"Loudon (J.C.). Trees and Shrubs; an Abridgement of the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; Containing the Hardy Trees and Shrubs of Britains, Native and Foreign, Scientifically and Popularly Described, 1883, num. illusts. to text, orig. crimson half morocco gilt, worn on spine, upper cover detached, thick 8vo, together with Maplet (John), A Greene Forest, or a naturall Historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Virtues in all the whole kinde of Stones and Mettals: next of Plants, as of Hebers, Trees, and Shrubs, lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes... , reprinted from the edition of 1567, with an Introduction by W.H. Davids, Hesperides Press, 1930, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. green vellum gilt, a little rubbed, (limited edition 32/550, this being one of fifty copies on Milbourne hand-made paper, signed at end of introduction by W.H. Davids), 4to, with others relating to trees, incl. a few duplicates (approx. 40)"
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![Blyton (Enid), The Island of Adventure, 1944] First edition, in dustwrapper (frayed at edges with a little resultant loss).](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2657099/34-44-10041_468x382.jpg)
Dickens (Charles), Bleak House, 1853] Worn half-leather binding: book bound without pub cat but all other points indicating a first edition. With: Our Mutual Friend (1865, in 2 vols, half-leather bindings, pub cat not bound in); & The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870, half-leather binding, pub cat not bound in) (4)
Ransome (Arthur), Great Northern, 1947] First edition, in a ragged dw. With 11 Ransome reprints in dw's: The Big Six (1948); Peter Duck (1945); Secret Water (1946); Swallowdale (1946); Coot Club (1945); Winter Holiday (1945); Swallows & Amazons (1945); Pigeon Post (1947); The Picts & The Martyrs (1944); Missee Lee (1947); & We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (1947). Also a Mrs Beeton's Household Management c1930 (13)
Thomas (Dylan), Deaths and Entrances, 1946] First edition (of 3000 copies) in orange cloth, in a worn dustwrapper. With: The Doctor and the Devils (1953, 1st edn, in dw); A Prospect of the Sea (1955, 1st edn, dw lacks an unlettered portion from the front); Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1954 reprint in dw); Brinnin's Dylan Thomas in America (1956, in dw); & Rolph's Dylan Thomas a Bibliography (1956, in dw) (6)
Anderson, Isabel Harriet, Inverness Before Railways, Inverness, A. and W. Mackenzie, 1885, 8vo (185 x 120mm.), advertisement leaves at end, contemporary ownership signature on upper title margin, original red cloth, corners bumped, First Edition. With a later edition of John Hill Burton's 'The Scot Abroad' (Edinburgh & London, 1881).
Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965), The People's Rights ... Selected from his Lancashire and other recent speeches, London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910], 8vo (220 x 150mm.), half title, index at end, some browning, original orange pictorial paper wrappers, with portrait of Churchill on front wrapper, backstrip fragile, and lower corner of front upper wrapper defective, modern presentation case, red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, First Paperback Edition [Woods A16 & cf. A38]. Cloth and paperback editions of this title where issued simultaneously. With a first edition of the Charles Eade compiled 'Secret Session Speches By the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill...' (London, 1946).
Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Trafalgar, London, Harper Collins Publisher, 2000, 8vo (190 x 125mm.), half title, title signed by the auhtor, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, First Edition. With a number of other works including Iain M. Banks 'Feersum Endjinn' (London, 1994), Ronald W. Clark's 'An Eccentric In the Alps' (London, 1959), Hugh Ruttledge's 'Everest 1933' (London, 1936), Edward Shackleton 'Nansen The Explorer' (London, 1959), Heinrich Harrer's 'Seven Years in Tibet' (London, 1953), and a signed copy of Salmon Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' (London, 1988).
Darwin, Charles, The Power of Movement in Plants assisted by Francis Darwin, London, John Murray, 1880, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), half title, advertisments on verso of half title, illustrations, ownership signature on upper title margin, pencil lines on half title, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed, First Edition.
Dickens, Charles, Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exploration, London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, plates, including extra illustrated with portrait plates, some browning, mainly marginal, marbled endpapers contemporary calf, green morocco lettering piece, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., spine and extremities rubbed, First Edition.
Dickens, Charles, & 'Phiz' (illustrator), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London, Chapman and Hall. 1839, 8vo (215 x 130mm.), portrait frontispiece of the author, plates, occasional marginal browning, ownership signature on front free endpaper, contemporary half green morocco, spine with red morocco lettering piece, rubbed, First Edition, later issue.
Dickens, Charles & H. K. Browne (illustrator), Dombey and Son, London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, large 8vo (210 x 130mm.), half title, additional illustrated title, frontispiece, plates, occasional marginal spotting, later green half morocco gilt, spine with red morocco lettering piece, spine in gilt compartments, seperated by raised bands, First Edition, First Issue.
Dickens, Charles, & George Cruikshank, Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi edited by 'Boz', London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 8vo (195 x 120mm.), two volumes, half titles, 2 frontispieces, plates, contemporary calf gilt, inner gilt dentelles, spine seperated by five raised bands, red and green morocco lettering pieces, spine decorated in gilt, t.e.g., front cover to volume 2 detached, armorial bookplate of John Warren, First Edition.
Donn, Benjamin, A Map of the County of Devon with the City and County of Exeter, London, printed for the author, and sold by ... Mr Johnston (and others), 1765, folio (515 x 360mm.), 12 double-page maps engraved by T. Jefferys, and a double-page plan of the town and citadel of Plymouth, obvious repair strip to verso of title, later presentation inscription on front free endaper 'presented to Thomas Hernaman Esq by William Beckett Esq of Hampstead...', modern half brown morocco, black morocco lettering pieces, First Edition.
Fleming, Ian, Dr. No, London, Jonathan Cape, 1958, 8vo (155 x 105mm.), half title, oiginal black cloth, spine lettered in white, dust-jacket, tears, price clipped, First Edition. With a quantity of other works including R. M. Ballantyne's 'The Iron Horse a Life on the Line' (London, 1871), Kathlenn Hale's 'Orlando The Marmalade Cat A Seaside Holiday' (London, 1991), Jean de Brunhoff's 'Babar The King' (London, n.d.), Len Deighton's 'Close-Up' (London, 1972), John Updike's 'The Centaur' (New York, 1963), and Philip Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint' (London, 1969).
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1788, 4to (270 x 200mm.), six volumes, half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author after the painting by Joshua Reynolds, 3 maps, 1 folding, offsetting from the frontispiece onto the title, occasional marginal browning, contemporary calf, spines cracked, extremities rubbed, First Edition.
Haggard, H. Rider, Allan Quatermain being an account of his further adventures and discoveries in company with Sir Henry Curtis, Bart., Commander John Good, R. N. and one Umslopogaas, London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), half title, portrait frontispiece of the author, 19 plates, original cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine a little faded, First Edition, first issue, armorial bookplate of the Sixth Earl of Cottenham. Bleiler 973 'The lost-race novel par excellence. Historically, of course, it is one of the most important nineteenth century works of popular fiction'. Haggard, H. Rider, She A History of Adventure, London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), half title, 2 plate colour frontispiece, decorative endpapers, original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, First English Edition, first issue (with godness me on p. 269, line 38), armorial bookplate of the Sixth Earl of Cottenham. With seven other works by H. Rider Haggard, 'Nada the Lilly' (London, 1892), 'Montezuma's Daughter' (London, 1893), 'Beatrice' (London, 1890), 'Colonel Quaritch V. C.' (London, 1889), 'The People of the Mist' (London, 1894), 'Pearl-Maiden A Tale of The Fall of Jerusalem' (London, 1903), and 'Allan and the Ice Gods' (London, n.d.) .
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936), & F. H. Townsend (illustrator), The Brushwood Boy, London, Macmillan and Co, 1907, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), half title, colour frontispiece, colour plates, original cloth gilt, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, t.e.g., faded in places. With four other Kipling works, 'Something of Myself' (London, 1937), 'The Second Jungle Book' (London, 1951), 'Plain Tales from the Hills' (London, 1917), 'Many Inventions' (London, 1904), Dodson's 'Through the Looking Glass' (London, 1920), Daisy Ashford's 'The Young Visiters' (London, 1919), F. E. Verney's 'H.R.H.' (London, 1928), Harold Nicolson 'King George The Fifth...' (London, 1952), 'A King's Story...' (London, 1951), Milne and Shepard's 'Now We Are Six' (London, 1927), and a third edition duplicate, W. D. & H. O. Wills 'Air Raid Precautions' (London, n.d.), an autograph album with a number of sketches and signatures including those of 1960's tennis players and Louis Bleriot the first man to fly between France and England, and a diary covering the year abroad (1894) a young lady in France, the Joseph Bibby edited 'Bibby's Annual...' (Liverpool, 1922), and Morley's 'De Morbo Epidemico Tam...' (London, 1680).
Lauder, Thomas Dick, An Account of the Great Floods of August 1829 in the Province of Moray and Adjoining Districts, Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1830, 8vo (210 x 125mm.), 2 folding plates, short tears, plates, occasional browning, contemporary ownership signature to upper title margin, later half calf, spine lettered in gilt, booksellers label of H. M. Gilbert, First Edition.
Leighton, Clare, The Farmer's Year A Calender of English Husbandry, New York, Longmans, Green and Company, 1933, Oblong folio (310 x 380mm.), half title, title vignette, historited initials, and illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, extremties rubbed, First Edition. With a third edition of the above work (London, 1934).
Mecham, Clifford Henry, Sketches & Incidents of the Seige of Lucknow, from Drawings Made During the Siege ... with descriptive notices by George Cooper, London, Day & Son, 1858, folio (545 x 345mm.), tinted lithographed title, and 26 tinited lithographed plates on 17 leaves, occasional marginal staining, contemporary half red morocco, rubbed, First Edition.
Mitford, Mary Russell, Belford Regis; or Sketches of a Country Town, London, Richard Bentley, 1835, 12mo (200 x 125mm.), three volumes, half title, occasional marginal browning, contemporary boards, title labels pasted onto spines, spine worn, modern presentation cases, spines lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate of Esher, First Edition.
Monboddo, James, Burnet, Of the origin and Progress of Language, Edinburgh, Printed for A. Kincaid & W. Creech (and others), 1773, 8vo (215 x 125mm.), volume one, engraved frontispiece portrait of Monboddo, contemporary calf, spine decorated in gilt, red and black morocco labels, bookplate of John Dixon, First Edition. Monboddo published another five volumes of this work, the last appearing in 1792. The first volume is usually regarded as the most important: Hans Aarsleff in 'From Locke to Saussure (1982) described this first volume as 'brilliant'.
A Survey of the Province of Moray; Historical, Geographical, and Political, Aberdeen, for Isaac Forsyth, 1798, 8vo (205 x 120mm.), folding frontispiece of Elgin Cathedral, short marginal tear, occasional marginal browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, spine worn, booksellers label of I. Forsyth of Elgin on verso of front cover, First Edition.
Murdoch, Iris, The Bell, London, Chatto & Windus, 1958, half title, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket, with yellow Book Society Choice band around the book, bookplate of W. H. Smith & Son Library, First Edition. With a number of other works including volume two only of Walton & Cotton's 'The Complete Angler' (London, 1826), the W. Heath Robinson illustrated Kipling work 'A Song of the English' (London, n.d.), Henry Holt's 'The Life of Prig' (London, 1885), Winston Churchill's 'The Crisis' (London, 1908), and by the same author 'Coniston' (London, 1906), Kingsley Amis 'I Want it Now' (London, 1968), a signed copy of Minette Walters 'The Echo' (London, 1997), and Clare Leighton's 'Four Hedges A Gardener's Chronicle' (London, 1935).
Planche, James Robinson, A Cyclopaedia of Costume..., London, Chatto and Windus, 1876-1879, 4to (280 x 210mm.), half titles, titles printed in red and black, chromolithographed frontispiece, chromolithographed plates, black and white plates, and illustrations, contemporary half red morocco gitl, spines seperated by five raised bands, t.e.g., extremities rubbed, First Edition. With The Complete Works of William Hogarth.
Rampini, Charles, A History of Moray and Nairn, Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1897, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), half title, colour frontispiece map of the ancient limits of Moray, 2 folding maps in pockets at front and end, map, inner stitching becoming loose, occasional spotting, original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, faded, First Edition.
![[Surtees, Robert Smith (1803-1864)], and John Leech (illustrator), 'Ask Mamma;' or, The Richest Commoner in England, London,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2615363/453-66-10011_468x382.jpg)
[Surtees, Robert Smith (1803-1864)], and John Leech (illustrator), 'Ask Mamma;' or, The Richest Commoner in England, London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858, 8vo (220 x 135mm.), hand-coloured frontispiece, title vignette, hand-coloured plates, wood-engraved illustrations, silk endpapers, contemporary red morocco gilt by Tout, original cloth wrappers bound in at end, spine seperated by 5 raised bands, and decorated in gilt, cover stamped in gilt with hunting/animal images, t.e.g., lower spine strip slightly worn, First Edition.
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667), and William Cave (1637-1713), Antiquitates Christianae: Or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: As also the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of His Apostles..., London, by R. Norton for R. Royston, 1675, folio (345 x 215mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, historiated initials, illustrations, folding plate (of 4?), contemporary calf, boards detached, First Edition, not complete. With 'The Complete Young Man's Companion; or, Self Instructor' (London, n.d.).
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973), The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King), London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954-1955, 8vo (215 x 140mm.), three volumes, half titles, 3 folding maps at end of each volume, original red cloth, dust-jackets, head and tail of spine frayed, inside flaps tapped down with sellotape. The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers are second impressions, The Return of the King is a first edition.
Vidal, Gore, Myra Breckinridge, Boston & Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1968, 8vo (210mm.), half title, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, First Edition. With a number of other works including Henry Miller's 'Just Wild About Harry' (New York, 1963), Maude Hutchins 'Love is a Pie' (New York, 1952), Kingsley Amis 'Take a Girl like You' (London, 1960), John Updike's 'Couples' (London, 1968), Lawrence Durrell's 'The Black Book' (New York, 1960), Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Capricorn' (New York, 1961), Nelson Algren 'A Walk on the Wild Side' (London, 1957), Norman Mailer's 'Deaths For The Ladies (and other disasters) ' (New York, 1962), Edna O'Brien 'August is a Wicked Month' (London, 1965), John Osborne 'The World of Paul Slickey' (London, 1959), Stephen Schneck's 'The Nightclerk' (New York, 1965), and Charles A. Lindbergh 'The Spirit of St Louis' (New York, 1953).
![Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], When The Sleeper Wakes A Story of the Years to Come, London & New York, Harper & Brothers, 1899,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2615363/477-66-10011_468x382.jpg)
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], When The Sleeper Wakes A Story of the Years to Come, London & New York, Harper & Brothers, 1899, crown 8vo (190 x 130mm.), half title, 3 black and white plates, original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, First Edition. Wells referred ot this works as 'one of the most ambitous and least satisfactory of my books'.
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], The First Men in the Moon, London, George Newnes, 1901, 8vo (190 x 130mm.) pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-342 [343-344: blank - final leaf blank], half title, frontispiece, and 11 plates by Claude Shepperson, one plate partially loose, original decorated blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, First Edition.
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], The Food of The Gods and how it came to earth, London, Macmilan and Co, 1904, 8vo (190 x 130mm.), half title, advertisements at end, contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper, original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, t.e.g., First Edition. First Issue.
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], Men Like Gods, London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1923, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), half title, slight browning to endpapers, original green cloth, dust-jacket, slightly creased and nicked, second state binding with publisher's name in blind at foot of the spine, First Edition, Second Issue.
![Wells, H[erbert G[eorge], The Stolen Bacillus and other incidents, London, Methuen & Co, 1895, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), 32-page p](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2615363/495-66-10011_468x382.jpg)
![Wells, H[erbert G[eorge], The Wonderful Visit, London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1895, 8vo (190 x 130mm.), half title, title printed](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2615363/496-66-10011_468x382.jpg)
Wells, H[erbert G[eorge], The Wonderful Visit, London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1895, 8vo (190 x 130mm.), half title, title printed in red and black, endpapers lightly browned, original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, angel designed by Arthur Rackham stamped in gilt on front cover, spine a little faded, and sides slightly bumped and soiled, hinges cracked, First Edition, First issue with the error uncorrected on page 189.
Williamson, Henry, Tarka the Otter His Joyful Water-Life & Death in the Country of the Two Rivers ... With an Introduction by the Hon Sir John Fortescue, London & New York, Chiswick Press for G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, 8vo (240 x 155mm.), half title, original cloth backed spine, title label pasted into spine, t,e,g, booksellers label of Marks & Co of London, booklabel of Betty Handley, One of 1100 Limited Edition copies, First Edition.
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