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Lot 1597
Two boxes of books relating to birds and wildlife including DAVID A. BANNERMAN; The Birds of the British Isles, twelve volumes, first edition, 1953-1963, NICHOLSON/HOLLOM/CRAMP; British Birds, ten volumes, 1958-1967, T.A. COWARD; The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs, three volumes, and various others.
Lot 753
British Empire King George V In an Imperial Album Vol II issues from 1928 (First Edition) in generally very good condition with several sets to 1/- (or equivalent) including Ceylon, St. Helena (1934), Bermuda 1936 set; New Zealand 1935-36 set (14 cartons); general range of 1935 Jubilee low and odd values. Cat £200++. Very clean lot and album.
Lot 1781
Published 1732 AD. Framed map of Arabia by Christophe Cellarius, author of Geographia Antiqua, first published 1686; this edition published Leipzig by Gledisch, 1732; depicting the region of Arabia to Babylonia and including the Holy Land area from the Mediterranean Sea in the east to Chaldea in the west, with vignette of two camels in top corner. 1.1 kg, 44 x 34cm including frame (17 1/4 x 13 1/2"). Property of a Norfolk, UK, collector; part of a family collection by descent. [No Reserve] Fine condition. Scarce.
Lot 1838
Published 1777 AD. First edition, by John Gibson (Merchant in Glasgow), published 'for the author' [title; preface, vii pp.; text, 391 pp.], original full calf boards, later spine reinforcement, text block solid. Walter Steinberg has been a well-known figure at fairs, sales and events for many years. Born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Walter has had a life-long passion for collecting. A long-time resident in London, he has now retired to New York and decided that the time has come to pass on the antiquities and coins he has collected over his lifetime. Walter acquired coins and artefacts that interested him, so his collection, although containing many lovely examples, also contains many affordable specimens. Much of the material has been unavailable to the market for 30 to 50 years. Walter hopes that the items he collected will now find new homes with the next generation of collectors. 550 grams, 21.5 x 14cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). Ex Walter Steinberg collection. [No Reserve] "Good condition; some browning, boards rubbed and corners bumped; no map."
Lot 1839
Published 1792 AD, First Edition. A tract by 'Will Chip' a 'country carpenter' entitled Village Politics Addressed to all the Mechanics, Journeymen and Labourers in Great Britain printed by F & C Rivington, London [title; 24pp. text], bound in later boards with blank leaves at back; written by Hannah More (1745-1833), a prominent writer, reformer and an evangelical Christian; she campaigned against slavery and this tract is in response to 'The Rights of Man' by Thomas Paine, published the previous year; the tract takes the form of a dialogue between Jack Anvil, the blacksmith and Tom Hod, the mason, where Jack is conservative and in favour of the existing state and Tom has taken Paine's reforms to heart; Tom is depicted as politically naive and the tract also refers to the 'liberty' recently achieved by the French Revolution and shows the concerns about those events in England. Hannah More wrote other works in a series of 'Cheap Repository Tracts' (1795-1798); her portrait featured on a British commemorative postage stamp issued in 2007; accompanied by printouts of two portraits. See Hopkins, Mary A., Hannah More and Her Circle, 1947 and Roberts, William, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Hannah More, 1836. Walter Steinberg has been a well-known figure at fairs, sales and events for many years. Born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Walter has had a life-long passion for collecting. A long-time resident in London, he has now retired to New York and decided that the time has come to pass on the antiquities and coins he has collected over his lifetime. Walter acquired coins and artefacts that interested him, so his collection, although containing many lovely examples, also contains many affordable specimens. Much of the material has been unavailable to the market for 30 to 50 years. Walter hopes that the items he collected will now find new homes with the next generation of collectors. 100 grams, 17 x 10.5cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/4"). Ex Walter Steinberg collection; acquired London, 1970s. [No Reserve] Fine condition; later outer binding lightly soiled. Rare first edition of a famous work.
Lot 587
Three Irish and Religious Interest Books. First Edition Hardbacks. A Spiritual Diary, and Soliloquies (John Rutty) 1796 . Priests and People in Ireland (Michael J.F McCarthy) 1902. The History of The Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691, with a view of the state of Ireland from the invasion by Henry11, to the Revolution (Matthew O'Conor) 1813 (3).
Lot 3
BOWMORE 28 YEAR OLD 1981 VINTAGE EDITION 1 bottle. Bowmore 28 Year Old 1981 Vintage Single Malt Scotch Whisky. OB. 700ml. 49.6% abv. Bottled as the first of a new Vintage Series by Bowmore this bottle is presented in a premium wooden case with leather strap and buckle fastening and a certificate of authenticity signed by the Distillery Manager Eddie MacAffer. Bottle number 145 of 402. Level low neck. Pristine condition.
Lot 120
Romance & Legend Of Chivalry by A.R.Hope-Moncrieff Item Description: London Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. nd (c. 1912), 1912. First edition. 8 colour and 27 monochrome plates from drawings and famous paintings. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine. xii, 439. A very fine copy. A book beautifully bound, designed and illustrated. The first half of the book explores the history of Chivalric romances, especially the legends of Arthur and Charlemagne. The second half of the book presents six of the most popular romances from England, France, Spain and Scandinavia. The accompanying illustrations, drawn primarily from English museums are of the soft, romantic style similar in feel to the works of William Morris and his coterie.
Lot 147
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon. containing An Account of his Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. Written by Himself. Printed from his Original Manuscripts. [with] the 'Continuation of the Life. being a continuation of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his banishment in 1667'. [In three volumes.This lot contains the volumes 1 & 2 out of 3.] CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of.. Used Hardcover First Edition
Lot 170
1/Vertebrate Paleontology: Romer, A.S. Published by University of Chicago Press (1947) Used Hardcover 2/ Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad GEIKIE (A), Sir Published by Macmillan (1882) Used Hardcover First Edition 3/ Palaeontology Richard Owen Published by A & C Black (1860) Used Hardcover
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Lot 8A
Chamber Tombs at Mycenae. WACE, A.J.B. Published by Society of Antiquaries, Oxford (1932) MCMXXXII Society of Antiquaries, Oxford, 1932. hardcover. Book Condition: very good(+). First Edition. Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London Volume LXXXII. Frontispiece 57 lack & white plates, Together with Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London Volume LIX Second series vol.LIX Published by Nichols and Sons Ltd (1904)
Lot 96
Proboscidea. A Monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the Mastodonts and Elephants of the world. Vol. I: Moeritherioidea - Deinotherioidea - Mastodontoidea. Osborn,Henry Fairfield. First Editioj issued August 15th 1936 limited edition No 17 of 675. Red boards with gilt notation complete with a letter from the editor Mabel Rice Percy to the original purchasee Dr Hopwood
Lot 1640
Nine hardback children's books, all with drawings by Arthur Rackham to include Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Alfred Pollard, two copies of The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie translated into English by Margaret Armour one 1910 Edition and one 1920 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen First Published 1936 by George C. Harrup & Co, Comns by John Milton and two copies of Undine by De la Motte Fonque adapted from the German by W L Courtney 1909 Condition report: No condition report available
Lot 664
Collection of five Enid Blyton novels from the Malory Towers series, all with dust wrappers to include three first editions; First Term at Malory Towers pub. 1948, Third Edition;The Second Form at Malory Towers pub. 1949, Third Edition;Upper Fourth at Malory Towers pub. 1949, First Edition;In the Fifth at Malory Towers pub. 1950, First Edition;Last Term at Malory Towers pub. 1951, First Edition, (5)
Lot 665
Collection of six Enid Blyton novels from the Adventure Series, to include four first editions; The Castle of Adventure pub. 1949 reprint;The Valley of Adventure pub. 1950 reprint, no dust wrapper;The Sea of Adventure pub. 1948, First Edition;The Mountain of Adventure pub. 1949, First Edition;The Ship of Adventure pub. 1950, First Edition;and The Circus of Adventure, 1953, First Edition, (6)
Lot 690
Three Biggles books to include The Cruise of the Condor pub. John Hamilton, possible first edition, no dust wrapper and lacking illustration on frontespiece, ex library, together wih Biggles Hits the Trail pub. Oxford University Press and Biggles in the Baltic pub. Oxford University Press, 1941 reprint
Lot 533
Four printed silk War Office ‘escape’ maps, the first: The Aegean, published 1943, stamped June 1953 one side; the other side Sofiya - Istanbul published 1943, 3rd edition, 39in. x 26in. 99cm. x 66cm.; and another, The Aegean and Sofiya-Istanbul, published 1943, second edition 1953, 39in. x 26in. 99cm. x 66cm. the third, Bucharest, published 1942, third edition 1952; the other side Lhublin Zhitomir published 1944, third edition 1952, 30in. x 22in. 76cm. x 56cm.; the fourth a Navigation Chart printed ‘Persian Gulf’, the other side printed Operational Navigation Chart, Published by the United States Air Force, 39in. x 31in. 99in. x 79in. (the top edge has been cut off.) Sold as a collection with all faults not subject to return. A similar lot was sold these Rooms, 10th December 2014, Lot 329. (4)
Lot 274C
Religious topographical. John Weever, 'Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland and the Islands Adjacent, with the Dissolved Monasteries therein contained.' Printed by Thomas Harper, London, 1631. Full calf, re-backed, believed a first edition. Index missing.
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