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Lot 663
Flann O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds, First Edition Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, 8vo, first edition, first issue, black cloth gilt. Originally published by Longmans in 1939, At Swim-Two-Birds was a commercial failure with less than 240 copies sold by the outbreak of the war. Additionally, the Longmans London premises and all unsold copies with it were destroyed by the Luftwaffe in 1940.
Lot 624
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray and An Open Letter, first editions. 1983, Derry, Field Day, first edition, 8vo, grey cloth, illustrated front cover, dust jacket, boxed in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on spine; together with Sweeny Astray, 1983, Derry, Field Day, first paperback edition; and An Open Letter, 1983, Derry, Field Day, first edition. Card covers with fold-over. (3)
Lot 1766
Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County of York… by Order of The Honourable Board of Ordnance… Surveyed in the Years 1815, 1816 & 1817… 1817, 1817, Leeds, Robinson, Son & Holdsworth, Wakefield, J. Hurst & C. Greenwood, First edition of this large-scale map engraved by S.J. Neele, printed on nine sheets, with altitudes of principal mountains upper left; each sheet c. 680 x 820mm. Minor spotting and staining, a good copy WITH PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BUFF WRAPPERS WITH TITLE LABEL PRESERVED. A must-have survey for the map collector and an impressive production, combining accuracy, historical interest and decorative appeal
Lot 1767
Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, from an Actual Survey; made in the Year 1818, (1818), Wakefield, W. Fowler & C. Greenwood, First edition of this large-scale map engraved by S.J. Neele after R. Creighton, printed on six sheets, with vignette view of Liverpool; each sheet c. 790 x 820mm., soiling, surface scuffs, tatty margins/extremities, one sheet with tears into map from left edge. A must-have survey for the map collector and an impressive production, combining accuracy, historical interest and decorative appeal
![Dickens [Charles] : The Battle of Life, a Love Story, pub. Bradbury & Evan, Whitefriars, 1846, first edition, red cloth bindi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/336ef012-0517-43a4-9847-a74e00afeb79/cc62b8e1-ff93-4f42-f56c-171444ad15e3/468x382.jpg)
![Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, pub. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/336ef012-0517-43a4-9847-a74e00afeb79/7aacfb52-5c80-484b-804c-61d2ba994878/468x382.jpg)
Lot 794
Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, pub. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819, first edition, folio, brown cloth binding; The History, Guide and Description of the Borough of Sheffield, by William White and printed for him by the Wicker Library, 1833; Sheffield and It's Neighbourhood Illustrated, pub. A.W. Bennett, London, first edition, with 16 original albumen photographs and 10 vignettes. (3)
Lot 793
A New Work of Animals, principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, with 56 etchings by Samuel Howitt, pub. Edward Orme, London, 1811, half calf marbled boards; Kingston [W.H.G.] : The Western World, the nature and natural history of North and South America, pub. T. Nelson & Sons, London 1874 first edition; Four Others, natural history related. (6)
Lot 720
Concorde End of an Era Mike Bannister Signed Limited Edition Print. Only 250 issued signed by Captain Mike Bannister who flew the last flight and Artist Ivan Berryman. Stunning Limited Edition Print Concorde End of a Era 16 x 12 inch size. Ending an historic chapter in Aviation History. 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, its 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 Concordes 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. Its 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 Concordes final flight was in May". Good condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95.
Lot 721
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. Good condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95.
Lot 776
Bewick (Thomas) A COLLECTION OF BOOKS Large 8vos and 4tos, mixed editions, many in smart library bindings, mostly with only minor shelf ware: The Fables of Aesop, and others... 1818, Newcastle, E. Walker for T. Bewick & Son, first edition, 8vo large paper copy (260 x 155mm), xxiv, pp. 376, woodcut vignette to title and illustrations by Bewick throughout, smart contemporary polished calf, gilt/yellow stained page edges, marble e.p.s and R.D. Steedman label; History of British Birds, 1797(-1804), Newcastle, 2 vols., frontispiece portrait and illusts., uniformly bound exactly as Fables; A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, 1862, Newcastle, a presentation copy from Jane and Isabella Bewick (Thomas's daughters) for James Forster, the inscription to title dated June 1874, extra-illustrated with clipped woodcuts and engravings by and after Bewick and others which are pasted to rectos of inserted blanks, also annotated throughout (by one of the daughters?) [plus:] Select Fables...with a Memoir and a descriptive Catalogue..., 1820, Newcastle, S. Hodgson, engraved frontispiece, vignette to title, illusts. by Thomas and John Bewick, large paper copy 265 x 160mm, smart contemporary speckled calf, with marbled edges of block, R. Robinson Newcastle binder's label [with] another copy, 230 x 140mm, diced calf gilt, marbled edges, with Duke of Gloucester's and another bookplate; A General History of Quadrupeds, 1790, Newcastle, first edition, old signature to title, A.J. Cocking bookplate, slightly later half calf preserving original spine strip, replacement e.p.s [&] Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood, 1818, Newcastle, illustrated titlepage and (spotted) plates only, later full morocco gilt, a.e.g.; A History of British Birds, 1847, Newcastle, 2 vols. (Land/Water), early ownership inscriptions, woodcuts etc., modern cloth; plus six other titles, incl. Bewick Gleanings, 1886 small paper copy from a limited edition and an 1871 edition of Select Fables (15)
Lot 767
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY LITERATURE, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Mixed editions, including some firsts, 8vos, smart leather library bindings, mostly only minor shelf ware, some spines slightly faded: Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works, 1873(-74), Smith, Elder & Co, 12 vols., frontispiece and illustrations by the author in each vol., half calf, spines gilt; The Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century, 1858-59, Bradbury & Evans, 2 vols., additional pictorial titles, engraved plates and text woodcuts by Thackeray, half morocco, a.e.g. [&] The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, 1854-55, 2 vols., additional pictorial titles, engraved plates and text woodcuts by Richard Doyle, half blue calf, marbled block edges; Browning (Robert) Poetical Works, 1889-1894, Smith, Elder & Co., 17 vols. (final vol. 'Asolando'), in total five engraved frontispieces, uniformly bound in purple morocco, t.e.g.; Eliot (George, pseud.) [The Works], n.d., Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood, 9 vols., uniform half red sheep, a.e.g. Joseph Gundry bookplates Non-Fiction: Ellis (Henry, Editor) Original Letters, illustrative of English History...1825-27, 7 vols. comprising second edition of first series and first edition of second series, full calf gilt, frayed spine heads; Burke (Sir Bernard) The Romance of the Aristocracy, 1855, Henry Colburn, 3 vols., half calf [&] Vicissitudes of Families, 1860(-63), Longman, fourth edition, 3 vols. incl. second edition of Third Series, red half calf; Freer (Martha Walker) The Life of Marguerite d 'Angouleme, Queen of Navarre, 1854, Hurst and Blackett, 2 vols., half calf; Memoirs Of The Empress Josephine, With Anecdotes of the Courts of Navarre and Malmaison, 1829, Henry Colburn, 3 vols., half calf; Wraxall (Lascelles, Compiler) Memoirs of Queen Hortense, 1862, Hurst and Blackett, 2 vols., half red calf; also Autobiographical Recollections by the late Charles Robert Leslie 1860 (2 vols), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry 1865 (3 vols), The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston 1870 (3 vols), Disraeli's Lord George Bentinck 1852, The Early Years of...The Prince Consort 1867 and Wraxall's Memoirs 1815 (2 vols) in rubbed full vellum [plus:] Millers (George) A Description of the Cathedral Church of Ely, 1808, engraved plates; Fletcher and Kipling (Rudyard) A History of England, 1911, Oxford, Clarendon Press, illusts.; The Book of Thenseygnementes...1902, London, George Newnes; Westminster Abbey , etched plates by Louis Weirter; Benham (William) Old St. Paul's Cathedral, 1902, Seeley & Co.; Maple & Co. [Catalogue] Illustrations of Old English Furniture, all in original cloth (qty, 4 boxes)
Lot 770
BRITISH INDIA: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS Biographies of soldiers and administrators, mostly large 8vos and 4tos, including several first trade editions, publisher's cloth or contemporary leather bindings (rubbed and bumped, some spines faded): Malleson (G.B., Col.) The Indian Mutiny of 1857, 1891, London, Seeley and Co., no. 129 from the Large Paper edition limited to 250 copies, portrait plates, plans, with 1893 presentation inscription, tree calf gilt; Trotter (Lionel J.) The Life of John Nicholson, 1897, John Murray, portraits and maps, red cloth gilt [&] The Bayard of India A Life of General Sir James Outram, Bart., 1903, Blackwood & Sons, red cloth; Curzon (Marquis, of Kedleston) British Government in India, 1925, Cassell and Company Ltd, 2 vols., 4to, blue cloth gilt, two bookplates [&] Leaves from a Viceroy's Note-Book, 1926, MacMillan & Co., 8vo, blue cloth gilt; Kaye (John William) The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., late envoy to Persia, and Governor of Bombay, 1856, Smith Elder & Co., 2 vols., frontispiece portrait, half calf [&] Lives of Indian Officers, 1867, 2 vols., also leather over marbled boards; Thornton (Thomas Henry) Colonel Sir Robert Sandeman: His Life and Work on our Indian Frontier, 1895, John Murray, portrait, map, illusts., blue cloth gilt [&] General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India, 1898, Longmans Green & Co., port., maps, illusts., blue cloth; Sandes (E.W.C., Lt. Col.) The Military Engineer in India, 1933(-35), Chatham, Institution of Royal Engineers, 2 vols., frontis., plates, red cloth; Shadwell (Lt. Gen.) The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, 1881, Blackwood, port., folding maps, red blindstamped cloth; Colebrooke (Sir T.E.) Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, 1884, John Murray, 2 vols., fifth edition, ports. and maps, green cloth gilt; Marshman (John Clark) Memoirs of Sir Henry Havelock, 1860 [with:] other titles by Malleson, A. Mervyn Davies, H.T. Lambrick, Lord Roberts et al. (total 36 volumes, in 3 boxes)
Lot 273
A collection of Motor Racing books, to include The World's Land Speed Record by William Boddy, KTG know the game Motor Sport, 25 Years at Brooklands Track, First and Fastest by Richard Hough, Race Against the Odds The Tragic Success Story of Miss England II, Grand Prix Murder by Douglas Rutherford, The John Cobb Story by S.C.H Davis, Into the Water Barrier by Donald Campbell, The Motor Manual 16th edition, Racing Cars Nelson, 1857 The Story of Vauxhall 1946 by L. C. Darbyshire and The Bluebird Years Donald Campbell and The Pursuit of Speed
Lot 1375
First Edition Book 'Hounds First!' By F./LT. H. C. Pyper Hunting interest book with dark green paper slip cover with central colour illustration of hounds and huntsmen on horseback. Printed in Great Britain by G.A. Philpot LTD. 56 Ludgate Hill London, E.C.4 black and white photographic images throughout. Some staining to cover reflective of age.
Lot 78
An early Enid Blyton first edition, 'The Play's the Thing! Musical Plays for Children, Music by Alec Rowley, 24 full-page colour illustrations by Alfred Bestall', The Home Library Book Company, London 1st Edition, 1927, together with a 'Portfolio of portraits of players appearing in Lord Lytton's comedy 'Money', Theatre Royal , Drury, London 1911', a programme for the same play, 'By Gracious Command of His Majesty the King' for the visit of the German Emperor and Empress, a 1913 programme for Forbes-Robertson's Farewell Performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and a Novello's Original Octavo Edition of Handel's 'Messiah', 1902
![[ARCHITECTURE] Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, & Ramsdell, Roger Wearne. Small Manor Houses and Farmsteads in France, first edit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/2f1f948f-9305-4d76-f891-ce930383b97c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 393
[ARCHITECTURE] Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, & Ramsdell, Roger Wearne. Small Manor Houses and Farmsteads in France, first edition, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1926, navy blue buckram gilt, top edges gilt, plate illustrations, quarto; Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of the English House, reprint, The Architectural Press, London, 1949, green buckram, plate illustrations, large quarto; and Ayrton, Maxwell, & Silcock, Arnold. Wrought Iron and its Decorative Use, first edition, Country Life, London, 1929, black buckram-backed grey cloth, plate illustrations, large quarto, (3).
![[ARCHITECTURE] Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork, Montgomery, London, 1925, original pictorial dark green clo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/7ea9cc80-9cf6-4ef2-cc14-4d49c767aa49/468x382.jpg)
Lot 394
[ARCHITECTURE] Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork, Montgomery, London, 1925, original pictorial dark green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, numerous plate illustrations from photographs, plans (some folding), large quarto (spine strip torn at upper joints; spine ends nicked and frayed); Hoever, Otto. An Encyclopaedia of Ironwork, first edition, Benn, London, 1927, original dark blue-grey cloth, numerous plate illustrations from photographs, further text illustrations, large quarto (spine ends nicked and frayed); the Daily Mail Ideal Home Book, 1953-1954, edited by Francis Lake, as dated, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout; and another work, (4).
![[ARCHITECTURE] Pevsner, Nikolaus, editor. The Buildings of England, sixteen volumes from the series, including North Somerset](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/6e1dae1a-a748-4421-8b54-a7640099840a/468x382.jpg)
![[LITERATURE] Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Poems of, now first collected, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, limited edition of 100,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/723a0d8e-a105-42c0-9907-a400bad8817c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 406
[LITERATURE] Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Poems of, now first collected, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, limited edition of 100, Johnson and Warwick at the Private Press of Lee Priory, 1813, cloth-backed boards, vignette half title, quarto (upper cover almost detached; foxed at both ends, including half title; boards spotted).
![[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1844, ha](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/91ec7ae9-cb69-4049-83e8-3b717e93ce05/468x382.jpg)
Lot 410
[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1844, half calf, frontispiece, vignette half title (with corrected '£100' to signpost), and a further thirty-eight plate illustrations by 'Phiz' [Hablot K. Browne] (as called for), octavo.
![[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1837, half](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/6656e1d6-2459-4114-b70e-68575095620d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 411
[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1837, half calf, frontispiece, vignette half title (with corrected 'Weller' to nameboard), and a further thirty-nine plate illustrations by R. Seymour and 'Phiz' [Hablot K. Browne], including one suppressed Buss plate (opposite p.74), octavo.
![[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son, first edition, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848, half calf, frontispiece, vignett](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/6113a774-1efd-4d37-d52e-8fa35b075f0f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 412
[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son, first edition, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1848, half calf, frontispiece, vignette half title, and a further thirty-eight plate illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (as called for), issue points including vignette title with Captain Cuttle's hook on his left arm; p.XV line 2 no quotation marks around 'the Party'; p.14 ten lines from bottom 'aint' with no apostrophe; p.26 line 11 'fidgetty'; p.284 lines 5 and 6 from bottom 'Delight'; p.324 last line 'Captain' correctly spelled; and p.582 last line with no full stop, octavo.
![[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1839, ha](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/1d8ff1c7-212d-4072-891e-16b00da4b8dc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 413
[LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1839, half calf, portrait frontispiece and a further thirty-nine plate illustrations by 'Phiz' [Hablot K. Browne] (as called for), issue points including p123 line 17 'visiter' corrected to 'sister'; and p.160 six lines from bottom 'latter' corrected to 'letter', octavo.
![[HISTORY] Parr, Captain Henry Hallam. A Sketch of the Kafir and Zulu Wars. Guadana to Isandhlwana, first edition, Kegan Paul](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/66228406-407c-4c52-cad2-07a90b7bb619/468x382.jpg)
![[HISTORY] Chamberlayne, John. Anglia Notitia: or the Present State of England, with Divers Remarks upon the Ancient State Th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/291970aa-b6a6-4fc9-ca02-ba7ca5dfeda5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 419
[HISTORY] Chamberlayne, John. Anglia Notitia: or the Present State of England, with Divers Remarks upon the Ancient State Thereof, twenty-first (enlarged and improved) edition, for Smith et al., London, 1704, crimson leather gilt with panelled boards and decorated spine, all edges gilt, portrait frontispiece, octavo (head and tail bands torn and almost detached; raised bands rubbed).
![[HISTORY]. ECCLESIASTICAL Evans, Rev. John Thomas. The Church Plate of Gowerland, Alden, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1921, bevelled pa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/3bf14a56-37eb-4b9e-fb68-501c8345f373/468x382.jpg)
Lot 424
[HISTORY]. ECCLESIASTICAL Evans, Rev. John Thomas. The Church Plate of Gowerland, Alden, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1921, bevelled pale brown buckram gilt, top edges gilt, portrait frontispiece, plate illustrations, quarto; Halliday, George Eley. Llandaff Church Plate, Bemrose & Sons, London & Derby, 1901, green cloth gilt, text illustrations, octavo; Muthesius, Stefan. The High Victorian Movement in Architecture 1850-1870, first edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1972, purple cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto (ex library); and eight other works, (11).
![[MODERN FIRSTS] Burgess, Anthony. The Worm and the Ring, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1961, boards, dustjacket (not pri](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/63c90710-df52-4f7b-c95b-1ebbd5adc2e0/468x382.jpg)
![[MODERN FIRSTS] Burgess, Anthony. Devil of a State, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1961, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Burg](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/12de70d0-d6f2-4bb6-8296-3c2de65b6df4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 430
[MODERN FIRSTS] Burgess, Anthony. Devil of a State, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1961, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Burgess, Anthony. Moses, A Narrative, first edition, Dempsey & Squires, London, 1976, cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Burgess, Anthony. A Long Trip to Teatime, first edition, Dempsey & Squires, London, 1976, red cloth, lacking dustjacket, octavo; Burgess, Anthony. This Man and Music, first edition, Hutchinson, London, 1982, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Burgess, Anthony. You've Had Your Time, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1990, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and six other works by the same, the latter all reprints, (11).
![[MODERN FIRSTS] Christie, Agatha. Death Comes as the End, first edition, Collins (for The Crime Club), London, 1945, orange-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/4e5704b2-5a89-465a-bf59-e4a08b380af6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 431
[MODERN FIRSTS] Christie, Agatha. Death Comes as the End, first edition, Collins (for The Crime Club), London, 1945, orange-red cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Housman, Laurence. Strange Ends and Discoveries. Tales of this World and the Next, first edition, Cape, London, 1948, grey cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Bennett, Alan, et al. Beyond the Fringe, first edition, Souvenir Press, London, 1963, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Betjeman, John. Summoned by Bells, first edition, Murray, London, 1960, embossed green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and six assorted other works, (10).
![[NATURAL HISTORY & OTHER] 'B.B.' [Watkins-Pitchford, Denys]. Tide's Ending, first edition, Hollis & Carter, London, 1950, gr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/2cf3b861-d726-415b-f139-0065c1c82ee7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 435
[NATURAL HISTORY & OTHER] 'B.B.' [Watkins-Pitchford, Denys]. Tide's Ending, first edition, Hollis & Carter, London, 1950, grey cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by author, quarto; 'B.B.' [Watkins-Pitchford, Denys]. The Countryman's Bedside Book, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1941, two-tone cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by author, quarto; Watson, Donald. Birds of Moor and Mountain, first edition, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1972, grey cloth, dustjacket, plate and text illustrations, quarto; and eight assorted other works, (11).
![[SCIENCE]. EVOLUTION Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, two volumes: Volume 1, first edi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/acbd223a-2a37-4e55-9425-c846907dc5e4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 441
[SCIENCE]. EVOLUTION Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, two volumes: Volume 1, first edition, Murray, London, 1871, original green cloth, text illustrations, sixteen page publisher's list dated Jan. 1871, octavo (hinges repaired), Volume 2, seventh thousand, Murray, London, 1871, original green cloth, text illustrations, sixteen page publisher's list dated Jan. 1871, octavo (hinges weak).
![[SPORTING]. FISHING & SHOOTING Hutchinson, Horace, editor. Fishing, two volumes, Country Life, London, no date, red half cal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/7a928f39-85e9-4afc-8927-696bf10ff321/468x382.jpg)
Lot 443
[SPORTING]. FISHING & SHOOTING Hutchinson, Horace, editor. Fishing, two volumes, Country Life, London, no date, red half calf, top edges gilt, plate illustrations (many from photographs), further text illustrations, octavo; Burrard, Major Sir Gerald. The Modern Shotgun, three volumes, Ashford Press Publishing, Southampton, 1985, dark green cloth gilt, illustrations, octavo; 'B.B.' [D.J. Watkins-Pitchford]. September Road to Caithness and the Western Sea, first edition, Kaye, London, 1962, boards, dustjacket, illustrations by author, octavo; and five other works, (total 11 volumes).
![[TOPOGRAPHY]. SOUTH WALES Davies, John. Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1981, boards](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/1fe5c53c-a32d-47b0-d406-0cf7ba4aecb5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 446
[TOPOGRAPHY]. SOUTH WALES Davies, John. Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1981, boards, dustjacket, portrait frontispiece, octavo; Ward, Major C. Dudley. The Welsh Regiment of Foot Guards 1915-1918, first edition, Murray, London, 1936, red cloth, maps, octavo; and forty-seven other works, including pamphlets, (49).
![[TRAVEL]. AVIATION Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Listen! The Wind, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1938, original blue clo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/884f30dd-664d-43d8-fbf4-d0e0f491a4df/468x382.jpg)
Lot 453
[TRAVEL]. AVIATION Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Listen! The Wind, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1938, original blue cloth, dustjacket (torn and taped), SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR & CHARLES LINDBERGH, octavo. Provenance: Inscribed to Mr and Mrs Hook, the great uncle and aunt of the vendor, who were respectively the gardener and housekeeper for Sidney Bernstein at his farm, Coppings, near Tubridge Wells, Kent. Lindbergh and his wife rented Long Barn near Sevenoaks, Kent, following the kidnap and murder of their son in the U.S.A., and visited the Bernsteins on several occasions, during one of which this book is believed to have been gifted.
![[TRAVEL]. MEXICO Hardy, Lieut. R.W. Travels in the Interior of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827, & 1828, first edition, Colburn an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/dfa7ca0a-1b7f-49b7-c4da-98cc7c193582/468x382.jpg)
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Gould, Sir Basil, & Richardson, Hugh Edward. Tibetan Word Book, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1943](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/a47f2a51-70c8-46a1-ef89-d38876a430a9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 455
[MISCELLANEOUS] Gould, Sir Basil, & Richardson, Hugh Edward. Tibetan Word Book, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1943, green cloth, dustjacket of hand-made paper, quarto. Provenance: Lieutenant-Colonel James Guthrie, O.B.E. (1906-71), Medical Officer to the British mission at Lhasa, 1945-49, thence by direct family descent.
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Chase, J. Smeaton. California Desert Trails, first edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/67d27d2b-76e1-4e25-c2b3-04d0ae3c4a81/468x382.jpg)
Lot 458
[MISCELLANEOUS] Chase, J. Smeaton. California Desert Trails, first edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 1919, dark green cloth gilt, frontispiece and a further thirty-four plate illustrations (as called for), octavo; Ward, Gordon. Sevenoaks Essays, subscriber's edition, Metcalfe & Cooper, London, 1931, brown buckram, frontispiece, text illustrations, octavo; Gower, Granville Leveson. Parochial History of Westerham, Mitchell & Hughes, London, 1883, together with Thompson, Rev. Henry. A Sermon Preached in St. Mary's Church, Westerham,... 1883, Chillcott, Bristol, 1883, bound as one, with a letter and errata from Gower, and additional correspondence, half leather, octavo (spine scuffed, with loss at head and splits at joint ends); Raffles Davidson. A Record of his Life and Work from 1870 to 1926, introduced by Sir Reginald Blomfield, first edition, Batsford, London, 1927, quarter cloth with pictorial boards, portrait frontispiece, numerous plate illustrations, quarto; and nineteen other assorted works, (24, box).
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Sturges, Octavius & Mary. In the Company's Service: A Reminiscence, first edition, Allen, London, 1883, half](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/218dbef9-6b6f-4fca-cdd2-673ed3bc8f77/468x382.jpg)
Lot 460
[MISCELLANEOUS] Sturges, Octavius & Mary. In the Company's Service: A Reminiscence, first edition, Allen, London, 1883, half calf with gilt decorated spine by Mudie, marbled edges and endpapers, octavo; Fry, Nora, illustrator. Aesop's Fables, reprint, Coker, London, 1930, original cloth-backed boards, seven (of eight) colour plate and further black and white illustrations, quarto; Watkins-Pitchford, Denys. The Idle Countryman, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1943, two-tone cream and maroon cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by author, octavo; and nine other assorted works, (12).
Lot 71
BLIGH, WILLIAM: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTHERN SEA, UNDERTAKEN BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE TO THE WEST INDIES, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE BOUNTY, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Condé after J. Russell, three plates by MacKenzie, two folding and four charts, three folding, by Harrison and Walker, contemporary sprinkled calf (skilfully rebacked), for G. Nicol, 1791, First edition and a fine copy with wide margins of an important work, the first narrative of the mutiny and Bligh's journey from Tofua to Timor. The original document in Bligh's hand was sold at Christie's in 1976. Hill p/27 (an extremely important book); Ferguson 125; Wantrup 62a.
Lot 142
THE DRAMA OF GRAF SPEE AND THE BATTLE OF THE PLATE', compiled by Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, London, Peter Davies 1964, limited edition no. 24/55, signed on the frontispiece and dedication by 44 key personnel associated with the action including the captains of Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral Sir David Luce (First Sea Lord), Lt K. Diggins (Graf Spee flag Lt); Captain R. Ruggeburg (Naval Attaché Germany Embassy) and many others, 510pp with indices, maps and illustrations, bound in red full calf with gilt decorated cover and spine --10¼ x 8in. (26 x 20cm.); together with a contemporary white metal plaque commemorating the action, with repousse decoration inscribed 13th December 1939, H.M.S.s Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, with enamelled white ensign to centre, mounted to a wooden shield -- 6in. (15cm.) high, -2, Research conducted with a member of the Exeter association discovered that only eight of these plaques were made by a retired shepherd on the Falkland Islands from recycled RN sports trophies and sold as souvenirs to the crew of the ships undergoing temporary refits there.
Lot 154
FLAGS AND PENNANTS, comprising eleven enamelled burgees, two in silver by Benzie of Cowes; three matchbox holders: S.S. Arandora Star, silver 1928; S.S. Jervis Bay; S.S. Canton; and a first edition of the Marryat Code of Signals for 1841, covered in sail cloth with inscribed cover (worn overall), (A lot), The S.S. Arandora Star was torpedoed on 2nd July 1940 with great loss of life; Jervis Bay was sunk by the German armoured cruiser Admiral Scheer on 5th November 1940.
Lot 181
BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognized for his important role during the Battle of Britain. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Fight For the Sky - The Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane, First Edition published by Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973. Neatly laid down to the front free endpaper is an unusual triangular beer mat issued as part of an RAF series illustrating officers badges, the present example being number 33 from a series of 48 and showing the badges of a Group Captain, signed by Bader in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area. The front pastedown opposite features a neatly laid down oblong 8vo printed invitation card for the official opening of the New Bar at the Coventry Branch of the RAF Association by Bader on 16th November 1976, and a trimmed photograph of Bader signing the beer mat appears below. Two further photographs of Bader, one showing him behind the bar at the Royal Air Forces Association Club in Coventry on 16th November 1976 and the other showing him standing in a full length pose alongside his step-daughter on the occasion of her wedding, are neatly laid down to the endpaper and pastedown at the end of the book. Accompanied by the dustjacket. A light (beer?) stain only very slightly affects Bader's signature. Together with James Lacey (1917-1989) British World War II Ace (28 victories), the second highest scoring RAF Fighter Pilot of the Battle of Britain. Two individually signed First Day Covers by Lacey, one issued in commemoration of Lord Dowding and the Battle of Britain and the other on the 44th Anniversary of the winning of the Battle of Britain. Both feature attractive colour designs and images and and are signed by Lacey in blue ink with his name alone to clear areas. VG to EX, 3
Lot 4
ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942-2016) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Muhammad Ali - A Thirty-Year Journey by Howard L. Bingham, First Edition published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993. Signed ('Muhammad Ali') by Ali in bold black ink with his name alone to the title page and also signed in black ink by Howard Bingham, who has added the date 19th October 1993 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Some light age wear, about VG
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