Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

HUNTING. - Lawrence RAWSTONE. Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929. Limited de luxe edition, this being one of 125 copies, 4to (257 x 218mm.) Introduction by Eric Parker, 15 colour plates by T.J. Rawlins. (Slight spotting verso of the frontispiece). Contemporary green half-morocco, five raised bands to the spine, two red morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth compartments, repeating gilt to the rest, t.e.g. (small mark to upper cover).

AFRICA. - Paul B. DU CHAILLU. A Journey to Ashango-Land: and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa. London: John Murray, 1867. First edition, 8vo (223 x 135mm.) 3pp. a.l.s. from du Chaillu to a 'Mrs Muller' loosely inserted, 23 plates, including frontispiece and title-page vignette, folding map to rear, 32pp. publisher's advertisements. (Some spotting to the map, upper joint weakening.) Original purple cloth with gilt vignette of the plate 'Prisoner of Nchogo' to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (some sunning to spine, bumped to spine ends). Note: the letter reads 'Dear Mrs Muller, luck seems to turn against me. On my return this evening from a dinner party I found your kind letter and invitation to come and spend Sunday at Ridge-hurst waiting for me. Unfortunately I have a previous engagement to go and spend Sunday in the country, nothing could have delighted me more than to come and to pay you a visit and meet Miss McMurdo, alas I cannot do it. It was so kind of you to think of the poor forlorn stranger. It is just like you. With kindest regards to yourself and Mr Muller and to Miss McMurdo, believe me, yours very sincerely, P.B. Du Chaillu. P.S. I am so sorry I cannot come'. Provenance: Knuthenborg (bookplate to front pastedown).

AFRICA. - Abel CHAPMAN. Savage Sudan. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo (228 x 145mm.) Frontispiece, 29 plates, numerous text illustrations. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning to margins.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to both covers, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. (lightly bumped to extremities). - And three further travel related volumes (including C.M. Doughty's 'Arabia Deserta', 2 vols., 1936, 4to) (4).

BARCLAY, James. A Complete and Universal Dictionary on a New Plan. London: for Richardson and Urqhart, W. Otridge, et al, 1774. First edition, 4to (210 x 124mm.) To rear an 'Outline of Ancient and Modern History' and 2pp. on 'The Most Usual Christian Names of Men and Women'. (Toning, occasional browning, lacking initial blank, some loss to rear blank.) Contemporary black half-morocco (surface wear and loss, rubbing).

[BEWICK, Thomas and John]. Emblems of Mortality; Representing, in Upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death Seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People. London: T. Hodgson, 1789. 12mo (154 x 92mm.) Woodcut frontispiece, 51 woodcuts in the text by Thomas and John Bewick. (Browning throughout, date on title trimmed and to several leaves, text unaffected.) Near contemporary calf (some surface loss to upper cover and to spine ends, rubbing). Provenance: J. Hill (ink name to front-free endpaper).

FISHING. - Isaac WALTON and Charles COTTON. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London: for Samuel Bagster, 1808. Seventh edition, 4to (279 x 216mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, including the 2 engraved music plates. (Occasional spotting throughout, paper repair to all leaves between pp.97-122.) Contemporary straight-grain morocco, five raised bands, gilt lettering to the second compartment, elaborate gilt design to the rest, g.e. (front cover detached). - And one further volume (2).

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION. - William COXE. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. London: T. Cadell, 1785-1790. 3 vols., second edition, 4to (284 x 215mm.) 13 folding maps and plans, 13 engraved plates, 5 genealogies, 2 engraved plates within the text. (Small tear to map of Russia, some browning to maps.) Contemporary tree calf, rectangular gilt borders, green morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth compartments of the spines, gilt lettering, elaborate gilt design repeating to the rest (rubbing to extremities). Note: volume 3 is the first edition of 1790. Rarely found in three volumes. Provenance: Thomas Hutton (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (3).

WISSMAN, Hermann von. My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa, from the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. First edition in English, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) Frontispiece portrait of the author, tissue-guard, folding map in colour, 31 plates, numerous illustrations. (Mild spotting to preliminaries.) Original orange pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly bumped to spine ends).

CHURCHILL, Randolph S. Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. First edition, 8vo (219 x 138mm.) Portrait frontispiece of the author, tissue-guard, 28 plates, numerous illustrations, folding map in colour to the rear. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (lightly bumped to spine ends). Provenance: Alec P. Selby (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper).

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION. - Henry YULE. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. London: John Murray, 1921. 2 vols., third edition, 8vo (228 x 142mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous uncoloured photographic plates, folding maps and facsimiles and illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green pictorial cloth, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines, gilt lettering (bumped to spine ends). Note: the work that clarified Marco Polo's route, matching his travels as recorded in his Livre des Merveilles du Monde with present day locations. - And a further volume (Henri Cordier's 'Ser Marco Polo, notes and addenda to Sir Henry Yule's edition', 1920, 8vo) (3).

DANSEY, James Cruikshank. The English Crusaders. [London], New Bond Street: Dickinson and Co., [n.d. but 1849.] 4to (209 x 233mm.) Black letter type, numerous chromo-lithographic plates. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary black morocco, triple gilt borders, gilt lettering to spine, g.e. (light rubbing to extremities).

DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (253 x 165mm.) 3 frontispieces, numerous illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. (Toning, occasional spotting to preliminaries, spotting to endpapers.) Near contemporary calf, five raised bands to the spines, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth compartments (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Rowe Fisher-Rowe (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (3).

DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue, 8vo (186 x 124mm.) 7 heliotype plates, 3 folding, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1872. (Some spotting verso of the plates, toning, some uncut leaves, lacking half-title and rear endpaper.) Original green cloth, blind-tooled, gilt lettering to the spine (rubbed to extremities). Note: with the printing error 'htat' for 'that' on the first line of p.208, the plates numbered in Arabic. Provenance: H. Hind (ink name to the title-page).

THEATRE. - Charlotte LENNOX. The Sister: A Comedy. London: for J. Dodsley, 1769. (Some browning.) [Bound with:] [Elizabeth GRIFFITH]. The School for Rakes: A Comedy. London: for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769. (Browning, hand-written list of the plays on the front-free endpaper.) [Bound with:] [Arthur MURPHY]. The Way To Keep Him. London: for P. Vaillant, 1765. (Browning). [Bound with:] William WYCHERLY. The Plain Dealer: A Comedy. London: for W. Griffin, 1767. (Browning.) [Bound with:] [Jonathan SWIFT, 'Isaac Bickerstaff']. The Hypocrite: A Comedy. London: W. Griffin, 1769. (Browning.) [Bound with:] [Thomas KING]. Wit's Last Stake, a Farce. London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1769. Second edition. (Browning.) [Bound with:]. [Charles DIBDIN]. The Padlock: A Comic Opera. London: for W. Griffin, [n.d. but circa 1780]. (Browning, some spotting.) 7 works in 1 vol., 8vo (207 x 126mm.) Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: James Loch of Drylan (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further volume of plays (including 'Zingis' by Alexander Dow, 1769, 8vo) (2).

COOKERY. - Elizabeth RAFFALD. The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c… consisting of Several Hundred Original Receipts, most of which have Never Appeared in Print. Manchester: G. Bancks, 1798. New edition. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. (Spotting throughout, browning, small tear to one leaf.) [Bound with:] The Family Physician, containing some of the Most Approved Receipts and Opinions. Manchester: G. Bancks, 1798. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss to one or two leaves.) 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo (208 x 118mm.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities).

COOKERY. - W.A. HENDERSON. The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook… to which is added the Complete Art of Carving. London: J. Stratford, 1807. Fourteenth edition, 8vo (205 x 118mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 10 plates (1 folding). (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal loss to C2, loss with text affected to Cc1.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering to the spine, gilt lettering (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

TRAVEL. - Thomas STEVENS. Around the World on a Bicycle. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. 2 vols., first editions, 8vo (218 x 133mm.) Chromolithograph frontispiece of the author on a bicycle and a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Toning, corner creasing to a few leaves at rear of first volume.) Original pictorial cloth (bumped to upper cover of volume 2, rubbing to extremities). Note: volume 1 is subtitled 'From San Francisco to Teheran' and volume 2 is 'From Teheran to Yokohama'. Stevens rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as the Penny Farthing. He was expelled from Afghanistan, refused entry into Siberia but finally estimated that he had travelled 13,500 miles. He was the first person to cycle the globe on a bicycle. The bicycle itself was preserved by the Pope Company. However, in the 1940's it was donated as scrap metal to help the war effort (2).

KENT. - Paul AMSINCK. Tunbridge Wells, and Its Neighbourhood, illustrated in a series of Etchings and Historical Descriptions. London: William Miller, 1810. Large 4to (341 x 273mm.) 40 engraved plates, many full page, tipped-in plate on front-free endpaper. (Spotting, sometimes heavy, stamps on every plate.) Contemporary red morocco over marbled paper covers, paper label onlaid (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplates to the pastedowns). - And a further eleven volumes relating to Kent and Sussex towns (including 'The Tunbridge Wells Guide', 1796, 8vo) (12).

MURRAY, John (publisher). A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt. London: John Murray, 1875. Fifth edition, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) 5 folding maps, numerous illustrations, 76pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear dated 1877-1878. (Front and rear endpapers loose, lacking half-title, toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (soiling, rubbing.) - And a quantity of travel guides (including C.B. Black's 'Guide to the South of France, the Pyrenees and the North of Italy', 1873, 8vo) (a quantity).