Chapman (Abel). First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling, 1st edition, London: Horace Cox, ''The Field'' Office, 1896. 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for, advertisements to front and rear - ibid. The Borders and Beyond. Arctic ... Cheviot ... Tropic, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1924. 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for, 2 folding maps, covers marked, extremities bumped - ibid. Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two, 1851-1929, 1st edition, London; Gurney and Jackson, 1930. 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for - and approximately 40 others, all field sports, 19th and early-20th century, all in original cloth, including other Chapman titles, 12 titles in the Fur, Feather and Fin series, and similar (qty: 44) Mullens & Swann p. 124 (Chapman, First Lessons).
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Landseer (Edwin). Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers, Leopards, Dogs, etc., chiefly after the Designs of Sir Edwin Landseer, by his Brother, Thomas, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 4to, original cloth gilt (sunned and marked, light wear to spine-ends), [4] 28 pp., 39 engraved plates including pictorial additional title-page, a little light finger-soiling to margins, a few other marks (qty: 1) Second edition, greatly expanded from the first of 1823, which had 20 plates only.
Millais (John Guille). The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. 4to, original half vallum, plain dust jacket with printed spine-label (the jacket probably original; spine-panel largely restored, a few nicks and tears), 21 photogravure and other plates, a bright copy - Tegetmeier (William Bernhard). Pheasants, 4th edition ('enlarged'), London: Horace Cox, 1904. 8vo, original cloth (loss to head of spine), 24 plates (6 in colour), bookplate of J. E. Harting (1841-1928, British ornithologist) - Cank (Thomas). Forty Years Mingled in Game (Fur and Feathers), 1st edition, Leyland: published and copyrighted by T. Cank, ''The Lancashire Pheasantries'', 1891. 8vo, original cloth, 133 pp. - St John (Charles). Natural History and Sport in Moray, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. Large 8vo, original cloth (spine sunned and frayed), all heliogravure plates as called for - and 28 others (not collated), natural history and field sports, 19th and early-20th century, mainly in original cloth, including Oates, Wild Ducks, 1st edition, 1905 (plates by Lodge), Burke, The Indian Shikar Field Book, 4th edition, Calcutta, 1908 (pre-printed game register in rear pocket), Aflalo, The Sportsman's Book for India, 1st edition, 1904 (withdrawn from the General Assembly Library, New Zealand), and similar (qty: 32) Mullens & Swann pp. 502 (St John). Library Hub traces two copies only of Thomas Cank's privately published Forty Years Mingled in Game. St John's work first appeared in 1863, without plates.
Moll (Herman). A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, etc. With the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, etc. Shewing the Computed Miles from Town to Town, London: sold by H. Moll; Tho. Bowles, J. Bowles, 1724. Folio (357 x 230 mm), contemporary panelled calf, letterpress title-page, 50 engraved maps (including 2 general maps, both folding), all hand-coloured in outline, the county maps including engraved vignettes of local antiquities in margins, contemporary ownership inscription (Eliz[abe]th Wallace) and later bookplate (Christopher Coleman Gill) to front pastedown, binding worn, front board detached (together with front free endpaper and initial blank), rear joint cracked, browning to letterpress title-page and the 2 general maps, map of Cornwall slightly toned and mottled along edges (qty: 1) Chubb CLXI. First separate edition of the maps from Herman Moll's A New Description of England and Wales, published the same year; the only change is that the maps are now numbered between brackets in the top-left corner. According to Chubb the maps were uncoloured.
Nelson (Thomas H.). The Birds of Yorkshire, 1st edition, London: A. Brown & Sons, Limited, 1907. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, colour frontispieces and titles-page, half-tone photographic plates, errata slip to volume 1, occasional spotting to text-blocks - [Grouse]. The Grouse in Health and Disease. Being the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, volume 1 with 59 plates numbered 1-58, volume 2 with colour map (and maps in text), volume 1 with light mottling to covers and fraying to headcaps, volume 2 text-block spotted - Burrard (Gerald). The Modern Shotgun, 1st edition, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931-2. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, text-blocks toned and occasionally spotted - and 14 others (not collated), field sports, early 20th-century, original cloth, including another copy of The Grouse in Health and Disease, Pollard, A History of Firearms, 1930 (first edition 1926), Duncan & Thorne, The Complete Wildfowler, 1911 (with dust jacket), and similar (qty: 25) Mullens & Swann p. 432 (Nelson).
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New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney [and:] British Warblers. London: Collins, 1985. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets each with Duraseal protector, Orkney with contemporary ownership inscription ('M. Mitchell, February 1986') to front free endpaper, Warblers jacket spine slightly faded and Duraseal protector a little cockled on front cover (qty: 2) Bernhard & Loe NN70A & 71A. First edition, first state of each work, numbers 70 and 71 and the two rarest titles in the New Naturalist series; 725 copies of each were printed.
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New Naturalists. Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes, Collins [-HarperCollinsPublishers], 1986-92. 4 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, Heathlands foot of spine bumped and pencilled ownership inscription 'Leachman' to front free endpaper, Freshwater Fishes with spotting to top edge of text-block, and slight fading to foot of spine (visible only in the elliptical ground of the 'NN' monogram) (qty: 4) Bernhard & Loe NN72A, 73A, 74A, 75A. First editions of numbers 72-75 in the New Naturalist series, of which 880, 1850, 1500 and 1470 copies were printed; Heathlands and The New Forest are each in the first-edition dust jacket with 'Collins' to foot of spine and prices £20.00 and £22.50 to front flap (there was no such issue-point for Ferns or Freshwater Fishes). A bright group: the spines of Ferns and Freshwater Fishes are especially prone to fading.
White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... to which are added, the Naturalist's Calendar ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Large-paper copy, 1 volume bound in 2, 4to (289 x 226 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked, iii-x [2] 1-301, [302]-587 [1] pp., 9 engraved plates ('Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' and 'A Hybrid Pheasant' both hand-coloured; frontispiece 'North-east View of Selborne' folding), 2 section-titles each with engraved vignette, engraved tailpiece, bookplates of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1786-1869), politician and diarist, modern bookplates of Robin T. Comley (dated 1986), half-title discarded, plates somewhat spotted, signature 3O repaired in gutter - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. 4to (265 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered with most of original spine laid down, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, collation as the preceding item but retaining half-title and with 'Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' uncoloured, offsetting, light browning, closed tear in Y2, final leaf repaired - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, London: John van Voorst, 1872. 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 136 mm), 20th-century orange half calf by Bumpus, vignette half-titles, all plates as called for, bookplates of Sir Hector Livingston Duff (1872-1954), colonial administrator, joints and extremities rubbed - and 4 other editions of The Natural History of Selborne (not collated), all leather-bound, and comprising: New Edition, 1813 (2 volumes, octavo issue); New Edition, 1822 (2 volumes); The Works in Natural History, 1802 (2 copies: one in 2 volumes, the other 2 volumes bound in 1) (qty: 12) Martin pp. 106-8 (1813 edition). The first item is one of 50 large-paper copies (watermarks J Whatman 1810), with the plate of the Hybrid Bird and the plate of the painting presented to the church both hand-coloured; the second item is the quarto or royal octavo edition. It was also published in octavo (a copy of which issue is included in the lot).
White (Gilbert; subject). Gilbert White and Sussex. By W. H. Mullens ... reprinted from the Transactions of the Union [of Scientific Societies], 1909. 4to, contemporary cloth, 23 pp., 7 halftone photographic plates, original wrappers bound in, W. H. Mullens's own copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown, 3 ff. autograph notes on his personal Westfield Place stationery tipped in at rear, and a 3 pp. autograph letter signed to him from one C. Fairbrother of Oliver Whitby's School, Chichester, also tipped in, together with - Mullens (W. H.). A List of Books relating to British Birds, published before the Year 1815. From the Library of W. H. Mullens ... exhibited at the Corporationg Museum, Hastings, during June, 1906, Hastings: F. J. Parsons, 1908. 8vo, original wrappers, [2] 34 pp. 7 plates (facsimile title-pages), inscribed 'With W. H. Mullens' compliments' on front wrapper recto, autograph note by W. H. Mullens on his Westfield Place stationery mounted verso, spine chipped, front wrapper torn to loss of text, front wrapper and first 2 text-leaves working loose (held by top cord only) - and 2 others by Mullens (The Introduction to Fauna Calpensis ... By John White, edited by W. H. Mullens, 1st edition, London: The Selborne Society, 1913, original printed boards; Gilbert White of Selborne. A Lecture delivered before the Hastings and St. Leonard's Natural History Society, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1907, original cloth) (qty: 4)
Bagshawe (Edward). Two Arguments in Parliament, the first concerning the Cannons, the Second concerning the Premunire upon those Cannons, 1st edition, London: George Miller, 1641. 4to (182 x 140 mm), 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips, bookplate of William Allen Potter, woodcut initials and headpieces, spine worn, front free endpaper loose, final blank discarded - Maurice (Thomas). An Elegiac and Historical Poem, Sacred to the Memory and Virtues of the Honourable Sir William Jones. Containing a Retrospective Survey of the Progress of Science, and the Mohammedan Conquests in Asia, 2nd edition, London: for the author, 1795. 4to (278 x 212 mm), modern half cloth - Whitaker (Edward William). A Dissertation on the Prophecies relating the Final Restoration of the Jews, 1st edition, Canterbury: Simmons and Kirkby, 1784. 8vo (198 x 124 mm), stitched in modern wrappers, half-title - Pack (Richardson). Religion and Philosophy: A Tale. With Five Other Pieces, 1st edition, London: E. Curll, 1720. 8vo (196 x 125 mm), stitched in modern marbled wrappers, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear (not mentioned in ESTC), woodcut head- and tailpieces, title-page soiled and with chip to lower fore corner - Michell (Abraham Louis). Exposition of the Motives, founded upon the universally received Laws of Nations, which have determined the King (of Prussia) upon the Repeated Instances of his Subjects trading by Sea, to lay an Attachment upon the Capital Funds which his Majesty had promised to reimburse to the Subjects of Great-Britain, in Virtue of the Peace-Treaties of Breslau and Dresden, London: J. Raymond, 1752. 8vo (202 x 120 mm), modern wrappers - [Bethune, Mary Drinkwater, & William Cotton]. The River Mole, or Emlyn Stream. A Poem, with Notes and Illustrations, [Leatherhead?]: privately printed, in aid of the fund for building national schools at Lethrede, 1839. 4to (266 x 175 mm), later morocco, [4] 35 pp., 8 etched plates including frontispiece and additional title-page (qty: 6) ESTC R16597 (Bagshaw), T85985 (Maurice), N6475 (Whitaker: ten copies world-wide), T92758 (Pack), T114997 (Michell).
Potter (B), THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE, first deluxe edition, pink cloth boards, gilt titles and decoration, applied cover illustration, illustrated endpapers, half title page, dedication page, colour frontispiece, gilt edges to block, Frederick Warne And Co, London 1904, with Potter (B), THE TALE OF MR TOD, first edition, grey card boards, applied cover illustration, illustrated endpapers, colour frontispiece, half title page, Frederick Warne And Co, London 1912 (2) CONDITION REPORT:The Tale Of Two Bad Mice shows bumps to the front corners, shelf wear to bottom edges and wear to the top of the spine and spine edges. The gilt block edges, titles and cover decoration all show wear commensurate with age and use. The end papers show some staining. The half title page is creased and worn. The pages show the wear, stains and creasing commensurate with age and use, but no visible foxing. There is no inscription or scribbling in the volume.The Tale Of Mr Tod shows bumps to the front corners resulting in a small loss to the top surface of the bottom corner. There is shelf wear to the bottom edges and spine edges, with a small tear to the top of the spine. There appears to be a partial thickness tear to the base of the front free endpaper. The pages have yellowed somewhat, but show minimal foxing. There is no inscription or scribbling in the volume.
Behan (B), HOLD YOUR HOUR AND HAVE ANOTHER, first edition, green cloth boards, illustrations by Beatrice Behan, Hutchinson Of London, London 1963, inscribed to free endpaper '...Because he's irish & whimsy & suffers from indigstion and shouts about it & because he's a trumpet and a 'lovely thing' and because you should smile oftener', with an email from the National Library Of Ireland confirming that it is likely that this inscription was written by Brendan Behan
Phipps (Col. R.W.), THE ARMIES OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, first edition, clipped DJ, blue cloth boards, five fold out maps and one map plate, Oxford University Press, 1931, with a selection of military training manuals, to include manuals on Rafting And Bridging, Field Engineering And Mine Warfare, Fieldcraft, Sniping and Intelligence etc (12)
Rowling (J.K.), HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, paperback edition, signed by the author to the dedication page, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, with Rowling (J.K.), HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, first edition, third printing, illustrated boards, unclipped DJ, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1998 (ex-library, at fault), and Rowling (J.K.), HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, first edition, illustrated boards, unclipped DJ, 'O.W.L.s' misprint on p99, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 2005 (3)
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder R.A. R.S.A. (British, b.1931), A country road in black and mauve, Limited edition print on paper, Signed in pencil and number '48/50' to lower margin, 46cm x 65cm, Framed and glazed Biographical note: Elizabeth Blackadder is a Scottish artist and teacher working in oils, watercolour, drawing and printmaking. Based largely at the Edinburgh College Of Art, she was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy. CONDITION REPORT:The print is framed under glass and has not been removed for inspection. The colours appear clean and bright, but may have faded somewhat over time. There is no visible evidence of damage or restoration to the print surface.
A Set of Four Volumes of The Second World War by Winston Churchill Published by Cassel, Complete with Dust Jackets. Vol I First Publishing 1948, Vol II First Publishing 1949, Vol III First Publishing 1950 and Vol IV First Publishing 1951 (Some Slight Condition Issues to Include Foxing to Spines Also Ware, Fading and Loss to Jackets) Together with 1966 Edition of Winston S. Churchill by Randolph S. Churchill Youth 1874-1900
A Collection of Books on a Topic of Winston Churchill to Include 1941 Edition of My Early Life a Roving Commission by Winston Churchill Published by Macmillan Containing Related Newspaper Clippings, 1965 First Publishing of Simply Churchill by Roy Howells, 1958 Edition of Mr Churchill's Secretary by Elizabeth Nel and Churchill by His Contemporaries An Observer Appreciation Published by Hodder Stoughton
A Collection of Vintage Published Books on a Topic of German Military etc to Include 1950 First Edition and a Fourth Impression Edition of Rommel by Desmond Young, 1962 Edition of Hermann Goring by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, 1953 Sixth Impression of General Heinz Guderian by Panzer Leader, 1953 Edition of The German General Staff by Walter Gorlitz and a 1950 Edition of Moscow Mission 1946-1949 by Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith, Most Complete with Dust Jacket, Although with Condition Issues to Include Tears, Loss etc
A Collection of Books on a Topic of Everest and Mountaineering to Include 1952 First Printing of The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951 by Eric Shipton, 1950 First Edition of A History of Mountaineering in the Alps by Claire Eliane Engel, 1953 First Edition of The Ultimate Mountains by Thomas Weir, 1953 Second Edition of The Story of Everest 1921-1952 by W. H. Murray, 1953 Second Edition of The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt, 1928 July Reprint of The Epic of Mount Everest
A Collection of Books on the Topic of Voyages and Exploration to Include 1933 First Edition of Voyage of "Parma" by A.J. Villiers, 1930 Edition of By Way of Cape Horn by A.J. Villiers, 1700 Miles in Open Boats The Story of the Loss of the S.S.Trevessa in the Indian Ocean, and the Voyage of Her Boats to Safety by Cecil Foster, Master Mariner Captain of the S.S. "Trevessa", 1934 Edition of The Lot of a Limejuicer The Experiences Under Sail of James P. Baker Master Mariner as Told to Roland Baker, a 1952 First Edition of The Shoals of Capricorn by F.D. Ommanney,1938 Edition of South Latitude by F. D Ommanney and 1933 Edition of Rolling Round the Horn by Claude Muncaster with Illustrations and Robert Edwin Peary a Record of His Explorations 1886-1909 by J. Gordon Hayes. Condition Issues to Include Wear, Binding Issues etc
Three Books by W. Somerset Maugham: 1930 First Edition of The Gentleman in the Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham Published by William Heinemann,1922 Edition of On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham and a 1935 Edition of Don Fernando by W. Somerset Maugham. Condition Issues to Include Ware etc
A Collection of Early/Mid 20th Century Published Story Books to Include 1964 (Ninth Impression) of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, Published by Hodder & Stoughton (Complete with Dust Jacket), 1955 Edition The Story of Peter Pan Illustrated by Alice B Woodward, Published G. Bell & Sons, 1941 (Sixty-fifth) Edition of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Published by Methuen, 1928 Phoenix Library First Issuing of First Plays by A.A. Milne, 1943 Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling Published by Macmillan and Co. and Rudyard Kipling's Verse Inclusive Edition 1885-1918
A Collection of Vintage Published Books on a Topic of Fishing to Include The Fisherman's Bedside Book by 'BB', A 1944 The Fisherman's Vade Mecum by G. W. Maunsell, The Roving Angler by Herbert Palmer, First Printing of Angling for Brown Trout by A R Harris Cass, 1946 Edition The Science of Spinning for Salmon & Trout by Alexander Wanless, First Printing of Thoughts on Angling by J.C. Mottram, First Printing of Holiday Trout Fishing and A Trout Angler's Notebook by H.S. Joyce, Here and There a Lusty Trout by Powell, Let's Go Fishing! by L V Bates, A Trout Rose by R D Baird, 1947 Edition of Angling Ways by E Marshall-Hardy, 1960 Edition of The Evening Rise by H.M. Bateman, The Angler's Week-end Book by Eric Taverner and John Moore, 1946 reprint of Coarse Fishing by Bazley and Weatherall and a 1955 Edition of The Gentle Art of Angling by Bernard Venables
A Collection of Books on a Topic of Birds and Nature to Include First Edition of Bird Haunts in Southern England and Bird Haunts in Northern Britain by G.K. Yeates, Birds in Action by Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry, Birds of the Day, Birds of the Day by Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry, More Birds of the Day by Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry, Birds of the Night by Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry, The New Naturalist, Birds In Colour by Walter Higham A Collection of Books on a Topic of Birds to Include 1948 Edition British Birds in Their Haunts, 1946 Edition of Call of The Birds by Charles Bayne, 1946 Edition of How to Study Birds etc
A Collection of Books on a Topic of Wildfowl and Sporing to Include 1937 October Reprint of Sporting Adventure by J. Wentworth Day, 1962 First Edition of Guns This Way by H W Pearson-Rogers, 1936 First Ordinary Rebound Edition of Morning Flight A Book of Wildfowl by Peter Scott and a 1942 Edition of Wild Chorus by Peter Scott. Condition Issues to Include Ware etc
A Collection of Three by The Rev. W. Awdry Books to Include 1960 First Published Edition of The Twin Engines, 1969 First Published Edition of Oliver The Western Engine and a 1963 Edition The Three Railway Engines. Condition Issues to Include Binding Issues and Inscription etc Together with The Little Red Engine Gets a Name by Diana Ross and The Story Book of Trains by Maud and Miska Petersham
A Collection of Books and Ephera on a Topic of Sailing to Include 1948 Edition of Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of Liberdade by Captain Joshua Slocum, Sailing on a Small Income by Maurice Griffiths, Three Men in a Boat, First Edition of a Sailor of Napoleon by John Lesterman Published by Jonathan Cape etc. Together with a Collection of Books on a Topic of Lace, Silk and Leather Work to Include An Old Silk Family 1745-1945, The Romance of Lace and Leather Work and a Britain's Birds and Their Nests Described by A Landsborough Thompson and Illustrated with 132 Drawings in Colour by George Rankin Published by W & R ChambersCondition Issues to Include Ware etc
A Collection of Various Books on the Topic of Military to comprise 1992 Edition of Fatherland by Robert Harris, The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, Yesterdays Witness by James Cameron (First Published 1979) 1974 Tenth Printing of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Etc together with a Collection of Various Book on the Topic of British Racing Cars and Rallying.
Five Volumes of Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S Churchill to Include Twelfth Edition (May 1947) of Into Battle, Third Edition (Dec 1943) of The Unrelenting Struggle, Second Edition (June 1945) of Onwards to Victory, 1945 First Edition of The Dawn of Liberation and 1946 First Edition of Victory Together with a 1946 Edition of Secret Session Speeches Delivered by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill to the House of Commons 1940-1943
Iron Maiden 12" / Shaped / Picture Disc Singles, eight Picture Disc and Special edition 12" and Shaped singles comprising From Here to Eternity (Shaped picture disc with plinth), Bring Your Daughter..(12" Picture disc), Running Free (12" Picture disc), Nico McBrain - Rhythm of the Beast (Shaped picture disc with plinth), From Here to Eternity (12" Poster Sleeve), The Trooper (12" Picture disc), Out of the Silent Planet (12" Picture Disc) and Women In Uniform (Double 12" Single from the First Ten Years) - various years and conditions
Quantity of childrens books to include Hugh Lofting, Roald Dahl, Laura Lee Hope, Frank Knight, AA Milne (modern), Penelope Lively, etc (2 boxes)Condition ReportHugh Lofting =Doctor Doolittle's Garden - Nineteenth Impression 1966Doctor Doolittle in the Moon - Reprinted 1975Doctor Doolittle in the moon - Sixteenth Impression 1961Doctor Doolittle's Zoo - Eighteenth Impression 1962Doctor Doolittle's Puddleby Adventures - Reprint 1962Roald Dahl=Going solo First Edition (x2)My Uncle Oswald First Edition
Childrens Books - , Mary Norton, Ruby Ferguson, Dick King Smith, Lucy Fitch-Perkins, Mary Fitt, Grace James and Beatrix Potter, etc (2 boxes) Condition ReportMary Norton:The Borrower's Afloat - Second ImpressionThe Borrower's Afloat - First Edition (x2)The Bread and Butter Stories - First Edition
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 19028vo (21.3 x 13.3 x 4.6cm) x + 769pp. Original dark blue hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine. With 5 fold-out maps at rear of book. With deckled edges, and cut pages.This is the final revision by Arthur Conan Doyle of his classic work. During the Boer War Doyle continuously revised his book as the war progressed. This is the last time he updated it, in 1902, at the end of the conflict, and this edition covers the entire history of the war for the first time.From the estate of the late Frikkie Oosthuizen, who presented the classical music programme 'U Eie Keuse' on Afrikaans radio.Condition: Good. Rubbing, small stains and light scratches to boards. Small bump to top edge of front board. Some wear to top corners of boards. Sunning to spine, and chipping to top and tail of spine. Previous owner's bookplate fixed to front pastedown. Old stamp and previous bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Small closed tear (less than 2cm) to fore edge of front free endpaper, with repairs made with archive tape. Some splits to gutters between pages. Light foxing throughout. Still a well bound copy.
Johannesburg: High Branching, 20074to (26.7 x 18.8 x 9.5cm) xxix + 416pp, xvii + 603, vi + 339pp. Original full leather bindings, with gilt lettering to spines and gilt inlays to the front boards. Illustrated throughout with fine historical monochrome photos, modern colour photos, and various hand-drawn colour illustrations by Penny Noall and Joan van Gogh. Each volume comes with 2 lint bookmarks.LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF 100 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 30. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.A comprehensive 3 volume history of the origins, animals and management of the Kruger National Park. The Kruger National Park is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 km2 in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km from north to south and 65 km from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger_National_Park)Condition: Very good. Very small stains to the top edge of textblock and some smudging to fore edge of textblock of vol. 2. All else fine. The volumes are solidly bound, internally clean and clear.
Modern die-cast models and vehicles, including 1:18 scale Road Signature 1962 Volkswagen Microbus; Corgi Classics 07001 Lufthansa Volkswagen Microbus; three other Corgi Volkswagen Micro Buses; Oxford Haulage 1:76 scale Moreton C Cullimore Pioneer recovery tractor; two Exclusive First Edition coaches; Corgi 01803 Inspector Morse Jaguar 2.4, and others, seventeen in total, all boxed. (Qty: 17)Qty: (17)
ROWLING (J. K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', '1 wand' appears twice on p.53, 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover, 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' to rear cover, rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry' Provenance: private collection consigned via our Carmarthen office Condition: a good example overall, cover vibrant and in good condition overall with some minor wear and folds to extremities, normal faint discolouration to page ends, some foxing / marks / discolouration to inside title page (see additional images), spine in good overall condition and appears fairly tight (possibly unread)
A collection of loose first day covers, mint sets & presentation packs. To included Gibraltar, Austria & limited edition examples. Twenty six presentation packs, 1984 stamp year set, Austria 1984 year set, Gibraltar mint stamps & first day covers. Jersey 1986 special stamps, limited edition terratorial army 03023 of 10000, Definitive stamp collection UK, Red Stanley Gibbons ACE album with contents and Windsor loose leaf album (Empty)
A framed set of 6 Royal Air Force centenary commemorative stamps, the mount signed by Air Chief Marshall Sir Stephen Hillier KCB, CBE, DFC, ADC, MA, RAF 23.5x27cm, together with one other similar example signed Graham Pitchfork, a set of limited edition naval stamps, numbered 94/100 signed Admiral Tony Radakin CB, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, framed set of London 2010 Festival of Stamps stamp set, framed set of George V Ascension 6th May 1910 stamps, and a framed display of RAF cigarette cards
Leighton (Clare Veronica Hope, 1898-1989). The Farmer’s Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, First Edition published by Collins, London, 1933, the full text with wood engraved illustrations, 1932-1933, including twelve hors-texte full page illustrations, three landscape tailpieces and twelve illuminated letters, en texte, on wove paper, the full sheets as published, in very good condition, bound within original green cloth gilt, (edges slightly rubbed), dust jacket, spine repaired with a couple of small reinforcements to verso, oblong folio, overall size 286 x 286 mmQty: (1)NOTESPrint Collector’s Quarterly Vol. 22, No. 2, April 1935, Martin Hardie, The Wood Engravings of Clare Leighton, nos. 204-212, 216-217, 218, 220, 222-235: a further landscape vignette appears to be unrecorded. The Farmer's Year was the first book Clare Leighton exclusively wrote, engraved, and designed.
ARR * Sutherland (Graham, 1903-1980). Pecken Wood, 1925, etching, on fibrous buff wove paper, a very good, rich and tonal impression of the fifth (final) state with the signature added in the plate, signed in pencil and dated in Roman numerals, one of a total edition of 85 published of the third to fifth states (there was one impression printed of the first state and two of the second), published by the Twenty One Gallery, with margins, trimmed slightly unevenly, in very good condition, a band of barely discernible mount staining and two tiny brown rustmarks (?) recto and verso, remains of old tape at the upper sheet corners, plate size 132 x 185 mm, sheet size 214 x 288 mmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Camfield Collection; Sold in these rooms on 16 October 2015, The John Camfield Collection of British Etchings 1850-1980, lot 68; Collection of Oliver Hoare (1945-2018); purchased from Elizabeth Harvey Lee. David Ogg, ‘The Etchings of Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury’ in Print Collectors Quarterly, Vol. XVI, Part 1, 1929, see pp. 76–100, illustrated page 80; Douglas Cooper, The Work of Graham Sutherland, 1961, p.69, reproduced plate 3a; Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer and his Etchings, 1969; Felix H. Man, Graham Sutherland: das graphische Werk 1922–1970, 1970, No. 24, reproduced. Tate Britain holds an impression of this work in the same state (Inventory no. PO2066). The plate was destroyed by 1928.
ARR * Tanner (Robin, 1904-1988). White Violets, 1973, etching, a fine impression, printing with rich contrasts, signed, dated and inscribed ‘Robin Tanner fec. et imp. ’73 / White Violets: Presentation Plate, 1973, for The Print Collectors’ Club. Printed at Kington for Beano & / Robin, on paper made in 1795.’, one of ten artist’s proofs (according to an inscription on the mount) aside from the edition of 150 published by the Print Collector’s Club, on fine laid paper with watermark Initials VI, with margins, a nick at the right sheet edge, very pale mount-staining, otherwise in very good condition, plate size 125 x 100 mm, sheet size 218 x 166 mmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Oliver Hoare (1945-2018); purchased from Elizabeth Harvey Lee (February 2018). Garton 28. Garton does not mention the ten artist’s proofs. He notes that although a couple of impressions were inscribed ‘first state’, it was not possible to distinguish between states from the artist’s biting notes.
ARR * Tanner (Robin, 1904-1988). Wiltshire Hedger, 1928, etching, a fine, rich impression of the first state (of three), before the vertical shading on the façade of the house and the bank before it (the second state was published by Nicholson in an edition of 50 in 1928, while the third state was published in an edition of 12 by Garton & Cooke), signed and dated in pencil, bearing the title ‘The Hedger’ in pencil lower left, on J W Whatman 18th century laid paper with his proprietary watermark, the full sheet, traces of inky finger prints at the sheet corners, an area of residual adhesive verso and old adhesive tape at the upper reverse sheet corners, generally in good condition, plate size 100 x 148 mm, sheet size 198 x 268 mmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Oliver Hoare (1945-2018); purchased from Elizabeth Harvey Lee (April 2018). Garton 7.
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