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Lot 6048
Denys Watkins-Pitchford "BB", 15 titles: 'Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox', London, E & S, 1938, 1st edition, 13 full page plates and numerous head & tailpieces from scraperboard ills. by "BB" as called for, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Manka the Sky Gipsy', L, E & S, 1939, 1st edition, 15 full page plates + numerous head & tailpieces from scraperboard ills. by "BB" as called for, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Dark Estuary', L, 1953, 1st edition, 15 colour plates, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (worn with part losses), 'Tide's Ending', 1950, 1st edition, 16 colour plates, orginal cloth gilt, 'Letters from Compton Deverell', L, E & S, 1950, 1st edition, 2nd state, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Lord of the Forest', L, Methuen, 1975, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'Brendon Chase', 1968, 1st Ernest Benn edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'England is a Village', 1940, 1st edition, 32 b/w ills. (some full page) by "BB" as called for, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Sportsman's Bedside Book', 1937, 1st edition, original cloth, 'the Wayfaring Tree', 1945, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Countryman's Bedside Book', 1943, 3rd impression, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Southern English', 1942, 1st edition, ills. by "BB", orig. cloth, d/w, Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald: 'It's My Delight', 1947, 1st edition, ills. by "BB", orig. cloth, d/w, plus 2 others (15)
Lot 6054
Denys Watkins-Pitchford "BB", a collection of 25 titles, including 'The Badgers of Bearshanks', 1961, 1st edition, full page and in text scraperboard ills. by BB as called for, 'Lepus the Brown Hare', 1962, 1st edition, full page and in text scraperboard ills. by BB as called for, both original cloth, both in dust wrappers; 'A Carp Water (Wood Pool) and How to Fish It', Putnam, 1958, 1st edition, ex library, lacks FFEP, b/w ills. by BB as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Vesey-Fitzgerald: 'It's My Delight', 1948, 2nd impression, Typed Postcard Signed from the author loosely inserted, b/w ills. by BB as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; 'The Little Grey Men', Slightly Foxed Editions, 2017, limited edition (2000), ills. throughout, original cloth. Winner of the 1942 Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject; 'Stories of the Wild', 1975, 1st collected edition, b/w ills. by BB, orig. cloth, d/w; 'Recollections of a Longshore Gunner', 1976, 1st edition, etc etc (26)NB framed and glazed commemorative stamps withdrawn from this lot with apologies
Lot 6055
(Private Press, Printing, Typography), 'Parenthesis, the Journal of the Fine Press Book Association', a broken run of 13 issues (incl. 3 duplicates) from No.1-43, 1998-2022, issue No.1 content/ills. incl. Vance Gerry, Edward Bawden, Rigby Graham, Clifford Harper, Eric Gill etc, orig. printed wraps, Fine Press Book Association typed letter loosely inserted, other issues all with ills. throughout and pictorial covers; together with important bookseller catalogues, including 'The Alan Clodd Library' (complete in 5 vols., Maggs Bros., 2004/05); 'The Library of John & Myfanwy Piper' (complete in 3 vols., Maggs Bros., 1997/98); Sophie Schneideman Rare Books, 27 catalogues from No.1 to 2023, much illustrated, fine printed and private press content (48)
Lot 6060
(Classical Architecture, Greece, Egypt, Antiquity), three early to mid 20th Century manuscript books containing notes and well executed architectural drawings and sketches, maps etc, compiled by one Eric A. Deedman, each with his ownership signature to inside front cover, two of the books with continuous pagination, being 90pp in total 'Notes on Architectural History', with cover title and m/s title at front of first volume, includes well executed pencil and pen & ink sketches of Pyramids of Gizeh; Sphinx; map of Egypt; tomb at Abydos; Tomb of Khnemhotep at Beni-Hasan; Temple of Khons, Karnac; Egyptian columns and ornament; entrance to the rock temple at Ipsamboul; temple at Edfou; map of Babylonian and Persian empires; Sargons Palace at Khorsabad, Assyrian 2nd period; Ziggurat; Persian column at Susa; map of Greece and plan of the Acropolis; The Parthenon east facade and column/ornament; the Propylaea, Athens; Greek examples of the Doric and Ionic order; the temple of Nike; the Erechtheion; Greek and Roman mouldings; Greek and Roman comparitive theatres, etc, all with corresponding m/s notes, the other book with 50+ unnumbered pages of similar but more roughly sketched illustrations and notes in pencil, all in matching contemporary cloth backed exercise books (each approx 20 x 16.5cm); together with a 1928 edition of 'A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, for Students, Craftsmen, & Amateurs', by Sir Banister Fletcher, profusely illustrated throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt (4)
Lot 6074
Thomas Chippendale: 'The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste...and other ornaments', London, J. Haberkorn for the author and others, 1754, 1st edition, lacking leaves before pp. vii (i.e. half title, title page printed, and engraved dedication), but else complete, with [4]pp list of subscribers (pp. vii-x), 27pp letterpress (being a list of the plates with corresponding descriptions), plus 161 engraved plates as called for (two plates are numbered xxv), some plates with moderate foxing, slightly heavier and with some waterstaining to leaves at end, plate xxiv "Chinese Chairs" with area of surface wear (not affecting illustration itself), else leaves/plates complete and generally VGC commensurate with age, the plates dated 1753, and engraved by engraved by Tobias Müller (fl. 1754-90), Matthew Darly (fl. 1754-1778), Butler Clowes (d. 1782), Isaac I. Taylor (1730-1807), Edward Rooker (1711-1774), Johann Sebastian Müller (1715-1785), William Foster? (d. 1812), James Hulett (d. 1771) and Hemerick, Folio (45.5 x 28 cm), rebacked contemporary reverse calf very worn, part of original leather title label to spine, replenished end papers. Chippendale's breakthrough furniture design book. The Director was the most extensive pattern book to be created by a craftsperson and the first to have a wider audience outside tradesmen. The immense popularity of the 1754 first edition and subsequent reissues increased commissions for Chippendale's firm and cemented his position as one of the most premier 18th-century cabinetmakers. It was The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, first published in 1754, that made his name and reputation. A talented draughtsman, Chippendale completed the drawings himself (many of them now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) that were engraved for printing by Matthias Darly.While a handful of furniture designs had been printed before, The Director was the first publication on such a large scale. The 160 plates were either bound at £1.14 shillings or loose at £1.10 shillingsThe first edition of The Director attracted 308 subscribers, 49 of them members of the gentry, but the majority were fellow craftsmen (including the Affleck family in Philadelphia) who used it to inform their own work.The book was reprinted in two further editions with the third in 1762 including updates to the styles of furniture as neoclassicism became the fashion of the day. All of Chippendale’s known commissions (with the exception of one) date from after the appearance of The Director: clearly the catalogue had its intended effect on stimulating his career.
Lot 6084
Charles Robinson (illustrated), 3 titles: 'The Big Book of Fairy Tales', edited Walter Jerrold, London, Blackie, 1911, 1st edition, 12 colour plates + 22 additional full page plates (16 black & red, 6 black & white) + over 150 b/w ills. in text by Charles Robinson as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt (slightly worn), all edges gilt; Evelyn Sharp: 'The Child's Christmas', London, Blackie, [1906], 1st edition, colour title page + 38 colour plates and numerous b/w ills. in text by Charles Robinson as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt (soiled), all edges gilt, dust wrapper (slightly worn with some small part losses, but generally complete and a very scarce surviving example); Anatole France: 'Bee, the Princess of the Dwarfs', translated Peter Wright, L, Dent, 1934, reprint, 16 colour plates + b/w ills. in text by Charles Robinson as called for, original pictorial cloth (3)
Lot 6085
Four Arthur Rackham illustrated titles, comprising Charles Dickens: 'A Christmas Carol', London, William Heinemann, 1915, 1st edition, 12 tissue guarded colour plates + numerous b/w ills. by Rackham as called for, original pictorial cloth; Clement C. Moore: 'The Night Before Christmas', Philadelphia, Lippincott, [1931], 4 colour plates + b/w ills. throughout by Rackham as called for, orig. cloth, pictorial printed title label mounted to front cover; C.S. Evans: 'The Sleeping Beauty', London, William Heinemann, 1920, 1st edition, tipped in colour plate + double page illustrations printed in black, green, pink and white and numerous full page and in text b/w ills. as called for, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards; 'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book', London, Harrap, June 1942 reprint, 8 colour plates + numerous b/w ills. in text as called for, inner joints crudely reinforced, original pictorial cloth (4)
Lot 6090
Andrew Lang (edited): 'The Lilac Fairy Book', illustrated H.J. Ford, London, Longmans, 1910, 1st edition, 6 colour plates + 20 b/w plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt (worn), all edges gilt; Arthur Rackham (ill.): 'Undine', L, William Heinemann, June 1925, new impression, 15 tipped in colour plates as called for, original pictorial cloth (worn), dust wrapper; Phyllis Austin: 'The Goldfish Bowl', ill. Charles Robinson, L, Hutchinson, [1922], 4 colour plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, orig. cloth gilt; Willy Pogany (ill.): 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', L, Harrap, c.1909, 24 tipped in colour plates as called for, 4to, orig. decorative suede, top edge gilt, others uncut (4)
![Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross', London, [1915], 20 tipped in plates (19 c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d24779a1-c782-48cc-8192-b069008bfcdc/ec420b07-dd46-4f4d-b386-b069010df266/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6097
Edmund Dulac (illustrated): 'Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross', London, [1915], 20 tipped in plates (19 colour plates by Edmund Dulac and a b/w portrait plate of Dulac as called for), 4to, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper (with mounted colour illustration by Dulac to front cover); plus Charles Robinson (illustrated): 'The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare', L, Duckworth, [1915], 12 tipped in colour plates as called for, each with captioned tissue guard, 4to, original cloth gilt; together with Henry Ford (illustrated): 'The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang', L, Longmans, 1913, b/w frontis + 12 colour plates, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; plus 3 others similar illustrated (6)
Lot 6100
Raymond Briggs, 5 titles, 'Gentleman Jim', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980, 1st edition, colour illustrated leaves throughout, original pictorial boards, 'Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book', L, Hamish Hamilton, [1982], 1st edition, 6 double page colour pop-ups as called for, orig. pictorial boards, 'The Man', L, Julia MacRae Books, 1992, 1st edition, colour ills. throughout, orig. pictorial boards, dust wrapper, 'UG: Boy Genius of the Stone Age', L, Jonathan Cape, 2001, 1st edition, orig. pictorial boards, dust wrapper, 'Ethel & Ernest. A True Story', L, Cape, 2002, 1st paperback edition, orig. pictorial wraps (5)
Lot 6101
Raymond Briggs, 3 titles: 'The Snowman', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 1st edition, colour illustrated title page + full page colour illustrated leaves throughout, some spotting/foxing mainly affecting leaves at front and end, original pictorial boards; Raymond Briggs and Ron Van Der Meer: 'The Snowman. A Pop-up Book with Music', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1986, 1st edition, 6 double page colour pop-ups as called for, original pictorial boards; 'Father Christmas goes on Holiday', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 1st edition, comic book style colour illustrated leaves throughout, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper (£2.75 price intact) (3)
![Edward Lear: 'A Book of Nonsense', London, Frederick Warne & Co, [nd], c.1870, 110 coloured illustrations as called for,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d24779a1-c782-48cc-8192-b069008bfcdc/90b56d6b-86a5-4256-96a1-b069010dfbfc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6106
Six assorted children's & illustrated titles, 19th Century Juvenile literature etc, including 'The Instructive picture book: lessons from the geographical distribution of animals, or, the natural history of the quadrupeds which characterise the principle divisions of the globe', Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1860, 60 hand coloured engraved plates as called for, inner joints split, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards worn (34 x 22cm); together with Kate Greenaway (illustrated): 'Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes', L, Frederick Warne, c.1900, colour ills. throughout, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards; S. Louis Giraud: 'Animal Life in Fact, Fancy and Fun', L, Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic, [1939], 1st edition, Bookano "Living" Models series, 6 colour pop-up dobule page ills. as called for (all VGC, intact), oblong 4to, orig. pictorial boards (VGC); Eleanor Vere Boyle (illustrated): 'Beauty and the Beast', L, Sampson Low, [1875], 10 chromolitho full page plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, 4to, orig. pictorial cloth; 'The Young Ladies Journal. An Illustrated Magazine of Fashion, Fancy Work, Family Reading, etc etc', bound volume January-December 1883, No's 973-1,024, 448pp, black & white engraved ills. throughout (some double page), folio, old quarter cloth; René Peyrol: 'Rosa Bonheur Her Life and Work', L, Art Journal, 1889, 3 full page etched plates + wood engraved ills. throughout, 32pp + 16pp ads at end, folio, orig. cloth gilt (6)
Lot 6112
(Hugh Thomson, Charles E. Brock, Illustrated, Book Design), a collection of 25 late Victorian and Edwardian illustrated titles, mainly in decorative and pictorial cloth gilt, including Hugh Thomson (ill.); Austin Dobson: 'The Ballad of Beau Brocade', L, Kegan Paul, 1892, limited edition, large paper copy, number 140 of a total edition of 450 copies for England and America, 50 ills. by Hugh Thomson as called for, rebound cloth gilt (26 x 18cm), plus two standard edition copies of the same title, each in orig. pictorial/decorative cloth gilt covers by Thomson, plus others with cover designs and illustrations by Hugh Thomson incl. 'Peg Woffington' pub. George Allen (2), Mary Mitford’s 'Our Village', 'Coridon’s Song', 'Days with Sir Roger de Coverley', plus others illustrated Charles E. Brock, published J.M. Dent, George Allen, Macmillan, etc (25)
Lot 6117
A collection of approx. 50 assorted mainly children's & illustrated titles, including Andrew Lang: 'The Brown Fairy Book', 1904, 1st edition, 8 colour plates + b/w ills. by Henry Ford as called for, lacksd FFEP, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'Persian Tales', illustrated Hilda roberts, Macmillan, 1919, 16 colour plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, orig. cloth gilt; 'Cats at Play', a/f, defective, pub. John F. Shaw, [nd], circa late 19th Century, ills. by Louis Wain and others Florence & Bertha Upton, Kate Greenaway, Edward Ardizzone etc (approx. 50)
Lot 6120
Tove Jansson, 3 titles: 'Finn Family Moomintroll', translated Elizabeth Portch, London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1950, 1st English language edition, folding black & white map (with closed tear and tape repairs), plus further b/w ills. by Tove Jansson throughout, original pictorial cloth (worn, lacks backstrip). The third children's novel in the author's Moomin series of books, the first Moomin book to be published in English. Very scarce; 'The Exploits of Moominpappa', translated Thomas Warburton, L, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1952, 1st English language edition, b/w ills. by Tove Jansson throughout, orig. pictorial cloth. The fourth children's novel in the author's Moomin series of books. Very scarce; 'Sculptor's Daughter', trans. Kingsley Hart, L, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1969, 1st English language edition, orig. two tone cloth gilt, dust wrapper (slightly worn, 30s net/£1.50 price intact). The author's haunting semi-autobiographical childhood memoir. Scarce (3)
Lot 6186
(Fantasy, Esoteric, Mystical), Arthur Edward Waite: 'The Quest of the Golden Stairs. A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie', London, The Theosophical Publishing House Limited, 1927, 1st edition, pencil markings to FFEP of George Locke, late book dealer, author, publisher and authority on Fantasy and Science Fiction, large 8vo, original cloth, dust wrapper
Lot 6189
Jack B. Yeats: 'Sligo', London, Wishart & Co, 1930, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; Oscar Wilde: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', ill. Frans Masereel, L, Methuen, 1924, [but with errata slip tipped in stating the later than intended actual publication date of October 22nd 1925), 1st illustrated edition, limited edition (450/450), numbered, 37 woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel (of which 7 full page) as called for, ex library, ink reference number verso title page and inkstamp on half title, light foxing, else leaves generally clean/VGC, rebound green cloth gilt; plus 'Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-book', L, Hutchinson, 1962, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, and 'James Joyce', by Djuna Barnes, 1984 (600), large folding printed leaf in French language (4)
Lot 6196
Elizabeth David, 3 titles: 'Italian Food', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1987, limited edition, number 140 of 400 copies only, signed by Elizabeth David and numbered to limitation page, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, oblong 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', London, Macdonald, 1958, 2nd edition, b/w ills. and decorations by John Minton, original cloth gilt, wraparound pictorial dust wrapper by John Minton (some chips, small part loss), 'French Provincial Cooking', L, Michael Joseph, 1960, 1st edition, ills./decorations by Juliet Renny, original pictorial cloth gilt, Cookery Book Club edition dust wrapper (3)
Lot 6198
Harry Craddock: 'The Savoy Cocktail Book', London, Constable and Company, 1930, 1st edition, 1st issue (paginated to title), 287pp, illustrations and decorations printed in black and colours throughout by Gilbert Rumbold, original cloth backed art deco texturized boards in black, gold and green (rubbed/slightly worn, backstrip detached but present)
Lot 6223
(Crime Fiction), a folder containing a large quantity of correspondence to Iwan Hedman-Morelius (1931-2012), founder of the long-running DAST Magazine dedicated to his life-long passion for crime fiction, and enthusiastic expert on the international crime-writing scene, including letters from authors and members of the book trade etc., hundreds of letters/items c.1980's-1990's, including Colin Forbes (1923-2006) Typed Letter Signed "Dear Iwan! Here is a £10.00 note for my subscription to DAST-Magazine. It was good of you to write. I am glad to hear that you are so happily settled. The Farm sounds really so peaceful. Like Paradise! I have been incredibly busy working. And still I am working. The book gets bigger - it seems to be a natural development. I will write you as soon as I can a piece for DAST on my next book. Probably you are now losing count of my books! Warmest regards. Keep well! Most sincerely, Colin Forbes [signed Colin in blue ink]", 10.6.87, together with another Colin Forbes TLS, and 3 page typed interview between Colin Forbes and Iwan Hedman on his novel "The Janus Man", October 1987; Otto Penzler, proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop, TLS, Carolyn Penzler ALS; Margaret Yorke (1924-2012), seven Typed Letters Signed 1987-1999, plus a short ALS/greetings card signed 1989, with handwritten envelope; Walter Wager (1924-2004), 30+ TLS's c.1996-2000; Jacques Baudou (b.1946), 4 ALS's; Angus Ross, 2 ALS's 1996, plus numerous other correspondence from various publishers, booksellers, Crime Writers Association and other literary associations and societies, etc
Lot 6230
Graham Greene, 7 titles: 'The Ministry of Fear', London, Heinemann, 1943, 1st edition, original cloth, 'The Quiet American', L, Heinemann, 1955, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Comedians', L, Bodley Head, 1966, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The End of the Affair', L, Heinemann, 1951, 1st edition, rebound cloth, 'A Sort of Life', L, Bodley Head, 1971, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Collected Essays', L, Bodley Head, 1969, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Heart of the Matter', L, Heinemann & The Book Society, 1948, orig. cloth (7)
Lot 6248
John Dos Passos, 2 titles: 'Adventures of a Young Man;, London, Constable, 1939, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt, 'Number One', L, Constable, 1944, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Robert Graves: 'Antigua, Penny, Puce', L, Constable & Deya (Mallorca), The Seizin Press, 1936, 1st edition, 1st issue, with misprints on p.100, 103 & 293, orig. cloth; Charles R. Benstead: 'Retreat', L, Methuen, 1930, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; Richard Aldington: 'Roads to Glory', L, Chatto, 1930, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; B. Traven: 'The Rebellion of the Hanged', L, Hale, [1952], 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; Angus Wilson: 'The Wrong Set', L, Secker & Warburg, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, author's first novel; Nigel Balchin: 'The Small Back Room', L, Collins and the Book Society, 1943, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Norman Mailer: 'The Naked and the Dead', L, Allan Wingate, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, later dust wrapper; Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', L, Gollancz, 1963, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w (10)
Lot 6270
Harriet Beecher Stowe: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly', Boston & Cleveland, John P. Jewett, 1852, 1st edition, 1st state, 2 volumes, Hobart & Robbins stated on both copyright pages, engraved vignette title pages + 6 engraved plates as called for (3 in each volume), 312; 320pp, original publisher's blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt. "In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. . . . Whatever its weaknesses as a literary work . . . the social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since." (PMM)Externally Volume I cloth a bit chipped and frayed at head and foot of spine with a couple of small part losses of cloth here (approx. 4mm squared). Slight bump/minor damage at fore edge of cloth towards bottom corner. Some faint marking/water staining to cloth on front and rear covers. Spine a bit cocked/slanted, else gilt fairly bright and otherwise cloth VGC commensurate with age Volume II slightly bumped head and foot of spine and corners, spine a bit cocked/slanted, some light rubbing and faint marking to cloth on covers, gilt fairly bright, generally VGC commensurate with age. Internally Both volumes with no previous owner names or inscriptions. Volume I title page with some light toning/foxing, some leaves with some light sporadic foxing, else leaves generally clean/VGC . Volume II with minor foxing affecting a very small number of leaves, else leaves clean/VGC. NB both volumes with some loose gatherings, but both with all leaves completeVolume I pp.159-166 completely loose, pp.123-158 leaves slightly looseVolume II pp. 39-46 nearly completely loose, some other leaves becoming slightly loose
Lot 6276
(Bindings), six Macclesfield Grammar School early 20th Century prize bindings, including Mahan 'The Life of Nelson', 1899, 2nd edition, full tree calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, Macclesfield Grammar School gilt Coat of Arms to front cover, printed paper presentation label affixed to front pastedown, awarding the book to Arthur Taylor on 30th July 1914, Lieutenant 4th Bn. attd. 11th Bn. Cheshire Regiment, who died on Wednesday 10th April 1918, commemorated at the Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Arthur Taylor (1898-1914), was born in Macclesfield and won a County Scholarship to the Modern School (Macclesfield Grammar School) in 1909. He was academically gifted, being School Captain in what should have been his last year, 1915-16, and had secured a Scholarship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but did not take his place at Cambridge, as he, and the other prefects, were conscripted in 1916. Commissioned into the 4th Cheshires, he was attached into the 13th Battalion following its heavy losses at Passchendaele. In February 1918 this battalion merged with the 11th and Arthur was transferred as Acting Lieutenant, just before the German spring offensive of March and April 1918. During this offensive the 11th were swept back by the Germans and suffered heavy losses. On the 8th of April they took up station in the line south of Ploegsteert wood, before a heavy German bombardment followed by an assault from the Germans on the 10th. Forced to shelter when virtually surrounded in the remains of the wood, after some resistance they were forced to withdraw on the 12th, when they did 662 men and 18 officers were casualties, 17 of them reported killed. Arthur's exact fate is not clear, he was reported as a P.O.W. in Germany, however, he was not seen again, it is possible he died or was killed after being taken prisoner on the battlefield by German stormtroopers; of the five other Macclesfield Grammar School prize bindings, three others also with printed presentation labels stating Arthur Taylor as the recipient and dated 1910-1915 (of which one full calf gilt, the others original cloth gilt including 1909 Don Quixote with Doré illustrations, all with gilt coats of arms fo the school to front covers); the other two books being awarded to F. Taylor, dated 1922 & 1924 (6)
Lot 6279
Charles Dickens: ' 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', London, Chapman & Hall, 1839, 1st edition in book form, engraved portrait frontis + 39 engraved plates by "Phiz" [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne] as called for, frontis/half title loose, old half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments
Lot 6280
Charles Dickens, 4 titles: 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit', London, Chapman & Hall, 1844, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis (trimmed and repaired to margins), added engraved vignette title + 38 engraved plates by "Phiz" [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne,] as called for, rebacked half calf gilt, marbled paper covered boards; 'Dombey and Son', L, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 38 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne as called for, old half green crushed morocco gilt, armorial bookplate of William John Forster to front pastedown; 'Bleak House', L, Bradbury & Evans, 1853, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title page (lacks printed title page) + 38 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne as called for, old half leather gilt; 'Little Dorrit', L, Bradbury & Evans, 1857, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 37 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne (of 38, lacks plate "The Room with the Portrait" facing p.40), old half calf gilt, armorial bookplate of William John Forster to front pastedown (4)
Lot 6281
Charles Dickens, 3 titles: 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', illustrated Hablot Knight Browne, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title page + 37 plates (of 38, lacks plate "The Friendly Waiter and I" facing page 49), text block detached from boards, old half crushed brown morocco gilt by Ramage; 'Master Humphrey's Clock', London, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, 1st edition in book form, 3 volumes in 2, engraved illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, old half calf gilt worn, gilt titled 'Old Curiosity Shop' and 'Barnaby Rudge' to spines, armorial bookplate of William John Forster to front pastedown; 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', L, Chapman & Hall, [nd], c.1860 reprint, 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour & "Phiz" [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne] as called for, old half calf gilt (4)
Lot 6282
Charles Dickens, 9 first edition works, comprising: 'Oliver Twist', illustrated George Cruikshank, London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 1st edition, 3rd issue (author stated as Chalres Dickens, as opposed to "Boz", plate titled "Rose Maylie and Oliver" at end of volume 3 in church, as opposed to fireside plate), 3 volumes, 24 engraved plates as called for, 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', illustrated by "Phiz" [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne], London, Chapman & Hall, 1839, 1st edition in book form, engraved portrait frontis + 39 engraved plates as called for (plates very toned/foxed, several with repairs verso), 'Master Humphrey's Clock', illustrated George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, London, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, 1st edition in book form, 3 volumes in 2, engraved frontises + engraved ills. in text as called for, 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit', illustrated "Phiz" [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne,] London, Chapman & Hall, 1844, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 36 engraved plates (of 38, lacks plates "Martin Chuzzlewit suspects the landlady without any reason" and "Mr. Pinch and Ruth unconscious of a visitor"), 'Dombey and Son', illustrated Hablot Knight Browne L, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 42 engraved plates (collation calls for 40 plates in total including frontis & vignette title, this copy with 44 plates in total/4 additional plates), 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', illustrated Hablot Knight Browne, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title page + 38 plates as called for, 'Bleak House', illustrated Hablot Knight Browne, L, Bradbury & Evans, 1853, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title page + 38 engraved plates as called for, 'Little Dorrit', illustrated Hablot Knight Browne, L, Bradbury & Evans, 1857, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 38 engraved plates as called for, 'Our Mutual Friend', illustrated Marcus Stone, L, Chapman & Hall, 1865, 1st edition in book form, 2 volumes in 1, 40 engraved plates as called for, uniform rebound half calf gilt, marbled paper covered boards (12)
Lot 6297
(Holy Bible, English), An early 17th Century Geneva 'Breeches' Bible, 1611, lacks general title page and several leaves at front, New Testament with wood engraved pictorial title page (with part loss), "The New Testament of our Lord Iesvs Christ, Conferred diligently with the Greeke, and best approoued Translations in divers Languages. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer the the King's most Excellent Maiestie. 1611.", Book of Psalms ends at ff50, double column black letter text with marginal text in Roman type, 4to, contemporary calf, brass corners, lacks brass clasps, later rebacked
Lot 6300
Seventeen volumes on flowers, gardens, ferns, trees etc, including Shirley Hibberd: 'Field flowers : a handy-book for the rambling botanist, suggesting what to look for and where to go in the out-door study of British plants', L, Groombridge, c.1870, 32 colour illustrations on 8 full page plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt; Thomas Moore: 'British Wild Flowers', L, Reeve, 1867, new edition, 96 hand coloured ills. on 24 full page plates as called for, original cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; Margaret Waterfield and others: 'Garden Colour', London, Dent, 1905, colour frontis + 50 colour plates as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Iolo Williams & Katharine Cameron: 'Where the Bee Sucks: A Book of Flowers', L, Medici Society, [1929], 1st edition, 12 colour plates as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt; Edward Step: 'Wayside & Woodland Blossoms: A Guide to British Wild Flowers', L, Warne, 1941-1944, 1st, 2nd & 3rd series, 3 volumes, 321 colour plates + numerous b/w plates as called for, uniform original cloth gilt; H. Essenhigh Corke: 'Wild Flowers as they Grow', L, Cassell, 1911, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, numerous colour plates complete as per list, uniform original cloth, mounted colour ills. to front covers; Smith: 'Ferns British and Foreign', 1877, new & enlarged edition, engraved ills. throughout, orig. cloth gilt; Johns: 'The Forest Trees of Britian', SPCK, [nd], orig. pictorial cloth gilt; F.G. Heath: 'The Fern World', L, Everett, [nd], c.1920, 12th edition, 12 colour plates as called for, orig. cloth, together with another copy of the same title, 1898, 8th edition, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; plus 4 others (17)
Lot 6307
Rev. F. Smith: 'The Canary. Its Varieties, Management, and Breeding', London, Groombridge, 1890, 8 coloured plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt (VGC, gilt bright); together with Robert L. Wallace: 'The Canary Book: containing full directions for the breeding, rearing and management of exhibition canaries and canary mules...', London, "The Country" Office, [nd], c.1875, engraved frontis + 11 engraved plates, original pictorial cloth gilt (2)
Lot 6317
(India, Military, Hunting, Field Sports), Major A.C. Lovett (illustrated); Major G.F. MacMunn: 'The Armies of India', London, A & C Black, 1911, 1st edition, limited edition deluxe, number 14 of 500 copies only, numbered & signed by the publisher, 72 tipped in colour plates as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt, new endpapers/pastedowns, original Sotheran's typed printed slip loosely inserted; four titles illustrated by Chalres Johnson Payne "Snaffles", comprising: 'The P.V.H. History of the Peshawar Vale Hunt', Gale & Polden, [1934], 1st edition, folding map + 15 plates & ills. in text as called for, 'More Bandobast', L, Collins, 1936, 1st edition, 12 mounted colour plates + full page and in text b/w ills as called for, 'My Sketch Book in the Shiny', Gale & Polden, [1930], 1st edition, numerous sepia and b/w plates throughout, 'Osses and Obstacles', L, Collins, 1935, 1st edition, numerous sepia and b/w plates throughout, all large 4to, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (5)
Lot 6319
Henry Stephens: 'The Book of the Farm, detailing the labours of the farmer, farm-steward, ploughman, shepherd, hedger, farm-labourer, field-worker, and cattle-man', Edinburgh & London, Wm. Blackwood, 1871, 3rd edition, 2 volumes, engraved portrait frontis + 13 (of 14) steel engraved plates (lacks plate IV Leicester Tup), contemporary half calf gilt (2)
Lot 6339
(Agriculture), Edward Lisle: 'Observations in Husbandry', London, C. Hitch et al, 1757, 1st edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, xvi,450,[3]pp (including errata leaf), 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, armorial bookplate of Ellis Wade, Rector of Blaxhall, to front pastedown. "Edward Lisle's Observations in Husbandry, while making no pretense of being a complete guide to its subject, gave readers a huge amount of agricultural information. Despite its haphazard quality, the book contains a vast amount of practical detail and a number of agricultural observations. Lisle deserves credit for collecting traditional wisdom that had circulated orally among British farmers for generations, which new farmers could now put to good use." A Life in Books (2017).
![(Agriculture), [John Worlidge]: 'Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered', London, T. Dring et al, 1675, 2n](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d24779a1-c782-48cc-8192-b069008bfcdc/2fbdb85a-8a56-4f39-9cfc-b069010ef5bb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6340
(Agriculture), [John Worlidge]: 'Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered', London, T. Dring et al, 1675, 2nd edition, engraved frontispiece and printed "Explanation of the Frontispiece" preceding printed general title page, woodcut illustrations, additional printed title pages for 'Kalendarium Rusticum' & 'Dictionarum Rusticum', [36],324,[4]pp, folio, handsomely rebound panelled calf, armorial bookplates of George Paterson of Castle Huntly (1734–1813), and William Allen Potter to front pastedown, ownership signature of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675), English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, to verso of title page. The first book published by Worlidge, one of the first British Agriculturists to discuss the importance of farming as an industry, this being one of the earliest works to consider the crop of turnips
Lot 6344
(Agriculture)Charles Varlo: 'A New System Of Husbandry From Many Years Experience', Philadelphia, for the author, 1785, 1st US edition, 2 volumes, folding table before title page to volume 1, old calf gilt, later black leather gilt title labels to spines. First American edition of the most substantial agricultural text yet published in the United States; it was published during Varlo's unsuccessful sojourn in America (see below). Varlo (ca. 1725-ca. 1795), was an agriculturist and inventor of a number of agricultural machines. The present book was first published in York in 1770. "In 1784, while he was living in Sloane Square, in London, Varlo became involved in a somewhat ludicrous episode. He had bought papers and charters supposedly granted by Charles I to Sir Edward Plowden, entitling him to colonize New Albion (later New Jersey) in America. This attempt at colonization had failed and in Charles II's reign the charter was superseded by a new grant to the duke of York. Armed with his papers (which were probably forgeries), Varlo went out to the American colonies in 1784 hoping to be recognized as governor of the province of New Jersey and to take over one-third of the territory. The case was tried before the colonial courts, but Varlo's claim was dismissed?Before returning to England he travelled for a year through New England, Maryland, and Virginia (where he met George Washington)."-ODNB (2)
![(Agriculture, Farming), [John French Burke]: 'British Husbandry; Exhibiting the Farming Practice Various Parts of the United](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d24779a1-c782-48cc-8192-b069008bfcdc/12890670-1614-4ffb-830c-b069010f00de/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6350
(Agriculture, Farming), [John French Burke]: 'British Husbandry; Exhibiting the Farming Practice Various Parts of the United Kingdom', London, Baldwin & Cradock, 1834, 2 volumes, b/w ills. in text throughout, uniform rebound cloth gilt; Henry Stephens: 'The Book of the Farm', Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, 1844, 3 volumes, 33 engraved plates as called for, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, all edges marbled; J.C. Loudon: 'An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture', L, Longmans, 1844, 5th edition, "Illustrated with Upwards of Twelve Hundred Engravings on Wood, By Branston", xl,1375pp + 32pp catalogue of ads at end dated February 1845, recased retaining original publisher's cloth gilt; 'Communications to the Board of Agriculuture; On Subjects Relative to the Husbandry, and Internal Improvement of the Country. Vol. II.', L, G. & W. Nicol, 1805, 2nd edition, volume 2 only, 25 engraved plates and plans (some folding, 1 hand coloured), viii,501pp + 2 leaves of adverts at end, large 4to, contemporary half calf gilt (7)
Lot 6352A
The Royal Society (published): 'The Signatures in the First Journal-Book and the Charter-Book of the Royal Society. Being a Facsimile of the Signatures of the Founders Patrons and Fellows of the Society from the Year 1660 down to the Present Time', L, Henry Frowde for the Royal Society, 1912, portrait frontis King Charles II + 95 pages of facsimile signature illustrations and text + 42pp index, very large 4to (46 x 35cm), original half buckram, paper covered boards, Royal Society coat of arms in gilt to front cover, inscribed on FFEP to the British Embryologist and pioneer in naval camouflage Sir John Graham Kerr "J.[ohn] G.[raham] K.[err] from F.O.B. April. 1925"; together with Billings & Burn: 'The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland', William Blackwood & Sons, c.1848, vols I & II (of 4), 120 engraved plates, without engraved title pages, 4to, orig. publisher's blindstamped cloth gilt (3)
Lot 6355
'The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church ... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ...', Oxford, sold by R.Baldwin & S.Crowder (London), W.Jackson (Oxford). 1770. 12mo. Engraved frontis (with separate imprint) plus 47 engraved plates. Contemporary red morocco, rubbed, with gilt border decoration to both boards; spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments.
Lot 6358
(Mesmerism, Hypnotism), John Elliotson: 'The Harveian Oration, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 27th, 1846', London, H. Bailliere, 1846, 1st edition, presentation inscription by Elliotson to George Burrows to half title "for B. George Burrows with the author's compliments", [8], 70pp, rebound cloth gilt, Haskell Norman book label to front pastedown. "The Latin address recounts the shoddy treatment given to medical innovators over the centuries, and calls upon the present generation of physicians not to repeat this sorry history in their treatment of animal magnetism...An appendix contains a letter to the Royal College of Physicians...by Franz Mesmer," Crabtree. Elliotson "was refused appointments on the staffs of the various hospitals in London and elsewhere, and finally opened his own mesmeric hospital...He lost his membership in the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society after he was warned to discontinue the practice," Tinterow, Foundations of Hypnosis, 576. George Burrows (1771-1846) introduced the concept of "general paralysis of the insane" to England.
Lot 6360
An early 19th Century manuscript book 'Portraits of French Kings', containing 21 well executed m/s pen & ink portraits of French Kings from AD481-1793 including Charlemagne, Louis XIV etc, each with 1-2 pages of corresponding m/s biographical text, this stated at front in m/s "The Historical Notices are taken from "An Abstract of the Reigns of the French Kings" by Richmal Mangnall.", approx. 70 pages of m/s entries in total, plus some mounted relevant contemporary cuttings, contemporary half calf gilt; together with another early 19th Century volume/scrap book compiled by the same person, containing 100+ mounted and tipped in engraved portraits of notable persons of the period and historical figures, plus 1 well executed m/s portrait of Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704), pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor, born Old Hunstanton, son of Sir Hamon and Alice L'Estrange. Majority of portraits with corresponding m/s pencil notes verso or overleaf, some relevant mounted contemporary cuttings, contemporary half calf very worn, boards detached but present, gilt titled "Miscellaneous Portraits" to spine (2)
Lot 6361
(Bindings), an excellent collection of Victorian and Edwardian prayer books etc. in various bindings, including morocco, purple velvet, mother of pearl, lacquered, faux ivory, many with brass or silver mounts (including the prayer book produced for the 1911 Coronation of George V, GR silver cipher mount to front cover), and with clasps and original boxes. All in very good condition indeed (10)
Lot 6363
A book of manuscript music scores circa 1829, 82 pages of manuscript scores for various pieces, manuscript index at front listing 47 titles, including "Barcarolle Venitienne", "Arietta, Ah che il destino", "Oh banquet not", "Has sorrow thy young days shaded", "Notturno - The poetry by Metastasio; the melody by Michael Kelly; arranged by Mozart", etc, ownership inscription "Elizabeth Currie February 16th 1829" at front, 4to (28x23cm), contemporary half calf; together with a bound book of two manuscript music scores by the English Composer Graham Peel (1877-1937), comprising "Bright is the Ring of Words", from Songs of Travel, and "Requiem", from Underwoods, with manuscript at front by Peel stating words by Robert Louis Stevenson and music by himself, plus inscription at top "To THE MAC DOUGAL on his birthday, from his friend Graham Peel. 3rd May, 1907", plus manuscript titles to each piece, manuscript lyrics beneath music etc., finely bound in contemporary full crushed green morocco gilt by Bickers & Son, Leicester, spine edges rubbed, some fading, gilt monogram "D.I." to front cover, portrait print of R.L. Stevenson loosely inserted (2)
Lot 6369
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill: 'The History of The Second World War', London, Cassell, 1948-1954, 1st edition, 6 volumes, uniform original cloth gilt (generally VGC), top page edges red, dust wrappers; together with War Speeches, volumes 1-6, mixed editions, all Cassell, all original cloth gilt, all in dust wrappers, 'Into Battle' Book Society Choice, 1947, 12th printing, ''The Unrelenting Struggle', Nov. 1942, 2nd edition, 'The End of the Beginning', 'Onwards to Victory', 'The Dawn of Liberation', 'Victory', 1943-1946, 1st editions; plus 'The Aftermath', L, Macmillan, 1944, 3rd printing, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, two printed booklets of Churchill's Speeches loosely inserted; plus others including 'The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein', Dec. 1958, 4th impression, Adolf Hitler 'Mein Kampf', L, Hurst & Blackett, October 1938, 'Nazi Lies', [London, Ministry of Information, 1939?], 36pp booklet, Benito Mussolini 'My Autobiography', L, Hutchinson, [1928], 1st edition, frontis + 31 plates as called for, org. cloth gilt; plus a 191 reprint of 'Great Contemporaries' by Winston Churchill (17)
Lot 6379
Princess Hélène d'Orléans, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951), a collection of signed books, Autograph Letters Signed, signed portrait photographs etc, comprising 'Voyages en Afrique', Milan, Fratelli Treves; Paris, Librairie Nilsson, [1913], 1st edition, signed & inscribed by Princess Hélène to leaf preceding half title page "To William Eagle-Bott Esq. France - Savoia - Aosta. Pennang 8-VI-1923", portrait frontispiece of the author, folding colour map showing her travel route around Africa + 487 illustrations from photographs on 253 full page plates as called for, 368,[1]pp, 4to, contemporary three quarter morocco gilt by Hatchards, top edge gilt, others uncut, original pictorial printed wraps bound in; 'Vers le soleil qui se lève.', Ivrea, Francesco Viassone, 1918, 2nd edition, signed & inscribed to William Eagle-Bott and dated Penang, 8th June 1923, to leaf preceding frontis, numbered 48 of an unspecified limitation, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, folding colour map at end showing the route of her journey around the world + 16 tipped in colour plates & 522 illustrations from photographs throughout (many full page) as called for, 456,[1]pp, large 4to, contemporary three quarter morocco gilt by Hatchards, top edge gilt, others uncut, original pictorial printed wraps bound in; together with 14 Autograph Letters Signed from Princess Hélène of Orléans, all to one William Eagle-Bott Esquire, c.1920's-1930's, many of the letters several pages each, mainly in their original postally used envelopes and addressed by Princess Hélène of Orléans, various addresses including Selangor, Malaysia, and Lower Kingston, Ringwood, England, majority of the letters on "Reggia di Capodimonte, Napoli", headed paper; together with a portrait photograph of Princess Hélène d'Orléans, Duchess of Aosta, by Eva Barrett (1879-1950), the leading society photographer in Rome in the 1920s and early 1930s, signed in pencil by the photographer and dated Roma/27 to lower margin, signed below by Princess Hélène "France - Savoia - Aosta. 1927", framed and glazed, approx size 33 x 24cm, together with a group photograph depicting the King and Queen of Spain with Princess Hélène, her son and others, captioned below by Princess Hélène and dated at top Capo di Monte, 26-XI-1923, framed and glazed, approx 24 x 18cm; together with a silver teaspoon engraved "Hellena", and a travelling teapot and sugar bowl, with later m/s note stating they were given as a wedding present by the Duchess of Aosta to Pete & Sue Eagle-Bott, October 1931. Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta. Although her hand in marriage was sought at various times for the heirs to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Austria and the Russian Empire, no such marriage or alliance materialized. In 1892 Hélène travelled with her brother Philippe to Egypt and Palestine, the first of many trips outside of Europe. After the breakdown of both her health and her marriage, Hélène began frequent trips to Africa which lasted up to ten months at a time. She travelled down the Nile, into the Congo, and through much of East Africa, as well as crossing the Sahara. During these trips she became known as a big-game hunter, a reputation bolstered by articles she wrote for Harper's Weekly and later full-length travel books which were illustrated with photographs she had taken, including 'Voyages en Afrique'. In 1913-1914 Hélène undertook a round-the-world trip which she recorded in her travel book 'Vers le soleil qui se lève.'
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Lot 6380
'The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book', [1935], with one coloured plate entitled 'Childhood'. The Gift book was produced as a charitable concern in aid of the Princess Elizabeth of York hospital for children, and the Christmas pantomimes at Windsor Castle were also a charitable production, to raise money for the Royal Household Wool Fund, which supplied knitting wool to make comforters for soldiers fighting at the Front. The Royal Christmas pantomimes were performed in front of friends and close relations of the Royal Family. Sylvia Salisbury attended, as the album contains two programmes, it is conceivable the other programme may have been for her father Frank O. Salisbury, owing to the fact he also illustrated the charitable 'Princess Elizabeth Gift Book', and perhaps also due to his other strong connections to the Royal Family. A scarce and important photograph album, the images stored at Windsor Castle archives, but original images very seldom seen anywhere else.
Lot 6390
Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks (née Rutley, later Fisher, 1895–1970), British explorer, member of the Royal Geographical Society, credited with travelling in every country of the world, fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Zoological Societies, a collection of her books, photographs and related ephemera, including 'Up the Amazon and Over the Andes', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1932, 1st edition, deluxe presentation edition, signed & inscribed on FFEP "To Reg, With love from your loving sister. Vil, Xmas 1932. Violet Cressy-Marcks.", portrait frontis + 35 ills. + 3 maps as called for, contemporary full brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, with Typed Letter Signed from Violet Cressy-Marcks to her brother Reginald Rutley dated 3rd January 1933, Hazelwood, King's Langley headed paper, plus envelope containing 12 monochrome photographs circa 1920's depicting Violet Cressy-Marcks on her travels, all with pencil captions verso, images include motorcar stuck in mud, captioned verso "First stop. Nr. Aleppo, bogged after 2 hrs.. Time required for "imediate action" 3hrs. Language used Billingsgate more mood of Arctic. Viz "Baksheesh"!"; Cressy-Marcks seated on terrace of rustic dwelling, captioned verso "at Der-el-Zor (Syria, French Euphrates Region), Our bedroom. Al fresco luncheon, eggs, coffee + Bedouin bread, being all attainable. The bread...& tastes of sand..."; view of trees in snow, snowy mountainous backdrop, captioned verso "The Lebanon, near Rayak"; plus others River Jordan; Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre; Cress-Marcks posing in front of heavily laden motorcar "On our more respectable return journey Baghdad - Damascus; "Coffee in mid Anatolia between Konia and Yenidje"; "Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo. Vil on balcony"; "Vil at Karnak"; "Vil a Chameau, Pyramids, Gizeh"; "Vil at Luxor, nile in rear"; "Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar's Palace Walls. Taken by Vil", envelope postally used, addressed in the hand of Violet Cressy-Marcks to Lieut. R.I. Rutley, RNR (her brother Reginald Rutley), postmarked 1924; plus packet containing 16 postcards c.1920's of Athens, Thessalonika, Sofia, Warsaw etc, some postally used and with hand written messages from Cressy-Marcks to her first son William, some captioned by Cressy-Marcks; two [8]pp printed and illustrated catalogues "Catalogue for Mrs. Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks' Collection...Kindly lent in aid of the Conservative Bazaar", [nd], c.1920's, one signed & inscribed to front cover "To my Darling son Bill. October 13th 1928 Violet O.C. Marcks"; three 4pp printed leaflets for lectures given by Violet Cressy-Marcks "Across Lapland into Russia, with Reindeers", two at Opera House, Buxton, one at Garden Club, Chesterfield Gardens, London, circa late 1920's, and another similar for a lecture by Cressy-Marcks entitled "Up the Amazon-Over the Andes to Inca Ruins", plus some other press cuttings, photos, letters housed in packet; plus another deluxe specially bound copy of 'Up the Amazon and Over the Andes', L, H & S, 1932, 1st edition, plates + maps as called for, some relevant items loosely inserted incl. photographic postcard of Cressy-Marcks signed & inscribed by her "Your Loving Sister Violet", plus two Christmas Cards from Violet & Francis Fisher (Mrs. Cressy-Marcks), one with photogravure ill. of their house, Hazelwood, King's Langley, the other with mounted photograph of Tibetans posing by lake "The Shore of Frozen Koko Nor - Palm sunday, 1938. Tibet", the photograph presumably by Violet Cressy-Marcks taken during her travels; another 1932 1st edition copy of the same book in original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (d/w worn), portrait photo of Cressy-Marcks loosely inserted; plus three copies of Cressy-Marcks book 'Journey Into China', all London, H & S, 1940, 1st editions, one with her ownership inscription to front pastedown, mixed condition, plus another packet containing 5 further photographically illustrated Christmas Cards from Mr & Mrs Francis Fisher (Violet Cressy-Marcks) circa 1930's, images include Chinese village, market in Ethiopia, Tibet (2), frontier of India, plus small qty. other related ephemera; plus Harrow School 1939 fencing photograph, seated in photograph Violet Cressy Marck's son William Cressy-Marcks (1921-1945), who served with the "Chindits" in Burma, WW2, buried Taukyyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, framed and glazed. Cressy-Marcks was elected to the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in 1922, described by her proposer as of independent means, already having "travelled extensively" from Alaska to Java and having made private "explorations in Tibet, Kashmiri etc."[3] Violet Cressy-Marcks' journeys took her round the world many times. Though twice married, she principally travelled alone. Her extensive interests encompassed archaeology, zoology, ethnology and geography. Eventually credited with travelling in every country of the world, she was keen to have a scientific grounding to her travels, and was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Zoological Societies.[2][3] She was also a capable cinematographer and photographer, bringing films and photographs from many of her travels including politically sensitive areas. She studied in Arabia and undertook widespread archaeological studies including Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Persia, Java, China, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and the Khmer, Inca, Aztec, and Mesopotamian peoples. Although she was regarded primarily as an archaeologist,[9] part of her remit was to collect contemporary ethnological data on ethnic groups little known in the West.[3] In her will she requested that a copy of her biography be shown to the chief of MI5 "for his appreciation", as well as entrusting that biography to (the then deceased) Bernard Rickatson-Hatt, who had spent three years in intelligence in Constantinople (as well as editor-in-chief for Reuters), suggesting sponsorship from the secret service for some of her many travels. These coincided with periods of international political sensitivity on a number of occasions. She often achieved largely unfettered travel, as in the case of Russia where she availed herself of permission to travel wherever she wanted and visited most of the Foreign Office officials (as she reported to Mao).
Lot 6391
(Japan), a Japanese woodblock printing illustrated book, modern pencil and pen notes on leaf loosely inserted state the book to be 'Bumpo Gafu', c.1813, woodblocks by Inoue Jihei, publishers Chojiya Genjiro and Kochiya Kihei, m/s pen notes beneath "Notes by British Museum Asian expert made at the Museum Prints & Drawings Dept 21.10.80. The book was described as being in very good condition...", [72] pages of illustrations, original decorative stitched wraps, housed in modern slipcase; together with 3 other 19th Century illustrated books of Japanese woodblock prints, housed together in modern slipcase; plus 'Choice masterpieces of Korin and Kenzan', [edited by Shungo Murayama], Tokyo, The Kokka Company, 1906, 1st edition, title page, preface and contents followed by 11pp text in English language, 2 b/w ilustrations in text, preceding 11 mounted colour plates depicting artwork, lacquer and ceramics produced by the two brothers Korin and Kenzan Ogata, all accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress in Japanese and English, folio (45 x 31cm), original decorative cloth covered boards very worn, lacks lower board, string ties, together with a similar circa early 20th Century Japanese work in 2 volumes, 30 double page chromolitho plates of Japanese art and antiquities, architecture etc, including Samurai swords, jewellery, bronze dishes, lacquer box, fabrics, houses, beds?, text in Japanese language, folio (35 x 25cm), uniform original decorative cloth, printed title labels in Japanese mounted to covers; plus Lafcadio Hearn, 2 titles: 'Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs', New York, Macmillan, 1902, 1st edition, 1st issue (with title page illustration printed upside down), illustrations by Genjiro Yeto throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 'Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things', London, Kegan Paul, 1904, 1st edition, 2 plates as called for, original cloth gilt. Two titles on Japanese folklore, mythology, supernatural tales, social and religious life and customs, by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Irish-Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West; Yoshio Markino: 'A Japanese Artist in London', L, C & W, 1919, 5th impression, signed & inscribed by the author/artist in English and Japanese on FFEP, 8 colour plates + 4 b/w plates as called for, original decorative cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'Hanasaki Jiji [The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom]', Tokyo, Kobunsha, c.1885, illustrated colour woodblock book, in French language, [18]pp, original pictorial wraps (18 x 12.5cm); Kazunori Ishibashi (illustrated); William N. Porter (translated): 'A Year of Japanese Epigrams', OUP, 1911, colour frontis + 12 b/w plates for each month of the year as called for, some contemporary manuscript to verso of half title and verso of last leaf of introduction, orig. cloth gilt; Ernest Adolphus Sturge: 'The Spirit of Japan', [Tokyo] : Sturge Zenshu Kankokai, [1934], 2nd edition, 44 colour & b/w plates as called for, in English language, original cloth gilt, printed card slipcase; together with 2 early 20th Century German titles on Japan by Emil Schiller and Otto Kumel, plus two mid 20th Century similar by Klabund [i.e. Alfred Henschke], plus 2 others (19)
Lot 6396
Lady Isabel Burton: 'The Inner Life Of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, from my private Journal.', London, Henry S. King, 1876, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, inscribed presentation copy from Lady Isabel Burton to Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic "To Laurence Oliphant from his sincere friend the author 4th Feby 1879", to half title of volume 1, and with Oliphant's pencil remarks and lines to several leaves of the text, woodbury type mounted photographic portrait frontispieces of Lady Isabel and Richard Burton + 2 chromolithograph plates (lacks folding map), contemporary rebound black cloth gilt, both volumes retaining star and crescent and cross of Lorraine symbols in the original black cloth gilt to front covers, volume 2 retaining original backstrip gilt, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns of George Fleming CB (1833-1901), Scottish veterinary surgeon, anti-vivisectionist and travellerFleming served through the Crimean War. In 1860 he volunteered for the Second Opium War, and was present at the Third Battle of Taku Forts and the surrender of Beijing, receiving for his services a medal with two clasps. In 1866 he obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and in 1867 served with the army in Syria and Egypt. While Fleming was in China he made an expedition beyond the Great Wall, which he described in Travels on Horseback in Manchu Tartary (1865). Autograph note signed in initials by George Fleming affixed to front pastedown of volume 1 "These volumes were presented by the authoress, Mrs Burton, to Laurence Oliphant in 1879, and were evidently carefully read by him when he was travelling in Syria in 1880, as the bindings were very dilapidated when they came into my possession. His remarks, in pencil, and lines on the pages, leads to the inference that the book was an aid to him when writing The Land of Gilead, published in 1881. G.F." (2)
Lot 6413
'Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of... [Eastern England, including Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambs. etc]', 1850, 11 (of 12) hand coloured engraved county maps (lacks map of Rutlandshire), each part separately paginated, 500+pages plus index of bankers of the UK and 194pp of period commercial adverts at end, thick 8vo, contemporary diced calf gilt (worn); together with an 1864 3rd edition White's Directory of Norfolk, orig. calf gilt (worn), and 'The Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod: Its History, Method, Utility and Practice', "Published by the Author, B. Tompkins, Expert Water Finder, May 1899. Chippenham, Wilts.", 1899, 2nd edition, inscribed by the author at front and dated 1914, quantity of Autograph Letters Signed and Typed Letters Signed from and to Benjamin Tompkins c.1893-1914 loosely inserted, the book ix,127,[9]pp, b/w portrait ills. of the author and others from photographs + other ills. as called for, some pages at front with embossed ownership stamp of the author "Thelnetham, Nr Diss, Norfolk", some letters from author on Thelnetham headed paper, orig. cloth backed boards. Benjamin Tompkins (1858-1937), originally of Chippenham, Wilts., later of Thelnetham, Waveney valley, Suffolk/Norfolk border, was one of the foremost water diviners of his day (3)
Lot 6414
John Farmer: 'The History of the Ancient Town, and once famous abbey, of Waltham, in the county of Essex, from the foundation to the present time', London, Printed for the author, 1735, 1st edition, 9 engraved plates as called for (of which 4 folding, including large multi folding plate of Copt Hall), contemporary calf, rebacked; together with John Maynard: 'The Parish of Waltham Abbey, Its History and Antiquities.', London, John Russell Smith, 1865, 1st edition, 4 full page and in text b/w ills. as called for, contemporary half calf gilt, "SJT" inlaid coloured morocco gilt monogram to front cover, matching printed book plate to front pastedown (2)
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