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Lot 502
P.G. Wodehouse - A collection of books, including - "Doctor Sally", published by Methuen & Co Ltd, London 1932 (one cloth covered first edition), "Spring Fever", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered first edition), "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets", published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London (one cloth covered first edition), and fifty-four other volumes, various
Lot 503
P.G. Wodehouse - A collection of books, including - "Spring Fever", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered first edition), "The Mating Season", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered first edition), "Joy in the Morning", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered first edition), and fifty-four other volumes, various
Lot 504
P.G. Wodehouse - A collection of books, including - "The Girl in Blue", published by Barrie & Jenkins, London (one blue cloth covered first edition), "Service With a Smile", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered first edition), "Ice in the Bedroom", published by Herbert Jenkins, London (one cloth covered volume), and fifty-three other volumes, various
Lot 601
The Glorious Victory of Chastity in Joseph's Hard Conflict, and His Happy Escape by Benjamin Jenks. London, Printed for W. Rogers and B. Tooke, 1707. First edition. 12mo. pp. [x], 127, [i], blank. 4pp. undated advertisements. Contemporary brown sheep. Lacking upper cover and spine, preliminaries and first gathering partially loose.
Lot 602
Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands by Sir William Temple. London, Printed by A. Maxwell for Sa. Gellibrand, 1673. First edition. 8vo. pp. [xiv], 255. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown endpaper. Contemporary full dark brown sheep, raised bands. Occasional brown spots to margins of the text, old sellotape attached to both front and rear hinges, five bands of sellotape around spine.
Lot 604
Introducio ad Prudentiam: or Counsels & Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life compiled by Thomas Fuller. London, Printed for J. Wyat, and W. and J. Innys, MDCCXXVI [1726]. Second edition. 12mo. pp. xviij, 242. 2pp. undated advertisements. Contemporary ink ownership inscriptions on title-page and first page of the text and on front pastedown endpaper. Contemporary full brown sheep, red leather label lettered gilt on spine. Pencil markings in the text, and reference notes written in pencil and ink on endpapers, upper joint starting to crack, but holding firm, spine and corners rubbed, covers a little scuffed.
Lot 606
Memoirs of the Bastille. Containing a Full Exposition of the Mysterious Policy and Despotic Oppression of the French Government, in the Interior Administration of that State-Prison. Interspersed with a Variety of Curious Anecdotes. Translated from the French of the Celebrated Mr. Linguet, who was Imprisoned there from September 1780, to May 1782 by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet. London, Printed for G. Kearsly by T. Spilsbury, 1783. First English edition. 12mo, bound in fours. In two parts. pp. iv, 114; 162. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, black leather label lettered gilt. Spine and joints rubbed, crease marks to covers, upper cover darkened at fore-edge, remains of book plate on front pastedown endpaper. Lacking pages 17, 18, 23 and 24 from the first part.
Lot 608
Great Inventors: The Sources of Their Usefulness, and the Results of Their Efforts. Profusely Illustrated. Anonymous. London and New York, Ward, Lock and Co., N.D. [1864]. First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 308. Frontispiece. Illustrations in the text. Contemporary half green calf with gilt ruled edges, green cloth, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, red leather label lettered gilt, all edges marbled. School Prize book plate of C. Strickland dated 1894 on front pastedown endpaper. Book label of Grocott & Sherry, Grahamstown on rear pastedown endpaper. Spine, joints and corners rubbed, a few scuff marks to calf resulting in slight loss.
![Letters on the Study and Use of History. [To which are added, Two other Letters, and Reflections upon Exile] by Henry St. Joh](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d84a268-bcdc-48fb-aa78-a82500f8bede/6b983b49-c5f6-41e2-a0ce-4e4b9069c0c4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 612
Letters on the Study and Use of History. [To which are added, Two other Letters, and Reflections upon Exile] by Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. London, A. Millar, MDCCLII [1752]. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. pp. [iv], 315; 68 [i.e. 286], [iv], contents. Contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, gilt decorated spines, red leather labels lettered gilt on spines. Edges and joints rubbed, some staining to fore-edges, calf a little marked and scuffed.
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Lot 613
Dialogues of the Dead by George Lyttelton, Baron. London, Printed for W. Sandby, MDCCLX [1760]. An early edition, published the same year as the first, with the decorative headpiece to page iii representing a globe in the centre (the first publication had a pedestal). 8vo. pp. xii, 320. Contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, red leather label lettered gilt on spine. Armorial bookplate of Sir George Strickland (1729-1808) owner of Boynton Hall, Yorkshire. The book was printed by Samuel Richardson and part of it [Nos. 26-28] was written by Elizabeth Montagu. pp. iii-vi loose, two small tears to title-page, edges, joints and upper cover a little rubbed and scuffed.
Lot 614
The History of Ireland; from the Earliest Authentic Accounts to the Year 1171: since Which Period it has been annexed to the Crown of England with a preliminary Dissertation of the Ancient and present State and Condition of that Kingdom by Ferdinando Warner. Dublin, Printed for James Williams, MDCCLXX [1770]. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxvi, 308, [ii] adverts; [ii], 332. Contemporary handwritten description of the author's previous works on verso of preliminary. Contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, gilt decorated spines, red leather labels lettered gilt on spines. Edges and joints a little rubbed, covers slightly marked.
Lot 616
An Historical Account of English Money, from the Conquest, to the Present Time; including those of Scotland, from the Union of the two Kingdoms in King James I by Stephen Martin-Leake. London, Printed for W. Meadows, MDCCXLV [1745]. Second edition with great additions and improvements, tables of gold and silver money, and six new cuts. 8vo. pp. viii, 428, [viii], tables, [xii], index. Followed by 8 illustrations, first series and 6 illustrations, second series. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, Yorkshire upside down on rear pastedown endpaper. Occasional pencil corrections in the text. Contemporary brown calf, raised bands, red leather label lettered gilt on spine. Front free endpaper loose, covers extremely rubbed, spine worn and rubbed mainly at head and foot.
![Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd in several Dissertations by [John Arbuthnot]. London](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d84a268-bcdc-48fb-aa78-a82500f8bede/bcde79fa-039a-43e2-cd33-8a4171c1d925/468x382.jpg)
Lot 620
Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd in several Dissertations by [John Arbuthnot]. London, Printed for J. Tonson, MDCCXXVII [1727]. First edition. 4to. pp. [xiv], 327. 18 tables, one folding. Contemporary full brown calf with gilt ruled borders and blind stamped decorative design, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, red leather label. Covers rubbed and scuffed, gilt lettering no longer evident, gilt decoration on spine partially rubbed away, front free endpaper loose, small stain to rear endpapers.
Lot 626
The Mystery Book edited by H. Douglas Thomson. London, Odhams Press Ltd., 1934. First edition. 8vo. pp. 1086. Frontispiece. 16 illustrations. Includes detective and supernatural stories. Original black morocco cloth with pictorial design on upper cover, top edge red. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown endpaper. Upper joint split, nicked at head and foot of spine, various marks/spotting to lower cover.
Lot 669
A Popular History of The Great War. Complete set in original binding. J.A. Hammerton (ED). Published by Fleetway House (1933). Hardback/used/First Edition. 6 Vols. Approximately 800 photographs and 100 maps and diagrams in the text. Red cloth, lettered in black. Spines are faded. Clean copies. Each volume contains a diary of events. Volume l: The First Phase 1914, Volume ll: Extension of The Struggle 1915, Volume lll: The Allies at Bay 1916, Volume lV: A Year of Attrition 1917, Volume V: The Year Victory 1918, Volume Vl The Armistice and After.
Lot 104
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) NO LEMON, 1974 Intaglio print on paper; (from an edition of 75) signed and with dedication in pencil in the margin lower centre The present print pertains to the artist's first collaboration with the Maeght workshops in France: Seven Aquatints, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, including Image in Darkness, Mycenean Gold Mask, Image Forming on a Red Background, Lemon, on Arches paper, 66 by 50.5 cm, printed in an edition of 75 by Atelier Maeght, St. Paul, France. For two other examples from this series see lots 100 & 101. 6 by 6.75in. (15.2 by 17.1cm)
Lot 110
Rory Breslin (b.1963) WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, 2014 bronze; (no. 2 from an edition of 5) signed on left side The first example from this edition can be found in The Academy of Letters in New Dehli. It was presented by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Charlie Flanagan, to the Indian Ambassador as a reciprocal gesture for the bust of Yeats' friend, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Indian National poet and Nobel Laureate installed in St. Stephen's Green 2011. The bust is modelled on the series of photographs by George Charles Beresford taken in July 1911 - a pivotal year for Yeats - who worked as a photographic portraitist in Knightsbridge, London. Academics contend that Yeats' work post-1911 was strongly influenced by Ezra Pound - who he met that year - becoming more Modern in its concision and imagery. 1911 was also the year he met his future wife "Georgie" Hyde Lees and accompanied the Abbey Players on tour in the USA. 24.25 by 19.50 by 11.50in. (61.6 by 49.5 by 29.2cm)
Lot 11
MARAT JEAN-PAUL : (1743-1793) French Political Theorist, Scientist and radical Journalist during the French Revolution, advocating for basic human rights for the poorest, and publishing on his periodical L´Ami du Peuple (“The People´s Friend”). Marat was assassinated in 1793 and became a revolutionary martyr to the Jacobins. Extremely rare A.N., two pages, clipped 5.5 x 3.5 piece, n.p.[Paris], n.d.[1790], in French. The document being apparently the text of a journal article by Marat, largely crossed and with numerous amendments, stating in part `Boucher D´Argis, counsellor at the Chatelet..has ordered to arrest..near the Palais street St Barthelemy the citizen called Claude Bourelat…old-man, peddler, having shouted..l´Ami du Peuple..´ further saying `..We could believe that having forgotten his duties as judge, belittle himself and goes personally to look for the guard and in person orders to arrest this unfortunate sexagenarian and take him to the police committee at the St Barthelemi district. He has been inspected and deprived of his belongings..´ To the verso showing a written text which could correspond to an order of purchase. Together with Anne Félicité Colombe, Marat´s collaborator in the journal, one page, 6 x 5.5 sheet, 1791, to the Mayor of Paris, Sylvain Bailly. Colombe is imprisoned for ten days now at the Abbaye, and has not been interrogated yet and asks the Mayor´s help stating in part `Please respond to my request which is fair and is part of your principles..´ Accompanied by the envelope page bearing a red wax seal. Also including a rare A.L.S., by M. Panier, two pages, oblong 4to, to Jean Paul Marat. Panier, in his capacity as Mayor of Verduns-le-Doux asks Marat to send him all the copies of the journal he is missing, also stating `And also to know the reasons for this very long suspension of the publishing of the journal which made me feel fear for the author´s safety. I have not received any response..´ The edition of the journal L´Ami du Peuple was several times interrupted due to Marat´s absence as he had to hide himself pushed by his enemies. Accompanied by the envelope page bearing remnants of a red wax seal addressed to Monsieur Marat. G £1000-1200The text of this document was published on the l´Ami du Peuple journal, number 95, 12th January 1790, entitled Scandaleuse (`Scandalous´) André-Jean Boucher d'Argis (1750-1794) French Lawyer and Counselor at the Chatelet. He was one of the first denouncing Marat´s articles in the l´Ami du Peuple..
Lot 520
CAPOTE TRUMAN: (1924-1984) American Novelist. An excellent book signed `Truman Capote´, a 4to hardback printed edition of Capote´s famous novel In Cold Blood (1966), first edition, published by Random House, New York, 1966. Boldly signed in blue ink by Capote to the front free endpaper with his name alone. The 343 pages book is attractively bound in carmine with embossed gilt title and author letters to the spine and featuring to the front cover his two initials "T.C". Accompanied by the dust jacket featuring Neil Fujita artist cover work. VG £200-300 In Cold Blood (1966) details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote spent six years working on the book which got an instant success, and today is the second-biggest-selling true crime book in publishing history. In Cold Blood was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning in September 1965. Neil Fujita (1921-2010) American graphic Designer known for his innovative book covers and record album designs.
Lot 545
GAGARIN YURI: (1934-1968) Russian Cosmonaut. First human to travel in space, 1961. Signed book by Gagarin, in Cyrillic, being a 5.5 x 8 hardback edition of Gagarin´s autobiography Road to the Stars (1961). A Russian text edition, in Cyrillic, published in Moscow, 1961. Signed by Gagarin in bold blue ink to the front free end paper. The 175 pages book featuring 56 pages with photographs of Gagarin, with his relatives, colleagues, and receiving awards from Russian leaders. Original dust jacket still present. Gagarin died at the early age of 34 when the MiG-15 jet he was piloting crashed. Some overall age wear. G £300-400
Lot 634
DE GAULLE CHARLES: (1890-1970) French General of World War II. Later President of the French Republic 1959-69. Book signed and inscribed, an 8vo paperback first edition of La France sera La France - Ce que veut Charles de Gaulle (`France will be France - What Charles de gaulle wants´), published by Bouchy & Son, Paris, 1950. The French text edition correspond to a work by the "Rassemblement du peuple Français" association ("The French People Gathering"). The 335 pages book is signed and inscribed in bold blue ink to the title page `To Miss Christine Duclos, as a friendly souvenir with my respectful homage. C. de Gaullle.´ in French. The present copy is numbered 5829 of the ten thousand copies issued for this first edition, with printed inscription to Christine Duclos. Very small overall age wear, and small staining. VG £200-300
Lot 660
CHAVEZ HUGO: (1954-2013) President of Venezuela 1999-2013. An extraordinary D.S., H. Chavez, seven pages, 4to, Yare, July 1992. The document being the logo of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement MBR-200, together with the test editions for printer. Signed by Chavez beneath the MBR-200 logo `Original elaborado en Yare. July 1992. H Chavez´ ("Original copy elaborated at Yare, July 1992"). The logo showing the shape of the Colombian territory with the MBR-200 text inside. Some of the copy edition tests being coloured with the yellow, red and blue Colombian flag colours. Small overall, minor age wear. Trace of staple to the upper left corner, otherwise VG £600-900 The MBR-200 was the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement ("Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario") founded in the early 80´s by Hugo Chavez and his former couple Herma Marksman, a History teacher. The Revolutionary Movement was inspired by Ezequiel Zamora (1817-1860) Venezuelan leader of the federalists, Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) Venezuela´s Liberator, and Simon Rodriguez (1769-1854) Venezuelan Philosopher and Bolivar´s mentor, who were known as the "Three Roots of the Tree". The present document was signed from Yare, where Chavez was arrested and imprisoned after his coup attempt on 4th February 1992. With provenance from the private collection of Herma Marksman. Herma Marksman: (1949- ) born of a peasant woman and a German immigrant she was in her 30s when she met the future Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who was then married and in his twenties. She became his mistress. They both were students of socialism and idealistic and she helped him in his academic studies. After the failed 1992 coup attempt Chavez left both his first wife and mistress. Marksman will later repudiate Chavez, and described his government as imposing a "fascist dictatorship". She has written several essays and a book titled El Otro Chávez, "The other Chavez", describing her relationship with him.
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