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Lot 361
Twenty works on the colonial history on the continent of Africa. H. A. MacMichael. 'A History of the Arabs in the Sudan,' first edition, two vols, original cloth, pressed leaves and flowers throughout, plates and maps, At the University Press, Cambridge, 1922; William Charles Baldwin. 'African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi, Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert &c from 1852 to 1860,' secind edition, debound original cloth with issues, a poor copy although complete, spotting throughout, Richard Bentley, London, 1863; Sir Samuel W. Baker. 'The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs,' first edition, original cloth slacking witt split hinges and large chips to head of spine panel, heavy spotting to frontis engraving and titlepage, fold out maps and plates, MacMillan and Co, London, 1867; William J. W. Roome. 'Tramping Through Africa. A Dozen Crossings of the Continent,' original cloth, frontis and plates b+w photographs, slight spotting to edge of text block, A & C black, London, 1930; Lord Cranworth. 'A Coloney in the Making. Or Sport and Profit in British East Africa,' original cloth, nibbles to ends of spine panel, slacking of text block, b+w photographs, MacMillan and Co, London, 1912; With thirteen other works on colonial history on the continent of Africa including 'The Congo Rovers', 'Knight in Afica' and 'Digging Up the Pasy' by C. Leonard Woolley. (20)
Lot 179
Slavery. CLARKSON, Thomas. Two volumes the History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of The Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament Two volumes, first edition, contemporary half leather with marbled boards, rubbed and bumped with some loss to rear board of vol I, contemporary ink signature to title page of vol II, head of titlepage missing where one assumes ink signature was once written, 3 engraved plates, 2 folding, with spotting and small tears on folds of map, toning and spotting to 'restraints' plate, tears to foldout illustrations of 'Slave placement' but easily restored, collated complete, sporadic spotting throughout both vols with evidence of worm on pp378-376 to vol I, this is a got set of a very important work, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1808. (2)Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a prominent British abolitionist and a key figure in the movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. Clarkson's journey as an abolitionist began in 1785 when he entered an essay competition at the University of Cambridge. The topic of the competition was "Is it lawful to enslave the unconsenting?" His research for the essay exposed him to the realities of the slave trade, and he became deeply committed to its abolition. Clarkson's essay won first prize, and this marked the beginning of his lifelong dedication to the abolitionist cause.One of Clarkson's most significant achievements was his collaboration with William Wilberforce, a Member of Parliament who spearheaded the parliamentary campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. Clarkson provided Wilberforce with evidence and support, and together, they worked tirelessly to rally support within Parliament and the general public. Their efforts culminated in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. (Hochschild, A. (2006). Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves)Rubbed and bumped with some loss to rear board of vol I, contemporary ink signature to title page of vol II, head of titlepage missing where one assumes ink signature was once written, spotting and small tears on folds of map, toning and spotting to 'restraints' plate, tears to foldout illustrations of 'Slave placement' but easily restored, evidence of some small worm trails to foot of vol I pp.363-451 and to head of vol II pp.111-145.There are some condition issues, but generally speaking this work is in a fair to good condition, tipping towards good.Please see photos uploaded.
Lot 326
Three works related to Cornish places Sir Alexander Cardew (Indian Civil Service retired). 'A Memoir of the Reverend Cornelius Cardew D.D. Master of the Truro Grammar School and Rector of St Erme, Cornwall,' first edition, being the family history from the mid 18th century to the late 19th century, 161 pages plus index, in original boards, covers slightly foxed, good tight binding, very clean contents, overall a good copy, scarce, Netherton and Worth, Truro, 1926.The Rev. Aug. B. Donaldson M.A. The Bishopric of Truro - the first twenty five years 1877-1902, (with a poem ‘’in memoriam’’ by A. T. Quiller-Couch), published by Rivington’s, London, first edition,1902. 8vo, 420 pages engraved frontispiece and 5 plates all with tissue guards. A good copy.June Palmer, Truro in the Seventeenth Century, ‘a pattern of place and people’, 81 pages, 1988 first edition. .Stuart Ludlum, Exploring Cornwall 100 years ago, 1981 first edition, pub by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London. 32 pages in good condition.
Lot 298
James Watt interest. MEMORIALS OF THE LINEAGE, EARLY LIFE, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GENIUS OF JAMES WATT By George Williamson. (1856) Printed for the Watt Club by Thomas Constable, Printer to Her Majesty. First edition. Orig green cloth. Pp262. Three engraved portraits, 6 plates (1 double page, 3 tinted, 2 folding) with 7 facsimiles of James Watt’s letters and a large folding engraved map. With intact folding plates (1)
Lot 40
Nicholas James. 'Poems on Several Occasions,' 1742, first edition, published by Andrew Brice (born in Exeter and apprenticed to Joseph Bliss, and only seems to have been in Truro for a brief period with the vast majority of his output in Exeter), 16mo, hardback, good, 148 pages, gilt lettering to spine.E.S.T.C. shows six locations in the uk, ten in the U.S. and one other, not in Johnson, though he did have a copy in the three volume catalogue 'English Verse' 1701-1750, subscribers list at the back, a good copy.
Lot 101
LARKIN, Philip 'The Whitsun Weddings' First edition, loosely inserted is a Poetry Book Society supplement with a contribution from Larkin, fine condition including unclipped dust jacket, Faber, 1964.Some very light sun bleaching to front panel of dj, a small amount of spotting to the top fore edge and spotting to the supplement.
Lot 48
Magical Digest, a large format promotional note for £1 (2), ND (c.1950’s), serial number S/R 876520, signed by Garpinta the Office Rabbit, and specifying that ‘this currency note is not legal tender of any amount’, first example very fine, second fine, scarce and amusing (2 notes) Outing unlisted £100-£150 --- Magical Digest was a monthly magazine published by Oscar Oswald in the 1950s, in London. This ‘note’ was given out with a Christmas edition of the publication, but the exact year is not known.
Lot 265
Wodehouse, P G, a collection of first edition novels, including Herbert Jenkins editions: Mulliner Nights, 1933 first printing, Joy in the Morning, 1947 first UK printing, A Gentleman of Leisure, later printing, Mulliner Omnibus, 1935 first printing; Newnes: My Man Jeeves, 1919, 1920s reprint; New York: Doubleday, If I Were You, 1931; together with five Herbert Jenkins later printings of Money For Nothing, Picadilly Jim, Heavy Weather, Quick Service, Luck of the Bodkins, all cloth bound, no dust jackets (11)
Lot 248
Sitwell, Osbert, 1949, Demos the Emperor, London: MacMillan, first edition, signed and dedicated by the author; De La Mare, Walter, 1928, Self to Self, with wood engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton, London: Faber and Gwyer, signed 1st edition, number 391 of 500; Garnett, David, 1928, Old Dovecote, Glasgow: University Press, signed by the author and numbered 450 of 530 (3)
Lot 218
Private Eye: The first edition Friday 25th October 1961 (vol. 1 no.1) printed on three sheets of orange paper, original staples; and the subsequent two editions (Tuesday 7th November and Thursday 30th November), no.2 printed on three sheets of orange paper (original staples), no. 3 on orange folded paper and loose centre sheet; and the 'Once Only' published 'Swill' magazine, edited by Patrick Allen and Ralph Steadman, words by Patrick Allen, drawings by Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe (tears to back two pages and spine)Qty: 4
Lot 222
Arthur Ransome, ten first edition novels published by Jonathan Cape from the Swallows and Amazons series, with dust covers, prices and green cloth bindings: Peter Duck (1932), owner's inscription in ink dated 1932 on the flyleaf; Winter Holiday (1933); Coot Club (1934) with loose Erratum leaf for page 19; Pigeon Post (1936); We Didn't Mean to go to Sea (1937); Secret Water (1939) owner's stamp on front endpaper map; The Big Six (1940); Missee Lee (1941) owner's inscription in ink dated 1941 on the flyleaf; The Picts and The Martyrs (1943); Great Northern? (1947)Qty: 10
Lot 373
Dickens, Charles. Mixed collection of works to include Bleak House, first edition bound from the parts with characteristic stab-holes, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853, two Lloyd's Sixpenny Novels editions of Oliver Twist and Old Curiosity Shop, and others, condition varied, sold with all faults (17)
Lot 63
Football Autographed Wayne Rooney 16 X 12 Auto-Edition: Colorized, Depicting Man United's Wayne Rooney Celebrating After Scoring The Opening Goal Against Chelsea In The 2011 Champions League Quarter-Final First Leg At Stamford Bridge, Signed In Black Marker. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Lot 134
First edition 1956, printed in the People's Republic of China from author Isreal Epstein. Regarding the opium war, Taiping revolution, revolutionary wars, and War of Liberation 1946-49. Pages number 145 with canvas spine cover and hard front and back cover.Dimensions: 6"L x 0.5"W x 8.5"HCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 131
New York: Lee Furman, 1939. First edition hardcover book with original dust jacket cover. Signed and inscribed by the author in pencil and in green ink. Lowell Jackson Thomas (American, 1892-1981) was a writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler best remembered for popularizing T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. 'Magic Dials: The Story of Radio and Television' contains over 140-pages, discussing the technological history with colored, and black and white images.Artist: Lowell ThomasIssued: 1939Dimensions: 9"W x 12"H x 0.75"DEdition Number: 1st Edition Manufacturer: Lee FurmanCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Good.
Lot 105
Satellite! The first step into the last frontier, the full facts about man's exploration of space, authored by Erik Bergaust and William Beller. Published in New York in 1956. Hardcover, First Edition, 240 pages.Published in 1956, before the launch of the Sputnik satellite into orbit, this book provides a viewpoint of the coming future of space exploration from two astrophysicists. Artist: Eric Bergaust and William BellerIssued: 1956Dimensions: 8.5"L x 5.75"W x 1"HCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 3091
AMIS, Martin. Yellow Dog. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition, second impression, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (minor mark to upper panel). - And a further thirteen volumes of 20th century fiction (including William Golding's 'The Pyramid', 1967, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis' 'The James Bond Dossier', 1965, 8vo) (14).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3014
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo (183 x 114mm.) 4 plates. (Lacking 12 plates, soiling to half-title which is also partially loose, soiling to initial blank and margin of p.31, text-block cracked at pp.81-82.) Original red pictorial cloth (discolouring to upper cover, bumped and rubbed, spine panel heavily rubbed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3052
AFRICA. - Albert R. COOK. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, limited to 750 copies only, 4to (247 x 183mm.) Photographic plates, 2 folding maps. (Toning.) Original green cloth (extremities bumped, minor damp-spots). - And a further twenty miscellaneous volumes (including T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 1936, 4to, and E.L. Grant Watson's 'The Leaves Return', 1947, 4to) (21).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3019
BINDING. - Ayn RAND. The Fountainhead. New York and Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition, early printing, 8vo (200 x 134mm.) (Light toning.) Full black morocco bound by Asprey, two purple morocco lettering pieces to the spine, g.e. Note: Rand's first major novel. Her main character, Howard Roark, overcomes obstacles to demonstrate that 'man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress'. It became a best-seller and was also the first statement of Rand's ideas.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3145
NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers Afield. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1955. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 133mm.) Colour frontispiece and illustrations by Diana Stanley. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (spotting to spine), dust-jacket (loss to spine ends, tape repairs to upper panel). - And a further three volumes of Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers' series (including 'The Borrowers Afloat', 1959, 8vo, 'The Borrowers Aloft', 1961, 8vo, and 'The Borrowers Avenged', 1982, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3087
TRAVEL. - J.W. GREGORY. The Great Rift Valley, Being a Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo (226 x 153mm.) Half-title, colour frontispiece, 20 photographic plates, 2 folding maps, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to endpapers, some damp-staining to rear pastedown.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped, discolouring to lower cover). - And a further eight volumes (including Samuel Sharp's 'Letters From Italy', [1767], 8vo, and Nagayo Ogasawara's 'Life of Admiral Togo', 1934, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3078
JOHNSON, Samuel. Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: J.F. & C. Rivington et al., 1785. Seventh edition, folio (413 x 256mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds. (Frontispiece with chipped margins and a tear, laid-down, title-page with marginal paper repairs and first and last leaves also, browning, minor spotting.) 19th century calf-backed paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). Note: the first unabridged edition in one volume, published just after Johnson's death.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3007
MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo (183 x 115mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, faint crease to front-free endpaper.) Original blue limp calf, pictorial gilt, g.e. (spine lightly rubbed, extremities bumped).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/52a8a9aa-ee8e-41bc-9cd4-b03f00b08831/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3039
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907]. First trade edition, 8vo (202 x 153mm.) Half-title, 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional very minor spotting.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (some fading to spine). Provenance: B.H. Waite (name inscribed verso frontispiece).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3171
BIRDS. - Michel THEVENOT and Rae VERNON and Patrick BERGIER. The Birds of Morocco. Herts, Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2003. First edition, 8vo (245 x 156mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Pictorial boards. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five further volumes related to birds (including Hadoram Shirihai and Gabriel Gargallo and Andreas J. Helbig's 'Sylvia Warblers', 2001, 8vo) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/94d18280-218a-47c7-9a47-b03f00b091b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3053
SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black and white lithographed caricatures of local dignitaries and officials, 2pp. 'Index To Cartoons'. (Browning and spotting to first and last leaves.) Near contemporary green buckram, gilt lettering to upper cover (wear to spine ends, rubbed). Note: the 'Brightonian' was a weekly Brighton newspaper that had an unnamed caricature of a local official in every edition. They were mostly drawn by 'Sea Salt'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3003
MITFORD, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. First edition, first impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Spotting to pastedowns, browning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (two large tears with some loss to upper panel and tail of spine). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket. The first novel in Mitford's 'Radlett Trilogy'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3109
SMITH, John Thomas. An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (218 x 137mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original black blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spines (light rubbing, occasional mark, lower joint of vol. 1 splitting). Provenance: Mary Ann (name-plate to pastedowns) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![[COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts. London: for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox et al., 1721.] Sixth edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/3e9c35bb-1223-4eaf-9b5c-b03f00b0a634/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3083
[COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts. London: for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox et al., 1721.] Sixth edition. Engraved folding frontispiece. (Lacking title and blanks, lacking plates, browning, occasional corner creases, half-title for 'Venerie Normande, ou L'Ecole de la Chasse' mistakenly bound-in.) [Bound with:] John MANWOOD. An Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws, and Of All the Acts of Parliament Made Since. London: by H.P. for N.C., 1721. Black letter. (Corner loss to Hhh4 and first leaf of 'The Table for Hunting', browning.) 8vo (194 x 115mm.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). - And a further twelve volumes (including J. Farmer's 'The History of the Ancient Town, and Once Famous Abbey, of Waltham, in the County of Essex', 1735, 8vo) (13).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3159
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second issue, 8vo (179 x 108mm.) 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1855. (Toning, two quires loose, light spotting to endpapers.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (some loss to spine ends). - And a quantity of approximately ninety-five further editions of Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha', many illustrated (including 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustrated by George H. Thomas, 1860, 4to, and Walt Disney's 'Hiawatha', 1938, folio, and 'Hiawatha' illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1906, 4to, and 'The Player's Edition' of 'The Song of Hiawatha' with illustrations of Wa-ya-ga-mug and the Indian Players from photographs by Grace Chandler Horn, 1911, 4to) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/9c9a7a1d-22d8-4a7a-bcfb-b03f00b0ac6e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3092
NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition, 8vo (220 x 139mm.) 4 wood-engraved illustrations by Paul Nash. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, faint spotting to 1 illustration.) Original boards designed by Paul Nash, paper label to spine (spine ends lightly rubbed, small stain to lower cover). Provenance: L.E.C. Hughes (stamp to front-free endpaper and title-page). - And a further thirty-nine mainly literary volumes (including Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', 1946, 8vo) (40).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3108
DODD, George. Days at the Factories. London: Charles Knight, 1843. First edition, 8vo (195 x 138mm.) 25 plates, including 2 folding. (Toning, paper repair to p.78.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (upper joint split, inner hinge weakened, light rubbing). Provenance: Alfred Ernest Maskew(?) (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper); R.M. Philpott (ink name inscribed to front pastedown); A.R. Mounten (ink name inscribed front-free endpaper). - And a further eight related volumes (including Archibald Prentice's 'Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester', 1851, 8vo, and 'Report of the Poor Law Commissioners', 1840, 8vo, and John Tidd Pratt's 'The Law for Facilitating the Enclosure of Open and Arable Fields in England and Wales', 1837, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3131
GALLAND, Antoine (translator). Les Mille et Une Nuit, Contes Arabes. Traduit en François par Mr. Galland. Lyon: Antoine Briasson. 1706-1719. 11 vols. [of 12.]., early edition, 8vo (147 x 81mm.) Engraved decoration to titles, headpieces and initials. (Occasional browning, label residue to pastedowns.) Contemporary calf, gilt (partial loss to spine panel of vol. 2, extremities rubbed). Note: rare. The first European translation of 'The Thousand and One Nights' was Antoine Galland's and it was published in Paris in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717. This publication dates of this set are vols. 1-4, 1709; vol. 5, 1717; vol. 6, 1719; vol. 7, 1706; vol. 8, 1710; vol. 9, 1713; vol. 11-12, 1717. Vol. 10 is lacking. Also note that vol. 8 is published by Freres Bruyset. Provenance: Luke A. Ionides (name-plates to front pastedowns); Miss. Craies (ink inscribed as a 'donation from' on front pastedowns); Gloucestershire County Library (stamps to front pastedown and title-pages) (11).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3013
WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Ernest. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition, unnumbered copy from an edition of 1000 only, small 4to (206 x 147mm.) (Toning.) Original lilac cloth, decorative gilt designed by Charles Shannon (discolouring to spine, spine ends bumped).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3093
ORWELL, George. Coming Up For Air. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First edition, second impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Occasional minor spotting.) Original blue cloth (some sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, lower joint splitting.) - And a further thirty-two literary volumes (including the fourth impression of Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon', 1943, 2 vols., 8vo, and J.K. Huysmans' 'Against the Grain', [1946], 8vo) (33).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, sig](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/3712b87e-e91d-4931-b2e5-b03f00b0735e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3009
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, signed and inscribed by Lewis Carroll to the half-title, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) Numerous illustrations by Harry Furniss, 'Advertisement Leaf' loosely inserted. (Toning, some spotting to preliminaries and rear endpaper.) Original red cloth, gilt roundels to covers, g.e. (slight fading to spine, minor staining spots to spine and lower cover). Note: the inscription reads: 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards, Dec. 28th, 1893'. It's possible that Lady Eustace Cecil was the inspiration for 'Lady Muriel' in 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded'. They met in 1875 at a party in Hatfield House at the invitation of Lord and Lady Salisbury. Provenance: Lady Eustace Cecil (inscribed to by the author on the half-title).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3089
COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone, A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. New edition, 8vo (225 x 146mm.) Double-column text, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking half-title?) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (top of spine torn, some staining to covers). Provenance: H.J. Starbuck (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper and to first text leaf). - And a further eighteen volumes (including W.B Yeats' 'The Cutting of an Agate', 1919, 8vo) (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3066
LANG, Andrew (editor). The Brown Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) 8 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning, occasional minor spotting, front-free endpaper loosening.) Original brown cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. (upper joint splitting, slight spine lean). Provenance: Rita B. Longhouse (name inscribed to the initial blank). - And a further six volumes (including 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' illustrated by Frank Brangwyn, 1919, 4to) (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3139
PRATCHETT, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1988. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (215 x 136mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth (slight spine lean), dust-jacket (spotting verso, lightly bumped extremities, crease to inner flap). Note: Pratchett's signature in the earlier style.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3119
GREECE. - King CONSTANTINE I. A King's Private Letters, Being Letters written by King Constantine of Greece to Paola Princess of Saxe-Weimar during the Years 1912 to 1923. London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited, 1925. First edition, inscribed by Paola Princess of Saxe-Weimar, 8vo (213 x 133mm.) 2 photographic plates. (Mild toning.) Original purple cloth (sunned to the spine, wear to spine ends). Provenance: Paola, Princess of Saxe-Weimar (gift inscribed from on the frontispiece); Prince Arthur of Connaught (gift inscribed to on the frontispiece).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/c6e4d60f-912e-4d9a-ac98-b03f00b07d3e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3023
DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. Fourteenth edition, 8vo (163 x 94mm.) Etched hand-coloured frontispiece, half-title, title in red and blue. (Browned to margins, spotting to title, occasional browning and minor soiling.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt wreath to upper cover, g.e. (chipped at top of spine, bumped to extremities, minor stains to covers). Provenance: W.H. Smith & Son Library (embossed stamp to half-title). - And a further four volumes comprising all the 'Christmas Books' (a first edition of 'The Battle of Life', 1846, 8vo, a thirteenth edition of 'The Chimes', 1845, 8vo, a twenty-second edition of 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 1846, 8vo and a first edition of 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', 1848, 8vo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3073
DRYDEN, John. The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas. London: Jacob Tonson and Richard Wellington, 1701. 2 vols., first collected edition, folio (346 x 199mm.) Titles in red and black. (Lacking portrait frontispiece, intermittent browning but heavily in vol. 1 Eee3-Xxx, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering pieces (rebacked, later front pastedown to vol. 2). Provenance: B. W. Beatson (ink inscribed to initial blanks).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3122
AFRICA. - Henry Morton STANLEY. How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone. London: Sampson Low etc., 1872. First edition, 8vo (219 x 136mm.) Half-title, mounted photographic frontispiece, 5 maps including 4 folding, 28 plates, illustrations in the text, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (1 map with a six-inch closed tear, toning, occasional light spotting.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (hinges weakened, joints rubbed). Provenance: Walter Beaton (ink inscribed to half-title); Andrew G. Beaton (ink inscribed to half-title). - And a further volume (David and Charles Livingstone's 'Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries', 1865, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
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