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Lot 541
TV 21 FIRST SERIES - a large group of magazines comprising a signed edition (Alan Fennell) of TV21 #78 together with issues #5, #8, #9, #11, #17, #18, #19, #21 (x 2), #22, #26, #27, #29 (x 2), #30, #31 (x 2), #33, #34 (x 2), #35, #37, #38, #41 (x 2), #42, #43, #45., #46, #48, #49, #51, #56, #60, #68, #71, #77, #80, #90, #96, #98, #101, #103, #104, #106, #107, #110, #113, #114, #115, #119, #127, #130, #131, #133, #136, #138, #157, #160, #172, #210, #211, #216, #223 (a few condition issues such as tears and missing pages) ; and TV21 extra editions to include THUNDERBIRDS (x 2), SPRING EXTRA 1967, SUMMER EXTRA 1966, SUMMER EXTRA 1965, 48 PAGE STINGRAY, INTERNATIONAL EXTRA (72 in lot)
Lot 1029
Three Ian Fleming first edition James Bond books published by Jonathan Cape, to include: You Only Live Twice (1964), Thunderball (1961) (facsimile dust jacket), Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966), with seventh impression of The Spy Who Loved Me (1965). (4). Condition Report: All four books have aged well, with no noticeable tears. browning to edges to paper and some foxing to earlier books. Thunder ball has reproduction dust jacket and board bent. yolt some damage to board.
Lot 1140
James Bond - Ian Fleming Casino Royale first edition, first impression book published by Jonathan Cape in 1953. Rebound with full leather cover and custom felt interior slipcase. Bound with high quality back leather and bespoke gold gilding to match the classic dust-jacket. The re-bound book has been re-stitched with new head and tail bands, and also features new age-appropriate endpapers, and a red page-marker ribbon. This was a non-library book with clean inner pages, with no marks or inscriptions.
Lot 158
No Baloney by Frank Maloney First Edition 2003 Hardback Book published by Mainstream Publishing Co Ltd some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 189
Ruby Robert alias Bob Fitzsimmons by Robert H Davis Hardback Book 1926 First Edition published by George H Doran Co some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 178
Benny by John Burrowes Softback Book 1984 First Softback Edition published by Fontana / Collins some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 116
Jimmy Greaves signed 23x17 black and white print pictured in action for Tottenham Hotspur against Chelsea at White Hart Lane in 1967 limited edition 40/250. James Peter Greaves MBE (20 February 1940 - 19 September 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He is England's fifth highest international goalscorer (44 goals), Tottenham Hotspur's highest ever goalscorer (266 goals), the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football (357 goals), and also scored more hat tricks (six) for England than anyone else. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons. He is also a member of the English Football Hall of Fame. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 117
Geoff Hurst signed 23x17 black and white print pictured scoring the first goal of his hat trick during the 1966 world cup final limited edition 208/250. Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he remains the only man to score a hat trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4-2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 166
Lewis Hamilton My Story by Lewis Hamilton 2007 First Edition Hardback Book published by HarperSport (Harper Collins) some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 163
Frank Fighting Back by Frank Bruno with Kevin Mitchell First Edition 2005 Hardback Book published by Yellow Jersey Press some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 114
John Charles signed 23x17 black and white print pictured with the legendary Ferenc Puskas during his playing days with Juventus. William John Charles CBE (27 December 1931 - 21 February 2004) was a Welsh footballer who played as a centre forward or as a centre back. Best known for his first stint at Leeds United and Juventus, he was rated by many as the greatest all round footballer ever to come from Britain. Limited edition 62/125. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 181
Gloves, Glory and God by Henry Armstrong Hardback Book 1957 First Edition published by Peter Davies some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 172
The Rebel Derek Roche Irish Warrior British Champion by Nigel McDermid Softback Book 2004 First Edition published by Sportsbooks Ltd some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 118
Jack Charlton signed 23x17 black and white print pictured celebrating after Leeds United win in the 1971 Inter Cities Cup Final second leg Limited edition 157/250. John Charlton OBE DL (8 May 1935 - 10 July 2020) was an English footballer and manager who played as a defender. He was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup and managed the Republic of Ireland national team from 1986 to 1996 achieving two World Cup and one European Championship appearances. He spent his entire club career with Leeds United from 1950 to 1973, helping the club to the Second Division title (1963-64), First Division title (1968-69), FA Cup (1972), League Cup (1968), Charity Shield (1969), Inter Cities Fairs Cup (1968 and 1971), as well as one other promotion from the Second Division (1955-56) and five second place finishes in the First Division, two FA Cup final defeats and one Inter Cities Fairs Cup final defeat. His 629 league and 762 total competitive appearances are club records. He was the elder brother of former Manchester United forward Bobby Charlton, who was also one of his teammates in England's World Cup final victory. In 2006, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest XI. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 170
Joe Louis The Great Black Hope by Richard Bak Hardback Book 1996 First Edition published by Taylor Publishing Co some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 175
Lennox by Melissa Mathison Hardback Book 2002 First Edition published by Little, Brown some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 373
First Day coin cover celebrating the 65th Anniversary of HM The Queen Elizabeth Accession number 6115 of 10, 000. This beautiful coin cover displays an uncirculated £5 coin, a official Royal Mail special edition £5 stamp and is postmarked 6th February 2017. It comes complete with information inserts. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 176
The Fight by Norman mailer Softback Book 1975 First Edition published by Penguin Books some ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 175
Paine (Thomas).- Rickman (Thomas Clio) A select collection of epigrams. Many of them original, first edition, advertisement f., spotted, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip with red leather label, rubbed and marked, 12mo, Printed for Thomas Clio Rickman, Upper-Mary-le-bone-street, and John Walker, No. 44, Paternoster-Row, 1796.⁂ Scarce, with ESTC recording six copies (three each in UK (of which two Bodleian) and US). 'Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he "was to Paine what Boswell was to Johnson"... Paine stayed as a lodger at the Rickmans' home in 1791 and 1792 and while there completed the second part of The Rights of Man... Rickman faced constant suspicion for selling Paine's books. He did not make matters easy for himself by composing and publishing songs in praise of political liberty and the French Revolution' (ODNB). This work includes 'An Impromptu on Thomas Paine's Work - Rights of Man, being prohibited Sale' (p.83).
Lot 172
Provincial political song.- Freeth (John) The political songster or, a touch on the times, on various subjects, and adapted to common tunes, sixth edition, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, two extra leaves paginated 37*-40*, 12pp. list of subscribers at end, portrait offsetting on to title, T6 small hole in text, affecting a few letters, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, 12mo, Birmingham, Printed by Thomas Pearson, for the author, 1790.⁂ Scarce edition. Freeth was the owner of the Leicester Arms, a Birmingham inn and coffee house (popularly known as Freeth's Coffee House). Freeth would write songs based on the events of the day which would then be sung to patrons. The popularity of the songs encouraged Freeth to publish them, with the first collection appearing in 1766 (rare with only 1 copy recorded by ESTC (Birmingham)). Subjects include America, Botany Bay, and slavery.
Lot 260
Inghirami (Francesco) Monumenti Etruschi o de Etrusco Nome, 6 vol. & Index bound in 12, first edition, [one of 350 copies], hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title, 466 engraved plates, many aquatint, a few printed in sepia, many hand-coloured or partly so, a few heightened with gold or silver (a little tarnished), hand-coloured plates with tissue guards, errata leaf and list of subscribers at end of Index, a few titles with traces of old ink inscription, foxing, particularly to text, a few minor marginal tears or defects, contemporary half sheep, worn, especially spines, joints split, some spines defective, 4to, Badia Fiesolana, 1821-26.⁂ Monumental work on all aspects of Etruscan, and some other, antiquities, complete with the Index volume which is often missing.
Lot 140
Education.- Burton (John) Lectures on Female Education and Manners, 2 vol., first edition, 10pp. list of subscribers at end of vol.2 (mostly from Kent), contemporary ink signature of Elizabeth Barton to front free endpapers, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red and black roan labels, rubbed, joints split, slight wear to corners and head of spines, preserved in modern board hinged twin slip-case and another slip-case, roan label to spine, 12mo, Rochester, for the Author, by Gillman and Etherington..., 1793.⁂ Scarce first edition of a work which subsequently became popular in England, Ireland and America, with several editions being published in the 1790s. Burton's topics include needlework, modesty, dancing, temperance, obedience and the duties of a wife. The second edition was published in London by Johnson in the same year; Johnson also published the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and indeed employed her as a reader at the time.ESTC lists 7 copies in the UK and 4 in America; we can trace only one copy of the first edition to have appeared at auction, part of the John & Monica Lawson collection in 2008.
Lot 15
Presentation Roman binding.- Chiavelloni (Vincenzo) Discorsi della musica, first edition, fine engraved additional pictorial title depicting Zeus, Athena, and Hephaestus by Carlo Cesio, woodcut device to printed title, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f. at end, stained and spotted, lower hinge repaired, handsome richly gilt vellum over boards with the arms of Bishop Bernardino Rocci, triple ruled to a panel design, outer border with gilt roll of interlacing tendrils, second with gilt stars, stylised geometrical tools, small eagles to corners, central panel with arabesque corner-pieces, rosettes and arms within decorative interlacing tendrils, flat spine with two rolls of interlacing tendrils, ink title at head, a few small stains and some marking, g.e., 4to (binding 254 x 180mm.), Rome, Ignatio de Lazeri, 1668.⁂ A handsome presentation copy of the rare first and only edition of this important work on the theory of music by Chiavelloni, Canon of the Cathedral of Rieti, and member of the Roman Accademia degli Infecondi. The binding reprises the exquisite style of the Andreoli workshop in Rome, who had been the official binders for the Vatican Library since 1665. Similar (though not identical) tooling can be found on Legatura romana barocca n.71 (1670). The arms are those of bishop and future cardinal Bernardino Rocci (1627-1680), who had been made a bishop on 22nd April, 1668, and was the head of the afore-mentioned academy. Provenance: 'Bibliothecae Petri Buoninsegni Senis 1814'. Pietro Buoninsegni was a Sienese gentleman, who owned an important private library at the turn of the 19th century; 'Landau 16654'. Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903) was the representative of the Rothschild bank in Turin, and a renowned collector and bibliophile. He accumulated c.60,000 books and manuscripts - one of the finest private collections in Europe. After his death, the collection was preserved and enlarged by his niece Jenny Ellenberger-Finaly, and eventually dispersed in 1949. (Bookplates to front pastedown).
Lot 165
Fables.- Aesop. Fables translated from Æsop, and other authors, translated by Charles Draper, first Draper edition, engraved frontispiece by A. Walker after I. Lister, 202 wood-engraved illustrations in text, a few ink stains, some foxing, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary speckled sheep, gilt, spine and corners worn, upper cover detaching, rubbed and scuffed, 12mo, Printed for W. Bristow, in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1760.⁂ Rare first Draper edition. We find only one auction record (1974, £65 to Quaritch). Draper's preface is a vehement attack on Samuel Croxall's version of Aesop. Provenance: 'J. Harvey, Broadway 1770' (red ink inscription to upper margin of frontispiece); 'Mr. A. Collins, Broadway' (19th century ink inscription to verso of frontispiece).
Lot 21
Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia, 4 vol., half-title in vol.1 only with 'avviso a' legatori' to verso, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece and dedication leaf, portrait of dedicatee Empress Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia and of Dante, engraved title-vignettes, 'argomento' at head of each canto, initials and tail-pieces, 110 plates by Magnini, Rizzi, Crivellari and others after Fontebasso, Zompini, Schiavonio and Marcaggi, folding genealogical table, with the 2 leaves of subscribers at end of vol.1 (3E3-4) and one at end of vol.2 (3F4), wide margins, later red morocco, gilt, by Petit, spines gilt in compartments, t.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, some rubbing to corners and lower edge, 4to, Venice, Presso Antonio Zatta, 1757-58.⁂ A lovely set of this typographic masterpiece, which was also the first illustrated edition since 1596 and includes a biography of the poet and commentary by scholars P. Pompeo Venturi and Gio-Antonio Volpe.
Lot 261
Inghirami (Francesco) Pitture di Vasi Fittili, 4 vol., first edition, 405 engraved plates, 13 aquatint or stipple-engraved and printed in colours, some finished by hand, some foxing, 2 plates in vol.4 with short tear to fore-margin, contemporary cloth-backed boards, vellum tips, rubbed, spines faded, 4to, Fiesole, 1835-33-37.⁂ Scarce work on ancient vases.
Lot 296
Niceron (Jean François) Thaumaturgus opticus..., first edition in Latin, half-title, engraved additional pictorial title by Audran after Voüet and 42 engraved plates, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams in text, contemporary ink signatures of Bertherand at head and foot of engraved title, text lightly browned, plates 4 & 32 with slight oxidisation, later half calf, preserving old morocco label on spine, rubbed, new endpapers, folio, Paris, F.Langlois, 1646.⁂ Influential work on the practical applications of perspective, catoptrics, dioptrics, and the illusory effects of optics then traditionally associated with natural magic. First published in French in 1638 as Perspective Curieuse ou Magie Artificielle, this Latin edition is an expanded version with more illustrations. Niceron was an artist and a Minim friar and was interested in the use of anamorphosis in religious art. In attempting to find a scientific solution to the problems presented by perspective he worked out the geometrical algorithms for producing anamorphic art. Several of the plates depict artists using perspective machines for painting murals and plate 2 includes an early illustration of a camera obscura.
Lot 342
Oxfordshire.- Ackermann (Rudolph) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, list of subscribers, engraved portrait of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, 81 hand-coloured plates comprising 64 aquatint views by Buck, Stadler, Hill & others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall & others and 17 stipple-engraved plates of academic costumes, plus the 33 hand-coloured portraits of the Founders, occasional foxing, offsetting from most of the plates, slight water-stain to inner margin of Chancellor's portrait and adjacent leaves, contemporary aubergine straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., 2 head-bands missing, a little rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery 280; Tooley 5], 4to, 1814.⁂ Handsome set, complete with the often-missing Founders portraits. Three of the plates are in first state and the plates are bound in the order cited by Abbey, with plate 20 found in volume 2 and plates 98 and 98a in volume 1. A small publisher's promotional pamphlet is loosely inserted.
Lot 291
Mathematics with 'moveable cuts'.- Ward (John) The posthumous works of Mr. John Ward, Author Of The Young Mathematician's Guide, 2 parts in 1, folding plate of moveable cuts, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, ink inscription partially erased from head of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and little scuffed, some staining, 8vo, Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1765.⁂ A reissue of the 1730 edition, with a different title and sig. B reset. The first part deals with navigation and the second spherical trigonometry. Includes: 'A table of difference of latitude and departure.'; 'A table of meridional parts, or miles.' and 'A table of parallel parts in half a mile's differ. of Longitude.' each with a separate title dated 1729.Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey (large purple pictorial stamp to front free endpaper).
Lot 229
Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, portrait frontispiece with a few spots to margin, tissue guard, light browning to title, browning to endpapers, short split to upper hinge but holding firm, original cloth, light discolouration to spine ends but paper label to spine still very bright, corners bumped, sm.4to, 1920.⁂ The most important book of poetry from the first world war. The power of Owen's poetry is as significant today as it was when first written, under the encouragement of Siegfried Sassoon (who wrote the introduction to this posthumously published collection), in the trenches of Flanders, mostly in 1917 and 1918. Owen was killed one week before the armistice was signed in 1918.
Lot 322
Osborn (Lt. Col. Robert D.) Lawn Tennis: Its Players and How to Play, with the Laws of the Game, ?first edition, diagram on verso of final leaf with some pencil annotations, a little damp-cockled throughout, original green cloth, lettered in gilt, very slightly marked, preserved in a contemporary (not original) paper dust-jacket with ms label to upper cover "To be kept clean", 12mo, Strahan and Company, [?1881].⁂ Early and scarce work on tennis.
Lot 11
Frankfurt Book Fair.- H.P. Kraus copy.- Estienne (Henri) Francofordiense emporium, sive Francofordienses nundinae, collation: *4, a-i8, k4, woodcut printer's device to title, decorative head-pieces and initials, water-staining and spotting, lightly browned, British Museum duplicate with ink stamps to verso of title (showing through) and foot of verso of final f., modern limp vellum, cloth slip-case, 8vo (170 x 100 mm.), [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1574.⁂ First and only edition of the printer's own laudatory account of the Frankfurt Fair based on his experiences selling books there the previous year. It includes descriptions of the merchandise for sale, including horses, weapons, clothing, and household goods. There are many references to food and drink - 'Besides praising the wines of Bacharach, Estienne cites a number of Greek and Roman authors who wrote for and against drunkenness' (Simon). Schreiber assesses it as 'an extremely desirable and rare book, which today seldom comes on the market.'.Provenance: British Museum duplicate (stamps); H.P.Kraus (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 April 2003, lot 226).Literature: Adams S1768; Renouard Estienne, 139:2; Schreiber Estienne, 189; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchia II, 235.
![[Austen (Jane)] Mansfield Park: A Novel... By the Author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice.", 3 vol., firs](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0c5be023-91b9-447b-ad4d-ae1d00a00107/47be678b-095b-450d-b38c-ae1d00a215cb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 178
[Austen (Jane)] Mansfield Park: A Novel... By the Author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice.", 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, blank O4 in volume 2 and advertisement leaf in volume 3, vol. 2 lacking text f. C5 (pp.33-34), several marginal chips or tears, vol. 2 E1, E8 and G5 with tears touching or running into text, occasional foxing and light soiling, occasional light corner creasing, Campbell family bookplate to pastedowns, contemporary half calf, joint rubbed and a little cracked, some spine ends chipped with a few repairs, [Gilson A6], 12mo, Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1814.⁂ First edition of Austen's third novel, which sold out within six months
Lot 100
Appianus, Alexandrinus. An Auncient Historie and exquisite Chronicle of the Romanes warres, both Civile and Foren, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, largely printed in black letter, first title with woodcut arms to verso trimmed and window-mounted, lacking A2, sub-title to Continuation of first part with woodcut device, title to part 2 within typographic border, full-page woodcut coat-of-arms on [par]1 of part 2, woodcut initials and device at end of part 1, 3B1 corner defective with loss of a couple of words of text, some headlines shaved, some minor marginal worming, occasional foxing and soiling, later panelled calf, rebacked, [STC 713; Pforzheimer 9], by Raufe Newbery, and Henrie Bynniman, 1578.⁂ Believed to have been translated by William Barker, a Catholic in the service of the Duke of Norfolk. Quite scarce at auction.
![Agriculture & Cookery.- Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature, [second edition], title within typographic bor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0c5be023-91b9-447b-ad4d-ae1d00a00107/f5a80f50-2278-48ac-a3ce-ae1d00a2fd23/468x382.jpg)
Lot 114
Agriculture & Cookery.- Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature, [second edition], title within typographic border and woodcut of ear of barley to verso, woodcut illustrations, X2 with clean tear into text but not affecting legibility, F4 repaired tear through text, some light marginal soiling and water-staining, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners rubbed, [Wing P2390; Duveen 476; Bitting p.373; Cagle 935; Simon BG 1186; Kress 889; Goldsmiths' 1294], 4to, Printed by Bernard Alsop, 1653.⁂ Second edition (first published in 1594) of this compendium of useful household information including instructions on storing fruit and flowers, 'how to carry gold in a most secret manner', brewing, 'how to speak by signs onely', stealing bees, preventing drunkenness, 'keeping oysters good ten or twelve days', distilling, alchemy, a portable pump, oilskin clothing, sign language, bridge building, fishing, reviving colours of old pictures and much more.
Lot 341
Kent.- Lambarde (William) A perambulation of Kent: conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570, first edition, black letter, title within woodcut typographic border, engraved map after Richard Lyne, additional f. signed H2 'The names of Kentish writers' misbound after C4, woodcut decorative initials, map trimmed with some loss, first 2 sigs. trimmed at foot, just touching foot of title's border and signature marks, occasional spotting and soiling, 18th century Irish speckled sheep, gilt, spine in compartments and with heraldic crest with arm holding scimitar and later (but to style) red and black leather labels, spine and corners repaired, a few small stains, [STC 15175], [By Henrie Middleton] for Ralphe Nevvberie, dwelling in Fleetestreete a litle aboue the Conduit, 1576.⁂ The first edition of this first English county history is rare at auction. Provenance: Frederick Trench (1775-1859), Tory politician and British Army officer from Ballinakill, in Queen's County (now Laois), Ireland. He was among those who supported improvement plans for London, such as The Embankment. A similarly bound book found in Folger (STC 4865); Bernard Quaritch (penciled collation note at end); Prof. Eric Stanley (1923-2018) Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford (bookplate to front pastedown).
Lot 194
Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, first issue with 'Rigaud' for Blandois in part 15 and errata slip in part 16, 40 etched pates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), all advertisements and slips as called for, part 11 with an additional 4pp. advertisement for Norton's Camomile Pills at back, most plates with some spotting to blank margins, plates 25 and 26 more heavily foxed, part 17 pp.3-4 unopened along fore-edge, part 19/20 two pages unopened along fore- or top-edge, original printed blue wrappers, some very light surface soiling or spotting, mainly to spines or along joints, some spines with light repairs, some light creasing, part 14 two small chips at upper cover lower corner and lower cover spine, part 1 with small chip (repaired) upper cover fore-edge, but a bright set overall, preserved in green cloth drop-front box, [Hatton&Cleaver pp.307-330], 8vo, 1855-57.
Lot 149
Dress.- Duties of a Lady's Maid (The); with Directions for Conduct, and Numerous Receipts for the Toilette, only edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, gilt, spine faded, 1825 § Whole Art of Dress! (The) or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion...Gentleman's Costume...By a Cavalry Officer, first edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 6 lithographed plates of coats, neckwear, hats, boots etc., 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end, frontispiece with tape stain to foot and defective at upper inner corner (repaired and loss to corner supplied in watercolour), stain to lower margin of title and some other leaves, modern boards preserving original pictorial wrapper to upper cover, rubbed and stained, 1830 § Holt (Ardern) Fancy Dresses Described; or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls, fifth edition, plates, 16 chromolithographed, original cloth, gilt, Debenham & Freebody, [1887], all a little rubbed, 8vo (3)⁂ The first is scarce, with only 6 copies listed by Library Hub.
Lot 141
Wollstonecraft (Mary) Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, first edition, lacking final advertisement leaf, contemporary ink signature to head of title, slight worming to inner margin of first few leaves, some light foxing, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new morocco label, corners repaired, [Rothschild 2598; Windle 7A], 1796 § Godwin (William) Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, second edition, half-title, stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by Heath after Opie (sometimes missing), with the final blank, contemporary ink signature to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, lacking label, a little rubbed, spine ends slightly chipped, 1798, 8vo, J.Johnson (2)⁂ The first item is regarded by many as the first business travelogue by a woman published in English. Wollstonecraft travelled to Scandinavia with only her infant daughter and a maid, in an attempt to win back her lover and father of her illegitimate child, Gilbert Imlay, by reporting back on a Norwegian business partner who had swindled him. The book was well received and William Godwin wrote in his Memoirs (second item), "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book".Godwin's memoir is the only contemporary biographical notice of Wollstonecraft, which he put to paper within a week of her death following the birth of their daughter Mary, later Mary Shelley. The book reversed the accepted conventions of contemporary biography and created a vindication of her life, but such was the criticism generated that by summer 1798 this "corrected" edition went to press. It is some seven pages longer and corrects some of the passages which attracted most criticism; the words "shameless", "lascivious" and "disgusting" being some of the words which led to the revision.
Lot 12
Marseille.- Bellaudiere (Louis Bellaud de la) Obros et Rimos Provenssalos, 4 parts in 1, first edition, collation: A-Y4 Z2; Aa-Rr4 Ss2; A-H4 I2, first 3 part-titles with woodcut device, part 4 with woodcut arms of author on title, woodcut portrait to verso of Table des Sonnets (at end of part 3), first 4 leaves to part 1 (including title with portrait to verso) and ff.A2-3 in part 4 supplied in facsimile, occasional foxing and marginal water-staining, later calf, gilt in imitation of a contemporary binding, 4to (228 x 144mm.), Marseille, Pierre Mascaron, 1595.⁂ The first edition of the first book printed in Marseille, extremely rare. Bellaud de la Bellaudiere was born in Grasse and spent most of his youth in Provence. In 1572 on his way back from Bordeaux to Provence he was arrested and imprisoned in Moulins where he stayed for about 18 months and wrote poetry, much of which was only published after his death in 1588. The preface is written by Cesar de Nostredame, son of Michel. Only two other copies have appeared at auction over the last 60 years.
Lot 108
Brooke (Ralph) A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, first edition, title within elaborated woodcut border, woodcut initials, head-pieces and numerous coats of arms, some occasional light marginal dampstaining and minor soiling, bound with the remains of a 16th century legal document mentioning 'James Brearley, a Citizen and Fishmonger of London', some splitting to joints, some wear to spine ends and corners, [STC 3832], folio, by William Jaggard, and sold at in house in Barbican, 1619.
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