Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

SHOOTING. – Robert Barnwell ROOSEVELT. Florida and the Game Water-Birds. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. First edition, 8vo (183 x 124mm.) 5 wood-engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece, 1p. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly rubbed). – And a further forty-nine volumes, mostly related to hunting (including Leonard C. Sanford’s ‘The Water-Fowl Family’, 1903, 8vo, and Frank Finn’s ‘Wildfowl of the World’, [circa 1920], 8vo, and Bill Powell’s ‘The Grey Geese Call’, signed by the author and with a.l.s. loosely inserted, 1956, 8vo, and John Watson’s ‘Poachers and Poaching’, 1891, 8vo, and, edited by A.E.T. Watson the ‘Fur and Feather’ Series, 11 vols. [of 12], 1893-1906, 8vo) (50).

[HOWARD, Dudley.] The History and Antiquities of Horsham. By the Author of Juvenile Researches. London: by the Author, 1836. First edition, 12mo (186 x 113mm.) 4 lithographed plates relating to Horsham, including a map, numerous woodcuts all by the author, 2pp. ‘Index’ to rear. (Toning, occasional finger-mark, name inscribed to front endpaper.) Original cloth (lightly rubbed, spotting to lower cover). Note: written and published by Dudley Howard when he was fifteen years of age. – And a further forty-nine books and pamphlets related to Horsham (including William Albery’s ‘A Parliamentary History of Horsham’, Subscribers Edition, 1927, 4to, and Henry Burstow’s ‘Reminiscences of Horsham’, 1911, 8vo, and ‘Horsham: Its History and Antiquities’, 1889, 8vo, and ‘Urban District of Horsham: Inauguration of New Water Supply’, 1933, oblong 4to).

SUSSEX. Horsham, Crawley and Surrounding Mid-Sussex and South Surrey Districts Directory, the G.M.F. (Pike’s) Blue Book. Brighton: Garnett, Mepham & Fisher, Limited, [circa 1935.] 8vo (179 x 119mm.) Numerous advertisements, folding map to rear. (Browning, small ink marks.) Original blue cloth, silver lettering (extremities rubbed). – And a further forty-one books and pamphlets related to Horsham (including the ‘Horsham, Crawley and Surrounding Mid-Sussex…Blue Book’ for 1937-1939 and 1939-1941, and seven volumes of ‘Kelly’s Directory of Horsham and Neighbourhood’ for 1957, 1960, 1964, 1966-1969) (42).

GROSE, Francis and Thomas ASTLE. The Antiquarian Repertory. London: Edward Jeffrey, 1807. Vol. 1 [only, of 4.] New edition, large 4to (288 x 230mm.) Numerous etched and engraved plates. (Browned.) Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked). Provenance: George Wyndham (ink name to title-page); Stanhope Shelton (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further twenty volumes (including ‘John Howes’ Ms., 1582’, 1904, 4to, and William Adams’ ‘Sacred Allegories’, 1869, 8vo, and F. Schiller’s ‘The Fight With the Dragon’, illustrated by Henry Moses, 1825, 4to) (21).

CHEKHOV, Anton. The Party and Other Stories… from the Russian by Constance Garnett. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First U.S. edition, 8vo (189 x 128mm.) (Toning, ink annotations.) Original green cloth (hinges weakened). – And a further twelve volumes (including ‘The Memoirs of Paul Kruger’, 2 vols., 1902, 8vo, and The Folio Society edition of ‘The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night’, 1958, 4 vols., 8vo, and ‘The Housewife, a Practical Magazine’, vols. 1-2, 1886-1887, 8vo, and ‘Milton’s Poetical Works. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan’, 2 vols., 1853, 8vo) (13).

PATMORE, Coventry. Religio Poetae etc. London: George Bell and Sons, 1893. First edition, 8vo (162 x 100mm.) Half-title, ‘Arthur’s Compliments’ slip tipped-in, bookplate of Scawen Blunt, Crabbet Park. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth, paper label mounted to spine. – And a further twenty-three volumes related to religion (including J.G. Frazier’s ‘The Golden Bough, a Study in Magic and Religion’, 3 vols., 1900, 8vo, and John David Michaelis’s ‘Commentaries on the Laws of Moses… translated by Alexander Smith’, 4 vols., 1814, 8vo, and ‘Missale Romanum’, 1894, 8vo, and ‘Daily Bread; or, a Text of Scripture’, 1852, 32mo, and ‘The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII’, 1903, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the family of Scawen Blunt, Crabbet Park (24).

AMERICA. – Harriet MARTINEAU. Retrospect of Western Travel. London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (202 x 119mm.) 2pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Toning, small tear to ‘Contents’ leaf of vol. 2.) Original boards, later paper label to spines (rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: L.P. Evans, dated 1859 (ink name to rear endpaper of vol. 3). – And a further seven volumes related to travel (including W.F. Rae’s ‘Westward by Rail: the New Route to the East’, 1870, 8vo, and George Ruxton’s ‘Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains’, 1847, 8vo, and ‘Events in Indian History, Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the American Indians’, 1841, 8vo, and Egerton Ryerson Young’s ‘Stories From Indian Wigwams and Northern Camp-Fires’, 1897, 8vo, and R. Semmes’ ‘The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter’, 2 vols., second edition, 1864, 8vo) (10).

SUSSEX. – D. JACQUES. A Visit to Goodwood, near Chichester, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Chichester: by the Author, and Messrs. Lackington, Hughes & Co., 1822. 8vo (224 x 133mm.) 3 engraved plates. (Light browning, uncut leaves, lacking ‘Subscribers List’, stamps verso title.) Original boards, paper label to upper cover (label to spine). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (stamps to pastedowns). – And a further thirteen volumes related to Sussex (including William Hayley Mason’s ‘Goodwood, Its House, Park and Grounds with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures’, 1839, 8vo, and Thomas Bennet’s ‘A Collection of Psalms and Hymns as Sung at the Cathedral Church, and the Chapel of Saint John the Evangelist, Chichester’, [circa 1815], small 4to, and the Earl of March’s ‘Records of the Old Charlton Hunt’, inscribed by the author, 1910, 4to) (14).

JUNOT, Madame Laure. Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon. New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1901. 3 vols., 8vo (230 x 157mm.) Photogravure plates, captioned tissue-guards. (Toning.) Contemporary maroon full morocco with Bonaparte coat-of-arms in gilt to upper covers, t.e.g. (rebacked, extremities rubbed). – And a further fifteen volumes (including Sven Hedin’s ‘Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet’, 3 vols., 1910-1913, 8vo, and Henry M. Stanley’s ‘In Darkest Africa’, 2 vols., 1891, 8vo, and A. Henry Savage-Landor’s ‘Across Unknown South America’, 2 vols., 1913, 4to, and Edward Stanford’s map ‘Uganda: Albert Nyanza Sheet 86’, 1905) (18).

GREY, Zane. Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. 4to (263 x 185mm.) Photographic illustrations by the author and others. (Toning.) Original cyan cloth (fading to edges), dust-jacket (loss to extremities). – And a further eight volumes relating to big game fishing (including J. Turner-Turner’s ‘The Giant Fish of Florida’, 1902, 4to, and Zane Grey’s ‘Tales of Fishes’, 1919, 8vo, and Neil Illingworth’s ‘Fighting Fins, Big Game Fishing in New Zealand Waters’, 1961, 4to) (9).

ANGLING. – L. MITCHELL-HENRY. Tunny Fishing. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934. First edition, 8vo (216 x 136mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Some spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small tear at top of spine panel, extremities rubbed). – And a further six volumes related to fishing (including Moise N. Kaplan’s ‘Big Game Fishermen’s Paradise’, signed by the author, 1936, 8vo, and A.W. Dimock’s ‘The Book of the Tarpon’, 1915, 8vo, and John Bickerdyke’s ‘Angling for Game Fish’, [1889], 8vo, and Charles M. Breder, Jr.’s ‘Field Book of Marine Fishes of the Atlantic Coast’, 1929, 8vo, and Frederick G. Aflalo’s ‘Sea-Fishing on the English Coast’, 1891, 8vo) (7).

ASTROLOGY. – Ethelbert W. BULLINGER. The Witness of the Stars. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1911. Third edition, tall 8vo (232 x 141mm.) Plates, folding map to rear, 4pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (spine ends rubbed). Note: a biblical scholar, Anglican clergyman and ultradispensationalist, Bullinger wrote in ‘The Witness of the Stars’ how the names of astrological constellations contain biblical prophecy. Provenance: Francis D. Cooper (mounted card to front pastedown). – And a further ten volumes (including Thomas Gwyn Elger’s ‘The Moon’, 1895, 8vo, and Fabre d’ Olivet’s ‘Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man’, 1915, 8vo, and James Cowles Prichard’s ‘The Natural History of Man’, third edition, 1848, 8vo, and John Allegro’s ‘Lost Gods’, 1977, 8vo, and Camille Flammarion’s ‘Lumen’, 1897, 8vo) (11).

BLYTON, Enid. Five Go to Smuggler’s Top. London: Hodder and Stoughton, July 1945. First edition, 8vo (184 x 117mm.) Colour frontispiece and illustrations by Eileen Soper. (Toning, faded gift inscription to front endpaper and half-title.) Original blue cloth (bumped, some spotting), dust-jacket (losses to extremities and part of lower panel). – And a further twenty-eight volumes by Enid Blyton, including ten first editions (‘Five Go Off to Camp’, 1948; ‘Six Cousins Again’, 1950; ‘Five Get Into Trouble’, 1949; ‘Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm’, 1948; ‘The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit’, 1942, 4to; ‘House-at-the-Corner’, 1948; ‘The Mystery of the Hidden House’, 1948; ‘The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat’, 1949; ‘Put-em-Rights’, 1946; ‘Round the Clock Stories’, 1945) (29).

WISDEN, John (publisher). Cricketer’s Almanack. London: John Wisden and Co. and Sporting Handbooks, 1927-2017. 83 vols., 8vo (158 x 93mm.) Advertisements, numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional corner creasing, text-blocks of 1922-32 shaken.) Original card covers and brown cloth (wear to early volumes and ‘1949’), dust-jackets (spotting to ‘1965’). Note: includes 1927-40, 1947, 1949-55, 1957-65, 1967-2017, and a duplicate for ‘1968’ (83).

KENNAN, George. Tent Life in Siberia, a New Account of an Old Undertaking. Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910. Revised edition, 8vo (227 x 148mm.) 31 photographic plates, including 2 folding maps to rear. (Toning, several corner creases.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, g.e. (inner hinge weakened, spine slightly frayed and sunned). Provenance: Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer (bookplate to front endpaper). – And a further seventy miscellaneous volumes (including Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karénina’, [circa 1910], 8vo, and 'The Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book', 1920, 4to, and Rolf Boldrewood’s ‘The Miner’s Right’, 1922, 8vo) (71).

MANUSCRIPT. – Coralie W. GATESWEVER. [A hand-written journal of ‘Nature Observations’ by a student at ‘Sheffield High School’. N.p.:] March-June 1903. 112pp., manuscript, 8vo (229 x 179mm.) Almost daily entries in a single legible hand relating the observations and changes in nature over spring-time around the Brincliffe Crescent area of Sheffield, numerous grass and flower samples mounted, many hand-coloured illustrations. (Browning, offsetting.) Original boards with hand-drawn flower to upper cover (toned, lower cover damp-stained). Note: Coraile lists the many birds seen in May on the Sheffield moors as well as listing the very many flowers, plants, grasses and insects that she sees as the seasons change. – And a further forty-eight volumes (including John Marshall’s ‘Anatomy for Artists’, 1890, 4to, and two copies of Lord Masham’s ‘Lord Masham’s Inventions’, 1905, 4to, and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde’s ‘The Old English Herbals’, 1922, 4to) (49).

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. In Our Time. [Michigan: Bruccoli Clark Books], 1977. Facsimile Edition, limited to 1700 copies only, tall 4to (257 x 164mm.) (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small tears to upper edge). – And a further nineteen volumes by or about Ernest Hemingway (including Leicester Hemingway’s ‘My Brother, Ernest Hemingway’, signed by the author, 1980, 8vo, and Hemingway’s ‘Three Stories & Ten Poems’, facsimile edition, 1977, 8vo, and ’88 Poems’, edited by Nicholas Gerogiannis, 1979, 8vo, and ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, 1st U.K. edition, 1952, 8vo) (20).

[REMI, Georges.] ‘Hergé. Les Aventures de Tintin. Le Lotus Bleu. [Belgium:] Casterman, [circa 1966]. Reprint, 4to (298 x 224mm.) Text in French, mounted ‘Methuen’ slip over the imprint. (Mild toning.) Original printed boards (some fading, tape to corners). – And a further thirty-eight volumes of the ‘Adventures of Tintin’, in French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Italian (including eighteen hardbacks, reprints, [mostly circa 1966-1975], and twenty softback reprints, [circa 1965-1970]) (39).

ANDERSON, James (editor). The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist. London: William Mackenzie, [1874.] 4to (244 x 165mm.) 26 chromolithographed plates, some double-paged. (Mild toning.) Contemporary half morocco (hinges weakened, joints splitting). – And a further fifty-four volumes, mostly 19th century (including ‘Marshall’s Ladies’ Forget-Me-Not 1860’, [1859], 16mo, and F.A. Pouchet’s ‘The Universe: or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little’, 1870, and Edmund Waller’s ‘Poems on Several Occasions’, 1770, 12mo) (55).