Cambridge photographs, prints and Books

Books relating to Cambridge: [001659] Beerbohm, Max. Lytton Strachey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original Wraps. Very Good / Very Good. The Rede lecture, 1943, original plum wrappers lettered in black, small signature to f.f.e.p. Spine with minor fading, small mark to lower cover. An attractive and very fresh copy of the Rede Lecture devoted to Lytton Strachey and given by Max Beerbohm in 1943 at Cambridge. £18.00

[004368] Cooper, Charles Henry. Memorials of Cambridge. Cambridge: William Metcalfe, 1860. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Half-Leather. Very Good / N/A. 3 volumes, 138 steel engravings, 90 wood engravings, 17 etchings, and 31 pasted photographs (by Frith and Ernest Edwards), some light scattered spotting and foxing primarily to margins of plates, handsomely recently bound in brown morocco-backed marbled boards, spines with red lettering-pieces, tooled in gilt and blind. £900.00

[003584] Coulton, G[eorge] G[ordon]. Art and the Reformation. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Cloth. Inscribed By Author. Very Good / No Jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND DATED 1928 'In grateful acknowledgement', on the f.f.e.p., plain plates, illustrations in the text, blue cloth (in mylar), spine lettered in gilt, head of spine slightly frayed, outer edges of pages a little browned, endpapers with faint spotting. AN INSCRIBED COPY of G. G. Coulton's seminal book on art and the reformation. The author was a medieval historian and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. £60.00

[000775] Davie, Donald. Events and Wisdoms: Poems 1957-1963. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Boards. Very Good / Good. original apricot boards, lettered in red, matching dust-jacket, lightly soiled and price-clipped with minor short tears on extremities, otherwise a clean copy of this Davie collection. The poet was a fellow at Caius College Cambridge. This was the"choice of the Poetry Book Society." £15.00

[001735] Gittings, Robert and Jo Manton. The Second Mrs Hardy. London and Seattle: Heinemann and the University of Washington Press, 1979. First UK Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Association Copy. Signed. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-435-18366-4. With the ownership signature of British novelist Rosamond Lehmann on the half-title, photographic illustrations, maroon cloth, light wear at edges, pictorial dust-jacket, minor chip at lower edge, "p.42!" in ink to front paste-down, top edge red. Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire. She was educated privately and was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridge. She wrote her first novel in her twenties, the best-selling Dusty Answer, and married Wogan Philipps, the artist, in 1928. Her reputation was firmly established with the publication of A Note in Music in 1930, and the subsequent Invitation to the Waltz and its sequel, The Weather in the Streets. During the war she contributed short stories to the notable book-periodical New Writing which was edited by her brother, John Lehmann. Rosamond Lehmann remains one of the most distinguished novelists of this century, and was created a CBE in 1982. £15.00

[005265] Isitt, Jenny (editor). Hemispheres: An Anthology of Writing for the African Famine By Students from Cambridge. Cambridge: Printed By Pemgate, 1985. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Wraps. . . Very Good / N/A. ISBN: 0 9510572 0 0. Foreword by George Tonypandy, poems and writing by students, plain illustrations, illustrated card covers, minor light shelfwear, spine browned. Illustrated 1985 Cambridge publication to raise money for the African famine. £12.00

[003886] [King's college]. The King's Scholars and King's Hall. Notes on the History of King's Hall, Published on the Six-Hundreth Anniversary of the Writ of Edward II Establishing the King's Scholars in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1917. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Buckram. Association Copy. Signed. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: . COPY FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF J.G. FRAZER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE AND CAMBRIDGE ADDRESS to the f.f.e.p., frontispiece reproducting seal of King's hall, plate, printed throughout on handmade paper, cream buckram, lightly rubbed, (in mylar), untrimmed edges. An interesting copy of this scarce privately printed work on the history of King's Hall, Cambridge formerly in the possession of J.G. Frazer author of 'The Golden Bough' whilst at Cambridge. £220.00

[004694] Moore, Geoffrey [editor]. Poetry from Cambridge. London: The Fortune Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Notes on contributors, orange cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, dust-jacket (in protective sleeve), spine chipped/browned, small loss to corner. UNCOMMON. 1946 selection of poetry by Cambridge tudents: Donald Bain, Donald Davie, Wolf Mankowitz, etc. £45.00

[000805] Raine, Kathleen. The Lost Country. London: The Dolmen Press; Hamish Hamilton, 1971. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Buckram. Very Good / Very Good. dark green buckram, spine a bit bumped, ivory dust-jacket, lettered in green and blue, minor points of foxing to half-title and title, minor browning along edges of dust-jacket, but a very good copy of this Poetry Book Society recommendation. Memory and fantasy explored in this rich collection of poems by the only woman writer closely connected with the Cambridge poets group. £22.00

[000824] Saltmarsh, John. King's College and Its Chapel. ill. Richard H. Tilbrook. Norwich: Printed for the College By Jarrold & Sons, 1961. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pictorial Boards. Very Good / Very Good. numerous plain and colour illustrations by Richard Tilbrook, original pictorial borads showing King's, matching dust-jacket, minor chipping at extremities, illustrates the stonework and woodwork. £8.00

[002561] St. John's College. The Eagle: Centenary Number 1858-1958. Cambridge: Printed at Cambridge University Press, 1958. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Wraps. Very Good / N/A. Volume LVIII, No. 251. Illustrations, articles, reviews, obituries, wrappers with woodcut design, backstrip lightly chipped, a few minor marks. The centenary issue of The Eagle. Articles on the college buildings, Wordsworth, Babington, poems, Cambridge mathematics. £7.00



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	The 1860s saw the opening up of photography to the masses, an art form invented in the last years of the 1830s as the preserve of a few scientists and experts, and this expansion of the medium allowed the layman's involvement in the medium as never before. These views of Cambridge focus primarily on the University's great mediaeval colleges untouched by the additions, renovations and accretions of the twentieth century, but also document the uncluttered nature of the city itself in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Sprouting gargoyles vie for attention with gothic pinnacles, graceful bridges reflect themselves in the River Cam, and top-hatted gentlemen stroll through the snowy lanes of winter while labourers, messengers and apprentices confront the camera's gaze. Albumen prints were the common currency for photography for over thirty years during the middle part of the nineteenth century. Egg albumen was used to coat the paper and this with the use of glass plate negatives results in the extraordinary range of tone and fine detail of the images. Albumen, more commonly known as egg white was mixed with sodium chloride and coated onto the paper. The Albumen paper was then coated with silver nitrate, immediately before printing to give the finished print a glossy surface, which appealed more to nineteenth century taste than the matt surfaces of other processes. All c. 1880, albumen prints, within mounts, average size 19 x 27 cm., some titled and dated below the image, each £35-£50, please enquire.

		Caius College, corner of King's Parade Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		St. John's College Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Queen's Bridge Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Christ's College Gatehouse Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		University Church, Cambridge Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Caius College, Gate of Honour Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Trinity Bridge Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Caius College Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Christ's College Gatehouse Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Caius College, Gate of Honour Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		Pembroke College Albumen print c. 1880 (within mount)

		MAPS Jansson, Johannes. Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, vernacule Cambridge Shire. c.1700. 425 x 525mm. Later hand-colouring outline colour, the armorials & cartouches coloured in full. Map of Cambridgeshire, with the title cartouche depicting a scholar and 25 armorials of both local nobles and colleges with figurative cartouche and scale of miles. Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by Joannes Janssonius ca. 1700 £620 (framed)

		Blaeu, Joan and Willem Hvntingdonensis Comitatus; Huntingdonshire c.1645 390 x 480mm. Copper engraving with contemporary hand-colouring £450 (framed)

		Greenwood, C & J. Map of the county of Huntingdon 1830 57 x 68 cm. engraved map, contemporary hand colouring with title, table, hundreds and view of Kimbolton Castle £325 (framed)

		Abel Swal and Awnsham and John Churchill Engraved by Sutton Nicholls Cambridgeshire Copper engraving with hand colouring c. 1708 430 x 355 SOLD

		Carington Bowles (1723-1793) New Medium Map of Cambridgeshire 1785 Copper engraving with hand colouring 335 x 235 mm. £275 (framed)

		Hermann Moll Suffolk c. 1724 Copper engraved map with images of saxon coins to borders Later hand colouring 210 x 320 mm. (sheet) SOLD

		Thomas Kitchin Cambridgeshire 1747 copper engraved map with later hand colouring 190 x 160 mm. SOLD

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