AUCTION of ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKS Documents, Prints, Original Artwork etc.

[BALLET] a good personal collection of b/w photographs (some signed), a mix of private and commercial, RUSSIAN ballet, the BOLSHOI, etc.; in 2 alb...

PHOTOGRAPHY / ASTRONOMY: 26 large (10 x 10 inches) glass-plate astronomical views, the sun [?] In original wooden box, with remains of printed p...

a collection of misc. prints & pictures, incl. b/w photo of Churchill receiving contributions to the Westminster Restoration Fund; & 2 large empty...

a BEATLES POSTER, 1960's; 2 b/w 19th /early 20th c. photos; and elephant folio book: VESPIGNANI (V.) Intorno alla Grande Aula Temporanea..., folio...

[CARTOON] "SMYTHE" [i.e. Reginald SMYTH] original artwork [ANDY CAPP, untitled, re air-hostesses], strip cartoon with one speech bubble partially ...

[CARTOONS] DICKENS (Frank) collection of original strip cartoons, incl. "Bristow," "Willie Biggelow," and "Striker," mostly unframed, various size...

KELHAM (R.) A Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language..., 8vo, contemp. calf, L., 1779.

OZELL (Mr.) A New and Compendious Dictionary. French and English, 12mo, contemp. sheep, L., 1717.

[DESFONTAINES (P.-F. G.)] Dictionaire Neologique..., 12mo, contemp. calf gilt, 3rd Edn., Amsterdam, 1728.

PULLEYN (William) The Etymological Companion or Portfolio of Origins and Inventions, 8vo, half calf, L., 1828.

[ANON] The London Minstrel: A Collection of...Songs...Set to Music, 12mo, music/text, frontis., & add. engr. t.p., boards (detached), L., 1825.

[ANON] Sinks of London Laid Open...to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary..., 8vo, col. folding frontis., cloth, reprint, L., [1848, but late...

ROUSSEAU (S.) [Arabic title followed by English] or, a Vocabulary of the Persian Tongue..., 8vo, half calf, 2nd Edn., L., 1803.

ROBERTSON (W.) Phraseologia Generalis...A Full, Large, and General Phrase Book..., 8vo, unpaginated, corner torn away (with loss) to ff. C6 & C7, ...

WALKER (J.) A Dictionary of the English Language, Answering at once the Purpose of Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing, 8vo, rebound in quarter calf...

BRADSHAW'S Complete Anglo-French Phrase-Book for Travellers and Students, 16mo, loose in cloth covers, L., ca. 1860; DE GENLIS (Mme S.) The Travel...

COMENIUS (J. A.) Janua Linguarum Reserata Quinque-Linguis..., 8vo, vellum, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1661; BREREWOOD (E.) Recherches Curieuses sur la Di...

SHEKLETON (A,) A Treatise on the Etymology and History of Geographical Proper Names, 12mo, clo., Parsontown, 1849; TRENCH (R. C.) A Select Glossar...

GROSE (F.) A Provincial Glossary, 8vo, later calf (rubbed), 2nd Edn., L., 1790.

[DICTIONARIES] DYCHE (T.) A New General English Dictionary...Seventeenth Edition, 8vo, later diced calf, 1794; BAILEY (N.) An Universal English Di...

LA RUE (J.) & CASCIANI (C.) La Langue Vert. Dictionnaire d'Argot, 16mo, Paris, ca. 1901; bound with another work, by R. de NOTER; DELVAT (A.) Dict...

BENSON (T.) Kikuyu-English Dictionary, 8vo, clo., d.w., 1st Edn., Oxford, 1964; PIRANESI & VERGANI, Grammaire Italienne, 1843; & a Swahili handboo...

[RIDER (J.) &] HOLYOAKE (F.) [Rider's Dictionarie...] Dictionarium Etymologicum Latinum..., 4to, lacks prelim title (vide STC 13620], rebound, L.,...

COOPER (Thomas) Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannicae..., folio in 6's, title laid down, lacking a prelim leaf; finishing at 6m4, later reversed...

HALLIWELL (J. O.) A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 2 vols., 8vo, clo., 8th Edn., L., 1874; WRIGHT (T.) Dictionary of Obsolete and Pro...

PARTRIDGE (Eric) Adventuring Among Words, 8vo, clo., d.w., SIGNED & INSCRIBED to [Professor] Georges Dumzil, with 2 signed postcards to same loose...

JAMIESON (J.) An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 2 vols., 4to, old calf (reback now worn), Edinburgh, 1808; MURRAY (A.) History ...

BIBLIOPHILY, Fine Press, etc., HARDY (Thomas) Selected Poems, 4to, 4 etched plates by Geoffrey Trenaman, numbered 7/25 copies, quarter morocco, Sn...

small q. of misc. vols, incl. [ANON] Habits of Good Society, 8vo, L., ca. 1870; & 4 others (5).

ARABIA interest; a collection, incl. KELLY (J. B.) Britain and the Persian Gulf 1795-1880, 8vo, author's comp. slip pasted in, clo., d.w., Oxford,...

[MODERN LITERATURE] WELLS (H. G.) First men in the Moon, 8vo, 12 plates, original cloth (worn), 1st Edn., L., 1901; GALLICO (Paul) The Hurricane S...

CHURCHILL (W. S.) The River War, 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., reprint, L. 1949; SIGNED by CHURCHILL on the ff.e.p., together with a typed letter from ...

POWELL (A.) The Royal Gardener or Complete Calendar, 12mo, later binding (first and last ff. heavily foxed), L., 1769.

[POLITICS ETC.] CHURCHILL (W. S.) Thoughts and Adventures, 8vo, clo., 1st Edn., L., 1932; BALDWIN (Stanley) On England, 8vo, SIGNED, numbered 6/25...

GIBSON (E.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...in Eight Volumes, 8vols., 8vo, half calf (rebacked), L., 1828 (8).

[HOUSEHOLD RECEIPT /RECIPE BOOK] sm. 4to, 48 plus manuscript pages, receipts for "Dying...Pastrie...Milks...Distillations...Phisicall," mostly in ...

[ANON] The Housekeeper's Receipt Book, 8vo, engr. frontis & 1 plate (torn), contemp. calf, L., Published by the Editor, 1813.

[AMERICAN PRINTING] Memoirs of the Rev. William Tennent..., 16mo, roan-backed boards, inscribed "for M. Tennent Esq. of Belfast sent by his Nephew...

[MONTAGUE (Lady Mary Wortley)] The Poetical Works, 8vo, sheep (worn), L., 1781; Letters...Complete in One Volume, 8vo, cover off, L., M. Cooper 17...

JOHN LE CARR (aka David Cornwell), a collection of 1st Edns., incl. SIGNED COPIES, Limited Editions, etc. (18).

COUNTRYSIDE, etc., misc. vols. by A. G. Street & others (1 box).

[CRICKET] WEBBER (R.) Playfair Book of Cricket, 2 vols., 1st impressions, n.d. & 1953; & misc. other vols. (1 box).

[CRICKET] GRACE (W. G.) Cricket, 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., Bristol, 1891; & misc. other cricket related vols. (1 box).

[CRICKET], a good collection of cricket & club history books, some signed (1 box).

[CRICKET] a good collection of SIGNED copies of various cricket books: biographies, autobiogs, history etc. (1 box).

WILDE (Oscar) [Works], 13 vols. (of a possible 14), 8vo, limited edn. (1000) on handmade paper, cream cloth gilt (spines darkened), t.e.g., L., Me...

MODERN LIT., incl. 1st Edns by Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, et al. (2 boxes).

misc. literature, fiction and non-fiction (2 boxes).

TRADE CATALOGUES, small q. 4to et infra. (Q).

BINDINGS, misc. sets & singles, 18th-20th c. (Q).

[TRAVEL] HOOLE (E.) Madras, Mysore and the South of India, or a Personal Narrative, 8vo, col. frontis by G. Baxter, add. pict. t.p., text illus., ...

MAGGS (J.) Old English Coaching Inns, obl. Folio, 16 col. plates, cloth, L., n.d. (ca. 1920); The Instructive Picture Book or Lessons from the Veg...

IRISH INTEREST; 2 books about DUNBOE, 2 books about artist/songwriter PERCY FRENCH (4).

TYPOGRAPHY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, etc. (1 box).

[ART REFERENCE] CONSTABLE (W.) Richard Wilson, 4to, illus., edn-de-luxe, 47/100 copies, red morocco, L., 1953; & q. of other vols. (1 box).

BELIZE, BERMUDA, HONDURAS; 5 vols., ex libris Gov. of Bermuda, Sir M. Porrett (5).

CARTOON interest; misc. vols 19th/20th c., various cartoonists to incl. Hood, H. M. Bateman et al (1 box).

WILDE (Lady) translator: Sidonia the Sorceress / The Amber Witch, by William Meinhold, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, L., 1894.

NOEL (Capt. J.) Through Tibet to Everest, 8vo, 22 plates (as called for; frontis loose), cloth, L., 1927; 2 vols. of WWI interest & 2 misc. (5).

[ART] ROSETTI (Dante Gabriel) His Letters, 2 vols., 8vo, clo., L., 1895; & 7 others Pre-Raphaelite & other interest (9).