Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern
2 December - 13 December 2022 • London
101 R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London, [1807], 3 vols, red morocco gilt by Bedford
102 T. Annan | Glasgow City Improvement Trust: Photographs of Old Closes, Streets, &c., [c.1877], 40 carbon prints, green morocco by R. Nelson
103 Bible, Latin | Biblia sacra, Lyon, 1542, later red morocco gilt by Carss
104 Bindings | Two Scottish wheel bindings and a papal binding, all in red morocco, eighteenth century
105 Book of Hours, in Latin and French | Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, later fifteenth century], red morocco
106 James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, London, 1791, 2 vols, nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt by Riviere
107 John Bulwer | Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, the artificiall changling, 1653
108 Robert Burns | Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock, 1786, near-contemporary half calf
109 Robert Burns | Autograph letter signed, to Rev. George Lawrie, on his new-found fame as a poet, 5 February 1787
110 John Chamberlaine, publisher | Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, London, 1792[-98], contemporary russia
111 Fletcher Christian | Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, London, 1796, nineteenth-century polished calf gilt
112 John Clerk | Etchings, 1825-1855, 3 vols, contemporary bindings
113 Captain Cook | Voyages and Life, 1773-88, 11 volumes, contemporary red morocco, Beckford copy
114 Thomas Coryate | Coryat's Crudities, London, 1611, nineteenth century dark green morocco gilt
115 W.M. Thackeray | An Essay on George Cruikshank, [n.d.], 3 vols, extensively extra-illustrated
116 George Cruikshank—Brothers Grimm | German Popular Stories, London, 1823-26, blue morocco gilt by Bedford
117 Daniell—Ayton | Voyage Round Great Britain... with A Series of Views, 1814-25, 8 text vols in 2 and 2 boxes of plates
118 Thomas and William Daniell | Oriental Scenery, 3 volumes, London, 1816, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt
119 William Davies | A true relation of the travailes and most miserable captivitie, 1614, the Beckford copy
120 [Daniel Defoe] | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., London, 1719-1720, 3 volumes
121 Thomas Frognall Dibdin | The bibliographical Decameron, 1817, 3 volumes, red morocco, the Beckford copy
122 Thomas Frognall Dibdin | A bibliographical tour in France and Germany, 1821, 4 volumes, calf, Beckford copy
123 Thomas Frognall Dibdin | An introduction to... rare and valuable editions, 1827, 2 vols, blue morocco, Beckford copy
124 Charles Dickens | Works, London, [c.1879], 30 volumes, contemporary maroon half-morocco
125 Elzevir Press | A collection of 17 miniature volumes, in eighteenth-century red morocco bindings
126 Raphael Holinshed | Chronicles, London, 1577, 2 volumes, later diced calf, George Steevens copy
127 J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco
128 La Fontaine | Contes et nouvelles en vers, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762, 2 volumes, red morocco, Wodhull copy
129 Las Casas | Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum, Oppenheim, 1614
130 Leslie | De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, Rome, 1578, later olive morocco by Clarke & Bedford
131 William Lithgow | The totall discourse of the rare adventures, 1632, contemporary calf, Lord North's copy
132 James Logan | The clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845-1847, 2 volumes, red pictorial cloth
133 Lucretius | Della natura delle cose, Amsterdam, 1754, 2 volumes, red morocco gilt by Louis Douceur
134 John B. Papworth | Select Views of London, London, 1816, later red morocco gilt by Birdsall
135 Pierre de Paschal | Henrici II... Elogium, Paris, 1560, in a binding by Claude de Picques for Mary, Queen of Scots
136 J. Richardson and J.H. Nixon | The Eglinton Tournament, London, 1843, contemporary maroon morocco-backed cloth
137 Thomas Rowlandson | Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, [London, 1799], green morocco gilt by Bedford
138 Reginald Scot | The discoverie of witchcraft, London, 1584, later calf tooled in period style, Sutherland copy
139 Sir Walter Scott | Series of 10 autograph letters signed, to the antiquary Alexander Macdonald
140 [Shakespeare] Boydell | A collection of prints... dramatic works of Shakespeare, 1803, 2 vols, red morocco
141 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Frankenstein, London, 1818, 3 volumes in one, later polished calf
142 H. Shields and J. Meikle | Famous Clyde Yachts, 1880-87, Glasgow, 1888, 2 copies, original cloth gilt
143 John Slezer | Theatrum Scotiae, 1693, contemporary panelled calf gilt
144 [Jonathan Swift] | Gulliver's Travels, London, 1726-27, 3 vols, nineteenth century red morocco gilt by F. Bedford
145 Sir William Hamilton | Series of five letters to his nephew Charles Greville, 1779-99
146 Charles Greville and Sir William Hamilton | Five letters by various correspondents, 1770s-1800s
147 Emma, Lady Hamilton | A lock of her hair said to be hers, 1790-91
148 Emma, Lady Hamilton | Autograph letter signed, to Cornelia Knight, on preparations to flee Naples, 1798