Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

GROTIUS, Hugo. Argumenti Theologici, Juridici, Politici. Amsterdam: Ludvico Elzeviri, 1652. 12mo (129 x 69mm.) Printer's device to title, errata leaf to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting, remains of bookplate to front pastedown.) Contemporary vellum, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (soiling). Provenance: Henry Hawkins (ink name inscribed to front pastedown); William Parry (name inscribed to the initial blank). - And a further volume by the same author 'De Veritate Religionis Christianae', 1768, 8vo) (2).

REISKE, Jakob J. Animadversionum ad Graecos Avctores Volvmen Primum qvo Diodorus Siculus, et Ambo Diones, Chrysostomus et Cassius, Pertractantur. Leipzig: Litteris Loeperianis, 1757-1763. 4 vols., 8vo (187 x 118mm.) Titles, engraved headpieces. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) 19th century brown diced morocco, armorial gilt and borders to upper covers, gilt turn-ins (some loss to spine ends, rubbing). Note: scarce. Provenance: 'S.M.M' (initials in gilt to upper covers); Robert Smith (armorial oval bookplate to front pastedowns). - And a further eleven volumes in Latin (including another volume by Jakob J. Reiske 'Coniecturae in lobum et Proverbia Salomonis', 1779, 8vo, and Herodotus' 'Historiarum Libri 8', 1678, 8vo, and Flavius Vegetus Renatus' 'Veteres de re Militari Scriptores quotquot extant, nunc prima vice in unum redacti corpus', 1670, 8vo) (15).

MILITARY. Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army. London: H.M.S.O., 1874. 8vo (229 x 144mm.) Publisher's advertisements to endpapers. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original red blind-stamped cloth (some fading, extremities bumped). - And a further seventeen volumes relating to shooting and the military (including Hans Busk's 'Hand-book for Hythe: Comprising a Familiar Explanation of the Laws of Projectiles', 1860, 8vo, and also the 'Programme' for the 'National Rifle Association. Bisley Common', 1900, 32mo) (18).

"MILITARY. - H.M.S.O. (publisher). Handbook for the 0'303"" Maxim Machine Gun (Magazine Rifle Chamber), Mounted on Carriages, Field, Machine Gun, Cavalry and Infantry; Carriages, Parapet; Tripod and Cone Mountings. London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1901. 8vo (246 x 148mm.) Numerous plates, including 3 folding to rear, numerous illustrations. (Some pencil underlining, toning.) Original limp pink cloth covers (soiling, pencil marks to lower cover). Provenance: G. Lyon (pencil name to upper cover and initial blank). - And a further fifteen volumes related to guns (including 'Handbook of the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun Model 1915', [1916], 8vo) (16)."

HEDIN, Sven. The Wandering Lake… translated from the Swedish by F.H. Lyon. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1940. First edition, 8vo (237 x 156mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, illegible name in pencil to the front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (creasing, chipping and minor loss to margins, price-clipped, tear to spine panel). - And a further four books by Sven Hedin (including first editions of 'The Silk Road', 1938, 8vo, and 'Across the Gobi Desert', 1931, 8vo) (5).

COPWAY, G. The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851. First edition, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) Lithographed frontispiece, 6pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting and browning throughout, hinges reinforced.) Original black cloth (rebacked with original spine laid-down). - And four related volumes (5).

HEDIN, Sven. Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910-1913. 3 vols., 8vo (223 x 139mm.) Numerous photographic plates, 4 folding maps. (Occasional spotting.) Original red cloth, gilt figure to upper covers (some sunning to spines). Note: volumes 1 and 2 are second printings, the first printing was in 1909. Volume 3 is the first edition of 1913 (3).

KENEALY, Edward Vaughan. The Book of Fo. London: Englishman Office, 1878. First edition, 8vo (194 x 114mm.) Title with circumpunct symbol, illustrations in the text. (Spotting to first leaves, fore-edge and intermittently, toning.) Original maroon cloth (light rubbing to extremities, slight sunning to spine). - And a related volume (W.J. Wilkins' 'Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic', 1882, 8vo) (2).

TRAVEL. - Albert SMITH. A Month at Constantinople. London: David Bogue, 1850. First edition, 8vo (198 x 117mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text, 'Appendix', 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking frontispiece, spotting to front and rear blanks.) Near contemporary cloth-backed boards (light rubbing, spotting to lower cover). - And a further five works related to Constantinople (Théophile Gautier's 'Constantinople of Today', 1854, 8vo, and Walter Colton's 'Visit to Constantinople and Athens', 1849, 8vo, and volume 1 [of 2] of Robert Semple's 'Observations on a Journey Through Spain and Italy to Naples; and Thence to Smyrna and Constantinople', 1808, 8vo) (6).

AFRICA. - David LIVINGSTONE. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, with a cut out signature of Livingstone mounted verso the front-free endpaper, 8vo (214 x 130mm.) 3 tinted lithographed plates, including 1 folding, 1 engraved portrait plate, 20 wood-engraved plates, including 1 folding cross-section, 2 folding maps by J. Arrowsmith to rear. (Lacking publisher's advertisements, spotting to frontispiece and portrait and to margins of tinted plates, toning.) Contemporary brown half calf (detached from text-block, worn). Note: the tinted plates are the frontispiece and those opposite p.66 and p.225.

POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly. London: Richard Phillips, 1820. 4 engraved plates. (Toning.) [Bound with:] POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. Travels in Southern Epirus, Acarnia, Aetolia, Attica and Peloponesus, or the Morea, &c. &c. in the Years 1814-1816. London: Richard Phillips, 1822. 2 engraved maps, 1 folding, 1 engraved plate. (Toning, slight offsetting on folding map.) [Bound with:] FORBIN, Count. Travels in Greece, Turkey, and the Holy Land, in 1817-18. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d. circa 1820.] 6 engraved plates, including 1 folding 'View of Jerusalem'. (Toning, marginal tear to title and first text leaf.) [Bound with:] PERTUSIER, Charles. Picturesque Promenades in and Near Constantinople, and on the Waters of the Bosphorus. London: Richard Phillips, 1820. 7 engraved plates, including 2 folding and 1 double-paged folding engraved plate. (Toning.) [Bound with:] MULLER, Christian. Journey Through Greece and the Ionian Islands in June, July, and August, 1821. London: Richard Phillips and Co., 1822. (Light spotting to title.) 8vo (212 x 125mm.) Mid-20th century red calf over brown buckram-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spine (endpapers replaced, light rubbing). Note: as writer and influential diplomat, Pouqueville's interest in Greece were among the first sentiments of the early 19th century philhellene movement.

SCOTT, Walter. The Lady of the Lake. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863. 8vo (168 x 105mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by John Gilbert and Birket Foster, 8 mounted albumen photographs by G.W. Wilson, tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original red cloth with inlaid panel of wood 'from the Douglas Room of Stirling Castle, saved from fire 18th Nov 1855', g.e. (rebacked with original spine laid-down). - And a further volume (Robert Pitcairn's 'Harrow School', 1870, 8vo) (2).

MIDDLE EAST. - Charles M. DOUGHTY. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1921. 2 vols., first printing of the second edition, 8vo (219 x 137mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece, introduction by T.E. Lawrence, numerous plans and plates, some folding, colour map in pocket to rear of volume 1, illustrations in the text. (Toning.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper covers, t.e.g. (slight fading to spines, small tear to top of spine of volume 1). - And a further four volumes related to the Middle East, all by T.E. Lawrence (including the first impression of 'The Letters of T.E. Lawrence', 1938, 8vo) (6).

BELL, John (publisher). Bell's British Theatre. London: for the Proprietors, 1791-1792. 7 vols. (only). 12mo (139 x 86mm.) Engraved frontispieces and titles to each play. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Late 19th century brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing) (7).

BINDINGS. - Robert FORBY. The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk… with Proof of its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. 2 vols., 8vo (198 x 113mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Browning, minor spotting to endpapers, a newspaper obituary of the author mounted to the second blank of volume 1 with hand-written notes, and another newspaper clipping to rear endpaper of volume 2.) Mid-20th century tree calf bound by Mansell, two burgundy morocco lettering pieces to the spines, gilt borders and corner-pieces, gilt turn-ins (light rubbing) (2).

PSALMS & COMMON PRAYER. The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre by Sternhold, John Hopkins, & Others. London: Thomas Wood, for the Company of Stationers, 1726. 12mo (148 x 77mm.) Title and text ruled in red, 42 engraved plates. (Occasional soiling, several tears to plates, marginal loss to text at B8, browning.) Early 19th century straight-grain morocco (rubbing to all extremities). - And a further five volumes (including [lacking title] Joseph Hall's 'Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie', 1612, 8vo) (6).

LLOYD, David. Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, that Suffered by Death, Sequestrations, Decimation, or otherwise for the Protestant Religion, And the great Principle thereof, Allegiance to their Soveraigne, in our late Intestine Wars, from the Year 1637, to the Year 1660. With the Life and Martyrdom of King Charles I. London: Samuel Speed, 1668. First edition, 4to (294 x 178mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8pp. 'Table' bordered in black, advertisement leaf to rear. (Browning to margins, notes in manuscript hand to rear blank, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf, black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, rubbing).

RUSSIA. - Henri De WEINDEL. Histoire des Soviets. Paris: Jacques Makowsky, 1922-1923. 8 parts in 1, 4to (312 x 280mm.) Text in French, numerous mounted plates, many in colour, photographic illustrations. (Toning, illegible name to half-title, browning to margins.) Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (some rubbing, minor loss to extremities). Note: comprises all 8 issues.

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and With the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. London: Charles Bill, 1706. 4to (268 x 195mm.) Engraved additional title, historiated initials, titles ruled in red and black, separate NT title, text ruled in red, with Apocrypha, genealogical notes in manuscript to initial blank, 27pp. index to rear. (Toning, spotting to blank, lacking rear blank.) Early 19th century black morocco, gilt rectangles with corner-pieces to covers, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Bracebridge, Atherstone Hall (bookplates to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).