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Lot 876

Shackleton (Sir Ernest) South The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 -1917, First Edition, coloured frontis., folding map, illustrations, original silver decorated cloth, slight wear, 1919, 8vo.

Lot 878

Ackermann (R.) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. First Edition, 2 vols., engraved portrait, plan & 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates, subscriber's list; contemp. gilt & blind decorated red straight-grain morocco (defective), roy. 4to. 1812; sold with Poley (A.F.E.) St. Paul's Cathedral, London: measured, drawn & described. 32 plates, text illus., half morocco & gilt-pictorial cloth, folio. printed for the author, 1927.

Lot 881

Baker (T., Publisher) The Southampton Guide;Or, an Account of the Ancie t and Present State of that Town...., First Edition, later quarter calf, Southampton, 1774, with 4 other editions of the work, plus Englefield (Sir Henry) A Walk Through Southampton, extra engraved title and 5 plates, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, Southampton, T. Baker, 1801 with an 1805 edition of the work plus 2 related vol., vs. (9)

Lot 883

Cobbett (William) Rural Rides, First Edition, engraved map,12pp. adverts.,light foxing and toning, later half calf, William Cobbett, 1830, 8vo

Lot 893

Lambarde (Wm.) A Perambulation of Kent: conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre . . . first published in the yeere 1576, and now increased and altered after the Authors owne last Copie (i.e. 2nd edition). title within wood-engraved decorated border, Heptarchy map (but not the 'Carde of Beacons'),black letter; newly rebound half calf & marbled boards, panelled spine with gilt label. Edmund Bollifant, 1596; together with (the Same) this copy also contains the folded 'A Carde, of the Beacons, in Kent' (but lacks title & defective at end); rebound gilt-ruled calf, panelled spine with red label. * the first of the English county histories; The 'Carde' (being post Armada) was not issued with the 1576 edition. Illustrated

Lot 902

Pennant (T.) The Journey from Chester to London. First Edition. pictorial engraved title & 22 plates; old marbled boards, later rebacked with gilt-ruled calf spine, 4to. 1782.

Lot 912

WALLIS (J.) The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland . . . First Edition, 2 vols. old wrappers (with new paper reback), old crested gilt paper labels on upper covers (? Lowther?), uncut & mostly unopened, 4to., contained in cloth slipcases within boxes. printed for the author, 1769. * also covers 'so much of the County of Durham as lies between the rivers Tyne and Tweed . . . '

Lot 919

Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, first US edition, signed by author to title with a signed Houghton Mifflin bookcard loosely inserted, d/w, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986, 8vo.

Lot 924

Bramah (Ernest) The Wallet of Kai Lung, signed limited edition 131/200, d/w, spine toned, original cloth backed boards, 1923; Kai Lung's Golden Hours, signed limited edition 164/250, d/w, spine toned, original cloth backed boards, 1924; Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, First Edition, d/w, chipped, 1928, 8vo (3)

Lot 926

Browne (Thos.) Pseudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths. 4th edition. with marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added . . . Urn-Burial . . . (and) the Garden of Cyrus . . . 3 engraved illus., the longitudinal label & 2 part titles; old calf, sm. 4to. printed for Edward Dod . . . 1658. * the first edition containing the 2 tracts.

Lot 931

Cave (William) Apostolici; or, the History of the Lives, Arts, Death and Martyrdoms of those who were Contemporary with, or Immediately Succeeded the Apostles....re-backed in contemporary calf, later spine, red and black title, extra engraved title, half title cropped at top, old damp marks with 2 pages laid down, Preston (John) The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love. A Treatise, Wherein the Ground and Exercise of Faith and Love.........Delivered in 18 Sermons......, Second Edition, corrected bound with Life Eternall or a Treatise of the Knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes Delivered in XVIII Sermons, Second Edition corrected also bound with The Sermons Upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, 3 Titles, the first 2 with wood cut borders, minor damp marking to last few page ends, contemporary calf, spine cracking, metal clasps missing, Nicholas Bourne and Michael Spark, 1631, Brady (N. & N. Tate, eds.) A New Version of the Psalms of David, contemporary red calf gilt, rubbed, The Company of Stationers, 1778, plus 4 related vol., 8vo (7)

Lot 935

Conrad (Joseph) The Shadow Line A Confession, First Edition, d/w, slight chipping, original cloth, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1917; Tales of Hearsay, First Edition, d/w, original cloth, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925; The Rover, First Edition, d/w, chipped, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923; Last Essays, First Edition, d/w, chipped, spine dulled, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926, plus 4v other vol. by the author, 8vo (8)

Lot 942

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, first edition, foxed, book slightly cocked, d/w with slight chipping and discolouration, original cloth, 1964, 8vo.

Lot 943

Forster (E.M) A Passage To India, First Edition, page tops foxed, d/w spine dulled, slight chipping to corners, original cloth, 3pp. advt. at end, Edward Arnold, 1924, 8voIllustrated

Lot 945

Hardy (Thomas) Jude The Obscure, First Edition, tissue guarded etched frontis by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, original gilt monogramed cloth, plus 18 other vol., including 1 duplicate, in the same edition, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. & Harper, 1895 - 1913, 8vo. (19)

Lot 946

Hardy (Thomas) Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, First Edition, d/w, original cloth, 1922; Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, First Edition 1928, d/w, small tear to front fold in, original cloth, 8vo plus 3 other vol. by tyhe author, 8vo (5)

Lot 947

Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, first edition, d/w, foxed, original cloth, 1964 with Stein (Gertrude) Wars I Have Seen, first edition, d/w, foxed and browned, 1945 with Durrell (Lawrence) Nunquam, first edition, d/w, 1970 plus 10 other similar vol., 8vo, (13)

Lot 954

Lawrence (D.H.) The Rainbow, First Edition, Presentation Copy stamp to title, original cloth, spine dulled, slight marking, rear inner hinge pulling, 1915; Apropos of Lady Chatterley's Lover, d/w, 1930; David A Play, d/w, 1926, 8vo (3)

Lot 956

Locke(J.) Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and Several of His Friends. First Edition. rebound half calf & marbled boards, panelled spine with red label, cr. 8vo. 1708.

Lot 968

[Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, First Edition 1928, d/w, torn and chipped on spine with small loss, discolouration, original cloth; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, First Edition 1930, d/w chipped, some discolouration, original cloth; Selected Poems, First Edition, 1925, d/w, original cloth, 8vo (3)

Lot 975

Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., First Edition, 2 vol., First Edition, 32 plates, foxed, contemporary half calf, rubbed, front inner hinge vol. 1 pulled, Smith Elder, 1867: Orley Farm, 2 vol. in 1, First Edition, 39/40 plates only, Chapman 7 Hall, 1862: Sir Harry Hotspur or Humblethwaite, First Edition, later half morocco, Hurst & Blackett, 1871, 8vo. (4)

Lot 981

Woodroffe (P.) The Second Earth: the Pentateuch retold. First Edition. illus. (mostly coloured) throughout; contemp. red morocco-backed gilt cloth, 4to. 1987. * author's inscription; Hallelujah Anyway: a collection of illustrated lyrics. First Edition. illus. throughout; contemp. red morocco-backed cloth, gilt-top, in slipcase (1984) * author's inscription; together with 2 related books.

Lot 983

Yeats (W.B.) The Tower, First Edition, original gilt decorated boards, 1928; Poems, 1899 - 1905, First Edition, original cloth, 1906; Poems, First Edition, later inscription, original cloth, 1912 plus 21 other vol. by the author, 8vo. (24)

Lot 985

Yeats (W.B.) Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil, first edition, tissue guarded frontis. and other illus., d/w with slight chip to rear, original cloth, 8vo, 1926

Lot 987

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue, illus. by Joseph Schindelman, name to ffep, d/w, slight chipping and edge browning, spine dulled, original blind stamped red cloth boards, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1964, 8vo. Illustrated

Lot 988

Kipling (Rudyard) The Second Jungle Book, first edition, foxed, stamp to ffep, original cloth gilt, dulled, spine sunned, 1895 with Carroll (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, contemporary calf, rubbed and chipped, 1904, plus 1 other vol., 8vo, (3)

Lot 989

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 26 coloured plates, some pages damaged and repaired, original green paper covered boards with picture onlay, later spine, 1908, plus 11 other vol. by the author, mainly early editions,on a wooden book rack, 16mo., (12)

Lot 990

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 26 coloured plates, inscription to ffep, original brown paper covered boards with picture onlay, spine sunned, 1909; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, coloured frontis.plus 26 coloured plates, re-cased in the original green paper covered boards with picture onlay, later spine, 1908, 16mo., (2)

Lot 991

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Pigling Bland, first edition, coloured frontis. and 14 coloured plates, inscription to ffep., some finger marks,re-cased in original green paper covered boards with picture onlay, spine strip laid down, boards marked, 1913; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 29 coloured plates, inner hinges pulling, contents block detaching, original paper covered boards with picture onlay, 1908: The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 26 coloured plates, original buff paper covered boards with picture onlay, spine strip detached and loosely inserted, 1910, 16mo., (3)

Lot 992

Potter (Beatrix) Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 14 coloured plates, original green paper covered boards with picture onlay, [1917], 16mo.

Lot 993

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, first edition, coloured frontis. plus 26 coloured plates, inscription to ffep.,original tan paper covered boards with picture onlay, 1904, 16mo.

Lot 994

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, first edition, coloured frontis. and 26 coloured plates, that at p.29 torn, inscription to ffep.,original paper covered tan boards with picture onlay, 1904, 16mo.

Lot 996

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, first edition, author's presentation inscription to ffep "For Sylvia Cardo with love from Beatrix Potter" coloured frontis. plus 26 coloured plates, original red paper covered boards with picture onlay, rubbed, 1906, 16mo. Illustrated

Lot 204

Elizabeth II Sovereign, 2015, The Fifth Portrait First Edition, cased with certificate 0452

Lot 252

Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, thirty-six bronze-gilt medals by John Pinches First Edition Proof Set, housed within capsules and the folder

Lot 945

Robert Taylor a first edition print titled "Hurricane" signed by Wing Commander R.R Stanford-Tuck DSO, DFC, RAF (Retd)

Lot 1036

The Powder Flask Book by Ray Riling, first edition, published by Robert Halter, the River House, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1953

Lot 157

Elizabeth II Sovereign, 2015, The Fifth Portrait First Edition, cased with certificate 0386

Lot 2038

TAYLOR, Alfred S, Medical Jurisprudence, Philadelphia 1845, first American edition, Ed. Griffith, 8vo calf, 539pp and 16pp publishers adverts

Lot 2044

TAYLOR, Alfred S, On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, London 1848, first edition, small 8vo ½ calf. Author's signature and address on title page, notes in his hand on half title and annotation in text, 855pp

Lot 2092

TAYLOR, Alfred S, The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence, London 1865, first edition, 8vo cloth, inscribed by author on half title to his son-in-law Fred Methold, 1186pp and 42pp publishers adverts

Lot 2246

LONGFELLOW Henry W., Poems, London 1854, new edition, small 8vo calf, inscribed to Mrs Taylor from Cath & Robt, Macauley 1854; and The Courtship of Miles Standish and other poems, London 1858, 8vo cloth, first edition (2)

Lot 2256

DICKENS Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London 1870, first edition, 8vo cloth, with 12 Fildes plates, signed Alfred S Taylor on title page, with Methold bookplate

Lot 531

Silver and Stamps - A GB Danbury Mint Limited Edition 1976 Concorde Inaugural Flight Commemorative Set - serial no 2963, which includes hallmarked silver ingot, French FDC (Paris to Rio de Janeiro First Flight Cancel) and Certificate of Authenticity, signed by H Marking, Managing Director British Airways

Lot 655

Sketches in Stable and Kennel by Lionel Edwards, 1933 first edition with dust jacket, twelve colour prints - very good condition

Lot 656

My Hunting Sketch Book Vol II by Lionel Edwards 1930, first edition, twelve colour prints - very good condition - no jacket

Lot 676

Four Harry Potter first edition books, and two paper backs

Lot 683

Battles With Giant Fish by F A Mitchell Hedges, published by Duckworth 1923, First Edition, together with Sea Fish by Maxwell

Lot 1055

Arnold [James]; The Joyous Wheel, being a collection of observations and experiences during bicycle journeys, 1940 first edition, pub. Hamish Hamilton, no dj; Climbing Guides to the English Lake District, edited by H.M. Kelly, other climbing related and natural history reference books:- One Box

Lot 1122

Tunnicliffe [T.F]: Mereside Chronicle, 1948 first edition, pub Country Life Ltd.; The Atlas of Quails, David Alderton, 1992 T.F.H. Publications, John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere, Butterflies and Moths (British) by W. Furneaux, eleven volumes of The New Naturalist and other natural history reference books:- One Box

Lot 685

Nerli (Filippo de'). Commentari delle cose di Firenze dal 1215 al 1537, divisi in XII. libri, circa 1728, Italian manuscript, black ink on laid paper, title page + 635 pp., 27 lines to the page written in a neat cursive hand, catch-words, calligraphic title page and headings, decorative tailpieces, occasional spotting and tanning, worming to endpapers and to lower margin of title page and first few text leaves, headings to books 8 and 11 left blank (the copyist's draft text on a laid-in slip), contemporary sheep, worn, loss to spine ends, folio (34 x 22 cm) Kristeller, Iter Italicum, p. 34. Neat 18th-century manuscript copy of the chronicle of Florence by Florentine patrician and man of letters Filippo de'Nerli (1485-1556), first published in Augsburg in 1728 as Commentari de' fatti civili occorsi dentro la citta di Firenze dall'anno 1215 al 1537. Provenance: Cecil H. Clough FSA (1930-2017), with a laid-in photocopied letter from Clough in Italian suggesting that the manuscript was probably made from a copy of the 1728 edition. (1)

Lot 711

Coburn (Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966). More Men or Mark, 1st edition, Duckworth & Co., [1922], 33 tipped-in photogravure plates, some spotting, mostly to initial text leaves, original cloth, rubbed and somewhat soiled, 4to, together with a photogravure portrait by Coburn of George Bernard Shaw, signed in pencil by the photographer to lower margin, 20.5 x 15.5cm The portrait of George Bernard Shaw appears as the first portrait in Coburn's first volume of portraits of eminent men titled 'Men of Mark', 1913. This second volume includes portraits of Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, Frank Harris, Augustus John, Joseph Conrad and the photographer himself. (2)

Lot 735

Frith (Francis, 1822-1898). Sinai and Palestine; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, volume 1 and part of volume 3 bound as one, William Mackenzie, [1862-63], both volumes with printed and additional title-pages with mounted photograph, a total of 37 and 19 albumen print views (including additional title-pages), all mounted, most signed in the negative and with the occasional date 1857, mostly 16.5 x 23cm and similar, some old dampstaining to mounts and margins of accompanying text leaves, a few nicks and small repairs to blank margins, all edges gilt, modern half morocco gilt with original cloth gilt title panel from first volume pasted to front pastedown, folio (43.5 x 32cm) Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875, no. 195. Part of the preferred second enlarged edition of 1862, the three volumes each containing 37 photographs. The missing volume 2 covered Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids; volume 3 comprises the first 19 photographs (and accompanying text leaves) as listed on the contents leaf, the last photograph present being 'Doum Palm, and Ruined Mosque'. A Supplementary Volume (with 33 albumen prints) completes the set. (1)

Lot 1219

Astronauts - Collection of four limited edition first day covers signed & inscribed by Ken Havekotte using a Fisher Space Pen flown on Apollo 13, numbered 25/28, with the writing: 'This ink, from an ALSEP/Fisher Space Pen, flew to the Moon onboard the Apollo 13 Command Module 109 S/C from April 11-17, 1970'; and a set of three Apollo 13 covers honoring specific dates during the mission, numbered 50/55, each inscribed, 'This ink flown to the Moon onboard Apollo 13!' (4) Provenance: With certificate & letter of authenticity.

Lot 1313

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back - First Edition paperback book (1980) signed to the inside by Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew, Dave Prowse, Anthony Daniels & Billy Dee Williams.Provenance: Obtained at a book signing at Selfridges Store in London on the 5th of May 1980. The signing took place at a special 'Empire Strikes Back' exhibition in Selfridges.

Lot 1317

Octopussy and The Living Daylights - Hardback First edition James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. Complete with original dust jacket. First published 1966, printed in Great Britain by Ebenezer Baylis & son ltd, The Trinity Press Worcester & London.

Lot 1394

Ian Fleming, James Bond Moonraker first edition book published in 1955, Jonathan Cape, 'shoo' on page 10.

Lot 1397

Harry Potter - Two hardback first edition books

Lot 546

Two signed books by Edna O'brien including August is a Wicked Month published by 1965 first edition by Simon and Schuster and A Pagan Place published Alfred A. Knopf 1970, both signed by the artist. Biggest measures 22cm-high 15cm-wide. 

Lot 566

The visible world Problems of legibility by Herbet Spencer, hard backed book about typography and the written word , first edition published in 1968 by the Royal College of Art along with Grapefruit by Yoko Ono published by Sphere Books Limited 1971, documentation of performance art. Biggest measures 30cm-high 22cm-wide. 

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