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Vanity Fair, Aug 31, 1899. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 35 x 19cm. Library stamp to verso, image unaffected. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Sept 3, 1892. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: Heinemann, 1968.. LIMITED EDITION 199/250, signed by the author. 8vo (15.5 x 24.5 cm), pp. 304. Contemporary quarter tan calf over blue cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Old pencil ownership inscription to first blank. Sides lightly soiled.

Vanity Fair, Supplement, Sep. 19, 1906. Drawn by Spy. Original colourtype. Page size approx. 38 x 26 cm. Image size approx. 30 x 19 cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1811.. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. 4to. (27.75 x 22.5 cm). pp.xiii+[2, directions to the binder and errata]+407+36 [appendix]+[7, index]. Uncut in recent half calf over marbled boards, red morocco label, spine gilt decorated. 13 plates comprising one engraved folding map of Cadiz (with minor loss to lower margin not affecting map), 11 aquatinted plates, and one line-engraving. With a presentation inscription from the author to a Miss Crowe to f.f.e.p. Light toning and occasional light spotting. William Jacob (1762-1851), English merchant, ship owner and parliamentarian. Arriving at Cadiz on a diplomatic mission in September 1809, he stayed in Andalusia for 6 months, during which time he wrote the present work. The illustrations include views and buildings in Seville, Malaga, Granada including the Alhambra, and Gibraltar. (Abbey Travel, 145).

London: John Murray, 1831.. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (21 x 12.5 cm). pp.xvi+380; xi+[1, erratum]+415+[1, ads]. Half-titles present. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines ruled in blind and with gilt-lettered red roan labels, brown-coated endpapers, marbled edges. Old ownership inscriptions to flyleaves. Bindings scuffed, contents generally clean and fresh, a very good set.

Paris, Chez H. Jaillot, 1692.. Original engraved map of Champagne (c.77 x 55 cm) after Nicolas Sanson, printed on two conjoined sheets, with large floriate cartouche and mileage scale, mounted, framed and glazed. A very good example.

Paris: Jaillot. 1681. 43 x 57 cm. Original outline colour. Single page folio map of Limborg and its envirions. Blank on verso. Small tear with loss to upper right margin. Some light stains at right margin though not affecting image, otherwise in very good condition.

[Paris:] 1690. 54 x 87.5 cm. Double page copper engraved map of Lorraine. Original outline colour. Large decorative cartouche to upper right corner. Horizontal crease parallel and adjacent to centrefold, otherwise good.

Paris: Jaillot. 1689. 43.1 x 57 cm. Original outline colour. Single page folio map of southern Flanders and Artois. Blank on verso. Small tear without loss at upper edge just touching image. Small section of upper margin missing though not affecting map. Small brown spot to centre of lower edge.

Paris: Jaillot. 1685. 54.6 x 88.4 cm. Original outline colour. Large double page map of Denmark. Blank on verso. Minor creasing to left of centrefold, otherwise in very good condition.

Calcutta. April 1823. FIRST EDITION. Sm folio. (28 x 22 cm.). title, 1ll. and pp.59+[1, errata]+xx. (lacking two leaves, pp 9-12, which are now supplied in photocopy) Bound in later reversed calf (suede) with oval armorial stamp Forte Scutum Salus Ducum (Earl Fortescue) in gilt to upper cover, vertical red label with gilt lettering to spine. Intermittent slight spotting and browning but generally very good in an attractive binding. Buckingham, author of Travels in Palestine, 1821, et alia, was a pioneering journalist who fought for a liberal press in India. He founded the Calcutta Journal, in 1818. This venture at first proved highly successful, but in 1823 the paper's outspoken criticisms of the East India Company led to the expulsion of Buckingham from India and to the suppression of the paper by John Adam, the acting governor-general in 1823. Rare, only two copies on Copac (BL and Cambridge)

Vanity Fair, March 7, 1874. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With the original leaf of biographical text from the magazine.

Paris, [1956].. Original colour-printed pictorial map of the world (112 x 60.5 cm), issued for Menier Chocolat. With three inset maps of Israel, India and the Belgian Congo. Lacking the coupon portion as often, generally an excellent copy with vivid colour.

[Amsterdam: 1646 or later]. 38.2 x 49.7 cm. Original outline colour. Attractive double page map of Suffolk. This the second state with the semi-circular title cartouche to the upper edge with nine coats of arms surrounding. Blank on verso. Small split at upper edge of centrefold. Paper lightly toned overall. A very good example with wide margins.

[Amsterdam c. 1657]. Engraved map (overall size 43 x 56 cm.) with original hand colour showing the Tunisisa on North Africa Coast plus part of Sicily and adjacent islands, Malta etc. Lightly tanned overall generally very good.

Paris: Chez Lattré Graveur Rue S. Jacq a la Ville de Bordeaux, Avec Priv. de Roy, 1762.. Engraved double page map with outline hadn colour and full hand colour to cartouche (30 x 44 cm, overall sheet 38.5 x 51 cm) Minor spotting to margins, not affecting plate. Very good overall. Depicts the fictional 'Xarayes Lac', thought to be the entrance to El Dorado.

Philadelphia, [1856].. Original folding chromolithograph. Image dimensions 19 x 37 cm, overall sheet dimensions 29 x 45 cm. Signed T. Sinclair's Lith. Philad[elphi]a. Small tear to lower left margin, minimal toning, else good. Thomas Sinclair, born in 1807 in the Orkney Islands (Northern Scotland), was one of the premier Philadelphia lithographers of the 19th-century, particularly in the field of chromolithography. Trained in lithography in Edinburgh, Sinclair immigrated to the United States ca. 1830. He worked in New York and Philadelphia, including drawing a dance lithograph for Philadelphia lithographers Kennedy and Lucas in 1833. In Philadelphia, he and his wife Magdalena (b. ca. 1808) had nine of their ten children as noted in the 1850 census. Firmly settled in Philadelphia in 1839, he worked at the lithographic shop of John Collins (79 South Third Street) before assuming the establishment in 1840. A practical lithographer throughout his career, Sinclair produced all genres of lithographs… Read More

Vanity Fair, August 23, 1890. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38.5 x 26cm. Image size approx. 31.5 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Aug 22, 1895. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.