Rare books from Madoc Books

London, 20 Thread Needle Street.: Francis Graham Moon, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 64mo - up to 3" tall. ROBERTS DAVID. HAGHE Louis 1806-1885. Often considered as the finest illustrated work on the Near East! 6 Volumes bound as 3s, 1st eds, 1842-43-49. Complete, 1 map, + 124 hand coloured tinted lithographs. In contemporary half red morocco over red morocco cloth, some gilt tooling. Spines, relaid, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally. Vol 1, 1842, portrait frontis, engraved titlepage, [8], [1], 2-30 pp, 44 pls (including 1 B&W portrait, the remainder tinted lithographs, hand coloured). Vol 2, 1843, 43 pls (hand coloured lithographs). Vol 3, 1849, 37 pls, + 1 map (B&W). A.e.g., green marbled endpapers, small stamp to recto of each Vols ep (H.E.H. Duplicate - probably Henry Edwards Huntington - February 27, 1850 - May 23, 1927 - he was an American railroad magnate & collector of art & rare books). Corner repairs to V1 & 2, 7 plates remounted, 2 new inner cloth joints,… Read More

London. Douglas Coffee-house in St. Martins Lane; Little Britain; Cross-keys in Cornhil; Pater-Noster Row; St Pauls Church-yard; Exeter-Change. : Sold by the Author; John Nicholson; Andrew Bell; W. Taylor; Henry Clements; And Jos. Smith , 1715. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. CAMPBELL Ca.. Three Volumes, ALL First editions (1715, 1717, & 1725), 230 engraved plans & elevations. 3 vols in half calf over worn marbled boards, vellum corners. Re-spined, to style, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles to morocco labels. Vol 1, 1715, engraved title & dedication leaves, [3], 4-10, 98 pls of 100 (includes 13 double page). Vol 2, 1717, engraved title page, [1], 2-8, 97 of 100 pls (20 doubles). Vol 3, 1725, [5] includes red & black ink letterpress title, 6-12 pp, 94 of 98 pls (15 doubles, 1 quad). Subscribers list with each Vol. 230 engraved plans & elevations only on 289 of 298 plates (includes 53 double-page & folding, + 1 quad pl). Vol 1, vertical crease to… Read More

London: Author and printed by J. Purser , 1766. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. STUBBS George. First edition, First issue, 1766, 24 fine engraved plates with a wonderful provenance. In re-backed contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, some blind tooling, edges bumped & worn. Spine with gilt tooling, plus gilt titles to the original calf label. Internally, title & reader leaves followed by 24 fine engraved plates, all washed, depicting 36 horses, accompanied by 47 printed pages (some light browning), lacking the errata slip, a few leaves with 1 or 2 tiny pin holes to margins, 'To the Reader' and final leaf with repaired tears to verso, small ink stamp to title and one other text leaf, a couple of other minor professional repairs, marbled endpapers, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box. (560*444 mm). (Huth p42; ESTC T147211; Garrison and Morton 308.1; Lennox-Boyd Stubbs, pp. 165-188; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 57; Nissen… Read More

Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ALKEN Henry [Thomas]. An Album of Original Water Colour Drawings by Henry Alken c1829 Oblong, in blue long grained morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt tooling & titles, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, edges worn. Internally, five pencil and water colour drawings of Arab horses and riders. Mounted on cards, 4to, a.e.g., gilt board edges and turn-ins, green marbled endpapers, binders stamp to verso of fep. (407*274 mm & 393*267 mm). Contains: 1. [ink title] Freedom is dear to the sons of the Desert, an Arab horse and rider in a town, with an Arab on foot, 7 1/4*10 1/2 in, signed. 2. A warrior on foot holding his spirited horse by the bridle, 6 5/8*9 5/8, signed and dated 1829. 3. A horse bending towards its fallen and wounded rider, 5 7/8*8 7/8 in, spurious signature. 4. A dismounted Arab pointing to his companions dead horse, 6 5/8*9 1/4 in, spurious signature. 5. Two armed and mounted Arabs,… Read More

Curzon Str.t May Fair: H. Angelo, 1799. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ROWLANDSON T. [Thomas]. UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Large oblong folio, iii, [1, blank], [3, list of subscribers], [1, blank] pp. Hand coloured aquatint title and twenty three hand coloured aquatint plates, plus the scarce additional plate (The Guards and Lessons, of the Highland Broadsword). Uncut in the original blue wrappers, neatly re-backed to style. Short marginal tear to one plate, not affecting image. An excellent copy, unbelievably rare in the original wrappers. Housed in a quarter black morocco clamshell case. (12 1/2 * 16 9/16; 318*420 mm). With foreign invasion threatening our shore, martial ardour was the keynote of the year 1799, and subscribers were readily found for the Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercise... The twenty four plates in coloured aquatint show military exercises and movements of cavalry, but the single figures in the foreground, illustrating sword… Read More

London, 26, Haymarket: Thomas McLean. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ALKEN Henry and HEATH William. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF MILITARY COSTUME PLATES Large octavo, manuscript title, hand coloured folding engraved title (Foreign Military Costume) and eighty four hand coloured engraved plates (two folding), title and plates cut and inlaid to size within a panel cut from a leaf of paper with an elaborately engraved border surrounding the print, the first forty plates with manuscript title labels. Contemporary half red straight grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, bookplate to fpd (Julia Parker Wightman). The first forty plates are from A Collection of Interesting Subjects of Marine Views, Military Parade, Hunting, Coursing, Racing &c &c by Henry Alken, which according to Abbey is the rarest Alken item: unknown to Siltzer, Slater and Schwerdt. Two other copies only can be… Read More

London: Finch-Lane, Cornhill: Printed by W. Lewis. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALKEN Henry Thomas. EGERTON Daniel Thomas. etc. First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous situations with Fifty Hand Coloured Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s. c1835, Folio, letterpress title and fifty hand coloured plates (including frontispiece). Most plates with tissue guards, plates watermarked 1835, 1824, and 1822. In contemporary half black roan, ruled in gilt, over brown pebble grain cloth boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, with three wide raised bands, all edges gilt, front cover expertly and almost invisibly repaired, corners and board edges slightly rubbed, occasional light soiling and browning to margins, a few plates with tiny marginal tears, tissue guard to title worn & tipped to title. The collection comprises: Six hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken (London: Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit &… Read More

London: Shakspeare Printing Office; Shakspeare Gallery; and Pall Mall: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Sold by J. and J. Boydell and by G. Nicol . 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. REPTON H.. An exceptional & complete copy, of the Rarest of Repton's Landscape books. This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original pen & brush drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent). [1794]. Oblong, in rebacked quarter paper spine over contemporary blue marbled boards, extremities worn. Internally, additional, signed, original drawing to fpd, half title, [5], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-83 pp, [1], [2] plate list, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page & six uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), 2 woodcut illustrations in text and 1 printers tailpiece, 1 plate with marginal… Read More

London: 26, Haymarket: Thomas McLean. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALKEN Henry. ONE OF THE RAREST COLOUR PLATE SPORTING BOOKS c1830, First edition, early issue, with some plates watermarked 1828 and 1829, folio, letterpress title, and forty two hand coloured etched plates, some heightened with gum arabic. In contemporary half dark green morocco over ripple grain olive cloth, spine with gilt bands and lettering, light brown endpapers, spine tips expertly repaired, cloth sides slightly spotted, marginal tears on eighth and twenty fourth plates (not affecting lettering of image) neatly repaired, evidence of book label removal to fpd. An Excellent example in a contemporary binding. (329*226 mm). (Mellon/Podeschi 136. Scherdt I p17-18. Siltzer p72. Tooley 36).

London:: Dr. Thornton, 1812. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. The Most Spectacular Botanical Print Book of its Era. First quarto edition, large quarto, [45] leaves, engraved title on two leaves, hand coloured allegorical aquatint frontispieces, two uncoloured engraved plates (the first by Maddocks after Russel and Opie, the second by Bartolozzi and Landseer after Reinagle), and twenty eight stipple engraved, mezzotint, or aquatint colour botanical plates by Wm. Dunkarton, R. Rosse, Gaugain, Staeler, Quilley, Maddox, Roffe, D. Maddan, Stadler, after Pether, R.J. Thornton, S. Edwards, Reinagle, Henderson, some hand coloured, some partially printed in colours and finished by hand (including The Persian Cyclamen, not found in some copies). Text watermarked 1810 and 1811; plates watermarked 1811. Contemporary full black straight grain morocco, covers with gilt and blind stamped borders, three spine compartments densely gilt tooled, the other two with gilt lettering, gilt board… Read More

London: John Wolfe, 1587. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The rare first edition in contemporary calf, blind tooling to border. Sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, gilt title to calf label. Internally, [6], 1-92, [4], 99-195, [8], 204-285 pp but 301, [2] table, odd pagination but complete, pagination: [1], A3-N4, O-V4, Aa-Gg4, lacks initial blank & 2ff, following 2D5 (cancels), woodcut device to first title, titles of second & third parts within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials & head pieces, crease to fep & ep, book label fpd (Niall Kenny). ESTC list 1 copy in the UK & 3 in the US only. (179*129 mm). (ESTC S112382. Fussell1-p9. Huth - Works on Horses & Equitation p12). "The second booke intreating of the gouernment of horses" (O1r) and "The third booke intreating of the ordering of sheep and goatees [sic], hogs and dogs" (2A1r) each have separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.

London: Paternoster-Row; and No. 9, Cleveland-Street, Fitzroy-Square: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and William Daniell, 1814. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DANIELL William. A Magnificent series of plates, almost all of equal quality and the most important colour plate book on British topography - Tooley. First editions of Vols I-VI and VII. 8 volumes in 4, tall 4to, aquatint dedication, 308 hand coloured plates and one tinted lithographic plate (complete) by and after Daniell, the majority of the plates with grey wash borders, some scattered light spotting, contemporary half green crushed morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, titled in two and with floral, foliate and naturalistic tools in the remainder, over green cloth, some edges lightly sunned, gilt edges, red marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplates to fpds (William Strang Steel) & CEA. V1/2, [3], (iv-v), [1], [1], 2-215, [1], [1] errata, [1]. (1815), [3], 4-223, [1] pl list. V3/4, (1818),… Read More

London: at the George in Fleet-street and at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-yard: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. SPEED John. Regarded as a landmark in the history of British topography In 18 century sheep, gilt edge tooling, tips repaired. Re-spined to style, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, contemporary gilt/calf title label. Internally, engraved armorial frontispiece and additional decorative title, letterpress general title printed in red & black, part titles to books two, three and four printed in black (Wales, Scotland and Ireland) and letterpress title to 'Prospect' also printed in black, preliminary text leaves including dedication present, 'A New and Accurat Map of the World...,' erroneously bound in after the contents page of 'The Theatre', ninety-six (complete) uncoloured engraved maps (68 in the Theatre and 28 in the Prospect), [16], 2, 126, 5-6, 5-8 Civil wars, 10 leaves of roads, [1] Scotland tp, [1],… Read More

London. 26, Haymarket: T. McLean. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. BROOKE E. Adveno. The best evocations of the spirit of great Victorian gardens. [1857], folio, 27 stunning chromolithographed plates including title and frontispiece, some heightened with gum Arabic, lithographed dedication leaf, 16 lithographed vignettes on India paper pasted among text, original green morocco-backed cloth boards, upper cover stamped in gilt, rebacked, custom dark green morocco-backed clamshell case with red morocco gilt-lettered label on lid. Some light foxing, free endpapers renewed, stray marks and some darkening to cloth, corners renewed. not paginated but plate list leaf, preface leaf, garden list leaf followed by 28 leaves of descriptive text. Provenance: D.D. Hopkyns, bookplate to fpd. (539x3664 mm). (Abbey Scenery 392). The first British book on landscape gardening to feature plates printed in colour! FIRST EDITION of this stunning collection of… Read More

London: dwellyng ouer Aldersgate: John Day, 1563. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. First edition, black letter, double column, 2 folding woodcut plates, 44 woodcut illustrations within text, woodcut historiated or decorative initials (including one large depicting Queen Elizabeth enthroned in her coronation robes) & tail-pieces, printed slip at foot of AAa2v, duplicates of EEE2&5 bound in (the signature complete), occasional contemporary or later ink marginalia, lacking *1&2 (including title), [fleuron]1-4 (calendar), B6 ('The utility of this history') & VVVV1-4 (index and colophon), all supplied in facsimile, also lacking the 2 slips with the woodcut illustration for pp.25 and 41 (these pp. with blank space for illustration), & the plate of King John at p.69 (this provided in facsimile), KKk2 torn at head and repaired (with loss of text) & with marginal repairs, folding woodcut plate at p.1548 with minor loss to border & mounted on stub, kalender printed in red &… Read More