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Lot 230
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW "The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet", first edition published Constable and Company Ltd London 1911, clothboard bound with tooled and gilded spine, inscribed by the author to frontispiece "To Ron Webster from Bernard Shaw 23rd February 1911 - to remind you of the oridgeonal ridgeon", together with eight further volumes by George Bernard Shaw including "Androcles and the Lion", "Overruled", "Pygmalion", "Translations and Tomfooleries", "Heartbreak House ...", "Man and Superman", "John Bull's Other Island" and "Major Barbara", "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant", "Back to Methuselah" and "Three Plays for Puritans"
Lot 471
Bletchley Park rare cover 1997 Architects of the Air. First Day Cover featuring the De Havilland Mosquito designed By R. E. Bishop (1903 - 1989). Cancelled Bletchley Park, 10 June 1997 over a Royal Mail stamp 'Bishop - De Havilland Mosquito. Limited Edition No. 1 of 200. Unsigned. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99. Please Note Overseas Shipping Of Framed and mounted Items Are At Cost.
Lot 466
Bletchley Park rare Official FDC 1999 Colossus the Worlds First Computer. Cover design: Plan of Bletchley Park: Turing Bombe built 1940, Cottage built 1939, Hut 3 built 1939, Hut 4 built 1939, Hut 6 built 1939, Hut 8 built 1939. Cancelled 'Colossus the World's 1st Computer, Bletchley Park, 12 Jan. 1999 over four Millennium stamps. Rare Limited Edition No. 114 of 200. Contains a special insert card signed Baron Briggs: Asa Briggs 'the watch' in Hut 6. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99. Please Note Overseas Shipping Of Framed and mounted Items Are At Cost.
Lot 465
Bletchley Park rare cover 1999. Thanks to Poland' Cover features Stefan Knapp's 'Battle of Britain Mural'. Double postmarked; (i) Britain Thanks Poland, Enigma secrets, 25 July 1999 over First Class stamp. (ii) Polish Eagle insignia, Polska 1939 - 1999 Enigma, 25 July 1999 over 60gr Polish stamp. Limited Edition No. 55 of 1000. Unsigned. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99. Please Note Overseas Shipping Of Framed and mounted Items Are At Cost.
Lot 108
BROOKLIN MODELS; three BRK 33 1938 Phantom Corsairs in green, black and cream liveries, the first a limited edition of 750 with 'Modelex 91' decal and certificate, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes worn, models appear ok, the cream example is of a matt finish.
Lot 137
DURHAM CLASSICS; three 1941 Chevrolet Deluxe Coupés in red, beige and blue liveries, the first limited edition of 400 and the second a Durham Classics Collectors Club 1st Issue for member no. 212, both with inset plaques to bases, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes lightly worn, models appear ok.
Lot 142
DURHAM CLASSICS; two 1934 Chrysler Airflow two door coupés in red and silver liveries with 'Airflow Club of America' and 'Canadian Automotive Museum 100 Years' decals respectively, the first limited edition of 250 with plaque to base and certificate, also a 1953 Ford F100 Half Ton pickup in green livery with '5th Annual Toronto Toy Show' decal, limited edition of 200 with stamp to base, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes lightly worn, models appear ok.
Lot 148
SOMERVILLE MODELS; two Fordson 5 CWT vans in blue liveries with 'Frank Cooper Ltd Oxford Marmalade' and 'Ford' decals respectively, the first limited edition no.43/150 with certificate, and Austin 10 Cambridge in black livery, 1/43 scale, all boxed, also approximately forty empty Somerville boxes and two catalogue leaflets. CONDITION REPORT: Models appear ok with some minor surface dirt, the Austin lacking one tyre to the front left wheel, their boxes worn, the empty boxes of mixed condition from lightly to heavily worn, faded, discoloured and stained.
Lot 222
STAR TREK; a limited edition The Next Generation Phaser Laser Pointer No.8264 with certificate of authenticity and instructions, housed in a presentation case and cardboard sleeve, also Franklin Mint Star Trek 30th Anniversary Phaser (af) and Type-2 Phaser (stand af) in pewter and a loose Playmates Klingon D'k Tahg (4). CONDITION REPORT: Cardboard sleeve is worn. Pointer is a little dusty but appears unused. The Franklin Mint Phaser is missing component to the front. The Type-2 perspex section of the stand is broken in two, both Phasers with general surface wear, the first with a few chips to the black finish on the body.
Lot 223
STAR TREK; Art Asylum Starship Legends Series USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A 16" electronic starship, Paramount The Next Generation USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Lighted Figurine featuring the voice of Patrick Stewart, also Polar Lights USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and Ertl Special Edition Galileo II Shuttlecraft model kits, all boxed (4). CONDITION REPORT: The first two boxes are lightly worn, model still works when Try Me button is pushed, the latter two model kits still in original shrink wrap.
Lot 230
STAR TREK; nine Playmates figures including three First Contact Series Lt Commander Geordi Laforge, Doctor Beverly Crusher and Commander William T Riker, two Voyager Series Neelix The Talaxian and The Doctor Emergency Medical Hologram, two Generations Series, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lt Commander Worf, also Klingon Great Hall and Borg Temple (both Collectors Series Edition) and eleven Art Asylum Minimates Series figures including Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, Dr Mccoy, etc (some multiples), all boxed. CONDITION REPORT: Boxes in varied condition, generally worn, internal models appear unused and still unopened but please judge from the pictures.
Lot 240
STAR TREK; a good collection of Star Trek Collectable Card Game trading cards, The Next Generation white border Premier Edition Alpha 1994 and Beta 1995 The Klingons, The Romulans & Non-Aligned, Artifacts, Dilemmas and Missions, The Federation & Events & Interrupts; also black border expansions and sets comprising First Contact, Dominion, Blaze of Glory, The Q Continuum, Q Mirror, Mirror Decipher, Rules of Acquisition and Deep Space Nine, with assorted starter deck cards; featuring various rare, uncommon and common cards, with checklist, nine albums of varying quantity.
Lot 242
STAR TREK; a collection of predominantly Skybox Collectors Cards including Master Series and Series II, Deep Space Nine, 30 Years of Star Trek Phases 1-3, Generations and First Contact Cinema Collections, Insurrection, Memories From The Future and Voyager, also further similar, including Impel The Next Generation and Ritten House Quotable Star Trek, etc, with lists and housed in eight folders of varying size, also a boxed Launch Edition Star Trek Star Disc Set.
Lot 57
BROOKLIN MODELS; three BRK 16 and 16X Dodge Vans in blue, cream and silver liveries with 'Merley House & Model Museum' (limited edition of 100), 'St Martin's Accessories Ltd' and 'Canadian Pacific Coast Toy Show' decals respectively, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes worn, first two models with slightly loose front and rear bumpers, last model with only slightly loose front bumper, the Canada example with one very minor loss to paintwork to the upper rim of the step on the driver's side, otherwise all appear ok.
Lot 76
BROOKLIN MODELS; three BRK 4 1937 Chevrolet Coupés in red, white and green liveries, the first with 'James C. Leake & Antiques Inc. 15th Auction' decal and the second a Brooklin Collectors Club edition stamped 'Member No.' and 'B.C.C 1989' to base, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes worn, front bumper of the green model at a slight angle, otherwise models appear ok.
Lot 91
BROOKLIN MODELS; three BRK 31 1953 Pontiac Sedan delivery vans in green, burgundy and white liveries with 'Huggett Electrical Ltd Bath', 'Wessex M.T.C 1989' and 'BDA Over 50 Years Service to Diabetics Lithotripter Appeal' decals respectively, the first model a limited edition with certificate and compliments card, 1/43 scale, all boxed (3). CONDITION REPORT: Provenance: The Ed Clark Collection. Boxes worn, box of first Huggett model heavily worn, the mascot on the white model at a slight angle, otherwise all appear ok.
Lot 138
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Ring (John) A Treatise on the Cow-Pox; containing the History of Vaccine Inoculation, 2 vol., first edition, lacking 2 hand-colour plates, 1 table only (of 2), short tear fractionally affecting text (2F2, vol.1), contemporary calf, rubbed spines, 8vo, J. and T. Carpenter; and J. Johnson, 1801-03.⁂ Scarce
Lot 107
Africa.- Big Game.- Neumann (Arthur H.) Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, chromolithographed plate of butterflies, illustrations, many full-page, folding colour map in pocket at end, pencil inscription to half-title, ink signature to frontispiece verso, some small marginal tears, mostly repaired, zebra print endpapers, original pictorial cloth, a little spotted, chipping to spine extremities with some loss, [Czech p.122], 1898; and another, similar, 8vo (2)
Lot 114
NO RESERVE Africa.- Portal (Sir Gerald) The British Mission to Uganda in 1893, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, folding-map, illustrations, 32pp. advertisements at end, ink inscription, original cloth, a little rubbed, [Czech pp.132-133], 1894 § Austin (Major Herbert H.) With Macdonald in Uganda, first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding colour map (tear to foldline), 32pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, ink name-stamp to half-title, front free endpaper pasted down, ex-library with usual stamps, original cloth, rubbed and worn, ink number to spine foot, [Czech p.8], 1903 § Cunningham (J. F.) Uganda and its Peoples, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, cracked upper hinge, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, 1905; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (5)
Lot 49
Fielding (Henry) The Works... with the Life of the Author, 4 vol., first collected edition, engraved portrait, very light offsetting, contemporary tree calf, covers with oval panels with gilt laurel borders, calf around that dyed green, all of which within a tripled border of various tools, spines gilt in compartments, rubbed, vol2 & 3 upper covers detached, slip-case, 4to A.Millar, 1762.
Lot 122
NO RESERVE Polar.- Amedo of Savoy (Luigi) On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates, 2 folding, illustrations, 5 maps, 2 folding, 1 with marginal loss, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, 1903 § Rasmussen (Knud) The People of the Polar North: a Record, first English edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1908 § Cook (Frederick A.) To the Top of the Continent, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, ink inscription, original decorative cloth, 1909; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (6)
Lot 115
NO RESERVE Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 1 map only (of 2), occasional marginal damp-staining, scattered spotting, some edges neatly strengthened, contemporary half calf, rubbed, small splits to spine head, [Czech p.151], 1863 § Swayne (George C.) Lake Victoria. a Narrative of Explorations in search of the Source of the Nile, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, ink inscription inside upper cover, original cloth, a little rubbed, small loss to spine head, William Blackwood and Sons, n.d., 8vo (2)
Lot 110
NO RESERVE Africa.- Christy (Cuthbert) Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, 2 prospectus for related titles loosely inserted, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.36], 8vo, 1924.
Lot 127
Oxford.- Church (Alfred J.) Isis and Thamesis: Hours on the River from Oxford to Henley, vignette title, 12 plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1886 § Belloc (H.) The Old Road, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 5 folding maps at end, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, browned, slight chipping to extremities, 1904 § Rice-Oxley (L) Oxford Renowned, first edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1925; 8vo (3)
Lot 37
Evelyn (John).- Barlow (Thomas) A letter concerning invocation of saints, and adoration of the cross, writ ten years since, to John Evelyn of Depthford Esq, first edition, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Wing B834; Keynes, Evelyn, 179], small 4to, printed by John Macock for John Martyn at the sign of the Bell in St Paul's Church-yard, 1679.⁂ Barlow was Bodley's Librarian in the Interregnum.
Lot 74
Kipling (Rudyard) Kim, first edition, frontispiece, original cloth, 1901; Puck of Pook's Hill, first edition, frontispiece, original cloth, slipcase, 1906; Limits and Renewals, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1932; If-, second separate English edition, original printed wrappers, 1914, fine copies; and a quantity of others, first and other editions, including many fine copies, v.s. (qty.)
Lot 87
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Martin (Edward A.) A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors, first edition, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, Dublin, 2003 § Cambridge University Press. Announcements of Books to be Published in the First Half of 1926, original marbled paper wrappers, [1926] § A Select List of New Works Published by John Hatchard and Son, original paper wrappers, small split to spine foot, 1838; and 7 others, similar, 8vo (10)
Lot 96
Rackham (Arthur) Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, first edition, 44 tipped-in colour plates, lightly browned endpapers, original cloth, light spotting to spine, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, rubbed, small tears to edges and extremities, 1913 § Milton (John) Paradise Lost, plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and worn, Liverpool, 1906; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4)
Lot 63
Melville (Herman) Mardi: and a Voyage Thither, 3 vol., first edition, titles and red and black, half-titles to vol.2 and 3 only (not called for in vol.1), some spotting, contemporary half cloth, rubbed, [BAL 13657], large 12mo, Richard Bentley, 1849.⁂ Rare first edition of Melville's only other triple-decker apart from The Whale. It precedes the American edition by a few days. Provenance: Philip Gosse (1810-1888), English naturalist and writer on marine life (bookplates); Robert Mackenzie Waggaman (bookplates).
Lot 19
Meursius (Joannes) Rerum Belgicarum libri quatuor, first edition, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, title lightly soiled, some spotting, 17th century armorial calf, gilt, covers with central crests and arms and crest corner-pieces, crests to spine in compartments, lacking label, spine ends little chipped, corners worn, joints starting, but holding firm, [Willems 92]. small 4to, Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1614.
Lot 123
NO RESERVE Polar.- Kane (Elisha Kent) Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispieces, additional vignette titles, 2 maps only (of 3), 1 folding, 18 plates, illustrations, spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, small split to spine, Philadelphia, 1856 § Whitney (Harry) Hunting with Eskimos, frontispiece, plates, folding map, bookplate, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1910 § Mikkelsen (Ejnar) Lost in the Arctic, first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, 1913; 8vo (4)
Lot 69
NO RESERVE Hewlett-Dohenny copy.- Maurier (George du) Peter Ibbetson, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, plates and illustrations by the author, vol.1 bookplate removed from front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, vol.1 3 red ink stains to upper cover, both vol. marked, housed in modern buckram chemise and morocco-backed slip-case, [Sadleir 1674a; Wolff 1950], large 8vo, 1892.
Lot 56
Franklin (Benjamin).- , Literary Miscellany (The): or, Selections & Extracts, 11 parts in 3 vol., additional engraved titles for each part, illustrations, spotting and browning, contemporary half calf, rebacked, gilt, a little rubbed, Poughnill, 1804 § Milns (William) The Well-Bred Scholar, first edition, short tear to S3, bookplate, contemporary calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1794 § Smith (Horatio) Festivals, Games and Amusements, engraved frontispiece, bookplate to title verso, folding plan and folding plates, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, New York, 1831; and 2 others, v.s. (7)⁂ The first includes pieces by Benjamin Franklin, Miss Burney, John Langhorne, William Shenstone and Henry Mackenzie.
![[Clark (A.)] Paddy Hew: A Poem, From the Brain of Timothy Tarpaulin. Whistled by a Sea Lark,, first edition, hand-coloured wo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/36162f3c-2fe9-4ef2-8ebd-a99800cf71a6/5402f317-bff1-4cec-9ebe-a99800d3bb62/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2
[Clark (A.)] Paddy Hew: A Poem, From the Brain of Timothy Tarpaulin. Whistled by a Sea Lark,, first edition, hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, book label of Annd and F.G. Renier, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo, 1815.⁂ A rare satire on naval life. Upon being asked by a bookseller to whom he had offered the work for publication whether the work was in the manner of Doctor Syntax the author replied 'No, Sir, it is not like Doctor Syntax; Paddy Hew would be ashamed to be seen in the same filed with such a milksop'.
Lot 85
NO RESERVE Food and drink.- David (Elizabeth) French Provincial Cooking, first edition, illustrations, light browning to half title, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, dust-jacket, repaired tear to upper panel, a little creased and frayed at head and foot, still a very good copy overall, 1960 § Heaton (Nell) and Andé Simon. A Calendar of Food & Wine, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Heaton to the half-title, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, closed tears with tape repairs to verso, light discolouration, 1949; and 9 others, food and drink, 8vo (11)
Lot 109
NO RESERVE Africa.- Casati (Maj. Gaetano) Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps in pockets at end, occasional spotting, cracked hinge, original pictorial cloth, tear to spine head (vol. 1), rubbed, [Hosken p.43], 1891 § Jameson (James S.) Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, folding facsimiles, 2 folding colour maps, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1890; and another, similar, 8vo (4)
Lot 136
NO RESERVE Mosses.- Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Muscologia Britannica, containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, second edition, 36 hand-coloured plates, publisher's catalogue at front, original boards, spine chipped and scuffed, 1827 § Berkeley (Rev. M. J.) Handbook of British Mosses, first edition , 24 lithographed plates, all but one hand-coloured, advertisements at rear, original cloth, neatly recased, 1863, 8vo (2)
Lot 43
NO RESERVE Hildrop (John) Free Thoughts upon the Brute-Creation, first edition, engraved frontispiece, half-title, small marginal tear (B4), loss to margin fractionally affecting text (H2), ink signature to title, occasional marginal damp-staining, ?lacking a blank, modern half calf, 8vo, 1742-43.
Lot 129
NO RESERVE Bannerman (David Armitage) and George Lodge. The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, price-clipped, some minor discolouration to spines and occasional chipping to extremities, a generally excellent set overall, 4to, 1953-63.
Lot 98
NO RESERVE Thackeray (Lance) The Light Side of Egypt, colour plates by the author, some foxing to text, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, light wear to spine ends and corners, 1908 § Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Jungle Girl, first English edition, light scattered spotting, original cloth, dust-jacket, light surface soiling, minor chipping to spine end, a near-fine copy overall, 1933; and 8 others, children's and illustrated books, v.s. (10)
Lot 53
Dictionaries.- Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, seventh edition, engraved frontispiece portrait (some minor fraying and light damp-staining to margins, contemporary calf, gilt, wear to spine ends, joints splitting at head and foot, folio, for J.F. and C. Rivington, 1785.⁂ The first unabridged one-volume edition, printed immediately following Johnson's death in 1784.
Lot 130
NO RESERVE Birds.- Africa.- Jackson (Sir Frederick John) The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate, 3 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece, 24 colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, folding colour map, 4pp. advertisements at end, faint spotting to endpapers, original buckram, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1938; Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda, first edition, colour frontispiece, 12 colour plates, cracked hinges, ex-library with label pasted inside lower cover, original cloth, rubbed, 1926; and another by the same, 8vo (5)
Lot 119
India.- Rousselet (Louis) L'Inde des Rajahs: Voyage dans l'Inde centrale et dans les Présidences de Bombay et du Bengale, first edition, 6 maps, of which one in text and four colour, wood-engraved illustrations, some full-page some spotting or foxing, origianl red richly gilt pictorial mor0cc0-backed cloth, g.e., 4to, Paris, 1875.
Lot 125
NO RESERVE Polar.- Sverdrup (Otto) New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Region, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 3 folding maps, ink inscriptions to frontispiece verso, partially erased, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1904 § Nansen (Frinftjof) "Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates, 16 colour, illustrations, 4 folding maps, bookplate, ink inscriptions, cracked hinges, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, Westminster, 1897; 8vo (4)
Lot 140
NO RESERVE Fly fishing.- Halford (Frederic M.) Dry Fly Entomology, a brief description of the leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling, first edition, folding table and 28 plates of flies (10 hand-coloured), light browning to margins, contemporary half morocco, 1897 § West (Leonard) The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, 13 colour plates, tissue-guards, scattered spotting, original cloth, some fading, Published by the Author, St. Helens, [1912]; and 5 others, fly fishing, 8vo (7)
Lot 113
Africa.- Pinto (Major Serpa) How I Crossed Africa, 2 vol., first edition, plates, illustrations, maps including large folding map in pocket at end, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, [Hosken p.160], 1881 § Hore (Edward Coode) Tanganyika: Eleven Years in Central Africa, first edition, A.L.s from author tipped-in at end, folding frontispiece, full-page illustrations, part obituary of author pasted inside lower cover, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, 1892; and 2 others, Africa, 8vo (5)
Lot 20
Macclesfield copy.- Rymer (Thomas) Foedera Conventiones, Literae, et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae, et alios quosuis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel Communitates..., 20 vol., first edition, 16 engraved plates, vol.1 gatherings 4O and 4N transposed, Index chronologicus in vol.10 misbound, very occasional light damp-staining to foot, occasional spotting or browning, bookplate of The Earls of Macclesfield, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, spines rubbing, some straining to foot, some splitting to joints, folio, 1704-35.⁂ A handsome set. The printing of the first edition was convoluted and as such complete sets are rare at auction.
Lot 83
NO RESERVE Kipling (Rudyard).- Young (W. Arthur) A Dictionary of the Characters and Scenes in the Stoies and Poems of Rudyard Kipling, first edition, slip-case, n.d. § Van de Water (Frederick F.) Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud, limited edition, slip-case, Weston, Vermont, 1937 § Durand (Ralph) A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling, ink ownership inscription, 1914, original cloth; and c.65 others, Kipling criticism, 8vo (c.70)
Lot 112
Africa.- Hall (R. N.) Great Zimbabwe: Mashonaland, Rhodesia, first edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed by author, frontispiece, plates, some folding, illustrations, related newspaper cuttings pasted inside upper cover, photograph of author pasted to verso frontispiece, related Christmas greeting pasted to half-title, envelope of fauna samples pasted inside lower cover, cracked hinges, occasional marginal notes, cracked hinges, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed and worn, [Hosken p.91], 1905 § Wollaston (A. F. R.) From Ruwenzori to the Congo, first edition, frontispiece and plates, 2 maps, 1 folding, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, original cloth, 1908; and another, similar, 8vo (3)
Lot 356
HILLARY EDMUND: (1919-2008) New Zealand Mountaineer, the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953. A good D.S., `Ed. Hillary´, one page, folio, being a numbered certificate of gratefulness for the donation received for the edition of the work Sagarmatha (1991). The typed text stating in part `The presentation edition of Sagarmatha come to you with my special appreciation. It is only with donations such as yours that the Himalayan Trust can continue its environmental work in the Everest region in Nepal. I consider our various projects with the Sherpa people of vital importance, and I am happy that you share in my support of them..´ Signed by “Sir Edmund Hillary, Himalayan Trust, Kathmandu, Nepal”. Printed at the base “The paper is hand-made in Nepal from the bark of the daphne shrub..”. The document has been cleanly affixed to a larger card. G £200-300
![[CHAGALL MARC]: (1887-1985) Russian-born French Artist. A good set of two autograph letters. One A.L.S., `M. Ch¨.´, and one A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e213d9a-c4f6-4d70-959a-a98400d83e70/0e1afdbf-9bd5-4454-a5df-a98400dfc8bd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 265
[CHAGALL MARC]: (1887-1985) Russian-born French Artist. A good set of two autograph letters. One A.L.S., `M. Ch¨.´, and one A.L., both autograph letters are written by Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, on behalf of her husband Marc Chagall, two pages each, folio and large 8vo respectively, both from Paris, Avenue Sycomores, Villa Montmorency, November 1933, to Andre de Ridder, in French. To the first, Chagall states in part `We are back from Bale. Your article has pleased a lot and the "Democrate" journal edition has been joined to the catalogue.. It is a pity that the exhibition will not be taken anywhere else. We cannot keep on disturbing the collectors. It is always the same story. There´s nothing we can do. I would like to know your own opinion and the one of few friends. I do not have many. There are no museums in Paris where the exhibition could be presented, with the exception of Jeu de Paume. But try to make react all those bureaucrats..´ To the second Chagall states `..I am not looking for anything except for showing this exhibition to the after war generation who do not know me…´ Chagall concludes with a post-scriptum stating `They tell me from Bale that the exhibition is very much visited and is very successful, even more than the Maillol one of Braque.´ With small remnant of former paper affixing to the upper left edge. G, 2 £80-100 Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (1895-1944) Belarusian Writer and first wife 1915-44 of Painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings.
Lot 334
ROWLING J.K.: (1965- ) Joanne Rowling, British Novelist writing under the pen names J.K Rowling. Best known for writing the series Harry Potter. Signed and inscribed book, being the 5.5 x 8 hardback edition and 607 pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, First Edition, edited by Bloomsbury, London 2005. Signed in bold black ink `J.K Rowling´ to the presentation page. EX £600-900
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