Two-day Books & Ephemera Auction

COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: ANNA KARENINA, London, Walter Scott [1889] 1st edition, 2 vols, vol 1 8pp adverts at end, vol 2 2pp adverts at end, dated 1889,...

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: THE WORKS, London, Strahan & Co, 1872-73, 6 vols, original green cloth gilt worn and soiled (6) ...[more]

GEORGE BORROW: THE BIBLE IN SPAIN..., London, John Murray, 1843, 2nd edition, 3 vols, half titles, 2pp adverts at end of each vol, original blind ...

HENRY WILLIAMSON: 4 titles: THE BEAUTIFUL YEARS, London, W Collins, 1921, 1st edition, 4pp adverts at end, original cloth, slight wear to head and...

JOHN RUSKIN: 7 titles: THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE..., Orpington and London, George Allen, 1895, 9th edition, original cloth; THE EAGLES NEST, London,...

FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTTE FENELON: THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACUS, THE SON OF ULYSSES..., trans T Smollett, London for S Crowder, T Longman, G...

[RICHARD GRAVES] [ED]: [THE FESTOON] THE CHRISTMAS TREAT OR GAY COMPANION BEING A COLLECTION OF EPIGRAMS..., Dublin for Will Whitestone, 1767, 1st...

[MARIA SUSANNA CUMMINS]: THE LAMPLIGHTER, London, George Routledge, 1854, 1st edition, contemporary half calf marbled boards ...[more]

FANNY BURNEY: CECILIA OR MEMOIRS OF AN HEIRESS, Chiswick, C Whittingham for C S Arnold, 1823, 3 vols, half title, 16mo, original printed boards, v...

PIERRE-JEAN DE BERANGER: CHANSONS, Bruxelles, Hauman et Compagnie, 1839, 32 wood engraved plates as called for, 16mo, contemporary half calf worn,...

T E LAWRENCE: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, London, Jonathan Cape, 1935, 1st trade edition, 2 inscriptions on front paste down, original buckram gilt, ...

GIACOMO CASANOVA: THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEIGNALT, PRINCE OF ADVENTURERS AND THE MOST INDOMITABLE OF LOVERS, ill Antoine Gaymard, Lond...

WASHINGTON IRVING 'GEOFFREY CRAYON': BRACEBRIDGE HALL OR THE HUMORISTS, London, John Murray, 1822, 1st edition, 1st state, old calf gilt, spine gi...

LORD EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON: THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1834, 1st American edition, 2 vols, 36pp adverts at end vol 2, 1...

WILLIAM RIDLER: BRITISH MODERN PRESS BOOKS, A DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST OF UNRECORDED ITEMS, London, Covent Garden Press, 1971 (100) numbered (74) and...

JOAN RUTTER (ED): HERE'S FLOWERS, intro Walter de la Mare, ill John O'Connor, London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937 (200) numbered (123) original cr...

WILLIAM MORRIS: THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS, ill Jessie Marion King, London and New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904 1st editio...

MAURICE GIRODIAS (ED): THE BEST OF OLYMPIA, AN ANTHOLOGY OF TALES, POEMS, SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS AND TRICKS WHICH APPEARED IN THE SHORT-LIVED AND MU...

FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO: FORTUNE IN HER WITS OR THE HOUR OF ALL MEN, trans John Stevens, London, printed for R Sare, F Saunders and Tho Bennett, 1697...

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 'MARK TWAIN': LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, London, Chatto & Windus, 1883, 1st edition, 32pp adverts at end dated November 188...

BRAM STOKER: THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, London, Rider & Co, 1909 but circa 1925, 4pp adverts at end, leaves browned, original green cloth ...[more]

JOHN KEATS: POETICAL WORKS, ed Harry Buxton Forman, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 2 plates as list, fine Riviere & Son ...

VALERIAN SVETLOFF: ANNA PAVLOVA, trans A Grey, Paris, Maurice de Brunhoff, 1922, (300) 1st English edition, numbered (93) and signed by publisher,...

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: THE WORKS, London, Smith Elder, 1868-69, 22 vols, contemporary half crimson morocco gilt marbled boards, v worn, mixe...

KARL MARX, FREDERICK ENGELS: COLLECTED WORKS, London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1975-92, vols 1-46, 1st editions + duplicate vols, 4, 12, 19, 25, 29 and...

HERBERT FURST: THE MODERN WOODCUT, A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE CRAFT..., London, John Lane, 1924, 1st edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth +...

RASSEGNA: STATEMENT OF INTERIOR ITALIAN APARTMENTS 1947-1993, Bologna Sipia, 1994, number 58, English edition, 4to, original pictorial wraps + FEA...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE COMPLETE WORKS, ed Sidney Lee, New York, George D Sproul, 1908, (250), 40 vols, out of series, engraved frontispieces, 4t...

MALCOLM CHARLES SALAMAN (INTRO): MODERN MASTERS OF ETCHING: 3 titles: SIR FRANK SHORT, London, The Studio, 1925, 1st edition, 12 plates as called ...

SIR PETER SCOTT: PORTRAIT DRAWINGS, London, Country Life, 1949, 1st edition, signed on half title, 4to, original cloth gilt + SIR MAX BEERBOHM: FI...

FIRDAWSI: THE SHAH-NAMAH OF FIRDAUSI, THE BOOK OF THE PERSIAN KINGS...DESCRIBED BY J V S WILKINSON WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON THE PAINTINGS BY LAUREN...

TERRY BENNETT: OLD JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS COLLECTORS DATA GUIDE, London, Quarritch 2006, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w, vgc ...[more]

ANDY WARHOL: ANDY WARHOL'S INDEX BOOK, New York, Random House, 1967, 1st edition, but some faults, 4to, original silvered pictorial wraps ...[mor...

WALTER SHAW SPARROW: A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS, London, John Lane, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931, 1st trade edition, plates inc 15 col...

CHARLES HOLME (ED): MODERN ETCHING AND ENGRAVING, London, The Studio, 1902, 1st edition, 4to, original wraps, lacks most of backstrip and wraps de...

E W TRISTRAM: ENGLISH MEDIEVAL WALL PAINTING, THE TWELFTH CENTURY WITH A CATALOGUE BY E W TRISTRAM COMPILED IN COLLABORATION WITH W G CONSTABLE, H...

MRS CHARLES W HEATON: LEONARDO DA VINCI AND HIS WORKS, London and New York, MacMillan, 1874, 1st edition, 19 plates as list, inscription on half t...

DANIEL WILDENSTEIN: MONET OR THE TRIUMPH OF IMPRESSIONISM, Tashen, Wildenstein Institute, 1997, 1st edition, 4 vols, 4to, original cloth, spines r...

JAMES NEWLANDS: THE CARPENTER AND JOINERS ASSISTANT..., London, Blackie & Sons [1880], 106 plates as called for, large 4to, contemporary half calf...

BIBBY'S ANNUAL, (4), 1911, 1916, 1918, and 1936, fo, original pictorial wraps, 1918 annual wraps detached and chipped (4) ...[more]

MURRAY ADAMS-ACTON: DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND OLD FURNITURE, London, Geoffrey Bles [1929], 1st edition, large 4to, original cloth soiled + EDWIN F...

SIR DAVID WILKIE: THE WILKIE GALLERY, A SELECTION OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE LATE SIR DAVID WILKIE, RA INCLUDING HIS SPANISH AND ORIENTAL SKETCHE...

GEORGE ALGERNON FOTHERGILL: AN ARTIST'S THOUGHTS IN VERSE AND DESIGN, Edinburgh, T & A Constable, printed for the author, 1919, (50) edition de lu...

L'ILLUSTRATION, Paris, 1936, Noel issue, fo, original pictorial wraps, detached and chipped, lacks backstrip + FRANCE ILLUSTRATION LE MONDE ILLUST...

ROBERT CHIGNELL: THE LIFE AND PAINTINGS OF VICAT COLE, RA, London, Cassell & Co, 1898, 3 vols in one, portfrontis and 60 plates as lists, 4to, ori...

DAVID BAILEY & PETER EVANS: GOODBYE BABY AND AMEN, A SARABAND FOR THE 60S, New York, Coward McCann, 1969, 1st edition, fo, original black cloth si...

EUGENIO D'ORS: PABLO PICASSO, trans Warre B Wells, Paris, Editions des Chroniques du Jour, London, A Zwemmer, 1930, (1500) (650), 1st edition, num...

THE SPHERE AN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME, 1908, vol 34, July 4 to Sept 26, fo, original pictorial cloth gilt worn ...[more]

HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY: THE CHRISTY ALBUM, London, Dean & Son, 1906, large oblong fo, original cloth backed pictorial boards, some soiling, teg ...

JOHN MAGNUS READING: X-RAY DIAGNOSIS, London, Cassell & Co, 1926, 1st edition, original cloth gilt + RUPERT ALLAN WILLIS: THE PRINCIPLES OF PATHOL...

ROBERT HOWARD HODGKIN: THE HISTORY OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS, Oxford University Press, 1959, 3rd edition, 2 vols, original cloth, d/ws + DOROTHY WHITELO...

SEAN CARROLL: THE BIG PICTURE ON THE ORIGINS OF LIFE MEANING AND THE UNIVERSE ITSELF, London, Oneworld, 2016, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w + F...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN, London, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1964, 1st edition, inscription on ffep, original cl...

SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL: THE WORLD CRISIS, London, The Folio Society, 2007, 1st Folio Society edition, 5 vols, original cloth backed...

LEONARD G CRAMP: SPACE GRAVITY AND THE FLYING SAUCER, London, Werner Laurie, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (some soiling and part losses)...

WALTER GORN OLD 'SEPHARIAL': A MANUAL OF OCCULTISM, London, William Rider, 1914, 4pp adverts at end, original cloth worn and soiled, inner joints ...

EDWARD C KIRK (ED): THE AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF OPERATIVE DENTISTRY..., Philadelphia and New York, Lea Bros & Co, 1897, 1st edition, 16pp adverts at...

GENERAL STAFF WAR OFFICE: FIELD SERVICE POCKET BOOK 1914, London, HMSO [1914], 1st edition, original limp brown cloth with slight wear, otherwise ...

WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE: LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, New York, The Century Co, 4 vols, plates including some coloured collated complete, 4to, orig...

SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, London, Cassell, 1948-54, 1st edition, 6 vols, original cloth, vol 3 d/w (price clipp...