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1281 Lots
Lot 3
TOUCHAGUS (author): 'En Dessinant L'époque...Editions Horay, 1954: 8vo, original wrappers: inscribed from and with drawing by the author on upper flyleaf: TOGETHER WITH 'Le Nouveau Merdiana ou Manuel Scatologique...', Paris, 1870. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, spine repaired. (2).Estimate: £70 - £100
Lot 5
MACDONALD (George): 'Within and Without: a dramatic poem...' London, Longman, Brown et al, 1855. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo, a near fine copy in original publisher's brown morocco grain cloth: TOGETHER WITH: 'Poems', London, same publisher, 1857: 12mo, publisher's blind stamped brown cloth gilt lettered: INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR to the Rev. Caleb Morris. (2).Estimate: £200 - £300
Lot 7
DICKENS (Charles): 'The Strange Gentleman; a Comic Burletta, in Two Acts. 'By Boz': first performed at The St. James's Theatre, on Thursday, September 29, 1836....' London, Chapman Hall, 1837 (but circa 1870) later 19th century reprint: 8vo, original white paper wrappers, a little browned and spotted: together with another copy of the same. (2).Estimate: £50 - £70
Lot 8
ARROWSMITH (A): 'A New General Atlas, constructed from the latest authorities, by A Arrowsmith...', Edinburgh, A Constable & Co, 1817. 4to, original red half-morocco with printed label to upper board, rubbed and worn: with 53 uncoloured maps, some foxing and browning, tissue guards, a few old owner's ink stamps, generally in good condition. (1).Estimate: £100 - £150
Lot 10
LIGHTFOOT (Frances): 'An Embellished Chart of General History and Chronology', London, Whittaker, Treacher et al, n.d. (1831). Folio, recent buckram backed marbled boards, numerous folding historical charts hand coloured, title spotted and edges dustmarked, otherwise good. (1).Estimate: £40 - £60
Lot 13
MITCHISON (Naomi): 'Kate Crackernuts, a Fairy Play for Children...': printed for private circulation, 1931: number 10 of a limitation of 300 copies, inscribed 'For Lewis from Naomi...': probably Lewis Jones (d.1939), communist friend of Mitchison: tall 8vo, original blue paper wrappers, upper printed in black, some light edge wear else a good copy: Together with 27 others, mainly first editions of 20th century literature by female authors, most in dustjacket. (28).Estimate: £70 - £100
Lot 15
HARRIS (J, publisher): 'The Infant's Grammar, or a Pic-nic Party of The Parts of Speech. London, printed for Harris & Son, 1824: Sm 8vo, original printed wrappers, frayed and dust soiled, content thumbed and corners creased: with 10 hand-coloured illustrations, final leaf of publishers advertisements, wood engraved illustration to upper cover. Scarce. (1).Estimate: £100 - £200
Lot 16
OWEN (John): 'Salus Electorum, Sanguis Jesu: or the Death of Death in the Death of Christ...' London, printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648, 8vo, later half-calf, worn and rubbed: together with 3 other unrelated antiquarian volumes, to include a 43rd edition of Cocker's Arithmetick, for sale with all faults and not subject to return. (4)..Estimate: £70 - £100
Lot 18
DE LA MARE (Walter): 'The Listeners and Other Poems..', London, Constable, 1912: 12mo, publishers red cloth gilt: inscribed from author to upper free endpaper: THOMAS (Edward): 'Last Poems', London, Selwyn & Blount, 1918: 8vo, publishers boards with printed label to spine, rubbed and browned: TOGETHER WITH approx 62 others, chiefly 20th century poetry and drama, some inscribed from author, some in dustjacket or original wrappers, generally in good condition. (Apprx 64).Estimate: £150 - £200
Lot 19
BOLTON (L): 'An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity...', London, Methuen, 1921: 8vo, publisher's brick red cloth, good: BELLOC (Hilaire): 'On Translation...' Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1931: Sm. 8vo, printed wrappers: MAUGHAM (Harry Neville): 'Sir Paul Pindar and Other Plays...', London, Grant Richards, 1899: large 8vo, publisher's boards with printed label, rubbed and worn: with lengthy inscription from the author to upper free endpaper: TOGETHER WITH approx 60 others, books, pamphlets and periodicals, largely late 19th-earlier 20thC, various subjects to include politics, cookery and history, some inscribed. (Approx 63).Estimate: £100 - £150
Lot 21
MOTTRAM (R H): 'The Lame Dog...', London, Chatto & Widus, 1933: First Edition: 8vo, a fine copy in dustjacket: 'The Apple Disdained', London, Elkin Mathews, 1928: no. 110 of 530 numbered stories inscribed by the author: 8vo, publisher's boards and dustjacket, near fine: TOGETHER WITH 16 others by or including contributions from Mottram, generally in very good condition and majority in dustjacket. (18).Estimate: £80 - £100
Lot 22
JAMES (Henry): 'The Spoils of Poynton', London, Heinemann, 1897. First London Edition: 8vo, publisher's blue cloth gilt lettered, some minor wear else VG: JOYCE (James): 'Ulysses..', Odyssey Press, 1933. Second Edition thus: 8vo, 2 vols, original grey printed wrappers contained in green buckram slipcase, the latter with some wear and damp soiling: DEIGHTON (Len): 'Funeral in Berlin', London, Cape, 1964: First Edition in dustjacket: TOGETHER WITH a quantity of other literature/first editions over 2 shelves, many in dustjacket, to include works by Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, et al, generally in good or better condition. (2 shelves).Estimate: £150 - £200
Lot 24
BINDINGS: JOHNSON (Ben): 'The Works of Ben Johnson....', London, 1816: 9 volumes, later brown crushed half-morocco gilt, rubbed to extremities: JOHNSON (Samuel): ' A Dictionary of the English Language...',London, printed for J Johnson et al, 1799: 11th edition: 2 vols, 8vo, later half-calf: TOGETHER WITH 65 other volumes, 19th-early 20th century literary and historical reference, all in calf bindings, generally in good condition. (76).Estimate: £200 - £400
Lot 27
THORPE (James, illustrator): 'The Compleat Angler...by Izaak Walton...' London, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d (circa 1912): 4to, publisher's green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and mottled: TOGETHER WITH 5 other volumes, illustrated books of same period to include the Cecil Aldin illustrated edition of Charles Dickens 'The Pickwick Papers'. (6).Estimate: £50 - £80
Lot 28
KEYS (John): 'The Antient Bee-Master's Farewell; or, full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage...' London, 1796: 8vo, recent amateur calf binding, page edges rough trimmed, contents with sporadic water staining throughout: with 2 plates as called for: TOGETHER WITH 14 other volumes, largely topography/natural history, 19th-20th century, to include 2 other beekeeping titles. (15).Estimate: £100 - £150
Lot 31
HIS HIGHNESS THE NAWAB NAZIM OF BENGAL: 19 vols from a set of the works of Charles Lever, pub. Routledge circa 1900, each volume inscribed to title page by His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, a few volumes with his purple ink stamp, one volume with contents shaken but otherwise generally sound. (19).Estimate: £100 - £150
Lot 32
COXE (William): 'Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; with his original correspondence...', London, Longman, Hurst et al, 1818: 3 vols: 4to, later half calf gilt lettered, spines sunned and rubbed: numerous plates and maps, some folding or hand coloured in outline: together with 4 other unrelated volumes, a Soviet calendar for 1947, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, etc. (7).
Lot 34
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS: a substantial broken run of 99 volumes, from 1844 to 1888 including some duplicates, mixed cloth and leather bindings, considerable wear and a good many backstrips deficient or frayed with loss, wood engraved illustrations including some folding, for sale with all faults and not subject to return: TOGETHER WITH 3 volumes of 'The Graphic' from the 1870s, all folio. (102).Estimate: £3000 - £4000
Lot 35
MACQUOID (Percy & EDWARDS, Ralph): 'The Dictionary of English Furniture...', Offices of Country Life, 1924: folio, 3 vols, publisher's green cloth gilt lettered: HARTSHORNE (Albert): 'Old English Glasses. An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England...', London, Edward Arnold, 1897: large 4to, publisher's decorated vellum, rubbed and marked: PASTON (George): 'Social Caricature in the 18th century...', London, Methuen, 1905: folio, publisher's buckram backed boards: TOGETHER WITH 30 other volumes, mostly large format historical, topographical and antiques reference works, 19th-early 20thc, various bindings, generally in good condition. (35).Estimate: £200 - £300
Lot 48
ALBUMS: an attractive 1830s-40s commonplace book, binding of cream silk covered boards with embossed gilt metal floral corner and centrepieces, embroidered initials 'M D' central to upper board flanked by two coronets, gilt gauffered edges and ornate locking mechanism, some wear and marking, containing several drawings and watercolours including flowers, portraits, etc, a few with signature of members of Mansfield family, contained in worn original box with spine lacking and one board detached: TOGETHER WITH an album of photographs and ephemera relating to Australia/India, later 19thc, partially full, oblong 4to with backstrip deficient. (2).Estimate: £100 - £200
