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CELEBRATING A WINTER WEDDING IN PARIS Lines Presented to Mrs Croft with a White Rose on her Wedding Day by her affectionate Cousin Robert Charles Dallas

Robert Charles Dallas
1823
Beautiful presentation volume by an infatuated Oxford undergraduate (shortly afterwards President of the Union) following his cousin’s winter wedding at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris. Small oblong volume with matching slipcase (13.5x11.5cm) The manuscript book has olive green printed paper overlay, the upper cover with a hand-coloured… Read more…
#8327

£1250.00

‘BILL GIVEN BY YOU TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE FOR £200’ A Master Cabinet-Maker gets Tough with a Major Client

Thomas Chippendale; John Ferguson
1772
A letter sent on behalf of Thomas Chippendale that fills in a gap in the known sequence of correspondence between the master cabinet maker and one of his most important clients, Sir Rowland Winn, of Nostell Priory. Bifolium on ‘L V Gerrevink’ watermarked paper. Conjugate address leaf ‘To Sir Rowland Winn Bar[one]t at Nostell near Pontefract Yorkshi… Read more…
#8320

£2950.00

ILLUSTRATED CLOTH BINDING Conjurer Dick; or The Adventures of a Young Wizard

Angelo J Lewis - Professor Hoffmann
1886
Early edition in a splendid Victorian illustrated cloth binding. Green bevel-edged boards with four-colour depiction of the conjurer at work. Small puncture to spine; rubbing to extremities and light staining to upper cover. Floral endpapers with ‘Wilsden Board School’ prize bookplate dated to 1891; 8 pages of preliminaries, heavily foxed with fron… Read more…
#8349

£150.00

UNRECORDED PICTORIAL BICYCLING IMPRINT The New Departure “Hiram Jones Series,” 1-8

New Departure Manufacturing Company; Brown Bros Ltd
1902
In verse and pictures, the cycling adventures of Hiram Jones - sent as eight weekly cards by Brown Brothers of London - to advertise the new coasting brake manufactured by the New Departure Manufacturing Company of Connecticut. Eight stiff cards (18x14cm), printed on both sides in green and black. On the recto of each is the full title which explai… Read more…
#8344

£350.00

NATURALIST GILBERT WHITE’S MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAMILY COPY OF THE APOCRYPHA

[Gilbert White]
1700
An extraordinary family copy owned and inscribed by the author of the Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Gilbert White, and subsequently by his favourite niece Mary White who copy-edited his book, and her husband - and cousin - Benjamin White who published their uncle’s masterpiece. This comprehensive web of ownership and association is r… Read more…
#8334

£7500.00

1920S NEWNHAM COLLEGE PHOTO ALBUM including the Visit of Crown Prince Hirohito

Newnham College Undergraduate
1920
Undergraduate photo album recording life at Newnham College from 1920-1923 with an emphasis on hockey and rowing as well as the visit of Crown Prince Hirohito to Cambridge in 1921. Oatmeal cloth binding (24x19.5cm); bookseller’s ticket to the front pastedown, ‘The Ancient House Bookshop and Library, Ipswich’; 38 greenish-grey card leaves with 288 p… Read more…
#8311

£650.00

JUDGE’S NOTEBOOK CONTAINING TRIAL NOTES OF A LANCASHIRE WOMAN TRANSPORTED TO NEW SOUTH WALES

Edmund Henry Lushington
1812
Mr Justice Edmund Lushington’s court-room notes on the trial of a Manchester baker, Elizabeth Dewhurst, for passing forged banknotes - a crime that would subsequently result in her transportation to Botany Bay. Small notebook, attractively bound in roan (94x168mm), hinged along the short side. On the front pastedown is written: ‘E H Lushington Marc… Read more…
#8289

£1750.00

WITH 14TH CENTURY ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT WASTE Unio Dissidentium Libellus Omnibus..

Hermann Bode - Bodius; Martinus de Keyser
1533
From the collection of the medieval manuscript expert Neil Ker and bound with 2 leaves of an English manuscript of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on Aristotle. Contemporary blind-stamped pig skin; remains of clasp fixings; scuffing to extremities; 4cm tear to the pigskin rising along the outer hinge between spine and lower board not affecting integr… Read more…
#8288

£2500.00

1860s SKETCHBOOK INCLUDING ‘CANNES FROM THE BEACH’

Amelia Glanville Furness
1860
Attractive woman’s sketchbook recording a trip made in the summers of the 1860s from Cannes to the Channel Islands and on to England. Textured green cloth binding (23x13cm) Furness’s name on the front paste-down with another name added: ‘Mrs Ellis Lucerne Swiss’ - perhaps Amelia’s married name? The drawings and watercolours are on thick paper of se… Read more…
#8286

£175.00

‘BOOK OF HIMSELFE’ - a Country Clergyman’s Unpublished Autobiography of Hypochondria and Illness

Samuel Jackson
1758
An 18th century country clergyman’s narrative of hypochondria, illness and death: Jackson’s life-writing being continued and completed decades after his death by his sons. Small quarto (17x20cm) bound in full contemporary sheepskin, rebacked; new endpapers and a few paper repairs. In addition to the manuscript book there are several inserts includi… Read more…
#7939

£2500.00

UNRECORDED BROADSIDE From the Events which have Recently Taken Place Respecting Baptism

Mary Morris Knowles
1809
Unrecorded broadside by the Quaker poet, abolitionist and defender of women’s liberties. Single sheet (32x16cm) printed on one side only, old folds and a few short tears and tiny chips to edges. The address to Lavinia and Lavinia’s answer are printed in two columns, preceded by an introduction which mostly misprepresents the genesis of the text: ‘F… Read more…
#8346

£250.00

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; ‘SCENE ON THE HUDSON’ & ‘THE RACES OF MEN’ - A Rhode Island Sketchbook

Charles Henry Springer
1890
Oblong sketchbook bound in black roan (26x17cm) with ‘C H Springer’ in gilt lettering to the upper cover; rubbing to extremities. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. An unfinished pencil sketch precedes a sequence of 32 drawings, mostly in pen and ink wash, many with hand-drawn frames and clearly taken from a variety of sources, a few drawn from lif… Read more…
#8333

£950.00

THE KING’S AGENT MAKES A SUBMISSION TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT on West Indies Trade

Andrew Symmer
1770
Two page letter arguing for the creation of a sort of freeport on Grand Turk in the West Indies in order to permit trade in ‘Flour, Fish, Lumber, Provisions of all sorts and British Manufactured Goods’ even if carried by ‘French and Spanish Craft from their respective colonies.’ Double sided letter on a single sheet of paper with old folds; horizon… Read more…
#8316

£150.00

Children of Dune FIRST EDITION

Frank Herbert
1976
First British edition of the final novel in the Dune trilogy, thought to be a copy retained by the publisher. Near fine book, with a pencilled note on the front flyleaf: ‘Arr[ived]]. Aug. 20 Pub[lished]. Sep. 23’ presumably recorded by a Gollancz employee. Beautifully clean text printed on the high quality paper used by Gollancz at the time. Very g… Read more…
#8301

£450.00

RARE 1790s DUBLIN IMPRINTS: A Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of Charles Jackson, Late Resident at Wexford in Ireland; The First Number of the Report of the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor; The Natural Son, A Play; Know Your Own Mind, A Comedy;

Charles Jackson; Arthur Murphy; Augustus von Kotzebue; Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor
1798
An unrecorded edition of Charles Jackson’s Narrative of his role in the Wexford Rebellion is the star item in this fascinating collection of Dublin imprints from the 1790s. Small octavo-sized volume bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards with red morocco spine label: ‘Tracts’. Endpapers with 1794 dated watermark. The imprints appear as… Read more…
#8291

£950.00

Arthur Balfour Debates Education Policy - a Three page Manuscript Policy Document from the Year that Balfour became Prime Minister

Arthur Balfour
1902
Fascinating document written by the soon-to-be Prime Minister setting out the alternatives for what would be known as the Balfour Education Act. Writing on a three sides of a small bifolium, blind-embossed with the House of Commons crest on the first leaf, scarred to the final page where it has been removed from an album page, the Conservative lead… Read more…
#6529

£225.00

TUDOR & STUART HISTORY The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh [with] The History of Great Britain [with] The Reign of King Charles

Francis Bacon; Arthur Wilson; Hamon L’Estrange
1641
Three separately published English histories dating from the Civil War and Commonwealth period which offer contrasted interpretations of Tudor and Stuart history, and each bound without their engraved portraits. Small folio (26x18cm) in 19th century half calf with marbled endpapers and on the front pastedown the bookplate of Edward Fenwick Boyd de… Read more…
#8351

£950.00

A GIFT BETWEEN TWO ROTHSCHILD WOMEN The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treatises of the Intended Marriage of Qu: Elizabeth..

Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord Burleigh, Dudly Digges
1655
First edition with most distinguished provenance, having been gifted by the first Lady Rothschild to her daughter in law, the formidable Roszika Rothschild. Folio bound in imitation of 17th century full calf, signed by ‘Hatchards, 197 Piccadilly’ with 5 raised spine bands, gilt to spine panels and date at the tail of the spine - no doubt executed f… Read more…
#8347

£1850.00

ENGRAVER TO THE SUN KING: A COLLECTION OF 17TH CENTURY ENGRAVINGS Oeuvre de Sebastien Le Clerc

Sebastien Le Clerc; Abercairny
1690
500 engravings from the late 17th century made by Louis XIV’s chief engraver which include celebrated depictions of the fountains of ‘le labryrinthe de Versailles’, costume at the court of the Sun King and the Fauxbourgs of Paris. Three large quarto volumes (21x26cm) bound in worn calf; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of ‘Abercairny’ (Scottish… Read more…
#8340

£2500.00

UNRECORDED MEDICAL IMPRINT WITH RECIPES Margaret Makewell’s Best Friends; or Eighty Most Excellent Prescriptions and Recipes

Margaret Makewell [Pseudonym]
1833
Unrecorded and otherwise apparently unknown collection of ‘Prescriptions and Recipes’ published by the Norwich printer, Jarrold. Bound upside down in the publisher’s decorative, ribbed cloth over boards with a printed paper label to the upper cover. Faded and scuffed but sound; sewing loose but holding. The book collates: vi, pp42. A little brownin… Read more…
#8341

£450.00

Abraham Lincoln

J Alfred Sharp
1925
Scarce dustjacketed edition of this biography of Lincoln. Third impression of 1925 bound in blue boards; old damp staining to edges of cloth. Jacket is in good condition with some loss at the head and tail of the spine and several closed tears. The jacket reproduces the oval image of Lincoln that appears on the frontispiece opposite the title page.… Read more…
#8337

£125.00

Northanger Abbey, [and] Persuasion

Jane Austen
1854
A very trim copy of Richard Bentley's 1854 edition of two Jane Austen novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, bound in a most attractive publisher’s bindings of blind-stamped brown cloth. Yellow-coated endpapers and a 19th century ownership inscription of ‘Edgar Jones’ to the recto of the 1833 engraved frontispiece which has a tissue guard and is… Read more…
#8336

£250.00

Last Poems by D H Lawrence Edited by Richard Aldington

D H Lawrence
1935
First edition in attractive patterned boards, no ownership inscriptions, a little spotting. Very good plus in a very good jacket. An uncommon posthumous publication containing some wonderful poems. Read more…
#8335

£75.00

RIVIERE BINDING & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED In Kedar’s Tents

Henry Seton Merriman
1897
Beautifully Riviere-bound and extra-illustrated with 26 amateur photographs of turn-of-the-century Spain including 3 images of a bull fight. Crushed red morocco, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins. The 26 additional silver gelatin photographs are mounted on inserted leaves and include images of Gibraltar, Toledo, Madrid and three… Read more…
#8332

£325.00

SIGNED A FEW DAYS AFTER WINNING THE BOOKER PRIZE - Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel
2009
First edition, fifth impression of this landmark novel, signed on the title page by Mantel a few days after she won the Booker Prize in October 2009 at her appearance at the Ilkley Literature Festival. A very sharp copy, fine in a fine jacket, unread and inscribed to two of the volunteer helpers at the Festival in Mantel’s characteristic italic han… Read more…
#8331

£225.00