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Lot 213
Rowling (J K). Various works, to include Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, published by Bloomsbury London 2001, paperback, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, published by Bloomsbury London 2007, hardback, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, published by Bloomsbury London, 1991, hardback, etc. (1 box)
Lot 452
Folio edition, The Book of The Dead, facsimiles of Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemot 1899. Small hole lower right of page to first 19 pages. Cover has various use marks and wear to the corners, pencil notation to inner cover. Small amount of foxing to inner covers and tears to base of two title pages, generally good/fair condition for age. P&P Group 3 (£25+VAT for the first lot and £5+VAT for subsequent lots)
Lot 765
Twenty Marvel and other comics including signed first editions and special covers to include, 1-4 2012 of 'Before Watchmen, Doctor Manhattan', 'X-Men' gold cover set, signed by J. Scott Campbell, DC 'Teen Titans' First App Crush, Lobo's Daughter (2018), with Alex Garner cover, Issue 1 'The Old Guard' 2017, 'Teen Titans First App, Crush Lobo's Daughter', 2018, `Ultimate Fall Out' 2011, Miles Morales partial preview, 'The Old Guard' first print 2017, 'Alpha Flight' first edition 1983, 'First Puck and Omega Flight', first edition 'Deadly Class' by Forbidden Planet , Marvel 'Key Issue' first app 'Runaways' 2003, etc (20).
Lot 813
MOUNTAINEERING INTEREST; six books comprising 'Edward Whymper' by F. S. Smythe, published by Hodder & Stoughton, with Blackburn Public Library stamp, 'The Everest-Lhotse Adventure' by Albert Eggler, translated by Hugh Merrick, 'Camp Six' by Frank S. Smythe, 'with foreword by Brigadier Sir John Hunt, illustrated, 'South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953' by Wilfred Noyce, first edition 1954, 'The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951' by Eric Shipton and 'Everest 1952' (6).
Lot 54
A collection of Exclusive First Edition buses, coaches and commercial vehicles, including a No. 12302 Harrington Grenadier 'Grey Cars', a No. 20110 Bedford OB 'Bere Regis' and a No. 31401 ERF flatbed truck 'Sandford Potteries', boxed and loose.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 44
Five Corgi Original Omnibus Southdown buses and coaches, including a Code 3 promotional model 'The Fourth Littlehampton Bus Gathering', four other Corgi buses, four Exclusive First Edition Southdown buses and coaches, all boxed, and a Southdown Enthusiasts' Club mug.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 1
Aldus.- Manutius (Aldus, the younger) Orthographiae ratio, 2 parts in 1, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, with the final blank, title lightly soiled and with old contemporary ink inscription crossed out at foot, very occasional light staining, cropped, modern vellum with strap, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Adams M454; Renouard 246:3], 8vo, Venice, Aldus, 1591.⁂ The second, enlarged, edition, of this important work to establish a system for the uniform spelling of Latin words. It was first issued in 1561 and again in 1566 with the addition of inscriptions and selections from ancient manuscripts.
Lot 102
NO RESERVE Guinegault (G.P.).- Noury (Jean) Heures Galantes: Quatres Poèmes, out-of-series copy of an edition limited to 500 copies signed in pencil by the artist below first illustration, 4 superb pochoir circular illustrations heightened with gold or silver by Georges Pierre Guinegault, loose as issued in original wrappers with pochior illustration to upper cover, lightly soiled, [Paris], Galerie Lutétia, [c.1930]; and 2 other copies, one defective, folio (3)
Lot 113
Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first trade illustrated edition, colour plates and plain illustrations by Barnett Freedman, original pictorial cloth, uncut, spine a little spotted and browned, 1931 § Murdoch (Iris) A Year of Birds, number 311 of 350 copies signed by the author and artist, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone, original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., Tisbury, Compton Press, 1978 § Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) Sonnets from the Portuguese, number 218 of 350 specially-bound copies, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original half tan morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, Riccardi Press, 1914 § Neuburg (Victor A., editor) Larkspur: A Lyric Garland, number 26 of 550 copies, signed and inscribed by the editor to Peter Warlock on front free endpaper, woodcuts by Dennis West, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, uncut, rubbed and stained, spine faded, Steyning, Vine Press, 1932; and 7 others, modern illustrated, v.s. (11)
Lot 117
NO RESERVE Berenson (Bernard) Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, 2 vol., first edition, plates, original cloth, a little spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, sunned spines, small tears and chipping to spine head, slight creasing to edges, 1957 § Hardie (Martin) Water-colour Painting in Britain, 3 vol., plates and illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jackets, vol. 1 price-clipped, chipping and creasing to edges, slip-cases, a little rubbed, 1975-79 § Hall (Marshall) The Artists of Northumbria, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, creasing to top edge, 2005 § Howe (Ellic) The British Federation of Master Printers 1900-1950, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1950; and others similar, v.s. (c.85)
Lot 12
Darwin (Erasmus) The Botanic Garden, Part II only (of 2), first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, vignette and 7 plates, with directions to binder/errata slip pasted to final leaf, some spotting, bookplate of Henry Sherbrooke of Oxton, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rubbed, a few scratches to upper cover, spine ends chipped, Lichfield, J. Johnston, 1789 § Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon..., lacking half-title, additional aquatint title and folding plan but with 29 aquatint plates, engraved map and 2 portraits, illustrations, errata leaf at end, some spotting, John Sparrow's copy with his book-label, handsome dark blue straight-grain morocco with gilt palmette & lotus border, spine gilt, g.e., rubbed, 1795 § Byron (G.G.N., Lord) Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, first edition, first issue, half-title, final advertisement leaf, with Doge's speech on p.151 of 5½ lines, some spotting, original boards, uncut, rubbed, upper cover detached, 1821 § Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Lover's Tale, half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, with A.N.s. from the author to the artist/author Eleanor Vere Boyle "My dear E.V.B. 1000 thanks for your Cupid from yours ever Tennyson Dec. 26 - 89" tipped in with envelope, later half crushed purple morocco, spine gilt with small green floral onlays, t.e.g., original cloth bound in at end, a little rubbed, spine faded, 1879; and c.30 others, mostly literature, including a defective Milles' Catalogue of Honor of 1610 (with leaf 3S4 unmutilated) and a handsomely-bound French Missal of 1896, v.s. (c.35)⁂ Part II of the Botanic Garden was first published in Lichfield two years before part I was published in London in 1791. Eleanor Vere Boyle "E.V.B." illustrated Tennyson's The May Queen of 1861.
![NO RESERVE [Jeanneret (Charles-Édouard)], "Le Corbusier". Le Voyage d'Orient, first edition, illustrations, original printed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/6052e0ac-f060-49c2-a561-aebd010f99b6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 121
NO RESERVE [Jeanneret (Charles-Édouard)], "Le Corbusier". Le Voyage d'Orient, first edition, illustrations, original printed wrappers, a little rubbed, small 4to, Paris, Les Editions Forces Vives, 1966.⁂ Account of the architect's five month journey through Eastern Europe, Turkey, Greece and Rome in 1911, on which he filled 80 sketchbooks with drawings of buildings and monuments, many of which influenced his own work. Despite being the first book he wrote it was not published until after his death.
Lot 122
NO RESERVE Kraay (Colin M.) and Hirmer (Max) Greek Coins. first edition, 20 colour plates tipped-in,1329 additional photo. illustrations by Max Hirmer, 4 maps, text Colin Kraay, original linen, gilt, staining to lower parts of boards and spine, dust-jacket creased, 4to, [1966]; Palace Collections of Egypt. Catalogue of the Important and Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals the Property of the Republic of Egypt, photo. illustrations, original paper wrappers, light marks and creasing to wrappers and spine, the auction comprising of 2798 lots held at Koubbeh Palace, Cairo, February 24-March 6, 1954, 8vo, Sotheby & Co.,1954; Robertson (J.D.) A Handbook of the Coinage of Scotland from Alexander I to Anne, first edition, half-title, wood-cut frontispiece and in-text illustrations, later full-leather, gilt, light marks, toning to edges and pages, 8vo,1878. (3).
Lot 125
NO RESERVE Utopian Architecture.- Taut (Bruno) Alpine Architektur, first Japanese edition, title in Japanese, 37 sheets tipped to thicker paper including 8 chromolithograph plates, illustrated booklet with text in Japanese tipped in at end, a little browned, original limp blue cloth blocked in silver, spine a little worn at head, dust-jacket, frayed at edges, folio, [Tokyo], [1944].⁂ Scarce reissue of Taut's famous work on a utopian cityscape in the Alps, with the original sheets reproduced in fine lithography.
![NO RESERVE Ballet and violin.- Zhdanov (L.) [Cyrillic] Bolshoi Ballet School, first edition, signed presentation inscription](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/92abf3e6-ce3d-4843-98e2-aebd010f8c64/468x382.jpg)
Lot 129
NO RESERVE Ballet and violin.- Zhdanov (L.) [Cyrillic] Bolshoi Ballet School, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Māris Liepa with sketch of 2 dancers to endpaper, additionally signed on leaf following title, photographic illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, some light rubbing and toning, Moscow, 1974 § Nijinsky (Romola) Nijinsky, by his Wife, printed not from the author loosely inserted with secretarial message inside loosely inserted, plates, original cloth, shelf-lean, fading, remains of dust-jacket laid down, 1933; and another, an inscribed work by Yehudi Menuhin, 4to & 8vo (3)
Lot 13
Dreyfus (John) Into Print: Selected Writings..., one of 95 special copies signed by the author, printed note printed by in pocket at end, original morocco-backed marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case, 1994; Italic Quartet: A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Hamlet, one of 500 copies, original cloth, slip-case, Cambridge, Christmas 1966 § Herbert Hodgson Printer: Work for T.E.Lawrence & at Gregynog, one of 340 copies, original cloth-backed boards.uncut, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1989 § Scurfield (G.) A Stickful of Nonpareil, one of 500 copies, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original cloth, Cambridge, Christmas 1956 § Tomkinson (G.S.) A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses...limited edition signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, First Edition Club, 1928, plates and/or illustrations; and c.25 others on modern printing and private presses, v.s. (c.30)
Lot 132
NO RESERVE Photography and Film.- Garduño (Flor) Witnesses of Time, first English edition, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, small tear to spine foot, 1992 § Deller (Jeremy) Joy in People, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to spine head, 2012 § Maloof (John, editor) Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to spine head, dust-jacket, slight creasing to spine extremities, Brooklyn, 2011; and others, photography or film, 4to & folio (36)
Lot 134
Sveltoff (Valerian) Anna Pavlova, one of 300 copies, first English edition, signed by Anna Pavolva on half-title, signed by the publisher, numerous plates and illustrations, some in colour, most with tissue guards, some slightly foxed, som cracking to gutter in a few places, original printed wrappers, spine lightly creased, bumped at ends, original glassine dust-jacket, spine torn, uncut, slip-case, worn, large 4to, 1922.
Lot 138
Military.- Caesar (Gaius Julius) I commentari..., lacking title but supplied in neat ink manuscript facsimile including device and another leaf with text of title in old ink manuscript, with 2 double-page etched maps of Gaul and Spain and 38 double-page plates and plans by Andrea Palladio only (of 40, lacking plates Q & DD), some soiling and water-staining, contemporary limp vellum, rubbed and stained, [Adams C86; Fowler 237; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 97], 4to, Venice, Pietro dei'Franceschi, 1575; sold not subject to return⁂ Translation of Caesar's war commentaries, the first edition with plates and an introduction by the architect Andrea Palladio. The plates depict battle formations, sieges, fortifications etc.
Lot 140
NO RESERVE Body & Soul.- Sperling (Johannes) Anthropologia physica, first edition, final 2 ff. blank, occasional spotting, lightly browned throughout, contemporary vellum over boards, 8vo, Wittemberg, Johannes Berger, 1647.⁂ The scarce counterpart to Sperling's Zoologia physica. In question and answer form the first part deals with the human soul and the second the human body. Sperling was a German physician, zoologist and physicist, and was among the first to practice zoology as a natural science, leading to his afore-mentioned work.
![NO RESERVE Atheism with false London imprint.- [Holbach (Paul Thiry, Baron d')], "l'Abbé Bernier". Théologie portative ou dic](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/f07843ba-519d-44b8-8dc6-aebd010f88dd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 142
NO RESERVE Atheism with false London imprint.- [Holbach (Paul Thiry, Baron d')], "l'Abbé Bernier". Théologie portative ou dictionnaire abrégé de la religion chretienne, first edition, second issue, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 19th century English calf, gilt spine in compartments and with double black morocco labels, covers detached and mounted on cloth stubs, rubbed and scuffed, [cf. Vercruysse A5, our copy bearing a single and not triple line before the imprint], 12mo, London [i.e. ?Amsterdam], no printer, 1768.⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only three copies (BL only UK). The author was a notorious atheist; a position epitomized in his Le Système de la nature, 1770. He had his works issued anonymously in Amsterdam by Marc-Michel Rey under false imprint. The work is a satirical adaptation of the genre of the 'portable dictionary' for the arts and sciences. Provenance: A penciled note suggests that it was once in the library of the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), a supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution and of agnosticism.
Lot 149
NO RESERVE Satire on Stockholm.- Strindberg (August) Röda Rummet. Skildringar ur Artist- och Författarlifvet, first edition, first issue (with doter on p.70), lightly browned, modern red half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, t.e.g., 8vo, Stockholm, Jos. Seligmann & Co., [1879].⁂ The author's satire of contemporary Stockholm, which brought him fame and notoriety, and 'signalled the somewhat belated entry of Swedish literature into modernity' (Olsson, Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg, p. 37).
Lot 15
Fournier (Pierre-Simon) Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 (all called for), engraved frontispieces by Fessard after De Seve and Gravelot, titles with ornamental borders, 16 folding engraved plates, 5 folding sheets of music printed on both sides including one in red & black, occasional foxing, later boards, rubbed, and scuffed, vol.1 with joints worn and spine chipped, [Updike, Printing Types I, p.260], 8vo, Paris, for the author, Barbou, 1764-66.⁂ Fournier's most important work, envisaged as four volumes but on his death only these two had been completed (the second volume was originally intended to be the fourth). The first volume discusses typefounding and punchcutting with the folding plates illustrating the tools then used in those processes; the second volume is basically a type specimen book with 303 full page specimens (including 101 ancient and modern alphabets and five folding engraved plates of music). "The most useful information about type and typefounding which could be got together when he wrote, and the first successful endeavour to place the measurements of types on a rational basis." Updike.
![Ireland.- [Denham (Sir John, attributed to)] Famous Battel of the Catts in the Province of Ulster, only edition, title croppe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/e3e05cb1-f09f-4787-818f-aebd010f9211/468x382.jpg)
Lot 178
Ireland.- [Denham (Sir John, attributed to)] Famous Battel of the Catts in the Province of Ulster, only edition, title cropped at head with loss of first word and other pp. with loss of pagination and affecting some side notes, browned, disbound, [Wing D1001], T. Newcomb, 1668; and 2 others, 17 century pamphlets on Ship Money and Scottish Pensioners, sm. 4to (3).⁂ Describing a battle between cats and rats in Ulster, presumably describes some real event in Ulster.
Lot 183
NO RESERVE Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul (A), title for second edition bound at end, faint marginal water-staining to first few leaves, occasional off-setting, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, expert repairs to boards, 4to, by J. H. for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1707.
Lot 190
Bindings.- Richardson (Samuel) Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady, 7 vol., first edition, vols. 3 & 4 first state, folding engraved music plate, A4 vol. 1 and L4 vol. 6 with small holes affecting odd letter, E10 vol. 6 with tear and large hole to centre, affecting text, O5 vol. 7 with small marginal loss, previous owner's ink signatures to titles, some scored out, occasional spotting and staining, contemporary vellum, rubbed and worn, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, for S. Richardson: and sold by A. Millar ..., 1748 § Shakespeare (William) The Dramatic Works ..., 10 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette titles, half-titles, scattered faint spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, 1856 § Radcliffe (Anne) Gaston de Blondeville, 4 vol., vol. 3 & 4 bound without half-titles, scattered faint spotting, later half-calf, sunned spines, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 1826; and others, v.s. (c.110)
Lot 192
NO RESERVE Sheridan (Thomas) British Education: or the source of the disorders of Great Britain. Being an essay towards proving, that the immorality, ignorance, and false taste, which so generally prevail, are the natural and necessary consequences of the present defective system of education, first Dublin edition, slightly browned, Philpott signature crossed out at head of title, bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary calf, red morocco label on spine, spine slightly rubbed, [Alston X 221], 12mo, Dublin, by George Faulkner, 1756.
Lot 193
Pamphlets.- German mercenaries.- German mercy: a fair warning to the people of Great-Britain, cropped, affecting part of imprint, some text, pagination, footnotes and catchwords, C1 tear at foot, with loss of a few letters, Printed for J. Scott at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, [1756] bound with [Whitehead (Paul, sometimes attributed to)] A letter to a Member of Parliament in the country, From His Friend in London, Relative to the Case of Admiral Byng: With Some original Papers and Letters Which passed during the Expedition, trimmed, affecting some text and pagination, printed for J. Cooke, at the King's-Arms, in Great-Turnstile, Holborn, 1756 and 6 others, 18th century, together 8 works in 1 vol., some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, joints split, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo⁂ I: Against the employment of German troops in the service of Great Britain. It was first published in the same year as 'German cruelty'. II. 'Possibly a Scottish piracy of the London, 32p. edition' (ESTC). This edition being pp. [2],16.
Lot 196
Novel.- The Correspondents, an Original Novel; in a Series of Letters, A New Edition, ink signature of Caroline Danby on front free endpaper and bookplate of William Danby of Swinton Park, Yorkshire on front pastedown, contemporary tree calf, some surface wear on upper cover, for T. Becket, 1776 § [Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, engraved title, bookplate of Oliver Grant on front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, edges uncut, printed paper label on spine, rubbed and browned, 1823; and 3 others, 8vo & sm. 4to (5).⁂ First mentioned based on the letters supposed to have passed between Lord Lyttelton and Mrs. Peach (widow of Gov. Peach of Bombay) who married his son Thomas Lyttelton. Second mentioned a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of the author's infatuation with his landlady's daughter, an unreciprocated attachment which caused him great distress.
![[Walpole (Horace)] The Mysterious Mother; a Tragedy, first Dublin edition, 19th century polished calf, gilt, Dublin, for John](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/203b2c71-6b17-4a4c-81ac-aebd010ecdb2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 203
[Walpole (Horace)] The Mysterious Mother; a Tragedy, first Dublin edition, 19th century polished calf, gilt, Dublin, for John Archer, William Jones and others, 1791 § Godwin (William) Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, The Second Edition, half-title, lacks frontispiece portrait, ink signature of GM Doddington on front free endpaper, hinges weak, original boards, spine worn with loss, for J. Johnson, 1798; and 3 others, 8vo (5).
Lot 205
NO RESERVE Scotland.- Dumfries printing.- Carruthers (John) The heroic deeds of the Scots. A poem, in four volumes; from Fergus I. down to the present time. To which are added, poems on several occasions, Vol.1 [all published], first edition, some spotting, lightly browned, original light blue wrappers, uncut, upper wrapper detached, lacking backstrip, creased, some staining, large 12mo, Dumfries, Printed by Robert Jackson, 1796.⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only four copies (BL, Nat. Lib. Scotland, Hornel and Cornell). WorldCat does not add any copies. The Carruthers are more or less synonymous with Dumfries and Annandale, and are closely associated with clan Bruce. The text begins with the mythic origins of the Scots, and closes with the death of The Bruce.
Lot 21
Hobbes (Thomas) De mirabilibus Pecci: being the Wonders of the Peak, in Darby-shire, commonly called the Devil's Arse of Peak, first edition, issue with Latin poem in italic and English translation in roman, imprimatur to verso of title, English and Latin text on facing leaves, 7pp. advertisements at end, without final blank, contemporary ink signatures of William and Sophia Croome to title and other leaves, ink stain to A6, Brett-Smith copy with pencil note to rear endpaper, bookplate of Christopher Rowe, later half calf, rubbed, [Wing H2224], for William Crook, 1678 § [Jackson (John)] History of the City and County of Lichfield, &c., second edition, 1796; History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, first edition, engraved frontispiece (shaved at fore-edge), [1795], together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary ink signature of Eliza Landor to title of first and front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed, head of spine and corners worn, Lichfield, 8vo (2)
Lot 210
NO RESERVE Poetry.- Jamieson (Robert) Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish language, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, occasional spotting, bookplates of Norman and Janey Buchan, contemporary polished calf, gilt, spine ends little chipped, corners worn, rubbed, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co., 1806 § Bridges (Robert) The Shorter Poems, first edition, one of 110 copies on Van Gelder, half-title, justification slip-tipped-in, endpapers foxed, bookplate of Edwin Waterhouse (brother of the architect Alfred Waterhouse, whose daughter Monica was married to Bridges), original green cloth, original printed paper label to spine, rubbed at extremities, 1890; and another, J.A. Symonds, v.s. (4)
Lot 217
Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form later issue with letterpress title dated 1838, half-title, frontispiece, pictorial title and 41 etched plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and Halbot K. Browne, spotting and browning (mainly marginal) to plates, some light off-setting, endpaper and frontispiece working loose, upper hinge cracked, variant binding, purple cloth, blind-stamped, spine sunned, splitting to joints, extremities a little bumped, [Eckel p.17-18; Hatton and Cleaver pp.1-88; Smith pp.19-27 (this issue see n.1)], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1838
![NO RESERVE [Hughes (Thomas)] The Scouring of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk, first edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/5a9a9d4f-3e4c-43cc-926e-aebd010f2e3f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 219
NO RESERVE [Hughes (Thomas)] The Scouring of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk, first edition, first issue, half-title, double-page steel-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Richard Doyle, some foxing, upper hinge split, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [Wolff 3330], Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1859; and 2 others, 19th century Literature and Illustrated, v.s. (3)
Lot 220
Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 12 plates by Luke Fildes, 1f. list of Dickens' works and 32pp. advertisements dated Aug. 31, 1870 at rear, embossed W. H. Smith stamp to front free endpapers, light foxing and marking, heavier to first few pp. and frontispiece, small tear and loss to margin p.102, some cracking to gutter, original green decorative cloth with design in black and gilt (Carter variant B), spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing, [Carter, Binding Variants, pp.108-9; Eckel pp.96-8; Smith I, 16], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Lot 221
NO RESERVE Reattribution of authorship.- O'Farrell (Burke) Cold Comfort. A Novel. In three volumes, 3 vol. in 2, first edition, lacking advertisements, title to vol.2 misbound at start of second vol., spotting or foxing, occasional staining, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments and with new (to style) red leather labels, covers scuffed, rubbed, [Wolff 5202], 8vo, T. Cautley Newby, 1871.⁂ An intriguing set, having been in the possession of John Rouse Bloxam (1807-1891, antiquary and curate to J. H. Newman at Littlemore), and containing his autograph notes and marginalia. He reattributes authorship to Christina Jeffery, née Rufford. He goes on to identify Cold Comfort as a farm belonging to the Marquis of Hertford, near Alcester, Warwickshire, and to identify characters in the novel with members of the Rufford and Purton families (a tipped-in double-page slip at start of vol.1 collates these in table form). Three carte-de-visite portraits of the supposed authoress are mounted at start of vol.1.
Lot 222
Trollope (Anthony) The Eustace Diamonds, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, vol. 2 pp.147-166 with small marginal tear at fore-edge (not affecting text), a few instances of light spotting or finger-soiling, later half calf with morocco labels, [Sadleir 39], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1873.
Lot 224
Trollope (Anthony) The American Senator, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, lightly foxed, some light spotting, light damp-staining to endpapers, original blue cloth, some soiling, spines toned and rubbed, 1877; North America, 2 vol., first edition, 32pp. of advertisements dated October 1862 at rear vol. 1, half-titles, folding map, vol. 1 gutter cracked in several places and hinge broken at p.1 (spine coming loose), vol. 2 lower hinge weak, original cloth, vol. 1 with tear to spine, spines sunned, 1862, [Sadleir 46, 14], Chapman and Hall, 8vo (5)⁂ First possibly with secondary blue cloth binding as listed in Sadleir, although blocked only in blind, without black to upper cover as described.
Lot 226
Trollope (Anthony) Mr Scarborough's Family, 3 vol., first edition in book form, 32pp. of advertisements dated March 1883 to end of vol. 1 (last with corner clipped), half-titles (loose with endpaper in vol. 1), ink ownership inscrtiptions to pastedowns, occasional light finger soiling, vol. 1 and 3 hinges weak, vol. 2 hinge broken with spine coming away from textblock, p. 1 loose, original green-blue cloth decorated in brown, vol. 1 small tear lower joint, traces of library labels upper covers, spines toned, spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, [Sadleir 66], 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1883.
![NO RESERVE Poetry.- [Bird (Robert)] Law Lyrics, first edition, the author's own copy, half-title, author's ownership inscript](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d0c0d75-5429-47f4-8a8a-aebd0102a7ad/ae608683-cd4f-46d7-a14a-aebd010ed517/468x382.jpg)
Lot 227
NO RESERVE Poetry.- [Bird (Robert)] Law Lyrics, first edition, the author's own copy, half-title, author's ownership inscription to front free endpaper, places of original periodical publication noted by the author at the beginning of each piece, a list of those who 'expressed commendation' in pencil on front free endpaper, related press cuttings tipped-in to endpapers, original linen-backed boards, author's signature to upper cover (faded due to stain), corners worn, stained, Glasgow, Wilson & McCormick, 1885; and 2 others by the same, including a presentation copy to his daughter of Law Lyrics, 8vo (3)
Lot 228
NO RESERVE Haggard (H. Rider) She. A History of Adventure, first edition, first issue, with 'Godness' on penultimate line of p.269, half-title, 2 chromolithographed 'facsimile' plates, advertisement f. at end, very lightly browned, original dark blue pictorial cloth, gilt, little wear to lower corners, little cocked, otherwise a very good copy, [Whatmore F4; Scott 5], 8vo, Longmans, Green and Co., 1887.
Lot 229
NO RESERVE Supernatural.- Falkner (J. Meade) The Lost Stradivarius, first edition, half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated 11/95, red ink staining to lower edge, just bleeding through to lower margins, a few light stains, original blue blind-stamped and gilt pictorial cloth, some spotting and marking, corners bumped, rubbed at extremities, cocked, [Bleiler 621; Wolff 2119], 8vo, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1895.⁂ 'A sophisticated supernatural novel, concerned with music, evil, and mysticism. One of the 19th century classics.' (Bleiler).
Lot 23
Johnson (Samuel) Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia...Printed with Patent Types, in a manner never before attempted, Rusher's Edition, title with ink signatures at head and lightly soiled, original boards with title printed on upper cover and advertisement on lower (faint), uncut & unopened (one leaf torn where carelessly opened), rubbed, rebacked in vellum, Banbury, P.Rusher, 1804 § Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vol., third edition, engraved portrait (offset), 2 folding engraved facsimiles, browned, ink inscriptions to front free endpaper of vol.1, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, worn, some covers detached, 1799; and 7 others by or on Johnson, 8vo et infra (12)⁂ The first is a peculiar and unique experiment in printing using a small capital in place of all descending letters which Bigmore & Wyman called, "about as ugly a specimen of typography as can be conceived".
Lot 230
NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) Jude the Obscure, first edition in book form, Purdy's first state, etched frontispiece by H. MacBeth-Raeburn, full-page map of Hardy's 'Wessex' at end, occasional marginal light foxing, endpapers foxed, original dark green cloth, gilt, some fading and staining, cocked, t.e.g., [Purdy pp.86-87], 8vo, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 [but 1895]. ⁂ The Christminster of the novel is modelled on Oxford and Tetuphenay on Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol. Provenance: Gregory Drew, graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, and later a cataloguer at the Taylorian Library.
Lot 231
NO RESERVE Decorative cloth.- Hueffer (Ford M.) Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Work, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1896 § Grego (Joseph) Cruikshank's Water Colours, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, previous owner's ink signature, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1903 § Gilbey (Sir Walter) and E. D. Cuming. George Morland his Life and Works, first edition, frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, scattered faint spotting, original decorative cloth, staining, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1907 § Bradley (A. G.) The Wye, frontispiece, plates, tissue-guards, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, previous owner's ink inscription, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1910; and others similar, 8vo & 4to (37)
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Lot 232
[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] "Lewis Carroll". Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 2 vol., frontispieces and illustrations by Harry Furniss, previous owner's address label to front free endpaper of the first, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, rubbed, 1898-99 § Coridon's Song And other Verses, frontispiece and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, previous owner's ink signature, booksellers blind-stamp to front free endpaper, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities,1894 § Collins (Wilkie) The Woman in White, 2 vol. bound in 1, previous owner's ink signature to titles, later half-cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Leipzig, 1860 § Fougasse and McCullough. You Have Been Warned: a complete guide to the road, third edition, illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, small chip to spine foot, slight creasing to edges, 1935; and others, 8vo (c.210)
Lot 233
NO RESERVE Kipling (Rudyard) Kim, first English edition (published two weeks after the American edition), half-title, frontispiece, 9 plates, tissue guard to frontispiece, endpapers spotted, original red cloth, with gold medallion elephant design on upper cover, some light ?ink marking, rubbed at extremities, [Richards A174], Macmillan and Co., 1901; and a first English edition of Captains Courageous, 8vo (2)
Lot 234
Harper (Charles G.) Half-Hours with the Highwaymen, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates, spotting, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1908 § Trollope (Anthony) Ralph the Heir, third edition, 17 plates only (?of 18), scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1872 § Lovelace (Ralph Milbanke, Ear of) Astarte. A Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron, frontispiece, plates and facsimiles, cracked hinges, original cloth-backed boards, spine covering beginning to split but holding firm, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1905; and others similar, v.s. (c.180)
Lot 235
NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) The Works, Wessex Edition, 20 vol. only (of 24), half-titles, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, lightly sunned spines, 1912-13 § Partington (Charles F.) The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester, half-title, illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, new endpapers, modern boards, 1825 § Authentic Memoirs of the Public Life of M. Fouché, Duke of Otramto, second edition, scattered spotting, near contemporary cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, 1818 § Trollope (Anthony) Can you Forgive Her, 2 vol., frontispieces, illustrations, original cloth, a little rubbed, Oxford, 1948; and others similar, including some duplicates of the first, 8vo & 4to (c.100)
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