Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ART REFERENCE. – Alan BOWNESS (editor). Ivon Hitchins. London: Lund Humphries, 1973. First edition, 4to (290 x 264mm.) Numerous tipped-in colour plates. (Occasional faint spotting.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (chipped, small tears). – And a quantity of approximately seventy-five further volumes (including ‘Unknown Colour, Paintings, Letters, Writings by Winifred Nicholson’, edited by Andrew Nicholson, 1987, 4to, and Evelyn Silber’s ‘Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art’, 1996, 4to, and John Milner’s ‘Kenneth Rowntree’, 2002, 4to) (a quantity).

AMSNICK, Paul. Tunbridge Wells, and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions. London: William Miller, 1810. First trade edition, folio (337 x 261mm.) 30 engraved plates by Letitia Byrne, 12 engraved illustrations in the text. (Scattered spotting, lacking 1 plate.) Contemporary black half calf, red morocco lettering piece (fading to covers, spine rubbed). – And a further twenty-six volumes (including Charles Dickens’ ‘The Story of Little Dombey’, 1862, 8vo, and John Marshall’s ‘Anatomy for Artists’, 1890, 4to, and ‘Shakespeare’s Household Words… Illuminated by Sam Stanesby’, [circa 1859], 16mo, and ‘The Girls Own Annual’, [circa 1928], 4to, and Lady Newdigate-Newdegate’s ‘Gossip From a Muniment Room’, 1897, 4to) (27).

ART REFERENCE. – John SMITH. British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1884. 4 vols., first edition, 4to (255 x 176mm.) Numerous black and white portraits. (Toning.) Contemporary brown half morocco, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). – And a quantity of approximately seventy-three volumes of art reference (including Alice Munro-Faure’s ‘Capturing the British Landscape: Augustus Glendening’, 2023, 4to, and Martin Hardie’s ‘Watercolour Painting in Britain’, 3 vols., 1975-1979, 4to, and David and Francina Irwin’s ‘Scottish Painters at Home and Abroad 1700-1900’, 1975, 4to, and James Rawlin’s ‘Into the Light: Danny Katz and Modern British Art’, 2024, 4to) (quantity).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Eileen HARRIS. The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors. New York: Paul Mellon Centre, 2001. 4to (315 x 246mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (bumped at top of spine). – And a quantity of approximately sixty-six volumes of art and antique reference (including Frederick Bradbury’s ‘The History of Sheffield Plate’, 1912, 4to, and the Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzpatrick] and James Peill’s ‘Irish Furniture’, 2007, 4to, and Damie Stillman’s ‘English Neo-Classical Architecture’, 2 vols., signed by the author, 1988, 8vo, and M.H. Grant’s ‘The Old English Landscape Painters’, 8 vols., 1971-1974, 4to, and ‘William Scott 1952-1962’, 1962, 4to, and Beth Carver Wees’ ‘English, Irish, & Scottish Silver’, 1997, 4to) (quantity).

ART REFERENCE. – Anna MOSZYNSKA. Antony Gormley Drawing. London: British Museum Press, 2002. First edition, 4to (291 x 246mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Toning.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (finger-marked). – And a quantity of approximately sixty further volumes (including Jane Stevenson’s ‘Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye’, 2007, 8vo, and several art exhibition catalogues) (a quantity).

HOROLOGY. – John ROBEY. The Longcase Clock. Derbyshire: Mayfield Books, 2001. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (243 x 185mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, dust-jackets, slipcase. – And a quantity of approximately sixty further books related to clocks, watches and watchmaking (including George Daniels’ ‘Watchmaking’, 2002, 4to, and Derek Roberts’ ‘British Longcase Clocks’, 1990, 4to, and David G. Vulliamy’s ‘The Vulliamy Clockmakers’, 2002, 4to, and John Wyke’s ‘A Catalogue of Tools for Watch and Clock Makers’, 1978, oblong 4to) (a quantity).

MAP REFERENCE. – Thomas SUAREZ. Early Mapping of the Pacific. Singapore: Periplus Editions, 2004. First edition, 4to (303 x 226mm.) Colour illustrations. Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. – And a further five volumes related to American maps (including Thomas Suárez’s ‘Shedding the Veil’, 1992, 4to, and Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro’s ‘Degrees of Latitude, Mapping Colonial America’, 2002, large 8vo, and Peter J. Guthorn’s ‘United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861’, 1984, 4to, and ‘Mapping Boston’, edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb, 1999, large 8vo) (6).

MOTORING. – John WYER. The Certain Sound, Thirty Years of Motor Racing. Lausanne: Edita SA, 1981. First edition, 4to (269 x 210mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further eight volumes related to motoring and motor-racing (including Leo Villa’s ‘The Record Breakers’, signed by the author, 1969, 4to, and John Stuttard’s ‘The 20-Ghost Club, the Oldest Rolls-Royce Club in the World 1949-2019’, 2020, 4to, and Brian Smith’s ‘Vanden Plas Coachbuilders’, 1979, 8vo, and four issues of the ‘Rolls-Royce Bulletin’ for September 1937, [1973], and June 1939, [1972], July 1957 and January 1958 (9).