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Lot 84
TACTICS FOR BIG PIKE by Bill Chillingworth, Beekay, First Edition, 1985, paperback, F; PIKE FISHING, by Dr. W.J. Turrell, published by Seeley, Service & Co. hardback, F; PIKE: THE PREDATOR BECOMES THE PREY, by John Bailey and Martyn Page, The Crowood Press, 1985 First Edition, F; MEGA PIKE: THE RETURN, by Eddie Turner and Jason Davis, published by the authors, First Edition, hardback, signed, 2007, VF/VF (5)
Lot 87
QUEST FOR THE BEST, by Jack Hilton, illustrated by Tom O'Reilly, The Little Egret Press, First Edition, hardback, 136/800, signed, VF/VF; ANGLING DOWN THE YEARS: SCENES OF FISHING, FUN AND FRIENDSHIP, by Peter Wheat. Illustrated with drawings by Tom O'Reilly and photographs.Wheat (Peter). Published by The Little Egret Press, First Edition, 2004, signed, 153/600, VF/VF; A Brush with the Avon by John Searl, 2007, hardback, First Edition, signed 323/1000, VF/VF; The Deepening Pool. The Chronicle of a Compulsive Angler, ChrisYates, Unwin Hayman, London, 1990, hardback, First Edition, VF/VF (4)
Lot 666
A collection of books, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Slave Life in America, by Mrs Harriet Beecher Stow, published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, Paternoster Row, 1852 (First English Edition), The History of The French Revolution, by M A Thiers, 1875, Spike Milligan's Silly Verse for Kids, Bo Peep, Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book and Far Off, or Australia, Africa and America Described (6)
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Lot 1515
Madden [Tim (Gnr)]: Military Subjects, first edition, published Richard Lesley & Co. Ltd, a humourous account of National Service army life, profusely illustrated, original pictorial boards; Vicotry Cartoons, published by Thackers Publishers, Bombay 1944; Percy V. Bradshaw 'Lines of Laughter, pub. W.H. Allen & Co. 1946. (3)
Lot 118
NAPIER (W F): 'History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814..': London, T & W Boone, 1832-40: mixed first and second edition set: 8vo, uniform brown half Russia, rubbed and scuffed, spines darkened in places but contents generally sound. (6)
Lot 125
MUMM (A L): 'Five Months in the Himalaya..a record of mountain travel in Garhwal and Kashmir..': London, Edwin Arnold, 1909. First Edition: large 8vo, pub. blue cloth, spine a little faded minor wear: half-tone frontispiece and numerous plates, some folding, some detailed contemporary annotations to margins. (1)
Lot 239
TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de): 17 leaves from Gustave de Beaumont's autograph manuscript, likely working draft for the first complete edition of Tocqueville's works after his death, comprising 3 pages of a letter to John Stuart Mill dated Paris 1839, another dated 1840 and a third 1847: together with transcription of a 6 page letter to Henry Reeve, Paris 1849: each sheet marked in pencil by printer with corresponding galley numbers, together with mid-c20 typed letter to Professor Hayek regarding the location of a collection of letters from Mill to Tocqueville, plus a few related notes, and printed flyer advertising de Tocqueville's 'Oeuvres Completes', dated 1951.Alexis de Tocqueville, thinker and writer on politics, travelled extensively in America in the company of his friend and confidente Gustave de Beaumont, the trip inspiring the seminal work 'De La Democratie en Amerique' (1835): this group relates directly and once formed a part of material seen in Lot: 272, Bonhams, 11 Nov 2015. (Small quantity)
Lot 37
CHURCHILL (Winston Spencer, Sir): 'Lord Randolph Churchill...' London, Macmillan & Co, 1906. First Edition. 2 vols, 8vo, later red half morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, teg, some minor wear else VG: TOGETHER WITH a very good set of 'The War Speeches of Winston S Churchill', in dustjacket, 3 vols. (5)
Lot 47
TOLKIEN (J R R ): 'A Middle English Vocabulary..', Oxford Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition of the author's first book, without 'Printed in England' at foot of title-page and with 'Printed in England at the Oxford University Press' at foot of final page of text: sm 8vo, original brown printed card covers, neat restoration at head and foot of spine, slight creasing to top outer corners, else a good clean copy. (1)
Lot 491
RACKHAM (Arthur, illustrator & BARRIE, J M): 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens..', London, Hodder & Stoughton (1912): first trade edition: 4to, publishers green cloth gilt, damp spotted and boards a little bowed, toned and with foxing to edges, generally in good condition: together with a carton of misc. other books. (A box)
Lot 602
WHEATLEY (Dennis): 'Old Rowley..a private life of Charles II', London, Hutchinson, 1933: inscribed to title page in blue ink..'for Eric Gillet with every good wish from Dennis Wheatley'..: 8vo dustjacket: together with a signed first edition of 'The Rape of Venice', 1959, VG in dustjacket: plus a collection of 58 other titles by Wheatley including some first editions in dustjacket, a number without dustjacket or reprints, a few paperback editions, condition variable. (61)
Lot 67
STOREY (David): 'Radcliffe...a novel', Longmans, 1963. First Edition: 8vo, dustjacket, good. MASTERS (John): 'The Lotus and the Wind': London, Michael Joseph, 1953: First Edition, 8vo, dustjacket, a good copy: TOGETHER WITH 9 others, 20th century literature, to include 2 copies of Fleming's 'Man with the Golden Gun' without jackets. (11)
Lot 71
GREENE (Graham): 'The End of the Affair', London, Heinemann, 1951: First Edition, 8vo, dustjacket, spine/edges browned and a few chips: 'The Heart of the Matter': First Edition, 1948: pub. blue cloth, dustjacket somewhat worn and creased: 'Loser Takes All', First Edition, 1955: pub. blue cloth in dustjacket, some light wear and browning, small loss to head of spine: TOGETHER WITH 31 others by or about Greene, generally good copies in dustjacket. (34)
Lot 1356
Antiquarian Book Interest Thomas Fairfax First Edition 1760 The Complete Sportsman; or, Country Gentleman's Recreation Published By J. Cooke, At Shakespear's-Head, In Pater-Noster-Row. Bound in pigskin with gilt trim, printed on laid paper, 11 page publisher's catalogue at end. Engraved frontispiece. ''Containing the Whole Arts: Of Breeding and Managing Game Cocks, with the best Methods of Fighting them. Of Rearing and Backing Colts. Of managing Race-Horses, Hunters. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Hare-hunting. Of Fox-hunting. Of Buck-hunting. Of Otter-hunting. Of Coursing. Of breeding and ordering Dogs for the Gun, or Chase, Of Angling in all its various Branches Of breeding Pigeons, Rabbets, Canary Birds, Of finding the Haunts of Partridges, Pheasants, and all manner of Game Of Shooting. Inscription in sepia ink to front paper top left 'S Fortescue 1776', (6 4/8 x 4 inches) some damage to spine and corners.
Lot 1370
Examples of French Art By Temple, A G Published by Blades, East and Blades (1898) Thirty examples of the then most notable French artists with a brief biography of each, limited edition of 125, no. 88, 60pp.,30 monochrome plates, hand laid paper, subscribers list First edition, limited , covers a little marked, book in good condition , blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine , Folio 30x41 cm Hardback SIGNED by publishers on limitation page
Lot 490
1951 Manchester United (Famous football clubs) book publication (1st Edition the first post war book about United), The History of United (1974-Pullein), The History of United (1976-Pullein), 1970 International Soccer Exhibition at Manchester (United & City) plus ticket (also has Soccer 70 - details of exhibits). (6)
Lot 69
Scarce British Lions signed rugby book - titled Bill McLaren's "Dream Lions" first edition 1998 signed by Bill McLaren and all 66 players autographs on card and neatly laid down to the corner of each individual player profile photograph - notable players include JP R Williams, Andy Irvine, Gerald Davies, Ieuan Evans, David Duckham, JJ Williams, John Dawes, Mike Gibson, Ian McGeechan, Ray Gravell, Phil Bennett, Gareth Edwards, Barry John, Ian McLauchlan, Fran Cotton, Bobby Windsor, Graham Price, Jason Leonard, Willie John McBride, Bill Beaumont, Martin Johnson, Gordon Brown, Peter Dixon, Roger Uttley, John Taylor, Fergus Slattery, Finlay Calder, Peter Winterbottom, Mervyn Davies, Willie Duggan et al - a unique book signed by all-time great Lions players (VG)
Lot 14
Churchill (Awnsham & John, publishers). A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some now first Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated out of Foreign Languages, and now first Publish'd in English, [volume 3 only], 1st edition, 1704, 3 parts in 1 volume as issued (see note), each with own section title dated 1703 in addition to main volume title, pagination and register continuous, the third part (Baldaeus) with engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 33 engraved folding plates including maps, plans, views and orthographical tables of the Tamil language, numerous engraved vignettes in the text, several full-page, volume title chipped and browned in upper outer corner, first section title (Ovalle) slightly marked, faint damp-staining in quires [pi]-B, contents otherwise clean and fresh, contemporary French mottled calf, richly gilt spine, mild wear to extremities, folio (31 x 19.5 cm Cox I p. 10 for the collection and p. 263 for Baldaeus; Sabin 13015 (specifying Ovalle and Monson); Borba de Moraes I p. 158 for the 1744 edition. This third volume of Awnsham and John Churchill's important collection of voyages contains three texts: 1) Alonso de Ovalle, An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile, printed at Rome by Francisco Cavallo, 1649, Translated out of Spanish into English; 2) Sir William Monson, Naval Tracts: in Six Books ... The Whole from the Original Manuscript, Never Before Published; and 3) Philippus Baldaeus, A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon ... translated from the High-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672. (1)
Lot 17
Dening (Walter). Japan in Days of Yore, volumes 2-4 [Wounded Pride and How it was Healed; The Life of Miyamoto Musashi Parts I-II], 1st editions, Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1888, text printed on double leaves, 17 double-page coloured woodblock plates, stab-stitched in original pictorial card wrappers, rear wrappers lettered 'printed and published by the Hakubunsha. Tokyo, Japan', wrappers slightly spotted, 8vo Four volumes were published; the first volume, a discrete work titled Human Nature in a Variety of Aspects, appeared the previous year. There was a one-volume edition in 1906. (3)
Lot 19
Dheulland (Guillaume). Th‚ƒtre de la guerre en Italie, ou Carte nouvelle des principaut‚s de Pi‚mond, R‚publique des Gˆnes, duch‚s de Milan, Plaisance, et confins, 1st edition, Paris: Dheulland, Martin and Jullien, 1748, engraved title, 25 maps and 2 letterpress leaves, all folding and mounted on guards, nearly all the maps hand-coloured in outline, damp-staining to endpapers and title page, and to gutter and margins of letterpress leaves and first few maps, then receding to two small tide-marks to either end of the gutter, shallow splits to ends of folds, longer splits to folds of title page, general map (unnumbered) and maps 1 and 4, contemporary French marbled sheep, rubbed, front joint split at ends, corners worn, narrow folio (25.5 x 11 cm) (1)
Lot 24
Fortavion (G. C. de). La guerre de Chine, grand panorama illustr‚, historique et anecdotique, 1st edition, Paris: Gu‚rin-Muller, 1862, 16 lithographic plates with accompanying text leaf, title page repaired along gutter and top edge, and creased and marked, some mild spotting and finger-soiling to text leaves and plate margins, only a handful of faint spots in images, short nick in top margin of first Tche-Fou plate, Combat du pont de Pa-Li-Kia-O plate slightly marked and facing text leaf repaired along top edge, inner hinges reinforced, original lithographic boards, front board hand-coloured as issued, cloth spine renewed, boards soiled, extremities worn, oblong folio Cordier Sinica 4146. (1)
Lot 31
Knolles (Richard). The Generall Histories of the Turkes ... together with The Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours ... untill this Present Yeare 1603, 1st edition, Adam Islip, 1603, engraved architectonic title page, 28 engraved medallion portraits and 1 engraved battle scene in the letterpress, all by Laurence Johnson, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, woodcut wreath border to The Lives and Conquests section title; intermittent pale tide-mark extending from bottom edges into text, quires A and 5F-H chipped in margins with engraved title (A2) largely torn away (but retaining most of the text) and partial loss of floral headpiece in the errata (5H8), repairs in leaves V4, 2N3, 3R6 and 5F3, small closed chip in X5 (portrait verso), small hole in 3A6 and spill-burn in 4B6 to minor loss of text and running head respectively, marginal worming from 4M to end, 17th- and 18th-century ownership inscriptions and pen-trials to initial blank and engraved title, occasional contemporary marginalia, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, folio in 6s (31.5 x 22.5 cm) Blackmer 919; Cobham-Jeffery p. 31; Cox I p. 204; STC 15051. First edition of 'the greatest of English works of the Renaissance period dealing with Turkey' (Chew, cited after Blackmer). (1)
Lot 314
Bagehot (Walter). The English Constitution, 5th edition, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888, rear inner hinge cracked, bookplate of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) to front pastedown, original blue pebble-grain cloth, gilt titles and geometric decoration in black to spine and boards, spine faded and rolled, wear to extremities, 8vo, together with: Blackstone (William), Select Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries, carefully adapted to the Use of Schools and Young Persons ... by Samuel Warren, 2nd edition, A. Maxwell, 1837, bookplate of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), slip with his autograph inscription 'The Duke of Cambridge, Horse Guards' mounted to front free endpaper, his ink-stamp to title page, marginalia in his hand to p. 344, original cloth, spine-ends frayed, extremities bumped, 8vo; Bourget (Paul), Etudes et Portraits, 2nd edition, Paris: Alphone Lemerre, 1889, volume 1 only (of 2), browning, bookplate of Bourget's putative lover Jennie Spencer-Churchill, Lady Randolph Churchill (1854-1921), gilt edges, contemporary morocco, worn, front board paint-spotted, 8vo; Francillon (Robert Edward), Gods and Heroes, or the Kingdom of Jupiter, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, numerous colour plates, 2 related illustrations mounted to front pastedown and free endpaper, laid-in slip inscribed in pencil by William Rusell Flint 'Please return to W Russell Flint (Jan. 1959) Peel Cottage, 80 Peel Street, W8', frequent pencilled marginalia, original pictorial cloth, 8vo; Murdoch (John, editor), Yoga Sastra: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Examines, 1st edition, London and Madras: Christian Literature Society for India, 1897, wood-engraved frontispiece, bookplate of Serbian philosopher Dimitrije Mitronovic (1887-1953), original cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo; Symington (Maggie), Bonnie Boy's Soap Bubble, a Tale of the Adventures of a Boy and his Dog in Bubble Land, 1st edition, Biggs & Co., [circa 1890], 4 plates, bookplates of soap magnate W. H. Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), original pictorial cloth, 8vo, and 12 others See Eller, The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 77 for Blackstone (also referring to a first edition of 1836 which we have been otherwise unable to trace). Assortment of 19th-century books with notable provenance, including Neville Chamberlain's copy of The English Constitution; Copac traces four copies of the last-mentioned title (Bonnie Boy's Soap Bubble). (18)
Lot 315
Baldinucci (Filippo). Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue, 1st edition, Florence: Santi Franchi, 1681, and: Notizie de professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, parte seconda del secolo quarto che contiene tre decennali, dal 1550-1580, 1st edition, Florence: Piero Martini, 1688, volumes 1 and 4 (of 6), volume 1 with woodcut arms to title, tipped-in privilege leaf with woodcut arms of Charles II of Spain (see note), folding genealogical plate, closed tear in signature D3; volume 4 with engraved title arms, slip cancel pasted to signature F verso; both volumes with numerous historiated or floral woodcut initials, spotting and toning, a few other minor marks, uniform contemporary vellum, manuscript spine titles, yapp edges, 4to (27 x 20 cm), together with: Paciaudi (Paolo), Diatribe qua Graece anagylphi interpretatio traditur, 1st edition, Rome: ex typographia Palladis, 1751, half-title, engraved title vignette, woodcut and engraved vignettes to text, mild spotting to title page, modern half vellum, 4to; [Negri, Anton Maria], Solenni esequie nel duomo di Firenze per la morte dell' Augustissimo Imperatore Francesco Primo, Duca di Lorena, 1st edition, Florence: S. A. R, 1765, 2 parts in 1 volume, engraved headpiece and initial to each, contemporary patterned paper wrappers, section of loss to spine, 4to; Zabeo (Giovanni Prosdocimo), Elogio di Paolo Caliari, 1st edition, Venice: Parolari, 1813, 25 pp., mild spotting and soiling, edges untrimmed, sewn in original plain paper wrappers (held by top 2 cords only), 4to Cicognara 2195 (Baldinucci), 2690 (Paciaudi), 2407 (Zabeo). First editions of the first and fourth volumes in Baldinucci's six-volume biographical dictionary of Italian art and architecture; of the remaining volumes Baldinucci was himself only responsible for the second, as volumes three, five and six were completed by his son. This copy of the first volume is complete with the privilege leaf bearing the arms of Charles II of Spain, which is 'missing in a great many copies' (Cicognara). (5)
Lot 322
Binding. Illustrium poetarum flores, per Octavianum Mirandulam collecti, Strasbourg: Josias Rihel, 1567, later ownership inscription 'Sum Caspari Muhlenfort' and effaced contemporary ownership inscriptions to title page, intermittent pale damp-staining, stronger towards rear, occasional contemporary underlining, minor worming in gutter, lacking final blank, bound at an early date using a leaf from a 13th-century vellum manuscript copy of Rupert of Deutz's De divinis officiis incorporating a large polychrome initial (see note), backed with a printed leaf from a copy of Johann Wigand's De antinomia veteri et nova (1571), rubbed and dust-soiled, and detached from text-block along front inner hinge (intact at rear), 8vo (15.7 x 10 cm) This edition not in Adams but see M1473 for the first edition of 1537, which was also printed in Strasbourg, by Wendelin Rihel. The vellum manuscript leaf used for the binding contains a section from Rupert of Deutz's De divinis officiis, in a German Prototogothic hand: see Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Cursus Completus (Paris, 1854), volume 170, columns 193-4. (1)
Lot 328
[Carnan and Newbery, publishers. The Mother's Gift: or, A Present for All Little Children who are Good, Embellished with Cuts, 1769 or 1770], 11 woodcuts (of 14), A3 and both pastedowns with early juvenile ink trials, C1 detached and marked, lacking: A1-2 (title and preface/contents), A7-8 (pages 13-16), C8 (pages 47-48), and signature E (7 pages of text plus advertisements), stitching broken, contemporary Dutch floral boards, worn and dusty, lacking spine, 93 x 63mm (3.75 x 2.5ins), together with Harvey and Darton, publishers, Harry Beaufoy; or, The Pupil of Nature, by Maria Hack, 2nd edition, 1824, engraved frontispiece, page of publisher's advertisements at rear, title and frontispiece a little toned, pages 74-84 with variable brown mark to lower blank margin, front pastedown with remnants of early ink inscription, contemporary quarter morocco, rubbed and extremities worn, spine toned, 12mo in 6's, plus John Harris, publisher, Nina, an Icelandic Tale, by A Mother, Author of "Always Happy," &c., 2nd edition, 1825, engraved frontispiece, some light spotting in places, front pastedown with early ink signature, contemporary quarter morocco, rubbed and extremities worn, front board detached, spine toned, 12mo in 6's, with 47 other 19th century children's books, some defective First item: Roscoe J251. A rare early children's book in the original Dutch floral boards; not in Osborne or Gumuchian. The collation agrees with the first edition copy held by the Bodleian Library, although according to Roscoe, the second edition of 1770 is almost identical to the first edition of 1769, save for the edition statement and date on the title-page. (50)
Lot 330
Cavendish (William, 1st Duke of Newcastle). Neu-er”ffnete Reit-Bahn, 1st edition in German, Nuremberg: Johann Zieger and Georg Lehmann, 1700, half-title, letterpress title in red and black, engraved arms, 5 text vignettes, 82 engraved plates including additional title, nearly all double-page, several also folding, engraved coat of arms; modern tape-repair in margins of letterpress title and text-leaves *2-3, a few folding plates (1-5, 10-11 and 60) with old repairs or modern tape-repairs mainly along versos of lower edges, plate 14 longitudinally repaired through image, plate 15 spotted, plate 69 restored in margin, modern marbled sheep, folio in 4s (32.5 x 20 cm) Nissen ZBI 852 (erroneously counting the engraved arms as a plate). First published in 1658 as La m‚thode nouvelle et Invention extraordinaire de dresser les chevaux. (1)NB: Revised estimate : Now £1200-1800
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