Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

LAMBARDE, William. An Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in England and Wales. London: Fletcher Gyles, 1730. First edition, 4to (246 x 193mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 2pp. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached, rubbing). Provenance: Francis Fane Lambarde (bookplate of author's descendant to the front pastedown, dated 1908).

[ANDREWES, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester]. Tortura Torti: Sive, Ad Matthaei Torti Librum Responsio, qui nuper editus contra Apologiam. London: Robert Barker, 1609. 4to (223 x 155mm.) Text in Latin, wood-cut ornaments to title, decorative initials and head and tail-pieces, errata leaf to rear. (Browning, small marginal ink-spot between A4-D2, front and rear blanks replaced.) 18th century calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). [STC 626].

CAREW, Richard. The Survey of Cornwall, and An Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. London: Samuel Chapman, Daniel Browne, James Woodman, 1723. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (224 x 169mm.) 1p. publisher's advertisement before title, title in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments. (Browning, occasional spotting, corner creases to pp. 59-65.) Contemporary speckled panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the second compartment, repeating foliate gilt to the rest (paper label to spine, rubbing to spine). Provenance: Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury (armorial bookplate verso of the title).

QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste de. - John EVELYN (translator). The Compleat Gardner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Garden… to which is added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693. First English edition, folio (309 x 199mm.) Title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of de Quintinye by Elder, 11 engraved plates, 2 folding, 11 engraved vignette illustrations. (Minor soiling to margins, name inscribed to title, insect damage from a*-H, initial blank loosening.) Contemporary calf, five raised bands to the spine (lacking the lettering piece to the spine, some loss to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: irregular pagination, as usual, collates complete: n2, a*4, b4, b**1, c*4, [a]4, [b]3, B-O4, P-Q6, R-Z4, Aa4, Bb2, B-P4, Q2, T-Z4, Aa-Dd4, [a]2, A-K4. [KEYNES, 227].

COKE, Thomas. A Commentary on the New Testament. London: for the author, 1803. 2 vols., 4to (279 x 218mm.) (Occasional spotting, loose rear blank to volume one.) Near contemporary cloth, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some fading to covers and wear to spine ends).

PINDAR, Peter. 'John WALCOTT'. [Poetical Satires]. London: G. Kearsley, 1778-1789. 19 pamphlets bound as one, mixed editions, 4to (269 x 198mm.) Mezzotint portrait frontispiece, 4 etched caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson. (Browning, occasional spotting, occasional stamp to titles and other leaves, small repair verso the frontispiece.) 20th century brown half-calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced). Provenance: Grimsby Library (occasional stamps to leaves).

TOPOGRAPHY. - John COLLINSON. The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset. London & Bath: R. Crutwell, 1791. 3 vols., 4to (228 x 226mm.) 11 engraved plates, indices to rear. (Lacking map, lacking 29 plates and half-titles, occasional spotting.) Later brown half-calf, red lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Mrs. V. Dickinson (ink name to first text leaves); Ronald Giles Daubeny (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And eight further volumes of related interest (including Edward Miller's 'The History and Antiquities of Doncaster and its Vicinity', [1804], 4to) (11).

ELIZABETH I. [Certain Sermons of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches at the time of Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory and now Thought to be Reprinted by Authority from the King's most Excellent Majesty]. London: John Norton for Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Black letter, engraved initials and head and tail-pieces, colophon to rear. (Marginal damp-staining, lacking title and lacking a1-a2, minor soiling, corner cut from 'Contents'.) [Bound with:] The Second Tome of Homilies, of Such Matters as were Promised and Entitled in the former part of Homilies. London: John Norton et al., 1635. Black letter, engraved initials and head and tail-pieces. (Marginal damp-staining, minor soiling.) Folio (272 x 187mm.) Contemporary calf (worn). - And a related volume (Thomas Fuller's 'The Holy State', 1648, 8vo) (2).

TRAVEL. - J. COOTE (publisher). A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels comprising whatever is Valuable of this Kind in the most Celebrated English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish and Danish writers… the whole being a General Survey of Europe. London: J. Coote, 1760. 4to (258 x 196mm.) 52 engraved plates, including 8 maps, 7 folding. (Lacking pp.7-8, one leaf loose, one plate loosening and another with chipping, browning, occasional soiling and creasing, rear leaf loose.) Contemporary calf, blind-tooled lettering to spine (some loss to spine ends, heavily rubbed).

REYNOLDS, John. The Triumphs of Gods Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of Murther. London: Edward Griffin for William Lee, 1639. Second complete edition, folio (286 x 177mm.) Title, dedication to Charles I, engraved ornaments and initials, separate divisional titles. (Lacking preliminaries before title, corner loss to title, lacking leaves after last text leaf, Ecc2, lacking pp.167-168, pp.181-192, pp.262-263 and pp.336-337, heavy soiling to Uu5-Uu6, occasional marginal loss, minor soiling, numerous contemporary ink scrawls, browning.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, worn). Note: scarce edition. Provenance: Mary Gransden (ink signature in book IV).

[HARTLEY, J.] History of the Westminster Election, containing Every Material Occurrence, from its Commencement on the First of April to the final Close of Poll, on the 17th of May. London: for the editors, 1785. Second edition, 4to (266 x 201mm.) Folding etched frontispiece and 13 more engraved plates only (of 16) by Thomas Rowlandson, 10 folding, 1 folding chart to rear. (Small closed tear to frontispiece, browning, intermittently heavy damp-staining, occasional soiling to plates, lacking errata leaf.) Contemporary red half-morocco, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to all extremities).

TOPOGRAPHY. - L. FUSSELL. A Journey Round the Coast of Kent. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. 8vo (207 x 127mm.) 1 folding engraved map coloured in outline. (Some browning, occasional spotting, lacking initial blank and pp.239-246.) Later brown half-calf (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). - And three further volumes (including 'The History of Guildford, the County Town of Surrey', 1801, 8vo) (4).

MANUSCRIPT. - C.T.R SCOVELL. The Log of the 'Godwit', being the Record of a Voyage of over 7,000 miles from England to India in a 25-ton Yacht. [N.p.:] 1903. Privately printed 'dummy' copy, 8vo (212 x 134mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, includes 4pp. of hand-written notes to the rear in the author's hand on 'Expenses' and 'Ships Stores', hand-written annotations to the text by the author. (Initial blank lacking, toning.) Contemporary black half-morocco, gilt titling to spine (damp-staining to upper cover). Note: with some technical detail, the author logs in diary form the incidents during the crossing of the 'Godwit' from Gosport to Bombay between 24th October 1902 to the 3rd March 1903. With a crew of five and a trusted skipper the yacht sets out from Gosport and, inevitably, many of the entries relate the weather and the miles logged, the reading of sea charts and chronometers, but also the various stops at Malta, Athens, Cairo and Suez to see the sights, sending two of the crew home by steamer and instead recruiting cheaper Arab sailors en route. Finally, having reached Bombay there is the reflection 'nothing will ever induce me to attempt a similar voyage without a motor'. - And three related volumes (Dixon Kemp's 'Yacht Racing Calendar', 1888-1890, 8vo) (4).

ANATOMY. - James Benignus WINSLOW. An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body, translated from the French Original by G. Douglas. London: J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al., 1763. 2 vols. in 1., fifth edition, 4to (249 x 188mm.) 4 folding engraved plates to rear after Bartolomeo Eustachi. (Browning, occasional crease.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: originally published in French in 1732, and considered to be the first work of descriptive anatomy. Provenance: G. Coltman (ink name to f.f.e.p.).

HEISTER, Laurence [Lorenz]. Medical, Chirurgical, and Anatomical Cases and Observations… translated from the German Original by George Wirgman. London: J. Reeves, L. Hawes, J. Baldwin, et al., 1755. First English edition, 4to (259 x 200mm.) Title with engraved vignette, 8 folding engraved plates, 16pp. 'Contents', 6pp. 'Appendix' to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting, a few corner creases, some damp-staining to the plates.) Contemporary calf, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). Note: initially published in 1731 the 'Chirurgical' was an influential work on surgery that was translated into several languages, and was still used as the standard text in Vienna until 1838. Provenance: Reinhard Neuman? (bookplate to the front pastedown).

[BOILEAU, Abbé Jacques and John Lewis DELOLME]. The History of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline. London: Fielding and Walker, 1777. 4to (277 x 218mm.) Half-title, 4 engraved head and tailpieces, including vignette to title, 4 engraved plates, 9pp. index to rear. (Slight spotting to plate margins, corner cut from half-title, name excised from front pastedown.) 19th century black morocco bound by F. Bedford, five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to the second compartment, repeating gilt design to the rest, t.e.g. (some rubbing to spine ends). Note: an illustrated and expanded adaption of Abbé Boileau's 'Historia Flagellantium', published in 1700. Provenance: George Clive, barrister and politician (bookplate to the front pastedown).

STANNARD, Henry (illustrator). The Life of Cock Robin with The Trial of the Sparrow. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [circa 1880.] 10 colour-printed plates, 2 double-page. (Toning, slight browning, occasional spotting verso the plates, crease to the f.f.e.p..) Original pictorial cloth (wear to spine ends, some fading, soiling to rear). Provenance: 'Charlie' (gift inscribed verso the f.f.e.p.). - And eleven further illustrated volumes (including George Cruikshank's 'Table-Book', 1845, 8vo) (12).

BRITAIN. - Thomas MADOX. Baronia Anglica. An History of Land-Honors and Baronies, and of Tenure in Capite, verified by record. London: Francis Gosling, 1741. Second edition, folio (357 x 222mm.) Engraved ornaments and historiated initials, 27pp. index to rear. (Occasional browning, some pencil underlining.) Contemporary calf, gilt borders and repeating gilt design to spine (lacking lettering piece to the spine, lightly rubbed, some fading). Note: Madox became Royal historiographer in 1714 and according to H. Hazeltine this work 'presents us with a picture, partial as it may be, as Madox himself admitted, of feudalism in its constitutional aspect'.

CLEAVELAND, E. A Genealogical History of the Noble and Illustrious Family of Courtenay, in Three Parts. Exeter: Edward Farley, 1735. Folio (349 x 218mm.) Engraved initials and ornaments, 13 genealogies. (Browning, occasional spotting, some pencil annotations to margins and f.f.e.p..) Near contemporary tree calf, red morocco lettering piece and repeating floral gilt designs to the spine (lightly rubbed extremities). Note: the Courtenay's of Powderham Castle are one of the oldest families in England, mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the Castle was the site of a long and bitter siege during the Civil War. Includes some hand-written notes and related ephemera.