Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

LABORDE, Jean Benjamin de. Description Générale et Particuliè de la France. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Ph. D. Pierres, 1781. Vol. 1 (only, of 12). Folio (5640 x 352mm.) Half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces, 40 plates on 24 sheets, including 1 folding. (Some browning, lacking initial blank.) Contemporary boards (worn). Note: Laborde's work was conceived 'as the history of the manners and customs of the French people and the geography and natural history of the different French regions' (Millard).

PORTUGAL. - Armando CORTESAO and Avelino Teixeira da MOTA. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica. Lisbon: 1960. 3 vols. (of 5). Elephant Folio (608 x 466mm.) Numerous colour and black and white facsimile maps, many folding and some double-paged, double-column text in English and Portuguese. (Crease to preliminaries of vol. 1.) Original vellum, gilt lettering (some scuffing, minor marks, reference labels to spines). Note: comprises vols. 1-2, and 5. Published to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Provenance: Birkbeck College (name-plate verso title of vol. 1) (3).

GENEALOGY. - Charles A. MAUNSELL and Edward Philips STATHAM. History of the Family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel). London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co., 1917-1920. 2 vols. in 3. 4to (283 x 214mm.) Numerous photographic plates. (Mild toning.) Original blue half morocco, t.e.g. (discoloured, rubbed). Provenance: Elsie H. Waller-Bridge (ink name inscribed on the front-free endpaper). - And a further seven volumes related to genealogy (including 'Armorial Families' edited by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 2 vols., 1929-1930, 4to) (10).

MILLAR, E.G. (intro.) The Luttrell Psalter. London: Printed for the Trustees, 1932. Folio (446 x 318mm.) 2 colour plates, numerous black and white plates. (Mild toning.) Original beige cloth (lightly bumped spine ends).

SCOTT, William Bell. Ornamental Designs for Brass, Iron, and Glass Work, Earthenware, &c. Edinburgh and London: A. Fullarton & Co., [circa 1845.] Folio (380 x 268mm.) 13pp. 'Essay on Ornamental Art', 48 lithographed plates. (Occasional light spotting, three plates to rear heavily spotted, margins browned, rear blank torn.) Original cloth (spine worn, rubbed and covers discoloured). Note: scarce.

MANUSCRIPT. [A 'Visitors Book' for The Bruton Galleries, Bond Street, London, n.p.: 1904-1936.] 113pp., manuscript, folio (283 x 245mm.) 113pp. of hand-written names and addresses, recto only, being approximately 2000 names including numerous members of the 'Discovery' expedition, including Ernest Shackleton, Edward A. Wilson, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, Clement Markham, Ernest E Joyce, and three Shackleton family members, two of them from the '12, West Hill' address, as well as Ellen Terry, Walter Jerrold, Baden-Powell, and Maria Ameila, Queen of Portugal, also a section of names under 'Hunting Exhibition- March 1936', numerous blank leaves to rear. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: Bruton Galleries opened in 1904 and closed in 1907, having held exhibitions of the work of Beardsley, Austin Spare, Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Gordon Craig. One of the Bruton Galleries first exhibitions was of the 'Discovery/ Antarctic' expedition. The crew returned home in February 1904 and the exhibition, showing sketches, photographs and objects, opened in November of the same year.

BAYEUX TAPESTRY. - Society of ANTIQUARIES (publisher). Vetusta Monumenta aquae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini. [London:] Society of Antiquaries, 1821-1904. Vols. 6-7 part 1-3 (only) of 7 vols. in 4 vols., elephant folio (561 x 390mm.) 62 engraved and lithographed plates, many double-paged and hand-coloured, including engraved plates by James Basire of the 'Bayeux Tapestry', being plates 1-17 of vol. 6. (Plate XXXIX with repair, one Bayeux Tapestry plate with small repaired tear and marginal paper repair, toning.) Early 20th century half morocco for vol. 6 and vol. 7 part 1, original paper wrappers for vol. 7 part 2-3 (rubbing to extremities, corner creasing to wrappers). Provenance: Norwich County Council Reference Library (vol. 6 part 1) (embossed stamps to plate margins, label to front pastedown); Kingston Upon Hull Library (vol. 6 part 2) (embossed stamp to plate margins, label to front pastedown) (4).

HOYO, Josep del and Andrew ELLIOTT and Jordi SARGATAL (editors). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992-2002. 7 vols., 4to (309 x 238mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jackets (sunning to spine panels of vol. 1 and 2). - And a further three volumes published by Lynx Edicions (including 'The Illustrated Check-List of the Birds of the World', 2 vols., 2014-2016, 4to, and 'Bird Families of the World', 2015, 4to) (10).

BIRDS. - Hadoram SHIRIHAI. The Birds of Israel. London: Academic Press, 1996. 4to (270 x 216mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twenty-seven volumes relating to birds (including T.J. Roberts' 'The Birds of Pakistan', 2 vols., 1991, 4to) (28).

CRAMP, Stanley (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 (255 x 197mm.) Numerous illustrations by many artists, including Robert Gilmour and Peter Scott, many in colour. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jackets (creasing to spine panels). - And a further twenty-seven volumes relating to birds (36).

BIRDS. - Michel THEVENOT and Rae VERNON and Patrick BERGIER. The Birds of Morocco. Herts, Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2003. First edition, 8vo (245 x 156mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Pictorial boards. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five further volumes related to birds (including Hadoram Shirihai and Gabriel Gargallo and Andreas J. Helbig's 'Sylvia Warblers', 2001, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Susan COOPER. Over Sea, Under Stone. London: Folio Society, 2011. 8vo (221 x 149mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original turquoise cloth-backed boards, slipcase (some fading). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations', 2002, 8vo) (44).

YORKSHIRE. - James TORR. The Antiquities of York City. York: G. White for F. Hildyard, 1719. Small 4to (187 x 114mm.) 4pp. 'Appendix' to rear. (Lacking blanks and half-title, toning.) Near contemporary cloth-backed boards (rubbed). - And a further sixteen volumes relating to Yorkshire (including 'An Historical Account of the Late Election for the County of York', 1826, 8vo) (17).

FARRER, William and Charles Travis CLAY (editors.) Early Yorkshire Charters. Edinburgh and Yorkshire: for the Editor and Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1914-1965. 11 vols. (of 12), 8vo (241 x 153mm.) Numerous illustrations and folding maps and genealogies. (Toning.) Original blue cloth (spines faded to early volumes). Note: lacking volume 11. Provenance: J.P. Roberts (name inscribed to volume VIII); Leonard Carr (bookplate to volume XII) (11).

ARCHITECTURE. - Sarah MENIN and Stephen KITE. An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St. John Wilson. Hants, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 4to (253 x 187mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original orange cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately seventy volumes related to architecture and art reference (including Jan Whitaker's 'The Department Store', 2011, 4to) (a quantity).

ART REFERENCE. - David HOCKNEY. Off the Wall. London: Pavilion Books, 1994. First edition, 4to (353 x 260mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original white cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes related to art reference (including Ronald G. Pisano's 'William Merritt Chase', 2006, 4to) (a quantity).

ART REFERENCE. - Duncan MACMILLAN. Scottish Art 1460-1990. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1990. Large 8vo (284 x 227mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, light finger-mark to fore-edge.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately seventy volumes of art reference books (including 'Sotheby's: Bowie Collector', 3 vols., 2016, large 8vo, and Shelley Rhode's 'A Private View of L.S. Lowry', 1979, 8vo) (a quantity).

ART JOURNAL. The Art Journal... New Series. London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited, 1885-1911. 25 vols., 4to (318 x 232mm.) Numerous etchings and tipped-in plates. (Mild toning.) Original decorative cloth, gilt lettering, g.e. (some fading to spines, extremities bumped, vol. for 1899 with creased spine). Note: a run of this journal from 1885-1911 but lacking vols. for 1904 and 1908 (25).

BECKETT, Arthur (editor). The Sussex County Magazine. Lewes, Brighton: T.R. Beckett Ltd. And Sussex Printers, 1927-1956. 30 vols. in 31., 8vo (231 x 175mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Later tan morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettering to spines (library labels to sp49658). Note: includes two volumes of indices and the year '1930' is bound in 2 volumes. A complete run of this magazine devoted to Sussex and which contains, unusually, a fair amount of literary content. The first magazine opens with an interview with the novelist Alice Dudeney (then referred to as 'Mrs Henry Dudeney'). Provenance: Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedowns) (33).