Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

PUENTE, Luis de la. La Guide Spirituelle. Lyon: Simon Rigaud, 1634. 8vo (168 x 114mm.) Title in red and black with engraved portraits of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, text in French. (Toning.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (lightly bumped, fading to lettering). Note: scarce. First translated into French in 1612. Luis de la Puente was a Spanish Jesuit theologian who wrote instructional treatises on Christian living and this work contains chapters on prayers, contemplations and meditations.

MOULIN, Pierre du. La Philosophie Francoise de Pierre du Moulin. Paris: Henry le Gras, 1637. Dernière edition. Engraved title, ‘Eléments de Logique’, 4 folding tables. (Title laid down, some creasing to tables.) [Bound with:] Pierre du MOULIN. Les Elémens de la Philosophie Morale. Paris: Henry le Glas, 1638. Title. 16mo (99 x 48mm.) Contemporary vellum (hand-writing to covers and spine, lightly rubbed).

[DUDLEY, Howard.] The History and Antiquities of Horsham. By the Author of Juvenile Researches. London: by the Author, 1836. First edition, signed by the author, 12mo (187 x 111mm.) 4 lithographed plates relating to Horsham, including a map, numerous woodcuts in the text, all by the author, 2pp. ‘Index’ to rear. (Minor soiling and finger-marking, browned to margins, original pencil illustration of a male figure in a hat to front-free endpaper.) Original cloth (rebacked, old tape repairs to hinges, extremities rubbed), later slipcase. Note: written and published by the author when he was just fifteen years of age. Provenance: Philip Howell (ink inscribed to by the author on the front pastedown, dated 1861); D. Prior (ink name to front pastedown).

SOUTHEAST ASIA. Guide to Singapore and Spotlight on Malaya… edited by Aristide J. G. Papineau. Singapore: Papineau Studios, 1957. 11th edition, 8vo (204 x 139mm.) Large folding street map of Singapore, 2 folding ‘Postal District’ maps, numerous advertisements, photographic illustrations, ‘Road Street’ index to rear on yellow paper, loosely inserted book-mark of the Pavilion Restaurant (‘where a steak is a steak in any man’s language’). (Toning, small tears to creases of large map, some ink staining.) Original photographic covers (small tears to yapp edges). Note: the Papineau guides to Singapore were published in the post-war boom years of mass tourism that made Singapore an international, cosmopolitan destination.

MAPS. – Karel WEISS (publisher). Hong Kong Guide. Hong Kong: Graphic Press, 1932. Fourth edition, small 8vo (138 x 118mm.) 20 photographic plates, 42 maps, many folding, numerous advertisements, list of advertisers to rear pastedown. (Toning, occasional pencil annotation.) Original red cloth-backed boards (damp-stained, lower hinge weakened). Note: scarce. Aside from detailed and useful practical information, and some historical context (especially on the ‘Chronological History of Hong Kong’s Trade’), this is a guidebook for the tourist with money to spend. It includes a list of ballrooms, theatres, vegetable markets, cinemas, restaurants, hotels, nightspots, a few blanks leaves reserved for ‘Shopping Lists’, and also 2pp. to ‘Suggestions For Gifts’ for loved ones (‘Diamonds’). Provenance: P. Clift (pencil inscribed to front-free endpaper).

MOGG, Edward. Mogg’s Omnibus Guide, and Metropolitan Carriage Time Table. London: by the Proprietor, E. Mogg, 1844. First edition. 2 folding engraved maps, including ‘New Plan of London’ with outline hand-colouring. (Toning, title browned.) [Bound with:] Edward MOGG. Mogg’s New Hackney Coach and Cabriolet Fares. London: for the Proprietor, 1844. Thirteenth edition. (Corner loss to p.vii, toning.) [Bound with:] Edward MOGG. Appendix, Shewing The Fares From the Several Railway Stations, to All Parts of London and Its Immediate Environs. London: E. Mogg, 1841. 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Small 8vo (124 x 70mm.) Original cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (inner hinge weakened, small circular stamp to front pastedown). Note: scarce in the first edition.

WORDSWORTH, William. Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland. Kendal: Airey and Bellingham, 1818. First edition, signed and inscribed by William Wordsworth. Title, ‘Advertisement’ leaf with ‘To the Reader’ verso, 4pp. ‘Notes’ to rear, a word at p.59 crossed out and amended in manuscript in the margin. (Browning, heavy to title and ‘Notes’ leaves.) [Bound with:] Gould Francis LECKIE. Essay on the Practice of the British Government. London: A.J. Vaply and E. Lloyd, 1812. 1p. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Spotting and browning, marginal loss to b4.) [Bound with:] Charles Thomas LANE. The Coronation Oath. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1828. Inscribed by the author to title, second edition. Title, 16pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Some heavy spotting.) [Bound with:] Public Dinner to David Urquhart, Esq., by the Town of Hull on the 26th December, 1838. London: H. Hooper, 1838. Title. (Light spotting.) [Bound with:] A Letter to the King. By One of the People. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Title. (Spotting.) On the Draught of a New Constitution About to be Sent Up to the House of Peers. In a Letter to a Noble Lord. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Half-title, title. (Light spotting.) [Bound with:] A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Milton. By a Whig Commoner, on the Rejection of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Half-title, title. (Light browning.) [Bound with:] A Letter Respectfully Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, by A Whig Commoner, on the Question of Reform. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Title, 1p. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Light browning.) [Bound with:] Friendly Advice to the Ministers. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Title. (Toning.) [Bound with:] Friendly Advice, Most Respectfully Submitted to the Lords, on the Reform Bill. London: James Ridgway, 1831. Second edition. Title, 1p. advertisements. (Spotting to title.) [Bound with:] The Speech of the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, on the Question that ‘The Reform Bill Do Pass’, Tuesday 22nd September, 1831. London: John Murray, 1831. Title, 16pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Spotting to title.) [Bound with:] Substance of the Speech of the Right Honourable the Earl of Harrowby, in the House of Lords, October 4th, 1831: on the Motion that the Reform Bill Be Read a Second Time. London: Roake and Varty, 1831. Title. (Spotting.) [Bound with:] Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of England, Delivered in the House of Lords, on Friday, Oct 7, 1831. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. Second edition. Title, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Browning.) [Bound with:] Four Years of a Liberal Government. London: Henry Hooper, 1834. (Browning, text-block cracked at p.32.) 8vo (209 x 128mm.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (heavily rubbed, manuscript notes to front pastedown). Note: very rare. Wordsworth’s ‘Two Addresses…’ is inscribed: ‘John Hills, from the author, W. Wordsworth Esq, Rydal Mt.’ This pamphlet was part of Wordworth’s rigorous and psychologically complex intervention in the 1818 Westmorland election in which Lord Brougham took on the power of the Lowther family. That power was long entrenched and unlikely to be threatened by the reformer Brougham. Academically, there’s a measure of speculation why William involved himself so much in favour of the reactionary land-owning recumbent who didn’t particularly require his help.  (William and his sister, Dorothy, also set up a pro-Lowther news-sheet and canvassed personally in support of the Lowthers). John Wordsworth- the poet’s father- had been the legal steward for the Lowther family and the political machinations of his work had been the backdrop to William’s childhood and it had resulted in a long-standing financial debt to the Wordsworth’s that wasn’t paid until 1802- making Wordsworth’s political choice even more unlikely. It was a long way from the poet of ‘The Prelude’ who celebrated the liberty (‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive!’), the equality, and fraternity of the French revolution. It seems that William had seen in the Westmorland by-election a symbolic threat to England that he had seen overcome France after the revolution and this pamphlet is a significant insight into the trajectory of his political thought. Provenance: John Hills (ink inscribed to on the title from William Wordsworth).

CONAN-DOYLE, Arthur. [The Works.] London: John Murray, 1903. 4 vols. [of 12] of the ‘Author’s Edition’, this being number 702 of 1000 copies with ‘The White Company’ signed by Conan-Doyle, 8vo (211 x 135mm.) Photogravure plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth (sunned to spines, joints splitting, extremities bumped). Note: comprising only ‘The White Company’, ‘A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four’ and ‘Micah Clarke’ and ‘The Refugees’, with ‘The White Company’ signed to the limitation leaf (4).

AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First edition, 8vo (182 x 116mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth (some fading to top of spine), dust-jacket (spine panel restored and browned). Note: first printing of Amis’ first novel.

ASTRONOMY. – J.R. HIND. On the Expected Return of the Great Comet of 1264 and 1556. London: G. Hoby, 1848. First edition, 8vo (221 x 144mm.) Half-title, 2pp. advertisements to rear. (Title and ‘Preface’ with small corner creasing.) Original wrappers (slight dust-soiling, small tear at top of spine). Note: scarce. John Russell Hind was an Englisher astronomer noted for his discovery of several asteroids. In this work Hind posits, as others had, a connection between the comets of 1264 and 1556 and therefore predicted its return in 1848.

COOKERY. – [Emilie LEBOUR-FAWSSETT.] ‘Cordon Bleu’ and ‘Bacchus’. New Guide for the Hotel, Bar, Restaurant, Butler, and Chef. Being a Hand Book for the Management of Hotel and American Bars, and the Manufacture of the Principal New and Fashionable Drinks. London: William Nicholson and Sons, 1885. First edition, 8vo (184 x 117mm.) 2 Parts in 1, half-title. (Toning.) Original red cloth, black tooling and gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (extremities rubbed). Note: the first part (by ‘Bacchus’) concerns home-brewing while the second part (by ‘Cordon Blue’) is about cookery, confectionary, lunching and dining.

AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen, the Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1933-1940. 5 vols., third edition, 8vo (197 x 128mm.) (Toning.) Original green cloth (lightly bumped extremities), dust-jacket (extremities chipped, losses to spine panel ends, ‘Northanger Abbey’ dust-jacket in two parts, loss to half of spine panel). Note: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the second impression of 1940. Provenance: May B. Peel (ink name to front-free endpapers, dated 1941) (5).

GARRETT, John (publisher). A Direction For the English Traveller By which he shall be enabled to Coast about all England and Wales. [London:] Printed and are to be Sold by John Garrett at the South Entrance of ye Royall Exchange in Corn-hill, [1677.] 12mo (131 x 67mm.) Engraved double-paged title and 2 double-paged engraved leaves of ‘Use of all the ensueing Tables’, 40 double-paged engraved ‘Thumbnail’ maps with distances, including 3 folding. (Browning to margins, a few short minor tears, occasional creasing, lacking folding ‘Yorkshire’ map(?)) 20th century calf with original calf covers laid-down (endpapers replaced). Note: rare. Originally published by Matthew Simmons with maps engraved by Jacob van Langeren where the triangular ‘thumbnail map’ is incorporated into a distance table for the county- an innovation of John Norden’s in 1625.

MAPS. – Herman MOLL. Bowles’ Geographia Classica; or, the Geography of the Ancients… Exhibited in Thirty-Two Maps. London: Carrington Bowles, 1784. 4to (198 x 154mm.) Double-paged engraved title, 2 additional titles in Latin and English, preface, 32 double-paged engraved maps by Herman Moll. (Occasional light browning.) Near contemporary calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (upper cover detached, extremities rubbed). Provenance: J.W. Rose, antique dealer (ink stamp to front pastedown).

HEYLYN, Peter. A Help to English History, Containing a Succession of all the Kings of England. London: for Thomas Basset, 1675. 12mo (143 x 77mm.) Woodcut coat-of-arms in text, some with later hand-colouring, separate sectional titles to parts dated 1674, advertisement leaf to rear. (Leaves O2-O11 loose, Z6 upper margin cut, burn mark to corner of text-block, lacking all before title.) Contemporary calf (upper cover nearly detached, worn). Provenance: R.J. Skelton (contemporary ink name to front pastedown); ‘Westerfordel’ (ink stamp to front pastedown and verso title). – And a further thirteen volumes (including Daniel Fenning’s ‘A New and Easy Guide to the Use of Globes’, 1804, 8vo) (14).

RAG-TIME. – George TOMPKINS (composer) and C.C.S. CUSHING. The Yellow Faun, a Musical Comedy in 3 Acts. Simsbury, Connecticut: The Westminster Dramatic Club, 1913. 8vo (241 x 130mm.) Photographic illustrations (Toning, uncut leaves.) Original pictorial wrappers (small tears and creasing to margins). Note: scarce. Early in his career Tompkins was musical director for the private Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut. He also composed the music for ‘The Elephant’s Remorse’ with C.C.S. Cushing writing the lyrics in 1914 and was the author of the 1918 foxtrot ‘Cassandra’.

SUFFRAGETTES. – Ethel SMYTH. Impressions that Remained. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1923. 2 vols., new edition, 8vo (194 x 127mm.) Publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. (Spotting to fore-edges and scattered within.) Original red cloth, paper labels to spines (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jackets (some chipping to extremities, lightly dust-soiled). – And a further volume by Ethel Smyth (‘Streaks of Life’, 1924, 8vo) (3).

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. – Rose GREENHOW. My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington. London: Richard Bentley, 1863. First edition, 8vo (198 x 118mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, illegible contemporary name verso front-free endpaper.) Original blue blind-stamped and pictorial gilt cloth (lightly bumped, discolouring to lower cover). Note: scarce. Rose did significant espionage work for the confederates, running a spy network in Washington. After she was imprisoned and then deported she continued to maintain her networks from Europe and the first printing of her memoirs was made in London. She drowned a year later, in 1864, aged fifty-one.

DYER, G. History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge; including Notices Relating to the Founders and Eminent Men. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees et al., 1814. 2 vols., 8vo (213 x 128mm.) Engraved frontispieces, additional engraved title to vol. 1, engraved plates, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Heavily browned and spotted preliminaries, thereafter scattered spotting.) Contemporary brown full calf, gilt borders, red and green morocco lettering pieces (minor staining, lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Thackeray (bookplate to front pastedowns); Christ’s Hospital (presentation plate to front pastedowns and bookplate to front-free endpapers). – And a further thirteen volumes (including Thomas Pennant’s ‘Some Account of London’, 1793, third edition, 4to, and C. Julius Caesar’s ‘Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey’, translated by Martin Bladen, 1750, seventh edition, 8vo, and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, ‘The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England’, 3 vols. in 6, 1807, 8vo) (15).