Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

GODWIN, Francis, Bishop. Annales of England containing the Reignes of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary…[translated] by Morgan Godwin. [London: I. Islip and W. Stansby], 1630. First English edition, 4to (268 x 175mm.) Title in manuscript, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Lacking woodcut titles and engraved portraits, marginal creasing to first and last leaves, L2 with marginal corner loss, X2-Ff2 with marginal insect damage, Uu1-Uu3 with tears.) Contemporary calf (wear with some loss to spine ends, insect damage to upper cover, rubbed). Note: first published in Latin in 1616. Provenance: Bowler (ink name to initial blank).

AMERICA. – [Nicholas BIDDLE.] Commercial Regulations of the Foreign Countries with which the United States have Commercial Intercourse. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1819. First edition, 8vo (213 x 127mm.) Title, errata slip mounted to last leaf, annotation to front-free endpaper, dated 1826. (Occasional browning, scattered spotting.) Contemporary calf, red morocco label to spine (heavily scuffed covers, inner hinge weakened). Note: the book of tariffs put together under John Adams, who was Secretary of State, then later president. A large section deals with the tariffs on trade with the U.K, but also with France, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Naples, Turkey and Haiti. Provenance: Mark L. Hill (ink inscription to front-free endpaper); Library of the Cony Female Academy, Augusta (presentation plate to front pastedown); Kennebec Natural History and Antiquarian Society (‘loan’ plate to front pastedown).

CRIMEAN WAR. – William PALEY. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. London: J. Faulder et al., 1814. 2 vols., 8vo (208 x 125mm.) Numerous pencil and ink annotations and mounted newspaper clippings related to philosophical questions, loosely inserted contemporary notes and a letter addressed to Captain Henry Duberly. (Browning and scattered spotting throughout.) Contemporary calf (lacking spine to vol. 1, extremities rubbed). Note: Captain Henry Duberly was part of the British Light Cavalry that took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade. His wife, Fanny Duberly, travelled with him to the Crimea and published her experiences in 1856 in ‘Journal Kept During the Russian War’. In the pencil and ink annotations that Henry has made he weighs up the existence of God based on the beliefs of the great minds in history. He lists those that believe (Grotius, Locke, Watson, Addison, Paley, Newton and Bacon’ against those that didn’t believe (Hobbes, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon, Bolingbroke, Parson, Drummond, Chatham, Voltaire and Volney’. Isaac Newton baffles him. Having ‘set out as an infidel he became the firmest of believers’. Provenance: Captain Henry Duberly, Paymaster of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars (name-plate to front pastedown and ink inscribed to initial blank of vol. 2) (2).

[CRIUCKSHANK, George]. – William HONE. Hone’s Popular Political Tracts. London: for William Hone, [circa 1820.] Various editions, 8vo (224 x 137mm.) 4pp. advertisements bound-in, separate titles to 8 tracts and advertisement leaves, numerous woodcut illustrations by George Cruikshank, ‘Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder’ mounted in 2 parts, fold-out ‘Glory to Tom-Foolery!’, and fold-out ‘The Damnable Association’, and ‘Doctor Southey’s New Vision’. (Text-block cracked, loosening leaves, a few leaves damp-stained, browned.) Original boards (lacking spine, boards detached, worn). Note: the tracts are: ‘The Political House that Jack Built’, fiftieth edition; ‘The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder’, forty-third edition; ‘The Divine Right of Kings to Govern Wrong’; ‘The Political Showman-at Home!’, twenty-second edition; ‘The Man in the Moon’, twenty-fifth edition; ‘A Political Christmas Carol’; ‘The Form of Prayer’, tenth edition; ‘A Slap at Slop’.

[YOUNG, Arthur.] The Farmer’s Kalendar; or, A Monthly Directory for all sorts of Country Business… by an Experienced Farmer. London: Robinson and Roberts, 1771. First edition, 8vo (205 x 121mm.) Half-title. (Toning, minor insect damage to Cc4 to rear blank.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities rubbed, minor insect damage to rear pastedown). Provenance: William Gerring (ink name inscribed to initial blank, dated 1773). – And a further three volumes (including Richard Warner’s ‘A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of England’, 1800, 8vo, and [Nathaniel Salmon’s] ‘Lives of the English Bishops’, 1733, 8vo, and Samuel Henshall and John Wilkinson’s ‘Domesday; or, an Actual Survey of South-Britain’, 1799, 4to) (4).

CLARKE, Hewson. An Impartial History of the Naval, Military and Political Events from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies into Paris. Bungay, Suffolk: by Brightly & Childs, [1816-1817.] 3 vols., 4to (253 x 203mm.) 11 engraved maps, 1 engraved portrait. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary full marbled calf, gilt ruled (light rubbing, minor scuffing) (3).

PEAR TREE PRESS. – Vivian Locke ELLIS. Epode. Flansham, Bognor Regis: Pear Tree Press, 1915. Limited edition, being number 51 of 90 copies signed by James Guthrie, 4to (291 x 223mm.) Titles and 13pp. printed in colour from intaglio plates by James Guthrie, tissue-guards. (Some spotting to tissue-guards.) Original brown wrappers, string-bound (creasing and small tears), slipcase with mounted paper label (label taped to spine). Provenance: West Sussex County Council Libraries (labels verso upper wrapper and to base of spine). – And a further four volumes including two published by The Pear Tree Press (‘Some Poems of Edgar Allan Poe’, 1901, 4to, and F.P.B. Osmaston’s ‘The Paradise of Tintoretto’, 1910, 4to, and also Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’, 1931, 4to, and Denton Welch’s ‘I Left My Grandfather’s House’, 1958, 4to) (5).

SUSSEX. – [James Wentworth FITZWILLIAM.] Parham in Sussex. London: B. T. Batsford, 1947. Limited edition, this being number 39 of 250 copies, folio (338 x 246mm.) 32 collotype plates. Original half vellum over blue cloth, black morocco lettering piece to the spine, t.e.g. (minor marks to lower cover).

MANTELL, Gideon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or, Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (297 x 236mm.) Half-title, 42 aquatint and engraved plates by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured map and 2 folding, 4pp. ‘Subscribers’, 1p. publisher’s advertisement to rear. (2 plates replaced with facsimiles, some spotting and marginal damp-staining to plates, corner creases to pp.177-179, marginal tear to p.326, label remains to initial blank.) Near contemporary red half morocco (extremities heavily rubbed). Provenance: Edward Wyndham Penruddocke and Murial Turner Newcommen (bookplate to front pastedown); West Sussex County Council (labels to pastedowns).

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology of Sussex; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex… Revised and Augmented by T. Rupert Jones. Brighton: William J. Smith, 1878. Second edition, 4to (303 x 229mm.) Large fold-out geological map of Sussex, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 63 lithographed plates, 2 coloured and 2 double-paged. (Some browning, scattered spotting, hinges with tape reinforcement.) Contemporary buckram (rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Thomas William Cowan, bee-keeper; G.F. Brazemore (ink name to front-free endpaper).

HAYLEY, William. The Life of George Romney Esq. Chichester: by W. Mason for T. Payne, 1809. First edition, large paper edition, 4to (270 x 203mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates including the William Blake engraved ‘Sketch of a Shipwreck after Romney’, and the ‘Epistles to Romney’ leaf to rear. (Lacking blanks, marginal spotting to plates, toning, some offsetting.) Later maroon calf-backed cloth, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, stamps verso title). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (labels to pastedowns).

TYPESCRPT. – Albert DE LIEGE. A Few Impressions and Experiences of Active Service in East Africa and Other Places During the First World War. [N.p.: circa 1950.] 150pp., typescript, 8vo (203 x 161mm.) Comprising 80pp. of typed descriptions of the 1st A.M.B. [‘Armoured Motor Battery’] manoeuvres in East Africa between May 1916- July 1917, then 70pp. typed reminiscences of ‘A Padre in East Africa’ by ‘R.G.’ which had been published in the Cornhill Magazine, and 27 mounted photographs from the campaign, 72 mounted photographic postcards from East Africa and Egypt, and several pieces of N.C.O. Albert de Liege’s war-time paperwork including disability and demobilisation certificates, also loosely inserted Albert de Liege’s driving license and Soldier’s Pay Book, and ‘Soldier’s Prayer’ card. (Toned.) Contemporary grey and brown cloth, embossed tape lettering to upper cover (some discolouring, stain to lower cover). Note: under Sir John Willoughby the 1st A.M.B. spent just over a year in Africa as part of the four year guerilla campaign against a small German force led by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. The German plan was to enact a defensive campaign that would draw Allied forces from European fronts towards Africa. With only 3000 German soldiers and 11,000 ‘Askaris’ (African soldiers), the plan succeeded for several years against significantly larger Allied forces. Albert de Liege’s account is a torrid description of how the A.M.B. lost half its contingent of 113 soldiers to the tropical diseases, accidents, land-mines. The conditions, the heat and the terrain, food shortages and lack of basic provisions (‘using water from the car radiator to wash’), fever and ‘Bubonic Plague’, all made worse by a lack of medical supplies. While Albert is mainly behind the front lines, there are descriptions of skirmishes and guerilla warfare and fighting at ‘Salaita Hill’. Although he didn’t think ‘the game worth the candle’, he was surprised by the Africans: ‘They practice a sort of socialism… they share any food, not only for their own tribe but also to strangers’.

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written transcription of litigation relating to a ‘Decree of Reduction’ between two members of a Scottish family. Edinburgh: n.p.: 1763.] 230pp., manuscript, tall 4to (320 x 187mm.) 115 leaves in a single legible hand outlining the legal proceedings between ‘William McCullock’ and ‘McCullock of Chang and Others’. (Some chipping to margins, toning.) Original wrappers, string-bound (creasing and chipping to extremities). Note: densely written and convoluted litigations of a court-room battle regarding wills, bequests, lands, creditors and debts. Possibly a branch of the ancient Galloway family, the McCullochs. – And a small quantity of approximately twenty-five 18th and early 19th century deeds, mainly Scottish, including one in Latin from 1575 (small quantity).

MANUSCRIPT. Historia Universa et Supplemin Parenesim. [A hand-written chronicle in Latin. N.p.: circa 1650.] 284pp., manuscript, 8vo (268 x 196mm.) A single mostly legible hand in brown ink on numbered leaves writing in Latin, some annotations and crossing-out. (Heavily damp-stained, many loose leaves.) Near contemporary vellum with ties, manuscript lettering to spine (damp-stained, especially to lower cover), contained within a later black morocco case (worn). Note: most likely a chronicle of recent history starting from around 1530. Note: the Alteri family line became extinct in 1955. Its point of highest influence in Rome and Venice was possibly in the mid-17th century. Provenance: Prince Altieri (gilt lettering to case).

MANUSCRIPT. [An account book for ‘Muffets’ Farm. N.p.:] 1807-1809. 118pp., manuscript, tall 4to (314 x 194mm.) 118pp. hand-written entries in a single legible hand, comprising expenditure on goods and services, but mostly wages with weekly totals, 26pp. blank. (Toning, finger-marked, some chipping.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to upper cover (discoloured and stained). Note: there are typical farm expenses (‘four loads of stones’), and several regular employees (‘Paid Franklin for Binding’). In the summer months the employee list doubles in length, often including female relatives of the employees.

MANUSCRIPT. [An apothecary’s prescription book. N.p.:] 1911-1912. 161pp., manuscript, tall 4to (324 x 200mm.) 150pp. of hand-written entries in a legible mostly single hand, 11pp. customer index to rear with customer reference number, 1 blank leaf. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary black cloth-covered boards (staining to cloth, especially upper cover). Note: the entries comprise the name and address of the customer, the medications and amounts prescribed. The pharmacy may have been in the Withdean area of Brighton.

TRIALS. The Trials of Samuel Goodere Esq; Matthew Mahony, and Charles White, for the Murder of Sir John Dineley Goodere Bart… On Board His Majesty’s Ship the Ruby. London: A. Millar, 1741. First edition, folio (312 x 196mm.) Title, list of jurors, 1 folding engraved plate with 5 illustrations. (Folding plate detached, light scattered spotting, browning, marginal paper repair to B2.) Near contemporary blind-stamped calf (scuffing, stains to upper cover, extremities rubbed). Provenance: C.O. Clarke (bookplate to front pastedown).

EVELYN, John. Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominion. London: for John Martyn, 1679. Third edition, folio (324 x 186mm.) 4 parts in 1, separate titles to each treatise, general title in red and black, 4 engraved illustrations in the text, errata leaf to rear. (Lacking initial blank, browned, occasional crease and odd stain, marginal insect-damage to last leaves, illegible ownership in ink from 1885 to title.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Provenance: St. Augustine College, Canterbury (bookplate verso title). – And a further volume related to John Evelyn (‘The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn’, edited William Upcott, 1825, 4to) (2).

COOKERY. – Urbain DUBOIS and Émile BERNARD. La Cuisine Classique: Études Pratiques, Raisonnées et Démonstratives de L’École Francaise. Paris: E. Dentu, 1886. 2 vols., folio (297 x 223mm.) Half-titles, 4 engraved plates, 72 lithographed plates, including numerous menus. (Heavy spotting to preliminaries of vol. 1, light scattered spotting.) Contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt ruled (lightly rubbed). Note: Albert Stempfer served on the Victoria & Albert yacht as Chef de Cuisine to King Edward VII during the cruises of 1909-13. Provenance: Albert Stempfer (gilt name to base of spines) (2).