, 8vo (206 x 124mm.) Half-title, large engraved folding hand-coloured map of North America, 12 hand-coloured maps and charts, 4 folding engraved views, 1 folding engraved uncoloured map, 1 folding letterpress chart. (Toning, occasional light spotting or offsetting, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half morocco, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced). Note: includes maps or views of Quebec, Philadelphia, Cuba, Mexico, West Indies and Brazil.

BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. London: J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition. (Toning to title, lacking blanks.) [Bound with:] Capel LOFFT. Remarks on the Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, Concerning the Revolution in France. London: J. Johnson, 1790.  Errata leaf to rear. (Light spotting and browning.) [Bound with:] Joseph PRIESTLEY. Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c. Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1791. (Occasional spotting.) 8vo (199 x 116mm.) 21st century full calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spine (endpapers replaced).

LEIGHTON, Clare. The Farmer’s Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry. London: Collins, 1933. First edition, a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leighton’s ink signature, oblong folio (280 x 353mm.) 12 full-page wood-engraved illustrations and 7 vignettes by Leighton. (Toning, occasional faint spotting.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (light spotting, price-clipped, some tears with tape repair verso).

FARJEON, Eleanor. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). Perkin the Pedlar. London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition, with a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leighton’s ink signature, 8vo (221 x 150mm.) Colour plates and illustrations in the text by Leighton. Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (slightly chipped spine ends). – And a further twelve volumes, all related to Clare Leighton (including ‘Tempestuous Petticoat’, with a loosely inserted slip with the signature of the author, 1947, 8vo, and Helen Douglas Irvine’s ‘Fray Mario’, with a loosely inserted signature by the illustrator, 1939, 8vo, and Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’, also with a loosely inserted signature by the illustrator, 1929, 8vo) (13).