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Lot 3020

McCutcheon (John T.). In Africa, FIRST EDITION, plates and illustrations, map, one plate loose, cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, [Czech p.111], 8vo, Indianapolis, 1910. 3021.

Lot 3002

Champion (F.W.). With a Camera in Tiger-Land, FIRST EDITION INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR MOUNTED TO FRONT PASTE DOWN, 74 photographic plates, some light foxing to text, fine black crushed morocco, spine gilt, ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., 4to, 1927.

Lot 3057

Corbett (Jim). Man-Eaters of Kumaon, FIRST INDIAN EDITION INSCRIBED WITH LETTERS FROM CONTEMPORARIES, publisher's cloth, dust jacket, slight edge wear, some loss to spine ends, 8vo, 1944.

Lot 416

Notes on Croquet, by R.C.A. Prior,First Edition, 1872, Williams and Norgate, London

Lot 1064

A boxed Limited Edition True Line Trains Platinum Series First ReleaseU-2-g 4-8-4 locomotive no. 6219 with eight wheel tender in black Canadian Northern Railways livery, with certificate.

Lot 272

MILNE (A.A), NOW WE ARE SIX, FIRST EDITION, 1927, DUST JACKET POOR

Lot 404

HEARNE (THOMAS) - A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS DISCOURSES WRITTEN BY EMINENT ANTIQUARIES UPON HEADS IN OUR ENGLISH ANTIQUATES, FIRST EDITION, FOLDING PLATE, CONTEMPORARY CALF GILT, INGESTRE HALL, ENGRAVED BOOKPLATE, AEG 1720 AND PETER LANGHOFFS CHRONICLE, 2 VOLS, LATER CLOTH, OXFORD 1725 (3)

Lot 1031

Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing (London, Chatto & Windus) together with Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop (London, Chatto & Windus, 1946). Both first edition, first printing, both with dust jacket

Lot 1060

Dick Francis, For Kicks (London, Michael Joseph, 1965) green boards, gilt lettering to spine. First edition, first printing complete with dust jacket, in protective wrapper

Lot 1058

Dick Francis, Flying Finish (London, Michael Joseph, 1966) Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. First edition, first printing complete with dustwrapper, in protective sleeve

Lot 1080

Nicholas Hemming, The Epistle of the Blessed Apostle Saint Paule...which he sent from his imprisonment in Rome to the Ephesians, translated by Abraham Fleming (London, Thomas East, 1580). Full leather binding. A very rare first edition

Lot 1030

Agatha Christie, The Hounds of Death and other stories (London, Odhams Press, 1933) burgundy boards with lettering to spine. First edition, first printing together with Agatha Christie, Halloween Party (London, The Crime Club, 1969) red boards gilt letting to spine; James Hamilton, To You Mr Chips (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938) orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, first edition, first printing.

Lot 1079

E Kiddler's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of his Scholars (no publisher, c1720). Panelled calf, arguably first edition with fold-out and single page illustrations

Lot 1042

Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte) Shirley published Harper & Brothers (1850) first American edition in original publisher's printed wrappers (Library of Select Novels)

Lot 1033A

J.K. Rowling a collection of Harry Potter mixing the Collectors' Edition with first trade editions. Titles include The Philosopher's Stone, The Prisoner of Azkaban (both Collectors Edition) and three first editions including The Half Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix and the Deathly Hallows.

Lot 1071

Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte) The Professor, A Tale, published Harper & Brothers (1857) first American edition in original cloth with decorated borders on both covers

Lot 1033

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights in original dust jacket, accompanied with a series of original film stills, Swinburne A Note on Charlotte Bronte (first edition 1877), Limited edition signed Bronte Bibliography and two others

Lot 1062

Dick Francis, Dead Cert (London, Michael Joseph, 1962) burgundy boards, gilt lettering to spine. First edition, first printing complete with dust jacket in protective wrapper

Lot 1022

Paul Hawkins Fisher, Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire (London, Trubner & Co, 1871) green cloth with paper label on spine, first edition. A rare edition signed by Fisher to Fr (Frances) Strickland of Applely Court, nr. Tewkesbury.

Lot 1028

A collection of eleven Ian Rankin first edition, first printing hardbacks (London, Orion Press). The selection includes Rankin's Knots and Crosses - collector's edition which includes previously unpublished original material

Lot 1061

Dick Francis, Nerve (London, Michael Joseph, 1964) green boards, gilt lettering to spine. first edition, first printing complete with dust jacket. Signed by Dick Francis on the title page

Lot 1059

Dick Francis, Odds Against (London, Michael Joseph, 1965) purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. First edition, first printing complete with dustwrapper

Lot 385

Robert Taylor, Johnnie Johnson leading 144 Canadian Wing over the Normandy beaches June 1944, signed first edition print with additional pencil dedication from the pilot, 37 x 52cm

Lot 124

J W LOWRY 'Lowry's Table Atlas' first edition c1850 published by Chapman & Hall, London, quarter leather bound with gilt lettering to front, containing maps with hand coloured detail (A/F) Poor condition. Front and back plates loose, spine missing, some plates loose, ribbing to corners and edges of pages, some split and torn. Most of the plates themselves intact.

Lot 658

Three signed first edition Alan Sillitoe books, The Flame of Life, Men, Women & Children and Barbarians and other poems

Lot 589

Published 1924, 1978, 1987 and 1989 AD. Titles comprising: Hill, George F., A Guide to the Exhibition of Historical Medals in the British Museum, BM, London, 1924; hardback, publishers boards, inscribed 'Ian Stewart, 1952'. Taylor, Jeremy, The Architectural Medal England in the Nineteenth Century, BM, London; hardback, publisher's brown cloth, signed and dated by author. Eimer, Christopher, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, Seaby, London, 1987, first edition; hardback, publisher's red cloth with dustwrapper. Eimer, Christopher, An Introduction to Commemorative Medals, Seaby, London, 1989; hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. 3.12 kg total, largest 28 x 23cm (11 x 9"). Ex libris Lord Stewartby (Ian Stewart). Generally fine condition; second with slight wear to binding. [4, No Reserve]

Lot 102

A collection of exclusive first edition model toys together with a quantity of Lledo and Days Gone boxed delivery vehicles. (2 trays)

Lot 675

AUSTEN, JOHN (ILLUSTRATOR) - 'Shakespeare's Hamlet', published by Selwyn & Blount Ltd., London, 1922, first edition, illustrated black boards, 4to also MACFALL, HALDANE - Aubrey Beardsley, published by The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928, first edition (2)

Lot 677

BAKST, LEON - The Designs of LEON BAKST for the Sleeping Princess, published by Benn Brothers. Ltd. London, 1923, first edition, pale blue/vellum boards, numbered 155/1000, with slip case

Lot 678

MILNE A.A. - A Gallery of Children, illustrated by H.Willebeek Le Mair, published by Stanley Paul, 1925, signed by the author and numbered 409/485, embossed white cloth boards, 4to also KAPP, EDMOND - Personalities, HEATH ROBINSON, WILLIAM - Bill the Minder and CAMUS, ALBERT - The Plague, first English edition 1948 and WAUGH, EVELYN - Love Among the Ruins (5)

Lot 4

HARRY POTTER ORDER OF THE PHOENIX FIRST EDITION BOOKalong with Soprano Songs Boosey & Co book and a Otis Calculator in box (3)

Lot 784

Stevenson (Robert Louis) A COLLECTION 19th and 20th century editions, Chatto & Windus, Cassell, Heinemann and others, almost all 8vos or 12mos, mostly original cloth bindings. First Editions include: The Merry Men, 1887, publisher's blue cloth gilt; The Ebb-Tide, 1894, London, Heinemann, 1894, 20pp. adverts at end dated August 1894, original pictorial dull gold cloth; Catriona. A Sequel to ''Kidnapped''... 1893, Cassell, blue cloth; The Wrecker, 1892, Cassell; The Master of Ballantrae, 1889, Cassell, pictorial red cloth; several others. Other titles include Treasure Island, 1886, Cassell, Fifteenth Thousand; Kidnapped, 1895, Cassell, Forty-third Thousand; Underwoods, 1887, Chatto & Windus, fine morocco gilt binding; Heron (James, Illustrator) Edinburgh, 1919, Seeley Service & Co, d.j. [Also:] A Stevenson Medley, 1899, C&W, edition limited to 300 copies, initialled in ink to limitation leaf, 68pp. and twelve facsimile letters, verses, booklets etc. tipped in at rear, blue cloth gilt; Prayers Written at Vailima, 1910, thin 4to first edition, facsimile manuscript illuminated by Alberto Sangorski; Stubbs (Laura) Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage, 1903, A. Moring, pictorial green cloth; a commemorative extra number of The Bookman, 1913, 4to, illustrations, inset photoplate to cover; Balmpied (E., Illustrator) Travels with a Donkey, 1931; A Lowden Sabbath Morn with illustrations by A.S. Boyd; a memorial pamphlet of collected poems, [1895], C&H, limp green calf gilt; The Prideaux Biliography 1918; Pitman's Shorthand Edition of Jekyll and Hyde, 12mo pamphlet. Varying degrees of ware to bindings and spines, some weak hinges, scattered browning and foxing to some titles; for the most part fair reading copies. Viewing highly recommended (54)

Lot 792

GARDEN DESIGN Gothein (Marie Luise) A History of Garden Art, Edited by Walter P. Wright, two vols., 1928, London and New York, first English edition, 4to, over 600 black and white illustrations, original gilt-decorated blue cloth and dust jackets (a little soiled and tatty), some browning inside but a sound copy. [Together with:] Bolton (Arthur T.) The Gardens of Italy, 1919, London, Country Life, lavishly-illustrated folio in later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards; Elgood (George S., Illustrator) Italian Gardens, 1907, London, Longmans, folio, colour plates and descriptions, minor soiling, later three-quarter green morocco; Mawson (Thomas H.) The Art & Craft of Garden Making, [c.1915], London, B.T. Batsford, folio, fourth edition, colour frontis., pictorial e.p.s., illustrations, plain brown cloth [&] The Life & Work of an English Landscape Architect (Autobiography), [c.1920], London, The Richards Press, large 8vo, plain blue cloth; Lazzaro (Claudia) The Italian Renaissance Garden, 1990, Yale University Press, 4to, d.j., plain slipcase and Cosgrove (Dennis) The Palladian Landscape, 1993, 8vo, d.j. (7)

Lot 92

The Official Signers Medals first edition proof set, thirty six 1oz medallions, housed in a display book

Lot 81

David Shepherd - Signed limited edition print - First Light At Savuti, no.903/1500, signed and numbered in pencil, unframed Condition:

Lot 509

JOSEPH HELLER; (author of 'Catch 22', 'Something Happens', 'Good as Gold' and 'God Knows') a signed first edition of 'No Laughing Matter' and two books by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Silmarillion' (3).

Lot 510

A collectors' lot of mixed antiquarian and collectible books to include a 1936 German propaganda book 'Adolf Hitler Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers', with gilt tooled cloth boards containing publicity shots of Hitler, German armaments and German high command, 'Histoires Choisies, Ou Livere D'Exemples', full leather bound with interior marbled boards, c1747 first edition, Willis Fletcher Johnson 'History of the Johnstown Flood', published by J W Keeler & Co 1889, cloth bound containing plates showing the devastation of the Johnstown flood, Joseph G Horner 'The Sheet Metal Worker's Instructor', published by Crosby, Lockwood & Son 1896, containing various diagrams and geometrical problems, cloth bound, Anthony Hope 'The Prisoner of Zenda' c1894, first edition and gilt tooled cloth bound and 'The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist' English translation c1771, this being volume two, leather bound (6).

Lot 159

[ANTIQUES] Stevenson, John & Guy, John. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tadition, first edition, Art Media Resources, Chicago, 1997, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; Beurdeley, Michel & Cecile. Chinese Ceramics, first British edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1974, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; and assorted other works, (13 volumes).

Lot 144

[ART]. WOOD ENGRAVING Empson, Patience, editor. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, Dent, London, 1959, black cloth, illustrations throughout, quarto; Lawrence, D.H. The Man who Died, Heinemann, London, 1935, quarter cloth, illustrations by John Farleigh, quarto; and two other works, (4).

Lot 158

[ANTIQUES & WINE] Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, first edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1960, quarter blue buckram, plate illustrations, quarto; Penning-Rowsell, Edmund. The Wines of Bordeaux, first edition, International Wine and Food Society, London, 1969, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and assorted other works, including auction catalogues, (31 volumes, box).

Lot 149

[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977, navy cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Tolkien, J.R.R. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, reprint, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1980, maroon cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Carpenter, Humphrey, editor. Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1981, boards, dustjacket, octavo; together with assorted other works by or on the same; and two calendars, (12).

Lot 146

[NATURAL HISTORY] Thompson, Harry V., & Worden, Alastair N. The Rabbit, first edition, Collins, London, 1956, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Stamp, Dudley, & Hoskins, W.G. The Common Lands of England & Wales, first edition, Collins, London, 1963, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; together with a further six New Naturalist titles; and a further fourteen assorted works, (22).

Lot 562

PETER THURSBY (BRITISH, 1930-2011) 'Winged Form', bronze, 1964, set to a concrete base, 53cm high (excluding base; base cracked). Note: Pictured in Light, Vivienne, & Olding, Simon. Peter Thursby, first edition, Canterton Books, Uplyme, 2006, p.60, fig.41. A copy of this book, and a small quantity of other ephemera accompanies the lot. This lot may be subject to Droit de Suite (Artists Resale Right).

Lot 147

[MISCELLANEOUS] Seaver, George. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, first edition, Murray, London, 1933, blue cloth, plate illustrations, octavo; Mosso, Angelo. Life of Man on the High Alps, Fisher Unwin, London, 1898, decorative blue cloth, illustrations, quarto; Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake, Black, Edinburgh, 1853, pictorial bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, vignette illustrations, octavo; and seventeen assorted other works, (20).

Lot 136

[MISCELLANEOUS] Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, first edition, Cape, London, 1924, grey cloth, colour frontispiece, text illustrations, octavo; Blunden, Edmund. Shells by a Stream, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1944, green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Shute, Nevil. The Rainbow and the Rose, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1958, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and a further thirteen assorted works, (16).

Lot 138

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Meynell, Wilfrid. Verses and Re-Verses, privately printed (at The Arden Press) for his family & friends, 1910, grey boards, top edges gilt, small octavo; Meynell, Alice. The Shepherdess & Other Verses, Burns & Oates, London, no date, paper covers, INSCRIBED & SIGNED TO DOROTHY RAWCLIFFE, with a manuscript poem and letter to the same in original postal envelope taped to inside front cover, octavo; another copy of the same, unsigned; Meynell, Violet. Verses, first edition, Secker, London, 1919, blue-grey boards, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. The Child's Visit to Fairyland, no date [1911], fawn cloth, map frontispiece, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to her mother, with a poem, on front free endpaper, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. Rafferty-Tafferty Primblekins and Other Follies for the Diversion of All Children, Old and Young, Platt, Wigan, 1927, stiff paper cover with onlaid title label, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and two further duplicated works by Rawcliffe, (8).

Lot 135

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Twain, Mark. Roughing It and The Innocents at Home, first combined British edition, Routledge, London, 1882, pictorial crimson cloth gilt, illustrations by F.A. Fraser, octavo; together with Twain, Mark. The American Claimant, first British edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1892, pictorial crimson cloth, illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, octavo; and another work by the same, (3).

Lot 58

RICHARD III Buck (George) The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, 1647, London, W. Wilson, 4to, second edition, lacking frontispiece portrait, pp.152 plus index, blank K4, worm trace to f.f.e.p., becoming pin hole by p.21 (not affecting text), early ownership inscription to title [together with:] Walpole (Horace) Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, 1768, London, J. Dodsley, 4to, second edition, pp.134 plus single leaf Addition, 2 folding etched portraits incl. frontis as called for. First quire loose, soiling and staining, both copies in scuffed and bumped rebacked 18th century calf (2)

Lot 54

Young (Rev. George) A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils Occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York, 1822, Whitby, G. Clark, 4to First Edition: [i-]iv, pp.328, plus Index, list of Subscribers and 1 p. advert, engraved frontispiece, double page hand-coloured engraved geological map of Yorkshire Coast, double page hand-coloured sectional chart of Strata, plus 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates of fossils (complete as list). Rubbed and bumped contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, contents generally good, offsetting to title and only minor soiling and browning. Old ownership label to front pastedown, two ownership inscriptions to f.f.e.p.

Lot 33

Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, 1962, London, Faber and Faber, number 359 (of 500 copies) from the first collected edition, 8vo, signed by the author, green calf, a.e.g. Sunfading to banded spine. [Offered with:] Beer (Stafford) Decision and Control, 1966, London, John Wilsons, 8vo. First edition, author's presentation copy with his signature, red calf (2).

Lot 106

Mackenzie (George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810], 1811, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 4to, First Edition, xvii, pp. 491 plus Directions to the Binder, two engraved maps, one folding with colour (closed tear), complete with 15 engraved plates as list (eight of which mounted hand-coloured aquatints), four folding tables, engraved illustrations. Contemporary half calf over rubbed and scuffed marbled boards, spine gilt, two ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, closed tear to title and dedication leaves, pencil notes to blank leaf at rear, some offsetting and (mostly marginal) spotting and staining. Abbey Travel 160

Lot 101

Darwin (Charles) Insectivorous Plants, 1875, London, John Murray, 8vo First Edition, old ownership inscription to half title, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, upper edge of text block soiled. [&] The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1876, London, J. Murray, 8vo First Edition, foxing to endpapers (two at front detached) and title, marginal fading to endpapers, hinges rather loose, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, frayed joints, upper edge of text block soiled. [together with:] A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World..., 1889, London, J. Murray, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original rubbed and bumped pictorial green cloth, hinges a little tender; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection..., 1895, London, J. Murray, 8vo, Sixth Edition ('Forty-Seventh Thousand'), endpapers stained and foxed, original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 1890, London, J. Murray, 8vo Second Edition ('Fifth Thousand'), original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, London, J. Murray, 8vo, 'Fifth Thousand', original rubbed and bumped green cloth. (6)

Lot 24

[Anon. (Compiler)] [Photograph Album of Regimental Colours] 4to calf stamped in blind and gilt-lettered 'Britain's Pride' to red spine label, containing approx. 110 tipped-in 19th century b&w and sepia photographs of British army colours and standards, some featuring soldiers on parade etc, including in India and at Portsmouth in 1888. 194 leaves numbered in pencil (several blanks), ink mss. verse from Byron's Corsair to first leaf, two photographs in old transparent pocket loosely inserted. Very rubbed and scuffed, with frayed spine hinges, lacking clasps, viewing highly recommended. This album was part of lot 489 at a Sotheby's sale of 12/07/55 (cutting from the sale catalogue pasted to first leaf). A note above the list of contents written by a former owner speculates that it once belonged to Capt. Oakes-James, and that some of the photographs were reproduced in Milne's book, offered with this lot. [With:] Milne (Samuel Milne) The Standards and Colours of the Army, from the Restoration 1661, to the Introduction of the Territorial System 1881, 1893, Leeds, Goodall and Suddick for the Subscribers, 8vo, number 47 of 200 copies, 29 plates, publisher's rubbed blue cloth gilt, upper hinge cracked. [together with:] Ross (Andrew) Old Scottish Regimental Colours, 1885, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, folio, number 157 of an unspecified edition, frontispiece and 28 chromolithographed plates, publisher's rubbed red cloth, gilt lettering, head and tail of spine bumped, corners a little frayed. [&] McNair (Robert) The Colours of the Grenadier Guards, 1870, London, 4to, 21 chromolithographed plates, original scuffed and bumped printed red boards, blue cloth spine, contents a little foxed (4). Provenance: Estate of Professor James D. Geddes.

Lot 73

Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County of York… by Order of The Honourable Board of Ordnance… Surveyed in the Years 1815, 1816 & 1817… 1817, Leeds, Robinson, Son & Holdsworth, Wakefield, J. Hurst & C. Greenwood. First edition of this engraved large-scale map in early and unfaded wash colour, printed on nine folding linen-backed folio sheets. Engraved by S.J. Neele, total dimensions approx. 1860 x 2160mm. Large calligraphic title and Dedication, altitudes of principal mountains upper left, key below. Some surface soiling, linen at verso browned and spotted. A must-have survey for the map collector and an impressive production, combining accuracy, historical interest and decorative appeal.

Lot 31

Buchan (John) A collection of 43 books, various 8vo editions including firsts and reprints, Hodder & Stoughton, Thomas Nelson & Sons, and other imprints, fiction and non-fiction titles. Includes: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915, William Blackwood & Sons) First Edition, 8vo, pp. 253 plus publisher's advert leaf, soiled, bumped and rubbed light blue cloth, mostly marginal foxing and toning; The Dancing Floor (1926, H&S) with signed gift inscription to Grieve by the author; one of two firsts offered of The Massacre at Glencoe (1933, Peter Davies Ltd) with author's dedication to historian George Trevelyan. Also: Buchan's first novel Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895, T. F. Unwin), First Edition in the original decorated cloth; a First of Prester John (1910) [&] Sick Heart River (1941), original dust jacket; The Three Hostages (1924); biographies of Sir Walter Ralegh (1911) and the [marquess of] Montrose (1950 reprint). All with general shelfware and signs of use, bumped and rubbed but generally sound copies in publisher's cloth bindings, a few with dust jackets. Lot includes four biographies (43).

Lot 43

Humphreys (H. Noel) The Genera and Species of British Butterflies. Described and Arranged According to the System now Adopted in the British Museum, First Edition, 8vo, [c. 1860], London, T.J. Allman; xii, pp. 66 plus pp. 4 advice on rearing from the author, additional hand-coloured lithographic title and 32 hand-coloured plates. Original purple cloth over wooden boards, attractive gilt decoration, rubbed and extremities rather frayed; gatherings splitting and disbound due to perishing gutta percha, as normal, scattered light foxing, with the bookplate of George Stapylton Barnes to front pastedown.

Lot 103

Byrne (Oliver) The Geometry of Compasses or Problems Resolved by the Mere Description of Circles, and the use of Coloured Diagrams and Symbols. 1877, London, C. Lockwood & Co., thin 8vo, First Edition, unpaginated but all leaves present; frontispiece vignette of hand and compass to verso of Half Title plus 36 numbered diagrams in colour illustrating 20 'Problems'. Original light blue stamped cloth, some edge ware else a good copy. Oliver Byrne (1810- 1880) was a civil engineer and author of works on mathematics, geometry, and engineering. He is best known for his 'The Elements of Euclid by Colours'. He had Irish nationalist sympathies. The present work is not commonly encountered, with only a small number of institutional copies located.

Lot 27

Francis (Dick) Nerve, 1964, London, Michael Joseph, first edition signed by the author to title, 8vo in original green cloth with dust jacket designed by Trevor Denning. Minor shelf ware, some soiling to verso of d.j. (with price), a good copy.

Lot 41

Llosa (Mario Vargas) The Time of the Hero. 1967, London, Jonathan Cape, 8vo, first UK edition, signed by the author to title, d.j., light foxing to edge of text block, a good copy; The Storyteller, 1989, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 8vo, d.j., signed to title, good; A Writer's Reality, 1991, London, Faber & Faber, first UK edition, 8vo, signed to title, d.j. extremities a little bumped and frayed, good; A Fish in the Water, 1994, London, Faber, first UK edition, signed by the author, d.j., still with Waterstone's Manchester promotional band and wrapped in cellophane; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 2006, Faber, hard cloth in slipcase, cling wrap preserved (5).

Lot 105

Nansen (Fridtjof) The First Crossing of Greenland, 1890, London & New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 2 vols., 8vo, first English edition, portrait frontispieces, complete with 5 folding colour maps, (one with tear, without loss), plates and illustrations, publisher's adverts to rear. Publisher's pictorial cloth silver gilt, rubbed, spines slightly faded and frayed, contents rather foxed. [together with:] ''Farthest North'' Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1896-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey...1897, London, Archibald Constable, 2 vols., first English edition, numerous plates (16 in colour), four folding maps (one detached, one with small tear), illustrations. Publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bumped, hinges a little weak, foxing to uncut pages. (2)

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