Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

POLAR EXPLORATION. - Elisha Kent KANE. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. 8vo (198 x 126mm.) Frontispiece, tissue-guard, and 7 engraved plates, 6 with tissue-guards, folding map. (A repair to small tear in the folding map, inner hinge split at title-page, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth blocked in blind (bumped to extremities and small split at top of spine). Provenance: William Gribble (a school prize bookplate to the front pastedown). - And eighteen more books on polar exploration (19).

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. - E. MORTON (calligrapher). [A Birmingham Conservative Club Address Presented to Robert Mayo Esq.] Birmingham: Jan 26th, 1888. Folio (298 x 240mm.) 7 leaves of text in red and black with decorative initials and illuminated borders. Contemporary blue morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, moiré silk endpapers, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (bumped to extremities), all contained within an original walnut box, the hinged lid inlaid with a copper armorial.

DISNEY, Walt. Sketch-Book of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. London: Collins, 1938. First edition, 4to (292 x 233mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations (minor spotting to preliminaries.) Original cloth (finger-mark to rear), dust-jacket (chipping to extremities). - And three more Walt Disney related volumes.

MOTOR-RACING. - Christian MOITY and Jean-Marc TEISSEDRE. 24 Heures du Mans 1983. Paris: Editions ACLA, 1983. 4to (320 x 232mm.) Many illustrations. (Light browning to margins.) Original pictorial boards (slight rubbing to extremities), dust-jacket (mild toning and light shelf wear to spine ends). Note: no English version of the 1983 Le Mans annual was published.

MOTOR-RACING. - Christian MOITY and Jean-Marc TEISSEDRE. 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours. England: P.B.S., 1991. 4to (320 x 232mm.) Many illustrations. (Slight toning to margins.) Pictorial boards, dust-jacket (faint browning to spine). - And ten more volumes from the Le Mans annual year book series, for the years 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993 and 1995. Note: the 1980 and 1982 are in French and were not published in English. The 1984 edition has the French title '24 Heures' but is the English edition, as are all the others (11).

AUTOMOBILIA. - Nick WALKER. Coachwork on Vintage Bentleys. Beaworthy, Devon: Herridge & Sons Ltd., 2005. Signed by the author on label to front free endpaper, 4to (270 x 205mm.) Numerous illustrations, a few colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And eight more volumes and a collection of photographs and ephemera of similar interest (a quantity).

BOYS, Thomas Shotter. Original Views of London As it Is… drawn from nature expressly for this work. Guildford: Charles W. Traylen, 1972. 2 vols., facsimile edition, elephant folio (550 x 371mm.) 26 lithographed colour plates. (Some spotting to both fore-edges.) Original red morocco-backed cloth (minor loss to spine ends, mild spotting to the cloth), slipcase (rubbing to all corners with some spotting). - And five more facsimile reprints (including P.J. Loutherbourg's 'The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales', facsimile edition, 1979, folio) (7).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - David HICKS. Living with Design. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1979. Large 4to (280 x 211mm.) Numerous illustrations, some colour. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (slight soiling). - And thirty-eight volumes, the majority on art and antiques (39).

AFRICA. - Henry M. STANLEY. Coomassie and Magdala… the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. First edition, 8vo (220 x 134mm.) Half-title, frontispiece with tissue-guard, title, 2 folding maps, 16 full-page plates (Creasing and small tear to the larger map, one or two repairs to the plates, new pastedowns and endpapers.) Original green cloth (rebacked with original spine laid down, bumped to extremities, slight fading to gilt). - And eight more volumes on African travel (including John Speke, 'The Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile', 1863, first edition, 8vo) (9).

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - Charles Stanley NOTT. Chinese Jade… Throughout the Ages. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1936. First edition, 4to (283 x 181mm.) 39 colour plates (slight spotting to preliminaries, a crease to the frontispiece, light spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth with green and red lettering (bumped to all extremities, a knock to the front board). - And a quantity of other art and antique reference (including 'The History of Silhouettes', E. Nevill Jackson, 1911, first edition, 4to) (a quantity).