Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). E.M. FORSTER. The Novels. London: The Folio Society, 1996. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 156mm.) Numerous plates from lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte. Buckram-backed boards, pictorial slipcase (minor mark to the slipcase). - And seventy-seven other volumes published by the Folio Society (including 'The Arabian Nights', 6 vols., 2003, 8vo (a quantity).

CLARKE, W.G. In Breckland Wilds… second edition, revised and re-written by R. Rainbird Clarke. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1937. 8vo (224 x 151mm.) Frontispiece. (Spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original green cloth (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket (price clipped, some fading to spine and spotting to front and rear). Note: Considered better than the first edition, this copy comes in the scarce dust-jacket. - And twenty-four more volumes (25).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Samuel HALKETT and John LAING. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature… new and enlarged edition. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1926-1934. 9 vols. (including supplements), 8vo (260 x 170mm.) (Light toning.) Original buckram (extremities bumped, spines of vols. I-VII faded), dust-jacket to vol. IX (adhesive tape stains). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels and inkstamps, labels to spines). - And seven more, mostly bibliographical (16).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Thomas R. ADAMS and David W. WATERS. English Maritime Books Printed Before 1801. Rhode Island & Greenwich: 1995. 4to (280 x 213mm.) Original cloth. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (inkstamp and labels to front endpapers).

MOUNT, W. & J., and T. PAGE (publishers). The English Pilot, for the Southern Navigation: describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headland, Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports… on the Coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal… with the Coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape de Verde and Western Islands. London: 1752. [Bound with:] The English Pilot. Part III. Describing the Sea-Coasts… in the Whole Mediterranean Sea. London: 1750. [Part I] and part III only in one vol., folio (465 x 286mm.) 22 double-page or folding charts, numerous illustrations, extra-illustrated with a later hand-coloured map 'Sweden & Norway and Denmark' to part I; 17 double-page or folding charts, numerous illustrations, extra-illustrated with a later hand-coloured map 'A New Map of Asia, from the Best Authorities' to part III. (Occasional minor spotting or browning, a few maps shaved with minor loss to borders, some others neatly repaired at folds.) Modern speckled calf, spine gilt (endpapers replaced). Provenance: John Atkinson (inscription dated 1753 to verso of first chart and preliminary blank to part I); James Johnson (inscription dated 1840 to preliminary blank).

[STAFFORD, Thomas. Pacata Hibernia. Ireland appeased and reduced. London: printed by Aug. Mathewes for Robert Milbourne, 1633.] Folio (320 x 205mm.) 2 engraved portrait plates, 16 maps only (of 17), most folding. (Lacking the 'Map of Mounster', first 8 leaves and a few maps professionally conserved.) Modern speckled calf bound to style, by the monks at Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight (minor scuffing, endpapers replaced, hinges reinforced).

DURY, Andrew. A New General and Universal Atlas. London: A. Dury, Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles, [n.d. but circa 1764]. Oblong 8vo (129 x 151mm.) Engraved decorative title, dedication and 45 hand-coloured engraved maps on 39 sheets (6 folding). (Light browning and soiling.) Contemporary speckled calf (corners somewhat bumped, rebacked, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Joseph Pickford (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Robin L. Marsh (bookplate to front free endpaper).

DURY, Andrew. A Collection of Plans of the Principal Cities, of Great Britain and Ireland: with Maps of the Coast of the said Kingdoms. London: A. Dury, [n.d. but circa 1764.] Oblong 8vo (123 x 155mm.) Engraved title-page, engraved dedication, engraved contents, 21 hand-coloured maps and 22 hand-coloured plans on 20 sheets, (3 folding). (Browning throughout, minor soiling to margins.) Contemporary mottled calf (lower joint split, minor loss to head and foot of spine, extremities slightly rubbed). Provenance: Mary Ellen Evans (inscription to front free endpaper); Robin L. Marsh (bookplate to front pastedown).

CELLARIUS, Christoph. Smalcaldensis Geographia Antiqua. London: 1764. 8vo (210 x 125mm.) 1 engraved plate, 27 engraved folding maps. (Light browning.) Contemporary calf (extremities lightly bumped, joints split, stitching weak and first few leaves nearly detached).

ELLIS, John. Ellis's English Atlas: or, a Compleat Chorography of England and Wales: in Fifty-Four Maps. London: printed for Carington Bowles, 1768. Oblong folio (220 x 183mm.) 54 hand-coloured engraved maps on 28 leaves (3 folding). (Folding maps repaired, some minor soiling.) Contemporary half-calf (worn). Provenance: Robert Tripp (signature dated 1796 to front free endpaper); Robin L. Marsh (bookplate to preliminary blank).

LA FEUILLE, Daniel de. Les Tablettes Guerrieres Ou Cartes choises Pour la Commodité. Des Officiers et des Voyageurs. Amsterdam: chez Daniel de la Feuille, 1708. Tall 8vo (194 x 72mm.) 29 folding engraved maps and 1 folding engraved plate only. (Some browning, occasionally heavy, a few maps neatly repaired at folds.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt (minor loss to head of spine, minor scuffs, lacking free endpapers).

JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith. Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1848. Oblong 8vo (176 x 220mm.) Frontispiece, 99 maps (1 folding). (Shaved with some loss to map numbers, some light spotting or browning.) Contemporary half-calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: unidentified House of Gordon bookplate to front pastedown.

CURTIS, Langley (publisher). England's Remarques: Giving an Exact Account of the Several Shires, Counties, and Islands in England and Wales. London: printed for Langley Curtis, 1678. 12mo (150 x 80mm.) (Lacking map, some spotting, soiling and browning.) Modern brown calf (endpapers replaced). Provenance: Steph. Shelley (inscriptions to first few pages); John Baxter (signature and inscription dated 1736 to final leaf); Robin L. Marsh (bookplate to front pastedown). - And three volumes of cartographical interest (4).

PATERSON, Daniel. Paterson's British Itinerary being a new and accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain… the second edition improved. London: Bowles & Carver, 1807. 2 vols., 8vo (188 x 107mm.) 1 double-page engraved map and 386 strip maps on 97 leaves. (Occasional browning or minor soiling, a few pencil scribbles.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: E. André (signatures to front pastedowns).

CRUCHLEY, G.F. (publisher). Cruchley's Picture of London… the sixth edition. London: 1841. 12mo (139 x 87mm.) Hand-coloured folding map at rear. (Some spotting and light browning, folding map torn along one fold.) Near contemporary cloth (bumped and slightly soiled). Provenance: Croydon Public Libraries (bookplate, occasional inkstamps and label to verso of map). - And five volumes of topographical interest, including two others on London (6).

[EGAN, Pierce.] Real Life in London; or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, &c. through the Metropolis… by an Amateur. London: printed for Jones & Co., 1831-1829. 2 vols., 8vo (206 x 129mm.) Frontispieces, decorative titles and 29 hand-coloured plates only (of 30). ('Hyde Park' plate missing, some spotting and browning, heavier around plates, plate facing p.440 to vol. I restored, p.234 torn and repaired to vol. I, one other text leaf with marginal tear without loss to vol. I.) Contemporary red half-morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g. (extremities slightly rubbed, spines unevenly darkened). Note: the contents only lists 28 plates, but the additional 2 plates carry titles that suggest they were always intended for this work.

MIDDLETON, John. View of the Agriculture of Middlesex. London: 1798. 8vo (228 x 137mm.) 2 hand-coloured folding maps, 1 folding table. (Some light spotting and browning.) Contemporary boards (crudely rebacked in cloth, bumped and scuffed, stitching weak).

NALL, John Greaves. Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, a Handbook for Visitors and Residents. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1866. 8vo (167 x 104mm.) 2 folding maps, occasional plates (1 folding). (Mild spotting.) Original cloth (extremities bumped, spines slightly soiled). Provenance: signature to front pastedown.

TYNER, George. The Traveller's Guide to Ireland; being an Accurate and Complete Companion to Captain Alexander Taylor's Map of Ireland. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794. Tall 4to (207 x 125mm.) Folding map. (Some spotting and occasional soiling or browning, numerous pencil scribbles.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (extremities scuffed and rubbed, some loss to leather). Note: scarce.