J.H.

A, B and C.

1991. Three woodblock prints of letters, each 420 x 295 mm for the letters A, B and C in various forms. Each one is Number 7 of 37 copies, initialled and dated by the artist. Fine.

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Book number: 39986

[ROBERT SWEETING]

Abbotsbury and Its Monastic Remains.

G. and J. Dyer, 1842. Large folio. pp. [1, 2, 1]> 7 tinted lithographic plates printed by Hullmandel. Original printed wrappers, some very light staining to the outer margins and a couple of small closed tears but generally Very Good. Not in Abbey> Copac lists Cambridge and the Society of Antiquaries only.

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Book number: 37690

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel

[WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION]

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.

Whitehall: Published by Authority, May 11, 1745. 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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Book number: 39738

[ROBERT MERRY and CHARLES BONNER]

Airs, Duetts, and Chorusses, Arrangement and Scenery, and Sketch of the Pantomime, Entitled The Picture of Paris. Taken in the Year 1790. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden.

T.C. Cadell, 1790. 8vo. pp. 20 [with half title]. Later parchment backed boards. Robert Merry [1755 - 98] was a poet and dilettante who managed to squander a considerable fortune. He was much taken with the French Revolution and spent time in Paris during 1789 and 90, following which he presumably wrote this short pantomime with the actor/manager Charles Bonner.

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Book number: 43559

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

E. H.

Album of Watercolours and Pencil Drawings.

1834 - 1840. Large 4to. 280 x 230 mm. Sheep backed pressed cloth covers. An album of 34 images, alternating fine pencil drawings with lovely vibrant watercolours, all on thin card except for one page of a pair of pith pictures mounted on the card which are slightly damaged. One lift the flap picture showing the artist's easel with sketchbook which opens out to show a landscape view. E.H. is unknown, the front of the album is dated 1834 and the rear 1840, presumably the start and finish dates. The pencil drawings show a talented use of shading to give true depth to the images, though the portraiture may be less skilled. The natural history watercolours and drawings are of a high quality and the anthropomorphic figure, "The Circulating Library" show the artist's witty side.

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Book number: 42370

C.H.

Album of Watercolours and Drawings.

1834 - 40. 4to. 275 x 230 mm. Sheep backed blind stamped calf. 15 watercolours, 17 pencil drawings plus a "transformation" watercolour. Initial C.H. to end paper. An interesting and most attractive collection of original drawings and watercolours, all apparently executed in the same hand on a variety of subjects. The 15 watercolours are generally natural history studies: fruit, flowers, butterflies. The pencil drawings more varied: topographical, nature studies, portraits, etc. including a couple of studies of Napoleon and one of Isaac van Amburgh and his animals. Van Amburgh was a popular showman who travelled with his circus, considered to be the first animal trainer of modern times and who would enter the cages of wild beasts without harm. Plus an attractive transformation watercolour, "the circulating library", a figure made up of books, and a 'lift the flap' of an artist's easel and sketch book, perhaps representing the artist's work.

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Book number: 45581

The All British Standard.

Standard [W.W. Curtis, printer], c. 1932. 1020 x 1520 mm. with a overlay with the prices. Creased and a little torn. Rare. The Little Nine and the Big Nine were produced c. 1930 - 33.

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Book number: 44787

Catalogue: Posters

Keywords: Posters

U.S.A.

American Civil War. List of Quartermaster's Stores, &c. transferred by Capt.Chas. H. Tompkins, Assistant Quartermaster, U.S. Army, to Capt. A.J. Brooker, Battery "B" 1st Com Arty. at Washington D.C.

21st April, 1864. Singles sheet, printed and manuscript both sides, 200 x 255 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. A list of horses, carts and associated tack with value and condition drawn from the stores. The minutiae of army life shown here which includes, as well as the major items of 8 horses and two wagons, the associated material including reins, whips, buckets, curry combs and horse brushes, each of which had to be accounted for.

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Book number: 41893

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

TUN LI-CH'EN

Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking, as Recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shih-Chi, translated by Derk Bodde.

Peiping: Henri Vetch, 1936. 8vo. pp. xxii, 147> illustrated, plan of Peking to end papers. Original cloth, Very Good.

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Book number: 45606

[ANSON, George]

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.

Printed for J. Hinton at the King's Arms in St Paul's Church Yard, 1748. Copper engraving on a 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 and female sea lion rather incongruously reclining in the wooded landscape. This map was issued in the Universal Magazine in 1748 reflecting the contemporary interest in Anson's voyage. The maps in the Universal Magazine are among the "...best executed and most attractive of magazine maps...many (with) decorative cartouches." David Jolly. Maps in British Periodicals, Part I. Blookline, MA, 1990. p. 188.

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Book number: 39867

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: Maps

[GLASGOW]

Assembly, 16th. March, 1852, Baronial Hall. No....

Glasgow, 1852. Unused ticket, 65 x 90 mm.

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Book number: 44324

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

[GLASGOW]

Assembly Rooms. Admission Ticket to Mr. R.B. Hardy's Public Lecture, and Illustrations. Front Seats.

Glasgow, c. 1850. Ticket, 60 x 90 mm. R.B. Hardy published a work entitled Lectures on the Drama. First Series. Shakespeare. [Glasgow, 1834], his only publication.

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Book number: 44325

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

[EDWARD OXFORD]

Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Prince Albert.

Printed by J. Wilson, [1840] Broadside, 270 x 210 mm. laid down on card. An unrecorded street broadside. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

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Book number: 44589

Catalogue: Ephemera

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[FILM POSTER]

Baby Doll. La Poupée de Chair.

Warner Borthers, 1956. French version of the poster for Elia Kazan's film based on a Tennessee Williams play.

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Book number: 44811

Catalogue: Posters

Keywords: Posters

[FRANCIS HAYMAN after]

The Bad Man at the Hour of Death.

Robert Sayer & J. Bennett, c. 1780. Engraving, 355 x 245 mm. a little spotted and with a tiny hole just above the title. Robert Sayer was only partnered with his former apprentice John Bennett for a short time, from the late 1770s until 1785 when the partnership was dissolved due to Bennett's mental state having been admitted to the Brook House Asylum in 1781. This image appears in various form, all are uncommon. This copy is reversed when compared with others traced [see The Lewis Walpole Library Collections].

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Book number: 42013