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Click here to subscribeIan McShane and the author Jonathan Cash signed First Edition paperback book Jade Woman. A Lovejoy Novel of Suspense. Ian McShane played Lovejoy in the TV series. Signatures on inside page. Good condition with 273 pages. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Hospice Charity. 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.
The Pictorial Encyclopaedia of Railways hardback book by Hamilton Ellis. Second edition, ninth impression 1985. Over 800 pictures and 30,000 words of captions tell the story of railways from the first Babylonian rutways to the 160 mph Tokaido Line trains. Good condition with dust jacket. 591 pages. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Hospice Charity. 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.
Allied Expeditionary Force Displaced Persons Registration instructions, produced June 1944 in nineteen language chapters; Your Journey to Germany - first edition pamphlet relating to two ships - The Empire Halladale and The Empire Trooper, outlining a family's journey from Tilbury to Cuxhaven, produced August 1946; also HQ British Troops Berlin issued pamphlet on Berlin, produced 1946 with a foreword by Major General EP Nares (3)
Children's Books and Illustrators - Barrie (J.M.), Peter Pan and Wendy, Illustrated in Colour and Black & White by Mabel Lucie Attwell, London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [n.d. c. 1920], pictorial orange cloth, tall 8vo; Rutter (Owen), The Dragon of Kinabalu, with Eight Illustrations in Colour by Mary Penrose-Thackwell, London: Clement Ingleby, [n.d 1923], contemporary green cloth over marbled boards, 4to; Hoffmann (Dr Heinrich), Struwwelpeter, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., [n.d., c. 1930], contemporary red cloth spine over pictorial boards, 4to; Jerome (Jerome K.), Three Men in a Boat [...], Illustrations by A. Frederics, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889, pictorial blue cloth as issued, 12mo; Hillyard (M.D.): Peggy's Giant, 1920 & Peggy and the Giant's Aunt, 1921, both London: A. & C. Black, Ltd, colour frontispieces and full-page plates, pictorial boards, 8vo, (faults), (2); Pope (Jessie), Bobbity Flop [...], Pictures by Angusine Macgregor, London: Blackie and Son Limited, [n.d. 1918], pictorial covers, oblong 8vo; Beatrix Potter, various, h/b, d/j, (6); E.H. Shepard; others, late 19th century and onwards, various bindings and sizes, [qty]
Literature, Children's Books and Illustrators - Doyle ([Arthur] Conan), Adventures of Gerard, first edition, London:George Newnes, Limited, [n.d. 1903], contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (worn); Carroll (Lewis), Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, with Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel, first edition, second impression, London: Macmillan & Co., 1872, contemporary gilt pictorial red cloth, 8vo, (worn); Ingoldsby (Thomas), [psued. Barham (Richard)], Ye Jackdaw of Rheims: An Antient (sic) Ballade (sic) [...], Illustrations by Ernest Maurice Jessop, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [n.d., c. 1880], lithographic pages printed with illustrations accompanying text, contemporary pictorial binding (worn, disbound), flyleaf with presentation illumination and inscription, folio; another imprint, Illustrated by Lucius Rossi, [n.d., c. 1890], 8vo; Sewell (Anna), Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour [...] by Cecil Aldin: London: Jarrolds, [n.d. 1912], pictorial green cloth, 4to; further illustrators; caricatures and cartoons; Rudyard Kipling; Scott (Sir Walter), The Waverley Novels, The Melrose Edition, twenty-seven volume set, London: The Caxton Publishing Co., London [n.d., c. 1890], contemporary green cloth, upper-covers with blindstamped coat of arms as issued, 8vo, (27), [42]
Literature and Classics - Scottish Imprint, Scott (Sir Walter), The Vision of Don Roderick; A Poem, first edition, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co, 1811, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards (worn, rubbed), 4to; Campbell (Thomas), Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvanian Tale, and Other Poems, first edition, London: Printed by T. Bensley [...], 1809, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards (worn, rubbed), 4to; Bloomfield (Robert), The Farmer's Boy [...], sixth edition, London: Vernor and Hood [...], 1802, engraved frontispiece, full-page plates and vignettes, contemporary mottled calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Falconer (William), The Shipwreck [...], London: [...] Allman, 1821, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, endpapers en suite, 12mo; Southey (Robert), Roderick, The Last of the Goths, fifth edition, two-volume set, London: Longman [...], 1818, contemporary calf, blind tooled covers, gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, 12mo, (2); Pollok (Robert), The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books, fourth edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1828, contemporary calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Byron and other Romantic poets, various; Johnson's Works, various, full-page portrait engravings, contemporary calf, gilt Adamesque spines, 8vo, (12), (faults, disbound, rubbed, worn and fragmentary); Walker (John), A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary [...], tenth edition, London: J. Johnson, 1811, contemporary calf, marbled endpapers, contemporaneous ink MS ownership to flyleaf: Miss Ainsworth, Bishop Gale House, Wigan, Sept: 13th 1812, 8vo; Dickens (Charles), Household Words: Christmas Numbers, 1851-1858, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Thomas Hood, (2); Tennyson; Longfellow; Tupper (Martin F.), Proverbial Philosophy, eighteenth edition, London: T. Hatchard, 1854, contemporary calf gilt, 12mo; Pope's Translation, Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey, London: J. Walker, 1808 & 1811, publisher's boards, 16mo; Dyrden's Translation: Works of Virgil, London: J. Walker, 1811, pubisher's boards, 16mo; Phædri Fabulæ [...], Londini: In Ædibus Valpianis [...], 1816, contemporary sheep, 12mo; Ovid; Xenophon; etc
Miscellaneous Fiction - Tilsey (Frank), I'd Do It Again, first edition, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd., contemporary black cloth only, 8vo; Kipling (Rudyard), Plain Tales from the Hills, third edition, London: Macmillan and Co, London 1890, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo; Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Silmarillion, edited by Christopher Tolkien, first American edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977, h/b, pictorial d/j after drawings by the author, 8vo; Melville (Herman), Moby Dick [...], London: Jonathan Cape, 1926, colour frontispiece, later three-quarter green morocco over red cloth, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Robert Louis Stevenson; J.M. Barrie; Hilaire Belloc; Henry Miller; Cecil Chesterton; Folio Society; Scotland and Scottish interest, various; Guy Boothby; pictorial cloth bindings, others, some part-leather; etc, [27]
Politics - The Conservative Party, Signed and Dedicated Copies: Heseltine (Michael), Where There's A Will, first edition, London: Hutchinson 1987, h/b, d/j, 8vo; two copies, Tebbit (Norman), Upwardly Mobile, first edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (2); Currie (Edwina), Life Lines, first edition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Thatcher (Carol), Below the Parapet, The Biography of Denis Thatcher, first edition, London: Harper Collins, 1996, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (5); Debrett's People of Today: 1995 & 2001, h/b, d/j, 4to, (2); Debrett's Distinguished People of Today, 1988, h/b, d/j, large 8vo, [8]
Miscellaneous - Hunting - Anon, [Surtees (Robert Smith)], "Ask Mamma;", or, The Richest Commoner in England, with Illustrations by John Leech, first edition, London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [n.d. 1858], full-page colour plates and monochrome wood engraved illustrations throughout text, contemporaneous half-calf over cloth boards, 19th century book label to recto pastedown: General Rice, Codford St. Peter, [Wiltshire], 8vo; Selous (Frederick Courteney), A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa [...], fifth edition, Macmillan and Co., Liimited, 1925, illustrated, contemporary red cloth, 8vo; Greenwood (James), Wild Sports of the World: A Book of Natural History and Adventure, London: S.O. Beeton, 1864, chromolithograph frontispiece, monochrome line engraved illustrations, contemporary green cloth, 8vo (worn, loose); Hunting Lays and Hunting Ways [...], Collected and Recollected by Lady Birkett [...], London: John Lane, 1924, pictorial cloth, 4to; others; Howitt (Mary), Pictures from Nature, with Twelve Illustrations Beautifully Printed in Colours, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869, relayed contemporary gilt pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo; Guns - Cunningham (Eugene), Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters, [...], Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1956, pictorial cloth, 8vo; Gunsmiths, (2); etc., [14]
Nineteenth-Century Thought - Natural History and Anthropology - Darwin (Charles), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Popular Impression [...], Issued with the Approval of the Author's Executors, London: John Murray, 1902, contemporary green cloth, 8vo; Haeckel (Ernst): The History of Creation [...], Translation Revised by E. Ray Lankester [...], fourth edition, second impression, two-volume set, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1899, lithograph frontispiece, fold-out map and full-page plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2), &, The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy [...], Translated by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co., 1910, original wrappers, 8vo; Ripley (William Z), The Races of Europe [...], London: Kegan Paul, Trunch, Trübner & Co., 1900, 20th century institutional red cloth, University of Manchester presentation plate, 8vo; Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume III, 1865; Volume V, 1867; Volume VI, 1868; Volume XXIII, 1894; &, Volume XXIV, 1895, harlequin bindings, 8vo, (5); Magenta, [Mahon (Maurice Hartland)], The Treatment of Our Domesticated Dogs, second edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, contemporary pictorial purple cloth gilt, 12mo; Forrest (Col. Chris.), The Complete American Farrier, and Horse Doctor [...], London: W. Nicholson & Sons, [n.d., c. 1870], pictorial cloth, 12mo; Botany, Culpepper's British Herbal and Family Physician, London: Milner & Company Ltd., [n.d., c. 1860], colour plates, green cloth, 8vo; Politics and Philosophy - Mill (John Stuart), Three Essays on Religion [...], first edition, London: Longmans [...], 1874, contemporary green cloth, 19th century pasted botanical specimen to flyleaf inscribed in ink MS: Leaf of French Honeysuckle from J.S. Mill's Grave, Avignon, 8vo; The Philosophical Works of David Hume [...], four-volume set, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards (some disbound, loose), 8vo, (4); Whately (Richard, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin), Elements of Rhetoric [...], seventh edition, London: B. Fellowes, 1846, contemporary polished calf gilt, crested ownership stamp to title-page, later 19th century Welsh lady's book label: Sarah Atkinson, Bangor, 8vo; Richard Cobden; etc
Miscellaneous - [Galt (John)], George the Third, His Court, and Family, two-volume set, London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824, stipple-engraved portrait profile frontispieces and full-page plates, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt and blind tooled, the spines further gilt tooled and lettered (rubbed, scuffed and chipped), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary Plain Armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: John White, later 20th century armorial bookplates opposite: Robert Innes-Smith, 8vo, (2); Robertson (William), The History of the Reign of Charles V [...], fourteenth edition, four-volume set, London: Printed for Cadell and Davies [...], 1817, contemporary publisher's boards, 20th century armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: Robert Innes-Smith, 8vo, (4); National Portrait Gallery, an album of lithographic plates of 19th century statesmen and politicians, [London c. 1875], contemporary half-calf and cloth, marbled endpapers, 20th century armorial bookplate: Robert Innes-Smith, 4to; [Scott (Sir Walter)], The Fortunes of Nigel, first edition, three-volume set, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable [...], 1822, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards by J. Neilson of Glasgow, his ticket, (faults, worn and disbound), 12mo, (3); further 19th century literature and belles lettres, including Shakespeare, various contemporary leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes; Theology: [Allestree (Richard)], The Whole Duty of Man [...], London: Printed for W. Bent [...], [n.d. 1810], engraved frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, 8vo; Perrin (John), Entertaining and Instructive Exercises, with the Rules of the French Syntax, twelfth edition, London: Printed for Law and Whittaker [...], 1815, contemporary calf, 12mo; Victorian prize binding; etc, [21]
Cricket - Local Provenance, Anon, [Pycroft (James)], Cricketana, first edition, London: Longman [...], 1865, pp: [2], [i]-vi, [1]-238, advertisement [2], illustrated with 5 full-page line engravings of famous 19th century cricketers, 20th century green cloth, enclosing and preserving the contemporary yellow endpapers, recto pastedown neatly inscribed and dated in ink MS: Newton Solney Parochial Library, [Derbyshire], June 1868, their contemporary label to opposite flyleaf and numbered 325/4, 12mo
The Office of the Holy Week According to the Missall (sic) and Roman Breviary, Translated out of French, With a new and ample explication taken out of the Holy Fathers, of the Myfteries, Ceremonies, Gofpels, Lefsons, Pfalsm, and of all that belongs to his Office, Enricht (sic) with Many Figures, first English edition of the French Catholic liturgy from Palm Sunday to Low Sunday, Paris: Printed by the Widow Chrestien, 1670, pp: [6], 571, 562-578, 589-611, [1], dual Latin and English text in double-columns, illustrated with 7 full-page engravings by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), additional early 19th century stipple-engraved frontispiece contemporary to later binding early 19th century black morocco gilt, the boards with a strapwork field with anthemion-capped scrolling leafy stems at angles, five-compartment spine lettered in the second, the others with scrolling devices, raised bands, all edges gilt, additional preliminary blank leaves either side of text block, 8vo, (Wing O 150; Pennington I, 78-84)
History - British and European - English Civil War and Commonwealth: Warwick (Sir Philip), Memoires (sic) or Reflexiones (sic) upon the Reigne (sic) of King Charles I, ? first edition, London, R. Chiswell, ?1701, lacking title-page and prelims, late 18th/early 19th century marbled boards, traces of perished calf spine, 8vo; Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659 [...], four-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1828, engraved frontispiece to volume I-III, contemporary marbled boards, volume I rebacked, the remaining spines fragmentary or exposed, 8vo, (4); Tyler (J. Endell), Henry of Monmouth: or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth, as Prince of Wales and King of England, two-volume set, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf over moiré boards, Royal Naval College Library, Greenwich, bookplates, 8vo, (2); Watson (Robert), The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, fifth edition, three-volume set, London: A. Strahan [...], 1794, contemporary speckled calf, marbled endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplates: Thomas France, 8vo, (3); Towers (Joseph), Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick, the Third King of Prussia, second edition, two-volume set, London: Charles Dilly, London 1795, contemporary speckled calf, marbled endpapers, conforming bookplate to the latter set, 8vo, (2); Vertot (Abbot [René-Aubert]), The History of the Revolutions in Spain [...], volume I: parts I & II only, London: W. Mears [...], 1724, disbound contemporary calf, anonymous Plain Armorial bookplate: Thomas France, 8vo; Coxe (William), Memoirs of Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon [...], volumes I & III only, London: Longman [...], 1813, contemporary calf, gilt, contemporary ink MS ownership inscriptions: Harriet Elizabeth Effingham [4th Countess of Effingham, 4to, (2); other bindings, (2), [17]
Local Interest - Markham (Violet R.), Paxton and The Bachelor Duke, London: Hodder & Houghton, 1935, relayed contemporary black cloth, 8vo; Lees-Milne (James), The Bachelor Duke: A Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858, inscribed and signed by the author, first edition, London: John Murray, 1991, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Harley: (Basil) & (Jessie), A Gardener at Chatsworth: Three Years in the Life of Robert Aughtie, 1848-1850, Hanley Swan: 1992, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (3); Miscellaneous - Debrett's 1963; Kelly's Handbook 1968; Beaton (Cecil), The Wandering Years, Diaries: 1922-1939, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Somerville and Ross, various, h/b, d/j, (3), [9]
Pocock (W[illiam] F[uller]), Designs for Churches and Chapels of Various Dimensions and Styles; Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections: with Estimates, Also Some Designs for Altars, Puplits, and Steeples, third edition, London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835, pp: [1]-28, 44 full-page copperplate engravings, contemporary printed papered boards, 4to; Pugin (A[ugustus] Welby, Architect, and Professor of Ecclesiastical Antiquities in that College), The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture: Set Forth in Two Lectures Delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott, first edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853, contemporary boards (worn with losses, disbound), 4to; Cutts (The Rev. Edward L., B.A.), A Manual for the Study of The Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle Ages, first edition, London: John Henry Parker, 1849, full-page wood engravings by Orlando Jewitt (1799-1869), contemporary cloth, 8vo; Stone (Mrs), God's Acre: or, Historical Notices Relating to Churchyards, London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858, title printed in red and black, contemporaneous institutional leather over boards, 8vo; Andrews (William), Curious Epitaphs, London: William Andrews & Co., 1899, contemporary blue cloth, floral endpapers, 8vo; further volumes on epitaphs, graveyards, death and the macabre in history, 19th century and later, various sizes and bindings; etc
Nineteenth-Century & Later Miscellany - The Steam Engine; or Guide Book for Engineers, London: Fisher & Son [...], [n.d., c. 1860], contemporary red cloth paperback covers, 12mo; further railway and train interest; Nesbit's Mensuration, London: Longman Brown [...], 1850, illustrated, green calf, 8vo; [Philp (Robert Kemp), Consult Me [...], London: W. Nicholson & Sons, [n.d., c. 1890], illustrated, contemporary red cloth, 8vo; poetry, including Housman (A.E.), A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press Ltd., 1936, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Bradley (William Aspenwall), Garlands and Wayfarings, first and limited edition of 450, Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1917, contemporary boards only, 8vo; Walter de la Mare; novels, including Haggard (H. Rider), Montzeuma's Daughter, London: George Newnes, Limited, [n.d., 1902], printed in double-columns, monochrome plates, later paper wrappers, 8vo; The Brethren, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [n.d/], contemporary cloth, 8vo; Stowe (Harriet Beecher), Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Stamp, London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856, contemporary cloth, 8vo; Cooper [James Fenimore]: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, London: Printed for T. Allman [...], 1837, additional stipple-engraved title-page, contemporary cloth, 8vo; The Red Rover: A Tale, Liverpool: Printed for Adam Clarke Baynes [n.d., c. 1835], contemporary cloth, 8vo; another edition, later imprint, 1839, contemporary cloth, 8vo; Libbey (Laura Jean), Leonie Locke; or, The Romance of a Beautiful New York Working-Girl, ?first edition, London: Milner and Company, Limited, [n.d., c. 1890], red cloth, 8vo; Jerome (Jerome K.), Three Men in a Boat [...], Illustrations by A. Frederics, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889, pictorial cloth, 8vo; Maurier (George du), Trilby: A Novel, first edition, London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912, contemporary cloth, 8vo; others; Washington Irving, various; illustrated works; qty
Americana - Provincial Imprint, Wansey (Henry), The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, In the Summer of 1794 [...], first edition, Salisbury: Printed and Sold by J. Easton [...], 1796, pp: [3], vi-xiii, [3], 290 (page 41 erroneously numbered 14), index [12], errata [1], stipple engraving portrait silhouette frontispiece of George Washington, three-fold monochrome aquatint of the State House at Philadelphia, contemporary publisher's boards as issued, from the: Library of Hugh Edwin Strickland, printed red label on title-page dated 1853 within the plate, the half-title pasted down to recto pastedown and now acts as an endpaper with the earlier ownership stamp of Strickland below a later MS ownership inscription dated 1900, 8voProvenance: Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853), well-regarded English geologist and natural historian who was killed near Retford in 1853 when he was hit by a train when examining visible geological strata in the cuttings. Strickland's date of death and the dated label on the title-page imply that this copy was sold in a dispersal sale or auction of his books after his death rather than being commissioned as a mark of ownership by the then 42 year-old gentleman before his demise that September.
Music - Prince Opus: 21 Nights, first limited edition of 950, edited by Prince [Rogers Nelson], [Liverpool]: Opus Media, 2009, illustrated throughout and embellished with song, iPod en suite with 40-minute movie by Prince, full purple leather binding, the cushioned upper-cover applied with the artist's monogram in cut and pierced gilt brass, all edges gilt, the monogram repeated to spine in gilt, purple cloth solander presentation case en suite, monogrammed card box, oblong medium folio
Fréart (Roland, Sieur de Chambray), Parallel of the Antient (sic) Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have written upon the Five Orders [...], The three Greek Orders [...] comprife the Firft Part of this Treatife, And the two Latine (sic) [...], Written in French [...], Made Englifh for the Benefit of Builders [...], To which is added an Account of Architects and Architecture, in an Hiftorical, and Etymological Explanation of certain Tearms (sic) particularly affected by Architects, With Leon Baptifta Alberti's Treatife of Statues [...], By John Evelyn Efq; Fellow of the Royal Society, first edition, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for John Place [...] Holborn, 1664, pp: [22], 159, [1] (page 101/102 misbound between 110 & 111; engraved title, title-page, 65/66 & 153-154 supplied in facsimile), paginated full-page architectural full-page engravings, head- and tailpieces, historiated initial, 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, seven-compartment spine divided by raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the remainder tooled with ribbon-tied anthemions, crown folio Condition Report: 4 leaves supplied in facsimile and 101/102 misbound, as catalogued. Some archive repairs, dormant worming in places affecting plate and/or text. Some ink stains to margins. Some fraying tears to margins but light and stable. Some water stains affecting plates. Binding good, text tight and secure.
Martyn (William), The Historie (sic) and Lives, of the Kings of England: From William the Conqueror, unto the end of the Raigne (sic) of King Henry the Eighth, With other ufefull (sic) Obferuations (sic), second edition, London: Printed for James Boler, 1628, [issued and bound with], The Successions of the Dukes and Earles (sic) of This Kingdome (sic) of England: From the Conquest untill (sic) the twelfth year of the famous Reigne (sic) of the mightie (sic) Monarch King James the First, London: Printed for George Tompfon, 1628, pp: woodcut allegorical-architectural title-page, [26], 420; &, [68] (inclusive of separate title-page with printer's device above colophon), both texts black-ruled throughout, woodcut allegorical headpieces and historiated initials, later 17th/18th century fragmentary calf spine over boards (loose/disbound), slightly later ink MS ownership inscription at page 88: Thomas Green His Bo[ok], 8vo; Mackenzie & Dent's Select Biography, London: 1797, defective copy lacking title-page, prelims but some plates, contemporary calf (faults), 1950s pictorial vinyl wrap, 8vo, [2]
James Bond, 007 - Fleming (Ian): Goldfinger, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, h/b, d/j designed by Richard Chopping (1917-2008), 12mo; The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, h/b, d/j designed by Chopping again, 12mo, [2] Condition Report: N.B. Goldfinger dustjacket worn with losses, recto and verso blank flyleaves torn out - possibly removing ex-lib stamps? - and resulting in marginal scars to interior gutter and pastedowns.
Comic Art - Crowquill (Alfred), [pseud. Forrester (Alfred Henry)], The Tutor's Assistant, or Comic Figures of Arithmetic; Slightly Altered and Elucidated from Walking-game [...], first edition, London: J and F. Harwood, London 1843, pp: [i]-xiv, [2], [1]-128, caricature line engraved frontispiece of Mr Cocker and his Family and further humorous 'cartoons' throughout, contemporary green cloth by Remnant & Edmonds, [London], their ticket to verso, ell edges gilt, Seal Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown: Horatio Noble Pym, the well-known confidential solicitor and book collector, 12mo
[Jortin (John)], The Life of Erasmus, first edition, two-volume set, London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1758-1760, pp: [iii], iv-vi, [2], 630, [2]; [iv], 753, [1], lacking portrait frontispieces yet each volume illustrated with 2 full-page engraved manuscript facsimiles of Erasmus's and other humanists' handwriting, lacking portrait frontispieces, rebacked contemporary speckled calf boards, speckled red edges, contemporary Chippendale Armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: Southouse, 4to, [2]
Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first de luxe edition first printing & with typographical errors: copyright page consecutively numbered 10 to 1, Text [by] Joanne Rowling and a block of text misaligned on page 7, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, pp: [7], 8-317, contemporary green cloth gilt as issued, upper-cover with inset pictorial illustration, all edges gilt, silk place marker en suite, green endpapers, 8vo
Classics - [Petronius], Petronii Arbitri Satyricon [...], [Leiden]: Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1604, wooduct printer's device on title-page, 18th century speckled boards with contemporary ink MS ownership inscription to pastedown above a puce library stamp of a German noble family, their coat of arms replicated to verso of title-page in watercolour and gouache, 32mo; [Cicero], M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera Omnia [...], four volumes only: volumes I, II (as 2 parts bound separately) and IV, Halae [Halle/Saale]: Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1756-1757, volume I with engraved frontispiece by Christian Friedrich Boetius (1706-1782), title-pages with engraved and/or woodcut vignettes, contemporary vellum over marbled boards, each pastedown with a slightly later armorial bookplate of a French comte, early 19th century and later ink MS inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages, 8vo, (4); Plutarch's Lives, Tranflated from the Greek [...], volumes II, III & V only, London: Printed for Jacob Tonfon [...], 1711, engraved frontispieces, contemporary panelled calf rebacked, contemporary ink MS ownership inscriptions to title-pages: Robert Davenport, 8vo, (3); Britannicus, [Gordon (Thomas)], The Conspirators; or, The Case of Catline, [...], sixth edition, London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1721, disbound, 8vo; [Virgil], P. Virgilii Maronis, Opera [...], [edited by Gilbert Wakefield], volume II only, Londini: Impensis Kearsley, 1796, tipped-in 17th century frontispiece, 19th century purple morocco gilt and blind, all edges gilt and gilt dentelles, bookseller's ticket, 12mo; [Sallust], G. Crispi Sallustii, Opera Quae Exstant Omnia, Cum Indicibus Curante I.L. Burnovf, Augustae Taurinorum [Turin]: 1827, engraved frontispiece, contemporary vellum over marbled boards, 8vo; Heineccius (Johann Gottlieb), Antiquitatum Romanarum Jurisprudentiam Illustrantium Syntagma [...], Argentorati [Strasbourg]: 1730, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Jacob Andreas Friedrich (1684-1751), slightly later 18th century calf contemporary with ownership stamp: J. Ruggles, Trin. Hall, [Cambridge], 8vo; American Imprint, Mair (John), Introduction to Latin Syntax [...], first American edition, Philadelphia, 1799, contemporary calf, 12mo; Sander's The Institutes of Justinian, fourth edition, London: 1869, contemporary cloth, 8vo; odd volumes of Virgil, Horace, primary and secondary histories, bindings, various, [22]
Ornithology - Provincial Imprint, Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds, first edition, two-volume set, Newcastle: Printed by Charles Henry Cook, for R.E. Bewick [...], 1832, wood engraved title-page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, with illustrations throughout, rebacked contemporary marbled boards, 8vo, (2); Yarrell (William, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S.), A History of British Birds, Illustrated by 550 Wood-Engravings [...], third edition, two-volume set, London: John Van Voorst, 1856, rebacked contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (3), [5]
Ornithology - Maynard [Charles Johnson], Eggs of North American Birds, Illustrated with Ten Hand-Coloured Plates, first edition, Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co, 1890, pp: [i]-iv, [1]- 149, advertisement leaf for the purchase of bird egg specimens [2], 10 full-page lithograph plates with contemporary hand-colouring, contemporary green cloth as issued, flyleaf inscribed and dated June 27th 1892 in ink MS, 8vo
Dickens (Charles), The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with Illustrations by Phiz, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844, pp: [i]-xiv, [2], 624, 37 full-page caricature cartoons by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), rebacked contemporary red-stained half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges, later endpapers, 8vo; Thackeray (William Makepeace), Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, the engraved title-page and novel prefixed by 6 leaves of a contemporary newspaper or periodical review of the work, clipped and pasted on sheets then bound in, contemporaneous half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, contemporary book label to recto pastedown: Henry W. Martin, later inscribed and dated Dec: 1861, 8vo, [2]
Theology - Saint Irenaeus, First Bishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, Prières et pratiques du séminaire de Saint-Irénée de Lyon, approuvées par Monseigneur l'Archevêque, Pair & Primat de France, Comte de Lyon, second edition, Lyon: De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé Delaroche, [n.d., 1739], pp: [iv], 268, xxxii, anachronistic woodcut printer's device to title-page, some headers, tacked contemporaneous vellum manuscript palimpsest covers, some inscriptions and various 18th century dates to each pastedown, 16mo (15.3cm x 8.8cm)No copies listed on Copac. Rare but arid.
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - The Earl of Sefton's Copies: The History of the Campaign of 1796 In Germany and Italy, Translated from the French [...] [&] 1799, In Holland [...], first English editions?, two volumes, London: Printed by J. Barfield, 1800-1801, illustrated with 6 fold-out maps, slightly later 19th century half-calf and marbled boards, buff endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: William Philip Earl of Sefton, Croxeth Library, [West Derby, Liverpool], 8vo, (2); The History of the Campaign of 1799 (erroneous?, 1796?), In Germany and Switzerland [...] [&] 1797, In Italy and Germany, second edition, two volumes, London: Printed by J. Barfield [...], 1801, 8 fold-out maps and plans, contemporary diced half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo, (2), [4]
Literature, Bindings - Eton Interest, Gray (Thomas), Poems, Eton College: Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 1907, contemporary armorial three-quarter calf over green cloth by the Spottiswoode bindery, stamped, each cover gilt-blocked with the coat of arms of The Rev. Hon. Edward Lyttelton (1855-1942, First-Class Cricketer, England Footballer and Eton Headmaster), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to; The Plays of J.M. Barrie, Uniform Edition, seven volumes only, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [n.d. 1929], contemporary Eton College binding of blue-half morocco over cloth, upper-cover gilt blocked with school arms, marbled endpapers, tickets of B.H. Blackwell Ltd., Oxford, 8vo, (7); Hall [Anna Maria], Sketches of Irish Character, second edition, London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831, contemporary red half-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Works of Douglas Jerrold [...], four-volume set, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1863-1864, contemporary half-morocco over marbled boards (rubbed), marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (4); Hook (Theodore), Precepts and Practice, Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1840, contemporary English green three-quarter calf over marbled boards, 8vo; Armorial Vellum Binding, The Golden Treasury, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892, contemporary armorial Tonbridge School prize binding of full vellum gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Carlyle (Thomas), On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1901, contemporary half-morocco over cloth, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Procter (Adelaide Anne), Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses, London: George Bell & Sons, 1892, contemporary green calf over cloth, gilt Art Nouveau spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; American Imprint, Slick (Samuel, of Slickville), [Haliburton (Thomas Chandler)], The Clockmaker [...], Second Series, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840, contemporary boards, 8vo; etc., various bindings and sizes
"The Play's the Thing", by Enid Blyton, illustrated by Alfred Bestall, published 1927 by Newnes Home Library, together with "The Book of Old English Songs and Ballards" illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, published by Hodder & Stoughton, and "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published by George Harrap & Co Ltd, 1929, first edition, and "The Complete Limerick Book" by Langford Reed, illustrated by H M Bateman, published by Jarrolds, 1924
The King James Bible 1611, Folio & Lectern-Size, 32 leaves only, first edition: first or second issue, London: Robert Barker, 1611, the main corpus of the text printed in Blackletter Gothic typeface, books, chapters and sub-text in Roman typeface, each leaf woodcut head- and/or tail-pieces with folaited and/or historiated initials, black-ruled throughout, comprising Old Testament: I Samuel (2pp), I Kings (2pp), 1 Chronciles (4pp), 2 Chronicles (2pp), Psalms (12pp, CVI:15to CXXIIII:7/2), Proverbs (20pp, IV:7/2 to XIX:27 & XXII:13/2 to XXXI:31) Lamentations of Jeremiah (2pp), Jonah (2pp), Nahum (2pp), Zechariah (2pp), Malachi (4pp & the Book complete in itself, I:1 to IIII:6); New Testament: Matthew (2pp), Romans (2pp); Apocrypha: 1 Esdras (2pp), Judith (2pp), Esther (2pp), The Song of the Three Holy Children (2pp); unless stated and/or collated in each fragmentary Book of more than one leaf the register is not continuous - but for sections of the Psalms, Proverbs and Malachi (the latter complete in itself) as catalogued, Royal folio (40.6cm x 27.5cm), [32] Unfortunately due to the absence of Ruth III:15, Exodus XIV:10, & XXXVIII:11, Genesis X:16, Leviticus XIII:56 and further typographical 'tells' there is no way to distinguish these harlequin gatherings from either being the first issue "He" Bible or the second issue "She" Bible. Nevertheless, the present lot is a typographical tour de force and fragmentary rarity of a highly desirable and coveted KJV Bible among collectors.
Miscellaneous - Travel: Tristram (Rev. H.B.), Scenes in the East, Consisting of Twelve Coloured Photographic Views [...], London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1870, contemporary maroon pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 4to; Phillips (Philip), Song Pilgrimage Round the World [...], New York: Phillips & Hunt, London: Sunday School Union, 1882, pictorial red cloth, all edges gilt, 4to; Italy (2); Greece British topography, including Pictures in Colour of the Norfolk Broads, with Descriptive Notes [...], Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., [n.d., c. 1910], contemporary two-tone cloth, square 8vo; Penzer (N.M.), The Harem [...], London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936, black cloth, 8vo; The Garden of Kama [...], Arranged in Verse by Laurence Hope, London: William Heinemann, 1910, cloth-backed boards, 8vo; Egyptology: Kendrick (A.F.), Catalogue of Textiles from Burying-Grounds in Egypt [...] [in the] Victoria and Albert Museum, three-volume set, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920-1922, b/w plates, blue cloth, 8vo, (3); others (2); National Geographic Magazine, three odd volumes: January-July, 1929; July-December, 1940; July-December, 1941, harlequin cloth bindings, 8vo, (3); Jameson (Anna), Shakespeare's Heroines, with Twenty-Six Portraits of Famous Players in Character, numbered limited edition 106/175, London: George Bell & Sons, 1897, full-page photogravures, contemporary cloth as issued, top edge gilt, contemporary pictorial bookplate by William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938), monogrammed and dated 1900: Ex Libris Mary Harmsworth, 8vo; poetry; Miss Thackeray novels, (2); The Workers' Republic: A selection from the writings of James Connolly [...], first edition, Dublin: Printed in Fleet Street, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1951, h/b, d/j, 12mo; science, various; etc., [32]
Lowry 'The Football Match' Limited Edition Collector's Item Vase. Based on a pencil drawing by L. S. Lowry, entitled 'The Football Match'. This authorised edition of only 50 vases has been created by the Dennis Chinaworks, and designed by Sally Tuffin. She has taken Lowry's original work and interpreted it to work seamlessly around a three dimensional cylindrical stem vase. The 10" pot is hand thrown on a wheel by potter Rory McLeod, and hand painted by the celebrated renowned artist Vanessa Thompson. This unique vase is also signed by the artist using hand brush techniques which make this pot unmistakable a Lowry. The highlights are elevated by tube lining applications. Each hand painted limited edition vase will vary slightly. The pot is fully signed in monogram by the designer, potter and artist, and dated 2019. Limited edition number 5/50. Numbers 1 to 4 are in private UK collections. The vase offered for sale will be the first offered at auction. Vase size 10" tall, fully signed and numbered. Please see images.
'Jamie Oliver Jamie's Kitchen' Nice First Edition Hard Back Book Signed By Jamie Oliver. This is something really nice and is a must for any Jamie Oliver fans. It is a first edition 2002 hardback book Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver. It was signed by Jamie Oliver for a charity auction for Penguin publishers in London 2002.
Harry Potter Books - Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince - First Edition print errors on page 99; This is the UK first edition. This is the rare misprint that states "eleven "outstanding" O.W.L.s…" When it is supposed to be Ten Outstanding O.W.L.s.. on page 99. Once the mistake was noticed, it was corrected,but this one clearly slipped through the net. Some damage to dust cover. Please see images.
Star Wars Marvel Comics from 1977 including no 1 adapted from the George Lucas films by Roy Thomas with art by Howard Chaykin, plus nos 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 38, 39, 40, 41 an number 42 from December 1980 featuring the first appearance of Boba Fett in comics, Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon cover, direct edition not distributed in the UK plus 43 & 44. All in excellent condition. (13)
James Bond The Spy who loved me first edition hard back Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape novel includes dust jacket with price attached of 16s. net complete with no pages missing but with small foxing as seen. Please note this book has a printer's error in the word "Fleming" inside the book below the main title, the error is known as a quad mark and this makes the book more collectable. (1)
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Endangered Species Galapagos Penguin, specially commissioned by Sinclairs, limited edition 903/1,000, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Rockhopper Penguin, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; Emperor Penguin, gold stopper, boxed; Penguin and Chick, gold stopper, boxed; Penguin, silver stopper (5) Condition Report: Good - four first quality, one second
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Little Owl, exclusive to Sinclairs, limited signature edition 197/1,000, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Tawny Owl, gold stopper, boxed; Barn Owl, gold stopper, boxed; Short Eared Owl, gold stopper, boxed; Snowy Owl, gold stopper, wooden stand, boxed (5) Condition Report: Good condition - all first quality
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Fairy Wren, gold stopper, boxed; others, Jenny Wren, gold stopper, boxed; Blue Wren, gold stopper, boxed; Long Tail Tit, gold stoper, boxed; Linnet, anniversary edition 2002, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; Garden Snail, gold stopper (6) Condition Report: Good condition, first quality, snail does not have a box
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Waxwing, exclusive edition commissioned by Sinclairs, 2006 - 2997, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Song Thrush, gold stopper, boxed; Waxwing, gold stopper, boxed; Nightingale, gold stopper, boxed; Pied Wagtail, gold stopper, boxed; Blue Jay, gold stopper, boxed (6) Condition Report: Good condition - all first quality
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Green Winged Teal, Collector's Guild Exclusive, gold stopper, boxed; others, Teal, 2002 Anniversary edition, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; Mandarin Duck, gold stopper, boxed; Mallard, gold stopper, boxed, artwork; Carolina Duck, gold stopper, boxed; Duck, gold stopper, boxed; Swimming Duckling, gold stopper, boxed; Sitting Duckling, gold stopper, boxed (8) Condition Report: Good condition - all first quality
A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Partridge, limited edition 768/4,500, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Red Legged Partridge, 2002 Anniversary edition, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; Coot, gold stopper, boxed; Woodland Pheasant, gold stopper, boxed; Dappled Quail, gold stopper, boxed (5) Condition Report: Good - all first quality
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