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Los 221

Greene (Graham) The Bear Fell Free, number 249 of 350 copies signed by the author, illustrations by Joy Lloyd, pictorial endpapers, some light scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine browned, chip with tear to foot of spine and lower panel, head of spine and corners a little chipped, some light toning to head of upper panel, [Wobbe A9], 8vo, 1935.⁂ One of the titles in the Grayson Books series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors.

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NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first Australian edition, light toning to pages, ink ownership inscription to title and upper cover, original printed stiff stapled wrappers with 1/6 sticker to upper cover, publisher's book list advertisement to lower cover, chip to head of upper cover, light rubbing and creasing, 8vo, Sydney, Invincible Press, 1945.⁂ A scarce edition, the text much truncated from that in the standard first edition.

Los 223

NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) Our Man in Havana, light marginal toning, dust-jacket, light toning, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1958 § Chesterton (G. K.) Irish Impressions, "Review copy" blind-stamp to title, browning to endpapers, spine darkened, some damp-staining to covers, 1919 § Jones (James) From Here to Eternity, some edge-spotting, jacket spine ends and corners a a little chipped and creased with repairs to verso, 1952, first or first English editions, original cloth; and 20 others, modern literature, 8vo (23)

Los 226

NO RESERVE James (P.D.) The Blood Tie/ Innocent Blood, uncorrected proof copy, signed by the author on title, light browning to text margins, printed label to title and upper cover changing title, original printed wrappers, light browning to spine and cover margins, light creasing to spine, 1980; Death of an Expert Witness, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original boards, small patch of fading to foot of spine, dust-jacket, fine, 1977; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)⁂ The proof is rare and of bibliographical significance with its late change to the title.

Los 227

NO RESERVE Jandl (Ernst) No Music Please, number 3 of 50 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, Turret Books, 1967 § Jennings (Elizabeth) Poems, signed presentation inscription from the author, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, original wrappers, some chipping and tearing to foot of spine, light marking to upper cover, Fantasy Press, 1953 § Patten (Brian) Walking Out, number 42 of 100 copies signed by the author, illustrations by Palmer Kindred, original roan, Leicester, Transican Books, n.d.; and 4 others, poetry, 8vo (7)

Los 229

NO RESERVE MacNeice (Louis, translator) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, first edition, signed by MacNeice below preface, bookplate to pastedown, original cloth, some light toning, dust-jacket, browning to spine, chipped at head, tear to head of lower panel with old tape repair, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1936.

Los 231

NO RESERVE Potter (Stephen) One-Upmanship, signed presentation inscription from the author "To S. Arnold Forster, With sincerest thanks for page 79" on endpaper, illustrations, jacket spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tear to head of upper panel, 1952; The Magic Number, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Edward, for being, so far as I know, the only private gentleman (if he will excuse this vast understatement) not only to buy, but actually to read this, the most difficulty work of my long and distinguished career, Stephen", plates, bookplate of Edward Francis Lydall to pastedown, light toning to jacket, light creasing to head and foot, 1959, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and another presentation copy of the first, 8vo (3)

Los 232

NO RESERVE Rogers (Lillian) The Shadow, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, spine sunned, fading to covers, [1928] § Webb (Mrs. Mary) Seven for a Secret, advertisements at rear, light spotting, some light discolouration to spine and covers, 1922, first or first English editions, original cloth; and 2 others, modern literature, 8vo (4)

Los 233

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Edith) Collected Poems, number 37 of 320 copies signed by the author, frontispiece portrait, original cloth, light bumping to corners, a few patches of light soiling, dust-jacket, browning to spine spine ends and corners chipped toning and soiling to panels, extremities rubbed, light creasing to head and foot, 1930 § Sitwell (Edith, editor) Wheels. A Second Cycle [- a Third Cycle], 2 vol., illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, bumping to spine ends and corners, rubbing and soiling to covers, 1917-18, first editions, 8vo (3)

Los 234

NO RESERVE Tomlinson (H. M.) Gallions Reach, limited edition signed by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author, A.L.s. from the author, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, toning to spine, slip-case, rubbed and worn, 1927 § Holtby (Winifred) Virginia Woolf, first edition, frontispiece, ink ownership inscription, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light chipping to spine ends, 1932; and 7 others, v.s. (9)

Los 235

NO RESERVE Williamson (Jack) Darker Thank You Think, number 210 of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy with presentation inscription from the author, ink ownership stamp and light damp-staining to endpaper, jacket with chipping, creasing and tears to extremities, Reading, PA, Fantasy Press, 1948 § Vance (Jack) To Live Forever, cut signature of the author to endpaper, jacket spine faded, extremities rubbed, New York, 1956 § Collins (Hunt) Tomorrow's World, signed presentation inscription from the author "you are the only person in the world besides me who has this edition of the book. My God!" to endpaper, ink ownership stamp to endpaper, jacket price-clipped, very light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, New York, 1956, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 8 others, science fiction and fantasy, 8vo (11)

Los 238

Attwell (Mabel Lucie).- Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, frontispiece and 11 colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell, ink gift inscription dated 1915 to front free endpaper, light foxing to first and last few leaves, some staining to endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed with spine ends bumped, [c.1914] § Barrie (J. M.) Peter Pan and Wendy, 12 tipped-in colour illustrations by Attwell, occasional light foxing, endpapers lightly browned, original pictorial orange cloth, very lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped with a few small chips, dust-jacket, rubbed with some surface soiling, a few small tears to joints and extremities, repaired with tape to verso, some loss to spine ends, [c.1920], numerous black & white illustrations, occasional splitting at gutter; and others illustrated by or about Attwell, v.s. (22)

Los 239

Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte Darthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, photogravure frontispieces, 18 plates (5 double-page), illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardlsey, some light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, upper hinges cracking but covers holding firm, original cloth, gilt, rubbed and toned with some staining, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, 1893-4. ⁂ Beardsley's first major commission and an early masterpiece, produced when he was only 20 years old. The young artist met the publisher J.M. Dent who was looking for someone to illustrate an edition of Morte d'Arthur. On seeing Beardsley's trial drawing 'The Achieving of the Sangreal' the publisher was reputedly rendered speechless by its quality. Duly commissioned, Beardsley produced a body of work which took the medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelites and married it to his own bizarre imagination and Japanese-influenced style, making his reputation. They are among the most stunning illustrations he ever produced.

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Middle East.- [Bell (Gertrude)] The Arab of Mesopotamia, first edition, frontispiece map, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper dated Baghdad 1919, light browning to margins and endpapers, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, Basrah, Government Press, [1917]; and another, a history of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 8vo & 4to (2)

Los 241

Bingham (Clifton) Full of Fun, colour frontispiece and black & white illustrations by Louis Wain, National War Savings Committee stamp to pastedown, slightly browned, contents shaken, [c.1908] § Parnell (Winifred) Rag, Tag, and Bobtail, full-page colour illustrations by Edith Farmiloe, half-title browned, some splitting at gutter, hinges and gutter strengthened with paper tape, a few short tears repaired similarly, one leaf working loose, 1899, some light spotting and soiling, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, quite soiled and worn; and c.145 others, children's and illustrated, including several early editions of Enid Blyton's Noddy, v.s. (c.145)

Los 243

de Brunhoff (Jean) Babar En Famille, occasional marginal spotting, a few ink spots to spine, 1938; Les Vacances de Zéphir, light spotting, mostly to first and last few leaves, a few patches of soiling to lower cover, 1936; Babar's Travels, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, The Times Book Club label to rear pastedown, slight splitting at gutter, 1935; Babar's Friend Zephir, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, spine a little soiled, covers worn at extremities, 1937; first or first English editions, illustrations, very light marginal toning, occasional finger-soiling, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, spine ends bumped; and 3 others, another first English edition of Babar's Friend Zephir, and two early English editions of The Story of Babar, folio (7)

Los 244

Dulac (Edmund).- Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells, 28 colour plates by Edmund Dulac, captioned tissue-guards, some light finger-soiling, occasional splitting at gutter, [1912] § Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur, translator) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French, 30 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, tissue-guards, plate 3 with lower corner slightly folded, the odd marginal spot, endpapers foxed, [1910], first trade editions, margins slightly toned, original decorative cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped; and 6 others illustrated by Dulac, 4 copies of Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, Dulac's Fairy-Book, and Stories from the Arabian Nights, 8vo & 4to (8)

Los 245

NO RESERVE Fouqué (de la Motte) Undine, plates by Arthur Rackham, occasional very light spotting not affecting plates, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, joints rubbed, 1909 § Darton (Harvey T. J.) Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, very occasional light spots, original pictorial cloth, rather rubbed and faded, gilt bright, 1904; and c.55 others, illustrated, v.s. (c.55)

Los 246

Greenaway (Kate) A Day in a Child's Life, music by Myles B. Foster, occasional browning, hinges cracked but covers holding, original cloth-backed boards, spine ends chipped, [1881] § Crane (Walter) Flora's Feast, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing to first and last few leaves, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked, with neat paper tape repairs to extremities, 1899, numerous colour illustrations, some finger-soiling, boards rubbed with surface soiling; and 11 others, 9 illustrated by Kate Greenaway and 2 by Walter Crane, v.s. (13)

Los 247

NO RESERVE Hemingway (Ernest) Oeuvres Completes, 8 vol., edited by André Sauret, illustrations by Carzou, Commere, Fontanarosa, Garbell, Masson, and others, original wrappers with glycine dust-jacket, slip-case (soiled and marked), some splitting and light rubbing to chemise, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963-9 § David et Salomon. translated by Lemaistre de Sacy, illustrations by Albert Decaris, light foxing or marking to few pages, loose in wrappers as issued, chemise and slip-case (rubbed), Paris, Les Cent Bibliophiles, 1933, and 46 others, similar, French press, v.s. (55)

Los 250

Kipling (Rudyard) The Second Jungle Book, first edition, spine sunned with a few chips to ends, slight shelf-lean, 1895; The Jungle Book, 1898; The Jungle Book, uniform edition, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 1899; The Second Jungle Book, uniform edition, spine sunned, 1899, half-titles, illustrations, some light scattered spotting, in latter two mostly to endpapers, occasional splitting at gutter, a few hinges cracked but covers holding firm, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed with a few light stains, corners and spine ends bumped, g.e. or t.e.g., 8vo (4)

Los 252

NO RESERVE Louys (Pierre) Les Chansons de Bilitis, illustrations by Mariette Lydis, loose in binding as issued, slip-case (spotted and rubbed), Paris, Georges Guillot, 1948 § Rey (Robert) L'Apocalypse, number 6 of 100 copies signed by the artist and editor to limitation page, illustrations by Carzou, light spotting to title and few other pages, loose in binding as issued, Paris, André Sauret, 1959; and 65 others, similar, French presses, v.s. (67)

Los 253

NO RESERVE Montorgueil (Georges) Henri IV, half-title, 4 tipped-in plates and numerous illustrations by H. Vogel, a few leaves working loose, light toning to margins, some staining to endpapers, hinges tender but covers holding, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, g.e., Paris, 1907; and another copy of the same in an alternative binding, 4to (2)

Los 254

NO RESERVE Pearse (Susan Beatrice).- Heward (Constance) Ameliaranne Camps Out, book-label to pastedown, some light foxing, mostly to margins, spine of dust-jacket with repairs to verso, 1939; Ameliaranne Goes Digging, very occasional light spotting, dust-jacket price clipped, 1948, first editions, numerous illustrations in colour and black & white, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, lightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, dust-jackets, some light spotting, rubbed with chips and tears to extremities, some loss to spine; and 12 other Ameliaranne books, 4 of which first editions, 8vo & large 8vo (14)

Los 255

Photography.- Traeger (Tessa) Voices of the Vivarais, one of 250 copies signed by the author/photographer, introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth, g.e., pictorial slip case, some light surface soiling, 2010 § Greenough (Sarah) and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz Photographs and Writings, first edition, ink gift inscription to front endpaper, jacket with a couple of instances of minor soiling, very light sunning to spine, 1983 § Krauss (Rosalind) and Jane Livingston. L'Amour Fou. Photography & Surrealism, jacket with some light surface soiling and scuffing, small tear top edge lower panel, 1985, all with photographic illustrations, original cloth, last two with dust-jackets; and a quantity of others photography, v.s. (c.100; 5 boxes)

Los 256

Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first trade edition, first printing with date on title and singe-page endpaper recurring four times, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, upper hinge split at base, small chip to spine foot, 1903; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, third printing with "Author of the Tale of Peter Rabbit" on title, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, frontispiece removed and placed before half-title, short closed tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper, 1903, some light finger-soiling, upper hinge repaired, original boards with mounted colour illustration, rebacked, with original spine laid-down (small loss to head and foot), lightly rubbed, a few spots of light staining, [Linder p.423; Quinby 4 & 5]; and others by Potter, including another first edition Tailor of Gloucester and a presentation box of Potter's works (33)

Los 257

NO RESERVE Rackham (Arthur).- Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, tipped-in colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Rackham, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1906 § Arno (Peter) Man in the Shower, frontispiece, full-page illustrations, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, light spotting, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing and chipping to corners and extremities, n.d. § Prévost (L'Abbé) Manon Lescaut, one of 500 copies signed by artist, frontispiece, plates and illustrations by John Austen, spotting, original vellum-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1928; and others illustrated, v.s. (c.35)

Los 258

Rackham (Arthur).- Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 50 colour plates tipped-in by Rackham, captioned tissue guards, light foxing to first few pp., contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, frontispiece and endpapers working loose, original pictorial cloth, gilt, faded and rubbed, extremities a little frayed, 4to, 1907.

Los 259

Rackham (Arthur).- Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, first edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, lower inner corners creased and additionally affixed to backing, later half green morocco, spine gilt, very lightly rubbed, 1917 § Evans (C. S.) The Sleeping Beauty, first trade edition, decorative title and silhouette plates by Arthur Rackham printed in green, pink & black, also tipped-in colour frontispiece, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed pictorial cream boards printed in pink and black, lightly toned and rubbed at extremities, spine slightly faded with ends bumped, London & Philadelphia, [1920], half-titles, black & white illustrations, some very light foxing and finger-soiling; and two others, The Sleeping Beauty with illustrations by Dulac and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám with illustrations by René Bull, large 8vo & 4to (4)

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Middle East.- Fries (Lorenz) Tabula VI Asiae, an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula, from the 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries' Geographia, woodcut on laid paper without watermark, sheet 382 x 537 mm (15 x 21 1/8 in), Latin text verso with woodcut border decoration, minor parallel creases to central vertical fold, light surface dirt and browning, small worm holes to lower centre margin, unframed, [Strasbourg, circa 1535]

Los 260

Rackham (Arthur).- Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, 1907; Undine, 1909; The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, 1910, first editions, plates and colour illustrations by Rackham, light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, lightly faded, spine ends bumped and creased, 4to (3)

Los 263

Upton (Florence K.) and Bertha Upton. The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, [1895]; The Golliwog's "Auto-Go-Cart", rear free endpaper torn with majority lost, hinges weak but covers holding, 1901; The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, 1898; The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club, 1896, first editions, numerous colour illustrations, slight offsetting, light spotting and finger-soiling, some cracking at gutter, last two with a few chips and tears to margins, also some leaves working loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, quite worn with surface soiling; and other Golliwogg books, most first editions, including 2 further first editions of The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls, oblong 4to (11)

Los 264

NO RESERVE [Wolfe (Humbert)] "Oistros". Truffle Eater, one leaf and rear free endpaper detached, some splitting at gutter, endpapers browned, original pictorial boards, small loss to spine ends, upper joint split at head and foot, [1933] § Spence (Robert & Philip) "Doktor Schrecklichkeit". Struwwelhitler, ink ownership inscription to first leaf, original pictorial wrappers, spine reinforced at head with a few chips, [1941], illustrations, light scattered spotting, covers rubbed with some staining; and two editions of Struwwelpeter, one late 19th century German, the other a later English reprint, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ Two anti-Nazi satires and their inspiration, Struwwelpeter, first published in Germany in 1845. The second was commissioned byThe Daily Sketch to support the British war effort.

Los 266

NO RESERVE Blake (William) Songs of Innocence and Experience, number 14 of 51 copies hand-coloured and gilded from an edition of 151, signed by the publishers, hand-colouring with water-colours and gold, colouring and gilding by Samuel Hurd, tissue guards, some light spotting to half-title, letterpress title and text preliminaries, contemporary calf, spine very lightly sunned, Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1923 § Hotson (J. Leslie) The Death of Christopher Marlowe, folding plate, original cloth, slightly damp-stained, The Nonesuch Press, 1925 § Aeschylus. Oresteia [Graece], printed in red and black, original cloth-backed boards, un-opened along top edge, cloth drop-back box, The Chiswick Press, 1904; and a small quantity of printed ephemera and booklets, printed at various presses, or relating to them, including: booklets, pamphlets and poems, some illustrated and in wrappers, prospectuses, publishers advertisements, typed letters, v.s. (sml qty)

Los 268

Cresset Press.- Apocrypha (The), according to the Authorized Version, number 354 of 450 copies, wood-engraved plates by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Eric Ravilious, John Nash and others, light foxing to first and last few pages, embossed ownership stamp to rear endpaper, rear hinge starting to crack, original vellum, morocco spine label worn, t.e.g., small folio, printed at the Curwen Press for the Cresset Press, 1929.

Los 270

Golden Cockerel Press.- Swift (Jonathan) [Gulliver's Travels] Travels into Several Remote Nations, 2 vol., 42 wood engravings by David Jones, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpapers, light foxing, original half white buckram, vol.2 rather marked and discoloured, tear to boards repaired on upper panel, 1925 § Turner (Paul, translator) Apollonius of Tyre, engravings by Mark Severin, original morocco-backed buckram, original glacine wrapper, 1956, embossed ownership stamps to rear endpapers, Berkshire, Golden Cockerel Press; and 4 others from the press, v.s. (7)

Los 281

Architecture.- Corbusier (Le) Le Modulor. Essai sur une Mesure Harmonique a l'Echelle Humaine..., first edition, numerous illustrations, bookplate of J. D. H. Catleugh, bookseller's label to front free endpaper, margins toned, occasional splitting at gutter, original wrappers, lower cover detached, upper cover working loose, dust-jacket, light toning and surface soiling, a few small chips to extremities, some repairs to verso, loss to foot of spine, Boulogne, 1950 § Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, one of 250 copies signed by the artist, 14 full-page colour screenprints by Ronald King, original signed print loose in folder at end, slip-case (rubbed and lightly soiled), Circle Press, Guildford, 1978 § Halász (Gyula) "Brassai". Camera in Paris, photographic illustrations, folding table, occasional light soiling, some foxing to endpapers, cloth with surface soiling, spine sunned with ends chipped, lower joint split, 1949, all but first original cloth; and others, many art and photography related, including 4 vol. of The Art Workers' Quarterly, v.s. (15)⁂ "Le Modular" is a scale of architectural proportion, designed by Le Corbusier to calculate the correct amount of living space needed in a building. This copy contains the bookplate of abstract artist J. D. H. Catleugh, designed by Scottie Wilson.

Los 282

Art reference.- Montesquiou (Robert de la) Paul Helleu, Peintre et Graveur, 100 plates with captioned tissue-guards, most colour, some tipped-in, very occasional light spotting, original pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed, some creasing to spine, Paris, 1913 § Adriani (Gotz) Toulouse-Lautrec, The Complete Graphic Works: A Catalogue Raisonné, illustrations, many colour and full-page, margins lightly toned, endpapers with scattered light spotting, original cloth, lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, some surface soiling, extremities toned with a few small chips and tears, 1988; and others art reference, v.s. (c.55)

Los 287

NO RESERVE Collectables.- Hernmarck (Carl) The Art of the European Silversmith 1430-1830, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, slip-case, a little rubbed, 1977 § Peter Thomson and Son. Mid-Victorian Furniture Styles and Designs, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 2011 § Gantzhorn (Volkmar) Oriental Carpets, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, light sunning to edges, 1998; and others similar, v.s. (c.50)

Los 288

NO RESERVE Cotman (John Sell) [Architectural Antiquities of Normandy], 96 etched plates only (lacking all text), some light foxing, half morocco, rubbed, extremities worn, large folio, [?1822].

Los 289

Craig (Edward Gordon) 51 proof plates for "Woodcuts and Some Words", 51 wood-engravings on 26 loose sheets, a few duplicates, most with annotation by Craig in pencil and red crayon, several with "Please Return" ink stamp to Craig's villa in Rapallo, some light toning and finger-soiling, each sheet approx 175 x 230mm (9 x 7 in), [c.1924].

Los 291

Johns (Jasper).- Castleman (Riva) Technics and Creativity, numerous illustrations, many colour, light marginal toning, endpapers with scattered spotting, original wrappers, some light spotting and surface soiling, with an original offset lithograph multiple "Target 1970" by Jasper Johns on thick card with collage of 3 watercolour pads and paintbrush, a few marks to surface, together in a white plastic clamshell box (some surface soiling), 4to, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1971.

Los 296

NO RESERVE Poster Art.- Rennert (Jack) and Alain Weill. Alphonse Mucha, The Complete Posters and Panels, Boston, 1984 § Schardt (Herman) Paris 1900, The Art of the Poster, some very light spotting and soiling to endpapers, a few small marks to lower cover, dust-jacket price-clipped, 1987, numerous colour illustrations, margins slightly toned, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed with some light surface soiling; and others on poster art, some duplicates, v.s. (22)

Los 297

NO RESERVE Preston (Kerrison) The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson, plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, spotting and faint staining, creasing to corners and edges, 1952 § Kaufmann (Thomas DaCosta) Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, light spotting to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, Princeton, 1983 § Parkinson (Ronald) Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, frontispiece, illustrations, original boards, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little creased, 1990 § Huxley (Paul, editor) Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to corners, dust-jacket, 1988; and others, art and art reference, v.s. (c.100)

Los 299

NO RESERVE Tipping (H. Avray) English Homes, 8 vol. only (of 9), lacking 'Period III vol. II', frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth, light sunned spines, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 5 vol. in dust-jacket, rubbed and worn, chipping and loss to edges, folio, 1921-26.

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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Russia.- Louth (G. T. ) Around The Kremlin; or, Pictures of Life in Moscow, title in red and black (light spotting and small marginal damp-stain), frontispiece, bookplate, upper hinge broken, half-title detached, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label (chipped), rebacked with original spine laid down, extremities very lightly scuffed, 8vo, 1868.

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South America.- Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert) Amerique Meridionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties ou sont Distingues les uns des Autres les Estats Suivant Quils Appartiennent Presentement aux Francois, Castillans, Portugais, Hollandois, &c..., large detailed map of South America divided into the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch possessions, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, an excellent impression, sheet 635 x 1000 mm (25 x 39 1/4 in), minor repairs to fold and edges, minor spotting, surface dirt and light browning, unframed, [circa 1720]

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NO RESERVE South America.- Brazil.- Roussin (Albin) Le Pilote du Brésil, ou Description des Côtes de L'Amérique Méridional, first edition, half-title, occasional light spotting and surface soiling, original paper covered boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo, Paris, 1827.⁂ Scarce.

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Switzerland.- Hering (George E.) The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy, hand-coloured lithographed additional title, dedication and 18 plates, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, scattered light spotting, minor offsetting, half red morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed, g.e., [Abbey Travel 63; Tooley 260], folio, 1847.

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NO RESERVE World.- Picturesque Europe, 5 vol., half-titles, additional engraved titles, numerous engraved plates and illustrations, occasional light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, hinges cracked and broken in 2 vol., [c.1880] § Lovett (Richard) United States Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, engraved illustrations, embossed stamp of the "Convent of the Nativity Sittingbourne" and ink inscription to front free endpaper, some light scattered spotting, endpapers browned, spine slightly sunned with ink marking, also ink library marking to foot, a few chips to spine ends, 1891, original pictorial cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, g.e.; and others, world travel, v.s. (15)

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NO RESERVE World.- Fortune (R. F.) Sorcerers of Dobu. The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific, first edition, 8 photographic plates, double-page map, illustrations, dust-jacket, spine sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, 1932 § Nogales (Rafael de, General) Memoirs of a Soldier of Fortune, first edition in English, signed presentation from the author below portrait frontispiece, photographic plates, ink ownership inscription of Hamilton Rice and some light browning to endpapers, spine faded, chipping to spine ends and lower joint, creasing to upper cover, [1931], original cloth; and 2 others, travel, 8vo (4)

Los 46

NO RESERVE World.- Hearn (Lafcadio) Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, 2 vol., first English edition, occasional light spots, original cloth, spine faded and rubbed, extremities frayed and worn, 1894 § Bartlett (W. H.) The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, second edition, steel-engraved plates, ink ownership inscription to title and front free endpapers, some light foxing and damp staining, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and faded, 1850; Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem, frontispiece and plates, light foxing and spotting, contemporary pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [c.1897]; and c.120 others, travel and topography, v.s. (c.125)

Los 47

NO RESERVE World.- Patrick (Samuel) Geographia Antiqua, title in red and black, 26 engraved folding maps, of which 1 with silked tear, 1 engraved plate, light damp-staining, mainly at lower margin, some light spotting, modern morocco-backed boards, J. & T. Pote et al., 1782 § D'Anville (J. B.) Compendium of Ancient Geography, 9 engraved folding maps, with later hand-colouring, most neatly torn along folds, half-title, some light spotting and off-setting, modern black morocco with red and green labels to spine, sunning to spine and upper cover along joint, for F. Faulder, 1791, 8vo (2)

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NO RESERVE Britain.- Beeverell (James) Les Delices de la Grand Bretagne, & de L'Irlande, 8 vol. in 9, titles in red & black, half-titles, additional engraved frontispieces, 209 maps and plates only (of 242), catalogue description cutting pasted down to front free endpaper, rather wormholed, some light spotting to margins, contemporary calf, red morocco spine labels, joints and extremities rubbed, Aleide, Pierre Vander, 1707 § Le Tourneur (Pierre) and Germain Guyot. Histoire d'Angleterre, représentée par figures, 3 vol., engraved plates by David, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, one or two spots, light damp staining though not affecting plates, contemporary mottled calf, worn, morocco spine labels, Paris, chez M. David, 1784, 8vo & 4to (13)

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London.- London (Illustrated.) A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest...Leading Hotels; Also a Directory..., chromolithographed borders, illustrations, including plan of London, numerous advertisements at end, a few with mounted albumen prints, occasional light soiling, upper hinge broken, lower hinge weak, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed, upper joint split, small loss to spine ends, g.e., 1875 § Chancellor (E. Beresford) The History of the Squares of London, Topographical & Historical, frontispiece and 35 plates, frontispiece detached, a few leaves with short tears to fore-edge, not affecting text, very occasional spotting and finger-soiling, later green morocco, gilt, lightly rubbed, t.e.g., 1907; and others London related, v.s. (c.35)

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NO RESERVE Asia.- Etherton (P. T.) Across the Roof of the World. A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, folding map at end (a couple tears at inner margin, repaired with tape to verso), modern cloth, with original upper cover and spine laid down, 1911 § Waddell (L. Austine) Lhasa and its Mysteries with a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904, third edition, plates and illustrations, folding map at end, 1906 § Burton (Richard, Sir) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration, edited by N. M. Penzer, one of 100 copies on handmade paper, half-title, endpapers toned, t.e.g., others uncut, 1924 [but 1923], half-titles, occasional light spotting, all but first with original cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends bumped; and 3 others relating to travel in Asia, including a 1969 edition of Mannerheim's Across Asia, v.s. (6)

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Scotland.- Ortelius (Abraham) Scotiae Tabula, map of Scotland, oriented with north to the right, with large strap-work title cartouche in the upper right corner, sea monster and ship, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with armorial watermark, platemark 352 x 474 mm (13 7/8 x 18 5/8 in), sheet 445 x 550 mm (17 1/2 x 21 1/4 in), Latin text verso, central vertical fold, minor handling creases, light surface dirt, faint damp-stains to margins, unframed, [Antwerp, circa 1603].Literature:VdB 18.3⁂ One of the earliest maps to show Scotland separately.

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Chess.- Lewis (William) Chess for Beginners, first edition, colour frontispiece and 23 diagrams, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, modern cloth, with original upper cover laid down, 1835 § Kenny (W. S.) Practical Chess Grammar, fourth edition, frontispiece and 9 diagrams, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and head of title, offsetting, light damp-staining to fore-edge of some leaves, hinges cracked but covers holding firm, contemporary cloth, paper label to upper cover, a few stains, 1818, half-titles, some light foxing, lightly rubbed; and others chess, many decorative cloth, v.s. (c.30)

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Chess.- Staunton (Howard) The Chess-Player's Handbook, front free endpapers working loose, damp-staining to first few leaves, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine head chipped, joints starting but covers holding, 1847; The Chess-Player's Companion, title in red and blue, modern morocco-backed cloth, 1849; Chess Praxis. A Supplement to The Chess-Player's Handbook, half-title, gutter and upper hinge weak, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed with a few light stains, chips to spine ends, upper joint split at head, 1860, first editions, all but last with colour frontispieces, numerous diagrams, occasional light spotting, spines gilt, 8vo (3)

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Chess.- Vida (Marcus Antonius Hieronymus) Scacchia Ludus: or, The Game of Chess. A Poem, translated by Mr. Erksine, lacking folding frontispiece and plate, title with contemporary ink ownership inscriptions, also fore-edge repaired with paper tape, modern library cloth, ink stamp of Brooklyn Public Library to textblock fore-edges, for A. Millar, 1736; Scacchia, Ludus: A Poem on The Game of Chess, translated by Rev. Samuel Pullein, engraved diagram, bookplate of George Lewthwaite, near contemporary mottled calf, upper joint starting but covers holding firm, Dublin, S. Powell for the author, 1750 § Sarratt (J. H.) A Treatise on The Game of Chess, half-title, woodcut diagrams, bookplate of Colonel Edwin Maude, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners reparied, 1822, some light spotting and finger-soiling, lightly rubbed; and others chess, 8vo & 4to (6)

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