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Lot 27

Agriculture.- [Young (Arthur)] A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, first edition, half-title, woodcut illustrations, contemporary ink inscription "Jo Woodgate's Library" to front pastedown and later inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, a little worn, [PMM 214], 1768 § Barral (J.-A.) Manuel du Drainage des Terres Arables, first edition, plates and illustrations, some folding, some foxing, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, spine faded, upper joint cracked, Paris, [1854], 8vo & 12mo (2)⁂ The first is Young's account of the first of several tours observing agriculture and rural social conditions.

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Lot 272

Wade (Walter) Salices or an Essay towards a General history of Sallows, Willows, & Osiers, first edition, colour folding frontispieces, scattered faint spotting, unopened, original boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, Dublin, 1811 § Heath (Francis George) The Fern Portfolio, plates, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to title, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1885 § Lowe (J. R.) A Natural History of British Grasses, colour frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, modern green morocco, gilt, original cloth to front pastedown, original spine loosely inserted, lightly sunned spine, 1891, 8vo & folio (3)

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Lot 273

NO RESERVE Food.- Fordyce (George) A treatise on the digestion of food, second edition, errata f., upper blank corner of title and small piece if a1 torn away, D3 short tear at head, just within text, without loss, Printed for J. Johnson, 1791 bound with Fordyce (George) Elements of agriculture and vegetation, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, second edition, 3 engraved plates, lacking first f. of appendix and final advertisement f., title repaired, final f. frayed and torn without loss of text, Printed for J. Johnson, 1771, together 2 works in 1 vol., Aberdeen Medical School ink stamps and inscriptions, some spotting and staining, a few short tears, bookplate of John Yudkin, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, spine faded; and a defective Parmentier, 8vo (2) sold not subject to return.

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Lot 274

Geology.- Glocker (Ernst Friedrich) Grundriss der Mineralogie, mit Einschluss der Geognosie und Petrefactenkunde, first edition, 8 engraved plates at end, occasional spotting and staining (title included), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, joints splitting, but holding firm, head of spine bumped, corners worn, rubbed, Nuremberg, Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1839; and a first edition of Frankenheim on Crystallography, 1835, 8vo (2)

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Lot 276

Medicine.- Dionis (Pierre) A General Treatise of Midwifery, first English edition, 3 engraved plates, previous owner's ink signature to title, scattered spotting, occasional marginal soiling, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1719.

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Lot 278

Medicine.- Surgery.- Bell (Benjamin) Cours complet de Chirurgie théorique et pratique, 6 vol., first edition in French, half-title to vol.1 and 5 only, 99 engraved plates, spotted, some offsetting and staining, lightly browned, 19th century roan-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, including name 'A. Verneuil', spine ends chipped, rubbed, [G&M 5579 (first edition) 'his best work'; Heirs of Hippocrates 672; Wellcome II, 135], Paris, Théophile Barrois the younger, 1796; and a second edition of Samuel Sharp on surgery, 1750, 8vo (7)⁂ 'The clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth century surgical works' (Heirs of Hippocrates).

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Lot 279

Midwifery.- Mauquest de La Motte (Guillaume) A general treatise of midwifry: illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art, translated by Thomas Tomkyns, first edition in English, some spotting or mostly light foxing, occasional staining, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, corners restored, rubbed and scuffed, [G&M 6150; Wellcome III, p.439], Printed for James Waugh, at the Turk's Head, in Gracechurch-Street, 1746; and another 18th century French Midwifery, 8vo (2)⁂ 'an important treatise in its time: it shows that Mauquest de la Motte applied podalic version to head preservation' (G&M). This English translation was prepared at the suggestion of William Smellie.

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Lot 282

Architecture.- [Briseux (Charles-Etienne)] Architecture moderne ou L'art de bien batir pour toutes sortes de personnes tant pour les maisons des particuliers que pour les palais, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispiece to vol.1, additional double-page decorative title to vol.2 and 150 plates, of which 144 in vol.2, sometimes 2 or 3 to a single sheet, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, approbation f., p.38 short tear at head, without loss, water-staining at head, mostly marginal, spotting or mostly light foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, bookplates of Bibliothèque Demondesir, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines in compartments and with double leather labels, some gilt restored, rubbed, [Fowler 67; Millard French Books, 40], 4to, Paris, Claude Jombert, 1728 [additional title of vol.2 dated 1729]. ⁂ 'In contrast to earlier works on the architectural theory, which were mainly concerned with theoretical discussions of the orders and related problems of proportioning or ornamentation, this treatise is concerned only with material related to practical problems of planning and construction' (Millard).

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Lot 283

Architecture.- Bullet (Pierre) L'Architecture pratique qui comprend le detail du toise & des devis des ouvrages de massonerie, charpenterie, new edition, engraved frontispiece and 13 plates, of which 4 folding, 2 folding tables, woodcut diagrams, approbation f. at end, occasional spotting and light staining, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, 1 upper corner bumped, [Berlin Kat. 2542; cf. Fowler 72 and Cicognara 456 (first edition)], a good copy, 8vo, Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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Lot 284

Architecture.- Derand (François) L'Architecture des Voutes ou L'Art des Traits et Coupe des Voutes, first edition, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, full-page diagramatic illustrations, that opposite p.126 the cancel, privilege f. at end, lacking p.425/426, supplied in neat early ink ms., a few marginal repairs, that to lower corner of 3D2 with loss of a word, supplied in ink ms., marginal worming at head to pp. in region of 340-360, spotting and staining (including occasional ink), lightly browned, 19th century half dark green half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, upper cover with triangular leather label 'Teyssonnieres Salvi', lower corners and edges worn, rubbed, [Berlin Kat 2539; Cicognara 490; Fowler 101], folio, Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1643. sold not subject to return.

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Lot 291

Picasso (Pablo) Picasso 347, first edition, t.e.g., New York, 1970 § Trapp (J.B.) E.H.Gombrich A Bibliography, spine and small strip at head faded, 2000 § Clement (Russell T.) George Braque A Bio-Bibliography, 1994, original boards or cloth; and a large quantity of others, art, v.s (5 boxes)

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Lot 297

NO RESERVE Tinterow (Gary) and Philip Conisbee, editors. Portraits by Ingres, first edition, New York, 1999 § Newman (Sasha M.) Bonnard, New York, 1964 § Mathieu (Pierre-Louis) Gustave Moreau, 1977 § Hoog (Michel) Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, 1987 § Demornex (Jacqueline) Madeleine Vionnet, 1991, colour-printed illustrations, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, fine and fresh copies; and a large quantity of others, French art and architecture, v.s. (7 boxes)

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Lot 30

Gay (John) Fables..., wood-engraved frontispiece and vignettes by John Bewick, continental pastepaper boards, spine chipped, J.Buckland [& others], 1788; The Fables..., engraved frontispiece (offset on title), wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick, B12 frayed at edge and repaired not affecting text, contemporary half roan, rebacked with gilt spine, York, T.Wilson, 1811 § Trusler (Rev. J.) Proverbs Exemplified, first edition, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by John Bewick, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine cracked and worn at head, 1790; The Progress of Man and Society, first edition, half-title with wood-engraved vignette and coat-of-arms on verso and illustrations by John Bewick, contemporary sprinkled sheep, for the author, 1791 § Ray (John) A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, fourth edition, modern half calf, W.Otridge, 1768, rubbed; and 4 others, fables, 8vo et infra (9)

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Lot 31

[Ritson (Joseph, editor)] Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry..., first edition, half-title, wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, C.Clarke for T. & J.Egerton, 1791; Northern Garlands, bound with others similar, later calf, gilt, joints split, 1810; Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls, ex-library copy with faint ink stamp to title, contemporary half calf, 1827; Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots..., 2 vol., contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1828; Fairy Tales, now first collected, original cloth, paper label chipped, 1831; The Letters..., 2 vol., contemporary half calf, 1833, all rubbed; and a rebound uncut copy of the first, 8vo (9)

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Lot 33

Hakluyt (Richard) Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 5 vol., one of 75 copies on Imperial paper, from an edition limited to 325, foxing to endpapers, nineteenth century half dark red morocco, rubbed, [Hill p.132; Lowndes II p.972; Sabin 29599], folio (c.365 x 260m.), R.H.Evans [ & others], 1809-12.⁂ A good set of "the best and most complete edition". (Hill)."An accurate reprint of the best folio [edition of 1599-1600] with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition, and omitted in the second. It likewise has a supplement containing all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which forms the latter part of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth volume" (Lowndes).

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Lot 34

Europe.- Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, 3 vol., first edition, 83 engraved plates, one hand-coloured, 5 double-page, a few aquatint, a few printed in sepia, illustrations, many on india paper and mounted, one or two printed in red & black, tissue guards, bookplate of Sir Robert Wigram Bart., contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, vol.1 & 3 torn at head, rubbed, joints split, some covers detached, large 8vo, 1821.

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Cobbett (William) Cobbett's Cottage-Economy, Nos.1-6 only (of 9: August 1821-January 1822), engraved plate of brewing machines (torn and repaired), advertisement leaf at end of No.6, bound from the original parts with Monthly Sermons vol.1 No.6 and Monthly Religious Tracts vol.1 nos.1-3, one with proof corrections in pencil, light browning, modern ink inscription to head of first issue and front pastedown, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, upper cover detached, 1821-22; Democratic Principles Illustrated by Example. By Peter Porcupine, Part the First, 24pp., title stained, tipped into modern wrappers, uncut, J.Wright, 1798; ...Part the Second, 52pp., twelfth edition, disbound, trimmed, J.Wright, 1798; A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, 2 vol. in 1, modern roan-backed marbled boards, 1829 § Spater (George) William Cobbett: The Poor Man's Friend, 2 vol., illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, Cambridge, 1982; and 3 others by or about Cobbett, 8vo et infra (9)⁂ The first contains Cobbett's famous guide for rural labourers with information on brewing, making bread, keeping cows and pigs.

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Lot 37

[Matthews (John)] Eloisa en Dishabille: being a new version of that lady's celebrated epistle to Abelard, one of only 50 copies, half-title, original roan-backed red boards, rubbed, 1822 § [Benson (White)] Poems and Ballads, only edition, decorative half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations in the style of Thomas Bewick, contemporary ink signature to head of title and bookplate of Juliet Foord-Bowes, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked with gilt spine, [3 copies only on Library Hub], Huddersfield, Brook and Lancashire, 1810 § Poetical Magazine (The), 4 vol., first edition, 4 stipple-engraved vignette titles, the last by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, 51 aquatint plates only after Rowlandson and others (of 52, lacking plate 23 'Doctor Syntax at a Review' in vol.2), all but 2 hand-coloured, woodcut vignette, without the 'To Readers' leaves as usual but unusually with the advertisement leaf in vol.1, rather browned, some foxing or soiling, a few plates becoming loose and frayed at edges, contemporary russet straight-grain morocco, spines gilt, [Abbey, Life 214; Tooley 421], [1809-11], all rubbed; and 8 others, poetry, 8vo et infra (14)⁂ The first is a parody of Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard'; the third includes the original issue of the first tour of Doctor Syntax, under the title 'The Schoolmaster's Tour', with plates after Rowlandson. According to Abbey Combe wrote the poem around Rowlandson's sketches.

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Lot 38

Hazlitt (William) Liber amoris, first edition, engraved title with vignette portrait of Sarah Walker, advertisement leaf and three fly-titles to the parts, title foxed (as usual), some browning, old boards, uncut, 1823; Table-Talk, 2 vol., first edition, mixed set, original boards, uncut, 1821-22; Lectures on the English Poets, second edition, 1819 bound with Lectures on the English Comic Writers, 1819, 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf § Ireland (W.H.) The Confessions...containing the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakspeare Manuscripts, first edition, modern half calf, 1805 § Brydges (Sir Egerton) The British Bibliographer, 4 vol., first edition, contemporary calf, 1810-14; Censura Literaria, 10 vol., second edition, [one of 250 sets], contemporary calf, joints cracked, lacking some labels, 1815, some engraved portraits and plates, some spotting, all rubbed; and 11 others, literature and criticism, 8vo et infra (30)⁂ The first is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of Hazlitt's infatuation with his landlady's daughter, an unreciprocated attachment which caused him great distress.

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Lot 39

Logic.- De Morgan (Augustus) A Budget of Paradoxes, first edition in book form, 24pp. publishers' catalogue at end, light spotting, original cloth, rubbed, spine browned and worn at ends, 1872; and another on logic, 8vo (2)⁂ Including De Morgan's reply to Sir William Hamilton concerning the idea of a qualified predicate in logic, an argument which involved George Boole and eventually resulted in the creation of Boolean algebra.

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Lot 44

NO RESERVE American Symbolist.- Mallarmé.- Merrill (Stuart) Les Gammes. (Vers), first edition of the author's first book, half-title, lightly browned throughout, original printed wrappers, a few tears or splits, 1 with rudimentary repair verso, little chipped, lightly browned, Paris, Chez Vanier, 1887; and another, by the same, 8vo (2)⁂ Rare first edition of the author's first book, which received wide critical acclaim throughout Europe and launched his literary career. The American Merrill had studied under the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, to whom the first poem here is dedicated ('La Flûte').

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Beckett (Samuel) Tous Ceux qui tombent, first edition in French of the author's first radio play, one of 70 copies on pur fil Marais, in an edition of 80 copies, original printed wrappers, very small split to foot of upper wrapper, lightly browned, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1957; Malone meurt, first edition, lightly browned throughout, some staining, original printed wrappers, spine with very short splits at end, creased and lightly browned, some staining, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1951; and 5 others, Beckett, v.s. (7)

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Lot 47

Coca wine.- Robida (Albert, illustrator).- Clarétie (Jules) Explication, Paris, Librairie illustré, 1895 bound with Silvestre (Armand) La Plante enchantée, Paris, Librairie illustré, 1895, both number 38 of 50 copies on Japon, in an edition of 500 copies, illustrations by Albert Robida, original pictorial wrappers bound in, later cloth; and 3 others, 19th century French Illustrated, v.s. (4)⁂ First editions of two scare annuals printed for Angelo Mariani. They are novelettes extolling the virtues of his popular coca wine (Vin Mariani), which he had created in 1863, and which with an active content of around 6 milligrams per ounce found enthusiastic drinkers all over the world, including Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII.

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Lot 48

Edmund Gosse's copy from the author.- Moréas (Jean) and Paul Adam. Le Thé chez Miranda, first edition, signed presentation copy from Moréas to Edmund Gosse, half-title, pencil sketches of Moréas and Verlaine signed 'Dauphin Meunier 31.3.93' bound in before title, half-title, sketches and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or the odd small stain, lightly browned, bookplate of Gosse, later red half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, little rubbed, Paris, Tresse et Stock, 1886; and another, Moréas, 8vo (2)⁂ Rare first edition of this important symbolist novel, with Worldcat locating the BnF copy only (though there is a copy at the Taylor Institute, Oxford). Gosse met Moréas in Paris in 1893 during a week of absinthe drinking, presumably the occasion for the inscription here, and of the sketch by Dauphin Meunier of Moréas and Verlaine. He wrote to Heinemann on 6 April 'My week in Paris has been a great success, tho' quite unlike what I expected. We were mostly in the Latin Quarter, and I saw a great deal of the Symbolist poets. Mallarmé was ill, but all the rest, from Verlaine and Moréas downward, were on show, and they were extremely cordial to me'.

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Gleizes (Albert, illustrator).- Allard (Roger) Le Bocage amoureux ou le divertissement des amants citadins et champêtres, first edition of the first book illustrated by Gleizes, this a signed presentation copy from the author and illustrator to Jean Émile Laboureur, number 28 of 35 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, in an edition of 190 copies, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations and ornaments by Albert Gleizes, offsetting, some spotting, original brown printed wrappers, spine with a few splits, covers detached, Paris [& Bruges], [St Catherine Press for] Eug. Figuière & Cie, 1911; and another, illustrated by Gleizes, small 4to & small folio (2)⁂ First book illustrated by this self-proclaimed founder of Cubism. Jean Émile Laboureur (1877-1943) French painter, engraver and illustrator.

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Lot 51

Homoerotic essays.- Rieu (Marcel) Méandres, first edition, number 4 of 20 copies on Japon, this a signed presentation copy from the author to the poet Émile Cottinet, half-title with inscription (faded), pictorial title by J.M. Boulan (design repeated on wrappers), occasional spotting, endpapers foxed, original pictorial wrappers bound in, later brown crushed morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt, spine richly so, 8vo, Paris, [E. Figuière for] Edition de Pan, 1912.⁂ Rieu's early collection of essays with a homoerotic theme, one of which is dedicated to Jacques Fersen, author of the notorious gay novel about Oscar Wilde, Messes noires. Lord Lyllian (1905). The presentation inscription reads 'Au poète Émile Cottinet à l'artiste que j'admire et à l'ami qui j'aime...'.

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Lot 52

Horror.- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (Auguste, Comte de ) Nouveaux Contes cruels, first edition, half-title, original printed wrappers, chipped at foot of spine, lightly browned, unopened, Paris, La Librairie Illustrée, 1888 § Gautier (Théophile) Poésies...qui ne figureront pas dans ses oeuvres précédées d'une Autobiographie, first edition, one of 150 copies on Hollande, in an edition of 162 copies, half-title, etched portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, double-page of engraved music, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary aubergine glazed wrappers, the upper detached, chipped, unopened, Paris, 'Imprimèrie particulière' [but Brussels: Poulet-Malassis], 1873 § Andersen (Hans Christian) Nouveaux contes, first edition in French of this collection, mounted oval photographic portrait frontispiece, lightly browned, later endpapers, original printed wrappers, upper joint split, but holding firm, soiled and rubbed, rare, Versailles, E. Aubert, 1874; and 17 others, 19th century, or related, v.s. (20)

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Lesbianism.- Vertès (Marcel, illustrator).- Carco (Francis) Dames seules, first edition, one of 45 copies on Rives, in an edition of 52 copies, this a signed presentation copy from the illustrator to the art critic Claude Roger-Marx, 15 lithographed plates by Marcel Vertès, of which 1 double-page, captioned tissue guards, loose in original wrappers, a few spots, lightly marked, [Carteret IV, p. 396: 'Édition recherchée et cotée, surtout en grand papier'], small folio, Paris, Duchatel, 1932.

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Maeterlinck (Maurice) Douze Chansons, one of 75 copies on Arches, in an edition of 100 copies, numerous woodcut illustrations by Charles Doudelet, loose in original pictorial wrappers, a very small vertical split to spine, folio, Brussels, Édition Aryenne, 1929.⁂ The second edition, the first having been printed in oblong format in 1896 without the 12 additional woodcut scenes here. Maeterlinck described the work as 'un chef-d'oeuvre tout court; synchronisation, harmonie parfaite entre le poète et les images creées par son intreprète'.

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Symoblism.- Retté (Adolphe) Thulé des brumes, first edition, number 9 of 12 copies on Japon impérial, specially printed for 'M.' [left blank], in an edition of 312, half-title, etched portrait frontispiece by E.H. Meyer, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, spine little spotted, lightly browned, a very good copy, Paris, Bibliothèque Artistique & Littéraire, 1891; and 2 others, by the same, one a presentation copy, 8vo & small 4to, (3)⁂ A Symbolist novel, following a series of the author's glorious and sinister dreams.

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NO RESERVE Travel.- Amiguet (Marcel) Seul vers l'Asie. Quatre ans en camion automobile, first edition, one of 100 copies on Hollande, 25 mounted plates, 4 original etched plates loosely inserted, each signed in pencil, and illustrations, all by the author / artist, original pictorial wrappers, lightly browned, board slip-case, Paris & Neuchatel, Victor Attinger, 1934; and another, India, 4to (2)⁂ An illustrated travelogue of an overland journey in a purpose-built Renault truck from Paris to Bombay, via Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Persia in 1926-1930.

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Women.- Barbey d'Aurevilly (Jules) Les Diaboliques: Le plus bel Amour de Don Juan, one of 125 copies on Rives (besides which only a single copy on Japon impérial), half-title, etched frontispiece in green and red, title vignette in bistre, 4 plates in green, vignettes in bistre, and a large illustration in bistre to verso of colophon f. by Gio Colucci, tissue guards, bound in at end an additional set of frontispiece and 4 plates without lower marginal decorations, some spotting, original pictorial wrappers, upper cover repeating etched title vignette, some spotting, lightly browned, Paris, La Connaissance, 1923; and 3 others, Barbey d'Aurevilly or Colucci, small 4to & 4to (4)⁂ First edition with Colucci's superb illustrations. A decadent edition of one of the six novellas from Les Diaboliques (1874). 'The She-Devils', considered D'Aurevilley masterpiece, collects six stories, each featuring a woman who commits an act of violence, revenge, or some other crime.

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Heraldry.- Pietrasanta (Silvestro) Tesserae gentilitiae, first edition, engraved pictorial title by F. Greuter after F. Romanelli, oval portrait of the dedicatee by Natalis, plate of Barberini arms and numerous coats of arms within text, 2ff. Latin/Italian vocabulary at end, title and portrait torn and repaired, with loss to image of title and border text of portrait, couple of very small marginal wormholes at head, some marginal water-staining and spotting or light foxing, 20th century vellum-backed boards, upper corners worn, some staining, folio, Rome, Francisco Corbelletti, 1638.⁂ Pietrasanta is regarded as the originator of the system by which the blazoning of engraved arms is indicated by employing different techniques of engraving as a code for colours.

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Lot 80

Louis XIV.- Barde (Jean de la, Baron de Marolles) De rebus Gallicis historiarum ll. X ab anno 1643 ad annum 1652, first edition, engraved vignette to title, engraved and woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, colophon f., a few marginal repairs and small stains, occasional spotting, engraved armorial bookplate of Sinclair, later vellum, gilt 'Rinasce piu gloriosa' device to foot of spine, lightly marked and soiled, 4to, Paris, Dionysius Thierry, 1671.⁂ Scarce work on the early reign of The Sun King, by his ambassador to Switzerland.

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NO RESERVE Swift (Jonathan) Le conte du Tonneau. Contenant tout ce que les arts, & les sciences ont de plus sublime, et de plus mysterieux, [translated by Justus van Effen], 2 vol. in 1, first edition in French, titles in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, blank f. separating text and table in both vol., some spotting and staining, browning (mostly light), contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with later, but to style, red morocco label, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Teerink/Scouten 263], large 12mo, The Hague, Henri Scheurleer, 1721.⁂ First French edition of The Tale of the Tub, 1704.

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Duelling & Fencing.- Grisier (Augustin) Les Armes et le duel. Ouvrage agree par S. M. l'Empereur de Russie. Preface anecdotique par Alexandre Dumas, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait, 10 wood-engraved plates, foxing, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, [Thimm p.122], Paris, Garnier Frères, 1847; and 2 others, similar, small 4to (3)⁂ The author taught fencing to pupils including the son of the Russian Tsar, and was a friend of Alexander Dumas.

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Lot 411

Joseph Rodgers & Sons Exhibition Knives of The Samuel Setian Collection, First Edition, 1999.

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Lot 409

The Sheffield Knife Book, by Geoffrey Tweedale, First Edition, 1996.

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Lot 410

Sheffield Exhibition Knives Book, with an original Exposition Invitation, serial no.879/1300 given by George Wostenholm firm inside first page, 1st Edition.

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Lot 403

Geoffrey Tweedale - The Sheffield Knife Book, First Edition, 1996.

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Lot 1249

Three Ben Nicholson publications'Ben Nicholson: the meaning of his art' by J. P. Hodin, hardback, first edition '57'Ben Nicholson - Twelve New Works -June 1967', Marlborough Fine Art Limited'Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of his Art' 1978, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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Lot 1255

John MILLER 'Leave tomorrow behind'. First edition. Signed and numbered 464/1500. The studio fine art publications, 1989. Condition report: Foxing to the outer edge of the pages but not within. Cover protected by plastic sleeve. No damage to the pages, overall condition is good.

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Lot 1257

'Rose Hilton - Something to Keep the Balance'Signed copy (artist)First edition, HardbackBy Andrew Lambirth

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Lot 1260

Christopher WOOD'Exhibition of Complete Works' - hardback, first edition with original exhibition cataloguePublished by The Redfern Gallery LTD, 1938

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Lot 1280

'Britain's Art Colony by the Sea' by Denys Val Baker, hardback, first edition 1959

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Lot 1288

ADRIAN LEWIS. 'The Drawings of Roger Hilton.' First edition. Samson & Co, 2017

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Lot 1332

Aidan HICKS. 'Ten Penwith Printmakers'. Signed. First edition. Published by Penwith Printmakers, 1998Together withMark SPRAY. 'Weathering - Dartmoor Tors - Prometheus on his crag. Signed. Great Atlantic, 2009.

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Lot 1354

Hardback Books - Our Conservative Statesmen by R.J.Albery, Two Hardback Folio Size Volumes, First Edition, Circa 1898

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Lot 1371

Sarah Duchess of York Signed First Edition Book 'My Story', hardback first edition copy signed with bold signature dated 2.12.96. Good condition, book complete with photographs, telling the Duchess of York's own story of her life inside the Royal Family, including how her marriage broke down and how she takes full responsibility for the mistakes and now devotes herself to her children and children worldwide.

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Lot 261

James Bond 007- A first edition Ian Fleming The Man With The Golden Gun, with dust cover, cut price tag. Published by Jonathan Cope 1965.

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Lot 56

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Hound Of The Baskervilles, first edition with page 13 line 3 mistake, "you" for "your". With plates by Sidney Paget. Browned endpapers, some pages loose. With original cloth cover with gilt stamped design. With library plaque on inside front cover and pencilled name and address and date stamp on first page.

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Lot 14

Signed Hardback Book Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay signed by the Author on the first page First Edition published by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd some slight foxing spine needs attention intact but exposed fair condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 15

Signed Hardback Book The Gunroom by Charles Langbridge Morgan 1919 First Edition published by A C Black Ltd signed by the Author with a dedication on the first page and dated 22nd October 1919 some age related fading and marks to outer cover spine needs attention intact but exposed fair condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 19

Signed Hardback Book Florence Nightingale at Harley Street Introduction & Signed by Sir Harry Verney dated 25th October 1971 published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd First Edition 1970 good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 27

Hardback Book A Book of Grey Owl by E. E. Reynolds 1938 First Edition plus Souvenir Grey Owl Booklet & Flyer from Grey Owl's second United Kingdom Tour 1937, Hardback Book was published by Peter Davies Ltd some foxing and minor tears to dust cover good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 3

Sir Archibald McIndoe Family Photo Album plus 5 Hardback Books from His personal collection Introduction to Plastic Surgery with a Foreword by Archibald H McIndoe, A Pictorial History of Nursing by Madeleine Masson 1985, Van Meegeren's Faked Vermeers and DeHooghs A Scientific Examination by J. M. Meulenhoff Signed on the first page C McIndoe with a 7 x 5 photo of Mr & Mrs McIndoe, The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People by Grey Owl 1935, Henry Cotton My Golfing Album by Country Life Ltd 1959 First Edition with a dedication on the first page To Archie from Toots & Henry Cotton dated 1959, Sir Archibald McIndoe was born in New Zealand, trained in plastic surgery under his cousin Sir Harold Gillies at St Bartholomew's Hospital and ultimately became plastic surgeon at the Hospital. He was a near legendary figure during World War Two for his work at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex where the faces and bodies of injured airmen of the Royal Air Force, McIndoe's guinea pigs, often horrifically burned, were made with a skill and resolve which were to inspire his successor plastic surgeons and their patients alike. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 39

Signed Hardback Book The Veil And other Poems by Walter De La Mare dedicated & Initialled W D M dated 1921 First Edition published by Constable and Co Ltd some ageing and wear to dust cover good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Signed Hardback Book Vintage Years when King Edward VII was Prince of Wales by Seymour Hicks 1943 First Edition published by Cassell and Company Ltd signed on the first page by Seymour Hicks plus Signed Photo of George Robey as Falstaff, Seymour Hicks also played Falstaff, some ageing and spine wear fair condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 41

Hardback Book Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy with a Portrait 1919 First Edition published by Macmillan and Co Ltd some fading good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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Lot 42

Hardback Book The Old Wives' Tale A Novel by Arnold Bennett 1908 First Edition published by Chapman & Hall Ltd some age related fading and wear to spine good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.

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