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Mellors & Kirk
Lot 753

WATKINS-PITCHFORD (D J) "BB" A CHILD ALONE first edition, presentation copy signed on the title and signed again, dedicated "To Sheila [Church] with all the author`s love" and dated 5/9/78, illustrated, dust jacket, Michael Joseph 1978, six other books by "BB", all signed first (except the last) editions inscribed to Sheila Church compring Ramblings of a Sportsman-Naturalist 1979, The Naturalist`s Bedside, Book, 1980, The Quiet Fields 1981, Indian Summer 1984, The Best of "BB" 1985 and Dark Estuary 1980, C Ferris - The Darkness is Light Enough, signed by "BB", 1986 and `BB`: A Celebration selected... by Tom Quinn, 1993 (9) ++++

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British Bespoke Auctions
Lot 33

THE NEW RUPERT BEAR BOOK, FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED DAILY EXPRESS 1938, WITH DUOTONE ILLUSTRATIONS AND ORIGINAL CLOTH BACKING

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Mullocks Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 301

Collection of Various Tottenham Hotspur football programmes, books, publications, fanzines. Noted “Spurs go Marching on” the official Tottenham History of the first 100 years, “Glory Glory” Bill Nicholson, “The Glory Nights”, “Let’s be honest about it” and “My World” Jimmy Greaves, other autobiographies by Glen Hoddle x 2, Martin Peters, Terry Venables, Special edition 100th Derby Spurs v Arsenal, various fanzines, The Spur, Spurs Monthly included. Plus about 50 programmes. Good. (100 approx)

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Mullocks Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 305

Collection of 1966-67 season Manchester United football programmes (H+A), Championship winning season, the homes consist of 21 league, 2 F.A. Cup and a special edition for the away match @ Highbury which was the first division 1 match to be televised on closed-circuit T.V. The aways are a complete set of 21 plus the scarce postponed issue at Newcastle United dated 7th January 1967. All home and away programmes have the tokens intact and the first home v W.B.A. has the seasons token sheet still attached, this fine set is housed in a holder with individual windows. Good – very good. (47)

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Mullocks Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 308

Collection of 1961-62 season Manchester United football programmes (H), all have tokens, 20 league (lacking only W.B.A.) 5 F.A. Cup including the Arsenal postponed 27th January and the rare 4 page edition when the game was 4 days later. Also included the Special edition challenge match v Real Madrid. The first programme of the season v Chelsea has the season token sheet still inside, a few with minor faults but the majority are in good – very good condition. (26)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 11

Milne (A.A.) Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 14

Lewis (C.S.) The Magician`s Nephew, 1955, Bodley Head, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 8s.6d)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 16

Lewis (C.S.) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1950, Geoffrey Bles, first edition, original cloth (cloth worn and stained, back-strip partially detached)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 21

Eliot (E.C.) Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts, 1954, Nelson, first edition, dust wrapper; Moore (Patrick), The Domes of Mars, 1956, Burke, first edition, dust wrapper; Johns (W.E.), Kings of Space, 1954; Return to Mars, 1955; No Rest for Biggles, 1956; To Outer Space, 1957, first editions in dust wrappers (6)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 25

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1910, first edition, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper, original cream boards

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 26

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1909, first edition, notice board to page 14, ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper, original brown boards

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 27

Potter (Beatrix) The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, [1906], first edition, panoramic form with `London and New York` to back of wallet, ownership inscription to wallet flap, original red cloth wallet

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 32

Brandt (Bill) The English at Home, 1936, first edition, original pictorial boards (spine rubbed)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 35

Lee (William) [William Burroughs] Junkie, Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, 1953, Ace Books, first edition, issued back-to-back in one volume with Helbrant (Maurice), Narcotic Agent, 1953, paperback

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 36

O` Cathasaigh (P.) [O`Casey (Sean)] The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, 1919, Maunsel & Co., first edition, original wraps, preserved in cloth-covered fold-over case with leather label; O`Casey (Sean), Five Irish Plays, 1935, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, The Star Turns Red, 1940, first edition, dust wrapper; with ten other first editions by O`Casey (13)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 37

Betjeman (John) Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs, 1975, signed by the author, dust wrapper; idem, Summoned by Bells, 1960, first edition, dust wrapper; with T.L.S. from John Betjeman dated 12.9.80, relating to a TV programme (3)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 40

Hilton (James) Goodbye Mr Chips, 1934, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 42

Fleming (Ian) From Russia, with Love, 1957, Cape, first edition, black cloth with silver and red lettering and vignette, dust wrapper priced 13s. 6d. (tape stains to endpapers and wrapper - see multiple images on-line)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 43

Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, 1960, Cape, first edition, black cloth with white eye, dust wrapper priced 15s. (tape stains to endpapers)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 44

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961, Cape, first edition, black cloth with blind-stamped skeletal hand, dust wrapper priced 15s. (tape stains to endpapers and flaps)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 45

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2006, Folio Society facsimile of the first edition, 2 vols., folio, numbered ltd. edition of 1000, half calf by Smith Settle, original slipcase

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 46

Wilde (Oscar) Works of .., 1908, 14 vols., Methuen, ltd. edition of 1000 on handmade paper, t.e.g., original cloth (first collected edition)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 101

Campbell (Donald) A Journey Over Land to India .., 1795, first edition, 4to. [?large paper copy], containing parts I, II, III and appendix, each separately paginated, a.e.g., morocco by Kalthoeber (rebacked retaining original backstrip); Volney (M.), The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, 1796, frontis, two folding plates, half calf (binding worn, title page cropped) [sold on behalf of a local animal rescue charity]

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 109

Scrope (William) The Art of Deer-Stalking .., 1838, first edition, engraved title (dated 1839), frontis and 10 plates as called for, half calf

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 112

Aldin (Cecil) Scarlet to M.F.H., 1933, Eyre & Spottiswoode, first edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper; Edwards (Lionel), My Hunting Sketch Book, 1928, 4to., first edition, 15 colour plates, original cloth; idem., My Hunting Sketch Book, Vol. II, 1930, first edition, colour and plain plates as called for, original cloth; Paget (Guy), The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (1782-1860), 1931, first edition, dust wrapper (all with some foxing)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 119

Chapman (Abel) On Safari, Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, 1908, first edition, `presentation copy` stamp to title, plates as called for, original cloth; idem, Savage Sudan, Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird Life, 1921, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth (2)

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 126

Meinertzhagen (R.) Birds of Arabia, 1954, first edition, colour and photographic plates as called for, folding map in rear pocket, dust wrapper

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Plymouth Auction Rooms
Lot 564

Various Plymouth books, Lord of The Rings first edition, Silmarillion (Tolkien), promo movie posters, Golly sign and other ephemera

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Sworders
Lot 128A

A first edition of `The Deathless Story of the Titanic`, a collection of fifty Victorian black greetings cards, and a quantity of scrap flowers

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John Nicholson
Lot 479

GEORGE ORWELL; Nineteen Eighty-Four, Secker & Warburg 1949 First Edition no D/W. ALFRED KUBIN; The Other Side, Gollancz 1967 1st in D/W. JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath, First Edition, William Heinemann, London 1939, no D/W. (3)

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Chippenham Auction Rooms
Lot 178

Three early Famous Five books to include a first edition Five Get Into Trouble.

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Chippenham Auction Rooms
Lot 240

A selection of first edition volumes, all war related to include I Was The Cat by Matilda Lily Carre.

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 456

The Tank Corps by Major Clough Williams Ellis MC First edition 1919, Country Life Edition

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 484

A 1950 First Edition Second Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Libya-Egypt 1941-42

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 607

A Book of Caricatures by Max Beerbohm, First Edition 1907 by Methuen

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 609

A book of Sporting Painters by Walter Shaw Sparrow with 136 illustrations - First edition published in 1931

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 648

Three titles by Roddy Doyle:: first UK edition of The Commitments, Yeats is Dead! (signed copy) and The Van

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 689

Beast and Man in India by John Lockwood Kipling 1891 First Edition

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 700

Reviews by Oscar Wilde First Edition 1908 limited edition

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Smiths Newent Auctions
Lot 708

The New Hawaii by Charmian London (Mrs Jack London) , published First Edition 1923 by Mills & Boon

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Clevedon Salerooms
Lot 349

Books - Rupert Brooke - 1914 & Other Poems, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, first edition 1915, original blue/black cloth with paper label to the spine

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Clevedon Salerooms
Lot 350

Books - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round The Fire Stories, published by Smith, Elder & Co, first edition 1908 together with four other books by Conan Doyle and Gavin Brend - My Dear Holmes, published by George Allen & Unwin, first edition 1951

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 2

Allexandre (Dom Jacques) Traite General des Horloges, first edition, 4 folding tables (one mounted on modern stub), 27 folding engraved plates, 3pp. privilege at end, title with old ink inscription (partly crossed out, part torn and repaired with sticky tape) and trimmed at inner margin and mounted on stub, a few preliminary leaves slightly defective at lower outer corner and repaired (no loss to text), occasional spotting, one plate with light damp-staining, modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco labels, [Baillie p.180; Bromley 10; Tardy p.10], 8vo, Paris, Hippolyte-Louis and Jacques Guerin, 1734. *** A general treatise on timekeepers dealing with dialling, pendulums, true solar time clocks, turret clocks and watches, and including a detailed bibliography of works on dialling, water-clocks and wheel clocks.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 8

Baillie (G.H.) Clocks and Watches: An Historical Bibliography, author`s corrected and annotated proof copy, photograph of the author tipped in at beginning, 1950; Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, second edition, 1947 § [Lengelle (Henri)], ÒTardyÓ. Bibliographie Generale de la Mesure du Temps..., one of 150 copies, original upper wrapper bound in, Paris, [1947]; Dictionnaire des Horlogers Fran?ais, 2 vol., original wrappers, rubbed, Paris, 1971 § Bromley (John) The Clockmakers` Library: The Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, dust-jacket, 1971 § Abeler (J.) Meister deer Uhrmacherkunst, original cloth, dust-jacket, Dusseldorf, 1977, the first three all Malcolm Gardner`s copies interleaved with extensive notes and ephemera tipped in or loosely inserted, by Gardner and with additions by Charles Allix, cloth, the second and third rebacked preserving old spines, rubbed and faded; and 7 others, horological bibliography & reference including a first edition of the first, and a bundle of pamphlets etc., v.s. (c.25)

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 9

Bassermann-Jordan (Dr. Ernst) Die Geschichte der Raderuhr unter besonderer berucksichtigung der Uhren des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, first edition, 24 photogravure plates, illustrations, light marginal staining but mostly to text, affecting lower outer corner of first few plates but otherwise clean, modern cloth, [Abeler p.57; Tardy p.24], folio, Frankfurt am Main, 1905. *** Scarce work on automaton clocks.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 12

Breguet (Abraham-Louis).- Salomons (Sir David Lionel) Breguet. (1747-1823),with Supplement and Addenda to Appendix bound in at end, first edition, one of 1000 copies, errata leaf tipped in at beginning, portrait and plates, tissue guards, with list of Breguet watches in L.A.Mayer Memorial Foundation and list of watch serial numbers in Salomons collection loosely inserted, Weston bookplate, contemporary vellum-backed boards, gilt-stamped red roan label on spine (a little rubbed), lightly soiled and faded, with original blue printed wrappers bound in, [Bromley 752-753; Tardy p.221], for the Author, 1921; and the 3 vol. Christie`s 1964-65 auction catalogue of the Salomons Breguet collection with prices and notes in manuscript, 8vo & 4to (4)

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 13

Breguet (Abraham-Louis).- Salomons (Sir David Lionel) Breguet. (1747-1823), translated by Louis Desoutter, first French edition, portrait and plates, tissue guards, Cecil Clutton`s copy with his signature on front free endpaper and several letters etc. loosely inserted including Lilian Adam to Col.Quill, Clutton to Quill, Bruton to Quill etc., also photocopy of Allix`s list of analysis of watches in the English and French editions, some items in text marked ÒJÓ (i.e.Mayer watches in Jerusalem), original cloth, very slightly rubbed at edges, [Bromley 754; Tardy p.221], for the Author, 1923; and another on the Breguet centenary of 1923, 8vo (2)

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 16

British Horological Institute. Horological Journal (The): The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute, vol.1-51 bound in 20, second edition of vol.1 (with drop-head title), tables, some folding, plates and illustrations, Thomas D.Wright`s copy with his ink signature in many volumes and some ephemera loosely inserted particularly notes concerning Karrusel trains, first leaf of vol.1 browned and slightly defective at inner margin with loss of a few letters, a few vol. with light marginal water-staining, some with central crease where previously folded, modern cloth, roan label, [Bromley 451], 1858-1921; and vol.52-54 & 63 in old red cloth (some internal water-staining, cloth rubbed and faded), and a few odd issues in original wrappers, 8vo & 4to; sold as a periodical, not subject to return (sm.qty)

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 27

Chapuis (Alfred) and Gustave Loup. La Montre ÒChinoiseÓ, first edition, 33 plates, some colour, illustrations, leaves a little wrinkled by damp, very light staining on title from frontispiece (now bound following title), modern half crimson morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt with pink calf labels, t.e.g., others uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in, [Bromley 150; Tardy p.57], 4to, Neuchatel, 1919. *** Scarce.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 31

Clockmakers` Company.- Register of Apprentices of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London... 1631 to...1931, compiled...by Charles Edward Atkins..., first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, pencil signature of Charles Allix on front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, [Bromley 194; Tardy p.63], 8vo, privately printed, 1931.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 35

Cumming (Alexander) The Elements of Clock and Watch-work, Adapted to Practice. In Two Essays, first edition, second issue, dedication leaves bound in reverse order, lacking Q3 (part-title to second essay), with 15 folding engraved plates only (of 16, lacking plate 15, supplied in loosely inserted photocopy), errata leaf at end, lightly soiled, one or two plates frayed and reinforced at fore-edge, modern half morocco, spine ruled in gilt with red calf labels, [Baillie p.270; Bromley 218; Tardy p.68], 4to, [by J.Hughes] for the Author..., 1766. *** The author was a mathematician, mechanic and clockmaker from Edinburgh who worked in London and was one of the examiners of Harrison`s longitude watch. This is his first book, one of 2 issues published in the same year, this with an errata leaf.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 37

Dubois (Pierre) La Tribune Chronometrique, Scientifique et Biographique, first edition, 5 plates, 2 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, a little browned, some foxing, a few pencil annotations, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Bromley 283; Tardy p.81], 4to, Paris, 1852.

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Lot 39

Earnshaw (Thomas).- Commissioners of Longitude. Explanations of Time-Keepers, constructed by Mr.Thomas Earnshaw and the late Mr.John Arnold, first edition, 6 engraved plates, 2 folding (others creased where previously folded), foxed and stained, some tears mostly to old folds (repaired), Daniel Buckney`s copy presented to him by G.J.Jenkins with accompanying A.L.s. dated 1898 loosely inserted, later half calf, rubbed, [Bromley 203; Tardy p.64], 4to, T.Bensley for Payne and Mackinlay, 1806.

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Lot 40

Earnshaw (Thomas) Longitude. An Appeal to the Public: stating Mr.Thomas Earnshaw`s Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements in his Timekeepers...and his consequent Right to National Reward, [2 copies], numbers 47 & 194 of 350 facsimile reprints, illustrations, original rexine-backed boards, transparent wrapper, BHI, 1986; and a bound photocopy of the first edition, 8vo & oblong 4to (3)

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Lot 47

Gould (Lt. Commander Rupert T.) The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, first edition, the author`s copy with his extensive annotations and additions, frontispiece and plates, a few later notes, postcard etc. loosely inserted, some slight damp-staining to upper edges, original cloth, printed dustjacket, defective with large loss, 8vo, J.D. Potter, 1923; and a small quantity of others, including a photocopy of the first mentioned, 2 autograph manuscript notebooks (1 notebook ÒFrom his first annotated copy of The Marine ChronometerÓ, 1 notebook on Harrison`s clocks, correspondence to Agar Baugh), D.S. Torrens notes on Gould`s ÒMarine ChronometerÓ, a pamphlet by Gould, The Reconstruction of Harrison`s First Timekeeper, offprint, 1933, T.L.s. by Gould to Paul Ditisheim, 8 August 1923, thanking him for Òthe Bragnet number of the `Journal Suisse d`Horologie`... and the poster which you sent me is pinned up on the wall of my workshop, where it now looks down upon Harrison`s no. 2 and no. 3 timekeepers, which Sir Frank Dyson has placed in my hands for cleaning and repair. I hope to make them both go againÓ, and a typescript obituary of Gould by Heinrich Otto, v.s., v.d. (7). *** Gould`s The Marine Chronometer is one of the finest books on horology in the English language. ÒBegan re-reading and further annotation of this book on 25-X-40, at Upper Hurdcott, Barford St Martin, near Salisbury. RG 25-X-40... [Foreword] * As originally drafted by the late Sir Frank Dyson. His Foreword was rather wide of the mark, and (in one or two places) flatly contradicted the text. I revised it, I`m afraid, with an unsparing hand. He... accepted all my amendments RG 25-X-40.Ó - Gould.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 48

Gould (Lt. Commander Rupert T.) The Marine Chronometer..., reprint, frontispiece and plates, a few postcards loosely inserted and newspaper cuttings tipped in at beginning, original cloth, spines slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, Holland Press, 1960; and a photocopy of Gould`s annotated first edition of 1923 (see previous lot), 8vo & oblong folio (2)

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Lot 52

Gros (Charles) Echappements d`Horloges et de Montres, first edition, illustrations, lightly browned, old ink stamp on title, ink stamp of H.Bertram Cox on front free endpaper, also pencil note by Charles Allix concerning errors of printing in the second edition, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Tardy p.115], 8vo, Paris, [1913]. *** Scarce.

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Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 53

Harcourt-Smith (Simon) A Catalogue of Various Clocks, Watches, Automata, and other miscellaneous objects of European Workmanship dating from the XVIIIth and the early XIXth Centuries, in the Palace Museum and the Wu Ying Tien, Peiping, first edition, 41 plates, title browned, light water-staining and wrinkling to some plates, new tissue guards, modern cloth, original green printed wrappers bound in (a little discoloured and marked), [Bromley 691; Tardy p.124], 4to, Peiping, Palace Museum, 1933. *** Very scarce.

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Lot 54

Hatton (Thomas) An Introduction to the Mechanical Part of Clock and Watch Work. first edition, lacking half-title, 17 engraved plates only (of 18, lacking plate at p.326), all but one folding, signed by Charles Allix Òfrom C.A.IlbertÓ in pencil on front free endpaper and with some pencil marginalia, spotted and soiled, a few small stains, K7 & 8 torn/slightly defective at lower margin not affecting text, later half calf, rubbed, [Baillie p.294; Bromley 421; Tardy p.126], 8vo, for T.Longman, and G.Robinson..., 1773.

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Lot 60

Imison (John) The School of Arts; or, An Introduction of Useful Knowledge..., 2 parts in 1, fourth edition, 24 folding engraved plates, a little soiled and browned, some plates a little frayed and defective at edges, all laid down, modern calf, spine with red and blue calf labels, spine a little faded, [Baillie p.354], for J.Murray and S.Highley, 1796; and Martin`s `Institutiones Horologicae, or, a Physico-Mathematical Theory of Clock-work` (pp.361-535 of A New and Comprehensive System of Mathematical Institutions of 1764) bound in modern cloth-backed boards, 8vo (2) *** The first includes a chapter on clock-making.

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