Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MOTOR-CARS. - Nick GEORGANO (editor). The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile. London: The Stationery Office, 2000. 2 vols., first edition, large 8vo (274 x 211mm.) Numerous coloured and uncoloured photographic illustrations, foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, white lettering to spines, dust-jackets (2).

BINDINGS. - John KEATS. The Poetical Works… edited by H. Buxton Forman. London: Reeves and Turner, 1902. Seventh edition, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) 7 lithographed plates. (Spotting to preliminaries and intermittently within.) Near contemporary blue half morocco, gilt decoration to spine, t.e.g. (toning to covers). Provenance: Agnes Maria Clarke (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further ten literary volumes (including, bound by Sotheran & Co., Charles Kingsley's 'Poems', 1890, 2 vols., 8vo) (11).

[COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts. London: for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox et al., 1721.] Sixth edition. Engraved folding frontispiece. (Lacking title and blanks, lacking plates, browning, occasional corner creases, half-title for 'Venerie Normande, ou L'Ecole de la Chasse' mistakenly bound-in.) [Bound with:] John MANWOOD. An Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws, and Of All the Acts of Parliament Made Since. London: by H.P. for N.C., 1721. Black letter. (Corner loss to Hhh4 and first leaf of 'The Table for Hunting', browning.) 8vo (194 x 115mm.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). - And a further twelve volumes (including J. Farmer's 'The History of the Ancient Town, and Once Famous Abbey, of Waltham, in the County of Essex', 1735, 8vo) (13).

NUREMBURG CHRONICLE. - Hartmann SCHEDEL. [Liber Chronicarum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. 10 leaves, folio (approx. 450 x 310mm.) Loose-leaf, Latin text, numerous woodcut illustrations including the city of Alexandria, and the castle of 'Babatz'. (Browning, contemporary ink annotation to some leaves, heavy spotting to one leaf.) Note: comprising leaves CCLIII, LXXVII, LXXV, CCXLVI, LXXVI, XXXVII, CLXIII, CXCX, CCXLVI, LXXI. - And a further leaf from the Nuremburg Chronicles (being 'Blat CLCCCVI' from the German language edition) (11).

NUREMBURG CHRONICLE. - Hartmann SCHEDEL. [Liber Chronicarum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. 13 leaves, folio (400 x 305mm.) Loose-leaf, Latin text for the 'Index' with initials in red and blue for the letters: H, I, G, M, N, P, R, S, T, U, X, Y and Z. (All leaves laid-down and with 6 leaves having some or considerable loss to text, all with marginal losses) (13).

MILITARY. - G.H. BROWN and F. CLARK (editors). East-India Register and Directory, for 1831; Containing Complete Lists of the Company's Servants, with their respective appointments; with indexes to the same and lists of casualties. London: J.L. Cox, 1831. Signed by the editor F. Clark, second edition, 8vo (172 x 100mm.) 18pp. of advertisements and 10pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear, ink signature of F. Clark verso title. (Light browning.) Near contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt borders (rebacked, minor scuffing). Provenance: J.H. Aitchinson, Bath (ink name to front pastedown); G. Hutchins(?) (ink inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further fifty related volumes (including 'The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army', 1844, 8vo) (51).

TRAVEL. - J.W. GREGORY. The Great Rift Valley, Being a Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo (226 x 153mm.) Half-title, colour frontispiece, 20 photographic plates, 2 folding maps, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to endpapers, some damp-staining to rear pastedown.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped, discolouring to lower cover). - And a further eight volumes (including Samuel Sharp's 'Letters From Italy', [1767], 8vo, and Nagayo Ogasawara's 'Life of Admiral Togo', 1934, 8vo) (9).

FISHING. - John ROBERTSON. The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland and the Border Counties. London: Houlston and Wright, 1861. 8vo (169 x 111mm.) Half-title, folding lithographed map frontispiece with outline hand-colouring, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Toning.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering (lightly rubbed, minor soiling to covers). - And a further seventeen volumes related to angling (including [James Glass Bertram's] 'The Border Angler: A Guide-Book to the Tweed and Its Tributaries', 1858, 8vo, and James Locke's 'Tweed and Don', 1860, 8vo) (18).

COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone, A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. New edition, 8vo (225 x 146mm.) Double-column text, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking half-title?) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (top of spine torn, some staining to covers). Provenance: H.J. Starbuck (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper and to first text leaf). - And a further eighteen volumes (including W.B Yeats' 'The Cutting of an Agate', 1919, 8vo) (19).

BLOOMSBURY. - Anne Olivier BELL (editor). The Diary of Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press, 1977-1980. 3 vols. (of 5). First editions, 8vo (233 x 151mm.) (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries of vol. 1.) Original maroon cloth (lightly bumped spines), dust-jackets (spotting to inner flaps of vol. 1, price-clipped to vol. 3, slight creasing to upper panel of vol. 3). - And a further nine volumes related to Virginia Woolf (12).

AMIS, Martin. Yellow Dog. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition, second impression, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (minor mark to upper panel). - And a further thirteen volumes of 20th century fiction (including William Golding's 'The Pyramid', 1967, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis' 'The James Bond Dossier', 1965, 8vo) (14).

NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition, 8vo (220 x 139mm.) 4 wood-engraved illustrations by Paul Nash. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, faint spotting to 1 illustration.) Original boards designed by Paul Nash, paper label to spine (spine ends lightly rubbed, small stain to lower cover). Provenance: L.E.C. Hughes (stamp to front-free endpaper and title-page). - And a further thirty-nine mainly literary volumes (including Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', 1946, 8vo) (40).

ORWELL, George. Coming Up For Air. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First edition, second impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Occasional minor spotting.) Original blue cloth (some sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, lower joint splitting.) - And a further thirty-two literary volumes (including the fourth impression of Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon', 1943, 2 vols., 8vo, and J.K. Huysmans' 'Against the Grain', [1946], 8vo) (33).

POETRY. - T. S. ELIOT. The Wasteland and Other Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1940. 8vo (188 x 113mm.) (Toning.) Original boards (browned), dust-jacket (sunned to spine and minor chipping). Provenance: Felicity Digby (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further fifty-three volumes of mainly 20th century poetry (including the first impression of T.S. Eliot's 'Little Gidding', 1942, 8vo) (54).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Adam SMITH. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. London: Folio Society, 2008. 3 vols., 8vo (272 x 175mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original decorative cloth, slipcase (some fading, occasional scuff mark). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 vols., 1997, 8vo, and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', 2004, 4to) (46).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anton CHEKHOV. The Collected Stories. London: Folio Society, 2010. 4 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original pictorial blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further twenty-four volumes published by The Folio Society (including Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 2006, 8vo) (28).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anthony POWELL. A Dance to the Music of Time. London: Folio Society, 2006-2008. 4 vols., 8vo (235 x 164mm.) Introduction by William Trevor. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, slipcases. - And a further fifty-one volumes published by The Folio Society (including 'Plutarch's Lives', 4 vols., 2011, 8vo) (55).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). [The Folio Poets.] London: Folio Society, 2001-2008. 7 vols., 8vo (273 x 175mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations. Original quarter morocco, slipcases. - And a further twenty-seven volumes published by the Folio Society (including Martin Gilbert's 'Churchill: A Life', 2 vols., 2004, 8vo, and A.J.P. Taylor's 'A Century of Conflict 1848-1948', 5 vols., 1998, 8vo) (34).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Evelyn WAUGH. [Comedies:] London: Folio Society, 1999. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Illustrations by John Holder. Original pictorial boards, slipcase. - And a further thirty-nine volumes published by The Folio Society (including Anthony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time', 4 vols., 2006-2008, 8vo, and T.H. White's 'The Once and Future King', 2004, 8vo) (45).