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Lot 842
Two limited edition etchings, The first by Graham Clark 'Mirabel' (Continental town gateway) ltd edition 190/200, 5½ x 6in.; The second by Romeril "LOST" (English setter head) ltd edition 28/100, dated 94, 5 x 5in., together with a print by Kathleen Caddick, Grand Canal (Venice) ltd edition 124/250, 7¾ x 5¾in, all framed, glazed and mounted. (3)
Lot 64
CANTERBURY: Somner, William and Battely, Nicholas - The Antiquities of Canterbury, in two parts, the first part, The Antiquities of Canterbury; or a Survey of that Antient City, with suburbs and Cathedral, etc, the second part, Cantuaria Sacra: or The Antiquities Illustrated and Adorned with Several Useful and Fair Sculptures, the second edition, revised and enlarged, tall 4to, old leather scuffed and work, rebacked, with a folding map of Canterbury and 18 additional plates, 4 of which fold out, R. Knaplock, London 1703, S.R. for Samuel Keble, London 1686 printed in Latin and English
Lot 375
IGOR STRAVINSKY, AUTOGRAPH COPY OF SUITE DE PULCHINELLA, 1924 IGOR STRAVINSKY (RUSSIAN 1882-1972), composer, SUITE DE PULCINELLA POUR PETIT ORCHESTRE DÍAPRES J.B. PERGOLESI (Edition Russe de musique, 1924). 12mo (183 x 138 mm). 75 pp. Text in French. Autographed by the composer on p. 3 in ink. Front matter inscribed: Dedication in ink made / during performance of Boston / Symphony Orchestra / January 15, 1944. / Igor Stravinsky conducting - / S. Caldwell / witnessed by Louis Schafer / Theodore ...LOT NOTESThe undersigned Sarah Caldwell was a prolific American opera conducor and founder of the Boston Opera Group (1957). She developed a close relationship to Stravinsky after inviting him to conduct The Rake's Progress in Boston in 1952, the first time he would conduct the piece in America. The production was a critical success (in stark contrast to the reception of the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Rake's Progress just three months earlier), as well as a turning point for Stravinsky's popularity in the United States.
![[A RARE AND IMPORTANT SOVIET PHOTO ALBUM] HEROIC EPIC, 1935 SOLOMON BENEDIKTOVICH TELINGATER (RUSSIAN 1903-1969) and NIKOLAY](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f5b194a0-17ab-4c9d-8622-aa4001170407/601873c0-73d2-4d84-99ce-aa5000b905c6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 381
[A RARE AND IMPORTANT SOVIET PHOTO ALBUM] HEROIC EPIC, 1935 SOLOMON BENEDIKTOVICH TELINGATER (RUSSIAN 1903-1969) and NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH SEDELNIKOV (RUSSIAN 1905-1994), design by, LEV ZAKHAROVICH MEKHLIS (RUSSIAN 1889-1953), editor, et al., GEROICHESKAYA EPOPEYA [Heroic Epic] (Moscow: Pravda and TsK VKP(b) [CPSU], 1935). First edition of only 5 000 copies. 4to (345 x 260 mm.) 160 pp. Text in Russian. In original velvet-touch and silvered covers and slipcase. Illustrated profusely with monochrome and color photographs and illustrations, some folded, many mounted, with clear printed acetate overlay. LITERATUREMartin Parr and Gerry Badger (London: Phaidon, The Photobook: A History, Volume I, p. 164 (illustrated):"Amongst the grandest Soviet photobooks, the monumental Heroic Epic celebrates one of the most glorified events in 1930s Stalinist Russia -- the epic Arctic voyage of the icebreaking ship Chelyuskin. This tale of exploration was mythologized as much as the British expeditions of Shackleton and Scott... The photographs are for the most part splendid."Mikhail Karasik, Paradnaya Kniga Strany Sovetov [The Paradnaya Kniga of the Country of Soviets: Great Stalinist Photographic Books] (Moscow: Kontakt-Kultura, 2007), pp. 107-111 (illustrated).
Lot 384
BRODSKY, AUTOGRAPH COPY OF NEW: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN POETRY, 1971 IOSIF ALEKSANDROVICH BRODSKY (RUSSIAN 1940-1996) et al., JOHN GILL (AMERICAN 1924-1995), editor, NEW: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN POETRY (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971). First edition. (211 x 162 mm). Dedicated by Brodsky to book collector and architect Irwin Toby Holtzman on pp. 20-21 48 pp. Text in English.
![[ Spiritualism / the after life ] Tylar, William, The Spirit of Irene Speaks / The Great Bournemouth Mystery, self-published,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/af661980-23d2-488e-936e-aa4600c689e5/7170aa85-8f9d-4704-9e62-aa4800c06bdb/468x382.jpg)
![Pacific.- Cook (Captain James) [First Voyage].- Parkinson (Sydney) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/c95e8188-327f-4cdd-b9e4-aa4600c8ff1b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 10
Pacific.- Cook (Captain James) [First Voyage].- Parkinson (Sydney) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour, first edition, engraved portrait and 26 plates, errata leaf at end with final blank present, lacking map, contemporary ink signature of M.Peirson on verso of portrait and initials M.P. on verso of most plates, heavy staining to lower inner corner of first third of book causing loss to portrait, title and pp.iii-vi (mostly marginal but affecting corner of portrait, repaired), some browning and offsetting but many plates clean, bookplate of Viscount Falmouth of Mereworth Castle, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old morocco label, upper cover stained and repaired at lower inner corner, corners repaired, 4to, for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.
![NO RESERVE History & Parliamentary.- [Steele (Sir Richard)] "R.S.". Town-Talk. In a Letter to a Lady in the Country...Fri](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/a4f842e0-69b5-427c-b00a-aa4600c91912/468x382.jpg)
Lot 101
NO RESERVE History & Parliamentary.- [Steele (Sir Richard)] "R.S.". Town-Talk. In a Letter to a Lady in the Country...Friday, January 13. 1715/16, third edition, advertisement f., by J.Roberts and others, 1716 § Some Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, Entitled, An Humble Address to the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in the Ensuing Parliament, for T.Cooper, 1735 § [Hampton (James)] Reflections on Ancient and Modern History, Oxford, for James Fletcher and others, 1746 § An Authentic Account of the Proceedings of Their High Mightinesses..., for T.Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1762 § [?Jenyns (Soame)] Some Doubts Occasioned by the Second Volume of an Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times..., W.Sandby, 1758, each but first first edition, first two and last woodcut or typographical decorations, third engraved vignette depicting the Sheldonian to title, some faint soiling and/or browning, first as issued, others disbound; and 15 others, including a bound volume of works on the Raid on Rochefort and three pieces on the Elizabeth Canning case, 8vo & 4to (20) ⁂Copy of first traced only in the BL.
![NO RESERVE [Earbery (Matthias)] An Historical Account of the Advantages that have Accru'd to England, by the Succession..., 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/47c2a56e-e5c0-45c4-9fc2-aa4600c8fac4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 104
NO RESERVE [Earbery (Matthias)] An Historical Account of the Advantages that have Accru'd to England, by the Succession..., 1722 § [Burgess (Daniel)] "A Good Friend to the Late Ministers". A Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury..., for A.Dodd, 1715 § "Published by Authority". Authentick Documents of the French Administration..., French-English parallel text, by E.Owen and T.Harrison, 1758 § The Life of Sir Robt. Cochran..., second edition, by A.Dodd, 1734 § An Essay on Political Lying, second edition, by S.Hooper, 1757, each but last two first edition, third, fourth, and fifth woodcut decorations, some browning and soiling, disbound, fourth uncut; and 10 others, 8vo & 4to (15) ⁂First with no woodcut to title: ESTC reports 1 such copy, at Columbia.
Lot 109
Pope (Alexander) Of the Characters of Women: an Epistle to a Lady, first edition, half-title, faint spotting, advertisement leaf at end, later half calf, [Rothschild 1625], J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, first edition, ink number to title, later half calf, [Rothschild 1608], L.G. and sold by A. Dodd, 1733, folio (2)
Lot 112
NO RESERVE Anonymous Fiction.- The History of Tom Jones The Foundling, in His Married State, first edition, first issue, final f. with erratum, Harvard College Library stamps and labels marking the volume as from the library of Harold Murdock, Murdock's bookplate to front pastedown, ribbon bookmark, all ff. dessicated and friable, some detached, title with loss to fore-edge, later calf, spine and turn-ins attractively gilt, g.e., rubbed along extremities, for J.Robinson, 1750 § [Fielding (Sarah)] "A Lady". The Adventures of David Simple..., 2 vol., second edition, Harvard library labels, contents separating, later cloth, worn and scuffed, for A.Miller, 1744, 12mo (3)
Lot 115
NO RESERVE Racine (Louis) Religion, A Poem..., translated by James Elphinston, for W.Strahan, 1754 § Pitt (Christopher) Poems and Translations, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, also tipped-in slip with handwritten bibliographical details, hinges splitting a little, for Bernard Lintott and Arthur Bettesworth, 1727 § [Selden (Am.brose)] Love and Folly..., half-title, title with engraved vignette, for W.Johnston, 1749 § Lewis (D.) Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Hands, 1729; Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Hands, ownership inscription to front endpaper, 1730, both by J.Watts, first first edition in English, others first edition, contemporary calf or later half morocco, first and last two panelled, last two rebacked, all rubbed, some staining, first loss at spine head, second short split to upper joint; and 15 others, including The Intelligencer by Swift and Sheridan, William Mason's Poems with inscription by John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker (his Eton bookplate to front pastedown), and Carey's The Dragon of Wantley, v.s. (20) Provenance (bookplates): first: Thomas Fitzherbert: second: Esher: last: Fredrick Cornwall.
Lot 12
Polar.- New Zealand.- Cook (Captain James) A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World, vol. 2 only (of 2), first edition, 20 engraved plates, some double-page and folding, 7 engraved maps, 3 folding, 1 double-page table, occasional faint spotting, first and last few leaves detached, bookplate, ex-library with occasional marginal blind-stamps, title frayed at edges, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, boards detached, rubbed and worn, 4to, 1777.
![NO RESERVE [Almon (John)] A Letter to J. Kidgell..., second edition, for J.Williams, 1763 § Kenrick (William) Falstaff's Wedd](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/1bf2a9bc-8409-4de0-a744-aa4600c95e82/468x382.jpg)
Lot 120
NO RESERVE [Almon (John)] A Letter to J. Kidgell..., second edition, for J.Williams, 1763 § Kenrick (William) Falstaff's Wedding..., new edition, half-title with both ownership inscription and small central hole, for L.Davis and E. and C.Dilly, 1773 § [Arbuthnot (John)] An Invitation to Peace..., by Mr Lawrence, ?1713 § des Périers (Bonaventure) Cymbalum Mundi..., for A.Baldwin, 1712 § [Wagstaffe (William)] A Comment upon the History of Tom Thumb, for J.Morphew, 1711; The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost..., 1712, all but first two first editions, scattered faint foxing, second and third woodcut decorations, disbound; and 16 others, similar, including all parts of The History of Prince Mirabel's Infancy, Rise and Disgrace, 8vo & 4to (22)
Lot 126
NO RESERVE Dublin Imprints.- Dent (John) The Candidate; A Farce..., by Robert Rhames and Matthew Doyle, 1783 § [Mulso (Thomas)] Callistus: or, the Man of Fashion..., by John Exshaw, 1769 § [Mounteney (Richard)] "Aeschines the Third". Baron Mountenay's Celebrated Dedication of the Select Orations of Demosthenes..., half-title, for R.Griffiths, 1748 § [Giles (William)] The Guide to Domestic Happiness..., second edition, for Messrs. S.Price, J.Sheppard and others, 1778 § O'Keefe (John) The Prisoner at Large..., for Messrs. H.Chamberlain, D.Williams and others, ?1788, each but fourth first edition, second, third, and fourth ink library stamps, last two ?lacking half-titles, some soiling and browning, first date on imprint shaved, disbound, Dublin, 8vo (5)⁂First not in the BL.
Lot 128
NO RESERVE Pitt the Younger.- French Revolutionary War.- Criticisms on the Rolliad, Part the First, eighth edition, engraved frontispiece and title vignette, lacking advertisement f., 1788, bound with Part the Second, third edition, 1790, and [Rose (George)] "A Barrister". The Trial of George Rose, Esq..., third edition, for J.S. Jordan, 1792, and du Pan (M. Mallet) Considerations on the Nature of the French Revolution..., errata slip pasted-in, 1p. contents at end, with publisher's advertisements verso, for J.Owen, 1793, and [Young (Arthur)] The Example of France, A Warning to Britain, third edition, 8pp. testimonials, 1p. publisher's advertisements, [Goldsmiths', 15893], Bury St. Edmund's, by J.Rackham, 1793, first two for J.Ridgeway, third and last lacking half-titles, some very faint soiling and foxing, 19th-century half sheep, a little rubbed, 8vo.⁂ESTC records 3 copies of the second mentioned in the UK, respectively at the BL, Christ's College, Cambridge, and the John Rylands.
Lot 129
NO RESERVE Burke (Edmund) Nouvelles Réflexions sur la Révolution de France, half-title with publisher's advertisements verso, Paris, 1791; Lettres d'Edmond Burke..., half-title, Paris, Pougin, n.d.; Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Against Warren Hastings..., second edition, lacking advertisement f., [Todd 48d], for J.Debrett, 1786 § [Scott (Major John)] "J.S.". A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke..., 1783 § [Miles (William Augustus)] A Letter to the Duke of Grafton..., half-title, [Sabin, 48940], for J.Owen, 1794, second first French edition, last two first edition, first two ink library stamps to title, each with some browning and soiling, all disbound; and 12 others, including a copy of Paine's Letter Addressed to the Addressers, 8vo (17) ⁂The first an oddity, unrecorded in Todd: Todd lists only a Liège edition: WorldCat lists 4 copies. WorldCat also lists 4 copies of second.
Lot 130
NO RESERVE Economics.- "Amicus Patriae". A Hint to Supply Resources for the War Without Additional Taxation, first edition, for John Stockdale, 1793 § [Lee (Arthur)] "An Old Member of Parliament". An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain..., second edition, half-title, lacking advertisement ff., [Goldsmiths', 11292], for J.Almon, 1775 § [Johnson (Samuel)] Taxation No Tyranny..., third edition, half-title, signature E2 with marginal loss, [Sabin, 36303], for T.Cadell, 1775 § Smith (Thomas) Address to the Town Council of Edinburgh, second edition, contemporary ink inscription to to title, also ink stamp "Schloss Senftenberg Böhmen", [Goldsmiths', 17710], Edinburgh, Mundell and Son, 1799, a little faint scattered foxing and soiling, first with closed tears including to title, disbound; and 2 others, 8vo (6) ⁂The first seemingly not in the BL.
Lot 134
NO RESERVE Ireland.- Dublin Imprints.- O'Connor (Arthur) A Letter to the Electors of Antrim, 1797 § Laws and Ordinances of the Orange Institution of Ireland, title with large woodcut equestrian illustration of WIlliam III, 1828 § [Brooke (Henry)] The Farmer's Six Letters to the Protestants of Ireland, woodcut decorations, 1746 § [Young (Matthew)] State of the Case, Respecting the Right of the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, To Exercise a Controlling Negative at the College Board..., George Bonham, 1792, all with ink stamps of the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia, some browning and soiling, disbound, spines friable, each with ff. loose and/or detached, Dublin; and 4 others, including defective copies respectively of Smith's A Letter to His Excellency Earl Camden and Chalmers' The Arrangements with Ireland Considered, 8vo (8) ⁂ESTC records 2 copies of first, in the BL and the John Rylands. The second is also rare in this edition: WorldCat traces copies in the BL, the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec, and the Bibliothèque et Archives Canada in Ottawa.
![NO RESERVE Pitt the Younger.- [Courtenay (Thomas Peregrine)] "A More Accurate Observer". A Plain Answer to the Misrepresentat](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/348ba1e6-b73b-41a6-86fc-aa4600c95ac7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 138
NO RESERVE Pitt the Younger.- [Courtenay (Thomas Peregrine)] "A More Accurate Observer". A Plain Answer to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies Contained in the Cursory Remarks of a Near Observer, first edition, for John Stockdale, 1803 § [Currie (James)] "Jasper Wilson". A Letter, Commercial and Political, Addressed to The Rt. Honble. William Pitt..., second edition, [Sabin, 104646], for G.G.J. and J.Robinson, 1793, a little faint foxing, disbound, 8vo (2) ⁂2 copies of first traced: in the BL and in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden.The second with catchword "she" on p.68: last line of text: "God of peace and love, look down in mercy on thy erring creatures! and bid hatred, madness, and murder cease!": ESTC traces 2 copies, in the National Library of Wales and the Roderick Bowen Library and Archives respectively.
Lot 147
Hazlitt (William) A View of the English Stage, half title, faint ink annotation to title foot, 1818; Lectures on the English Poets, 1818; Lectures on the English Comic Writers, 1819; Characters of Shakespear's Plays, 1817; Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, second edition, 1821; all but the last first editions, occasional faint spotting, all but the second with bookplates, contemporary calf, 8vo, (5)
![NO RESERVE [Strachey (George)] Reflections in Rhyme on the Wellington Memorial and the Column of Napoleon, first edition, 183](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5bb23b0a-2382-41b1-be5d-aa4600bda5e7/0008383b-72cc-4374-8e2d-aa4600c8f3b0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 154
NO RESERVE [Strachey (George)] Reflections in Rhyme on the Wellington Memorial and the Column of Napoleon, first edition, 1839 bound with The Dirge of Westminster, or Founder's Day. Rhyme and Rhapsody, with notes, 1841, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink inscriptions to titles and endpaper, bookplate of Leonard Strachey to pastedown, contemporary green calf, spine faded, g.e., 8vo.⁂ Two rare works, the second not in BL, with the author identified for the first time. Both works are listed as anonymous on WorldCat and COPAC, here Leonard Strachey has attributed both to "George Strachey of Bowham, Gloucestershire" on the title as well as adding a note to the endpaper: "A copy of the Wellington Memorial was presented to the Emperor Napoleon III by Leonard M. Strachey who received his thanks for the same in 1858."
Lot 156
NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, first edition, 3 vol. bound in 1, frontispieces, illustrations, vol. 2 L1 with marginal tear, neatly repaired, vol. 3 lacking initial blank, loss to top edge of final leaf just touching text, repaired, occasional soiling, publisher's catalogue clipping and commemorative Dickens stamp to pastedown, later half-calf, a little rubbed, 1840-41 § Butler (Samuel) Hudibras, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 plates (5 folding), frontispiece laid down, list of subscriber's, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, Cambridge, 1744 § Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey ... edited by Geoffrey Keynes, one of 1450 copies, folding plates, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, original morocco, a little rubbed, Nonesuch Press, [1928]; and 14 others, similar, 8vo (18)
Lot 159
Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, first edition, later printing, vignette titles, plates, spotting and soiling, cracked hinges (vol. 1), previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedowns, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed, small loss to corners and spine extremities, Boston, 1852.
Lot 160
Reade (Charles) White Lies, 3 vol. first edition, scattered faint spotting, original green publisher's cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, each vol. housed in a green cloth chemise, lightly sunned spines, housed in a morocco backed slipcase, gilt, lightly sunned at one end, 8vo, 1857.
Lot 163
Blake (William).- Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake, with Selections from His Poems and other Writings, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, 1 folding, 48 plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, bookplates, later half morocco, original cloth bound at end vol. 2, a little rubbed, 1863 § Blake (William) Songs of Innocence and Experience, first edition, half-title, illustrations, previous owner's signatures to front free endpaper, faint soiling to half-title, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1866; 8vo & 12mo (3)
Lot 169
NO RESERVE Masefield (John) Ballads, first edition, unopened, 1903 § Morgan (Charles) Ode to France, one of 350 copies from an edition limited to 500, unnumbered copy with presentation inscription from the author to James Putnam, editor at Macmillan, [1942] § Byron (George Gordon, Lord) Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B.Sheridan..., new edition, 1817 § Clough (Arthur Hugh) The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich..., first edition, Oxford, 1848 § Romains (Jules) Le Voyage des Amants, first edition, Paris, 1920 § Hunt (Leigh) Abou Ben Adhem, 1f., [?Philadelphia], n.d., last single sheet, others original wrappers; and 7 others, Poetry, 8vo & 12mo (13)⁂The last perhaps prepared privately by bibliophile Ferdinand Dreer: a printed footnote states that the manuscript of the poem was presented in 1861 as a gift to Dreer by Hunt's son Thornton. A note on the reverse (?in the hand of Michael Papantonio of the Seven Gables Bookshop) states "Found in a copy of Poets of the 19th | Cent NY 1858, Benson Lossing's copy | presented to his wife, Christmas 1857 | Dreer was a Philadelphia collector".
Lot 174
NO RESERVE Military.- India.- Cook (H. C. B.) The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1662-1982, first edition, number 461 of 750 copies signed by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight crease to top edge, housed in a slipcase, 1987 § Daniel (Lt. Col. J. R.) The Black Pom-Poms. History of the Madras Regiment 1941-1983, first edition, plates and illustrations, faint damp-staining to first few leaves, original rexine, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, lacking lower flap, upper flap neatly attached with tape, spotting, Tamil Nadu, The Madras Regimental Centre, 1986 § Nawaz (Major Mohammad) The Guardians of the Frontier. The Frontier Corps N.W.F.P., first edition, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing to top edge, Peshawar, 1994; and 3 others, similar, 8vo (6)
Lot 177
NO RESERVE Circus.- Mémoires de Léotard, second edition, title with wood-engraved vignette by Choquet, large folding lithographed plate, a few ff. unopened, some damp-staining and scattered faint foxing, original printed wrappers, edges uncut, a little soiling and marginal browning, spine friable, Paris, 1860; and a first edition of Puniana, 8vo (2)
Lot 178
NO RESERVE Cruikshank (George).- Hood (Thomas) The Epping Hunt, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 illustrations after Cruikshank, tissue guards, publisher's advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, marginal foxing to plates, ink spotting to frontispiece, original printed boards, spine dessicated and with some loss, upper board loose, 1829 § Sealy (T.H.) The Little Old Man of the Wood: Or, the Tale of a Comical Stick, second edition, half-title, title with etched vignette by Cruikshank, this heavily foxed to margins, original printed wrappers, soiling, vestiges of adhesive label to upper wrapper, 1841, 8vo (2)⁂Provenance: second: George Barr McCutcheon (tipped-in ex libris)George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) American novelist and playwright, from 'The Golden Age of Indiana Literature'.
Lot 179
NO RESERVE Puckle (James) The Club; in a Dialogue Between Father and Son, one of 500 copies, from an edition limited to 735, engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title, illustrations, variously extra-illustrated with half-title bearing small engraved vignette with text in Gothic script within black-border, alternative engraved title printed on satin, additional printed title and limitation f. in green and yellow respectively (these printed on one side only), bound-in 1f. publisher's broadside announcing the publication of the volume, and 3 duplicate ff. (2 printed on one side only on yellow and white respectively, the other a full f. in blue), foxing, most to endpapers, 1817 § Illustrations to Puckle's Club, one of 100 copies, illustrated title and 24 plates, a little soiling and offsetting, for the Proprietor, 1820, first contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, second half morocco, both uncut, second upper board stained, both worn, 4to (2)
Lot 180
Upton (Florence K.) & Bertha Upton The Golliwogg in Holland, first edition, 1904; The Golliwogg's Christmas, 1907; The Golliwogg in War!, ink inscription to title, cracked hinges, [1899]; The Adventure of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg, [1895], first editions, all but one with ink inscriptions to front free endpapers, colour illustrations, many full-page, scattered faint spotting, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities; and 3 others by the same, also first editions, ob.4to (7)
Lot 22
NO RESERVE Ireland.- Barrington (Sir Jonah) Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, engraved vignette title, 34 plates, 3 facsimiles, large folding map, small marginal tear, errata bound at end of text, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked with part of original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 4to, 1809.⁂ Originally announced as being published in 10 parts, but was supressed after only 5 parts. This volume contains all 5 parts.
Lot 28
NO RESERVE Big-Game.- Roosevelt (Theodore) and George Bird Grinnell American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boome and Crockett Club, first English edition, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, Edinburgh, 1893; Hunting in Many Lands: the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, first edition, frontispiece, plates, cracked hinges, title partially loose, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, New York, 1895; and 2 others by Grinnell, 8vo (4)⁂ All ex-Alpine Club Library with stamps and markings.
Lot 29
NO RESERVE Cards, Tricks & Gaming.- How 'Tis Done; or The Secret Out..., sixteenth edition, 9pp. publisher's and other advertisements, Hinsdale, c.1864 § Cremer Jun. (W.H., editor) The Magician's Own Book, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, publisher's catalogue, contents separating a little, hinges pulling, [1872] § Work (Milton C.) Auction of To-Day, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, Boston and New York, 1913, first original printed wrappers, others original cloth stamped in colours and/or gilt, first joints splitting and with creases and nicks; and a pack of cards used for the game The Sybil's Leaves, published by William Stodart, and dated 1833, in original printed case, 8vo et infra (4) Provenance: second: Thomas Frederick Kynnersley of Leighton Salop (bookplate)
Lot 4
China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.
Lot 44
NO RESERVE Birds.- India.- Oates (Eugene William) The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, 3 vol., second edition, photographic portrait frontispieces and 9 portrait plates, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, unopened, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1889-90 § Stuart Baker (E. C.) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire, 4 vol., plates, Frank Ludlow's copy, his signature to front pastedowns, tape marks to endpapers, lightly faded spines, a little rubbed, 1932-35; and 2 others, birds, 8vo (9)
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