Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

GOLF. - Bobby JONES. Drive and Mashie; Brassie and Iron; Out the Rough and Putt. London: Flicker Productions Ltd., [n.d.] Three 'flicker' books (74 x 53mm.) Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers (worn).

BACON, Sir Francis. The Essays or Counsels, Civil & Moral… With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. Whereunto is added the Wisdome of the Ancients. Enlarged by the… Author himself; and now more exactly published. London: printed by Thomas Ratcliffe & Tho Daniel, for Humphrey Robinson, 1669. 3 parts in one volume (as published), 12mo (134 x 75mm.) Two section titles. (Lacking an engraved portrait and one preliminary leaf at the front, first title laid down and shaved and torn with some loss, two following leaves torn with loss and repaired with adhesive tape, margins close-shaved occasionally affecting the text). Old calf (worn). Wing B-286A.

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. An extract from an illuminated manuscript in Dutch, from the ?Psalms, [?Holland: ?15th Century]. 22 vellum leaves (168 x 107mm.) Each with 17 or 18 lines in a gothic hand, with small initials in red or blue throughout, and three larger liquid gold initials on decorated grounds with additional polychrome decoration. Modern grey cloth binding (1 leaf detached and loosely inserted).

[GURNEY-HOARE, Louisa.] Letters from a Work-House Boy. London: 1826. 12mo (144 x 88mm.) (Light spotting, browning and soiling.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities lightly scuffed). Note: inscription to preliminary blank.

CARTER, Matthew. Honor Rediviuus or an Analysis of Honor and Armory. London: printed for Henry Herringman, 1660. 8vo (158 x 102mm.) Engraved frontispiece, title and 5 plates only (of 7), numerous woodcut illustrations. (Lacks 2 plates, lower blank margin of title excised, foremargin of frontispiece shaved.) Old sheep (neatly rebacked with old spine laid down, later label). Wing C659.

WORDSWORTH, William (possible previous owner). - Sir John SUCKLING. [Fragmenta aurea: a collection of all the incomparable pieces [sic], written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory.] London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1658. 8vo (170 x 105mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece (cut down and mounted), numerous section titles, extensive manuscript notes in at least three different hands, some signed 'W. Wordsworth' or initialled 'W.W.' . (Lacking the first 4pp., X8, D8 and all after the final G7, some other leaves torn with loss and repaired). Old sheep (rebacked). Provenance: old attribution to William Wordsworth (various notes); George Chalmers (various notes). Note: 'These notes have been principally derived from a copy of Suckling's works, edit. 1658, purporting to have been formerly in the possession of Wordsworth. All the notes written by the poet himself are initialled W.W., or signed in full, evidently to distinguish them from notes in two other hands, those of George Chalmers and John Lawson; but the authenticity of this MS. matter has (it is right to say) been called in question. The handwriting is certainly very like Wordsworth's, which varied a good deal from time to time; but it was thought that, at any rate, these remarks, whether by Wordsworth or not, could not be without a certain value.' [W.C. Hazlett (editor)] The Poems, Plays and other Remains of Sir John Suckling a New Edition with a Copious Account of the Author Notes and an Appendix of Illustrative Pieces. London: 1874, vol. I, p.lxxii.

PETRONIUS, Titus. …Satyricon, cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum Poetarum Lusus in Priapum... concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. Amsterdam: typis Ioannis Blaeu, 1669. 2 parts. Etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe.; IntegrumTiti Petronii arbitri Fragmentum… cum apologia Marini Statilii… edition secunda. Amsterdam: apud Ioannem Blaeu, 1671. 2 parts, together: 2 works in one volume, 8vo (193 x 114mm.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, yapp fore-edge (slightly soiled and warped). Provenance: Drummond (?) (early armorial bookplate); R.L. Marston (ownership inscription, dated 1912).

HOFFMAN, F. New Experiments and Observations upon Mineral Waters… the second edition, to which is added… An Enquiry into the Contents, Virtues, and Uses of the Scarborough Spaw-Waters… by Peter Shaw. London: 1743. 8vo (190 x 120mm.) 2pp advertisement at rear. (Minor browning, preface slightly damp-stained.) Contemporary speckled calf (upper joint repaired).

GRAND TOUR. - Andrew DURY (publisher). Le Porte-Feuille necessaire a tous les Seigneurs qui font le Tour d'Italie … Il Portafoglio necessario. London: printed for A. Dury, 1774. First edition, small 8vo (190 x 125mm.) Parallel titles and text in French and Italian. 27 folding hand-coloured maps by Peter Andrews (1 general map of Italy, 26 route-maps). (Some light soiling to margins, most maps with some generally light offsetting, some maps incorrectly folded.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, marbled endpapers (worn, spine rubbed and chipped at head and foot, joints split, upper cover detached, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Viscount Sydney (armorial bookplate). Note: rare.

PATERSON, Daniel. A New and Accurate Description of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in Great Britain… twelfth edition. London: 1799. 4to (174 x 109mm.) 2 double-page engraved maps. (Some spotting or browning.) Contemporary vellum-backed boards (somewhat scuffed and discoloured). - And one other volume ('A Collection of the Acts of Parliament Now in Force for Regulating the Turnpike Roads in England. London: 1831. 8vo) (2).

[WINDUS, John]. A Journey to Mequinez; Residence of the Present Emperor of Fez and Morocco. On the Occasion of Commodore Stewart's Embassy thither for the Redemption of the British Captives in the Year 1721. London: printed for Jacob Tonson, 1725. First edition, 8vo (230 x 140mm.) 14pp. list of subscribers, 6 folding engraved plates. (Neat repairs to two plates, some spotting to all plates, lacking final blank.) Later calf gilt, marbled endpapers (worn, joints split, spine rubbed and chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Thorold family (Syston Park armorial bookplate). Gay 1294; Weber II. 490.

TURTON, William. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands by… Turton… assisted by his daughter. London: printed for John Booth, 1819. 8vo (157 x 92mm.) Title with 'transformation' vignette of a vase/pair of faces, 28 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled calf by Commins of Weymouth ticket on front pastedown), covers with gilt roll-tool border, the upper cover with centrally-place gilt initials 'H.P.' within a gilt oval, the flat spine divided into five compartments by double gilt rules, green morocco label in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, (spine rubbed, extremities scuffed).

BUCHOZ, P.J. Recueil de Secrets surs et Expérimentés, a L'Usage des Artistes… seconde edition. Paris: 1783. 3 vols. in one, 12mo (168 x 102mm.) (Some damp-staining.) Later half-roan (scuffed.) Provenance: Henry B.B. Beaufoy (bookplate); Royal College of Art Library (occasional blindstamps).

DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication… second edition, revised, fourth thousand. London: John Murray, 1875. 8vo (185 x 121mm.) Illustrations. (Occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary calf, the upper cover with centrally placed emblem for Yorkshire College (spine lightly scuffed.) Provenance: George Lee Wells (school prize certificate to front pastedown).

DODDRIDGE [or Doderidge], Sir John. The English Lawyer… expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student… London: Assignes of J. More, 1631. First edition, 4to (172 x 132mm.) Leather-backed boards, to an 18th Century style using some 18th Century materials, with the early 18th Century supralibros of Earl Poulett on a leather cartouche laid down on the front pastedown. Provenance: John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (1663-1743, supralibros); Theron Metcalf (1784-1875, US Jurist, inscription dated 1834, pencilled annotations).

HODDER, James. Hodder's Arithmetick: or, that necessary art made most easie… The one and twentieth edition. London: printed by Ric. Chiswell & Geo. Sawbridge, 1699. 12mo (142 x 80mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (B6 with paper fault hole, K9 torn with slight loss to catchword, some soiling and small marginal tears.) Old panelled sheep (worn). Provenance: Gilles Embly (inscription dated 1707, other notes); Thos. M. Rickman (inscription dated 27 Oct 1903).

SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations… the fourth edition, with additions. Dublin: 1785. 2 vols., 8vo (205 x 124mm.) (Minor browning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary tree-calf (spines rubbed and chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Arthur Hugh Smith Barry (armorial bookplate).

CLARKSON, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London: 1808. 2 vols., 8vo (212 x 125mm.) 3 plates (2 folding.) (Occasional spotting and browning, some minor offsetting.) Contemporary cloth, later lettered on the spine (spine faded, joints splitting, upper joint to vol. II repaired).

FRANKLIN, Sir John. - G.G. Noel, Lord BYRON. The Island, or Christian and his Comrades, second edition. London: printed for John Hunt, 1823. 8vo (210 x 130mm.) Half-title, 2pp. advertisement at the rear. Original blue diced calf, covers ruled in gilt, the flat spine gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e. (splits to spine, upper cover detached, lower joint rubbed). Provenance: Sophia Cracroft (presentation inscription from Sir John Franklin to his niece 'To / Maria Cracroft with / Captn Franklin's kindest regards / 2d. October 1823'.