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Lot 2129
Ray, Man. Self-Portrait, first edition, presentation inscription from the author, the front free endpaper with a card inscribed `Paris Nov. 10.67 It`s so nice to meet people you don`t know and feel you know them, Man Ray`, with his wood veneer visiting card beneath, and a further card loosely inserted inscribed `1967-8 Best wishes Julie and Man Ray`, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly chipped, 8vo, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1963
Lot 2150
Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits, first edition, 9 full-page illustrations by Henry Holiday, a few leaves torn, original decorated cloth, somewhat shaken and soiled, 8vo, London: MacMillan & Co., 1876, and a defective copy of The Pie and the Patty Pan, 1905, 8vo (2)
Lot 2151
Copping, Harold and John Bunyan. The Pilgrim`s Progress, first edition, number 103 of 150 copies, 31 mounted bromide photographs after original drawings by Harold Copping, some spotting, original full vellum, blocked in blind, top edge gilt, slipcase, 4to, London: Religious Tract Society, 1903
Lot 2152
Cruikshank, George, illustrator. The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha, 2 volumes, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved titles, wood-engraved plates, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo, London: Knight and Lacey, 1824; and four others, including a nineteenth century album of engraved plates by Cruikshank for Frank Fairleigh, v.s. (6)
Lot 2172
Bowdich, T. Edward. An Analysis of the Natural Classifications of Mammalia, for the Use of Students and Travellers, first edition, 15 lithographed plates, a few folding, 8vo, Paris: printed by J. Smith, 1821; bound with, Bowdich, T. Edward. Elements of Conchology, including the Fossil Genera and the Animals, 2 parts, 27 lithographed plates, mostly folding, some browning, 8vo, Paris, printed for J. Smith, 1822, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine defective
Lot 2181
Lister, Martin and Giorgio Baglivi. Sanctorii Sanctorii de Statica Medicina Aphorismorum, Sectiones Septum: Cum Commentario Martini Lister, first edition, engraved frontispiece loose, lacking front endpaper and preliminaries, title with section repaired, some loss to imprint, later calf gilt, spine rubbed, 12mo, 1701
Lot 2184
Meyer, Henry Leonard. Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, first edition, 320 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards throughout, one plate with small tear, some light spotting, upper joints in volumes 1, 3 and 4 broken with title creased in volume one, contemporary full morocco by T. Freeman, with his ticket, extremities slightly rubbed, volume 2 with head of spine nicked, all edges gilt, folio, London: Longman & Co., [?1835-41] [Nissen 627]
Lot 2195
Thorley, John. Messilogia, or the Female Monarchy. of Bees, first edition, engraved frontispiece and four plates, one folding, 2 plates with margins cropped, affecting border, 8vo, London: Printed for the Author, 1744; Hill, Thomas. The Arte of Gardening, 2 parts, 3 woodcut illustrations in text, A1-C4 with margins cropped, occasionally affecting fore edge notes, woodcuts, etc., title with contemporary manuscript annotations, worn, without half-title, 8vo, London: Edward Allde [and H.B.] 1608 [STC 13497]; Bickham, George, the younger. The New Years Gift or, Times Progress for the Year of Our Lord [1748], 12 engraved plates, London: For George Bickham, [n.d.], the three works bound in one, seventeenth century calf, the covers stamped in blind with the initials `E.F.`, neatly rebacked in the nineteenth century, 8vo
Lot 2201
Taylor. Jekyll, Gertrude. Wood and Garden, tenth impression, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1904; Wall and Water Gardens, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Country Life, [n.d.]; Gardens for Small Country Houses, first edition, plates, original cloth, 4to, London: Country Life, [1912] (3)
Lot 2211
Barton, Frank T. Pheasants in Covert and Aviary, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, London: John Long, 1912; Ward, Rowland. Records of Big Game, eighth edition, original cloth, 4to, London: Rowland Ward, 1922; Lodge, George. Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1946; and 3 others similar (6)
Lot 2214
Caine, Nathaniel. History of the Royal Rock Beagle Hunt, first (subscription) edition, original cloth gilt, 8vo, Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1895; Hawker, Lt. Col. P. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece and portrait, publishers cloth, spine chipped with loss, 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844; Walsh, J.H. The Dogs of the British Islands, fourth edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt, upper hinge broken, 4to, London: Horace Cox, 1882; The Horse in the Stable and the Field, original cloth, spome spotting, 8vo, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1880; and 16 others, similar (20)
Lot 2230
Bowles, Rev. W.L. Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey, in the County of Wilts, first edition, title inscribed `Arthur Fane, From the Author, June 1835`, engraved plates, some spotting, original publisher`s cloth, spine faded, 8vo, London: John Bowyer, 1835; Wake, William. A Brief Enquiry into the Antiquity, Honour and Estate of the Name and Family of Wake, engraved frontispiece, some waterstaining, original cloth, 8vo, Warminster: J.L. Vardy, 1833; Jennings, Sir Arthur. Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford, Baronet, original full morocco, slipcase, 8vo, Ditchling: St. Dominic`s Press, 1932; and 3 others similar (6)
Lot 2232
Burney, Charles. An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Partheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3rd, and the 5th, 1784. In Commemoration of Handel, first edition, 7 engraved plates, engraved plan of Orchestra, with cancel leaves, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, spine worn and partly loose, 4to, London: Printed for the Benefit of the Music Fund, 1785
Lot 2258
Young, Walter. The Young Lawyer`s Recreation, being a Choice Collection of several Pleasant Cases, Passages, and Customs in the Law, first edition, a few leaves with loss to margins, G4 with paper flaw, affecting text verso, 2pp. catalogue of books at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo, London: Samuel Brice, 1694 [Wing Y104]
Lot 2269
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish [by Mary Smirke], 4 volumes, first edition, half-titles, 48 engraved plates and numerous vignettes after Robert Smirke, publisher`s morocco-backed boards, rubbed, untrimmed, 8vo, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818
Lot 2272
Colman, George. Broad Grins, first edition, half-title, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, 8vo, London: T. Cadell, 1802; [Braithwaite, Richard] Drunken Barnaby`s Four Journey`s to the North of England, plates after J. Harding, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo, London: J. Harding, 1805; and 6 others (8)
Lot 2277
Eliot, Thomas Stearns. [Four Quartets] East Coker, fourth impression, 1941; Burnt Norton, first edition, 1941; The Dry Salvages, first edition, 1941; Little Gidding, first edition, 1942, all in original wrappers, Bookplate of Roger Neville Russ Peers, 8vo; and 15 others, modern poetry and literature (19)
Lot 2302
Wordsworth, Christopher. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical, first edition, engraved additional title, engraved frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, 2 engraved maps, numerous wood-engraved vignettes throughout, contemporary half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, 4to, London: William S. Orr & Co., 1840
Lot 2309
Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story, first edition, original cloth, some spotting, boards affected slightly by damp, London: William Heinemann, 1911; Jacobs, W.W. Short Cruises, first edition, original cloth, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1907, and 6 others by the same author, 8vo (8)
Lot 2311
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, first edition, halftitle, 8 maps and plans, 3 folding, 32 page publisher`s catalogue at end, dated 10/99, some spotting, original pictorial cloth, slightly soiled, spine slightly faded, extremities very slightly chipped, 8vo, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900
Lot 2314
Collop, John. Poesis Redivia: Or, Poesie Reviv`d, first edition, some spotting and waterstaining, F1 and F5 repaired with very slight loss, 8pp. publisher`s catalogue at end, later calf gilt, neatly rebacked, 8vo, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656 [Wing C5395] John Collop (fl. 1660) was a royalist writer. This work is a collection of short poems dedicated to Henry Pierrepont, Marquis of Dorchester. Many of the poems are directed against the puritan sectaries, and some concern the author`s friends.
Lot 2315
Conrad, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two other Stories, first edition, half-title, 32 publisher`s catalogue at end dated `11/02`, original publisher`s cloth, very slightly cocked, upper cover with very slight bubbling, spine dulled, 8vo, William Blackwood and Sons, 1902 This book saw the first publication in book form of Conrad`s masterpiece, `Heart of Darkness`.
Lot 2318
Crowley, Aleister. Amphora, first edition, half-title, with ticket on front paste-down `From the Serendipity Shop 46 Museum St. London, W.C.`, free endpaper inscribed `James Wood`, untrimmed, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine faded and soiled, boards slightly soiled, 8vo, London: Burn and Oates, 1908 Aleister Crowley (1876-1947) made his reputation as `the wickedest man in the world` from acts regarded as scandalous during the early years of the 20th century. There is no better example than these thinly disguised erotic poems, which he submitted under a pseudonym to the Catholic publisher Burn and Oates. Only learning of the true author shortly after publication, the publisher hastily withdrew the title and copies of the first edition are thus rare.
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