Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

DETMOLD, E.J. (illustrator). – Maurice MAETERLINCK. Hours of Gladness… translated by A. Teixeira Mattos. London and New York: George Allen & Co., 1912. First edition, 4to (271 x 215mm.) 20 tipped-in colour plates by Detmold. (Spotting to preliminaries and margins of most leaves.) Original cream cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover (finger-marks, some scuffing to lower cover). – And a further twelve volumes (including Charles Darwin’s ‘Journal of Researches’, 1890, 8vo, and Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘History of the Earth and Animated Nature’, 2 vols., [1853], 8vo) (13).

RUSSIA. – William SIMPSON. The Seat in the War in the East. London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1856. Second series (only). First edition, folio (544 x 356mm.) 14pp. text, lithographed pictorial title, 40 tinted lithograph plates. (Preliminaries loose, marginal losses to title and spotting, 9 plates with insect-damage to upper margin, all plates with marginal spotting or dust-soiling, several with chipping to lower margins and most plates with a corner crease.) Original boards (boards detached, worn). – And a further volume (I.E.A. Dolby’s ‘Prague, Illustrated’, with 7 plates, [circa 1850], folio) (2).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Hans Christian ANDERSEN. The Complete Tales… translated by Jean Hersholt. London: The Folio Society, 2005. 2 vols., 4to (268 x 195mm.) Colour illustrations. Original decorative turquoise cloth, slipcase, original shrink-wrap. – And a further two volumes published by The Folio Society (4).

PULLMAN, Philip. The Book of Dust. Volume 1. La Belle Sauvage. Oxford and London: David Fickling Books and Penguin Books, 2017. Limited edition, this being number 3035 of 5000 signed copies, first Collector’s Edition, first printing, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue and gilt decorated cloth, blue cloth-covered slipcase.

CONJURING. Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature. Edinburgh: A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797. 2 vols. (lX and XX only), third edition, 4to (258 x 203mm.) Includes the entry for ‘Legerdemain’ on p.756-775, with the 2 engraved plates relating to conjuring, several other engraved plates, including 7 relating to ‘Hydrostatics’, and a map of Ireland. (Toning, occasional creasing.) Contemporary calf (covers detached, lacking upper cover to volume lX). – And a further volume (L. Simonin’s ‘La Vie Souterraine ou Les Mines et Les Mineurs’, 1867, 4to) (3).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. London: John Baskett, 1724. With the ‘Book of Common Prayer’ and ‘The Psalter or Psalms of David’, with ‘Apocrypha’, NT with separate title dated 1723. (Title of ‘Common Prayer’ lacking and first leaves loose, occasional spotting.) [Bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre. London: S. Collins, for the Company of Stationers, 1720. (Trimmed to upper margins, some creasing, lacking last leaf.) 4to (242 x 180mm.) Contemporary calf (worn). – And a further two bibles published in Oxford (including another by John Baskett in 1738 and one by T. Wright and W. Gill in 1769) (3).

TRADE CATALOGUES. Army & Navy Stores, General Price List 1939-1940. London: Army & Navy Stores, [1938.] Price List no. 104, 8vo (248 x 192mm.) Numerous illustrations and prices in the text, advertisements, indices. (Toning, scattered spotting.) Original red cloth (minor soiling to covers, damp-spotting to edges). – And a further forty-one volumes, mainly trade catalogues related to marine supplies (including Chas. D. Durkee & Co.’s ‘Complete Catalogue of Hardware for Wet Places’, 1918, 8vo) (42).

DU MAURIER, Daphne. Jamaica Inn. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) Half-title. (Moderate spotting to preliminaries, browning, occasional spotting, hinges cracked.) Original blue cloth (worn). Provenance: Barbara Jemmett (ink name to front-free endpaper); Juliet Gaussea (pencil name to front-free endpaper). – And a further nineteen miscellaneous volumes (including a signed copy of Billy Wright’s ‘One Hundred Caps and All That’, 1962, 8vo) (20).

INDIA. Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway including… Pondicherry, Travancore State, Peralam-Karaikkal and the Cochin State Railways. Madras: Hoe & Co., at the ‘Premier’ Press, 1913. 8vo (214 x 138mm.) Folding photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, folding colour map in pocket to rear, errata leaf dated 1915. (Toning, scattered spotting and browning, some leaves loosening, text-block partially cracked at errata leaf.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt and oval paper illustration mounted to upper cover (extremities lightly rubbed, slightly frayed to joints). Provenance: Kokil & Co., Bombay (stamp to initial blank). – And a further seventeen volumes related to India (including George F. Atkinson’s ‘Curry & Rice’, 1911, 4to, and R. Montgomery Martin’s ‘The Indian Empire Illustrated’, 43 issues, vols. 1-45 [lacking 40 and 43], [1858-1861], 8vo) (18).

POSTAN, M.M. (editor). The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Cambridge: at the University, 1966-1989. 8 vols. in 10, mixed editions, 8vo (228 x 145mm.) (Toning.) Original cloth, dust-jackets (toning, bumped to extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to front pastedowns and stamps verso the titles). – And a further fifteen volumes (25).

SOWERBY, John Edward. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants… edited by John T. Boswell. London: George Bell & Sons., 1873-1877. 11 vols. (only, lacking vol. 12). 8vo (259 x 160mm.) Half-titles, 1824 hand-coloured lithographed plates. (Toning.) 20th century green cloth, gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (stamps verso title-pages, label to front pastedown of volume I) (11).

GOULD, Robert Freke. The History of Freemasonry, It’s Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [circa 1895]. 3 vols., 4to (282 x 216mm.) 36 colour plates with tissue-guards, 2 plates of ‘Seals’ and several folding charts. (Mild toning.) Original black morocco over blue cloth boards, Masonic design in gilt to upper covers, g.e. (extremities heavily rubbed, reference labels to spines). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to front pastedown, stamps verso titles). – And a further seventeen volumes (including James Robinson Planchié’s ‘A Cyclopaedia of Costume’, 2 vols., 1876, 8vo, and Cyril Field’s ‘Britain’s Sea Soldiers, A History of the Royal Marines’, 2 vols., 1924, and the related volume ‘Britain’s Sea Soldiers, A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919’, 1927, 4to, and ‘The Encyclopedia of Mormonism’, 4 vols., 1992, large 8vo) (20).

LETCHFORD, Albert (illustrator). – Richard Francis BURTON (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… edited by Leonard C. Smithers. London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., ‘The Library Edition’, 13 vols. 8vo (257 x 153mm.) Plates after Albert Letchford, including a set of loose-leaf 70 Artist Proof plates signed in pencil by Albert Letchford. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original black cloth, decorative gilt, t.e.g., black cloth portfolio (some wear to spine ends, insect-damage to the portfolio, lacking ties). Note: this being the Royal Octavo ‘Small Size’ A.P. edition of the plates.

OCCULT. – Alice A. BAILEY. A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple. New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1951. 8vo (227 x 149mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (some fading). – And a further twenty-six volumes by Alice Bailey (including ‘The Reappearance of Christ’, 1948, 8vo, and ‘The Consciousness of the Atom’, 1934, 8vo) (27).

[SMOLLET, Tobias.] The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. London: Peter Davies, 1925. Limited edition, this being number 24 of 500 copies, 4to (292 x 224mm.) Numerous colour illustrations by Vera Willoughby. (Toning, endpapers browned.) Original decorative boards, dust-jacket (loss to extremities, some creasing). – And a quantity of approximately eighty-five further volumes, mainly books about illustrators and illustration (a quantity).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. – John ARNOLD. The Fanfrolico Press. Middlesex, Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2009. Limited edition, being one of only 900 copies, 8vo (270 x 180mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth. – And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes, mainly relating to bibliography and book reference (a quantity).

MCLEAN, Ruari (editor). Motif, a Journal of the Visual Arts. London: Shenval Press Ltd., 1958. No. 1. 4to (300 x 238mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards (browned to margins, extremities rubbed). Note: a periodical that ran for thirteen issues between 1958 and 1967. – And a quantity of approximately ninety further miscellaneous volumes (a quantity).

BOOK REFERENCE. – Katherine Golden BITTING. Gastronomic Bibliography. California, San Francisco, 1981. Limited edition, this being number 217 of 500 copies of the facsimile edition, 8vo (246 x 180mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of approximately seventy volumes relating to book reference and bibliography (a quantity).

BOOK REFERENCE. – Michael SADLER. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Folkestone and London: Dawsons, 1974. Reprint, 8vo (218 x 135mm.) (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of miscellaneous books (quantity).