Among our Banished Birds, Bentley Beetham, Arnold, 1927, Signed by Author, First Edition, H/B, title in gilt on cover and spine, very good condition. Birds A B C, Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paperback, illustrated card covers, landscape, beautifully illustrated in colour with full-page illustrations, A – Albatross, etc., undated but appears to be early to mid 1900’s. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species- A graphic Adaptation, Michael Keller, 2009, Hardback in D/J, as new. Michael Keller and illustrator Nicolle Rager Fuller introduce a new generation of readers to the Darwin’s original text. Including sections about his pioneering research, the book’s initial public reception, his correspondence with other leading scientists, as well as the most recent breakthroughs in evolutionary theory. Wild Ireland, Eamonn de Buitleir, 1984, Amach Faoin Aer Publications, H/B, very good condition In Defence of Dogs, John Bradshaw, 2011, Allen Lane, in D/J, as new. Encylopedia of Fishing, Dorling Kindersley, 2007, Hardback, The Complete Guide to the Fish, Tackle, and Techniques of Fresh and Saltwater Angling. Full of illustrations. As new. (6)
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Seek The Frozen Lands – Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922, Frank Nugent, 2013, The Collins Press, First Edition, in D/J. Signed by Author and most of the crew of the South Aris Expedition 1997, including Dawson Stelfox, Dermot Somers, Paddy Barry and Jack Cunnane. The 1997 South Aris expedition traced the famous Shackleton/Crean adventure across the Southern Ocean after Shackleton’s ship became trapped in pack ice in 1915. All Ireland – A Catalogue of Everything Irish, Jonathan Moore, Apple Press, 1996, in D/J, as new. Ireland’s geographical location on the western fringes of Europe has created a unique people with a unique history and culture. This book covers all aspects of Irish life including, rural, town, church, music, literature, history and more. Illustrated throughout.
Irish Cottages, Maura Shaffrey/Walter Pfeiffer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990, First Edition, in D/J, very good condition. “Walter Pfeiffer’s photographs capture all the variety and beauty of Irish cottages and their surroundings, while Maura’s text provides a fascinating analysis of this peculiarly evocative architectural idiom.” Heritage of Ireland, Brian de Breffny, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, First Edition, in D/J, very good condition. Richly illustrated with over 100 photographs in colour and black and white. Father Browne’s Images of Tipperary, E E O’Donnell, Wolfhound Press, 2001, First Edition, in D/J, as new condition. “This volume reflects the photographer’s broad-ranging interests in the people and landscapes he encountered on his many visits to county Tipperary.”
Baily’s Hunting Directory 1964-1965 with 3 Hunt Maps, J A Allen and Co., H/B, Contains 3 foldout maps (1. Northern England and Scotland, 2. Southern England and Wales and 3. Ireland) showing the fox hunts. Loosely inserted is a note dated 4 Dec. 1964 from the publishers to the editor of the Irish Times seeking to have the book reviewed. Foxhunting A Celebration in Photographs, Horse & Hound, 2005, First Edition in D/J. Contains fabulous photographs from the UK and Ireland of this ancient tradition. As new condition. (2)
A Year’s Turning, Michael Viney, Blackstaff Press, 1996, 1st Edition, in D/J, as new Reflections on Another Life, Michael Viney, Irish Times Books, First Edition, 2015, S/C, as new Irish Fieldsports & Angling Handbook, Albert Titterington, Appletree Press, 1984, First Edition, H/B. Full of useful information and many interesting articles. Very good condition. (3)
Shaw and the Charlatan Genius a Memoir by John O’Donovan. Dolmen Press. 1965 in dj; William Butler Yeats a Memoir by Oliver St. John Gogarty. Dolmen. 1963; W. B. Yeats a Centenary Exhibition. 1965; First Visit to England and Other Memories by Austin Clarke. 1945. Limited edition; In defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright by Saddlemyer. Dolmen. 1966 in dj and Time Was Away World of Louis MacNeice. Dolmen. 1975 in dj. 6 books
An Irish Florilegium, Charles Nelson, Illustrations by Wendy Walsh, Thames & Hudson, 1983, First Edition, in Dust Jacket. With 48 hand-tipped colour plates of botanical illustrations by Wendy Walsh and loosely inserted is original card listing the details of the 48 colour Plates. As new condition. Works of Botanical Interest Published before 1800 Held in Irish Libraries – Occasional Papers 1, E. Charles Nelson, National Botanic Gardens, No date, First Edition, Softcover in printed typescript, good condition. The preface by Nelson sets out the background to undertaking this work. (2)
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Tipperary from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title and scale within a decorated cartouches. Scale in Irish and English miles. 56 x 73cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Mayo from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title within a decorated cartouche. With compass, scale in Irish and English miles. 93 x 65cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Kerry from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title and scale within a decorated cartouches. Scale in Irish and English miles. 72 x 69cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Gallwey from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title within a decorated cartouche mounted by a harp on a shield. On the ocean a sea monster and two galleys. With compass, scale in Irish and English miles. 96 x 60.5cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Fine.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Corke from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title within a large decorated cartouche with cherubs. With compass, scale in Irish and English miles. 110 x 73cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
Beckett, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Edited by Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin O'Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992. 8vo. First edition. De Luxe Edition limited to 130 numbered copies, bound in blue water silk cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Beckett's initials blind-stamped on upper cover. Signed by the editor Eoin O'Brien, on title page. Slipcase bound in green water silk cloth, with blue silk pull. Beckett's first novel. Fine.
Drawing from Memory – The Life of the Irish Artist Gladys McCabe, Susan Stairs, Shortall-Stairs Publications, 2004, Signed by Gladys McCabe, First Edition, in D/J with protective mylar cover, as new. Robert Ballagh, Ciaran Carty, Magill, 1986, First Edition, in D/J, as new condition. Carty outlines “ Ballagh’s Dublin suburban childhood, his student days, his interlude as a showband guitarist and his adventures in the art world.” (2)
![YEATS, W.B. Last Poems & Plays. New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. 8vo. pp. vii, [1], 125, [1]. Green cloth with d](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee5d9351-8575-47b9-a982-ad3a00edb489/d3b0f0dc-4572-4928-87f1-ad3a00fea284/468x382.jpg)
YEATS, W.B. Last Poems & Plays. New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. 8vo. pp. vii, [1], 125, [1]. Green cloth with design by Sturge Moore, blind-stamped on upper cover, lettering in gilt on spine. Fine copy in original dust jacket with evenly faded sun-tanning to spine, light wear to top spine end of dust jacket, with two minor nicks to upper cover of jacket.
Yeats, Jack B. La La Noo. Woodcut by Elizabeth C. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1943. 8vo. First edition. Qtr linen on yellow papered boards. Edition limited to 250 copies (No. 40). V.g. The play ‘La La Noo’ was published by the Cuala Press in 1943. In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the cast included Maureen O’Sullivan and Brian O’Higgins.
Coffey, Brian. Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance. A translation by Brian Coffey of Un Coup De Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard a poem by Stephane Mallarmé. Dublin: Printed by The Dolmen Press for Dufour Editions, Pennsylvania, 1967. First edition. 8vo. Quarter vellum parchment on black papered boards, title in red on spine. Fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket
![[THE FIRST EDITION]A. I. Solzhenitsyn. August of the fourteenth Node 1. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1971](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ca27059f-998a-4e46-81d3-ad4200da2905/12bbf80b-9f35-4201-b020-ad4200e01634/468x382.jpg)
![[THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK]A. I. Solzhenitsyn. Archipelago Gulag: 1918-1956](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ca27059f-998a-4e46-81d3-ad4200da2905/4903f59a-6508-4765-9517-ad4200e015b1/468x382.jpg)
WALTHER, FRANZ ERHARD1939 FuldaTitel: Über Arm (Via Arm). Datierung: 1967. Technik: Rot-brauner gesäumter Stoffstreifen, mit weiten, offenen Schlaufen an beiden Enden.Maße: 0,5 x 508 x 22,5cm. Gefaltet: 2,5 x 48 x 23Objekt Nr. 25 aus dem 58-teiligen Ersten Werksatz, den der Künstler in den 1960er Jahren schuf. Es gibt acht komplette Werksätze und aus fünf weiteren Werksätzen wurden die Werke einzeln verkauft. Dieses Werk ist aus der Edition von fünf. Die genaue Editionsnummer ist nicht bekannt. Es fehlt die weiße Tasche.Provenienz: - Privatsammlung Norddeutschland Literatur: - Adriani, Götz: Franz Erhard Walther - Arbeiten 1955-1963. Materialien zum 1. Werksatz 1963-1969, Köln 1972, Nr. 25, S. 226f. (Hier betitelt: erlangen)- Weibel, Peter (Hrsg.): Franz Erhard Walther - Objekte benutzen, Köln 2014, Nr. 25, Abb. S. 194f. (Hier betitelt: Objekt erlangen) - Hoban, Stephen/ Kivland, Kelly/Raymond,Yasmil (Hrsg.): Franz Erhard Walther - First Work Set, London 2016, Nr. 25, Abb. S. 200 (Weiterer Titel: Attainment)Zwei Personen liegen sich Angesicht zu Angesicht gegenüber. Das Werk liegt zwischen Ihnen und sie strecken jeweils einen Arm durch die Schlaufen an den Enden des Werks. Credit Zusatzfoto: Timm Rautert, Courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, Fulda Erläuterungen zum KatalogFranz Erhard Walther Deutschland Konzeptkunst Nachkriegskunst Objekte 1960er Hand Installation Stoff WALTHER, FRANZ ERHARD1939 FuldaTitle: Über Arm (Via Arm). Date: 1967. Technique: Red-brown hemmed fabric strip, with wide, open loops at both ends. Measurement: 0,5 x 508 x 22,5cm. Folded: 2,5 x 48 x 23Object no. 25 from the 58-part First Work Set created by the artist in the 1960s. There are eight complete sets of works and works from five other sets were sold individually. This work is from the edition of five. The exact edition number is not known. It is missing the white bag.Provenance: - Private collection North Germany Literature: - Adriani, Götz: Franz Erhard Walther - Arbeiten 1955-1963. Materialien zum 1. Werksatz 1963-1969, Cologne 1972, no. 25, p. 226f. (Here titled: erlangen)- Weibel, Peter (ed.): Franz Erhard Walther - Objekte benutzen, Cologne 2014, no. 25, ill. p. 194f. (Here titled: Objekt erlangen) - Hoban, Stephen/ Kivland, Kelly/Raymond, Yasmil (eds.): Franz Erhard Walther - First Work Set, London 2016, no. 25, ill. p. 200 (Further title: Attainment).Two people lie face to face across from each other. The work is in between them and they stretch each an arm through the loops at the ends of the work.Credit additional photo: Timm Rautert, Courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, FuldaExplanations to the Catalogue
Plot, Robert. The Natural History of Staffordshire, first edition, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1686. Small folio, title page with engraved vignette, complete with 39 plates (27 of which are folding), including the large folding map and accompanying 'Armes Omitted' plate, plus engraved headpieces and capitals within text. Contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked. Armorial bookplate for Robert Denison Esq. on front pastedown; owner inscription on opening blank, 'Joseph Brooksbank's Book, Anno 1720'. Four pages of subscribers at rear. Contents generally very good with faint creasing in places, some very light toning from age, very pale dampstaining in a couple of places; the plates are generally very well-preserved and bright, a couple of plates have archival tape to nicks and tears in margins, a few plates have light discolouration at fold-lines; the large folding map has two tears at right-hand side. Binding tight and solid, sympathetically recornered/rebacked, lower calf board with score-marks
![Wheatley, Dennis. The Golden Spaniard, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1938]. Presentation copy, inscribed and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/dd720fa3-c8c0-47d4-9a96-ad4000f5dfd5/468x382.jpg)
Wheatley, Dennis. The Golden Spaniard, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1938]. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author, 'For Murielle Colville Kennedy, with best wishes from Dennis Wheatley, Oct 12th, 37'. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, 8pp advertisements at rear, followed by 24pp catalogue, dust-jacket. Contents generally good, clean, bright, some marks/discolouration to opening few leaves, short tear to dedication page, shelf-lean, cloth heavily discoloured and stained, dust-jacket with similar staining/marks verso and chipping/wear to extremities
Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's dark brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine with blind-embossed skeletal hand on upper board, lacking dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright, slight shelf-lean, a couple of small marks to cloth. Together with another the same, contents again clean and bright but with a small stain on rear blank, a couple of pale spots to endpapers, very light discolouration/marks to edges of text-block, a couple of light marks and knocks to cloth, upper corner worn, and For Your Eyes Only, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jacket, contents good and bright with a couple of light marks and pale stains to corners of last few leaves and rear pastedown, some marks and knocks to cloth (3)
![Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, first illustrated edition, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 [1910], loose note from](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/f97648f0-730d-405c-b110-ad4000f6a82c/468x382.jpg)
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, first illustrated edition, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 [1910], loose note from publisher printed in red explaining delay to publishing caused by artist falling ill. Quarto, paper boards lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), six wood-engraved plates with captioned tissue-guards. Contents generally good and bright with spotting in a few places, owner inscription for Philip S. Buckley, Balliol College, Oxford, 28 November 1925, binding with discolouration, bumps and wear
![[Peacock, Thomas Love]. Nightmare Abbey, first edition, London: T. Hookham, 1818. Octavo, full calf with morocco title label](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/c77964cf-ac39-4420-b76b-ad4000f6e929/468x382.jpg)
[Peacock, Thomas Love]. Nightmare Abbey, first edition, London: T. Hookham, 1818. Octavo, full calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright with some pale dampstaining and spots in places (most prominent on title and opening leaves), front pastedown worn by the removal of a bookplate, later owner inscription on verso of ffep, binding tight and square with some wear/loss to calf. A satirical work that pokes fun at the Romantic movement
Bailey, Nathan. Dictionarium Domesticum, Being a New and Compleat Houshold Dictionary for the Use both of City and Country, first edition, London: C. Hitch at the Red Lion, 1736. Octavo, engraved frontispiece, text complete, sympathetically rebound in full calf with raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt. The book offers instructions on cookery, brewing and home medicine. To cure 'a noise in the head', for instance, it recommends applying three drops of cat's urine with a feather (the cat having been deliberately trapped in a vessel for three days). Contents generally good and bright, occasional small stains and marks on a few pages, subtle restoration to final two leaves, later endpapers; attractive calf binding with a few light scuffs; embossed ownership stamp on title for J. H. Williams, Rector of Llangadwaladr & P. C. of Talyllyn
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, first edition, first state, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First state with p.213 incorrectly paginated as '113' and signature 'b' on the list of plates. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards and marbled page edges, complete with all plates as called for (including frontispiece and additional title), binder's ticket for A. Birdsall, Wood Street, Northampton. Contents with occasional pale staining and creases, a few tears, frontispiece detached, binding with rubbing and wear, sold with all faults
Anson, Brevet-Major O.H.S.G. With H.M. 9th Lancers During the Indian Mutiny, first edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1896. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, portrait frontispiece. Contents very good, clean, bright, a few pale spots on opening leaves; recased in orignal cloth with faint wear to extremities, spine darkened, new endpapers; loosely inserted owner notes/research and catalogue entry from Peter Harrington. Scarce
![[Smith, John]. The Experienc'd Fowler: Or, The Gentleman's Recreation, London: G. Conyers, 1704. A very scarce hunting book,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/a0bac54c-7d11-463d-9edb-ad3d0153a6ca/468x382.jpg)
[Smith, John]. The Experienc'd Fowler: Or, The Gentleman's Recreation, London: G. Conyers, 1704. A very scarce hunting book, presumed second edition [the first was published in 1697], offering advice on catching birds and destroying vermin. To catch weasels, for example, 'Take a Lizard's Gut, beat it in half a pint of fair Spring-water, and pour it on the ground, in the places of their haunts, and the scent of it will gather them.' Featuring woodcut frontispiece and two further woodcut illustrations within the text (lacking one illustration); text lacking one leaf at p.87/88, and then finishing abruptly at p.158 (and no publisher's advertisement leaf at end); crudely restored binding; owner inscriptions to verso of frontis. and inner board; general toning and light creasing, otherwise sound
![Dahl, Roald. The Gremlins, first UK edition of Dahl's first book, London: Collins, [1944]. Quarto, quarter-cloth with publish](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/81e98c1d-0358-4c64-b321-ad40011397db/468x382.jpg)
Dahl, Roald. The Gremlins, first UK edition of Dahl's first book, London: Collins, [1944]. Quarto, quarter-cloth with publisher's pictorial boards, red & yellow pictorial endpapers, complete with all 12 full-page colour illustrations and one double-page colour illustration. Contents very good, clean, bright, a few very light marks in places, a few pale spots to opening leaves; binding solid and vibrant, some bumping/wear to corners, light wear to extremities, a few light surface marks. Together with The Enormous Crocodile, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1978, hardback, contents very good, clean, bright, short tear to ffep, a few very pale spots and incredibly faint creases, binding bright and solid, remnants of a price sticker on lower board, faint bumps to edges, small discoloured mark on upper board (2)
![Barrie, J. M. Peter and Wendy, illustrated by F. D. Bedford, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Octavo, p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/f3c2b0e8-dcc3-4c06-8b4b-ad3e00999793/468x382.jpg)
Barrie, J. M. Peter and Wendy, illustrated by F. D. Bedford, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth, frontispiece, pictorial title and 11 plates, complete. Contents generally good, clean, bright, occasional pale spotting (more pronounced on half-title and contents); small ink mark on p.171 & p.267, ink dashes across rear free endpaper; gift inscription on front pastedown, Christmas 1912; offsetting to endpapers; binding tight and square, well-preserved, faint wear to corners and headcaps, some light spotting to edges of text-block
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first UK edition (precedes first US edition), London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, publisher's advertisements at rear dated October, 1884. Octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright with occasional handling marks and lightly folded corners; loss to section of advertisements at rear; wear/loss to cloth at edges; sold as found with all faults
Hooke, Nathaniel. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth, fifth edition in eight volumes, Dublin: William Watson, 1767-1772. Octavo, contemporary polished calf bindings with raised bands and contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, the front pastedowns bearing armorial bookplates for Sir William Chatterton [first husband of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton]. Contents generally good, clean, bright, pale dampstaining and light cockling to second and seventh volumes; bindings solid with some scuffs/wear and bumped corners, slight loss to calf in places, especially headcaps (8)
Bourgoing, Jean-Francois. Tableau de l'Espagne Modern, fourth edition, London: John Stockdale, 1808. Octavo, three volumes [no atlas], full contemporary calf with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, the front pastedowns bearing armorial bookplates for Sir William Chatterton [first husband of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton]. Contents very good, clean, bright; bindings tight, square, solid; corners bumped and worn; light wear to extremities (3)
Mixed collection of books, some first editions, to include The Old Man and Mr Smith, by Peter Ustinov, first edition, London: Michael O'Mara, 1990, signed by the author, hardback, well-preserved with dust-jacket; Love of Seven Dolls, by Paul Gallico, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1954, signed by the author, hardback, well-preserved but slight wear to d.j., some shelf-lean; Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell, first edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1950, contents generally good but lacking d.j., cloth discoloured, wear to endpapers; Menagerie Manor, by Gerald Durrell, first edition, London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1964, bearing armorial bookplate for Sir Val Duncan, pasted photograph to ffep, good with some pale spotting and light wear to d.j.; The Darling Buds of May, by H. E. Bates, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1958, good with light wear to headcaps, offsetting to endpapers, wear to d.j.; My Uncle Silas, by H. E. Bates, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1939, good with some wear/loss to d.j., and others, condition varied, as found with faults (32)
Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's dark brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine with blind-embossed skeletal hand on upper board, unclipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright; some light discolouration to outer edges of text-block; neat contemporary owner inscription on front free endpaper; a couple of very small, light marks on endpapers; binding very good, lightly bumped to corners; dust-jacket with splitting and short tears
Garner, Alan. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, first edition, London: Collins, 1960. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth. Contents good, clean, bright; light spotting/dust along top of text-block; binding very good and bright, slight wear at one extreme corner; dust-jacket with several tears and slight loss, some spotting to verso of jacket
![Burnet, [Gilbert]. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, first edition, in two volumes, London: Thomas Ward, Downing &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/86d63725-7c2b-4e92-b42f-ad3b01604f39/d378a460-6926-48bc-842f-ad3d0151f5b7/468x382.jpg)
Burnet, [Gilbert]. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, first edition, in two volumes, London: Thomas Ward, Downing & Woodfall, 1724-34, unique with more than 200 18th- and 19th-century engraved portraits bound in, editor's manuscript note on verso of title to second volume. Folio, half-calf with marbled boards and morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright; bindings tight and square with some rubbing and light wear, slight splitting to joints (2)
Seuss, Dr. The Cat in the Hat, first UK edition, first printing, London: Collins & Harvill, 1958, signed and inscribed by the author on verso of front free endpaper, 'For the children of Battersea with Best Wishes...Dr. Seuss'. Contents good, clean, bright, slight cockling to the paper around gutters; boards worn around edges and headcaps, corners bumped
Flamsteed, John. Atlas Celeste de Flamsteed, Approuve par l'Academie Royale des Sciences, second edition, edited by M. J. Fortin, Paris: F. G. Deschamps, 1776. Small quarto, full contemporary calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, complete with all 30 double-page engraved celestial maps, 40pp. Contents very good, clean, bright; later hand-colouring to the first 21 plates (remainder uncoloured); pencil and ink marks on ninth plate; a couple of plates with small patches of surface wear with very slight loss; binding tight and square with rubbing and wear to extremities, slight loss to calf at headcaps/corners
Lingard, John. A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans, second edition, in nine volumes, London: J. Mawman, 1823-25. Octavo, worn paper-covered boards. Together with The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, second edition, by John Lingard, London: Keating, 1810, folding hand-coloured map frontispiece, worn paper boards, and an Italian-English Dictionary, by F. Altieri, in two volumes, London: William Innys, 1749, full calf with raised bands. Condition varied, priory ownership inscriptions and labels, as found with all faults (12)
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude, first edition, London: Edward Moxon, 1850. Octavo, contemporary polished calf, morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers/all page edges, armorial bookplate for John Herbert Secker on front pastedwon, gift inscription for the same on verso of front free endpaper, 'J Herbert Secker, from his sincere friend J Shephard, on his leaving Eton, Easter MDCCCLVI'. Contents good, clean, bright; some pale spots to opening and closing leaves; binding tight and square, light wear to extremities/spine, heavier scuffs/wear to lower board. Publisher's advertisement dated 13 July 1850
FANTASY BOOKS, DVDs, POSTER ETC - J K Rowling Harry Potter Order of The Phoenix First Edition 2003, Deathly Hallows 2007 First Edition, Goblet of Fire first published 2000 and The Prisoner of Azkaban first published 1999, two hardback and two paperback, all Bloomsbury Press, along with advanced Dungeons and Dragons books, three cased sets Lord of The Rings DVDs, J R R Tolkien The Lord of The Rings, Publishers Harper Collins 1995 Edition and Lord of The Rings open frame poster published circa 1988, 93 x 62cms
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