There are 106046 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeROWLAND HILDER (1905-1993) WINCHELSEA CHURCH Pen and black ink over traces of pencil, original illustration 21 x 16.5cm.; with two further original illustrations for the same book. (4 items) Illustrated: S.P.B. Mais "The Land of The Cinque Ports", London, 1949, p.160, a first edition copy of which accompanies this lot.
BARROW, Sir JOHN. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, In the Years 1797 and 1798. First Edition, 2 vols., 1801-04. 4to., cont. half calf. 9 folding engraved maps, 3 of them partly hand coloured (one with short tear at inner edge, occasional spotting). Folding aquatint plate. Signature of Thomas Kitson on titles. (2)
CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON. Five Years of A Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. 2 vols., First Edition, 1850 (heads and tails of spines with some wear). Map and illustrations - BUXTON, EDWARD NORTH. Short Stalks: Or Hunting Camps, First Edition, 1892. (covers browned). Plates and text illustrations. - HERBERT, AGNES. Two Dianas in Somaliland. 1908. Photographic plates. BELL, W.D.M. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, 1923. d.w. Plates. With 26 others, mostly Africana, 8vo., orig. cloth. (31)
MOLEON, Sieur de. Voyages Liturgiques de France...Avec des Decouvertes sur l'Antiquite..., Paris 1718. First Edition, cont. calf. Engraved plates (some staining to text margins) - ROSINUS, JOANNES. Romanarum Antiquitatum. Stephanus Gamonetus, n.p., 1611. Old vellum backed boards. Two folding plans (one torn and repaired), text engravings (stained and wormed at end) - CORTESIUS, GREGORIUS. De Romano Itinere Gestisque Principis Apostolorum. Rome 1670. Old vellum. With 2 others. All 8vo. (5)
SOMERSET, EDWARD ADOLPHUS SEYMOUR, 11th Duke of. A Treatise...of the Ellipse. Second Edition, 1843; Alternate Circles and Their Connexion with the Ellipse. First Edition, 1850. 2 vols., 8vo., cont. green stained calf gilt by Hering. Text diagrams. Ms. annotations on blanks in French English and Greek.
BOOK OF VALUATIONS, A. Of all the Ecclesiasticall Preferments in England and Wales; Entituled Nomina & Valores...Printed in the Year [? London] First Edition, 12mo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked).Interleaved with blanks, a few ms. notes (one corner torn away just affecting a few letters). Wing B 3720
CHAMPMESLE, CHARLES CHEVILLET. Les Oeuvres. First Edition, 2 vols. in one, Paris 1742. 8vo., cont. mottled calf, spine gilt (some leaves misbound in vol 2) - [FONTANIER, PELISSON] Histoire de L'Academie Francoise..., The Hague, 1688., cont. calf spine gilt (spine chipped). With 12 other volumes in French. (14)
CLARKE, RICHARD. The Life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson. First Edition, Printed by and for J. and J. Cundec, n.d. (1813). 8vo., cont. half black roan (rubbed). Engraved portrait, additional title and 11 plates, some folding (title repaired, some spotting). Sold with 2 framed items, one a coloured Baxter print of Nelson, 1853, and "Bonaparte on Board the Belerophon off Plymouth", 1818. (3)
CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL, Treated upon by the Bishop of London..., Printed for Samuel Mearne, 1678. Small 4to., orig. vellum (sig. A with slight worming). Wing C 4101. - THE HISTORY OF THE WARS, OF...CHARLES XII. King of Sweden, From his First Landing in Denmark, To His Return from Turkey to Pomerania. Second Edition, 1720. 8vo., cont. calf gilt (upper joint cracked, spine slightly defective at head and tail). Engraved portrait frontis. With 2 other volumes. (4)
FENELON, FRANZOIS de SALIGNAC de la Mothe. Oeuvres Spirituelles. 4 vols., n.p., 1740. Cont. French red morocco gilt, a.e.g. Engraved frontispiece. - PRATIQUE CURIEUSE, ou Les Oracles des Sibylles...Tiree des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de Mr. Comiers. Paris, 1694, First Edition. Engraved frontispiece. (some browning). With 6 others, including The Works of de la Bruyere. Sixth Edition, 2 vols., 1713, and 3 book boxes. 8vo., cont. calf (11)
GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO. La Historia D'Italia...di nuovo Riveduta et corretta per Francesco Sansovino. Giacomo Stoer [Geneva] 1645. 2 vols., bound in one, 4to., cont. speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut on title (lacks title to 2nd vol.) - LUCA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA de Il Cardinale...First Edition, Rome 1680. 8vo., cont. speckled calf, spine gilt with armorial stamp at top and motto "Rinasce pie gloriosa" (slightly worn). Sinclair bookplate. (2)
KIPLING, RUDYARD. A collection of works, mostly 8vo., many in orig. wraps., 24 vols., (including duplicates) Including The City of Dreadful Night. First English Edition, [1891]; publisher's slip Soldiers Three. Third Edition, Allahaba -d, 1890; The Story of The Gadsbys. Sixth Edition, n.d. (all with some wear) (24)
MASON, WILLIAM. Poems. 1764. First Collected Edition., cont. calf, spine gilt. Presentation copy from Joseph Warton, (the poet and critic) inscribed on front flyleaf. - POPE, ALEXANDER. An Essay on Criticism. Sixth Edition, Corrected, 1719. Cont. panelled calf (rebacked and repaired, new endpapers). Signature "Mary W. Montague" on title. Bound with 6 others, mostly by Pope. Both 8vo. (2)
POTTER, JOHN. Archaeologiae Graecae...volume the First. Oxford 1697. Engraved vignette on title and 9 plates Wing P 3030. - VERTOT, L'Abbe de. The History of the Revolutions of Portugal. Fourth Edition, 1735. Engraved frontispiece and plate. - HOWARD, Hon. CHARLES. Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family. 1769. Engraved vignette on title. 8vo., cont. calf. (crayon scribbles on blanks at front). With 4 other volumes. (7)
RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO. Tre Discorse a M. Lodovico Dolce...L'uno intorno al Decamerone del Boccaccio...Venice, Plinio Pietrasanta 1553. First Edition, small 4to., old vellum backed boards. Title with woodcut device and woodcut initials (title with inscription and some spotting, last few leaves with inner margins slightly stained).
STEELE, Sir RICHARD. Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. First Edition, 1714. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked, some wear to corners). Engraved frontispiece and woodcut ornaments. Six cancelled leaves. Partly defective armorial bookplate. Contains first printings of poems by Pope and Gay.
*Morland (George, 1763-1804). Landscape with Country Cart, Two Men and a Servant Girl Outside a Tavern, & Conversation, together three hand-coloured soft-ground etchings, the first two being proofs republished by Orme, January 1, 1799, the third an original edition of July 1, 1804, approx. 540 x 410 mm, and similar, matching gilt beaded frames, glazed (3)
Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Le Avventure d'Alice nel paese delle Meraviglie, 1st Italian ed., Turin, Loescher, 1872, half-title (neat owner name), frontis. and illusts. by John Tenniel, hinges lightly cracked, a.e.g., orig. orange cloth gilt, rubbed, spine sl. cocked and a little darkened, 8vo Williams, Madan and Green 86 identifies this as a second issue as Macmillan published an edition in Italian in London earlier in the same year. This, however, is the first edition in Italian to be actually published in Italy. (1)
Saville (Malcolm). A large and significant collection of first editions in original cloth and dust jackets, including a complete twenty-one volume set of the 'Lone Pine' series (incl. cloth and paperback eds. of 'Home to Witchend'), 1943-79; a complete six volume set of the 'Jilly Family' series, 1948-53; a complete six volume set of the 'Buckingham Family' series, 1950-74; a complete seven volume set of the 'Marston Baines' series, 1963-78; a complete eight volume set of the 'Susan and Bill' series, 1954-61; a complete four volume set of the 'Nettleford' series, 1951-55, some general wear throughout the collection, including some owner names, inscriptions or bookplates etc., most dust-jackets have some degree of wear, primarily to the edges, a few are chipped or torn with loss (principally 'Seven White Gates' and 'The Secret of Grey Walls', plus 'The Neglected Mountain' is a second impression d.j.), together with fourteen others by Saville, including a signed 1st ed. of 'Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds', with the author's printed address label to the front free endpaper and the following inscription: "Author's only copy, Please return - Now titled 'Secret of Galleybird Pit', published Armada", and an unjacketed (as issued?) 1959 Blackwell edition of the scarce 'Where the Bus Stopped' (school lib. stamp to front free endpaper), all 8vo A full list is available from the auctioneers on request. (66)
Williams (Margery). The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1922, four full-page and three double-page col. lithos. by William Nicholson, dec. endpapers, orig. pictorial boards in sl. dusty d.j., with a little rubbing to joints, and a few minor edge tears and chips, 4to Extremely scarce first edition of this classic children's work (the only printing from lithographic stones), rarer still in such fine condition and with the dustjacket present and complete. (1)
*[Clarke, Arthur C.]. A series of five original pen & ink illustrations for Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke, pub. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1952, together five original b&w pen & ink science fiction illustrations, signed 'Quinn', each approx. 220 x 145 mm, mounted on card, with titles in ink to verso These illustrations would appear to be the work of Gerard Quinn, who illustrated the first English edition of Arthur C. Clarke's Islands in the Sky published in 1952. Quinn is well-known for his cover designs for the science fiction magazines New World, and Science Fantasy, circa 1958 to 1963. The titles of each illustration are: 'The Test', 'The Inner Station', 'The Spacesuit', 'Cuthbert & Adrift'. (5)
The Pageant, ed. C. Hazelwood Shannon and J.W. Gleeson White, 2 vols. [all pub.], Henry & Co., 1896-97, numerous illusts. after D.G. Rossetti, Charles Ricketts, J.E. Millais, R. Savage, Laurence Housman, Lucien Pissaro, Walter Crane, William Strang, Sturge Moore er al., orig. uncol. litho. by James McNeil Whistler, orig. woodcut in five blocks and endpaper designs by Lucien Pissaro, occasional light spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth designed by Charles Ricketts, sl. rubbed and marked, second vol. chipped at foot of spine, 4to The second volume is a limited edition 25/150, printed in a larger format to the first. (2)
Asimov (Isaac). Pebble in the Sky, Young Moderns Science Fiction Edition, Doubleday, New York, 1950, author's first book, browned throughout, orig. cloth, v. sl. rubbed to spine ends, in d.j., with corners and spine ends sl. rubbed and chipped, 8vo, together with The Stars, Like Dust, 1st ed.(?), Doubleday, New York, 1951, free endpapers lightly browned in part, orig. cloth in d.j., spine sl. faded, corners and spine ends chipped, 8vo (2)
Lawrence (David Herbert). Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1st ed., privately printed, Florence, 1928, untrimmed, orig. mulberry boards with paper label to spine and Phoenix printed in black to upper cover, spine sl. sunned and chipped at ends, contained in a qtr. morocco bookform solander box, 8vo Limited edition 880/1000, signed by the author. Roberts A42a. One of the most important and controversial books of the twentieth century, which was not published in its entirety in Britain until more than thirty years after Lawrence was forced to publish this first edition privately in Florence. (1)
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols., 11th, 8th & 7th imps., 1961, folding map to rear of each vol., orig. crimson cloth, generally in clean condition, contained in orig. pubs. card slipcase, rubbed and marked, with some soiling, together with a reprinted set of the Second Edition of the same work, pub. 1978, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, first vol, with one or two minor marks to extrems., all 8vo (6)
Philidor (A. D.). Analyse du Jeu des Echecs; nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, Londres, 1777, engraved portrait, six-page list of Subscribers present, contemp. tree calf, gilt, spine chipped, joints tender, 8vo, together with Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474. A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition. With an Introduction by William E. A. Axon, 1883, reproductions of the woodcuts, orig. qtr. morocco, soiled, slightly rubbed, 8vo (2)
Ruskin (John). Modern Painters, new ed., 5 vols., Smith, Elder, 1873, engraved plates, text illusts., together with The Stones of Venice, new ed., vols. 1 & 2 (of three), Smith, Elder, 1873, eng. plates, text illusts., together 7 vols., full calf by Andrew Grieve, panelled in gilt, a little rubbed, some joints tender, t.e.g., others untrimmed, large 8vo The so-called Autograph Edition of each title, with the Preface in the first volume of each signed by Ruskin. Wise 285 and 297. (7)
A MIXED LOT OF PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS to include T G Dutton after Charles Taylor "The Iron Steam Ship Samphire"; two other marine lithographs; a view of the inside of the Pantheon in Oxford Road by Richard Earlom; the Right Revd John Bird; ruins and ancient buildings in England and Wales; a romantic view after Dominecino (x2); and a centenary edition of the first issue of decorative designs by Robert Adams etc. all unframed
Books: ten books by Arthur Ransome, all with original green fabric covers (none with dust jackets): 'Swallows and Amazons' Webb first illustrated edition, 1931; 'Winter Holiday', 1933; 'Coot Club', 1934; 'Secret Water', 1939; 'Big Six', 1940; 'Peter Duck', two copies, one 1932 and one 1953; 'We didn't mean to go to sea', 1937; and 'Missee Lee', 1941; along with quantity of books about Ransome (quantity)
Books: four by Arthur Ransome, all with dust wrappers: 'Swallows and Amazons', Jonathan Cape, illus. by author and Nancy Blackett, 1939; 'Great Northern', Jonathan Cape, 1947 (first edition); 'The Picts and the Martyrs', Jonathan Cape, first edition 1943; 'Pigeon Post' first illustrated edition 1936, illus. Nancy Blackett (four)
Loading...
![*[Clarke, Arthur C.]. A series of five original pen & ink illustrations for Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke, pub. Sid](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2664700/221-36-10729_468x382.jpg)
