The Library Sale

Natural history including marine life. Various works by Forbes, Dana, Yarrell, Hart, etc., many with illustration, 19th and 20th century

Natural history - Mammals. Various works by Elton, Bingley, Bell, Burrell (The Platypus, 1927), Macdonald, Hamilton, Benedict (The Elephant, 1936)...

POTTER (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet, first edition in book form [1916], F. Warne, no date, pictorial endpapers, original grey boards with mo...

GIBBINGS (Robert) Sweet Thames Run Softly, J M Dent 1946; Lovely is the Lee, 1947; Coming Down the Wye, 1947; all reprint editions in full morocco...

GIBBINGS (Robert) Over the Reefs, 1st edition 1948, 8vo, no.19 of 100 signed numbered copies in full red morocco gilt, a.e.g. spine slightly faded...

GIBBINGS (Robert) Coming Down the Seine, 1st edition 1953, 8vo, no.33 of 75 signed numbered copies with a signed proof engraving frontispiece, in ...

Ornithology. WHYMPER (C) Egyptian Birds, A & C Black 1909, 8vo; SMYTHIES (B E) The Birds of Borneo, 1st edition 1960, colour plates (frontispiece ...

JAMES (M R) More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1st edition London: Edward Arnold 1911, 8vo, half title, 2pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, a few...

Whaling and ships. BAYLY (Captain G) Sea-Life Sixty Years Ago, 1885; BERTRAM (J G) The Harvest of the Sea, 2nd edition 1869, original cloth; DAVIE...

Illustrated including several numbered or limited editions. GILL (Eric) Twenty-five Nudes, 1938, dust jacket; First Nudes, 1954; Drawings from Lif...

RUSSELL (Lady John) Letters of -- to her Husband 1798-1801, Chiswick Press, for private circulation 1913, 4to, specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in fu...

Bible reference. ANDERSON (Christopher) The Annals of the English Bible, 2 vols. Pickering 1845, 8vo, full calf, spines gilt by Hayday, in slip ca...

HOBSON (R L) The Later Ceramic Wares of China, 1925, 4to, illustrated, cloth; WERNER (E T Chalmers) Myths and Legends of China, 1922, 1st edition,...

CONRAD (Joseph) Works, 22 vols. including the 2 later vols., Medallion Edition 1925-28, 8vo, blue cloth (22) ...[more]

GOTTLIEB (David) Collection of 74 vols., circa 1943-48, published under the imprints of Peter Lunn and John Westhouse, mostly 8vo ...[more]

French Art Nouveau style binding. FENELON, Meditations, Paris: Edition du Livre d'Art, circa 1900, narrow 12mo, blue text within brown foliate bor...

Medical curiosities, sexual behaviour and psychology, sex rites and customs, etc. Collection of 20 vols. mainly late 19th and 20th century, in ori...

Equestrian and sporting art. MUNNINGS (Sir Alfred) Autobiography, 3 vols. 1951-52, first and second editions, dust jackets; idem - Pictures of Hor...

Literature, various. CUST (Lionel) Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots, 1903, 4to, plates, vellum; BROOKER (John) Coins of Cha...

FORSTER (E M) First editions: The Longest Journey, 1907, foxing to edges, original cloth; A Room with a View, 1908, light foxing to title and edge...

Penguin Paperbacks. Collection of fiction and classics, c.125 vols. including first editions of Waugh (E) Decline and Fall 1951, A Handful of Dust...

LAUFER (Berthold) Jade a Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1912, 8vo, plain cloth; HUME (David)...

WODEHOUSE (P G) Mulliner Nights, 1st ed., 1933, 8vo, a good bright copy in dust jacket with correct advertisements but with publisher's sticker ov...

WODEHOUSE (P G) Right Ho, Jeeves, 1st edition and impression 1934, 8vo, neat ink name to front free endpaper, 8pp. advertisements at end, original...

Binding. SWINBURNE (A C) Selections from the Poetical Works, 1911, small 8vo, top edges gilt, others uncut, 1920s gift inscription, the upper cove...

FOSTER (A A) The Stuarts, in 2 vols., Dickinson's 1902, folio, no.5/20 copies 'Edition Royale', signed by the author, coloured plates, tissue guar...

ELIOT (T S) First editions in dust jackets: Four Quartets, 1944; What is a Classic, 1945; The Cocktail Party, 1950; The Confidential Clerk, 1954; ...

Literature, various. Handy Volume Shakespeare, 13 vols. 12mo green cloth in case (box hinge worn); BROOKE (Rupert) Poems, 1911; 1914 and Other Poe...

ELIOT (T S) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, Faber and Faber 1939, light foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, otherwise a crisp ...

Children's, illustrated, etc. POTTER (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty Pan, no date, pale red boards; LANG (A) The Red True Story Book, 1895, cloth ...

Collins New Naturalist series, 49 various titles, mostly earlier editions with some in dust jackets, condition variesCondition report: The Broads ...

HAWKING (Stephen) A Brief History of Time, 1995, Bantam Books paperback edition; Black Holes and Baby Universes, 1994, reprint paperback edition; ...

LISTER (Raymond) Collection of the author's own copies of his works on decorative arts, including 20 vols. in leather bindings: Decorative Wrought...

MICHELANGELO. CHASTEL (Andre) The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo, New York 1980, Abbeville Press, large drop back box with 2 large folio plate v...

Fine binding by Sydney 'Sandy' Morris Cockerell and Joan Rix Tebbutt.LISTER (Raymond) Prints and Printmaking, Methuen 1984, 8vo, in full vellum, t...

LISTER (Raymond) Collection of works on the artist Samuel Palmer, the author's own copies, including bound copies of: Letters and Biography, 3 vol...

LISTER (Raymond) Virgil's Second Eclogue. Cambridge: The Golden Head Press 1958, 8vo, no. 1 of 10 copies for presentation, signed, with hand colou...

Modern fiction, first editions including some author signed. AMIS (Martin) Dead Babies, 1975, neat ownership name otherwise very good in dust jack...

Country house decoration, design, etc. BLUNT (W), Sacheverell SITWELL and James RUSSELL. Old Garden Roses, 2 vols. 1955-57, folio, no.16 of 160 si...

FLEMING (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1962, 8vo, ownership name to first free end paper, price unclipped, cloth...

Modern literature. POWELL (Anthony) A Dance to the Music of Time, first editions in dust jackets of: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly One...

TOLKIEN (J R R) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols. all 2nd editions, first impressions, 1966, 8vo, folding map at end of each, no inscriptions, origin...

FLEMING (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition 1963, text clean, in slightly marked and nicked dust jacket ...[more]

Literature, various. JHABVALA (Ruth Prawer) Heat and Dust, 1st edition 1975, inscribed by the author to title, dust jacket with 'Booker Prize Winn...

DOMESDAY BOOK. The Millennium Edition of Great Domesday Book. Alecto Historical Editions, 1992-2000, 6 vols. including two facsimiles in full embo...

HAWKING (Stephen) A Brief History of Time, 20th anniversary edition, 2008, 3rd impression, good in dust jacket. With Hawking's ink thumb-print wit...

HAWKING (Stephen and Lucy) George's Secret Key to the Universe, 1st edition and 1st impression 2007, signed and inscribed by Lucy Hawking with Ste...

TOLKIEN (J R R) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols., 9th impression (The Two Towers, The Return of the King) and 10th impression (The Fellowship), 1961...

Folio Society. Collection of typical works, some in slip cases, including a Kelmscott Chaucer facsimile in slip case (printed by Cambridge Univers...

Arcadia Press. HAWKES (Jacquetta) Dawn of the Gods, 1969, small 4to, no. 46 of 265 copies signed by the author, very first and last leaves slightl...

Arcadia Press. MOOREHEAD (Alan) Darwin and the Beagle, 1970, 4to, no. 46 of 265 copies, signed by the author, plates, brown morocco gilt by Zaehns...

REPTON (Humphry) The Red Books of Humphry Repton, in 4 vols., Basilisk Press 1976, no.90 of 500 sets, folio and oblong 4to, quarter morocco, with ...

BLUNT (Wilfrid) and William T. STEARN. Captain Cook`s Florilegium, a Selection of the engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph B...

Whittington Press. Matrix, numbers 6,7,9,10,11,12,14, (1986-94), limited editions, in paper wrappers (7) ...[more]

OULD (Martyn) Printing at the University Press Oxford 1660-1780, 3 vols., The Old School Press 2015-19, all no. XXIII of 50 special copies in quar...

SYMONS (A J A) et al. The Nonesuch Century, an Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-1...

Bibliography. An assortment in two boxes, mainly 20th century, various sizes and formats ...[more]

FLEMING (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, 1965, inscription to first free end paper, dust jacket with some shelf wear; You Only Li...

FLEMING (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, 1965, named to inside front cover, dust staining to edges of text block, slightly cocked...

FLEMING (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, 1965, unclipped dust jacket, slight dust staining to edges and parts of jacket; and anot...