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Lot 126

Hampshire, Kent & elsewhere.- Eden (Anna Maria, maiden name Kelham, married firstly Henry Yelverton nineteenth Lord Ruthin, married secondly Rev. Hon. William Eden, mother of Barbara Rawdon Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings and suo jure Baroness Grey of Ruthin, fossil collector and geological author, 1810-58, 1792-1875) Hampshire Tour August 1842 [with lists of expenses], autograph manuscript, 77pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original vellum, slightly soiled, lettered direct on spine, 132 x 85mm., 1st - 12th August 1842.⁂ A lively account of tours through Kent (Sittingbourne, Tunbridge Wells), Surrey (meeting Reverend Charles Fox Chawner, Rector of Bletchingley), and Hampshire (election at Southampton, Lyndhurst, New Forest, Cowes, Ryde, Winchester etc.), and several trips to London, travelling by coach and train. In Hampshire Eden visits Beaulieu and William Tyrrell, first Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales and leaving their eldest son Arthur as a pupil with him. On their journey Eden meets J P Maunoir, Professor of surgery at Geneva and his charge, George Henry Sumner, son of the Bishop of Winchester and hears of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and the extent of his estate. Also, meeting on a train two men who talk of Canada and Jamaica. Back in London, Eden hurries to the bedside of her daughter, Barbara, Baroness Grey of Ruthin for the birth of her son, Henry Rawdon, fourth Marquess of Hastings (1842-68), a notorious rake.A transcript is available with this lot.

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Lot 43

NO RESERVE Chinese Art.- Ayers (John) Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 3 vol., 2016 § Li Zhiyan, editor. Chinese Ceramics from the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty, New Haven, London & Beijing, 2010 § Little (Stephen) Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections, Los Angeles, 2014 § Ancient Chinese Seals in the Neiraku Museum of Art Collection, Nara, 2017, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first together in slip-case; and c.20 others on Chinese art, most in Chinese/Japanese, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Lot 110

Scotland.- Mure [Muir] (Sir John) Order to Jas. Loch Treasurer to pay Two Hundred Marks for the repair of North Berwick Harbour, manuscript, 1p., folds, creased, slightly browned, folio, 1633; and 5 others, Scottish documents, variously dated, 1633, 1636, 1638 & 1644, v.s., v.d. (6 pieces).

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Lot 181

Holy Land.- Underwood & Underwood, publisher. Collection of c.60 stereoscopic cards, mostly of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, mounted on card with printed captions and credits, some minor warping, loose as issued, 90 x 180mm., partly housed in original box (worn and a little broken), c.1900.

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Lot 118

Berwick upon Tweed.- Dickson (Charlotte, of Woolmarket, Berwick upon Tweed, 1773-1857) Family papers and correspondence to Charlotte Dickson, account book, pedigrees, legal documents, letters etc., numerous pp., account book limp red morocco, all others unbound, folds, browned, v.s., v.d. [18th & 19th centuries] (qty 1 box).

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Lot 49

Indian Art.- Havell (E.B.) A Handbook to Agra and the Taj..., second, revised, edition, presentation copy from the author to Ananda Coomaraswamy inscribed on front free endpaper, ink annotation to p.82, 1912; Indian Sculpture and Painting, 1908; The Ideals of Indian Art, 1911; Indian Architecture, 1913; The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: a Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation, 1915 § Kramrisch (Stella) The Art of India, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on title, New York, 1954, all but the first first editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, the last with dust-jacket, a little rubbed, the fourth with lower joint split; and c.15 others on India and Indian art, some catalogues/pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.20)

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Lot 207

Markham (Gervase) The Way to get Wealth, 6 parts in 1 vol., woodcut illustrations, A1 & A2 small loss at edges, edges strengthened, ink signature to title, occasional underlining and marginal markings, 1 or 2 leaves lacking corners (not affecting text), occasional spotting and marginal soiling, 1 or 2 tiny rust holes, modern calf, gilt, [Poynter 34.12], small 4to, John Streater, 1668.

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Lot 23

NO RESERVE Russian Art.- Nakov (Andréi) Malevich: Painting the Absolute, 4 vol., Farnham, 2010; Kazimir Malewicz: Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2002 § Petrova (Y.) & others. Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, 2000 § Imanse (G.) & Frank van Lamoen, editors. Russian Avant-Garde: The Khardzhiev Collection, Amsterdam, 2013 § Guitaut (C. de) Russia: Art, Royalty and the Romanovs, 2018, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first and fourth with dust-jackets, the first and second with slip-cases; and c.10 others on Malevich and modern Russian art, 4to & 8vo (c.20)

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Lot 36

NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Hillier (Jack) Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, 3 vol., 1976; The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, 1980 § Lane (Richard) Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Fribourg, 1978 § Meech-Pekarik (J.) The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization, second printing, New York & Tokyo, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first together in slip-case; and c.20 others on Japanese prints, some in Japanese, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Lot 17

NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Claude Monet: Biographie et Catalogue Raisonné, vol.2-4 only (of 5: Peintures 1882-1926, lacking vol.1 1840-81 and supplement), [limited edition], illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, slightly rubbed and frayed at edges, folio, Lausanne & Paris, 1979-85.

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NO RESERVE Chaumeil (Louis) Van Dongen: L'homme et l'artiste - La vie et l'oeuvre, Geneva, 1967 § Albert Marquet 1875-1947, Lausanne, 1988, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, the first rubbed; and 7 others, Fauves, 4to & 8vo (9)

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Lot 123

Waterloo.- C[ooke] (Rev. S.) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev. Dr Cooke at Weston under Edge, sm. 4to, 4pp. & address panel, Antwerp, 18th June 1815, describing confused rumours of fighting between the French and the British armies at the time of the Battle of Waterloo, "The attack on the part of the French, if I may not call it surprise, was repulsed on Thursday, but on Friday a most bloody engagement commencing at two o Clock in a retreat towards Brussels - I met the wounded as I entered town & it was a most piteous sight... Wellington has been in danger...", torn where opened with loss of a few words, folds, browned, remains of red wax seal.

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Lot 38

NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Leach (Bernard) Kenzan and his Tradition, 1966 § Toyomune Minamoto & others. Maruyama Okyo, 2 vol., text in English & Japanese, [?Tokyo], 1999 § McCormick (Melissa) Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, Seattle, 2009 § Lippit (Yukio) & James T.Ulak. Sotatsu, Washington D.C., 2015 § Kita (Sandy) The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e, Honolulu, 1999, illustrations, many colour, original cloth, the second in cloth folder with toggles, the rest with dust-jackets, the first price-clipped and a little rubbed; and c.30 others on Japanese artists, some in Japanese, v.s. (c.35)

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Lot 163

Lovelace.- Review of the Agricultural Statistics of France, 2 vol., 9 ALs to the Earl of Lovelace loosely inserted or tipped-in, 1 folding plate, short tear, illustrations, 2 newspaper articles tipped-in and loosely inserted, contents in manuscript, ink underlining and annotations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate and ink-stamp, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1848; and 6 others, incomplete copies of 'The Liberal' and 'Voyage de Gulliver', 8vo &12mo, (8)⁂ The first includes letters from Rubichon and Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland.

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Lot 40

NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Shimizu (Yoshiaki) Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868, 1988 § Ogawa (Morihiro) Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868, New York, 2009 § Hillsborough (Romulus) Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps, Tokyo, 2005 § Grapard (Allan G.) The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History, Berkeley, 1992, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and c.65 others on Japan and Japanese culture, 4to & 8vo (c.70)

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Lot 92

Houdart de la Motte (Antoine) Fables Nouvelles, first edition, dediées au roi, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc, 2 ff. of table misbound, occasional staining or spotting, 19th century calf, gilt, corners worn, rubbed and a little scuffed, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719 § Tréogate (Loaisel de) Dolbreuse ou l'Homme du Siecle, Ramené à la Vérité par le Sentiment et par la Raison. Histoire philosophique, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispieces, a few small stains, occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, Paris, Bélin, 1785; and a small quantity of others, most French Literature & History, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

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Lot 117

Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.- [Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall & Inventory of Browshole Hall], manuscript in several hands, 39pp. excluding blanks, further 9pp. loosely inserted, together 48pp., ruled in red, 2ff. with small tear, slightly browned, 11 linen labels of various rooms in Browsholme Hall loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, lettered direct on upper cover "The Posting Book 1760 to 1761", worn, spine torn with some loss, ledger folio, 21st March 1778 - 25th November 1790 [& c. 1830s].⁂ A full inventory of an English country house. Rooms including: "Large Drawing Room"; "Engavings"; "Furniture Blue Room"; "Oak Drawing Room" etc.

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Lot 14

NO RESERVE Léger (Fernand).- Bauquier (Georges) Fernand Léger: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, vol.1 & 2 only (of 10: 1903-1919 & 1920-1924), illustrations, many colour, index to vol.1 loosely inserted, original cloth with dust-jackets, vol.1 with cloth slip-case, Paris, 1990-92; and 2 others on Léger, 4to (4)

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Lot 21

NO RESERVE Picasso (Pablo).- Warncke (Carsten-Peter) Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, edited by Ingo F.Walther, 2 vol., Cologne, 1994 § Baer (Brigitte) Picasso Peintre-Graveur, vol.5: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Gravé et des Monotypes 1959-1965, Berne, 1989 § Spies (Werner) Picasso: The Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné..., Ostfildern, 2000 § Rubin (W., editor) Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, 1996 § Clair (Jean) & others. Picasso and Greece, Andros, 2004 § Duncan (David Douglas) Adieu Picasso, Vienna, 1975, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, one or two slightly frayed at corners, the first also with slip-case; and c.30 others on Picasso, some catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.35)

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Lot 41

NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Tanaka (Ichimatsu, editor) The Art of Korin, text in English and Japanese, original cloth, lightly spotted, slip-case (a little rubbed), Tokyo, 1959 § Nakamachi Keiko & others. Irises Reborn: The Art of Ogata Korin and the Conservation Project on the Irises Screens, Tokyo, 2005 § Fischer (Felice) & others. The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master, Philadelphia, 2000, illustrations, many colour, some tipped in, the last two original clcoth or boards with dust-jackets; and c.40 others on Korin, some duplicates, some in Japanese, 4to & 8vo (c.45)

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Lot 97

Dance.- Noverre (Jean Georges) Lettres sur la Danse, et sur les Ballets, first edition, ?first issue, title with woodcut floral ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some spotting, a few small stains, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, spine ends chipped, joints splitting, 1 corner worn, rubbed, [Beaumont p.134; Derra de Moroda 1965; Niles & Leslie p.389; cf.Magriel p.115, Stuttgart issue], 8vo, Lyon, Chez Aimé Delaroche, 1760.⁂ 'This work has no equal in the whole of the literature devoted to the Dance, and no book has exerted so incalculable an influence for good on the manner of production of ballets and dances.' (Beaumont). Noverre was ballet-master to Frederick the Great, Maria Teresa and Marie Antoinette, founded the Stuttgart Ballet at the court of the Duke of Württemberg, counted Voltaire and Mozart amongst his friends, and is regarded as the father of modern ballet.

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Lot 47

NO RESERVE Indian Art.- Dehejia (Vidya) & others. India through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911, Washington D.C., 2000 § Pelizzari (M.A., editor) Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900, New Haven & London, 2003 § Johnson (Robert Flynn) Reverie and Reality: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection, San Francisco, 2003 § Worswick (C.) & Ainslie Embree. The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911, New York, 1976, illustrations, original cloth with dust-jackets, the last slightly rubbed at edges; and another on early photography in India, 4to (5)

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Lot 192

NO RESERVE Spanish Moors.- Viardot (Louis) Essai sur l'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores d'Espagne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4pp. advertisements, some spotting and foxing, contemporary boards, spine gilt and with black morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, 1833; and a bound vol. of c.30 hand-coloured engraved costume plates by Grasset de Saint Sauveur, 8vo & folio (3)

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Lot 37

NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Kidder (J.Edward) Prehistoric Japanese Arts: Jomon Pottery, Tokyo, 1968 § Impey (Oliver) Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Amsterdam, 2002 § Jörg (Christian J.A.) Fine & Curious: Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam, 2003 § Wilson (R.L.) The Art of Ogata Kenzan: Persona and Production in Japanese Ceramics, New York & Tokyo, 1991; The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics, Washington D.C., 2001 § Koyama (Fujio, editor) Japanese Ceramics from Ancient to Modern Times, Oakland, Ca., 1961, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the last a little rubbed and frayed, the first also with card slip-case; and c.45 others on Japanese ceramics, many in Japanese, v.s. (c.50)

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Lot 50

Indian Art.- Kramrisch (Stella) The Hindu Temple, 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on title of vol.1, Calcutta, 1946 § Zimmer (Heinrich) The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformations, 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXIX, New York, 1955 § Brown (Percy) Indian Architecture, 2 vol., third, revised, edition, 1956 § Zannas (Eliky) Khajuraho, The Hague, 1960 § Begley (W.E.) & Z.A.Desai. Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb, Cambridge, Mass., 1989 § Cousens (Henry) The Architectural Antiquities of Western India, Ananda Cooomaraswamy's copy with his bookplate by Eric Gill, pencil annotation to p.44, 1926, plates and illustrations, original cloth or cloth-backed boards with dust-jackets, most rubbed, some a little frayed or chipped at edges, the second also with slip-case; and 10 others on Indian architecture, 4to & 8vo (19)

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NO RESERVE Jawlensky (Alexej von).- Jawlensky (Maria) & others. Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol.1 only (of 4): 1890-1914, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, 1991.

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Lot 79

Arnobius, of Sicca. Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &2 bound after a4 as often, occasional spotting or light foxing, engraved armorial bookplate of William Morehead, 17th century calf, arms of Signet Library to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1994; EDIT 16 CNCE 3083], folio, Rome, Francesco Priscianese, 1542.⁂ A well-margined first edition of this work composed in response to Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. It is one of very few books from this Roman press.

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Lot 128

Charlotte Brontë & Sedbergh School association.- Wooler (Rev. William Upton, pupil at Sedbergh School, later vicar of West Wycombe, nephew of Margaret Wooler, headmistress and part-owner of Roe Head School, Mirfield and friend of Chalotte Brontë 1818-85, 1848-1938) 2 diaries written as a schoolboy at Sedbergh School, autograph manuscripts signed, 243pp., pencil drawing at beginning of first vol., poem at end of last vol. "Bull's Run", original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, a few ink marks, some slight fading, 8vo, 1865-66.⁂ Mentions receiving and sending a letter to Aunt Wooler, Margaret Wooler, friend of Charlotte Brontë. With a reference to Charlotte Brontë's most famous work: "I again got completely entranced in 'Jane Eyre' as nearly to neglect my work went to the News Room at noon. Finished Jane Eyre at afternoon."Other entries include: The death of a schoolfriend. "Tues 13 June 1865 Pinck [Robert Henry Pinck (1849-65), born at Durham] poor fellow, went out bathing at noon with Rutter & Armstrong & was drowned. I could not believe it at all at first, when I heard it. Armstrong tried to save him but he was frightened of being dragged to the bottom himself, it was at Lord's Dub, there was immense excitement in the town about it. No school in the afternoon. Day went to Hawes to tell his parents." Other entries include, playing cricket and croquet; studying the classics; school life, "Got 100 lines in the afternoon for coming into the school in a illegitimate way viz by a ladder in at the window... ." - Wooler.

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NO RESERVE Seuphor (Michel) Piet Mondrian: Life and Work, New York, [1956] § Grohmann (Will) Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, ex-library copy with stamps, library cloth, New York, [1958] § Coen (Ester) Umberto Boccioni, New York, 1988 § Vallier (Dora) Henri Rousseau, [1962] § Geist (Sidney) Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1975 § Hebey (J.B.) Domestic Aesthetic: Household Art 1920-1970, Milan, 2002, illustrations, many colour, all but the second original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the fourth rubbed; and 12 others on miscellaneous 20th century art, 4to & 8vo (18)

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NO RESERVE Giacometti (Alberto).- Carluccio (Luigi) Giacometti: A Sketchbook of Interpretive Drawings, New York, [c.1967] § Lord (James) Alberto Giacometti Drawings, 1971 § Sylvester (David) Looking at Giacometti, 1994 § Matter (H. & M.) Alberto Giacometti: Photographiert von Herbert Matter, Bern, 1987 § Bonnefoy (Yves) Alberto Giacometti: Biographie d'une Oeuvre, original wrappers, Paris, 1991, illustrations, all but the last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first a little soiled; and 6 others on Giacometti, 4to & 8vo (11)

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Lot 152

Ephemera.- Commonwealth of Massachusetts... John Brooks, Governor... A Proclamation, For a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, tears, some along folds, edges creased, 540 x 435mm., Boston, Russel, Cutler & Co., 1817; and a small quantity of other ephemera, v .s., v.d. (sm. qty).

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Lot 157

NO RESERVE Library sets.- Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels, 48 vol., engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, vol. 1 with engraved dedication, vol. 23 with folding plan, some foxing particularly at beginning of each vol., a few leaves working loose, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, slightly rubbed, Edinburgh & London, 1829-33; and 238 others, leather bound, most incomplete sets, v.s. (286)

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Lot 108

Print & book sale catalogue.- Bermann (Jean-Sigismond) Catalogue detaillé de la Précieuse Collection d'Estampes, Recueils, Cabinets, galeries et Livres sur les Arts, de feu Mr. Jean-Pierre Cerroni, contemporary marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, Vienna, 1827; and a bound vol. of 9 18th century portraits of Austrian royalty and nobility, 8vo (2)

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NO RESERVE Villon (Jacques).- Ginestet (Colette de) & Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: Les Estampes et les Illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, small split at joint, folio, Paris, 1979.

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Lot 114

Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire Estate Map.- Hailey (John, surveyor of Amersham) A Map of an Estate Lying in the Parishes of Standen & Chesham and in the County of Hertford and Buckingham Known or called b y the Name of Martins End Late Mr. Richard Princes Decd..., manuscript estate map with watercolour wash, on vellum, title within cartouche, all within a green watercolour wash border, some creasing, some slight surface wear in margins, 540 x 630mm., 1743.

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Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; another edition, second edition, 1855, together 5 vol., plates, some hand-coloured, uniformly bound in crushed brown morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, t.e.g., others uncut, spines a little rubbed and faded, joints worn with some covers detached, original gilt pictorial cloth bindings bound in at ends; Modern Painters, 6 vol., first complete edition, one of 450 large paper sets on handmade paper with plates on india paper, original green cloth, uncut, very slightly rubbed, Orpington, 1888, large 8vo & 4to (11)

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Thomson (Hugh).- Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, reprint, frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- & tail-pieces, initials and decorations all by Hugh Thomson, ink ownership inscriptions and browning to endpapers, original pictorial dark green cloth, gilt, with magnificent peacock design on upper cover, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine chipped at head, puncture mark to spine, chip to upper and lower joints, marking to lower cover, t.e.g., 8vo, 1906.

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Lot 28

NO RESERVE Collections.- Arnaldo (Javier, editor) Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 2 vol., Madrid, 2004 § Baldassari (Anne, editor) Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection, Paris, 2016 § Van Heugten (S.) Avant-gardes 1870 to the present: The Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012 § National Gallery Illustrated General Catalogue, second edition, 1986, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the third with dust-jackets, the last also with slip-case; and c.15 others, mostly art collections, 4to & 8vo (c.20)

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NO RESERVE Cézanne (Paul).- Rewald (John) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., 1996; Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors. A Catalogue Raisonné, 1983 § Chappuis (Adrien) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., 1973 § Krumrine (M.L.) Paul Cézanne: The Bathers, 1989 § Baumann (F.) & others, editors. Finished Unfinished Cézanne, Ostfildern, 2000 § Conisbee (Philip) & others. Cézanne in Provence, Washington D.C., 2006 § Distel (A.) & Susan Alyson Stein. Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, New York, 1999, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, the first thre with slip-cases (one split at joint), the rest dust-jackets; and c.20 others on Cézanne, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Sheep.- Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie) Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propriétaires de Troupeaux, first edition, half-title, 22 engraved plates, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with orange morocco label, rather worn, but holding firm, Paris, Pierres, 1782 § Ardêne (Jean-Paul de Rome d') Trattato sulla cognizione, e cultura de' Giacinti, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 2 folding engraved plates, short repair at foot of half-title, some spotting, contemporary floral patterned limp boards, a few nicked, rubbed, Viterbo, Domenico Antonio Zenti, 1763; and 2 others, Gardens & Agriculture, v.s. (4)

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Lot 154

Peacock (Thomas Love) Maid Marian, first edition, occasional spotting, later morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, 1822; The Works, 10 vol., large paper edition numbered 52 of 100 copies, frontispieces, tissue-guards, bookplate, original buckram, browned as usual, 1891; and others, including the Halliford edition of the works, 12mo & 8vo (32)

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Lot 77

NO RESERVE Dulac (Edmund, illustrator).- Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales, 30 tipped-in colour plates (one loose), occasional spotting, original richly gilt red decorative cloth, little rubbed, Hodder & Stoughton, 1927; and 4 others, Illustrated, small 4to (5)

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Lot 30

NO RESERVE Constable (W.G.) Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768 [with Catalogue Raisonné], 2 vol., second, revised edition, Oxford, 1976 § Escholier (Raymond) Delacroix: Peintre, Graveur, Écrivain, 3 vol., modern half calf, spines rubbed, Paris, 1926-29 § Spike (John T.) Caravaggio, second, revised edition with CD-ROM, New York, 2010 § Syson (Luke) & others. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter of the Court of Milan, reprint, 2012 § Blunt (Anthony) The Drawings of Poussin, ex-library copy with stamps, New Haven & London, 1979 § Bevers (Holm) & others. Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: Telling the Difference, original wrappers, Los Angeles, 2000, illustrations, many colour, all but the last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the fourth a little rubbed; and 11 others on Old Masters, 4to & 8vo (20)

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NO RESERVE Degas (Edgar).- Lemoisne (Paul-André) Degas et son Oeuvre, 5 vol. including supplement by Brame & Reff, facsimile reprint, New York & London, 1984 § Baumann (F.) & Marianne Karabelnik, editors. Degas Portraits, 1994 § DeVonyar (J.) & Richard Kendall. Degas and the Dance, New York, 2002 § Boggs (J.S.) & others. Degas, New York & Ottawa, 1988, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets; and 6 others on Degas, 4to (14)

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Lot 205

NO RESERVE Insects.- Merian (Maria Sibylla) Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, limited edition numbered 12 of 990, colour plates, original green morocco, 1980 § Rücker (Elisabeth) & William T. Stern, Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam: Commentary to the Facsimile edition of Metamorphosis ..., colour frontispiece, plates, some colour, illustrations, original half morocco, 1982; folio (2)

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Lot 48

Indian Art.- Fergusson (James) and James Burgess. The Cave Temples of India, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, folding map, 99 plates including one mounted albumen print, a few tinted, 2 folding, with a duplicate of plate XVIII, very occasional spotting, map creased, Breezewood book-label, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt, rubbed, 1880; History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, light foxing at beginning and end, modern half morocco, t.e.g., 1876, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ James Fergusson (1808-86), originally an indigo planter in India later became an architectural historian and respected authority on Indian architecture and its cave temples in particular. The first work was co-produced with the archaeologist James Burgess who from 1886-89 was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India.

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NO RESERVE Picasso (Pablo).- Daix (Pierre) & others. Picasso 1900-1906: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Neuchatel, 1988; Picasso: The Cubist Years 1907-1916. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works, 1979 § Palau y Fabre (J.) Picasso: The Early Years 1881-1907, Barcelona, 1985; Picasso: Cubism (1907-1917), New York, 1990 § McCully (M., editor) Picasso: The Early Years 1892-1906, Washington, New Haven & London, 1997 § Clair (Jean, editor) Picasso: The Italian Journey 1917-1924, 1998 § Nash (Steven A., editor) Picasso and the War Years 1937-1945, 1998 § Gallwitz (Klaus) Picasso; The Heroic Years, New York, 1985, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, one or two slightly frayed at edges, the third & fourth also with slip-cases, 4to (8)

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References to Chaucer and Thomas More.- Giraldi (Lilio Gregorio) Dialogi duo de poetis nostrorum temporum. Ad ill. diam Renatam Ferrariae et Carnuti principem. & c. Eiusdem epistola uersu conscripta, in qua agitur de incommodis, quae in direptione vrbana passus est.., mostly italic type, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final f. (possibly with a printer's device, or simply blank), some foxing, 19th century russia, with 'Newby Hall' lettered longitudinally on upper cover and shell corner-pieces, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G722; EDIT 16 CNCE 21248], 8vo, Florence, [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.⁂ First edition of this collection of three works, the first being the first survey of modern Latin poetry. It includes several references to English writers, most notably to Chaucer. This is a very early reference to the author in a continental printed book. Also, mentioned are Thomas More, John Colet, and William Lily. Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), collector (his ink collation mark 'C & P' to front pastedown); Lord Grantham (engraved armorial bookplate).

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Indian Art.- [De Forest (Lockwood)] Indian Architecture and Ornament, decorative title and 50 photogravure plates, spotting to a few plates, slight water-staining to margin of last few plates, bookplate of Ralph Kirkpatrick, original printed boards, rubbed and soiled, rebacked and recornered in cloth, Boston, Geo. H. Polley & Co., [1887].⁂ Rare; apparently one of only 150 copies (according to the copy at the University of Edinburgh).

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NO RESERVE Van Gogh (Vincent).- De La Faille (J.B.) Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., revised edition, San Francisco, 1992 § Hulsker (Jan) The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné..., Amsterdam, 1996 § Van Gogh Museum. Vincent van Gogh. Drawings vol.1 (The Early Years 1880-1883) [&] Paintings vol.1 (Dutch Period 1881-1885), together 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1996-99 § Walther (Ingo F.) and Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 1997 § Feilchenfeldt (W.) Vincent van Gogh: The Years in France, Complete Paintings 1886-1890, 2013 § Spaandonk (Trudy) & others. Van Gogh in Brabant: Paintings and Drawings from Etten and Nuenen, Zwolle, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first slightly frayed at edges; and c.25 others on Van Gogh, some catalogues/pamphlets, v.s. (c.30)

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Cruikshank (Robert).- [Westmacott (Charles Molloy)] The English Spy ..., 2 vol., first edition, 72 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, illustrations, bookplates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf by Riviere & Son, 8vo, 1825-26.

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NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- [Idemitsu Collection: Japanese Ceramics; Japanese Genre Painting; Ukiyo-e Paintings; Yamato-e; Kosugi Hoan; Itaya Hazan; Sengai; Ancient Chinese Artists], together 8 vol., text in Japanese, original rexine-backed cloth, cloth and card slip-cases, Tokyo, [1980s] § Murase (Miyeko) Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, New York, 2000; Herbstwind in den Kiefern: Japanische Kunst der Sammlung Langen, New York, 1998 § Allen (Laura W.) & others. In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection, San Francisco, 2013, illustrations, many colour, all but the first original cloth with dust-jackets; and a quantity of others on collections of Japanese art, many in Japanese, v.s. (c.100)

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NO RESERVE Gauguin (Paul).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Gauguin: A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888), 2 vol., Paris & Milan, 2002 § Shackelford (G.) & Claire Frèches-Thory. Gauguin Tahiti: The Studio of the South Seas, 2004 § Prather (M.) & Charles F.Stuckey, editors. Gauguin: A Retrospective, New York, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case; and 8 others on Gauguin, 4to & 8vo (12)

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NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [including Catalogue Raisonné], 4 vol., illustrations, some colour, original cloth, together in slip-case, Cologne & Lausanne, 1996; and c.20 others on Monet, 4to & folio (24)

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NO RESERVE Anfam (David) Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas. A Catalogue Raisonné, fourth printing, New Haven & London, 2008 § Harrison (H.A.) & others. Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective, text in Japanese & English, Tokyo, 2011 § Del Roscio (N., editor) The Essential Cy Twombly, 2014 § Wilmes (U.) Gerhard Richter: Large Abstracts, Ostfildern, 2008 § McShine (K., editor) Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the second with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case; and 12 others, abstract and/or American art, 4to & 8vo (17)

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NO RESERVE Rouault (Georges).- Dorival (Bernard) & Isabelle Rouault. Rouault: L'Oeuvre Peint, 2 vol., illustrations, some colour, original cloth, dust-jackets, together in slip-case, Monte Carlo, 1988; and 3 others on Rouault, 4to (5)

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NO RESERVE Expressionism.- Dube (Annemarie & Wolf-Dieter) E.L.Kirchner: Das Graphische Werk, 2 vol., third edition, Munich, 1991 § Moeller (M.) & Rolans Scotti. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Munich, 1998 § Dabrowski (M.) & Rudolf Leopold. Ego Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna, New York, 1997 § Frey (S.) & Josef Helfenstein. Paul Klee Rediscovered: Works from the Bürgi Collection, 2000 § Benson (T.O.) & others. Expressionismus in Deutschland und Frankreich: Von Matisse zum Blauen Reiter, Munich, 2014, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and 13 others, most Expressionism, 4to & 8vo (19)

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NO RESERVE Salomon (Antoine) & Guy Cogeval. Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, 3 vol., illustrations, many colour, original cloth, dust-jackets, together in slip-case, Milan, 2003 § Dauberville (Jean & Henry) Bonnard: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, vol.4 only (of 4: 1940-47 & supplément 1887-1939), limited edition, tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Paris, 1974; and another on Bonnard, 4to (5)

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[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea, first English edition, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, 1824 § [Peacock (Thomas Love)] Maid Marian, first edition, faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, later half-calf, rubbed, 1822 § [Scott (Michael)] The Cruise of the Midge, first edition, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), 1836 § [Morier (James)] The Adventures of Hajji-Baba, of Ispahan, in England, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, remnants of paper label to front pastedowns, original paper-backed boards, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, 1828 § Farquhar (Ferdinand) The Relicks of a Saint, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, contemporary morocco backed boards, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, 1816; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.90)

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Hamerton (Philip Gilbert) Etching & Etchers, third edition, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 48 etched or photogravure plates, original roan-backed boards, 4to, Macmillan, 1880⁂ Includes original etchings by J.M. Whistler ("Billingsgate"), Samuel Palmer ("Sunset"), J. Israels, H. Herkomer, A. Legros, and others.

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