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Literature: Becker, V, Antique and 20th Century Jewellery, first edition hardbound with dust wrapper, NAG Press, 1980. Poynder, M, The Price Guide to Jewellery 3000 B.C - 1950 A.D, hardbound with dust wrapper, Antique Collectors Club, 1981 edition together with Newman, H, An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewellery, First Edition hardbound with dust wrapper, Thames and Hudson, 1981. (3)
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Lit: Eight various publications: James, I.E: The Goldsmiths of Aberdeen, No 314 of a limited first edition of 500 copies, with dust wrapper, Moss, G.P: Provincial Silversmiths of Moray and their Marks, Moss, G.P and Roe, A.D: Highland Gold and Silversmiths, 1999, Turner, R.W: A Directory of Scottish Provincial Silversmiths & their Marks, 2003, The Honours of Scotland, (The Story of The Scottish Crown Jewels) and three pamphlets - Perth Silver, Elgin Silver and Inverness Silversmiths. (8)
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Glenmorangie Special Reserve Stock. Created from a selection of 18 year-old casks from the years 1980-1990. In original carton. Single malt, 43% volume. Glenmorangie Millennium Malt-12 year-old. A limited edition first fill malt whisky. In original carton. Single malt, 40% volume. Glenmorangie Fino Sherry Wood Finish (2). Matured for 13 years then transferred in January 1996 to Fino Sherry Butts for finishing. Single malt, 43% volume. Distilled and bottled by The Glenmorangie Distillery Coy, Tain. 4 bottles
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Glenmorangie Claret Wood Finish. Eight casks from the vintage years 1976 and 1979 selected in 1989 then traditionally matured in American white oak before transferring to First Growth Claret Casks from Pauillac, Bordeaux. Limited Edition bottle number 878. Distilled and bottled by The Glenmorangie Distillery Coy, Tain. In wooden presentation case. Single malt, 43% volume. 1 bottle
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Glenmorangie Claretwood Finish. Eight casks from the vintage years 1976 and 1979 selected in 1989 then traditionally matured in American white oak before transferring to First Growth Claret casks from Pauillac, Bordeaux. Limited edition bottle number 474. Distilled and bottled by The Glenmorangie Distillery Coy, Tain. In wooden presentation case. Single malt, 43% volume. 1 bottle
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Glenglassaugh-12 year-old. Distilled at Glenglassaugh Distillery, Portsoy. 70 cl. Single malt, 43% volume. Glenmorangie Millennium Malt-12 year-old. A limited edition first fill malt whisky. Distilled and bottled by The Glenmorangie Distillery Coy, Tain. 70 cl. In original carton. Single malt, 40% volume. Tamnavulin-12 year-old. Distilled and bottled by Tamnavulin Distillery Co., Tomnavulin. 70 cl. In original cardboard tube. Single malt, 40% volume. Tullibardine-10 year-old. Distilled and bottled by Tullibardine Distillery Ltd., Blackford, Perthshire. 70 cl. In original cardboard tube. Single malt, 40% volume. 4 bottles
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Buchanan (George). Rerum Scoticarum Historia, ad Jacobum VI Scotorum Regem, Accessit De Jure Regni apud Scotos Dialogues, Edinburgh, 2nd ed., 1583, light browning throughout, 19th-c., half plain vellum, rubbed and soiled, clean, wide-margined copy, folio. Early edition (post 1582) of the first history of Scotland written by a scot, with the intention of purging it of "sum Inglis lyis and Scottis vanite" and the first appearance in print of an influential tract on the source of authority in kings. Story of Macbeth starts verso of folio 61. (1)
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Guillet de Saint-George (Georges). The Gentleman's Dictionary, in Three pPrts, viz. I. The Art of Riding the Great Horse . II. The Military Art . III. The Art of Navigation ., 1705, three folding eng. plts., all torn and the first with some loss, third plate with folding descriptive table, few illusts. to text, some spotting and staining, contemp. calf, sl. wear, together with Macpherson (James), Morison's Edition of the Poems of Ossian., 2 vols., Perth, 1795, eight eng. plts., contemp. calf, rubbed and sl. cracked on joints, plus Pope (Alexander), The Works, 6 vols., Edinburgh, 1776, two vols. with eng. frontis., some spotting, contemp. calf, some wear and covers near det., all 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian bindings incl. odd volumes (approx. 50)
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Vidocq (Francois Eugene). Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827: and now proprietor of the Paper Manufactory at St. MandŽ, written by himself, 4 vols., 1st ed., in English, 1829, port. frontis, 19th-c half calf, spines richly gilt with contrasting labels, 12mo. Vols.25-28 of the Autobiography series. A very nice copy of the first English edition of what is widely regarded as the first detective story - although Vidocq was a genuine and successful detective, these accounts are largely fictitious. (4)
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Bauhin (Caspar). Theatri Botanici sive Index in Theophrasti Dioscoridis Plinii et Botanicorum qui ˆ seculo scripserunt, Opera Plantarum circiter sex millium ab ipsis exhibitarum nomina cum earundem synonymiis & differentiis methodice secundum genera & species proponens, Basel, 1671, two parts in one vol., first title printed in red and black, both titles with printers woodcut device, woodcut head and tail-pieces, second part with num. woodcut illusts. of plants to text, front free endpaper with portion to lower outer corner excised, contemp. full mottled calf, gilt spine, some soiling and slight wear, mostly to head and foot of spine and outer corners, 4to. Nissen 104; Hunt 319; Printing and the Mind of Man, 121 (for the first edition of 1623). A fore-runner of Linnaeus, Bauhin was the first to establish a scientific system of botanical nomenclature. (1)
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Baur Collection. Chinese Jades and other Hardstones by Pierre F. Schneeberger; Japanese Ceramics by John Ayers; Japanese Lacquer by Pierre F. Schneeberger, 3 vols., Genve 1976-84,. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, first and third vols. with slipcases, 4to, generally VG. Each volume printed in a limited edition of 1600 copies. (3)
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Jefferies (Richard). The Game Keeper at Home, 1878, The Amateur Poacher, 1879, Wild Life in a Southern County, 1879, The Gamekeeper at Home, 1880, The Life of the Fields, 1884, Amaryllis at the Fair, 1887, Field and Hedgerow, 1889, all 1st eds., (the second copy of 'The Gamekeeper at Home' being a first illustrated ed.), all orig. cloth, some minor wear to head and foot of spines, together with The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies, edited by Grace Toplis, 1896, port. frontis., single ad. leaf at rear, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, slight wear to head of spine, (limited large paper edition 26/50), all 8vo (9)
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Baedeker (Karl). Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, 1st English ed., 1914, 40 maps and 78 plans, all complete, plan of St Petersburg sl. frayed at edges without loss, orig. limp cloth gilt, sl. rubbed to spine, sm. 8vo. The first and only edition in English and the last Baedeker publication on Russia. (1)
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[Benezet, Anthony]. A Short Account of that Part of Africa, Inhabited by the Negroes. With Respect to the Fertility of the Country, the Good Disposition of many of the Natives, and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is Carried on ., with Quotations for the Writings of Several Persons of Note, viz. George Wallis, Francis Hutcheson, and James Foster ., Philadelphia printed, 1763, London reprinted, 1768, 80pp. bound with An Account of the Endeavours used by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to Instruct the Negroe Slaves in New York. Together with Two of BP. Gibson's Letters on that Subject. Being an Extract from Dr. Humphreys's Historical Account of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from its Foundation to the Year 1728. Printed at London in 1730, 45pp., contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt dec. spine, slim 8vo. Sabin 4686 (for the first edition of the first pamphlet only). (1)
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Black Hawk. Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk, Embracing the Tradition of his Nation - Indian Wars in which he has been Engaged - Calls of Joining the British in their Late War with America, and its History ., with an Account of the Cause and General History of the Late War, his Surrender and Confinement at Jafferson Barracks, and Travels through the United States. Dictated by Himself, Boston, 1845, wood eng. port. frontis., 155pp., orig. linen-backed boards, 12mo. Sabin C5675. The first edition was published in Cincinnati, 1833. (1)
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Humbert (Aime). Le Japon Illustre, 2 vols., 1st ed., Paris, 1870, num. wood engs., (incl. approx. ninety full-page), several town plans, incl. folding plan of Yedo, some spotting, a.e.g., orig. crimson qtr. morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, together with a copy of the first English edition of the same work, pub. 1874, recent cloth retaining orig. spine and upper cover, 4to, plus Bonnetain (Paul), L'Extreme Orient, Paris, n.d., c. 1890, num. wood engs., folding map, a.e.g., orig. printed wrappers retained in recent cloth gilt, 4to, and one other (5)
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Marshall (Rev. F.). Football, the Rugby Union Game with Special Chapters by A.G. Guillemard, G. Rowland Hill, H. Vassall, Arthur Budd, H.H. Almond, C.J.B. Marriott and W. Cail, etc., revised and enlarged ed., [1894], num. b & w illusts., 16pp. pubs. cat. at rear, some minor scattered spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth, slight wear to extrems., 8vo. The first edition was published in 1892. An appendix, containing a review of the seasons 1892-3 and 1893-4 have been added to this edition. (1)
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M** Andrews, Metropolis II, limited edition lithograph 107/150, p. 57.5 x 74.5 cm, Covait, Blue Chairs, lithograph, s. 59.5 x 45.5 cm, Francis St Clair Miller, Amsterdam II, limited edition etching 4/75, p. 37.5 x 25.5 cm, Mark Spain, The Interior Stairway, Kew; St Dunstan's in the East, each limited edition aquatint, the first p. 44.5 x 32 cm, the second p. 31.5 x 44.5 cm, and Continental School, Boats II, limited edition etching 12/200, p. 44 x 65 cm
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Piers Brown, Stapleford Mill, limited edition etching 51/100, 41 x 32.5 cm, David Gentleman, Georgian Faade; The White Tower; St James's Palace, each lithograph, the first s. 50.5 x 42 cm, the second s. 41.5 x 53 cm, the third s. 50.5 x 41.5 cm, and Christopher Penny, Saplings, limited edition etching 118/200, 39.5 x 29.5 cm
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Joseph Bazutiel, The Houses of Parliament; Billingsgate Fish Market, each limited edition aquatints, the first p. 34.5 x 49.5 cm, the second p. 43.5 x 60 cm, J** Garsington, Approach Shot, limited edition aquatint 107/200, p. 42.5 x 63 cm, John McNulty, Rounding the Point; Safe Haven, each limited edition aquatint, the first p. 38.5 x 59 cm, the second p. 55 x 39.5 cm, and Liz Wright, Cricket Match, limited edition lithograph 144/150, s. 47.5 x 58 cm
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Andras Kaldor, Boat at Ville Franche IV; Blue Sea II, each limited edition lithograph, the first s. 76 x 55.5 cm, the second s. 63.5 x 48 cm, Peter Eastham, Summer Breeze I; Summer Breeze II, each limited edition aquatint, each p. 55 x 42 cm, and Ian Robbins, London Scene, limited edition lithograph 62/195, s. 51 x 69 cm
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[BOER WAR and JAMESON RAID] - CRESWICKE, Louis. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR T.C. & E.C. Black, Edinburgh, (1900-01). 7 volumes including supplement, 8vo; coloured and half-tone plates and numerous maps; original decorated cream cloth; Mendelssohn I, 392; Hackett p. 139; DE WET, Christiaan Rudolf. THREE YEARS WAR October 1899 - June 1902. A. Constable, 1902. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo; frontispiece and folding map; original green cloth, spine faded. Mendelssohn I, 459; Hackett p.142. HACKETT, R.G. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography of English Language publications relating to the Boer War of 1899-1902. Privately Printed, 1994. 4to; illustrations black cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper; HAMMOND, Natalie Harris. A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTION. Longmans, Green and Co., 1897. 8vo; cloth, gilt. Mendelssohn I,680; together with a collection of 22 other works on the Boer War; full list available upon request. (32)
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BROWN, William Wells. NARRATIVE OF WILLIAM W. BROWN, AN AMERICAN SLAVE Written by Himself ... Eleventh Thousand. London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. First English Edition. 8vo; engraved frontispiece; original brown cloth, gilt, spine sunned. See Sabin 8594; HACK, Maria. LECTURE AT HOME ... London: Printed for Darton and Harvey, 1834. First EDITION 12mo; engraved additional title frontispiece and plates; contemporary half calf, worn; PESCHEL, Karl Friedrich. ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS London, Longman, Brown, Green, 1846. Three volumes, 12mo; original green cloth, spines sunned; and four others. (9)
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. AURORA LEIGH Chapman & Hall, London, 1857. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; original green cloth, sides decorated in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a near fine copy; HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1852. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo; some dampstaining; original brown blind-stamped cloth (Binding B, undated catalogue, lower case 'o' in 'Co.' on spine), gilt lettering a little dull; BAL 7611.7611; JEROME, Jerome K. THREE MEN IN A BOAT (To Say Nothing of the Dog). Illustrations by A. Frederics. J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1889. FIRST EDITION, First Issue (with 'Quay Street' on title page). 8vo; original printed blue/greenblue-green publisher's cloth, spine gilt, worn and rubbed with some bubbling to cloth, hinges cracked; with a copy of the 'Unabridged Popular Edition' of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (1930). (4)
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CHURCHILL, W.S. THE GREAT WAR. London, George Newnes Limited. n.d. (but 1933). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Three volumes, 8vo; illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and maps; in original publisher's blindstamped full blue cloth, spines and upper covers lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and extremities lightly rubbed. (3)
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GUICCIARDINI, Francesco. THE HISTORY OF ITALY, From the Year 1490, to 1532. ... In Twenty Books. Translated into English by the Chevalier Austin Parke Goddard. Vol. I [-XX]. London, Printed by John Towers, in Piccadilly, 1753 - 1756. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 20 works in 10 volumes, 8vo; occasional foxing; contemporary sprinkled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, rubbed and worn, with some chipping to heads of spine. GREEN, John Richard. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE Volume I [-IV]. London: Macmillan and Co. 1881-3. Four volumes, 8vo; with 15 folding maps, mostly coloured; lightly foxed with marginal browning; contemporary half-morocco, spines gilt, lightly rubbed and worn; together with three other works including and edition of Chesterfields 'History of England', 1792. (19)
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LANG, Andrew (editor). THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. Longmans, Green and Co, London 1891. Large Paper Edition, No. 4 of 150 copies. Large 8vo; profusely illustrated by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed; parchment backed blue-grey boards; spine darkened with small ink splash, extremities rubbed; SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. POEMS AND BALLADS, First, Second and Third Series. Chatto & Windus, London 1899 - 1900. New editions. Three volumes; 8vo; full green calf bindings by Bumpus, gilt decorated spines, all edges gilt; minor rubbing, an attractive set. (4)
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SOMERVILLE, Thomas. THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN during the Reign of Queen Anne. With a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession; and an Appendix, containing Original Papers. Strahan and Cadell, 1798. First Edition. 4to; with the engraved book-plate of Henry Cockburn; light foxing; contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered, boards rubbed; BUDDEN, Maria Elizabeth. HOFER, the Tyrolese. by the author of 'Claudine,' - 'Always Happy, ' &c. &c. Harris & Son, London, 1824. First Edition. 12mo; with six engraved plates; contemporary blue calf, spine and boards decorated in gilt and blind, with red morocco label lettered in gilt; Osborne II, 778; Gumuchian, 3033.; Moon, 77; STRICKLAND, Agnes and Bernard BARTON. FISHER'S JUVENILE SCRAP-BOOK. MDCCCXXXIX. Fisher, Son, & Co., London, Paris and New York, 1839. Second Edition. 8vo; with 16 engraved plates; some foxing; contemporary red roan, decorated and lettered in gilt, rubbed to extremities; and two other works including a copy of 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861). (6)
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STOW, John. THE SURVEY OF LONDON: Contayning The Originall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City ... London, Elizabeth Purslow, 1633. Folio; wood-engraved Coats of Arms, text browned; eighteenth century calf backed marbled boards, worn. NSTC 23345; POPE, Alexander. THE WORKS OF ... London, Printed by Richard Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, 1717. FIRST EDITION, First Issue. 4to; title in red and black, folding engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue, old tear, laid down; contemporary calf, worn; Rothschild 1584; and a copy of the first edition or Scott's 'Rokeby'. (3)
![TOWERS, Joseph. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND REIGN OF FREDERICK THE THIRD, King of Prussia. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Charles](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/939/2000042/61-1-939_468x382.jpg)
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TOWERS, Joseph. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND REIGN OF FREDERICK THE THIRD, King of Prussia. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Charles Dilly, London, 1788. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; engraved title; with the armorial book-plate of William Downes; contemporary sprinkled calf, boards ruled in gilt, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, slightly rubbed; WRAXALL, Nathaniel William. THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, under the Kings of the Race of Valois ... in Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. C. Dilly, 1785. Second Edition. Two volumes, 8vo; with armorial book-plate of Arthur Charles Lowe, and inscribed by him at head of front paste-down; contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels lettered and numbered in gilt, slightly rubbed. (4)
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[WOLCOT, John]. 'Peter Pindar Esq.' THE LOUSIAD. An Heroi-Comic Poem. Kearsley & Evans, London, 1788-1791. FIRST EDITION, Presentation Copy of Canto III; Eighth Edition 'with considerable editions' of Canto I and Third Edition of Canto II. Three works in one volume, 8vo; with cartoon frontispiece to each Canto; Canto III inscribed 'From the Author' on title page; slight browning and dust-soiling in places; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rubbed.
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SADLEIR, Michael. XIX CENTURY FICTION. A Bibliographical Record. Cooper Square Publisher's, Inc., New York, 1969. Two volumes, 4to; original cloth in slipcase; BESTERMAN, Theodore. A WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES. Privately Published by the Author, London, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, large 8vo; ex-library copy with stamps; original cloth, worn; and 22 others including Christie's and Sotheby's sales catalogues (Houghton, Doheny & Blackmer). (27)
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CHURCHILL, W. S. THE MAJOR WORKS OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL. Centenary First Edition. Cassell and Company Ltd., 1974. CENTENARY FIRST EDITION. 25 volumes, 8vo; tipped in frontispiece photo of Churchill in each volume; in dark red pebble grained leather with black labels lettered in gilt on spines, raised bands, large script initials 'WSC' in gilt on spine and front board, extensive gold tooling on front and around insides of boards, all edges gilt, satin moire endpapers. (25).
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. AMOROUS FIAMMETTA. Reprinted from the original English edition, translation of Bartholomew Young (1587). The Mandrake Press, London, 1929. Limited edition, No. 40 of 550 copies. Folio; with coloured illustrations by M. Leone; original green vellum, gilt, sunned; [RACKHAM]. WALTON, Izaak. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. First Trade Edition. 4to; with 12 illustrations by Arthur Rackham; original black cloth, gilt; HOFFMANN, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm. TALES OF HOFFMANN. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, [c. 1932]. 4to; illustrated by Mario Laboccetta; original pictorial cloth with dust-wrapper, chipped. (3)
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CRANE, Walter. THE FIRST OF MAY, A Fairy Masque. Presented in a Series of Fifty-Two Designs by Walter Crane. Henry Sotheran, London, 1881. FIRST EDITION. Limited edition, one of 200 copies signed by Crane. Oblong folio; 57 india proofs (photo-engraved and printed by Goupil & Co) mounted on stiff card; contemporary half green calf, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed.
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GREENAWAY, Kate. KATE GREENAWAY PICTURES. From the Originals Presented by Her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends. With an Appreciation by H. M. Cundall. Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1921. First Edition. Large 4to; frontispiece photographic portrait of Kate Greenaway and 19 mounted colour illustrations by Greenaway; quarter yellow cloth over green cloth, lettered in black, with printed dust-wrapper, darkened and lightly chipped to extremities, with rubbing to joints.
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HOGARTH, William and Samuel IRELAND. GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF HOGARTH, From pictures, drawings, and scarce prints in the possession of Samuel Ireland. R. Faulder, London, 1794. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to; with 59 engraved plates, some aquatint, one folding; some foxing, with marginal dampstains to final gatherings; contemporary diced calf, rebacked with the original red morocco labels laid down, boards ruled in gilt; FLETCHER, William Young. BOOKBINDING IN FRANCE. Seeley and Co. Limited, London, 1894. FIRST EDITION. 4to; with eight colour plates and 31 black & white text illustrations; contemporary olive morocco, spine lettered and ornately decorated in gilt, upper board attractively tooled in gilt with coloured geometrical designs; and one other work by Ernest Rhys, 'Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work', George Bell, London, 1900. 8vo; contemporary half morocco, spine decorated in gilt with Art Nouveau Designs. (3)
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FISH, Anne Harriet, Illustrator - KHAYYAM, Omar and FITZGERALD, Edward (Translator). RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Decorations by Fish. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1922. FIRST EDITION THUS. Tall 4to; title in red and black, with 20 striking plates with gilt accents and ornamental decorations by Fish, tissue-guards, with numerous decorations in red and black throughout text; light marginal browning and dust-soiling, one plate slightly loose; contemporary inscription on front endpaper; in original quarter black cloth over grey boards, decorated endpapers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed with minor tears, extremities worn and lightly bumped.
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PEAKE, Mervyn. TITUS GROAN - GORMENGHAST - TITUS ALONE. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1946-1950-1959. Three works, 8vo; all internally clean and bright. the first work with a 2nd impression dust-wrapper with slight wear to the spine extremities and corners of the folds; the dust-wrapper of the second work has chipping to the spine extremities and sellotape residue to the verso and more recent scotch tape reinforcement to the spine and a little wear to the corners of the folds; the dust-wrapper of the third worke has slight browning to the spine and fading to the spine lettering. Sold with a first edition of Peake's 'Mr Pye' in a dust-wrapper. (4)
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RACKHAM, Arthur - WAGNER, Richard. [THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG]. THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE [Together with:] SIEGFRIED & THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS by Richard Wagner with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. William Heinemann, London, 1910 [-1911]. FIRST RACKHAM EDITIONS. Two volumes, 4to; Illustrated with 64 full-page coloured plates, 23 drawings in black and white; publisher's tan buckram, elaborate pictorial gilt work, spines lettered in gilt, some water damage and wear. RACKHAM, Arthur - DE LA MOTTE FOUQUƒ, Friedrich Heinrich. UNDINE by De La Motte Fouque adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann, 1909. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large 8vo; 15 tipped-in coloured plates with tissue guards; original blue gilt illustrated and embossed cloth, decorative spine, gilt, hinges and extremities rubbed; RACKHAM, Arthur. ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. With An Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. William Heinemann, London, 1913. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to; withn 44 tipped-in coloured plates, captioned tissues, 10 drawings in black and white; original green gilt illustrated cloth, spine lettered in gilt, hinges and extremities rubbed; [RACKHAM, Arthur]. ANDERSEN, Hans [Christian]. FAIRY TALES BY HANS ANDERSON. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. George G. Harrap, London, 1932. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to; 12 full-page colour plates, with captioned tissue guards; original maroon cloth, spine and front cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt. (5)
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ROBINSON, William Heath. SOME FRIGHTFUL WAR PICTURES. Duckworth and Company, London 1915. First Edition. 4to; 24 half-tone plates, one plate cut at corner with loss to part of image; linen backed pictorial boards, slight wear to corners, with original dust-wrapper, chipped with some marginal losses but not affecting any text.
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GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1908. First American Edition. 8vo; frontispiece; original publisher's cloth, spine sunned, head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, top edge gilt; DODGSON, Charles L. i.e. 'Lewis Carroll. THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits. Macmillan and Co., London, 1876. First Edition. 8vo; with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday; publisher's pictorial cloth, spine sunned and chipped with loss. (2)
![GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Methuen and Co. London. [1908]. FIRST ED](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/939/2000042/170-1-939_468x382.jpg)
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GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Methuen and Co. London. [1908]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; frontispiece; some occasional staining in upper margins, light foxing and dust-soiling, mostly marginal; original blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, top edge gilt; expertly recased with upper joint and tail of spine repaired, inner hinges strengthened, extremities rubbed and a little worn.
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MILNE, A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. Methuen, London, 1926. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Partial light browning to the endpapers, former owner's initials and date to the head of the ante-half-title blank leaf, otherwise clean and bright in the publisher's dark green cloth, lettered, decorated gilt, with a touch of wear to the spine extremities and a couple of slightly bumped corners.
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MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; original pink publisher's cloth, with Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin blocked in gilt on upper cover, spine letter in gilt, original printed dust-wrapper, lightly dust-soiled and chipped to extremities, some minor loss to head and tail of spine; MILNE, A.A. NOW WE ARE SIX. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; original red publisher's cloth, with Christopher Robin blocked in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, original printed dust-wrapper, lightly dust-soiled with slight chipping to head of spine, strengthened on verso at folds. (2)
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POTTER, Beatrix. THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN. Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1905. First Edition. 8vo; with 10 colour plates and many line drawings; maroon paper covered boards, rebacked preserving original spine, leetered in white and a circular pictorial onlay of a cat; POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1911. First Edition. 12mo; frontispiece and 26 colour plates; original dark green boards, upper cover with colour pictorial label. (2).
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POTTER, Beatrix. THE STORY OF A FIERCE BAD RABBIT. Frederick Warne & Co., London, [1906]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo; 14 coloured illustrations and 14 pages of text in fold out panorama format; light crease to first illustration; green wallet shaped covers with dark green lettering and decoration with a central pictorial onlay of a rabbit to upper flap, silver tabs on fastening, slightly rubbed, some chipping to cloth extremities.
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POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1911. FIRST EDITION. 12mo; frontispiece and 26 colour plates; with neat gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 'Christmas 1911'; original dark green boards with coloured pictorial label on upper cover, slight wear.
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ROSS, Margaret. RUSTY FOX GOES TO THE BANQUET. Museum Press. London. 1946. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 12 full page colour illustrations by Ross; original orange cloth, lettered in gilt, cloth slightly cockled, coloured dust-wrapper, slightly soiled with a few small marginal tears. ROSS, Margaret. MR. BADGER'S SUCCESSFUL PLAN The Museum Press & The Soho Gallery Ltd. 1944. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 13 coloured plates by Ross; very light marginal soiling and some slight off-setting; original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, coloured dust-wrapper, somewhat soiled with some marginal tears. ROSS, Margaret. THE DOWNFALL OF AUGUSTUS HARE. The Museum Press. & The Soho Gallery. 1945. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 12 coloured plates by Ross; light marginal browning; original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine and margins faded and lightly sunned, coloured dust-wrapper, soiled with some marginal tears. (3).
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UPTON, Florence K., Illustrator and UPTON, Bertha. THE GOLLIWOGG'S 'AUTO-GO-CART' Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1901. FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (220 x 280mm); coloured title and 30 colour plates, one double-page, numerous monochrome text illustrations; ownership signature at head of title, partially erased, some slight dust-soiling; original green cloth backed coloured pictorial boards, surface wear and rubbing to extremities.
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ECONOMIC HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY - FITZMAURICE, Lord Edmond. THE LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY 1623-1687. John Murray, London, 1895. First Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; inscribed 'from the author' on front free endpaper and with the ownership signature of Frederic Harrison; original green cloth, lettered in gilt, slight wear to extremities. THOROLD ROGERS, James E. SIX CENTURIES OF WORK AND WAGES. The History of English Labour. Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1886. New Edition. 8vo; original red cloth, worn and sunned; HIDY, Ralph W. THE HOUSE OF BARING IN AMERICAN TRADE AND FINANCE. English Merchant Bankers at Work 1763-1861. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1949. 8vo; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; and 45 other works, including a first edition, in a worn dust-wrapper, of Harrod's Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951. (48)
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ECONOMICS - AISLABIE, John. THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN AISLABIE, ESQ; upon his defence make in the House of Lords, aginst the Bill for raising money upon the Estates of the South-Sea directors. J. Roberts, London, 1721. Third Edition, printed in the same year as the first. 4to; Goldsmiths 5951; (see Kress 3353-4, 1st and 2nd eds); Hanson 2936n; AISLABIE, John. MR. AISLABIE'S SECOND SPEECH ON HIS DEFENCE. J. Roberts, London, [1721]. 4to; pp. 22; folios shaved; Goldsmiths 5953; Kress 3352; Hanson 2938; [AISLABIE, John]. THE CASE OF THE RIGHT HONBLE JOHN AISLABIE, ESQ J. Roberts, London, [1721]. FIRST EDITION. Evidently by Aislabie himself and attributed to him by ESTC, although Kress 3368 and Goldsmiths 5967 list it under ÔCase'; Hanson 3032; [ANON]. A SPEECH UPON THE CONSOLIDATED BILL [London], 1721. FIRST EDITION. 4to; ESTC(BL) Speech t049726; Kress 3438; Goldsmiths 6042; Hanson 3044; 4to; four pamphlets bound together in contemporary calf, slightly stained and joints starting to split.
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ECONOMICS - DOWELL, Stephen. A HISTORY OF TAXATION AND TAXES IN ENGLAND, from the earliest times to the present day. Vol I [-IV]. London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1884. First Edition. Four volumes, 8vo; light marginal browning, occasional minor soiling; with book-plate on front paste-downs; contemporary polished calf, red and blue morocco labels lettered in gilt, ruled gilt borders, spines sunned, light rubbing and scuffing to boards and extremities. Einaudi 1608 (Second edition 1888). SELIGMAN, Edwin Robert. PROGRESSIVE TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. Second Edition Completely Revised and Enlarged. [Printed by Princeton University Press]. 1908. Second Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; uncut, contemporary publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed; with presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Prof H. C. Adams with the regards of Edwin R Seligman, Feb 1909', with Carter's book-plate on front paste-down.
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ECONOMICS - HUSKISSON, William. THE SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM HUSKISSON, with a biographical memoir, supplied to the editor from authentic sources ... London, John Murray ... 1831. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo; engraved portrait in volume I; occasional light spotting and dust-soiling; contemporary calf, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, joints and extremities lightly rubbed; contemporary inscription on half-title of vol I. Kress C2837; Goldsmiths 26664; HORNER, Francis. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE ... edited by his brother, Leonard Horner, Esq. F.R.S ... London: John Murray ... 1843. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; engraved frontispiece portrait by S.W. Reynolds after Raeburn in Vol I, engraved frontispiece of Chantrey's monument at Westminster Abbey in Vol II; light marginal browning; contemporary half morocco, joints and extremities rubbed and lightly worn, small chip at tail of Vol. I. Einaudi 2930; not in Kress; BURGON, John William. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM; compiled chiefly from his correspondence preserved in her Majesty's state-paper office ... In Two Volumes ... London: Robert Jennings ... 1839. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; with steel engraved portrait and 9 plates, one folding; some light foxing and marginal browning; uncut, contemporary ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines and outer margins lightly sunned. (7)
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