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NELSON & THE BRITISH NAVY

JULY 2024

British Admirals and Naval Officers. A group of 13 fine mezzotint portraits of British admirals and naval officers, circa 1783-1815, including Horatio Nelson by Barnard after L. F. Abbott, Rear Admiral Sir Charles Douglas by John Jones after Henry Singleton, John Earl of St. Vincent by Charles Turner after Sir William Beechey, The Right Honourable Lord Hood, Admiral of the Blue, by Valentine Green after L. F. Abbott, Vice Admiral Sir Edward Vernon, by John Jones after Henry Singleton, Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell by G. Dawe after R. Bowyer, the Right Honourable Lord Robert Manners by W. Dickinson after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Parker, Admiral Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Fleet, by Valentine Green after L. F. Abbott, the Honourable George Cranfield Berkeley by Birché after Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Nathaniel Dance by John Robert Smith, Sir Edward Hughes by John Jones after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Right Honourable Lord Rodney by G. Dupont after Thomas Gainsborough, and Earl Howe by S. W. Reynolds after Henry Singleton, all framed and glazed in matching black and gilt frames, with O'Shea Gallery label to verso of each Provenance: Collection of Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

Estimate £2,000-3,000

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19/20 June 2024 at 10am

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Gilles Demortain. Les Plans, Profils et Elevations des Ville, et Chateau de Versailles, avec les Bosquets, et Fontaines, tels quils sont a present, levez sur les lieux, dessinez et gravez en 1714 et 1715... Paris: Demortain, [1716], 49 engraved plates, including many double-page by Menant, Denis, Le Gros, Girard, Delamonce, Lucas, early 19th-century half calf gilt, large folio

Estimate: £700-1000 (24 July 2024)

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To commence at 10am

1 Archer (Edward Caulfield). Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, occasional light spotting, Wolverhampton Library labels, contemporary half calf, volume II lower board detached, rubbed with some wear to spine, 8vo, together with Elphinstone (Mountstuart). The History of India. The Hindu and Mahometan Periods, 3rd edition, London: John Murray, 1849, folding map (detached with short tears to outer margin), lacking front endpaper, some light toning, contemporary half calf gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, plus Gleig (G. R.) The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K. C. B. Late Governor of Madras, with extracts from his correspondence and private papers, 2 volumes, new edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, folding map with outline colour, a few leaves detaching, some offsetting and light spotting, previous owner inscription ‘J. W. Fraser, Bengal Artly’ at head of titles, contemporary calf, gilt arms to covers, spines rubbed and lacking 2 labels, edges rubbed, 8vo, with 4 other volumes including Interesting Historical Events Relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan, by J. Z. Holwell, 2 parts only (of 3), 2nd edition, 1766-67, and The Modern History of Hindostan, by Thomas Maurice, volume I, parts 1 & 2 only (of 2 volumes), 1802, and 2 related odd volumes (9)

£200 - £300

2 Bonvalot (Pierre Gabriel Édouard). Through the Heart of Asia over the Pamir to India..., with 20 illustrations by Albert Pépin, Translated from the French but C. B. Pitman, 2 volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 1889, numerous in-text and full-page illustrations, school prize presentation label dated 1898 to front pastedown of each volume, publisher’s blue-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, blocked pictorial panel to the upper boards, head and tail of spines and corners a little bumped, tall 8vo, together with: Moser (Henri). A travers l’Asie centrale, la Steppe Kirghize, le Turkestan Russe, Boukhara, Khiva, le pays des Turcomans et la Perse..., Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1885, title printed in red and black, folding map at verso (with tear to left edge where bound), engraved plates, light spotting to a few leaves, all edges gilt, red quarter morocco gilt over red textured cloth, gilt decorated spine, 4to (3)

£200 - £300

3 Burton (Richard F.). Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains

An Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863, wood-engraved frontispieces, advertisement leaf at end of each volume, tiny closed tear at foot of volume I title, contemporary ownership inscription, 1868 to volume II frontispiece verso, volume I front hinge breaking, original brown blindstamped cloth gilt, spines a little darkened and rubbed at ends, corners bumped, 8vo

Penzer pp. 70-71. Red-brown cloth variant remainder issue. ‘It cannot be an earlier issue than that in green cloth owing to the fact that one of Burton’s desire alterations has been made, viz. the frontispiece, which in the green cloth issue was a portrait of Burton is now omitted, and the plate originally facing p. 140 is placed in its stead.’ (Penzer).

(2)

£200 - £300

5 Burton (Richard F.). The Book of the Sword, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, monochrome illustrations, a little minor toning and light spotting, old bookseller description pasted to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, some fading to spine, one corner bumped, edges a little rubbed, 4to Penzer pp. 107-112. One of the scarcer works by Sir Richard Burton, who was a very skilled swordsman. Originally intended to be part of a three-volume work, the other two volumes remained unpublished due to poor sales.

(1)

£300 - £400

£200 - £300

4 Burton (Richard F.). The Memorial Edition of the Works of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, 7 volumes, London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-94, comprising Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, 2 volumes; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 2 volumes, Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry; First Footsteps in East Africa or, an Exploration of Harar, 2 volumes, portrait frontispiece to volume I, 35 plates, mostly lithograph and chromolithograph, 6 maps and plans, ‘The Fal’ plate erroneously listed as facing p. 62 in volume I of First Footsteps in East Africa (this illustration not produced for this or earlier editions), light offsetting to titles, light spotting front and rear, bookplates to volumes I & II, top edge red, original cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed with a few small closed tears, 8vo Penzer pp. 54-55; 63-64; 73-74; 82-83. (7)

6 Burton (Richard F.). The Highlands of Brazil, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869, wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignettes, folding map (with small tape reinforcement to verso) to volume 2, advertisement leaf at rear, occasional minor spotting and light marginal toning, original green cloth gilt, spines a little darkened and rubbed at ends, corners rubbed and bumped, some rubbed areas to upper cover gilt vignettes, 8vo

Penzer pp. 78-80.

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£200 - £300

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7 Burton (Richard F.). The Lake Regions of Central Africa. A Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860, 12 chromoxylograph plates, folding map, wood-engraved illustrations, stitching broken in places, a few leaves detaching, some spotting and light toning, remnants of Mechanics’ Institution Library labels, original red cloth, chipped Mudie’s Library labels to upper covers, volume I spine torn with small losses, spines darkened, some stains and label remnants to covers, 8vo, together with A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864, wood-engraved frontispieces (detached in volume II), hinges breaking, library label fragments, original burgundy cloth gilt, residue from label removal to upper covers, volume I damp-stained with some wear, 8vo, plus others by Burton and related including The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California, 2nd edition, 1862, Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, 2 volumes in one, 1863, The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798, translated and annotated by Captain R. F. Burton, 1873, Etruscan Bologna, 1876, The GoldMines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities, 1878, and The Jew the Gypsy and El Islam, 1898

Penzer pp. 65-66 & pp. 72-73 respectively for first two titles. (20)

£300 - £500

9 Butler (Captain H.). South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony, 1st edition, London: Ackermann and Co., 1841, lithograph additional title, 30 lithographs on 15 sheets including 16 hand-coloured, plates XI and XII transposed, occasional light spotting, later cherry full morocco, spine lettered in gilt, folio, 38.5 x 28.5 cm

£300 - £400

8 Burton (Richard F.). The Land of Midian (Revisited), 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: C. Kegan, Paul & Co., 1879, 16 plates, including 6 chromolithograph, folding colour map, illustrations, volume I lacking rear endpaper, hinges tender, original red decorative cloth, spines faded with one or two small stains, 8vo Penzer pp. 96-97. (2)

Abbey Travel 336; Czech African p. 48 (1)

£200 - £400

10 Cailliaud (Frederic). Voyage a Meroe, au fleuve Blanc, audela de Fazoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennar, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les annees 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, 6 volumes in 5 (comprising 4 text volumes text and 2 atlas volumes in one, 1st edition, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1823-1827, half-titles, 15 engraved plates to text volumes (including 3 folding), atlas volume containing 150 lithograph plates and engraved maps on 149 leaves, titles to atlas volumes with excised area with damp-stain around (former ownership stamp removed?), final plate in atlas volume with faint ink stamp of Institut National Agronomique, occasional scattered spotting, text volumes in contemporary red straight-grain half morocco, gilt decorated spine with dark green morocco labels, 8vo (19.8 x 12.8 cm), atlas volume in contemporary red quarter morocco, gilt decorated spine, marbled sides to boards, joints rubbed, board corners and edges worn and showing, few marks to lower board, folio (52.5 x 34.8 cm)

Bardeschi, Nubia Bibliography up to 2000, p.11; Blackmer 270; RIBA 521; Brunet I, 1465; Stafleu and Cowan 945.

‘Still today an inestimable source’ (Bardeschi). Cailliaud visited the oasis of Siwah and Jupiter Ammon and accompanied Ismail Pasha’s military expedition to Nubia, where he explored the ruins of Meroe, with its remarkable two hundred pyramids. The plates, which include the first detailed map of Nubia, show views of various settlements, the ruins at Assour, Nouri, Mont Barkal and elsewhere, the waterfalls at Absyr, various oases including that at El Qasr, a number of maps charting the course of the Nile, and the plants, insects and birds of the region. The title-pages of the atlas volumes are both dated 1823.

(5)

£2,500 - £3,000

11 [Clark, Edmund; Sherwill, Markham & Jackson, H. H.].

Ascents of Mont Blanc by Dr. E. Clark and Capt. Sherwill, 1825-26; Mr. Jackson, 1823, [London]: Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine, 1825-1826, 74 pages [irregular pagination], later title-page, upper pastedown with bookplate of Wilberforce N. Tribe, 19th-century red morocco, with bookseller’s stamp of F. H. Hutt, slim 8vo

The volume comprises extracts from Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine collected by T.S. Blakeney, and bound together with a specially printed title-page.

(1)

£200 - £300

12 Clarkson (Thomas). An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade. In two parts, 2nd edition, London: J. Phillips, 1788, 138 pp., some spotting, original boards, rebacked with label renewed, light edge wear, 8vo Kress B1381; Sabin 13480.

Provenance: William Rotch (1734-1828), his signature to front endpaper. Rotch was a prominent New Bedford whaler, abolitionist and Quaker. He opposed the American Revolutionary War and ended up being accused of treason, disloyalty and sedition by the US, French, and British governments respectively, at various times from 1773 to 1795.

Thomas Clarkson was a leading abolitionist and the present work is a continuation of his Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, 1786.

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£200 - £300

13 Cruise (Richard A.). Journal of a Ten Months’ Residence in New Zealand, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, a little light offsetting and spotting, original boards, paper label to spine, upper joint with small split at foot, 8vo, together with Woodard (David). The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes; containing an interesting account of their sufferings from hunger and various hardships, and their escape from the Malays, after a captivity of two years and a half, 1st edition, London: printed for J. Johnson, 1804, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece in silhouette profile, 2 folding maps (one with short closed tear), 2 engraved plates, previous owner ink stamps to title and half-title, some light spotting and toning, original boards, paper label to spine, some soiling and edge wear, 8vo (2)

14 Dallaway (James). Constantinople Ancient and Modern, with excursions to the shores and islands of the archipelago and to the Troad, 1st edition, London: T. Bensley for T. Cadell jun. & W, Davies, 1797, engraved title with aquatint vignette, 9 aquatint plates, map, some offsetting, toning and spotting throughout, Malta Garrison Library ink stamps to title and first few leaves, modern clothbacked boards, calf label to spine, 4to Atabey 308; Blackmer 441: ‘Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston’s embassy at the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland in 1794 with Liston’s entourage, which included John Sibthorp, author of the Flora Graeca and Gaetano Mercati who became Liston’s draughtsman.’

(1) £200 - £300

£200 - £300 Lot 14

15 De Coston (Emilius Albert). The Cradle of the Blue Nile. A Visit to the Court of King John of Ethiopia, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1877, tinted wood-engraved frontispieces, folding map, 6 plates, frontispiece and all pages to p. 16 at front of volume II detached, one or two short closed tears, contemporary Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co slips contained in envelope pasted to rear of each volume, hinges a little tender, original blue cloth gilt, spines faded with small tears and wear at ends, 8vo Czech African p. 77; Hilmy I p. 162. ‘The author and his brother set out on a shooting expedition into Abyssinia, but after the political upheaval in the region, he became more of a traveler and observer. Volume one primarily dwells on their journey and the history of the area, with brief mentions of hunting lions and elephants garnered from other sportsmen. In volume two, the brothers trekked to Lake Tana and enjoyed considerable sport after hippopotamus, with additional hunts after leopard, lion and gazelle. De Cosson notes that he almost broke his arm trying to fire his Westley Richards express rifle with one hand while trying to ride down antelope.’ (Czech). (2)

£600 - £800

£200 - £300

16 Drummond (William Henry). The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875, half-title, title with chromolithograph vignette, colour map, 12 tinted plates, one or two small stains, bookplate, top edge gilt, later green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine faded to green, some fading and light soiling to covers, 8vo, together with Chapman (Abel). Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, map, numerous monochrome illustrations, a little slight toning to text, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, with 3 others: The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, by W. D. M. Bell, 1923, Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, by Marius Maxwell, 1925, and African Safaris, by Major G. H. Anderson, 1946 (5)

17 Ebers (Georg). Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque translated from the original German by Clara Bell, 2 volumes, London, Paris, New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1881-1892], wood engraved frontispieces, plates and illustrations, all edges gilt, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth with blocked decoration, in bright condition, folio (2)

£150 - £200

18 Fayrer (Sir Joseph). Notes of the Visits to India of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh 1870-18756, printed for private circulation only, London: Kerby & Endjean, 1879, contemporary half morocco, spine a little rubbed with some fading, upper corners rubbed and scuffed, 8vo Scarce. Privately printed account of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to India in January 1870, and the Prince of Wales in 1875-76. Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907) was Surgeon General in India and was appointed to accompany the Prince of Wales as physician during his tour there.

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£300 - £400

19 Forster (George). A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, London: R. Faulder, 1798, half-title to each (second half-title with closed tear), folding engraved map, light stain to initial three leaves in volume 1 and with short closed tear to gutter margin of A1, light toning, modern brown morocco-backed blue boards, 4to (1)

£400 - £600

20 Goldsmid (Frederic John & others). Eastern Persia. An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, volume I The Geography with Narratives of Majors St. John, Lovett, and Euan Smith; with wood-engraved frontispiece, chromolithograph plates and 3 double-page colour maps; volume II The Zoology and Geology, by W. T. Blanford, with double-page colour map and 28 lithograph plates (including 18 hand-coloured) of birds, mammals and reptiles after J. G. Keulemans and G. H. Ford, some browning and spotting to plates, occasional spotting, volume I lacking rear endpaper (rear cover attached with adhesive tape to final index leaf verso), Malta Garrison Library labels, ink stamps to titles, a few text leaves and plate versos, shelf numbers, hinges tender, original green cloth gilt, lower joint of volume I vertically split, upper joint splitting at head, small labels to foot of spines, edges rubbed, 8vo

Anker 45; Nissen ZBI 405; Wood p. 362. ‘A complete survey of the whole Persian avifauna’ (Anker). (2)

£300 - £400

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21 Guignes (Chretien-Louis-Joseph de). Voyages a Peking, Manille et l’le de France, faits dans l’intervalle des annees 1784 a 1801, Atlas volume only, Paris: De l’Imprimerie imperiale, 1808, 92 engraved plates on 60 leaves, five engraved maps and plans (including 3 folding), occasional scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, original pastepaper boards, spine worn with loss, board edges and corners worn, folio Cordier 2351-2352.

The atlas volume includes detailed maps of parts of China, including the region between Peking and Qingdao (Canton), and also Macao and the Philippines, as well as landscape views, street scenes, palaces, pagodas, gardens, costumes, canals, ships, roads, festival scenes, sculpture, porcelain, etc. Guignes was a French orientalist scholar and diplomat who served as Consul in Canton in 1784, and then as interpreter with the Dutch embassy in Peking (now Beijing), serving a total of seventeen years in China.

(1)

£800 - £1,200

22 Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof ... With an accurate and an approved Index ... much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself immediately before his death, London: printed by A[ndrew]. C[larke]. [and Thomas Dawks] for P. Chetwind, and A. Seile, 1677, imprimatur leaf present, additional engraved title stating 5th edition and with imprint ‘London: Printed for Anne Seile..., 1677’, letterpress title in red and black with annotation to verso ‘I purchased this book of Mr Wheeler Bookseller Winchester May 11th 1830, Wm Churcher, Saint Cross, Hants’, four folding engraved maps dated 1663 (Europe, Asia, Africa, and Americas), few short closed tears to maps at edges and fraying to lower margins, divisional titles present (with varying imprints dated 1676 and 1677), occasional light toning and minor scattered spotting, recent endpapers, contemporary blind panelled calf, modern reback, some wear to board corners, folio Wing H1695; Sabin 31655. (1)

£400 - £600

24 Hillary (Edmund). High Adventure, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original blue cloth, dust jacket, 8vo

With a colour photograph of the author tipped-in at front, signed in silver ‘Ed Hillary’, together with a small sticker, also signed ‘Ed Hillary’ loosely inserted. (1) £200 - £300

£300 - £400

23 Hill (S. C.). Indian Records Series Bengal in 1756-1757, 3 volumes, Printed for the Government of India, London: John Murray, 1905, monochrome plates and plans, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original decorative cloth, some damp-staining, spines browned and some wear, large 8vo, together with: Wilson (C. R.). Indian Records Series Old Fort William in Bengal. A Selection of Official Documents dealing with its History, 2 volumes, Printed for the Government of India, London: John Murray, 1906, several plates and plans (some folding), top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original decorative cloth, some damp-staining, spines browned and frayed at head and foot, 8vo, Hunter (William Wilson). Bengal MS. Records. A selected list of 14,136 letters in the Board of Revenue, Calcutta, 1782-1807, with an historical dissertation and analytical index, 4 volumes, London: W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd., 1894, original cloth, some dampmottling mostly to edges of boards, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo (9)

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25 Hind (Henry Youle). Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860, 20 chromoxylograph plates, 7 colour maps (2 folding), folding geological section, publisher’s list at end of volume I, one plate detached in volume II, light fraying to margins of folding map, original purple blindstamped cloth, spines faded, a few light marks, 8vo, together with Buckingham (James S.) Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America, 1st edition, London: Fisher, Son & Co., [1843], folding engraved maps with outline colour, 7 double-page engraved plates, advertisements at rear, some light spotting and small water stain to plates, previous owner inscription erased from head of title, bookplate, original blindstamped cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, plus A Winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky, by Joseph John Gurney, 1st edition, 1840, and The Voyage of the Jeanette. The Ship and Ice Journals, by George W. De Long, edited by Emma De Long, 2 volumes, 2nd US edition, Boston 1884

First work Abbey Travel 630; Sabin 31934. (6)

£300 - £500

26 Hore (Annie B.). To Lake Tanganyika in a Bath Chair, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps (with closed tears and relaid to verso), half-tone portrait, 32 pp. catalogue at rear, a few light stains, top right of front endpaper excised, original pictorial cloth, spine end edges rubbed with some fading, light water stain to lower cover, 8vo, together with Stanley (Henry M.) Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 1st one volume edition (with a new preface), London: George Newnes, 1899, folding map at rear (with closed tear and light soiling), monochrome illustrations, a few leaves detaching, hinges breaking, prize label, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine rubbed with some fading, thick large 8vo, plus other African travel including 1st editions A. ArkellHardwick’s An Ivory Trader in North Kenia, 1903 and Through the Hear of Africa, by Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley, 1912, and others in variable condition, rebound with ink stamps etc (38)

£200 - £300

27 Hubback (Theodore R.). To Far Western Alaska for Big Game, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: Rowland Ward, 1929, inscribed by the author to front blank ‘Delwan Cavendish, in remembrance of happy days & nights on the S. S. “Mootlan” and “NoorNoorkunda”, from the writer, London, 1930’ with an accompanying quote from the book above, folding map in rear pocket, 2 further full-page maps, black and white illustrations after photographs throughout, original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, a few small water spots, 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

28 Jameson (James S.). Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, edited by Mrs J. S. Jameson, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1890, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, illustrations, light toning to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, a few light marks, 8vo, together with Baker (Samuel White). Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 1st US edition, Hartford: O. D. Case, 1868, 2 maps (one folding), 16 plates, a little light toning, previous owner ink stamp to front endpaper, hinges cracking, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, plus Pasha (Rudolf C. Slatin). Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes 1879-1895, translated by Major F. W. Wingate, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1896, portrait frontispiece (detaching), 2 folding maps, illustrations, some light spotting and toning, contemporary ownership inscription at front, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, tears at spine ends, 8vo, with other travel including Travel and Adventures of John Ledyard, [by Jared Sparks], 2nd UK edition, 1834, A Journey to Ashango-Land, by Paul B. Du Chaillu, 1st US edition, 1867 (lacking front endpapers), Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries, by John & Kate Petherick, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1869, The Ashanti War, by Henry Brackenbury, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1874, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 1909, and History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, by W. Walton Claridge, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1915 (ex-libris), (15) £300 - £500

29 Keppel (Henry). A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Maeander with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1853, 8 tinted lithograph plates, linen-backed folding map bound at end of volume I, advertisement leaf at end of each volume, volume I lacking rear endpaper and front hinge breaking, first few leaves detaching, some spotting, Malta Garrison Library ink stamps to titles and plate versos, library labels, original cloth gilt, spines faded with splits and tears at ends, library labels at foot, 8vo, together with Wright (Edward). Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c. In the Years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: A. Millar, 1764, 42 engraved plates, a few folding, volume I title relined to verso, volume II title with tape reinforcement along left margin, first leaf of text with top left corner repaired, some spotting and toning throughout, Malta Garrison Library ink stamps to titles and a few other leaves, library half morocco, a little rubbed with small losses to covers, 4to, plus 8 others including the Uganda Protectorate, by Sir Harry Johnson, 1st edition, 1902, George Grenfell and the Congo, 1st edition, 1908, Pigeons, by W. B. Tegetmeier, circa 1868, Pigsticking or Hoghunting, by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell, 1889, and A History of British Fossil Mammals, by Richard Owen, 1846, all ex-libris (14)

£300 - £400

30 Lapie (Pierre & Alexandre-Emile). Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, P. C, Lehuby, 1838, additional half-title, contents list, 100 pages of descriptive text and 50 engraved doublepage maps (complete as list), all with contemporary outline colouring, the map of North America toned overall, occasional spotting (largely confined to the margins), front endpaper, half-title and title detached, old adhesion scaring from labels to the front pastedown and front endpaper, contemporary quarter morocco with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and worn at extremities, folio (1)

£150 - £200

31 Lewis (John Frederick). Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made During a Residence in Granada, in the Years 18334. Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding, R.J. Lane, A.R.A., W. Gauci & John F. Lewis, London: Hodgson, Boys & Graves, [1835], lithograph title with vignette, dedication to Duke of Wellington with list of drawings on verso, 25 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispiece), tissue guards, spotting throughout, some toning and browning, contemporary quarter morocco, extremities rubbed and light wear, folio

Abbey Travel I, 148; Lipperheide 1221.

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£700 - £1,000

32 Livingstone (David). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a sketch of sixteen years’ residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1857, folding lithograph frontispiece by W. West, 2 folding maps at end, wood-engraved plates, 8 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, mounted printed signature of Livingstone at foot of front pastedown, preliminary leaves spotted, original brown blindstamped cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid (endpapers renewed), 8vo Abbey Travel 347.

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£150 - £200

33 Locker (Edward Hawke). Views in Spain, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1824, half-title, title with lithograph vignette on India paper, 60 hand-coloured lithograph plates, occasional scattered spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th-century dark green morocco by Borras, gilt decorated spine, head and foot of spine and board corners slightly rubbed, 4to Abbey Travel 147.

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£1,200 - £1,500

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Lot 31

Lot 32

34 Markham (Frederick). Shooting in the Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c., 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1854, additional colour title, folding map, 8 tinted lithograph plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, later green half morocco gilt by Bayntun, Bath, spine faded to brown, tall 8vo, together with Rice (William). “Indian Game,” (From Quail to Tiger), 1st edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884, frontispiece, 11 colour lithograph plates, author’s copy, signed to title, with his extra colour illustrations, sketches, and extensive annotations throughout, press cuttings pasted at rear, some light spotting and toning, top edge gilt, later olive half morocco by Bumpus, spine faded to brown with light stain at foot, 8vo

First work Abbey Travel 503; Czech Asian p. 134, ‘An excellent and early work on sport in the Himalayas...’; second work Czech p. 172, ‘An excellent work, beautifully illustrated...’.

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£300 - £400

35 Raffles (Lady Sophia). Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, particularly in the Government of Java, 1811-1816, 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, 2 volumes, new edition [i.e. 2nd edition], London: James Duncan, 1835, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, folding plate of the plant ‘Rafflesia Arnoldi’, folding facsimile letter, 2 folding maps of the Indian Archipelago (small reinforcements to verso) and Island of Singapore, volume II lacking title and all text before p. 1, occasional light spotting and toning, water stain to frontispiece, contemporary previous owner signature of Alexander Miller to volume I title, contemporary half morocco, spines and edges rubbed with chips and losses at ends, 8vo

Sold with all faults not subject to return.

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£150 - £200

36 Renneville (Constantin de). Recueil des Voiages qui ont servi à l’établissement & aux progrès de la compagnie des Indes Orientales: formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas, 7 volumes, Amsterdam: d’estienne Roger, 1703-07, 1710, engraved frontispiece and title printed in red and black to each volume, 53 folding plates, maps and plans, nine full-page engraved plates and one single-page plate, some browning, scattered spotting and occasional marks, one map in volumes 4 and 6 with closed tear, damp-stain to fore-margins at rear of volume 6, 18th-century armorial bookplate to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco title labels, rubbed and light wear, few minor wormholes to some spines, 12mo

The first volume is a second edition, published in 1710. The other volumes are 1st editions, published 1703-07.

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£1,000 - £1,500

37 Shackleton (Ernest). South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, folding map at rear (with small tape repair to verso), errata slip tipped-in, half-tone illustrations (with light marginal offsetting), usual toning to textblock, previous owner inscription ‘J. Liddle, 1921’ to front endpaper, original blue cloth blocked and lettered in silver, lower edges a trifle rubbed, contained in a later blue cloth solander box 8vo

A bright copy. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

38 Stewart (Charles). The History of Bengal, from the First Mohammedan invasion until the virtual conquest of that country by the English A. D. 1757, 1st edition, London: Sold by Black, Parry, and Co., Leadenhall Street, Booksellers to the Hon. East-India Company. Watts, Printer, Broxbourne, 1813, folding engraved map frontispiece with outline hand-colouring (short closed tear to right hand and light fraying to lower right corner), scattered spotting and some toning, top edge gilt, 20th-century dark blue half morocco by Henderson and Bisset, spine lightly faded to bottle green, 4to, together with: Freire de Andrade (Jacinto). The Life of Dom John de Castro, the Fourth Vice-Roy of India, 2nd edition in English, translated by Sir Peter Wyche, London: Henry Herringman, 1693, early owners ship inscription at head of title of Fran: Morgan of London, lacking both engraved folding plate and portrait plate, some damp and ink staining to first and last leaves, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, boards rubbed and corners worn, folio (Wing F2156) (2) £300 - £400

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Lot 39

39 Stothard (Mrs. Charles). Letters written during a Tour through Normandy, Britanny, and other parts of France, in 1818: including local and historical descriptions; with remarks on the Manners and Characters of the People, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, 22 aquatint plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece and five other hand-coloured plates), title with short closed tear to lower margin at gutter, occasional spotting, light dust-soiling and few marks, endpapers renewed with armorial bookplate of Edward Lowry Barnwell, Melksham House, Wiltshire and ex libris label of John Ewart Davies to upper pastedown, modern half calf preserving contemporary marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, 4to, together with: Jones (Lewis Tobias). An Historical Journal of the British Campaign on the Continent, in the Year 1794; with the Retreat through Holland, in the Year 1795, 1st edition, Birmingham: Printed for the Author by Swinney & Hawkins, 1797, folding engraved map frontispiece with contemporary outline colouring (trimmed to printed edge of lower right corner and with long repaired closed tear), 4 engraved plans (2 folding, 1 with repaired closed tear, both trimmed to platemark at gutter edge), E1 with repaired hole to outer margin, hinges cracked, modern terracotta crushed half morocco over marbled boards, green morocco title and author labels to spine, 4to, Macdonald (John). Travels, in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards, by John Macdonald, a cadet of the family of Keppoch in Inverness-shire..., London: Printed for the Author, 1790, damp-staining mostly to first and last few leaves towards gutter, armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus (of Antrobus Hall, Cheshire and Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire), contemporary calf gilt, morocco title label to spine, 8vo, Thicknesse (Philip). A Year’s Journey through France, and Part of Spain, 2 volumes in one, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author, 1777, seven engraved plates, three plates of music, some offsetting, staining to title of volume 2, contemporary speckled calf, modern reback with morocco title label, 8vo, Orrery (John Boyle, Earl of). Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755, by the late Right Honourable John Earl of Corke and Orrery. Published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe, M.A., Chaplain to his Lordship, Rector of St. Andrew’s and St. Mary Bredman’s, and one of the six preachers in Christ Church, Canterbury, London: B. White, 1773, engraved illustration to title, browning to margins of first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, modern reback with calf title label, 8vo (5) £200 - £300

40 Tancoigne (J.M.). Voyage a Smyrne, dans l’Archipel et l’Ile de Candie, en 1811, 1812, 1813 et 1814; suivi d’une notice sur Péra et d’une Description de la marche du Sultan, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Paris: Nepveu, 1817, half-titles, two folding hand-coloured engraved plates, minor dust-soiling mostly to titles, occasional light spotting, lower outer corner of one leaf torn to lower outer blank corner, all edges gilt, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, gilt rule and blind roll border to boards, upper joint cracked at head, 12mo (1) £600 - £800

41 Thomson (Joseph). Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Being the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society’s Expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: Sampson Low & Co, 1885, inscribed by the author to head of half-title ‘To Mrs F. M. Hoake, with the author’s compliments, Jan 26/85’, 2 folding coloured lithographed maps (one geological), 15 wood-engraved plates, larger folding map with neat reinforcements to a few folds, both maps with some closed tears, original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, recornered, rubbed and marked, 8vo Czech p164 “One of the great African travel epics”; Hilmy 286. Rare signed. We can only trace two other signed examples of the first edition at auction, one being the Wilfred Thesiger copy in the BrookeHitching sale at Sotheby’s in 2014.

Thomson’s motto “He who goes gently, goes safely, he who goes safely, goes far” emphasises his approach to travel. The work contains much on natural history, a passage in the work describes his experience of being gored by a buffalo. Thomson began in Mombasa and travelled through British East Africa. Thomson’s Gazelles & Thomson’s Falls are named after him. The work served as the inspiration for Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines. (1)

£200 - £300

42 Atkyns (Sir Robert). The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 2nd edition, London: reprinted by T. Spilsbury, for W. Herbert, at No. 27, in Glulston-Square..., 1768, 8 untitled plates of coats of arms of Gloucestershire families, engraved folding map and 63 (of 64) double-page ‘bird’s eye’ engraved views by Johannes Kip, title-page spotted and lined to verso with repaired closed tear and light text offsetting, some plates with light offsetting, a few with a small hole to printed area, some short splits to folds, last leaf of text with small tear with loss to text, some water-staining and spotting throughout, gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1945, contemporary calf rebacked, green morocco title label to spine, boards scuffed and stained, folio Upcott p. 250.

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£1,000 - £1,500

43 Bacon (G. W.). Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, 1895, additional half-title, 103 (complete as list) colour lithographic regional and county maps, letterpress and index bound at rear, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine detached but retained, upper board detached, heavily worn and rubbed, folio, together with Blackie (W. G.). The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography..., 1860, title, preface and index, 100 (complete as list) engraved maps by E. Weller, each with contemporary outline colouring, slight dust soiling and spotting, index bound at rear, contemporary half calf, boards detached and lacking spine, rubbed and worn, folio, with Migeon (J., publisher), Géographie Universelle Atlas Migeon...., published Paris, 1870, double page decorative title, 36 double-page engraved maps with contemporary wash colouring, folding maps of France and Paris bound at rear, slight spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary cloth gilt, worn at extremities, folio, with two other atlases similar by Phillips and Bain, both folio, various condition (5)

£200 - £300

44 Billings (Robert William).

Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral, & Architectural Illustrations and Description of the Cathedral Church at Durham, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: Thomas and William Boone, and the author, 1840 & 1843 respectoively, Large Paper India Proof copies, additional engraved title and numerous engraved plates to each volume, all supplied in two states (unlettered and lettered proofs on India paper), first and last few leaves with overall spotting, occasional light marginal waterstains, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles, bookplates of John Oswald Mitchell, Glasgow and of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes to front pastedown of each volume, autograph letter from the publisher Thomas Toone to Sir Henry Edwardes, dated February 11th 1870, bound in at front of the first volume, giving details of this rare proof set, fine uniform contemporary dark blue full morocco (by F. Bedford), elaborately gilt decorated with raised bands to spines, joints rubbed and some light marks to covers, royal folio (binding size 51 x 33 cm)

Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes (1829-1900) was the 10th Baronet of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; John Oswald Mitchell (1826-1904) was a Glaswegian historian and author (bookplates).

45 Birmingham Riots. Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses Destroyed during the Riots at Birmingham, 1791, [London: J. Johnson, 1792], eight plates engraved by William Ellis after drawings by P. H. Witton, title and letterpress descriptions in English and French by P. H. Witton and John Edwards, manuscript list of properties to verso of title, occasional scattered spotting, some dust-soiling mostly to title and leaves of text, edges untrimmed, modern wrappers, bookplates of Percival F. Hinton and John L. Marks, oblong 4to, together with a duplicate of this work with the revised title Birmingham Riots. The Riots at Birmingham, July, 1791, Birmingham: Arthur Bache Matthews, 1863, monochrome plates, bookplate of John L. Marks, original printed wrappers with modern wrappers over, oblong 4to, contained with first work in modern portfolio

Abbey Scenery 48. The Birmingham Riots (also known as the Priestley Riots) occurred from 14-17 July 1791, when rioters, fuelled by a mixture of antiFrench Revolution and anti-religious dissenter (notably Joseph Priestly) sentiment, other grievances and liquor attacked and burned down several Dissenter chapels, businesses and houses including Joseph Priestley’s house, Baskerville House, Bordesley Hall, Moseley Hall among others.

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£300 - £400

46 Bowles (Carington). Bowles’s Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales Drawn to one Scale....., London: circa 1785, double-page oval calligraphic title, doublepage index, fifty-seven uncoloured engraved maps on forty-eight sheets (complete as list), including fifteen folding, nearcontemporary manuscript numbers and titles to the verso of each map, slight staining and offsetting, a few of the folding maps with short closed tears where old folds cross, map of Westmorland toned, near-contemporary ownership signature to the third blank, later endpapers, bookplate of Roger Quirk to front pastedown, modern gilt quarter calf over marbled boards with vellum tipped corners, 8vo

Chubb CCLVI. Scarce.

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£300 - £500

Fine large Paper India Proof copies, of which only 6 sets were issued, according to the letter inserted in this copy written by the publisher. (2)

£500 - £800

47 Camden (William). Britannia: or, a Chrographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent from the earliest antiquity..., Enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough, 4 volumes, 2nd Gough edition, London: John Stockdale, 1806, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 56 engraved maps (53 folding) by J. Cary, 98 engraved plates (10 folding), 5 plates of coins, 2 folding pedigree tables, titles and index to each volume, bookplate of Henry Rogers to front pastedown to each volume, some offsetting and spotting throughout, ink spotting to a few maps and many text leaves to the latter half of volume 1, contemporary half calf over marbled boards by J. Townley, Boston, worn and rubbed with loss, volume 1 upper board detached, folio

Chubb. CCLXXII

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£200 - £300

48 Cotman (John Sell). Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk, tending to illustrate the Ecclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume, as well as to preserve Memorials of Ancient Families in that County, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, with additional plates, 1839, hand-coloured polychromatic etched frontispiece to each volume, 171 etched plates hand-coloured in yellow (including two double-page), top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, upper pastedowns with ownership label of Michael Ernest Sadler, University College, Oxford, contemporary half morocco, folio, together with: Taylor (Richard). Index Monasticus; or the Abbeys and other Monasteries, Alien Priories, Friaries, Colleges, Collegiate Churches, and Hospitals, with their Dependencies, formerly established in the Diocese of Norwich and the Ancient Kingdom of East Anglia, London: Printed for the Author, by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1821, title in red and black, engraved map of Norwich, double-page etched bird’s-eye view of Norwich, two engraved county maps hand-coloured in outline (Norfolk and Suffolk), plate of armorial bearings, bookplate of Sir John P. Boileau Bt., to upper pastedown and W. W. Williamson to front free endpaper, damp-staining to endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated maroon morocco by Hayday, upper board detached, lower joint rubbed, slightly marked to lower board, folio (3) £200 - £300

49 Cussans (John Edwin). History of Hertfordshire, containing an Account of the Descents of the various Manors; Pedigrees of Families connected with the county; Antiquities, Local Customs, &c., 3 volumes, London: Chatto and Windus; Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons, 1870-81, first volume with engraved portrait frontispiece, general title to each volume with separate titles to hundreds, 22 plates, including chromolithograph and tinted, double-page hand-coloured lithograph map, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting and light toning to margins, top edge gilt, contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spines, folio (3) £300 - £400

50 Dugdale (Sir William). The History of St Paul's Cathedral in London, from its foundation. Extracted out of Original Charters, Records, Leiger-books, and other Manuscripts. Beautified with sundry Prospects of the Old Fabrick, which was destroyed by the Fire of that City, 1666...wherunto is added, a continuation thereof, setting forth what was done in the structure of the New Church, to the Year 1685., 4 parts bound in one, Second Edition corrected and enlarged by the Author's own Hand. To which is prefixed, his Life, written by himself. Publish'd by Edward Maynard, London: Printed by George James for Jonah Bowyer, 1716, portrait frontispiece of the author by Wenceslaus Hollar, 2pp. list of subscribers, errata and directions to binder, 41 uncoloured etched plates (11 double-page or folding, and 30 single-page plates), many by Hollar, occasional light toning and marks, title somewhat browned, old booksellers printed description to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, later reback, joints rubbed and outer corners renewed, folio

'Not only did this book print the surviving documentary records of the cathedral, it also preserved the appearance of the building. Its Norman and Gothic details and the alterations made by Inigo Jones in the 1630's were recorded in extensive plates...' (ODNB).

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£200 - £300

51 Lysons (Daniel & Samuel). Magna Britannia; Being a concise topographical account..., volume 3 only, Cornwall, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814, folding engraved county map, extra illustrated containing a total of 61 engraved and etched plates (including 16 double-page), all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco gilt, morocco labels to spine (with volume number ‘VI’), some fading and discolouration to covers, extremities rubbed, large 4to, together with: Vivian (John Lambrick). The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds’ Visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620. With additions by Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Vivian, Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887, minor damp-stain to text block edges at fore-edge of some leaves at rear of volume, contemporary black half morocco, gilt decorated spine, extremities lightly rubbed, large 4to, Glastonbury. The History and Antiquities of Glastonbury, collected from various authors. To which is added, an account of the Mineral Waters, and the Glastonbury Thorn, London: Nichols, 1807, 48pp., half-title present with light damp-stain at gutter, contemporary marbled wrappers, upper cover lightly damp-stained and slight wear to spine edge, small 8vo, plus Dyer (George). History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, volume 1 only (of 2), 1814, additional engraved title, contemporary calf with gilt and blind decoration, morocco labels to spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo (4) £150 - £200

52 Lysons (Samuel). An Account of Roman Antiquities Discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucester, London: Sold by Cadell & Davies, B & J. White, Edwards, Payne, Robson, Nicol, Elmsley and leigh & Sotheby, 1797, text supplied in English and French, hand-coloured engraved title-page, hand-coloured dedication leaf to George III, list of plates, double-page coloured map, three coloured aquatint views of the surrounding area (of which two are double-page), 36 aquatint and other plates, mostly hand-coloured, of which six are double-page, scattered spotting to text leaves (plates not affected), one or two uncoloured doublepage plates with minor offsetting, edges untrimmed, contemporary maroon cloth with gilt morocco spine label, faded and marked with wear to spine, large folio Abbey, Scenery, 143; Upcott I, 272 - 274.

Important account of the Roman villa discovered at Woodchester by Samuel Lysons in 1793, dating from circa 325 AD with its famous Orpheus mosaic, the largest Romain mosaic in Great Britain. The remarkably fine handcoloured aquatints include views of the surrounding countryside as well as the mosaic pavement. ‘The complete design of this pavement... for size and richness of ornaments, is, I believe, equalled by few of those discovered in other provinces of the Roman Empire and is undoubtedly superior to any thing of the same kind found hitherto in this country’ (page 2) . (1)

£1,500 - £2,000

Lot 52

53 Morant (Philip). The History and Antiquities of the most ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex, in Three Books, Collected chiefly from Manuscripts. With an Appendix of Records and Original Papers. Adorned and Illustrated with Sculptures..., 3 parts in one, 1st edition, London: W. Bowyer, 1748, engraved frontispiece view of Colchester, seven engraved plates (including folding plate of St Botolph’s Priory church with short closed tear to printed area at lower right corner), engraved folding plan of Colchester, previous ownership signature ‘J Bradley’ to upper margin of title page, fore-margin of A2 with small closed tear, M2 with stain marks to text, occasional damp spots, light spotting to first few gatherings, late 19th-century brown half morocco over marbled boards, slightly rubbed to extremities, folio, together with: Topham (Edward). The Life of the Late John Elwes, esquire; Member in three successive Parliaments for Berkshire. First published in the paper of the World..., new edition, London: Printed by Thomas Davison for James Ridgway, [1790], etched portrait frontispiece (paper toned paper), folding pedigree, publisher’s list at rear, contemporary calf, modern reback preserving maroon morocco title label to spine, slim 8vo, Brand (John). Popular Antiquities of Great Britain comprising notices of the moveable and immoveable feasts, customs, superstitions and amusements past and present. Edited from the materials collected by John Brand F.S.A. with very large corrections and additions by W. Carew Hazlitt. With a new and copious index, 3 volumes, London: John Russell Smith, 1870, titles in red and black, top edge gilt, modern brown half morocco by J. & E. Bumpus, light even fading to spines, 8vo, (limited edition of 350 copies printed)

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£200 - £300

54 Pyne (William Henry). The History of the Royal Residences, of Windsor Castle, St. James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore, 3 volumes, London: A. Dry, 1819, 100 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional scattered spotting and light offsetting, upper pastedowns with early ownership signature ‘Mrs Griffiths’, recent navy leather hinges to endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain navy blue morocco, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, joints and head and foot of spines neatly repaired, board corners refurbished, light scuffing to few boards, 4to Abbey Scenery 396; Tooley 389.

A handsome set.

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£1,500 - £2,000

55 Rudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire, comprising the topography, antiquities, curiosities, produce, trade, and manufactures of that county..., 1st edition, Cirencester: printed by Samuel Rudder, 1779, folding engraved county map, 5 folding engraved plates and 3 single-page plans, some offsetting to a few leaves, gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1945, contemporary calf rebacked, gilt lettering and detail to spine, minor areas of wear to boards, folio, together with: Lysons (Samuel). A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the strand, 1804, 107 engraved plates, some with contemporary hand colouring, bookplate of Sydney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey to front pastedown, light spotting mostly to preliminaries, contemporary errata correction slip pasted to M2, top edge gilt, late 19th-century half calf by Bayntun, Bath, morocco title label and gilt ruling to spine, extremities a little scuffed, folio

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£300 - £400

56 Wales. Reports from Committees on Holyhead Roads, Harbours &c in the Years 1810, 1811, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1819, 1820 and 1822 [communicated by the Commons to the Lords], Ordered to be printed 25th July 1822, printed titles, eleven folding maps and plans, several with contemporary outline colouring and 10 (9 folding) uncoloured engraved plates, hinges broken and near detached, uncut, contemporary half calf with gilt title to spine, worn and frayed with spine partially split along joints, heavily worn and rubbed, folio (1)

£100 - £150

58 Garidel (Pierre Joseph). Histoire des Plantes qui naissent en Provence..., avec un Catalogue Historique des auteurs qui ont ecrit sur les Plantes, A Aix, & se vend a Paris: Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1719, engraved frontispiece and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc (with erratic numbering), decorative head and tailpieces, occasional spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, minor dust-soiling to few leaves, modern marbles endpapers with front blank flyleaf inscribed in pencil ‘Wilfrid Blunt 1947 Eton. I had this bound by the royal binder at Windsor in 1947, who seems to have been better with leather than with paper WJWB’ and also inscribed in ink ‘For Richard & Elise Hobbs a small mark of gratitude for a long and much valued friendship from Wilfrid Blunt, Christmas 1985’, 20th-century brown half morocco, paste-paper sides (paper surface rubbed), folio

Provenance: Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901-1987).

Nissen BBI 685.

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, was an art teacher, writer, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983. His brothers were the numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt and Anthony Blunt, art historian and spy for the Soviets. His namesake Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a distant family cousin.

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£500 - £800

£300 - £400

57 Bewick (Thomas & John). Bewick’s Woodcuts: Impressions of upwards of two thousand wood-blocks, London: L. Reeve, 1870, portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations, a few plates detaching, bookplate, light spotting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine ends repaired, some fading, folio, together with The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or intellectual mirror..., 1st illustrated edition, London: J. Crowder for E. Newbery, 1796, wood-engraved illustrations by Thomas Bewick pp. 49/50 lower corner torn away, closed tear to pp. 107/108, a little minor spotting, contemporary ownership signature at head of title, contemporary vellum, some dust-soiling and scratches, 8vo, plus The Poetical Works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth: Consisting of The Battle of Trafalgar and some miscellaneous pieces, 1st edition, Alnwick: printed by and for W. Davison, 1811, half-title,wood-engraved vignettes attributed to Thomas Bewick, light toning front and rear, all edges yellow, modern speckled calf by Henry Sotheran, 8vo, with others illustrated by or on Thomas Bewick including including Splinters, Historical, Sacred and Profane; partly from off that standard [tree], our blessed constitution. Fifth, sixth, seventh years, nineteenth century, Newcastle 1827, Fabulous Histories; or the history of the robins, by Mrs Trimmer. Designed for the instruction of children respecting their treatment of animals, 13th edition, 1821, Bewick Memento, with an introduction by Robert Robinson, Catalogue with purchasers’ names and prices realised of the scarce and curious collection books, silver, plates... and Bewick Relics, sold at auction at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on February 5th, 6th & 7th & August 26th, 1884, The Bewick Collector. A descriptive catalogue of the works of Thomas and John Bewick, by Thomas Hugo, 2 volumes, including Supplement, 1866-68, The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Apprentices, Gordon Fraser Gallery, 2 volumes, 1981, and Waiting for Death. An unfinished wood engraving by Thomas Bewick, Black Pennell Press, 1982 (limited edition 153/250) (28)

59 Hachisuka (Masauji). The Dodo and Kindred Birds, or, The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1953, colour frontispiece, full-page colour illustrations, further fullpage and smaller black and white illustrations, ownership blindstamp of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr to foot of title, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, some water spots to foot of upper cover, dust jacket, lacking portion of head of spine (missing ‘The’ of title), marked with head of lower panel damp-stained (not touching text), rubbed, 4to

Limited to 485 copies, this one unnumbered. (1) £200 - £300

60 Hunt (P. Francis). Orchidaceae, Ipswich: The Bourton Press, 1973, 40 colour plates by Mary A Grierson, signed by the author & the artist to the limitation page, original full vellum in slipcase, large folio, limited edition 456/600, together with: Campbell (Bruce), The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones, London: Folio Fine Editions, 1976, with a Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and signed ‘Philip’, 24 colour plates, original gilt decorated green half calf in slipcase, oblong folio, limited edition 7/500, plus Blunt (Wilfrid), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), Guildford: Charles W. Treylen, 1953, signed by the author to the front endpaper, 12 colour plates, some damp damage to the head of the front & rear endpapers & boards, some light spotting, original gilt decorated red half morocco, boards & spine slightly rubbed, slim folio Great Flower Books 1700-1900, by Sacheverell Sitwell & Wilfrid Blunt, London: Collins, 1956, inscribed to the front endpaper by Wilfrid Blunt to ‘Richard Hobbs... 1973’, some light marginal toning, original green half morocco bound by Southeran in slipcase, large folio (4) £200 - £300

61 Jennings (Samuel). Orchids: and How to Grow them in India and other Tropical Climates, 1st edition, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875, half-title, 48 handcoloured lithographed plates by and after F.W. Burbidge, spotting to plate 15 and facing leaf of text, few leaves of text with faint damp-stain to lower margins and also fore-margins of last few leaves, top edge gilt, renewed marbled endpapers (using Cockerell marbled paper), modern red quarter morocco, red buckram sides, large 4to Nissen BBI 992.

An unusual work detailing the care of tropical orchids imported into India. In addition to the fine plates, the book provides detailed information for English colonials on conservation, cultivation and pest control for these delicate plants imported to the subcontinent.

The work also demonstrates in the introduction the author’s concern regarding the continued maintenance and conservation of the plant population in the wild ‘It is greatly to be feared that in a very few years some of our most highly prized species will absolutely cease to be found growing wild … so terrible are the ravages often made by commercial collectors in the forests where such plants are found …so slow is their propagation that this gradual extinction is scarcely to be wondered at, when it is known that thousands of specimens are annually removed for export. This subject is rendered still more serious when it is beginning to be feared that there are men who traverse these forests in search of rarities, whose habit is to destroy all plants they cannot carry away, to prevent their falling into the hands of rival collectors.’ (Introduction p.1-2).

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£1,500 - £2,000

Lot 61

Lot 60

62 Johnson (T. B.). The Shooter’s Companion, 2nd edition Improved and very Considerably Enlarged, Sherwood, Jones & Co. 1823, three etched plates (including the frontispiece) after T. Landseer, all with contemporary hand-colouring, tipped in catalogue description between the front endpaper and the first blank, chalk glaze endpapers, bookplate of William Van Winkle to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt calf by Riviere & Son, with gilt dentelles, re-backed but retaining the gilt decorated spine, slight wear to head and foot of spine, large 12mo, together with Zouch (Thomas). The Life of Isaac Walton including Notices of his Contemporaries, Septimus Prowett, 1823, additional halftitle, uncoloured engraved frontispiece of ‘Cotton’s Fishing House’ and nineteen engraved plates, slight offsetting and staining, contemporary morocco gilt with contrasting red morocco label to spine with title repeated in gilt on the upper siding, very slight wear to extremities, 8vo, with Howitt (Samuel). British Preserve..., published by Rodwell & Martin, 1824, decorative title, 36 (complete as list) uncoloured etched plates by Samuel Howitt, each with a tissue guard, slight spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, slight wear to extremities, slim 4to, plus Watkins-Pitchford (D. J.). The Countryman’s Beside Book, 2nd edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942, additional half-title, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, near contemporary manuscript presentation inscription to the front endpaper, near-contemporary halfmorocco gilt by the Harrods bindery, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, and Fur, Feather and Fin Series, edited by Alfred E. Watson (and others), the set of 12, The Partridge 1893, The Grouse 1894, The Pheasant 1896, The Red Deer 1896, The Hare 1896, The Rabbit 1898, The Trout 1898, The Salmon 1898, Pike and Perch 1900, Snipe and Woodcock 1903, Wildfowl 1905, The Fox 1906, numerous illustrations, two volumes with old school library stamps to preliminaries, all bound in contemporary pictorial decorative cloth, a few spines a little darkened, 8vo, with Kennedy (Michael). The Sea Angler’s Fishes, 2nd edition, published by Stanley Paul, 1969, additional half-title, numerous illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, slight wear to extremities, 8vo (17) £150 - £200

63 Kirby (W. F.). Natural History of the Animal Kingdom, for the use of young people, 3 volumes (Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibia...), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889, hand-coloured frontispiece to volume I, 68 hand-coloured double-page plates only (of 90), a few detached and a little frayed to margins, light marginal toning, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, spine ends rubbed with small tears, some edge wear and stains, folio (3) £200 - £300

64 [La Chesnaye des Bois, Franois Alexandre Aubert de]. Dictionnaire universel d’agriculture et de jardinage, de fauconnerie, chasse, peche, cuisine et manege, 2 volumes, 1st edition Paris: David le jeune, 1751, half-title to volume 1 only, 13 folding engraved plates, pencil annotation to top margin of titles to both volumes, advertisement for ‘Les Agremens de la Campagne..., 1751 pasted to verso of half title to volume 1, endpapers renewed, light spotting to a few leaves, 19th-century marbled boards, gilt title label to spine, spine uniformly faded to brown, 4to, together with: Liger, (Louis). La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie generale de tous les biens de campagne; la maniere de les entretenir et de les multiplier; donnee ci-devant au public par le sieur Liger, 2 volumes, Paris: Desaint, 1777, 38 engraved plates (including 2 folding), contemporary manuscript annotation to final leaf and verso free endpaper to volume 1, OOO3 with marginal tear with loss not affecting printed area and G4 with long closed tear into text in volume 2, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Tiliana with their unobtrusive stamp on verso of title and on final leaf to both volumes, volume 1 lacking first free endpaper, light spotting to a few leaves, contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spines, refurbished to extremities and area of spine to volume 2, 4to (4)

£200 - £300

65 Lawson (William). A New Orchard and Garden. Or The best way for planting, grafting, and to make the ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North parts of England: generally for the whole kingdome, as in nature, reason, scituation, and all probability, may and doth appeare. With the Country Housewifes Garden for hearbes of common use, their vertues, seasons, profites, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walkes. As also the Husbandry of Bees, with their seuerall uses and annoyances, all grounded on the Principles of Art, and precepts of experience, being the Labours of forty eight yeares of William Lawson, 1st edition, London: Bar: Alsop for Roger Jackson, 1618, pp. [8], 59, [1]; [2], 14, 7-25, [1], woodcut illustration to title (lined with archival tissue to verso), woodcut illustrations to text, black letter text, title to second part with imprint dated 1617, second part with separate pagination and lacking leaf K2 (p. 5/6), lower outer blank corner of final leaf torn and leaf lined to verso with archival tissue, repaired closed tear to D1, leaves D2-D3 misbound with M1-M3, some dampstaining mostly to margins, toning and light dust-soiling, modern brown buckram, 4to

Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).

Henrey 226; STC 15329.

Frederick Roach was one of the most acclaimed fruit experts of the 20th century. He decided on a career in horticulture at the age of 10 while helping to run his father’s rectory garden in Toft, Lincolnshire. During the Second World War Roach was part of the Dig for Victory campaign and, in 1946, he was made chief horticultural officer of the newly formed National Agricultural Advisory Service. He became successively regional fruit adviser for the South West and South East before taking the post of national fruit adviser. Retirement from the ministry in 1972 triggered a new career as a consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Bank. Roach’s book, Cultivated Fruits of Britain, Their Origin and History (1985), is still regarded as a bible for many fruit experts. This was followed by the descriptive texts for Hooker’s Finest Fruits, which was published by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1989. In 1966 he was awarded the Ridley Medal of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers. The Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1978. Other illustrious winners of the award include Gertrude Jekyll (1928), Francis Kingdon-Ward (1934), Vita Sackville-West (1955), Harold Hillier (1957), Roy Lancaster (1972), David Austin (1994) and Stefan Buczacki (2010). (1)

£300 - £400

66 Mee (Margaret). Flores do Amazonas, Flowers of the Amazon, Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1980, 24 full-page colour plates (each with tissue-guards), original green publisher’s cloth gilt, large folio (64.5 x 47.5 cm), contained in original green cloth slipcase (slipcase stained with some marks)

One of 1000 copies, this one unnumbered. (1)

£500 - £800

Lot

68 Porta (Giambattista della). Phytognomonica..., octo libris contenta; in quibus nova, facillimaque affertur methodus, qua plantarum, animalium, metallorum; rerum denique omnium ex prima extimae faciei inspectione quiuis abditas vires assequatur..., Rouen: Joannis Berthelin, 1650, printer’s woodcut device to title, several woodcut illustrations throughout, some scattered spotting at front and rear, near contemporary sheep, upper board attachment weak, worn, 8vo, (Pritzel 7273), together with: Thornton (Robert John). Elements of Botany, 2 volumes in one, London: Printed for the Author by J. Whiting, 1812, half-title to first volume, 167 engraved botanical plates (few folding), six engraved tables (2 folding) and several engraved divisional titles, contemporary half calf with morocco title label to spine, 8vo (2) £250 - £350

£1,000 - £1,500

67 Plumier (Charles). Plantarum Americanarum fasciculus primus [-Decimus], continens plantas, quas olim Carolus Plumierius, Botanicorum Princeps detexit, eruitque, atque in Insulis Antillis ipse depinxit. Has primum in lucem edidit, concinnis descriptionibus, & observationibus, aeneisque tabulis illustravit Joannes Burmannus, 10 parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Sumtibus Auctoris, Prostant Amstelaedami in Horto Medico, atque apud Viduam & Filium S. Schouten & Lugd. Batav. : Apud Gerard. Potvliet & Theodor. Haak, 1755-1760, first title printed in red and black (with short repaired closed tear), lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece, 262 full-page copper engraved plates and one full-page woodblock print (Tab XXV*), last few plates/leaves at rear of first volume with damp stain to lower margin and fore-margin, free endpapers creased, contemporary speckled boards, both volumes with modern calf rebacks and board corners, extremities slightly rubbed, folio (43.4 x 27 cm) Nissen BBI 1547. Sabin 63459. Sitwell, Great Flower Books 70. Hunt 554. The French botanist Charles Plumier (1646-1704) undertook three botanical expeditions to the West Indies, the last two as the French King, Louis XIV’s appointed botanist. He was one of the first to describe the native plants of America, the present work being a selection by the Dutch botanist Johannes Burmann, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam. (2)

69 Sander (Frederick). Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, 4 volumes, First and Second Series, St. Albans: F. Sander & Co., Orchid Growers and Importers, 1888-1894, half-titles, 192 chromolithograph plates, the majority after H. G. Moon, others after W. H. Fitch, A. H. Loch, Charles Storer, J. L. Macfarlane, and T. Walton, (plate 3 in series 2 with slight paper skinning to image surface), tissue guards (8 tissue guards a little torn and 6 later tissue guards loosely inserted), text in English, French and German, with wood-engraved illustrations, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, near contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, joints rubbed and lower board to volume 2 Second Series detached, occasional mottling to boards, large folio (52.8 x 38 cm) Nissen 1722; Sitwell & Blunt - Great Flower Books, p.75. Sander’s ‘Reichenbachia’ (named after celebrated orchidologist Heinreich Gustav Reichenbach) is one of the most celebrated and gloriously illustrated books on orchids ever produced. The care lavished on the project was enormous: Sander had twenty orchid collectors working simultaneously in Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Madagascar, New Guinea, Burma and Malaya; and the blocks for the plates were hand-made from wood, with as many as twenty inks used in the production of the chromolithographs. The overall cost to Sander was said to have been well over £7,000, and he often remarked in later years that the project nearly ruined him. (4)

£4,000 - £6,000

70 Warner (Robert; Williams, Benjamin Samuel; Moore, Thomas). The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, 11 volumes, 1st edition, London: B. S. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 18821897, half-titles, 528 lithographic plates by and after John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets, partly hand-coloured, partly colour-printed (plates 9/10 a double-page plate, plates 277-280 in volume 6 bound out of sequence), offsetting to some tissue guards (volume 11 bound without tissue guards), wood-engraved portrait of Williams in vol. 9, gutta-percha perishing in few volumes, occasional light scattered spot ting and toning, few text leaves browned, half-title to volume 1 with late 20th-century ownership signature Oswaldo Lomer dated 1970, front free endpaper to volume 1 discarded, all edges gilt, original brown cloth, blocked in gilt and black, small area of wear to spine of volume 2, volume 9 with light damp mottling to fore-edge of upper board, 4to Nissen BBI 2107; Great Flower Books, p.80.

Begun by Williams with the idea of supplying a demand for orchid illustrations with botanical descriptions and notes on cultivation. The obituary of Williams included in volume 9, remarks that this book has been “hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers amongst its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists.” John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) was the nephew of Walter Hood Fitch, and almost as prolific in output as a botanical artist. His original drawings for this work are in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London. (11)

£5,000 - £8,000

71 Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915-16, 80 colour plates (each tissue-guarded), top edge gilt, original publisher’s red cloth gilt, spines faded, lightly rubbed, 4to (4)

£150 - £200

72 White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, 1st edition, London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789, 2 additional titles with engraved vignettes, 7 engraved plates (2 folding), errata leaf at rear, occasional light spotting and some offsetting from plates, contemporary tan calf, morocco label to spine, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 4to Hunt 707; Rothschild 2550. (1)

£800 - £1,200

Lot 71

73 Woolward (Miss Florence H.). The Genus Masdevallia. Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey... With Additional Notes by F.C. Lehmann, 1896, 87 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates (including one doublepage), one double-page chromolithograph map, wood-engraved illustrations to text, errata leaf before Preface, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco over marbled boards by Henderson & Bisset, spine with title lettered in gilt and five gilt ornaments between raised bands, joints a little rubbed, with upper joint showing signs of wear, gilt coat of arms of the Signet Library to centre of each board, folio (450 x 320 mm)

Nissen BBI 2185; Stafleu TL2 18.284; Great Flower Books, 152.

A large clean copy of Woolward’s monograph, in which the author drew and lithographed the plates herself. Only 250 copies were originally envisaged, and it is estimated that approximately 150 were actually issued, with just over 100 being bound (see S. Manning, Florence H. Woolward, Botanical Artist, 18541936, published in The Orchid Review, volume 104).

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£2,000 - £3,000

74 Australia. Rapkin (J.). Five Regional Maps: New South Wales (2 copies), Victoria or Port Phillip, Part of South Australia [and] Western Australia Swan River, published by John Tallis, circa 1850, five maps engraved by J. Rapkin, each with contemporary outline colouring and uncoloured decorative vignettes, some stitch holes to the lower margins, each approximately 260 x 340 mm, together with Levasseur (Victor). Océanie, published Paris, circa 1850, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, five copies, each approximately 325 x 435 mm, various condition, with Vanity Fair. Australia, ‘Western Australia’ [and] ‘New South Wales’ (2 copies), late 19th & early 20th century, four lithographic caricatures, each approximately 365 x 235 mm, plus approximately 50 uncoloured wood engravings of Australia of topographical views and genre scenes, originally published in ‘The Illustrated London News’ and ‘The Graphic’, various sizes and condition (approx. 65)

£100 - £200

75 Bacon (G. W., publisher). Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs (Revised Edition) with an Alphabetical Index, circa 1910, title page and contents list, 26 double-page and folding social, geographic and industrial maps and a 34-sheet map of Greater London, very slight spotting, endpapers and pastedowns with some water staining, publisher’s half morocco gilt, a little stained and worn, folio, together with Wyld (James). Map of the County of Surrey from Trigonometrical Survey with the Roads, Parks and Railways, 2nd edition, circa 1860, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, large uncoloured cartouche and table of explanation, some dust soiling and slight staining, marbled endpapers, 850 x 1130 mm, with Stark (J.). Stark’s Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Biographical, Mineralogical and Railway Chart of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, published Glasgow, circa 1852, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight overall toning, frayed with slight loss to the printed image, edged in green silk, 1000 x 750 mm, contemporary blind-stamped morocco boards, lacking upper board, size when folded 265 x 175 mm, plus Ordnance Survey (publishers). Map of Putney, Wandsworth and Environs on a scale of 25 inches to the mile, circa 1870, large colour lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1350 x 2040 mm, marbled endpapers, and Stanford (Edward, publishers). Stanford’s Map of the River Thames from Richmond to Lechlade, circa 1950, folding colour lithographic map, slight spotting, publisher’s paper wrappers, 210 x 3300 mm, with London Docks. Port of London Authority. Plan of the India & Millwall Docks [and] Port of London Authority. Plan of the Tilbury Docks, 1968 & 1969 respectively, the first map, colour printed, sectionalised and laid on linen, 655 x 620 mm, the second an uncoloured map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 890 x 725 mm, both with marbled endpapers and uniformly bound in envelope style blue boards with gilt title to the upper cover and secured with a steel ‘popper’ with one other map similar (8)

£200 - £300

76 Belloguet (Andre). L’Europe Comique, Amuser Instruire, Cocasserie Dediée a la Jennesse, Paris, 1867, satirical lithographic map with contemporary hand-colouring, light overall toning, 450 x 640 mm, with another copy similar, but with repaired marginal tears and laid on later limp card

The map appears to lack any overt political message and although it is dominated by the large face that is Russia, the latter is not depicted as dangerous or acquisitive of neighbouring states.

“An outlandish riot of different physiognomies and expressive faces whose shapes roughly follow the established political boundaries of contemporary Europe. Most dominant amongst them is the giant figure of Russia, a cultured and erudite gentleman sporting a wide-brimmed hat and wearing a monocle. This may perhaps symbolise Russia’s growing cultural self-expression in the fields of literature, music and the arts. Whether Belloguet’s map had any deeper meanings beyond mere cocasserie (foolery) is not at all clear. Certainly, it appears to lack any discernible political overtones and claims simply to “amuser et instruire” (amuse and instruct).” Bringing the map to Life: European satirical maps 1845-1945 - Roderick M. Barron. (2)

£300 - £500

77 Blaeu (Johannes). Four British County Maps: Comitatus Darbiensis, Essexia Comitatus (2 copies) [and] Hertfordia Comitatus vernacule Hertfordshire, Amsterdam, circa 1645, four handcoloured engraved maps, one copy of the map of Essex heavily stained with numerous repaired marginal closed tears, some creasing and a small area of juvenile crayoning to the lower margin, each approximately 385 x 495 mm, Latin and French text on verso respectively, together with Jansson (Jan). Leicestrensis comitatus cum Rutlandiae vulgo Leicester & Rutland Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, central fold strengthened on verso, two repaired marginal closed tears, some staining and toning, 440 x 550 mm, Dutch text on verso, with Morden (Robert). Leicestershire (2 copies), Bedfordshire, Huntingtonshire [and] Comitatus Rotelandiae Tabula Nova & Aucta [1695 or later], five engraved maps, Rutland and one copy of Leicestershire with later hand-colouring, various condition, each approximately 360 x 420 mm (10)

£200 - £300

78 Bowen (Emanuel & Owen John). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv’d; being an Actual Survey of all the direct and Principal Cross Roads of England and Wales..., London: Carington Bowles, 1764, 273 (complete) uncoloured engraved road maps printed back to back, some offsetting, quires loose, lacking spine, boards heavily worn and detached, 8vo, together with Senex (John). The Roads through England delineated or Ogilby’s Survey revised, improved and reduced to a size portable for the pocket..., London: printed for John Bowles 1757, general map of England & Wales and 101 (complete) uncoloured engraved road maps printed back to back, areas of loss with repair and closed tears to title page, preface, index and first 7 maps, tape repair to plate 94, quires loose, modern red morocco by John Joyce & Son, gilt lettering to upper board, oblong 8vo (2)

£200 - £300

Lot 77

79 British County Maps. A collection of approximately 200 maps, mostly 18th & 19th-century, county, country and regional maps, city plans and road maps, including examples by or after Bowen (Emanuel), Ordnance Survey, Dawson, Paterson, Davies, Leigh, Phillips, Kitchin, Fullarton, Moule, Owen & Bowen, Seale, Seller/Grose, Cole & Roper, Archer, Hall, Wilkes, Hogg, Bacon and Lewis, some duplicates, various sizes and condition, together with approximately 150 prints and engravings, including British & foreign topographical views, portraits, sporting, classical and caricatures, various sizes and condition (approx. 350)

£150 - £200

80* British County Maps. A collection of approximately 65 maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved county and regional maps and city plans, including examples by or after Aubrey, Speed, Blome, Moule, Archer, Lewis, Bowen, Morden, Jansson, Cary, Owen & Bowen and Rapkin, various sizes and condition, 8 framed and glazed (approx. 65)

£100 - £200

81 British Isles. A collection of twelve maps, 17th & 18th century, engraved maps, eleven with hand-colouring, including examples by or after J. Nolin, R. Morden, N. Sanson/Tavernier, A. H. Jaillot, D. De La Feuille, J. Jansson/Van den Keere, H. De Leth, G. Le Rouge. A. De Winter [and] J. Lattré, various sizes, good condition (12)

£200 - £400

82 British Isles. Overton (Henry). A New and Exact Mapp of Great Britain and Ireland According to the Latest and Best Observations, 1716, large engraved map with sparse original outline colouring, two sheets conjoined (as published) and laid on later linen, elaborate cartouche, dedication to George I in a separate floral cartouche, vertical margins decorated with twelve engraved vignettes of British ports and harbours, one short worm track, very occasional marginal flaking and slight abrasion affecting the printed image, 570 x 955 mm, mounted on two later turned wooden battens

Rodney W. Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650-1750. Overton 10. The first state of a scarce separately published map. (1)

£2,000 - £3,000

83* British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, uncoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, the vertical borders decorated with historical scenes, good margins, very slight staining, two very small wormholes in the printed image, 385 x 515 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on verso

R. W. Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 317. (1)

£800 - £1,200

84* British Isles. Speed (John), The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars since the Conquest, George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, large compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, some creasing, 375 x 505 mm, framed and double - glazed, English text on verso

£600 - £900

R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 397. (1)

85* British Isles. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, handcoloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney Islands, inset views of London and Edinburgh, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 515 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on verso R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, number 316. (1) £800 - £1,200

86 Calcutta. Plan of the City of Calcutta, published under the direction of Colonel F. B. Longe, R. E. Surveyor General of India, Calcutta: February 1910, large colour lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 685 x 640 mm, marbled endpapers (1)

£200 - £300

87 Canada. Jefferys (Thomas, attrib.), A plan of the Harbour of Chebugto and Town of Halifax, published in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ circa 1750, uncoloured engraved map, decorated with a large porcupine, moths, musk beetle and decorative coats of arms, old folds, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, vertical margins trimmed to the neatline and extended, 225 x 270 mm, together with Bowen (Thomas). A New & Accurate Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean..., 1788, uncoloured engraved map, some staining, trimmed with loss to the margin in the lower right corner, 220 x 270 mm, with Chart of the Constitutions of the United States of America, circa 1820, a linear chart with contemporary wash colouring, old folds, 385 x 510 mm (3)

£100 - £150

88 Cardiff. Baker (L. A.), The City of Cardiff Capital of Wales. The Sixth Empire and Commonwealth Games, Wales, 1958, pen and ink map of the city on draughtsmen’s opaque tracing paper, with a key plate showing the venues for various sporting events, slight staining, artist’s monogram to the lower right, old pin holes in the corners of the map but not affecting the painted image, 405 x 545 mm, overall size 480 x 660 mm, together with City of Cardiff. Guide to Places of Interest, circa 1958, pen and ink map of the city on draughtsmen’s opaque tracing paper, signed by the artist to the lower right, slight staining and creasing, trimmed with some loss to the neatline, 620 x 630 mm, with Roberts (E. C. M. Eng. City Surveyor). Wood Street Car Park, City of Cardiff, circa 1958, pen and ink frontal elevation and view by L. A. Baker on draughtsmen’s opaque tracing paper, signed by the artist to the lower right, slight marginal staining, 185 x 420 mm

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£100 - £200

89* Cornwall. Speed (John & Norden John). Cornwall, 1st edition, John Sudbury & George Humble [1611], uncoloured engraved map, inset plan of Launceston, good margins, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 510 mm, framed and doubleglazed, English text on verso

90 Crimea. Wyld (James), The Environs of Sevastopol with the Batteries & Approaches..., Positions of the Allied Armies Besieging Sevastopol from Drawings made on the Spot and Information received from Brigadier Genl. Torrens, Mr Rochefort & from English & French officers, with an additional title above the Map ‘Siege of Sevastopol & Positions of the Russian Armies to Baktchi Serai’, Seventh Edition, June 25th 1855, lithographic map with contemporary hand-colouring, inset maps of the Crimean Peninsula and Eupatoria, folded and laid on linen, 685 x 915 mm, publisher’s blind-stamped cloth boards with a contemporary label to the upper cover, size when folded 220 x 120 mm, together with Stanford (Edward). Stanford’s Map of Turkey in Europe and her Tributary States, together with such parts of Russia, Austria, Turkey in Asia & Persia..., April 12th 1877, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 740 x 1060 mm, publisher’s cloth boards with a contemporary label to the upper cover, size when folded 195 x 145 mm

It is unusual to find the eastern and western sheets of this map together. The western sheet is normally found alone, with the eastern sheet showing the position of the Russian armies usually lacking. Here the two sheets are printed and issued as a single map. (2)

£300 - £500

£700 - £1,000

R. C. E. Quixley. Antique Maps of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, number 11. A fine dark impression. (1)

91 Derbyshire. Speed (John), Anno Darbieshire described, J. Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Derby and a vignette of St. Anne’s Well at Buxton, large strapwork cartouche and compass rose, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso (1)

£150 - £200

92 Devon. A collection of 22 County Maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved county maps, including examples by or after Simpson/Walker, Jansson/Van den Keere, Archer, Leigh, Morden (small format), Cary, Badeslade & Toms, Whittaker, Phillips, Walker/Fisher, Aitken, Kitchin/Jeffreys, Bowen, Hinton, Seller, Neele, Wilkes, J & C Walker, Wallis, Pinnock and Teesdale, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (22)

£150 - £250

93 Devon. A collection of 25 county and road maps, mostly 18th & 19th-century, engraved and lithographic maps, including examples by or after Tunnicliff, Teesdale, Langley, Harrison, Owen & Bowen, Duncan, Ordnance Survey, Creighton/Lewis, Wallis, Laurie & Whittle, Hatchett, Kitchin, Van den Keere, Taylor/Blome, Paterson, Smith, Dawson, Archer, Weller and Pigot, various sizes and condition, together with a mileage triangle and descriptive text for Devonshire by Robert Morden, the descriptive text for Devon from ‘The New and Complete British Traveller’ and the county map, mileage table and descriptive text from James Pigot’s ‘Pocket Topography and Gazetteer (28)

£150 - £250

94 Devon. A collection of 47 maps, mostly 19th-century, engraved and lithographic county maps, town plans and road maps, including examples by or after Van Langeren, Ordnance Survey, Hames, Wallis, Gray, Cary, Phillips, Leigh/Hall, Fullarton, Wilkes, Archer, Lewis, J & C Walker, Weller, Owen & Bowen, Besley, Paterson, Carington Bowles, Gardner, Kitchin and Senex, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition, together with three topographical views of Devonshire, with Gloucestershire. Six maps, 17th-19th century, engraved county maps and town plans, including examples by or after Saxton/Hole, Phillips, Cary, James and Griffiths/Radclyffe, plus two engraved topographical views of Cheltenham, with another 14 British & foreign maps, including examples by Rapkin, Kitchin, Cary, Gentlemen’s Magazine, Faden and Morden, various sizes and condition (72)

£100 - £200

95 Devon. Bickham (George), A Map of Devon Shire West from London..., circa 1750, uncoloured engraved ‘birds-eye’ map, 260 x 155 mm, together with Simpson (Samuel & Walker Robert). Devon Shire, circa 1744, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, originally published in ‘The Agreeable Historian’, 160 x 195 mm, with Lodge (J.). A New Map of Devonshire from the Latest Authorities, circa 1795, uncoloured engraved map, 270 x 330 mm, with another 17 county maps of Devonshire, including examples by or after Archer/Pinnock, Blome/Taylor, Moule, Seller/Grose, Ellis, Neele, Cobbett, Kitchin, Fullarton, Smith, Cary, Moll, Butters, Cole & Roper, Hall and Pigot, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (21) £200 - £300

96 Devon. Bill (John), Devon Shire [1626], hand-coloured engraved map, large margins, English text on verso, 90 x 125 mm, mounted, together with Cowley (John). An Improved Map of DevonShire containing the Borough and Market Towns..., circa 1744, hand-coloured engraved map, old fold, 135 x 185 mm, with Ramble (Reuben). Devonshire, circa 1844, engraved map surrounded by topographical lithographic vignettes, contemporary handcolouring, slight staining, right-hand vertical margin frayed with slight loss, skillfully extended, 190 x 155 mm, plus Luffman (John). Devonshire [1803], engraved circular map with English text below the image, stained and toned, overall size 175 x 105 mm, and Perrot (A. M.). Devon, 1823, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, some staining and spotting, 135 x 80 mm, with Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel). Devonshire [1720 or later], uncoloured engraved map, 190 x 120 mm, plus Wallis (James and Reid W. H.). Devonshire, circa 1820, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, 70 x 105 mm and Jenner (Thomas). Devon - Shire [1657], uncoloured map below a mileage triangle, overall size 170 x 110 mm, English text below and on the verso of the map (8)

£200 - £300

97 Devon. Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of Devon Shire Divided into its Hundreds. Drawn from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps..., Carington Bowles, R. Sayer & Robert Wilkinson, circa 1785, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset city plan of the Citadel of Plymouth, large uncoloured cartouche, 540 x 690 mm, together with Darton (William). Devonshire Divided into Hundreds and the Parliamentary Divisions, circa 1833, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, uncoloured vignette of Dartmouth Castle, slight offsetting, 355 x 450 mm, with Murray (T.). Devonshire, May 1st 1830, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, tables of reference and explanation, 365 x 455 mm (3)

£150 - £200

98* Devon. Speed (John), Devonshire with Excester Described and the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Exeter, slight toning and creasing, 385 x 515 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on verso (1) £200 - £300

99

Doncaster. Ordnance Survey, 8 sheets on a scale of 1:500 (10.56 feet to the mile) 1901-02, lithographic map sections, each sheet split into 4 sections and re-mounted on to 8 sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen and if conjoined comprising the entirety of Doncaster, some red and blue ink annotations, some dust soiling and slight staining, if conjoined the overall size would be approximately 3880 x 3270 mm, contained in a contemporary cloth ‘envelope style fold-over’ case, some flaps detached, heavily worn and rubbed, size of folder 345 x 500 mm

Formed from a complete set of 19 large-scale sheets. The sheet numbers are CCLXXVII 13.17, CCLXXVII 13.18, CCLXXVII 13. 19, CCLXXVII 13.21, CCLXXVII 13.22, CCLXXVII 13.23, CCLXXXV 1.6, CCLXXXV 1.7, CCLXXXV1.8, CCLXXXV1.9, CCLXXXV1.11, CCLXXXV1.12 [and] CCLXXXV 1.13 (1)

£150 - £200

102 Folding Maps. A collection of 30 folding maps, 18th & 19th century, twenty-eight engraved and lithographic county, regional and touring maps of the British Isles, including examples by or after J & C Walker, Cruchley, Gall & Inglis, Ordnance Survey, Collins, W. H. Smith, Bacon, Wyld, Iliffe & Son and Morden/Cox, mostly bound or contained in slipcases, with two additional late 19th century folding maps of the Dolomites and the Swiss Alps, various sizes and condition (30)

£150 - £200

100* England & Wales. Speed (John), The Kingdome of England, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured ‘cartea-figures’ map engraved by Abraham Goos, eight costumed vignettes to the vertical margins, large margins, very slight creasing, 385 x 515 mm, mounted, framed and double-glazed, English text on verso with extensive near-contemporary manuscript annotations to the text (1)

£400 - £600

103 Folding Maps. A collection of 30 maps, mostly 19th-century, engraved and lithographic British and foreign regional and country maps, including examples by or after G. & J. Cary, Ordnance Survey, W. Faden, Edward Stanford, J. Findley, S. Lewis, G. F. Cruchley, F. Harding, A. Peterman, J. Wyld, Letts Son & Co., F. M. Diez, W. & A. K. Johnston and James Gardner, mostly in contemporary slipcases or boards, various sizes and condition (30)

£150 - £250

101* Exeter. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Frans), Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) Urbs Primaria in Comitatu Devoniae, circa 1617, engraved city plan with contemporary wash colouring, very large margins, slight creasing, 315 x 405 mm, framed and double - glazed, Latin text on verso (1)

£200 - £300

104 France. Belloguet (A.), Carte de France instructive et amusante divisés en Quatre-vingt-six Département, 1855, large colour lithographic jigsaw map of France, lacking one piece and with a few broken tabs 480 x 660 mm, retaining the folding lithographic keymap with the same dimensions (1)

£200 - £400

105 France. Van Schagen (Gerrit), Accuratissima Galliae Tabula vulgo Royaume de France..., Amsterdam, circa 1680, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, upper margin frayed and chipped with slight loss, repaired and extended, 495 x 580 mm, together with Allard (Carel). Hispaniae et Portugalliae Regna..., circa 1700, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, some oxidization to old watercolour causing some cracking and flaking with loss to the printed surface, crudely repaired on verso, 445 x 560 mm, with another 96 engraved British and foreign maps, including examples by or after Cooper, Ellis, Bell, Archer, Hall, Wyld, Souter, Shury, Cary, Jefferys, Finlay, Kitchin and Hughes, occasional duplicates, various condition, each approximately 250 x 200 mm (98)

£150 - £200

106* Globe. Newton & Son. Newton’s New & Improved Celestial Globe, circa 1850, six-inch celestial globe with twelve engraved gores with contemporary hand-colouring, occasional old cracks to the globe body, brass meridian ring, presented on a stained turned wooden pedestal stand, height 250 mm (1)

£100 - £150

107 Globes. Philip’s British Empire Globe. London: George Phillip & Son, circa 1930, 8 inch table globe with twelve colour lithographic gores, oval cartouche with key marking British Empire territories, small area of loss to Cape Verde Islands and Southern Pacific Ocean, some staining to the printed image, aluminium half meridian ring, presented on a turned wooden stand, height 300 mm, together with: “Geographia” 10 inch Terrestrial Globe, London: Geographia limited, circa 1950, table globe with twelve colour lithographic gores, oval cartouche, some chipping and toning to the printed image, brass half meridian ring presented on a stepped brown bakelite base, height 360 mm (2)

£150 - £200

108 Greece. Speed (John), Greece, George Humble, circa 1627, uncoloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, margins frayed and torn with occasional loss, some staining, heavily creased, 390 x 505 mm, English text on verso, together with Jansson (Jan). La Partie Meridionale du Languedoc, published in Amsterdam and sold in Paris by Melchior Tavernier [1638 or later], engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, toned overall, slight worming to the left-hand margin, slight marginal fraying, 375 x 495 mm, English text on verso, with Munster (Sebastian). Lindoiae civitas insularis, undique aqua lacunaris circunfusa, circa 1550, uncoloured woodblock city plan of Lindau, trimmed with slight loss to the neatline along the lower margin, 285 x 365 mm, Latin text on verso, plus D’Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon). Tabula Italiae Antiquae Geographica..., Laurie and Whittle, 1794, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, upper margin folded to mask the title with subsequent toning, trimmed at the lower margin with slight loss to publishing details, slight spotting and staining, 620 x 500 mm (4) £100 - £200

109 Greenwood (C. & J.). A Collection of Eight County Maps: Map of the North Riding of the County of York..., Map of the East Riding of the County of York..., Map of the County Palatine of Durham, Map of the County of Stafford, Map of the County of Surrey (3 copies) & Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, circa 1835, eight engraved maps, all with contemporary wash colouring, a few maps with repaired marginal closed tears, one map of Surrey laid on later card and another trimmed to the image and laid on later linen, each approximately 625 x 775 mm, together with Cary (John). A Map of Berkshire from the best Authorities [and] A Map of Cambridge from the best Authorities, 1805, two hand-coloured engraved maps, each approximately 410 x 535 mm, with Bowen (Emanuel). An Accurate Map of Nottingham Shire Describing its Wapontakes and Divisions..., An Accurate Map of Shropshire Divided into its Hundreds..., [and] An Improved Map of the County of Stafford Divided into its Hundreds..., circa 1765, three engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, Nottinghamshire with some later enhancement, Stafford and Shropshire with some staining and laid on later card, each approximately 710 x 530 mm, Stafford and Shropshire mounted (13)

£150 - £200

110 Grossi (Augusto). Profezie del Papagallo sull’ Europaper L’Anno, Bologna, 1877, satirical colour lithographic map of Europe, 385 x 565 mm, together with approximately 70 19th & early 20th century cartoons, caricatures and satirical prints, including examples from Zoz magazine, Black & White magazine, La Charivari, La Rana magazine, La Nouvelle Lune, The Graphic, Puck, Judge magazine, Lilliput magazine, Le Petit Parisien, Kladderadatsch magazine, La Vie Parisien, Punch, Der Wahre Jacob, Judy Magazine and Le Petit Journal, various sizes, good condition

The first described map was published in Il Papagallo magazine, illustrating predictions for the year ahead. (approx. 70)

£300 - £500

111 Hampshire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), Hampshire by C. Saxton Corected & many Aditions by P. Lea, circa 1695, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset town plan of Winchester, large margins, some mount staining, margins toned, small split to central fold, old ink library stamp to the righthand margin, 395 x 435 mm (1)

£200 - £300

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112 Heylyn (Peter). Three maps: Europae Descriptio Nova..., Africae Descriptio Nova & Asiae Descriptio Nova, [1652 or later], three uncoloured engraved maps, old folds strengthened on verso, Asiae, trimmed to the neatline with slight loss with vertical margins extended and areas of loss replaced in facsimile, the whole backed with archival tissue, Africae with old folds strengthened and repaired on verso, repaired marginal closed tears affecting the printed image, small areas of loss replaced in facsimile, each approximately 335 x 420 mm (3)

£150 - £200

113 Huntingdonshire. Speed (John), Huntingdon both Shire and Shire Towne with the Ancient Citie Ely Described, George Humble, circa 1646, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Huntingdon and Ely, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, together with The Countie of Radnor described and the Shyre Townes Sittuatione, 1st edition, John Sudbury & George Humble [1611], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Radnor, large strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, slight staining, 390 x 510 mm, English text on verso (2)

£150 - £200

114 India. Wyld (James), Map of India, Constructed with Great Care and Research from All the Latest Authorities, and Intended more particularly to Facilitate a Reference to the Civil and Military Stations. Dedicated to Sir James Rivett Carnac Bart. Chairman of the Court of Directors of the HonBle. The East India Company, Arranged under the Direction of Capt. R.N. Grindlay by James Wyld, circa 1852, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, numerous tables of reference, triangular mileage table to the upper right corner, very slight dust soiling, old pin holes to the corners but not affecting the printed image, publication line trimmed with partial loss, marbled endpapers, 985 x 670 mm, contained in a contemporary green cloth slipcase with publisher’s printed label to the upper cover A highly detailed map that illustrates the administrative and military control that the British East India Company had over the whole of the subcontinent of India. The map was intended “to serve to illustrate the Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington,” as noted at the bottom right corner of the map. The Duke served in India before he became the commanding officer of British forces in the Peninsular Wars, culminating with the defeat of Napolean at the Battle of Waterloo (1)

£300 - £500

115 Ireland. Camden (William), Hibernia Antiqua, circa 1600, uncoloured engraved map, some staining, 175 x 125 mm, Latin text on verso

117 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Connaugh with the City of Galwaye, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], handcoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Galway, large strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, good margins, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, together with Blaeu (Johannes). Connachtia vulgo Connaughty, Amsterdam, circa 1665, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large strapwork cartouche, stained and toned overall, several marginal tears with slight loss, but not affecting the printed image, central fold crudely strengthened on verso, 395 x 505 mm, Spanish text on verso (2)

£200 - £400

Bonar Law. The Printed Maps of Ireland to 1612, p.235. Published in the 5th edition (the first illustrated edition) of William Camden’s Britannia. (1)

£100 - £200

118 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Mounster, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Limerick and Cork, 390 x 515 mm, English text on verso (1)

£200 - £400

116 Ireland. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Irland Devided into Severall Provinces and then againe Devided into Counties Newly described, Roger Rea, 1662, engraved map with early outline colouring, six inset vignettes of costumed figures, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, slight staining and dust soiling, 385 x 505 mm, English text on verso (1)

£600 - £900

119 Isle of Man. Speed (John), The Isle of Man exactly described and into several Parishshes divided..., 1st edition [1611], handcoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scales to the vertical margins, margins professionally repaired and extended on verso, some closed tears professionally repaired on verso, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, together with Caernarvon Both Shyre and Shire-Towne with the ancient Citie Bangor described, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset city plans of Carnarvon and Bangor, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, numerous repaired marginal and closed tears affecting the printed image, repaired on verso, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso (2)

£150 - £200

121 Leeds. Thorp (Joshua & Martin S. D.), Map of the Country extending ten miles round Leeds, including Wakefield, Bradford, Dewsbury, Otley, Harewood, Aberford & Castleford, showing all the Parish and Township Boundaries &c. from actual admeasurements in the years 1819, 20 & 21, by Joshua Thorp and re-surveyed & corrected to January 1st 1831 by S. D. Martin, published Leeds, John Baines & Company, engraved map with bright contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose, table of explanation and a vignette of the West End of Kirkstall Abbey, slight spotting, the whole edged in green silk, 1140 x 1225 mm, contained in a contemporary blind-stamped calf book box with contrasting gilt morocco label to the spine, the box worn and frayed

This map was first published in 1822. This second edition now shows the delineation of the latest railway lines, including several proposed and uncompleted routes that were soon to accelerate the industrialisation of this part of South Yorkshire; bringing large amounts of wealth for the few but also poverty and deprivation for the many as the conurbations expanded to house the vast workforce needed to drive the industrial revolution.

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£300 - £500

£200 - £300

120 Jansson (Jan). Three maps of West Africa and South America: Guinea, Paraguay Ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum Regionibus Adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra [and] Guiana sive Amazonum Regio, published Amsterdam, circa 1648, three uncoloured engraved maps, some marginal fraying, spotting and water staining, each approximately 385 x 520 mm, French text on verso (3)

122 Lincolnshire. Speed (John), The Countie and Citie of Lyncolne described with the Armes of them that have bene Earles Thereof since the Conquest, circa 1646, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Lincoln, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso (1) £200 - £300

123 London. Gill (MacDonald), Wonderground Map of London Town, published by The Westminster Press, circa 1928, colour photolithographic map, old folds, 745 x 930 mm, retaining the original colour printed envelope, the envelope is dust soiled and frayed with several marginal repaired closed tears

An almost pristine example of this decorative and entertaining pictorial map of London, complete with its original paper envelope. It is rare to find an example in this fine condition. This is the slightly smaller and later edition of Gill’s original 1913 map. There is a 1924 edition which is assumed to have been altered to help the promotion of the 1924 British Empire Exhibition, held at Wembley between April and October of that year. It can be identified by a sign saying:- ‘On To Wembley’ and an empire lion in the top left-hand corner below the man pushing a bus. This example is a slightly later state with a greyhound replacing the lion. Greyhound racing started at Wembley in 1927 so this edition probably dates from 1927 or 1928. The map remains highly stylised and whimsical and was held in great affection by Londoners. It was originally commissioned by The London Underground and was designed to be displayed in tube stations. The intense pictorial content of the map caught the public’s imagination and as a result, Gill is often credited with creating a resurgence in the genre of decorative map-making. Much work and research has been done by Roderick Barron and Bryars & Bryars on the maps of the Underground and the work of Macdonald Gill and I am also grateful to Claire Dobbins’s book, London Underground Maps: Art, Design and Cartography.

(1) £700 - £1,000

124 London. Newcourt (Richard & William Faithorne), An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof, together with ye Burrough of Southwark and all ye Through-fares, Highwies, Streetes, Lanes & Common Allies, within ye same, 1658, published by Edward Stanfield, 1863, uncoloured engraved map of Elizabethan London, dissected and laid on linen, inset engraving of St. Peter’s & St. Paul’s, list of the churches within the walls of London, scale of distance surmounted by open dividers, armorials, numerous sailing ships etc, light offsetting, one split to linen not affecting printed sheet, unfolded size approximately 1050 x 1910 mm, folded within publisher’s original navy morocco boards, blind stamped and gilt decorated on upper and covers, rubbed, 4to

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£200 - £300

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125 Mallet (Alain Manesson). A Composite Album of 34 Maps and Views, circa 1683, uncoloured engraved maps, city plans, topographical and genre scenes, each plate tipped onto modern thick paper, mostly of Asia, China and the Philippines, originally published in ‘Description de L’Universe’, slight staining, each approximately 170 x 110 mm, bound in modern green cloth, 8vo Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return. (1) £400 - £500

126 Maps. A large collection of approximately 500 Foreign maps, mostly 18th & 19th-century, engraved and lithographic maps, including examples by or after Basire, De L’Isle, Bowen (Emanuel), Miller, W. & A. K. Johnston, Hall, J & C Walker, Weller, Fullarton, Mercator, Stanford, De Vaugondy, Bonne, Rollos, Dower, Tardieu, Gibson, Kitchin, Wilkinson, Brué, Jefferys, Kelly and Rapkin, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 500)

£300 - £500

127 Middlesex. Speed (John), Midle-Sex described with the most famous Cities of London and Westminster, 1st edition, George Humble, 1611, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of Westminster and London, inset views of Saint Peters and Saint Pauls, map split and torn along the central fold, crudely repaired on verso, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso, together with Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip). Sussex, Surry and Kent by C. S. Corrected and Amended with many Additions by Phil. Lea, published by George Willdey at the Great Toy Spectacle, China Ware and Print Shop at the Corner of Ludgate Street near St Pauls, circa 1720, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, dust-soiled and stained, toned overall, creased and with several printer’s folds, laid on later stiff paper, 405 x 540 mm, with Blome (Richard). A Mapp of ye County of Midlesex with its Hundreds, circa 1673, uncoloured engraved map, slight staining, trimmed to the neatline along the lower margin, 280 x 310 mm, plus Hollar (Weceslaus, after). To the Hono.ble Sr. Robert Vyner of the Citty of London, Alderman, Kt. and Baronet; This Mapp is humbly dedicated by Ric. Blome, circa 1670, uncoloured engraved map, decorated on three margins by the arms of livery companies, trimmed and laid on later thin paper, 170 x 280 mm, (4)

£200 - £400

128 New Forest. Faden (William), A Plan of His Majesty’s Forest, called The New Forest in the county of Southampton, laid down from surveys taken by Thos. Richardson, Wm. King and Abm. and Wm. Driver, by order of the Commissioners of the Land Revenue appointed by an Act of Parliament, passed in the 26th year of King George, 1st edition, 1789, a large-scale map on ten engraved sheets (including the index map), nine with bright contemporary wash colouring and one incorporating a large uncoloured decorative cartouche, a list of the Officers and Wardens of the New Forest, a list of the Bailiwicks and Walks in the forest, compass rose and table of explanation, large margins, each sheet approximately 575 x 580 mm (overall sheet size 645 x 820 mm), retaining the contemporary endpapers, bound in modern half calf on marbled boards with gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco label, slim upright folio

A rare map of the New Forest whose accuracy ensured that it was in continual use in several editions up until the late 19th century. We can find only two other copies of this, the first edition, appearing in an auction in the last twenty years, with one being in these rooms in January 2018.

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£2,000 - £3,000

129 Norfolk & Suffolk. Blaeu (Johannes), Northfolcia; Norfolke [and] Suffolcia vernacule Suffolke, Amsterdam, circa 1648, two hand-coloured engraved maps, large margins, very slight text show through, each approximately 380 x 500 mm, French and Latin text on verso respectively

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

£150 - £250

130 Norfolk. Speed (John), Norfolk a Countie Florishing & Populous Described and Devided, with the Armes of such Noble Familes as have borne the titles thereof, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset city plan of Norwich, large margins, slight staining to the central fold, slight dust soiling, 385 x 500 mm, English text on verso

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£200 - £300

133* Ogilby (John). The Road from Dartmouth in Com Devon to Minhead in Com Somerset, circa 1698, uncoloured engraved strip road map, large margins, slight overall toning, 330 x 450 mm, framed and glazed, together with The Roads from London to Wells in Norfolk and St Edmonds Bury in Suffolk, circa 1698, uncoloured engraved strip road map, good margins, slight spotting to the central fold, 330 x 450 mm, uniformly framed and glazed

The first described item is sheet 65, the second is sheet 52. (2)

£100 - £200

£150 - £200

131* North East & West of England. Bill (John). Cumberland. [1626], hand-coloured engraved map, 95 x 130 mm mount aperture, framed and glazed, together with Van Den Keere (Pieter). Northumberland, 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, 90 x 125 mm mount aperture, framed and glazed, with Hondius (Jodocus & Petrus Bertius). Eboracum Linconia Derbia Staffordia etc, [1616], hand-coloured engraved map, mount covering some of the printed area to left and right margins, 100 x 130 mm mount aperture, framed and glazed, and Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel). The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean, circa 1722, hand-coloured engraved map, 190 x 130 mm, mount aperture, double framed and glazed, with Morden (Robert). Cumberland, 1695, hand-coloured engraved map, ornamental title cartouche, 380 x 440 mm mount aperture, framed and glazed (5)

132 Ogilby (John). A collection of five road maps: The Road from Hereford to Leicester, The Continuation of the Road from London to Barwick...., plate ye 4th, The Continuation of the Road from London to Barwick...., plate 3d, The Road from Ferrybridge to Borough Bridge continued to Barnard Castle in Com Ebor [and]

The Continuation of the Road from Chester to Cardiff com. Glamorgan, circa 1675, five hand-coloured engraved strip road maps, each approximately 360 x 460 mm, mounted

The sheet numbers are 72, 8, 7, 95 & 64. (5)

£100 - £150

134 Ogilby (John). Two road maps: The Road from Dartmouth in Com Devon to Minhead in Com Somerset [and] The Road from London to Darby, [1675 - 98] two hand-coloured engraved strip road maps, the Road from Dartmouth with slight mount staining, one repaired marginal closed tear, 335 x 450 mm, the Road from London with one old fold, 325 x 440 mm

Published in Britannia Volume the First, the two maps are numbered 65 and 40 respectively.

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£100 - £150

135 Peking. Chang Qi, published by The Government School Workshop, 1908, large uncoloured lithographic map of the walled city with the Imperial Palace (The Forbidden City) clearly marked, table of reference, old folds, 810 x 750 mm, overall size 980 x 800 mm

A rare map of the city with a key showing roads, walls, railways and canals. The Imperial City is bordered by additional walls and a moat, as is the Palace itself. No other copies have been traced. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

136 Pine (John). Two sea charts (on one sheet) originally published in ‘The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords, Representing the Several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets, in the Ever Memorable Year MDLXXXVII ..., London: John Pine, 1739, two engraved sea charts (numbers VII & VIII) of the English Channel from the Isle of Wight to Dover, showing the progress of the Spanish Armada and the deployment of the English fleet, after H. Gravelot, each map displayed within highly decorative borders, the maps printed in blue, the borders in black, trimmed to the plate mark and laid on later paper, 380 x 60 mm, together with Weiland (C. F.). Ireland entworfen und geziechnet..., 1837, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight staining, 615 x 495 mm, together with Von Reilly (Frans Johann Joseph). Das Konigreich Ireland Nro 89, Vienna, circa 1789, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, orientated to the east, 225 x 295 mm, with Radefeld (H.). Neueste Karte von Ireland..., 1844, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, very slight soiling, 380 x 310 mm, plus Ordnance Survey (publishers). Index to the Townland Survey of the County of Antrim and the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, 1833, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, two inset tables, the map edged with red silk, 620 x 970 mm, with another three similar maps (including one duplicate) by or after Von Stülpnagel and Druck und Verlag, various sizes and condition, plus a plan of the siege of Kinsale, a map of Scotland by Stieler and a French lithograph of Edinburgh and Taylor (A. E.). Four ‘Esso’ Pictorial maps: Esso Pictorial Plan of the West Country, Esso Pictorial Plan of the Eastern Counties and the Midlands, Esso Pictorial Plan of the Roads of the South Coast [and] Esso Pictorial Plan of the Principal Islands of Northern Britain [on sheet with] Esso Pictorial Plan of the Principal Islands of Southern Britain, 1932, together four colour photolithographic pictorial maps, each sheet approximately 305 x 465 mm, together with Pratts High Test Plan of the Great North Road, Pratts High Test Plan of Scotland, Pratts High Test Plan of the West County [and] Pratts High Test Plan of the Bath Road, 1930 - 32, four uncoloured lithographic maps, old folds, various sizes, good condition, with three late 19th & early 20th-century geological charts, maps and booklets, plus Thomson (John). Northern part of Western Isles, part of Ross Shire [and] Middle part of Western Isles part of Inverness Sh: 1822, two engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, some dust soiling and staining, each approximately 530 x 690 mm, and four duplicate mid to late 19thcentury uncoloured engraved Ordnance Survey maps of Somerset, each approximately 650 x 800 mm, various condition, with a modern colour reproduction of the Mappa Mundi, sheet size 650 x 480 mm, plus approximately 55 engravings and colour lithographs of heraldry and flags, various sizes and condition, and a late 18th-century uncoloured engraving of Fountains Abbey, trimmed to the image, 175 x 345 mm (approx. 99) £200 - £300

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

137 Ramble (Reuben). Travels through the Counties of England with maps and Historical Vignettes, Darton and Co. circa 1845, decorative frontispiece and additional decorative title, forty (complete) uncoloured engraved maps surrounded by lithographic vignettes (the maps are re-issues of those in Miller’s ‘New Miniature Atlas’) the vignettes with contemporary hand colouring, each map with a page of descriptive text, slight staining and offsetting, near contemporary ownership signature to front blank, contemporary red cloth with gilt title to upper siding, upper board detached, rear board near detached, lacking spine with old tape stains to both sidings, boards warped, bumped, worn and stained, 8vo Chubb. DXVII. Uncommon.

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£500 - £800

138 Scotland. Carte de la Mer d’Ecosse contenant les Ilses et Costes Septentrionales et Occidentales d’Ecosse et les Costes Septentrionales d’Irlande, published in Paris and Amsterdam, circa 1693, large engraved chart orientated to the west, contemporary outline colouring, old folds, 615 x 875 mm

The first state, published by Hubert Jaillot and Pierre Mortier in Le Neptune Francois. (1)

£150 - £200

139 Scotland. Marr (John), A Large Chart Describing the Sands, Shoales. Depth of Water and Anchorage on the East Coast of Scotland also North Britain, printed and sold by Geo: Grierson, Dublin, circa 1740, uncoloured sea chart, engraved by J. Barlow, orientated to the east, old folds, slight staining, 485 x 580 mm, together with Collins (Captain Greenville). The East Coast of Scotland with the Isles of Orkney and Shetland.., circa 1720, uncoloured engraved sea chart, orientated to the east, slight dust soiling, 450 x 565 mm, with another copy similar but trimmed to the neat line and heavily dust soiled, with Pont (Timothy & Blaeu (Johannes), Insulae Quaedam Minores ex Aebudis quae Mulam et Skiam insulas interjacent. Some of the Smaller Western Yles lying betweene the Yles of Mull and Skye [ together with] Arania Insula in aestuario Glottae. The Yle of Arren in the Fyrth of Clyd, c.1654, two uncoloured engraved maps, ‘The Smaller Western Isles’ with some offsetting and staining, ‘The Isle of Arran’ with several marginal tears and some loss but not affecting the printed image, stained and spotted, each approximately 385 x 525 mm, Latin and Dutch text on verso respectively (5)

£150 - £250

140 Scotland. Van Keulen (Gerard), Nieuwe Paskaart van de West Kust van Schotlandt, de Lewys Eylanden en de noord kust van Yrland : beginnende van C. Wrath of de Noordelykste hoek van Schotland tot in het St. Ioris Kanaal, Amsterdam, circa 1730, engraved chart with contemporary wash colouring, oval cartouche and mileage scales, old folds, very slight spotting and creasing, 610 x 1025 mm, together with Het Eyland Hitland met zyn Onderhoorige Eylanden, Amsterdam, circa 1730, engraved chart with contemporary wash colouring, orientated to the west, 515 x 595 mm, with Van Keulen (Johannes). Nieuwe Pascaert van de oost cust van Schotlandt beginnende van Barwyck tot aen de Orcades Ylanden..., Amsterdam, circa 1710, uncoloured engraved sea chart orientated to the west, slight fraying with small areas of loss to the lower margin, 500 x 585 mm (3)

£200 - £400

141 Sea Chart. Seller (John), A Chart of the North Coast of England from Yarmouth to Cocket Island..., [on a sheet with] A Description of the East Coast of Scotland shewing all the Bayes, Roads, Havens, Harbors, Depths and Soundings..., circa 1671, two engraved charts on one sheet (as published), contemporary outline colouring, 425 x 535 mm (1)

£150 - £200

142 Sea Charts. A Collection of 8 Charts of Hong Kong and Australasia: Hong Kong Waters West, 1932, Queensland Brisbane River, 1925, Entrance to Manukau Harbour, 1856, 61 & 64 (3 copies), Australia Newcastle Harbour, 1921 (2 copies) and Australia Champion Bay to Cape Naturaliste, 1885, 19th & 20th century, uncoloured engraved and photolithographic charts, Newcastle Harbour with ink cancellation stamps, Champion Bay with short split along old fold and heavily dust soiled, one copy of Manukau Harbour with several long closed tears, each approximately 1000 x 675 mm, together with Depot de la Marine (publishers). Carte des Détroits de Singapore, Durian et Rhio, 1846 & Carte des Ilses Sumatra, Java et Bornéo et des Mers Environnantes..., 1859, two uncoloured engraved charts, each approximately 600 x 870 mm (10) £200 - £400

143 Shropshire. Saxton (Christopher), [Salopiae Comitatus, Summa cum Fide cum et Diligentia Descriptionem haec Tibi Tabular Refert Ao. Dm. 1577] 1579 or later, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring on laid, ‘bunch of grapes’ watermark, central fold partially strengthened on verso, some oxidization to old water colour causing small areas of cracking and slight loss, large area (including the cartouche) torn away with complete loss, crudely replaced in facsimile, the whole backed with archival tissue, 390 x 510 mm (1)

£400 - £600

144 Shropshire. Speed (John), Shropshire described, The Sittuation of Shrowesbury shewed with the armes of thos Earles and other memorable things observed, published George Humble, [1616], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Shrewsbury, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 510 mm, Latin text on verso (1)

£150 - £200

145 South East England. Norden (John & Kip W.).

Sussexia Siue Southsex olim pars Regnorum, Surrey olim sedes Regnorum [and] Hertfordiae Comitatus A. Cattifcanis olim Inhabitatus, [1607-10], three uncoloured engraved maps, Sussex trimmed to the neatline on the vertical margins, Hertfordshire with slight staining to the central fold, each approximately 285 x 350, the map of Hertfordshire with Latin text on the verso

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£150 - £200

146 Sudan. Fowler (John, surveyor), Sketch of the Country between Ambukol and Shendy, Taken from the Survey of Mr John Fowler C. E. to which is added Descriptive Notes of the Route, Intelligence Branch, War Office, May 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on linen, some staining, old folds, 680 x 1000 mm, together with Sketch Map of Country between Suakin and Berber with noted on the Principal Routes, Intelligence Branch War Office, under the direction of Major W. R. Fox ..., June 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on silk, very slight staining, old folds, 480 x 720 mm, with Map of the Nile Provinces from the Railway Terminus at Siût to Berber, Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, War Office, 1884, lithographic map, printed in brown and black on silk, slight staining, old folds, 1060 x 650 mm, plus Sketch Map of Nile from Wady Halfa to Khartum with noted on Caravan Routes, Navigability of Nile, Towns, Climate &c. Intelligence Branch, War Office, May 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on linen, with contemporary printed paper label of distances along the Nile, printed in red and pinned to the left-hand margin, some staining, old folds, 780 x 635 mm In the lower-left corner of the first described map is a printed note. The Information given in red on this map is quite correct and is obtained from the studies of the Soudan Railway Survey of 1872 of which I was second in charge. W. Whitworth Sept. 10th 1884. There is a later state of this map (held by the National Library of Australia), with an addition to the title which states Revised from Sketches and Information furnished by Officers during the Campaign of 18841885. This would coincide with the siege of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon. Gordon arrived at Khartoum on 18 February 1884 and the siege took place between the 13 March 1884 and the 26 January 1885. The Mahdists hearing news of an approaching British relief column, storme d the garrison slaughtering the defenders to the last man, as well as 4,000 of the town’s male inhabitants. Many of the surviving women and children were enslaved by the victorious Mahdists. Advance elements of the relief expedition arrived within sight of Khartoum two days after it fell. After discovering that they were too late, the surviving British and Egyptian troops withdrew. It is therefore possible that these maps - designed for portability - were used by British officers in the relief column.

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£300 - £500

147 Surrey. Bickham (George), A Map of Surrey. West from London, circa 1743, uncoloured aerial and allegorical projection, originally published in ‘The British Monarchy’, 255 x 155 mm, supplied with three pages of contemporary descriptive text, together with Blome (Richard & Taylor Thomas). A Mapp of the County of Surrey, circa 1715, uncoloured engraved map, originally published in ‘Speed’s Maps Epitomiz’d’, 145 x 210 mm, with Bowen (Emanuel & Kitchin Thomas). Surrey Divided into Hundreds Exhibiting the County, Borough and Market Towns..., published by Thomas Bowen, circa 1768, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, originally published in ‘Atlas Anglicanus’, 230 x 335 mm, plus Morden (Robert). Surrey [1701-08], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, 175 x 210 mm and Morden (Robert & Turpin Homan). Surrey, circa 1785, uncoloured miniature ‘playing card map’, laid on contemporary paper (as issued), originally published in ‘A Brief Description of England and Wales’, the map is marked with a Roman ‘X’ but lacks a card suit, 90 x 60 mm (5)

£200 - £300

148 Surrey. Blaeu (Johannes), Surria vernacule Surrey, published Amsterdam, circa 1662, engraved map with bright contemporary outline colouring, large margins, 380 x 500 mm, Spanish text on verso, together with Bowen (Emanuel & Thomas). Surrey Divided into Hundreds Exhibiting the County, Borough and Market Towns..., published by Thomas Kitchin, circa 1767, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, originally published in ‘Atlas Anglicanus’, 230 x 335 mm (2)

£150 - £200

149 Sussex. Jansson (Jan), Suthsexia vernacule Sussex, Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring heightened in silver, large margins, 380 x 510 mm, Latin text on verso (1)

£100 - £200

150 Transylvania. Ortelius (Abraham), Transilvania, 1606, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, large margins, 330 x 455 mm, English text on verso, together with Moraviae, quae olim Marcomannoarum Sedes, Corographia..., [1606], engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, large strapwork cartouche, good margins, slight staining to the central fold, 360 x 475 mm, English text on verso

Marcel Van den Borecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, numbers 153 and 104. (2)

£200 - £300

151 United States. Melish (John). Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities by John Melish Engraved by J. Vallance & H. S. Tanner. Entered according to Act of Congress the 6th day of June 1816. Published by John Melish Philadelphia, folding engraved map sectionalised into 40 sheets and laid on linen, contemporary outline colouring, calligraphic title surmounted by the American Eagle, inset map of the West Indies and statistical table, slight dust soiling, occasional small holes to linen where folds cross, the whole edged in brown silk with some loss, marbled end sheets to verso, 890 x 1455 mm Martin/Ristow 24; Streeter VI:3798.

This is the first large scale detailed map made in the U.S. to show the whole of North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Martin & Ristow identify seven states of the first edition published in 1816. This appears to be the fourth state, with Mansfield, Wooster and Adelphi (and a trail from Adelphi to Athens and Chillicothe) added in Ohio, and ‘Vevay or’ added before ‘Swiss Vineyards’ in southeastern Indiana.

Melish published new editions in 1818 (five states), 1819 (two states), 1820 (eight states), 1822 (two states), and 1823 (one state), a total of 25 different issues. Notwithstanding all these printings, the map has become extremely rare to find in any issue. Melish produced no more than 100 examples of each state and partly due to its large size few have survived in good condition.

Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the huge expanse of the country to the Western Seaboard and the Pacific Ocean became an exciting prospect for exploration and colonisation. The mapping from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 had offered tantalising glimpses of parts of this vast territory. Their explorations, together with those of US army officer and explorer Zebulon Pike provided early regional snapshots of previously unknown regions in the West. But it was Melish - along with Aaron Arrowsmith and his seminal map of Mexico (1810) - who gathered all the most up-to-date data from state and military maps to produce the first systematic and comprehensive map of the United States.

This exquisite map, with an inset of the West Indies, helped Melish to become renowned as the leading American map publisher of the second decade of the 19th century and placed American maps on equal footing with those produced by the esteemed firms in London and Paris. (1)

£40,000 - £60,000

152* Wales. Ortelius (Abraham & Lhuyd Humphrey), Cambriae Typus Auctore..., [1584-90], hand-coloured engraved map, 365 x 490 mm, mounted framed and glazed

Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps. 21, first state; Booth. Antique Maps of Wales, 1.

The map was first published in 1573, but the vertical crack to the plate on the bottom margin near ‘Brightstowe’ appeared in 1584. An additional crack - between the numbers 40 and 50 on the scale in the bottom left - appears in 1590. This second crack is not present.

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£300 - £500 Lot 153

153* West Indies. A collection of six maps, 17th - 19th century, including Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria). La Spagnuola Descritta dal P. Cosmografo Coronelli Dedicata all Illustris: Sig. Guistimiano Lorenzo Cocco..., Venice, circa 1695, hand-coloured engraved map with Italian text below the map, sheet size 390 x 310 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Bellin (Jacques Nicolas). Carte de L’Isle de la Martinique..., 1758, hand-coloured engraved map, 220 x 325 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Bowen (Emanuel). An Accurate Map of the Island of St. Christopher vulgarly called St. Kits containing all the Towns, Parishes, Forts &c. circa 1745, hand-coloured engraved map, 355 x 220 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus Jansson (Jan & Mercator Gerard). Cuba Insula [on sheet with] Hispaniola Insula, Amsterdam, circa 1630, six hand-coloured engraved maps on one sheet (including Ins. Jamaica, Ins. S. Ioannis, I.S. Margareta & Havana Portus) overall size 195 x 255 mm, mounted, framed and glazed and Gibson (J.). A New and Accurate Map of the Isles of Guadaloupe, Marie-Galante &c. from the best Authorities, published in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ circa 1759, uncoloured engraved map, 120 x 195 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with an early 20th-century map of Tobago, mounted, framed and glazed (6)

£150 - £200

154 Wiltshire. Saxton (Christopher), Wiltoniae comitatus (Harbida planitie nobilis) hic ob oculos proponitur..., 1579, map engraved by Remigius Hogenbergus, on laid paper with the bunch of grapes watermark, contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, large ornate strapwork cartouche surmounted by the royal coat of arms of Elizabeth I, with an additional coat of arms of Thomas Seckford, one repaired closed tear, trimmed with slight loss to the horizontal strapwork margins, skillfully replaced in facsimile and extended, the whole laid on later stiff paper, 405 x 470 mm

The first printed map of Wiltshire. (1)

£600 - £900

155 Wiltshire. Speed (John), Wilshire, 1st edition, John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], hand-coloured engraved map, inset city plan of Salisbury and vignette of Stonehenge, 390 x 515 mm, English text on verso (1)

£300 - £500

156 World. Berry (William), A Mapp of all the World in two Hemispheres in which are exactly described all the parts of the Earth and Seas, Described by Sanson, Corrected and amended by William Berry, 1680, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, large dedication cartouche to Charles II, some creasing and dust soiling, repaired closed tears, torn with areas of loss in each corner and replaced in facsimile, the whole backed with archival tissue, 545 x 865 mm,

R. W. Shirley. The Mapping of the World, number 501. (1)

£200 - £300

157 World. Imperial Federation - Map of the World showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Statistical Information published by Captain J. C. R. Colomb M. P. formerly R. M. A. British Territories Coloured Red, published as a supplement to The Graphic, London, Maclure & Co., 24 July 1886, decorative colour lithographic map, inset map of the world showing the extent of British Territories in 1786, old folds, 590 x 770 mm

A very good example of Walter Crane’s subversive map of the world, published to coincide with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Superficially, the map appears to be a standard piece of Imperialist propaganda but it is overlaid with Socialist motifs. These include Phyrgian, or liberty, caps on the heads of the figures of Freedom, Fraternity and Federation, and the words ‘Human Labour’ on the sash of Atlas at the foot. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

158 World. Navy League Map of the British Empire, published by The London Geographical Institute, circa 1925, a very large colour-printed wall map, sectionalised and laid on linen, light overall toning, a few splits along old linen folds, contemporary metal grommets in the upper corners, 1510 x 2000 mm (1)

£200 - £300

159 World. Speed (John), A New and Accurat Map of the World. Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries & best Observations y’t have beene made by English or Strangers, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map of the world on a hemispheral projection, two further circular astrological projections, the map surrounded by portraits of explorers, allegorical depictions of the four elements and celestial diagrams, insular California, good margins, central fold skillfully strengthened on verso, 395 x 520 mm, English text on verso R. W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, number 317. (1)

£4,000 - £6,000

160 World. Walker (J. & C.), To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, This Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection is most respectfully dedicated, published J. & C. Walker, 1845, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen on two sheets, two inset globes of the North and South Poles, slight staining, the map surrounded by numerous descriptive and statistical panels, overall size 1420 x 1650, bound in contemporary blind-stamped morocco boards with gilt title to the upper cover, some wear to extremities, spine perished, size when folded 380 x 245 mm

A large and highly detailed map, with Texas clearly marked and described as ‘The Republic of Texas’ in the text panels. Alaska is identified as ‘Russian America’. (1) £2,000 - £3,000

161* Yorkshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Ducatus Eboracensis Anglice York Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1665, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, heightened with gold, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 390 x 500 mm, mounted, framed and double-glazed, Spanish text on verso, together with Saxton (Christopher & Hole G.). Eboracensis Comitatus ...., pars Orientalis vulgo East Riding, circa 1610, hand-coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, 200 x 250 mm, framed and glazed (2)

£150 - £250

162* Yorkshire. Saxton (Christopher), Eboracensis comitatus (cuius Incolae olim Brigantes appellabantur) Longitudine Latitudine hominumque nemero relequis illustrior, [1579], large county map engraved by Augustine Ryther, contemporary wash colouring, decorative strapwork cartouche surmounted by the coat of arms of Elizabeth I, additional crest of Thomas Seckford, strapwork mileage scale surmounted by dividers, two ‘bunch of grapes’ watermarks, old folds, one of which is strengthened on verso, two short splits along old folds, slight staining, 530 x 730 mm, framed and double glazed

The largest and only folding map in Christopher Saxton’s atlas. As a consequence, it is rarely found without some damage (1)

£3,000 - £5,000

163* Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). The Start and the Finish of the Derby, Richard Wyman & Co. 1923, the pair of photolithographs, both signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left and with artist’s proof blind stamps to the lower right, some surface abrasion and damage to the printed image, each approximately 365 x 515 mm, mounted, together with The Mermaid Inn Rye [and] The Golden Cross Oxford, Eyre & Spottiswoode, circa 1920, two photolithographs from the ‘Old Inns’ series, both with a blind stamp and the artist’s pencil signature to the lower left, ‘The Mermaid’ laid on card with old adhesion scaring to the margins, both toned, each approximately 445 x 360 mm, with The Master, Thomas McLean, October 1st 1900, chromolithograph, coloured remarque of a fox mask and brush, large margins, slight spotting, 500 x 350 mm, plus The First, Thomas McLean, April 1901, chromolithograph, laid on card with slight spotting, 370 x 640 mm, with another 10 prints, all after Cecil Aldin of fox hunting scenes, coaching, dogs and genre, various sizes and condition (16)

£150 - £200

164* Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). A Village Post Office [and] Penshurst, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, a pair of dry-point etchings, limited editions 29/100 and 51/100 respectively, each numbered and signed in pencil by the artist below the image, 255 x 220 mm and 315 x 215 mm respectively, large margins, both retaining the original thin card mounts with the publisher’s title label tipped on to the verso of the mount (2)

£100 - £200

165* Alken (Henry). Driving Discoveries, the set of seven, published by S. & J. Fuller, Jany. 1st 1817, seven (complete) humorous etchings, all with contemporary wash colouring, large margins, slight dust soiling, each approximately 235 x 310 mm, contained within a later cloth portfolio, book plate of Lewis A. Bird to the front pastedown, gilt title to the upper siding Provenance. Beeleigh Abbey.

R. V. Tooley. English Books with Colour Plates, number 25. Not recorded in Abbey. Scarce. (7)

£200 - £300

166* Alken (Henry). The Appointment Good Morning Gents, Getting Away Tally Ho, In Full Cry You Forward [and] The Death Pull Pull Woo Hoop, J. McCormick, 147 The Strand, circa 1825, the set of four aquatints, engraved by F. C. Lewis, Richard Reeve, J. Phelps and J. Gleadah, all with contemporary hand-colouring, each approximately 385 x 550 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed A bright clean set in unusually good condition. (4)

£300 - £500

167* Australia. Post Office George Street, Sydney, circa 1850, uncoloured etching by ‘J. G.’, title in pencil below image, 210 x 500 mm, together with Australian Aboriginal Native Spearing a Kangaroo, circa 1820, uncoloured aquatint, title in pencil below image, 215 x 290 mm, with Baker (W. publisher). St. Peter’s Church & Parsonage Cooks River, N. S. W. printed and published by W. Baker, King Street, Sydney, circa 1860, uncoloured lithograph with pencil marginalia, 200 x 260 mm (3)

£100 - £200

169* Benningfield (Gordon George, 1936-98). Pencil drawings of Horses, three pencil studies of horses on one sheet, signed by the artist in pencil to the lower right, 350 x 360 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, Burlington Gallery label to verso of frame (1)

£80 - £120

£300 - £500

168* Barraband (Jacques, 1768-1809). L’ara mara cana mâle. Pl. 8; Variété de la Perruche à tête bleue. Pl. 27; La Perruche fridytutah. Pl. 74; Le Amazone jaune. Pl. 90; Le Perroquet cendré Tapiré. Pl. 101, circa 1805, five etchings printed in colours, published by Imprimerie de Langlois, circa 1805, some spotting (heavier to plates 74, 90, and 101), plate sizes approximately 330 x 250 mm, together with Albin (Eleazer). Psittacus Viridis & Luteus Barbadensis. The Green & The Yellow Parrot from Barbadoes, November 6, 1736, hand-coloured engraving on laid paper, somewhat toned, plate size 250 x 190 mm, framed and glazed, plus one other similar (7)

170* Bodmer (Karl, 1809-1893). Watchdog from Eaux Fortes Animaux & Paysages, 1860, seven etchings, depicting animals including: pigs, wild boar, dogs, otters, goatsand foxes approximately 9 x 12.5 cm (3 1/2 x 4 7/8 ins), mounted, framed and glazed (23 x 26.5 cm), together with Veyrassat (Jules Jacques, 1828-1893). Wild River Horses & Horses at the Watering Trough, circa 1871, two etchings, depicting horses, approximately 9 x 13 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/8 ins), mounted, framed and glazed (23 x 27 cm) (9)

£100 - £150

171* Boilly (Louis-Léopold). La Famille Africaine [and] les Moustaches, Paris [1823 - 28], two lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, some dust soiling, each approximately 285 x 220 mm, together with Bunbury (H.). A College Gate, Divines going upon Duty, published Watson & Dickinson, November 15th 1780, uncoloured mixed method caricature, 300 x 390 mm, framed and glazed in a near-contemporary burr walnut moulding, overall size 450 x 540 mm, with Heath (William, attrib,). Dandies 1519 - 1819, published T. Tegg, 1819, etched caricature with contemporary hand-colouring, trimmed to the neatline, tipped onto later paper, 220 x 290 mm, plus Rowlandson (Thomas). Miseries of Social Life, circa 1810, small hand-coloured etched caricature, large margins, 105 x 140 mm, mounted, with two additional coaching caricatures in the style of H. Bunbury, each approximately 125 x 175 mm

Boilly’s most famous lithographs are his series of faces with exaggerated features, known as the ‘Recueil de Grimâces’. The first described item is an uncommon caricature of an African family (five adults and a baby). (7)

£150 - £200

172* Botany. A collection of approximately 130 prints, 19thcentury, colour lithographs and engravings by or after Ridgeway, Curtis, Edwards, Severeyns and Van Houtte, each approximately 250 x 150 mm, in good condition (approx. 130)

173* Botany. A collection of approximately 175 prints, mostly 19thcentury, lithographs and engravings, mostly after Van Houtte, but also with examples by Severeyns, ‘Illustration Horticole’ and Curtis, occasional duplicates, most with old folds, various sizes and condition

£200 - £300

(approx. 170)

£200 - £400

174* Botany. A collection of approximately 250 prints, 19th & early 20th century, engravings, lithographs and prints of flowers, fruit and funghi, including examples by or after Maund, Pratt, Sowerby, Hume, Thompson, Twining, Wright and Ward, various sizes, good condition, all mounted

(approx. 250)

£200 - £300

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175* British Topography. A collection of 22 engravings, mostly 18th-century, including prospects, elevations and views, with examples by or after Drapentier, Collins, Smith, Proud, Simon, Kip and Harris, various sizes and condition, together with Moll (Herman). The County of Hertford with Additions & Corrected and Amended in many places, 1700, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, 365 x 475 mm (23)

£200 - £300

176* Brodtmann (Karl Joseph). A collection of approximately 140 lithographs of natural history subjects, circa 1830, lithographs of birds, mammals, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians and insects, eight with hand-colouring, several duplicates, each approximately 450 x 350 mm, various condition

177* Campion (George Bryant, 1796-1870). Royal Horse Artillery, plates 1 - 6: Marching Order, Advancing at the Gallop into Action, Halt Action Front, “Fire” (Right Flank Thrown Back for Action. Right), Limber and Retire [and] Dismount Gun and Carriage, published Ackermann, printed by C. Graf, circa 1845, the set of six tint stone lithographs, slight staining and spotting, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, each approximately 350 x 460 mm

It is unusual to find the full set of six lithographs. (6)

£100 - £200

178* Cauvet (Gilles Paul). Seven engravings of decorative panels, Paris, circa 1770, decorative allegorical panels engraved by Mlle. Liottier, printed in sanguine, slight marginal spotting, each approximately 510 x 230 mm, together with Berthault (Pierre-Gabriel). Twenty - two engraved floriate panels, Paris, circa 1773, engraved decorative panels after Pierre Ranson, two with later handcolouring, originally published in ‘IVe Cahier de Grouppes de Fleurs d’Ornemens et Trophées pour la Décoration’ each approximately 235 x 190 mm

The first described item was originally published in Recueil d’Ornemens A l’Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des Bâtimens. (29) £200 - £300

£300 - £500

Originally printed in Zurich and published in the Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Theirreiche. (approx. 140)

179* Cauvet (Gilles Paul). Twenty engravings of Urns, Paris, circa 1770, uncoloured engravings by Pietro Martini, Pierre Viel, Hemery and others, printed in pairs, large margins, some with marginal water staining, each engraving approximately 270 x 200, overall sheet size 390 x 555 mm, six pairs mounted Originally published in Recueil d’Ornemens A l’Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des Bâtimens. (20)

£200 - £400

181* Classical Engravings. A collection of approximately 150 prints, mostly 18th century, uncoloured engravings including classical scenes and reliefs, birds after W. Hollar, dogs and cats after Comte de Buffon, chapter headings and interiors, various sizes and condition, together with an etched study of a left foot, some staining and surface abrasion, 345 x 255 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (approx. 150)

£150 - £200

£200 - £300

180* Classical Engravings. A collection of 43 Classical Images, 17th & 18th century, uncoloured engravings including De Wit (Frederick). Six engravings originally published in Lumen Picturae [1660-75], uncoloured engravings of figures, three with a perspective indicator in the margin, each approximately 305 x 195 mm, together with Ghigi (Pietro & Pietro Fontana & Gio. Petrini). Eight Classical Portraits, circa 1800, uncoloured studies of classical heads after Luigi Agricola, slight spotting, each approximately 350 x 270 mm, with Limpach (Maximilian Joseph). Nine Designs for Torcheres, Rome, circa 1750, uncoloured engravings after Giovanni Giardini, large margins, each approximately 295 x 150 mm, plus Passeri (Giovanni Battista). Twelve engravings of Urns, circa 1770, uncoloured engravings, large margins, each approximately 270 x 165 mm, and Audran (Gerard). Seven engravings of statues, Paris, circa 1690, uncoloured engravings after Raphael of Urbino, each approximately 410 x 190 mm with Sandrart (Joachim von). Gladiator der Fechter..., circa 1690, uncoloured engraving of a naked gladiator, slight marginal staining, 315 x 210 mm (43)

182* Clock Designs. Four designs for Mantel Clocks: Uranie, Les accords d’une fiancée, Wandick dans ses Voyages [and] L’amour Maternel, Paris, printed by Paullet & Bilordeau, circa 1860, large lithographic designs with contemporary hand-colouring, each with contemporary manuscript annotations below the image, each approximately 580 x 445 mm (4)

£100 - £150

183* Cricket. Anderson (John Corbet), Joseph Guy of Nottingham, published by Joseph Anderson and F. Lillywhite 2nd April 1853, lithographic portrait of a batsman, slight marginal fraying and abrasion, repaired closed tears affecting the printed image, laid on later thin card, 350 x 240 mm, together with Henshaw (T. N.). Oswestry School, published by Mr Henshaw, Oswestry November 1840, uncoloured lithograph, some dust soiling, 235 x 295 mm, mounted, with Ryman (J. publisher). Cricket Match, Oxford, circa 1850, lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, some spotting and staining, laid on card, mounted (3)

£100 - £150

184* Dartmouth Winter Carnival. 1940, colour lithograph poster, some marks and creases, several closed tears (without loss), lower left corner with restoration, restored and laid down on archival tissue, mount aperture 86 x 54 cm (33 7/8 x 21 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (99.5 x 67 cm)

Advertising poster for the annual winter carnival at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. (1)

£300 - £500

185* De Poilly (Nicolas). A Pair of Floral Bouquets, published in Paris, circa 1725, two hand-coloured engravings, each approximately 350 x 275 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (2)

£150 - £250

186* Delattre (Jean Marie). Children playing with a Mouse [and] Children feeding Chickens, W. Palmer, November 1st 1788, a pair of oval stipple engravings after W. Hamilton, slight spotting, each approximately 175 x 190 mm, uniformly framed and glazed, together with White (Charles). Children at Play, Believe not in Idle Dreams & Artful Hags..., [and] Children at Play, It often ends in Sorrow, published C. W. White, January 31st & January 25th respectively 1782, a pair of circular stipple engravings, slight staining, each approximately 175 x 150 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (4)

£100 - £150

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187* Diderot (Denis). A collection of approximately 560 plates originally published in ‘Recueil de Planches, sur Les Sciences’ [1765-72], uncoloured engraved plates (including approximately 90 double-page), with some sections partially bound and retaining the descriptive text, including mining, painting, tool-making, metallurgy, music, etching and printmaking, wheelwrights, architecture, pneumatics, forges, heraldry, locksmiths, rope and needle making, single sheets each approximately 370 x 230 mm, double sheets 350 x 440 mm (approx. 560)

£500 - £800

189* Edwards (George). A collection of approximately 120 prints, circa 1760, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, including birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and fish, some duplicates, each approximately 250 x 195 mm, various condition (approx. 120)

£300 - £500

188* Dutton (Thomas Goldsworth). H. M. S. Agamemnon 91 Guns, published by Wm. Foster, printed by Day & Son, circa 1855, lithograph after Sir Oswald Brierly, contemporary hand-colouring, slight staining and a little faded, 420 x 615 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£150 - £200

190* Equestrianism. A collection of approximately 150 prints & engravings, 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs of horses jousting and undertaking dressage, military and domestic roles, including examples by or after Vernet, Friedrich Wilhelm Baron D’Eisenberg, Heinrich Schinz, Honegger, Brodtmann, Frois and Van Kesel, several duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 150)

£200 - £400

191* Exeter. Buck (S. & N.), The South West Prospect of the City of Exeter, 1736 [but R. Sayer, 1775 edition], uncoloured engraved prospect, light overall toning, 315 x 810 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100 - £200

192* Fountains. Böckler (Georg Andreas), A collection of approximately 70 engravings, circa 1664, uncoloured engravings of fountains, gardens and elevations, each approximately 275 x 185 mm, good condition

Originally published in Architectura Curiosa Nova. (approx. 70)

£200 - £400

195* Gillray (James). Theatrical Mendicants relieved..., H. Humphrey, Jany. 15th 1809, etching with aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to the plate mark, slight tape staining, 260 x 355 mm

BM Satires number 11413. (1)

£70 - £100

£200 - £400

193* Fruit & Botany. A collection of approximately 150 prints & engravings, 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs, of fruit, flowers, vegetables, and funghi, including examples by or after C. Haussard, Robert Stark and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 150)

194 Geoffroy (Charles). L’Europe, L’Afrique, L’Asie [and] L’Amérique, Paris, Cereghetti, circa 1850, four uncoloured allegorical stipple engravings after Cinti, some dust soiling to the lower margin of L’Asie, each approximately 355 x 270 mm, later endpapers, later marbled card boards with gilt title to the spine

‘Les Quatre Continents’, very slight wear to extremities, slim folio (1)

£200 - £300

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196* Gould (John). A collection of 12 waders: Knot, Pigmy Curlew, Schinz’s Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper & Green Sandpiper (on one sheet), Red-Necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Little Sandpiper, Broad-Billed Tringa, Temminck’s Tringa, Kentish Plover, Purple Sandpiper [and] Sanderling [1832-37], lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, Red-Necked Phalarope, Little Sandpiper and Kentish Plover with slight text offsetting, BroadBilled Tringa with a short marginal closed tear, each approximately 340 x 500 mm

Originally published in The Birds of Europe. (12)

£150 - £250

197* Gould (John). A collection of 12 waders: Long-Legged Plover, Bastard or Grey Plover, Spur-Winged Plover, Golden Plover, Keptuschka Lapwing, Red-chested Dotterel, Dotterel, Cream Coloured Courser, Purple Sandpiper, Grey Snipe, Pectoral Sandpiper [and] Collared Pratincole [1832-37], lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, occasional spotting, each approximately 340 x 500 mm

Originally published in The Birds of Europe. (12)

198* Gould (John). A collection of 12 Water & Sea Birds: Bernicle Goose, Common Gallinule, Land Rail, Water Rail, Hyacinthine Porphyrio, Spotted Crake, Ballon’s Crake, Little Crake, Foolish Guillemot, Parasitic Gull, Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrel & Common Storm-Petrel (on one sheet) [and] Bulwer’s Petrel [1832-37] lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, Little Crake and Bulwer’s Petrel with some spotting and staining, each approximately 340 x 500 mm

Originally published in The Birds of Europe. (12)

£200 - £300

£200 - £300

199* Gould (John). A collection of 18 birds: Rose Coloured Pastor, Sardinian Starling (2 copies), Wall Creeper, Vinous Grossbeak, Waxen Chatterer, Meadow Pipit, Serinus Hortulanus, Turtle Dove, Rock Dove, Stock Dove, Dalmatian Regulus, Fire Crested Wren & Gold Crested Wren (on one sheet), Andalusian Turnix, Doubtful Sparrow, House Sparrow & Tree Sparrow (on one sheet), Spanish Sparrow & Alpine Sparrow (on one sheet) [and] Starling [1832-37], lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, one copy of the Sardinian Starling faded and toned, the Vinous Grossbeak, spotted and stained, Waxen Chatterer, faded and mount stained, Spanish Sparrow and Doubtful Sparrow with slight text offsetting, each approximately 500 x 340 mm

All were published in The Birds of Europe apart from Serinus Hortulanus which appeared in The Birds of Great Britain (18)

£200 - £300

200* Hall (Harry, after). Blink Boney, Winner of the Derby & Oak Stakes at Epsom 1857. By Melbourne out of Queen Mary. The Property of and Bred and Trained by Mr William Janson. Ridden by J. Charlton. Derby 202 Subscribers, 30 Started. Oaks 130 Subscribers, 13 started, published by Baily Brothers, July 6th 1857, aquatint by J. Harris and W. Summers, contemporary handcolouring heightened with body colour, 535 x 690 mm, mounted, framed and glazed in a near-contemporary birds-eye maple framed, overall size 770 x 910 mm (1)

£150 - £200

201* Harris (John). Fox Hunting, Plate 1, The Meet, published Messrs. Fores, April 12th 1852, large aquatint after John F. Herring with bright contemporary hand-colouring, wide margins, 630 x 1140 mm, framed and glazed

Published for the ‘Fores’s National Sports’ series. (1)

£150 - £200

202* Hester (Edward Gilbert). Our Gentlemen Steeple Chase Riders, London: McQueen & Sons, Berlin: W. C. Stiefbold & Co. New York: M. Knoedler & Co. Dec. 1st 1885, large aquatint after George Veal, bright contemporary hand-colouring, some staining, 585 x 945 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100 - £200

203* Hubert (Francois). Six Engravings from the ‘Hours’ series: Ora Seconda di Giorno Ora Sesta di Giorno, Ora Terza di Notte (2 copies), Ora Sesta di Notte [and] Ora Quarto di Notte, circa 1805, six engravings by Petit, Hubert, Mariage, Tomas and others, after Raphael Sanzio-Ora, one of the copies of ‘Ora Terza di Notte’ with later hand-colouring, ‘Ora Quarta di Notte’ with repaired closed tears, ‘Ora Sesta di Notte’ with some marginal staining, some dust soiling, each approximately 490 x 350 mm, mounted Engravings from the set of twelve images attributed to Raphael’s “Hours of the Day and Night”, but which are possibly based upon similar pictures found on the walls of Pompeii and which can now be found in the Naples Museum. (6)

£300 - £500

204* Indian Scenes. Nine Allegorical and Topographical Views, circa 1790, pen and watercolour views on laid of topographical views and allegorical and mythical scenes, all with descriptive text in Urdhu below the image, two images with water staining, occasional marginal fraying, each approximately 260 x 440 mm (9)

£300 - £500

206* Lear (Edward). Great Bustard [1832-37], lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, ‘punch holes’ to the upper margin but not affecting the printed image, 350 x 530 mm, together with Gould (John). Eight Lithographs of Bustards and Raptors: Thick-Kneed Bustard, Little Bustard, Ruffed Bustard, Spotted Eagle, Black-Winged Kite, Pallid Harrier, Lead-Coloured Falcon [and] Hen Harrier [183237], lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, Hen Harrier faded and mount stained, each approximately 340 x 500 mm

Originally published in The Birds of Europe. (9)

£200 - £400

205* Jousting. Regnier (Charles), Eight engravings of Jousting Scenes, circa 1860, engravings with contemporary hand-colouring, with descriptive titles in German, each approximately 390 x 280 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, each with The O’Shea Gallery labels to the verso Provenance. Beeleigh Abbey. (8)

£200 - £300

207* Lear (Edward). Raven, Carrion Crow [and] Chough [1832-37], three lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, originally published in ‘The Birds of Europe’, the Raven with a sheet of contemporary descriptive text, Carrion Crow with old ‘punch holes’ to one vertical margin, the Chough laid on later card with slight overall toning, each approximately 500 x 340 mm, together with Gould (J. & E.). Six lithographs of Corvids: Hooded Crow, Jackdaw, Alpine Chough, Siberian Jay, Nutcracker [and] Azure Winged Magpie [1832-37], lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, originally published in ‘The Birds of Europe’, occasional offsetting, each approximately 480 x 330 mm (9)

£150 - £250

208* London. A View of the Custom House with part of the Tower, taken from the River Thames, London, circa 1785, unattributed watercolour with the title in manuscript below the image, 250 x 390 mm, mounted, framed and glazed

This appears to be an exact and highly competent copy of the engraving of the Custom House by Thomas Bowles after John Maurer and published by Carington & J. Bowles and Robert Carver. (1)

£150 - £250

209* London. Martin (Robert after Cornelius Dankers). London, Robert Martin, 1832, large hand-coloured lithograph, printed on four sheets and conjoined, one long repaired closed tear, occasional marginal repairs, slight dust soiling, laid on later card, 480 x 2365 mm, framed and glazed (with perspex)

This large panorama was originally produced by Wenceslaus Holler in 1647. (1)

£700 - £1,000

210* Maritime. Schooner SovereignLondon - Entering the Port of Palermo November 9th Leveing Novr. 17th 1832. John Leght Comander, 1832, unattributed gouache painting, slight surface abrasion, 480 x 670 mm, framed and glazed in a contemporary burr walnut moulding, overall size 630 x 820 mm (1)

£300 - £500

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211* Moncornet (Baltazar). The Five Senses, L’Attouchement (Touch), La Veue (Sight), L’Ouye (Hearing), Le Goust (Taste) [and] L’ Ororat (Smell), Paris, circa 1657, five allegorical engravings on laid with bright contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold, each approximately 155 x 120 mm, tipped on to modern card mounts with multiple apertures, (5)

£200 - £300

212* Moreau (Jean M.). Le Bal Masque [and] Le Festin Royal, Paris, 1782, a pair of uncoloured engravings after Moreau’s own designs, each approximately 510 x 390 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed (2)

£100 - £200

213* Munnings (Alfred James, 1878-1959). The Belvoir Hunt Point to Point on Barrowby Hill, published by Frost & Reed, 1922, colour photolithograph, blind stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild to the lower left, boldly signed by the artist in pencil to the lower right, overall size 415 x 485 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100 - £150

214* Natural History. A collection of approximately 200 prints, 19th & early 20th century, engravings, lithographs and prints of mammals, fish, reptiles, butterflies, and birds, with examples by or after Kirby, Furneaux, Shaw, Forbes, Morris, Landseer, Goode, Moore, Rees and Dalziel, various sizes, good condition, all mounted (approx. 200)

£150 - £200

217* Oxford Almanac. A collection of 41 prints, various dates [but late 19th century impressions], engraved views of Oxford and its environs, 21 with later hand-colouring, all proofs before titles and letters, occasional marginal staining, a few with later pencil titles below the image, each approximately 320 x 475 mm (41)

£150 - £250

215* Natural History. A collection of approximately 280 prints, 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs of mammals, fish and birds including examples by or after Heinrich Schinz, Hoffer, Tyroff, De Buffon, Wright/Ludlow, G. Edwards and Rev. W. Houghton, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 280)

£300 - £500

218* Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”). “Ubique meant‘Bank’, Olborn, Bank - A Penny All The Way” (R. K.), circa 1920, colour lithograph, heightened with body colour, signed in pencil to the lower right margin, snaffle bit blind stamp, overall size 480 x 660 mm, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £300

216* New (Edmund Hort). Firenze, published Oxford, October 1st 1914, uncoloured photo-etched collotype, large margins, slight spotting to the borders, 260 x 570 mm, framed and glazed, together with Christchurch, Oxford, Founded by Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York..., Oxford, 1916, uncoloured photo-etched collotype, laid on card, trimmed to the neatline on the vertical margins, slight staining, 450 x 650 mm (2)

£100 - £200

221* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). Tally-Ho Back, circa 1920, lithograph, heightened with watercolour, black and white remarque to lower right, blind stamp of crossed snaffle bits, signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left, overall size 375 x 485 mm, framed and glazed (1)

£150 - £200

219* Payne (Charles Johnson, pseud Snaffles). The SparrowCatchin’ Sort, A Head like a Lady - A Farewell like a Cook, [1932], colour lithograph with an uncoloured remarque of a huntsman disappearing through a hedge, snaffle bit blind stamp, signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left, overall size 440 x 420 mm, framed and glazed (1)

£100 - £150

220* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). “Blighty - and only fiveand-twenty per cent of the danger”, circa 1916, lithograph, heightened with bodycolour, signed in pencil by the artist to lower right, slight spotting to margins, overall size 490 x 390 mm, framed and glazed

The scarce early state with the officer looking towards the viewer. (1) £150 - £200

222* Payne (Charles Johnson, ‘Snaffles’). Whoop! 1918, colour lithograph heightened with body colour, black and white remarque of two and a half couple of hounds killing a fox with the title ‘A kill in the open’, signed and dated by the artist with a presentation inscription in pencil “To A. A. S. from Snaffles, 1918”, overall size 470 x 645 mm, framed and glazed

One of Snaffles’s rarer images from the First World War. There is another state of this print with the title Who Whoop! which is more usually encountered.

(1)

£200 - £300

224* Poland. Pufendorf (Samuel), Two Battle Scenes: Prospectus Oppidi Savichost..., [and] Prospectus Oppidi Sacrozin..., circa 1698, two hand-coloured battle scenes, each with a decorative ‘picture frame’ border, each approximately 295 x 380 mm

The first engraving shows a large army crossing the River Vistula near the ruins of a Hungarian and Cossak castle. The second depicts the crossing of the Vistula River by Swedish, Hungarian and Cossack troops in March 1657, via a pontoon bridge near Zakrętym. The period was known as the Bloody Deluge in Polish history. (2)

£100 - £150

223* Piranesi (Giovanni Battista). Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo, 1774 [but later], engraved map of Rome on thick wove paper on 3 sheets, probably printed in Paris by Firmin-Didot circa 18351839, with extensive numbered key, dedication to Pope Clement XIV, wide margins, 5 small manuscript red ink markings to the upper part of the map marking the San Giovanni in Laterano, Piazza Navona, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Colona and Campo Vaccino, a few closed tears mainly to the outer margins (first sheet with longer horizontal closed tear to right-hand edge repaired to verso with archival tape encroaching into the engraved area), some very light soiling and spotting, printed area approximately 530 x 710 mm, sheet size approximately 610 x 850 mm (3)

£300 - £400

225* Prints & Engravings. A collection of 20 prints, 19th - 20th century, including Hunt (George). Ascot Grandstand 1832, The Finish, circa 1832, aquatint after James Pollard, contemporary hand-colouring, slight mount staining, laid on later card, 375 x 585 mm, together with Herring (J. F.). Here they Come! & There they Go! Lloyd Brothers, Jany. 10th 1854, pair of colour lithographs, slight spotting to the margins, each approximately 270 x 300 mm, mounted, with Bluck (Adam). Come Father’s Hope! - Come Mother’s Glory! Now Listen to a Pretty Story, Ackermann’s Repository, 1808, stipple engraving by Martin Newland Bate, contemporary hand-colouring, slight surface abrasion, and spotting, 265 x 215 mm, mounted, plus Danchin (Leon). English Pointer, Paris, 1952, lithograph, boldly signed by the artist in pencil below the image, 385 x 290 mm, framed and glazed, and Edy (John William). Grey Diomed Beating Traveller, J. Harris, Octr. 23rd 1790, uncoloured aquatint after J. N. Sartorius, some spotting and staining, 420 x 530 mm, framed and glazed, with other decorative prints by or after J. Grant, Peter Scott and A. C. Havell, various sizes and condition (20)

£100 - £150

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226* Prints & Engravings. A collection of 55 prints, mostly 19thcentury, engravings, lithographs, photographs and prints, including Davis (Lucien). The Christmas Hunt Ball - “The Grand Chain”, supplement to The Sphere, November 30th 1901, chromolithograph, old folds, 360 x 1000 mm, together with Austin (Winifred Marie Louise, 1876 - 1964). Wild Boar, etching, signed by the artist in pencil to the lower left, mount stained and a little spotted, 250 x 425 mm, with Gauci (M.). The “Age”. A Sketch from Castle Square, Brighton, circa 1850, lithograph after C. F. Henderson, contemporary hand colouring, toned, stained and dust-soiled, one short closed tear affecting the printed image, 320 x 500 mm, plus Leney (William). Harriers, J. & J. Boydell, March 25th 1799, mixed method engraving after James Hackert, printed in colours and finished by hand, toned overall, stuck to a nearcontemporary wooden stretcher, slight marginal staining and spotting, 495 x 620 mm, and McNeil (A. J.). With Horse & Hound in Worcestershire, published by Messrs. Victor, circa 1890, decorative title page, inscribed and signed in pencil by the author, eleven etched plates heightened with silver, upper hinge split, publishers red gilt cloth, heavily water stained, rubbed and worn at extremities, oblong 4to, binding size 270 x 385 mm, with Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”). The Gunner, circa 1917, colour lithograph, with uncoloured remarques of a column of guns and a bi-plane, heavily spotted and laid on a wooden board, plus McArdell (J. M.). [The Spinning Top], circa 1760, mezzotint after P. Mercier, proof before title, contemporary hand-colouring, thread margins, 330 x 230 mm, mounted, with another forty-eight prints including topographical views, cartoons, portraits, military, classical and genre scenes, various sizes and condition (approx. 55)

£200 - £300

227* Prints & Engravings. A collection of 64 prints, mostly 19thcentury, engravings and lithographs including 7 hand-coloured engravings of furniture, curtains and interiors after Sheraton, together with 37 uncoloured classical cameos and bas-reliefs, with 2 French lithographs of cattle, both with contemporary handcolouring, plus 6 etchings after H. Bunbury from ‘The Annals of Horsemanship’, all with contemporary hand-colouring, and 2 uncoloured double-page views of Norwich published in ‘The Illustrated London News’, with ‘The Rake’s Progress at University’ a hand-coloured set of 5 after James Gillray (but H. G. Bohn edition, circa 1849) and 4 etchings of fishing scenes, published in ‘Fore’s Sporting Notes & Sketches’, various sizes, good condition (64)

£200 - £300

228* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 240 prints, 19th and early 20th-century, engravings, lithographs and prints including British & foreign topographical views, historical and military scenes, portraits, sporting, birds, religion and natural history, various sizes, good condition, all mounted (approx. 240)

£100 - £200

229* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 600 prints and engravings, 18th - 20th century, engravings, lithographs and prints, including sporting, heraldry, portraits, ‘Turner Gallery’ prints, social caricatures, advertising and promotional posters, encyclopedia plates, classical sepia aquatints after Claude Lorraine, topographical views of Venice and Paris, reliefs and panels, foreign topographical views, costume, portraits and genre scenes, Persian manuscript leaves with decorative floral borders and heightened in gold, coloured and uncoloured decorative initials excised from various German volumes, 20th-century reproductions of Audubon’s Birds of America, published by the Arial Press, educational ‘Hartinger’ chromolithographic posters of domestic animals a collection of uncoloured lithographs from ‘Sketches from Life’ by the Revd. T. Kilby and natural history subjects (including flowers and fruit), occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 600)

£300 - £500

230* Prints & Engravings. A large collection of approximately 950 prints, 18th & 19th-century, engravings, etchings, lithographs and prints, including British and foreign topographical views, portraits, religion, historical scenes, natural history, sporting, domestic animals, fish, genre, military and juvenile, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx. 950)

£300 - £500

231* Roberts (David). Three lithographs of Views in Egypt: View on the Nile - Ferry to Gizeh, Tombs of the Kalifs Cairo [and] The Citadel of Cairo Residence of Mehemet Ali, circa 1848, three lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 380 x 515 mm, together with three later photomechanical copies, all mounted, framed and glazed (6)

£150 - £200

232* Scotford Junior (John Ryland, 1916-2000). Dartmouth Winter Carnival, 1940, colour lithograph poster, several professional marginal closed tears and archivally relined, mount aperture 86 x 54 cm (33 7/8 x 21 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (99.5 x 67 cm)

Advertising poster for the annual winter carnival at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US (1)

£300 - £500

233* Shell & Crustaceans. A collection of approximately 80 prints, mostly 18th-century, engravings, several with hand-colouring, with examples by or after C. B. Glassbach, J. S. Leitner, Friedrich Martini, Jorg Rumph and Martin Lister, various sizes and condition (approx. 80)

£200 - £300

Lot 232

Lot 233

234* Shiva Lal (1817-87). Ten watercolours of Indian craftsmen and musicians: Preparing a Brass Pot, A Man Playing the Sarangi, A Man Playing the Ektara, Polishing Gems or Stones, A Man Carrying Palm Leaves, Preparing Silver Thread or Wire, A Woman Basket Weaving, A Man Finishing a Sword Sheath, A Woman Grinding Corn [and] Boiling a Kettle on a Brazier, circa 1860, ten watercolours, each approximately 175 x 135 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed with decorative floriate mounts (10)

£700 - £1,000

235* Simon (Peter, circa 1764-1813). Atala et Chactas Traversant un Fleuve de la Floride [and] Atala et Chactas..., after Pierre Lordon, Paris, Imprimerie Adrien Ergon, Rue des Noyers [1801], two stipple engravings by Peter Simon after Pierre Lordon (numbers 2 & 3 from the suite of 6), printed in colours and finished by hand, each approximately 390 x 440 mm, together with Mariage (Louis François, 1785-1811). Désintéressement de Phocion [and] Sophocle Devant le Magistrat D’Athènes..., after E. B. Garnier, Paris, Ches Bance, Rue St. Denis, circa 1800, two stipple engravings by Mariage after Garnier, printed in colours and finished by hand, each approximately 375 x 430 mm, with another untitled classical scene, printed in colours and finished by hand with a painted blue border, 345 x 530 mm, together with Ward (William). The First of September, Morning & Evening, T. Simpson & W. Ward, May 1st 1799, the pair of stipple engravings after George Morland, both contemporary hand-colouring, narrow margins, 370 x 425 mm, together with Egington (J.). The Affectionate Daughter [and] Filial Piety, published Birmingham: J. Egington, and London: J. F. Tomkins, March 12th 1792, pair of stipple engravings on wove after F. Wheatley, printed in colours and finished by hand, trimmed to the plate mark, each approximately 370 x 260 mm (9)

£200 - £400

236* St. Petersburgh. Dubourg (Matthew & Clark John), Eight Views from the ‘Months of the Year’ series: January. View of the Imperial Bank and the Shops..., May. View of the Place of Peter the Great and the Senate House, July. View of the Canal of the Moika The Bridge & The Police Establishment..., August. View of the Centre of the Great Bridge of the Neva..., September. View of the Champ de Mars & The Summer Garden..., October. View of the Square of Kassan and the Cathedral..., November. View of the Canal of Fontanka and the Barracks..., [and] December. View of the Arsenal and the Foundry..., published by Edward Orme, April 28th 1815, eight aquatints after Mornay, all with contemporary hand-colouring, titles repeated in French, each approximately 275 x 345 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed with O’Shea Gallery labels to the verso Provenance. Beeleigh Abbey.

Originally published in A Picture of St Petersburgh. (8)

£400 - £600

237* St. Petersburgh. Grande Morskoï [and] Quai de L’Université, published by Daziaro, Paris, circa 1850, a pair of lithographs after J. Charlemagne, bright contemporary hand-colouring, titles in Russian and French, each approximately 380 x 465 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, together with Clark & Duboug. Public Vehicle for Summer [and] The Russian Sledge or Public Carriage, Edward Orme, April 28th 1815

Provenance. Beeleigh Abbey. (4)

£150 - £250

238* Sutherland (Thomas). The Leicestershire Covers, plates 1 - 4 (complete). The Meeting Kirby Gate, Breaking Cover Billesdon Coplow, Full Cry Whissendine Pasture [and] The Death View of Kettleby, S. & J. Fuller March 20th 1824 [but later impressions, circa 1875], set of four aquatints after Henry Alken, all with hand-colouring, each approximately 250 x 710 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (4)

£200 - £300

239* Sydney. Panoramic View of Sydney, New South Wales. First settled by Commodore Phillip, January 26, 1788, with 927 persons - population of the colony 1879, 712,019, published in The Graphic, 1879, uncoloured engraved panorama, old folds, 235 x 1250 mm (1)

£150 - £200

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240* Thorburn (Archibald, 1860-1935). Red Grouse, W. F. Embleton, 1927, colour photolithograph, blind-stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild to lower left, signed by the artist in pencil below image, 335 x 465 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Bullfinches, A. Baird - Carter, 1915, colour photolithograph, signed by the artist in pencil below the image, 270 x 195 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)

£100 - £150

242* Turner (Charles). [The Marlborough Family], published by C. Turner, October 24th 1815, uncoloured mezzotint engraving after Sir Joshua Reynolds, proof before title, trimmed to the image on three margins and laid on later paper, the whole tipped onto later boards (partially detached), 840 x 670 mm, together with Earlom (Richard). [Le Duc d’Arenberg] published John Boydell, August 12th 1783, uncoloured mezzotint after Anthony Van Dyke with intermediate draughtsmanship by Josiah Boydell, proof before title with scratch letters, thread margins, tipped on to later stiff paper, some surface abrasion causing slight loss to the printed image, 630 x 460 mm, with Le Bas (J. P.). IIeme Fête Flamande, Paris, circa 1740, uncoloured line engraving after David Teniers, some staining, some surface abrasion, repaired marginal closed tears, adhesion scaring to verso, 565 x 745 mm, mounted

The first described item is one of the largest mezzotints to be engraved in England. It wasn’t published until 37 years after the original painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778. Waterhouse describes the work as “The most monumental achievement of British portraiture, the one occasion when Reynolds was able to demonstrate the full possibilities of applying the historical grand style to portraiture”

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£150 - £200

241* Turner (Charles). Dick Andrews Ridden by Richard Goodsen, M. Colnaghi March 30th 1826, uncoloured mezzotint after Ben Marshall, descriptive text below the image, very slight spotting, 460 x 575 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £400

£100 - £150

243* Vanity Fair. Oscar Wilde “Oscar”, May 24th 1884, colour lithographic caricature after ‘Ape’, 360 x 210 mm, together with Sarah Bernhardt, July 5th 1879, colour lithographic caricature after ‘T’, 350 x 210 mm, supplied with a sheet of contemporary descriptive text, with Madame Sarah Bernhardt, 30th October 1912, colour lithographic caricature after ‘K’, 360 x 215 mm (3)

244* Ward (William). The Citizens Retreat [and] Selling Rabbits, published by William Ward, Winchester Row, Paddington, Jany. 1st 1796, pair of mezzotint engravings after James Ward, printed in colours and finished by hand, 480 x 615 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed

In unusually bright condition with fine contemporary colour. (2)

£200 - £400

245* West (Benjamin, after). The Battle at La Hogue..., Benjamin West & W. Woollett, 18th October 1781, The Battle of the Boyne..., Benjamin West, J. Hall & W. Woollett, 18th October 1781 [and] King Charles the 2nd Landing on the Beach at Dover..., Benjamin West, E. Woollett & J. Hall, April 5th 1789, together three uncoloured line engravings, engraved by W. Woollett, John Hall and William Sharp respectively, each approximately 490 x 620 mm (3)

£200 - £300

Lot 244

Lot 245

246 Alciatus (Andrea). Paradoxorum ad Pratum, libri Sex. Dispunctionum, lib. IIII. De eo quod interest, liber Vnus. In tres libros Codicis, lib. III...., Lyon: Sebastien Gryphius, 1532, printer’s woodcut device to title, decorative woodcut initials, woodcut device to verso of final leaf, bound with Alciatus (Andrea). [De verborum significatione libri quatuor: eiusdem In tractatum eius argumenti ueterum iureconsultor. commentaria, Lyon: Seb. Gryphius, 1530], lacking title (a1), woodcut device to colophon leaf, occasional early manuscript marginalia throughout volume, some toning and browning, light spotting and few marks, near contemporary vellum, crude reback and one corner repaired, amateur overpainting of binding in pale sage green cream paint, lacks ties, folio

£300 - £400

See Adams A624 for the 1537 edition of the Paradoxorum. First edition of the De Verborum Significatione, one of the most important legal commentaries of the early humanist era. (1)

247 Vergilius Maro (Publius). Bucolicorum, Georgicorum, et Aeneidos. Cum accurata simul & fideli Servii Mauri Honorati expositione, Pars prima [all published], Basel: Johannes Walder, 1534, 4 leaves, 775 pages, title with printer's woodcut device of a parrot on a branch, similar printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, armorial bookplate of the Howard Family to front pastedown, early (later 16th or early 17th century?) marginal annotations in brown ink to the Eclogues and Book One of the Aeneid, binding cords at front inner hinge broken, contemporary blindstamped panelled calf, with initials I C to centre of each board, ties missing (small remnant of green silk to lower right of the upper cover), rubbed, head and tail of upper joint with short split, 4to (binding 23 x 14.5 cm, 9 x 5 3/4 ins)

Provenance: Henry Howard, Earl of Effingham (1806-1889) with his armorial bookplate bearing the motto Virtus Mille Scuta (armorial bookplate).

VD16 V1340; Adams V479; Schweiger II, 1159. Only two copies traced in UK institutions (British Library, Royal Holloway University). Rare Basel imprint in contemporary binding of Virgil's works from the office of the Basel printer Johannes Walder, with his charming printer's mark. Originally from Zurich, Walder became a guild member on October 28, 1532. He married Anna Meyer, the widow of Valentin Curio, and took over his printing business on the Heuberg in Basel, where he specialised in Greek texts, and occasional Latin titles (as here). He is believed to have died in 1541.

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248 Appianus (of Alexandria). Des guerres des Rommains, liures XI Assauoir, Le Libyque. Le Syrien. Le Parthique. Le Mithridatique. Le Illyrien. Le Celtique. Et cinq des guerres ciuiles. Plus le sixiesme desdictes guerres ciuiles, extraict de Plutarque. La tout traduict en francoys par feu Claude de Seyssel..., Lyon: Antoine Constantin, 1544, woodcut decorative border to title (close trimmed, small area of loss to upper margin, small closed tear to lower margin), engraved armorial bookplate of Monsieur Blondeau pasted to blank space on verso of D4, a few areas of occasional contemporary manuscript underlining, light spotting to few leaves, printer’s device to verso of final leaf, small ex-libris paper label to upper margin of front pastedown, 17th-century calf, gilt decoration and morocco title label to spine, somewhat rubbed and worn, 4to (1) £300 - £500

£700 - £1,000

Lot 246

Lot 247

249 Resende (André de). Sententiae, & exempla. Ex probatissimis quibusque scriptoribus collecta, & per locos communes digesta per Andream Eborensem Lusitanum. Et ne oneroso volumine grauaretur lector, totum opus in duos diuisum est tomos: quorum alter sententias, alter exempla refert, volume 1 only (of 2), Lyon: Theobaldum Paganum, 1557, printer’s woodcut device to title, some damp-staining, few marks and light dust-soiling, all edges gilt, contemporary Lyon binding bound in full blind panelled calf with gilt decorative motifs to spine compartments and boards, joints cracked with light wear, some board corners neatly refurbished, 8vo Adams A1050.

The title page to volume 2 (not present here) reads: ‘Exemplorum memorabilium cum ethnicorum, tum Christianorum è quibusqve probatissimis scriptoribus per Andream Eborensem Lusitanum selectorum, tomus posterior’. (1) £300 - £400

250 Franck (Sebastian). De arbore scientiae boni et mali, ex quo Adamus morte[m] comedit & adhuc hodie cuncti homines morte comedunt, quidnam ea sit ..., et rursum quid sit arbor vit[a]e, contra totius humani generis sapientiam, probitatem, atq[ue] scientiam. Augustino Eleutherio authore, [Mulhusii: Superioris Elsatiae, per Petrum Fabrum], 1561, [2], 130,[2]p., imprint from colophon, printer’s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, occasional early marginalia to few leaves, damp-stain to lower margins of few leaves towards rear of volume, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 18th-century light brown calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, light fading to part of lower board, joints slightly cracked, 8vo Adams E108.

This work is the first Latin edition of this treatise on the forbidden fruit and one of the more uncommon titles printed in Mulhouse, where printing only developed from the middle of the 16th century. Sebastien Franck (14991542), humanist and independent spirit, who used the pseudonymous name Augustinus Eleutherius was close to Michel Servet (Calvin’s opponent) whom he met in Strasbourg.

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£1,500 - £2,000

252 Mercuriale (Girolamo). Hieronymi Mercurialis De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, [et] quidquid deniq[ue] ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur, secunda editione aucti & multis figuris ornati, opus non modo medicid verum etiam omnibus antquarum rerum congnoscendarum, & valetudinis conseruandaestudiosis admodum vtile, ad maximilianum II imperatorem, 2nd edition, 1st illustrated edition, Venice: Juntas, 1573, printer’s woodcut device to title page (minor spotting), 23 fullpage woodcut illustration, closed tear to F4 not affecting edge of margin or text, small single wormhole throughout entire text block, minor worming and a few light water stains to margins, small cut out of printed catalogue description pasted to front free endpaper, ownership inscription to front pastedown dated 1809 above paper scarring from removal of previous bookplate, 18th-century quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title label to spine, hinges and joints cracked, rubbed with areas of loss, 4to Garrison-Morton 1986.1.

‘One of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, and an important study of gymnastics in the ancient world. The second edition, De Arte Gymnastica libris sex, Venice, Juntas, 1573 is the first illustrated book on gymnastics.’ (Garrison-Morton).

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£300 - £500

251 Sextus (Empiricus). Pyrrhoniarum hypotyp[o]se[o]n libri III., quibus in tres philosophiæ partes severissime inquiritur ... Latine nunc primum editi, interprete Henrico Stephano, [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1562, title with printer’s woodcut device and early ownership signature Henricus Graffus to lower margin, bound with Appianus (of Alexandria). Hispanica & Annibalica. Latinè numc primùm deita, ex Francisci Beraldi linguae Graecae professoris doctissimi interpretatione..., [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri typographus, 1560, printer’s woodcut device to title, some light damp-staining mostly to first work in volume, occasional minor spotting, marbled endpapers with monogrammed bookplate, 18th-century calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked, spine worn at head and foot, 8vo Adams S1027 and A1348. (1)

£800 - £1,200

253 [Travers, Walter]. A full and plaine declaration of ecclesiasticall discipline owt off the word off God, and off the declininge off the churche off England from the same, [Heidelberg]: Imprinted [by Michael Schirat], 1574, ornamental woodcut device to title, printed in black letter, blank leaves b2 and 2B2 present, lacks folding plate (as often), outer corners to first and last few leaves expertly repaired, some minor dust-soiling and occasional light spotting, bookplate with the initials A[lbert]. E[hrman]. and bearing the motto ‘Pro viribus summis contendo’ to upper pastedown and bookplate Bibliotheca Broxbourniana J.P.W.E. 17 March 1949 to lower pastedown, all edges gilt, early 20th-century dark brown morocco by Lloyd of London, with blind and gilt ruled binding decoration and blind ornamental decoration, slim 4to (18.9 x 14.7 cm)

ESTC S118505; STC 24184.

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£500 - £800

254 Plato. Opera quae extant omnia. Ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusdem notis illustrata: quibus & methodus & doctrinae summa breuiter & perspicure indicatur eivsdem annotationes in quorundam sue illius interpretationis locos. Henr. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudictum & multorum contextus graeciemendatio, 3 volumes bound in 2 (volume 1 & 3 bound together), 1st edition, [Geneva]: excudebat H. Stephanus, 1578, text in Greek & Latin in 2 columns, decorative woodcut device to title of volume I, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces to text, wide margins, endpapers renewed, complete with blank Yy8 in volume I and blank AAi (except for signature) in volume II, gathering V misbound between S & T to volume I, repaired hole (not affecting text) to top margin to f.i - f.iv to end of volume III, light spotting to endpapers and some small areas of light water staining affecting a few leaves to both volumes, late 20th-century full calf, blind stamped panelled decoration to boards, contrasting gilt morocco title labels to spines, spines evenly faded to brown, folio Adams P-1439.

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£1,000 - £1,500

P. Ludolpho Saxone Cartusiano ante CCL annos ac Sacris Evangeliis, veterumq. Patrum sententiis contexta, atque ita disposita, nihil ut eorum, qua tum ad Historice, tum ad Homiliarum totius anni rationem spectant, deesse quidquam possit. Opus ut vere pium, ac eruditum, ita singulis Christianae pietatis alumnis plurimum et solatiis et utilitatis allatorum. A Jo. Dadraeo,... multis notationibus illustratum, postrema hac Veneta editione innumeris mendis purgatum pulcherrimis figuris exornatum, Venice: Guerraeos Fratres & Franciscum Zilettum, 1581, ornate woodcut border to title, many decorative woodcut initials throughout, preliminaries misbound with erratic signatures, title trimmed to printed edge and laid on later paper, toned with small areas of loss to inner upper margin, upper right margins of first 8 leaves repaired and reinforced to verso, a few closed tears, water staining and spotting to some leaves, a few leaves very toned, some minor worming, endpapers renewed, bookplate of Hans & Gertrude Aurenhammer to front pastedown, late 18th-century full vellum, gilt morocco title label and manuscript title to spine, boards a little soiled, folio

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£200 - £300

255 Ludolph of Saxony. Vita Christi Domini Salvatoris nostri A. R.

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256 New Testament [English]. [The Newe Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza. Whereunto are adioyned large expositions of the phrases and harde places by the authour and others: together with a table or concordance conteining the principall wordes and matters comprehended herein. Englished by L. Tomson..., Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1583], lacking initial blank leaf and title, black letter text throughout, decorative woodcut initials, woodcut map of Holy Land to verso of final preliminary leaf, final blank present, early manuscript ownership and genealogical entries etc. mostly to first and last leaves including ‘Richard Weaver was born in January the fourth day 1670’, ‘John Weaver eius Liber 1681’, Margarett Weaver the daughter of Richard Weaver was born ye twenty ninth daye of November 1720’, ‘Richd. Weaver son of Richd. Weaver was borne ye 20th day of September 1722’, ‘Elizabeth Weaver dauter of Richd. Weaver was born ye 15 of August 1726’, and with the names of John Weaver 1681, Samuel Weaver, Richard Weaver, etc., colophon dated 1583, bound with at front an incomplete Book of Common Prayer, 1580 or 1586 (see Griffiths 1580/1 or 1586/1), lacking all before D1, printed in black letter, decorative woodcut initials, bound with The Psalter or Psalmes of David, after the translation of the great Bible, appointed as it shall be sung or aside in Churches, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, [1583], printed in black letter, title within woodcut border, decorative woodcut initials, printer’s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, leaf C3 recto with typesetter’s error at foot ‘The righteous shall be punished’, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins & others: conferred with the Hebrue, with apt Notes to sing them withall, London: John Day, 1583, title within woodcut border with inscription to upper blank margin ‘Hugh Mortimer June the 24th 1712’, black letter text, lacking all after U4 (final 4 pages), few other early manuscript annotations throughout volume, slight dust-soiling and few marks, occasional light damp-staining mostly to margins at rear, later endpapers (not laid-down), contemporary calf, brass corner pieces, central boss to upper board over gilt arabesque, neatly rebacked, lacking clasps, large 4to (27 x 19.3 cm)

New Testament - Darlow & Moule 137; Herbert 180; STC 2885.

The Geneva version, translated by William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and perhaps others, revised by Laurence Tomson.

Book of Common Prayer - see Griffiths 1580/1 & 1586/1).

Whole Booke of Psalmes - ESTC S102250; STC 2466. (1)

£500 - £800

257 [Caradoc of Llancarfan]. [The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales. A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine... translated into English by H. Lhoyd... corrected, augmented and continued... by Dauid Powel, 1st edition, London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584], main text in black letter, woodcut illustrations of Welsh kings and queens, lacking title and leaves B1, E8, G8, quire N1-8 & R8, E1 detached and untrimmed, a few early leaves with tears and repairs and some loss of text, a few annotations, occasional light toning and some water stains, later endpapers detached, disbound, 8vo, together with another defective copy of the same work Sabin 40914; STC 4606. The first standard work on the early history of Wales, adapted by David Powel. Page 238 contains an early reference to the discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere’s bones; page 227 begins with the account of Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth’s voyage to America in 1170 and claim therefore of discovering the New World.

Sold with all faults not subject to return. (2)

£300 - £400

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Lot 257

258 [Ventura, Comino, preface]. Nuovo Fior[e] di Virtu. Operetta morale, nella quale con essempi, e similitudini si tratta, come, schiffando i vitii, si debbano acquistar le virtu, Bergamo: per Comin Ventura, 1594, 88 leaves, woodcut device to title and 57 woodcut illustrations to text, decorative woodcut initials, ten leaves neatly strengthened with archival tissue to outer corners (with loss of few page numbers), some toning and occasional light damp-stains, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 20th-century red morocco by E. Niedree, 16mo Scarce. Only one UK institutional location found (Victoria & Albert Museum Library). (1)

£800 - £1,200

259 Camden (William). Britannia siue Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquiate Chorographica dsescriptio, Authore Guilielmo Camdeno, Nunc postremo recognita, & magna accessione post Germanicam aeditionem adaucta, 5th edition and 1st with maps, London: George Bishop, 1600, additional engraved title by William Rogers with ownership signature Edward Scott to upper margin (trimmed with small area of loss to bottom margin), letterpress title (repair to lower right corner) with large woodcut royal coat-of-arms bound in after dedication, 3 engraved maps by William Rogers; Britannia Provincia Romanorum (bound in tightly obscuring portion of inner margin, upside down), Englalond Anglia Anglosaxonum Heptarchia (trimmed to right edge with small area of loss) and Hibernia Antiqua (printed to recto of Bbb8), additional title page for Hiberniæ et Insularum Briitanniæ Adiacentium description..., full-page engraving of Stonehenge to p. 219, several full-page engraved illustrations of coins and antiquities, woodcut head-pieces, decorative initials, etc., Ad Lectorem bound to rear, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, gilt and blind ruled panels enclosing decorative central gilt device to boards, lower joint with small areas of loss, corners bumped, small 4to bound in 8’s STC 4507; Shirley 230.

Bonar-Law pre-1612 P235 (for Hibernia Antiqua).

Includes Rogers’s map of Ireland copied from the 1595 Mercator map but showing Ireland in ancient times.

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£300 - £500

260 [Gentillet, Innocent]. A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel[l] Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A Kingdome, or other Principalitie ... Against Nicholas Machiavel the Florentine. Translated by Simon Patericke, London: Adam Islip, 1608, title with woodcut printer’s device and bearing early signature H. Brooke, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, leaves E2 and E5 not present, leaves B3 & B4 bound in wrong order (as seen in other examples), occasional light dust-soiling, endpaper hinges repaired, contemporary calf with oval foliate gilt decoration to centre of each board, joints and head of spine neatly repaired, modern calf title label, corner repaired and upper edge of lower board repaired, ties skilfully replaced, folio (28.4 x 18.6 cm)

STC 11744. The second edition in English of Gentillet’s famous condemnation of Machiavelli’s The Prince, first published in English in 1602. (1) £300 - £500

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Lot 259

Lot 260

261 Camden (William). Remaines, concerning Britaine: But especially England, and the Inhabitants thereof..., Reviewed, corrected, and increased [sic], London: John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614, printer’s woodcut device to title, some toning and occasional spotting, minor short worm trails to lower margins of last few leaves (not affecting text), without final blank leaf, armorial bookplate of Johannis Evans to upper pastedown, 19th-century half calf, rebacked preserving spine and title label, small 4to STC 4522.

The second of three editions published in Camden’s lifetime (first published 1605). Includes sections on the Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, Anagrammes, Armories, Monies, Empresses, Apparell, Artillarie, Wise Speeches, Proverbs, Poesies and Epitaphes of the British. (1)

£150 - £200

262 Roye (Jean de). Histoire de Loys XI. roy de France, et des choses memorables aduenues de son Regne, depuis l’an 1460. iusques a 1483. Autrement dicte la Chronique scandaleuse. Escrite par un greffier de l’Hostel de ville de Paris, Imprimee sur le vray original [Paris?]: [publisher not identified], 1620, paper fault to lower outer corner of 2E3 (not affecting text), some light damp-staining, endpapers renewed and with armorial bookplate of Gaddesden Library to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to, together with: Fournival (Simon). Recueil general des titres concernant les fonctions, rangs, dignitez, seances, et privileges des charges des Presidens, Tresoriers de France, Generaux des Finances, & Grands Voyers des Generalitez du Royaume..., Paris: Andre Chouqueux, 1655, title with woodcut armorial, woodcut decorative initials and headpieces, several leaves stained to lower outer blank corners, scattered spotting, contemporary mottled sheep, boards scuffed and worn (insect damage particularly to centre of lower board), folio, Dubos (Jean-Baptiste, Abbé). Histoire critique de l’établissement de la Monarchie Françoise dans les Gaules, 2 volumes, new edition, Paris: Pierre-François Giffart, 1742, half-titles, titles in red and black, armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque de Mouchy to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf gilt, boards and extremities lightly rubbed, 4to, plus other 18th-early 20thcentury publications in French history, reference and literature etc., including a few odd volumes (approx. 35)

£300 - £400

Lot 261

263 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised..., Appointed to bee [sic] read in Churches, Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, 1632/31, general title and New Testament title within decorative woodcut border (imprint to New Testament dated 1631 and with early manuscript to verso including signature of Thomas Lear dated 1717), Apocrypha present, black letter text, N7 with horizontal closed tear, 2X1 torn to running title, 3E7 with closed tear to lower inner corner, 3B4 & 3B5 torn to corners with text loss, 3G2 torn at head with loss of running title, 3G4 with long closed tear, 3L5 torn to lower outer corner with loss and closed tear at head, 3O4 torn at foot with text loss, few other lesser closed tears, burn hole at head of 3M4-3M6, verso of final leaf of Prophets (2S6) with early manuscript signatures including Barnard Wilson, Ann Wilson, and Tho. Millander, letterpress marginal notes and running titles at foremargins shaved throughout, bound with at rear A Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation. Serving for the more easier finding out of the most useful places therein continued..., London: Printed by the Assignes of Clement Cotton, 1632, woodcut royal armorial to title, bound with a defective 1632 Book of Psalms at rear, bound with at front a defective genealogies by John Speed, lacking A1 title, with double-page woodcut map of Canaan, some dust-soiling, toning, occasional damp-staining and marks throughout volume, lacking free endpapers, 19th-century calf over earlier boards, worn at head and foot of spine, 4to (21 x 15.5 cm) Darlow & Moule 354; Herbert 460; STC 2300.

There are two varieties of the 1632 black letter 4to edition. Both have a misprint in Jer. viii. 22, blame for balme.

This example is variant A, with Ruth iii. 15 citie and heading of Deut. The fifth Booke...

Variant B has Ruth iii. 15 city and heading the Deut. The fifth booke... (1) £500 - £800

264 Thucydides. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre... interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Richard Mynne, 1634, engraved title, 4 engraved maps and plates only (of 5), first folding map repaired and laid down, leaves 3M1 & 3M2 misbound a few small tears and repairs, occasional toning and small water stains, front endpaper detached, bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead, front hinge breaking, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed with some edge wear, folio ESTC S117706. A re-issue of the 1629 edition, with cancel title and altered imprint. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (1) £200 - £300

Lot 263

265 Petley (Elias). [Leitourgia Brettanike egoun Biblos demosion euchon kai diakoneseos mysterion kai ton allon thesmon kai teleton en te Ekklesia hemon Anglikane eis t[en] ton philhellenon neon charin hellenisti ekdotheisa. Liber precum publicarum] Liber precum publicarum ac celebrationis sacramentorum reliquorumq rituum & cæremoniarum in Ecclesia nostra Anglicana, in studiosae juventutis gratiam nunc primu�m graece editus. Opera & studio Eliae PetilI presbyteri, & [Psalter], London: T. Cotes I, for Rich. Whitaker, 1638, first title in Latin and Greek and printed in red and black with contemporary ownership signature ‘Celsaris Bradshaw’ (trimmed close to printed edge with minor loss), title to Psalter printed in Greek character with printer’s woodcut device, small hole with loss to text to last leaf, previous ownership signatures to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary black calf boards, rebacked preserving a proportion of spine with loss, contemporary title label to spine, extremities rubbed, small 8vo, together with: Brezae (Theod.). Nouum D.N. Iesv Christi Testamentvm, cuius Graeco contextui respondent Versions duae, altera Gallica, altera latina, [Geneva]: Joannem de Tournes, 1629, printer’s device to title page, added half-title for Epistles, text printed in Greek, Latin and French in 3 columns, slightly toned to title page and a few leaves throughout, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, armorial bookplate of William Phelps to front pastedown, minor hole with small area of loss to C1 and biopredation to lower margin from M1 through to P3 with loss to text to New Testamenti Altera Pars complectens Apostolicas Epistolas et Apocalypsin, rear endpaper torn, contemporary speckled calf with modern red morocco gilt title label to spine, boards a little scuffed and rubbed, 8vo

Mastricht (Gerhard von). Hē kainē diathēkē. Novum Testamentum..., Amsterdam: Officina Wetsteniana, 1711, engraved frontispiece, (light spotting to upper margin), title page and pages 8-9 of the first sequence printed in red and black, 4 folding maps and plans (some with light offsetting), colophon to final leaf, bookplate of Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 to front pastedown, ownership signature to front free endpaper and front pastedown, upper hinge cracked, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with later spine, modern red morocco, title label to spine, boards a little scuffed and rubbed, 8vo, plus 4 other 18th and 19th-century volumes including 2 New Testaments in Greek, all leather bound, 8vo or smaller

Griffiths p. 503 for the first work. (7)

£200 - £300

266 Bacon (Francis). Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning; or, The Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes. [Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England]. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats, Oxford: printed by Leon Lichfield, printer to the University, for Robert Young and Ed: Forrest, 1640, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, engraved title with central portion of title excised (area measuring approximately 4 x 6 cm with infill repair), colophon dated ‘MDCXXXX’, initial leaves with light damp-stain to upper outer corners, upper outer corner of penultimate leaf of ‘Catalogus Historiarum Particularium’ repaired, fore-edge margin to penultimate leaf repaired, occasional light dust-soiling and few minor marks, all edges gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century brown half morocco by Zaehnsdorf (indistinct binder’s stamp), gilt and blind decoration to spine, marbled paper sides, small folio (26.7 x 18.5 cm) Gibson, Bacon 141b.; STC 1167.

The first edition in English of the expanded edition. The various issue points indicate this is a later issue.

(1) £400 - £600

267 English Civil War. Two Proclamations by the King. His Maiesties Proclamation for the more free passage of all His loving Subjects, and the free carriage and conveyance of their Horses, Provisions, or other Goods from any one place or part to another, within His Kingdom of England, and the Dominions thereof, Printed at York, and re-imprinted at London, by A. N. for Richard Lownds, at his shop without Ludgate, 1642, [2], 6 p., royal armorial woodcut at head of title, light dust-soiling mostly to margins of title, 20thcentury terracotta half morocco, slim 4to, together with: English Civil War. A Continuation of the Proceedings of the Army under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax: from the eleventh of this July, to the nineteenth of the same. Whereunto is added a Petition presented at a Rendevouz of Club-men, with their Queries. As also certain Observations upon their Petition, with a few Crosse-Queries. Dated at Sir Thomas Fairfax his Quarters at Chedsey, neer [sic] Bridgwater, July 19..., Numb. 3...., London: Samuel Gellibrand, July 26. 1645, [2], 22 p., typographic border to title, modern brown morocco-backed cloth, slim 4to

1. ESTC R20136; Kress 622; Wing C2857.

2. ESTC P1047; Wing P3573A (for complete collection of part numbers). (2) £300 - £500

268 English Civil War. An Exact Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers, and other remarkable passages betweene the Kings most excellent Majesty, and his High Court of Parliament beginning at his Majesties return from Scotland, being in December 1641, and continued untill March the 21, 1643. Which were formerly published either by the Kings Majesties Command or by Order from one or both Houses of Parliament. With a Table wherein is most exactly digested all the fore-mentioned things according to their severall Dates and Dependancies, London: printed for Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, and are to be sold at the Middle Temple, Grays Inne Gate, and the White Horse in Pauls Churchyard, 1643, engraved frontispiece (with name captions to some figures in image written in an early hand, lined to verso), title with contemporary signature Wa[lter] Yonge, contemporary marginalia and underlining, few headlines at rear of volume (tables) slightly shaved, final leaf lined to verso (with evidence of early manuscript notes beneath), all edges gilt, 20th-century ‘JE’ bookplate to upper pastedown (John Evelyn), 19th-century terracotta brown morocco, gilt decoration to spine, faded to spine, extremities very lightly rubbed, 4to (18.3 x 14 cm)

Provenance: Walter Younge; Evelyn Library sale, Christie’s, November 30, 1977, lot 522 (Christie’s lot ticket to rear endpaper dated 1 Dec 1977. Sale catalogue states this lot was sold on Wed 30 Nov 1977 which was the first day of the sale of Part II of the library).

Wing E1533. Enlarged edition of contemporary printed documents relating to the English Civil War, first published the previous year. The contemporary signature on the title page is possibly that of Walter Yonge (1579-1649) of Great House, Colyton, Devon, who was a lawyer, merchant and diarist. He was the eldest son of the eminent Elizabethan merchant John Yonge (d. 1612) of Colyton and his wife Alice Stere. Yonge was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and called to the bar from Middle Temple. In 1628 he took the office of Sheriff of Devon. He invested in the Dorchester Company, a joint-stock company which promoted fishing and colonisation in New England. He was a Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, in the Long Parliament from 1640, but did not sit after Pride’s Purge in December 1648. Yonge was one of the victuallers of the Navy from 1642 to 1648. Walter Yonge lived at the Great House and wrote much of his well-known diary there (1604-1628), later published by the Camden Society in 1848.

(1) £400 - £600

269 Prynne (William). The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: Divided into foure parts. Together with an Appendix: wherein the Superiority of our owne, and most other Foraine Parliaments, States, Kingdomes, Magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull Emperours, Kings, Princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant Reasons, Resolutions, Precedents, Histories, Authorities of all sorts; the contrary Objections re-felled: the Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant Religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his Counsell, Royallists, Malignants, Delinquents, Papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings Supremacy, and Subjects Liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars..., 4 parts in one, London: Michael Sparke senior, 1643, decorative typographic border to title of each part, erratic pagination, errata leaf at rear, light toning and occasional minor dust-soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt decorated spine and morocco title label, old repairs to board corners, some wear to board edges, 4to Wing P4087A; P4109; P4089; P4103; P3962.

(1) £300 - £400

270 English Civil War. The Six Secondary causes of the spinning out of this unnatural warre. By D.P.P., .... Octob. 19. 1644. Imprimatur, James Cranford, London: Printed by George Miller, 1644, [4], 94, [2] pp., woodcut floral device to title with manuscript annotation below letterpress initials of author, manuscript number to verso of title page, final blank leaf (N2) present, light dust-soiling and minor spotting mostly to first and last leaves, disbound, 4to, together with:

English Civil War. The Four Bills sent to the King to the Isle of Wight to be passed. Together with the Propositions sent unto him at the same time, which upon the passing of those Bills were to be treated upon. And also the Articles of the Church of England; with the Rules and Directions concerning Suspension from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in cases of Ignorance. Unto all which doth refer, the late Declaration of both Houses of the fourth of March, 1647. concerning the papers of the Scots Commissioners, upon occasion of the last address to the King in the Isle of Wight. London: Printed for Edward Husband, March 20. 1647. [i.e. 1648], 46, [2] p., A1 detached and torn/frayed to blank margins, title cropped at foot with loss to ruled border, manuscript number to verso of A1 and title (A2), blank fore-margin to C2 cropped, final blank leaf (F4) present, some staining (mostly to foremargins of C1-D1), toning, occasional light damp-stains, light dust-soiling and marks, disbound, 4to

1. ESTC R210030; Thomason E.18[13]; Wing P16.

2. ESTC R12041; Thomason E.433[1] & E.433[2]; Wing E1541. (2)

£300 - £500

271 Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pont. Max. iussu recognita. et Clementis VIII. auctoritate edita. Omnia de Exemplari Romano sidelissime & studiosissime expressa, Paris: Mathurinum Henault, via Jacobaea sub signo Angeli Custodis, 1647, half-title present, title in red and black with woodcut illustration and early ownership inscriptions including ‘a la Bibliotheque des Augustins du fauxbourg St. Germain’ (show-through to verso), small single wormhole to last few leaves of New Testament, index leaves with short worm trail to fore-margin, occasional light damp-stains, all edges gilt, 19th-century gilt decorated dark brown morocco, brass clasp in the form of crucifix, joints and spine rubbed, 8vo This edition not found in Darlow & Moule and no institutional location found. (1) £200 - £300

Lot 270

Lot 271

272 More (Henry). Philosophical Poems, by Henry More: Master of Arts, and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, 1st collected edition, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1647 [with] More (Henry). Conjectura Cabbalistica. Or, a Conjectural Essay of Interpreting the minded of Moses, according to a Threefold Cabbala, London: James Flesher, 1653, printer’s woodcut device to title of the first work (also with repaired tear across leaf), woodcut illustrations and diagrams, errata for both works present, contemporary manuscript list of Christopher and Elizabeth Whichcote’s children to front pastedown, small hole to R4 (title of the third book in the first work) plus ink stain to text to p. 390, light toning to margins, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners refurbished, red morocco title label to spine, 8vo

ESTC No. R14921; Wing M2670 for the first work.

ESTC No. R202930; Wing 2647 for the second. (1) £200 - £300

273 English Civil War. A Letter from the House of Commons assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminter [sic], to the Right Honorable and Right Reverend, the Lords, Ministers and others of the present General Assembly of the Church of Scotland sitting at Edenburgh [sic], containing a narrative of the proceedings of the Parliament of England, in the work of Reformation, and of their Resolutions to maintain the Government of the Kingdom established by Law, and of their endeavors for Settlement of Peace, and for Preservation of the Union between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, London: Edward Husband, August 8. 1648, 14, [2]pp., final blank B4 present with offset title to verso, some fraying to fore-margins, manuscript number to both sides of title, early manuscript annotations to margins throughout and some underscoring, some toning mostly to margins, disbound, 4to ESTC R204977; Thomason E.457[13]; Wing E2621. (1)

274 [Vaughan, Henry]. [Silex scintillans: or, sacred poems and private ejaculations, 1st edition, London: Printed by. T[homas]. W[alkley]. for H: Blunden, 1650], lacking front blank, title and final blank (A1-2 & G8), letterpress marginal note to recto of B3 cropped (as often), verso of final text leaf with early manuscript markings and signature William Palmer, some light toning and minor dust-soiling, early-mid 19thcentury half calf, blind decoration to spine, marbled boards, extremities lightly rubbed, small slim 8vo (14.5 x 8.5 cm)

ESTC R148; Grolier/ Wither to Prior 897; Hayward 81; Wing V125.

£200 - £300

Rare. Records indicate that few examples of this work have appeared at auction. Silex scintillans, influenced by the works of his contemporaries Donne and Herbert, is Vaughan’s chief literary legacy and is widely regarded as being among the finest volumes of poetry of the era. ‘His finest lyrics challenge the best in their age; his achievements in rhythm have no peer until Hopkins’ (ODNB). ‘Vaughan’s finest poetry was published in this rare volume’ (Hayward). Wordsworth rediscovered Vaughan’s work at the end of the eighteenth century. The inclusion of ‘Silurist’ after the author’s name on the engraved title alludes to his home county of Brecknockshire, which had been the area inhabited by the ancient British tribe of the Silures.

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£700 - £1,000

275 English Civil War - [Walker, Clement]. The High Court of Justice. Or Cromwells New Slaughter-house in England. With the Authoritie that constituted and ordained it, Arraigned, Convicted, and Condemned; for Usurpation, Treason, Tyrannie, Theft, and Murder. Being the III. Part of the Historie of Independencie: written by the same author, [London]: [s.n.], Printed anno Dom. 1651, 71, [1]pp., running title of D4 trimmed, title slightly dust-soiled and few minor marks, some light toning, minor damp-stain to lower outer corners of few leaves, disbound, 4to, together with: Commonwealth of England. The Humble Petition of divers wellaffected Persons, delivered the 6th day of July, 1659. To the supreme authority, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. With the Parliaments answer thereunto, and sense thereupon, London: Thomas Brewster, 1659, 14pp., manuscript number to verso of title, without final blank B4, title slightly dustsoiled, light toning, disbound, 4to, plus a single leaf from a late 17th-century Book of Common Prayer (concerning Matrimony) bearing early manuscript name ‘Thomae’, small folio

1. ESTC R203985; Wing W324D.

2. ESTC R202521; Thomason E.989[11]; Wing H3463. (3)

276 Digges (Sir Dudley). The Compleat Ambassador: or two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious Memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her Resident in France. Together with the Answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein, as in a clear Mirror, maybe seen the Faces of the two Courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of State, not at all mentioned in any history, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1655, engraved frontispiece by William Faithorne, title-page in black and red, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page ‘Edward Proger bought this booke the 12 of April 1658’, pencil crosses to margins, small worm track from S gathering to end, old damp-staining to head of some leaves (ocasionally touching text), Viscount Birkenhead bookplate to front pastedown, rebound in modern 17th century style panelled brown calf, title and date in gilt to spine, folio Wing D1453.

£300 - £500

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, was a British Conservative politician and barrister who attained high office in the early 20th century, including the role of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1919 to 1922. (1)

£400 - £600

277 Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible: containing the bookes of the Old & New..., Cambridge: Printed by John Field, 1659], letterpress New Testament title present, lacking general title and final leaf of text, Apocrypha present, final leaf of text provided in manuscript written in a neat hand on two leaves, first and last few leaves torn and frayed to lower outer corners and some with repairs, few other leaves with closed tears, occasional light dust-soiling, few marks and scattered spotting, contemporary reversed calf, leather torn with some loss to upper and lower boards, worn, folio (41 x 26.5 cm) Herbert 666.

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£200 - £300

278 Sparrow (Anthony). A Rationale Upon the Book of CommonPrayer Of the Church of England..., London: Printed for T. Garthwait at the Sign of the Kings-head in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1664, additional engraved title page and frontispiece with three additional engraved portraits (including one signed W. Hollar 1657), all trimmed, laid on later paper and bound before title page, contemporary ownership signature to title page with loss to upper margin just touching text plus paper thinning with loss and small hole to imprint, first few leaves splitting from hinge at head, index bound to rear, later endpapers, 20th-century panelled sheep, 12mo, together with; Sparrow (Anthony). A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with other Publik Records of the Church of England...., The Fourth Impression with Additions, London: Printed for Blanch Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet, 1684, index bound to rear, previous ownership inscription to title page excised, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few leaves with contemporary marginalia, small wormhole affecting inner margin to last few leaves, early 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, morocco title label to spine, 4to, Bates (William). The Speedy Coming of Christ to Judgement, represented in a Funeral Sermon, on the Death of Mr. Bnjamin Ashurst who deceased the 11th of September, 1687, London: Printed for J. Robinson, at the Golden Lion in S. Pauls ChurchYard, 1687, small hole to errata leaf with a section of text crossed out, contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, small 8vo, Henry (Matthew). The Communicant’s Companion or, Instructions and Helps for the Right Receiving of the Lord’s Supper, 2nd edition corrected, London: Printed by T. Bunce for Tho Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns, 1706, advertisements bound at rear, all edges gilt, contemporary full morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards, a little worn and bumped, foot of spine chipped, 12mo, and 4 others including The Dine Office of Laity (Volume 2 only) 1780; Taylor (Jeremy). The Golden Grove, 1735; Doolittle (Thomas). A Call to Delaying Sinners, 1709; Fenner (William). 8 Sermons (lacking title page), 1629, all in leather bindings, various sizes and condition (8) £200 - £300

279 Bible [Greek - Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta interpretum. juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, Cambridge: John Field, 1665, printer’s woodcut device to title, double-column Greek text, ink stain to fore-edge margins mostly toward rear of volume, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt. to verso of front free endpaper, upper pastedown with signature of T. W. Trollope dated 1780, contemporary calf, some loss of leather at head of spine, some wear, 12mo, together with:

Hutchinson (Francis). An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred scriptures, and confute the vulgar errors about that point. And also two Sermons: one in proof of the Christian Religion; The other concerning the Good and Evil Angels, 1st edition, London: R. Knaplock and D. Midwinter, 1718, half-title, final advert leaf, some worming mostly to fore-margins (particularly at front of volume), text-block split in two, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled sheep, rebacked, worn, 8vo, Wraxall (Nathaniel William). Memoirs of the courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800, armorial bookplate of Lord Clonbrock to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo, Swift (Jonathan). Letters, written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical, by John Hawkesworth, LL.D, 3 volumes, 5th edition, London: T. Davies, R. Davis, L. Davies [et al.], 1767, half-title to volume 1 in red and black, some toning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt. to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, upper board of volume 1 detached, other joints cracked, 8vo, plus other 18th-century antiquarian volumes including An Abridgment of Mr. Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding, new edition, Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson, 1778; Catalogi duo Primus Auctorum Omnium alter rerum Antiqurum..., Venice: Joannis Baptistae Pasquali, 1755; Paradise Lost. A Poem..., by John Milton, Glasgow: R. & A. Foulis, 1750; Paradise Lost. A Poem ..., by John Milton, London: W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1778, etc.

1. Darlow & Moule 4701; Wing B2719.

The preface is by John Pearson (1613-1686), famous for Exposition of the Creed (1659), Bishop of Chester. Edited by the Unitarian writer John Biddle (1615-1662). This volume is without the Apocrypha and New Testament which is sometimes present. (18) £300 - £500

280 Du Hamel (Jean-Baptiste). De corporum affectionibus cum manifestis, tum occultis, libri duo, seu promotae per experimenta philosophiae specimen..., 1st edition, Paris: Michel Le Petit & Stéphane Michallet, 1670, one engraved plate, title cropped with loss to foot of “Cum Privilegio Regis” and part of publication date, royal privilege leaf and errata present at end, some light toning and occasional spotting, 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, lacking spine (text-block cracked and weakening), upper board loosening, rubbed and worn, 12mo

An uncommon medical work. Jean Baptiste du Hamel (1624-1706) was a natural philosopher and the first secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences founded 4 years before this work was published. (1)

£200 - £300

281 Doolittle (Thomas). The Young Man’s Instructer, and the Old Man’s Remembrancer: or Controversies and practical truths, fitted to the capacity of Children, and the more ignorant sort of people. Being done in a Catechetical Exercise, on the Lords Day, in explaining the questions of the reverend assemblies shorter Catechisme, wherein several erroneous doctrines of Quakers, Socinians, Arminians, Antinomians and Papists are propounded and confuted. Together with a practical application of the truth confirmed; in both, the Child or Youth answering by yes, or no. Now published for an help to Masters of Families, in the instructing of their Children and Servants in the truths of the Gospel, and applying of them to their consciences, which would exceedingly tend to further the success of Ministers Labours, among their People. By Tho. Doolittel [sic], Minister of the Gospel, 1st edition, London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1673, [16], 112 p., 113-128 l., 129-367, [1]p., one page of advertisements to verso of final leaf, bound without [2A?]⁴ at rear of volume (continuation of adverts?), light worming, wormhole to fore-margin of some leaves towards rear of volume (not affecting text), slight dust-soiling to title, some light toning throughout, front free endpaper with early ownership signatures Joseph Simcox dated 1700, and Tom Smith dated 1882 and inscription ‘Fred Cumston his book 18/4/1921 given to him by his father on this day 24 Birthday’, contemporary sheep, joints cracked, leather loss at head and foot of spine, rubbed and some wear, 8vo ESTC R4108; Wing D1906.

ESTC refers to the collation as A-I⁸ i⁸ K-S⁸ *t⁸ T-Z⁸ [2A?]⁴, however this copy collates as A-I⁸ i⁸ K-S⁸ *t⁸ TZ⁸. ESTC also states several copies in institutional libraries are bound without the final gathering of advertisements (as seen here) and calls for verification of the end of signature statement. (1)

£200 - £300

282 Dugdale (William). The Baronage of England, or an historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time, to the Norman Conquest; and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third’s reign, 3 volumes in 2, 1st edition, London: Thomas Newcomb for Abel Roper, John Martin and Henry Herringman, 1675-76, titles to first two volumes printed in red and black, folding pedigrees, a few repaired tears and small marginal repairs, bookplates of Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxburgh, eighteenth-century calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, spine labels renewed, a little rubbed with small repairs, folio Wing D2480. (2)

£300 - £400

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Lot 281 Lot 282

283 Poole (Joshua). The English Parnassus: or a help to English poesie. Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested..., Together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of preface, 2nd edition, London: Henry Brome, Thomas Basset and John Wright, 1677, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, erroneous page numbers to 14 pages after p. 305 (as usual, text continuous), bookplate of Allan D. MacDonald to front pastedown with ownership signature ‘David Fife Anderson 27.12.49’ above, final 2 leaves with repair to top corners affecting page numbers only, minor areas of spotting throughout, all edges gilt, 20th-century full mottled calf by Bayntun, gilt decorated spine with morocco title labels, gilt ruled decoration to boards, joints a little rubbed, 8vo

Provenance: Allan D. MacDonald (bookplate), David Fife Anderson (signature). WING P2815

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£200 - £300

284 Qur�an [French]. L’Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit d’Arabe en françois par le Sieur Du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair, The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1683, engraved frontispiece (repaired to fore-margin), printer’s woodcut device to title, six leaves sometime repaired to lower outer blank corners, light toning and scattered spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine, lacking left half of title label, worn at head and foot of spine with loss of leather, binding rubbed, 12mo

Referenced by Willems - Elzevier, 1472. (1)

£200 - £300

285 Aesop. Aesop’s Fables, with his Life in English, French & Latine. The English by Tho. Philpott Esq. The French and Latine by Rob. Codrington M. A. Illustrated with one hundred and ten sculptures by Francis Barlow... [London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow, 1687], engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved arms of William Earle, Duke of Devonshire (bound before additional title), additional engraved title (dated 1665 and relined to verso), 110 etched vignettes by Francis Barlow with fables in English within plate mark (a few close-trimmed), 30 engraved full-page plates only after Thomas Dudley (of 31, lacking ‘indecent’ plate 17 as often), bound after ‘To the Reader’ leaf, lacking letterpress title, a few small tears and repairs, occasional toning, some light stains, a few eighteenth-century annotations in English and French, eighteenth-century previous owner inscriptions to verso of frontispiece, modern panelled calf, morocco label to spine, some light fading and small stains, folio, (30.5 x 17 cm)

ESTC R22991; Wing A703. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (1) £400 - £600

286 Salmon (William). Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or, Bate’s Dispensatory, translated from the last edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton..., 3rd edition, London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1706, damp-staining mostly to margins of initial leaves, some browning and dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with morocco labels to spine, some wear to board edges and corners, rubbed, 8vo (1) £150 - £200

287 D’Oyley (Samuel). Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice. Made English from the French Original, 1st English edition, London: H. Clements, 1718, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership ‘Joh: Conybeare. Coll: Exon. Soc: pr 4.9. 1719’, bookplate to front pastedown with initials W.A., contemporary blind panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, light wear to joints and board corners, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

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288 Monmouth (Geoffrey of). The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth. With a large Preface concerning the Authority of the History. By Aaron Thompson, late of Queens College, Oxon..., 1st edition in English, London: Printed for J. Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-Street..., 1718, list of subscribers and errata leaf, engraved head and tail-pieces and initial letters, contemporary ownership signature ‘Av Atkinson 1718’ to front free endpaper, bookplate of James Metcalfe to front pastedown, small wormhole through front free endpapers, pinhole to title page, small areas of light spotting to a few leaves, some offsetting, contemporary Cambridge pane calf rebacked, corners bumped, 8vo Provenance: ‘A. Atkinson (signature); James Metcalfe (bookplate). (1) £400 - £600

289 Gay (John). Poems on several occasions, 2 volumes in one, London: Jacob Tonson and Bernard Lintot, 1720, three etched plates (including frontispiece), title-pages in red and black, continuous pagination, some browning and spotting, armorial bookplate of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard to upper pastedown, contemporary diced half calf gilt, worn at head of spine, 4to, together with: Churchill (Charles). Poems. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And The Ghost, in four books, London: Printed for the Author, by Dryden Leach; and sold by W. Flexney, G. Kearsly, T. Henderson, J. Coote, J. Gardner, J. Almon, and E. Broughton, at Oxford, 1763, ink stamp at foot of title, modern calfbacked marbled boards preserving original gilt decorated spine, recent morocco title label to spine, 4to, Blair (Hugh). Sermons, 5 volumes, 24th edition, London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1802, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary marbled calf, red morocco title labels to spines, 8vo, Moore (John). A View of the Causes and Progress of the French Revolution, 2 volumes, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, contemporary speckled calf, modern rebacks preserving original maroon morocco title labels, 8vo, Dodsley (Robert). Trifles: viz. The Toy-Shop. The King and the Miller of Mansfield. The Blind Beggar of Bethnal-Green. Rex & Pontifex. The Chronicles of the Kings of England. The Art of Preaching, in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. The Right of Mankind to do what they will, asserted. With several others, not more considerable, 2 volumes, [London]: At Tully’s Head in Pall-mall, 1745, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, engraved illustration to titles, contemporary sheep, modern rebacks preserving maroon morocco title labels, 8vo, Kent (Samuel). The Grammar of Heraldry..., 3rd edition, London: Francis Jackson and William Meadows, 1724, numerous woodcut armorials throughout (few hand-coloured), modern boards, 8vo, plus four other 18th century antiquarian volumes (16) £200 - £300

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290 Daniel (Gabriel). Histoire de la Milice Françoise, et des changemens qui s’y sont faits depuis l’etablissement de la Monarchie Françoise dans les Gaules, jusqu’a la fin du regne de Louis le Grand..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Mariette, Delespine & Coignard 1721, 70 engraved plates, woodcut vignettes to titles, a few small colour pencil markings to one or two margins, armorial bookplate of Chateau de Louppy to front pastedown of each volume, gilt turn-ins, contemporary calf, gilt decoration to spines, gilt armorial to centre of boards, some soiling and abrasions to boards, joints cracked, chipped with loss at head and tail of spine, corners bumped, 4to

Cohen - de Ricci 273; Lipperheide Qk4; Colas 794. (2)

292 Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry. The sixth edition. Improv’d with large additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, under their respective Bearings..., London: printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. And J. Walthoe and Tho. Ward, 1724, title in red and black, 65 engraved plates (including portraits and armorials), woodcut armorials to text, some leaves of letterpress toned and with occasional scattered spotting, later marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, near contemporary speckled calf, triple-rule gilt line border to boards with later small floral motif to board corners, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine with skiver title label, folio (1) £150 - £250

£400 - £600

291 Leybourn (William). The Compleat Surveyor: or, the whole art of surveying of land, by a new instrument lately invented; as also by the plain table, circumferentor, the theodolite as now improv’d, or by the chain only..., 5th edition, with an Appendix by Samuel Cunn, London: Samuel Ballard, Aaron Ward, and Tho. Woodward, 1722, title printed in red & black, 14 engraved folding plates, woodcut head & tailpieces, lacks portrait frontispiece, some browning and spotting to text throughout volume, occasional damp-stains, contemporary calf, upper board detached and lower joint split, rubbed and some wear mostly to board edges, folio (1)

£200 - £300

293 Leupold (Jacob). Theatrum Machinarum Generale. SchauPlatz des Grundes Mechanischer Wissenschafften, das ist, Deutliche Anleitung zur Mechanic oder Bewegungs-Kunst..., Leipzig: Zufinden bey dem Autore und Joh. Friedr. Gleditschens seel. Sohn: Drucks Christoph Zunkel, 1724, half-title, title in red and black, 71 engraved plates, bound with Leupold (Jacob). Theatrum Machinarum Hydrotechnicarum..., Leipzig: Zufinden bey dem Autore und J. F. Gleditschens sel. Sohn: Druckts Christoph Zunkel, 1724, half-title, title in red and black, 50 engraved plates only (of 51, lacks final plate), plate 26 with repaired closed tear to upper margin, some light toning throughout, contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine, light wear to joints and extremities, folio Norman 1339.

The works form part of a comprehensive illustrated survey of engineering and technology. ‘Leupold was one of the major transmitters of the machine designs and technological images of Francesco di Giorgio Martini (14391501), the Sienese painter, sculptor and architect whose writings and drawings provided the chief source of inspiration … for several generations of engineers’ (Norman). The works above form part of a ten-volume series entitled Theatrum Machinarum, ‘each volume of which is complete in itself. The volumes are more often found separately than together’ (Norman). (1) £800 - £1,200

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294 Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe). Twenty Seven Moral Tales and Fables, French and English. Invented (For the Education of a Prince) By the late Celebrated Archbishop of Cambray, Author of Telemachus..., to which is prefix’d An Essay on the Nature of Fable, extracted from Mons. de. la Motte..., London: J. Wilcox et al., 1729, title page, dedication and letters of recommendation printed in red and black, text in French and English, near contemporary manuscript annotations to title and dedication, late 18th-century calf, red morocco title label to spine, minor areas of staining to boards, 4to, together with: Carlile (James). The Fortune - Hunters: or, Two fools well met. A Comedy, as it is Acted by His Majesty’s Servants..., London: James Knapton, 1680, advertisements bound to rear, old folds to title page with small closed tear to foot and trimmed to lower margin with minor loss to last line of imprint, small manuscript note excised from title and drammatis personæ, a few leaves with small areas of loss to page numbers where trimmed top margin, light dust soiling throughout, new endpapers, 18th-century half calf over green cloth, crimson morocco title label to spine, a little rubbed, 4to, plus The Beggar’s Opera, To which is Prefixed the Overture in Score And the Musick to each Song, London: W. Strahan et al., 1771, engraved frontispiece, title page with engraved vignette, bound with other titles including: The West Indian: A Comedy. As it was Performed at the Theatre Royal in Dury-Lane..., London: W. Griffin, 1771, The Clandestine Marriage, A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Dury-Lane. By George Colman and David Garrick, London: Printed for T. Becket [et al.], 1766, Timanthes: A Tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, by John Hoole, London: Printed for T. Becket, 1770, all bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed and worn with loss to spines, 8vo, plus 3 other volumes of plays bound in leather bindings, 8vo or smaller (6) £200 - £300

295 Watts (Isaac). The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth made Easy: or, The First Principles of Astronomy and Geography Explain’d by the use of Globes and Maps..., 3rd edition, corrected, London: Richard Ford and Richard Hett, 1736, title in red and black, six folding engraved plates, bookplate of R. E. Myddelton of Chirk Castle to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, lacking title label, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, together with:

Wilson (John). An Introduction to Arithmetic..., 2nd edition, Edinburgh: W. Sands, A. Kincaid, A. Donaldson and W. Gordon, 1752, folding table, front free flyleaf at front and rear discarded, early ownership inscription to front free blank ‘Thomas Grame his book’ and with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt. to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine, wear to head of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Hatton (Edward). An Index to Interest..., 3rd edition, London: John Walthoe, 1717, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, and Le Clerc (Jean). Opera philosophica in quatuor volumina digesta, volumes 1, 3 and 4 only, 3rd edition, Amsterdam: Joan. Ludov. de Lorme, 1704, titles in red and black with engraved illustration, four folding engraved plates and one folding engraved map, armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Grosvenor 4th Bt. of Eaton, Cheshire, and with his signature to front free endpapers dated 1707, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spines (volume 4 lacking morocco title label), joints cracked, 12mo (6)

£200 - £300

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296 Auvigny (Jean du Castre d’; Perau, Gabriel Louis & Turpin, François Henri). Les vies des hommes illustres de la France depuis le commencement de la Monarchie jusqu’à présent, 27 volumes, Amsterdam: et se vend a Paris, chez Knapen, Libraire-Imprimeur, au bas du Pont Saint Michel, 1739-1775, contemporary uniform marbled calf, gilt decorated spines, occasional light wear mostly at head of some spines, 12mo

An uncommon complete set of a work detailing the lives of many illustrious and famous men of France from the beginning of the monarchy up to the time of publication. (27)

£400 - £600

297 Binding. L’abitatore del sole, ovvero discorsi fisici, e morali fatti ad un curioso, in due colloquj, ne’ quali si prova, le stelle essere alcune soli, ed altre Terre, abitate da differenti Creature; e nel descrivere la loro vita, e costumi, si presenta un modello all’uomo, come doveria vivere, per divenire felice. A Sua Eccellenza Carlo Sackville Conte di Middlesex da F. Floravanti, London: J. Chrichley, 1743, upper margin of title with early ownership signature ‘Leeds’, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, morocco labels to spines, minor cracking to leather surface on joints, 8vo (1)

£150 - £250

298 The Book of Common Prayer. Together with the Psalter of Psalms of David..., Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, 1748, near contemporary previous ownership signature to front endpaper ‘Cathrine Thistlethnayte’ with bookplate of the same to front pastedown, contemporary red full morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to boards and spine, worn and rubbed, lower board detached, 12mo, together with: The Book of Common Prayer. Together with the Psalter of Psalms of David..., London: John Baskett, 1742, contemporary ownership signature ‘Elizth. Snelgrave’ to title page, contemporary red full morocco with decorative gilt decoration to boards and spine, a little bumped, joints starting to crack, 24mo in 12’s, plus The Holy Bible. containing the Old and New Testaments..., Edinburgh: Mark & Charles Kerr, 1793, tear with loss to lower right corner of title page not affecting printed area, contemporary green full morocco, gilt decoration to spine and gilt Greek key roll to boards, a little bumped and worn, 24mo in 12’s, and The Book of Common Prayer. Together with the Psalter of Psalms of David..., London: John Baskett, 1742, front free endpapers cut, small areas of light damp staining to a few leaves, loss to lower margin of final leaf not affecting printed area, contemporary manuscript list of names and birth dates to rear endpaper, contemporary red full morocco with decorative gilt detail to boards and spine, a little rubbed 24mo in 12’s, plus 15 other 18th and 19th-century volumes of The Book of Common Prayer or similar, all leather bound, 8vo or smaller (18)

£200 - £300

299 Hanway (Jonas). An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author’s journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia, and back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Russia, during the present Century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli..., 2 volumes 2nd edition, London: T. Osborne, D. Brown, T. and T. Longman et al., 1754, engraved frontispiece to each volume, 17 engraved plates, 9 folding maps (5 with a closed tear and trimmed to edge where bound, light offsetting to most maps), wooden engraved headpieces to both volumes, explanation of Foreign Words and advertisements bond to verso of volume 2, bookplate of John Hely-Hutchinson to front free endpapers, last 2 preliminary leaves of volume 1 misbound between p. 457-459, light spotting throughout, gilt turn-ins, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt rebacked, gilt decoration and contrasting morocco labels to spines, scratches to lower board of volume 1, some staining and small loss to lower board of volume 2, corners bumped, 4to Provenance: John Hely-Hutchinson, Chippenham Lodge, Ely, 1946 (bookplate). (2)

£200 - £300

300 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..., Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University, 1758, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr’d with the Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be Sung in all Churches..., Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University, 1758, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated crushed red morocco, ownership gilt panel to centre of upper board for Cha: Amcotts, Kettlethorp, 1765, extremities lightly rubbed, large 4to

Provenance: Charles Amcotts (1729-1777).

ESTC N088795; Griffiths 1758.6. (p.173).

302 Shakespeare (William). Mr William Shakespeare: his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the players his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish’d from those editions in ten volumes octavo; with an introduction: whereunto will be added, in some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire, 10 volumes, London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson, 1768, halftitles discarded, colophon to volume 10 with imprint to Aa2 before advertisements, margins browned to first and last few leaves to each volume, occasional light spotting throughout, 19th-century bookplate of Sarah Rooke to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary marbled calf rebacked, corners refurbished, 8vo ESTC No: T138599.

(10) £300 - £400

Charles Amcotts (1729-1777) was the son of Vincent Amcotts (1679-1733) of Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth Quincey. He was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on 29 April 1746 but was expelled on 9 June 1749 for drinking the health of the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie. In 1763 he was created DCL at Oxford University. He sat in Parliament for Boston in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1777. He inherited the Lincolnshire properties of Harrington Hall from his father Vincent Amcotts and Kettlethorpe Hall from his father’s step-brother Charles Hall (1690-1743) and was also High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 175354. The moat at Kettlethorpe Hall and its cleaning attracted the interest of the press during the MPs’ expenses scandal of 2009, in which it was alleged claims had been made by the owner of the property Douglas Hogg. (1)

£200 - £300

301 Baskerville Press. Book of Common Prayer... and Administration of the Sacraments. and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., 2nd edition, Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761, title within ornamental border and with 'Price Eight Shillings and Six Pence, unbound' printed below imprint, text leaves in double column within ornamental borders, light spotting to first few leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary straight grain crimson morocco, gilt decorated spine and gilt decorated border to boards, 8vo ESTC T81412; Gaskell 13; Griffiths 1761.2 (p. 175-176); Rothschild 2633. The second edition of three. It was the only edition in which the 'occasional prayers' were always present. (1)

303 Warton (Thomas). Theocriti Syracusii quae supersunt. Cum scholiis Graecis auctioribus, emendationibus et animadversionibus in scholia editoris et Joannis Toupii ... Præmittuntur editoris dissertatio de bucolicis Græcorum, vita Theocriti a Josua Barnesio scripta ... Accedunt editoris et variorum notae perpetuae, epistola Joannis Toupii de Syracusiis, ejusdem addenda in Theocritum, necnon collationes quindecim codicum..., 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770, text in Latin and Greek, gilt Greek key roll to turn-ins, all edges gilt, early 19th-century straight grain crimson morocco, gilt ruled border to boards and spines, volume 1 cracked to lower joint of upper board, corners bumped, 4to, together with: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de). The Henriade, an Epic Poem in Ten Cantos. Translated from the French of Voltaire into English rhyme with large Historical and Critical Notes, London: Burton and Co, 1797, half-title, subscribers list, pages uncut, modern grey and paper boards to style with paper label to spine, large 4to, Gregor (Francis, of Trewarthennich). The Works of... 1st collected edition, Exeter: T. Flindell, 1816, contemporary subscriber’s ownership inscription to front free endpaper, uncut pages, original paper boards neatly rebacked with paper label to spine, corners bumped, 4to, Kemble (John Philip). Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq., including A History of the Stage...., By James Boadem...., 2 volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825, portrait frontispiece to volume 1, light spotting throughout, 20th-century blue quarter silk over paper-covered boards, paper title labels to spines, repaired split of spine to volume 1, joints a little rubbed, 8vo, Disraeli (Benjamin). Sybil; or, The Two Nations, 1st edition, 3 volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1845, half-titles to volumes 1 & 2, lacking the publisher’s catalogue to volume 1, scattered spotting, titles with small portion of upper margin removed (not affecting text), armorial bookplates of A. H. Sharp to front pastedowns, modern green quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper titles to spines, all contained within matching slipcase, 8vo (9) £200 - £300

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Baskerville Press. Terence Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae, Birmingham: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772, front blank flyleaf with owner’s ink inscription ‘T. Trollope, Coll Joan. Cant. Donam amicissimi R. Heron Prid. Kal. Decemb. 1781’, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt decorated spine, 12mo, together with:

Sallust. Caii Crispi Sallustii Belli Catilinarii et Jugurthini Historiae, Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton et J. Balfour, 1755, light dampstaining and spotting at front and rear, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, 8vo, Vergilius Maro (Publius). P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1755, browning to first and last leaves, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco, gilt decorated spines and borders to boards, contrasting morocco labels, upper board of volume 2 detached, other joints cracked, title label to volume 1 lacking, 8vo, Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae duae, Plutus & Nubes: cum scholiis Graecis Antiquis, quilus adjiciuntur notae quaedaun, sinul cum genino indice, London: R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter & A. Ward, & B. Motte, 1732, title and text in Greek and Latin, title and front pastedown with ownership signature T. W. Trollope 1779, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope, Bt. also to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, lacking title label, joints cracked, worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus nine other similar 18th-century antiquarian works of classical authors, many with the bookplate of Sir John Trollope and ownership signatures of T. W. Trollope 1. Gaskell 47. (14)

£300 - £400

305 Shakespeare (William). The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, 12 volumes (including 2 supplemental volumes), London: C. Bathurst et al, 1778-80, engraved portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare to volume 1, frontispiece to volume 12, some light scattered spotting, contemporary calf, upper cover of volume 1 detached, some wear, 8vo, together with: Linton (James, illustrator). Shakespeare’s Comedy of the Merchant of Venice, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 36 mounted colour plates, preliminary leaves with small wormholes, edges untrimmed, original full vellum gilt, silk ties, wormholes to covers, 4to, (limited edition 155/500, signed by the illustrator), Haggard (H. Rider). She, A History of Adventure, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887, 2 plates (loose), publisher’s advertisement leaf at end, hinges cracked, original blue cloth gilt, spine extremities chipped with some loss, 8vo, with 23 other volumes (37)

£200 - £300

306 Chambers (Ephraim). Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account of the Several Subjects, in the Liberal and Mechanical Arts, and the Sciences, Human and Divine. Intended as a Course of Ancient and Modern Learning..., With the Supplement, and Modern Improvements, incorporated in one Alphabet, by Abraham Rees, 4 volumes, London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, A. Hamilton, T. Payne and Son [et al.], 1786, engraved frontispiece to first volume, 145 engraved plates (including four folding), six leaves of letterpress specimen types (including two folding), occasional light damp-staining to few leaves in volume 2, bookplate of William Alfred Cocks to upper pastedowns, contemporary reversed calf with contrasting morocco labels, some joints cracked, light wear to head and foot of spines and some board corners, folio (4)

£250 - £350

307 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, 1st edition in English, 178998, half titles discarded, numerous engraved plates and vignettes (including four engravings by William Blake at pp. 127, 159 (facing), 206, & 225 of Volume I), occasional light toning or spotting, some offsetting, 2 leaves in volume II slightly protruding with edge-fraying and soiling (affecting fore-edge of 2 engravings), contemporary sprinkled half calf, worn, 4 joints cracked (volume III front hinge cracked and cover nearly detached), 4to (3)

£300 - £500

308 Brooke (Charlotte). The School for Christians, in Dialogues, for the Use of Children, by Miss Brooke, 1st edition, Dublin: Bernard Dornin, 1791, [4], iv, 71, [1] pp., subscribers’ list leaf after title, some spotting and browning, contemporary ink ownership signature of Anna Maria Cooper at head of title, contemporary sheep, joints cracked, some wear, 12mo, together with: Brooke (Charlotte), Reliques of Irish Poetry, Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, Translated into English Verse... , 1st edition, Dublin: George Bonham, 1789, subscribers’ list, some letterpress in Gaelic, occasional spotting and heavy at front and rear, armorial bookplate of Richard Sinclair Brooke, DD, Wyton Rectory, Huntingdon to front pastedown, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, heavily rubbed, 4to, plus an octavo Dublin 1816 edition of the same work, contemporary tree calf gilt, cracked on joints and spine with some loss, and Brooke (Charlotte, editor), The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke... , 4 volumes bound in 2, 3rd edition, Dublin: printed for the Editor, 1792, some occasional heavy spotting or browning, signed presentation inscription written vertically to first title, from William Brooke to Sarah Kirchhoffer, first volume rebound in modern calf gilt, second volume contemporary tree calf, cracked on joints and spine, some wear, 8vo (5) £300 - £400

309 Gibbon (Edward). Miscellaneous works..., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield, 2 volumes, London: A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796, silhouette portrait frontispiece to first volume (additional etched portrait plate tipped to verso), verso of front free endpapers with ownership signature Edw: Rogers, armorial bookplate of Rogers of Stanage, Radnorshire to front pastedowns, edges untrimmed, contemporary half calf, joints cracked and some wear at head of spines, 4to, together with: Paston letters - Fenn (John). Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III, 4 volumes, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787-1789, additional titles with engraved illustration and engraved frontispiece to each (3 handcoloured), 28 engraved plates (including 2 hand-coloured), folding pedigree, occasional spotting and browning of few leaves, contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked, spines with gilt decorated bands and green morocco title labels to spines, 4to, plus Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An account of the Chancellor’s life from his birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his banishment in 1667. Written by himself, 2 parts in one, Oxford: Clarendon Printing-House, 1759, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece offset to title, engraved vignette, contemporary diced calf, gilt decorated spine with gilt decorated border to boards, spine lacking title label and with evidence of volume number label to third spine compartment, joints cracked, wear at head and foot of spine and to board edges, folio

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£300 - £400

310 Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 volumes, 9th edition, London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1799, halftitles to volumes 1 and 2 only, upper margin of titles with former owner’s signature Wm. G. Macgregor dated 1799, front endpapers with bookplate of United Service Club, hinges strengthened, 19th-century half calf, each volume rebacked, lacking title labels, upper board of volume 1 detached, foot of spines rubbed, board corners worn and showing, 8vo ESTC T95382; Kress B3994.

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£300 - £400

311 Egan (Pierce). Life in London; or, the day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis, 1st edition, mixed issue, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821, half-title, vignette title, 36 hand-coloured aquatints by George Cruikshank, further smaller woodcut illustrations to text, 3 folding leaves of engraved music, 4 leaves of publisher’s advertisements at rear, with additional 4 leaves of smaller format advertisements bound after, original paper wrappers bound-in at end, armorial bookplate of Bertram Freeman-Mitford to front pastedown, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, early 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt by Bedford, a few faint scuffs to lower cover, 8vo, together with: Carey (David). Life in Paris; comprising the rambles, sprees, and amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian celebrity, and his bang-up companion, Squire Jenkins and Captain O’Shuffleton; with the whimsical adventures of the Halibut family; including sketches of a variety of other eccentric characters in the French metropolis, 1st edition, London: John Fairburn, 1822, half-title, 20 handcoloured plates by George Cruikshank, further smaller woodcut illustrations to text, original paper wrappers bound-in at end, armorial bookplate of Bertram Freeman-Mitford to front pastedown, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, early 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt by Bedford, a few scuffs to lower cover, 8vo Abbey, Life in England, 281; Tooley 196 (first work). Tooley 129 (second work). Life in London is a mixed issue, with the footnote on page 9 but with the first engraved music leaf unnumbered and ‘good-bies’ on the first line of page 376.

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312 Frizell (Richard). A Narrative of the loss of the ship Willem of Amsterdam, commanded by C.H. Rooseboom, which was wrecked on her voyage from Rio de Janiero to Antwerp, near the Port of Ilfracombe, in Devonshire..., with a Sermon on the crime of “Wrecking,” or plundering the property of the owners and crews of vessels wrecked, 2nd edition, London: Sold by J. Banfield, Ilfracombe; Avery, Purchase, and Searle, Barnstaple; Truman, Exeter; Cole, Bideford; Hatchard, Piccadilly; Sherwood and Co., Paternoster Row; and all other Booksellers and Publishers, 1827, folding lithograph frontispiece, toning and spotting to title, bound with other sermons by Richard Frizell including The Sunday Family Instructor: Being an Illustration of the Liturgy; with Sermons and Private Devotions..., London: Printed for the Author, 1827; Resignation: A Sermon for Good Friday..., 2nd edition, London: J. E. Adkins, 1825; The Christian’s Combat. A Sermon, Preached before the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple, on Wednesday 23d June, 1819..., Barnstaple: Printed by J. Avery, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [et al.], 1820; A Funeral Sermon, occasioned by the demise of our Late most Gracious Sovereign Lord George the Third... preached in the Parish Church of Ilfracombe, Devon, on Wednesday, the 16th of February, 1820 by the Rev. Richard Frizell..., Barnstaple: printed by W. Syle for M. Hooper [et al.], 1820; A Funeral Sermon occasioned by the Demise of His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany..., preached in the Parish Church of Ilfracombe, Devon, on Sunday, the 21st of January, 1827, London: Printed for the Author, 1827, all edges gilt, contemporary straight grain calf gilt, joints rubbed, 8vo, together with: Darvall (Joseph). The Wreck on the Andamans: Being a Narrative of the very remarkable preservation, and ultimate deliverance, of the Soldiers and Seamen, who formed the Ships’ Companies of the Runnymede and Briton Troop-ships, both wrecked on the morning of the 12th of November, 1844, upon one of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, London: Pelham Richardson, 1845, four tinted lithograph plates including frontispiece, original cloth with gilt pictorial image blocked to upper board and blind blocked decoration, spine lightly faded, covers lightly scuffed, slim 12mo (2) £200 - £300

£300 - £500

313 Almanack. Fasti Musicali Almanacco per l’Anno 1831, Milan: G. Ricordi, [1831], engraved title, 4 plates, several leaves of music to text, stipple-engraved headpieces to two leaves of tables at rear, all edges gilt, contemporary green straight-grain morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, contained in original gilt decorated green straight-grain morocco covered slipcase, 24mo (10.3 x 7 cm) (1) £200 - £300

314 Cambridge University. Collegiate Sketches or Alma Mater Illustrated, Cambridge, Brighton & London: W. Mason, W.H. Mason, & R. Ackermann, 1832, 7 hand-coloured lithographed plates, the first 5 each with several humorous captioned cartoon illustrations, the final two depicting Under Graduates and Graduates, each titled ‘Costume of the University of Cambridge’, and with imprint of R.B. Harraden [Cambridge], disbound with pictorial upper wrapper present (with a few small and one larger stain), but lacking lower wrapper, wrapper and leaves toned and worn, with tears and edge-fraying (some consequent minor losses to blank margins), oblong folio (28 x 38 cm)

Abbey, Scenery, 83: listing 12 plates but noting that, as plates 6-12 bear an Oxford imprint and are drawn in quite a different style, ‘probably, therefore, Plates 6-12 did not belong to the book as issued, but are a later addition (as are possibly plates 7 and 8 in our copy).

Extremely rare: Abbey notes that the publication is ‘apparently unrecorded’. We have traced only two copies in institutions (University of Cambridge and Yale Center for British Art, the latter listing 7 leaves), and found no copies sold at auction. (1) £100 - £200

315 Dixon (John). [Inglisa Khristi mandalici bhajanapaddhati]. The Book of Common Prayer ... Translated into Marathi by the Rev. J. Dixon, Church Missionary Society, Bombay, 1835, text in Marāṭhī, library bookplate of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowlege and contemporary ink ownership inscription of the same to front pastedown, contemporary purple full calf, gilt and blind stamp decoration, morocco title label to spine, rubbed, corners bumped, 8vo, together with: Koelle (S. W. & John Tewfik Effendi, translators). [Du ‘ai ‘umumi kitabi...,] London: Gilbert and Rivington for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowlege, [1883], text in Arabic, headings and rubrics in red, red ruled border to each page, S. P. C. K library entry sheet to rear pastedown, folding library slip to front pastedown, modern information text sheet tipped on to front free endpaper, hinges and joints cracked, contemporary black buckram, hinges and joints worn, library reference number to lower corner of upper board, 8vo, plus [Jones, Thomas, translator]. Ki sau tylli ki Jingiathu�hkhana Babha : jong U Mathaios, U Markos, U Lukas, bad U Joannis de, bad ki kam ki Apostolos Bakhu’id : kiba la kylla sha ka kti’n Khasi, na ka kti’n Griik : The Four Gospels with the Acts of the Apostles, translated into Khasi from the original Greek, Calcutta: Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, 1856, text in Khasi in 2 columns (some leaves lightly toned), text block split at centre with some leaves loose, contemporary purple buckram over sheep, rubbed and worn, 8vo Griffiths 170/2 for the first work; Griffiths 183/4, p. 569 for the second work.

Only 2 institutional copies found for the first work (British Library and Yale University).

No institutional copies found for the second work. (3) £200 - £300

316 Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1839, engraved portrait frontispiece, upper margin of title with ownership signature of Archibald Travers dated 1839, 38 etched plates by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), dust-soiling, toning and offsetting to plates and two with repaired closed tears, near-contemporary red half calf, joints rubbed, 8vo, together with: Dombey and Son, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot Browne, some spotting, toning and offsetting mostly to plates, contemporary brown half morocco, gilt decorated spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo, Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, half-titles discarded, frontispieces, 38 engraved plates, some spotting, toning and few marks, contemporary half calf gilt, lacking title label to volume 2, rubbed and light wear, 8vo, Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and EveryDay People, new edition, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839, 20 engraved plates by George Cruikshank (including frontispiece), upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of James Reynolds-Peyton and ownership label of Alice Reynolds-Peyton, original cloth, gilt-blocked spine, some fading and wear, frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo (5)

£200 - £300

317 Dickens (Charles). The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, new edition, revised and corrected (1st single volume edition in book form), London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846, half-title discarded, upper margin of title with contemporary signature of Archibald Travers dated 1846, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, some toning and occasional spotting, light dust-soiling to plates and some offsetting to verso of plates, contemporary red half calf, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo

Smith part 1, p. 37.

‘A new edition, revised and corrected .... printed from a copy of 1841 with corrections. Published in ten monthly parts, January-October 1846; in one volume (as in this lot) on September 26, 1846’ (Smith). (1)

£300 - £400

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Lot 314

Lot 315

318 Sinclair (Catherine). Sir Edward Graham: Or, Railway Speculators, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849, half-titles to volumes 2 & 3, date on title of volume 1 rubbed away, a little spotting, near-contemporary half calf gilt, with contrasting spine labels, slightly rubbed, tall 12mo (3) £200 - £300

319 Leiden Ceremonial Processions. Intogt van Frederik Hendrik in’s Hertogenbosch in 1629. Gecostumeerde voorstelling door de H. H. Studenten der Leydsche Hoogeschool Den Xi Junij Van Het Jaar 1850 Uitgegeven onder toezigt der commissie tot regeling van den optogt en geteekend door een der comissarissen met eene uitvoerige beschrijving de naauwkeurige opgave bevattendre van der named der verschillende personen te leyden, bij Jac., Leiden: Hazenberg & J. H. Gebhard, 1850, hand-coloured lithograph folding panorama in 26 sections, together with: Gecostumeerde optogt gehouden door de Leden van het Leidsche studentencorps den 12den junij 1855, ter veiring van den 280sten verjaardag der Leidsche Hoogeschool, voorstellende de intrede van Karel V binnen dordrecht op den 3den junij 1515, bij gelegenheid zijner huldiging tot graaf van Holland..., door G. J. Bos, Leiden: C. C. van der Hoek & P. Engels, 1855, hand-coloured lithograph folding panorama in 28 sections, and Gecostumeerde optogt gehouden door de leden van het Leidsche Studenten-Corps den 11den junij 1860, ter viering van den 285sten verjaardag der Leidsche Hoogeschool, voorstellende de intrede en huldiging van Frans, Hertog van Anjou, Alenc�on, Berry, enz. als Hertog van Braband en Markgraaf van Antwerpen, binnen Antwerpen den 19den februarij 1582..., door G. J,. Bos, Leiden: Hazenburg, 1870, hand-coloured lithograph folding panorama in 28 sections, each item with publisher’s booklet of text (with descriptive keys) printed on blue paper, some spotting throughout, browning to margins of text leaves, each loose as issued in original blind decorated cloth, gilt titles to upper covers, all rubbed and worn, oblong folio (3) £150 - £200

320 Macleod (Jessie). Fifteen Designs, illustrating Tears. By Miss Jessie Macleod. With descriptive poems, by Mary Elizabeth, London: Ackermann & Co., 1851, additional hand-coloured lithograph title, 15 hand-coloured full-page lithograph plates, engraved by T. H. Maguire, one or two plates loosened, all edges gilt, original giltdecorated pale pink cloth, soiled and worn with back strip partly defective, folio, together with [Chatelain, Clara de, translator], The Blind Fisherman and his three sons, translated from the German by Madame de Chatelain, Leipsic: Naumburg and London: Tegg & Co., and Joseph, Myers & Co., [1855], hand-coloured illustrations to title and text (one a trifle smudged), blindstamp to title at foot, stitching loose, hinges strengthened, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, some soiling and slight wear, large slim 8vo, plus Usher (James Ward). An Art Collector's Treasures, illustrated and described by himself, London: Chiswick Press, 1916, numerous colour illustrations, frontispiece detached, limited edition of 300 copies, front pastedown with modern ink manuscript adhered note regarding provenance from James Usher via a friend of a friend, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends frayed, short split to top of front joint, large 8vo, and 11 other 19th-century large format illustrated works, including Pearls of the East or Beauties from Lalla Rookh, designed by Fanny Corbaux, drawn on stone by Louise Corbaux, London: Charles Tilt, 1837, Achille Collas, The Authors of England. A series of medallion portraits of modern literary characters, engraved from the works of British artists, with illustrative notices by Henry F. Chorley, London: Charles Tilt, 1838, T. Erat Harrison, VI Greek Myths, 1879, Illustrated London News, volume LVII, July-December 1870, a similar bound volume of Jubilee and Christmas Numbers from The Graphic (and other illustrated journals), circa 1886-87, with chromolithograph plates, etc., Aaron Penley, Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours, circa 1875, etc., some wear to bindings, all folio

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£200 - £300

321 Bennett (Charles H. & Robert B. Brough). Shadow and Substance, 1st edition, London: W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 1860, half-title, 30 hand-coloured caricature plates, a few light spots, original cloth spine and covers bound at rear, all edges gilt, later crimson half morocco gilt by Bayntun, Bath, small chip at head of spine, 8vo

Provenance: W. A. Foyle, burgundy morocco bookplate. (1)

£150 - £200

322 Jones (Owen). The Psalms of David Illuminated, [London: Day & Son, 1861], chromolithograph ornamental and printed titles, dedication on two pages, and 50 thick card chromolithograph leaves illuminated in gold and colours (complete), some spotting and dust-soiling, few leaves with minor edge tears or chips, all edges gilt, gutta-percha perishing, several leaves detached, the remainder pulling away from spine covering, original relievo leather, upper cover embossed with the words "The Victoria Psalter", rubbed, spine ends and rear cover stained, old infill repairs to spine ends (that at head fraying), folio (1)

£200 - £400

£200 - £300

323 Russell (William Howard). A Memorial of the marriage of H.R.H. Albert Edward Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Alexandra Princess of Denmark, the various events and bridal gifts, London: Day and Son, [1864], chromolithograph title, 42 lithograph plates (mostly chromolithographs), some spotting and toning, damp-stain to lower margins of some plates and leaves, gutta-percha perished and contents loose, all edges gilt, original quarter red morocco with red cloth covered boards, boards gilt-blocked with Prince of Wales heraldic devices, damp mottling and wear to lower board, joints splitting at foot, extremities rubbed, large folio (1)

324 Fine Bindings. Coleridge (Sarah). Memoir and Letters of Sarah Coleridge, edited by her Daughter..., 2 volumes, London: Henry S. King & Co, 1873, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to both volumes, some offsetting to title pages, light spotting to first few leaves, armorial bookplate of John Theodore Merz to front pastedowns, silk endpapers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, early 20th-century deep purple full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments, joints a little rubbed, spines uniformly faded to brown, 8vo, together with: [Matthews, John]. Eloisa en dishabille: being a new version of that lady’s celebrated epistle to Abelard. Ascribed to Professor Porson, 1st edition, London: W. Hughes, 1822, pencil correction to p. 26, armorial bookplate and ownership label of William Phelps to front pastedown, contemporary quarter calf over red boards, gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed, slim 8vo, (limited edition of 50 copies), Disraeli (Isaac). Miscellanies; or, literary recreations..., London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796, large contemporary provenance inscription to title page over text, errata leaf to verso, recent quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, 8vo, Swinburne (Charles Alfred). Sacred & Shakespearian Affinities being Analogies between the writings of the psalmist and of Shakespeare..., London: Bickers & Son, 1890, some pencil marginalia, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, 19th-century plum calf, gilt ruling to boards and spine, minor scuff marks to boards, 8vo, plus others in attractive leather bindings, mostly 8vo (24)

£200 - £300

325 Eliot (George). Works, 10 volumes, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, circa 1880s, photogravure frontispieces, occasional light damp-stains to fore-edges, early 20th-century half calf, gilt decorated spines, few extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with: Froude (James Anthony). Thomas Carlyle. A history of the first forty years of his life 1795-1835, 2 volumes, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882, and Thomas Carlyle. A history of his life in London 1834-1881, 2 volumes, 4th edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885, etched portrait frontispieces, occasional light damp-stains, top edge gilt, contemporary uniform calf gilt, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels (volume number labels 1-4), some boards with light damp-stains to corners, 8vo, plus other leather and cloth bound volumes including Morley (John). The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 3 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1903, top edge gilt, contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt decorated spines, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, Froude (James Anthony). History of England, 12 volumes, new edition, 1870, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting labels, worn with some boards detached, 8vo, Robinson (Charles, illustrator). The Big Book of Fables, edited by Walter Jerrold, 1912 and various works by Thomas Macaulay etc. (approx. 50) £150 - £200

327 Scot (Reginald). The Discoverie of Witchcraft, being a reprint of the first edition published in 1584. Edited with explanatory notes, glossary, and introduction by Brinsley Nicholson, M.D. Deputy Inspector General, London: Elliot Stock, 1886, half-title present, title in red and black, decorative initials and few illustrations to text, publisher’s advert leaf at rear, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original sheep-backed blue cloth, spine torn at head with loss, 4to

Limited edition of 250 copies printed. (1)

£300 - £500

326 Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, edited by James E. Thorold Rogers, 2 volumes, 2nd edition thus, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1880, half-titles, engraved frontispiece to volume one, preliminary and rear leaves browned, top edge gilt, modern full panelled calf gilt by Bayntun, contrasting morocco spine labels, some light wear to extremities, 8vo (2)

£200 - £300

328 Browne (William). The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock: edited by Gordon Goodwin, with an introduction by A. H. Bullen, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893, frontispiece to volume 1 (minor marginal toning), titles printed in red and black, unnamed bookplates to front pastedowns, toning to first and last endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary quarter vellum over green boards, corners a little bumped, 8vo, (limited edition 190/200), together with: Jefferies (Richard). Hodge and his Masters..., 2 volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880, contemporary ownership inscription to preliminaries and half-title, light spotting to first and last few leaves to both volumes, advertisements at the end of volume 2, publisher’s original brown pictorial cloth, boards blocked in black and blind, each volume with gilt vignette to upper cover, spines a little faded and bumped at head and tail, 8vo, plus Jefferies (Richard). Greene Ferne Farm..., London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880, half-title, advertisements to verso, some spotting to first and last few leaves, publisher’s original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, printed title and decoration blocked in black to upper board, spine faded to brown, 8vo, plus Worsaae (Jens Jacob Asmussen). An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland..., London: John Murray, 1852, numerous illustrations throughout, advertisements bound at rear, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and half-title, light spotting to first few leaves, marbled boards by Remnant & Edmonds, gilt decoration to spine, gilt emblem to upper board, corners a little bumped, 8vo, plus 12 other cloth-bound volumes, mostly 8vo (19)

£150 - £200

329 Berlioz (Hector). Autobiography of Hector Berlioz, member of the institute of France, from 1803 to 1865, Comprising his travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England, Translated by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes, and Eleanor Holmes, two volumes, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1884, lightly toned throughout, top edge gilt, uniform red half morocco (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), 8vo, together with Correspondance Inédite de Hector Berlioz 18191868, deuxieme edition, [and] A Travers Chants ... par Hector Berlioz, troisiemme edition, both Paris: Calmann Levy editeur, Michel Levy Freres, 1879 & 1880 respectively, spotted, foredges and tails untrimmed, uniform blue quarter morocco, rubbed, spines faded, 8vo (4)

£100 - £150

330 Bunting (Edward). A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, Containing a Variety of Admired Airs Never Before Published, and also the Compositions of Conolan and Carolan; Collected from the Harpers &c. in the Different Provinces of Ireland [...] Vol. 1., London: Preston & Son, [1796], first edition, engraved title with ‘E Bunting’ countersigned in ink to lower right, preface, 36pp, engraved throughout, bound together with A Selection of the most Approved Highland Strathspeys, Country Dances, English & French Dances with a Harpsichord & Violincello Bass [...] by John Anderson, Perth and Edinburgh: J. Anderson, c 1790s, engraved title page and 36pp, engraved throughout, some light offsetting, lacking covers, folio

For a very similar publication by John Anderson, see RISM AA 1036. (1) £200 - £300

331 Corelli (Arcangelo). The Score of the Four Operas, containing 48 Sonatas Compos’d by Arcangelo Corelli. For Two Violins and a Bass [...] The whole revis’d and Carefully Corrected by Dr. Pepusch. Vol. I., London: J Walsh, [1735], engraved frontispiece by Gucht after Howard, title page, 176pp, engraved throughout, a full set of 48 sonatas, contemporary ownership inscription in ink ‘Edwd. Horton Coll Regia Jan 2 1779’, some light spotting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated green morocco label to upper cover, some wear, joints cracked and outer corners showing, folio, together with Kammell (Antonio). Sei Trii, di Violino e Basso, composti da Antonio Kammell; dedicate Ill.ma Sig.ra Lady Lucy Mann., London: Welcker, [1766], engraved title and 14pp, engraved throughout, basso continuo part only, bound together with four further volumes of engraved music: A Fourth Set of Six Grand Choruses from Mr. Handel’s Oratorios adapted for Organ or Harpsichord, London: Wright & Co., no date, engraved title and 24pp, A Second Set of Twelve Canzonets for two voices composed by William Jackson of Exeter, Opera XIII., London: John Preston, [1782], engraved title, list of further publications, 26pp, engraved throughout, contemporary ownership inscription in ink ‘Edwd. Horton’ to title page, Eight Anthems, in score, for the use of Cathedrals and Country Choirs, composed by Samuel Webbe, Dedicated to the Revd. the Dean of Lincoln, London: printed for the author, [1794], engraved title, advertisement and index pages, 58pp, engraved throughout, light spotting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, some wear, remains of spine label in morocco, folio, and Greene (Maurice). Spensers Amoretti set to Music by Dr. Greene, London: J Walsh, [1739], engraved title page with vignette of musical instruments, dedication page to the Duchess of Newcastle, index to rear, 47pp, engraved throughout, a full set of 25 sonnets for voice and keyboard accompaniment with figured bass, contemporary gilt-panelled full calf, some wear with upper cover detached, oblong folio

Corelli, RISM C 3798; Kammell, RISM ID 806553136; Jackson of Exeter, RISM J 170; Webbe, RISM W 283. Greene, RISM G 3750.

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£200 - £400

332 Dalayrac (Nicolas). Partes séparées d’Adolphe et Clara, ou les deux prisoners, Comédie en un Acte… Paris: Chez l’Auteur, [1799], a partially complete set of engraved individual orchestral parts for Dalayrac’s opera, most with engraved title page, comprising Violino 1o (plus an additional copy in manuscript), Violino Secondo, Alto Viola, Basso (with an additional copy in manuscript), Fagotti, Oboë Primo, Oboë 2o, Flauto 1o, Flauto 2o, Clarinetto 2o, Corno 1o, Corno 2o, contemporary blue paper covers, most with white octagonal label bearing title and part, dust soiled, worn and rubbed, a few with water stains, cover detached from 1st violin part, folio

333 Ditters von Dittersdorf (Carl). Aria aus Doctor und Apotheker von Carl von Dittersdorf, circa 1790s, contemporary scribal manuscript copy of the aria ‘Zufriedenheit gilt mehr als Kronen’ from the singspiele ‘Doktor und Apotheker’, scored for soprano and keyboard reduction, 12pp, black ink on cream wove paper, watermarked ‘H. Oser.’ and ‘Gr. Real’, bound without covers, slim oblong folio (approx. 24.5 34.5 cm) and Pergolesi (Giovanni Battista). Se cerca, se dice l’amico dov’è, an aria from the opera l’Olimpiade, circa mid 18th century, manuscript copy, scored for soprano, two violins, bass and keyboard continuo, 12pp, black ink on cream laid paper, watermarked with a Strasburg Lily and another indistinct mark, bound without covers, pages secured with green ribbon, slim oblong folio together with a manuscript copy of the duet ‘Mi scacci sdegnato! Mi sgridi severo!’ and preceding recitative from a version of Artaserse by an unknown composer, plus approximately 37 mostly early to mid-18th century manuscript copies of works by John Field, Thomas Attwood, and many unattributed, for forces including voice and keyboard, solo keyboard, and voice and orchestra, various sizes

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) was a virtuoso violinist and a prolific composer who counted Haydn and Mozart among his friends. Doctor und Apotheker is a two-act singspiel (a German-language music drama characterized by spoken dialogue alternating with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias) written in 1786, with a libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on the anonymous French comedy L’apothicaire de Murcie (The Apothecary of Murcie). It is considered to be Ditters’ finest work and was premiered on 11 July 1786 at the k. u. k NationalTheater in Vienna.

(Approx. 40)

£200 - £300

Nicolas Dalayrac (1753-1809) was the most successful and prolific composer of opéra-comique in the 1790s. His works were liberally exported, not least to Vienna. Carl Maria von Weber conducted Adolphe et Clara in Prague. The 1st and 2nd flute parts are incomplete (ends at No.6), as is the 2nd clarinet part (ends at No. 7). The set is missing 1st clarinet, piccolo and trombone parts (as per the full score printed by l’Auteur). (14)

£150 - £200

334 Duncan (Isadora). Ecrits sur la danse, manuscrits inedits et textes communiques par Ch. Dallies, Fernard Divoire ..., Paris: editions du Grenier, [1927], 16 illustrations, blue and gold floral patterned end papers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary art-deco blue three-quarter morocco, lettered in gilt, spine somewhat faded, 4to, limited edition, 741/795 total copies

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£150 - £200

Lot 333

335 Engraved music. A large collection of mostly engraved music, late 18th to mid 19th century, including works for various forces including orchestral parts, solo keyboard, voice and keyboard, voice and instruments, chamber forces, chorus, etc., by composers including Clementi, Pleyel, Dussek, Burrowes, Weber, Steil, Johann Strauss I, Steibelt, Schmitt, various sizes and conditions, mostly folio/oblong folio (Small carton)

£200 - £300

336 Handel (George Frideric). Acis and Galatea, a mask as it was originally compos’d with Overture, Recitativo’s, Songs, Duets & Choruses [...], London: for W. Randall, [1769], [5], 89pp, engraved title page, index, full score engraved throughout, lacks Houbraken frontispiece, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Edward Horton’ to front free endpaper in brown ink, bound together with Jackson (William). Twelve Canzonets for two Voices, London: Printed for the Author, [c.1770], [2], 27pp, engraved title, list of publications, preface, engraved throughout, and also bound with Elegies composed by William Jackson of Exeter, Opera terza [for three voices and figured bass], The second Edition, London: Printed for the Author, [1762], [3], 41pp, [2], engraved title page with vignette of musical cherubs, preface, list of publications, engraved throughout, together with a further separate volume of arias from Smart’s Selection of Handel’s Songs &c, circa early 19th century, [1], 103pp, index, engraved throughout, a full set of 25, two additional movements at rear from another publication, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Elizia Fellows 1812’ to front pastedown, both contemporary half calf over marbled boards, first volume with red morocco gilt label to spine, both somewhat worn, second volume with front board detached, folio William Jackson, Twelve Canzonets and Elegies: RISM J116 and JJ87. (2) £200 - £300

337 Handel (George Frideric). Six Overtures fitted to the Harpsichord or Spinnet, viz. Ariadne, Orlando, Sosarmes, Aetius, Porus, Esther, Compos’d by Mr. Handel. Being all proper Pieces for ye Improvement of the Hand on the Harpsichord or Spinnet, Fifth Collection, London: J Walsh, No. 519, [1734], engraved title and 24pp, engraved throughout, bound together with five further collections of Handel’s Overtures printed by Walsh: Sixth Collection (Justin, Arminius, Atalanta, Alcina, Ariodante, Pastor Fido), No. 618, [1737], engraved title and 29pp, engraved throughout, Seventh Collection lacking engraved title and 25pp, engraved throughout, [Seventh Collection] (Xerxes, Pharamond, Alexander Severus, Alexander’s Feast, Athalia, Berenice), [No. 650], [1739], Eighth Collection (Samson, The Sacred Oratorio [Messiah], Saul, Deidamia, Hymen, Pernasso in Festa), [1743], engraved title and 29pp, engraved throughout, Ninth Collection (Belshazzar, Occasional Oratorio, Joseph, Hercules, Semele, Saul), engraved title and 27pp, engraved throughout, Tenth Collection (Solomon, Susanna, Alexander Balus, Joshua, Judas Macchabeus, Solomon), egraved title and 26pp, engraved throughout, some light spotting to final few leaves, 19th-century black half calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine ‘Handel’s Six Overture’, rubbed and scuffed to spine and outer edges, 4to RISM H 1303; RISM H 1304; RISM H 1305; RISM H 1306; RISM H 1307; RISM H 1308.

(1) £200 - £300

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338 Ives (Charles Edward). 114 Songs, Redding, Conn[ecticut]: 1922, first edition, second impression (with pp 37-39 printed), 259pp of printed music, composer’s note and essay to rear, bearing ink stamp ‘The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham’ to pages 1 and 43, publisher’s blue cloth as issued, gilt title to upper board and spine, first few leaves chipped to lower margin (not affecting text), corners bumped, 4to

339 Jones (Edward). The Bardic Museum of Primitive British Literature; and other admirable rarities; forming the Second Volume of the Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids [...], London: A. Strahan for the Author, 1802, first edition, hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson after Ibbetson depicting a harpist surrounded by a group of singers with mountains in the background, title page, [xx], 60pp of printed text, 61-112pp engraved music (as issued), lacking covers, folio, with Hen Ganiadau Cymru, Cambro-British Melodies, or the National Songs and Airs of Wales [...] This Third Volume, London: Printed for the Author, [1820], title page with etched frontispiece of Harlech Castle by Basire, 40pp of engraved music, lacking covers, folio, plus Crotch (William). Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures, [...] Vol 1., London: Rt. Birchall for the Author, title page, [21], 165pp engraved music, bound with Volume II., title page, [viii], 153pp of engraved music, [1], contemporary half (or quarter) calf over marbled boards, boards very worn and detached, folio, together with a bound volume of Handel choruses arranged for organ or harpsichord and songs, and seven further items of similar mostly 19th-century volumes of printed music scores, various bindings, some wear, 4to/folio

(Approx. 11)

£200 - £300

The first impression of 114 Songs was only 500 copies, which Ives distributed privately. This second impression consisted of a reported 1000 copies intended again for private distribution and included additional music not included in the first impression. For the collection Ives reworked some of his earlier compositions into songs (notably from his orchestral works, violin sonatas and brass-band marches) and set poetry by the likes of Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wordsworth, Keats and James Fenimore Cooper. (1)

£500 - £800

340 Küffner (Joseph). A large collection of engraved individual orchestral parts for various symphonic works, circa early to mid19th century, Mainz: B. Schott Fils and Antwerp: A. Schott, works include Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies (Op. 141, 142, 150, 164), Two Overtures (Op. 74, 130), Neuf Galops (Op. 252) and Schweizer Walzer (Op. 268), various conditions, folio Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) was a German musician and composer who, among other achievements, contributed significantly to the guitar repertory. He also composed orchestral works and a large amount of chamber music.

A list of individual parts is available on request.

(Approx. 65)

£200 - £300

341 Logier (J.B.). A System of the Science of Music and Practical Composition; incidentally comprising what is usually understood by the term thorough bass, 1st edition, London: J. Green, 1827, lithograph portrait frontispiece (offset to title), title counter-signed with initials by the publisher, dated 29 May 1832, dedication page with contemporary ink manuscript presentation inscription, dated 1834, numerous musical examples, lightly toned throughout, p.23 with pale stain to blank fore-margin, front flyleaf with near contemporary pencilled ownership inscription, dated 1846, front hinge cracked, contemporary red straight-grain half morocco gilt, rubbed, a little wear to edges, 4to, together with Eastcott (Richard), Sketches of the Origin, Progress and Effects of Music, with an account of the ancient bards and minstrels, Bath: S. Hazard, 1793, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some toning, occasional spotting, endpapers renewed, modern three-quarter calf, gilt-lettered spine label, plus Memoirs of Rossini, By the author of the lives of Haydn and Mozart, London: T. Hookham, 1824, lightly toned, scarce spotting, original cloth, faded, some staining, spine ends and 2 corners frayed, 8vo (3) £200 - £300

342 [Mainwaring, John]. Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel ... A catalogue of his works, and observations upon them, 1st edition, London: for R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, halftitle, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Chambars, contemporary ownership signature of David Hughes, dated 1756, to portrait frontispiece blank reverse, scarce spotting, pp.110-115 stained, C3 lower right corner torn away, later endpapers, modern antiquestyle half brown calf over marbled boards, spine and letters in gilt, with original old labels retained to front paste down of Alfred Whittingham, dealer in ancient and modern music and musical treatises, 33, Leicester Square, London, W.C., and of Charles Chapman, 8vo, together with Burney (Charles), An account of the musical performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3rd, and 5th, 1784, in commemoration of Handel, 1st edition, London: for the benefit of the Musical Fund; and sold by T. Payne and Son, and G. Robinson, 1785, engraved frontispiece plan (toned and spotted), occasional minor spotting, endpapers renewed, modern cloth, gilt-lettered spine, 4to (2)

£200 - £300

343 Manuscript Music. A large collection of scribal copies of manuscript music, circa late 18th to early 19th century, including works by Mozart, Clementi, [Christoph Willibald] Gluck, [Johann Baptist] Waṅhal, [Ignaz] Pleyel, Nicola Vaccai, Joseph Gelinek, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Gaetano Valeri, Leopold Koželuh, Michiel Pfeiffer, composed for forces including voice and fortepiano, voice and keyboard, two sopranos and keyboard, choir/chorus and chamber orchestra, keyboard (2 hands), keyboard (4 hands), fortepiano, cembalo (harpsichord), piano trio, most bearing old library catalogue information in pencil to front covers, some with Biblioteca Papafava bookplate, all bound without covers, most pages uncut, some offsetting, slim oblong folio (23 x 32 cm) (Approx. 55)

£200 - £300

344 Millico (Giusippe). A Second Sett of Six Songs with an Accompanyment for the Great or Small Harp, Forte Piano or Harpsicord, composed and humbly dedicated to the Baroness de Frise, London: Printed by Welcker in Gerrard Street, St. Ann’s, Soho [1774], engraved title (with autograph by Caroline Marlborough), engraved dated dedication leaf, sixteen pages of engraved music, numbered 2-17, ink manuscript inscription inside front cover (and later ink manuscript inscription dated 1941), contemporary giltdecorated mottled full-calf, with gilt red morocco label to upper cover ‘Millicos: 2nd Songs’, rubbed and scuffed to edges, upper cover detached, outer corners showing, slim oblong 8vo, together with The Musical Miscellany; being a collection of choice songs, set to the violin and flute, by the most eminent masters, two volumes in one, London: John Watts, at the printing-office in … Fields 1729, each volume with engraved frontispiece, and with title printed in red & black, printed music and woodcut and head- and tail-pieces throughout, spotting to edges and first & last few leaves, first frontspiece blank reverse with late 18th century ink manuscript annotation, front pastedown with pictorial bookplate of William C. Smith and on facing page a related ink manuscript inscription, modern quarter morocco gilt, two corner tips showing, 8vo, plus Gay (John), The Beggar’s Opera, written by Mr Gay, with the Overture in score, the Songs, and the Basses engraved on copper plates, (the Overture and Basses composed by Dr. Pepusch), London: W. Strahan, T. Lowndes [et al], 1777, title with engraved printer’s device (slightly creased and rubbed), first 3 leaves stained and with repairs to gutter, intermittent staining and toning, 46 numbered pages of engraved music at rear (some light toning), endpapers renewed, original boards, cloth reback, recent label to front cover, wear to edges, 4to

First item: the ink manuscript inscription inside the front cover reads: Purchased August 21st 1903 by Lilian Aylice [?] Jones from Mrs Bowen, landlady of the Star Hotel, Woodstock. It was given by the then Duke of Marlborough to Mrs Bowen’s father (or grandfather) who was engineer at Blenheim Palace.

(3) £200 - £300

345 Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). Duetto, con Recitativo nell’Don Giovanni, del Sigr. W: Mozart, circa 1790, contemporary scribal manuscript copy of the duet ‘Fuggi, crudele’ and its preceding recitative ‘Ma qual mai s’offre, o Dei’, scored for soprano, tenor and keyboard reduction, 18pp, brown ink on cream laid paper, watermarked Portal & Bridges with a separate fleur-de-lys watermark, bound without covers (stitching lost), slim oblong folio

“The watermark Portal & Bridges lacked the date found in most paper from this mill. Since the royal decree requiring watermark dates in English paper was issued in 1794, it seemed reasonable to consider undated Portal & Bridges paper as pre-1794” from Watermarks and Musicology, Jan La Rue, The Journal of Musicology, page 319, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 2001), University of California Press.

This is an unusually early, contemporary manuscript copy possibly for home or rehearsal use. Given the paper manufacturer, this is evidently an early copy possibly made in London, only a few years after the opera was premiered.

The keyboard reduction in this version is very similar - but not identicalto Carl Zulehner’s keyboard reduction in the edition published by B. Schott in 1791.

(1)

£300 - £500

346 Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). Three Sonatas for Piano Forte, 1st English edition, London: printed & Sold at Bland & Weller’s Music Warehouse, 23 Oxford Street, [1793], engraved titlepage with large vignette of a mother and child weeping by a carved stone relief bust of Mozart, 40pp. of engraved music (numbered 2-41 with first page blank), some light marginal soiling, untrimmed, original blue plain wrappers, stitched as issued, some loss to lower quarter of upper wrapper, and to edges of rear wrapper, large slim folio, together with two other pieces of engraved music: Nicola Sampieri, Le Roi a La Chasse, a favorite piece of music composed by Signor Sampieri, [London: engraved vignette title to upper wrapper, depcting a hunt, two pages of engraved music (numbered 12-13), some soiling and fraying to edges, slim folio, and Hugh Dolphin, A Trip to Margate, a new comic song descriptive of the progressions of a Steam Packet, in her outward bound passage from the Tower Stairs to Margate Pier, London: printed & Published for the Proprietor by C. Mitchell, 13 Southampton Row, Russell Square, 4pp. of engraved music and text (the latter with marginal illustrations), unbound, slim folio

First English edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major (K.280), Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat (K.282) and Piano Sonata No. 5 in G Major (K.283).

(3)

£150 - £200

347 Mrs. Alfred Shaw (née Mary Postans). An archive of printed and engraved music relating to the operatic contralto Mrs. Alfred Shaw, circa early to mid 19th century, approximately 37 items of printed, engraved and manuscript music, most bearing the ownership inscription ‘Mrs Alfred Shaw’, ‘A. E. Shaw’ or ‘Mrs Shaw’ in ink, some with the addition of an address or brief dedication, all for voice with pianoforte accompaniment, includes songs by Handel, Gluck, Cherubini, Maria B. Hawes, Jules Benedict, Henry Brinley Richards, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Rossini, George Smart, Beethoven and Mozart, some with later historical notes relating to previous performances by Shaw, folio or oblong folio, together with three playbills relating to appearances made by Mrs. Alfred Shaw, each one tipped-on or laid down to later backing card, old folds, the largest approx. 72 x 24 cm

Mary Shaw (1814-1876) was an English classical contralto who maintained an active international career in concerts and operas during the 1830s and 1840s. She is best remembered for creating the role of Cuniza in the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera Oberto. She sang in the English premiere of Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio St. Paul in 1836, and two years later appeared as a soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 12 concerts under Mendelssohn’s baton at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. She performed numerous operatic roles at La Scala, the Royal Opera House and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

(Approx. 40)

£150 - £200

348 Printed Music and Miniature Scores. A large collection of printed music, miniature scores and books, including a significant number of works for various forces by 20th-century and contemporary composers, including Thea Musgrave, Pierre Boulez, Elisabeth Lutyens, Thea Musgrave, Gwyn Pritchard, Tim Souster, Wilfred Josephs, Arnold Schoenberg, James Fulkerson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Donald McWhinnie, Luciano Berio, Jonathan Harvey, Steve Reich and Trevor Wishart, miniature scores of various works by Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Gustav Holst, Arthur Honegger, Frank Martin, Bela Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Poulenc, Berg, and other full-sized scores, various composers and editions, a small collection of items related to folk music and dancing including publications by The English Folk-Dance Society, eight volumes of Musica Brittanica (IV, V, VIII, XV, XVIII, XXXVI, XXXVII and XLIII), many items with ownership inscription of Edward Williams, various sizes

Provenance: From the music collection of the British composer Edward Williams.

(Three cartons)

£100 - £200

349 Rawsthorne (Alan). Cadenzas for Mozart’s Concerto K. 365 [Piano Concerto No. 10], [1949], autograph fair-copy manuscript in ink signed ‘Alan Rawsthorne’, with dedication ‘For Mary and Geraldine Peppin’, cadenzas for the two solo pianos for movements one and three, written on 4 staves, some occasional corrections, 16 pages, in good condition, first and last leaf detached, folio

Provenance: From the music collection of the composer Edward Williams (1921-2013). Mary and Geraldine Peppin (born 30 December 1912) were identical twin sisters, and performers in a classical piano duo active in the UK from the 1930s until the 1960s. Later in life they both became influential piano teachers at the Guildhall School of Music. Geraldine was married to the poet Randall Swingler, they had a son and a daughter (Judith) who married the composer Edward Williams. Geraldine died in December 1980 and Mary died on 8 August 1989. The above cadenza is mentioned in the short-lived academic journal Music-Survey’s (partial) list of Rawsthorne’s works. (1)

£200 - £300

350 [Roberts, Henry]. [Calliope, or, English harmony: A collection of the most celebrated English and Scotch songs, neatly engrav’d and embelish’d with designs adapted to the subject of each song taken from the compositions of the best masters in the most correct manner with the thorough bass and transposition for the flute proper for all teachers scholars and lovers of music..., London: Henry Roberts, c.1745], 98 engraved leaves of music only (comprising leaves 1-8, 11-100), with engraved headpieces, lacking title and preliminary leaves, few leaves with repaired tears, some dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary half calf, lacking spine and boards detached, worn, small 4to Sold with all faults, not subject to return. This work was first issued in 50 parts of 8 pages each between 1737 and 1746, and collected into 2 volumes.

(1)

£200 - £300

351 Rousseau (Jean-Jacques). Dictionnaire de Musique, new revised and corrected edition, London: 1766, engraved frontispiece (lightly offset) and vignette title, half title present (Collection Complette des Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau, tome neuvieme), 13 folding engraved plates at rear (correct), variable toning, occasional spotting, 20th century antique-style half calf gilt, marbled boards, 4to, together with [Lusse, Charles de], Recueil de Romances Historiques, Tendres et Burlesques ..., par M.D.L., 1767, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, contemporary mottled calf gilt, extremities worn, 8vo, plus Bethizy (Jean Laurent de), Exposition de la Theorie et de la Pratique de la Musique, 2nd edition, Paris: F.G. Deschamps, 1764, half-title, woodcut printer’s device to title, 60pp. engraved music at rear, lightly dust-soiled, contemporary quarter cloth, worn, French ink manuscript paper label to spine (faded), 8vo, with 3 others: Lettre A.M. Villoteau ... suivie d-un memoire ... par G.M. Raymond, Paris: Courcier, 1811; Carteggio Musicale di Carlo Gervasoni, Parma: Luigi Mussi, 1804; Frusta Musicale ossia Lettere sugli Abusi Introdotti Nella Musica, di D. Nicolo Eustachio Cattaneo, Milano: Luigi di Giacomo Pirola, 1836, all 8vo (6)

£300 - £400

352 Tessarin (Angelo). Seven autograph musical manuscripts, including ‘Canzoncina d’Aprile’, signed at the end ‘A Tessarin’, July [18]88, a song for voice [soprano or tenor] and piano, setting words by Enrico Panzacchi, in A major with a 6/8 time signature, 69 bars in total, purple ink on hand ruled manuscript paper, 10pp, first leaf detached, and another manuscript copy of the same composition transposed down a tone to G major, purple ink on hand ruled manuscript paper, 6pp, last leaf detached, plus ‘Quando questi occhi chiusi mi vedrai’, signed at the end ‘A Tessarin’, August [18]91, a song for voice [soprano or tenor] and piano, setting words by Angelo Poliziano, dedication ‘Mi amico ? Maestro Francesco Ghia’, in D major with a 4/4 time signature (but notated in 4/2), 39 bars, black ink on hand ruled manuscript paper, 4pp, edges worn, together with three further songs for voice and piano ‘Ne lagram nebbia…’, ‘Tre baci’ (2 copies) and a further composition for piano, all signed and dated

Little information exists for Angelo Tessarin (1834-1909). Another of his compositions for voice and piano Sognai (‘I dreamed’) was published in Milan by F. Lucca in 1872. He is also known to have been friends with Richard Wagner, and the pair could often be found frequenting Caffe Lavena in Venice. (7) £200 - £300

353 Thomson (George, editor). A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, with Introductory and Concluding Symphonies & Accompaniments for the Piano Forte, Violin and Violoncello by Pleyel, Kozeluch and Haydn [...] including upwards of One Hundred New Songs by Burns, London: T. Preston, [17971799], [First Volume], engraved frontispiece ‘The Birks of Invermay’ by Paton Thomson after Hamilton, title page with editor’s signature to foot ‘G Thomson’ in ink, preface, indices, 100pp of engraved music and printed text, bound together with the Second Volume, [1801], engraved frontispiece by Paton Thomson after Allan ‘John Anderson my Jo’, title page with editor’s signature at foot, indices, 100pp of engraved music and printed text, bearing printed Armorial bookplate of Thomas Fitzherbert Esq. (dated 1749) to front pastedown, some offsetting, and the Third and Fourth Volumes, circa early 19th-century, bound together, both with engraved frontispieces, title pages signed by the editor, bearing printed Armorial bookplate ‘Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Park, Co. Stafford’ to front pastedown, areas of offsetting, both volumes contemporary full calf with gilt owner’s name to upper covers, gilt decorated spine, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, folio Volume 1, RISM K 1404; Volume 2, RISM K 1405.

Between 1792 and his death in 1796, the poet Robert Burns contributed (for little or no remuneration) over 100 songs to the project, including hallmark productions such as ‘My Luve is like a Red Red Rose’ and ‘Is There for Honest Poverty’. Other ‘librettists’ in the original first volume include Allan Ramsay, Peter Pindar, Andrew Erskine, Earl Kellie, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, as well as traditional song. (2)

£200 - £300

£100 - £150

354 Brangwyn (Frank). Catalogue of the Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn, 1st edition, London: Fine Art Society Ltd., 1912, photogravure portrait frontispiece and plates, with tissue guards, some light spotting & toning, ‘Xmas 1912’ in pencil to front free endpaper, front hinge split, original quarter vellum, title on brown morocco adherred to spine, folio, together with The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn by Herbert Furst, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1924, 33 colour illustrations, some minor spotting and toning, publisher’s original cream cloth boards, dust jacket, some chipping to edges, closed tear to lower right edge of spine, 4to (2)

355 Canina (Luigi). Gli Edifizi di Roma Antica cogniti per alcune reliquie, descritti e dimostrati nell’intera loro architettura, volumes 1-4 (of 6), Rome: Stesso Canina, 1848-51, 312 engraved plates throughout the two plate volumes (including many double-page), scattered light spotting, contemporary half vellum gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, marked and rubbed, a few light stains to covers, spines worn with title labels to volumes 2 and 4 mostly lacking, folio (57.5 x 41.5 cm)

Brunet I 1540.

357 Constable (John). English Landscape Scenery, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855, 40 mezzotint plates by David Lucas after Constable, some light spotting to margins throughout, plate 21 with some smudge marks to margins, contemporary blue half straight grain morocco, rubbing to extremities, some small areas of loss to left corner of lower board, gilt title to spine, folio (1)

£200 - £400

358 Cooper (Thomas Sidney). Studies of Cattle, drawn from nature..., Parts 1 & 2, New Edition, London: S. & J. Fuller, circa 1839, 70 lithographic plates (2 lacking in part II), overall spotting, later endpapers to part I, both with original cloth with gilt binding (part II with first three leaves and upper cover detached), faded, oblong 4to, together with Hills (Robert). Etchings of Horses, circa 1816, 36 etchings, minor spotting and some marks to blank margin, disbound, large folio, and a further 24 lithographs by E Purcell, London: Thomas Maclean, 1822, containing studies of figures set mainly in the countryside or in battle, (one missing lower right edge, another with closed tear to lower margin), contained loosely in two boards, 4to (4)

£200 - £400

A remarkably comprehensive survey of the architecture of Rome, including plates depicting the excavations of the Appian Way. (4)

£400 - £600

356 Christo, Jeanne-Claude & Wolfgang Volz. The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91, 2 volumes, Cologne: Taschen, 1998, numerous photographic illustrations, 2 original fabric swatches bound in volume I, a few small water stains (mainly affecting pp. 1080-1088 in volume II, with resultant adhesive abrasions and losses to text and images, small abrasions to pp. 445-449 in volume I) original cloth, slipcase (slight mottling to cloth), 4to, limited signed edition 499/500, from a total edition of 3000, together with an exhibition catalogue ‘Christo; The Umbrellas (Joint project for Japan and USA), 25 May-24 June 1988, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, signed to title by Christo, 4 postcards of the Wrapped Reichstag, each signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a folding map of the Umbrellas site in California, another exhibition catalogue, Japan 1988, and 10 unsigned postcards of the Wrapped Reichstag and Umbrellas

Sold with all faults not subject to return.

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£70 - £100

359 Dèrriere le Miroir. Joan Miro, Dèrriere le Miroir nos 14-15, Novembre-Décembre 1948, Paris: Editions Pierre à Feu/Aimé Maeght, 1948, 8pp. of original colour lithograph illustrations by Miro (including covers), 4pp. of printed text at centre, one or two minor marks (generally in very good condition), together with Dèrriere le Miroir no. 117, Maeght editeur 1959, Paris: Editions Pierre à Feu/Maeght Editeur, 1959, 20pp of illustrated text, including outer wrappers, original colour lithograph by Miro to outer wrapper, a few light marks to covers, short closed tear to fore-margin of rear wrapper without loss, 8pp inserted catalogue of etchings and lithographs published by Maeght loosely inserted (pages numbered 93-100), plus Dèrriere le Miroir no. 203, Avril 1973, Miro Sobreteixims, Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1973, lacking the two double-page colour lithographs by Miro (pages 3-6 and 11-14), colour illustrations after photographs, covers with original colour lithograph by Miro, all slim folio (3)

£200 - £300

360 Hogarth (William). The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste, 1st edition, London: J. Reeves for the author, 1753, title with woodcut vignette, 2 folding engraved plates, a little minor spotting and toning front and rear, bookplate of James Hustler of Acklam, Cleveland, 1730 pasted to title verso, modern sprinkled calf gilt, 4to (1)

£200 - £300

361 Jombert (Charles-Antoine). Methode pour apprendre le dessein, ou l’on donne les regles generales de ce grand art, & des preceptes pour en acquerir la connoissance, & s’y perfectionner en peu de tems; enrichie de cent planches representant differentes parties du corps humain d’apres Raphael & les autres grands maItres..., Paris: de l’imprimerie de l’auteur, 1755, woodcut device to title, 101 leaves with engraved plates (2 folding and several with multiple engravings per sheet), table of chapters bound in after 1st plate, 20th-century bookplate of Sigi Leonhardt to verso of front free endpaper, light toning to margins of title page, light spotting to a few text leaves, repaired tear in the front free endpaper and pencil annotations to verso, sewing broken with some gatherings detached from text block, contemporary cat’s paw calf, spine compartments gilt decorated, head and tail of spine chipped with loss, upper joint splitting, some areas of damp staining to boards, corners bumped, 4to (1)

£300 - £500

362 Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament, drawn on stone by F. Bedford, 1st edition, London: Day and Son, 1856, title printed in red and black, with Maggi Editore ink stamp to lower corner, chromolithographic additional title, 100 chromolithographic plates, wood-engraved vignettes in text, many plates heightened in gold, tissue guards to most, plates 76-79 with tear to upper blank margin (some old repairs), first few text leaves and final plate lightly spotted (mainly to blank margins), titles and first few text leaves detached, with slight edge-fraying, two text leaves with repair to fore-margin, all edges gilt, original black half morocco gilt, black morocco mounted panel elaborately decorated in gilt to upper cover, rubbed and lightly marked, some wear to extremities, spine ends splitting, large folio (55 x 38 cm) (1)

363 Kandinsky (Wassily). Uber das Geistige in der Kunst, insbesondere in der Malerei, mit acht tafeln und zehn originalholzschnitten, Zweite Auflage, Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, 8 monochrome plates after the Ravenna mosaics, Durer, Raphael, Cezanne and Kandinsky, ten original woodcut designs to text by Kandinsky, 5pp. advertisements to rear, original printed wrappers with woodcut design by Kandisnky to upper cover printed in green, some marks and soiling and a little fraying and wear, dark ink stain to foot of spine and lower left corner of upper wrapper, pale waterstain to lower outer corner of rear wrapper, 4to (24 x 18.5 cm) Gore Rifkind Coll. 161; The Artist and the Book, 137; Roethel 82-92. The second edition (appearing just a few months after the first) of “One of the most important manifestos of modern art. Kandinsky’s book is antimaterialist and anti-naturalist, calling for painting that goes beyond a recording of the visible world. The non-objective woodcuts are historically important as early graphic demonstrations of the artist’s thesis.” (The Artist and the Book). (1) £200 - £300

£400 - £600

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364 Mitchiner (Michael). Oriental Coins and their Values: The World of Islam; The Ancient & Classical World 600 B. C.-A. D. 650; Non-Islamic States & Western Colonies AD 600-1979, 3 volumes, London: Hawkins Publications, 1977-79, numerous half-tone illustrations, a little minor spotting to endpapers of The World of Islam, original cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, 4to, with 8 others coin-related including David Sear’s Byzantine Coins & their Values, 1974, and Greek Imperial Coins and their Values, 1982, and Gold Coins of the World, by Robert Friedberg, 5th edition, 1980 (11)

£200 - £300

365 Ovid. Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, translated by the most eminent hands. With historical explanations of the fables written in French by Abbot Banier, 2 volumes bound in one, Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732, half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece, printed title to each volume in red and black with engraved vignette, six half-page engraved plates on three leaves by Folkema after Le Brun, 124 fine engravings to text, some light marks (contents generally clean condition), contemporary engraved bookplate to front pastedown with motto vixi liber et moriar, contemporary sprinkled full calf, rubbed and somewhat worn with rear cover detached, folio Provenance: Ibbetson family, Yorkshire (bookplate). Cohen-de Ricci 768. (1)

366 Richardson (George). Iconology; or, A Collection of Emblematical Figures, Moral and Instructive; exhibiting the images of the elements and celestial bodies, the seasons and months of the year, the hours of the day and night, the quarters of the world, the principal rivers, the four ages, the muses, the senses..., containing, in four books, upwards of four hundred and twentyfour remarkable subjects, engraved from original designs, with particular explanations of the figures, their attributes and symbols; illustrated by a variety of authorities from classical authors; selected and composed from the most approved emblematical representations of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and from the compositions of Cavaliere Cesare Ripa, Perugino, by George Richardson, Architect, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed for the Author, 1778-79, volume I: [14pp., including engraved dedication leaf], vii, 113pp., 52 full-page engraved plates (numbered I-LII); volume II: [6], 161pp., 1 leaf of general index], 57 full-page engarved plates (numbered LIII-CIX), list of subscribers to second volume, wide margins (contents generally in good, clean condition), engraved bookplate of John Mair to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary full calf, worn with covers detached or near- detached, large 4to (sheet size 38 x 30 cm)

Provenance: John Mair (died 1824) of Glasgow and of London, a self made Scottish merchant and manufacturer of muslin, who established his manufactory at No. 60 Friday Street, London (bookplate).

£600 - £800

ESTC N17051.

Handsome edition of George Richardson's collection of emblems and motifs drawn from ancient and classical authors as well as the Italian writer Cesare Ripa. Scottish architect George Richardson (1737/1738-1813) wrote a number of works on architecture and deisgn. The present work was designed for the use of painters and interior designers, and had a significant influence on neo-classical art in England. Subscribers to the work include Robert and James Adam, Francesco Bartolozzi, Sir William Chambers, Cipriani, George Dance, James Gandon, Sir William Hamilton, Joseph Nollekens, Thomas Nash (cabinet maker), James Paine, Edward Penny and Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Royal Academy, Romney, Paul Sandby, James Tassie, Benjamen West, Richard Westmacott, William Woollett, and Antonio Zucchi. (2)

£400 - £600

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367 Ruskin (John). The Stones of Venice, 3 volumes, new edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873, half-title to volume 1, final leaf of Preface in first volume bearing the signature of John Ruskin, 53 mixed technique plates (including lithograph, mezzotint, aquatint and engraved, some tinted or hand-coloured), wood engraved illustrations and diagrams to text, occasional marginal toning, spotting and damp-staining, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated dark green morocco, large 8vo

Signed limited edition, one of 1,500 sets signed by the author. (3) £600 - £800

368 Shaw (Henry). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 volumes in one, London: William Pickering, 1843, pictorial and printed titles to each volume (volume I additional title with hand-colouring), 94 plates, most hand-coloured, many heightened with gold, numerous black & white and hand-coloured decorations and illustrations to text, scattered spotting (mainly to text and foredge), flyleaves spotted, hinges cracked before/after flyleaves, front pastedown with bookplate of James Smith, and with booksellers (and binder?) ticket William Brown, 26 Princes Street, Edinburgh, both marbled pastedowns with leather borders decorated with elaborate gilt-tooled rolls, all edges gilt, late 19th century red/brown morocco gilt, covers and spine with decorative gold-tooling, some fading, lightly rubbed, rear cover slightly marked, large thick 8vo, together with Presuhn (Emile), Les Decorations Murales de Pompei, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1878, 24 chromolithographs with numbered tissue guards (as list, but without plan of Pompeii), extra-illustrated with a further 37 similar chromolithographed plates (apparently relating to Pompeii), occasional spotting (mainly to blank margins), 3 numbered plates detached, with edge-fraying and some chips, plate 24 with small hole to blank fore-margin, title with ink ownership inscription at top, hinges cracked, near contemporary red cloth, worn, front cover gilt-lettered Peintures de Pompei, large 8vo, plus Waldheim (R. von, publisher), Vorlagen fur Textil-Arbeiten, vorwiegend nach entwurfen der hervorragendsten meister der neuzeit ..., Vienna, [1880], title in red & black, 42 woodcut and chromolithographed plates, two plates spotted, the remainder with occasional light spotting mainly to blank margins, 1 leaf of text, front pastedown with bookplate 'Rousdon, Devon', hinges cracked, contemporary maroon half morocco, rubbed and faded with some marks, front cover with gilt title, large slim 8vo, with 4 others: Some Drawings of Ancient Embroidery, by Mary Barber, London & Manchester: Henry Sotheran, 1880; Gray's Elegy, the Borders designed and illuminated by Lady Willoughby, London: Day & Son, [1866]; The Cromlech on Howth, a poem, by Samuel Ferguson, with illuminations from the Book of Kells & of Durrow, and drawings from nature, London: Day & Son, [1861]; The Book of Song, London: Chappell, [1847?], various conditions, all large 8vo (6) £300 - £400

369 Slade (Felix). Catalogue of the Collection of Glass formed by Felix Slade, with notes on the history of glass making by Alexander Nesbitt, printed for private distribution, 1871, 22 chromolithograph plates, some heightened in gold, monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary olive haf morocco, joints and edges a little rubbed, folio (1) £300 - £500

370 Spanheim (Ezechiel). Liberi Baronis, & legati Regii Dissertationes de præstantia et usu numismatum antiquorum..., 2 volumes, London & Amsterdam: Richard Smith & Rodolph & Gerhard Westenios, 1706 & 1717, engraved frontispieces to both volumes, engraved portrait with old folds to volume 1, numerous engraved illustrations within text, titles printed in red and black, volume 2 with vignette to title, volume 1 frontispiece with repaired tear, endpapers renewed, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall to front pastedowns of both volumes, all edges gilt, 20th-century half morocco, lettering, coronet and monogram in gilt to spines, some scuff marks, folio Provenance: William Proby, 5th Earl of Carysfort (bookplate). (2)

£200 - £300

371 Vakhtangov (Yevgeny, director). Printsessa Turandot. Teatral´no-tragicheskaii kitaiskaia skazka v 5 aktakh [Princess Turandot. A Dramatic Tragic Chinese Tale in 5 Acts], Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923, two full-page photographic portraits of Vakhtangov, 12 full-page colour plates of stage designs, 14 photographic plates (all with tissue guards), numerous photographic illustrations to the text, including images of the production and sketches for costumes and scenery by Ignaty Nivinsky, contemporary ownership inscription in purple ink to front endpaper in Russian, original publisher’’s illustrated printed wrappers with avant-garde design to upper cover by Nivinsky, some wear, with fraying and tears to spine and margins with some small losses, light browning to outer edges and spine, 4to (33 x 25 cm), together with two other titles printed in Russian language: Lermontov’s Demon, illustrated by Alfred Eberling, St. Petersburg, M. O. Vol’f, 1910, and Gollerbach & Farmakovski, La Porcelaine d’Art Russe, Recueil d’articles sur la manufacture de porcelaine de l’etat, Leningrad, 1924, both with some marks and fraying to edges, small square 4to/large 4to respectively Compton 106; Hellyer 134; Rowell & Wye 493.

First edition of this commemorative account of Vakhtangov´s famous 1922 production of Princess Turandot at the Third Moscow Arts Theatre, which became one of the symbols of a new theatrical era, with costumes and stage sets by the Russian graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, interior designer and architect Ignaty Nivinsky (1881-1933), who had also designed the set for August Strindberg´s Erik XIV in 1921.

“In 1923 a commemorative volume was devoted to Vakhtangov’s colourful production of Carlo Gozzi’s Princess Turandot for the Third Studio of the Moscow Arts Theatre. Unfortunately he died of illness without seeing this production, which he directed from his hospital bed. Costumes and decor were by Ignaty Nivinsky who was also responsible for the book, providing a cubist design for the cover, printed in pastel shades of yellow, blue, pink and green. The publication which includes colour plates as well as photographs, gives an idea of the look of the production...” (Compton). (3)

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372 Waring (John Burley, editor). Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, Chromo Lithographed by F. Bedford, the Drawings on Wood by R. Dudley, with Essays by Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt, A. W. Franks, J. B. Waring, J.C. Robinson, and G. Scharf, Jun., 1st edition, Day and Son, 1858, 100 chromolithographic plates, some with a few marginal tears, all edges gilt, endpapers renewed, modern bevelled cloth with original decorated calf gilt upper cover and spine relaid, some wear, folio, together with: Ashdown Audsley (George & Maurice). The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist..., Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd, [1892], 100 chromolithographic plates, blue ink stamp of Andrew L Mazzri, London to front free endpaper, foot of title and rear endpaper, some spotting to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, some wear, folio, plus 2 others works on design with numerous chromolithographic plates, folios (4)

£300 - £500

373 Winckelmann (Johann Joachim). Description des pierres gravees du feu Baron de Stosch dediee a son eminence Monseigneur le cardinal Alexandre Albani par M. l’abbe Winckelmann bibliothecaire de son eminence, 1st edition, Florence: Andre Bonducci, 1760, folding engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved plates (7 folding, most with small closed tear close to guard), corrections bound to rear, numismatic art deco bookplate of Max Crepy to front pastedown, light soiling to a few plates, text block splitting between VV4 and XX1, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson calf, spine gilt decorated, elaborate gilt border to boards, rubbed and worn, spine cracked with head and tail with loss, 4to Millingen (James). Recueil de quelques medailles grecques inedites, Rome: Imprime par De Romanis, 1812, 4 folding plates bound to rear, bookplate to verso of front free endpaper, blue ink stamp to verso of title page, original paper wrappers, worn, ex libris paper stamp to lower left corner of from board, 4to Goorle (Abraham van). Cabinet de Pierres Antiques gravées, ou Collection Choisie de 216 Bagues et 682 Pierres Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, Romaines, Parthiques, Gauloises, &c. Tirées du Cabinet Gorlee, & autres célèbres Cabinets de l’Europe, Paris: Lamy, 1778, frontispiece and additional engraved title page to volume 1, titles printed in red and black, 282 engraved plates, endpapers a little toned, late 19th-century quarter purple calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spines, spines evenly faded to brown, extremities a little rubbed, small folio (4)

£300 - £400

374 The Woodcut. An Annual, Edited by Herbert Furst, nos. 1-4, London: The Fleuron, 1927-30, numerous woodcut illustrations and some tipped-in samples, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slightly rubbed, small folio, together with: Whitehouse (J. Howard, editor), Woodcuts by Members of Bembridge School, 2 copies, Cambridge University Press, 1926, numerous woodcut illustrations, original holland-backed boards with printed paper labels to spines an upper covers, rubbed and toned, small folio, plus Empson (Patience, editor), The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with some Recollections by the Artist, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, illustrations throughout, original cloth, 4to, plus other wood engraving interest including books by and about Clare Leighton, Agnes Miller Parker, John Farleigh, Reynolds Stone, etc., mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, various sizes (approx. 200)

£300 - £500

375 Bindings. Burns (Robert). The Lovers Library, Love Poems of Burns..., London & New York: Jon Lane, 1903, text printed in green or purple, minor spotting and offsetting, gift inscription dated 1933 to front blank, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, 19th-century calf by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spine, gilt border to boards, 6mo, together with: Blake (Wiliam). The Poems of..., London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1874, printer’s device to title, top edge gilt, 20th-century crimson crushed half morocco by Morrell, London, gilt decoration to spines, small 8vo, plus Lord Rosebery. Chatham: His Early Life and Connections, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1910, title printed in red and black, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, 20th-century russet crushed morocco by Bumpus, Oxford, gilt ruling to spines and boards, minor scuffs to boards, 8vo, plus 8 others, all gilt decorated leather bindings, 8vo or smaller (11)

£200 - £300

376 Caldecott (Randolph, illustrator). North Italian Folk. Sketches of Town and Country Life by Mrs Comyns Carr, London: Chatto and Windus, 1878, hand-coloured frontispiece, plates and illustrations, front free endpaper with signature of Clement Guest Caldecott, edges untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, printed title label to spine worn with loss, spine browned and frayed at head and foot, boards rubbed at edges, lightly dust-soiled and discoloured, 8vo (limited hand-coloured edition 132/250), together with: Blackburn (Henry). Randolph Caldecott: A personal memoir of his early art career, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886, photographic portrait frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, occasional light spotting, pencil signature of Eleanor St. George Caldecott to front free endpaper, split to upper hinge, all edges gilt, original green cloth with blocked illustration in black to upper board, extremities lightly frayed, 8vo, plus three other copies of the same title, and Caldecott (Randolph). The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s contributions to The “Graphic” printed by Edmund Evans, with a Preface by Arthur Locker (Editor of the “Graphic”), London: George Routledge and Sons, 1888, colour and monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth, repaired tear to spine, some soiling to covers, large 4to, Caldecott (Violet, 19th/20th c.). Landscape drawing of view near Vevay, 1901, charcoal and white chalk on wove, signed and dated lower left, 42.5 x 55 cm (16 3/4 x 21 1/2 ins), framed and glazed (67 x 80 cm), plus other books illustrated by or relating to Randolph Caldecott (approx. 50) £200 - £300

377 Churchill (Winston S). Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co, 1906, photogravure portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, 3 facsimiles (1 folding, 1 double-page), neat contemporary gift inscription in brown ink with further later ownership inscription to front free endpapers, small ownership stamp at foot of front pastedowns, occasional spotting, original publisher’s red cloth gilt, family crests stamped in gilt to upper covers, spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with: Churchill (Winston S.) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Co., 195658, half-titles, maps and plans, some fore-edges spotted, original publisher’s red cloth gilt, dust jackets, small tear to foot of fourth volume lower joint neatly reinforced with tape, extremities lightly frayed in places, 8vo (6)

£200 - £300

378 Folio Society. Troilvs & Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1990, large 8vo, Chronicles of King Arthur, 3 volumes by Sir Thomas Malory, 1982, 8vo, The Queen of Heaven a selection of paintings of the virgin Mary from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, by Bruce Bernard, 1987, large 4to, together with 123 further Folio Society publications, 99 volumes in original cloth & slipcases, 24 volumes lacking slipcases, 4to/8vo, G/VG (128)

£100 - £150

379 Folio Society. The Novels of Anthony Trollope, 48 volumes, circa 1981-99, original cloth in slipcases, 8vo, together with other Folio Society publications including The Best of Roald Dahl, 6 volumes, Illustrated by Quentin Blake, 2002, and Marlborough his Life and Times, by Winston Churchill, 4 volumes, 1991, all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo VG (58)

£200 - £300

380 Greig (Thomas Watson). Ladies’ Old-Fashioned Shoes [bound with] Supplement to Old-Fashioned Shoes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885, [and] 1889, 14 (of 15) colour lithographs and additional black & white illustrations, lacks plate 2, some old damp staining affecting lower margins to initial blanks and preliminary leaves only, original roan-backed printed boards, soiled and worn, oblong folio (1)

£300 - £500

381 Keats (John). The Poetical Works of John Keats, Oxford edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915, frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter vellum, spine elaborately gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, lightly marked, 8vo, together with: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Poems, including poems and versions of poems now published for the first time, Oxford: Henry Frowde, 1912, frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter vellum, spine elaborately gilt, orange morocco title label lettered in gilt, lightly marked, 8vo, with Browning (Robert). Poems, Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1916, frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter vellum, spine elaborately gilt, black morocco title label lettered in gilt, some light spotting and marks, 8vo, with 7 further leatherbound works, 4 bound in quarter vellum and the James Watt volume bound by Sangorski (10) £100 - £150

382 Lawrence (T. E.). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 3 volumes (text/illustrations), limited issue, Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997, colour and monochrome illustrations in Illustrations volume, volume I text volume with two folding colour maps in rear pocket, original cloth-backed boards and limp cloth, dust jackets, slipcase, 4to, limited edition 121/752, together with volumes I-II & IX of the Letters series (Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926, 1927, and Correspondence with Henry Williamson), Castle Hill Press, 2000-2003), each a limited edition of 702 total editions, plus others related including The Golden Reign. The Story of My Friendship with “Lawrence of Arabia”, by Clare Sydney Smith, 1st edition, 1940, Lawrence of Arabia. A Biographical Enquiry by Richard Aldington, 1st edition, 1955, Letters to T. E. Lawrence, edited by A. W. Lawrence, 1962, Oriental Assembly, edited by A. W. Lawrence, Imperial War Museum facsimile edition, 1991 (inscribed by Malcolm Brown to Chris Dickenson, Trustee of the T. E. Lawrence Society), and The Journal pf the T. E. Lawrence Society, volumes 130, 1991-2020 (83) £400 - £600

383 Royal Carriages. An Album of Illustrations of Imperial & Royal State Carriages. Together with other carriages of deceased statesmen; and the funeral cars of Wellington and Nelson; also the four original locomotive engines used on railways in England, London: The Worshipful Company of Coach Makers and Coach Harness Makers of London, 1899, numerous monochrome illustrations, light toning to title and endpapers (front endpaper with marginal tape reinforcement), all edges gilt, original moroccobacked boards, spine rubbed, folio, together with [Tongue, Cornelius}, “Cecil”, Hunting Tours; descriptive of various fashionable countries and establishments, 1st edition, London Saunders, Otley and Co., 1864, half-title, 2 colour lithograph plates, original cloth spine (faded) and covers bound at rear, previous owner inscription, 1902 at front, top edge gilt, later blue half calf by Sotheran, spine faded to green, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus others including Road Scrappings: Coaches and Coaching, by Captain M. E. Smith, 1882, Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, by W. Outram Tristram, 1888, Driving, by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, 3rd edition, 1890 and others, bull-fighting related etc (27) £100 - £200

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£100 - £150

384 Dickens (Charles). Works, 14 volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, circa 1890, plates and illustrations, bookplate, all edges gilt, contemporary blue half calf gilt, spines faded to green, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Act of Parliament - Weymouth. An Act for the better ascertaining, recovering and collecting certain duties commonly called Petty Customs, or Wharfage, payable upon the Importation and Exportation of Goods and Merchandizes into, or out of, the Harbour of the Borough and Town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the County of Dorset..., London: Thomas Baskett, 1749, pp. 499-512, black letter, title with woodcut royat arms, modern arms, slim folio, plus 40 volumes of the World’s Classics series, 1940s-70s (carton)

385 Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, 1717, blank leaf at rear inscribed ‘Sarah Lingard lui livre lui donne’z par Monsieur de Caswall Juillet le 16 1732’, monogrammed bookplate to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated crushed red morocco, joints cracked and worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Caradoc Press. Holy Communion from the Book of Common Prayer, 1904, woodcut frontispiece, text printed in red and black with decorative initials, pages uncut, original maroon morocco, 12mo in 6s, and Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, London: R. Bowyer, 1796, engraved title, double-column text in English and French, all edges gilt, contemporary navy crushed straight grain morocco, 8vo, plus other 18th-19th century British and continental antiquarian, including theology etc., several odd volumes (a carton) £150 - £200

386 Davies (John). Allwedd duwinyddiaeth, neu, Ddangoseg ysgrythyrol..., [The key of theology, or, scriptural Demonstration: containing a summary of verses relating to the doctrinal, practical, experienced, promising and threatening subjects of the Christian religion], Carmarthen: J. Evans, 1839, bound with: Williams (William). Crwydrad dychymmyg i fyd yr ysbrydoedd..., [A wandering of imagination into the world of spirits, or, Heavenly reflections on the death of the late Reverend. Lewis Lewis...,] Caerfyrddin: Argraphwyd gan Jonathan Harris, 1831; Jones (John). Alleirydd ysgrythyrawl, neu, Fynegair i’r Ysgolion Sabbothawl, [an Index to the Sabbath Schools: containing an explanation of the old strange Words of the scriptures up...], Machynlleth: D. Pugh, 1832; Rowlands (William). “Angeu yn y crochan;” neu, Bregeth ar feddwdod: yn yr hon y dangosir ei natur, ei bechadurusrwydd a’i effeithiau [“Death in the pot;” or, A Sermon on drunkenness: in which its nature, sinfulness and effects are shown], Dinbych, Pp. 52. Thomas Gee, 1834; Charles (Thomas). Hyfforddwr yn egwyddorion y grefydd Gristionogol [Instructor in the principles of the Christian religion], Bala: Argraffedig gan R. Saunderson, 1839, text in Welsh, frontispiece, ownership signature to front free endpaper, light spotting throughout, trimmed with small area of loss to printed area to a few leaves, contemporary tree calf, a little rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with: Dawson (Bensley & Cooke, publishers). Hyfforddiadau i ymddygiad defosiynol a gweddus..., [Training for devout and decent behavior: in the public service of God more particularly in the practice of Common Prayer appointed by the Church of England], Oxford: Dawson, Bensley, Cooke, 1809, text in Welsh, contemporary ownership signature to title, extensive contemporary manuscript notation to verso of title relating to provenance and similar to endpapers and pastedowns, long closed tear to title page, tear with loss to front free endpaper, damp stain to inner margin to last few gatherings, contemporary panelled calf, scuffed and bumped with minor areas of loss, thick 8vo, plus many other volumes, many 18th century and bound in leather including Books of Common Prayer in various languages including Spanish and French (1 carton)

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387 Theology reference. Books of Common Prayer, Sermons, Handbooks and Anglican Cannons in a variety of languages, mostly 20th-century, including translations in multiple languages such as Swahili, Luganda, Chichewa, Shona, Yoruba, Chinsenga, Hausa, Spanish, French, Greek, Latin, Scots, Shorthand and English, mostly in cloth or buckram bindings, various sizes (1 carton)

£150 - £200

388 Nash (John, illustrator). Catalogue of Alpine and Herbaceous Plants 1926, Stevenage: Clarence Elliott Ltd., 1926, eight hand coloured plates, limitation page 48/100 signed by John Nash, some spotting to preliminaries, original cloth-backed printed boards, original glassine dust jacket with some chips, closed tear to rear, spine toned, 8vo, together with Boreman (Thomas). A Description of Above Three Hundred Animals..., Edinburgh: W. Darling, 1782, black and white illustrations throughout, including: A Manticora, The Lamia, Unicorn, Rhinoceros, Elephant, etc., frontispiece with slight loss to outer edge margin, remnants of three red wax seals, and handwritten notes in ink to front free endpaper and front pastedown, folding Greenland Whale plate torn away and lacking, some pencil notes throughout, original brown sheep boards, 8vo, plus Cruikshank (George, illustrator). Cinderella and The Glass Slipper, London: David Bogue, [1854], six plates with ten vignettes, most with tissue guards, some minor spotting to a few pages, publisher’s printed blue wrappers, some marks to left edge, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Tenniel (John). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, ninteenth thousand, London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903, black and white illustrations throughout, all edge gilt, bookseller label to front pastedown, original red cloth with gilt decoration, spine slightly toned, 8vo, with Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, sixty-second thousand, 1898, and 26 other illustrated books including: Three Christmas Plays for Children by Theresa Pulszky, 1859; The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge in three volumes, 1844; The Book of English Trades, 1835; The Book of Trades, (stitching loose, boards detached), 1836; The Blossoms of Morality by I Bewick, 1796; The Hobbit, 1966; The Floricultural Magazine and Miscellany of Gardening, volumes I, - VI, 1838-42; etc., 8vo (a carton)

£200 - £300

389 Bindings.. A collection of 19th century literature, including The Works of George Eliot, 11 volumes, Steteotyoed Edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, circa 1980, The Works of Lord Macaulay, 8 volumes, edited by Lady Trevelyan, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, & 12 volumes of ‘prize bindings’ from Cheltenham College circa 1880, all in contemporary gilt decorated half & full calf, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo (approximately 45 volumes) (3 shelves)

£300 - £500

390 Lewis (T. R. & D. D. Cunningham). The ‘Oriental Sore,’ as observed in India, Calcutta: office for the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877, complete in 59 pages, ex-British Medical Library copy with associated stamps, some light toning, contemporary blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, slim 8vo, together with:

Mackenzie (Morell), Hay Fever and Paroxysmal Sneezing..., 5th edition, London: J. & A. Churchill, 1889, period inscription opposite the frontispiece, some light toning throughout, ex-library copy, original brown cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Congreve (Richard), The Catechism of Positive Religion..., 3rd edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1891, done minor toning, Index pasted down to the front endpaper, original green cloth, spine very lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mostly 19th century medical reference, mostly original cloth, some ex-library copies with associated marks, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves) £200 - £300

395 Maton (Michael). Honour Those Mentioned in the Great War 1914-1922, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Honiton: Token Publishing, 2915, original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, together with: Hikoki, publisher, Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft in Asia, by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov, 1st edition, Manchester, 2014 Wings of the Luftwaffe..., by Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, revised edition, 2010, both with monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, plus Bacyk (Norbert), The Tank Battle at Oraga, July-Sept. 1944 The 4th SS-Panzer-Corps vs the 1st Belorusssian Front, Stockholm: Leandoer & Ekholm, 2009, monochrome illustrations, original boards, 4to, and other modern military reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some original cloth/boards, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves) £200 - £300

391 Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st US edition, New York: W, W. Norton & Co., 1963, original cloth, dust jacket, spine faded with small tears and chips at ends, slight dust-soiling to rear panel, 8vo, together with Greene (Graham). Our Man in Havana, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1958, occasional light spotting, small ink stamp to front endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, a few small chips and closed tears, 8vo, plus Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye, 1st UK edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953, light spotting front and rear, original cloth (patches of fading to spine), dust jacket, some tears and losses, mainly to spine, 8vo, together with others including 1st editions of Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957, and A Tourist in Africa (title and 3 leaves detached), 1960 and others by Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Anthony Powell, William Golding, et al (5 shelves)

£300 - £400

392 Antiquarian. A large collection of mostly 19th century miscellaneous literature, including Biographie Universelle..., Paris: A. Thoisneir Desplaces, Éditeur, 1843, 45 volumes, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, large 8vo, some original cloth, mostly leather bindings, overall condition is generally fair/good, 8vo (6 shelves)

£150 - £200

393 Oden (Thomas C, General Editor). Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Old Testament, 15 volumes, 2001, New Testament, 12 volumes (in 13), 2001, Ancient Christian Doctrine, 5 volumes, 2009, all 1st editions, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with: Ishibashi (Hiroshi), Catalogue of the Collection, Ishibashi Foundation 1952-2018, Tokyo, 2019, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth slipcase, folio, plus other modern art reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks editions, some ‘as new’ in original plastic wrap, VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

394 Young (Francis Brett). White Ladies, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1935, signed by the author to the title page, some light toning, original blue cloth, 8vo, together with: Masefield (John), Right Royal, London: William Heinemann, 1920, limited edition 11/500, Enslaved and other poems, 1920, limited edition 263/250, The Taking of Helen, 1923, limited edition 549/750, all signed by the author to the limitation pages, some minor toning, original uniform quarter vellum, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century fiction & related literature, including works by Edward Ardizzone, Compton Mackenzie, Osbert Sitwell, John Galsworthy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves) £200 - £300

396 Stowe (Harriet Beecher). Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1st U.K. edition, London: John Cassell, 1852, monochrome illustrations by George Cruikshank, some spotting, toning & light marks,contemporary embossed cloth, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, together with: Ward (Gertrude, editor), Letters of Bishop Tozer and his Sister with some other records of the Universitie’s Mission from 18631873, London: Office of the Universities Mission to Central Africa, 1902, monochrome portrait frontispiece, some light toning, original blue cloth, spine lightly faded, 8vo, plus Hutchinson (H. N. et al), The Living Races of Mankind, 2 volumes, London: Hutchinson & Co., circa 1900, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated plum half calf, boards & spines very lightly rubbed, large 8vo, and other mid-20th century Central Africa reference & related, plus some miscellaneous literature, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

397 Yankilevsky (Vkadimir). Anatomy of Feelings, 1st edition, London: Aktis Gallery, 2009, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with: Domański (Tomasz), Pomniki Czasu, Monuments of Tome 19922018, 1st edition, Wroclaw: The Culture and Art Centre, 2018, numerous monochrome & colour illustrations, original boards, front & rear boards slightly bumped to the head, large 8vo, plus Freddie (Wilhelm), Stik Gaflen I Øjet!, Statens Museum for Kunst, 2009, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards, square 4to, and other modern art reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, some ‘as new’ in original wrappers, VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves & a carton)

£200 - £300

398 Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of modern miscellaneous literature, including travel & history reference, law & publications by Folio Society & Everyman’s Library, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves & a carton)

£200 - £300

399 Bristol. A collection of modern Bristol & Avon reference, including Bristol Records Society, 43 volumes, circa 1982-2020, 8vo, Annals of Bristol, 3 volumes, by John Latimer, Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970, 8vo, Bristol an Architectural History, by Andor Gomme et al , 1st edition, London: Lund Humphries, 1979, large 4to, together with other similar reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

£100 - £150

£200 - £300

400 Gresham Publishing Co. The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction, 6 volumes, edited by G. Lister Sutcliffe, London, circa 1905, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, 4to The Book of the Home..., 8 volumes, edited by H. C. Davidson, 1902, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated blue cloth, 8vo Science in Modern Life..., 6 volumes, edited by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, 1908, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated dark green cloth, 8vo The Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker..., 8 volumes, edited by G. Lister Sutcliffe, 1906, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, folio, all covers designed by Talwin Morris, together with other similar sets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (58 volumes) (3 shelves)

406 Bartlett (W. H.). The Nile Boat or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, new edition, London: Bell & Daldy, circa 1880, 33 steel engravings, some light spotting & toning, later endpapers, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, together with:

Budge (E. A. Wallis), The Mummy, a Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology, 2nd edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1925, folding frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, period inscription & bookplate to front endpapers, some minor marginal toning, original gilt decorated plum cloth, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Caminos (Ricardo A.), Semna-Kumma, the Temple of Semna, 2 volumes, London: Egyptian Exploration Society, 1998, monochrome illustrations, original uniform boards, large 8vo, and other early 20th century & modern Egyptian & ancient archaeology reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some periodicals, G/VG, 8vo/folio

(6 shelves & 4 cartons)

£150 - £200

401 Miscellaneous Reference. A large collection of modern miscellaneous reference, including general history, Royal history, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

407 Taylor (Jeremy). The Great Exemplar of Sanctity an Holy Life according to the Christian Institution:..., 3rd edition, London: printed by R. Norton, 1657, engraved title plus 8 engraved folding plates plus, some light toning & minor wear, early 19th century full calf, boards & spine rubbed with a small amount of loss to the front board, folio, together with:

£150 - £200

402 Miscellaneous Reference. A large collection of modern miscellaneous reference, including general history, Royal history, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)

403 Marchand (Leslie A., editor). Byron’s Letters and Journals, volumes 1-12 plus Supplementary Volume, mixed editions, London: John Murray, 1979-94, all original cloth in price-clipped dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with other modern Lord Byron reference & miscellaneous literary reference, including The Byron Journal, approximately 60 volumes, circa 1983-2018, all in original wrappers, 8vo, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo (5 shelves)

£200 - £300

404 Penguins Paperbacks. A large collection of vintage Penguin & Pelican paperback publications, approximately 830 volumes, including fiction & non-fiction, all in original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo (7 shelves)

Nightingale (Florence), Notes on Nursing what it is, and what it is not, 2nd issue, London: Harrison, [1959?], contemporary library endpapers, title page detached, some toning & light marks, contemporary blue library cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, slim 8vo, plus Orwell (George), Animal Farm, a Fairy Story, reprinted, London: Secker & Warburg, August 1945, some light marginal toning, original green cloth, spine slightly faded, slim 8vo, and other other miscellaneous 19th century & modern literature & reference, including Le Chic Parisien, 2 volumes, circa 1900, numerous colour & monochrome plates, contemporary red quarter morrocco, folio, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo/folio

(6 shelves & a carton)

£150 - £200

£300 - £500

408 Gentleman (David). In the Country, 1st edition, Full Circle Editions, 2014, colour illustrations throughout, original pictorial boards in dust jacket and slipcase, small 4to, (signed limited edition 55/100 copies), together with A Way of Life: Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge University Press, 1984, halftone illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed, 4to, plus Lambirth (Andrew), John Nash, Artist & Countryman, 1st edition, Unicorn Press, 2019, colour illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus Bawden (Edward), Scrapbooks by Peyton Skipwith & Brian Webb, 1st edition, Lund Humphries & Fry Art Gallery, 2016, colour illustrations throughout, signed by Skipwith and Webb on title, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 4to, plus other modern British art and illustration interest including large-format publications

(4 shelves)

£300 - £400

£300 - £500

405 Nasmyth (James & James Carpenter). The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1885, 25 monochrome plates plus further in-text illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original decorated blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Mrs. Ward, Microscope Teachings: descriptions of various objects of especial interest and beauty adapted for microscopic observation, 1st edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864, 16 hand coloured plates, bookplate to the front pastedown, some light toning & minor spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 4to, plus Billinghurst (Percy J., illustrator), A Hundred Fables of Aesop from the English version of Sir Roger L’Estrange, London: The Bodley Head, 1899, numerous monochrome illustrations, later inscription to the front endpaper, some light toning & spotting, original decorated cloth, boards slightly marked & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other 19th century & Victorian fiction & non-fiction literature, including natural history reference, mostly original cloth, some leather bindings, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo/4to (approximately 200 volumes) (6 shelves)

409 Johns (W. E.). Biggles and The Black Peril, reprint, London: The Thames Publishing Co., circa 1960, previous owner ink inscription to front endpaper, endpaper torn, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine rubbed and marked with some loss, 8vo together with:

413 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of 20th century illustrated pop-up books, mostly in publishers original boards, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 200 volumes)

(6 shelves)

£300 - £500

414 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of modern illustrated popup books, all in publishers original boards, some as new in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 180 volumes)

(6 shelves + carton)

£200 - £400

£200 - £300

Biggles in the Cruise of the Condor, reprint, London: The Thames Publishing Co., circa 1950, endpapers lightly toned, occasional spotting to text block, original cloth in dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus The First Biggles Omnibus, reprint, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1960, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo and Biggles in the Jungle, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1944, black ink mark to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine rubbed and marked with some loss, 8vo plus other biggles stories, reference and related mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4to, G/VG (6 shelves)

410 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Hunts Game a story of sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D. and his special air force, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton limited, 1948, colour frontispiece, 10 colour illustrations, period previous owner ink inscription to front endpaper, some occasional light spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine rubbed to head and foot with occasional minor tears, 8vo, together with: Biggles Delivers the Goods a ‘Biggles Squadron’ Story, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton limited, 1946, colour frontispiece, 9 black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus Biggles Sweeps The Desert a ‘Biggles Squadron’ Story, London: Hodder & Stoughton limited, 1942, colour frontispiece, 8 black and white illustrations, remainder of previous ownership label pasted down to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, boards and spine rubbed and marked, 8vo, and other W. E. Johns titles mixed editions in dust jackets, 8vo, VG (5 shelves)

£400 - £600

411 British topography. A large collection of British topography & history reference, including Victoria county History for the county of Essex, 14 volumes together with other British topography reference, including Hampshire Record series, Southampton record society, British Archaeological reports & publications by Cambridge, Oxford, RCHM, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some original cloth some original wrappers, G, 8vo (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

412 Archer (Thomas). The War in Egypt and the Sudan an episode in the history of the British empire …, 4 volumes in 2, 1st edition, London: Black & Son, circa 1887, previous owner ink inscription to front endpaper both volumes, with numerous illustrations maps and plans, some spotting throughout mostly to volume 1, half red Morocco, front board detached with spine near detached volume 1, covers and spines rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with: Hand (Sean & Steven T. Katz [editors]), Post Holocaust France and the Jews 1945-1955, 1st edition, New York: New York University Press, 2015, previous owner stamp to front paste down, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus Sigal (Leon), Fighting to a Finish the politics of war termination in the united states and Japan, 1945, 1st edition, London: Cornell University Press, 1988, previous owner ink inscription to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo and other modern history reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

415 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of modern illustrated popup books, all in publishers original boards, some as new in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 180 volumes) (6 shelves)

£200 - £400

416 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of modern illustrated popup books, all in publishers original boards, some as new in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 180 volumes) (6 shelves + carton)

£200 - £400

417 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of modern illustrated popup books, all in publishers original boards, some as new in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 180 volumes)

(6 shelves)

£200 - £400

418 Pop-Up Books. A large collection of modern illustrated popup books, all in publishers original boards, some as new in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 180 volumes)

(6 shelves + carton)

£200 - £400

419 Binyon (Laurence). The Poems of Nizami, London: The Studio, 1928, 16 colour plates, some minor marginal toning, top edge gilt, original cloth in dust jacket covers rubbed with some tears & loss to the head, folio, together with: Alecto Historical Studies, publisher, Domesday Book Studies, Hampshire, 3 volumes, London, 1987, colour facsimile, original uniform cloth in slipcase, folio, plus other modern miscellaneous literature & reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

420 Dickens (Charles). Dickens Works, 17 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1900, some minor toning, top edges gilt, contemporary uniform gilt decorated half calf, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:

Lady Llanover, editor, The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany:..., 3 volumes in 6, London: Richard Bentley, 1861, engraved illustrations, some minor spotting, top edges gilt, contemporary uniform gilt decorated green half morocco, 8vo, plus Murphy (Arthur), The Works of Sallust;..., London: printed for James Carpenter, 1807, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light toning & spotting, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th century literature & sets, all contemporary leather bindings, some French language, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo, (80 volumes) (3 shelves)

£400 - £600

421 Thorburn (A.). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923, 30 colour plates, some minor marginal toning & spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine slightly rubbed & faded, folio British Birds, 4 volumes, 4th edition, 1918, 82 colour plates, some light toning & spotting, top edges gilt, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, spines lightly faded, large 4to, together with: Sowerby (John E.), British Wildflowers, re-issue, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1894, hand coloured frontispiece & 89 hand coloured plates, some minor marginal toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated embossed green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo

The Ferns of Great Britain, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859, hand coloured frontispiece & 31 hand coloured plates, some minor toning & spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo plus Swanson (Ronald S.), Grand Cascapedia Giants..., 1st edition, New Jersey: Meadow Run Press, 2005, half-title signed & inscribed by the author, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in slipcase, 8vo, un-numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, includes a typed & signed letter from Hoagy B. Carmichael, and other mostly modern natural history reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio, includes 2 botanical prints, framed & glazed (6 shelves)

£300 - £500

422 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, London: William Heinemann, 1909, tipped-in colour plates plus numerous monochrome in-text illustrations, lacks frontispiece, some light toning, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine faded & rubbed with small tears to head & foot, large 4to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, 50 tipped-in colour plates, later inscription to the front pastedown, some minor toning, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with:

Carroll (Lewis), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 75th thousand, London: Macmillan and Co., 1885, 42 monochrome illustrations by John Tenniel, pencil inscription to the half-title, some minor toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine slightly rubbed & faded, 8vo, plus Chesterton (G. K.), The Ballad of the White Horse, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1911, some very minor toning, original gilt decorated green cloth spibe very lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other early 20th century & modern fiction & illustrated literature, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves) £200 - £300

423 Le Tissier (Tony). Soviet Conquest, Berlin 1945, 1st edition, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2014, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with: Carruthers (Bob), Hitler’s Violent Youth, how trench warfare and street fighting moulded Hitler, 1st edition, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus Thacker (Toby), The End of the Third Reich, defeat, Denazification & Nuremburg, January 1944 - November 1946, 1st edition, Stroud: Tempus, 2006, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, 8vo, and other modern WWII reference & related, including The Bystander’s Fragments from France, by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, London, circa 1915, original wrappers, large thin 8vo, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (5 shelves)

£150 - £200

424 Miscellaneous. A large collection of mostly modern miscellaneous reference, including British topography, travel, cookery, biography & history, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

£150 - £200

425 Sassoon (Siegfried). The Old Huntsman and other poems, 2nd impression, London: William Heinemann, August 1917, front gutter cracked to the half-title, some minor spotting & marginal toning, original boards, hinges split, boards & spine slightly rubbed, spine label marked, 8vo, together with: Robinson (Charles, illustrator), A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, London: The Bodley Head, circa 1910, 8 colour illustrations plus numerous monochrome in-text illustrations & vignettes, period inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning & spotting, top edge gilt, original decorated cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Croft (P. J.), Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 volumes, London: Cassell, 1973, monochrome facsimile plates, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, folio, limited edition 627/1500, and other early 20th century & modern poetry & poetry reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio

(3 shelves)

£200 - £300

426 Skelton (Christopher, editor). Eric Gill The Engravings, London: The Herbert Press, 1990, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with: Reiss (Stephen), Peggy Somerville, and English impressionist, 1st edition, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996, numerous monochrome & colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Franklin (Colin), Printing and the mind of Morris, Three paths to the Kelmscott Press, privately printed, Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1986, original cloth spine to blue boards, 8vo, limited edition 426/450, and other modern art reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to

(3 shelves)

£150 - £200

427 Literature. A large collection of modern literature, including The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, by Richard F. Burton, 17 volumes, Aden edition, privately printed for The Burton Club, circa 1886, all in original uniform cloth, limited edition 342/1000, 8vo, plus work by Robert Louis Stevenson, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)

£150 - £200

428 Livingstone (David). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;..., 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1857, 47 engraved plates, modern endpapers some light toning & spotting, rebound retaining original embossed brown cloth boards & spine, front boards slightly bumped to the top right corner, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:

Landon (Perceval), Lhasa, an account of the country and people of Central Tibet..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905, numerous monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the head of the front endpapers, some light marginal toning, top edges gilt, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, spines & boards slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Borrow (George), Lavengro; the scholar-the gypsy-the priest, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1851, engraved portrait frontispiece & period inscription to the head of the title page of volume 1, gutters cracked, some spotting & light toning throughout, original uniform cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, some minor loss to the paper spine labels, 8vo, and other miscellaneous mostly 19th century literature & reference, all original cloth, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo (3 shelves)

£300 - £400

429 Hyde (Edward). The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 3 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759, bookplates of ‘Sir John Dashwood King’ to the front pastedowns, front & rear gutters cracked, some minor spotting & light toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated full calf, volume 1 front hinge split, boards & spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Scott (Walter), Waverley Novels, 24 volumes, large type border edition, London: Macmillan and Co., circa 1912-1917, monochrome frontispieces & title page vignettes, period inscription to the front endpaper of volume 1, some minor toning & spotting, top edges gilt, contemporary uniform gilt decorated red half morocco, spines very lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Report of the Montessori Conference at East Runton, July 25th28th, 1914, later edition [?], 1916 [?], monochrome frontispiece, some very light toning & spotting throughout, original green paper wrappers, spine very lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, (the only other publically available copies of this work are at St. Andrews Universty, U.C.L., and Sheffield University),and other mostly 19th century literature & reference, all contemporary gilt decorated leather bindings, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo (approximately 60 volumes) (3 shelves)

432 Vansfittart (Eden). Gurkhas (Handbooks for the Indian Army compiled under the orders of the Government of India), New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1991, original red cloth gilt, together with Bayly (Hugh Wansey). Triple Challenge or War, Whirligigs and Windmills by Hugh Wandsy Bayly, M. C. a doctor's memoirs of the years 1914 to 1929, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1929], monochrome plates after photographs, including one folding map, original blue cloth, lightly rubbed, plus MacKenzie (Norman, editor). Secret Societies, London: Aldus Books, 1967, numerous monochrome illustrations, original black cloth gilt, and other military and aviation history, all 20th-century publications, including Charles Wilson & William Reader, Men and Machines, a History of D. Napier & Son Engineers Ltd. 1808-1958, 1st edition, 1958, Bryan Ranft, editor, Ironclad to Trident: 100 years of defence commentary: Brassey's 1886-1986, 1st edition, 1986, P. D. Gorden Pugh, Heraldic China Mementoes of the First World War, 1st edition, Ceramic Book Company, 1972, etc., all original cloth, mainly 8vo (including some 4to), approximately 175 volumes (6 shelves) £100 - £200

£300 - £500

430 Royal Academy Pictures. Being the Royal Academy Supplement of “ The Magazine of Art”, 20 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Company, limited, 1891-1910, lacking 1892 volume, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light marginal toning, occasional light spotting, some worming to last few mages volume 1, half red Morocco, all edges gilt, covers and spines rubbed and marked, 4to, together with Abbey (J. R.), Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 2 volumes, volumes 3 and 4 only, limited edition, London: Curwen Press, 1952-1953, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket price clipped, volume 4 lacking jacket, 253/500 and 67/400 respectively, large 4to, plus Nicolson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of derby Painter of Light, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: The Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1968, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spines rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and other late 19th early 20th century British art reference and related mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers, G/VG, 4to/large 4to (3 shelves)

433 Pictorial Cloth. A collection of 19th century gilt decorated pictorial cloth, including British Butterflies..., by W. S. Coleman, 18th edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886, Wild Flowers Worth Notice, by Mrs. Lankester, new edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890, The Poetical Works of John Milton..., Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, circa 1880, A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry..., be Charles Mackay, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1877, The Manners, Customs, & Ceremonies of the different nations of the World, edited by William Anderson, Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, circa 1884, and others similar, all in original gilt decorated cloth, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo (47 volumes) (3 shelves) £200 - £300

£200 - £300

431 Falciani (Carlo and Antonio Natali, [Editors]). Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, Diverging Paths of Mannerism, 1st edition, Italy: Mandragora, 2014, numerous colour illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original printed wrapper, large 4to, together with Cox- Rearick (Janet), The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasures, 1st edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Monnas (Lisa), Merchants, Princes and Painters. Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern paintings 1300-1550, 1st edition, London, Yale University Press, 2008, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other modern European art reference and related including publications by Marsilio,Yale and Oxford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers, 4to/large 4to, G (3 shelves)

£200 - £300

434 Sparling (H. Halliday). The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master Craftsman, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1924, monochrome portrait frontispiece plus 16 further illustrations, advertisements to the rear, some light toning & spotting, original white cloth spine to blue boards, boards & spine slightly toned & rubbed, 8vo, together with: Lees-Milne (James), Ancestral Voices, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1975, Prophesying Peace, 1st edition, 1977, Caves of Ice, 2nd impression, 1983, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, with 7 further works by James Lees-Milne, all but 1 in dust jackets, 8vo, plus Powell (Anthony), To Keep the Ball Rolling, the Memoirs of Anthony Powell, 4 volumes, all 1st editions, London: Heinemann, 1976-82, monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded, 8vo, and other modern literary & author reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves & a carton)

£300 - £500

435 Milne (A. A.). When We Were Very Young, 14th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1926, monochrome illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, some minor toning & spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with: Tolkien (J. R. R.), The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 1st edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, later inscription to the front endpaper, original illustrated boards in dust jacket, some very minor rubbing to the head & foot of the spine, 8vo, plus Lear (Edward), The Book of Nonsense, later edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1901, 110 monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & marginal toning, binding slightly loose, original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, oblong 4to, and other early 20th century & modern juvenile & illustrated literature & other works of fiction, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves & carton)

£200 - £300

436 Daubeny (Ulrich). Ancient Cotswold Churches, limited edition, London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd, circa 1920, signed by the author, period ink inscription to front flyleaf, illustrated with pen and ink drawings and the author’s photographs, original brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 483 of unspecified number, 4to, together with Cautley (H. Munro), Norfolk Churches, 1st edition, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co. LTD, 1949, ink inscription to front end paper, with 274 original photographs, occasional light and pencil annotations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine rubbed and marled with minor loss to areas of the jacket, 8vo plus Vallance (Aymer), Greater English Church Screens, Being Great Roods, Screenwork & Rood-lofts in Cathedral. Monastic & Collegiate Churches in England & Wales, 1st edition, London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1947, numerous monochrome illustrations, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, text block lightly spotted, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and other 20th century church reference and related mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers. 8vo/4to, G (3 shelves)

£100 - £150

437 Biggles Paperbacks. A large collection of approximately 450 Biggles paperbacks, all in original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves + 2 cartons)

£200 - £300

438 Miscellaneous. A large collection of modern miscellaneous literature & reference, including history, archaeology, Royal history, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

£200 - £300

439 Landon (H. C. Robbins, editor). The Mozart Compendium. A Guide to Mozart’s Life and Music, reprint with corrections, Thames & Hudson, 1991, a few half-tone plates, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Monson (Karen), Alban Berg, A Biography, 1st edition, 1979, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus Kolneder (Walter), Anton Webern, An Introduction to His Work, Translated by Humphrey Searle, 1st edition, 1968, plus Mitchell (Donald), Gustav Mahler Volume III: Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death, Interpretations and Annotations, 1st edition, 1983, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other classical music biographies and related, mostly 19th and 20th-century subjects, original cloth in dust jackets, VG (3 shelves)

£100 - £150

441 Pufendorf (Samuel Freiherr von). Introduction a l'histoire moderne, generale et politique de l'univers; ou l'on voit l'origine, les revolutions & la situation presente des differens Etats de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique & de l'Amerique, 7 volumes only (of 8, lacks volume 7), new edition, Paris: chez Merigot, Grange, Hochereau, Robustel, Le Loup, 1753-59, engraved frontispiece to volume 1, titles in red and black, 20 engraved folding maps and plans (including North & South America, Spain, Italy, Sicily, France, Greece, Palestine, etc.), armorial bookplate of Stephen O. Meagher to pastedowns, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spines, some wear mostly to extremities, 4to, together with: Millin (Aubin-Louis). Voyage dans les Departemens du Midi de la France, 5 volumes, Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807, contemporary uniform mottled calf, with gilt Signet Library armorial to centre of each cover, some wear to joints and edges, first volume rebacked with original spine laid down, 8vo, plus William (Stephen W.). A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Williams, First Minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts. With a slight sketch of ancient Deerfield, and an account of the Indian Wars in that place and vicinity. With an appendix, containing the journal of the Rev. Doctor Stephens Williams, of Longmeadow during his captivity, and other papers relating to the early Indian Wars in Deerfield, Greenfield Mass: C. J. Ingersoll, 1837, contemporary blind floral-patterned boards with paper label to spine, lightly faded to spine, 8vo, and other various 18th and 19th century antiquarian volumes, including Storer & Greig, Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising specimens of Architecture, 7 volumes, 1815, Thomas Busby, Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern, 3 volumes, 1825, engraved title page to each volume, folding engraved plate to first and second volumes, and other engraved plates, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed and some marks, 8vo, Henry Gastineau, Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views, 1830, contemporary dark blue half calf gilt, 4to, George Cruikshank, Mornings at Bow Street. A selection of the most humorous and entertaining reports..., by Mr. Wight, 1824, The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or Intellectual Mirror... illustrated by Bewick, 15th edition, 1821, W. G. Blackie, Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, 1882, Henry Simon, Armorial General de l'Empire Francais, volume I, 1812, Parliamentary Debate in England from the Year MDCLXVIII to the present time, volumes I-XXI, Dublin, 1741-42 (with bookplate to most volumes of Sir Robert Grosvenor of Eaton-Hall, Chester), La Belle Assemblée or Bell's Court and Fashion Magazine, volume II, New Series (July-December 1810), XVII (January-June 1818) and XXIII (January-June 1821), together 3 volumes, 1810-21, mostly leather bound, 8vo/4to, including a modern display binder of 19th century fashion and hand coloured plates (3 shelves) £400 - £600

440 Mason (Tim). The Secret Years, flight testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945, Manchester: Crécy, 2010, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, large 8vo, together with: Hamlin (John F.), Flat Out, the story of 30 Squadron Royal Air Force, 1st edition, Kent: Air-Britain, 2002, numerous monochrome illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, original boards, large 8vo, plus Baker (Ann), From Biplane to Spitfire, the life of Air Chief Marshall Sir Geoffrey Salmond KCB KCMG DSO, 1st edition, Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2003, signed by the author to the title page, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern aviation & military reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Airlife, Grub Street, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves & a carton)

£150 - £200

442 Bourne (C. E.). The Heroes of African Discovery & Adventure from the earliest times to the death of Livingstone, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., circa 1886, 2 colour frontispiece folding maps, numerous engraved illustrations, bookplate to the front pastedown of volume 1, some light spotting & toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green & blue cloth respectively, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with: Robinson (Charles Henry), Nigeria Our Latest Protectorate, 1st edition, London: Horace Marshall and Son, 1900, colour folding map, monochrome illustrations, bookplate to the front pastedown, some light toning, top edge gilt, original red cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Stanley (H. M.), My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave: a story of Central Africa, new cheap edition, London: Sampson Low, 1889, period inscription to the front pastedown, some light spotting & toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mostly 19th century Africa & exploration reference, all original cloth, some gilt decorated, G, 8vo (45 volumes) (3 shelves)

£150 - £200

DAY TWO

To commence at 10am

443 Reeve (Clara). The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778, engraved frontispiece with early signature to verso of S. Andrews (paper tape to gutter between frontispiece and front free endpaper), light offsetting from frontispiece to title, occasional light spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Hon. Booth Grey to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint split and lower joint cracked, wear to head and foot of spine and to board corners, 8vo

The story was first published anonymously the year before under the title ‘The Champion of Virtue’. (1)

£300 - £500

444 Miniature Almanack. London Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1795, Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1794], engraved title-page, folding frontispiece of ‘view of Drury Lane theatre’ printed to four sides of two leaves, contents include: calendar leaves, table of Kings & Queens reigns, Lord Mayors from the year 1774, list of holidays, current coins, etc., marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with ornately decorated blue, red, cream and gilt boards, gilt decoration to spine, small rub with loss to spine, 59 x 35 mm, in matching slip case, 61 x 38 mm (1)

£100 - £150

445 Clare (John). Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, half-title, errata slip, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, some wear (with most of title label lacking), 12mo (1)

£600 - £800 18TH & 19TH

446 Clare (John). The Village Minstrel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey; Stamford: E Drury, 1821, engraved portrait frontispiece by E. Scriven after W. Hilton to volume 1, halftitles and advertisements discarded, contemporary full calf gilt, some light wear and marks, 12mo Tinker 637. (2)

£400 - £600

448 Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, Standard Novels series title (no. 23), engraved frontispiece and vignette title (lightly toned), additional letterpress title, final leaf of text Y6 with manuscript calculation annotation, bound without final blank leaves Y7 and Y8, together with: Austen (Jane). Mansfield Park: A Novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, Standard Novels series title (no. 27), engraved frontispiece and vignette title (lightly toned), additional letterpress title, bound without final advertisement leaves 2E5 and 2E6, light fraying to series title and frontispiece at fore-edge, Austen (Jane). Northanger Abbey [& Persuasion], 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, Standard Novels series title (no. 28), engraved frontispiece and vignette title (lightly dampstained), additional letterpress title to Northanger Abbey, letterpress title to Persuasion, leaf G1 near detached, final leaf 2F4 detached from rest of gathering (attached to endpaper), contents slightly shaken, Lytton (Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron). Eugene Aram: A Tale, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, Standard Novels series title (no. 34), engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional letterpress title, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels to spines, Mansfield Park lacking title labels, bindings rubbed and scuffed, 8vo

Gilson D1; D3 and D4 (Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey & Persuasion).

Keynes 44; 104 and 143 (Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey & Persuasion). (4)

£1,000 - £1,500

447 Clare (John). The Shepherd’s Calendar; with Village Stories, and Other Poems, 1st edition, London: John Taylor, 1827, engraved frontispiece by Edward Finden after P. Dewint, neat gift inscription in brown ink to front blank dated 1838, preliminaries spotted, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed with some light wear (small portion of title label lacking), 12mo (1)

£300 - £500

449 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, reprinted, London: Richard Bentley, 1846, engraved frontispiece and vignette title (both with imprints dated 1833), letterpress title, frontispiece with former owner’s signature show-through, damp-staining and dampmottling to leaves at front and rear of volume with some light fraying to fore-edge, endpapers also damp-mottled and with few adhesive tape repairs, near-contemporary burgundy half calf by Harrison of Pall Mall, gilt decorated raised bands, modern marbled paper sidings to boards, 8vo Gilson D7. A reprint of Benson’s first illustrated edition published in 1833 (see Gilson D5).

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£200 - £300

450 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 38 steel-engraved plates, further illustrations in-text, 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, advertisement leaf at front, occasional spotting, plates partially offset, original blue blindstamped cloth gilt, neatly professionally recased (preserving original front free endpaper), some wear to fore-edges of boards, 8vo Grolier, 100 English, 87; Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.

The work is notably scarce in original cloth in first issue, with even the copy listed in Wolff rebacked.

All first issue points present, with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with “Mr. Pitt” for “Sir Pitt” on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. The preliminary advertisement leaf lists Pendennis, The History of Samuel Titchmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond.

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£300 - £500

451 Eliot (George). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1871-72, bound without half-titles, divisional titles and errata slip present, volume I title shaved at foot, a few minor marks, recent speckled calf, spines with raised bands, morocco label and gilt decoration, 8vo

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£500 - £800

452 Sewell (Anna). Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, translated from the original equine, 1st edition, London: Jarrold and Sons, [1877], wood-engraved frontispiece, 8 pp. advertisements bound at rear, lacking rear endpaper, occasional light spotting and stains, contemporary presentation inscription to ‘William Joyce by the managers of Ferryhill Ironworks School, 1878’, hinges tender, original red/brown decorative cloth gilt, upper cover titled in gilt with circular horse’s head vignette, spine somewhat rubbed with some fading, some edge wear, 8vo Carter’s variant ‘C’ binding (Carter, More Binding Variants). Also issued in blue and green cloth.

453 Hardy (Thomas). The Return of the Native, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878, half-titles, small marginal repair to volume I half-title and final leaf, small marginal repair to last leaf of volume II and to gutter and outer margins of pp. 315-320 in volume III, a few minor marks, top edge gilt, recent brown half calf by Francis Brown, Dorchester, spines with raised bands, morocco labels and gilt decorations, contained in cloth slipcase, 8vo

Purdy, pp. 24-27. 1000 copies printed. The author’s sixth published novel. (3)

£700 - £1,000

Anna Sewell’s classic story, her only novel, written from the horse’s perspective and published shortly before she died. It highlighted animal welfare issues and was key to the abolition of the use of bearing reins, among other things, which were particularly painful for horses and ‘a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses’. (1)

£700 - £1,000

454 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1st UK edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886, slight toning to textblock, advertisements leaf at rear for the second edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses, original wrappers, last number of date at foot of upper wrapper corrected by the publisher in ink (i.e. the ‘5’ changed to ‘6’), rear wrapper with small repaired tear, front wrapper with light creases and small chips at foot of outer margin, bound in contemporary half, joints a little rubbed, 8vo Originally intended to be released for the Christmas 1885 market, but due to a glut of titles on the market at the time the publishers decided to hold off until January 1886, hence the manuscript correction. Published four days after the first US edition, but preceding the first UK hardback edition. (1)

£1,500 - £2,000

455 Fore-Edge Painting. Goethe. Faust, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1890, frontispiece, vignette title, black and white illustrations, all edges gilt, fore-edge painting of a church, contemporary red full morocco gilt, rubbed with a few marks, damp-stain to foot of upper cover, 8vo, together with: Fore-Edge Painting. Gresswell (W. Parr). Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, 2nd edition, Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, fore-edge painting of an Italian street scene, contemporary brown cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo (2)

£150 - £200

456 Cocker [Edward]. Cocker’s accomplished School Master: containing sure and early directions for spelling, reading and writing English; according to the most plain and accurate method now extant..., 13th edition, London: T. Norris, 1718, 108 pages, some black & white illustrations throughout, 108 pages (G7-8 lacking), G5 repaired with adhesive tape, G6 largely lacking, some fraying to edges with loss to upper corners affecting some page numbers, B6 with short tear affecting words between False and Fine, some handwritten ink notes to pages, H Lowery bookplate to front pastedown, rebacked, speckled half calf, gilt decorated spine with title to green label, 8vo, together with Cocker (Edward). Cocker’s English Dictionary, containing an explanation of the most refined and difficult words and terms..., 3rd edition, enlarged and altered by John Hawkins, London: T. Norris and A. Bettesworth, 1724, few ink markings to lower margin of title, occasional light browning and spotting, contemporary sheep, upper joint split and board attachment weak, lower joint cracked, 8vo in 4s

There are no institutional copies of this edition recorded. (1)

£200 - £300

457* Crystal Palace. Lane’s Telescopic View of the Interior of the Great Industrial Exhibition, London: C. Moody, 1851, 10 handcoloured lithographed divisions, including front cover with circular peephole, depicting the interior of the exhibition at Crystal Palace, with numerous figures, fountains, statues, and trees, the fountains heightened with glitter, some overall minor marks, linen bellows (with some minor staining), ex libris book label to verso, 16 x 17.8 cm, extending 66 cm (26 ins), contained in original card slipcase with hand-coloured decorative printed label, some rubbing with loss to extremities, housed in a custom protective box with title in gilt to spine, 17.6 x 19.5 cm

Provenance: From the collection of Michael Dawson.

Gestetner Collection 255, Gumuchian 2216.

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£200 - £300

458 Darton & Harvey (Printers). The History of Goody Two Shoes; otherwise called Mrs Margery Two Shoes with her means of acquiring learning, wisdom and riches, London: Darton & Harvey Gracechurch Street, 1793, copper engraved frontispiece, 32 woodcut illustrations, frontispiece and title-page pulling away from text block, small paper flaw to margin of I6, final leaf trimmed with some loss at head and foot, touching running title, original turquoise and gilt dutch floral boards, 24mo

Darton G394 (1). (1)

459* German Peepshow. La Fête du Bairam à Constantinople, Das Bairams-Fest in Constantinopel, The Bairam ad Constantinople, circa 1835, hand-coloured lithograph panorama showing two well dressed Turkish gentleman leaning against a cream box containing the title, garlands of flowers hanging from the ceiling, a group of people surrounding them celebrating the Sheker-Bayram (Festival of Sweets), pictorial illustration laid down onto lid of shallow cartonnage box containing the peepshow, lid with five peep-holes, a large circular one in the centre and two smaller circular ones either side towards the edge of the image, 6 accordion-folding cut out panels with paper bellows, depicting very busy street scene with a tight-rope walker, street dancers, puppeteer, hookah smokers, etc., some light offsetting to a few bellows, minor spotting, box decorated with yellow paper to sides, red paper to rear panel, blue grey sugar paper pasted to verso of rear panel, presentation inscription ‘For my dea little Darlisa. From his affec..ate Putisa. New Year’s Day. 1842’, 16.8 x 22.8 x 1.6 cm (h x w x d), together with modern archival portfolio box

Peepshow: Gestetner Collection 103.

Provenance: Purchased by the vendor with her pocket money, of one old penny, at a Church of England jumble sale in 1960.

£400 - £600

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£800 - £1,200

460 [Grimaldi, Stacey]. A Suit of Armour for Youth, London: [Ackermann], 1823, engraved frontispiece by Cosmo Armstrong after William Grimaldi, 11 further engraved plates each showing a virtue, with further engraving of a piece of armour overlaid to produce a moveable flap, each with tissue guard, some minor spotting and toning, C5-8 with repaired closed tears to upper margin, black ink mark to B4 affecting some letters, previous owners book label to upper corner of front pastedown ‘ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson’, bound with original grey wrappers? (upper wrapper blank, lower wrapper with advertising text ‘The Proprietor of this little work thinks...’, mid 19th century half calf with modern reback, 12mo, together with the preface and contents page from a 2nd edition loosely contained in an envelope, all housed in a custom slip case

Osborne, p. 418.

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£150 - £200

461 [Grimaldi, Stacey]. The Toilet, London: Rock Brothers & Payne, circa 1840-60, engraved hand-coloured title-page, 9 handcoloured engraved plates each illustrating a virtue, with a further engraving of an object from the dressing table overlaid to produce a moveable flap, small repair to verso of The Enchanting Mirror and Religion, previous ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper in ink, ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original maroon morocco boards with blind tooling and gilt decoration, title in gilt to upper cover ‘The Lady’s Toilet’, some rubbing to extremities, spine a little faded, gutter percha perished between gatherings (stitching intact), 16 mo

Osborne, p. 418. (1)

£150 - £200

462* Hornbook. A late 18th century bone alphabet hornbook, paddle-shaped bone hornbook engraved with the alphabet in upper case on one side, and in lower case on the other, both sides with a tulip stem on the handle, 11.4 x 4.1 cm

For a very similar example of one of these rare educational aids see that in the Alexander Turnbull Library of the National Library of New Zealand. (1)

£500 - £800

463 Johnson (J., printer). Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old, [by Anna L. Barbauld], Part 1, London: J.Johnson, 1797, 2 pages advertisements after title-page and one on final page, some spotting and toning to preliminaries, ownership inscription to front pastedown in brown ink ‘Margaret Meux 1800’, upper wrapper and title-page partly detached at lower edge, original printer’s marbled wrappers, printed label to upper wrapper, lower part of spine wrapper lacking, 12mo, together with Lessons for Children of Three Years Old, [part 2], London: T. Bensley, lacking title-page and final advertising leaf, bookplate of Elizabeth Meux to front pastedown, top corner of final page lacking corner with small loss to text, top margins closely trimmed affecting the first word ‘Lessons’, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, remnants of red label to spine, plus Lessons for Children., Part III being the second for children of three years old, [by Anna L. Barbauld], London: J. Johnson, 1798, ownership inscription in brown ink to front free endpaper ‘Margaret Meux 1800’, one page of advertisements to rear, original marbled wrappers, printed label to upper wrapper, slight loss to lower spine, and a duplicate, erroneously labelled ‘part II’ on printed label, 12 mo

Osborne, p. 108. (4)

£200 - £400

Lot 461

Lot 462

464 Juvenile education. A New Reading Made Easy, A Large Collection of Verses out of the Psalms, and New Testament. In three Parts. I. Being a Collection of Verses that contain Words of one Syllable only. II. Verses having no Words above two Syllables, and printed with a Mark of Division between the Syllables. III. Verses having no Words above three Syllables, and printed with a Mark of Division between the Syllables, designed for the Use of young Children: Being the most proper Book for young Beginners. London: Printed and sold by the Book Sellers in Town and Country, 1760, woodcut frontispiece depicting a child receiving punishment with fellow pupils looking on, with the kingdom of heaven above and the mouth of hell below (mid 18th-century signature Betty Shaw to verso), ornamental border to title (cropped to lower border), fullpage listing the alphabet with small woodcut to illustrate an animal or figure for each letter, four Biblical woodcut illustrations to text, dust-soiling throughout volume, occasional light damp-staining, endpapers with juvenile practice alphabet writing and inscriptions including ‘Betty Shaw Daughter to John Shaw Born October the 28 1752’, contemporary sheep, light wear to extremities, 12mo in 6s

Rare. No institutional copies of this edition located. (1)

£300 - £500

465 Life and Adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane, A Nursery Tale, embellished with designs, circa 1832, 12 lithographed drawings, with tissue guards (except one), first plate collated upside down, some scattered foxing and toning throughout, minor offsetting to some pages, paper with ‘Afonwen 1832’ watermark, original printed paper wrapper, H.E.Delamere signature in brown ink to upper wrapper, upper wrapper detached, spine detached, overall finger soiling, oblong 4to

The British Library attributes the author as being Lucy Charlotte Wrangham, but a manuscript note in the Bodleian Library copy attributes authorship to H.E. Delamere.

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£150 - £200

466 Marshall (J., printer). The Adventures of a Whipping-Top, illustrated with stories of many Bad Boys, who themselves deserve Whipping, and of some Good Boys who deserve Plum-Cakes, written by Itself, vii, 8-78, [2] p. : ill, London: John Marshall, circa 1790, wood-engraved frontispiece, 21 black and white illustrations throughout, ownership inscription to front pastedown ‘Caroline Wightman May 22 1793’ (numeral 2 corrected to 3 in the same hand) and ownership inscription to title-page in brown ink, small paper fault to C1 with loss of ‘he’ to text, small tear to upper corner to E2 - 3 (E2 just touching text), rear pastedown with adverts promoting books for the instruction and amusement of children sold by J.Marshall, original Dutch floral boards, little rubbed at extremities, floral paper to upper cover with small tear 24mo Gumuchian 253.

The author of this chapbook is sometimes attributed to Dorothy or Mary Ann Kilner.

The last copy sold at auction in 2007. A rare book.

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£600 - £800

Lot 465

467 Marshall (John, Printer). The Friends; or, the History of Billy Freeman and Tommy Truelove, proper to be imitated by all those who desire to be good and great, London: printed by John Marshall at No.4 Aldermary Church Yard..., circa 1787, woodcut frontispiece, numerous black & white woodcuts throughout, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper ‘William Wightman May 22 1793’ (numeral 2 corrected to 3 in the same hand), page 61 printed as 91, small brown spot to D7, last three pages publisher’s advertisements, final page laid to pastedown, original Dutch decorative boards with dice pattern in green, lower spine slightly rubbed, 32mo

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£300 - £500

468 Marshall (John, publisher). The History of Master Billy Friendly, and his sister Miss Polly Friendly, to which is added the fairy tale of the three little fishes, London: [J. Marshall] No. 17 Queen-Street..., circa 1787, woodcut frontispiece (forming upper pastedown), black & white woodcuts throughout, ‘Caroline’ in brown ink to title-page, verso of title-page with previous ownership inscription ‘Caroline Wightman June 1 1793’, stitching loose, 3 pages of publisher’s advertisements to final leaf (final leaf forming lower pastedown), original colourful Dutch floral wrappers, slight loss to upper cover lower edge, slight fraying to edge of upper wrapper, some rubbing to spine, 16mo

Rare. Only one institutional copy, according to Copac, held at Oxford University Libraries.

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469 McKenzie (J. printer). The Orphan; or, the interesting life of Little Fanny Fairchild: containing a variety of adventures entirely designed for the amusement and instruction of the Lilliputian world, Exeter: Printed by J.McKenzie and Son, High-Street, for the booksellers in Town and Country, 1795, [4],9-85p, frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout, previous ownership inscription to front pastedown ‘Margaret Meux 1800’, very small loss to blank outer margins (B9-10), original dutch floral boards with ‘Paul Reymund’ name to edge of pattern, sheet blank margin visible to head, paper fault to upper edge corner, 16mo

No copies found at auction. Rare.

Mentioned in The Devon book trades: imprint registers. No copies of the book found on Copac.

Paul Reymund was a decorative paper producer based in Nuremberg during the 18th century.

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£600 - £800

Lot 470

£300 - £500

470 Newbery (E., printer). The Toy-Shop; or, Sentimental Preceptor containing some choice trifles, for the instruction and amusement of every little miss and master, London: E Newbery, circa 1787, frontispiece and other black & white illustrations throughout, ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece ‘Margaret Meux 1880’ in brown ink, juvenile marks in pencil to lower margin of rear pastedown, including dedication page after title-page, small loss to lower E8 just touching text, advertisements to final seven pages, original dutch floral boards, some light wear, some loss of spine at foot, 16mo Gumuchian 5611 and Roscoe J357, (2).

R. J. could be Richard Johnson, anonymous author of Juvenile RamblesRoscoe. (1)

£600 - £800

471 Newbery (E., publisher). Instructive Lessons conveyed to the Youthful Mind through the medium of Tale and Dialogue, by Lilliputius Gulliver, London: printed by S. Gosnell for E. Newbery, 1800, woodcut frontispiece and 12 black & white illustrations throughout, ownership inscription to front pastedown in brown ink, original dutch floral boards, near contemporary homemade brown paper dust jacket, 24 mo Roscoe J152 (1).

Rare. Only one copy located, at the British Library. (1)

£600 - £800

472 Newbery (E., Publisher). The Ladder to Learning, step the first, being a collection of select fables, consisting of words of only one syllable intended as an easy introduction to the useful art of reading, [by Mrs Sarah Trimmer], London: E Newbery, printed by J. Crowder, 1799, numerous black & white woodcuts throughout, previous ownership inscription ‘Margaret Mieux 1800’ in brown ink to verso of free front endpaper, small closed tear to free front endpaper, original colourful Dutch floral boards, some small splits to floral boards over foot of spine, 16 mo, together with three other foreign language children’s books (4)

£300 - £500

473 Paper Doll Book. Phoebe, The Cottage Maid. Exemplified in a series of rural figures, 1st edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1812, seven hand-coloured paper-doll figures, with head (crease and small closed tear to neck) and three hats (two near-identical), front free endpaper partially water-stained, original printed wrappers with publisher’s advertisements on rear wrapper, small stain to top edge of wrappers (from slipcase thumb cut), small rub with loss of colour to lower wrapper, ribbon sometime replaced with string, original printed slipcase, rubbed and stained, two edges split, 16mo Osborne, p. 1053 (one hat only). The Osborne copy, like ours, bears the date 1811 on the wrapper and slipcase, although the title-page is dated 1812, and the advertisement states ‘early in January 1812, will be published ... ‘. (1)

£300 - £500

474 Paper Doll Book. The History and Adventures of Little Henry, exemplified in a series of rural figures, 5th edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1811, seven hand-coloured paper-doll figures, with head and four headpieces, original printed wrappers with publisher’s advertisements on rear wrapper, small stain to top edge of wrappers (from slipcase thumb cut), lacking ribbon tie, original printed slipcase (6th edition, dated 1811), a little rubbed and marked, some splitting to edges, 16mo

See Osborne, p. 1052, dated 1810 (lacking two headpieces).

Rarely found complete with all the cut-outs as here. (1)

£150 - £200

475 Paper Doll Book. The History of Little Fanny, exemplified in a series of figures, 6th edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810, seven hand-coloured paper-doll figures, with head and four headpieces, rear free endpaper with closed tear to upper edge, original printed wrappers with publisher’s advertisements on rear wrapper, small stain to top edge of wrappers (from slipcase thumb cut), ribbon sometime replaced with string, original printed slipcase (8th edition, dated 1811), lightly rubbed and marked, two edges split, 16mo

See Osborne, p. 1052 for the second edition of 1810 (with two headpieces only).

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£150 - £200

476* Peepshow. Thames Tunnel, 1200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000, opened the 25th day of March 1843, [London: Azulay, 1843], hand-coloured lithograph panorama showing the two entrances from the Rotherhithe entrance side, with a two bore walking tunnel 1200 feet long, four-sections (including cover) bound concertina-style with embossed black cloth, each section varnished, upper cover with two peepholes for viewing, lightly rubbed, small juvenile figure in blue pencil to final section, size 9 x 12.5 cm

Peepshow: Gestetner Collection 277.

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£200 - £300

477 Power (Francis, publisher). Mother Goose’s Melody: or, Sonnets for the Cradle, in two parts...and illustrated with notes and maxims, historical, philosophical and critical, London: Francis Power (Grandson to the late Mr J. Newbery), 1791, woodcut frontispiece (forming upper pastedown), black & white woodcuts throughout, title-page with first square bracket round price wrong way round, 3 pages of advertisments for books sold by Francis Power to rear (last page forming lower pastedown), contemporary ‘3’ in brown ink to front pastedown, original colourful Dutch floral wrappers, black ink mark to upper wrapper, spine slightly rubbed, 16 mo

Roscoe J250 (2).

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£200 - £400

478 Turpin (H., printer). The Mirror of Amusement, or Happy Village, being a new method of passing the year pleasantly and profitably, either in Town or Country, by Wm. Wiseacre Esq, third edition enlarged, London: H. Turpin, circa 1780, woodcut frontispiece and 13 illustrations, ownership inscription to frontispiece and title-page ‘Margaret Meux 1800’, some juvenile marks to margin of final leaf, small area of black paper adhered to top left of frontispiece, original green, yellow, orange and red Dutch floral boards, some wear to lower spine with wrapper partially detached from lower right side, 32mo Homan Turpin 1764-1787, publisher at 104 St John’s Street, West Smithfield. (1) £600 - £800

479 Watts (Isaac). Divine Songs, attempted in easy language for the use of children by I. Watts, D.D., to which are added, the principles of the Christian religion, expressed in plain and easy verse by P. Doddridge, D.D., London: C. Dilly..., 1798, ownership inscription to front pastedown ‘Margaret Meux June 1st 1800’ then written underneath ‘died at /2 past ten Monday morning September the 8th & was buried on Thursday September 11th 1800’, on the front free pastedown a verse from John Milton’s poem written in brown ink, inner hinge cracked, original Dutch floral boards, spine strengthened with near contemporary , Earliest edition recorded in Osborne is 1800, page 669.

Margaret Meux (1795-1800) died aged 4 years and 10 months and was buried at St John the Baptist, Eltham, Greenwich, London. Born to was the sister of brewer Sir Henry Meux (1770 – 7 April 1841) who owned Henry Meux & Company Brewery. In 1814, his brewery was the site of the London Beer Flood, which killed eight people after a vat burst.

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£200 - £400

480 Wilde (A., publisher). The Newest, Best and Very-Much Esteemed Book of Knowledge ... , 1st edition, London: A. Wilde, 1764, pp.[x]+156, possibly missing first leaf (blank?), engraved title with different woodcut to each side (partially detached and closetrimmed edges creased), woodcuts throughout, generally toned, lacking endpapers and stitching, contemporary sheep, worn, with spine vertically split and covers detached (old adhesive tape to lower cover), 12mo

Rare; the last copy recorded at auction sold at Sotheby’s in 1974.

The title-pages list all manner of useful information pertaining, amongst other things, to astronomy and the planets, husbandry, natural phenomena such as meteors, thunder-bolts, and blazing-stars, medical conditions, such as the ‘signification of moles on man or woman’, the interpretation of dreams and Pythagoras’s Wheel of Fortune, and the Seven Wonders of the World.

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£150 - £200

481* Alphabet. A New Spelling Alphabet for the Instruction of Children, circa 1782-1793, 3 sets of carved bone upper case letters, each complete, one set slightly smaller than the others, contained in original pink paper-lined wooden box, sliding lid with handcoloured pictorial label by W. Lazonby, engraved by Woodman & Mutlow, 11.1 x 15.6 x 3.7 cm

Thomas Jones Woodman (1758-1817) was an engraver, printer, and map and print seller, who was in partnership with engraver and printer Henry Mutlow (1756?-1826) from about 1782 to around 1793.

483* Articulated Figures. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass figures, Talfourd, circa 1920s, 25 hand-painted hand-cut articulated wooden figures, each with split pins to shoulder and hip areas to allow for articulation of arms and legs, comprising: Alice, Mad Hatter, Jabberwocky, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts, Walrus and Carpenter, Humpty Dumpty, etc., each figure approximately 10cm (4 ins), some feet with slight damage, some paint faded, jabberwocky with tip of one prong missing, each pinned onto white backboard in three rows, displayed in a glass display, small crack across lower left corner of glass (40 x 61 cm)

These small toys made by Talfourd rarely survive the hands of children. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds a collection of 22 of these figures. (1)

£400 - £600

£300 - £400

The British Museum has a trade card for W. Lazonby’s Academy, Mitcham, Surrey, which features the same engraving (museum number Heal, 104.51). (1)

482* Alphabet. The Infant’s Alphabet, circa 1830/40s, bone alphabet of 26 carved letters A-Z, each aproximately 15 mm high, contained in original turned wood cylindrical box, hand-coloured title label to pull-off lid, with illustration of a small girl reading, flanked by a dog and a cat on a stool, label rubbed and a little chipped, 5 cm high, 5 cm diameter, together with another set of carved bone letters A-Z, each approximately 10 mm high, contained in a turned wood cylindrical box, with red and black concentric circles on pull-off lid, 4.5 cm high, 5 cm diameter

A nice duo of alphabets, unusually both complete. (2)

£200 - £300

484* Board Game. Amusement in the History of England, printed by Thos. Turner Del & Lith, circa 1840, hand-coloured lithograph, mounted on linen in 12 sections, showing 40 portraits of sovereigns numbered from 1 to 80, starting with A Briton, to Queen Victoria, each portrait with another small illustration underneath depicting an event from their reign, probably published by William Sallis, some mount staining, 51 x 63.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (67.5 x 80.5 cm), lacking slipcase and rules

Whitehouse, page 26. (1)

£100 - £150

485* Board Game. [Course d’aeroplanes], Paris: Saussine Editeur, 1915, chromolithograph on paper, depicting various biplanes and air balloons in vignettes, numbers 1 - 90 running throughout, vertical damp-stain to left quarter, vertical crease to centre and left quarter, edges with some closed tears to margins, 60 x 80 cm

Leon Saussine was the creator and producer of a wide variety of games including race games, strategy games, puzzles, card games, questions and answer games, games of skill and shooting, and shadow theatre. He exhibited at the world fair in 1878 as an educational and parlour games publisher. The company continued after his death in 1896 into the early 1900’s run by his widow and then his sons. (1)

£150 - £200

486* Board Games. A Collection of approximately 85 board games, mainly early 19th-century and later, including: The International Mail, The New Game ‘Plantit’ for all Garden Lovers, A New Map Game Buy British, The Race to the North, Wheeling, Radio The Wireless Game, Military Whist, Black-Out, Peter Rabbit’s Race Game, Franklyn’s Fine Shagg Novel Patience Game, etc., mostly complete, publishers including: Unicorn Products Ltd, H.P. G. & Son; Chad Valley, Geographia Ltd, Valentine & Sons Ltd, Frederick Warne Ltd, etc., approximately 2 handheld pinball games, 25 games in original boxes, 11 board games with original mini boxes and 49 board games only, various sizes

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. (4 boxes)

£200 - £400

487* Circus. A set of movable cards, Germany, circa 1930s, 5 chromolithograhed cards (incomplete?), each with a circus scene and a movable figure operated by a metal pin on the verso, 3 of acrobats, 1 of a horse and ring master, and 1 of a clown and performing dog, slot to lower edge, presumably to insert into a stand (lacking), each 9.5 x 9.5 cm, housed in original cardboard box, with colour pictorial label on lid (latter lacking 2 sides), and with adhesive tape repairs to corners of base), together with 5 other chromolithographed cards unrelated, Germany, 1930s, depicting the backs of an audience looking towards a theatre stage with circular viewing hole showing a series of ‘moving’ pictures when tab to right is turned quickly (a man and jumping dog; a boy and girl dancing and kissing; a ballerina; 2 boxers; and a man on a cavorting donkey), each 9 x 8 cm

488* French Board Game. Loto Bus, Paris: Saussine, circa 1910, 6 chromolithograph images laid onto geometric patterned board, depicting a Parisien bus each with a driver at the front and a conducter at the back, each with different routes showing comprising: Avenue de Clichy - Odeon; Place St Michel - Rue du Poteau; Pantheon - Courcelles; Hotel de Ville - Porte Maillot; Montmartre-Saint German des Prés; and Place St Michel Gare St Lazare, each board 17 x 25.2 cm, each board with a small recessed area to allow bus passenger card to sit in, plus 6 chromolithographic cards with the heads and shoulders of 9 bus passengers each with a unique number above, 4.2 x 15.8 cm, lacking game tokens, contained in original pattern printed board box, pictorial panel to upper lid, instructions in French to inside box lid, two corners of upper lid cracked, some rubbing to extremities, 26.9 x 34 x 2.3 cm (1)

£200 - £300

We have been unable to trace either of these sets of amusing movable cards; both state ‘Made in Germany’. (1)

£100 - £200

489* French transformation playing cards. Jeu de Cartes á Rire de Thalie, Paris: Grandebes, circa 1819, the complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved and captioned playing cards (French suits), designs attributed to Baron Louis Athalin, full-length courts representing Parisian theatres and actors, pip cards with humerous scenes, lightly dusty, scarce minor spots or marks, 6 pip cards with juvenile black ink outlining, versos plain white, each card 90 x 62 mm, plus original two-part box (darkened and dust-soiled, one corner of inner lip split), inner lip with label of Alph. Giroux, Rue de Coq St. Honoré No 7, Paris British Museum 1896,0501.736.1-48 (Schreiber, French 98); Field #26; Morley pp.120-122.

Another pack with identical pip cards was produced at around the same time, but with the courts cards depicting French newspapers and policitians.

Alphonse Giroux, known as ‘the merchant of the princes’, was an important Parisian manufacturer of luxury furniture and objets d’art, whose products were intended for the upper echelons of society. He was operating from 7, Rue de Coq St. Honoré as early as 1799, before moving to Boulevard des Capucines in the middle of the 19th century, and he counted royalty among his clients, including King Louis XVIII and King Charles X. Specialising in paper and artistic supplies he sold a hugely diverse range of wares, including toys, boxes, souvenirs, lithographs, mirrors, clocks, sewing accessories, fabrics, and items of furniture. Giroux had studied painting under Jacques-Louis David, and he not only collected, exhibited and sold fine art, but he offered a conservation service also, becoming involved in such prestigious projects as the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral. The firm of Giroux showcased its wares widely at world fairs and exhibitions, and won a number of medals. (1) £500 - £700

490* Balloon Toy. Luft-Ballon, Zürich: Franz Carl Weber, [1909], inflatable paper balloon, consisting of a metal wire framework covered by ten sections of rainbow coloured tissue paper, pale brown tissue paper to rim of metal frame, small tab to the top of balloon, some tears and a few marks, 165 cm long, presented in original brown paper bag with printed title label showing inflated hot air balloon and instructions in German, adhesive to right seam of bag failing, one small closed tear, (lacking ignition mass as issued), 47 x 32.5 cm

Marchand, Les Avions Jouets, p. 28.

A rare and remarkable survivor given its fragile nature. Designed to be inflated using an ignition mass (originally supplied with the balloon). Once this was ignited and placed in the wire container underneath the balloon, the balloon would rise and be released into the sky. (1)

£200 - £300

491* Jigsaw. Kindness to Animals, [J.W. Barfoot], circa 1863, 40piece wooden jigsaw puzzle, with hand-coloured lithograph of two children in the centre feeding three ponies from a bucket, surrounded by other vignettes of children interacting with animals and birds, titled to lower margin, toned, 5 lugs broken off, 4 crudely attached to receiving piece, the other lacking (and the 2 pieces taped together), 1 edge piece with some black spotting, 27 x 36 cm, housed in original wooden box, top of one side of box missing, colour illustration to sliding lid (scratched), verso of lid with pencil inscription 'Godfrey Tindall from his Aunt Mrs Charles Harris Novr. 26. 1863', and a further ink inscription to base of box mentioning Edward and James Tindall, dated 1884, 23 x 18 x 4.5 cm

Rare: we have been unable to trace another for sale or sold at auction. See Hannas, The English Jigsaw Puzzle 1760-1890, for several references to a double-sided puzzle produced by Barfoot, with ‘Kindness to Animals’ on one side, and ‘Sheep Shearing’ on the other. James Richard Barfoot and his son, James Widdowfield Barfoot, were the most prolific designers and makers of dissected puzzles in England from the late 1840s onwards. (1)

£100 - £150

492* Marble Tree Game. Apple Picker Game, circa 1920, wooden and tin base with wooden figure and tree, base and tree with illustrated paper decoration, some rubbing with loss to edges, tin tray with yellow numbers in marble divots, possibly made by French company Compagnie Industrielle du Jouet, 40 cm high, together with a bag of approximately 50 marbles (1)

£70 - £100

493* Military. Webb’s Military Figures, for the Practice of Tacticks, By which the movements of a Battalion or larger Body of Troops may be displayed upon the present improved System Intended for the Use & Instruction of Subalterns of the Army, 1797, set of oblong wooden blocks covered with hand-coloured engraved images of soldiers, 10 larger blocks, all with 7 soldiers to each of the 4 long sides, 24 x 48 x 24 mm, and 10 smaller blocks, each with one soldier to each of the 4 long sides, 9 x 32 x 9 mm, blocks toned, blue paper to ends chipped in a few instances (and missing to one end of one of the smaller blocks), together with 4 metal flags on stands (one detached from stand), 58 mm high, contained in the original wooden box, with remains of engraved label to sliding lid (label browned, with part of title and most of imprint lacking), 15.3 x 11.6 x 4.5 cm

Extremely rare tabletop teaching aid, apparently used to explain battlefield formation, drill manouevres, and tactics to young officers; the only other set we have traced is that in The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum (ours differs slightly from the Museum’s set, which has a larger box, larger big blocks with 15 soldiers to each side, and 20 smaller blocks). (1)

£300 - £500

494* Noah’s Ark. A wooden Noah’s ark, circa 1930, wooden construction ark with painted decoration, flat bottom, sloping roof with lifting panel, split to roof, one part of hinge lacking on lifting roof, printed verse on paper adherred to inner lid (some chipping to edges of paper), small chip and crack to upper left short side, 31 x 61 x 17 cm (h x l x w), together with a wooden Noah and his wife, plus 35 wooden animals including: zebras, ostriches, giraffes, camels, lions, deer, swans, elephants, tigers, etc., all in pairs except a single pig, some overall rubbing, Noah with loss of paint in areas, tallest figure 14 cm (1)

£200 - £400

495* Panorama. A Panorama of the Coronation Procession of Their Majesties, 12th May 1937, drawn by Mary McNeile for Captain J. R. Abbey, London: Chiswick Press, 1938, hand-coloured collotype and stencil strip panorama, in 12 sections, with key to official personages and officers commanding detachments, each section captioned beneath, depicting various scenes 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., width 11 cm, length approximately 560 cm, mounted in original turned boxwood cylinder, blue silk pull tag present and intact, with colour pictorial coronation scene label (somewhat faded), neatly reinforced to verso of left hand edge (adjacent to wooden pull tab), Megan and Michael Dawson ex libris label to bottom, cylinder height 17.5 cm

Limited edition, 31/125 copies. (1)

£150 - £200

Lot 494

496* Playing card boxes. A group of 20 playing card boxes, most 19th century, some original including: The Second Empire Pack (Field #41) original two-part box; Karten-Almanach, Tubingen, 1807, original two-part box with accompanying booklet, plus another box of the same, lacking pull-off lid; Petit Jeu Prophetique original twopart box (pull-off lid broken); Comic-Karte, by Frommann & Bunte, Darmstadt, original box (defective); Transformation of Cards Metastasis, original box (defective); slipcase box with printed paper label ‘The Use, Gramaticall Cards, comprizing the Generall Rules of Lilley’s Gramer in ye 4 Principall parts thereof, Vizt, Orthographia, Etymologia, Syntaxis, Prosodia ...’ (see British Museum 1982,U.4625.1-52), 1676?; Austrian Costume Tarock (Masked Ball) two-part box; plus other boxes probably not original including: a (probably Canadian, mid 19th century) birch bark box (defective) with moose hair embroidered design representing a type A8 GIII Rex Hall & Son exportation ace of spades, floral designs to (broken) lift-off lid panels, side & rear panels with designs incorporating a heart, a diamond and a club respectively; a green box outer with pink inner case with flap (possibly French costume pack box?, defective); dark brown leather covered box with flap, with gold tooled ornamental design and ‘Court Game of Geography’; two-part brown leather covered box (defective), with marbled paper on inner lip and inside, and later typewritten label ‘Playing Cards with geographical designs after J. H. Seyfrid, also with original volume of explanatory text titled Europäisch Geographische Spiel-Charte, 1678, with engraved (uncoloured) frontispieced showing men playing cards, marbled boards (spine rubbed and faded with wear), see British Museum 1871,1209.51885240; two-part brown leather covered box, gold-tooled ‘Valentine’ to lift-off lid; a large-format (12 x 8 cm) box with lift-off lid, covered (inside and out) in marbled paper, ink manuscript paper labels to lid and end panel of base ‘Le Blason’; a book-form slipcase (outer part only) covered in brown leather, the fully gold-tooled spine with title Jeu de la Guerre; a brown leather covered box with goldtooling and title Court Game of Astrophiligeon (adhesive tape to all edges), various conditions, some repairs

The unusual birch bark box with coloured moose hair embroidery is very like those held in the collections of the Colonial Williamsburg and the McCord Museum. These items, often small boxes such as pill boxes, were likely made for the tourism industry, either by First Nations women or by local nuns. Unfortunately our example is badly broken, although all the sections appear to be present and the imitation ace of spades front panel is intact, as is the rear panel.

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£100 - £200

497* Scenic pastime game. Fairy Tales, Pictures for Grouping (Tales), Malerische Zusammenstellung/Compositions Pittoresques (Contes), late 19th century, a set of two aquatint background scenes, one depicting a forest scene the other a countryside scene with river in the background, with approximately 55 hand coloured lithographed paper cut outs with tabs, depicting various scenery, figures and animals including: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Hansel & Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, all presented in a folder which also frames the picture, a small black mesh over the picture area, paper flap to lower back board partially detached, some spotting and wear, 28.5 x 32.5 cm (1)

£300 - £500

498* Table Game. Der Schimmel, 1826, five hand coloured lithographs mounted onto pattern printed card, each with a decorative border and a logo in each corner showing ‘i A’ with a tree sitting inbetween, each with their own titles in German and French, depicting: Die Glocke, Der Schimmel, Der Hammer, Hammer u: Glocke, and Die Borse, some creases and wear to each, Die Glocke with small section of loss to lower left border (missing ‘La C’ to French title), with 8 bone dice, bell and hammer possibly replacements (as images drawn in pencil), in original box with sliding lid, lacking paper label with ownership inkstamp J. L. Schnell, 11 x 15 x 1.8 cm (1)

£300 - £500

499* Table Game. The Game of Besieging, circa 1810, handcoloured lithograph on paper, laid onto decorated board, four vignettes to each corner depicting various scenes with soldiers dressed in blue and red, some light marks, boards in four folding sections, 32 x 34.5 cm, paper label to upper board when folded (possibly pasted over another label), edges of board slightly rubbed in places, contained in pink and green slip case, pictorial paper label laid onto upper cover with title in French, German and English, some overall wear, slight loss to upper left edge (1.5 cm), 17.6 x 16.7 x 0.9 cm

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£150 - £200

500* Table Game. Travelling on the banks of the Rhine, mid 19th century, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto linen, showing a scene of Germany with the Rhine running through, names of Towns and Cities in black, numbers 1-40 scattered through the map, vertical and horizontal crease where folded, light abrasion to upper right margin, together with 4 page instruction manual in English, French and German (handwritten pencil notes to lower margin), both housed in box with pictorial illustration to upper, orange floral paper to sides of upper lid (one edge split), some pencil notes to lower box, 15.7 x 18.1 cm, plus Weihnachts Kapelle, advent calendar, early 20th century, 10 colour sections on thin card, including roof, church walls (with windows and doors numbered 6-17), clock tower, roof for clock tower, six cut-out scenes, some minor red marks (from candle wax), housed in thin card slipcase, lid with title and four slit holes to sit base of church on, 20.5 x 30 cm (2)

£150 - £200

501* Table Games. Neues Gänsespiel, Nürnberg: G.N. Renner, circa 1830, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto thin card, depicting numbers 1-29 in circles with vignettes of characters with geese surrounding, in the centre three figures at a table carving a goose, title and instructions in German to lower margin, card in four folding sections, some small splits along folds, 34 x 29.6 cm, original patterned slipcase with illustrated paper label, tear to upper left corner with loss (3.8 x 7 cm), closed tear extending across part of label, some overall wear to edges, 17.4 x 15.1 cm, together with The Bird Labyrinth, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto linen in 9 sections, the title in French, English, German and Spanish with floral motifs to each corner, some spotting and overall wear to paper, some faded juvenile writing to verso, 42.5 x 42.5 cm (2)

£150 - £200

502* 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 to first leave, 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, all wood edges gilt (dusty), original red pictorial cloth-covered boards, turned bone finials to the pulls, spine slightly faded, oblong 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

Lot 501

503*

American Civil War playing cards. Union Cards, New York: American Card Co., 1862, the complete deck of 52 playing cards, lithographed in blue and red, the suits are eagles and shields (blue), stars and American flags (red), courts (same in each suit) represent a colonel (kings), goddess of liberty (queens) and a major (jacks), ace of eagles has maker’s details, most card faces have some light offsetting from the versos, few minor marks, 5 flags finger-soiled, ace & 6 stars creased, square corners, versos ornate blue design incorporating Union flags and shield, each card 90 x 63 mm, plus original box with lift-off lid, toned and somewhat soiled, 12 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (54.5 x 40cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Fournier, North America 35; Hargrave, pp.343-344; Hochman W5; Willshire, Varia 247.

These cards, designed by Benjamin W. Hitchcock, were produced during the American Civil War and clearly were intended for sale in the Union states. Willshire rather amusingly describes them as ‘of very vulgar character’. In 1863 the American Card Company produced another pack of these cards, but in that later pack the court cards have no background. (1) £500 - £800

American Civil War playing cards. Union Cards, second edition, New York: American Card Co., 1863, the complete deck of 52 playing cards, lithographed in red, black and blue, the suits are eagles (black), stars (red), shields (blue), and American flags (multicolour), courts (same in each suit) represent a colonel (kings), goddess of liberty (queens) and a major (jacks), ace of eagles has imprint, generally dust- and finger-soiled, few light creases, a little rubbed in places, jack of flags with minor surface loss to lower right corner, and small singe mark to bottom edge, versos blue foliate pattern, each card 90 x 64 mm, with original two-part box (some edge wear, lift-off lid with short splits to two edges), 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (54 x 40cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in box in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis (purchased from Cartorama, 62 #279).

Cary, USA 215; Hochman W6 & NS2.

These cards, designed by Benjamin W. Hitchcock, were produced during the American Civil War and clearly were intended for sale in the Union states. This particular deck comes with an unusual ace of eagles, with the imprint American Publishing Agency, rather than the more common American Card Company.

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£500 - £700

504*

505* American playing cards. A group of 35 decks of American playing cards, late 19th - 20th century, including: Columbian Exposition Souvenir pack (SX7), Winters Art Litho, 1893, and another similar by G.W. Clark (SX6); Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, probably Brown & Biglow, circa 1952; standard pack (no.188), The Russell & Morgan Printing Co., circa 1886; Currier & Ives lithographs (oversize cards), Merrimack, 1960s; Man From U.N.C.L.E. deck, Ed-U-Cards, 1965, including U.N.C.L.E. ‘membership card’ for Dudley Ollis; Western Playing Cards, published Marlboro Cigarettes, 1973; Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, 1972; Reagan’s Rogues Gallery, R. Billingsley, 1987 (limited edition no.169 of 350); Hawaiian Heritage Playing Cards (printed in Belgium), 1982, and others, all believed complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto display boards (52 x 39 cm and smaller), the remainder in plastic bags, many with original box

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. (35)

£100 - £150

506* American playing cards. Bezique set, Philadelphia & New York: Samuel Hart & Co., circa 1865, four complete decks of 32 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), single-figure (one way) courts, Hochman type NY28 AS, dusty, some variable (generally light) spotting or toning, occasional minor marks, one QH with minor surface loss to blank margin, two pip cards with small corner crease, square corners, versos ornamental designs in red and blue (one in blue only), each card 90 x 65 mm, with four Saladee’s Patent Bazique Register cards with metal spinners and brown floral versos, and 8 page rules booklet, contained together in original cloth-covered case with central divider, two U.S. revenue stamps dated July 1865 in right-hand compartment, hinged lid with blind-stamped design and ‘Bazique with Rules & Register’ in gold, Hart’s Bazique Cards paper label on inside of lid, 15 cards and one register card mounted with photo corners onto a display board (54.5 x 40cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in box in a plastic bag

For a similar example, see Potter & Potter auctions, March 28 2020, #358. (1) £400 - £600

507* American playing cards. Hustling Joe I (No.61), Cincinnati, United States: United States Playing Card Co., 1895, the complete deck of 52 plus joker colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended humorous courts relating to the suits (eg. diamond courts all holding diamonds), their coloured backgrounds extending to the card edges, partially transformed comic pip cards, AS with red Hustling Joe and maker’s details, top edges of cards lightly toned and dusty, with occasional very faint edge stain (mainly affecting pip cards), example card (additional KS) with corner clipped (by manufacturer?), rounded corners, versos green double-ended image of frogs diving, swimming etc., each card 88 x 63 mm, original twopart box, inner sleeve intact, outer sleeve lacking top panel, rubbed and dust-soiled with slight wear, together with: Cleveland Comic Campaign Deck (comic political playing cards), New York: A.H. Caffee, 1888, a complete deck of 52 plus joker colour printed playing cards (French suits), without the description card, double-ended courts caricatures of political figures, joker pictures Cleveland knocking out Harrison, triplicate indices, soiled and worn, with corner losses and few tears, KS with one corner sometime reattached (stains from previous adhesive tape repair), versos red on buff design picturing newspaper editors, original box (worn with losses), plus: The Stage Playing Cards (No. 65x), Cincinatti, United States: USPC Co., 1896, a complete deck of 52 plus joker colour & gold printed playing cards (French suits), courts and aces picturing 4 stage stars of the day, Marshall P. Wilder on the joker, no condition points to note, rounded corners, gilt edges, versos gold & brown ornamental pattern, each card 88 x 63 mm, original two-part box, both sleeves lightly rubbed to extremities, outer sleeve a trifle dusty, with 9 other American packs, 5 by the USPC Co.: Nile Fortune Cards (circa 1904), Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling (circa 1970), Gaigel Playing Cards (circa 1895), 2 standard decks (one Aviator circa 1970, the other with image of New York on versos, 1975), and 4 by Andrew Dougherty: Triplicate Playing Cards (1876, without joker), R.F. Foster’s Patented Self-Playing Whist Cards (2 decks - 1st series 1889 & 2nd series 1891), and a standard deck with Excelsior AS (32 cards piquet deck, no joker), a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 12 boards (54.5 x 41 cm & similar), some boards encapsulated in plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

First 3 items: Hochman T9, A5 & SE3 respectively. (12)

£200 - £300

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508* American playing cards. Standard pattern, possibly New York: L.I. Cohen?, circa 1845?, a complete deck of 52 colour printed playing cards (French suits), no indices, single-figure courts, ace of spades with ornate design in blue and the title Imperial Palace Cards, soiled, few corner creases, 8C with crease at one end, KS with large corner crease, KD with small corner loss, corners rounded from use, versos plain white, each card 90 x 64 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (52 x 39 cm), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. Cartorama 62 #276; Hochman NY2 or NY4?

The courts in this mysterious deck are virtually identical in both design and colour to those of the pack shown in Cartorama (see above), which is referenced as Hochman NY4. In Hochman’s Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, (part IV, page 13) it states that the courts used for NY4 are identical to those used for NY2. However, our deck has an extremely unusual ace of spades, which we cannot find any reference to. Possibly this pack was made by Cohen for export? (1) £150 - £200

509* American playing cards. The Forbidden City: Pekin & Chinese Views, Los Angeles: Grimes-Stassforth Stationary Co., 1901, the complete deck of 52 playing cards (French suits), plus joker (title card) and ‘Prominent Views’ card, each with captioned oval image from a photograph, including scenes of the Boxer Rebellion, palaces, temples, an ‘opium joint’, ‘women prisoners’ etc., 2 of diamonds with oval New Zealand tax stamp, 10 & 9S with small corner crease, 9S also with short edge tear, rounded corners, gilt edges, versos (heightened with gold) two dragon pennants on a blue peacock feathers background, with original two-part orange-brown box, outer slipcase with title and imprint in gold lettering, fragment of tax stamp, and an 8D card adhered to rear panel, each card 88 x 63 mm, together with Mediaeval playing cards, New York: New York Consolidated Card Co., 1897, 52 colour printed playing cards (French suits, without joker), double-ended courts in mediaeval costume, AS with maker’s name, generally soiled, rubbed in places, edges stained with some light wear, 3C stained, rounded corners, double-ended versos with a card player in mediaeval costume (printed in colours and gold), each card 88 x 62 mm, original box (embossed outer sleeve only), with another 18 decks (including one duplicate), all but one 2nd half of 20th century, including: a standard ‘Aladdin’ deck, The National Card Co., circa 1885; Kennedy Kards, Humor House Inc., 1963; Trip or Trap deck, Stancraft Products, 1970; Stag Party pack, unknown maker, 1953; Sex to Sexty Stud Poker pack, unknown maker, circa 1970, and others, not checked for completeness, but believed complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 18 display boards (54.5 x 41 cm & similar), the remainder in plastic bags, many with original box

First two items: Hochman W37 & NY55 respectively. Hochman describes the Mediaeval deck as ‘probably the most unusual, and most beautiful deck ever created by NYCC’.

The other packs present are: High cards/Marijuana Deck, Odyssey, 1976; Politicards, drawn by Keith Nichols, 1980; Politicards, 1971 (two packs); Sutherland-Brown semi-transformation, 1977; American Drummer, 1975; Black American Heroes pack, by A.G. Muller, 1977; Texas playing cards, E & S Co., 1966; Queen High Equality deck, 1971; Soul Cards, 1973; Declaration of Independence pack, 1977; Opera playing cards (for the Met), 1980; TWA Stardust pack (Lockheed 1649-1957), circa 1970.

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£300 - £400

510* American transformation cards. Kinney Tobacco Harlequin II deck, New York: Kinney Bros., 1889, a deck of 52 (without joker) colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), single figure humorous transformed courts, comic transformed and captioned pip cards, AS with maker’s name, lightly dusty, rounded corners, versos pink with red design incorporating maker’s name and date, each card 89 x 63 mm, all cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 boards (54.5 x 40 cm) encapsulated in plastic (none examined out of boards)

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Field #53; Hochman T8 and A2.

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£250 - £350

Lot 508

Lot 509

Lot 510

511* American transformation cards. Tiffany Harlequin playing cards, New York: C.E. Carryl for Tiffany & Co., 1879, the complete deck of 52 (plus blank) colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), single figure humorous courts, transformed pip cards with witty captions, AS with title and maker’s details, dust-soiled, some minor marks, few cards have some offsetting from the card versos, square corners, versos red with black & gold pattern and central joker figure on a unicorn, each card 96 x 66 mm, with partial original box (without lift-off lid and bottom panel, worn), all cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 boards (55 x 40 cm) encapsulated in plastic (none examined out of boards), the box in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Field 51: ‘Witty captions make each of the unusually well-drawn cards a sort of cartoon. The face cards are humorously modified’; Hochman T4: ‘This delightful deck is without question, the cleverest and most artistically executed American transformation pack’.

Sold exclusively by Tiffany at their outlets in New York, Paris and London. (1)

£300 - £400

512* American transformation cards. Vanity Fair #41, United States Playing Cards Company, 1895, the complete deck of 52 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), plus joker, double-ended humerous courts, pip cards all transformed, rounded corners, gilt edges, (no condition points to note), versos red ornamental pattern, each card 88 x 62 mm, with original red two-part box, lettered in gilt on the front, mounted playing card (lightly marked) on the back, inner sleeve slightly splitting at mouth, pull-off outer sleeve lightly rubbed, 52 cards mounted with photo corners onto a single board and a folding double board, the boards encapsulated in plastic (none examined out of boards), the remaining card contained in the box (in a plastic bag), the boards (folded) 54.5 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Field #58; Hochman T11. (1)

£300 - £400

513* Ceramics. Collection of 20th-century novelty chinaware with colour printed playing card decoration, approximately 58 pieces by various producers including: H. J. Horwood, Spode, Royal Worcester, Bjorn Wiinblad, Nymolle Denmark, and others, examples from ‘Gypsy Teresa’s Fortune Telling Cup’ two-piece set decorated with fortune telling material by J. G. Meakin, England, to numerous trinket dishes and ashtrays, novelty jugs, collectable plates, salt and pepper shakers plus other vessels as well as The Mystery Lady’s Book of Card and Tea Cup Fortune Telling…, presented with the Week End Novels instructional booklet on fortune telling and tea leaf reading in colour printed covers 15 x 10cm (3 boxes)

£70 - £100

514* English playing cards. Shakespearean Playing Cards, Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd, 1904, a complete presentation deck of 52 + 1 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts portraying characters from Shakespeare’s plays, designed by Frederic Colin Tilney, with joker representing the jester Touchstone, each named and with suitable quote alongside, decorative ace of spades with maker’s details amidst swans and Tudor roses in wreaths, lightly toned, occasional minor rubbing (mainly affecting pip cards), 4D with very faint corner crease, 9 & 10H pip signs faintly scratched, rounded corners, versos elaborate yellow and white on dark blue pattern of swans within captioned border, each card 92 x 61 mm, with original box (spotted and worn), tuck-in flap with ink manuscript presentation inscription on inner surface: To Miss R. Appleton, wishing kindest regards, F.C. Tilney, Sep 30 1913, outer surface of flap with slightly later unrelated (apparently) ink manuscript ownership inscription

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Berry, The Playing-Cards of the World, [457]; Cartorama 62 #189.

An unusual presentation pack, with the box inscribed by the designer Frederick Colin Tilney. This first edition of the Shakespearean Cards, although published by Swan Sonnenschein, was printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd as stated on the ace of spades. (1)

£200 - £300

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515* Finnish playing cards. Baltic (or Russian) pattern, Finland, Helsinki: Gustaf Otto Wasenius (GOW), circa 1845, the complete deck of 52 stencil coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), no indices, doubleended courts most similar to Baltic (or Russian) pattern, but without any turbans and QS without face on shoulder, AD with three ink stamps: maker’s initials, Helsinki card stamp, and Krono Kort stamp, toned and dusty, fingersoiling to edges, some marks and stains (mainly to pip cards), few minor creases, spade courts each with single small hole, 6C lightly cockled, versos red dotted geometric pattern, each card 90 x 57 mm, with accompanying extract of a typewritten letter (see below), together with: Swedish playing cards, Swedish version of Provincial Paris pattern, Norrkoping: Lithografiska Aktiebolaget, 1872, a complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, kings and queens named, kings & queens of clubs and spades still with rudimentary wheatsheaves, AH with tax stamp and dated maker’s stamp, toned and dusty, some marks and brown stains (mainly to pip cards), loose cards somewhat bowed, 3 pip cards with small corner crease, versos blue dotted ovals and circles, each card 89 x 60 mm, plus: Indian playing cards, Children’s Alphabet cards, first edition, Poona [now Pune]: Chitrashala Press, circa 1940, a complete deck of 52 plus 2 jokers chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), each (except jokers) with miniature playing card to lower right corner, single figure courts (head & shoulders only) depicting Maharajas, Maharanis, and princes, with rank, suit sign and Marathi letter (or letters), pip cards each with Marathi number, and a central illustration, with the corresponding Marathi word and initial letter above, the two jokers each have a different central illustration with no lettering, all cards with blue border, some very minor edge rubbing, 2 & AC with corner crease, 2D with crease to top edge (with tiny wear), AC & KH with horizontal crease seemingly original to manufacture, versos a boy making a house of cards, square corners, each card 80 x 60 mm, with original box, and with 21 other decks, all 20th century, all believed complete, comprising: Canada 1 pack, Sweden 1, South Africa 1, Poland 4 packs, Iceland 4, China 4, Hungary 2, Israel 2, Norway 1, Finland 1, a quantity of cards from each deck corner mounted onto 24 display boards, 3 encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of display boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cm and similar Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

First item: an extremely rare early Finnish deck. The maker was identified by Eddie Scheulin, who found an article on a Gnav pack with exactly the same stamps (according to an accompanying typewritten letter extract). See World of Playing Cards webpage: Playing Cards from Finland for an example price list by this cardmaker.

Second item: Mann, All Cards on the Table, #137 for a similar, slightly earlier, deck.

Third item: Gordhandas: Playing-Cards of the Chitrashala Press - part 1, in The Playing-Card, vol.30, no.3, Nov/Dec 2001, pp.132-138. (24)

£300 - £400

516* French costume playing cards. Cartes Parisiennes, Paris: Le Caméléon, ou le Propagateur des Modes, 1848, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, JC with date, maker’s address, artist’s name JanetLange, engraver’s name Geoffroy, and printer’s name Pierrat, somewhat dusty, few minor spots to pip cards, two pip cards marked, unmounted cards lightly bowed, versos dotted pink coral pattern, each card 86 x 56 mm, with original printed title card and advertising card, the former giving details of the publisher, the latter with details of local fashion shops, both with edges neatly cut along printed lines to form piquet markers (as designed), with near contemporary box with lift-off lid, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in box within a plastic bag, the board 53 x 40.5 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, British Museum 1896, 0501.1297.1-12 (Schreiber, French 79); Cartorama 58 #98; Cary, FRA 350 (later Le Bourgeois edition with scenic aces); Fournier, France 215; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, p. 108. (1)

£300 - £400

517* French photographic playing cards. Parisian Opera Singers, Paris: Stanislas-Désiré Avril et Cie, circa 1865, 51 (of 52, without ace of clubs) playing cards (French suits), courts with three-quarter length photographic portraits, each named to upper right, maker’s name to lower left, red suits signs added in gouache, pip cards lithographed in red and black, courts a trifle toned, some fading, pip cards very lightly bowed, square corners, versos plain blue, each card 95 x 60 mm, ace of clubs added in from a different (unknown) pack, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

A rare set of operatic playing cards in very good condition. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France list this set (ark:/12148/btv1b10509209x), but have only ten courts. The court cards are photographs of famous 19th century French opera singers. The portraits were taken by renowned French lithographer and photographer Adolphe Bilordeaux (1807-1872) who was one of the pioneers in the use of salt print technique on waxed paper. Gouache was added to the cards to highlight the suit symbols as colour photography was not then possible. Avril et Cie was only active in Paris between 1856 and 1868, after which it was declared bankrupt. The costume decks also produced by Avril have decorative aces identical to ours (for example Schreiber, French 67). Although Dudley Ollis notes that his ace of clubs is on different cardstock to the remainder of the pack he still listed this as a complete deck. However the ace of clubs is clearly from a different pack, despite having the same blue verso. The opera singers represented include Louis Gueymard, Pauline Lauters, Charles Louis Puberaux and Marie Cico. Avril also produced this pack with full-length portraits (see World of Playing Cards webpage: Parisian Actors and Opera Singers).

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518* French playing cards. Aluette pack, Paris: H. Pussey, 1880s, a complete deck of 48 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (Spanish suits), single-figure courts, 2 of swords with ‘Mson Testu, H. Pussey Succr, Paris’, 4 of coins with H.P., 2 pip cards with a couple of minor brown spots or marks, 6 of coins with slight surface damage to one long edge, slightly rounded gilt corners, versos brown tartan, each card 84 x 55 mm, 28 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (42 x 59.5 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

£600 - £800

Henry Pussey was a successor to E. Testu and made playing cards in Paris between 1880-1890, when he then sold the manufacturing part of his business to B.P. Grimaud. Pussey is best known for his Sybille des Salons and double-ended standard packs. This aluette deck is very similar to that produced by Avril & Cie (Cary coll., FRA 172) who had during the 1860s also called themselves ‘Successor to Testu’.

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£200 - £300

519* French playing cards. Aluette type II deck, NapoléonVendée: Biziére aîné, circa 1860, 47 (of 48, without ace of coins) stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (Spanish suits), jacks marked France, kings Biziére aîné, and cavalières NapoléonVendée, 2 of swords with maker’s advertisement and Fabrique a Napoléon V’dee, aces and luettes numbered, cards lightly bowed, dusty, some toning, brown marks or stains, especially to 3 of swords and 2 of coins, 6 of coins with small chip to upper edge, square corners (lightly rounded from use), versos blue dots and foliate pattern, each card 82 x 54 mm, together with Aluette type II deck, Nantes: Etienne Massè Jeune (son?), circa 1840, 44 (of 48, without jack & 4 clubs, 5 & 7 coins) stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (Spanish suits), jacks stamped Nantes, cavalières France, maker’s name on king of swords, maker’s address on 2 of swords, lightly bowed, 2 of swords with small finger-mark, square corners, versos dark brown marbled cells, each card 80 x 54 mm, plus Aluette type II deck, Angers: Dieudonne & Cie (2nd pattern), circa 1930, a complete deck of 48 colour lithographed playing cards (Spanish suits), maker’s details to all courts, ace of coins and 2 of swords, French 1890 tax stamp to 2 of swords (used 1890-1917 and 1922-1940), 5 cups and ace swords each with a single brown spot (that to AS on left edge), rounded gilt corners, versos red foliate pattern, each card 89 x 56 mm, with another aluette deck by Grimaud, circa 1942, 48 cards complete, tax stamp on 2 of swords (used 1940-1944), versos red & black tartan, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 4 display boards (42 x 59.5 cm and similar), encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

First item: Verame 1989, p.176. See also aluette.net for this pattern by Biziére fils aîné, which apparently is identical to the 2nd aluette pattern produced by H. Roinè aîné

Second item: BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105158757. (4) £200 - £300

520* French playing cards. Aluette type II pack, NapoléonVendée: Pierre Biziére Pére (4th pattern), 1848, a complete deck of 48 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (Spanish suits), all courts with ink stamp: jacks France, kings Biziere, cavalières Vendee, 2 of swords with Napoleon-Vendee, aces and luettes are numbered, few tiny pale spots, 6 of cups with small brown mark to lower border, square corners, versos green and red marbled cells, each card 83 x 53 mm, 28 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (42 x 59.5 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105326718. See also aluette.net for the different Biziére patterns.

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£400 - £600

521* French playing cards. Cartes Magiques Musicales, Paris: Bass, circa 1830, the complete piquet deck of 32 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), each with miniature playing cards to upper half (single-figure courts), each lower half with two great staves of music, titled on the kings Galop and Polka, KC with maker’s details, dusty and toned, some foxing, few minor marks, 10S with faint crease near upper edge, versos plain white, each card 103 x 68 mm, 16 cards corner mounted onto a display board (54 x 40 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display board), the remainder contained in original wooden box (defective), sliding lid with printed title label, base inner with adhered original printed rules in English

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b10539488g; Cary, FRA 250; Verame (1989), p.118.

522* French playing cards. Cartomancy or Fortune Telling pack, [Paris: J.C. Carpentier-Méricourt], circa 1830, 31 (of 32, without 7H) hand coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), each with miniature standard playing card to upper left corner (single figure courts), and with printed title below an illustration of suitable figures or landscapes, dusty, some light finger-soiling, spots and occasional minor marks, QS with pale staining to upper left, versos plain white, each card 105 x 66 mm, 20 cards corner mounted onto a display board (54.5 x 40 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display board), the remainder contained in original card box (defective & without lid), front panel with hand coloured pictorial label stating Violet Editeur, inner lip with printed label of Alph. Giroux, Paris

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

British Musem 1866,1110.647-679 (Willshire, French 89), also 1868,0711.443474 (Willshire, French 90).

The title label has the subtitle 1001 Danses pour Piano, and the English rules names them Magical Music Cards. This unusual deck of musical playing cards is cleverly designed so that, as the rules explains a Thousand and one Dances for Piano can be obtained. If any eight cards are laid out in order from king down to 7 (ace between knave and 10), disregarding the suits, a polka and a galop tune will be formed, with hundreds of combinations possible, each forming slightly different tunes. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France lists Bass as the publisher, but also mentions an Édouard Vert under ‘Impression’ - it is not known where this name comes from. (1)

£200 - £300

Willshire describes the booklet accompanying the deck, entitled Le Livre de Destin, which has the imprint de Carpentier Mericourt, Rue Trainée S.Eustache, No.15 (1)

£300 - £400

523* French playing cards. Dauphine pattern, Grenoble: Cheminade, circa 1750, 10 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), comprising all heart, spade and club courts, plus 2 of clubs, single-figure courts, JC and JS with maker’s details, JS with pale brown mark to upper left, 2C with faint crease, plain white versos, each card 88 x 53 mm, contained together in a single album page with clear pockets

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

These cards are in excellent condition for their age. D’Allemagne lists several members of the Cheminade family as cardmakers in Grenoble, from the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century. (1)

£200 - £300

Lot 522

524* French (?) playing cards. Erotic deck, unknown maker, circa 1820, a complete piquet deck of 32 uncoloured engraved playing cards (French suits), each card illustrates two or more figures in explicitly depicted sexual scenes, miniature playing card to upper left (single-figure Paris pattern type courts), some light toning and minor marks or spots, 7D with few stronger brown spots, AC with brown stain to right blank area, square corners, plain white versos, each card 77 x 49 mm, all cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (40 x 54.5 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board)

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

525* French playing cards. Jeu de Cartes Abécédaire, Pierre Boboeuf: Paris, 1840, the complete Piquet deck of 32 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), designed by Ferdinand Séré, depicting the letters of the alphabet: A-Z plus vowels a-u and oe, each with miniature playing card at top, and ornate decorations with miniature illuminated-style illustrations in red, green & gold, the illustrations representing the appropriate letter, gold borders, edges rubbed, corners lightly worn, some very light spotting and toning (8 of clubs more so), few very minor marks, versos plain white, each card 86 x 58 mm, 20 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ark:/12148/btv1b10539489x; Cartorama 82, #67; Cary, FRA 251; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, illustrated p.110. (1) £300 - £500

The only other example of this finely engraved erotic pack we have found was sold at auction by Millon (5 Nov 2011, lot 75). In that case, each card had a caption in French and Spanish to the upper right. Our pack appears to be more finely engraved and so perhaps published earlier. (1)

£500 - £800

526* French playing cards. Jeu de Cartes Arithmétique, Pierre Boboeuf: Paris, 1840, the complete Piquet deck of 32 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), designed by Ferdinand Séré, depicting the numbers 1-32, each with miniature playing card at top, and ornate decorations with miniature illuminated-style illustrations in red, green, blue & gold, red outline borders, corners lightly worn, some generally light spotting and toning, few minor marks, AS with small corner crease, 9C with small brown corner stain, QS with short tear to bottom edge (with tiny loss), versos plain white, each card 86 x 57 mm, 20 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Ader Auctions, 01/07/2019, lot 321; Cartorama 82, #68; Cary, FRA 252; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, illustrated p.110.

This deck appears to be a most unusual example, having white numerals on a blue background with red foliate decoration. All other examples seen (as listed above) have black numerals on a plain white background. (1)

£400 - £600

Lot 525

527* French playing cards. Jeu de Cartes Musical, Pierre Boboeuf: Paris, 1840, the complete Piquet deck of 32 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), designed by Ferdinand Séré, depicting musical notes and other musical notations, named in French, each with miniature playing card at top, and ornate decorations with miniature illuminated-style illustrations in red, green, blue & gold, the illustrations relating to the named note or symbol, red outline borders, corners very lightly worn, some light toning and spotting, few minor marks, 5 cards with small tear or puncture to top of miniature playing card (2 with associated light creasing), AS & 8D with corner crease, 9H lightly creased, versos plain white, each card 86 x 57 mm, with original two-part box (damaged), 20 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder within box in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

528* French playing cards. Lyon pattern, Lyon: Seve, between 1790-1807, a complete piquet deck of 32 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, JC with Lyon, JS with Seve, variable spotting and toning (mainly affecting pip cards), versos plain white, each card 84 x 56 mm, with original wrapper (spotted and stained), 14 cards and wrapper mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 53.5 x 42 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b10520286d.

Ader Auctions, 01/07/2019, lot 322; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ark:/12148/btv1b10539489x; Cartorama 82, #69; Cary, FRA 253; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, illustrated pp.110-111. (1)

£300 - £500

An example of the early Lyon pattern from an unusual maker. The deck in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is the only other pack by (or reference to) this maker that we have found. Dudley Ollis had given his deck a date of circa 1740, but the BNF gives a precise date range - presumably known activity dates for Seve in Lyon?

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£200 - £300

529* French playing cards. Nouveau Jeu de Mariage ou la Dot, Paris: Bourrut-Lemerie (or Le Merie, Bourrut?), 1815, the complete piquet deck of 32 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), each with a full-length portrait of a character at the wedding, captioned beneath, miniature playing card (handcoloured single-figure Paris pattern type courts) to upper left, 16 of the cards are numbered and additionally captioned ‘Importun’ (meaning ‘irksome intruder’), lightweight cards made from two layers only, some upper layers poorly adhered (with slight bubbling), some minor marks, occasional light finger-soiling, 9H with old repaired surface tear, 10H with vertical crease (causing slight surface cracking), square corners, versos with blue trellis pattern, each card 97 x 61 mm, with original two-part wood and card box (covering rubbed with wear, especially to lower part), liftoff lid with hand-coloured pictorial title label, inside lid with manufacturer’s advertisement, listing various other games including Jeu des Cris de Paris and Jeu des Drapeaux et Batailles, 21 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (39.5 x 54.5 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in the box inside a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

BNF identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105091941. Although our pack has the box, which the BNF example (dated to 1815) lacks, our pack is without the instruction card which their deck includes.

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£400 - £600

530* French playing cards. Revolutionary version of Auvergne pattern, Angouleme: Pierre Laboureur, circa 1804, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), single figure courts with all fleur-de-Lys and crowns replaced, JC with maker’s ink stamp, eagle watermark, lightly dusty, occasional light toning to pip cards, 4S with surface loss to one corner (affecting pip sign), square corners, versos plain white, each card 81 x 55 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

See BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105360738 for an example dated to 1792 with several almost identical courts, made by Jaque Besse in Angouleme. D’Allemagne lists Pierre Laboureur as being active in Angouleme between 1753-1804.

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£600 - £900

Lot 530

Lot 531

531* French playing cards. Scenic aces deck, Paris: B.P. Grimaud, circa 1870, a complete deck of 52 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), with much use of gold, no indices, double-ended Germanic courts, JC with maker’s details, each ace with two Parisian scenes, dusty, some minor marks, 5S with small flaw/mark at upper edge, rounded gilt corners, versos plain blue, each card 90 x 57 mm, with original twopart box (defective), together with: Belgian pattern, Paris: B.P. Grimaud, circa 1870, a complete deck of 52 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), with much use of gold, no indices, double-ended courts, JC with maker’s details, toned and dusty, some light spotting, QC with tiny surface abrasion to bodice, square corners, versos plain pink, each card 86 x 56 mm, plus: French standard pattern, unknown maker, circa 1910, a complete piquet deck of 32 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), with unusual no-revoke indices to diamonds and spades, double-ended named courts, French tax stamp to AC, darkened and dust-soiled, JH with vertical crease, rounded corners, silvered edges (rubbed), versos red & black tartan, each card 83 x 54 mm, in black leather box with flap (lacking tab end), with 23 other French decks, comprising: 3 French standard pattern by unknown makers, between circa 1855-1880, showing the development of indices (52 complete, 51/52 without 6D, 50/52 without Q & KC); 12 further packs by Grimaud, most later 20th century (complete decks), one pack circa 1890, Pattern no.24 (XP5A) for export to Turkey, 48/52 (without 5C, 4 & 7D, 3S), with original wrapper; and 8 mid to late 20th century decks, including 3 by Dusserre, 2 by Heron, 1 Dorchy (without jokers), 1 Cartel & Farcy (reduced piquet deck of 32/52), and 1 unknown (but probably Willeb), conditions not checked, a quantity of cards from each deck corner mounted onto 26 display boards, 2 encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of display boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cm and similar

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. (26)

£100 - £200

532* French playing cards. Spanish national pattern, Angouleme, Bordeaux: Jean Latache, 1816, 46 (of 48, without 6 & 7 of swords) stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (Spanish suits) with pintas, ace of coins with imitation Real Fabrica de Madrid notation, and with date, R.H. on 4 of coins, maker’s name on 2 & cavelier of swords, dusty, some toning and rubbing, occasional light soiling, versos blue diamonds and dots, each card 89 x 55 mm, together with Catalan pattern, Perpignan: Dessoris, circa 1840, 38 (of 48, without cavelier, king & 4 of coins, cavelier, 6 & 7 of cups, cavelier, ace & 8 of swords, 7 of clubs) stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (Spanish suits), pintas and indices, ace of coins and all courts with maker’s details, few minor marks, jack of coins with small surface loss to blank area, versos blue dots, each card 93 x 60 mm, 21 cards from each pack mounted with photo corners onto 2 display boards (42 x 59.5 cm and similar), encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

First item: Cartorama 51 #90 for a slightly earlier version. According to Cartorama, the Latache family were known for unsuccessful attempts at tax fraud, and they produced many packs for export.

Second item: British Musem 1896,0501.842 (Schreiber, Spanish 40). (2) £200 - £300

533* French playing cards. Type I (pre-1701) Paris pattern, Strasbourg: Joseph Henri Beaufore, circa 1750, a reduced deck of 40 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (French suits), 4 suits of 10 cards each, comprising ace-7, jack, queen & king, named courts except JC which has maker’s name, JS has Etranger, somewhat dusty and toned, scarce minor marks, 3S and 5D with larger brown mark, 3D spotted, AH with tiny surface tear to one corner, versos blue pattern of small diamonds and stars, each card 85 x 58 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

According to the collector’s notes this pack is the only known example of a standard pattern deck by this maker, who is apparently known only by a few very incomplete tarot packs. Beaufore was active between 1738-1759. The mark Estranger on the jack of spades indicates that the deck was produced for exportpossibly to Germany as the patterned versos would suggest.

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£200 - £300

534* French playing cards. Variety of Paris pattern, Nantes: Roiné (père), Dumoutier, & Roiné (fils), circa 1810, a complete piquet deck of 32 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, JC with maker’s details, some cards with watermark eagle of the First Empire (1804-1815), dusty and toned, some light finger-soiling, QS with some small brown stains, KD & QD each with tiny surface loss (likely from paper flaw), 9C with minor corner crease, versos plain white, each card 83 x 55 mm, plus original wrapper (darkened & dusty with some brown marks), 12 cards and wrapper mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 40.5 x 53.5 cm

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105260534 (for an Aluette deck by the same makers).

Pierre-Vincent and the merchant-cardmaker Jean-Baptiste Cosnard, known as Dumoutier, worked together between 1807 and 1824. His eldest son Pierre (also a cardmaker) joined them for a short time, between 18101814. Although the jack of clubs lists all three cardmakers, the wrapper does not mention the son, indicating that this pack was likely produced shortly after Pierre (fils) had joined the company in 1810 and they were still using up old wrappers.

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£200 - £300

535* Japanese playing cards. Hana Fuda: Hachi-hachi-bana pack, Kyoto: Nihon Karuta Seizō Co.[?], circa 1975, a complete doubledeck set of colour printed playing cards, comprising 2 decks each of 48 cards, plus two blank cards and one control ticket (unstamped), faintly dusty in places, each card 53 x 33 mm, versos differ: one deck plain black, the other plain brown, original printed wrappers, that to one deck with cancelled Japanese tax stamp, each deck with original two-part plastic box, contained together within original two-part card box, colour printed label to lid, together with Mekuri-Fuda: Kingyoku (Golden Pole) pack, Kyoto: Nintendo Playing Card Co., circa 1975, a complete deck of 48 (plus devil’s card and blank card) colour printed playing cards, several cards overprinted in silver, some light dust-soiling and rubbing in places, each card 54 x 33 mm, versos plain black, original printed wrapper and inner foil wrapper, original two-part plastic box, plus Kabu-Fuda: Irinokichi (President) pack, Kyoto: Nintendo, circa 1975, a complete deck of 48 (plus devil’s card, blank card and control ticket) colour printed playing cards, 3 cards overprinted in silver, couple of small marks, each card 54 x 32 mm, versos plain black, original printed wrapper and inner foil wrapper, original two-part plastic box, with another 8 Mekuri and similar Fuda decks, all circa 1975, and 27 Western-style decks, 2nd half 20th century, including: ‘Sonnet’ Sixted playing cards, by Mizuta, pub. Cosmos Planning (c.1983); Toyopet Crown, Nintendo (c.1970); Torys, for Suntory Whisky (c.1983); Flora, Angel P.C.Co., (1982); Hiroshige Ukiyo-e, by ACE (c.1980); Japanese Women, designed by Takasawa, Angel P.C. Co. (c.1985), and others, all believed complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto display boards (52 x 39 cm), the remainder in plastic bags, many with original box

The other packs comprise: By Nintendo - Crazyrider (1983), Meitetsu (c.1985), Morinaga Rose (c.1985), Suzuki (1978), Tactics Supranational (c.1978), Vintage Cars (c.1970), Diamond Tour (c.1977), Nippon Beer (1960s), Fujitsu Limited (1973), Suntory Akadama Honey Wine (c.1970), Young Men (1967), Honda Driving Safety Promotion Centre (1970s?), Ukiyo-E (1969), Crown II, for Laser Clay (1973). By Angel - Jeune Fille (1983), European, designed Asahi (a mixed pack). Others - Panty Cards, designed Takagaki, pub Nippon Yugi-Gangu Co. (1982), Charlie (underwear), unknown maker (c.1982), ACE Men’s Wear Inc (no-revoke type deck). Fuda decks: MekuriFuda - Akahachi, Fukutoku, Mitsuoghi; Kabu-Fuda - Kudosan, Mefuda, Daini, Komaru, Kinseizan (all Nintendo, c.1975). (38)

£200 - £300

536* Portuguese playing cards. Cartas indianas, Real Fabrica de Cartes de Lisboa?, circa 1820, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts, JC shield with Portuguese arms, lighty dusty, some pale spotting and toning, few minor marks, JS with tiny hole to right border, versos blue dotted pattern, each card 81 x 52 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (54.5 x 40 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag

See Frazão (2010) p. 119 for some courts from a cartas indianas pack which agree with ours. Also p. 141 illustrates the verso design used for our pack (bottom row, second from right). Therefore it seems likely that this pack was made by the Real Fabrica de Cartes de Lisboa. (1)

£200 - £300

537* Portuguese playing cards. Crimean War deck, unknown maker, circa 1860, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), doubleended courts portraying named leaders of the involved countries: Russia (spades), Ottoman Empire (diamonds), France (clubs) and Britain (hearts), ornamental aces, some faint finger-soiling to court edges, AD spotted and with small surface loss to blank area, square corners, versos blue dotted wiggly lines and 3-dot flowers, each card 83 x 54 mm, together with: Chinese aces pack, unknown maker, circa 1850, a reduced ombre deck of 40 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, queens named as the four seasons (Primavera etc), unusual aces each with two Chinese scenes, 4D with 40 reis tax stamp, heavily soiled and marked, somewhat rubbed, AH with horizontal (repaired) tear, 7H with small edge chip and tear, corners rounded from use, versos red dotted wiggly lines and 3-dot flowers, each card 86 x 57 mm, plus: Crimean War pack, unknown maker, circa 1857, 35 (of 52, without: Q, A, 7S; 10, 8, 6-5, 2H; 7, 4C; 5-10 & 2D) stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, kings and jacks portraying named characters connected to the Crimean War, mainly Russian leaders and commanders, each ace illustrating two named scenes or places related to the war (including 3 Russian forts), each 2 card also with two related war scenes, heavily soiled and marked, somewhat rubbed, few corner creases to pip cards, corners rounded from use, versos red dotted wiggly lines and 3dot flowers, each card 86 x 56 mm, with 4 other Portuguese packs, including: maker unknown, circa 1860, 47 (of 52, without 2D, 2-5C), double-ended Germanic style courts, queens with background objects (curtain, or vase of flowers), decorative aces, elaborately decorated 2s, soiled & spotted, square corners, versos red flowers & dotted tendrils; a pack with Portuguese 40 reis tax stamp and Lei de 28 de Julho de 1885 stamp on 4D, but probably made in Germany (QS has ‘RL Fabrikzeichen’ twice, or LR?), 51 (of 52, without 2H), double-ended Germanic courts (XP8 variant, a pattern used by Wüst), slightly rounded corners, red tartan versos; and two 20th century decks: one circa 1910 by J.J. Nunes of Lisbon, double-ended courts (old XP2 pattern), scenic aces, 6D with 100 reis tax stamp overstamped Republica; and one circa 1900 by Costa & Valerio of Lisbon, double-ended courts (XP4), scenic aces, 6D with 100 reis tax stamp, both 52 complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 7 display boards (54.5 x 41 cm & similar), encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags

£150 - £200

There was a popular card game played in Portugal in which the 2 cards were important, hence they were often scenic or decorative. (7)

538* Portuguese playing cards. Portuguese Insurrection cards, unknown maker and place, circa 1850, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), commemorating the Evora Monte Convention, double-ended courts, 3 queens wearing a hood or bonnet, aces each showing two different named and dated scenes or battles from the Liberal Wars (War of the Two Brothers), 4D with 40 reis tax stamp (1844-1867), dust-soiled, some minor marks, JS with dark brown stain to lower R corner, QS with small surface loss to one long edge (just affecting elbow tip), square corners, versos red dotted wiggly line and dotted flowers, each card 86 x 56 mm, 17 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board (53.5 x 42 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

The only similar example we have found is in Frazão (2010), p. 163, the illustration of which shows a deck with very similar aces to ours, but quite different courts. Frazão also mentions another Evora Monte Convention pack which he owns, that has differing courts to those illustrated (and therefore possibly agreeing with ours).

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£200 - £300

Lot 537

Lot 438

539* Puerto Rican playing cards. Political cards ‘Barajas Alacran’, Taller Alacran in San Juan: Antonio Martorell, circa 1965, the complete deck of 52 (plus 2 jokers) playing cards, printed in red and blue, with indices, suit signs represent Puerto Rican political groups: coconut palm with falling fruit (blue), white 5-pointed star on red, hand holding staff & blue flag with white cross, silhouette of a head wearing a peasant’s hat (red), double-ended courts and single-headed aces representing party leaders and other political characters, with various objects incorporated into the designs, ace of coconut palms has Made in U.S.A., jokers depicts a full-length caricature of Lyndon Johnson, then president of the United States, generally toned, few faint corner creases, rounded corners, versos blue with white design including the suit signs and two scorpions incorporating the words Barajas alacran, each card 89 x 63 mm, with original wrapper (some losses), stating Printed in Puerto Rico and the maker’s details, 20 cards and the wrapper corner mounted onto a display board (59 x 42 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display board), the remainder in a plastic bag

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Orzack & Orzack: Political Playing-Cards: American Examples, in The Playing-Card, vol. XI, no. 2, Nov 1982, pp. 33-49.

These extremely rare cards were designed and issued by Antonio Martorell and published by his studio and community art centre Taller Alacran

According to Dudley Ollis’ note, Ollis was told by Louis Orzack that he (Orzack) had met Antonio Martorell and been presented with a pack of these cards. However shortly afterwards the police in Puerto Rico seized and destroyed all stocks of the cards. Orzack believed that the only packs still in existence were his own and a pack saved by the artist, which is now displayed in the Puerto Rico Museo de Arte de Ponce. Therefore this apparently escaped example, found by Dudley Ollis at a London antiques fair, would seem to be one of only three examples that have survived.

The cards support the movement for independence from the United States. The Spanish word alacran means scorpion, and refers to the United States and its hold over the island. The four suits represent: coconut palms with fruit = New Progressive Party, hand with flag = Independentista movement, white star on red = Communist Party, profile head = Popular Democratic Party. This profile head is believed to be that of Governor Muñoz-Marin. (1) £500 - £800

540* South African playing cards. Boer War cards, Printed by H.M. Guest, Klerksdorp, Trans-vaal, 1901, the complete deck of 52 plus joker woodblock printed playing cards (French suits), pip signs printed in red or black, indices, single figure courts (head & shoulders only) printed in purple, kings representing Edward VII, queens representing Queen Alexandra, jacks wearing a jester’s hat and carrying a bell, the joker card with skull & crossbones and ‘No Joker’, somewhat dusty, variable toning, some generally light spotting (JS more spotted) and brown marks, square corners, versos black ornamental pattern with central text giving maker’s details and dated ‘Feb., 1901, during Anglo-Boer War’, each card 92 x 61 mm, with near contemporary patterned paper-covered box (one small side-flap detached but present), early ink manuscript label to front panel, 10 cards corner mounted onto a display board (54.5 x 40 cm), encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display board), the remainder in a plastic bag, with a typewritten letter signed by W. Penn, on The William Penn Collection of Playing Cards headed notepaper, dated March 1st [19]59

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

Tilley, A History of Playing Cards, p. 171; Tilley, Playing Cards, p. 91: Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards website, Curator’s Corner - Boer War Playing Cards.

The accompanying letter, written to a Mr. Green-Armytage, briefly discusses this rare pack of cards.

Of especial interest is the excerpt from another letter, written by Colonel The Hon. Sir Lucas Guest and dated 14 October 1966, which is given in Tilley’s book Playing Cards (see above). That letter describes how, due to shortages of playing cards caused by the war, H.M. Guest (the Colonel’s father) made these packs of cards himself, with a friend helping to carve the woodblocks. Intriguingly the pack illustrated on the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards website has the jacks printed in yellow, whereas the pack described by Tilley agrees with ours in having the all the courts in purple. Presumably Guest was having to make do with whatever stocks of colour printing inks he had available.

(1) £300 - £500

541* Table Game. Pope Joan, revolving staking board, 19th century, turned wood counter wheel, central deep circle with decorated lid, surrounded by 8 deep sections, edge decorated with printed and hand-painted floral motifs and cards (all from the diamond pack - Ace, 9, Jack, Queen and King) and three wordsMatrimony, Intrigue and Game, all on a rotating base, together with another one (lacking central lid), both approximately 25 cm diameter

The name ‘Pope Joan’ comes from the corruption of ‘Nain Jaune’ (yellow dwarf). It was a game originated in France and refers to the legend that Pope Joan VIII was actually a woman. It was used in the Victorian era to ridicule Catholicism and promote Protestantism. (2)

£100 - £150

542* Transformation cards. Repository of Arts: Pictorial Cards [Beatrice or the Fracas], 1st edition, London: Ackermann [1818-1819], 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates, each depicting four playing cards (French suits), with figures and architectural motifs, single-figure courts, red pip signs hand-coloured, each plate with imprint to lower margin (including date and number of issue), and with plate and volume numbers to upper right corner, the plates mounted with photo corners onto black paper, the corresponding letterpress leaf describing each plate is mounted similarly, plates with a few faint foxing spots, two plates with brown marks to margins, occasional light toning, some offsetting, toning and foxing to text, each plate approximately 24 x 14.5cm, text leaves slightly larger, contained together in an A4-sized album of clear pockets, each plate facing its description leaf, together with Munchener Bilderbogen: Kartenspielereien, 4th edition, Munich: Braun & Schneider, circa 1860, 4 sheets, each depicting one complete suit (13 cards) of wood-engraved playing cards (French suits), red pip signs stencil coloured, single-figure courts, 4 club pip cards with caption, each sheet with imprint, edition and sheet number (77-80) at foot, and with title and a poem in German to upper margin, few faint foxing spots, margins finger-soiled, few minor marks, some edge-fraying and chips (mainly to sheets 77 & 78), edge tears extending into 2 cards: 7C (3mm) and 3H (35mm), 6S & 6C lightly toned, each sheet approximately 42.3 x 33.7cm, each in a large clear plastic sleeve

Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

First item: Rare. Field 22: ‘One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs’. The cards were not issued in playable form, but were commonly cut up for use, and therefore rarely survive intact in their original format.

Second item: Field 33-34.

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£300 - £500

543* French playing cards. Cartes Royales, 2nd edition, Paris: Widow Dambrin, 1817, a complete piquet deck of 32 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figure named courts designed by Armand-Gustave Houbigant, the courts with small indices to lower right corners, JS sword lettered ‘Durendarda’, JD and JC with motto on book and column respectively, lightly toned and some faint foxing, minor rubbing to a few corners (with loss of part of heart to top left corner JH), QD with small stain to left-hand edge, AH with small red mark, versos plain white (JH stained), fleur-de-lys watermark, each card 81 x 53 mm, contained in a wooden box, hinged lid carved with a border of ivy leaves, and with 3-dimensional flower and leaf decoration to oval centre, 12.2 x 22.5 x 5.2 cm

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£300 - £400

Lot 542

Lot 543

544* Alastair (Hans Henning, 1887-1969). Dancer, black ink and gold on thin vellum, signed lower left, some minor creases to upper part of vellum, sheet size 20.3 x 19.9 cm, mounted (34 x 28.5 cm) (1) £300 - £500

545AR* Lock (Anton, 1893-1970). A group of thirteen original drawings for ‘Knight of the Woods’ by Charles Thurley Stoneham, published by Sampson Low, 1949, pen & crayon, heightened with bodycolour, depicting hens and cockerels, pheasants, swans, herons etc., 11 signed, all with tissue guards, publisher’s notes to margins and versos, largest 38.4 x 25.7 cm, together with a copy of the book for which the illustrations were produced, 8vo (14) £200 - £300

546* Appleton (Honor Charlotte, 1879-1951). The Basket Woman, circa 1930, pen and ink, depicting a woman bent over arms outstretched looking at a woven basket tipped over spilling its contents, two small children look on, signed lower left, title in pencil to lower margin, some minor toning to extreme margins, sheet size 23.5 x 19.5 cm, The World’s Best Stories for Children and publisher’s notes in pencil to verso, mounted, framed and glazed (34.5 x 31.5 cm)

An original artwork produced for The World’s Best Stories for Children, London and Edinburgh: T.C.&E.C. Jack Ltd, [1930], The Basket-Woman, page 527-541. (1)

£150 - £200

547AR* Ardizzone (Edward, 1900-1979). ‘Jurats with Escort of Women Archers’, 1949, brown ink and wash, title to lower margin in brown ink, 17 x 18 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (42 x 42 cm), artist’s name, dates and ‘Drawing dated 16-7-49, reproduced in The Leader’ to verso (1)

£300 - £500

549* Boyle (Eleanore Vere, 1825-1916). Here we are on Tom Tickler’s ground/Picking up gold and silver!, circa 1852, pen & grey ink on paper, mounted on card, depicting a number of small girls in the countryside picking flowers, with goats and trees in the background, pencilled caption lower right, sheet size 17 x 13 cm, together with two other small sketches by the same artist, one of a small girl cradling a dove, pencil and red ink on card, edges irregularly cut, sheet size 10.5 x 9.5cm, and the other of the Madonna and Child within an architectural setting, red ink and watercolour wash on card, with coloured paint blotches beneath, trimmed to top and left-hand edge (latter with 1” closed tear), sheet size 20 x 7cm, plus a folder of approximately 45 prints and engravings of illustrations by Boyle, many relating to Child’s Play, some spotted, some mounted, contained together in a green half morocco folder, lettered in gilt on upper cover ‘Child’s Play EVB’, rubbed, lacking ties, inscribed by the artist on front pastedown ‘William Bloxall Esqre. from EVB his grateful pupil Feby 1st 1852’

One of seventeen drawings Eleanore Vere Boyle executed for her first book ‘Child’s Play’, a compilation of nursery rhymes published in 1852. Considered one of the most important female illustrators of the mid 19th century, Boyle moved in artistic circles which included Charles Eastlake, Thomas Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sir William Boxall (1800-1879) who was an English painter and director of the National Gallery from 1866 to 1874.

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£200 - £300

548* Batten (John Dickson, 1860-1932). The Bridge of Blood, 1894, pen and ink, depicting a young woman carrying another young woman on her back, running along a wooden bridge, a figure on their knees in the background with a short hooded figure arms in the air pursuing them, title to lower right, illustration produced for More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by John Batten, London: David Nutt, publisher’s marks in pencil to margins, some overall toning, previously mounted with adhesive to three sides, verso of card with artist’s name in pencil, mounted (43 x 36.5 cm) (1)

£200 - £300

550* British School. A large wooden room divider, circa 1960s, a large three-part hinged wooden room divider, the panels joined with canvas, the front panels covered in canvas and painted with oil paints, showing a busy anthropomorphic scene of monkeys engaged in various tasks - dining, entertaining, serving food and wine, cooking and cleaning in a fairy-tale setting, ‘CA’ monogram to lower right of middle panel, each panel in good condition, some wear and surface abrasion, the reverse panels painted grey (and flaking in places), overall size approx. 224 x 120 cm

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£100 - £200

552* [Carroll, Lewis]. A set of 12 hand-drawn doilies illustrated with characters and scenes from Alice in Wonderland, after John Tenniel, early 20th century, pen & ink, each on a circle of cream satin edged with lace, depicting Alice, the Mad Hatter, the gryphon and mock turtle, the dodo, the caterpillar, etc., some fading and foxing, overall diameter 18 cm (7 ins), together with: Leech (John, after). A part set of 11 (of 12?) hand-drawn doilies, pen & ink, each on a circle of cream satin with fringed edging, each with a humorous cartoon, and hand-written text below, titles including ‘From the Mining Districts’, ‘Pride Feels No Pain’, ‘Mal-A-Propos’, ‘Those Horrid Boys Again’, foxed, overall diameter 22 cm (8.75 ins), plus 2 other sets of hand-drawn doilies similar, the first a set of 12, with pen and ink vignettes in the style of Richard Doyle, e.g. a jester, a small man wearing a barrel, young people in a garlanded boat, anthropomorphic wine bottles and a rat, a traveller with his dog, a musician at a street corner, diameter 18 cm (7.5 ins), the second a set of 6 doilies with watercolour views, including St Michael’s Mount and Vesuvius erupting, diameter 18.5 cm (7.25 ins)

An unusual hand-drawn set of ‘Alice’ doilies by an accomplished hand. (41)

£200 - £300

551* Brooke (Leslie Leonard, 1862-1940). The Betrothed, watercolour and ink on Newman’s artist drawing tablet, monogram to lower left of image, titled, signed and ‘The Constable’s Wooing CXI’ in ink to lower margin, image size 22 x 13.9 cm, remanents of label to verso with ‘No 131 B Feb 15th’ in ink, sheet size 36.5 x 26.5 cm, together with Ogle (Richard, 1889-1976). The Fairy and the Frog, watercolour and gouache, on thick card, monogram to lower right, sheet size 36.5 x 27 cm, studio stamp to verso, mounted (56 x 40.5 cm), plus Biro (Val, 1921-2014). In Her Looking-Glass, watercolour heightened with white on Whatman board, original artwork for the dust jacket of the book written by Philip Lindsay, signed to lower right, sheet size 24.5 x 21 cm, B. S. Biro stamp to verso, and three other original watercolour illustrations, largest 25 x 17.5 cm (6)

£200 - £300

553* Children’s Annual artwork. A collection of original illustrations for Playhour, Toby Annual and Jack & Jill, 1970s-1980s, approximately 70 watercolour, ink and gouache storyboards, mostly on artist’s board, comprising cartoon animals, children, etc., including The Wombles, Portland Bill, Douglas Dachschund, Cuddles, Mr Toad, Leo the Merry Lion, Famous Places of the Commonwealth, and two Mr Men storyboards, etc., by John Grace, Peter Woolcock, Arthur Baker, etc., all unsigned, various sizes, largest 53.5 x 40.5 cm (1 folder)

£300 - £500

554* Children’s Short Stories. 18 typewritten short stories with original illustrations, circa 1925-39, 18 original, mainly typewritten short stories from 1500-3750 words, with original pen and ink illustrations on board, some illustrations signed by Gem, Beattie, Marda Brown, and Kearon, including stories: The Secret Room by Arthur Groom, Murder will Out by G Baird, The Mystery of the Crystal Dragon by G.M. Rogers, In Charge by Charles Braithwaite, When the Wolverine Wails by Arthur Catherall, New Ideas for Old Hobbies by Henry Bramford, The Black House by Charles H. Lee, The Highwayman’s Reward by F & W. Gumley, Scout’s Luck by Mabel E. Keech, The Face at the Window by Laurie Munro, The Summer Storm by S. Beresford Lucas, The Salving or the “Fu-Chau” by G. E. Hopcroft, etc., some with rust marks from paperclips, each with at least two original pen and ink illustrations, largest 23 x 24 cm (1 folder) £150 - £200

555* Cooper (Phyllis, 1895-1988). I Hope You Are Feeling Quite Alright/I say a prayer for you at night, gouache on paper, laid onto board, signed lower right, small smudge and waterdrops to upper left, title and ‘p6 9/11/35’ in pencil to verso, image size 38.4 x 28 cm, mounted 56 x 45.5 cm, together with Waiting by the Door, watercolour and gouache, pencil notes including ‘p6. 296 17/10/31’ and Phyllis Cooper 4 Lavington Ct, Putney Heath, London, SW15’ in black ink to verso, sheet size 38 x 28 cm, plus Richardson (Agnes, 1885-1951). I’ve Quite Lost my Heart Down Here!, watercolour and gouache on paper, laid onto board, signed lower right, sheet size 27 x 22 cm, mounted (56 x 40.5 cm), and other original illustrations comprising: original artwork for Enid Blyton’s Bedtime Annual 1966, Wee Willie Winkie, Teddy Bear Comic at Christmas by Bill Phillips, and Mothers Hat [Katie], by Ann Dinkesen, all but one mounted, largest 61 x 50 cm (7) £150 - £200

556* Dudley (Ambrose, 1867-1951). School, ink and wash on board, depicting children coming out of a classroom, a boy and girl in front of the school each holding alphabet boards trying to hit a shuttlecock, paper abrasions to edges with some loss, sheet size 69 x 50.5 cm, signed lower right, together with Cuningham (Oswald, 1883-1935). Under Attack, pen and ink, some white highlights, on thick paper laid onto board, signed lower right, publishers notes in pencil to margin, image size 34 x 40 cm, plus two other similar illustrations by the same artist (4)

£100 - £150

557* Dulac (Edmund, 1882-1953). Cherry Blossom, 1905, watercolour on cream paper, featuring a woman dressed in a blue patterned kimono holding a thin branch with pink blossom, signed and dated in blue painted label to lower left, presentation inscripton to lower right ‘To Ernest E. Moore from his friend Edmund Dulac London Dec. 05’ in ink, image size 30 x 25.5 cm, some spotting to lower margin, framed and glazed (36.5 x 31.5 cm), Harris & Sons (Plymouth) Limited label to verso

Provenance: Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

558* Greenaway (Kate, 1846-1901). Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, watercolour on paper, depicting a young girl wearing a long red cloak, standing next to a large wolf, initialled lower right, thin surface scratch across young girl’s dress, 21.5 x 19 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (38 x 34 cm)

Provenance: Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. (1)

£700 - £1,000

The illustration could be for Ernest E. Moore (1865-1940), a painter who specialised in portraits, narrative and landscape subjects. He took part in the art competition at the 1932 Olympics. (1)

£700 - £1,000

559* Greenaway (Kate, 1846-1901). Little Red Riding Hood, watercolour on paper, depicting a young girl wearing a short red cloak, a basket over her right arm, initialled lower left, 22 x 16 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (38 x 34 cm)

Provenance: Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. (1)

£700 - £1,000

560* Guthrie (James, 1859-1930). Cabin in the Woods, pen and black ink, 20 x 28 cm, section of brown backing paper retained to verso with ‘Sketch for illustration (framed)’ in blue pencil and J. Belham & Son framers label, framed and glazed (33 x 40.5 cm) (1)

£150 - £200

561* Harrold (John, 1947-). Rupert Bear, original watercolour and ink drawing, depicting Rupert Bear wearing his iconic trousers and scarf, in the countryside, one hand resting on a rock, the other holding onto a tree branch, signed lower right, 20.5 x 14.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (38.5 x 32.5 cm), together with Bill Badger, ink and pencil drawing, depicting the head of Bill Badger, ‘Best wishes! John Harrold’ to lower margin, 7.5 x 5.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (26.5 x 22.5 cm)

Provenance: The Rupert Bear illustration was bought directly from the artist.

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£500 - £800

562* Jacobs (Helen, 1888-1970). The King of Spain’s Daughter, pen and ink, signed to lower right, sheet size 22.4 x 31.8 cm, title in black ink and tissue guard to verso, mounted (37 x 41 cm), together with Stratton (Helen, active 1891-1925). And Now the Moon Steps Forth..., circa 1905, pen and ink on thin board, an original illustration for The Old Street Lamp tale in Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, publisher’s notes and Reeves & Sons’ Bristol Board blind stamp to margins, sheet size 37 x 23 cm, plus Pitman (Rosie, 1868-1947). Undine, circa 1897, pen and ink on board, notes in pencil to margin including ‘How Undine wept, and how her tears stung the? knights heart with remorse without awakening his former love, chapter 13, page 145’, initial sketch in pencil crossed out, and artist’s name in brown ink with date March 14th to verso, sheet size 39.5 x 37 cm, mounted, plus another illustration by the same artist with monogram to lower right, three other original illustrations by artist’s including: Harry B Neilson, and 1 print by Sidney Sime

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£150 - £200

563* Keen (Henry, 1899-1935). Ferdinand Mad, pen and black ink on card, signed and titled to lower edge, Green & Stone label to frame verso, blank margins mount stained, very light spotting, window mounted, sheet size 49 x 37 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/2 ins), framed and glazed (63 x 53 cm)

Original illustration for John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi published by Bodley Head in 1930.

Illustrator and lithographer, Henry Keen worked in the decadent tradition of illustration established by Aubrey Beardsley. He produced illustrations for several editions of classic works for the Bodley Head, including Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray and John Webster's The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, before his untimely death from tuberculosis.

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£200 - £300

564* Lawrence (John, 1933-). Sing a Song of Seasons, circa 1989, wood engraving, ‘artist’s proof’, title and signature in pencil to lower margin, engraved for The New Treasury of Poetry published by Blackie, 1990, image size 20.3 x 15.3 cm, together with Colonel Jack, wood engraving, Artist’s Proof, title and signature in pencil to lower margin, image size 22 x 13.8 cm, plus London Snow, wood engraving, ‘artist’s proof’, title and signature, in pencil, to lower margin, engraved for London Snow by Paul Theroux, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980, and three other small wood engravings (two on one sheet), showing June, January and October, both sheets titled and signed in pencil to lower margin, October also with ‘Artist’s Proof’ in pencil to lower margin, all approximatley 7.4 x 11 cm (5)

£150 - £200

565* Nachshen (Donia, 1903-1987). The Red Lily, circa 1930, red and black ink on thick paper, original illustration for endpapers for the book written by Anatole France, some corrections in white, in pencil to upper margin ‘design for end paper 1 1/2 times actual size’, sheet size 38 x 47 cm, mounted (49.5 x 59 cm), together with Angel, pencil with red ink on laid paper with watermark, sheet size 18.4 x 15 cm, mounted (31 x 27 cm) (2)

£150 - £200

566* Oakley (Graham, 1929-2022). The Jewellery Store, circa 1992, original watercolour heightened with bodycolour, depicting a group of mice standing on the floor, in the middle of a jewellery shop, 16.2 x 22.6 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed (42 x 48.2 cm), together with a Chinese copy of The Church Mice and The Moon, signed by Graham Oakley, for which the illustration was produced, slim oblong 4to (2)

£200 - £300

567* Partridge (Bernard, 1861-1945). Punch’s Almanack, The Seasons Robe the New Year, 1905, pen and ink with white highlighting, signed lower right, some overall toning, 39 x 28 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (56 x 44 cm), together with Nelson (Harold, 1871-1948). Tailpiece with snake, sword and head, pen and ink on artist’s board, mounted onto backing board, initialled, 10.3 x 23.5 cm, framed (33.5 x 41.5 cm), and The Dedication, pen and ink on paper, 13.5 x 6.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (36 x 29 cm) (3)

£200 - £300

£300 - £500

568* Pearse (Susan Beatrice, 1878-1980). A Helping Hand, circa 1920-30, black ink and black chalk on pale cream wove paper, laid onto artist’s board, original illustration, depicting two children in a wintery scene, an older child wearing bobble hat, scarf and gloves, older child tying a bow in the younger child’s hat, signed in pencil to lower left, some minor spotting to lower area, closed tear with adhesive repair to right edge, paper guard adhered to top of verso, title in pencil and Francis & Mills label to verso, together with 32 other original illustrations mainly in pencil but with some pastels and one gouache, subjects including: mocked up cover for Home magazine showing a young girl sitting on a stool dated October 1924; two children sitting on a high backed chair together reading a book; a baby sitting on a cushion undoing some knitting; a toddler wearing a bib with ducks and licking a spoon; a small child’s face being sponged; a young child kneeling on a piano stool pressing the keys with their hands; a small boy one hand across his face, the other over his behind with an older woman standing next to him holding a cane across her body; together with various studies of children and landscapes, three with The London Press Exchange Ltd labels to verso with client ‘Nestle’ or ‘Nestle Milk’ in pencil, six signed or initialled, some with publisher’s notes to margins, largest 46 x 33 cm (a folder)

569* Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Peter Pan, large colour photo reproduction illustrations from Rackham’s Peter Pan Portfolio, 10 plates of 12 from Rackham’s Peter Pan Portfolio, (lacking: At the Fairies Ball and Fairies Never Say We Feel Happy), each roughly 36 x 27.5 cm, laid down and mounted, (52.5 x 43 cm) (10)

£200 - £300

570* Robinson (Thomas Heath, 1865-1950). The Curate and the Parrot, two original pen and ink illustrations, first depicting a gentleman wearing clerical attire riding a bike, a cage containing a parrot hanging from his hand, the title in bold surrounding him, signed lower left, 21.5 x 33 cm, the second depicting the same gentleman standing next to another gentleman in country attire looking up an wooden electricity pylon, the cage and the rear bicycle wheel visible, signed lower left, 31.5 x 23.5 cm, overall spotting, both mounted (53 x 42 cm) (2)

£200 - £300

571* Rushton (William, 1937-1996). Cookery & Drink / Gardening, no date, two pen and ink cartoons on white paper, both initialled 'R' lower right, the first titled in pencil, both 12.5 x 8 cm, framed and glazed (28 x 22.5 cm) (2)

£150 - £200

572AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), ‘Ratty and Mole’, [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on off-white wove paper, signed lower left, 26.5 x 18.5 cm, framed and glazed with photocopies of Shepard’s manuscript labels to picture verso pasted to back of frame

Provenance: Acquired by the vendors’ parents directly from the artist at an exhibition of his own work in Haslemere, Surrey, 29 May – 12 June 1965. Framed and mounted for the exhibition the picture was priced at 15 guineas. Shepard’s line drawings were first used to illustrate a new Methuen edition of Wind in the Willows in 1931. In 1959 Methuen published a new Shepard edition with an additional eight colour plates from watercolours by the artist.

This watercolour of Ratty and Mole in a rowing boat by the reeds in the near foreground and Otter and his young son Portly on the far side of the river. The scene is described in Chapter 7, ‘The Piper at the Gates’, when Mole and Rat reunite the missing Portly with his father.

‘They watched the little animal as he waddled along the path contentedly and with importance; watched him till they saw his muzzle suddenly lift and his waddle break into a clumsy amble as he quickened his pace with shrill whines and wriggles of recognition. Looking up the river, they could see Otter start up, tense and rigid, from out of the shallows where he crouched in dumb patience, and could hear his amazed and joyous bark as he bounded up through the osiers on to the path. Then the Mole, with a strong pull on one oar, swung the boat round and let the full stream bear them down again whither it would, their quest now happily ended.’

The picture was also used as a full-bleed design for the upper panel of the dust jacket of the first edition in 1959, but later replaced with a design featuring all four of the book’s major characters and title lettering. The original watercolour of this latter design, which Shepard described as the cover design in his inventory for the Haslemere exhibition, was sold by Sotheby’s, London, 10 December 2019, lot 252. In the reed bed at the lower edge of the drawing Shepard has added a hand-painted roughly torn strip of paper that sits raised above the lower edge to give extra depth to the picture. This 'trompe l'oeil' paper strip is an integral part of Shepard’s original drawing and is clearly visible in the reproductions.

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£10,000 - £15,000

573AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), ‘The Hour is Come’, [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on off-white wove paper, signed lower left, 26.5 x 18.5 cm, framed and glazed with photocopies of Shepard’s manuscript labels to picture verso pasted to back of frame

Provenance: Acquired by the vendors’ parents directly from the artist at an exhibition of his own work in Haslemere, Surrey, 29 May – 12 June 1965. This watercolour does not appear in Shepard’s manuscript inventory for the exhibition but was obtained directly from the artist at the same time.

Shepard’s line drawings were first used to illustrate a new Methuen edition of Wind in the Willows in 1931. In 1959 Methuen published a new Shepard edition with an additional eight colour plates from watercolours by the artist.

This watercolour features at the very end of the story in Chapter 12, ‘The Return of Ulysses’, and shows the moment Badger, with Ratty, Mole and Toad behind him, on the threshold and ready to burst in and attack the Weasels in Toad Hall.

‘The Badger drew himself up, took a firm grip of his stick with both paws, glanced round at his comrades, and cried:

“The hour is come! Follow me!”

And flung the door open wide.

My!

What a squealing and a squeaking and a screeching filled the air!

Well might the terrified weasels dive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows! Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney! Well might tables and chairs be upset, and glass and china be sent crashing on the floor, in the panic of that terrible moment when the four Heroes strode wrathfully into the room!’

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£10,000 - £15,000

574AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), ‘Spaniels Especially’, c. 1960, original ink drawing on thick wove paper with touches of body colour, a design of six vignettes around a blank central panel (presumably for letterpress), mostly featuring various dogs, signed lower centre, with ballpoint title at head in capitals and signed and inscribed by Shepard in the same pen in lower margin, ‘Drawn for Punch / To Mrs Elms from Norah and Ernest Shepard, April 1962’, 32 x 47 cm, framed and glazed

576AR* Attributed to Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976). ‘Portly’, no date, pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, rough oval-shaped sketch of the young otter Portly from Wind in the Willows, signed lower left, titled 'Portly' to lower margin, some light pencil marks and minor spotting, 9.5 x 11.4 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (19.5 x 21.5 cm), together with 7 other prints of scenes from Winnie the Pooh or Wind in the Willows, all mounted with Shepard’s original signature, framed and glazed, 33 x 19.5 cm and smaller

Provenance: Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

£300 - £500

By direct family descent from Beatrice Elms, paternal grandmother to the vendors. Mrs Elms worked as housekeeper for Ernest and Norah Shepard. Mrs Elms' son Geoffrey and his wife acquired the two preceding watercolours directly from Shepard in 1965. (1)

Christopher Foyle's aunt, Christina Foyle, presided over the Foyles Literary Luncheons for almost seventy years. This was possibly sketched in connection with one of these literary lunches, which began in 1930. The rough sketch bears traces of pencil beneath the ink, which Shepard would rub out when finishing his drawings in ink or watercolour.

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£150 - £200

£200 - £300

575AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Interior Scene, watercolour and ink on Whatman board, depicting an interior sitting room scene with a lady and a gentleman standing, limbs at awkward angles, a shocked looking lady with basket over her arm and stick in hand looking towards the pair, signed to lower right of image, indistinct pencil title to lower margin, some light toning, dried adhesive residue to edges, 25.5 x 38 cm, some pencil notes and unrelated caption to verso (1)

577AR* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). ‘What’s this? Shouted the astonished Tailor “The Brownies”, 1955, watercolour and ink, depicting an interior scene with two boys, one sweeping the floor, the other jumping in the air, an older man standing holding an open door looking on, initialled to lower right of image, title to lower margin, image size 19.5 x 15 cm, framed and glazed (35.5 x 27 cm)

This illustration was produced for The Brownies & Other Stories by Mrs Ewing, illustrated by E H Shepard, published by J.M. Dent & Sons in London, 1955. The illustration was used on the front cover and page 38. (1) £300 - £500

578* Sullivan (Edmund, 1869-1933). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1912, pen and ink illustration, signed and dated lower left, 21 x 17 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (36.5 x 31.5 cm) (1) £150 - £200

579* Sullivan (Edmund, 1869-1933). The Holy Wars by Rudyard Kipling, signed, 1917, pen and ink illustration, with printed version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Holy Wars in the centre, signed in brown ink (some rubbing with loss of ‘Kipl’), below an inscription from Sullivan ‘Good luck to the fund - and good luck to the buyer, Edmund J Sullivan July 15th 1918’, surrounded by allegorical pen and ink illustrations by Edmund Sullivan, 34.5 x 48 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (54.5 x 68 cm), Robert Dunthorne print publisher label to verso (1)

£200 - £300

580* Todd (Justin, 1932-). The Queen’s Nose, gouache, depicting Harmony Parker wearing a red and white stripped t-shirt, holding Rex Ruff Monty her toy dog in one hand and holding aloft a fifty pence coin, produced for The Queen’s Nose by Dick King Smith, published by Puffin, signed lower right, 28 x 23 cm, mounted, together with four other original illustrations by Justin Todd for various books including: cover illustration for The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray Williams, two illustrations for The Twelve Days of Christmas (Eight Maids a Milking, and Six Geese a Laying, both signed), and an original cover illustration for The Way Up by the artist, all with artist’s address on verso, largest 24 x 24 cm, all mounted

Todd is an illustrator and muralist born in New Malden, Surrey. He studied at the Wimbledon College of Art, during 1949-53 and under Edward Bawden at the RCA, 1955-58. In the 1970s he began regularly illustrating book covers, for companies such as Pan and Fontana. He worked for most paperback publishers during this decade and produced a wide array of subject matter, including the paranormal, murder, poetry, psychology and religion. In the 1980s he began work on children’s books. (5)

£200 - £300

581* Williams (Hubert, 1905-1989). Our Simon John, 1949-1955, mainly pen and ink with some bodycolour, a small collection of original illustrations produced for The Home Companion’s feature ‘Our Simon John’, comprising: approximately 120 rough sketches on buff paper, most with age of child in pencil to lower margin, some with notes in pencil to verso, (including one sketch on the back of a letter from Kensington Art Gallery requesting Hubert Williams submit work ‘on the same lines as last year’ for their Summer exhibition; approximatlely 85 final drawings on thick paper or board, with publisher’s notes to margins and verso, most initialled ‘H W’; a design for a Christmas Greetings card from the Williams family on board, all various sizes, 9 mounted, 1 with Hubert Williams studio stamp to verso, largest 34.5 x 25 cm, and a scrap book (38 x 25 cm), containing the published clippings from The Home Companion from 21-2-1953 to 26-2-56 including a note ‘Final Drawing for H.C’, all in good condition

Hubert Williams was a painter, printmaker and illustrator. He studied at Royal Academy Schools as a Landseer Scholar between 1927–32 and at St Martin’s School of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts. He became a freelance artist illustrating children’s books and having work published in various newspapers and magazines including Blue Peter Magazine. Williams produced the illustrations and his wife produced the words for the regular feature ‘Our Simon John’ published in The Home Companion. (1 folder)

£200 - £300

582AR* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). A Good Sprinter, 1908, watercolour, depicting a caveman running away from a green dinosaur, signed and dated lower right, some light toning, 34 x 25 cm mount aperture, remnants of artist’s label with title, artist name, address and title, in brown ink, and title, artist’s name and address written in pencil to verso, framed and glazed (54.5 x 45 cm)

Lawson Wood was a talented illustrator and cartoonist. He gained great popularity with his humorous illustrations of animals, including dinosaurs and monkeys. Lawson’s first prehistoric characters were published in his Prehistoric Proverbs, 1907, a series of 12 drawings published by Collier & Co. (1)

£300 - £500

583* Woodroffe (Paul, 1875-1954). The Enchanted Doll, watercolour on thick paper laid onto backing paper, signed lower left, sheet size 26.5 x 17.5 cm, mounted, framed and glazed (56.5 x 46 cm) (1)

£300 - £500

Lot 582

Lot 583

584 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, 1st ‘Peacock’ edition, London: George Allen, 1894, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, some spotting front and rear, small Library Trust bookplate, all edges gilt, original cloth, upper cover with Peacock design in gilt, lower joint splitting, corners rubbed, small chip to lower edge of upper cover, 8vo, together with Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, illustrations by George H. Boughton, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Silas Marner, by George Eliot, London: Macmillan and Co., 1907, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, 8vo, with 10 others illustrated and bound in pictorial cloth gilt including Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford, 1893, The School for Scandal and the Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1896 and Bracebridge Hall, by Washington Irving, 2nd edition, 1877 (13)

£700 - £1,000

585 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, 1st ‘Peacock’ edition, London: George Allen, 1894, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, contemporary gift inscription in black ink to head of half-title, hinges cracked, staining to gutter of two pages, all edges gilt, original decorative green cloth gilt, some discolouration and staining, cocked and rubbed, 8vo (1)

£400 - £600

Lot 584

Lot 585

586 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, with a preface by George Saintsbury, Large Paper edition, London: George Allen, 1894, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, silk doublures, all edges gilt, blue morocco gilt by Dieter Rader (Dragon Press Bindery, Nantgaredig, Carmarthen), covers and spine with gilt foliate and rose pieces in gilt, upper cover with inset oval Cosway-style miniature depicting Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, contained in blue cloth solander box with black morocco label, large 8vo

Large Paper edition, one of 250 copies printed for England, 25 copies for America. (1)

£3,000 - £5,000

587 Austen (Jane). The Series of English Idylls (Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma), 6 volumes, London: J. M. Dent & New York: E. P. Dutton, 1907-09, each volume with 24 coloured plates by Charles E. Brock, all inscribed on front free endpapers in blue ink, ‘Edith CherryGarrard, S. Bernards 1919, The “Ruscombe” Prize’, original grey-white cloth, spines gilt and gilt floral device on the front boards, top edges gilt, ‘Emma’ recased, ‘Mansfield Park’ and ‘Pride & Prejudice’ joints repaired, ‘Mansfield Park’ edge of spine weakening and front joint repaired, the cloth very slightly darkened, 8vo Edith Cherry-Garrard (1901-1979) was the sister of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of the Terra Nova/Robert Scott Antarctic Expedition, survivor and author of The Worst Journey in the World (1922). (6)

£1,000 - £1,500

588 Bannerman (Helen). The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1st edition, London: Grant Richards, 1899, 27 full-page colour illustrations after the author printed by Edmund Evans, contemporary gift inscription ‘Margaret Ellerton, from the man’ in black ink to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, a few illustrations with crease mark to top right-hand corner, illustration of the Tiger stained to image, stitching to gutter of publisher’s imprint leaf perished, original light green striped cloth, 16mo (1)

£400 - £600

589 [Bannerman, Helen]. Animated Edition. The Story of Little Black Sambo, with Twenty-Seven Full-Page Illustrations in Colour by Kurt Wiese, Animations by A. V. Warren, 1st edition, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1933, colour illustrations including full moveable plates with jointed characters operated by tabs (lacking tabs for second and fourth plate but otherwise intact), colour pictorial endpapers, old pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper rubbed out but still partly visible, original yellow cloth with pictorial paper onlay to upper cover, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to (1)

£200 - £300

590 Pop-Up Book. Libroteatro Hoepli, Cenerentola, Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1940, 6 full-page colour scenes with cut-outs and multiple paste-overs, all scenes joined to form continous theatre when opened fully, third scene with closed tear to lower right edge, sixth scene with repairs in brown adhesive tape, some small closed tears, lacking clasp, 16 pp text volume (overall spotting) inserted into pocket on front pastedown, original publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards, title to spine, some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, oblong 4to, together with La Bella addormentata nel bosco, 3rd edition, [Milano: Hoepli], 1943, 6 full-page colour scenes with cut-outs and multiple pasteovers, all scenes joined to form continous circle, first scene with replaced lower edge (with loss of text), scenes 4 and 5 with old adhesive tape marks, scene 5 with restoration to lower edge (some loss of text?), original publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, rebacked, silk ties, oblong 4to, and 7 other similar peepshow books by artists including: Roland Pym, Patricia Turner, Kathleen Hale, etc., titles comprising: Puss in Boots, The Birth of Jesus, Beauty & the Beast, The Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves, Cinderella, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 8vo (9)

£200 - £400

Lot 588

Lot 589

591 Bourgade (Armand). Boum-Boum du Cirque d’été!, [Paris: A. Capen du], circa 1900, lacking title-page, 4 colour lithograph plates with moveable elements, pull tabs renewed and in working order, some replaced, plate one with large closed tear, edges frayed, closed tears, some repaired, stitching renewed, old adhesive marks to gutter, hinges reinforced, original cloth-backed boards, chromolithograph pictorial upper cover laid down to upper board (trimmed at head and foot), tall 8vo, together with Lowensohn (G., publisher). Drollige Geschichten, Fürth, circa 1890, 6 chromolithograph plates with moveable elements, each with working pull tab (fifth tab very stiff), some small closed tears (some repaired with adhesive tape), lacking free endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities, 4to, plus three other juvenile books comprising: Panorama of Beasts, For Little Children and Metamorphoses

Picture Book, and 4 letters from Marjorie Moon (9)

£150 - £200

592 [Boyle, Eleanor Vere, illustrator]. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by twelve large designs in colour after original drawings by E. V. B., Newly translated by H. L. D. Ward and Augusta Plesner, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872, 12 full-page chromolithograph plates by Leighton Bros. after E. V. Boyle, all edges gilt, brown chalk-glazed endpapers with bookplate of Alford House to front pastedown, original gilt-decorated green publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed and frayed to extreme corners, folio

De Beaumont 15a. (1)

£200 - £300

593 Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le petit elephant, 1st edition, 1931 (but later issue circa 1933); Le Voyage de Babar, 1932; Le Roi Babar, 1933; Les Vacances de Zephir, 1936; Babar en Famille, 1938, 1st editions, Histoire de Babar later issue with elephant head and listing Le Roi de Babar, colour illustrations, a few minor spots, 2 previous owner signatures, Histoire front hinge next to title showing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, joints and edges a little rubbed, a few marks and scratches to covers, folio (5)

£150 - £200

594 Carroll (Lewis). Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co, 1893, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, all edges gilt, original publisher’s pictorial red cloth gilt, dust jacket, chipped with loss to spine extremities and upper joint, price sticker overlayed to foot of spine, 8vo, together with: Sylvie and Bruno, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co, 1889, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, all edges gilt original, publisher’s pictorial red cloth gilt, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo, with another copy of the same (3)

£150 - £200

595 Cinema Book. The Little Green Man of the Sea, London: The Brown Novelty Company, 1926, 12 full-page illustrations and 7 adverts printed in brown with elements overprinted in blue and red, minor offsetting, some toning to endpapers, text block coming loose but stitching intact, front pastedown with pocket containing loosely inserted cinemascope (a rectangular piece of card with two circular holes in showing either red or blue lenses, which can be switched by sliding a tab), left hand side red and blue lense with small crack to edge, closed tears to upper edge of pocket, Dawson ex libris stamp to free front endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbing to extremities, 8vo

Rare. Only two previous auction records in 2011 and 2012. (1) £300 - £500

596 Nister (Ernest, publisher). Come and Go, a Novel Book for Children. Verses by Clifton Bingham, Ernest Nister, circa 1909, six full-page chromolithographs, each scene with one die-cut illustration showing two scenes (first scene lacking die-cut), silk ribbons sometime replaced (string from fourth scene not working), some closed tears, gutter strengthened, decorative endpapers, hinges strengthened, Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong 4to, together with Happy Families and their Tales, a volume of pictures & stories of domestic pets, [1898], five chromolithograph pop-up plates, all complete and in working order, some supports replaced, second plate with head of goat replaced, third plate with ears of bunny replaced, fifth plate with head and neck of goose replaced, some minor creasing to cut-outs, gutter strengthened in places, hinges reinforced, decorative endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities a little rubbed, oblong 4to, plus Moving Animals, a novel book for children with verses by Shelia E. Braine, circa 1913, six chromolithograph pages with transformative illustrations, tabs all present (a little creased and soiled), each tab pull reveals one or more caged animals moving, gutter reinforced in places, decorative endpapers, Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to lower board, oblong 4to, and Little Pets, circa 1896, (lacking free front endpaper)

Come and Go! contains a new mechanism introduced by the Nister Company. Each scene has a die-cut card with two images illustrated on each half of the same side, string is attached to two points of the die-cut. When pulled one way one of the images is revealed in the window, when pulled the other way the die-cut rotates 180 degrees to reveal the other illustration.

(4) £200 - £300

597 Comics. Collection of comics, including “Nick Fury, Agent of Shield” #1 (Marvel, June 1968, VG), stunning cover by Jim Steranko, “The Forever People” #1 (DC, March 1971, VG), first appearance of the Forever People, first full appearance of Darkseid, Superman appearance, story, cover and art by Jack Kirby, together with a selection of other 12c and 15c DC comics such as Superman, Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane, Superboy, Adventure Comics and Action Comics (featuring Superman), Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, World’s Finest (featuring Superman & Batman), The Flash, Sea Devils, Batman, Tales of the Unexpected, Detective Comics and Spider-man, plus a collection of graphic novels, other comics (Xmen, Judge Dredd, Crisis, Eagle, Beazer, Wizzard, Topper, Classics Illustrated, King Kong, Rupert, War Picture Library, Battle Picture Library), a collection of miscellaneous periodicals (Radio Times, Razzle, Punch, Picturegoer, Film Weekly, Film Pictorial, Picture Show) and some British Royaltyrelated publications (2 cartons)

£100 - £200

598 Crane (Walter, illustrator). A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden, London: At the House of Harper and Brothers, 1899, colour illustrations throughout, page block split at gutter (with evidence of repair), decorative endpapers, original pictorial cloth boards, slight soiling, upper cover lower right corner rubbed, head and cap of spine slightly frayed, small closed tear to top left edge, slim 8vo, together with Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, 28 colour tipped in illustrations, including frontispiece with captionned tissue guard, decorative endpapers, some toning, split rear gutter, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards rubbed in some areas with loss of colour, lacking spine, large 8vo, plus another book illustrated by Dulac, Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1918], fourteen tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, decorative endpapers (free endpapers toned), presentation inscription to free front endpaper, original pictorial cloth, front gutter split, spine detached, 4to, and Idylls of the King Vivien Elhine Enid Guinevere by Alfred Tennyson with sixty original decorations by George Wooliscroft Rhead and Louis Rhead, New York: R.H. Russell, 1898, 4to (4) £100 - £150

599 Crane (Walter). A collection of 26 books illustrated by Walter Crane, Routledge’s New Sixpenny Toy Books series, 1860s70s, comprising Sing A Song of Sixpence; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog; The Old Courtier; The Multiplication Table in Verse; Chattering Jack; How Jessie Was Lost; Grammar in Rhyme; Annie and Jack in London; 1. 2. Buckle My Shoe; The Fairy Ship; Adventures of Puffy; This Little Pig Went to Market; the Noah’s Ark Alphabet; King Luckieboy’s Party; Cinderella; The Forty Thieves; My Mother; The Three Bears; Valentine and Orson; Puss in Boots; Old Mother Hubbard; The Absurd A. B. C.; Bluebeard; Jack and the Beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood; Baby’s Own Alphabet, colour illustrations, occasional minor spotting, original wrappers, Baby’s Own Alphabet lacking rear wrapper, contemporary manuscript list to front pastedown, all bound together in contemporary half morocco, covers detached, lacking spine, small 4to George Routledge published the New Sixpenny Toy Books series from 1867, of which 37 toy books were illustrated by Walter Crane. From 1873 they were re-issued as Walter Crane’s Toy Books, with a uniform design for the printed wrappers, his final publication in the series was The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, 1876.

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600 Craxton (John, illustrator). Visionary Poems and Passages or the Poet’s Eye, chosen by Geoffrey Grigson, New Excursions into English Poetry series, London: Frederick Muller, 1944, 16 colour lithographs by John Craxton, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, some toning, 8vo, together with 5 others in the same series: English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c. 1860, chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor, illustrated by John Piper, 1944, Poems of Death, verses chosen by Phoebe Pool, illustrated by Michael Ayrton, 1945, Traveller’s Verse, chosen by M. G. Lloyd Thomas, illustrated by Edward Bawden, 1946, Sea Poems, chosen by Myfanwy Piper, illustrated by Mona Moore, 2nd impression, 1946, and Poems of Sleep and Dream, chosen by Carol Stewart, illustrated by Robert Colquhoun, 1947

£400 - £600

The full set of New Excursions into English Poetry was in seven volumes, here lacking Soldiers’ Verse, chosen by Patric Dickinson, 1945. (6)

£150 - £200

601 Cydwave (Marion). Autumn Leaves (a selection) by Marion Cydwave O.G.S. poet-laureate, with illustrations by the author, printed for the author: 1920, 10 tipped-in illustrations, gouache on tracing paper mounted on black paper, handwritten in black ink, with red decorative border and embellishments to each page, index to rear, decorative endpapers, 100 pages bound in grey limp suede, title excised to upper wrapper revealing orange fabric, some marks and fading to upper cover, large 12mo (1)

£150 - £200

602 Dahl (Roald). Switch Bitch, 1st US edition, signed, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, presentation inscription from author ‘for all The Stutters Love Roald 1974’ to front free endpaper, red cloth boards with gilt, unclipped dust jacket, 8vo, together with: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1st US edition, second printing, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964, illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, mustard yellow endpapers, original red cloth, Borzoi Books embossed stamp to rear cover, gilt title to spine, clipped dust jacket, small tear to rear with some loss, 8vo, plus Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, 1st US edition, 1972, Fantastic Mr Fox, 1st US edition, 1970 and The Twits, 1st US edition, 1981, all with dust jackets, all 8vo (5) £300 - £500

603 Darwin (Bernard & Elinor). The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo; Tootleoo Two, 2 volumes, London: Nonesuch Press, [1925-27], 22 and 20 full-page colour illustrations respectively, original boards, some rubbing to extremities, oblong 4to (2)

£150 - £200

604 Dean & Son (Publisher). Robinson Crusoe with suprise pictures, [1874], 6 full-page colour illustrations, printed flap at each corner folded into diamond, each of which alters the scene when opened out, endpapers recently renewed retaining original free endpapers, original front free endpaper with presentation inscription dated ‘April 22nd / 75’ in brown ink, original printed boards, modern cloth reback, some light dust-soiling, lightly rubbed to board edges, slim 4to Scarce. Only three institutional copies held. (1)

£100 - £150

605 Dean & Son (Publisher). Royal Moveable Punch & Judy, [cover-title], circa 1891, eight half-page moveable Punch and Judy scenes, each with two characters, above a coloured illustration of a drummer alongside verse dialogue corresponding to the scene, all characters present, tabs renewed, inner hinge cracked, text block loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, with printed advertisements to back cover, rubbed and marked, edges worn, folio, housed in modern slipcase (1) £200 - £300

606 Dean and Son (publishers). A Visit to the Country with surprise model pictures, No.4 in Dean’s “Surprise Model” Series, London: Dean & Son, circa 1890, chromolithographs, four pages with mechanical pop-up illustrations operated by cotton thread, toning to title-page, previous ownership inscriptions and ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson stamp to front pastedown, minor finger soiling and scuffs to margins, original blue backed pictorial boards, rear board with advertising for Dean & Son, some rubbing and chipping to edges, spine with some rubbing, 4to Scarce Victorian Pop-Up Book with only three held in Institutions. (1) £100 - £150

607 Dean and Son (publishers). Cinderella, Dean’s New Scenic Books, No.3, London: Dean and Son, circa 1865-73, eight leaves with printed text and eight chromolithographic moveable scenes comprising of three plates connected by fabric draw strings, (page 4 with replacement string, lacking pull), advertorial endpapers front and rear, Megan and Michael ex libris book label to front pastedown, small rectangular section excised from top edge of free front endpaper (1.6 x 15.5 cm), original quarter cloth over illustrated boards, rear board with Dean & Son advert ‘Books for Young Ladies’, some rubbing to extremities with minor loss to rear board, 8vo (1) £300 - £500 Lot 608

£200 - £400

608 Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1933, four double-page coloured pop-up illustrations, second illustration with neat repair to Mickey Mouse pop-up, black and white illustrations throughout, Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, pictorial endpapers, original publisher’s pictorial boards, some rubbing to corners, small stain to corner of lower board, 4to, together with The “Pop-up” Silly Symphonies containing Babes in the Woods and King Neptune, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1933, four double-page coloured pop-up illustrations, second pop-up with very small closed tear to edge of witches dress, fourth pop-up with very small closed tear to first wave, gutter reinforced in places, some soiling, pictorial endpapers, original publisher’s pictorial boards, rebacked, some rubbing to extremities, title laid down on printed labels, 4to, and Little Orphan Annie and Jumbo, The Circus Elephant, 1935, some repairs, small tear to rear free endpaper with some loss, square 8vo (3)

611 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan, 1874, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, all edges gilt, 20thcentury red crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original cover designs blocked in gilt, spine with gilt motifs after Tenniel illustrations, a few light marks, 8vo, together with: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co, 1883, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, title-page somewhat spotted, all edges gilt, 20thcentury red crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original cover designs blocked in gilt, spine with gilt motifs after Tenniel illustrations, extremities very lightly rubbed, 8vo, both volumes contained in red cloth slipcase (2)

£1,000 - £1,500

609 Disney (Walt). The “Pop-up” Minnie Mouse, story and illustrations by the Staff of the Walt Disney Studios, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1933, three double-page coloured pop-up illustrations, second pop-up small closed tear to back of Minnie’s dress, final pop-up two of Minnie’s fingers with crease, black and white illustrations throughout, some juvenile hand-colouring to first few black and white illustrations, Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, original pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities, small 4to (1)

£150 - £200

610 [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge], ‘Lewis Carroll’. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 10th thousand, London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, occasional light spotting, previous owner inscription to half-title, bookplate to front endpaper, front hinge a little tender, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, rebacked with title in manuscript on label pasted to spine, slight fading and a few small stains, 8vo, together with The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, 1st edition, 3rd state [1894], contained in half calf solander box (spine faded), 8vo (2)

£200 - £300

612 Doyle (Richard). In Fairy-Land. A Series of Pictures from ElfWorld, with a Poem by William Allingham, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870, 16 colour-printed plates, some light spotting, blank leaf before half-title with small section excised at head, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, small stain and faded patch to upper cover, spine a little rubbed with small tears at ends, some edge wear, folio (1)

£400 - £600

613 Doyle (Richard). In Fairy-land, with a poem by William Allingham, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875, 16 wood-engraved plates colour printed by Edmund Evans, guttapercha perished, contents detached, some light spotting and small marginal water stains, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, some edge wear and small damp stains, 4to (1)

£200 - £300

614 Doyle (Richard). In Fairy-Land. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, with a Poem by William Allingham, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875, 16 colour-printed plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription to half-title, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, one or two small light stains, edges a little rubbed, folio, together with An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew in Pictures and Verse by Richard Doyle and J. R. Planche, 1st edition, [1865] (2)

£300 - £400

616 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909], 20 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate of Roger Quirk, original cream cloth gilt, contained in original box (rubbed with splits to folds, some toning), 4to (1)

£150 - £200

615 Dr Seuss. The Cat in the Hat, 1st edition, 1st state, New York: Random House, 1957, colour illustrations throughout, original publisher’s paper-covered boards, dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, small 4to (1)

£200 - £300

617 Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Bells and other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, signed limited edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912, signed by Dulac to limitation page, 28 mounted colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), armorial bookplate of Ronald Patrick Malcolm Baker to front free endpaper, one plate loose, another with slight loss at foot not affecting image, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, lower cover with a few damp-stains, some general marks, 4to Limited edition, 646/750 copies. (1)

£300 - £500

618 Folding Diorama. Aesop’s Fables, Barsal Edition, Barcelona: Barguno & Salvat S.L., circa 1940s, 13 photolithographic folding dioramas, scenes comprising of three to five cut outs, text to upper outer panel outlining the tale and moral, lower outer panel with list of titles from the series, minor finger-soiling to some, strengthening to verso of few cut outs (no. 3 and 12), all in original paper wrappers, 9.8 x 13 cm, contained in a wooden box with printed title labels laid down on lid and side (13)

£100 - £150

619 Gilbert (Spencer, 1892-1979). The Ten Commandments, Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1934, 13 tipped-in reproduction monochrome plates, with accompanying text, original cream cloth, some minor soiling, large folio

Printed in an edition of 75 copies by Kyrle Leng and Robert Gathorne Hardy, this copy unnumbered.

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621 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, illustrations by Arthur Rackham, introduction by A. A. Milne, deluxe limited edition, London: Methuen & Co, 1951, mounted colour frontispiece, 11 mounted colour plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original full vellum gilt, spine lightly spotted with small amount of wear to head, 4to, contained in original slipcase with paper title label to upper cover (some marks)

Limited edition, 329/500 copies.

Riall, p. 200.

‘Published originally by The Limited Editions Club with 16 colour illustrations, and was not published in England until 1950 by Methuen. This is the 1st deluxe edition with text illustrations’ (Riall).

‘This book was first issued in October 8th, 1908, since when it has been reprinted in a variety of editions, illustrated and unillustrated, 99 times. This one hundredth edition, published in 1951, is printed on handmade paper and is limited to 500 copies...’ (limitation page).

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£400 - £600

£100 - £150

620 Gooden (Stephen, illustrator). Aesop’s Fables, translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange, limited issue, London: George G. Harrap, 1936, engraved title, plates and initials by Stephen Gooden, a little light offsetting from plates, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, slipcase (a little toned to margins), 4to, limited signed edition 438/525, together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peer Gynt.

A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen, London: George G. Harrap, 1936, 12 colour plates, top edge gilt, original brown blindstamped morocco, slightly rubbed, original cardboard box, lid repaired at corners with adhesive tape, one corner split, 4to (2)

£300 - £400

622 Greenaway (Kate). Almanack for 1928, published by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, [1927], colour illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, original printed glassine jacket, printed text to glassine wrapper ‘The coloured illustrations are the actual first printing of the 1894 Almanack. The text for the year 1928 is now inserted’, 12mo, together with Almanack for 1886, London: George Routledge & Sons, [1885], colour illustrations throughout, original paper-backed gilt decorated boards, 12mo, plus Greenaway (Kate, illustrator). Starlight Stories told to Bright Eyes and Listening Ears, by Fanny Lablache, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1886, 4 black & white plates, all edges gilt, decorative cloth binding, 8vo, and The New Forget-Me-Not, a calendar decorated by Rex Whistler, 1930-31, limited edition of 34/350 signed copies from a total of 360, 8vo

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£150 - £200

623 Jones (Harold, illustrator). August Adventure by M.E. Atkinson, London: Jonathan Cape, 1st edition, 1936, black and white illustrations throughout, presentation inscription to front fly leaf dated ‘Xmas 1937’, illustrative endpapers, minor spotting throughout, original green cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, dust jacket, all corners clipped, small closed tear to lower edge of upper flap, 8vo, plus another copy of August Adventure, London: The Children’s Book Club, circa 1940, lacking dust jacket, together with The Compass Points North by M.E. Atkinson, illustrations by Harold Jones, London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1st edition, 1938, black and white illustrations throughout, decorative endpapers, original red cloth, dust jacket, unclipped, slightly rubbed at extremities, 8vo

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£200 - £300

624 Kent (Rockwell, illustrator). Mody Dick, or The Whale, 3 volumes, 1st edition thus, Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930, vignette half-titles and illustrated titles, black and white illustrations by Rockwell Kent throughout (including full-page), bookplate of William A Dycke to front pastedowns, volumes 2 & 3 with ownership inscriptions, a few leaves in volume 1 torn with loss to lower blank margin, some toning with leaves a little brittle, original publisher’s black cloth, upper covers and spines lettered and decorated (by Rockwell Kent) in silver, some wear with small loss to spine extremities (more at foot of volume 1 affecting publisher’s imprint), covers marked, 4to, lacking both the acetate dust jackets and the aluminium slipcase

One of 1000 copies.

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£700 - £1,000

625 King (Jessie M., illustrator). A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, [6th edition], London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1915], illustrated colour title, 16 tipped-in coloured plates, letterpress spotted, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers toned), top edge gilt, original decorative blue cloth, faded spine with ends lightly worn, 4to, together with The High History of the Holy Graal, translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans, London: J.M. Dent & New York: E.P. Dutton, 1903, numerous illustrations, half-title and endpapers spotted and toned, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth, spine faded and slightly stained, few minor marks, 8vo, plus The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, by William Morris, London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904, numerous illustrations, scarce light spotting to letterpress, front pastedown with pictorial bookplate of Henry J. Synnatt, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, covers rubbed and marked, 8vo, with 4 others illustrated by King and published by Foulis: Isabella or the Pot of Basil, [1907], with original Christmas 1907 greetings slip loosely inserted (with two ink manuscript names); another slightly later edition of the same (colour illustration adhered to front cover); two copies of The Grey City of the North, one 1910 (with red stain to front cover), the other 1914, plus 3 other Foulis envelopetype books: Rabbi Ben Ezra (illustrated by W. Russell Flint); A Little Book of Sundials (illustrated by Alfred Rawlings, 1919); The Dream of Gerontius (illustrated by Robert T. Rose), also another Foulis book (Corners of Grey Old Gardens), and 4 others similar, all narrow or small 8vo

First item: The sixth edition of this book, but the first edition to be illustrated by Jessie M. King. (15) £300 - £500

Lot 624

Lot 623

626 King (Jessie M., illustrator). Ponts de Paris, par Edme Arcambeau, Paris: A. Perche & London: Gowans & Gray, 1912, unopened, 17 colour illustrations (correct as list), letterpress spotted, original pictorial wrappers, dusty and edge-frayed, limited edition, one of 1000 copies, together with The Grey City of the North, Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis, 1910, black & white illustrations (some faint toning), original boards with pictorial wrapper, toned, two small stains to front foredge, slim 8vo, plus two others illustrated by King: Glasgow, the City of the West [covertitle], 1911, and another copy of The Grey City of the North (1914), also with R.L. Stevenson, Memories, London: Peter Davies, 1926 reprint, numerous photographic illustrations, original boards with T.N. Foulis original pictorial wrapper, all slim 8vo, and two other illustrated books published by T.N. Foulis: The Book of Old Sundials & their mottoes, with eight illustrations in colour by Alfred Rawlings; Corners of Grey Old Gardens, with illustrations in colour by Margaret Waterfield, 8vo (7)

£200 - £300

627 Kingsley (Charles). The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With Two Illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A., 1st edition, Macmillan, 1863, two engraved plates, including frontispiece, half-title present, single advertisement leaf at rear, without list of author’s work and suppressed “L’Envoi” leaf, occasional spotting and marks, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplate of Richard Adams, hinges strengthened with fabric tape, contemporary brown half calf, extremities rubbed, some markings to rear cover, blind decorated raised bands, gilt lettered label in second compartment, small 4to in 8s

Provenance: Sold in these rooms, The Library of Richard Adams, 14 December 2017, lot 64. (1)

£150 - £200

628 Kubasta (Voitech). Jedem Na Prázdniny, Praha: Pragopress, 1969, 8 colour pop-up and moveable scenes (all in working order), Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 4to, together with Mouřenínkská Pohádka, Praze: Orbis Publishing House, 1973, 6 colour pop-up and moveable scenes (all in working order), Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 4to, plus 14 other pop-up books by Kubasta in various languages including: Finnish, Spanish, French, German, Polish etc., titles from 1961-91, including: Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Mickey Mouse as a Movie Star, etc., mainly oblong 4to (17)

£300 - £500

629 Kubasta (Voitech). Marco Polo, London: Bancroft and Co, 1962, large colour fold-out pop-up scene, styled as a tiger hunt with a group being carried by elephants, red ribbon draped from the elephants to the tiger intact, with 8 page letterpress, original clothbacked pictorial boards, very good condition, folio, together with The Day of the Bison Hunt, London: Bancroft and Co, 1962, large colour fold-out pop-up scene, with 7 moveable die-cut characters, styled as a large American Indian scene set around a camp fire, with 8 page letterpress, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, very good condition, folio, plus 3 other Panascopic Model books by Kubasta comprising: How Columbus Discovered America, circa 1960; Noah’s Ark, circa 1960; and The Castle Tournament, circa 1961, plus Humberto by fellow Czech illustrator Vladimír Kovařík, (strengthening to verso of elephants), folio (6)

£150 - £200

630 Kubasta (Voitech). The Runaways and the Robbers; The Flying Trunk; Cinderella; Hansel and Gretel; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs; Jack and the Bean-Stalk/Hop O’My Thumb; Table, Lay Yourself!; Three Little Pigs/Goldilocks, Prague: Artia, 1950s1960s, also The Brave Tin Soldier, 1978; Jack and the Beanstalk, 1981, together 10 pop-up books, with colour pop-up and moveable illustrations throughout, some creases and repairs, two with ink manuscript ownership name inside front cover, original boards (cloth-backed to first 8 listed), some creases and edge wear to The Runaways and to Table, all 10 books with small Ex Libris Megan + Michael Dawson ticket or ink stamp to upper corner inside front cover, oblong 4to (10)

£200 - £300

631 Kubasta (Voitech). Tip + Top Build a Motorcar, 1st edition, Bancroft, 1962, six colour pop-up and moveable scenes (all in working order), original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed, minor crease to rear cover, some spotting to right edge and spine area of front cover, 4to, together with Tip + Top Go Camping, 1st edition, 1962, six colour pop-up and moveable scenes (all in working order), some light toning or offsetting to text, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges lightly rubbed and bumped, front cover with faint scratch, rear cover with light crease near spine, 4to, plus 6 other Tip + Top titles including: Go Flying, 1964; And the Dragons, 1964; At the Zoo, 1961; On the Farm, 1961; Als Seefahrer (Hamburg: Carlsen, 1965); Und die Mondrakete (Hamburg: Carlsen, 1965), few minor creases and repairs, all 8 books with small ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson ticket or ink stamp to upper corner inside front cover, 4to (8)

£300 - £400

632 Leighton (Clare). The Farmer’s Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1933, title with woodengraved vignette, 12 full-page wood-engravings, pictorial endpapers, original cloth gilt (some fading to extremities), dust jacket, small tears and losses at spine ends and corners, oblong folio (1)

£200 - £300

634 Leighton (Clare). Woodcuts. Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton, limited issue, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930, 41 tipped-in plates, a few minor spots front and rear, previous owner signature, original cloth, upper cover with inset illustration, a little rubbed at spine ends and corners, 4to

Limited edition 375/450, signed by the artist.

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£200 - £300

£300 - £400

633 Leighton (Clare). The Farmer’s Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1933, wood-engraved title vignette, 12 full-page wood-engravings, pictorial endpapers, original green cloth, dust jacket, a few repairs, oblong folio, together with The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, London: Macmillan and Co., 1929, wood-engravings by Clare Leighton, light toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed patterned boards (vellum a little discoloured), thick 8vo, limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the artist, plus Country Matters, written and engraved by Clare Leighton, 1st US edition, New York: Macmillan Company, 1937, numerous wood-engravings, some toning to endpapers, bookplate, original cloth, spine a little faded, price-clipped dust jacket, spine toned, 4to, with 9 others illustrated by the artist including The Sea & the Jungle, by H. M. Tomlinson, 1930, limited signed edition 96/515, Four Hedges, a Gardener’s Chronicle, 1935, and Where Land Meets Sea, 1st US edition, 1954 (12)

635 Lentz (Harold, illustrator). The “Pop-Up” Cinderella, including Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Pussin-Boots, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1933, four double-page colour pop-up plates, black and white illustrations throughout, Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, pictorial endpapers, previous ownership inscription to margin of free front endpaper, original pictorial boards, slightly cocked, dust jacket, extremities lightly frayed with some small loss (particularly to head of spine), small 4to (1)

£200 - £400

636 Lentz (Harold, illustrator). The “Pop-Up” Pinocchio, Being the Life and Adventures of a Wooden Puppet Who Finally Became a Real Boy, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1932, four double-page colour pop-up plates, black and white illustrations throughout, third popup with repair of closed tear to Clown’s foot, 2 leaves at front of volume partially adhered together at gutter margin, a few gatherings with sewing exposed at gutter, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial boards, spine with faint vertical crease, dust jacket, extremities lightly frayed with some small loss, two closed tears to head of panels, faint damp stain to foot of spine, small 4to (1)

£200 - £400

637 Manuscript storybook. Comprising a collection of seven illustrated children’s adventure stories written in manuscript, early 20th century, 157 pages on 79 leaves neatly written in the same hand on laid paper, general title not present, with numerous wellexecuted illustrations hand-coloured in watercolour throughout volume, contents leaf bearing names in pencil of Miss Florence Gray, Bololph House, Winslow, Bucks and L. C. Chapman(?), St. Mildreds, Surbiton to upper margin, some light toning and occasional minor finger-soiling, marbled endpapers, later blue cloth by Birdsall of Northampton, small 4to (20.3 x 16 cm)

The stories within the volume comprise The Children’s Adventures in the Forest (59 pictures); The Wonderful Adventures of Charlie & Madge (56 pictures); The Fairy Door (59 pictures); The Adventures of the Mouse Family (43 pictures); The History of Bobby Benson (60 Pictures); The Prince & His Fairy Belt (140 pictures); and The Adventures of a White Kitten (73 pictures). (1) £150 - £200

638 McLoughlin Bros (Publishers). Pantomime Toy Books, Blue Beard and Sleeping Beauty, New York, circa 1875, both with 10 pages of text, chromolithograph theatre to centre, with illustrations of various sizes, some closed tears and previous repairs to Sleeping Beauty theatre background, some spotting, gutter reinforced in places, hinges reinforced, Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedowns, both recent cloth rebacked, original publisher’s pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities, 4to, together with Westhausser (Louis, publisher). La Tête à 8 corps, transformations du déserter, mirifiques Jean Dératé, Paris, circa 1899, with 4 colour lithographed plates, oval hole in book showing a moulded face in high relief, defective and lacking plates, plates present comprising: Riding a Horse (lacking text page, lower corner of plate sliced and lacking), A la Gare, Le Cycliste (closed repair to lower corner), and A la Frontiere, gutter reinforced in places, hinges cracked, decorative endpapers to front, cloth-backed pictorial upper board, 4to, plus Country Pleasures, Father Tuck’s Woolly-Woolly lifelike series, some restoration to edges of title-page, juvenile colouring to front pastedown illustration, hinges reinforced, oblong 4to

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£150 - £200

639* Meggendorfer (Lothar). Bewegliche Schattenbilder, II Vorstellung, München: Braun & Schneider, [1887], 8 plates of silhouette figures with moveable elements, all tabs present (except plate 2), mainly in working order (plate 5 a little stiff, some pivots pins missing), plate 1 partially detached from gutter, text leaves with some offsetting including from pivot pins, part of lower hinge cracked, cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed with some loss, cloth spine with remnants of original paper spine laid down, 4to, together with Princess Rose-Petal and her Adventures, London: H. Grevel & Co, circa 1900, six coloured moveable plates, four tabs present, third plate lacking one man's head, first two leaves detached, previous presentation inscription to title-page dated '1901', some toning to edges, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, head of upper joint splitting, oblong 4to (17)

£300 - £500

Lot 638

640 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Always Jolly! A Movable Toybook, London: H. Grevel & Co., circa 1889, eight full-page hand-coloured plates with tab mechanisms, some tabs replaced, all tabs working (seventh a little stiff), endpapers renewed, front endpaper preserving previous presentation inscription dated 1889, minor offsetting from pivot pins, small paper abrasion affecting a few letters on page 4, some closed tears to tab openings, original clothbacked pictorial boards, darkened, small loss to lower corner of upper board, 4to, housed in modern slipcase (1)

£100 - £150

641 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Comic Actors, London: H. Grevel & Co., [1891], title from cover, eight colour illustrations with movable parts operated by levers, character in first movable plate lacking newspaper, first page partially detached from gutter, first gathering detached, gutter reinforced in places, adhesive on verso of final illustration perished, some minor spotting, pull tabs all present, movable parts on final illustration stiff, folio Montanaro, p. 59 and Osborne, p. 419. (1)

£200 - £300

642 Meggendorfer (Lothar, illustrator). Für Brave Kinder, 7th edition, Munchen: Braun & Schneider, circa 1888, 8 coloured lithographs each with moveable elements, all working with tab (some renewed), first plate gutter reinforced, light offsetting from pivot pins, Dawson ex libris and Fritz ? Homburg stamps to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a few small water stains to upper board, light rubbing to extremities, 4to, housed in custom-made modern slipcase (1)

£300 - £500

643 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Scenes in the Life of a Masher, London: H. Grevel and Co., [1894], title from cover, eight colour illustrations with movable parts operated by card tabs, all tabs in working order, ‘On the River’ illustration with broken oar, ‘At the Club’ illustration with part of snooker cue missing, some closed tears, creases and spotting to pages, gutter reinforced, ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson stamp and updated publisher’s stamp to front pastedown, original publisher’s half red cloth backed pictorial boards, updated publisher’s label laid over original, some marks, spine faded, folio Montanaro, p. 269-70.

Scarce. (1)

£300 - £500

644 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Tricks of Naughty Boys, a series of amusing transformation scenes, London: H. Grevel & Co., circa 1889, 6 chromolithograph transformational plates, operated by tabs (renewed), first plate lacking tab and only one picture present, second plate with lower part of margin and border replaced, closed tears repaired with adhesive tape, hinges reinforced, previous presentation inscription dated 1899 and Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor marks, some rubbing to extremities, some spotting to spine, folio, housed in modern slipcase

Rare. The last copy sold at auction in 2004. (1)

£300 - £500

645 Milne (A. A.). Now We Are Six, with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, 1st edition, 1927, black and white illustrations throughout, top edge gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine faded to brown, small portion of dust-soiling to rear panel, 8vo, with small broadside advertising ‘The Original Drawings by Ernest H. Shepard illustrating “Now We Are Six”’ at the The Sporting Gallery, Covent Garden (2) £300 - £400

646 Milne (A. A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, deluxe, London: Methuen & Co, 1928, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, all edges gilt, original publisher’s pictorial red leather, remnants of glassine wrapper, 8vo, contained in original publisher’s box, printed title labels to upper cover and edge, lightly spotted, some wear to extremities (1)

£500 - £800

647 Milne (A. A.). The Secret and other Stories, New York: The Fountain Press; London: Methuen and Company Ltd., 1929, Milne’s signature to half-title, original cloth, torn remnants of plain dust jacket retained, slim 8vo (limited signed edition 563/742), together with: Milne (A. A.). Those were the Days, The Day’s Play, The Holiday Round, Once a Week, The Sunny Side, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929, printed on India paper throughout, Milne’s signature to verso of title, early gilt inscription to upper pastedown ‘Mary, from Auntie Vera, 1931’, original cloth, light fading to spine and head of boards, 8vo (limited signed edition 200/250), Milne (A. A.). The Pooh Calendar, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1930], 13 leaves printed on thin card (including title), illustrated by E. H. Shepard, manuscript to verso of February leaf, occasional light spotting, leaves tied together at head, 8vo (leaf size 26 x 19 cm), plus Milne (A. A. & Fraser-Simson, H.). The Hums of Pooh, Lyrics by Pooh, decorations by E. H. Shepard, additional lyric by Eeyore, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929, musical notation and illustrated throughout, original pictorial boards in dust jacket, lightly frayed to extremities, slim 4to (4)

£300 - £400

648 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928, black & white illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, slightly browned patch to decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original red cloth with gilt decoration, some slight fading to edge of boards, dust jacket, some small water stains, very small nicks to spine ends, 8vo, together with Now We Are Six, 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1927, black & white illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, half title page toned, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original red cloth with gilt decoration, edges slightly bumped, 8vo, and When We Were Very Young, 16th edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1927, black & white illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, half title page toned, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue cloth with gilt decoration, 8vo (3)

£200 - £300

649 Milne (Alan Alexander). Winnie-The-Pooh and the Bees, circa 1952, four double-page colour pop-up plates, colour illustrations throughout, first pop-up with minor repair to bridge, third pop-up with some creases (3 characters) which have been strengthened to verso, presentation inscription to title-page in black ink, some offsetting to title and last leaf, original spiralbound pictorial boards, slight edge wear and toning to margins, together with Winnie-The Pooh and Eeyore’s Tail. a pop-up picture book, [1953], four double-page colour pop-up plates, colour illustrations throughout, first pop-up with some minor closed tears to tree trunk and Little Roo (with small repair to verso), slight offsetting to title and last leaf, original spiral-bound pictorial boards, slight edge wear and toning to margins, 8vo (2)

£150 - £200

650 Nash (John, editor). The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, with an Introduction by the Earl of Cranbrook, Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972, colour and black & white illustrations, original leather-backed patterned boards with gilt-titled spine in slipcase (slightly rubbed), small folio, (limited edition, this copy unnumbered, signed by the artist John Nash), together with: Poole (Monica), The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, 1st edition, Gresham Books, 1985, colour frontispiece, black & white plates, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus Russell (Judith, editor), The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, 1st edition, Scolar Press, 1993, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus Lawrence (Peter, editor), 2020 Vision. Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artist Who Inspired Them, Compiled and Introduced by Nigel Hamway, Nomad Letterpress & The Society of Wood Engravers, 2020, colour and black & white illustrations including some tipped in, original cloth-backed patterned boards in slipcase, folio, (limited edition, 36/340 copies) and other wood engravers interest including 2 paperbacks (11)

£150 - £200

651 Nesbit (Edith). The Railway Children, 1st edition, London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1906, half-title, pictorial title and 20 black & white plates including frontispiece by C. E. Brock, 10 pages publisher’s advertisements at rear, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, presentation inscription to free front endpaper dated Feb 22. 1907, original gilt blocked maroon cloth, cloth lifting slightly along joints, slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo (1)

£500 - £800

652 Nielsen (Kay, illustrator). A l’Est du Soleil et a l’Ouest de la Lune. Contes Anciens du Nord, recueillis par Edmond Pilon, Paris: H. Piazza, [1919], 24 mounted colour plates, light marginal toning, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in contemporary green half morocco, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to

Limited edition 121/1500. (1)

£200 - £300

653 Nielsen (Kay, illustrator). In Powder and Crinoline, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Bookman Portfolio 1913, 2 mounted colour plates (Minon Minette & The Twelve Dancing Princesses) contained in original printed portfolio, together with The Bookman Portfolio 1914, 3 mounted colour plates by Hugh Thomson, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen, original printed portfolio, together with 20 others illustrated including Fairy Tales, by William Hauff, illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon, Ernest Nister, circa 1910, The Indian Story Book, retold by Richard Wilson, illustrated by Frank C. Pape, 1914, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, illustrated by Warwick Goble, 1926 reprint Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves, Peepshow book, illustrated by Ionicus, circa 1947, and 2 titles from the small format Japanese Fairy Tales Series (numbers 5 & 12) (22)

£100 - £200

654 Nister (Ernest, publisher). Nister’s Panorama Pictures, [1894], 5 double-page chromolithograph pop-ups, all intact, except third pop-up small repair to verso of girl, gutter restrengthened, some leaves frayed with some creases and a few small closed tears to margins, patterned endpapers, hinges repaired, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing and staining, 4to, together with What The Children Like, with an introduction by F. E. Weatherly, circa 1897, 5 double-page chromolithograph pop-ups, all intact (second pop-up with strengthening to verso of horse’s tail), patterned endpapers, Dawson’s ex libris book label and previous presentation inscription on a cream label dated 1899 laid down onto front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing and staining, 4to, and The Soldier Panorama Book, A novel Colour Book for Children with an introduction by Clifton Bingham, circa 1904, five double-page chromolithograph pop-ups, second pop-up with small closed tear to horses side, fourth pop-up with closed tear to base, final pop-up with loss to end of two guns, scuff to small area in centre of double page, leaves of third pop-up detached, decorative endpapers, inner hinge strengthened, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing with some small areas of loss, 4to (3)

£150 - £200

655 Nister (Ernest, publisher). Pleasant Pastime Pictures, a book of transformation scenes, circa 1894, 6 chromolithograph pages with transformative illustrations, all pull tabs present, fifth illustration with some old adhesive to edges, front free endpaper detached at top, hinges cracked, upper hinge with old adhesive mark, Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, upper board with small water stain to lower right edge, 8vo, together with three other transformation and pop-up books published by Nister, together with Our Peepshow, with an introduction by F.E. Weatherly, 3 double-page chromolithographic pop-up plates, some closed tears and chips, gutter reinforced in places, decorative endpapers, hinges reinforced, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine reinforced, some rubbing, square 8vo and two other books published by Nister with defects, comprising: In and Out and Roundabout, circa 1896, 4 chromolithograph pages with transformative illustrations (lacking two pages), four vignettes of cats by Louis Wain present, and Peep Bo Pictures [1898], 5 of 6 chromolithograph pages with transformative illustrations present, square 8vo (4)

£100 - £150

Lot 652

Lot 654

Lot 655

656 Nister (Ernest, publisher). The Land of Long Ago, A Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty, circa 1898, 6 chromolithograph full page pop-up scenes, third pop-up scene with one support detached, gutter reinforced in places, inner hinge splitting, decorative endpapers, Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities and stains to rear board, oblong 4to, together with Our Darlings’ Suprise Pictures, [1895], 8 chromolithograph slatted moveable plates, all in working order, some with repaired closed tears to lower margins, decorative endpapers, inner hinge splitting, Dawson ex libris stamp to upper free front endpaper, original clothbacked pictorial boards, 4to, plus three other pop-up or transformative books published by Nister, comprising: Something New for Little Folk, Peeps into Fairy Land, and The Model Menagerie, few with minor defects i.e. lacking free front endpaper, renewed endpapers, etc., 4to

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£200 - £300

657 Nister (Ernest, publisher). Pretty Pictures, verses by L.L. Weedon, pen and ink illustrations by E. Stuart Hardy, circa 1903, 5 double-page pop-up chromolithograph plates, gutter reinforced, neat hand-colouring to some illustrations, decorative endpapers, ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed to extremities, 4to, together with The Robins at Home, with an Introduction by Fred E. Weatherley, [1896], four double-page pop-up chromolithograph plates, one or two minor creases, letterpress illustrations, patterned endpapers, previous ownership inscription in pencil dated 1897 and Megan & Michael Dawson ex libris book label to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, title-page and first leaf detached, final pop-up page detached and lacking a cut-out figure, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, plus two further pop-up books comprising: The Model Menagerie, text block loose and detached from spine, circa 1895, oblong 4to, and Robinson Crusoe, n.p., 4to

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£150 - £200

658 Pogany (Willy, illustrator). The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T.W.Rolleston, London: G. G. Harrap, [1913], 4 mounted colour plates, illustrations throughout, brown cloth with tooled and gilt decoration, spine with title etc. in gilt, 4to, together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, Copenhagen: Peter Hansens Forlag, 1st Danish edition, 1905, 50 full colour tipped-in plates (including frontispiece), each with captioned tissue guards, limitation to verso of title-page 138/250 copies, Rackham’s press-stamped signature below, toning to edge of title-page, top edge gilt, original green cloth with gilt decoration, spine with gilt, large 4to, plus Robinson (W. Heath). Bill the Minder, London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1912, 16 mounted colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, letterpress illustrations, some full-page, original gilt decorated green cloth, colour illustration mounted to upper cover, spine faded, 4to, and two others comprising: The Child’s Christmas, illustrated by Charles Robinson, and A Flower Wedding, illustrated by Walter Crane, both 4to (5)

£200 - £300

Lot 657

659 Pop-Up Book. Tony Sarg’s Treasure Book, Rip Van Winkle, Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island, New York: B.F. Jay, 1942, 22 page text block with some moveable elements and threedimensional scenery, all moveable elements working, (missing Jim’s letter, and the moveable moon/gnome’s face), previous owner’s inscription and Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, original cloth-backed three dimensional box boards, colour pictorial labels laid onto boards, small hole to lower right corner of netting on upper board, rubbing to extremities, spine with some fraying and spotting, 4to, housed in custom-made box (1)

£100 - £150

660 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, London: F. Warne & Co, 1908, half-title, colour frontispiece, colour illustrations, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, a few faint handling marks to margins, original green boards with inset pictorial panel to front cover, lightly rubbed and bumped, 16mo Linder, p. 427; Quinby 14. (1)

£200 - £300

661 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, London: Frederick Warne and Co, circa 1914, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, a few minor marks, and some foxing (mostly to edges), pictorial endpapers, original green boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, in original printed glassine wrapper, slightly toned, edges chipped and frayed in places, 16mo

For the first edition see Linder, p. 427; Quinby 13.

In the rarely-found 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. The dustjacket was usually discarded by the buyer or, in some cases, returned to the bookseller, marked up to indicate which books the customer was interested in purchasing next. Where the wrapper was retained by the reader it rarely survived subsequent handling, and consequently copies are now very rarely encountered with the glassine intact. The dustjacket provides fascinating information about Beatrix Potter’s books and related merchandise as well as showing the book in its most original and complete form. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

662 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley, signed limited edition, London: William Heinemann, [1922], signed by Rackham to limitation page, 4 fullpage colour illustrations, 16 smaller black and white illustrations, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, original black buckram-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, a few light spots to boards, 4to, contained in custom maroon-backed slipcase, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt

Limited edition, 119/175 copies.

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£300 - £500

663 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906, mounted colour frontispiece and 48 plates with printed captions to tissue guards, verso of half-title and front free endpaper with contemporary inscription, some spotting to text, original giltblocked cloth, 4to, together with: Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, London: J. M. Dent & Co; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907, mounted colour frontispiece and 23 plates by Rackham with printed captions to tissue guards, monochrome plates and illustrations to text, half-title and verso of frontispiece with contemporary inscription, some spotting, top edge gilt remainder untrimmed, original gilt-blocked green cloth, 4to, Hatherell (William, illustrator). Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], mounted colour frontispiece and 21 plates with printed captions to tissue guards, occasional scattered spotting, original blocked cloth, 4to, plus other similar illustrated volumes (26)

£200 - £300

664 Rackham (Arthur, Illustrated). The Ring of the Niblung: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie and Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Amour, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1939, 48 colour plates including frontispieces, black and white illustrations, pictorial endpapers, edges foxed (occasionally encroaching into margins), original teal cloth, dust jacket present, edges frayed and chipped in places, tear to head of spine with associated slight loss to front panel, 4to, together with Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, New Edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, circa 1912, 50 colour plates, with printed tissue guards, 7 black and white plates (one detached), free endpapers toned, original gilt decorated green cloth (gilt to spine slightly dulled), 4to, plus Some British Ballads, London: Constable & Co., circa 1920, 16 tipped-in colour plates, rough-trimmed edges foxed, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine faintly sunned, 8vo, and four other illustrated books comprising: The Book of Old English Songs and Ballads, illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, [1915]; Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, illustrated by Margaret Cook, 1913; Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, illustrated by W. Hatherell, [1913]; and The Work of George W. Joy, 1904, (preliminaries loose), all 4to (7)

£200 - £300

665 Rackham (Arthur, illustrated). The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith, signed limited edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1929, signed by the artist to limitation page, 12 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s vellum gilt, a few light marks, 4to

Limited edition, 129/200 of the American issue.

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£200 - £300

Lot 662

Lot 664

Lot 665

666 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Dish of Apples by Eden Phillpotts, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921, mounted colour frontispiece, two mounted colour illustrations, all with tissueguards, further black and white illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, previous presentation inscription to A1 ‘Gertrude from A.D.B & C.E.B Xmas 1921’, original publisher’s pictorial cloth, 8vo, together with The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, New York: Heritage Press, 1940, 12 colour illustrations, original blue cloth boards with gilt decoration, title in gilt to spine, spine ends faded, dust jacket, chipped with some loss to lower rear panel, 8vo, plus Housman (Clemence, illustrator). The Blue Moon by Laurence Housman, London: John Murray, 1904, black and while illustrations throughout, previous presentation inscription to front free endpaper, original publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine, 8vo, and 12 other children’s illustrated books including: The WaterBabies, 1915; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1923; The Way of Ecben, 1929, (with part of original glassine wrapper); Mickey et Minnie, etc., mainly 8vo (15)

668 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, London: William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday Page and Co., [1907], 13 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, occasional light offsetting and spotting, some toning to end[paperrs, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, spine slightly toned, a few small marks and stains to covers, 4to

Limited edition, 166/1130 copies. Riall p. 77.

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£150 - £200

£600 - £800

667 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Dish of Apples, by Eden Phillpotts, signed limited edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921, signed by the author and illustrator to limitation page, 3 mounted colour illustrations, 12 black and white illustrations, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, original pictorial cream cloth gilt, lightly marked and spotted, 8vo

Limited edition, 19/500 copies. (1) £200 - £300

669 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). English Fairy Tales retold by F. A. Steel, Large Paper edition, New York: Macmillan, 1918, 16 mounted colour plates (each with captioned tissue-guards), pictorial endpapers, hinges cracked (with sympathetic restoration with archival paper), top edge gilt, original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, some wear and marks, 4to

Limited edition, 82/250 copies.

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£200 - £300

670 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen, signed limited edition, London: George G. Harrap, 1936, signed by Rackham to limitation, 12 mounted colour plates (with captioned tissue guards), illustrated endpapers, further smaller black and white illustrations, occasional light spotting, illustrations with faint damp-stains to outer margins (not affecting images), original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, some faint marks, some chafing to spine, 4to

Limited edition, 325/460 copies.

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672 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, signed limited edition, London: George C. Harrap, 1933, signed by Rackham to limitation page, 8 full-page colour plates, further black and white illustrations (some full-page), portions uncut, some preliminary and rear leaves spotted, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s full vellum gilt, a few light marks, backstrip toned, 8vo

Limited edition, 361/460 copies.

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£300 - £500

£300 - £500

673 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, signed limited edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1907, signed by Rackham to limitation leaf, 24 mounted colour plates (with captioned tissue guards), 12 tinted plates, further small black and white illustrations in-text, pictorial endpapers, lightly toned with a few light spots, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, tie detached and loosely inserted, a few light marks, 4to

Limited edition, 54/560 copies.

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£300 - £500

£200 - £300

671 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 7th edition, 1910, 50 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue-guard, some overall spotting mainly to preliminaries, rebacked, retaining original gilt decorated red cloth, original spine laid down, rubbed, 4to, together with Aesop’s Fables, 1912, plus Robinson (W. Heath). The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley, London: Constable & Company Limited, 1915, 8 colour plates, black and white illustrations throughout, hinges cracked, some spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, rubbed, 4to, and Wilde (Oscar). A House of Pomegranates, London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915, 16 tipped in colour illustrations, some overall spotting, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers toned, original gilt decorated blue cloth, slightly faded, spine faded, head of spine fraying, 4to, with 15 others including: Nister’s Panorama Pictures, Mother Goose illustrated by Kate Greenaway, etc., mainly 8vo or 4to (18)

Lot 670

Lot 672

Lot 673

674 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, signed limited edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1907, signed by Rackham to limitation leaf, 24 mounted colour plates (with captioned tissue guards), 12 tinted plates, further small black and white illustrations in-text, pictorial endpapers, contemporary mounted gift inscription on card to front blank, leaves occasionally lightly toned with a few spots, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, tie lacking, a few light marks, 4to

Limited edition, 428/560 copies.

Riall, p. 83.

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£300 - £500

675 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin, signed limited edition, London: George Harrap & Co, 1932, 4 full-page colour illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s limp vellum gilt, 8vo, contained in original slipcase, 339 of 570 copies, together with: Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1911, 24 mounted colour illustrations, lengthy gift inscription in blue ink to front blank, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s pictorial full vellum gilt, lightly rubbed and marked, lacking ribbon, 4to, plus Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends, Mirth & Marvels, 1st edition thus, London: J. M. Dent, 1907, mounted colour illustrations (each with tissue-guard), further tinted and black and white illustrations (both full-page and in-text), hinges slightly tender, original publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt, some wear with loss at foot of spine, rubbed and marked, 4to, with Little Brother & Little Sister, and other tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1st edition thus, London: Constable & Co, 1917, 12 mounted colour illustrations, further black and white illustrations, a few light spots, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, 4to (4)

£200 - £300

676 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Springtide of Life, poems of childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne with a preface by Edmund Gosse, London: William Heinemann, 1918, 8 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue-guards, black & white illustrations throughout, decorative endpapers, some spotting to endpapers, original green cloth with gilt decoration, cloth slightly lifting in places mainly to lower board, 4to, together with The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1929, 12 tipped-in colour plates, presentation inscription to title-page dated ‘May 1931’, decorative endpapers, slightly toned, original blue cloth with gilt title and decoration, spine toned, some rubbing to extremities, 4to, plus The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore L.L.D., illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931, 2 tipped-in colour plates, decorative endpapers, original red boards, spine faded, slim 8vo, and 17 other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including: Peer Gynt (lacking one colour plate), Aesop’s Fables, The Ingoldsby Legends, Tales from Shakespeare, A Christmas Carol, King Albert’s Book, The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, Princess Mary’s Gift Book, Peter Pan, Children’s Treasury of Great Stories., etc, 4to (20)

£200 - £300

677 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Springtide of Life, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1918, signed by Rackham to limitation page, 9 mounted colour illustrations (with tissue-guards), first few preliminary and rear leaves damp-stained (mostly at foot), original publisher’s pictorial vellum-backed boards, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, foot of covers damp-stained, some toning and wear at head of upper cover, 4to

Limited edition, 616/795 copies.

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£150 - £200

678 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, Deluxe limited edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1951, frontispiece and 11 tipped-in colour plates, tipped-in bookplate at front, top edge gilt, contemporary green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with circular design in gilt incorporating dragonflies, swifts, butterflies and flora, fillet and foliate borders with fish motif corner pieces, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, 4to

Deluxe limited edition 261/500 copies, sumptuously bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

Riall p. 200: ‘Published originally by the Limited Editions Club with 16 colour illustrations, and was not published in England until 1950 by Methuen. This is the 1st deluxe issue with the text illustrations’.

Originally issued in white full vellum gilt with slipcase. ‘This book was first issued in October 8th, 1908, since when it has been reprinted in a variety of editions, illustrated and unillustrated, 99 times. This one hundredth edition, published in 1951, is printed on handmade paper and is limited to 500 copies...’ (limitation page).

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£1,000 - £1,500

679 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Undine, signed limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1909, signed by Rackham to limitation page, 15 mounted colour plates (with captioned tissueguards), smaller black and white illustrations in-text, pencilled gift inscription to blank frontispiece verso, original publisher’s pictorial vellum gilt, lacking ties, some light toning and marks, 4to

Limited edition, 181/1000 copies.

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£200 - £300

680 Robinson (William Heath, illustrator). Shakespeare’s Comedy of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, London: Constable & Co., 1914, 12 tipped-in colour plates, monochrome illustrations, short closed marginal tear to p. 113, scattered light spotting, original green pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed at spine ends, 4to, together with A Song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 30 tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, front hinge a little tender, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little faded, 4to (2)

£100 - £150

681 Robinson (William Heath, illustrator). Shakespeare’s Comedy of Twelfth Night or What You Will, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908], tipped-in colour plates, ownership inscription at front, original decorative cloth gilt, a little rubbed and slightly faded on spine, 4to, together with: Nash (John, illustrator), Seven Short Stories by Walter de la Mare, London: Faber & Faber, 1931, 8 colour plates, partly untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Bone (Stephen & Adshead, Mary), The Little Boy and His House, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1967, colour illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and soiled, chipped at head of spine, small folio, plus Piper (John), Buildings and Prospects, 1st edition, London: Architectural Press, 1948, double-page colour lithographic frontispiece and title, half tone plates, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed, small folio, plus other mostly cloth-bound early to mid 20th-century illustrated books (approx. 100)

£200 - £300

682 Robinson (William Heath, illustrator). Shakespeare’s Comedy of Twelfth Night or What You Will, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908}, 40 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, covers a little bowed, 4to Limited edition, 104/350 copies, signed by the artist. (1)

£300 - £400

683 Shepard (Ernest H, illustrator). Cheddar Gorge, A Book of English Cheeses, edited by John Squire, signed limited edition, London: Collins, 1937, signed to limitation by both editor and illustrator, full-page illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original yellow buckram gilt, marked and some soiling, 4to, together with: Carroll (Lewis). The Hunting of the Snark, an agony, in eight fits, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co, 1876, 9 full-page illustrations by Henry Holiday, neat ownership inscriptions to head of front blank, original pictorial brown cloth, lacking half of backstrip, rubbed, 8vo, plus Drayton (Michael). Nimphidia, The Court of the Fayrie, newly printed from the folio of 1627, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1924, contemporary green morocco-backed boards, spine worn, 12mo, with 22 other children’s and illustrated books (25)

£200 - £300

Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, London: Cassell & Company, 1911, 12 mounted colour illustrations by John Cameron (each with captioned tissue-guards), smaller black and white illustrations in-text, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original pictorial full vellum, lightly marked and toned, 8vo

Limited to 250 copies, this one out of series numbered ‘0000’. (1)

£150 - £200

£200 - £300

684 Spring-Heeled Jack. Selection of rare “Spring-Heeled Jack” one-penny pulp comics by Aldine Publishing, 1904, including #1 “Man or Fiend”, #2 “A Mystery of Mysteries”, #5 “The Price of Guilt” and #7 “A Leap for Liberty”, front cover designs by Robert Prowse and text by Charlton Lea, author of “The Dick Turpin Tales”, illustrations by C.H. Blake, all complete but worn in places with some loss, covers detached and many loose pages, together with 9 issues of Dick Turpin penny dreadful comics, #41, 42, 45, 53, 54, 61, 62, 63 and 66, some covers and other pages missing, some loss Inspired by a Victorian-era urban legend, this British penny dreadful series features a heroic bat-winged avenger of the night, and was a precursor to several pulp and comic book characters. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Cowan, received complaints from several parts of London describing a demonic creature with eyes like balls of fire and hands like icy claws, and able to bound from roof-top to roof-top with ease. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in London in 1837, and the last in Liverpool in 1904. The Duke of Wellington, although aged nearly 70 went out armed on horseback to hunt and kill the monster. The Army in 1870 set traps to catch him after scared sentries reported being terrified by a man who sprang onto the roof of their sentry box. For a while, suspicion rested on the eccentric young Marquis of Waterford, who was considered ‘wild’ by Victorian society. (13)

685

£150 - £200

686 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, Puffin Cut-out Book, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1953, 8 full colour leaves, including wrappers, adapted and designed for the Toy Theatre by Geoffrey Robinson, complete and uncut, 27 x 38 cm, together with Dahl (Roald). James and the Giant Peach, 1st edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1961], colour and monochrome illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, green endpapers, original red blindstamped cloth, 8vo, plus Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Bookman, a portfolio of pictures illustrating poems by Edgar Allan Poe, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929, 4 tipped-in colour plates, original wrappers, illustrated label laid on upper wrapper, slim folio, and 46 other illustrated children’s books, including: Mr Visconti, an extract from Travels with my Aunt, drawings by Edward Ardizzone, 1969, Blackie’s Children’s Annual, [1917], Jim and the Beanstalk, 1970, Gentleman Jim, 1980, Fungus the Bogeyman, 1977, And to Think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, 1971, The First Circus, 1932, Three Old Favourites, etc., various sizes, mainly slim 4to (1 box)

687 Stone (Reynolds). The Old Rectory. Seventeen Engravings by Reynolds Stone, London: Litton Cheney Press for Warren Editions, 1976, wood-engraved title and colophon, 17 woodengravings, each numbered and signed in pencil, each tipped into hinged card mounts, all contained in original cloth gilt box (spine faded), 4to

Limited edition, 17/150 copies. ‘In addition to superb examples of craftsmanship and design, Reynolds Stone has done a number of wood engravings that record his delight in the trees and streams that surround his home. He has put his heart into them and I think they are the most beautiful things he has done. Seventeen of the original engravings are available in this perfectly produced portfolio’ (Kenneth Clark). (1)

£800 - £1,200

688 Takejiro Hasegawa, publisher. A collection of 10 assorted titles, 1890s-1900s, including Japanese Topsyturvydom, by E. S. Patton, T. Hasegawa, Tokyo, [1896], colour illustrations on crepe paper, light spotting to upper cover, small 4to, together with A Day with Mitsu, by Mary G. Kimura, T. Hasegawa, circa 1894, colour illustrations on crepe paper, a few light spots, 4to, with 8 others including Japanese Fairy Tales Series, No. 24, The Old Woman who Lost Her Dumpling, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, circa 1902, The Months of Japanese Ladies Calendar for 1903, and 1904, Rhymes & Life Scenes of Japan Calendar for 1903, the Children’s Japan, by W. H. Smith, 2nd edition, circa 1912 (10)

£200 - £300

689 Thames Tunnel. Folding telescopic peepshow, printed by Azulay, circa 1851, five-sections, four hand-coloured, explanatory text to left, bound concertina style with paper, small hole and closed tear to second join and some minor offsetting, first section with paper reinforcements to verso, some soiling, hinges cracked, original cloth-backed boards (small area of upper board showing top right), printed label with title to upper cover, some wear, 12 x 17 cm, housed in custom-made folder with ties (1) £100 - £150

690 Thomas De La Rue & Co. (publishers). A collection of 5 illustrated books, 1880s, comprising The Fairy Horn, by S. Theyre Smith, Clever Hans, by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by J. Lawson, Rumpelstiltskin, by George R. Halkett, The Baby’s “Debut.”, by J. Smith, illustrated by G. A. Konstam, E. Casella, and N. Casella, The Maypole, illustrated by G. A. Konstam, E. Casella and N. Casella, colour illustrations, advertisements, occasional light offsetting, original wrappers, all bound in contemporary brown half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, together with Caldecott (Randolph). The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate; Come Lasses and Lads; Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury + A Farmer Went Trotting upon his Grey Mare; The Milkmaid; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; A Frog he Would A-Wooing Go; The Great Panjandrum Himself; An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex. Mrs Mary Blaize, R. Caldecott’s Picture Books series, 1870s-80s, colour illustrations, occasional light spotting and offsetting, all bound in contemporary half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, oblong 4to, with others illustrated including 6 illustrated books mostly illustrated by W. J. Hodgson, 1880s, bound together, Baby’s Own Aesop, by Walter Crane, 1887, Familiar Rhymes from Mother Goose, illustrated by Chester Loomis, Ernest Nister, 1888, Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games, [1889], The Story of the Treasure Seekers, by E. Nesbit, 1899, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin, by W. Heath Robinson, 1902 (lacking front endpaper), and Uncle Remus, illustrated by Rene Bull, circa 1906 (17)

£150 - £200

691 Tidcombe (Marianne). The Doves Press, Published by the British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2002, numerous illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, together with: Cave (Roderick & Manson, Sarah), A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960, published by the British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2002, colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, plus Peterson (William S.), The Kelmscott Press. A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1991, printed in red and black, black & white illustrations, a little spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, plus other private press interest and some limited editions, mostly mid 20th century, various bindings and sizes (approx. 80)

£300 - £400

692 Tuck (Raphael & Sons, publishers). Father Tuck’s Express Train Panorama, circa 1910, colour lithograph, four panels folding out to show a railway platform scene with slots, 16 die-cut shaped figures, text to verso, final panel with integral envelope (some loss to side of envelope flap), some adhesive tape marks to edge of verso, some minor soiling, 26.8 x 30 cm, together with Coronation Procession Panorama, [1953], colour lithograph, four panels with 46 numbered slots, the backdrop depicting the road from the Palace towards Westminster Abbey, the final panel with integral envelope to verso, holding die-cut numbered figures to fit into slots, some rubbing to edges, previous juvenile ownership inscription and ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson stamp to verso, some minor rubbing to surface of lower right front panel, plus five other panorama’s published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, comprising: Road Travel, At the Seaside, Cinderella, Meadowsweet Farm, Dressing Dolls (reproduction box), and a facsimile copy of World’s Circus, and four moveables comprising: Days of Delight, More Fun for Everyone, In Playtime and Play and Pleasure (renewed endpapers), some with repairs, 4to (15)

£200 - £400

693 Upton (Florence). The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwogg”, [1895]; The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club, 1896; The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side, 1898; The Golliwogg’s Polar Adventures, 1900; The Golliwogg’s “Auto-Go-Cart”, 1901, colour illustrations, Polar Adventures textblock detached, a few other leaves detached with marginal tears, Sea-Side lacking front endpaper Auto-GoCart front endpaper with long vertical tear, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, some edge wear and stains, spines rubbed with some fading, small tear to Polar spine, oblong 4to, together with 7 others in the series including The Golliwogg’s Air-Ship, 1902, The Golliwogg’s Circus, 1903, The Golliwogg in Holland, 1904, The Golliwogg’s Fox-Hunt, [1905], and The Golliwogg’s Desert Island, [1906], in variable condition (12) £300 - £400

694 Upton (Florence). The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls, London: Longmans, Green & Co., [1895], colour illustrations throughout, additional pages 23* ,24*, 55*, and 56* reinserted and reguarded, decorative endpapers, some finger soiling, original cloth backed pictorial boards, some light creasing, rubbing to edges, together with 16 other stories from The Golliwogg series comprising: The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club, 1896 (x2); The Golliwogg at the SeaSide, 1898; The Golliwogg in War!, New Edition, 1903; The Golliwogg’s Polar Adventure, New Edition, 1903 (x2); The Golliwogg’s Auto-GoCart, 1901; The Golliwogg’s Air-Ship, 1902 (x2, one copy rubbed with water stain to rear board); The Golliwogg’s Circus, 1903 (x2); The Golliwogg in Holland, 1904; The Golliwogg’s Fox-Hunt, 1905; The Golliwogg’s Desert-Island, [1906]; The Gollywogg’s Christmas, 1907; Golliwogg African Jungle, 1909; some with presentation inscriptions in ink to title-page, decorative endpapers, all in original cloth backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities, all generally in good condition, oblong 4to, and The Adventures of Borbee and the Wisp by Florence K. Upton, 1908, slim 4to

Osborne, p. 83.

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£600 - £800

695 Upton (Florence). The Golliwogg’s Christmas, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1907, full-page colour illustrations, ownership stamp to front free endpaper, lightly offset, original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, rubbed and lighlty marked, oblong 4to, together with:

The Golliwogg’s Desert Island, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1906, full-page colour illustrations, neat nearcontemporary pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light dust-soiling, original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, head of backstrip torn and partly loose, marked with some staining, oblong 4to (2)

£200 - £300

696 Wain (Louis). A Cat Alphabet and Picture-Book for Little Folk, London: Blackie and Son, circa 1914, colour illustrations, a few small stains, some toning to endpapers, juvenile previous owner signature and pencil scribbles to rear pastedown, rear hinge tender, original cloth, upper cover with inset colour illustrations, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 8vo, together with Greenaway (Kate, illustrator). A Day in a Child’s Life, music by Myles B. Foster, London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881], colour illustrations, occasional minor marks, small presentation inscription, original cloth-backed boards, edges a little rubbed, 4to, plus Crane (Walter). Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers, London: Cassell and Company, 1889, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little toned, 4to, with 6 others illustrated including Marigold Garden, by Kate Greenaway, circa 1885, Afternoon Tea, by J. G. Sowerby and H. H. Emmerson, circa 1883, The A.’s and the K.’s or Twice Three is Six, illustrated by N. Parker, circa 1914, and Von Sonne, Mond und Sternen, by Lis Wenger-Ruutz, Stuttgart, circa 1907

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697 Wehr (Julian, illustrator). Animated! Mother Goose, Grosset and Dunlap, 1942, 4 full-page colour moveable plates (small repair to one), colour illustrations to text, lightly toned, faint edge spotting, title slightly detached at gutter, original spiral bound pictorial boards, spotted and somewhat soiled, oblong 4to, together with another 9 oblong 4to, one 4to, and 6 8vo books with animated pictures by Julian Wehr, 1943-1945, some generally minor creases and tears, few repairs, some books with ink manuscript ownership name, Noah’s Ark title nearly detached & following leaf detached, 2 copies of Toyland (one defective), original pictorial boards, Story Rhymes and Animated Animals with some splitting to spine, Rip Van Winkle cover nearly detached, 3 with dust jacket (some tears and losses), most books with small ex libris Megan and Michael Dawson ticket or ink stamp to upper corner inside front cover, Raggedy Ann and Andy with additional pictorial bookplates of Ray Powell and of Marjorie Moon, plus two books with animated pictures by George Zaffo: The Test Flight (with dust-jacket and with ink manuscript ownership name inside front cover), and Peter on the Paddle Boat, both oblong 4to

£300 - £400

The other titles not mentioned above are: Animated Circus Book, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, The Happy Little Choo-Choo, Gingerbread Boy, Wizard of Oz, Puss in Boots, Tinder Box, Tale of Peter Rabbit. (18)

£200 - £300

698 Williams (Clara Andrews). The House That Glue Built, New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1905, 7 chromolithograph interior home scenes, each scene with cut-outs laid down, last page with perforated edge lacking, juvenile pencil marks in pencil to front free endpaper, Dawson ex libris stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to extremities, oblong 4to, together with another edition of the same book published in 1910 (lacking perforated pages at rear), oblong 4to, and Davey (Doris - after Helen Waite). My Dolly’s Home. London: Arts and General Publishers, Limited, [1921], 8 pages of text followed by 50 full-page illustrations, showing various internal and external scenes, 8 cut-out figures contained in a pocket to rear pastedown, gutter reinforced in places, renewed front pastedown with Dawson ex libris stamp, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing, oblong 4to (3)

£200 - £300

699 Essex House Press. A Mornynge Remembraunce, compyled by the Reverent Fader in God, Johan Fysher Bishop of Rochester, Essex House Press, 1906, frontispiece by C. R. Ashbee, printed in red and black, original vellum, slight toning to spine, 8vo, presentation inscription at front 'Nina from Maur, August 1921', limited edition,67/125, together with The Hymn of Bardaisan, rendered into English by F. Crawford Burkitt, Essex House Press, 1899. woodcut initial, printed in red and black, unopened, original boards, spine a little toned, small indentations to rear cover, 8vo, limited edition of 300, plus The Picture of Kebes the Theban, Essex House Press, 1906, printed in red and black, bookplate of Thomas Edward and Catharine Hodgkin, original boards, 8vo, limited edition of 50, this copy presented to M(r) Enthoven, together with Ashbee (C.R., editor). The Manual of the Guild and School of Handicraft: being a guide to county councils and technical teachers, London: Cassell & Company, 1892, title with woodcut device of the Guild, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, light spotting to half-title, with an 8pp. printed Guild booklet extract loosely inserted at front, containing a Preface by G. F. Watts, introduction and course of lectures (pages numbered 9-[16]), and a 3pp. printed order form for the Guild's volume of Transactions loosely inserted at rear, uncut and untrimmed, original printed pale brown wrappers, in very good condition, 8vo, plus 4 others including A Bibliography of the Essex House Press... from the year 1898 to 1904, Essex House Press, 1904, Report on the Work of the Campden School of Arts and Crafts 1903-04, Essex House Press, 1904 anf Reprint of an Article in 'Handicraft' by Mr. Frederic Allen Whiting, Secretary of the Arts and Crafts Society of Boston, Massachusetts... Essex House Press, 1904, all ex-libris of John Avery

A Mornynge Remembraunce is inscribed by the Arts and Crafts etcher F. L. Griggs (1876-1938) to his wife Nina Griggs.

The Manual of the Guild and School of Handicraft provenance: John Avery, F.C.A., Woodford Green, Essex, with his printed label to inside front cover of the first volume, and to final leaf of the three printed booklets. Tomkinson 66, 3 & 71 respectively for the first three Essex House Press titles. (8) £300 - £400

700 Ashendene Press. T. Lucreti Cari De Rerium Natura Libri Sex, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1913, text printed in red and black, handdrawn initials to each part with the first laid in gold, original vellum backed over blue paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, 8vo (280 x 200 mm)

One of 85 copies printed on Ashendene Bachelor paper, of which only 65 were for sale. Hornby 27.

A bright, clean example.

(1) £4,000 - £6,000

701 Dante Alighieri. The New Life - La Vita Nuova, Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, pictured by Evelyn Paul with music by Alfred Mercer, [London]: George G. Harrap & Co, printed at the Cheylesmore Press [1915?], signed by the illustrator to limitation page, numerous gilt and coloured illustrations, top edge gilt, full vellum with gilt decoration to spine and upper cover, 4to Limited edition, 27/150 copies. (1)

£300 - £500

702 Drayton (Michael). Endimion & Phoebe, Ideas Latmus, Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1925, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original limp vellum gilt, silk ties, 8vo, together with:

O'Flaherty (Liam). The Ecstasy of Angus, London: Joiner and Steele for The Chiswick Press, 1931, signed by the author to limitation, lightly spotted, original green cloth gilt, original glassine dust jacket, paper flaps, chipped with small loss, 8vo, 145 of 365 copies, with Irving (Washington). Knickerbocker Papers, being Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, London: Medici Society, 1914, edges untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, with 21 others related (24)

£300 - £500

703 Essex House Press. A Book of Cottages and Little Houses for Landlords, Architects, Builders and Others: with suggestions as to cost, the housing difficulty, & the improvement of taste in these matters by C. R. Ashbee, M. A., Architect, Essex House Press, 1906, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations by F. L. Griggs, 29 halftone illustrations bound at rear (one or two small marginal stains), top edge gilt, original cream buckram gilt, spine s little toned with small stain, light marginal dust-soiling, small 4to, together with The Last Records of a Cotswold Community; Being the Weson Subedge Field Account Book for the Final Twenty-Six Years of the Famous Cotswold Games, Hitherto Unpublished, Essex House Press, 1904 Tomkinson 69 & 50 respectively. First work limited edition 36/50, issued on paper with the Essex House Press mark and reserved for subscribers to the Press, from a total edition of 250. (2)

£300 - £500

704 Essex House Press. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, relating to the conduct of human life, by William Penn, printed at the Essex House Press, under the care of C.R. Ashbee, published by Edward Arnold, 1901, title with wood engraved vignette by T. Sturge Moore, text printed in red and black, with decorative initials throughout, pencil inscription to front endpaper ‘Gift from Mia Griggs, Saturday 25 June 60. Ex libris FLG’, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary Arts & Crafts-style brown quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt, one or two minor marks, generally in very good condition, 8vo (binding 15 x 11 cm)

Provenance: Collection of F. L. Griggs (1876-1938), etcher and illustrator; gifted by Griggs’ widow to David Gould (1922 -2004), art dealer, connoisseur, and founder of the Taranman Gallery with Christopher Hewett. (1)

£300 - £500

Lot 701

Lot 703

Lot 704

705 Essex House Press. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio, divided into foure bookes very necessary and profitable for yonge gentilmen & gentilwomen abiding in cort, palaice, or place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby, Essex House Press, 1900, woocut initials ‘Alphabet of Bloomers’ designed by C. R. Ashbee, partly unopened, a few minor spots front and rear, original limp vellum gilt, silk ties, tiny closed tear to foot of spine, light dustsoiling to covers, 4to, limited edition 60/200, together with American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: Being a series of addresses mainly delivered in the United States, 1900-1901, Essex House Press, 1901, woodcut initials, preface leaf initial in red, original vellum gilt, 8vo, limited edition 296/300, plus Of the Imitation of Christ in Four Books by Thomas A Kempis, London: Keegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1898, title printed in red and black within woodcut border, wood-engraved illustrations, wood-engravings by Clemence Housman after Laurence Housman, light offsetting, original limp vellum gilt, lacking ties, light dust-soiling, 8vo,limited edition of 660

Tomkinson 12 & 21 for first two works.

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£300 - £400

706 Essex House Press. The Essex House Song Book, being the Collection of Songs formed for the Singers of the Guild of Handicraft by C. R. and Janet E. Ashbee, and edited by her, 10 parts in 2 volumes, London: Essex House Press, 1905, printed in red and black, woodcut initials, music score designed by Paul Woodroffe, edges untrimmed, original velum-backed paper boards, gilt lettering to spines, slightly marked, corners a little bumped, 4to

Limited edition, 146/200 copies.

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£300 - £400

707 Essex House Press. The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan, edited by Janet E. Ashbee, London: Essex House Press, 1899, title and text printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece by Reginald Savage, uncut, original vellum, yapp edges, small 8vo

Limited edition, 599/750 copies.

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£150 - £200

Lot 705

Lot 706

708 Essex House Press. The Poems of William Shakespeare, according to the text of the original copies, including the lyrics, songs, and snatches found in his dramas, London: Essex House Press, 1899, printed in red and black, wood-engraved plate by Reginald Savage, wood-engraved initials by C. R. Ashbee, original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, original ties, 4to, with two loosely inserted Essex House prospectuses Limited edition, 64/450 copies. Tomkinson 9.

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£300 - £500

709 Fleece Press. The Wood Engravings of Ethelbert White, by Hilary Chapman, Fleece Press, 1992, illustrations, original wrappers, two mounted wood-engravings, loose as issued, all contained in original solander box, 4to, limited edition of 200, together with Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, by Julian Francis, Fleece Press, 2012, 16 original monochrome prints, colour illustrations, loose prospectus, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase, 4to, limited edition of 210 special copies, plus Pen, Paper & a Box of Paints. Albert Rutherston, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson, Fleece Press, 2015, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, folio, limited edition of 250, with 7 other Fleece Press publications, including Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960, by Simon Brett, 1998, limited edition of 280, Moods and Tenses. The Portraits and Characters of Peter Reddick, by Ian Rogerson, 1999, limited edition of 220, Barnet Freedman. The Graphic Art, by Ian Rogerson, 2006, limited edition of 500, and Tone, Texture, Light and Shade. A Barnett Freedman Picture Album, 2011, limited edition of 250 (10)

711 The Fleece Press. The Inward Laugh, Edward Bawden and his circle, by Malcolm Yorke, printed in Upper Denby, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original half cloth over decorated boards, printed title on paper label laid onto spine, un-numbered copy of 750, folio, with later slipcase, together with Barnett Freedman, the graphic art, by Ian Rogerson, printed in Upper Denby, 2006, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original red cloth boards, printed title on paper label laid onto spine, CD to the rear pocket, un-numbered copy of 500, folio, with later slipcase, plus Dearest Joana, a selection of Joan Hassall’s lifetime letters and art, edited by Brian North Lee, 2 volumes, printed in Denby Dale, 2000, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original half cloth over marbled boards, printed title on paper laid onto spine, un-numbered copy of 300, folio, together in later slipcase, and Land, Sea and Sky by Peter Reddick, 2009 and Moods and Tenses, The Portraits and Characters of Peter Reddick by Ian Rogerson, 1999, small 4to (6) £200 - £300

£300 - £500

710 Fleece Press. Tirzah Garwood. Long Live Great Bardfield & Love to you all, her Autobiography, 1908-43, edited, and with biographical notes on the period 1943-51, by Anne Ullmann, Fleece Press, [2012], numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, bookplate of Eileen Garwood, original cloth-backed patterned boards, 4to

One of 550 copies. (1) £100 - £150

712 Golden Cockerel Press. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. A new translation by F. L. Lucas, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, woodengraved frontispiece, title vignette and border and 10 wood-engraved illustrations by Mark Severin, bookplate, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, folio, limited edition 230/750, together with Fleece Press. The Press, by Andrew Marvell, Fleece Press, 1984, wood-engravings by Peter Forster, original marbled wrappers, printed label to upper wrapper, 8vo, limited edition of 250, plus Thomas Turner’s Diary 1754-1763, Fleece Press, 1987, wood-engravings by Peter Forster, original wrappers, 8vo, limited edition of 330, with 2 others by the Press: Thomas Churchyard. The Whole Benefits that Paper Brings, written in 1588, 2002, limited edition of 285, and Think of a Poster, by Brian Webb, 2010, limited edition of 250 Tabor A17.

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£150 - £200

Lot 708

Lot 709

Lot 712

713 Golden Cockerel Press. Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947, wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland-Wright, occasional light spotting, tipped-in bookplate, top edge gilt, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with Cynthia, Goddess of the Moon by BucklandWright in gilt to covers, slipcase (a little rubbed to folds), small folio

Limited edition 10/100 specially bound copies, signed by the artist, from a total edition of 500.

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£1,000 - £1,500

Gregynog Press. Laboratories of the Spirit, by R. S. Thomas, Gregynog Press at the University of Wales Press, 1976, printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper, initials in red and blue, a little light spotting to a few early leaves, top edge gilt, original blue morocco by Sally Lou Smith (signed in initials to rear turn-in), covers with multi-coloured morocco onlays with gilt and silver geometric shapes (very small loss to one onlay to lower cover), 4 pp. prospectus (with folds) loosely inserted, contained in publisher’s morocco-backed solander box (spine faded), folio, 295 x 20 cm

Limited edition, copy number VIII/XV copies specially bound by Sally Lou Smith, signed by the poet, from a total edition of 215.

The first book under the revived imprint Gwasg Gregynog under the stewardship of Michael Hutchins, after the original Gregynog Press closed in 1940.

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£1,500 - £2,000

714

715 Gregynog Press. Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes. Selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784), edited and with an introduction by Gwyn Walters, Gregynog Press, Newtown, Powys, 2006, 19 colour woodcut plates by Rigby Graham, including 3 double-page, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, original turquoise morocco by James Brockman, covers with landscape design onlaid in multi-colours with gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt, with an additional suite of 23 colour woodcuts, each numbered 8/80 and signed in pencil by the artist, loose as issued and contained in portfolio, plus 4 double-page colour woodcuts, numbered 8/80 and signed in pencil rolled up and contained in a plastic tube, all contained in original morocco-backed solander box, with two designs in gilt to upper lid, folio, together with a letter from the Gregynog Press controller David Vickers enclosing the copy to the purchaser in 2007, and two compliment slips, loosely inserted

Limited edition VIII/XX specially bound copies by James Brockman, with the additional suite of prints, from a total edition of 170. (1)

£3,000 - £4,000

716 Gregynog Press. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, Newtown: Greynog Press, 1933, printed in black and blue, wood-engraved title and 21 woodengravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original blindstamped navy morocco (spine and corners a little rubbed), slipcase, folio

Limited edition, 77/250 copies. Harrop 29.

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£800 - £1,200

717 Hogarth Press. Stories of the East, by Leonard Woolf, 1st edition, London: printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921, 55 pp., publisher’s list to last leaf verso, staples rusted, a few minor spots, text block separating at gutter from front endpaper, original buff wrappers, upper cover illustrated in red by Dora Carrington, 8vo, together with Composition as Explanation, by Gertrude Stein, 1st edition, Hogarth Essays series, Hogarth Press, 1926

First work 300 copies printed. Woolmer 16 & 110 respectively.

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£800 - £1,200

718 Kelmscott Press. Mackail (John William). Biblia Innocentium: being the Story of God’s Chosen People before the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ upon Earth, written anew for children, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892, wood-engraved border and initials designed by William Morris, bookplate of Katherine Elizabeth Lewis to front pastedown, some leaves uncut, a few light spots, fore and bottom edge untrimmed, original vellum with silk ties, yapp edges, title in gilt to spine, a few small spots to upper cover, 8vo Peterson A9.

One of 200 copies on flower paper. The work ‘was to have been illustrated with approximately two hundred wood-engravings designed by BurneJones’ (Peterson), however he only completed 25 designs, and so the book was published without illustrations entirely. (1)

£600 - £800

719 Lewis (Wyndham). The Ideal Giant, the Code of the Herdsman, Cantelman’s Spring-Mate, 1st edition, London: Privately printed for the London Office of the Little Review, [1917], additional illustrated title with monochrome design by Wyndham Lewis, 44 pp., some light spotting and toning, stapled as issued (staples rusted), and string-tied into original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, upper cover designed by Lewis, head of spine indented, some toning and light spotting to covers, edges rubbed, 8vo

Pound & Grover A1; Morrow & Lafourcade A2. Approximately 200 copies printed. Pound & Grover speculate that only 50 copies of the folder were produced, but that there were more copies of the pamphlet itself. (1)

£300 - £400

Lot 818

720 Lubbock (J. G.) Love for the Earth, London: Bertram Rota, 1990, 11 hand-coloured copper plates, including 5 double-page, 2 plates (one coloured and signed) loosely inserted, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed cloth gilt, slipcase, 4to, limited signed edition 85/95, together with Stone (Reynolds, illustrator). Boxwood, illustrated in verse by Sylvia Townsend Warner, London: Monotype Corporation, 1957, 16 wood-engravings, a few light spots, original cloth gilt, 8vo, limited edition of 500, plus Warner (Sylvia Townsend). Elinor Barley, Cresset Press, 1930, 5 drypoint plates by I. R. Hodgkins, original parchment-backed marbled boards, acetate wrapper, slipcase (rubbed), small folio, limited signed edition 110/350, with others including In Shakespeare’s Company, Poems by Elizabeth Jennings, Celandine Press, 1985 (limited edition 16/250), The Sailor’s Return, by David Garnett, 1925 (limited signed edition 15/160), Joan Hassall Engravings and Drawings, by David Chambers, Pinner Private Libraries Association, 1985 (limited edition of 2500), Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree or Mellstock Quire, illustrated by Clare Leighton, 1940 and other illustrated books, Golden Cockerel reference etc (18)

721 Matrix. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, Numbers 133, Andoversford: Whittington Press, Autumn 1981-Spring 2015, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, wood engravings, typographic samples and inserts, first six issues in original publisher’s wrappers, the remainder issued in patterned or pictorial boards with dustwrapper, folio, VG, all published in limited editions of 350, 450 (numbers 1 and 2) rising to 960 copies (for number 7), with the last four numbers printed in editions of 725, 660, 650 and 715, together with duplicate copies of numbers 1 and 2 (December 1985 and May 1993 reprints printed in limited editions of 450 and 475 respectively), Index to Matrix 1-21 by David Butcher (2003), plus three related booklets: News of books from Whittington Press Number Four, January 1998, Books from the Whittington Press 1999-2001, and What’s Going on at Whittington 2003 & 4

Provenance: Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018). (36)

£200 - £300

£1,500 - £2,000

722 Miller (Patrick). Woman in Detail, with Drawings by Mark Severin, London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947, black and white illustrations, original blue cloth-backed boards, a few light marks, 8vo, together with: Hamway (Nigel). 2020 Vision, limited edition, London: Nomad Letterpress, 2020, mounted illustrations (some colour), further black and white illustrations, original yellow cloth-backed boards, 4to, 156 of 340 copies, contained in original slipcase, with Gerry (Vance). Vance Gerry & The Weather Bird Press, limited edition, Risbury: The Whittington Press, 2018, full-page and smaller illustrations throughout (some colour), 2 facsimile letters in pocket at rear, original red half cloth, paper title label to spine, 4to, one of 235 copies, in original slipcase, with 13 others related (16) £200 - £300

Lot 721

723 Morris (William). [Works], 8 volumes, London: Chiswick Press for Longmans, Green and Co., 1901-02, comprising A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, 1901; The Roots of the Mountains, 1901; The Story of Grettir the Strong, 1901; Volsunga Saga, 1901; The Odyssey of Homer, 1901; the Aeneids of Virgil, 1902; Hope and Fears for Art, 1902; Architecture, Industry and Wealth, 1902, printed in red and black, map plate to Grettir the Strong, spare labels tippedin at front, a few damp stains to early leaves of Volsunga Saga and Architecture, Industry and Wealth, a few endpapers with some toning, original cloth-backed boards, spines faded or toned, some edge wear and light stains to covers, 4to

Each a limited edition of 315 copies and comprising most of the writings of William Morris not printed by the Kelmscott Press. (8)

£400 - £600

724 Morris (William). The Collected Works of William Morris, with an introduction by his daughter May Morris, 22 volumes only (of 24), London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1910-15, volumes II-XXIII only (lacking volume I, The Defence of Guenevere and volume XXIV, Scenes From the Fall of Troy), illustrations, occasional light spotting, original linen-backed boards, spines toned, a few small chips to labels, occasional light dust-soiling and spotting to covers, 8vo, limited edition 410/1050, together with The Well at the World’s End, 2 volumes, 1st trade edition, 1896, and William Morris. Artist, Writer, Socialist, by May Morris, 2 volumes, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1936, limited edition of 750 (27)

726 Morris (William). The Story of Cupid and Psyche, with illustrations designed by Edward Burne-Jones, mostly engraved on the wood by William Morris; the introduction by A. R. Dufty, 2 volumes plus Portfolio, London & Cambridge: Clover Hill Editions, 1974, monochrome illustrations, printed on Barcham Green handmade paper, top edge gilt, both volumes of text bound in full black morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some minor marks, housed in original blue cloth slipcase, folio, the portfolio with an 8-page introductory text, and two suites of collotype plates and woodengravings (loose as issued in paper folders), contained in original matching quarter black morocco solander box with blue patterned boards, gilt morocco spine label, spine a little faded at foot, folio Limited edition of 500 copies, this being one of 130 copies numbered I to CXXX with a set of collotype prints of the 47 original drawings for the work, and a set of proofs of the 44 wood published engravings. This copy numbered XIV.

Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, in the Kelmscott Troy types cast at the foundry of the Oxford University Press from the original matrices in the possession of the Cambridge University Press. The original wood engravings are held by the Society of Antiquaries, London, and the original drawings by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

£300 - £400

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£300 - £500

727 Nash (Paul, illustrator). Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the first chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version, Folio Society limited facsimile edition, 2017, 12 wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, 4 pp. text by Sebastian Carter, both contained in original solander box with mounted monochrome illustration to upper lid, 4to, limited edition 110/750, together with Gill (Eric, illustrator). The Song of Songs, Folio Society limited facsimile edition, 2017, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, original cloth, dust jacket, 4 pp. text by Sebastian Carter, both contained in original solander box with illustration mounted to upper lid, 4to, limited edition 110/750

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£200 - £300

725 Morris (William). The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, London: Chiswick Press for Longmans, Green & Co., 1903, printed in red and black, spare label tipped-in at front, light toning to endpapers, original clothbacked boards, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with 3 others: Art and the Beauty of the Earth. A Lecture Delivered by William Morris at Burslem Town Hall on October 13, 1881, Chiswick Press for Longmans & Co., 1898, An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894, Chiswick Press, 1898, and William Morris and W. B. Yeats, by Peter Faulkner, Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1962 (limited edition of 1050) (4)

£150 - £200

728 The Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Dickensiana, Retrpspectus and Prospectus; I. Charles Dickens and his Illustrations by Arthur Waugh, II. A Bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens being those made under his supervision, now compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton, III. Retrospectus, Editions of Dickens Works IV. Prospectus, The Nonesuch Dickens, Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937, burnt orange printed title wrappers separating each volume, form for advance subscription bound to rear, bookseller’s ticket to lower corner of upper pastedown, light spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary letter from B+H Blackwell Ltd loosely inserted, publisher’s original blue cloth covers by Leighton-Straker, gilt decoration to upper board, spine a little faded, 8vo, together with: Wood Lea Press. Greenwood (Jeremy). Ravilious Engravings, with an Introduction by John Craig, Woodbridge: Wood Lea Press, 2008, portrait frontispiece, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, original grey cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine, contained within matching slipcase, folio, limited to 800 copies Ullman (Anne, editor). The wood engravings of Tirzah Ravilious..., with recollections by Henry Swanzy and Robert Harling, London: Gorden Fraser, printed by The Roundwood Press, 1987, many illustrations, plain paper wrappings with decorative dust jacket, contained within green cloth slipcase, 4to, limited edition 187/1000 Whistler (Laurence). Pictures on Glass..., signed by the author, Ipswich: The Cupid Press, 1972, black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrations, letter form the author loosely inserted, original black cloth gilt, contained within matching slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 458/1400 copies (4)

£200 - £300

729 Private Press Ephemera. The Whittington Press. The Four Elements, circa 1990, 4 broadside poems, one each by Seamus Heaney, Lawrence Sail, Jenny Joseph, Laurie Lee, all signed by the author at foot, contained in green paper portfolio, mounted paper title label to upper cover, 38.5 x 27 cm, 115 of 125 copies, together with: Weissenborn (Hellmuth). Eight woodcuts for The Diary of Edward Thomas, Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1977, 8 wood engravings, each signed in pen by the artist to lower right, handmade paper, untrimmed, contained in brown paper portfolio, silk ties with red morocco tabs, 33 x 25.5 cm, 35 of 50 copies, with O'Connor (John). Timothy, Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 2004, printed broadside, wood-engraved illustration at head, rolled, a few marks, 57 x 38 cm, with an archive of Private Press related ephemera, including posters, broadsides, loose folios leaves, catalogues, prospectuses etc. (a carton)

£200 - £300

730 Private Press Prospectuses. Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, February 16th, 1897, 8 pp., printed in red and black, woodcut vignette to first page, lightly spotted, 8vo, together with: Doves Press. Catalogue of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, 1900-1911, January 1912, 8 pp., printed in red and black, faint central fold crease, 8vo, plus Ashendene Press. A List of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXIII, Chelsea, Shelley House, 1913, 8 pp., printed in red and black, a few blank ink price annotations in margins, 8vo, with The Golden Cockerel Press. Prospectus for 1926, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926, 4 pp., large woodcut illustration to first page, 8vo, with a folder of other prospectuses and ephemera related to other private presses (A small folder)

£200 - £300

731 Rainbow Press. Sylvia Plath, Pursuit with an etching and drawings by Leonard Baskin, London: Rainbow Press, 1973, lacking the original signed etching by Baskin, monochrome illustrations, rebound in contemporary half morocco, some fading, folio

Limited edition of 100 copies, this copy unnumbered. (1)

£200 - £300

732 Shakespeare Head Press. Ernest Gimson. His Life & Work, Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1924, 60 collotype plates, wood-engravings, errata slip, some toning to endpapers, light spotting to fore-edges, original cloth-backed boards, 4to

Limited edition, 495/550 copies.

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£200 - £300

733 Shakespeare Head Press. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke by George Chapman, 5 volumes, Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-31, woodcut portrait frontispiece to volumes I & V, woodcut title borders to volumes I & V, 48 full page woodcuts by John Farleigh, partly unopened, original red half morocco over buckram boards, spines slightly rubbed and faded, a few small marks and stains, small folio

Limited edition, 234/450 copies.

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£400 - £600

734 Vale Press. A Bibliography of the Books Issued by Hacon & Ricketts, Vale Press, 1904, wood-engraved frontispiece by Charles Ricketts, wood-engraved double-page border, printed in red and black, endpapers a little toned, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition of 250, together with Essex House Press. The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: Being the Weston Subedge Field Account Book for the Final Twenty-Six Years of the Famous Cotswold Games, Hitherto Unpublished, and now edited with a study on the old time sports of Campden and the village community of Weston, by C. R. Ashbee, Essex House Press,1904, woodcut illustrations by Edmund New, light toning to endpapers, original buckram, spine toned, some dust-soiling, 4to, limited edition 16/75, plus Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry, by C. R. Ashbee, Essex House Press, [1908]

First two works Tomkinson 50 & 46 respectively.

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£150 - £200

735 Shannon (Charles, and Ricketts Charles, illustrators). Daphnis and Chloe, a most sweet and pleasent pastorall romance for young ladies, done into English by Geo. Thornley Gent., limited edition of 210 copies, London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893, wood-engraved illustrations by Ricketts and Shannon, decorative initials, untrimmed, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, very lightly rubbed, 4to Watry A6. One of 210 copies.

Issued by Shannon and Ricketts from The Vale, though the first Vale Press publication was Milton’s Early Poems of 1896.

An early Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts collaboration. While not officially a Vale Press work, it does have ‘The Vale’ lettered in gilt to spine base.

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£700 - £1,000

736 Vale Press. The Vale Shakespeare, 40 volumes, Ballantyne Press for the Vale Press, 1900-03, including The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, occasional light spotting, some toning to a few endpapers, original uniform green cloth designed by Charles Ricketts, some light fading and spotting to some spines, 8vo

One of 310 copies. Tomkinson 44 & 45.

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737 Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (Philippe Auguste de). Axel, translated into English by H. P. R. Finberg, with a preface by William Butler Yeats, limited issue, London: Jarrolds, 1925, woodcut illustrations, small previous owner inscription, endpapers toned, top edge gilt, original cream buckram gilt, a few light marks, 8vo

Limited signed edition, 24/500 copies.

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£200 - £300

738 Whittington Press. An Acrobatic Alphabet, by Barbara Crow, Whittington Press, 1986, 26 hand-coloured plates by Sylvia Stokeld, original slik boards, slipcase, small 4to, limited signed edition XIII/35, from a total edition of 335, with a signed proof contained in rear pocket, together with Arcadian Ballads, by James Reeves, printed at Whittington Court by John and Rosalind Randle, Tom Jollands and Miriam Macgregor, 1977, lithograph illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, top edge gilt, original patterned cloth, slipcase, folio, limited edition 86/200, signed by author and artist, plus Playground Football, by T. E. Lawrence, Shilton: Reading Room Press, 2007, tipped-in wood-engraving by Ian Stephens, original cloth-backed patterned boards, 4to, limited edition 16/60, plus 6 others including The Interior Castle, by Katharine Kendall, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1968, limited edition of 40 bound in silk, from a total edition of 300, Beyond Giving. Poems 1969, by Robert Graves, Stellar Press, 1969, limited signed edition 134/536, Polly: An Opera, by John Gay, illustrated by William Nicholson, William Heinemann, 1923, limited signed edition 260/380, and Elizabethan Love Songs, illustrated by John Piper, Cupid Press, 1955, limited signed edition 164/660

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£400 - £600

£200 - £300

Lot 737

Lot 735

Lot 738

739

The Whittington Press. Pages from Presses: Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vale, Eragny & Essex House, with a commentary by David Butcher, signed by the author, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 2006, folding frontispiece, 6 original paper leaves, publisher’s original pink buckram over purple paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, contained within matching slipcase, folio, limited edition 88/95, together with: David Butcher. The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990, with an introduction by John Dreyfus and a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook, signed by the author and the Abbess of Stanbrook, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1992, many tipped in samples and illustrations, publisher’s original orange buckram over marbled paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, contained within matching slipcase, folio, limited edition 13/248 Kipling (Rudyard). The Glory of the Garden..., with linocuts by Judith Verity, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1989, signed by the illustrator, specimen page slipped in, publisher’s green paper covers with decorative title label, 4to, limited 48/125, with accompanying poster (Our England is a Garden, and such gardens are not made By sighing ‘O how beautiful’) signed by the artist, blue tac marks to verso, 760 x 550 mm, limited edition 7/130

The Wood-engravings of Josh O’Connor. with a commentary by Jeannie O’Connor, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1989, wood engravings throughout, publisher’s original red buckram over decorative paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, contained within matching slipcase, folio, limited edition 253/300

McKitterick (David). A New Specimen Book of Curwen Pattern Papers, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1987, numerous specimens of pattern papers tipped in, green morocco over decorative paper boards by Smith Settle, gilt lettering to spine, plus 5 additional sheets of pattern contained within decorative paper slipcase (a little toned at spine), the whole contained within green paper slipcase, 4to, limited edition 11 of 85

Russell (Richard, editor). A History of The Marlborough College Press..., Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1984, with loose manuscript letter from the Whittington Press, blue buckram over decorative paper boards, 4to, limited edition of 200 Grant (Rowland). Steps to the River. Poems by Roland Gant with eight wood-engravings by Howard Phipps, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1994, signed by the author and illustrator, green cloth over decorative paper boards designed by the illustrator, paper title label to spine, folio, limited edition 66/200

Craig (Edward). William Nicholson’s An Almanac of Twelve Sports and London Types. An introduction to the reprint from the original woodblock..., Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1980, (text pamphlet only, lacking accompanying portfolio), signed by Edward Craig, contained within publisher’s orange wrappers with text to upper cover, a little faded, folio, limited edition of 225 (8) £300 - £500

740 Wood Lea Press. Edward Bawden Editioned Prints, by Jeremy Greenwood, Wood Lea Press, 2005, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase, oblong folio, limited edition of 450, together with The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, compiled by Jeremy Greenwood, Wood Lea Press, 1987, colour and monochrome illustrations, signed to title by Jeremy Greenwood with loose letter and prospectus, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition of 750, plus Whittington Press. Gwenda Morgan. The Diary of a Land Girl 1939-1945, Whittington Press, 2002, woodengraved illustrations, original half cloth, slipcase, folio, limited edition 217/300, with 5 others including The Country of the Blind 1939, by H. G. Wells, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939, limited edition, 195/280, The WoodEngravings of Paul Nash, Wood Lea Press, 1997, limited edition of 490, Margaret Bruce Wells, the complete wood-engravings and linocuts, 2000, limited edition of 300, and Alan Powers. The Art of an Art Historian, Inky Parrot Press, 2018, limited signed edition 8/36 (8) £300 - £500

Lot 739

Lot 740

741 Adams (Douglas, 1952-2001). So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 4, 1st edition, London: Pan Books, 1984, author’s signed presentation inscription in blue ballpoint pen to title, ‘To Nicky, Best wishes, Douglas Adams’, original cloth in dust jacket with holographic onlay to upper cover, slightly rubbed, together with first editions of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, The Salmon of Doubt, 3 Douglas Adams omnibus editions, 3 Book Club editions and a paperback, all but the last original cloth in dust jackets, a little rubbed, 8vo (11)

£150 - £200

742 Attenborough (David). The Private Life of Plants, three copies, 1st editions, BBC Books, 1995, colour illustrations from photographs throughout, all signed by the author in blue ink to halftitles, two copies with his name alone, together with signed first edition copies of his books Life on Earth and The Trials of Life, all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, VG+, plus Wainwright (Alfred), Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk, Photographs by Derry Brabbs, 1st edition, 1987, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, signed by the author to printed bookplate pasted to half-title, and Herriot (James), James Herriot’s Yorkshire, with photographs by Derry Brabbs, 1st edition, 1979, colour illustrations from photographs throughout, signed presentation inscription from the author to the Australian diplomat Harold Horsburgh and his wife Joan to half-title with ink notes by the owners above and below, both original cloth in dust jackets, 4to (7)

£200 - £300

743 Biographies and Autobiographies. A group of 70 signed (mostly first edition) biographies and autobiographies, including Nicolas Haslam, Redeeming Features; Antonia Fraser (3), Must You Go?, The Gunpower Plot, King Charles II; Andrew Morton, Monica’s Story (signed ‘Monica Lewinsky’); Ziauddin Yousafzai, Let Her Fly; Monica Dickens, An Open Book, with further volumes signed by Bill Bryson, Philip Agee, William Dalrymple, Germaine Greer, Andrew Marr, Rannulph Fiennes, John Pope-Hennessy, Andrew Motion, Queen Noor, Sir Miles Thomas, Claire Tomalin, Norman Scott, Michael Spicer, Christo Brand, Ann Thwaite, Anna Pasternak, and others, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG+/fine (70)

£150 - £200

744 Disney (Walt, 1901-1966). “Sketch Book” [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], London and Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co., 1938, 12 tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations, boldly signed by Walt Disney in blue ink, ‘Walt Disney / [19]38’, on the front preliminary page which depicts the Seven Dwarfs marching toward their cottage, some minor spotting and soiling, original coarse-grain cloth in unclipped dust jacket, red pencil number ‘24’ at head of inner flap, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to (1)

£700 - £1,000

745 Film and Entertainment. A group of 40 signed first editions relating to film and entertainment, including Alec Guinness, A Positively Final Appearance; Robbie Williams/Chris Heath, Reveal (signed by Robbie Williams); Michael Caine, The Elephant to Hollywood; Brian Sewell, Outsider; Helen Mirren, In the Frame, with further volumes signed by Sir John Mills, Lynn Redgrave, Annabel Clarke, John Cleese (4), Michael Palin (6), Eileen Atkins, Simon Pegg, Stephen Fry, Bill Owen, John Fraser, Graham Norton, Alan Wicker, Joan Collins, David Frost, Richard Whiteley, George Baker, Rupert Everett, Alexei Sayle, Martin Jarvis, Shane Ritchie, Derren Brown, Harriet Walters, Shane Ward, Sheridan Morley, Geena Davies, Robert Henrey, Sue Perkins and Eric Idle, plus other similar, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG+/fine (40)

£200 - £300

746 Modern Fiction. A large group of 100 signed (mostly) first editions by modern fiction writers, including Philippa Gregory, The White Queen (scarce variant binding); Andrew Taylor, The King’s Evil; Lee Child, Never Go Back; Helena Attlee, Lev’s Violin; John Bayley, Alice, with further volumes signed by Andy McNab (7), Gore Vidal, Robert Harris, Conn Iggulden, P. D. James, William Trevor, Maeve Binchy (2), Ruth Rendell (3), Deborah Moggach, Peter Ackroyd (2), Patrick Macgrath and others, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG+/fine (100)

£250 - £350

747 Pratchett (Terry, 1948-2015). Death Trilogy (Mort/Reaper Man/Soul Music), 1st one-volume edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1998, signed and inscribed from the author in blue-green felt tip to title, ‘To Sraha (Pain!), lots of wigles, Terry Pratchett’, some spotting to preliminary leaves, together with The Wee Free Men, A Story of Discworld, 1st edition, Random House, 2003, author’s signed presentation inscription for Jo Lee with ‘Big wee wishes’ in black felt tip to title, plus 7 other unsigned Terry Pratchett first editions, Moving Pictures/Small Gods/Men at Arms/Hogfather/ Thud!/Nation and Small Gods (1st US edition), all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, fine (9)

£150 - £200

748* Ransome (Arthur, 1884-1967). A group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed and 9 Typed Letters Signed, 'Arthur Ransome', various places, 11 February 1953 to 4 September 1955, all to Morley Kennerley [of Faber & Faber], concerning fishing books and related including Ransome's idea to reprint a series of old fishing books, 'Here's the anthology back. Thanks for letting me see it. I have been through it and noted several possible candidates. Now then: those diaries:- I should like to look at them, though I dread adding to the pile of the last year's arrears due to my having been so often and for so long out of action' (11 February 1953); 'I have made several deep dives into that vast bag, and found a great deal of interest. I think the owner knowing all the people mentioned, should make a selection from all the diaries, from start to finish, thus making it the record of a whole fishing life... ' (3 June 1953); 'Here is a copy I made of the letter written by James Leisenring to G. E. M. Sques. I wish you would read it and see if you think as highly of it as I do. I go to the Itchen tomorrow (to catch cold and no grayling)' (28 November 1954); 'Smythe. I have been wasting a lot of time doing a job for the National Book League, producing their new "Reader's Guide" to Fishing books. In it, I have taken the chance of calling attention to the Smythe diary, quoting a sentence from it and saying that it "has been edited by his son and is shortly to be published"...' (19 February 1955); 'Of course Smythe must have his Fishing Gazette stuff if he wants it, even though it is poor beside the Provost's genuine diary' (25 May 1955); ‘Here is H. A. Morritt’s farewell book … Anyhow, I shall be most grateful to you if you will consider adding this to your growing list of really good fishing books. You might follow it up with other very short but very good books, such as a reprint of John Beever (1849), or The Northern Angler (1800), etc.’ (13 August 1955); ‘I think your idea of a series of reprints of all the smaller fishing classics is a very good one. All the best fishing books were written in the days when no one thought it necessary to inflate them. Such a series would allow the inclusion of such books as Morritt’s, and all the books would help each other. In the end the series would offer safe bets to mothers and wives wanting to give presents to sons and husbands. You might lead off with Beever for the fly-fishers and balance him with Nobbes (1682) on the pike. Two days ago by pure accident I came across the only copy I’ve ever seen of John Beever’s first edition of 1849… a small paper-bound of 64 pages… Blurb for Smythe. Do send me the proofs. I could send the blurb by return of post if only I had the proofs. If you have no proofs, let me know and I will, with greater difficulty, write an inferior blurb’ (19 August 1955), a few marks and filing pin holes, etc., a total of 16 pages, 4to/8vo, plus an Autograph Postcard Signed, 3 sheets of proof notes and a collection of 30 related carbon copies of correspondence from Kennerley to Ransome on the same subjects (a folder)

£300 - £500

749 Sackville-West (Vita, 1892-1962). Passenger to Teheran, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1926, 32 half-tone plates from photographs, pp. 33/34 & 47/48 detached and slightly frayed at foremargins, author’s signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, ‘For Mrs Candy [Vita’s typist] with gratitude from the author, Xmas 1926’, reproduction portrait after a painting by William Strang tipped in along inner margin to half-title and signed in blue ink by the sitter to lower margin, upper hinges cracked, patterned brown cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo Woolmer 107.

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£200 - £300

750* Steiner (Rudolf, 1861-1925). A Road to Self-Knowledge and the Threshold of the Spiritual World, 1st one-volume edition, London & New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922, scattered minor spotting, upper hinge slightly cracked, bookplate of Sunfield to front pastedown with bookseller ticket of B. H. Blackwell at foot, together with Metamorphoses of the Soul, Rendered into English by G. Metaxa from a Text Unrevised by the Author, Edited by H[arry] Collison, London: H. Collison, [1931], scattered minor spotting, pencil signature of David Clement to front free endpaper and bookseller ticket of Rudolf Steiner Bookshop to front pastedown, both original dark blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo Both books are rare. The first title, an authorised English translation edited by Harry Collison was first published in 2 volumes in 1918. The Rudolf Steiner Archive does not appear to have a copy of this book. The second title bears the signature of the theosophist David Clement who purchased Broome Farm in Clent in 1933 and offered it to Sunfield for student land training. It exists today as Sunfield Independent Specialist School and children’s home. A later edition was published in 1945 by the Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., in conjunction with the Anthroposophic Press New York. Harry Collison (1868-1945) worked as a publisher and translator. From 1913 Steiner delegated the task of coordinating the translations to him, as well as arranging their publication. He also vested the English language copyright in him contractually, thus granting him authority for publication not only in Britain, but also in America and the rest of the English-speaking world.

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751* Drinkwater (John, 1882-1937). ‘Birthright’, 21 April 1921, Autograph Poem Signed, ‘John Drinkwater’, written in blue ink on thick off-white wove paper, 1 page, 25.5 x 18 cm

This two-verse poem of twelve lines laments the ephemeral nature of beauty and youth. It was first published in Atlantic Monthly (September 1916), p. 365.

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£100 - £150

£200 - £300

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752* Hughes (Edward James, 1930-1998).

Typed Letter Signed ‘Ted Hughes’, Court Green, North Tawton, Devon, 1 November 1978, to Birgitta Ivarson, apologising for the fact that his poem about Crow and the Birds is giving her trouble and continuing to give a detailed exposition of the poem, ‘The idea is that all the birds involve themselves in the inner machinery of the world, the worlds of correspondences, the complex and interrelated beauty of this wholeness. Crow is involved, in this poem, only in his own hungry activity. Yes, you have seen that. Each line about the birds is, as you’ve seen, a coupling of a bird with some other image. Both items in each pair are linked - but in various ways, some more simply than others. The Eagle is, conventionally, associated with the sunrise, where it is supposed to renew itself and particularly its eyesight: in this sense it is the spirit of the sun, in its most radiant aspect. It was not deliberately planned, but Crow, of course, is the spirit of the sun in its obscured or eclipsed aspect (and in this sense the spirit of the moon.) So the Eagle begins what Crow ends, here’, explaining certain phrases including ‘a chime of wineglasses’, ‘a woman’s song in a cavern’, ‘the breath of a violet’, tomorrow’s conscience’, ‘bessemer upglare’, and mentioning the peewit, the bullfinch and the wryneck, ending, ‘It would be quite easy, given the basic plan of contrasts and opposition, and inner resemblances, it would be quite easy to develope the associations of the lines a great deal further than these hints’, signed at foot in blue ballpoint pen, 2 pp., 4to, in fine condition with the original postmarked envelope addressed to the recipient in Sweden

A highly illuminating response from Ted Hughes about one of his most important works. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow was first published in 1970 by Faber and Faber. It was written mostly between 1966 and 1969, following a barren period after the death of Sylvia Plath. Hughes himself described Crow as his masterpiece. (1) £500 - £800

753* Joyce (James, 1882-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘James Joyce’, La Résidence, Paris, 4 October 1931, to Mrs Pinker on hotel stationery, beginning, ‘For goodness sake do not allude ever again to my dreadful injury that night at your house. What happened to my voice I do not know l’est pour bien plus!’, regretting that they cannot dine with them and hoping that they will do soon, and asking her to tell Mr Pinker ‘the absurd passage about cricket is marked on p. 231 of the Paris Magazine which I am sending him today. He will remember I spoke to him about it, a few minor spots, written in black ink on the first and fourth page of a bifolium, 2 pp., 8vo, together with an earlier Autograph Letter Signed from ‘Rolly’, Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, 11 July 1929, to Vonnie & Ralf, saying that he is longing to hear about Rabbit from Betty in her next letter, ‘Yesterday I called on the important New York House of Jas Pinker & Co. and made myself known to your brother ... I have had a most interesting time during the short time available and wish I could stay much longer and go to other parts of America and also have a glimpse of Canada... ‘, 4 pp., square 8vo, plus an Autograph Letter Signed from Trevor R. V. Blakemore to Mrs Pinker, Sark, Channel Islands, 16 May 1931, asking her whether she would care to come down to Ranelagh on a polo afternoon and ‘I do hope the remainder of my poems come up to your very kind estimation of the prelude poem, and that it was of some use to your husband in his sad loss... ‘, some overall spotting, filing holes to left margin, 2 pp., 4to

James Joyce and his wife, Nora Barnacle, were married on 4 July 1931 and moved to Paris where they lived in the hotel La Residence between September and October 1931.

The literary agency of James Pinker & Sons was founded by James Brand Pinker and, upon his death, was run by his two sons Eric Seabrooke and James Randolph until November 1930 when the partnership was dissolved. Eric moved to New York and James stayed in Britain. Yvonne ‘Vonnie’ Pinker was the wife of James Randolph Pinker, the literary agent for James Joyce.

See J. H. Stape, ‘“The Pinker of Agents”: A Family History of James Brand Pinker’, The Conradian, 34 (1), (2009), pp. 111-143. (3)

£1,000 - £1,500

754* Poem-of-the-Month Club. A collection of 25 (of 48) broadsides signed by the authors, 1970-72, including W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, John Betjeman (with holograph correction), Philip Larkin, Stephen Spender, Seamus Heaney, John Fuller, Cecil Day Lewis, Thom Gunn, Douglas Dunn, Elizabeth Jennings and others, first two mentioned slightly toned to marginal extremities, each 38 x 28 cm, loosely contained in original publisher’s half leather portfolio with cloth tie, together with two printed broadside poems (Squirrel & Sparrow) by Ted Hughes with colour reproduction illustrations after Reginald Lloyd, printed on laid paper, signed by both author and artist at foot, numbered in pencil 52 & 53/200 respectively, each 30 x 21 cm (27)

£200 - £300

ANTHONY ROSSITER (1926-200)

Anthony Rossiter RWA MSIAD was a British landscape painter. He was educated at Eton and studied painting at Chelsea Art School from 1947-51. He was a Romantic visionary, a ‘poet’ whose particular heaven was the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Gnarled hedgerows, tumbling stone walls, broken gates, reflections in water and ploughed fields were all his subject matter. His works also included portraits, most notably that of W. H. Auden.

From the age of 21 onwards, Rossiter lived with manic depression (bi-polar disorder). The inspiring ecstatic highs to the lows of numbing despair were exploited creatively and became an integral part of his work.

Although he had won a place at New College, Oxford to read English under David Cecil, Rossiter knew his real vocation was to become an artist, and opted instead for Chelsea Art School (1947-1951). His tutors included Henry Moore, and Robert Medley. His painting initially had the lyrical qualities of John Nash and the Realist painters of the 1950s and 1960s, developing then into a more vigorous expressionist style. In 1962 Rossiter made his first trip to the USA after winning an Arts Council Bursary. He had been invited to stay with the poet Robert Frost in New Hampshire and they became friends. On his return from the USA, Rossiter began work on The Pendulum, which was published by Gollancz in 1966. A second volume of autobiography, The Golden Chain, was published by Hutchinson’s in 1970.

His pictures can be seen in various public collections in the UK and USA, including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean, Oxford, The Government Art Collection, London Transport Museum, The General Post Office, and The Robert Frost Collection.

Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk

755* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Typed Letter Signed, ‘W. H. Auden’, Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 9 July 1966, to Anthony Rossiter, referring to and discussing his reading of Rossiter’s book and recommending authors and books o read, ’I am most grateful to you for having got your publishers to send me a copy of your book [The Pendulum], which I have just finished reading for the first time with fascination and delight. Your descriptions of what I call The Vision of Dame Kind are extraordinary. I expect you know most of the ‘Pendulum’ literature. In case you don’t, may I can recommend: Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno, John Clare, Holderlin, Richard Jeffries, The Story of the Heart, Ruskin (Nobody can possibly wade through all of his work, but there is an excellent selection by Sir Kenneth Clark … I agree with you that the Vision cannot possibly be a delusion, even if the subject of it be at times in a state requiring hospitalisation. The various accounts corroborate each other in a way that only descriptions of something ‘real’ could do. Speaking of corroboration, I was interested to read that at times the birds seemed to speak to you; when Virginia Woolf was ‘high’, they talked Greek to her. You speak, as others have done, of suffering during the negative phase from a feeling of sinfulness and guilt. Is this feeling vague and undifferentiated, or do you accuse yourself of specific sins? …’, some creasing from folds, 1 page, folio, with the accompanying envelope

The artist Anthony Rossiter (1926-2000) published two autobiographical books in which he explores the highs and lows of his bipolar disorder and its impact on his creativity. In this first of 28 letters received from Auden he refers to his reading of the first of these autobiographies, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). Auden was to write a foreword to the first American edition published by Helix Press in 1969 with the expanded title of The Pendulum: A Round Trip to Revelation. In the final years of his life, Auden spent part of the year living in Austria. He passed away in Vienna in 1973 and was laid to rest in Austria. (1)

£300 - £400

756* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Typed Letter Signed, ‘W. H. Auden’, Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 23 July 1966, to Anthony Rossiter, thanking him for his letter and cable, ‘It is, I think, very important to realise the difference between what a psychologist means when he talks about the Super-Ego and ‘guilt feelings’, and conscience and guilt-before-God in a theological sense. Our super-egos are more or less what St Paul means by the Law and are, in his terminology, ‘of the Flesh’, that is to say, the creation of our homes, our social backgrounds, our schooling. Yes, as you and I have been, we are fortunate in these, there are many sinful acts we shall not be seriously tempted to commit because, should the thought of committing then occur to our minds, we shall immediately say to ourselves: “An Auden, a Rossiter, doesn’t do that sort of thing. The sinful acts to which persons of our social background, living in the middle of the twentieth century, are most liable, are, I should guess, either sexual or making cruel remarks about others either to their face or behind their back. We seldom steal or physically torment others, and, should we violate our “code”, should we, for example, cheat in a croquet match, we immediately have acute feelings of guilt: we have let ourselves down…’, continuing in a similar vein with thoughts about guilt, conscience, sinful thoughts and the super-ego and quoting from Nietzsche (‘He who despise himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser’), then saying he is off to Salzburg for rehearsals and an opera [The Bassarids] by [Hans Werner] Henze for which he co-wrote the libretto and concluding with a recommendation, ‘By the way, another “nature” poet who is hardly known at all, and whom I find most interesting is Ivor Gurney, who died in 1937 after spending the last fifteen years of his life in an asylum. The poems are often clumsy, but there is something extraordinary there’, with two hand-written post scripts in blue ballpoint pen, ‘PS one of the best passages in The Pendulum – so moving and awful – I thought the monologue of Captain Garret Butler … PPS I have only one bone to pick with you – your overestimation of Jung. Freud’s atheism is far nearer to the Christian Faith than Jung’s Gnostic Religiosity, 2 pages, folio, with the accompanying envelope (1) £300 - £400

757* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan Auden’, 77 St Mark’s Place, New York City, New York 10003, 8 April 1967, and Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 15 April 1967, both to Anthony Rossiter, the first letter referring to an unidentified manuscript, ‘I sent off The Waters of Jordan yesterday by registered mail. I have been in terror about it. One should never let a unique manuscript out of one’s hands. Think of J. S. Mill’s servant burning the only manuscript of Carlisle’s [sic] French Revolution. Delighted to hear you are having a retrospective exhibition [Reading Art Gallery 1967]…’, blue ballpoint pen on thin writing paper, heavy spotting and old sellotape stains to margins touching signature but not affecting ink or legibility, 1 page, 4to; the second letter from Austria a week later, apologising that he realised he had only sent back half of the manuscript and had dispatched the other half yesterday, and concluding, ‘Have had a letter from a Dr Osmond, suggesting that we should both write forewords to the American edition of The Pendulum. This I am, of course, quite willing to do’, blue ballpoint pen on thin writing paper, 1 page, 4to, both with the accompanying envelopes (2) £200 - £300

758* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wystan Auden’, Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 20 April [1967], to Anthony Rossiter, ‘Many thanks for the [R. D.] Laing book which I thought excellent. Hope you will not dislike the enclosed’, a little creasing, on personal stationery in blue ballpoint pen, 1 page, 4to, together with the aforementioned original typed poem by Auden, ‘Prologue at Sixty’, sellotape adhesion mark at head of first page not affecting legibility, 2 pages (back-to-back), small narrow folio, plus a two-page carbon copy of a different fair typed copy of the same poem, dated by Rossiter ‘April 20th 1967’ at head, folio, with the accompanying envelope ‘Prologue at Sixty’ was first published in New York Review of Books, 18 May 1967, later appearing in Auden’s collection, City without Walls and Other Poems (Faber, 1969).

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759* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wystan’, Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 23 July [1967], to Anthony Rossiter, saying that he got back yesterday from three weeks in England to find his letter of 3 July, ‘You’re right. “We” never retire. Also, you and I can thank God daily that we were born and raised as British Pharisees. The best psychological advice I know of is what the (White Queen(?)) says to Alice. “Say the French for a thing when you can’t think of the English, turn your toes out as you walk, and remember where you are”’, with a post script, ‘A true story. A lady wrote to the Third Programme asking them to play records of her favorite piece Christian and his Soldiers. After much correspondence and research, they discovered that she meant Tristan und Isolde’, blue ballpoint pen on personal stationery, 1 page, 4to, with the accompanying envelope (1)

£150 - £200

760* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, 77 St Mark’s Place, New York, 9 March [1968], and 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 3 July [1968], both to Anthony Rossiter, the first letter saying ‘Many thanks for your telegram and for the picture which arrived yesterday and which I like very much. So sorry about my idiocy: sent Garrett the Foreword yesterday. Have you read Bruno Bettelheim’s book about autistic children, The Empty Fortress [first published 1967]? If not, I recommend it very highly...’, blue ballpoint pen on thin paper, 1 page, 4to; the second letter on personal stationery from Austria, thanking him for his letter and Fingers in the Door [by Frank Tuohy, first published 1970] ‘which I have just finished reading and I’m enormously impressed by. A real important new talent’, and in return recommending Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village [first published 1969], which he is sure that Rossiter will enjoy as much as he did, and ending that he hopes one day that he will be able to visit them in Austria, old sellotape remains to 3 margins touching a few words including signature at foot but not affecting ink or legibility, 1 page, 8vo, both with the accompanying envelopes (2)

£200 - £300

761* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wystan’, Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 20 May [1969], thanking him for the American edition of The Pendulum which he was delighted to receive ‘and to find many more reproductions. Overleaf a poem which I send you because I was thinking of you when I wrote it’, blue ballpoint pen on personal stationery, 1 page with the typed poem ‘In Due Season’ to letter verso, one manuscript correction in Auden’s hand (‘all’ for ‘each’ in first line of second verse), old sellotape strips and adhesion remains at head affecting printed address only, 4to, together with a telegram from Auden to Rossiter, date indistinct, saying that he has written the foreword to Pendulum, ‘but like an idiot have lost name of America publisher stop please cable it’, 1 page, oblong 8vo

762* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 19 May 1969 and 26 May [1969], the first letter thanking Rossiter for his letter and saying that he is glad that he likes ‘In Due Season’, telling him that he wears dark glasses which he finds therapeutic, before recounting an anecdote about having met Rossiter’s mother at Auden’s niece’s wedding in Florence the previous year, ‘Entre nous, and please forgive me if I am wrong, I got the impression that she is a witch’, concluding that he will be in London in July for the International Poetry Festival and saying that if it is possible for him to get to London, it would be nice if they could meet; the second letter from Austria on personal stationery, thanking him for his letter and saying sorry to hear that he has had a bad spell, ‘What is urgently needed is a Pendulums Anonymous. The difficulty for those of us who have never gone “over the border” is that we do not know the exactly right thing to do or say that would help. Sedative drugs are, I suppose, better than nothing, but palliatives are not the same as understanding exactly what the patient is going through’, some spotting and old sellotape remains to all four margins not affecting text or signature, both in blue ballpoint pen, 1 page, 4to, with the accompanying envelopes (2)

£200 - £300

‘In Due Season’ was first printed in Confrontation, (Spring 1969), and then in Auden’s collection, City without Walls and Other Poems (Faber, 1969). (2)

£200 - £300

763* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Typed Letter Signed, ‘W. H. Auden’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 23 July [1969], a brief note thanking Rossiter for his charming letter, ‘I’m so glad you enjoyed our meeting as much as I did. But very sorry to hear about your arm. Do you often have trouble with it? Shall much look forward to reading The Golden Chain. I enclose three little poems’, 1 page on personal stationery, 4to, with carbon copies of Auden’s own typing of the three poems on recto and verso of a separate sheet with one manuscript correction of a single letter to the first line of ‘Natural Linguistics, and ‘P.T.O.’ written on both sides, 2 pages, 4to, with the accompanying envelope ‘Natural Linguistics’ was first published in Harper’s (October 1969); ‘Smelt and Tasted’ and ‘Heard and Seen’ were both first published in Poet (Madras), (June 1969).

The Golden Chain (Hutchinson, 1970) was Rossiter’s second book of autobiography. (2) £200 - £300

764* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wystan’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 12 August [1969], a lengthy letter in blue ballpoint pen, ‘The Golden Chain arrived from Hutchinson’s yesterday. To my horror, it seems to be your manuscript with corrections in your handwriting. Do Hutchinsons have another copy? If not, I am afraid to entrust such a precious thing to the mail. Have just finished reading it and I am enormously impressed. I don’t know of anyone else, except possibly Virginia Woolf, who has such a sense of the poetry of objects, of the visible as a world of sacramental signs. The book, precisely because it is so intense, is, maybe, a shade on the long side. I personally don’t care, but the average reader may’, then saying he has ‘two trivial criticisms, and a more serious question I must raise...’, reprimanding Rossiter for the expression ‘a creative person’ and ‘that appalling jargon word finalise. Why not either finish or complete?’, the serious question being more philosophical and concerning self-expression, ‘... You believe, I’m sure, that God put you on earth to paint, as I believe He put me on earth to write verses but, perhaps, in the eyes of Heaven, these are very lowly activities. What can we hope to do for the world by them? I think Dr Johnson has the right answer: “to enable others a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it.” We ourselves should emphasise the little...’, with two post scripts, 3 pages on two sheets of personal stationery, folio, with the accompanying envelope, together with a related typed carbon copy of Rossiter’s letter to Auden, 25 August 1969, 1 page, 4to (2)

£200 - £300

765* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). ‘Moon Landing’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Bez. St. Pollen, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 1 September [1969], Auden’s typed carbon copy fair copy on personal stationery, with a dated and signed note for Anthony in blue ballpoint pen at head, ‘That was indeed a princely gift which I am very proud to receive. Thanks a million. So sorry you have been having a low –evidently drugs still can’t do everything. Herewith a topical poem. Love Wystan’, small stain to top left corner not affecting any text, 1 page, folio, with the accompanying envelope, together with a related typed carbon copy of Rossiter’s letter to Auden, 16 September 1969, 3 pages, 4to

‘Moon Landing’ was first published five days after Auden dated and sent this grumpy non-celebratory poem to Rossiter (New Yorker, 6 September 1969). Just six weeks previously on 21 July, as part of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission, Neil Armstrong had become the first person to step onto the Moon’s surface.

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£300 - £400

766* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, 77 St Mark’s Place, New York, the first letter thanking Rossiter for his letter and saying that he is delighted that he enjoyed City Without Walls [poetry collection by Auden, first published by Faber, 1969], then recommending a book, The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eisley, old sellotape remains to upper margin not affecting any text; the second letter, thanking him for his letter and saying that ‘I should be honoured and delighted to recommend you for an Arts Council award. I believe the right person to apply to for the form is Charles Osbourne’, and wishing him the best for 1970, a few marks below signature in blank area at foot, both one page, 4to, with the accompanying envelopes, plus a group of 4 related typed carbon copy letters from Rossiter to Auden (10 November 1969 - 10 January 1970), 4 pages, 4to (6)

£200 - £300

767* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Typed Letter Signed, ‘Wystan’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, saying that he arrived here [home in Austria] last Sunday ‘and on Monday received your letter, The Golden Chain and the pictures. The latter are lovely and I am very proud to be their possessor. Thank you ever so much. To-day I heard from the Arts Council that they have given you an award. I am glad and am happy to think that my words had some effect. Before coming here, I spent a week in Israel with two friends. A fascinating country, but very expensive. I wish I could believe that any of the ‘Christian’ sites are [hand-corrected above the typed word ‘were’] historically genuine, but I suppose it doesn’t matter really. In Bethlehem, alas, one is plagued by touts. The most beautiful building we saw was the Mosque of the Rock. Next to it, an Italian and German synagogue in the Israeli Museum’, hoping that Rossiter’s show has gone well and hoping they might meet again in London in June when he returns there for another International Poetry Festival, 1 page on personal stationery, 4to, with the accompanying envelope, plus a related typed carbon copy of a letter from Rossiter to Auden, 8 June 1979, 2 pages, 4to (2) £150 - £200

768* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). A group of five Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Bez. St. Pollen, Austria and the last 15 Loudon Road, London, NW8, 12 June / 16 October 1970, all to Anthony Rossiter in blue ballpoint pen, the first four on personal stationery, all brief notes, the first respecting lunch and saying he will ask Spender ‘to book us a table at the Gavroche’; the second saying that he is still in Austria and not arriving in England till October so he is ‘most disappointed’ to miss Rossiter’s show; the third saying that he is arriving in England earlier than expected and wondering whether it might be possible to come and visit for a night or two around the 13 October; the fourth letter confirming that he would like to come and stay with Rossiter for two nights on 13 October and asking him to write care of Dr J. B. Auden, asking if it is convenient and what train to catch [Rossiter was then living at Dalesford House, Litton, near Bath, Somerset]; the last letter thanking Rossiter and his wife Anneka for a lovely time, ‘though I’m afraid, it was rather expensive for you. To-day is marvellous weather in London: hope it is in the Mendips too’, adding a post script for Anthony, ‘You must not say super. Very nonU’, all 1 page, 4to/8vo, with the accompanying envelopes (5) £500 - £800 Lot 769

769* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Three Autograph Letters

Signed, ‘Wystan’, 14 April 1971, 1 & 13 July [1971], to Anthony Rossiter, all with mentions of Rossiter’s portraits of Auden, the first, ‘... nobody, of course, can objectively judge a portrait of himself. I can only say that I like what you did very much. As to your article, of course, you may publish it if you can find an outlet, but there is one correction you must make...’; the second saying ‘I don’t know why I looked so grumpy in the photograph: perhaps, it was my disgust at silly student demonstrations against the P.M. [Ted Heath] (whom I found very nice)’, before making a couple of corrections and saying that he will be in England briefly next week, but hoping they might meet again in October; the third letter thank Rossiter for his letter and the photographs, ‘Of course, nobody can judge a portrait of themselves; I can only say that I like them very much as pictures’ and hoping to see him in October, all in blue ballpoint pen on personal stationery, 1 page, 4to (the first 8vo), with the accompanying envelopes (3) £300 - £500

770* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Three Autograph Letters

Signed, ‘Wystan’, 77 St Mark’s Place, New York, 4 January 1972, All Souls College, Oxford, 20 October 1972 & Christ Church, Oxford, 3 January 1973, the first saying that he is sorry to hear that Rossiter has had a relapse, ‘Really, doctors should know the proper dose to give. All well here. Have finished a new book of poems which should be out in the summer. The world is getting very strange. A few weeks ago a very respectable professional photographer came here to take some photos for an agency. Suddenly – I couldn’t believe my ears - in a most conventional voice he suggested taking a shot in the nude!’; the second letter saying that it will be another ten days before he can get into his Christ Church cottage, ‘British workmen are so lazy’, and hoping to see him soon; the third and final letter to Rossiter thanking him for his letter and [Charles] Tomlinson’s book, ‘The latter I find very good, though I wish there were more variety of tone’, concluding that it was nice seeing them both again and hoping to meet again soon, the first two in blue ballpoint pen, the last in black ballpoint pen, all 1 page, 4to (the last 8vo), with the accompanying envelopes (3) £300 - £500

771AR* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Portrait of the head of W. H. Auden by Anthony Rossiter (1926-2000), September 1970, pencil on paper, showing a close-up of Auden’s head with cigarette hanging from his mouth, signed with initials and dated lower right, uniform overall light brown toning, 44 x 27 cm, framed and glazed Anthony Rossiter has written pencil notes in the lower part of the picture: ‘1st study - Auden puffing away. ‘My puffers’. Working drawing sketch for oil painting - Auden relaxing. Head to be tilted back? Clouds of puffer smoke decorating and disguising this incredibly complex face. Diagonal of puffer contrasting cheeks, Complimenting. Oil size probably 22 x 30 or 20 x 24’. The finished oil portrait for which this was a preparatory sketch remains in the family’s hands. Auden visited Anthony and Anneka Rossiter at Dalesford House near Bath in 1970, giving the artist an opportunity to paint a series of rare portraits.

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£1,000 - £1,500

772* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). A group of 5 photographs of W. H. Auden taken by Anthony Rossiter in his home near Bath, 1970, vintage gelatin silver prints, all half-length showing the wrinkled face of Auden seated and smoking with books, etc., 25 x 20 cm, together with a group of 9 of Rossiter’s photographs of his portraits of Auden made at that time, all 25 x 20 cm (14)

£200 - £300

773* Dickey (James Lafayette, 1923-1997). Deliverance, 1st UK edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970, some old sellotape adhesion remains to endpapers and foremargins of dust jacket flaps, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and small nick at foot of upper joint, 8vo, together with a Typed Letter Signed from James Dickey, 4620 Lelia's Court, Columbia, 2 November 1970, to Anthony Rossiter, thanking him for his letter and continuing, '... I have very rarely been in Columbia at all, what with the hullabaloo appending Deliverance', the trip to London for the British publication, the negotiations with film people, and the rest. I hope by now that you have read Deliverance, and have found something in it for you. Please understand how very much moved I am by your congratulatory statement. I doubt that I will ever write another novel - though I might, even so - and so it is doubly important for people whom I esteem, as I do you, to like the book, and even more important that they should be so kind as to write and tell me so. I won't go on and on in this immoderate vein, but will just close on thanks, once more... ', telling that he is going to choose another Rossiter picture to buy but only after 'a lot of work to which I am already committed, both myself, by Warner Brothers out in Hollywood, and by other Agencies over which I have little or no control', old sellotape stains, mostly to margins, one page, 4to, together with a group of 8 further Typed Letters Signed, ‘Jim’, from Dickey to Rossiter, 1969-73, as a friend and fan/collector of Rossiter’s art, praising The Pendulum in one and saying that he is re-reading The Golden Chain for the second time in another, ‘and think it’s just terrific’ and wondering if the painting on the front, ‘Conflagration of Cornstooks’ is available to buy, and in one letter referring to Deliverance once more, ‘… thanks for the things you are kind enough to say about Deliverance, both the novel and the film. Yes; the English reviews have been very good, and a great deal more perceptive than the American ones, good or otherwise, and this is all very gratifying’, a total of 7 pages, 4to, with the accompanying envelopes, and two carbon copies of letters from Rossiter to Dickey

The American poet and novelist James Dickey adapted his novel Deliverance for the eponymous film, released in 1972. Directed by John Boorman it starred Jon Voigt and Burt Reynolds. Critically acclaimed, the film earned three Academy Award nominations. In 2005, the novel itself was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. (12) £300 - £400

774* Fowles (John, 1926-2005). A group of 4 Typed Letters and 1 Autograph Letter Signed, Belmont House/Underhill Farm, Lyme Regis, 1960-74, all to Anthony Rossiter, the first saying that their stepdaughter Anna has been accepted for Bristol, that Elizabeth and he are both sorry we missed the exhibition 'which I hope was successful - and the book. I saw only the rather nasty review from Jupiter Cyril; bad notices from that quarter are almost a compliment, I think, and I'm sure you got justice elsewhere', the second (16 May 1968) giving his thoughts about The Pendulum 'a very remarkable document of courage; a remarkable practical proof of what R. D. Laing has been on about for some time now (hope you've read his book), with the added pleasure of your being a much better writer than he is - and of course, writing from the inside. I wish only that there had been some illustrations - but I gather that's been corrected in the American edition. The book reminded me at times of Montaigne - that almost inhuman contemplation of objectivity about one's own journey through life - and you can't have higher praise from me than that', the last letter (18 December 1974) seemingly referring to his collection of novellas and short stories The Ebony Tower (1974), 'I was delighted the artistic side of the title story meets your approval. I was rather afraid it might be a case of fools rushing in... I think my stepdaughter and her recently acquired husband, who is doing pottery at the RCA, were a little horrified at the use I made of their own miscries in the arteducation world. I have also just returned from shocking the Americans a little by suggesting that most of the New York School gigantists are ludicrously over-rated. But so many there have invested so much in the stuff that it is rather like attacking the New York Stock Exchange!', a total of 8 pages, 8vo, plus an Autograph Letter Signed from Elizabeth Fowles to Anneka (12 June 1968), plus the accompanying envelopes and Anthony Rossiter's first edition copy of Fowles's The Collector (Cape, 1963) with some pencil annotations, underscorings and coffee stains, hinges cracked, original cloth in worn dust jacket, 8vo (7) £200 - £300

775* Frost (Robert Lee, 1874-1963). In the Clearing, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2nd printing, 1962, a few minor marks to text, author's signed presentation inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, 'To Anneka Rossiter away over there from her husband's friend, Robert Frost, here in Ripton, Vt, USA, September 18 1962', original cloth in dust jacket, rubbed and a little frayed at edges, together with:

Complete Poems of Robert Frost, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 13th printing, 1961, portrait frontispiece, occasional pencil marks (by Anthony Rossiter), a little occasional finger-soiling and other marks, author's signed presentation inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, 'To Anthony from Robert, with affection, Ripton Vermont USA, Sept. 18 1962', original cloth in worn dust jacket, 8vo, plus a copy of The Letters of Robert Frost, edited by Louis Untermeyer, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Morrison (Kathleen), Robert Frost, A Pictorial Chronicle, 1st edition, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, half-tone plates and illustrations, author's signed presentation note sellotaped at margins on to front free endpaper, 'For Anthony and Anneka Rossiter with warm memories of the good days with RF at the Horner Noble Farm and of our fine visit to Lytton in 1961', original cloth in rubbed and spotted dust jacket, large 8vo; plus two letters and a Christmas card from Kay (and Ted) Anthony and Anneka, and a related snapshot and order of service for Robert Frost

In 1962 Rossiter made his first trip to the USA after winning an Arts Council Bursary. He had been invited to stay with the poet Robert Frost in New Hampshire and they became friends. On his return from the USA, Rossiter began work on The Pendulum, which was published by Gollancz in 1966. Kathleen ‘Kay’ Johnston Morrison (1898-1989) was secretary-manager to the poet Robert Frost from 1938 until Frost's death in 1963. (9)

£300 - £500

776* Huxley (Aldous, 1894-1963 & Osmond, Humphry, 1917-2004). A good group of 8 letters from Huxley and Osmond to Anthony Rossiter concerning hallucinogenic drugs and related matters, 1962-67, comprising 3 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Aldous Huxley’, California & London, 6 March, 7 June & 13 September 1962, all to Anthony Rossiter, the longest first letter thanking him for his letter and the opening pages of the pendulum book, ‘I hope you will soon complete this account of your experience; for I am sure it will contain much that the rest of us will find enlightening. My own experiments with mescaline LSD and psilocybin have helped me to understand many things in the fields of art, religion and philosophy which, before, had seemed incomprehensible or had passed unnoticed. (Some of these insights were set down in the sequel to The Doors of Perception – “Heaven & Hell”. Others I have tried to set forth in the final chapter of my forthcoming utopian phantasy “Island”.) But there is so much more to be recorded and reflected upon, and you, I would think, are one of the few people adequately equipped, by talent and pendulum-temperament, to do it...’, suggesting it would be a good idea for Rossiter to contact his friend Dr Humphry Osmond ‘who first gave me mescaline...’ and giving his address, written in black ink on both sides of a folding air mail letter with postally-used address panel; the second letter written in a large hand in black ink on plain paper with filing holes, offering to meet up should Rossiter ever come to Los Angeles, and the final letter to Rossiter now in New York saying that he is now in London and expects to be back in California in early October, wishing him luck with his book and painting, both 1 page; together with:3 Autograph and 2 Typed Letters Signed, ‘Humphry Osmond’, 1962/1967, all to Anthony Rossiter following their introduction by Aldous Huxley, all concerning Rossiter’s ideas as set forth in his autobiography The Pendulum and Osmond’s own thoughts and observations about mental illness and drugs, a total of 8 pages, the earliest autograph letter damaged by biopredation (near-contemporary complete typed carbon copy supplied by Rossiter), one other typed letter with old marginal sellotape remains, various sizes, plusRossiter’s paperback copy of Huxley’s book The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Penguin, 1960 reprint), heavily underscored and marked by Rossiter throughout with scattered comments, mostly in pencil, ink ownership signature and note to half-title, original printed orange wrappers, 8vo Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1917-2004) was an English psychiatrist who moved to Canada and later the United States. He is known for inventing the word psychedelic and for his research into interesting and useful applications for psychedelic drugs. Osmond also explored aspects of the psychology of social environments, in particular how they influenced welfare or recovery in mental institutions. In 1953, Aldous Huxley was a renowned poet and playwright who, in his twenties, had gone on to achieve success and acclaim as a novelist and widely published essayist. He had lived in the USA for well over a decade and gained some experience screenwriting for Hollywood films. Huxley had initiated a correspondence with Osmond. Huxley lamented that contemporary education seemed typically to have the unintended consequence of constricting the minds of the educated, closing students’ minds to inspiration and many things other than material success and consumerism. Huxley asked Osmond whether he would be kind enough to supply a dose of mescaline. In May of that year, Osmond travelled to the USA for a conference and, while there, gave Huxley the requested mescaline and supervised the ensuing experience in Huxley’s neighbourhood. As a result of his experience, Huxley produced the book The Doors of Perception, describing the look of the Hollywood Hills and his responses to artwork while under the influence. Osmond’s name appears in four footnotes in the early pages of the book (in references to articles he had written about medicinal use of hallucinogenic drugs). Anthony Rossiter began his correspondence with Huxley and Osmond while writing his autobiography, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). From the ecstasy of the creative high to the agonising despair of depression, The Pendulum was the creative artist’s riposte to the cult success of Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus, 1954). Where Huxley induced heightened perception by carefully controlled experiments with mescaline, Rossiter’s swings came naturally and without warning. (10) £700 - £1,000

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777* Lee (Laurie, 1914-1997). A group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed, 'Laurie', Slad & London, 1964-67, all to Anthony Rossiter, the first saying that it is good to hear from him again but sorry that they'll be in London the weekend of his party, 'It is in any case almost impossible for us to get either to Bath or Bristol from here (with the babies) as the buses/trains are so complicated and devious. But we hope you may take time off to motor up here with the family one day. This is only a small charcoal-burner's cottage, but we should love to see you here' (7 May 1964), the second letter (22 February 1967) referring to his book The Pendulum which 'is most vivid and moving, an intense experience and written with remarkable clarity and insight. I also believe that there is a true mystical experience here, as well as humility - whatever the blurb may say', the final letter (23 May 1967) regretting that as he is already engaged in an Arts Council sponsorship he isn't allowed another one and suggesting he try C. Day Lewis, the second letter with heavy old sellotape staining to all four margins not affecting text, a total of 4 pp., 8vo, together with a Christmas Card Signed from Laurie and family, plus Autograph Letter Signed from Stephen Spender (giving Auden's New York address), 4 Autograph Letters Signed from the poet Charles Tomlinson (one with sellotape stain at upper margin), plus an Autograph Postcard Signed from each of Cecil Day Lewis and his wife Jill, plus one Autograph Letter Signed and carbon copies of two other letters from the American poet Robert Lowell (14)

£200 - £300

778* Lehmann (Rosamond, 1901-1990). A group of 7 Autograph Letters Signed and 3 Postcards Signed, 'Rosemary', and two initialled 'R', 70 Eaton Square, London, 1954/1967 and 2 undated, all to Anthony Rossiter, the earliest letter (15 January 1954) saying that she is very pleased to have been invited to open his first exhibition and later saying, 'as you know, I believed in you as an artist-to-be when you were very young. It is lovely to think you have gone on so single-mindedly, and that Gilbert Spencer, whom I used to see quite often, is encouraging you to hold an exhibition', another saying 'I am so touched by your saying that I influenced you towards adopting your present way of life. I know I played a small part - but it was you, it was yourself, your driving force and single-mindedness that really guided you!' (25 March 1963), 'I want to tell you how much The Pendulum has moved and impressed me. I usually try my best not to review books written by my friends: but this book of yours seemed to me a completely special case. I asked the literary editor of The Listener if I could review it for him - and he agreed - and I do hope you will like what I have written. It came from the heart and I took trouble with it... ' (26 July 1966), and others concerning books, art and health, etc., a total of 17 pages, mostly 8vo (10)

£100 - £150

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779* Sassoon (Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967). Two Autograph Letters Signed with monogram ‘SS’, Heytesbury House, Wiltshire, 5 November 1965 & 27 February 1967, both to Anthony Rossiter, the first referring to Dom Aelred and saying that it is difficult for him to drive himself to Downside [School] now, before continuing, ‘It is extraordinary, the consoling effect the Memoirs have on people. A famous steeplechase rider wrote to me last March, saying that it had been the greatest blessing to his mind while in hospital after a bad accident. I always say that the clue to its charm is that it is an unprofessional piece of writing. My later books are more skilful, though not less natural, I hope. You mentioned John Moore. He was brought here once, about twelve years ago, and I found him quite delightful, like his books. I hope you will bring yourself here some afternoon. I am something of a solitary, though befriended by my beeches!; the second letter referring to a recent visit by Dom Aelred and saying that he should wait until the spring before visiting, ‘You must also realize – in your tremendous young intellectual explorativeness – that you are addressing the much simplified mind of a complete quietest! I still try to respond to what the world expects of me – (my renown as a war writer, as you infer, has become almost a burden on me) – but I exist in a kind of domestic retreat from worldly concerns. And am, as always, that simple soul George Sherston. Him you will find in his library – living a lot in meditation on past life and those I have loved and lost. That self, people say, does give out the light of faith and submissiveness. But the intellectual adventurer is not there. You must take him as you find him!’, both 1 page, 8vo, with the accompanying envelope to the second letter

Sassoon and Rossiter shared a friendship with Dom Aelred, a monk at Downside School. Dom Aelred was Christopher Ingram Watkin (1918-1997), a housemaster at Downside School, 1948-62, and then Headmaster, 1962-75. Siegfried Sassoon converted to Catholicism in 1957 under the instruction of Dom Sebastian Moore at Downside Abbey, close to his home. Sassoon also sometimes played for a Downside Abbey team called ‘The Ravens’, continuing playing well into his seventies. After meeting Dom Father Aelred Watkin, the Headmaster of Downside School near Bath, in 1960, Rossiter became increasingly drawn to the Catholic Church. He adored the poetry of Gregorian ritual and in his own search for truth, was attracted by the combination of moral values and mysticism that the Benedictines taught. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1962, the beginning of a lifelong attachment to Downside Abbey and to its monastic community. This led to his being asked to paint the portrait of Dom Father Aelred Watkin upon his retirement as Headmaster of the school. The painting hangs, with the other portraits of former headmasters, in the school dining room.

£400 - £600

780* Rossiter (Anthony, 19262000). Artist, writer and teacher. An archive of letters to Anthony & Anneka Rossiter, mostly c. 1965-75, a mixture of handwritten and typed letters from friends and professional peers, covering a range of personal and artistic subjects, including letters from Father Aelred Watkin (5) David Cecil (10), Robert Bolt (5, plus a testimonial, Christmas card and 2 letters from Jo Bolt), Iain Hamilton (6), Thelma & John Hillaby John Moore (3), Frank Kermode (5), James & Tania Stern (13), Ronald Lewin (3), Sylvia Lewin (5) Peter Blake (1), Alexander Weymouth (2), plus approximately 15 others from Stanley Jones, Alexander Dunluce, Anne Queensberry and others, may with the accompanying envelopes (approx. 75)

£200 - £300

781 Fowles (John). De Magiër [The Magus], 1st Dutch edition, Bossum: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1967, author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper in blue ballpoint pen, 'Anneka Rossiter. With the writer's sincere regards - and hopes that it sounds better in Dutch than in English! John Fowles, 5 October 1968', original cloth in rubbed dust jacket with a little wear to extremities, 8vo, together with: Bolt (Robert), Flowering Cherry, A Play in Two Acts, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1958, half-tone frontispiece, author's signed presentation inscription for Anthony and Anneka [Rossiter] signed 'Bob Bolt' to front free endpaper, original cloth in slightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket, plus Kops (Bernard), An Anemone for Antigone, Written in Belmont Psychiatric Hospital, March 1951, 1st edition, London: Scorpion Press, 1959, some spotting, author's signed presentation inscription to Anthony and Anneka [Rossiter] to half-title, dated December 1965, original printed wrappers, a little faded and soiled, slim 8vo, (1 of 25 copies, this copy unnumbered), plus other books from the library of Anthony Rossiter, mostly art and literature interest including some paperbacks, several (unsigned) books by and about W. H. Auden and a few further notes or signatures including those of Gilbert Spencer, David Cecil and Ronald Lewin (approx. 70)

£150 - £200

784 Amis (Kingsley). One Fat Englishman, 1st edition, signed, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, signed by the author to title, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, panels dust-soiled, spine extremities chipped with small loss, 8vo, together with:

One Fat Englishman, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, inscribed by the author to head of front free endpaper ‘Best wishes to Philip Murray, Kingsley Amis’, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, some chipping to extremities with small loss, 8vo

£200 - £300

782 Adams (Richard). Watership Down, presentation copy, London: Rex Collings, 1974, inscribed by the author to title ‘For Robin and Paddy Borwick, with all good wishes from Richard Adams’, original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Chatwin (Bruce). In Patagonia, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1977, cartographic frontispiece, black and white illustrations after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket (priceclipped), 8vo, plus Carré (John Le). Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, signed by the author to bookplate mounted to half-title, a few spots, small library stamp to title verso, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, head of spine frayed with small loss, 8vo, with Fleming (Ian). The Diamond Smugglers, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957, frontispiece, black and white illustrations after photographs, neat ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper, original black cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 8 other modern first editions, many in dust jackets (12)

783 Aldiss (Brian). Somewhere East of Life, 1st edition, London: Flamingo, 1994, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities lightly bumped, 8vo, together with: Burgess (Anthony). Devil of a State, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1961, loose Heinemann review slip with annotations (presumably by Aldiss) to verso, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine somewhat toned, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Amis (Martin). Experience, 1st edition, signed, London: Jonathan Cape, 2000, signed by Amis to title, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly bumped, 8vo, with approximately 60 other 20thcentury works

Each work from the library of Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) with a loosely inserted provenance note signed by the executor of his estate. (approx. 65)

£200 - £300

Take A Girl Like You, 1st edition, signed, London: Victor Gollancz, 1960, signed by the author to title, preliminary and rear leaves spotted with some small damp-stains, rear free endpaper with a few small holes, bookplate residue to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, tape residue to covers, dust jacket, 8vo, with 5 other Kingsley Amis first editions in dust jacket (8)

£200 - £300

785 Asimov (Isaac). Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation, 1st editions, 1st impressions, 1st states, New York: Gnome Press, 1951-52-53, all in first state original publisher’s cloth and dust jackets, all dust jackets unclipped, Foundation dust jacket lightly rubbed to extremities, a few small closed marginal tears, small closed tear to centre of spine, Foundation and Empire dust jacket lightly rubbed with a few small closed marginal tears, closed tear to head of upper joint, Second Foundation dust jacket worn with loss to head and tail of spine (touching text), single small neat professional archival tape reinforcement to foot of spine verso, rubbed with a few further small tears, all 8vo

Currey, p. 17.

First editions, with all first issue points, of this landmark work of science fiction. The series won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966 beating, among others, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. (3)

£1,000 - £1,500

786 Barnes (Julian). The Sense of an Ending, signed limited edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 2011, original calf-backed green cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, 8vo, contained in original green cloth slipcase, 4 of 75 copies, together with: Coetzee (J. M). Disgrace, 1st edition, signed, London: Secker & Warburg, 1999, signed by the author to title, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, plus Life & Times of Michael K, signed, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 2017, signed by the author to title, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, with Martel (Yann). Life of Pi, illustrated by Tomislav Torjanac, signed limited edition, London: Canongate, 2007, signed by the author and illustrator, as new, in wrapping and slipcase, tall 8vo, with 21 other modern first editions, most in dust jackets, many signed (25)

£200 - £300

788 Bloch (Robert). Psycho, 1st edition, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959, usual toning to textblock, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, 8vo

A fine copy. (1)

£500 - £800

787 Bates (H. E.). The Two Sisters, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1926, endpapers a little toned, original cloth, dust jacket, slight toning to spine, one or two small nicks, 8vo, together with Lehmann (Rosamond). A Note in Music, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1930, light spotting front and rear, presentation inscription and manuscript note ‘I do hope you enjoyed it’ at foot of last page, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, spine a little faded, small stains to rear panel, 8vo, plus Williamson (Henry). The Lone Swallows and other essays of boyhood and youth, 1st illustrated edition, London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1933, illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe, light spotting to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, a few light marks, dust jacket, spine a little rubbed and toned, 8vo, with others including The Bowmen and other Legends of the War, by Arthur Machen, 1915, Gold Coast Customs, by Edith Sitwell, 1929, Brief Candles, by Aldous Huxley, 1930 and others by Henry Williamson, T. H. White, Arthur Machen, Bruce Chatwin, Angus Wilson, Denton Welch, Peter Ackroyd et al (approximately 220)

£300 - £500

789 Booker Prize. Winners and shortlisters, 1968-2023, a collection of mostly first UK editions, uncorrected proofs, hardbacks and softbacks, approximately 51 signed including The Public Image, by Muriel Spark, 1968, The Big Chapel, by Thomas Kilroy, 1971, signed by the author, Pasmore, by David Storey, 1972, Ending Up, by Kingsley Amis, 1974 (uncorrected proof), Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1975, Peter Smart’s Confessions, by Paul Bailey, 1977 (signed), Praxis, by Fay Weldon, 1978 (signed), A Bend in the River, by V. S. Naipaul, 1979, The Sirian Experiments, by Doris Lessing, 1981, An Ice-Cream War, by William Boyd, 1982, What’s Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies, 1st US edition, 1985 (David Lodge’s copy with his pencil annotations), Chatterton, by Peter Ackroyd, 1987 (inscribed), The Book of Evidence, by John Banville, 1989, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle, 1993 (inscribed), The Folding Star, by Alan Hollingshurst, 1994 (signed), The Keepers of Truth, by Michael Collins, 2000 (signed), Atonement, by Ian McEwan, 2001 (signed), Fury, by Salman Rushdie, 2001 (signed), and Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, 2012, limited edition proof 49/500, a few duplicates etc (approximately 152)

£300 - £400

791 Bulwer-Lytton (Edward). The Haunted and the Haunters, 1st edition in book form, London: Gowans & Grey, 1905, half-title, publisher’s advertisement leaf at end, original chromolithographed parchment dust jacket, lightly toned, small amount of wear to head of spine, small 8vo (14.5 x 9 cm)

The rare first separate edition of Lytton’s famous horror story, which H.P. Lovecraft considered “one of the best short haunted-house tales ever written”.

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£400 - £600

792 Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1962, all edges black, recent black morocco by the Chelsea bindery, upper cover with Alex’s iconic bowler hat design onlaid, lettered in orange, 8vo

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£500 - £800

790 Buchan (John). The Power-House, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916, leaves lightly browned, original red cloth, facsimile dust jacket, 8vo, together with: The Moon Endureth, Tales and Fancies, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912, publisher’s advertisements at rear, original black cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Midwinter, Central Travellers in Old England, inscribed copy, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1925, inscribed by the author ‘Alfred Jubb from John Buchan’ to front free endpaper, a few light spots, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities frayed with small loss, with 10 other works by John Buchan (13)

£150 - £200

793 Byatt (A. S.). The Children’s Book, 1st edition, London Chatto & Windus, 2009, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed and dated to title, together with 10 others including 8 signed by A. S. Byatt, a few with her annotations, titles include 1st editions Late Call, by Angus Wilson, 1964, and No Laughing Matter, 1967 The Survival of the Fittest, by Pamela Hansford Johnson, 1968, Roger’s Version, by John Updike, 1st UK edition, 1986, and A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer, 1987 (11)

£100 - £200

794 Carnegie (Andrew). Round the World, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884, slight toning to textblock, original cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear, top edge gilt, later brown half morocco gilt by Thomas W. Best, small 4to

Presentation copy, inscribed to dedication leaf ‘Yours for the Brotherhood of Man, Andrew Carnegie, New York, Feby 6th 1901’ and added at foot ‘For James C. Young Esq, Minneapolis, Minn’.

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£300 - £500

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Lot 792

Lot 794

795 Charriere (Henri). Papillon, 2nd UK reprint edition, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970, map endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, a little light spotting, 8vo

Signed by the author as ‘Papillon’ to title and dated 10. 3. 71. (1)

£200 - £300

797 Christie (Agatha). Murder on the Orient Express, 1st edition, London: W. Collins Sons & Co. for the Crime Club Ltd, 1934, advertisement leaf bound at rear, small pale damp stain to title and half-title verso, red stain at foot of front endpaper, a little minor spotting, original green variant cloth, lettered in black, spine a little faded with light mark, covers slightly bowed, 8vo

Rare green cloth variant, usually bound in the orange cloth. (1)

£300 - £500

£300 - £400

796 Charteris (Leslie). Prelude for War, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, original publisher’s blue cloth, spine faded, rubbed, dust jacket, head and lower half of spine restored, small fraying with loss restored, 8vo, together with: Thieves’ Picnic, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937, original publisher’s blue cloth, spine faded, lightly rubbed, dust jacket, restored along folds and head and tail of panels, 8vo (2)

798 Cocteau (Jean). Le Secret Professionnel, 1st edition, Paris: Librairie Stock, 1922, portrait by Picasso to title verso, some toning and a few light spots, original printed wrappers bound in contemporary marbled boards, morocco label to spine, a little rubbed at ends, 12mo

Presentation copy, inscribed to half title ‘Souvenir très amical de votre admirateur, Jean Cocteau, 9 Sep. 1922’ (1)

£200 - £300

799 Colophon Press. Harper and Wilton, by Muriel Spark, London: Colophon Press, 1996, original morocco-backed marbled boards, large 8vo, limited signed edition 98/100, together with Trevor (William). Death of a Professor, Colophon Press, 1997, original stitched wrappers, 8vo, limited signed edition 97/200, plus Low Sunday, 1950, by William Trevor, Colophon Press, 2000, original stitched wrappers, 8vo, limited signed edition 10/200, together with 26 others including Muriel Spark’s A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur, Colophon Press, 2001, limited signed edition 121/125, 1st trade editions of Laurence Durrell’s Livia or Buried Alive, 1978, and Quinx or the Ripper’s Tale, 1985, both signed by the author, Eric Newby’s On the Shores of the Mediterranean, 1984, signed, Writing Home, by Alan Bennett, 1994, signed, John Updike’s Toward the End of Time, 1st Uk edition, 1997, signed, Among the Believers, by V. S. Naipaul, 1983, signed, plus others, including The Fisher King, by Anthony Powell, 1986, David Storey, Eric Newby et al (29)

£200 - £300

800 Conrad (Joseph, 1857-1924). Almayer’s Folly. A Story of an Eastern River, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895, title-page printed in red and black, some spotting largely confined to front and rear, ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper in an unidentified hand, ‘To dear Ted with the Author’s love’, partly uncut, original green cloth lettered in gilt, rubbed and slightly marked, spine browned and frayed at head and foot, 8vo

This is the first state, with type dropped in the bottom two lines on p. 110. Though not in his hand the presentation inscription is from the author to Ted who may possibly be Edward Lancelot Sanderson. Conrad first met Sanderson in 1893, when the budding novelist was serving as chief mate onboard the Torrens. Also onboard were Sanderson and John Galsworthy who both became lifelong friends with Conrad. Sanderson and his wife became two of Conrad’s closest friends and Conrad dedicated his second book, An Outcast of the Islands (1896) to Sanderson. John Galsworthy’s presentation copy of this book from Conrad was simply inscribed ‘From the Author’, albeit in Conrad’s hand. (1)

£300 - £500

801 Coppard (A. E.). Silver Circus, limited issue, 1928; Pink Furniture, limited issue, 1930, a few minor spots to endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum (some discolouration), dust jackets, spines slightly rubbed and toned, 8vo, Silver Circus limited signed edition 99/125, Pink Furniture limited signed edition 101/250, together with 17 others by the author, a few duplicates including another limited edition of Silver Circus, The Black Dog and other stories, 1923, Fishmonger’s Diddle, 1925, The Field of Mustard, 1926, Pink Furniture, 1930, Nixey’s Harlequin, 1931, Dunky Fitlow, 1933, Polly Oliver, 1935, Fearful Pleasures (Arkham House, Sauk City edition), 1946 (19)

£150 - £200

802 Crompton (Richmal). William - the Conqueror, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, [1926], illustrations by Thomas Henry, 3 pp. advertisements at end, a few light spots, contemporary pencil presentation inscription to front pastedown, original red cloth, foot of spine a little faded, dust jacket, tear and loss at foot of spine and along front flap, a few other small chips, closed tears and creases, small stains to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

803 Cummings (E. E.). The Enormous Room, 1st edition, 1st issue, signed, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922, signed by the author to front free endpaper, original brown cloth, dust jacket, upper joint split, a few closed tears, some paper reinforcements, some loss to spine extremities, 8vo, contained in green moroccobacked box, spine lettered in gilt

The author’s first book. A first edition, first issue, with “Shit!” present on final line of p. 219. (1)

£300 - £400

805 Dahl (Roald). The BFG, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1982, illustrations by Quentin Blake, slight toning to textblock and minor spotting to endpapers, original cloth (corners a little bumped), price-clipped dust jacket, short closed tear at head of spine and one fold, tiny nicks at foot of spine, 8vo

£200 - £300

804 Dahl (Roald). Matilda, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988, illustrations by Quentin Blake, ex-library stamp to verso of title and stickers to endpapers, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, rubbed with some light loss to spine extremities, 8vo, together with: The Twits, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1980, illustrations by Quentin Blake, ex-library with small stamp to front free endpaper, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities lightly frayed, 8vo, plus Esio Trot, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, illustrations by Quentin Blake, contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, flaps spotted, 8vo, with Donaldson (Julia). The Gruffalo’s Child, 1st edition, London: Macmillan, 2004, illustrations by Axel Scheffler, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (price-clipped), 4to, with approximately 35 other 20th-century books (40)

Signed copy, inscribed to front endpaper in green marker pen ‘With love, Roald Dahl, 1982’. Together with a School Book Shop Association letter, dated February 1983 awarding the book as a prize in their Phizzwizard competition. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

806 David (Elizabeth). French Country Cooking, 1st edition, London: John Lehmann, 1951, illustrated by John Minton (including frontispiece and illustrated title), a few corners creased, original oatmeal cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

807 Davies (Rhys). The Skull, 1st edition, Brockweir, Chepstow: Tintern Press, 1936, wood-engraved illustrations by Sylvia Marshall, slight toning to endpapers, original morocco-backed buckram boards, covers with triangular design by Sylvia Marshall, 4to, limited signed edition 45/95 from a total edition of 110, together with The Stars, the World, and the Women, No 4. of the Furnival Books, 1930, frontispiece by Frank C. Pape, partly unopened, top edge gilt, original buckram, slight marginal fading, tall 8vo, limited signed edition 84/550, plus Rings on Her Fingers, Collector’s edition, London: Harold Shaylor, 1930, top edge gilt, original buckram, glassine wrapper (torn with loss), slipcase (edges rubbed), 8vo, limited signed edition 26/175, with others by the author including One of Norah’s Early Days, 1935, limited signed edition 141/285, Arfon, 1931, limited signed edition 41/400, The Red Hills, 1932, and Count Your Blessings, 1932, both inscribed by the author to Arnold Ovenden, The Things Men Do, 1936, and ToMorrow to Fresh Woods, 1941, both inscribed (32)

£300 - £400

808 Dickens (Charles). The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A fancy for Christmas-Time, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, frontispiece and additional title, black and white illustrations, armorial bookplate of Samuel Hanson to front pastedown, gift bookplate to Brian Aldiss to front free endpaper, Dickens commemorative stamp to blank verso of additional title, contemporary half calf gilt, extremities scuffed, 8vo, together with: Golding (William). The Inheritors, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1955, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Pincher Martin, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1956, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Free Fall, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1959, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with approximately 35 other 20th-century works from the library of Brian Aldiss Each work from the library of Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) with a loosely inserted provenance note signed by the executor of his estate. (approx. 40)

£200 - £300

809 [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge], ‘Lewis Carroll’. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, facsimile edition, Guilford: Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co. Pty.Ltd., 1979, facsimile illustrations, small oval photographic portrait mounted to glassine leaf at end, all edges gilt, original red morocco gilt, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition of 500, this copy unnumbered, together with Dickens (Charles). The Cricket on the Hearth, facsimile edition, Guilford: Genesis Publications, 1981, facsimile manuscript, colour illustrations, original moroccobacked cloth boards, slipcase, 4to, limited edition of 250, signed by Monica Dickens, this copy unnumbered, plus another facsimile limited edition of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, Genesis Publications, 1979 (3)

£100 - £200

810 Drake (Francis and Katherine). Big Flight, London: John Hamilton, circa 1934, fore-edge spotted, original blue cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Rochester (George E.). The Flying Spy!, London: John Hamilton, circa 1935, frontispiece, 3 illustrations, original green cloth, dust jacket, extremities chipped with some loss, some loss to front flap, 8vo, with Jackals of the Clouds, London: John Hamilton, [1936], frontispiece, 3 illustrations, edges spotted, original red cloth, dust jacket, some small loss to extremities, 8vo, plus Johns (W. E.). Flying Stories, London: John Hamilton, circa 1936, frontispiece, 9 illustrations (6 in colour), margins of leaves lightly toned, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, tall 8vo, with 27 other titles including the 'Ace' series' in dust jacket (31)

£200 - £300

811 Edward, Duke of Windsor. A King’s Story. The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor, limited issue, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951, folding map, half-tone illustrations, partly unopened, top edge gilt, publisher’s red morocco gilt, slipcase, 8vo

Limited edition 292/385, signed by the Duke of Windsor. (1)

812 Eliot (T. S.) Poems 1909-1925, 1st edition, London: Faber & Gwyer, 1925, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, small previous owner signature, original cloth (covers slightly bowed), dust jacket, spine toned and slightly rubbed, a few tiny tears and light marks, 8vo

Gallup A8a. (1)

£500 - £800

£500 - £800

813 Eliot (T. S.) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VI, No. III, June 1915; Three Poems, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VII, No I. October 1915; Observations, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VIII, No. VI, September 1916, one or two short closed tears, original wrappers, short closed tear to October 1915 upper wrapper, spine ends chipped, small losses to September 1916 spine, 8vo

Gallup C18 for The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the separate first printed appearance of the poem; Gallup C21 for Three Poems (‘A fourth poem, “The Death of Saint Narcissus”, was set up in type apparently for publication in Poetry, but was not printed.’); Gallup C28 for Observations (with the misspelling ‘T. R. Eliot’ printed to upper wrapper contents list) Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, edited by the poet and art critic Harriet Monroe was founded by her in Chicago in 1912. The journal also published early works by Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and Tennessee Williams among others.

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£700 - £1,000

814 Eliot (T. S.) The Waste Land, limited issue, Verona: Officina Bodoni for Faber and Faber, 1961, light spotting to fore edges, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed marbled boards, slipcase (one fold splitting), small folio

Limited edition 65/300, signed by the poet. (1) £1,500 - £2,000

Lot 813

815 Eliot (T. S.). Four Quartets, 1st edition, in book form, London: Faber & Faber, 1944, original cloth in dustwrapper, spine toned, small chips and tears, 8vo, together with Poems Written in Early Youth, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1947, previous owner signature, original cloth, dust jacket, slight fading to spine, a couple of short closed tears, 8vo, plus Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1948, light offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, spine a little faded, dust jacket, spine toned, a few chips and tears, 8vo, plus others by the author including For Lancelot Andrewes, 1st edition, 1928, Homage to John Dryden, 2nd impression, 1927, Anabasis, a poem by St.-J. Perse, translated by T. S. Eliot, 1930, and Ash Wednesday, 1st trade edition, 1930 (27) £200 - £300

816 Faulkner (William). Intruder in the Dust, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1948, original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper, lightly rubbed to edges with minimal fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Soldier’s Pay, 1st UK edition, London: (3)

£150 - £200

817 Fleming (Ian). A collection of 8 James Bond Pan Books paperback editions, 1955-67, Casino Royale, 1955; Live and Let Die, 1957, From Russia, With Love, 1959; Thunderball, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1965; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1966; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1967, all 1st edition Pan paperback editions, plus Moonraker, 5th printing, 1961, some toning to textblocks (as usual), small inscription and front hinge reinforced to Casino Royale, original wrappers, spines a little rubbed with small closed tears at ends, 8vo, together with 14 other paperbacks including 1st Pan Books editions by Agatha Christie: Sad Cypress, 1954, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1956, The Secret of Chimneys, 1956, A Murder is Announced, 1958, The Murder on the Links, 1960, and Partners in Crime, 1962, plus Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino, Faber and Faber, 1994 (22)

£100 - £200

818 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953, original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red, dust jacket, tear with loss to upper panel (touching heart to top right-hand corner), rear panel lightly dustsoiled, extremities frayed with small loss to head of spine, a few small black ink spots to spine, 8vo Gilbert 2.1.

820 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960, light crease mark to last leaf and rear endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed with lettering faded to orange (as often), 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

Ian Fleming’s debut novel. The second impression carries the same dust jacket as the first edition, second issue, with the addition of the Sunday Times review to the front flap. (1)

£1,500 - £2,000

821 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, occasional light spotting, mainly to fore edges, original cloth, dust jacket, slight toning to spine, small tear and loss at one folds, tiny nicks at spine ends, a few light stains to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

819 Fleming (Ian). Diamonds are Forever, 1st edition, 1st impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1956, 1st impression with ‘Boofy’ for ‘Dolly’ on p. 134, original cloth, professionally repaired to joints and edges, 8vo (1)

£1,500 - £2,000

822 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, a little minor spotting front and rear, original cloth, dust jacket, spine very slightly toned, one or two spots to rear panel, contained in a black morocco-backed solander box by the Chelsea Binder y, 8vo

Signed by the author to front endpaper.

£6,000 - £8,000

823 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st editions, a few light spots, small ink inscription to Japanese poem leaf in You Only Live Twice, previous owner signature to OHMSS front pastedown, original cloth, dust jackets, You Only Live Twice spine toned, a few tiny nicks at folds, small tear to Thunderball spine, Thunderball & The Spy Who Loved Me with small tape reinforcements to versos of spines, 8vo, together with The James Bond Dossier, by Kinsley Amis, 1st edition, 1963 (6)

£300 - £500

824 Forester (C. S.). The African Queen, Boston: Little Brown and Co., February 1935 reprint, contemporary brown morocco, 8vo, inscribed at front ‘Sandra Coe, best wishes from C. S. Forester, May 1940’, together with Buchan (John). The Thirty-Nine Steps, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., Book Club edition, 1919?, textblock toned, original cloth, dust jacket, a little rubbed with repairs to verso, 8vo, with a loosely inserted 1 pp. typed letter signed by John Buchan to Frances Newbold Noyes Hart (1890-1943, US author), dated 8 June 1931, ‘I am so sorry to hear that you have been having tonsilitis. All my American friends this year seem to succumb to the rigours of our climate... I will be a great pleasure to meet you. Will you let me know when your husband arrives, and perhaps you would come to tea with me at the House of Commons’, plus 4 others: The Yellow Room, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1st edition, New York, 1945 (with a typed letter signed, dated 1945, discussing writing and raising a family), Miss Brown of X. Y. O., by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 1st Canadian edition, 1927 (with a signed half-tone folded photographic portrait), The Emperor’s Pearl, by Robert van Gulik, 1st edition, 1963 (with a bookplate inscribed by the author),, and Wild America. The record of a 30,000 mile journey around the continent by a distinguished naturalist and his British colleague, by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, 5th printing, 1956 (signed to title by Peterson)

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£100 - £200

825 Forster (E. M.). A Room With a View, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 8 pp. advertisements at rear, some light toning to endpapers and fore edges, original cloth gilt, spine faded, edges a little rubbed, a few small light stains to upper cover, 8vo Kirkpatrick A3. Forster’s third novel. 2000 copies printed. (1)

£400 - £600

826 Fowles (John). The Collector, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, a few light spots to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, slight fading to spine, light spots to rear panel, 8vo, together with 3 other 1st editions by the author: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969, Daniel Martin, 1977, and Mantissa, 1982 (4)

£200 - £300

827 Galbraith (Robert, i.e. J. K. Rowling). The Cuckoo’s Calling, 1st edition, signed, London: Sphere, 2013, signed by the author to title, authentication hologram to half-title verso, original publisher’s dark blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, with accompanying Harrogate International Festivals event ticket loosely inserted, together with:

The Silkworm, 1st edition, signed, London: Sphere, 2014, signed by the author to title (with authentication hologram to head of title), original publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with Career of Evil, 1st edition, signed, London: Sphere, 2015, signed by the author to title, original publisher’s black cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo

All books are signed by the author as Robert Galbraith. (3) £700 - £1,000

828 Galbraith (Robert, i.e. J. K. Rowling). The Silkworm, 1st edition, signed, London: Sphere, 2014, signed by the author to title (with authenticity hologram at head), original black cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, publisher’s wraparound, 8vo, together with: Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1st paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, original pictorial paper wrappers, spine lightly faded, 8vo, plus Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, ink ownership inscription to final text leaf, small library stamp to head of half-title, some loss to outer blank margin of rear free endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, faint tape residue to head and tail of covers, lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with the Lord of the Rings trilogy (later impressions without dust jackets), a first US edition of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and 11 others (18)

£300 - £400

829 Garner (Alan). The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A Tale of Alderley, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1960, map endpapers, original cloth (spine faded, some damp stains to covers), dust jacket, small chips and tears at spine ends and folds, 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

830 Gibbings (Robert). A True Tale of Love in Tonga, later edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1954, 23 monochrome engravings, inscribed with an original artwork by the author to the title front endpaper, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, rear cover spotted, small tear to the head of the front cover & spine, slim 8vo, together with:

Coppard (A. E. & Robert Gibbings), Rummy That Noble Game, 1st edition, Bershire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932, monochrome engravings, signed & inscribed by Robert Gibbings ‘To R. B. G from R. J. G Nov 1932’ to the front endpaper, some light spotting & toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine toned & rubbed with some minor loss, slim 8vo, un-numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, plus Sigurjónsson (Jóhann), Loftur, a play, Reading: University of Reading, 1939, printed by Robert Gibbings at the University of Reading, monochrome wood engravings by S. Maberly Smith, some light spotting & toning, original red quarter morocco, boards & spine lightly rubbed, slim 8vo, and other works by or illustrated by Robert Gibbings with 8 signed by Robert Gibbings to ‘Robert’ or ‘R. G’ or ‘R. B. G.’, including The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings, 1949, Over The Reefs,1948, Till I End My Song, 1957, Sweet Cork of Thee, 1951, 8vo, includes a hand written letter by Robert Gibbings dated 7.7.36 on headed notepaper & in envelope (13)

831 Gibbons (Stella, 1902-1989). Cold Comfort Farm, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932, a little spotting, author’s black ink signature dated ‘October 31 1932’ to front free endpaper with pencil ownership signature of ‘M. Scott Johnston, 1932’ above, original blue cloth lettered in white, slightly rubbed and faded on spine and at edges, original dust jacket, rubbed, some spotting and soiling, closed horizontal tear to spine and slightly nicked at extremities, 8vo

£200 - £300

The owner and presumably dedicatee of this copy was probably the novelist Marjorie Scott Johnston who published three novels between 1938 and 1941: The Mountain Speaks, Pilgrim and the Phoenix and The Ghost in Galoshes

Uncommon in the dust jacket, even more so signed.

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£600 - £800

832 Graves (Robert). I, Claudius, London: Paradine, [1979], folding table, all edges gilt, original purple morocco gilt, slipcase, 8vo

Signed limited edition, 3/100 copies.

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£300 - £400

Lot 830

Lot 831

Lot 832

835 Greene (Graham). Rumour at Nightfall, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1931, a few small spots to preliminaries, original red blindstamped cloth gilt, backstrip lightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:

A Gun For Sale, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1936, light occasional spotting, original red cloth gilt, some faint white staining to covers and backstrip dulling gilt, 8vo, plus

The Name of Action, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, small stamps and excised bookplates to pastedowns and front free endpaper, original blue cloth gilt, small stain to head of upper cover, rubbed, 8vo, with 5 other Graham Greene first editions, including The Third Man and A Burnt-Out Case in dust jackets (8)

£300 - £500

833 Greene (Graham). The Heart of the Matter, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1948, half-title and endpapers toned (as usual), original cloth (slight edge wear), dust jacket, spine ends very slightly rubbed, a few light spots to top margin of rear panel and flap, 8vo, together with The Quiet American, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1955, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo (2)

£200 - £300

834 Greene (Graham). In Search of a Character, Two African Journals, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: The Bodley Head, 1961, inscribed by the author ‘For Koos from Graham Greene’ to title, original red cloth-backed boards, lettered in silver, dust jacket, a few small faint stains, small hole to upper cover inner blank margin, 8vo, together with:

836 Greene (Graham). The Man Within, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1929, one or two marginal spots, original cloth (very slight lean), dust jacket, spine very slightly toned, light vertical crease mark to rear flap, contained in a recent morocco-backed solander box by the Chelsea Bindery, 8vo

An excellent copy of the author’s first novel. (1)

£1,500 - £2,000

£200 - £300

A Sense of Reality, 1st edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1963, inscribed by the author ‘For Koos from Graham Greene’ to title, original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, a few small closed tears, 8vo, plus May We Borrow Your Husband? And other comedies of the sexual life, signed limited edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1967, signed by the author to limitation page, original green cloth-backed boards, original glassine dust jacket, some small loss to head of spine, 8vo (3)

837 Grimmage (Peter). The Picture Book of Ships, pictured by Helen Craig, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930, full-page colour illustrations, cartographic endpapers, portions of spotting to endpapers, original yellow cloth, dust jacket, portion of loss at head of spine, extremities frayed with a few small closed tears, 4to, together with: Harsanyi (Zsolt de). The Star-Gazer, 1st edition in English, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939, bookplate of Elisabeth Devault Burke to front pastedown, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Huddleston (Sisley). Europe in ZigZags, 1st edition, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1929, 36 black and white illustrations, small ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket, lightly chipped to extremities, 8vo, with Franklyn (Irwin R.). Flight, An Epic of the Air, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929, frontispiece, small ink notation to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 14 other works in art deco dust jackets (18)

£200 - £300

838 Hardy (Thomas). Tess of the d’Urbervilles, limited large paper issue, London: Macmillan and Co., 1926, 41 wood-engravings by Vivien Gribble, folding map by Emery Walker, occasional light offsetting from illustrations, circular bookplate of Roy Norr, US collector of illustrated and science books (bookplate designed by Elisha Brown Bird after William Blake’s ‘I Want! I Want!), original vellum-backed marbled boards (slight discolouration to vellum), dust jacket, a few tears and losses to spine and folds, reinforcements to verso, housed in cloth portfolio and morocco-backed slipcase (a little rubbed with small splits), 4to

Limited large paper edition of 325 copies, signed by the author. Purdy 77. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

839 Hardy (Thomas). The Dynasts, an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts, and one hundred and thirty scenes, the time covered by the action being about ten years, 3 volumes, Macmillan and Co, printed at the Chiswick press, 1927, signed by the author to limitation page of volume I, frontispiece portrait of the author signed by artist Francis Dodd to volume I (lightly spotted), title pages printed in red and black, headings and shoulder notes printed in red, bookplate of Vivian Edwards to front pastedown of each volume, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, publisher’s original quarter vellum over patterned paper boards (a little faded, mostly to volume 1), gilt lettering to spines, the whole contained in matching paper slipcase lined with felt, 4to

One of 525 copies.

Provenance: Vivian Edwards (bookplate). (3)

£200 - £300

840 Hardy (Thomas). Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1928, original cloth gilt (some fading to spine), dust jacket, upper joint split, spine toned, small chips at head of rear panel, 8vo, together with Old Mrs Chundle. A short story, limited issue, New York: Crosby Graige, 1929, unopened, original cloth-backed patterned boards, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, limited edition 74/742, plus Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, Riccardi Press, London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1921, colour portrait and vignette title by William Nicholson, previous owner monogram, 1953, a few spots to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth-backed boards, one or two small stains, 8vo, limited edition 331/1025, with others, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas, including Wessex Tales, 1st one volume edition, 1889, Thomas Hardy in Maine, by Carl J. Weber, 2 copies, 1942 (limited edition of 425), The Icknield Way, by Edward Thomas, 1st edition, 1913, In Pursuit of Spring, 1st edition, 1914, and On Edward Thomas, Demeter Press, 1995 (limited edition 15/110)

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£150 - £200

841 Harrison (George). I, Me, Mine, limited edition, Guilford: Genesis Publications Ltd, 1980, photographic illustrations, 2 tipped-in and one folding, facsimile illustrations of lyric sheets, original russet morocco gilt, large 8vo

Limited edition of 2000 copies, signed by George Harrison, this copy unnumbered. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

842 Hawking (Stephen). A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes, 1st edition, London: Bantam Press, 1988, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo

A fine copy.

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£300 - £500

843 Heaney (Seamus). Station Island, 1st edition, signed, London: Faber and Faber, 1984, signed by the author to title, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, a few small faint marks to panels, 8vo, together with:

The Law Lantern, 1st edition, signed, London: Faber and Faber, 1987, signed by the author to title, leaves toned, original red cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, 8vo, with New Poems 1966-1987, 1st edition, signed, London: Faber and Faber, 1990, signed by the author to title, original paper wrappers, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus 2 signed first edition copies of Stephen Spender’s Dolphins

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£200 - £300

844 Hemingway (Ernest). A Farwell to Arms, 1st UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, 1st issue with ‘seriosu’ uncorrected on p. 66, small abrasions and light toning to front endpaper, bookplate, original cloth (spine faded), dust jacket, a few tears and losses to spine, verso reinforced, 8vo, together with Maugham (William Somerset). Cakes and Ale, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, some spotting and light toning, original cloth (spine a little faded), dust jacket, spine toned, a little rubbed with small nicks at head of spine, 8vo, plus O’ Connor (Flannery). Wise Blood, 1st UK edition, London: Neville Spearman, 1955, endpapers toned, previous owner inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, some toning to rear panel and flaps, 8vo, with 4 others: The Victim, by Saul Bellow, 1st UK edition, 1948, A Study of Arthur Rimbaud, by Henry Miller, 1st UK edition, 1956, A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute, 1st edition, 1950, and A Singular Man, by J. P. Donleavy, 1st UK edition, 1964 (7)

£300 - £500

845 Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, limited issue, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932, partly unopened, top edge gilt, original yellow buckram, blue morocco label to spine, glassine wrapper (a few chips and tears), 8vo Limited edition, 224/324 copies, signed by the author. A bright copy, issued simultaneously with the trade edition. (1)

£3,000 - £4,000

846 James (Henry). The Two Magics: the turn of the screw covering end, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1898, half-title with autograph signature of Henry James, 32-page publisher’s list at end, inner hinges partly cracked, original blue cloth, blind-decorated and lettered in gilt, rubbed and some soiling and discolouration to spine, together with Browning (Elizabeth Barrett). Poems before Congress, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1860, publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear dated February 1860, bookplate of James Kenward, F.S.A. to front pastedown, original blindstamped red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, rubbed and some soiling, plus The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, original blue cloth with printed paper label to spine, a little rubbed and spine label somewhat darkened, all 8vo (3)

£150 - £200

847 Johns (W. E). Biggles & Co, London: Oxford University Press, 1938, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, edges and preliminaries lightly spotted, original grey pictorial cloth, dust jacket, some wear with loss to extremities, 8vo, together with: Biggles - Secret Agent, 1st thin edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1940, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, original blue pictorial cloth, dust jacket, extremities frayed with some loss to extremities, a few closed tears to panels, 8vo, plus Biggles in the South Seas, London: Oxford University Press, 1943, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, original beige pictorial cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 3 other early editions in dust jackets, Biggles in the Baltic, Biggles Secret Agent and Biggles Flies West (6) £150 - £200

849 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Flies East, London: Oxford University Press, 1937, colour frontispiece, 4 black and white illustrations, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial blue cloth, dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Biggles Defies The Swastika, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, a few light spots, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket, spine extremities rubbed, 8vo, with Biggles in the Baltic, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, original brown pictorial cloth, dust jacket, small loss to head of spine touching title, further small loss at foot of spine, 8vo, with 2 other early reprints in dust jackets, Biggles Flies North (1941) and The Biggles Omnibus (1939) (5) £200 - £300

850 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Flies South, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, ownership inscription and stamp to front free endpaper, original beige cloth, dust jacket, spine chipped with small loss, 8vo, together with:

848 Johns (W. E.). Biggles and the Plot That Failed, 1st edition, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1965, original light red cloth, dust jacket, head of spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Biggles Takes The Case, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952, black and white illustrations, small tape residue to endpapers, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Biggles Hunts Big Game, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948, 11 illustrations, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Biggles Goes Home, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960, black and white illustrations in-text, original pictorial boards, 8vo with 55 other Biggles titles in dust jacket, some first editions (59)

£200 - £300

Biggles, Air Commodore, London: Oxford University Press, 1940, colour frontispiece, 7 black and white illustrations, original blue pictorial cloth, dust jacket, frayed with small loss, loss to head of front panel affecting title, 8vo, with Biggles Flies West, London: Oxford University Press, 1937, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original pictorial blue cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped), some loss to head of spine affecting title (restored), 8vo, with Biggles Flies South, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, tape residue to flaps, spine chipped with some loss (affecting title at head), 8vo, with 46 other Biggles titles in dust jackets (50)

£200 - £300

851 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Flies West, London: Oxford University Press, 1951, 7 black and white illustrations, some staining to endpapers with remnants of paperclips, original green cloth, dust jacket, head of spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Biggles Flies North, London: Oxford University Press, 1951, 6 black and white illustrations, original green cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with Biggles Sees It Through, London: Oxford University Press, 1951, 6 black and white illustrations, original green cloth, dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Spitfire Parade, London: Oxford University Press, 1951, black and white illustrations, original green cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 60 other Biggles titles in dust jackets (64)

£300 - £500

853 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Sees It Through, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, original orange pictorial cloth, dust jacket, extremities rubbed, rear panel lightly dust-soiled, 8vo, together with: Biggles Flies West, 1st Australian edition, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1946, 7 black and white illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original orange cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Biggles in the South Seas, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, circa 1946, 6 black and white illustrations, original brown cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, plus Biggles Defies The Swastika, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, circa 1946, 6 black and white illustrations, small bookseller's stamp to foot of front free endpaper, original orange cloth, dust jacket, spine worn with loss affecting title at head, 8vo, with 23 other early British and Australian editions in dust jackets (27)

£200 - £300

854 Johns (W. E.). Gimlet Off The Map, 1st edition, Leicester: The Brockhampton Press, 1951, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original grey cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:

Gimlet Comes Home, 1st edition, London: University of London Press, 1946, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original pictorial orange cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Gimlet Goes Again, 1st edition, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1946, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth, some marks to upper cover, dust jacket, extremities rubbed, 8vo, with 25 other Gimlet titles in dust jackets (28)

£200 - £300

£300 - £500

852 Johns (W. E.). Biggles Sees It Through, 1st edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, contemporary lengthy gift inscription and small mounted paper clipping to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, original publisher's pictorial orange cloth, dust jacket (text in brown to rear flap with 'found' on the first line of the front flap), a few small archival paper reinforcements to folds, rubbed with small loss to foot of spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 855

855 Johns (W. E.). Kings of Space, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954, colour frontispiece, 5 colour illustrations, original blue pictorial cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:

Return To Mars, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, 6 colour illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial blue cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, plus Now To The Stars, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956, 6 colour illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, neat ownership inscription on front flap, 8vo, with To Outer Space, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957, colour frontispiece, 5 colour illustrations, original red pictorial cloth gilt, dust jacket, rear panel lightly marked, 8vo, with 22 other W. E. Johns works set in outer space (26)

£150 - £200

856 Johns (W. E.). Worrals on the War-Path, 1st Canadian Edition, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1944, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, a few spots, original beige cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, chipped and frayed to extremities with occasional loss, 8vo, together with: Worrals Carries On, 1st Canadian Edition, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1945, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, extremities rubbed, 8vo, with Worrals Goes East, 1st Canadian Edition, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1946, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Worrals of the Islands, 1st Canadian Edition, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1947, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, small tape residue to foot of flaps, fraying to spine extremities with small loss, 8vo, with 45 other Worrals titles in dust jackets (49)

£200 - £300

857 Johns (W.E). Biggles - Charter Pilot, The Adventures of Biggles & Co. On a world-wide cruise of scientific investigation, 1st edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1943, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, original red pictorial cloth, light rubbing to extremities, dust jacket, priced 5/- to front flap, wear with loss to spine (affecting text), neat archival tape repairs to verso, 8vo, together with: Biggles Gets His Men, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950, black and white illustrations, original blue cloth, dust jacket, small vertical mark to spine, 8vo, plus Biggles at World's End, 1st edition, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1959, colour frontispiece, 5 black and white illustrations, original dark red cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped), lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Biggles Goes To School, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951, frontispiece, 7 illustrations, original pictorial red cloth, dust jacket, spine somewhat faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 35 other first and early editions of Biggles titles in dust jackets (39)

£300 - £500

858 Johns (W.E). Biggles in Spain, 1st edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1939, colour frontispiece, 6 black and white illustrations, top edge red, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket, priced 3/6 to front flap, spine extremities rubbed with loss to head affecting 'Biggles' in title, some further minor fraying and loss to foot of spine, 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

Lot 857

859 Kipling (Rudyard). Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 1st large paper edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1892, title printed in red and black with vignette (with slight partial offsetting), endpapers a little toned, top edge gilt, original red buckram gilt, spine and part of covers faded, 8vo, limited edition 210/225 (on a tipped-in slip signed by the publisher at front), together with 2 copies of The Seven Seas, 1896 (each a limited edition of 150) Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses signed to title by the author, with his printed name crossed-through. From the library of A. P. Watt, of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent to Rudyard Kipling. (3)

£300 - £500

860 Kipling (Rudyard). The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, volumes I-II & V only (of 35), London: Macmillan and Company, 1937, comprising volume I, Plain Tales from the Hills, volume II, Soldiers Three, volume V, Many Inventions, partly unopened, top edge gilt, original russet morocco gilt, spines a little faded, one or two small marks, 8vo Limited edition, 402/525 copies, signed by Rudyard Kipling to volume I colophon. The full set comprised 35 volumes and was published, 1937-39. (3)

£400 - £600

861 Larsson (Steig). ‘Millennium Trilogy’: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, all 1st UK editions, London: Maclehose Press, 2008-09, original cloth, dust jackets, 8vo (3)

£200 - £300

862 Lawrence (D. H.) Lady Chatterley’s Lover, limited issue, privately printed, Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, 1928, partly unopened, original mulberry paper boards, phoenix design in black to upper cover, upper joint splitting, a few light spots to spine label, plain dust jacket, closed tear at upper joint, small tear at foot of spine, small nicks at folds, slight dust-soiling, contained in modern cloth portfolio within red morocco-backed slipcase, 8vo Limited edition, 818/1000 copies, signed by the author.

Connolly 57; Roberts A42a. After being rejected by numerous English publishers, Lawrence commissioned the Tipografia Giuntina in Florence to print 1000 copies of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, at £2 each in July 1928, most of which were distributed by friends and sold out by the end of the year before its suppression in England. ‘Lawrence fully intended to shock and expected the book to be banned...’ (Connolly).

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£3,000 - £4,000

863 Lawrence (David Herbert). The Rainbow, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Methuen, 1915, 4pp. publishers list at rear, dated Autumn 1915, some toning throughout, pp.112-113 stained at top (lightly affecting adjacent leaves), couple of other minor stains to margins, rear hinge cracked, original blue-green cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, joints partly split, 8vo, together with Apocalypse, Lungarno Series No.6, Florence: G. Orioli, 1931, portrait frontispiece, some light toning, original boards, spine rubbed and faded, some fading to top of covers, 8vo, limited edition 410/750 copies, plus Young Lorenzo, Early Life of D.H. Lawrence, Lungarno Series No.8, Florence: G. Orioli, 1931, frontispiece and illustrations, lightly toned throughout, original vellum boards, somewhat bowed and darkened, some splits and minimal losses to joints, 8vo, limited edition 294/740 copies, and The Man Who Died, 1st edition, London: Martin Secker, 1931, lightly toned, original cloth gilt (lightly browned), large 8vo, limited edition of 2000 copies

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£300 - £400

Lot 861

864 Le Carre (John). The Naive and Sentimental Lover, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed by the author to title, together with Single & Single, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, slight marginal yellowing, original cloth dust jacket, 8vo, signed by the author, plus an uncorrected proof of The Naive and Sentimental Lover, 1971 (3)

£200 - £300

865 Le Carre (John). The Night Manager, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, 8vo, signed by the author to title and dated June ‘93, together with Seth (Vikram). A Suitable Boy, limited issue, London: Sixth Chamber Press, 1993, very slight marginal toning, original morocco-backed boards, 8vo, limited signed edition 7/100, plus Carey (Peter). True History of the Kelly Gang, 1st edition, University of Queensland Press, 2000, original calf-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, with a loose slip signed by the author, 8vo, plus other 1st editions, mostly signed by the authors including V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River, 1st edition, 1979, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, 1st UK edition, 2003, (dust jacket with wraparound band), The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, 1992, The Sea, by John Banville, 2005, Atonement, by Ian McEwan, 2001, White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, 2000, and The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, illustrated by Tomislav Torjanac, 2007, limited edition of 1000 signed by author and illustrator (42)

866 Le Carre (John). The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, endpapers renewed, original brown variant cloth (spine a little faded), dust jacket, tiny nicks at foot of spine and folds, 8vo

£300 - £500

Signed by the author to title and inscribed ‘The American handed Leamas? - and so on!, 22 May ‘06, London’. The inscription references the opening line in the book ‘The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, “Why don’t you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up.” (1)

£2,000 - £3,000

867 Le Carré (John). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine extremities chipped with small loss at head and foot, spine somewhat faded, rear panel spotted, 8vo (1) £300 - £500

868 Le Carré (John). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st edition, London: Gollancz, 1963, margins lightly spotted, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, rear panel spotted, 8vo (1) £400 - £600

869 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK edition, London: Heinemann, 1960, occasional minor spotting, original cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket, folds slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

£200 - £300

870 Madonna. Sex, 1st UK edition, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1992, photographic illustrations by Steven Meisel, unopened CD loosely inserted, original spiral-bound aluminium boards, contained in original foil packaging, opened at foot, 4to (1) £100 - £150

871 Mandela (Nelson). Long Walk to Freedom, Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2000, double-page map, half-tone illustrations, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt, original green morocco gilt, 8vo

Collector’s edition, signed by the author and dated 15. 9. 2000, together with a Certificate of Authenticity, signed by Nelson Mandela, witness and publisher, dated 26. 9. 2000, and a printed note by the publisher. (1)

£500 - £800

872 Mandela (Nelson). The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, limited issue, Boston, New York, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1996, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original moroccobacked boards, contained in cloth solander box, in original cardboard packaging, with a mounted colour photograph of the author by Benny Gool, signed, and dated 28.10.96 loosely inserted as issued, 4to

Limited edition, 220/425 copies.

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874 Mantel (Hilary). Wolf Hall, 2009; Bringing Up the Bodies, 2012, 1st editions, original cloth, dust jackets, Hatchards wraparound band to Bringing Up the Bodies, 8vo Each signed to title by the author.

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£800 - £1,200

873 Manhood (Harold Alfred). Nightseed, 1928; Gay Agony, 1930; Crack of Whips, 1934; Fierce and Gentle, 1935, 1st editions, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original cloth, dust jackets, Fierce and Gentle price-clipped with short closed tear to rear panel and a little dust soiled, 8vo, together with 20 others by the author including limited editions Little Peter the Great, Furnival Books No. 7, limited signed edition 157/550, Three Nails, White Owl Press, 1933, limited signed edition 3/125, Maiden’s Fury, 1935, limited signed edition 40/285, plus others including Sunday Bugles, 1939, Lunatic Broth, 1944, a few duplicates

H. A. Manhood (1904-1991), a contemporary of Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and others was primarily known for writing rurally set short stories, often incorporating the supernatural.

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£300 - £400

£300 - £500

875 Mantel (Hilary). Wolf Hall, limited issue, 11th printing, London: Fourth Estate, 2009, original contrasting cloth, publisher’s shrinkwrap, 8vo, one of 1000 signed limited editions, together with Bringing Up the Bodies, 1st edition, London: Fourth Estate, 2012, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed to title and dated 18 May 2012 (2)

£200 - £300

876 Martin (George R. R.). ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’: A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows, A Dance With Dragons, 1st US editions, New York: Bantam Books, 1996-2011, map endpapers, original boards, dust jackets, 8vo

Each signed to title by the author. A fine set. (5)

£1,000 - £1,500

877 Maugham (W. Somerset). The Book Bag, The Lugano Series No. 9, Florence: G. Orioli, 1932, signed by the author at foot of photogravure frontispiece, additionally inscribed by the author to Arthur Jeffress ‘For Arthur, his friend, his ancient friend, Willie’, with Jeffress’ bookplate to front pastedown, uncut, original clothbacked blue boards, dust jacket, lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with:

Ashenden, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1928, small bookseller’s ticket at foot of front pastedown, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus Haggard (H. Rider). Allan Quartermain, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, upper hinge cracked, original black cloth gilt, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Dickens (Charles). Master Humphrey’s Clock, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1840, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, contemporary green half calf gilt, some wear and scuffing, tall 8vo, with 8 other works including a first edition of Dennis Wheatley’s Come into my Parlour (inscribed and in dust jacket) and a first edition of H. G. Well’s A Modern Utopia

The first work inscribed to Art Dealer and ‘Bright Young Thing’ Arthur Jeffress. (14) £300 - £400

878 Milne (A. A.). The Sunny Side, 1st edition, London: Methuen, 1921, preliminaries lightly spotted, original green cloth, dust jacket, a few light marks, 8vo, together with:

Michael and Mary, A Play, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1930, original grey cloth, paper title label to spine, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus

Two People, 1st edition, London: Methuen, 1931, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, a few small losses to spine, a few marks, 8vo, with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Henrick Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, 1st edition, London: George G. Harrap, 1936, 12 colour plates, black and white illustrations, original dark red pictorial cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities chipped with some small loss, 4to, with a carton other 20th-century works (a carton)

£200 - £300

879 Nabokov (Vladimir). Lolita, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st impression, Paris: Olympia Press, 1955, original wrappers, small closed tear at foot of volume I lower cover, edges very slightly rubbed, slight creases to spines, volume I with publisher’s repricing sticker of 1200 francs overlaid on printed price, volume II with printed price of 900 francs and repricing sticker loosely inserted at rear, both contained in buckram solander box, 8vo

The franc was devalued at exactly the same time of publication, so the price was raised from 900 to 1200 francs, some copies were issued with the original printed price intact and some with the new price sticker. Technically the newly-priced copies are secondary issues from the remaining stock but all copies in this edition are identical otherwise so condition of the wrappers in this case has more precedence.

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£2,000 - £3,000

880 Orwell (George). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, original blue cloth gilt, dust jackets, 8vo, together with Compton-Burnett (Ivy). Novels, 19 volumes, London: Victor Gollancz, 1972, original cloth, top edge red, dust jackets, spines uniformly faded, contained in 4 slipcases (top surfaces with some fading), 8vo, limited edition 58/500

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£200 - £300

881 Orwell (George). Down and Out in Paris and London, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1933, some light spotting, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tiny tear and nicks at spine ends, corners rubbed, 8vo Fenwick A1a. The author’s first published novel. (1)

£800 - £1,200

882 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949, a few minor spots to first few leaves, top edge red (re-coloured), original green cloth (extremities a little faded), red dust jacket, spine professionally restored (re-coloured and re-lettered), small repairs at spine ends, at head of rear panel and folds, 8vo (1)

883 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949, original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in red, dust jacket (green variant), small closed tear to head of upper panel, extremities very lightly frayed and rubbed with occasional minor loss, spine lightly chafed with small crease mark at head, 8vo Fenwick A12a.

An excellent, unrestored copy. Rare in such bright condition. (1)

£3,000 - £5,000

£2,000 - £3,000

884 Orwell (George). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, 4 volumes, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, occasional pencil underlining and annotations, previous owner inscription in red ink to front endpaper of volume I, light spotting to fore edges, original cloth, short closed tears at head of volume I spine, dust jackets, some fading to spines, 8vo (4)

£100 - £150

885 [Plath, Sylvia]. The Bell Jar, by Victoria Lucas, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1963, a few small minor stains, small ink bookseller annotations to head and foot of front endpaper, Kingstons Ltd, Rhodesia bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, light vertical crease mark, 8vo

Tabor A4a. 1. Sylvia Plath’s only novel, written under the pseudonym ‘Victoria Lucas’. 2,000 copies were printed. (1)

£1,000 - £1,500

886 Politics. Prisonnier des Khmers Rouges, by Norodom Sihanouk, 1st paperback edition, Paris: Hatchette, 1986, slight marginal toning, original wrappers, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed in French to M. Goulding by the author in green ink to halftitle and dated January 1993, together with Nabarro (Sir Gerald). Nab I. Portrait of a Politician, 1st edition, 1969, illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, inscribed to Ronald Denney, 1973, with 3 others: Harold Wilson’s A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers, 1st edition, 1977, inscribed to Geoffrey van Dantzig by the author, Playing the Palace, by James Naughtie, 1984, signed by the author and 4 signatures including Neil Kinnock and Robin Day, and All the First Minister’s Men, by David Black, paperback issue, 2001, signed (5) £100 - £200

887 Powys (Llewelyn). The Book of Days of Llewelyn Powys. Thoughts from his philosophy selected by John Wallis, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, printed in red and black, 12 etched plates by Elizabeth Corsellis, occasional light offsetting, presentation inscription to front endpaper, extra suite of 9 plates only (of 12) contained in rear pocket, top edge gilt, original full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London, small split at head of joint, one corner bumped, some edge wear and stains, folio, limited edition 51/55 from a total edition of 300, signed by the artist, together with Powys (John Cowper). Lucifer, limited issue, London: Macdonald, 1956, wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, original moroccobacked boards, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 322/560, plus Powys (T. F.) What Lack I Yet?, privately printed, London: E. Archer, March 1927, 11 pp., some light toning, text block detached, original marbled wrappers, small number in manuscript and abrasion at foot of upper wrapper, 4to, limited signed edition 100/100, with 9 other limited editions, including another Golden Cockerel edition of The Book of Days of Llewelyn Powys, 1937 (limited edition 236/300), Fables, by T. F. Powys, 1929, limited signed edition 259/750, The Key of the Field, by T. F. Powys, No. 1 of the Furnival Books, 1930, limited signed edition 75/550, The Only Penitent, by T. F. Powys, 1931, limited signed edition 126/160, and Make Thyself Many, by T. F. Powys, 1935, limited signed edition 188/285 (12) £200 - £300

888 Powys (Llewelyn). The Cradle of God, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, original cloth, dust jacket, some toning to spine and rear panel top margin, 8vo, together with Powys (John Cowper). In Defence of Sensuality, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1930, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little toned, a few small chips and closed tears, 8vo, plus A Philosophy of Solitude, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1933, original cloth, dust jacket, some slight dust-soiling, 8vo, with others, all by John Cowper, Llewelyn and T. F. Powys including The Key of the Field, by T. F. Powys, 1930 (limited signed edition, 261/550), Black Bryony, 1923, Mark Only, 1924, The White Paternoster and other stories, 1930, Apples be Ripe, by Llewelyn Powys, 1st US edition, 1930, Rats in the Sacristy, 1937, and Somerset Essays, 1937 (approximately 140) £400 - £600

889 Pullman (Philip). Northern Lights, 1st edition, London: Scholastic, 1995, light marginal yellowing to textblock (as often), original cloth, 1st issue dust jacket with ‘Point’ at foot of spine and Pratt Street address to rear flap, slight fading to spine, 8vo (1) £200 - £300

890 Rand (Ayn). Atlas Shrugged, 1st edition, 1st issue, New York: Random House, 1957, top edge blue, original cloth, 1st issue dust jacket with price $6.95 and code 10/57 to front flap, professionally repaired to folds and head of spine, 8vo (1)

£700 - £1,000

891 Ravilious (Eric). High Street, by J. M. Richards, 1st edition, London: Curwen Press for Country Life, 1938, 24 colour lithograph plates, original pictorial boards, front cover detached, tear and loss to lower section of spine, some edge wear, 8vo (1)

£500 - £800

892 Read (Piers Paul). Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors, 1st edition, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1974, half-tone illustrations, a few minor spots, original cloth, dust jacket, repair at head of rear panel to verso, 8vo, signed by the author and 2 survivors (Nando Parrado and one other), 8vo, together with Simpson (Joe). Touching the Void, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988, colour illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed by Joe Simpson, Simon Yates and Chris Bonnington, plus 2 others: The Essays of Warren Buffett, selected by Lawrence A. Cunningham, 1st edition, 2000, signed by Buffett, and A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar,1998, inscribed by the author (4)

£200 - £300

893 Reid (Forrest). The Kingdom of Twilight, 1904; The Garden God, 2nd impression, 1906; A Garden by the Sea, 1918; Pirates of the Spring, 1918; Demophon, 1927; Brian Westby, 1934; Peter Waring, 1937; Notes and Impressions, 1942; 1st editions, occasional minor spotting, some toning to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription at front of A Garden by the Sea, bookplates of bibliophile John Sparrow to the same, Brackendale bookplate of Sir Hugh Walpole to Demophon, original cloth, a little rubbed and faded, A Garden by the Sea with marginal water stain, dust jackets for last 3 titles, together with 10 others by the author including Pan’s People, privately printed by Callum James, 2005, limited edition 24/50, and The Poetry of the Rose, illustrated by Sue Martin, 2006, limited edition, 9/50 (18)

£200 - £300

894 Rowling (J. K). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, light marginal toning, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, spine somewhat faded and a little rubbed at extremities, 8vo (1)

£400 - £600

895 Rowling (J. K.). A complete set of the Harry Potter books, all inscribed by the author, 7 volumes, London: Bloomsbury, 19982010, the latter 3 works 1st edition 1st impressions, all warmly inscribed by the author to ‘Sharie’ on the title-pages, the latter 3 works with authenticity holograms, all in original publisher’s pictorial boards and dust jackets, 8vo, together with: Quidditch Through The Ages, by Kennilworth Wisp, 1st edition, 1st impression, London: Bloomsbury, 2001, inscribed by the author to ‘Sharie’ on the title-page, original publisher’s green paper wrappers, 8vo, plus Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them, Newt Scamander, special edition with a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, 1st edition, 1st impression, London: Bloomsbury, 2001, inscribed by the author to ‘Sharie’ on the title-page, original publisher’s red paper wrappers, 8vo, plus 3 handwritten autographed notecards, with the author’s letterhead and monogram, dated February, March and May 2008, with an additional autographed typed letter, dated January 2008, also with the author’s letterhead and monogram, all 4 addressed to Sharie, expressing her concern for Sharie’s health, thanking her for her gifts and her support

A remarkable collection of nine inscribed books and four autographed letters. A complete run of Harry Potter books inscribed to the same recipient is exceedingly rare. Sharie was a terminally ill child who Rowling maintained correspondence with for many months. The letters demonstrate the closeness of the two, with Rowling taking the care and time to write at length at what is arguably the height of the Harry Potter series’ popularity. Many of the books are not simply signed, but warmly inscribed with personalised messages. (13)

£8,000 - £12,000

896 Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1st edition, 19th impression, signed, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, signed by Rowling in blue ink to half-title, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, 8vo

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£700 - £1,000

897 Rushdie (Salman). Midnight’s Children, 1st UK edition on American sheets, London: Jonathan Cape, 1981, original burgundy cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, very slight fading to spine, 8vo

Signed to title by the author. Winner of the 1981 Booker Prize. (1)

£500 - £800

898 Rushdie (Salman). The Satanic Verses, limited issue, London: Viking, 1988, original navy goatskin-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, plain wrapper (small chips and tears, some toning), 8vo Limited edition, 24/100 copies, signed by the author. Issued simultaneously with the trade edition. (1)

£500 - £800

899 Russell (Bertrand). History of Western Philosophy, 1st edition, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946, neat ink ownership inscription of 'K Holland' to head of front free endpaper, rear hinge tender, small amount of text on a few leaves highlighted, original linen grey cloth, some spotting, dust jacket (with map to verso), price-clipped, extremities chipped with some loss, a few closed tears (largest to spine touching publisher's name), 8vo, together with: Morris (William, J. W. Mackhail). An Address delivered the Xith November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith before the Hammersmith Socialist Society, London: Chiswick Press, 1902, uncut, original vellum-backed boards, original glassine dust jacket, some wear with small loss to spine, 8vo, plus Milne (A. A). Now We Are Six, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co, 1927, illustrations by E. H. Shepard throughout, hinges cracked, small water-stain to head of some leaves, original pictorial red cloth gilt, some wear, spine faded, small ink-stain to head of upper cover, 8vo, with 14 other 20th-century works (17)

£150 - £200

902 Stoker (Bram). The Snake’s Pass, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891, one or two light stains, original red cloth gilt, spine skillfully rebacked with original spine relaid, gilt lettering and illustration dulled, light adhesion marks to upper cover, contained in crimson morocco gilt solander box, 8vo

Presentation copy, inscribed to half-title ‘Mrs. Leycester, with most kind remembrance of Bram Stoker, Christmas 1890’.

The author’s first novel, published in November 1890 but dated 1891. (1)

£700 - £1,000

£200 - £300

900 Sackville-West (Vita). Knole and the Sackvilles, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1922, portrait frontispiece, some offsetting and toning to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription, original boards, light vertical creases to upper cover, dust jacket by William Nicholson, a few small tears and chips to folds and edges, some toning to spine and rear panel, 8vo, together with Vita. The Life of V. Sackville-West, by Victoria Glendinning, 1983, signed by the author (2)

901 Sassoon (Siegfried). Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, with illustrations by Barnett Freedman, 1st illustrated edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1931, hand-coloured frontispiece, 15 handcoloured plates, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original pictorial vellum, matching dust jacket, short closed tear at head of front panel, slight fading to spine, slipcase (split along one fold, some edge wear), 8vo

Limited edition, 117/320 copies, signed by author and artist. (1) £800 - £1,200

903 Thatcher (Margaret). The Downing Street Years, 1993; The Path to Power, 1995; The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher, 1997; Statecraft, 2002, 1st editions, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth (Downing Street Years spine a little mottled and rubbed at ends), dust jackets (Downing Street Years spine slightly faded), 8vo

Each signed by the author (Downing Street Years to blank page before title, the others signed to title).

(4)

£400 - £600

904 Thatcher (Margaret). The Downing Street Years, 1st edition, signed, London: Harper Collins, 1993, signed by the author to title, black and white illustrations after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

905 Thatcher (Margaret). The Downing Street Years, limited deluxe issue, London: HarperCollins, 1993, colour and monochrome illustrations, top edge blue, original contrasting cloth, slipcase, 8vo

Limited deluxe signed edition, 100/100 copies, with blindstamp ‘Limited edition signed and numbered’. (1)

£300 - £400

906 Thatcher (Margaret). The Downing Street Years, limited deluxe issue, London: HarperCollins, 1993, colour and monochrome illustrations, top edge blue, original contrasting cloth, slipcase, 8vo

Limited deluxe signed edition of 100 copies, this copy lettered ‘AP’ (Author’s proof), with blindstamp ‘Limited edition signed and numbered’. (1)

£300 - £400

907 Thomas (Dylan). Under Milk Wood, a play for the voices, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954, original publisher’s cloth, dust jacket, spine lightly faded with extremities slightly frayed, 8vo (1)

£150 - £200

908 Thomas (Edward). Collected Poems, 1st edition, London: Selwyn and Blount, 1920, portrait frontispiece, slight toning front and rear, original cloth, spine faded, a little rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Baker (George). Thirty Preliminary Poems, 1st edition, London: David Archer at the Parton Press, 1933, occasional light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription, original boards, spine and top margin of rear cover faded, 8vo, plus Rickword (Edgell). Behind the Eyes, 1st edition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921, publisher's review slip request loosely inserted, endpapers a little toned, original patterned boards, tear and loss to spine, 8vo, with others including 1st editions Transitional Poem, by C. Day Lewis, Hogarth Press, 1929, Walking Shadows. An Essay on Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films, by Eric Walter White, Hogarth Press, 1931, Adamaster. Poems by Roy Campbell, 1930, Invocations to Angels and the Happy New Year, by Edgell Rickword, 1928, last Poems, by D. H. Lawrence, 1933, and Poems, by Stephen Spender, 1933 (21)

£150 - £200

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Lot 907

909 Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1st edition, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954, folding map at rear, neat previous owner signature to front endpaper, top edge red, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, some light toning to spine, one or two tiny closed tears, minor stains to rear panel, 8vo

Hammond A5a. 3000 copies printed of this first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Part 2, The Two Towers was also first published in 1954, the final volume, The Return of the King was first published in 1955. (1)

£4,000 - £6,000

910 Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1955; The Return of the King, 1st edition, 2nd impression, November 1955, folding map at rear of each, light toning to Return of the King rear endpaper, top edge red, original cloth gilt (Return of the King spine faded, Two Towers faded at head), dust jackets, Two Towers spine toned and torn (torn strip mostly retained), Return of the King jacket torn into 3 pieces, spine toned and rubbed with chips and tears, 8vo (2)

£500 - £800

911 Tolkien (J. R. R). The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in The Welsh Review, Vol. IV, No. 4, edited by Gwyn Jones, December 1945, pp. 254-266, original wrappers, upper joint rubbed, 8vo

The first printing of Tolkien’s poem The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, originally written in 1930 by the author and inspired by the mediaeval Breton lay genre.

(1)

£200 - £300

912 Walliams (David). The Boy in the Dress, 1st edition, London: Harper Collins, 2008, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original boards, dust jacket, 8vo, signed by the author, together with Mr Stink, 1st edition, 2009, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed by the author, plus 7 others, all signed: another copy of The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink, plus Ratburger, 2012, Demon Dentist (2 copies), 2013, Awful Auntie, 2014, and Grandpa’s Great Escape, 2015 (with price Can $19.99) (9)

£150 - £200

913 Walliams (David). The Boy in the Dress, 2008; Mr Stink, 2009 (2 copies); Ratburger, 2012, 1st editions, The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink illustrated by Quentin Blake, Ratburger illustrated by Tony Ross, original boards, dust jackets, 8vo, each signed by author and illustrator, one Mr Stink inscribed ‘Mr Stink Stank!’, plus Demon Dentist, 2013, and Awful Auntie, 2014 both signed by the author (6)

£150 - £200

914 Warner (Sylvia Townsend). Time Importuned, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1928, light partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, original boards, dust jacket, spine a little faded, 8vo, together with Smith (Stevie). Harold’s Leap, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1950, illustrations by the author, a little light marginal toning, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned and a little rubbed at ends, 8vo, plus Spark (Muriel). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1961, previous owner signature, original cloth, dust jacket, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other 1st editions including Dread Dwelling, by Richmal Crompton, 1st US edition, New York, 1926, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, 1927, The Salutation, 1932, After the Death of of Don Juan, 1st US edition, 1939, T. H. White. A Biography, 1967 (2 copies), Urania, by Ruth Pitter, 1950, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor, 1971, Crossing the Water, 1971, and Winter Trees, 1971, both by Sylvia Plath (28)

£300 - £400

915 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1932, map frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned, small nicks at spine ends and folds, 8vo, together with The Holy Places, London: Queen Anne Press, 1952, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone, top edge red, original cloth gilt, price-clipped dust jacket, a few small stains, 4to, limited edition 149/1000, plus Love Among the Ruins, 1st edition, 1953 (3) £200 - £300

916 Waugh (Evelyn). Labels, A Mediterranean Journal, 1st edition, London: Duckworth, 1930, frontispiece, double-page map, further black and white illustrations, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, small neat restoration to head and tail of spine and fold extremities, 8vo (1)

£400 - £600

917 Waugh (Evelyn). The Holy Places, limited edition, London: Queen Anne Press, 1952, wood-engravings by Reynold Stone, original publisher’s red buckram gilt, dust jacket, margins spotted, spine toned, 8vo, 482 of 950 copies, together with: Ninety-Two Days, 1st edition, London: Duckworth, 1934, folding map, 24 black and white illustrations, publisher’s advertisement leaf at end, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Labels, 1st edition London: Duckworth, 1930, frontispiece, 5 black and white illustrations after photographs, ownership blindstamp at head of front free endpaper, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, spine somewhat faded, 8vo, with Robbery Under The Law, The Mexican Object Lesson, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1939, original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, upper panel and front flap of dust jacket only, 8vo, with 6 other first edition works in dust jacket, one by Waugh, five by William Golding (10) £150 - £200

918 Waugh (Evelyn). The Holy Places, limited issue, London: Queen Anne Press, 1952, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone, top edge red, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, some light spotting and stains, 8vo, limited edition 446/950, together with 4 other 1st editions by the author: Brideshead Revisited, 1945 (lacking dust jacket), The Loved One, [1948], The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957, and A Tourist in Africa, 1960 (5)

£150 - £200

919 Wells (Herbert George). The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1898, 16-page publisher’s catalogue (dated 1897 and headed by New Letters of Napoleon I on page 2) at rear, some spotting and a little dust-soiling, rough-trimmed, lacks front free endpaper and upper hinge slightly cracked, pencil ownership signature of Lorna Connelly to front pastedown, original grey cloth lettered in black, rubbed and somewhat soiled, 8vo (1) £400 - £600

920 Welsh (Irvine). Trainspotting, 1st edition, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1993, light vertical mark to final leaf and rear endpaper, original wrappers, slightly rubbed at foot of spine, 8vo Signed to title by the author. (1)

£400 - £600

921 Westerman (Percy F.). Sleuths of the Air, London: Blackie & Son, circa 1935, frontispiece, 2 illustrations, occasional light spotting, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped), lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Rochester (George E.). The Flying Beetle, London: John Hamilton, circa 1935, frontispiece, 3 illustrations, edges spotted, original blue cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Black Wing, London: The Epworth Press, circa 1951, frontispiece, original green cloth, dust jacket, 2 closed tears to upper panel, some loss to foot of spine, rubbed, 8vo, plus Heming (Bracebridge). The Secret Aircraft Carrier, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, circa 1938, frontispiece, original orange cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed and frayed, 8vo, with 53 other works related in dust jacket (57)

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

£200 - £300

922 Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, Large paper limited issue, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899, half-title, small repaired tears at top margin of ‘The Persons of the Play’ and ‘The Scenes of the Play’ leaves, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, handsomely rebound in later blue morocco, covers with ruled central panel and corner floral sprays in gilt and red onlaid fans, the spine with raised bands, let tered and decorated in gilt, contained in cloth solander box by the Chelsea Bindery, 4to

Large paper limited edition, 6/100 copies, signed by the author. Mason 386. (1) £4,000 - £6,000

923 Wilde (Oscar). The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2nd edition, London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, [1895], half-title, 4 leaves of publisher’s advertisements to rear, early 20th-century ink ownership inscription of R. J. Leyland Parr to front free endpaper, original grey paper-covered boards lettered in gilt, spine lacking, rubbed, 8vo (1)

£300 - £500

924 Wilde (Oscar). The Works, 13 volumes, various publishers, 1909-10, halftitles, top edge gilt, 20th-century red half morocco gilt by Riviere, spines somewhat faded, a few joints starting, some light wear to extremities, 8vo (13)

£600 - £800

925 Wilde (Oscar). The Works, 14 volumes, 1st collected edition, London: Methuen and Co, 1908, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher’s white buckram gilt, gilt ornaments to upper covers, slight fading and toning to some spines, 8vo

One of 1000 sets on handmade paper. (14)

£800 - £1,200

Lot 923

Lot 924

Lot 925

926 Wodehouse (P. G.). My Man Jeeves, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, [1919], publisher’s advertisement leaf at rear, ownership inscriptions in ink to front pastedown and endpaper, hinges cracked, original publisher’s orange cloth, spine faded, some marks, 8vo McIlvaine A22a.

(1)

£300 - £400

927 Wodehouse (P. G.). The Head of the Kay’s, 1st edition, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905, 8 black and white illustrations (including frontispiece), light scattered spotting, original publisher’s red pictorial cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, lightly marked, 8vo, together with: The Inimitable Jeeves, 1st edition, 1st state, London: Herbert Jenkins, [1923], neat ink ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine somewhat faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo (2) £200 - £300

928 Woolf (Virginia). A Room of One’s Own, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1929, light offsetting from flaps to endpapers, contemporary ink inscription at front “A cure for the fever of Dr Stella Churchill, 8.XI.29”, original cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, lacking two-thirds of spine, remainder laid down, tears and marginal losses along folds, tape repairs to flaps and verso, light toning to rear panel, 8vo Kirkpatrick A12b. (1)

£400 - £600

929 Woolf (Virginia). The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson, 6 volumes/The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell, 5 volumes, Hogarth Press, 1976-84, volume I of Letters 2nd impression, the others 1st printings, monochrome illustrations, volume V of Diary with light spotting to fore edges, a few previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, dust jackets, a few price-clipped, some fading to spines, 8vo, with 8 others including Editing Virginia Woolf’s Diary, by Anne Olivier Bell, Bloomsbury Workshop, 1990, limited signed edition 805/1000, Walter Sickert. A Conversation, by Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury Workshop edition, 1992 One of 1000 copies), Essays on John Maynard Keynes, edited by Milo Keynes, CUP, 1975 reprint, inscribed by the editor,, Julia. A Portrait of Julia Strachey by herself and Frances Partridge, 1983, inscribed by Frances Partridge, Lytton Strachey, by Michael Holroyd, 1994, signed by the author, and The Letters of Lytton Strachey, edited by Paul Levy, 2005, signed by the editor (19)

£200 - £300

930 Wyndham (John). The Day of the Triffids, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1951, a few minor spots, small previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly faded with small crease at head, dust jacket, tears and losses at spine ends and foot of panels, clear tape reinforcement to joints and folds and to verso, light toning to rear panel, 8vo, together with a 1st edition, 2nd impression of Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake, 1946 (2) £150 - £200

931 Yeats (W. B.) Two Plays for Dancers, 1st edition, Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1919, title with woodcut device, printed in red and black, some toning to endpapers, original linen-backed boards, some toning to spine and board margins, 8vo, one of 400 copies printed, together with Further Letters of John Butler Yeats, selected by Lemnnox Robinson, 1st edition, Cuala Press, 1920, title with woodcut device, slight toning to endpapers, original linen-backed boards, spine toned, a few light stains to covers, 8vo, one of 400 copies printed, plus Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, 1st edition, Cuala Press, 1923, woodcut device in red, a little light spotting and toning, Brackenbury bookplate (from the library of Hugh Walpole), original linen-backed boards, spine label torn with loss, 8vo, 450 copies printed, plus A Packet for Ezra Pound, 1st edition, Cuala Press, 1929 Wade 123; 168 & 163 respectively for first, third and fourth titles. (4) £300 - £400

932 Yeats (W. B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1927, 2 colour plates and monochrome illustrations by Norah McGuiness, a little light spotting to title and endpapers, original red variant pictorial cloth, dust jacket, slight toning to spine, 8vo Wade 157. Also issued in dark blue cloth. (1)

£200 - £300

Lot 931

Lot 932

933 Yeats (William Butler). The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems, 1st edition, first issue, London: Kegan, Paul, 1889, [1], viii, 155 pp. original publisher’s black cloth gilt, lower cover with publisher’s device in blind, a very good unblemished copy, 8vo, 17.5 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 ins)

Wade 2.

934 Yeats (William Butler). John Sherman and Dhoya, Pseudonym Library Series, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891, untrimmed in original yellow printed wrappers, upper joint splitting, small tears and losses at foot of spine, some dust-soiling and small ink stain to upper wrapper, circular stain to rear wrapper, slim 8vo, together with The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, Cameo Series, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, frontispiece, some toning to endpapers, original parchmentbacked boards, spine a little rubbed with some toning, corners rubbed, slim 8vo, plus Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1913], portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, light toning to half-title, presentation inscription, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends repaired, 8vo, with others by or on Yeats including 1st editions Poems of Spenser, illustrated by Jessie M. King, [1906], The Cutting of an Agate, 1919, and Early Poems and Stories, 1925

Wade 4 & 6 for first two titles respectively. John Sherman and Dhoya was written under Yeats' pseudonym 'Ganconagh'. (29)

£300 - £500

First edition, first issue of Yeats’ first trade book preceded only by the privately printed Mosada (published in 1886 in the Dublin University Review). 500 copies were printed, financed by Kegan Paul but with guarantees from subscribers arranged with the help of John O’Leary. When subscriptions weren’t as forthcoming as hoped, Kegan Paul sold the remaining 98 copies to Fisher Unwin. (1)

£300 - £400

935 Yeats (W. B.) Poems, 2nd UK edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, portrait frontispiece, advertisements at rear, some light spotting and marginal water stains, original cloth with elaborate gilt decoration by Althea Gyles in bright condition, 8vo

Wade 17. First published in 1895. (1)

£200 - £300

Old Master Prints & Drawings

Modern & Contemporary Prints

25 JULY 2024

Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919). Boreas, a study for Boreas and the Fallen Leaves, circa 1910-1914, coloured chalks and pastel on buff paper, head and shoulders portrait, half-profile turned to the left, his lips pursed and arms outstretched, visible sheet size 29.8 x 22 cm (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 ins), framed and glazed (41 x 31.5 cm)

Provenance: English private collection formed circa 1950-1970, thence by descent.

The present work is a study of the ancient Greek god Boreas in Boreas and the Fallen Leaves, held by the De Morgan Foundation (Object Number P EDM 0044), which shows Boreas swirling round a large gnarled tree, with the leaves depicted as maidens with golden hair being blown to the ground. Boreas is the ancient Greek god of the north wind, and the most important of the four wind gods. He was winged and had two faces: one to see where he was going and one to see where he had come from.

£3,000-£5,000

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AFTER THE AUCTION

Online Results: If you weren’t present or able to follow the auction live, you can find results for the sale on our website shortly after the sale has ended.

Payment: The price you pay is the amount at which the auctioneer’s hammer falls (the hammer price), plus a buyer’s premium (a percentage of the final hammer price) and vat where applicable. You will be issued with an invoice made out to the name and address provided on your registration form.

Please note successful bids made via live bidding cannot be invoiced or paid for until the day after an auction. A live bidding fee of 3% + VAT (Dominic Winter / Invaluable) or 4.95% + VAT (the-saleroom) will be added to your invoice.

METHODS OF PAYMENT

Cheque: Cheques will only be accepted on the day of the sale by prior arrangement (please contact our office for further information). Cheques by post will be accepted but a period of 5 working days will be required for the cheque to clear before purchases can be collected or posted.

Cash: Payments can be made at the Cashier’s Office, either during or after the sale.

Debit Card: There is no additional charge for purchases made with debit cards in the UK.

Credit Cards: We accept Visa and Mastercard. It is advisable to let your card provider know in advance if you are intending to purchase. This reduces the time needed to obtain authorisation when the payment is made.

Bank Transfer: All transfers must state the relevant invoice number. If transferring from a foreign currency, the amount we receive must be the total due after the currency conversion and the deduction of any bank charges.

Note to Overseas Clients: All payments must be made by bank transfer only. No card payments will be accepted unless by special prior arrangements with the auctioneers.

Collection/Postage/Delivery: If you attend the auction in person and are successful in your bid, you are free to collect your item once payment has been made.

Successful commission or live bids will be invoiced to you the day after the sale. When it is possible for our in-house packing department to send your purchase(s), a charge for postage/packing/insurance will be included in your invoice. Where it is not possible for our in-house packing department to send your item you will be required to make your own arrangements or to contact Mailboxes etc (tel: 01793 525009) or Pack and Send (tel: 01635 887237) who may be able to help.

We provide a monthly delivery service to Central London, usually on Wednesday of the week following an auction. Payment must be received before this option can be requested. A charge will be added to your invoice for this service.

ARTIST'S RESALE RIGHT LAW ("DROIT DE SUITE")

Lots marked with AR next to the lot number may be subject to Droit de Suite.

Droit de Suite is payable on the hammer price of any artwork sold in the lifetime of the artist, or within 70 years of the artist's death. The buyer agrees to pay Dominic Winter Auctioneers Ltd. an amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay such amount to the artist's collecting agent. Resale royalty applies where the Hammer price is £1,000 or more and the amount cannot be more than £12,500 per lot.

The amount is calculated as follows: Royalty For the Portion of the Hammer Price (in GBP)

4.00% up to 50,000

3.00% between 50,000.01 and 200,000

1.00% between 200,000.01 and 350,000

0.50% between 350,000.01 and 500,000

Please refer to the DACS website www.dacs.org.uk and the Artists’ Collecting Society website www.artistscollectingsociety.org for further details.

1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice.

(b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account.

3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 20% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 20% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 20% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.

4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due.

(b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately.

(c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day.

(d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.

5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights:

(i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller.

(ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract.

(b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day.

(c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.

6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed.

(b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot.

(c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.

7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded.

8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer.

9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof.

10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to theAuctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.

11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage. The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the lower estimate, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods.

(b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.

12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots.

14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein.

15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

ANTIQUES & HISTORIC TEXTILES

26 JULY 2024

Needlepoint Picture. A marriage portrait, British, 1620s/30s, finely-worked in tent stitch on canvas, in a variety of coloured silk threads, depicting an affluent couple with joined hands in the centre, before a dwelling on a hill, the lady wearing a gown with virago sleeves and stand-up collar, the gentleman dressed in a crimson doublet and hose, with feathered hat, and rosettes at knees and on shoes, in a landscape with numerous floral motifs (carnation, tulip, Tudor rose, heart's ease, iris, sunflower), birds, including a parrot, insects (2 caterpillars and a moth), and animals (a hare, dog, rabbit, and lion), with the sun shining out from clouds above, edges toned and with some small holes, 23 x 24 cm (9 x 9.5 ins), edged with a narrow canvas border with holes where previously tacked

Provenance: Alexandra Mary Freesia Pelham née Vivian, Lady Worsley (1890-1963); thence by descent.

A rare early Carolean embroidery, undoubtedly made to celebrate the marriage of the couple pictured. Their rich and fashionable dress demonstrates their wealth, and the verdant landscape, with its overtones of fertility, is full of symbolism: an iris for faith and hope, a tulip for deep love, a parrot for wisdom, a lion for courage, and so on. The sun beams down on their union, and the gentleman turns in profile to gaze at his chosen one, a reflection too of the relative calm before the raging of civil war to come in the 1640s. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for similar iconography on an embroidered mirror frame (accession number 64.101.1332).

Estimate £700-1,000

For further information please contact Henry Meadows or Susanna Winters: henry@dominicwinter.co.uk susanna@dominicwinter.co.uk