Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written administrative ledger and account book for the Rape of Arundel. N.p.:] Sussex: 1655-1663, manuscript, 4to (224 x 156mm.) 126pp. in a partly legible, mostly single hand relating to land contracts and borders with 17pp. bound-in at rear relating to tithes collected and expenditure, 5 blanks leaves to front and 15 to rear, several loose manuscript inserts with one relating to the Duke of Norfolk. (Loss to top corner of first thirty leaves, text affected, some damp-staining and browning, wormholes to first blank leaves.) Original vellum (minor wormholes to upper cover and spine).

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written book of extensive student notes on a course of eighty-eight lectures on anatomy. N.p.:] October 1822, manuscript, 8vo (240 x 202mm.) Comprising 206pp. in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper with an ‘1819’ watermark, written mostly recto with 24pp. to rear written verso too, several blank leaves to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary half calf (light rubbed, minor scuffing to spine). Note: while there’s no mention of a particular teacher or university or medical school, the student does refer to many contemporary teachers of anatomy such as Alexander Monroe, John Hunter, William Cooper, Edward Stanley and Percival Pott as well as medical scientists such as Jenner and Haller. These are comprehensive and detailed notes covering bones, the blood, the liver, the eyes, the brain, the veins, the thorax, the pelvis, as well as numerous case studies of accidents and diseases and their treatments. The notes have an immediacy that suggests they were written quickly, but overall the past tense is used so it’s not likely they were written while attending a live autopsy. Provenance: J. Parsons (ink name and address to initial blank).

MANUSCRIPT. – William IVORY. [A manuscript catalogue for William Ivory’s library at St. Roque House, Edinburgh. N.p.: circa 1862.] 474pp., manuscript, 8vo (313 x 183mm.) 211 leaves listing book titles and authors in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper, recto only, several leaves with annotations verso, 26 leaves blank. (Spotting to first and last leaves.) 18th century calf, t.e.g. (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Note: William Ivory was a lawyer and member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was known for organising plant-finding expeditions and the catalogue contains several pages devoted to botanical books.

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes and London: Sussex Press, Baxter and Nichols and Son, 1835. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (319 x 247mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding maps, 54 engraved plates, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text, ‘Subscriber’s Copy’ label to front pastedown. (Spotting to plate margins, light marginal spotting to text.) Maroon half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later black morocco lettering pieces (rebacked). Provenance: Herbert Lawrence (bookplates to front pastdowns). – And a further ten volumes, mostly related to Sussex (including Mark Anthony Lower’s ‘Sussex; Being an Historical, Topographical, and General Description of every Rape, Hundred, River, Town, Borough, Parish, Village, Hamlet, Castle, Monastery, and Gentleman’s Seat in that County’, 1831, 8vo, and Henry Burstow’s ‘Reminiscences of Horsham’, 1911, 8vo, and Robert Phillips’ ‘A Geological, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Borough of Reigate and Surrounding District’, 1885, 8vo, and also W.H. Davenport Adams’ ‘Lighthouses and Lightships’, 1875, 8vo) (12).

PEEL, Jonathan. The Manor of Knowlmere. It’s History and Owners. Preston: George Toulmin & Sons, Limited, 1913. Limited edition, ‘For Private Circulation Only’, 8vo (221 x 138mm.) Half-title, 15 mounted photographic plates, 2 folding genealogies to rear. (Toning, one genealogy browned with marginal chipping.) Original blue cloth, silver gilt lettering to spine (endpapers browned). Provenance: Robert Peel (ink name to front-free endpaper); by descent from the Peel family. – And a further seven volumes (including Joseph Foster’s ‘Pedigrees of the County Families of England: Lancashire’, vol. 1 [only], 1873, 4to, and, edited by George Peel, ‘The Private Letters of Sir Robert Peel’, 1920, and ‘Merrie Conceited Jests, of George Peel & Gentleman, Sometime Student in Oxford’,1809, 4to) (8).

GREAT EXHIBITION. Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which The Exhibition was Divided. London: for the Royal Commission by William Clowes & Sons, 1852. ‘Presentation Copy’, large 8vo (257 x 164mm.) Title, 3 chromolithographed plates. (Browning.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, decorative gilt to spine and covers, g.e. (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Note: ‘Presentation’ copies were given to every exhibitor at the Great Exhibition.

SUSSEX. – Edward HERON-ALLEN. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (307 x 246mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, corner crease to frontispiece ‘B’ and small tear to plate 42.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (some spotting to lower cover, minor finger-marks and small stain to upper cover). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

VIRTUE, George & Co. (publisher). The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Virtue, [1868.] 12 vols., 4to (275 x 179mm.) 68 colour lithographed maps, additional engraved titles, tissue-guards. (Mild toning.) Original blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt (extremities rubbed, some damp-staining to covers) (12).

BINDINGS. – Walter SCOTT. The Waverley Novels. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877-1879. 48 vols., 8vo (169 x 108mm.) Titles in red and black, half-titles, engraved frontispieces and additional titles, illustrations. (Toning.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt thistles to spine compartments (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Note: complete (48).

BRYCE, David (publisher). – William SHAKESPEARE. The Illustrated Pocket Shakespeare Complete With Glossary... edited by J. Talfourd Blair. Glasgow: David Bryce, [1886.] 8 vols., 32mo (89 x 60mm.) Illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original limp red cloth, gilt lettering to spines, g.e., contained within original folding box (some staining, scuffing) (box).

BRITAIN. – Francis GROSE. The Antiquities of England and Wales. London: Hooper & Wigstead, [1783]-1797. 8 vols., large paper copies, new edition, 4to (341 x 230mm.) Engraved folding map, numerous plates, plans, views and county maps. (Toning, light spotting to title of vol. 4.) Contemporary brown full calf, blind-tooled and gilt borders (five boards detached, lightly rubbed). – And a further six volumes of Grose’s ‘Antiquities’ in large paper editions, [six boards detached] (‘The Antiquities of Scotland’, 2 vols., 1797, 4to, and ‘The Antiquities of Ireland’, 2 vols., 1791, 4to, and ‘Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army’, 2 vols., 1812). Provenance: John Deacon (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (14).

WALPOOLE, George Augustus. The New British Traveller; or, a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland: being a new, complete, accurate, and extensive tour… London: Alex Hogg, 1784. Folio (390 x 243mm.) Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, 42 engraved maps on twenty sheets, 108 engraved topographical plates, ‘List of Subscribers’ to rear. (Occasional marginal damp-staining, lacking 1 folding map, creasing to 1 folding map, last leaf loose, paper repair to one plate.) Contemporary calf (lower cover detached, spine panel with some loss, extremities rubbed). – And a further four volumes (including [‘Harmsworth’s Atlas and Gazetteer’], [circa 1910], folio, and V. Le Blanc and Charles Armengaud’s ‘The Engineer and Machinist’s Drawing-Book’, 1860, folio, and James Elmes’ ‘Metropolitan Improvements, or London in the 19th Century’, 1827, folio) (5).

PHOTO-BOOK. Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] First edition, 4to (284 x 220mm.) 2 tipped-in gelatin silver prints on card, 8 tipped-in black and white plates on black card, 11 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, advertisements to rear. (Corner loss to p.105 and tear to p.255, some corner creases to plates, a marginal tear to a gelatin print, pp.7-8 loose, toning, lacking ‘List of Tables’ to rear.) Original green cloth (some staining, fading, wear to spine ends). – And a further two related volumes (including Ernest Schulbe’s ‘Cake Decoration, Illustrated with Photographically Reproduced Full Sized Engravings of Designs of Cake Tops, Sides, and Ornaments’, 1901, 4to) (3).

WINE. – Louis LARMAT (editor). Atlas de la France Vinicole. Paris: Larmat, [1949.] Folio (313 x 245mm.) Text in French, English, German and Spanish, colour maps of the Vineyards, including 6 folding, photographic illustrations, four related inserts. (Mild toning.) Original card covers (toning, corner creases). Note: the world’s first national wine atlas published under the auspices of national and regional bodies but primarily the Comité National des appellations d’ origine des Vins et Eaux de Vie. This volume on the wines of burgundy was the first of six volumes.

COOKERY. – Joseph. A. LAMBETH. Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries… with a Foreword by John J. N. Mackman. London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, 4to (304 x 226mm.) 30 colour plates, numerous black and white plates, 4pp. advertisements to front and 8pp. advertisements to rear, index. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original embossed red cloth (lightly rubbed extremities).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands Adjacent… Enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough. London: for John Stockdale, 1806. 4 vols., second edition, folio (421 x 262mm.) Half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 52 engraved folding maps, including 50 hand-coloured, 1 folding pedigree of Oliver Cromwell, 5 further engraved maps, 106 engraved plates, including 8 folding, numerous illustrations in the text. (Occasional spotting and browning, some offsetting to a few plates.) Near contemporary full morocco, gilt ruled (volume one boards detached, some joints worn). Provenance: Richard Oliver (bookplates to front pastedowns); Alex Bridge (bookplate to front pastedown of volume one) (4).

CAMDEN, William. Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements… by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. and J. Churchill, 1695. Folio (427 x 389mm.) 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 7 engraved plates of coins, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text, including ‘Stonehenge’, index and appendix to rear. (Title, dedication and frontispiece loose with marginal tears, marginal staining to first leaves of ‘Preface’, a crease to ‘Devon’ and tear along central crease of ‘Middlesex’ and creasing to ‘Shropshire’, occasional light spotting.) Later boards (detached, worn).

MILITARY. – Samuel Rush MEYRICK. A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as It Existed in Europe, But Particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. London: by G. Schulze for Robert Jennings, 1824. 3 vols., large 4to (348 x 267mm.) Additional engraved titles, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 10 black and white engraved plates, 26 hand-coloured initials heightened in gold. (Additional titles with heavy spotting, titles browned, blanks with spotting, occasional offsetting.) Contemporary black half morocco (upper cover of vol. 2 detached, all extremities rubbed). Provenance: Alfred William Cox (bookplate to front pastedown of vol. 1) (3).

JEKYLL, Gertrude. Garden Ornament. London: George Newnes, 1918. First edition, folio (392 x 263mm.) Half-title, mounted colour plate frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. (Preliminaries browned, toning, gift inscribed from 1921 to the front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, g.e. (mottled, fading, some splitting with repair to spine panel, extremities rubbed).