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Golding Young & Mawer - Grantham
Lot 396

An Historical Account of all the Tryals and Attainders of High Treason, from the Beginning of the reign of King Charles the First... To which are added the dying speeches or papers left by the suffering persons, London, printed by H. Meere 1716, I Volume, original full calf both boards detached, together with Langhorne (John) & Langhorne (William), Plutarch`s Lives, volumes I,V, VI, of six volumes, eighth edition, London, printed for Lackington, Allen and Co 1803, engraved frontis, ex libris, F.B. Humphrey, half calf marble boards, volume I top board partially detached. (4)

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Lot 5

[HORT, John Josiah (d. 1882)]. The Horse Guards, by the Two Mounted Sentries ... With Twelve Coloured Illustrations. London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1850. 8vo. Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 10 plates (occasional light spotting). Original paper-backed coloured lithographed boards (corners rubbed, lightly stained). Provenance: "Grant" (old signature on title). FIRST EDITION. The list of illustrations includes the cover as an illustration, thereby making a total of 12 as called for on the title page

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Lot 7

TEGETMEIER, W. B. (?1816-1912). The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breeding and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. Folio (270 x 180mm). Coloured lithographed frontispiece, additional coloured pictorial title and 28 plates by Harrison Weir "Printed in Colours by Leighton, Brothers," wood-engraved illustrations. Contemporary black half calf, spine gilt (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Andrew Noble (armorial bookplate) Celia Noble II (modern ex-libris sticker); Jesmond Sale (modern signature). A fine copy internally of the FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 930

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Lot 17

[BIRKET, John]. The God-father`s Advice to His Son. Shewing the Necessity of performing the Baptismal Vow. And The Danger of Neglecting it ... Very necessary for Parents, &c., to give their Children, or others committed to their care. By J. B. London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699. 8vo (153 x 92mm). (Lightly spotted and stained.) EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND in early 18th-century red morocco, the covers and spine elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, some light staining). Provenance: Thomas Bayly, Gent. 1707 (armorial bookplate); "Bridgett Dixie, Her Book 1709" (2 calligraphic inscriptions at the front, and more elaborately at the end, with a 2-line quotation of poetry). FIRST EDITION. Wing B2974

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Lot 28

TROLLOPE, Frances (1779-1863). The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. London: Henry Colburn, 1840. 8vo. 24 wood-engraved plates (some spotting and browning to plates). Contemporary half calf (rubbed, spine lacks label). Provenance: Charlotte Albertina Jones, 4 July, 1843 (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION of what is considered the first "Industrial Novel", in which the author, the mother of Anthony Trollope, attempted "to draw the attention of her countrymen to the fearful evils inherent in the Factory System" (from The Preface)

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Lot 35

MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). The Italian Girl. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964. 8vo. Half title, wood-engraved illustrations by Reynolds Stone on title and at end. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket by Reynolds Stone with price unclipped (corners of jacket very lightly rubbed). Review Copy, with the publisher`s slip loosely-inserted. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION

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Lot 41

MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). The Bell. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. 8vo. Half title. Original green cloth, dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley (small piece torn away from foot of backstrip with loss of a few letters, some chipping at head of backstrip). FIRST EDITION. With Adrian Stephen`s The "Dreadnought" Hoax (London, The Hogarth Press, 1936, original glassine wrapper), Graham Greene`s A Sense of Unreality (London, 1963) and The Comedians (London, 1966), all FIRST EDITIONS, the last two exceptional copies in dust-jackets. (4)

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Lot 46

AMIS, Martin (b. 1949). Success. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. 8vo. Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with price of £3.95 unclipped. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With 8 other books including Umberto Eco`s The Name of the Rose (London, 1983, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION), J. G. Ballard`s Empire of the Sun (London, 1984, FIRST EDITION) and William Boyd`s Stars and Bars (London, 1984, FIRST EDITION), all in dust-jackets. (9)

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Lot 53

BEATON, Cecil (1904-80). Ballet. London: Wingate, [1951]. Large 8vo. Half tone illustrations (a few spots). Original watered silk cloth lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page

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Lot 55

BENTLEY, Richard (1662-1742, editor) - Marcus MANILIUS (fl. 1st Century AD). Astronomicon ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii. London: Henry Woodfall, 1739. 4to (259 x 200mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Richard Bentley by George Virtue after John Thornhill, engraved coat of arms, folding engraved "orbis caelestis tabula". Contemporary polished speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with tan morocco lettering-piece (joints splitting, lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Thomas ?Layng, 1791 (signature on front pastedown). A FINE COPY internally of the first Bentley edition. Lowndes II, 1464

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Lot 79

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). The World Crisis 1911-1914. London: Thornton Butterowrth, April 1923-31. 6 volumes, large 8vo (230 x 152mm). Half titles, half tone frontispiece in vol. VI, half tone plates and maps, some folding and coloured, errata slips in vols. III and IV (occasional light spotting). Original dark blue cloth, upper covers lettered in blind, spines lettered in gilt (some white staining). FIRST EDITION, but vol. II a third impression of November 1923. Woods A31(A). With the same author`s The Second World War (London, 1949-54, 6 vols., original cloth, without the dust-jackets). (12)

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Lot 92

DRAKE, Francis (1696-1771). Eboracum: or, The History and Antiquities of the City of York. London: William Bowyer, 1736. 2 parts in one volume, folio (362 x 240mm). Engraved title to second part, folding engraved map, engraved coat-of-arms above dedication, 53 engraved plates, some double-page or folding, 40 engraved illustrations, 6 full-page (edge of map a little soiled and frayed, light staining in some upper margins). Contemporary calf gilt, spine with raised bands and red morocco lettering piece (joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, some old repairs). FIRST EDITION. Upcott III, 1357

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Lot 97

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-90). Justine. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. Half title. Original pink cloth, dust-jacket with price of 15s. unclipped (some chipping to head and foot of backstrip, short tear without loss to lower wrapper). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Connolly Modern First Editions (1993) p. 103: "The 1st edition has always been very difficult, and many are the Alexandra Quartets lacking the first volume! ... An important work." With the same author`s Balthazar (London, April 1958, second impression), Mountolive (London, 1958) and Clea (London, 1960), all FIRST EDITIONS in dust-jackets. A FINE SET OF THE ALEXANDRA QUARTET. (4)

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Lot 134

LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935). The Mint. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 4to (250 x 190mm). Half title, title printed in red and black (some very light spotting to half title and title). Original blue morocco-backed cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase (some light spotting and staining to slipcase). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. NUMBER 623 OF 2,000 COPIES. O`Brien A172

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Lot 145

MACLEAN, Alistair (1922-87). The Guns of Navarone. London: Collins, 1957. 8vo. Half title (pp. 207-210 detached). Original dark blue cloth, dust-jacket (some chipping to head of backstrip, a few short tears without loss, price clipped). FIRST EDITION. With 5 other books including Douglas Fairbanks` Laugh and Live (New York, 1917), Horace Hutchinson`s The Lost Golfer (London, 1930) and Agatha Christie`s They Do It With Mirrors (London, 1952), all FIRST EDITIONS, the last two in dust-jackets. (6)

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Lot 148

MARKHAM, Edwin (1852-1940). 2 broadsides of the poem "Washington the Nation Builder", [Staten Island, c. 1932], both inscribed at the bottom, "Your friend, Edwin Markham, Staten Island. N.Y." According to a printed note at the foot of the broadsides, "This poem was written at the request of the Bicentennial Commission at Washington, D.C., for distribution during the nine months` celebration of George Washington`s Anniversary in 1932." Each 350 x 215mm. With William Saroyan`s Those Who Write Them and Those Who Collect Them (Chicago, The Black Archer Press, 1936, "50 copies issued First Edition", original wrappers. (3)

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Lot 152

MEYRICK, Samuel Rush (1783-1848) & Charles Hamilton SMITH (1776-1859). The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands. London: William Bulmer and Co., 1815. 4to (410 x 307mm). Half title, additional hand-coloured aquatint title and 22 plates by Charles Hamilton Smith only (of 24, lacking plates III and V, occasional light spotting and staining, but plates mainly clean). Contemporary half calf (heavily rubbed). Provenance: Edward Mac Culloch (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Life 427; Colas 2051. The two missing plates have been replaced with 2 ORIGINAL PEN AND INK AND WATERCOLOUR SKETCHES - one of which is illustrated - based on the originals, possibly on a print base, and bearing Charles Hamilton Smith`s initials. They are captioned: "A Maaeata and Caledonian" and "British Fishing, and Husbandry."

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Lot 156

MORRICE, James (translator). The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse. London: Printed for John White, 1809. 2 volumes, 8vo. (Stain to title of vol. I, occasional light staining and browning.) Contemporary half calf (joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, small piece torn away from head of spine of vol. I). FIRST EDITION. RARE. The translator is described on the title page as being "Late Student of Christ Church, Oxford, Rector of Betshanger, in the County of Kent, and Vicar of Flower, Northamptonshire." Lowndes 954. (2)

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Lot 158

MUYBRIDGE, Edweard (1830-1904). Animals in Motion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Progressive Movements ... Commenced 1872. Completed 1885. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. Oblong 4to (249 x 312mm). Half title, half tone portrait of the author, title printed in red and black, half tone illustrations (a few very short marginal tears, some very light staining). Original red cloth gilt (a few stains, inner hinges weak and broken at title). Provenance: C. Ashby (pencil signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION

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Lot 166

PINTER, Harold (1930-2008). Mac. [Ipswich:] Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968. 8vo. Half title, red printer`s device on title. Original green cloth-backed hessian boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 2,000 COPIES, this copy number 554 of 1,000 copies for sale in the British Isles. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at the foot of p. 19. With a small quantity of miscellaneous books. (qty)

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Lot 169

POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne, 1904. 12mo. Half title, coloured frontispiece, title vignette and 26 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter (upper inner hinges split). Original tan paper boards with coloured pictorial label mounted on upper cover (some splitting to upper joints). Provenance: faint pencil inscription to one text leaf. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "muffatees" and non-italicised "we" on p. 15. Linder p. 424; Osborne I, p. 381; Quinby 6

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Lot 180

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). St. Ives Being the Adventure of a French Prisoner in England. London: Heinemann, 1898. 8vo. Half title, without the publisher`s advertisements at the end. Original black cloth gilt, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Provenance: E. F. BENSON`S COPY, the front free endpaper signed, "E. F. Benson, 102 Oakley Street, Chelsea", and further inscribed on the title. Beinecke 655

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Lot 185

UPTON, Bertha (1849-1912). The Golliwogg`s "Auto-Go-Cart". London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. Oblong 4to (215 x 280mm). Illustrations, most coloured and full-page, by Florence K. Upton. Original green cloth-backed coloured pictorial paper boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "From Father Christmas 1901" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION

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Holloways
Lot 491

A framed group of four Chinese black and white machine-woven silk panels, by the Dongfanghong factory, Hangzhou, China, portraying Chairman Comrade Mao Zedong, three panels obverse, one reverse thus in negative, each panel 16 x 10.5cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4in), together with `Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung` in English, first edition 1966

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Holloways
Lot 522

Hanbury-Tenison, Robin, A Question of Survival for Indians of Brazil, foreword by H R H The Duke of Edinburgh, Angus Robertson 1973, first edition, together with various volumes and booklets concerning Latin America and its tribes

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Whyte's
Lot 42

Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)LA MAISON DU PENDU AU POULDU, BEACH WITH CLIFFS AND A YACHT, 1893 and DEUX FEMMES DE PROFIL DANS UN PAYSAGE (SET OF 3)etching; (2); lithograph; (1)the first, stamped within the image lower right; inscribed [1/30 / Tirage 81] in pencil in the margin lower right; the second, signed and dated in the plate; the third signed in the plate lower leftLandscaPortraite5.5 by 9in., 13.75 by 22.5cm.Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage: Purchased by Mervyn & Pat Solomon, 1984La Maison du Pendu au Pouldu: Musée de Pont-Aven, 1984, catalogue no. 78 (another edition) (illustrated p.53)Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage: L`École de Pont-Aven dans les Collections publiques et privées de Bretagne, Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, Rennes, Nantes, 1978-1979, catalogue no. 74 (illustrated); Musée de Pont-Aven, 1984, catalogue no. 84 (illustrated p.53); `Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940`, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Ulster Museum, Belfast, National Gallery of Ireland and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, from September 1985 to May 1986 (all other editions)La Maison du Pendu au Pouldu:Johnston, Roy, Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1985, catalogue no. 102 (illustrated p.113); Benington, Jonathan, Roderic O`Conor, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, catalogue no. 419, illustrated p.56Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage:Jaworska, W., kregu Gauguina malarze szkoly Pont-Aven, Warsaw, 1969; English translation, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, Boston, 1972, p.224 (illustrated); Johnston, Roy, Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1985, catalogue no. 114 (illustrated p.113)The lithograph within this lot is one of only two examples known in this medium. It is thought to have been printed in 1898. Dimensions of Beach with Cliffs and a Yacht, 1893 and Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage, 9.75 by 15.25 and 7.50 by 6.75ins., respectively.An edition of Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage can be found in the collection of Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Quimper.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"

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Whyte's
Lot 44

Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)HOUSE ABOVE THE CLIFF, SUNLIGHT THROUGH THE CLOUDS and LE VERGER, c.1893 (SET OF 3)etching; (1) etching and drypoint; (2)the first with Barbican Art Gallery exhibition label on reverse; the second signed and dated in the plate lower right; inscribed [2/30/ Tirage 81] in pencil in the margin lower right; third signed in the plate lower leftLandscaPortraite10.5 by 13.25in., 26.25 by 33.125cm.(First) possibly, Hôtel Drouat Salle I, Paul Renard;The Collection of Mervyn & Pat Solomon(First) Pont Aven 1984 (another edition); London, 1985 (another edition)(Second) `L`estampe en Bretagne`, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, 1974, catalogue no. 145; Quimper, 1978, no. 72); Pont-Aven, 1984, no. 71; London, 1989, no. 0.7; Paris, 1989, no. 134 (other editions)Benington, Jonathan, Roderic O`Conor, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, catalogue nos. 441 and 430, respectively (both illustrated p.55); Johnston Roy, Roderic O`Conor, catalogue de l`oeuvre grave, Musée de Pont-Aven, 1999, no. 15 (illustrated)Le Verger was conceived in 1893. The original plate for the present work was sold at Hôtel Drouot, 17 November 1975 (lot 172, no. 4). From that plate later re-strikes were made in 1981 by Paul Prouté S.A. in an edition of 100. Dimensions of second title: 10.50 by 13.25in.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"

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Whyte's
Lot 67

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 84 BROADSIDES [1908-1915]hand-coloured; (from a limited edition of 300)Portrait11 by 7.5in., 27.5 by 18.75cm.A Broadside was published in a folio format, on special paper made at the Saggart Mills in Dublin, with typeface selected by the artist`s sister Lily and printed on an Albion hand press built in 1853. A Broadside was published in an edition of 300 copies. An annual subscription cost 12 shillings. Jack illustrated the complete first series (84 issues) totalling 252 drawings and had exclusive editorial control for the first series with W.B. assuming the role for the subsequent second and third. The present example is a highly desirable, complete compilation in superb condition, housed within two original blue linen portfolios each with Yeats` hand-coloured labels of a pirate playing a mandolin.

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Whyte's
Lot 154

Sean Scully (b.1945)COLOURED WALL, 2003 and SEAN SCULLY (BOOK) by David Carrierlithograph; (no. 126 from a limited edition of 150); limited edition book; (no. 126 of 150)lithograph, signed, titled, dated and numbered in the lower margin; book, numbered on presentation slipcase, upperPortrait11.75 by 9.5in., 29.375 by 23.75cm.Lithograph printed in colours on Zerkal Copperplate deluxe paper and printed at Atelier 28, their stamp verso. Accompanying first special edition hardback book by David Carrier, Thames and Hudson, London 2004. Contained in original red slipcase, titled and numbered on upper. Excellent example. (2 items total)

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David Duggleby Scarborough
Lot 292

'An Historical and Architectural Description of the Priory Church of Bridlington' by the Rev. Marmaduke Prickett, first edition 1831

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Shapes Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 464

Sir Walter Scott, `Tales of a Grandfather`, published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh 1869, Charles Dickens, `Nicholas Nickleby`, re bound, possibly first edition, Sir Walter Scott,` Rokebey`, a poem published by John Ballantyne & Co Edinburgh 1813 and Sir Walter Scott, `Marnion, A Tale of Flodden Field`, published J Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh 1808 (4)

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 408

A first edition `Hitler Youth` by Hans Siemsen

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 618

Three reference books relating to the Frazer Nash marque, to include a first edition `From Chain Drive to Turbo Charger`, by D. Jenkinson, a first edition `Frazer Nash` by Thirlby and Thirlby`s 1967 title `The Chain Drive`, in good condition with dust jackets.

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 623

Two rare Alfa Romeo reference books including a first edition of Michael Frostick`s `Alfa-Romeo-Milano` title with original dust jacket, together with a 1982 edition of `Alfa-Romeo A History`, by Hull and Slater.

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 761

A collection of MG literature to include a first edition of `MG` by McComb, `The Magic of The Marque` first edition by Allison, workshop manuals for the 1.25 litre series Y B TD?TF series and a handbook for the series YB.

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 852

GAMY - a rare and original, framed and glazed prewar first edition colour cyclecar print dated 1913, printed by Mabileau and Co of Paris, formerly in the collection of `The Complete Automobilist`, in good condition with slight wear to the right hand edge, 90 x 45cm.

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Balclis
Lot 479

A silken Chinese carpet. From the late 18th century - first half of the 19th century.Inscription on the top: "Zhong He Dian", made for the second palace of the emperor of the Forbbiden City. Wear and tear. Reference bibliography: H. A. Lorentz, "A View of Chinese Rugs: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century", Routledge & Kegan Paul; 1St Edition edition, London,1972, p.83 271x182 cm

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 12

Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, 13 plates after F.D. Bedford including frontis and title, inscription to front endpaper 'Miss Thorp, Xmas 1911, JM' (not attributed to Barrie - please see image online to form your own opinion!), dust wrapper (torn and chipped with significant loss to front)

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Lot 13

Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, 13 plates after F.D. Bedford including frontis and title page, inscription to front endpaper dated Xmas 1911, original cloth (faded and dampstained)

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Lot 20

Bewick (Thomas) The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, 1818, Newcastle, first edition, portrait frontis, thumb-print receipt, calf (re-backed); Bewick (Thomas & John), Select Fables ..., 1820, Newcastle, first edition, frontis, cloth (restoration to spine)

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Lot 28

Ardizzone (Edward) Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, 1936, OUP, folio, pictorial boards (worn); Emanuel (Walter), The Snob, 1904, illustrated by Cecil Aldin, original pictorial boards; Carroll (Lewis), The Hunting of the Snark, 1876, first edition, a.e.g., original pictorial cloth; Cooke (E.W.), Grotesque Animals, 1872, 4to., re-cased upside down, original cloth gilt; with a quantity of others (qty)

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Lot 50

Aschams (Roger) [Johnson (Samuel) edit.] The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth: containing, I. A Report of the Affairs of Germany, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth's Court. II. Toxophilus, or the School of Shooting. III. The Schoolmaster ...., by James Bennet, nd. [1762/7], first edition, second issue with undated title, 4 p. list of subscribers, half title not present, it is believed that 'Johnson was in reality, the editor of the work', half calf (joints starting) [Courtney & Smith p. 100, Hazen p. 19]

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Lot 52

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, nd. [1990], Longman, 2 vols., folio facsimile of 1755 edition, bonded leather, slipcase; Woolf (Virginia), Mrs Dalloway, 1925, Harcourt, Brace and Company, first edition, third printing, cloth; Pratchett (Terry), The Carpet People, 2005, signed and numbered collector's edition (of 1000), dust wrapper, slipcase; Whipplesnaith, The Night Climbers of Cambridge, 1937, cloth; Weitzmann (Kurt) & Bernabo (Massimo) The Byzantine Octateuchs, 1999, Princeton University, 2 vols., part of 'The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint', large 4to., cloth; with a large quantity of others (qty)

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Lot 56

Ransome (Arthur) Swallows & Amazons, 1930, Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.)

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Lot 57

Burroughs (William) The Naked Lunch, [1959], Paris; Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No 76, copyright dated 1959, first edition paperback with additional purple, white and black dust jacket (dust jacket priced Francs 1500, price on green paperback wrap (F1,500) obscured with ink, no new price, binding weak, text-block detached from wraps, ownership inscription dated 1962)

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Lot 58

Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, 1953, Cape, first edition, original black cloth with red heart to upper board (library label to front pastedown)

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Lot 59

Mantel (Hilary) Wolf Hall, 2009, Fourth Estate, first edition, first impression, dust wrapper [sold on behalf of a local hospice]

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Lot 65

Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph, 1935, first trade edition, t.e.g., half morocco by Riviere

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Lot 67

Eyston (George E.T.) Fastest on Earth, 1939, John Miles, first edition, original cloth; idem, Safety Last, 1975, signed by author, a.e.g., leatherette; with three other books by Eyston and a small quantity of related postcards and cigarette cards (qty)

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Lot 71

Lightoller (Comdr.) Titanic and Other Ships, 1935, first edition, frontis, original cloth; Beesley (Lawrence), The Loss of the SS. Titanic, its Story and its Lessons, 1912, second impression, frontis, plates as called for, original cloth (2)

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Lot 111

Burton (Richard F.) First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar, 1894, Memorial edition, 2 vols, maps, colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt; idem, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, 1893, Memorial edition, 2 vols., folding map, colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt; Westermarck (Edward), Ritual and Belief in Morocco, 1926, 2 vols., plate, folding map, t.e.g., with two others (8)

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Lot 117

Skues (G.E.M.) Side-Lines, Side-Lights and Reflections, Fugitive Papers of a Chalk-Stream Angler, 1932, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth; Righyni (R.V.), Grayling, 1968, first edition, dust wrapper; Kite (Oliver), Elements of Nymph Fishing, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper; with a quantity of other angling books (qty)

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Lot 118

'Yellow Body' Angling Days on Scotch Lochs, 1884, original cloth; 'Ex-President of the Kinross-shire Fishing Club, The Loch-Leven Angler, 1874, frontis, folding map (small tears), original cloth; Ransome (Arthur), Mainly About Fishing, 1959, first edition, dust wrapper; with five others (8)

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Lot 122

Fulton (Robert) The Illustrated Book of Pigeons .., nd., 50 chromolitho plates, torn text page, detached board, w.a.f.; Rackham (Oliver), Woodlands, 2006, NN100, reprint, dust wrapper; Buczacki (Stefan), Garden Natural History, 2007, NN102, first edition, dust wrapper; Bircham (Peter), A History of Ornithology, 2007, NN104, first edition, dust wrapper; Corbet (Philip) & Brooks (Stephen), Dragonflies, 2008, NN106, first edition, dust wrapper; with four others (not NNs) (9)

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Lot 158

WOOD, Anthony, Athenae Oxonienses, an exact History of all The Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford, new edition with additions by Philip Bliss, vols 1-4 1813-1820 and Annals of the University of Oxford, First Part, pub London 1815, 4to, 19th Century half calf binding (5)

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Lot 292

Anon A Short Account Of Danegeld: with Some Further Particulars Relating To Wil. The Conqueror`s Survey London 1756 . First Edition. 4to. Bound in decorative boards with leather spine. (1)

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Lot 296

Rowlandson, Thomas (illus.) The Tour of Doctor Syntax. 12mo. 28 hand coloured engravingsillustrations. pub. R. Ackerman, 1823. Miniature representation. First edition. thus. Half leather. (1)

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Lot 934

Benjamin Strutt, The history and description of Colchester. Colchester: W. Keymer, 1803, first edition, 2 volumes

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Lot 944

Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases, First edition, 1823

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Lot 968

Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of Colchester, first edition, London, W Bowyer, 1748, with illustrations and maps, leather bound, 36cm high

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