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WOLPHIUS (Joannes).
De christiana perseverantia,
commentationis consolatoriae, ad N. captivos fratres liber unus.
(bound before: KORTHOLT (Christian), the elder. De
persecutionibus ecclesiae primitivae sub imperatoribus ethnicis,
deque veterum Christianorum cruciatibus tractatus. Jenae:
impensis Joh. Lud … excudebat Samuel Krebsius, 1660).
Tiguri
apud Christoph. Froschouerum,
1578
FIRST EDITIONS, (1). Leaves (14), (2, blank), 48, the title-leaf
lightly and evenly toned with two small holes in the blank
margin clear of text, otherwise a very good and well-margined
copy. (2). Pages (16), 464, (16), text lightly browned and with
some worming in the first thirty pages which slightly affects the
text, otherwise a very good copy. Two works in one volume,
small 8vo, 17C unlettered calf: the binding in very good state.
Adams W 242, Caius only. Both works recorded in COPAC by the BL
copy only.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1411
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WOOD (Robert).
The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise
Tedmor, in the Desart.
London: Printed in the year
1753
FIRST EDITION, the issue with errata beginning “Page 7. 1.
28”, with 57 (i. e. 59) engraved plate including one, the
panorama, on three sheets, pages (6),50, folio, strongly bound in
recent quarter calf, with label: neat repair to the very extreme
upper and lower margin of the title-page but otherwise a very
good copy.
‘Palmyra’ Wood (1717?–71), traveller, author, politician, born near
Trim, Co. Meath. This book “was, by all accounts, a triumph such as
no English architectural book had ever before achieved. Here was the
first of a new breed of archaeological works presenting the results of on-
the-spot investigations of ancient monuments, with ostensibly accurate
measured drawings of the ruins, precise descriptions of the state and the
site in which they were discovered, and exact copies of what inscriptions
there were. This material was intended to serve lovers of antiquity,
scholars, artists and architects, regardless of nationality or interest. Its
publication was greeted with widespread acclaim throughout Europe. “ -
Harris, British Architectural Books 939.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
1412
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WORKMAN (Wm.).
Corinthian Cruise in the Walrus,
R. U. Y. C., to the west coast of Scotland [July 1st-19th, 1878].
London: “The Field” Office, c. 1879. [bound with:]
[WORKMAN (Wm.) ?] Corinthian Cruise in the Walrus [July
8th-July 25th, 1879]. Reprinted from Hunt’s Yachting Magazine,
January and February, 1880.
Circa
1879-80
(1) FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 12-pages, large 12mo, original
blue glazed printed wrapper (lacking lower cover), edges gilt:
nice copy. (2) FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, drop-title,25-
pages, 8vo,2 works bound as one in recent paper wrapper: in
very good to nice state.
Apparently an unrecorded account of an 18-day cruise from
Carrickfergus. Not traced in WorldCat or COPAC. The author’s off-
print of the second cruise is almost equally elusive.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1413
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WRANGEL (Ferdinand P,), Baron.
Narrative of an
expedition to the Polar Sea, in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, &
1823. Commanded by …Wrangell … Edited by Major Edward
Sabine, R. A., F. R. S.
James Madden and Co.,
1840
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a large folding map in an
end pocket, pages cxxxvii, 413 and advert leaf, 8vo, finely bound
in recent quarter morocco, gilt: with a small faint stamp on the
title-page, otherwise a nice, mainly unopened (from page 73 to
end), copy.
Wrangel (1796-1870), Russian explorer who completed the mapping of
the north-eastern coast of Siberia (1820-24), located the island later
named after him, Governor of the Russian colony in Alaska (1829-35)
and director (1840-49) of the Russian-American Company. The
translation, from Engelhardt’s German trans-lation of the then
unpublished Russian original, is by Mrs Sabine, an accomplished
woman who aided Sir Edward Sabine for more than half a century in
his scientific investigations.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1414
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WRIGHT (John).
The Fruit Grower’s Guide. With
illustrations by Miss May Rivers and numerous illustrative
diagrams by Worthington G. Smith and George Shayler.
J. S.
Virtue & Co.
(1892-94)
FIRST TRADE EDITION, with 3 additional chromolitho titles
and 43 striking chromolitho plates of fruit, 3 vols in the original
6 separate uniformly bound parts, 4to, original green cloth,
edges gilt: without a single cracked or weak joint: a nice copy,
rarely found so.
Published simultaneously in three formats: 23 parts by subscription, a
three-volume deluxe edition, and this trade edition of “six divisions”
bound separately. A significant feature of the work is that many of the
fine plates illustrate traditional fruits, many of which are no longer
grown commercially.
(6)
€350-€500 (£280-£400 approx.)
1415
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WRIGHT (Paul).
The new and complete family prayer-
book, or Church of England Man’s Divine Library: an universal
illustration, commentary, exposition, and paraphrase on the
Book of Common Prayer … Embellished with a numerous set
of elegant copper-plate engravings …
Printed for Alex. Hogg
[1784]
FIRST EDITION THUS, with two differing engraved
frontispieces (Adam and Eve, and, view of St Paul’s Cathedral)
and 36 engraved plates, pages (12), v-xvi, (9)-47,56-417, (1), (2,
subscriber list), apparently complete thus, folio, recently bound
in quarter dark red morocco, gilt, retaining almost all of the
richly gilt backstrip and label: a very good to nice, clean and
well-margined copy: a subscriber’s copy.
With “Thomas Weston”, a subscriber, on blank recto of first
frontispiece, and, on title-page “Thomas West / London May 1784”.
Published in 36 parts. ESTC locates four copies (BL, Canterbury,
Huntington & Queen’s Oxford) and dates it [?1785].
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1416
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XENOS (Stefanos Theodorus).
Depredations; or,
Overend, Gurney, & Co., and the Greek & Oriental Steam
Navigation Company.
London: Published by the Auuthor, at No. 9,
Essex Street, Strand,
1869
FIRST EDITION, with a full-page illustration, pages viii, 377,
8vo, original cloth: a little wear at the headbands and the inside
joints cracked but the binding otherwise sound and strong and
internally a nice copy.
An interesting insight to the working of Greek businesses in London.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HARRIS (James Rendel).
Ulysses to his Friends. Private and Confidential.
Birmingham, D.
McMichael, printer
[1917]. FIRST EDITION, with a plate, 40-
pages, small 8vo, original printed wrappers: a nice copy.
On the author’s experiences at sea 1916-17. NSTC has L only and
COPAC adds two copies. Harris ((1852-1941), biblical scholar and
orientalist, 1918-24 curator of MSS at Rylands Library, Manchester.
His writings reflect his unconventional and speculative mind, and
immense, if at times somewhat unbalanced, erudition.
(2)
LONDON.
The curiosities of London; containing a
descriptive and entertaining sketch of the British metropolis, for
the amusement of youth. Ornamented with numerous superb
engravings.
Printed for Thomas Tegg, J. Dick, Edinburgh; and J.
Cumming, Dublin
[1810?]. With 6 attractive full-page woodcuts,
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