Firsts London's Rare Book Fair: Catalogue 128 is out now!


 

 Dear Customers, Friends and Colleagues,

We are exhibiting at the fair 18th-21st May. Our stand number is J89 on the top floor. Check out our highlights on the Firsts website here. We look forward to seeing you there!

Orders made from today won't be shipped until next week. If you would like us to bring items to the fair please let us know as soon as possible.

Dowload free e-tickets for the Friday here or pick up a physical ticket from our shop.
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st are free entry and open to all.

 

 

Front cover:

Horatio Gates Esq.r Major General of the American Forces.
London: Publish'd as the Act directs, 2nd Jan.y 1778, by John Morris.
Extremely finely coloured mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of American General Horatio Gates (1728-1806) in uniform. Under Gates' left hand is a copy of the 'Articles of Convention between Gen.l Gates & Gen.l Burgoyne'.
[Ref: 60431]   £2,600.00  

 
 
We are pleased to present our special listing for Firsts London's Rare Book Fair: Catalogue 128!

It contains just over 370 items and features:

Portraits including Mezzotints
Views UK
Views Overseas
Americana
Australiana
Sports and Pastimes
Decorative items
Military and Naval
Natural History
Satire
Science
Books
Ephemera
And a few items of Jewish Interest.

View the whole catalogue here!

Happy browsing.
A few highlights:
 
 
[31 plates from 'Cuadros de Costumbres Colombianas' by Ramón Torres Méndez.]
Imp. A Delarue à Paris [n.d., 1860-78].
31 lithographs with fine hand colour, heighted with gum arabic. Sheets approx. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). A few plates trimmed into titles, occasional pencil annotations and stains.
A large collection of the very rare 'costumbrismo' plates of Colombia by Ramón Torres Méndez (1805-85), with many showing street scenes in Bogota.
[Ref: 60670]   £6,500.00  
 
 
[10 topographical gouaches of Sicily.]
T:o R:o.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ten fine gouaches on card, titled in old ink mss. on reverse. Each sheet c. 110 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½". Seven cards with some oxidation of colour; seven cards with remains of album paper partially over titles.
Ten finely-executed gouache views of Sicily: three of Palermo, three of temples in Agrigento (here called by the Sicilian name Girgenti), Catania (with Etna smoking in the background), Syracuse, Messina and the Doric temple of Segesta.
[Ref: 60250]   £1,900.00
 
 
 
[Original sketch for Dugdales' England & Wales.] Oxford - from the Meadows.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d., c.1838.]
Colour wash sketch. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper at corners.
This is the original sketch for the engraving published in ''Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated'', by Thomas Dugdale, published by John Tallis in parts from 1838.
[Ref: 60258]   £400.00   
As you know our good friend Andrew Edmunds passed away the opening night of the Saatchi fair last September.
His family have announced a memorial this September.
There is a JustGiving page for the Woodland Trust Charity in his honour.
 
 
 
Please note that we will be closing at 4pm Thursday 18th & Friday 19th May.
We will also be closed for the bank holiday on 29th May.
 
 
 
 



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