Books & Manuscripts ft. The Library of General Sir James Alexander AUCTION 25 FEBRUARY 2026

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Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

The Library of General Sir James Edward Alexander (1803-1885)

Travel, Exploration and Topography

Maps

Jacobite History, Scottish Literature, & William McGonagall

English Literature

Philosophy & Religion

Manuscripts & Documents

Science & Natural History

Modern Literature & Children’s Books

Private Press, Fine Bindings & Art Books

ABYSSINIA (ETHIOPIA)

COLLECTION OF TRAVEL NARRATIVES, 19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY

De Cosson, E.A. The Cradle of the Blue Nile. London: John Murray, 1877. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial design on upper boards (recased, spines faded with traces of library shelfmark label), 8 plates and folding map (slight tear), library stamp on title pages of Free Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut;

Plowden, Walter Chichele. Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country: with an Account of a Mission to Ras Ali in 1848. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. First edition, 8vo, later half calf with gilt spine (corners scuffed), 2 folding maps, with gilt stamp on spine of the library of the Canadian Parliament;

Darley, Henry. Slaves and Ivory. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green publisher’s cloth gilt with vignette on spine, 6 plates, 2 maps (1 folding); Parkyns, Mansfield. Life in Abyssinia: being Notes Collected during Three Years’ Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century half calf (faded and scuffed), plates, folding map (torn), illustrations, lacking one plate in volume 1, one plate from volume 1 misbound as frontispiece to volume 2, armorial bookplates of John Waldie, Hendersyde, and embossed library stamp on front free endpapers of Kirklands, Dunbar, N.B.;

Stigand, C.H. To Abyssinia through an Unknown Land. London: Seeley & Co. Limited, 1910. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s orange/red cloth gilt, 34 plates (including frontispiece), 2 maps (1 folding coloured), bookseller’s advertisements;

Stern, Henry A. Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia. London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1862. First edition, 8vo, modern half blue morocco, 8 lithographed plates tinted, illustrations, some occasional staining. At the request of the London Jews’ Society, Stern travelled to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to conduct a tour of Jewish villages, resulting in this book;

General Staff Intelligence Khartoum. A Handbook of Ethiopia (Provisional Edition). [Cairo]: Printed by Whitehead Morris Egypt Limited, 1941. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s grey cloth (lightly stained), folding map (torn and detached from volume). Guidebook to Ethiopia produced by the British War Office; and 8 others (17)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£400-600

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ABYSSINIA (ETHIOPIA)

FOUR 17TH & 18TH CENTURY WORKS

Poncet, Charles J. A Voyage to Aethiopia, made In the Years 1698, 1699, and 1700. London: printed for W. Lewis, 1709. First and only edition in English (first published in French as Relation abregee du voyage que M. Charles Poncet) 12mo (14.7 x 8cm), modern full sheep, with final advertisement leaf [ESTC T180264]; [Johnson, Samuel, translator]. Lobo, Jerónimo. A Voyage to Abyssinia … With a Continuation of the History of Abyssinia … by M. Legrand. From the French. London: printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, 1735. First edition in English and Samuel Johnson’s first published book, 8vo (19.5 x 11.8cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, with 19th-century armorial bookplate of John Lancaster of Bilton Grange, some toning throughout [ESTC T88596; Rothschild 1215]; [Lobo, Jerónimo]. A Short Relation of the River Nile, of its Sourse [sic] and Current. London: printed for John Martyn, 1669. First edition in English, 8vo (14.9 x 9.4cm), modern paper boards with buckram spine, wanting preliminary order-to-print leaf (A1), epistle dedicatory leaves (a1-2), and final blank leaf, title leaf soiled with small hole and slight loss of text, lower outer corner of final text-leaf missing but not affecting text [ESTC R12438, Wing L2733]; Almeida, Manuel de. The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia. London: printed for J. Knapton, 1710. 4to (20.3 x 16cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with gilt spine probably taken from another binding, wanting map of ‘Abissine Empire,’ leaf N2 torn with slight loss of text, some foxing throughout [ESTC T133244] (4)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £300-500

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BRUCE, JAMES

TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. Edinburgh: printed by J. Ruthven for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to (29 x 23.3cm), contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, spines richly gilt in compartments with black calf labels, with half-titles but lacking plate list found in some copies, 3 large engraved folding maps, 58 engraved plates (including 43 natural history specimens in Vol. V), very occasional spotting, corner tips slightly worn [Blackmer 221; ESTC T51608] (5)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £1,000-1,500

4

DUFTON, HENRY

NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH ABYSSINIA IN 1862-3

With an Appendix on ‘The Abyssinian Captives Question’. London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. First edition, 8vo, xiv 337 pp., original diapered maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, half-title, engraved folding map frontispiece (with original hand-colouring), 2 lithographic folding maps, spine toned, evidence of damp-staining along fore edges of boards, short split to one fold of map frontispiece

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Note: An important account of travel in the Abyssinian interior several years before the punitive Napier expedition of 1867-8, and the corresponding influx of British observers. The author travelled into Abyssinia from Khartoum and met the ill-fated Emperor Tewodros II at Debra Tabor before returning to Aden via Adowah (Adwa) and Massowah (Massawa) on what is now the Eritrean coast. First editions of this work are rare, especially in the unrestored original cloth.

£300-500

5

WINSTANLEY, W[ILLIAM]

A VISIT TO ABYSSINIA

An Account of Travel in Modern Ethiopia. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xi 310, viii 307 pp., original diagonal-ribbed purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers panel-stamped in blind, floral endpapers, half-titles, errata leaf, 16 pp. advertisements, spines sunned and rolled, old private library labels to front covers, volume 1 with small pen-mark to spine and a couple of pale marks to front cover (2)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£200-300

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BURTON, RICHARD F.

THE NILE BASIN

Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s Western Lake Reservoir … Part II. Captain Speke’s Discovery of the Source of the Nile. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘with the authors kind regards’ on the half-title, additionally inscribed ‘sent to C H Moore’ and ‘C H Moore’ on the half-title and title-page respectively, 8vo, [4] 199 pp., original sand-grain maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind panels to covers, 3 lithographic maps, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, fraying to head and foot of spine, front joint partly split, front inner hinge cracked, bookplate, pencilled ownership inscription to front pastedown

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£500-800

7

BURTON, RICHARD F. ZANZIBAR

City, Island, and Coast. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (22.4 x 13.7cm), xii, 503, [1] p. [7] leaves of plates (one folded); vi, 519, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates, original brown cloth gilt, headcaps frayed, hinges cracking, traces of labels to spines, folding map in volume 1 creased and torn, tears to some of the plates in volume 1, some bolts in volume 2 unopened (2);

[Government of the British East Africa Protectorate]. Handbook for East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar, 1904. Mombasa: ‘Govt. Printing Press’, 1903. 8vo, original pink cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [8] 223 pp., [2] 11 pp. advertisements to rear, cloth marked; Hore, Annie B. To Lake Tanganyika in a Bath Chair. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. 8vo, original blue cloth with titles and pictorial design in black, [2] 210 pp., folding lithographic map of the author’s route from Zanzibar to Ujiji; Russell, Lilian M. General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, with Journals, Dispatches, Etc. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original blue cloth, each with folding map to rear, one copy with dust jacket (price-clipped), the other copy in faded cloth; Naval Staff Intelligence Division. A Handbook of Kenya Colony (British East Africa) and the Kenya Protectorate (Protectorate of Zanzibar). [London:] [HMSO], 1920. 8vo, original black cloth, folding lithographic map, inscribed Royal Military Academy Sandhurst compliments slip to front pastedown; McDermott, P. L. British East Africa or Ibea, a History of the Formation and Work of the British East Africa Company. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, photographic frontispiece, advertisements to rear, contents largely unopened; and 6 others (14)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£600-800

ENSOR, F. SIDNEY

INCIDENTS OF A JOURNEY THROUGH DARFOOR

London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo (21 x 13cm), modern half morocco, all edges gilt, vi [2] 225 [2] pp., 2 folding lithographic maps (one with small closed tear, neatly repaired), appendix leaf at rear, advertisements discarded;

Melly, George. Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles. London: Colburn and Co., 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (19.4 x 11.8cm), modern purple half morocco, off-white buckram sides, [iii]-xii 305, ix 309 pp., steel-engraved frontispiece and map, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages, advertisements to rear of volume 1, pencilled marginalia to volume 2 p. 3, without half-title to volume 1 (possibly not called for in volume 2);

[English, George Bethune]. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt. London: John Murray, 1822. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 12.2cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, [iii]-xv 232 pp., without half-title;

Petherick, John. Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa. With Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1861. First edition, 8vo (21.3 x 13.8cm), contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine, [iii]-xii, 482 pp., folding linen-backed lithographic map, engraved bookplate, bound without halftitle, small tape-repairs to pp. 105/6 and 321/2;

Elton, J. Frederic. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern and Central Africa … Edited and completed by H. B. Cotterill. London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter calf, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece and folding panorama, 3 folding lithographic maps, pencilled ownership inscription of H. B. Cotterill, Wiesbaden to initial blank, inked marginalia to pp. 242 and 412, the former initialled H. B. C.; contents toned, edges of plates and maps slightly fragile and with a few concomitant nicks and nears, folding panorama with partial split to one fold;

Willoughby, Sir John C. East Africa and its Big Game. The Narrative of a Sporting Trip from Zanzibar to the Borders of the Masai. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 14.8cm), contemporary tan half calf, 18 plates including photogravures from paintings and lithographs of natural history subjects, folding map (with small handling tear);

Chanler, William Astor. Through Jungle and Desert. Travels in Eastern Africa. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. First edition, 8vo (23.6 x 15.4cm), contemporary gilt calf prize-binding, photogravure portrait frontispiece, woodengraved illustrations throughout (many full-page), 2 folding lithographic colour maps to rear (each with discreet repair to small tears at inner folds), headcap worn (8)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £500-800

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SPEEDY, MRS [CORNELIA MARY]

MY WANDERINGS IN THE SOUDAN

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xv 293, ix 264 pp., original red pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial block of the author on camelback to front boards, half-titles, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages and in the text, folding lithographic map, spines toned and nicked, volume 2 spine rolled, Mudie’s Select Library labels to front boards, bookseller’s advertisement slip (lithographic facsimile of handwriting, printed in red, possibly Mudie’s) tipped to volume 1 p. 1, ownership inscriptions to half-titles, superficial cracking to front inner hinge of volume 1 (2)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Note: Mrs Speedy visited Sudan on a big-game hunting expedition together with her husband, a British army officer, in 1878. In the preface she ventures the claim of being ‘with the exception of Lady Baker, the only lady who has as yet made a tour through the Soudan’. ‘With a parasol over her shoulder, Cornelia Speedy learned to ride a camel and scout herds of antelope. It was her encounter with curious native Sudanese, however, that left an indelible impression on her … [Her] book … complete with the couple’s travels, adventures, and descriptions of [her husband’s] Charlie’s hunts after big game, only briefly mentioned her own hunting experiences. It was typical that the woman downplays her role when compared to her spouse’ (Czech, With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters, 1880-1940, pp. 21-2).

£500-800

COLOMB, [PHILIP HOWARD]

SLAVE-CATCHING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

A Record of Naval Experiences. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), [10] 503 pp., near-contemporary blue quarter roan with gilt spine, maroon cloth sides, all edges gilt, half-title, 8 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, folding lithographic map (linen-backed), label removed from front board, contemporary circulating library bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 1/2 with lower fore corner cut away not affecting text, ff. K3-6 (pp. 133-140) held by bottom cord only

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Note: This rare work contains an entire chapter dedicated to the Persian Gulf, including an overview of the political situation and eyewitness descriptions of Bahrain, Qatar (specifically Khor Hassan), Abu Dhabi, and Dubai. The author describes Zayed bin Khalifah (rendering his first name as ‘Said’), ruler of Abu Dhabi,, as ‘the finest male specimen of humanity I have ever seen’, continuing: ‘Either the artist or the photographer should visit these regions, and preserve to us types of that outward grandeur to which the race is capable of ascending, before we are all utterly subdued and toned down to the physiques which becomes a white tie and a tail coat’. The preceding chapter relates to Oman and Muscat.

£300-500

11

SULIVAN, G[EORGE] L[YDIARD]

DHOW CHASING IN ZANZIBAR WATERS & ON THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA

Narrative of Five Years’ Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 13.4cm), x [2] 453 pp., modern reddish-brown crushed half morocco, gilt spine, marbled sides, half-title, 12 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, hand-coloured folding lithographic map, 3 wood-engraved vignettes in text, 32 pp. advertisements to rear, original cloth front cover bound in at rear, pencilled provenance note ‘Ex libris Harold Ingrams CMG’ to front pastedown, with a bookseller’s catalogue description for this copy laid in, annotated ‘Nicholas Morrell, Travel Catalogue XVI, April ’98’, spine rolled, prelims bound slightly askew, pp. 154/5 sometime crudely tipped in with tape, now near-detached, concomitant staining to gutter also affecting adjacent leaves, pp. 17/18 and 241/2 each with upper fore corner lacking (not affecting text) (2)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£300-500

12

[BIG GAME HUNTING - EGYPT]

JOURNAL OF HERBERT EDWARD PRETYMAN

Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards. Written during his Expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891. [London:] for private circulation only, 1892. First edition, 4to, original diagonal-ribbed purple pictorial cloth gilt, 50 pp., 25 photographic collotype plates including frontispiece, folding lithographic sketch-map

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£300-400

13

CHURI, JOSEPH H.

SEA NILE, THE DESERT, & NIGRITIA

Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R. N., 1851-2. With Thirteen Arabic Songs, as sung by the Egyptian Sailors on the Nile. London: published by the author, 1853. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece, xii 331 pp., spine sunned and neatly repaired, spotting towards rear; together with one other work (see note) (2)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Note: Rare account of a Nile voyage from Cairo to Kordofan, central Sudan, written by a Lebanese Maronite author who travelled in the company of his pupil in the Arabic language Captain William Peel, son of the prime minster Sir Robert Peel and future recipient of the Victoria Cross for his heroism in the Crimea. In the preface Churi describes how he was sent to Rome to study at the College for the Propagation of Faith in Rome at the age of fourteen, before travelling to London and becoming an Arabic teacher. The lot sold with a first edition of Peel’s account of the same journey, A Ride through the Nubian Desert (London: Longman, 1852), a rare variant bound in pink cloth and with 4 hand-coloured lithographic costume plates, all other copies traced being bound in blue cloth and containing a map frontispiece only for illustration. (In this copy the front endpapers have been renewed and the half-title is absent.)

£300-500

14

BOURCHIER, W[ILLIAM]

NARRATIVE OF A PASSAGE FROM BOMBAY TO ENGLAND

describing the Author’s Shipwreck in the Nautilus, in the Red Sea; Journies across the Nubian Desert; Detention in the Lazaretto at Leghorn. London: Whittaker & Co., 1834. First edition, small 8vo, original green cloth with printed paper label to spine, vi 114 pp., engraved map frontispiece, engraved monogram book-label to front pastedown

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£200-300

OWEN, W[ILLIAM] F[ITZWILLIAM] W.

NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES TO EXPLORE THE SHORES OF AFRICA, ARABIA, & MADAGASCAR

performed in H. M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo (21.5 x 13cm), contemporary half calf, xxxiii 434, viii 420 pp., 5 lithographic plates, 4 engraved folding charts, woodengraved vignettes, errata slip to volume 1, marbled edges, bookplate (S. E. Widdrington, Newton Hall), spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves, occasional spotting elsewhere, charts slightly offset and with small handling tears to inner folds, pencilled marginalia to volume 2 pp. 174-5, wood-engraved chapter-headings; Boteler, Thomas. Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed in His Majesty’s Ships Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826. Under the Command of Capt. F. W. Owen. London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.4 x 13cm), 20th-century maroon half morocco, gilt spines, xxiv 414, viii 479 pp., half-title to volume 1, 4 lithographic plates, bookplates of Kimbolton Castle (seat of the dukes of Manchester) and of G. and N. Ingleton (i.e. Geoffrey Ingleton, Australian maritime historian, and his wife Nan) (4)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman

£500-800

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UGANDA

COLLECTION OF 19TH & 20TH CENTURY WORKS, INCLUDING A MANUSCRIPT

[Manuscript] Eastwood, Benjamin. Sudd and Lilies: a Journey round Lakes Kioga [Kyoga] and Kivania [Kwania] and Neighbouring Waters. [1916]. Unpublished account of journey undertaken in Uganda in May 1916, Eastwood at the time was General Manager of the Uganda Railway, having served on the Ugandan railways since 1897 as an accountant, and having recovered from losing his right arm in 1902 after being charged and tossed by a rhinoceros, 4to-size lined notebook, text handwritten on rectos only of 72 leaves, foliated by the author, with large blueprint folding map of the Eastern Province [Region] of Uganda pasted onto front free endpaper, half leather with blue cloth boards (faded);

Ashe, Robert P. Two Kings of Uganda; or, Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889. First edition, 8vo, folding colour map and 4 plates, original pictorial green cloth, gilt; Ansorge, W. J. Under the African Sun: a Description of Native Races in Uganda, Sporting Adventures and other Experiences. London: Heinemann, 1899. First edition, tall 8vo, 18 plates (2 colour), with numerous illustrations, original pictorial green cloth gilt, armorial bookplate of Sir Julius Jeppe of Johannesburg, occasional spotting throughout, boards and spine scuffed and stained; Johnston, Harry. The Uganda Protectorate. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1902. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 48 colour plates, 9 folding colour maps, and numerous black and white illustrations, colour decorated endpapers and pastedowns, original black cloth, with gilt illustration on upper boards, slight wear to boards; Tucker, Alfred R. Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, all plates present (4 in colour), 1 folded colour map, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, occasional spotting, with gilt ownership stamp on upper boards of New South Wales Library of Parliament; Lardner, E. G. Dion. Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 1909-1910. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition, 8vo, numerous illustrations including frontispiece portrait of author, folding map at end, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, spine sunned, occasional spotting; Jackson, Frederick John [ed. by W.L. Sclater]. The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1938. First edition, 3 volumes (continuously paginated), tall 8vo, 24 colour plates, frontispiece portrait of the author in volume 1, colour folding map at end of volume 3, numerous illustrations, original publisher’s black cloth gilt, with dust jackets to volumes 1 and 2, both torn and stained, dust jacket to volume 2 with tape repair; Cook, Albert R. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, number 492 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, with numerous illustrations and frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 folding maps (1 of which is in rear-end pocket), original publisher’s green cloth gilt; and 10 others on Uganda (23)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £400-600

AFRICAN TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

Baker, Samuel W. Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s dark green cloth gilt, 2 portrait frontispieces, wood-engraved plates, 2 colour maps (1 large folding), joints cracked but firm, some spotting throughout both volumes;

Junker, Wilhelm. Travels in Africa during the Years 1875-1878. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First English edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, 3 frontispieces, all plates as called for, numerous illustrations throughout, 3 folding colour maps, some spotting throughout all 3 volumes, maps in volumes 1 and 2 with slight tears; Schweinfurth, George. The Heart of Africa. Three Years’ Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s dark green cloth gilt, 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), wood-engraved plates (1 lithographed in colour), numerous text illustrations throughout, publisher’s advertisements at end of volume 2, unopened bolts in both volumes, wanting plate in volume 1 (opposite p. 159), joints cracked but firm; Kerr, Walter Montagu. The Far Interior: a Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886. First US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, plates, 1 large folding map bound at the end of volume 2, with a photographic albumen print portrait of the author by Mendelssohn as frontispiece to volume 1, title leaf to volume 1 with repair, leaf listing illustrations in volume 1 loose, folding map in volume 2 with small repair; Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill. Africa from South to North through Marotseland. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1904. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, 2 frontispieces, plates, 3 folding maps (2 in pockets at end of each volume), folding maps in pockets with later linen backing; Cromer [Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer]. Modern Egypt. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half green morocco, frontispiece portrait of the author and folding map at the end of volume 1; Tucker, Alfred R. Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, all plates present (4 in colour), 1 folded colour map, joints to volume 1 cracked, bindings rubbed and scuffed, presentation copy from author; [Gleichen, Edward, ed.]. The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a Compendium prepared by Officers of the Sudan Government. London: H.M.S.O., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original publisher’s green cloth, 2 large folding maps and numerous half-tone illustrations, bindings lightly soiled and worn but internally very clean, with embossed stamps of the library of the Army and Navy Club, London. Only 1,500 copies of Volume I and 1,000 of Volume II were printed; Grant, James. Cassell’s History of the War in the Soudan. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., [c. 1887]. 6 volumes in 3, 4to, numerous illustrations and plates, contemporary half calf with gilt spine and tooling and red spine labels, light spotting throughout (20)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £400-600

EAST AFRICA

COLLECTION OF 19TH & 20TH CENTURY WORKS

Chanler, William Astor. Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in Eastern Africa. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. First edition, 8vo, original blue publisher’s cloth gilt, frontispiece portrait, plates, numerous illustrations, 2 coloured folding maps in rear pocket, pictorial bookplate of Richard Tevier Daniel, Jr.;

Stigand, C.H. The Land of Zinj: Being an Account of British East Africa, its Ancient History and Present Inhabitants. London: Constable and Company, 1913. First edition, 8vo, original blue publisher’s cloth (faded), 21 plates (including frontispiece), 1 large folding map (with coloured outlines) in rear pocket, occasional spotting; Rayne, H. The Ivory Raiders. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., [1923]. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s red cloth (sunned), 28 plates (including frontispiece), 1 folding map;

Lugard, F.D. The Rise of Our East African Empire: Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1893. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt cover vignettes, with portrait frontispiece plates (1 photogravure), numerous other plates and illustrations in the text, 4 maps in the text, 5 folding coloured maps (two in pockets), 1 coloured full page map and 6 coloured maps on 3 sheets, bookplates removed from pastedowns, bolts uncut in volume 2;

Macdonald, J.R.L. Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa 1891-1894. London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s maroon cloth, 12 plates (including frontispiece), 8 folding maps (including folding colour map at rear), occasional spotting; Gregory, J.W. The Great Rift Valley: being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo, green cloth binding by Bickers, coloured frontispiece, 20 plates, numerous illustrations, 2 folding coloured maps, ownership stamp of the Magadi Soda Company; Wightwick Haywood, C. To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1927. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s yellow cloth with vignette, 16 plates (including frontispiece), 1 folding map, occasional spotting; Purvis, John B. Handbook to British East Africa and Uganda. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, 1900. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s brown cloth, 13 plates, 2 maps (1 folding); and 12 others (21)

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AFRICA

COLLECTION OF TRAVEL ACCOUNTS, 19TH & 20TH CENTURY

Owen, W[illiam] F[itzwilliam] W. Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half calf, 5 lithograph plates, 4 folding charts and illustrations, without errata slip, plates lightly spotted, but otherwise very clean and fine, from the library of Kimbolton Castle; Jessen, B.H. W.N. McMillan’s Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Southern Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa. London: Marchant Singer & Co. Printers. 1906. First edition, printed for private distribution, 4to, quarter red calf, frontispiece, 38 black and white plates, numerous illustrations, large folding map in rear pocket; Pallme, Ignatius. Travels in Kordofan. London: J. Madden & Co., 1844. First English edition, 8vo, quarter green calf, 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements, first published in Stuttgart in 1843; Krapf, J. Lewis. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours During an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Eastern Africa. London: Trübner and Co., 1860. First English edition, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, full green morocco, 12 tinted lithographic plates and 2 folding maps, occasional staining but otherwise a very clean copy of a work which was a key text of East African exploration, leading the Royal Geographical Society to send Burton and Speke to verify the accuracy of the map and accounts of Krapf and his fellow German missionary Johannes Rebmann; Sartorius, Ernestine. Three Months in the Soudan. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. First edition, 8vo, 11 halftone plates, half red morocco with stamp on spine of the library of the Canadian Parliament, binding scuffed and worn in places;

Long, C. Chaillé. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington, 1876. First edition, 8vo, quarter leather, Woodburytype portrait of author as frontispiece, 8 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, folding map, publisher’s advertisements at end, with embossed library stamp of Theological Institute of Connecticut on title leaf;

Peters, Carl. New Light on Dark Africa: being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. First English edition, 8vo, half calf, photogravure portrait of author as frontispiece, 32 black and white plates, numerous illustrations, large folding coloured map (repairs to folds) in rear pocket, with part of original publisher’s cloth binding mounted on rear endpaper;

French-Sheldon, M. Sultan to Sultan: Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1892. First edition, 8vo, half calf, frontispiece portrait of author, map, 25 black and white plates, numerous illustrations. American author and explorer May French-Sheldon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892, among the first fifteen women to receive this honour; Austin, Herbert H. With Macdonald in Uganda. London: Edward Arnold, 1903. First edition, 8vo, half green calf (sunned), frontispiece, 15 black and white plates, large folding coloured map (10)

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Note: Three Months in the Soudan (1885) is notable as a European woman’s account of daily life in colonial Africa. Ernestine Isabella Sartorius (1847-1927) joined her husband, George Sartorius, in Suakin, Sudan, in 1883, running a mess for the officers during the Mahdist War, 

£500-800

EAST AFRICA

COLLECTION OF MILITARY HANDBOOKS & ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT WAR & THE KING’S AFRICAN RIFLES Admiralty. For Official Use Only. A Handbook of the Uganda Protectorate. Naval Staff Intelligence Division. [London: HMSO], 1920. 8vo, original cloth, folding map to rear (small tear to stub), inscribed compliments slip of the library of the Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst) to front pastedown, ink-stamp of the RMA library (Woolwich) to verso of map;

Foreign Office. German East Africa. [Series-title at head:] Confidential - Handbooks prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. [London: HMSO], 1919. 8vo, original wrappers, large folding lithographic map loose in end-pocket as issued, Admiralty. A Handbook of German East Africa. Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. London: HMSO, 1920. 8vo, original cloth, folding map to rear (small repair to stub), ink-stamps of Wimbledon Public Library, withdrawal stamp over library plate to front pastedown; Wallis, H. R. The Handbook of Uganda. London: for the Government of the Uganda Protectorate by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1920. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece and plates (all present as listed), folding lithographic map;

Campbell, W. W. East Africa by Motor Lorry. Recollections of an Ex-Motor Transport Driver. London: John Murray, 1928. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped, tape-repairs, publisher’s overprice sticker spine), all plates as called for;

Clifford, Sir Hugh. The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign. London: John Murray, 1920. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped, one small tape-repair), 8 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, sketch map, folding colour map to rear; Fendall, C. P. The East African Force 1915-1919. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped, tape-repairs), all plates as called for, folding map; and 19 similar including a few works on other regions and periods (25)

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21 SUDAN

COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS OF TRAVEL & SOLDIERING IN THE SUDAN, 19TH & 20TH CENTURY

Williams, Josiah. Life in the Soudan: Adventures amongst the Tribes, and Travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882. London: Remington & Co., 1884. First edition, 8vo, publisher’s original brown pictorial cloth (spine discoloured), frontispiece autotype portrait of the author, 6 plates; Butler, W.F. The Campaign of the Cataracts: being a Personal Narrative of the Great Nile Expedition of 1884-5. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. First edition, 8vo, publisher’s original green pictorial cloth (spine and boards faded), frontispiece, 6 plates, 1 folding map, numerous illustrations; Hill, George Birkbeck. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1874-9 … from Original Letters and Documents. London: Thos. De la Rue & Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth, frontispiece, two plates (1 folding with slight tear), 1 folding map, armorial bookplate of Lord Clermont; Fothergill, Edward. Five Years in the Sudan. London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1910. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s burgundy cloth (slightly worn), 32 plates (including frontispiece); Domville Fife, C.W. Savage Life in the Black Sudan. London: Seeley, Servie & Co. Limited, 1927. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s pictorial black cloth, gilt, 16 plates (including frontispiece), 2 folding maps,12 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end; Burleigh, Bennet. Khartoum Campaign 1898. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s pictorial brown cloth, gilt, illustrations, maps, plans; Neufeld, Charles. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth, with red ‘wax’ seal to the upper board, 32 plates (including frontispiece, maps, plans), some plates loose; Steevens, G.W. With Kitchener to Khartum. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, 8 maps and plans (some folding), 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end; and 15 others (23)

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SUDAN

COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY WORKS

Petherick, John. Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa: with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth (spine discoloured), gilt lettering on spine, 1 large folding map at rear (with tape repair), without the 4-page subscription pamphlet found in some copies; Solymos, B. (B.E. Falkonberg). Desert Life: Recollections of an expedition in the Soudan. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1880. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, pictorial design on upper board and on spine, edges gilt, 4 plates (including frontispiece), 1 map, very bright, clean copy; Brackenbury, Henry. The River Column: a Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force and its Return down the Rapids. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth (spine faded and worn), three folding maps (large folding map to rear has tear), discolouration on endpapers and pastedowns;

Myers, Arthur B.R. Life with the Hamran Arabs: an Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan during the Winter of 1874-5. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt with vignette on upper board, 5 mounted photographs of animal trophies; Wingate, F. R. Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism, and of Subsequent Events in the Sudan to the Present Time. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth (spine faded), 30 maps and plans, some folding, including large folding map in pocket at rear; Gessi, Romolo, & Felix Gessi (editor). Seven Years in the Soudan: being a Record of Explorations, Adventures, and Campaigns against the Arab Slave Hunters. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1892. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt (spine scuffed), 22 plates (including frontispiece), numerous illustrations, 1 folding map; Count Gleichen. With the Camel Corps up the Nile. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1888. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, with vignette on upper board, frontispiece, numerous illustrations including maps, armorial bookplate of Sir John Robert Gladstone (from the library at Fasque); and 7 others (14)

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SUDAN & EGYPT

OFFICIAL HISTORIES, HANDBOOKS, LOCAL IMPRINTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Colville, H. E. History of the Sudan Campaign. Compiled in the Intelligence Division of the War Office. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1889. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 text volumes and map case, 8vo (21.5 x 13.4cm), xvi 277, xiv 327 pp., original red cloth, text volumes with 9 folding lithographic maps and plans in total, map case 10 large folding lithographic maps and plans loosely inserted (various dimensions, from approx. 40 x 40cm to 60 x 90cm, each with printed label to verso), printed paper label to case, traces of library labels to spines of text-volumes, case with partial splits along one side-panel, annotations and old shelfmark in white ink to front panel, maps toned and a with a few short splits to ends of folds; Egyptian General Staff. Provinces of the Equator. Letters and Reports of His Excellency the Governor-General. Cairo: printing office of the General Staff, 1877. Presumed first edition, large 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, rebacked, 89 pp., half-title, 4 lithographic maps (one folding), double-page colour panorama, front pastedown with presentation plate from General Stone (i.e. Charles Pomeroy Stone, Egyptian chief of the general staff) to the Royal United Services Institution, their blind stamp to title-page, collation of this work not established; [Mahdist War]. The Dongola News. An Occasional Journal for All Conditions of Men. Dongola, Sudan: printed and published for the proprietors by the R. E. Field Printing Press, 16th May 1885. 2 letterpress leaves (presumably original a bifolium, now separated), folio (34 x 20cm), paginated (4 pp.), printed in double column, imprint to foot of p. 4, browned and chipped with some loss of text; Foreign Office. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. [Series-title at head:] Confidential - Handbooks prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. [London: HMSO], 1919. 8vo, original card wrappers, large folding map loose in end-pocket as issued; and 10 others (16)

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Note: Colville’s work is rarely found retaining the case of maps, as here.

£300-500

AFRICA

COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING & NATURAL HISTORY, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

Neumann, Arthur H. Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa. London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, zebra print endpapers and pastedowns, 1 coloured plate, numerous illustrations (including frontispiece and 16 full-page), 1 large folding coloured map in rear pocket, pictorial bookplate of explorer, sculptor and writer Herbert Ward and his wife Sarita;

Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. In Unknown Africa: A Narrative of Twenty Months’ Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt (worn and faded), with vignette on upper board and spine, numerous plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps (torn and spotted), upper board bumped;

Bell, W. D. M. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter. London: published at the offices of ‘Country Life’, 1923. First edition, 4to, original yellow buckram-backed grey boards, gilt lettering to spine, pink cloth label to upper cover, 42 plates, 38 with illustrations recto and verso, illustrations in text, a very clean copy;

Sykes, C. A. Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile. London: John Murray, 1903. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth (spine sunned and worn), gilt vignette on upper board, 17 plates including photogravure frontispiece of author (1 detached from text-block), 1 folding map, some spotting to endpapers and frontispiece;

Dracopoli, I. N. Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1914. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, vignette on upper board, 32 plates (including frontispiece), 2 maps (1 folding coloured), light spotting;

Maxwell, Marius. Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925. First trade edition (a limited edition was published in 1924 by the Medici Society), royal 4to, original blue cloth, 113 plates after photographs by the author (some folding), 1 folding coloured map; Selous, Frederick Courteney. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt (worn and faded), 23 plates (including frontispiece portrait of author), numerous illustrations, 1 folding map;

Scott Elliot, G. F. A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika. London: A.D. Innes & Co., 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt (stained and sunned in places), numerous illustrations (several full-page), 4 maps (3 folding coloured maps at end); and 13 others (21)

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£200-300

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WEINTHAL, LEO (EDITOR)

THE STORY OF THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY & RIVER ROUTE FROM 1887 TO 1922

London: Darling & Son [-Luton: Gibbs, Bamforth & Co], [1923-6]. 5 volumes including map portfolio, 4to, original black half morocco gilt, all plates and maps as called for (including the 12 folding maps loose in portfolio as issued), contemporary half morocco with green cloth and gilt titles to spine, ownership inscriptions, tissue guard loose volume 1 page p. 31, plate intended to face volume 1 p. 40 misbound to p. 49; and 6 others (14)

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£300-500

CENTRAL AFRICA

COLLECTION OF CENTRAL & CROSS-AFRICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

Haywood, A. H. W. Through Timbuctu and across the Great Sahara. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, advertisements to rear, spine slightly faded;

Long, C. Chaillé. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. First edition, original maroon cloth over bevelled boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in black and gilt, mounted Woodburytype portrait frontispiece, folding map, all plates as called for, advertisements to rear, cloth mottled;

Stigand, C. H. Equatoria. The Lado Enclave. London; Constable & Company Limited, 1923, First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, photogravure portrait frontispiece, folding map, Royal United Services Institute library plate, and disposal and check-out stamps, to front pastedown and endpaper;

Hore, Edward Coode. Tanganyika: Eleven Years in Central Africa. London: Edward Stanford, 1892. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in silver and red, all plates and maps as called for, endpapers renewed;

Smith, A. Donaldson. Through Unknown African Countries. The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London: Edward Arnold, 1897. First edition, large 8vo, original maroon vertical-ribbed cloth gilt, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 6 folding lithographic maps to rear, illustrations throughout the text (many full-page though counted in pagination and register); and 28 others similar, all in original cloth (e.g. Melland & Cholmeley, Through the Heart of Africa, 1912; Haard & Audouin-Dubreuil, Across the Sahara by Motor Car, 1924, signed by the author; Decle, Three Years in Savage Africa, 1898; Moore, To the Mountains of the Moon, 1901, etc.) (33)

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AFRICAN TRAVEL

FOUR 18TH & 19TH CENTURY

WORKS

Browne, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. London: printed for T. Cadell junior and W. Davies, 1799. 4to (25.5 x 19.5cm), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, front joint cracked, with 2 folding maps (both with slight tears) and 2 plates, wanting half-title [Blackmer 219; ESTC T83753]; Burckhardt, John Lewis. Travels in Nubia. London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, 4to (27 x 19.8cm), modern half calf, rebound with marbled boards, with engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 engraved maps (2 folding), 20th-century pictorial bookplate of A.I. McGregor, light spotting on plates and 1 of the folded maps with slight tear; Waddington, George. Journal of a Visit to some Parts of Ethiopia. London: John Murray, 1822. First edition, 4to (28.1 x 21.2cm), original paper boards, rebacked with buckram spine retaining original paper spine label, illustrated with 16 uncoloured lithographed plates, 1 folding, and 2 engraved folding maps, with final advertisement leaf, light spotting to plates and in text, boards soiled and scuffed, hinges strengthened with paper, corners bumped [Abbey Travel, 289]; Hoskins, G.A. Travels in Ethiopia, above the Second Cataract of the Nile. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835. 4to (26.5 x 20.3cm), 19th-century half morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, 54 lithographed plates, including plans and portraits (some on double leaves and some in colour) and folded map, plates 3 and 16 are hand-coloured, plates 46-49 are chromolithographs (some of the earliest chromolithographed book illustrations in England), with woodcut illustrations (some hand coloured at a later date), wanting pp. 225-226, some spotting and soiling on plates, title page and plate 29 with paper repairs, some plates cropped affecting imprints or plate numbers, boards and spine scuffed [Blackmer 832] (4)

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HENRY M. STANLEY, EMIN PASHA, & THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION

COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ACCOUNTS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

Casati, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original gilt pictorial brown cloth with imitation crocodile scale texture, with 4 folding colour maps in end pockets of both volumes, plates, some coloured or tinted, numerous illustrations, ownership labels removed from pastedowns of both volumes; Troup, J. Rose. With Stanley’s Rear Column. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original gilt green cloth, frontispiece, folding colour map, plates, publisher’s advertisements at end, spine cracking but firm, spotting on the fore-edge, binding worn and lightly stained;

Mounteney-Jephson, A.J. Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original rust cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black and gilt on the spine and upper board, plates and folding facsimile and map, illustrations, spotting on the fore-edge, occasional staining and spotting in text block, ownership label removed from pastedown;

Parke, Thomas Heazle. My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated, frontispiece, folding colour map in end pocket, plates, publisher’s advertisements at end, with book label of bibliographer A.J.A. Symons, author of a work on Emin Pasha, on front pastedown, binding scuffed at edges;

Jameson, James S. Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. London: R.H. Porter, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt, frontispiece, 1 folding map at end, illustrations; and 13 others (20)

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LIVINGSTONE, DAVID, & HENRY M. STANLEY

COLLECTION OF THEIR ACCOUNTS OF AFRICAN TRAVEL

Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.6cm), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, x, [1], 687, [1] p., complete with 27 plates (some folded and some coloured, including 2 folded loose maps in pocket on inside of lower board), illustrations, with publisher’s advertisements at end, headcap split, hinges cracking [Abbey Travel 347];

Ibid. The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa. London: John Murray, 1874. First edition, 2 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo (22.3 x 13.7cm), with folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates and 2 folded maps (large folded map in volume 1 in pocket on inside of lower board), publisher’s advertisements at back of both volumes, both original maroon cloth, gilt-decorated spines and centrepieces, one copy with presentation inscription to Australian botanist William Woolls (1814-93), recased with repairs to hinges and to large folding map in pocket of volume 1, hinge to volume 1 cracked, other copy with ownership inscription of the Rev. Richmond Scott Thomson of Arbirlot, Forfarshire, with 2 plates from volume 1 loose, spines heavily sunned;

Stanley, Henry M. How I Found Livingstone. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. First edition, 8vo (21.2 x13.5cm), contemporary half calf, [7], viii-xxiii, [2], 2-736 pp., plates, woodcut illustrations, 6 maps (some folded), with albumen print frontispiece of Stanley, early 20th-century photographic postcard of African man by J.G. Muse of Cowdenbeath loose in volume, without the 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements, repairs to two of the folded maps, corner tips scuffed;

Ibid. Through the Dark Continent. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo ( 21.6 x 13cm), contemporary half calf, plates, maps and woodcut illustrations, wanting the 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear of both volumes and 1 folding map in volume 2;

Ibid. In Darkest Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), contemporary half calf, plates, 3 folding maps and woodcut illustrations, repairs to 2 of the folding maps, boards scuffed (10)

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BURTON, RICHARD F.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH & MECCAH

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855-6. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (21.5 x 13.5cm), contemporary half roan, with 4 maps (3 folding) and 14 plates with tissue guards (13 coloured lithographs, 1 uncoloured wood engraving), book label of St. George R.Y.S., volume 1 lacking plate (The Takhtrawan; or grandee’s litter), map torn with loss of text, without advertisements on free endpapers, volume 3 lacking half-title and 1 plate (The pretty Bedouin girl), some spotting to text and plates, bindings and spines scuffed [Abbey Travel 368]; together with another copy of volume 1 in original blue cloth and with publisher’s catalogue at end, folding map and leaf of errata loose, and further copies of volumes 2 and 3 in half calf with marbled boards with book label of the English Reading Rooms Madeira, these 3 volumes with all text and plates present, volume 2 spine perished, upper joint cracked and lower board loose, volume 3 upper joint cracked and lower board loose, spotting and soiling to text and plates, bindings worn (6)

Provenance: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman £500-800

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MOORE, JOSEPH

EIGHTEEN VIEWS TAKEN AT AND NEAR RANGOON

[Bound with:] Marryat, [Frederick]. Six Coloured Prints Illustrative of the Combined Operations of the British Forces in the Birman Empire, 1824 and 1825. Second Series. London: Thomas Clay, 1826. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (46.7 x 34cm), contemporary half calf, diapered pink cloth covers with decorative gilt lozenge lettered ‘Birman War 1824-5-6, Cornet J. E. Alexander, 13th Light Dragoons’ to front, engraved list of principal subscribers with mezzotint vignette after Thomas Stothard (1 p.), lithographic list of subscribers (6 pp.), stipple-engraved allegorical title-page after Stothard incorporating the dedication (1 p.), 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates (plate 14 marked ’Proof’ lower right, plate 16 in second state with ‘adjacent’ corrected from ‘ajacent’, plates 7, 9, 14, 15, 17 and 22 with watermark ‘J. Whatman 1826’, Abbey citing a date of 1825 for all but plate 22, plates 12 and 19 with undated watermark ‘J. Whatman Turkey Mill’), original lithographic front wrapper bound in before each part, folding lithographic plan of Rangoon (26 x 38cm) and letterpress text bound in at rear, in 2 parts, 4to (25.8 x 19,5cm), [40], [8] pp., partially paginated, first part with watermarks ‘S & C 1824’ as in Abbey and including 2 initial leaves with captiontitles ‘Description of the Vignette attached to the First [-Second] Part of this Work’ (describing the list of principal subscribers and the allegorical title-page respectively), without the printer’s device and imprint at end as mentioned in Abbey, second part with caption title ‘Notes to accompany the second series of coloured engravings …’. Binding rubbed, loss to leather at foot of spine, front free endpaper creased, ring-mark to margin of plate 10, engraved titlepage and a few plates (18, 19, 20, 24) closely trimmed along fore edges, plate 7 closely trimmed at trimmed [Abbey Travel 404; Tooley 334]

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: First edition of this spectacular visual record of the First Anglo-Burmese War, acquired by British army officer General Sir James Edward Alexander as a young subaltern fresh from active service in the expedition. This copy notably retains the folding plan of Rangoon and the descriptive text, which are often absent. Alexander travelled to India as a cadet in the Madras army in 1820 and was gazetted as a cornet in the 1st Madras Light Cavalry in 1821. In 1824 he was appointed adjutant of the bodyguard for his relation Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras. In January 1825 he left the service of the East India Company and obtained a cornetcy in the 13th Light Dragoons, with whom he served in the field during the Burma campaign. He was gazetted lieutenant on half-pay in November 1825. Therefore his styling as a cornet in the personalised gilt-stamp on the front board would have become outdated during the course of the book’s publication (the plates are dated between October 1825 and September 1826), the British binder presumably working in ignorance of Alexander’s recent promotion.

A pencilled note by Alexander on the front free endpaper provides an extra level of detail regarding this first stage of his career: ‘Volunteered for service in Burmah, allowed to go in 1825 with 45 Regt. by means of Col. G. A. Wetherall after leaving 1st M L Cavalry, J. E. Alexander, 13th Light Dragoons’; he has also annotated the first page of text at the rear as Captain Alexander, to which rank he was promoted in 1830, so it is possible that the text was bound in later.

£3,000-5,000

BROUGHTON, THOMAS DUER

LETTERS WRITTEN IN A MAHRATTA CAMP DURING THE YEAR 1809

descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. London: for John Murray, 1813. First edition, 4to (26.4 x 20cm), contemporary half calf, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, pencilled ownership inscription ‘JEA, Westerton’ to the front free endpaper, half-title and directions to the binder leaf discarded, spine worn, joints cracked, plates slightly offset [Abbey Travel 433]; Parks, Fanny. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East. London: Pelham Richardson, 1850. 2 volumes, large 8vo (26.7 x 18cm), contemporary red half roan, possibly an Indian binding, 49 plates interleaved with tissue guards (4 chromolithographs with additional colouring by hand, 17 hand-coloured plates, 8 tinted plates), lacking the folding plan of elevations of the Himalaya mountains usually found in a pocket at the end of volume 1, bindings scuffed in places, inner hinges strengthened with linen tape, occasional toning and marginal spotting to plates, volume 1 frontispiece and plate facing p. vii strengthened in margins, volume 2 frontispiece detached and remargined, title-page similarly reinforced in margins [Abbey Travel 476]; Park, Mungo. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805. London: printed for John Murray, 1815. 2nd edition, revised and corrected, 4to (25.7 x 18.4cm), later half calf, lacking folding frontispiece map (replaced by map from later edition published by A. & C. Black, Edinburgh), illustrations, some minor staining, pencil and ink annotations, some torn leaves (repaired with minimal loss of text);

Symes, Michael. An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795. London: printed for J. Debrett, 1800. 2nd edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (20.7 x 11.8cm), contemporary half calf gilt, text only, lacking the additional 4to volume of plates issued with the text, toning throughout the volumes, binding edges worn, ownership inscriptions on title pages of ‘A. Brooke’, and ‘J.D. Alexander’ who purchased the book in Madras in 1803 [ESTC T134790] (7)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£300-500

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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

TRAVELS FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND

comprehending a Visit to the Burman Empire, and a Journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, etc. in the Years 1825-6. London: Parbury, Allen, and Co., 1827. 2 copies, both first edition, 4to (26.5 x 20.8cm), xv 301 pp., each with lithographic portrait frontispiece on india paper (mounted), 16 lithographic maps and plates after the author’s own sketches (of which 5 hand-coloured). Comprising:

The author’s own copy, with his ownership inscription ‘J. E. Alexander’ to the initial blank, spine lettered ‘Cornet J. E. Alexander 13. L. D.’ (i.e. 13th Light Dragoons) in gilt at foot (contemporary green half calf, marbled sides and edges, retaining half-title, spotting to title-page and occasional text-leaves)

Presentation copy from the author to his father, inscribed ‘To Edward Alexander Esquire of Powis, from his affectionate son the author’ on the initial blank (contemporary tan calf, half-title discarded, front joint cracked and board working loose, foot of spine pulled, frontispiece and title-page slightly marked, a few marks elsewhere) [Abbey Travel 520; Tooley 17] (2)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander travelled to India as a cadet in the Madras army in 1820, acquiring a cornetcy in the 1st Madras light cavalry the following year. ‘He was made adjutant of the bodyguard by Sir Thomas Munro [dedicatee of the present work], and served in the First Anglo-Burmese War. On leaving the East India Company’s service he joined the 13th light dragoons as cornet on 20th January 1825. He was given a lieutenancy on half pay on 26th November. As aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, he was present with the Persian army during the war of 1826 with Russia, and received the Persian order of the Lion and Sun (second class)’ (ODNB).

£1,500-2,000

ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS - EGYPT & ARABIA

FOUR ILLUMINATED PETITIONS ADDRESSED TO OTTOMAN COMMANDERS INCLUDING MUHAMMAD ALI PASHA

requesting permission for James Edward Alexander (1803-1885) to travel overland through Egypt. 12 & 18 Rajab 1241 AH [19th & 25th February 1826].

4 Arabic manuscripts, each in black ink on one side only of a single sheet of polished wove paper, naskh script, folding into envelope annotated in Arabic with salutation to the recipient and with the name and office of the recipient in English, housed in a separate green silk drawstring document bag (except the letter to Hasan Aga) and cream gauze outer sleeve, with signature and ink-stamp of one Abdullah Khan bin Shaykh Ghulam Husayn Khan Bahadur at foot, presumably a munshi in the service of the East India Company, and his red wax seal to envelopes, the letters respectively addressed to: Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha (1769-1849), governor of Egypt. 12 Rajab 1241 [19th February 1826], 61 x 38cm, cusped panel to head containing salutation al-Hajji Muhammad ‘Ali Basha sallamahu al-ta’ala written on gold ground, the main text comprising 23 lines and set within large panel surmounted by a Moorish-style multifoil-arched top, elaborate decorative background composed of repeating polychromatic floral motifs within lattice of shaped quatrefoils in gold;

Mir Mahmud Bey Kakhiyah, minister of Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha at Suez. 12 Rajab 1241 [19th February 1826], 62.5 x 24cm, on gold-sprinkled paper decorated with rows of diamond lozenges in gold leaf, one-line initial salutation at head (written diagonally), 31 lines of text (the final 4 lines, including date, written diagonally in right-hand margin), manuscript docket inscribed in Arabic and English pinned to document bag (the English identifying the addressee as ‘Meer Mahmood Bey Koffeeah Wauzier to His Highness the pacha of Egypt at Suiss’);

Rustum Efendi, commander of Jeddah. 12 Rajab 1241 [25th February 1826], 43 x 23.5cm, on gold-sprinkled paper decorated with rows of diamond lozenges in gold leaf, one line salutation at head (written diagonally), Rustum Efendi identified as ‘hakim bandar Jiddah’ (commander of the port of Jeddah) in salutation at head of letter and on envelope, inscription in English to envelope and additional label (attached via red wax seal and cord to green silk document bag) reading ‘Haji Rustum Affundee, Judge, Magistrate & Commander of the Forces at Judda’; Ra’is Hasan Agha, agent for trade and shipping, Jeddah (modern Saudi Arabia).

18 Rajab 1241 [25th February 1826], 59 x 23cm, on gold-sprinkled paper decorated with rows of diamond lozenges in gold leaf, one line initial salutation at head (written diagonally), 18 lines of text, Hasan Agha variously identified as ‘wakil al-tijarah wa’l-safa’in’ (i.e. ‘agent for trade and boats’) at head of letter, and ‘wakil al-tijarah’ (agent for trade) and ‘Chief in the civil & Marine Department, Judda’ in the Arabic and English inscriptions on the envelope, envelope additionally annotated with intended destination of bandar Jiddah (the port of Jeddah) in Arabic (4)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: A major collection of original diplomatic documents in Arabic, representing the attempt of a young British army officer to return from India to England through the Egyptian heartlands of renegade Ottoman governor Muhammad Ali Pasha and his territories on the Arabian side of the Red Sea, recently acquired during the Ottoman-Wahhabi War. The year 1826 was one of revolution in the Ottoman Empire. In a dramatic turn of events over two days in June, Sultan Mahmud II outmanoeuvred and liquidated the powerful janissary corps, who had become an intolerable burden on the functioning of the state and a barrier to the modernisation of the Ottoman army. The Ottomans were at that point managing to contain the Greek rebellion which had begun in 1821, thanks to the mobilisation in 1825 of Muhammad Ali Pasha’s new European-style conscript army. It was Muhammad Ali Pasha’s success that emboldened Mahmud II to move against the janissaries, but also convinced the European powers of the necessity of uniting against Ottoman and Egyptian forces.

James Edward Alexander had joined the army of the East India Company in 1820, and served in the First Anglo-Burma War. After the end of hostilities in 1825 he intended to return to England via Egypt, and had these documents drawn up in preparation, but was stymied by the infrequency of available ships, as he recalled in his first book:

‘It had been my original intention to proceed homeward through Egypt; but finding, on my arrival at Bombay, that no vessel would sail for the Red Sea probably for six months, I was obliged to abandon this project, and had now no alternative … but to travel overland through Persia and Russia. It was proposed to me to attach myself to the mission of Colonel Macdonald, who had just sailed for Persia (Travels from India to England, 1827, p. 73).

The four letters, written in Arabic and following the conventions of Islamic petitions, seek permission for Alexander to travel overland (bi-tariq al-barr) through Egypt and thence to England. Alexander is referred to in the third person by the scribe, who draws attention both to Alexander’s non-Muslim status as one of the Afranj (Franks, i.e. Europeans), but also to his high rank in India. The letters to Muhammad Ali Pasha and Mir Mahmud Bey Kakhiyah describe him as ‘one of the most honoured personages and esteemed men in the opinion of the governors of the English empire in India lands’ (shakhs min al-mu’azzazzin wa-rajul min al-mukarramin ‘ind awliya’ al-dawlah al-Injiriziyah fi’l-atraj al-Hindiyah), while those to the two commanders at Jedda mention that Alexander comes from the taraf (literally ‘side’, but possibly ‘staff’) of ‘Burr’ or ‘Barr’, ‘gentleman of Calcutta, a Company general’ (sahib Kalkuta, sar’askar Kumbani), which is possibly a reference to Lieutenant-General Edward Burr (17491828) of the Madras establishment.

Although all signed by the same clerk, the letters contain interesting variations. Those to Muhammad Ali Pasha and Mir Mahmud Bey Kakhiyah both seek a personal audience with the recipient, while Rustum Efendi and Ra’is Hasan Agha are informed that Alexander shall be ‘under your gaze, shadow and protection, and no one shall say that with him shall be any followers (or a flock), soldiers or Bedu’ (yakun nazarukum ‘alayhi fa-huwa tahta zillikum wa himayatikum … ahad la yaqul lahu shay min al-ri’aya wa-min al-‘asakir wa’l-badu). Most striking of all is the lengthy salutation to Muhammad Ali Pasha, which specifically celebrates his victory over the Wahhabis, praising his defeat of the unbelievers of Nejd and the Hejaz ‘by the light of the speartips of his wrath’ (bi-adwa’ asinnat rimah ghadbihi).

Had Alexander succeeded in travelling through Egypt rather than Persia, these letters would have presumably been handed to their recipients and their survival rendered unlikely. It is tempting to speculate on the future of Alexander’s career had he obtained an audience with Muhammad Ali Pasha, whose transformation of the Ottoman army in Egypt into a modern fighting force relied on a cadre of European advisors.

£3,000-5,000

TANJORE SCHOOL

ALBUM OF MINIATURE PAINTINGS SHOWING INDIAN CASTES, TRADES AND COSTUME

southern India, c.1820. Folio, contemporary tan half calf, marbled sides, decorative gilt black morocco label to front board (lettered ‘Hindoostanee, Persian, Turkish, Burman Drawings collected by J. E. Alexader [sic]’), containing 30 Tanjore School miniature paintings in gouache and watercolour on laid paper (all approx. 21.5 x 15.5cm), cornermounted to rectos or versos of pink wove paper leaves (32.5 x 19.8cm, watermarked ‘MacGoun 1822’), manuscript captions in black ink to mounts (probably by Alexander), reading: Musselman & Dancing Girl; Bungaree hara; Trichinopoly Rachewar; Mahratta Brahmin, writing; Pucklallee or water carrier; Komar or Potter; a Koomtee Shraff - Moneychanger; a Rajapoot; a Brahmin, Sivite; a Sapara with Snakes; Pondicherry Beriwar with a Deo or Idol; a Pundarum from [?]Ramesin, begging; Beriwan Musician & Dancing Girl; Madras Kait (writer); Poligan; a Wuzeer or Minister; Poligan; Domur - Tumblers; a Rajapoot solider making love to a Dancing Girl; [?]chimjawur Brahmin; Shah Mudaree Fakeer, beggar; Lubba Musselmans; Bengalee irregular sepoy; a Rachewar Vishnavite with dancing cow; Musselman Musician & Dancing Girl; a Garovee or Snake charmer; a [?]chimjawan Brahmin & Brahminee; a Musselman of rank; a Brahmin, Vishnavite; a Juggernaut [?]goosein & servant begging.

Bound with: 5 Qajar School miniatures (gouache, approx. 19 x 14cm, pasted onto leaf of coloured card, slit-mounted, manuscript captions to foot of coloured card mounts, comprising: Persian - a Dandy; Persian Lady; Armenian Priest of Ispahan; Persian female; Persian Lady in the Harem); 7 large Ottoman School miniatures (watercolours each approx. 28 x 18cm, slit-mounted, manuscript captions to foot, comprising: Turkish Tartar or Messenger, Town Dress; Barber of the Grand Seignior; Turkish Dancing Boy; Turkish Sofalee, Grand Seignior Footman; Frank woman of Pera, Constantinople; Greek Merchant; Turkish Lady, walking dress); and 11 smaller Ottoman School miniatures, approx. 18.5 x 13.5cm, tipped in, manuscript captions to versos: Jew; Artillery man; Combaragee - Bombardier; Deaf and dumb attendant, Dirchi; Infantry soldier - red Regt; Topehees - Gunners; Topehee - Drummer; Bim Bashi - Colonel; Tambourgee - Drummer; Galeongee - Sailor; Drummer of Bombardiers)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander travelled to India as a cadet in the Madras army in 1820. He was appointed adjutant to the bodyguard of Sir Thomas Munro, governor of Madras, and saw active service in the First Anglo-Burma before travelling to Persia as aide-de-camp to the British envoy Colonel Kinneir, witnessing the Russo-Persian War of 1826-8; he then travelled to the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War of 1829. He is likely to have collected these miniatures over the course of these three consecutive postings, described in his first book, Travels from India to England (1827), with their arrangement in the album corresponding to the order of their acquisition.

£6,000-8,000

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MIRZA I’TISAM UD-DIN (C.1730-C.1800)

SHIGURF NAMAH I VELAET, OR EXCELLENT INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING EUROPE

being the Travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France. Translated from the Original Persian Manuscript into Hindoostanee, with an English Version and Notes, by James Edward Alexander. London: for Parbury, Allen, and Co., 1827. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by James Edward Alexander to his father, ‘To Edward Alexander Esquire of Powis, from his affect[ionat]e son the Translator’, on an initial blank, 8vo in half-sheets (20.8 x 12.2cm), 2 parts in 1 volume, with English text at front and Urdu text from rear, xv 221, [2] 6 197 [1] pp., contemporary tan calf, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece with tissue-guard, printer’s colophon leaf at rear. Together with another copy of the first edition (contemporary dark green moiré cloth with leather spine-label, Alexander family ownership inscription to initial blank) (2)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: I’tisam ud-Din, a munshi from Nadia in Bengal, was sent to England in 1766 by Mughal emperor Shah ‘Alam with the task of establishing direct diplomatic relations with George III in the wake of the victory of Robert Clive and the East India Company at the battle of Buxar, and the ensuing treaty of Allahabad. He has been identified as ’one of the first members of the educated Indian elite to visit Britain’ (Franklin, Orientalist Jones, 2011, p. 63).

£500-800

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

ALBUM OF SKETCHES FROM TRAVELS IN BURMA, INDIA, PERSIA, AFRICA, CANADA AND BRITAIN, 1820S-40S 4to album (28 x 23cm), contemporary black half skiver, 88 sheets of sketches (in many cases with multiple sketches to a sheet), various media (pen and ink, pencil, and watercolour) and dimensions (approx. 9 x 6cm to 26 x 18cm), cornermounted to rectos only of 55 album leaves, manuscript captions throughout (often dated), ownership inscription ‘Sir J. E. Alexander’, subjects comprising landscapes, coastal profiles, towns and settlements, portraits, ethnographic studies, artefacts, etc., including Uitenhage, ‘Bethelsdorp, an independent Hottentot monastic establishm[en]t’, a mountainous landscape where ‘Sir Benjamin D’Urban directed me to mark a line of defence …’, ‘The Caffers of 1835 with whom we had to deal on the [?]Intebacandoda’, icebergs (including the ‘Albion taken back in the lee of an iceberg nr Newfoundland’), coastal views of Labrador and Cap Chat (Quebec), views on the St Lawrence River including the aurora borealis, ‘Forest Camp on the govt expedition 1844 exploring & surveying the military road, Halifax to Quebec’, objects seen at the Shwedagon (‘Shoordagoon’) pagoda (1825), Persian sculptures, a small portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, ‘Bejanuggur 1824, a deserted Hindoo city’, the caves of Ellora (1824), Daulatabad fort (1823), ‘rough sketches about Assaye, 1823 (including fortresses, a native flute player, ‘tree under which Gnl Wellesley stood … gave portion of it to [various regiments] for boxes, a double coastal panorama of the Arabian coast including Ra’s Musandam, Oman (captioned ‘Ras Fillam, Arabia, 1827, on the voyage in brig of war I. N. Palinurus for Persian Mission … Cape Musseldom, Arabia, a very forbidding coast, infested with pirates’, a view of ‘Bundemere, Persia’ (1826), tombs of Mordechai and Esther at Hamadan and of Hafiz and Sadi at Shiraz, a Persian palace, scenes in Scotland, Devon and Kent, and similar;

Together with approx. 24 loose sketches (various media and dimensions), including a military camp evidently in New Zealand (‘Bell Block, from a sketch by Lt McKellar, Taranaki Militia’, c.1860, pen and ink), the Curragh camp in Kildare (1859, watercolour), a tattooed Maori seated in cloak (watercolour), Pukerangiora and Te Arei Pa (New Zealand, c.1860, watercolour), a street scene apparently of London, Ontario (captioned on verso ‘London, Canada West’, watercolour), and similar, some of these possibly by other hands

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885) £800-1,200

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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO RUSSIA DURING THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR, 1829 4to (19.7 x 16cm), contemporary parchment binding, [65] ff., written in black ink on rectos and versos, approx. 28 lines per page, in tête-bêche format with a chronological narrative ([40] ff.) at front and thematic notes ([25] ff.) at rear, some 40 pen-and-ink sketches in text, including views (e.g. Heligoland, ‘Reval’, i.e. Tallin), objects of interest, local characters, in addition to 2 full pages of multiple sketches (depicting various stringed instruments and local costume), Alexander’s ownership inscription ‘James Edward Alexander, 16th Lancers’ to front free endpaper, his manuscript note explaining the purpose of the journal tipped to front pastedown, the journal describing Alexander’s voyage from England to St Petersburg via Hamburg, Tallin and Kronstadt, with a lengthy account of St Petersburg (including visits to the mint, arsenal, museum of the Academy of Sciences, the Hermitage and Winter Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk Palace, and the military camp at Krasnoye Selo (‘Crasnecelo’) and encounters with residents including ‘Orloffskiy … the most celebrated painter in St Petersburgh’ (i.e. Aleksander Orłowski, 1777-1832), Sir James Wylie (British doctor to the tsar), and others, the thematic notes at rear including observations and illustrative anecdotes of Russian culture, military matters (e.g. ‘Count Wittgenstein was terribly annoyed last campaign. He received such contradictory orders …’), trade, manners, and music, ‘Antient Russ Mythologies’, and events including a recent series of murders (‘several women were found … opposite the English quay’), etc.

Together with: Alexander’s personal copy of his published account of the journey, Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, Alexander’s ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, his name ‘Captain J. E. Alexander’ gilt-stamped to foot of each spine, engraved frontispiece, folding map, 11 aquatints of which 3 hand-coloured, 2 etched plates, Abbey Travel 229); another sketchbook, 8vo (17.8 x 12.5cm), contemporary blue half roan, containing [23] pp. of sketches variously in pen-and-ink (several of these with watercolour) or pencil, including various scenes of Balaclava, Inkerman, and Kharkov (modern Kharkiv, in Ukraine); and a Russian passport issued to Alexander permitting travel from Simferopol to Sevastopol, 1829 (4)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: This journal was apparently one of several Alexander kept during his travels through Russia until his temporary imprisonment by Russian forces at Sevastopol on grounds of suspected espionage. It covers events described up to about the fifth chapter of volume one (a visit to the Russian camp at Krasnoye Selo) in his published account, Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829 (1830), but appears to differ substantially from the printed text.

£500-800

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PETITION IN ARABIC ADDRESSED TO SA’ID BIN SULTAN (1795-1856), IMAM OF MUSCAT

13 Safar 1251 AH [i.e. 9th June 1835 CE].

Arabic manuscript in black ink on one side of single sheet of polished wove paper sprinkled with gold, 47.5 x 22cm, naskh script, 21 lines, decorated with rows of floral and foliate motifs in gold, addressed at head to Sayyid Sa’id, colophon (in Arabic) in the name of the ‘Right Honourable Sir Robert Grant … Governor, Government House, the Flourishing Port of Mumbai’, with a British functionary’s signature lower right, the document being a request for ‘Alexander who is a captain in the 42nd platoon [sic: ‘blatun’] to travel to ‘the small sea east of Africa named Dilak’ (i.e. Delagoa Bay, now Maputo Bay, Mozambique) to investigate its shoreline (‘shutut’) and water (‘bir’, lit. well), the document folding into an envelope annotated in Arabic with an extensive salutation to Sayyid Sa’id Al Ahmad Al Busa’id and with the destination ‘fi Bandar al-Masqat’ (‘at the port of Muscat’) noted to upper left, together with another slip with the same salutation repeated and with an additional annotation in English, ‘To H. H. the Imaum of Muskat’, housed in a red silk draw-string bag embroidered with gilt metal and green fabric threads forming floral pattern, and a cream gauze outer sleeve, the envelope and draw-string bag each with red wax seal reading ‘Persian Translators Office’; together with a contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in English from ‘the Right Honourable the Governor’ (presumably Sir Robert Grant) to ‘His Highness the Immaum of Muskat’ 11th June 1835: ‘I beg to introduce to Your Highness’s notice the bearer of this letter Captain Alexander, His Majesty’s 42nd Regiment, who has been sent out by the British Government in ordered to explorer the Rivers which discharge themselves into Delagoa Bay on the East Coast of Africa, and as it his intention to proceed along the coast to your Highness’s territories, I request that Your Highness will .. extend your favor and protection to the officer … and that should Your Highness not be at Zanziebar, you will give instructions to your officers there’ (single leaf, written on both sides, containing 2 copies of the same letter, 22.4 x 18.5cm) (2)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: A British soldier seeks permission from the Imam of Muscat to undertake a journey of exploration through his territories on the east African coast. A remarkable primary source for the style and objectives of Anglo-Arab diplomacy at a crucial moment in the growth of British influence in the Indian Ocean and Arabia in the early 19th century: 1835 was the year of the Maritime Truce between Britain and the Gulf Arab sheikhdoms, commonly identified as marking the advent of British supremacy in the region, as well as the first commercial treaty between Oman and the United States, and James Wellsted’s exploration of the Omani interior. Alexander had travelled to Africa from Britain the previous year with a commission from the Royal Geographical Society to explore ‘certain regions of East Africa, from Delagoa Bay westwards’ (Alexander, Narrative of a Voyage of Observation, 1837, vol. 1, p. vii). His plans were soon disrupted by the outbreak of hostilities with the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape, and he was required instead to serve as aide-de-camp to British commander-in-chief Sir Benjamin D’Urban. It was only in 1836 that he was able to travel into the African interior, covering 4,000 miles across Nama Land and Damaraland, for which efforts he received a knighthood in 1838.

£2,000-3,000

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOKS OF HIS TRAVELS IN CANADA, 1840S-50S

8 albums, all oblong 12mo (various dimensions, approx. 7.5 x 15cm to 9.5 x 16cm), varicoloured leather bindings with brass clasps and catches, numbered in gilt on spines (1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13), illustrated throughout with sketches in various media (pen and ink, pencil and watercolour; mainly in pen and ink), approx. 650 leaves in total (with sketches to all rectos and frequently also to versos), detailed manuscript captions (often dated), subjects including: views of landscapes, settlements, and homesteads in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, ‘Canada West’ (i.e. Ontario), New York and elsewhere; portraits of Indigenous peoples, soldiers and sailors, local characters and figures of note; depictions of daily life, social occasions, expeditions and excursions, comic mishaps, etc., in civil and military contexts; sketch maps; and more. Notable content in each volume (listed by spine-number) includes:

1) (85 leaves; dated 1841-2). Views in New York State (Fort Frederick, Oswego, Lake Onondaga), Canada West (Kingston, Niagara, Hamilton); homesteads and settlements (e.g. Oxford, Canada West); ‘scene of the Battle of Stoney Creek’; portraits, caricatures and social encounters (‘Broadway Swells, 1841’; ‘a loafer of the west’; ‘Street cart, N. York, 41’; ‘Fellow passengers to New York’; ‘encounter with Washington Irving after a party in the dark – he tried to hold back our carriage’; ‘The Kingston pie man’); ships; plan of Mt Pisgah on Lake Erie; full-length portrait of a Native American with a bow (captioned ‘Tonowantowongowango’).

3) (72 leaves). Approx. 20 watercolours (variously in grisaille or full colour) of a hunting trip around Lake Loughborough, including camping scenes, carousing, etc., local characters, etc.; ‘Inuit at Buffalo’; various social classes at Buffalo; views of Niagara; windmill at Chippawa; panorama of the remains of Fort Erie; portrait and homestead of one Bill Johnstone of French Creek; American voting practices (‘Manner of taking the ballot, U. States).

4) (89 leaves; dated ownership inscription ‘Sir Jas. Edward Alexander, 14 Regt, R. Engineer Depart[men]t 1844, Forest of N. Brunswick, Military Road Survey’). Principally views of surveying activity, tree felling and road construction in forested areas, with related portraits and scenes (e.g. ‘Lt Simmons RE at Grand Falls’; ‘Jacob Segee, axeman – a Mormon!’; portraits of Indigenous peoples (‘Mic Mac, Fredericton’; ‘Micmac Squaw of N. Brunswick’) and European settlers; views (several on the St Johns River; St Helen’s Isle, Montreal); settlements and homesteads (Beaumont, Berthier on the St Lawrence River, Kamouraska).

5) (96 leaves). Natural history subjects; 2 double-page views of Windsor and St Margaret’s Bay, both in Nova Scotia; further views (Lake Oromocto, New Brunswick; ‘First view of Nova Scotia Cote d’Or, 1844’; Lake Temiscouata, Quebec; Kamouraska; cliffs of the Saguenay, Quebec; Cape Breton, Nova Scotia); plan of the Bay of Fundy; ‘Wooden fort of Hudsons Bay Company’; Indigenous peoples (‘Halifax Indians’; ‘Indian female + papoose’); local characters and personalities; soldiers and sailors; icebergs; a comic sketch captioned ‘Lost on the Upper Miramichi and the leather leggings in danger of being made mincemeat of’; an anomalous sketch captioned ‘Persian Pearl Diver, Bahrein [Bahrain], 1826’.

9) (47 leaves; ownership inscription ‘Sir James Edwd Alexander, 14th Halifax, NS, 1st Nov. 46). Moose-hunt near Halifax (several sketches); barrack-room life; social caricatures.

10) (70 leaves; ownership inscription ‘Sir James Edwad Alexander A.D.C., 1847-8). Sketch maps; portraits of locals (‘Yankee hair dresser, Boston, 1842; ‘Winter Yankees’; ‘A French Canadian Irish emigrant’; settlements and homesteads (e.g. Yamaksa, Detroit City; ‘The principal temple of the Davidites’, i.e. the temple of the Davidite Quaker sect in Sharon, Ontario; ‘The house built by Dr Dunlop at Goderich’).

11) (98 leaves; ownership inscription ‘Sir J. E. Alexander, 1849’). Scenes and inhabitants of Sorel, Quebec; several scenes around Lake Champlain including Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, New York; views of various settlements and landscapes in Quebec and New Brunswick (‘old French works west of Citadel, Quebec’, double-page; St Leon Springs; Hunterstown on R. de Loup; Sugar Loaf Mountain; Lake George; Sherbrooke); maple-syrup production; recreations including ‘Equestrian journey round Eastern Townships, Canada’ (double-page) and ‘American Lady bathing at Coney Island watched by her husband’.

13) (85 leaves; ownership inscription ‘James Edwd Alexander A.D.C., 1851’. Montreal policeman disarming a ‘rioter’; views and residents of St Eustache; ‘Indian warrior’; scenes aboard HMSS Birkenhead (famously wrecked in 1852); views around Lake Chateauguy (including one double-page); birthplace of Alexander’s son Edward Mayne Alexander born (Brunswick Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia); a few Scottish views.

The lot sold with a collection of c. 80 family letters, 1837-1907, mainly from Sir James Edward Alexander to his wife Lady Eveline Alexander while stationed in Canada in the 1840s (but also including letters to J. E. Alexander from various correspondents on genealogical matters, i.e. Alexander’s claim to the earldom of Stirling, and a few letters to Lady Alexander in French), and two albumen print cartes-de-visite of an unidentified man from Mathew Brady’s photographic studio in Washington (1860s) (8 albums and a folder)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander travelled to North America with the rank of captain in his new regiment the 14th foot in 1841. Between 1844 and 1845 he was detached to the Royal Engineers to help survey for a military road connecting Quebec and Halifax, recalling in a statement written decades later in support of his candidature for the Order of the Bath that ‘the work was very trying; and [I] got no promotion or reward for this beyond 10s. a day when in the bush, 7s. when working at plans and reports’. In 1847 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Benjamin D’Urban, commander-in-chief, North America, whom he had previously served in the same capacity during the Cape Frontier War in South Africa in 1835, and continued as aide-de-camp to D’Urban’s successor Sir William Rowan until 1855, when he proceeded with regiment to the Crimea. He wrote or edited several books about his experiences in Canada, including L’Acadie; or Seven Years’ Explorations in British America (1849), Canada, As It Was, Is, and May Be (1851), and Salmon-Fishing in Canada (1860).

£3,000-5,000

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOK OF TRAVELS IN CANADA, INCLUDING WATERCOLOURS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Oblong 4to (14.8 x 20.8cm), roan-backed marbled boards, 56 ff., illustrated with one sketch to recto of each leaf (apart from two double-page panoramas), manuscript captions throughout, dated ownership inscription ‘Sir James Edwd Alexander, 14th, R.E.D., R. Eng[ineers] office, Montreal, 21st/12/45’ to initial blank, contents including: 4 watercolours of Indigenous North Americans, captioned ‘a surveyor’s Indian’, ‘Squaw’, ‘Huron Hunter, had one of these as a henchman 1844’ (showing a man on snowshoes holding a rifle), and ‘Squaw & ‘squaller’’ (i.e. an Indigenous woman and her daughter), and one further watercolour (of a Canadian moose), the other sketches mostly in pen and ink with touches in pencil and occasional touches of grey wash (a few in pencil only), some 20 either non-specific or depicting scenes in Scotland, on the voyage out, or in the Alps, the remaining 35 or so relating to Canada, and including views (Lake Beaufort in Quebec, the St Lawrence River, a double-page panorama of Chester, Nova Scotia), a Quebec street scene, notable Quebec residences (chief engineer’s residence, Holland House, ‘The Haunted House near Quebec)’, Halifax homesteads, events and social occasions (fancy-dress ball in Halifax, fire at St Louis Theatre, Quebec ‘where 48 people perished, 1846’, boat racing at Dartmouth near Halifax), portraits (‘Micmacs [Mi’kmaq] of N. Scotia’, the Earl of Elgin and Sir John Harvey at Government House, Halifax), modes of transport (including sleighs), proposed military uniform for Royal Canadian Voltigeurs, and similar

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander travelled to North America with the rank of captain in his new regiment the 14th foot in 1841. Between 1844 and 1845 he was detached to the Royal Engineers to help survey for a military road connecting Quebec and Halifax, recalling in a statement written decades later in support of his candidature for the Order of the Bath that ‘the work was very trying; and [I] got no promotion or reward for this beyond 10s. a day when in the bush, 7s. when working at plans and reports’. In 1847 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Benjamin D’Urban, commander-in-chief, North America, whom he had previously served in the same capacity during the Cape Frontier War in South Africa in 1835, and continued as aide-de-camp to D’Urban’s successor Sir William Rowan until 1855, when he proceeded with regiment to the Crimea. He wrote or edited several books about his experiences in Canada, including L’Acadie; or Seven Years’ Explorations in British America (1849), Canada, As It Was, Is, and May Be (1851), and Salmon-Fishing in Canada (1860).

£1,500-2,000

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOKS OF TRAVELS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, 1845-55

1) Oblong 8vo (13 x 20.5cm), black half roan, marbled sides, 32 ff., with sketches to recto of each leaf (3 in pencil, the rest in pen and ink, a few of which with added grey wash), a few sketches to versos, including for a double-page pen, ink and wash panorama of Mont Orford, Eastern Townships (Quebec), the remaining sketches including views (2 of Lake Memphremagog, Quebec; ‘Scene in Vermont whilst changing horses, Augt 1845’; homestead in New Hampshire; several Scottish views and scenes including Dunoon, Stirling, the Clyde, interview with James Alexander of Dollar, i.e. James Edward Alexander’s rival claimant to the earldom of Stirling, a tournament at Stirling), local characters (‘Yankee boy & child, Massachusetts), scenes aboard the RMS Britannia, etc., with ownership inscription (‘Sir J. E. Alexander, 1845, Royal Eng[ineers] Office’) to front endpaper;

2) Oblong 4to (18.8 x 23.5cm), red roan backing marbled boards, 36 ff., with sketches throughout (to rectos and several versos), including 2 watercolours (proposed military uniforms; martello tower at Kingston, Ontario), the rest in pen and black or sepia ink (these often with pencil or grey wash), or pencil, manuscript captions throughout (with dates from 1851 to 1853, many with Alexander’s initials ‘J. E. A.’), the subjects including Quebec scenes and views (Mount Johnston, now Mont-Saint-Grégoire; Shawinagan Falls; view from Mount Montreal with two figures in foreground, captioned ‘Lord Mark Kerr’, sketching, and ‘Lutyens’, climbing a tree; ‘Where the great fire of July 1852 began, Montreal’, showing a gutted building with signage reading ‘Cheap Bread Company’ against a background of ruins; ‘Scene of the Gavazzi Riot, Montreal’; Montmorency Falls; ‘Mrs Rowan’s Seat at Bonenfants Cacouna’; ‘Lac St Simon, 12th Augt 1854, returning from fishing with Judge Meredith’), further North American views including Lyon Mountain (Lake Chateauguay, New York), Mount Washington (evidently that in New Hampshire), a homestead near Waterloo (modern Ontario), 3 double-page Scottish views (Stirling from Alexander’s seat at Westerton; Schiehallion; Loch Rannoch), further Scottish views including the Falls of Bruar, and other scenes including ‘American off-hand rifle practice’, etc.;

3) Oblong 4to (17 x 24cm), black roan backing marbled boards, 26 ff., with sketches throughout (all to rectos apart from one double-page view), 2 in pencil, the rest in pen and ink (most with additional grey wash or grey or coloured pencil), manuscript captions throughout (dated 1852-5), ownership inscription ‘Sir James E. Alexander, 14 Regt’ to front free endpaper, subjects including views of New York State (Port Lafayette; Fort Hamilton; Lake George), Beloeil Lake (Quebec), Penetanguishene (modern Ontario), Bruce Mines and Shebanoning on Lake Huron, Mackinaw and Fort Mackinaw on Lake Michigan, Sault Ste Marie on Lake Superior, etc., the second of the album depicting Alexander’s voyage to the Crimea, 1855, including coastal views of ‘Barbary’, Malta, Constantinople, Balaclava, and scenes on land including the bombardment of Sevastopol and a double-page view of the great plain of Balaclava (3)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander travelled to North America with the rank of captain in his new regiment the 14th Foot in 1841. Between 1844 and 1845 he was detached to the Royal Engineers to help survey for a military road connecting Quebec and Halifax, recalling in a statement written decades later in support of his candidature for the Order of the Bath that ‘the work was very trying; and [I] got no promotion or reward for this beyond 10s. a day when in the bush, 7s. when working at plans and reports’. In 1847 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Commander-in-Chief, North America, whom he had previously served in the same capacity during the Cape Frontier War in South Africa in 1835, and continued as aide-de-camp to D’Urban’s successor Sir William Rowan until 1855, when he proceeded with the regiment to the Crimea. He wrote or edited several books about his experiences in Canada, including L’Acadie; or Seven Years’ Explorations in British America (1849), Canada, As It Was, Is, and May Be (1851), and Salmon-Fishing in Canada (1860).

£1,000-1,500

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ALEXANDER,

SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

ALEXANDER’S OWN COPIES OF HIS PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF TRAVEL IN THE AMERICAS each with his ownership inscription to front free endpaper, titles comprise: L’Acadie; or, Seven Years’ Explorations in British America. London: Henry Colburn, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half calf, all engraved plates and maps as called for, spine-labels gilt stamped ‘Sir J. E. Alexander’; Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, map and 10 etched plates, with original tissue guards, contemporary moiré cloth, volume 2 with 14pp. advertisements to rear, spines sunned; Canada, As It Was, Is, and May Be. By Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard H. Bonnycastle, Royal Engineers. With Considerable Additions, and an Account of Recent Transactions by Sir James Edward Alexander. London: Colburn and Co., 1852. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 maps (1 folding), original publisher’s cloth binding, volume 2 with 26pp. advertisements to rear and advertisement endpapers, with an additional copy of volume 2, bolts mostly unopened in volume 1 and one copy of volume 2, spines sunned; Salmon-Fishing in Canada by a Resident. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First edition, 8vo, illustrated with wood engravings (including 3 plates, illustrations and map), original publisher’s purple cloth binding, 24pp. advertisements to rear and advertisement endpapers, binding sunned on spine and upper board (8)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£500-800

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[AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC]

THE ETHIOPIAN GLEE BOOK

A Collection of Popular Negro Melodies, arranged for Quartett Clubs. By Gumbo Chaff, A.M.A., First Banjo Player to the King of Congo […] No. 2 Containing the Songs Sung by the Christy Minstrels. With Many Other Popular Negro Melodies […] No. 3. Containing the Songs Sung by the Christy Minsters, with Many Other Popular Negro Melodies. Boston: Elias Howe, 1848-9. Oblong 4to (15.5 x 24cm), 3 parts in 1 volume, 167 [1] pp. (pagination continuous), contemporary dark blue half calf by R. & A. Miller of Montreal, gilt morocco label to front board, pencilled ownership inscription ‘Sir James Edw Alexander A.D.C., Montreal, 1850’ to the initial blank, and his pencilled sketches of the Clan Alexander crest with his monogram to the rear blank, binding rubbed, contents spotted

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£200-300

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CANADA (QUEBEC)

ALBUMS OF WATERCOLOURS & SKETCHES BY EVELINE M. ALEXANDER (1821-1906), INCLUDING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Oblong folio (24 x 29cm), dark blue skiver, gilt-lettered ‘E .M. A. Westerton’ on front board, containing 6 watercolours and 6 pen-and-ink sketches (each approx. 21 x 28cm, except one in circular form, diameter 22cm; corner-mounted to rectos), all but one with manuscript caption to mounts or sketch, subjects including ‘Road to Monklands, Montreal’, ‘Lachene, ‘Clearing snow from the streets of Montreal’, ‘Avalanche in Notre Dame Street, Montreal’, ‘Carting ice on the St Laurence [sic], Canada’, a similar scene of a horse-drawn hayrick and sled on ice, ‘Near Mile end, Montreal’, ‘Montreal from the Mile end Toll’, ‘Bout de Lisle from the Bridge above the Rivière des Prairies’, ‘St Anne from the Channel’, ‘Fort Lenneville’, and ‘St Genevieve’, manuscript title ‘Canadian Sketches etc. by E. M. Alexander 1850’ within pasted-down watercolour design of maple leaves to first leaf. With approx. 25 additional watercolours and pen-andink sketches, loosely inserted, including 4 watercolours of Indigenous Canadians, i.e. a male warrior bearing a bow and arrow (25.2 x 17.4cm, captioned ‘Charlos, Lorette, W. Quebec, Canada’), a seated woman (25.5 x 17.4cm), and a young boy with boy and arrow (16 x 13.5cm, captioned ‘Lorette, E.M.A’, and a scene of Indigenous riverside encampment with a European settlement on the opposite shore (oval-form, 13.5 x 22cm), views of Lake Massawippi and Lake Memphremagog, botanical subjects, etc, loss to spine. together with another album, oblong folio (22.5 x 29.5cm), half skiver, with gilt morocco label reading ‘Studies by Stubbs, Sir J. E. Alexander, A. D. C.’ to front board, binder’s ticket of R. & A. Miller of Montreal, containing approx. 20 watercolours and a few pencil sketches (including a pencil sketch of Mount Alexander on the Miramichi River), one leaf loose, one picture detached from mount (2)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Eveline Marie Alexander (1821-1906) was the wife of Sir James Edward Alexander. She was the daughter of LieutenantColonel Charles Cornwallis Michell, who was appointed surveyor general of Cape Colony in 1828 and served alongside James Edward Alexander on the staff of Sir Benjamin D’Urban during the Cape Frontier War of 1834-5. £500-800

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ALEXANDER, EDWARD MAYNE (1846-1916)

SKETCHBOOKS OF TRAVELS IN CANADA, MOROCCO AND GIBRALTAR, 1867-8

4to (26.5 x 21cm), half skiver, containing approx. 115 sketches in watercolour, pen and ink or pencil, various dimensions, mounted to rectos and versos of 38 leaves, manuscript captions throughout (often initialled and dated), the first 25 or so relating to Morocco (including street scenes and local peoples in Tangiers, and views on the way to Tetuan and Ceuta), most of the remaining pictures relating to Canada (Quebec and Canada West, i.e. Ontario), including sleigh rides (in Phillips Square and elsewhere), tobogganing (including on Esdaile’s Hill), ice-skating at Victoria rink, snowshoeing, ice-cutting on the St Lawrence, views of Quebec City and Montreal, views in and around Hamilton and Niagara, portraits, and more, with a few watercolours of French soldiers at rear, binding defective; oblong folio (28 x 40.5cm), cloth, 50 sketches (watercolour, pen and ink or pencil), various dimensions, mounted mainly to rectos only, manuscript captions throughout, subjects including caricatures (e.g. a series showing the behaviour of different classes of soldier under fire; a woman straddling a bayonet; a humorous comparison of family life in England, showing a disconsolate man with a cradle of crying children, and Australia, the children replaced with bags of gold dust), several views and scenes in Gibraltar and Algeciras, etc.), 14 additional sketches (including watercolours) loosely inserted, spine perished (2)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Edward Mayne Alexander was the eldest son of General Sir James Edward Alexander. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia during his father’s lengthy posting in Canada, and was commissioned into the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot in 1866. He later travelled with his regiment to India, serving as inspector of gymnasia in Bombay.

£300-400

INDIA

COLLECTION OF SKETCHBOOKS ATTRIBUTED TO COLONEL EDWARD MAYNE ALEXANDER (1840-1916)

Oblong 4to (18.4 x 25.2cm), quarter leather, containing 17 sketches in watercolour, pen and ink or pencil, on rectos and versos of 25 leaves of coloured paper (15 leaves blank), with 4 loose leaves of artist’s card inserted (embossed stamp ‘Goodall’s Bristol Board’), occasional manuscript captions, relating to buildings and landscapes in India, including Sonapet Valley, one double page watercolour of an unidentified landscape, loose card leaves include sketches of a perilous horse-drawn carriage journey across a mountainous terrain, binding defective with some leaves loose;

oblong 4to (13.8 22.5cm), cloth, containing 26 sketches (watercolour, pen and ink or pencil), various dimensions, on rectos and versos of 16 leaves of paper mostly interleaved with tissue paper, occasional manuscript captions, sketches date from 1891, including depiction of journey from Gujrat to Bimber [Bhimber] in India 27.9.91 (further depictions of the journey can be found on the loose card leaves inserted in the previous volume), landscapes (pen and watercolour depiction of Rajaore [Rajouri?] in Kashmir, rough pencil sketches of buildings, landscapes, local people, an elephant, various pencil notes at rear, some dampstaining at front and rear of sketchbook, tissue paper creased and stained, lower board stained; oblong 4to (12.7 x 17.5cm), quarter leather, containing c. 40 sketches (watercolour, pen and ink or pencil), various dimensions, on rectos and versos of 33 leaves of coloured paper (3 leaves blank), occasional manuscript captions, sketches made in the 1880s and possibly later, some double-page, including buildings, landscapes in various locations, in India: Amber, Secundra [Secundra Bagh palace courtyard at Lucknow], Futtehpore [Fatehpur] Sikiri, Agra, Nainital, Jhansi Fort; in Scotland: 78 Highlanders Indian Rebellion Monument (Edinburgh), Lochgilphead; oblong 4to (12.7 x 17.5cm), quarter leather, containing c. 30 sketches (watercolour and pencil), various dimensions, on rectos and versos of 35 leaves of coloured paper (1 leaf blank), occasional manuscript captions dated 1889-91, some double-page, including buildings, landscapes in India, Himalayas, Bageshwar, Jawali, Gwalior and other places; oblong 4to (13.9 x 22.5cm), quarter leather, containing c. 40 sketches (watercolour and pencil), various dimensions, on rectos and versos of 38 leaves of coloured paper, with pasted-in albumen print photograph (11.2 x 19.1cm) of Edward Mayne Alexander sitting in a room in his house in India in the 1880s adorned with animal trophies and shields and swords, almost none of the sketches are captioned or dated, they include landscapes (some double-page) and 4 portraits of Indian men (2 with camels), one leaf loose; and 5 other smaller format oblong sketchbooks (9-12 x 14-15.5cm), cloth and leather, containing sketches (watercolour, pen and ink or pencil) from 1879-early 1880s, of landscapes, including the Middle East (possibly en route to India) and humorous caricatures of various people, including passengers on board ship (10)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1805-1883)

£700-1,000

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS OF MILITARY SERVICE IN CANADA, THE CRIMEA, AND NEW ZEALAND, 1850S-70S 3 volumes, 4to (various dimensions), contemporary parchment bindings (scuffed with some soiling), Alexander’s ownership inscription on front free endpapers, contents comprising ‘private memoranda,’ i.e. a mixture of journal entries, notes on people encountered by Alexander, summaries of books read, miscellaneous anecdotes and observations on travels, illustrated throughout with small pen sketches, including portraits of people mentioned (including tattooed Maori men), buildings, battle plans of the Crimea, diagrams and humorous doodles.

Volume 1, c. 240 ff. (23.2 x 18.7cm), 1851-8, part of which possibly used for Alexander’s work Passages in the Life of a Soldier (1857), begins in Montreal in October 1851 (Alexander was stationed as aide-de-camp to Sir William Rowan, commander of the British troops in Canada), subjects including: attending a lecture by American showman P.T. Barnum, travels by boat and rail in Canada and America, visits to New York city, Chateaugay Lake in New York state, Lake Superior and observations on its ship canal, general observations on life in Canada and America, a visit to the US military academy at West Point and Robert E. Lee (then a colonel and superintendent of the academy), the Gavazzi Riots in Quebec and Montreal in June 1853, the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 and Alexander’s journey back to England and then on to the Crimea in 1855, the siege and fall of Sevastopol, Highland games in the Crimea in March 1856, return to England in June 1856, travels in England, Scotland and Ireland, a description of the ragged school in Stirling, discussions of recent publications such as MacDougall’s Theory of War, David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays; the volume also includes several loose leaves, newspaper clippings, pressed leaves, and a cabinet card albumen print portrait taken by Window & Grove of London of an unidentified woman;

Volume 2, c. 200 ff. (23 x 18.5cm),1859-64, possibly used for Alexander’s published works on New Zealand, i.e. Incidents of the Maori War: New Zealand in 1860-61 (1863) and Bush Fighting (1873), begins in Ireland where Alexander was commanding the 2nd battalion of the 14th regiment of foot based at Queenstown (Cobh), subjects covered include: a visit to Scotland in 1859, notes on the defence of buildings, posting to New Zealand, where he commanded the regiment in Auckland during the Taranaki Wars against the Maori of North Island between 1860 and 1862, life in New Zealand and personalities encountered there, observations on the Maori people, his return to Britain in 1862, moving to the family estate at Westerton House, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, discussion of recent publications such as Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, notes on Sandhurst Military Academy, the volume also including several loose leaves and newspaper clippings;

Volume 3, 200 ff. (25.7 x 20.5cm), 1864–72, comprises occasional journal entries, lists of interesting points in contemporary publications, including medical texts, travel and exploration books, and military texts, together with descriptions of travels in England and Scotland (Loch Maree, Orkney and Shetland) (3)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£600-800

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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOK OF CRIMEAN WAR SERVICE, 1854-6

Oblong 12mo (10 x 16.2cm), black roan album, [107 ff.], illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink sketches (and occasional grey wash or blue ink; a few sketches in pencil only), mainly to rectos only but occasionally to versos also (including for 3 double-page panoramas), often with multiple sketches to a page, manuscript captions (frequently dated), including views and scenes in Balaclava, Sevastopol (including the Mamelou redoubt), the Redan, the Malakoff redoubt, Mangup Kale, and Alma, depictions of battles, bombardments, encampments, fortifications, living quarters, ordnance, portraits of named officers and of other ranks (including Sardinian and French troops, cossacks, etc.), graves of British soldiers, Crimean antiquities, a panorama of the Battle of the Chernaya at Traklin Bridge, and more, together with several sketches of views, peoples and objects in Canada and Ireland preceding Alexander’s posting, at Gibraltar, North Africa, Malta and Istanbul on the voyage out, at Malta and Spain on the home voyage, and several sketches of views in England, Scotland and Ireland following his return; Together with 11 autograph letters from Alexander to his wife Eveline Marie Alexander (addressed to ‘Lady Alexander’), written from Sevastopol, July-December 1855, and 2 similar letters to his son Edward Mayne Alexander, providing a detailed running commentary on the siege and capture of Sevastopol and subsequent events, illustrated with several small pen-and-ink sketches (e.g. 23rd July, ‘Last night at 11, for an hour & a half, we had a hot action. The Russians came out & fought all along our front. The fire of great guns, mortars & small arms was very heavy & incessant’; 21st September, ‘Our general Sir William Eyre keeps us so much employed, and very right too for it is no time to go asleep with 100,000 Russians still resting like a dark cloud on the heights on our right flank’; 19th October, ‘ ‘information from Berlin leads our chiefs to believe that the Russians meditate another attack upon our position, so we are up early morning, in the cold, at ½ past 4, stand to our arms for an hour, staff officers go & look out over the valley of the Tchernaya & Heights of Inkermann, & if all is quiet we are turned in again’)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Having recently been appointed lieutenant-colonel and regimental major, Alexander was sent to Crimea as commander of his regiment the 14th foot in mid-1855 during the siege of Sevastopol. He was present at the fall of the city in September and was subsequently awarded the Ottoman order of the Mejidiye (fifth class).

£400-600

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOKS OF IRELAND, 1857-9

8vo (18 x 11cm), contemporary red pebble-grain cloth album, approx. 40 pp., sketches throughout, mainly pen and ink (a few in pencil), to rectos only, manuscript captions, subjects including: scenes and caricatures of Irish life (e.g. ‘a tasty hat we saw in Cork’, ‘Voters, Middleton, Co. Cork, 7th April 1857, Camp detach to keep the peace’, couples dancing, etc.) and of military life and drill, portraits of figures of various social ranks (e.g. Earl of Meath, Earl of Carlisle the Lord Lieutenant, ‘Mr Jukes Geologist’, ‘General Chesney [possibly Francis Rawdon Chesney], ‘Professor Sullivan’ of Trinity College Dublin, various members of the British Association, ‘Sergeant O’Dwyer of the Cork Militia’, ‘Waiter at Tallow: ‘We’ve none o’ that!’’, ‘Killarney boatman’, etc.), views (Royal Hospital Dublin, Kinsale), and similar, ownership inscription ‘Sir J. E. Alexander 1857’; oblong 12mo (8.5 x 15cm), contemporary black straight-grain morocco album with brass clasp and catch, numbered ‘18’ on spine in gilt, approx. 60 ff., sketches throughout, mainly in pen and ink, a few in pencil, some with added grey wash, largely to rectos only, a few to versos, manuscript captions, the subjects including views of castles, country houses, towns and rural areas (e.g. Lismore, Kilcolman, Mallow, Waterford, Tramore, etc.), excursions and genre scenes (e.g. archery meet near Mount Leinster, exploring a cromlech near Kilmaclenine castle), portraits, and miscellaneous sketches and caricatures (a shrine to Ganesha, dated 1824, presumably a recollection of Alexander’s service in Burma; ‘There was an Old Man of Jamaica’ after Edward Lear; salmon spearing in New Brunswick, Canada), ownership inscription ‘Sir James Edwd Alexander, 1 D.B, Fermoy, Jany- 1858’; oblong 12mo (8.6 x 15.5cm), contemporary black hard-grain morocco album with white metal clasp and catch, numbered ‘19’ on spine in gilt, approx., 80 ff., with pen and ink sketches throughout (often several to a page, mainly to rectos only, a few embellished with coloured pencil or grey wash), manuscript captions, the subjects including views (of towns, landscapes, and important buildings, e.g. River Dargle, Chair of Kildare, Wicklow, Mullingar, Glendalough, the seat of the Marquis of Drogheda at Moore Abbey, etc.), sketches and caricatures of people, scenes and objects of interest from military and civilian life (e.g. ‘Paddy Byrne, near Ballysaxe, landlord of a public’, ‘comet as seen at Kilkenny, Oct 1858’, ‘the crooked legged man of Holywood’, pheasant shooting in Garbally, antiquities), occasional sketches from other episodes and places from Alexander’s life (including the Crimean war, the family seat at Westerton, Dumbarton, Ben Lomond, Prince Albert at the opening of the British Scientific Association in 1859, a West Indian soldier, ‘An Arab of Aden’, etc.), with ownership inscription ‘Colonel Sir James Edwd. Alexander, 14 Regiment, Jany 1859, Dublin’; and 1 other similar album (4to, quarter morocco, including a pencilled sketch-map of Killarney and environs, and a few views) (4)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: Alexander was sent to Ireland after the end of Crimean War, first joining a depot battalion before being ordered to raise and command the second battalion of the 14th regiment of foot, which in 1860 he took to New Zealand to fight in the First Taranaki War.

£300-500

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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOK OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE MAORI DURING THE FIRST TARANAKI WAR, 1860-1 oblong 12mo (8.6 x 15cm), black roan album with metal clasp and catch, [83] ff., with drawings to recto of every leaf and to a few versos, in many cases multiple sketches to a page, nearly all in pen-and-ink with touches of pencil (a few in pencil only), manuscript captions throughout (frequently dated), contents including: portraits of Maori (‘New Zealand war dance (haka)’, children and families, bust portrait of ‘Raupereha’, possibly Te Rauparaha (Maori rangatira, d. 1849), full-length portrait of Tamati Waka (Maori rangatira, d. 1871), a Maori boatman); Maori settlements (‘Wiremu Kingi Fishing Pah, Waitora [Waitotara] Mouth, burnt by our native allies, Mar. 60’, an unnamed Maori pah); Maori artefacts; scenery (including Gough Island, McDonald Islands, Rangitoto Mountain, St George’s Bay, Panmure, Otahutu, Orakei, Mount Taranaki, New Plymouth); British encampments and fortifications (Taranaki, Pukerangiora, Omata), ideas for military uniforms (‘Proposed New Zealand Cavalry’, ‘Maori Soldiers’, ‘Proposed Mairo Rangers’), characters including named soldiers and sailors of various ranks (‘Colonel The Honble H. Percy V.C. Gr. Guards - a great soldier’, Governor Sir George Grey, etc.), whimsical caricatures, scenes from the voyage out (life aboard the transport Nautilus, ships sighted), natural history subjects (‘Australian Porcupines’, i.e. echidnas; kiwis), with a list of Maori populations by area to rear (the total amounting to 55,785), ownership inscription ‘Colonel Sir James Edwd Alexander, 14 Regt, Curragh Camp, May 1860’ to initial blank

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: In 1858 Alexander, then commanding a depot battalion in Ireland following his return from the Crimean War, was directed to raise and command the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot, with whom he had served in Canada and the Crimea. With the outbreak of the First Taranaki War in 1860 he was ordered with his battalion to New Zealand, where he commanded the troops at Auckland until 1862. On his return to Britain he wrote an account of the conflict, Incidents of the Maori War (1863), in which he declared himself to be an ‘Aborigines-protectionist’, professing ‘friendly sentiments towards colonists and settlers, as long as they do not interfere with native rights, and believe, and act on the belief, that Divine Providence has given an inheritance to those of dark as well as fair complexions’ (p. vi).

£800-1,200

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOK OF NEW ZEALAND DURING THE FIRST TARANAKI WAR, 1860-2 oblong 4to (18.6 x 24.5cm), reddish-brown half roan album, cloth covers, black leather label to front (lettered ‘New Zealand, Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander, 2nd 14th Regt, 1861. 62’ in gilt), [45] ff., comprising views (including Te Arei pah, camp at Waitara, Mount Egmont, a Maori kainga, Castle Point, camp at Otahuhu, various scenes on the Waitara river and Waikato rivers and at Manekau, ‘Wareka hill, stormed by Captain Cracroft, H.M.S. Niger, 1860’, Wellington, Hutt River, etc.), a battle scene (‘Repulse of Maoori attack on No. 3 Redoubt’), ethnographic studies (including a fulllength portrait of Maori chief E Puni), and several maps and battle plans (including a general plan of the ‘Seat of War’, Waireka, defences at Puketakauere pa, the attack on Puketakauere, ‘Kaihihi, sketch showing the positions of the pahs attacked’, Matarikoriko, ‘Sketch of Waireka-Hill shewing the action with the Maories’, and more), manuscript captions throughout (often dated), mainly in pen-and-ink with touches of pencil and frequent use of coloured washes, a few in pencil, on rectos only (except for one leaf with pen-and-ink sketch captioned ‘Maori Paddling’ on verso)

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Note: In 1858 Alexander, then commanding a depot battalion in Ireland following his return from the Crimean War, was directed to raise and command the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot, with whom he had served in Canada and the Crimea. With the outbreak of the First Taranaki War in 1860 he was ordered with his battalion to New Zealand, where he commanded the troops at Auckland until 1862. On his return to Britain he wrote an account of the conflict, Incidents of the Maori War (1863), in which he declared himself to be an ‘Aborigines-protectionist’, professing ‘friendly sentiments towards colonists and settlers, as long as they do not interfere with native rights, and believe, and act on the belief, that Divine Providence has given an inheritance to those of dark as well as fair complexions’ (p. vi).

£1,500-2,000

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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS OF TWO SEA VOYAGES, IRELAND TO NEW ZEALAND, 1860, AND AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, 1862

‘The Nautilus, a weekly illustrated paper & record of the voyage from Cork to Auckland, New Zealand, of the steam transport ‘Robert Lowe’. ‘Contributors, Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander, 14th Regt, Lieut Anderson, 14th, Dr Carberry, 14th, Lieut Cope, 14th, Mr Patton, 14th, Mr Dudley, 2nd Officer (R. Lowe)’, 1860. 4to (23 x 18cm), contemporary maroon half calf, approx. [70] ff., comprising 10 weekly ‘numbers’ (erratically paginated, possibly from being bound up from separately paginated parts), illustrated with 25 pen-and-ink sketches (a few pasted in), generally satirical, including Maori cannibals, various depictions of life on ship, binding rubbed;

‘The Albatross, or a Record of the Voyage of the S. S. S. [sic] Great Britain from Victoria to England’, 1862. 4to (22.7 x 18cm), contemporary black half calf, 278 pp., comprising 8 weekly ‘numbers’ (each separately paginated, probably bound up from the parts), 10 pen-and-ink sketches (a headpiece to each number, including depictions of the S. S. Great Britain rounding the Horn and off the Falkland Islands, together with sketches of St Paul’s Islets, ‘Trinidade’, i.e. Trindade, and the Australian ‘Bottle Tree’, with kangaroos), the contents comprising a narrative of the voyage including lands sighted (e.g. the Auckland Islands) and descriptions of onboard life and recreation, together with jokes, poems and songs, Alexander’s recollections of experiences in Canada, Persia, southern Africa and elsewhere, anecdotes submitted by shipmates including a series on ‘whaling incidents’ (one off the coast of Tasmania), an account of life in Port Phillip, Australia, during the 1840s, and a series of pieces ‘relating to the Aborigines of Australia’ (including the position of women in Aboriginal society), and more;

Together with a copy of the published version of the narrative: The Albatross: Record of Voyage of the “Great Britain” Steam Ship from Victoria to England in 1862, edited by Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, Stirling: Charles Rogers & Co., 1863 (first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his wife Eveline, 8vo, original cloth, folding map) (3)

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Note: In 1858 Alexander, then commanding a depot battalion in Ireland following his return from the Crimean War, was directed to raise and command the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot, with whom he had served in Canada and the Crimea. On the outbreak of the First Taranaki War in 1860 he was ordered with his battalion to New Zealand, where he commanded the troops at Auckland until 1862. He made the homeward voyage on Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s S.S. Great Britain, captained by the Shetland-born mariner John Gray (1819-1872), who mysteriously disappeared overboard during the same voyage 10 years later. In 1863, soon after his return, Alexander published two books, Incidents of the Maori War and The Albatross, his wife’s copy of the latter being included with the lot. In 1864 he was granted a pension for ‘distinguished service’ (ODNB).

£800-1,200

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

SKETCHBOOKS OF TRAVEL AND MILITARY SERVICE, 1860S

3 albums, oblong 12mo (each approx. 10 x 17cm), contemporary skiver or roan, 64, 94 and 85 ff., respectively numbered 22, 23 and 25 in gilt on spines 22, 23 and 25 and with Alexander’s ownership inscriptions to endpapers dated 1863-4-8, each illustrated with sketches in pen and ink (a few in pencil), mainly to rectos (a few also to versos), often with several sketches to a page and with additional hand-colouring in pencil, dated manuscript captions, mostly depicting life and scenes in Scotland, including landscapes, castles and country residences, archaeological sites and finds, portraits of named and unnamed individuals of all social ranks, social occasions, excursions and tableaux, and caricatures and comic sketches, together with numerous sketches of views and scenes from Alexander’s service and travels overseas, including southern Africa, New Zealand, the Crimea, and elsewhere (mostly from memory or direct experience, a few presumably from the imagination or possibly after other sources);

Album ‘22’: subjects include: views in the Trossachs, Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle, various scenes in Forfarshire (e.g. including Edzell Castle), the Duke of Atholl’s piper, scenes at the Strathallan highland games, spoor of south African fauna, American Civil War portraits (Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson) and the Battle of Cherbourg (1864), scenes in Russia (‘In Russia as a prisoner, 1830’, depicting a horse-drawn sleigh), excavations at Cambuskenneth Abbey and discovery of the grave of James III, ‘Mtesa, K[ing] of Uganda’, etc.

Album ‘23’: several views of Islay (coloured), ‘Ochil archery and croquet club’, a full-length portrait purporting to show Alexander meeting John Hanning Speke hours before his death (‘My last interview with Speke of the Nile in committee Room of Section E, British Scientific Association, Bath, 15th Sept 1863 11am. He was shot at 4pm’) with Burton and Livingstone in the background, portraits ranging from ‘Kincardine ropespinner’ to ‘The Count of Albany, Charles Edward Stewart’, Arran, African spearmen, elephant hunting in Ceylon, an excursion to the summit of Ben Lomond, a view of Schiehallion, etc.

Album ‘25’: deer-stalking, scenes from the Crimean War (Battle of the Chernaya, ‘Défile des Zoaves dans les tranches de Sevastopol’, Glendevon kirk, ‘Hamrans or Sword Hunters, Abyssinia’ (depicting an elephant hunt, a plan of Alexandria harbour with a vignette of Cleopatra’s Needle, views in Snowdonia, a meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1868, ‘New Zealand Maori stripped for fighting, 1861’, scenes and people in ‘Kaffirland’ (modern Kaffrraria, South Africa), 1835, scenes from a visit to northern France, including local dress and military exercises (3)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£400-600

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(1803-1885)

GROUP OF SKETCHBOOKS, 1870S-1880S

4 albums, oblong 12mo (approx. 10 x 17cm), leather bindings, respectively 85, 90, 95 and 44 ff., illustrated throughout, mainly in pen and ink (and frequently with coloured pencil), to rectos and often to versos, detailed manuscript captions (often dated), Alexander’s dated ownership inscriptions to front of each volume, the contents including views of Scottish scenery, castles and country seats, battle plans, proposed military uniforms, antiquities, portraits of notable figures and local characters (most apparently from life), comic sketches, retrospective sketches of views and scenes relating to Alexander’s earlier travels including in South Africa and New Zealand, miscellaneous objects of interest, and more, album 1 (1870-1) with loss to spine, album 3 (1875) covers detached, album 4 (1882) spine defective with a few leaves loose. Notable content includes:

1) 1870-1. Lifeboat rescues and related paraphernalia; several sketches from a visit to the site of Waterloo; views around Loch Maree, Ben Ledi, Ben Lomond, Killin; Orkney views and antiquities including Maeshow; deer-stalking; view of New Brunswick; ‘Cape Horn Icebergs’; ‘Mahrattah gymnastics on the Ukhara, - we practised in India when I was in the Light Dragoons some 30 years ago’.

2) 1872. Double-page panorama of the Grampians; view of Mount Cook (New Zealand); African fauna; an African spearman; portrait of George Cruikshank; portraits of Henry M. Stanley and Napoleon III at a meeting of the British Scientific Association (Brighton, 1872); views of Ben Ledi, Meikle Reive, Loch Dochart, and more; castles including Edinample and Fingask; an ascent of Ben Cleugh; badge of the baronets of Nova Scotia; views of Lake Taupo and Maketu Pah in New Zealand; ‘Friendly Maori chief of Wahinni at an attack on a pah’; ‘Wikitoria – the fighting woman’ (apparently a Maori); three-part sketch of the battle of Pukehinahina, New Zealand, 1864.

3) 1875. Herring fishermen at Inveraray; several views from Alexander’s visit to the Holy Land (Bethesda; ‘at Jaffa, starting for Jerusalem, April 1875’; Valley of the Jordan; ‘Druze Woman’; convent at Bethlehem); ‘Hinza the Caffer King’; ‘Cafer warrior in old war dress’; ‘Execution by an Elephant, East Indies’; castles including Doune and the Binns; portraits including Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, ‘The Grand Duke Nicholas, ‘Chinese Gordon’ (i.e. General Gordon); battle plan of the ‘fight on Mt Inkerman’, Crimea; ‘Bulgarian atrocities’, 1876; proposed sites for Cleopatra’s Needle in London.

4) 1882. Portrait of a ‘Mussulman Subedar in Madras; battle plan of Tel El Kebir Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885) £400-600

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

MILITARY AND PERSONAL NOTEBOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

Miscellaneous manuscript and printed collection comprising:

Pencil sketch with watercolour captioned ‘Trooper 1st MLC J.E.A. 1824’ (Alexander served in the 1st Madras light cavalry in the early 1820s), single sheet (30.5 x 24.5cm), small tear at foot of sheet, ink staining; Lined notebook, 4to (23.5 x 19cm), half leather, c. 120 leaves, with notes in neat copperplate hand (by Alexander?) on military theory relating to fortifications, pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘James Edward Alexander 16th Lancers, Royal Military College [Sandhurst] 1828’;

Volume of Russian printed music, 19th-century, 4to (31.5 x 24.5cm), quarter leather with leather label on upper board ‘Russian National Airs Collected by Jas. Edw. Alexander 16th. Lancers’, possibly acquired by Alexander when in the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War of 1829, paper on boards worn and peeling; Lined notebook, 4to (21.2 x 19.1cm), purple embossed cloth, c. 100 leaves, mostly blank but with an initial [21] pages of military anecdotes by Alexander and note by him on front free endpaper: ‘This album is intended for anecdotes connected with the Royal Highlanders … J.E.A. Berwick, March 1833’ (Alexander joined the 42nd Highlanders (the Black Watch) in 1832);

Unlined notebook, 4to (23.3 x 19cm), half leather, mostly blank, c. 100 leaves, some leaves at front and back filled with anecdotes from c. 1833-34, pen sketches, records of visits to various people, some loose leaves inserted; Sixth plate daguerreotype (7 x 8cm) consisting of two oval portraits of Lt. General Sir William Rowan and his wife Lady Rowan, in original leather covered wooden case gilt, the case is dated in 1855, photographer unidentified, Sir William Rowan (1789-1867) was commander of the British forces in Canada (1849-55) with Alexander serving as his aide-decamp, the portraits may have been taken in Canada shortly before Rowan left for England, case worn and hinges no longer working, with signs of glass deterioration;

2 copies of printed ‘Testimonials of Sir James Edward Alexander’ [1856], printed for Alexander when seeking employment in the army after service in the Crimean War, single sheet folded [3] pages (34.5 x 21cm), both annotated by Alexander with details of his subsequent career;

Documents relating to Alexander’s commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the Portuguese army, awarded to him in 1834 after he went to Portugal during the Miguelite War (1832-4);

Three military commissions, lithographed documents signed, two for Edward Mayne Alexander (J.E. Alexander’s son) dated 1866 and 1868, and one for Alexander appointing him lieutenant-general in 1877; Large vellum certificate issued by the Grand Lodge of Scotland (Freemasons) in 1872, granting Alexander a commission as Provincial Grand Master of Scotland;

Lined notebook, tall 8vo (20.8 x 13.5cm), quarter leather, stamped in gilt on upper board ‘Private. Waterloo Papers M. Gen Lord Seaton to Lt. Gen. Sir J.E. Alexander. 1879-80,’ c. 50 leaves of notes on the battle of Waterloo, presumably written by James Colborne, 2nd Baron Seaton (1816-88), whose father served at Waterloo, with loose leaves of notes by Seaton inserted in volume;

Pen sketch on coloured paper, mounted on sheet of linen-backed paper (108 x 27cm), folded, ‘Facsimile of one of the sides of the prostrate obelisk at Alexandria,’ dated Athenaeum Club, 14th June 1875, showing the hieroglyphics of Cleopatra’s Needle (Alexander was largely responsible for the preservation and transfer of the obelisk to England in 1877). with sheet of Alexander’s notes on translation of the hieroglyphics;

Three albums of newspaper clippings dating from 1830s to c. 1880 pasted onto leaves, 4to (26.8 x 21cm), half leather, consisting of letters to newspapers by Alexander (which are initialled by Alexander) and other related articles by other correspondents, poems, a large number of loose items in volume 3, bindings worn and faded;

Unlined notebook, folio (33 x 20.5cm), quarter leather, undated, c. 60 leaves, containing jokes, bons mots, humorous verse in Alexander’s hand, undated;

11 examples of miscellaneous pen sketches and watercolours by Alexander (32)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£500-800

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

ALEXANDER’S OWN COPIES OF HIS TRAVEL ACCOUNTS AND OTHER WORKS

Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1835. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf with ‘Captain J. E. Alexander 42 R. H.’ gilt-stamped to foot of spine, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved plan, ownership inscription ‘Sir J. E. Alexander 1838’ to the front free endpaper, half-title possibly discarded, plan offset;

Life of Field Marshal, His Grace the Duke of Wellington. Edited by Sir James Edw. Alexander. London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original vertical-ribbed pink cloth stamped in blind, 16 plates, maps and plans (one lithographic, the rest engraved or etched, a few folding), ownership inscription ‘James Edwrd Alexander, 14 Regt’ to front free endpaper of volume 1, volume 2 partly unopened, sunning to spines and sections of boards, short splits to joints-ends;

Military Examination for Junior Officers of Infantry. Dublin: W. Franzer & Son, 1860. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary red half calf, Alexander’s ownership inscriptions to the initial blank and the retained original front free endpaper, both dated Curragh Camp, 1860, with an autograph letter signed to Alexander from General Sir George Wetherall (4 pp.), the volume bulked out with blanks at front and rear;

Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand in 1860-61. London: Richard Bentley, 1863. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece, engraved plan; Standing Orders of the 2nd Battalion, Fourteenth Regiment. Auckland, New Zealand: W. C. Wilson, ‘New-Zealander’ Office, 1862. 8vo, contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards with printed paper label to spine, 3 lithographic plates from sketches by Alexander (showing arrangements of kit), Alexander’s ownership inscription (dated New Zealand, 1862) to initial blank, autograph transcriptions by Alexander of favourable reviews of the work from other senior officers to rear blank, short split to foot of each joint;

Bush Fighting. Illustrated by Remarkable Actions and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, gilt spine, ownership inscription ‘J. E. Alexander, Westerton’ to initial blank, extra-illustrated with an albumen-print photographic portrait of Alexander mounted to blank leaf facing the title-page, folding lithographic map, 15 plates and plans (respectively wood-engraved and lithographic);

Cleopatra’s Needle. The Obelisk of Alexandria, its Acquisition and Removal to England Described. London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. First edition, presentation copy to the author’s wife, inscribed by him ‘Eveline M. Alexander, from the author, J. E. A., Westerton, 5th Sept 1879’ on the half-title, with the additional inscription ‘When read, please return, my only copy & out of print, J.E.A.’ below, 8vo, original red cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece, map, cloth cockled and damp-stained; and others, including Alexander’s Transatlantic Sketches (1833, 2 volumes), inscribed by Alexander to his father in volume 1 and with his ownership inscription to the half-title of volume 1 (volume 1 binding worn, volume 2 backstrip perished, front board and half-title loose), and 7 bound copies of Alexander’s journal articles for Colburn’s United Services Magazine, with similar markings of ownership, one volume, containing his article ‘Lord Seaton at Waterloo’, 1868, containing a tipped-in sketch-map in pen and ink (17)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885) £700-1,000

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PENINSULAR WAR

GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER’S PERSONAL RECORD OF THE CREATION OF THE PENINSULAR WAR MEDAL

Folio (32 x 19.5cm), maroon half skiver binding, printed label reading ‘Origin of the War Medal, 1847, with Autographs of the Duke of Wellington’ to front board and first leaf, the latter additionally with Alexander’s pencilled ownership inscription ‘J. E. Alexander, A.D.C, Montreal 1850’, contents include: 2 autograph letters signed from the Duke of Wellington, both tipped in, the first dated 7th January 1840, 7 pp., 4to, providing a lengthy justification for his refusal to interfere in the matter, retaining original envelope addressed by Wellington ‘To the officers … calling themselves the Remnant of the Captains and Subalterns of the Peninsula’, with Wellington’s black wax seal, the second 3 pp., 8vo, reiterating his refusal, retaining original House of Lords penny post envelope addressed by Wellington to ‘The Gentlemen calling themselves the remnant of the Captains and Subalterns …’ (tipped to final page of first letter); cutting of the Naval and Military Gazette article enclosed in the original letter to Wellington; and Alexander’s autograph copy of his introductory article to the correspondence as subsequently printed in the NMG, with a postscript dated Montreal, 1850, celebrating the eventual success of the campaign for the creation of the medal, signed ‘J. E. Alexander Knt, A.D.C.’, 2 pp., skinning and wear to backstrip

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Note: General Alexander’s fervent admiration for the Duke of Wellington seems to have surpassed the level of respect conventionally due from a 19th-century military man to Britain’s greatest soldier. One of his prized possessions was the ‘Assaye Box’, a small trinket case made from the roots of a mango tree which he dug up in 1823 as a young cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry, believing Wellington to have stood beside it during his victory at Assaye 20 years previously. In 1840 he published his Life of Field Marshall, His Grace the Duke of Wellington, though Wellington’s peremptory responses contain no acknowledgment of his correspondent’s biographical labours.

£300-500

ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803-1885)

COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM HIS LIBRARY on Scottish history, Stirlingshire, the earldom of Stirling, Cleopatra’s Needle, family bibles, and other subjects, all with Alexander’s ownership inscription or similar mark of provenance, titles including: Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of. Recreations with the Muses. London: printed by Tho. Harper, 1637. First edition, folio (27.9 x 18.2cm), 18th-century calf gilt, without blank first and last leaves, engraved portrait of Earl of Stirling mounted on front free endpaper, binding worn, hinges cracking, head and tail of spine missing [ESTC S106640]; Calderwood, David. The True history of the Church of Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation, unto the End of the Reigne of King James VI. [Netherlands?: s.n.], 1678. First edition, folio (30.5 x 19cm), contemporary calf, inscription on title ‘Ebenezer Areskine’ (possibly Ebenezer Erskine (1680-1754) Scottish minister and founder of the Secession Church), with ink inscription on front pastedown by Alexander noting the discovery of the book at Westerton House and its provenance, minor worm damage to some leaves (without loss of text), some staining and dust soiling, binding worn and scuffed [ESTC R16833]; Bobbin, Tim. The Passions, Humourously [sic] Delineated. London: printed for Edward Orme, 1810. First edition, 4to (26.5 x 20.2cm), contemporary half morocco, with 26 hand-coloured plates and black and white engraved portrait of the author; [Banks, T.C.]. The Stirling Peerage: Comprising an Account of the Resumption of the Titles by the Present Earl of Stirling. London: printed by J. and C. Adlard, 1826. First edition, 4to (26 x 21cm), with folding plate of the pedigree of the Earls of Stirling, original paper wrappers stab sewn, rare (not recorded in Library Hub Discover); Alexander, A. [Charles Armistead]. The Fall of Aztalan, and other Poems. Washington: published by W.M. Morrison, 1839. First edition, 8vo (23 x 13.5cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, presentation copy from author to Alexander, with pencil note by Alexander regarding the poem on rear free endpaper, rare (BL only UK location listed on Library Hub Discover);

Duer, William Alexander. The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. New York: published for the New Jersey Historical Society, 1847. First edition, 8vo (22.6 x 13.7cm), original publisher’s cloth binding, volume II of the ‘Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society,’ with engraved frontispiece portrait and 5 plates of battle plans, presentation copy from author to (a) his son-in-law Henry S. Hoyt (b) then to Alexander, with a loose copy of letter from Alexander to the author from the Government House, Quebec, Canada, dated December 1853, with pencil note on rear free endpaper by Alexander noting that this book was one of the few that survived the Great Fire of Montreal in 1852 which destroyed his house and most of his family’s belongings; [Stirling]. A Description of the Town, Castle, and Adjacent Country around Stirling. Stirling: [s.n.], 1855. First edition, 8vo (16.2 x 10.1 cm), original printed paper boards rebacked with cloth, with map and engraved plates, presentation copy from the (anonymous) author to Alexander’s brother, Major John Alexander Henderson, rare (not recorded in Library Hub Discover);

[Lothian, James]. The Banks of the Forth: A Descriptive and Historical Sketch. Alloa: James Lothian, 1862. First edition, 8vo (17.4 x 10.2cm), original cloth gilt and blindstamped, spine sunned, rare (3 copies on Library Hub Discover); and 19 others (31)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£500-800

ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE & FINE BINDINGS

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 17TH & 19TH CENTURY

Moxon, Joseph. A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie. Or an Easie and Speedy Way to Know the Use of both the Globes, Coelestial and Terrestrial. London: printed by Joseph Moxon, 1670. 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, 4to (19.4 x 14.2cm), contemporary calf, additional engraved title page and several illustrations, some crudely handcoloured, with ownership inscription on pastedown and endpaper, William Henderson 1775, binding worn, hinges repaired but upper board becoming detached [ESTC R32090];

Brooke, Ralph. A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England. [London: printed by William Stansby], 1622. [2nd edition], folio (28 x 18cm), later half morocco, with several illustrations, wanting leaf [F6] and initial blank leaf, some spotting and minor staining, with ownership inscriptions of William Fenwicke, Nath. Greaves, and John Greaves, 1826 [ESTC S107113];

Sandford, Francis. A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. London: printed by M. Jenour, 1707. First edition, folio (38.4 x 23cm, standard size, a large paper issue was published the same year), 19th-century morocco gilt by J. Mackenzie [James Mackenzie, London?], numerous illustrations, binding (in paper wrappers), spines and joints worn [ESTC T147652]; Hull, John. Elements of Botany. Manchester: printed by R. and W. Dean, 1800. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (19.4 x 10.7cm), contemporary tree calf with modern reback and endpapers, 16 plates (1 folding), without the half title to vol. 1, with library stamp of St. Mary’s Hospital, Radford Library, Manchester in both volumes including on verso of plates [ESTC T60559; Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 863; Cullingworth. Catalogue of the Radford Library, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester (1877), p. 124];

Banks, Thomas C. An Analytical Statement of the Case of Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo (22.5 x 14cm), 19th-century paper boards, with three folding plates, genealogical charts and 1 folding coloured map, boards stained, foot of spine torn; and 31 others, some in fine bindings, mainly 19th-century literature, many with Edward Mayne Alexander (son of J. E. Alexander) ownership inscriptions, but many without inscriptions (58)

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£300-500

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CARTES-DE-VISITE

ALBUM OF 19TH-CENTURY CARTES-DE-VISITE

Large 4to (29.1 x 22cm), green morocco gilt, with brass locking clasp (without key), Victorian photograph album with 20 double-sided thick card leaves, gilt edges and window spaces for 8 standard-size cartes-de-visite (11.4 x 6.3cm) on each leaf (4 recto and 4 verso), containing c.60 albumen print cartes-de-visite (6 leaves do not contain any photographs), first 10 leaves contain cartes-de-visite from mainly British (mostly London) studios, notably portraits of British politicians, leading lawyers, members of the aristocracy, and various celebrities including: William Ewart Gladstone, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, George MacDonald, Michael Faraday, David Livingstone, Henry Irving, as well as photographs of paintings (including portraits of Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Mary Queen of Scots), the final 4 leaves contain photographs mainly from Continental studios (mostly from Paris), moiré fabric pastedowns, binding worn and scuffed, a few of the albumen prints have surface damage.

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

£300-500

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BROWN, JOHN

A GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE POTENT & INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGNS, LORDS OF THE ISLES

with their Illustrious Descendants from the X Century to the Year MDCCCXIV. London: published by R. S. Kirby, 1816. Large engraved hand-coloured genealogical tree on paper, 2 sheets conjoined, framed and glazed (138 x 104cm), showing the connection of the early kings and queens of Scotland to the Lords of the Isles, starting from Crínán of Dunkeld, Seneschal of the Isles and father of King Duncan I of Scotland, details of various members of the Clan Donald depicted on the tree, evidence of skilful repair, some staining around edges and top lefthand corner

Provenance: THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803-1885)

Note: John Brown (d. 1821?), genealogist to the Prince of Wales for Scotland, produced a genealogical tree of the Scottish Royal Line in 1792.

£400-600

63

CHANDLER, RICHARD TRAVELS IN ASIA MINOR

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1775. 4to, folding map, contemporary blind-tooled calf with gilt tooling to spine and red morocco gilt spine label, bookplate of Benjamin Hower and another, neat, ownership signature to free-endpaper

£300-400

64

ROBERTS, DAVID

EGYPT & NUBIA

… with historical descriptions by William Brockedon. London: F. G. Moon, 1846-9. First edition, 3 volumes in 2, large folio (61.4 x 42.8cm), contemporary purple half morocco gilt, purple pebble-grain cloth covers, upper covers lettered in gilt ‘Sketches in Egypt and Nubia by D. Roberts R.A.’, all edges gilt, 124 tinted lithographs by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, including 3 pictorial title pages and 60 half-page and 61 full-page plates, engraved map, tissue-guards, scattered spotting and occasional dust-staining, pale marking to cloth on the upper cover of vol. 2, [Abbey Travel 272; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 88] (2)

Note: A handsomely bound copy of one of the most important and extensive visual records of Egypt in print, covering its monuments from the ancient and Islamic eras, and the urban life of Cairo in the artist’s own day. Together with its companion work, The Holy Land (1842-9), it has been celebrated as ‘one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenthcentury publishing … and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph’ (Abbey), and ‘the most ambitious and impressive of English books illustrated with lithographs’ (Ray). The numbering on the spines of this copy suggests that it was acquired as a standalone work at or near to the date of publication.

Scottish artist David Roberts travelled to the east in 1838, the year of his appointment to the Royal Academy, initially visiting Alexandria, Cairo and the pyramids at Giza before sailing up the Nile as far as Abu Simbel. On his return journey north he stopped at sites including Karnak and Luxor, and once back in Cairo concerned himself with the city’s streets and mosques, before continuing to the Holy Land. ‘No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East’ (ODNB).

£10,000-15,000

65

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S., & IBN SAUD

OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHURCHILL’S MEETING WITH IBN SAUD AND OTHER LEADERS IN EGYPT, FEBRUARY 1945

6 gelatin silver prints, 16.9 x 21.6cm, each with wet-stamp of the British Ministry of Information, Middle East, and mounted typescript caption to verso, each caption commencing with series-title ‘Visit of Mr. Churchill to Cairo, February 1945’, with individual titles as follows: ‘Mr Churchill and King Ibn Saud photographed on the terrace of the Auberge du Lac, Fayoum’; ‘Another picture taken on the occasion of Mr Churchill’s meeting with H. M. King Ibn Saud at Auxberge [sic] du Lac, Fayum’; ‘Mr Churchill with H. M. King Faruk of Egypt’; ‘Photographed during Mr. Eden’s talks with the Egyptian prime Minister in his Ministry: L. to R. Sir A. Cadogan; Lord Killearn; Ahmed Maher Pasha and Mr. Eden’; ‘Mr Churchill met H.I.M. Haile Selassie at the Headquarters of the Prime Minister’; ‘Mr. Eden … Sir Edward Grigg … and Sir Alexander Cadogan photographed at the Prime Minister’s H.Q.’ (6)

Note: After the close of the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Churchill flew straight to Egypt where he had a further meeting with President Roosevelt in Alexandria, followed by meetings in Cairo with Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, King Farouk of Egypt and President Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria, and, in the oasis city of Faiyum, with Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. It was his encounter with Ibn Saud which was arguably the most important: ‘The King had long been a staunch friend of Britain, and Saudi Arabia was of growing influence and prestige in the Middle East, especially after the recent discovery of its huge resources of oil; it was clearly destined to play an important part in the postwar world in such a strategic area. Moreover, both Churchill and Roosevelt hoped to persuade the King to use his influence to moderate the hostile Arab position on the plans to create the State of Israel … [A]s Churchill told the War Cabinet on his return home, ‘Ibn Saud was a marvellous and most impressive figure’’ (Rose, ed., Naval Miscellany, 2003, vol. VI, p. 427).

£1,500-2,000

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CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S. MY EARLY LIFE

A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930. First edition, first impression, second state of binding with title and author’s name in five lines to front board, half-title in second state with 12 titles on verso, 8vo, original pink cloth lettered in gilt, 16 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, engraved bookplate, private library stamp and ownership inscription to front pastedown (the stamp offset) [Woods A37(a)]; London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, first impression, 8vo, xiv 498 pp., original pictorial cloth, half-title, 3 folding lithographic maps including frontispiece, 4 plans in text, 32 pp. advertisements, spine rolled, a few marks to binding, spotting to edges and outer leaves (2)

£300-500

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ARAMCO - SAUDI ARABIA

COLLECTION OF PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, C.1955-60

40 large-format gelatin silver prints, 20.5 x 25cm or the reverse, 32 of which with Aramco ink-stamp (‘Please credit Arabian American Oil Company’) on verso, 16 of these retaining typescript caption slip in English folded around one edge (originally tipped to verso, adhesive now perished in most cases), the remaining 8 photographs without ink-stamps but evidently by Aramco. Contents include: Aramco hardware (drill; pipes and coating machine for the trans-Arabian pipeline; stabilising plant at Dhahran); Aramco employees at work (Saudi employees filling tank car; Saudi employee operating temperature gauge); Aramco employee towns and living quarters (senior staff housing in Abqaiq; Aramco houses at Rahimah near Ras Tanura; various aerial views probably of Dhahran); Saudi townscapes and vernacular buildings (school in Hofuf; market at Hofuf; Riyadh old town; etc.); American and Saudi employee recreations (boat trip to Tarout Island; American wives shopping; swimming pool at Dhahran, etc.); portraits and posed photographs (‘Qidaith ibn Mubarak … Starting as a laborer he advances to the position of assistant driller’; 2 portraits of King Saud, comprising head and shoulders portrait facing right, with marginal caption in pen, and a portrait of Saud seated by a telephone, marked in image in pencil; a deal between an American Aramco executive and a Saudi gentleman); and several others similar. Together with 3 similar photographs: pipeline at Abqaiq (21.5 x 16.5cm, typescript caption and Keystone Pictures ink-stamp to verso); desert pipeline (21.5 x 16.5cm, Keystone pictures inkstamp); Aramco desert convoy (18 x 22.8cm, Wide World Photo caption and ink-stamp) (43)

£1,000-1,500

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YEMEN

LARGE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 1950S-60S

60 large-format gelatin silver prints, 17.5 x 23.5cm or the reverse, all with typescript caption slips in Arabic mounted to versos, several captions also including series-titles (e.g. ‘Judges of Yemen’, ‘The king, crown prince and Yemeni personalities’), many with additional manuscript captions in Spanish. Subjects comprise:

1) Muhammad al-Badr (1926-1996), last king and imam of Yemen (r.1962), 5 portraits as crown prince of Yemen, including one as foreign minister (seated at his desk), one with his uncle Sayf al-Islam ‘Ali, minister of science, 2 during a horseback procession into Sana’a (2 photographs), and one with his father Imam Ahmad (this an enlarged photograph of an earlier photograph).

2) Yemeni notables (9 in total): Judge ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Siyaghi, minister of finance; Judge Ahmad al-Hafrani, ‘a man of letters of great insight, and one of the greatest reciters of poetry and history’; Muhammad al-Shami, minister of state and commander of the Sana’a brigade of the Yemeni army; Hasan Ibrahim, minister of state and deputy foreign minister; Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Shami, director of broadcasting and publications; Judge ‘Abdullah al-Shawkani, vice-president of the sharia council; Muhyi bin Muhammad al-Mutawakkil, president of the court of appeal, with assistants; Muhammad Abdullah al-Ghimizah, commander of the Yemeni defence force; commander of the royal guard.

3) Daily life, professions and dress (25 in total), including: soldiers (posed portraits and soldiers on the march); children in Ta’iz and Sana’a; teachers; tribal costume; a Yemeni ‘mafraj’ (club or lounge); a Yemeni qaylula (siesta); tennis in Sana’a; roadworks; agriculture (including a coffee plantation); a student protest in support of Egypt; etc.

4) Buildings and places (21 in total), including: hospitals (Sana’a and Ta’iz); government ministries; mosques (Janad, Sana’a); palaces (Ta’iz, ‘Dar al-Wusul’); Ta’iz airstrip; Sana’a general library; Sana’a cityscape (2 views); etc.

Together with 23 further photographs: 6 of Muhammad al-Badr, 9 x 14cm to 18 x 36cm, depicting al-Badr addressing an open-air press conference on his arrival in Moscow (2 versions, including an original large-format version on two conjoined sheets, and a reduced version with typescript caption in Russian on verso), attending 2 diplomatic meetings possibly in the USSR (one attendee resembling Nikita Khrushchev), and meeting Gamal Abdel Nasser, with an informal portrait (Associated Press ink-stamp and caption verso); 5 of Ahmad bin Yahya (1891-1962), King and Imam of Yemen, 4 of which approx. 10 x 14.5cm, 3 of these with manuscript Arabic captions on verso, one depicting Ahmad and Gamal Abdel Nasser with ink-stamp and caption of Oscar Kersenbaum (Argentina) verso, and a larger photograph, 20.5 x 15cm, showing Ahmad seated with Muhammad al-Badr at a victory parade (Associated Press ink-stamp and caption); and 12 similar including other Yemeni notables (various dimensions) (83)

Note: An extensive visual record of the people and places of Yemen during the final years of the short-lived Mutawakkilite kingdom, the majority apparently the work of a single studio based in the Arabic-speaking world, and perhaps intended as an official record of Yemeni life. The Mutawakkilite regime was established after the end of Ottoman power in 1918 and lasted until 1962, when Muhammad al-Badr was deposed in a republican coup a week after succeeding his father Ahmad bin Yahya as king and imam, leading to an eight-year civil war which ended in victory for the republican side. A full list of photographs in this lot is available on request.

£1,000-1,500

KUWAIT

GROUP OF PRESS & OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 1960S

gelatin silver prints: 7 measuring 20 x 15cm, of which 3 depicting the 1964 Arabic League summit at Alexandria, including a portrait of Sheikh Abdullah al-Salim Al Sabah (1895-1965), Emir of Kuwait, with Gamal Abdel Nasser (these all with Arabic captions mounted to versos), and 4 variously depicting Sheikh Abdullah at his desk in the Seif Palace during Iraqi invasion threat of 1961, Sheikh Abdullah and his armed bodyguard in the Seif Palace (marked up for printing with Chinese white), Arab League secretary general Mohamed Hassouna at the Seif Palace, and Abdullah al-Jabir Al Sabah, minister of education, arriving in Cairo for his honeymoon (these all with Associated Press ink-stamps and typescript captions in English mounted to versos); 5 smaller photographs, variously depicting Gamal Abdel Nasser conferring the order of the Republic on Fahd al-Salim al-Salim, minister of public works (14 x 12cm, ink-stamp of Zachary Photopress Agency, Cairo and typescript caption to verso), members of the Kuwaiti royal family at the Humber car factory, Coventry, 1950 (10.5 x 15cm, Keystone ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso), arrival of Sheikh Sabah al-Salim Al Sabah (1913-1977), later Emir of Kuwait, and his son Sheikh Salim Al Sabah, at London Airport ‘to study British police methods’, 1955 (Keystone ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso), Sheikh Abdullah meeting Nasser (possibly an enlarged contact print, 13.6 x 8.5cm, ink-stamp of Oscar Kerstenbaum, Argentina), and a real-photo portrait postcard of Sheikh Abdullah (15 x 10cm, Arabic caption on verso); together with: 2 photographs of Sheikh Ahmad bin ‘Ali Al Thani (c.1920-1977), Emir of Qatar, both 20.5 x 15cm, respectively showing the Sheikh receiving an honour from Gamal Abdel Nasser (Associated Press ink-stamp to rear), and meeting British foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home in 1961 (Associated Press ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso); another photograph of an unidentified Arab sheikh; and a commemorative halftone photographic portrait of Sheikh Abdullah of Kuwait, 1962 (33 x 24cm, loss to one margin) (a folder)

£300-500

70

HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN

LARGE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 1940S-60S

gelatin silver prints, 106 in total, many with press agency ink-stamps and captions to versos (the captions in English or Arabic, on typed slips or typed or handwritten direct), agencies including Associated Press and Jordanian agencies, e.g. Sharikat Abna’ al-Sharq al-Awsat, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Directorate General of Press, Information and Publications, Studio Columba (Amman), Jordan Tanning Co. (these with caption slips mounted to rectos), and Jordan Cement Factories Co., depicting:

1) King Hussein and the Jordanian royal family: 6 large photographs, approx. 24 x 18cm, showing Hussein with Gamal Abdel Nasser, in an audience with Pope Pius XII at the Vatican, awarding a decoration to an Arab Legion corporal, at the official opening of a desert highway, at the engagement party of Prince Hassan, and a portrait; 14 mid-size photographs, approx. 20 x 15cm, showing Hussein at a banquet with Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain, meeting Shukri al-Quwatli, first president of Syria, dancing with his future consort Dina Abdul-Hamid, inspecting soldiers, posing with his younger siblings, and similar, 2 photographs marked-up for publication with Chinese white; and 18 smaller photographs (2 of which conjoined) mainly 13.5 x 9.5cm or similar, a few smaller, showing Hussein visiting London, at Sandhurst, meeting Pius XII, meeting Nasser, etc., and King Abdullah in London, and similar;

2) Glubb Pasha, commander of the Arab Legion: 3 photographs, approx. 13.5 x 9.5cm, showing Glubb Pasha and King Abdullah, Glubb Pasha and King Hussein observing the Arab Legion’s ‘beating the retreat’, and Glubb Pasha returning to London Airport after his dismissal, and one smaller photograph of Glubb Pasha;

3) Jordanian industry and engineering projects: 12 full-plate photographs, approx. 30 x 22cm, 7 large photographs, 24 x 18.5cm, 16 mid-size, approx. 18 x 13cm, showing tobacco and cement production, phosphate mining, tanning and dyeing factories, canal-building, etc.;

4) 27 views of Jordanian scenery, townscapes, antiquities, industry and life, approx. 24.5 x 18.5cm (all these matt prints, possibly gelatin silver prints but perhaps another medium), 3 photographs of Arab soldiers (various dimensions), and 1 other

£500-800

AFRICAN TRAVEL A COLLECTION

Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, fold-out tinted lithograph frontispiece, illustration of Livingston from a portrait by Henry Phillips, 22 plates, fold-out ‘Ideal Section’ plan, 2 folded maps in rear pocket, original cloth, gilt title to spine, rebacked, renewed endpapers and rear pocket, a few splits to edges and folds of maps, some foxing, edges and corners of boards rubbed; and another copy;

Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial red and black cloth, gilt title to front board and spine, owner’s name in ink to paste downs, fold-out maps present but vol. II map torn, short split to head of vol. I spine, edges and joints worn, damp stained;

Bent, J. Theodore. The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland. London: Longman, Green and Co., 1892. First edition, 8vo, original cloth with gilt illustration, gilt title and line to spine, fold-out map of Part of Matabele, Mashona and Manica Land facing title page, head of spine worn, short split to upper joint, edges rubbed, owner’s plate to paste down, pencil inscription to black free endpaper, some foxing;

Du Chaillu, Paul B. Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa. London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo, original cloth with gilt illustration, fold-out illustrated frontispiece, 72 further illustrations including plates, fold-out map to rear of Western Equatorial Africa creased and torn;

Ibid. A Journey to Ashango-Land… New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, gilt illustration to front board and gilt title to spine, boards worn and sunned; Together with the following, not collated:

Landor, A. Henry Savage. Across Widest Africa. London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907, 2 volumes; Johnston, Harry. The Uganda Protectorate. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1902. 2 volumes; Stanley, Henry M. Through the Dark Continent. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. 2 volumes; Ibid. The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 2 volumes; Ibid. How I Found Livingstone… New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1872; and another copy; Ibid. How I Found Livingstone… London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, 1889; Livingstone, David and Charles. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries. London: John Murray, 1865;

Wallis, J. P. R. (editor). The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858-1863. London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 2 volumes; Selous, Frederick Courteney. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893; Cameron, Verney Lovett. Across Africa. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. 2 volumes; Du Chaillu, Paul B. The Country of the Dwarfs. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1871: The lot sold as seen and not subject to return (25)

£400-600

72

BISHOP, ISABELLA, NÉE BIRD JOURNEYS IN PERSIA & KURDISTAN

London: John Murray, 1891. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, 2 folding maps, 2 frontispieces, 11 plates and additional illustrations throughout the text, publisher’s catalogue at the rear of volume 1, original decorative blue cloth gilt, neat ownership signature in volume 1, endpapers a little browned and spotted, joints slightly loose, portrait, title and dedication leaves of volume 1 detached but present (2)

£200-300

[FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION TO PERSIA] MINISTÈRE DE L’INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE ET DES BEAUX-ARTS

DÉLÉGATION EN PERSE

Mémoires publiés sous la direction de M. J. de Morgan. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1900-1921. Volumes 1-14 and 16 only, large 4to (33 x 26.2cm), vols. 1-14 in half morocco, vol. 16 unbound in original paper wrappers, each volume with several plates (all present as called for), some folding, including colour lithographs, photogravures, collotypes, plans, maps, and numerous black and white illustrations, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, bindings worn, some dust soiling to pastedowns and preliminary leaves, bookplates of Manchester Free Public Libraries, each plate in vols. 1-14 with library blind stamp, plates in vol. 16 with ink stamp on verso;

Together with: Jules Oppert, Expédition Scientifique en Mésopotamie: Exécutée par Ordre du Gouvernement de 1851 à 1854, Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1859-63, first edition, 2 volumes, large 4to, without atlas volume, half morocco, gilt edges, bindings worn and scuffed, some spotting throughout, top of spine of vol. 1 missing, joints of vol. 1 cracking, with bookplates of Manchester Free Public Libraries and library ink stamps on verso of title page (vol. 2) and preliminary leaf (vol. 1) (17)

Note: In 1895 Nasir al-Din Shah granted France a monopoly on archaeological exploration in Persia, and Jacques de Morgan, a mining engineer with knowledge of Persia, was appointed director of the resulting mission, remaining in post until 1912 and focusing on the excavations at Susa. ‘The major discoveries included a prehistoric necropolis with painted ceramics of Susa style A (4th millennium B.C.E.); clay tablets with a proto-Elamite pictographic script that is still undeciphered; Elamite temples from the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C.E.; the stele of Hammurabi, with his law code; the stele of Naram Sin; the Manishtusu obelisk; and a bronze statue of Queen Napirasu’ (Encyclopedia Iranica). Volumes 16-28 (1921-39) were published under the title Mémoires de la Mission archéologique de Perse. For volume 29 (1943) the series was renamed Mémoires de la Mission archéologique en Iran, under which title it continues to be published to the present day, with volume 59 appearing in 2023.

£1,000-1,500

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[FRENCH SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA] MINISTÈRE DE L’INSTRUCTION

PUBLIQUE

[MISSION SCIENTIFIQUE AU MEXIQUE ET DANS L’AMÉRIQUE CENTRALE: OUVRAGE PUBLIÉE PAR ORDRE DU MINISTRE DE L’INSTRUCTION]

Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1871-84. 7 volumes, large 4to (35.4 x 36.3cm), contemporary library bindings of half morocco (5 vols.) and buckram (2 vols.), from a series of monographs published by the French government from 1868 onwards on the flora, fauna, anthropology and antiquities of Mexico and other Central American countries, consisting of:

Guillemin-Tarayre, Edmond. Description des Anciennes Possessions Mexicaines du Nord, part of Géologie (1871), caption title, relating to geology and mining in California and Nevada, incomplete text ends in mid-sentence on p. 216, with 19 plates (engraved and lithographed), including maps and plans, several folded and some hand-coloured, numerous illustrations;

Nylander, William [et al.]. Mexicanas plantas nuper a collectoribus expeditionis scientificae allatas, (1872-86), [no series title, but presumably part of ‘Recherches botaniques’], vol. 2, 2 volumes in 1, 6 lithograph plates (uncoloured) of plants in vol. 1;

Vaillant, Léon, and Bocourt, [Firmin]. Observations sur les Poissons de la Région centrale de l’Amérique, part of ‘Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l’histoire de la faune de l’Amérique centrale et du Mexique’, vol. 4 (1874), caption title, lacking title wrapper, 14 plates (12 chromolithographs, 2 lithographs) of fish;

Milne-Edwards, A. Études sur les Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, part of ‘Recherches zoologiques’, vol. 7, part 1 (1878), text only, one of two parts;

Milne-Edwards, A. Études sur les Xiphosures et les Crustacés de la Région Mexicaine, part of ‘Recherches zoologiques’, vol. 5, part 1 (1881), text only; Brocchi, [Paul]. Étude des Batraciens de l’Amérique centrale, part of ‘Recherches zoologiques’ (1882), vol. 3, part 2, 24 plates of amphibians (engravings and lithographs, some tinted); Hamy, E.T. Anthropologie du Mexique, part of ‘Recherches zoologiques’ (1884), vol. 1, 21 [19] lithograph plates of human skulls and bones, plates 12 and 18 not present (as noted in other copies inspected including the Bnf); all volumes with bookplates of Manchester Free Public Libraries or Manchester Central Library Reference Library, some of the plates have embossed library stamps, some dust soiling and staining in all the volumes but generally internally very clean (7)

£1,000-1,500

75

[ANDRIEU, JEAN (1816-C.1872)]

’DÉSASTRES DE PARIS, 1871’

[cover-title]. Oblong folio album, morocco backstrip, brown cloth covers, front cover lettered in gilt, the album containing 20 albumen-print photographs (27 x 20.5cm), mounted to rectos only of stiff-card leaves, manuscript captions in pencil to mounts, reading: 1) Hotel de Ville; 2) Hotel de Ville - Façade; 3) Les Tuileries […]; 4) TuileriesPavillion de Flore; 5) Interieur du Palais des Tuileries - Salon de la Paix; 6) Palais des Tuileries […] coté des Champs Elysées; 7) Le Palais Royal; 8) Le Ministère des Finances; 9) La Colonne Vendôme; 10) La Rue Royale et Egile de la Madeleine; 11) Palais du Conseil d’Etat; 12) Interieur du Palais du Conseil d’Etat; 13) Le Grenier d’Abondance; 14) Théâtre de la Porte St Martin; 15) Palais de la Légion d’Honneur; 16) La Caisse des Dépots et Consignations; 17) Ruines de la Rue de Lille; 18) L’Arsenal, 19) […] Légion d’Honneur - Conseil d’Etat - Tuileries; 20) Panorame de Paris. Binding slightly rubbed, a little spotting and soiling to mounts, pencil-markings to versos of a few mounts

Note: Although unsigned (in the negatives or elsewhere), these photographs are evidently the work of Jean Andrieu, who produced a large and important body of photographs of Paris in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune of 1870-1. The Musée Carnavelet in Paris holds examples of near-identical views of several subjects in this album, differing only in perspective, including, for instance, a photograph catalogued as ‘L’hôtel des finances du Mont-Thabor, ancien ministère des finances (détruit)’ (catalogue no. PH4393), taken from a slightly different angle from the image captioned ‘Le Ministère des Finances’ in the present collection. Andrieu also produced a named series titled ‘Désastres de la guerre’, the photographs in that case being presented on blue card mounts with printed captions. He was also known for his stereoviews, and in 1865 was appointed official photography to the French naval and colonial ministry.

£400-600

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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

A COLLECTION

Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1897. 2 volumes, first U.S. edition, 4 folding maps contained in pastedown pocket, original cloth with nautical gilt decoration to front boards, gilt title to spines, 16 colour illustrated plates from the author’s sketches, further black and white plates and in-text illustrations, top edges gilt the others uncut, owner’s plates to pastedowns, occasional foxing, edges and corners of boards rubbed; Atkinson, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and The Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. First U.S. edition, 8vo, original cloth with gilt illustrations and title to spine, publisher’s advertisements to rear, frontispiece, folding map, further black and white illustrations within text, bookplate to front pastedown, ink and pencil notes to front pastedown and free endpaper, remains of label previously pasted to rear endpaper, boards sunned and rubbed; Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Lost in the Arctic. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First U.K. edition, 4to, later binding in quarter morocco and new endpapers, 69 black and white plates, fold-out map attached to p. 397, blind presentation stamp to title page, top edge gilt, pencil note to front pastedown, ink inscriptions to half title and title, ink inscription and line drawing to dedication page, occasional foxing, map with short tear; Küttner, Charles Gottlob. Travels through Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Part of Italy. In 1798 & 1799. Translated from the German. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1805. 8vo, i-iv 200 pp., with recent paper wrapping attached (no boards), fold-out map facing title-page, pages yellowed, some damp-staining, short tear to map;

Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. First edition, 8vo, 20 illustrated plates including frontispiece, further in-text illustrations, 4 maps including 2 fold-out maps and one folding map contained in rear pastedown pocket, original cloth with gilt decoration and title, pencil notations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers, text block starting to detach, some occasional foxing; together with Supplementary Appendix. London: John Murray, 1891; Together with approximately 80 similar works (these not collated), including: Hakluyt Society, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz Del Castillo … From the only exact copy made of the original manuscript. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1908-12 (5 volumes including map case, imperfect, one map missing); Fridtjof Nansen, In Northern Mists. London: Heinemann, 1911 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original cloth, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed); ibid., The First Crossing of Greenland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original illustrated cloth, owner’s name in ink and pencil note to endpaper vol. I, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed, foxing); H. Swainson Cowper, Through Turkish Arabia. London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1894 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, presentation label to pastedown, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed, dampstaining, no maps or plates); Donald B Macmillan, Four Years in the White North, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918 (first edition, 8vo, later quarter calf, top edge gilt the others uncut; A. Henry Savage Landor, Tibet & Nepal Painted and Described … London: A. & C. Black, 1905 (first edition, 8vo, original decorative gilt tooled cloth, remains of label and pencil notation to front pastedown and pencil inscription to free endpaper, pencil notations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers, joints and head of spine rubbed); Ibid. Across Widest Africa, London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership labels to front endpapers, pencil notations to front pastedown and endpaper vol. I, uncut on 2 edges, dampstaining); R. H. H. Macaulay, Trading into Hudson’s Bay., Winnipeg: Hudson’s Bay Company, 1934 (4to, original wrappers); and approx. 50 further Hakluyt Society volumes; sold as seen and not subject to return (90+)

£400-600

77

A. & C. BLACK

COLLECTION OF DELUXE EDITIONS all 4to, original cloth, comprising: Menpes, Dorothy and Mortimer. Japan. A record in colour. London: Adam and Charles Black, [n.d.]. One of 600 copies signed by Mortimer Menpes, ownership inscription to limitation leaf;

Ibid. World Pictures. London: A. &. C. Black, 1902. One of 500 copies; Ibid. World’s Children. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. One of 500 copies signed by Mortimer Menpes, binding worn;

Ibid. Venice. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904. One of 500 copies, signed by Mortimer Menpes; Ibid. Paris. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. One of 500 copies, hinges a little cracked; Hope Moncrieff, A. R. & Sutton Palmer (illustrator). Bonnie Scotland. London: A. & C. Black, 1904. One of 500 copies signed by Hope Moncrieff, original cloth, ownership inscriptions to free endpaper; Jungman, Beatrix & Nico. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904. One of 300 copies signed by Nico Jungman, original red cloth gilt;

Tuker, M. A. R., Hope Malleson, & Alberto Pisa (illustrator). Rome. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905. One of 250 copies signed by the publisher, original cloth gilt (8)

£300-400 78

TRAVEL

LARGE COLLECTION OF MAINLY AMERICAN TRAVEL & HISTORY, 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY

including: Thomas Simpson, Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America. London: Richard Bentley, 1843 (first edition, 8vo, with one folding map only (of 2), map repaired to central fold, original brown cloth gilt, rebacked retaining some elements of original spine, bookplate of John R. Anderson and ownership signature of J. Hackett to pastedown); C. Wyville Thomson, The Voyage of the Challenger, The Atlantic, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 42 plates including fold-out charts, pastedowns detaching, some foxing, boards rubbed, heads and tails of spines worn); Paul B. Du Chaillu, The Viking Age, London: John Murray, 1889 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth); Hakluyt Society, George Vancouver, a Voyage of Discovery, 1984 (4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth dust jackets); Department of the Interior, Canada, Atlas of Canada, 1906 (large folio, front inner hinge loose, prelims creased; Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California [being volumes xviii-xxiv of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft] San Francisco: The History Company, 1886-1890, 7 volumes, 8vo, diagrams within text, contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked with modern spines, ibid., History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 [volume 25 of his Works], 1890. 8vo, original cloth gilt, neat ownership stamp of James E. Hicks; ibid. History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889 [volume 31 of his Works], San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1890, 8vo, original cloth gilt, hinges splitting; Reuben Gold Thwaites, Early Western Travels, Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904-1907. 31 volumes (of 32, volume 25, atlas volume?, lacking), set number 340 of 750 signed copies, red cloth gilt, bookplates of the Plainfield Public Library; and others (approx. 80)

£300-500

79

STEDMAN, J. G. NARRATIVE, OF A FIVE YEARS’ EXPEDITION AGAINST THE REVOLTED NEGROES OF SURINAM

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1806. Second edition (‘corrected’) 2 volumes, 4to (26.2 x 20.5cm), modern half cloth, marbled boards, 79 engraved plates, maps and plans (of 81: lacking frontispiece and plate 22 in volume 1; volume 1 also lacking title-page and dedication, and half of folding plate 30), 13 of which by William Blake (whose name also appears on the subscribers list), with others by Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Conder, et al., variable spotting and damp-staining, paper repairs to a few leaves in both volumes; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return [cf. Abbey Travel 719]

£300-400

PINCKNEY, CHARLES, JR (1757-1824)

DOCUMENT SIGNED AS GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1807

ratifying ‘the certificate … hereunto annexed’ granting United States citizenship to Whiteford Smith, native of the Orkney Islands (present). Pre-printed broadside completed in manuscript (41.6 x 26.5cm), with conjugate blank, woodcut arms of the state of South Carolina and imprint of printed W. P. Young to head, wafer seal, Pinckney’s autograph signature (‘Charles Pinckney’) in ink along left-hand margin, counter-signed at foot by the secretary of state of South Carolina and on verso by Jean-François Soult, ‘commissaire de relations commerciales de France à Charleston’, with the red wax seal of the French Republic. Attached by yellow silk tie to Whiteford Smith’s certificate of citizenship, 1794 (manuscript, single sheet with conjugate blank, 37 x 23.5cm, signed twice by G. M. Bounetheau as clerk of the court of wardens, Charleston, wafer seal containing the arms of the city of Charleston, clerical endorsement on verso dated 1807 and signed by the secretary of state of South Carolina)

Note: Charles Pinckney Jr was a Founding Father of the United States and one of the principal authors of the Constitution. He served twice as governor of South Carolina, and was Thomas Jefferson’s minister to Spain between 1801 and 1805.

£300-500

81

PARLIAMENT

AN ACT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE, 25TH MARCH 1807

[in:] A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of … King George the Third. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1807. Folio (28.9 x 18.1cm), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, 466 pp., continuous pagination and register, with An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade at pp. [317]-326, with woodcut royal arms at head, the volume covering acts passed in January-April 1807 (the only session of the third parliament), and containing 55 other acts of parliament, relating to army and navy pay and discipline, trade (including South Sea trade), import duties, taxation, law and order, Ireland, annuities for members of the royal family, etc:, general title page along with lists of the public general and local and personal acts, and index, bound at end of the volume; joints cracked, spine, boards, edges and corners worn, marginal hole obscuring pagination of pp. 322-3

Note: ’The African Slave Trade, and all and all manner of dealing and trading in the purchase, sale, barter, or transfer of slaves, or of persons intended to be sold, transferred, used, or dealt with as slaves, practised or carried on, in, at, to or from any part of the coast or countries of Africa, shall be, and the same is hereby utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be unlawful.’

The Abolition Act took effect on 1st May 1807, the culmination of 18 years of abolitionist campaigning to pass a bill; an act passed later that year, in the first session of the Fourth Parliament, prevented ‘any dealing or trafficking in the buying or selling of slaves within the colony of Sierra Leone.’

£800-1,200

82

SLAVERY

VOLUME OF TWO PAMPHLETS ON THE SLAVE TRADE

Observations on the Bill introduced Last Session by Mr. Wilberforce, for the more effectually preventing the Unlawful Importation of Slaves, and the Holding Free Persons in Slavery in the British Colonies. [Bound with:] [Marryat, Joseph].

Thoughts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and Civilization of Africa; with Remarks on the African Institution, and an Examination of the Report of their Committee, Recommending a General registry of Slave in the British West India Islands. Second edition;

London: for J. M. Richardson, 1816. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 20th-century library cloth, 28 pp. and vii 235 pp., each work with the half-title, ink-stamps and manuscript shelfmarks of Dundee Library Free to prelims, second work with tape repair to pp. 229/30

£200-300

83

MELVILLE, HERMAN [TYPEE]

Narrative of A Four Months’ Residence Among the Natives of the Marquesas Islands. London: Murray, 1846. First edition of the author’s first book, 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt by Carss of Glasgow (with their ticket in two of the following volumes, uniformly bound), marbled endpapers and edges, xviii 285 pp., Marquesas Islands map p.[xviii], bookplate, no half-title or terminal advertisements, joints rubbed, lacking one spine label, p. 231 with area of loss to lower right corner of margin not affecting text, a few small areas of damp-staining, Ibid. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. London: John Murray, 1847. First edition (preceding the U.S. edition of the same year), author’s second book and sequel to ‘Typee’, 8vo, uniformly bound with the preceding work, xviv 321 pp., South Seas map frontispiece, no half-title or terminal advertisements, joints rubbed; Together with two similar volumes, each containing two works and uniformly bound with the preceding items: 1) Henry William Haygarth, Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, During a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior, [bound with]: Henry Steffans, Adventures on the Road To Paris, During The Campaigns of 1813-14, London: John Murray, 1848, vi 162, viii 167 pp.; 2) William H. Edwards, A Voyage up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Pará, New edition, [bound with:] E. A. Milman, The Wayside Cross, London: John Murray, 1855 & 1847, viii 210 pp., iv 136 pp. (4)

£300-400

PINKERTON, JOHN

A GENERAL COLLECTION OF THE BEST & MOST INTERESTING VOYAGES & TRAVELS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808-1814. 17 volumes, small 4to, 201 plates on 197 leaves, contemporary blind-stamped calf rebacked with modern calf spines, plates browned, some spotting and offsetting (17)

Provenance: Bookplates of R. Townley Parker and Reginald Arthur Tatton.

£300-400

85

ATKINSON, GEORGE FRANCKLIN

COLLECTION OF PLATES FROM THE CAMPAIGN IN INDIA, 1857-8

London: Day & Son, [1859]. 15 tinted lithographs on 11 sheets (49 x 34cm), comprising: No. 6 Mutineers Surprised by Her Majesty’s 9th Lancers; No. 7 Storming the Batteries at Badle-Serai; No. 8 and No. 9 Outlying Picket & Repulse of a Sortie; No. 11 Horse Artillery in Action; No. 15 Heavy Day in the Batteries; No. 16 Fusiliers Bringing the Captured Guns into Camp; No. 17 and No. 18 Sappers at Work in the Batteries & The Search for the Wounded; No. 20 Troops of the Native Allies; No. 21 Storming of Delhi; No. 22 and No. 23 Mutinous Sepoys & Prize Agents Extracting Treasure; No. 25 and No. 26 Wounded Officers at Simla & Wounded Men at Dugshai. Variable spotting, a few nicks and closed tears to edges (extending into images in plates 8/9 and 22/23), plates 6 and 7 with lower right corners excised not affecting images [Abbey Travel 486] (11)

£400-600

86

HUNTER, JAMES

COLLECTION OF PLATES FROM PICTURESQUE SCENERY IN THE KINGDOM OF MYSORE

London: Edw[ar]d Orme, 1804-5. 6 hand-coloured aquatints after James Hunter, separately mounted, framed and glazed, mount apertures 27.5 x 34cm, titles comprise: No. 6, Garden Gate, Laul Baugh, Seringapatam; No. 19, A Moorish Mosque at Bangalore; No. 32, North View of Shole Ghurry; No. 36, A View from the Royal Artillery Encampment, Conjeveram; No. 40, A House at Bankipore, the Residence of Wm. Hunter Esqr.; [Unnumbered], East View of Bangalore, with the Cypress Garden, from a Pagoda [cf. Abbey Travel 424] (6)

Note: Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom Mysore was issued both as a stand-alone work and in a three-part volume augmented by Daniell and Ward’s ‘Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan’ and text by Francis Blagdon titled ‘A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India’, the latter part providing the collective title.

£300-500

87

TAYLOR, MEADOWS

TIPPOO SULTAUN: A TALE OF THE MYSORE WAR

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo (18.6 x 11.5cm), iii-viii 320, [2] 360, [2] 428 pp., contemporary half calf, marbled sides, red sprinkled edges, no half-titles, engraved bookplates (John Henry Bridges), leather slightly rubbed and scuffed (3)

Note: A rare novelisation of the Third Anglo-Mysore War. The author was an officer in the army of the East India Company who during the 1840s was charged with pacifying the state of Shorapore, becoming its commissioner after the Mutiny in 1858.

£400-600

INDIA

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM COMPILED BY A BRITISH ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICER, 1875-8

Oblong folio album (30 x 27cm), maroon half skiver binding, containing 50 albumen print photographs (most between approx. 18 x 21cm and 22 x 28cm., a few smaller, 14 x 10cm), mounted to rectos and versos of linen-hinges stiff card leaves with gilt edges, contemporary manuscript captions to mounts (often dated), the photographs including ethnographic studies (‘A Toda hut near Ootacamund’; ‘A Toda man’ and ‘A Toda woman’, these oval-form, 23.5 x 18.5cm; ‘A Native priest’; ‘A Coolie woman;’ ‘Maskers during the Mohurrum’; ‘A Chatty shop’; ‘Dirzies’; ‘Grinding gram’ ‘Snake charmers and jugglers’, etc.), ‘The Maharaja of Mysore and his Relatives’, ‘Palace of the Maharajah on his wedding day June 1878’, street scenes (‘A wayside scene, Kullar’; ‘St James’ Bazaar Secunderabad’), Indian architecture (‘Mool Ali’; ‘The Fort Golconda’; ‘Tomb at Golconda’), British military, civil and landscape architecture (‘The Entrenchment, Trimulgherry’; ‘The “Kirk” Secunderabad’; ‘The Lal Bagh Bangalore, 1878’), British recreation (including several scenes of the Secunderabad hunt, with native attendants, and portraits of social groups, e.g. ‘A picnic group Coonoor, 1877’), views (including several of Coonoor), British soldiers (parades and group portraits, e.g. ‘Officers R.A. Secunderabad Feby 1878’), with a few additional studio photographs of Suez and Ismailia to front and rear, spine worn, front board partly detached.

Together with 2 related photograph albums (oblong 4to maroon half skiver album containing approx. 30 albumen print photographs of Royal Artillery ordnance and exercises, at Shoeburyness and possibly elsewhere, captions dated 1870s; and an oblong folio album also of Royal Artillery content, 1880s-c.1900, including formal group portraits of RA officers at Malta, personal snapshot photographs of service in South Africa in the Second Boer War, etc.) (3)

£500-800

89

GORDON, SIR JOHN J. H.

THE SIKHS

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1904. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, colour frontispiece with tissueguard, 15 halftone plates, bookplate, ownership inscription to title-page; Stewart, Charles E. Through Persia in Disguise. With Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny … Edited from his Diaries by Basil Stewart. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1911. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Stewart’s widow Annie N. Stewart (signed ‘A N Stewart’) on the front free endpaper, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, 17 halftone plates including frontispiece, folding plate including inset map of ‘Russian petroleum districts’, one further map in text, advertisement leaf to rear, ownership inscription to front pastedown (2)

£300-500

90

INDIA - SIKHS

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF SIKH SOLDIERS IN THE BRITISH INDIAN ARMY, C.1905-10

Oblong folio album, two-tone cloth covers, containing approx. 80 gelatin silver print photographs mounted to rectos and versos of 17 gilt-edged thick card leaves (with further leaves in the album, blank), comprising: 17 large-format photographs (approx. 21 x 29cm), including 6 formal group portraits solely or predominantly of Sikh soldiers (several of these with studio’s name of Holmes, i.e. W. D. Holmes, in the negative; 2 with manuscript captions to mount naming each sitter), 2 group portraits of a mix of British and Sikh soldiers (one with caption and studio’s signature in negative, ‘2nd Class School of Musketry, Pachmarhi, 1910, H. Hands & Son), 2 of Sikh soldiers performing acrobatics, 3 of parades (two with manuscript captions: ‘45th Rattray’s Sikhs marching past the Sirdar Inayat Ullah, son of the Amir of Afghanistan, January 1905’ and ‘45th Rattray’s Sikhs marching past the Prince of Wales, Dec. 1906’), the remaining large-format photographs being group portraits of British soldiers only (these with manuscript captions, e.g. Kasauli Sept 1097’, Nowshera Feb. 1908’); and over 60 smaller photographs (various dimensions, mainly 8 x 12cm or similar, several larger, e.g. 9.5 x 29cm, 11 x 16.5cm), including informal portraits of Sikh soldiers, camp life, parades, mountain scenery, etc.); together with a small number of loose photographs, album block detached from covers.

Together with 2 related photograph albums (one including personal snapshot photographs of travels in Rhodesia, 1906, hunting and travels in India, 1909-13, etc.) (3)

£500-800

KENNEDY, RICHARD HARTLEY

NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE ARMY OF THE INDUS, IN SIND & KAUBOOL, IN 1838-9

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, large 12mo (19 x 11.4cm), x [2] 291, vii 307 pp., contemporary red half calf, marbled sides and edges, 6 tinted lithographic plates including frontispieces, 2 woodengraved vignettes in text, list of illustrations to volume 1, spines sunned, frontispieces spotted, ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns [Abbey Travel 462];

Bonnycastle, Sir Richard H. The Canada in 1841. London: Henry Colburn, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, large 12mo (19 x 11.4cm), xii [2[ 348, viii 338 pp., contemporary red half calf uniform with the preceding work, lithographic frontispieces, lithographic folding map, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages and text, list of illustrations to volume 1, spines sunned, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves (4)

£300-500

92

INDIA & SOUTH AFRICA

MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A SEA VOYAGE FROM CALCUTTA

TO LORIENT

Journal of a voyage from Calcutta (Kolkatta, India) to L’Orient (Lorient, Brittany) in the ship Notre Dame du [Mont?] Carmel, under the command of Capitaine Termillier(?), from January to June 1786, 15 unbound leaves folded to create [60] folio pages (32 x 20cm), an anonymous journal written in neat italic hand, leaves are soiled, damp-stained, torn and creased at edges, but text still legible; recording a journey from Calcutta starting on 25th January, the author having spent 13 years living and working in Calcutta, largely consisting of observations on the weather and winds, the course of the ship, the occasional discomforts of a long journey by sea, encounters with other ships en route, all of which would indicate that the author was an experienced seaman; including details of: boarding the Notre Dame on 29th January, arrival of other passengers, including Mr and Mrs Petrie (probably John Petrie (1742?-1826), Scottish merchant and East India Company official who officially retired from the Company in 1788 but went on furlough in 1786), dropping anchor in strong winds at Cape of Good Hope on 31st March, visiting Cape Colony, then under Dutch control, on 2nd April, including the settlement and vineyard of Constantia, an arduous climb, along with some of the other male passengers, up Table Mountain, the continuation of the journey to France on 10th April, a view of the island of St. Helena on 23rd-24th April, arrival at Lorient on 19th June

£300-500

93

INDIA & BURMA [MYANMAR]

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 19TH & 20TH CENTURY

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Visvakarma: Examples of Indian Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Handicraft, first series:. London: Messrs. Luzac, 1914. First edition, 4to, green library buckram binding, with introduction by Eric Gill, limited edition of 1,000 copies 500 published in parts between 1912-14, the remainder in one volume, no more published after the first series, 103 collotype plates of photographs of Indian sculptures, with bookplate of Manchester Reference Library, library ink stamps on verso of plates; [Burma]. Burma Gazetteer. Volume B. Rangoon: Office of the Superintendent, 1906-07. Folio, library buckram and paper binding, volume consisting of statistical tables for the following districts: Akyab, Amherst, Northern Arakan, Bassein, Bhamo, Lower Chindwin, Upper Chindwin, Hanthawaddy, Henzada, Katha, Kyaukpyu, Kyaukse; each part separately paginated and with cover titles, with bookplate of Manchester Reference Library, library ink stamps and blind stamps on each individual part, some dust soiling; [Ibid.] Burma Gazetteer. Volume B. Rangoon: Office of the Superintendent, 1906-07. Folio, library buckram and paper binding, volume consisting of statistical tables for the following districts: Magwe, Mandalay, Ma-ubin, Meiktila, Mergui, Minbu, Myaungmya, Myingyan, Myitkyina, Pakokku, Pegu, Prome; each part separately paginated and with cover titles, with bookplate of Manchester Reference Library, library ink stamps and blind stamps on each individual part, some dust soiling; Wilson, C. R. List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Bengal Possessing Historical or Archaeological Interest. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1896. First edition, folio, original burgundy cloth gilt, series title: ‘Indian Monumental Inscriptions. Vol. I,’ with library bookplate of Manchester Public Free Libraries and ink and blind stamp, spines discoloured, corners bumped; Cotton, Julian James. List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras Possessing Historical or Archaeological Interest. Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1905. First edition, folio, original brown cloth gilt, series title: ‘Indian Monumental Inscriptions. Vol. III,’ with library bookplate of Manchester Public Free Libraries and ink and blind stamp, spines discoloured, corners bumped (5)

£200-300

INDIA - PRINCELY STATES

LARGE COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY INDIAN RULERS, 1930S

57 printed questionnaires issued by the Chamber of Princes (Narendra Mandal) to rulers of states in Central India, Rajputana and elsewhere, each a single sheet (various dimensions), printed in red and black, each with autograph signature of the responding ruler in ink at foot, a few with ink-stamps of the Chancellor’s Secretariat, remnants of mounts to verso. Comprising:

a) Questionnaire on the projected constitution of a federalised India, 1932, enquiring whether the responding state stands for ‘equal individual representation’, ‘plural representation’ or ‘representation by provincial, or other groups’ in the Chamber of Princes, 28 copies, of which 5 marked duplicate (marked for return to the Maharaja of Patiala as chancellor of the Chamber of Princes), and 23 third copies (marked ‘for favour of being posted direct to His Highness the acting chancellor’), 34.5 x 21cm, answers deleted as appropriate, several with typescript or manuscript notes under the heading ‘Remarks’. Signatories comprise the maharajas, rajas or nawabs of: Banswara; Bijawar; Sailana; Limbdi; Cambay; Dharangadhra; Sirmur; Alirajpur; Ajaigarh; Kishangarh; Dungarpur; Palitana; Kotah; Orchha; Baria; Mayurbhanj; Rajkot; Khilchipur; Baoni; Benares; Partapgarh; Jhabua; Jhalawar; Wadhwan; Narsingarh. Together with duplicate copies of the same document for the states of Barwani and Chhatarpur signed by the dewans only.

b) Questionnaire on state area, population and revenue, 1931, 17 copies, 32.5 x 14cm, answers provided in manuscript, several with typescript remarks added, mainly marked duplicate. Signatories comprise the rulers of: Alipura; Jaora; Bhaghat (with typescript remarks commencing ‘This state was of very great importance before the Gurkha War […]’); Jaipur; Karauli; Narsingarh; Cambay; Koriya; Rajgarh; Rajkot; Bikaner; Palitana; Alirajpur; Wankaner; Jhabua; Surguja; Sant.

c) Questionnaire on the matter of representation in the Chamber of Princes, 1931, 12 copies, all marked duplicate. Signatories comprise the rulers of: Limbdi; Baghat; Bansda; Sitamau; Bhadarwar (signed apparently in Gujarati); Khilchipur; Alirajpur; Jhabua; Kotah; Bhopal; Wankaner; Surguja.

Together with 9 copies of a printed petition addressed to the Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes (‘Your Highness’) outlining conditions for acceptance of any Indian constitution, 1931, signed by the rulers of Rajgarh, Dhami (2 copies, mounted), Bhor, Keonthal, Bijawar, Chamba, Beja, Loharu (68)

Note: The Chamber of Princes, or Narendra Mandal, was established in 1921 by order of George V. Its first chancellor was Ganga Singh, maharaja of Bikaner, who was succeeded by the maharajas of Patiala, and of Nawanagar, and finally by Hamidullah Khan, nawab of Bhopal. It was intended by the British to be an advisory body only, with executive power remaining with the Government of India, though it provided an official forum for political activity on the part of native Indian leaders in the decades leading to independence, when the chamber was dissolved.

£500-800

95

[EAST INDIA COMPANY PRINTING IN ARABIC] FIRUZABADI, MUHAMMAD BIN YAQUB AL- (1326-1415 CE)

KITAB AL-QAMUS AL-MUHIT [‘THE EXPANSIVE OCEAN’]

Calcutta: printed by Ahmad bin Muhammad bin ‘Ali al-Ansari al-Yamani al-Shirwani, beginning of Muharram 1230 AH - 25 Rabi’ al-Thani 1232 AH [i.e. 1814-17 CE]. 4 parts in 2 volumes, folio (38 x 23cm), [5] 2-541 [542-5] 546-1039, 1042-1486 [1487-9] 1490-1978 pp., collates pi2 A-Z2 1A-9Z2, 10A-19A2 (-19A2, presumed blank; register includes both I and J, and U and W but no V), recent red morocco with earlier leather panels bearing gilt arms of the College of Fort William relaid to covers, manuscript catch-titles to fore edges, variable browning, volume 1 with damp-staining to outer leaves, marginal paper restoration to first two quires (pi-A) and final leaf, light marginal worming to pp. 1-150 (initially two holes, reducing to one), infilled worming to fore margins of final few leaves, a few small burn-holes (e.g. to 2C2, 5O2 and 6B2) occasionally obscuring a letter or word, volume 2 with damp-staining to gutter and corners and worming to corners of initial quires, both gradually reducing, 10A-B with paper restoration lower fore corners, following quires up to 10F with infill to worm-tracks, marginal worming recurring in last few quires, small closed tear in text of 18Z1, final leaf 19A1 strengthened in gutter (2)

Note: First edition of the foundational dictionary of classical Arabic, one of a small number of important editions of canonical Arabic texts printed under the auspices of Yemeni philologist Ahmad al-Shirwani (1785-1840) at the East India’s Company’s College of Fort William press in the early 19th century. The other works Ahmad saw through the press during his brief but highly productive tenure include the legendary first edition in the original Arabic of the Alf layla wa-layla, or The Thousand and One Nights (1814-18), the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), and the Diwan of al-Mutanabbi. A merchant by trade, Ahmad travelled to Calcutta for commercial reasons in 1809, but the following year was appointed teacher of Arabic at Fort William, the East India Company’s academy for the study of oriental languages. He remained there until 1818, when he travelled to Lucknow to oversee the new printing press of the nawab of Oudh.

£2,000-3,000

YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION TO TIBET, 1904 PHOTOGRAPHS ATTRIBUTED TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GERARD IRVINE DAVYS

51 small photographs, each c. 10.5 x 8cm, mainly silver gelatin prints, taped into a ruled notebook at the corners with ink captions to pages, many also captioned “copyright”, pencil notes to rear of images, many images quite faded, notebook is lacking covers:<ol><li>In camp near A? Choo</li><li>‘Irvine in the centre holding up the Board…’</ li><li>At Breakfast Camp Chumbie</li><li>Two of the Local Sentry</li><li>Davys operating on wounded Tibetan…</ li><li>The ? near ?</li><li>Lingmothang Pass</li><li>? erected near Ch?</li><li>?</li><li>Tibetan women bringing in ? to the camp in Chumbie</li><li>The village of Olal Chumbie</li><li>A typical village in South Central Tibet</ li><li>The village of Ch?</li><li>Fort G?</li><li>?</li><li>? and Davys and two ? Gazelle</li><li>10th June? 1904</li><li>Glaciers…</li><li>June 10th 1904 … snow</li><li>A desert storm mouth…</li><li>Gazelle heads</ li><li>Glacier and …</li><li>? & Davys with two Tibetan gazelle</li><li>The first ?</li><li>A Coolie being flogged and tied to a triangle</li><li>Tibetan defences beyond Chumbi</li><li>Our camp in the snow</li><li>? Government Mullocks</li><li>Loading up</li><li>The great fort of Phari</li><li>‘The roof of the World’</li><li>Chumbi Stories</ li><li>Loose photograph annotated in pencil to reverse: ‘The Tibetan ? who commanded the left garrison(?) at that ? He is dying, his left hand shot away and his right leg torn to pieces by a shell’</li><li>Trading a Yak in Southern Tibet</ li><li>Upper Tibet. Camp in the Snow</li><li>? when we were passing through</li><li>Imperial Tibetan group. Sepoy in the fur coat</li><li>The road near ?</li><li>A typical Tibetan house…</li><li>In a blizzard with the dying ?</li><li>Grass cutters and loads. They are nearly all women</li><li>On the way to Phari with the flying ?</li><li>In the State of Tibet-Gutury?…</li><li>? fire 80,000 pounds of stores were destroyed</li><li>Camp…</li><li>‘The only captive Ipowa? [possibly a Tibetan red deer] in the world. The rarest deer known.’</li><li>Yaks at camp near Chumbi</ li><li>A group of visitors to camp</li><li>The top of Phari fort</li><li>A view of Phari village…</li><li>The frozen waterfall…</li></ol>

Provenance: By family repute attributed to Gerard Irvine Davys (1879-1967), army medic and amateur photographer on the Younghusband Expedition, and thence by descent to the current owner.

Note: The British mission to Tibet in 1903-4 under the command of Major Francis Younghusband was ostensibly to establish British political and commercial links with the region and to survey it. &nbsp;However, it soon developed into a military expedition. Reinforced with a mainly Indian fighting force, eventually exceeding 10,000, the expedition advanced in stages towards&nbsp;the Tibetan capital Lhasa. The Tibetans’ attempts at armed resistance were rendered futile by the far superior weaponry of Younghusband’s troops.&nbsp;The massacre of Tibetans in combat and the treaty negotiated by Younghusband in Lhasa in 1904 caused public unease in Britain. The government believed that he had exceeded his instructions by negotiating a treaty. Recent appraisals of the Tibet mission have regarded it ‘as the embodiment of empire at its overstretched zenith’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).&nbsp;

Thanks to advances in camera technology, with hand-held cameras being widely used, various photographic records of the Younghusband expedition are known to exist in library and museum collections. The best-known images were taken by the engineer and Indian civil servant John Claude White, who had been appointed as Younghusband’s deputy for the mission and who was an accomplished photographer. The collection presented here is curious - a series of small, captioned images, many stating ‘copyright’, taped into a lined notebook lacking the covers. They are a more informal and personal record of the expedition, lacking the polished nature of the White photographs, and have the more immediate quality of snaps taken on the spot with little planning.

The photographs are attributed to Gerard Irvine Davys, then a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, who took part in the mission. However, Davys is referred to in the third person in two captions and there is a photograph of him treating an injured Tibetan which suggests that another person took some of them. None of the photographs in this collection have been traced to contemporary illustrated publications about the mission written by participants, notably Perceval Landon’s ‘Lhasa: an account of the country and people of central Tibet’ (1905), C.G. Rawling’s ‘The great plateau’ (1905), W.J. Ottley’s ‘With mounted infantry in Tibet’ (1906) and Younghusband’s own account in ‘India and Tibet’ (1910). Davys’s photograph of the fatally injured Tibetan soldier, present in this collection, and others by him and John Claude White did appear in a 2017 exhibition in Tibet ‘Capturing Tibet: Colonialism and the Camera during the Mission to Lhasa,’ a collaboration between the Tibet Museum, National Museums Liverpool and the University of Manchester.

£3,000-5,000

97

LAOSHAN MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHS

42 MOUNTED ALBUMEN PRINTS

a collection of albumen prints, each c.15 x 11cm, believed to be showing a Japanese expedition to Laoshan Mountain (Mount Lao) in eastern China, each mounted on card 16.5 x 18.5cm and captioned in pencil in Japanese, showing horses, equipment, scenes of soldiers in the forest and plant specimens, some fading, one photograph scored through with a knife (42)

£400-600

98

JAPAN, CHINA, PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA & CANADA

TWO PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, 1925-6

The first entitled ‘T.S.S. California World Cruise Jan-May 1925’ and signed J. Esmond-Bell, containing 112 gelatin silver print photographs, various sizes (mainly 7.2 x 11.5cm, but two larger ones in portrait format 20.2 x 12.8), mostly amateur ‘snaps’ mounted on black paper and captioned with white ink, depictions of scenery, local people, ships crew, and tourists, commencing in Kobe, Japan, in March 1925, moving onto Tokyo and Nara, before heading to China with photographs including street scenes of Shanghai, proceeding on to the Philippines, Java, Singapore, Calcutta, Darjeeling and Colombo, Japanese-style album with patterned cloth covers;

The second untitled, recording a family’s holiday in 1926, 181 gelatin silver small format prints (6 x 8.5cm) inserted into windows in leaves (4 to a page), mostly amateur ‘snaps’ but with some studio-produced prints at the rear of the album, nearly all the photographs are captioned in ink, commencing in Canada (Niagara Falls then west by train to Banff and Vancouver, proceeding to Japan with scenes of Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto and others, then to China (on the S.S. Empress Canada), with various views of scenes and locals in Shanghai and Hong Kong, then to Batavia (Jakarta) and Java, with various views of local people working, paper-covered album, spine torn at head and foot (2)

Note: Compiler of T.S.S. California album was probably John Esmond Bell (1903-59) a wireless officer on Glasgow-built S.S. California, which was in operation for the Anchor Line between 1923 and 1939.

£400-600

99

BRITISH MUSEUM; THOMPSON, STEPHEN [PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRITISH MUSEUM ANTIQUITIES BY STEPHEN THOMPSON]

London: W.A. Mansell and Co., 1872. Parts II, IV, V and VI only (of 7), folio, full morocco gilt, gilt edges, 436 albumen print photographs (various sizes between 25-28 x 20-22cm) on card mounts (43.5 x 34.5cm) in bound volumes, each mount numbered in pencil corresponding to the numbers in the separately issued printed catalogue (‘Catalogue of a Series of Photographs from the Collections of the British Museum’) of the photographs of all 7 parts; consisting of: part II, vol. 1, Egyptian Antiquities, 61 prints, with manuscript inscriptions on mounts based on printed catalogue descriptions; part II, vol. 2, Egyptian Antiquities, 56 prints; part IV, vol. 1, Grecian Antiquities [including the Elgin Marbles], 102 prints; Part IV, vol. 2, Grecian Antiquities, 74 prints; part V, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, 97 prints; part VI, Antiquities of Britain, 46 prints; bindings worn and rubbed on spines and board edges, endpapers and title pages with heavy dust soiling, individual mounts generally clean with some occasional dust soiling, slight age-related toning of prints [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 547] (6)

Provenance: From the collections of Manchester Public Free Libraries with bookplates on endpapers and cancelled stamps on title pages and endpapers, no stamps on the individual mounts.

Note: Photographs were issued as individual prints and also bound in volumes as a 7-part set: part I Pre-Historic Remains of Europe and Asia, part II Egyptian, part III Assyrian, part IV Grecian, part V Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, part VI Antiquities of Britain, part VII Seals of Sovereigns, Corporations, etc.. Stephen Thompson (1830-92) was a commercial photographer hired by the British Museum to photograph its collections in the early 1870s.

£700-1,000

100

ANNAN, THOMAS

THE OLD COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE OLD GLASGOW GENTRY

Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1878. Second edition, one of 225 copies, 4to, 100 mounted carbon-print photographs and 3 plates (2 maps), original red quarter morocco over green cloth gilt, some rubbing to covers, spine and corners, hinges cracking, marginal spotting to endpapers and minor dust soiling, sheet pasted to recto of front free endpaper records presentation of this copy to Brig. Gen. P.W. Hendry (1861-1952) by the staff of Hendry Brothers, Limited (engineers and manufacturers’ agents in Glasgow) on 10th October 1946 to mark the centenary of the firm; with copy of ‘The Book of Glasgow Cathedral’ (ed. Eyre-Todd), Glasgow: Morison Brothers, 1898 (2)

£400-600

101

SCOTT, EDMUND (1746-1810)

SET OF PRINTS DEPICTING BRITISH MILITARY COSTUME AND EXERCISES

London: E. Scott, 131 Old Bond Street, 1797. 8 etchings with original hand-colour, mounted, framed and glazed, mount apertures 36.5 x 28cm, titles comprising ‘Fix Bayonet’, ‘Charge Bayonet’, ‘Port Arms’, ‘Order Arms’, ‘Order Arms, First Motion’, ‘Order Arms, Second Motion’, ‘Shoulder Arms’, ‘Present Arms, Second Motion’. Together with 6 engraved plates from an early edition of Jacob de Gheyn, The Exercise of Armes, 1608 or later (hand-coloured, mounted, framed and glazed, 30 x 23cm) (14)

Note: These etchings are believed to be from Scott’s 1797 work Manual and Exercises, which contained 10 plates in total. The work is referenced in Ogilby, Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500-1914 (1972, catalogue no. 811), but is not mentioned by Abbey or Tooley. A set is held by the National Army Museum (catalogue no. 1974-05-32); no other set traced in auction records.

£300-500

102

PENNANT, THOMAS, & FRANCIS GROSE

PICTORIAL SURVEYS OF SCOTLAND, LARGE-PAPER COPIES

Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. London: Benj. White, 1790. Fifth edition, 4to, large-paper copy, 42 engraved plates (some cropped and mounted on paper), lacking folding map of Scotland and northern England, extraillustrated with several plates and maps from 18th- and 19th-century publications, 19th-century tan calf, gilt spine, joints cracking, press clippings loosely inserted, armorial bookplate of Thomas Fitzgerald [ESTC T110282]; Ibid. A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. London: printed for Benj. White, 1790, 2 volumes each with a separate engraved title-page, register and pagination, 4to, large-paper copy, engraved plates, lacking frontispieces to each part as called for in the lists of plates, lacking plate 14 for part 1, extra-illustrated with several plates and maps from 18th- and 19th-century publications, uniformly bound with the preceding work with continuous numbering on spines [ESTC T110281];

Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of Scotland. London: printed for S. Hooper, 1789. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, largepaper copy, engraved plates, lacking map in volume 1, contemporary diced russia with gilt tooling, plate of Littledean Tower misbound in vol. 1, spines of bindings sunned [ESTC T141301] (5)

£300-500

103

ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH (PUBLISHER)

THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. PETER’S WESTMINSTER

its Antiquities and Monuments. London: printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. First edition, first issue, 2 volumes, xviii, 330, [6] pp.; [4], [2]-204, 204*-205*, 205-275, [4] pp., engraved portrait and plan, 81 hand-coloured aquatints, 4to (36 x 27cm), marbled boards, rebacked and recornered retaining original labels on spines, with half-titles, edges untrimmed, some staining and offsetting throughout, occasional spotting, 1 bolt unopened in volume 1, introduction misbound after list of subscribers in volume 1, leaf listing arrangement of plates bound at the end of volume 2 [Abbey Scenery 214]

£500-800

104

SCOTLAND AND ARRAN

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 18TH-20TH CENTURY

Sibbald, Robert. Collection of Several Treatises in Folio, concerning Scotland, as it was of Old, and also in Later Times. Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour [&c.], 1739. Folio (30.1 x 19.2cm), 6 parts in one volume, 4 maps (3 folding), 10 plates (9 folding); [bound with]: Ibid. Tractatus varii ad Scotiae antiquae & modernae historiam facientes. Edinburgh, 1711. Folio, 4 parts in one volume, 1 map (folding), contemporary calf, rebacked, with gilt stamp of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow on upper board, occasional spotting, slight tears in some of the folding plates [ESTC T131329 and T131328];

Jameson, Robert. A Mineralogical Description of the County of Dumfries. Edinburgh: printed at the University Press, 1805. First edition, 8vo (21.7 x 12.5cm), folding map and 4 engraved plates, without half-title, staining to map and title leaf, half calf over original marbled boards; Hall, James. Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1807. First edition, 8vo (22.8 x 13.5cm), folding map and 29 engraved plates, half calf, marbled boards and fore-edges, half calf, repair to map, armorial bookplates of John Alfred Back; Phillips, Philip. The Forth Bridge in its Various Stages of Construction and Compared with the most Notable Bridges of the World. Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son, [1889]. First edition, Oblong folio (32.3 x 42.5cm), 55 black and white plates (collotypes and lithographs), numerous illustrations, portraits, plans, original red cloth gilt, fading and soiling to covers, board edges scuffed and bumped, hinges slightly weak, spotting and staining to endpapers; [Heron, Robert]. Scotland Described: or, a Topographical Description of all the Counties of Scotland. Edinburgh: p[rinted by John Moir, 1799. New and improved edition, 12mo (18.7 x 11cm), folding engraved map, coloured in outline, half-title, original paper boards with later linen spine and leather spine label, slipcase, staining to upper board and folding map, armorial bookplate of James Farquhar, Doctors Commons [ESTC T84142]; Headrick, James. View of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures and Fisheries of the Island of Arran. Edinburgh: printed by D. Willison for Archibald Constable and Co., 1807. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.2cm), folding engraved map, with xvi pp. of advertisements for bound sets of ‘Farmer’s Magazine’ and [8] pp. of advertisements for Constable, later green cloth binding with oval stamp on spine of Glasgow College Library, some spotting on map and staining to title leaf; and 33 others, mainly relating to the Isle of Arran (41) £300-500

105

SLEZER, JOHN

THEATRUM SCOTIAE

Containing the Prospects of their Majesties Castles and Palaces. London: Printed by John Leake for Abell Swalle, 1693. First edition, one of two issues (priority not established), this with royal licence-to-print leaf following titlepage, folio (39.7 x 24.8cm), 57 double-page engraved plates, engraved arms in text, contemporary or 18th-century sprinkled calf, gilt spine (worn and faded) in compartments, rebacked with board corners repaired, folds of plates strengthened, neat repair to plate 52 (Melrose Abbey), final leaf ‘The End of the Prospects’ with small tear, occasional spotting and staining, overall a good, clean copy with strong impressions of the plates [ESTC R19602]

Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: ‘Price two guineas; bt. of B. White [Benjamin White], London 1792’.

Note: The first pictorial survey of Scotland. Laid into this copy is a manuscript copy (4 pp., folio) of a paper presented by a James Cameron to the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society on 12 December 1895, which apparently formed the basis of an article published in the Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1895-1898 titled ‘A Bibliography of Slezer’s Theatrum Scotiae’.

£2,000-3,000

106

[AA, PIETER VAN DER (1659-1733)]

VOLUME OF ENGRAVED VIEWS OF SCOTLAND, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Oblong 4to (19.5 x 25.5cm), 20th-century reddish-brown crushed morocco lettered and ruled in blind, vellum doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt, manuscript title-page (‘Caledonia: Towns, Abbeys, Castles etc. in Scotland as they appeared in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Engraved by J. Van der Aa, Amsterdam, 1707’: apparently fanciful), 45 engraved views (containing printed captioned in French), trimmed and inset, hand-drawn ink borders to mounts, tissue-guards

£300-400

107

SCOTLAND

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 18TH-20TH CENTURY

Martin, Martin. A Description of the Western Islands. London: printed for A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map laid down on Japanese tissue, folding plate, 20th-century full calf panelled binding by Tom Valentine of Falkirk in imitation of 18th-century style [ESTC T31703];

Macaulay, Kenneth. A Voyage to, and History of, St. Kilda. Dublin: printed by James Hoey, jun., 1765. First Irish edition, following the English edition of 1764, 12mo, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, contemporary full sprinkled calf, with gilt tooling on boards and spine, raised bands, gilt edges [ESTC T76273];

Boutcher, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees. Edinburgh: printed by R. Fleming, 1775. First edition, 4to, additional engraved title leaf, list of subscribers and postscript, full contemporary calf attributed to James Scott of Edinburgh (not recorded in Loudon), with gilt tooling on spine, occasional spotting [ESTC T101306, Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 476];

[Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, second issue, with 6-line errata leaf, half calf (rebacked with modern spine, sunned), contemporary marbled boards (scuffed) [ESTC T83702];

Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. Second edition, revised and corrected, 8vo, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (scuffed), corner tips repaired, armorial bookplate of Earl of Dorchester [ESTC T53588]; Ramsay, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy. Edinburgh: printed by Abernethy and Walker, 1808. 2 volumes (continuously paginated), tall 8vo (23.2 x 14cm), 14 engraved plates, with tissue guards, mostly by R. Scott after drawings by J. Stevenson (including frontispiece portrait of author) and 1 folding map in volume 1, full embossed calf with gilt spines, corner tips bumped and spines worn; Buchan, Peter. The Peterhead Smugglers of the Last Century. Edinburgh: Thomas Stevenson, 1834. First edition, 12mo, lithograph frontispiece, 19th-century yellow cloth-covered boards, cloth worn away on spine; Leighton, John M; Fleming, John [illus.]. The Lakes of Scotland. Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1834. 4to, volume containing only the 2 engraved title leaves and 52 engraved plates by Joseph Swan, without the text by Leighton, 20th-century buckram binding by Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen; Buchanan, John Hamilton. Photographs of Trees and Shrubs in the Grounds of Leny Perthshire. [Scotland?: s.n.], 1907. First and only edition, 4to (29.5 x 24cm), [4] pages of printed text and 44 platinum prints (various sizes, interleaved with paper and mounted on card) of flora in the woodland garden of Leny Glen, Callander, privately printed for the owner of Leny House, John Hamilton Buchanan (1861–1919), half green morocco with buckram boards, decorated endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges, endpapers with some spotting; Alburger, Mary Anne. Scottish Fiddlers and their Music. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. First edition, 8vo, 16 pages of plates, modern morocco binding by Tom Valentine of Falkirk, dated 1993, with gilt tooling including pictorial design on upper board, raised bands, marbled endpapers (11) £400-600

108

ELPHINSTONE, JOHN

A SET OF TWELVE VIEWS OF THE CASTLE, & OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN & ABOUT EDINBURGH [cover-title]. Edinburgh: for A. Donaldson, 1760. First and apparently only edition, oblong folio (25.2 x 38cm), original printed wrappers (with title, list of contents and imprint to front), stitched as issued, 12 engraved plates after John Elphinstone mainly by Nathaniel Parr, no letterpress

Note: Extremely rare: no other copy traced in libraries, auction records or bibliographical literature. Examples of the individual prints making up the volume are held by institutions including the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh University Library, catalogued with the conjectural date of c.1740. The Honourable John Elphinstone (1706-1753), son of the 9th Baron Elphinstone, was a military engineer and cartographer best known for his map of Scotland, A New and Correct Mercator’s Map of North Britain, which was dedicated to the Duke of Cumberland and published a few months before the outbreak of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, during which it was used by both sides to plot their movements.

£1,000-1,500

109

SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS

COLLECTION OF WORKS,

18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Forsyth, Robert. The Beauties of Scotland. Edinburgh: Thomson Bonar and John Brown, 1805. 5 volumes, 8vo, handcoloured folding map, plates, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with modern spines; Buchanan, John Lane. Travels in the Western Hebrides: from 1782 to 1790. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Sinclair, John. Observations on the Scottish Dialect. London: W. Strahan, and T. Caddell, 1782. 8vo, contemporary half calf;

Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London: Charles Dilly, 1785. 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked, retaining original spine; Anderson, James. An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides and Western Coasts of Scotland… Edinburgh: G. Robinson, 1785. 8vo, folding map, contemporary calf gilt; Campbell, Alexander. A Journey From Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain… London: John Stockdale, 1811. 2 volumes, 4to, plates, contemporary half calf, joints cracked (11) £500-800

110

AFRICA, WEST INDIES, EAST INDIES

COLLECTION OF MAPS, MAINLY 17TH-18TH CENTURY

all engraved, hand-coloured, mounted, framed and glazed (not examined out of frames; dimensions given are for mount apertures):

Bowen, Emanuel. A New and Accurate Map of Negroland and the Adjacent Countries; also Upper Guinea. [London], c.1750. 35 x 43.5cm, evidence of repair to foot of central fold; Ibid. A New and Accurate Map of the East India Islands. [London], c.1750. 34.5 x 43cm; Sanson, Nicolas. Africa vetus. Paris: apud autorem, 1650. 40 x 56cm, slightly browned; [Blaeu, Willem Janszoon]. Aethiopia superior vel interior; vulgo Abissiniorum sive Presbiteri Joannis imperium. {Amsterdam, c.1640]. 40 x 50.5cm; Stockdale, John. The West Indies. London, 1800. 35.5 x 47.5cm, light browning and offsetting; Moll, Herman. A Map of Zaara. Negroe-Land. Guinea, etc. [London], c.1700. 17.5 x 21cm, browning; [Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas]. Carte de l’entrée de la riviere de Sierra Leona, c.1764. 22 x 18cm; Basire, Isaac. A Map of the Coast and Country about Sierra Lione and Sherbro River, c.1745. 22.5 x 16cm (8)

£500-800

111

WALKER, JOHN

NEWLY CONSTRUCTED & EXTENDED MAP OF INDIA

from the Latest Surveys of the Best Authorities, published principally for the use of the Officers of the Army in India … respectfully inscribed to Major General Sir John Malcolm … published … 1825. Additions to Sept. 1827. London: Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1827. Wall-sized engraved map with original hand-colouring, 157 x 126cm, sectionalised into 48 panels and laid on linen, with ‘Map of the Birman Empire compiled chiefly from Native Information’ inset, green silk piping along edges, four linen pull-tabs stitched to verso along top edge, toning, a few damp-stains and stipples of small dark spots, housed in contemporary card slipcase (worn, remains of green skiver covering)

£1,000-1,500

112

WALKER, JOHN

MAP OF INDIA, SHEWING THE BRITISH TERRITORIES & THOSE OF THE NATIVE STATES

chiefly compiled from Trigonometrical Surveys executed by Order of the Honble East India Company. London: John Walker, 1852. Wall-size engraved map with original hand-colouring, divided into 60 sections and laid on two linen sheets each measuring approx. 167 x 85cm, inset map titled ‘Continuation of the Tenasserim Provinces’, housed in a contemporary maroon skiver slipcase with flap, engraved bookplate to reverse of flap containing arms of the Marjoribanks family, traces of damp-staining to East sheet, slipcase scuffed

£800-1,200

113

[PERSIA] REICHARD, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB

PERSIEN NACH SEINEM NEUSTEN ZUSTANDE

in das oestliche und westliche Reich eingetheilt. Weimar: im Verlage des Geographisches Instituts, 1804. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 52 x 70cm

£300-500

114

NORTH AMERICA

TWO MAPS, 18TH CENTURY

both engraved, hand-coloured, framed and glazed (not examined out of frames), toned, comprising:

Seale, R. W. A Map of North America. With the European Settlements and whatever else is Remarkable in the West Indies, from the Latest and Best Observations, [London], c.1745, 37.5 x 46cm, showing California as an island, with a decorative rococo title-cartouche;

Blair, John. A Map of North America from the Latest Surveys and Maps, c.1760, 42.8 x 57cm, engraved by Thomas Kitchin after John Blair, somewhat spotted; together with J. Cary, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland etc., 1816 (mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 23.5 x 29cm) (3)

£300-500

115

CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE, & PIERRE DU VAL LE CANADA

faict par le Sr. de Champlain où sont la Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Suede, la Virginie etc. Avec les nations voisines et autres terres nouvellement decouvertes. Suivant les memoires de P. Du Val, geographe du Roy. Paris, 1677. Hand-coloured engraved map (39.5 x 57.5cm), depicting French territories in eastern Canada and the American Atlantic Seaboard, showing in detail areas corresponding to modern-day Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, New England, and part of Greenland, framed and glazed, some browning and spotting.

Saleroom notice 12/2/2026: map laid down on board

£3,000-5,000

116

GARDNER, JAMES THE WORLD

To His Most Gracious Majesty George the IVth. This Delineation of the Present State of Geographical Knowledge is with Permission most humbly dedicated … 1825, Additions to 1830. London: J. G. Gardner, 1830. Engraved wall-sized double-hemispheric world map on 4 conjoined sheets, 137 x 248 cm, contemporary hand-colouring, mounted along edges onto board, toning, various tears

Note: An imposing world map capturing the United States in the midst of its expansion across the North American continent, with its western border being that established by the Treaty of Adams-Onis of 1819; Alaska is named as Russian America, close attention is paid to the names of the Native American territories, while much of Arctic Canada, with the discovery of the North-West Passage then still far in the future, is left artfully undelineated. Rare.&nbsp;

£500-800

117

PURDY, JOHN A CHART OF THE WORLD ON MERCATOR’S PROJECTION

With the Tracks of the More Distinguished Modern Navigators. Regulated throughout, according to the Best Scientific Determinations. Published August 14th 1828 … New Edition, Materially Improved, 1830. London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1830. Engraved wall-sized world map, 128.5 x 192cm, contemporary hand-colouring, mounted, framed and glazed, toning, tears and paper disruption along edges, a few similar blemishes within image

£1,000-1,500

118

FROGGETT, JOHN WALTER

FROGGETT’S SURVEY OF THE COUNTRY THIRTY MILES ROUND LONDON

London: J. W. Froggett, 1831. Engraved map hand-coloured in outlined, 113 x 137.5cm, divided into 48 sections and laid on linen, remnants of green silk piping along edges, folding into green glazed linen slipcase with orange paper label (giving the title ‘Froggett’s Map of the Country Thirty Miles Round London’, with imprint of W. New), a little browning along two longitudinal folds

£300-500

119

CRUCHLEY, GEORGE

CRUCHLEY’S NEW PLAN OF LONDON & ITS ENVIRONS

London: engraved and published by Cruchley map-seller (from Arrowsmith’s), 1831. Large engraved hand-coloured map, sectionalised and laid onto 3 separate linen sheets, approx. total dimensions 134 x 139cm, decorative neoclassical border, housed in original green card slipcase with printed paper label, map toned, damp-staining to margins, a few small damp-stains and blemishes within the map, a few panels lifting at corners, slipcase worn and split

£500-800

120

SLEZER, JOHN

PROSPECT OF EDINBURGH FROM YE NORTH

[London, 1718]. Engraved panorama on 2 conjoined sheets, 41 x 82cm, 2 small stains (one above skyline, one to righthand margin), a notably rich impression;

Together with 17 engraved folding views from Slezer’s Theatrum Scotiae, 1693 or later, 39 x 49cm, including Edinburgh (2 views), Stirling (2), Alloa, Falkland (2), Glasgow (3), Aberdeen (2), Dunottar, Inverness, Dundee (2), and Perth, toning, soiling and staining, discreet repairs to central folds (18)

Note: Slezer’s ‘Prospect of Edinburgh from ye North’ first appeared in the second edition of his Theatrum Scotiae, which was published in 1718, the first edition having appeared in 1693.

£300-500

121

ADAIR, JOHN

A NEW & EXACT MAP OF THE RIVER CLYDE

[No place:] Geo. Scott, 1731. Engraved map by Richard Cooper after John Adair, oriented to the west, on two conjoined sheets, 51 x 70cm, hand-coloured in outline, decorative title cartouche and dedication to John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (commander of Hanoverian forces during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion), compass roses, two small vignettes of ships at sea, neat repairs to verso [RSGC, The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850, 3rd edition, 1983, volume 2, p. 14]

Note: A very rare map of the Clyde estuary, Argyll and the west coast of Scotland, with a number of striking decorative flourishes. John Adair (d. 1718) was ‘an eminent Scottish surveyor and map-maker … Between 1682 and 1688 he drew a series of maps of the Scottish counties, but most of these were not published until after his death’ (Chubb, p. 419). This appears to be the first and only edition; it was not included in Adair’s unfinished work, The Description of the Sea Coasts and Islands of Scotland, which appeared in 1703.

£400-600

122

SPEED, JOHN

THE KINGDOME OF GREAT BRITAINE & IRELAND

London: to be sold by Tho. Bassett and Ric. Chiswell, [1676]. Hand-coloured engraved map, 39.2 x 52.5cm, inset views of London and Edinburgh and map of the Orkney Islands, English text on verso, glazed both sides and framed, light browning, apparent repaired closed ear to lower left corner between mileage cartouche and Irish landmass, wear to text ‘The Irish Sea’ around central fold, old repairs to central fold, small closed tear to lower margin, crack to glass on reverse;

[Maitland, William]. A View of London about the Year 1560. Reduced to this Size from a Large Print in the Collection of Sr Hans Sloane, Bart. [London], 1738]. Engraved view, 40.5 x 51cm, mounted, framed and glazed, wide margins, toned, old folds, a few nicks to extremities; and 4 other engraved maps and prints, all hand-coloured, framed and glazed (18th-century French maritime print titled ‘Nouvelle carte pour conduire à la connoissance de la marine’, 50.5 x 61cm; William Kip after John Norden, Surrey olim sedes regnorum, [1637], 32 x 39cm, browned; Richard Blome, [Gloucestershire], 1671, 25 x 20.5cm; Robert Morden, Middlesex, [1695], 38 x 42cm, margins browned (6)

£300-500

SCOTLAND

COLLECTION OF MAPS & PRINTS, 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES

5 hand-coloured engraved maps of Scotland, framed and glazed, taken from the 1654 Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, based on Timothy Pont’s 16th-century manuscript maps, showing lochs, rivers and tributaries, settlements and estates: [ 2 copies] Glottiana Praefectura Superior … The Upper Ward of Clyds-dayl. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Upper Clydesdale, first copy (56.8 x 68cm, mount aperture 40.5 x 54.5cm), central fold in sheet has been repaired on back, some soiling around the edges, second copy (55 x 67 cm), some creasing and browning; Tvedia cum vicecomitatu Etterico Forestae, etiam Selkirkae dictus, Twee-dail with the Sherifdome of Ettrik-Forrest [sic] called also Selkirk. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Tweeddale and the Ettrick Forest (51.5 x 59.8cm), some minor soiling and discolouration; Mercia, Vulgo vicecomitatus, Bervicensis … Merce, or, Shirrefdome of Berwick. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Berwickshire (49.5 x 59.5cm) mounted on paper, some browning; Nithia Vicecomitatus. The Shirifdome of Nidis-dail. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Nithsdale (58 x 73cm, mount aperture 41 x 55cm), some browning and minor spotting; Keulen, Johannes van. Pascaert vande Westkust van Schotlant, als mede een gedeelte van de Lewys Eylanden. Amsterdam: van Keulen, [1712]. Hand-coloured engraved map (65 x 71cm, mount aperture 50.5 x 57.5cm), framed and glazed, of North West Coast of Scotland, showing Lewis, St. Kilda, North Rona, minor staining and browning; [Slezer, John]. The Prospect of the Town of Sterling from the East. [London, 1693]. Engraved print of Stirling, one of the plates from Slezer’s ‘Theatrum Scotiae,’ framed and glazed (43.5 x 58.8cm, mount aperture 28.5 x 43.5); [Slezer, John]. Bogen-gicht: being the seat of His Grace the Duke of Gordon near Aberdeen. [London, 1719?]. Engraved print of Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh, wrongly named as Bogengicht [Bog of Gicht], the seat of the Duke of Gordon, one of the plates used in two later editions of Theatrum Scotiae (1719 and 1728/29), framed and glazed (45 x 62cm) (8) £300-500

124

JACOBITE RISING OF 1715 - JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART (1688-1766), ‘THE OLD PRETENDER’ BY THE KING, A PROCLAMATION REQUIRING ALL HIS MAJESTY’S SUBJECTS TO REPAIR TO HIS CAMP

... given at our Court at Scoon, this Tenth Day of January, 1716, and in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign, By His Majesty’s Command, Mar. Perth: Printed by Mr Robert Freebairn, 1716. Broadside, 41 x 32cm, woodcut initial letter, very wide margins [ESTC T90504]

Note: A rare royal proclamation printed on behalf of James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), ‘The Old Pretender,’ after the battle of Sheriffmuir, requiring all noblemen ‘and all other subjects fit to bear arms, furthwith to repair to Our Camp at Perth, or where it shall happen to be for the time, with their best Horses, Arms and Accoutrements’ and that the proclamation be ‘pass to the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-burghs of the several shires ... and all other places ... and that printed copies be sent to the Sheriffs.. and to send Doubles therof of the several Paroch-Churches and Meeting Houses ... that the same may be Published and Read by the Ministers from the Pulpits immediately after Divine Service.’ Rare, ESTC records 4 copies, BL (2 copies), NLS, Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

£500-800

125

JACOBITE RISING OF 1715 - PERTH

LIST OF NOBLEMEN & LANDED GENTLEMEN OF THE SHIRE OF PERTH

who are said, by common report, to have been concerned in the late unatural [sic] Rebellion. Manuscript, one folio leaf, folded to 36 x 23cm, docket title, with integral blank, listing 69 noblemen and gentlemen beginning with The Lord Drummond [James Drummond, 2nd titular Duke of Perth, (1673-1720)] and The Lord Ogilvy [James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater and 2nd Earl of Seafield (c. 1688-1764)], signed at Perth 14th November 1716 by Alexander Robertson of Craig, Sheriff deput [sic].

Note: Rare manuscript written in the aftermath of the failed Jacobite rising, when several Jacobite prisoners were tried for treason and sentenced to death. The Indemnity Act of July 1717 pardoned most of the surviving prisoners who had taken part in the Rising.

£800-1,200

126

JACOBITE REBELLION OF 1745

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD & THE HIGHLANDERS, ENTERING EDINBURGH AFTER THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS, SEPT. 22ND 1745

Edinburgh: Alexander Hill, publisher to the Royal Scottish Academy, 1845. Steel-engraving by Frederick Bacon after Thomas Duncan, 60.5 x 87cm, mounted; Together with 4 further engraved maps and prints (Emanuel Bowen, A New and Accurate Map of Scotland and North Britain, c.1747, showing the site of the Battle of Culloden, 48 x 37cm, hand-coloured, inset map of Shetland; William Roy, Mappa Britanniae septentrionalis faciei Romanae, 1787, 65.5 x 53cm, hand-coloured; John Wood, Plan of the Town of Stirling from an Actual Survey, Stirling & Edinburgh: by the proprietor, 1820, on 2 sheets, 53.5 x 71cm, each with guard to verso of central fold, a few areas of toning; Henri Chatelain, Carte pour donner une idée générale du gouvernement d’Ecosse, [1721], 45 x 49cm) (5)

Note: A rich impression of this fine commemorative engraving published on the centenary of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. £200-300

127

JACOBITES

UNE FAMILLE ROYALISTE IRLANDAISE ET FRANÇAISE (1689-1789)

Nantes: Emile Grimaud et fils, 1901. First edition, 4to (29.4 x 22cm), finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1903 in green crushed morocco, gilt rose devices incorporating white morocco onlays to spine and covers, each cover with decorative centrepiece comprising Charles Edward Stuart’s monogram ‘C E’ in gilt either side of gilt roundel containing motto ‘Mea res agitur’ around embossed white morocco rose motif, Royal Stewart tartan doublures, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, halftone frontispiece, extra-illustrated with the mezzotint portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart disguised as Betty Burke after his defeat at Culloden, by J. Williams (Sharp 218, mid-18th century, 29.4 x 21.5cm, closely trimmed, with 5-line satirical caption mounted to preceding blank), together with over 40 additional plates, mainly sepia photogravure reproductions of portraits, with the half-title, original wrappers bound in Note: A collection of letters addressed in large part to French-born Jacobite merchant and slave-trader Antoine Walsh (17031763), with associated documents. The editor was French aristocrat Louis, duc de La Trémoille.

£500-800

128

[SCOTTISH HIGHLAND MUSIC] SKINNER, J. SCOTT

THE HARP & CLAYMORE

A Volume of Music, Original, Selected, and Traditional, comprising Pastorals, Marches, Strathspeys and Reels, Hornpipes, Laments, Songs, Etc., for Voice, Violin, Bagpipe, Pianoforte, Etc. Edited with an Introduction on the Strathspey by Gavin Greig. London: Bayley & Ferguson, c.1903. First edition, inscribed by the author with a lengthy message to ‘Mrs C. Stewart Hunter and the Dr’ on the front free endpaper (the inscription dated Carnoustie, 1915), folio (35 x 26cm), 182 pp., original quarter vellum, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt, tartan-pattern silk sides stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, a little fraying to silk; together with 1 similar work (2)

Note: A classic collection of Highland music, surprisingly uncommon at auction.

£200-300

129

MAUCHLINE TARTAN WARE - SIR WALTER SCOTT

SCOTT’S POETICAL WORKS

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1867-70. 6 volumes, 16mo (13.5 x 8.2cm), comprising ‘Lord of the Isles’ (1867), ‘Rokeby’ (1869), ‘Marmion,’ ‘Bridal of Triermain,’ ‘Lady of the Lake,’ ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (all 1870), contemporary Mauchline-ware bindings of wooden covers transfer-printed with tartan patterns, gilt blue, red, and green morocco spines, all edges gilt, engraved additional vignette title-page to each volume, in wooden Mauchline-ware box (11.5 x 19 x 16.5cm), covered with Stuart tartan pattern waxed paper, with vignette of the Sir Francis Chantrey 1820 bust of Scott on lid, blue velvet lining, slight spotting to engraved title-pages but otherwise internally very clean, box with some scratches and discolouration, base of box worn with loss of covering in places

£500-800

130

ANDREW OF WYNTOUN (C.1350-1423)

DE ORYGYNALE CRONYKIL OF SCOTLAND

be Androw of Wyntown, Priowr of Sanct Serfis Ynche in Loch Levyn. London: printed by T. Bensley; and sold by Thomas Egerton, 1795. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (22.5 x 14cm), later half calf with black spine labels (probably from original binding), marbled edges, with plate of facsimile handwriting in preface to volume 1, without half-titles, in volume 1 pages 71-74 are misbound after page xxxviii, with occasional pencil annotations [ESTC T89474] (2)

Note: Vernacular Scots history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem; the original manuscript was written by a variety of hands in the late 15th century, according to Lowndes ‘The bibliographer’s manual of English literature’ new rev. ed., part X (1879), p. 3007, 250 copies were printed in royal octavo.

£300-400

131

BANNATYNE CLUB

THE BANNATYNE GARLANDS

Edinburgh: [Bannatyne Club, [1823-48]. 11 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.7 x 12cm), comprising [i] The Poems of George Bannatyne [edited with an extensive commentary by David Laing], 1824 [Note: Terry 4a]; [ii] A Bannatyne garland, quhairin the president speaketh [by Sir Walter Scott], [1823] [Note: Terry 118.1]; [iii] The Bannatyne garland, number second [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], [1823] [Note: Terry 118.2]; [iv] Ane richt pithie and pleasant ballat of Bannatyne, 1824 [Note: Terry 118.3]; [v] A Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1824 [Note: Terry 118/4]; [vi] Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kingis Chekar [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], [1826 Note: Terry 118.5]; [vii] A new Bannatyne garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, [by Dr. John Jamieson], 1829; [viii] Ane new Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1829 [Note: Terry 118.7]; [ix] Ane plesand garland, being ane lytill and merrie conceited geste callit Ye coirne-clyppis ... [by Robert Pitcairn], [1830?] Note: [Terry 118.8]; [x] Two Bannatyne garlands from Abbotsford [by Sir Walter Scott], 1848 [Note: Terry 118.9] Presented by David Laing; [xi] Tears on the death of Evander Occasioned by the lamentable losse of the truelie noble Sir Iohn Svynton knight ... by G. Lauder, [1848], contemporary brown half morocco, the Marquesses of Lothian copy with the crested L[othian] at head of spine

Provenance: Marquesses of Lothian, then Newbattle Abbey College Trust.

Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London’s Roxburghe Club. ‘The playful mode of identification with the past manifested in the Bannatyne [Club’s] affiliation with George Bannatyne also finds expression in the Bannatyne Garlands, a series of ten occasional publications spanning 1823--48, printed in limited numbers of around forty copies each. Several Garlands mimic the appearance and language of early modern printed books’ (Elliott, ‘Walter Scott’s Bannatyne Club, Elite Male Associational Culture, and the Making of Identities’, Review of English Studies, volume 67, issue 281, September 2016, pp. 732-750).

£500-800

132

BURNS, ROBERT

POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT

Fac-simile (From Photogravure Blocks) of the original Kilmarnock Edition 1786. Kilmarnock: D. Brown & Co., 1909. 8vo (22 x 14cm), 240 pp., 20th-century light brown crushed morocco with brown and tan morocco onlays depicting a harvest mouse in a wheat field (the ‘tim’rous beastie’ of ‘To a Mouse’), gilt accents to cover design, raised bands and gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, inner dentelles in blind, housed in a custom book-form quarter morocco solander box with tartan cloth lining

Note: This facsimile edition of Burns’ work was originally bound in paper wrappers. According to a laid-in handwritten note the present binding was executed by one Fraser Wilson while working for Tom Valentine (a noted Falkirk binder) for a competition.

£600-800

SCOTTISH POETRY

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 19TH-CENTURY, FINELY BOUND

Burns, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, Several other Pieces, not contained in any Former Edition of his Poems, and a Life of the Author. Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1801. 12mo (16.9 x 9.8cm), c.1900 maroon half morocco, richly gilt spine, top edge gilt, xii 360 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding aquatint plate; Dunbar, William. The Poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing. Edinburgh: for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First collected edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, later red morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow;

Tannahill, Robert. The Soldier’s Return; a Scottish Interlude in Two Acts: with Other Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Paisley: Stephen Young, 1807. First edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 175 pp., 20th-century marbled calf by Zaehnsdorf;

Laing, David (editor). Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish [sic] Poetry; principally of the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825-53. First edition, volume 1, one of 72 copies printed and inscribed ‘To William Motherwell Esqre, Paisley (from the Editor)’ on the half-title (limitation of volume 2 not stated), 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spines slightly faded; Ibid. Early Metrical Tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1826. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, bottom edges untrimmed; Scott, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Scott from George Bannatyne’s Manuscript compiled A.D. 1658. Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1882. First edition, one of 50 copies only, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son for Pickering & Co., spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet frames gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (8)

Note: William Motherwell, recipient of this copy of Laing’s Fugitive Scotish Poetry, was a Glasgow-born poet and editor who lived and worked chiefly in Paisley.

£400-600

134

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY (1921-1996)

’TO WHINNY MUIR THOU COMEST AT LAST. A PLAY’, 1962 holograph manuscript, blue and red ballpoint pen on rectos only of loose leaves, [2] 35 ff., 20.5 x 12.8cm, signed by Brown on title-leaf, inscribed and dated by him on the following epigram leaf ‘To Sylvia, 11 2 62’, in an envelope addressed by Brown to ‘Miss Sylvia Wishart’ at 56 Academy Road, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, together with a card bifolium containing a typed poem titled ‘A day at North-hoose, for Sylvia’ by ‘MG’. All leaves folded along centre, titleleaf slightly spotted

Provenance: From the family of Sylvia Wishart.

Note: An unpublished holograph play given by Brown to the Orkney artist Sylvia Wishart (1936-2008) on her 26th birthday, at the height of their romantic involvement. Wishart had grown up as Brown’s neighbour in Stromness, and first came to his notice as a 12-year-old when one of her pictures appeared in a local exhibition. As a student at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen she began to visit Brown while he was at Tor-na-Dee sanatorium nearby. According to Brown’s biographer, ‘he was fascinated by [Wishart’s] changing moods: one moment she was as subtle and withdrawn as the Mona Lisa, he told Ian MacArthur; the next she was boisterous as Eartha Kitt. They had much in common. Like George, Sylvia was drawn to Catholicism; and, like him, she loved Rackwick more than any other place on earth. By the autumn of 1962, Sylvia and George were seeing each other every evening and, as often as their funds would allow, catching a lift with a fisherman to Hoy at the weekend’ (Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown, 2006). Edinburgh University Library holds another manuscript copy with the possibly erroneous date 1952 (MS 3116/2a). The title of the work is from the traditional English folk song ‘The Lyke-Wake Dirge’.

£500-800

135

BANKS, IAIN (1954-2013)

DETAILED SIGNED LETTER DISCUSSING HIS NOVELS & THE CREATIVE PROCESS, 14TH AUGUST 1986

addressed to a Mr Peter Hancock, expounding the ideas, structure, characters and meaning of Banks’s second published novel Walking on Glass (‘You’ve got problems working the book out; so have I, and I wrote the damn thing!’), referring also to The Wasp Factory (‘that was a much simpler book … it is all told on one level of reality; everything happens in the real world, with no magic involved’), and his recently published novel The Bridge (‘I hope it’s a bit easier to understand’), word-processed, 2 leaves of A4 paper with text on 3 sides, signed by Banks at foot of second leaf in black ink, retaining part of original envelope

£300-400

136

MITCHELL, J. LESLIE [PSEUDONYM: LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON] (1901-1935)

PERSIAN DAWNS, EGYPTIAN NIGHTS

With a Foreword by J. D. Beresford. London: Jarrolds, [1932]. First edition, first impression, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to H. G. Wells on the title-page in black ink, ‘For H. G. Wells, Jas Leslie Mitchell’, 8vo, original black cloth, with the dust jacket, American collector’s ink-stamp and clipped catalogue description to front pastedown, spine rolled, contents toned, a few nicks and small tears to edges of dust jacket

Note: An outstandingly important copy of a rare work by Scotland’s greatest 20th-century novelist, inscribed to the elder statesman of English letters who gave him his first major encouragement in his nascent writing career. Mitchell had recently left the RAF and was struggling to make ends meet when in 1927 he sent Wells a copy of his story ‘Ten Days of Sodom’. Wells wrote an enthusiastic response and advised him to contact Cornhill magazine, where his stories, including those published in the present work, began to appear from January 1929. Not long after, Mitchell printed Wells’s letter as the epigraph to his 1931 work The Calends of Cairo. Following Mitchell’s premature death in 1937, Wells sent his widow an appreciation of his career, remembering him as ‘fine, brilliant, and original’ (David C. Smith, ed., The Correspondence of H. G. Wells, 2021, vol. 4, p. 220.).

£500-800

137

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

BONNIE MONTROSE. THE CASTLE O’ THE MAINS

Dundee: [for the author], 1886. Printed broadside (28.3 x 21.4cm), decorative border and royal coat of arms to head, text printed in two columns browned, old folds, repairs verso

Note: Early and very rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster, published while he was still resident in his native Dundee, before he fled first to Perth and then Edinburgh to escape ‘relentless persecution by local audiences’ (ODNB). No other copy traced in libraries or auction records. In 1902, the year of his death, McGonagall ventured to reprint ‘Bonnie Montrose’ on a broadside together with his ‘Ode to the King’, proclaiming it to be ‘a new poem’. The lot sold with five related pamphlets: The Book of the Lamentations of the Poet Macgonagall, An Autobiography, undated, wrappers separated; Poet McGonagall’s Masterpieces, Dundee: John Fellow, undated; Poetic Gems selected from the Works of William McGonagall, 1936; Lowden Macartney, Wm McGonagall, Poet, a Choice Selection of his Best Pieces, Glasgow: J. & D. R. Burnside, undated, 2 copies.

£300-500

138

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

BEAUTIFUL OBAN

A New Descriptive Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1900. Printed broadside (25.8 x 19.2cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet’) in black ink, text in two columns, title and royal coat arms to head, a few marks including old rust-stain to top margin, old folds

Note: Very rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster. One copy traced in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland, and one other copy traced at auction.

£300-500

139

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

THE ANCIENT TOWN OF LEITH

A New Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], May 1899. Printed broadside (24.8 x 18.5cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm. Topaz McGonagall, Poet’) in black ink, text printed in two columns, title and royal coat arms to head, a few marks, old folds, a couple of small nicks to left-hand edge

Note: Very rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster, declaiming the sights, scenes, industry and residents of Leith, from its historic municipal buildings to Bailie Gibson’s fish shop, ‘most elegant to be seen’. One other copy traced in auction records (Lyon & Turnbull, 8 February 2023, lot 108), and one copy in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland.

£300-500

140

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902) - INDIAN MUTINY THE HERO OF KALAPORE

An Incident of the Indian Mutiny. A New Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1899. Printed broadside (27.8 x 21.8cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet’) along the left-hand edge, text in two columns, royal coat of arms and title at head, a few marks and marginal chips, old folds

Note: Rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster. One copy traced in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland, no other copy in auction records. The hero of the title was Lieutenant William Kerr of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry, who received the Victoria Cross for his actions.

£300-500

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902) - FIRST & SECOND BOER WARS

[TWO BROADSIDE POEMS:]

The Horrors of Majuba, After the Battle. (A Reprint-By Request). [Edinburgh for the author, c.1890]. Printed broadside (26.4 x 20.7cm), text in two columns, title and royal coat of arms at head, old folds; The Battle of Glencoe. A New Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], 1899. Printed broadside (28 x 21.6cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet’) in black ink, text in two columns, title and royal coat arms to head, a few chips, nicks and marks, old folds (2)

Note: Two rare broadside poems by the infamous Scottish poetaster, The Horrors of Majuba lamenting Britain’s final defeat in the first Boer War, The Battle of Glencoe celebrating the opening engagement of the second. No other copy of the first poem traced in libraries or at auction; one copy of the second traced in libraries (National Library of Scotland) and one at auction (in 1984).

£300-500

142

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902) - HUNDRED

YEARS’ WAR

’JACK O’ THE CUDGEL’

A Historical Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1900. Printed broadside (25.6 x 20cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall Poet’) in black ink, text in two columns, title and royal coat of arms to head, old folds, rust-mark to top edge, a few nicks to left-hand edge

Note: Rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster, celebrating the victory of Edward III in the Battle of Calais in 1350. No copies traced in libraries or in auction records.

£300-500

143

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902) - ANGLO-ZULU WAR THE HERO OF RORKE’S DRIFT

[Edinburgh: for the author], c.1899. Printed broadside (24.8 x 18.4cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet’) at head, text in two columns, title and royal coat of arms at head, old rust-mark to top edge, old folds

Note: Rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster, celebrating the deeds of Private Henry Hook, unhappily mischaracterised in the film Zulu, though in reality one of 11 of the battle’s recipients of the Victoria Cross. No other copy traced in auction records, and one copy only in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland.

£300-500

144

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE

A New Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1900. Printed broadside (25.2 x 19.8cm), signed by the author (‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall Poet’) in black ink, text in two columns, title and royal coat of arms at head, a few marks, old folds

Note: Rare broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster. One copy traced in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland; no other copy found in auction records.

£300-500

145

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

[TWO BROADSIDE POEMS:]

The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg. A New Poem. [And:] An Ode to the Queen on her Sixty Years Reign. A New Poem. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1896-7. Two printed broadsides (25.5 x 20cm and 27.2 x 21.5cm), each with the text in two columns and title at head, The Funeral additionally with royal coat of arms and An Ode with portrait of Queen Victoria, An Ode chipped along right-hand edge (2)

Note: Two rare broadside poems by the infamous Scottish poetaster. One copy of each traced in libraries, both in the National Library of Scotland; no copy of either work found in auction records.

£300-500

146

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

[TWO BROADSIDE POEMS:]

A Summary History of Sir William Wallace. A New Poem [And:] An Autumn Reverie. A New Poem. [Edinburgh, for the author], c.1899-1900. Two printed broadsides (25 x 18.6cm and 26 x 20.4cm), each with the text in two columns and title and royal coat of arms to head, An Autumn Reverie with short nick to edge of one fold (2)

Note: Two rare broadside poems by the infamous Scottish poetaster. One copy of each work traced in libraries, both at the National Library of Scotland; no copies traced in auction records.

£300-500

147

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

[TWO BROADSIDE POEMS:]

The Wreck of the Steamer ‘Stella’. A New Poem. [And:] Calamity in London. Family of Ten Burned to Death. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1899 & 1898. Two printed broadsides (25 x 18.5cm and 26 x 20.2cm), The Wreck signed by the author (‘Sir William Topaz McGonagall Poet’) in black, each with the main text printed in two columns and title and royal coat of arms to head, both with old folds and faint pencil-markings, The Wreck with old rust-mark and shallow chip to head (2)

Note: Two rare broadside poems by the infamous Scottish poetaster. The Wreck of the Steamer ‘Stella’ describes the sinking of a passenger steamer off the coast of Guernsey. Calamity in London is McGonagall’s response to the death of two families in a house-fire on Dixie Street in London’s Bethnal Green, in which he contrives to rhyme ‘surprised’ with ‘carbonised’.

£300-500

148

MCGONAGALL, WILLIAM TOPAZ (1825-1902)

[TWO BROADSIDE POEMS:]

Beautiful Edinburgh. [And:] Two New Poems. Beautiful Comrie and its Surroundings. Beautiful North Berwick and its Surroundings. [Edinburgh: for the author], c.1895 & c.1899. Two printed broadsides (24.8 x 21.4cm and 27 x 20.5cm), each with the main text printed in two columns and with the title and royal coat of arms at head, Beautiful Edinburgh with chips and tears to edges, one small chip to Two New Poems (2)

Note: Two rare poetry broadsides by the infamous Scottish poetaster, one copy of each traced in libraries, both at the National Library of Scotland.

£300-500

149

SCOTTISH & IRISH LITERATURE & PUBLISHERS

COLLECTION OF WORKS, MAINLY 19TH CENTURY, INCLUDING FINE BINDINGS

Pindar. Ta tou Pindarou sesōsmena. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Ex editione Oxoniensi. Glasgow: Foulis, 1754-8. 32 mo, 4 volumes in 3, contemporary calf [ESTC T134377, Gaskell 274];

Anacreon. Hai tou Anakreontos ōdai, kai ta tēs Sapphous, kai ta tou Alkaiou leipsana. Glasgow: Foulis, 1783. 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt [ESTC T85615, Gaskell 653];

Hogg, James. Jacobite Relics of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819-21. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, late 19th-century crushed blue half morocco by Oliver and Boyd;

Galt, John. Annals of the Parish. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1821. First edition, 8vo, late 19th-century half morocco by W. J. Mansell;

Hogg, James. The Shepherd’s Calendar, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1829. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf; and 14 others similar, including almanacs published in Dublin and first editions of Walter Scott, Thomas Reid and Hugh Blair (47)

£300-500

150

[SWIFT, JONATHAN] TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: for Benj. Motte, 1726. Third edition (Teerink’s ‘B’ edition), 2 volumes in 1, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4cm), viii [4] 148, [6] 149-310; [6] 154, [8] 155-353 pp, A-K8 L3 M-X8 Y1; A3 B-K8 L5 M-2A8, engraved portrait frontispiece (in second state, and with vertical chainlines), 6 engraved maps and plans, title-page to volume 2 supplied from the second (‘AA’) edition, c.1900 calf, red morocco labels, compartments and covers ruled in blind, all edges gilt, toning, occasional light spotting, general titlepage with old repair to corner, one map frayed in lower margin, housed in a custom blue cloth solander box [Teerink 291]

Provenance: From the library of English man of letters Charles Whibley (1859-1930), with his ownership book-label ‘Sum Caroli Whibley’ and manuscript initials to the endpapers; the lot is sold with a copy of Whibley’s Jonathan Swift: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge, 1917.

£800-1,200

151

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, [& SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE]

LYRICAL BALLADS

with other poems. London: printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes, 8vo (16 x 9.5cm), contemporary full calf, rebacked with original spines laid down and labels renewed, gilt tooling around board edges [ESTC T146537; Wise 5]

Provenance: In both volumes manuscript inscriptions on front free endpapers: William Hunter Jun. 1824, Emily Hunter March 1857; 20th-century pictorial bookplate of Percy Withers

Note: First complete edition, comprising the second edition of the first volume, expanded to include Wordsworth’s famous preface, considered the manifesto of the Romantic movement, and the first edition, first issue of the second volume, which contains nearly 40 new poems.

£1,000-1,500

152

DICKENS, CHARLES

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, and at the office of All the Year Round, 1859. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 13.6cm), viii [2] 254 pp., c.1900 red crushed morocco by Morell, spine richly gilt in compartments, French-fillet frames gilt to covers, inner dentelles gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, etched frontispiece and additional title-page, 14 etched plates with tissue-guards, a few scuffs to front cover [cf. Smith I 13]

Note: Mixed issue, with all nine of the typographical errors cited by Smith, but lacking the signature-mark ‘b’ on the list of plates, its presence often cited as a first-issue point.

£700-1,000

153

COLLINS, WILKIE

THE MOONSTONE

A Romance. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (18.6 x 12.2cm), viii 315, [4] 297 [2], [6] 309 pp., later red half calf by Ramage, half-title to each volume, single advertisement leaf to rear of volume 2 (listed by Sadleir to face the half-title) and front of volume 3, spines and extremities slightly rubbed, volume 3 lower fore corner of front board bumped, occasional light marks and blemishes internally [Sadleir 598] (3)

Provenance: From the library of Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000), historian and author of A History of the Crusades (1951-4), with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume.

£2,000-3,000

154

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 12cm), iv, 464; iv, 464 p., 20 woodengraved plates after Henry Valentin, modern half leather binding and slipcase, with marbled pastedowns and marbled fore-edges, wanting title leaf to volume 1 which has been supplied (loose) in facsimile on aged paper, frontispiece to volume 1 has tissue guard, title leaf to volume 2 is slightly torn and creased, but otherwise internally very good, illustrations all present, with ownership inscription of ‘Wm. Marjoribanks’ on title page to volume 2 (2)

Note: Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, vol. 2, p. 149, notes that the Belfast 1846 edition ‘more than probably post-dated the Chapman and Hall edition.’

£600-800

155

COLLECTION OF LITERATURE, MAINLY BRITISH WORKS IN FINE BINDINGS, 18TH & 19TH CENTURIES

Fielding, Henry. Miscellanies. Edinburgh: printed for the author and sold by A. Millar, 1743. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf [ESTC N11032];

Jonson, Ben. Works. London: Printed for D. Midwinter, 1756. 7 vols, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, with 12 plates, 18th-century engraved armorial bookplates of Grosvenor Charles Bedford [ESTC T83079];

Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John. Works. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne and Company, 1812. 14 volumes, 8vo, with half titles, contemporary calf;

Dodsley, Robert (editor). A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. London: for J. Dodsley, 1775. 6 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt spines, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title-pages, engraved headpieces, bookplates [ESTC T144724];

Pearch, George (editor). A Collection of Poems, in Four Volumes. By Several Hands. London: G. Pearch, and sold by Joseph Johnson, 1775. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf uniform with the preceding work, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title-pages, engraved headpieces, bookplates (together with A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry … intended as a Supplement, 1770) [T95888];

Bowring, John. A Visit to the Philippine Islands. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf prize binding of the Royal High School of Edinburgh, with 9 coloured plates and woodcut illustrations; Alexander, William. The History of Women in Antiquity. London: printed for C. Dilly, 1782. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green goatskin, spines in compartments with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, without half titles [ESTC T36569];

[Surtees, Robert Smith]. Plain or Ringlets? London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, with 12 hand coloured steel-engraved plates, and numerous woodcut illustrations by John Leech; and others, including Oliver Goldsmith and Anthony Hamilton (51) £400-600

156

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

THE WORKS IN EIGHT VOLUMES

London: printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors, 1635 [i.e. 1734-5], 8 volumes, 12mo (16.4 x 9.5cm), contemporary mottled calf gilt, engraved frontispiece to each individual play (except for ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ in volume 1, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in volume 2, with duplicate of frontispiece for ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ inserted instead, ‘The Life and Death of King Henry the Eighth’ and ‘Titus Andronicus’ in volume 5, ‘Hamlet’ in volume 6, ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’ and ‘The Tragedy of Locrine’ in volume 8); ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ misbound at end of volume 6 and also lacking frontispiece (the work intended to be bound in volume 2, but there replaced by a 1735 printing of Nathaniel Lee’s ‘Constantine the Great’ [ESTC T31629]), volume 4 with ‘The First Part of Henry VI’ misbound after parts 2 and 3, bindings and spines worn but solid, occasional spotting, staining and worming [ESTC T54702; Murphy, Shakespeare in Print, 208] (8)

Provenance: Ownership inscription of ‘Eliz. Butler Wilson 1771’ on front free endpapers.

Note: These eight-volume sets, dated 1734-5 on the title-pages of the constituent plays, but erroneously dated 1635 on the general title-page of each volume, are not an independent edition, but bound-up sets of individual plays which were originally published singly, as evidence by the stab-holes visible in the gutter, and the evident differences in paper stock between the plays. ‘[The] Folger Shakespeare catalogue notes that ‘in some instances, individual plays, were issued in two or more editions, and therefore, ‘no two sets will be the same, individual plays differing as to edition’ (Murphy). The 1734 Tonson edition of Measure for Measure, found in volume one of this set, is the ‘first separate unaltered issue’ of the work (Jaggard, p. 391).

The 1730s were a watershed in the history of the book in England. The expiry of the Tonson cartel’s monopoly on Shakespeare in 1731, in accordance with the Copyright Act of 1710, set off a fierce price-war with rival London printer Robert Walker and led to the rapid increase in affordability and therefore dissemination of Shakespeare’s works. Jacob Tonson the elder (16551736) had published the important Rowe edition of Shakespeare in 1709. His nephew Jacob Tonson the younger (1682-1735), who took over the business around 1718, then sought to capitalise on the family monopoly with the Pope edition of 1723-5. As Tonson the younger died in November 1735, this is likely to be one of his.

£600-800

157

[PURITAN MARRIAGE GUIDE]

A BRIDE-BUSH: OR, A DIRECTION FOR MARRIED PERSONS

… by William Whately, Minister and Preacher of Gods Word in Banburie in Oxfordshiere. London: Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1619. 4to (18.1 x 13cm), 20th-century roan-backed marbled boards, bound without the initial blank, B1 torn along lower margin with loss to some words, damp-staining [ESTC S119722; STC 25297]

Note: Second and best edition of this popular 17th-century treatise on marriage, greatly expanded from the unauthorised first edition. ‘Whately repudiated the first edition of A Bride-Bush of 1617 because it was published from notes without his permission. The second edition, which was printed in 1619, was much expanded and may be regarded as the definitive version of this work. It contradicted the first edition by arguing that it was lawful for a man to beat his wife if she had repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed him, an opinion which was at variance with the majority of English clerical authorities at the time. Whately also argued in both editions that divorce and remarriage were allowable for the innocent party on the grounds of adultery or desertion. This accorded with continental reformed practice, but was not accepted in England, and Whately was forced to recant his views on divorce by the high commission in 1621’ (ODNB).

£300-500

158

HEYWOOD, THOMAS GYNAIKEION

[graece]: or, Nine Bookes of Various History concerninge Women; inscribed by ye names of ye Nine Muses. London: Adam Islip, 1624. First edition, folio (29 x 18.4cm), contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, engraved pictorial title-page, engraved bookplate of Bernard, Lord Coleridge, covers sprung, endpaper renewed, lacking text-leaf S2 and initial and final blanks, title-page re-margined, restoration to lower fore corners of quires A-C and final few leaves (including to title-page, with one portrait restored in manuscript facsimile)

£200-300

159

MINERVA PRESS - [MEEKE, ELIZABETH] ANECDOTES OF THE ALTAMONT FAMILY

A Novel. In Four Volumes. By the Author of the Sicilian. London: printed at the Minerva Press, for William Lane, 1800. First edition, 4 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), [4] 250 [2], [4] 266 [2], [4] 306 [2], [2] 365 [2] pp., contemporary half calf, smooth spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, marbled sides, blue sprinkled edges, half-titles to volumes 1-3, final advertisement leaf to each volume, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages, volume 1 with old staining to pp. 137-8, volume 2 D4 with lower fore corner excised not affecting text, volume 3 with closed tear in H3, staining to fore margin of last gathering, a few trivial marks elsewhere [ESTC T89386] (4)

Note: Extremely rare work by one of the most enigmatic novelists of the Romantic period, whose identity eluded scholarship for two centuries until the 2010s, when she was proven conclusively to be Elizabeth Meeke (1761-1826), the scandalous stepsister of Fanny Burney, authorities including the original Dictionary of National Biography, Montague Summers in his Gothic Bibliography, and the ESTC all having conflated her with Mary Meeke, the wife of a Staffordshire vicar, on the basis of her usual nom-de-plume of ‘Mrs Meeke’.&nbsp; Elizabeth Meeke published a total of 30 novels and translations in almost as many years, all with the Minerva Press. ‘Over three decades, she fashioned works that met the protean tastes of her reading public, incorporating sentimental melodrama, gothic suspense, and fashionable high life in equal proportions … Meeke’s productivity and responsiveness notwithstanding, her erasure from literary posterity tells a far from straightforward story about women’s writing’ (Mandal). The enduring uncertainty surrounding her identity is an obvious reason for the critical neglect of such a productive and successful figure whose social connections placed her at the heart of late Georgian literary society.

See further: Anthony Mandal, ‘Mrs. Meeke and Minerva: The Mystery of the Marketplace’, Eighteenth-Century Life 42 (2), 2018, pp. 131-151.

£800-1,200

160

ROGERS, A.

THE HISTORY OF MISS TEMPLE

In Two Volumes. By a Young Lady. London: printed for the author; and sold by Wallis; Flexney; Davenhill; and Fielding and Walker, 1777. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo (17.3 x 9.3cm), [6] 228, [2] 259 pp., contemporary half calf, smooth spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, marbled sides, blue sprinkled edges, volume 1 pp. 223-8 with repaired closed tear to upper margin, volume 2 C12 with loss to lower fore corner, neither affecting text, volume 1 possibly with the title-page supplied from volume 2 and the relevant numeral abraded, lacking the half-title, volume 2 with half-title and no title-page, contemporary ownership inscriptions [ESTC N7821] (2)

Note: Very rare epistolary novel by an author who signs the dedication as A. Rogers of Dronfield, Derbyshire. This is almost certainly the Ann or Anna Rogers (1753-1844) who married the physician, botanist and Lunar Society member Jonathan Stokes at Dronfield in 1784, and is known to have maintained a long friendship with the poet Anna Seward. £300-500

161

WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA POEMS

London: by A. Rivington and J. Marshall, for Thomas Cadell, 1786. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 12mo (17 x 10cm), contemporary tree calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label to second, decorative gilt frames to covers, engraved frontispiece after Maria Cosway, [15] 4-116, [7] 4-202 pp., small section excised from head of titlepage and first leaf of each volume, spotting to volume 1 title-page and early leaves [ESTC T70027; Rothschild 2581-2; Sabin 104230]

Note: Rare first edition of a work by a female poet of the 18th and early 19th centuries noted for her support of radical causes including the abolition of the slave trade. ‘The success of Williams’s Poems (1786) secured her position as a prominent poet of sensibility and inspired several tributes, including the young William Wordsworth’s first published work, ’Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress’ (1787)’ (ODNB).

£500-800

162

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA

GOBLIN MARKET & OTHER POEMS

London: Macmillan and Co., 1862. First edition, 8vo (16.8 x 10.1cm), vii 192 pp., lithographic frontispiece and additional vignette title-page by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, finely bound by Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) in red crushed morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with repeated design of central flower device and radiating leaf-sprays on pointillé ground, front cover decorated with the same tools in gilt on variform onlaid black morocco panels outlined with interlacing fillets in gilt and blind and arranged to form a rectangular outer frame enclosing column of three circular ornaments, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, shallow area of loss to head of spine, light spotting to prelims Provenance: From the library of Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000), historian and author of A History of the Crusades (1951-4), though not marked as such.

£600-800

163

AUSTEN, JANE

THE NOVELS

(In Ten Volumes). Edited by R. Brimley Johnson, with Coloured Illustrations by C. L. and H. M. Brock. London: J. M Dent & Co, 1901-2. Third edition thus (except Pride and Prejudice volume 2, fourth edition), 10 volumes, 8vo, original light green pictorial cloth decorated in light blue and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 61 colour plates including frontispieces (6 to each volume, except Sense and Sensibility volume 2, with 7), contemporary bookplates and ownership inscriptions, a few spines gently rolled, Mansfield Park volume 2 frontispiece and Pride and Prejudice plate facing p. 165 partly loose, Emma front inner hinge split with webbing visible, Pride and Prejudice volume 1 and Persuasion each with pink staining to front boards (10)

£300-500

164

AUSTEN, JANE

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

With a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: George Allen, 1894. First edition illustrated by Hugh Thomson, first impression, 8vo, xxv 476 [2] pp., original blue cloth gilt with titles and elaborate peacock design to spine and front cover, all edges gilt, half-title, frontispiece with tissue-guard, vignette illustrations throughout the text, spine very slightly rolled, half-title spotted, ownership inscription to title-page, a few small spots to preface

£800-1,200

165

BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, EMILY & ANNE

THE WORKS

London: J. M. Dent and Company, 1893. 12 volumes, 8vo (16.1 x 10cm), contemporary green half calf, gilt fleurons and twin morocco labels to spines, marbled sides and endpapers, edges dyed green, 37 photogravure or etched plates including frontispieces (all with tissue-guards), series-title and volume-title to each volume (12)

£200-300

BINDINGS

LARGE COLLECTION OF LIBRARY SETS, MAINLY 19TH CENTURY all 8vo (various dimensions), including: Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour the Hebrides … New Edition. London: John Murray, 1839. 10 volumes, c.1900 crushed half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines richly gilt in compartments, engraved frontispieces, vignette title-pages and plates, bookplates; Craik, George Lillie. The Romance of the Peerage, or Curiosities of Family History. London: Chapman and Hall, 184850. 4 volumes, c.1900 crushed blue half morocco by Root & Son, engraved frontispieces; Landor, Walter Savage. Imaginary Conversations. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1891. 6 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco for John Bumpus, engraved bookplates of Annie Cowdray; Fielding, Henry. The Works. Edited by George Saintsbury. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1893-1902. 12 volumes, later green half calf gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispieces; Disraeli, Benjamin. [The novels]. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., c.1875. 10 volumes, contemporary red half calf, spines gilt in compartments; Martin, Benjamin Ellis & Charlotte M. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899. 2 volumes, contemporary red half morocco gilt, top edges gilt; Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical [-Prose] Works … Edited … by Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888. 2 works in 5 volumes, contemporary blue half calf by Tout; Homer. The Iliad [and:] Odyssey. Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, c.1900. 2 works in 4 volumes, contemporary tan half calf, gilt spines; Henderson, G. F. R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 2 volumes, contemporary red half calf; Smith, Justin H. The Troubadours at Home. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1899. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; Cook, Theodore Andrea. Old Provenance. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, spines tanned; Shorthouse, J. Henry. John Inglesant. A Romance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed purple half morocco, top edges gilt; Fisher, Sydney George. Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. 2 volumes, contemporary citron half morocco, spines and top edges gilt; Symonds, John Addington. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed reddish-brown half morocco for Hatchards; and 16 others, including Dickens (2 sets), Boswell’s Life of Johnson (2 sets), Shakespeare, Mommsen, etc. (208) £800-1,200

167

ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE COLLECTION OF WORKS

[Sombre-style binding]. De CL Psalmen des Propheten Davids. Gorinchem: Helmich and Johannes van Cappel, 1671. Small 8vo (11.7 x 6cm), unpaginated, signatures A-Q8 P4, contemporary English ‘Sombre binding’ of black morocco, flower and seed-head devices in blind to spine-compartments, decorative blind panels to covers incorporating acorn cornerpieces, five-pointed star devices and various rolls, edges dyed black, marbled endpapers, bound with a Catechismus at rear (12 leaves, in a separate register, starting at 4K), early engraved armorial bookplate of George Carre, advocate to front pastedown; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Missa pro defunctis Requiem. Klavierauszug von C. G. G. Schwenke. Leipzig: Breitkopft und Härtel, [undated]. Oblong 4to, contemporary straight-grain purple half morocco, engraved frontispiece and titlepage, 60 pp. engraved music, additional imprint of Charles Lissner, St Petersburg on slip pasted to title-page, morocco label of Edward I. Cooper to front board and his bookplate to verso of title-page; Church of England. A Collection of Discourses lately written by some Divines of the Church of England against the Errours and Corruptions of the Church of Rome. Edinburgh: re-printed by John Reid, for Thomas Brown, 1687. 8vo, contemporary panelled sheep, imprimatur leaf (with ink annotation), Cortachy Castle library label to front pastedown; Ibid. The True Church of England Man’s Companion in the Closet: or, a Complete Manual of Private Devotions: collected from the Writings of Archbishop Laud … and Other Eminent Divines. London: for Charles Rivington, 1721. 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, Cortachy Castle library label to front pastedown, 2 ownership inscriptions including the Earl of Airlie to title-page; and 5 others including a volume of 2 pamphlets relating to the Act of Union (164 and 28 pp.), without title-pages (possibly as issued, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate and ownership inscription of Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick) (9)

£200-300

168

BINDINGS

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

all 8vo unless otherwise stated, including: Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1899. Contemporary prize-binding of tan calf gilt, arms of Cheltenham College gilt to front board, Bagehot, Walter. Lombard Street. A Description of the Money Market. New and Cheaper Edition with Notes by E. Johnstone. London: Kegan Paul [etc.], 1896. Contemporary prize-binding of reddish-brown calf gilt, arms of Bedford Modern School gilt to front board; Morris, William O’Connor. Napoleon. Warrior and Ruler. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894. Contemporary prizebinding of tree calf gilt, arms of Bedford Modern School gilt, to front board, folding maps; Bloomfield, Robert. The Farmer’s Boy. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1858. Contemporary red morocco panelled in gilt; Hope, Laurence. India’s Love Lyrics. New York: John Lane Company, 1920. Contemporary half morocco; Bullen, Frank T. The Log of a Sea-Waif. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903. Contemporary prize-binding of blue calf gilt, arms of Cheltenham College gilt to front board; Radcliffe, F. P. Delmé. The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. Large 8vo, later green crushed half morocco, hunting motifs gilt to spine compartments; and 36 others similar (43)

£400-600

169

JOHNSON, SAMUEL (EDITOR)

THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS

With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical. London: for C. Bathurst [and others], 1779-81. First edition, 68 volumes, 8vo (14.8 x 8.8cm), contemporary red morocco, spines decoratively gilt in compartments divided by a Greek-key roll, helical frames gilt to covers, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, 29 engraved portraits (of 30: possibly lacking the portrait of Samuel Johnson as often), sold as a library set (the text not collated) (68)

£300-500

170

[ENGLISH CIVIL WAR - PURITANS]

THE MORNING EXERCISE METHODIZED

Or Certain Chief Heads and Points of the Christian Religion opened and improved in Divers Sermons, by Several Ministers of the City of London, in the Monthly Course of the Morning Exercise at Giles in the Fields, May 1659. London: E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1660. 4to, recent calf (by the Chelsea Bindery, though unmarked as such), small tear to the corner of 3N3 affecting side-note and part of text, spotting and browning

Note: First edition of this collection of presbyterian sermons edited by puritan clergyman Thomas Case, published in what was for his cause the inauspicious year of the Restoration.

£300-400

171

HUME, DAVID

THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME

Written by Himself. London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777. First edition (with p. 29 line 3 with the correct reading ‘myself’), 8vo (16.2 x 9.8cm), [4] iv 62 pp., early-19th century marbled calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label to front board, advertisement leaf, engraved portrait by T. Cook, half-title, bound with at rear A Letter to Adam Smith, LL.D. on the Life, Death and Philosophy of his Friend David Hume, Esq. By the Right Rev. George Horne (London, 1819, 16 pp.), bookplate to front free endpaper, advertisement leaf toned, frontispiece faintly offset onto half-title, faded ink annotations to verso of half-title and to title-page [ESTC T5349; Rothschild 1179]

£500-800

172

SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING

THE HOLY BIBLE

Containing the Old and New Testaments … Appointed to be Read in Churches. London: Alexander Kincaid, 1772. 8vo (20.4 x 12.8cm), contemporary brown morocco elaborately blind-tooled to a ‘herringbone’ design, lacking endpapers, title-page creased, toning and occasional soiling to contents;

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of The Church of England [Bound with:] Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1760. 8vo, collates A-B8 C4 B-U8 (-U8) X-2A8 2B2 2M2 X-2L8 2M2 2N-2P8 2Q4, contemporary black morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, front joint cracked; Geikie, Walter. Etchings, Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery. [Bound with:] Etchings. Studies from Nature. Edinburgh: John Stewart [… Hugh Paton], [1841] & 1830. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to, later blue crushed half morocco, the first work containing 81 etched plates (including 2 proofs with subjects’ faces left blank), second work with 18 etched plates on india paper, mounted (and dated 1830); and 4 others, finely bound (8)

Provenance: From the collection of the late John Morris (1934-2006), assistant keeper of rare books at the National Library of Scotland.

£200-300

173

ANTIPHONARY ANTIPHONARIUM JUXTA BREVIARUM ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum, et Clementis VIII auctorirate recognitum, ecclesiis ruralibus praipue accommodatum. Ingolstadt: ex typographia Ederiana, apud Elisabetham Angermariam, viduam, 1618. Folio (33.6 x 22cm), contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over reverse-beveled wooden boards, engraved brass clasps and catches, edges dyed blue, [4] 558 [1] pp., title-page printed in red and black with allegorical woodcut border and vignette, printed music throughout (on four-line staves), contemporary ownership inscription of one Joseph Anton [?]Schwaiger to front free endpaper, 19th-century gift inscription to front pastedown; [Missal; Use of Chartres]. Missale carnotense… Joannis-Bapitstae-Josephi de Lubersac, episcopi carnotensis… consensu editum. Chartres: Michel Deshayes, 1782. Folio (33 x 22.5cm), later straight-grain red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, alternating red and green silk thumb-tags pasted to fore margins, half-title, title-page printed in red and black (2) £300-400

174

PROCOPIUS OF GAZA

EPITOME TON EIS TON PROPHETEI ESAIAN KATABEBLEMENON DIAPHORON EXEGESEON [graece] … Variarum in Esaiam Prophetam commentationum epitome: cum praeposito Eusebii Pamphili fragmento, de vitis prophetarum Joanne Curterio interprete. Paris: Apud Michaelem Sonnium, 1580. Folio (32.7 x 20cm), 19thcentury half calf, marbled boards, [40], 764, [38] pp. (wanting final, blank leaf), large woodcut device to title-page, Greek and Latin text in parallel column, joints cracking, corner tips worn [Adams P2155]

Note: Bilingual folio edition of Procopius of Gaza’s commentary on the Book of Isaiah.

£300-500

175

BIBLE; ENGLISH; GENEVA VERSION THE BIBLE

Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. London: Robert Barker, 1609. 4to in eights (21.8 x 14.6cm), [4] 190 127 [181]; 121 [12] ff., signatures [par.]2 A-Z8 &6 2A-2Q7[2&8], 3A-3Q8, 3R4, 18th-century diced calf gilt, lacking the Apocrypha (2Q8-2&8), retaining separate New Testament title-page, with woodcut figural borders, with caption title ‘The second part of the Bible conteineth these bookes,’ text in double columns, front board detached and most of spine missing, with some staining and spotting throughout, dark staining on leaves [3A8]-[3B8] [ESTC S121167; Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 298]

£400-600

176

BIBLE; ENGLISH; GENEVA VERSION

THE BIBLE

Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages. London: Robert Barker, 1605. 4to (21 x 15.4cm), contemporary calf, covers with concentric blind frames enclosing gilt arabesque centrepieces, metal clasps on boards but lacking leather straps, corner tips worn, joints cracked repaired with linen, spine head and tail missing, retaining the general and New Testament title-pages, each comprising letterpress title within cordiform panel surrounded by woodcut portraits of the Apostles and symbols of Old Testament prophets, text in black letter, double column, some light staining throughout, leaf 186 missing bottom right hand corner (repaired with slight loss of text) [ESTC S102028, Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 280].

[Bound with:] 1) Early 17th-century Book of Common Prayer, possibly the 1601 edition printed by Robert Barker lacking at least the title leaf, but with the almanac printed in red and black, some leaves creased and defective [ESTC S93826] 2) The Revelation of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, with a Briefe and Learned Commentarie, Written by Franc. Iunius, [London : By Richard Field for Robert Dexter, 1600], caption-title [ESTC S102720, Darlow & Moule (Rev. 1968), 261]; 3) H[errey], R[obert] F., Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, or Large and Ample Tables Alphabeticall, London: Robert Barker, 1605, [ESTC S102147]; 4) The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, London: imprinted [by J. Windet] for the Company of Stationers, 1605, final leaf creased and slightly defective [ESTC S124745]

Provenance: Various ownership inscriptions from the 18th century (George Finch, Thos. Taylor) and possibly the 17th century (Willm. Parsons)

£600-800

177

EDWARD IV (1442-1483), KING OF ENGLAND & LORD OF IRELAND LETTER SIGNED TO FRANÇOIS II, DUKE OF BRITTANY

Windsor Castle (‘chastre de Windesore’), 15th March [1476].

In French, confirming the truce and commercial treaty agreed between England and Brittany by acknowledgement of the receipt of the relevant letters of ratification (‘les lettres ratificatoires de la treuve et entrecours de marchandie … permise entre nous noz pays et subjetz’) brought by Oliver King (q.v.), ‘one of our secretaries’ (‘lun de nos secretaires’), and by the return Edward’s own letters of confirmation via the carrier, 24 x 33.5cm, the body of the letter comprising 10 lines, written in an elegant secretary hand probably by Oliver King, signed by Edward IV using the French form of his full name (‘Edouard R’) at foot, addressed on verso in the same hand to the ‘Tres hault et puissant prince … le Duc de Bretaigne’, crowned fleur-de-lys watermark including monogram ‘JH’, old folds, dispatch slits, remains of red wax seal, a few minute holes, small area of paper restoration to foot. Housed in a fine gilt red morocco solander box and red cloth chemise

Note: Edward IV concludes an important treaty with the Duke of Brittany, consolidating his ascendancy over his continental rivals while furthering his covert agenda against his Lancastrian enemy Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, who would elude Edward’s grasp and, less than a decade later, bring about the final defeat of Edward’s house of York and the end of the Wars of the Roses.

In the summer of 1475 Edward crossed to France to fight Louis XI and dispatched his French-language secretary Oliver King (d.1503), the future bishop of Bath and Wells and probable scribe of the present letter, to open diplomatic negotiations with François II of Brittany. By August Edward and Louis agreed the treaty of Picquigny, by which Edward extracted from the French king a major financial settlement on which he swiftly capitalised by means of the thirty-year truce and treaty of amity and commerce agreed with François a few months later.&nbsp; In treating with François, Edward was in fact pursuing the twin objectives of commercial opportunity and dynastic security. In 1471, following Edward’s recapture of the English crown after the temporary restoration of the Lancastrian Henry VI, the young Henry Tudor had fled to Brittany and been granted asylum. Writing in the early Tudor period, Polydore Vergil described how, following the triumph of Picquigny, Edward ‘determynd … to slycyte Francisse duke of Bryteyne, with gyfte, promise, and prayer, to betray that young erle into his handes’ (English History, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, 1844, p. 164). Under&nbsp;Edward’s&nbsp;diplomatic pressure, the grant of asylum ‘turned into house arrest in a succession of castles and palaces … Late in 1476&nbsp;François&nbsp;agreed to surrender&nbsp;Henry&nbsp;to&nbsp;Edward’s&nbsp;envoys, but at St Malo&nbsp;Henry’s&nbsp;embarkation was delayed by illness until&nbsp;François&nbsp;countermanded his orders; in the ensuing confusion&nbsp;Henry&nbsp;took sanctuary and&nbsp;Edward’s&nbsp;men returned empty-handed’ (ODNB).&nbsp;

Edward IV was the last Yorkist monarch to hold the throne with any kind of security, and his early death in 1483 led quickly to the final battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Henry Tudor’s victory over Richard III, Edward’s brother, at Bosworth in 1485, and his neutralisation of the Yorkist claim via his ensuing marriage to Elizabeth of York, Edward’s daughter, marked the triumph of the house of Lancaster, but was also a form of posthumous justice for Edward and his two sons, Edward V and Prince Richard, the tragic ‘Princes in the Tower’.

Documents signed by Edward IV are very rare, and when encountered usually bear only his initials: when writing to a fellow potentate, it was presumably deemed appropriate for the king to sign his name in full.

£10,000-15,000

LADY JANE GREY (1537-1554; REIGNED 10TH-19TH JULY 1553)

DOCUMENT SIGNED BY HER PRIVY COUNCIL INCLUDING THOMAS CRANMER AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Tower of London, 17th July 1553.

Single bifolium (31 x 21cm, hand-and-flower watermark), the body of the letter written on one side, comprising 18 lines in a secretary hand, above the autograph signatures of 12 privy councillors:

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury (‘T. Cant’); Thomas Goodrich, bishop of Ely and lord chancellor (‘T. Ely Canc’); William Paulet, marquess of Winchester, lord treasurer (‘Winchester’); John Russell, earl of Bedford, lord privy seal (‘J Bedford’); Francis Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (‘ff Shrewesbury’), president of the council of the north; Thomas Darcy, Baron Darcy of Chiche, lord chamberlain of the household (‘T. Darcy’); George Brook, Baron Cobham, privy councillor (‘G Cobham’); Sir Thomas Cheyne, privy councillor (‘T Cheyne’); Sir Richard Cotton, privy councillor (‘Richard Cotton’); John Cheke, principal secretary (‘J. Cheek’); Sir John Mason, privy councillor (‘Jo. Masone’); and Sir Robert Bowes, privy councillor (‘Robert Bowes’).

Conjugate leaf with address panel inscribed in a secretary hand ‘To our loving friend Armigill Waad Esquier one of the Clerkes of the privy counsayle’. Tipped to mount along left edge, small closed tear neatly repaired

Note: An extremely rare survival from the nine-day reign of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most dramatic episodes in English history, capturing the fleeting regime’s efforts to assert its authority two days before its collapse with the privy council’s volte face and declaration for Mary Tudor as queen.

Signed by twelve Tudor magnates, altogether of an unmistakably protestant stripe but only reluctant participants in the Duke of Northumberland’s plot to install his daughter-in-law as successor to Edward VI, the letter is a warrant addressed to Armagil Waad (Wade), clerk of the privy council, authorising him to disburse payments to various couriers for delivering ‘hir maiesties letters’, presumably the official announcement of Jane’s accession and accompanying demand for loyalty, to several named regional power-brokers whose support of Mary must have been known to the councillors.

Edward VI died on 6th July, and the privy council proclaimed Jane queen on 10th July. From her base in Suffolk, Mary Tudor began to rally the local conservative gentry, and by the 17th, the date of this letter, Northumberland had ridden to suppress the revolt. The councillors were confined to the Tower of London for the duration of Jane’s reign, but discipline soon began to break down. On the 16th Winchester tried to leave the Tower, but was forced back, and on the 19th a group of councillors, led by Shrewsbury and Bedford, proclaimed Mary queen to general rejoicing. Mary entered London in early August and Jane was executed the following year.

One messenger (John Amo) is sent ‘with her hyghnesses letters to Sr John Williams knight and Mr Leonard Chamberlain’, respectively the former and incumbent sheriffs of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, both at that moment engaged in raising a substantial number of troops in support of Mary’s claim. A second messenger is sent to his master (John) Chichester, a leading member of the Devonshire gentry and a firm supporter of Mary, and a third to Sir Edward Montague, chief justice of common pleas (‘Sir Edward Mounntaegue L. chief Judge’), who had been forced by Northumberland to draft the clauses directing the succession of Lady Jane Grey into Edward VI’s will.

Most of the privy council signatories would survive the Marian accession, though often with loss of office and a financial penalty. The exception was Thomas Cranmer, for whom the debacle was the prelude to his downfall and martyrdom. Winchester, by contrast, continued as lord treasurer throughout Mary’s reign and into Elizabeth’s. Many of the council were already old men with a lifetime of achievement and – survival – behind them, and were to die of natural causes within a few years. Goodrich was removed as lord chancellor but retained his bishopric until his death in 1554. Bedford was sent to Spain to secure Mary’s marriage to Philip II, dying in 1555, the same year as Sir Robert Bowes, who, having previously been pardoned by Henry VIII for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace in the 1530s, was now permitted by Mary to travel north to shore up the Anglo-Scottish border. John Cheke, who died in 1557, was one of the foremost classical scholars of the 16th century and the first regius professor of Greek at Cambridge. Armagil Waad, the recipient of the warrant, was an early participant in the British exploration of North America, having been a member of Captain Hore’s famous voyage to Newfoundland in the 1530s.

The handful of extant government documents from the two-week interregnum between the death of Edward VI and the accession of Mary I appear to have largely gravitated towards major institutional collections. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds one privy council document dated 9th July and signed by eight councillors, not including Cranmer; another is in British Library Add MS 18738, dated 15th July and apparently with nine signatories; and a third, from 18th July, has been traced to Maggs Bros catalogue 871 from the year 1960, its current whereabouts unknown.

£10,000-15,000

179

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824)

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT

single sheet (6.5 x 18.1cm, folded in half), containing a few lines of the end of narrative poem ‘Oscar of Alva,’ part of Byron’s second collection of poems, Hours of Idleness (Newark, 1807), containing slight differences in the text of the fragment and the published version of the poem, the sheet is enclosed in a folded sheet of paper pasted in to the album on which has been written: ‘Lord Byron’s writing, a portion of the original poem of Oscar of Alva, E.B. Pigot, Southwell, Sept. 22d, 1846;’ Elizabeth Bridget Pigot (1783-1866) was a neighbour, friend and correspondent of Byron, the poet having lived in Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, between 1804-07; Pigot made fair copies of all the poems Byron had printed when he was at Southwell, with the fair copies being sent to the Newark bookseller John Ridge for publication. In an autograph album, 19th century, 16mo, green embossed cloth, gilt edges, including fragments of the writing of John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, an Arabic translation of the New Testament speech of Jesus on the cross ‘Forgive them father,’ and approx. 30 additional signatures

Note: The publication of Byron’s Hours of Idleness (1807) was subject to the scathing attack in The Edinburgh Review in 1808 which in turn provoked Byron to write English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

£1,000-1,500

180

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972), KING OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND & EMPEROR OF INDIA, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF WINDSOR

A FAMILY ALBUM

London: Cassell, 1960. First edition in book form, presentation copy, inscribed by Edward ‘To Peter Ford, with best wishes from Edward, Duke of Windsor, October 1960’ on the half-title in blue ink, 8vo, original blue cloth, photographic plates, dust jacket, together with a laid-in typed covering letter from royal secretary Michael I. McAlister on Buckingham Palace stationery, addressed to Peter Ford at the editorial department of Cassell and Co., November, 1960 (in original envelope)

Provenance: From the library of Peter Ford (d.2025), author and literary editor.

£300-500

181

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972), KING OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND & EMPEROR OF INDIA, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF WINDSOR

RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED AS KING (‘EDWARD R. I.’), 19TH MAY 1936

lithographic military commission on card (30.5 x 40.6cm), appointing Clement George Wardrop second lieutenant in the army, with Edward’s autograph signature in black ink to upper left corner, countersigned by Harry Knox as adjutant-general and Herbert Creedy as permanent under-secretary of state for war, old folds;

Together with 3 other military commissions, George V (1917), George VI (1947), and Elizabeth II and Prince Philip (1926-2022 and 1922-2021), with signatures apparently printed, and an autograph Christmas card from Alice, Duchess of Gloucester to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 1953 (family portrait photograph to front, old tape repairs) (5)

£500-800

182

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S. (1874-1965)

PAINTINGS BY THE RT. HON. SIR WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 1959. Signed ‘Winston S. Churchill’ in black ink on the title-page, 4to, card covers with some fading and slight marking

£1,000-1,500

183

RUSKIN, JOHN (1819-1900)

TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO ADA HARTNELL

both undated, 1 page, 11 x 18cm, one on Brantwood stationery, each in a separate envelope addressed by hand by Ruskin (‘I want to come and see you one day this week. Any afternoon will do … London gobbled me up like Jonah’s whale … JRuskin’; ‘could you write for me, in that beautiful and fine hand of yours, the … facts respecting the circumstances, education, and purest character of any child or children who have particularly interested you … and could you - without pain, set down the level facts of your own life, and of its training?… JR’);

Together with two additional addressed envelopes (4)

Note: Ada Hartnell was one of the 32 original members of the Guild of St George, the utopian social organisation Ruskin established in 1878 on the model of the guilds of medieval Venice. She is mentioned by Ruskin in Fors Clavigera as one of a select group of guild companions ‘in whose future adherence and support I have entire trust’. An additional collection of letters from Ruskin to Hartnell was sold by Lyon & Turnbull, 28th September 2022 (lot 54).

£200-300

184

UNIVERSITY OF PADUA DOCTORAL CERTIFICATE

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PARCHMENT, 1695

4to (23.5 x 17cm), 4 leaves (final leaf is blank), written on parchment in black and gold ink in humanistic bookhand in single column, with borders in blue, red and gold with floral motifs, coat of arms on verso of front leaf, in contemporary (Italian?) full leather binding with paper endpapers, elaborate gilt tooling to upper and lower boards with central wheel and quarter-circle cornerpieces within a panel, doctoral diploma of law conferred by the University of Padua (in 1695) upon ‘Josephum Maria Cannetu[m] Schlede[n]sem Vicentinu[m], D[omini]. Francisci filiu[m]’ [Giuseppe Maria Canneti from Schio (?) and Vicenza, the son of Franciscus?], Vincenzo Bonifacio, titular bishop of Famagusta in Cyprus, is named as one of the people conferring the degree, covers sprung, with leaves cockled and soiled at edges and detached from binding, gilt on front board faded

Provenance: From the library of Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000), historian and author of ‘A History of the Crusades’ (19514), though not marked as such.

£300-500

185

HERALDRY

ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT LEDGER OF BRITISH ARMORIAL DESIGNS, C.1790-1880S

Folio (32 x 19.5cm), contemporary reversed calf, red leather label of J. & C. Thrupp (32 George Street and Oxford Street) to front board, metal corner pieces and clasps, approx. 300 ff., containing some 2,500 pen-and-ink designs of crests and full coats of arms, many designs full-page (usually for peers, e.g. Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Macclesfield), with detailed annotations throughout denoting tincture, and often the purpose of different designs (e.g. type of coach: landau, dress coach, barouche, etc.), date (from the 1850s), and the name of the bearer (either a full name or a family name only), including British armigers of all ranks (peers, baronets, knights, esquires, soldiers, churchmen, ladies), mainly British but also including the Nawab of Surat (dated 1267 AH, i.e. 1851-2 CE, with his name in Hindustani), Italians (Montefiore, Foggo), etc., erratic foliation, [24] ff. tab-index to front, variable marginal dampstaining and toning

Note: J. & C. Thrupp, originally known as Charles Thrupp and Co., and from the 1860s as Trupp and Maberley, were a firm of London coachbuilders founded in the mid-18th century and by the late 19th century holding the royal warrant as coachbuilders to Queen Victoria. If this ledger is an accurate reflection of their customer base they would appear to have dominated the supply of liveried coaches to the British aristocracy and well-to-do classes.

£500-800

186

HAYWORTH, RITA (1918-1987)

DOCUMENT SIGNED

contract with William Morris Agency, Inc., 16th July 1954, typescript, 6 pp. (27.5 x 21cm), the final leaf containing Hayworth’s signature in blue ink set into triple-aperture mount together with a portrait photograph of Hayworth (27.5 x 21cm) and brass plaque reading ‘Original Signed Document, Rita Hayworth, 1918-1987’ to foot, framed and glazed, the remaining 2 leaves of the contract stapled to a photocopy of the signed leaf and laid into zip-lock clear plastic wallet mounted to backboard, Walt Disney World Co. guarantee of authenticity labels to glass and backboard

£300-500

187 KRAY TWINS - RONNIE (1933-95) & REGGIE KRAY (1933-2000)

ARCHIVE OF LETTERS TO FRED DINENAGE

with related documents and ephemera, dating from the 1980s, acquired as research material for the twins’ autobiography ‘Our Story’, ghostwritten by broadcaster Fred Dinenage and published in 1988.

Collection of over 100 items stored in ring-binder in A4-size plastic sleeves, each sleeve individually numbered, with a list of the contents, including:

50 letters written by Reggie Kray from Parkhurst and Gartree prisons in 1986-7, mainly to Dinenage, and 10 letters by Ronnie Kray from Broadmoor prison to Dinenage during the same period; with various other hand-written anecdotes and recollections by Reggie Kray; photocopies (including one of a fax to the Krays from American heavyweight boxer Joe Louis); typescript documents; a copy of the first edition of Reggie Kray’s book ‘Slang’ [1984], co-written with Stephen Tully, with manuscript inscription by Ronnie Kray; various other Kray-related letters collected by Dinenage including a copy of a typewritten letter by him from 1988 to American actor Charlton Heston requesting a foreword to ‘Our Story’ (Heston had attended the Krays’ trial in London in 1969, but did not supply a foreword); miscellaneous envelopes and a press clipping; a copy of ‘Harley House Journal’ for August 1994.

Provenance: From the collection of the late Brian Jervis, manager of Harley House, a block of luxury serviced apartments in Marylebone, London, gifted to him by Bill Curbishley, music and film producer, band manager, and owner of Harley House (Curbishley’s production company having acquired the TV rights to Dinenage’s book)

Note: In the 1980s, Fred Dinenage, working for ITV’s TVS channel, was contacted by Reggie Kray, then in Parkhurst prison serving a life sentence for murder, regarding a TV programme Dinenage had presented on fundraising for a charity. Dinenage subsequently visited Kray and agreed to ghostwrite an autobiography of Reggie and his twin brother Ronnie, who was in Broadmoor prison, interviewing the brothers several times. ‘Our Story’ was followed by Ronnie Kray’s ‘My Story,’ published in 1993, also ghostwritten by Dinenage.

£2,000-3,000

188

PELÉ [EDSON ARANTES DO NASCIMENTO] (1940-2022)

INSCRIBED FOOTBALL

Umbro Europa Classic 32 football, size 5, inscribed ‘To Eric, good luck, Pelé’ in faded black ink (presumably a felt-tip or market pen), approx. diameter 20cm

Provenance: From the collection of the late Brian Jervis, manager of Harley House, a block of luxury serviced apartments in Marylebone, London. The recipient, Eric, is believed by family repute to have been Eric Clapton, who had an apartment there.

£400-600

189

BATES, HENRY WALTER (1825-1892)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 4TH FEBRUARY 1888

to Bernard Piffard (1833-1916), amateur entomologist, botanist, chemist and microscopic slide-maker, ‘... Your memory with us is kept alive by occasional news of you given to us by Dr or Mrs Knaggs … I still go on with the study of coleoptera & shall be very glad of the quill of Texan specimens’, single bifolium written on 2 sides, 17.6 x 11cm, retaining original envelope

Note: A rare autograph letter from the author of The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) to a fellow entomologist believed to have visited him in South America. The Dr Knaggs mentioned is Henry Guard Knaggs, another entomologist. Bates’ development of the theory of Batesian mimicry from his examination of butterfly specimens provided strong contemporary evidence for Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

£200-300

190

HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN (1792-1871)

DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1853

printed admission ticket to the Royal Mint, completed in manuscript, signed by Herschel (‘J. F. W. Herschel’) as Master of the Mint, 11.8 x 14.8cm, old folds

£200-300

191

EARLY 18TH-CENTURY SCIENCE NOTEBOOK

MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATION OF JEAN LE CLERC’S ‘PHYSICA’ & EXTRACTS OF OTHER SCIENTIFIC TEXTS

c.1709. 4to (19.5 x 15cm), contemporary calf panel binding, 412 pp., written in one (or more) neat italic hands, the first part (pp. 1-212) consists of an English translation of the Latin text of Jean Le Clerc’s ‘Physica, sive de rebus corporeis libri quinque,’ on physics and astronomy, first published in England in 1700, the rest of the volume consists of a translation of parts of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ ‘De proprietatibus rerum’ (dated July 1709), an abridgment of Nehemiah Grew’s “Anatomy of plants” and excerpts taken from ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,’ and works by contemporary scientists and authors such as Boyle, Huygens, Newton and Wilkins, front board and one leaf detached, binding scuffed

£300-400

192

[FRENCH NEWTONIANISM]

HISTOIRE DE L’ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES

Année M.DCC.XXXVI. Avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique, pour la même année. Paris: de l’Imprimerie royale, 1739. 4to, contemporary Cat’s Paw mottled calf, rebacked, [8],120,507 pp., 18 engraved plates (some folded), with original papers by Clairaut, Hellot, Maraldi, du Hamel, Cassini de Thury, du Fay, Petit, de Mairan, Grosse, Pitot, Cassini, du Hamel, le Monnier, Lémery, Maupertuis (sur la Figure de la Terre), de Fouchy, Morand, Reaumur, Geoffroy, Bouguer, with bookplate of St Mary’s College, Oscott (Catholic seminary in Birmingham)

Note: Contains the work of two leading French Newtonians: Alexis Clairaut (1713-65), French mathematician and astronomer, who helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in his ‘Principia’ of 1687; Pierre Louise Maupertuis (1698-1759), French mathematician, philosopher and director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science.

£200-300

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Wells, Edward. Elementa Arithmeticae Numerosae et Speciosae. London: J. & J. Knapton, 1726. Editio altera [second edition], 8vo, contemporary calf panel binding, armorial bookplate of Colonel Barrington Price of Becket House, Berkshire, joints cracking but firm [ESTC T120695];

Malcolm, Alexander. A New System of Arithmetick, Theorical [sic] and Practical. London: printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1730. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf, some staining, joints cracking, boards stained and worn [ESTC T100675];

Vial de Sainbel, Charles. An Essay on the Proportions of Eclipse. London: Printed for Martin and Bain, 1795. Second edition, 4to, modern half calf, part of the collected edition of ‘The works of Charles Vial de Sainbel, Professor of Veterinary Medicine,’ [ESTC T102166], with frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 folding plates, some light staining and spotting throughout, frontispiece becoming detached. Eclipse (1764-89) was an undefeated 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse considered to be the greatest racehorse of his day;

Euler, Leonhard. Elements of algebra. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1797. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern paper boards, wanting frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous diagrams, charts, edges untrimmed [ESTC T99892];

Steel, John Henry. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Ox: being a Manual of Bovine Pathology. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo, full calf gilt by Bickers & Son, London, 2 plates (1 colour), numerous illustrations, with gilt stamp on upper board and prize bookplate of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, binding worn and scratched;

Piesse, G.W. Septimus. The Art of Perfumery, and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. 2nd edition, 8vo, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt with vignette on upper board, 2 plates, numerous illustrations, binding worn, pencil annotations on endpapers, ink stamp of Theosophical College, Glasgow Lodge, library; and 21 others (29)

£200-300

194

BONNYCASTLE, JOHN

COLLECTION OF HIS WORKS ON MATHEMATICS & ASTRONOMY, 18TH & 19TH CENTURY

An Introduction to Mensuration and Practical Geometry. London: J. Johnson, 1782. First edition, 12mo, illustrations, contemporary sheep, binding worn and stained, some staining and scorch marks to edges of preliminary leaves [ESTC N7790];

An Introduction to Astronomy. London: J. Johnson, 1786. First edition, 8vo, 20 plates (some folding) and frontispiece, rebacked in half calf with marbled boards, retaining original red leather spine label [ESTC T113763];

A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. London: J. Johnson, 1806. First edition, 8vo, illustrations, half-title, modern full calf with gilt tooling on spine;

A Treatise on Algebra in Practice and Theory. London: J. Johnson & Co., 1813. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, rebacked in half calf, retaining original marbled boards, some staining and spotting in volume 1;

Autograph letter, dated 26th August, 1782, of Bonnycastle to his publisher Joseph Johnson. 1 sheet folded to make 2 leaves (25.4 x 19.8cm), with verso of second leaf for address, wanting top half of second leaf, discussing books lent by Johnson, forthcoming publications, and his friend the Swiss painter Henry Fuseli; And approx. 25 others, later 19th-century editions of Bonnycastle’s works, including an Ottoman Turkish treatise on geometry, titled Usul-i Hendese [‘Elements of Geometry’], 19th century, (4to, contemporary sheep, 272 pp., with folding tables), no date, place or author’s name given in text, but identified in a laid-in word-processed catalogue note as translation of John Bonnycastle by Hüseyin Rifki, ownership inscription of one Gérard Devèze, ‘orientaliste’, dated Paris, 1881 to p. 2 (approx. 30)

Note: John Bonnycastle (c. 1760-1821) was a mathematician, tutor and author of several best-selling textbooks on mathematics and astronomy.

£300-500

195

WALCOTT, JOHN

SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH BIRDS

London: printed by W. Justins … for the author, 1789. 2 volumes, 4to (21.2 x 17.5cm), contemporary marbled calf, avian motifs gilt to spines, Greek-key frames gilt to covers, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, complete with 315 unnumbered leaves including 255 engraved plates (not coloured), and errata slip at end of volume 2, in this copy volume 1 has 123 plates and volume 2 has 132 plates, with 20th-century bookplates of Hugh Fattorini and M. H. Cockell, inscriptions on title pages of both volumes of David Haig F.R.C.S.E., and inscription on title page of volume 1 ‘Westdean[?] Lib 1813,’ corner tips of both volumes repaired with loss of original gilt decoration [ESTC N24575; Nissen IVB 966; Mullens and Swann, pp. 606-607; Zimmer II pp. 660-661] (2)

Note: ‘Descriptions of the appearance and habits of 255 British birds, illustrated by copper-plate engravings of each. One leaf is devoted to each subject, printed on one side only, with text on the lower half of the page and the engraving above … The drawings, with a few exceptions ‘copied from Brisson, and others’, are original, 200 of them from specimens taken by the author, the remainder from specimens in the collections of Parkinson and Latham’ (Zimmer).

£600-800

196

PARKINSON, JOHN

PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS

Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed up. London: printed by Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. First edition, folio (32.8 x 20.6cm), woodcut title-page, woodcut portrait of Parkinson to [**6] verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 109 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations, 18th-century(?) full calf, spine in compartments, wanting 4 preliminary leaves following the title-page, including ‘The Epistle to the Reader,’ internally very clean, hinge to upper board cracking, 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle (1750-1810) [ESTC S115360; Henrey 282 and p. 161; Hunt I 215]

£500-800

197

MORRIS, BEVERLEY R.

BRITISH GAME BIRDS & WILDFOWL

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1855. First edition, 4to, original half red morocco gilt, vignette on upper board, 60 hand-coloured plates, boards rubbed and corner tips worn, spotting on title page and final leaves, recent endpapers, bookplate of M.H. Cockell;

Millais, J. G. The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. First edition, one of 600 copies, 4to, contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt for Hatchards, 41 colour plates (all original tissue guards present), including frontispiece (8 by Thorburn, 33 by Millais), 6 photogravure plates (all original tissue guards present), and 25 plates in monochrome, occasional spotting to preliminary leaves but otherwise very clean, bookplate of S.C. Lister, Swinton Park (Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857-1917);

Millais, J. G. The Natural History of British Game Birds. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. First edition, one of 550 copies, folio, original burgundy cloth gilt, 18 colour plates, including frontispiece, 17 photogravures, all by Archibald Thorburn and Millais, and 2 other illustrations, light dampstaining to some leaves and plates, spine faded and some staining to top of upper board, bookplates of J.E. Wightman and M.H. Cockell; Sitwell, Sacheverell [et al.]. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. London and New York: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, folio (48.7 x 32.2cm), limited edition of 2,000 copies, 16 colour plates (including frontispiece), one folding, 22 black and white illustrations, original half cloth with marbled boards, covers rubbed at head and foot, spine bumped; Thorburn, A. Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. First edition, folio, original red cloth gilt, 30 colour plates (all original tissue guards present), including frontispiece, spotting to endpapers and pastedowns, spine faded, occasional spotting elsewhere, bookplates of J.E. Wightman and M.H. Cockell;

And 10 others (these not collated), including: Morris. F.O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1866, 3 volumes, 4to; Morris, F.O. A History of British Birds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. 3rd edition, 6 volumes, 4to; Morris, F.O. A History of British Birds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1903. 5th edition, 6 volumes, 4to; Seebohm, Henry. A History of British Birds. London: R.H. Porter, 1883. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to; Millais, J.G. Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1892. First edition, folio; Thorburn, A. British Birds. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916. 2nd edition, 4 volumes, 4to; Millais, J.G. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to (38) £600-800

BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAS

THE FOURE CHIEFEST OFFICES BELONGING TO HORSEMANSHIP

that is to Saie [sic], the Office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keeper, and of the Ferrer. London: by Peter Short, 1597. 4to (19.1 x 14.1cm), in 4 parts with separate foliation, [6], 22, [7], 81, [3], 22, [9], 87, [1] leaves, the final three parts with individual title pages, with woodcut illustrations, wanting the general title page, the title page for the 2nd part ‘The Art of Riding’ misbound at front, later half parchment with marbled boards, corner tips repaired, some annotations in 16th-/17th-century hand, 18th-century armorial bookplate of Sir Samuel Hannay, some staining in parts, final leaf torn with slight loss of text at foot [ESTC S104598, STC (2nd ed.), 3156] £300-500

199

LATHAM, JOHN

A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF BIRDS

London: for Benj. White, 1781-7. 7 volumes (volumes 1-3, each comprising 2 parts, individually bound, and the first supplement, in 1 volume), 4to (24.5 x 19.5cm), contemporary russia, smooth spines gilt in compartments with peacock motifs and twin black morocco labels, marbled endpapers, 119 hand-coloured engraved plates, some minor spotting in volume 1, staining to the preliminary leaves in volume 3 and title leaf of the supplement, spines slightly worn, corner tips of some volumes bumped, 20th-century pictorial bookplate of M. H. Cockell and bookseller’s ticket (G. A. Poynder of Reading) in all volumes, volume 1 with the bookplate and ownership inscription (dated 1915) of J. H. Gurney (British ornithologist John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848-1922)), [ESTC T146461; Mullens and Swann pp. 339-341; Nissen IVB 532; Zimmer II pp. 371-372];

Together with a copy of the index in a non-uniform binding (John Latham, Index Ornithologicus, sive Systema Ornithologiae. London: Leigh and Sotheby, 1790. 2 volumes, 4to (24.3 x 19cm), 920 pp., modern quarter calf, marbled boards, repair to torn title leaf in volume 1, ink stamp on title pages and elsewhere in the volumes of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 20th-century pictorial bookplate of M. H. Cockell [ESTC T147698] (9)

Note: Regarded as the most comprehensive ornithological publication of its era, with notices of some 3000 species. More than 200 Australian birds are described, many for the first time, with 19 illustrated. New Zealand species are also represented with 11 plates. A second supplement was published in 1802.

£1,500-2,000

200

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 18TH-20TH CENTURY

[Pennant, Thomas.] British Zoology. London: printed for Benjamin White, 1768-70. [Second edition], 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary calf (spines rebacked) [ESTC T148771];

[Nature]. Nature: a Weekly Journal of Science. London: Macmillan and Co. 4 volumes, 4to, ex-library copies, cloth bindings: Vol. 129 (1932) containing James Chadwick’s letter to the editor, p. 312, on the possible existence of a neutron, the first mention of it in print (Chadwick received the Nobel Prize in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron); vol. 164 (1949) containing reports on EDSAC, an early British computer, pp. 341-43 and pp. 557-58; vol. 176 (1955) containing articles co-authored by Dr Francis Crick (one of the scientists who worked on the identification of DNA), pp. 780-81 and 915-16; vol. 177 (1956) containing an article by Crick and James Watson (of DNA fame) on the structure of small viruses, pp. 473-75, an important work for the understanding of viral structure; [Physics]. Sammelband of 18 offprints on physics, in English, German and French, from various scientific periodicals published between 1900-11, 8vo, from the library of British physicist Professor Lionel Robert Wilberforce (18611944), inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum, cloth (heavily sunned);

Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. [et al.]. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: London & Counties Press Association, 1912. No. 885 of a limited edition of 950 copies, folio, issued as vol. 1 of the series ‘The gun at home and abroad,’ 26 chromolithographs and 4 half tone plates, publisher’s maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, very clean copy;

Sitwell, Sacheverell [et al.]. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. London and New York: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, folio (48.7 x 32.2cm), limited edition of 2,000 copies, 16 colour plates, one folding, 22 black & white illustrations, original half green morocco; Sotheby & Co. The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Collected by the late Arpad Plesch. [London: Sotheby & Co., 1975]. 3 volumes, hardcover, auction catalogue with numerous plates (illustrations and facsimiles), with dust jackets; and 5 others (27)

£300-500

MEYER, H. L.

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS, & THEIR EGGS

London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857. New edition, probably a variant or later issue of the second edition of 1853-7, 7 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), contemporary green half morocco, spines in compartments with avian motifs in gilt, marbled boards, complete with 435 lithograph plates (hand-coloured lithographs of birds numbered 1-322, [105] hand-coloured lithographs of eggs and [8] uncoloured lithographs of birds), interleaved with tissue guards, light occasional spotting, 20th-century pictorial bookplates of J. E. Wightman and M. H. Cockell [Mullens and Swann, pp. 403-404; Nissen IVB 628; Zimmer II p. 433];

Graves, George. British Ornithology: Being the History with a Coloured Representation of Every Known Species of British Birds. London: printed for the author, by Stephen Couchman, 1811-21. First edition, 3 volumes in 2, 8vo (23 x 14cm), contemporary green full calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling, unpaginated, with [144] hand-coloured engraved plates, indexes to the 3 volumes bound in 2nd volume, wanting title page to volume 3 (1821), 20th-century pictorial bookplates M. H. Cockell; bound at end of 2nd volume: Ibid. Ovarium Britannicum. London: printed for the author, and sold by Sherwood, Neeley, & Jones, 1815, vi p., half-title, with [15] hand-coloured engraved plates of eggs [Mullens and Swann pp. 245-247; Nissen IVB 386-87; Zimmer I pp. 266-67];

Eyton, T. C. A History of the Rarer British Birds [& A Catalogue of British Birds]. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (22.2 x 13.4cm), 19th-century brown buckram with original paper label pasted on spine, vi, [2], 101, [1]; vi, [2], 67, [1] p., uncoloured woodcut illustrations in first part, errata leaves in both parts and additional errata slip in part 1, with 16 pp. of publisher’s advertisements bound in front of volume, light spotting to pastedowns and endpapers, 19th-century armorial bookplate of the Earl of Bradford from the Weston Library [Mullens and Swann pp. 202-203; Nissen IVB 306; Zimmer I p. 213];

Thornton, Robert. The British Flora: or, Genera and Species of British Plants. London: printed for the author, 1812. 5 volumes in 4, 8vo (21.1 x 14.6cm), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, engraved plates (not coloured), 53 engraved tables at the end of volume 5, some spotting and offsetting, bindings scuffed, some joints cracking, 19thcentury ownership inscription of Mary Jean[n]ette Jackson on front free endpaper and family tree in volume 1 (14)

£300-500

202

GREEN, THOMAS

THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL OR, BOTANICAL, MEDICAL, & AGRICULTURAL DICTIONARY

… The Second Edition, Revised and Improved. London: Henry Fisher, n.d. [1824]. 2 volumes, 4to (27 x 20cm), 106 hand-coloured illustrated engraved plates, mainly botanical but also ornamental designs and horticultural buildings, 3 hand-coloured illustrated engraved frontispiece plates, contemporary calf with blind-tooled arabesque motifs, giltruled lines and further blind tooling to edge of boards, raised bands with gilt lines to spines, gilt titles on red and green morocco to spines, additional gilt decoration to heads and tails, edges marbled, owner’s plates to front paste downs, foxing to paste downs and some further foxing to leaves and plates, pencil marginalia p. 55, pencil line through, and annotation to, ‘the papaw’ (illustration) facing p. 98, plate facing p. 336 bound-in upside down, pencil annotation to plate facing p. 342, boards scuffed, split to rear joint of volume I, edges and corners rubbed (2)

£500-800

203

ORNITHOLOGY & NATURAL HISTORY

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 19TH CENTURY

Morris, F. O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London: George Bell and Sons, 1875. Second edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, all plates present, damp staining to covers and margins, occasional spotting;

Ibid. A History of British Birds. London: Bell and Daldy, c.1870. Second edition, 6 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, all plates present, staining to front and back of covers, title page slightly loose in volume 1, 1 plate in volume 5 detached;

Ibid. A Natural History of British Moths. London: George Bell and Sons, 1872. Four volumes, 8vo, third edition, all plates present, contemporary taxonomic ink annotations to text and plates, red half morocco gilt over marble boards; and 3 others (Morris, A Natural History of Nests and Eggs, 1863, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half-morocco, damp-staining; Jonathan Couch, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 1862, 4 volumes, later half morocco; John Guille Millais, Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, 1892; these not collated) (21)

£400-600

204

AMIS, KINGSLEY LUCKY JIM

A Novel. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 256 pp., original green boards, dust jacket (priced at 12/6 on front flap), sunning along head and foot of spine and foot of front board, front free endpaper excised, contemporary ownership inscription to head of half-title, dust jacket chipped and with a few tears

£300-500

205

ORWELL, GEORGE

COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS

Burmese Days. A Novel. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1935. First UK edition, one of 2,500 copies, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth, spine rolled, front free endpaper excised, pencilled annotations to rear blank [Fenwick A2c]; The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. First trade edition, first impression, one of 2,150 copies, 8vo, original blue cloth, 16 halftone photographic plates (with images numbered 1-32), spine rolled, covers slightly bowed, cloth a little faded and marked, shadow of Boots library label to front cover [Fenwick A5b]; Homage to Catalonia. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938. First edition, first impression, one of 1,500 copies, 8vo, original green cloth, cloth marked, small tear and a couple of small puncture-marks to spine, front cover slightly bowed, ink-mark to bottom edge of textblock, marginal ink-staining to pp. 10-11, shadow of Boots library label to front cover, remnants of possible lending-slips or labels to rear free endpaper and rear pastedown, pencilled annotations to rear free endpaper, ink-staining to rear inner hinge [Fenwick A6a]; and 3 others (Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933, second impression; Critical Essays, 1946, first impression, with dust jacket; and The Lion and the Unicorn, 1941, second impression) (6)

£500-800

206

GRAHAM,

WINSTON

COMPLETE SET OF FIRST EDITION POLDARK NOVELS, 2 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR London: Ward, Lock & Co. [-Collins], 1945-2002. 12 works, 8vo, all in original cloth or boards, with the dust jackets unless otherwise stated, titles comprise:

Ross Poldark, 1945. First issue with dust jacket priced 8/6, dampstaining to pastedowns and boards, dust jacket worn and creased with nibbling to head and tail of spine, edges worn, short tear and hole to lower front edge; Demelza, 1946. First issue with dustjacket priced 9/6, sunning to head and tail of spine, dust jacket worn and creased with loss to corners, edges and head and tail of spine, rear internal flap of dust jacket detached but present, dampstaining to pastedowns and boards;

Jeremy Poldark, 1950. Edges and corners of boards rubbed, dampstaining to pastedowns, free endpapers and half title, without dust jacket; Warleggan, 1953. Boards bumped, dust jacket price clipped and worn with nibbles to upper and lower edge; The Black Moon, 1973. Pencil annotation to front free endpaper not affecting family tree, extremities of dust jacket nibbled and short tears to tail of spine, edge of rear free endpaper nibbled; The Four Swans, 1976. Pencil annotation to rear pastedown, edges of dust jacket slightly rubbed; The Angry Tide, 1977. Pencil annotation to front free endpaper not affecting family tree, a few scuffs to dust jacket; The Stranger From The Sea, 1981. Author’s signature and inscription in ink to free endpaper, owner’s details in ink and light foxing to first free endpaper, some dampstaining and wear to dust jacket; The Miller’s Dance, 1982. Ink stamp to free endpaper with family tree, dampstaining to edges of dust jacket; The Loving Cup, 1984. 2 short tears to spine head of dustjacket; The Twisted Sword, 1990. Dust jacket price clipped and 2 short tears at head and tail of spine, foxing to top edge; Bella Poldark, 2002. Author’s signature in ink to front free endpaper, owner’s details in ink to front free endpaper, a few scuffs to boards (12)

£300-500

207

TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

COLLECTION OF POSTHUMOUS WORKS

all 8vo, original cloth or boards with dust jackets:

The Old English Exodus. Edited by Joan Turville-Petre. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First edition, one of 3,000 copies [Hammond B35];

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1975. First edition [Hammond B30];

Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode. Edited by Alan Bliss. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. First edition [Hammond B36];

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Edited by Christopher Tolkein. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. First edition [Hammond A19];

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. First edition, 22.1cm x 14.2cm [Hammond Di1];

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. Edited with introduction, commentary, index and maps by Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, London 1980. 22.2cm x 14.2cm [Hammond A17]. Publisher’s overprice sticker on front flap of dust jacket;

The History of Middle-Earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin [-Guild Publishing; Unwin Hyman; Harper Collins], 1983-96. Volumes 1-9 and 12 (of 12), first editions, first impressions of volumes. 5-9 and 12, second impression of volume 1, Guild Publishing (Book Club) editions of volumes 2-4 (volume 3 additionally marked second impression), [Hammond A21-29];

Tolkien, Christopher. The Saga of King Heidrick the Wise translated from the Icelandic with Introduction, Notes and Appendices. London: Thomas Nelsons & Sons, 1960. First edition, 23.9cm x 15.4cm. No dust jacket; Foster, Robert. The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. First edition; Shippey, T.A. The Road to Middle-Earth. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. First edition, publisher’s overprice sticker on front flap of dust jacket; Carpenter, Humphrey. J.R.R. Tolkien, A Biography. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First edition; together with 75 modern Tolkien-related works (95)

£400-600

208

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. COLLECTION OF WORKS

[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954-5-5. First editions, second, second and first impressions, 8vo, original red cloth, 423, 352, 416 pp., folding map to rear of each volume, Fellowship additionally with full-page map of the Shire and full-page illustration of the door to Moria, bindings recased, pale mottling to covers and Return of the King covers cockled, edges spotted, a few spots and marks to contents, Fellowship and Two Towers with contemporary gift inscriptions to front free endpaper, Fellowship folding map tipped in upside-down;

[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1968. Second editions, third impressions, 8vo, original red cloth, dust jackets (each marked second edition, third impression on front flap), folding map to rear of each volume;

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1972. Third edition, seventh impression, 8vo, original green boards lettered and decorated in blue, dust jacket, map endpapers, 4 coloured plates, jacket spotted and with a few nicks and tears;

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original boards, head of spine coming away; and 2 others, including Tony O’Donnell (illustrator), The Tale of Mithrandir the Wizard by J. R. R. Tolkien [cover-title], c.1970 (4to, 2 card bifolia, wire-stitched) (10)

£500-800

209

WHEATLEY, DENNIS (1897-1977)

GROUP OF INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS

all 8vo, in the original cloth, comprising Black August, [1934], The Secret War, [1937], The Scarlet Impostor, [1940], Strange Conflict, [1941], each with a personalised inscription by Wheatley on the title-page, respectively reading ‘For Miss Vereton with the compliments of Dennis Wheatley, Xmas 1933’, ‘For Eleanor Hewitt, with every good wish from her friend Dennis Wheatley, Jan 4th 1937’, ‘For Tommy, with very best wishes for Christmas from his old Friend Dennis’, ‘For Wallace Hiscox, with very best wishes from Dennis Wheatley’, Black August with pale mottling to cloth, heavy old tape-repairs to pp. 187-192, retaining fragments of tape-repaired dust jacket, Strange Conflict with short nick to head of title-page, The Scarlet Impostor with pale mottling to cloth. Together with 24 others (including Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929, fourth impression, Vanessa Bell-designed dust jacket, and Flush, 1933, new impression, dust jacket; Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia, 1940, first edition, dust jacket, Seen in the Hadhramaut, 1938, first edition, dust jacket, East is West, 1945, first edition, dust jacket; etc.) (28)

£300-500

210

ISHIGURO, KAZUO (1954-) THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

London: Faber and Faber, 1989. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket (jacket spine faded, faint spotting to the flaps), spotting to top edge of the text block. Together with 3 others (The Unconsoled, 1995, When We Were Orphans, 2000, and An Artist of the Floating World, 1986, all first editions, first impressions, with the dust jackets, The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans both signed by the author) (4)

£300-500

211

MODERN LITERATURE & SCIENCE-FICTION

COLLECTION OF WORKS, 20TH CENTURY

including: Arthur Symons, A Study of Oscar Wilde, 1930 (apparently one of 10 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the author, from the total edition of 460 copies, 4to, original cloth, photogravure portrait frontispiece); Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, 1984 (first edition, dust jacket); Brian Aldiss, Helliconia Winter, 1985 (first edition, signed by the author, dust jacket); Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, 1973 (first UK edition, second impression, price-clipped dust jacket, gift inscription to front free endpaper); E. M. Forster, Alexandria, 1938 (second edition, original boards, folding map); D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, 1923 (first edition, original quarter cloth); Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors, 1952 (first edition, price-clipped dust jacket); and 46 others, mainly science-fiction in dust jackets (53)

£200-300

212 POTTER, BEATRIX THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT

London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, c.1907. First trade edition, second deluxe binding, later impression, 16mo, original diagonal-ribbed green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial paper onlay to front cover, pictorial endpapers (Linder’s Fig. 2 to left-hand page and Fig. 4 to right, the latter first used September 1907 for The Tale of Tom Kitten), 26 colour plates and colour frontispiece, all edges gilt, pencil annotation to front left pastedown, pp. 9-10 with small numerical annotations within the text, scuff to front cover onlay, corners bumped, head and tail of spine rubbed, dampstain to lower left of back board [cf. Linder p. 422]

£1,000-1,500

213

ADAMS, RICHARD

WATERSHIP DOWN

London: Rex Collings, 1972. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 413 pp., original pink cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, folding map to rear, with the dust jacket, jacket spine-panel slightly scuffed, with small stain around lettering, and a couple of minute nicks to head, rear panel unevenly sunned and with light creasing to lower fore corner, corresponding hint of fading to cloth on rear board

Provenance: From the collection of the late John Morris (1934-2006), assistant keeper of rare books at the National Library of Scotland; thence by descent.

£500-800

214

DAHL, ROALD (1916-1990)

GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author in red felt-tip ‘Love Roald Dahl, 1981’ on the front free endpaper, 8vo, original boards, with the dust jacket, price clipped, a few chips and tears

£500-800

215

DAHL, ROALD (1916-1990)

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED

written in blue ballpoint pen on a typed letter from a Miss S. E. Crawford of Chester, inquiring about printmaking methods, Dahl’s message being a response to the letter, and reading: ‘My dear ? ? I have absolutely nothing to do with printing. I don’t even choose my illustrator. I simply approve them. Puffin could help you - at 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1, Roald Dahl’, single foolscap sheet (29.5 x 21cm), old folds

£200-300

216

MILNE, A. A. [THE POOH BOOKS:]

When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924-28. Second, first, first and first editions, 4 works, 8vo, original varicoloured cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard, contemporary ownership inscriptions to WTP initial blank, NWAS front free endpaper and THAPH half-title, WTP with closed marginal tear to pp. 119/120, spotting and browning to endpapers, NWAS extremities rubbed, spots and marks to endpapers and contents, half-title and colophon page browned, THAPC spine rolled, otherwise a few trivial marks and smudges; Together with another copy of THAPC (first edition, original cloth, spine sunned, cloth marked) and of NWAS (third edition, original cloth) (6)

£300-500

217

MILNE, A. A.

WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG

Illustrations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition, first issue, page ix unnumbered and plain endpapers, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt illustration and ruling to front board, gilt vignette to back board, gilt title and ruling to spine, top edge gilt, scuffs to front board, edges worn, with pencil notation and foxing to free endpapers

£300-500

218

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original pictorial boards, 223 pp., light rubbing to head and foot of spine and to tips of boards, spine very slightly rolled, textblock toned as usual, bookplate to front pastedown [Errington A1(a)]

Provenance: Purchased by the vendor at the time of publication from Waterstones, Princes Street, Edinburgh

Note: With all the requisite points: copyright page with the reverse numberline from 10 to 1, the author named as Joanne Rowling, and no space between artist’s name Thomas Taylor and 1997; the list of supplies on p. 53 with ‘1 wand’ repeated; and the rear cover with misprints ‘Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft’ and ‘Philospher’s Stone’.

£30,000-50,000

219

ROWLING, J. K.

SIGNED PRIZE-SET OF THE FIRST THREE HARRY POTTER BOOKS: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First deluxe editions, third, first and second impressions, each work signed by J. K. Rowling on the title-page in black ink, 8vo, original red, blue and green cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial onlays to front boards, all edges gilt, textblocks toned as usual

Provenance: Won by the current vendors in a competition held by Red House Books, children’s-book distributors, in September 2000, and retaining the company’s original cardboard packing case and covering letter.

£2,000-3,000

220

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, with the numberline ‘10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1’ on the copyright page, 8vo, original pictorial boards, with the dust jacket (not price-clipped), small closed tears to pp. 235-232 (each approx. 2.5cm), dust jacket spine-panel sunned [Errington A2(a)]

£600-800

221

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, with the reverse number-line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page, 8vo, original pictorial boards, with the dust jacket (not price-clipped), pencil marking carefully erased from front endpaper, otherwise an exceptionally bright copy with minimal signs of handling [Errington A2(a)]

Note: A near-fine copy of the second Harry Potter book.

£800-1,200

222

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title, 8vo, original boards, with the dust jacket [Errington A9(a)]

Provenance: Acquired by the vendor at the time of publication while working at Waterstones, Old Brompton Road, London, when the branch manager arranged for all staff members to received a signed copy of the work.

£600-800

223

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUSTRATOR)

ENGLISH FAIRYTALES

retold by Flora Annie Steel. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1918. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, one of 500 copies signed by Rackham, 4to, original vellum lettered and decorated in gilt,14 coloured plates with tissues guards, small hole in tissue guard of plate facing p. 52, binding slightly dust-soiled and marked

£400-600

224

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUSTRATOR)

THE ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR & HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

Abridged from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, number 355 of 500 copies signed by Rackham, 4to, original Japanese vellum lettered and decorated in gilt, 16 coloured plates and 7 monochrome plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partly unopened, covers slightly dust-soiled, rear cover a little foxed, occasional light spotting to contents

£500-800

225

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUSTRATOR)

SOME BRITISH BALLADS

London: Constable & Co. Ltd, [1919]. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, one of 575 copies signed by Rackham, 4to, original quarter japon, 16 colour plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding dust-soiled, small tear to paper on front board;

Dulac, Edmund. Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1910]. First Dulac edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,000 copies signed by Dulac, 4to, original brown morocco gilt, 30 coloured plates, spine slightly rubbed with chipping at the top and bottom; Robinson, William (editor). Flora and Sylva. London: at 17 Furnival Street, E.C., 1903-5. 3 volumes, 4to, original half vellum, spines lettered in gilt, numerous chromolithographic floral plates (collation not established, the work issued as a periodical), covers slightly rubbed, some foxing to text and plates; and 1 other (6)

£300-500

226

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUSTRATOR)

LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER

and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, one of 525 copies signed by Rackham and with an extra colour plate also signed by him on mount (loose in envelope as issued), 4to, original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board with gilt title and vignette on white ground, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in colour plates with laid-in tissue-guards, covers rubbed, small tide-mark to head of rear board, tissue-guards offset and occasionally chipped, envelope with chips and splits

Note: Uncommon with the extra plate signed by Rackham.

£500-800

227

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUSTRATOR)

MOTHER GOOSE

The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,110 copies signed by Rackham on the limitation page, 4to (28 x 21.5cm), contemporary green crushed morocco for Hatchards, spine gilt in compartments, decorative panelling and floral quatrefoil cornerpieces incorporating red morocco onlays to covers, all edges gilt,13 tipped-in colour plates, rubbing to joints and raise bands, spotting to endpapers and blanks

£300-500

228

RACKHAM, ARTHUR (1867-1939)

RENNIE’S WATERLOO BRIDGE

pencil, 16.5 x 9.8cm, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance: Abbott & Holder, 1974 (label on backboard, together with an annotated card slip reading ‘From Arthur Rackham exhibition, Abbott & Holder, 73 Castlenau, Barnes, SW13, 18 Oct 1974’ and in ink ‘Rennie’s Waterloo Bridge, dem[olishe]d 1934’, presumably reattached to backboard by framer); Bonhams Edinburgh, Pictures, 12 April 2007, lot 10.

£300-500

229

BOEHM, ELIZAVETA

СИЛУЗТЫ [SILUZTY - SILHOUETTES], & TWO OTHER WORKS

published 1875. 4to, comprising 11 leaves of silhouettes with title-page; [bound with] Силузты изъ Жизни Дьтей [Siluzty iz” Zhizni D’tey / Silhouettes from the Life of Children], 1877. 4to, comprising 8 leaves of silhouettes with title-page; [bound with] Силузты Къ Баснямъ Крылова [Siluzty K” Basnyam” Krylova / Silhouettes from Krylov’s Fables], 1878. 4to, comprising 11 leaves of silhouettes with title-page, initial couple of leaves detached; bound in patterned cloth, some soiling and discolouration to covers, some mild tears and slight fading to patterned endpapers, a few repaired tears to title-pages, some generalised browning, several silhouettes slightly spotted or soiled

Note: Elizaveta Boehm (alternatively Bem, or Böhm, née Endaurova, 1843-1914) was a noted Russian painter, illustrator and postcard designer originally from St Petersburg.

£400-600

230

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949)

COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE FAMILY OF JESSIE M. KING

Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children, c.1920. Inscribed ‘To Merle from Angus’ (i.e. Merle Taylor, 1909-1985, only daughter of Jessie M. King and Ernest Archibald ‘E. A.’ Taylor) on front free endpaper, signed by Jessie M. King in the blank panel corresponding to her birthday (under her married name, ‘Mrs E. A. Taylor’), and by others including E. A. Taylor and William Peploe (‘Willy Peploe’). Together with: Tennyson, Poems, 1923, with Kirkcudbright Academy prize plate addressed to Merle Taylor, 1924-25; 2 books inscribed by or to E. A. Taylor (including Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Calman, 1906); 3 books with the ownership inscription or Bearsden Girls’ School prize plate of Jessie’s sister Peggy (Margaret) King (including Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table); a 12mo Bible in French inscribed to Jessie M. King’s sister Ada from their mother; a copy of Lavengro with a laid in note to Merle [Taylor]. And approx. 20 other books with the same provenance but without apparent markings (qty)

£200-300

231

INGA MOORE (AUSTRALIAN 1945-)

TWO ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

Ratty asleep in an armchair. Pen, ink and watercolour, initialled lower right (n.d.), mount aperture 9 x 9cm (frame 44 x 36.5cm);

Ratty’s picnic with Mole and Otter. Pen, ink and watercolour, initialled lower right (n.d.), mount aperture 9 x 7.5cm (frame 44 x 36.5cm) (2)

Provenance: The Illustration Cupboard, 302 Regent Street, London W1

£300-500

232

JACQUES, BRIAN REDWALL

London: Hutchison, 1986. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, some very minor rubbing to dust-jacket edges, unclipped, internally very clean; [AND] Redwall. New York: Philomel Books, 1986. First American edition, 8vo, original quarter red cloth gilt over boards, dust-jacket with some creasing and a few repaired tears, price-clipped, internally very clean (2)

£150-200

233

PRIVATE PRESS AND WOOD-ENGRAVING

LARGE COLLECTION OF WORKS INCLUDING LIMITED EDITIONS

Whittington Press. Matrix. Number One [and:] Number Two. [Andoversford], 1981-2. One of 350 copies and 450 copies respectively, 2 volumes, 4to, original wrappers, volume 1 wrappers sunned, volume 2 wrappers creased at foot; Ibid. Lost Days. Poems by Jim Turner. With seven wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor, 1981. One of 100 copies signed by the author and artist and with the plates hand-coloured, 4to, original patterned cloth, slipcase; Ibid. Stubble Burning. Poems by Roland Gant. With five wood-engravings by Howard Phipps, 4to, original flax canvas, one of 175 copies signed by the author and artist; Clover Hill Press. The Chester Play of the Deluge. The Chester Play of the Deluge. With ten wood-engravings by David Jones, 1977. One of 250 copies on Barcham Green mould-made paper, 4to, original cloth-backed marbled boards, dust jacket sunned and nicked and with tear to rear panel; Castlelaw Press, West Linton. [Four limited editions:] Edwin Muir, a Brief Memoir by George Mackay Brown, 1975. One of 160 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth; Platen, Selected Poems … Translated by Edwin Morgan, 1978. One of 150 copies, signed by Morgan, 4to, original quarter cloth; Edwin Morgan, Glasgow Sonnets, 1972. One of 125 copies signed by Morgan, 8vo, original wrappers; Twelve Songs by Edwin Morgan, 1970 (one of 400 copies, 4to, original wrappers);

Hassall, Joan (illustrator). Cranford by Mrs Gaskell [and:] Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1940-47. 2 works, 8vo, contemporary blue quarter morocco; Jansson, Tove. Who Will Comfort Toffle?. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1960. First edition in English, 4to, original red boards lettered and decorated in white, dust jacket (with overprice sticker to front flap), colour illustrations throughout, retaining the laid-in slip of Moomin notepaper as issued; and approx. 40 other items, including: William Nicholson, London Types, 1898; 4 Scottish chapbooks; 5 Whittington Press catalogues, 1980s, 2 further Whittington Press limited editions (Lost Days, 1981, and Other Days, 1979); works by small private presses (e.g. College Press, Glasgow, 2 works, Grian-aig Press, Greenock, 3 works; Malaprop Press; Tragara Press; John Morris (Wood Letter Book, 1981, annotated ‘Retrée copy, 15/14’, q.v.;); a morocco onlay binding by a Glasgow School of Art student, 1960s; a folder of private press ephemera (Inky Parrot Press, Chilmark Press, etc., mainly specimen pages and similar); wood-engraving, typography and bookbinding reference; and similar (approx. 50)

Provenance: From the collection of the late John Morris (1934-2006), assistant keeper of rare books at the National Library of Scotland; thence by descent. John Morris also ran his own printing press at his home in Portobello, Edinburgh, and an example of his work is included with the lot.

£400-600

WHITTINGTON PRESS

TWO SPECIAL EDITIONS

The Wood-Engravings of John O’Connor, with a Commentary by Jeannie O’Connor. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1989. One of 50 special copies finely bound, signed by the artist and with a portfolio of additional proofs, 4to, original quarter Nigerian goatskin, wood-engraved or line-block illustrations throughout, colophon signed ‘John O’Connor’ twice in separate hands (the top signature possibly by Jeannie, mistakenly signing as John, with a laid-in photocopy of the colophon signed correctly), with thick orange card portfolio containing 8 wood-engravings (34.5 x 24.5cm) each initialled by John O’Connor in pencil (loose as issued), the book and portfolio housed together in slipcase; John O’Connor. The English Scene. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 2004. One of 50 special copies finely bound, initialled by the artist and with a portfolio of additional proofs, 4to, original red half Oasis, patterned sides, woodengraved plates (many in colours), with red half cloth portfolio containing 4 wood-engraved proofs (29 x 21.5cm) including ‘Albert Memorial’ heightened in watercolour and signed by the artist in pencil; together with 3 others (including John O’Connor, Twins, Whittington Press, 1991, one of 350 copies, signed) (5) £300-500

235

FLEECE PRESS

COLLECTION OF LIMITED EDITIONS

Buckland Wright, John. Baigneuses, 1995. One of 204 copies bound in quarter vellum and Compton marbled paper from a limited edition of 240, folio (36.5 x 25.5cm), 25 wood engravings with titles verso, 9 tipped-in plates, gilt title to spine, fine cloth solander box with spotting to upper edge and scuff lower right of cover; Ibid. Bathers and Dancers, 1993. One of 180 copies bound in quarter vellum and Japanese wood veneer paper from a limited edition of 206, tall 8vo, 5 tipped-in illustrations, 42 wood engravings, with publisher’s note, original orange card slipcase;

Nash, John. Twenty One Wood Engravings, 1993. One of 100 copies bound in quarter vellum and dandelion paper from a limited edition of 112, folio (30 x 21.5cm), 21 wood engravings, gilt title to spine, fine cloth solander box; Harvey, Michael. Reynolds Stone: Engraved Lettering in Wood, 1992. One of 270 copies bound in yellow quarter cloth and patterned paste paper, 4to, one tipped-in plate, wood engraving illustrations, original grey card and yellow cloth slipcase;

Selborne, Joanna, & Lindsay Newman. Gwen Raverat, Wood Engraver, 1996. One of 260 copies bound in orange quarter cloth and marbled paper from a limited edition of 300, folio, 7 tipped-in illustrations, black wood engravings, original green card slipcase;

Rogerson, Ian. Agnes Miller Parker, wood engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980, 1990. One of 241 copies bound in quarter blue cloth and paste paper from a limited edition of 300, oblong 4to, 5 tipped-in illustrations, black and white wood engravings, with publisher’s note, original orange card slipcase; Lawrence, T. E. Cats and Landladies’ Husbands. T.E. Lawrence in Bridlington, 1995. Introduction by Richard Knowles, note by Phil Clabburn, tall 8vo, 10 tipped-in illustrations, 4 further black and white illustrations, paste-down title to spine;

Woolnough, C. W. A Pretty Mysterious Art. A Lecture by C.W. Woolnough. Introduced by Barry McKay, 1996. One of 270 copies bound in yellow quarter cloth with marbled paper from a limited edition of 300, 8vo, 11 tipped-in marbled paper samples, original red cloth solander box; Garnett, David. Never Be A Bookseller, with a postscript by Richard Garnett and engraving by Howard Phipps, 1995. One of four hundred limited edition copies with marble wrappers, 12.5 x 14.5cm, paper cover; Lee, Brian North. Bookplates by Simon Brett, 1989. One of 220 copies bound in quarter cloth and illustrated paper from a limited edition of 260, illustrated within the text with black and white reproductions of Brett’s bookplate designs;

Lawrence, John. The Four Seasons. Four wood engravings made in 1982 to illustrate The Magic Apple Tree, by Susan Hill, 1997. ‘Spring’, ‘Summer’, ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’. Each engraving numbered 38 from the edition of 120, 31.5 x 22cm, each signed by the artist in pencil to margin, contained in original printed green folder with some sunning; Lawrence, S. T. E. Boxwood Blockmaker. Simon Lawrence, 1980. One of 250 copies bound in quarter cloth with marbled paper, 4to, illustrated using Lawrence’s wood blocks for artists including Agnes Miller Parker, Gertrude Hermes, David Gentleman and Joan Hassall, gilt title to spine, t.e.g., original card slipcase; Sims, Wing Commander R.G. The Sayings and Doings of T.E. Lawrence, 1994. One of 270 copies bound in blue cloth from a limited edition of 300, tall 8vo, 11 tipped-in illustrations and 3 further illustrations; Bacon, Francis, & Betty Pennell (illustrator). Of Gardens, 1993. One of 220 copies bound in quarter cloth and decorative paper, folio; together with 5 miniature books, each between 6.5 x 5cm and 7.5 x 6cm, 3 by The Fleece Press, 2 with original slipcases, and Fleece Press ephemera including notes from Simon Lawrence to John Morris, printed and autograph, publication catalogues, and a small ink illustration on fine veneer (19+)

Provenance: From the collection of the late John Morris (1934-2006), Assistant Keeper of Rare Books, National Library of Scotland.

£600-800

236

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS

TWELFTH NIGHT

or, What You Will by William Shakespeare. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. One of 275 copies, folio, original orange half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, colour-printed wood-engravings by Ravilious throughout, engraved bookplate

£800-1,200

237

WOOLF, VIRGINIA KEW GARDENS

Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Second edition (a month after the first), one of 500 copies, 8vo, 16 pp., original hand-painted wrappers, printed paper label to front wrapper, full-page woodcut illustration and woodcut tailpiece by Vanessa Bell, wrappers rubbed, nicks and tears to extremities [Kirkpatrick A3b]

£1,000-1,500

238 §

PAULA REGO (1935-2022)

TWO SIGNED LIMITED FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS

Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Would not Grow Up. Introduction by Andrew Birkin. [Author’s name at head:] J. M. Barrie. London: The Folio Society, 1992. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Paula Rego on the limitation page in blue ink, 4to, original blue crushed quarter goatskin, hand-marbled sides, top edge gilt, 11 colour plates, orange card slipcase, spine very slightly sunned; Nursery Rhymes. Introduction by Marina Warner. London: Folio Society, 1994. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Paula Rego on the limitation page in pencil, 4to, original red quarter goatskin, hand-marbled sides, blue card slipcase (2)

£400-600

239

GILL, ERIC (1882-1940)

GROUP OF SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WOOD-ENGRAVINGS FROM HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK [1932] on laid paper, signed and numbered by the artist, comprising: Title-page, one of 25; Hamlet and the Ghost, one of 12; Hamlet and Polonius, one of 15; The Play Scene, one of 15; ‘I am Set Naked on your Kingdom’. Title-page dimensions 27 x 17cm, the rest all 22.5 x 15.8cm, a few spots, remnants of tape to versos [Skelton P838, P833, P844, P845, P846]

£600-800

240

NONESUCH PRESS

LOVE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE with some account of his life taken from the writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. One of a small number of deluxe copies finely bound for presentation (numbered 20, the total edition comprising 1250 copies, the majority bound in quarter vellum), 4to, original red full vellum lettered and decorated in gilt, patterned paper pastedowns, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, portrait frontispiece of Donne after the frontispiece from LXXX Sermons (1640), contents almost entirely unopened, a little rubbing to extremities, with custom red morocco backed pull-off case with raised bands and gilt title and decoration to spine [Nonesuch Century 1]

Note: The first book printed by the Nonesuch Press. According to the Nonesuch Century there were ‘a few “ad personam” copies in stained vellum’.

£300-500

241

NONESUCH PRESS

COLLECTION OF WORKS

Keynes, Geoffrey (editor). The Notebook of William Blake called The Rossetti Manuscript, 1935. One of 650 copies, 4to, finely bound in near contemporary black crushed morocco with gilt and blind tooled circular design with red morocco onlay, gilt title and decoration to spine, top edge gilt, patterned pastedowns, gilt inner dentelles; Grant, Bartle (editor), & Duncan Grant (illustrator). Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper. And a portion of her Cipher Journal. Written 1756-70 and never before printed, 1924. One of 850 copies, 8vo, near-contemporary blue morocco fine binding by Best & Co. Ltd., ruled in gilt, gilt floral motifs to boards and spine, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut, bookplate of children’s illustrator Evelyn Vere Boyle to pastedown, spine rubbed and toned, corners slightly bumped and worn, spotting to endpapers; Bible; Authorised Version. The Book of Ruth. 1923. One of 250 copies, 8vo, original decorative and textural papercovered boards, blue card slipcase pasted with decorative printed title, leaves uncut other than free endpapers, some sunning to slipcase;

Jacquier [Ivy Skinner]. The Family Face. A History of the Family written by the Family according to the Plan of Jacquier, 1936. Jacquier’s own personal copy, 4to, original pink cloth, filled in by Jacquier throughout in ink and pencil, with various ephemera (including photographs, newspaper clippings, and Jacquier’s contract or ‘Memorandum of Agreement’ with Nonesuch Press, signed by Francis and Alice Meynell) laid or pasted in, The Family Secret’ envelope absent, some damp staining to front board, spine worn with short tears to head and tail, together with another copy, not filled in but retaining ‘The Family Secret’ envelope;

[BBC] Morris, John (editor). From the Third Programme. A Ten-Years’ Anthology: Imagination, argument, experience, exposition, 1956. Out-of-series copy from the numbered edition of 1,300, with autograph inscription to Pam Orr on colophon page by Morris (Controller of BBC radio station Third Programme, 1953-58), 8vo, original grey cloth over bevelled boards, rubbed, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled-paper slipcase with owner’s name in ink and a couple of short splits to joints;

Symons, A. J. A., Francis Meynell, & Desmond Flower. The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-34, 1936. One of 750 copies, 4to, green cloth with gilt title pasted to spine, 6 photogravure plates of bindings, 47 tipped-in leaves, many in colour, including illustrated examples by Paul Nash, E. McKnight Kauffer, George Grosz and Jacquier, dust-stains to front endpaper, pencil inscription to rear endpaper and Museum Books Inc., NYC, sticker to end pastedown, boards worn and edges rubbed, sunning to spine; together with 30 further works including: Cowley, Abraham and John Sparrow (editor). The Mistress with other selected poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667, 1926; Cobbett, William. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, 1927; Thomson, James. The Seasons. With Five Pictures by Jacquier, 1927; Harvey, Dr William and Geoffrey Keynes (editor). The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey, 1928; Sydney, Philip. Astrophel & Stella, with slipcase, 1931; Ellis, Havelock. Chapman, 1934; Collier, John. The Devil and All, 1934; Pope, Alexander and Norman Ault (editor). Pope’s Own Miscellany, 1935; The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, 1939 (38)

Note: The annotated copy of ‘The Family Face’ was completed by the author of the book, artist Ivy G. M. Skinner (Jacquier). Jacquier provided illustrations for several Nonesuch works.

£300-500

NONESUCH PRESS

COLLECTION OF WORKS

Shakespeare, William. The Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929-33. One of 1,600 numbered sets, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original orange niger ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands on spines, top edge rough cut gilt, indentations to front board of volume 5, ink staining to rear joint of volume 6; Bible. The Authorized King James Version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha … Reproductions of 105 of the Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts of Bernard Salomon, 1963. 3 volumes, large 8vo, original deluxe buff pigskin binding, gilt lettering and raised bands to spines, contents mostly unopened, some discolouration to spines, final 2 leaves clumsily opened, pencil annotation to verso of colophon leaf, pen markings to New Testament title page; Milton, John. Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake, 1923. One of 1,450 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum, patterned paper-covered boards, gilt titles to spines, corners bumped, heads of spines rubbed, volume 2 with ink spots to fore edge, many leaves unopened; Blake, William. The Writings of William Blake Edited … by Geoffrey Keynes, 1924-25. One of 1,500 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original quarter vellum, marbled boards, gilt title to spines, 58 plates, frontispiece by Emery Walker, owner’s ink inscription to free endpaper of each volume, many leaves unopened, boards rubbed and corners bumped, edges worn; [Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1925. One of 750 copies, 2 volumes, small folio, original quarter vellum, patterned paper-covered boards, black and white woodcut title page and facing plate and further woodcut illustrations through the text, boards rubbed and corners and edges worn, vellum spines soiled;

Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake, 1926-27. One of 1,480 copies, 4to, original quarter vellum, marbled papercovered boards, gilt title to spine, ex-library with withdrawn stamps to front paste-down and free endpaper, library ownership stamp to title page and top edges and reverse of each of the 24 black and white plates, borrowing slip pasted to free endpaper, spine discoloured and marked, edges of boards and corners rubbed, paper on boards worn (18)

£300-500

243

[WOMAN BINDER]

LETTERS TO M. G. & H. G. BY JOHN RUSKIN

With Preface by the Right Hon. G. Wyndham. [Edinburgh:] privately printed, 1903. First edition, inscribed ‘with best wishes from Arthur Quiller-Couch’ on the front free endpaper, 8vo (19 x 12.9cm), xxii 136 pp., 6 halftone or photogravure plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary Arts and Crafts binding of reddish-brown crushed morocco attributed to Ethel Taunton (rear turn-in gilt-stamped with dated monogram ‘19 E. T. 04’), repeating motif of four green morocco clover onlays around a central four-pointed gilt star to spine and within gilt knotwork frame to covers, broad turn-ins decorated with gilt fillets and onlaid green morocco dots

Provenance: From the library of Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000), historian and author of A History of the Crusades (1951-4), though not marked as such.

Note: In Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 Marianne Tidcombe illustrates an example of Ethel Taunton’s work and provides a brief account of her binding activities: ‘Ethel Taunton was another pupil who spent six months with Douglas Cockerell in Gilbert Street. She went home to Tadworth in Surrey and worked there for a year and a half, binding for friends and booksellers, and teaching one pupil, but then returned to London to set up a workshop in Marloes Road, Kensington. At first she worked alone, and then for a while with Miss G. Wallbrand Evans, who may have been trained at the Guild of Women Binders workshop’ (p. 169).

£300-500

244

[WOMAN BINDER] BIBLE; ENGLISH; AUTHORISED VERSION

THE HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT & THE NEW London: Robert Barker, 1636. 8vo (16.2 x 10.3cm), bound c.1900 in brown crushed morocco, rear turn-in with binder’s gilt pallet-stamp ‘M. Marshall’, attributed to Maud Marshall (1869-1940), brass corner pieces and clasps, leather straps (lacking brass fasteners), lacking leaves A1-A2, including general title leaf, but retaining New Testament title [ESTC S125344], bound with imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer (1636), John Speed’s Genealogies (1636) and the Psalmes (1636)

Note: The British Library holds a copy of William Morris’s Poems (1908) in an Arts and Crafts gilt green morocco binding with the rear turn-in bearing the pallet stamp ‘M. Marshall’ in the same style as that in the present work. In recently published research (P. J. M. Marks, ‘Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder’, blog post, 17th December 2024) identify this figure as the Miss Maud Marshall whose career is outlined by Marianne Tidcombe in Women Bookbinders: ‘Miss M. Marshall … was a binder and teacher at 5 Bloomsbury Square, where Sangorski and Sutcliffe had their first bindery … and then at 6 Denmark Street, where Cockerell had his first studio. Miss Marshall worked with Edith J. Gedye … and they exhibited bindings under their joint names at [Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society] exhibitions in 1903 and 1906 … As a teacher, Miss Marshall offered three-, six- and twelve-month courses of instruction … Like many binders, Miss Marshall appears to have stopped binding with the outbreak of the First World War’ (pp. 171-2).

£300-500

245

POEM OF THE MONTH CLUB

[COMPLETE SET OF SIGNED BROADSIDE POEMS]

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1970-77. 48 printed broadside poems, 38 x 28cm, each signed in ink by the author, with contributors including Philip Larkin, Steve Smith, W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, and Kingsley Amis (‘A Wembley Lad / The Crem’ by John Betjeman with holograph correction by the author), together with the publisher’s printed prospectus and some 24 mimeographed notices and order forms, all loose in the publisher’s half sheep portfolio with cloth ties, portfolio rubbed, sunned and marked, faint marks to a few poems

Provenance: From the collection of the late John Morris (1934-2006), assistant keeper of rare books at the National Library of Scotland; thence by descent.

£300-500

246

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY THE WORKS

London: Folio Society, 2002. Facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of 1,010 copies, folio, original cream Nigerian goatskin lettered and decorated in gilt after a design by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson for the Doves Bindery, housed in original solander box with pocket to inside front cover containing The Kelmscott Chaucer: an Essay by William S. Peterson (8vo, original wrappers), solander box with bumping to corners and uneven sunning to front cover

£300-500

247

FOLIO SOCIETY

MOBY-DICK

or The Whale. Herman Melville. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. London: Folio Society, 2009. Limited edition, one of 1,750 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, main text volume in original black morocco blocked with a design after Rockwell Kent in white and silver, top edge silver, illustrations throughout, commentary volume in original black boards, housed together in original solander box lettered in silver

£300-500

248

FOLIO SOCIETY

GROUP OF LIMITED & DELUXE EDITIONS

William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury, 2012. One of 1,480 copies, 2 volumes, large 8vo, main text volume in original red quarter morocco, patterned paper sides, top edge gilt, text printed in different colours, commentary volume in original grey cloth, housed together in the publisher’s grey cloth slipcase with gilt red morocco label; Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold, 2001. Deluxe facsimile edition, one of 1,000 copies, 4to, original brown goatskin lettered in gilt, with the commentary volume, 8vo, original quarter cloth, housed together in the publisher’s red solander box (corners of box bumped);

Tractatus de Herbis, 2002. Deluxe facsimile edition, one of 1,000 copies, folio, original green goatskin, lettered and decorated in gilt and black with red morocco onlays, with the commentary volume, 8vo, original quarter cloth, housed together in the publisher’s green solander box, adhesion marks to limitation page and facing page, box slightly marked and with bumped corner; and 3 other Folio Society editions (6)

£300-400

249

HOLBEIN, HANS

IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN

in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With Biographical Tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine. London: printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1812. Second edition, 4to (34.6 x 26cm), original(?) quarter vellum with paper labels on spine and board, 84 stipple-engraved, colour plates, some on pink paper, with tissue guards, untrimmed, marginal spotting to a few plates [Abbey Life 205 note]

Provenance: 19th-century armorial book plate of Mackenzie of Gairloch

£300-500

250

DEUCHAR, DAVID

A COLLECTION OF ETCHINGS AFTER THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS OF THE DUTCH & FLEMISH SCHOOLS

Edinburgh: [by the author], 1803. First edition, 3 volumes, folio (36 x 26cm), contemporary straight-grain green morocco with gilt tooling on boards, spines gilt in compartments, 378 etched plates on 308 leaves of wove paper, interleaved with tissue guards, with 3 engraved decorative title-pages, bindings lightly rubbed at extremities, corner tips bumped, some scuffing to the boards of volume 1, with occasional spotting throughout the volumes (3)

Provenance: 19th-century armorial bookplate of Philip Hamond (and offer of book to Hamond from Bernard Quaritch dated 1878, attached to front free endpaper of volume 1); 20th-century pictorial bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst (1929-2016)

Note: The number of etchings varies from copy to copy. They are based on works by artists such as Rembrandt, Ostade, Bega and Van Vliet, as well as Deuchar’s own designs. The images include character studies, fashion plates, and genre scenes of Edinburgh and Scottish rustic life.

£500-800

252

MUSIC HALL, POPULAR MUSIC, PATRIOTIC SONGS

COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED SHEET-MUSIC PAMPHLETS, 19TH & 20TH CENTURY

Over 350 decorative music publications, all in pictorial wrappers (lithographic or photographic), each approx. 35 x 25cm, many reflecting the interesting social history and fashions of the times in which they were printed. Some covers lacking the sheet music, some with ownership inscriptions and/or price, a few with short tears to edges. Titles include: Military Campaigns and Regiments

Wellington at Waterloo and The Emperor Napoleon’s March Across the Alps by Franz Schubert (n.d., 3rd edition); The Guards March Music dedicated to Field Marshal HRH The Prince Albert; The Coldstream Guards March, composed & inscribed to Colonel HRH The Prince of Wales; The Guards Waltz, Grenadier Guards; India: Madras Volunteer Guards Polka; In Honor of the Presentation of Colors, H. J. Kouwen, The British Zouaves, and Quadrille, Polka, and Galop. Composed and Dedicated to Colonel D’Arcy and The Officers of the 3rd West India Regiment (Zouaves); World Wars I and II

The Fight of the Bomber B-17; Wipers, The March Song of The Ypres League WW1; ‘The Marching Anthem of the Battle Fields of Europe’ - It’s a Long Way to Tipperary; Tommies Tunes, 1914-1918; Run, rabbit, run!; We’ll meet again; There’ll always be an England; Wish me luck (as you wave me goodbye), with image of Gracie Fields on cover; Waltzing Matilda; and further morale boosting songs by Noel Coward, Annette Mills and others (approx. 58);

Victorian and Edwardian Cross-Dressing - ‘Male Impersonators’

A Bicycle Made for Two by Daisy Bell; Ship Ahoy! (All the nice girls love a sailor); and other popular music hall songs with women artists dressed in ‘male’ attire - top hat and tails, admiral’s uniform et al. Black Performers and Minstrelsy Negro Melody; Little Black Me; Uncle Ned; The Popular Negro Ballad Minstrels; Chocolate Soldier from the U.S.A.; The Soldier Boy from Caroline (approx. 46); (350+)

£300-500

253

MUSIC HALL, VAUDEVILLE, POPULAR SONGS & DANCE SCORES

COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED SHEET-MUSIC PAMPHLETS, 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY

A large collection of music publications with pictorial wrappers (lithographic or photographic), each approx. 35 x 25cm, dating from the 1840s onwards, comprising music hall songs, scores for quadrilles, polkas and other dances, and music by popular artists. Mostly British, many published by Francis, Day & Hunter, J.B Cramer & Co. Ltd. and Charles Sheard & Co., also a quantity of Vaudeville material from the United States and a group of Ragtime publications. Some edges worn, a number with ownership inscriptions and other annotations, a few short taped repairs. Titles include: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay, Richard Morton. London: Charles Sheard & Co, 1891; My Dinah is my Dinner, Barnes & Collins. London: Reeder & Walsh, 1893; In the dusk of the evening, F. Thompson. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1894; Two Eyes to See With, Albert Hall. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1898; I’m Farmer Scroggins, Ernest Rees. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1903; Happy Hippo’s Two Step, Norman Kennedy. London: J. B. Cramer & Co. Ltd, 1912; Turkish Towel Rag, A Rub Down, Thos. S. Allen. Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1912; (600+)

£600-800

254 §

[AVIATION] GEORGE HORACE DAVIS (1881-1963)

SET OF SPECULATIVE AIRCRAFT DESIGNS, 1951-9

4 large grisaille gouaches, signed and dated, mounted, framed and glazed, mount apertures 47 x 87cm, unidentified coat of arms with motto ‘Pro Alis et Scientia’ gilt to mounts, inset captions (with artist’s name misspelt ‘Davies’)

reading ‘Designs for Vertical Take-off Aeroplanes’, ‘Designs for Vertical Take-Off Aircraft including a Design for a Rolls Royce ‘Flying Bedstead’’, ‘The Development of Supersonic Aircraft’, ‘Fighter Plane Attacking Techniques’ (4)

Note: During the First World War George Horace Davis was head of aerial diagrams for the Royal Flying Corps and an official war artist. He later became a founding member of the Society of Aviation Artists.

£600-800

255

TANQUERAY, PAUL STANDING WOMAN

untitled fashion photograph depicting a standing woman wearing a black coat and hat with veil, signed Tanqueray in pencil to the mount, with Paul Tanqueray’s studio stamp to the reverse, 32 x 24cm (including mount)

£200-300

FOR BUYERS (UK)

These Conditions of Sale and the Saleroom Notices as well as specific Catalogue terms, set out the terms on which we offer the Lots listed in this Catalogue for sale. By registering to bid and/or by bidding at auction You agree to these terms, we recommend that You read them carefully before doing so. You will find a list of definitions and a glossary at the end providing explanations for the meanings of the words and expressions used.

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A. BEFORE THE SALE

1. DESCRIPTIONS OF LOTS

Whilst we seek to describe Lots accurately, it may be impractical for us to carry out exhaustive due diligence on each Lot. Prospective Buyers are given ample opportunities to view and inspect before any sale and they (and any independent experts on their behalf) must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of any description applied to a Lot. Prospective Buyers also bid on the understanding that, inevitably, representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or Estimated selling price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion shall be honestly and reasonably held and only accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently. Subject to the foregoing neither we the Auctioneer or our employees or agents accept liability for the correctness of such opinions and no warranties, whether relating to description, condition or quality of Lots, express, implied or statutory, are given. Please note that photographs/images provided may not be fully representative of the condition of the Lot and should not be relied upon as indicative of the overall condition of the Lot. All dimensions and weights are approximate only.

2. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR DESCRIPTION OF LOTS

We do not provide any guarantee in relation to the nature of a Lot apart from our authenticity warranty contained in paragraph E.2 and to the extent provided below.

(a) Condition Reports: Condition Reports are provided on our Website or upon request. The absence of a report does not imply that a Lot is without imperfections. Large numbers of such requests are received shortly before each sale and department specialists and administration will endeavour to respond to all requests although we offer no guarantee. Any statement in relation to the Lot is merely an expression of opinion of the Seller or us and should not be relied upon as an inducement to bid on the Lot. Lots are available for inspection prior to the sale and You are strongly advised to examine any Lot in which You are interested prior to the sale. Our Condition Reports are not prepared by professional conservators, restorers or engineers. Our Condition Report does not form any contract between us and the Buyer. The Condition Reports do not affect the Buyer’s obligations in any way.

(b) Estimates: Estimates are placed on each Lot to help Buyers gauge the sums involved for the purchase of a particular Lot. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or VAT. Estimates are a matter of opinion and prepared in advance. Estimates may be subject to change and are for guidance only and should not be relied upon.

(c) Catalogue Alterations: Lot descriptions and Estimates are prepared in advance of the sale and may be subject to change. Any alterations will be announced on the Catalogue alteration sheet, made available prior to the sale. It is the responsibility of the Buyer to make themselves aware to any alterations which may have occurred.

3. WITHDRAWAL

Lyon & Turnbull may, at its discretion, withdraw any Lot at any time prior to or during the sale of the Lot. Lyon & Turnbull has no liability to You for any decision to withdraw.

4. JEWELLERY, CLOCKS & OTHER ITEMS

(a) Jewellery:

(i) Coloured gemstones (such as rubies, sapphires and emeralds) may have been treated to enhance their look, through methods such as heating and oiling. These methods are accepted practice but may make the gemstone less strong and/or require special care in future.

(ii) All types of gemstones may have been improved by some method. You may request a gemmological report for any Lot

which does not have a report if the request is made to us at least three weeks before the date of the sale and You pay the fee for the report in advance of receiving said report.

(iii) We do not obtain a gemmological report for every gemstone sold in our sales. Where we do get gemmological reports from internationally accepted gemmological laboratories, such reports may be described in the Sale Particulars. Reports will describe any improvement or treatment only if we request that they do so, but will confirm when no improvement or treatment has been made. Because of differences in approach and technology, laboratories may not agree whether a particular gemstone has been treated, the amount of treatment or whether treatment is permanent. The gemmological laboratories will only report on the improvements or treatments known to the laboratories at the date of the report.

(iv) For jewellery sales, all Estimates are based on the information in any gemmological report or, if no gemmological report is available, You should assume that the gemstones may have been treated or enhanced.

(b) Clocks & Watches: All Lots are sold “as seen”, and the absence of any reference to the condition of a clock or watch does not imply the Lot is in good condition and without defects, repairs or restorations. Most clocks and watches will have been repaired during their normal lifetime and may now incorporate additional/ newer parts. Furthermore, we make no representation or warranty that any clock or watch is in working order. As clocks and watches often contain fine and complex mechanisms, Buyers should be aware that a general service, change of battery or further repair work, for which the Buyer is solely responsible, may be necessary. Buyers should also be aware that we cannot guarantee a watch will remain waterproof if the back is removed. Buyers should be aware that the importing watches such as Rolex, Frank Muller and Corum into the United States is highly restricted. These watches cannot be shipped to the USA and only imported personally. Clocks may be sold without pendulums, weights or keys.

(c) Alcohol: may only be sold to persons aged of 18 years and over. By registering to bid, You affirm that You are at least that age. All collections must be signed for by a person over the age of 18. We Reserve the right to ask for ID from the person collecting. Buyers of alcohol must make appropriate allowances for natural variations of ullages, conditions of corks and wine. We can provide no guarantees as to how the alcohol may have been stored. There is always a risk of cork failure and allowance by the Buyer must be made. Alcohol is sold “as is” and quality of the alcohol is entirely

at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties are given.

(d) Books-Collation: If on collation any named item in the sale Catalogue proves defective, in text or illustration the Buyer may reject the Lot provided he returns it within 21 days of the sale stating the defect in writing. This, however, shall not apply in the case of unnamed items, periodicals, autographed letters, music M.M.S., maps, drawings nor in respect of damage to bindings, stains, foxing, marginal worm holes or other defects not affecting the completeness of the text nor in respect of Defects mentioned in the Catalogue, or at the time of sale, nor in respect of Lots sold for less than £300.

(e) Electrical Goods: are sold as “works of art” only and if bought for use must be checked over for compliance with safety regulations by a qualified electrician first. Use of such goods is entirely at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties as to safety of the goods are given.

(f) Upholstered items: are sold as “works of art” only and if bought for use must be checked over for compliance with safety regulations (items manufactured prior to 1950 are exempt from any regulations). Use of such goods is entirely at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties as to safety of the goods are given. We provide no guarantee as to the originality of any wood/material contained within the item.

B. REGISTERING TO BID

1. NEW BIDDERS

(a) If this is Your first time bidding at Lyon & Turnbull or You are a rev turning Bidder who has not bought anything from us within the last two years You must register at least 48 hours before an auction to give us enough time to process and approve Your registration. We may, at our discretion, decline to permit You to register as a Bidder. You will be asked for the following:

(i) Individuals: Photo identification (driving licence, national identity card or passport) and, if not shown on the ID document, proof of Your current address (for example, a current utility bill or bank statement)

(ii) Corporate clients: Your Certificate of Incorporation or equivalent document(s) showing Your name and registered address together with documentary proof of directors and beneficial owners, and;

(iii) Trusts, partnerships, offshore companies and other business structures please contact us directly in advance to discuss requirements.

(b) We may also ask You to provide a financial reference and/or a deposit to allow You to bid. For help, please contact our Finance Department on +44(0)131 557 8844.

2. RETURNING BIDDERS

We may at our discretion ask You for current identification as described in paragraph B.1.(a)

above, a finance reference or a deposit as a condition of allowing You to bid. If You have not bought anything from us in the last two years, or if You want to spend more than on previous occasions, please contact our Finance Department on +44(0)131 557 8844.

3. FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE RIGHT DOCUMENTS

If in our opinion You do not satisfy our Bidder identification and registration procedures including, but not limited to, completing any anti-money laundering and/ or anti-terrorism financing checks we may require to our satisfaction, we may refuse to register You to bid, and if You make a successful bid, we may cancel the contract between You and the Seller.

4.

BIDDING ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON

(a) As an authorised Bidder: If You are bidding on behalf of another person, that person will need to complete the registration requirements above before You can bid, and supply a signed letter authorising You to bid for him/her.

(b) As agent for an undisclosed principal: If You are bidding as an agent for an undisclosed principle (the ultimate Buyer(s)) You accept personal liability to pay the Purchase Price and all other sums due, unless it has been agreed in writing with us before commencement of the auction that the Bidder is acting as an agent on behalf of a named third party acceptable to us and we will seek payment from the named third party.

5. BIDDING IN PERSON

If You wish to bid in the saleroom You must register for a numbered bidding paddle before You begin bidding. Please ensure You bring photo identification with You to allow us to verify Your registration.

6. BIDDING SERVICES

The bidding services described below are a free service offered as a convenience to our clients and we are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise), omission or breakdown in providing these services.

(a) Phone bids

Your request for this service must be made no later than 12 hours prior to the auction. We will accept bids by telephone for Lots only if our staff are available to take the bids. If You need to bid in a language other than English You should arrange this Well before the auction. We do not accept liability for failure to do so or for errors and omissions in connections.

(b) Internet Bids

For certain auctions we will accept bids over the internet. For more information please visit our Website. We will use reasonable efforts to carry out online bids and do not accept liability for equipment failure, inability to access the internet or software malfunctions related to execution of online bids/ live bidding.

(c) Written Bids

While prospective Buyers are strongly advised to attend the auction and are always responsible for any decision to bid for a particular Lot and shall be assumed to have carefully inspected and satisfied themselves as to its condition we shall, if so instructed, clearly and in writing execute bids on their behalf. Neither the Auctioneer nor our employees nor agents shall be responsible for any failure to do so. Where two or more commission bids at the same level are recorded we Reserve the right in our absolute discretion to prefer the first bid so made. Bids must be expressed in the currency of the saleroom. The Auctioneer will take reasonable steps to carry out written bids at the lowest possible price, taking into account the Reserve. If You make a written bid on a Lot which does not have a Reserve and there is no higher bid than Yours, we will bid on Your behalf at around 50% of the lower Estimate or, if lower, the amount of Your bid.

C. DURING THE SALE

1. ADMISSION TO OUR AUCTIONS

We shall have the right at our discretion, to refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person. We may refuse admission at any time before, during or after the auction.

2. RESERVES

Unless indicated by an insert symbol (∆), all Lots in this Catalogue are offered subject to a Reserve. A Reserve is the confidential Hammer Price established between us and the Seller. The Reserve is generally set at a percentage of the low Estimate and will not exceed the low Estimate for the Lot.

3. AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION

The maker of the highest bid accepted by the Auctioneer conducting the sale shall be the Buyer and any dispute shall be settled at the Auctioneer’s absolute discretion. The Auctioneer may move the bidding backwards of forwards in any way he or she may decide or change the order of the Lots. The Auctioneer may also; refuse any bid, withdraw any Lot, divide any Lot or combine any two or more Lots, reopen or continuing bidding even after the hammer has fallen.

4. BIDDING

The Auctioneer accepts bids from:

(a) Bidders in the saleroom;

(b) Telephone Bidders, and internet Bidders through Lyon & Turnbull Live or any other online bidding platform we have chosen to list on and;

(c) Written bids (also known as absentee bids or commission bids) left with us by a Bidder before the auction.

5. BIDDING INCREMENTS

Bidding increments shall be at the Auctioneer’s sole discretion.

6. CURRENCY CONVERTER

The saleroom video screens and bidding platforms may show bids in some other major currencies as Well as sterling. Any conversion is for guidance only and we cannot be bound be any rate of exchange used. We are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise) omission or breakdown in providing these services.

7.

SUCCESSFUL BIDS

Unless the Auctioneer decides to use their discretion as set out above, when the Auctioneer’s hammer falls, we have accepted the last bid. This means a contract for sale has been formed between the Seller and the successful Bidder. We will issue an invoice only to the registered Bidder who made the successful bid. While we send out invoices by post/or email after the auction, we do not accept responsibility for telling You whether or not Your bid was successful. If You have bid by written bid, You should contact us by telephone or in person as soon as possible after the auction to get details of the outcome of our bid to avoid having to pay unnecessary storage charges.

8. RELEVANT LEGISLATION

You agree that when bidding in any of our sales that You will strictly comply with all relevant legislation including local laws and regulations in force at the time of the sale for the relevant saleroom location.

D. THE BUYER’S PREMIUM, TAXES AND

ARTIST’S RESALE ROYALTY

1. THE PURCHASE PRICE

For each Lot purchased a Buyer’s Premium of 27% of the Hammer Price of each Lot up to and including £20,000, 26% of the Hammer Price from £20,001 up to and including £800,000, 20% from £800,001 thereafter. VAT at the appropriate rate is charged on the Buyer’s Premium. No VAT is payable on the Hammer Price or premium for printed books or unframed maps bought at auction. Live online bidding may be subject to an additional premium (level dependent on the live bidding service provider chosen). This additional premium is subject to VAT at the appropriate rate as above.

2. VALUE ADDED TAX

Value Added Tax is charged at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of sale and is payable by Buyers of relevant Lots.

(a) Lots affixed with (†): Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price is imposed by law on all items affixed with a dagger (†). This imposition of VAT maybe because the Seller is registered for VAT within the European Union and is not operating under a Margin Scheme.

(b) Lots affixed with (*): A reduced rate of Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price of 5% is payable. This indicates that a Lot has been imported from outwit the European Union. This reduced rate is applicable to Antique items.

(c) Lots affixed with [Ω]: Standard

rate of Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price and premium is payable. This applies to items that have been imported from outwit the European Union and do not fall within the reduced rate category outlined above.

3. ARTIST’S RESALE ROYALTY (DROIT DE SUITE)

This symbol § indicates works which may be subject to the Droit de Suite or Artist’s Resale Right, which took effect in the United Kingdom on 14th February 2006. We are required to collect a royalty payment for all qualifying works of art. Under new legislation which came into effect on 1st January 2012 this applies to living artists and artists who have died in the last 70 years. This royalty will be charged to the Buyer on the Hammer Price and in addition to the Buyer’s Premium. It will not apply to works where the Hammer Price is less than £1,000. The charge for works of art sold at and above £1,000 and below £50,000 is 4%. For items selling above £50,000, charges are calculated on a sliding scale. All royalty charges are paid to the Design and Artists Copyright Society (‘DACS’) and no handling costs or additional fees are retained by the Auctioneer. Resale royalties are not subject to VAT. More information on Droit de Suite is available at www.dacs. org.uk.

E. WARRANTIES

1. SELLER’S WARRANTIES

For each Lot, the Seller gives a warranty that the Seller;

(a) Is the owner of the Lot or a joint owner of the Lot acting with the permission of the other co-owners, or if the Sellers is not the owner of or a joint owner of the Lot, has the permission of the owner to sell the Lot, or the right to do so in law, and;

(b) Had the right to transfer ownership of the Lot to the Buyer without any restrictions or claims by anyone else.

If either other above warranties are incorrect, the Seller shall not have to pay more than the Purchase Price (as defined in the glossary) paid by You to us. The Seller will not be responsible to You for any reason for loss of profits or business, expected savings, loss of opportunity or interest, costs, damages, other damages or expense. The Seller gives no warranty in relation to any Lot other than as set out above and, as far as the Seller is allowed by law, all warranties from the Seller to You, and all obligations upon the Seller which may be added to this agreement by law, are excluded.

2. AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE

We guarantee that the authorship, period, or origin (collectively, “Authorship”) of each Lot in this Catalogue is as stated in the BOLD or CAPITALISED type heading in the Catalogue description of the Lot, as amended by oral or written saleroom notes or announcements. We make no

warranties whatsoever, whether express or implied, with respect to any material in the Catalogue other than that appearing in the Bold or Capitalised heading and subject to the exclusions below.

In the event we, in our reasonable opinion, deem that the conditions of the authenticity guarantee have been satisfied, it shall refund to the original purchaser of the Lot the Hammer Price and applicable Buyer’s Premium paid for the Lot by the original purchaser.

This Guarantee does not apply if:

(a) The Catalogue description was in accordance with the opinion(s) of generally accepted scholar(s) and expert(s) at the date of the sale, or the Catalogue description indicated that there was a conflict of such opinions; or

(b) the only method of establishing that the Authorship was not as described in the Bold or Capitalised heading at the date of the sale would have been by means or processes not then generally available or accepted; unreasonably expensive or impractical to use; or likely (in our reasonable opinion) to have caused damage to the Lot or likely to have caused loss of value to the Lot; or

(c) There has been no material loss in value of the Lot from its value had it been in accordance with its description in the Bold or Capitalised type heading.

This Guarantee is provided for a period of one year from the date of the relevant auction, is solely for the benefit of the original purchaser of the Lot at the auction and may not be transferred to any third party. To be able to claim under this Authenticity Guarantee, the original purchaser of the Lot must:

(a) notify us in writing within one month of receiving any information that causes the original purchaser of record to dispute the accuracy of the Bold or Capitalised type heading, specifying the Lot number, date of the auction at which it was purchased and the reasons for such dispute; and

(b) return the Lot to our registered office in the same condition as at the date of sale to the original purchaser of record and be able to transfer good title to the Lot, free from any third party claims arising after the date of such sale.

We have discretion to waive any of the above requirements. We may require the original purchaser of the Lot to obtain, at the original purchaser of Lot’s cost, the reports of two independent and recognised experts in the field. The reports must be mutually acceptable to us and the original purchaser of the Lot. We shall not be bound by any reports produced by the original purchaser of the Lot, and Reserves the right to seek additional expert advice at its own expense. It is specifically understood and agreed that the rescission of a sale and the refund of the original Purchase Price paid

(the successful Hammer Price, plus the Buyer’s Premium) is exclusive and in lieu of any other remedy which might otherwise be available as a matter of law. Lyon & Turnbull and the Seller shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages incurred or claimed, including without limitation, loss of profits or interest.

3. YOUR WARRANTIES

(a) You warrant that the funds used for settlement are not connected with any criminal activities, including tax evasion and You are neither; under investigation, have been charged with or convicted of money laundering, terrorist activities or other crimes.

(b) Where You are bidding on behalf of another person You warrant that:

(i) You have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate Buyer(s) of the Lot(s) in accordance with all relevant anti-money laundering legislation, consent to us relying on this due diligence, and You will retain for a period of not less than five years the documentation evidencing the due diligence. You will make such documentation promptly available for immediate inspection by a third party auditor upon our written request to do so;

(ii) The arrangements between You and the ultimate Buyer(s) in relation to the Lot or otherwise do not, in whole or in part, facilitate tax crimes, and;

(iii) You do not know, and have no reason to suspect that the funds used for settlement are connected with the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion, or that the ultimate Buyer(s) are under investigation or have been charged with or convicted of money-laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes.

F. PAYMENT

1. MAKING PAYMENT

(a) Within 7 days of a Lot being sold You will pay to us the Total Amount Due in cash or by such other method as is agreed by us. We accept cash, bank transfer (details on request), debit cards and Visa or MasterCard credit cards. Please note that we do not accept cash payments over £5,000 per Buyer per year.

(b) Any payments by You to us can be applied by us towards any sums owing by You to us howsoever incurred and without agreement by You or Your agent, whether express or implied.

(c) We will only accept payment from the registered Bidder. Once issued, we cannot change the Buyer’s name on an invoice or re-issue the invoice in a different name.

(d) The ownership of any Lots purchased shall not pass to You until You have made payment in full to us of the Total Amount Due. The risk in and the responsibility for the Lot will transfer to You from whichever is the earlier of the following:

(i) When You collect the Lot; or (ii) At the end of the 30th day following the date of the auction, or, if earlier, the date the Lot is taken into care by a third party unless we have agreed otherwise with You in writing.

(e) You shall at Your own risk and expense take away any Lots that You have purchased and paid for not later than 7 working days following the day of the auction or upon the clearance of any payment whichever is later. Please note we do not accept cheques. We can provide You with a list of shippers. However, we will not be responsible for the acts or omissions of carriers or packers whether or not recommended by us.

(f) No purchase can be claimed or removed until it has been paid for.

(g) It is the Buyer’s responsibility to ascertain collection procedures, particularly if the sale is not being held at our main sale room and the potential storage charges for Lots not collected by the appropriate time.

2. IN THE EVENT OF NONPAYMENT

If any Lot is not paid for in full and taken away in accordance with these Conditions or if there is any other breach of these Conditions, we, as agent for the Sellers and on their behalf, shall at our absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights we may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights and remedies:

(a) To proceed against You for damages for breach of contract;

(b) To rescind the contract for sale of that Lot and/or any other Lots sold by us to You;

(c) To resell the Lot(s) (by auction or private treaty) in which case You shall be responsible for any resulting deficiency in the Total Amount Due (after crediting any part payment and adding any resale costs).

(d) To remove, store and insure the Lot in the case of storage, either at our premises or elsewhere and to recover from You all costs incurred in respect thereof;

(e) To charge interest at a rate of 5% a year above the Bank of Scotland base rate from time to time on all sums outstanding for more than 7 working days after the sale;

(f) To retain that or any other Lot sold to You until You pay the Total Amount Due;

(g) To reject or ignore bids from You or Your agent at future auctions or to impose conditions before any such bids shall be accepted;

(h) To apply any proceeds of sale of other Lots due or which become due to You towards the settlement of the Total Amount Due by You and to exercise a lien over any of Your property in our possession for any purpose until the debt due is satisfied. You will be deemed to have granted such security to us and we may retain such property as collateral

security for Your obligations to us; we may decide to sell Your property in any way we think appropriate. We will use the proceeds of the sale against any amounts You owe us and we will pay any amount left from that sale to You. If there is a shortfall, You must pay us the balance; and

(i) Take any other action we see necessary or appropriate.

G.

COLLECTION & STORAGE

(1) It is the Buyer’s responsibility to ascertain collection procedures, particularly if the sale is not being held at our main sale room and the potential storage charges for Lots not collected by the appropriate time. Information on collection is set out in the Catalogue and our Website

(2) Unless agreed otherwise, You must collect purchased Lots within seven days from the auction. Please note the Lots will only be released upon full payment being received.

(3) If You do not collect any Lot within seven days following the auction we can, at our discretion;

(i) Charge You storage costs at the rates set out on our Website.

(ii) Move the Lot to another location or an affiliate or third party and charge You transport and administration costs for doing so and You will be subject to the third party storage terms and pay for their fees and costs.

(iii) Sell the Lot in any way we think reasonable.

H.

TRANSPORT & SHIPPING

1. TRANSPORT AND SHIPPING

We will include transport and shipping information with each invoice sent to You as well as displayed on our Website. You must make all transport and shipping arrangements.

2. EXPORT OF GOODS

Buyers intending to export goods should ascertain;

(a) Whether an export licence is required; and

(b) Whether there is any specific prohibition on importing goods of that character, e.g. items that may contain prohibited materials such as ivory or rhino horn. It is the Buyer’s sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. The denial of any licence or any delay in obtaining licences shall neither justify the recession of any sale not any delay in making full payment for the Lot.

3. CITES: ENDANGERED PLANTS AND ANIMALS LEGISLATION

Please be aware that all Lots marked with the symbol Y may be subject to CITES regulations when exporting these items outside the EU. These regulations may be found at http://www.defra.gov.uk/ ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites. We accept no liability for any Lots which may be subject to CITES but have not be identified as such.

I. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU

(a) We give no warranty in relation to any statement made, or information give, by us, our representatives or employees about any Lot other than as set out in the authenticity warranty and as far as we are allowed by law, all warranties and other terms which may be added to this agreement by law are exclude. The Seller’s warranties contained in paragraph E.1 are their own and we do not have a liability in relation to those warranties.

(b) (i) We are not responsible to You for any reason whether for breaking this agreement or any other matter relating to Your purchase of, or bid for, any Lot other than in the event of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by us other than as expressly set out in these conditions of sale; or

(ii) We do not give any representation, warranty or guarantee or assume any liability for a kind in respect of any Lot with regard to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, description, size, quality, condition, attribution, authenticity, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibition history, literature or historical relevance, except as required by local law, any warranty of any kind is excluded by this paragraph.

(c) in particular, please be aware that our written and telephone bidding services, Lyon & Turnbull Live, Condition Reports, currency converter and saleroom video screens are free services and we are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise) omission or breakdown in these services.

(d) We have no responsibility to any person other than a Buyer in connection with the purchase of any Lot

(e) If in spite of the terms of this paragraph we are found to be liable to You for any reason, we shall not have to pay more than the Purchase Price paid by You to us. We will not be responsible for any reason for loss of profits, business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs damages or expenses.

J. OTHER TERMS

1. OUR ABILITY TO CANCEL

In addition to the other rights of cancellation contained in this agreement, we can cancel the sale of a Lot if;

(i) Any of our warranties are not correct, as set out in paragraph E3,

(ii) We reasonably believe that completing the transaction is or may be unlawful; or

(iii) We reasonably believe that the sale places us or the Seller under any liability to anyone else or may damage our reputation.

2. RECORDINGS

We may videotape and record proceedings at any auction. We will keep any personal information confidential, except to the extent disclosure is required by law if You do not wish to be videotaped, You may make arrangements to bit by

telephone or a written bid or bid on Lyon & Turnbull Live instead. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, You may not videotape or record proceedings at any auction.

3. COPYRIGHT

We own the copyright in respect of all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for us relating to a Lot. (Including Catalogue entries unless otherwise noted in the Catalogue) You cannot use them without our prior written permission. We do not offer any guarantee that You will gain any copyright or other reproductions to the Lot.

4. ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT

If a court finds that any part of this agreement is not valid or is illegal or impossible to enforce, that part of the agreement will be treated as deleted and the rest of this agreement will remain in force.

5. TRANSFERRING YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

You may not grant a security over or transfer Your rights of responsibilities under these terms on the contract of sale with the Buyer unless we have given our written permission. This agreement will be binding on Your successors or estate and anyone who takes over Your rights and responsibilities.

6.

REPORTING ON WWW.LYONANDTURNBULL. COM

Details of all Lots sold by us, including Catalogue disruptions and prices, may be reported on www.lyonandturnbull.com. Sales totals are Hammer Price plus Buyer’s Premium and do not reflect any additional fees that may have been incurred. We regret we cannot agree to requests to remove these details from our Website.

7. SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY

(a) The same Conditions of Sale (Buyers) shall apply to sales by private treaty.

(b) Private treaty sales made under these Conditions are deemed to be sales by auction and subject to our agreed charges for Sellers and Buyers.

(c) We undertake to inform the Seller of any offers it receives in relation to an item prior to any Proposed Sale, excluding the normal method of commission bids.

(d) For the purposes of a private treaty sale, if a Lot is sold in any other currency than Sterling, the exchange rate is to be taken on the date of sale.

8. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY

All members of the public on our premises are there at their own risk and must note the lay-out of the premises, safety and security arrangements. Accordingly, neither the Auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall incur liability for death or personal injury or similarly for the safety of the property of persons visiting prior to, during or after a sale.

9. DATA PROTECTION

Where we obtain any personal information about You, we shall use it in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy (subject to any additional specific consent(s) You may have given at the time Your information was disclosed). A copy of our Privacy Policy can be found on our Website www.lyonandturnbull. com or requested from Client Services, 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR or by email from data enquiries@ lyonandturnbull.com.

10. FORCE MAJEURE

We shall be under no liability if they shall be unable to carry out any provision of the Contract of Sale for any reason beyond their control including (without limiting the foregoing) an act of God, legislation, war, fire, flood, drought, failure of power supply, lock-out, strike or other action taken by employees in contemplation or furtherance of a dispute or owing to any inability to procure materials required for the performance of the contract.

11. LAW AND JURISDICTION

(a) Governing Law: These Conditions of Sale and all aspects of all matters, transactions or disputes to which they relate or apply shall be governed by, and interpreted in accordance with, Scots law (b) Jurisdiction: The Buyer agrees that the Courts of Scotland are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle all disputes arising in connection with all aspects of all matters or transactions to which these Conditions of Sale relate or apply.

K. DEFINITIONS & GLOSSARY

The following words and phrases used have (unless the context otherwise requires) the meaning to given to them below. The go Glossary is to assist You to understand words and phrases which have a specific legal meaning which You may not be familiar with.

1. DEFINITIONS

“Auctioneer” Lyon & Turnbull Ltd (Registered in Scotland No: 191166 | Registered address: 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR) or it’s authorised representative conducting the sale, as appropriate;

“Bidder” a person who has completed a Bidding Form

“Bidding Form” our Bidding Registration Form our Absentee Bidding Form or our Telephone Bidding Form.

“Buyer” the person to whom a Lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer. The Buyer is also referred to by the words “You” and “Your”

“Buyer’s Premium” the sum calculated on the Hammer Price at the rates stated in Catalogue.

“Catalogue” the Catalogue relating to the relevant Sale, including any representation on our Website

“Condition Report” the report on the physical condition of a Lot

provided to a Bidder or potential Bidder by us on behalf of the Seller.

“Estimate” a statement of our opinion of the range within the hammer is likely to fall.

“Hammer Price” the level of bidding reached (at or above any Reserve) when the Auctioneer brings down the hammer;

“High Cumulative Value of Lot” several Lots with a total lower Estimate value of £30,000 or above;

“High Value Lot” a Lot with a lower Estimate of £30,000 or above;

“Lot” each Item offered for sale by Lyon & Turnbull;

“Purchase Price” is the aggregate of Hammer Price and any applicable Buyer’s Premium, VAT on the Hammer Price (where applicable), VAT on the Buyer’s Premium and any other applicable expenses;

“Reserve” the lowest price below which an item cannot be sold whether at auction or by private treaty;

“Sale” the auction sale at which a Lot is to be offered for sale by us.

“Seller” the person who offers the Lot for Sale. We act as agent for the Seller.

“Total Amount Due” the Hammer Price in respect of the Lot sold together with any premium, Value Added Tax or other taxes chargeable and any additional charges payable by a defaulting Buyer under these Conditions;

“VAT” value added tax at the prevailing rate at the date of the sale in the United Kingdom.

“Website” Lyon & Turnbull’s Website at www.lyonandturnbull. com

2. GLOSSARY

The following have specific legal meaning which You may not be familiar with. The following glossary is intended to give You an understanding of those expressions but is not intended to restrict their legal meanings:

“Artist’s Resale Right” the right of the creator of a work of art to receive a payment on Sales of that work subsequent to

“Knocked Down” when a Lot is sold to a Bidder, indicated by the fall of the hammer at the Sale.

“Lien” a right for the person who has possession of the Lot to retain possession of it.

“Risk” the possibility that a Lot may be lost, damaged, destroyed, stolen, or deteriorate in condition or value.

“Title” the legal and equitable right to the ownership of a Lot.

GUIDE TO BIDDING & PAYMENT

REGISTRATION

All potential buyers must register prior to placing a bid. Registration information may be submitted in person at our registration desk, by email, or on our website. Please note that first-time bidders, and those returning after an extended period, will be asked to supply the following documents in order to facilitate registration:

1 – Government issued photo ID (Passport/Driving licence)

2 – Proof of address (utility bill/bank statement). We may, at our option, also ask you to provide a bank reference and/or deposit. By registering for the sale, the buyer acknowledges that he or she has read, understood and accepted our Conditions of Sale.

BIDDING IN THE SALEROOM

At the Sale Registered bidders will be assigned a bidder number and given a paddle for use at the sale. Once the first bid has been placed, the auctioneer asks for higher bids in increments determined by the auctioneer. To place your bid, simply raise your paddle until the auctioneer acknowledges you. Please ensure that the auctioneer repeats your bidder number correctly when confirming the sale. If there is any doubt at this stage as to the hammer price or buyer it must be brought to the auctioneer’s attention immediately. All lots will be invoiced to the name and address given on your registration form, which is non-transferable.

BIDDING OUTSIDE THE SALEROOM

BY PHONE

A limited number of telephone lines are available for bidding by phone through a Lyon & Turnbull representative. Phone lines must be reserved in advance. All bid requests must be received an hour before the sale. All telephone bids must be confirmed in writing, listing the relevant lots and appropriate number to be called. We recommend that a covering bid is also left in the event that we are unable to make the call. We cannot guarantee that lines will be available, or that we will be able to call you on the day, but will endeavour to undertake such bids to the best of our abilities. This service is available entirely at our discretion and at the bidder’s risk.

IN WRITING

Bid forms are available at the sale and/or the back of the catalogue. These should be submitted in person, by post, or by fax as soon as possible prior to the sale and we will bid on your behalf up to the limit indicated. In the event of receiving two identical bids the first one received will take precedence All bids must be received an hour before the sale. This service is provided entirely at the bidder’s risk.

ON THE INTERNET

- ABSENTEE BIDDING

Leave a bid online through our website, call us on 0131 557 8844 or email info@lyonandturnbull.com

- BID LIVE ONLINE

Bid live online, for free, with Lyon & Turnbull Live. Just click the button from the auction calendar, sale page or any lot page online to register.

PAYMENT

Our accounts teams will continue to be available to process payments and answer queries. We will be able to accept online payments through our website and bank transfer. On-site payment facilities are available by appointment.

Payment is due within seven (7) days of the sale. Lots purchased will not be released until full payment has been received. Payment may be made by the following methods:

BANK TRANSFER

Account details are included on any invoices we issue or upon request from our accounts department.

ONLINE CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD PAYMENTS

We no longer accept card payments by phone. Please use our online payment service (provided by Stripe).

You will find a link to this service in any email invoice issued or you can visit the payments section of our website.

CASH

No cash payments will be accepted for this auction.

COLLECTION OF PURCHASED LOTS

Please refer to page 2 of this catalogue.