Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
'Transactions of the Linnean Society', London, printed by J.Davis for the Society and John White, 1795, volume IV, 304pp, 23 engraved plates, of which 5 hand coloured + folding table, 4to, contemporary half calf gilt
Sale Price: £170.00
Alexander M. McAldowie: 'The Birds of Staffordshire, with Illustrations of Local Bird Haunts', Stoke-upon-Trent, 1893, limited edition (30/100), signed and inscribed, original cloth gilt
Sale Price: £80.00
Abel Chapman: 'Bird Life of the Borders, Records of Wild Sport and Natural History on Moorland and Sea', London, Gurney and Jackson, 1889, 1st edition, Autograph Letter Signed from Chapman to Canon Farquhar loosely inserted, original cloth gilt
Sale Price: £40.00
Frederick D. Power: 'Ornithological notes from a south London suburb, 1874-1909 : a summary of 35 years' observations, with some facts and fancies concerning migration', London, [1910], 1st edition, this copy signed and inscribed presentation from W.H. Power (author's brother) to G.B. Kershaw, with some printed related material loosely inserted, original cloth gilt; T. Digby Pigott: 'London Birds and London Insects', 1892, 2nd edition revised, inscribed ''John Hulton from The Author 24th July 1897'', some...
Sale Price: £38.00
John Bucknill: 'The Birds of Surrey', London, R.H. Porter, 1900, 1st edition, bookplate of Frederick Lovell Keays, plus autograph letter from author to Keays tipped in at front, original cloth gilt; George Robert Gray: 'Catalogue of British Birds in the Collection of the British Museum', London, 1863, association copy, with bookplates of W.H. Mullens and Thomas Parkin, and m/s pen and ink note title page in Parkin's hand stating the book was exchanged between the...
Sale Price: £55.00
Rev. Alfred Charles Smith: 'The Birds of Wiltshire', London & Devizes, 1887, 1st edition, the copy of F.C.R. Jourdain, with his pencil monogram to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth gilt (slightly soiled), two pamphlets by G. Bathurst Hony on WIltshire birds inserted, each stitched printed wraps, one signed to top wrap
Kelsall & Munn: 'The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight', London, Witherby, 1905, 1st edition, half title signed and inscribed by co author Philip W. Munn, original cloth gilt
Sale Price: £30.00
Arthur Edward Knox, 2 titles: 'Game Birds and Wild Fowl; their Friends and their Foes', London, 1850, 1st edition, 4 litho plates as called for, copy of sir William Henry Feilden, with his signature and bookplate to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth gilt (worn); 'Ornithological Rambles in Sussex', London, 1849, 1st edition, 4 litho plates as called for, signed and inscribed to Rev John Horatio Nelson by the Duke of Richmond to verso half title,...
W. Percival Westell, 7 titles: 'A Year with Nature', [1900], 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'Country Rambles', 1903, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'How to Know the Country', [1932], signed and inscribed, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Every Boy's Book of British Natural History', 1906, 2nd impression, signed and inscribed, original pictorial cloth gilt; plus 3 others by him (7)
Sale Price: £75.00
Paul Lacroix, three titles '..au Moyen Age et a L'Epoque de la Renaissance' series comprising 'Moeurs, usages et Costumes...' 1871, first edition, 'Vie Militaire et Religieuse...' 1873, second edition, 'Les Arts...' 1873, fourth edition, plus 'XVIIIe Siecle Institutions, usages et Costumes France 1700-1789', 1875, first edition, all with chromolithograph plates collated complete, all original decorative quarter crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt (4)
Sale Price: £85.00
Elizabeth Carter: 'A series of letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770 : to which are addded, letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787', 1808, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary speckled calf rebacked (2)
Sale Price: £20.00
A collection of leatherbound books, including Richard Burn: 'The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer', 1764, 9th edition, three volumes; William Robertson: 'The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V', 1772, 2nd edition, four volumes, engraved portrait frontises to each volume; Robert Henry: 'The History of Great Britain', Dublin, 1789, 2nd edition, five volumes, morocco gilt spine labels, etc (17)
Sale Price: £95.00
John Brown (Ed): 'The Illustrated Family Bible', [n.d.], circa 1850, contemporary decorative calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments
'The Haggadah', executed by Arthur Szyk, edited by Cecil Roth, Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv, 1957, colour plates, blue velvet covers, solander case; together with Leonard Baskin: 'A Passover Haggadah', New York, 1974, original cloth, dust wrapper (2)
Joseph Addison: 'The Works', London, Tonson, 1721, four volumes, uniform full calf gilt (worn, some boards detached but present) (4)
William Henry Melmoth: 'The Works of Homer, The Celebrated Grecian Poet including new and complete Editions of The Iliad and The Odyssey...', London for Alex Hogg, circa 1780, engraved folding map, 40 plates as list, 4to, old calf very worn
