Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CARY, John. Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down, All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals… London: J. Cary, June 11th 1794. 4to (319 x 247mm.) Engraved title, dedication, engraved hand-coloured general map, diagram to illustrate scale, 76 engraved hand-coloured sections, 85pp. 'List of Places', 3pp. 'List of Subscribers'. (Mild toning, lacking 5 'blank' sections for the 'German Ocean', presumably as issued.) Contemporary marbled wallet-style calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some wear to extremities).

LEWIS, Samuel (publisher). An Atlas, Comprising Maps of the Several Counties, Divided into Unions, and of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man; with a Map of England and Wales, and a Plan of London and Its Environs. London: S. Lewis and Co., 1842. 4to (282 x 214mm.) Engraved folding map of England and Wales with contemporary outline colouring, an uncoloured engraved folding plan of London, and 42 engraved maps including 13 folding. (Minor spotting verso maps, marginal crease to 'Yorkshire', toning.) Original black blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

MOTORING. Marmon Cars at the Show. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, [1918.] Folio (327 x 249mm.) 10 plates tipped-in, 4 in colour. (One plate with small corner crease, toning.) Original reversed half calf boards, gilt lettering (damp-staining to lower cover and slightly to upper cover, scuff marks, spine ends rubbed). Note: an invitation brochure to the new series Marmon 34 exhibition, 1918. Provenance: Mrs. Allen Anderson (gilt name to upper cover). - And a further nineteen motoring and commercial motoring brochures (including Tristan Bernard's 'Une Visite Chez Berliet a Lyon', 1908, 4to, and 'Packard Motor Trucks', 1920, folio, and 'The Packard Standard Eight', 1928, loose-leaf) (20).

MOTORING. Cadillac Motor Cars, a Pictorial Presentation of Modern Coachcraft as Interpreted in Cars. Detroit, Michigan: Cadillac Motor Car Company, 1928. Oblong folio (228 x 334mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original card covers, original paper envelope (torn along folds, crayon date on upper panel). - And a small quantity of brochures relating to motor cars (including 'Cadillac V-16', [circa 1931], oblong folio, and 'Cadillac, for 1955', [1954], 4to, and also a book relating to aviation by Louis M. Massuger's 'Livre d'Or de la Société Française Hispano-Suiza', 1924, 4to) (small quantity).

PSYCHOLOGY. - SANDOZ (publisher). Psychopathology and Pictorial Expression. [Switzerland:] Sandoz, 1964-1971. 8 vols. Folio (318 x 234mm) Staple-bound text leaves, numerous loose-leaf colour plates showing representations of mental states. (Toning.) Contained within white card portfolios (browned to margins, occasional mark, extremities rubbed). Note: comprises series 4-10 and no.16. Series 4: Giulio Carlo Argan and Carlo Traversa's 'Children's Drawings and their Bearing on the Doctor-patient Relationship'; Series 5: Th. Spoerri's 'Adolf Wolfli's Picture World'; Series 6: W. Baeyer and H. Hafner's 'Prinzhorn's Basic Work on the Psychopathology of the 'Gestaltung'; Series 7: Gonzalo R. Lafora's 'Oriental Features in the Paintings of an Uneducated Spanish Schizophrenic'; Series 8: E. Cunningham Dax's 'The Pictorial Representation of Depression'; Series 9: Count Wittgenstein's 'The Element Picture Series and Their Use on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy'; Series 10: Honorio Delgado's 'A Schizophrenic Painter- a Doubly Favourable Outcome'; Series 16: 'Paintings by Alcoholics' (8).

ART REFERENCE. - Fernand MOURLOT. Picasso Lithographe. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, Editions du Livre, 1956. Part III (only), 4to (321 x 242mm.) Colour lithograph frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Toning to margins, a wave to the text throughout, pp.11-13 and last leaves with damp creasing.) Original wrappers, original lithograph covers printed in black (unattached to text-block, some damp-staining to lower cover, minor wear to spine ends). Note: the frontispiece and the cover are two original lithographs made by Picasso for this work. - And a further four volumes (including two volumes edited by Milton S. Fox: 'Picasso For Vollard', 1956, 4to, and 'Picasso, Recent Etchings, Lithographs, and Linoleum Cuts', 1966, 4to) (5).

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second issue, 8vo (179 x 108mm.) 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1855. (Toning, two quires loose, light spotting to endpapers.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (some loss to spine ends). - And a quantity of approximately ninety-five further editions of Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha', many illustrated (including 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustrated by George H. Thomas, 1860, 4to, and Walt Disney's 'Hiawatha', 1938, folio, and 'Hiawatha' illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1906, 4to, and 'The Player's Edition' of 'The Song of Hiawatha' with illustrations of Wa-ya-ga-mug and the Indian Players from photographs by Grace Chandler Horn, 1911, 4to) (a quantity).

GIBSON, Charles Dana. Americans. New York and London: R.H. Russell and John Lane, 1901. First edition, oblong folio (288 x 430mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. (minor spotting to covers), original publisher's box (worn). - And a further three volumes by Charles Dana Gibson (including 'Our Neighbours', 1905, oblong folio) (4).

LABORDE, Jean Benjamin de. Description Générale et Particuliè de la France. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Ph. D. Pierres, 1781. Vol. 1 (only, of 12). Folio (5640 x 352mm.) Half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces, 40 plates on 24 sheets, including 1 folding. (Some browning, lacking initial blank.) Contemporary boards (worn). Note: Laborde's work was conceived 'as the history of the manners and customs of the French people and the geography and natural history of the different French regions' (Millard).

GENEALOGY. - Charles A. MAUNSELL and Edward Philips STATHAM. History of the Family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel). London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co., 1917-1920. 2 vols. in 3. 4to (283 x 214mm.) Numerous photographic plates. (Mild toning.) Original blue half morocco, t.e.g. (discoloured, rubbed). Provenance: Elsie H. Waller-Bridge (ink name inscribed on the front-free endpaper). - And a further seven volumes related to genealogy (including 'Armorial Families' edited by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 2 vols., 1929-1930, 4to) (10).

MILLAR, E.G. (intro.) The Luttrell Psalter. London: Printed for the Trustees, 1932. Folio (446 x 318mm.) 2 colour plates, numerous black and white plates. (Mild toning.) Original beige cloth (lightly bumped spine ends).

SCOTT, William Bell. Ornamental Designs for Brass, Iron, and Glass Work, Earthenware, &c. Edinburgh and London: A. Fullarton & Co., [circa 1845.] Folio (380 x 268mm.) 13pp. 'Essay on Ornamental Art', 48 lithographed plates. (Occasional light spotting, three plates to rear heavily spotted, margins browned, rear blank torn.) Original cloth (spine worn, rubbed and covers discoloured). Note: scarce.

MANUSCRIPT. [A 'Visitors Book' for The Bruton Galleries, Bond Street, London, n.p.: 1904-1936.] 113pp., manuscript, folio (283 x 245mm.) 113pp. of hand-written names and addresses, recto only, being approximately 2000 names including numerous members of the 'Discovery' expedition, including Ernest Shackleton, Edward A. Wilson, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, Clement Markham, Ernest E Joyce, and three Shackleton family members, two of them from the '12, West Hill' address, as well as Ellen Terry, Walter Jerrold, Baden-Powell, and Maria Ameila, Queen of Portugal, also a section of names under 'Hunting Exhibition- March 1936', numerous blank leaves to rear. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: Bruton Galleries opened in 1904 and closed in 1907, having held exhibitions of the work of Beardsley, Austin Spare, Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Gordon Craig. One of the Bruton Galleries first exhibitions was of the 'Discovery/ Antarctic' expedition. The crew returned home in February 1904 and the exhibition, showing sketches, photographs and objects, opened in November of the same year.

BAYEUX TAPESTRY. - Society of ANTIQUARIES (publisher). Vetusta Monumenta aquae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini. [London:] Society of Antiquaries, 1821-1904. Vols. 6-7 part 1-3 (only) of 7 vols. in 4 vols., elephant folio (561 x 390mm.) 62 engraved and lithographed plates, many double-paged and hand-coloured, including engraved plates by James Basire of the 'Bayeux Tapestry', being plates 1-17 of vol. 6. (Plate XXXIX with repair, one Bayeux Tapestry plate with small repaired tear and marginal paper repair, toning.) Early 20th century half morocco for vol. 6 and vol. 7 part 1, original paper wrappers for vol. 7 part 2-3 (rubbing to extremities, corner creasing to wrappers). Provenance: Norwich County Council Reference Library (vol. 6 part 1) (embossed stamps to plate margins, label to front pastedown); Kingston Upon Hull Library (vol. 6 part 2) (embossed stamp to plate margins, label to front pastedown) (4).

HOYO, Josep del and Andrew ELLIOTT and Jordi SARGATAL (editors). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992-2002. 7 vols., 4to (309 x 238mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jackets (sunning to spine panels of vol. 1 and 2). - And a further three volumes published by Lynx Edicions (including 'The Illustrated Check-List of the Birds of the World', 2 vols., 2014-2016, 4to, and 'Bird Families of the World', 2015, 4to) (10).

BIRDS. - Hadoram SHIRIHAI. The Birds of Israel. London: Academic Press, 1996. 4to (270 x 216mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twenty-seven volumes relating to birds (including T.J. Roberts' 'The Birds of Pakistan', 2 vols., 1991, 4to) (28).

CRAMP, Stanley (editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic. Bedfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1977-1994. 9 vols., limited RSPB edition of 5000 copies, 4to (255 x 197mm.) Numerous illustrations by many artists, including Robert Gilmour and Peter Scott, many in colour. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jackets (creasing to spine panels). - And a further twenty-seven volumes relating to birds (36).

BIRDS. - Michel THEVENOT and Rae VERNON and Patrick BERGIER. The Birds of Morocco. Herts, Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2003. First edition, 8vo (245 x 156mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Pictorial boards. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five further volumes related to birds (including Hadoram Shirihai and Gabriel Gargallo and Andreas J. Helbig's 'Sylvia Warblers', 2001, 8vo) (a quantity).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Susan COOPER. Over Sea, Under Stone. London: Folio Society, 2011. 8vo (221 x 149mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original turquoise cloth-backed boards, slipcase (some fading). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations', 2002, 8vo) (44).