Lot 22
£1,125
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
including:
Findlay, J. R. Hatton House. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1875. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 21 Woodburytypes, inscribed 'Archibald Wilkie Esq of Ormiston, with kind regards [?] J R F, April 1875' on the half-title [not in Gernsheim];
Payn, James. The Lakes in Sunshine: being Photographic and Other Pictures of the Lake District of Westmorland and North Lancashire. Windermere: J. Garnett, 1867. First edition, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 16 albumen prints [Gernsheim 391];
Wright, William Samuel. The Loved Haunts of Cowper; or the Photographic Remembrancer or Olney and Weston. Olney: William Samuel Wright, 1867. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, 15 albumen prints, 3 further plates, ownership inscription dated 1875 to title-page, annotations in the same hand to mounts and photographs [Gernsheim 353, counting all the plates as albumen prints];
Grosart, Alexander B. The Works of Michael Bruce. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1865. First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, 10 albumen prints, spotting [Gernsheim 290];
Howitt, William. The Ruined Abbeys of the Border ... With Photographic Illustrations by Wilson and Thompson. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1865. First edition thus, 4to, original cloth, 6 albumen prints (one to front cover) [Gernsheim 282];
Mares, Frederick H. Photographs of Co. Wicklow, with Descriptive Letterpress. Glasgow: Andrew Duthie, 1867. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 12 albumen prints [Gernsheim 374];
Burns, Archibald. Picturesque "Bits" from Old Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 15 albumen prints (several lifting) [Gernsheim 428];
Kennedy, W. Clark, The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Eton: Ingalton and Drake, 1868. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 4 hand-coloured albumen prints [Gernsheim 436];
and 11 others, including George Eliot, Romola, two editions, William Blackwood, c.1880?, and Tauchnitz, 1863 (2 volumes), both in decorative japon bindings and illustrated with albumen prints of Florence, with cloth dust jackets and slipcases; album of 22 hand-coloured albumen prints of Japanese scenes and 'types', c.1870?, album of albumen prints of Pompeii; W. Lawrence, Photographs of Irish Scenery: The Lakes of Killarney, c.1870; James Watson, Smail's Guide to Jedburgh and Vicinity, 1880, fourth edition; and similar (19)