14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 829/0210

Musset (Paul de) Voyage Pittoresque en Italie, roy 8vo Paris 1864. New Edn., 17 engd. plts., includ. frontis & 6 hd. cold. plts. cont. mor. backed cloth boards, clean copy. (1)

Lot 830/0210

Atkinson (Thomas Witlam) Oriental and Western Siberia, chromo lithographed frontispiece, 19 lithographed plates, 3 chromo lithographed, large folding map, wood engraved illustrations, frontispiece and title and a few other ff. loose, C8 & D1 stained, tear to map, some repaired, original pictorial cloth, gilt, hinges weak, large 8vo, 1858. (1)

Lot 831/0210

SOLD Hammer price €560

Map: British Isles: Wyld (James) Map of the Superficial Geology of the British Isles The Line of Railways and the Steam Packet Routes, large folding map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected and linen-backed, slipcase, 1320 x 1015mm, James Wyld, 1840. (1)

Lot 832/0210

SOLD Hammer price €340

Map: South America: De La Rochette (L.S. dÁrcy) Colombia Prima or South America, engraved hand-coloured map, dissected and linen-backed, 1125 x 800mm, original board slip case, 8vo, 1820. (1)

Lot 833/0210

Bremner (Robert) Excursions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 2 vols., First Edn., 2 engraved frontispiece portraits, bookplates, contemporary hf. calf, scuffed, 1840; Laing (Samuel) Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, 8vo L. 1852, gift inscription on preliminary blank p., full contemporary calf. (3)

Lot 834/0210

Findlay (Frederick Roderick Noble) Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa, L. 1903, hf. title, frontispiece, full page illustrations, folding map, later cloth, mark obscuring old gilt stamp on upper cover. (1)

Lot 835/0210

SOLD Hammer price €130

Roosevelt (Theodore) Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, marginal water-stain throughout, original pictorial cloth, gilt rubbed and a little marked, 1905; Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 2 maps including 1 folding, occasional foxing, bookplate on front paste-down, original cloth, spine faded, 1914, First English Edn., hf. title, plts, 8vo. (2)

Lot 836/0210

SOLD Hammer price €460

Polar Travel: Back (Capt. George) Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, 8vo L. 1886, First Edn., 16 engraved and lithographed plates, folding map, 12pp. advertisements at end, bookplate of Charles Acton, original cloth, recased. (1)

Lot 837/0210

SOLD Hammer price €420

With Attractive Coloured Plates

Burma – Fytche (Lt. Gen. Albert) Burma Past and Present with Personal Reminiscences of the Country, 2 vols., First Edn., hf. title, 2 engraved portrait, 13 plates (10 chromo lithographed), folding map at end torn, illustrations, some full-page, 32pp publishers’ catalogue at end, original green cloth, gilt, vol. 1 rather damp mottled, vol. 2 near fine, 8vo, 1878. (2)

Lot 838/0210

Meakin (Budgett) The Moorish Empire, folding charts and maps, Presentation Copy signed by the Author, inscribed on hf. title, Herbert Cesinskey’s bookplate on front paste-down, upper joint frayed, 1899; The Moors: a Comprehensive Description, 1902, First Edn., plates and illustrations, advertisement, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt rubbed, 8vo. (2)

Lot 839/0210

Gell (Sir W.) & Gandy (J.P.) Pompeiana, the Topography … of Pompeii, thick 8vo, L. 1852, Third Edn., frontis, & 78 plts. (complete, four fold & two hd. cold.), contemp. cloth & gilt decor. Good. (1)

Lot 840/0210

Westall (Wm.) & Moule (Th.) Great Britain Illustrated, 4to L. 1830. Add. engd. vign. title, & 118 views on 59 plts. engd. by E. Finden, cont. hf. crimson mor., tooled gilt spine. (1)

Lot 841/0210

Pardoe (Julia) The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 4to L. 1843. Add. engd. t.p., port. frontis, maps, & 78 engd. plts. some stained or foxed, cont. hf. mor. (1)

Lot 842/0210

Hozier (H.M.) The Franco-Prussian War, 2 vols. 4to L. n.d. c. 1875, 1 engd. add. title, 21 ports. (includ. 2 frontis) 27 engd. plts. & 22 maps, some cold. & mostly dbl. page cont. hf. green mor. V. good. (2)

Lot 843/0210

Lorne (Marquis of,) Canadian Pictures, Drawn in Pen and Pencil. Folio L. n.d. First Edn., frontis fine wd. cut illus. & plts. thro-out, a.e.g. fine full gilt block tooled mor., v. good; also Menning (Rev. S.) American Pictures in Pen and Pencil, folio L. n.d. frontis, plts. & illus., thro-out, a.e.g. orig. pict. gilt cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 844/0210

SOLD Hammer price €180

English Views: Jones & Co. Views of the Seats Mansions and Castles etc of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, 2 vols. 4to L. 1829. 1 add. engd. title, 300 engd. views on 150 plts., orig. purple mor. tooled gilt spine. A very good clean set. (2)

Lot 845/0210

Pugin (A.) & Heath (C.) Paris and its Environs, … Picturesque Views, 2 vols. in one, 4to L. n.d. Engd. add title (ex 2), & 203 views in 101 plts., a.e.g. orig. cloth, gilt. V. clean copy. (1)

Lot 846/0210

Extremely Fine Copy

Joly (Herri L.) Legend in Japanese Art, 4to L. 1908. Cold. frontis & 15 cold. plts. numerous other illus., a.e.g., fine hf. crushed blue mor., tooled gilt spine, by Bumpus, Oxford, with orig. upr. cloth cover & spine bound in at end.
* Fine, from the Library of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid Stern Salomon of Broomhill, Kent, with his B.P. (1)

Lot 847/0210

Coloured Plates: Thompson (Rob.) The Gardener’s Assistant, thick roy 8vo Glasgow n.d. c. 1860. With 12 fine hd. cold. plts., orig. cloth, worn. (1)

Lot 848/0210

Baines (Thomas) Yorkshire Past and Present, 4 vols. 4to L. n.d. fold. dbl. page cold. map, & 27 engd. views & ports., a.e.g., cont. pict. gilt cloth, 2 vols. dam., w.a.f. (4)