Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
[Alan Gardyne]: 'The Log of the Lalage, being a Description of a Cruise on the Norfolk Broads.', Stratford, 1892, reprinted from Tinsley's Magazine (new series) August and September 1889, 12 black and white illustrations from photographs as called for, later wraps with m/s pen & ink title
Sale Price: £55.00
Harry Brittain: 'Notes on the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk & Suffolk', Norwich, circa 1890, 5th edition, ownership signature of Herbert Woods (1891-1954), founder of the Herbert Woods boatyard of Potter Heigham in 1929 and designer of the revolutionary Broads light Cruiser 'Speed of Light', with an earlier manuscript pen and ink log of a trip in 1891 on board ''Driven Mist'' from Loynes at Wroxham. John Loynes may also have been aboard on this...
Sale Price: £50.00
'Jarrolds' Holiday Series', 8 titles, including H.M. Doughty: 'Summer in Broadland: Gipsying in East Anglian Waters', 1890, 3rd edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, highly commercially successful story of a Broads Wherry trip; Ernest Suffling: 'History and Legends of the Broads District', [1891], 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt; H.M.L. [Hill Mussenden Leathes]: 'Rough Notes on Natural History in Norfolk and The Eastern Counties', [1890], 1st edition, rebound (not recent) full calf gilt; Harry Brittain: 'Rambles...
Sale Price: £95.00
Ernest Suffling, 3 titles: 'The Land of the Broads', 1885, 1st edition, lacks map, original pictorial red cloth gilt, classic descriptive guidebook of the Broads; 'How to Organize a Cruise on the Broads', circa 1891, folding map, rebound quarter cloth gilt; 'The Land of the Broads', [1887], 1st illustrated edition, folding coloured map + illustrations as called for, original cloth gilt (3)
Sale Price: £28.00
Ernest Suffling, 4 titles: ' 'How to Organize a Cruise on the Broads', [1891], 1st edition, folding map, [4]pp adverts at end, rebound quarter cloth gilt, original pictorial wraps bound in; 'The Land of the Broads', [1887], 1st illustrated edition, folding coloured map + illustrations as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'History and Legends of the Broad District', [1891], 1st edition, original pictorial card wraps, rebacked; 'Afloat in a Gipsy Van', 1895, 1st...
Sale Price: £38.00
[Count D'Epremesiul]: 'En Wherry - Trois semaines dans les Broads du Norfolk', Paris, 1892, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to half title, 5 photogravure plates + folding map as called for, contemporary fine half green morocco gilt, marbled end papers. Scarce
Sale Price: £90.00
[Count D'Epremesiul]: 'En Wherry - Trois semaines dans les Broads du Norfolk', Paris, 1892, 1st edition, 5 photogravure plates + folding map as called for, contemporary half calf gilt, ownership signature of James Hooper, translator, and with several m/s letters dated March to June 1893 between Hooper and Jarrolds the publisher re translation of the work, together with a further quantity of 1960's m/s correspondence between Frank C Chambers and Coleman Green re translation of...
Sale Price: £140.00
[Charles Coleman Laing] : A Week on The Bure, Ant, and Thurne', 1895 ''privately printed'', limited edition, 4 plates plus map as called for, 58pp + epilogue, original cloth gilt. An account of a Broads boating trip aboard the ''May Fly''. One copy only on Copac, scarce
Sale Price: £280.00
Colin Lunn: 'Norfolk Broads', London, Jarrold & Sons, [1891], 12 mounted photographic plates, each photograph approx size 10 x 15cm, 13pp letterpress + [1]pp adverts at end, oblong original blind stamped bevelled cloth gilt, mounted photographic illustration to top board. Sought after Broads book with real sepia photographs of Wroxham Bridge, Horning Ferry, Gorleston Harbour (2), Acle Regatta, Lowestoft Harbour (2), Hickling Broad, Gorleston Quay, St Benet's Abbey, Salhouse Broad and Heigham Sounds
Sale Price: £100.00
Peter Henry Emerson, 11 reproduction photographs, including 9 from his first photographically illustrated book - Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, published 1887 and his only publication to contain real photographs (forty high quality platinum prints), with the photogravure being used for illustrating his subsequent books. The images comprising: I 'Coming Home from the Marshes'; II 'Setting the Bow-Net'; VI 'An Eel-Catcher's Home'; VII 'Taking up the Eel-Net'; XV 'The Haunt of the Pike';...
Sale Price: £230.00
Peter Henry Emerson: 'Marsh Leaves', London, David Nutt, 1895, one of only 100 deluxe edition copies, 15 (of 16) photogravure plates on Japanese Vellum (wants plate XI ''The Bridge'', some plates slightly trimmed at margins, not affecting plate impressions or images), original brown morocco gilt backed decorative cloth. Emerson's last photographically illustrated Broads' book, his masterpiece and final statement of art and life. Born in Cuba in 1856 of an American coffee planter and English...
Sale Price: £3,400.00
Six P.H. Emerson related biographies/bibliographies, comprising Newhall: 'P.H. Emerson The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art', two copies (1975 1st and 1990); McWilliam et al: 'Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900'; Turner & Wood: 'P.H. Emerson, Photographer of Norfolk', 1974, 1st edition in dust wrapper; Middleton: 'The Broadland Photographers', 1978, 1st edition; Taylor: 'The Old Order and the New - P.H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895', 2006, original cloth,...
Sale Price: £42.00
John Payne Jennings: 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ashtead, [1891], 1st edition, 100 illustrations from photographs as called for; together with an 1892 2nd edition of the same work, with letterpress by Ernest Suffling, each original pictorial cloth gilt; plus 'Photo Pictures in East Anglia', [1897], 1st edition, illustrations from photographs throughout as called for, letterpress by Annie Berlyn, original two tone decorative cloth gilt (VGC). All very likely produced by the Great Eastern...
Sale Price: £40.00
Five scarce late 19th/early 20th Century East Anglian Guides edited by Percy Lindley, mainly for the Great Eastern Railway and all containing scenes of the Broads and East Anglia, comprising 'East Coast Pictures', illustrated throughout, 47,[1]pp, oblong, original wraps; 'Summer Holidays', edition dated April 1905 in original pictorial wraps and another edition dated April 1907 in original cloth backed boards gilt, each oblong, 93,[1]pp and illustrated throughout with coloured plates and illustrations in text; 'Seaside...
Sale Price: £75.00
John Bickerdyke [i.e. Charles Henry Cook]: 'The Best Cruise on the Broads', [1895], 1st edition, 8 plates + in text maps as called for, original pictorial cloth; Anna Bowman Dodd: 'On the Broads', illustrated Joseph Pennell, 1896, 1st edition, 30 illustrations as called for, original art nouveau style decorative cloth gilt. Both books relative late comers to the genre of boating trips on the Broads, and both subsequently sarcastically criticised by Walter Rye in his...
Sale Price: £30.00
Arthur Henry Patterson: 'Sea-side Scribblings for visitors; or, how to make the most of a holiday jaunt', London, Jarrold and Sons, [1887], first edition, 139pp + [5]pp adverts at end, rebound modern cloth gilt, original pictorial paper covered card wraps bound in. Published by Jarrold & Sons, the authors first proper book. Scarce
Sale Price: £130.00
