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Sportingold Limited

Lot 1334

1956 EUROPEAN CUP FINAL Very rare pre-match edition of France Football magazine "Numero Special La Finale De La Coupe D`Europe" released 12/6/56, Stade de Reims v Real Madrid played 13/6/56 at Parc des Princes, Paris. Full previews for the Final of the first ever European Cup, this weekly magazine was available to buy match day outside the stadium. There is a large poster to the centre pages with caricature drawings of all 22 players set out in full programme style team line-ups on the Parc des Princes pitch. Good

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Lot 290

1960 INTERCONTINENTAL CUP FINAL Real Madrid v Penarol, extremely rare official Real Madrid Revista dated Sept 1960, post match celebration edition released days after the 2nd leg of the first ever Intercontinental Cup. Front page entitled "Numero Extraordinario Dedicato A La Primera Copa Intercontinental De Clubs Campeones". Very hard to find issue. Good

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Lot 471

STAMPS Unusual item for us to offer for sale but still interesting to the keen collector. A box containing 1977 edition of Gibbons "Stamps of the World", a large unused Gibbons Worldex Stamp album, three albums containing stamps, loose sheets of stamps, booklet containing stamps, various countries, UK, and overseas, also includes Rothmans Collection of Rare Banknotes booklet with some examples, also contains 36 UK first day covers, 9 New Zealand first day covers and a number of World Cup stamps and covers issued in South America covering 78 and 86 World Cups etc. An interesting collection. Fair-generally good

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Lot 651

1966 FAIRS CUP FINAL Real Zaragoza v Barcelona, 2nd leg played 25 Sept. Two official Barcelona Revistas: "Barca" edition first released on the day of the match entitled "Hoy en Zaragoza Acto Final de la V111 Copa de Ferias", there was no official programme; extraordinary celebration edition issued 28 Sep entitled "Campeones!". Good

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Lot 681

William Watson - The Gardners Assistant. Gresham Publishing. Six volumes. Decorative green cloth; T L Edwards & E Horsfall Turner - The Anglers Cast. 1960 First Edition; others related :- One Box

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Lot 685

Nevil Shute - Trustee From The Toolroom. Heinemann 1960 First Edition. VG in VG dustjacket; Enid Blyton - Adventures Of The Wishing Chair. 1968 reprint in dustjacket; others of general interest.

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Lot 686

General Interest - H V Taylor. The Plums of England. Crosby 1949. First Edition; Masterpieces of Cutlery And The Art of Eating. London 1979; etc :- One Box

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Lot 687

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Long Stories. 1929 First Edition thus; G K Chesterton - The Father Brown Stories; Triumph Stamp Album; 1931 Gibbons Stamp Catalogues etc :- One Box

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Lot 688

S Baring Gould & C A Bampfylde - A History of Sarawak Undr It`s Two White Rajahs. 1909 First Edition. 8vo, photographic illus and map; and others related to the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia :- One Box

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Lot 700

Enid Blyton - Five Go Off To Camp. 1947 First Edition. Edges dusted, in dustjacket chipped at extremities. Good+ to G/VG.

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Lot 701

Enid Blyton - Five Fall Into Adventure. 1950 First Edition, red cloth in dustjacket, G/VG.

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Lot 705

Enid Blyton - The Rat-A-Tat Mystery. 1956 First Edition. Good+ in Good dustjacket; The Rockingdown Mystery. 1949 First Editoon. Good/Good; and six reprints in dustjackets, including 1949 sixth impression Five On A Treasure Island. (8)

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Lot 707

Captain W E Johns - Biggles Hunts Big Game. 1948 First Edition. Good in price clipped dustjacket. Biggles Gets His Men. 1950 First Edition. VG/VG; and four other First Editions comprising The Black Raider, In The Blue, In The Gobi, and The Private Adventure. G/VG in similar dustjackets; together with reprints of Secret Agent (1950) and The Swastika (1951).

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Lot 709

Enid Blyton - Five On A Hike Together. 1951 First Edition, grey cloth with red titles. VG in dustjacket; Five Go Down To The Sea. 1953 First Edition, red cloth with black titles VG+ and in VG+ dustjacket. (2)

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Lot 710

Enid Blyton - Five Go To Mystery Moor. 1954 First Edition. VG+ in Near Fine dustjacket; Five Have Plenty of Fun. 1955 First Edition. Inscribed o/w VG in VG dustjacket. (2)

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Lot 711

Enid Blyton - The Adventures of Pip. First Edition. VG in VG dustjacket; Five On A Secret Trail. 1956 First Edition. VG in Fair dustjacket; and four reprints :- One Box together with other children`s books.

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Lot 714

W E Johns / Biggles - Sixteen titles including Sergeant Bigglesworth, 1946. First Edition, no dustjacket, Biggles Second Case, 1949, second imp, Worrals Goes East, 1950 third imp, paperbacks, and a Biggles Air Police Badge.

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Lot 734

Illustrated London News. Vol 2 Jan to June 1843. Folio. Green cloth with decorative gilt titles and spine, gilt edges; 1935 Silver Jubilee issue; Feliks Topolski - Holy China. First Edition; H M Bateman - Considered Trifles; and three others.

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Lot 752

Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember. 1972 First Edition. Very Fine / Very Fine; Dennis Wheatley - Dangerous Inheritance (two), The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware, Desperate Measures, The Irish Witch. All Firsts, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjackets. (6)

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Lot 753

John Creasey - Five First Edition titles from the Toff Series, including Toff Down Under (1953); Model for The Toff (1957) and A Rocket For The Toff. All Fine to Very Fine in similar dustjackets, two bearing publishers file copies. (5)

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Lot 756

Amis (Kingsley) The Book of Bond. 1965 First Edition. VG+ in unclipped VG dustjacket with 1cm closed tear to spine.

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Lot 757

Kingsley Amis (Robert Markham) Colonel Sun. Cope 1968 First Edition; Ian Fleming - The Spy Who Loved Me, 1965 seventh impression; The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965 third impression. All VG / Fine in VG / Fine dustjackets.

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Lot 758

Dick Francis - Slay Ride (1973) and five later First Editions; Alistair Maclean - Caravan To Vaccares, 1970 First; Michael Gilbert - Flash Point, 1974 First Edition. Generally Very Fine in Very Fine Dustjackets. (8)

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Lot 759

John Creasey - Fifteen First Editions Written Under His Pseudonym J J Marric, Gordon Ashe, Michael Halliday and Anthony Morton, including Gideon`s Vote (1964), Murder In The Stairs (1953) to Very Fine in similar dustjackets; plus one Thriller Book Club Edition. (16)

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Lot 767

Leslie Coulson - From An Outpost, And Other Poems. Macdonald 1917. First Edition, 8vo, 42pp, wraps. Very Good. *Leslie Coulson was a Reuters correspondent before joining the Royal Fusiliers, writin about his exploits in the trenches. He was killed in October 1916 during the Battle of The Somme, and his collection of poems was published posthumously with the help of his father.

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Lot 768

William Dickinson - A Glossary of Words And Phrases of Cumberland. 1859. First Edition. 138pp. Cloth covers a little dusted and worn, internally bright.

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Lot 774

William Grainge - Nidderdale - An Historical, Topographical And Descriptive Sketch. 1863. Gilt tooled red cloth, gilt edges, litho plates, with a cheaper edition of the same; Harry Speight - Upper Nidderdale With The Forest of Knaresborough. London 1906. First Edition. 8vo, 367pp + 72app, fold-out map, Pedigree and photographic plates. VG in Fair / Good binding. (3)

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Lot 776

Yorkshire Interest - Walter White - A Month In Yorkshire. 1858, Second Edition; Halliwell Sutcliffe - By Moor And Fell In West Yorkshire. 1906, Third Edition, G H B Ward`s inscription; Jessica Lofthouse - Off To The Dales. 1950, First Edition. Ward`s Reviewcopy with publisher`s letter; and fourteen others, Generally Fair to Good :- One Box.

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HRH DUKE OF WINDSOR KG "A King`s Story, The Memoirs of HRH The Duke of Windsor, KG", published by Cassel & Comp

Moore Allen & Innocent

Lot 8

HRH DUKE OF WINDSOR KG "A King`s Story, The Memoirs of HRH The Duke of Windsor, KG", published by Cassel & Company Ltd, London 1951, first edition, limited edition of 250, one of twenty copies signed by the author, lettered "F", tooled and gilded blue leather bound, the book bears a Prince of Wales letterhead sheet inscribed "To George and Florence Allen with best wishes from Edward, November 1951" (George/Albert Allen was the Solicitor and Founder of Allen & Overy who dealt with the divorce of Wallis prior to her marriage to Edward. It is believed that he was knighted for his services to Edward?), two facsimile copies of photographs, one with the Prince smoking a pipe with Allen, Sir Walter Monk and another suited gentleman at La Cröe, the other with Edward and Allen seated by roof tiles and ladders, together with a Christmas card from La Cröe, signed "Wallis Windsor" and "Edward" (ILLUSTRATED)

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Lot 2

Ashmole-Architect/Sculptor...Classical Greece 1972 § Payne (Humfry) and Gerard Mackworth-Young. Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis second edition 1950 § Palagia (O.) and J.J.Pollitt. Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture Cambridge 1996 § Carter (J.C.) The Sculpture of the Sanctuary of Athena Polias at Priene 1983 § Ridgway (B.S.) The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture Princeton 1970;The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture second edition original wrappers Chicago 1993 § Furtwängler (A.) Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture contemporary half morocco worn lacking spine 1895 plates and illustrations all but the last two original cloth the first three with dust-jackets the second rubbed & frayed; and c.70 others on Greek sculpture some pamphlets some German or Greek 4to & 8vo(c.75)

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Lot 5

Browne (Sir T.) Pseudodoxia Epidemica 3 parts in 1 fourth edition with longitudinal label to second part and advertisement leaf at end 2 engraved plates contemporary ink signature at head of title pencil markings cropped slightly affecting a few head-lines slight worming to upper outer corner of some leaves engraved bookplate of John Trotter and modern book-label of Alan Tyson on front pastedown contemporary panelled calf rubbed corners worn rebacked new endpapers [Wing B5162] 4to for Edward Dod... 1658. ***The first appearance of Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus..

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Lot 8

Clarke.Tomb of Alexander 1805 first edition engraved frontispiece and 4 plates and plans 1 printed in green errata leaf at end light foxing title plates preliminaries and errata all mounted on linen modern calf-backed marbled boards spine gilt [Blackmer 363] 4to Cambridge 1805.

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Clarke (Edward Daniel) Greek Marbles first edition presentation copy from the author to Charles Barclay inscribed on front fr

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Lot 9

Clarke (Edward Daniel) Greek Marbles first edition presentation copy from the author to Charles Barclay inscribed on front free endpaper and with his bookplate engraved frontispiece and 3 plates after Flaxman lightly foxed contemporary half calf rubbed spine chipped at head label detached [Blackmer 364] 8vo Cambridge 1809.

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Noble Lalauziere.Abregé Chron.Histoire d`Arles first edition 32 engraved plates and plans 10 folding 27pp. inscriptions title

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Lot 27

Noble Lalauziere.Abregé Chron.Histoire d`Arles first edition 32 engraved plates and plans 10 folding 27pp. inscriptions title with contemporary ink signature at head and a little soiled light foxing to plates contemporary half calf rubbed joints split at head 4to Arles 1808.

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Gell (Sir William) Pompeiana: 1817 first edition engraved frontispiece map double-page plan and 75 plates 1 sepia and 1 hand-

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Lot 32

Gell (Sir William) Pompeiana: 1817 first edition engraved frontispiece map double-page plan and 75 plates 1 sepia and 1 hand-coloured some marginal damp-staining to colour plate occasional light spotting contermporary half calf rebacked preserving original backstrip (with some loss) corners worn rubbed 1817-19; and an 1882 edition of Wordsworth`s Greece 4to(2)

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Wilkins (William) Atheniensia first edition folding engraved plan and double-page plate both offset and slightly foxed modern

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Lot 45

Wilkins (William) Atheniensia first edition folding engraved plan and double-page plate both offset and slightly foxed modern ink inscription on front free endpaper the Earl of Rosebery`s copy with his bookplate contemporary diced calf gilt rubbed splits to joints [Blackmer 1798] 8vo 1816.

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Lot 46

Wilkins.Prolusiones Architectonicae; or Essays on Subjects connected with Grecian and Roman Architecture first edition presentation copy from the author to the Marquess of Lansdowne inscribed on front free endpaper and with his bookplate engraved frontispiece and 16 plates all rather foxed contemporary half red roan spine gilt g.e. a little worn 4to 1837. ***Concerning the Erechtheum on the Acropolis an inspiration for the Greek Revival of which Wilkins was one of the leading architects..

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Lot 54

Bellows (George W) His Lithographs first edition illustrations original cloth glassine wrapper rather worn slip-case defective New York 1927 § Peladan (Josephin) Fans Hals one of 75 copies colour frontispiece and sepia plates throughout original printed wrappers Paris Goupil & Co. 1912 § Buttin (Charles) Les Bardes Articulees...Maximilien I limited edition illustrations original wrappers a little foxed Strasbourg [1929] § [Sale Catalogue] Bibliothèque Raphaël Esmerian 4 vol. only of 5 plates and illustrations some mounted and colour original cloth 4to Paris 1972-74; and 4 others similar v.s.(8)

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Lot 67

Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake 2 vol. first edition illustrations slightly foxed original cloth gilt slightly worn at head and tail of spines 1863 § Ruskin (John) The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution first book edition original green cloth Sunnyside Orpington Kent 1884; The Art of England Lectures given in Oxford first edition to include lecture on Allingham & Greenaway contemporary full blue calf gilt lettering blind tooling g.e. rubbed at extremities Sunnyside Orpington 1883 8vo(4)

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Lot 73

Keene-No: The Classical Theatre of Japan Tokyo 1966 § Robinson (B. W.) Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints Oxford 1982 § Cohn (W.) Chinese Painting second revised edition 1951 § Davis (F. H.) Myths & Legends of Japan New York [c.1910] § Murphy (Dervla) Tibetan Foothold first edition signed by the author on half-title 1966 plates and illustrations some colour original cloth or boards the first two and last with dust-jackets the first also with slip-case most rubbed; and c.60 others oriental art etc. some catalogues v.s.(c.65)

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Lot 81

Macquoid.History of English Furniture vol.1-3 only (of 4 lacking Age of Satinwood) 1904-06 § Clouston (K.W.) The Chippendale Period in English Furniture 1897 § Jackson (C.J.J.) English Goldsmiths & their marks second edition 1921 § Litchfield (F.) Pottery & Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors 1905 plates and illustrations some colour a few in the first torn or loose original cloth rubbed spine of the second torn; and 2 others on furniture v.s.; sold not subject to return(8)

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Lot 86

Palladio. The First Book of Architecture with an Appendix touching Doors and Windows by Pr. Le Muet translated by Godfrey Richards ninth edition 7 folding plates and 62 full-page illustrations only (of 63 lacking Z3 pp.173-174) also lacks engraved frontispiece and Bb4 last leaf repaired affecting text soiled and stained throughout some small repairs to folding plates a few marginal defects 19th century cloth spine torn lower cover nicked 4to for S.H. and H.T. by James Knapton... 1721; sold not subject to return.

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Sackville Gallery.Exhib.Works..Italian Futurist Pa illustrations original drab wrappers printed in red staples a little ruste

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Lot 92

Sackville Gallery.Exhib.Works..Italian Futurist Pa illustrations original drab wrappers printed in red staples a little rusted and with slight mark to upper wrapper otherwise a very good copy 8vo March 1912. ***First edition in English of the Italian Futurist Manifesto and catalogue of the first Futurist exhibition in Britain..

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Lot 105

Willard (Charlotte) Moses Soyer first edition with an original pen and ink sketch on title illustrations library stamps on pastedowns original cloth dust-jacket edges frayed with loss Cleveland & New York [1962] § Davies (G. S.) Hans Holbein the Younger one of 30 copies printed on vellum plates some photogravures and collotypes bookplate on front pastedown original buckram gilt 1903 § Oppé (A. B.) The Water-Colours of Turner Cox & de Wint illustrations original cloth gilt 1925; and 2 others similar v.s.(5)

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Lot 106

Ackermann-History...St. Peter`s Westminster 2 vol. first edition second issue half-titles engraved portrait plan and 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Pugin and others list of subscribers plates with tissue and paper guards and generally clean some foxing and browning to text nick to upper edge of L gathering in vol.1 hinges reinforced contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt spines gilt g.e. rubbed one joint repaired others worn and split [Abbey Scenery 213] 1812; and a water-stained large paper copy of Woolnoth`s Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury of 1816 4to & folio(3) ***According to Abbey the second issue has the first plate in vol.2 signed A.Pugin (F.Mackenzie in first issue)..

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Lot 107

Aikin.Desc.Country...round Manchester first edition engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title list of subscribers 69 plates and maps on 61 sheets only lacking the 2 large folding maps tissue guards some foxing modern morocco-backed marbled boards spine gilt and a little faded 4to for John Stockdale [1795].

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Lot 120

Lambard (William) A Perambulation of Kent first edition title within woodcut border and laid down (with some loss to woodcut border) lacking both maps some pages incorrectly numbered water-staining mainly toward beginning some marginal worming first two text leaves with marginal loss early ink marginalia bookplate on front pastedown old calf slightly stained rubbed joints cracked [STC 15175] small 4to for Ralph Newberie 1576.

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Montanus (Arnoldus) [Atlas Chinensis]: 1671 first English edition engraved additional pictorial title and 6 (of 33) double-pa

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Lot 136

Montanus (Arnoldus) [Atlas Chinensis]: 1671 first English edition engraved additional pictorial title and 6 (of 33) double-page plates and 57 illustrations lacking printed title folding map dedication contents ff. and 27 plates pictorial title laid down and torn with loss to lower margin just affecting part of image modern cloth spine to label folio [Tho. Johnson] 1671.

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Lot 153

Scott (Capt. Robert Falcon) Scott`s Last Expeditio 2 vol first edition 8 folding maps plus plates original cloth rubbed at edges contents slightly shaken 1913 § Nansen (Fridtjof) Farthest North 2 vol. first edition 2 folding maps 1 torn and plates foxed original cloth 1897 8vo(4)

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Lot 154

Demidoff Southern Russia and Crimea 2 vol. first English edition engraved portrait frontispiece 23 plates and illustrations 2 folding maps in pocket at end interleaved occasional spotting modern buckram 8vo 1853.

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Lot 155

Plescheef Survey of the Russian Empire third edition half-title engraved folding map and large folding plate (?only first edition calls for the same yet a record of third edition calls for map and 4 plates) contemporary mottled calf rebacked preserving original backstrip (darkened) for J. Debrett 1792 § Le Vaillant (François) Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa 2 vol. first edition in English engraved frontispiece and 10 (of 11) plates 2 folding occasional marginal water-staining contemporary speckled calf joints splitting corners worn rubbed and stained for G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1790 § Montague (Lady Mary Wortley) Letters of the Right Honorable Lady M--y W--y M--e: Written during her Travels in Europe Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction half-titles contemporary speckled calf spines richly gilt and with double red morocco labels rubbed for T.Caddell and T.Evans 1784; and 21 others Travel most Middle East v.s.(23)

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Lot 158

Fleurieu- A Voyage Round the World 1801 performed during the Years 1790 1791 and 1792 first English edition 2 vol. only (of 3 lacking atlas vol.) vol. I p.55 repaired tear across page modern cloth-backed boards vol. I uncut vol. 2 fore-edge trimmed new endpapers 8vo 1801.

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Lot 161

Tristram (H.B.) The Land of Israel... first edition 2 folding maps 12 plates (4 of chromolithographed) title and some foxing throughout original cloth tail of spine slightly frayed 8vo 1865 § Andersson (Charles John) Lake Ngami illustrations original cloth spine faded New York 1861 § Sheets (Mary Baskerville) A West African Journal one of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator illustrated by Millard Sheets signed lithograph original decorated cloth slipcase spine sunned Gualala Calif. 1980 § BIrd & Bull Press. White Jr. (William) trans. A Babylonian Anthology translated from Akkadian one of 200 copies colour illustrations prospectus and envelope of early and late signs loosely inserted 1966 v.s. (4)

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Lot 168

Hill (Sir John) The Family Herbal first edition 54 hand-coloured engraved plates light marginal staining to early ff. some minor marking contemporary mottled sheep covers detached corners worn 8vo Bungay 1812.

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Lot 178

Art of Feeding the Invalid (The) by a Medical Practitioner and a Lady Professor of Cookery first edition advertisements ink onwership stamps of Albert H.Calder a few minor stains original cloth gilt spine ends and corners frayed rubbed [1892] § Owen (R. Jones) The Chemists` and Druggists` Compendium. A Handbook of Practical Receipts and Processes in ... Perfumery ... Homoeopathy ... Wine-Making 8pp. advertisements at end occasional spotting original cloth gilt ink spotted 1871 § Trade Catalogue.- Burroughs Wellcome & Co. The Romance of Exploration and Emergency First-Aid from Stanley to Byrd first edition illustrations many full-page near fine original cloth gilt Chicago 1934; and 14 others similar v.s.(18)

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Lot 191

Phillips (Philip) The Forth Bridge... first edition 57 plates most photographic text and plates mounted on stubs contemporary ink inscription from David Laidlaw to William Fowlis at head of title original pictorial red cloth gilt a little rubbed and lightly damp-mottled spine faded oblong folio Edinburgh [c.1889] § Emy (Armand Rose) Traité de l`Art de la Charpenterie Atlas only (lacking 2 text vol.) engraved frontispiece and 157 plates plates generally clean but one or two with marginal browning or staining a few slightly frayed at edges loose as issued in original cloth-backed board folder with ties paper label on upper cover lacking one tie spine torn lower cover detached Paris 1841; and 3 others on Carpentry & Woodwork v.s.(5)

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Lot 194

Turing (A.M.) Solvable & Unsolvable Problems first edition in Science News no. 31 original wrappers 1954 § Anderson (Anne) The Gillyflower Garden Book colour plates original cloth scuffed [1915] § Clark (Hugh) A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry hand-coloured plates contemporary straight-grain purple calf gilt rubbed 1818 § Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 2 vol. mounted photographic illustrations some colour original cloth slightly soiled Altona 1936; and 7 others miscellaneous v.s.(13)

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Lot 198

Eckel First Editions of Charles Dickens number 78 of 750 copies plates original cloth dust-jacket worn 1913 § Prideaux (Colonel F.) A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson new and revised edition portrait frontispiece original cloth spine faded 1917 § Carter (John) and Graham Pollard. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets plates original cloth spine with head frayed and slighly faded 1934 § Harris (G.Edward) Contributions towards a Bibliography of The Taylors of Ongar and Stanford Rivers folding genealogical table plates original boards gilt plastic dust-jacket 1965 § Quayle (Eric) Ballantyne the Brave A Victorian Writer and his Family plates original boards dust-jacket slightly faded 1967; and small quantity of others Bibliography and Reference relating to 19th century writers v.s.(Sm.Qty.)

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Lot 204

Moss (J) A Manual of Classical Bibliography 2 vol. second edition modern cloth 1837 § Egypt Exploration Society. Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library in Oxford edited by J. G. Tait. 2 vol. original cloth-backed boards 1930-55 § Gruys (J. A.) The Early Printed Editions (1518-1664) of Aeschylus Nieuwkoop 1981 § Gordon (C. A.) A Bibliography of Lucretius 1985 § Quintus Horatius Flaccus Editions in the United States and Canada... California 1938 § Seltman (C.) Greek Coins signatures on front endpapers 1933 some plates or illustrations all but the first two original cloth or boards the fifth with frayed dust-jacket; and a quantity of others relating to the classics some catalogues pamphlets etc. 8vo & 4to(c.100)

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Lot 215

Mini (Paolo) Difesa dela Citta di Firenze 1577 first edition title with woodcut device with final blank contemporary ink inscriptions on title and many annotations and underlinings to text ink stamp `B` on title foxed becoming loose in binding contemporary limp vellum lacking ties rather browned 8vo Lyons Filippo Tinghi 1577. ***Scarce work on Renaissance Florence including a catalogue of artists and writers..

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