Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

PHOTO-BOOK. Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] First edition, 4to (284 x 220mm.) 2 tipped-in gelatin silver prints on card, 8 tipped-in black and white plates on black card, 11 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, advertisements to rear. (Corner loss to p.105 and tear to p.255, some corner creases to plates, a marginal tear to a gelatin print, pp.7-8 loose, toning, lacking ‘List of Tables’ to rear.) Original green cloth (some staining, fading, wear to spine ends). – And a further two related volumes (including Ernest Schulbe’s ‘Cake Decoration, Illustrated with Photographically Reproduced Full Sized Engravings of Designs of Cake Tops, Sides, and Ornaments’, 1901, 4to) (3).

WINE. – Louis LARMAT (editor). Atlas de la France Vinicole. Paris: Larmat, [1949.] Folio (313 x 245mm.) Text in French, English, German and Spanish, colour maps of the Vineyards, including 6 folding, photographic illustrations, four related inserts. (Mild toning.) Original card covers (toning, corner creases). Note: the world’s first national wine atlas published under the auspices of national and regional bodies but primarily the Comité National des appellations d’ origine des Vins et Eaux de Vie. This volume on the wines of burgundy was the first of six volumes.

COOKERY. – Joseph. A. LAMBETH. Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries… with a Foreword by John J. N. Mackman. London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, 4to (304 x 226mm.) 30 colour plates, numerous black and white plates, 4pp. advertisements to front and 8pp. advertisements to rear, index. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original embossed red cloth (lightly rubbed extremities).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands Adjacent… Enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough. London: for John Stockdale, 1806. 4 vols., second edition, folio (421 x 262mm.) Half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 52 engraved folding maps, including 50 hand-coloured, 1 folding pedigree of Oliver Cromwell, 5 further engraved maps, 106 engraved plates, including 8 folding, numerous illustrations in the text. (Occasional spotting and browning, some offsetting to a few plates.) Near contemporary full morocco, gilt ruled (volume one boards detached, some joints worn). Provenance: Richard Oliver (bookplates to front pastedowns); Alex Bridge (bookplate to front pastedown of volume one) (4).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements… by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. and J. Churchill, 1695. Folio (427 x 389mm.) 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 7 engraved plates of coins, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text, including ‘Stonehenge’, index and appendix to rear. (Title, dedication and frontispiece loose with marginal tears, marginal staining to first leaves of ‘Preface’, a crease to ‘Devon’ and tear along central crease of ‘Middlesex’ and creasing to ‘Shropshire’, occasional light spotting.) Later boards (detached, worn).

MILITARY. – Samuel Rush MEYRICK. A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as It Existed in Europe, But Particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. London: by G. Schulze for Robert Jennings, 1824. 3 vols., large 4to (348 x 267mm.) Additional engraved titles, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 10 black and white engraved plates, 26 hand-coloured initials heightened in gold. (Additional titles with heavy spotting, titles browned, blanks with spotting, occasional offsetting.) Contemporary black half morocco (upper cover of vol. 2 detached, all extremities rubbed). Provenance: Alfred William Cox (bookplate to front pastedown of vol. 1) (3).

JEKYLL, Gertrude. Garden Ornament. London: George Newnes, 1918. First edition, folio (392 x 263mm.) Half-title, mounted colour plate frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. (Preliminaries browned, toning, gift inscribed from 1921 to the front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, g.e. (mottled, fading, some splitting with repair to spine panel, extremities rubbed).

British Sports and Sportsmen, Past & Present. London: ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’, 1908. 2 vols., limited edition, being number 682 of 1000 copies only, folio (371 x 264mm.) Numerous plates, tissue-guards. Original crimson full morocco, gilt lettering, g.e. (minor scuffing). – And a further two volumes (‘British Sports and Sportsmen, Racing Coursing and Steeplechasing’, Part 2 [only], 1911, folio, and ‘British Sports and Sportsmen, Big Game Hunting and Angling’, limited edition, being number 489 of 1000 copies, 1914, folio) (4).

BIBLE, In English. The New Evangelical Family Bible; or, A Complete Paraphrase, Exposition, and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments… with Copious Notes and Annotations… by T. Priestley. London: Alex Hogg, [1791.] 2 vols., folio (391 x 242mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 86 engraved plates, with ‘Apocrypha’, ‘List of Subscribers’ to rear. (Occasional browning, creasing to last leaves of volume 1, blanks with name erased, stain to 7A.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering pieces to spines (joints splitting, extremities rubbed, boards scuffed) (2).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717-16. Folio (494 x 331mm.) Engraved additional title of Moses receiving the Law by C. Du-Bose, title in red and black with engraved vignette depicting Oxford churches by G. Vander Gucht, calendar in red and black, numerous engraved head and tail-pieces. (Additional title with marginal tears, images affected, tears to BC and O3, large tears to E6-F1, G3 with repair, Gg4 and Hh6 with tears, ZZ5 and last leaf are detached, A2-A4 of N.T. with large tears, several torn leaves with tipped-in manuscript overlays, G6 [with ‘Vinegar’] nearly detached, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (free endpapers detached, pastedowns torn, boards detached). Note: with the ‘Vinegar’ mistake in the headline above Luke XX. The Bible that contained so many errors that it became known as ‘A Basket-ful of Errors’. [Herbert 942A.]

[VIRGIL]. – Publius Virgilius MARO. Bucolica Georgica Et Aeneis. Rome: J. Zempel, 1763-1765. 3 vols., large paper copy, folio (414 x 292mm.) Titles in red and black, engraved portrait medallions to titles, half-titles to vols. 2 and 3, engraved frontispieces and dedications, engraved historiated initials and engraved illustrations and tailpieces, text in Latin with italicized translation in Italian, annotations and indices. (Lacking map in vol. 2 and leaf of script specimens, lacking half-title to vol. 1, heavy spotting to pp.64-65 of vol. 1, tear to last leaf of vol. 2, p.366, overall occasional spotting to vols. 1 and 2.) Contemporary calf to vols. 1 and 2, later half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards to vol.3 (vol. 1 covers detached, vol. 2 lacking lower cover and upper cover detached, worn). Provenance: John Pinney (armorial bookplates to front pastedowns of vol. 1 and 2) (3).

LUTYENS, Edwin. – A.S.G. BUTLER. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Suffolk, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984. 3 vols., limited edition, this being number 286 of 1500 copies, reprint of the 1950 edition, folio (407 x 302mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jackets (some light creasing). Provenance: Robin Marsh (bookplates to front pastedowns) (3).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). – Ken KESEY. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. London: The Folio Society, 2015. 8vo (222 x 150mm.) Illustrations by David Hughes. Original grey cloth, slipcase (slight fading). – And a further thirty-nine volumes published by the Folio Society (including Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ [with] ‘4.50 From Paddington’, 2 vols., 1990, 8vo) (40).

ANATOMY. – J. FAU. The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, Intended for the Use of Artists, Painters and Sculptures… edited with additions by Robert Knox. London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1849. ‘Atlas’ volume [only], folio (367 x 267mm.) Title, 21 [of 28] lithographed plates in colour of human skeletons and anatomy, 2pp. letterpress text for each plate. (Lacking 7 plates, marginal spotting to plates, minor chipping to a few plates, lacking text for plates 24-28, plates and text disbound.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (wear to spine ends). – And a further twenty-six volumes related to anatomy (including Cecil Burns’ and Robert J. Colenso’s ‘Living Anatomy’, 40 plates [loose, as issued], 1900, 4to, and Joseph Bonomi’s ‘The Proportions of the Human Figure’, 1880, 4to, and Hugh W. Armstead’s ‘The Artistic Anatomy of the Horse’, 1900, oblong 4to, and F.R. Yerbury and G.M. Ellwood’s ‘The Human Form and Its Use in Art’, 1924, 8vo, and a catalogue for J.H. Steward, Ltd., of ‘Surveying Drawing and Nautical Instruments’, 1928, 8vo) (27).

KABBALAH. – W. Wynn WESTCOTT (editor). Collected Hermetica… Aesch Mezareph, or Purifying Fire, A Chymico-Kabalistic Treatise Collected From the Kabala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth. New York: Occult Research Press, [circa 1940.] 12mo (176 x 123mm.) (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers (browned). – And a further twenty-nine volumes related to spiritualism, the occult, Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (including James Moore’s ‘Gurdjieff’, 1991, 8vo, and P.D. Ouspensky’s ‘In Search of the Miraculous’, 1964, and William Wynn Westcott’s ‘Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation and the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom’, [circa 1950], 12mo) (30).

BINDING. – Charles Lutwidge DODGSON. ‘Lewis Carroll’. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. 8vo (181 x 114mm.) Illustrations by John Tenniel, includes ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’, dated 1933. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary red full morocco, triple fillet gilt with gilt portrait of Alice to upper cover and the Mad Hatter to lower cover, two brown morocco lettering pieces to the spine, g.e. (minor scuffing to lower panel). – And a further volume (J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1909], 4to) (2).

SUPERNATURAL. – A.J. Howard HULME and Frederic H. WOOD. Ancient Egypt Speaks. London: Rider & Co., [1937.] First edition, 8vo (213 x 134mm.) 4 photographic portraits, index, 16pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original tan cloth, dust-jacket (toned, minor chipping to upper panel). – And a further fifteen volumes related to the supernatural (including Frederic H. Wood’s ‘This Egyptian Miracle’, [1939], 8vo, and Lionel A. Weatherly and J.N. Maskelyne’s ‘The Supernatural?’, [1891], 8vo, and Frederic H. Wood’s ‘After Thirty Centuries’, 1937, 8vo) (16).

BIBLE, In Dutch. Het Nieuwe Testament ofte alle Boecken Des Nieuwen Verbondts. Dordrecht, 1742. Engraved title, double-column, black letter. (Browning to first leaves, last leaf loose.) [Bound with:] De CL Psalmen Des Propheten Davids. Amsterdam: H. Burgers et al., 1741. (Insect-damage to last leaves P7-T10, text affected.) 12mo (138 x 72mm.) Contemporary calf with bosses and clasps (some insect damage to covers, crease to lower cover). Provenance: ‘P.B.’ (initials engraved to clasp); Susanna Bushingh (ink name to initial blank).

WILKINSON, J.G. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. London: John Murray, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, first series, 8vo (219 x 134mm.) Tinted lithographic frontispiece, numerous plates, 3 folding, some in colour, illustrations within text, errata leaf. (Spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original black cloth with pictorial gilt to upper covers and spines (frayed to spine ends of volumes 2 and 3, replaced endpapers to volume 1). – And a further sixteen miscellaneous volumes (including H.T. Stainton’s ‘A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths’, 2 vols., 1857-1859, 8vo) (19).