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Anson’s Voyage Round the World, Chart with 6 engraved views: a chart of the Pacific Ocean from the Equinoctial to the Latitude of 39½.

By: [ANSON, George]

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Printed for J. Hinton at the King’s Arms in St Paul’s Church Yard, 1748.:

Seller ID: 39867

Single sheet, 525 x 200 mm. The six engraved views are: Part of the Northeast Side of Terra del Fuego at the entrance to the Straits le Maire, Burning of the Town of Payta on the coast of Santa Fee in the South Sea, Chinese Vessels, a View of Cape Espiritu Santu on Samal..., Watering Place at Tenian, Compilation view. The final compilation view “A View of the Commodore’s Tent and the Island of Juan Fernandes” has been modified with the addition of two sea lions in the foreground; Anson is depicted with his back to the viewer, looking towards his tents, and flanked by a male a...
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Image for The History of the Ancient and Present State of Navigation of the Port of King's-Lyn and of Cambridge, and the Rest of the Trading Towns in Those Parts; and of the Navigable Rivers That Have Their Course Through the Great Level of the Fens called Bedofrd Level. Also the History of the Ancient and Present State of Draining of That Level, in the Province of Marshland...With The Method proposed for Draining the Said Fens, and Amending the Harbour of Lyn: by Col. John Armstrong, Chief Engineer of England.

The History of the Ancient and Present State of Navigation of the Port of King's-Lyn and of Cambridge, and the Rest of the Trading Towns in Those Parts; and of the Navigable Rivers That Have Their Course Through the Great Level of the Fens called Bedofrd Level. Also the History of the Ancient and Present State of Draining of That Level, in the Province of Marshland...With The Method proposed for Draining the Said Fens, and Amending the Harbour of Lyn: by Col. John Armstrong, Chief Engineer of England.

By: [BADESLADE, Thomas]

Price: £500.00

Publisher: J. Roberts for the Author, 1725.:

Seller ID: 40813

First edition. Folio. pp. [10, including list of subscribers often wanting], 148; 7 maps and plans [4 folding, 2 hand-coloured]. Modern sheep spine over original boards. Title page margins repaired, a little overall light browning. Bookplate of Sir John Hynde Cotton [1686 - 1752] M.P. variously for Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and Marlborough.
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The Inside of St. Peter’s [Westminster]

By: [BOWLES, John?]

Price: £50.00

Publisher: [John Bowles?], c. 1765.:

Seller ID: 40580

Engraved print, 175 x 220 mm. Marked ‘e’ in the plate, bottom left corner.
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Image for The Names and Situations of the Constellations: to which is added the Names of the Principal Stars therein, as laid down by Cary’s New Celestial Globes: also an explanation of the equation table given on his terrestrial globe.

The Names and Situations of the Constellations: to which is added the Names of the Principal Stars therein, as laid down by Cary’s New Celestial Globes: also an explanation of the equation table given on his terrestrial globe.

By: [CARY, John]

Price: £400.00

Publisher: printed by E. Spragg, 1806.:

Seller ID: 39897

12mo. pp. 21, [3, adverts for Cary’s globes and atlases.] Plain grey paper wrappers, top corner torn away. A little internal creasing, but Very Good. BL have an undated version, which they date to 1795, from the same printer. However, it is possible that this is the first edition and the undated version a later reprint. It was later reprinted in 1819 by Andrew Wilson and then numerous times by Hancock from the 1820s to the 1840s.
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The Churchill Toby Jug. [List of] Subscribers.

By: [CHURCHILL, Winston S.]

Price: £450.00

Publisher: c. 1947.:

Seller ID: 38136

4to. pp. [20]. The original manuscript subscribers’ book for the Churchill Toby Jug which Lord Mackintosh of Halifax commissioned from Leonard Jarvis in 1947. The jug was produced in an edition of 350 numbered copies. The manuscript consists of neatly drawn cells for the autographs of the recipients, numbered 1 - 260, the balance up to 350 not numbered. Over 50 of these cells contain actual autographs of the subscriber, including Mackintosh of Halifax [2], Electra W. Bostwick [2], H.A. Pitkin, Nicholas Layzen, Ian D. Hayward, Frank Partridge, W.W. Listor, Cdr. D. Wallace Jones, D. Bushel...
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The Poor Man’s Petition. [a poem]

By: [COGGES CHARITIES?]

Price: £50.00

Publisher: [Oxford?]: C. Penny, c. 1820:

Seller ID: 39527

Single sheet, 195 x 160 mm. Decorative border and woodcut of well-dressed mother and daughter giving alms to an old man. A little frayed and torn. Cogges is a village close to Witney in Oxfordshire. This would appear to be an appeal for the poor, possibly a ballad to be sold by the poor in the manner of an early ‘Big Issue’.
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Image for This is to give Notice, to all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others, That there is to be Seen, at the...The Electrical Machine, which shows the surprising power of Electricity, by a series of Experiments more than ever were exhibited to Publick, by any apparatus yet extant...

This is to give Notice, to all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others, That there is to be Seen, at the...The Electrical Machine, which shows the surprising power of Electricity, by a series of Experiments more than ever were exhibited to Publick, by any apparatus yet extant...

By: [ELECTRICAL MACHINE NOTICE]

Price: £750.00

Publisher: [London?]: no publisher, c. 1760.:

Seller ID: 39797

Handbill notice, single sheet, 120 x 175 mm, worn and rubbed, small hole to bottom line. “First, it causes a person electrif’d to emit Fire from any part of the Body, so as to set Fire to Spirits of Wine; the Electric Spark is taken singly, or by the whole Company at once: Which was performed before the King and 180 of his Guards who all felt it at the same time.” The Georgian period was the start of the popularisation of ‘electric machines’ which were starting to be used in medicine for the curing of all sorts of ills. However the spectacular aspect of this new...
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A History of Hurstperpoint, by a Native, a Minor.

By: [ELLIS, William Smith]

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Brighton: Phillips, 1837.:

Seller ID: 38336

Small 8vo. pp. iv, 74. Original printed boards, cloth spine torn down most of its length. Copac lists the Guildhall Library and the National Trust only.
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Selections from the Hursley Magazine for the Years 1848 & 1849: with facsimiles of the Original Title Pages and other illustrations.

By: [HURSLEY PARK] YOUNG, Rev. Peter editor

Price: £3,000.00

Publisher: Hursley Park: privately printed at Hursley Park, 1861.:

Seller ID: 38146

8vo. pp. [14], 145; 11 lithographs [some hand coloured]. Bound in an unusual leaf patterned contemporary sheep binding, lettered in gilt along the spine. A ‘country house’ printing. “This little book has been printed by ladies with Cooper’s Parlour Printing Press; the Illustrations, copied from the originals by the same hands, have been reproduced by the Anastatic process” [by Cowell’s of Ipswich]. “Only thirty copies have been printed.” Copac records the British Library and the Bodleian only. 27 authors and contributors are listed [two deceas...
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The Sparrow.

By: [KENDALL, Edward Augustus]

Price: £450.00

Publisher: E. Newbery, 1798.:

Seller ID: 39557

12mo. pp. xv, 200; frontispiece engraved by J. Scott after Thurston, woodcut to title page. Original green vellum backed boards, the boards faded and worn on the corners, the vellum split along most of the front joint. Internally a little shaken, corner torn from final text leaf with loss of part of the catch-word. Roscoe J208(I).
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A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo. Introduction by Charles D. Abbott, librarian of the Lockwood Memorial Library.

By: [LOCKWOOD, Thomas B.]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: New York: Printed by Richard W. Ellis for the Lockwood Memorial Library, 1935.:

Seller ID: 39628

1st Edition. Limited to 960 copies. Calf backed cloth, Fine in slipcase. Presentation copy inscribed by Abbott, with a letter from him loosely inserted. Contains details of a selection of literature, 1st Editions, private press books and fine bindings.
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The Blessings of Boroughmongering. A Sketch of the Borough of Minehead.

By: [LUTTRELL, J.F.]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Chard: printed by J. Toms, c. 1832.:

Seller ID: 39899

8vo. pp. 8. No wrappers as issued. BL dates this at 1875, but as it is clearly a polemic against Rotten Boroughs and J. F. Luttrell, the sitting Member for Minehead 1812 - 1831, it must date to the elections of 1832, following the Reform Bill when the rotten borough of Minehead was incorporated into the new wider constituency of West Somerset. Luttrell lost his seat.
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More Hall and the Dragon of Wantley.

By: [PHOTOGRAPHY]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: c. 1875.:

Seller ID: 40827

Square 8vo. 4 original albumen photographs slip mounted, printed title and verse to first page. The Dragon of Wantley [near Sheffield], is a 17th Century broadside ballad reprinted in Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry recounting the slaying of a dragon by Moore [or More] or More Hall. The photographs would appear to show More Hall and surrounding riverside views.
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There Can’t Be Good Living Where There is Not Good Drinking, by Benjamin Franklin 1745.

By: [ROXBURGHE CLUB & ZAMORANO CLUB]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Printed by Gordon Williams, 1988.:

Seller ID: 39973

Broadsheet, 432 x 304 mm, printed in red and black. One slight crease. Presentation copy inscribed by the printer “To Ian [sic], with best wishes - Gordon.” The recipient was Iain Bain, scholar and expert on printing techniques. Printed by Gordon Williams for the Members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs as a keepsake of their 1988 joint meeting in San Francisco.
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The Clock House, No. 8, Chelsea Embankment. For Sale by Auction. An Important Freehold Town House.

By: [SHAW, Richard Norman]

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Messrs, Chesterton & Sons, 1920.:

Seller ID: 38785

4to. pp. 12; 4 photographs. Wrappers, Very Good. Auction particulars for this important house designed by Richard Norman Shaw and built in 1879. Externally it remains much the same, though with less ivy; internally it has long ago been converted into appartments.
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Address to the Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition.

By: [SMITH, Horace]

Price: £100.00

Publisher: c. 1821.:

Seller ID: 39790

3 page manuscript copy of Horace Smith’s poem, apparently copied by J. Ward in the 1820s. Possibly the only remembered poem by Horace Smith, this celebrated Belzoni’s great exhibitions of the early 1820 where he displayed some of his finest acquisitions from Egypt.
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An Account of the Action Between the Allied Army and That of France, near Tournay, the 11th of May, N.S. 1745. With the Names of the General and Other Officers, and a Number of private Men and Horses, that were killed, wounded and missing in each regiment.

By: [WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION]

Price: £275.00

Publisher: Whitehall: Published by Authority, May 11, 1745.:

Seller ID: 39738

Small folio. pp. 8. Unbound, a little worn along the edges. The official account of the action which was a prelude to the famous French victory at Fontenoy.
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Map of Gloucestershire Showing Its Ancient Camps, Roman Villas, Barrows and Roads.

By: [WITTS, G.B.]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Cheltenham: G. Norman, [1881]:

Seller ID: 40142

Map, 940 x 880 mm. mounted on linen in cloth covers. An explanatory book was issued to accompany the map, not present here.
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