Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ERASMUS. Tomus Primus Paraphraseon… in Novum Testamentum, videlicet in quatuor Euangelia & acta apostolorum. Paris: Perri Regnault, 1540. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (134 x 87mm.) 2 parts with separate titles, Regnault elephant woodcut printer's device to both titles, 22 woodcut illustrations in the text. (Toning, front and rear blanks replaced, damp-staining from title to f1.) 18th century tooled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (damp-stain to covers, endpapers replaced). Note: Erasmus wrote his paraphrase of the New Testament between 1517 and 1524 (with the exception of 'Revelations'). It was received to great acclaim and an English translation was made in 1548 and ordered to be placed in all parish churches, next to the Bible.

BIBLE, In English. The Bible Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages. London: Robert Barker, 1608. 'Geneva' Bible. Black letter, double-column, OT title with wood-engraved border with heart-shaped centre, with Apocrypha, separate NT title dated 1608, with 'Booke of Common Prayer'. (J3 with burn mark, ink stain to P5, minor soiling to Dd3, numerous marginal paper repairs, lacking title to 'Booke of Common Prayer', brief family genealogy in manuscript to E8, front and rear blanks replaced.) [Bound with:] 'Two right profitable and fruitful Concordances'. London: Robert Barker, 1608. (Browning, minor soiling.) [Bound with:] 'Whole Booke of the Psalmes'. London: Company of the Stationers, 1608. (Lacking several leaves at rear, last leaf G6 laid-down, marginal paper repairs.) 4to (219 x 154mm.) Near contemporary blind-stamped calf, later bosses and clasps (rebacked). [Herbert 293.]

BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Newly Translated out of the original Greek: and with former translations diligently compared and revised. London: Roger Norton, 1651. 12mo (140 x 79mm.) NT only, title with decorative woodcut border, red-lined, double column. (Browning, occasional minor soiling, trimming, marginal loss to first text leaf, Gg9.) Near contemporary calf (rubbing to all extremities). Note: scarce, not in Herbert.

CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Romish Mass-Book, faithfully Translated into English with Notes and Observations Thereupon; Plainly Demonstrating the Idolatry and Blasphemy thereof… with Unanswerable Arguments Proving it No Service of God. London: George Larkin, 1683. 12mo (143 x 79mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 2pp. advertisement leaf to rear. (Browning, minor soiling, frontispiece detached, B6 trimmed, lacking front blank?) Contemporary calf (joints split, some spine loss). Provenance: Charles Burstow, 'Ivories House', Horley Station (stamp verso the frontispiece and on front pastedown).

BULKLEY, Edward. A Sermon Preached the 30th of January last at Bletsoe… Concerning the doctrine of the Sacrament of Christes body and blood. London: by John Wolfe for George Bishop, 1586. 8vo (131 x 84mm.) Title with allegorical woodcut border, black letter, woodcut initial and headpiece. (Title detached, with repair verso and corner loss, text-block cracked at F7 and detached, near contemporary marginal annotation, some underlining, missing two leaves at the rear.) Early 19th century half calf (worn).

JACOMB, C.E. Torment (A study in Patriotism). London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd., 1920. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author, 8vo (186 x 121mm.) Title, 6pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear, biographical clipping mounted to front pastedown, review tipped-in verso the front-free endpaper. (Browning to margins, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (creasing to spine ends, small tear to base of spine panel). Note: scarce. A critique of the military and British society written after the author's experiences during the First World War. Provenance: the author's parents (gift inscribed to in ink on the front-free endpaper).

MILITARY. - Dorothy LAWRENCE. Sapper Dorothy Lawrence. London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1919. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) 5 photographic plates. (Lacking front-free endpaper, ink mark on p.65, ink note verso frontispiece.) Original green cloth (small marks to upper cover). Note: an account of the author's experiences on the front line near Loos where, having elaborately dressed up as a male soldier, she undertook mining work with the Royal Engineers. Fearful of the consequences she soon gave herself up and, arrested and interrogated as a spy, she was eventually deported back to England.

SEAWEED. - [An album of specimens from Jersey algae. N.p.: circa 1860.] 84pp., manuscript, 4to (235 x 149mm.) 137 specimens of seaweed and other marine plants mounted recto only on 84 leaves, mounted captions in manuscript and printed detailing the Latin name and classification, poem mounted verso the front-free endpaper. (Browning, occasional creasing and minor soiling.) Contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (fading and rubbing extremities, joints splitting).

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 1998. Uncorrected Proof Copy, 8vo (198 x 127mm.) (Toning.) Original blue and white printed wrappers (slight creasing and small mark to upper cover).

LONDON. A True and Faithful Account of the Several Informations Exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament, to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of London. [London:] 1667, 4to (187 x 123mm.) Title with single line border, 32pp. (Marginal damp-staining, chipped margins.) 20th century brown morocco-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (minor soiling to upper cover). Note: collates A4-D4.

BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out of the Original Greek, and with former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: University Printers, 1696. 12mo (122 x 60mm.) Title double-ruled in red and ruled throughout, double-column. (Browning, some trimming.) 18th century boards with silver corner-pieces and silver oval centre-piece with garland engraving, silver bosses and clasps, g.e. (endpapers replaced, frayed silk to boards). Note: not listed in Herbert.

AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: George Allen, 1894. First 'Peacock' edition, 8vo (180 x 116mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. (Spotting to preliminaries and some rear leaves, toning.) Original green pictorial cloth, g.e. (spine lean, light rubbing, minor mark to lower cover).

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Liber Amoris. [n.d. circa 1900.] 13pp., manuscript, small folio (209 x 138mm.) Vellum paper, title in red with a vignette of red and gold, decorative initial with gold lettering, elaborate varicoloured depiction of Jesus with decorative and landscape background and gold lettering, calligraphic manuscript in blue of religious excerpts with gold initials. (Leaves loose, toning.) Contemporary decorative cloth-covered boards (unstitched, slight fading).

JONES, Owen (illuminator). The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's. [London:] Longman & Co., 1849. 4to (201 x 134mm.) 32 chromolithographed pages illuminated by Owen Jones. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original decorative blind-stamped calf, g.e. (light rubbing).

BINDING. - [Robert Isaac CRUIKSHANK.] Lessons of Thrift, published for General Benefit, by a Member of the Save-all Club. London: for Thomas Boys, 1820. First edition, 8vo (242 x 141mm.) Hand-coloured engraved title, 12 hand-coloured etched plates, 2pp. advertisement leaf to rear. (Blanks replaced.) 20th century green morocco bound by Andree M. Clarke with brown, tan and gold morocco inlays to both covers [Tooley 165].

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written journal of a four and a half month tour of Northern France and Jersey. N.p.:] 1827. Vol. 2 (only). 99pp., manuscript, 8vo (194 x 122mm.) A mostly legible retrospective account of a journey around Montagne, Caen, Granville and a voyage to Jersey, noting architecture, chapels and churches, the characteristics of the French and the English, with a 3pp. index of events to the rear. (Mild toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to all extremities). Note: the unnamed narrator, of no obvious gender, writes with insight- and sometimes high irony- with a literary sensibility attuned to the significance of incidental moments: the risk of 'dislocating' your neck on the rough roads, the fascination of meeting a 'maniac' on his way to the asylum, an ex-soldier who clearly has 'deep and powerful feelings'. There are visits to churches and convents, and La Trappe monastery where the narrator is unimpressed by the vow of silence, and feels 'the chilling influence of these living dead'. There's a keen awareness of the Englishman abroad, someone who behaves with 'jealousy and mistrust' as if 'for the maintenance of his imaginary dignity'. On meeting a West Country farmer and his wife holidaying in France, the narrator relates how appalled the farmer was at the French inability to understand English, or accept orders, and how 'this truly original pair' became their companions 'in our flight from the dullness and disappointment of Granville'.

CHAP BOOK. - G. MARTIN (publisher). [Hand-coloured vignettes with quatrains describing the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.] London: G. Martin, [circa 1815.] 32mo (108 x 100mm.) 12 hand-coloured vignettes with quatrains. (Browning, minor soiling.) Original wrappers (sewn repair, chipping). Note: at the end Napoleon is banished to Elba.

BELLICARD, Jerome Charles [and Charles COCHIN.] Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius. London: for D. Wilson, and T. Durham, 1753. First edition, 8vo (190 x 119mm.) 42 copper-engraved plates, 3pp. index., with two sections from the second edition bound-in with a separate title dated 1756. (Browning, minor soiling to margins of several plates, lacking blanks.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: J. Watson (name inscribed to the title-page).

[BOOTH, John.] The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign. London: for John Booth, 1817. 2 vols., tenth edition, 8vo (213 x 129mm.) 6 hand-coloured folding maps, a hand-coloured panoramic folding sketch, 34 etched plates. (Lacking 2 folding etched plates, large paper repair to 1 map, toning, occasional creasing, minor soiling.) Contemporary calf (loss to top of spine of volume 2, surface wear to all covers, extremities heavily rubbed) (2).