Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: And with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. London: Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1620. Black letter, double-column, OT with engraved border, colophon dated 1621, includes Apocrypha, genealogies, NT title with engraved border, dated 1621. (Occasional spotting, genealogies lacking map and title, D4-E1 with corner paper repairs, contemporary ink notes verso NT title, marginal paper repairs to A1-A2, some headlines trimmed, K2 with 2-inch tear, S4 with marginal loss, corner repair to Bb3, Cc8 with marginal loss and text slightly affected, marginal loss to Pp1, Ddd5 with soiling, several quires with inner-margin insect damage.) [Bound with:] Two Right and Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619. Colophon dated 1620. (Title with corner paper repair, H4 with 1-inch tear.) [Bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalmes. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1622. (Title trimmed, a few leaves damp-stained, lacking G1-G2 and G6.) 4to (208 x 157mm.) Near contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, tips repaired). Provenance: J. Faulke (manuscript notes on bound-in leaf at front); M.C. Faulke (manuscript notes on bound-in leaf at front); A.M. Faulke (manuscript notes on bound-in leaf at front). [Herbert 327.]

[ROWORTH, Charles.] The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre, Uniting the Scotch and Austrian Methods into One Regular System. London: for T. Egerton, 1798. First edition, 8vo (222 x 130mm.) 10 engraved plates by Bawtree, 5 folding, ex-libris plate mounted to front pastedown. (Lacking plan and half-title, light browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss and small tears to large folding plate, front-free endpaper with small surface tear.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to spine (light rubbing). Note: scarce.

PHAEDRUS. – David van HOOGSTRATEN (translator). Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus. Amsterdam: Francois Halma, 1704. 4to (263 x 196mm.) Text in Dutch, title in red and black with engraved vignette, additional engraved title with medallion portrait of Ameila of Orange by P. Boutats after J. Goeree, 9 historiated initials, 10 large engraved illustrations, and numerous medallion engraved illustrations in the text by J. van Vianen. (Browning throughout, some moderate spotting, marginal chipping to a few leaves, marginal damp-stain to preliminaries and damp-staining to rear leaves, Y1 with tear, text affected.) 19th century red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (wear to spine ends, extremities rubbed, faded, covers stained).

PROVENANCE. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Tricesimo Octavo. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1798. (Browned, lacking A1.) [Bound with:] Rules and Articles for the Better Government of all His Majesty’s Forces, from the 24th Day of March, 1798. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1798. (Browned). String-bound. Provenance: John Pearce, Paymaster, Brecon[?] Reg. (ink name inscribed to upper wrapper). – And a further two volumes with military provenance (‘Miscellanies in Prose and Verse’, [ownership ink of Lending Library of the Second Regiment of Life Guards], vol. 8 [only], 1742, 8vo, and M. Pothier’s ‘Coutumes des Duché, Bailliage et Prévote d’Orléans’, [‘found in the former H.Q. of the 3rd Infantry Brigade (General Davies, March 1915) at Richebourg… after its destruction by shell-fire on June 30th 1915. G. Valentine Williams’], 1776, 8vo) (3).

HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata: cum Commentariis Joh. Min-ellii. Rotterdam: Reiner Leers, 1700. 1 vol. [bound in 2], 12mo (126 x 75mm.) Wood-engraved vignette to title, text and commentary in Latin, interleaved with numerous blank leaves. (Pencil annotation to many blank leaves, browning, occasional dust-soiling, lacking pp-119-120.) Contemporary calf and original boards (lacking spine and calf to vol. 1, hinges weakened). Provenance: Charles Smythe (ink name to title). – And a further volume (Thomas Haselden’s ‘The Carpenter’s Rule Made Easy’, eighth edition, 1727, [lacking folding plate], 12mo) (3).

THEATRE. – [Joseph HASELWOOD.] Roach’s Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room, Containing the Lives of all the Performers of the Theatres Royal. London: by J. Roach at the Britannia Printing Office, 10th February 1796. Engraved frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank, engraved vignette to title. (Marginal chipping to A-A2, some damp-staining to frontispiece, old tape repair to inner hinge, contemporary ink marks to front pastedowns.) [Bound with:] Roach’s New and Complete History of the Stage, from Its origin to its present state. London: J. Roach, 1796. Engraved frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank, engraved vignette to title, ‘Index’, publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning.) 12mo (156 x 91mm.) Near contemporary boards, paper label with manuscript lettering to spine (old tape repair to spine, heavily rubbed). Provenance: R.F. Broadbent (ink stamp to upper margin of A-A2).

WILKES, David. A General View of the Stage. London: for J. Coote and W. Whetstone, 1759. First edition, 8vo (199 x 128mm.) Title with engraved sepia vignette. (Spotting to title and scattered thereafter, last five leaves with marginal insect-damage.) Contemporary calf-backed boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (hinges weakened, extremities rubbed). Note: scarce. With chapters on ‘how an actor ought to form himself’, farce, opera, Irish theatre, modern theatre, and ‘Garrick’s different excellencies’.

MORRIS, F.O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. 3 vols., third edition, 4to (263 x 176mm.) Half-title, 245 chromolithographed plates. (Toning, spotting to preliminaries, thereafter occasional and light, one plate loose.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to covers and spines (some extremities rubbed, wear at head of spine panel of vol. one). – And a further sixteen volumes (including Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie’s ‘Every Man his own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete Gardener’s Kalendar’, 1779, 8vo, and Henry Stephen’s ‘The Book of the Farm’, 6 vols., 1891-1895, 8vo, and John Sproule’s ‘Elements of Practical Agriculture’, 1844, 8vo, and William Youatt’s ‘Sheep, their Breeds, Management, and Diseases’, [circa 1840], 8vo) (19).

FURNITURE. – T. SHERATON. The Cabinet Dictionary, Containing An Explanation of all the Terms used in the Cabinet, Chair & Upholstery Branches. London: William Smith, 1803. First edition, 8vo (220 x 136mm.) Title, 87 engraved plates, including 20 folding, 10pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Lacking plate no. 16 and plate 53 replaced with duplicate of plate 46, most plates damp-stained, browning, marginal creasing.) Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (extremities rubbed, covers heavily, inner hinge weakened).

[WADE, John.] The Black Book; or, Corruption Unmasked! Being an Account of Places, Pensions, and Sinecures, The Revenues of the Clergy and Landed Aristocracy. London: John Fairburn, 1820. First edition, 8vo (225 x 136mm.) Title, advertisement leaf, ‘Index’. (Occasional browning and light spotting, creasing to last leaves.) Original black half morocco over black cloth, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). Note: on the advertisement leaf it suggests ‘to purchasers, for the sake of uniformity, and as being most appropriate to its name and contents, that the BLACK BOOK be bound in black.’ Indeed, the Black Book was considered to be the Reformer’s Bible as it was a compendium of all the ecclesiastical and state, electoral and legal corruption that they sought to abolish.

COOK, J. Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field. London: for the Author by William Nicol, 1826. First edition, large 8vo (245 x 153mm.) 3 lithographed plates, 12pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary full calf, gilt spine and borders (scuff to lower cover, minor scuffing, light rubbing).

BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell and W. Creech, 1787. Third edition, 8vo (209 x 128mm.) Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 36pp. ‘Subscribers Names’, T6-X4 with marginal damp-staining, occasional browning and spotting.) 20th century full red morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (slight scuffing, small stain at top of spine, lightly rubbed). Note: this is the first London edition. Provenance: C. Booth (contemporary ink name to half-title).

CAESAR, Julius Gaius. – C.Ivlii Caesaris quae extant. Amsterdam: House of Elzevier, 1670. 8vo (199 x 109mm.) Engraved allegorical title, engraved folding map, 3 engraved illustrations, text in Latin. (Browning, lacking rear blank, marginal loss to one illustration.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities heavily rubbed, some loss at top of spine). Provenance: Newton Charles Ogle (bookplate to front pastedown and ink inscribed to front and rear pastedown); William J. Scott Cowan (ink inscribed verso front blank, dated 1931). – And a further volume ([Thomas Brodrick’s ‘A Compleat History of the Late War in the Netherlands’, 1 vol. only, 10 double-paged plans [of 14], 1713, 4to]) (2).

STRUTT, Joseph. The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England: Containing The Representations of all the English Monarchs. London: Walter Shropshire, 1777. 4to (263 x 202mm.) Title, 4pp. ‘Catalogue of Plates’, 60 engraved plates with 59 hand-coloured, extra-illustrated with 19 later chromolithographed plates, 1 bound-in hand-coloured folding plate of the monarchs, 1p. ‘Index’ to rear. (Toning, occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed).

IRELAND, Samuel. Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. First edition, 4to (218 x 155mm.) Half-title, additional sepia aquatint title-page, 28 aquatint plates, map, 1p. publisher’s advertisements, tissue-guards. (Toning.) Contemporary calf, armorial gilt to covers with ‘Semper Fidelis’ motto (extremities heavily rubbed). Provenance: John Smith, Sydling House, Dorset (armorial bookplate to front pastedown and armorial gilt to covers).

BIRMINGHAM ART SCHOOL. – S. BARING-GOULD (editor). A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes… with Illustrations by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the Direction of A.J. Gaskin. London: Methuen & Company, 1895. First edition, 8vo (201 x 132mm.) Half-title, later hand-colouring to borders and illustrations of the title and preliminaries. (Spotting to half-title and endpapers.) Original black cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed). – And a further thirty-one illustrated volumes (including ‘Little Red Riding Hood & The History of Tom Thumb’, illustrated by H. Isabel Adams, 1895, 12mo, and ‘The Annals of Fairy-Land’, illustrated by Charles Robinson, [1901], 8vo, and Charles Lamb’s ‘The Essays of Elia’, illustrated by A. Garth Jones, 1902, 4to, and Louey Chisholm’s ‘The Golden Staircase’, illustrated by M. Dibdin Spooner, 1906, 8vo, and Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué ‘s ‘Undine’, 1897, 8vo, and ‘The Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones’, 2 vols., 1906, 8vo, and Walter Crane’s ‘Baby’s own Aesop’, [circa 1900], small 4to, and ‘Walter Crane’s Painting Book’, [1889], small 4to) (32).

JAPAN. – Basil Hall CHAMBERLAIN. Things Japanese Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan For the Use of Travellers and Others. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1891. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo (197 x 129mm.) Folding colour map, index, 1p. publisher’s advertisement to rear, illegible ink name to front-free endpaper, dated 1895. (Endpapers heavily browned, spotting to title and last leaves, toning.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (spine ends rubbed, minor scuffing). – And a further ten volumes related to Japan (including Yoshio Markino’s ‘A Japanese Artist in London’, 1910, 8vo, and Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things’, 1905, 8vo, and Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘In Ghostly Japan’, 1905, 8vo, and Joseph Heco’s ‘The Narrative of a Japanese’, 2 vols., facsimile editions, [1950], 8vo) (11).

AFRICA. – Samuel White BAKER. The Albert N’Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, tinted lithograph frontispiece, 12 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text, folding map with outline hand-colouring, another map with outline hand-colouring. (A crease tear to folding map, toning, marginal spotting to frontispieces.) Near contemporary purple full morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (lightly rubbed) (2).

SOUTH AMERICA. – James W. WELLS. Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil: from Rio De Janeiro to Maranhao. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) Half-title, frontispieces with tissue-guards, 4 maps, including 2 large folding maps in colour, numerous illustrations in the text. (Toning, minor scattered spotting and to maps, small tears to map creases.) Late 20th century dark green half calf over teal cloth, black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced, minor nicks) (2).