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Lot 1030
Agatha Christie, The Hounds of Death and other stories (London, Odhams Press, 1933) burgundy boards with lettering to spine. First edition, first printing together with Agatha Christie, Halloween Party (London, The Crime Club, 1969) red boards gilt letting to spine; James Hamilton, To You Mr Chips (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938) orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, first edition, first printing.
Lot 1033A
J.K. Rowling a collection of Harry Potter mixing the Collectors' Edition with first trade editions. Titles include The Philosopher's Stone, The Prisoner of Azkaban (both Collectors Edition) and three first editions including The Half Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix and the Deathly Hallows.
Lot 124
J W LOWRY 'Lowry's Table Atlas' first edition c1850 published by Chapman & Hall, London, quarter leather bound with gilt lettering to front, containing maps with hand coloured detail (A/F) Poor condition. Front and back plates loose, spine missing, some plates loose, ribbing to corners and edges of pages, some split and torn. Most of the plates themselves intact.
Lot 589
Published 1924, 1978, 1987 and 1989 AD. Titles comprising: Hill, George F., A Guide to the Exhibition of Historical Medals in the British Museum, BM, London, 1924; hardback, publishers boards, inscribed 'Ian Stewart, 1952'. Taylor, Jeremy, The Architectural Medal England in the Nineteenth Century, BM, London; hardback, publisher's brown cloth, signed and dated by author. Eimer, Christopher, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, Seaby, London, 1987, first edition; hardback, publisher's red cloth with dustwrapper. Eimer, Christopher, An Introduction to Commemorative Medals, Seaby, London, 1989; hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. 3.12 kg total, largest 28 x 23cm (11 x 9"). Ex libris Lord Stewartby (Ian Stewart). Generally fine condition; second with slight wear to binding. [4, No Reserve]
Lot 678
MILNE A.A. - A Gallery of Children, illustrated by H.Willebeek Le Mair, published by Stanley Paul, 1925, signed by the author and numbered 409/485, embossed white cloth boards, 4to also KAPP, EDMOND - Personalities, HEATH ROBINSON, WILLIAM - Bill the Minder and CAMUS, ALBERT - The Plague, first English edition 1948 and WAUGH, EVELYN - Love Among the Ruins (5)
Lot 784
Stevenson (Robert Louis) A COLLECTION 19th and 20th century editions, Chatto & Windus, Cassell, Heinemann and others, almost all 8vos or 12mos, mostly original cloth bindings. First Editions include: The Merry Men, 1887, publisher's blue cloth gilt; The Ebb-Tide, 1894, London, Heinemann, 1894, 20pp. adverts at end dated August 1894, original pictorial dull gold cloth; Catriona. A Sequel to ''Kidnapped''... 1893, Cassell, blue cloth; The Wrecker, 1892, Cassell; The Master of Ballantrae, 1889, Cassell, pictorial red cloth; several others. Other titles include Treasure Island, 1886, Cassell, Fifteenth Thousand; Kidnapped, 1895, Cassell, Forty-third Thousand; Underwoods, 1887, Chatto & Windus, fine morocco gilt binding; Heron (James, Illustrator) Edinburgh, 1919, Seeley Service & Co, d.j. [Also:] A Stevenson Medley, 1899, C&W, edition limited to 300 copies, initialled in ink to limitation leaf, 68pp. and twelve facsimile letters, verses, booklets etc. tipped in at rear, blue cloth gilt; Prayers Written at Vailima, 1910, thin 4to first edition, facsimile manuscript illuminated by Alberto Sangorski; Stubbs (Laura) Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage, 1903, A. Moring, pictorial green cloth; a commemorative extra number of The Bookman, 1913, 4to, illustrations, inset photoplate to cover; Balmpied (E., Illustrator) Travels with a Donkey, 1931; A Lowden Sabbath Morn with illustrations by A.S. Boyd; a memorial pamphlet of collected poems, [1895], C&H, limp green calf gilt; The Prideaux Biliography 1918; Pitman's Shorthand Edition of Jekyll and Hyde, 12mo pamphlet. Varying degrees of ware to bindings and spines, some weak hinges, scattered browning and foxing to some titles; for the most part fair reading copies. Viewing highly recommended (54)
Lot 792
GARDEN DESIGN Gothein (Marie Luise) A History of Garden Art, Edited by Walter P. Wright, two vols., 1928, London and New York, first English edition, 4to, over 600 black and white illustrations, original gilt-decorated blue cloth and dust jackets (a little soiled and tatty), some browning inside but a sound copy. [Together with:] Bolton (Arthur T.) The Gardens of Italy, 1919, London, Country Life, lavishly-illustrated folio in later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards; Elgood (George S., Illustrator) Italian Gardens, 1907, London, Longmans, folio, colour plates and descriptions, minor soiling, later three-quarter green morocco; Mawson (Thomas H.) The Art & Craft of Garden Making, [c.1915], London, B.T. Batsford, folio, fourth edition, colour frontis., pictorial e.p.s., illustrations, plain brown cloth [&] The Life & Work of an English Landscape Architect (Autobiography), [c.1920], London, The Richards Press, large 8vo, plain blue cloth; Lazzaro (Claudia) The Italian Renaissance Garden, 1990, Yale University Press, 4to, d.j., plain slipcase and Cosgrove (Dennis) The Palladian Landscape, 1993, 8vo, d.j. (7)
Lot 510
A collectors' lot of mixed antiquarian and collectible books to include a 1936 German propaganda book 'Adolf Hitler Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers', with gilt tooled cloth boards containing publicity shots of Hitler, German armaments and German high command, 'Histoires Choisies, Ou Livere D'Exemples', full leather bound with interior marbled boards, c1747 first edition, Willis Fletcher Johnson 'History of the Johnstown Flood', published by J W Keeler & Co 1889, cloth bound containing plates showing the devastation of the Johnstown flood, Joseph G Horner 'The Sheet Metal Worker's Instructor', published by Crosby, Lockwood & Son 1896, containing various diagrams and geometrical problems, cloth bound, Anthony Hope 'The Prisoner of Zenda' c1894, first edition and gilt tooled cloth bound and 'The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist' English translation c1771, this being volume two, leather bound (6).
![[ANTIQUES] Stevenson, John & Guy, John. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tadition, first edition, Art Media Resources, Chicag](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/7c9d92aa-165e-4971-89a3-0a6f344f58b3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 159
[ANTIQUES] Stevenson, John & Guy, John. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tadition, first edition, Art Media Resources, Chicago, 1997, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; Beurdeley, Michel & Cecile. Chinese Ceramics, first British edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1974, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; and assorted other works, (13 volumes).
![[ART]. WOOD ENGRAVING Empson, Patience, editor. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, Dent, London, 1959, b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/21687b98-593e-4700-e3e6-33a9dec2b5cd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 144
[ART]. WOOD ENGRAVING Empson, Patience, editor. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, Dent, London, 1959, black cloth, illustrations throughout, quarto; Lawrence, D.H. The Man who Died, Heinemann, London, 1935, quarter cloth, illustrations by John Farleigh, quarto; and two other works, (4).
![[ANTIQUES & WINE] Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collecti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/f125565a-8699-49ee-e247-f32a404871fd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 158
[ANTIQUES & WINE] Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, first edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1960, quarter blue buckram, plate illustrations, quarto; Penning-Rowsell, Edmund. The Wines of Bordeaux, first edition, International Wine and Food Society, London, 1969, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and assorted other works, including auction catalogues, (31 volumes, box).
![[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977, na](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/2dd37df0-70c9-4091-bbff-934516eee00f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977, navy cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Tolkien, J.R.R. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, reprint, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1980, maroon cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Carpenter, Humphrey, editor. Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1981, boards, dustjacket, octavo; together with assorted other works by or on the same; and two calendars, (12).
![[NATURAL HISTORY] Thompson, Harry V., & Worden, Alastair N. The Rabbit, first edition, Collins, London, 1956, green buckram,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/d7236be7-f99c-4454-bad3-538e43fcd28c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 146
[NATURAL HISTORY] Thompson, Harry V., & Worden, Alastair N. The Rabbit, first edition, Collins, London, 1956, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Stamp, Dudley, & Hoskins, W.G. The Common Lands of England & Wales, first edition, Collins, London, 1963, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; together with a further six New Naturalist titles; and a further fourteen assorted works, (22).
Lot 562
PETER THURSBY (BRITISH, 1930-2011) 'Winged Form', bronze, 1964, set to a concrete base, 53cm high (excluding base; base cracked). Note: Pictured in Light, Vivienne, & Olding, Simon. Peter Thursby, first edition, Canterton Books, Uplyme, 2006, p.60, fig.41. A copy of this book, and a small quantity of other ephemera accompanies the lot. This lot may be subject to Droit de Suite (Artists Resale Right).
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Seaver, George. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, first edition, Murray, London, 1933,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/30b53be5-4342-49f5-b956-f65f7c7cc196/468x382.jpg)
Lot 147
[MISCELLANEOUS] Seaver, George. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, first edition, Murray, London, 1933, blue cloth, plate illustrations, octavo; Mosso, Angelo. Life of Man on the High Alps, Fisher Unwin, London, 1898, decorative blue cloth, illustrations, quarto; Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake, Black, Edinburgh, 1853, pictorial bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, vignette illustrations, octavo; and seventeen assorted other works, (20).
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, first edition, Cape, London, 1924, grey cloth, colour frontisp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/28a383d2-6036-4f28-88a9-f9a328114186/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
[MISCELLANEOUS] Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, first edition, Cape, London, 1924, grey cloth, colour frontispiece, text illustrations, octavo; Blunden, Edmund. Shells by a Stream, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1944, green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Shute, Nevil. The Rainbow and the Rose, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1958, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and a further thirteen assorted works, (16).
![[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Meynell, Wilfrid. Verses and Re-Verses, privately printed (at The Arden Press) for his family & friends](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/e20743ad-9a1c-4eb0-ab64-2f1c86c2b253/468x382.jpg)
Lot 138
[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Meynell, Wilfrid. Verses and Re-Verses, privately printed (at The Arden Press) for his family & friends, 1910, grey boards, top edges gilt, small octavo; Meynell, Alice. The Shepherdess & Other Verses, Burns & Oates, London, no date, paper covers, INSCRIBED & SIGNED TO DOROTHY RAWCLIFFE, with a manuscript poem and letter to the same in original postal envelope taped to inside front cover, octavo; another copy of the same, unsigned; Meynell, Violet. Verses, first edition, Secker, London, 1919, blue-grey boards, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. The Child's Visit to Fairyland, no date [1911], fawn cloth, map frontispiece, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to her mother, with a poem, on front free endpaper, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. Rafferty-Tafferty Primblekins and Other Follies for the Diversion of All Children, Old and Young, Platt, Wigan, 1927, stiff paper cover with onlaid title label, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and two further duplicated works by Rawcliffe, (8).
![[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Twain, Mark. Roughing It and The Innocents at Home, first combined British edition, Routledge, London,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c835a1c9-8ab1-4ec8-a7e0-a6da00d024b7/f5d679c6-4737-42bf-9df9-2fd5a48d8e7c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 135
[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Twain, Mark. Roughing It and The Innocents at Home, first combined British edition, Routledge, London, 1882, pictorial crimson cloth gilt, illustrations by F.A. Fraser, octavo; together with Twain, Mark. The American Claimant, first British edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1892, pictorial crimson cloth, illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, octavo; and another work by the same, (3).
Lot 58
RICHARD III Buck (George) The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, 1647, London, W. Wilson, 4to, second edition, lacking frontispiece portrait, pp.152 plus index, blank K4, worm trace to f.f.e.p., becoming pin hole by p.21 (not affecting text), early ownership inscription to title [together with:] Walpole (Horace) Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, 1768, London, J. Dodsley, 4to, second edition, pp.134 plus single leaf Addition, 2 folding etched portraits incl. frontis as called for. First quire loose, soiling and staining, both copies in scuffed and bumped rebacked 18th century calf (2)
Lot 54
Young (Rev. George) A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils Occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York, 1822, Whitby, G. Clark, 4to First Edition: [i-]iv, pp.328, plus Index, list of Subscribers and 1 p. advert, engraved frontispiece, double page hand-coloured engraved geological map of Yorkshire Coast, double page hand-coloured sectional chart of Strata, plus 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates of fossils (complete as list). Rubbed and bumped contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, contents generally good, offsetting to title and only minor soiling and browning. Old ownership label to front pastedown, two ownership inscriptions to f.f.e.p.
Lot 33
Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, 1962, London, Faber and Faber, number 359 (of 500 copies) from the first collected edition, 8vo, signed by the author, green calf, a.e.g. Sunfading to banded spine. [Offered with:] Beer (Stafford) Decision and Control, 1966, London, John Wilsons, 8vo. First edition, author's presentation copy with his signature, red calf (2).
![Mackenzie (George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810], 1811, Edinburgh, A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a91258f8-b4cd-43e6-a448-a6e100b36857/1f436fcb-f466-468b-8baf-9724b26bd3f4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 106
Mackenzie (George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810], 1811, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 4to, First Edition, xvii, pp. 491 plus Directions to the Binder, two engraved maps, one folding with colour (closed tear), complete with 15 engraved plates as list (eight of which mounted hand-coloured aquatints), four folding tables, engraved illustrations. Contemporary half calf over rubbed and scuffed marbled boards, spine gilt, two ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, closed tear to title and dedication leaves, pencil notes to blank leaf at rear, some offsetting and (mostly marginal) spotting and staining. Abbey Travel 160
Lot 101
Darwin (Charles) Insectivorous Plants, 1875, London, John Murray, 8vo First Edition, old ownership inscription to half title, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, upper edge of text block soiled. [&] The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1876, London, J. Murray, 8vo First Edition, foxing to endpapers (two at front detached) and title, marginal fading to endpapers, hinges rather loose, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, frayed joints, upper edge of text block soiled. [together with:] A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World..., 1889, London, J. Murray, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original rubbed and bumped pictorial green cloth, hinges a little tender; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection..., 1895, London, J. Murray, 8vo, Sixth Edition ('Forty-Seventh Thousand'), endpapers stained and foxed, original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 1890, London, J. Murray, 8vo Second Edition ('Fifth Thousand'), original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, London, J. Murray, 8vo, 'Fifth Thousand', original rubbed and bumped green cloth. (6)
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