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Toovey's
Lot 3215

MCMULLEN, R.T. Orion, or How I Came to Sail Alone in a 19-Ton Yacht. London: Charles Wilson, 1878. First edition, 8vo (181 x 118mm.) Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, 1 folding map. (Light browning and spotting, occasional minor soiling and worm damage.) Original pictorial cloth blocked in gilt (extremities bumped, scuffed and rubbed, some damp-staining). Together with two small-format photographs of McMullen's boat Orion. - And twelve other volumes including two others by R.T. McMullen. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (13).

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Lot 3085

JOYCE, Ernest E. Mills. The South Polar Trail… The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition, 8vo (212 x 134mm.) Frontispiece, numerous uncoloured plates. (Light browning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, front-free endpaper lacking). Spence 642. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

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Toovey's
Lot 3082

POLAR. - Marthe OULIÉ. Charcot of the Antarctic. London: John Murray, 1938. First edition, 8vo (216 x 135mm.) Numerous uncoloured plates. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth, slightly soiled, extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (torn with loss, price-clipped, creased). - And twenty-four other volumes relating to Arctic and Antarctic exploration (25).

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Toovey's
Lot 3184

ORWELL, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition, 8vo (203 x 131mm.) (Light browning.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped with some light browning). - And a quantity of other volumes of poetry, fiction and biography (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3021

[WATKINS, John.] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron. London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1822. First edition, 8vo (212 x 132mm.) Stipple-engraved frontispiece. (Some browning and spotting, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary green calf, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces to the second and sixth, the others with elaborate foliate decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly scuffed and rubbed).

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Toovey's
Lot 3269

DESIGN REFERENCE. - J.L. MARTIN and S. SPEIGHT. The Flat Book. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. First edition, 8vo (217 x 150mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning.) Original pictorial boards (extremities bumped and scuffed, spine chipped, joints and hinges splitting). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to design (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3238

ART REFERENCE. - Walter Shaw SPARROW. Advertising and British Art, an Introduction to a Vast Subject. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1924. First edition, 4to (278 x 215mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (extremities lightly scuffed, minor soiling). - And forty-five other volumes of art, design and advertising interest (46).

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Toovey's
Lot 3200

CRANE, Walter. The First of May, a Fairy Masque. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Limited edition of 300 copies, this number 130, signed by Walter Crane, oblong folio (383 x 437mm.) Printed on India paper mounted throughout. (Spotting, some light browning, minor marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary half-morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, title blocked in gilt to upper-cover (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly affected by damp, disbound).

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Toovey's
Lot 3136

LEYLAND, Eric. The Mystery of Pig's Nose. Leicester: The Brockhampton Press, 1951. First edition, 8vo (190 x 133mm.) Numerous illustrations, most printed in green and black. (Light spotting.) Original cloth (lightly bumped and slightly faded), dust-jacket (creased and torn with minor loss, price-clipped). Provenance: Robert Blanchard (school prize certificate and certificate to front free endpaper). - And thirty-seven others by Leyland (38).

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Toovey's
Lot 3119

CHAPMAN, Abel, and Walter J. BUCK. Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, large 8vo (261 x 172mm.) Uncoloured frontispiece, numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations. (Light browning and spotting.) Original green pictorial cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, minor soiling and damp-staining to covers). - And one other volume by Abel CHAPMAN ('The Borders and Beyond, Arctic… Cheviot… Tropic'. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1924) (2).

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Toovey's
Lot 3168

GROSE, Francis, and Thomas ASTLE. The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage… Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times… a new edition. London: Edward Jeffery, 1807-1809. 4 vols., 4to (295 x 246mm.) 226 engraved plates (6 folding), 4 aquatints, 1 folding table only. (Light browning, occasional spotting, marginal tears with minor loss to p.61 of vol. II and p.209 to vol. III, lacking hand-coloured double-page plate of the Great Fire of London to vol. II.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities bumped and scuffed, joints split, upper-cover and first few leaves of vol. IV detached). Provenance: R.S.G. (label with monogram to front pastedowns).

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Toovey's
Lot 3051

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Pothunters. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition, 8vo (187 x 124mm.) 7 plates only. (Lacking frontispiece and 3 plates, 1 other plate loosely inserted, heavy spotting throughout.) Original blue cloth blocked in silver (extremities rubbed, bumped, soiled and discoloured, lacking front-free endpaper). Provenance: M. Smith (inkstamp to half-title). McIlvaine A1a. Note: the author's first published novel.

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Toovey's
Lot 3173

SOUTHBY, Logi. The White Dragon. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934. First edition, 4to (305 x 237mm.) 10 colour plates, 10 additional plates in pocket at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor soiling.) Original pictorial cloth blocked in white (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Jean (presentation inscription to preliminary blank).

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Toovey's
Lot 3004

L'ESTRANGE, A.G. The Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness… in one volume. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1871. First edition, 8vo (216 x 136mm.) Extra-illustrated with 19 plates. (Light browning and spotting, heavier spotting to plates and opposing leaves, minor marginal tear without loss to p.239.) Contemporary half-morocco, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat foliate decoration tooled in gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and scuffed, some loss to leather). Provenance: Alex Bridge (bookplate to front pastedown, ink inscription dated '10.10.1963' to front-free endpaper).

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Toovey's
Lot 3036

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt. London: John Murray, 1812. First edition, 4to (267 x 203mm.) Facsimile letter, 2pp. advertisements at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting or light soiling.) Contemporary calf, covers tooled in gilt (rebacked, corners and hinges reinforced, extremities scuffed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Alex Bridge (bookplate to front-free endpaper, ink inscription dated '1.5.1956' to reverse of front-free endpaper).

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Toovey's
Lot 3042

BYRON. - Howard GORDON PAGE. The Shattered Harp, A Romance on the Life of Lord Byron. London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo (184 x 124mm.) (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped, spine slightly faded), dust-jacket (some soiling and browning, chipped and torn with minor loss). Provenance: Alex Bridge (bookplate and inscription dated '29/1/1935' to front pastedown). - And sixty-three other volumes relating to Byron and his circle (including, Leslie A. MARCHAND. 'Byron a Biography'. London: John Murray, 1957. 3 vols.) (64).

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Toovey's
Lot 3055

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo (185 x 114mm.) Frontispiece, 15 plates. (Light browning, some spotting, occasionally heavy.) Original red pictorial cloth blocked in black and gilt (extremities bumped). Provenance: J.M. Fairs (inscription dated '1902' to front-free endpaper).

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Toovey's
Lot 3272

ART REFERENCE. - Philippa LYON and Jonathan M. WOODHAM. Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: from Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural Industries. Brighton: University of Brighton, 2009. First edition, 4to (225 x 177mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of other volumes mostly relating to 20th Century art (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3244

GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. First edition, 6 vols., 4to (277 x 221mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding maps to vol. II, folding map to vol. III. (Browning, heavy damp-staining throughout, some offsetting, minor spotting and soiling.) 19th Century half-calf (extremities bumped and scuffed, joints split, upper-cover and first few leaves of vol. I detached, upper-cover of vol. VI detached). - And two other volumes by Gibbon ('Miscellaneous Works'. London: 1796. 2 vols., 4to, bound to match) (8).

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Toovey's
Lot 3183

ROLT, L.T.C. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Biography. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1957. First edition, 8vo (222 x 145mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (minor nicks to backstrip, price-clipped). - And a quantity of others relating to engineering, transport and industrial archaeology (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3185

KENT, Alexander. To Glory We Steer. London: Hutchinson, 1968. First edition, 8vo (207 x 136mm.) (Spotting and browning to edges.) Original cloth (bumped and slightly discoloured, stitching loose), dust-jacket (discoloured, small tears, repaired with adhesive tape). - And thirty-nine others, all maritime fiction including others by Kent (40).

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Toovey's
Lot 3237

KING, Stephen. Carrie. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974. First edition, 8vo (210 x 134mm.) (Second chapter heading page torn, a few other leaves with marginal tears, light creasing throughout, some spotting and soiling, occasional ink notes.) Original cloth (heavy scuffing along bottom edge with loss of cloth, extremities bumped), dust-jacket (creased, minor nicks and repaired). - And eighteen others by or related to King (19).

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Toovey's
Lot 3171

COWARD, Noël. The Noël Coward Song Book. London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, 4to (287 x 221mm.) Colour frontispiece, 4 colour plates. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped, slightly browned and soiled). Note: signed by Noël Coward to title-page.

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Toovey's
Lot 3193

PILKINGTON, Roger. Small Boat through Holland. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1958. First edition, 8vo (215 x 133mm.) (Light browning.) Original cloth (lightly spotted), dust-jacket (slightly chipped and creased, spotted to inside, price-clipped). Note: signed by Roger Pilkington to title-page. Provenance: Ethel M. Young (presentation inscription from the author 'with sincere good wishes from all aboard. This is the third volume of the "Commodore's" autobiography… Christmas 1958' to front-free endpaper). - And nineteen other volumes by Pilkington. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (20).

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Toovey's
Lot 3038

AUSTEN, John (illustrator). - George Gordon Noel, Lord BYRON. Don Juan. London & New York: 1926. First edition, 8vo (252 x 155mm.) Frontispiece, 17 plates, numerous illustrations. (Light browning and spotting.) Near contemporary morocco, by Bayntun Riviere, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat foliate motif in gilt, t.e.g. (extremities lightly rubbed).

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Toovey's
Lot 3087

PAYER, Julius. New Lands within the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship 'Tegetthoff' in the Years 1872-1874. London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (223 x 147mm.) Colour frontispiece to vol. I, uncoloured frontispiece to vol. II, 2 folding maps, 21 uncoloured plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting or soiling.) Original blue pictorial cloth blocked in black and gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, spines darkened).

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Toovey's
Lot 3057

KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water Babies. London & Cambridge: 1863. First edition, later impression, 4to (207 x 157mm.) 2 plates by J. Noel Paton. (Browned and spotted.) Modern half-cloth, the upper cover with onlay from original cloth, t.e.g. (extremities lightly bumped). Note: lacking 'L'Envoi' leaf after the dedication page, as is usual for later impressions of the first edition.

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Toovey's
Lot 3022

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Deformed Transformed; a Drama. London: J. and H. L. Hunt, 1824. First edition, 8vo (223 x 142mm.) 2pp. advertisements at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting, minor damp-staining to blanks.) Contemporary calf, by Riviere & Son, covers tooled in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces to the second and sixth, the others with repeat foliate decoration in gilt with touches of red morocco, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (extremities lightly rubbed, foot of covers slightly damp-stained). Provenance: Oliver Brett (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Alex Bridge (bookplate to front-free endpaper, ink inscription dated '25.2.1961' to reverse of front-free endpaper). Note: variant with binder's reference F as G to p.81.

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Toovey's
Lot 3081

STRICKLAND, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1850-1859. First edition, 8 vols., 8vo (190 x 113mm.) Engraved frontispiece and decorative title to each volume. (Light browning and spotting, some minor damp-staining.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with repeat thistle motifs in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly scuffed, spines slightly faded).

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Toovey's
Lot 3186

DAVIS, Lindsey. The Silver Pigs. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989. First U.K. edition, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) 2 maps. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And nineteen others by Lindsey Davis (20).

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Toovey's
Lot 3182

MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING. - Wilfrid NOYCE. South Col, One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953. Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. First edition, 8vo (213 x 138mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Some browning and spotting.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (browning, small tears repaired with tape). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to mountaineering (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3083

POLAR. - F. Spencer CHAPMAN. Northern Lights, The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-1931. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. First edition, 4to (253 x 167mm.) Uncoloured frontispiece, 63 uncoloured plates, 4 folding maps. (Light browning and spotting, heavier to title-page.) Original cloth (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, slightly soiled). - And seventeen other volumes relating to Arctic and Antarctic exploration (18).

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Toovey's
Lot 3281

ART REFERENCE. - Roderick CAVE and Sarah MANSON. A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960. [N.p.:] The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2002. First edition, 4to (276 x 215mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of other volumes of art reference (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3105

LEVER, Charles. The Daltons, Three Roads in Life. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (212 x 130mm.) Engraved frontispiece and engraved additional decorative title to vol. I, 48 engraved plates. (Light spotting and occasional light soiling.) Contemporary green half-morocco (extremities slightly scuffed). - And two other volumes (4).

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Toovey's
Lot 3110

POTTER, Beatrix. Ginger & Pickles. London & New York: 1909. First large-format edition, early impression, 4to (176 x 135mm.) 9 colour plates only (of 10). (Lacking all leaves after p.48, some light spotting or browning.) Original paper-covered boards (extremities bumped, head of spine chipped). Provenance: Jack Stephens (presentation inscription to front pastedown dated 1922). - And four others by Potter (5).

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Toovey's
Lot 3063

BOUGEANT, [Guillaume-Hyacinthe]. A Philosophical Amusement upon the Language of Beasts. London: T. Cooper, 1739. First English edition, 8vo (190 x 115mm.) (Browning, light spotting, occasional soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, old lettering piece laid-down, extremities bumped and rubbed, endpapers replaced).

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Toovey's
Lot 3056

FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, 8vo (190 x 127mm.) (Heavy soiling throughout.) Original cloth (extremities scuffed and bumped, stitching broken), dust-jacket (heavy soiling, small nicks). Provenance: Wild's Lending Library (usual library markings).

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Toovey's
Lot 3194

MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING. - Dennis ROBERTS. I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone, The Story of Maurice Wilson. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1957. First edition, 8vo (215 x 135mm.) Numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning and spotting.) Original boards, dust-jacket (price-clipped, slightly soiled). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to mountaineering (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3097

GAY, John. Fables… With a Life of the Author. London: John Stockdale, 1793. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (245 x 150mm.) Engraved frontispiece to vol. I, engraved title-pages, 68 engraved plates. (Light browning, some light spotting and occasional offsetting.) Near contemporary tree-calf, by Mansell, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with elaborate repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly scuffed).

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Toovey's
Lot 3109

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First trade edition, first impression, 16mo (138 x 104mm.) Colour frontispiece, 26 colour plates. (Occasional minor soiling, plate opposing p.39 scored affecting image.) Original boards with onlaid pictorial paper label to upper-cover (extremities lightly bumped, joints starting to split, lower hinge split, endpapers lightly soiled).

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Toovey's
Lot 3052

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Lord Emsworth and Others. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1937. First edition, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) (Light spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (torn with some loss and repaired). McIlvaine A57a. - And a quantity of others all by Wodehouse (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3098

[HENRY, David.] The Complete English Farmer, or, A Practical System of Husbandry. London: printed for F. Newbery, 1771. First edition, 8vo (203 x 121mm.) 1 engraved folding plan, 1 engraved plate. (Browning and occasional spotting.) Contemporary speckled calf (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: Ambrose Isted (armorial bookplate to reverse of title); S.W. Cheveley (bookplate to front pastedown).

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Toovey's
Lot 3028

DALLAS, A.R.C. Correspondence of Lord Byron… An Original Memoir of Lord Byron's Life, from 1808 to 1814. Paris: A. and W. Calignani, 1825. First edition, 3 vols., 8vo (vol. I 165 x 102mm., vols. II-III 170 x 95mm.) (Browning and spotting.) Vol. I contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers tooled with geometric and foliate decoration in gilt and blind, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with foliate decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e.; vols. II-III contemporary green half-morocco, spines gilt in five compartments, g.e. (extremities bumped and scuffed). Provenance: Von Dem Knesebeck (armorial bookplate to front pastedowns of vols. II-III).

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Toovey's
Lot 3139

FRANCIS, Dick. Flying Finish. London: Michael Joseph, 1966. First edition, 8vo (195 x 131mm.) (Minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly browned and scuffed). - And forty-seven others by Francis, including ten signed by the author (48).

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Toovey's
Lot 3116

MILNE, A.A. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting or soiling.) Original red cloth, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, spine faded). Provenance: Annette (presentation inscription dated '15.X.27' to reverse of front-free endpaper). - And one other volume by Milne ('When We Were Very Young'. London: 1924. Fifth edition, 8vo) (2).

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Toovey's
Lot 3046

STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (222 x 142mm.) Portrait frontispieces, three folding maps, numerous illustrations many full-page. (Some spotting and light browning, 1 map torn without loss.) Original cloth blocked in black and gilt (extremities bumped and chipped, slightly soiled). Provenance: S.A. Mead (inscription dated 2/7/90 to reverse of front-free endpaper).

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Toovey's
Lot 3264

GUTHORN, Peter. United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984. First edition, 4to (303 x 225mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth (lightly scuffed to head and foot of spine), dust-jacket. - And a quantity of other volumes. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (a quantity).

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Toovey's
Lot 3073

BARKER, Walter Goodyer. On the Climate of Worthing: its remedial influence in Disease, especially of the lungs. London: John Churchill, 1860. First edition, 8vo (190 x 124mm.) Original cloth (lightly bumped). Provenance: 'Pagden' (inscription to title-page with address 'Gloucester Lodge, Worthing'). - And a second edition of the same work with lithographic frontispiece not issued with the first edition.

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Toovey's
Lot 3120

PEARSON, Henry J. 'Beyond Petsora Eastward' Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of Barents Sea. London: R. H. Porter, 1899. First edition, 8vo (235 x 165mm.) 1 chromolithographed frontispiece, numerous uncoloured plates, 2 folding maps at rear. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting, heavier spotting to fore-edge.) Original green pictorial cloth blocked in gilt, t.e.g. (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). - And one other volume by Henry PEARSON ('Three Summers among the Birds of Russian Lapland'. London: R. H. Porter, 1904) (2).

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Toovey's
Lot 3252

CANALS. - Edward W. PAGET-TOMLINSON. The Complete Book of Canal & River Navigations. Albrighton: Waine Research Publications, 1978. First edition, 8vo (298 x 207mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket (backstrip faded). Together with a t.l.s. by Edward Paget-Tomlinson addressed to Michael Gilkes dated '16 October 1997', (297 x 210mm.) discussing his uncle James Wordie who was with Shackleton on the 'Endurance'. - And thirty-six other volumes relating to canals. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (17).

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Toovey's
Lot 3084

NORDENSKJÖLD, Nils Otto, and [Johan] Gunnar ANDERSSON. Antarctica or Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1905. First U.K. edition, 8vo (228 x 153mm.) Frontispiece, 4 colour plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations, 4 colour maps (3 folding). (Light browning and spotting, occasional soiling, 1 map slightly soiled and torn with minor loss, 1 map torn and repaired without loss.) Original green pictorial cloth, lettering to upper-cover blocked in gilt, spine gilt (extremities bumped and scuffed, covers soiled, spine darkened, lower joint splitting, stitching weak). Spence 860. - And one other by Nordenskjöld. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (2).

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Lot 3126

WRYDE, J. Saxby. British Lighthouses, Their History and Romance. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. First edition, 8vo (220 x 138mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Browning and spotting.) Original gilt pictorial cloth, t.e.g. (head and foot of spine lightly bumped, spine slightly faded).

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Toovey's
Lot 3005

JOHN MURRAY (publisher). A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece. Extracted from the Journal of Count Peter Gamba. London: 1825. First edition, 8vo (215 x 127mm.) (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities scuffed). Provenance: Ralph Ricardo (armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Alex Bridge (ink inscription to reverse of front-free endpaper dated 30.8.1949).

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Toovey's
Lot 3190

RAILWAYS. - Robert E. CARLSON. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. First edition, 8vo (248 x 155mm.) (Some light browning.) Original cloth (top-edge browning), dust-jacket (minor nicks, light browning to inner-flaps). Provenance: Fattorini (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to railways published by David & Charles (a quantity).

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Lot 3166

[WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy] 'Bernard BLACKMANTLE'. The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous… Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (232 x 138mm.) 71 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispieces, 1 wood-engraved plate of the 'Five Orders', numerous wood engraved illustrations. (Light browning, some offsetting, spotting and occasional minor soiling, neat repairs to p.iii and p.107 in vol. I also title and p.213 in vol. II.) Later full crushed morocco, by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat foliate decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly bumped). Provenance: Hugh Sartorius Whitaker (armorial bookplate to front pastedowns); Peter & Margery Morris (bookplate to front-free endpapers); S. Davies (inscriptions to front pastedowns).

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Toovey's
Lot 3286

ART REFERENCE. - Val WILLIAMS. Anna Fox Photographs 1983-2007. [N.p. but Brighton:] Photoworks, 2007. First edition, 4to (259 x 206mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original boards (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (lightly scuffed). - And a quantity of other volumes of art reference mostly relating to photography and cinema (a quantity).

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 1368

CHURCHILL (W.S.) Marlborough: his life and times. First Edition, 4 vols. (reprint Oct. of vol. 1). num. plates & maps (some folded), text illus., 2 errata slips; recent Oxford blue half morocco & cloth, gilt-panelled spines, gilt tops, roy. 8vo. 1933 - (38)

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Lot 1363

SHEPHERD (T.H.) Metropolitan Improvements; or London, in the Nineteenth Century . . . First Edition. pictorial engraved & printed titles, 158 steel-engraved illus. (on 79 plates) & a plan of 'The Regent's Park'; late 19th cent. half morocco & cloth, 4to. 1830.

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Lot 1345

FORESTER (C.S.) The Happy Return. First Edition. d/wrapper (by Roland Hilder). 1937. Illustrated

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Lot 1404

POTTER (B.) The Tale of Peter Rabbit. First Trade Edition. coloured illus. throughout, 98pp. (incl. half title); original dark brown paper boards, white-lettered on spine & upper board & with the rectangular coloured illus. mounted within blind-ruled panel on upper one, grey leaf-patterned e/ps., sm. 8vo. Frederick Warne and Co., (1902). * i.e. Oct., Nov. or Dec. 1902 - ' there are no recognizable differences between the first three printings ' - Linder; Xmas 1903 inscription at front. Illustrated

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