Miscellaneous. Hassell (John), Excursions of Pleasure and Sp...

Hammer

£60

Miscellaneous. Hassell (John), Excursions of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames [...], Angling, Shooting, Sailing, & c. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823, aquatint frontispiece and 23 plates conforming, original publisher's blue cloth, blind-stamped, some splitting with loose/loosening leaves, slight twist, 8vo; Travel: Anon, Round the World Eastwards in 140 Days, sole edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: [Privately printed by] W. Wicking, Steam Printer, n.d. [1899], lacking title-page, otherwise complete and collating: [3]-63, [1]pp (colophon), the travelogue citing Japan, China, etc., original publisher's red moiré silk over boards, gilt-lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, the fore and lower shape cut, marbled endpapers, verso of ffep with contemporary MS inscription, oblong 12mo; Psalms: Sidney (Sir Philip, Knt., translator) & Pembroke (The Countess of, translator), The Psalmes (sic) of David [...], Now First Printed from A Copy of the Original Manuscript, Transcribed by John Davies, of Hereford, in the Reign of James the First, first edition thus, one of 250 copies, [London]: From the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, 1823, half-title, two portrait engravings, original publisher's boards, split, perished spine, some of backstrip loosely inserted, uncut, 12mo; [Helps (Arthur)], Casimir Maremma, two-volume set, first edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870, half-titles, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, conforming marbled endpapers, 8vo; Theatre: Sheridan (Richard Brinsley), The School for Scandal, London: John Murray, 1823, half-title, 20th c green morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered, 8vo; Kempe (William) & Dyce (Rev. Alexander, editor), Kemps Nine Daies Wonder, London: The Camden Society, 1840, original publisher's cloth, stamp to title-page: Arnold Library, Rugby, the school's later bookplate to pastedown, 4to, (7)