Rare books from Madoc Books

London: 191, Regent St.: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. First Edition 1st Printing. Full Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ALKEN Henry. VG+, 1842, 1st ed, 1st issue, 36 pls (complete). In contemporary green crushed morocco by Riviere and Sons, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges a little rubbed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling with sporting motifs, edges a little rubbed, titles in gilt. Internally, frontis, coloured half title, [3], (iv-vi), (2), [1], 2-402 pp, 36 pls (hand coloured - plate 33 is the 2nd issue, & 4 mounted), front joint professionally strenghtened, couple of small paper repairs. Considered to be the premier colour plate sporting book of the 19th century! (Folio, 147* 232 mm). (Tooley 65. Souhart 351. Allibone 66). Apperley was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, North Wales.

London: 191, Regent St.: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second Edition . Full Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ALKEN H [Henry Thomas 1784-1851] & RAWLINS TJ. Near fine, 1837, 2nd ed, 18 pls (complete). In deep red morocco by GJ Sawyer Ltd, gilt edge tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally, additional engraved title page with vignette, [3], (iv-ix), [3], [1], 2-206 pp, 18 pls (hand coloured, with) + eng tp pl, lacks adverts, a.e.g., spine rubbed at head & tail edges, very minimal browning, board edges in gilt, intricate gilt tooled turn-ins (binders stamp), red marbled endpapers, small binders label to epd. (Folio, 147*228 mm). A lovely copy of the first complete and best edition. (OCLC 1455044. Tooley 67). Apperley, [pseud. Nimrod], writer on sport, was said to have created the role of gentleman hunting correspondent. Writing at first under various pseudonyms (Acastus, Eques, and A), he published his first… Read More

1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Henry Clarke. A suite of 22 engravings on copper, with all scenes identified, of Tivy Side, Cardigan and Neighborhood engraved by Henry Clarke MD, the Medical Officer of Wakefield Prison, a weekend photographer and serious amateur artist. Clarke spent his holiday in August 1881, in Cardigan and produced these 22 engravings, all on loose single leafs, sized 39.3*28 cm, paper watermarked J Whatman B 1882, one leaf has a tiny pin hole to a margin, another leaf has Love Lane Wakefield blind stamped to a top corner margin. Housed in a custom made blue up and over cloth box, with title in gilt to blue leather label, gilt tooling. Wakefield Historical Society published a book of Clarke's drawings in 1977, and many of his drawings appeared in the 2nd ed of Clarkson's Memories of Merry Wakefield 1889. 1.The Tivy Side Cardigan and Neighbourhood. Our Summer Holiday 1881. Notes on Copper by HC Wakefield. 22*16 cm, Folio. 2.Ebeno? Lane August 1881. Signed HC. 16*11 cm,… Read More

London. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DELAMOTTE GO. Oblong folio, 44*30 cm, 6 litho plates, original printed wrappers, stitched as issued (very small half inch worm track and a few micro holes through upper wrapper and first three plates), wrapper title, printed by Moser and Harris's Lithographic Press, No 71 Grosvenor Street, Brunswick Square, nd but c 1820. Plates are: Aberdylis Vale of Neath. Melincourt Vale of Neath. Yscwd yr Rhyd In the grounds of W: Williams Esq. Yscwd Inon Cam Vale of Neath. Entrance to Porth yr Ogof Caveer Vale of Neath. Kil Hepsti Vale of Neath. Originally priced at 7s 6d. Very rare. The plates are quite crude, but represent an exceptionally early lithographic work, when techniques were still experimental. It is especially pleasing to have such a work in the original wrappers! Copies of some of the plates have been traced to the National Library of Wales, cataloged as soft-ground etchings. Swansea also have the wrappers… Read More

London: 18, Catherine St., Strand.: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good, 1st ed, 1864, 3 maps, with the 4 pages of adverts. In the original burgundy embossed cloth, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, gilt titles, edges repaired, worn a little along the joints. Internally, [2], [3], (iv) only, [1], 6-65, [1], 2 maps, [1], 68-195, [1], 1 map, [4] adverts, original endpapers, pencil name to verso fep, lacks half title, a few light marks, edges uncut, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, London. (Penzer p74. Casada 49. Alibone 261). Title continues: pt. 1. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's western lake reservoir : a memoir read before the Royal Geographical Society, November 14, 1864 ; with prefatory remarks / by Richard F. Burton -- pt. 2. Captain Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile : a review / by James M'Queen (reprinted by permission from the Morning advertiser).… Read More

London:: Addison Publications Ltd for The Prince's Charities Foundation., 2008. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. ALLEN. BALLARD. BARBER. BARTHOLOMEW. BERNI. BINNS. BOLAS. BOUVIER. BRADBURN. BRASIER. BROWN. BRUCE. CADMAN. CARMICHAEL. CONDY. COOMBS. etc etc.. Fine, 2 vols, limited edition of 175 numbered sets, 124 coloured plates. In half red goatskin over red marbled boards. Spines, raised bands, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green morocco labels. Internally, Vol 1, 2008, half title, tp in red & black, [1] preface signed by Prince Charles, [3] Introduction, [2] Brief History, [1], [2] Artists dedication, Followed by 61 sections each containing page with artists & plant name, text description to verso, full page coloured illustration, signed by the artist with the embossed & numbered copyright stamp to bottom corner, [1] list of artists, [1], [1] founding subscribers, [1], [1] limitation. Vol 2, 2009, half title, rubricated title… Read More

London in Fleetestreet a little above the Conduit.: Ralphe Newberie, 1576. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. LYNE Richard. VG, 1st ed, 1576, 1 map. The first English County History! In early 19c diced russia, gilt edge tooling. Re-spined, gilt tooling & titles, raised bands. Complete with the engraved map of the Heptarchy (by Richard Lyne), and the extra leaf (H") which lists the Kentish writers, this is the variant S1244785 which omits Middleton's name to the colophon, contemporary ownership name to tp (Fuller?), map trimmed at base, text mainly in black letter with some Anglo-Saxon characters, gilt tooling to board edges & turn ins, a.e.g., 2 faint spots to upper board. Very clean and tight. (Folio, 138*181 mm). (ESTC S2124785. Huth 814/5. Brackman-Anglo Saxon England p136). Editions published in 1576 (ours), 1596 & 1656. [1], 2-58, 58-59, 59-435 pp, numerous pagination errors (22 - contact Madoc Books for list), but… Read More

London: 113, Fleet Street.: William Smith , 1840. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. LOUDON Mrs.. VG+, 5 volumes in 6, 1840-1860, 304 (complete) hand coloured plates, depicting 1,582 flowers! Ornamental Annuals, 1840, 1st ed, 48 pls (hand coloured), lacks half title, [5], (viii-xvi), [1], (ii-iv), [1], 2-272 pp, 207*269 mm, ink name to verso TP. Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 1841, 1st ed, 58 pls (hand coloured), lacks h/t, [3], (vi-x), [1], 2-270 pp, 251*269 mm, marbled endpapers. Ornamental Perennials, 1843 & 1844, 1st ed, 96 pls (in total & hand coloured), half title, [2], [3], (iv-x), [1], 2-190 pp, 45 pls; half title, [5], (vi-x), [1], 51 pls, book marks to fpds & ink name to feps, a.e.g. British Wild Flowers, 1846, 1st ed, 60 pls (hand coloured), lacks h/t, [3], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-311 pp, 216*274 mm. Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, 1860, 3rd ed, 42 pls (hand coloured), half title, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-215 pp, 231*299 mm, bookplate to fpd.… Read More

London: Newbond-Street: J. Brindley, 1743. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. DIEPENBKE. CAUKERCKEN. PARR R. JODE Peter de. ANDREA.. 1743, 2 vols, 62 plates - complete, 1st English edition of the Duke of Newcastle's celebrated work on the training of horses. Two volumes in contemporary speckled calf, gilt edge & corner tooling, some wear to corners & edges. Spines, raised bands, worn gilt tooling, gilt titles to calf labels, edges worn, some loss. Internally, Vol 1, additional double page engraved title (French 1658), half title, [6], (v-viii), [1], 142 pp, [4] index, 42 pls (double page), 6 pls (as header), 41 illustrations within text, 5 Decorative initial letters, (Signatures [2] ff, a-a3, C-Mm1, Gg1-2 additions). Vol 2, [1] title leaf, 3-4, [2] contents, [1], 2-4, [1] ff pl list, [1], 6-36, 33-138 pp, [14] dictionary, 20 pls, (includes 2 double page, some printed in sepia, 8 trimmed and mounted to 8 leaves), 2 pls as headers, 3 footers.… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Complete. Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author, 1st ed, Near Fine, 1894. In full green morocco (by the Chelsea Bindery), gilt edge tooling & gilt horse head vignette (of Rashid). Spine, gilt tooling, titles & palm trees. Internally, half title, frontis (coloured), title page in red & black with Arabic text woodcut, [5], (vi-xix), [1], [3], 4-144, 147-148, 145-146, 151-152, 149-154, 159-160, 157-158, 161-256, 263-264, 259-262, 257-258, 265- 411 pp, [1] (odd pagination but complete), 11 un-numbered pls (mostly coloured, with 2 double paged) + 1 gilt board head, 25 illustrations within text, 4 tables, 1 map to pocket at rear (large folding coloured), a.e.g., gilt board edges & turn ins, green marbled endpapers, binders stamp to fpd, printed by William Blackwood and Sons. Inscribed by the author to Sir Alfred Lyall in the year of publication, also with… Read More

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. The Suppressed 'Sixtieth Thousand' issue, presentation copy from the author to the Mechanics Institute with presentation ink-stamp to title. In the original pictorial red cloth, gilt edge tooling. Spine lightly sunned, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, half title, frontis, [11], [1], [1], 2-224 pp, [4] adverts, 50 illustrations, a.e.g., black endpapers, very slight pulling to one gathering, slightly cocked. Housed in a custom half red morocco gilt over red cloth drop-back-box, gilt titles to spine, gilt tooling & titles to morocco label to upper board. A Very Good + example. (185*124 mm). Scarce. Only 4 copies known to exist in the original red cloth. Up until as recently as 1990 Lovett noted that 'no copies of the 60th thousand in standard binding have been recorded' (p.21). Copies rebound for the… Read More

London: Paternoster-Row.: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. . First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light),… 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… Read More

Coloniae: Ioannem Birckmannum, 1572. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. (A Fragment of a Little Commentary on the Description of Britain). 1572, first edition, near fine in attractive 20c, full black crushed morocco (by WH Smith), gilt edge tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [8] ff, 79 {ie 78), 28 blank leaves, woodcut printers device on title, small stain in upper margin on first few leaves, modern endpapers, without the two final blank leaves, binders stamp to epd, gilt tooled turn-ins, text block edges reddened. (140*85 mm). (Adams L1378; Rees 3313. USTC 6235). First edition of this history of Britain, (published posthumously), which was translated into English as The Breviary of Britayne a year later by Thomas Twyne. The work contains much on the Celtic peoples of Britain during and after the Roman occupation, makes mention of Camelot on f.18v, and ends with a short Welsh vocabulary. Llwyd was a friend of Abraham… Read More

London: Near Lincoln's-Inn Fields;: James and Luke G. Hansard and Sons,, 1838. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. TURNBULL G. PALMER R.H. CASEBURNE T.. Two volumes, including Atlas, First edition, 1838, complete. Both volumes in attractive modern dark brown half morocco over brown cloth, some blind tooling. Spines, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, new endpapers. Internally, Vol 1, 1838, Text, half title, [5], (vi-xxiv), [1], 2-286, [3] contents appendix, [1], [1], 288-719 pp, 1 pl, 9 illustrations within text (2 of which are topographical, remainder engineering), new endpapers, occasional light spot, small chip to margin edge p319. (285*220 mm). Vol 2, Atlas, in 1838, portrait frontis, [4] (tp & pl list), 82 pls (of 83 - no 28 not called for on pl list, small margin edge tear to pl 40, sm worm track to top margin of 2 pls (.5 inch), paper repair to bottom edge of fronts. Plates include 6 maps, 16 doubles, 3 triples & 2 quads. Some… Read More