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Lot 331
Vambery, A. Travels in central Asia. London: J. Murray, 1864. 8vo, folding map, plates, quarter morocco with new marbled boards; Nordenskiold, A.E. The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe. London: Macmillan, 1881. 3 volumes including atlas volume, 8vo, frontispieces, 10 folding maps, one in 2 sheets, illustrations, contemporary half calf, spines gilt; Greenwood, Lt. John Narrative of the late victorious campaign in Afghanistan. London: H. Colburn, 1844. 8vo, map and 5 plates, modern quarter morocco, spine gilt; Sale, F. A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-42. 1843. First edition, 8vo, folding plan, original pink cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, cloth slightly discoloured; and 6 others, travel (12)
Lot 335
Boteler, Thomas Narrative of a voyage of discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed by His Majesty's ships Leven and Barracouta. London: R. Bentley, 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 4 lithographed plates, original boards, contemporary half calf, rebacked, five preliminary leaves loose, rebacked, plates slightly spotted Provenance: The Cruising Association: small blindstamp on titles, bookplates, gilt stamp on upper covers, and number on spines
![Hoskins, G.A. Travels in Ethiopia. London: Longman, Rees [&c.], 1835. First edition, 4to, lithographed frontispiece, folding](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2746940/345-115-10121_468x382.jpg)
Lot 345
Hoskins, G.A. Travels in Ethiopia. London: Longman, Rees [&c.], 1835. First edition, 4to, lithographed frontispiece, folding map and 53 plates and plans (2 hand-coloured, 4 chromolithographed), some double-page, original cloth, paper label on spine, a few leaves with very minor worming in extreme lower margin, small library blindstamp on title, bookplate & number on spine, upper hinge split
Lot 347
India--Prinsep, G.A. An account of steam vessels and of proceedings connected with steam navigation in British India. Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, 1830. First edition, 4to, errata leaf, folding map, frontispiece, 17 plates, (three folding, 7 on india paper), contemporary half calf, a little light spotting, small library blindstamp on title, bookplate Provenance: The Cruising Association. Presentation inscription from Rear Adimiral Sir Edward Owen to Commander Hare, H.M.S. Satellite.
Lot 357
Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. First edition, volumes 1-2 (of 3), 4to, volume 1 with 5 maps and charts and 87 (of 89) lithographed plates, also without nude bathing plate; volume 2 with 4 tinted lithograph plates, 23 natural history plates, 16 metereological diagrams and 2 (? of 17) maps and charts, contemporary quarter brown morocco, some spotting and browning, small library blindstamp on titles, bookplates, and number on spines
Lot 364
Snow, W. Parker A two years' cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate. London: Longmans, Brown, [&c.], 1857. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 3 folding charts and plans, 6 chromolithographed plates, half-title in volume 1, original cloth, frontispiece to volume 2 a little browned, bookplates, gilt stamp on upper covers & number on spines
Lot 366
United States--Semmes, Admiral Raphael Memoirs of service afloat during the war between the states. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869. First edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 8 chromolithographed or engraved plates, contemporary half calf, small blindstamp on title, bookplate, gilt stamp on upper board and number on spine, slightly rubbed
Lot 2731
Alan Cobham; Twenty Thousand Miles in a flying Boat; my flight round Africa; Selous; Travel and Adventure in South - East Africa, Rowland Ward & Co, London, 1893, ex-library copy; Olivia Manning; The Remarkable Expedition: The Story of Stanley's rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa, first edition, London 1947; Michael Davitt, The Boer Fight for Freedom, New York 1902; T E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, London 1935
Lot 22
Literature – Edith Sitwell Five Variations on a Theme, 1st edition 1933, dj present with additional band announcing that the Royal Society of Literature had awarded Sitwell with its Medal for 1933, signed and inscribed by Sitwell to inside cover : ‘For Darling Helen who was my first and my best critic with very best love from Edith
Lot 169
Churchill (ED); "The Anglo-Saxon Review" December 1899, gilt decoration to cover, Charles the First facsimile binding (t.e.g.), France; "At the Sign of the Queen Pedaque" 1931 illustrated edition, "The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche" 1923 illustrated edition and 3 other books of Shakespeare plays. (6).
Lot 2
Banister, J: An Introduction to English Silver, first edition, Evans Brothers Limited, London 1965 and the American first edition published by G P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1965, (with dust wrapper) together with Wills G, Silver for Pleasure and Investment - A Guide to 18th Century Silver, 1969, Holland M., Phaidon Guide to Silver, 1983, Banister J. English Silver 1965 and The Connoisseur New Guide to Antique English Silver and Plate, 1962 (all with dust wrappers). (6)
Lot 653
Lucy Kemp-Welch RI ROI RBA RBS (British 1869-1958) The Newborn Calves oil on canvas, signed 23cm x 30.5 cm Note: Widely accepted as one of Britain's finest animal painters. First exhibited work while only 14 years old. Studied under Herkomer. Regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Paris Salon, RI etc. Elected first President of the Society of Animal Painters. Her masterpiece "Colt Hunting in the New Forest" was purchased for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest in 1897 for 500 guineas and hangs on permanent display at The Tate Gallery. She is perhaps most widely remembered internationally as the illustrator of Dent's definitive 1915 edition of Black Beauty. In private & museum collections throughout Britain and around the world.
Lot 274
Studio Pottery Reference Books Birks (Tony) & Digby (Cornelia Wingfield) Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle, 1990, 4to., first edition, presentation copy from the authors to Michael & Xandra Webb (M.W. having written the intro.), dust wrapper; Digby (George Wingfield) The Work of the Modern Potter in England, 1952, first edition, presentation copy to Michael and Xandra Webb from George and Nelly Wingfield Digby, dust wrapper; Pleydell-Bouverie (Katharine) A Potter's Life 1895-1985, 1986, first edition, inscribed by George and Nelly Wingfield Digby, card wraps; with twenty related volumes (23) See illustration
Lot 98
Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) Quelques Poèmes de Jules Laforgue Signed and numbered 177/200 Edition B (The French Edition) In two volumes, the first with 22 colour screenprints. The second with 6 screenprints all signed and numbered 177/200 verso, both bound in grey leather, with dust cover Published in 1973 by the Peterburg Press 40.5 x 36cm; 16 x 14¼in Some bloom/staining to the outer cover otherwise in good condition
Lot 3129
WHISTLER, Rex. An autographed letter signed by Whistler, addressed to his friend Siegfried Sassoon, dated in pencil by the recipient ’21-1-[19]30’. 2pp., oblong 8vo (133 x 178mm.) The letter thanks Sassoon for a ‘lovely poem’ and mentions various literary projects, it also incorporated two original pen and ink drawings, one an informal portrait of Edith Sitwell, the other a small cartoon of Sassoon with a medal. Window mounted with original envelope. – And a first edition of Sitwell’s ‘Alexander Pope’, all contained within a single cloth covered box. Note: a formal version of the drawing of Edith Sitwell was reproduced on the dust-jacket of her book ‘Alexander Pope’, published in 1930. Whistler comments in the letter that he is doing it for ‘Dick’ [Richard de la Mare of Faber and Faber], ‘It is going to be an elegant (I hope) representation of Edith gazing upon a bust of Pope, like this:’ with an arrow pointing to the drawing.
Lot 3174
CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Alison UTTLEY. Little Grey Rabbit’s Washing-day. London: 1942. First edition, 4to (171 x 138mm.) 20 full-page colour illustrations by Margaret Tempest. (Occasional light spotting.) Original boards (slightly soiled and scuffed). – And thirty other children’s books, including seventeen others by Uttley, all early editions (31).
Lot 3192
DUGDALE, William. The History of St Pauls Cathedral in London. London: Tho. Warren, 1658. First edition, folio (332 x 217mm.) Title printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece, 11 double-page plates, 1 folding plate, 32 plates and illustrations, most full-page, the majority with partial hand-colouring to crests. (Edges of first few and some other leaves slightly tattered, occasional marginal tears, some browning, folding plate with repaired tear). Old speckled calf (rebacked with old spine laid down, rubbed and scuffed). Wing D-2482.
![SCOTT, Walter. Waverley Novels [The Abbotsford edition]. Edinburgh & London: 1842-1847. Engraved frontispieces, decorative t](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2746386/3207-62-10123_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3207
SCOTT, Walter. Waverley Novels [The Abbotsford edition]. Edinburgh & London: 1842-1847. Engraved frontispieces, decorative titles and engraved plates. (First few and some other leaves somewhat spotted or browned). Contemporary half-morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g. (slightly rubbed). Provenance: John C.W. Lever (armorial bookplate).
Lot 3239
SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. The Works. London: William Stansby, 1614. First complete edition in English, folio (331 x 202mm.) Engraved additional title. (Some spotting, soiling and damp-staining, occasional ink annotations, many leaves repaired to edges, title and final page of dedication laid on support paper.) Modern calf tooled in blind (slightly rubbed).
Lot 3274
‘CARROLL, Lewis’ [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] Sylvie and Bruno. London & New York: 1889. First edition, 8vo (184 x 122mm.) Numerous illustrations after Harry Furniss. (Some browning.) Original cloth, g.e. (soiled, spine faded, lower hinge torn). – And four others, including two others by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (5).
Lot 3282
MAWSON, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard, being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915. First edition, 2 vols., 4to (244 x 166mm.) Plates charts and illustrations. Original cloth (slightly rubbed and scuffed, label removed from front paste-down).
Lot 343
CAMDEN (William) Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements, first Gibson edition 1695, folio, engraved portrait frontispiece, 9 single page engraved plates and 49 double page maps by Robert Morden (lacks Hertfordshire), damaged calf, upper board detached, interior generally good
Lot 351
BAXTER (Richard) A Petition for Peace: with the Reformation of the Liturgy, London 1661, small 4to, slight cropping, part in black letter; A Saint or a Brute, London: by R.W. for Francis Tyton 1662, small 4to, age-staining, upper board detached; [BOREMAN (Robert)] Autokatakritos or Hypocrisie Unvail'd and Jesuitisme Unmaskt, in a Letter to Mr R.Baxter, London: for R.Royston 1662, small 4to, later half bound; Sacrilegious Desertion of the Holy Ministery Rebuked, 1672, 12mo, bound with The Agreement of divers Ministers of Christ in the County of Worcester.., 2nd edition 1656, somewhat time worn and stained, second title page with tear and loss to part of title, ownership signature of [Rev] Thomas Jackson, damaged later calf; A Discourse of the Nature, Ends and Difference of the Two Covenants, London: by J.Darby for Richard Chiswell 1673, small 8vo, errata corrected by hand, adverts at end, some leaves a little cropped at head, provenance: the library of the Rev Thomas Jackson with Wesleyan Theological Institution/James Heald bookplate, damaged rebacked calf; Stubbes, Baxter, Burgess, et al. Miscellaneous Addresses and Sermons, 1617-1678, portrait frontispiece of Stubbes and his Sayings heavily cropped (first item), cropping also to Perkins' Foundation of Christian Religion (1617), later worn green calf, aeg (6) Provenance: Wesley House Library, Cambridge
Lot 352
BAXTER (Richard) The Defence of the Nonconformists Plea for Peace, London: for Bejamin Alsop 1680, small 8vo, in poor condition; Compassionate Counsel to all Young Men, London: T.S. for B.Smmons and Jonath.Greenwood 1681, signature of [Rev] Thomas Jakson to first leaf, inner hinge broken, general poor condition; STILLINGFLEET (Edward) and Richard BAXTER. The Unreasonableness of Separation, London: J.C. and F.Collins for Daniel Brown 1682, 8vo, damaged later binding; Whether Parish Congregations be True Christian Churches, London: for Thomas Parkhurst 1684, small 4to, title and least leaf rather dirty, lower edges untrimmed, later half calf; Cain and Abel Malignity, London: for Tho.Parkhurst 1689, small 8vo, time-stained, worn rebacked calf; A Reply to Mr Tho. Beverley's Answer to my Reasons Against his Doctrine of the Thousand Years Middle Kingdom and of the Conversion of the Jews, London: for Tho.Parkhurst 1691, small 4to, 21pp, rather browned, later bound; A Call to the Unconverted, 20th edition, small 8vo, poor condition (7) Provenance: Wesley House Library, Cambridge
Lot 354
TAYLOR (Jeremy) A Collection of Polemical and Moral Discourses, London: for Richard Royston 1657, first edition, folio, frontispiece, 2 pp adverts at end, very worn and damaged binding with split spine; Certain Sermons or Homilies, 1673, folio, black letter, rebacked; BAXTER (Richard) Methodus Theologiae Christianae, 1681, folio, lacks frontispiece in defective binding (3) Provenance: Wesley House Library, Cambridge
Lot 399
SCOTT (Walter) The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, first edition, 2 volumes, London: for Longman et al 1814, 4to, engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages, 91 engraved plates (some spotting and offsetting), aeg, full morocco gilt (spines faded and rubbed, boards stained, corners rubbed)
Lot 427
HOBBES (Thomas) Leviathan Or The Matter, Forme, and Power of A Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, first edition, London: for Andrew Crooke 1651, small folio, engraved title and additional vignette title, folding table, complete with leaves A1 to Ddd4, damaged and worn calf with boards detached
Lot 450
Travel, various. CUTTING (S) The Fire Ox, 1947; COLLIS (Maurice) The Land of the Great Image, first edition 1943; Foreign Mud, 1946; The Grand Peregrination, 1949; Quest for Sita, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1946, ltd ed (500); MOOREHEAD (Alan) The Blue Nile, 1962; BLUNT (W) The Golden Road to Samarkand, 1973; a small Bamiyan guidebook, 2nd edition Kabul 1967; few others on the ancient world (17)
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