The Oxford Library Sale

Elmes (James). 'Metropolitan Improvements on London in the Nineteenth Century being a Series of Views'. Jones & Co, London 1827. Thomas Shepherd (...

Robida (A) 'Retrouvailles de Guerre...' and Morgan (Louis) A group of monochrome etchings in folder plus Jerusalem-Damas (Ch. Lallemand) Quantin P...

Blyton (End). Four titles with d/ws, early editions and Coolidge (Susan) X 1. plus Bates (H.E.) X ten titles, same early editions, nine with d/ws ...

Puffendorf (Samuel). 'de Officio Hominis et Civis'. Books 1 and 2. Red and black printed title page. Johannem Broedelet, Utrecht 1728 with annotat...

Birch (Lionel). 'Between Sunset and Dawn' with frontispiece by Michael Stewart. Corydon Press, Cambridge. 1st Ltd Ed. 234/250. Signed by the autho...

Whessell (J) and Bartlett (T) (Publishers). 'Oxford Delineated or a Series of Sketches of the History and Antiquities, and a General Topographical...

Goldwin (William). 'A Poetical Description of Bristol'. Joseph Penn 1712. 21pp pamphlet plus Wrangham (Francis). 'The Holy Land, A Poem'. Cambridg...

Lowe (Solomon). 'Mnemonics Delineated...'. 1737. 10pp pamphlet plus 'A Report of the Committee of the Lower House of Convocation...concerning Seve...

A folio containing an eclectic group c20 prints and drawings including a pen and ink sketch entitled 'November in Montreal showing the astonishing...

A folio containing a collection of c20 18th/19th century portrait engravings including Princess Charlotte of Wales, Duke of Saxony, Thomas Sydenha...

Strang (William) after Charles W Furze. A portrait of J.K. Stephen, Poet and Academic 1859-1892. Signed in pencil on the mount (390 x 300mm) and a...

Picco-Ruckert (Rio). A set of ten coloured prints representing the German Steel Industry plus 3 vols Das Eisen in der Kunst. Fo. Dusseldorf c1960 ...

After Tiepolo (Giovanni Domenico). A folio of twenty seven monochrome prints after the originals of 'The Flight of Egypt' oblong folio 1955 (fair ...

Barrie (J.M.) 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'. Arthur Rackham (Illus). Hodder and Stoughton. Green cloth faded, mould damage at end plus Boyajia...

Wyllie (W.L. & M.A.). 'London to the Nore'. A & C Black, London 1905. Sixty illustrations, decorative binding (stained) untrimmed paper. Signed, L...

Fleming (Ian). 'Goldfinger'. 1st Ed. 1959. 8vo. Jonathan Cape/Gildrose Productions. Black cloth with skull design. d/w price clipped, edges bent, ...

Fleming, Ian (1908-1964). A copy of the service sheet for Ian Fleming’s Memorial Service at the Priory Church of St Bartholomew, The Great West, S...

Churchill (Winston S.). A History of the English Speaking People. 4 vols. Cassell, London 1956-58. 1st Ed. Red cloth. 8vo. no d/ws, foxing etc .....

Thompson (Kay). 'Eloise'. First Ed. 2nd printing 1957. Max Reinhardt d/w plus 'Eloise at Christmastime' X 2 no d/ws plus Bemelmans (Ludwig) 'Madel...

Paolozzi (Sir Edward ) (1924-2005). 'Cloud Atomic Laboratory'. Eight photogravures. Alecto Studios, London/British Olivetti 1971. Loose Fo. Each s...

Audebert (J.B.) Two ornithological coloured prints 'Le Manucode' Pl.5. and 'Le Petit Emeraude' Pl 2. image 295 x 230mm, all over spotting, unframe...

Lansing (Clarence) intro. 'The Nude in Art'. 45 photogravures. H.S. Nichols, London 1896. Fo. on pictorial blue cloth folder (1 +) ...[more]

Hazell (Denis H) Photographer. 'Picturesque HongKong'. 22 monochrome images, oblong plus HongKong 'La Perla del Oriente', oblong album (2) Hong K...

Du Cane (Florence) Du Cane (Ella) Illus. The Flowers and Gardens of Japan. A & C Black 1908. 8vo. Decorative green cloth plus Ponting (Herbert G)....

Hearn (Lefcadio). aka Koizumi Yakumo (1850-1904) Writer and teacher. 'Some Chinese Ghosts'. Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner London 1887 plus five fu...

Herklots (Geoffrey) and Crook (A.H.) Eds. 'The Hong Kong Naturalist, a quarterly illustrated Journal principally for HongKong and South China'. Vo...

Ptolemy:- Geographica Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini, Venice 1562. Engraved title page and numerous diagrams, lacking all maps. Old vellum. 4to. ...[m...

Cornelio R.P. Commentaria in Quator Prophetas Maiores. Pillehotte Lugouni (Lyon) 1522. With engraved title page and plates. Four Commentaries in o...

Franklin (Dr). New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess. Harris, London 1803 with engraved chessboard frontispiece, small pamphle...

A manuscript common place book or diary compiled by H.A. Leebody. MB. CM. Edin. Vol II. 1931-1943. Leebody seems to have been a surgeon on P & O S...

Doughty (Charles). 'Travels in Arabia Deserta', 1943 reprint. Cape, London. 2 Vols. T.E. Lawrence intro. nine plates and map. 4to. brown cloth plu...

Darwin (Charles). ‘Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage round the World of H.M.S....

A Manuscript Alphabetical Ledger. 298pp containing a detailed description of many international Merchant Bankers. C1920 in a neat ink long hand. M...

Baring Brothers & Co. (Bankers). Six Bank of England Guarantee Account sheets 1892/1894. Red and black print (215 x 340mm) Edges bent etc (6) ......

A 19th century coloured engraved portrait of John Baliol and a cartoon ‘A View taken from the Town Hall Oxford’ dated 1807, both framed (2) ...[m...

LOT WITHDRAWN

Rind (Alfred) and Mored (Curt). Gefilde der List, Morphologie, Physiologie und Sexual-Psychologische… Wien/Leipzig c1930. Gilt decorative blue clo...

Fyfe (Andrew). ‘A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body’. Vol 1 (of 3). 4th Edition with plates. Adam Black et al Edinburgh 1820. 4to. Marbled b...

A Folio Album of early 20th century photographs, prints etc., of Italian scenes and works of art. Half green calf plus Heckstall-Smith (B). Yachts...

The Holy Bible with Notes, Illustrations and Practical Improvements by Matthew Poole. Smith, Woodbridge. N/d c1800? Full calf plus Burkitt (Willia...

Sowerby (James). English Botany or Coloured Figures of British Plants... 300 coloured plates printed for the author by J Davis, London 1794. 8vo....

A 19th century manuscript song book with seventeen songs each with musical score in a fine sloping long hand, end paper with engraved portrait of ...

Humphreys (Henry Noel) and Westwood (John Obadiah). 'British Butterflies and their Transformations'. William Smith, London 1841. 1st Ed. 43 colour...

Childrens Books to include: De La Mare (Walter). 'Peacock Pie'. W Heath Robinson (Illus). Constable, London, A.A. Milne X 3, early editions, Kenne...

de La Mare (Walter). Bookplates, woodcut framed plus a group of framed b/ps, miniatures, frames etc, and a copy of 'The Tyro' No. 2, A Review, Ego...

Le Clerc (George Louis, Comte du Buffon). 'All The World's Birds'. François-Nicholas Martinet (Illus). Rizzoli New York 2011. Thick Fo. in slip ca...

Fine Binding: Zaehnsdorf (Joseph). 'The Lives of the Saints' with fifty one full page plates. John Camden Hotten, London 1869. Gilt edges, fine to...

de Ville-Thierry (Girrard). 'La Vie des Vierges...'. Chaubert-Paris, 1725. Contemporary gilt calf (170 x 100mm) plus Florian, Estelle. Paris c1880...

Rackham (Arthur) Lewis Carroll, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Heinemann, London. n/d. with a Proem (sic). by Austin Dobson, green cloth (210...

Jardine (Sir William) (Ed). The Naturalist’s Library Ornithology. 10 vols. Lizars Edinburgh with portrait frontispiece. n/d but c1800. Many fine c...

Cook (Capt. James). ‘A Compendious History of Captain Cook’s First and Second Voyage…’. Kearsley, London 1784. 2 vols. (175 x 105mm) with folding ...

Darwin (Charles). ‘The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication’. 1st Edition. John Murray, London 1868 with illustrations, errata, adv...

Childrens Books: A collection of twenty one titles including de la Mare (Walter). ‘The Three Mulla-Mulgars’. Dorothy P Lathrop (Illus). Walter Cra...

Swift (Dr Jonathan) Dean of St Patrick's Dublin. The Works and Letters thereof in twenty four volumes, mixed editions c1770. small 8vo. full calf,...

A collection of twenty leather bound Antiquarian books for restoration, Spectator, Humphry, Clinker etc (20) ...[more]

Murphy (Arthur). The Works of Samuel Johnson. New Ed. 12 vols. Nichols et al, London 1810. with portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Full calf with gilt de...

Mogg (Edward). 'Paterson's Roads'. 16th Ed. with maps. Longman et al 1822 plus an eclectic collection of Antiquarian titles - Milton, Butler, Fiel...

Clarendon (Edward Earl of). 'The History of The Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641'. 3 vols. Fo. Oxford 1702 with engrave...

Tyndale, Walter. 'Below the Cataracts', Heinemann London 1907. 4to. Limited edition 10/150, signed by the author / artist, untrimmed paper, gilt t...

Mongez, Antoine. 'Encyclopédie Méthodique, Recueil d' Antiquities...'. Agasse, Paris 1804. With 97 full page plates. Ex lib with stamps. Rebacked....