Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MOTOR-RACING. – Dieter STREVE-MULHENS and Rainer W. SCHLEGELMILCH. The Great Challenge 1- The Clark Era. Frankfurt: Streve-Mülhens, [2000.] Limited edition, signed by Streve-Mülhens and Schlegelmilch, 4to (280 x 341mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, lenticular plate mounted to upper cover, original green and yellow cloth-covered slipcase.

MOTOR-RACING. – Peter DARLEY. Jim Clark Life at Team Lotus. Luton: Coterie Press, March 2007. Limited edition, this being one of 100 copies signed by Peter Darley and publisher William Taylor, 4to (295 x 295mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original black morocco, Lotus chassis plaque to upper cover, g.e., original green cloth-covered solander box (heavily sunned to spine and panel edges).

BIBLE, In English. [The Bible: that is, The Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages.] London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595. Geneva Version. NT within decorative woodcut border, double-column, black letter, woodcut initials and illustrations in the text, with ‘Apocrypha’. (Lacking OT title and ‘Adam and Eve’ engraving, lacking 7 leaves, numerous small paper repairs and also large paper repairs at I6 and Tttt1, browning, minor soiling, many leaves chipped, marginal damp-staining and several leaves in ‘Apocrypha’ damp-stained with text losses to Hhhh2-3.) [Bound with:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1631. Decorative woodcut border to title, black letter. (Heavily browned, paper repair to N1, lacking last two leaves.) Small folio in 6s (267 x 180mm.) 17th century calf to lower cover, upper cover 18th century mottled calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Provenance: John Britton (ink name inscribed to rear pastedown). [Herbert 225, but 210 for collation].

BIBLE, In English. [The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke: and conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages.] London: deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588. Geneva version. NT title with woodcut architectural border, black letter, double-column, with ‘Booke of Common Prayer’ and ‘Two right profitable and fruitful Concordances’, with ‘Apocrypha’. (Lacking OT title, lacking all before D4 of ‘Book of Common Prayer’, lacking 3 leaves from ‘Apocrypha’ and 2 leaves from NT, C6 of OT with a 2.5 inch tear, browning, occasional minor soiling, corner creasing, contemporary ink annotation verso last leaf of ‘Common Prayer’ and also verso title of ‘Concordances’, headlines trimmed in last leaves.) [Bound with:] Whole Book of Psalmes. London: John Wolfe for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1586. (Browning, several leaves damp-stained, lacking leaves from F1, last leaves loose, headlines trimmed.) 4to (208 x 131mm.) Contemporary calf (some loss to spine, heavily rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Mills (ink name to front pastedown); James Gaunt (ink name verso last leaf of ‘Apocrypha’). [Herbert 197].

NATURAL HISTORY. – Oliver GOLDSMITH. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. London and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [1853.] 2 vols., 8vo (251 x 162mm.) 72 hand-coloured plates, 2 hand-coloured vignettes on additional titles. (Toning, occasional light spotting, crease to front-free endpaper of volume 1.) Contemporary half calf, black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some loss to lettering piece of volume 1, extremities rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes (including John Burnet’s ‘Practical Hints on Composition in Painting’, 1822-1827, 3 vols. in 1, 4to, and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Bells, and Other Poems’, illustrated by Edmund Dulac’, [1912], 4to) (16).

JONES, Owen (illuminator). The Psalms of David Illuminated. [London: Day & Son, 1861.] Folio (427 x 313mm.) Chromolithographed title and dedication (on two leaves), 50 thick card chromolithographed leaves illuminated in gold and colours. (Slight toning to margins.) Near contemporary brown full morocco bound by Mansell with foliate and dentelle borders, g.e. (staining to upper cover, minor scuffing). Provenance: E.G. Chalk (prize inscription to front-free endpaper); Corpus Christi College, Oxford (gilt insignia to upper cover).

FLINT, William Russell. – Keith S. GARDNER and Nigel D. CLARK. Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969, A Comparative Review of the Artist’s Signed Limited Edition Prints. Bristol, Wrington: Michael Steward Fine Art, 1986. Limited edition, being number 41 of 250 De Luxe Editions with a loosely inserted limitation plate signed by Keith S. Gardner and Susan Russell Flint, folio (295 x 204mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original navy blue full morocco, gilt to upper covers, g.e., original slipcase. – And the related volume, also a limited De Luxe Edition (Keith S. Gardner’s ‘Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works’, 1994, folio) (2).

FLINT, William Russell. The Lisping Goddess, A Figurehead Fantasy. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1968. Limited edition, this being one of 275 copies signed by the artist, folio (347 x 203mm.) Numerous plates. (Mild toning.) Original blue morocco-backed white buckram, t.e.g. (light spotting to upper cover). – And two related volumes (William Russell Flint’s ‘Breakfast in Périgord’, limited edition number 6 of 525, signed by the artist, 1968, folio, and Flint’s ‘In Pursuit, an Autobiography’, limited edition number 999 of 1050 copies, signed by Francis Russell Flint’, 1970, folio) (3).

EVELYN, John. Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions. London: for J. Walthoe, J. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth et al., 1729. Fifth edition, with mounted clipped signature of W.J. Evelyn, folio (321 x 197mm.) Title in red and black, 11pp. ‘Appendix’, with ‘Terra. A Philosophical Discourse of Earth’ and ‘Pomona’ and ‘Kalendarium Hortense’ with 5pp. ‘Table to Terra and the Other Tracts’, extra-illustrated with 3 engraved plates relating to the Evelyn family and 2 mounted newspaper clippings, several blank blue leaves bound-in at front and rear with water-mark ‘E. Towgood, 1857’. (Toning, marginal damp-stain to last leaves.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities scuffed and rubbed). Note: William John Evelyn, descendant of John Evelyn, was conservative M.P. for West Surrey in 1849 and 1852, and M.P. for Deptford in 1885.

BATH. – [Julius Caesar] IBBETSON and J. LAPORTE and J. HASSELL. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, The River Avon, and the Adjacent Country; Illustrated with a Set of Views, Taken in the Summer of 1792. London: for Hookham and Carpenter, 1793. First edition, 4to (262 x 198mm.) 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue-guards, errata leaf to rear with publisher’s advertisement verso. (Lacking half-title, browning to title, occasional light spotting, marginal paper repair verso one plate, minor marginal finger-marks, soiling verso last plate.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover corner heavily rubbed). Provenance: G.F. de[?] Wilde (ink name inscribed to title). [Tooley 277]. – And a further four volumes (including Richard Fenton’s ‘A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire’, 1811, 4to, and Giraldus de Barri’s ‘The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII’, vol. 2 [only], 1806, 4to) (5).

ANATOMY. – W.S. FURNEAUX. Philips’ Popular Manikin; or, Model of the Human Body. London: George Philip & Son, Ltd., [circa 1890.] Tall folio (494 x 198mm.) 2 chromolithographed anatomical overlays over a further chromolithographed figure with smaller overlays, black and white illustrations within 16pp. letterpress text. (Toning, small corner creases.) Original cloth-backed chromolithographed covers (spotting and small tear to upper cover). – And a further two manikins (‘Philips’ Anatomical Model of the Female Human Body’, edited by W.S. Furneaux, [circa 1904], tall folio, and a later printing of ‘Philips’ Popular Manikin’, [circa 1950], tall folio) (3).

ZEPPELIN. LZ 127 ‘Graf Zeppelin’ nach 15 Originalphotographien vom Bau des Luftschiffes. Stuttgart: A. Weber, [circa 1929.] Loose-leaf (245 x 321mm.) 15 mounted photographs on card related to the construction of the LZ 127. (Slight rub to corners.) Original cloth-backed portfolio, white lettering to upper cover (fading). – And a small quantity of items related to airships and aeroplanes (including ‘Silhouettes of Aeroplanes’, 1915, 8vo, and a cigarette card book ‘Zeppelin-Weltfahrten’, 1932, oblong 4to, and a 15pp. typescript by Lord Ventry on ‘The Small Airship and National Defence’, 1953, and a further 13pp. typescript on ‘The Airship Bournemouth’, plus a few small format photographs related to airship construction) (small quantity).

WESLEY, Samuel. – Robert Southey. The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism. London: Longman, Brown et al., 1858. 2 vols., including 5 manuscript letters relating to the Wesley family, 8vo (183 x 118mm.) (Toning.) Original green cloth (extremities rubbed, staining to covers). Note: comprises a later copy of John Wesley’s well-known letter to his wife regarding her duties, a 4pp. segment of an original letter dated ‘July 1807’ and signed ‘J. Wesley’, near contemporary copy of a letter from school from the grandson of Charles Wesley (‘Dear Aunt..’), an original letter signed ‘S. Wesley’ and dated 1807, most likely from Sarah Wesley (daughter of Charles and Sarah Wesley) to a sibling, and also an original 4pp. letter from Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, signed and dated ‘18th January 1797’ relating the terrible state of his marriage and the necessity of divorce from his wife, Charlotte (‘alas! What a poor mistaken creature she is! Where has she an enemy but in her own diabolical ungovernable, ferocious, ungrateful disposition… that she is incurable among Lunaticks we have long ago agreed… I am a dozen years older in constitution than I was before…she or I must drop’.) The letter is addressed to a ‘Mr. Kenton’, possibly a legal friend or associate. Samuel Wesley married Charlotte Louise Martin in 1793 and they had three children. The cause of all the tumult was Charlotte’s discovery of his affair with Sarah Suter, their teenage housekeeper. Samuel and Sarah went on to have four children together. – And a few other items related to the Wesley family (a framed original pencil portrait of Frances Martha Edlin (née Voysey), a ‘Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism’ medal, 1839, plus a manuscript legal contract relating to the removal of sand from a river, [1730], signed by ‘John Bainbridge’ and others (small quantity).

AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 118mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (faintly bumped at top of spine), dust-jacket (slight rub to extremities). – And a further twenty volumes by Martin Amis, all first editions, four signed by Amis. Note: the signed volumes are ‘Time’s Arrow’, ‘London Fields’, ‘The Information’ and ‘Heavy Water and Other Stories’. ‘Visiting Mrs. Nabokov’ is a second impression (21).

STOREY, David. This Sporting Life. London: Longmans, 1960. First edition, first impression, 8vo (183 x 122mm.) (Toning, slight erasure to half-title.) Original grey cloth, dust-jacket (slight chipping to spine ends, toned to edges). Note: made into a film in 1963 by Lindsay Anderson and starring Richard Harris. – And a further six novels by David Storey, all first editions (7).

ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Unconsoled. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (232 x 149mm.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (slight lift to upper panel). – And a further four volumes by Kazuo Ishiguro, all first editions, first impressions (including ‘The Remains of the Day’, 1989, 8vo, and ‘An Artist of the Floating World’, [second state], 1986, 8vo, and ‘When We Were Orphans’, 2000, 8vo, and ‘Never Let Me Go’, 2005, 8vo) (5).

SIGNED BOOKS. – David NIVEN. Bring on the Empty Horses. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First edition, second impression, signed by David Niven, 8vo (213 x 131mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pink cloth, dust-jacket (sunning to spine). Provenance: John Coldstream, author and editor (ink inscribed to from the author). – And a further three volumes, all signed (Kenneth More’s ‘Happy Go Lucky’, 1959, 8vo, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ‘The Salad Days’, [inscribed to ‘Boo’, actress and singer Evelyn Laye], 1988, 8vo, and ‘Musical Comedy, a Story in Pictures’ by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, inscribed by Judi Dench [the dedicatee of the book], 1969, 4to) (4).

BANKS, Ian. The Wasp Factory. London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition, 8vo (215 x 132mm.) (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further ten first edition novels by Ian Banks, including two signed (‘Whit’, 1995, and ‘Dead Air’, 2002) (11).

FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth with dagger blocked in blind and silver to upper cover (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (spine ends chipped, price-clipped, small stain to spine panel). – And a further eleven volumes related to Ian Fleming (including ‘You Only Live Twice’, 1964, 8vo, and John Gardner’s ‘License Renewed’, 1981, 8vo, and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, 1964, 4to, and four first issue softbacks: two copies of ‘Thunderball’, 1963, and ‘For Your Eyes Only’, 1962, and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, 1967, and ‘You Only Live Twice’ [second issue], 1966) (12).