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Printed Books, Maps & Documents Children’s Books & Modern First Editions 19 & 20 JUNE 2019

THE LIBRARY & PICTURE COLLECTION OF THE LATE MARTIN WOOLF ORSKEY WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE

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PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS THE LADWELL COLLECTION OF FINE BIRD BOOKS: PART II CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

19 & 20 June 2019

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CONTENTS Day One Travel & Exploration British Topography The Ladwell Collection of Fine Bird Books: Part II Natural History Maps & Charts Decorative Prints & Original Art Autographs, Documents & Ephemera Antiquarian Art Reference General Literature General Stock

1-38 39-68 69-118 119-147 148-188 189-235 236-266 267-348 349-367 368-406 407-479

Day Two Antiquarian Juvenile Books Vintage Toys & Games Children’s & Illustrated Books Original Artwork & Illustrations Private Press Modern First Editions

480-511 512-526 527-605 606-631 632-638 639-773

SPECIALIST STAFF

Nathan Winter

John Trevers

Dominic Somerville-Brown

Chris Albury

Paul Rasti

Susanna Winters

Nathan Winter Libraries, Continental Books & Music

Chris Albury Books, Manuscripts, Documents & Photographs

Colin Meays Early Printed Books & Bibles Bookbinding

John Trevers Maps, Atlases, Decorative Prints & Caricatures

Paul Rasti Travel & Exploration, Modern Literature, Sports

Henry Meadows Fossils & Minerals, Military History

Dominic Somerville-Brown Travel & Exploration Natural History

Susanna Winters Children’s Literature, Fine Bindings, Textiles & Cookery

Helen Pedder General Cataloguer

Colin Meays

Henry Meadows

Helen Pedder

Cover illustrations: Front cover: lot 622

Back cover: lot 105

Anderson (George William). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority.

Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full, and Complete History of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, London: Printed for Alex.

Hogg, [1784 – 1786], 156 plates, maps and plans, recent panelled calf gilt, folio £1,200-1,500 (24 July auction)

FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2019 Wednesday 26 June

The Library & Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey

Wednesday 24 July

Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Thursday 25 July

Fine Art & Antiques Old Master & Modern Paintings & Prints

Wednesday 14 August

Printed Books Online Catalogue

Wednesday 11 September

Printed Books, Maps & Documents Early Printed Books, English & Continental Literature & History Including the collection of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017)

Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION To commence at 10am

1 Auldjo (John). Narrative of An Ascent To The Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827, 1st edition, Longman, Rees, et al., 1828, 14 (of 15) lithographed plates (6 on india paper, mounted: lacks plate of Mont Blanc and the Priory of Chamonix), 2 folding maps (one hand-coloured), folding panorama (split along some folds), facsimile letter, chart, handcoloured folding table and hand-coloured comparative heights of mountains plate, occasional spotting, stitching of early leaves partly broken and several leaves detached, hold ownership inscription of H.G Broughton to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, worn, covers detached and back strip deficient, 4to (305 x 240mm) Neate A75.

An early, successful ascent of Mont Blanc by the author, this account 'was a classic of alpine literature, a vivid narrative of the pleasures and perils of mountaineering illustrated by Auldjo's own sketches' (ODNB). () £300 - £400

2 Batty (Elizabeth Frances). Italian Scenery. From Drawings made in 1817, 1st edition, Rodwell & Martin, 1820, engraved title, 60 engraved plates, some light marginal spotting at front and rear of volume, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Priscilla Feilden, Febry 1823. The gift of her dear & lamented Mother’, attractive contemporary half calf gilt, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Maaskamp, Evert, Representations of Dresses, Morals and Customs, in the Kingdom of Holland, at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, Amsterdam, printed for E. Maaskamp, 1808, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates (dated 1811) after J. Kuyper, 2 or 3 plates with light waterstain to top margin at end of volume, (most plates generally in clean condition), contemporary bookplate of C.F. Hart to front pastedown, contemporary red half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, recased with original spine laid down, large 4to (sheet size 32 x 23cm) (2)

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£300 - £400

3 Beechey, Frederick William. A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty’s Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Captain Buchan, R.N.,; 1818; to which is added, a summary of all the early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole, 1st edition, Richard Bentley, 1843, half-title present, folding lithographed map, 6 full-page plates, including 2 folding lithographed panoramas, spotting to first and last few leaves and to single-page plates, one or two short closed tears to the folding panoramas, without loss, presentation inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper ‘Second Prize presented to John Hanbury by the Worshipful Company of Brewers as a Reward for General Proficiency in the Sixth Class. Xmas 1860’, signed by the headmaster, contemporary gilt-decorated full calf, with gilt coat of arms of the Brewers Company School in Islington, London, rubbed and some marks and waterstaining to covers, minor fraying to head of spine, 8vo, together with, Ross, Sir John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 2 volumes (including Appendix), 1st edition, A.W. Webster, 1835, engraved frontispiece to each, folding uncoloured engraved map (some offsetting and a short handling tear), forty-eight plates and charts, fifteen coloured (volume one with three colour-printed mezzotints; Appendix with eleven hand-coloured lithographs and one handcoloured engraving), some spotting and light toning, one or two short marginal tears, first volume with endpapers renewed and armorial bookplate of Aldennam House Herts on front pastedown, rough-trimmed, Appendix with stitching partially broken and some leaves starting, original patterned blue cloth, some marks and fading, first volume rebacked, 4to

4 Benyowsky (Maurice Auguste, comte de). [ Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky ... Consisting of His Military Operations in Pol and , his Exile into Kamchatka, his Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, To Canton in China, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790], both volumes lacking title-pages (provided in loosely inserted photocopy facsimiles), half-title to volume 1, 23 engraved plates, maps & plans (many folding), few plates close trimmed and some dust-soiling to folds, leaf K4 (pages 71/72) lacking in volume 1 (provided in loosely inserted photocopy facsimile), ink stamp to final leaf of text in each volume, occasional spotting, modern half sheep gilt, 4to Cordier Sinica 277; Cordier Japonica 454. Benyowsky was exiled to Siberia by the Russians, and led seventy prisoners on an escape mission out of Kamchatka, sailing to Japan, Formosa, and China. His memoir provides accounts of Siberia, the Russian fur trade, and the customs of Kamchatka.

The escape party also allegedly reached the Alaskan mainland. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

(2) £500 - £800

Beechey: Hill (2004) 97; Sabin 4349. Ross: Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381.

(3) £400 - £600

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5 Bizzarri (Pietro). Pannonicum bellum, sub Maximiliano II. Rom. et Solymano Turcar. imperatoribus gestum, bound with:ibid., Cyprium bellum, inter Venetos, et Selymum Turcarum imperatorem gestum, 2 works in 1 volume, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1573, somewhat browned throughout, Pannonicum bellum with cancelled ink-stamp of the University Library of Genoa, retaining leaf 2X8 (blank but for publisher’s woodcut device verso), Cyprium bellum quire 2E with faint marginal damp-staining and old repairs to margins of 2E23, lacking blank leaves 2S7-8, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, old Italian manuscript annotation (enumerating contents) to front cover, slightly marked, 8vo (15.6 x 9.8cm) Adams B2087 & B2085; Atabey 110 & 111; Cobham-Jeffery p. 5 for Cyprium bellum (which is an account of the Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War, or War of Cyprus).

First edition in Latin of Pannonicum bellum (first published in Italian in 1568), first edition of Cyprium bellum (a French translation appeared the same year). The works were also issued in one volume with Antoine Geuffroy’s Aulae Turcicae. Bizzarri (or Bizari, 1525-c.1586) converted to protestantism around 1542-3 and spent most of the years between 1549 and 1572 in England, during which time he entered the service of Francis Russell, earl of Bedford, gained a pension from Elizabeth I through the mediation of Archbishop Parker, and eventually served as an intelligencer for William Cecil and later for Francis Walsingham.

(1) £500 - £800

7 Botero (Giovanni), Delle Relationi Universali di Giovanni Botero Benese, [Parte Prima], Parte Seconda, Parte Terza & Quarta Parte, 4 volumes in one, Venice, Appresso Giacomo Vincenti (Part II), Appresso Gio. Battista Ussio (Part III), & Appresso Giorgio Angelieri (Part IV), 1596, [xxx], 240, 80, [xx], 152, 183, [xviii], [xvi], 78, together 4 parts bound in one volume, lacking a1 at front (title to First Part), 4 folding engraved maps of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, part titles to second, third and fourth parts present, each with woodcut device, woodcut initials, occasional marks and a2 at front of volume lightly soiled and with small tear with loss to lower outer blank corner, map of Europe with small repair to foot of fold verso (without loss), map of Asia with repair to central vertical fold verso, with minimal loss, maps of Asia and America unblemished, title to second part with some restoration and restrengthening to verso, minor loss to blank fore-edge towards head, incomplete at end, the fourth part ending on E7 (page 78), later (17th or early 18th century) sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spine, rubbed and joints partly cracked, small 4to (19 x 12.7cm, 7.5 x 5ins) Not in Adams; SABIN number 6803 SABIN read Sabin Western Travellers in China 12.

Botero’s Geography, containing descriptions of the countries of the world according to their territory, constitution and religion, was considered the most authoritative universal political geography for over a century, from its first publication in Rome between 1591 and 1596. Woodcut illustrations

by Hans Burgkmair and his workshop were only added in the edition of 1618.

“Botero’s knowledge of China, which he had previously derived exclusively from Barros, Mendoza, and the Jesuit letterbooks, becomes more realistic and critical in the Relazioni, possibly because of the new information and perspective which he derived from the Jesuits” (Western Travellers in China).

(10) £400 - £600

6* Bligh (William). The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787-1789, Genesis Publications, 1975, limited edition 378/500, folding facsimile chart, text and illustrations, original half calf, slightly rubbed, thick folio, original publishers cloth slip case, some marks (1)

£100 - £150

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9 [Cole, Mrs Henry Warwick]. A Lady’s Tour Around Monterosa: with visits to the Italian Valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta and Cogne, in a series of excursions in the years 1850-56-58, 1st edition, 1859, half-title, hand-coloured “sub rosa” device to title, 4 chromolithographed plates and one folding map, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting and light browning including 2 plates, original pink cloth gilt, rubbed generally faded, together with[Freshfield, Jane], Alpine Byways or Light Leaves Gathered in 1859 and 1860, by a lady, 1st edition, 1861, 8 tinted lithographed plates and 4 plain maps, 24pp publishers catalogue at rear, early ownership inscription of Mrs William King, Westbourne Terrace to front free endpaper, old adhesion marks to front free endpapers, original cloth gilt, rubbed, spine partly faded and a little frayed at head and foot, 8vo Neate C88 & F73.

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£300 - £400

8 Churchill (Winston S.) My Early Life. A Roving Commission, Keystone Library reprint, 1937, maps and illustrations, some light spotting, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed and faded with losses to two compartments, 8vo Inscribed on front endpaper: ‘To Patrick Monkhouse from Winston S, Churchill, May 1938’. The recipient, Patrick ‘Paddy’ Monkhouse (1905-1981) joined the Manchester Guardian in 1927 as reporter, leader writer and critic, before joining the Evening Standard from 1936-1940. He rejoined the Manchester Guardian in 1946 as news editor and later served as deputy editor. He also wrote three books on hill walking.

(1) £700 - £1,000

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11 Dalzel (Archibald). The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; compiled from Authentic Memoirs; with an Introduction and Notes, 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author by T. Spilsbury & Son, 1793, folding engraved map frontispiece (short closed tear and fraying to fore-edge margin), 6 engraved plates, title inscribed ‘William Shaw from his friend George Dalzel Dec. 1833’ and ‘Given to John Archibald Shaw by his Uncle William Shaw, June 1859’, C2 torn across lower outer blank corner, O2 with long horizontal closed tear repaired with transparent paper tape, occasional light dampstains, near contemporary half calf gilt, some wear to head & foot of spine and extremities, 4to

10 Cook (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, engraved portrait frontispiece, 63 engraved plates and charts, many folding, folding letterpress table, extra-illustrated with folding ‘Chart of the Island of Otaheite, by Lieut. J. Cook, 1769’ from Hogg’s omnibus edition of Cook’s voyages (1784-6) bound to face volume 2 p. 1 (this extra chart nicked, rumpled, browned, and with loss to upper outer corner), slight toning, a few portrait plates closely trimmed shaving imprint or text, volume 1 initial blank and portrait frontispiece dampstained (barely visible in the image), faint shallow tide-mark to upper margins of a few other plates in volume 1, plates 1 and 2 (‘Chart of the Southern Hemisphere’ and ‘Chart of the Southern Extremity of America’, respectively facing volume 1 p. 1 and volume 2 p. 198) taperepaired verso, concomitant darkening to the recto of plate 2 and further tape-repair to gutter of facing text-leaf 2C2, plate 3 (‘Chart of Discoveries’, facing volume 2 p. 25) with short closed tears to one fold and at gutter both touching frame only, similar closed tear to gutter of plate 4 (‘Chart of the Discoveries’ facing volume 2 p. 210, contemporary reversed calf, rebacked and relined at an early date, worn, volume 2 front joint partially split, 4to (28.5 x 22cm)

Together with a small selection of mid/late 19th century carte de viste photographs and genealogical notes relating to the Dalzel Dickson and Shaw family etc.

(1) £400 - £600

Provenance: presentation copy to James Furneaux, brother of Tobias Furneaux, inscribed ‘Presented by the Author to J. Furneaux, my Father, 1777’ on the initial blank in a contemporary hand, with a further inscription, ‘The James Furneaux, of Swilly, to whom Capt Cook presented this book, was an elder brother of Capt. Tobias Furneaux’, in a later hand below; thence by descent to the present owner.

Cook had set out on his third and final voyage on 12 July 1776, by which time Tobias Furneaux was in North America. His ship, the Syren, was lost off Rhode Island the following year: he was taken prisoner and did not return to England until at least 1778. In Furneaux’s absence, his elder brother James (1725-1785), himself a naval officer, would have been a natural recipient of any presentation copy sent on Cook’s behalf. The inscription conceivably admits of the possibility that the ‘author’ referred to is in fact Tobias, whose narrative is also printed, in which case the date would have been recalled inaccurately by James’s son (also James, 1752-1802, clergyman; another son, William, died in infancy).

James Furneaux’s naval career suggests a talented if unlucky sailor. He entered the navy in 1738 and after initial service in the Mediterranean was by February 1743 fourth lieutenant on HMS Burford, which that month served in the defeat at La Guaira with the loss of its own captain Edward Lushington. He was later promoted first lieutenant and is found in temporary command of the Antelope, cruising off Toulon, before returning to the Burford. In 1755 he was appointed to the Vanguard at the personal request of its captain John Byron, grandfather of the poet, and in 1757 followed him to the America, which participated in Edward Hawke’s ‘futile’ expedition against Rochefort, cruised with success on the French coast, and later joined the fleet off Brest under Anson (ODNB). He is known to have referred to Byron for a testimonial in 1758, after which point he does not appear to have served. (See Henry Furneaux, Pedigree of the Family of Furneaux, Paignton, Paignton and Buckfastleigh, Devon; aftewards of Swilly near Plymouth, privately printed, 1876, p. 13).

Beddie 1216; Hill 358; PMM 223.

(2) £3,000 - £5,000

12 Dury (Andrew). A New General and Universal Atlas containing forty-five maps..., printed & sold by A. Dury, Robert Sayer & Carington Bowles, [1761], decorative engraved title and dedication and index, 45 (complete) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including six folding maps which are assigned double numbers hence ‘45 maps’ in title, near contemporary ink numerals to upper right corner, occasional spotting and staining, later endpapers, front pastedown with near contemporary signatures and doodling, modern calf gilt, tooth marks to rear siding, overall size 130 x 155mm, oblong 8vo (1)

£400 - £600

13 Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon of Arizona, Kolb Brothers, Arizona, 1911, 19 mounted photographic prints, three extra colour prints loosely inserted, light toning to title, original wrappers, upper wrapper with mounted half-tone illustration, slight edge wear, oblong 4to, together with In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yosemite Valley, by J.M. Hutchings, 1st edition, 1876, photo-typo plates, illustrations, lacking folding map, some light toning, contempoirary owner inscription, all edges gilt, original morocco, spine repaired, a little rubbed, 8vo, with 14 others related including Map shewing the Canadian Northern Railway and the Railway Systems of Canada 1906, Ansel F. Hall’s Handbook of Yosemite National Park, 1921 and Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Photographs by Ansel Adams, 1948 (16)

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£150 - £200

14 Gruber (J.G. & Geissler, Charles G.H.). Costumes, Moeurs et Coutumes des Russes, Leipzig, Comptoir d’ Industrie, [1801-04], two titles to first part in French and German, and descriptive text to each plate in French and German, 39 (of 40) hand-coloured copper engraved plates of street vendors, costumes, horses and waggons, etc., numbered 1-39, lacking the final plate at end, but with descriptive leaf giving the plate number LX, some soiling and marks to first title, and some plates with some soiling and handling marks and occasional discolouration to margins, 19th century half calf, some wear with upper joint cracked, small 4to

17 Honter (Johannes, & others). Procli, De sphaera liber I. Cleomedis, De mundo ... Arati Solensis Phaeonomena ... Dionysii Afri, Descriptio orbis habitabilis. Omnia Graece et Latine ita coniuncta ... una cum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis De Cosmographiae rudimentis, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1585, 5 parts in 1 volume, Proclus’s work with 2 full-page woodcuts (armillary sphere and a vignette of Proclus teaching) and several woodcut diagrams in text, Honter’s work with 12 folding woodcut maps each with additional single-page woodcut map to conjugate leaf verso (all mounted on guards), spotting and browning, most maps with marginal restoration to upper inner corners, repairs to the first 3 sheets (containing 6 maps), later vellum, manuscript spine-title, 8vo (15.4 x 9.8cm)

Colas 1207; not in Lipperheide.

Based on drawings by Geissler made during his travels in St. Petersburg and Southern Russia between 1790 and 1798, the plates depict street sellers of cheese and fruit, toys, vegetables, fish, hot soup, glasses, geese, rabbits, and prints, etc.

(1) £200 - £300

15 Hedin (Sven). Central Asia and Tibet, Towards the Holy City of Lassa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1903, portrait frontispiece to each, numerous black & white plates and illustrations, folding maps (folding map at rear of volume 1 torn and repaired), ink stamp to titles, endpapers renewed, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spines, upper covers marked where label removed, large 8vo (2)

Adams P2135 (under Proclus); Houzeau & Lancaster 767; Sabin 65491; Shirley, World 108 & British Isles 69; VD16 P 4973; not in Cobham-Jeffery.

Second Basel edition of this important compendium of treatises on astronomy and cosmography, including Johannes Honter’s De Cosmographiae rudimentis, which contains Honter’s double-page cordiform world map and maps of Malta, Mallorca, Cyprus, southern Africa, Madeira, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula (including the Persian Gulf), India, Java, Sri Lanka (‘Taprobana’) and elsewhere. Another copy of this edition was sold in these rooms on 10 April 2019 (lot 30).

(1) £700 - £1,000

£150 - £200

18 Huish (Robert). The Travels of Richard and John Lander, into the Interior of Africa, for the Discovery of the Course and Termination of the Niger, 1st edition, published by John Saunders, 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title with vignette view, single-page engraved map and 6 engraved plates (complete as list at rear of volume), occasional light marginal spotting (mostly to plates), contemporary mottled diced calf, recased with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Mengin (Felix).

Histoire de l’Egypte sous le gouverenement de Mohammed-Aly, ou recit des evenemens politiques et militaires qui ont eu lieu depuis le depart des Francais jusqu’en 1823, 1st edition, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1823, without atlas volume, contemporary tan calf, gilt arms of Society of Writers to the Signet, 8vo

16 Herschel (John F. W.). Results of Astronomical Observations made during the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope, being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Visible Heavens, commenced in 1825, 1st edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847, halftitle,tinted lithographic frontispiece, 17 engraved or lithographic astronomical plates to rear (4 folding), advertisement leaf to rear, half-title and advertisement leaf browned, closed tear in latter, original cloth, spine-ends chipped, cloth worn at tips, large 4to

Atabey 802 for the second work.

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DSB VI p. 326; Mendelssohn I p. 707; Norman 1056.

‘Herschel’s magnum opus ... a splendidly printed volume’ (ODNB).

(1) £300 - £400

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£100 - £150

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Lot 20

19 Irving (Washington). A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 4 volumes, Paris, A. & W. Galignani, 1828, large folding engraved map of the West Indies and South America to first volume, and folding engraved map of the North Atlantic Ocean to second volume (small repair without loss to inner margin), some light scattered spotting, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines with black morocco title and volume labels, small 8vo, together with [Exquemelin, A.O.]. The History of the Bucaniers of America, 2 volumes, 5th edition, printed for T. Evans and W. Otridge, 1774, occasional marks, first and last few leaves with some marginal browning, contemporary calf, with Signet Library gilt stamp to covers of each volume, heavily rubbed and marked, 12mo, plus Folsom (George). History of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements, and of the proprietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia, Saco, printed by Alex C. Putnam, 1830, single lithographic view, single-page map, and one facsimile plate, some light browning and occasional staining, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear to joints and extremities, and two others related: [Thomas Peregrine Courtenay], Letters of Decius, in answer to the criticism upon the political account of Trinidad; and upon the defence of the crimes of Governor Picton, in the Anti-Jacobin Review, under the title of the “Pictonian Prosecution”, printed and sold by John Morton, 1808, & E. Montule, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies, in 1817, printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821, both 8vo (9)

Lot 21 21 Kneeland (Samuel). The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California, 1st edition, Alexander Moore, Boston, 1871, 10 mounted albumen photographic prints, occasional light soiling, contemporary presentation inscription at front, top edge gilt, original decorative cloth gilt, bevelled edges, a little rubbed, tall 8vo The photographs credited to John Soule are now thought to be by photographer Martin Mason Hazeltine, Soule having purchased the negatives.

(1) £300 - £500

22 Brocquiere (Bertrandon de). The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere, counsellor & first Esquire-Carver to Philippe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, to Palestine and his return from Jerusalem overland to France during the years 1432 & 1433... translated by Thomas Johnes, Hafod Press, 1807, half title, folding engraved map, illustration, some light spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo (1)

£100 - £150

23 Mackaness (George). The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh R.N., F.R.S., 2 volumes, 1st edition, Sydney: Angus & Roberson Limited, 1931, original green cloth, royal 8vo, together with: Beechey (Frederick, W.), Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S. & c, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28, 2 volumes, new edition, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831 [i.e. 1968], and other related HMS Bounty and Captain Bligh publications

£200 - £400

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20 Irwin (Eyles). A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year MDCCLXXVII. In Letters to a Lady, 1st edition, for J. Dodsley, 1780, half-title, 2 sepia aquatint plates, engraved plan (‘Yambo’ i.e. Yanbu, modern-day Saudi Arabia), 3 engraved folding maps, toning, a few marks, folding map facing p.

68 extensively repaired verso, contemporary half calf, red morocco label, 4to (25.7 x 19.3cm) Provenance: ‘Blathwayt’ (contemporary ownership inscription, front free endpaper); Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

Atabey 609; Blackmer 865 (second edition; one plate only); Cox I p. 232; Macro 1293 (second edition); not in Abbey.

‘This work is chiefly valuable for the information which his personal adventures necessarily give of the manners, etc., of the Arabians’ (Cox).

(1) £200 - £300

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£100 - £150

Lot 26 25 Mathews (Charles Edward). The Annals of Mont Blanc, a monograph, 1st edition, 1898, 34 monochrome illustrations & 3 facsimiles plus a folding map to the rear, bookplate to front paste down, some minor spotting, adhesive marks to front & rear endpapers, original gilt decorated black cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Conway (William Martin), The Alps From End to End, 1st edition, 1895, 100 monochrome illustrations by A.D. McCormick, some marginal spotting throughout, original gilt decorated two-tone cloth, some liquid damage to front cover & spine, 8vo, and Visser (PH. C.), Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925, 1st edition, 1926, 25 monochrome illustrations & 2 maps, later endpapers, some minor toning, rebound in contemporary blue half calf, spine slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plus 17 further volumes of late 19th & early 20th century mountaineering history, including a hand written journal of a trip to Switzerland June 1904, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

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26 Phillip (Arthur). The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with an account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island, compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortlands, Watts, Ball & Capt.

Marshall, with an account of their discoveries, 1st edition, John Stockdale, 1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, list of subscribers, 53 engraved maps, plates and charts, several folding, advertisement leaf at end, plate 16 with ‘Wulpine’ for ‘Vulpine’, plate 52, Watt’s Shark hand-coloured, one or two maps and plates close-trimmed with repairs, a few leaves and plates with frayed and soiled fore edges, title with date shaved at foot, some light offsetting and spotting, a few small water stains, modern tan half calf, spine a little faded, 4to

24 [Mair, John]. A Compendius Geographical and Historical Grammar, & A Compendius Geographical Dictionary, 2nd edition, both printed for W. Peacock, 1795, 13 folding engraved maps, handcoloured in outline to first volume, 6 folding engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline to second volume, and folding engraved plate of the solar system, pale offsetting from maps to facing text leaf, all edges gilt, contemporary engraved bookplate of William Radford to front pastedown of each volume, and contemporary ownership inscription to front blank ‘Mary Ann Potts the gift of her dear Uncle Wm Radford 1797’, contemporary uniform red straight-grain morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed to spines, joints and edges, 12mo (2)

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£300 - £400

£200 - £300

Ferguson 47; Hill 1346. ‘This was the first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the settlement’ (Ferguson). Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

(1) £1,000 - £1,500

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27 Raffles (Sophia). Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c. Particularly in the Government of Java, 1811-1816, and of Bencoolen and its Dependencies, 1817-1824; with details of the Commerce and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence. By his widow, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1830, engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 plates with aquatint (including a large folding panorama of Singapore with short strengthening repair to foot of one fold at verso), 4 maps (including 3 folding), some spotting and offsetting, map of Eastern Archipelago with neat repair to lower margin at fold, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, morocco title label, large 4to Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon Abbey Travel 555.

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28 Reland (Adriaan). Palaestina, ex monumentis veteribus illustrata, 2nd edition, Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1716, additional engraved title-page, engraved portrait frontispiece, letterpress title-page in red and black, 9 maps (3 folding, of which one opening to 56 x 49cm), 5 plates (3 folding), engraved numismatic vignettes in text, text-leaves slightly browned, closed tear along fold of Lebanon map, contemporary Latin inscription to front free endpaper, ownership inscription ‘Henry Ashington, 1841’ to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 4to (22.2 x 16.2cm), together with: Prideaux (Humphrey), Histoire des juifs et des peuples voisins ... traduite de l’anglois. Nouvelle édition corrigée et augmentée, 6 volumes, Amsterdam: Henri du Sauzet, 1728, 5 engraved frontispiece, title-pages in red and black with engraved vignette, 14 engraved maps and plates (of which 8 folding), one full-page engraving in text, lacking folding table noted in some copies, bookplates of Serafino Belfanti, contemporary vellum, volume 6 spine defective, 12mo (15.8 x 9.8cm)

£800 - £1,200

Blackmer 1406 for the first edition of Reland’s work (Utrecht, 1714), ‘remarkable ... for its time’.

(7) £300 - £400

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29 Russell (William Howard). The Atlantic Telegraph, illustrated

by Robert Dudley, 1st edition, Day & Son Limited, [1865], pictorial colour lithograph title mounted on card, 24 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day and Son after Robert Dudley, single uncoloured chart, all mounted on card, 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, some light scattered spotting (title more heavily spotted), all edges gilt, later bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, original gilt-decorated plum and green cloth, slightly rubbed to extremities (generally a good copy in the original binding), folio (42 x 29.5cm)

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31 Stanley (Henry M.) In Darkest Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1890, maps and illustrations (a couple of folding maps repaired), a little minor spotting, bookplate, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, together with The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1885, illustrations, volume I rear hinge breaking, bookplate, original pictorial cloth gilt, tiny tears at spine ends, two corners bumped, 8vo, plus Through the Dark Continent, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1878, portrait frontispieces, folding map contained in each rear pocket, maps and illustrations, advertisements at end of volume II, some light spotting and toning, original decorative cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, with five others including Major W. Cornwallis Harris’s The Highlands of Aethopia, 3 volumes, 1844 (lacking chromolithographed dedication leaf in volume I), F.W. Burbidge’s The Gardens of the Sun:or a Naturalist’s Journal on the Mountains and in the Forests and Swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago, 1880 and W.P. Livingstone’s Laws of Livingstonia, [1921} in dust jacket

Sabin 74396; not in Abbey or Tooley. The large-paper folio edition of W.H. Russell’s book commemorating the laying of the Atlantic cable by Brunel’s Great Eastern.

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32 Tagart (Edward). A Memoir of the Late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N. With Extracts from His Diaries and Correspondence, 1st edition, Effingham Wilson, 1832, pencil inscription 'from the Calvert Collection London 2.5.1924', contemporary half calf, some minor wear, 8vo, together with: Murray (Thomas Boyles), Pitcairn.

The Island, The People, And the Pastor, 12th edition, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1860, and 2 others, Pitcairn and Pacific Islands related (4)

33 Trollope (Anthony). How the “Mastiffs” went to Iceland, 1st edition, 1878, half title colour map frontispiece, 14 lithographed plates by Mrs High Blackburn, two albumen prints, scattered spotting, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, 4to

30 Shannon (Joseph). Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York,Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, New York, 1869, portrait frontispiece, decorative title page, folding hand-coloured map of the wards and districts of New York City, folding engraved bird’s-eye view of Manhattan and environs, an architectural elevation of the contemplated East River bridge (the Brooklyn Bridge), a folding colour lithograph of The Battery, and other various plates and illustrations, facsimiles, etc., wood engravings to text, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated dark blue full morocco, stamped to upper cover ‘Capt. Jones Steamer City of Washington compliments of Michael Connolly’, a little rubbed and some minor marks (generally a good copy), 8vo Bennett 107; Sabin 54369.

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£200 - £300

Privately printed account of a trip to Iceland by Anthony Trollope and others aboard the yacht ‘Mastiff’, in June and July 1878.

(1) £150 - £200

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34 Tuckey (James Kingston). Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, 1st edition, John Murray, 1818, folding engraved map frontispiece, 13 engraved plates of which 1 hand-coloured, pale tide-mark to lower outer corners of text, map offset, plates spotted and browned (coloured plate clean), contemporary streaked calf, rebacked to style at an early date, a few scuffs, tips worn, 4to (27 x 20.1cm) Provenance: John Kirk (1832-1922), naturalist and chief assistant to David Livingstone on Livingstone’s 1858-63 Zambesi expedition, with his ownership inscription ‘John Kirk, Zambesi Exped., 1858’ to the title-page.

(1) £200 - £300

36 Wills (Alfred). “The Eagle’s Nest” in the Valley of Sixt; A Summer Home Among the Alps: together with some excursions among the great glaciers, 1st edition, Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1860, 2 partly folding maps, 12 tinted lithographed plates, 4 pp. adverts and 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, old ownership inscription to frontispiece recto offset to half-title verso, old adhesion stains to front and rear front endpapers, original giltdecorated blue cloth, slightly rubbed, together with Wanderings Among The High Alps, first edition, Richard Bentley, 1856, tinted lithographic frontispiece, some spotting and soiling to initial leaves, plate of midland association of mountaineers and ink named stamps to front free and paper, half-title and frontispiece recto, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, lower cover detached, 8vo Neate W93 & W94.

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£200 - £300

37 Wilson (Charles William & Palmer, H.S .). Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai ... under the Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, Part 1 only ( of 3), Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1869, mounted albumen print to title, 20 lithographic plates at rear including some tinted and hand coloured, some spotting, half calf two-tone cloth, some wear, folio, (48.5 x 34cm)

35 White (John). Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, 1st edition, for J. Debrett, 1790, engraved title-page with inset view of Port Jackson, 65 engraved plates of natural history subjects, most with old tissue-guards (some loose or renewed), dedication leaf, list of plates, list of subscribers, 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, spotting to title-page and few plates, small stain to foot of title-page and fore margin of preliminaries, hole in 2C4 obscuring pagination, plate 7 (Wattled Bee-eater, Female), misbound to face p. 240 (not p. 145), modern green morocco gilt, 4to (29.5 x 22.2cm)

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£150 - £200

38 Worcester (G.R.G.). China. the Maritime Customs. III. Miscellaneous Series: No. 52. Notes on the Crooked-bow and Crooked-stern Junks of Szechwan, Shanghai, 1941, folding map and plans, illustrations, original green moire cloth, 4to, presentation copy from the author, together with Chinese Junks and other Native Craft, by Ivon A. Donnelly, Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, 1924, six tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, previous owner signatures, original pictorial boards gilt, slight fading to extremities, tall 8vo, plus Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges, by Cornell Plant, 2nd edition, Shanghai, 1926, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with others related including Imperial China. Photographs 1850-1912, Scolar Press, 1979

Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

Borba de Moraes II p. 376 (‘a sumptuous edition ... magnificent plates’); Cox II p. 315 (‘an extremely interesting account’); ESTC T113529; Ferguson 97; Nissen ZBI 4390; Zimmer pp. 672-3.

A tall, wide-margined copy of this important First Fleet narrative. John White was chief surgeon on the expedition and describes the first ten months of the settlement under Governor Arthur Phillip. His account contains omissions from Phillips, and is a valuable source of early descriptions of the natural history of the new colony.

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Lot 40 39 Alexander (William). A Journey to Beresford Hall the Seat of Charles Cotton Esqre. the Celebrated Author and Angler, London: John Russell Smith, 1841, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, title with vignette illustration, lithograph text and facsimile manuscript, additional clipped wood engraved illustration of the fishing house pasted in, some browning and toning, bookplate of William Macmath to upper pastedown, original green cloth, printed title label to upper board, upper board near detached, slim 4to, together with [Manning, Frederick, editor], A Series of Views, taken on the spot, intended to illustrate Charles Cotton’s work, entitled, The Second Part of the Complete Angler ... Also views mentioned in the same work, of the Journey to Beresford Hall, the Fishing House, and others of interest, as therein described at that time, London: Truscott, Son, & Simmons, [1866], engraved portrait frontispiece, lithograph map and 24 plates (including 2 folding), occasional spotting, front blank inscribed “Presented to William Sillito, by Helen M. Salt, niece of the author, Weeping Cross, October, 1904”, later endpapers[?], original red cloth, lacking spine, some wear to board edges, slim 4to (2)

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40 Blome (Richard). Britannia: or a Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the Isles and Territories thereto belonging..., Illustrated with a map of each county of England besides several general ones. The like never before published. Printed Tho. Roycroft for the Undertaker, Richard Blome, 1673, title page printed in red & black with near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to margin, dedication to Charles II, preface and 5 pages of tables and 24 pages displaying 808 heraldic shields, folding engraved map of the British Isles, 44 double page engraved county maps, a plan of London and five folding maps of North Wales, South Wales, Scotland, Ireland and British Islands (complete as list), later endpapers, bookplate of Edward Southwell Trafford, 19th century half calf gilt, spine frayed with slight loss, 4to Chubb XCIX; Skelton 90.

William Nicholson, the Bishop of Carlisle roundly condemned Blome’s Britannia ‘as a most entire theft out of Camden and Speed’. Most cartographers borrowed from the works of earlier atlases this makes Nicholson’s condemnation somewhat harsh and certainly overlooks the fact that Blome’s maps have a charming naivety which has never been replicated. The six folding maps found in this atlas are often trimmed and damaged. The examples contained in this example are in surprisingly good condition.

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43 Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent islands..., 2 volumes, second edition, revised, digested and published with large additions by Edmund Gibson, printed for Mary Matthews and sold by William Taylor, 1722, portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red & black, fifty-one uncoloured engraved double page maps by Robert Morden (including five folding) and ten plates of coins and antiquities, index bound at rear, later endpapers, contemporary panelled calf with 19th century reback, upper board on volume 2 detached, rear board near detached, worn and frayed, folio

41 Booth (Henry). An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, comprising a history of the parliamentary proceedings, preparatory to the passing of the Act, a description of the railway, in an excursion from Liverpool to Manchester, and a popular illustration of the mechanical principles applicable to railways, 1st edition, Wales and Baines, Liverpool, [1830], lithographed frontispiece, folding plan, wood-engraved plate, extra-illustrated with some 15 portraits and plates, a couple colour, plus a manuscript list of expenses for subscribers to the Liverpool Canal, 1770 and at end two Railway Chronicle Travelling Charts, one London to Wolverton, the other London to Oxford, circa 1847, a little light spotting and soiling, top edge gilt, later green calf gilt, spine a little faded, covers a little bowed, large 8vo (1)

The maps are clean and bright impressions.

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£200 - £300

42 Boswell (Henry). Historical Descriptions of New and Elegant Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England and Wales..., Alex Hogg [1786], engraved allegorical frontispiece, title and preface, 191 engraved plates (majority with two views to each plate) and forty-six (only) uncoloured engraved maps, the majority by Thomas Kitchin and a few maps (of Wales, Scotland and Ireland) by Thomas Conder, later endpapers, early 20th century cloth with old morocco gilt label to spine, slight wear to extremities, folio (1)

£1,200 - £1,500

44 Constable (John). English Landscape Scenery, A Series of Forty Mezzotinto Engravings on Steel by Davis Lucas, From Pictures Painted by John Constable, R.A., 1st edition, Henry G. Bohn 1855, 39 mezzotint plates (of 40) on thick wove paper, title page piece inscribed in ink Chas. H. Miller, contemporary half red morocco, gilt decorated spine, folio, 43 x 29cm, pages detached and loose, some spotting and damp stains (1)

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Lot 49 47 Gilpin (William). Six Landscapes, R. Blamire, 1794, six handcoloured engraved plates by Samuel Alken after William Gilpin, last plate repaired to verso, occasional marginal spotting and closed tears, original printed wrappers, rear wrapper repaired, some fraying and stains, oblong folio, together with Harbours of England... with Illustrative Text by J. Ruskin, Day & Son, circa 1856, 12 engraved plates by Thomas Lupton after J.M.W. Turner, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, wear at spine ends, a little rubbed with stains, 4to

45 Constable (John). English Landscape Scenery, Henry G. Bohn, 1855, 40 mezzotint plates by David Lucas after Constable,plate 26 with small repair to verso, some light spotting and water stains, contemporary half calf, repaired by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1981 (pencil note at front), a few stains to covers, folio (1)

£300 - £500

46 Salisbury, A Description of that Admirable Structure, the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. With the Chapels, Monuments, Grave-Stones, and their Inscriptions. To which is prefixed, an Account of Old Sarum, Ondon: R. Baldwin, 1774, 15 engraved plates & plans (few folding), some toning & scattered spotting throughout, untrimmed, later endpapers, original boards, later cloth spine, board edges worn, 4to, with Hall (Peter), Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury..., to which is prefixed, a Brief History of Old and New Sarum, Salisbury: W.B. Brodie & Co, 1834, engraved frontispiece, 27 engraved plates, wood engraved vignette illustrations, few leaves with short worm trail to lower outer blank corners, scattered spotting and few marks, modern half morocco, 4to, plus A History of Salisbury by E.E. Dorling, 1911 (4)

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£200 - £300

48 Guide Books. An Historical Description of the Tower of London and its Curiosities, 1801, 66 pp., small hole and early signature to title, bound with The Windsor Guide..., Windsor, 1800, 135 pp., folding engraved plate, bound with New Description of Blenheim..., 5th edition, 1800, 140 pp., half title, engraved frontispiece, folding hand-coloured plan, advertisement leaf, bound with The Chester Guide..., 3rd edition, Chester, circa 1800, 96 pp., five engraved plates,bookplate of Sir William Forbes, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, together with two others : J. Mawman’s An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes, 1805 and John Housman’s A Descriptive Tour and Guide to the Lakes, Caves, Mountains, and other natural curiosities in Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire...7th edition, Carlisle, 1806

£200 - £300

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£150 - £200

49 Herman (William Gawin). Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool. Accompanied with descriptions of the antique buildings etc., subscriber’s copy, published by the author, 1857, additional lithographic decorative title, dedication and index, forty-eight tinted lithographic plates (including three folding panoramic views), complete as list, some spotting throughout, contemporary half calf gilt, upper board detached, spine partially lacking, folio (1)

50 Hobson (William). Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas containing separate maps of every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire, J. and C. Walker, circa 1870, title page near detached, table of reference to the hunts, 42 lithographic double page maps with contemporary outline colouring, some marginal dust soiling and spotting, bookplate of J. R. Inigo Jones, contemporary half morocco with gilt title to upper board, heavily worn and frayed, folio

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£100 - £150

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£200 - £300

51 Stone (Francis, 1775-1835). [Picturesque Views of all the Bridges belonging to the County of Norfolk: in a series of eighty-four prints in lithography, Engelmann Graf, Coindet & Co., views of bridges in Norfolk,

by David Hodgson (1798-1864) after drawings by Francis Stone, architect, without title or letterpress, tissue-guard to many plates, stitch marks visible, 19th half calf, worn with backstrip deficient, oblong folio, together with Marcenay de Ghuy (Antoine de). Oeuvre de Mr. De Marcenay De Ghuy, Ecuyer, Peintre, et Graveur: Cet oeuvre, consiste en differens morceaux d'histoires, portraits, paisages, batailles, &c., d'apres le Poussin, Vandick, Rembrandt, Le Brun, & autres maitres, Paris, L'auter, circa 1780, etched title, dedication leaf and single-page list of plates, and 53 etchings on 39 leaves, including 2 double-page (the plates dated 1754 to 1778), some light scattered spotting, contemporary quarter black morocco, soiled and a little wear, folio (2)

£200 - £300

52 Hodgson (John). A History of Northumberland, two parts in five volumes (of six), Newcastle: for the Author, 1820-1840, lacking Part II volume I, engraved portrait frontispiece, approximately 58 engraved plates (one in part 3 volume 1 with closed tear to fore-margin), numerous engraved vignettes and decorated initials to text, variable spotting, part 3 volume 2 page 321 with 6.5cm closed tear, recent uniform half calf gilt, 4to, together with Raine (James), The History and Antiquities of North Durham, as Subdivided into the Shires of Norham, Island, and Bedlington, which, from the Saxon period until the year 1844, constituted parcels of the County Palatine of Durham , but are now united to the County of North umberland, 1st edition, 1852, portrait frontispiece (spotted, mainly to margins), single page map, ten engraved plates (some spotted), and two pedigrees (one folding), all correct as list, all plate leaves with worm damage to blank margins near foot of gutter (some repaired), and each with dampstaining to fore-margins and head (slightly affecting some plates), text with scarce marginal dampstaining, recent speckled half calf, blind-tooled spine with gilt-lettered label, tall folio

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First item: parts II and III, each in 3 volumes, form the original work by Hodgson.

Part I (missing here, as often) was subsequently written by J.H. Hinde to complete the work, being published in 1858.

(6) £300 - £400

53 Lewis (Samuel). A Topographical Dictionary of England..., Atlas volume only, 1831, printed title, three folding engraved maps of England and Wales, Yorkshire and of London, folding maps with splits to old folds, and with forty-three uncoloured engraved county maps (including twelve folding), some staining and spotting throughout, book plate of Simeon Warner, contemporary cloth, bumped, stained and frayed, 4to (1)

£100 - £150

Lot 52 54 Lewis (William, publisher). Lewis’s New Traveller’s Guide, or a pocket edition of the English counties, containing all the direct & cross roads in England & Wales, with the distance of each principal place from London, [1819], hand coloured engraved frontispiece of a map of England & Wales, calligraphic title page with a black & white engraved vignette of a coach and postillions, preface (dated 1819), contents list, list of mail coaches and cost of postage, forty-two (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, including one folding (Yorkshire), each map with a page of descriptive text, ownership signature to front endpaper, ‘The Emigrant’s Prayer’ laid on to front pastedown, hinges cracked, contemporary half morocco gilt, boards heavily worn and frayed, 12mo, together withAlison (Sir Archibald & Johnston Alex. Keith).

Atlas to Alison’s History of Europe. William Blackwood and Sons, 1855, title, advertisement, contents list and five pages of military and marine terms, frontispiece of military signs and illustrations of modern fortification, 108 (complete) engraved plans of battles with contemporary outline colouring, the maps printed ‘back-to-back’, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, worn at extremities, oblong 8vo (2)

£100 - £200

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57 Moule (Thomas). The English Counties Delineated; or a Topographical Description of England, 2 volumes, George Virtue, 1837, printed title, additional decorative title to volume 2, engraved frontispiece of Canterbury Cathedral (detached) and an additional engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Victoria, preface and table of contents, folding engraved map and a four sheet map of England & Wales, comparison plate, folding ‘Improved map of London’ and another of ‘The Metropolitan Boroughs’ (both with repaired closed tears), and fifty-three uncoloured engraved county, town and regional maps by Thomas Moule, occasional spotting and staining, a few maps trimmed with slight loss to printed image, contemporary half calf gilt, worn and frayed, 4to

55 Middiman ( Samuel). Select Views in Great Britain, [1812], half-title present, general title lacking, 54 engraved plates (53 called for) accompanied by descriptive letter press in English & French, some spotting, light toning and occasional dust-soiling, all edges gilt, contemporary tan morocco, gilt and blind rollwork decorative borders to boards, rubbed and worn, oblong 4to, together with Rome, [Views of Rome, circa 1840], view book containing 30 engraved plates of views of Rome engraved by Domenico Amici after Giovanni Gallarini, some staining to inner blank margins, occasional scattered spotting and light dust-soiling, contemporary half morocco, covers loose, dust-soiled and a little rubbed, oblong 8vo, with Guinot (Eugene), L’ete a Bade, illustre par MM. Tony Johannot, Eug. Lami, Francais et Jaquemot, 2nd edition, Paris: Ernest Bourdin, circa 1850, engraved portratit frontispiece on india paper, wood engraved vignette title and illustrations, engraved plates (many on india paper), 20th century inscription to half-title, some spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration and armorial to centre of upper board, 8vo, plus Vyner (Robert T.), Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-Hunting..., 6th edition, [1871?], hand-coloured lithograph plates and few wood engraved illustrations, original red cloth, gilt blocked to upper board and spine, 8vo (4)

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£200 - £300

58 Nash (John). The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 4 volumes, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, each series containing 25 tinted lithographs, some pencil annotations and spotting, pages detached, half calf folio, 53.5 x 36cm 56 Moses (Henry). Visit of William the Fourth when Duke of Clarence, as Lord High Admiral, to Portsmouth, in the year 1827, with views of the Russian Squadron, [1831], engraved title with vignette, engraved dedication to Queen Adelaide, 17 engraved plates, a few marginal water stains, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary boards with original label laid down to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, green morocco reback, folio (1)

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£200 - £300

59 Nash (Treadway Russell). Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1781-1782, engraved vignette title to each volume (volume 1 title lined to verso), folding engraved county map (fold strengthened to verso), numerous engraved plates and plans, 13 leaves of Domesday Book printed in red & black, engraved illustrations to text, and 19 folding pedigrees (one with closed tears and lined to verso), some offsetting to text from plates, occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Howard Douglas Leonard Calton to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines and borders to boards, joints split and some detached, lower portion of volume 2 spine torn away and loosely inserted in volume, worn, folio

£200 - £300

Upcott p.1330.

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60 Ogilby (John). Britannia: or the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales actually Survey’d with a Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Roads explain’d by One Hundred Maps, printed for Abel Swall and Robert Morden, 1698, title page creased, explanation and index, 100 (complete) uncoloured engraved strip road maps, occasional marginal fraying, sheet 2 with repaired marginal closed tear, some water staining, contemporary panelled calf, boards detached, worn and frayed, folio Chubb CIIa. (1)

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Lot 60

61 Ormerod (George). The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, Harleian and Cottonian MSS., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished MS. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the Country, George Routledge and Sons 1882, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Hardy, 1882, numerous engraved plates, armorials to the text, some spotting and library stamps, modern half cloth, folio (3)

62 Philipott (Thomas). Villare Cantianum: or, Kent, Surveyed and Illustrated.

Being an exact description of all the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages, and other respective mannors including in the county of Kent..., printed by William Godbid, 1659, title trimmed to borderline and relaid, folding engraved map of Kent by Kipp, pages 43-46 supplied in 19th century manuscript copy, final leaf of text with nearcontemporary manuscript acount of marital difficulties in ink (but the text not complete), 19th century manuscript index at end, early 20th century bookplate of H. Martyn Mowll to front pastedown, 19th century black half calf gilt, rubbed and a little scuffed, minor fraying to head of spine, folio, together with a 1664 edition of the same work, without the folding map, engraved armorial bookplate of Francis Fulford of Fulford in the County of Devon, Esq., dated 1699, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and heavily marked to covers, spine gilt decorated, folio, plus Kilburne (Richard). A topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659, lacking engraved portrait, title with some marks and staining, (relined), some minor marks elsewhere, modern antique-style sprinkled full calf gilt, small 4to and other British topographical interest, including Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the Natural History of England, Oxford, 1677, folding map not present, several engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, modern reback, a little rubbed and marked, folio, Samuel Henshall, Specimens and Parts; containing a history of the County of Kent, and a dissertation on the Laws, from the Reign of Edward the Confessour, to Edward I; of a topographical, commercial, civil and nautical history of South Britain, with its gradual and comparative progress, in trade, arts, polity, population and shipping, printed for the author 1798, folding map frontispiece (waterstained), all edges gilt, 19th century maroon half morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to, Charles Mackay, The Thames and Its Tributaries; or Rambles Among the Rivers, 2 volumes, 1840 (attractive contemporary gilt decorated binding), The Beauties of England and Wales, volumes VII & VIII (Kent only), by Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1807-08, and others similar, all leather bound, 4to, 8vo (13)

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63 Phillips (John), Memoirs of William Smith, LL.D., author of the “Map of the Strata of England and Wales,” by his nephew and pupil John Phillips, F.R.S., F.G.S., 1st edition, John Murray, 1844, engraved portrait frontispiece (some spotting), 4 profile portraits, including one in silhouette of Benjamin Richardson, James Anderson, Francis Duke of Bedford, and Joseph Townsend, some illustrations to text, 8-page publisher’s catalogue at end, dated January 1844, bookplate of Dr. Charles Rooke, F.G.S. and bookseller’s ticket of Boddy’s Bookshop, Middlesbrough to front pastedown, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and marked, with a little fraying and slight loss to head and foot of spine, 8vo Only 500 copies printed.

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67 Todd (Henry John). Some Account of the Deans of Canterbury; from the new foundation of that church, by Henry the Eighth, to the Present Time. To which is added a Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Church Library, Canterbury & London, 1793, upper blank margin of title torn and repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, morocco title label, 8vo, together with Oliver (George), Historic Collections, relating to the Monastries in Devon, Exeter: Printed by R. Cullum, 1820, occasional spotting, original boards with later cloth spine and printed paper title label, 8vo, with other British topography related including including, Paterson’s Roads, by Edward Mogg, 16th edition, 1822, title detached and torn, folding engraved maps, original diced calf, 8vo, The Walloons and their Church at Norwich

by William Moens, Lymington, 1888, ex-library copy with usual ink stamps, modern red library buckram, 4to, plus two others

£400 - £600

64 Plot (Roberts). The Natural History of Stafford-shire..., printed at the Theatre, Oxford, 1686, decorative title, dedication and preface, thirty-eight engraved plates (including twenty-six double page), lacking folding map, index bound at rear, occasional staining, hinges strengthened, bookplate of Wadham Wyndham Esq., contemporary panelled calf, 19th century re-back, worn and frayed, folio, together with Philipott (Thomas). Villare Cantianum; or, Kent surveyed and Illustrated..., 2nd edition, 1776, two engraved plates (including one folding), lacking folding map, index bound at rear, later endpapers, 19th century half calf gilt, worn at extremities, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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66 Thorpe (John). Custumale Rossence from the Original Manuscript in the Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester to which are added, Memorials of that Cathedral Church; and some Account of the Remains of Churches, Chapels ..., John Nichols 1788, engraved portrait of the author, 55 fine engraved plates, some spotting, later half calf on marbled boards, folio (1)

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£150 - £200

68 Warner (Rev. Richard). The History of Bath, 1st edition, published by R.Cruttwell, Bath, and G & J Robinson, London, 1801, portrait frontispiece, additional half title, folding map of Bath and twelve (only of thirteeen) uncoloured engraved plates, maps and plans, some offsetting from plates to text, later endpapers, later 19th century morocco gilt, some wear to extremities, 4to, together with Scarth (Rev. H. M.). Aquae Solis, or Notices of Roman Bath, 1864, frontispiece detached, title page with contemporary manuscript ownership signature, numerous uncoloured lithographic plates of antiquities, folding circular map of the Roman roads and camps seven miles around Bath (with repaired closed tear),subscriber’s list bound at rear, publisher’s brown cloth gilt, worn and rubbed at extremities, 4to, with Green (Mowbray W.).

The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath, published George Gregory, Bath, 1904, additional half title, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, limited edition 3/500, slight wear to extremities, contemporary cloth gilt, 4to

65 Raye (Charles). A Picturesque Tour through the Isle of Wight, 1st edition, 1825, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates, all aquatint except plate 8 (etched), one plate with small marginal insect damage, some offsetting to guards, a little light spotting and soiling, bookplate, contemporary red half morocco over original boards, a little rubbed and stained, oblong 4to Abbey Scenery 349; Tooley 206.

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THE LADWELL COLLECTION OF FINE BIRD BOOKS: PART II ‘Magnificent … the yardstick for bird books for years to come’ (The Book Collector)

69 Baedeker (Friedrich Wilhelm Justus). Die Eier der Europäischen Vögel nach der Natur gemalt, 1st edition, Leipzig & Iserloun: J. Baedeker, 1855-63, dedication leaf, additional lithographic title-page in French, letterpress general title-page and 4 part-titles in German, 80 chromolithographic plates, tissueguards, variable spotting and browning, modern maroon crushed half morocco, gilt spine, large folio (40.8 x 29.4cm)

70 Baker (E. C. Stuart). Indian Snipe, from the Bombay Natural History Society’s Journal, 1911, 4 offprints in 1 volume, general titlepage, 4 chromolithographic plates after Henrik Grönvold, 3 halftone plates, marginal repair to first leaf, inscribed by the author ‘F. Bodick Esq, With the authors love & Xmas wishes, E. C. Stuart Baker’ on the general title-page, contemporary cloth, 8vo, together with: ibid., Indian Bustards, from the Bombay Natural History Society’s Journal, 1912-13, 4 offprints in 1 volume, general title-page, 4 chromolithographic plates after Grönvold, 3 halftone plates, inscribed by the author, contemporary cloth, 8vo, ibid., A Hand-List of Genera and Species of Birds of the Indian Empire, reprinted from the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society together with a Foreword and Addenda and Corrigenda prepared by the author, Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1923, interleaved, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, original cloth, 8vo, Ali (Salim), The Birds of Bombay and Salsette, 1st edition, Bombay: Prince of Wales Museum, 1941, pictorial titlepage, 11 halftone plates, interleaved, pencil annotations, inscribed by the author ‘Mrs D. N. Cowen, with compliments, Salim Ali, 17 xii 42’ on initial blank, modern half leatherette, 8vo,Marshall (George Frederick Leycester), Birds’ Nesting in India, 1st edition, Calcutta: Caltutta Central Press Co., 1877, 13 lithographic plates, bookplate of Robert Washington Oates, original cloth, 8vo, and 6 others, Indian ornithology, including further works by Baker or Ali, 8vo

Anker 21; Nissen IVB 54; Wood p. 215 (one part only); Zimmer p. 29.

‘The text is not confined to a description of the eggs but also gives information as to the distribution of the birds and describes, as far as possible, the history of reproduction by means of an account of the nests and the relation of the parent birds to eggs and young. In addition to the eggs of European birds the work mentions several fairly rare eggs of birds from regions outside Europe’ (Anker).

(1) £200 - £300

Wood pp. 219 (Baker, Hand-List), 452 (Marshall).

Ali’s work, The Birds of Bombay and Salsette, is rare, with only the British Library copy traced in UK institutions.

(11) £200 - £300

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72 Campbell (Archibald James). Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Sheffield: for the author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1901, 115 halftone photographic plates, 28 chromolithographic plates, bookplates, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original dark green crushed half morocco, spines sunned, 8vo (25.2 x 15.4cm), together with: North (Alfred John), Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, 1st edition, Sydney: F. W. White, 1889-[90], 21 halftone plates, modern red half calf, 8vo (24.2 x 14.8cm), and ibid., Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, Sydney: F. W. White, 1901-14, 45 plates, contemporary dark blue half morocco

by G. Short & Son of Sydney, a little rubbing to joints, 4to (30.2 x 24cm) Nissen IVB 170 (Campbell), 683 (North, both editions); Whittell pp. 111 (Campbell), 552 & 558 (North); Wood pp. 277 (Campbell: ‘a most interesting account’), 494 (North); Zimmer pp. 123 (Campbell), 468 (North).

Six hundred copies of Campbell’s work are believed to have been printed, of which 150 were divided into two volumes by the author’s London agent, as here: these copies can be identified by the instructions to the binder printed in the plate margins, not present in the original one-volume issue.

(7) £400 - £600

73 Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1908, photogravure frontispiece, one similar and 32 halftone plates, 16 pp. advertisements, frontispiece and advertisements spotted, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (these also spotted), original black pictorial cloth gilt, dust jacket (tape-strengthening along top and bottom edges verso), 8vo 71 Bree (Charles Robert). A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles, 5 volumes, 2nd edition (‘enlarged’), George Bell and Sons, 1875-6, 252 chromoxylographic or chromolithographic plates of eggs and birds, 1 uncoloured woodengraved plate, tissue-guards, volume 3 with errata slip, 8 pp. advertisements to rear of volumes 3 and 5, volume 3 Y3-4 and a few other text-leaves clumsily opened, contents very clean and fresh overall, modern green morocco gilt, large 8vo (25 x 16.8cm)

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£150 - £250

Anker 59; Nissen IVB 136; Sitwell (1990) p. 81; Wood p. 254 (‘this admirable descriptive treatise’); Zimmer p. 88.

The illustrations are usually described as colour-printed wood-engravings, but the egg plates appear instead to be chromolithographs.

(5) £300 - £500

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74 Cotton (John). The Song Birds of Great Britain, 1st edition, 2nd issue, [privately printed], 1836, 33 hand-coloured engraved plates, a few light smudges and finger-marks, short marginal tear to Pettichaps plate, closed tear to tissue-guard, repaired closed tears in following text-leaf, modern half leatherette, royal 8vo (23.5 x 14.7cm)

76 Graves (George). British Ornithology: being the History, with a Coloured Representation, of every kown [sic] Species of British Birds, 3 volumes in 1, 2nd edition of volumes 1-2, 1st edition of volume 3, for the author by W. and S. Graves, 1821, 144 handcoloured engraved plates heightened in gum arabic, text unpaginated, half-title to volume 2 only, light offsetting, a few other marks, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, modern straight-grain green morocco to style, spine richly gilt in compartments, pink morocco label, joints slightly rubbed, royal 8vo (24 x 14.7cm)

Freeman 825; Mullens & Swann pp. 148-9; Nissen IVB 206; Wood p. 301.

‘Song Birds, of which only a few copies were printed for private circulation, is a work of the utmost rarity in its complete state, and is moreover much esteemed for the fidelity and beauty of its life-size hand-coloured plates’ (Mullens & Swann). It was first published the previous year; this second issue has a cancel title-page to part one and no title-page to part two. Cotton later emigrated to Australia; his correspondence on Australian avifauna is now considered ‘of great historical value’ (ADB).

(1) £300 - £500

Freeman 1415; Nissen IVB 386; Mullens & Swann p. 247; Sitwell (1990) p. 102; Wood p. 366; Zimmer pp. 266-7.

According to Wood the second edition is really a re-issue of the first edition (1811-13-21) with new title-pages, whereas Mullens and Swann state that volumes one and two have a different arrangement and were reprinted by W. and S. Graves to coincide with the first edition of the third volume. The plates in volume one are variously dated 1811-12-21, those in volume two 1811-12-13-21, suggesting the use of mixed sheets. Uncoloured copies of the second edition are also known; on publication coloured copies cost £7:16:6.

(1) £300 - £400

75 Dawson (William Leon). Birds of California, Format De Luxe, 4 volumes, San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923, 260 colour, halftone or photogravure plates with captioned tissue-guards, halftone illustrations throughout the text, typescript slip tipped to volume 1 title-page reading ‘all missing plates inserted after binding’, superseding the publisher’s ink-stamped notice ‘this volume is lacking a few of the extra inserted plates, and is sold as is’, original green buckram, 4to Cf. Nissen IVB 225, Wood p. 313, Zimmer p. 162.

One of 539 copies of this issue, signed by the author on an initial blank in volume one. See further Chambers, ‘Bibliographical Notes on Dawson’s “Birds of California”’, in The Condor, volume 41, number 6 (NovemberDecember 1939), pp. 231-243.

(4) £100 - £150

77 Graves (George). Ovarium Britannicum; being a Correct Delineation of the Eggs of such Birds as are Natives of, or Domesticated in Great Britain, 1st edition, for the author, 1816, half-title, 15 hand-coloured engraved plates, scattered light spotting, bookplate (W. R. Stuart Majendie) re-imposed to front pastedown, edges untrimmed, modern quarter sheep, 8vo (24.8 x 15.6cm), together with: Low (George), Fauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company, 1813, toning, a few spots, pamphlet (George Ellison, The Orkney Vole, 1st edition, Kirkwall, 1906, 12 pp.

3 plates, original wrappers) mounted to initial blank, modern calf, 4to (24.6 x 19.5cm), Markwick (William), [Drop-head title:] Aves Sussexienses; or, A Catalogue of Birds found in the County of Sussex, read May 5th, 1795 [series title at head: Transactions of the Linnean Society], 1st edition, 1798, 30 pp., engraved plate, folding table, browning, modern quarter morocco, 4to (28 x 20.6cm), and 1 other(on Scandinavian oology) Freeman 1416 (Graves), 2323 (Low); Mullens & Swann pp. 246 (Graves), 3612 (Low), 384-5 (Markwick); Nissen IVB 387 (Graves); Wood pp. 367 (Graves), 442 (Low); Zimmer pp. 266 (Graves), 406 (Low).

Woods considers Graves’s work ‘rather rare and well-illustrated’, and remarks that Low ‘did for Orkney for Gilbert White did for Selborne’.

(4) £200 - £300

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78 Hay (Arthur, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale). The Ornithological Works, reprinted from the Originals by the Desire of his Widow.

Edited and revised by his Nephew, Robert G. Wardlaw Ramsay, together with a Biographical Sketch of the Author by William Howard Russell. For private circulation, 1st edition, Taylor and Francis, 1881, half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece, map, 11 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. Smit, frontispiece and title-page slightly marked, marginal tide-mark to plates, top edge gilt, modern green half morocco, 4to (31.6 x 24.7cm)

79 Hewitson (William C). Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, accompanied with Descriptions of the Eggs, Nests, etc., 2nd edition, John van Voorst, [1842]-1846, half-titles, 138 hand-coloured lithographic plates of eggs, extra-illustrated with approximately 365 original avian watercolours William Dickinson (see note), many heightened in gum arabic, all with manuscript captions incorporating date (1861-77) and occasionally details of the original specimen, 9 similar original watercolours signed ‘J. Rooke’ in Dickinson’s hand, 39 hand-coloured engraved plates apparently by Edward Donovan (from his Natural History of British Birds, 1794-1819, or The Naturalist’s Repository, 1822-7), 5 further hand-coloured engravings trimmed and mounted to text-leaves (one of these signed ‘Jardine’, in Dickinson’s hand), and some 50 naive-style tailpieces also in watercolourdepicting a variety of rustic scenes and implements,Dickinson’s watercolours variously on individual sheets (mostly bound in, a few on smaller sheets, tipped in), on rectos or versos of the original plates or the extra plates by Donovan, and in margins of the tex t, Dickinson’s manuscript index to extra illustrations bound in after title-page of each volume, occasional marginalia and tipped-in annotated slips in his hand, relevant newspaper and other cuttings tipped to preliminaries and elsewhere, mainly light staining to a few Donovan plates previously overmounted by Dickinson using one of his own watercolours (the leaves since professionally separated and cleaned), spotting to a handful of other plates, armorial bookplates hand-coloured and with ‘Wm Dickinson, Thorncroft’ added in manuscript to front pastedowns, near-contemporary green half calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8cm)

Provenance: presentation copy, inscribed ‘Lady Ely, with Julia Tweeddales love, August 16, 1881’ on the half-title. The recipient was Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (1821-1890), lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria.

Anker 513; Nissen IVB 419; Wood p. 605.

This copy contains the full complement of plates called for in the section ‘The Philippine Archipelago’. Copies are also recorded with no coloured plates (Wood) or 22 (Anker and Nissen). Hay wrote mainly on the avifauna of south-east Asia. Other sections cover Celebes (Sulawesi), Negros Island, Mindanao, and elsewhere.

(1) £200 - £300

A profusely extra-illustrated and annotated copy of this important work, containing some 400 original watercolours by Cumberland antiquary William Dickinson (1798-1882). Known works by Dickinson include Cumbriana: or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life (1875) and A Glossary of Words or Phrases pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland (1878); after his death a selection of prose and verse was published as the Uncollected Literary Remains of William Dickinson (1888). He lived at 'Thorncroft', Workington.

The house does not survive, but is memorialised in the name of a modern development, Thorncroft Gardens.

Freeman 1659; Mullens & Swann pp. 293-4; Nissen IVB 442; Sitwell (1990) p. 107; Wood p. 385 (‘a standard work’).

First published between 1831 and 1838 with the title British Oology ; for this second edition the text and plates were substantially revised.

(2) £700 - £1,000

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81 Howard (H. Eliot). The British Warblers. A History, with Problems of their Lives, 9 original parts, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1907-[15], including the remaining bifolium (comprising title-page and contents list) of the supplementary part 9*, the 2 cancel textleaves and 2 plates it contained bound in as instructed, 86 chromolithographic or photogravure plates after Grönvold, 12 colour maps, free endpapers browned, one plate in volume 1 spotted, a few chromolithographic plates offset, original grey cloth-backed printed boards, covers slightly toned or marked, a few light scuffs, part 9 slightly shaken, housed in 2 custom red morocco-backed solander boxes (spines sunned), folio (29 x 20cm) Anker p. 231; Mullens & Swann pp. 298-9; Nissen IVB 454; Wood p. 392; Zimmer pp. 308-9.

‘An elaborate and costly [work], of which only a limited number of copies have been printed’ (Mullens & Swann). ‘The coloured plates ... are excellent, and the same applies to the photogravures’ (Anker).

(2) £200 - £300

82 Hume (Allan O.). The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds. Second edition, edited by Eugene William Oates, 3 volumes, R. H. Porter, 1889-90, 12 mounted woodburytype portrait plates, free endpapers browned, light spotting to a few mounts, almost entirely unopened, original brown cloth, 8vo, together with: Baker (E. C. Stuart). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 8 volumes, 2nd edition, Taylor and Francis, 1922-30, 39 plates (mainly colour), folding map (closed tear), ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, original maroon cloth, volumes 2 and 5 spines sunned, 8vo, and ibid., The Nidification of the Birds of the India Empire, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Taylor and Francis, 1932-5, 28 halftone plates, original maroon cloth, spines slightly sunned, 8vo

80 Hewitson (William C.). British Oology; being Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, 3 volumes (and supplement) in one, 1st edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: for the author by C. Empson [volumes 2 & 3: Currie and Bowman; supplement: London: John van Voorst], 1831-42,169 hand-coloured lithographic plates, separate title-pages to volumes 1-3, Directions to the Binder leaf bound in at rear, plates 80-96 in volume 2 moderately spotted and toned, occasional light spotting or toning to other plates, endpapers and a few text-leaves including title-page to volumes 1 and 2 spotted or browned, nearcontemporary half calf, royal 8vo (23.9 x 14.1cm)

Wood p. 394 (Hume), Zimmer pp. 314-15 (Hume), 37 (Baker, Fauna, volumes 1-2 only).

The first edition of Hume’s work, published at Calcutta in 1873-5, was announced in the title purely as a ‘rough draft’.

(15) £200 - £300

Freeman 1659; Mullens & Swann p. 293; Nissen IVB 442; Sitwell (1990) p. 107; Wood p. 385; Zimmer pp. 302-3.

‘Very rare ... a standard work’ (Wood); ‘Esteemed for the exactness of the figures’ (Mullens & Swann). This copy retains the separate title-page for the third volume, usually discarded by owners following the author’s instructions to have the set bound in two volumes; no separate title-page was issued for the supplement, which contains fourteen plates and is often absent.

(1) £300 - £400

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83 Irby (L. Howard L.). The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1875, 2 folding maps, partly unopened, original dark red cloth, 8vo, together with: Tait (William C.), The Birds of Portugal, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1924, 10 halftone photographic plates, folding colour map, half-title spotted, largely unopened, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a bright copy, dust jacket (tape-repair along top and bottom edges verso, spine sunned, restored at ends), 8vo, Slater (Henry H.), Manual of the Birds of Iceland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1901, 3 plates, folding map, original cloth, front board stained, 8vo, Buick (T. Lindsay), The Mystery of the Moa, New Zealand’s Avian Giant, 1st edition, New Plymouth: Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, 1931, halftone frontispiece and plates, original red cloth gilt, a fine copy, dust jacket (faintly dust-soiled, tape-supports along top and bottom edges verso), 8vo, ibid., The Moa Hunters of New Zealand.

Sportsmen of the Stone Age, 1st edition, New Plymouth: Thomas Avery and Sons Limited, 1937, halftone frontispiece and plates, original red cloth, slight fading to covers, dust jacket (slightly dustsoiled, spine faded and marked, repairs verso), 8vo and 8 others, mainly late-19th or early-20th-century North American ornithology in the original cloth, 8vo Provenance (Irby): John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933), American ornithologist (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate).

Wood pp. 400 (Irby), 591 (Tait), 570 (Slater).

A copy of the second edition of Irby’s work (1895) was sold as part of the first instalment of this collection (6 March 2019, lot 73).

(13) £200 - £300

84 Jacquin (Joseph Franz Edlen von). Beyträge zur Geschichte der Vögel, 1st edition, Vienna: Christian Friederich Wappler, 1784, 19 hand-coloured engraved plates, annotations and tipped-in printed note to front pastedown and free endpaper, modern red half morocco by Bernard Middleton, 4to (27.6 x 20.5cm) Provenance: Maggs Bros, catalogue 1179 (invoice laid in).

Anker 220; Nissen IVB 466; Wood p. 402; Zimmer p. 320.

‘In 1755-59 J. F. von Jacquin’s father, Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, made an expedition to the West Indies to collect plants and animals. During this work he made a number of notes on the animal world, of which the present paper is an extract’ (Anker). ‘This work is important to American ornitholoigsts as 32 New-World birds are described’ (Wood). ‘The colored plates are excellent for the period’ (Zimmer).

(1) £1,000 - £1,500

Lot 84

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85 Jourdain (Francis C. R.). The Eggs of European Birds, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1906-[10], 4 parts in 1 volume, 52 chromolithographic plates, original front wrapper for each of the 4 parts bound in at rear, autograph letter signed from Jourdain dated 16 November 1914 laid in (single sheet, 20 x 12.5cm, written on both sides), marginal repair to pp. 19/20, modern dark green half morocco gilt, 8vo (23.2 x 14.5cm), together with: Des Murs (Œillet), Traité général d’oologie ornithologique au point de vue de la classifications, 1st edition, Paris: Friedrich Klincksieck, 1860, half-title, additional lithographic title-page, browning to half-title, letterpress title and final leaf, partly unopened, untrimmed, modern red half morocco, 8vo (24.6 x 15.6cm), Verheyen (René K.), Oologia Belgica, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Brussels: Institut royal des Scienes naturelles de Belgique, 1967, halftone plates in volume 1, 72 colour plates in volume 2, modern green full morocco gilt, 8vo (22.2 x 14.8cm), and Dawson (William Leon, editor), The Journal of the Museum of Comparative Oology, 2 volumes in 1 (all published), 1st editions, Santa Barbara, CA: Museum of Comparative Oology, 1919-22, each volume containing 4 numbers, halftone photographic illustrations throughout, 2 colour plates and 1 tinted, 1 mounted silver gelatin print, recent facsimile title page bound in at front (none originally issued), original wrappers bound in at rear, modern green crushed half morocco gilt, 8vo (25.3 x 16.2cm)

Lot 86

Jourdain: Mullens & Swann p. 322; Nissen IVB 485; Wood p. 412 (‘excellent illustrations’); Zimmer p. 343. Des Murs: Wood p. 316 (‘an exhaustive and indispensable work’); Ronsil 844. Dawson: Wood p. 477.

Four parts, all published, of Jourdain’s work, which is notably uncommon.

The plates are discontinuously numbered; our copy contains an extra plate, number 44, not in Nissen’s collation. The front wrapper for the fourth part is dated 1910.

(5) £300 - £400

87 Lechner (Arnold A. van Pelt). “Oologia Neerlandica”. Eggs of Birds breeding in the Netherlands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910-[14], half-titles, 191 plates each containing 3 or 4 mounted three-colour or collotype prints of bird eggs, all mounted on linen guards as issued, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting to text-leaves, tissue-guards and mounts, errata slip to rear of volume 2, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original green half morocco, spines gilt with bird and nest motifs, spines sunned, 4to (24.6 x 18.4cm)

86 Keulemans (John Gerrard). A Natural History of Cage Birds, 1st edition, John Van Voorst, [1871], 4 parts (all published) in 1 volume, title-page, 113 pp., 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates, spotting and browning, top edge gilt, bookplate of C. J. Coldewey, contemporary tan half morocco, folio (27.9 x 18.8cm)

Anker 390; Nissen IVB 709; Wood p. 610; Zimmer pp. 651-2.

One of 100 copies in English, from the total edition of 250. ‘A beautiful and unusually well-designed work’ (Wood). ‘The pictures of the eggs [are] mounted in frames sunk in thin card, thus producing a particularly pleasing effect’ (Anker).

(2) £400 - £600

Mullens & Swann p. 327 (‘exceptionally fine plates’); Nissen IVB 492; Sitwell (1990) p. 111.

Only four parts of a projected twenty were issued. Mullens and Swann believed the fourth part to be rare, and no title-page to have been issued.

(1) £800 - £1,200

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Lot 88

Lot 89

88 Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, 1st complete edition, R. H. Porter, 1895, halftone frontispiece to volume 1, mounted heliogravure portrait frontispiece to volume 2, 23 photogravure plates after Thorburn, wood-engravings by Lodge throughout the text, linen-backed folding map, extra-illustrated with 194 chromolithographic plates after Thorburn, Lodge and Keulemans from Lilford’s Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands (1885-97), occasional spotting to the extra plates and adjacent text-leaves, top edges gilt, contemporary crushed red half morocco by R. H. Porter, gilt spines, small chip to volume 2 headcap, 8vo (24.6 x 15cm)

90 Mathews (Gregory M.). The Birds of Australia, 13 volumes, 1st edition, Witherby & Co., 1910-27, the 5 supplements bound together as volume 13, half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, 600 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Henrik Grönvold, J. G. Keulemans, and others, 1 halftone plate, slight tan-burn to endpapers and a few half-titles from turn-ins, very faint offsetting from a handful of plates, very small chip to fore margin of plate 340, indentation to title-page of bibliography supplement, the following halftone plate and initial text-leaves, top edges gilt, modern black half morocco, gilt spines, green linen sides, royal 4to (32.6 x 23cm), a fine set Anker 328 (‘this immense work’); Nissen IVB 605; Whitttell pp. 490-2, (‘his great work’); Wood p. 454 (‘beautiful hand-colored plates’); Zimmer pp. 419-21.

Number 166 of 225 sets, complete with all five supplements, of the definitive work on the avifauna of Australia.

(13) £3,000 - £5,000

Provenance: William Herbert Mullens (1866-1946), English ornithologist and co-author of A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917), with his bookplate.

Mullens & Swann p. 355; Nissen IVB 564; Wood p. 436; Zimmer p. 400.

(2) £200 - £300

89 Mathew (Murray A.). The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1894, mounted collotype frontispiece, 2 mounted photographic plates, 2 folding maps, frontispiece offset, all edges untrimmed, largely unopened, original green cloth, very small mark to spine, 4to, together with: Cardiff Naturalists’ Society, The Birds of Glamorgan, 1st edition, Cardiff: South Wales Printing Works, 1900, 5 halftone photographic plates, a few spots, all edges gilt, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, Browne (Montagu), The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1st edition, Birmingham & Leicester: Midland Educational Company, Limited, 1889, map frontispiece, 4 coloured lithographic plates, folding table, half-title and frontispiece spotted, original tan cloth, light wear to spine-ends, crude re-colouring to joints and extremities, 4to, Nelson (Thomas H., & others), The Birds of Yorkshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, A. Brown & Sons, Limited, 1907, numerous plates, original cloth, 4to, and 10 others, mainly 19thand 20th-century county avifaunas, original cloth, 8vo Mullens & Swann pp. 391 (Mathew), 119 (Cardiff Naturalists’ Society), 99 (Browne), 432 (Nelson); Wood pp. 454 (Mathew, ‘an interesting account’), 279 (Cardiff Naturalists’ Society), 264 (Browne), 489 (Nelson).

(15) £200 - £300

91 Mathews (Gregory M.) The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant, with Additions to “The Birds of Australia”, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928, half-title, errata slip, 38 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Grönvold and others, 7 halftone plates, original front wrapper bound in, edges untrimmed, original cloth, folio (35.5 x 25cm) Anker 328 refers; Nissen IVB 606.

Number 8 of 225 copies only. A supplement was published in 1936.

(1) £500 - £800

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Lot 90

92 McAldowie (Alexander M.). The Birds of Staffordshire, with Illustrations of Local Birds Haunts, 1st edition, Stokeupon-Trent, 1893, frontispiece, 6 photogravure plates, original blue cloth, number 83 of 100 copies only, signed by the author, together with: Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron), Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, for Private Circulation only, R. H. Porter, 1893, inscribed by the author ‘Florence V. F. Higginson with best love of the writer of [Notes on the Birds of Northampshire ...], Lilford, Oct. 1893’, original maroon cloth, small nick to head of spine, Pidsley (William E. H.), The Birds of Devonshire, 1st edition, W. W. Gibbings, 1891, coloured lithographic frontispiece by J. G. Keulemans, folding map (slightly spotted, short tear affecting frame), original green pictorial cloth gilt, Gladstone (Hugh S.), Notes on the Birds of Dumfriesshire. A Continuation of the Birds of Dumfriesshire, 1st edition, Dumfries: Council of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1923, 4 halftone plates, original cloth, number 61 of 250 copies only,Whitaker (Irvine), Birds of a Lancashire Cotton Town. Being Notes on the Avifauna of Heywood, 1st edition, Heywood: Robert Howe Ltd, 1935, 10 halftone plates, map, spotting, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, autograph letter signed from the author laid in, original cloth, and 11 others, 19th- and early-20th-century local avifaunas, original cloth, 8vo Mullens & Swann pp. 365 (McAldowie), 355 (Lilford), 471 (Pidsley); Wood pp. 519 (Pidsley), 360 (Gladstone).

This edition of Lilford’s work was limited to 60 copies only.

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£200 - £300

94 Meyer (Henry Leonard). Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, 7 volumes, 1st octavo edition, G. W. Nickisson [volumes 3-7: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,], 1842-50, 424 handcoloured lithographic plates, 8 uncoloured lithographic plates, errata leaf to volume 7, inner hinges superficially split but firm, spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, intermittent generally light spotting to text and plates, occasional tissue-guards, contemporary maroon half morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo (21.6 x 13cm) Freeman 2563; Nissen IVB 628 (erroneously counting 432 coloured plates); Sitwell p. 123; Wood p. 462; Zimmer p. 433 (mixed editions); cf. Mullens & Swann pp. 403-4.

Meyer’s celebrated work was first published between 1835 and 1841 as Illustrations of British Birds, in folio format.

(7) £300 - £500

93 McWilliam (John Morell). The Birds of the Islands of Bute, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927, 9 halftone plates, map, textblock spotted, front free endpaper excised, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly soiled, tape-supports along top and bottom edges verso), 8vo, together with: ibid., The Birds of the Firth of Clyde, including Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire and South Argyllshire, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1936, 9 halftone plates, map, bookplate, original cloth (slightly marked), dust jacket (slightly soiled, spine restored at head, tape-supports along top and bottom edges verso), 8vo, Hunter (Douglas G.), Bird Notes in Angus and in the Far north, edited by John Adams, 1st edition, Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1934, halftone frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, Baxter (Evelyn V., & Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul), The Birds of Scotland. Their History, Distribution, and Migration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953, original boards, dust jackets (price-clipped), 8vo,Gordon (Seton), The Charm of the Hills, 1st edition, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1912, photogravure frontispiece, numerous halftone plates, later gift inscription to front free endpaper, spotting to edges, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket (tape-repaired verso), and 14 others, early to mid-20th-century Scottish ornithology including Seton Gordon titles, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo and large 8vo

95 Mudie (Robert). The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Whittaker and Co.,1834, 19 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, Baxter-type vignettes to title-pages, title-pages spotted, volume 2 initial blank with 19th-century engraved bookplate (Burleigh James) and inscription ‘Hugh Stewart Roberts, from a would-be brother naturalist, 1863’, top edges gilt, 20th-century red half calf by Bayntun (Riviere), bird devices gilt to spines, joints slightly rubbed, small chip 2 headcap, of volume 2, large 12mo (19.5 x 12cm), together with: Gray (Robert), The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1871, half-title, 15 tinted lithographic plates, toning, spotting to outer text-leaves and to plates margins, original cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear, top edge gilt, 20th-century crushed green half morocco by Morrell, gilt waterfowl and fish tools to spine, spine sunned, 8vo (22 x 13cm), Saxby (Henry L.), The Birds of Shetland, with Observations on their Habits, Migration, and Occasional Appearance, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1874, 8 tinted lithographic plates, original cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear, top edge gilt, 20th-century crushed green half morocco, waterfowl tools gilt to spine, 8vo (22 x 13cm), and Borrer (William), The Birds of Sussex, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1891, 6 chromolithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, folding map, top edge gilt, 20th-century blue half morocco, swift devices gilt to spine, 8vo (21.6 x 13cm)

Wood p. 457 (McWilliam, Bute), 362 (Gordon).

Copac traces eight copies of Hunter’s work, printed in Arbroath. The Charm of the Hills was the prolific Gordon’s second published work.

(20) £200 - £300

Mullens & Swann pp. 424 (Mudie), 251 (Gray), 510-11 (Saxby), 87 (Borrer); Nissen IVB 654 (Mudie); Wood pp. 474 (Mudie, second edition), 368 (Gray), 552 (Saxby), 250 (Borrer); Zimmer pp. 446 (Mudie, fourth edition), 274 (Gray), 550 (Saxby), 82 (Borrer).

‘The vignettes on the title-pages [of Mudie’s work] are the first successful specimens of G. Baxter’s polychromatic printing. This first edition is therefore sought after by ollectors of Baxter-types’ (Mullens & Swann).

(5) £200 - £300

Lot 94

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96 New Naturalist. The New Naturalist Library, volumes 1-137, 1st editions, 1945-2018, also including the second editions of volumes 6 and 82 (usually considered new works), original cloth or boards, all in dust jackets, volumes 1-45 with customary variable toning to jackets and text-blocks and light spotting to jackets and outer leaves, a few of these volumes with bookseller’s tickets, ownership inscriptions or browning to free endpapers often from laid-in newsprint or similar, a few early volumes (1, 14, 16) with slight fading to cloth, volume 6a boards bowed, volume 8 with contemporary book token mounted to front free endpaper, dust jackets of volumes 9, 15, 28, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 42 and 44 price-clipped, volumes 48-137 each with an additional protective facsimile dust jacket (see note), 8vo, together with: Monograph Series, volumes 1-23, 1st editions, 1948-71, original cloth, dust jackets of volumes 2-4, 6, 12, 14-17 and 19-21 price-clipped, 8vo An exceptional set. Volumes 70 and 71 (Natural History of Orkney and British Warblers) are in first state. Volumes 48-137 each have an additional facsimile dust jacket supplied by the vendor at point of purchase and incorporating a further strip of protective opaque paper over the spine panel.

(162) £5,000 - £8,000

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Lot 97 97 Nilsson (Sven). Illuminerader Figurer till Skandinaviens Fauna, 2 volumes, Lund: C. F. Berling, [1829]-40, half-title to volume 1 (bound after title-page), 200 hand-coloured lithographic plates mainly by Magnus Peter Körner, bound in order of biological family rather than number order, volume 1 plates slightly toned, a few spotted or a marked in margins, occasional spotting to facing textleaves, volume 2 plates more strongly toned or browned, a few slightly or moderately spotted, frequent tissue-repairs and marginal restoration to text-leaves in both volumes including title-page and half-title, one plate (volume 2, plate 149) laid down on tissue, all edges untrimmed, modern green morocco gilt, large 8vo (25.6 x 17.2cm) Anker 365 & p. 71; Nissen IVB 678; Sitwell (1990) p.

129; Wood p. 493.

‘A fine example of [a] zoological atlas with descriptive text’ (Wood), intended to supplement the author’s Ornithogical svevica (1817-21) and issued in 20 parts, of which the first eight were originally published at Stockholm from 1829. Thirtyseven of the plates depict mammals, the remaining 163, birds. In our copy several plates, including plates 1-3 and 5 depicting big cats, and a number of the plates of owls and other birds of prey, are

by Magnus von Wright, indicating that the relevant parts are from the original Stockholm issue: for sets containing the Lund reprint of the first eight parts, 199 out of 200 plates are by Magnus Peter Körner, with the remaining plate by Wilhelm von Wright. Our copy does not have the peregrine falcon plate, but this is asterisked in the contents list in volume one with the notice ‘available in new editions’, and collations call for 200 plates only, as in our copy. According to Anker the work helped ‘animate and increase Swedish interest in studies and observations of animal life’.

(2) £1,000 - £1,500

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98 Oates (Frank). Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. A Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa, 2nd edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1889, mounted stippledengraved portrait frontispiece, 6 chromolithographic plates, folding map, plates damp-stained, author’s posthumous bookplate to half-title, bookplates of his descendants William Edward Oates (dated 1897) and Robert Washington Oates to front pastedown and free endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, front board stained, 8vo, together with: Haddon Hall Library, Bird Watching, by Edmund Selous, 1st edition, deluxe issue, J. M. Dent & Co., 1901, 7 photogravure or wood-engraved plates with captioned tissue-guards, woodcut bookplate, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original pictorial vellum gilt, 8vo, number 127 of 150 copies, Witherby (Harry F.), Bird Hunting on the White Nile. A Naturalist’s Experiences in the Soudan, 1st edition, the Office of “Knowledge,” 1902, halftone frontispiece, similar vignettes, original pictorial cloth, spine darkened, 8vo, Priest (Cecil D.), A Guide to the Birds of Southern Rhodesia and a Record of their Nesting Habits, 1st edition, William Clowes & Sons, Ltd, 1927, 14 colour plates, cancelled library stamps to front free endpaper, original green cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Chapman (Frank M.), Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 1st UK edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, original pictorial cloth gilt, and 9 similar works, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo Wood pp. 497 (Oates), 562 (Haddon Hall Library/Selous, ‘a reliable, popular and interesting book’), 632 (Witherby, ‘a very interesting account’), 524 (Priest), 285 (Chapman).

The Oates family copy of the first work, first published in 1881, this second edition ‘containing much additional matter, especially on birds by Bowdler Sharpe’ (Wood).

(14) £200 - £300

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Lot 99

Lot 100

99 Salvin (Francis Henry, & William Brodrick) . Falconry in the British Isles, 2nd edition (‘revised and enlarged’), John van Voorst, 1873,half-title, 28 hand-coloured lithographic plates, advertisement leaf to rear, half-title marked and repaired, faint markings to a few plates and facing text-leaves apparently from misapplication or bleeding of original hand-colour, discreet tissuestrengthening to edges of plates 1 and 24 and text-leaves E2-3 (the latter also creased), faint marginal tide-mark to quire H, tide-mark to lower inner corners of plates 12-14, all edges untrimmed, 20thcentury green crushed morocco, spine sunned, 4to (28.1 x 17.9cm) Mullens & Swann p. 96; Nissen IVB 146; Schwerdt II p. 145; Wood p. 549; Zimmer p. 541.

‘The best English book on falconry’ (Schwerdt). ‘This is the “best” edition, the plates of the first issue [1855] having been redrawn and several new ones added’ (Wood).

(1) £500 - £800

100 Sclater (Philip Lutley). A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae, 1st edition, for the author by R. H. Porter, [1879]-82, 55 hand-coloured plates after J. G. Keulemans, tissue-guards, intermittent faint spotting to plate margins, stronger spotting to plates 19 and 41, ink-stamps of Hunstanton Hall (ancestral seat of the Le Strange family) to initial blank and title-page, bookseller’s ticket (Berkelouw) to front pastedown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary blue half morocco, gilt monogram ‘H le S’ to spine (see note), moderately rubbed and marked, tips bumped and slightly worn, 4to (31.5 x 24.5cm)

101 Sclater (Philip Lutley). A Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1857-[58], map frontispiece, 45 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Oudart, heightened in gum arabic and with pale blue background wash, plates 1-11 with laid-in tissue guards, isolated marginal spotting, browning to background wash in plates 20, 22 and 23,but the images remaining very bright,contemporary tan calf, rebacked to style, wear to extremities, 8vo (21.6 x 14cm)

Provenance: Hamon Le Strange (1840-1918/19), one of 48 original subscribers to the work (his monogram gilt to spine). Le Strange, of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, was the son of noted painter Henry Le Strange (1815-1862) and continued his development of Hunstanton as a seaside resort.

Anker 451 (‘beautiful plates’); Nissen IVB 840; Sitwell p. 139; Wood p. 558, Zimmer p. 561.

‘A complete monograph of the two groups … the coloured plates are excellent’ (Zimmer). The jacamar family is native to Central and South America.

(1) £1,000 - £1,500

Anker 448; Nissen IVB 839; Wood p. 557; Sitwell p. 139; Zimmer p. 559.

The author’s first monograph, ‘a discussion of all the tanagers belonging to the genus Calliste as then understood … all but four of which are figured on excellent plates’ (Zimmer).

(1) £500 - £800

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103 Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. Four volumes extended to seven by the Insertion of 290 Additional Coloured Illustrations of the Birds, 7 volumes, [John C. Nimmo, c.1896], title-pages printed in red and black, 68 chromolithographic plates of eggs, 285 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates of birds (see note), bookplates of E. H. R. Green (American collector, 1868-1936), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary crushed dark green half morocco by Kelly and Sons for Henry Sotheran, spines sunned, green linen sides, large 8vo (25.1 x 15.5cm) The text and chromolithographic plates of eggs are from the 1896 second edition of Seebohm’s work, printed by John C. Nimmo; the coloured plates of birds are from Morris’s History of British Birds, of which the fourth edition was published by Nimmo in 1895-6. It is likely that Nimmo at some point bound up plates from the Morris with the sheets from Seebohm, and issued them with the cancel title-pages seen here. The count of 290 plates in the title may have been intended as approximate if sets were made up with whichever plates were available. One set of this issue traced in libraries world-wide.

(7) £200 - £300

104 Sharpe (Richard Bowdler, & Claude Willmott Wyatt) . A Monograph of the Hirundinidae, Family of Swallows, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1885-94, 103 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Wyatt heightened in gum arabic, 26 handcoloured maps, double-page tables to accompany maps, woodcut bookplates of Peter Tate, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, mid20th-century half morocco, 4to (30.2 x 23.8cm)

102 Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs, 4 volumes, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, [1882]5, 68 tinted lithographic plates, wood-engraved tailpieces, book-labels to initial blanks, top edges gilt, contemporary half morocco, royal 8vo (24.9 x 15.3cm), together with: Patten (Charles J.), The Aquatic Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd edition, R. H. Porter, 1906, 66 halftone plates, extra-illustrated with 48 chromlithographic plates by Archibald Thorburn or J. G. Keulemans from Lilford’s Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands (188597), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary straight-grain blue half morocco, 8vo (22 x 14cm), andAdams (Henry Gardiner & Henry B.), The Smaller British Birds. With Descriptions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits, 1st edition, George Bell and Sons, 1874, 32 colour plates, a few trivial spots, modern half calf, royal 8vo (24.5 x 16.5cm)

Mullens & Swann p. 529; Nissen IVB 868; Sitwell (1990) pp. 141-2; Wood p.

565 refers; Zimmer pp. 578-9.

‘A detailed monograph of all the known species of swallows, with fine, handcolored plates by the junior author’ (Zimmer). The work was also issued in a cheaper format with only a small number of the plates coloured (Wood records 15; other copies noted with 13 or 14).

(2) £2,000 - £3,000

105 Shelley (George Ernest). A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-Birds, 1st edition, by the author, 1876-80, 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans heightened in gum arabic, spotting to text-leaves, inner hinges reinforced, 20th-century bookplate with motto ‘Je ne change qu’en mourant’, all edges gilt, contemporary maroon morocco gilt over bevelled boards, headcaps and tips slightly rubbed, 4to (31.5 x 24cm)

Anker 456 (Seebohm: ‘a systematic account’); Freeman 3343 (Seebohm), 22 (Adams); Nissen IVB 851 (Seebohm), 6 (Adams); Mullens & Swann pp. 571 (Seebohm), 459 (Patten), 3 (Adams); Wood pp. 561 (Seebohm), 513 (Patten), 179 (Adams); Zimmer pp. 568 (Seebohm), 483 (Patten), 2 (Adams).

(6) £200 - £300

Nissen IVB 873; Sitwell p. 142; Wood p. 566; Zimmer p. 588 (‘An excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds’).

‘An important monograph which appeared in twelve parts. A total of 138 species of the group are recognized, all of which, except one, are figured on fine-hand-colored plates by J. G. Keulemans, who was himself acquainted with these small birds in their native haunts, and whose notes on the Sun-birds inhabiting Prince’s Island have been incorporated in the work’ (Wood).

(1) £2,000 - £3,000

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Lot 104

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107 Swann (H. Kirke). A Monograph of the Birds of Prey (Order Accipitres), 2 volumes, 1st edition, Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd., [1924]45, 48 colour plates mainly after Grönvold, 11 photogravure plates (spotted), top edges gilt, original red half morocco, spines slightly faded, large 4to (31 x 24cm) NIssen IVB 917.

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£200 - £300

106 Smith (Cecil). Birds of Guernsey and the Neighbouring Islands Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1879, largely unopened, original cloth, together with: Benson (Charles William), Our Irish Song Birds, 1st edition, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1886, 2 wood-engraved colour plates, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt,Hele (Nicholas Fenwick), Notes or Jottings about Aldeburgh, 1st edition, John Russell Smith, 1870, lithographic frontispiece (spotted), 4 wood-engraved or lithographic plates, bookplate (Edward Thomas Burr), ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original green cloth, spine slightly rolled and a little frayed at head, Phillips (E. Cambridge), The Birds of Breconshire, 2nd edition, Brecon: Edwin Davies, 1899, halftone frontispiece (detaching at head), plate, errata slip, endpapers spotted, original blue cloth,Cordeaux (John), Birds of the Humber District, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1872, wood-engraved frontispiece, bookplate (John Arthur Brooke of Fenay Hall, near Huddersfield), largely unopened, original cloth, Sterland (W. J.), The Birds of Sherwood Forest, 1st edition, I. Reeve & Co., 1869, 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, 3 hand-coloured, partial browning to frontispiece recto from laid-in newsprint, original cloth, rubbed,Davis (William J.), The Birds of Kent, 1st edition, Dartford: J. & W. Davis, 1907, halftone frontispiece, folding map (repair verso), endpapers browned, ownership inscription of amateur ornithologist Hubert E. Pounds, original green cloth, and 5 others, mainly 19thcentury county avifaunas, all original cloth, 8vo Mullens & Swann pp. 546 (Smith), 57 (Benson), 291 (Hele), 471 (Phillips), 144 (Cordeaux), 559 (Sterland), 165 (Davis); Wood pp. 570 (Smith), (Benson, later edition), 518 (Phillips), 582 (Sterland), 312 (Davis); Zimmer p. 136 (Cordeaux), 603 (Sterland).

Davis’s work is particularly scarce; Copac traces nine copies in libraries.

(12) £200 - £300

108 Swann (H. Kirke). A Synopsis of the Accipitres (Diurnal Birds of Prey), 2nd edition (‘revised and corrected throughout’), extra limited issue, privately printed for the author, [1921-2], half-title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece signed by the author on the mount, 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans and others, 22 colour plates of eggs, 5 leaves of errata and addenda to rear, plates toned, several with amended captions on mounted slips, original part wrappers bound in, bookplate of C. J. Coldewey and bookseller’s ticket (Wheldon & Wesley) to front pastedown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary red crushed half morocco, large 4to (31.8 x 24cm) Anker 497 (for the limited issue of 28 copies); Nissen IVB 916; Wood p. 589; Zimmer pp. 618-19 (also for the limited issue).

Number 11 of 12 copies ‘privately printed on large hand-made paper, each having 55 coloured plates of birds, and 22 coloured plates of eggs’; there was another limited issue of 28 numbered copies with the 22 plates of eggs only, and an octavo trade issue without plates. The work was first published as A Synoptical List of the Accipitres (1919-20), also in octavo and without plates. The fine lithographs in this copy are strikingly bright and fresh.

(1) £1,500 - £2,000

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109 Sweet (Robert). The British Warblers. An Account of the Genus Sylvia, 1st edition, for the author, 1823, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by E. D. Smith, gutta percha perishing, first few leaves and plates loose, bookplate of Joseph Whitaker, possibly the English naturalist (1850-1922), pencil annotations to plate margins, similar annotations to title-page attributing these to ‘Yarrell’ (presumably the naturalist William, 1784-1856), original pictorial cloth gilt, tall 8vo, together with:White (Adam), A Popular History of Birds, comprising a Familiar Account of their Classification and Habits, 1st edition, Lowell Reeve, 1855, 20 handcoloured lithographic plates, text-leaves largely unopened, original pictorial cloth gilt, expertly recased, 16mo,Gosse (Philip Henry), Popular British Ornithology, containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Birds of the British Isles, 2nd edition, Reeve and Co., 1853, 20 hand-coloured lithographic plates (plate 14 bound after plate 9 as issued), original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, pale mottling to covers, mark to front), 16mo, and 8 others, all 19th-century popular accounts, original pictorial cloth gilt, bright copies, various formats

110 [Syme, Patrick]. A Treatise on British Song-Birds, 1st edition, Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1823, half-title, advertisement leaf, 15 hand-coloured engraved plates, toning, half-title dustsoiled, offsetting, marginal finger-marks and light smudging to most plates, edges untrimmed, modern green half leatherette, 8vo (22.1 x 13.6cm), together with: [Albin, Eleazar], A Natural History of Singing Birds ... by a Lover of Birds, Edinburgh: for J. Wood, 1776, half-title, 23 engraved plates including frontispiece, tide-mark to lower margins of later plates, small hole to plate facing p. 87, 19thcentury cloth, 12mo (18 x 10.6cm), Watters (John J.), The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, Indigenous and Migratory, 1st edition, Dublin: James McGlashan, 1853, half-title, ownership inscription of John Henry Gurney Jr (British ornithologist, 18481922) dated 1888, contemporary tan half calf, 8vo (16 x 10cm), Knox (Arthur Edward), Game Birds and Wild Fowl: their Friends and their Foes, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1850, 4 tinted lithographic plates by Wolf, contemporary half calf, 8vo (18.2 x 12cm), Swann (H. Kirke, editor), The Ornithologist: a Magazine of Ornithology and Oology, First Series [all published], 1st edition, John Bale & Sons, 1897, half-title, halftone plates, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (21.3 x 14.8cm), and 5 similar works (including a copy of Albin’s English Song-Birds, 1779 edition, lacking a text-leaf), contemporary leather bindings, 8vo

Freeman 3642 (Sweet), 3965 (White), 1375 (Gosse); Mullens & Swann pp. 571 (Sweet), 239 (Gosse); Nissen IVB 919 (Sweet), 984 (White), 367a (Gosse); Wood pp. 590 (Sweet: ‘a rather rare work’), 625 (White), 363 (Gosse: ‘a well-written, popular little book, with a few excellent diagnostic plates’); Zimmer pp. 620-1 (Sweet: ‘rather rare’), 672 (White).

Gosse is best remembered as the author of The Birds of Jamaica (1847).

(11) £200 - £300

ESTC T111973 (Albin); Freeman 3646 (Syme), 48 (Albin), 3922 (Watters), 2139 (Knox); Mullens & Swann pp. 572 (Syme), 9 (Albin), 619 (Watters), 335 (Knox), 568 (Swann, ‘the first British bird journal’); Nissen IVB 920 (Syme), 17 (Albin), 514 (Knox); Wood pp. 590 (Syme), 621 (Watters), 420 (Knox); Zimmer p. 666 (Watters).

Wood describes Syme’s work as ‘a rather rare, well-written account of 33 species, with excellent plates’. It was also issued with the backgrounds to the plates uncoloured: they are coloured in our copy. ESTC traces three copies only for this pirated edition of Albin’s work, which first appeared in 1737 as A Natural History of English Song-Birds (British Library, Cambridge, and the National Library of Scotland).

(10) £300 - £400

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Lot 114

111 Thienemann (Friedrich August Ludgwig). Systematische Darstellung der Fortpflanzung der Vögel Europa’s, 1st edition, Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1825-38, 5 parts in 1 volume, general title-page and 5 part-titles, 28 hand-coloured engraved plates, part 5 title-page misbound before final leaf of part 4, variable spotting to text, very faint spotting to a few plates, modern half calf to style, 4to (26.8 x 21.4cm), together with: ibid., Einhundert Tafeln colorirter Abbildungen von Vogeleiern. Zur Fortpflanzungsgeschichte der gesammten Vögel, 1st edition, Leipzig: Brochaus, 1845-56, 100 coloured lithographic plates, small stain to fore edge of initial text-leaves, occasional spotting to plates, generally light, last few plates bumped at upper outer corner, contemporary maroon half morocco, head of spine chipped and torn, rubbing and wear to extermities, 4to (31 x 23.5cm)

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112 Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, new edition, limited issue, Longmans, Green, and Co. Ltd., 1925-6, 192 mounted colour plates, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, a bright set, 8vo, together with: Seebohm (Henry), Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds ... edited (after the Author’s Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 60 chromolithographic plates numbered 1-59, light spotting to fore edge, original red cloth gilt, 8vo,ibid., British Birds’ Eggs, George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1905, 68 chromolithographic plates, plate 9 loose, plate 12 loosening, a few finger-marks, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original green cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, Kirman (Frederick B.), The British Bird Book, an Account of all the Birds, Nests and Eggs found in the British Isles, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1911-13, 201 mainly colour plates, spotting to preliminaries and edges, original buff cloth, royal 4to

Provenance (second work): Harry Forbes Witherby (1873-1943), English ornithologist (bookplate).

Anker 506 & 507; Nissen IVB 935 & 936; Zimmer pp. 631 & 631-2.

Copac traces four and five copies respectively in UK libraries. The Einhundert Tafeln is of larger scope than the Systematische Darstellung, dealing with non-European as well as European species; it was never finished and ends mid-sentence on page 432.

(2) £400 - £600

Mullens & Swann pp. 518 (Seebohm, Coloured FIgures), 517 (Seebohm, British Birds’ Eggs, with date 1904), 330 (Kirkman); Wood pp. 597 (Thorburn).

Thorburn’s work is number 174 of 250 numbered sets.

(10) £200 - £300

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113 Tucker (Andrew G. C.). Ornithologia Danmoniensis, 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, for the author, 1809, 7 engraved plates (of which 6 hand-coloured), original wrappers for volume 1, number 2 bound in, small spot to title-page, quires G-H moderately browned, plates toned, guarded, a few marginal marks, stab-holes visible in margins not affecting images, tape-repair to upper inner corners of woodlark and male sparrowhawk plates, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, modern green crushed half morocco gilt, large 4to (29.6 x 22.6cm)

115 Wytsman (Philogène, editor). [Genera Avium], 1st edition, Brussels: V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, 1905-14, 26 parts in 1 volume, half-title to each part, no general title-page called for, 43 chromolithographic plates (mounted on thicker paper stock), original wrappers for each part bound in at rear, edges untrimmed, modern green morocco gilt, large 4to (32.6 x 24.3cm) Nissen IVB 1028; Wood p. 638; Zimmer pp. 695-7.

‘This monumental work ... Among the contributors are Louis Brasil, Ernst Hartert, C. E. Hellmayr, T. Salvadori, P. L. Sclater, R. Bowdler Sharpe, and W. R. Ogilvie Grant’ (Wood). Nissen and Zimmer erroneously cite 44 plates: the wrapper for the fourth part, Nestoridae, mentions two plates, but the text itself describes only one.

(1) £200 - £300

Mullens & Swann pp. 590-1; Wood p. 603.

All published of the first local English avifauna. ‘It is an ambitious work, the text of which ends abruptly at p. 88 of the Introduction.The two parts printed show the author to have been an educated naturalist’ (Wood).

(1) £300 - £500

116 Poyser (T & A D, publishers). The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: their Distribution and Abundance. Edited by War J M Hagemeijer and Michael J Blair, 1st edition, 1997, together with:Watson (Jeff). The Golden Eagle, 1st edition, T & A D Poyser, 1997, Porter (R. F., & others), Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East, 1st edition, T & A D Poyser, 1996, and 46 others, all Poyser titles, species, group or field guides, original boards, dust jackets where called for, 8vo and 4to

114 Turnbull (William P.). The Birds of East Lothian and a Portion of the Adjoining Counties, 1st UK edition, large-paper issue, Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1867, 48 pp., handcoloured lithographic frontispiece, 13 similar vignettes, spotting to half-title and title-page, faint finger-mark to p. 37, bookplate of American ornithologist John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933), 20th-century red half calf, 4to (32 x 24.8cm), together with: McWilliam (John Morrell), The Birds of the Firth of Clyde, including Ayrshire, Renfewshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire and South Argyllshire, 1st edition, deluxe issue, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1936, 10 halftone plates mounted on thick black paper, map, inscribed by the author ‘Signed for Walter Duncan by J. M. McWilliam, April, 1936’ on front free endpaper, autograph letter signed from the author to Duncan in envelope (with photocopies of 3 further letters), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original vellum gilt, 8vo, MacGillivray (William), The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar, 1st edition, printed for private circulation [by Queen Victoria], 1855, wood-engraved frontispiece, similar vignettes, 2 folding maps, spotting, engraved presentation plate from Prince Albert inscribed to Cornish naturalist Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), family ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, bookplate inscribed Thomas Q. Couch, laid-in bookseller’s typescript catalogue note, original cloth, rebacked, 8vo, and Gray (Robert, & Thomas Anderson), The Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1869, tinted lithographic frontispiece, modern red half morocco, 8vo (24.8 x 15.2cm)

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£300 - £400

117 Christopher Helm (publisher). Wildfowl. An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World [by] Steve Madge and Hilary Burn, 1st edition, Christopher Helm, 1988, together with:Baker (Kevin), Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa, 1st edition, Christopher Helm, 1997, Kren (Joseph), Birds of the Czech Republic, 1st edition, Christopher Helm, 2000, and approximately 40 others, including Helm, Pica Press, Isabelline Press, and Peregrine Books titles, original boards, dust jackets, 8vo (45)

Freeman 3761 (Turnbull), 2403 (MacGillivray), 1439 (Gray & Anderson); Mullens & Swann pp. 595 (Turnbull), 371-2 (MacGillivray), 251 (Gray & Anderson); Wood pp. 604 (Turnbull), 446 (MacGillivray).

Turnbull’s work is one of 50 copies in quarto, of which ‘all but twelve [were] destroyed by fire’ (Mullens and Swann); there were also 150 octavo copies.

A pencilled note in McWilliams’s work states that there were ten deluxe copies in vellum; library records refer to an issue of 40 copies for private distribution. MacGillivray’s work was completed shortly before his death, after which the manuscript was purchased by Queen Victoria and ‘printed at her command’ (Wood); this copy was presented to Cornish naturalist Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), grandfather of Arthur Quiller-Couch.

(4) £200 - £300

£200 - £300

118 [Avian photography]. Photographic archive of Kenyan avifauna, 1991-2007, approximately 5000 original colour photographs (12.5 x 17.5cm), housed in 37 slip-in albums, arranged by order and family, typescript captions identifying the depicted species (with English and Linnaean names) and location of photograph, the albums folio-size (29 x 21cm) Extensive photographic record of Kenyan avifauna at all life-stages, also including substantial documentation of eggs and nests. The photographs were taken by the vendors over a sixteen-year period mainly around Lake Baringo.

(37) £500 - £800

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Lot 122

119* Anglo-Chinese School (19/20th Century). Golden Oriole, watercolour and gouache on silk, showing two birds perched on branches bearing berries within a floral border, 114 x 81cm (45 x 32ins), framed and glazed (1)

£300 - £500

Lot 126

121 Brown (Leslie H., Urban, Emil K. & Newman, Kenneth at al). The Birds of Africa, 8 volumes, 1st editions, 1982-2013, Academic Press/Helm, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded & rubbed to head, large 4to, together with Cramp (Stanley et al.), Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa, 9 volumes, mixed editions, 1994, Oxford University Press, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, spines faded and lightly rubbed to head, large 4to.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage (17)

£100 - £150

122 Edwards, Lionel, A Sportsman’s Bag, 1st Edition, Country Life, [1926], 18 mounted colour plates, each signed in pencil by the artist to lower mount, edges untrimmed, contemporary red half morocco gilt, some minor marks and one or two small stains, large folio (sheet size 56 x 38cm) Limited edition 35/100 Autographed Copies, from a total edition of 650.

(1) £150 - £200

120 Baudement (Emile). Les Races Bovines, au Concours Universel Agricole de Paris en 1856 Études Zootechniques..., Paris 1861, additional half title, eightyseven (complete) uncoloured heliogravure plates of cattle on India wove, paper dividers separating the cattle breeds into nationalities, occasional spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, boards stained and a little marked, bumped and with slight wear to extremities, oblong folio This is the plate volume only.

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£300 - £500

123 Hall (James, Emmons Ebenezer, Mather William, Beck Lewis & others). Natural History of New York, Palaeontology, twenty-two volumes, volume 1, parts 1 & 4, volume 2 part 6, volume 3 (2 volumes of text & plates), volume 4 part 1 (2 copies), volume 5 parts 1 & 2, volumes 6, volume 7 (2 copies), volume 8 parts 1 & 2, Albany 1847 - 1894, Geology, parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 (2 copies), Albany 1842 - 1843, Agriculture, parts 1 & 5, Albany, 1846 1849 [and] Mineralogy, Albany, 1842, additional engraved titles, numerous engraved and lithographic plates including some folding, fourteen volumes in publisher’s cloth (one lacking spine), three in contemporary half morocco and five in modern cloth gilt, some wear are fraying, 4to Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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124 Harrison (J.C.). The Birds of Prey of the British Islands, Descriptive Text by David Evans, Foreword by the Hon. Aylmer Tryon, 1st edition, Kingston Deverill, Fine Bird Books, 1980, 20 fine tipped-in colour plates, after watercolours by the artist, top edge gilt, original three-quarter brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with slipcase, atlas 4to Limited edition 143/275, signed by the artist.

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£300 - £500

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£150 - £200

125 Houghton (William). British Fresh-Water Fishes, 2 volumes, 1st edition, William Mackenzie, 1879, half-title, 41 hand-finished chromoxylographic plates, hinges cracked, bookplate of A. H. Higginbotom, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, boards a little scuffed and dust soiled, spines slightly faded, 4to Nissen ZBI 2009.

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£200 - £300

126 Jardine (Sir William). The Natural History of Humming-Birds, The Naturalist’s Library series, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, W. Lizars, Sterling and Kenney, 1833, portrait frontispiece and an additional decorative title to each volume, sixty-four (complete) engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, two slightly later ownership signatures to front endpapers of both volumes, near contemporary red cloth with contrasting morocco gilt labels to spines, bumped, and stained, small 8vo (2)

£200 - £300

127 Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 volumes bound in one, [Tokyo, 1866-1880], fine monochrome woodblock illustrations throughout (title to fifth volume with partial colour), stitched Japanese-style, spine gilt decorated, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 2 woodcut titles printed on thin paper (here bound before the fifth part, and at the end of the volume), bound in near-contemporary red half calf, 22.3 x 15.8cm (8.75 x 6.25ins) Provenance: Ralph William Frankland Payne Gallwey (1848-1916), 3rd Baronet of Thirkleby Park, Thirsk, engineer, historian, artist, and huntsman, and author of The Book of Duck Decoys (1886), Letters to Young Shooters (1890, 1892 and 1896), The Crossbow (1903), and other works. With handwritten inscription by Payne Gallwey to front blank in pencil: ‘This capital treatise on the use of the Goshawk in Japan consists of a series of small booklets bound up and which I purchased at Liberty’s Regent St., 1889, on their arrival in England. R.P.G.’, and with bookplate of the Library, Thirkleby Park, Thirsk to front pastedown. A later handwritten note tipped on to the front pastedown states that this work is now the property of ‘F.P. Davis, 171 Roseberry St, Ardwick M/c. 11, bought at the Thirkleby Hall sale’.

Thirkleby Hall was put up for sale following the death of Sir Ralph’s son and male heir in the first world war.

Harting 371; Schwerdt III 245.

Kyosai’s Ehon Taka Kagami, or Mirror of Hawks, published in five parts in Tokyo by Nakamura Sasuke is an important source book for the history and practice of falconry in Japan. It records, for example, the methods of care, raising and training of the Siberian goshawk, considered the best bird for use in falconry in Japan since ancient times. According to Schwerdt, the work is “a very comprehensive and instructive treatise on falconry. It is rare, only seven copies having been traced in European libraries” (Schwerdt, volume III, page 245).

(1) £2,000 - £3,000

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130 Martyn (Thomas). Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to A Lady, By the celebrated J.J. Rousseau, translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, 1st edition thus, printed for B. White and Son, 1785, 38 uncoloured engraved botanical plates (plate I with publisher’s imprint at foot shaved), occasional light spotting, contemporary ink presentation inscription to title ‘M: Buc Given by Sr. H: Englefield’ (Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 1752-1822), with an additional later presentation inscription to J.S. from H.C.E., dated 1819 [Jarrard Strickland from Henry Charles Englefield] in German to the dedication leaf, dated 1819, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn with backstrip deficient and covers detached, bookplate of Jarrard Edward Strickland to front pastedown, 8vo, together with Gorham (George Cornelius), Memoirs of John Martyn, F.R.S., and of Thomas Martyn, B.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professors of Botany in the University of Cambridge, Hatchard and Son, 1830, 3 engraved plates, including 2 handcoloured, with additional copy of the uncoloured plate loosely inserted, with hand colouring and pencil correction, modern postcard pastedown to verso of front free endpaper, author’s presentation inscription to recto of the same leaf ‘From the Author to his dear Sister, Martha Gorham, Jany. 15, 1830’. original green cloth, with paper label to spine partially rubbed away, a little wear to joints and extremities, 8vo, plus 2 others: Sir John Hill, The Family Herbal, Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, circa 1820 & John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell, Flora of Dorsetshire, 1874 (author’s presentation inscription to head of title), all 8vo

128 Lilford, (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 1st edition, R. H. Porter, 1885-97, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 421 chromolithographic plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, all leaves and plates mounted on linen guards, some spotting throughout, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary quarter morocco gilt by Birdsall of Northampton with contrasting morocco gilt labels to spines, large 8vo, (25 x 15.6cm)

Gorham’s Memoirs of John and Thomas Martyn includes an autograph letter from Thomas Martyn to fellow botanist Sir James Edward Smith of Norwich, dated 6 April 1821: “I dispatched by the Oundle waggon yesterday the box of specimens of plants from van Dieman’s Land ... What has been said of me in the European Magazine and the Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors being incomplete and incorrect, I have been lately drawing up Memoirs of myself, for the information of my family; not being vain enough to think that any thing I have done can interest the public”, an abridged version of which is printed in Gorham’s Memoir on pages 251-52.

(4) £100 - £150

Anker 308 (second edition); Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann p. 354; Nissen IVB 563; Sitwell p. 119; Wood p. 436; Zimmer pp. 399-400 (second edition).

A handsome set of ‘this truly magnificent work’ (Wood).

(7) £700 - £1,000

129 Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, 1895, 24 photogravure and 43 wood-engraved plates by A. Thorburn and G.E. Lodge, folding map, bookplates of Colonel Edward Snow Mason, a few light spots to fore edges, top edges gilt, fine red half morocco gilt, 4to

131 Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.), Birds of America, Henry Sotheran Limited, 1980, additional half title, nineteen tipped-in colour plates, tipped-in photographic illustrations, folding map, ownership signature to first front blank, book plate of D. Keningale, top edge gilt, original green half morocco by Morrell, spine with raised bands and gilt bird and palm vignettes in compartments, 4to

Mullens & Swann 355; Nissen IVB 564; Wood 436. One of 100 large paper copies.

(2) £100 - £150

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Edition de Luxe, 28/295.

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£100 - £150

134 Millais (John Guille). Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them, 1st edition, Henry Sotheran, 1892, half-titles, frontispiece, 16 colour lithographic plates, slight spotting throughout, initial blank creased, contemporary half morocco gilt, some wear to extremities, repaired, spine a little darkened, folio (1)

132 Menzies (William). Forest Trees and Woodland Scenery, as described in Ancient and Modern Poetry, 1875, 20 mounted chromolithographed plates, all edges gilt, original green morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 4to (1)

£150 - £200

£150 - £200

133 Millais (John Guille). British Diving Ducks, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1913, half-title, 74 plates (of which 39 in colour), slight spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary cloth gilt, rebacked, slightly bumped and rubbed at extremities, folio

135 Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st edition, Groombridge and Sons, 1855, 60 wood-engraved colour plates, later tissue-guards, occasional spotting, later endpapers, top edge gilt, modern cloth gilt retaining original snipe vignette, 4to

Number 416 of 450 copies.

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Nissen IVB 644.

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£200 - £300

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£200 - £300

139 Palmer (Ralph S.). Handbook of North American Birds, 5 volumes, 1st editions, 1962-88, Yale University Press, U.S.A., numerous colour and black & white illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, volume 1 price-clipped, spines slightly faded, minor rubbing to head & foot, 8vo, together with Knight (Ora Willis), The Birds of Maine, subscription edition 300/93, 1908, Maine, signed by the author to the limitation page, 31 black & white illustrations, previous owner inscription in pencil to front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, original illustrated cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bailey (Harold H.), The Birds of Virginia, 1913, Virginia, 14 colour plates plus numerous black & white illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other modern U.S.A. & North American ornithology reference, including Birds of New York, 2 volumes, by Elon Howard Eaton, 1910-14, New York, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage, with bookplates.

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136 Morris (Rev. F. O.). A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, second edition, Bell & Daldy, 1870, title and dedication, 365 plates (complete), all with contemporary colouring, occasional scattered spotting, index and publisher’s advertisement at rear, original gilt decorated cloth, very slight wear to extremities, short repaired split at foot of spine on volume 2, large 8vo (6)

140 Salter (Thomas Frederick). The Anglers Guide; being a New, Plain, and Complete, Practical Treatise of the Art of Angling for Sea, River, and Pond Fish..., 6th edition, carefully corrected & enlarged, 1825, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood engraved vignette to title (few letters skinned with loss), wood engraved plates and illustrations, frontispiece & title reattached, some spotting and finger-soiling, wax seal stamp to verso of final leaf, contemporary half calf, lacking spine label, rubbed and some wear, 12mo in 6s, together with Kennedy (John), A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House, volume 1 only (of two), 2nd edition, corrected & greatly enlarged, 1777, title underlined in ink, contemporary half calf, paper label at foot of spine, lacking upper board detached (replacement full calf board provided), lower joint cracked, worn, 8vo, with The Parks and Gardens of Paris, by William Robinson, 1878, original cloth, spine and lower board damp soiled, 8vo, plus one other

£150 - £200

137 New Naturalist Series. 37 volumes, numbers 1 -27, 52, 55, 6263, 65, mixed editions, 1945-80, numerous black & white illustrations, all with previous owner inscriptions to front endpapers, all original cloth, all but 3 volumes in dust jackets, some spines faded & rubbed, some duplicate volumes, G/VG, 8vo.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage, with bookplates.

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£100 - £150

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138 Ogilvie-Grant (W. R., Millais J. G. and others). The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game Birds and Wildfowl, British Deer & Ground Game, Dogs, Guns & Rifles, The Big Game of Africa & Europe [and] The Big Game of Asia and North America, 4 volumes. (complete), published The London & Counties Press Association Ltd., 1912 - 1915, additional half titles, titles printed in red & black, each volume with portrait frontispiece of H.R.H. King George V, list of subscribers, fifty-nine (complete) colour plates, eight gravures and numerous black & white illustrations, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, contemporary morocco gilt, slight wear to extremities and some scratches to boards, folio Limited edition 119/500 (4)

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£150 - £200

£100 - £150

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£150 - £200

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141 Surtees (R. S.). Mr. Jorrocks' Lectors from Handley Cross.

With Illustrations by G. Denholm Armour, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, 25 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, later green moroco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 4to (29 x 24cm)

145 Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, 1st, edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1916-16, 80 colour plates, later cloth, 4to, together with: ibid., British Mammals, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1920-1, 50 plates, later endpapers, upper edge gilt, later cloth, 4to, ibid., A Naturalist's Sketch Book, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1919, 60 plates, spotting, later cloth, spine darkened, bumped with slight wear to extremities, 4to

Limited edition, number 130 of 350 copies, signed by the artist.

(1) £70 - £100

142 Surtees (R.S.) The Analysis of the Hunting Field. being a series of sketches of the principal characters that compose one, the whole forming a slight souvenir of the season 1845-6, 1903, 13 colour plates, duplicate monochrome plates, colour illustrations, light toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, light soiling, 4to, limited edition 30/50, together with [Apperley, Charles], Nimrod’s Hunting Tours..., 1903, 18 colour plates, duplicate monochrome plates, light toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, some stains to boards, 4to, limited edition 30/50 (2)

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£300 - £500

146 Topham (Thomas). A New Compendius System on Several Diseases, incident to cattle. Wherein the disorders are orderly described, and the symptoms of each disease obviously laid down: together with a complete number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof..., an essay on the diseases incident to calves, printed for J. Scatcherd & J. Whitaker, T. Scollick & J. Todd, 1788, xvi, 421, [7], a2 with minor waterstain to extreme fore-margin, 19th century green half-calf gilt, a little rubbed and some marks to edges, 8vo, together with [Feijoo y Montenetro, Benito Jeronimo]. The Honour and Advantage of Agriculture. Being the twelfth discourse of the eighth volume of Feijoo’s works, translated from the Spanish.

By a Farmer in Cheshire, 1st English edition, printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760, iv, 79, [1], disbound without covers, slim 8vo

£300 - £400

143 Taylor (Joseph). The Complete Weather Guide: A collection of practical observations for prognosticating the weather, drawn from plants, animals, inanimate bodies, and also by means of philosophical instruments; including the Shepherd of Banbury’s Rules, explained on philosophical principles. With an appendix of miscellaneous observations on meteorology, a curious botanical clock, &c., 1st edition, printed for John Harding, 1812, half-title, folding wood engraved frontispiece of Flora’s Dial, 160 pages, some spotting to front blank leaves, top edge gilt, later attractive mottled full calf gilt (by Zaehnsdorf), rubbed on joints, 12mo

Topham: ESTC N41779. The second issue (first London edition) of this scarce work (ESTC locates six copies in the UK of either issue), and one of the first publications on the diseases of cattle.

Feijoo: ESTC T166297 (only 3 copies in the UK, Cambridge, Rothamsted, and John Rylands). According to Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, volume II, page 336 ‘Mr Benjamin Stillingfleet was the editor, if not the translator’.

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A scarce 1st edition of this early meteorological work, which incorporates both scientific knowledge and rural wisdom.

(1) £150 - £200

147 Yarrell (William). A History of British Birds, 4 volumes, 4th edition, revised and enlarged, 1871-85, half titles,wood-engraved illustrations, occasional minor spotting, previous owner inscription to titles, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, spines lettered and decorated with birds motifs in gilt (some fading), 8vo

144 TThorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, Longmans, Green and Co., 1923, 30 mounted colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, slight spotting to endpapers, contemporary half morocco gilt, large folio Nissen IVB 939.

Limited edition, number 93 of 155 copies.

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MAPS & CHARTS 149 Andrews (John). Plans of the Principal Cities of the World, John Stockdale, circa 1772, title on upper cover,printed index list (which does not correlate to contents) and twenty uncoloured engraved city plans, contemporary paper wrappers with printed title to upper cover, heavily worn and frayed, disbound and lacking spine, oblong 4to The city plans are:- Algier, Madrid, Amsterdam, Batavia, Jedo, Juthia, Madras, Lisbon, Bern, Geneva, Rome, Petersburg, Hanover, Hamburg, Cologn(e), Manheim, Ratisbon, Augsburg, Wurtzburg and Dresden. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

(1) £300 - £500

148 Africa. Mortier (Pierre), Carte particuliere de L’Isle Dauphine ou Madagascar et St Laurens, published Amsterdam, circa 1705, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, inset map of ‘Baye de St. Augustin’, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, additional horizontal fold, 570 x 850mm, with Carte particuliere des costes de L’Afrique qui comprend le Royaume de Maroc &c., Carte des costes de L’Afrique ou est compris une Partie de Guinée, Le Royaume de Benin, L’Isle de St. Thomas &c., Carte particuliere de la Mer Rouge &c., Carte des costes de L’Afrique depuis Cabo Corso jusques à Omorro [and] Carte particuliere des costes de L’Afrique qui comprend une partie de Congo, Amsterdam, circa 1705, together three double page and two single page maps and charts of the coastline of Africa, all with contemporary outline colouring, occasional offsetting, various sizes and condition Published in Mortier’s re-issue of Jaillot’s ‘Atlas Nouveau’.

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150 Ascension Island. Van Linschoten (Jan Huygen), Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenscio nuncupatae sitae in altitudine 8 graduum ad austrum lineae aequinoctialis, published Amsterdam, circa 1596, hand coloured panorama showing the island in three profile views, engraved by Baptista a Doetechum, compass rose, strapwork cartouche with two secondary cartouches with text in Dutch and Latin, 235 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed

£300 - £500

Originally published in ‘Itinerario’.

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151 Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire described, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, panorama of Windsor Castle, two closed tears affecting image, crudely repaired on verso, slight staining, lower margin strengthened and repaired with tape, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso, together with The Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the cheif Towne described with the armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them, George Humble, circa 1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Kendal, trimmed to neat-line and laid on later thick paper, slight loss to printed strapwork margins, short split at base of central fold, 375 x 505mm (2)

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154 British Isles. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Britaine and Ireland, published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1627], hand coloured engraved map, inset views of London & Edinburgh, upper margin and central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso (1)

£500 - £800

152* Birmingham. Sherriff (James), A Map of Upwards of 25 Miles round the Town of Birmingham. To His most Sacred Majesty George the Third King, of Great Britain &c. &c. Survey begun in 1788 and completed in 1796, published Jas. Sherriff & Wm. Faden, 1798, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring on two conjoined sheets, decorative uncoloured cartouche and mileage scale, table of explanation and compass rose, some dust soiling, occasional marginal repaired closed tears, 845 x 705mm, framed and glazed Uncommon.

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155 British Isles. Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of), Regnorum Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Mappa Geographic..., Nuremberg, 1749, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, inset map of the Shetland Islands, large uncoloured cartouche, title repeated in English above map, some dust soiling and staining, largely confined to margins, 510 x 565mm, together with De Lisle (Guillaume), Les Isles Britanniques ou sont le Rme. d’Angleterre tiré de Sped celuy d’Ecosse tiré de Th. Pont &c. et celuy d’Irlande tiré de Petti..., Paris 1702, hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 475 x 620mm, with Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), Les Isles Britanniques qui contiennent les Royaumes d’Angleterre, Ecosse et Irlande..., 1696, engraved map with sparse contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the Faroe, Orkney and Shetland Islands, slight staining, toned overall, narrow margins which are strengthened on verso, 490 x 600mm, plus Carte des Trois Royaumes D’Angleterre D’Ecosse et D’Irlande..., 1735, hand coloured engraved map, no cartographer or publisher shown on the map (although almost identical to a map

by De Lisle), decorative strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, old folds, 455 x 565mm

153* Blaeu (Johannes). Aquisgranum Gallis aix la Chapelle Germanis et Belgis Aken, Arx Antuerpiensis [and] Ostenda Obsessa et Capta..., circa 1650, together three engraved town plans with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation to old watercolour, each approximately 375 x 490mm, mounted, framed and glazed (one map lacking glass).

Published in Blaeu’s townbook of the Low Countries (3)

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157* British Isles. Grierson (George), A new map of Great Britain and Ireland according to the newest and most exact observations, published Dublin and sold by George Grierson at the Two Bibles, Essex Street, circa 1733, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring on two conjoined sheets, inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, some creasing and fraying largely confined to margins, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, manuscript ‘cancel’ cross through the picture frame cartouche, 1010 x 610mm, mounted, framed and glazed R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 -1750. George Grierson no.1. Grierson was one of the first Irish publishers of maps and although he took the title of ‘King’s Printer’ much of his output was pirated from English Sources. This is a re-engraved copy of an earlier map by Herman Moll which originally appeared in ‘The World’ Describ’d...’.

(1) £150 - £200

156 British Isles. De Wit (Frederick), Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae nova Descriptio, Amsterdam, 1659, uncoloured engraved map, proof state with the upper cartouche still blank, inset map of the Orkney Islands, extensively repaired on verso, margins professionally replaced, backed with archival tissue, 420 x 530mm R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, De Wit 2 state 1. A copy of an earlier map of 1638 by Jan Jansson. It differs from the earlier map in that it lacks the embellishment of the Royal coat of arms. Oliver Cromwell’s republican ‘Commonwealth regime’ was still in power and they would have reacted strongly against a heraldic representation of the crown.

(1) £150 - £200

158 British Isles. Blaeu (Johannes), Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula, Amsterdam, circa 1640, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the Orkney Islands, slight overall toning, slight text show through, 385 x 495mm, Latin text on verso R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no. 501 (1) £100 - £200

159 Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel). The South-West prospect of the City of Carlisle, 1745 ( but a later impression, circa 1775), hand coloured engraved prospect, some marginal fraying and chipping with slight loss, 315 x 815mm, together with, The South West prospect of Shrewsbury, 1732, uncoloured engraved prospect, some marginal fraying and closed tears, trimmed to neat line on right hand border, margin replaced with later paper, torn with loss to printed text below image, repaired, 295 x 775mm, with another hand coloured copy, laid on card with marginal chipping and fraying, with a 20th century re-struck uncoloured engraving of the South West prospect of the city of Lichfield 305 x 805mm (4)

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160* Buckinghamshire. Saxton (Christopher & Hole G.), Buckinghā comitatus in que olim insederunt Cattieuchlani, [1610], hand coloured engraved map, slight overall toning, 275 x 290mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Middlesex & Hertfordshire. Schenk (Pieter & Valk Gerard), Middelsexiae cum Hertfordiae comitatu Midlesex & Hertfordshire, Amsterdam, circa 1700, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, reticulated and orientated to the east, slight overall toning, 440 x 550mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Cary (John), A Map of Hartfordshire from the best authorities, published John Stockdale, 1805, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, old folds, slight browning, 395 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)

£100 - £150

161 Campaign and ‘Military Edition’ maps. A mixed collection of approximately 150 WW2 campaign and ‘military edition’ maps, mostly 1930’s and 1940’s. folding photolithographic maps, many backed on linen, mostly of regions within the British Isles, but together with maps of Europe and North Africa, various sizes and condition Lot 160

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162 Cornwall. Saxton (Christopher), Promontorium hoc in mare projectum Cornubia dicitur, circa 1579, engraved map with early hand colouring and some later enhancement, large and ornate strapwork cartouche surmounted by the royal crest, separate cartouche with dedication to Elizabeth I and below the map are the arms of Thomas Seckford, toned overall and with some mount staining, some old sellotape stains but confined to margins, two pin holes to image, ‘crossed arrows’ watermark, 375 x 495mm (1)

£2,000 - £3,000

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163 East Indies. Visscher (Nicolas), Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum Adiacentium Nova Descriptio, circa 1690, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation to old colour causing slight cracking to paper, repaired on verso, slight staining to margins, 470 x 570mm, together with Sanson (NIcolas), Asia Vetus..., 1650, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, very slight spotting, 395 x 565mm (2)

£300 - £500

165 England & Wales. Schenk (Pieter), Anglia in septem AngloSaxonum Regna..., Amsterdam, circa 1700, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, central fold professuinally strengthened on verso, 550 x 480mm, together with De Wit (Frederick), Anglia Regnum in omnes suos ducatus, comitatus et provincias divisum, circa 1690, uncoloured engraved map apart from sparse partial colouring on the royal crest, very slight staining, 580 x 485mm, with Sanson (Nicolas), Le Royaume D’Angleterre divisé dans les sept Royaumes ou Heptarchie des Saxons et la Principté de Galles..., Paris Pierre Mariette, 1665, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 400 x 510mm (3)

164 England & Wales. A collection of seven maps, 18th century, including Cluver (Philip), Veteris et Nova Britanniae descriptio, [1729], hand coloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney Islands, 215 x 265mm, together with Cellarius (Andreas & Seale R. W.), Insularum Britannicarum Facies Antiqua, [1742], hand coloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney & Shetland Islands, old folds, 205 x 310mm, with Lenglet du Fresnoy (Nicolas), Les Isles Britanniques, [1735], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, 240 x 390mm, plus Edwards (George), Itinera Varia Auctoris, [1746], engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, the ‘beetle map’ decorated with engraved vignettes of birds, beetles and a large bird bill, creased with marginal repaired closed tears, red-ruled, 260 x 210mm, and Le Rouge (George Louis), L’Angleterre, Paris, circa 1748, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 290 x 215mm, with Mercator (Gerard & Cloppenburgh H. J.), L’Angleterre, [1734], engraved map, two copies, one coloured, the other black and white, the uncoloured example is toned overall, each 185 x 255mm (7)

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166 Europe. Kisaborō Ohara. A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, circa 1904, lithographic satirical ‘Octopus map’ with contemporary hand colouring, descriptive text in Japanese and English, some creasing and staining, torn with loss to upper margin (but not affecting printed image), laid on near contemporary hessian, 420 x 575mm

168 Folding Maps of England & Wales. A collection of twelve folding maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved folding maps, including examples by Gardiner, Wyld, Phillips, Hinton, Andrews, Stanford, Bartholomew, Cruchley and Cary, various sizes and condition (12)

£150 - £200

169 France. A collection of twenty-three maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved country and regional maps including many with contemporary outline colouring. including examples by Zatta, Cassini, Mercator, Hondius, Crepy, Colton, Covens & Mortier, Sanson, De Fer and Brion/Desnos, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition

The map was created at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904 1905), very much in the style of Fred Rose’s Serio-Comic War Map, 1877.

Rose’s map established the conceit of depicting Russia’s aggressive expansionism in the form of a Kraken-like ‘Black Octopus.’ Rose concentrated on Europe but Ohara has expanded the map to include Asia and the far east.

The map is clearly intended for the British market as much as the Japanese, possible as a warning to the British navy to stay out of the conflict. The Russians and Japanese were struggling for control of Port Arthur which would be surrendered to the Japanese who defeated the Russian Fleet in December of 1905, several months after this map was printed. Ohara sums up the situation in his English language descriptions of the map, printed in the upper left: “Black Octopus is a name newly given to Russia by a certain prominent Englishman. For the black octopus is so avaricious, that he stretches out his eight arms in all directions, and seizes up every thing that comes within his reach. But as it sometimes happens he gets wounded seriously even by a small fish, owing to his too much covetousness. Indeed, a Japanese proverb says: ‘Great avarice is like unselfishness.’ We Japanese need not to say much on the cause of the present war. Suffice it to say that the further existence of the Black Octopus will depend entirely upon how he comes out of this war. The Japanese fleet has already practically annihilated Russia’s naval powers in the Orient. The Japanese army is about to win a signal victory over Russia in Corea and Manchuria. And when ... St. Petersburg? Wait & see! The ugly Black Octopus! Hurrah! Hurrah! for Japan.”

A highly jingoistic but visually very effective piece of Japanese propaganda, perhaps indicative of Japan’s expansive territorial ambitions as much as the Russians. The map is rare, with OCLC locating only four institutional holdings (1) £300 - £500

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170 Gayton (J. R.), Memoria Philosophica; or History, Chronology, Geography, Astronomy, Poetry, Prose, Language &c. treated on principles best adapted to retention in the Memory, printed J. Hill and published Simpkin & Marshall, 1826, additional half title, list of subscribers, two folding mnemonic charts, numerous tables and six lithographic anthropomorphic and zoomorphic folding maps with contemporary hand colouring, errata bound at rear, later ownership signatures to front endpaper and front blank, marbled endpapers, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn at extremities, 8vo Rare. Only one copy recorded on Copac.

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167 Europe. Munster (Sebastian), Europa Prima Nova Tabula, Basel, circa 1550, uncoloured woodblock map of Europe orientated to the south with a large galleon in the Atlantic ocean, printed latitude and longitude graticules, some worming at head and foot of central fold causing slight loss to printed surface, Latin text on verso, 290 x 375mm (1)

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171 Geological maps. Murchison (Sir Roderick Impey), Geological map of England and Wales, 1847, hand coloured engraved map by J & C Walker, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight dust soiling, 405 x 325mm, bound in contemporary cloth boards, faded and stained, together with Phillips (John), A Map of the Principal Features of the Geology of Yorkshire, 1853, colour printed lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 580 x 760mm, marbled endpapers, bound in contemporary cloth boards, remains of linen ties, manuscript title label to upper cover, some wear, with Bird (C.), A Geological Map of Yorkshire, 1881, colour printed lithographic map, old folds, 725 x 820mm (3)

£70 - £100

174* Monmouth. Blaeu (Johannes), Monumethensis comitatus vernacule Monmouth Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 500mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, framed and double glazed, together with Morden (Robert), The County of Monmouth, [1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, toned overall, 350 x 420mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Blaeu (Johannes), Wallia principatus vulgo Wales, Amsterdam, circa 1650, hand coloured engraved map, large decorative cartouche, some creasing and staining, some repaired closed tears, 3285 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)

£70 - £100

175 Morden (Robert). A collection of twenty maps, [1695 or later], twenty engraved maps, one (Buckinghamshire) with hand colouring, includes two folding maps (Kent & Norfolk), the map of Dorset with long repaired closed tear, some maps trimmed with slight loss to printed surface, various condition, each approximately 380 x 440mm The maps comprise of:- Buckinghamshire, Kent, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Durham, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Monmouth, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Riding of Yorkshire, South Wales [and] North Wales.

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172 Germany. A mixed collection of twenty-four maps, 16th 18th century, engraved regional maps, town and battle plans, several with contemporary outline colouring, including examples

by Munster, Homann, Sanson, Ortelius, Merian, Jaillot, Scherer, Bowen, Rollos, Tirion, De Vaugondy, De L’Isle and Faden, various sizes and condition (24)

£200 - £300

173 Maps. A mixed collection of approximately 130 maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps of the British Isles, British county maps and town plans and foreign countries, with examples by Moule, J & C Walker, Faden, Cary, Van der Aa, Saxton/Kip, Lewis, Hall, Fullarton, Cole & Roper, Dawson, Oddy, Morden and De Vaugondy, including eight British county maps by Emanuel Bowen originally published in ‘The Large English Atlas’, various sizes and condition (approx. 130)

£150 - £200

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176 Ogilby (John). The Road form London to Buckingham continued to Banbury in com. Oxon., [1675], hand coloured engraved strip road map, 340 x 450mm The road starts in London and passes through Acton, Uxbridge, Amersham, Great Missenden, Wendover, Aylesbury and finishes at Buckingham, with an extension on to Banbury.

(1) £100 - £150

179 Scotland. Jansson (Jan), Scotia Regnum, Amsterdam, circa 1640, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, inset map of the Orkney islands, toned overall, Latin text on verso, together with Hondius (Henricus), A new Description of the Shyres Lothian and Linlitquo. Be T. Pont, Amsterdam, circa 1638, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, toned overall, 370 x 545mm, Latin text on verso (2)

£100 - £200

177 Ogilby (John). The Road from Oxford to Chichester, [1675 or later], hand coloured engraved strip road map, slight spotting, one small rust hole, 360 x 435mm The road starts from Oxford and goes through Abingdon, Newbury, Basingstoke and Petersfield, ending at Chichester.

(1) £70 - £100

180 Sea charts. Four sea charts of the North East of England, mostly 19th century. including Depot de la Marine (publisher), Carte particulière de la côte orientale D’Angleterre depuis le Cap Gibralter jusqu’au Golfe d’Edinburg..., 1803, hand coloured engraved chart, inset maps of Berwick, Sunderland, Holy Island, Hartlepool and Newcastle. 885 x 615mm, together with Admiralty charts, Blakeney to Flamborough Head & Flamborough Head to Hartlepool, 1893, two large lithographic charts, 1110 x 660mm & 660 x 980mm respectively, with Parsons (Capt. J., surveyor), Entrance to the River Humber, published by The Admiralty, 1885, uncoloured engraved chart, inset maps of Kingston upon Hull and Grimsby, 665 x 945mm, plus Carte Reduite des Isles Britanniques, seconde feuille..., published Depot de la Marine, circa 1760, uncoloured engraved chart of the northern half of England and Wales, long vertical crease, slight dust soiling, 565 x 880mm

178 Regional maps of England & Wales. A collection of fourteen, maps, 17th & 18th century, engraved maps , several with contemporary outline colouring, with examples by Mercator, Hondius, Von Reilly, Bonne and Sanson, various sizes and condition (14)

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181 Simpson (Samuel). The Agreeable Historian or the Compleat English Traveller..., printed for R. Walker, 1746, title page and three maps (only) of The West Riding of Yorkshire, The East Riding of Yorkshire and The North Riding of Yorkshire, maps with old folds and slightly toned, pages 1099 - 1161, disbound, small 8vo, together with Mogg Edward, Paterson’s Roads; being an entirely original and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales, 18th edition, 1826, frontispiece of an uncoloured engraved map of England & Wales, with an additional nine engraved folding regional maps, appendix bound at rear, bookplate of Jonathan Parsons, text block disbound, ‘envelope style’ diced calf, boards detached, 8vo, with Paterson (Daniel), A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales, 11th edition, printed for T. N. Longman, 1796, double page engraved map of England & Wales, small ink stain to right hand margin, title page and table of roads, index bound at rear, near contemporary manuscript annotations to front endpaper, contemporary calf, small 8vo, plus Mogg (Edward), A new map of England and Wales describing all the direct & principal cross roads, boroughs, market towns & villages..., 1821, folding engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 540 x 450mm, and Bacon (G. W. publishers), Touring Map of England and Wales, circa 1910, nine colour printed regional maps, folding and laid on linen, with cloth boards, contained in a contemporary calf carrying case, each map approximately, 535 x 720mm, with two others similar (7)

183 Wales. Saxton (Christopher, Hole G & Kip W.), Caernarvo comitatus pars olim Ordovicum, Cardigan comitatus pars olim Dimetarum, Caermardi comitatus in quo dimetae olim habitarunt, Mongomery comitatus qui olim pars Ordovicum, Merioneth comitatus olim pars Ordovicum [and] Monumethensis comitatus quem olim incoluerunt Silures, [1610 - 1637], together six engraved maps, each approximately 250 x 310mm (6)

£100 - £150

184 West Indies. Van den Keere (Pieter), Jamaica, [1676], hand coloured engraved map, 85 x 125mm, English text on verso, mounted, together with Edwards (Bryan), Map of the Island of Barbadoes; from the History of the West Indies, John Stockdale, 1791, hand coloured engraved map, old folds, 235 x 190mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Fullarton (Archibald, publisher), British Possessions on the North East Coast of South America, circa 1860, engraved map showing the island of Trinidad and British Guiana contemporary hand colouring, slight spotting, 465 x 310mm, mounted, plus Walker (J & C), The British Islands in the West Indies, Baldwin & Cradock, 1835, map of Jamaica surrounded by fourteen inset maps of Caribbean islands, 325 x 395mm, mounted, framed and glazed

182 Wales. A collection of approximately sixty-five maps, 17th 19th century, engraved maps of Welsh counties and regions including a section from William Camden’s ‘Britannia’ (1722 edition) containing three maps by Robert Morden and 141 pages of text, bound in modern paper wrappers, together with maps by Kitchin, Owen & Bowen, Seller/Grose, Saxton/Kip, Osborne, Rocque, Badeslade & Toms, Moule, Baker, Cary, Conder and Morden, some duplicates, mostly uncoloured, various sizes and condition, together with approximately seventy topographical engraved views in Wales, with examples by Eastgate, Bartlett, Sparrow, Gastineau, Dugdale, Watts and Prout, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 135)

£100 - £150

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185 World. Gill (Macdonald). Gill (MacDonald), The “Time and Tide” Map of the Atlantic Charter, published George Philip and Son, 1943, large colour photolithographic map, old folds, long split along old fold, 840 x 1110mm.

Gill’s ‘Time and Tide’ map was commissioned by Time and Tide magazine. It never enjoyed a large circulation and is therefore one of the scarcest of Gill’s pictorial maps. The map celebrates the joint declaration released by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941 after the Atlantic Conference. The Atlantic Charter was a gesture of solidarity at a moment when Nazi Germany had just turned against the USSR and looked all but invincible. In time the charter would form the basis for Allied war aims and the postwar foundation of the United Nations. Gill takes an optimistic view of the Charter and of the future. He shows a muscled worker taking a sledgehammer to tanks and munitions in the foreground, while in the distance is an idyllic scene of ploughing and reaping. A nod to the book of Isaiah and the turning of ‘swords to ploughshares’. The map is adorned with quotes by Cicero, Emerson, Pope and Aristotle on the virtues of peace. Gill is probably best known for his 1913 ‘Wonderground map of London’ and this map is still very much in the decorative and pictorial style that Gill became famous for. I am grateful to the research and blogs conducted and written by Rod Barron and Bryars & Bryars.

(1) £1,000 - £1,500

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186 World.

Waldseemüller (Martin & Fries Laurent), Tabu Nova Orbis, published Lyon, [1535], uncoloured woodblock map, some damage to central fold, professionally restored on verso, 325 x 460mm R. W. Shirley. The Mapping of the World, number 49. This is a reduced version of the Waldseemüller map published in 1513. It lacks the crisscross directional lines and shows only part of the Americas in the very south west of the map. Fries has added five images of kings, representing Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Taprobana and Mursuli as well as an elephant off the coast of Greenland.

(1) £600 - £900

187 Yorkshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Ducatis Eboracensis pars Occidentalis; The West Riding of Yorke Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, slight dust soiling to margins, lower left corner repaired, some adhesion scaring to verso, 385 x 505mm, Latin text on verso, together with Ducatus Eboracensis pars Orientalis; The East Riding of Yorkeshire, Amsterdam circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some overall toning, 385 x 505mm, Latin text on verso, with Ducatus Eboracensis Anglice York Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1647, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some dust soiling, 390 x 505mm, Dutch text on verso (3)

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188 Yorkshire. A mixed collection of twenty-six maps county maps, mostly 19th century, engraved maps, many with contemporary colouring, including examples by Smith, Lewis, Rowe/Teesdale, Cary, Bacon, Weller, J & C Walker, Letts, Baines, Pigot, Kelly, Langdale and Jefferys, several maps on more than one sheet, a few ‘odd’ sheets from multi-sheet maps, mostly large format, various sizes and condition (26)

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DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART

189* Aldin (Cecil). The South Berkshire Hunt, published Alfred Bell & Co. Ltd, 1925, lithograph, signed by artist to lower left in pencil, 350 x 605mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with The Garth, published Alfred Bell & Co. Ltd, 1925, lithograph, signed by artist to lower left in pencil, one short scratch to image, 370 x 610mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)

£200 - £300

191* Aldin (Cecil, 1870 - 1935). ‘That sounds like the missus!’, uncoloured etching, signed by artist to lower right, pencil limited edition of 7/150 to lower left, 295 x 210mm, mounted, framed and glazed with Deighton’s Strand Gallery label to verso with manuscript title ()

£150 - £200

190* Aldin (Cecil). The Kings Head Malmesbury, The Bell at Stilton, The Golden Cross, Oxford, The Spread Eagle Midhurst, The George Inn Dorchester [and] The New Inn Gloucester, published Eyre & Spottiswoode, circa 1921, together six photolithographs, each signed in pencil by artist below image to lower left, each with a blind-stamp of the ‘Fine Art Trade Guild’ and two with an original pencil and crayon remarque below image, each approximately 440 x 350mm, mounted framed and glazed in non-uniform mouldings

192* Aldin (Cecil). The Pytchley Hunt, Frank Freeman at Crick, 1912, colour photolithograph, signed by artist in pencil below image to lower left, 400 x 630mm, ivorine title plaque to frame, framed and glazed in a near contemporary stained oak frame, together with La Vue, Paris, Manzi, Joyant & Co., 1909, colour photogravure 400 x 400mm, mounted, framed and glazed

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£200 - £300

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193* Aldin (Cecil). The Bell Inn Waltham St. Lawrence, circa 1910, uncoloured etching, limited edition 54/75, signed by artist in pencil to lower right, some water staining and worming but confined to mount, 260 x 350mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with title and ‘Harrods’ labels to verso (1)

195* Birds. A mixed collection of approximately 130 prints & engravings, 18th & 19th century, hand coloured engravings, including examples by Dresser, Barraband, Scott, S.P.C.K. and Harrison, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.130)

194* Baerentzen (Emilius Ditlev). United States Virgin Islands. St. Thomas (Parti af Byen og Havnen), Christianssted (St. Croix), Part af St. Thomas, Parti ved Frederikssted (St. Croix), St. Jan (Parti af det Indre) [and] Cruxbay (St. Jan), the set of six, Copenhagen, 1856, six tinted lithographs of what were the Danish West Indies, very slight spotting, each approximately 20 x 290mm

196* Birds. A mixed collection of approximately 150 prints, 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs of wild and domestic birds (including parrots, ducks and birds of prey), with examples by Barraband, Cassell, Greene, Buffon, Pass, Gronvold, Edwards and Martinet/Diderot, various sizes and condition (approx. 150)

A scarce set of six mid 19th century lithographic views of what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands, but were then the Danish West Indies. These images were published by Emilius Ditlev Baerentzen in 1856 as part of Danmark, a lithographic tour of the Danish empire, and are among the very few pictures of these places from such an early date. Slavery had been abolished there eight years prior. In 1917, Saint Thomas, Saint John, and St. Croix were purchased from Denmark by the United States as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during World War I (6) £150 - £200

£300 - £500

197* Birds. Morris (Beverley), A collection of thirty-five prints, circa 1870, thirty-five wood engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, several duplicates, each 220 x 270mm, mounted, together with Morris (Rev. F. O.), A collection of forty-seven prints, circa 1860, engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, occasional duplicates, each 135 x 190mm, mounted, with Keulemans (J. G.), A collection of forty-six prints, circa 1870, lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, several duplicates, each approximately 270 x 220mm, mounted (128)

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£200 - £300

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198* British Impressionism. Landscape with haystacks in a field, oil on board, indistinctly signed lower right (‘Charles Chester’?), 25.5 x 33cm (10 x 13ins), framed (1)

200* Conchology. A mixed collection of approximately sixty prints and engravings, 18th & 19th century, hand coloured engravings of shells, molluscs and Crustacea, including examples by Seba, Pass, Henderson, Benard, Coutant, Pazzi and engravings from ‘Description de L’Egypte’, various sizes and condition

£100 - £150

(approx. 60)

199* Cartoons & Caricatures. A mixed collection of approximately 100 caricatures and cartoons, mostly 19th century, engraved and etched English and French caricatures, many with contemporary hand colouring, including examples by Hunt, Robert and Isaac Cruikshank,Tregear, Fores (publishers), Bunbury, Collier, ‘Sharpshooter’, William Heath and Alken, various sizes and condition (approx. 100)

£300 - £500

201* Cook (Beryl), 1926 - 2008, Taxi, colour screen print, signed, titled and limited (16/60) in pencil by artist below image, a little faded, 510 x 640mm, mounted., framed and glazed (1)

£300 - £500

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202* Curtis (William & others). A collection of approximately 300 botanic prints, 19th century, hand coloured engravings and lithographs including several folding, each with a page of descriptive text, occasional offsetting, each approximately 215 x 130mm (approx. 300)

204 Curtis (William & Hooker Sir William Jackson). Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, third series, parts 31 & 37 - 48, 1847 - 1848, eighty-eight colour lithographic plates (including thirteen folding), publisher’s printed blue paper wrappers, 8vo (13)

205* Edwards (Lionel, 1878 - 1966). The Dauntsey Vale from Great Wood, Eyre & Spottiswoode, photolithograph, some staining, signed in pencil by artist to lower left, 330 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with The Badsworth, circa 1946, photolithograph, signed by pencil by artist to lower right, 305 x 385mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with The Cambridge Union Drag, 1950, photolithograph, signed by pencil by artist to lower left, 245 x 390mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus The R. A. Drag, The Sporting Gallery Ltd., 1938, photolithograph, signed by pencil by artist to lower left, faded, 280 x 390mm, mounted, framed and glazed, and two other similar signed prints by Edwards

203* Curtis (William & others). A large collection of approximately 1000 engravings and prints, 18th - 20th century, engravings and lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, chromolithographs and prints, including some folding, many with pages of descriptive text, occasional duplicates, each approximately 200 x 125mm (approx. 1000)

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£150 - £200

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207* Gillray (James). Hope [and] Despair, H. Humphrey April 8th 1802, pair of etchings with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 255 x 210mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed ‘Despair’ shows Richard Bateman Robson, M.P. for Okehampton, who created a sensation by stating that the finances of the Government were desperate, and that it was unable to pay its bills. Under pressure, he said that payment had been refused at the Sick and Hurt Office for a bill for £19.

17s. He was censored for his intemperance. Seated behind him are John Horne Tooke, Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones and Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. ‘Hope’ shows William Dickinson - an engraver and print seller - with the Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool on his feet addressing the house in the background.

(2) £200 - £300

206* Field and Equestrian sports. A mixed collection of approximately 160 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, prints and engravings of Fox Hunting, Polo, Coaching, Coursing, Oriental Field Sports, Shooting, Wild fowling, and Horse Racing, with examples

by Alken, Orme, Darton, Diderot, Harris Bailey and The Illustrated London news and The Graphic, various sizes and condition (approx. 160)

£100 - £200

208* Gillray (James). Tales of Wonder, H. Humphrey Feby. 1st.

1802, etching with contemporary hand colouring, 255 x 355mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Tregear (C. publisher), Catholic Ascendency or St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning, 1829, etching with contemporary hand colouring, 240 x 335mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)

£100 - £150

209* Golf. Aldin (Cecil). Golf, published Lawrence & Bullen, 1901, chromolithograph, signed in pencil by artist to lower left, 280 x 340mm, framed and glazed From the series of twelve ‘Traditional British Sports’. Not usually found signed.

(1) £100 - £150

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212* Hollar (Wenceslaus). Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant L’Incendie de 1666, Gravé par Hollar, published Robt. Wilkinson circa 1816, uncoloured etching with the margins decorated with the coats of arms of city livery companies, title repeated in English within the image, 175 x 280mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Capellae Regiae ac Collegiate St. Georgii in Castro de Windsore a meridie prospectus...., 1671, uncoloured etched prospect with a floor plan below the prospect, 295 x 360mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Capellae Collegij Regalis de Eton ab Aquilone Prospectus, 1672, uncoloured etching, 260 x 380 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)

£200 - £300

210* Gould (John & Hart W.), Aeluroedus Arfakianus (Arfak Mountain Cat Bird), Ailurcedus Arkakianus (Arfak Cat Bird), Aeluroedus Melanocephalus (Black Naped Cat Bird) and Aeluroedus Buccoides (Barbet like Cat Bird) [and] Aeluroedus Geislerorum (Geisler’s Cat Bird), circa 1894, together five lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 500 x 300mm, two mounted, framed and glazed (5)

£100 - £150

211* Gould (John & Elizabeth). Common Partidge, Hazelgrous or Gelinotte, Barbary Partridge & Greek Partridge [and] Willow Ptarmigan, originally published in ‘The Birds of Europe’, [ 1832 1837], together four lithographs of Galliformes, all with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 330 x 480mm, mounted framed and glazed

213* Hollar (Wenceslaus). Orientalis partis Eccl. S. Pauli prospectus interior [and] Chori ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Pauli prospectus interior, circa 1660, two uncoloured etchings of the interior of St. Pauls Cathedral, each approximately 315 x 225mm, together with another six etchings of prospects, interiors and floor plans of ecclesiastical buildings in London, four mounted and two framed and glazed, various sizes and condition

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214* Interior Design. A mixed collection of approximately eightyfive pirnts,19th century, chromolithographs of interiors, curtains, printed designs, stained glass and wall paper patterns, with examples by Waring, Bedford, Ackermann and Thézard, mostly 4to and folio, various condition

217* Los Angeles. Published in “Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean”, volume 5, U. S. Railroad Surveys, [1856], tinted lithograph of Los Angeles, 180 x 250mm, mounted, framed and glazed

(approx. 85)

A scarce and early view of Los Angeles when it was little more than a settlement. During the 1850s, the U.S. government sponsored an extensive series of expeditions designed to gather information on the vast new territories that had been acquired in western North America. The discovery of gold in California further stimulated westward traffic and heightened the need for a faster and more convenient way to bring the far-flung parts of the country together. In 1853 Congress commissioned the Army’s Topographic Bureau to conduct a series of surveys to find a suitable route for a transcontinental railroad. There were six major expeditions; five of them covered the area between the Great Plains and west coast, and the sixth explored the coastal states of California and Oregon. All of these expeditions were accompanied by naturalists and artists to document the landscape, flora and fauna along the route.

(1) £100 - £150

£150 - £200

215* London. A collection of approximately 1000 engravings, 19th century, engravings, with approximately 130 mounted and coloured, mostly by Dugdale and Shepherd, many duplicates, small format, various condition (approx. 1000)

£100 - £200

216* London. Kip (Johannes ). A Prospect of Westminster , circa 1720, uncoloured engraved prospect on two conjoined sheets, title repeated in French in a ribbon cartouche above plan, old folds strengthened on verso with archival tissue, 490 x 1135mm, (1) £1,000 - £1,500

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218* Mason (George Finch, 1850-1915). Five Minutes with the Best Authors, The Mighty Atom, watercolour and bodycolour on card, signed lower left, titled lower right, remnants of tape verso, 26 x 36cm (1)

£150 - £200

221* Payne (Charles Johnson ‘Snaffles’). The Worst View in Europe “Oh Murther! The dhrink died out of me and the wrong side of Beechers”, circa 1922, colour photolithographic print heightened with body colour, uncoloured printed remarque to lower right, signed in pencil and with a crossed snaffle bit blindstamp to lower left, overall size 395 x 640mm, backing card a little toned, framed and glazed (1)

219* Oxford. Kip (Johannes), The South Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christs Church in Oxford [and] The North Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christs Church in Oxford, [1709], pair of uncoloured engraved prospects, ‘The South Prospect...’ with a near contemporary manuscript Roman numeral (XLVII) in margin to lower right, each approximately 475 x 580mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed in impressive modern black and gilt mouldings and line and wash mounts

£200 - £300

Originally published in ‘Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queen’s Palaces, also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates’. Initially the Palaces, Mansions & Country Seats were etched by Kip, after birds-eye views by Knyff, but as the project developed, Kip produced both the drawings and the etchings. Britannia Illustrata is regarded as among the most important English topographical publications of the 18th. century and is the zenith of Kip’s artistic output.

(2) £150 - £200

222* Payne (Charles Johnson ‘Snaffles’). The Sparrow-Catchin Sort. ‘A Head like a Lady - A Farewell like a Cook’, circa 1932, colour photolithograph, uncoloured printed remarque to lower right, signed in pencil by artist and with a crossed snaffle bit blindstamp to lower left, overall size 470 x 425mm, framed and glazed (1)

223* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 100 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs of classical scenes, trades and professions, topographical views, sporting, genre, religious and natural history, with examples by Woollett, Sherwin, Diderot, Hunt, Alken, Bellin and Hogarth, various sizes and condition, including eight framed and glazed

220* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). “Blimey! Wot a Life”.

“West of Gib and North across the Bay”, circa 1940, colour photolithograph, uncoloured remarque of a destroyer in heavy seas to lower right, signed by artist in pencil, with snaffle bit blindstamp to lower left, overall size 490 x 690mm, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £300

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224* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 750 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings, prints, maps, watercolours and lithographs, including natural history, botany, British and foreign topographical views, advertisements, juvenile, genre, dogs, fish and sporting, with examples by Landseer, Morris, Couch, Outhwaite, Rackham, Dugdale and Allom, some mounted, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 750)

£100 - £200

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225* Prints & maps. A mixed collection of approximately sixty prints and maps, 17th - 19th century, engravings, etchings, lithographs, maps and watercolours, including maps by Speed (Rutland), Moll and Cary and prints of topographical scenes, classical, genre, caricatures, botany and antiquities, with examples

by Cuitt, Gillray, Hogarth, Leech, Bradshaw, Harris, Hollar,. Turner and Basire, various sizes and condition (approx. 60)

£150 - £200

226* Prints and engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 170 prints and engravings, mostly 19th & early 20th century, prints, lithographs and engravings of topographical views, portraits, sporting, caricatures including two mezzotint drolls, Vanity Fair cartoons and political cartoons by Reynolds, Bridgeman, Lee and Alexander, posters, scraps, genre, military, sporting and reproduction Gould prints of birds, various sizes and condition (approx. 170)

£100 - £200

227* Shells. Martini (Friedrich Heinrich & Chemnitz Johann Hieronymus). A set of four prints originally published in ‘Neues Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet’, Nuremberg, 1769 - 1795, four engravings with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 230 x 180mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed (4)

£100 - £150

228 Sowerby (James). A collection of nine broken volumes of ‘English Botany’, circa 1815, containing approximately 600 engravings of botanical specimens, grasses, mosses, trees and lichens, all with contemporary hand colouring, bindings broken with contents partly lacking, near uniform contemporary calf, worn and frayed, 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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£150 - £200

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231* West Indies. A collection of nine watercolours and five pencil drawings, 19th century, topographical paintings and drawings of Jamaica, Trinidad and Guadeloupe, mostly unattributed but two drawings are by General Sir William John Chamberlayne (1821 1910) and the drawing of Guadeloupe is by Colonel R. English and dated 11th April 1881, two framed and glazed, the remainder mounted, various sizes and condition

229* Thorburn (Archibald). Spring Grouse, W. F. Embleton, 1927, Sunshine and Drift on the High Tops, W. F. Embleton, 1928, Woodcock, W. F. Embleton 1923 [and] Snipe. W. F. Embleton, 1923, together four colour prints, each signed in pencil by the artist to lower left, each approximately 340 x 470mm, mounted, framed and glazed (4)

£150 - £200

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232* West Indies. A collection of approximately seventy prints of Caribbean islands, mostly 19th century, engravings, lithographs and prints of topographical and historical scenes, portraits, natural history and genre, with examples by George Baxter, Andrews/ Dutton, Illustrated London News, Pass, Williams and Leperniere , occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition, mostly mounted with two framed and glazed

230* Ward (William, 1766 - 1826). A view from the East-End of the Brewery Chiswell Street, G. Garrard, 1792, hand coloured mezzotint after G. Garrard , slight cracking to image, some marginal repaired closed tears, 455 x 555mm A view of the famous Whitbread Brewery. In the foreground is a carthorse being backed into a dray. The site, at 52 Chiswell Street, was the first purpose-built mass-production brewery in Britain. After two centuries brewing on the site ceased in 1976, after which the building became a conference and events venue, named ‘The Brewery’.

(1) £200 - £300

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£150 - £200

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AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS & EPHEMERA

233* Wyatt (Augustus Charles, 1863 - 1933), Near Guapo Trinidad, watercolour, signed by artist to lower right, titled to lower left, 385 x 545mm, framed and glazed (1)

£100 - £150

234 Illustrated London News. A broken run, 35 volumes, January 1851 - June 1862 & January 1864 - December 1869, numerous black and white illustrations, including some folding and double page, appears to lack all the city panoramas, some hinges and joints broken with text blocks detached, slight worming, a few leaves detached with some fraying to margins, uniform publisher’s cloth gilt with some variation to the cloth colour, some wear and wear, folio, together with The Graphic. A run of twenty volumes, 1870 1879, numerous black and white and colour lithographic plates, retains the panorama of Sydney and the folding rowing plate ‘Are you Ready?’, the two 1876 volumes are damp stained and slightly rotted with loss of paper to lower margins, several leaves loose, some text blocks detached, uniform contemporary half morocco, worn and frayed, folio (55)

£500 - £800

235 L’Illustration. A broken run, thirty-nine volumes, 1889 - 1898, 1909, 1911, 1914 - 1920, 1924, 1926, 1931 - 1932 & 1936 - 1939, numerous black & white and occasional colour illustrations throughout, mixed contemporary quarter morocco and calf gilt, worn and rubbed, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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236* Albert (Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, 1819-1861).

Autograph letter signed, ‘Albert’, Windsor Castle, 13 December 1854, to the daughter of Sidney Smith, thanking her ‘for the transcription of a memoir of your late father. Its perusal affords me much enjoyment and increases if possible my regret at never having had the opportunity of making the personal acquaintance of one so distinguished in mind as the late Sidney Smith’, 2 pp. on Windsor Castle letterhead with embossed crest, integral blank, 8vo, together with Victoria (Duchess of Kent and Mother of Queen Victoria), autograph letter signed, ‘Victoria’, Windsor Castle, 25 December 1840, in German, to an unidentified recipient, thanking the person for a letter and at one point mentioning Albert, uncoloured vignette lithographic view of Windsor Castle at head of first page, 3 pages, one light spot, 4to

£300 - £500

The letter from Prince Albert is to Saba (née Smith, 1802-1866), wife of Sir Henry Holland. Holland wrote a memoir of Sidney Smith (1771-1845), Canon of St. Paul’s which was published in 1855.

(2) £200 - £300

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Lot 238

237 Babcock & Wilcox Company and others. A group of approximately 700 nuclear power station-related patents submitted by Babcock & Wilcox and other companies, 1950s/1960s, mostly between four and eight pages, printed in double columns, many with one or two folding printed diagrams, each with pencil names and initials of circulated readers and red pencil filing codes, hole punches to inner margins and many with staples (partly rusted), all slim small folio Specification titles include: Improvements in or relating to nuclear reactors; Improvements in or relating to heat exchange tubes; Improvements in or relating to finned tubes; Improvements in or relating to a differential amplifier; Improvements in vapour generators; An improved method of generating vapour and improvements in or relating to vapour generating plant; Improvements in containment vessels; Improvements in or relating to steam generating plants; Improvements in or relating to heat exchangers particularly for nuclear reactors, etc. (approx 700) £500 - £1,000

238* Barrie (James Matthew, 1860-1937). Autograph letter signed, ‘J.M. Barrie’, Kirriemuir, 4 June 1891, to John Kidd, thanking him for his ‘kindly letter: Haggard is to be a book by himself some day’, one page with integral blank and postmarked envelope addressed in Barrie’s hand, 8 vo, together with a second autograph letter signed, ‘J.M. Barrie’, Garrick Club, London, W1, 6 August, no year, to an unnamed recipient, ‘There are photographs of Kirriemuir sold in the shops but they are of new buildings so far as I know and hardly characteristic of the place as it was’, one page with integral blank, 8vo (3)

239* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921). Photographic postcard signed, ‘Enrico Caruso’, postmarked Florence & Frankfurt, 7 June 1908, black and white bust portrait from a photograph, signed and inscribed in blue ink in Italian to lower lighter areas of postcard, address side addressed to Miss Carmen Hesse Jassoy in Frankfurt in Caruso’s hand, a little surface loss to upper outer corner above stamp, tipped into a modern card window mount

£200 - £300

Carmen Hesse-Jassoy (1888-1969) was a German pianist and friend of the singer.

(1) £200 - £300

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240* (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Typed letter signed “Winston S Churchill”, 105 Mount Street, [London], 21 November 1900, to Lucy Kemp Welch, Kingsley, Bushey, Herts, in full “I regret I shall be unable to come to Bushey as I have no spare day, but would it not be possible for you to send me a portrait of the picture”, the surname Welch corrected in manuscript from Walsh and the words “to Bushey” inserted in manuscript by Churchill, “a” written vertically in ink to upper margin, a little spotting and creasing, dust soiling to upper margin, 1 page, 4to

241 Churchill, Winston S. ‘Why I am a Free Trader’, 1st edition, 2nd issue, [in:] Coming Men on Coming Questions. Edited by W. T. Stead, [Review of Reviews], 1905, 22 pp. pamphlet, preceded by halftone photographic portrait of Churchill mounted on card with printed caption mounted below, bound with 26 other pamphlets of which 17 with similar portraits (all but one captioned), separate pagination at head and continuous pagination (1-476) at foot, lacking pp. i-iv (comprising series title-page, preface, contents page and subject index) and 7 portraits, contemporary morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo (23.2 x 13.8cm), together with silver prize medal, 5cm diameter, obverse with profile portrait of Edward VII facing left, reverse lettered ‘City and Guilds of London Institution, Technical Education’ around decorative tablet with ‘Technological Examination’ at centre, edge lettered ‘Samuel William Butcher, bookbinding (forwarding), 1st prize, 1907’, housed in John Pinches box with silk and velvet lining

Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) is best known for her paintings of working horses in military service in the First World War. The painting referred to in the letter would have been “In Sight, Lord Dundonald’s Dash on Ladysmith”, or a sketch of study for the finished work completed in 1901. The painting shows the relief of Ladysmith and features Winston Churchill, acting as a war correspondant, as the third figure from the left in the painting. In a letter that appeared in The Times in July 1901 Lucy Kemp-Welch was accused of historical inaccuracy in depicting Winston Churchill at Ladysmith. Churchill wrote to the paper refuting the accusations made against the artist and stated that the depiction was correct. The painting first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901, The painting is owned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Devon.

(1) £500 - £700

Cohen B3; Woods B2.

Churchill’s pamphlet was the first weekly part of a projected series of twenty-six articles by notable figures, mainly Liberal and Labour politicians, published in the expectation of a heavy Conservative defeat in the 1907 general election. According to Cohen, the pamphlet issue contained additional pagination ‘as part of the numbering of the entire volume Coming Men on Coming Questions’, so the two issues are textually identical and the first is distinguishable only by the presence of wrappers and an advertisement leaf. Provenance: possibly bound for a City and Guilds examination in 1907 (accompanying prize medal; see further John Harvie Pinches, Medals by John Pinches, 1987, p. 27).

(2) £300 - £500

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244* Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom, 1926-).

Christmas card, signed, [1958], signed ‘Elizabeth R’ beneath printed message on inner verso with a colour reproduction of Sebastiano Ricci’s painting ‘The Holy Family’ tipped in opposite, giltembossed crown to upper cover, 20 x 23cm, together with an addressed envelope postmarked 1962

242* Coward (Noel, 1899-1973). A group of three typed letters signed, ‘Noel’ and one signed ‘Noel Coward’, 1955, 1970 and undated, the first to Prince Littler concerning the ‘Gala performance “Night of 100 Stars’ in aid of the Actors’ Orphanage’ to be held at the London Palladium at midnight on Thursday 23 June, soliciting advertising for the programme from Littler in his role at Aldwych Theatre offices, the second to George Robey, a brief note thanking him for his good wishes ‘on my opening night at the Adelphi ... The show looks like a winner’, both on printed letterhead, one page, 4to, the last letter from Les Avants sur Montreux, to Nora and Prince [Littler], thanking them for their ‘very sweet cable of congratulations on my Honour’, one page, 8vo (3)

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£100 - £150

245* Fox (Charles James, 1749-1806). Autograph letter signed, ‘C.J. Fox’, Stable Yard, Friday, paper watermarked 1804, docketed 1806, ‘My dear Lord, the K[ing] has ordered a Council tomorrow at two at the Queen’s Palace. I have sent accordingly to Sir S. Cotterell.

If you do not think there would be anything improper in your coming I hope you will come’, with a ps, ‘Windham did capitally yesterday and with respect to the Volunteers as temperately and inoffensively as possible’, residual toning from album mounting to inner margin, fold creases, one page with integral blank, 8vo, together with an engraved armorial bookplate for the Honourable Charles James Fox

243* Duncan (Isadora, 1877-1927). Autograph letter signed, ‘Isadora Duncan’, no date, to Miss Joseph, ‘Of course I have no objection to a Bill - a very effective poster could be made from sketches or photos I have, but I suppose there is hardly time for that’, some spotting and age toning, one page, 8vo (1)

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This letter probably dates from Fox’s third and final period as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 7 February to 13 September 1806.

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247* [George III]. Deed of covenant to produce title deeds, 17 July 1816, between Sir John Simeon, Ernest Frederic Herbert Count Munster and Herbert Taylor, acting as Commissioners for the Possession, Care and Management of His Majesty’s Property during his - disposition (of the one part Daniel Agace of Ascot Place in the parish of Winkfield, Berkshire, on the other part, relating to the sale of land at Winkfield belonging to George III and sold to Daniel Agace), 2 stitched membranes, with signatures and seals of Simeon, Muster and Taylor at foot of 2nd membrane, a fixed paper duty stamp, some light soiling, each sheet approx 59 x 74cm.

1810 King George III became dangerously ill and despite signs of a recovering in May 1811, by the end of that year he had become permanently insane and lived in seclusion at Windsor Castle until his death. He accepted the need for the Regency Act of 1811, and the Prince of Wales acted as Regent for the remainder of George III’s life. Sir John Simeon was placed at the head of the Commission, alongside Count Munster and General Herbert Taylor, for placing George III’s real and personal estate in trust during his majesty’s illness. This delicate business was executed without salary and Simeon acted as a commissioner for the protection of the King’s property until his majesty’s death in 1820.

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246 French botany manuscript. A student’s manuscript notebook of chemistry and botany, circa 1780/90, beginning with notes on chemistry and related, possibly for a course given by Monsieur Mitouer in 1785 and slightly later, then largely notes from a course on botany, unillustrated, written in a legible hand on both sides of 188 leaves, a few notes loosely inserted, a receipt for intermittent fever tipped in at rear and a note dated 1801 tipped in at front, some occasional browning and a few marginal splits, contemporary vellum, upper cover inscribed ‘Cours de Botanique an 6 [1797/98]’, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to (19 x 15.5cm) (1)

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248* George IV (King of England, 1762-1830). Document signed, ‘George R.’, Carlton House, 10 July 1821, a lithographically preprinted document giving royal dispensation not to attend the Royal Coronation on 19th July, boldly signed by the monarch at head, and with name of the document’s recipient inscribed at foot, ‘ThomasJames Viscount Bulkeley’, with an additional manuscript note beneath, ‘Given me by my friend Doctor Bandinel, 1823’, heavily browned, one page, folio (31 x 19.5cm), tipped onto a modern mount Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (1752-1822) was an English aristocrat and poltician. This document would appear to have been given to Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861) who became Librarian at the Bodleian in Oxford in 1813, a post he was to hold for 47 years. Who Dr. Bandinel gave the document to then has not been ascertained.

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251* Lamb (Charles, 1775-1834). Autograph letter signed, ‘C. Lamb’, no place or date, circa 1830, to Charles Cowden Clarke, a brief two-line note, ‘I send the Tale, and am morally sure, I shall do no more. If you don’t use it, in that case only I shall reclaim it’, torn letter with loss, verso with address panel completed in Charles Lamb’s holograph giving Clarke’s address as ‘V[incent] Novello Esq. 67 Frith Street, Soho Square’, somewhat creased and soiled, additional brief notes and arithmetic adjacent to address panel, possibly in Clarke’s hand, mentioning Tasso (36 lines) and Chau[cer] (34 lines), overall approximately 16.5 x 20cm Charles and Mary Lamb had published Tales from Shakespear in 1807.

However, it is more likely that the tale referred to in this note concerns Clarke’s Tales from Chaucer, published in 1833. The author and Shakespearean scholar Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877) had married Mary Victoria Novello, daughter of his close friends the musician Vincent Novello and Mary Sabilla. After their marriage, they lived at first with the Novello family in Bayswater. Vincent Novello moved to 67 Frith Street in 1829 and so this letter must date from no earlier than then.

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249* George VI (King of the United Kingdom & His Consort Queen Elizabeth). Christmas card signed, 1951, folded off-white card with a colour reproduction photograph of the gardens of Buckingham Palace mounted to inner recto, signatures of ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’ beneath printed message and manuscript date 1951 on facing page, gilt embossed crown to upper board, a little age toning and soiling, 25 x 20cm (1)

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250* Hepburn (Audrey, 1929-1993). Photograph Signed, ‘Audrey Hepburn’, circa 1980s, glossy publicity photograph of Audrey Hepburn as UNICEF Special Ambassador by Elisabetta Catalano, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip to upper left light area of image, 25.5 x 20cm (1)

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252* Moore (Lieutenant-General Sir John, 1769-1809). Autograph letter signed ‘John Moore’, London, 13 November, 1801, to an unidentified lady, on behalf of his friend Lord Robert Kerr, who is seeking her influence in the matter of a promotion, Moore mentions the recent conclusion of the Egyptian Campaign against Napoleon, and Kerr’s service there, ‘It is with pleasure I can assure you that Lord Robert is a young man of good disposition, and of a most amiable temper. These qualities together with the manly spirit he displayed throughout the service in Egypt have gained him the good will & the esteem of the officers of his Regiment, and all who are acquainted with him’, 4 pp., a little wear on folds and some toning to lower half of final page, together with a second autograph letter signed in text in the third person from ‘Sir John Moore’, on board HMS Victory, 3 July [1808?], to Mr Hunter, appearing to refer to General Moore’s mission to Sweden, or possible departure, ‘Sir John Moore is sorry he had not an opportunity to see Mr Hunter before his departure. He begs his acceptance of a hundred Spanish dollars and is much obliged to him for his assistance in his passage to Stockholm, paper watermarked 1805, two tears professionally repaired, one tear with a little loss to final letter of ‘Hunter’, a little spotting and soiling, one page with integral address leaf, both 4to, plus two related engravings (4)

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253* Music and Musicians. A group of letters from musicians, 19th & 20th century, including a group of 11 ALS to various correspondents from Emma Albani, Pauline Donalda (3), Antal Dorati, ALS 1964, Charlotte Dreyfus, Henri Dutilleux, musical ALS, Marianne Eissler, John Ella (2), Mischa Elman (signature), Delphine Felix, Peter Racine Fricker, 2 autograph music quotations, Hans Gals (3 TLS to Trevor Harvey, Sir Edward German, 4 ALS and a musical quotation, Harry Plunkett Greene (6 ALS, some with music quotations), Sir George Elvey (5 ALS) and several others, a folder (a folder)

254* Prime Ministers. Letters and signatures etc. of several Prime Ministers, 18th & 19th century, including Spencer Compton, part of a treasury document, signed ‘Wilmington’ and dated 1742, with another, similar, signed by the Duke of Newcastle, 1756, Duke of Portland, letter signed to the Earl of Derby, 1800, George Canning, ALS (‘G.C’), W.E. Gladstone, 2 ALS, 1843 and 1857, David Lloyd George, good signature on a House of Commons card, Sir Robert Peel, AL (third person), 1846, Lord Palmerston, ALS 1844, Marquis of Salisbury, ALS 31 July 1898, Clement Attlee, brief TLS (‘Attlee’), Lord North, signature of a fragment, 1774, together with a small group of other documents and fragments, some from treasury documents, mostly eighteenth-century, folder

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255* Railways. A large collection of approximately 3,500 postcard-size photographs of mostly British railway interest, all modern gelatin silver prints, many from older negatives, some with annotations, stickers and stamps to versos, unsorted and contained in a two drawer metal cabinet (approx. 3500)

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257* Royal letters and documents. A group of letters and documents, 18th and 19th century, including: an autograph address-wrapper from George III to his son the Duke of York (and Bishop of Osnaburg), with remains of red wax seal, dated 11 September 1796, William IV, ALS to Kate Geary, 2 pages 4to (slight tear), Bushey House, watermark 1811, Edward Duke of Kent, conclusion of a letter, Queen Victoria, autograph address-panel (‘The Queen’) to Princess Augusta, Mary, Princess Royal, five ALS to ‘My dear Bobby’, c. 1948-1950, Ernest Duke of Cumberland, ALS, St James’s Palace, 26 April 1833 to Basil Hall, thanking him for ‘Fragments of Voyages & Travels’, Henry, Duke of Gloucester (2, 1935), George V, telegram (received copy) to Lady Beatson commiserating with her on the death of her husband, 9 February 1914, Frederick, Duke of York, ALS to Lord de Ros, 1824, printed programme for the Christmas Pantomine at Windsor Castle, December 1944, and a few others including Princess Elizabeth (ALS 1810), Princess Elizabeth (autograph note), Edward VII (autograph envelope with initials), folder (a folder)

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256* Rodgers (Richard & Hammerstein, Oscar). Typed letter signed, ‘Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’ on Williamson Music Ltd letterhead, 29 March 1960, to Prince Littler, a one-line note thanking him and Nora for their kind opening night wire, one page, 4to, together with two further typed letters signed from Richard Rodgers, both signed ‘Dick’, Rodgers and Hammerstein letterhead, 5 December 1955 & 26 May 1961, both to Prince Littler, the first thanking him for his good wishes for ‘Pipe Dream’, the second also thanking him for his good wishes, ‘My only regret is that the press was less enthusiastic than the audiences’, both a little creased, one page, small folio (3)

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258* Schumann (Clara, 1819-1896). Autograph letter signed, ‘Clara Schumann’, Dusseldorf, 14 April 1877, in English, to an unidentified photographer, saying that she received the letter with the enclosed photographs but never those sent to her address in London, ‘Concerning the photographs I find the one en profil very good, the one from the two en face pretty well, but the one which I enclose to this [not included with lot] I beg you not to sell as it has an expression not agreeable’, concluding that her friends agree with her that the one en profil ‘but they all say that it would be a great advantage if you could manage to put away the hands, which disturbs very [?].’, asking for two dozen of the photographs en profil and one dozen of those en face, saying that she thinks the photographs will be much liked in Germany and offering to help in any way she can, apologising for her bad English and giving her Berlin address, four pages, 8vo

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260* Shrapnel, Henry. 1761-1842, Original pen and ink drawings of 6- and 3- pounder shells, annotated by Shrapnel and signed by him as Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Artillery, c.1804, paper undated but watermarked 1802, verso blank Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), army officer and inventor of the Shrapnel shell.

Shrapnel, who’s name was to become synonymous with his invention, had been commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1779, and served in Newfoundland. After his return to England in 1785 he began privately to develop his idea of an explosive shell which could be fired from existing ordnance but which was filled with small round pieces of shot to be dispersed lethally when the shell exploded, the timing determined by a fuse of variable length inserted through the base of the casing. He maintained an interest in his invention during this subsequent military career, during which he had been wounded at the siege of Dunkirk in 1793, and in 1799 proposed to the Board of Ordnance that his should be adopted by the military, approval being granted in 1803. It is from this period that the present document is dated. Shrapnel became the first assistant inspector of artillery at Woolwich on 10 February 1804, during which year the shell was used with some success at the capture of Surinam.

Each drawing is accompanied by annotations of the exact dimensions, which in the case of the 3 pounder show signs of having been later altered.

The note to the first drawing, i.e. the 6 pounder, evidently applies to both: ‘NB These shells are to be case of the best No.1 Iron, or extremely soft gun metal, so as not to be in the least degree brittle. The casting to be finished as quick as possible, that the metal may not be increased in heat beyond what is proper.’...’

Shrapnel’s note at the foot, written less formally, adds the instruction that ‘The whole of these shells should be cast in green sand, as the moulds make the iron brittle - the raised edges 3,R & 4,R are only intended as marks, & should be raised very little indeed.’

Any autograph material by Shrapnel is very rare on the market, and the present document is a particularly rare survival relating to a military invention which could be said to have had a significant influence on the future direction of artillery.

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259 Scrap Albums. Two Scrap albums, 19th & early 20th century, containing watercolours, oil paintings, photographs, pencil drawings and lithographs of maritime scenes, flowers, British & foreign topographical views and humorous drawings and cartoons, manuscript ownership name and address of Gladys Martin of Hermon Hill, Snaresbrook to the front endpaper of the octavo volume which is bound in contemporary morocco gilt with the owner’s initials in gilt letters on the upper siding, the larger album contains a watercolour signed by George Hayes R. C. A. , with pencil ownership signature of Francis Webb and dated 1824 (paper watermarked 1818), marbled endpapers, contemporary half morocco gilt, bumped and worn at extremities, 4to (2)

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263 Titanic. Life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron of Christian Youth,

by Maurice Meschler S.J., Translated by a Benedictine of the Perpetual Adoration... B. Herder, 1911, three black & white plates, front free endpaper with contemporary inscription by Father Thomas Byles, and manuscript note below in a different hand, original gilt lettered blue cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, gilt on spine dulled, 8vo,

261* Stamps. A collection of 11 stamp albums, Olympic Games issues, including Munich 1972 and USA 1992 plus various modern world stamps including Republic of Benin, Jersey, Bahrain, Panama, Nagaland, Posta Romana etc, with 1 empty stamp album (12)

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Inscribed on the front free endpaper, just a month before the Titanic sank: “From Father Byles March 9th 1912”, and with manuscript note beneath “who went down, heroically, on the Titanic April 15th 1912 Good Shepherd Sunday R.I.P.” Father Thomas Byles (1870-1912) famously went down with the Titanic whilst praying for those about to perish with him, having helped many third-class passengers into life boats (twice refusing a place for himself), and having calmly ministered to more than a hundred other passengers who remained trapped on the ship. Pope Pius X later described Byles as a “martyr for the Church”, and indeed, in April 2015 the first steps were made towards making him a saint. Strangely enough, two days before setting sail, Father Byles met with a friend, Edward Watson, who ominously spoke about the dangers of icebergs, and said “I hope you’ll come back again”. Furthermore, the day before the terrible tragedy Byles had used the analogy of a sinking ship when he preached a sermon on the need to have a lifebelt in the shape of prayer and the sacraments, to save one’s soul in times of spiritual shipwreck.

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262* Thomson (William, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1824-1907).

Letter signed, ‘Kelvin’, The University, Glasgow, 24 March 1892, to George Gray, saying that he hopes to be present at the meeting in the Merchant’s Hall on 31st [March], where he would be happy to say a few words but would be unable to make a speech, two pages, tipped into an autograph album containing approximately 60 mostly cut autograph specimens, mostly 19th century, including King George III, Lord Liverpool, Russell and H. CampbellBannerman, plus freefronts with signatures of W.E. Gladstone, Joseph Hume, and the Bishop of Norwich (Woodbridge/Penny Post postmark), plus a few longer notes and letters from the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Coleridge, George Burns, and a letter signed by Henry Irving, Lyceum Theatre, 28 April 1890, giving his and Ellen Terry’s thanks to the committee and members of the Glasgow Pen & Pencil Club for their kindness and hospitality, most specimens spotted or browned, hinges near broken, 19th century lacquered boards with hand-painted upper cover of the ‘Wharf & Queens Mill from Portsea’, 7 (of eight) mother-of-pearl corner studs, lower outer corners chipped, gilt-decorated morocco spine, torn with loss at head, small folio (1)

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264* Vallisnieri, (Antonio, 1661-1730). Lettre critique par monsr.

Valisniery docteur en medecine à l'auteur du livre intitulé "La generation des vers dans le corps de l'homme," circa 1720s, 46 pp., (paginated 61-106), drop title, neatly written on both sides of each leaf, a further 14 pp. manuscript (paginated 107-[120] in another contemporary smaller hand bound at rear, all leaves somewhat spotted and slightly browned, several marginal circular ink stamps of Bibliotheque de Monsieur L. Dufruit, all leaves re-guarded, book library ticket of Pierre Lambert and stamp of Docteur Auvard to front endpapers, early 20th-century marbled boards with chipped title label to spine "Vallesniere contre Andry MSS. 1726", some edge wear, 4to (22.5 x 17.5cm) This manuscript appears to be written before the published edition of the letter by Vergis in 1727 and translated from the original Italian.

Antonio Vallisnieri (or Vallisneri) was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist. He was one of the first medical researchers to abandon the Aristotelian theories based on scientific principles and knowledge acquired through experience and reasoning. He therefore found himself at the centre of heated controversy, many of his contemporaries being unable to abandon prevailing medieval theories in spite of experimental evidence. The AndryVallisnieri dispute concerned biological generation. Letters critical of Vallisnieri would have been circulating in manuscripts such as this at the time.

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ANTIQUARIAN 267 Adamson (Patrick). Poemata Sacra, cum aliis opusculis.

Studio ac industria Tho. Voluseni I.C. Expolita & Recognita, 1st edition, London, John Bill, 1619-1618, woodcut printer’s device to title, with royal coat-of-arms to verso, 4 other letter press section titles, each with woodcut device, and one with royal coat-of-arms to verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, all edges gilt, early 20th century, turquoise full crushed morocco (bound at the National Library of Wales), some minor marks, and spine a little darkened, 4to Provenance: Library of Lord Harlech, Brogyntyn Hall, Shropshire. STC 148.5:ESTC S100468.

First edition, and large paper copy, including 4 additional leaves of Epigrammata following V4 (signature v 1-4), errata leaf at end, followed by a blank and 3 printed leaves of the Assertiones quaedam, present in only a few copies. Patrick Adamson, “gifted scholar and elegant Latin poet” (ODNB), graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1558, and later became Archibishop of the same city. His first publication was a poetical attack on the Roman Catholics in Aberdeen, published in Edinburgh in 1564.

From the beginning of his tenure as Archbishop of St Andrews in 1576, Adamson came into conflict with the strongly presbyterian General Assembly (the ruling body of the Church of Scotland), so much so that he was eventually excommunicated after being accused of various alleged misdemeanours in his ministry including, it was claimed, the use of a witch to cure himself of illness. The witch, Alison Pearson was eventually apprehended after her escape from the castle at St Andrews, found guilty of acts of sorcery on the 28th April 1588, and burned at the stake. Further accusations against Adamson were made at the Assembly in August 1588, and in June 1589 he was found guilty of “falsehood, double dealing, erroneous doctrine” and other similar charges, following which King James was obliged to withdraw his primacy at St Andrews. By this time Adamson was in poor health and he died on the 19th February 1592. The present edition, edited by Adamson’s son in law Thomas Wilson includes for the first time Adamson’s 100-page paraphrase on the Book of Job. The work is dedicated to King James I, the same monarch, who as James VI had been forced to remove Adamson from office, and is an attempt to restore Adamson’s reputation from the misrepresentations of the Scottish presbyterians.

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265* Wagner (Cosima, 1837-1930). Autograph letter signed, ‘C. Wagner’, Bayreuth, 31 December 1897, to Princess Herrmann of Saxe-Weimar in German, wishing her well, two pages with integral blank, minor split along centre fold, 4to

268 Aesop. Fables, of Aesop and other eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions, 5th edition corrected, 1708; Fables and Storyes Moralized, being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop, and other Eminent Mythologists, etc. by Sir Roger L’Estrange, 2nd edition, 1708, engraved portrait (ink marks to face) and frontispiece, occasional dmapstains, modern half calf, 8vo, together with [Ellis, George, editor], Specimens of the Early English Poets, London: Printed for Edwards, 1790, without rear free endpaper, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and some wear, 8vo, with Shakespeare (William). The Plays, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson, 8 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed for J. and R. Tonson [and others], 1765, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, half titles to volumes 3-8, 19th century ownership signature to volume 1 title, manuscript ownership of Richard Vevers, 1766 to front blanks, several leaves in volume 6 torn away, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, worn, 8vo, plus others including Hymen’s Praeludia: or, Love’s Master-Piece..., by Robert Loveday, 8 volumes, 1736, Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne..., made English by Charles Cotton, 3 volumes, 4th edition, 1711, and Montaigne’s Essays, Translated by Charles Cotton, 3 volumes, 1743

Cosima Wagner was the illegitimate daughter of Frans Liszt and Marie D’Agoult, who later became the second wife of Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival.

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266 Wiltshire Sale Particulars. A Collection of approximately 50 Wiltshire property sale particulars & broadsides, late 19th & early 20th century, including The Manor and Estate of Castle Combe, 1867; The Yatesbury Estate, 1881 & 1885; Outlying Portions of The Leighton Estate, 1911; Remaining Outlying Portions of the Wiltshire Estates of The Right Honble. Walter Long, M.P., 1911; Rood Ashton Estate, 1930; Rockley House Estate, 1911; Cockhill House, Trowbridge, 1902; The Meux Estates, 1906; Sale of a Large Portion of the Famous Longleat Estate, 1947; Earl Manvers’ Wiltshire Estate (Part of), 1901; Woodleigh, Bradford on Avon, 1915; The Pomeroy Estate, 1928; The Boyton Estate, 1886; The Galtee More Estate, Beckhampton, 1922; Portions of the Earlestoke Estate, 1910; and The Farleigh Wick Estate, 1893 etc., many with folding plans and some illustrations, some in original printed wrappers (a carton)

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270 Alken (Henry). Symptoms of being Amused, volume 1 (all published), Thos. McLean, at his Repository of Wit & Humour, 1822, forty-two soft ground etchings (including decorative title) all with contemporary hand colouring, slight spotting and staining, one plate detached, bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, Wrest Park, contemporary half morocco with gilt morocco title label to upper siding, lacking spine, upper board detached, rear board near detached, heavily worn and frayed, oblong folio (1)

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269 Aleman (Matheo). The Rogue: or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache, 2 parts in one, 2nd English edition, Oxford: Printed by William Turner for Robert Allot, 1630, woodcut device to title, lacking final blank, short closed tear to R5 at foot, title and text slightly browned, later marbled endpapers with strengthened hinges, gilt gauffered edges, 19th century sheep by R. Riviere of Bath, elaborate gilt decorated spine, gilt centre ornament and corner ornaments within an ornate border, joints and extremities rubbed and scuffed, small folio, STC 290; Madan I, p. 148.

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271 Anglia Rediviva: Or, England Revived, an Heroick Poem, 1st edition, 1658, engraved frontispiece of Oliver Cromwell (caption trimmed with loss), [4], 16, 9-56 pp, some spotting or browning throughout, blank fore-margins of A2 and final leaf repaired, 19thcentury red half morocco gilt, rubbed, small 4to Wing A3180. A rare pamphlet in honour of Oliver Cromwell, mostly in verse.

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272 Bacon (Francis). Novum Organum Scientiarum, Leiden, Adrianum Wyngaerde et Franciscum Moiardum, 1645, engraved title, a few woodcut initials, bound with Historia Naturalis & Experimentalis De Ventis, &c., Leiden, Franciscum Hackium, 1648, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, lightly rubbed to spine, 12mo Gibson 104 & 110a. The second edition of Bacon’s Novum Organum, and the first to be printed on the continent.

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273 Bell (Andrew). Anatomia Britannica, A System of Anatomy. Illustrated by upwards of Three Hundred Copperplates, from the most Celebrated Authors in Europe. In Six Parts.

By Andrew Bell FSAS, the work approved of by Dr Alex. Monro... , and conducted by Andrew Fyfe, his assistant, three parts bound in one, Edinburgh: printed for Andrew Bell, engraver, 1798, general title with engraved vignette (browned and soiled with old ink inscription erased to upper right corner), two further titles (Parts I & II and III), 68 engraved plates, Part III separately paginated, some spotting throughout and occasional offsetting, old marginal light damp stains, old ink ownership inscription to first part-title, ‘To Dr James Black with A.K. Mackie’s hopes that he will find it light reading, April 20 1861’, upper outer corner of same leaf torn away with loss affecting top of final letter of ‘Britannica’ uncut, contemporary linen-backed boards, worn and soiled with loss and frontispiece crudely hinged with sellotape to upper board, covers detached, folio (46 x 32cm) No more published. Parts I and II are a re-issue of: ‘Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles ... by Bernard Siegfried Albinus ...’, Edinburgh, 1777. Russell no. 45, noting two variants. Collation: [2],vi,32,[3],3286; 16,110pp.,[68 plates].

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274 Bennigsen (Levin August Gottlieb, Freyherrn von). Gedanken uber Einige dem Officier der Leichten Reuterey nottwendige Kenntnisse, Riga, Julius Conrad Daniel Muller, 14 copper engraved plates on 13 folding leaves, 2 old oval library inkstamps to title of the 3 Dragonregiments Officersbibliothek, contemporary sprinkled calf, with gilt morocco spine label, lettered in gilt to upper cover, Der Holsteenste Ritter Regiments Exerceer-Stole, rubbed and slight wear to extremities, small 4to Not in Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship (Paul Mellon Collection) or Houth, Bibliography of Hippology (1887). First edition of this account of horsemanship, which contains detailed information on the selection, purchase and maintenance of horses, and the duty of an officer in exercises. Copac lists only one copy in the UK (BL).

Count von Bennigsen, Russian name Leonty Leontyevich (1745-1826) was a Russian General of German origin who played an important role in the Russian army during the Napoleonic wars. Having gained a series of promotions during the 1770-1780s, including the storming of Ochakov in 1787, and the Suppression of the Polish-led Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794, as well as the Persian expedition of Catherine the Great, for which he was awarded the Order of St. George, he was made Governor General of Lithuania in 1801 by Alexander I, and in 1802 a General of Cavalry. He commanded one of the Russian Armies during the Napoleonic Wars, and was the first to inflict a significant defeat on Napoleon at the Battle of Eylau (8 February 1807), for which he was awarded the Order of St. Andrew, the highest order of the Russian Empire. He also played a significant role in the Battle of Leipzig (1619 October 1813) and in the year long Siege of Hamburg (1813-14).

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275 Berkeley (George). The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith. By the Author of The Minute Philosopher, 1st Dublin edition, printed by and for S. Fuller and J. Leathly, 1734, 86, [2], the final leaf being the bookseller’s advertisement, several alegebraic illustrations to text, single woodcut head-piece to first leaf of main text, some light soiling to title and verso of final leaf, disbound without covers, small waterstain to head of 5 leaves towards end (K1-4 & L1), 8vo ESTC T97136. An important text in the history of mathematics, Berkeley’s Analyst is a critique of the foundations of differential calculus. ‘Whether our concern be with Newtonian “fluxions” or with Leibnizian “infinitessimals”.’ Both... suffer from the fatal defect of demanding that certain ‘increments’ vanish in a result whose demonstration requires these increments to have a finite value... This difficulty formed the starting point of many discussions of the foundations of mathematics that continued in England until the 19th century’ (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).

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277 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligentley compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, general title and New Testament titles within decorative woodcut borders (small repair to verso of upper outer blank corner of general title), Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, early marginal note to verso of I2 cropped, bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, According to every Family and Tribe. With the Line of our Saviour Jesus Christ, observed from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary by J[ohn] S[peed], [1613?], lacking C1, includes double-page woodcut map of Canaan with short tear & slight loss to upper margin (touching ruled border), small tear hole to lower border and tear to right fore-edge blank margin, bound with at rear Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall..., London: Robert Barker, 1615, and also bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt Notes to sing them withall..., London: Company of Stationers, 1617, incomplete at rear lacking final three leaves, some dampstaining to map and few other leaves, general toning, some dust-soiling (mostly minor) and occasional spotting throughout volume, all edges gilt, albumen photograph of a manuscript genealogy of the Newman family (including families of Shelstone, Hall & Walker etc.) pasted to front free blank endpaper, 19th century vellum, gilt decorated spine with four black morocco band onlays, gilt decorated borders to boards, some dust-soiling, 4to, leaf size 211 x 157mm

276 Bible [English]. The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers Languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1602, general title and New Testament titles present, both within decorative woodcut borders, full page woodcut illustration of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (with closed tear and repair to lower blank margin), title of second part of Old Testament with decorative border (early inscription to verso), few decorative woodcut initials and illustrations, double-column black letter text, Apocrypha present, A2 with long closed tear and old sewn repair, leaves 2R2 (1st leaf of Psalmes of David) & 2U1 torn with considerable loss, occasional marginal fraying and few repairs, sewing weak in places and few leaves loose, bound with at front the Book of Common Prayer, [London: Robert Barker, 1605], printed in black letter with decorative woodcut initials, without title and preliminary leaves, and bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sterhold, John Hopkins and others..., London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1606, title within architectural woodcut border, black letter text, incomplete at rear lacking all after M1, some dustsoiling throughout volume and occasional marks, early inscriptions to front pastedown, contemporary blind panelled calf, lower joint split and spine leather split with loss, upper board detached, worn, small folio in 6s, leaf size 280 x 190mm

Herbert 323; Darlow & Moule 250; STC 2227. The first black-letter quarto edition of King James’ version. This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which proved so popular. Apparently a close reprint of the folio of 1611. Gen. x. 16, Emorite, Ruth iii. 15 he, etc. Both titles omit the words Appointed... (Herbert).

(1) £500 - £800

Herbert 268; Darlow & Moule 203 & STC 2185. Geneva version, with Thomson’s New Testament.

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278 Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and reuised, By his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1634], general title and following 3 leaves lacking (A1-A4), New Testament title present within decorative woodcut border, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, woodcut decorative initials, few leaves with early manuscript to lower blank margins, first few leaves frayed to margins and with few tears mostly to margins (B1 also creased and some tears with slight loss), printing fault to M6 where paper creased, closed tears to 5D5, 5R3, 5Y6, 6A3 & 6A5 (those to 6A3 & 6A5 running vertically up the length of each), leaves 6D1-6D4 torn at foot with some loss, lacking final two leaves of Revelation (6D5 & 6D6, with remnants of penultimate leaf 6D5 loosely inserted), few other leaves with marginal fraying and occasional tears, occasional dampstaining mostly to lower outer corners of few leaves, 19th century cloth-hinged marbled endpapers a little frayed to edges, contemporary blind panelled calf over wooden boards, with blind roll work decoration, embossed brass corner pieces and central bosses (lower board without upper inner corner piece), some lifting and wear to leather turn-ins, leather to board fore-edges a little torn and board showing, leather to lower board torn with some loss & board showing, old reback torn at head & foot of spine, without clasps, folio, leaf size 40 x 27cm Darlow & Moule 376; Herbert 487; STC 2312. The fourth distinct folio edition, printed in large black-letter, of King James’ version. This agrees very closely in all particulars with the folio of 1617.

Provenance: St. James’ Church, Southbroom, Devizes, Wiltshire. This Bible has for many years been kept in the fine 15th century perpendicular tower, which is the oldest surviving part of the church. The tower bears the scars of the bombardments made from nearby Jump Hill by the parliamentary forces of General Sir William Waller (1597-1668) during the English Civil War siege of Devizes in July 1643. Devizes was a Royalist stronghold throughout the English Civil War. A major battle took place just outside the town on Roundway Down on 13th July 1643, where the Royalists, under Sir Ralph Hopton (1596-1652), defeated General Waller.

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279 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New, London: Robert Barker & Assignes of John Bill, 1638, general title and New Testament title present, both within decorative woodcut borders (17th & 18th century genealogical entries to verso of each), Apocrypha present, occasional short closed tears (mostly to leaves A2-A4, A6 & A7), bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, According to every Family and Tribe. With the Line of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, observed from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary, by J[ohn] S[peed], 1638, typographic border to title, woodcut genealogies including illustration of Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden, double-page woodcut map of Canaan very slightly close-trimmed at foot, few early manuscript notes and markings throughout volume mostly to margins, occasional dust-soiling and minor marks, later endpapers, contemporary calf with blind roll-work decoration to boards, brass centre bosses, three of eight corner pieces present, spine torn at head, loss of leather to lower board in-filled and board partly recovered in cloth, lacking clasps, rubbed & some wear, 8vo

280 Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible. containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesties speciall command, Amsterdam: C.P., 1644], without general title and also lacking first leaf of Genesis (A1) and B4, New Testament title with architectural border present and reinserted at front of volume (slightly cropped at fore-edge & lower edge, lined to verso), extra illustrated with 53 engraved plates (mostly red ruled to margins and one pasted to verso of letterpress NT title), few leaves detached, one torn (without loss), some cropping and fraying, few marks and soiling, all edges gilt, 19th century morocco gilt, slightly rubbed to extremities, 24mo Herbert 582; Darlow & Moule 452.

The New Testament title with architectural border is lined to verso and with 18th/19th century inscription, ‘My dear Elizabeth. I consider this Bible invaluable not only on account of its contents but as having been the property of a beloved Brother and afterwards of our dear Mary Ann but I give it you my dear child as a small token of my great affection for you with this request that you will keep it for my sake as long as you live and then leave it to one of the family. I am my dear child your affectionate Father J.M. Blower.’

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Herbert 525; Darlow & Moule 405. There are at least three known varieties of Bible of this date. This example is variety B, with the woodcut ornament before Ezra being a lion and unicorn; the ornament before Hebrews is also a lion & unicorn (inverted). The genealogical entries within the volume include ‘Jane Tanty the daughter of John & Margrett Tanty babtised May the 12:1632’, ‘June the 6th 1704 Baptised John Bellinger [or Ballinger]’, ‘upon March 2d in 1732.. born Emd.[?] Bellinger the son of John & Esther Bellinger on Friday night about ten or eleven aclock at night’, ‘Upon ye 17th day Aprill 1735 was born Edmund Bellinger the second son of John and Esther Bellinger on Thursday about six aclock in the forenoon’, ‘Upon ye 25th day of July 1737 was born Anne: the daughter of John and Esther Bellinger on Munday about five aclock in the after noon’, ‘Upon ye 9th day of Augt. 1740 was born John[?] Bellinger the son of John & Esther Bellinger on Saturday night.’

(1) £500 - £800

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281 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, 2 volumes, Oxford: The Theatre, 1680, engraved title pages, 5 double-page maps by Jacob Savry (occasional marginal fraying), one doublepage plan, and 124 double-page engraved plates by Nicolaes Visscher, some plates lightly toned and few with closed tears to folds, occasional minor marks and dust-soiling, marbled endpapers with bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedowns, verso of front free endpapers with signature of Martin Annesley, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled red morocco, elaborate gilt decoration to spines, rubbed and scuffed, folio Herbert 756; Darlow & Moule 594.

Provenance: Martin Annesley D.D. (1740-1822) of Buckleberry, Berkshire; and Samuel Gurney (18851968) of Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire. Samuel Gurney was the eighth and last child of John Gurney (1845-87) and his wife Isabel Charlotte, née Blake Humfrey (1851-1932). John Gurney was a banker in Norwich, and the bank with which he was concerned had been founded in 1775 as a family business, which was reconstituted in 1866 as a new partnership known as Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, thus uniting all the principal families of the group. Samuel Gurney became a respected lay member of the Anglo-Catholic movement. In 1910 a ‘fashionable set’ of young ritualists, among them Samuel Gurney (aged 25), Ronald Knox (aged 22) and Maurice Child (aged 26), established the Society of St Peter and St Paul. Its primary purpose was to provide books, altar cards and vestments of an approved type for ultramontane parishes in the Church of England. In 1925 Samuel Gurney settled down and purchased a Victorian Rectory in the remote hamlet in Compton Beauchamp, beside which was a tiny whitewashed medieval church which he restored and refurnished in an AngloCatholic style. Samuel Gurney was also a friend and neighbour of John Betjeman.

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283 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1846, scattered spotting and few marks, all edges gilt, contemporary black morocco, ‘Chapelry of Saint James, 1849’ in gilt to upper board, joints spitting, some dampstains and rubbing, large 4to, together with 18 other volumes of the Bible, Book of Common Prayer and related theology etc., mostly 19th century editions, including some worn and defective, 8vo, large 4to & folio Provenance: St. James’ Church, Southbroom, Devizes, Wiltshire. These volumes have for many years resided in the fine 15th century perpendicular tower, which is the oldest surviving part of the church. The tower bears the scars of the bombardments made from nearby Jump Hill by the parliamentary forces of General Sir William Waller (1597-1668) during the English Civil War siege of Devizes in July 1643. Devizes was a Royalist stronghold throughout the English Civil War. A major battle took place just outside the town on Roundway Down on 13th July 1643, where the Royalists, under Sir Ralph Hopton (1596-1652), defeated General Waller.

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284 Bible [Hebrew]. [The Old Testament, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566 or 1582], four parts bound as one, signatures 1-64 in 8s except 17 in 4 (last leaf blank), lacks first leaf (title, supplied in later manuscript) and final leaf (blank), pencil ownership signature of I. Vallat to repaired verso [Isaac Vallat, rector at Albury, Surrey, 1749-74], some old ink marginalia including very neat microscopic notes in Latin, soiling and old dampstaining throughout, heavy brown stain to signature 48, early leaves frayed at edges and crudely rehinged with tape, old deleted inscriptions to final page, bookplate of Philipe H. Samuel to rear pastedown, 19th-century blind-stamped morocco, some wear, cracked on joints, 4to, together with a Catherine the Great bible in Old Church Slavonic, published St Petersburg, no date, late 18th or early 19th century, [1], 374, 16 leaves, printed in red and black, heavy worming throughout, occasional spotting, soiling and a few marginal repairs, 19th-century blind-stamped morocco with remains of clasps to upper cover, some wear, backstrip partly deficient and wormed, folio (325 x 200mm)

282 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, 1763, decorative general title, New Testament title, subscribers list, Apocrypha present, initial 7 leaves neatly guarded at gutter, leaves K1-K3 with short diagonal closed tear at fore-edge, occasional light dampstaining at gutter of few leaves and some minor light dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt (rubbed), contemporary red morocco, elaborate gilt decorated spine and borders to boards, centre of each board with circular ornament onlay with J H S in gilt to each, morocco spine label defective, upper joint a little cracked and worn, head & foot of spine worn with slight loss, board corners worn and showing, large folio, leaf size 49.3 x 31.5cm Herbert 1146; Darlow & Moule 857. This edition ‘has always been regarded as Baskerville’s magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen’ (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries..., p.279).

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1) Adams B1227 or B1234; Darlow & Moule 5099 (1566 edition). 2) Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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285 Bible [Latin]. Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti et sacrorum canonum: necnon & additionibus in marginibus varietatis diversorum textuum: ac etiam canonibus antiquis quattuor Evangeliorum. Novissime autem addite sunt concordantie ex viginti libris Josephi de antiquitatibus & bello judaico excerpte, Lyon, Jacques Mareschal, 10 March 1523, [14] 296 leaves, and 49 unnumbered pages of Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum at end, title printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, and with printer’s woodcut device (restrengthened with blank paper to all borders), black letter text, main text in double column, 2 full-page woodcuts (the first facing the beginning of Genesis, depicting the Creation, the second depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds facing the beginning of the New Testament), one half-page and over 100 smaller woodcut illustrations, numerous decorative initials, 6-page concordance of the New Testament with decorative architectural layout printed in red, numerous decorative initials, decorative borders at head and foot throughout, early ink annotations underlining and pointing hands throughout, some light waterstains to inner margins, worm track to title and following 2 leaves affecting a few words, 4 different continental ownership inscriptions to title in brown ink, dated 1591, 1620, 1744 and 1767, 18th century bookplate of Earl Gower to front pastedown, old vellum with black gilt morocco spine labels, some marks and soiling, generally minor wear, folio

286 Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra, ad optima quaeque veteris, et vulgatae translationis exemplaria summa, diligentia, parique fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaeorum & Graecorum nominum interpretatione, Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1566, [16], 1114, [115], title within elaborate woodcut border (lower outer corner restrengthened with blank paper, not affecting text, except partially covering the word Ad in the Ordo Librorum to verso), 269 woodcut illustrations to text, woodcut initials and head-pieces, text in double column, a few minor marks (generally in good, clean condition), marbled endpapers, with bookplate of Hiram Rockwell Bennett to front pastedown, 19th century calf, rubbed and some wear, with backstrip deficient, thick folio Not in Adams. Woodcuts by Pierre Vase. Handsome edition, first printed in 1547, with the text prepared by Jean Huntenius after the revisions by the Louvain theologians.

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Provenance: Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower, Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803), of Trentham Hall, Staffordshire.

Baudrier XI, 411. Gultlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon, II, number 81. The first of Mareschal's illustrated folio edition of the latin Vulgate, including Apocrypha, with annotations by Alberto da Castello and Johannes de Gradibus.

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288 Bible [New Testament - Greek]. [He kaine diatheke Jesou Christou ..., Wittenberg, 1622], [4], 548, [2]pp., title printed in ancient Greek in red & black within ornamental border (manuscript date written under imprint and verso of gutter margin strengthened), some browning and spotting, single worm hole to few leaves at rear of volume (not affecting text), gilt gauffered edges, contemporary pigskin, blind decoration and rollwork to covers, gilt embossed emblem of Christ on the cross to centre of each board, later morocco title label to spine, some soiling and marks, 4to Rare New Testament in Ancient Greek, with Arabic paginatian, otherwise completely in Greek, This edition was intended for the Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire.

(1) £400 - £600

287 Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra juxta Germanam Hibraici idiomatis proprietatem, nunc primum adiectis in singula capita perbrevibus argumentis, atque locorum scripturarum concordantiis, summa fide, & non aestimandis laboribus impensisque excusa, Interprete Xante Pagnino Lucense. Accessit praeterea Liber interpretationum Hebraicorum, Arabicorum, Graecorumque nominum quae in arcanis sacrisque literis reperiuntur, ordine alphabetico in usum studiosorum digestus, eodem authore, Cologne, Officina Melchioris Novesiani, 1541, 6 unnumbered leaves, 364 numbered folios, 170 unnumbered leaves, large and numerous small woodcut initials throughout, small waterstain at foot of final few leaves, and final leaf relined, with a few short closed tears to inner margin, contents generally in clean condition, with good margins, armorial bookplate of George Ingram B.D. and printed bookplate of Reverend Joseph W. Reeks, St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark to front pastedown, title with woodcut border around the word ‘Biblia’, and printer’s woodcut device of Arnold Birckman below, contemporary blind-decorated full calf over wooden boards with brass clasps (lower clasp missing), somewhat worn on spine with label missing, and covers detached, thick folio Adams B1024; Pagninus’ (or Pagnini’s) edition of the Bible was first published in Lyons in 1528. Pagnini (1470-1541) claimed that he had spent 25 years translating the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew, having made the translation ‘verbum verbo’, or word for word, from the original. His text had an important influence on later 16th century translations of the bible, including Coverdale’s 1534 English translation.

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289 Bible [Polyglot]. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta textus archetypos versionesque praecipuas ab ecclesia antiquitus receptas necon versiones recentiores Anglicanam, Germanicam, Italicam, Gallicam, et Hispanicam, complectentia. Accedunt prolegomena in textuum archetyporum, versionumque antiquarum crisin literalem auctore Samuele Lee, London: Samuel Bagster, 1831, occasional spotting, bookplate of St John’s Seminary, Wonersh to upper pastedown and ink stamp to front free endpaper, hinges split, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco with fine gilt decoration, folio (1)

293 Bindings. The Works of G.J. Whyte Melville, 27 volumes, by G.J. Whyte Melville, 1900, uniform contemporary gilt decorated red half calf, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy;..., 6 volumes, by Thomas D’Urfey, 1719, printed for W.Pearson, uniform later gilt decorated red half morocco, 8vo, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 10 volumes, by James Boswell, 1882, bookplates to front pastedowns, some minor spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated blue half morocco, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Works of Charles Kingsley, 11 volumes, 1902, bookplates to front pastedowns, minor spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated brown half morocco, spines lightly faded, 8vo.

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290 Bindings. The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, conducted by J.C. Loudon, volumes 1-5, 1829-32, wood engraved illustrations to text, contemporary uniform sprinkled full calf gilt, a little rubbed and some minor marks to spines, 8vo, together with Gray (Thomas). Poems and Letters, Chiswick Press, 1863, mounted photographic frontispiece and mounted photographic illustrations, some scattered spotting throughout, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles, contemporary gilt-decorated green full morocco (by Riviere), slightly rubbed to extremities, large 4to, plus Bernacchi (Louis). To the South Polar Regions, Expedition of 1898-1900, 1st edition, Hurst & Blackett, 1901, monochrome plates after photographs, folding map (torn without loss), school prize label to front pastedown, contemporary red half calf gilt, with Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School Prize gilt stamp to upper cover, rubbed and some marks with spine lightly faded, and other 19th century leather bindings, including Works of George Eliot, 19 (of 21) volumes, circa 1890, lacking volumes 3 & 18, all bound in contemporary uniform brown half morocco gilt, generally in bright condition, 8vo, and 3 Charles Dickens titles (Dombey & Son, 1st edition, 1848, Nicholas Nickleby & Martin Chuzzlewit, both without date, circa 1860), all bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo (30)

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294 Bindings. The Works of Charles G. Harper, 11 volumes, 1903,

by Charles G. Harper, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform contemporary gilt decorated three quarter morocco bound by Bayntun, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Works of G. Lenore, 8 volumes, by G. Lenore, 1907, bookplates to front paste downs, uniform contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco bound by Hatchards, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, The Works of Charles Dickens, 30 volumes, circa 1890, by Charles Dickens, numerous black & white illustrations, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., 6 volumes, 4th edition, 1811, Edinburgh, minor spotting & offsetting, rebound retaining uniform contemporary gilt decorated calf spine & boards, 8vo.

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291 Bindings. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain, 3 volumes, by William Prescott, 4th edition, 1846, book plates to front paste downs, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Works of William H. Prescott, 12 volumes, circa 1890, bookplates to front paste downs, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco, spines & boards slightly faded, 8vo, The Ancient History..., 8 volumes, by M.Rollin, 1821, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, spines & hinges cracked, 8vo, together with 8 further volumes of literature sets, all gilt decorated leather bindings, 8vo.

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295 Bion (Nicolas). L’Usage des Globes Celeste et Terrestre, et des spheres suivant les differens systemes du monde. Précédé d’un Traité de Cosmographie..., Sixieme Edition, Revue, & corrigée, Paris, Jacques Guerin et Nyon fils, 1751, 49 copper engraved plates, including many folding (complete), copper engraved plates and maps, including many folding (complete), occasional toning, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, some wear with upper cover detached, rear joint cracked, outer corners showing, 8vo

292 Bindings. History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV., 21 volumes, by Archibald Alison, 7th edition, 1853, includes Atlas volume, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, 8vo/oblong 4to, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, 24 volumes, 1879, contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco, 8vo, boards & spines slightly rubbed.

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Provenance: Purchased by Desmond Burgess at Christie’s London, 11 October 1978, lot 60.

The sixth and final edition revised by the author and which was first published in 1699.

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296 Blake (William, illustrator). Ballads, by William Hayley, Founded on anecdotes relating to animals, with prints designed and engraved by William Blake, J. Seagrave, Chichester, 1805, half title, four engraved plates by William Blake only (of 5), erratic pagination and signatures, some light spotting and offsetting, extensive pencil annotations at front, bookplate, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracking, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 8vo, together with The Triumphs of Temper. A Poem: in six cantos,

by William Hayley, 12th edition, Chichester, 1803, half title, six engraved plates by Blake after Maria Flaxman, a little light spotting and offsetting, contemporary previous owner inscription at head of title, contemporary tree calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

299 Brantome (Pierre du Bourdeille , Seigneur de). Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, contenans les vies des hommes illustres & grands capitaines estrangers de son temps [& les vies des dames illustres de France de son temps], 2 volumes, Leiden, Jean Sambix le Jeune, a la Sphere, 1665, 19th century of James Reynolds-Peyton to front pastedown, and slightly later bookplate of Alice Reynolds-Peyton to front endpaper of first volume, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, black morocco labels to spines, giving titles and Elsevier 1665 to foot of each spine, some light soiling, 12mo, together with Stradus (Famianus). De Bello Belgico decas prima, Leiden, Jacobi Marci, 1643, title with some marks and minor waterstain to inner margin, lower margin torn with a little loss to lower blank edge, contemporary calf with yapp foreedges, rubbed and a few marks, 12mo

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297 Bloomfield (William). The Servant’s Companion; or Practical Housemaid’s and Footman’s Guide [cover-title], 1st edition, circa 1840, printed and published by J.R. Blonsell, 32pp. (including covers), pencil mark on first page of text, contemporary manuscript inscription on inside front cover ‘Elizabeth Finch her Book, 6th August 1840, Winchcombe’, untrimmed (two longer leaves frayed to foreedge), title-page and final page forming sewn covers (toned and spotted), slim 8vo, together with How To Talk Correctly... by Professor Duncan, pseudonym, [i.e. Charles Platt], William Nicholson, circa 1880, lacking free endpapers, page block loose in original cloth

Willems 1369 & 1735 (3)

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Extremely rare: not in Cagle, Vicaire, Oxford, Maclean or Bitting; only British Library and Oxford University copies listed on COPAC (date given as circa 1860). Containing some wonderful receipts for those hard-pressed men and women in domestic service at the beginning of the Victorian era, including: “to give gloss to old wainscot”; “to make thirst balls for travelling” (“excellent for soldiers on a long march, in sultry weather, and where water is scarce”); “coachmen’s liquid for harness”; “to cleanse foul teeth” (advocating a “thin piece of soft wood made into a kind of brush, and dipped into distilled vinegar”; “patterns for working muslin dresses”; and “an efficacious receipt for destroying bugs, by an eminent physician”. There is a small section of wine recipes at the end, including: ‘British Champaigne”; “Mulberry Wine”; “Turnip Wine”; and “Balm Wine”.

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300 Bucer (Martin). De regno Christi Jesu servatoris nostri libri II, Ad Edwardum VI Angliae Regem, annis abhinc sex scripti: non solum Theologis atque Iurisperitis profuturi, uerum etiam cunctis Rempub. bene & feliciter administraturis cognitu cumprimis necessarii..., Basel: Ioannem Oporinum , [1557], woodcut device to title, upper outer blank corner torn away and repaired, decorative woodcut initials, light dust-soiling to title and colophon leaf, some dampstaining throughout, occasional fraying to lower outer corners, early manuscript fragment strip bound-in before title (formerly part of endpaper strengthening), endpapers replaced, near contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, small folio

298 Binding. Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland, Oxford: W. Baxter, 1820, a little light spotting to front and rear, contemporary presentation inscription from the Reverend Dr. Watson, Archdeacon of St. Albans to Elizabeth Middleton, dated 1823, front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary blind-decorated and gilt-decorated navy full morocco, joints and edges a little rubbed (generally in attractive condition), large 4to (1)

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Adams B3032.

Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was born in Strasbourg and entered the Dominican order. He became a convert to the reformed faith who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. In 1548 he became a teacher at Cambridge and died there greatly honoured in 1551.

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301 Buffon (George Louis Leclerc, compte de). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere Avec La Description Du Cabinet Du Roy, 14 volumes, 1749-1765, 574 plates plus 2 folding maps, lacking portrait, volumes III lacking plate VII, volume IV lacking plate XVI, with a few Reading Library stamps, cats-paw leather binding, poor condition, 4to Contemporarily inscribed in ink ‘dono d: Comitis de groesbecck & ca’, ‘Collegu Soetis Jesu Llamur Censis’ (14) £400 - £600

302 Bulkeley (Peter). The Gospel-Covenant; or, The Covenant of Grace Opened..., Preached in Concord in New-England by Peter Bulkeley, sometimes fellow of Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge, second edition, much enlarged, and corrected by the author, printed by Matthew Simmons, 1651, light waterstain throughout, worm track towards upper outer corners to last 50 pages, generally not affecting legibility, contemporary full calf gilt, with small initials R G to centre of each cover, rubbed and slight wear to head of spine, small 4to Sabin 9097. Wing B5404.

Provenance: Purchased by Desmond Burgess at Christie’s London, 15 April 1981, lot 86.

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303 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). The Poetical Works, 8 volumes, John Murray, 1839, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, front free endpaper with signed presentation inscription ‘To Laura Tennant from Margot [her sister], dated May 1916, and additionally signed by Margot’s husband, British prime minister Herbert Asquith, all edges gilt, contemporary green straight-grain morocco gilt, spine faded and slightly rubbed, 8vo (8)

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304 Caxton (William). The Game of the Chesse, by William Caxton. [A facsimile reprint of Caxton’s second edition of the 1481], Edited, with “Remarks,” by V. Figgins. B.L., [London]: V. & J. Figgins [1855], title in red, 23 woodcut illustrations, checker-board patterned endpapers, bookplate of E. Homan to upper pastedown, contemporary brown morocco, with strapwork effect in relief and with small bosses, central raised panel with Caxton initials in blind, metal clasps at fore-edge, board edges slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked, 4to A reproduction of the first work published by Caxton at Westminster. The book was prepared to be as close as possible to the original, the woodcuts were traced from the 1482 Westminster copy in the British Library.

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Lot 305 305 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). Poems on Various Subjects, 1st edition, London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796, xvi, 188, [4]pp., half-title with early signature M. Maurice to upper margin (fore-edge slightly chipped, light dustsoiling & leaf loosening), errata leaf and leaf of adverts for Coleridge’s other works present, title a little marked, occasional spotting and minor marginal staining to few leaves, contemporary half calf, lacking upper board, lower joint cracked and spine worn with loss, small 8vo, contained in purpose-made book box ESTC T125613; Tinker 678; Hayward 206; Roth (Lamb), pages 310; NCBEL III, 215. The First edition of Coleridge’s first published book of poetry.

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306 Cotes (Roger). Harmonia Mensurarum, sive Analysis & Sythensis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edidit et auxit Robertus Smith, 1st edition, Cambridge, 1722, [20], 249, [1]; [2], 125, [1] pp., half-title present, folding engraved table, numerous mathematical illustrations to text, old library stamps of Trinity College Lending Library, Dublin to title verso (now largely washed out), new endpapers, modern antique-style half calf, spine lettered in gilt, 4to Babson (Supplement) 29; ESTC T100930; Norman 519; Wallis 246.

Roger Cotes (1682-1716) published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, and the present work is thus the major record of his mathematical achievements. He worked with Isaac Newton on the preparation of the second edition of Newton’s Principia Mathematica (published in 1713). Harmonia Mensurarum is, according to Augustus de Morgan ‘the earliest work in which decisiveness progress was made in the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle of the calculus of fluents’, and includes the first version of the Newton-Cotes formulas, the first introduction of Euler’s formula, and the ‘Cotes’ theorum’ of trigonometry. Cotes died from a fever in 1716 at the age of just 33.

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307 Cotgrave (Randle). French-English Dictionary..., with another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the Animadversions and Supplements, &c. of James Howell Esquire., London: Printed by W.H. for Octavian Pulleyn, 1650, hole to title and some dampstaining, armorial bookplate of ‘The Right Honble. William Lord Craven, Barron Craven of Hamstead Marshall’ to verso of title, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, joints split and some wear to extremities, folio, together with Florio (Giovanni), Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary, Italian and English.

First compiled by John Florio ... Whereunto is Added, a Dictionary, English and Italian ... by Gio. Torriano..., Now reprinted, revised and corrected by J[ohn] D[avis], London: Printed by R. Holt & W. Horton, for R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, G. Wells, & R. Bentley, 1688, occasional dampstaining, final leaf detached, contemporary calf, gilt crest to upper board, old reback with gilt decorated spine (lacking upper panel), boards detached, worn, folio, with Xenophon, Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione libri octo. Graeca recognovit, cum Codice MSto Oxoniensi & omnibus fere libris editis contulit, plurimis in locis emendavit, versionem Latinam reformavit, Observationibus suis, Tabula Geographica, binisque Dissertationibus praemissis auxit & illustravit; Notas H. Stephani, Leunclavii, AE. Porti & Mureti recensitas & castigatas..., Indicesque necessarios adjunxit Thomas Hutchinson, Oxford, 1727, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, Greek & Latin text, modern dark green half morocco, 4to, plus three other antiquarian volumes including volume 1 only of An Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present, 1736 (6)

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308 Dalton (John). A New System of Chemical Philosophy, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, London, 1808 & 1810, vi, [2], 220 ; [8], 221-560 pp., continuous pagination throughout, eight singlepage engraved plates, Imprint varies: part 2: Printed by Russell & Allen, 1810, part 1 title with coloured pencil manuscript number to upper blank margin and diagonal closed tear with adhesive tape staining (also to gutter margin), frayed to upper inner margin, 10 leaves in part 1 also with long vertical closed tear with old adhesive tape repairs and consequent staining, gutter margin of H1 & H2 with old adhesive tape and staining, thin worm trail to to upper blank margins of four leaves of text and three plates, occasional spotting, dampstains & marks, manuscript & library ticket envelope to front free endpaper, lacking front free endpaper, later cloth over contemporary calf, covers detached, 8vo Dibner Heralds of Science 44; Duveen, p. 156; Grolier/Horblit 22; Norman 575; Partington III, pp. 799-813; PMM 261. The first edition of Dalton ‘s classic work on the atomic theory of matter. ‘ Dalton reconstructed New ton’s speculations on the structure of matter, and, applying them in a new form to chemistry, gave Lavoisier’s reformation of that science a deeper significance’ (PMM). Dalton maintained that all matter was composed of indestructible and indivisible atoms of various weights, each weight corresponding to one of the chemical elements. These atoms remained unchanged during chemical processes, and their particular weight determined their identity. His New System presented the first chemical atomic theory giving significance to the relative weights of the ultimate particles of all known compounds. It also provided a quantitative explanation of the phenomena of chemical reaction. ‘He developed a system of chemical symbols and a table [plate 4 in part 1] showing the relative weights of the atoms of a list of elements. From his principles he deduced the law of definite proportions and the law of multiple proportions’ (Dibner). This, and, and pp.546-548 along with the 4 plates in part 2, in effect describe the first periodic table, which Mendelev was to refine later (see lot xxx). A second volume appeared 17 years later, by which time ‘the theory had borne such widespread fruit that Dalton ‘s own conclusions were almost out of date’ (PMM).

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Lot 311

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309 De Thou (Jacques Auguste). Historiarum sui Temporis, edited by Samuel Buckley, 7 volumes, London, Samuel Buckely, 1733, halftitle to first volume, titles printed in red and black (except 7th volume printed in black only), list of subscribers to first volume, engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials, occasional minor spotting, and engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each volume bearing the motto Tuum Est, contemporary uniform sprinkled full calf, gilt decorated spines with red morocco title and volume labels, rubbed and some wear, some joints cracked, folio The first critical edition of De Thou’s History of His Own Times in English, edited by Samuel Buckley.

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310 No Lot 311 Fore-edge paintings. Poems, by Thomas Edward Hankinson, fourth edition, Thomas Hatchard, 1854, old ownership inscription, all edges gilt, contemporary blind-stamped green morocco, together with The Seasons and the Castle of Indolence, by James Thomson, second edition, William Tegg, 1850, engraved portrait frontispiece and four plates, contemporary pencil ownership inscription of Reverend Doctor Hook, all edges gilt, contemporary giltdecorated green morocco, both a little rubbed, the first with a fore-edge painting of Radcliffe Library, Oxford, the second with a cruder foreedge painting of a Victorian city street scene, both 8vo (2)

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312 Foxe (John). Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Universal History ...

Whereunto are annexed certain Additions of like Persecutions which have happened in these Later Times, 3 volumes, 1684, ninth edition, volume 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece of John Walden, red and black printed title page, 2 folding engraved plates, each with contemporary owners name inscribed in ink, contemporary half calf binding, some wear, thick folio (3)

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Lot 312

313 [Foxe, John]. [ Acts and Monuments of Matters most speciall and memorable happening in the Church, volume 1 only of three, 7th edition, 1632], lacking title and 2 final leaves of text also lacking, double column text in Roman and black letter, numerous woodcut illustrations and one folding plate only, some leaves torn and repaired (mostly at rear of volume), occasional dampstains and few marks, few ink stamps, 20th century brown half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, folio, together with Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus translated and illustrated, as well with sculpture as notes. By Barten Holyday, D.D. and late ArchDeacon of Oxon., Oxford: W. Downing for F. Oxlad Senior, J. Adams, and F. Oxlad Junior, 1673, title in red & black, engraved map and three plates (two folding), illustrations to text, title dust-soiled and spotted, occasional dampstains and marginal toning, few tears, 19th century half calf, extremities rubbed, small folio, with other 17th & 18th century antiquarian volumes, many defective and incomplete volumes, including Du Bartas His Divine Weekes and Workes by Josuah Sylvester, [1621], and A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim, 5th edition, 1679 etc.

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315 Giovio (Paulo, Bishop of Nocera). Dell’imprese Militari et Amorose di Monsignor Giovio Vescuvo di Nocera et del S. Gabriel Symeoni Fiorentino, Lyon, Guglielmo Rouillio, 1574, title with woodcut device, engraved portrait to verso, numerous woodcut emblematic illustrations, lacking three leaves at end, title and a few leaves front and rear with archival tissue repair, occasional early marginalia and underlining, modern calf gilt, 8vo Praz p. 342. Not in Adams. First published without illustrations in 1555 in Rome, the first illustrated edition by Rouillio published in 1559. Provenance: William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649, Scottish Poet), his signature at head of title. Bound in at rear is a letter from the Keeper of Manuscripts of Edinburgh University Library, 1963 confirming the signature to be Drummond’s and other information, plus pencil annotations at front from previous owner Herbert Dingwall.

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316 Grassi (Paride). Paridis Crassi olim Apostolicarum Caeremoniarum Magistri ... De Caeremoniis Cardinalium & Episcoporum in eorum Dioecesibus libri duo. Singulis etiam Ecclesiarum Canonicis valde necessarij, Venice: Petrum Dusinellum, 1582, woodcut device to title and with two square excissions either side (old repairs to verso lifting), decorative woodcut initial and musical notation to text, dampstained throughout, bound with several blank leaves at front and rear, contemporary vellum, gilt title to spine, covers marked, 4to

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314 Gilchrist (Alexander). Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus”, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1863, engraved frontispieces, numerous illustrations in red and black, loose presentation note from Vernon Lushington (1832-1912, Positivist and friend of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood), dated July 1876 ‘Dear Montgomery, you must accept this Blake from Mrs Lushington and me...’ (Jane Lushington modelled for Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1865), original red cloth gilt, spines a little faded with small splits, 8vo (2)

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Adams G1021.

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317 Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry, 6th edition, Improv’d with large Additions, London: Printed by T.W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, and J. Walthoe and Tho. Ward, 1724, title in red & black, 63 engraved plates only (of 65), comrising 15 (of 17) portrait plates and 48 engraved armorial plates, numerous woodcut armorial illustrations to text, first leaf of preface (a2) torn to fore-edge blank margin, one portrait plate with long repaired closed tear, few other short tears and closed tears to margins, browning, dust-soiling and few marks, 20th century half calf, folio

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319 Hobbes (Thomas, of Malmesbury). Elementa Philosophica de Cive, Amsterdam, Henr. & Viduam Th. Boom, 1696, 383 pages, engraved title, 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of Sinclair to front pastedown, with motto fide sed pugna, contemporary vellum, titled lettered in ink to head of spine, and with armorial foot, stamped in black, with motto rinasce piu gloriosa, together with Giannettasio (Nicola Partenio). Ver Herculanum, Naples, Jacques Raillard, 1704, additional engraved title (giving the author’s name and title Autumni Surrentini) dated 1698, with contemporary ownership signature L. de Ralsen at head, several woodcut headpieces and initials, 18th century bookplate of Sinclair to front pastedown, with motto fide sed pugna, contemporary vellum with manuscript title in brown ink to head of spine, and black armorial stamp with the motto rinasce piu gloriosa, both volumes with some light soiling, 12mo & 8vo respectively Provenance: James St. Clair Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837). Sir James Erskine, Scottish General, Politician and Aide-de-Camp to King George III, was a close friend of the Duke of Wellington, becoming lord privy seal in the cabinet when the Duke of Wellington became prime minister.

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320 Homer. Homeri Ilias, id est, de rebus as Troiam gestis. Paris: Adr. Turnebum, 1554, woodcut device to title and with early ownership signatures, small repaired hole to title and upper margin strengthened to verso, title a little marked & toned, early signature to A1 & verso of final leaf, light dampstaining mostly at rear of volume, 8vo century crushed mid brown morocco, gilt decorated spine lacking label & one defective, upper joint slightly cracked and spine rubbed, 8vo

318 Harris and Son, publisher. A Visit to the Bazaar: By the author of Juliet, or the Reward of Filial Affection; and the port folio of a school girl, 3rd edition, 1820, half title, frontispiece and 31 uncoloured lithographed plates, some light spotting and water stains, contemporary ownership signature, original half roan, upper cover detaching, vertical split to spine, some edge wear, 16mo (Osbourne II, p.744, for the 1st edition of 1818), together with The Book of English Trades, and Library of the useful Arts, new edition, George B. Whittaker, 1825, 85 engraved plates, a little light spotting and offsetting, previous owner signature, contemporary sheep, spine faded, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

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321 Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, compiled from the best and most ancient Historians, Inquisitions Post Mortem, and other valuable Records and MSS. in the Public Offices, and Libraries, and in Private Hands, 2 volumes, W. Bower and J. Nichols, 1774, 1st edition, 68 plates, many folding, a portrait of the author, contemporary half calf folio, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, marbled boards, all untrimmed, folio (2)

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322 Jonson (Ben). The Works... , with Notes Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir by W. Gifford, with Introduction and Appendices by Lieut.-Col. F. Cunningham, 9 volumes, Bickers & Son, 1875, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, titles printed in red and black, top edges gilt, contemporary half calf, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting spine labels, a little rubbed, 8vo (9)

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323 Lamb (Charles & Mary). The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb [and] The Life of Charles Lamb, 9 volumes, Methuen, 190305, frontispiece to each volume, some heavy spotting mostly confined to textblock edges, top edges gilt, contemporary blue crushed half morocco gilt by Sotheran, spine of volume 1 scuffed, a little rubbed, 8vo (9)

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325 Lodge (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions, 4 volumes, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard 18211828-1834, 240 fine copper plate portraits, library stamps and library plate, minor wear, finely bound in thick folio calf richly gilded, 42.5 x 27cm (4)

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326 Machiavelli (Niccolo). Machiavels Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius Translated out of the Italian; With some marginall animadversions noting and taxing his errours, by E[dward]. D[avies]., London: Printed by Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, 1636, lacking first and last blank leaves, with B1 cancelled (the correct text is printed on preceding (a)11-12) and facsimile of B1 attached, some worming at front & rear with occassional repairs, S12 (pages 407/408) torn to lower quarter of leaf and repaired with blank paper, some dampstains, modern calf, morocco title label to spine, 12mo (STC 17160), together with Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Warres of Rome, between Pompey the great, and Julius Caesar. An Historical Poem being till the Death of Julius Caesar. Englished by Thomas May, Esquire, 2 parts in one, London: William Shears, 1659 & 1657, cancel general title, light dampstaining and occasional dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, red morocco title label, 8vo, with Lucretius Carus (Titus), Titus Lucretius Carus His Six Books of Epicurean Philosophy, Done into English Verse, with Notes, 3rd edition, London: Thomas Sawbridge & Anthony Stephens, 1683, engraved frontispiece, verso of title with early signature of Elizabeth Stuart (some show through) and armorial bookplate of the Hon. Aleaxander Grant, contemporary speckled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine, joints cracked, 8vo, with Fanshawe (Richard), Il Pastor Fido The faithfull Shepherd with an Addition of divers other Poems Concluding with a short Discourse of the Long Civill Warres of Rome..., London: Humphrey Moseley, 1648, engraved portrait frontispiece, dampstaining, later marbled wrappers with facsimile title page attached to upper cover, 4to, plus other miscellaneous 17th & 18th century antiquarian including The Works of Horace in Latin and English, by Thomas Creech, 2 volumes, 5th edition, 1718, and a incomplete & defective Barclay his Argenis. Or, The Loves of Polyarchus & Argenis, [by John Barclay], Faithfully Translated out of Latin into English by Kingsmill Long, 2nd edition, 1636 etc.

324 Lavater (John Caspar). Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind, translated from the French by Henry Hunter, 3 volumes in 5, 1st edition in English, 1789-92 (volume III 2nd edition, 1810), half titles, 172 engraved plates, numerous engraved vignettes (including four engravings by William Blake), some offsetting and light spotting, top edge gilt, later brown half morocco, a little rubbed, 4to Garrison- Morton 154; Norman 1285. “Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists... His work was very influential on portraiture” (GarrisonMarton).

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328 Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor: Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong of the Middle Temple Gentlemen, first editioni n English, printed Edm. Bollifant, B[ishop], 1598, title-page printed within decorative woodcut border with bull’s head at the foot, some spotting, old damp staining and browning especially to margins, occasional old ink or pencil doodles or annotations, title-page dust-soiled and frayed at edges with ownership inscription at head, ‘Rich. Hynmers March ye 30th 1689’, lacks O2-3 (pp. 159-162), final two leaves dustsoiled, creased and frayed with loss of upper half of final leaf, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, folio (28 x 19cm) ESTC S122233; STC 18044. Collation: a4 A-2R6[-O2-3] 2S8.

An early romance originally written in Portuguese and first published in its original language in 1559. An influential work, it popularised the theme of shepherd and shepherdess romances. Shakespeare is believed to have been a reader, the tale of Felismena (beginning on page 54) almost certainly the story of Proteus and Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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327 Martin (William), The Parlour Book: or, familiar conversations on science and the arts, Darton and Clark, circa 1835, handcoloured frontispiece,15 lithograph plates, some light spotting and toning, original cloth gilt, spine faded, a little rubbed, 12mo, together with History of a Ship, from her cradle to her grave, by Grandpa Ben [i.e. James Lukin], circa 1840, additional title, woodengraved plates and illustrations, a little light toning, hinges reinforced, previous owner inscriptions, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, small stain to lower cover, 16mo, plus Cyclist Drill 1900, HMSO, 1900, folding lithograph frontispiece, diagrams, blank leaves for notes towards end, repair to rear pastedown, bookplate, original half morocco gilt, 12mo, with others, mostly small format in decorative cloth including The Percy Anecdotes, 1820, An Early Stage on the Road to Learning, 1819, Flowers: their moral, language and poetry, by H.C. Adams, Halifax, 1851, The Better Land; or the Believer’s Journey and future home, by Augustus C. Thompson, Halifax, 1858, Infernal Conference : or Dialogues of Devils, by the Rev. John MacGowan, Halifax, 1858 etc (76)

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329 Morton (John). The Natural History of Northhampton-shire; With Some Account of the Antiquities. To which is Annex’d a Transcript of Doomsday-Book, so far as it relates to that County, 1st edition, bound in 2 volumes, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin 1712, uncoloured folding map by John Harris and 14 uncoloured engraved plates, some spotting, folio, contemporary calf, gilt to spine, folio (2)

Lot 328

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Lot 330 330 Nostradamus (Michel de). The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning.

Translated and Commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick College, London, 1st edition in English, Thomas Ratcliffe & Nathaniel Thompson, 1672, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, occasional light spotting and toning, a few small burnholes, bookplate of Sir George Cooke (circa 1705-1768, chief prothonotary of the court of common pleas, Westminster), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio ESTC R13646; Wing N1399.

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331 [Poncelet, Polycarpe]. Nouvelle Chymie du Goût et de l’Odorat, ou l’Art de composer facilement & à peu de frais les liqueurs à boire & les Eaux de Senteurs, 3rd edition, 1774, half title, six engraved plates, occasional light toning, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine a little rubbed and chipped at ends, 8vo, together with Philosophie Chimique, ou Vérités Fondamewntales de la Chime Moderne, by A.F. Fourcroy, 3rd edition, 1806, half title, a little light spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, with two others: Pierre Philippe Alyon’s Cours Élémentaire de Chimie Théorique et Pratique, 2 volumes, Paris, 1798 and M. Le Comte Chaptal’s Chimie appliquée a l’Agriculture, 2 volumes, Paris, 1825

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332 Prayer Book [German]. Allgemeines und Vollstandiges Evangelisches Gesang-Buch..., Breslau, 1779, double page engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, text in blackletter in double column, a little light spotting and soiling, small wormtrack to rear endpaper, gauffered gilt edges, near contemporary green panelled vellum gilt, front panel with initials ‘JCD’ and dated 1819, some fading to spine, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)

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333 Rickman (Thomas Clio). An Address to the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, on their excommunicating such of their members as marry those of other religious professions, printed by and for Thomas Clio Rickman and others, 1804, half title, 48 pp., advertisement leaf at end, stitching weakening, a few water stains and some light soiling, original wrappers, a few tears, water stain to lower wrapper, 8vo Scarce. Almost certainly the author of this work, Rickman married his first cousin in 1804, which was against the rules of the Society as it was outside the faith and he was disowned for this and earlier in 1783 for his friendship with Thomas Paine..

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334 Roberts (Lewis). The Merchants Map of Commerce: Wherein the Universal Manner and Matter relating to Trade and Merchandize, are fully treated of the Standard and Current Coins of most Princes and Republicks Observ’d, 4th edition, carefully corrected and enlarg’d, 1700, title printed in red and black, text somewhat browned throughout, a few small water stains, contemporary panelled calf, covers detached, rubbed, folio

336 Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 volumes, 6th edition, London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1791, front pastedown with book label of the Marsh family and front endpaper blank with 20th century ink stamp of Mrs Marsh of The Manor House, Wethersfield, Braintree (stamp also to leaf a1 in volume 2 & B1 in volume 3), contemporary tan calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with green morocco title labels to each, without volume number labels, some joints split, rubbed and light wear, 8vo

Kress 2261; Sabin 71909. One of the earliest systematic works on trade and commerce in the English language.

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335 Sermons - America. Sermons on Important Subjects; collected from a number of Ministers, in some of the Northern States of America, Hartford [Connecticut]: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1797, toning and scattered spotting, library ink stamp to front pastedown and evidence of bookplate removal, early 19th century sheep, red morocco title label, joints split, rubbed, 8vo (ESTC W29386), together with Bisse (Thomas), The Beauty of Holiness in the common-Prayer: as set forth in Four Sermons Preach’d at the Rolls Chapel in the year 1716. The eighth edition.

To which is added, A Rationale on Cathedral Worship or Choir Service. A sermon preach’d in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Choirs of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, Sept. 7. 1720. The second edition, London: W. Taylor and W. & J. Innys, 1721, some dampstaining, bound with three early 18th century sermons, later endpapers, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, rubbed, 8vo, with Bulstrode (Richard), Miscellaneous Essays..., 2nd edition, 1724, some light marginal dampstaining, contemporary blind panelled calf, lacking title label to spine, upper joint split & board near detached, lower joint cracked, wear to head & foot of spine, 8vo, and Guyse (John), A Practical Exposition of the Four Evangelists, in the Form of a Paraphrase: with Occasional Notes..., 1739, title in red & black, red morocco gilt ownership label of Harriet Penney to upper pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, joints cracked, rubbed and some wear, 4to (4)

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Lot 337

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Lot 339 337 Speed (John). The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines, and Seales: with the Successions, Lives, Acts, and Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Cæsar, unto the Raigne of King James, of famous Memorie, 3rd edition, Revised, enlarged, and newly corrected, with sundry descents of the Saxon Kings, Their Marriages and Armes, printed by John Dawson, for George Humble, 1631, engraved portrait frontispiece of John Speed, printer’s woodcut device to title, woodcut illustrations, initial letters, and head and tail-pieces, lacking two leaves (Aaaaa3-4, folios 1070 & 1071), frontispiece and title-page both edge-frayed in places with slight loss to lower blank margins, and both laid down, title with remains of old catalogue description label to upper left corner, title and final leaf dustsoiled and with some marks, dedication leaf with paper repair to small loss in lower blank margin, some intermittent minor worming to lower edge of page block, final two gatherings slightly creased, and final leaf with portion missing from lower blank margin, free endpapers browned, stitching strained and partially broken, contemporary calf, with early gilt tooled reback, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, with some losses to spine, edges showing, and upper cover just holding on the cords, folio in 6s (1)

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338 Spenser (Edmund). The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, an Account of his Life; with other new additions never before in print, London: Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, 1679, [12], 339, [1], 16, [8], 1-2, 10-11, 9-258, [2], 369391, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece torn with loss, cropped and lined to verso, title in red & black, cropped and lined to verso, advertisement leaf 4K2 present, occasional worm trails to initial leaves at foot, dampstaining & mottling mostly to lower margins, endpapers renewed, 18th century half calf, 20th century sheep reback (worn) with 20th century printed marbled paper sides to boards, folio Wing S4965; Pforzheimer, 980. The third edition of the collected works, but the first edition to contain Brittain’s Ida. The text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.

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339 The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politicks, and Literature..., 144 volumes plus Index, a run, 1758-1902, marbled edges, uniform 19th century full polished calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, the first volume with joints cracked, earlier volumes rubbed at head and foot of spines, Index volume at end rubbed and some marks with upper joint partly cracked, 8vo (145)

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340 Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, Cambridge, printed by Joseph Bentham Printer to the University, 1758, title with light browning, mainly to margins, contents generally very clean, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt-decorated crushed red full morocco, with ownership gilt panel to centre of upper board of ‘Cha: Amcotts, Kettlethorp, 1765’, rubbed to joints and edges, spine a little darkened, large 4to Provenance: Charles Amcotts (1729-1777), M.P. for Boston from 1754 to 1777. He inherited Kettlethorpe Hall from his father’s stepbrother, Charles Hall, who had built the original house in the early 1700s. The cleaning of the moat at Kettlethorpe by its owner the M.P. Douglas Hogg, is now the most famous example of the MPs’ expenses scandal which erupted in 2009.

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341 The Complete Family-Piece: and, Country Gentleman and Farmer’s Best Guide, 3rd edition improved, printed for C. Rivington; S. Birt; T. Longman; C. Hitch; and J. Clarke, 1741, xii, 4, 526, + 62 pp. index, title with slight fraying to lower outer corner, first and last few leaves lightly browned to edges, occasional marks, contemporary calf, rubbed and some wear with upper joint partly cracked, 8vo, together with Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy..., new edition will all the modern improvements, Dublin, printed by Brett Smith, for Gilbert and Hodges, 1804, occasional light spotting and minor soiling, contemporary calf, modern reback, 8vo, plus Raffald (Elizabeth), The Experienced English House-keeper, for the use and ease of Ladies, House-keepers, Cooks, &c. wrote purely from practice, and dedicated on the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as house-keeper, 3rd edition, Dublin, printed

by J. Williams, 1772, folding engraved plate of a coal-burning stove, torn without loss, some marks and general soiling, title and following leaf with some browning, contemporary calf gilt, modern gilt spine label, rubbed, 8vo, and Stavely (Mrs.), The Housewife’s Guide: or, A Complete System of Modern Cookery containing directions how to roast and boil every thing necessary for the table; to cure hams, bacon, &c. how to make Gravies, Sauces, Fricassees, and various dishes for lent. Particularly adapted to the middle class of society, Liverpool, printed by G. Wood, 1828, 59 pages, with index to verso of final leaf, title and final leaf soiled and somewhat darkened, some marks and small stains elsewhere, contemporary ownership signature of Mrs R. Cross to head of first leaf of text, modern boards, with printed paper label to spine, slim 12mo, plus six others related, including G. Francis, The Dictionary of Practical Receipts, 1848, and five 19th century manuscript lists of kitchen accounts, various

343 Vico (Aeneas). [Augustarum Imagines Aeris Formis Expressae; Vitae Quoque Earundem Breviter Erratae...], Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1558, 63 full-page engravings, mounted slip cancels on: C2 verso, C4 verso, G3 verso, G4 verso, all leaves before b1 lacking, numerous woodcut illustrations, D4 with loss to lower margin and with fore-edge tear (extending 18mm into engraving), some signatures supplied from another copy, variable spotting (mainly to margins), disbound, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Stirling, rear pastedown with book label ‘Arts of Design, Keir’, loosely contained in 18th century vellum gilt, monogram of William Stirling on front cover, spine ends worn, 4to Adams V-634; Mortimer, Italian 533. The first edition of Natale Conti’s Latin translation of Vico’s ‘Le imagini delle donne auguste’, printed in 1557.

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344 Walton (Izaak). The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. Written by Izaak Walton. To which are added some letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge: with others to his mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert, written by John Donne, afterwards dean of St. Pauls, 1st collected edition, London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670, lacking blanks A1 & A8 and also lacking the four portrait plates, some toning, light dampstaining and spotting, 19th century panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo (Wing W671, Pforzheimer, 1056), together with an incomplete and defective Complete Angler, 4th Hawkins edition, 1784, lacking title and some other leaves, plus [Anderdon, John Lavicount], The River Dove, with some quiet thoughts of the Happy Practice of Angling, London: William Pickering, 1847, original cloth, remnants of printed paper title label to spine, 8vo, plus an incomplete copy of the Compleat Horse-Man, and Expert Ferrier, by Thomas de Grey, 5th edition, 1684

Bitting 534 & Oxford 68 for The Complete Family-Piece. Mrs Staveley’s Housewife’s Guide not in Oxford or Bitting.

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345 Weever (John). Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland and the Islands Adjacent, with the dissolved monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the Bloud Royall; the Nobilitie and Gentrie of these Kingdomes entombed in forraine nations, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Harper, 1631, additional engraved title (laid down), library inkstamp to printed title and occasionally elsewhere, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed and with some wear, recased with remains of original spine laid down, folio, together with Heylyn (Peter), Cyprianus Anglicus: or the History of the Life and Death, of the most Reverend and Renowned Prelate William By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury..., printed by J.M. for A.Seile, 1671, title printed in red and black, frontispiece not present, old circular library stamp to lower outer corner of title, bookplate of John Percival, Earl of Egmont, dated 1736 to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and some wear, recased with original spine laid down, folio, together with Polano (Pietro Soave), The History of the Council of Trent..., faithfully translated into English by S[i]r Nathanael Brent, Knight. Whereunto is added The Life of the Learned Author: and the History of the Inquisition, printed by J. Macock, for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn, and Henry Herringman, 1676, license leaf at front, contemporary calf, some wear, folio, plus Cave (William). Antiquitates Christianae: or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: as also the lives, acts and martyrdoms of his apostles, printed by R. Norton for R. Royston, 1675, title printed in red and black, double-page engraved plate and engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, folio

342 Thomas Aquinas (Saint). D. Thomæ Aquinatis enarrationes, quas Catenam vere auream dicunt, in quatuor Euangelia : ex vetustissimorum codicum collatione, quantum licuit emendatiores quam hactenus in lucem edité. Additus est index rerum scitu dignarum, Paris: Ex officina Iacobi du Puys, 1566, title with woodcut illustration and early signature, torn to lower outer blank corner and lined to verso, both title and a2 detached, a2 frayed to edges and with short closed tears, lacking leaf of tables at rear, some close trimming to margins affecting few marginal notes, occasional worm holes, toning, light dampstains and dust-soiling, last few leaves frayed to margins, late 19th century cloth, upper board detached and spine torn with loss, folio, together with Tacitus (Cornelius), The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, [The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba], 2 parts in one, [London: Arnold Hatfield for John Norton], 1612, lacking A1 (blank), ink stamps to general title and with repaired closed tears to lower outer corner, few other repairs to initial leaves, some dampstaining, browning and dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled calf with rollwork decoration, rebacked, upper board corners repaired, lower board corners worn and showing, small folio, with Certaine Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, in the time of the late Queene Elizabeth, 2 parts in one, London: Printed by John Bill, 1623, lacking general title and final colophon leaf, printed in black letter, first & last few leaves frayed and with short tears, contemporary blind panelled calf, lacking clasps, light wear to extremities, small folio, plus Wanley (Nathaniel), The Wonders of the Little World: Or, a General History of Man, 1678, contemporary calf, boards detached with remnants of old reback repair, worn, folio (4)

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346 Sheppard (William). The Court-keeper’s Guide: or, A plaine and familiar Treatise, needfull and usefull for the helpe of many that are imployed in the keeping of Law-dayes, or Courts Baron.

Wherein is largely and plainly opened the Jurisdiction of these Courts, with the learning of Mannors, Copyholds, Rents, harriots, and other Services and advantages belonging unto Mannors, to the great profit of Lords of Mannors, and owners of these Courts, 4th edition with additions by the author, printed by J.G. for M.M.Gabriel Bedel and Thomas Collins, 1656, title, dedication leaf, 254 pages, and 4pp. Table, 8pp. bookseller’s catalogue at end dated 1656, contemporary manuscript index in brown ink to rear blank, title a little soiled, contemporary sheep, rubbed and a little wear, 8vo, together with other antiquarian law: The Landlords Law: or, the law concerning landlords, tenants, and farmers, 7th edition, 1727, Parish Law: or, A Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, ..., by Joseph Shaw, 3rd edition, 1736, A System of the Law of Marine Insurances,

by James Allan Park, 1787, The Spirit of Marine Law; or, Compendium of the Statutes relating to the Admiralty..., by John Irving Maxwell, 1804 (contemporary ownership signature to head of title of William Reeve, Royal Navy), An Exact Abridgment of all the Statutes in force and use, from Magna Charta, 9 H. 3. to the beginning of the reign of King George, 5 volumes, 1720 (with armorial bookplate to each volume of ‘Sr. Robert Grosvenor of Eaton-Hall in the Couty Palatine of Chester... and of Millbank Westminster in ye County of Middx. Bart.’, all bound in contemporary calf, rubbed and moderate wear, 8vo Wing S3180 for the first work.

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ART REFERENCE 349 The Art Journal, 22 volumes, a run, 1848-69, the first volume titled The Art-Union Monthly Journal of The Arts, decorative title to each volume, numerous steel engraved plates, some with original tissue-guards, all contemporary green morocco or calf gilt, or brown full calf gilt (except 1866 in original publisher’s giltdecorated green cloth, spine faded), occasional wear, mainly to head and foot of spines, together with a duplicate volume for 1862 in publisher’s gilt decorated cloth (lacking backstrip), and The ArtJournal Illustrated Catalogue, The Industry of All Nations, 1851, numerous wood engraved illustrations, all edges gilt, contemporary brown full calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, all folio (24)

350 Bunbury (Henry, 1750-1811). [Bunbury's Shakespeare]. A Series of Prints from the Plays of Shakespeare, published by T. Macklin at the Poet's Gallery, Parts I-IV only, 1794, 4 original parts, containing 16 fine soft-ground etched plates (4 to each part), by J. Chapman, T. Cheesman, Gardiner, Shenner, P.W. Tomkins, J. Coles, Bartolozzi, Beneditte Leney, Van den Bergh, and R.M. Meadows after Bunbury, tissue-guard to each plate, some light spotting, bound in original blue printed wrappers, each part marked in a contemporary hand in ink to lower left corner 'Black Prints', rubbed and some wear to extremities, oblong atlas folio (51 x 64cm) (4)

£200 - £300

351 Cumberland (George). Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that Guided the Ancient Artists in composing their Figures and Groupes, 1st edition, 1796, 24 line-engraved plates, including eight by William Blake, occasional light spotting and soiling, a few small marginal damp stains, bookplate of Panof Grafsos Skinos, original boards, cloth reback by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (pencil note at front), some light edge wear and soiling to boards, 4to

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347 [Wotton, Thomas]. The English Baronets. Being a Genealogical and Historical Account of their Families, 3 volumes, 1727, numerous copper-engraved coats-of-arms, volumes I & III titles repaired, a little minor spotting, later blue calf gilt, spines faded to green, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Burn (Richard). The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1755, some light spotting, contemporary half calf, a few light stains, 8vo (5)

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348 Xenophon. Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, quae exstant opera, in duos tomos divisa ... opera Ioannis Leunclavii Amelburni, Paris: Typis Regiis, apud Societatum Graecarum Editionum (excudebat Antonius Stephanus), 1625, printer’s woodcut device to title, double-column text in Greek & Latin, occasional spotting, marbled endpapers with 20th century bookplates of St John’s Seminary, Wonersh to upper pastedown, late 18th/early 19th century full vellum, joints split, gilt crest of Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838) of Stourhead at head of spine, few spots of sealing wax to upper board, folio Provenance: Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838), Stourhead Library, Wiltshire. With manuscript note to verso of front free endpaper ‘Not in catalogue’ believed to be in Richard Colt Hoare’s hand.

This edition was first printed in Frankfurt in 1595. Cf. Dibdin II, 567: “The latter of these publications, which is a very handsome reimpression of that of Frankfort, is a popular edition of Xenophon.”

(1) £300 - £400

352 Dresser (Christopher). Studies in Design, 1st edition, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1874-76], lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates, a few Reading library stamps, pages detached and edges frayed, occasional spotting and stains, contemporary burgundy half morocco rebacked with remains of original spine laid down, folio (1)

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353 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666), Francesco Bartolozzi(1727-1815) and Richard Dalton (c.1715-1791), [Eighty-Two Prints engraved ... from the original Pictures and Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of His Majesty, John and Josiah Boydell, c. 1800], lacking title but retaining engraved portrait frontispiece, seventy-five (only of 82) etchings and engravings by Bartolozzi, Basire, Dalton, Vitalba and others, one plate double-page, 19th century ownership signature to front pastedown, hinges and joints cracked and weak, contemporary half morocco, heavily worn and frayed, folio

354 Guillain (Simon). Vita di San Diego, Dipinta nella Cappella di S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli in Roma da Anibale Carracci delineata et Intagliata da Simone Guillain stampata da Francesco Collignon, Rome, 1646, engraved title and 19 copper engraved plates by Guillain after Carracci (the plates numbered 1-19, including 2 partly-folding, with an additional engraving at end, numbered 19, but without engraved initials of the artist or engraver, depicting St. Peter and St. Paul on a plinth, some light soiling and discolouration to title and a few plates, most plates trimmed and mounted on old laid paper, and with tissue-guard, near-contemporary calfbacked marbled boards, heavily worn with spine deficient, and upper cover detached, slim 4to

While on the Grand Tour, the Earl of Bute collected original drawings by the Bolognese artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (1591-1666).

These drawings were later presented to George III and entered the Royal Collection. George III’s librarian, Richard Dalton, met Francesco Bartolozzi in Italy in the early 1760s. Dalton brought Bartolozzi to London in 1764 to produce engravings after these drawings; other engravers on the project included Dalton himself, James Basire, Giovanni Vitalba and Lady Louisa Augusta Greville. The Boydells subsequently published a second volume titled ‘Seventy-three Prints’ as well as an album of fifty engravings, most after Guercino. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

(1) £500 - £800

A series of engravings after the frescos by Carracci in the Herrera Chapel of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome, completed in 1607. They were detached in the early 19th century, and are now in Barcelona and Madrid, although severely damaged. The British Museum copy lacks plates 5 and 19.

(1) £150 - £200

355 Knight (Laura). A Book of Drawings with a Foreword by Charles Marriott and Descriptive Notes, first edition, 1923, woodblock portrait frontispiece and 20 colour and black & white plates, uncut, original quarter buckram in green dust jacket, slightly rubbed and soiled and old small tape repairs to verso, 4to Limited edition, 98/500 copies, signed by Laura Knight. ()

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356 Leighton (Frederic). Drawings & Studies in Pencil, Chalk, & other Mediums, Facsimiled after the Originals, with a Preface by S. Pepys Cockerell, Fine Art Society, 1898, forty plates on card, a little spotting, modern half calf with leather spine labels, 4to Limited edition, 26/500 copies.

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357 Moreau (Charles). Restaurants, Dancings, Cafes, Bars, volume I, Editions d’Art, Paris, circa 1930, 46 photographic plates (of 50, lacking plates 4, 13, 29 & 38 but with duplicates of plates 17, 30, 33, 40-41), a few with light spots and soiling, loose as issued in original boards, cloth tie, previous owner stamps to covers, light edge wear and soiling, 4to, together with Bars, Cafes, Dancings, Restaurants, nouvelle series, circa 1931, 43 photographic plates only (of 48, lacking plates 11, 24, 33-34, duplicates of plates 7, 35 & 37), previous owner stamp to versos, a few with some light spotting and soiling, loose as issued i original boards, cloth ties, previous owner stamps to covers, some soiling, 4to, together with four others including Arthur Stratton’s Some XVIIIth Century Designs for Interior Decoration, 1922 and Paul Letarouilly’s Edifices de Rome Moderne, 5 volumes, circa 1928 (11)

£150 - £200

358 Palmer (Samuel). An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil, Seeley & Company, 1883, title printed in red and black, 14 etched plates (including 5 original etchings by the author), a few detached, some light spotting, a few with marginal water stain, bookplate, original vellum gilt, some soiling and stains, folio Limited edition large paper copy 123/135.

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359 Pugin (A. Welby). Detaile of antient timber houses of the 15th & 16th century..., 1836, 21 black & white etchings, hand coloured title text , Gothic Furniture of the 15th century, 1935, numerous black & white plates, hand coloured title text, 2 volumes bound in 1, some minor spotting & marginal toning, later gilt decorated red half morocco, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Maries, Oscott, 1841, 9 black & plates plus illustrations, hand coloured frontispiece text, bookplate to front paste down, minor marginal toning, original gilt decorated green cloth with green morocco spine, slightly rubbed with minor loss to head, 4to, together with Lloyd (Nathaniel), A History of English Brickwork..., 1925, numerous black & white plates, some light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, remains of torn dust jacket to front endpaper, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and Shakespeare Head Press [publisher], Ernest Gimson His Life & Work, limited edition 328/550, 1924, Stratford-upon-Avon, black & white illustrations and 59 plates, original binding, cloth spine rubbed with minor loss, 4to, plus other 19th & early 20th century architecture & furniture reference, including In English Homes..., by Charles Latham, 1904, The Furniture Designs of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, by J.Munro Bell, 1910, some leather bindings, many original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

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360 Serlio (Sebastiano). Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura, et Prrospetiva... diviso in sette Libri... , raccolto da M. Gio. Domenico Scamozzi, Venice: Heirs of Francesco d’ Franceschi Erben, 1600, [24], 219, [1, blank], 27, [1, blank]ff.; [8], 243, [1, blank]pp., general title with large woodcut device and early ownership inscription deleted, some part-titles with ornamental woodcut borders, woodcuts throughout, some spotting and soiling throughout, evidence of old damp staining with resultant light purple stains, some spotting and soiling throughout, heaviest at front and rear, some scattered marginal paper repairs sometimes touching text, foremargins closely trimmed affecting some side notes in Book 6, old vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to (225 x 165mm) Fowler 334; the second collected edition of Serlio’s seven books on architecture, the first edition having appeared in 1584. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

(1) £300 - £500

361 Sewter (A. Charles). The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle - A Catalogue, 2 volumes, first edition, Newhaven & London, 1974-75, colour and black & white plates, original grey cloth in dust jackets, a little rubbed at extremities, together with Surtees (Virginia), Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1971, black & white plates, original cloth in dust jackets, a little rubbed, all 4to

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362 Tipping (H. Avray). English Homes, Period II-Vol. I, Early Tudor, 1485-1558, Period III-Vol. I, Late Tudor and Early Stuart, 1558-1649, Period IV-Vol. I, Late Stuart, 1649-1714, Period V-Vol. I, Early Georgian, 1714-1760 & Period VI-Vol. I, Late Georgian, 17601820, together 5 volumes, Country Life, 1920-26, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs to each volume, top edge gilt, all original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, some volumes with damp discolouration to covers, together with English Gardens, 1st edition, Country Life, 1925, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, plus Jekyll (Gertrude and Hussey, Christopher). Garden Ornament, 2nd edition, Country Life, revised, 1927, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, original green cloth gilt in frayed dust wrapper, and Bolton (Arthur T., editor). The Gardens of Italy, with historical and descriptive notes by E. March Phillipps, 1st edition, Country Life, 1919, tipped-in colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, bookplate of Samuel Gurney to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original maroon cloth gilt, lightly dampmarked to cover edges, in somewhat worn dust wrapper, all folio, plus other architecture and decoration reference, including Jourdain & Lenygon, The Library of Decorative Art, English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance, Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760, Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760 & English Decoration and Furniture of the Later XVIIIth Century, together 4 volumes, Batsford, 1922-24, all in original dust wrappers, Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, Oxford, 1971, Swarbrick, Robert Adam & His Brothers, Batsford, 1915, The Georgian Society, Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5 volumes, Dublin University Press, 1909-13, limited edition of between 300 and 600 copies, Sadleir, Georgian Mansions in Ireland, 1915, etc.

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364 Warhol (Andy, 1928-1987). Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

Photographs by Andy Warhol, Text by Andy Warhol with Bob Colacello, first UK edition, Hutchinson, 1979, black & white illustrations from photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, signed ‘Andy’ in black marker on dust jacket upper panel beneath vertical title, and signed again in full on the half-title page with ‘trademark’ sketch of a vagina beneath title, 4to (1)

£200 - £400

365 Warhol (Andy, 1928-1987). The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), first UK edition, 1975, signed by the author diagonally upwards across half-title in black marker ‘Andy Warhol’, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth in dust jacket, together with 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy - Holy Cats

by Andy Warhol’s Mother, 2 volumes, Chatto & Windus, 1988, colour-printed illustrations throughout, original pictorial boards in slipcase, 8vo

363 Walcot (William, 1874-1943). Architectural Water-colours & Etchings, with an Introduction by Sir Reginald Blomfield, first edition, 1919, colour frontispiece and black & white plates, original etching with pencil signature of the artist bound into preliminary leaves, original brown cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled and a little frayed at spine ends, folio Limited edition of 275 copies, this copy not numbered.

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GENERAL LITERATURE

366 Waring (J.B.). Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862, 3 volumes, 1863, chromolithographed additional title to each, 301 chromolithographed plates, pages loose and Reading library stamps, occasional light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy morocco gilt, generally poor condition, folio together with Anderson (William). The Pictorial Arts of Japan, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1886, green cloth with leather spine, folio; Westwood (J.O.). Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria: being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, Copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries, William Smith, 1843-45, 50 chromolithograph plates, modern half calf on marbled boards, folio plus Tymms (William Robert; Wyatt, Matthew Digby). The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times. London: Day and Son, 1860, gold stamped cloth, 4to (6)

368 [Churchill, Winston S.] British Sports and Sportsmen.

Commerce & Industry, circa 1932, frontispiece and 10 photogravure plates, illustrations, all edges gilt, original red morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to Limited edition 69/1000. Signed by Winston Churchill to title.

(1) £400 - £600

369 Allingham (Helen). Happy England, with Memoir and Descriptions by Marcus B. Huish, Adam & Charles Black, 1903, colour portrait frontispiece and 80 plates, together with Huish (Marcus B.), British Water-colour Art in the First Year of the Reign of King Edward the Seventh... , 1st edition, Fine Art Society and Adam & Charles Black, 1904, 62 colour plates, both with top edges gilt, remainder uncut, original decorative off-white cloth lettered in gilt, minor rubbing and soiling, spine of first volume lightly browned, both 4to (limited edition, 141/750 copies signed by Helen Allingham and 74/500 copies, signed by Marcus Huish), plus four further A. & C. Black Colour Guides: The Durbar, 1903 (one of 1000 copies), Naples, 1904 (10/250 copies), The Clyde, 1907 (one of 400 copies) and Royal Palaces & Gardens, 1916 (161/200 copies), all with some spotting, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, original decorative cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, minor fraying to spine ends, Durbar and Royal Palaces volumes slightly browned on spines, all 4to

£300 - £500

367 Williams (William Meade). Annals of the Worshipful Company, of the City of London, 1867, privately printed, illuminated title page plus 12 monochrome illustrations, split gutters, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated black full morocco, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Crane (Walter), Of The Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New, 1896, numerousblack & white illustrations, later endpapers, some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated grey half morocco, spine slightly faded, 4to, and Audubon (John James), The Original Water-Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America, 2 volumes, 1966, numerous colour plates, uniform original brown cloth in slipcase, folio, plus other bibliography & book reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

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£300 - £400

370 Archer’s Register. The Archer’s Register for 1897-[1913], 16 volumes, 1898-1913, black & white plates from photographs, advertisements at front & rear, later endpapers to volumes for 1901, 1903, 1911 & 1912, original green cloth gilt, some refurbished and repaired, few marked, 8vo The Archer’s Register was published yearly from 1864 to 1915. It contained archery related competition results, society lists, adverstisements, poetry, songs, obituaries and original papers. The first editor was Fred T. Follett (1889 - 1897) followed by J. Sharp (1864 - 1888) and Col. H. Walrond (1898 - 1915). The final issue came out in 1914 - 1915. Col. Walrond died at the end of 1915 and “The Archer’s Register” ceased to be published.

(16) £200 - £300

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371 Archery. The Theory and Practice of Archery, by the late Horace Ford, new edition, thoroughly revised and re-written by W. Butt, 1887, wood engraved frontispiece and plate, illustrations to text, light toning, original green cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo, together withHardy (Robert), Longbow, A Social and Military History, 1st edition, 1976, colour plates and black & white illustrations, original boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, with Rounsevelle (Phillip), Archery Simplified, New York, 1937, black & white illustrations, original cloth, 8vo, and Trench (Charles Chenevix), A History of Marksmanship, 1st edition, 1972, colour plates and black & white illustrations, original boards in dustjacket, 4to, and Schuyler (Keith C.), Archery, from Golds to Big Game, 1st edition, New York, 1970, black & white illustrations, original boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, plus other archery related reference, plus a folder containing various 18th & 19th century prints relating to archery etc.

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375 Erotica. Lovely Nights of Young Girls served up Seasoned and Prepared for Amatory Feasts, New York: printed for the [Erotica] Biblion Society, circa 1900, half-title, title printed in red & black, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, recent tan calf, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt decorative rolls and double-line fillet, in slip case, 8vo A scarce edition, in a smart binding, of this Victorian erotic novel. With 188 pages, this copy does not agree with any listed in Mendes.

(1) £100 - £150

376 Flint (William Russell). In Pursuit: An Autobiography, Medici Society, 1970, illustrations to text, original red quarter morocco gilt in card slipcase, folio, (signed limited edition, 392/1050 copies), together with Morris (William), A Book of Verse, Scolar Press, 1980, colour illustrated reproduction of a manuscript, original cloth gilt, 4to, with a prospectus and accompanying booklet in cloth book box with leather spine label, (limited edition 202/325 copies), plus Golden Cockerel Press. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, with Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958, engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original orange cloth gilt in frayed glassine dust jacket, folio, (limited edition, 179/200 copies), plus other miscellaneous illustrated books, various subjects and sizes

£200 - £300

372 Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility, with an introduction by Joseph Jacobs, George Allen, 1st illustrated edition,1899, illustrations by Chris Hammond, half title with four small diagonal slits from where engraving/photograph previously corner mounted, all edges gilt, original green decorative cloth gilt, a little rubbed at edges, 8vo, together with Pride and Prejudice, March 1895 reprint, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, slight spotting at front, presentation inscription and owner signature, all edges gilt, original peacock decorative cloth gilt, small tear at head of spine, slight lean, 8vo (2)

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£150 - £200

377 Folio Society. [Works of the Bronte Sisters], 7 volumes, reprints, Folio Society, 1993, wood-engravings by various artists, original moiré cloth gilt in matching slipcase, together with Austen (Jane), The Complete Novels, 7 volumes, reprint, Folio Society, 1997, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, original quarter cloth over patterned boards in card gilt slipcase plus three further modern box sets of Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (3 volumes, Folio Society), George Bernard Shaw, Music in London (4 volumes, Vienna House) and A. Norman Jeffares, Restoration Comedy (4 volumes, Folio Press), all 8vo, VG

£150 - £200

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378 Folio Society. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird, 1988, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 volumes, by Edward Gibbon, 1983, English Eccentrics, by Edith Sitwell, 1994, together with 84 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo.

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£150 - £200

379 Folio Society. London Characters and Crooks, by Henry Mayhew, 1996, William Russell Special Correspondent of The Times, by Roger Hudson, 1995, Pepys’s Diary, 3 volumes, edited by Robert Latham, 1996, together with 89 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo.

373 Austen (Jane). The Novels of Jane Austen, the text based on collation of the early editions by R.W. Chapman, 5 volumes, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, reprinted 1946, monochrome plates, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform crushed red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt (by Bumpus Ltd, Oxford Street), 8vo

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£150 - £200

374 Boxing. The Life and History of Tom Sayers, the Renowned Champion of England, printed by John Watson, circa 1860, woodengraved illustrations, light spotting and soiling, original cloth, lower cover detached, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Complete Science of Wrestling, by George Hackenschmidt, circa 1909, half -tone illustrations, advertisements at end, some light soiling, original cloth, spine faded and a little rubbed, 8vo, with others, sporting and magic including F.A. Schmidt & Eustace H. Miles’s The Training of the Body for Games, Athletics, Gymnastics and other forms of Exercise, 3rd edition,1905 and Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant’s Our Magic, circa 1912

380 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st illustrated edition, 1931, numerous monochrome illustrations by E.H. Shepard to text, pictorial endpapers, original green cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally in bright condition), 8vo, together with Shepard (E.H.). Drawn from Memory/Drawn from Life, both 1st editions, 1957/61 respectively, monochrome illustrations, both original cloth gilt in dust wrappers, spines lightly faded or toned, 8vo, plus Searle (Ronald), Back to the Slaughterhouse and Other Ugly Moments, 1st edition, 1951, & The St. Trinian’s Story, 1st edition, 1959, numerous monochrome illustrations to each, both original cloth in pictorial dust wrapper, very slightly rubbed, 8vo/4to, and other miscellaneous literature, including Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, 6 volumes, 1st edition, 1948-54, all in dust wrappers, John Ruskin, Works, 21 volumes, Blackfriars Publishing Co., circa 1910, top edge gilt, original publisher’s uniform dark blue cloth gilt, in bright condition, 8vo

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381 Hills, Robert. Sketches in Flanders and Holland; with Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of those Countries Shortly After the Battle of Waterloo..., 1816, 36 aquatint plates, complete as list (including 5 hand-coloured and one folding), occasional light spotting (generally clean copy with wide margins), contemporary black half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed with some wear to head and foot of spine, large 4to

386 Moss (Stirling; Porter, Philip). Stirling Moss Scrapbook 19291954, Porter Press International 2007, limited edition 338/1000, signed by the authors, hardbound black cloth folio edition with slipcase, together with further copies for 1955 and 1961, both limited editions and signed, plus Porter (Philip). Graham Hill Scrapbook 1929-1966, signed by the author and Graham Hill, all in generally excellent condition

Abbey, Travel 187. Landwehr 311. An account of a tour by the painter and engraver Robert Hills (1769-1844), including views of Bruges, Rotterdam, Haarlem, and Amsterdam.

(1) £200 - £300

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382 Ibsen (Henrik). The Works of Henrik Ibsen, 12 volumes bound in 6, Boston & New York, Jefferson Press, circa 1911, top edge gilt, contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London), spines very slightly dulled (generally a very good set), 8vo (6)

387 Obama (Barack), The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 1st edition, 1st issue, New York, Crown Publishers, 2006, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 8vo

£150 - £200

383 Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph, 1st trade edition, 1935, maps and illustrations, silver foil residue at gutter of p. 63, a little light spotting, original cloth gilt, good condition dust jacket, 4to (1)

Inscribed by the author 'To Jason vote me in '08 instead of Nader!' on the front endpaper.’

Obtained by a student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2008, when Obama was running for president. Fine copy.

(1) £200 - £300

£100 - £150

388 Pogany (Willy, illustrator). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George G. Harrap, 1910, 20 tipped-in colour plates, one or two corner tips creased, letterpress illustrations and decorations throughout, occasional light spotting, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, decorated endpapers, original gilt-decorated light green cloth, some edgerubbing and marks, folio, together with Smith (Jessie Willcox, illustrator). The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916, 12 colour plates, letterpress illustrations, one or two short edge-tears, front free endpaper with faint vertical crease, original green cloth, with circular illustration inset to upper cover, extremities a trifle rubbed, 4to, plus six others with illustrations by Willy Pogany and Jessie Willcox Smith (including Good Housekeeping magazine for October 1925 with front cover illustration by Smith), and five Mickey Mouse books, including Scenic Silly Symphonies, and Movie Stories Book 2, plus seven books illustrated by Tasha Tudor

384 Loutherbourg ( P.J . de). The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, [1805], facsimile reprint, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 1979, colour plates, original green half rexine gilt in green cloth book box, folio (limited edition, 386/1000 copies), together with Campbell (Bruce), The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones, Folio Fine Editions, 1976, colour plates, original green half calf gilt in cloth gilt slipcase, oblong folio, (limited edition, 159/500 copies) (2)

£100 - £150

385 Miniature Prayer Book. Polyglot Lord’s Prayer, late 20th century, printed in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch & Swedish, original black morocco gilt, 5 x 5mm, contained in original transparent perspex container and magnifying transparent perspex container read with magnifier (1)

£100 - £150

£70 - £100

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389 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

by William Shakespeare, 1908, 40 tipped in colour plates plus black & white vignettes, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some light spotting & offsetting, original gilt decorated cloth, spine lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Aldin (Cecil), Sleeping Partners, a Series of Episodes, circa 1929, 21 colour illustrations, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned, spotted and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, and Lindsay (Norman [illustrator]), Satyrs and Sunlight, being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae, limited edition 330/550, The Fanfrolico Press, 1928, numerous black & white illustrations, original gilt decorated green pebble-grain morocco, insect damage & slight rubbing to the rear cover, 4to, plus 11 further volumes of early 20th century juvenile & illustrated literature, including Cecil Aldin, Edward Lear, Gwynedd M.Hudson, Willebeck le Mair, all original cloth, some shelf wear, G, 8vo/4to.

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392 Rosenberg, Marc. Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 3rd revised edition, 4 volumes, Frankfurt, 1922-28, numerous monochrome illustrations to text, all original dark blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, 4th volume rubbed and a little frayed, 8vo, together with Sykes (Brigadier-General Sir Percy), Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia, Argonaut Press, 1927, original quarter vellum gilt, a few minor marks, large 8vo, limited edition of 975 copies, this copy unnumbered, plus Wotton (Thomas), The English Baronets. Being a genealogical and historical account of their families, printed for Thomas Wotton, 1727, 38 copper engraved plates printed back-toback (title and numbers 1-37), engraved dedication leaf following title, 19th century brown calf gilt, rubbed and a little scuffed to edges, 16mo, and others various, including Persian Tales, written down for the first time in the original Kermani and Bakhtiari, and translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer, with illustrations by Hilda Roberts, Macmillan & Co., 1919, with separately issued Dedication and Prefaces to Persian Tales, privately printed 1919, loosely inserted, etc

£100 - £150

390 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, [1926], 20 tipped-in colour plates, half-title and edges lightly spotted, original black cloth gilt, spine ends slightly frayed, 4to, together with The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, George G. Harrap, 1929, 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, vignettes to text, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers, remainder rough-trimmed, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends slightly frayed, some faint markings to covers, upper corner of front cover bumped, 4to, plus Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, 50 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, one or two corners creased, marginal spotting to title-page, Contents/Illustrations leaves detached, map to front free endpaper, original gilt decorated terracotta cloth, rubbed and faded spine with joints split and frayed, 4to, plus one other book illustrated by Arthur Rackham (The Romance of King Arthur, 1917) and three illustrated by Edmund Dulac (Stories From Hans Andersen, 1911; Stories from Arabian Nights, 1907; The Sleeping Beauty, [1910]) (7)

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393 Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Novels, Border Edition, 48 volumes (complete), John C. Nimmo, 1892-94, numerous etched plates by D.Y. Cameron, R.W. Macbeth, Adolphe Lalauze, and others, top edge gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco for Sotheran, gilt spines sunned, 8vo Limited edition of 365 copies on hand-made paper, with the etchings printed as proofs before letters, this copy numbered 277.

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394 Shakespeare (William). The Works of William Shakespeare, 9 volumes, edited by William Aldis Wright, 1930, minor toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco bound

by Sotheran , spines lightly faded, 8vo.

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£100 - £150

395 Shakespeare Head Press. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Translated from the Greek of Achilles Tatius by William Burton, Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597, Oxford Basil Blackwell Publisher to The Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford Upon Avon, 1923, title in red & black, uncut & untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to upper board and spine, small folio (limited edition 13/503), together with Cresset Press, The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ovidius Naso. Translated into English verse by George Turbervile, 1928, 10 black & white plates by Hester Sainsbury, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original two-tone cloth, folio (limited edition 131/375), with Golden Cockerel Press, Jeremy Taylor: A Selection from his works made by Martin Armstrong, 1923, top edge trimmed, remainder untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, 4to (limited edition of 320 copies), and Broadside Ballads of the Restoration Period from the Jersey Collection known as the Osterley Park Ballads, with an Introduction and Notes by F. Burlington Fawcett, London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1930, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original two-tone cloth, dust-jacket torn with loss, folio (limited edition 627/750), plus other private press volumes, including Nonesuch Press

£300 - £500

391 Robinson (William Heath). Absurdities, A Book of Collected Drawings, circa 1920, monochrome illustrations throughout, original pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks and discolouration, rebacked, large 4to, together with Melross (T.), The Nithsdale Argosy, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, H.M. Bateman, and others, circa 1935, monochrome illustrations, including an etching

by Frank H. Mason, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, to W.W. Ridout Esq., original boards, rubbed and some marks and minor wear to extremities, folio, plus Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator). Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1920, tipped in colour plates, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, rubbed, small 4to and other various illustrated books and reference, including Simon Houfe, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1800-1914, Dawn & Peter Cope, Postcards from the Nursery, the illustrators of children's books and postcards 1900-1950, New Cavendish Books, 2000, E.M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady, 15th printing, 1931, signed by the author to front endpaper and front blank, original green cloth with paper label to spine, in frayed and slightly chipped dust wrapper, 8vo, illustrated works by Edward Gorey, including The Doubtful Guest, 1957 in dust wrapper, The Recently Deflowered Girl

by Hyacinthe Phypps, 1965, illustrated works by Osbert Lancaster, £150 - £200 some related printed ephemera, etc.

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£250 - £350

396 Shaw (George Bernard), The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw, Ayot St. Lawrence Edition, 30 volumes, New York, William H. Wise and Company, 1930-32, photogravure portrait frontispiece to each volume, top edge gilt, original quarter cream cloth over blue boards, gilt spine label to each volume, 8vo Limited edition of 1790 sets, this copy numbered 795.

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397 [Sherer, Joseph Moyle]. Sketches of India: Written by an Officer for Fire-side Travellers at Home, 1st edition, 1821, together with Recollections of the Peninsula, 3rd edition, 1824; Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy, 1824; Notes and Reflections During a Ramble in Germany, 1826, all with some spotting, contemporary uniform calf, rubbed, some joints cracked and some wear to spines, a fourth edition of the first work, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and lacking spine, plus Sherer (John Walter), Daily Life During the Indian Mutiny, Personal Experiences of 1857, 1st edition, 1898, portrait frontispiece, some spotting, albumen print carte-de-visite portrait (creased) of Badul Khan, a small photograph of the author at Bath pasted to front free endpaper verso and presentation inscription from the author to John Corrie Sherer inscribed above, dated May 1898, plus an autograph letter to Sherer written on behalf of Lord Canning, Allahabad, 12 October 1868, conveying Lord Canning’s great satisfaction on the completion of the bridge [see p. 116], some spotting and split along upper fold, tipped on to half-title recto, plus a gelatin silver print view from an older photograph tipped on to half-title verso, original buckram gilt, heavily rubbed and frayed at spine ends, plus a 1910 edition of the same work (title-page partly excised), plus 10 others by or with Sherer family association, all 8vo (17)

£200 - £300

398 Stevenson (Robert Louis). The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Edition, 26 volumes (complete), 1922-23, top edge gilt, 20th century uniform green half calf (by Zaehnsdorf, London), gilt decorated spines, with morocco spine labels, spines uniformly faded to brown, 8vo Limited edition of 1060 sets for the United Kingdom, this being number 93.

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£400 - £600

399 Symonds (John Addington). Renaissance in Italy, 7 volumes, new edition, Smith, Elder & Co., 1900-1904, top edge gilt, contemporary uniform red half morocco gilt (by Bickers & Son, Leicester Sq.), 8vo, together with The Royal Shakspere, 3 volumes, Cassell and Company, circa 1900, occasional light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red calf gilt, some minor marks, 4to, plus other late 19th and early 20th century leather bindings, including The British Isles depicted by Pen and Camera, 3 volumes, Cassell and Company, circa 1900, Library of English Literature, 5 volumes, selected by Henry Morley, Cassell and Company, circa 1900, all leather bound, The Henry Irving Shakespeare, 8 volumes, 1888-90, bound in original publisher’s uniform gilt-decorated brown cloth, 8vo/4to (29)

£150 - £200

400 Thackeray (William Makepeace), The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, 13 volumes (complete), Smith, Elder & Co., 1900-02, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary uniform straight-grained maroon half morocco (for Hatchards), gilt decorated spines, a few minor marks to extremities, 8vo (13)

£250 - £350

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404 Trade catalogues. George Brettle & Co., London, Autumn List, 1906, numerous illustrations, a few colour and folding, some toning to a few leaves, front endpaper renewed, original cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little faded, 8vo, together with Rylands & Sons, London. Haberdashery, 1905, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, advertisement leaf at front laid down, some light soiling, original morocco gilt, spine repaired, some fading and light stains, 8vo, plus Taylor & Parsons Ltd, Bradford, Brassfoundry, 1916, numerous monochrome illustrations, a few spots, original cloth, 8vo, with three others including J.G. Harrod & Co.’s Royal Despatch and Special Delivery of England, 1st edition, 1880 and Harrod’s General Catalogue for 1929

401 The Oxford English Dictionary. 12 volumes plus 4 volume Supplement, reprint edition, 1978-86, Oxford University Press, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to.

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£70 - £100

402 (Thieme, Dr. Ulrich, and Becker, Dr. Felix). Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 37 volumes (complete), Leipzig, Verlag, E.A. Seemann, [1954], original publisher’s black half morocco gilt, in very good condition, large 8vo (37)

£100 - £150

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403 Trade catalogue. Designs for Furniture and Decorations for Complete House Furnishing by Hampton & Sons, London, circa 1892, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, one or two light stains, original embossed cloth gilt, covers a little bowed, oblong folio (1)

£200 - £300

405 Trade catalogues. Examples of Furniture & Decoration by Gillows, London, circa 1905, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, a few small closed tears and stains at front, original cloth, a little rubbed, covers a little bowed, oblong 4to, together with Mappin & Webb Ltd, London, 1931, numerous illustrations, a few colour, original decorative boards, 4to, plus Hampson & Scott.

Wholesale Saddlery Manufacturers, Walsall, circa 1900, colour and monochrome illustrations, occasional light soiling, original calfbacked boards, spine a little rubbed and faded, ink stamps to lower cover, 4to, with others including A Few Notes on Varnishes and Fossil Resins, by R. Ingham Clark, circa 1892 (presentation copy from the author), and Printing Types, Stephenson, Blake & Co, Sheffield, 1924

£150 - £200

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406 Wagner (Richard). Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, Illustrirt von C. Ritter, Bayreuth: Heinrich Heuschmann, [1888], title (spotted and browned) and letterpress leaf, plus nine mounted albumen prints of scenes from Parsifal after paintings by Ritter, photographed by Jos. Albert, images approximately 15 x 20cm, loosely contained as issued in original gilt-decorated cloth portfolio, a little rubbed and soiled, oblong folio, together with a modern facsimile of a similar portfolio-style work of Parsifal by Frans Stassen, plus three volumes from the series ‘100 Jahre Bayreuther Festspiele’ by Gisela Zeh, Heinrich Habel and Dietrich Mack, illustrations from photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus two related (7)

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411 Auction Catalogues. A large collection of approximately 600 literature auction catalogues from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, & Bonham’s, including The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, 4 volumes, 2013, Christie’s, The Library of H.Bradley Martin, magnificent colorplate ornithology, 7 volumes (lacks volume 1), 1989-90, Sotheby’s, The Jay T.Snider Collection of historical Americana, 2005, Christie’s, all original bindings, G/VG, 8vo.

GENERAL STOCK 407 Papworth (John B.) Rural Residences, consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings, 1st edition, 1818, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 27, lacking plates 5-6, 11-12 & 17), light offsetting and spotting, contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, large 8vo, together with The Beauties of Stow; or a description of the most noble house, gardens, and magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Honourable Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, by George Bickham, 2nd edition, [1753], folding engraved plan (repaired to verso), 25 engraved plates only (of 32?), some light spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed with some edge wear, 8vo, plus Genera of Birds, 1781, [by Thomas Pennant] bound with Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, par le Comte de Buffon, 1786, engraved title and 15 engraved plates for first work, engraved additional title for second work, some spotting and toning, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, lacking one spine label,upper joint splitting, 4to, together with others including Samuel Hayes’s A Practical Treatise on Planting and the Management of Woods and Coppices, 3rd edition, Dublin, 1822 and Jethro Tull’s The Horse Hoeing Husbandry... to which is prefixed an introduction... by William Cobbett, 1822

412 Owen (W.), Owen’s New Book of Roads or a Description of the Roads of Great-Britain being a Companion to Owen’s Complete Book of Fairs, 5th edition, 1788, folding engraved map of England and Wales, frayed at margins with closed tears to old folds, last page torn with slight loss, disbound, plus Hunter (Joseph).

Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York..., 1st edition, 1819, engraved frontispiece and 8 engraved plates, armorial illustrations to text, list of subscribers, occasional foxing, mostly to tissue guards, original boards with printed paper spine label, slightly rubbed and soiled, loss to spine ends and lacking upper cover, folio, and other topography interest

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£200 - £300

415 Warren (Captain Charles). Plans, Elevations, Sections, &c. shewing the results of the Excavations at Jerusalem, 1867-70: executed for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, [London], Palestine Exploration Fund, 1884, 50 lithographed plates, including title (complete), loose as issued in original publisher's portfolio, heavily worn, atlas folio, together with Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus of the Reign of Ramses III, now in the British Museum, printed by order of the Trustees, 1876, colour lithographed plates, endpapers frayed and a little soiled, contemporary clothbacked boards, worn, oblong atlas folio, plus other similar large folio volumes, including Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylon,

by H.C. Rawlinson, British Museum, 1884, Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character... discovered on the site of Carthage during researches by Nathan Davis... in the years 1856, 1857, and 1858, British Museum, 1863, The Book of the Dead, etc, all ex-library copies with the usual marks, rubbed and some wear, all folio

£70 - £100

410 Auction Catalogues. A large collection of approximately 600 literature auction catalogues from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, & Bonham’s, including The Frank S.Streeter Library..., 2 volumes, 2007, Christie’s, John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, The Duke of Portland Set, 2012, Christie’s, Incunables from The Schøyen Collection, 1991, Sotheby’s, all in original binding, G/VG, 8vo.

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£100 - £150

414 Pugin (Augustus Welby). Examples of Gothic Architecture, 1st edition, 3 volumes, 1831-38, numerous engraved plates, occasional library stamps, rebound in modern blue cloth, folio, together with Twopeny (William). Etchings of Ancient Capitals &c from Drawings

by William Twopeny, 1837, etched plates, presentation copy from the author, inscribed to title 'For the Rev. Dampier Phelps, W.T.', large slim folio, plus The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, being a series of engravings of the most eminent persons now living or lately deceased, in Great Britain and Ireland: from drawings accurately made from life..., 2 volumes, printed for T. Cadell, bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1822, numerous soft ground etched plates, some light toning and occasional spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary dark olive green half morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear, large folio, plus other various antiquarian, mostly 18th and 19th century, including Franklin Hudson, Monumental Brasses of Northamptonshire, Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, 3rd edition, 1756, David Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, a Synodo Verulamiensi A.D. CCCCXLVI ad Londinensem A.D. MDCCXVII, 4 volumes, 1737, Report of the Boundary Commissioners of England and Wales, 2 volumes, 1888 (numerous folding maps), etc., mixed leather and cloth bindings, some wear, mainly folio

409 Hinsley (F.H. et al). British Intelligence in the Second World War, its influence on strategy and operations, 5 volumes in 6, 1st editions, H.M.S.O, 1979-80, colour and black & white folding maps, some minor marginal toning, all original cloth, volumes 1-3 part 1, 4-5 in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Sturtivant (Ray et al.), Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 to 1919, 1992, The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm, 1994, both 1st editions, Air Britain, numerous black & white illustrations, original boards, large 8vo, and Tapped (Oliver), Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft since 1913, 1st edition, Putnam, 1973, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, spine lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other modern aviation & military reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Grub Street, Naval & Military Press, Sutton, Osprey, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(3 cartons)

£70 - £100

413 Natural History Pamphlets. A large collection of 20th century ornithology & natural history pamphlets, papers, and articles, some foreign language, contained in 41 small cardboard boxes

408 Aymonin (Gérard G.). The Besler Florilegium, plants of the four seasons, 1989, New York, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, folio, together with, Sitwell (Sacheverell, et al), Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, limited edition of 2000 copies, 1953, 38 colour and black & white plates, some minor marks, original red half cloth with marbled boards, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, and other nature print reference & related, including Birds of Europe,...Asia,...Australia,...New Guinea,...South America, 5 volumes, by John Gould, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets , G/VG, 8vo/folio.

(3 cartons)

£150 - £200

£150 - £200

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£200 - £300

416 Clayton (Frances, illustrator). The Revelation of St. John the Divine, 1st edition, Faber and Faber, 1931, full-page colour lithographs by Frances Clayton, printed by the Curwen Press, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth in frayed glassine dust wrapper, with slipcase (a little wear to corners), 8vo, signed limited edition 29/1000, together with Raven Press. The Book of Tovit from the Apocrypha, according to the authorised version, with woodengravings by Horace Walter Bray, Raven Press, 1931, wood engraved illustrations with hand-colouring, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter vellum gilt, with slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 23/275, plus other literature and illustrated books, including Harold Jones, The Visit to the Farm, Faber & Faber, circa 1930 (some wear), H.E. Bates, The Seasons & The Gardener, illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe, Cambridge University Press, 1940, original cloth in dust wrapper, Diana Ross, The Little Red Engine Gets A Name, pictures by Lewitt-Him, Faber and Faber, circa 1940, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Hilaire Belloc, etc. (a carton)

£70 - £100

417 Aviation. A collection of aviation reference & literature, including publications by Airlife, PSL, some original cloth in dust jackets, many paperbacks, G, 8vo/4to.

(3 cartons)

£50 - £70

418 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 3rd edition, 1891, approximately 400 hand coloured plates, some minor spotting throughout, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, boards lightly rubbed, spines rubbed to head & foot with some loss, 8vo, together with Pratt (Anne), The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain,..., 6 volumes, circa 1900, 220 colour plates, some minor marginal spotting & offsetting, all edges gilt, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Loudon (Jane), The Ladies Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, 2nd edition, circa 1850, William S. Orr and Co., 48 hand coloured plates, some light spotting, later endpapers, all edges gilt, modern half calf retaining contemporary marbled boards, boards slightly rubbed, 4to, plus other mostly 19th and early 20th century natural history & botanical plate books & reference, including The Horse its Treatment in Health and Disease, 9 volumes, 1905, original gilt decorated green cloth designed by Talwin Morris, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some odd volumes, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

131 volumes (6 shelves)

420 Schmitt (Charles B.). Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola (1469-1533) and his critique of Aristotle, 1st edition, 1967, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands, original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly toned, minor rubbing to head & foot, 8vo, together with Wirszubski (Chaim), Pico Della Mirandola’s Encounter with Jewish Mysticism, 1st edition, 1989, Harvard University Press, U.S.A., original boards, 8vo, and Schibli (Hermann S.), Hierocles of Alexandria, 1st edition, 2002, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo plus Hartle (Ann), Michel de Montaigne, accidental philosopher, 1st edition, 2003, Cambridge University Press, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other modern philosophy & academic reference, including Early Studies of Giordano Bruno, 6 volumes, by Christian Bartholmèss et al, 2000, Thoemmes Press, and publications by Oxford, Columbia, Scolar, A&C Black, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(3 shelves)

£200 - £300

421 Taylor (Brian). Barbarossa To Berlin, a chronology of the campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941 to 1945, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2003-04, black & white maps & plans, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with other modern military reference & related, including publications by Arms and Armour, Alan Sutton, Leo Cooper, Penguin, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

(3 shelves)

£100 - £150

422 Military. A large collection of mostly modern military & aviation reference, including The Navy List, March 1885, The Army List, January 1838, pluspublications by Ian Allan, Crowood, Batsford, Helion, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

423 Topography. A large collection of modern U.K. topography & history reference, including publications by H.M.S.O., Oxford, Cambridge, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, all ex-library with associated marks, G/VG,8vo/4to.

(6 shelves & a carton)

£150 - £200

424 Paston-Williams (Sara). The Art of Dining, A History of Cooking & Eating, 1st edition, National Trust, 1993, numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, square 4to, together with David (Elizabeth), French Provincial Cooking, illustrated by Juliet Renny, 2nd edition, 4th impression, 1984, original cloth in dust wrapper, 8vo, plus Weinreb (Ben and Hibbert, Christopher), The London Encyclopaedia, 1st edition, 1983, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, thick 8vo, author’s presentation copy inscribed to half title ‘this copy for my old and dear friend Martin Orskey from Ben Weinreb I XI 1983’ and Fleming (John and Honour, Hugh), The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, New Edition, Viking, 1989, numerous monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, thick 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books, including history, gardening, cookery, biographies, paperbacks, all 20th century, some in dust wrappers, 8vo/4to

£400 - £600

£100 - £150

419 Dumas (Alexandre). Celebrated Crimes, 3 volumes, 1896, 3 black & white frontispieces, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary gilt decorated plum morocco , 8vo, together with Inglis (Henry D.), Ireland in 1834, a Journey Throughout Ireland,..., 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1835, 2 black & white folding maps, some marginal toning, uniform modern gilt decorated calf, 8vo, and Leech (John), Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, Handley Cross;..., Mr. Romford’s Hounds, “Plain or Ringlets”, Hawbuck Grange, “Ask Mama”, 6 volumes, all Jorrocks Edition, 1926, 6 hand coloured frontispieces plus numerous black & white illustrations, uniform gilt decorated blue cloth, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern literature & related reference, including The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, 24 volumes, 1879, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, some leather bindings, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

425 Cotton (Charles). The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, The Great Favourite of France, 1670, 3 parts in 1, printed by E. Cotes and A. Clark, black & white engraved portrait frontispieces, book plate to front paste down, some minor marginal toning & marks, slight loss to foot of the 1st frontispiece, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards rubbed & partially detached, spine rubbed with loss to hinges and head & foot, folio, together with Shakespeare (William), The Works of Shakespeare:..., by Mr.Theobald, 1762, printed for C. Hitch, book plates to front paste downs, some minor spotting, rebound uniform original gilt decorated full calf, spines slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and McIntosh (Charles), The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticultural, 1828, 8 hand coloured plates plus black & white illustrations, later endpapers, some marginal toning & spotting, rebound retaining contemporary gilt decorated spine & full calf boards, thick 8vo, plus other mostly 18th & 19th century reference & literature, including, A Guide To The Lakes, 2nd edition, by Thomas West, 1780, mostly leather bindings, some cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio.

(6 shelves)

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£200 - £300

62 volumes.

(3 shelves)

112

£400 - £600

426 Bindings. The History of Great Britain, from the first invasion of it by the Romans under Julius Caesar, 12 volumes, 5th edition, 1814, some light spotting & offsetting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf bound by White, boards & spines slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry, 4 volumes, by Robert Stewart Castlereagh, 1848, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, minor offsetting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated blue full calf, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, Memoirs of Maximillian De Bethune , Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry The Great, 5 volumes, 1805, Edinburgh, book plates to front paste downs, some light toning & spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other 19th & early 20th century literature sets, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo.

429 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Undine, by De La Motte Fouqué, 1909, 15 tipped in colour plates, some spotting to the text block, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Sullivan (Edmund J.), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, by Edward Fitzgerald, 1913, colour frontispiece & 75 black & white illustrations, some light spotting, cracked front gutter, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Heal (Ambrose), The Signboards of Old London Shops, limited edition of 250 copies, 1947, 5 monochrome plates & upwards of 400 collotypes, some minor toning, publishers original red half morocco, boards & spine lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century illustrated literature & reference, including Choir Stalls and their Carvings..., by Emma Phipson, 1896, some leather bindings, many original gilt decorated cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

54 volumes.

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

430 Bindings. The Works of George Eliot, 21 volumes, standard edition, circa 1900, spotting, somelight spotting, uniform gilt decorated half calf bound by Bickers & Son, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 10 volumes, by James Boswell, 1835, period inscription to front endpaper, minor marginal toning, uniform gilt decorated red half calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth, 16 volumes, circa 1880, black & white illustrations by George Cruikshank, some minor spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half calf, spines & hinges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other 19th century literature sets, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo.

427 Hall (Basil). Extracts from a Journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, 3 volumes, 1826-27, Edinburgh, 3 black & white engraved title pages, previous owner inscription to front endpapers, some light toning, contemporary gilt decorated plum half calf, small 8vo, together with Mansfield (Robert Blachford), The Water Lily on The Danube: being a brief account of the perils of a pair-oar during a voyage from Lambeth to Pesth, 1833, 8black & white plates including a map, blind stamp to front endpaper, previous owners inscription to head of the title page, some light spotting, original embossed blue cloth, 8vo, and Janin (Jules), The American in Paris during the summer,...,1844, 18 black & white engraved plates, spotting to plate margins, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly marked & faded, 8vo, plus other 19th & early 20th century travel reference, including The Impossible Island, Corsica: its people and its sport, by “Snaffle”, 1923, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£200 - £300

431 Bishop (Frederick). The Illustrated London Cookery Book,..., 1st edition, 1852, numerous black & white illustrations, , minor toning, split gutters, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, together with A Lady, Domestic Economy, and Cookery for rich and poor;...,1827, some light spotting, contemporary half calf, boards & spine rubbed, small 8vo, and Recipe Manuscript, a handwritten recipe manuscript by Mary Birch, 1830, some spotting, original black morocco, rubbed, small 8vo, plus other 19th century cookery books, some leather bindings, many original cloth, condition is generally good.

£300 - £400

428 Bindings. History of the Reign of Charles The Fifth,..., 2 volumes, 1857, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain, 3 volumes, 1859, all by William H. Prescott, minor toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo, History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 12 volumes, popular edition, circa 1890, period inscription to front endpaper, bookplates to front paste downs, some light spotting, uniform contemporary gilt half calf, spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, The Works of Walter Scott, 25 volumes, new edition, circa 1890, minor toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other late 19th century literature sets, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo.

65 volumes.

(3 shelves)

£300 - £400

£200 - £300

(3 shelves)

£200 - £300

432 Clancy (P.A). The Birds of Natal and Zululand, 1st edition, 1964, signed by the author to the title page, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, some marginal spotting, original green cloth in dust jacket, minor damp damage and fading to front & rear boards, covers rubbed & torn with some loss to head & foot, large 8vo, Gamebirds of Southern Africa...,1st edition 1967, South Africa, 12 colour plates, 45 black & white illustrations & maps, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 4to, together with Rowan (M.K.), The Doves, Parrots, Louries & Cuckoos of Southern Africa, 1st edition 1983, South Africa, colour and black & white illustrations, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern African Bird reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£200 - £300

From the library of Bryan L. Sage (3 shelves & a carton)

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433 Salmon (Michael A.). The Aurelian Legacy, British butterflies and their collectors, 1st edition, 2000, Harley Books, Essex, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, minor rubbing to head of covers, 8vo, together with Catt (John), Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape, 1st edition, 2010, Hertfordshire, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, large 8vo, and Stace (Clive A. Et al), Hybrid Flora of the British Isles, 2015, Bristol, colour illustrations, original boards, spine lightly rubbed to foot, large 8vo, plus other modern U.K. natural history reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage, with bookplates.

(6 shelves & 2 cartons)

438 Murray (John). A Handbook for travellers in India Burma and Ceylon..., 6th edition, 1908, 81 colour and black & white plans and folding maps, lacks general map of India, later endpapers, bookplate to front paste down, some minor spotting, later red cloth, 8vo, together with Neve (Ernest F.), Beyond The Pur Panjal,..., 1912, 57 black & white illustrations and 2 maps, lacks frontispiece, some light spotting, original illustrated grey cloth, spine slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Phillips (Wendell), Qataban and Sheba, exploring ancient kingdoms on the Biblical spice routes of Arabia, 1955, numerous black & white illustrations, colour map endpapers, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, some loss to head of covers & spine, 8vo, plus other modern Arabia, India, Pakistan & Spice Road reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£300 - £400

434 Military. A large collection of early 20th century & modern military history & reference, including publications by Osprey, Pen & Sword, N&M, Sutton, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

439 Bauer (Paul). Himalayan Quest, the German expeditions to Siniolchum and Nanga Parbat,1st edition, 1938, 96 black & white illustrations and 4 maps, original red cloth, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 4to, together with Durham (W.E.), Summer Holidays in the Alps, 1st edition, 1916, 57 black & white illustrations, some water damage to foot of pages, minor marginal toning, original green cloth, water damage to foot of boards & spine, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Banks (Mike), Rakaposhi, 1st edition, 1959, 35 black & white illustrations and 3 maps, previous owner inscription to dedication page, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, tear to head of spine, 8vo, plus other mountaineering reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£200 - £300

435 Aviation. A large collection of modern aviation & military reference, including publications by Jane’s, Osprey, Greenhill Books, Scoval, Ian Allan, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some duplication, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£150 - £200

436 Nordenskjöld (Otto & Masking, Ludwig). The Geography of the Polar Regions, 1928, American Geographical Society, New York, black & white illustrations, ex-library of University of California with associated stamps, original cloth, 8vo, together with Meltofte (Hans [editor]), Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, status and trends in arctic biodiversity, 2013, CAFF, Denmark, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, large 8vo, and Griggs (Robert F.), The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 1922, National Geographic Society, Washington, black & white folding frontispiece plus colour and black & white illustrations, previous owner stamp to the title page, original gilt decorated blue cloth, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other modern polar & arctic natural history reference & related, including Arctic, Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, approximately 70 issues, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage with book plates.

(6 shelves & a carton)

(3 shelves)

£300 - £400

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

441 Pears (Charles). From the Thames to the Seine, 1910, 20 colour and 20 black & white illustrations, map endpapers, minor spotting, original illustrated brown cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with Adam (George & Pearl), A Book About Paris, 2nd impression, 1927, 16 colour illustrations, minor marginal spotting, original blue cloth, 4to, and other early 20th century & modern European travel & history reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks & travel guides, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£200 - £300

(6 shelves)

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£200 - £300

440 Forbes (John). The Physician’s Holiday; or, a month in Switzerland in the summer of 1848, 3rd edition, 1852, 4 monochrome plates & 1 folding map, some light spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Pinkney (Ninian), Travels through the South of France, and in the interior provinces of Provence and Languedoc,..., 2nd edition, 1814, colour folding map frontispiece, bookplate to front paste down, some spotting & offsetting throughout, contemporary boards, spine cracked with minor loss, 8vo, and Touring-Club Suisse [publisher], La Suisse Guide de l’Automobiliste , edition officielle 1926/27, 1926, Bern, numerous monochrome maps & adverts, previous owner stamp to title page, some light toning, original illustrated red cloth, boards & spine faded & lightly marked, spine rubbed to head & foot, tall 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century European travel reference, all original cloth, G/VG, 8vo.

437 Kelly (E.R.). County Topographies. Wiltshire, circa 1875, black & white folding map, repaired but with some loss, some light spotting, split front gutter, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards slightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, together with Evans (John), The Bristol Index, or Evan’s Directory for the year 1816,..., 1816, Bristol, some light spotting, later cloth spine retaining contemporary boards, slightly marked & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bradley (A.G.), A Book of the Severn, 1st edition, 1920, 16 colour illustrations, minor spotting, original blue cloth, 8vo, plus other Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire & U.K. topography & history, including 11 volumes of The Buildings of England, by Nikolaus Pevsner, many original cloth some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£150 - £200

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£150 - £200

442 Harris (Thomas). The Silence of The Lambs, 1st U.S. edition, 1988, St. Martin’s Press, New York, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with Cornwall (Patricia Daniels), Postmortem, 1st U.K. edition, 1990, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Erdman (Paul E.), The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, 1973, The Silver Bears, 1974, The Crash of ‘79, 1976, The Last Days of America, 1981, The Panic of ‘89, 1986, all 1st U.S. editions, New York, all original cloth in dust jackets, some spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern 1st edition fiction, including Iain Banks, John Francome, Reginald Hill, Scott Turow, Roddy Doyle, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo.

(6 shelves)

445 Nabokov (Vladimir). Lolita, 1st U.K. edition, 1959, small mark to the text block, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Algren (Nelson), A Walk on the Wild Side, 1st U.K. edition, 1957, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, [this is the novel that inspired Lou Reed’s song of the same title], and Lee (Laurie), A Rose for Winter, travels in Andalusia, 1st edition 1955, signed by the author to the title page, Cider With Rosie, 1st edition 1959, both Hogarth Press, both original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly faded with minor rubbing to head & foot, 8vo, plus Thomas (Leslie), The Virgin Soldiers, 1st edition, 1966, inscribed by the author to the title page, Orange Wednesday, 1st edition 1967, both original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mostly 1960s-70s 1st edition fiction, including Kingsley Amis , J.B. Priestley, Wilbur Smith, Alfred Hitchcock, P.B. Yull , some signed by the authors, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

£200 - £300

443 Scott (Walter). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland;..., 2 volumes, 1814, approximately 96 black & white engraved plates, some light spotting, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary gilt decorated blue morroco, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, together with Rauthemel (Richard), Antiquitates Bremetonacenses: or, the Roman antiquities of Overborough., 1746, printed for Henry Woodfall, 4 black & white folding plates, period inscriptions to front endpaper & head of the title page, water damage to pp 105 - rear endpapers, split guttering, some spotting, contemporary full calf, boards marked, hinges cracked, spine slightly rubbed, 4to, and Kaempfer(Engelbert), The History of Japan, together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-92, 3 volumes, 1907, Glasgow, black & white folding plates & maps, top edges gilt, some minor spotting, volume 1 in original gilt decorated red cloth, volumes 2& 3 in original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards & spines lightly marked & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th century history, reference and modern literature, including Catalogue of The Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn, published by The Fine Art Society, 1912, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 volumes, by Edward Gibbon, new edition, 1802, some leather bindings, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves)

446 Lofting (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office, 1st edition, 1924, Doctor Dolittle in The Moon, 6th impression, 1939, colour frontispieces and endpapers, black & white illustrations, both original cloth, boards and spines slightly rubbed and faded, plus 4 later editions, 8vo, together with other early and mid 20th century juvenile & illustrated fiction, including Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Ronald Searle, Bookano Stories No.4, Ladybird publications, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£150 - £200

447 Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of modern miscellaneous literature, including U.K. topography, natural history & motoring reference, including Britain in Pictures, 27 volumes, Observer books, 14 volumes, & publications by Batsford , A.&C. Black, Foulis , mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

(6 shelves)

£150 - £200

448 Milne (A.A.). Winnie -The -Pooh, 2nd edition, 1926, When We Were Very Young, 12th edition, 1925, black & white illustrations by E.H. Shepard, minor toning, both in original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Austen (Jane), Sense and Sensibility, 1899, black & white illustrations by Chris Hammond, minor marginal toning, publisher’s original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly damp damaged & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Lang (Andrew), The Book of Romance, New impression, 1903, numerous black & white illustrations by Henry Ford, minor toning, all edges gilt, publisher’s original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other 19th century juvenile & illustrated fiction, including Stories from The Arabian Nights, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, circa 1910, all original cloth, many decorative, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

£300 - £400

444 Jekyll (Gertrude). Home and Garden..., 1st edition, 1900, 53 black & white illustrations, Wood and Garden, eighth impression, 1900, 71 black & white illustrations, Wall and Water Gardens, 2nd edition, 1901, The “Country Life” Library, 134 black & white illustrations, Roses for English Gardens, 1st edition, 1902, The “Country LIfe” Library, 148 black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, Children and Gardens, 1st edition, 1902, 106 black & white illustrations, period inscription to half-title, some light spotting to all volumes, all in original gilt decorated cloth, covers & spines lightly rubbed & faded, 8vo, together with Loudon (J.C.), The Suburban Gardener, and Villa Companion:...1838, numerous black & white illustrations, endpapers heavily spotted with minor spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, lacking spine label, boards & spine slightly marked & rubbed, 8vo, and Robinson(W.), Alpine Flowers for English Gardens, 1870, numerous black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper & head of the title page, some minor toning, lacking rear endpapers, split gutters, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th gardening, botanical & horticultural reference, including Plant Hunter’s Paradise, by F. Kingdon Ward, second impression, 1938, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

(6 shelves)

£300 - £401

Approximately 100 volumes (3 shelves)

£200 - £300

449 Martin (Montgomery). The Indian Empire,..., 3 volumes, circa 1860, colour map to volume 1, black & white engraved plates, some minor toning, uniform gilt decorated red half morocco, boards rubbed & partially detached, spines worn with loss, 8vo, together with Stone (Percy Goddard), The Architectural Antiquities of The Isle of Wight,...,2 volumes, 1891, 146 black & white plates plus illustrations, some minor spotting, all edges gilt, uniform original gilt decorated half morocco, damp damage to foot of boards, spines lightly rubbed, folio, and other 19th century reference & literature, all leather bindings, some gilt decorated, condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/folio.

£300 - £400

Approximately 80 volumes.

(3 shelves)

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£300 - £400

450 Lester (J.C. & Wilson, D.L.). Ku Klux Klan, its origin, growth and disbandment, 1905, U.S.A., 10 black & white illustrations, some minor spotting, original green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo,KingdonWard (F.), The Land of the Blue Poppy, 1st edition, 1913, Cambridge University Press, 39 black & white plates plus 5 maps, lacks front endpaper, some light spotting, original green cloth, boards marked with paint, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Beebe (C. William), The Log of the Sun, 1906, New York, 52 colour & numerous black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorative green cloth, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th century natural history, travel & topography reference, all original cloth, many gilt decorated, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£300 - £400

451 Grisham (John). A Time To Kill, 1st U.S. edition, 2nd impression, 1989, [dust jacket mentions The Firm], The Firm, 1st U.S. edition, 1991, The Pelican Brief, 1st U.S. edition, 1992, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with Banks (Iain), Walking On Glass, 1st edition, 1985, The Bridge, 1st edition, 1986, both signed by the author to the title pages, both original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Forsyth (Frederick), The Day of The Jackal, 1st edition, 1971, The Odessa File, 1st edition, 1972, signed by the author to the title page, both original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus other modern 1st edition fiction, including Ken Follett, Jeffery Weaver, Steve Martini, Martina Cole, some signed by the authors, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

452 Lessius (Leonard). De Justitia et Jure caeterisque Virtutibus Cardinalibus libri IV, 1st edition, Louvain, Ex officina Joannis Masii, 1605, engraved title (margins very slightly trimmed, and torn with slight loss to top margin, just touching engraved surface), text in double column, some light toning throughout, 18th century gilt-decorated calf, rubbed and some wear, folio, together with Suarez (Francisco), Operum Omnium, 4 volumes, Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1740, 19th-century vellum with brown morocco spine labels, plus Benedict XIV (Pope). De Synodo Dioecesana libri tredecim, Rome, Joannes Generosus Salomoni, 1755, and other 17th, 18th and 19th century theology, including many folios, mainly vellum or calf bound, but including some 19th century works bound in cloth, all ex libris Wonersh Seminary, with occasional stamps, some wear, folio, 4to & 8vo (approximately 100 volumes) Lessius's De Justitia is his most important work, notable for its anaylsis of contemporary commercial practice. According to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, it is 'one of the earliest treatises to investigate the epics of economics'.

(5 shelves) £300 - £400

453 Philo (Judeaus). Opera Exegetica in libros Mosis, De Mundi opificio, historicos, & legales quae partim ab Adriano Turnebo... partim a Davide Hoeschelio... edita & illustrata sunt, Cologne, Petrus de la Roviere, 1613, woodcut decorative title, double column text in Greek and Latin, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and some wear to joints and corners, folio, together with Lightfoot (John). Opera Omnia: hac nova editione operibus ejusd. posthumis, nunquam hactenus editis, locupletata; quorum syllabus, pagina post Vitam Auctoris ultima, exhibetur.

Johannes Leusden Textum Hebraicum recensuit & emendavit, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Franeker, Leonard Strick, 1699, additional engraved title to first volume, titles printed in red and black, contemporary blind decorated vellum, soiled, folio, plus other antiquarian theology, including a few 17th century, mostly 18th and 19th century works, bound in vellum, calf and cloth, all ex-libris Wonersh Seminary, occasional inkstamps, folio, 4to and 8vo (approximately 100 volumes) Hoffmann II, 67. First complete collected edition in the original Greek of Philo's Opera Exegetica.

(5 shelves) £300 - £400

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454 Ugolino (Bartholomaeo). De Censuris Ecclesiasticis: idest de excommunicatione, suspensione, interdicto tractatus, Bologna, Giovanni de Rossi, 1594, title with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials, contemporary limp vellum, worn on spine, folio, together with Venerable Bede. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum libri quinque, cura et studio Johannis Smith, Cambridge, 1722, engraved frontispiece

by Van der Gucht, folding engraved map, several engraved plates, light waterstain to lower portion of text throughout, contemporary blindpanelled full calf, rubbed and some wear with upper cover detached and rear joint cracked, folio, plus other theology, some 17th century, mostly 18th and 19th century works bound in vellum, calf and cloth, all ex-libris Wonersh Seminary, with occasional inkstamps, etc., folio, 4to and 8vo (approximately 100 volumes) (5 shelves)

£300 - £400

455 St. Teresa of Avila. Opera S. Matris Teresae de Jesu Carmelitarum Discalceatorum et Discalceatarum Fundatricis in duas partes distincta, Studio et opera Mathiae Martinez Middelburgii ex Hispanico sermone in latinum conversa, Cologne, Joannem Kinckium, 1626, half-title, engraved title, with early ink inscription along fore-edge 'Ex dona de Conventus Coloniensis FF. Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Liber Cartusiensium in Ruramunda', [Roermond in the south east Netherlands], some browning and occasional discolouration, later vellum, rubbed and minor wear, with upper joint cracked, small 4to, together with Puente (Luis de la). De Christiani hominis perfectione: in quolibat eius vitae genere, translated by Melchiore Trevinnio, 4 volumes, Cologne, Johann Kinckius, 1615-29, engraved pictorial title to first volume, some scattered spotting, contemporary uniform sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and some wear, small 4to, plus Petra (Vincentius). Commentaria ad Constitutiones Apostolicas, seu Bullas Singulas Summorum Pontificum, 4 volumes, Rome, Josephi Nicolai de Martiis, 1725-26, engraved vignette to each title, text in double column, contemporary vellum, some wear and marks to covers, folio, and other theology, some 17th century, mostly 18th and 19th century, bound in vellum, calf and cloth, all ex-libris Wonersh Seminary, with occasional inkstamps, etc, folio, 4to, and 8vo (approximately 100 volumes) (5 shelves)

£300 - £400

456 Seacome (John), Memoirs containing a geneaological and historical account of the antient and honorable House of Stanley, from the Conquest, to the Death of James, Late Earl of Derby, in the year 1735; as also a full description of the Isle of Man, Manchester, Joseph Harrop, 1767, 31 woodcut illustrations of coats-of-arms to text, with old hand colouring, some spotting and toning, early ink ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cowley and Thomas Richardson of Widness House to front endpaper, contemporary reversed calf, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked (upper cover detached), 4to, together with Edgeworth (R.L.). Essays on Professional Education, 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1809, rough-trimmed, 20th century half calf, 4to, plus Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 volumes, printed for S. Hooper, 1791 & 1795, numerous copper engraved plates, some scattered spotting, contemporary diced calf gilt, heavily rubbed and some wear, crudely rebacked, large 4to, and Thoroton (Robert). Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire: republished, with large additions, by John Throsby, and embellished with picturesque and select views of seats of the nobility and gentry, towns, village churches, and ruins, 3 volumes, published by J. Throsby, 1790-97, copper engraved plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary uniform calf, worn with covers detached, 4to, plus other antiquarian and later works, various, mainly English topography, plate books, etc., many large format, including Lipscombe’s History of the County of Buckingham, 4 volumes, 1847, Browne’s History of St. Peter’s Church York, 2 volumes, 1847, Macquoid & Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 3 volumes, Country Life, Macquoid History of English Furniture, 4 volumes, Medici Society, Finden’s Ports, Harbours of Great Britain, Nash’s Mansions of England, 4 Divisions, etc., mostly bound in leather or cloth or boards, some wear, folio, 4to and 8vo (approximately 100 volumes) (5 shelves)

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£300 - £500

457 Puente (Luis de la). Expositio moralis et mystica in Canticum Canticorum: exhortationes continens de omnibus Christianae religionis mysteriis atque virtutibus, 2 volumes, Paris, Dionysius de la Noue, 1622, half-title and engraved title to first volume, printed title in red and black to second volume, text in double column, occasional light browning, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, gilt spines, rubbed and some wear, folio, together with other antiquarian theology, mostly 17th and 18th century, bound in vellum, and calf, all ex-libris Wonersh Seminary, with occasional inkstamps, etc., folio, and 4to (approximately 70 volumes) (4 shelves)

464 Bregion (Joseph & Miller, Anne). The Practical Cook, English and foreign;..., 1845, black & white illustrations, later endpapers, some light spotting, rebound in modern red cloth, 8vo, and Stieff (Frederick Philip), Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland,1932, New York, numerous monochrome illustrations, minor spotting to text block, original illustrated black cloth, 4to, and other 19th & early 20th century cookery books, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, condition is good/very good, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

465 Baronius (Caesar). The Life or The Ecclesiasticall Histoire of S.Thomas Archbishope of Canterbury, Colloniae, 1639, some light toning, bookplate to front paste down, later endpapers, later gilt decorated full calf, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bolingbroke (Henry St. John), A Letter to Sir William Windham...., 1753, printed for the editor, black & white engraved portrait frontispiece, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, contemporary gilt decorated tree calf, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Voltaire, La Pucelle D’Oreleans. Poëme,..., 1764, 20 black & white engraved plates, ex libris stamp to front endpaper, some light toning & offsetting, contemporary gilt decorated mottled calf, spine lightly rubbed, hinges cracked, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th century literature & reference, including La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri..., 4 volumes, 1815, Rome, all leather bindings, some foreign language, some odd volumes, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio.

£300 - £500

458 Ishiguro (Kazuo). The Unconsoled, 1995, Never Let Me Go, 2005, Nocturnes, 2009, all 1st editions, all signed by the author to the title pages, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with Adams (Douglas), So long, and thanks for all the fish, 1st edition, 1984, signed by the author to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Foden (Giles), The Last King of Scotland, 1st edition, 1998, signed by the author to the title page, some minor marginal toning, original wrappers, minor rubbing to foot, 8vo, plus other 1st edition fiction, including Roddy Doyle, Mark Haddon, Jack Higgins, Margaret Atwood, Michael Dibdin, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8vo.

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

459 Railways. A large collection of modern railway, steam & locomotive reference & related, including publications by Ian Allan, David & Charles, PSL, OPC, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

Approximately 100 volumes.

(3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£150 - £200

462 Keast (A., et al). Birds of Eucalypt Forests and Woodlands: ecology, conservation, management, 1st edition, 1985, Austraila, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations & charts, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with McKenzie (N.L. et al), Kimberley Rainforests of Australia, 1st edition, 1991, Australia, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo and Thorsborne (Arthur & Margaret), Hinchbrook Island, 1st edition 1988, Australia, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, large 8vo, plus other modern Australia, New Zealand and Antipodean ornithology & natural history reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

From the library of Bryan L. Sage, with bookplates.

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£300 - £400

468 Kipling (Rudyard). Sea And Sussex, from Rudyard Kipling’s verse, 1926, 24 colour plates by Donald Maxwell, some minor toning, original blue cloth, boards & spine slightly marked and rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and Betjeman (John), Summoned By Bells, 1st edition, 1960, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, minor loss to covers, 4to, and Potts (Paul), Invitation to a Sacrament, 1973, inscribed by the author to the title page, original paper wrappers in illustrated dust jacket, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern literature & poetry, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£300 - £400

(6 shelves)

463 Paperbacks. A large collection of approximately 1200 paperbacks, including approximately 600 orange Penguins, and academic publications by Phoenix Press, Nonsuch, Pan, Continuum, all in original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(14 shelves)

£200 - £300

467 Morse (Douglass H.). American Warblers, an ecological and behavioural perspective, 1st edition, 1989, Harvard University Press, U.S.A., black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 8vo, together with Wauer (Roland H.), Naturalist’s Mexico, 1st edition, 1992, Texas A&M University Press, U.S.A., numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Saunders (Audrey), Algonquin Story, reprint edition, 1963, Canada, 4 black & white maps plus illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, 8vo, plus other North & South American ornithology & natural history reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folio.

£200 - £300

461 Military. A large collection of late 19th century & modern military reference & related. including The History of the Indian Mutiny, 2 volumes by Charles Ball, circa 1890, and publications by Pen & Sword, Airlife, Sutton, PSL, Grub Street, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

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£300 - £400

466 Cookery. A large collection of late 19th & early 20th century cookery & recipe books, including Rare Recipes, by Deolee, 1912, All About Gateaux and Dessert Cakes, by H. G. Harris & S. P. Borella, circa 1910, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£200 - £300

460 Railways. A large collection of modern railway, steam & locomotive reference & related, including publications by Sutton, Blandford, Ian Allan, David & Charles, OPC, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

£150 - £200

469 Ishiguro (Kazuo). The Remains of the Day, 1st edition, 1989, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with other modern fiction, including Terry Pratchett, Ian McEwan, Stephen King, Dornford Yates, Paul Gallico, some signed by the authors, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

£200 - £300

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£100 - £150

470 Litchfield (Frederick). Illustrated History of Furniture, from the earliest to the present time, 3rd edition, 1893, numerous black & white illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with Layton (H.C.), Simen its Heights and Abysses,..., 1st edition, 1925, 23 black & white illustrations and 6 maps, minor spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other early 20th century & modern travel guides & reference, U.K. topography & miscellaneous reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves & a carton)

474 Hill (Reginald). Brother’s Keeper and other stories, limited edition, 1992 Eurographica, Helsinki, signed by the author to the title page, original wrappers, spine lightly faded, 4to, Fell of Dark, 1971, A Fairly Dangerous Thing, 1972, A Very Good Hater, 1974, Another Death In Venice, 1976, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Hailey (Arthur), Flight into Danger, 1958, [with John Castle], The Final Diagnosis, 1960, In High Places, 1962, Hotel, 1965, all 1st U.K. editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mid 20th century & modern fiction, including Lee Child, Dan Brown, Linwood Barclay, James Clavell , all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

£200 - £300

(6 shelves)

471 Parnell (Thomas) . Poems on several occasions, 1722, printed for B. Lintot, lacks endpapers, some marginal spotting, contemporary embossed full calf, boards detached & rubbed, 8vo, and Gibbs (William [illustrator]), The Universal Decorator a complete guide to ornamental design..., 1860, colour frontispiece plus numerous monochrome illustrations & plates, later endpapers, some spotting & marks throughout, later gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed & faded, large 4to, and other 18th to early 20th century literature & reference, mostly leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes & foreign language, condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/4to.

Approximately 160 volumes.

(6 shelves & a carton)

475 Truffaut (François). Hitchcock, 1st U.K. edition, 1967, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, together with Solmi (Angelo), Fellini, 1st U.K. edition, 1967, Merlin Press, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern film reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£300 - £500

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£100 - £150

478 Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of modern miscellaneous literature, including Historic Virginia Homes and Churches, by Robert A. Lancaster, 1915, U.S.A., Interiors of Virginia House of Colonial Times, by Edith Tunis Sale, 1927, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

£150 - £200

(6 shelves)

£100 - £150

479 Williams (Edward Preston). Some of the Old Halls and Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk, 1890, 50 black & white plates, book plate to front paste down, some light spotting, original gilt decorated half morocco, boards lightly rubbed, folio, together with Lysons (Daniel & Samuel), Magna Britannia; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain., volume 1, 1806, printed for T.Cadell, numerous black & white engraved plates, bookplate to front paste down, some offsetting, contemporary gilt decorated maroon half morocco, boards & spine rubbed, large 8vo, and Oliphant (Margaret), The Makers of Venice, doges, conquerors, painters and men of letters, 1898, 48 black & white illustrations, some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco bound by Truslove & Hanson, spine lightly rubbed to head, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century literature, including A Series of Views of Seats of the Noble Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 volumes, by F.O.Morris, circa 1890, mostly leather bindings, condition is good/very good, 8vo/4to.

£150 - £200

Approximately 150 volumes.

(6 shelves)

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£200 - £300

477 Theatre. A large collection of modern theatre reference & biography, including My Life In Art, by Constantin Stanislavsky, 1924, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to.

473 Moore (Henry T. [editor]). The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1962, some minor spotting to the text blocks, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed & torn to head & foot, 8vo , together with James (Henry [editor]), The Letters of William James, 2 volumes, limited 368/600, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, U.S.A., 2 monochrome portrait frontispieces, minor marginal toning, uniform original boards with blue cloth spines, lightly rubbed to head & foot, spine labels rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and Dick (Oliver Lawson), Aubrey’s Brief Lives, 1st edition, 1949, 28 black & white illustrations, minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers spotted & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other modern biography & literature, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

(6 shelves & a carton)

£150 - £200

476 Robbins (Harold). Never Love a Stranger, 1948, The Dream Merchants, 1949, A Stone For Danny Fisher, 1952, all 1st U.S. editions, some minor toning, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, together with Clavell(James), King Rat, 1st edition, 1963, minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other 1st editions & modern fiction, including Reginald Hill, Lee Child, Craig Thomas, Mario Puzo, Harold Robbins, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo.

472 Caslon & Co. (H. W. [publisher]). Specimens of Types & Borders, and illustrated catalogue of printers’ joinery and materials, 1915, numerous monochrome facsimiles & type examples, minor toning & spotting, original embossed cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with Alexander (S.), Moral Order and Progress: an analysis of ethical conceptions, 2nd edition, 1891, minor spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green half calf, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Shakespeare (William), The Works of William Shakespeare..., 12 volumes, Knight’s Cabinet Edition, 1851, Edinburgh, black & white illustrations, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, small 8vo, plus other miscellaneous 19th & early 20th century literature, some leather bindings, many original cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to.

(6 shelves)

£200 - £300

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Day Two

ANTIQUARIAN JUVENILE BOOKS

Lot 481

480 Alphabet book. The History of An Apple Pie, London: J. Bysh, circa 1860, 8 pages, each with half-page engraving and text, tail and fore-edges a little frayed, first page with minor pale brown mark, original printed wrappers, crudely resewn, tail and fore-edges a little frayed, corners creased with some wear, slim 8vo, together with two others similar: Father Tuck’s Fairy Land ABC, and The Toys and Games ABC, published by Raphael Tuck and Dutton respectively

481 Battledores. My New Battledore, Kettering: Joseph Toller, circa 1830s, single sheet of stiffened paper, folded to form two leaves with a flap, internally with three engravings, alphabets, and two lessons (some marks to one alphabet and inside front flap), exterior grey-brown with three engravings, imprint on flap, 13 x 8cm when folded, together with The New Royal Battledore, Kettering: Joseph Toller, circa 1840, single sheet of stiffened paper, folded to form two leaves with a flap, with three engravings, alphabets, numbers, and two lessons, exterior grey-brown,with woodcut of a zebra and imprint on flap, remainder of exterior with more letters, syllables and short words, 13 x 8.5cm when folded

Scarce, not in Gumuchian or Osborne. Two copies only listed on COPAC. (3) £100 - £150

The battledore was a more portable and less expensive version of the hornbook, and its ephemeral nature means that copies rarely survive in good condition. Each battledore often varied in its engravings. The first item here has internally: a lady kneeling to pray; people waving at a passing royal coach travelling from Paris to Rome (the coach driver and passengers being royallydressed donkeys); and a stage actor. Externally the engravings comprise: a basket-weaver (on the flap); a horse rider approaching a cabin; and visitors with candles in a catacombs passageway lined with skulls, possibly on a tour.

(2) £80 - £120

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Lot 482

482 Bible; hieroglyphic. A New Hieroglyphical Bible, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children: being a Selection of the most Useful Lessons and most Interesting Narratives ...

Embellished with Familiar Figures and Striking Emblems: Elegantly Engraved. To the whole is added a Sketch of the Life of Our Blessed Saviour, the Holy Apostles, etc. Recommended by the Revd. Rowland Hill, 1st edition thus, G. Thompson, 1794, engraved frontispiece and title-page, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, 2 full-page, light staining to lower outer corners of a few leaves, a few other marks, ownership inscription ‘J. C. Gething, 1808’ to front free endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, rubbed, 12mo (13.2 x 8.2cm) ESTC T123482; Sabin 53013 for the first US edition (published in Boston later the same year).

Hieroglyphic bibles have key words replaced with a rebus for educational purposes. ESTC traces eight copies in UK libraries, and six in the US. (1) £200 - £300

483 Chapbook. The Dangers of the Deep; or, Interesting Narratives of Shipwrecks & Disasters at Sea [cover-title]: Narrative of the Loss of The Ramilies, of Seventy-Four Guns, In the Atlantic Ocean, Sep. 21, 1782, Orlando Hodgson, [between 1836 and 1844], hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 16 pages, unopened, sewn as issued, original blue printed wrappers, front cover with minor mark, rear cover with short edge tear, slim 8vo

Lot 483

Orlando Hodgson published a large series of these ‘Dangers of the Deep’ chapbooks, of which this title (no. 26) appears to be one of the more rare, with no copies on COPAC and only one copy found on WorldCat. (1) £200 - £300

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Lot 484

Lot 486

484 Chapbooks. A collection of eight chapbooks (one duplicate), York: James Kendrew , circa 1820, numerous woodcut illustrations, The History of Tommy and Harry with repaired tear to title and short closed edge tear to one leaf, one copy of The Mother’s Gift lightly spotted and dust-soiled, two with vignette on front cover, five with booksellers stamp to front cover, some covers dust-soiled, The Life of Jack Sprat front cover with torn area previously repaired to verso, 16mo

486 Chapbooks. Butterfly’s Ball [cover-title], Otley: Walker and Son, circa 1835, Panorama Series no. 7, two strips joined into one continuous strip, folded to form 17 sections, all but the first 2 numbered (then starting at number 2), each with an engraving above lines of verse, the engravings with contemporary stencil colouring, occasional light offsetting, 19.5 x 12.6cm unfolded, original printed yellow wrappers, slightly edge frayed (mainly to rear cover fore-edge), partly split spine lightly marked in places with some chips, together with Little Tom, and His Friend John, or, Stories in Verse, T. Goode, [1854?], three strips joined into one continuous strip, folded to form 12 unnumbered sections, the first being a vignette title, the remainder each having an engraving (with contemporary stencil colouring) above lines of verse, the final strips of 6 sections being 12mm shorter than the rest, slightly closetrimmed at tail, clipping final line of verse in one section, 19.2 x 12cm unfolded, original printed pink wrappers, front cover (with title attached) nearly detached, some loss at spine

See Gumuchian 1577, 1578 and 1579. Gumuchian 1662 for The History of Tommy and Harry. Titles comprise: Jack Jingle, and Sucky Shingle; The History of a Little Boy Found Under an Haycock; The Cheerful Warbler; The Life of Jack Sprat, His Wife, and His Cat; The Death and Burial of Cock Robin; The History of Tommy and Harry; The Mother’s Gift (two copies).

(8) £100 - £150

485 Chapbooks. A Voyage in the Coal Trade; with an Address to Seamen, Especially the Rising Youth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Walker, circa 1850s, 24 pages, vignette title, vignette on final page, uncut and unopened, 17.2 x 10cm, in modern wrappers, together with The Famous History of Friar Bacon, with the Lives and Deaths of Bungey and Vendermast, Part the Firt [sic], [Derby], 1796, 24 pages, woodcut illustrations to text, lightly toned and spotted, uncut, 17.5 x 9.6cm, in modern wrappers, plus The House that Jack Built, to which is added Some Account of Jack Jingle..., York: Wilson & Spence, 1803, woodcut illustrations to text, woodcut vignette frontispiece (as pastedown) with early ink ownership signature at head, blank verso of title, rear pastedown and final leaf (publisher’s advertisements) each with early ink trials, some spotting (mainly towards rear), original wrappers, dust-soiled with a few marks, 9 x 6cm, and 11 other chapbooks and similar (14)

First item: Osborne page 76. Two rare examples of the unusual panorama chapbook format.

(2) £100 - £150

487 Chapbooks. The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood, an Entertaining Tale, Newcastle: Fordyce, circa 1830s, 24 pages, wood-engraved vignette to title, woodcut illustrations to text, disbound, 16.5 x 9.2cm, together with Nursery Rhymes for Children, Alnwick: Davison, circa 1830, 8 pages, decorated title, 12 woodengravings to text, small dampstain to gutter, uncut and unopened, disbound, 12.7 x 7.8cm, with 13 other chapbooks, including several by the Religious Tract Society (15)

£100 - £150

£70 - £100

488 Cock Robin. The Death and Burial of Cock Robin; as Taken from the Original Manuscript, in the Possession of Master Meanwell, Lichfield: printed and sold by M. Morgan, and A. Morgan, [cover-title], circa 1800, 16 pages, fifteen woodcut illustrations, generally spotted and toned, untrimmed, sewn as issued, 16mo This rare edition not listed in Gumuchian or Osborne.

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£100 - £150

489 Collodi (Carlo, pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini). Le Avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un Burattino, 1st edition, Florence: Felice Paggi, 1883, wood-engraved frontispiece and 61 text illustrations

by Enrico Mazzanti, 4 pp. publisher’s list at end, pp. 15/16 detached with marginal archival paper repair at gutter and upper corner, small tear to frontispiece (not affecting image), some light spotting and toning, stitching tender at front, front endpaper partly excised with presentation inscription, original red cloth gilt, spine faded with small splits to joints and small ink stain, some light damp stains, slight lean, 8vo Osborne p. 1007. First edition in book form of the classic tale of a wooden marionette who comes alive and whose nose grows every time he tells a lie. First serialised in Rome in the children’s magazine Giornale per i Bambini from July 1881-January 1883, first under the title ‘Storia di un burattino’ and later ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio’. In this version, a tragedy, Pinocchio ends up being hanged for his immoral behaviour, but at the publisher’s request the book edition was expanded so that he finds redemption and eventually transforms into a real boy. The author, Florence journalist Carlo Lorenzini took the pseudonym Collodi from the Tuscan town where his mother was born.Provenance: Inscribed to Leone Fenzi (in Italian “A Leona Fenzi, il normo[?] Sebastian, con un buou bacio a felice auguri”. Leonel Fenzi was the son of Italian Count Camillo Fenzi (1822-1873), and brother of Ida Copeland (née Fenzi, 1881-1964), who married Ronald Copeland of the Spode-Copeland china company, and became a Conservative MP, defeating Oswald Mosley for the Stoke seat in the 1931 general election. Thus by descent to the present owners.

(1) £6,000 - £8,000

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490 Collodi (Carlo, pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini). The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio, translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray, 1st English edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti (misprinted ‘C. Mazzanti to title), half title and title printed in red and black, contemporary presentation inscription to half title, patterned endpapers, matching patterned cloth, spine toned and a little rubbed at ends, small light red stain to lower cover, very slight lean, 8vo Osborne p. 1007. First published in Italian in 1883. See previous lot.

(1) £600 - £800

491 Costume. The Costume, Manners, and Peculiarities, of Different Inhabitants of the Globe, Calculated to Instruct and Amuse the Little Folks of All Countries, Grant and Griffith, circa 1848, 18 pages, printed on one side, 16 hand-coloured illustrations, each with an amusing rhyming description below, some light fingersoiling, inside front cover with contemporary ink ownership inscription, dated 1849, original printed wrappers, soiled, slim 8vo

492 Darton (and Clark, publisher). The Cotton Fields and Cotton Factories: being A Familiar View of the Rise and Progress of that Wonderful Branch of Trade, the Cotton Manufacture, Adapted for Youth, by Henry Brown, 1st edition, circa 1840, nine hand-coloured lithographed plates of trades, letterpress title preceded by ‘Child’s Library’ chromolithographed title, contemporary manuscript inscription on front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original red cloth decorated in blind and gilt, somewhat soiled, spine deficient (frayed at head and lacking 3.5cm at foot), small 8vo

Costumes include North American Indians, South American Indians, Negroes, Egyptians, etc.

(1) £80 - £120

Darton H108 (listing only eight plates, but with the addition of advertisements at rear). Our copy with plates as follows: Cotton Plantation; Batting; Carding; Bobbin & Drawing Frames; Reeding or Drawing in; Spinning; Warping & Winding; Weaving; and Printing.

(1) £100 - £150

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493 Darton (William & Son publisher). The Consequences of a Lie. Founded on Recent Facts. By Marianne Neville. With Copper Plates, 1st edition, circa 1832, three copper engraved plates, including frontispiece, a few spots, bound with The Yellow ShoeStrings; or, the Good Effects of Obedience to Parents, [by James Pedder], circa 1830, pp.72, three copper engraved plates, closetrimmed and with early juvenile colouring, frontispiece becoming detached (affecting printed caption at gutter), some minor marginal-staining and spotting, and Rosetta’s Birth-Day; Written For the Entertainment and Instruction of Little Girls, circa 1830, three copper engraved plates, with early juvenile colouring, some minor marks and offsetting, and five other children’s books similar, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership signature dated 1835, stitching strained and contents shaken, contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, corners showing, 12mo Darton H1141; H1202 (ours not conforming to any of the three editions listed); H1503(3). The other five titles are: James Talbot, or, The Importance of Recollecting, C.J.G. & P. Rivington, 1831; Little William. A Narrative of Facts, Dublin, Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland, 1833; An Evening at Home, or, A Holiday Present, 4th edition, Birmingham, Benjamin Hudson, 1827; My Father’s House, by Jane Elizabeth Holmes, William Darton and Son, circa 1830s; The Little Dog Trusty, The Cherry Orchard, and the Orange Man, Tales Selected from the Early Lessons by Maria Edgeworth. For the Use of Village Schools, &c., Baldwin and Cradock, 1834.

(1) £150 - £200

496 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Sylvie and Bruno/Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 6 volumes, 1st edition, 18891893, illustrations by Harry Furniss, a few leaves detached with frayed fore margins, some light soiling and stains, Clarendon Press Institute ink stamps, original red cloth, spines darkened with rubbed labels at foot, a few stains, some fading to volume VI upper cover, 8vo

494 Darton (William, publisher). The Little Cowslip-Gatherers; or, What a Penny Will Do, by Esther Hewlett (later Esther Copley), 1st edition, [1824], engraved frontispiece (offset to title), with dampstain to upper left corner and small loss to upper blank margin (with two associated short closed tears, slightly affecting image), two engraved plates(somewhat dampstain and marked), all plates with imprint dated 1824, four pages publisher’s advertisements at end, generally toned with some spotting, lacking free endpapers, front pastedown with early ink ownership inscription, original red roan-backed boards, worn, 12mo, together with Harvey & Darton (publishers), Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers, by Maria Hack, 4 volumes, 3rd edition, 1823-1824, engraved frontispiece to each volume (spotted), blank reverse to each frontispiece with early ink ownership name (dated 1845), titles spotted and toned (3 with early ink inscription at head), volume 4 title partly detached and with old sewn repair to tear, variable spotting (often light), most hinges cracked, original red roan-backed boards, worn, 12mo, with nine others similar (some defective) First two items: Darton H270 (1) and G427 (3) respectively.

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Presentation copy, inscribed to volumes I and IV half titles: “Presented to the Clarendon Press Institute, by the Author. June 25, 1894”; each volume with a Clarendon Press Institute presentation label. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 217 notes that Oxford High School has a presentation set of the whole work made up in six volumes.

(6) £400 - £600

£100 - £150

495 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Abenteuer im Wunderland, illustrated by John Tenniel, first German edition, Liepzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, first edition, second issue, [1869], wood-engraved plates and illustrations, heavy spotting, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, rubbed, a few minor marks, together with Phantasmagoria and Other Poems,

by Lewis Carroll, first edition, second issue, Macmillan & Co., 1869, upper inner hinges cracked, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed, spine darkened and a little frayed at head and foot, plus Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, sixty-third thousand, Macmillan & Co., 1880, wood-engraved plates and illustrations after John Tenniel, ownership signatures and notes in pen and pencil by Daphne Bath [Daphne Fielding, Marchioness of Bath] to free endpapers at front and rear, all edges gilt, red calf gilt by Bayntun Riviere, slightly rubbed and marked, all 8vo First two items: Crutch 72 & 69 respectively.

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497 Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the ElfWorld. With a Poem by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans et al, 1870, 16 full-page colour illustrations, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, first two plates with small damp-stain to lower blank margin, text printed on rectos only, some spotting and marks throughout, hinge split between frontispiece and half-title (latter becoming loose), endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, covers marked and slightly bowed, edges rubbed (and a little frayed in places), folio Osborne, p.619. “... a folio which is also Richard Doyle’s masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children’s book illustrations ever made” (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.184. A book notoriously difficult to find in good condition, due to the usual decay of its original gutta-percha binding.

(1) £200 - £300

£150 - £200

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Lot 499

498 Horsley (Henry Sharpe). The Affectionate Parent’s Gift and the Good Child’s Reward, Consisting of a Series of Poems and Essays, on Natural, Moral, and Religious Subjects..., 28 parts, 1st edition, printed for T. Kelly, 1827, 110 (of 114) engraved plates, including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title to part 1, variable spotting, some light edge-fraying, part 10 with brown mark to blank fore-margins of first 3 plates, part 19 with some loss of blank fore-margins to each plate, and with small torn & creased area to final leaf, part 23 with first plate stained, part 25 partly unopened, original printed wrappers, generally toned and worn, with occasional spotting, front cover of part 28 with early ink signature ‘Miss Dangerfield’ at head, small 8vo Osborne page 644. In 28 parts as issued, to be divided into two volumes when bound: final leaf of part 14 states ‘End of the First Volume’, first text leaf of part 15 gives the title at the head, and states ‘Vol. II’ at the tail. The title page to volume II is bound into part 28, along with the ‘List of Plates and Contents’.

Each part was issued with four plates (not including the frontispiece or additional title to part 1). This set is lacking some plates, as often (the copy in Osborne is noted as being ‘incomplete and imperfect’). The plates lacking here are: part 6 ‘The Death of a Father’; part 12 ‘The Lunatic Asylum’; part 18 ‘On Death’; part 23 ‘Hell’. Possibly these were removed by a protective parent, as these four plates had particularly gruesome or frightening scenes. Scarce in this original parts state, this item is usually found bound into volumes. An accompanying manuscript note states that this copy was purchased by Miss Dangerfield from the publisher (see signature on final part) and remained in the family until coming to the current vendor.

(28) £150 - £200

499 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Im Sommer, ein Bilderbuch [covertitle], 6th edition, Munich: Braun and Schneider, circa 1890, six double-page panels, mounted onto 12 board/card sections (the first and last sections forming the covers), and joined into one continuous strip to form a panorama, the hand-coloured scene with rhyming couplets beneath, folded concertina style with cloth hinges, paper splitting along most hinges, cover hinges slightly splitting and ends a little worn, variable toning and spotting, 37.7 x 19.1cm unfolded, front cover with hand-coloured pictorial paper label (lightly soiled)

500 Miniature almanack. Almanach, op ‘t Jaar ons Heeren Jesu Christi, 1711. Voorsien met de Jaar / Paarde / Beeste en Leermarkten, Met de Maans op en ondergank, Door Jan Albertsz van Dam, five parts in 1, Amsterdam: Stichter, 1711, title and first part printed in red & black, with woodcut to title, three woodcuts to text (one in red & black), 10 blank leaves bound between parts 3 and 4, six of these being specially stiffened and coated leaves, several with early manuscript, final part somewhat toned, rear pastedown lifting, all edges gilt, original tortoiseshell covers and spine, with four silver hinges at spine, and silver clasps at fore-edge, lacks silver stylus, covers slightly edge-chipped, 78 x 58mm

A rare early edition of this scarce Meggendorfer panorama. Only three auction records found, none being for such an early edition as this. The twelve-panel panorama depicts six continuous scenes of people engaging in a variety of summertime activities, such as a seaside village (with a girl chasing geese) and a country road near a forest (with a team of six draft horses pulling a large covered hay wagon).

(1) £300 - £500 Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

Not in Bondy or Gumuchian. A rare early copy of this miniature Dutch almanack. The other four parts include notes on the ferries, a fortune teller, a section of ‘rich spells and dignified sentiments’, and a short chronicle beginning in the year 1600.

(1) £100 - £150

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501 Miniature alphabet. My Tiny Alphabet Book [Cover Title], 2 parts in one: Tiny Alphabet of Animals [and] Tiny Alphabet of Birds, Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, circa 1895, printed in red and black, numerous colour illustrations, all edges gilt, original maroon morocco gilt, 28 x 21mm, together with Miniature dictionary, The Smallest English Dictionary in the World, Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, [1893], portrait frontispiece, partly unopened, all edges gilt, original green morocco, upper cover with gilt lettered title, lower cover with tiny nick to leather surface at lower left corner, 30 x 20mm Bondy pages 72 & 106 respectively.

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502 Miniature book. Twelve of Hearts, Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1982, red ink manuscript, 12 original watercolour paintings

by Robert Gould, rear free endpaper gilt lettered 19 D.P.B. 83, original vellum, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 67 x 56mm Limited edition, 14/36 copies, signed by the artist.

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£300 - £500

503 Miniature books. Bibliothèque en Miniature, Paris: Marcilly, circa 1835, six books, each of 24 pages, vignette titles, one engraved plate to each volume, some spotting and toning, original printed pink wrappers, 69 x 46mm, contained in original two-part box, lid with printed label within embossed gold border (extremities a little rubbed), upper surface of lid dust-soiled with small stain, one corner of lid split and sometime repaired

£100 - £150

Bondy page 75; Gumuchian 4062. Titles include: Berquin’s Variétés, Démoustier’s Mythologie, Florian’s Mélanges, La Fontaine’s Fables, and Poésies by Millevoye and by Voltaire. This charming little set sometimes (as in Bondy) comes in a slipcase, with mixed colour wrappers.

(1) £150 - £200

504 Miniature Books. Les Petits Montagnards , Année 1822, Paris: Marcilly, [1821], vignette title-page, eight full-page letterpress engravings, a couple of minor spots, rear hinge split, all edges gilt, some fore-edges with tiny black mark, original red morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, covers with decorative borders and central floral tool in gilt, 27 x 19mm, together with Manuscript book, mid-19th century, 18 pages of ink manuscript, listing 24 personal aide-mémoires, final page lightly toned, loosely sewn into original varnished card wrappers, front cover with hand-painted watercolour of a bunch of flowers tied with a blue ribbon, rear cover with the painted words ‘In absence’ surrounded by a circle of forget-me-nots, both covers with gilt strip along top, bottom and fore-edges, spine lightly rubbed, front cover with crease to upper right corner, 31 x 19mm, with three other miniature books First item: Gumuchian 4132. A rare and attractive miniature book. The first half of the volume consists of text in verse accompanied by full-page illustrations, including a young egg seller, a performing bear, a little miller, a little chimney sweep, a woodcutter and a flower seller. An almanack fills the second half of the volume.

(5) £200 - £300

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505 Miniature books. Les Plaisirs de la Campagne, Paris: Marcilly, circa 1825, vignette title, seven engraved plates, half-title, some light spotting in places, a few fore-edges with tiny red mark, rear pastedown dampstained, original embossed pink boards, somewhat rubbed and dust-soiled in places, 48 x 62mm, together with Le Petit Paroissien de la Jeunesse, Paris: Saintin, midlate19th century, printed by Eberhart, engraved frontispiece and ten plates, light spotting, front free endpaper with ink ownership name, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated red boards, extremities slightly rubbed, 44 x 29mm, in original matching slipcase (rubbed), with 6 other miniature and small books, including The Miniature Calendar for 1893, Nister, [1893], and two Kate Greenaway small/miniature books First item: Gumuchian 4133. Second item: Bondy pages 77-78.

(8) £100 - £150

507 Miniature books. Taschen Kalender für das Schalt-Jahr 1824, Leipzig: Schreibers Erben, 1824, engraved throughout, including frontispiece, 30 leaves printed on one side, each month headed by an engraved oblong vignette of domestic or rural scenes, lists of abbreviations and signs, including zodiac signs, and eclipses, followed by a map of Leipzig and two engraved plates, one of boatmen on a river and the other of geese in front of a rural chapel, original yellow wrappers, each cover with decorative border and central design printed in red, lower right corner of front cover a little rubbed, 47 x 37mm, in original slipcase, together with London Almanack for ye Year of Christ 1728, the Company of Stationers, [1728], engraved throughout, including a single-page allegorical plate (possibly originally folding), all leaves printed one side, red ink duty stamp to title, first two blanks with early ink ownership inscription and verse, dated 1740, close-trimmed at fore-edge, affecting plate, a little wear to some fore-edges, front hinge split, contemporary gilt-decorated black morocco (rubbed), lacking clasp, 55 x 31mm, plus London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1774, the Company of Stationers, [1774], engraved throughout, including four-page view of The New Sessions House, all leaves printed one side with blanks adhered, partial red ink duty stamp to title, one opening split at gutter, Dutch floral endpapers, edges closetrimmed, original boards, some wear to extremities, 57 x 34mm, in original two-part slipcase covered with Dutch floral paper, and New London Almanack for the Year 1777, for G. Robinson, [1777], engraved throughout, including four-page view of The Scavoir [sic] Vivre, St James’s Street, all leaves printed one side with blanks adhered, soiled with some dampstaining to lower outer corners, title creased, stitching strained, edges close-trimmed, affecting some text at head and view at fore-edges, Dutch floral endpapers, contemporary gilt-decorated red, dark green and black morocco, upper edge of rear cover chipped, 57 x 35mm

506 Miniature books. Les Quatre Saisons, Paris: Pinard, circa 1825, four books, each of 24 pages, one hand-coloured engraved plate to each volume, some spotting to text, original embossed pink wrappers, some light dust-soiling in places, 67 x 47mm , contained in original slipcase, printed paper label to front panel, somewhat rubbed and marked Gumuchian 4134 & 4135.

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£100 - £150

First item not in Bondy or Gumuchian. Second and third items: Bondy pages 39-41; Gumuchian 4102-4109 (for other years). For many years the Stationers’ Company had the monopoly on publishing London Almanacks.

However, this was successfully challenged by Thomas Carnan during the 1770s, after which London Almanacks were produced by various publishers including G. Robinson and of course Carnan himself.

(4) £150 - £200

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508 Miniature books. The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen, Translated and Illustrated by Erik Blegvad, Dallas: Somesuch Press, 1994, half-title, six double-page colour illustrations, blank leaf after first illustration inscribed by Erik Blegvad to Stanley Marcus, colour illustrated endpapers, original maroon cloth, upper cover (very lightly marked) with colour pictorial panel, 71 x 61mm, (limited edition, 126/250 copies), together with The History of Imaginary Spinning Tops, by Nick Bantock, Dallas: Somesuch Press, 1994, half-title, eight tipped-in colour plates, dedication leaf at rear signed by the author, original tan morocco, upper cover with blind-stamped design, spine lightly faded, 72 x 60mm, (limited edition, 234/300 copies), plus Quest for the Best, by Stanley Marcus, New York: Viking Press, 1979, numerous black & white illustrations, original blue cloth, giltlettered spine, top edges lightly faded, dust jacket, spine and front panel edges faded, front panel top edge somewhat frayed, 77 x 55mm, (limited edition, 790/850 copies), with seven other miniature books, (six from the Somesuch Press)

509 Moveable. The Moveable Mother Hubbard, Dean & Son, [cover-title], circa 1857, eight hand-coloured full-page scenes, each with lever-operated moveable parts, all in working order, occasional repaired closed tears to lever slots, publisher’s advertisement endpapers, front hinge slightly cracked, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed in places, some minor marks, in loose protective paper wrapper, slim 8vo Osborne page 419. Rear cover with printer’s date ‘1, 57’.

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Provenance: personal gifts to the owner from Stanley Marcus. Marcus, the former chairman of Neiman-Marcus (a luxury retail store in Dallas, Texas), as well as being an internationally respected businessman was also a wellknown local philanthropist. The Somesuch Press was created by Stanley Marcus in 1975, so that he could publish his own work ‘Minding the Store’ in a miniature edition. Having a deep interest in miniature books, he then continued to publish various titles in miniature form until his death in 2002.

(10) £100 - £150

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£200 - £300

510 Roscoe (William). The Butterfly’s Ball, and the Grasshopper’s Feast, 1st edition, printed for J. Harris, Jany. 1st. 1807, fourteen copper engraved illustrations after William Mulready with engraved verse above, including frontispiece, printed on one side of the leaf only (facing versos and rectos), blank leaf at rear, without watermark, lightly toned, and some marks and staining, corners curled, contemporary ownership name on front free endpaper, juvenile pencil scribblings on reverse of frontispiece and facing front pastedown (not laid down), original printed buff wrappers, text within double entwined trail of leaves and berries, rubbed and slightly frayed, spine with old stitched repair, small hole in upper cover (affecting imprint) sometime repaired, 16mo, together with [Dorset, Catherine Ann (Turner)], The Peacock “At Home:” A Sequel to the Butterfly’s Ball. Written by a Lady. and Illustrated with Elegant Engravings, 1st edition, printed for J. Harris, 1807, five (of six) copper engraved plates after William Mulready, including frontispiece, toned and dust-soiled, a few fox spots, some minor edge-fraying in places, final text leaf with horizontal tear, original printed buff wrappers, rubbed and stained, worn spine with remains of old stitched repair, 16mo, plus [Elliott, Mary], The Mice, and their Pic Nic. A Good Moral Tale, &c. by a Looking-Glass Maker, printed by William Darton, 1813, engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates, toned throughout, some tears and repairs (and slight loss to upper blank corners of final two leaves), contemporary ownership names on title-page, book ticket of Lawrence Darton on front pastedown, stitching broken, and page block loose in original printed wrappers (undated), soiled and worn with loss to upper corner of lower cover, 13 x 10.5cm

VINTAGE TOYS & GAMES

Provenance: from the Darton family collection. First two items: Gumuchian 4967 & 2241; Moon 725 & 215(1); Osborne, pp.76 & 61. Third item: the fourth edition of the author’s first published work; all early editions are hard to find in the original wrappers. Darton H467(4); Gumuchian 4030 (2nd edition of 1810 in modern calf); Lilly Library, p.61 (1st edition of 1809); Osborne, p.635 (2nd edition of 1810, lacking the covers).

(3) £400 - £600

512* Card Game. The Improved and Illustrated Game of Doctor Busby, published by W. and S.B. Ives, Salem, Mass., circa 1843 or slightly later, a complete set of twenty hand-coloured lithographed cards (four suits of five cards each), some spotting and finger soiling throughout, versos blank, contained in original cloth slipcase with printed paper label to upper cover and to lower cover, slightly rubbed and soiled and split along one joint, 91 x 64mm, together with a group of 38 ‘Snap’ (?)home-made playing cards, France, 19th century, cards with coloured engravings of monarchs, soldiers, etc. pasted to one side, a little soiling, 100 x 60mm The Doctor Busby game is a rare early edition of the first card game published in America. It consists of four suits (pestle & mortar, milk pan, eye, and spade), representing the Busby family, the family of Doll the dairy maid, the Ninny-Come-Twitch family, and the family of Spade the gardener.

(59) £100 - £150

511 [Topffer, Rodolphe]. The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, 1st English edition, Tilt and Bogue, [1841], 84 pp., illustrations, occasional light soiling, gutta percha perished, contents loose, original blindstamped cloth gilt, spine a little faded with small split and wormholes, faint ring mark and fading to upper cover, oblong 8vo First published in Geneva in 1837 as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois, by Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Topffer, this first English-language edition was published a year later in the New York paper Brother Jonathan, thus becoming the first sequential comic-book to be published in the United States.

(1) £200 - £300

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Lot 514

513* The Comic Girl. Amusement with a Swinging Pendulum Figure in Many Forms, G.W.F. [i.e. Faber] & W., 1850s, wooden stand with weighed pendulum action and hand-coloured lithographed female headless bust in profile, four interchangeable heads (one with nose damaged), and four different hats, all hand-coloured lithographs on card, contained in original box (soiled), pictorial label to lid, with title in English, German and French, lid edges covered with decorative paper (one corner split), some wear in places, stand 14.5 x 12cm, box 13 x 15 x 4.5cm, together with French moveable Lotto, A set of twelve French Lotto cards, mid 19th century, handcoloured lithographed images of amusing scenes (lightly rubbed in places), each card with four moveable parts that hide or reveal four lotto numbers, 3 moveable parts previously repaired to verso, six moveables partly replaced in facsimile, card edges rubbed with a little wear in places, card 7 with small stain to upper edge, card 9 with tiny stain to lower edge and small area of paper loss at lower right corner, each card 12.2 x 20.8cm, plus Schimmell, or, Bell and Hammer, mid 19th century, five hand-coloured game cards, each named in English, German and French, cards comprise: The Hammer and Bell, The Gray Horse, Hammer, Bell, and The Merchants Hat: The Bazar, each card 13.4 x 16.4cm, contained together in original wooden box (a few woodworm holes), sliding lid with original pictorial paper label (soiled with some wear at edges), with instructions, turned wood gavel, 7 bone dice, and a quantitiy of late 19th century replacement paper counters with manuscript numbers on, and a small quanitity of bone dice (some with maker’s marks) and a small wooden parquetry box containing a defective set of miniature skittles This Comic Girl set comprises four heads: lady, girl, cat, rabbit; and four hats: pink bonnet with ribbons, hats with roses, blue ribbon hat (lacking hanging ribbons) and military style hat.

(5) £200 - £300

514* Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse Tidley Winks, Chad Valley, 1930s, thick die-cut colour-printed card and painted wood stand featuring Clarabelle, Minnie Mouse, Mickey Mouse, and Pluto, each with wooden cup in front, slightly rubbed and dusty, together with several tiddley winks, lacking instruction sheet, 15 x 34cm, contained in original cardboard box, pull-off lid with pictorial label depicting the four characters, soiled and partially broken, together with a 1928 Felix Annual, a 1955 Dandy Annual, and The Browns, A Book of Bears, by B. Parker, illustrated by N. Parker (4)

515* Doll. A late Victorian doll, wax headed doll with blue eyes and blonde hair (head cracked and with one piece missing), stuffed body, and composition arms and legs, latter painted with buttoned boots (rubbed), wearing a faux pearl necklace, a dark cream damask dress with lace collar, pink silk sash round dropped waist, with matching neck and cuff trim, frayed in places, and straw hat trimmed with lace, ribbon, and faux pearls, length 39.5cm

£100 - £150

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516* Furga. Pinocchio puppet, circa 1945, painted papier-maché puppet, with jointed wooden arms and legs (elbows stiff), with original manufacturer’s printed card tag attached under collar, stating licenced from Walt Disney, feet and head with some surface cracking in places, right shoe and rim of hat with some flaking of paint and consequent minor loss, original clothing, comprising shirt (rear of collar slightly soiled), bow tie, shorts, and belt, painted card feather to hat (detached with crease and some paint loss), height 36cm, together with another composite doll, with moveable arms and legs, in traditional (Italian?) costume An unusual example of the Furga Pinocchio puppet with a smiling face as this puppet is usually seen with a shocked or surprised expression.

(2) £100 - £150

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517* James Bond 007 Secret Agent Game, A Strategic Spy Game for 2, 3, or 4 Players, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley, 1964, folding colour-printed game board, 47 x 40cm, original colour-printed cardboard box (some wear in places), lid corners split (3 repaired with adhesive tape), tray (with one corner split) containing 12 Secret Agents, four wooden scoring disks, 48 ‘Spy’ cards (3 replaced in facsimile), printed game instructions on underside of lid (1)

518* Jigsaw Puzzles. A collection of 19 jigsaw puzzles, early 20th century, coloured paper on wood or card, all in original card box, includes six GWR puzzles, one Cunard puzzle and two Victory Artistic puzzles, various condition, some incomplete, various sizes GWR titles include: Speed; The Railway Station; The “St. Julien”. (a carton) £70 - £100

£70 - £100

519* Jigsaw. The Farm Yard. (Harvest Evening.), James Barfoot, circa 1860, approximately 80 wooden pieces, with hand-coloured lithographed scene of harvest making, with numerous figures dancing, playing instruments, picnicking, etc., and cattle, horses, a farmhouse, church, and hayrick, titled to lower margin, publisher’s signature roses to lower left, one piece replaced , and another with slight loss, minor worming and surface loss to a few pieces, overall size 39.5 x 52.5cm, housed in original wooden box with hand-coloured lithographed label on sliding lid, some worming to base of box, lid broken in two vertically Rare early jigsaw: we have been unable to trace another.

(1) £200 - £300

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520* Panorama. Panorama of the Coronation Procession of Their Majesties, 12th May 1937, Drawn by Mary McNeile for Captain J. R. Abbey, Chiswick Press, 1938, hand-coloured collotype and stencil strip panorama, in 12 sections (one join creased), each scene captioned beneath, three short closed edge tears, width 11cm, length approximately 560cm, mounted in original turned boxwood cylinder, with hand-coloured pictorial coronation scene label (dust-soiled), cylinder height 17.5cm

521* Potter (Beatrix). Nursery Frieze, Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1950s, colour-printed paper frieze in three sections, complete, depicting a variety of characters from the stories, including Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Mrs. Tiggywinkle, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, etc., imprint to lower margin with copyright date 1952, some light spotting, small faint stain to upper margin, pin hole to each corner, each 24.5 x 101.5cm An attractive piece of Beatrix Potter ephemera, intended to be discarded after use; such survivals are usually in poor condition.

(3) £150 - £200

Limited edition, one of 125 copies (limitation number apparently erased).

The scroll depicts scenes of the coronation procession including: the State Coach conveying Their Majesties..., King’s Escort Indian Army Officers, Band of Royal Marines, Royal Air Force, Canadian Mounted Police, Queen of Norway, etc., together with a numbered key to the Official Personages and Officers Commanding Detachments.

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522* Rocking Horse. An English dapple grey rocking horse, by J. Collinson and Sons, circa 1950s, carved and painted wooden rocking horse, somewhat rubbed and chipped, original hair mane and tail, red corduroy saddle with leatherette saddle flaps and cloths, original leather bridle, martingale, and crupper, rubbed with some wear, one stirrup leather detached and broken, the other with stirrup and buckle detached (detached pieces with their original fittings retained in a box), original metal eyes, two leg joints slightly strained, wooden swing stand, rubbed, rectangular vertical pillars, with diamond-shaped covers, red painted metal rockers, height 91cm (36ins), body length 77cm (30.5ins), overall length 112cm (44ins) Dapple Grey, as this horse is named, was bought second-hand for the current owner in the mid 1970s, being already 15-20 years old at the time. More recently, the owner’s nephew rather enjoyed riding Dapple Grey too much, resulting in the wear and tear now seen. However, this is still a lovely working rocking horse that can be enjoyed as it is, or restored to its former glory if so desired. J. Collinson and Sons, established in 1836, was probably Britain’s longest established rocking horse maker, sadly closing its doors in 1993. Apparently Queen Victoria visited the company in 1851 and chose a dapple grey rocking horse, after which all Collinson horses were made to this style.

(1) £150 - £250

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523 The Speaking Picture Book. A New Picture Book with Characteristical Voices, Made in Germany, For Sale by F.A.O. Schwarz, New-York, [1881?], eight chromolithographed pages, with relating poems, a few minor marks and spots, first illustration with minor surface loss to lower right corner, first poem with pale mark across left side, each page with corresponding “pull” to activate a sound effect (final page with two “pulls”), the mechanism concealed within a book-form box, the top and bottom edges of pierced wood gilt, original decorative cloth-covered boards, a few minor marks (mainly to lower board), turned ivory finials to the pulls, 4to Osborne I page 420. The sounds produced are that of the cock, the donkey, the lamb, the birds, the cow, the cuckoo, the goat, and mamma and papa.

Unusually, this copy is complete with all the original ivory finials, and all the voices working, with the item in very good condition having not suffered a reback as is often the case. Haining calls this ‘the pièce de résistance of any collection of moveables’ and adds that very few complete and fine copies have ‘survived youthful hands.’ (Haining, Moveable Books, pp.136/7) (1) £300 - £500

Lot 523

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524 The Speaking Toybook. Reproducing the Voices of the Cock, the Goat, the Cat, the Bird, the Lamb and the Cuckoo, Dedicated to all Children by One Who Loves Them, Pictures, Rhymes and Speech combined Within this charming book you’ll find, Printed in Germany, circa 1900, six chromolithographed pages, with relating poems and an alphabet in verse, by Jeanie Rose Brewer, a few minor marks and finger-soiling, front hinge cracked, stitching slightly strained, each page with corresponding “pull” to activate a sound effect, the mechanism concealed within a book-form box, the top and bottom edges of pierced wood gilt, the side edge wood gilt (edges rubbed), original red pictorial cloth-covered boards, upper board with small pale stain to lower edge, rear joint with tiny spot of wear, turned bone finials to the pulls (two neatly replaced with wood), oblong 8vo All six voices are in working order.

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£150 - £200

525* Transformation Game. Metamorphosis costume cards, n.p., circa 1840s, 28 (of 30) hand-coloured etched cards, forming ten different figures in costume, including one playing a hurdy gurdy, one with a rifle, a Victorian gentleman with a tea tray, and various figures in flamboyant dress, one in a turban, lacking two heads, each card with contemporary ink numeral top right, toned and spotted, each card approximately 43 x 60 mm, contained together in original cardboard box, with hand-coloured etched label on pull-off lid (repeating one of the figures), toned and rubbed, lid split at joints and sometime reinforced on inside A rare early set of transformation cards, most unusually found in the original, rather delicate, cardboard box.

(1) £300 - £500

526* Tricycle. A 1920s child’s tricycle, the tubular steel handlebars with painted wood grips, steel frame with traces of original green paint, with three composite spoked wheels, peddles (one replaced), and brown leather saddle, lacking bicycle chain, height 60cm, length 93cm (1)

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CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 528 Allemagne (Henry René d’). Histoire des Jouets... , Librairie Hachette, first edition, Paris, [1902], 100 plates including 50 handcoloured, illustrations to text, top edge gilt, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed and soiled, spines slightly browned, 4to

527 Aldin (Cecil). Old Manor Houses, [1923], 12 tipped-in colour plates, numerous illustrations and decorations to text, a few light spots (mainly at fore-margins), bookplate of Eva Christian Hyde Hyde-Thomson, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum-backed boards, both lower corners with some surface loss, some dust-soiling, 4to, together with Greenaway (Kate), Under the Window, Pictures & Rhymes for Children, 1st edition, [1878], first issue, with no printer’s ornaments to either side of ‘Edmund Evans’ on title, with ‘End of Contents’ printed at foot of page14, and with the three illustrations dropped from later editions, edges stained yellow, blue endpapers, original blue cloth backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and some wear to extremities, small 4to, plus Mack (Lizzie & Mack, Robert Ellice), Old Father Christmas Picture-Book, Ernest Nister, [1888], chromolithographed plates (some offset onto facing page), stitching showing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, somewhat soiled with some minor marks, corners slightly showing, small 4to, and eight others, including Teddy Bear and Other Songs from When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne, 1926, with dust jacket

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£200 - £300

First item: limited edition, 23/380 total copies, signed by the artist, with an original illustration of a dog. Second item: Schuster & Engen 201.1a.

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529 Allemagne (Henry René d’). Sports et Jeux d’Edresse, first edition, Librairie Hachette, [1903], 100 plates including 29 handcoloured, illustrations to text, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, spine slightly browned, 4to (1)

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Lot 528

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530 Weatherly (Fred E.), The Book of Gnomes, Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy, London: NIster [and] New York: Dutton, circa 1895, eight chromolithographed plates, numerous black & white illustrations (some full-page), some full-page, generally toned, several short closed edge-tears, a few minor marks (mainly to margins), central fold detached, pictorial endpapers, both hinges cracked after/before endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, some wear to extremities and minor marks, oblong 4to, plus Lewitt-Him, The Football’s Revolt, 1944, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, many full-page, generally spotted, stitching a little strained, pictorial endpapers, front hinge partly cracked, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spotted, some wear to corners, slim 4to (3)

£80 - £120

531 Birmingham School of Printing. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, Illustrations by Robert Bird, Birmingham School of Printing, 1940, engravings to text, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original quarter vellum gilt, Cockerell boards, spine a little yellowed, large 8vo, together with Sleigh (Bernard), Wood Engraving Since Eighteen-Ninety, first edition, 1932, colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed at extremities, small 4to, plus Baring-Gould (Sabine, editor), A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, with Illustrations by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the Direction of A.J. Gaskin, 1895, frontispiece and decorative woodengraved borders throughout, ownership inscription and bookplate, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus other Birmingham School of Printing and Midlands interest, etc.

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£100 - £150

532 Blyton (Enid). The Island of Adventure, with Illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, first edition, Macmillan & Co., 1944, black & white plates and illustrations including vignette title and frontispiece, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial boards printed in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (7s.6d.), minor rubbing and small nicks to corners including spines, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

533 Blyton (Enid). Five on Kirrin Island Again, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1947, colour frontispiece, tinted plates and plain illustrations to text, pictorial endpapers, original red boards lettered in black in dust jacket (6/-, with telescope the wrong way round), a little rubbed and marked, minor loss at foot of spines and pale strip of adhesion mark to foot of lower panel, 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

534 Blyton (Enid). The Play’s the Thing! Musical Plays for Children... with Music by Alec Rowley, 1st edition, Home Library Book Company (George Newnes Ltd.), [1927], black & white frontispiece and 23 plates by Alfred E. Bestall,title printed in black & red, 12 plays each with dialogue and printed music, pictorial endpapers (some spotting), edges spotted, original russet half cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper cover with some pale marks at edges, 4to (1)

£70 - £100

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Lot 535 535* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, letterhead of Enid Blyton, Old Thatch, Bourne End, Bucks, 21 August 1934, to Mr Allen, ‘I now return the picture, which is truly a work of art! However many hours did it take the artist, I wonder? She has drawn it beautifully. I have been going through my scheme and looking at the picture at the same time. As each of my animals has to have a home of some sort, I find that there are not quite enough holes and stones in the picture so I have marked where extra ones are to go. Also, the hedge is not quite large enough - it is supposed to be a high, unclipped hedge, but if the artist could put a few more sprays in as indicated, growing up in the air, so that birds can be adjusted on them later, it would get over that difficulty. Also, I would like two sprays drawn out of the top of the hedge, where the spider and its web may be pasted on, later’, continues in similar vein with suggestions and compliments, ‘The plants are excellent. Is this artist going to do the drawings for the stories? I hope so, as she will then know the right proportion to do the various creatures. The picture is most attractive and will look lovely when coloured...’, four pages on two sheets of letterhead printed in red, old pin hole rust mark to upper margin and a few spots, 8vo, together with a typed letter signed from B.H. Allan to (the artist) Miss F.I. Noble, letterhead of the Teachers World, London, 23 August 1934, ‘As you see from the letter from Miss Blyton I enclose, she is delighted with the picture, but she would like some alterations made. (We will of course take this into consideration when paying you for the work.) Will you please, in addition to what Miss Blyton says, note the following points... ‘, two pages with long manuscript postscript, some soiling and creasing and a few marginal splits, 4to, plus two original watercolours (presumably by Miss Noble), one of a rabbit and one of a plant by a rabbit hole, both unsigned and uncaptioned, 10.5 x 15cm

536* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, letterhead of Hotel Grosvenor, Swanage, Dorset, 26 March 1947, to [Robert M.] Holbrow in response and thanks for his offer to help her on his forthcoming trip to America, ‘I think it is possible that some of the publishers you call on may know of me or my books or even be publishing them, so if you could just say a word about their popularity in England it might be a help to me and of interest to them. I am sending you a photo-stat copy of some “personal particulars” which Macmillans, my publishers here, have kindly sent me 2 dozen copies of, for use in America or on the Continent. The material is not copyright in any way, and can be used by anyone anywhere, as it is “blurb”! ... I have 12 Continental publishers now, and 4 American ones... ‘, with a vertically written postscript, ‘I am here til the 31st, playing golf all day one!’, two pages, light rust mark from old paperclip to upper left corner, 8vo, together with two carbon copies of letters from R.M. Holbrow [assistant editor of the News and Book Trade Review], the first dated 24 March 1947 offering Enid Blyton his help and to which her letter is the reply, the second later letter dated 23 June 1947, after his return from America, saying that he and his wife had a very enjoyable time, and ‘I was interested to find copies of your books in several of the public libraries I visited and in some of the bookshops’, giving further details about how he had tried to help, offering his congratulations on her American medal and saying ‘may your books soon be in just as big a demand in the USA as they are in this country’, each two pages, 8vo, plus a five-page stapled carbon copy (including cover page), titled ‘Facts Concerning Enid Blyton’, to which Blyton refers in her letter, 4to (4)

Hedgerow Tales was first published in November 1935 and consisted of 24 short stories which had been originally serialised in Junior Teacher’s World (September 1934 to July 1935). The two watercolours are probably the work of Miss Noble and were intended for inclusion in one of the above short stories.

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537* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 24 November 1947, to [Robert M.] Holbrow, thanking him for his interesting letter and his remarks on paper and printing, ‘I am just beginning (I think!) to make an impression in America. I believe I told you I have 4 publishers there now - Wayne MacNaughton are publishing the “Mystery” series of Methuen’s (you have got the 5th of that series to review you told me - “The Mystery of the Missing Necklace”) and to their great surprise the first edition sold out at once, and the reviews were so highly favourable that they are anxious to have as many of my Methuen books as possible. (A tall order as Methuens have 40 of my titles!)’, continuing with more on the same subject before turning to his news giving his hopes of ‘buying a book-trade journal - I join in your hopes - you would really enjoy running that, wouldn’t you - and to be editor of a good book trade journal would be a very fine and interesting job’, and asking to be put down as a subscriber, giving news of her daughter who ‘can now walk a little (very flat-footed, and one foot turns under) and I am really thrilled to see her on her feet again. She is having treatment for her feet now and I hope to have her home for Christmas’, the final paragraph asking if he has seen the ‘wonderful sales posters Samson Low have done for the booksellers to advertise my second Holiday Book? It is enormous - folds like a screen - has a portrait of me in it by Weiss - and reproduction of the Holiday Book cover and of course my facsimile signature boldly across it’, the final line and closing sentiment with signature written vertically along inner margin of final page, four pages on two leaves of letterhead printed in red, 8vo

538* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 25 January 1948, to Mr Murray, ‘When I went in to George’s on Friday, Mrs Clarke showed me Aileen’s book, and gave me your nice letter. I autographed the child’s book with pleasure, of course, and am so glad she likes my stories. I expect she has my “Children’s Life of Christ’, which, I am happy to say, is as much a best-seller as any of my story books. Also my latest book, “Before I Go to Sleep”, a collection of simple Bible Stories and Prayers for each day of the month, has had to reprint immediately. I am very happy to use the power of my name for books of this kind, because, having children of my own, I realise what a great help it is to give children a sound grounding in ethics. TV is always a pleasure to me when ministers, teachers, or other discerning people see that my stories are not merely entertainment, but something else as well!’, two pages on letterhead printed in red, 8vo (1)

Robert M Holbrow was assistant editor of National Newsagent and originator and editor of the Booksellers Handbook.

(1) £200 - £300

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539* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 14 August 1949, to [Robert M.] Holbrow, discussing at length the subject of juvenile delinquency and American comics, ‘It is good of you not to mind my allusion to those horrible American comics - though here again I felt sure you would be with me. But in a position such as yours you must at times have to subdue your private feelings, I imagine, when you touch on something of interest or financial profit to the Trade... ‘, and ‘One of the people I would like you to send a copy of the journal containing the article is the Juvenile Delinquency Magistrate, Basil Henriques. I sat on a Daily Express Brains Trust with him a few months ago discussing “Are we being fair to our children?” and I was most impressed with the tremendous power and integrity of the enormous fellow. You would like and admire him too. I think Lord Kensley might like a copy too.’, giving further names and suggestions, five pages including ‘postscript’ (on three sheets of letterhead printed in red), 8vo, together with three carbon copies (10th, 12th & 16th August 1949) and one typed letter signed, 19 August 1949 from Holbrow to Blyton, with cross references to the letter from Blyton to him, the TLS on News & Book Trade Review & Stationers’ Gazette headed paper, concerning a Children’s Book Number, in part, soliciting advertising from her, all one page, 4to (5)

£250 - £350

540* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, no date, circa 1950s, to [Robert M.] Holbrow, ‘I enclose a special message - I think it’s very nice of you to give me the space. I do agree with you that publishers who still look down their noses at the newsagent bookseller are very stupid. I could easily tell them from my own experience, of the vast sales that can arise from decently produced and properly priced books - such as the 3/6 Noddy series. Though, of course, in my case, the newsagents will even go a splash and buy the 12/6 Holiday Books or the 7/6 “Five” books. I continually pop into the small shops and have a word with the proprietor - and he usually proudly shows me a whole E.B. shelf of books somewhere: last week one small newsagent wrote and told me he kept 2 dozen of my titles in stock, and could he please have plenty of signed autographs to stick into each one he sold? Most enterprising! I sent them, of course’, two pages on letterhead printed in red, two small ink smudges, 8vo (1) Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

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541* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 18 March 1952, to Mrs Potter, thanking her for her nice letter, ‘I am so glad you like my books. As I write for all the ages up to 15 - different subjects, of course - your small daughter will have plenty to read if you go on with my books! She must have been very disappointed with her incomplete jigsaw - it’s not worth writing to the manufacturer about it, so I am sending her a new one, with my love - and I HOPE it is complete. How young she is to do jigsaws - she must be very forward. Have you seen the little Noddy & Big Ears toy figures? They are quite adorable - there will soon be a Noddy pack of snapcards, I hope, too. Give the small girl my love and tell her I will write her plenty more stories’, some creasing and light browning, two pages on letterhead printed in red, 8vo (1)

£150 - £250

543* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 15 November 1952, to [Robert M.] Holbrow, ‘I am writing to tell you of something, which I think was probably caused by your little piece about me in your paper 10 days ago - and that is that, much to my astonishment, among my thousands upon thousands of letters were a great many from newsagents and news-agent - booksellers - all complete strangers to me. They sent me such nice letters, and sent me also messages from their children (they all seem to have children!). It was impossible for me to send answers to all my letters. Even the opening of so many took hours! It was, of course, a very pleasant task - in fact, I did nothing else but open and answer letters during the whole time I was in hospital - hadn’t even time to read a book!

The Evening Standard, whose representatives visited me (with masses of flowers and all the latest novels!) saw my piles with hundreds of letters, and made a wonderful gesture - they said that if I liked they would take upon themselves the task of answering every single letter for the children personally, and would tell the children how I was feeling, and send them my love! I simply couldn’t believe it!’, continuing in similar vein, and referring to a letter of hers to appear in Teachers World answering ‘two urgent questions that many schools have asked me - “Am I frightened of dogs now?”

(No, not a bit!). “Do I still love dogs?” (Yes, of course, very much)’, six lengthy pages on three sheets of letterhead printed in red, 8vo, together with a carbon copy of a two-page letter from Holbrow to Blyton, 17 November 1952, in response to her letter and concluding that ‘it is very brave of you to make that journey on Wednesday to open the Church Army sale at Westminster’, two pages, 4to

542* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 13 May 1952, to Mr Noble thanking him for his letter and asking him if he would ‘like to send your prototype sample for my Company to see. I will place it before them at my next board meeting. If the character used is Noddy, it would have to go before our Noddy Licencing Company also, a subsidiary company which deal with this one character. We do no marketing ourselves, merely handle the copyright of my books, contracts and so on. You realise, of course, that all my characters are copyright all over the world, and without our permission, none may be used in any form’, some creasing and browning, pin holes and closed tear to upper left corner, one page on letterhead printed in red, 8vo (1)

Enid Blyton was in hospital after being attacked by a dog.

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544* Blyton ( Enid,1897-1968 ). Autograph letter signed ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead,16 August 1955, to [Robert M.] Holbrow, thanking him for sending her the excellent Marshalls Trade Notes, ‘I have once looked through the pages and read them - very good material, as well laid out as you always manage, and very clear - I do like a business-like, competent guide!

I was surprised to read the nice little notes you had put in about me and my books - thank you very much! It was nice of you, and I appreciate it. Dear me, I didn’t know myself that I had so many annuals out! I just do them when the time comes, and then forget all about them. You made a good point on page 2 of the Supplement when you said that children develop a fondness for characters they read about in their favourite magazine or paper - and therefore are inclined to buy the Annual containing those characters. I hadn’t thought of that’, saying that she hopes they print enough of the annual this year as last year 100,000 wasn’t enough’, two pages on letterhead printed in red, 8vo (1)

546* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Enid Blyton Green Hedges letterhead, 28 December 1960, to Mrs Baker, thanking her for her lovely present, ‘I have read the book already, beginning it almost as soon as it arrived today! What a sensible book, and what a good idea to ask the child-reader questions and really get down to the heart of the matter! It was most interestingly and sensibly written and has delicious little touches of humour... ‘, saying that she should write a book about her library with details of its inception and how it grew, and that she would be honoured to write the foreword, suggesting that as she has no time she should write five hundred words per day, and that this might persuade many other private persons to run a Home Library’, four pages on letterhead printed in red, small stain to upper blank margin of final page, 8vo (1)

547* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph postcard signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, Green Hedges, no date, to Susan (?)Slogrove, thanking her for her ‘nicely written and exciting little story. I can see that you enjoyed writing it very much. I expect you will lend it to all the Famous Five members you know! It must have taken you a long time to copy it out to send to me...’, and saying she is returning the story [not included with this lot], the picture side showing ‘the Famous Five’ with caption ‘Good Luck to you from the Famous Five’, postally unused, fine condition

£200 - £300

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545* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enid Blyton’, letterhead of Grand Hotel, Swanage, Dorset, 28 September 1958, to Mrs Baker, thanking her for her interesting letter, ‘I was indeed most interested to hear about your library, and I think it is very good of you to encourage the children to come to your house as you do. I will send a message to the children with pleasure for your notice-board, and will enclose it with this letter [no longer present]. I should also like to send you a selection of my books that you haven’t already got - and perhaps one or more of the children could write out the list of EB books they already have so that I shall not duplicate any. I’ll send a dozen, and autograph them with much pleasure, saying that she’ll send each child an autograph on a gummed back, telling that she has heard of Agnes Hislop, ‘of course, being a trained teacher myself!’ and saying that she will need the children’s names for the autograph slips, a little spotting and creasing, two pages, 4to (1)

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Lot 549

548* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Photographic postcard signed, no date, real photo postcard showing a head-and-shoulders closeup of a smiling Enid Blyton by Dorothy Wilding, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint pen to blank margin beneath, ‘Best wishes to Mrs Baker from Enid Blyton’, a little creasing and splitting at head, light diagonal crease, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame) (1)

549* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Typescript for a short story, ‘News for Noddy and Big-Ears. Story for TV Times Annual’, circa 1956, title and six pages with approximately 32 ink amendments and additions in Blyton’s autograph, including cues for the insertion of pictures, 4to, together with two autograph notes signed from Enid Blyton’s daughter Gillian Baverstock, one concerning the typescript and another concerning her and her sister Imogen’s time at Benenden School, concluding ‘When I left, she [Enid Blyton] gave the school its first T.V. set - black and white, of course!’, both one page, 8vo

£100 - £150

In the story Big-Ears’s bicycle is stolen and PC Plod is much more interested in watching his newly-acquired television set than looking for the bike until, that is the programme Plod is watching shows Binkie Bear winning a race on the stolen bicycle.

(3) £700 - £1,000

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550 Brangwyn (Frank, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, Nov. 1919, 15 tipped-in colour plates with browned tissue guards, decorative borders to text, light damp mottling to few leaves at rear of volume, light offsetting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original full vellum, gilt decorated spine, slight mottling to lower board, 4to Limited edition of 350 copies printed on hand-made paper.

(1) £150 - £200

552 Caldecott (Randolph). A complete set of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books, Routeledge & Sons, [1878-1885], full-page colour illustrations, numerous black & white illustrations, variable (generally light) spotting, original pictorial wrappers, generally somewhat soiled, lightly rubbed in places, Babes in the Wood covers detached, Sing a Song spine worn, Fox Jumps Over spine reinforced with cloth and surface loss to rear cover at tail, contained together in a drop-back box, either 4to or oblong 4to

551 Briggs (Raymond). The Snowman, 1st edition, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, colour illustrations throughout, signed by the artist to front endpaper 'For John Raymond Briggs 1998', original colour pictorial boards, slim folio, VG, together with other illustrated works by Raymond Briggs, including Fungus The Bogeyman, 1st paperback edition, 1979 (signed to half-title), Gentleman Jim, 1st edition, 1980 (signed to front endpaper), When the Wind Blows, 1st edition, 1982 (signed to title), The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, 1st edition, 1984 (signed to front endpaper), The Man, 1st edition, 1992 (signed to title), Fungus The Bogeyman Plopup Book (signed inside front cover) and others signed by Raymond Briggs including The Bear, Ethel & Ernest, Ug, etc., mostly large format, all generally VG (20)

Titles comprise: The House that Jack Built, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, The Mad Dog, The Babes in the Wood, The Milkmaid, Sing a Song for Sixpence, The Queen of Hearts, The Farmer’s Boy, Hey Diddle Diddle..., The Three Jovial Huntsmen, A Frog he Would a-Wooing go, The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate, Come Lasses and Lads, Ride a-Cock Horse..., Mrs Mary Blaize, The Great Panjandrum Himself.

(16) £100 - £150

553 Carroll (Lewis, i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Nursery “Alice”, Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel’s Illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, London: Macmillan & Co., 1890, [but 1896], coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations after John Tenniel, 3 pages of advertisements at rear, title and frontispiece slightly spotted, old ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, upper inner hinges cracked, original clothbacked colour pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, slight edge and corner wear, 4to

£150 - £200

Though this appears as a first published edition with ‘four shillings’ on titlepage the printed overstrike ‘price one shilling’ printed above indicating the later printing has been neatly rubbed away.

(1) £100 - £150

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554 Chivers-style binding. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, Pictured and Decorated by Louis Fairfax-Muckley, with an introduction

by John W. Hales, 3 volumes, J.M.Dent & Co., 1897, woodcut portrait frontispiece, woodcut title, and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, decorative head- and tail-pieces, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, contemporary vellucent binding in gold and colours in the style of Cedric Chivers, each volume with the same motif to spine and both covers repeated in varying colours, a few minor marks (generally in very good condition), thick 4to (26.5 x 20cm) (3)

ÂŁ1,500 - ÂŁ2,000

145

555 Clarke (Harry, illustrator). De Sprookjes van Charles Perrault, Zutphen: W.J. Thieme, [1924?], 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, some full-page, endpapers browned, edges lightly spotted, original cream cloth lettered and decorated in green, spine darkened and slightly rubbed, covers lightly toned and a little dusty, 4to Rare Harry Clarke edition of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales in Dutch.

(1) £100 - £150

Lot 557

556 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, London: Stukeley Press, 1994, 30 uncoloured aquatint plates by Alan Andrew Farrant, each with caption, artist initials and limitation in pencil under image, tissue guards, edges untrimmed, original cloth-covered boards, blocked title to spine and upper cover, fore-edge ties, folio Limited edition 24/50 copies.

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£300 - £400

557* Crompton ( Richmal , 1890-1969). Autograph letter signed, ‘Richmal’, Beechworth, Orpington Road, Chislehurst, 18 January 1961, to Dorothy, apologising for an error with the name ‘Lucy’, saying that she has been unwell but she had no one to look after her, and that for now she is more or less housebound, hoping that they might be able to come and visit her, small staple holes and rust mark to upper margin, three pages, 8vo (1)

£70 - £100

558 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Bells and Other Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe, [1912], 28 tipped-in colour plates, one or two thumbmarks, endpapers toned, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, covers a little bowed with one or two small marks, 4to Limited edition 654/750, signed by the artist.

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Lot 558 £400 - £600

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559 Dulac (Edmund, Introduction by ). Christmas Pictures by Children, With an Introduction by Edmund Dulac, 1st edition, London: Dent [and] Vienna: Richter & Zollner, 1922, 14 chromolithographed plates, each with captioned tissue guard, central two plates detached, one upper blank margin with short closed tear, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown with book ticket of Samuel Gurney, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, lightly spotted and marked, some wear to corners, 4to, adhered to rear free endpaper is a booklet A Class at Professor Cizek’s, Subject Autumn, by Francesca M. Wilson, Children’s Art Exhibition Fund, 1921, 13 leaves, black & white frontispiece, eight colour plates, original printed grey wrappers, slim 8vo (1)

£80 - £120

560 Edwards (Monica). Dolphin Summer, with Illustrations by Geoffrey Whittam, first edition, Collins, 1963, black & white illustrations, map endpapers, ballpoint ticks and crosses to author’s list of books to half-title verso, original cloth in pictorial dust jacket, minor marks, 8vo, together with two autograph letters signed from Monica Edwards, 1962, to Mr W. Christie, relating to dolphins and the subject of the book, a total of six pages, 8vo, with accompanying postmarked envelopes (3)

£100 - £150

Lot 560

561 Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book, 1st editions, Macmillan, 1894 & 1895, numerous black & white illustrations, some full page, half-titles present, second volume with advertisement leaf at rear, intermittent spotting, first volume with contemporary inscription (dated 1894) on preliminary blank, second volume with contemporary ink ownership name on preliminary blank, first volume both hinges partly cracked, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, first volume with small mark at fore-edge of upper cover, both spines slightly toned, first volume with slight lean, both spine ends of first volume and tail end of second volume somewhat frayed, 8vo (2)

£700 - £1,000

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563 Le Mair (H. Wil le beek, illustrator). Little Songs of Long Ago “More old Nursery Rhymes”..., 1st edition, For the Book Trade A. & C. Black, [1912], colour illustrations, printed music, textblock detached in original tan cloth gilt, lightly marked in places, front cover with inset oval pictorial panel, head of spine a little frayed, oblong 4to, together with Our Old Nursery Rhymes..., Augener Ltd., circa 1912, colour illustrations, printed music, original blue cloth gilt, front cover with inset oval pictorial panel, oblong 4to, with another copy of Little Songs of Long Ago (later edition), plus Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter, 1st UK edition, 1913 The first item is the scarce true first edition, published by A. & C. Black and printed by Edmund Evans, although also listing both Augener in London and G. Schirmer in New York on the title page. The later, more common, Augener edition does not mention A. & C. Black and is printed by Augener.

(4) £100 - £150

564 MacDonald (George). At the Back of the North Wind, Strahan & Company Limited, [1872?], half-title present, letterpress illustrations, some light spotting to first and final leaves, leaf 8-8 with short tear in blank upper margin, stitching strained, hinges sometime strengthened (repair to upper hinge beginning to split), all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed in places and a few small marks, spine ends a little frayed (and with discreet repair at foot), 8vo This undated edition appears to be in all other respects identical to the first edition of 1871; probably, therefore, the first edition sheets issued with a new title-page.

(1) £1,500 - £2,000

562 Knowles (Horace J., illustrator). Peeps Into Fairyland, 1st edition, Butterworth, 1924, six coloured plates, one frayed to foreedge and with consequent 5cm closed tear repaired on verso with adhesive tape, numerous letterpress decorations and illustrations, some full-page, scattered spotting, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers browned), original gilt decorated cream cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, a few very small marks on upper cover, large 4to An uncommon title, with charming illustrations throughout.

(1) £150 - £200

Lot 563 565 Mansfield (Katherine). The Garden Party and Other Stories, Verona Press, 1939 [but 1947]. 16 colour lithographs by Marie Laurencin, a few light spots front and rear, original green patterned cloth, dust jacket, small repair to verso, 8vo Limited edition 785/1200.

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£200 - £300

Lot 564

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566 McKee (David). Elmer, 1st edition, Dennis Dobson, 1968, colour illustrations throughout, including rear endpapers, original glazed colour illustrated boards, spine a trifle sunned, lower cover with small residue from sticker to upper outer corner, 4to A very good copy of the rare first edition of Elmer, in which David McKee’s endearing multi-coloured elephant makes his very first appearance. The book went out of print quite quickly, and not until it was republished in 1989 did Elmer become the international success he is today. Although the 1989 edition appears in commerce quite readily, we have not seen another copy of the first edition at auction.

The story, with its message of inclusivity, is arguably just as relevant now as when it was first published, perhaps accounting in part for its enduring popularity. The author went on to write and illustrate at least another 40 books about Elmer, a TV series was produced giving rise the the inevitable attendant range of merchandise, and Elmer is now published in more than 20 languages. More recently a musical puppet show, Elmer The Patchwork Elephant Show, has been touring Britian (in the first few months of 2019), celebrating the elephant that stands out, and embracing the message that it is always best to be yourself.

(1) £300 - £500

Lot 566

567 Milne (A. A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st deluxe edition, Methuen, 1926, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, scarce light finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers (lightly spotted), all edges gilt, original blue limp leather gilt, some light rubbing and marks in places (mostly to rear cover), spine faded, tailcap a trifle frayed, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 1st deluxe edition, Methuen, 1927, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, scarce light finger-soiling, half-title and imprint page toned, pictorial endpapers (lightly spotted), blue silk ribbon marker (detached), all edges gilt, original blue limp leather gilt, lightly rubbed in places, spine somewhat faded, tailcap a trifle frayed, 8vo, plus The House at Pooh Corner, 1st deluxe edition, 1928, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, occasional minor marks or finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers (spotted), all edges gilt, original blue limp leather gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, spine somewhat faded, 8vo, with When We Were Very Young, later deluxe edition (20th on title page), 1930, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, scarce light finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers (spotted), all edges gilt, original blue limp leather gilt, lightly rubbed in places, spine somewhat faded with slight fraying at ends, 8vo (4) Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

£700 - £1,000

150

568 Morris (William). A Book of Verse, Scolar Press, 1980, colour facsimile reproduction of a manuscript, all edges gilt, original richly gilt-decorated vellum, 4to, together with accompanying printed booklet in original cloth book box with red leather label to spine limited edition, 19/62 vellum-bound copies from a total edition of 325 copies (1) £100 - £150

570 Nicholson (William). Clever Bill, first edition, [1926], 23 fullpage colour illustrations, versos blank, signed presentation copy for Mrs Howard from Mabel Lowe and William Nicholson, inscribed in pink fibre pen by the author to printed presentation panel on front pastedown, a little spotting at front and rear, original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, boards a little rubbed along lower edges, dust jacket chipped, spotted and soiled, oblong small folio (1)

569 Moveable. Neues Verwandlungs -Bilderbuch, Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, [1875], six chromolithographed plates, by W. von Breitschwert, each with a large moveable horizontal flap that transforms the image, with lines of verse below, three flaps creased, finger-soiling throughout, all folds and hinges repaired, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, cloth renewed, boards rubbed with some wear to extremities, a few minor marks, rear board spotted, slim 4to, together with What I’d Like To Be [covertitle], by Bruno Munari, Harvill Press, 1945, four double-page colour illustrations, each with a moveable flap revealing a picture with verse, somewhat toned, mainly to margins, original pictorial boards, somewhat toned, especially to spine, light spotting and soiling, mianly to rear cover, slim folio

£400 - £600

571 Nicholson (William). Clever Bill, first edition, [1926], 23 fullpage colour illustrations, versos blank, a little spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, old bookshop ink stamp to front flyleaf, original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, rubbed and soiled and a little chipped, together with The Pirate Twins, first edition, [1929], colour lithographic illustrations and text throughout, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked and slightly soiled on spine, both oblong small folio (2)

The first item is an unusual moveable which illustrates a boy being naughty, the transformed picture revealing the consequences of his actions.

(2) £200 - £300

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£300 - £500

572 Nicholson (William). The Square Book of Animals, Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, 12 chromolithographed plates (offset to text), some spotting to blank margins, original clothbacked pictorial boards, some wear to corners, 4to

574 Parker (B. & N.). The A.A.A.A.s. and the K.K.K.K.s . or Twice Three is Six, pub. W. & R. Chambers Limited, [1914], 12 doublepage chromolithographed plates, sepia vignettes to text, one lower blank margin with a repaired short closed tear, a few minor marks to lower blank margins, original pictorial boards, extremities somewhat rubbed, a little wear to corners, a few minor marks, oblong 4to

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£300 - £500

575 Peepshow book. My Garden from Weeding Height, by Lois Morrison, self-published, 1993, accordion-folding peepshow , with six cut-out panels (including front face) and back scene, depicting garden flowers and foliage, some of the vegetation spilling out from the sides, mounted within book-form covers, front pastedown with title and imprint, original patterned cloth-covered boards, front cover with inset title label and butterfly, 11 x 21.3cm, extending to approximately 23cm, together with A Werner Laurie Show Book, Series A Number 1: Enid Blyton Presents A Rubbalong Tale, Drawn

by Norman Meredith [cover-title], [1950], four pages of text, five leaves of colour scenes to press out, two pages of instructions, the accordion-folding theatre (lightly dust-soiled) attached to the inside rear cover, with its securing paper strip intact, some spotting to edges of inside rear cover, original pictorial boards, dust-soiled, extremities lightly rubbed, rear cover with two small spots of wear, oblong 8vo

573 Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an introduction by A.C. Benson. Reproduced from a manuscript and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, Siegle, Hill & Co., [1911], 12 colour plates, text printed in colours, illuminated initials heightened in gold,, one or two small marginal stains, top edge gilt, original vellum, upper cover with peacock design in gilt, a couple of small marks, covers a little bowed, 4to

First item: Gestetner collection 340. Limited edition 15/25 copies, signed by the author. Two scarce examples of peepshows in book form. It is unusual to find a Warner Laurie Show Book in its original unused state.

(2) £80 - £120

Limited edition 362/550 signed by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe.

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£100 - £150

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Lot 577

576 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit , 1st trade edition, Warne, [1902], early issue with ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, thirty-one colour illustrations, some light finger-soiling, page 65 somewhat soiled (mainly to lower margin), grey leaf-patterned endpapers, front free endpaper has early ink signature at head, stitching strained, original grey boards lettered in silver-grey, with rectangular pictorial panel to upper board, extremities a little rubbed, 16mo Linder, page 421; Quinby 2.

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£800 - £1,200

577 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit , 1st trade edition, Warne, [1902], early issue with ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, 31 colour illustrations, some finger-soiling and minor marks, small surface loss to fore-margins pages 56/57 and to lower blank area page 22, crease to lower outer corner page 47, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership inscription, original grey boards (rubbed in places), rectangular pictorial panel inset to upper board, spine recoloured (affecting lettering), and with small repair at head, a little wear to joints (upper joint slightly split), 16mo Linder page 421; Quinby 2.

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£400 - £600

578 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester , 1st edition, 1st issue, Warne, 1903, half-title with neat ink manuscript name at head, colour illustrations, stitching somewhat strained, pictorial endpapers, original maroon boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, spine faded and boards faded in places, 16mo Linder, p.423; Quinby 4. First issue, with single-page endpaper occurring four times.

(1) £300 - £400

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=579 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, Warne, 1903, colour illustrations throughout, half-title with early ink signature at head, occasional minor creasing and marks, slight nick in fore-edges, pictorial endpapers, minor surface abrasion to head of front endpapers, stitching strained, original dark blue boards, rubbed in places, with circular pictorial panel inset to upper cover, spine faded, 16mo Linder, p.423; Quinby 5. Early (first or second) issue, without ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ on the title page.

(1) £200 - £300

580 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, 1903, colour illustrations, a couple of small marginal closed tears and adhesion marks, one or two light fingermarks, illustrated endpapers, original maroon boards with triangular inset illustration to upper cover, light fading to spine, 16mo Quinby 4.

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£150 - £200

581 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, Warne, 1904, colour illustrations throughout, half title has early ink signature at head, occasional marks or finger-soiling, pages 76-77 were previously adhered at foot, with consequent surface loss, page 77 with small loss at tail edge, page 80 and final printed leaf partly detached, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown has booksellers ticket at upper outer corner, stitching somewhat strained, original tan boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, lightly rubbed in places, some skinning to lower outer corner of upper cover, 16mo, together with The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st edition, Warne, 1906, colour illustrations throughout, half-title has early ink signature at head, title and page 8 creased at gutter, pictorial endpapers, stitching strained, original greygreen boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, rear joint split, front joint partly split, some wear to extremities, 16mo, plus The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1st edition, Warne, 1904, colour illustrations throughout, half-title has early ink signature at head, most openings were previously adhered at gutter, mostly at the foot (a few still partly adhered), with consequent small losses at foot of gutter and surface losses, page 27 partly detached, stitching strained, original grey boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, rear joint split, much of spine lacking, 16mo, with The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, Warne, 1913, colour plates, black & white illustrations to text, page 83 with short closed fore-edge tear, pictorial endpapers, stitching somewhat strained, a few spots to fore-edge, original maroon boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, rubbed in places, with some fading, a little wear to head of spine, 16mo

Lot 579

Linder, pages 424, 426, 424 & 429; Quinby 6, 10, 7 & 22 respectively.

(4) £200 - £300

Lot 580

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154

584 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st edition, Warne, 1907, colour illustrations throughout, half-title, pale dampstain at foot of gutter throughout, and some consequent surface skinning and occasional minor loss, a few (mainly blank) pages still slightly adhered, stitching strained, pictorial endpapers, original brown boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover (with vertical brown mark), spine and board edges faded, minor pale dampstain to front cover top edge and back cover upper left corner tip, 16mo Linder, p.427; Quinby 13.

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£200 - £300

582 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle , 1st edition, Warne, 1905, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, several pages previously slightly adhered together at foot of gutter, with consequent minor skinning, a few (mainly blank) pages still a little adhered, pictorial endpapers, stitching a little strained, original green boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, spine faded with tiny hole near head, boards faded in places, rear board has very small dampstain to lower left corner, 16mo Linder, p.425; Quinby 8.

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£200 - £300

585 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, early edition, Warne, [1907/8], half-title, colour illustrations, frontispiece detaching at gutter, some minor marks to blank margins, dedication page with early ink ownership name at head, stitching showing in one opening, pictorial endpapers, original red boards with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, extremities slightly toned, spine a little frayed at head, in original printed glassine wrapper, toned and chipped, a few closed tears to jonts, 16mo Linder page 426; Quinby as 10A except without date on front of title page.

This copy agrees with Linder’s 3rd printing, with pictorial endpapers 2 & 4.

The endpaper design 4 was introduced in September 1907, although Quinby Plate III states them as being for the 10A edition of Jeremy Fisher, dated 1906. The accompanying glassine wrapper has The Tale of Tom Kitten as the most recent publication, therefore this volume must have been printed before the first edition of Jemima Puddle-Duck, which was published in August 1908. This copy in rare original condition, with the opaque glassine dustjacket, designed to protect the book during its journey from publisher to customer. Typically, as here, the jacket was printed with advertisements to the rear panel and the flaps, whilst the front panel was left blank, enabling the book to be identified by the visible wording and illustration on the front cover of the binding.

(1) £400 - £600

583 Potter (Beatrix). The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, 1st edition, Warne, 1906, fourteen colour illustrations with corresponding text leaves bound concertina-style, two folds very slightly rubbed, title and front pastedown with a few minor marks, original wallet-style olive green cloth binding with dark blue lettering, slot for tab lacking lip, upper cover with mounted colour illustration and tab fastening, 16mo Linder, p.426; Quinby 12. The back of the wallet has the words ‘London & New York’, therefore believed to be the first (November) printing.

(1) £200 - £300

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586 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, Warne, 1908, half-title, colour illustrations, stitching showing at one opening, pictorial endpapers (front free endpaper has small blank area at foot of gutter torn and adhered to pastedown), original grey boards with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, very slightly cocked,16mo Linder, p.427; Quinby 14.

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£300 - £500

587 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, Warne, 1909, half-title with ink manuscript name at head, colour illustrations throughout, original olive green boards, upper cover with inset colour illustration, spine and board edges faded, 16mo Linder, p.428; Quinby 16. Early issue, with the Notice Board in the picture on page 14.

(1) £200 - £300

Lot 586

588 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, Warne, 1910, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ink signature dated 1910, stitching a little strained, original cream boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, spine very slightly toned, tail end a little frayed, 16mo Linder, p.429; Quinby 18.

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Lot 587

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£200 - £300

589 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, Warne, 1911, half-title, colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original brown boards with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, very slightly cocked, 16mo Linder, p.429; Quinby 20.

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590 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, Warne, [1918], with ‘London’ printed correctly on the title-page, but also p.39 with quotes before first line and p.51 without quotes before first line, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, original grey-green boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, slight toning to spine and board edges, 16mo

£200 - £300

Linder, p.430; Quinby 25.

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£100 - £150

592 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Tales of Mystery & Imagination,

by Edgar Allan Poe, George G. Harrap, 1935, 12 colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, 17 black & white plates, decorated endpapers, some spotting to edges, publisher’s special binding of dark blue morocco-grain cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed to spine ends, 4to

591 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Aesop’s Fables, William Heinemann, 1912, 13 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, numerous letterpress illustrations, many full-page, some browning and spotting to endpapers and where plate mounts offset to text, armorial bookplate of Kathleen Alice Cuthbert on front pastedown, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated cream buckram, spine darkened, some soiling to covers, large 4to, together with a small broadside for the Leicester Galleries 1912 exhibition of the original paintings executed for this book loosely inserted (spotted and very slightly frayed) Limited edition, 712/1450 copies, signed by the artist.

Riall, p.111.

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Riall p.189. Rare publisher’s special binding in excellent condition.

(1) £200 - £300

593 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie,

by Richard Wagner, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting and offsetting, original cloth, gilt, spine a little faded, 4to, together with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, 1911, 30 tippedin colour plates, a little light spotting, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus A Fairy Garland. Being Fairy Tales from the Old French, 1928, 12 colour plates by Edmund Dulac, scattered spotting, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, a little rubbed with some light soiling, 4to, limited signed edition 580/1000, with three others illustrated by Arthur Rackham including Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures, 1913 and The Complete Angler, 1913

£300 - £400

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£300 - £500

Lot 595 594 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Vicar of Wakefield, George G. Harrap, 1929, 12 colour plates, half-title/limitation leaf, final leaf, and pictorial endpapers toned, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cream cloth gilt, soiled and rear cover a little bowed, spine darkened and with 1cm tear in foot of lower joint, large 4to Limited edition, one of 575 copies, signed by the illustrator, this unnumbered.

Riall, p.170. The deluxe limited edition is usually found bound in vellum.

(1) £150 - £200

595 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, introduction by A.A. Milne, 100th edition, Methuen, 1951, 12 tipped-in colour plates, partly unopened, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cream sheep, spine ends toned with tiny nicks and tears, slipcase (a little soiled with some edge wear), 4to Limited edition 436/500 (1)

£300 - £500

596 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch, by S. J. Adair Fitz-gerald, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1896, 17 black & white plates, black & white illustrations to text, signed by author on front pastedown (dated Oct 5th 1896), endpapers toned, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated green cloth, rubbed, spine ends lightly frayed, 8vo Riall page 15 and mentioned on page xi: ‘The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch’ was the “1st published book with Rackham illustrations only, specifically commissioned rather than from earlier periodicals”.

(1) £300 - £500

Lot 596

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597 Robinson (Charles, illustrator). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Cassell and Company, 1907, eight colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, some full-page, spotted, mostly to first and final leaves and edges, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 4to A very bright copy of this notoriously difficult first Charles Robinson edition Alice; it was reprinted in 1913 in a slightly smaller format.

(1) £400 - £600

598 Scarfe (Gerald). Gerald Scarfe, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 1982, numerous monochrome illustrations, original red cloth gilt, limited signed edition 244/250, with an original colour lithograph loosely contained in separate card portfolio, signed in pencil, and numbered 244/250, both contained in original publisher's card slipcase, together with Indecent Exposure, a collection of drawings by Gerald Scarfe, 1st edition, 1973, monochrome illustrations throughout, original colour pictorial wrappers, a few marks and rear cover, with large waterstain to lower outer corner, large slim folio, plus other illustrated books by Gerald Scarfe, including ScarfeLand (signed to half-title), Scarfe's Seven Deadly Sins (signed to front endpaper), ScarfeFace (signed to title), Heroes and Villains, Scarfe at the National Portrait Gallery, 2003, etc., many in dust wrappers, mostly 4to, generally VG (11)

£100 - £150

Lot 597

599 Schaller (Charlotte). En Guerre!, 1st edition, Paris: BergerLevrault, 1914, pochoir illustrations throughout, some full or double page, occasional light marks, half-title and endpapers spotted, one leaf with short closed tear in lower edge, stitching strained, original cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, dusty and marked, edges rubbed (and slight loss to upper edge of lower cover), oblong 4to Rare First World War storybook showing children engaged in wartime pursuits, for example, directing toy soldiers from the vantage point of a rocking horse, playing at nurses, writing letters homes, knitting and woolwinding, etc.

(1) £150 - £200

600 Searle (Ronald). Forty Drawings, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1946, monochrome illustrations, signed by the artist to verso of front endpaper, some light spotting to endpapers, original cream printed wrappers, some spotting and marginal creases, a little wear to head and foot of spine and outer corners, slim 4to

Lot 598

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£150 - £200

Lot 600 601 Searle (Ronald). The Female Approach, with Masculine Sidelights, 1st edition, 1949, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cream cloth, in slightly rubbed and dust wrapper, chips to extremities, together with It Must be True by Denys Parsons, 1st edition, 1952, Souls in Torment, 1st edition, 1953, How to be Topp, 1st edition, 1954, A Phoenix Too Frequent, 1st edition, 1959, & Escape From the Amazon!, 1st edition, 1964, monochrome illustrations to each, all original cloth in dust wrappers, very slightly rubbed to extremities, generally in good condition, 8vo/4to, plus other illustrated works by Ronald Searle, including The St. Trinian's Story, 1st edition, 1959, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, 1st edition, 1952, The Subtle Alchemist, 1st edition, 1973, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, 1st edition, 1965, Ronald Searle in Le Monde, 1st edition, 2002, limited signed edition of 200 copies, and similar, many in dust wrappers, mostly 8vo and 4to, including some Penguin paperback editions, 8vo and 4to (60)

£200 - £300

602 Spielmann (M.A. & Layard, G.S.). Kate Greenaway, first edition, Adam & Charles Black, 1905, colour and black & white plates, illustrations to text, top edge gilt, original blind-decorated cream cloth lettered in gilt, minor soiling, 4to, VG Limited edition, 317/500 copies, signed by John Greenaway.

(1) £200 - £300

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604 Wain (Louis). Days in Catland with Louis Wain (Father Tuck’s Panorama) [cover-title], 1st edition, Raphael Tuck, [1895], four colour plate sections, with 14 coloured figures that slot in to the scenes depicted, two replaced in facsimile, the remainder repaired/strengthened to verso (with some creases), two cat arms (and possibly one tail) replaced in facsimile, black & white illustrations (with later hand-colouring) by Arthur Burnaby to verso, a few small closed tears to slot edges (some repaired), final scene with repaired tear, linen reinforced hinges (that to front cover neatly hand-painted to blend with image), lacking rear envelope flap, pictorial front cover slightly rubbed, rear cover with repair at head and linen reinforced fore-edge, oblong 4to (1)

603 Steadman (Ralph). Still life with Raspberry, or the Bumper Book of Steadman, 1st edition, 1969, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, creased and with closed tear to upper left corner, without loss, 4to, inscribed by the illustrator to half-title, underneath the title Still Life with Raspberry, 'or 63 Bob Ralph Steadman. June 69.', with a drawing of a man reading the book on a lectern numbered 11/50 in dark blue ink, together with other illustrated books by Ralph Steadman, including The Grapes of Ralph, 1st edition, 1992 (signed to half-title, with an additional cartoon to facing leaf), Scar Strangled Banger, 1st edition, 1987, boldly inscribed by the artist to half title and facing leaf, The Complete Alice, 1st edition, 1986, signed by the artist incorporating a cartoon to front endpaper, Animal Farm, 1st edition, 1995, signed with cartoon to half-title, etc., mostly 4to or 8vo, generally VG (20)

605 Weedon (L.L., Evelyn Fletcher and others). The Model Menagerie, E. Nister, circa 1895, six pop-up chromolithographs, monochrome illustrations, a little light soiling and toning, contemporary presentation inscription, endpapers a little frayed, hinges tender, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine rubbed with splits, some light edge wear and soiling, oblong folio, together with Nister’s Panorama Pictures, a novel colour book for children, E. Nister, circa 1890, five pop-up chromolithographs, some light spotting and toning, front endpaper detaching at gutter, front hinge tender, original cloth-backed boards, some light edge wear and soiling, 4to

£150 - £200

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606* Bairnsfather (Bruce, 1888-1959). Old Bill reprimanding a smoking youth, pen & ink, with traces of pencil, on paper, showing Old Bill smoking a pipe and absentmindedly pouring a tankard of beer over a flower in a pot, whilst pointing his finger at a slim youth wearing a flat cap and blowing smoke rings, signed lower right, some light spotting and marks, 32 x 26cm (12.75 x 10ins), mounted

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£200 - £300

607* Bliss (Joyce, 1914-1990). An archive of original artwork and associated material, approximately 150 drawings and sketches, comprising female nude studies, costume and theatre designs, book illustrations, designs for dust jackets, title-pages and endpapers, advertisements, decorative borders and initials, calendar designs, still life studies, genre scenes, animal studies, portraits, children at play, illuminated verse, etc., including two red chalk female nude studies, approximately forty watercolours, and the remainder pen & ink or pencil, a number unfinished, some signed or initialled ‘EJB’, some dated, together with a bound volume of Nursery Rhymes by the same artist, 12ff., each with musical notation within pen, ink, and watercolour border, plus some printed material (e.g. Christmas cards) and photographs related, various condition, approximately 41 x 31cm (16 x 12ins) and smaller, together with a small archive of original art by Phyllis Mary Antrobus (born 1905), comprising twelve watercolours (six portraits, and one of children Aplaying on a beach, one of moths and butterflies, and four of a fox terrier ‘Foch’), some signed/dated, six pencil drawings of cats and dogs, and a pencil sketch of three young girls, sheet size 40 x 28.5cm (15.75 x 11.25ins) and smaller, plus two pen & ink drawings and one pencil drawing of female theatrical dancers, initialled ‘DHYH’, one dated 1926 and another dated 1929 An interesting archive of material by artist Eleanor Joyce Bliss, who studied at the Birmingham School of Art between 1930 and 1939. She married silversmith Cyril James Shiner in 1943. (a folder) £300 - £500

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609* Foreman (Michael, 1938-). Original illustration for Brontosaurus Super Star, by Robert McCrum, published 1985, pencil and watercolour, depicting a brontosaurus dressed as a rock star in jumpsuit and medallion, reclining on a sofa on a stage, with various other actors, dinosaurs, spectators, and cameramen, signed lower right (partly obscured by mount), 18.5 x 39cm (7.25 x 15.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£150 - £200

608* Cruikshank (George, 1792-1878). Hold your Bawling you good for nothing feller & get on with your work. The right end of life’s to be jolly, be jolly &c.’, pencil on paper, showing a chaotic domestic scene, with a woman wearing a bonnet and apron shaking her fist at a man who lolls on a table raising a tankard aloft in one hand and a clay pipe in the other, with disporting children and animals, browned, captioned in ink in the artist’s hand on verso (with additional faint pencilled notes), 16 x 11.5cm (6.5 x 4.5ins), mounted, pencilled note on mount ‘Ex. Coll. G.[erald] Reitlinger’, together with Dumbarton Rock, Sept. 8th. 1856, pencil sketch on paper, titled in pencil to lower margin, and signed in pencil lower right, some minor spotting and marks, 25 x 35.5cm (9.75 x 14ins), mounted, plus Cruikshank (Robert Isaac, 1789-1856), Family group with donkey, pencil and wash with some ink outlines, on paper, depicting a young couple with two small children, walking in a landscape with a donkey carrying loaded pannier baskets and a dog chasing along beside, initialled in pen lower right below image, browned, 20 x 34cm (8 x 13.25ins), mounted Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian, painter and collector, who was particularly interested in changing tastes in the art market, and consequent price fluctuation.

(3) £200 - £300

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610* Greenaway ( Kate , 1846-1901). A drawing of a young lady, pen & ink with traces of pencil, showing a girl in a bonnet holding gathered flowers in her overskirt and smelling a flower, leaning against a low wall, 13.2 x 8.9cm (5.25 x 3.5ins), tipped onto the front free endpaper of Language of Flowers, 1st edition, Routledge and Sons, [1884], 1st issue, with title printed in brown on upper cover, and bright yellow endpapers, numerous colour illustrations, some light toning or spotting, edges stained yellow, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, slight creasing to both covers, 8vo, contained in a custom made green morocco gilt drop-back box by George Bayntun, Bookbinder and Bookseller, with an advertising leaflet and a typewritten letter signed by H. H. Bayntun-Coward on George Bayntun headed notepaper loosely inserted Language of Flowers: Schuster & Engen 107.1a.

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611* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). Old Woman and Cat, pen & ink on paper, depicting a woman in a high mob cap bending down to a sheepish-looking cat, signed lower right (and with digits in pen and blue pencil), irregularly cut edges, approximately 10 x 19cm (4 x 7.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles label on back board Exhibited: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1993, No. 181.

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£70 - £100

612* Lady and the Tramp. Two original pencil drawings on paper circa 1955, one of Tramp (numbered 78), the other of Jock, 27.5 x 37.5cm, framed and glazed, together with Bofa (Gus, 1883-1968), ‘dans le fond, elle est tres enjouee! vous rennez, elle vous fera mire (In the background she is very cheerful, re-enter she will make you ...), watercolour on paper, signed lower right and inscribed in pencil within margin, 24 x 22.5cm, framed and glazed (some loss of gesso)

£80 - £120

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613* Low (David, 1891-1963). Disloyal Demonstration by Sea-Lions During Playing of National Anthem on Motor Horns, pen & ink on thick paper, depicting four sea lions, one nudging one of a set of motor horns with its nose, the others behind barking loudly, titled to upper margin, signed lower right, 16.5 x 20cm (6.5 x 7.75ins), mounted (1)

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614* May (Phil, 1864-1903). Order and Disorder, pen & ink on card, depicting a policeman escorting a drunkard, and a young boy shouting after them, captioned lower left, signed upper right, some light spotting and marks, 27 x 19.5cm (10.5 x 7.75ins), mounted, together with another pen & ink drawing by Phil May, head and shoulders sketch of a lady in a feathered hat, signed and dated ‘95 lower left, browned and a few marks, sheet size 20 x 14.5cm (8 x 5.75ins) (2)

£150 - £200

615* Original Artwork. Bluebell Down Baby Show, mid 20th century, watercolour and gouache, heightened with bodycolour, depicting a bright summer scene of anthropomorphic animals at a summer pageant in the grounds of a turreted castle, including a small band of musicians, a family of ladybirds, and a portrait painter, titled on banner strung between two thistles, initialled ‘T.W.’ lower right, 41 x 29cm (16 x 11.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed An attractive and colourful painting, executed by an accomplished hand.

(1) £100 - £150

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616* Original Artwork. A collection of original artwork for children’s books and annuals, 1940s-1980s, approximately 80 watercolours, gouache paintings, and pen & ink drawings and storyboards, depicting children, animals,transport, historical and geographical subjects, cartoons, etc., by a variety of artists, including Richard Hook, A. Oxenham, Peter Woodcock, Dan Escott, Eric Tansley, Cowell, Clive Upton, Michael Hubbard, Barbara Spurr, E.A. Shearlock, some signed, for a number of publications, e.g. Tina Annual, Toby Annual, Dickory Dock Annual, Hey Diddle Diddle, Chatterbox Annual, Story Times, Play Box, Baby’s Own Annual, Look & Learn, Treasure, Now I Know Annual, and including some from the Dean archive, various sizes and condition (approx. 80)

£100 - £200

617* Pares (Bip, 1904-1977). A collection of 49 sheets of illustration artwork, circa 1949-50, mostly pencil with gouache and pen & ink on thin wove paper, a number of sheets with annotations by the artist, 28.5 x 44.5cm (11.25 x 17.5ins) Ethel Pares, known as ‘Bip’ from her infant attempts to pronounce the name of a family horse, is best-known for her book illustrations, dust-wrapper designs, posters (including London Transport), and other commercial design work. She studied at the Slade School of Art in the early 1920s, and her work tends to be stylistically aligned to art deco, being characterised by movement and bold colour. The present collection includes designs by the artist for the British India Line ‘Kenya’ passenger liner, dated 1950, a Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Procession route map, circa 1953, Woodheads Seeds Ltd catalogue, dust-wrapper designs for the thriller Ladies Always Talk by Seldon Truss (1950), The Bright Eyes of Danger by J.M. Scott (1950) and The Naughty Mrs Thornton by John Drummond (1952).

(49) £700 - £1,000

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Lot 617 618* Robinson (T.H., 1865-1950).

Oriental girl, pen & ink on artist’s board, depicting a bare-footed young girl in robe and head-dress curled up on the ground beside a tree, her arms and head leaning on a stone step, signed lower right, image size 32 x 25cm (12.5 x 8ins), sheet size 53 x 38 (21 x 15ins) (1)

£150 - £250

619* Robinson (William Heath, 18721944). Compliments of the Season, pen & ink with pencil on thick paper, depicting a light aircraft in flight with a gentleman kneeling on one wing waving a flying helmet at crowds below gathered round a frozen lake on which skates a clownish figure, the plane’s smoke trail spelling out ‘A Merry Xmas’ and the skating figure’s trail spelling out ‘Same to you’ on the ice, annotated in ink in the artist’s hand to lower margin ‘Rough Sketch W. Heath Robinson’, and titled below image, one horizontal crease and two faint vertical creases, a few faint spots and marks, image size 43.5 x 34.5cm (17.25 x 13.75ins), sheet size 56 x 38 (22 x 15ins), tipped-in on card (1)

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£300 - £500

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ANDREW SKILLETER (1948-) Andrew Skilleter studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and maintained a busy career from the 1970s as a versatile illustrator producing hundreds of covers for adult, teenage and children’s books, including a large number for Puffin Books, across numerous genres. His work has also encompassed illustrations for many books, magazines, posters and multimedia publications. Ivanhoe, his first work as author and illustrator for children, was published as a deluxe hardback in 1997.

620* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for Prince Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, 1994, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting Prince Caspian carrying a hunting horn and sword, with Aslan on his left and on his right Trufflehunter the badger, a dwarf, and Reepicheep the mouse, with ‘Narnia’ lettered on a scroll to lower right, signed lower right, 37 x 32cm (14.5 x 12.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, backboard with the artist’s printed label Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, executed for the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation by Brian Sibley.

(1) £500 - £800

Skilleter has had a long working relationship with the BBC. He is known all over the world for his prolific output of Doctor Who artwork for the BBC and other publishers, work which was showcased in a book published in 1995 entitled Blacklight: The Art of Andrew Skilleter.

621* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for The Silver Chair, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, 1995, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting Prince Rilian as the Black Knight mounted on his steed, with The Lady of the Green Kirtle looking on from one side and Aslan from the other, against a towering rock, with ‘Narnia’ lettered on a scroll to lower right, 37 x 32cm (14.5 x 12.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, backboard with the artist’s printed label and ink signature

The artist regards as one of his greatest achievements the seven audio cassette covers for BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, dramatised by Brian Sibley; four of these are being offered in this sale. In an online blog Brian Sibley writes of his delight in having Skilleter as illustrator, saying that the artist brought “an intelligence and a sympathy that complimented the telling of these much-loved tales, coupled with a sensibility as a designer for creating intriguing images that invited the listener to discover the story behind the pictures”.

Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, executed for the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation by Brian Sibley.

(1) £500 - £800

622* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for The Horse and His Boy, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, 1994, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting Shasta and Bree atop a rocky mountain, with the ethereal head of Aslan in profile above, ‘Narnia’ lettered on a scroll to lower right, signed lower right, 37 x 32cm (14.5 x 12.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, backboard with the artist’s printed label

Also offered here are five original dust jacket designs for the classic series The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, published by The Bodley Head in 1992. In an article for ‘Folio Society Magazine’ the author described Skilleter’s dramatic illustration for Under Sea, Over Stone as showing “an evilly threatening Lord of the Dark in a swirling robe”, and praised the artwork for its immediate visual appeal and accurate representation of the text.

Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, executed for the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation by Brian Sibley.

(1) £500 - £800

Paintings by Andrew Skilleter have been exhibited in London and across the UK, including at The Association of Illustrators. Numerous pieces of his work are to be found in private collections in the UK as well as globally. The works of art offered here are being sold direct from the artist himself.

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623* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for The Last Battle, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, 1996, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting Tirian, King of Narnia, in a purple tunic and blue cloak, carrying a sword and shield, with Jewel the Unicorn rearing beside him, and Aslan in a doorway behind, against a sunset landscape, with ‘Narnia’ lettered on a scroll to lower right, signed lower left, 37 x 32cm (14.5 x 12.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with the artist’s printed label on backboard

Lot 625

Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, executed for the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation by Brian Sibley.

(1) £500 - £800

624* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for Greenwitch, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper, 1992, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting the prone sleeping figure of Jane Drew below a window at which appears a female face in vegetal form (the Greenwitch), with a breeze blowing the curtains and leaf debris inwards, signed lower left, image size 35 x 45cm (13.75 x 17.75ins), sheet size 39 x 50cm (15.25 x 19.75ins), artist’s printed label on verso Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, executed for an edition published by The Bodley Head in 1992; this work for the third title in the series of five.

(1) £300 - £500

625* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for Silver on the Tree , The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper, 1992, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting a seascape with fantastical golden palace being struck by lightening and being overcome by the roaring sea, and an arrow travelling towards Will and Bran escaping in a listing sailing ship at the base of a large swell, signed lower left, image size 35 x 46.5cm (13.75 x 18.25ins), sheet size 38.5 x 51cm (15.25 x 20.25ins), artist’s printed label on verso

626* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for The Dark Is Rising,

by Susan Cooper, 1992, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting a snowy landscape with cloaked rider on a rearing and snorting horse, and a small boy (Will), signed lower left, image size 35 x 46cm (13.75 x 18ins), sheet size 38.5 x 52cm (15.25 x 20.5ins), artist’s printed label on verso

Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, executed for an edition published by The Bodley Head in 1992; this work for the final title in the series of five.

(1) £300 - £500

Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, executed for an edition published by The Bodley Head in 1992; this work for the second title in the series of five.

(1) £300 - £500

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627* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for The Grey King, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper, 1992, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting the interior of a cave, with two boys (Will and Bran) standing before the Three Lords enthroned, signed lower left, image size 35 x 45.5cm (13.75 x 17.75ins), sheet size 38.5 x 51.5cm (15 x 20.25ins), artist’s printed label on verso Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, executed for an edition published by The Bodley Head in 1992; this work for the fourth title in the series of five.

(1) £300 - £500

628* Skilleter (Andrew, b.1948). Original artwork for Under Sea, Over Stone, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper, 1992, acrylics on artist’s board, depicting a moonlit landscape with standing stones and a sinister cloaked figure towering over two children (Jane and Simon) clutching each other, with Great Uncle Merry silhouetted in the distance, signed to lower margin, image size 35 x 46cm (13.75 x 18ins), sheet size 39 x 52cm (15.25 x 20.5ins), artist’s printed label on verso Provenance: from the studio of the artist. Cover design for The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, executed for an edition published by The Bodley Head in 1992; this work for the first title in the series of five.

(1) £300 - £500

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629* Tenniel (John, 1820-1914). On the “Quay Vive”!, 1898, pencil on paper, depicting foreign sailors queuing up with baskets in front of a British sailor on a quay, beneath a sign ‘British Coaling Station’, monogrammed and dated lower left, image size 20.5 x 16cm (8 x 6.25ins), with signature and caption in pencil on card beneath in the artist’s hand: ‘On the “Quay Vive”! John Bull “What, maties!

Want some o’ my coal to get to China! Right you are!” (to himself) “I can always stop the supplies!” Punch. Jan. 22. 1898.’, both laid down in mount (manuscript title not visible through aperture), together with A New Departure, pencil on paper, showing William Edward Forster’s departure as Chief Secretary for Ireland after resigning from Gladstone’s government, against a background of cheering crowds, monogrammed lower left, 20 x 15.5cm (8 x 6ins), mounted, with printed Punch cartoon dated 1882 for which the sketch was drawn mounted on verso, plus Leech (John, 1817-1864), Pleasures of Housekeeping, [published in Punch, 1849], pencil sketch on card, depicting a lady laying the table with a gentleman standing with his back to the fire reading a newspaper, titled in pencil above and captioned in pencil below (in the artist’s hand): ‘The cook says that she thinks there’s a slate loose on the roof of his house for the water comes into the servants’ bedroom. Mr. Briggs replies that the sooner it is put to rights the better, before it goes further - and he will see about it’, lightly toned, image size 9 x 12.5cm (3.75 x 4.75ins), mounted (3)

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£150 - £200

630* Style of Hugh Thomson, 1860-1920. Original illustration for Cranford, pen & ink on artist’s board, depicting a pensive young lady in walking dress and bonnet, carrying an umbrella and standing beside a country church, calligraphic caption lower left ‘“ - Her face seemed to have almost something of the flush of youth in it” Cranford: Chap. XII’, lightly toned and a few spots (especially to blank margins), pin hole in upper edge, image size 37 x 22.5cm (14.5 x 9ins), sheet size 51 x 32cm (20 x 12.5ins)

631* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). Home Sweet Home, Raphael Tuck and Sons, copyright 1901, colour lithograph showing a family of cats in their home, father sitting by a piano and smoking a long pipe, mother sitting at the table dressmaking, the children variously playing musical instruments, drinking milk, dancing etc., a smart visitor in top hat and monocle walking through the open door, title printed beneath image, generally toned with a few spots, framed and glazed, image size 32.5 x 42.5cm (12.75 x 16.75ins), sheet size 49 x 58.3cm (19.25 x 23ins)

This original work is very much in the manner of Hugh Thomson, and yet not found in the 1891 edition of Cranford for which he did the illustrations; it is, however, possible it could be a drawing executed by him which wasn’t included in the final publication.

(1) £100 - £150

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PRIVATE PRESS 632 Basilisk Press. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, 2 volumes, Basilisk Press, 1974-75, the first volume a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in red and black, the second volume with illustrations including many tipped in, first volume uncut, original patterned cloth from a design by William Morris, folio, original stout slipcase Limited edition of 1515 copies, this being copy C of 15 copies not for sale.

(2) £600 - £800

633 Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason, a Poem,

by William Morris, Kelmscott Press, 1895, two large woodcut illustrations after designs by Burne-Jones, each with full woodcut page borders, numerous other partial woodcut borders and initials by Morris, printed in red and black, engraved bookplate of John Raymond Danson, uncut, original limp vellum with green silk ties, gilt-titled spine, 4to Peterson A34. One of 200 paper copies.

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£2,000 - £3,000

634 Kelmscott Press. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick, Kelmscott Press, 1895, elaborate woodengraved title and border to first page, printed in red and black with woodcut initials, uncut, contemporary dated ownership inscription of E. Colquhome to front pastedown, original limp vellum with silk ties, 8vo Lot 632

Peterson A37. One of 250 paper copies.

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£700 - £1,000

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635 Kelmscott Press. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, by William Morris, 2 volumes, Kelmscott Press, 1895, elaborate woodengraved title and border to first page, printed in red and black with woodcut initials, erratum slip tipped in at end of volume 1, engraved bookplate of John Raymond Danson to both volumes, original holland-backed boards with printed spine labels (slightly lifting), a little spotted,16mo Peterson A35. One of 600 paper copies.

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637 Romney Street Press. Ten Poems by Alice Meynell 1913-1915, Westminster, 1915, 16pp., rubricated initials in red by Edward Johnston, edges untrimmed, original limp vellum, slim 4to Only 50 copies printed by Francis Meynell & others in the Fell Type, September 1915. Rubricated by Edward Johnston November 1915. With tipped-in typed note to front free endpaper ‘This is one of the very few productions of the Romney Street Press, and was printed at that press by Francis (now Sir Francis) Meynell, and presented to me. I saw much of him in those days - about 1912/20. Samuel Gurney.’

Provenance: Samuel Gurney (1885-1968) of Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire.

(1) £150 - £200

£400 - £600

636 Nonesuch Press. Homer Odyssey & The Iliad, with Alexander Pope’s Translation, 2 volumes, 1931, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original terracotta morocco gilt, covers marked, Odyssey with original glassine dust jacket (torn with loss), large 8vo, contained in original marbled slipcases.

Limited editions 1085/1300 & 763/1450.

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638 The Golden Cockerel Press. The Journal of James Morrison Boatswain’s Mate of The Bounty ..., The Golden Cockerel Press 1935, number 249 / 325, with 5 black and white woodcut engravings by Robert Gibbings, original two-tone cloth, some rubbing and wear, slim folio, together with Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, from Coupang to Batavia, toge the r with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison’s Journal, The Golden Cockerel Press 1937, number 46 / 350 with black and white woodcut engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, original two-tone cloth, some rubbing and wear, slim folio, plus two other related The Cockerel Press publication; The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch (1934) and John Fryer of the Bounty (1939), slim folio

£300 - £400

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MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

639 Ambler (Eric). Uncommon Danger, 1st edition, 1937, six page advertisements at end, original cloth (some fading to spine, small light water stain at foot), dust jacket, slight toning to spine, edges a little rubbed with a couple of nicks, else a good copy, 8vo The author’s second book.

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£1,500 - £2,000

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640 Ballard (J.G.) High Rise, 1975; Low-Fying Aircraft and Other Stories, 1976; The Unlimited Dream Company, 1979, 1st editions, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo, presentation copies, each inscribed to title: “To Paul and Salli, best wishes, J.G. Ballard”, together with seven others by Ballard including Myths of the Near Future, 1982, The Day of Creation, 1987 and War Fever, 1990 10 (10)

£150 - £200

641 Barker (Clive). Weaveworld, Poseidon Press, New York, 1987, original cloth, slipcase, 8vo, limited signed edition 3/500, together with Wyndham (John). Trouble with Lichen, 1st edition, 1960, original cloth, dust jacket a little rubbed and toned with chips and tears at spine ends, 8vo, plus Aldiss (Brian W.) Intangibles Inc. and other Stories, 1st edition, 1969, original cloth, dust jacket, slight edge wear, 8vo, together with other science fiction and fantasy by Harry Harrison James Blish, Christopher Priest,Roger Zelazny and others (54)

643 Beaton (Cecil). The Book of Beauty, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1930, colour frontispiece and twenty-seven photogravure portrait plates, illustrations to text, a little spotting, partly uncut, original cream cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust-soiled, 4to

£100 - £200

Signed limited edition, 50/110 copies.

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642 Barnes (Julian). Metroland, 1st edition,1980, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, together with seven others by the author including The Porcupine, 1992, The Pedant in the Kitchen, 2003, The Lemon Table, 2004 and Arthur and George, 2005, all signed by the author (8)

£500 - £700

644 Beaton (Cecil). The Book of Duty, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1930, 28 plates including colour frontispiece (detached), illustrations to text, little spotting, mostly at front and rear, large ownership signature of Daphne Fielding to front free endpaper and bookplate of Samuel Courtauld with wood-engraved design by Paul Nash to front pastedown, original cloth backed white boards with gilt spots, gilt-title to spine, rubbed and soiled, browned at extremities and darkened on spine, 4to

£100 - £150

Daphne Fielding (1904-1997) was a British author, who married, firstly Henry Thynne, 6th Marquis of Bath in 1927 and Major Alexander Wallace Fielding, in 1953. Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), English Industrialist and art collector who founded the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1932.

(1) £200 - £300

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647 Booker Prize. A near-complete collection of Booker Prize winning and short-listed novels for the years 1999-2018, all winning novels present and all but two signed (Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (2011)), winning authors include J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, John Banville, HIlary Mantel (x2), Howard Jacobson and Richard Flanagan, plus approximately 80 short-listed first editions, mostly signed, the majority original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, VG or better

645 Beckett (Samuel). Watt, 1st edition, Collection Merlin, Olympia Press, 1953, a few minor spots front and rear, original purple wrappers, lower corners torn away, light crease, spine a little rubbed with nicks at ends, 8vo Limited edition 747/11. Signed by the author to title.

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646 Booker Prize. A collection of Booker Prize winning and shortlisted first editions, 1969-1998, signed winners include John Berger, G (1972), Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist (1974), David Storey, Saville (1976), William Golding, Rites of Passage (1980), Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark (1982), J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K (1983), Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger (1987), Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1988), A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990), Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992), Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), Pat Barker, The Ghost Road (1995), Graham Swift, Last Orders (1996), Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997) and Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (1998), plus 19 signed shortlisted books, a total of 50 volumes, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG or better, 8vo (50) Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

£300 - £400

£300 - £500

648 Bowles (Paul). The Sheltering Sky, 1st edition, John Lehmann, 1949, small fore-edge tear to final leaf where carelessly opened, original cloth in pictorial dust jacket, minor rubbing and soiling, a little fraying at spine ends with a little fading of cloth showing beneath, 8vo Author’s first novel.

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£500 - £800

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649 Braine (John). Room at the Top, 1st edition, 1957, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original cloth (spine lettering a little faded), dust jacket, spine lightly toned with nicks at ends, rear panel lightly soiled, 8vo, together with Alfie, by Bill Naughton, 1st edition, 1966, original cloth, dust jacket (tiny closed tear at foot of spine), 8vo, plus This Sporting Life, by David Storey, 1st edition, 1960, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, foot of spine lightly toned, 8vo, with four others including Stan Barstow’s A Kind of Loving, 1960 and Lynne Reid Banks’ The L-Shaped Room, 1960 (7)

Lot 651

£150 - £200

650 Brett (Simon, editor). The Detection Collection. Stories and Essays by the Detection Club, Scorpion Press, 2005, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited edition 11/100, signed by the 12 contributing authors, together with The Man Who... Stories by Detection Club Authors, Scorpion Press, 1992, slight marginal toning, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, signed by the 13 contributing authors, plus The Fencing Master, by Arturo Perez-Reverte, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, Scorpion Press, 1999, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 7/110, and The Lies of Fair Ladies, by Jonathan Gash, Scorpion Press, 1991, slight marginal toning, original moroccobacked boards, 8vo, limited signed edition 33/99, with others Scorpion Press limited signed editions by Ted Allbeury, Harlan Coben, George MacDonald Fraser, Andrew Taylor, Peter Lovesey, George P. Pelecanos etc (21)

£300 - £400

651 Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st edition, 1962, original cloth, 1st issue dust jacket (with wide flap margins), priceclipped, a few chips and tears to spine ends, head of panels and folds, 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

652 Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1962, some light spotting, original black cloth, 1st issue dust jacket priced at 16s and wide flap margins, spine a little faded with chips at ends, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

Lot 652

£300 - £500

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653 Burke (James Lee). The Glass Rainbow, Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2010, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 6/75, together with Pegasus Descending, Scorpion Press, 2006, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 6/80, plus Swan Peak, Scorpion Press, 2008, original morocco-backed boards, 8vo, limited signed edition 10/80, together with nine other Scorpion Press limited signed editions by James Lee Burke, plus Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island, 2003 (limited signed edition 9/95) and Mystic River, 2001 (limited signed edition 11/99) and others by James Elroy, Carl Hiaasen, Robert Crais and Michael Connelly (21)

£300 - £400

Lot 655

654 Byron (Robert). The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1928, 33 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, light spotting to pastedowns, half-title partially browned, a few spots to edges, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (spine very slightly sunned, a little chipped at head, short splits and a little fraying to outer corners, rear panel slightly marked), 8vo The author’s second book, preceding The Road to Oxiana and scarce in the dust jacket.

(1) £300 - £500

655 Christie (Agatha). Appointment with Death, 1st edition, 1938, advertisement leaves at end, endpapers toned, original cloth, spine a little dulled and rubbed at head of spine, restored dust jacket, light soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

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656 Christie (Agatha). The Regatta Mystery, 1st US edition, Dodd Mead, New York, 1939, a little light toning, original orange cloth, dust jacket, a few chips and tears, clear tape repairs to verso, 8vo

£500 - £800

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£300 - £500

657 Christie (Agatha). The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Towards Zero; The Labours of Hercules; Crooked House; A Murder is Announced; Sleeping Murder, Collins, 1990, portrait frontispiece to each, illustrations, top edge gilt, original red morocco-backed boards (Towards Zero spine with very small rubbed patch), morocco-backed slipcase, 8vo Limited edition 154/350, signed by Rosalind Hicks (the author’s daughter).

(6) £100 - £150

660* De la Mare (Walter, 1873-1956). A group of five autograph letters and 13 typed letters signed, various signatures, mostly Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire and 4 South End House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, Middlesex, 1931/1950, all to Rosemary [ Sisson ] except three to her father Charles, one thanking him for his ‘parental blessing on my correspondence with Rosemary! I just love having her letters, but when I begin to try to answer them, I feel something like a hippopotamus picking daisies’, discussing their poetry and lives, potential meetings, bird observations, etc., plus an autograph letter signed from Rosemary and a typed letter initialled from Charles Sisson, both to de la Mare, some occasional spotting and age toning, several creased and frayed at edges, some of the typed letters with manuscript additions and corrections, a total of 31 pages, 4to/oblong 8vo

658 Clemens (Samuel L., “Mark Twain”). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1st US edition, early issue, Charles L. Webster, New York, 1885, frontispiece, portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (2nd state), illustrations by E.W. Kemble, title with copyright dated 1884 to verso (2nd state), p.9 with ‘decides’ for ‘decided’ (2nd state), p.9 ‘with the saw’ for ‘with the was’ (2nd state), occasional light soiling and a few stains, original green cloth gilt, some wear at spine ends and edges, a little rubbed with a few marks, small 4to

Rosemary Ann Sisson (1923-2017) was an English television dramatist and novelist. She was the daughter of Shakespeare scholar Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966) and his wife, Vera. The letter from Rosemary to Walter de la Mare tells how she had always longed to be able to send him something in return in gratitude and since the day in 1931 when he sent her his Peacock’s Pie. (20) £300 - £500

BAL 3415. With an off white card (5.5 x 9.5cm) inscribed 'Truly yours Mark Twain' loosely inserted.

(1) £600 - £800

659 Cornwell, (Bernard). Sharpe’s Tiger, Scorpion Press, 1997, slight marginal toning, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 17/99, together with Sharpe’s Trafalgar, Scorpion Press, 1999, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 7/99, plus Sharpe’s Prey, 2001, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 20/90, with other Scorpion Press limited signed editions by Cornwell, Dick Francis, Henning Mankell, Barry Maitland, Allan Mallinson, Maxim Jakubowski, Lawrence Block and Ken Bruen (20)

£300 - £400

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662 Dexter (Colin), The Jewel That was Ours, Scorpion Press, Bristol, 1991, slight marginal toning, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 101/150, together with The Hanging Garden, by Ian Rankin, Scorpion Press, 1998, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 7/90, plus Violent Ward, by Len Deighton, Scorpion Press, 1993, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 109/130, with other Scorpion Press limited editions by Ian Rankin and Reginald Hill etc (18)

£300 - £400

663 Dexter (Colin). Last Bus to Woodstock, 1st edition, 1975, usual toning to textblock, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo Signed by the author to title. The author’s first book and debut of Inspector Morse.

(1) £400 - £600

664 Dexter (Colin). Last Seen Wearing, 1st edition, 1976, usual toning to textblock, original cloth (spine ends faded), dust jacket, 8vo Signed by the author to title. The second Inspector Morse book.

(1) £400 - £600

665 Dexter (Colin). The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn, 1977; Service of all the Dead, 1979; The Dead of Jericho, 1981; The Riddle of the Third Mile,1983; The Secret of Annexe 3, 1986, 1st editions, light toning to Riddle of the Third Mile & Secret of Annexe 3 textblocks, original cloth, dust jackets, Riddle with light toning at head of rear panel, Annexe 3 with slight toning to rear panel and light spotting to flaps, 8vo, Silent World with loose notecard inscribed by the author, all bar Dead of Jericho signed by the author, together with six other Morse titles from The Jewel That Was Ours, 1991 to The Remorseful Day, 1999 and Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other Stories, 1993, all signed or inscribed by the author

661 Deighton (Len). The Ipcress File, 1962; Horse Under Water, 1963; Funeral in Berlin, 1964; Billion Dollar Brain, 1966, 1st editions, Ipcress File with la little light spotting to fore margins, Horse Under Water without loose crossword competition, previous owner signature to Ipcress , original cloth, dust jackets, light offsetting to Horse rear panel, light stains to front panel, 8vo, with two other first editions: An Expensive Place to Die, 1967 (with wallet of documents) and Declarations of War, 1971 (6)

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£300 - £500

£300 - £400

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Lot 667 666* Douglas (Lord Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945). Autograph letter signed, ‘Alfred Douglas’, letterhead of The Academy, Covent Garden, 2 May 1907, to the playwright St. John Hankin, ‘I thought your play [probably ‘The Cassilis Engagement’ or a revival of ‘The Return of the Prodigal’] splendid. So much so that I have suppressed de Selincourt’s notice which I didn’t think good enough & written another & longer, & I hope more appreciative one myself’, continuing that he would like his wife to see it and could he have two tickets for the stalls for Saturday, with a postscript, ‘My article on your play is my first essay in dramatic criticism, so you must judge it accordingly’, two pages, 4to ‘Douglas had already dissipated his share of his father’s fortune and the insistent problem of claiming a settled income was solved in 1907 by Sir Edward Tennant (later Lord Glenconner) who offered him the editorship of the Academy which he had recently purchased’, (ODMB).

(1) £150 - £200

667 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st edition, 1902, 1st issue with misprint ‘you’ for ‘yours’, line 3, p. 13, 16 monochrome illustrations by Sidney Paget, a little light spotting and soiling, front free endpaper renewed, original endpaper adhered to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, upper cover slightly bowed, 8vo (1)

£500 - £800

668 Du Maurier (Daphne). I’ll Never Be Young Again, 1st edition, 1932, a little minor spotting, original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at ends, a few small repairs to verso, 8vo The author’s second book. Rare in the dust jacket.

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£600 - £800

669 Du Maurier (Daphne). Jamaica Inn, 1st UK & US editions, 1936, half titles, US edition title illustration hand-coloured, some spotting to UK edition, modern morocco (UK edition in blue and red morocco, US edition in red and black morocco), each with buttoned tunic design to upper covers, 8vo (2)

Lot 668

£150 - £200

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671 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca , 1st edition, 1938, spotting (mainly to first few leaves and margins), stitching strained, front hinge cracked, front pastedown wtih contemporary ownership signature, original black cloth, somewhat rubbed, very lightly mottled in places, spine slightly cocked, toned dust jacket, some spotting and dust-soiling, split along upper joint, rubbed in places with some fraying and chips, 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

670 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st edition, 1938, text block a little toned, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper: “To Miss Lilly from Mrs Maurice L. Rothchild, 4/39”, original black cloth (one or two small faint stains), dust jacket, spine a little faded to beige, tiny nicks and closed tears at ends, 8vo

672 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st edition, 1938, variable spotting, front hinge cracking, front free endpaper with ink ownership inscription, original black cloth, extremities somewhat rubbed, spine cocked, toned dust jacket, rubbed and dust-soiled, some tears, edges with some fraying and small losses, a few spots to spine and small mark to rear panel, 8vo

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£1,000 - £1,500

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£300 - £500

Lot 674

Lot 673 673 Eliot (T.S.). Ash-Wednesday, Fountain Press, New York/Faber & Faber, London, 1930, usual light toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, very light stains to upper cover, small 4to Limited signed edition 541/600. Gallup A15a.

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£300 - £500

674 Eliot (T. S.) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 1st edition, 1939, a few leaves roughly opened, contemporary presentation inscription at front, original cloth, spine a little toned, a few light marks, dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at foot, slight agetoning, 8vo Gallup A34a. Signed by the author to title. ()

£1,000 - £1,500

675 Eliot (T.S.) Selected Poems, 1st Faber & Faber edition,1954, original cloth, dust jacket (small chips and tear at head of spine), 8vo Signed to title by the poet.

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£100 - £150

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676 Fermor (Patrick Leigh). The Traveller’s Tree. A Journey through the Caribbean Islands, illustrated by A. Costa, 1st edition, John Murray, 1950, frontispiece, double-page sketch-map on green paper, photographic plates, spotting to edges (encroaching on margins in preliminaries), original green cloth, spine slightly rolled, dust jacket (spine nicked and toned, a few nicks to panels, upper outer corner of front panel rubbed, rear panel spotted), 8vo The author’s first book.

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Lot 678

£100 - £150

677 Fitzgerald (F. Scott). The Last Tycoon, 1st UK edition, 1949, original cloth, dust jacket, spine and rear panel toned, a few chips and tears, and loss of one letter at head of spine, 8vo, together with Irish (William). The Dancing Detective, 1st edition, New York, 1946, original cloth (spine a little faded), dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, 8vo, with 10 others including Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances, 1946, John Osborne’s The Entertainer, 1957, Inadmissible Evidence, 1965 and A Bond Honoured, 1964, and John Fowles’ The Collector, 1st US edition, 1963 ()

£150 - £200

678 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1953, occasional minor spotting, original cloth, dust jacket (with Times review to front flap), small chips at head of spine and folds, light toning to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

679 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st edition, 1953, one or two light marks, original black cloth with red heart motif to upper cover (a little rubbed, a couple of small bumps and indentations), slight lean, 8vo ()

£400 - £600

Lot 679

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Lot 680 681 Fleming (Ian). From Russia with Love, 1st edition, 1957, a few light spots front and rear, original cloth, professionally restored dust jacket, 8vo, together with Moonraker, 1st edition, 1955 (lacking front endpaper)

680 Fleming (Ian). Live and Let Die, 1954; Moonraker, 1955; Diamonds are Forever, 1956, 1st editions, a little light spotting, Live and Let Die endpapers renewed, original boards, slight fading, all in later dust jackets, 8vo, plus From Russia, With Love, 2 copies, 1st editions, 1957 in later jackets, Thunderball, 1st edition, 1961, later jacket, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963 ,3 copies (two first editions and uncorrected proof), The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 1965 and later printings/reprints of a few others (16)

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£600 - £800

£400 - £600

682 Fleming (Ian). From Russia, With Love, 1st edition, 1957, original cloth with upper cover vignette blocked in silver and bronze, dust jacket, very slight soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

Lot 681

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£400 - £600

685 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st edition, 1960; Thunderball, 1961, 1st editions, contemporary presentation inscription to Thunderball, original cloth, dust jackets, For Your Eyes Only spine a little rubbed with lettering faded to Orange (as often), small abrasion to rear panel, Thunderball with small repair to verso, small chips, later price sticker and some paper thinning to flaps, 8vo

683 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st edition, 1958, a little light spotting, endpapers renewed, original 1st issue cloth (without silhouette of a dancing girl), dust jacket, spine repaired to verso, some soiling to rear panel, 8vo ()

£200 - £300

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686 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st edition, 1960, a little light spotting, original cloth (head of spine faded), price-clipped dust jacket, one or two nicks, a couple of light water stains, 8vo

684 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, 1959, a little minor spotting, previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, upper cover with gilt-stamped coins in eye sockets of skull, price-clipped dust jacket, small mark to rear panel, 8vo (1)

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£300 - £400

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£300 - £500

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£200 - £300

687 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st editions, original cloth, dust jackets (OHMSS repaired to verso), 8vo, plus three other 1st editions (without jackets): Diamonds Are Forever, 1956, From Russia, With Love, 1957 and Dr No, 1958 (7)

689 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st edition, 1962, original cloth, dust jacket, faint soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

£200 - £300

690 Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st edition, 1962, one or two light spots, previous owner inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, tiny tears at spine ends, 8vo (1)

688 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st edition, 1962, a little light spotting, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, spine a little rubbed, 8vo, together with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1st edition, 1963, a few light spots, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, head of spine repaired to verso, 8vo, with three other first editions: You Only Live Twice, 1964, The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965 and Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966 (5)

£100 - £150

691 Fleming (Ian). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1964-65, colour illustrations, small bookseller label at front of volume 3, original boards, light spotting to volume 1 and to extremities of volume 3, dust jackets, volume 3 price-clipped, closed tear to volume 1 front panel, some slight overall soiling, 8vo (3)

£200 - £300

£300 - £500

692 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st edition, 1961, original cloth, 8vo, together with four other 1st editions: another Thunderball (lacking front endpaper), You Only Live Twice, 1964 (with clear tape reinforcements to pastedowns), and two copies of The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965 (5)

£70 - £100

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695 Francis (Dick). Dead Cert, 1962; Nerve, 1964; For Kicks, 1965; Odds Against, 1965; Flying Finish, 1966; Blood Sport, 1967, 1st US editions, a few minor spots and stains, closed tear to Odds Against half title, bookplate, original cloth, a couple of spines and covers a little rubbed with light stains, dust jackets, a few small closed tears and one or two spines a little rubbed, Dead Cert with small reinforcement to verso

693 Francis (Dick). Dead Cert, 1st edition, 1962, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little toned with repairs at ends to verso, 8vo Inscribed by the author to title.

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£500 - £800

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696 Francis (Dick). Nerve, 1962; For Kicks, 1965; Odds Against, 1965; Flying Finish, 1966, 1st editions, one or two minor spots, original cloth, dust jackets, Nerve price-clipped with small reinforcement at foot to verso, light fading to spine, slight edge wear, the last three titles signed or inscribed by the author

694 Francis (Dick). Dead Cert, 1st edition, 1962, light spotting to fore edges, original cloth, dust jacket, some toning to spine with small nicks at ends, 8vo (1)

£500 - £800

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£300 - £500

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£300 - £500

Lot 698

698 Frost (Robert). New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, 1st edition, New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923, woodcut frontispiece and two fullpage woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes, vignette to final leaf, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original black cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine and to board corners, covers a little scuff marked, 8vo

697 Francis (Dick). Blood Sport, first edition, Michael Joseph, 1967, signed by author on title, original cloth in unclipped dust jacket, together with a spare dust jacket for the same book, plus an uncorrected proof copy of the same book, original printed wrappers, a little browned and soiled, plus Forfeit, 1968, Enquiry, 1969, (signed bookplate), Rat Race, 1970, Bonecrack 1971, all UK first editions, original cloth in dust jackets, some a little spotted or browned on lower panels, plus other UK and US mostly first editions plus proof copies of Dick Francis books and novels including a few anthologies and paperbacks, the majority original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG or better (approx. 120)

Limited edition 249/350, signed by Robert Frost.

New Hampshire is one of Frost’s earliest and greatest works. The collection includes the title-poem, one of his longer works , as well as over 35 others including, The Star-Splitter, Dust of Snow, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

(1) £300 - £500

£300 - £400

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699 Gardner (John). Licence Renewed, 1981; For Special Services, 1982; Icebreaker, 1983, 1st editions, some light spotting and toning, original cloth, dust jackets, a little light spotting to flaps, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus four other Bond titles by Gardner, Kingsley Amis’s The James Bond Dossier, 1965, Ian Fleming’s Thrilling Cities, 1963, Airline Detective, by Donald Fish, introduced by Ian Fleming, 1962, inscribed by Fleming biographer John Pearson etc (19)

£150 - £200

700 Graves (Robert). I Claudius, 1st edition, 1934, folding genealogical table at end, Book Society bookplate to front endpaper, original cloth (covers with some light mottled stains), price-clipped dust jacket, tears and losses to spine at ends, a few chips and some light toning, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

702 Harbou (Thea von). Metropolis, 1st English edition, Reader’s Library, [1927], one leaf loose, a couple of others detaching at gutter, minor stains to pastedowns (first leaf used as the front pastedown), original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, dust jacket, small chips and tears at spine ends and folds,small closed tear at head of upper panel, 8vo

701 Hamilton (Patrick). Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, A London Trilogy, first collected edition, Constable & Co, 1935, original cloth (a little faded at spine ends) in dust jacket, slightly rubbed, chipped and soiled, spine toned and chipped with loss at head and foot, together with Twopence Coloured, first edition, Constable & Co, 1928, pp.17-18 & 31-32 detached and the first leaf slightly creased at outer margins, original cloth lettered in purple, slightly rubbed both 8vo (2)

First issue with no mention of Metropolis to list on p. 7 or rear flap of dust jacket. The iconic art deco dust jacket was designed by Aubrey Hammond with the film of the book released in the same year.

(1) £500 - £800

£200 - £300

703 Heaney (Seamus). North, 1st edition, 1975, endpapers a little spotted and toned, original cloth, small light flecked stains to upper cover, dust jacket, spine a little faded, a few minor spots to flaps, 8vo, together with The Haw Lantern, 1st edition, 1987, some toning to text block, original cloth, dust jacket, small losses at foot of front panel from insect predation, 8vo, plus The Book and Brotherhood,

by Iris Murdoch, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1987, original cloth, dust jacket, signed by the author to tipped-in Sunday Times 1987 Booker Prize Shortlist label, with eight others including Philip Larkin’s All What Jazz, 1970, and High Windows, 1970 (11)

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£200 - £300

704 Hemingway (Ernest). A Farewell to Arms, 1st edition, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1929, first issue without disclaimer to dedication verso, some spotting and toning, tape reinforcements front and rear, front flap of dust jacket tipped-in to front pastedown, original cloth, spine label chipped with loss, rubbed with some edge wear, 8vo Signed by the author to front endpaper.

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£700 - £1,000

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705 Hemingway (Ernest). For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1st edition, Charles Scribner, New York, 1940, first issue with letter ‘A’ to copyright page, minor spotting to fore edges, original cloth (a couple of light stains), price-clipped dust jacket, a few tears and losses, old tape repairs, 8vo (1)

Lot 708 707 Hornby (Nick). Fever Pitch, 1st edition, 1992, faint spotting to fore edges, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title: “For Ian, I got drunk, Nick Hornby” (in response to the question “what did you feel when we got the last minute winner...”, pencil note at front), additionally inscribed by Arsenal player Michael Thomas to fore margin of p. 229 “To a true Gooner, best wishes Michael Thomas”, together with others by Hornby, mostly signed including Contemporary American Fiction, 1992, High Fidelity, 1995 (inscribed by the author, with a loose postcard to South African bookseller Ian Snelling), About a Boy, 1998, and How to Be Good, 2001

£300 - £500

706 Hemingway (Ernest). Works, 19 volumes, Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1990, colour and monochrome illustrations, all edges gilt, each volume attractively bound in an array of multicoloured morocco with gilt and polychrome decorations, 8vo Another volume, True at First Light, was published by the Easton Press in 1999 (not present here).

(19) £300 - £400

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£200 - £300

708 Hubbard (L. Ron). Slaves of Sleep, 1st edition, subscriber’s issue, Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, self-adhesive label with caption ‘Afghanistan’ to half-title, bookplate and ownership inscription to front pastedown, original grey cloth, incipient fraying to spineends, dust jacket (chipped, tape-repaired), 8vo One of an unknown number of copies signed by Hubbard; it is often stated that 250 such copies were issued to subscribers only.

(1) £100 - £150

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709 Huxley (Aldous). Crome Yellow, 1st edition, 1921, spare label tipped-in at end, top edge green, original cloth, small bump to foot of spine and one corner, dust jacket, small chips and splits at spine ends and folds, tiny hole to rear panel margin, 8vo A good copy of the author’s first novel.

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£2,000 - £3,000

710 Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, 1932, a little minor spotting, original cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, dust jacket, spine toned, spine ends and head of front and rear panels with some insect damage (with loss of a few letters at head of spine), 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

711 Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, 1932, half title, a little offsetting to pages 2 & 3, top edge gilt, modern black half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, 8vo, together with Orwell (George). Coming Up For Air, 1st edition, 1939, half title, a little light spotting and toning, modern black half morocco gilt, 8vo (2)

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£100 - £150

712 Isherwood (Christopher). Goodbye to Berlin, 1st edition, 1939, top edge red, original cloth (spine and extremities a trifle toned), professionally restored dust jacket, 8vo (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

713 James (Henry). The Europeans. A Sketch, 1st US edition, Houghton Osgood, Boston, 1879, some light toning and marginal soiling, original cloth gilt, small indentations to upper cover and splits at spine ends, a few small stains, 8vo, together with The Bostonians, 2nd one volume issue, Macmillan, 1886, advertisement leaf at end, original blue & black cloth gilt, some mottled stains, 8vo, plus The Wings of the Dove, 1st edition, Archibald Constable, 1902, publisher’s catalogue at end, some light toning, original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, with 13 others by Henry James including Portraits of Places, Boston, 1884, The Other House, 2 volumes, 2nd edition,1896, The Spoils of Poynton, Heinemann, 1897, The Soft Side, Methuen, 1900, The Sacred Fount, Methuen, 1901 and The Better Sort, Methuen, 1903 (16)

£300 - £400

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714 James (Henry). The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1879, advertisement leaf at end of volume II, a little minor spotting, hinges reinforced, original cloth gilt, volume I neatly rebacked with original spine relaid, 8vo Edel & Laurence A10. One of 500 copies printed.

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£800 - £1,200

Lot 714

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715 James (Henry). The Real Thing and Other Tales, 1st edition, 1st issue, Macmillan, 1893, 47 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end (last leaf with marginal tear and loss), one or two marginal spots, original blue cloth gilt, spine faded to green with small nicks and splits at ends and lower joint, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo

716* John Lennon promotional poster. A Spaniard in the Work, circa 1965, colour lithographic poster featuring a reproduction of the artwork on the front cover of the book published by Jonathan Cape with text at foot referring to Lennon’s successful previous book ‘In His Own Write’, small sellotape remains to extremities at lower margin and centre fold verso, folded condition, 76 x 50cm

Edel & Laurence A37. Very rare first issue copy with ‘Copyright 1892, by Macmillan & Co.’ to title verso. On the cancel title-leaf in the second state the copyright date is altered to 1893. “With a single exception, all copies examined contain a cancel title-leaf. An apparently unique copy, discovered

by I.R. Brussel and recently added to the Collamore Collection at Colby, contains a first-state title-leaf...” (Edel & Laurence).

(1) £500 - £800

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£200 - £300

717 Johns (Captain W.E.) Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D., 1946; Biggles Hunts Big Game, 1948; Biggles in the Gobi, 1953; Biggles and the Black Raider, 1953; Biggles Makes Ends Meet, 1957; Biggles in Mexico, 1959; Biggles’ Combined Operation, 1959, 1st editions, colour illustrations, a little light spotting and toning, presentation inscription to Make Ends Meet, original cloth, dust jackets (In the Gobi & Make Ends Meet price-clipped), a few chips, tears and losses, 8vo, together with seven other 1st editions: Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn, 1960, Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy,1961, Biggles Looks Back (3 copies), 1965, Biggles and the Blue Moon, 1965 and Biggles and the Little Green God, 1969, plus 13 reprints (27)

£300 - £400

718 King (Stephen). The Dead Zone, 1979; Firestarter, 1980; Different Seasons, 1982, 1st UK editions, Firestarter text block a little toned, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo, with 18 others by Stephen King including Pet Sematary, 1st US edition, 1983 and Dolores Claiborne, 1992 (Special Limited Christmas Gift Edition) (21)

£150 - £200

720 Leighton (Clare). The Farmer’s Year, a Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, Collins, 1933, 12 full-page woodcuts, woodcut title-device, initials and and tailpieces, pictorial endpapers, original green cloth gilt, faded and frayed along bottom edges of boards, dust jacket (spotted, toned, chipped and nicked), oblong folio, together with a complete set of page proofs, containing the entire text and woodblock apparatus but printed rectos only, original cloth-backed green card wrappers, printed paper label ‘The Book Society, Page Proofs, The Farmer’s Year, Claire [sic] Leighton’ to front wrapper, sunned and marked, a little fraying to backstrip, label chipped, corners bumped, oblong folio

719 Larkin (Philip). The Whitsun Weddings, 1st edition, 1964, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo

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Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “Inscribed very gladly for June Buttrey, Philip Larkin, 9 iii 64”. June Buttrey was likely the wife of Tom Cliff Buttrey, headmaster of Prince’s Street Junior School, Wellington, Shropshire, and aquaintance of Philip Larkin.

(1) £500 - £800

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Lot 722

721 Lewis (C. S.) The Silver Chair, 1st edition, 1953, illustrations

by Pauline Baynes, one or two light spots, original blue cloth (spine a little faded), dust jacket, a few tears and losses to spine and front panel, light soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£800 - £1,200

722 Lewis (C.S.) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st edition, 1950, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes,a little light spotting to title and endpapers, presentation inscription and signature to front endpaper, original green cloth, some fading to spine and extremities, professionally restored dust jacket, slight spotting to flaps, 8vo (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

723 Lewis (C.S.) Prince Caspian, 1st edition, 1951, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, one or two light spots, map endpapers, original blue cloth, dust jacket, small nicks at spine ends and folds, slight soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£600 - £800

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Lot 724 724* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1998-1963). Autograph letter signed, ‘C.S. Lewis’, The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford, 21 December 1937, to Professor [Charles] Sisson, thanking him for his nice letter, ‘the only thing against it is that I am now almost disabled from telling you that I found your K[ing] James and M[ario] Praz’ Poussin the two most interesting things in the book... nothing I can say will make this sound convincing now! I am a little bit troubled about the whole question of ‘renewal’ of literary, and other, pleasures, myself. It seems that the best wear out by repetition no less than the worst.

I feel, however, that some wear out without repetition - that their life in memory is shorter and their power of working into the permanent make-up of one’s mind is less. Like people. There is no one (pace the love poets) whom one wants to talk to at all times... ‘, saying that some of his greatest enjoyment of poetry has come when reading ‘for purely un-literary reasons: and certainly one’s friends are never such good company as when one meets them on business. “Now we can have a good talk” is usually fatal. Starting from the other, the artist’s end, it is pretty true to say that good work is usually produced by those who write to make money, or to instruct, or to edify, or to entertain: seldom by those who regard the production of ‘Poetry’ as an end in itself. I rather like Miss [Edith] Sitwell, at least her earlier poems such as The Sleeping Beauty and I think she is still the best of the ‘Modernists’. Auden began well: they’ve made a pretty fool of him since’, concluding that he would be delighted to see him come up and stay in Oxford, with a p.s., ‘[H.F.] Stewart on Pascal, [F.E.] Hutchinson on Herbert, and [Rudolf] Metz on Bacon are pretty poor, I thought: but taking it as a whole this is better than most books of the kind’, two pages written neatly in blue ink to rectos of two sheets of lightly ruled paper, 4to, together with postmarked and initialled envelope, the address struck through and redirected to an address in Sussex

725 Lodge (David). The Picturegoers, 1st edition, 1960, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, some fading to spine, slight marginal soiling to rear panel, 8vo, together with How Far Can You Go, 1st edition, 1980, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, together with seven others 1st editions including Nice Work, 1988, Paradise News, 1991, Therapy, 1995, Author, Author, 2004 and Deaf Sentence, 2008, some signed by the author.

Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966) was Lord Northcliffe, Professor of Modern English Literature in the University of London, his main research interest being Shakespeare. The book to which Lewis is responding is Seventeenth Century Studies Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson (Oxford University Press, 1938). Sisson contributed an essay titled ‘King James the First of England as Poet and Political Writer’.

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727 Maugham (W. Somerset). A Writer’s Notebook, William Heinemann Ltd, 1949, title-page printed in red and black, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original quarter vellum, slipcase, 8vo Limited edition, number 83 of 1,000 copies signed by the author.

(1) £100 - £150

728 McEwan (Ian). First Love, Last Rites, 1975; In Between the Sheets and other Stories, 1978; The Cement Garden, 1978; The Imitation Game, 1981, 1st editions, one or two light stains to In Between the Sheets, original cloth, dust jackets In Between the Sheets and Cement Garden spines a little faded, Imitation Game price-clipped, 8vo, together with eight others by McEwan including Or Shall We Die?, 1983 and The Innocent, 1990, most signed by the author

726 Malamud (Bernard). The Natural, 1st edition, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1952, original grey cloth (spine and extremities a little faded), dust jacket, small tears and nicks at spine ends and folds, 8vo The author’s first book.

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£800 - £1,200

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Lot 732

729 Middleton (Stanley). Holiday, 1st edition, 1974, original cloth, dust jacket, short closed tear at foot of spine, small reinforcements to verso, 8vo Signed by the author to title. Joint Booker Prize winner in 1974 (1) £300 - £500

730 Mitford (Nancy). Love in a Cold Climate, 1st edition, 1949, original cloth (ring mark to lower cover), dust jacket, small nicks and tears at spine ends, one or two closed tears to panels, 8vo (1)

£70 - £100

731 Murdoch (Iris). Joanna Joanna. A Play in Two Acts, Colophon Press, 1994, original cloth, 8vo, limited signed edition 6/125, together with Things to Come, by H.G. Wells, 1st edition, 1935, some light spotting, original cloth, spine a little darkened, 8vo, signed to front endpaper by the author, plus I Know the Place.

Poems by Harold Pinter, Greville Press, Warwick, [1977], illustrations, original cloth, head of spine bumped, 8vo, limited signed edition 227/500, with six others including Sir Frank Swettenham’s Arabella in Africa, 1st edition, 1925 (with illustrations

by Rex Whistler and Mary Forster-Knight),George Orwell’s Animal Farm, August 1945 reprint, Mervyn Peake’s The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, 1962, Dans l’Argile de Picasso. Poemes se Henri-Dante Alberti, 1957 (with linocut illustration by Picasso) and Seamus Heaney’ s Sweeney Astray, 1986 reprint (inscribed by the author) (9)

733 O’Brian (Patrick). The Road to Samarcand, 1st edition, 1954, original cloth, dust jacket, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, by Ian Fleming, 1st edition, 1963, light spotting to fore edges, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with seven others including John Steinbeck’s Burning Bright, 1st UK edition, 1951, Joyce Cary’s The Captive and the Free, 1959, Nancy Mitford’s Don’t Tell Alfred, 1960 and The Water Beetle, 1962

£200 - £300

732 O’Brian (Patrick). Post Captain, 1972; H.M.S. Surprise, 1973; The Letter of Marque, 1988; Clarissa Oakes, 1992, 1st editions, usual toning to Letter of Marque textblock, original cloth, dust jackets, slight fading to spines, minor stain at head of Letter of Marque spine, Clarissa Oakes signed by the author to title, together with five other ‘Jack Aubrey’ novels: The Wine-Dark Sea, 1993, The Commodore, 1994, The Yellow Admiral, 1997, The Hundred Days, 1998 and Blue at the Mizzen, 1999 (9)

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734 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, 1949, book shop ink stamps to margins of a few leaves, foot of title with piece torn away, lacking rear endpaper, clear tape residue marks front and rear, a few stains, original green cloth, some fading, slight lean, green dust jacket, a few chips, tears and losses to spine ends and front panel, clear tape marks to flap edges, 8vo, together with Animal Farm, 1st illustrated edition, 1954, additional colour title, illustrations by Joy Batchelor & John Halas, a few light spots to fore edges, original red cloth silver, dust jacket, spine a little faded with closed tears and tiny nicks at ends, small rubbed patch to rear panel, 8vo (2)

735 Orwell (George). The Road to Wigan Pier, 1st edition, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937, 16 halftone photographic plates, light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, a few isolated spots to margins, stronger spotting to edges, original blue cloth, spine lettering darkened, 8vo Trade issue, considerably scarcer than the Left Book Club issue in printed orange wrappers.

(1) £200 - £300

£300 - £400

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Lot 736 736* Orwell (George, i.e . Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950). A group of three typed letters signed, ‘Geo. Orwell’, letterhead of The Tribune, 2nd May, 13th June & 24th November 1944, all brief notes to Elwyn Jones, the first saying that he will try to send some of the books on his list and that ‘I didn’t know about the book on E.M. Forster. Is it by any chance a reprint of Lionel Trlling’s book?’, Trilling with manuscript typo correction in Orwell’s hand, the second a single line asking for 600 words review of ‘The Journey Home’ and ‘Target for Tomorrow’, published by John Murray and Pilot Press respectively, the third and longest letter thanking Jones for the review, agreeing with his suggestions about varying lengths of reviews, ‘But for the time being I want to stick to the present arrangement as rigidly as possible. The reason is that if we allow some of the reviews to be longer, everyone will tend to think that the book he is doing at the moment deserves a longer one, and the average length will tend towards 400 words or 500 words again. Later on, when the scheme is well established, we shall probably very [sic] them a bit’, all on letterhead printed in black, a little soiling and age toning, each one page, oblong 8vo, together with a brief autograph letter signed to Jones from (?)Selwyn, a sheet of letterhead with ballpoint pen notes and a printed sheet for Bedford Park Festival, 1967, the latter two heavily spotted George Orwell was hired as literary editor by the Tribune in 1943, writing a series of columns, as well as commissioning and writing reviews. He left the Tribune in 1945 to become a war correspondent for The Observer. Elwyn Jones (1923-1982) began his career in journalism, before beginning an association with the BBC in the 1950s, initially as assistant to the literary editor of the Radio Times, and lastly as Television Editor. As a screenwriter and producer he is best known for co-creating Z-Cars for which he wrote several scripts, and for its spin-off Softly, Softly.

(6) £1,500 - £2,000

737 Orwell (George). The Complete Works, 20 volumes, Secker & Warburg, 1997-98, original blue cloth, dust jackets, 8vo (20)

£400 - £600

738 Orwell (George). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, 4 volumes, first edition, 1968, all four frontispieces and titles somewhat spotted, original cloth in dust jackets, a little rubbed and a few light marks, 8vo (4)

£100 - £150

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741 Rankin (Ian). Knots & Crosses, 1987; Hide & Seek, 1991; Wolfman, 1992; Strip Jack, 1992, 1st editions, usual light toning to textblocks, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo Each signed to title by the author, with a noughts and crosses or hangman remarque. Fine copies.

(4) £400 - £600

739 Plath (Sylvia). Ariel, 1st edition, 1965, slight partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original red cloth, dust jacket, some toning to spine, one or two small chips and tears, 8vo (1)

£300 - £400

740 Rand (Ayn). Atlas Shrugged, 10th anniversary edition, Random House, New York, 1967, small stain to a few fore margins, top edge blue, original blue cloth, some fading to spine, gilt lettering rubbed, light edge wear, 8vo Limited edition 1277/2000, signed by the author.

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742 Rankin (Ian). The Flood, 1st edition, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1986, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo Signed by the author to title. A fine copy of the author’s first book.

(1) £300 - £500

£300 - £500

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745 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 5th impression, 2000, original boards, dust jacket, 8vo Signed by the author to title, with a gold ticket for the signing event at W H Smith, Brent Cross, London, 19th July 2000.

(1) £200 - £300

743 Rankin (Ian). Watchman, 1988; Westwind, 1990; A Good Hanging and other Stories, 1992; The Black Book, 1993; Mortal Causes, 1994; Let it Bleed, 1995, 1st editions, usual light marginal toning to textblocks, original cloth, dust jackets (Watchman spine a little faded), 8vo, all signed by the author, together with others

by Ian Rankin including Hide & Seek, limited edition proof (190/400, signed), Herbert in Motion, 1997 limited signed edition 86/200, Black & Blue, 1997 (inscribed), uncorrected proofs etc, many signed (40)

£400 - £600

746 Rushdie (Salman). Midnight’s Children, 1st edition, 1981, original cloth, dust jacket with the scarce red wraparound Booker Prize band (some fading to spine and head of panels), 8vo, signed by the author to title, with eight others including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st deluxe edition, 1999 and Sue Grafton’s “D” is for Deadbeat, 1st US edition, 1987 and “F” is for Fugitive, 1st US edition, 1989, both signed by the author to titles

744 Rankin (Ian, writing as ‘Jack Harvey’). Witch Hunt, 1993; Bleeding Hearts, 1994; Blood Hunt, 1995, 1st editions, usual light marginal toning to textblocks, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo Each signed by the author.

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£300 - £400

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749 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 2nd edition, 1886, half title,advertisement leaf at end, one or two light fingermarks, contemporary half calf, spine and edges a little rubbed and faded, 8vo

747 Sillitoe (Alan). Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1st edition, 1958, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little rubbed, a few small closed tears, 8vo, together with The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner, 1st edition, 1959, one or two light stains, original cloth, one or two nicks and closed tears, 8vo, plus The General, 1st edition, 1960, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with four others including The Ragman’s Daughter, 1963 and Travels in Nihilon, 1971 (7)

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£200 - £300

748 Slaughter (Karin, editor). Like A Charm, Scorpion Press, 2004, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited edition 112/120, signed by all 15 contributing authors, together with A Sight for Sore Eyes, by Ruth Rendell, Scorpion Press, 1988, original morocco-backed boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 6/99, plus The Scold’s Bridle, by Minette Walters, Scorpion Press, 1994, original morocco-backed boards, 8vo, limited signed edition 7/75, together with other Scorpion Press limited signed editions by Ruth Rendell, Lindsey Davis, Barbara Cleverly, Louise Penny, Barbara Vine, Carol O’ Connell, Sara Paretsky and others (20)

£150 - £200

750 Stroheim (Erich von). Paprika, Andre Martel, Paris, 1950, textblock toned and one or two tears, original wrappers, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “A Claude, ones mes meilleurs voeux!, signed and dated 1951, additionally signed by his partner, actress Denise Vernac to title. Stroheim (1885-1957) was an Austrian-American actor, producer and writer.

(1) £150 - £200

£300 - £400

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751 Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 5th impression, 1956; The Two Towers, 5th impression, 1957; The Return of the King, 3rd impression, 1957, folding map at end of each, original red cloth, lightly handled dust jackets, publisher’s slipcase, 8vo Signed by the author to each front endpaper. Provenance: David A. Smith (1938-2015), his bookplates. David Smith was author of the standard reference work British Bee Books 1500-1976, (1979) and his important collection of antiquarian bee books were sold in these rooms on 08 November 2017. Additionally there is a signed manuscript notecard from Tolkien to Anthony D. Wood, Merton College, Oxford embossed at head, dated 22/2/1958, arranging a meeting with Wood and David Smith, ‘Tuesday will do, though I find I have a guest to dinner that night, and as he may turn up anytime after 7 it might cut short our conversation. But he is also not interested in the topic (Mr Jonathan Wordsworth of Exeter, descendant of William’s brother).’ The note is a follow up to a two page letter from Tolkien to Smith, dated 19/2/58 (supplied here in photocopy), ‘Dear Mr Wood, I should very much like to meet you and Mr, David Smith.

I am making one of my (in recent years) rare sojourns in college, because of my wife’s illness. Unfortunately, for this purpose, as she recovers tea-time is the period most convenient for me to visit her in hospital, and i expect I shall be engaged in this way every day in the immediate future.’

Also there is a sheet of ruled paper with notes in red ink to both sides, made most probably by David Smith, in which he seemingly records answers from Tolkien to his questions on the trilogy: ‘Aragorn had to arrive somehow and the ghost scene seemed most suitable. It was the part which was most difficult to write and caused most trouble. At first the whole passage was told in one, later I split it for convenience’... ‘I could take it further. After 100 years of peace the system would be bound to break up. It seemed better not to. A lot of the past is written references to history are all genuine’... ‘Gandalf really did die, it was sacrificial. He is rather like an angel. It is very important that he should not dominate people’s wills. That is why he was an old man’... ‘People have said Frodo was dishonest at the end and sh[oul]d not have been made a hero. Nonsense often we feel that we have to undertake a task that we know we will fail. We are only saved by grace, ‘lead us not into temptation’.’... ‘C.S. Lewis can’t read the last bit up to the mountain - says its too horrible.’

(6) £7,000 - £10,000

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752 Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1954, two maps (one folding at end), original red cloth (gilt spine lettering a little dulled, upper cover slightly bowed), dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at ends, small tears and chips to folds, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

754 Waugh (Evelyn). Brideshead Revisited, Chapman & Hall, revised edition with new preface, 1960, original blue cloth (upper cover with some light rippling), dust jacket, some toning to spine and extremities, 8vo Signed in red ink to title by the author.

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753 Twain (Mark). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade), 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear dated October 1884, leaves 2A7-8 clumsily opened along fore margins, original red pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, a few pale marks to covers, tips bumped and a little worn, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

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755 Wells (H.G.) The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1898, 2nd issue with 32 pp. advertisements at end, some spotting, original cloth, spine a little rubbed and toned, light edge wear, 8vo, contained in modern moroccobacked clamshell box by the Chelsea Bindery Inscribed by the author with a ‘self-portrait’ caricature. Below the half title the author has inscribed “with a signed portrait of the author”, a caricature of a bald man with spectacles, and signed “H.G. Wells, June 3/99”. Provenance: Alice R.C. Rogers, early previous owner signature at head of title.

(1) £3,000 - £5,000

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756 Wharton (Edith). Italian Villas and their Gardens, Illustrated with Pictures by Maxwell Parrish, 1st UK edition, 1904 26 colour and 26 plain plates, frontispiece detached and slightly frayed at margins, occasional spotting, top edge gilt remainder uncut, original green cloth gilt with colour and gilt upper cover design, rubbed and slightly soiled, a little frayed at foot of spine, small folio (1)

758 Wilde (Oscar). The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, 1st edition, Leonard Smithers, 1899, scattered light spotting, early owner signature, original lavender cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, corners bumped, a few minor stains, small 4to, limited edition of 1000 (this copy unumbered), together with The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by C. 3.3. [Oscar Wilde], Leonard Smithers, 1899, some light spotting, original cloth, lower joint splitting, spine toned, 8vo (unauthorized Smithers edition).

£100 - £150

757 White (T.H.). The Master, 1st edition, 1957, map endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, tint closed tear to front panel, 8vo, together with The Once and Future King, 1st edition, 1958, endpapers a little spotted, original cloth, dust jacket, some toning to spine, light spotting, 8vo, plus The Owl Service, by Alan Garner, 1st edition, 1967, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, slight toning to rear panel, 8vo, with others by John Christopher, Christopher Priest (including a signed copy of Fugue for a Darkening Island, 1972), etc (29)

First work Mason 381.

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£200 - £300

759 Wodehouse (P.G.) The Inimitable Jeeves, 1923; Bill the Conqueror, 1924; Ukridge, 1924; The Heart of a Goof, 1926; 1st editions, a few minor spots, original cloth, a couple of light marks, 8vo, plus Fish Preferred, 1st US edition, 1929, Heavy Weather, 1933, The Luck of the Bodkins, 1935 , The Code of the Woosters, 1938 and The Prince and Betty (1920’s reprint)

£150 - £200

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Lot 761

Lot 764

760 Wodehouse (P.G.) If I Were You,1st edition, 1931, 8 pp. advertisements at end, a little minor spotting, original orange cloth, dust jacket by William Heath Robinson, repairs and restorations to verso, 8vo

764 Wodehouse (P.G.) Thank You, Jeeves, 1st edition,1934, 8 pp. advertisements at end, some light spotting, original cloth lettered in red (slight soiling to extremities, dust jacket, some tears and losses, 8vo

McIlvaine A44b (1)

McIlvaine A51a. Early and rare 7/6 dust jacket, which conforms to McIlvaine almost in all but the list of Arthur Gask titles to the rear flap, the present copy lists six titles by W. Townend. No other copy located with this variant.

(1) £500 - £800

£300 - £400

761 Wodehouse (P.G.) Laughing Gas, 1st edition, 1936, 8 pp. advertisements at end, half of rear endpaper torn away, some light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, original cloth (head of spine faded), dust jacket, small restorations and repairs to verso, 8vo McIlvaine A56a.

(1)

£300 - £500

762 Wodehouse (P.G.) Joy in the Morning, 1st US edition, New York, 1946, illustrations by Paul Galdone, a few small stains, original cloth, spine ends rubbed, dust jacket, chips and losses at spine ends, 8vo, together with The Little Nugget, 3rd edition, 1914, advertisements at end, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, plus Heavy Weather, 1st edition, 1933, advertisements, a few spots, original cloth, spine a little faded, 8vo, with others including Blandings Castle, 1st edition, 1935 (in later jacket), Service With a Smile, 1st edition, 1961 and Louder and Funnier, 1950 reissue (21)

£100 - £200

763 Wodehouse (P.G.) Love Among the Chickens, 10 printing; The Pot Hunters, 1925 reprint, Tales of St Austins, 1923, A Gentleman of Leisure, 9th printing, 1930’s, colour frontispiece to Pothunters and St Austins, some light spotting, prize label to St. Austins, original cloth, dust jackets, a few tears and losses, 8vo, together with 20 other later printings in dust jackets, including Right Ho, Jeeves, 5th printing, The Code of the Woosters, 4th printing, Very Good, Jeeves, 6th printing, Carry On, Jeeves, 6th printing, The Inimitable Jeeves, 12th printing, The Luck of the Bodkins, 5th printing, Ukridge, 6th printing, Mulliner Nights, 5th printing etc, plus 6 volumes of The Captain, 1903-1908 (with serialised Wodehouse stories) and Eileen McIlvaine’s P.G. Wodehouse. A Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist, 1990 (35)

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

765 Wodehouse (P.G.) Quick Service, 1940; Money in the Bank, [1947], Full Moon, [1947], Spring Fever, [1948], Uncle Dynamite, [[1948], Pigs Have Wings, 1952; Ring For Jeeves, 1953; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 1954; Cocktail Time, 1958; Ice in the Bedroom, 1961; Stiff Upper Lip. Jeeves, 1963, 1st editions, Money in the Bank 2nd issue 1947, occasional light spotting and toning, original cloth, (Cocktail Time damp stained), dust jackets, a few chips and losses to Quick Service, one or two nicks and closed tears, a few jackets price-clipped, 8vo (11)

£300 - £500

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£300 - £500

766* Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville, 1881-1975). Autograph letter signed, ‘P.G. Wodehouse’, Low Wood, Le Touquet, France, 16 February 1935, to Miss Terry-Smith, in full, ‘Yes, this is quite all right.

I hope you have luck with it’, 17 Norfolk Street letterhead with address struck through, one page, 4to (1)

Lot 767

£100 - £150

767 Woolf (Virginia). Monday or Tuesday, with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, 1st edition, Hogarth, 1921, 4 full-page woodcuts by Bell (offset to facing text pages), advert leaf at rear, ownership signature of Daphne Fielding in pink felt tip to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards with design by Bell to upper cover, rubbed and somewhat marked and soiled, 8vo Provenance: Daphne Fielding (1904-1997) was a British author, who married, firstly Henry Thynne 6th Marquis of Bath in 1927 and Major Alexander Wallace Fielding, in 1953.

Kirkpatrick A5a; 1000 copies printed.

(1) £300 - £500

768 Woolf (Virginia). Kew Gardens, Decorated by Vanessa Bell, Hogarth Press, [1927], border decorations throughout, some spotting, original decorative boards, some rubbing and soiling and a little edge and corner wear, lacks spine, 4to Limited edition, 54/500 copies, signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in purple ink. Kirkpatrick A3a; the third English (limited) edition, the first and second editions having been published by Hogarth Press in 1919.

(1) £200 - £300

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769 Woolf (Virginia). Beau Brummell, 1st separate edition, New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1930, 2 full-page designs and vignette

by W.A. Dwiggins, some spotting, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original cloth-backed plain boards with pink paper label to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, old dampstaining to boards, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 4to, lacks slipcase

770 Woolf (Virginia). On Being Ill, 1st separate edition, Hogarth Press,1930, vignette by Vanessa Bell on final leaf, marbled endpapers, partly uncut, original vellum-backed blue-green cloth boards, gilt-titled to spine, slightly rubbed and soiled, lacks dust jacket, 8vo Limited edition, 147/250 copies numbered and signed by Virginia Woolf in her usual purple ink. Kirkpatrick A14.

(1) £600 - £800

Limited edition, 259/500 copies, signed by the author in purple ink to halftitle verso. Kirkpatrick A15 (1) £300 - £400

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

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771 Woolf (Virginia). Street Haunting, 1st edition, San Francisco: Westgate Press, 1930, original crushed green morocco-backed patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine, slightly rubbed, spine and extremities browned, 8vo, lacks slipcase Limited edition, 418/500 copies, signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink.

Kirkpatrick A13.

(1) £200 - £300

773 Wyndham (John). The Midwich Cuckoos, 1st edition, 1957, a few light spots to fore margins, endpapers with partial offsetting from flaps, dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, some light soiling, 8vo, together with The Day of the Triffids, 1st edition, 1951 (in later 6/- dust jacket)

772 Woolf (Virginia). The Years, [and] Three Guineas, first editions, Hogarth Press, 1937 & 1938, original cloth in pictorial dust jackets from designs by Vanessa Bell, spines heavily browned (The Years with significant loss), a little rubbed and frayed at edges, together withHuxley (Aldous), Brief Candles, first American edition, New York: Fountain Press, 1930, armorial bookplate of Christopher Michael Cadogan (slightly offset to facing endpaper with pencil inscription above), original cloth, rubbed, (signed limited edition, 708/842 copies, plus four further Virginia Woolf first editions: A Room of One’s Own, 1929; A Haunted House, 1943 (ownership signature of Daphne Fielding); A Letter to a Young Poet, 1932; Walter Sickert, 1934, the latter two in wrappers, all a little marked and soiled, 8vo (7)

(2)

£100 - £150

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£150 - £200

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PAINTINGS, MINIATURES, WATERCOLOURS OLD MASTER & MODERN PRINTS ANTIQUE SILVER, BRONZES & CHINESE CLOISONNE THURSDAY 25 JULY 2019

Mi i t Miniature portrait t it off Th The R Reverend dJ James Digweed, Di d aged d 24 iin 1798 1798, pen, iink k and gouache on thin ivory, 7 x 5.5cm, original Regency black and gilt frame.

Friend and neighbour of the author Jane Austen at Steventon, James Digweed (1774-1862) grew up at Steventon Manor, and as a child played with the Austen children. He was ordained in 1797.

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