Sotheby & Co.

The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose Esq FSA FRGS. Removed from Barbados Hill Devon, Pennsylvania. The First Portion: Travel & Exploration, Navigation & Trade. A – L.

First Edition. London, Sotheby & Co., 1971. 107 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Losely inserted list of Prices and Buyers’ Names. Original paper covered boards. Hard cover.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. [Sotheby’s].

Music. Catalogue of Printed & Manuscript Music, Books on Music & Musical Instruments.

London, Sotheby’s, 1977. 154 pages plus Index. Illustrated in colour and B&W. Losely inserted price list for the auction. Original green wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. See image.

Southey, Robert.

The Life of Nelson.

London, E.H. Wells, Not dated [c.1900]. 18 x 12 cm. xii, 351 pages. Contemporary claf Prize Binding for Cork Grammar School. Gilt title and decorations. Marbled edges and end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Top edge dust dulled. Mild abrasion to front paste down. Prize label losely inserted. The Farrington Classics.

Stancliffe, Clare E.

Kings and Conversions: some Comparison between the Roman Mission to England and Patrick’s to Ireland. Sonderdruck aus Fruehmittelalterliche Studien. Jahrbuch des Instituts fuer Fruehmittelalterforschung der Universitaet Muenster.

Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1980. pages 59 to 94. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Front cover lose. Internally bright and clean. Short inscription by the Author [Clare] on front wrapper. See images.

Stanley, Arthur P.

Historical Memorials of Canterbury. The Landing of Augustine. The Murder of Becket. Edward the Black Prince. Becket’s Shrine. With Illustrations.

Fourth Edition. London, John Murray, 1865. 18 x 1 cm. 302 pages. With a frontispiece, a folding plan and other illustrattions in text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Red morroco spine label with gilt title. Gilt decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Name of previous owner on first blank, dated 1869.Edges dust dulled. Long closed tear to page 107/108. Internally bright and clean.

[Steele, Richard / Addison, Joseph].

The Guardian.

Two Volumes. London, Printed by J. Nichols for Rivington, Longman, White et al., 1789. 21.5 x 13 cm. Vol.1: iv, 571 pages / Vol.2: 600 pages. Both title pages with engaving (see images). Fine contemporary calf. Morroco labels with gilt titles and volume numbers. Gilt decorations. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Sound bindings with minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A very nice set.

Stephenson, Sir Henry K.

Printing. Some account of its invention, earlier writing forms, personalities and later developments in England.

First Edition, limited to 400 copies. This is copy 191, signed by the author. Self-published, December 1941. 32 x 21 cm. 33 pages. Several illustrations. Quarter vellum over paper covered boards. Gilt line decoration on boards and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Mild rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Stevenson, Sir John (music) / Moore, Thomas (text).

A Selection of Irish Melodies. With Symphonies and Accompaniment by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc. and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esq’r.

[First Editions]. 5th & 6th Number bound into one Volume. London & Dublin, Printed and Sold at J. Power’s Music & Instrument Warehouse & at W. Power’s Music Warehouse, [1813 & 1815]. 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (2) [blank], tissue guarded engraved title page, (4) [dedication & index], 52 pages, engraved music scores / title page, advertisement, pages numbered 52 to 113. Full page engraving between pages 77 and 78. New half cloth over decorated paper covered boards. Contemporary red morroco label [‘Mrs. T. Moore’] from original binding on front board. Good condition only. New solid binding. Internally seriously age darkened and damp stained. See images for a clear idea of the condition. Gift inscription on first blank page (see comments below). Partially trimmed inscription on top of second title page (6th Number), possibly by the author?

Stewart, Alexander & O’Brien, Rev. Paul.

Elements of Gaelic Grammar & A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language. [Two Books Bound in One]. Subtitle for Stewart: In four Parts: 1. Of Pronounciation and Orthoraphy. 2. Of the State of Speech. 3. Of Syntax. 4. Of Derivation and Composition.

The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged / First Edition. Two Books bound into One. Edinburgh & Dublin, Printed by C. Stewart / Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 1812 & 1809. 20 x 12 cm. xxiii, 200 pages one folding chart / x, 214 pages with one folding chart. Contemporary calf. Morroco spine label with git title. Gilt line decorations. See images. Very good condition. Rubbed, bumped and age darkened. Internally dust dulled and damp stained (see images). A few neat annotations. Small wormholes to some pages, not affecting text. Overall a very nice copy.

Strategicus.

The War for World Power & The War Moves East.

Second Printings. Two Volumes. London, Faber and Faber, 1941 & 1943. c. 20 x 13 cm. 304 pages and 234 pages. With a few map illustrations. Original hard covers. Very good condition.