Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

TAHITI. - Lady BRASSEY and Colonel STUART-WORTLEY. Tahiti… a series of Photographs. London: Samson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. First edition, 8vo (211 x 156mm.) 31 plates with tissue-guards from photographs taken by Col. Stuart-Wortley. (Some toning to margins, crease to front free endpaper.) Original pictorial blue cloth, g.e. (some spine lean, minor loss to top of spine, rubbed to extremities). Provenance: N. Warren Waterhouse (bookplate verso of the frontispiece). - And twenty-three books on travel (including Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon', 2 vols., 1942, 8vo) (24).

HILLARY, Sir Edmund. Sagarmatha. Singapore: The Himalayan Trust, 1991. First edition, small folio (334 x 229mm.) Signed and numbered (0621) with a tipped-in autograph letter signed from Sir Edmund Hillary, profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Original boards, dust-jacket (small tear to top of spine). Note: the book was published as a fund raiser for The Himalayan Trust and numbered, signed copies were sent out to donors. - And nineteen volumes on mountains and mountaineering (20).

PLANTIN, Christophle (publisher). - François, Duke of Anjou. La Joyeuse & magnifique Entrée de Monseigneur Françoys, fils de France. Antwerp: De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin, 1582. Large 4to (323 x 216mm.) Decorative title, 21 engraved and etched plates, most double-page. (Some marginal spotting, heavier to text leaves, faint damp-staining some hinges reinforced.) Old vellum (slightly soiled, boards warped).

HEATH, Henry. The Caricaturist's Scrap-Book. London: Charles Tilt, 1834. First edition, oblong folio (259 x 364mm.) 55 engraved colour plates with numerous vignettes (missing general title, disbound into 5 gatherings, one loose plate, browning and finger-marks.) Original boards (rubbing to all extremities, some loss to spine cover).

NATAL. Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal… it's People, Commerce, Industries, & Resources. Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. 4to (309 x 232mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original black morocco, g.e. (rubbed to all extremities).

[GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. N.p. but London: n.d. but circa 1597-1634.] Folio (325 x 204mm.) Numerous woodcut illustrations, 17pp. manuscript index at front on early 19th century paper. (Lacking all leaves prior to p.39 including title-page, p355-356 lacking, all leaves after p.1562 lacking, final leaf torn with considerable loss, some other leaves torn with occasional minor loss, some browning and soiling.) 18th century mottled calf (somewhat scuffed).

EVELYN, John. Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees… the fifth edition. London: 1729. Folio (311 x 198mm.) Title printed in red and black. (Mild browning.) Contemporary speckled calf (extremities crudely painted to cover heavy scuffing, joints split, adhesive staining to front endpapers). - And four volumes of natural history interest (including a proof copy of 'Sketch of the Anatomy of Vegetables drawn up for the Supplement to the fifth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica' Edinburgh: 1816, 8vo, with manuscript additions and annotations) (5).

GENEAOLOGY. - Robert Allan EDEN. Some Historical Notes on the Eden Family. London: Blades, East & Blades, 1907. 8vo (214 x 136mm.) Frontispiece, tissue-guard, numerous plates, folding genealogy to rear. (Some ink annotation on margins of the frontispiece relating to the Eden family.) Original vellum (some loss to spine). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to genealogy, art history and English ancestral homes (a quantity).

TROLLOPE, Anthony. He Knew He Was Right. London: Strahan and Company, Publishers, 1869. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (204 x 127mm.) Plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone. (Light browning and spotting throughout, [B4-B5] in vol. I torn and repaired.) Modern green morocco-backed cloth. - And a six volume illustrated edition of Trollope's 'Barsetshire Chronicles' (8).

RICHTER, H. Davis. Floral Art… Decoration and Design. London: F. Lewis Ltd., 1932. First edition, folio (386 x 284mm.) Foreword by Frank Brangwyn. 60 tipped-in colour plates by various artists, including 4 by Brangwyn, some with captioned tissue-guards. (Minor spotting, occasional finger-marks.) Original blue cloth (bumped to extremities, some fading, marks to upper and lower cover). - And eleven art volumes (including 'Art Journal', 8 vols., 1852-1859) (12).

YEATMAN, John Pym. The Early Genealogical History of the House of Arundel. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1882. Large 4to (375 x 240mm.) Frontispiece, 2 uncoloured plates, 14 facsimile plates. (Minor light browning and spotting, some old creasing to first and last few leaves.) Contemporary limp half-morocco (extremities scuffed and rubbed, joints split). - And eleven others relating to Arundel (12).

ROSE, Thomas. Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland… Illustrated from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1832. 3 vols. bound as 1, small 4to (269 x 202mm.) Additional engraved decorative title, illustrated profusely with steel engraved views, most with tissue-guards. (Spotting, browning to margins, some creasing to tissue-guards, missing initial blank.) Original decorative green cloth, g.e. (spine cover missing, marks to lower cover, tape repair to inner hinge). - And thirteen more illustrated volumes, mainly on English topography (14).

ASIA. - Rev. William CURETON. Spicilegium Syriacum: containing remains of Bardesan, Melton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion. London: Francis and John Rivington, 1855. First edition, 8vo (261 x 158mm.) Text in English with the text of the Syriac manuscript to the rear. (Occassional spotting and soiling.) Original blue cloth (bumped to extremities, some sunning and wear to top of spine). Provenance: The Right Hon. Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, politician and writer (presentation inscription from the author to the front free endpaper). - And two related volumes (including J.G.R. Forlong, 'Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions', first edition, 1897, 8vo) (3).

[DALECHAMPS, Jacques. Histoire General des Plantes. Lyon: Heirs of Guillaume Rouille, 1615]. Vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition translated from the Latin into French, folio (380 x 229mm.) Numerous woodcut illustrations, 'Tables de L'Histoire Generale des Plants' at rear in various languages. (First few leaves torn with significant loss and with paper backing to all leaves prior to B3, lacking all leaves including title-page, prior to the leaf before A[1].) Later calf (rubbing with some loss to extremities, endpapers replaced).

DALLAWAY, James, and Edmund CARTWRIGHT. The Parochial Topography of the Rape of Arundel, in the Western Division of the County of Sussex. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1832. Vol. II part the first only, folio (382 x 269mm.) Portrait frontispiece, engraved plates and plans (some hand-coloured). (Some offsetting.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards (rebacked with old spine laid down, hinges reinforced). Provenance: John Ellman Brown (bookplate to front pastedown).

ZOOLOGY. - Hermann BURMEISTER. The Organization of Trilobites… Deduced from Their Living Affinities. London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1846. 4to (346 x 270mm.) 6 full page lithographed plates. (Considerable spotting to plates.) Contemporary red cloth-backed boards (bumped to extremities). - And a volume of geological plates (from Thomas Huxley 'The Crocodilian Remains Found in the Elgin Sandstones', 1877, folio) (2).

BEERBOHM, Max. Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. [N.p. but London: Leadlay Ltd., n.d. but 1931.] Limited edition of 900 copies, this number 917, folio (400 x 285mm.) Facsimile note and 5 mounted colour plates of Noël Coward, Peggy Wood, George Metaxa, Ivy St Helier and Charles B. Cochran. (Some light spotting to title-page.) Unstitched as issued and contained within vellum-backed portfolio (portfolio soiled and slightly spotted).

GIBRAN, Kahlil (illustrator). - Samir P. ATALLAH. An Introduction to the Art of Kahlil Gibran… author of 'The Prophet' with 40 lithographs from Drawings. Lebanon: Editions Atallah Inc, 1980. First de luxe edition of 1000 copies, folio (425 x 312mm.) 40 plates. (Mild toning to margins and light spotting to top-edge.) Original green boards (minor surface marks to upper cover). - And one more volume (M. Farrouk, 'Watercolours', Lebanon, 9 loose prints in folder, folio) (2).

BLACK, Adam and Charles (publishers). Black's General Atlas of the World… New & Revised edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1883. Folio (450 x 327mm.) Frontispiece ('The Flags of all Nations'), 55 colour maps. (Some spotting to preliminaries and occasionally to verso of the maps, tape repair to front free endpaper.) Contemporary black morocco, the spine in six compartments, lettered in gilt to the second, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities, inner hinge broken).