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EARLY 20TH CENTURY KOEHLER MINERS SAFETY LAMP, with pierced hood and double gauze, 26cm excl hook, and another similar (2)Provenance: private collection South Wales Valleys.Notes: The 1918 Koehler lamp was the first miner's lamp to be approved by the US Bureau of Mines. It was supposed to generate more light than other lamps, and produce clearer results when testing the mine air.Comments: worn and well used, some bars loose, used condition, working order not guaranteed, inspection advised.
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Interesting group of family related medals includes WWI trio to 18518 Pte J R Bates Duke of Cornwall light infantry (D. of Corn. L.I., together with 3 x WWI miniatures plus the WWII defence medal, indicating that Bates was awarded this medal, but the large medal is however missing. Two dog tags for J Bates with a different roll number 651925 are also included. In addition, 3 x WWII medals addressed to a relative, R F Bates, and including the original entitlement certificate for 3 medals.
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NO RESERVE Atlases.- Johnston (Alexander Keith) and G. H. Johnston. The Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, folding map frontispiece, 51 double-page maps, bookplate of Spencer Charles Ferguson, additional bookplate of Alan Graham Mutter to front endpaper, a few maps with short tear at central fold but no loss, occasional light soiling, the odd spot, heavier spotting to endpapers, original half morocco, upper cover lightly sunned at head, spine and extremities quite worn, rubbed, g.e., folio, Edinburgh and London, 1903.
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NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Fürst (Johann Evangelist) Der Wohlberathene Bauer Simon Strüf, eine Familien-Geschichte, 4 parts in 2 vol., woodcut vignettes to titles, woodcut illustrations, part 3 sigs.1&2 worm traces at foot, just touching the odd letter, both vol. some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary cloth, spines gilt, soiled and rubbed, Augsburg & Regensburg, Kollmann & Pustet, 1841 § Krackhart (Carl) Neues illustriertes Conditoreibuch, second edition, half-title, 58 chromolithographed plates, some spotting or mostly light foxing, occasional staining, original pictorial boards, stained and rubbed, [cf. Bitting pp.264-265 and Weiss Gastronomia 2083 (note)], Leipzig, Heinrich Killinger, 1878; and a small quantity of others, 19th & 20th century German cookery, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)⁂ It is rare to find all four parts together of the first mentioned.
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Bible, Latin.- Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata, title within woodcut architectural border, and woodcut vignette of Saint Jerome within similar border, woodcut illustrations, head- & tail-pieces and initials, ink ownership inscriptions, book-label, title slightly trimmed at foot (touching border, with very slight loss) and very small hole and marginal nick, M6 with closed tear to text and ?glue repair with discolouration, 2V7 closed tear to text with partial paper repair at lower margin (small nick), occasional ff. with minor worm holes to margins, occasional scattered light foxing, later vellum, rubbed paper label to spine, extremities rubbed, [Edit 16 CNCE 5797], folio, Venice, heirs Niccolò Bevilacqua and Giacomo Vidali, 1576.⁂ Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.
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NO RESERVE Medicine.- Clifton (Francis) Hippocrates upon Air, Water and Situation; upon Epidemical Diseases..., title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, title and frontispiece with some staining and surface soiling, elsewhere light marginal spotting, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover nearly detached, spine, ends and corners worn and bumped, 8vo, for J. Watts, 1734.⁂ Provenance: Thomas Strong [early ink ownership inscription to front endpaper]
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NO RESERVE Dorset.- Coker (John) A Survey of Dorsetshire, first edition, folding engraved map, 6 engraved armorial plates, armorial bookplate to both pastedowns, ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper, title with small ink inscription, light browning, scattered spotting, marginal mark to X2v, front endpaper detached, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label (chipped), worn, upper cover detached, lower joint split but holding, for J. Wilcox...S. Palmer and J. Huggonson, 1732 § Hare (Augustus J.C.) Walks in London, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, illustrations, a few instances of light soiling or staining, bookplate of Charles B. Cochran, bound in crimson morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, mottling to covers, spines very slightly faded, lightly rubbed, t.e.g.; and others, topography and travel, including a 6 vol. set of Throsby's Memoirs of the Town and County of Leicester, v.s. (c.32)⁂ The first mentioned one of two issues published in 1732 with different imprint.
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NO RESERVE Pope (Alexander) The Works, 9 vol., general title to vol. 1, titles printed in red and black, engraved plates, several vol. with bookplate of Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to a few pastedowns and front free endpapers, vol. 3 C6-8 with short tears into text, most repaired but with loss to a few letters, plates lightly offset, occasional light marginal damp-staining, some light browning and scattered foxing, some vol. with heavier marginal browning to peripheral ff., contemporary calf, spines with morocco labels, corners and spine ends worn, rubbed, some joints split but holding firm, for H. Lintot [&c], 1753; and others, 18th century, including sets of the Works of Fielding and Thoyras' History of England, 8vo (c.49)
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NO RESERVE Garnett (Richard) and others, editors. The International Library of Famous Literature, vol. 1-8, 13 & 14 only (of 20), plates, Ellen Terry's copy, with her Winchelsea bookplate to all but vol. 5 and ink ownership inscription to vol. 1 title, vol. 1 title with further ink inscription "Six vols." to foot in a different hand, the odd patch of light soiling, vol. 1 with small marginal loss to final two leaves, original red half morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, a few light marks, a few small chips to spine ends, [c.1900] § Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works, 13 vol., plates, bookplate of Charles Cochran, bound in red half calf, gilt, by Hatchards, spines lightly faded, wear to corners, rubbed, t.e.g., 1898-99; and others, library sets, including an incomplete 1808 set of the Works of Dryden, v.s. (c.88)
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NO RESERVE Custance (Olive) Rainbows, first edition, half-title, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper (signed "Olive Douglas"), dated Weston August 1902, some light scattered spotting, mainly to peripheral ff., endpapers browned, original paper-backed boards, spine sunned, spine chipped at foot and with old glue repair, rubbed, light staining, 1902 § Moses (Henry) Designs of Modern Costume, &c...on 29 plates, 29 engraved plates, pencil ownership inscription of M.F. Messel to front free endpaper, dated 1947, foxed, contemporary crimson morocco, gilt, a few light marks, rubbed, g.e., Henry Setchel & Son, [1823]; and others, literature, v.s. (c.102)⁂ Olive Eleanor Custance (1874-1944) poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. Custance was a contributor to The Yellow Book. The second mentioned contains the ownership inscription of M. F. Messel (1875-1960), daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne.
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NO RESERVE Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, first edition, first state, half-title, plates and illustrations by the author, some marginal foxing, endpapers foxed, first state pictorial cloth, spine lettering and decoration rubbed away (as often), but the covers bright, fraying to extremities, [Livingstone 267], 1902 § [Giraud (Jane Elizabeth)] The Flowers of Shakespeare, hand-coloured lithograph title and 29 hand-coloured lithographs, tissue-guards, title and one other loose, a few coming loose at head, previous ink ownership inscription and light spots to title, occasional finger soiling, upper hinge weak, original cloth, rebacked, worn, Day & Haye, [1845] § Basile (Giambattista) Stories from the Pentamerone, first trade edition, illustrated by Warwick Goble, colour plates, occasional scattered foxing or finger soiling, original pictorial cloth, spine sunned, ends worn, 1911; and 13 others, children's and illustrated, v.s. (16) ⁂ First mentioned: in the first state binding which was blocked with a white colouring that was highly prone to rubbing. This copy brighter than most, and thus rare.
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Bread.- Photobook.- Simmons (Owen) The Book of Bread, first edition, 2 tipped-in gelatin silver prints, 8 tipped in black & white prints, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, some very light spotting, occasional creasing to lower inner corner of prints, as often, some very faint offsetting, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and black, corners and ends of spine slightly bumped, [Bitting p. 435; Parr & Badger The Photobook, I, 56], 4to, Maclaren & Sons, [1903].⁂"one of the humblest, yet most essential of objects is catalogued as precisely, rigorously and objectively as any work by a 1980s Conceptual artist" (Martin Parr in The Photobook) .
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Geology.- Walker (J. & C.) A Geological Map of England, Wales, and part of Scotland, showing also the Inland Navigation with the Railways & Principal Roads, large hand-coloured engraved map with cross-section at foot, c.1000 x 660 mm., dissected and mounted on linen, previous owner's ink signature to top edge, light toning, folding into original cloth slip-case, red and gilt label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1838.
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Palestine.- Palestine No. 1 (1947). Proposals for the Future of Palestine, folding map at end detailing "Provincial Autonomy Plan", occasional passage marking in pencil, some unobtrusive light stains, wrappers with some light soiling or staining, joints split at head and foot, HMSO, 1947 § The Political History of Palestine under British Administration, lightly browned, the occasional light stain, particularly to first leaf, hinges cracked but holding, wrappers with a few tiny tears to edges, toned, scattered spotting, spine rubbed, joints split at foot, Jerusalem, 1947 § Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Report to the United States Government [&] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Lausanne, Switzerland. 20th April, 1946, some ink underlining and marginalia in Hebrew script, some light spotting, mainly to endpapers, upper wrapper with ink ownership name to head and very small hole (not affecting text), lower wrapper with small tape repair to foot, lightly browned, scattered spotting, Palestine, Government Printer, [1946], original printed stapled wrappers; and another similar, 8vo (4)
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Art Criticism.- Price (Uvedale) Essays on the Picturesque, first edition, 3 vol., spotted, top edges unopened, later cloth, corners bumped, edges uncut and dust-stained, 1810 § E.R. and J. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, one of 150 copies signed by the publisher, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, some light spotting, newspaper clippings relating to Whistler pasted and tipped-in at pastedowns, contemporary half morocco, some light rubbing at extremities, t.e.g., others uncut, 1908; and another relating to art, v.s. (14)
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Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., facsimile of the 1755 edition, 2 loosely inserted booklets, both with a few light patches of soiling, original red calf, very lightly rubbed at corners, cloth slipcase with 2 printed paper labels, rubbed and stained, 1 label chipped at lower corner, folio, [1990].
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London.- Westminster.- Bedford (P.) A Chart illustrating the Architecture of Westminster Abbey, folding linen-backed plate, faint spotting, original cloth, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, [1846] § An Illustrated Westminster Monthly Review, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, illustrations, one leaf loose, contemporary half-roan, rubbed, upper cover detached, lower cover becoming detached, 1896-7 § Emden (Walter) Picturesque Westminster, 64 plates, light toning to title, loose as issued, housed in original cloth portfolio, a little rubbed, lacking ties, 1902 § Loftie (W. J.) Westminster Abbey, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1890; and others similar, v.s. (9)
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Photography.- Cartier-Bresson (Henri) Images à la Sauvette, first edition, black and white photographic reproductions, light water-staining to endpapers and occasionally at gutter, occasional cracking at gutter, original illustrated boards designed by Matisse, light water-staining to spine and edges, some minor surface soiling, spine and lower cover toned, spine quite worn, with loss to one letter to spine foot and a few small portions of loss along joints, rubbed at extremities, large 4to, Paris, Verve, 1952.
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Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol. in 2, first edition in book form, frontispieces, illustrations, scattered spotting, occasional light soiling, contemporary half calf, a few small stains, rubbed, vol. 1 backstrip come away from spine and torn at head (with very small portion of loss), vol. 1 covers detached, vol. 2 with short tear to spine head and joints starting, 8vo, 1840-41.
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NO RESERVE Oriental Art.- Gardner (G.B.) Keris and Other Malay Weapons, one of 150 copies signed by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, numerous illustrations, some photographic, errata slip tipped-in, original cloth, Singapore, Progressive Publishing Company, 1936 § Hillier (Jack) The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, illustrations throughout, some in colour, original cloth, small damp-stain to spine head, dust-jacket, light surface soiling to spine, minor damp-stains to spine ends, 1980 § Kümmel (Otto) Chinesische Bronzen... 35 plain plates, original printed wrappers, spine and joints a little torn at head, Berlin, 1928; and 37 others oriental art of the far east, v.s. (40)
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Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; Modern Painters, 5 vol., 1851-60, plates and illustrations, some hand-coloured, most with tissue-guards, handsomely bound in uniform blue morocco by Matthews, gilt, spines very slightly faded, slight bumping and some light rubbing to corners and spines, Seven Lamps of Architecture upper cover lightly scuffed, t.e.g., 4to (9)
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Ancient music.- Elzevier .- Meibom (Marcus) Antiquae musicae auctores septem, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, double column, text in Greek and Latin, titles in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding letterpress tables, of which 4 printed in red and black (of which 2 with a closed tear at edge), woodcut musical annotation, diagrams and decorative initials, modern ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, modern clipping taped to front endpaper, a couple of gatherings almost loose (E1-4 towards front; Y1-4, Z1-2 at rear), uniform light browning, some light spotting, contemporary (?original) limp boards with ink manuscript title to spine, joints cracked but stitching holding, some toning, [Willems 1148 'Collection tres estimée, et que l'on rencontre difficilement'], small 4to, Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1652.⁂ Important work on ancient musical writers, namely Aristoxenus, Euclid, Nicomachus, Alypius, Gaudentius, Bacchius and Aristides.Provenance: William M. Ivins [book label]; William Mills Ivins Jr. (1881-1961), curator of the department of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), from its founding in 1916 until 1946. Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.
![London.- [Egan (Pierce), imitation] Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., 2 vol., 32 hand](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/1c9fa12d-de82-4c25-b85e-b05100c2ebc0/468x382.jpg)
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London.- [Egan (Pierce), imitation] Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., 2 vol., 32 hand-coloured aquatint and etched plates, plus 3 extra plates (of which one in vol. 2 a duplicate), making 35 plates in total, including frontispieces and additional pictorial titles, tissue guards, frontispieces trimmed, just within image to vol. 1, a couple plates with tiny stab-holes to fore-margin, occasional light browning, the odd spot or patch of minor soiling, one or two subtle stains to endpapers, pastedowns with offsetting where bookplate removed, upper hinges tender, handsomely bound in polished calf by Root & Son, upper covers with central gilt motif of a dancing couple, gilt spines in compartments and with motifs including dancers and playing cards, lightly rubbed and scuffed, vol. 2 upper joint split but holding, other joints split at head and foot, [cf. Abbey, Life, 280; Tooley 198], 8vo, 1827-29.⁂ First published in parts between 1821 and 22. "The work had tremendous success, probably outrivalling in popularity its prototype, Egan's Life in London" (Abbey).
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Munitions.- Ministry of Munitions Department of Explosive Supply. Preliminary Studies for H.M. Factory, Gretna and Study for an installation of Phosgene Manufacture, edited by William Macnab, 24 folding plans and diagrams, ink ownership stamp of Kenneth B. Quinan to front pastedown, very occasional light spotting, endpapers lightly foxed and browned, original cloth-backed boards, spine lightly sunned, faint scratch to lower cover, extremities bumped and a little rubbed, particularly fore-edge of lower cover, HMSO, [c.1920].⁂ Kenneth B. Quinan (1878-1948), American-born chemical engineer who contributed to the British war effort in World War I with the design and building of several explosives factories, including the enormous factory at Gretna, which covered 9000 acres. Quinan was made a Companion of Honour, declining the knighthood offered on the basis of his US citizenship, and given the Croix de Guerre. David Lloyd George publicly thanked him in the House of Commons, saying "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan".
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Kent.- [Fisher (Thomas)] The Kentish Traveller's Companion, second edition, 3 folding engraved maps, small puncture holes to Y2-3 and final map, with loss to a few letters of text, final map also cropped and a little fayed at edges, with short tear to foot causing small loss, another map with short marginal tear, very light marginal damp-stain to first few leaves, some light foxing, heavier towards end, contemporary marbled calf, covers with gilt greek key borders, spine and corners worn, spine with central vertical split but holding, covers detached, Rochester & Canterbury, T. Fisher...and Simmons and Kirkby, 1779; and a defective first edition of Kilburne's Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent, 8vo & 4to (2)
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NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) A Gallery of Children, one of 500 copies signed by the author,12 colour plates by H. Willebeek Le Mair, occasional cracking at gutter, slight marginal toning to title and some plates, very occasional light soiling, endpapers lightly spotted and browned, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine lightly toned, some light surface soiling, corners little rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, [1925].
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NO RESERVE [More (Cresacre)] The Life of Sir Thomas More, Kt....By his Great Grandson, Thomas More, first edition, engraved portrait by Vertue after Holbein, title in red and black, 2 advertisement leaves at end, frontispiece lightly foxed and offset, very faint water-staining to foot throughout, endpapers foxed, spine richly gilt, corners and spine ends worn, rubbed and scratched, joints starting, James Woodman & David Lyon, 1726 § James (Robert) Pharmacopoeia Universalis: or, A New Universal English Dispensatory, second edition, lacking final leaf (?blank), half-title with contemporary ink initials "TCB" to head, ink ownership inscription "Warren 1769" to front endpaper, 2S3 with tear into text, repaired and without loss, some light foxing or browning, rear hinge tender, small loss to spine ends and along lower joint, corners worn, rubbed, upper joint starting at foot, for J. Hodges, 1752, ink ownership inscription Tho. Crawley Boevey to front endpaper, with Flaxley Abbey beneath in a later hand, the odd patch of light soiling, contemporary calf; and others, antiquarian, some odd volumes or incomplete sets, v.s. (c.45)
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NO RESERVE Keppler (Victor) The Eighth Art, first edition, signed by author, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1939 § Beerbohm Tree (Sir Herbert) Cabinet Photo as Hamlet, signed and inscribed by Beerbohm, cabinet photo mounted on stiff card, scattered spotting, [1892] § Dollard Printinghouse Dublin. Typefaces, first edition, printed in red and black, original pictorial cloth, light spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Dublin, n.d.; and 2 others relating to the arts, v.s. (5).
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XVI. December, 1857, to May, 1858, illustrations, library bookplate, the odd spot or patch of light soiling, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, spine labels lacking, remains of two old paper labels to spine, corners worn, rubbed, joints starting but holding firm, 8vo, New York, 1858.⁂ Including Clement C. Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", with illustration of Saint Nicholas and his reindeer by Thomas Nast. Other highlights include Wilkie Collins' "Marriage Tragedy" and Thackeray's "The Virginians".
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NO RESERVE Pogany (Willy).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 20 tipped-in colour plates and numerous illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany, light browning to first and last leaves, plates slightly offset, light spotting to fore-edge, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, gilt heavily faded, chips and tears to extremities, a few small portions of loss, t.e.g., others uncut, 1910 § Gautier fils (Théophile, translator) Aventures du Baron Münchhausen, illustrations by Gustave Doré, contemporary ink inscription to front pastedown, title lightly browned, foxing, hinges cracked but holding, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, worn, small loss to head of spine, joints split at head and foot but holding, Paris, [c.1866]; and others, children's and illustrated, v.s. (c.17)
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Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Profits, Interest and Investment and other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations, first edition, some light edge spotting, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, some light rubbing and toning to spine, a very good copy, 1939; John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, first edition, plates, very faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1951; 8vo (2).
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Rackham (Arthur).- Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first trade edition, issue without the frontispiece mounted but with date to verso of title, 12 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, pictorial endpapers, occasional marginal soiling, some light foxing, heavier to peripheral ff., original olive pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, a few very small chips or short tears, spine with horizonal tear and portions of loss to ends (affecting some text), browned, a few very light spots or marks, lower flap with joint split at head, upper joint broken, 4to, London & Philadelphia, 1915.
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Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, initial imprimatur f., title in red and black, folding engraved map and 16 plates and plans by Wenceslas Hollar after R. Hall, some double-page or folding, engraved illustrations, some full-page, 8pp. and a slip of coats-of-arms at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription Tho. Staunton to verso of imprimatur, a few instances of early ink correction or marginalia, more frequent to coats-of-arms, two folding plates laid down, double-page plates strengthened at inner margin to verso, a few plates with short tears and tape repairs to verso, with one or two small portions of marginal loss, a few small rust holes within text and a couple of plates, some light foxing or browning, the odd small stain, modern antique-style calf, double morocco labels to spine, light scratches, [Wing T1063], folio, by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677.
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NO RESERVE Lee (James) An Introduction to Botany...Extracted From the Works of Dr. Linnæus, first edition, 12 engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, armorial bookplate of C.E. Bagge and his ink ownership stamp to front endpaper, ink marginalia to foot of I8v, light offsetting, light browning, occasional scattered spotting, description to plate 12 with tiny rust hole within text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine label chipped, rubbed, corners and upper cover worn, joints split but holding, [Henrey 952], for J. and R. Tonson, 1760 § Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., one of 205 copies, colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, bookplate, vol. 3 with ink inscription to pastedown, occasional slight cracking at gutter, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spines lightly faded, corners bumped, rubbed, t.e.g., 1925-26; and others, natural history, v.s. (10)
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NO RESERVE Mines.- Derbyshire.- Mawe (John) The Mineralogy of Derbyshire: With a Description of the Most Interesting Mines in the North of England, in Scotland, and in Wales, engraved frontispiece, map and 2 plates, offsetting, some light foxing to plates, the odd spot elsewhere, lightly browned, contemporary half calf over boards, sympathetically rebacked, with original gilt back-strip laid down, rubbed, a few light stains to boards, [Hoover 569], 1802; and a copy of Davies' Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire, 8vo (2)
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NO RESERVE Isambert (François-André) Tableau des Progrès du Droit Public et du Droit des Gens, first edition, A.L.s. from the author tipped-in to half-title, scattered light foxing, contemporary boards, spine with red morocco label, spine toned, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, Paris, 1829; and two others French, including a copy of Zola's Lourdes, 8vo (3)⁂ François-André Isambert (1792-1857), French lawyer, historian, and politician.
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NO RESERVE Almanac.- The Ladies Diary: or, The Woman's Almanack For the Year of our Lord, 1719, trimmed at foot, with loss of some text to sig. B, C4 with small loss to fore-margin, touching text but without loss, J. Wilde, 1719, bound with Andrews (William) Remarkable News from the Stars: or, An Ephemeris For the Year 1719, very small worm hole within text, becoming small trace towards end, J. Wilde, [1719], bound with Coley (Henry) Melibnus Anglicus Junior: or, The Starry Messender, J. Crook, 1719, bound with others, together 12 Almanacs for 1719 in 1 vol., printed in red and black, a few woodcut illustrations, red ink duty stamp to titles, list of contents in later ink manuscript to front endpaper, trimmed, a couple times just shaving text, occasional scattered foxing, browning, generally light but heavier at points, contemporary crimson morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, one lettered "Almanack 1719", some wear to spine ends and corners, little rubbed, upper joint split at foot but holding, g.e., 8vo. ⁂ Includes Poor Robin and John Wing's almanac for the year.
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Korea.- M'Leod (John, surgeon) Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, second edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, title with ink ownership inscription to head, bookplate, publisher's advertisements to rear, light foxing or spotting throughout, plate borders lightly browned, later blue half calf and red morocco label to spine, joints cracking but firm, extremities heavily rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 559], 8vo, John Murray, 1818.⁂ With one more colour plate than the first edition published the previous year.Provenance: J. Talbot Clifton of Kildalton Castle [bookplate]; likely Talbot Clifton the dedicated traveller, who explored Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa and South America, moving to Kildalton on Islay in the 1920s.
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Cameron (Kenneth Neill) and others, editors. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822, 8 vol. only (of 10), illustrations, original cloth, vol. 1-4 with dust-jackets, price-clipped, spines toned, some scattered spotting, heavier to vol. 2, vol. 1 with tears to some joints and lower cover, the odd other small nick or short tear, all but vol. 1-2 with cloth slipcases (lightly rubbed), Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1961-86 § Rodd (Sir Rennell) and H. Nelson Gay. Bulletin [and Review] of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Rome, No. 1 & 2, No. 2 with newspaper clipping tipped onto front endpaper, No. 2 with "Presentation Copy" embossed stamp to title, some light spotting or foxing, some leaves loose or working so, a few tape marks to inside wrappers, uncut in original red wrappers, spine ends chipped and with a few repairs, a little frayed at edges, some light marks, [McGillivray X5], London & New York, 1910-13; and others, Keats and Shelley reference, including No. 3-22 of the Keats Shelley Memorial Bulletin, v.s. (c.38)
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NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, half-title, ink ownership inscription front endpaper and a couple of other ink markings, occasional spots of finger soiling, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, spine sunned, extremities scuffed, t.e.g., 1927; and three others from the series, second and third editions, 8vo (4)
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NO RESERVE De Cock (Jan) Denkmal ISBN 9080842427, profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, signed presentation inscription from the artist in pencil to front pastedown, dated Tate London 2006, original glazed boards, subtle scuffing to spine, glazed board slipcase, some very light scuffing and surface soiling, Brussels, Atelier Jan De Cock, [c.2005]; and others by the same, one signed by the artist, large 4to (4)
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NO RESERVE Botany.- A group of botanical plates, British wild flowers and grasses, all engraved with hand-colouring, many by botanical artists James Sowerby and William Kilburn, perhaps from Curtis' Flora Londinensis, some with library stamps in ink and or blind, some with light spots or browned, some small tears to margins, platemarks of various dimensions (c.156 x 100mm to c.397 x 240mm.) but all on similar sized sheets, folio, [late 18th century] (40)
![Erotica.- [Hayn (H.)] "H. Nay". Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica, title with tear to head of inner margin and ink stamp to foot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/d3f4eb3e-04c3-4aca-abf2-b05100c238e6/468x382.jpg)
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Erotica.- [Hayn (H.)] "H. Nay". Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica, title with tear to head of inner margin and ink stamp to foot, light browning, original cloth-backed boards, light browning, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, 8vo, Leipzig, [Privately printed], 1875.⁂ The rare first edition or this important catalogue, published pseudonymously.
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NO RESERVE Coppard (A. E.) and others. Consequences: A Complete Story..., limited edition, engraved frontispiece by Ravilious, endpapers very lightly browned, original cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed at edges and with a few small nicks (mainly to spine head), spine and upper panel little faded, light soiling, 1932 § Blunt (Reginald) Paradise Row, or A Broken Piece of Old Chelsea, one of 110 numbered copies, portrait frontispiece and plates, bookplate of Alfred Tomlinson, some toning and faint foxing to endpapers, the odd spot or patch of light soiling elsewhere, original parchment-backed boards, extremities lightly rubbed, 1906; and others, literature, including 8 novels by Louise Jordan Miln, 8vo & 4to (12)
![Churchill (Sir Winston).- "Sonning-Prisen" [The Sonning Prize], bifolium, portrait frontispiece, ink signature, light spotti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/212a5c31-7058-4a8b-8c7a-b05100c242fd/468x382.jpg)
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Churchill (Sir Winston).- "Sonning-Prisen" [The Sonning Prize], bifolium, portrait frontispiece, ink signature, light spotting, original crushed morocco, lightly sunned, 1950; with 2 memorandums on 'The Churchill Endowment Fund" loosely inserted, folio (3)⁂ Presumably a presentation certificate for the inaugural Sonning Prize. This was named after the Danish editor and author Carl Johan Sonning (1879-1937), who established the prize in his will to be awarded to those "found to have done commendable work for the benefit of European culture". The first award was given to Sir Winston Churchill for furthering Anglo-Danish scientific interests.
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French prisons.- Diard (H.) Études sur le système pénitentiaire et sur son application au régime des prisons de France, first edition, half-title, mostly light foxing, heavier to last few ff., later vellum-backed marbled boards, small stain to spine on author's name, 8vo, Tours, Ladevèze, 1875.⁂ Rare in commerce. Proposes reforms for the French prison system, based on the study of the methods of America and other European countries, including Ireland and England. With a section on the handling of young offenders and agricultural detention centres, like that at Mettray.
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Roxburghe Club.- Thompson (Henry Yates, editor) Lord Howard of Effingham and The Spanish Armada, facsimile plates, most double-page and one folding, occasional light browning gutter, light browning and a few spots to endpapers, original half morocco, spine titled in gilt, spine ends and corners rubbed, dust-jacket, chipped at edges with a few small portions of loss, rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1919.Provenance: John Murray, Treasurer (name printed in red on "list of members")
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Nottinghamshire.- Deering (Charles) Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova, or An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham, first edition, 25 engraved plates or plans, 7 folding, bookplate of Sir Edward Fraser, title with 18th century ink ownership inscription to head, 2 folding plates and one plan trimmed within image and laid down on linen, with a few repaired tears and very small portions of loss, a few other plates with minor tears but no loss, L4 with closed horizontal tear, 2T1 with small hole causing loss to signature, light offsetting, some light browning or foxing, heavier towards end, later cloth, rubbed, Nottingham, George Ayscough & Thomas Willington, 1751 § Ward (James) A Descriptive Catalogue of Books Relating to Nottinghamshire in the Library of James Ward, 2 vol. including Supplement, vol. 1 with presentation inscription "With Jas Wards' Kind regards to Mr J. Dobson" to head of title, Supplement with initialled presentation inscription from the author to half-title, occasional light spotting, endpapers foxed and browned, original plum morocco-backed cloth, rubbed at joints and corners, Supplement with staining to lower cover, Nottingham, privately printed, 1892-98; and others, Nottinghamshire related, including Throsby's History and Antiquities of the Town of Nottingham, 4to & 8vo (6)
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NO RESERVE England.- Gilpin (William) Observations on the Western Parts of England, first edition, 18 tinted aquatint plates, N3 with short repaired tear to fore-margin, light browning, for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, 1798; Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty...on Several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, 40 plates and maps, most tinted aquatints with maps hand-coloured, vol. 1 title and front endpapers detached, one plate trimmed close at fore-edge, just touching image, plates labelled to upper margin in early ink manuscript, occasional ink correction or marginalia, more frequent passage marking towards end, upper cover detached, lower joint split but holding, for R. Blamire, 1792, bookplate of John Longe of Spixworth Hall, offsetting, some scattered foxing, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spines with red and green morocco labels, some wear to spine ends, rubbed, uncut; and others by the same, mixed editions, uniformly bound, 8vo (5)
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NO RESERVE Ornament & Decorative Arts.- Hobson (R.L.) Worcester Porcelain, multiple chromolithograph plates, tipped in, numerous plain collotype plates, a few with with light spots, half-title, original decorative cloth, extremities lightly bumped, uncut, Bernard Quaritch, 1910 § Brunhammer (Yvonne) and Suzannne Tise, French Decorative Art, photographic illustrations in colour and black and white, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly sunned, light bumping to top edge (a few minute tears), 1990 § Pepall (Rosalind, editor) Tiffany Glass - A Passion for Colour, photographic illustrations in colour, original cloth-backed boards with mounted photographic on-lay, 2010; and 20 others similar, folio, (23)
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Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language..., 2 vol., third edition, vol. 1 title with a couple tiny chips to upper margin, light browning, mostly to peripheral ff., titles lightly soiled, occasional foxing, the odd small stain, modern cloth, red morocco spine labels (lightly rubbed), [Alston, V 195], 8vo, for A. Millar [&tc], 1766.
![Egan (Pierce) Boxiana; or, Sketches of [Ancient and] Modern Pugilism, 3 vol., engraved frontispieces and additional titles, 3](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/ae970923-af62-4264-a50f-b05100c28beb/468x382.jpg)
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Egan (Pierce) Boxiana; or, Sketches of [Ancient and] Modern Pugilism, 3 vol., engraved frontispieces and additional titles, 31 engraved plates, 4 of which folding, armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton, additional bookplate to front endpapers, additional titles to vol. 1 & 3 with faded contemporary ink inscription to head, vol. 2 additional title with repaired chip to upper margin, plates to vol. 1 trimmed, a few times shaving imprint and once touching image, a few expertly repaired tears to folding plates, with occasional very small loss, one plate to vol. 3 with a few tiny nicks to fore-edge, some light offsetting, occasional light foxing or soiling, vol. 2 & 3 upper hinges weak, handsomely bound in polished calf by Riviere & Son, spines gilt in compartments and with crimson and tan morocco labels, vol. 1 sympathetically rebacked, lightly rubbed, a few marks to vol. 1 lower cover, vol. 2 & 3 joints split but holding, g.e., 8vo, vol. 1 & 2 for Sherwood, Jones & Co, vol. 3 for G. Virtue, 1823-24-29.⁂ Early reprints from the Boxiana series, the first three volumes originally published in 1813, 1818 and 1821. The series was continued by Egan's rival Jon Bee for a fourth volume in 1824. Egan published two further volumes under "New Series" Boxiana in 1828 and 1829.
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