Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

[EUER, Samson.] A System of Pleading, including a Translation of the Doctrina Placitandi; or, the Art and Science of Pleading… by a Gentleman of the Middle Temple. London: William Owen, 1771. 4to (260 x 200mm.) (Light browning, occasional minor damp-staining, spotting or soiling.) Contemporary calf (extremities bumped and scuffed, lettering piece to spine rubbed with minor loss, slightly soiled). Provenance: T. Holt White (inscription dated '1792' to front-free endpaper); John Pearson (inscription dated '1802' to front-free endpaper).

LOW, Chas. Rathbone. Her Majesty's Navy Including its Deeds and Battles. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited, [n.d. but circa 1885] 3 vols., 4to (276 x 204mm.) Chromolithographed frontispieces and additional decorative titles to each volume, 40 chromolithographed plates (?only). (Light browning, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary half-morocco, g.e. (extremities scuffed and lightly bumped, cloth damp-stained and slightly soiled).

PINELLI, Bartolomeo. Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi. Rome: Lorenzo Lazzari, 1809. [Bound with:] Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi De' Contorni di Roma. Rome: Gio. Scudellari, 1823. 2 vols. in 1, oblong folio (270 x 398mm.) First work: 49 (of 50) engraved plates; second work: 47 (of 50) engraved plates. (Heavy damp-staining affecting plates, some spotting and light browning.) Contemporary vellum elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt gauffered edges (browning, slightly soiled).

[WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy] 'Bernard BLACKMANTLE'. The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous… Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (232 x 138mm.) 71 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispieces, 1 wood-engraved plate of the 'Five Orders', numerous wood engraved illustrations. (Light browning, some offsetting, spotting and occasional minor soiling, neat repairs to p.iii and p.107 in vol. I also title and p.213 in vol. II.) Later full crushed morocco, by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat foliate decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly bumped). Provenance: Hugh Sartorius Whitaker (armorial bookplate to front pastedowns); Peter & Margery Morris (bookplate to front-free endpapers); S. Davies (inscriptions to front pastedowns).

BAYNES, Pauline (illustrator). An original book cover design for the Puffin Book version of 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton published by Penguin Books. [N.p.:n.d.] Gouache and watercolour (190 x 240mm.) mounted on a larger board, signed and inscribed in pencil, lettered overlay. (Minor soiling.) Unframed.

GROSE, Francis, and Thomas ASTLE. The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage… Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times… a new edition. London: Edward Jeffery, 1807-1809. 4 vols., 4to (295 x 246mm.) 226 engraved plates (6 folding), 4 aquatints, 1 folding table only. (Light browning, occasional spotting, marginal tears with minor loss to p.61 of vol. II and p.209 to vol. III, lacking hand-coloured double-page plate of the Great Fire of London to vol. II.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities bumped and scuffed, joints split, upper-cover and first few leaves of vol. IV detached). Provenance: R.S.G. (label with monogram to front pastedowns).

WILLOUGHBY, Véra (illustrator). The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. London: Peter Davies, 1925. Limited edition, this number 462, large 8vo (295 x 229mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original boards (extremities bumped and scuffed), dust-jacket (torn with loss). - And two other limited edition illustrated volumes (3).

ALASTAIR (illustrator). - Oscar WILDE. The Sphinx. London & New York: John Lane, 1920. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this number 306, 4to (300 x 224mm.) Frontispiece, 9 plates, numerous illustrations. (Browning, some offsetting, occasional minor spotting or soiling, marginal tears without loss to p.23 and p.25.) Original pictorial cloth blocked in blue and gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and scuffed, slightly browned and soiled). - And one other limited edition volume of drawings by Alastair (2).

COWARD, Noël. The Noël Coward Song Book. London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, 4to (287 x 221mm.) Colour frontispiece, 4 colour plates. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped, slightly browned and soiled). Note: signed by Noël Coward to title-page.

LOWRY, L.S. The Discovery of L.S. Lowry. London: 1951. 4to (247 x 185mm.) Illustrations, a few colour. Original cloth (endpapers spotted), dust-jacket (small tears with minor loss). Note: signed by Lowry and dated 1951 to front-free endpaper.

SOUTHBY, Logi. The White Dragon. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934. First edition, 4to (305 x 237mm.) 10 colour plates, 10 additional plates in pocket at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor soiling.) Original pictorial cloth blocked in white (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Jean (presentation inscription to preliminary blank).

CUVIER, Georges. The Animal Kingdom. London: William S. Orr & Co., 1854. 8vo (250 x 164mm.) Hand-coloured frontispiece, additional decorative title, numerous plates and illustrations. (Some browning and occasional spotting.) Contemporary green half-morocco, spine gilt (corners bumped). Provenance: school prize certificate to front pastedown. - And one other leather-bound volume (2).

GORDON, Pat. Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, the Geographical Grammar… the fourth edition corrected, and somewhat enlarged. London: S. and J. Sprint et al., 1704. 8vo (171 x 110mm.) Title in red and black, 16 double-page engraved maps. (Light browning, occasionally heavy, some light spotting, minor tear without loss to title, minor marginal tear without loss to map opposing p.78.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands (extremities bumped and scuffed, lettering piece to spine lacking, upper-cover detached, stitching weak). Provenance: Thomas Wentworth (signed and dated '1707' to front pastedown); William Charles de Meuron (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).

DERHAM, W. Astro-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens… the sixth edition. London: W. Innys, 1731. 8vo (197 x 120mm.) 3 engraved folding plates at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting, plates slightly soiled.) Contemporary speckled panelled-calf (extremities bumped and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: Wm. Shethers (inscription to front pastedown).

STOPES, Marie Carmichael. Married Love, a New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties… fifteenth edition. London: [n.d. but circa 1925.] Limited edition of 540 copies, this number 9, 8vo (223 x 145mm.) Portrait frontispiece. (Occasional spotting.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine bumped), dust-jacket (creased and torn with minor loss). Provenance: 'Niss' (presentation inscription to front-free endpaper 'To dear Niss, with the author's love, Xmas 1925'). Note: signed by the author below frontispiece.

ARMSTRONG, W.E. Rossel Island, an Ethnological Study. Cambridge: 1928. 8vo (220 x 138mm.) Plates and illustrations. (Some spotting, occasionally heavy.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). Provenance: 'The Hunts' (presentation inscription 'To the Hunts with love from the author, March 1928' to front-free endpaper). - And one other volume by Armstrong ('Saving and Investment', London: 1936. 8vo) (2).

MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING. - Wilfrid NOYCE. South Col, One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953. Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. First edition, 8vo (213 x 138mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Some browning and spotting.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (browning, small tears repaired with tape). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to mountaineering (a quantity).

ROLT, L.T.C. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Biography. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1957. First edition, 8vo (222 x 145mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (minor nicks to backstrip, price-clipped). - And a quantity of others relating to engineering, transport and industrial archaeology (a quantity).

ORWELL, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition, 8vo (203 x 131mm.) (Light browning.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped with some light browning). - And a quantity of other volumes of poetry, fiction and biography (a quantity).