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LINOCUT VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

1) [ALBUM]. [Pre-war album of unsigned linocuts, featuring portraits, landscapes and a single abstract piece]. [London?]. [s.n.], [1937-9].

Oblong 8vo. 13 linocuts on paper, affixed to six leaves of an album. Half calf over buckram. Worn, with tearing and loss to spine. Each cut affixed with glue to corners, some encroaching on image.

The cuts, rather strikingly executed, include landscapes (four): Windmill, dated Jan 1938, Timber framed house, dated Xmas 1937, 'Monnor Bridge, Monmouth', dated Xmas 1937, and a scene of bathers amongst reeds, one with a flute, undated. Portraits (five), all dated Jan-March 1938, including Raymond Massey and Vaughan Williams. The remaining four are: 'Lear', dated Xmas 1937, an untitled cartoon dated Xmas 1937, floral still life, undated, and 'Abstract', dated Feb. 1938. A five further linocuts appear to have been removed from the album

£ 200

 

     

 

Supplement 1 - Albums, Annotations, Ephemera and Manuscripts

                           

 

GREAT EXHIBITION BINDING?

2) [BIBLE - N.T, Gospel of Matthew. English]. The Beatitudes illuminated. [London]. [For Cundall and Addy], [1851].

Quarto. Calligraphic manuscript on paper. 10ff. Exquisitely bound in contemporary purple morocco, gilt, titled to upper board, by Hayday. A.E.G. With stamps of Hayday and Cundall and Addy to FEP. A fine copy, with the slightest of rubbing at head of spine. Preserved in a purple morocco slipcase, rubbed with ribbon detached. Illuminated title, the eight blessings of the Beatitudes elaborately illuminated in colour and gilt, each to a separate leaf, and a terminal index leaf. Each of the eight blessings are accompanied by transcriptions of fitting devotional poetry, including pieces by William Cullen Bryant and John Keble, amongst others attributed simply to 'AW', perhaps a relative of the illuminator, who has signed the terminal index leaf 'Mary Wrottesley 1851'.

A beautiful, luxury illuminated manuscript presumably produced for the publishers and booksellers Cundall and Addy, of Bond Street. Given the year of execution, and that Cundall and Addy were known to have an association with the binders Hayday and indeed recorded as having exhibited several of his bindings at Crystal Palace during the 1851 Great Exhibition, it is possible that this piece was displayed there.

c/f Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, Vol II. p.554, 'Specimens of bookbindings..in morocco, in a style suitable for ecclesiastical books, executed by James Hayday.'

£ 950

ANNOTATED DUBLIN CICERO

3) CICERO, Marcus Tullius. M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quaedam Selectae, Cum Interpretatione & Notis Quas in Usum Serenissimi Delphina Editit P. Carolus Marouille S.J. Quibis Praefigitur, Vita Ciceronis Per Annos Consulares Digesta... Dublinii, [i.e. Dublin]. Impensis Thomae Ewing, 1768. First Dublin Edition.

8vo. [8], xxvii, [1], 478pp, [14]. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering piece, gilt. Surface loss and several wormholes to boards, base of spine. With ink inscriptions and pen trials of Thomas Mahon to front and rear endpapers, with occasional and sometimes extensive ink annotation to text in the same hand, with particular scholarly attention paid to the 28pp Oratio Prima in L. Catilinam, Habita in Senatu.

An uncommon Irish imprint, with ESTC recording only three locations in the British Isles (Congregational Library, Dublin City, NLI) and four elsewhere (Holy Cross, Seminaire de Nicolet, Pennsylvania Van Pelt-Dietrich and Witwatersrand).

ESTC N34544.

£ 175

CHANNEL ISLANDS SILK PLAYBILL

4) [JERSEY]. [Silk playbill for a 'Grand Soiree Dramatique' by the Jersey Volunteer Fire Brigade, featuring The Miller & His Men followed by the single act farce Betsy Baker]. Jersey. C. Le Feuvre, Printed &c. Beresford Library, [1871].

186 x 320mm. Printed playbill on pink silk. 1ff. With four horizontal folds, and very slight creasing at edges, else fine.

A rare survival of this amateur Channel Islands production. OCLC locates no printed material referencing the Jersey Volunteer Fire Brigade, but does locate several unreleated items printed by Le Feuvre at the Beresford Library, where he seems to have flourished during the 1870s and 1880s.

£ 175

A COVENANTER'S JUSTINIAN

5) JUSTINIAN. D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis, Institutionum Libri Quatuor. Additi Sunt Tituli Digestor. De Verborum Significatione et Regulis Juris. Lugd. Batav., [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Danielem Gaesbeeck, 1674.

12mo. [16], 318pp, [26]. With extra-engraved title, and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Contemporary calf over wooden boards. Creasing to spine, rubbed, with upper joint and hinge splitting. Bookplate of Rt. Hon. Patrick Hume to FEP, ink inscription of his third son and eventual heir, Alexander Hume to blank-fly, with very occasional ink annotations in an early hand to text.

Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724). A Presbyterian Scottish MP, Hume studied law in Paris (perhaps where he acquired this present volume?) before taking up the patriotic cause of the Covenant. Imprisoned twice during the reign of Charles I, Hume eventually fled to the continent following suspicion of his involvement in the Rye House Plot, later returning as part of William of Orange's Glorious Revolution.

£ 200

6) [KASHMIR]. [Album, entitled "1932 Two Months Tour Jubbulpore to Rawalpindi by Train. Then by Road to Kashmir via the Banihall Pass Tunnel. Returning Through Rampure Domel to Murre and Pindi. Then aboard the Train for Jub Again]. [s.n.]. [1932].

268x188mm. 28ff. Stab-stitched string bound photograph album. With 324 photographs monochrome, images ranging in size from 38x28mm to 130 x 71mm, and a single colour postcard ('Kashmir Camp Life'). Slight wear to extremities, surfaces. Images mostly stuck-down, but with some loosely held within corner mounts. The vast majority are captioned. A handful of gaps, and with somewhat curious numbering (commencing 14 and ending at 264), but otherwise a comprehensive and largely intact album.

Generally topographic, with several bridges featured, some fauna and occasional portraiture. The latter frequently larger and including often rather striking images such as: '127E. Kashmiri on shikara in the Mah Canal' '138E. Shikara boat building from 1st Bridge' '151E. The potter at work' '156E. Mah Canal. Unloading the vegetables' '195E. Spearing fish' '211E. Taking the Jhelum from Rampur Rope Bridge' and '214E 1/2. Junction pool for timber. Boy guiding it into its next shute'

£ 450

1848 CARLISLE CHOLERA OUTBREAK

CARLISLE CHOLERA OUTBREAK

7) LONSDALE, Dr. Henry. [Prescriptions and advice to ‘Prevent, or mitigate the earlier symptoms of Cholera’]. [Carlisle]. [s.n.], 1848.

Folio. Single leaf broadside. Light vertical crease, else fine. With blank space left after 'To' to enable personalisation at beginning.

A rare survival from the 1848 Carlisle cholera outbreak, this single sheet addressed 'in compliance with your requests to know what steps should be taken to prevent, or mitigate the earlier symptoms of Cholera, until you can have medical aid from the town' was presumably intended for distribution, perhaps by post, to sufferers in outlying districts. The author, Henry Lonsdale M.D. (1816-76), was physician to the Cumberland Infirmary, and a political radical, being a friend of Garabaldi, Kossuth and Mazzini. His advice includes a detailed description of symptoms, and the recommendation of several home remedies. Adjacent are four prescriptions which, given their technical used of Latin and scientific measurements, were presumably intended for the use by pharmacists. These include opium powders, mercury, and laudanum, and, rather curtly, end with 'An Enema Pipe and Bladder'. Apparently unrecorded in COPAC and OCLC.

£ 95

REGENCY COMMONPLACE SCIENCE

8) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Nineteenth-century manuscript commonplace book of Mary Newson]. [1815].

Quarto. 63ff, several blanks and excised leaves. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards. With ink inscription of 'Mary Newson, 1815' to FEP, and the majority of the pieces signed 'B. Morey' or 'B.M.'. Rubbed to spine, with some loss.

An interesting early nineteenth-century commonplace book, with a remarkable bias towards scientific subjects: astronomy, navigation, physical science and botany, alongside the more standard literary, moral and religious topics. The texts referenced are varied, though often source or definitive texts for the concepts discussed: 'Adams lectures Vol. 4th', 'Southern Constellations. From Count Humboldt', 'Solar System, Lambert' and 'From Philosophical Transactions'. As with the scientific extracts, many of the remaining topics include reference to the texts from which they are copied: including a 2pp 'List of Books to form a Lady's Library recommended by a Clergyman', divided into 'Religious', 'Historical' and 'poetical' sections, 'from The Two Rectors'.

£ 450

ST. PETERSBURG PROVENANCE

9) PHILLIPS, Henry. Flora Historica: Or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre Historically and Botanically Treated; with Observations on Planting to Secure a regular Succession of Flowers, from the Commencement of Spring to the End of Autumn...In Two Volumes. London. Printed for E. Lloyd and Son, 1824. First Edition.

8vo. Two volumes. li, [1], 354, [2]. xii, [i.e. viiii], 464pp. Nineteenth-century continental tan half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities. Inscribed 'To Mrs Robert Anderson from Edw. Cateley April the 9/20 1882, In Memoriam' to head of blank fly, Vol I, with related presentation letter apparently from St. Petersburg, referring to the two volumes.

£ 150

LEITH TO SAN FRANCISCO AND PERU

10) [SHIP'S INCOME AND EXPENSE LOG]. [Manuscript log of the expenses of Barque Emily on a voyage from Leith to San Francisco and South America, 1853-5]. [Leith, San Francisco, Bolivia, Peru, Queenstown, Dungeness, Dover and Orford]. [1853-5].

Folio. 6ff used (of 28ff). Limp morocco-backed marbled wraps. A detailed record of the income and expenditure of the barque Emily (of Leith) during a trading voyage from Leith to San Francisco, and a return to Queenstown via Peru and Bolivia. The inclusion of a manuscript receipt pinned to one leaf confirms that the command of the vessel at the time was in the hands of one Captain Anderson.

£ 200

11) [TRIESTE]. [Folding Photographic Panorama of Trieste]. [s.n.]. [s.d.].

Folding photographic panorama in 4 sections (unfolded image measuring 690x145mm), affixed to card stock hinged with cloth. Two-tone cloth, titled in blind to upper board. Image/mount slightly marked, boards a trifle rubbed.

£ 200

MANUSCRIPT NOTES INSERTED

12) WOOLF, Christian. Elementa Matheseos Universae. Tomus I [-V]. Qui Commentationem De Methodo Mathematica, Arithmeticam, Geometriam, Trigonometriam Planam, et Analysin Tam Finitorum, Quam Infinitorum, Complectitur. Halae Magdeburgicae. Prostat in Officina Libraria Rengeriana, 1730-41. Editio Nova.

Quarto. Five volumes. [22], 678. [8], 506. [8], 768. [8], 488. [10], 526pp, [118]. With portrait frontispiece and 163 folding plates. Uncut in contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, with manuscript titles to spines. Some scuffing and loss to marbled paper of boards. Marginal worming to U4-X4, Nn2-4, just touching text of Oo1-4 without loss of sense. Tear without loss to Kk2, Vol IV. Manuscript Latin notes on the text, in a (likely) early nineteenth-century hand, on twenty slips ranging from single paragraph to bi-folia, concerning arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry and infinite series, inserted into Vol I. From the Turner collection previously at Keele University, with the usual presentation bookplates dated 1967, and an unrelated invoice to Turner from Sangorski and Sutcliffe loosely inserted.

A remarkable set - with considerable manuscript insertion - of an early edition of the German enlightenment philosopher and mathematician Christian Woolf's (1679-1754) comprehensive survey of mathematical science,

£ 1,500

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