Miscellaneous books including travel
Collection of works
£2,268
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense: addressed to the Inhabitants of America … A New Edition, with several Additions … to which is added … an Address to the People called Quakers. The New Edition here given increases the Work upwards of One Third. London: printed and sold by all the booksellers, 1792. 12mo in half-sheets, 58 pp., modern quarter calf, inked annotations to blanks;
[French Revolutionary Wars]. A Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Warwick … in consequence of the Speeches of his Lordship … in Opposition of the Motions of the Earls of Oxford and Suffolk, to address His Majesty for Peace, and for the Dismissal of the Right Honorable Pitt. Likewise some Observations upon the Conduct of the French Directory during the Late Negotiations for Peace. With a Recommendation for British Subjects to unite, as the most certain Means for promoting Happiness amongst themselves, and bid Defiance to the dark Machinations of their Enemies. By a Loyal Subject. [?London]: printed for the author, 1798. First and apparently only edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 128 pp., contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, coronet and monogram ‘Y’ gilt to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt red morocco book-label of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, ink-stamp of Alexander Gardyne dated 1883 to verso of title-page;
Sassoon, Siegfried. The Heart's Journey. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. One of 500 copies, signed by the author on the title-page, 4to, finely bound in tan crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe;
Southesk, James Carnegie, 9th Earl of. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1874. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, 7 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, 5 lithographic plates (counted as 2), 2 folding maps on glazed linen, inner hinges neatly reinforced;
War Office. Historical Record of the Thirty-Fourth, or, the Cumberland Regiment of Foot. London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1844. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, engraved general title-page (spotted), 5 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (3 listed);
Cannon, Richard. Historical Record of the Twenty-First Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers. London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1849. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, engraved general title-page, 3 hand-coloured lithographic plates, dent to rear board;
and 10 others (including Joseph Skelton, Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour … after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, 1830, 2 volumes, folio, engraved plates) (18)
Footnote
Southesk's work Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains is notably uncommon in good condition in the original cloth.