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Lot 1021

Walker, George. Chess made easy; intended as a first book. New Edition. London, Piper, 1850. 8°. Mit 1 Frontispiz und vielen Diagrammen. 2 Bll. (inkl. Titel), 128 Seiten. Orig. Halbleinenband. (81) * Linde - N. 688; van der Linde II, 9. Das Frontispiz zeigt eine Dame und einen Herren beim Schachspiel. Zustand: Exlibris auf Innendeckel. Innen gebräunt und wenig fleckig. Wenige Seiten mit Defekten. Einband stark bestoßen und angestaubt. Rücken total defekt, dadurch sind die Deckel lose.

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Lot 103

Chess.- Murray (H.J.R.) A History of Chess, first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth with Lewis knight chess piece in blind on upper cover, 8vo, Oxford, 1913. ⁂ An excellent copy of this comprehensive history of the game.

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Lot 106

NO RESERVE Sailing.- British Sports and Sportsmen: Yachting and Rowing, first edition, one of 1000 copies, photogravure frontispiece, plates and illustrations, damp-staining, some ff. cockled, original chamfered red morocco, gilt, a little stained and marked, spine faded but still bright, g.e., folio, 1916.

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Lot 108

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Jekyll (Gertrude) and Christopher Hussey. Garden Ornament, plates and illustrations, endpapers a little browned and spotted, original cloth, lightly marked, extremities a little bumped and frayed, 1927 § Earle (C.W.) More Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, half-title lightly spotted, original half morocco, corners lightly rubbed, spine faded, 1900 § Green (David) Gardener to Queen Anne, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities and little bumped and creased, 1956 § Fox (Helen Morgenthau ) Patio Gardens, first edition, New York, 1929; and 27 others, mostly gardens and some natural history, including a 1904 reprint of Darwin's Vegetable Mould and Earth-Worms, v.s. (30)

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Lot 109

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Robinson (W.) Home Landscapes, first edition, photographic plates, original half vellum, a fine copy, housed in original folding box, worn, folio, 1914.

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Lot 110

Insects.- Redi (Francesco) Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti ... in una lettera all'illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati, first edition, plates only, 23 engraved plates (of 29, lacking 4, 14-17 and 29), of which 2 double-page, double-page plates with splits to folds, 1 with a large repaired tear and the other browned, other plates with some spotting and staining, [Dibner, Heralds of Science 188; Grolier/Horblit 88; Nissen ZBI 3319; NLM/Krivatsy 9448; Norman 1812; Prandi 7], Florence, Stella, 1668; and 3 other plates of insects, 4to (26)⁂ Redi's refutation of the theory of spontaneous generation in insects.

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Lot 111

New Naturalist Library (The), 11 vol., comprising nos. 1-5, 12, 18, 20, 22 from the monograph series, and nos. 7 and 14 special volumes, first editions, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, few spines lightly faded, some with light chipping to spine ends, but generally excellent copies overall, 1948-71; and a first edition set of Michael Robert's The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, 4to & 8vo (14)

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Lot 114

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- The Elements of the Conic Sections with the Sections of the Conoids, second edition, Manhattan College embossed library stamp to title, Cambridge, 1820; A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Algebraic Equations, Cambridge, 1832; Pearson (Henry) A Syllabus of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, second edition, presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, 1832; A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures upon Trigonometry, 1833; Gold Metal Examination, 1831; Hall (T. G.) A Treatise on plane Trigonometry, 1833, 5 vol. in 1, plates and illustrations, some folding, first vol. loose in binding, contemporary half-morocco, broken, rubbed, 8vo.

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Lot 117

Radio.- Marconi (Guglielmo) American Line. U.S.M.S. "Philadelphia" Marconi Bulletin. An up-to-date ocean newspaper. Containing all the latest Marconigrams from passing ships and from the Lizards' [sic] Wireless Telegraphy Station, [East bound edition; No. 1.], bifolium, double column, vignette of the Philadelphia to first page, horizontal fold, causing splitting (repaired), some staining and spotting, 8vo, Printed and published on board, 1903.⁂ Rare inaugural issue of The Marconi Bulletin, published in celebration of the establishment of the first ship to shore radio communication. In February, 1902, Marconi sailed from Britain on the SS Philadelphia in order to carry out tests on wireless transmission. The results showed coherer-tape reception up to 1550 miles; audio reception up to 2100 miles; and that transmissions travelled further at night than during the day. In December, 1902 a transmission from Nova Scotia became the first radio message to cross the Atlantic.

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Lot 119

NO RESERVE Smith (Godfrey, translator) The Laboratory, or School of Arts . . . experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assaying . . . and Toughening Gold, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, rather worn, [Duveen, p. 331], 1738; and a second edition of the same, 8vo (2)

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Lot 12

Phillips (G.F.) Principles of Effect and Colour as applicable to Landscape Painting, first edition, hand-coloured plate of colour wheel and 8 aquatint plates, 6 hand-coloured, paper guards, title lightly spotted but plates clean and bright, original cloth, label to upper cover, rebacked preserving old spine, rubbed and faded, spine a little worn, oblong folio, [cf.Abbey, Llife 167, third edition of 1840], F.G.Harding, 1833.⁂ Rare first edition of this artist's manual, with attractive plates. Library Hub records only one copy, in the British Library, and the National Art Library at the V & A contains only a later edition. The last copy sold at auction appears to have been in 1961.

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Lot 123

Petrarch.- Erizzo (Sebastiano) Espositione di m. Sebastiano Erizzo nelle tre canzoni di m. Francesco Petrarca, chiamate le tre sorelle, edited by Lodovico Dolce, first edition, first issue (with both title and colophon dated 1561), title with woodcut printer's device, repeated on *3v, woodcut head-piece and historiated initials, *4 blank, final f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, repaired worm trace towards end (mostly marginal), a few unobtrusive worm holes / small traces, final gathering lightly browned, occasional spotting and light foxing, 19th century decorative boards, [Adams E922 (second issue); EDIT 16 CNCE 18274], small 4to, Venice, Bernardino Fasani for Andrea Arrivabene, 1561.⁂ Erizzo's work on Petrarch, dedicated to Jean Hurault de Boistaillé, ambassador to Venice and Constantinople, and collector of books and manuscripts.

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Lot 128

Military.- Cavalry.- Basta (Giorgio) Govverno della Cavalleria, Das ist, Bericht von Anfuhrung der leichten Pferde, first German edition, 11 (of 12) engraved double-page plates by Johann Theodor de Bry, 1 plate (?from another copy) with repaired fraying with a little loss of image, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, antique style panelled calf, spine faded, [Mennessier de la Lance 84; Jahns 1053 ('Die beste wissenschaftliche Anleitung fur die Kavallerie'); cf. Cockle 123 (English edition)], small folio, Frankfurt, M. Becker, 1614.⁂ On the use of light horses in the field, based on the extensive practical experience of Basta.

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Lot 129

Military.- Wallhausen (Johann von) Künstliche Picquen-Handlung. Darinnen schrifftlich und mit Figuren dieses Adeliches exercitium angewiesen und gelehret wirdt, first edition, title within engraved historiated border, 9 (of 10, lacking plate 1) engraved double-page plates, a few spots, little lightly browned, antique style calf, spine faded, rubbed, 4to, Hanau, For the Author, 1617.⁂ Scarce copy at auction of this infantry work.

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Lot 130

NO RESERVE Occitan poetry.- Theron (Vital) Reliquiae poeticae R. P. Vitalis Theroni, Soc. Iesu presbyteri, ad eminentissimum cardinalem Mazarinum, first Boude edition, woodcut device to title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, foot of title frayed, affecting date, trimmed, just within some text to preliminaries, and occasionally elsewhere, without loss of sense, occasional spotting and light browning, disbound, Toulouse, Jean Boude, 1645; and 3 others, 19th & early 20th century Occitan, small 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ Rare first Boude edition of the collected poems of Vital Theron (1572-1657), assembled by his nephew Bernard Theron, a senator of Toulouse, and dedicated to Cardinal Mazarin.

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Lot 132

Duelling.- Law.- Voet (Paul) De duellis, licitis & illicitis, liber singularis, first edition, title with woodcut ornament and contemporary ink ownership inscription, (cross)4 and final f. blank, some staining to lower margins, occasional spotting, lightly browned, blind-stamp of Bernard Popland, 12mo, contemporary vellum, Utrecht, Gisbert van Zyll, 1646.⁂ Rare first edition of this little treatise on duelling by the Dutch jurist and philopsopher.

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Lot 134

La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, 2 vol. in 1, first illustrated edition, second issue, additional engraved pictorial title and half-page illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe, occasional spotting and staining, calf, gilt, by Belz-Niedree, spine in compartments and with double red morocco labels, stain to upper cover, joints splitting, little marked, rubbed, [Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe 62], 8vo, Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1685.

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Lot 136

NO RESERVE Lotti (Lotto) Rimedi per la Sonn da Liezr alla Banzola. Dialoghi del Dottor Lotto Lotti nel suo Idioma naturale Bolognese, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, charming engraved plate by Giacomo Maria Giovannini of women sitting around a table carrying out various chores by candlelight, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century red morocco, by Delaunay of Paris (stamp to front endpaper), spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, rubbed at extremities, lightly marked, g.e., [Cat. Marz, 544], small 4to, Milan, Carlo Frederico Gagliardi, 1703.⁂ First edition with a good provenance of these six dialogues in a Bolognese dialect, which shed much light on the contemporary theatrical and musical scene, being based on the experiences of the author as a librettist. Provenance: Count Guglielmo Libri-Carrucci della Sommaia (his sale Silvestre & Jannet, Paris, 28th June, 1847); sale by Duquesne of a private library, Ghent, 28th November, 1857; Angelo Mazorati, sold by him Bologna, 1932; Marino Parenti (bookplate); M. & L. Sordelli (bookplate and red ink stamp).

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Lot 137

Antiquities.- Spoor (Henricus) Favissae, utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Graecæ, first edition, etched additional pictorial title by P. Bodart after G. Hoet, 99 near full-page etched portrait medallions of classical figures, a little spotting, a few small stains, contemporary vellum, small 4to, Utrecht, Gerard Muntendam, 1707.

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Lot 14

Davis (William) A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac, first edition, lightly browned, original boards, uncut, upper cover stained, rebacked, 1821 § Uzanne (Octave) Caprices d'un Bibliophile, one of 500 copies, additional engraved pictorial title, contemporary morocco-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, Paris, 1878 § Essai Satirique sur les Vignettes, Fleurons, Culs-de-Lampe et Autres Ornements des Livres, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 200, engraved frontispiece, later half morocco, Paris, 1873, all a little rubbed, 8vo (3)

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Lot 140

NO RESERVE Occitan.- Languedocien.- Boissier de Sauvages (Pierre-Augustin de) Dictionnaire Languedocien-François, ou choix des mots Languedociens les plus difficiles à rendre en François, first edition, double column, woodcut head-pieces, ink stamp to title, wormhole turning into a trace to lower margins of last half, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, joints split, but holding firm, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Nimes, Michel Gaude, 1756.⁂ First edition of this important dictionary of the Languedocien dialect of Occitan by the naturalist and lexicographer Boissier de Sauvages. It was intended to preserve the language from the growing influence of French.

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Lot 173

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Marcus Tullius Cicero, his three bookes of duties to Marcus his sonne, translated by Nicholas Grimald, parallel English and Latin text, the English black letter, title within woodcut decorative border, lacking final blank, title trimmed to border and laid down, marginal repairs (mostly to gathering A), A8 torn and repaired with loss of two words at lower corner, a few small stains, lightly browned, 19th century brown morocco, gilt, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, g.e., [STC 5287], 8vo, Printed by Thomas Este, [c.1605].⁂ A translation of De Officiis by the poet Grimald, who contributed a great deal to the first edition of Tottel's Miscellany, 1557.

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Lot 175

Attack on the clergy.- Asinus onustus. The asse overladen. To his loving, and deare mistresse, Elizabeth the blessed Queene of England. This book was delivered to Queene Eliz: being at None-Such. Iul. 27. Anno 1589, first and only edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, first and last 2 ff. strengthened at inner gutters, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, fore-edge little nibbled, 19th century calf-backed cloth, gilt, [Wing A4002], small 4to, Printed for John Williams, 1642.

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Lot 176

Malvezzi (Virgilio) Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Sir Richard Baker, first edition in English, title within elaborate woodcut architectural border, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title lightly soiled and frayed at edges with contemporary ink signature crossed out at foot, creasing to last few leaves, K1 with small rust-spot causing loss to one letter, modern half calf, spine gilt and faded, slight rubbing to edges, [Wing M359], folio, by E[dward] G[riffin] for R.Whitaker and Tho.Whitaker, 1642.

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Lot 180

NO RESERVE Trial.- The tryal of Laurence Braddon and Hugh Speke. Upon an information of high-misdemeanor, subornation and spreading false reports. Endeavouring thereby to raise a belief in His Majesties subjects, that the late Earl of Essex did not murther himself, first edition, lacking initial imprimatur f. and final blank, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, folio, Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1684.

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Lot 184

NO RESERVE Glover (Richard) London: or, the progress of commerce. A poem, first edition, with final blank, title soiled and with small repair to lower corner, some staining and spotting, disbound, [Foxon G197], Printed for T. Cooper, 1739; and 3 others, 18th & 19th century English, v.s. (4)

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Lot 188

Insurance.- Magens (Nicholas) An Essay on Insurances, explaining the Nature of the various Kinds of Insurance practised by the different Commercial States of Europe, 2 vol., first edition in English, Birmingham Law Society set with ink stamps and labels, damp-staining and spotting, contemporary calf, gilt markings of BLS to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 9045; Higgs 975; Kress 5453], 4to, Printed by J. Haberkorn: and sold by W. Baker, 1755.⁂ Magens settled in London in the early 1700s, where he became an insurance trader and director of the London Assurance Company. His Essay on insurances is a much amended and expanded translation of his Versuch uber Assecuranzen, Hamburg, 1753

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Lot 189

Hervey (James) Eleven letters from the late Rev. Mr. Hervey, to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley; containing an answer to that gentleman's remarks on Theron and Aspasio, first edition, last few ff. browned, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed, Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, 1765 § Tucker (Josiah) Six Sermons on Important Subjects, disbound, Bristol, S. Farley, 1772 § Priestley (Joseph) The doctrines of heathen philosophy, compared with those of revelation, first edition, half-title, library ink and blind stamps, occasional spotting, antique style boards, Northumberland, PA, 1804; and 12 others, Religion, v.s. (15)

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Cambridge.- Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or New University Guide to...the University of Cambridge...By a Brace of Cantabs , first edition, 4pp. advertisements printed on yellow paper bound at beginning, half-title, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates of university costumes and scenes, woodcut portrait of Jemmy Gordon, offsetting from plates, original boards, uncut, rebacked, rubbed, spine worn at foot, upper joint cracked, [Abbey, Scenery 81], 8vo, 1824.⁂ Including customs and slang peculiar to the University.

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Lot 191

NO RESERVE Economics.- Pinto (Isaac de) An essay on circulation and credit, in four parts; and a letter on the jealousy of commerce...Translated, with annotations, by the Rev. S. Baggs, M.A, first edition in English, lacking half-title, K1 tear within text without loss, marginal worming, water-stained, with some damp-spotting, original boards, crude tape repairs, worn, [Goldsmiths' 11184; Higgs 6069; Kress 7042], 4to, Printed for J. Ridley, in St. James's Street, 1774. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Rare at auction. On stock exchange transactions, speculation and national debt. 'The translation and notes are not in fact by Baggs, but by Sir Philip Francis.' (ESTC).

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Lot 192

Law.- Blackstone (Sir William) Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, 2 vol., first edition, occasional spotting and light browning, contemporary calf, spines in compartments and with red morocco labels and ink numbers, vol.2 head of spine chipped, rubbed, a very good set, folio, printed by His Majesty's Law Printers; for W. Strahan; T. Cadell; and D. Prince and Co. at Oxford, 1781.

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Lot 197

Scotland.- [Brown (Robert D.C.)] Mary's bower, or, the castle on the glen; a pastoral drama, of five acts: founded on a real event in Scotland, about the end of the fifteenth century, first edition, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, small 4to, Edinburgh, John Moir, 1811.⁂ Rare, with Library Hub recording four copies.

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Antiquities & Archaeology.- [Bonomi (Joseph)] Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Hartwell House, first edition, 2 plates, one folding, original cloth-backed limp boards, rubbed, 1858; and others on ancient history and archaeology, 4to & 8vo (c.20)

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Lot 203

Morier (James Justinian, Sir) The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, first edition, 3 vol., 7 lithograph plates, occasional light marking, contemporary half-calf, spines defective and joints cracked, extremities and covers scuffed, 8vo, 1824.⁂ A unique set of illustrated first editions; no other first editions or early copies with illustrations appear to be recorded. The presence of 7 plates in vol. 2 suggests an intention to issue an illustrated edition, seemingly then subsequently abandoned. It is possible the plates may be after sketches by the author, himself an amateur artist, and an equivalent illustration density across the whole narrative would have resulted in several hundred plates.

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Lot 209

NO RESERVE Davy (John) Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece to vol.1, new endpapers, contemporary morocco, gilt, extremities rubbed, neatly rebacked, 1836 § [Pittis (William)] Memoirs of the Life of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., engraved portrait frontispiece, some light spotting and browning, 19th century ink ownership name to pastedown, contemporary boards with title label, rubbed, portion of spine head lacking, 1717; and c.40 others, antiquarian and leather, v.s (c.45)

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Lot 21

Farquhar (Ferdinand) The Relicks of a Saint, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson, very lightly offset on title, original boards, uncut, slight wear to head of spine, Thomas Tegg, 1816 § [Heron (Robert)] The Comforts of Human Life, second edition, folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece by I.H.Green (cropped and slightly frayed at edge), contemporary sprinkled calf, 1807 § Jokeby, a Burlesque on Rokeby, hand-coloured etched frontispiece, original printed boards, spine defective, 1813 § Stevens (G.A.) A Lecture on Heads, hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Woodward (torn) and 23 etched plates of heads only (of 24, lacking British Sailor), loose, original boards, 1808 § [Bunbury (H.W.) An Academy for Grown Horsemen, 12 hand-coloured etchings by Rowlandson after the author, 1809; Annals of Horsemanship, 17 hand-coloured etchings by Rowlandson, [c.1809], together 2 works in 1 vol., a little browned and offset, contemporary half calf, all rubbed or worn; and 4 others, similar, 8vo et infra (9)

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Lot 214

Woman novelist.- [Craik (Dinah Maria)] John Halifax, Gentleman, 3 vol., first edition, with author's signature on a slip (dated October, 1878) loosely inserted, 3pp advertisements and 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, vol.2 1p. advertisements, vol.3 advertisement f. at end, some staining, mostly in vol.1, all vol. occasional spotting, vol.1 hinges splitting, original brown gilt and blind-stamped cloth, slightly cocked, repairs to some spine ends, a few corners little worn, little rubbed, [Sadleir 1812], 8vo, Hurst and Blackett, 1856.

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Lot 215

NO RESERVE Hawthorne (Nathaniel) Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, The Fawn, 60 mounted photographic plates, portrait frontispiece working loose, some plates cockled, original half-vellum, lightly rubbed, Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860 § Glyn (Elinor) The Visits of Elizabeth, first edition, small prize label bound in to endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt, joints rubbed, 1906 § Stevenson (Robert Louis) Memories and Portraits, contemporary half calf, spine ends very lightly scuffed, 1904 § Tegner (Esias) The Tale of Frithiof, translated by Captain H. Spalding, original cloth, spine ends bumped, joints lightly rubbed, 1872; and c.60 others, antiquarian literature, v.s. (c.65)⁂ The first mentioned is rare, and is the first edition of 2 volumes bound in 1. The number and images varies from copy to copy, this one being profusely illustrated with views of Roman architecture, cityscapes, scenery, statues, etc. It is known to have served as a guide book for tourists in Italy.

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Lot 217

Music.- Wagner (Richard) "The Music of the Future," a Letter to M. Frédéric Villot ... Translated from the original German by E. Dannreuther, first edition in English, half-title, some light foxing, disbound, 8vo, Schott & Co., 1873.⁂ Rare in commerce.

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Lot 22

[Forrester (A. H.)], "Alfred Crowquill". Absurdities: in Prose and Verse, first edition, half-title, 13 hand-coloured etched plates, a few spots, bookplate of Alfred Sutro, later half green morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1827 § [Thackeray (W.M.)], "M.A.Titmarsh". Mrs. Perkins's Ball, hand-coloured pictorial title and plates, advertisement leaf at end, light spotting, contemporary half calf, n.d. § Doyle (James E.) A Chronicle of England B.C.55 - A.D.1485, colour wood-engraved illustrations by Edmund Evans, original decorated cloth, spine worn, 1864 § Gray (Thomas) Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, wood-engraved illustrations by R.S.Gilbert, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine worn and defective, Philadelphia, 1845, rubbed; and c.30 others, children's & illustrated, v.s. (c.35)

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Lot 228

Author's own copy with corrections.- Trevelyan (Sir George Otto ) Interludes in Verse and Prose, first edition, author's own copy with his corrections for a second edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, title detached, original cloth, spine gilt and with ink word 'CORRECTIONS', spine darkened and with small chip from foot, lightly soiled, 8vo, George Bell and Sons, 1905.

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Lot 229

Monypenny (William Flavelle) The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, 6 vol. in 7, first edition, extra-illustrated with c.230 portraits, engravings, and prints etc., pages window-mounted, illustrations, some light occasional spotting or offsetting, contemporary red calf, gilt, inner dentelles, some covers detached or becoming so, still an attractive set, housed in slip-cases (many broken or becoming so), 4to, 1910-1920.⁂ Extra-illustrated with many eminent portraits of people connected with Disraeli.

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Lot 230

NO RESERVE Bairnsfather (Bruce) Bullets and Billets, first edition, 1916 § Hume (Fergus) The Pagan's Cup, 1902 § Ballantyne (R. M.) The Middy and the Moors, 1888 § Macfall (Haldane) The Woodings of Jezebel Pettyfer, occasional light spotting, 1898, some with illustrations, all original pictorial cloth, some light marking, light bumping to spine ends, some spines a little faded; and 39 others, late 19th or early 20th century literature in original cloth, 8vo (43)

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Lot 233

NO RESERVE Hearn (Lafcadio) Miscellanies, 2 vol., collected by Albert Mordell, first English edition, some spotting and browning to first few pp., jackets a little frayed and bumped,1924 § Creswick (Wilfred), William Galloway and William Hopton. Essays on the Prevention of Explosions and Accidents in Coal Mines, 1874 § Sadlier (Michael) More Wrangham, endpapers browned, 1939 § Andrew (Alexander) The History of British Journalism, 2 vol., first edition, ink ownership signature to endpapers, 1859 § Stow (David) The Training System, Moral Training School, and Normal Seminary for Preparing School-trainers and Governesses, tenth edition, 1859, original boards, light rubbing to extremities, first with dust-jackets; and c.90 others, social history, cooking, wars, education, etc. v.s. (c.95)

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Lot 236

NO RESERVE Gekoski (R. A.) and P. A. Grogan, editors. William Golding: A Bibliography 1934-1993, number 3 of 100 copies special copied signed by Golding, from an edition of 1000, original morocco-backed cloth, gilt, g.e., original slip-case, 1994 § Montaigne (Michel de) Essays..., translated by Charles Cotton, 5 vol., titles in red and black, portrait frontispieces, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1923 § Marchand (Leslie A.) Byron: A Biography, 3 vol., first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, some fraying and bumping to extremities, 1957; and c.85 others, literary criticism, biography, bibliographies etc., v.s. (c.90)

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Lot 237

NO RESERVE Bacon (Martha) A Masque of Exile, first edition, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 1962 § Wheatley (Dennis) Vendetta in Spain, 1961 § Mankowitz (Wolf) Make Me an Offer, 1952 § Wilson (Colin) A Book of Booze, 1974, first editions, presentation inscriptions from the authors to titles or endpapers, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities; and c.50 others, literature, including a copy of Godfrey Winn's Dream Fade with Dennis Wheatley's bookplate, v.s. (c.55)

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Lot 24

Harris & Son (John, publisher) A Visit to the Bazaar, third edition, 32 stipple-engraved plates of shopkeepers, some foxing or offsetting, original roan-backed printed pictorial boards, rather worn, Harris & Son, 1820 § London Melodies; or, Amusement for all Good Children, hand-coloured illustrations of street-sellers with verses below printed on one side only, inner margin stained, later boards covered with netting and gold thread, original wrappers bound in (upper detached), Hodgson, [c.1830], 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ The first includes plates of a bookseller, jeweller, linen draper, toy shop, pastry cook, musical instruments, hatter, optician, umbrella maker and many others.

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Lot 244

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, with "you" for "your" on p.13 line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, endpapers browned with contemporary ink presentation inscription, a few plates loose or becoming so, frontispiece detached, occasional very light spotting, some light marginal toning, original red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black, light sunning to covers and spine, extremities bumped, joint splitting, still an attractive copy overall, [Green & Gibson A26; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone], 8vo, 1902.⁂ Sherlock Holmes' most famous adventure and one of the most celebrated crime novels of all time.

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NO RESERVE Hill (Susan).- Ghost Stories, collected by Susan Hill, first edition, signed by Hill to bookplate on pastedown, 1983 § Barlow (James) One Half of the World, first English edition, T.L.s from Barlow loosely inserted, 1957 § Dickinson (William Croft) The Sweet Singers, illustrations by Joan Hassal, 1953, light occasional spotting to second and last, original boards, second lightly marked, dust-jackets to first two, first lightly bumped, second extremities a little chipped and frayed, last original wrappers; and 8 others, horror fiction, v.s. (11)

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NO RESERVE Kirkpatrick (B. J.) A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, third edition, Oxford, 1980; A Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield, 1989 § Armitage (C. M.) and Neil Clark. A Bibliography of the Works of Louis Macneice, Alberta, 1973 § Sagar (Keith) and Stephen Tabor. Ted Hughes: A Bibliography 1946-1995, second edition, 1998 § Davis (Robert Murray), Paul A. Doyle et al. A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh, New York, 1986, original cloth, first three with dust-jackets, light marking to first, all still clean and fresh copies; and c.80 others, literary criticism, biography and bibliography etc., v.s. (c.85)

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Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, fine, dust-jacket, very light sunning to spine, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, a near-fine example overall, 8vo, 1980.⁂ The final title in Le Carré's Karla Trilogy.

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Le Carré (John) Absolute Friends, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 2004 § Mantel (Hilary) Bring Up the Bodies, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 2012 § Smith (Alexander McCall) The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, first American edition, original wrappers, New York, 2002, all signed by the author, near-fine generally; and 15 others, similar, most signed and fine, 8vo (18)

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NO RESERVE Moore (Brian) Lies of Silence, 1990 § Tremain (Rose) Sacred Country, 1992 § Mo (Timothy) The Redundancy of Courage, 1991, first editions, all one of 150 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, fine copies; and 39 others, special or limited editions, including a second edition of Norton's facsimile edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, v.s. (42)

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O'Donnell (Elliott) The Sorcery Club, first edition, half-title, four black and white plates, occasional spotting, mainly marginal but including half-title, front endpaper browned, original pictorial cloth, spine toned, head rubbed with small tear, extremities scuffed, 1912; Dunsany (Edward Plunkett, Lord) The Blessing of Pan, first edition, pictorial frontispiece, very occasional light spotting, original cloth, spine toned, a little rubbed and soiled, 1927 § Lee (Frederick George, Rev.) Glimpses in the Twilight, first edition, small stain to first 3 ff. of introduction, original pictorial cloth, some small stains to covers, spine toned, extremities rubbed, 1885; and 24 others, all ghost stories, mainly first editions, 8vo (27)

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NO RESERVE Pritchett (V. S.) Nothing Like Leather, first American edition, presentation inscription from the author to Kingsley Martin to title, bookplate to pastedown and endpapers browned, cloth faded and lightly stained, New York, 1935 § Baring-Gould (S.) Early Reminiscences 1834-1864, publisher's comp slip loosely inserted, 1923 § Holst (Spencer) Stories, presentation inscription from the author to title, 1976 § Wilson (Angus) The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot, 1958 § Casanova (Giacomo) My Life and Adventures, 1932, first editions, some with illustrations, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities, some minor chips; and c.50 others, literature, v.s. (c.55)⁂ First with presentation inscription from Pritchett to Kingsley Martin, the editor of the New Statesman, the magazine for which Pritchett served for many years as a literary editor. The bookplate is of eminent publisher Christopher MacLehouse.

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Thatcher (Margaret) Statecraft, first edition, signed by the author on title, plates and illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, some light creasing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 2002.

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NO RESERVE Thielen (Benedict) Dinosaur Tracks, first edition, jacket and fore-edge spotted, 1937 § Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Mitsou, or the Education of Young Women, translated by Raymond Postgate, publisher's copy with typed and manuscript letters loosely inserted, 1957 § Warner (Rex) Greeks and Trojans, first edition, illustrations by Edward Bawden, 1951, original cloth, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities; and c.50 others, literature, v.s. (c.55)

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NO RESERVE Children's.- Hughes (Thomas) Tom Brown's School Days, edited by F. Sidgwick, etched frontispiece, plates, half-title and frontispiece small tear in margins, pre-First World War pictorial dust-jacket, very slightly creased at head, t.e.g., others uncut, edges foxed, 1913 § Norton (Mary) The Borrowers Afloat, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Diana Stanley, dust-jacket edges creased, 1959; and another, 8vo (3).

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Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, 99 engraved plates, lacking engraved frontispiece, plate 69 trimmed at outer edge just within border, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, upper cover detaching, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 16mo, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741.⁂ Rare first edition of this title.

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Art reference.- Steinberg (Saul) The Passport, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, small splits to spine extremities, 1955 § Wilhelm Busch Album. Humoristischer Hausschatz, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, housed in original pictorial slipcase, a little rubbed, Stuttgart, 1964 § Mandl (G. T.) Three Hundred Years in Paper, first edition, half-title signed by author, plates, original boards, dust-jacket, 1985 § Hurst (Alex A.) Arthur Briscoe - Marine Artist. His life and work, Sussex, Teredo Books Ltd., illustrations, original cloth, original slipcase, a little rubbed, 1974 § The Robert von Hirsch Collection 4 vol., illustrations, original boards, gilt, dust-jackets, one or two short tears, a little rubbed, 1978; and others, art reference and catalogues, v.s. (small qty).

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