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Lot 443

Brydone, Patrick A Tour through Sicily and Malta London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1773. 2 volumes, first edition in English (this edition not issued with folding map), contemporary calf gilt, bookplates of Henry J.B. Clements and Charles Ballantyne, joints a little cracked, a little light foxing (2)

Lot 48

BELL, MAJOR THOMAS A SHORT ESSAY ON MILITARY FIRST PRINCIPLES London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1770. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf with red morocco gilt label to spine, bookplates, blindstamps of [Shirburn Castle] South Library to a few leaves [ESTC T195294, recording 8 copies]

Lot 173

Pratchett, Terry A large collection of 50 volumes, some signed and stamped, comprising Lords and Ladies. 1992, 2nd impression; Johnny and the Dead. 1993, presentation copy, signed; Men at Arms. 1933, 3rd impression; Witches Abroad. 1994, 4th impression; The Dark Side of the Sun. 1994, number 168 of an exclusive first print of 500 copies of this edition, signed by the author; The Discworld Companion. 1994, signed and with Pratchett's stamp; Interesting Times. 1994, 3rd impression; Soul Music. 1994, signed and stamped by the author; Good Omens. 1995, Second impression; Maskerade. 1995; Wyrd Sisters. 1996, later edition; Mort. 1996, later edition; Hogfather. 1996; Sourcery. 1996, 6th printing; Feet of Clay. 1996; Equal Rites. 1997, later edition; Moving Pictures. 1997, later edition; Guards! Guards! 1997, later edition; Pyramids. 1997, later edition; The Colour of Magic. 1997, later edition; Jingo. 1997; Reaper Man. 1997, later edition; The Light Fantastic. 1997, later edition; Carpe Jugulum. 1998; Small Gods. 1998, later edition; The Last Continent, 1998; The Fifth Elephant. 1999; The Truth. 2000; Thief of Time. 2001; The Amazing Maurice. 2001, 2 copies, one a 9th impression initialled by the author; Night Watch. 2002; Monstrous Regiment. 2003; The Wee Free Men. 2003, 2nd impression; Going Postal. 2004, 2 copies, one signed; A Hat Full of Sky. 2004, signed copy; Darwin's Watch. 2005, signed copy; Wintersmith. 2006, signed copy; Making Money. 2007; Nation. 2008, signed copy; Unseen Academicals. 2009; I Shall Wear Midnight. 2010; Snuff. 2011, initialled & stamped by author, Reaper Man. 2013, later edition, signed & stamped by the author; Raising Steam. 2013; Dodger's Guide to London. 2013, initialled and stamped by the author, with hologram sticker; The Shepherd's Crown. 2015; these all first editions except where noted, all original cloth with dustwrappers; and Only you can save Mankind. 2004, paperback, signed copy; Briggs, S. and T. Pratchett. The Streets of Ankh-Morphork. 1993, signed copy, wrappers (50)

Lot 149

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Valley of Fear New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece and six colour plates by Arthur I. Keller, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket present, some very slight internal browning, a little creasing, rubbing and slight dust-soiling to jacket

Lot 199

FLEMING, IAN CASINO ROYALE London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition, first issue [without Sunday Times Review], 8vo, dust-jacket, not price clipped, original cloth with red heart to upper board, inscribed by Ian Fleming, reading: "Alastair, from the Author - Read & Burn" on front free-endpaper, a little staining to lower cover of dust-jacket, some very slight wear to jacket spine and and corners [Gilbert A1a, 1.1; Campbell 1007A1]

Lot 288

A COLLECTION OF WORKS, MAINLY LEATHER BOUND INCLUDING MACKINNON, COLONEL Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 volumes, 8vo, morocco gilt labels to paste-down endpapers reading: "Presented to the Officers 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards by Lieut. Colonel C.S.O. Monck, 1909", 20th century brown morocco, a little damaged; Blackwood Magazine Tales from "Blackwood". Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, [n.d.] New series, 12 volumes, 12mo, contemporary half calf; Dickens, Charles The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition, later printing, contemporary half calf, frontispiece, 39 engraved plates, contemporary half calf; Hulme, F. Edward Familiar Wild Flowers. London: Cassell & Company, [n.d.] 2 volumes: first and fifth series only, 8vo, 19th century half calf; [Surtees, Robert S.] Handley Cross... London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. 8vo, 17 hand-coloured plates by John Leech; Cook, James A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World... London: Bickers and Son, 1880. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt school prize binding; and 33 others (52)

Lot 154

Gurney, Ivor Severn & Somme London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth with paper label to spine, ownership signature of P.J. Kavanagh, 1980, (editor of Gurney's Collected Poems ) to front free-endpaper, spine a little faded

Lot 429

HERTZ, HEINRICH ELECTRIC WAVES London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First English edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt

Lot 394

FINE BINDING BY ZAEHNSDORF COLERIDGE, S.T. Sibylline Leaves: a collection of poems. London: Rest Fenner, 1817. First edition, 8vo, elaborate teal morocco gilt with ornamental and floral panelling , gilt family crest to covers, endpapers covered in green morroco gilt with thistle motifs to corners, signed Zaehnsdorf, lacking pages 167-160, 279-280

Lot 90

HENRY BENEDICT STUART, CARDINAL DUKE OF YORK DIARIO PER L'ANNO MDCCLXXXVIII DI ENRICO BENEDETTO CARDINALE DUCA EI YORCK Chiswick Press, 1876. First edition, 4to, 1 of 75 copies, presentation copy to B. Mitford from the editor, engraved portrait frontispiece & 1 plate, engraved illustrations, contemporary red morocco gilt, t.e.g., uncut, bookplate of Bertram Freeman-Mitford; [Borgia, Stefano] Letters from the Cardinal Borgia, and the Cardinal of York. 1799-1800. 4to, [2], 14, 3 engraved facsimiles of letters, with 3 manuscript copies of letters from Lord Minto to the Cardinal of York, Cardinal of York to Lord Minto, and from Sir J.C. Hippisley Bt. to the Cardinal of York, contemporary calf, some dampstaining, binding worn (2)

Lot 50

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON SPENCER LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL London: Macmillan & Co., 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, presentation copy with leaf before half-title inscribed "From Winston S. Churchill, July 24th 1926", full blue morocco gilt by Asprey, spine gilt, tooled with lion, portcullis and interlocking C monogram, watered silk endpapers

Lot 180

ROWLING, J.K. HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, 11th impression (numbers 20-11 on verso of title), signed by author on title, original cloth, dust-jacket

Lot 176

Roth, Philip A collection of 6 volumes, comprising Portnoy's Complaint. J. Cape, 1969. First UK edition, 2 copies, 1 signed, dustwrappers, 1 price clipped; The Breast. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First edition, dustwrapper; Zuckermann Unbound. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1981. First edition, number 333 of 350 copies, original red cloth, slipcase; The Anatomy Lesson. Franklin Library 1983. Limited First edition, signed by the author, brown morocco gilt, g.e.; I Married a Communist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First edition, dustwrapper (6)

Lot 164

Mandela, Nelson Long Walk to Freedom London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First edition, first impression, the title-page signed by Nelson Mandela and dated 13.3.94, original quarter cloth gilt, dust-jacket, bookplate of the Riverwood Activity Centre to free-endpaper (map) comprising an envelope and certificate of authenticity

Lot 414

Rackham, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. London: W. Heinemann, 1913. First edition, 4to, number 314 of 1030 copies signed by the artist, 44 coloured mounted plates by Rackham, original pictorial white buckram gilt, t.e.g., endpapers a little spotted, spine slightly discoloured

Lot 427

Hawkins, Francis Bisset Elements of Medical Statistics London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to Frank, Louis and Armand Courtois from the author, 8 initial pages of advertisements, half-title, original blue publisher's boards with paper label to spine, some light foxing and occasional internal soiling

Lot 415

Rackham, Arthur Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co., 1920. First edition, 4to, one of 525 copies signed by the artist, 16 coloured mounted plates by Rackham, original vellum-backed pictorial boards, t.e.g., binding a little soiled and discoloured, corners slightly rubbed; Swift, J. Gulliver's Travels. 1909. 4to, number 565 of 750 large paper copies signed by the artist, mounted coloured plates, 1 slightly creased, original white buckram, t.e.g,, binding slightly marked, lower corners slightly bumped, no inscriptions, endpapers slightly marked and with small hole; Shakespeare, W. The Tempest. Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.]. 4to, coloured plates by Dulac, original boards, slightly rubbed, some spotting; Stevenson, R.L. Kidnapped. Cassell, 1913. 4to, plates, original cloth (4)

Lot 166

Le Carré, John [Cornwell, David] A full set of John Le Carré's works many signed and in first edition, along with several proof and variant editions: 62 books The Spy who came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz, 1963, dustwrapper spine faded, lower panel slightly spotted, couple tiny closed tears; The Spy who came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz, 1963, "Fourth Impression Before Publication", dustwrapper price clipped and slightly frayed and slightly spotted, owner's name on endpaper; The Le Carré Omnibus. Victor Gollancz, 1964. First edition, dustwrapper with a few short tears repaired on verso, a little dusty; Call for the Dead. Penguin, 1964, signed by the author on title, original wrappers; A Murder of Quality. Penguin, 1964, signed by the author on title, slightly rubbed; The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, 1965, signed on title, dustwrapper spine faded and very slightly rubbed at extremities; A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, 1968, signed John le Carré aka David Cornwell on title, dustwrapper; The Naive & Sentimental Lover. Hodder & Stoughton, 1971, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; The Naive & Sentimental Lover. Hodder & Stoughton, 1971, Uncorrected Proof, original grey patterned wrappers, wrappers slightly dampstained; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hodder & Stoughton, 1974, author's signature on printed slip pasted to front endpaper, dustwrapper price clipped, 3mm. closed tear to head of spine; The Honourable Schoolboy. Hodder & Stoughton, 1977, author's signature on printed slip pasted to front endpaper, dust-jacket price clipped; Smiley's People. Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. First edition, author's signature on printed slip pasted to front endpaper, dustwrapper price-clipped; The Little Drummer Girl. New York: A.A.l. Knopf, 1983, number 788 of 1048 copies signed by the author, original buff and green cloth, slipcase;The Little Drummer Girl. 1983, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper spine faded; A Perfect Spy. Hodder& Stoughton/London Limited Editions Number 91 of 250 copies signed by the author and specially bound, quarter grey cloth, glassine dustwrapper worn and browned at spine; A Perfect Spy. Hodder& Stoughton 1986, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper, some faint spotting to text block, spine lightly faded; A Perfect Spy. Hodder& Stoughton 1986, Uncorrected Book Proof, original wrappers, frayed; The Russia House. Hodder& Stoughton 1989, London Limited Editions/Hodder& Stoughton 1989, number 14 of 250 copies signed by the author and specially bound, quarter green cloth, glassine dustwrapper; The Russia House. Hodder& Stoughton 1989, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; The Russia House. 1989, Presentation Book Proof, original wrappers; The Secret Pilgrim. Hodder& Stoughton 1991, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; The Secret Pilgrim. Hodder& Stoughton 1991, Publisher's Uncorrected Proof, original wrappers, a few slight marks; The Clandestine Muse. Newark: The JanusPress, for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author, original marbled wrappers; The Night Manager. Hodder& Stoughton 1993, signed on title, dustwrapper; The Night Manager. Hodder& Stoughton 1993, Uncorrected Proof, original wrappers; Our Game. Hodder& Stoughton 1995, 2nd impression, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Our Game. Hodder & Stoughton 1995, signed by the author on title, variant dustwrapper, 3cm. split at right corner, slipcase; Our Game. Hodder& Stoughton 1995, dustwrapper; The Tailor of Panama. Hodder& Stoughton 1996, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper, couple small scratches to dustwrapper; Nervous Times. 1998, number 44 of 250 copies signed by the author, original blue morocco-backed boards; Sarratt and the Draper of Watford. 1999, 2 copies, signed by the author, one of each variant dustwrapper; Single & Single. Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Single & Single. Hodder& Stoughton 1999, small format copy signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Single & Single. 1999. Uncorrected bound proof, original wrappers; Single & Single. Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, Uncorrected bound proof, original white wrappers; The Constant Gardener. Hodder& Stoughton 2001, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Absolute Friends. Hodder & Stoughton, 2003, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Absolute Friends. Hodder & Stoughton, 2003 Uncorrected Advance Proof, original wrappers; The Mission Song. Hodder & Stoughton2006, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; The Mission Song. Hodder& Stoughton 2006, number 224 of 500 copies signed by the author, original black boards, slipcase;The Mission Song. Hodder & Stoughton 2006, Uncorrected bound proof, original wrappers; The Spy who Came in from the Cold. Fyfield: Oak Tree Press, [2008]. 8vo, comprising the preface and first four chapters of the book in an edition of 150 copies, this being letter 'X' of 26 copies bound in grey morocco with the embossed imprint of the Berlin Wall to the covers, signed by the author to the title-page with an autograph quotation; The Spy who came in from the Cold. Fyfield: Oak Tree Press, [2008], limited to 150 copies, this one number 30 of 124 copies in red half cloth, slipcase; A Most Wanted Man. Hodder& Stoughton 2008 number 797 of 1000 copies signed by the author for Waterstone's original black boards, slipcase; A Most Wanted Man. Hodder& Stoughton 2008, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Our Kind of Traitor. Viking, 2010, Signed edition, original cloth, slipcase, unopened; Our Kind of Traitor. Viking/Hatchard, 2010, Number 25 of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, in original gilt lettered box; Our Kind of Traitor. Viking, 2010, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; Our Kind of Traitor. Viking, 2010, original wrappers; The Spy who came in from the Cold. Penguin, 2013, signed by author on title, dustwrapper, slipcase; A Delicate Truth. Viking, 2013, signed by the author on title, dustwrapper; A Delicate Truth. 2013, Limited Edition Proof Copy; The Pigeon Tunnel. Viking, 2016, signed by the author, dustwrapper; The Pigeon Tunnel. Penguin/Viking, 2016, signed copy, original cloth, slipcase; The Pigeon Tunnel. Viking, 2016, Advance Uncorrected Proof, original wrappers; A Legacy of Spies. Viking/Penguin, 2017, limited edition, signed by the author, original grey cloth, slipcase, unopened; A Legacy of Spies. Viking, 2017, signed by the author, dustwrapper; all first editions except for 2 paperbacks & where noted; [Morrab Library, Penzance, Cornwall] Typescript of speech given by Le Carré at his election as President, dated 26 February 1997,13ppp., signed by le Carré at the head of page 1; Sisman, Adam John le Carré, 2015, signed by the author; and 1 volume by Peter Lewis on John le Carré (62)

Lot 1149

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Grey paper covered boards, same pictorial endpaper repeated four times, 26 colour plates, light pencil gift inscription for Christmas 1903

Lot 1160

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents good, clean, bright; binding good and solid with very faint shelf-lean; dust-jacket with fading to spine and faint creasing to upper cover. Together with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, sixth impression, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback with dust-jacket faded to spine (2)

Lot 1154

Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six, first edition, London: Methuen, 1927. Octavo, deluxe issue in full blue calf with glassine wrappers, all edges gilt, pink pictorial endpapers, blue silk marker. Complete with publisher's card box bearing paper title labels. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid, calf very good; front free endpaper and pastedown with some pale spotting and wear at top; delicate glassine wrapper split along spine with some creasing at edges; box good with general discolouration

Lot 1166

Shakespeare, William. The First Folio of Shakespeare, Folio Society edition in The Norton Facsimile, limited edition numbered 648 of 1000, bound in Wassa goatskin by Smith Settle of Otley with marbled boards, 1996, housed in publisher's slipcase. Excellent condition, binding tight and solid, contents clean and bright; slipcase good with some very light rubbing/scuffs

Lot 1157

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in blue ink to dedication page, 'To Alison, with very best wishes, J. K. Rowling (hope you like this as much as No. 1!'. Contents generally good and bright, a few little dampstaining or ink marks to page edges with slight undulation to paper; binding tight and solid; covers clean and vibrant; dust-jacket good and bright, price-clipped. The second novel in the Harry Potter seriesProvenance: Book signing at Waterstones, Aberdeen, in 1998

Lot 1144

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' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; very light toning/discolouration to outer page edges; binding tight and solid; faint wear to extremities, laminate peeling at edges

Lot 1155

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' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; a couple of little marks to inside covers; binding tight and solid; faint wear to extremities, light creasing to rear cover; slight discolouration/fading to spine; small faint green ink mark to outer page edges at top corner

Lot 1158

Rowling, J. K, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first deluxe edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, publication line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Publisher's gilt green cloth, all edges gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright; a little discolouration to cloth at lower upper board, very faint wear to headcaps/corners

Lot 1164

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid; covers clean and vibrant; dust-jacket with some faint undulation and wear to extremities; discolouration/fading to spine; owner inscription to front pastedown. The second novel in the Harry Potter series. Together with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback, text-block a little loose from upper spine, dust-jacket with light creasing and fading to spine (2)

Lot 1163

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, first edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. Light brown paper covered boards, "muffatees" on p.15, 27 colour plates including frontispiece

Lot 1142

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' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents good, clean, bright; usual very light toning to page edges; some light spotting to half-title; binding tight and solid; faint wear to extremities, light creasing to spine, laminate peeling slightly at edges

Lot 1147

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's laminated pictorial boards, 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' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; endpapers very good and bright; covers very good with strong vibrant colours; very faint/trivial wear to corners and a tiny spot of wear to laminate on rear cover; usual very light toning to page edges; slight shelf-lean. An excellent copy. The author's debut novel and first in the Harry Potter series. Very scarce. One of only 500 copies, 300 of which were sent to libraries

Lot 1162

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid; covers clean and vibrant; dust-jacket very good and vibrant, neatly price-clipped. An excellent copy. The second novel in the Harry Potter series

Lot 463

A selection of books to include First Edition W Somerset Maugham 'The Vagrant Mood', and Catherine Speck 'Beyond the Battlefield Women Artists of the Two World Wars'

Lot 1146

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' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual very light toning to page edges; binding tight and solid; faint wear to extremities, light creasing to lower-corner of upper cover; discolouration/fading to colours on spine and top-left of upper cover

Lot 1182

Salt, Henry. A Voyage to Abyssinia, first edition, London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814. 36 [of 37] plates/maps/vignettes, including five folding charts (one of which is hand-coloured), only lacking the chart of Annesley Bay (which should be facing p.53, though these pages are uncut), four pages of publisher's advertisements bound in at front. Quarto, contemporary blue paper covered boards, crudely rebacked with heavy white paper; contents generally good and bright with occasional light spotting; untrimmed and uncut page edges; gift inscription dated 1837 to title page. Travel / Exploration Interest

Lot 534

Fleming, Ian - 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', first edition copy, 1963, with dust jacket and a first edition volume of 'The Man with the Golden Gun', 1965, together with a copy of Sir Frederick Sykes, 'From Many Angles', with Broadmoor Institution stamp

Lot 125

Batsford Books including Cotswold Country 1937, Bath 1944, Dublin 1949, Gothic England 1947, Chelsea 1954, Welsh Border Country, Exeter, The Heart of England, English Place-Names 1948, Oxford 1939, Cambridge, Dartmouth 1950, Edinburgh, The Face of Scotland, Norwich etc, mostly First Edition and all but one in dust-wrappers (34)

Lot 165

Instructions in Military Equitation and in The Elements of Field Movements of Cavalry Adjutant General's Office Horse-Guards 1st June 1819 printed by William Clowes, First Edition with 20 engraved plates at rear illustrative of The Riding Lessons practiced by the Detachments of Cavalry under the superintendence of Major Peters at Pimlico. Bound in half leather (front board detached), ownership ink name from 3rd Dragoon Guards on title with a copy of Field Exercise and Evolutions of The Army as revised in 1833 with numerous plates, in half leather gilt (2) 

Lot 148

Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood with Twelve Illustrations in Colour by Norah Neilson Gray, published J.M. Dent 1913, First Edition in gilt decorated cloth and housed in publisher's original decorated presentation card box with pasted colour illustration  

Lot 119

The Best of Roald Dahl illustrated by Quentin Blake comprising The Witches, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator, James and The Giant Peach, The BFG and Matilda, published in 6 volumes by The Folio Society, volumes 2002 First Edition thus each bound in cloth with silhouette illustration on covers, gilt lettering and facsimile signatures, housed in slipcase 

Lot 135

Joan Grant The Laird and the Lady 1949 First Edition, Return To Elysium 1947 First Edition, So Moses Was Born 1952 First Edition, Life As Carola 1939 First Edition with three other titles – most in original dust-wrappers (7)

Lot 151

Hans Christian Andersen The Shoes of Fortune and Other Tales with four drawings by Otto Speckter and other illustrations, published Chapman & Hall, 1847 First English Edition bound in publisher's embossed cloth with gilt vignette and lettering on upper cover and a gilt decorated spine 

Lot 152

[Rigby Graham] Linson Diary 1962 published Grange Fibre First Edition, with text illustrations and a cover design printed by seven colour offset lithography by Rigby Graham, illustrated endpapers and top edge of pages gilt   

Lot 168

Life Magazine November 23, 1936, volume 1 number 1 First Edition in original publisher's illustrated wrappers

Lot 160

The Shorter Poems of John Milton with Twelve Illustrations by Samuel Palmer, published Seeley & Company, 1889 First Edition containing full-page plates with tissue guards bound in contemporary full vellum binding with gilt title and decorations on spine ruled gilt borders on both covers & gilt along top edge of pages

Lot 140

Encyclopaedia Britannica The New Volumes, constituting In Combination with the Existing Volumes of The Ninth Edition The Tenth Edition of that work. The first of the New Volumes being Volume XXV of The Complete Work. Published Adam & Charles 1902-1903 volumes XXV to XXXIV with the latter volume containing 124 coloured maps - comprising all ten volumes uniformly bound in half leather with raised bands, heavily gilt decorated panels and lettering  

Lot 103

The New Naturalist series published by Collins comprising Ireland 1999, Moths 2002, The Broads 2001, Nature Conservation 2002, Lakeland 2002, Northumberland 2004, Gower 2006, Galloway & the Borders 2007, Garden Natural History 2007, Woodlands 2006 – all First Edition copies in original colour dust-wrappers (10)   

Lot 130

The Progressive Anarchist by Lawrence Morley, 1971 First Edition with folding charts hardbound with a copy of Guide and Index to G.I. Gurdjieff's All and Everything Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson 1973 First Edition in dust-wrapper (2)   

Lot 163

A Syllabus of A Course of Chemical Lectures read at Guy's Hospital by William Babington, Alexander Marcet and William Allen, printed for William Phillips 1816 First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece bound in gilt lettered cloth  

Lot 107

Sea-Trout Fishing by Hugh Falkus 1962 First Edition with humorous signed inscription from the author, Robin Knox-Johnston A World of My Own 1969 First Edition signed copy, The Valley of Song by Elizabeth Goudge illustrated by Steven Spurrier 1951 First Edition - all in original dust-wrappers (3)   

Lot 169

Ian Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service, published Jonathan Cape 1963 First Edition in cloth with silver lettering and with original colour dustwrapper with printed price of 16s.net on front flap.

Lot 158

The Land of the "Babes in The Wood" or The Brecklands of Norfolk by Charles Kent published Jarrold & Sons (c1910) First Edition on handmade paper with tipped-in plates guarded with tissue bound in half leather with gilt lettering    

Lot 157

La Fontaine's Fables A Selection Pictured for Children by Carton Moore Park and Rene Bull Translated from the Original into English Verse, published Thomas Nelson 1905 First Edition with illustrations in colour and in black & white original pictorial cloth   

Lot 149

Love In Earnest some notes on the lives and writings of English Uranian Poets from 1889 to 1930 by Timothy d’Arch Smith, 1970 First Edition signed and inscribed and with several signed cards and letters from the author including a printed greeting, limited to 70 copies

Lot 137

Italian Alps sketched in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, The Trentino and Venetia by Douglas W. Freshfield with engraved plates and folding maps, published Longmans Green & Co 1875 First Edition in decorated cloth with gilt lettering, with copy of Karl Baedeker Le Sud-Est de La France 1910 with maps (2)

Lot 517

A Royal Crown Derby porcelain limited edition paperweight the Ledge Wagon Gypsy Caravan No 148 of 1250, the first in a series commissioned by Govier's of Sidmouth, 12.5cm, with certificate

Lot 367

Emma Peachey. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling, first edition, gilt tooled, tan cloth, published by Mrs Peachey, London 1851.

Lot 369

Clare (John). The Village Minstrel and other poems, first edition, Vol I, printed for Taylor & Hassey, London, and E Dury Stamford 1821.

Lot 543

C W Alcock (Editor). Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895, first edition, folio, gilt tooled, purple half morocco, published by Hudson & Kearns, London 1895.

Lot 420

A First Edition of Dombey & Son, 1848, with original cover of the first part bound in at the back, full green leather binding

Lot 425

Scarce 1747 First Edition, Works of William Shakespeare, edited by William Warburton, based on notes by Alexander Pope, 8 volumes

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