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Bloomsbury Auctions (Godalming)
Lot 161

Vegetius.De re militari libri quatuor,1585 edited by God. Steenwech, 2 parts in 1, titles with woodcut printer`s device, woodcut initials, first part with typographical military formations, second part with engraved portrait on verso of title, woodcut illustrations and folding plan of Roman camp at end, m3 & 4 misbound before m1 & 2 in second part, cropped and with occasional light browning but generally a very clean copy, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine repaired at head and foot, [Adams V336], 8vo, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1585. ***The first Plantin edition of this important Roman text on military strategy..

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Lot 168

Grotius (Hugo) Dissertationes de Studiis instituen first edition, engraved title, slightly browned and with very faint contemporary signature, woodcut initials, contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine, possibly ownership initials stamped on front cover, date to rear cover, Amsterdam, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1645; De Jure Belli ac Pacis Tres, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece portrait of Grotius and extra title, printed title in red and black, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spines, slightly soiled and damp-stains to prelims, ink library stamp to front pastedowns, Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1735, v.s.(3)

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Lot 184

Dostoyevsky (Fydor) [Works] 12 vol., text in Russian, browned, bookplate on front pastedown, ink inscriptions on some titles, later half calf, spines gilt in compartments and faded, St. Petersburg, 1894-5 § Churchill (Sir Winston) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, maps, some folding, ink signature on title, bookplate on front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jackets, rather worn with loss, 1948-54; and a quantity of others, most on Russia, some in Russian, v.s.(qty (10 bxs))

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Lot 185

Binding Pagnier.- Du Noüy Le Temps 1936 first edition, signed presentation copy, illustrations, original wrappers bound in, handsome contemporary red crushed morocco by Ch. Pagnier, covers with concentric and intersecting sets of arcs rolled in gilt and blind, spine with gilt lettering, spine slightly faded, very slightly rubbed at extremities, 8vo, Paris, 1936.

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Lot 187

Brinkley (Matilda) Tell the Bees A Warwickshire Romance, first edition, original cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, 1935.

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Lot 190

Dos Passos (John) One Man`s Initiation - 1917 first edition, with broken type corrected on p.35, original blue cloth, some slight browning to prelims., dust-jacket near fine, 8vo,1920

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Lot 192

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Memoirs first separate edition, frontispiece and illustrations by Sidney Paget, slightly spotted and browned, ink signatures on recto of frontispiece and front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, slightly dulled, spine gilt worn and creased, g.e., 8vo, 1894.

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Lot 193

Doyle (Arthur Conan) Hound of Baskervilles first edition, A.L.s. from the author in envelope loosely inserted, discussing a visit to Edinburgh, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, some foxing and marginal fraying, some springing to gatherings, pencil name & blind-stamp on front fly-leaf, original cloth decorated in gilt & black, rubbed and frayed at spine, [Green & Gibson A26a], 8vo, 1902.

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Lot 194

Doyle (Arthur Conan) Hound of Baskervilles first edition, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, original cloth covers and spine cut down and mounted at end, bound in modern straight-grain morocco, gilt, by Bayntun-Riviere, fine, t.e.g., [Green & Gibson A26a], 8vo, 1902.

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Lot 195

Doyle (Arthur Conan) Return Sherlock Holmes first edition, 13 plates by Charles Raymond Macauley, original pictorial cloth, spine dulled, otherwise good, [Green & Gibson A29c], 8vo, New York, 1905. ***Preceding the publication of the English edition by a month..

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Lot 197

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World first American edition, plates, slight oxidising to title margins and plates, original cloth lettered gilt, [Green & Gibson A37e], 8vo, New York, Hodder & Stoughton/George Doran, 1912.

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Lot 202

Faulks (Sebastian) A Trick of the Light first edition of the author`s first novel, original boards, dust-jacket, a near fine copy, 8vo, 1984.

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Lot 207

Greene (Graham) The Man Within first American edition, bound in full contemporary morocco, 8vo, New York, 1929.

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Lot 210

Greene (Graham) The Little Fire Engine first edition, coloured illustrations by Dorothy Craigie, original cloth, dust-jacket, repaired to inside edges with some closed tears, large Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1950]; with another, illustrated by Ardizzone, oblong 8vo(2)

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Lot 211

Greene (Graham) The Third Man first edition, original boards, fine, dust-jacket, minor abrading near fore-edge of upper panel, small tear to edge of spine, spine ends rubbed, 8vo, 1950.

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Lot 213

Greene (Graham & Hugh) The Spy`s Bedside Book first edition, first impression, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, rubbed at corners and edges, 8vo, 1957.

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Lot 214

Greene (Graham) The Potting Shed A Play in Three Acts, first edition, inscribed dedication from the author on front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed at edges, overall very good, 8vo, 1958.

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Lot 216

Greene (Graham) The Great Jowett first edition, one of 525 copies signed by the author, original cloth, partly sunned, 8vo, 1981.

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Lot 217

Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph? first edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author, original cloth lettered in gilt, fine, 8vo, 1983.

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Lot 218

Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph? first edition, one of 950 copies signed by the author, original cloth lettered in gilt, fine, 8vo, Nonesuch Press, 1989.

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Lot 220

Hogarth (Paul) Graham Greene Country first edition, signed by the illustrator, illustrations throughout, original boards, dust-jacket, 1986; and 2 others, Greene, oblong 4to & 8vo(3)

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Lot 222

Hesse (Hermann) Das Glasperlenspiel 2 vol., first edition, original light blue decorated cloth, original printed dust-jackets, and card slipcase, 8vo, Zurich, 1943.

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Lot 224

Johnson (B.S.) and Zulfikar Ghose Statement Agains first edition, original black boards, dust-jacket slightly creased and soiled, small closed tear to back panel, 1964 § Eliot (T.S.) From Poe to Valery, first edition, one of 1500 copies, inscribed by E.Knight Kauffer the cover designer, original decorated black boards, very slightly rubbed at extremities, New York, 1948 § Isherwood (Christopher) Lions and Shadows, first editon, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1938 § Morton (Anthony) Blue Mask Victorious, first edition, inscribed by the author on title, small sticker stating English title to top edge of title, pen correction on verso of title, original decorated cloth, slightly rubbed head and tail of spine, dust-jacket creased and rubbed at edges, Philadelphia/New York, 1940 § Dexter (Colin) Service of All the Dead, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, slightest hint of darkening to spine, 1979; and 6 other modern first editions, 8vo. (11)

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Lot 227

Lewis.Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe second impression, original boards, dust-jacket soiled and frayed at edges (small repairs with sticky tape), portion lacking from head of spine, 1954; The Silver Chair, first edition, slight soiling to one or two leaves, original boards, rubbed, corners worn, spine faded, small stain to upper cover, 1953, both illustrated by Pauline Baynes, 8vo(2)

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Lot 231

Rushdie.Satanic Verses,1st,sgd,1988 first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, slight creasing to upper edge especially head of spine panel, 8vo, 1988.

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Lot 233

Sitwell (E) The Mother and other poems first edition, original printed brown paper wrappers, untrimmed, 8vo, Oxford, 1915 ***An edition of 500 copies of which 200 were said to have been pulped..

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Lot 240

Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man first edition, 2pp. advertisements, usual browning, original cloth, darkened, spine rubbed , recased, hinges repaired, [Wells 11], 8vo, 1897.

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Lot 243

Woolf (Virginia) The Mark on the Wall second (first separate) edition, original printed wrappers, slightly damp-stained at edges of wrappers, foxed throughout, dusty, [Kirkpatrick A2b; Woolmer 8], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1919.

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Lot 245

Barnes (Djuna) Nightwood,1st US, 1937 first American edition, signed by Desmond Harmsworth, New York, 1937 § Sackville-West (V.) Solitude, Hogarth Press, 1938 § Joyce (James) Ulysses, eighth printing, browned, a few light stains, a little creased and frayed at edges, disbound, preserved in wrapper, spine crudely reinforced, Paris, 1926 § [Russell (George)], "AE". Enchantment and other poems, one of 542 copies, signed by the author on p.9, New York, Fountain Press, and London, 1930 § Quennell (Peter) Poems, signed by Eric Harmsworth, 1926, first editions, the first two original cloth, the last two original cloth-backed boards, all rubbed and soiled, the first with faded spine, the fourth spine frayed at foot; and c.35 others, some with Harmsworth signatures or associations, 8vo & 4to(c.40)

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Lot 246

Cunard (Nancy) Parallax,1925 first edition, [one of c.420 copies], original pictorial cream boards, browned, spine rubbed, [Woolmer 57], Hogarth Press, 1925; Poems (Two) 1925, number 65 of 150 copies signed by the author, original patterned-paper boards by Elliott Seabrooke, paper label on upper cover, uncut, Aquila Press, 1930, first editions, both with boards browned and a little soiled, spines slightly rubbed, 8vo & 4to

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Lot 247

Fletcher.Piscatorie Eclogues, imp.,1633 part 2 only (of 2: Piscatorie Eclogues), first edition, lacking initial blank, title and final leaf with verse by Francis Quarles, but text complete and including `Elisa` with separate title, collates as ESTC, cropped and lightly browned, slight water-staining at end, inscribed by Cecil Harmsworth to his son "Eric with love from Dad" on front free endpaper, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed, [STC 11082; Westwood & Satchell p.95], [Cambridge, by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], [1633]; and 3 others, 17th & 18th century, including a very worn embroidered binding, v.s.(4) ***Cecil Harmsworth (1869-1948, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham) was a keen fly-fisherman, member of the exclusive Houghton Fishing Club and author of A Little Fishing Book, privately printed by the Cuala Press in 1930..

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Lot 249

Jonson/Jones.Masque of Queenes,1930 number 1 of 350 copies, illustrations, original red vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, The King`s Printers, 1930 § Pimlott (Philip) 6 Etchings of the Middle Temple, subscriber`s copy no.8, etchings all signed in pencil and tipped to card in folders, loose as issued in original wrappers, preserved in worn portfolio, [c.1900] §Shelley (P.B.) Epipsychidion, one of 500 copies, original boards, uncut & unopened, 1921 § Eliot (T.S.) Journey of the Magi, Ariel Poem No.8, colour frontispiece and cover illustration by E.McKnight Kauffer, original wrappers, n.d. § Beardsley (Aubrey) Letters...to Leonard Smithers, original cloth, gilt, uncut & unopened, First Edition Club, 1937, all but the last rubbed and soiled; and 2 others, v.s.(7)

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Lot 257

Brooke (Rupert) The Collected Poems... one of 1000 copies, woodcut frontispiece portrait and vignette by Gwen Raverat, original vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, discoloured and a little warped, 1919 § Sassoon (Siegfried) Sherston`s Progress, first edition, number 165 of 300 copies signed by the author, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine faded, 1936, 4to & 8vo(2)

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Lot 295

Thomas (Dylan) Laugharne Thomas Trustees` Copy from an edition limited to 100 (25 Deluxe) signed by the photographer, 12 mounted black and white photographs by Tryntje Van Ness Seymour, all titled and signed in pencil, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box, folio, Salisbury, Ct., Lime Rock Press, 1979 § Marlowe (C) and G. Chapman. The Amorous Poem entitled Hero & Leander, number 66a of 200 copies, Golden Hours Press, 1933 § Sandford (C. and L.) The Magic Forest, number 72 of 100 copies signed by the printer and artist, printed at the Chiswick Press, 1931 § Spenser (E) Thalamos, or The Brydall Boure, number 17 of 200 copies, original calf-backed marbled boards, Manaton, The Boars Head, 1932 § Whitfield (C.) Lady from Yesterday, number 50 of 50 copies signed by the author, original morocco-backed cloth, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939, all but the first with wood-engraved illustrations by Lettice Sandford, the second and third original buckram, all but the first with t.e.g., others uncut, some a little faded; and 2 others, illustrated by Sandford, 4to & 8vo(7)

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Lot 301

O`Connor(J)Knipton: A Leicestershire Village 2 vol., number XXIII of 45 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates signed by the author/artist, from an edition limited to 200, wood-engraved illustrations by John O`Connor printed in colours, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, additional engravings initialled in pencil by the artist, loose as issued in original cloth-backed board folder, 1996 § Hanscomb (B) Cornwall, one of 135 copies, 1992; The Phoenix, number XVI of 40 copies with an additional suite of plates, from an edition limited to 100, 2005, the last two both signed by the artist with copper-engraved illustrations by Hanscomb, all but the first original wrappers sewn in Japanese style, slip-cases, Risbury, Whittington Press; and 6 others, by the Press, folio & 4to(10)

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Lot 306

Boiselle (Gabrielle) Grace and Beauty, A Study of signed by the photographer, photographic illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, 1992 § Chakra (Narisa) Terence Cuneo, Railway Painter of the Century, first edition, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, New Cavendish Books, 1990, oblong 4to(2)

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Lot 309

Combe (William) Doctor Syntax... first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title vignette, and 16 plates, title trimmed at lower edge, just touching imprint, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed, [Abbey, Life, 358; Tooley 432], 1820; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], comprising: The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, ninth edition, [1855]; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation, n.d.; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, front free endpaper loose, n.d., 3 vol., hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light browning, minor spotting, a few plates offset, original cloth, rebacked preserving original faded gilt spine, extremities bumped, R.Ackermann, [1855], 8vo(4)

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Lot 320

Lang.Brown Fairy Book,1904 first edition, plates and illustrations by H.J. Ford, 8 colour, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt, g.e., a bright copy, 1904 § Greenaway (Kate) Almanack for 1883, colour illustrations, original publisher`s limp black roan, gilt, rear hinge cracked, [Schuster & Engen 3 1g], [1882]; and another, Biggles, 8vo & 16mo(3)

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Lot 331

[Fitzgibbon (Edward)], "Ephemera" third edition, engraved frontispiece, illustrations in text, 16ff. advertisements at end, original blind-stamped green cloth, rubbed and marked, rebacked, [W. & S. pp.85-86], 8vo, 1853 § Salter (T.F.) The Angler`s Guide, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 25 plates (13 wood-engraved, 12 engraved) and illustrations, some slight foxing, new endpapers, original boards, slightly rubbed, rebacked with the original printed paper label on spine, edges uncut, for the Author, 1815 § North (The) Country Angler; or the Art of Angling: as Practised in the Northern Counties of England, fourth edition, 1p. advertisements at end, bookplates of Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld and H.W. Stansfeld on front pastedown, original printed boards, rubbed, vellum spine, edges uncut, [W&S p. 131], 1817 § Turton (John) The Angler`s Manual; or, Fly-Fisher`s Oracle, first edition, engraved frontispiece, list of 77 artificial flies described in the work at end, half-title, title slightly offset, ink signature of "J.D. Clayton dated 1836 on half-title, ink stamp of Alfred Wallis on front pastedown, ring marks on covers, remains of original printed paper label on spine, [W&S p. 211], London & Sheffield, 1836 § Wallwork (James) The Modern Angler, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, title slight finger soiling at edges, Q3 & 4 very slightly creased, browned, contemporary cloth by T. Parr of Manchester with bookticket on front pastedown, [W&S p. 217], Manchester, 1847, plates and illustrations, all but the second and third original cloth, some rubbing; and c. 15 others, mostly Angling, v.s., v.d.(c. 20)

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Lot 332

Fletcher (Phineas) Piscatory Eclogues second edition, engraved title vignette, half-title, Q3 paper flaw slightly affecting printing, a little browned, hinges splitting, contemporary calf, gilt, edges slightly rubbed, [W&S p.95], Edinburgh, for A. Kincaid and others, 1771 § [Shirley (Thomas)] The Angler`s Museum; or, the Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, new endpapers, original card, slightly rubbed and browned, rebacked, edges uncut, [W&S p. 194], John Fielding, n.d. [c. 1784] § March (J.)] The Jolly Angler, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, illustrations, frontispiece and title foxed, original cloth-backed boards, corners bumped, remains of label on spine, [1833] § Dryden (Adam) Hints to Anglers, 5 folding lithographed maps, original cloth, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1862 § Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.) Spinning-Tackle, first edition, half-title, 3pp. of advertisements at end, margins browned, original pictorial boards, slightly soiled, corners and edges rubbed, lacks spine, [W&S p. 168], 1862, illustrations; and c. 15 others, mostly Angling, v.s.(17)

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Lot 337

Fitzgibbon (Edward), "Ephemera" Assisted by Andrew Young, first edition, hand-coloured frontispiece and 8 plates, including 1 black and white plate, tissue guards, 2pp. of advertisements and publisher`s catalogue at end, browned, slightly foxed in places, inner hinges strengthened, original blind-stamped cloth, corners bumped, rebacked with the original spine laid down, [W&S, p. 86], 8vo, 1850 § Pulman (George P.R.) The Vade-Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout, third edition, advertisements at end, spine chipped at head and tail, [W&S p. 174], 1852 § Carpenter (William) The Angler`s Assistant, second edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of flies, title inner margin creased and with small chip to outer edge, rebacked with the original spine laid down, [W&S p. 50], 1852 § Stewart (W.C.) The Practical Angler or the Art of Trout-Fishing, first edition, advertisements at end, ink signature at head of title, cloth corners bumped, [W&S p. 202], Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1857 § Skues (G.E.M.) The Way of a Trout with a Fly, third edition, frontispiece and 2 colour plates, dust-jacket, a few small tears to edges, 1921, plates and illustrations, original cloth; and 7 others, Trout & Fly, 8vo(12)

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Lot 343

Thornton (Col. Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Var 2 vol. in 1, half-title, 2 additional engraved titles, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 53 sepia aquatint or engraved plates, including 10 double-page, 1 plate of music, several aquatint and engraved vignettes, handsomely bound in later half-morocco, gilt, [Abbey Travel 84; Schwerdt II p.261], 4to, 1806. ***"First and only edition of a delightful book. The portrait of Colonel Thornton carrying a falcon, in a surround of sporting emblems is of great artistic merit." - Schwerdt..

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Lot 353

Bazin.Natural History of Bees,1744 first English edition, 12 folding engraved plates, contemporary ink signature at head of title and another crossed out, a few pencil annotations, slight soiling to plates, engraved bookplate of J.Ogilvie, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, 8vo, for J.& P.Knapton, and P.Vailant, 1744.

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Lot 365

Einstein (Albert) Meaning of Relativity 1922 first English edition, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 1922 § Born (Max) Einstein`s Theory of Relativity, first English edition, preliminaries spotted, original cloth, gilt, some slightly fraying to extremities, 1924 § Lorentz (H.A.), Albert Einstein [and others] The Principle of Relativity, first English edition, original cloth, gitl, spine faded, 1923; and 4 others, Relativity, v.s.(7)

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Lot 369

Newton.Optice,1st Latin ed,damp-st`d,1706 translated by Samuel Clarke, first Latin edition, 7pp. errata, 19 folding engraved plates, damp-stained, particularly towards end causing some fraying, contemporary calf, worn, broken and loose, lacking spine, covers detached, [Babson 137], 4to, for S.Smith & B. Walford, 1706; sold not subect to return

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Lot 374

Smith (Thomas) The Miner`s Guide 1836 § Hull (Edward) The Coal-Fields of Great Britain, 1861 § Holdsworth (J.) On the Extention of the English Coal-Fields beneath the Secondary Formations of the Midlands Counties, 1846 § Lupton (A.) A Practical Treatise on Mine Surveying, 1902 § Percy (C.M.) The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 presentation copy from the author, 1882-85 § Statham (I.C.F.) Coal Mining Practice, 4 vol., 1958, plates and illustrations, some engraved, some spotting, original cloth, rubbed, the third faded; and c.100 others on mining, v.s. (c.100)

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Lot 375

Zwicker.Compendium Horologico-Sciotericum second edition, lacking the additional engraved title, title with decorative typographic border, 31 folding engraved plates mounted on stubs at end, cropped & water-stained, first few leaves frayed at edges, final leaf of text laid down,1 plate torn and repaired, others frayed, disbound, preserved in old wrappers, worn, [Not in the British Library; only 2 copies listed on COPAC (UCL & Oxford)] 4to, Nuremberg, 1660; sold not subject to return ***Scarce work on dialling by a Danzig stonemason; the first edition was published in 1647..

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Lot 387

Hippocrates. Opera,1526 second Latin edition, title within elaborate woodcut border depicting mostly classical authors and the muses, first leaf of text also within woodcut border, printer`s woodcut device on verso of final leaf, title soiled and with contemporary ink signature, title also a little wormed causing slight loss, some water-staining, particularly towards end, broken, old calf, worn, spine defective at foot, [Adams H568; Wellcome I, 3178], folio, Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1526.

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Lot 388

Hope (J) Principles... of Morbid Anatomy first edition, 28 chromolithographed plates only (of 48), lacking several sections of text, library stamps, modern half calf, 1834 § Rokitansky (Carl) A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, 4 vol., 2 lithographed plates, original cloth, a very good set, Sydenham Society, 1854-52, 8vo(5)

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Lot 398

Vicary (T) The English-Mans Treasure. 1633 eighth edition, full-page woodcut of a skeleton, A1-3, L4 loose, from another copy, title badly defective, loose ff. frayed, upper margins trimmed, touching some headlines, ownership inscription at head of A4, [STC 24712; Wellcome I 6582], B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1633 once bound with Rich Storehouse or Treasurie for the Diseased (A) ...Set forth for the benefit...of the poorer sort of people...by G.W. and now seventhly augmented...by A.T., Practitioner in Physicke, lacks pp. 1-32, 117-8, lower margin trimmed, with loss to signatures and catchwords, some staining and browning, [STC 23610; Wellcome I 6195], Richard Badger for Philemon Stephens & Christopher Meredith, 1639, twentieth-century half calf, front hinge broken & first work removed, small 4to.

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Lot 413

Berenson.Drawings..Florentine Painters,1970 3 vol., second impression, Chicago & London, 1970 § Torriti (P.) Luca Cambiaso: Disegni, Genoa, 1969 § Salmi (M.) and others. Disegni di Michelangelo, original calf-backed cloth, Florence, 1964 § Clark (K.) The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci...at Windsor Castle, 3 vol., second, revised, edition, 1968 § Gere (J.A.) Taddeo Zuccaro, 1969, illustrations, all but the third original cloth or boards, the first three with slip-cases (the second worn), the last two with dust-jackets; and 2 others on Italian art, 4to & folio(11)

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Lot 433

Hamilton (W) Outlines from the Figures... first edition, half title, 62 engraved plates, tissue guards, lacking errata slip, correction fluid at base of title and on final text leaf, contemporary boards, rebacked, soiled and rubbed, 4to, 1804.

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Lot 448

Ruskin (John) The Seven Lamps first edition, 14 lithographed plates, half-title, slight water-stain in corners of plates, occasional spotting, bookplate on front pastedown, new endpapers, modern half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., large 8vo, 1849.

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Mallams Ltd. - Cheltenham
Lot 236

DURRELL, GERALD My Family and Other Animals, First Edition, with original dust jacket, London: Rupert Hart-Davis & The Book Society Ltd, 1956: Angela Thirkell, What Did It Mean?, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954, with original dust jacket, First Edition, and two further books (4)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 74

Le Fanu (J. Sheridan). The House by the Churchyard. A Novel, new ed., pub. Richard Bentley, 1866, wood-engraved frontispiece, occasional light spotting and browning, previous owner inscription and blindstamps, original cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed, light stains, 8vo. (1). This is the first combined edition which is enlarged from 88 to 99 chapters

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 255

Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st ed., Warne, 1903, first issue, with single-page endpaper occurring four times, col. illusts., orig. green boards with pictorial label mounted to upper cover, an unusually bright copy, 12mo, together with a 1st ed. of Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, lacking spine, and an early edition of Miss Moppet. Linder, p.423. (3)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 393

Greene (Graham). Brighton Rock, 1st ed., 1938, half title present, scattered light spotting, bookplate, contemporary beige lending-library cloth, circular ‘Ex-libris’ motif in black to upper cover, spine lettered in black, with the incredibly scarce orig. d.j., (priced at 7s.6d.), small sellotape repair to verso at foot of spine, chipped at spine ends (resulting in small loss of lettering to publisher’s name only), small tears along folds, 8vo. The incredibly scarce first edition dust-jacket. This copy is a few millimetres shorter than the usual red cloth binding, an example of which can be seen in the previous lot. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 456

* Whistler (Reginald John “Rex”, 1905-44). Original but unsigned pen and ink and watercolour bookplate for Edith Olivier, 1926, drawn onto the front pastedown of Elegy on Dead Fashion, by Edith Sitwell, illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky, 1st ed., 1926, four full-page b & w illusts. plus title vign., head-piece and tail-piece, the exquisite watercolour bookplate on the front pastedown depicting an outdoor scene with an elegant red-headed lady dressed in yellow nonchalently leaning on a small brick column surmounted by an urn, a young red-headed boy with a hoop in front of and facing her, “Edith Olivier, 1926” inscribed in the upper left sky area, within a yellow and sepia border, 102 x 73 mm, orig. cloth with purpose-made protective decorative silk chemise (lacking spine), 8vo.Limited edition, 181/225, signed by Edith Sitwell. Rex, who though some thirty-three years younger than Edith, struck up a lifelong close friendship after they first met in 1925. The age difference and Rex’s love for Edith is clearly to be seen in the figures of this bookplate. Rex’s career as a book illustrator had virtually began that same year with Edith Olivier’s “Mildred”, a memorial book published to commemorate the life of Edith’s sister who had died at a relatively young age. Also, during 1926, Whistler had begun his mural at the Tate, “The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats”, the subject of which was made in collaboration with Edith. (1)

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Mellors & Kirk
Lot 133

FOUR STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURES OF SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS. by or in the manner of Thomas Parr, comprising Ophelia, William Charles Macready (1793-1847) as Macbeth and Isabella Glyn (1823-1889) as Lady Macbeth, all decorated in colours and with gilt detail, 20-26cm h, c1852; three similar, later figures and Staffordshire Portrait by P D Gordon Pugh, first edition, 1970 (8). ++ The four named figures - Lady Macbeth - old discoloured restoration to neck, the later figure of Shylock - hand and walking stick restored

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Mellors & Kirk
Lot 895

SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, RA, PRWS, RSW (1880-1969) SPANISH WHEELWRIGHTS. drypoint, signed by the artist in ink and numbered XXIII of an edition of, probably, 75 published by Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London and W B Simpson, Glasgow in 1931, 24.5 x 32.5cm Flint`s superb drypoints, some of the finest prints produced in Britain in the first half of the 20th century, were all executed between 1928 and 1935 when eye strain forced him to give up the burin. Of the sixty-six subjects only about half were issued in small editions. Of Spanish Wheelwrights, he wrote `As this subject was so attractive I deliberately tried to make it as impressive as possible. It developed from a drawing of an interior of a noble house fallen from its high estate in a sun-bleached Castilian village. All the mechanical details are authentic but the dark central recess is an invention of my own.`. ++ A fine `velvety` impression which appears to be in very good condition although unexamined out of the frame on the (clean) wooden backboard, the label of the Regent Gallery, formerly Armstrong Gallery, Glasgow

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