Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

BATSFORD. - Robin FEDDEN. The Land of Egypt. London: B.T. Batsford, 1939. First edition, 8vo (223 x 144mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Spotting to front and rear leaves and fore-edge.) Original orange cloth, dust-jacket (chipping to extremities). - And a quantity of approximately 70 books also published by Batsford (including H.L. Edlin's 'Woodland Crafts in Britain', 1949, 8vo) (a quantity).

BATSFORD. - Frances PITT. Wild Animals in Britain. London: Batsford, 1949. 8vo (216 x 133mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth (bumped at spine ends), dust-jacket designed by John Nash (some loss at top of spine). - And a quantity of approximately 55 books also published by Batsford (including H.L. Edlin's 'Woodland Crafts in Britain', 1949, 8vo) (a quantity).

HILL, John. The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants which are Remarkable for Their Virtues. Bungay, Suffolk: C. Brightly and Co., 1812. First edition, 8vo (207 x 128mm.) 54 hand-coloured plates. (Spotting, sometimes heavy, occasional soiling, browning, pencil mark to initial blank.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt title and repeating gilt design to spine (upper cover detached). - And twenty-two further volumes relating to botany and natural history (including Edward Step's 'Wayside and Woodland Blossoms', series 1-3, 1933-1938, 8vo) (23).

POLAR. - Ernest H. SHACKLETON. The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: Heinemann, 1909. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (246 x 177mm.) 12 colour plates based on paintings by George Marsden with captioned tissue-guards, numerous photographic illustrations, errata leaf to volume 2. (Lacking maps and the panorama, mild toning.) Original blue cloth, upper covers blocked in silver, lettering to spines (spine seam split to volume 1, spines fading, bumped to extremities). Provenance: 'Pingo' (gift inscription on the f.f.e.p.s from 'Moko' dated Xmas 1909); A.R. Turner (bookplates on the front pastedowns). - And nineteen miscellaneous volumes (including 'Leaves From the Diary of Henry Greville', 4 vols., 1883-1905, 8vo) (21).

COOPER, James Fenimore. [The Novels]. London: George Routledge, 1866-1867. 17 vols. only, 8vo (162 x 97mm.) 17 etched frontispieces. (Occasional spotting, browning.) Contemporary green half-morocco (rubbing to extremities, three covers loosening). Note: an incomplete run (17).

THE STUDIO. - Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors). The Studio, an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1943. 114 vols., 4to (286 x 199mm and 248 x 183mm.) Plates and illustrations, many coloured or tinted and by numerous artists, some folding. (Toning, occasional browning, occasional creasing.) Near contemporary green cloth (76), original green cloth with gilt design to upper covers (38) (some fading, wear to spine ends, some spotting to covers). Note: comprising a run of 76 volumes from the magazine's inception in 1893 until 1919, and a duplicate run of 32 volumes from 1898-1914, and 6 volumes 1940-1943 (114).

ANCIENT EGYPT. - E.A. Wallis BUDGE. The Mummy, chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology. Cambridge: the University Press, 1893. First edition, 8vo (224 x 139mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, occasional ink annotation to margins.) Original maroon cloth, gilt figure of Mesthá to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Richard Pilcher (gift inscribed in ink on the f.f.e.p.). - And twenty-two further volumes relating to Ancient Egypt (including Heinrich Brugsch-Bey's 'Egypt Under the Pharaohs', 1902, 8vo) (23).

OCCULT. - Kenneth GRANT. Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God. London: Frederick Muller, 1973. First edition, 8vo (226 x 144mm.) Frontispiece portrait of Crowley, numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (bumped to spine ends, some fading), dust-jacket (some loss to top of spine, rubbing). - And thirty-six further volumes relating to the esoteric and occult (including Gareth Knight's 'A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism', 2 vols., 1965, 8vo) (37).

MILITARY. Notes From Theatres of War, No. 19: Burma, 1943/44. [London:] The War Office, 1945. 8vo (181 x 109mm.) 5 folding coloured maps. (Small tear to one map, minor creasing, corner creases.) Original card covers (staples rusting, minor soiling, tear to spine panel). - And seventeen further volumes, mainly related to war in South-East Asia (including 'Airborne Forces', 1951, 8vo) (18).

JEFFERIES, Richard. Hodge and His Masters. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. 2 vols., 8vo (188 x 124mm.) (Spotting to front and rear leaves, name inscribed to f.f.e.p.s.) Original black cloth, gilt vignettes to upper covers (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Lockite Library (bookplates to the front pastedowns). - And twenty further volumes by Richard Jefferies (including 'Wood Magic', 1893, 8vo) (22).

FIRST WORLD WAR. L'Alsace et Les Combats des Vosges. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin, 1920. 2 vols., 8vo (208 x 132mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning to margins.) Original card covers, gilt lettering to upper covers (bumped to extremities, some browning), printed wrappers (browning, minor soiling, price stamped). - And thirty further volumes of Michelin Guides to the battle-fields of the First World War (including 'The Marne Battle-fields', 1917, 8vo) and two other Michelin Guides. Note: first published before the end of hostilities, the Michelin Guides to the battle-fields proved to be useful for the bereaved families of the war, enabling them to visit the sites and begin grieving, often without a corpse to bury (34).

[PEEK, Hedley, and F.G. AFLALO (editors)]. The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games. London: Heinemann, 1912. 4 vols., 8vo (265 x 174mm.) 4 colour plates, tissue-guards, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spines (rubbing to spine ends). - And two further volumes relating to sport (including Spalding's 'Lawn Tennis Guide', 1906, 8vo) (6).

BETJEMAN, John. Lord Mount Prospect. Edinburgh: the Tragara Press, 1981. Limited edition of 95 copies this being out of series and one of 10 copies for the use of the artist, 8vo (201 x 129mm.) Illustrations by David Bogie. Original card covers, dust-jacket with paper label to upper cover (minor rubbing to extremities). - And seventeen further literary volumes (including L.Z. Yuan's 'Through a Moon Gate', 1948, 8vo) (18).

CRAMP, Stanley (chief editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic. Bedfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1977-1994. 9 vols. Limited RSPB edition of 5000 copies, 4to (252 x 198mm.) Numerous illustrations by many artists, including Robert Gillmor and Peter Scott, many in colour. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jackets (some fading, slight shelfwear to spine ends) (9).

AFRICA. - Major H. RAYNE. The Ivory Raiders. London: William Heinemann, 1923. First edition, 8vo (221 x 133m.) 28 photographic illustrations, 1 folding map. (Browning to front and rear blanks, light spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, black lettering to spine (slight fading to spine, bumped to spine ends). Provenance: A.R. Turner (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And thirteen further volumes, mainly related to Africa (including Robert Huish's 'The Travels of Richard and John Lander, into the Interior of Africa', 1836, 8vo, and also an inscribed copy of A. Radclyffe-Dugmore's 'The Wonderland of Big Game', 1925, 4to) (14).

CLASSICS. [The Family Classical Library]. London: A.J. Valpy, Henry Colburn, Richard Bentley, 1830-1833. 45 vols., 8vo (145 x 91mm.) 12 engraved portrait frontispieces. (Spotting to front and rear leaves, occasional browning.) Contemporary brown half-calf, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: E.J. Williamson (name inscribed to initial blanks).

JOHNS, Captain W.E. Biggles in Africa. London: Oxford University Press, 1936. First edition, 8vo (186 x 118mm.) Colour frontispiece, 7 uncoloured plates by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. (Spotting to fore-edge, frontispiece loosening, inkspots to rear pastedown.) Original brown pictorial cloth (rubbing to spine ends, fading). Provenance: Timothy Boulton (bookplate to the f.f.e.p.). - And twenty-eight further volumes of fiction (including R.M. Ballantyne's 'The Coral Island', 1913, 4to) (29).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Charles DARWIN. The Essential Darwin. London: The Folio Society, 1990. 4 vols., 8vo (244 x 149mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original green cloth covers, gilt profile of Darwin on upper covers, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines, slipcase (marks to rear). - And approximately seventy-five further volumes published by the Folio Society (including Wilfred Thesiger's 'Thesiger in Arabia', 2 vols., 2005, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - E.M. FORSTER. The Novels. London: The Folio Society, 1996. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 145mm.) Numerous illustrations from lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte. Buckram-backed boards, pictorial slipcase (small mark to rear). - And approximately eighty-five further volumes published by the Folio Society (including Siegfried Sassoon's 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston', 3 vols., 1974, 8vo) (a quantity).