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Bodleian Library … with notes, critical and exegetical, and
glossary, by Richard Francis Weymouth.
London & Berlin: Asher
& Co.,
1864. FIRST EDITION THUS, pages vi, 94, 8vo,
original green cloth, uncut: a very good to nice copy, with a neat
four-line inscription on the title-page, dated June 1877, by the
editor.
(2)
TROVILLION (Hal W.).
Faces and Places Remembered.
Herrin, Illinois, Trovillion Private Press,
1956. FIRST EDITION, 15
plates, pp 82, (3), 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: fine in original
tissue
Limited edition of 530 numbered copies on hand-made paper, signed by
the author.
(3)
GOETHE: - Manchester Goethe Society.
Transactions of
the Manchester Goethe Society, 1886-1893. Being original
papers and summaries of papers read before the Society, to
which is added, a classified catalogue of the Society’s library.
Warrington: Printed for the Society by Mackie & Co.,
1894. ALL
PUBLISHED, pages vii,213 and errata leaf, 8vo, original cloth,
gilt: the binding a little worn at corners but sound and strong
and otherwise a very good copy.
(4)
GERMANY, MAP, 1853: - Buehler (J. A.).
Post- und
Reisekarte von Deutschland und den nachbarstaaten bis
London, Genua, Warschau u. Kopenhagen … (Göpel’s
Eisenbahn-, Post- & Reisekarte …)
Stuttgart, Karl Göpel
1853.
Engraved map, on paper, coloured in outline, 66 by 58 cms,
folding to 8vo, tipped into the original attractive printed paper
boards, adverts on pink paper mounted on endpapers and 8-pp
of currency tables on pink paper tipped in: a very good to nice
copy in original state.
(5)
DOUILLON (Émile).
Guide du promeneur a Bex, à ses
salines, à ses montagnes et à ses environs. Deuxième édition.
Vevey, Gschwind & Suter,
1861. 68-pages, 12mo, original printed
paper wrappers: a lightly used but very good copy.
No edition in
NUC or BLC. Bex-les-Bains, noted Swiss spa. Includes a 4-pp flora.
(6)
DE BODE (Clement Joseph Philip Pen), Baron.
No. II
French Claims. A few words by the Baron de Bode in relation to
the funds paid by the French to the British government under
the treaties and conventions of 1814, 1815 and 1818, showing
the respective rights of the governments and of the parties
claiming under those treaties and conventions.
London: Printed by
Mills, Jowett, and Mills,
1830. Pp (2), 19, (1), 8vo, sewn as issued,
uncut and unopened: a very good copy in original state.
Goldsmiths’ 26253. Part I, not present here.
(7)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
713
.
CULPEPER (Nicholas).
The English Physician enlarged
with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines; made of English
herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an
astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation
…
London: Printed for the booksellers,
1799
Pages xii, 348, large 12mo, contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine,
with label, gilt: wanting a front blank flyleaf and with just a little
wear at the headbands: a very good to nice copy of a type of
book usually found ‘read to pieces’.
Henrey I. 240 No. 102. Of this edition ESTC locates L and Lrcp copies
in UK and nine in USA.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SOYER (Alexis).
The Modern
Housewife or Ménagère. Comprising nearly one thousand
receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every
meal of the day, and those for the nursery and sick room; with
minute directions for family management in all its branches …
Thirty fourth thousand.
Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,
1858. With a
portrait, an engraved dedication leaf, 4 plates, some text
illustrations and pp (10), (iii) - xvi,508, (4, opinions of the
press), (8, adverts), 8vo: with some light foxing, but a very good
copy in recent boards, with label.
Soyer (1809-58) left France during the July revolution of 1830 and in
1837 was appointed chef to the Reform Club in London, but his most
valuable work was in the reform of military cooking during the
Crimean campaign and, in association with Florence Nightingale, of
food supply to the hospitals.
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TUSSER (Thomas).
Five hundred points of good
husbandry, as well for the champion or open country, as for the
woodland or several … with a book of houswifery. Being a
chronicle of rural and domestic economy … exhibiting a picture
of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the
sixteenth century … A new edition, with notes, georgical,
illustrative, and explanatory, a glossary, and other
improvements. By William Mavor …
Printed for Lackington,
Allen, and Co., Temple of the Muses …,
1812. Pages 36, xl, 338, (2,
adverts), 8vo, original boards, edges uncut, recently and neatly
rebacked, with label: a nice copy.
Mavor’s esteemed edition of the biggest-selling book of poetry of the
reign of Elizabeth I.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
714
.
CUMMING (Roualeyn Gordon).
Five years of a hunter’s
life in the far interior of South Africa. With notices of the native
tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant,
hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. Second edition.
John
Murray,
1850
With map, additional pictorial title-pages and 15 plates, pages
xv, (1), 388: x, 381, (1), with half-titles,2 vols, 8vo, original cloth,
gilt, neatly rebacked, new endpapers: very good copy
“Cumming appears to have hunted every species of South African
fauna, and to have enjoyed an amount of sport almost unique even
amongst the mighty hunters of Africa. The narrative is valuable for the
account of the state of the country at this period, as well as for the
excellent description afforded of the natives of the interior, and of the
up-country Boers, while the interesting zoological and botanical notes
give added value to the work. “ —Mendelssohn
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GILLMORE (Parker).
The
Hunter’s Arcadia.
Chapman and Hall,
1886. FIRST EDITION,
with 18 plates, pages xvi, 300, 8vo, original brown cloth: very
good.
A classic account of hunting adventures in Bechuanaland.
(2)
TAYLOR (John).
Big Game and Big Game Rifles.
Herbert
Jenkins,
1953. With frontispiece,215-pp, 8vo, original cloth:
minor fore-edge foxing, but very good.
The second (unchanged)
reprint of the original edition of 1949.
(3)
MAYDON (H. C.),
et alia.
Big Game Shooting in Africa...
Seeley, Service, The Lonsdale Library XIV,
(1951). With many
plates, 445-pp, 8vo, orig cloth, gilt: minor endpaper foxing: very
good in dw (5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
715
.
CUTCHACUTCHOO: -.
Second Edition.
Cutchacutchoo, or the jostling of the innocents. Dublin: Printed
for C. Lewis [1805]. Pages xii,29, (3, blank), the dedication
signed ‘F. T. C. ‘ [bound with:] The History of Cutchacutchoo [:
prose]. Dublin: Printed for M. N. Mahon, 1805. First edition,22-
pages. [: and] The Croaker: and Venus Angry: addressed to the
author of Cutchacutchoo. Dublin: Printed by C. Downes, 1805.
First edition, pages viii, (9)-20, with the half-title. [and:] Dublin
Run Mad !!! Or, remarks on Cutchacutchoo, and its history:
with a poetical address to the real innocents of Dublin.
Dedicated to the author of Cutchacutchoo. Dublin: Printed by
Holmes and Charles, 1805. First edition, pages xii, (13)-47, (1,
blank), with the half-title.
Dublin
1805
167
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