Lot 162
Arms and armour
Group of private and institutional collection catalogues
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1843-1909. [New York:] printed privately, 1914. First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, etched portrait frontispiece, 53 photographic plates (mounted, numbered 1-51, including 9a and 19a), covers slightly dust-soiled and sprung, a little wear to tips, bookplate (Michael Moad) and ownership inscription;
Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of European Daggers including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, 85 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;
Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Court Swords and Hunting Swords including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, tinted photographic frontispiece, 101 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;
Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Amour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Company (Limited), 1894. First edition, large 4to, contemporary red crushed full morocco gilt for Henry Arthur Johnstone, his monogram within armorial lozenge gilt to front board, tan pigskin doublures, incorporating Johstone's naval ex-libris device dated 1899 in blind, 133 plates, bookplates;
Laking, Guy Francis. The Armour of Windsor Castle. European Section. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Company, 1904. First edition, 4to, original quarter pigskin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 mounted photographic plates with tissue-guards, binding slightly rubbed and marked;
Gibb, William. Naval and Military Trophies and Personal Relics of British Heroes. A Series of Water Colour Drawings. The Descriptive Notes by Richard R. Holmes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. First edition, large 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 36 chromolithographic plates;
Drummond, James. Ancient Scottish Weapons. With Introduction and Descriptive Notes by Joseph Anderson. Edinburgh: George Waterston & Sons, 1881. First edition, one of 500 copies, large, original quarter morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, 50 chromolithographic plates (of 54: lacking plates 15-18), endpapers renewed, blind stamps of the Royal United Services Institution to heads of plates