14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 869/0210

SOLD Hammer price €160

Coloured Plates: Temple (Richard) Palestine Illustrated, folio L. 1888. FIRST EDN., 4 maps, 2 litho plts. & 32 fine cold. pts. orig. cloth, gilt. Good. (1)

Lot 870/0210

SOLD Hammer price €140

Chamouin (J.B.M.) Collection de Vus de Paris Prises au Daguerreotype, engraved title and 25 plates, tissue guards, very clean, trade label of Papeterie de Chartier on front pastedown, original roan-backed boards, worn, oblong, folio, Paris, [c. 1850]. (1)

Lot 871/0210

Shaw (Thos.)Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, folio Oxford 1738. FIRST EDN., red & bl. title with engd. vign. engd. hd. & tails, 11 engd. maps some fold., & 19 plts., lower portion damp stained, hf. title, title dam. (no text loss), last leaf (index) dam. with minimal loss (3 lines), orig. full sprinkled calf, lower edges slightly dam. (1)

Lot 872/0210

SOLD Hammer price €100

Architectural Plates – Architectural Publication Society, Vols. I & II, 1848 – 49, & 1849 – 50, 2 vols. in one, folio, L. 1848 – 1850., 51 litho plts., some fine hd. cold., orig. mor. worn. As a coll. of plts. (1)

Lot 873/0210

SOLD Hammer price €400

Grose (Andre) Les Pyrenees Monumentales et Pittoresques Presiere Partie: Luchon et ses Environs, part 1 only, 22 fine lithographed views, 5 double page, printed in colours and finished in colour by hand, lacking lithographed title, original cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners frayed, a very good copy [Perret 1990], oblong folio, [Luchon], [c. 1850]. (1)

Lot 874/0210

With Fine Coloured Plates

Houghton (Rev. W.) British Fresh-Water Fishes, 2 vols. folio L. n.d. [1879] 2 cold. frontis & 39 fine cold. plts. (41 plts. in all), a.e.g., orig. pict. & gilt decor. cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 875/0210

“The Book of Job”

Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job, folio possibly 1906 Edition, Engd. pict. title page & 21 full page plts. on heavy card pages, designed and engd. after Wm. Blake, each plate bears imprint ‘London Published as the Act directs March 8, 1825, by William Blake No. 3 Fountain Court Strand,’ & measure approx. 37cms x 26.5cms (14 1/2″ x 10 1/2″), end papers watermarked 1905, in fine full calf, tooled gilt panels, corner decorations, raised bands, & decorations in panels, by Bumpus, London. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 876/0210

Bound by Carss, Glasgow

Binding: Gems of Art, Forming A Choice Collection Engraved from Pictures of Acknowledged Excellence, Beauty & Variety… . Folio L. 1823. 35 fine full page engd. plts. a.e.g. full cont. green mor. heavy gilt line borders & overall gilt tooled decor. by Carss, Glasgow, with ticket. (1)

Lot 877/0210

With Large Folding Plates

Sander (Anton) Chorographia Sacra, Brabantiae, 3 vols. lg. folio The Hague 1726. First Edn., hf. title & red & bl. title in Vol. I, engd. vign. dedit, engd. port. wd. cut & engd. heads & tails, & 66 fine engd. dbl. page (6 single) plts., marble ends, orig. mottled calf, worn & covers loose. (3)

Lot 878/0210

“A Scribbler’s Diary”

Collins (William Herbert) A Scribbler’s Diary, Extracts from the Common-Place Book of a Common-Place Fellow. Compiler’s Copy. Compiled in Collaboration with Arthur Dennis 1907.
Manuscript, large quarto, circa 370 numbered pages in a large clear hand, handsomely bound in full green Morocco gilt, fitted with a heavy brass lock (key not present), spine with raised bands, doublures elaborately gilt, a.e.g., marble endpapers. With daily entries recording the writer’s views on life, with verses, stories and anecdotes. ‘Some seventeen years ago I had made for my use a book with a lock … In it from time to time I have jotted down odds and ends that have appealed to me… Some months ago .. for the amusement of my friends, I extracted a few hundred entries and arranged them as head-lines to the pages of this Diary..’ The ‘diary’ runs from 1 January to December 31. The subject-matter is mainly humorous and whimsical. The compiler gives his address as 9 Fell Road, Croydon; we have no further information about him. (1)

Lot 879/0210

Fine Attractive Coloured Plates

Ackermann (Rudolph) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, 2 vols., lg. 4to, L. 1812, FIRST EDN., First Issue, hf. title, portrait & cold. frontis, list of subs., 81 cold. aquatints (complete), t.e.g., contemp. hf. mor., marbled boards, gilt decor spine. Good. (2)

Lot 880/0210

Tinted Plates: Switzerland its Scenery and People, Pictorially represented. Lg. folio L. 1881. Hd. cold. frontis pict. title, & profusely illustrated with plts. etc., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 881/0210

Maxwell (Sir H.) Sixty Years a Queen, the Story of Her Majesty’s Reign. folio L. n.d. fine cold. chromo litho frontis port., cold. title, profusely illustrated thro.-out, fine gilt decor. mor. backed cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 882/0210

Livingstone – The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, L.L.D., lg. 4to L. n.d. Frontis add. decor. title & 19 full page tinted plts., cont. hf. mor. Good. (1)

Lot 883/0210

SOLD Hammer price €60

Shakespeare (Wm.) The Norton Facsimile, The First Folio of Shakespeare, folio, N.Y. 1996, Lim. Edn. (Second Printing) 458 (1000), hf. calf, marble boards, t.e.p. in cloth slipcase. Good. (1)

Lot 884/0210

Fine Engraved Views

Belfast Binding: Sherer (John) Europe Illustrated, … France, Belgium, The Rhine, 2 vols. v. lg. 4to L. n.d. 2 engd. add. titles, 2 engd. frontis & 116 full page engd. plts. a.e.g. strongly bound in hf. crimson mor. by MacArthur & Co., Wellington Place, Belfast, with ticket. A very good clean set. (2)

Lot 885/0210

Fine Copy: Picturesque Canada, A Pictorial Delineation of The Beauties of Canadian Scenery and Life. 2 vols. folio L. (Cassell & Co.), n.d. 2 add. engd. titles, 2 red & bl. titles, frontis profusely illus. with other plts. & illus., & some engd. plts., a.e.g., fine hf. crimson mor. tooled gilt spines in panels, by Hunt Towcester. A very fine and attractive copy. (2)

Lot 886/0210

Engraved by W.H. Bartlett, T. Moran etc.

American Scenery: Willis (N.P.) Picturesque American Scenery, lg. 4to Troy N.Y. 1883. Engd. frontis & 23 lg. engd. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 887/0210

Atlas: Johnston (Alex Keith) Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, folio Edin. & L. 1873. New Edn., 45 lg. dble. page engd. maps, hd. cold. in outline, & 1 m/ss folio Sketch Map of Dr. Livingstone’s Discoveries, loosely inserted, a.e.g. strongly bound in hf. red mor. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 888/0210

[Lavery (Sir John)] The Glasgow Art Club Book, Lg. folio Glasgow 1885. For Subscribers Only, 62 fine plts., t.e.g., orig. vellum backed cloth; also The Scottish Artist’s Club Album, folio Edin. 1892, FIRST EDN., 60 plts., orig. decor. cloth.
* Lavery studied firstly, and then flourished in Scotland at this time. He was a member of the Glasgow Art Club and has one illustration in the first item. (2)