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Four framed and glazed coloured engravings indistinctly signed in pencil with blind stamps of 17th & 18th century gentleman

Framed Beryl Cook print women in an art class, painting nude, with blind stamp mark

Geological Survey of England and Wales, hand-coloured map, sectional, linen-backed, manuscript title with Ordnance Survey blind-stamp at centre of top border (February 1879), 129cm by 104cm. Good, clean, bright; thin strip of discolouration at centre; comes with remnants of contemporary slipcase. Together with a folded printed map in paper folder, West Midlands General Review Area, Report No. 2, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, May 1961 (2)

Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (Northern British 1887-1976): Huddersfield, limited edition coloured lithograph signed in pencil with Fine Art Guild blind stamp numbered KBB, 48cm x 58cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (British 1887-1976): 'Industrial Scene', limited edition offset lithograph, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp No.BJB, published by Venture prints in 1974, signed in pencil 41cm x 29cm DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (Northern British 1887-1976): Great Ancoats Street, limited edition monochrome lithograph signed and numbered 460/850 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 29cm x 39cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (Northern British 1887-1976): St Mary's Beswick, limited edition monochrome lithograph signed and numbered 488/500 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 29cm x 39cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Helen Bradley (British 1900-79): Blackpool Station, limited edition coloured lithograph signed in pencil with Fine Art Guild blind stamp numbered CBK, 40cm x 57cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Helen Bradley (British 1900-79): Along the River at Salford, limited edition coloured lithograph signed in pencil with Fine Art Guild blind stamp numbered DKL, 49cm x 71cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Chris Gollon (British 1953-2017): 'Love (I)', giclée reproduction, artist's proof signed and number V in pencil, with fine art printer's blind stamp 61cm x 74cm. Artist's proof aside from an open-ended edition, of which approximately only ten were ever signed. Published by IAP Fine Art, printed by Goldmark Atelier. A major museum retrospective of Chris Gollon's work is currently at Huddersfield Art Gallery until 4th January 2020.DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Patrick Hughes (British 1939): 'Sideways', limited edition screen print signed titled dated '91 and numbered 78/100 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 60cm x 46cm DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Excellent conditionClick here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

A George III oak longcase clock, William Gardner of Penrith, 8 day movement, the 12 inch dial within a classical case of brass mounted fluted columns and swan neck pediment with blind fret decoration, 216cm high

Charles Thomas Fox and George Fox, London 1851, a Victorian silver mustard pot, cylindrical form, embossed and chased with beaded scroll cartouches and blind spread eagle motifs, below ogee arcading, the domed lid similarly decorated, with double scroll thumb piece, glass liner, 7cm high, 3.87ozt

[MAPS]. LONDON Cross's New Plan of London, divided into half-mile squares, with a copious Street Directory, an important Guide to Strangers visiting the Great Exhibition during the year 1851, fourth edition, blind-stamped green cloth with onlaid title label, the folding map printed on linen and hand-coloured, 43.5cm x 72.5cm unfolded.

An Early XX Century Chinese Chippendale Style Mahogany Cabinet, with stepped cornice, glazed astragal door, blind fret sides, on square supports, 123cm high, 78cm wide.

CALDWELL, ERSKINE. 1903-1987.Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 8vo (188 x 128 mm). Original cloth, lettered in blind on gilt boxes, publisher's dust-jacket, minimal wear. FIRST EDITION OF THE AMERICAN CLASSIC, brought alive on the screen in 1941 by director John Ford. A bright, tight copy.

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, upper cover with gilt frog design, lower center-left, and frog in blind to lower cover, custom cloth dust-jacket, cloth slipcase, minor wear to joints.FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, of Twain's first book, without ad leaf, and broken type on pp 21, 66, and 198. A tight, bright copy. 'Perhaps no short sketch of Twain's so quickly won wide popularity as did 'The Jumping Frog.' Calaveras County, California, is known to thousands who have never seen the Golden State simply because of this gem of humor' (Zamarano 80 17). BAL 3310.

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.JONES, DAVID. 1895-1974. In Parenthesis seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1961). 8vo. Publisher's blue buckram, stamped in gilt and gray on the spine, and lettered in blind, original glassine wrapper.FIRST EDITION WITH ELIOT'S INTRODUCTION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 37 of 70 copies signed by Eliot and David Jones. Jones created important works in both literature and the visual arts, with In Parenthesis perhaps his greatest achievement. In his introduction, Eliot calls it a 'work of genius,' and separately it has been praised as 'one of the great poems of the century' Graham Greene) and 'the greatest book about the First World War' which does for 'for the British and the Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans' (W.H. Auden). An oft-overlooked modernist high spot.

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. 1803-1882.Essays. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1841. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover decorated in blind, some rubbing to cloth, minor wear at the spine ends.Provenance: Rufus Choate (ink note to early blank).'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion.'FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, BAL's binding C (sequence 'almost entirely arbitrary'), including the first appearance of 'Self-Reliance.' 'Their ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities' (Grolier American 47). A clean tight copy of a landmark of American thought. BAL 5189. Myerson A10.1.a.

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Diamonds are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth ruled in blind in a diamond pattern, with silver diamond decoration to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, original pictorial dust-jacket, small stain to fore-edge of page edges, corresponding small stain to fore-edge of rear panel of jacket.Provenance: 'Hazelden' (ink notation to endpaper).'We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town.'FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with 'Boofy' to p 134. A very nice copy of the fourth Bond book. Gilbert A4a(1.1).

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, (1959). 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with blind-stamped skull design to upper cover, coins in the eyes stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, some repair to cloth at joints, small stain at lower gutter, minor chipping to corners of jacket.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, binding in the second state without 3 mm indentation to upper left of skull. Cited by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939 (Ninety-nine Novels, 1984). Gilbert A7a(1.2)

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.North of Boston. London: David Nutt, (1914). 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, blind-rule to upper cover, custom green cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase, small plate removed from upper corner paste-down, fine.Provenance: Author's presentation copy to Paul Lemperley (holograph note laid-in), sold his sale, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, January 4, 1940; Frederic Dannay (his sale, Christie's New York, December 16, 1983, lot 146). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST BINDING, PRESENTATION COPY FOR PAUL LEMPERLEY, inscribed by Frost (without Lemperley's name), 'With real regard, / Robert Frost / May 15, 1915,' with two tiny corrections by the author on p 11, lines 4 and 11, and an autograph note signed by Lemperley with initials describing the binding and corrections. Paul Lemperley was a noted Cleveland book-collector and Rowfant Club member: his copy of Frost's New Hampshire bears the authorial inscription, 'My friend since my first book.'A fine association copy of the author's second major book. Crane A3(A).

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Return of the Native. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. 3 volumes. 8vo. Half-title, map frontispiece by Hardy in vol 1. Publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped in black and gilt, spines lettered in gilt and blind, lower cover with double-rule border in blind, custom cloth chemise and morocco backed box, minor rubbing at joints, light foxing to endpapers.FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, Purdy's primary binding. Controversial upon publication for its frank treatment of sexuality, Hardy's classic tragedy and its proud and unconventional heroine, Eustacia Vye, are now considered one of his best. A clean, bright copy. Purdy, pp 24-72. Sadleir 1113 (binding B).

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Trumpet Major. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. 3 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, initial blanks. Publisher's red cloth, front covers pictorially stamped in black, spines in black and gilt, lower covers with triple-rule in blind. custom cloth drop-back box. Spines lightly faded, minor rubbing to gilt.FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, SECONDARY BINDING, which Purdy notes is scarcer than the primary binding. The Trumpet-Major first appeared in 12 monthly parts of Good Words for 1880. The cover features an encampment in the top panel and a mill on the lower panel and follows the author's own design. Hardy also specified the exact shade of red he wanted, a bright sanguine which accords well with the most drastic change that Hardy made to the book edition from the serial: the allusion to the future death of the trumpet major 'upon one of the bloody battle-fields of Spain.' Purdy, pp 31-35; Sadleir 1115.

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Exiles. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed slate green paper-covered boards, blind-stamped upper cover, spine gilt lettered, publishers dust jacket. Small nick to edge of upper cover, light darkening and rubbing to edges; dust jacket with skillful restoration to spine and folds.Provenance: The Sunwise Turn, Inc. (bookseller's label on back paste-down, see below); William Pieper (small label at back and morocco bookplate?). FIRST EDITION, American issue published simultaneously with the English edition, featuring the rare dust jacket stating: 'A play in three acts that belongs on the shelf with Ibsen and Hauptmann.' The Sunwise Turn, Inc. 'A Modern Bookshop,' is one of the first women owned bookshops in America. It was a bookstore, gallery space, publisher (briefly considering publishing Ulysses) and gathering place for contemporary authors, founded by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke in 1916 and operated until 1927. Slocum and Cahoon A15; see Madge Jenison, Sunwise Turn, A Human Comedy of Bookselling, New York, 1923; See Huw Osborne, editor, The Rise of the Modern Bookshop, Burlington, 2015, p 32.

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, gilt triangle decoration to front cover, border stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, custom cloth box, abrasion to front cover.FIRST BOOK EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 619 of 800 copies signed by Joyce on the colophon. By his own count, Joyce spent more than 1200 hours on ALP 'on which I am prepared to stake everything' (Letter to Harriet Weaver, October 8, 1927). Regarded as the most lyrical section of what would become Finnegans Wake, 'Anna Livia' had 'an undoubted influence on 'The Revolution of the Word' (Connolly Modern Movement 87). Slocum & Cahoon A32.

MCMURTRY, LARRY. B.1936.In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 8vo. Publisher's suede-backed tan paper boards, upper cover lettered in blind against black blocking, spine lettered in black and titled in gilt on black morocco spine label, publisher's cloth slipcase with facsimile signature stamped in black, light rubbing to joints.Provenance: Roy Walton (inscribed by the author).FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED by McMurtry to half-title, and numbered 243 of 250 copies, this one additionally inscribed by McMurtry.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company... et al, 1849. 8vo. 1 p terminal advertisement, 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, custom green cloth solander box, with morocco title label, light chipping at the corners of spine, light dampstain to final blanks.Provenance: Le Baron Russell (friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, pencil inscription of a descendant to endpaper); Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (bookseller's ticket).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THOREAU'S FIRST BOOK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Now considered a classic, Thoreau's first book was originally perhaps the most famous failure in publishing. After writing the original manuscript at Walden Pond from 1845-1847, Thoreau re-edited the manuscript as he worked on Walden for two years beginning in 1847. Not finding a publisher, Thoreau had the book printed at his own expense in 1849, but the book fared poorly, and just a few years later the publisher returned 706 copies of the 1000 printed. These copies would languish in Thoreau's closet until the bulk were purchased by Ticknor and Field and re-issued with a new title page in 1862. BAL 20104a. Borst A1.1.a1; Johnson High Spots, p 73.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo. Wood-engraved title page vignette, map of Walden Pond (with imprint), 8 pp of advertisements inserted at rear (dated June 1854, no priority). Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind with gilt titles to spine, small mark to lower margin front cover.Provenance: Martha A. Lewis (gift from Thomas J. Lewis, early ink inscription to first blank). 'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived' (p 98).A FINE, UNSOPHISTICATED FIRST EDITION OF THOREAU'S AMERICAN MASTERPIECE, '... a central document of the American experience' (Thorpe, Gifts of Genius, p 169). Thoreau's 1849 book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers include a final ad leaf announcing: 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' In truth, it was another 5 years till Walden appeared in July of 1854, selling quietly but steadily. Walden today stands as one of the most important contributions to American literature, as poet Robert Frost noted in a letter in 1922, 'in one book (Walden), [Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America.' A BRIGHT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; Grolier American 63.'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion' (p 98).'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away' (p 348).

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Lightly rubbed at extremities, very minor spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with December 1864 dated publisher's advertisements at back. Borst A5.1.a; BAL 20155.2. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. Etched portrait frontispiece. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed, very scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. Borst A3.1.a; BAL 20113.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles within wreath decoration on spine, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed at extremities, leaf f8 (sectional title for 'Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers') supplied from another copy, stains from pressed flower to pp 94 and 97. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20117. 2. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. 8vo. 24 pp advertisements dated April 1864. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind. gilt titles within wreath on spine, brown endpapers. Spine sunned, rubbed, scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20113.FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION OF 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.' Thoreau's most famous essay, as well as his 'Life Without Principle,' appears here for the first time in book form in A Yankee in Canada.

DE LA MORE PRESS.OVID. 43 B.C.E-C.17 C.E. Shakespeare's Ovid Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses. London: Alexander Moring Ltd./De la More Press, 1904. Folio. Printed on vellum, historiated initials in colors at the beginning of each book. Contemporary red morocco gilt decorated and ruled in gilt and blind, spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, cloth slipcase. Rubbed at high points of binding, otherwise fine.Provenance: Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Museum Library (bookplate); The Garden Ltd. (booklabel, sold his sale, Sotheby's New York, November 10, 1989, lot 281).LIMITED EDITION ON VELLUM, THE GARDEN COPY,, one of 2 unnumbered Hors de Commerce copies on vellum, from a total of 12 on vellum. This was volume 3 of the King's Library series published by De la More Press, edited by Israel Gollancz.

EROTICA.3 albums of French erotic plates and drawings, as follows: 1. Album of plates. [Nineteenth Century]. Oblong 4to (333 x 250 mm). 37 mounted plates, all black and white engravings and lithographs, by Achille Deveria and others. Mid-19th century purple calf decorated in blind and gilt, bearing the initials 'C.D.' on the upper cover, edges gilt.Provenance: Gerard Nordmann (bookplate; his sale, Christie's Paris, April 27, 2006, lot 115).2. Album of drawings. 4to (270 x 261 mm). 19 tipped-in ink drawings and sketches, on various sizes and types of paper (some on verso of restaurant menus). 20th century green morocco with multi-colored onlays in the Art Deco style. Spine sunned. Some drawings with creases, smudges and spotting.Provenance: Gerard Nordmann (bookplate).3. CASANOVA, GIACOMO. Memoires, ecrits par lui-meme. Brussels: J. Rozez, 1872. 102 loose engraved plates only (without text), 8vo (240 x 160 mm). Blue cloth chemise and half morocco gilt slipcase. Slipcase rubbed, some plates removed from chemise to allow room for polyurethane protective sleeves.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.The Players' Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1923-1927. 6 volumes. Folio. Including Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Tragedie of Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Love's Labour's Lost. The first two titles in green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, decorated in gilt and blind on covers, spines gilt in 6 compartments; the remainder in publisher's vellum, decorated in gilt and blind on covers, gilt titles on spines; to edges gilt, remaining edges untrimmed; five with slipcases. Spines of morocco binding sunned, slipcases perished, minor wear and browning.LIMITED EDITIONS, each in numbered editions of 100, with illustrations by Charles Ricketts, Thomas Lowinsky, Albert Rutherston, Ernst Stern, Paul Nash, and Norman Wilkinson. Each copy is signed on the limitation page by the respective artist, the art editor, and Harley-Granville Barker, who wrote the introductions.

DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.Oliver Twist, or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By 'Boz.' London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 volumes. 8vo (203 x 128 mm). 24 plates by George Cruikshank, including the original 'fireside' plate in Vol III, p 312. Half titles in volumes I and II; 4 ad pp at end of volume I and 2 ad pp at beginning of Vol III. Original reddish-brown cloth upper and lower covers with arabesque design in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, light yellow endpapers. Vol I frontispiece detached; some dampstaining to Vols I and II plates; some sunning and wear to bindings.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the original 'fireside' plate and 'Boz' as only attribution. Dickens issued Oliver Twist in book form before the novel had run its course in the periodical. Impatient to get the book to print, he had not approved all of Cruikshank's illustrations, and within a week of printing, stopped the press to replace the final plate and put his name on the title pages. Eckel pp 59-61; Smith I pp 28-37; Gimbel A27.

LEGRAIN, Pierre (1888-1929, binder & designer) - Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE (1873-1954). La Naissance du Jour. Roman. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1928. 8vo (188 x 122mm). Half title. EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND BY PIERRE LEGRAIN in full crushed morocco, the covers with a dramatic geometric "zig-zag" design in gilt rules dissecting black morocco onlays, repeated letter "C" stamped in blind on the undecorated part of the covers and on dentelles, the pattern repeated on the spine, dark green suede endpapers, additional pale green marbled endpapers, original wrappers printed in red and black bound in, uncut, slipcase. Provenance: bookplates of Sadruddin Aga Khan and Catherine Aga Khan loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION OF 800 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 200 OF 200 COPIES "SUR PAPIER DE HOLLANDE." "... the city where bookbinding was brought into tune with the creative spirit of the twentieth century was, expectedly, Paris. Here ... [books] were bound by craftsmen who broke completely with the past in design, and sometimes even materials. This school was founded, shortly after the First World War, by Pierre Legrain ..." (Alan G. Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors (1975), p.85); "[Pierre Legrain] ... perhaps the most influential of all modern French binding designers ...." (Mirjam M. Foot in The Book Collector, Vol. 68, No. 3 (p.521)).

BROWN, Thomas. A Manual of Modern Farriery; embracing the Cure of Diseases Incidental to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs; with Instructions in Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Fishing, and Field-Sports Generally: Together with a Summary of the Game-Laws. London: George Virtue, [c. 1846]. Large 8vo (224 x 145mm). Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and 18 plates by Thomas Brown, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional light spotting and staining, some text leaves browned). Original green cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt (some fraying to head of spine, lightly rubbed, ink stain to lower cover, inner hinges weak). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.154.

CONTEMPORARY ART - Keith Tyson. Studio Wall Drawings 1997-2007. London: Haunch of Venison, 2008. 4to (334 x 280mm). Coloured illustrations. Original pink cloth with a blind-stamped design on covers and lettered in gilt, slipcase. "Edition of 3000." With 7 other books of related interest, namely A. Christian (Hong Kong, 1991, cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase), Sergei Bugaev Afrika's Rebus (Moscow & New York, 1994, cloth wallet, ONE OF 1,500 COPIES), Forgacs Eva's Fehér Laszlo ([?]Budapest, 1998, cloth, dust-jacket), Bullás József Munkák/Works 1989-2002 ([No place, ?2002, buckram, dust-jacket), Daniel Brush. Thirty Years' Work (New York, Phillips de Pury & Company, 2007, 4 vols. in common slipcase, cloth), Tracey Emin. Works 1963 - 2006 (New York, [?]2009, paper boards, dust-jacket) and Xiong Lijun (Hong Kong, Editions Opera Gallery, coloured boards, 2011). The lot sold not subject to return. (8)

ELGAR, Edward, Sir (1857-1934). A series of eight autograph letters, signed, written between 28th October 1932 and 25th August 1933 to the soprano Doris Johnson. "BELIEVE ME TO BE YOUR SLAVE ALSO ..." THE GREAT COMPOSER, NEARING THE END OF HIS LIFE, ENTERS INTO A PLAYFUL AND AFFECTIONATE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SOPRANO DORIS JOHNSON. The subjects of the letters, which are newly-discovered and unpublished, include social arrangements, the composer's flight to Paris, trips to Manchester, a comment on a performance of his [?second] symphony from the Queen's Hall, views of Spain, and several references to Marco and Mina, his beloved dogs (one of the composer's last pieces, partly orchestrated on his deathbed in 1934, was 'Mina for Small Orchestra'). The letters comprise, in chronological order: 1) two-pages, 21-lines, on paper headed 'Marl Bank, Worcester,' dated "28th October 1932", stating, "My dear Miss Johnson: I've made a very quick journey to Worcester to send most hearty thanks for the kindest & sweetest hospitality I have ever experienced. Thank you sincerely for my kind care. Marco is very pleased with his [?]ball and sends his respects to [?]Sandy: to these please add my kind regards to your sisters and brother. My love to you and that marvellous dress, Believe me to be yours sincerely, Edward Elgar"; with the original envelope addressed, in Elgar's hand, to "Miss Doris Johnson, The Upper House, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent," postmarked Worcester, 4 Nov, 1932, and with Elgar's ("E.E.") black wax seal (broken) on verso; 2) one-page, 12-lines, on paper headed 'The Worcestershire Club, Worcester,' dated "8th November 1932," stating, "Dear Miss Johnson, Many thanks for the news of [illegible word] paragraph about the wireless. If you wish please come round to the Artists' room at Manchester, Yours very sincerely, Edward Elgar"; 3) one-page, on paper headed 'From Sir Edward Elgar, Bt., O.M., K.C.V.O., Master of the King's Musick; Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace, London, S.W.1.', dated "Worcester, 23rd December, '32", stating, "Your Christmas greeting to Marco & his slave (me) is so charming that I must be allowed to send thanks for it, Believe me to be your slave also, Edward Elgar"; 4) one-page, 10-lines, on paper blind-stamped, 'Marl Bank, Worcester,' dated "16th January 1933," stating, "My dear Miss Johnson, it is most kind of you to think of luncheon but I have to travel from London to Manchester. I am looking forward very much to seeing you again. With kindest regards, from very sincerely, Edward Elgar"; 5) 2-pages, 22-lines, on paper headed "Marl Bank, Worcester," dated "29th January, 1933", stating, "I found, as I feared, a great accumulation [illegible words]. I hasten to send this thanks to you for making my journey to Manchester and back possible, and for converting what promised to be a dismal affair into a most pleasant expedition ... Marco & Mina, who are both well now, gave me a wild greeting - I wish their rabitting holiday were possible, with kindest regards to your [illegible word] and to you especially, yours very sincerely, Edward Elgar"; 6) 2-pages (small hole touching letters), 27-lines, on un-headed paper, dated "Worcester, 17th April, 1933," stating, "I was delighted and uplifted by your card which you most kindly sent from Spain. I hope you and your party had a very enjoyable tour. I always [illegible word] of Spain with the [illegible word] thought ... The next best thing is to hear from firends their experiences ... I hope your friend Sandy (is that right?) [illegible word] & welcoming ... on your return you will find England looking its best to greet you, with kindest regards & the dogs' love, in which I [?]just [?]live ..."; 7) 3-pages, on paper headed 'Marl Bank, Worcester', dated "11th June 1933," stating, "My dear Miss Johnson: It was most kind of you to write: I have been overwhelmed with silly business things & a vast accumulation of letters & I should have thanked you at once. I hope you are back & that you [illegible word] have the happiest memories of Spain ..."; 8) 2-pages, on paper headed 'Marl Bank, Worcester', dated "25th Aug 1933", stating, "... The summer has passed away without my having the opportunity to pay you the visit you so kindly suggested: it has been a wonderful time but I cannot stand heat & have had to rest occasionally. I fear your garden must be burnt as mine is, it is a wreck. I trust Sandy is back: my companions have been tolerably well & now the cooler weather has come are quite normal ... I hope you heard the Symphony last Thursday from Queen's Hall. I wish I hadn't conducted 'K. Olaf' again at Hanley, but I see no chance of getting near Stoke until I go to the Hallé concert in February ... Please give my kind regards to your sister & brother & some special ones to your self, Believe me to be, yours very sincerely, Edward Elgar." The eighth letter was apparently the last Elgar wrote to Doris Johnson. Inoperable bowel cancer was diagnosed in October 1933 and Elgar would die from it in February of the following year. Of Doris Johnson, little is known. She was born in 1889, making her 44 or 45-years-old when she received these letters (Elgar was 75 or 76). She lived at Upper House, Barlaston, in Staffordshire. The house was built in 1845 for Josiah Wedgwood's grandson Francis. This was fitting since Doris's father was Henry James Johnson, one of the four 'Johnson Brothers' who founded the pottery works of the same name and which later became part of Wedgwood. Doris was a soprano and a patron of the North Staffordshire Choral Society and it is very likely that she met Elgar through her involvement with this society. Throughout the letters the tension between formality ("Dear Miss Johnson") and deeper expressions of sentiment - a symptom, perhaps, as much of their times as the age difference between them - are probably more evident to a modern sensibility than they would have been to a contemporary one. Provenance: The letters were left by Doris to her friend Miss Elsie Thurston, and thence by descent to the present owner. Elsie Thurston, who was born in 1891, was a soprano tutor at the then Royal Manchester College of Music at the time Adolf Brodsky was the Principal, the latter being acquainted with Elgar. (8)

LONDON - Richard NEWCOURT (c.1610-1679). An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs. London: 1653 [but Edward Stanford, 1863]. Very large folding engraved map, mounted on linen and edged in blue silk, inset views of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, 1,040 x 1,930mm., folding into a 4to (280 x 230mm) olive morocco presentation binding, panelled in gilt and blind with the arms of the Livery Companies, blue and gilt glazed endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). A striking 19th-century derivative map by Edward Stanford after the original engraved by William Faithorne (c.1620-91). cf. Howgego 12. RARE.

 VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A good D.S., Victoria R I, as Queen, at the head, nine pages, folio, Court at Saint James’s, 23rd February 1876. The manuscript document is addressed to the Duke of Norfolk and concerns the Honourable Harry Tyrwhitt Tyrwhitt of Keythorpe Hall in Tugby, Leicestershire, being a Royal licence granting him to use the surname of Wilson only in lieu of that of Tyrwhitt and bear the Arms of Wilson and requiring the Duke of Norfolk to record the declaration in the College of Arms. Countersigned at the conclusion by Richard Assheton Cross (1823-1914) 1st Viscount Cross. British Statesman who served as Home Secretary 1874-80 & 1885-86. With blind embossed paper seal affixed and tied with a green ribbon. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG   Henry Fitzalan-Howard (1847-1917) 15th Duke of Norfolk. British Politician & Philanthropist who served as Earl Marshal 1860-1917.    Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt (1824-1894) 3rd Baron Berners. 

 VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A good D.S., Victoria R I, as Queen, at the head, five pages, folio, Court at Saint James’s, 13th September 1892, on the blind embossed stationery of the Secretary of State, Home Department. The manuscript document is addressed to the Duke of Norfolk and concerns the Honourable Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt of Keythorpe, Leicester, being a Royal licence granting him to take and use the surname of Wilson in addition to and after his own surname of Tyrwhitt and bear the Arms of Wilson and requiring the Duke of Norfolk to record the declaration in the College of Arms. Countersigned at the conclusion by H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) British Prime Minister 1908-16 and previously Home Secretary 1892-95. With blind embossed seal affixed and tied with a green ribbon. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG   Henry Fitzalan-Howard (1847-1917) 15th Duke of Norfolk. British Politician & Philanthropist who served as Earl Marshal 1860-1917.    Sir Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1855-1918) 4th Baron Berners.  

GEORGE V & EDWARD VIII: GEORGE V (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-1936 & EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. D.S. by both King George V (‘George R.I.’, as King, at the head) and the future King Edward VIII (‘Edward P’, as Prince of Wales, at the foot), one page, folio, Court at Saint James’s, 4th June 1928. The partially printed document is addressed to Leslie Cecil Blackmore Bowker and grants him the dignity of an Officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire. With a blind embossed seal to the upper left corner. The signatures are very slightly faded although perfectly legible. Neatly laid down and with some very light, minor staining and age wear to the edges and centre, otherwise about VG Sir Leslie Cecil Blackmore Bowker (1887-1965) British Barrister who served as Chief Clerk to the Law Officers of the Crown.

 GEORGE V: (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-36. A large D.S., George R. I., as King, at the head, one page, large oblong folio, Court of Saint James, 1st April 1932. The partially printed document, completed in typescript, appoints Evelyn Charles Donaldson Rawlins to be Commercial Secretary, First Grade, attached to the Legation at Vienna, also 'Giving and Granting to him in that character all Power and Authority to do and execute all necessary Writings, Memorials, and Instruments, as also to assist Our Minister at Vienna.....'. Countersigned at the foot by John Simon (1873-1954) 1st Viscount Simon. British Politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1931-35. With blind embossed seal. The small circular sticker of the Rawlins Collection is neatly affixed in the upper left corner. Some very light, extremely minor creasing and age wear, VG   E. C. D. Rawlins was the father of the noted autograph collector Ray Rawlins and the present document was previously sold by Sotheby's in their sale of the Rawlins Collection on 2nd, 3rd & 4th June 1980 (Lot 142) and has not appeared on the market since. 

 GEORGE V: (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-36. D.S., George R.I., as King, at the head, one page, oblong folio, Court at Saint James's, 17th August 1935. The partially printed document is a military commission appointing Derek Swithin Allhusen to be a Second Lieutenant with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers of the Land Forces. Countersigned at the foot by Harry Knox (1873-1971, British General, Adjutant-General to the Forces 1935-37) and Herbert Creedy (1878-1973, British Civil Servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War 1920-39). With blind embossed pale blue paper seal affixed. VG   Derek Swithin Allhusen (1914-2000) English Major and Equestrian who served in World War II with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and was awarded the American Silver Star in 1944. Allhusen won a Gold Medal in the Team eventing and a Silver Medal in the Individual eventing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. 

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. A rare D.S., Edward R I, as King, at the head, one page, oblong folio, Office of Admiralty, 2nd April 1936. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is a naval commission appointing David Jasper Godden to be a Sub-Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Fleet. Countersigned at the foot by Martin Dunbar-Nasmith (1883-1965) British Admiral, Victoria Cross winner for his actions in the Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles, June 1915; and Percy Noble (1880-1955) British Admiral. With blind embossed seal. Some very light, extremely minor creasing and foxing, otherwise VG

SALISBURY MARQUIS OF: (1830-1903) British Prime Minister 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902. A.L.S., Salisbury, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (London?), 11th October 1879, to J. Pritchard Esq., on the blind embossed stationery of the Foreign Office. Salisbury states that he is obliged to his correspondent for their courteous offer although continues to remark 'We have, however, here a large number of papers with the signature in question - &, therefore, I should not be justified in accepting the one you possess'. With blank integral leaf. VG

RACHMANINOFF SERGEI: (1873-1943) Russian Composer & Pianist. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 7 x 9 photograph of Rachmaninoff in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Kubey-Rembrandt Studios of Philadelphia and bearing their blind embossed stamp to the lower right corner. Signed by Rachmaninoff in white fountain pen ink to the image and dated 1931 in his hand. The signature and inscription are a little light in places. Very neatly trimmed to the edges and with a small area of paper loss to the upper edge. G

 GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. D.S., George R, a 'mad' example, as King, at the head, one page (vellum), oblong folio, Court at St. James's, 23rd May 1810. The manuscript document is a military commission appointing William Heydinger to be Deputy Assistant Commissary General to the Forces. Countersigned at the foot by Richard Ryder (1766-1832) British Politician, Home Secretary 1809-12 and also bearing the signatures of Thomas Butts (1757-1845) Chief Clerk to the Commissary General of Musters and William Blake's most important patron and Robert Lukin (1772-1835) First Clerk at the War Office. With blind embossed paper seal affixed. The document has a neat horizontal tear through the centre (somewhat crudely repaired to the verso) and with extensive mottling and age wear, affecting the text but not the King's signature. About G   Provenance: The present document was previously part of the collection of the British physician Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981). Along with his mother, Dr. Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote several books including George III and the Mad Business (1969). 

 GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. A very fine D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, folio, Court at Carlton House, 6th December 1823. The manuscript document is addressed to the Earl of Eldon and is a warrant for the affixing of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Ratification of a Convention between King George IV and the Emperor of Austria ‘for the definitive settlement of the Austrian Loan, concluded and signed at Vienna, on the Seventeenth day of November [1823]’. Countersigned at the conclusion by George Canning (1770-1827) British Prime Minister April - August 1827 and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1807-09, 1822-27. With a manuscript copy of the Convention annexed to the document, six pages, folio, in English and French, comprising five articles negotiated between Robert Gordon and Klemens von Metternich in which the Emperor of Austria agrees to repay the sum of ‘Two Millions Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling in satisfaction of the whole of the British Claims’. Neatly tied with a blue ribbon and with a blind embossed paper seal affixed. VG 

 GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, folio, Court at Carlton House, 13th April 1824. The manuscript document is addressed to James Scarlett and his Royal Licence to Plead, stating, in part, 'Whereas James Taggart hath by his Petition humbly represented unto Us, that on the twenty second day of October last there was an Indictment found by the Grand Jury of the City of London against James Taggart and Henry Baskcomb which was removed by Certiorari into Our Court of Kings Bench for an alledged offence of selling a Cadetship upon which the Petitioner and the said Henry Baskcomb are to be tried at the adjourned sittings for the City of London......and that it may be useful for the Petitioner in defending the said Indictment to have the assistance of James Scarlett one of Our Counsel learned in law.....' Countersigned at the conclusion by Robert Peel (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46 and Home Secretary 1822-27 & 1828-30. With a blind embossed paper seal affixed and blank integral leaf. Some very light staining and age wear, only very slightly affecting the text and signature, otherwise about VG   James Scarlett (1769-1844) 1st Baron Abinger. English Lawyer, Politician and Judge, one of the most successful lawyers at the bar who was particularly effective before a jury.  

Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) 'Flower Painting 1931' no.289 of 500 (stamped under mount) lithograph published by Adam Collection with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp 49.5cm x 57.2cm.

A GROUP OF FIVE VICTORIAN BLIND PULLERS

Limited edition signed print by C.F Tunnicliffe blind stamp grey lag goose We do not supply condition reports for our Interiors Sale

[SPORTING]. FISHING 'Ephemera'. A Handbook of Angling, third edition, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1853, original blind-stamped green cloth, frontispiece, twenty-four page publisher's catalogue, octavo; and Simeon, Cornwall. Stray Notes on Fishing and Naturak History, Macmillan, Cambridge, 1860, original pictorial crimson cloth gilt, frontispiece, vignette title page, octavo, (2).

A mid 20th century believed Danish teak wood sideboard / credenza  being raised on turned legs with a wide body having angular blind fronted drawers over fall front cupboard and flanked by end cupboards either side.

A 19th century impressive large Gothic oak carved large library bookcase cupboard. Raised on an angled plinth base with double door cupboard beneath large glazed bookcase cabinet above. The  cupboard  with stunning lion mask figural carvings, heavy foliate carved scroll works surrounding the geometric panel doors. Above, two arched glazed doors again surrounded by carved foliate workings with stunning ornamental figureheads.. Flared cornice atop with geometric blind fret worked dentil. Dismantles into 2 pieces for ease of movement. Measures 108cms wide x 219cms high x 56cms depth

LAUDIVIOEpistole Thurci, title printed in red and black with woodcut border surround, 35 woodcuts (one full-page, some repeats), brown crushed morocco gilt by F. Bedford, sides with gilt and blind single line borders and floral cornerpieces, gilt tooled on spine, g.e. [Mortimer French 341], small 4to (134 x 194mm.), [Lyon, Jean Marion impensis Romain Morin, 30 March, 1520]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PARACELSUSDrey Bücher durch den hochgelerten Herrn Theophrastum von Hohenheim, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black, large woodcut device on final leaf, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, upper cover with central armorial panel (dated ?1563, slightly scuffed), metal catches, clasps and straps, neatly rebacked in period style [Durling 3466; Sudhoff 67], small 4to (190 x 142mm.), Cologne, Arnold Birckmann, 1564This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

APICIUS COELIUSDe re culinaria libri decem... De tuenda valetudine... Pauli Aeginetae De facultatibus alimentorum tractatus, Albano Torino interprete, woodcut printer's device on title and last page, woodcut initials, light marginal dampstains towards end and small wormhole in margin of signature r (otherwise a fresh clean copy), eighteenth century blind panelled calf, blind tooled spine with raised bands, g.e. [Adams A1300; Bitting p.11; Cagle 32; Oberlé 5; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 123 and Bibliotheca Bacchica 52 & 527; Vicaire 31], 8vo (165 x 100mm.), Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1541This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •