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Books, Maps & Ephemera

Location: Saleroom 1
Date: 23rd January 2020
Starts: 2:00 pm

Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm
Contact: Robert Henshilwood

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Lot No: 9159 (zero)

Sutherland Edwards: 'The Russians at Home: Unpolitical Sketches', London, 1861, 2nd edition, four litho plates as called for, original blindstamped cloth gilt

Sale Price: £38.00

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Lot No: 9160 (zero)

John Hunt: 'The Ascent of Everest', 1954, 3rd impression, signed presentation copy to Harry Nathan, M.P., original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

Sale Price: £30.00

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Lot No: 9161 (zero)

Sanzo Wada: 'Japanese Life and Customs', a set of six pictures (wood black hand prints) loose in printed folder, circa 1950s with Elizabeth Keith: 'Eastern Windows, An Artist's Notes of Travel in Japan, Hokkaido ... n.d. (1928), original cloth gilt (2)

Sale Price: £32.00

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Lot No: 9163 (zero)

Henry Morton Stanley: 'In Darkest Africa', London, Sampson Low, 1890, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 3 folding maps + black and white plates and illustrations, rebound half calf gilt (worn), plus Prescott: 'A History of the Conquest of Mexico', 2 volumes, New York, Burt, [nd], original cloth gilt (4)

Sale Price: £55.00

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Lot No: 9164 (zero)

Five works Egypt, Middle East, Eurasia interest including 'The Koran', translated George Sale, London, Tegg, 1825, two volues, rebound quarter green morocca gilt, Irby and Mangles 'Travel in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, Duri the years 1817 & 1818, London, 1823, ''Printed for Private Distribution'', engraved maps, plates, plans, rebound quarter calf gilt, plus three others similar (6)

Sale Price: £90.00

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Lot No: 9165

A Victorian photograph album circa 1880's containing approximately 75 mounted albumen print photographs, views include Toledo; Algiers including ''The Arab Town''; Oran port and le djebel Mourdjadje; Saint Andre de Mers al-Kebir; four portrait photographs of Arab girls; Biarritz; Bruges; Yorkshire coast including Flamborough Head; Stonehenge; Cromer; Overstrand Church; Sidmouth; Falmouth; Bournemouth; Venice; Florence; Milan; Vitznau; large image of Rome depicting Pont and Castel Sant'Angelo and River Tiber, Vatican in background (27 x 39cm) etc...

Sale Price: £110.00

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Lot No: 9168 (zero)

E. Somerville: 'Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting', London, Longmans, 1903, 1st edition, 20 tinted coloured plates as called for, square folio, original pictorial cloth (worn), inner joint split, plus Whyte-Melville, 2 titles, comprising 'Riding Recollections', 1898 & 'Hunting Poems', 1911, each 1st editions in original cloth gilt (3)

Sale Price: £100.00

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Lot No: 9170 (zero)

William Somervile and Thomas Bewick: 'The Chase. A Poem.', printed by William Bulmer & Co, Shakespeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row, London, 1796. ''The superb wood engravings were designed and drawn on the block by John Bewick, who died before he could engrave them, apart from the final tail-piece, all were engraved by Thomas Bewick'', 4to, rebound (not recent) three quarter morocco gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase

Sale Price: £55.00

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Lot No: 9171 (zero)

R.S. Surtees: 'Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities...', intro by Joseph Grego, Illus Alken, Phiz, Heath, 1903, original cloth

Sale Price: £20.00

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Lot No: 9172 (zero)

A collection of eight leather bound Sporting and Hunting volumes, including three bound volumes of 'The Sportsman' (August 1833 - Decemeber 1834, 2 vols, uniform half brown leather; Jan-June 1839, contemporary half green morocco gilt, all with engraved plates, Sanderson: 'Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India' 1878, half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, Thornton: 'A Sporting Tour', 1896, etc (8)

Sale Price: £110.00

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Lot No: 9173 (zero)

[Sir Humphrey Davey]: 'Salmonia: or days of Fly Fishing .... by an Angler', London, John Murray, 1828, 1st edition, 3 engraved plates of flies (on 2 folding leaves) + nine engravings in text, viii, 273pp contemporary half calf (worn), spine gilt in compartments, plus John Colquhoun; 'Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots', 1858, 2nd edition, old half calf gilt (2)

Sale Price: £65.00

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Lot No: 9175 (zero)

L. Towne: 'The Farmer and Grazier's Guide, containing a Collect-of Valuable Recipes ... ', Gainsborough, for the author, 1816, original boards (very worn), crudely rebacked cloth. A poor copy, but complete and scarce, COPAC, one copy only, in British Library

Sale Price: £210.00

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Lot No: 9176 (zero)

Bernard Picart: 'Recueil de Lions, dessiners d'apres nature par divers maitres & graves divise en six livres chacun de six fevilles', Amsterdam, 1729, 1st edition, printed title in red and black with vegnette engraving, added engraved title page, plus 35 fine engraved leaves of plates after drawings by himself, Rembrandt, Durer, Charles Le Brun and others, six leaves of printed letterpress between printed title page and added engraved title page, the second book lacking...

Sale Price: £400.00

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Lot No: 9177 (zero)

Richard Lydekker, & W.Kuhnert (illustrator): 'Animal Portraiture', London, Warne, [1912], 1st edition, 50 mounted coloured plates as called for, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt

Sale Price: £140.00

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Lot No: 9178 (zero)

James Herbert Veitch: 'A Traveller's Notes; or, Notes of a Tour Through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand During the Years 1891-1893', Chelsea, Veitch & Sons, 1896, 1st edition, ''for private circulation only'', folding double hemisphere map frontis + 9 photogravure plates depicting exotic trees and plants from various Botanical gardens in Asia + illustrations in text from photographs as called for, large 4to, original bevelled green-grey cloth with paper onlay...

Sale Price: £100.00

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Lot No: 9179 (zero)

William Bray (Ed): 'Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn...', London, Colburn, 1819, second edition, two volumes, engraved plates, large 4to, contemporary tooled calf gilt (rebacked), original backstrips retained, all edges gilt (2)

Sale Price: £30.00

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