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Lot 502
A QUANTITY OF BOXED EXCLUSIVE FIRST EDITION BOXED SETS AND GIFT SETS, to include London Transport Museum Sets No 1 and No 2 (99908 and 99909), four assorted Southdown sets including No 2 Leyland Titan PD2 and Bedford OB (99910), all models appear complete and look to have hardly ever been removed from boxes, with limited edition certificates where appropriate, some wear to outer boxes (16)
Lot 679
232 page hardback, published by Rider and Company, London in 1954 1st edition This is the first fully documented account ever written of the secret rites of what is commonly called the Black Mass. In his remarkable expose of this mystery cult, which bedevilled [sic] orthodox Christianity for centuries, the author has turned up many queer facts and brought to light a group of strange and bizarre personalities. It is a story at once fantastic and grotesque, but there is good comedy in it as well. Here are almost incredible things which nevertheless happened and are perhaps happening still. Dust wrapper is price clipped with age related wear. Foxing evident on edge of pages. Ex libris bookplate and previous owner's name written on front end paper.
Lot 55
Most Memorable Day WW2 24 x 18 black and white print by Robert Taylor signed by Taylor and 10 Battle of Britain veterans. Includes Ken Wilkinson, B Duckenfield, Tom Neil, Michael Wainwright, John Keatings, W Clark, A Gregory, Owen Burns, R Chamberlain, 1998 Military Gallery print by Robert Taylor titled "Most Memorable Day - The Final Drawing". This was a stand-alone print edition that was not issued with the main colour print Most Memorable Day" but is in fact a limited edition print of the final drawing Taylor did for that Color print along with a large quote from Adolf Galland describing the action that day. This print is number 309 of a limited edition of 1000 for the black and white print. The print is signed by Robert Taylor. The beautiful image is of Galland rushing through a formation of British bombers. The print is described below: Adolf Galland and his wingman Bruno Hegenauer break through the fighter escort of No. 303 Squadron's Spitfires to attack Blenheim bombers of No. 21 Squadron over northern France, 21 June 1941. In two missions that day Galland claimed two Blenheims and one Spitfire, survived a forced crash-landing, and later a parachute escape from his blazing Me109. That evening he learned he was to become the first recipient of the Knights Cross with oak leaves and swords - Germany's highest award for heroism. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 250
Concorde Pair of Matched Signed Limited Edition Prints Bannister and Lidiard. Print 1 - Stunning Limited Edition Print Concorde End of an Era 16 x 12 inch size. Ending an historic chapter in Aviation History. Only 250 issued signed by Captain Mike Bannister who flew the last flight and Artist Ivan Berryman. Print 2 - Concorde A New Age Begins 1976 John Lidiard Signed Limited Edition Print. Stunning Limited Edition Print Concorde A New Era Begins 16 x 12 inch size. Commemorating the First Commercial Flight 24th January 1976. Only 250 issued signed by John Lidiard the Flight Engineer and only remaining flight crew member. He worked for BOAC / British Airways from 1954 to 1981. He was involved with the development of Concorde from 1965, He was on the very first airline assessment flight in 1969 of the prototype French Concorde. John was the Flight Engineer on the first Commercial Supersonic Service, London - Bahrain - London in 1976. Also signed by Artist Ivan Berryman. End of an Era - Taken from Concorde Original Painting acrylics on canvas By Ivan Berryman Commemorating the final landing in 2003 20 x 16 inch stunning image of the iconic plane. Ending an historic chapter in Aviation History. The final transatlantic flight, ending 27 years of supersonic history, carried 100 celebrities from New York and touched down at 1605 BST. As it did so, a huge cheer went up from the thousands of people gathered by the runway on a specially-built grandstand. Two other Concorde flights had already landed a few minutes earlier, one carrying competition winners on a flight from Edinburgh, and the other completing a trip for invited guests around the Bay of Biscay. Union Jacks All three aircraft taxied to the BA engineering base, the crews hanging out of the cockpit windows and waving Union Jacks to the crowds. Actress Joan Collins, who has flown Concorde about 10 times and was on board the flight from New York, said the end of the era was "tragic". "The first time I ever flew Concorde was a bit of a white knuckle ride. "I am more used to it now, it's so wonderful to make the journey in three and a half hours, " she said. British Airways has decided to retire the famous aircraft because it is no longer profitable. 'Sadness and celebration' Concorde's running costs have been spiralling at a time when ticket sales were dwindling in the wake of a catastrophic crash near Paris Charles de Gaulle airport three years ago in which 113 people died. British Airways chief executive officer Rod Eddington said there was a "mixture of sadness and celebration" about the retirement. "It is a wonderful plane, an icon, but its time has come, " he said. "It's an old plane - it doesn't look it - but it was designed in the 50s and built in the 60s." The plane, which cost passengers £9, 000 a ticket, reached 1, 350mph (2, 172 kph) and 60, 000 feet (18, 288 metres) over the Atlantic Ocean during its final flight. BA and Air France, who worked jointly on developing the aircraft, made an announcement on the retirement in April. The French Concorde's final flight was in May. Concorde A New Age Begins 1976 John Lidiard Signed Limited Edition Print. Stunning Limited Edition Print Concorde A New Era Begins 16 x 12 inch size. Commemorating the First Commercial Flight 24th January 1976. Only 250 issued signed by John Lidiard the Flight Engineer and only remaining flight crew member. He worked for BOAC / British Airways from 1954 to 1981. He was involved with the development of Concorde from 1965, He was on the very first airline assessment flight in 1969 of the prototype French Concorde. John was the Flight Engineer on the first Commercial Supersonic Service, London - Bahrain - London in 1976. Also signed by Artist Ivan Berryman. Taken from Concorde Original Painting acrylics on canvas A New Age Begins. Acrylics on canvas By Ivan Berryman Commemorating the First Commercial Flight 24/1/1976, which has its 40th ann in January 2016. 20 x 16 inch stunning image of the plane taking off. Ivan has tried to recreate the atmosphere, making sure that the iconic old control tower at Heathrow was included. Sadly, this too has now been demolished, so my painting is a record of how things were at the time. From London's Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight on January 21, 1976. The London flight was headed to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal in West Africa. At their cruising speeds, the innovative Concordes flew well over the sound barrier at 1, 350 miles an hour, cutting air travel time by more than half. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 3246
Trollope, Anthony. Castle Richmond, first edition in three volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1860, publisher's embossed cloth lettered in gilt, each volume bearing paper label for Hookham's Books, half-title present, publisher's advertisements (dated May, 1860). Together with The Last Chronicle of Barset, in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder, 1867, and two volumes of Goldsmith's Animated Nature, worn as found (7)
Lot 91
Charleton (Walter). Two Discourses. I. Concerning the Different Wits of Men. II. Of the Mysterie of Vintners. The Second Edition enlarged, London: by F. L. for William Whitwood, 1675, worming in gutter often encroaching on text, damp-staining to lower margins of A7-8 and fore margins of final quire Q, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo (17.1 x 10.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Shropshire. ESTC R7350; Gabler G15600; Wing C695. 'Contains wine recipes, and advice on how to "help wine with an ill flavour," and other wine related advice ... all sorts of concoctions are suggested to revive sour and ill tasting wines' (Gabler). The first edition was printed in 1669.
Lot 140
Florence . Galleria Dell' I. E Reale Accademia Delle Belle Arti di Firenze pubblicata con incisioni in rame da Una Societa Artistica..., 1845, Florence, Presso La Societa Artistica, 60 black & white engravings on India paper, decorative text boarders, very minor marginal toning, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated half vellum with marbled boards, boards & spine slightly rubbed, split to foot of the front hinge, folio, together with: Ephrussi (Charles) , Albert Durer et Ses Dessins, 1882, Paris, A. Quantin, numerous tinted & monochrome plates & illustrations, top edge gilt, bookplate to front pastedown, some light marginal toning & spotting, publishers original gilt decorated brown full crushed morocco, spine lightly rubbed, large 4to, and Nolhac (Pierre de) , Les Trianons (Les Grands Palais de France), Paris, circa 1900, 110 black & white plates, some light toning & marks, contemporary gilt decorated blue half morocco bound by Zaehnsdorf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, split to foot of the front hinge, folio, plus other late 19th century & modern Renaissance art & architecture reference & related, including The Fasciculus Medicinae of Johannes De Ketham Alemanus, facsimilie of the first (Venetian) edition of 1491, published by R. Lier & Co. 1924, Milan, Michelangelo The Medici Chapel, by James Beck et al, reprinted, 2000, some leather & vellum binding, mostly original cloth, 4to/folio (Qty: Approximately 60)
Lot 128
Baldinucci (Filippo), Notizie de Professori del Disegno da Cimbue in qua, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell'arti di pittura, scultura e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere Greca, e Gottica; si siano in questi secoli riditte all'antica loro perfezione, 1st edition, Florence, 1681, title with Medici woodcut arms, folding genealogical table, damp stain to first few leaves, later tree calf, spine worn, edges rubbed, 4to, together with Cominciamento e Progresso dell'arte dell'intagliare in Rame, 2nd edition, Florence, 1768, title with woodcut device, a little minor spotting, later half cloth, spine faded, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. First work: First issue (without privilege and errata leaves). The first of six volumes of Baldinucci's lives of artists, issued from 1681 to 1728 and covering the years 1260-1300, detailing artists such as Giotto, Cimabue and Oderisi da Gubbio. Second work: Cicognara 2201. The most important of the Florentine art historians (after Vasari), Filippo Baldinucci (1624-1697) was the first writer in Italy to mention Rembrandt’s etchings in this important history of the art of engraving.
Lot 251
Gosse (Edmund) . The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 2 volumes, limited editio, 1928, Franfrolico Press, black & white portrait frontispiece, some light marginal toning, publishers uniform original black cloth spine to decorated boards, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, limited edition 30/750, together with: Todhunter (I.) , William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, an account of his writings..., 2 volumes, 1876, bookplates to front endpapers, some spotting throughout, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Froude (James Anthony) , Thomas Carlyle, a history of the first forty years of his life 1795-1835, 4 volumes, 1882, black & white illustrations, ex-libris copy with associated stamps, some light toning & offsetting, uniform original red cloth, spines slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern history, biography & miscellaneous reference, including publications by Oxford, Cambridge, Routledge, Batsford, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)
Lot 96
Dolce (Lodovico). Di Diversi Eccellentiss Huomini, Raccolte da Diversi Libri: tra lequali se ne leggono molte, non piu stampate, Venice: Gabrie; Giolito de Ferrari, 1559, title and colophon with woodcut devices, bound without front and rear blanks, some light damp stains, early inscription excised from foot of title, manuscript annotations to front pastedown, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling and worming, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Collection of letters, first published in 1554, this edition omits some letters from the first edition and contains new ones not previously published.
Lot 233
Thayer (Lucian H.) . America's First Eagles, the official history of the U. S. Air Service, A. E. F. (1917-1918), limited 1st edition, 1983, U. S. A., signed by the editors to the limitation page, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed & chipped to head & foot, 8vo, limited edition 433/500, together with: Jarrett (Philip) , Modern Air Transport, worldwide air transport from 1945 to the present, 1st edition, 2000, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern aviation reference, including publications by Putnam, Airlife, Osprey, Pen & Sword, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 3 shelves)NOTESApproximately 100 volumes
Lot 3
Gordon (Charles). The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon at Kartoum, printed from the Original MSS. Introduction and Notes by A. Egmont Hake, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1885, etched portrait frontispiece, folding map, map in text, together with: Dickson (Wiliam Kirk), The Life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901, photogravure portrait frontispiece, Glover (Elizabeth Rosetta), Life of Sir John Hawley Glover, 1st edition, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897, 2 photogravure plates, 3 folding maps, Moore (John), The Diary of Sir John Moore, edited by J. F. Maurice, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1904, photogravure frontispiece, 7 folding maps, errata slips, Atkins (John Black), The Life of Sir William Howard Russell, the First Special Correspondent, 2 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1911, photogravure frontispieces, lending library labels removed from rear pastedowns, Funston (Frederick), Memories of Two Wars, Cuban and Philippine Experiences, 2 volumes, 1st UK edition, Constable & Co., Limited, 1912, photogravure frontispiece, 32 plates, Ogston (Alexander), Reminiscences of Three Campaigns, 1st edition, Hodder and Stoughton [circa 1920], frontispiece, folding plate , Melville (Charles Henderson), Life of General the Right Ho. Sir Redvers Buller, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1923, photogravure frontispieces, 2 plates, 2 folding maps, 1 text map, Rodd (James Rennell), Social and Diplomatic Memories (Second Series) 1894-1901, Egypt and Abyssinia, 1st edition, Edward Arnold & Co., 1923, photogravure portrait frontispiece, and 1 other work, all titles in original cloth, Gordon's with faded spines, Rodd's with dust jacket, very good condition, 8vo (Qty: 15)
Lot 122
Shepard (Thomas). The Sound Believer. A Treatise of Evangelical Conversion· Discovering the Work of Christs Spirit, in reconciling of a Sinner to God. By Thomas Shepard, somtimes [sic] of Emanuel Coledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word in New-England, London: Andrew Crooke, 1659, 32, 31-78, 81-334 pp., early manuscript ownership to title (recto & verso) and leaf A2, without final leaf (contents), title dust-soiled & frayed, last leaf of text detached and torn to lower outer corner, pencil notes and markings and some dust-soiling throughout, old marbled calf, rebacked, lower board detached spine torn at head & foot, 8vo (Wing S3138), together with: Burroughs (Jeremiah) , The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, Preacher of the Gospel to two of the greatest Congregations in England; viz. Stepney and Criplegate, London, 2 parts in one, London: Printed for Peter Cole, 1648, [16], 208, [4], 299-329 pp., without portrait frontispiece and bound without final 17 pages at rear (index), adhesive tape stain to gutter margin of title, slight worming to gutter margins and upper outer blank corners, front pastedown with deaccessioned library bookplate, contemporary sheep, old reback, adhesive tape to lower joint, worn at head & foot of spine, joints cracked & split, worn, 4to (Wing B6102), [Rawlet, John] , A Dialogue betwixt two Protestants, 4th edition, London: Samuel Tidmarsh, 1688, imprimatur leaf present, first gathering sprung, contemporary sheep, rodent damage to leather with some consequent loss, worn, 8vo, and 2 others, Primative Christianity: or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel, by William Cave, 1673, and A Vindication of the Divine Authority and Inspiration of the Writings of the Old and New Testament, by William Lowth, Oxford, 1692 (Qty: 5)
Lot 260
Schwerner (Armand) . Seaweed, limited edition, 1969, Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, signed by the author to the limitation page, publishers original decorated boards, 8vo, limited edition 114/750, together with: Griffiths (Bryn & Pip Benveniste) , Beasthoods, limited edition, 1972, Turret Books, 8 black & white illustrations, original cloth on dust jacket, spine lightly faded and rubbed to head & foot, 4to, limited edition of 300 copies, and Watkins (Vernon) , Dylan Thomas letter to Vernon Watkins, 1st edition, 1957, black & white portrait frontispiece, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Williams (Gywn) , The Burning Tree, poems from the first thousand years of Welsh Verse, 1st edition, 1956, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern poetry & poet biography, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 105
Juvenalis (Decimus Junius). Satyrae decem et sex, Paris: Simon de Colines, 1542, bound with a similar edition of Persius, (a2-8 b6, lacking title a1), gilt edges, c.1700 red goatskin gilt, some wear, 16mo (11.1 x 6.6 cm), together with: [Gauden, John], Eikon basilike [graece], London: [John Grismond], 1649, folding engraved frontispiece (variant: Madan 8, second state), engraved portrait (Madan 1, first state), both with later hand-colour, frontispiece strengthened verso, closely trimmed along fore edges in places, contemporary sheep, rubbed, joints cracked, rear board held by one cord only, 12mo (12 x 16.5 cm), Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de), The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... the Sixth Edition, carefully revised ... by J. Ozell, 4 volumes, London: for J. Knapton [and others], 1733, 9 engraved plates (of ?), engraved bookplates of Peter Du Cane, contemporary sprinkled calf, 12mo (16.2 x 9.5 cm) Rabelais (François), The Works, revised ... by Mr. Ozell, 5 volumes, London: J. Hughs, 1738, 15 engraved plates, engraved bookplates of Peter Du Cane, contemporary panelled calf, gilt spines, 12mo (15.9 x 8.7 cm), and 2 others (Sir Antony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James, 1650, and Francis Osborn, A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes ... 1659, both lacking portrait) (Qty: 13)NOTESAdams J762 (Juvenalis); ESTC R31988 (Gauden), T59503 (Cervantes), T13265 (Rabelais), Madan 28 (Gauden); Wing E297 (Gauden).
Lot 107
Mascardi (Agostino). Silvarum libri IV, 1st edition, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1622, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Theodoor Galle, final blank (2C4) discarded, title-page slightly soiled, damp-staining to gutter of initial 2 quires (*-2*), first quire (*) with shallow section of erosion to fore edges not affecting text or engraving, a few other marks, 19th-century drab paper boards, worn, 4to (23.6 x 17 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Title-Pages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXI), 48. The 'first book [of] contemporary poetry illustrated with a title-page by Rubens', of which 1,000 copies were printed (Bertram, Rubens as a Designer of Title-Pages, pp. 184 & 60). Ex-Jesuit Mascardi (1590-1640) was a prominent intellectual at the court of Pope Urban VIII.
Lot 136
Mardersteig (Giovanni). Die Officinaa Bodoni ,DassWerkkeinerrHandpressee 1923-1977, 1st edition, Hamburg, Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1979, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth gilt, with card slipcase, folio, together with Merian (Maria Sibylla), NeuesBlumenbuchh (Nurnberg 1680),Faksimileausgabee, 1966, colour illustrations, original quarter vellum gilt, with separate booklet of printed text, and card slipcase, folio, plus Goldschmidt (E.P.). The First Cambridge Press in its European Setting,Sandarss Lectures in Bibliography, 1953, Cambridge University Press, 1955, monochrome frontispiece and several plates, original cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 4to, and BremerPressee. Eranos, Hugo vonHofmannsthall, original etching by Ludwig vonHofmannn, original lithographs by MaxLiebermannn and EmilOrlikk, top edge gilt, original boards, some light soiling andbackstripp deficient, 4to, printed in an edition of 1050 copies, plus other bibliographical interest, history of printing, private press,etcc., including Muller-Krumbach, HarryGraff Kesslerundd die CranachPressee, 1969, HansFurstenbergg,Italienischenn Renaissance-Einbande, 1966, ReneBeehh,M'Barkaa, 1914,Voulliemee,DeutschennDruckerrdessFunfzehntennJahrhundertss,Zweiteeauflagee, 1922,etcc., almost all printed in German, mostly original cloth/boards, mainly 4to/8vo, but including some folios (approximately 40 volumes) (Qty: approx. 40)
Lot 113
Palazzi (Giovanni). Aquila Romana overo Monarchia Occidentale da Carlo Magno d'Occidente Imperador Primo sino alla Coronatione del Glorioso Leopoldo Primo ..., 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Pare, 1679, 48 full-page copper engravings in letterpress (some with show-through), without frontispiece, title printed in red & black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, first few leaves with minor worming at foot of gutter, front hinge cracked after endpapers, contemporary vellum, soiled with some wormholes, spine with some losses, lacking ties, folio (Qty: 1)
![* Bible [Persian; Old Testament]. Kitab al-Muqaddas wa-huwa kutub al-'ahd al-'atiq [Arabic title], London: British and Foreig](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a976293d-7931-4e40-a367-ab51010d94a3/f71d638f-367a-4b72-99e9-ab5a0107c60b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 86
* Bible [Persian; Old Testament]. Kitab al-Muqaddas wa-huwa kutub al-'ahd al-'atiq [Arabic title], London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1856, original full sheep by Watkin, binder to the Society (his ticket to rear pastedown), gilt spine-title, elaborate arabesque panelling to sides, joints tender, head of spine chipped, octavo (Qty: 1)NOTESThird edition of the pioneering translation by Scottish missionary William Glen (1779-1849) and his assistant Mirza Mohammad Ja'far, first published in 1845.
Lot 207
Vieth, Gerhard Ulrich Anton. Physikalischer Kinderfreund, volumes 1-8 (of 10) in 4, volumes 1-4 2nd edition, volumes 5-8 1st edition, Leipzig, 1801-1808 & 1802-1806, 18 engraved plates including some folding and two hand-coloured, folding table to volume 6, some engraved vignettes (including title vignettes to volumes 1-4 and 6) and occasional diagrams to text, small ink library stamp to lower outer corners of title-pages of volumes 1, 3, 5 & 7, paper repair to title of volume 5 without loss of text, contemporary boards with red leather spine labels, heavily rubbed and some edge wear, 8vo, together with [La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine, Pioche de la Vergne, Madame de)] , Zayde, Histoire Espagnole, par Monsieur de Segrais..., volume 1 only (of 2), Paris: Claude Barbin, 1670, bound without 'Un Traitte de l'Origine des Romans, par Monsieur Huet' which usually precedes the main text, some browning, old dampstaining and light soiling, marginal repairs to title-page fore-margin and at foot of final leaf without affecting text, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, upper joint near broken, some wear to extremities, small 8vo, plus Schubert (G.H.von) , Die Symbolik des Traumes, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, Leipzig, 1840, a little scattered light spotting or browning, engraved bookplate detached from front pastedown and adhesive remains to rear pastedown, old quarter cloth over tree boards with leather label to spine, rubbed and partly dampstained with loss at foot of spine, 8vo (Qty: 6)NOTESFirst item: This is probably the first German physics journal for children. Sold as a periodical not subject to return.
Lot 123
Tooke (John Horne). Epea Pteroenta. Or, the Diversions of Purley, 2 volumes, 2nd and 1st editions, printed for the author, 1798-1805, engraved frontispiece and errata leaf to each, some light spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, neatly rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. First edition of volume II, second edition of volume I. Tooke's magnum opus on language and nominalism, greatly inspired by Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, and contended that 'The business of the mind, as far as it concerns Language, appears to me to be very simple. It extends no farther than to receive Impressions, that is to have Sensations or Feelings. What are called its operations, are merely the operations of Language.' (volume I, p. 51).
Lot 93
Crescenzi (Giovanni Battista). Anfiteatro Romano nel quale con le Memorie de’ Grandi si rappilogano in parte l’Origine, & le Grandezze de’ Primi Potentati di Europa. Et descrivendosi i Principii, & l'Instituto di tutti gli Ordini Antichi, e Nuovi della Cavalleria di Collana, si rappresenta la Nobilita delle Famiglie Antiche, e Nuove della Regia Citta di Milano. Parte Prima [all published], 1st edition, Milan: Giovanni Battista & Giulio Cesare fratelli Malatesta, [1649], [16], 402 [i. e. 406] pages, large woodcut Milanese coat-of-arms to title, text in double column, full-page genealogical tables, woodcut initials, occasional woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light stain to upper inner margins, and lower outer corners at front of volume, minor scratches to final leaf and rear blank (very slightly affecting a few letters), marbled endpapers, later 19th century full plum morocco, spine lettered in gilt, a few minor marks, folio (34.2 x 23.3 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Brunet II, 418. First edition of this genealogical and heraldic study of the principal historic and noble families of Milan. A second edition, amplified by Count Giovanni Nicelli of Guardamiglio, was published in 1693 as Il Nobile Romano.
Lot 125
Wotton (Henry). Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art, 2nd edition with large additions, 1654, three engraved portraits (frontispiece with tear at gutter), erratic pagination, occasional light water stains and soiling, contemporary calf, some wear, 12mo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Harris pp. 499-502; Wing W3649. Contains Wotton's Elements of Architecture, first published in 1624, which was basically a translation of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's De Architectura, and 'the first theoretical work on the subject published in English.' (Harris).
Lot 169
A quantity of J K Rowling Harry Potter books, all 1st editions except for one Ted Smart Goblet of Fire edition, to include four in adult covers and two Goblet of Fire's, one without dust wrapper, Its Magic, box set of the first three books in the series, along with two Robert Gabbraith, (pseudonym for J K Rowling) Cornmoran Strike novels (20)
Lot 189
A SMALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS TO INCLUDE ANTHONY HYDE - 'CHINA LAKE' 1ST EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH A PERSONAL INSCRIPTION, BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD - 'A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE' SIGNED BY AUTHOR, CLAIRE TOMALIN - 'SAMUEL PEPYS THE UNEQUALLED SELF' SIGNED BY AUTHOR, C. LESTOCK REID - 'REVENGE WITH A VENGEANCE' 1ST EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET 1952 AND PHILIP McFARLAND - 'A HOUSE FULL OF WOMEN' - (ERROR IN BINDING - MISSING FIRST SECTION BUT SECOND SECTION BOUND TWICE)
Lot 764
Books - Ornithology - Scott (Peter): a two-page ink MS signed letter from the artist to Charles Garrett, written on H.M.S. Brooke, c/o G.P.O. notepaper while the artist was serving as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy during World War Two, the postal franking and Admiralty censorship stamp dated the same month (July 1941) that Scott was Mentioned-in-Despatches "for good services in rescuing survivors from a burning Vessel" while serving onboard the same ship, the letter itself regales its recipient with peace-time delights of shooting and the consumption of waterfowl, particularly ducks; the recipients's copies of - Morning Flight: A Book of Wildfowl, Illustrated with Reproductions from the Author's Paintings and a Self-Portrait, fourth impression of the first edition, London: Country Life Limited, 1939, blue cloth h/b, d/j, pictorial endpapers 4to; Wild Chorus, second impression of the first edition, London: Country Life Limited, 1939, green cloth h/b, d/j, pictorial endpapers, 4to; The Eye of the Wind: An autography, third impression of the first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961, blue cloth h/b, pictorial d/j after one of Scott's paintings, 8vo, (3), [4]
Lot 503
ART BOOKS. Four books: The Shining Sands, Artists in Newlyn & St. Ives 1880 - 1903, hardback by Tom Cross, 1999; Catching the Wave, First Edition hardback, by Tom Cross, 2002; Forty Years of Modern Art, 1945 - 1985, Tate Gallery 1986 & Portrait of David Hockney, a hard back First Edition by Peter Webb, 1988.
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RARE TRYAL OF WITCHES BOOK, 1682, ‘A TRYAL of WITCHES at the ASSIZES' held at Bury St Edmonds for the country of Suffolk; on the tenth day of March, 1664. Before Sir Matthew Hale. Taken by a person then attending court’, printed for William Shrewsbery at Bible in Duck Lane. 1682, 180 pages (2 missing) first edition, bound with another book 'A List of Infamous Impostors: or the Lives of several Notorious Counterfeits', 179 pages A first-hand account of the Trial of Rose Cullendar and Amy Duny who pleaded, at Bury St Edmunds before judge Mathew Hale, not guilty to charges of Witchcraft. They were found guilty and hanged. This is an eyewitness account of the trial. The 1662 trial This took place on 10 March 1662, when two elderly widows, Rose Cullender and Amy Denny, living in Lowestoft, were accused of witchcraft by their neighbours and faced thirteen charges of the bewitching of several young children between the ages of a few months to 18 years old, resulting in one death. They may have been aware of each other, inhabiting a small town, but Cullender was from a property-owning family, whilst Denny was the widow of a labourer. Their one other link was the fact that they had tried and failed to purchase herring from a Lowestoft merchant, Samuel Pacy. His two daughters, Elizabeth and Deborah, were 'victims' of the accused and, along with their aunt, Samuel Pacy's sister Margaret, gave evidence against the women. They were tried at the assizes held in Bury St Edmunds under the auspices of the 1603 Witchcraft Act, by one of England's most eminent judges of the time, Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The jury found them guilty of the thirteen charges of using malevolent witchcraft, and the judge sentenced them to death. They were hanged at Bury St Edmunds on 17 March 1662.
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WITCHCRAFT TODAY , Rider and Company 1954, by Gerald B Gardner, First Edition. 163 pp. Illustrations. Aquarian Press, London, 1959. First edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Red cloth binding and dust jacket Published in 1954, 'Witchcraft Today' recounts Gardner's thoughts on the history and the practices of the witch-cult, and his claim to have met practising witches in 1930s England. It also deals with his theory that the Knights Templar had practised the religion, and that the belief in faeries in ancient, mediaeval and early modern Europe is due to a secretive pygmy race that lived alongside other communities. 'Witchcraft Today' is one of the foundational texts for the religion of Wicca, along with Gardner's second book on the subject, 'The Meaning of Witchcraft', 1959.
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Two boxes of books including antique and vintage furniture, silver hallmarks, Sheffield plate, painters, engravers, porcelain reference books including signed porcelain reference books by the author Geoffrey Godden, Pictures of Rustic Landscape by Birket Foster first edition, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale (in case), Regency Furniture Designs by John Harris in wallet, English Goldsmith's and Their Marks 2nd edition.
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AN 18TH CENTURY POSSIBLY WORCESTER SUCRIER AND COVER together with a Royal Crown Derby Imari pattern pin dish, a Spode bisque porcelain bust of Winston Churchill from the first edition of 1965, a cut glass celery vase, four plates depicting famous politicians to include Lloyd George and Disraeli, a Wedgwood ring stand etc
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DEUCHER (SYBIL), WHEELER (OPAL), GIOTTO TENDED THE SHEEP, First Edition, illutrated by Dorothy Bayley, published by E. P. Dutton & Company Inc., Newyork 1938, illustrated with colour plates, dust cover, with SOUTHBY (LOGI), THE WHITE DRAGON, published by The Griffon Press Ltd, London 1934 (2)
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