Sporting Scrap Book, Containing fifty Plates, Designed and Engraved by Himself
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
50 hand coloured plates in the original boards. First edition, 1824, in contemporary red half calf over the publishers printed maroon boards, corners worn. Skilfully re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, frontis, title leaf,…
Scraps from The Sketch Book of Henry Alken, Engraved by Himself. Containing Forty-Two Plates.
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
Extremely Rare Hand-Coloured Copy of Sporting and Military Sketches by Henry Alken. First edition, VG. In half white calf over Spanish marbled boards, with two green morocco lettering labels on the spine, tooled and lettered in gilt, covers ruled…
Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
18 Stunning water colours by Henry Alken In a superb green long grain morocco (by Riviere and Son), elaborate gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, raised bands, edges brushed. Internally, gilt…
Tutor's Assistant, Containing A Variety of Amusing Scenes
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
Six Humorous Hand-Coloured Engraved Plates by Alken, illustrative of the declension of verbs and other grammatical parts of speech. First edition, cover title, large oblong folio, six hand coloured engraved plates containing twenty six amusing…
Illustrations to Popular Songs
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
True Sportsmen are We for the Game Once in View. First edition, later issue, oblong folio, [2] leaves (containing letterpress title and Address leaf), forty three hand coloured etched plates (including added pictorial title), with the original…
The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated in a series of Coloured Plates
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
An exquisite Alken rarity [1816]. First edition. Quarto. Recent half calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with raised bands, black morocco label, all edges gilt; elaborate engraved title page, comprising an engraved roundel title, encompassed by…
A Collection of Interesting Subjects of Military Occurrences, Costumes &c
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851 and HEATH William 1794-1840
AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF MILITARY COSTUME PLATES Large octavo, manuscript title, hand coloured folding engraved title (Foreign Military Costume) and eighty four hand coloured engraved plates (two folding), title and plates cut and inlaid to…
[Six Landscapes]
ALKEN S [Samuel] 1756-1815
6 wonderful landscape scenes in aquatint In the original printers blue wrappers, oval publishers ticket to upper cover. Internally, six sepia tinted aquatints, no titles to the images, ruled borders, dated 1795, watermarked J Whatman. Housed…
Instauratio Magna [Novum Organum]
BACON Francis 1561-1629
A 'landmark in the advancement of human learning' (Pforzheimer). First edition, 1620, second issue. Bound within the first part of Summi Angliae Cancellarii, 1638 In contemporary full calf, gilt double fillet border to covers, spine with 6 raised…
Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings Selected From His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature
BARKER Thomas 1769-1847
One of the Very Few Copies With Additional Shading by the Artist. Of a small overall edition of one hundred and seventeen copies, this is one of a handful of copies additionally enhanced by the artist with additional shading to more clearly make…
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain.
BEATTIE William 1793-1875
Superbly bound, with 1 engraved portrait, 2 eng. title pages with vignettes, and 123 engraved plates. 2 Volumes in near fine condition, full dark purple morocco, c1920, gilt edge and decorative tooling, edges brushed. Spines, decorative gilt…
The Passions, Humourously Delineated
BOBBIN Timothy (ie COLLIER John) 1708-1786
The Passions of Manchester in 25 hand coloured illustrations First edition, 1810, Quarto, [34] pp, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand coloured engraved dedication leaf, & twenty five hand coloured engraved plates, watermarked 1805 and 1806,…
The General History of the Air...
BOYLE Robert 1627-1691
The first clear statement on the kinetic theory of gases. 1692, Rare First Edition. In contemporary calf, corners worn. Re-spined to style, gilt title to red calf label, blind tooling. Internally, title in double ruled border, [2], (iii-xii), 259…
Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps
BROCKEDON William 1787-1854
Superbly bound set, 96 Fine Engravings of the Alps, 1828-29, with 13 Detailed Maps. Complete. Two volumes, folio, contemporary full straight grain morocco, elaborately gilt decorated spines & covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges…
The Gardens of England
BROOKE E. Adveno [Edward] 1821-1910
The best evocations of the spirit of great Victorian gardens. [1857], folio, 27 stunning chromolithographed plates including title and frontispiece, some heightened with gum Arabic, lithographed dedication leaf, 16 lithographed vignettes on India…