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![MAYNE (Xavier) [Pseud. of Edward PRIME-STEVENSON.] Imre: A Memorandum. Naples: The English Book-Press 1908 [to a tipped in pu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/70cd76c2-d42e-4a71-8a63-a904016edbbe/182ebe48-7439-4df4-83f0-e3c5f1b96298/468x382.jpg)
Lot 158
MAYNE (Xavier) [Pseud. of Edward PRIME-STEVENSON.] Imre: A Memorandum. Naples: The English Book-Press 1908 [to a tipped in publisher's slip], small 8vo, limited edition no. 166, signed by the author to the first leaf, original grey wrappers printed in red, spine damaged, sewing weak, margins browned, 'George Michaelsen' overstamped to publisher name at foot of title dated 1906, first leaf with pasted in typed slip with bookseller name 'Georg et Cie, Geneve', dated 1923. "First edition of the first novel by an American with both an explicit gay theme and a sympathetic attitude toward its gay characters".
Lot 213
DARWIN (Charles) The Descent of Man, London: John Murray, 1871, 2 vols. 8vo, first edition, 2nd or later state, page height 19cm, board height 19.5cm, and books by Darwin listed overleaf of both titles, no errata leaf, 16pp. advertisements dated January 1871 at end of each volume, half titles, contemporary ownership names to both vols., very first and last leaves slightly spotted, original green cloth, lightly bumped/worn and age marked, one small tear along spine (2)
![Children's. POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, Warne, [1902], early issue with 'wept' for 'shed'](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/70cd76c2-d42e-4a71-8a63-a904016edbbe/b1e0839a-ee8d-45a8-c075-2d1a59fdae34/468x382.jpg)
Lot 231
Children's. POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, Warne, [1902], early issue with 'wept' for 'shed' on p.51, thirty-one colour illustrations, inscription dated Xmas 1903 to first free end paper, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, text leaves lacking after p.88, all rather age worn and soiled in places, some leaves loose and stained, few taped, original boards, spine ends worn; 14 other titles, all later editions in varying condition; MILNE (A A) Winnie-The-Pooh, 2nd edition 1926, damaged dust jacket; KIPLING (R) The Jungle Book, first edition 1894, later book label to first pastedown, spine ends worn, corners slightly bumped. (17)
Lot 232
RAEMAEKERS (Louis) The Great War, A Neutral's Indictment. London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd. 1916, first edition, large folio, limited edition (1050), signed by the author below frontispiece portrait, 100 mounted plates, covers dust stained and faded; Vol. II - The Great War in 1916, signed to limitation leaf, 1917, folio, 58 mounted plates, similarly bound; 3 others - satirical cartoons (5)
Lot 253
Children's and other. MILNE (A A) Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, original cloth (paint marked front cover and some scribble to 2 pages); The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, faded spine; STEVENSON (R L) An Inland Voyage, Across the Plains, Travels with a Donkey, 3 vols. 1907-08, small 8vo, fine paper edition, limp leather gilt, together in slip case; RACKHAM (A), Illustrator. The Ring of the Niblung, first edition 1939, cloth in dust jacket; Goblin Market, 8vo, paper wrapper; few others
Lot 265
Literature various, including: GREENE (G) The Honorary Consul, first edition 1973, with dustjacket; Penguin paperbacks (quantity); HOPE-MONCRIEFF (A R) Myth and Legend series, decorative cloth bindings; RUSKIN (J) The Elements of Drawing, 1857, 8vo, calf; PEPYS (S) The Diary of --, publ. by Bell, in dust jackets; few other leather bindings in varying condition; also illustrated, history, etc (70
![CARROLL (Lewis) [DODGSON, Rev. Charles Lutwidge] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass, both Macmillan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/70cd76c2-d42e-4a71-8a63-a904016edbbe/1b374b05-529a-4a38-83a4-2ccde2f3fc4d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 270
CARROLL (Lewis) [DODGSON, Rev. Charles Lutwidge] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass, both Macmillan and Co. 1880, 8vo, illustrations by John Tenniel, original red cloth gilt, a.e.g.; HAGGARD (H Rider) Montezuma's Daughter, first edition, London 1893, 8vo, original cloth (3)
Lot 272
TOLSTOY (L) War and Peace, Moscow 1868-69, first edition, 8vo, six parts in 4 vols., with half titles, some wear and repairs, some wrappers bound in, later morocco backed boards. Note: There are some inner tears where gatherings have pulled from their stitching in some places. They have been cropped, as evidenced by the partial loss to a couple of notes written to the top margin. There are general use stains throughout, and sporadic small tears. The current bindings are tight.Condition: Vol. I : pp179-190 possibly supplied from another copy as the fore-edges are cut shorter. Gathering 19 leaf 2 has small loss to text at inner margin, also at gathering 19 leaf 5. Lacks 2 leaves (pp.7-10) in 2nd part towards to the back of the book. Gathering 9 partly miss-bound out of sequence. Other stains to other volume contents
Lot 274
DICKENS (Charles) The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans 1846, 8vo, added engraved title and frontispiece, gift inscription to half title 'Xmas 1845', without advertisement leaf, contemporary cloth backed boards; with - Adventures of Socivizca a notorious Robber and Assassin. Huddersfield: Brook and Lancashire c.1810, 16mo, contemporary ownership name at head of title, bound with - Singular Life of Timothy Benson a Highwayman, and, Horrid Life of Sawney Beane an atrocious Robber and Assassin, all with half titles, advert leaf at rear, boards (2)
Lot 276
POWELL (Anthony) A Dance to the Music of Time, 12 vols., 1955-1975. A Question of Upbringing is a 1955 reprint signed and inscribed by the author in unclipped dust jacket; A Buyer's Market, 1955 reprint in unclipped dust jacket; The Acceptance World, reprint 1955, lacking jacket; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, 1st edition, lacking jacket; the others in the series all first editions in unclipped dust jackets (12)
Lot 277
Literature, various. WAUGH (E) Men at Arms; Unconditional Surrender, both first editions in unclipped dust jackets; FLEMING (I) Goldfinger, first edition 1959, slightly soiled dust jacket; MITFORD (N) Don't Tell Alfred, first edition 1960, dust jacket by Cecil Beaton; OSBORNE (J) Look Back in Anger, first edition 1957, dust jacket with small tear; various others, mainly early reprint editions, by Powell, Waugh etc. Also MORRIS (Rev. F. O.) A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, six vols, William Mackenzie, n.d., 4to, colour plates, cloth gilt (22)
Lot 294
HAWKING (Stephen, Professor) Three volumes each with the author's right hand thumb print, and sold to benefit a charity. A Brief History of Time, reissue paperback countersigned by 'Clare Dutson 29-9-2012' [one of Hawking's carers]; The Grand Design (2011) paperback countersigned by 'Patricia Dowdy RN 6-12-2005' [one of Hawking's nurses]; My Brief History, first edition and impression 2013, without counter-signatory to the accreditation dated 10/12/13 (3)
Lot 31
MAGNA CARTA, a facsimile engraved by John Pine, a copy of King John's Great Charter with 25 coloured shields to both long borders, marked at the foot 'Sold by J. Pine Engraver in Old Bond Street Piccadilly and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster', general age toning, [dated 1733 but later], 70 x 49cm. Note: the first impressions by Pine were printed on vellum. This is a later edition on paper, probably printed by Pine's son.
Lot 320
WELLS (H G) The First Men in the Moon, first edition, later issue binding, London: G. Newnes 1901, 8vo, 12 plates as called for, a few loose, old ownership names, spine torn, original cloth (stained); Mankind in the Making, first edition 1903; New Words for Old, 1908; BOGARDUS (Adam) Field, Cover and Trap Shooting, New York 1878, 8vo, half morocco by Bickers, a.e.g.; TURLEY (Charles) The Voyages of Captain Scott, introduction by J. M. Barrie 1914, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth; PIENAAR (P) With Steyn and De Wet. Methuen 1902, 8vo, half calf; NANSEN (F) The First Crossing of Greenland, 1902, 8vo, full calf (7)
Lot 323
BEAVER (Captain Philip) African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Colony on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792. London 1805, 4to, first edition, folding engraved map, two engraved plans, uncut, neat Ickworth library label to front pastedown, 20th century sprinkled half calf
Lot 78
HOLINSHED (Raphael) The First and Second volumes of Chronicles, ... now newly augmented and continued to the year 1586 by John Hooker. London 1587, folio, 3 vols., second edition, black letter, general title within woodcut border and 5 other titles to first tome, no titles to vols. II or III, vol. II with Ai to Aiii having repaired foremargins, generally a sound copy in later crushed morocco ruled in gilt, marbled end papers, a.e.g., slight wear to bindings
Lot 80
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by John Urry (1663-1714), London: for Bernard Lintot 1721, first edition, folio, 2 engraved portraits (one with slightly frayed fore edge), illustrations, slight foxing or staining, recased in later calf backed marbled boards, head of spine strip slightly damaged; GODWIN (W) Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, in 2 vols., 1803, 4to, 2 portrait frontispieces and one other portrait, rebacked diced calf (3)
Lot 1295
Antiquarian Books - American Imprint, Medwin (Thomas), Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822, With Additions, Wilder & Campbell, New-York 1824, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (loose), early 20th century Pictorial-Armorial bookplate: Ex Libris Wm Burnet Easton Jnr, signed Brad, 12mo; The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq [...], Illustrated with Wood Cuts, Engraved by Thompson; From Drawings by George Cruikshank, Esq., fourth edition, Thomas Tegg and Son, London 1835, period buckram, 16mo; Westropp (Mrs. J.E.), Summer Experiences of Rome, Perugia, and Siena, in 1854; and Sketches of the Islands in the Bay of Naples, with Illustrations, William Skeffington, London 1856, gilt-tooled blue buckram, 12mo; Blyton (Enid), Brer Rabbit Book, Illustrated by Grace Lodge, first edition, Dean & Son Ltd, London 1963 (faults); Mercier (Anne) and Watt (Violet), The Red House by the Rockies: A Tale of Riel's Rebellion, pictorial boards; China, Lovett (Richard), James Gilmour and His Boys, With a Map and Many Illustrations, 1894, pictorial boards as issued, 12mo; other 19th century and later fiction, pictorial bindings; etc
Lot 582
11 Military Badge Reference Books.‘Badges of the British Army 1820-1960’ by Wilkinson ... ‘Glengarry Badges to 1881’ by Carmen ... ‘Scottish Regimental Badges’ by Bloomer ... British Army Collar Badges’ by Churchill & Westlake ... ‘Buttons of the Britiash Army 1855-1970’ by Ripley ... ‘Cavalry and Yeomanry Badges of the British Army 1914’ by Wilkinson ... ‘Officers Waist Belt Clasps 1855-1902’ by Ryan ... ‘Regimental Badges’ (First Edition Reprint) by Edwards ... ‘Military Shoulder Belt Plates and Buttons’ by Parkyn ... ‘Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles’ by Westlake ... ‘Military Badge Collecting’ by Gaylor ... ‘Badges and Insignia of World War II Air Force, Naval, Marine’ by Rosignoli. (11 items)
Lot 583
12 Military and Heraldry Reference Book and. Home Guard Histories‘Badges and Insignia of the Brtiish Armed Forces’ by Carman, May and Tanner ... ‘Military Badges of the British Empire’ by Cox ... ‘Records and Badges of the British Army 1900’ by Chichester and Burges-Short ... ditto 1986 reprint ... ‘Complete Guide to Heraldry’ by Fox-Davies ... ‘The Oxford Guide to Heraldry’ by Woodrock and Robinson ... ‘A Manual of Heraldry’ by Grant ... ‘Forewarned is Forearmed.’ ROC History by Buckton ... ‘History of the First Division August 1944 to January 1945’ ... ‘The Story of the 29th (Gosport) Home Guard Battalion Hampshire Regiment ... ‘Seven Battalion, The Story of London Transport’s Home Guard’ ... ‘Jackson’s Hallmarks’ 2004 edition. (12 items)
Lot 151
First-year H C Beck London Underground DIAGRAMMATIC CARD MAP. The undated edition with no print-code, issued c. August 1933. Refers to re-naming of Dover St station to Green Park and the merger of Holborn and British Museum stations. A few small foxing spots but in other respects a very good example. [1]
Lot 63
The "District Railway" MAP of London, 5th edition, c1895. A large-scale, full-colour map (42" x 26", 107cm x 66cm), linen-backed and folded into hard covers (one cover panel is missing). This is the 3rd of three known issues of this edition and shows Barnsbury station on the North London Railway re-named as Caledonian Road & Barnsbury. Shows London's first tube line, the C&SLR, from City to Stockwell plus the planned extension to Clapham. Map is in good condition apart from some edge-wear. [1]
Lot 70
1839 (1889) Bradshaw's Railway TIME TABLES 'and Assistant to Railway Travelling'. The first national railway timetable, contains a fold-out railway map, said to be the world's first. Facsimile edition published in 1889 for the 50th anniversary. 8 pages of maps and 4 city plans. Hard cover, in very good condition, a little age-foxing in places. Plus 1849 Reid's Monthly TIMETABLE for the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway etc. Centre-fold map of railways in the north of England & much contemporary advertising. Probably a 1925 Railway Centenary reprint. VGC. [2]
Lot 1052
After David Roberts RA (1796-1864) ''Approach to the fortress at Ibrim''; ''The Rock of the Chain and Asouan'' and ''Asouan and Island of Elephantine'', coloured lithographs, published 1847, 1847 and 1848 respectively, 34cm by 39cm, 36cm by 52cm and 35cm by 54.5cm respectively (3) Provenance: Mathaf Gallery, London Nos 81,87 and 98 ''Rock of the Chain'' - Some fading and slight discolouration to the paper, although the impression is still strong. Slight foxing marks throughout with one or two storm flies trapped between the mount and the galss. Surface dirt with markings in places, overall condition is reasonable. ''Asouan & Island of Elephantine'' - Some fading and discolouration to the paper, although the colours are still strong. Faint foxing marks throughout with a large foxing mark beside the mount upper centre - some light surface dirt. ''Approach to the Fortress'' - Some fading and discolouration to the paper with notable foxing marks particularly in the lower right hand corner. Pin marks to the centre of the image. Foxing marks upper centre with marking from previous restoration above the mast of the felucca. Not examined out of the frame. In our opinion these are not first edition lithographs and are coloured lithographs, not hand coloured.
Lot 568
Crested China - Three pieces of First World War related crested ware comprising an Arcadian China 'Model of Tommy's Hut' crested for Middleton-in-Teesdale, an Arcadian China 'War A.D 1914 Edition' 'Camping Out' tent crested for Belgium and a Carlton China 'Shrapnel Villa' 'Tommies dugout somewhere in France' crested for Swansea (3)
Lot 573
Crested China - Eight pieces of assorted First World War crested ware comprising an Arcadian China 'War Edition' cannon for Birmingham, a Swan China Arms of Haslemere cannon, an Arcadian China Borough of Reading pistol, a Carlton China 'The victory of justice armistice of the Great War signed Nov 11th 1918' searchlight for Arms of Glastonbury, a Queens China Southend on Sea searchlight, a Carlton China 'Model of British Machine Gun' for Derby, a Grafton China Desert Gun for Ramsgate and a Grafton China French 75m.m crested for Spalding (7)
Lot 168
FLEMING, IAN "Live and Let Die" 1956, The Re-print Society, London (first published 1954, Jonathan Cape), 1 black cloth volume, spine label, with dust wrapper, protected, and similar "Thunderball", The Book Club Edition, London (first pub.1961, Jona than Cape), 1 blue cloth volume with dust wrapper, protected (2)
Lot 193
MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN "Path to Leadership", one volume, signed and "Earl Alexander of Tunis Memoirs", signed, together with four other volumes and a Montgomery Dawson Exhibition catalogue CONDITION REPORTS One of the AA Milne books is a thirteenth edition, the other just says 'First published in 1927' - see images for details
Lot 1028
Hunt, William Holman. 'Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood', in two volumes, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1905. Each volume bears a label to front pastedown endpaper: 'From the Library of Dorothy L. Sayers sold at Sotheby's London December 2000'. Publisher's green gilt cloth bindings, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece to each volume plus further illustrations throughout, spines a little cocked. (2)
Lot 1049
Aldin, Cecil (Illust.). 'Ratcatcher to Scarlet', first edition, second impression, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1927, publisher's black pictorial cloth with fox mask to upper board. Together with 'Right Royal', John Masefield, first illustrated edition, New York: Macmillan, 1922. Fox Hunting / Horse Racing / Equestrian interest. (2)
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