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Lot 59
Literature – Michael Drayton, Elizabethan Poet England’s Heroical Epistals by Michael Drayton Esq, London, John Smethwicke 1637. 16mo, modern binding, interior contents in generally good order. An early edition of one of the major works by Drayton, first published in 1597. We have been unable to trace another copy of this edition currently on the market.
Lot 85
Antique Map – the World and the British Isles – a pioneering work on the tides of the world William Whewell: An Essay towards a first approximation to a map of Cotidal Lines, May 2nd 1833, first edition of this classic pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena, and containing two large folding maps by J & C Walker, the first of the World showing the tide lines as set out in Whewell’s paper, and the second showing the British Isles with the same markings. Both maps in good condition. Together with a c de v style photograph of Whewell.
Lot 550
OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASELimited-edition single Islay malt whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1931. 70cl, 46% volume.OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASELimited-edition single Islay malt whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1932. 70cl, 46% volume.2 bottles
Lot 773
GLENTURRET 21 YEAR OLD COPPER FLAGONSingle Highland malt whisky, bottled in a copper lustre flagon. With original stopper. 70cl, 40% volume. In carton.GLENFARCLAS 175th ANNIVERSARYSingle Speyside malt whisky, bottled to celebrate the distillery`s 175th anniversary. 70cl, 43% volume. In tube.TOBERMORAY 1995 MURRAY McDAVIDLimited-edition single Island malt whisky, aged 10 years and bottled in 2005. 70cl, 46% volume. In tin.WHITE HORSE GLEN ELGIN N.A.S.Single Speyside malt whisky, bottled for the Asian market. 75cl, 43% volume.GLENROTHES 2000 REGIS WHISKY MADLimited-edition single Speyside malt whisky, matured in first fill Sherry casks and bottled in October 2007. 1 of 300 bottles taken from cask 2434. 70cl, 54.5% volume, NCF.5 bottles
Lot 950
OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASELimited-edition single Islay malt whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1941. 70cl, 46% volume.OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASELimited-edition single Islay malt whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1942. 70cl, 46% volume.2 bottles
Lot 54
Auguste Rodin(1840-1917)Mouvement de Danse F,Bronze,Signed `A. Rodin No. 9 ©` on bottom of left foot. Edition of 12. Cast by the Georges Rudier foundry, 1956. Authenticated by Aline Magnien, Chief curator of the Musée Rodin, and by Jérôme Le Blay of the Comité Rodin.Never exhibited in his lifetime, the plaster versions of Mouvements de danse series remain in the collection of the Musée Rodin, which cast them posthumously in bronze.According to the available information, the first cast of the work was created by the Musée Rodin from the Alexis Rudier foundry in 1952. Twelve examples were then later cast from the Georges Rudier foundry between 1952 and 1956. One may note that the foundry stamps and numbering witnessed on the various studies within the Mouvements de danse are particularly irregular as they pertain to the specific wish of the fondeur. The various studies of Mouvements de danse were not cast in bronze before 1950, it was at this time that the Musée Rodin rediscovered the original clay maquettes in their storage.Provenance: Purchased December 1956 at a gallery in London, England by current owner.Dimensions: h:11 x w: 10.50 x d: 6.50 in. Note condition: fine overall. No restorations. Having a rich, dark brown patina with green highlights. The patina is mostly consistent throughout, with only slight color variations / wearing to a 1/8 inch high area on the abdomen and to the nose. Very minor surface scratching to figure`s right arm. Starting Price: $18000
Lot 372
Baskerville Press. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, 1st ed., Birmingham, 1757, list of subscribers, closed tear to upper margin of initial four leaves, some light dampstaining to margins, hinges repaired, a.e.g., contemp. calf, professional modern reback, 4to. Gaskell 1. First edition with the ‘J’ of Johannis between the ‘B’ and ‘I’ of Birmingham. Baskerville’s first publication, in preparation for which he spent almost seven years experimenting with type, layout, paper and inks. Armorial bookplates of John Kent of Winterslow, Wiltshire and of the geologist and biblical historian James Smith of Jordanhill, Renfrewshire (1782-1867). (1)
Lot 374
Bible [Greek. Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum ex versione Septuaginta Interpretum... , ed. Johann Jakob Breitinger, 4 vols., Zurich, 1730-32, first six words of title in Greek type, vols. 1 & 3 with eng. frontis. and titles printed in red and black with eng. vign., double column text, some old waterstaining to signatures Y-Dd in vol. 2 with two leaves sprung, printed in Greek with editorial matter in Latin, contemp. mottled calf, gilt-dec. spines with raised bands, rubbed, sl. wear to spine ends and spine of vol. 2, 4to. Barlow & Moule 4740. This edition presents Grabe’s text of 1707-1720 compared with Codex B and other manuscripts, with additional matter supplied by the editor. (4)
Lot 403
Machiavelli (Niccolo). [The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel... , 1680], lacks first two leaves including general title, the first leaf present being the title to ‘The History of Florence’, some spotting and soiling, old erasure with paper thinning to upper margin of first leaf, contemp. calf, crude cloth reback, some wear, folio. Wing M129. The second edition of Henry Neville’s English translation of Machiavelli’s most important writings, including The Art of War, Discourses on Livy and The Prince. (1)
Lot 411
Petrarca (Francesco). Li Sonetti Canzone Triumphi del Petrircha con li soi conneti ..., 2 parts in one vol., Venice: Gregorio de Grigori [and at end of part 2:] Bernardino Stagnino, 1519, seven full-page woodcuts (including a repetition) and several printed woodcut initials, occ. spotting, light browning and old marginal dampstains, scattered old ink notation marks, a few old marginal repairs, not affecting text, including to first title and ZZ1, a.e.g., 19th-century gilt-dec. diced calf, joints partly split and some wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo. Adams P793. This reprint of the Stagnino edition of 1530 with the commentary of Philelphus Glicino printed round the text. The seven full-page woodcuts within ornamental borders represent ‘The Triumphs’, first published in the edition of 1497. (1)
Lot 419
Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus... revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new introduction, by the author, 1st illustrated ed. (3rd ed. overall), Colburn & Bentley, 1831, eng. frontis. and addn. eng. vign. title, scattered foxing and a few short edge-tears, modern burgundy half morocco, 8vo. Sadleir 3734a; Wolff 6280a. Issued as volume nine of Bentley’s Standard Novels Series and bound with the first part of Schiller’s ‘The Ghost-Seer’, here not present (as often). This third edition represents the final definitive text as well as the first edition to be illustrated, the frontispiece being the first visual depiction of Frankestein and the Creature. Mary Shelley incorporated most of the changes introduced by William Godwin into the 1823 second edition as well as numerous other revisions, including an entirely new chapter and the famous ‘Introduction’ in which she relates the tale of the novel’s genesis at the nocturnal storytelling session with Shelley, Byron and Polidori at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva. (1)
Lot 436
Eden (Frederick Morton). The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period, in which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect to diet, dress, fuel, and habitation ..., 3 vols., 1st ed., 1797, errata leaf to vol. 1 bound after contents leaf, folding table facing p. viii of the Appendix in vol. 3, includes all the extra bis text leaves in vols. 2 and 3, lacks half-title and ‘Directions to the Binder’ leaf at the end of vol. 3, as often, scattered minor pencil marginalia, occ. minor spotting, three or four mostly marginal ink lib. stamps to each title recto only, modern morocco gilt, 4to (267 x 210mm). First edition of ‘One of the classical works in the history of economics’ (PMM 249; Einaudi 1714; Goldsmiths’ 17107; Kress B3384). (3)
Lot 484
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise of Painting, Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn’d with a Great Number of Cuts. To Which is Prefix’d The Author’s Life; Done from the Last Edition of the French, 1st English ed., Printed for J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721, eng. port. frontis., thirty-four (of 35) eng. plts. (incl. three folding), staining to one leaf and plt., title printed in red and black, recent calf gilt, 8vo. Leonardo’s famous Trattato was first published in Paris in 1651, and in this first English edition is accompanied by a translation of Du Fresne’s Life of the Artist. Sotheby’s, Macclesfield Library, V (14 April 2005), 1236. (1)
Lot 492
* @ Baynes (Pauline, 1922-2008). Torhthelm and Tidwald Searching Among the Slain after the Battle of Maldon, c. 1980, orig. pen and ink and watercolour and gouache drawing on paper, untitled and unsigned, visible sheet size 21.5 x 13.5cm, framed and glazed. This illustration is reproduced on page 83 of “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son”, first used in the Tolkien Anthology with illustrations by Pauline Baynes titled “Poems and Stories”, published George Allen & Unwin, 1980. Pauline Baynes was Tolkien’s favourite illustrator, illustrating ‘Farmer Giles of Ham’ (1949), the cover art for the 1961 Puffin edition of ‘The Hobbit’, a triptych for the slipcase of the 1964 deluxe edition of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’ (1962), and ‘Smith of Wootton Major’ (1967). After Tolkien’s death, she provided illustrations for the covers for the British 1973 one-volume and 1981 three-volume paperback editions of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘Poems and Stories’ (1980), and ‘Bilbo’s Last Song’ (1990). After Tolkien ‘discovered’ Pauline Baynes in 1948 when chancing upon some unsolicited artwork at his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, she went on to work on C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books in the 1950s. (1)
Lot 496
Dryden (John). Aureng-Zebe, a tragedy, acted at the Royal Theatre, 1685, some spotting and light browning, Blackwell’s ink date and price (12th March 1932, 18 shillings), to rear pastedown, modern red quarter roan over marbled boards, some rubbing and wear to spine ends, 4to. Wing D2246. This is the second edition, the first edition having been published in 1676 (Wing D2245). Rayner Unwin became a book salesman for Basil Blackwell in Oxford at the age of 17 before serving in the Far East as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Service during the Second World War. (1)
Lot 525
Auden (W.H.). Another Time, 1940; For the Time Being, 1945; The Age of Anxiety, 1948, 1st eds., previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, spines a little faded, 8vo, together with First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems, by Hugh McDiarmid, Unicorn Press, 1931, portrait frontispiece, one or two spots, t.e.g., original black and red cloth, 8vo, limited edition, 172/450, with others by Auden, Spender, Eliot etc (19)
Lot 531
Churchill (Winston S.). The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill, Centenary Edition, 38 vols. (complete), pub. Library of Imperial History, 1973-76, b&w illusts., folding maps, facsimile letters, etc., a.e.g., orig. natural calfskin vellum, lettered and blocked in 22 ct gilt, all in clean and bright condition, each volume contained in dark green card slipcase stamped with the Churchill arms, 8vo. This set being no. 1110, commissioned by, and published for Clarence E. Smart, by the authority of the Churchill Centenary Trust, with printed paper label on front pastedown of each volume. Only 2000 sets authorised for the British Empire and Commonwealth, and a further 1000 sets for United States of America and Canada. The four volumes of Collected Essays (published for the first time in volume form) are here present. (38)
Lot 571
Bawden (Edward, illust.). New Excursions into English Poetry. English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape, 1700-c. 1860. Chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor, with Original Lithographs by John Piper, 1944; Visionary Poems and Passages or the Poet’s Eye, Chosen by Geoffrey Grigson, with Original Lithographs by John Craxton, 1944; Sea Poems, Chosen by Myfanwy Piper, with Original Lithographs by Mona Moore, 1944; Poems of Death, Verses Chosen by Phoebe Pool, with Original Lithographs by Michael Ayrton, 1945; Soldiers’ Verse, Verses Chosen by Patric Dickinson, with Original Lithographs by William Scott, 1945; Travellers’ Verse, Chosen by M.G. Lloyd Thomas, with Original Lithographs by Edward Bawden, 1946; Poems of Sleep and Dream, Chosen by Carol Stewart, with Original Lithographs by Robert Colquhoun, 1947, all 1st eds., all orig. printed cloth boards with matching d.j. (d.j.s a little chipped and some soiling), 8vo. A complete set. The first volume in second edition d.j. The final volume with publisher’s printed Christmas presentation label to f.e.p., signed by Frederick Muller. (7)
Lot 705
Franks (Norman L.R.). Valiant Wings. The Battle and Blenheim Squadrons Over France 1940, revised and updated edition, 1994, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with 31 Squadron, First in the Indian Skies, 1981, col. and b & w illusts., orig. gilt-dec. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Brookes (Andrew), Fighter and Bomber Squadrons at War, 1995, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. laminated pict. boards in matching d.j., folio, and others of aviation interest, including RAF Bomber Command Losses 1941-47, 8 vols., mixed eds., 1995-2002, Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, 3 vols., 1997-2000, and The Air Force List, 29 odd vols., 1929-94 (? shelves)
Lot 52
Badeslade (Thomas & Toms, William Henry). Chorographia Britanniae or A Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales, 2nd. ed., 1742, eng. double page title and dedication, title page with repaired upper margin, four b & w eng. general maps of England & Wales, five double page eng. letterpress tables and forty-two uncoloured double page eng. maps (complete), the map of Staffordshire would appear to be from another copy but with the same date imprint below the map, contemp. calf gilt, skillfully rebacked, 8vo. An identical edition to the first, apart from the addition of a price on the title page and some new roads to the county maps. Chubb CLXXI. (1)
Lot 74
Kitchin (Thomas & Jefferys, Thomas). The Small English Atlas being a New and Accurate Sett of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales, 1751, pictorial double page title and preface, fifty double page engraved maps (complete) with contemp. outline colouring, slight foxing and staining throughout, map of the Channel Islands repaired and strengthened on verso along lower margin, contemp. calf gilt, rebacked, 8vo. The 1751 edition is the second of six - the last being published in 1787 - and at some point prior to publication, alterations and amendments were made to some of the plates. In this volume some maps now have plate numbers and others do not. This volume contains maps in a variety of states, twenty-seven in their first state, seven in the second and seventeen in the third. Chubb CXCIII. (1)
Lot 108
Braithwaite (Cecil). Fishing Vignettes being extracts from a diary and other fragments, 1875 to 1922, [1923], b&w plts. after photos, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. half black morocco, a little rubbed, 8vo, limited edition on handmade paper, this copy numbered 34 from an unspecified total, together with Henderson (William), My Life as an Angler, 1st ed., 1879, woodburytype b&w photo portrait of the author, b&w wood eng. illusts., minor spotting to first and last leaves, orig. green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed to extrems. (generally in good condition), plus Cadman (Henry), Harry Druidale, Fisherman, from Manxland to England, 1st ed., 1898, b&w plts. after photos, contemp. ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece (now faded), and one or two old oval inkstamps partly faded, orig. blue cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed (generally in good condition), and three others angling interest (J. J. Armistead, An Angler’s Paradise and How to Obtain It, 1895, Alfred W. Rees, Ianto The Fisherman and Other Sketches of Country Life, 1st ed., 1904 & Joseph T. Lea, Fishing Reminiscences, Kidderminster, 1892), all 8vo (1)
Lot 144
Attwell (Lucie) - Lucie Attwell's fairy book, with twelve colour illustrations by Lucie Attwell, published by S W Partridge & Co, London, 1932 (first edition), bound in maroon leather with gilt lettering, Barrie (Sir James Matthew) - Peter Pan & Wendy, with illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell, with twelve colour plates, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London, 1921, bound in blue cloth with blue and gilt decoration and lettering (2)
Lot 180
A Royal Doulton `The Boy Evacuee` figure, HN3202, green and blue, limited edition no.5797 of 9500, 8½in (21.5cm) high, and `The Girl Evacuee` figure, HN3203, plum, blue and brown, limited edition no.6807 of 9500, 7¾in (19.5cm) high, both with certificates, together with a copy of Daily Mirror, Monday, September 4th, 1939, "Britain`s First Day of War: Churchill is New Navy Chief", and an Imperial War Museum poster - "Keep mum she`s not so dumb!" (a lot)
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