Auction of Antiquarian & Secondhand Books

[SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK etc.] The exercise book of Miss Frances Hobbins, 1769, printed borders and wrappers (torn) with ms. infill., 4to (1).

MILITARY interest, diverse coll'n of 19th c. pamphlets, illustrated works, books, some 20th c. (1 box).

[APPLIED ARTS, TRADE CATALOGUES, etc.] TARBUCK (E. L.) Encyclopedia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery [etc.], 4to, frontis & 127 plates (some h-c...

TRAVEL, LITERATURE & misc. 19th & 20th c. (1 box). ...[more]

[NATURAL HISTORY] KIRBY (W.) Natural History...Birds, 4to, 30 d-p. col. plates, boards (repaired with duck tape), L., 1889; KEARTON (R.) With Natu...

TRAVEL & related; mostly MIDDLE EAST, 19th & 20th c. (Q). ...[more]

[NATURAL HISTORY] JONES (Paul) Flora Superba, lge folio, col. illus., signed, 267/406 copies, half vellum (waterstaining to covers), Tryon Gallery...

[JAZZ/SWING/DANCE] album full of folded posters (2 for hypnotist Ray Rama), mostly West Country venues, 1948-51.

FOLIO SOCIETY, approx. 120 vols., slipcases (Q).

[PORCELAIN / AVIARIES] COSENTINO (F.) Edward Marshall Boehm, 1913-1969, 4to, illus., inscribed by Boehm on title, cloth, slipcase, 2nd printing, C...

[PHOTOGRAPHY / SCULPTURE] "JEFF WALL, Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013," 4to, illus., pict. cloth, publ. 2014; "JAUME PLENSA, In the Midst ...

[PHOTOGRAPHY] ROSS (J.) Beaton in Vogue, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., 1st Edn., [1986].

[PHOTOGRAPHY] ROBERTSON / RUSSELL / SNOWDON, Private View, 4to, illus., clo., (no d.w.), 1st Edn., L., 1965.

[ART] BELL (K.) Stanley Spencer, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., 1st Edn., L., 1992.

[SURREALISM] TORCZYNER (H.) Magritte, Ideas and Images, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., 1st, New York, 1977; BRETON, Surrealism, 4to, illus., no d.w., 1s...

[WORLD ART] a small collection, Renaissance to 20th C., incl. ANDRES / HUNISAK / TURNER, The Art of Florence, 2 vols., 4to, photography by Takashi...

[FINE ARTS, etc.] WILKIE (A.) Beidermeier, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., L., 1987; HOBUSCH (E.) Fair Game, 4to., illus., clo., d.w., N.Y., 1980; & 2 ot...

[PORTRAITS] KERSLAKE (J.) Early Georgian Portraits, 2 vols, 4to, illus., clo., d.w.'s, slipcase, H.M.S.O., 1977; STRONG (R.) Tudor & Jacobean Port...

[TRAVEL & TOPOGRAPHY] TOPOLSKI's Legal London, oblong 4to, illus., clo., d.w., L., 1961; & 4 other vols, misc., incl. 1 on St. Tropez. (5). ...[m...

KIPLING (Rudyard) The Complete Works . . . The SUSSEX EDITION, 35 vols, 8vo, LIMITED EDITION (one of 525 sets on hand-made paper), full red morocc...

SCOTT (Walter) The Waverley Novels . . . Library Edition, 25 vols, 8vo, illus., green crushed half-morocco gilt for Sotheran's, Edinburgh, 1876/77...

DICKENS (Charles) [Works], 16 vols, 4to, a collection, illus., uniformly bound in crushed red half morocco, L., Chapman & Hall, n.d., ca. 1880 (16...

[MISCELLANEOUS] "ECHOES," a periodical, No's 1-25, Jan. -June, 1869, 4to, illus., half-calf, no imprint; "An Universal History," 8vo, vol. XIII, 1...

PEPYS (Samuel) The Diary . . ., 11 vols, 8vo, clo., d.w.'s, L., 1979-83 (11).

WAUGH (Evelyn) Black Mischief, 8vo, map frontis., clo., 1st trade edn., L., 1932.

[ARCHITECTURE] KNOX (T. The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., [Paris], 2011; BETJEMAN (J.) Ghastly Good Taste, sm....

SEARLE (Ronald) In Perspective, 4to, illus., faux leather-gilt, 1st Edn., L., 1984.

[AUSTRALIAN ART] WILLIAMS (Fred) Etchings, 4to, illus., clo., SIGNED on f.f.e.p., cloth, Australia, 1968; and 2 others on Australian art (3).

[ISLAMIC CULTURE] "Coinage of Islam, Collection of William Kazan, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., Beirut, 1983; IRAN DAROUDI (artist:) Works, 1959-1973, ...

[CHINA] WALDEN (B.) & HU (Shiu Ying) Wild Flowers of Yunnan and Central China, 4to, illus., LIMITED EDITION, numbered 453/1000 copies, signed, clo...

another copy, numbered 503/1000 copies.

[CHINA] LAWRENCE (A.) China. The Long March, 4to, photo-illus., clo., d.w., L., 1986; KESWICK (M.) The Chinese Garden, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., 1s...

CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, 3 misc. vols (46, 49, 51), fine hand-col'd engr. plates (incl. folding), rebound or covers off, as a collection of pl...

[EROTICA] BAYROS (Franz von) Im Garten der Aphrodite, portfolio with pict. title & 18 plates, Privately Printed, [ca. 1930]. ...[more]

[EROTICA] VERMEYEN (Josephe) artist: Casanova, Funf Episoden, folio, add. pictorial litho title, & 9 plates, dec boards (worn). [Vienna, Eros Pre...

[ART REFERENCE] coll'n of reference works, mainly re fine PORCELAIN, incl. SHERER, Furstenburg Porcelain, typescript, 1909; KOLLMANN, Berliner Por...

[BINDINGS] TREVELYAN (G. O.) The American Revolution, 5 vols, 8vo, maps, crushed red half morocco gilt, L., 1881-1907; & q. of mainly 19thc. leath...

[NATURAL HISTORY] SHAW (G.) Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, 2 vols, 2 add. engr. titles, 167 plates (uncoloured) contemp. ...

CAVE (W.) Apostolici, or the History of the Lives, Acts, Death [etc.]...of the Primitive Fathers...Second edition, corrected, folio, licence leaf,...

FROHAWK (F. W.) Natural History of Butterflies, 2 vols, folio, col. plates, clo. L., Hutchinson, n.d. (1914) (2).

[PRIVATE PRESS] THOMAS (D. M.) translator: Alexander Pushkin, Boris Godunov, 8vo, Ltd Edn., signed twice by Thomas, cloth-backed boards, Sixth Cha...

[BINDINGS] FITZGERALD (E.) Letters & Literary Remains, 3 vols, 8vo, half vellum by Bickers, L., 1889; & misc. other leatherbound vols, 4to, et inf...

ANNAN (T.) photographer: The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry, lge 4to, 100 mounted carbon photos, LTD EDN. of 250 copies, cloth, late...

[GLASGOW] HILL (W.) History of the Hospital and School in Glasgow founded by George and Thomas Hutcheson, lge 4to, illus., LTD EDN. (150 copies), ...

[GLASGOW] HENLEY (W. E.) A Century of Artists. A Memorial of the Glasgow International Exhibition 1888, lge 4to, illus., clo., Glasgow, 1889; PINN...

[GLASGOW] Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men, 2 vols, lge 4to, illus., quarter morocco, LTD EDN., 189/400 copies, Glasgow, 1886 (2).

[GLASGOW] GORDON (J.) Glasghu Fancies, A View of the City of Glasgow, 2 vols, 8vo, illus., green half morocco gilt, Glasgow, Tweed, n.d.; & 18 oth...

[HARRY POTTER] approx. 20 kilos of J. K. Rowling's Potter books (Q).

a similar lot.

SKELTON (R.) 250 years of map Making in the County of Sussex 1575-1825, atlas folio, stub-mounted text & maps, cloth, printed label, Lympne/Chiche...

[ARCTIC] WEALE (J.) Patterns to Infinity, obl. 4to, illus., clo., d.w., Montreal, 1994.

[PHOTOGRAPHY] GRAZIOLI (M.) Silvio Pozzini. L'imagine del paessagio dal Garda alle Dolomiti 1920-1940, 4to, illus., clo., d.w., 2003.

[FINE ARTS] MENTMORE CATALOGUE, 5 vols, 4to, illus., with estimate lists, Sotheby's, 1977 (5).

[FINE ARTS] (Auction of belongings) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 3 vols, 4to in slipcase with associated envelope, Sotheby's, New York, 1997.

[BINDINGS] coll'n of mid 20th c. craft bindings, possibly by John Stewart of Belfast (7).

an 18th c. wallet for an almanack, with small q. of ms notes, late 18th early 19th c.; together with a 1741 Dutch N. T. (defective); & 7 other vol...

[ART REFERENCE] Modern Masters of Etching: James McNeill Whistler (Second Volume), obl. 4to, plates, boards, Studio, 1932; & misc. (1 box). ...[m...

an art student's calligraphic thesis, folio, dated 1954, in contemp. craft binding of full leather, probably John Stewart of Belfast; together wit...

COCTEAU (Jean) Th tre, 2 vols, 8vo, profusely illus., pictorial bindings, Grasset, 1957 (2).

TUNNICLIFFE (L.) Shorelands Summer Diary, 4to, col. & b/w illus., clo., d.w., 1st Edn., L., 1952; & 6 other vols incl. 1 illus. by E. Seago (7). ...