There are 118894 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeBig Game Hunting.- Roosevelt (Theodore) Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, first English edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, short marginal tear, scattered faint marginal soiling, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1886.
NO RESERVE Hydrostatics & Atmospheric Pressure.- Pascal (Blaise) Traitez de l'Equilibre des Liqueurs et d la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air, third edition, lacking 2 folding engraved plates, with woodcut illustration to text, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, spine ends worn, joints split, 12mo, Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1698.⁂ First published in 1663 this included the first appearance of Pascal's law.
NO RESERVE Medicine.- Middleton (Conyers) De Medicorum apud Veteres Romanos Degentium Conditione Dissertatio, first edition, Cambridge, 1726, bound after, Dissertationis de Medicorum Romæ Degeneium Conditione Ignobili & Servili ..., spotting and soiling to title, Cambridge, 1727, bound before, [Ward (John)] Disserations v.r. con. Middleton, S.T.P. de Medicorum Romae Degentium conditione ignobili et servili Defensio examinata, S. Buckley for J. Woodman and D. Lyon, 1728, together 3 works bound as 1 vol., occasional faint spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 4to.
NO RESERVE Prisons.- Lucas (Charles) Du Système Pénitentiaire en Europe, vol. 1 only (of 3), first edition, 4 folding engraved plates, 1 folding plan, 2 folding tables, occasional marginal pencil annotations, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, Paris, 1828.⁂ Volume 2 and a 'General Conclusion' (vol. 3) were published in 1830.
NO RESERVE Roger-Milès (L.) Les Veillées Noires, limited edition, engraved plates, Paris, 1889 § Bie (Oskar) Der Tanz, original cloth-backed boards, spine defective, Berlin, 1919 § Fülöp-Miller (René) Der Heilige Teufel: Rasputin und die Frauen, original cloth, Leipzig, 1927 § La Fayette (M. de) La Princesse de Clèves, mounted pochoir illustrations by Edith Follet, Paris, n.d. § Loti (P.) Pêcheur d'Islande, illustrations by Paul Baudier, Paris, [1933], plates and illustrations, all but the second and third original wrappers, the first with reinforced spine, all rubbed; and c.40 others, continental literature and history, mostly illustrated, v.s. (c.45)
Denham (Sir John) Poems and Translations, with the Sophy, first edition, variant with N6 containing errata for both parts, N7 is Table, no N8 leaf, a few contemporary ink annotations, lightly browned, old front free endpaper loose, old half green morocco, t.e.g., joints a little rubbed, [Wing D1005], 8vo, [by John Macock] for Henry Herringman, 1668.
Dryden (John) Fables Ancient and Modern, first edition, half-title, lacking signatures 4D-4N (pp.567-646) at end but with unsigned leaf 4O2 (Table, numbered 565 on recto), some foxing, later half calf, spine with gilt rules and red roan label, rubbed, joints split, upper rather crudely repaired, [Macdonald 37a; Pforzheimer 326; Win D2278], folio, for Jacob Tonson, 1700.⁂ The missing section 'The Knight's Tale, As it was Written by Geffrey Chaucer' was obviously added after the Table was prepared as it is not listed and the pagination continues with the Table.
Davenant (Charles) Circe, a Tragedy, first edition, with final Epilogue/advertisement leaf, lightly browned, cropped shaving one signature letter, gilt-stamped roan label of William Andrews Clark Jr. and also paper book-label of his librarian Cora Edgerton Sanders, later calf with triple gilt fillet border, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., joints a little rubbed, [Wing D302], 4to, for Richard Tonson, 1677.⁂ Written at the age of nineteen by the future economist and pamphleteer. The prologue is by John Dryden and the epilogue by the Earl of Rochester.William Andrews Clark Jr. (1877-1934), philanthropist, book-collector, and founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[Smollett (Tobias)] The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, 2 vol., first edition in book form, a little browned, a few rust-spots or stains, lacking front free endpapers, contemporary ink inscription of Henry Baker of Stixwould, Lincs. to rear free endpaper of vol.1, later bookplate of Mary Bryant Sprague, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine ends a little worn, splits to joints, [Rothschild 1923], 12mo, for J.Coote, 1762.⁂ The rarest of the author's novels, first issued in serial form in The British Magazine from 1760 to1761.
[Sterne (Laurence)] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 variant 2 with "vous" on p.150, vol. 2 variant 1 with "who have" on last line of p.133, half-titles, list of subscribers, without loosely inserted advertisement leaf (as usual), engraved coat-of-arms in vol.2, contemporary ink signature of J.Baker to front free endpapers, engraved bookplate of Isaac John Beazley, contemporary sprinkled calf, red roan labels, rubbed, vol.1 with upper cover detached and head of spine worn, vol.2 with spine repaired at head, preserved in later cloth folder and sheep-backed cloth slip-case (spines rather worn), [Rothschild 1971], 8vo, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1768.
Godwin (William) Faulkener: a Tragedy, first edition, half-title, stab-holes to inner margin, later calf with triple gilt fillet border, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., lower joint rubbed, upper cover detached, preserved in later cloth slip-case, 8vo, Richard Phillips, 1807.⁂ Godwin based the play on part of Defoe's novel Roxana; the verse prologue is by Charles Lamb.
[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, first edition, lacking half-title but with Preface leaf, some neat ink annotations to text denoting amendments in later editions, slight ink staining to fore-edge of first leaf of text and facing leaf, contemporary ink inscription "Charles Thos. Longley Novr. 1813" and another "Cotton 1817" to front free endpaper, contemporary straight-grain calf with border in gilt and blind, spine gilt, rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot, upper joint split, 12mo, James Cawthorn, [1809, watermarked "E & P 1805"].⁂ Written following the poor review of his first work Hours of Idleness which was published in 1807 and reviewed anonymously in the Edinburgh Review by Henry Brougham. In this work he praises the Neoclassical poets Dryden and Pope and attacks the Romantics Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the editor of the Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffery, to whom he attributed the review. Charles Thomas Longley (1974-1868), clergyman who served as Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until he died.
Wordsworth (William) The White Doe or Rylstone; or the Fate of the Nortons, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (light marginal spotting), browning to C3 from previous insert, short tear to fore-edge of D2, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine (partly lacking), rubbed, covers detached, 4to, for Longman etc., 1815.
Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama..., first edition, second issue with "Miscellaneous" spelt correctly on Contents leaf, with half-title but lacking advertisement leaf at end, faint trace of signature to head of title, later crushed grey-green morocco, by Zaehnsdorf dated 1900, covers with triple gilt fillet border, spine ruled in gilt with five raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, turquoise silk endpapers, rubbed at joints and edges, upper cover becoming loose, spine browned and with top compartment detached, 8vo, 1820.
Computing.- Babbage (Charles) On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, first edition, engraved title with medallion portrait of Roger Bacon (lightly foxed as usual), without 2pp. advertisements at end, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine and red morocco label, 8vo, 1832.
Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Some Poems, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 150, photogravure portrait and some plates, mounted wood-engravings by W.Holman Hunt, J.E.Millais & D.G.Rossetti, endpapers browned, hinges weak, original vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little soiled and splayed, 1901; Maud, and other poems, first edition, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning and advertisement leaf at end, foxed, original blind-stamped green cloth, slightly rubbed, spine a little browned and worn at head, 1855, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ The first includes the famous wood-engravings by the Pre-Raphaelites, printed from the original blocks.
NO RESERVE Sherlock (William) A Practical Discourse concerning Death, first edition, title trimmed and laid down, lacking A1 (imprimatur leaf), first few leaves trimmed affecting occasional headline, previous owner's contemporary signatures to endpapers and title, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, [Wing S3312], for W. Rogers, 1689.⁂ Early ink signature of Mary Isham, later Mary Brooke, daughter of Zacheus Isham, Church of England clergyman and religious author.
Milton (John) Paradise Lost, copper-engraved frontispiece, p.514 misnumbered 524, small stain to title, contemporary diced russia, lightly rubbed, joints weak, for Jacob Tonson, 1727 § Egan (Pierce) Life in London, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 35 hand-coloured plates by Cruikshank, wood-engraved vignettes, 8pp. advertisements, occasional light browning to plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, upper cover detached; and 9 others, v.s. (11)
NO RESERVE Economics.- [Gilbert (Sir Geoffrey)] An Historical View of the Court of Exchequer, and the King's Revenues, there answered, first edition, preliminary advertisement leaf, previous owner's ink signatures to title, spotting, ex-library with occasional marginal blindstamps, contemporary calf, rebacjed, a little rubbed, 8vo, Savoy, by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling ..., 1738.
Birch (Thomas, editor) A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq., 7 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.1, title lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, covers rubbed, for the Executor of the late Fletcher Gyles, by Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, folio, 1742.
NO RESERVE Birch (Thomas) An Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from the year 1592 to 1617, first edition, with final errata leaf, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, cracked upper joint, small paper label to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, for A. Millar, 1749.
NO RESERVE [Hawkesworth (John)] Almoran and Hamet: an oriental tale, 2vol., first edition, half-titles, errata f. at end of vol.1, preliminaries of vol.1 misbound, contemporary calf, spines in compartments, lacking title labels, but with vol. number labels, vol.2 covers detached, vol.1 upper cover all but detached, both vol. spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed, printed for H. Payne and W. Cropley, 1761; and 6 others, 18th century English, v.s. (8)
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) The Philosophy of History, first edition in English, copy belonging to Leigh Hunt, ink ownership inscriptions to title and front endpaper, book label to front pastedown, lightly browned throughout, some spotting and marginal finger soiling, upper hinge broken at foot, modern half calf, minute insect damage at upper joint foot, for I. Allcock, 8vo, 1766.⁂ From the library of Leigh Hunt, the nineteenth century writer, critic and poet; his signature appears as the top of three signatures here on the title page. In his famous Autobiography, Hunt references Voltaire's influence on his own writing, and specifically mentions this work, stating that "I was a great admirer of the essay on Philosophy of History" (Leigh Hunt, Autobiography, 1860, p.145).
NO RESERVE Gessner (Salomon) New idylles...Translated by W. Hooper MD. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friends of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot, first edition in English, half-title, fine engraved pictorial title and 9 plates, some gatherings working loose, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original boards, lacking backstrip, covers detached, stained, Printed for S.Hooper, 1776; and 2 others, 18th century English, 4to (3)
NO RESERVE [Topham (Edward)] Letters from Edinburgh; written in the years 1774 and 1775: containing some observations on the diversions, customs, manners, and laws, of the Scotch nation, first edition, stained and spotted, contemporary calf, covers detached, rather worn, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1776; and 3 others, including a 2 vol. Hume's Essays, 1809, 8vo (4)
Nelson.- Nicolas (Sir Nicholas Harris, editor) The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, 7 vol., vol. 1 second edition, vol. 2-7 first edition, 4 battle plans (3 folding, 2 colour), 4 facsimile letters, some foxing, including to titles, original morocco backed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., lightly soiled, spine and extremities rubbed, , 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1845-46; and a ?Samson porcelain bowl commemorating Nelson's victory over the San Josef, coat of arms, oak leaf border, (c.1890) (8)
NO RESERVE [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". Life on the Mississippi, first English edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, advertisements dated March 1883, small ink ownership stamps to endpapers, 1883 § Wells (H. G.) Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, first edition, ownership signature to pastedown in crayon, very light foxing to first few pp., 1905, original pictorial or blind stamped cloth, gilt, first upper cover very lightly marked with slight bumping and creasing to extremities, spines a little rubbed and faded; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE [Howe (Julia Ward) & others.] A Memorial of Ulysses S.Grant from the City of Boston, engraved portrait (foxed), Boston, 1885 § Lathrop (E.) Historic Houses of Early America, New York, 1946 § Leacock (Stephen) Canada: The Foundations of its Future, Montreal, 1941 § Kempers (A.J.B.) Ageless Borobudur, 1976 § Ducarel (A.C.) Antiquités Anglo-Normandes..., lithographed plates, some on india paper and mounted, some folding, light foxing, contemporary half calf, Caen, 1823 § Greenwood (J.) Curiosities of Savage Life, First & Second Series, 2 vol., third edition, chromolithographed frontispieces, some spotting or browning, vol.1 contemporary half roan, vol.2 original cloth, 1865, plates and illustrations, the first four original cloth, rubbed; and c.95 others, miscellaneous history and travel, particularly America, v.s. (c.100)
NO RESERVE Churchill (Winston S.) The Great War, 3 vol., first edition bound from the parts, illustrations, light browning to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, 1933; and 2 others, including an original caricature of Churchill, Eisenhower and Malenkov signed by the artist John Jones, v.s. (5)
A QUANTITY OF POKEMON CARDS, just over 450 Pokemon TCG cards from Base Set, Base Set 2, Fossil, Jungle and Team Rocket sets; Around of fifty Pokemon Topps cards (all loose) and just over ten fake Japanese Pokemon TCG cards. No holo, first edition or any noteworthy cards present. Condition ranges from good to fair
A QUANTITY OF POKEMON CARDS, contains over four hundred Pokemon TCG cards ranging from the Base Set, Base Set 2, Fossil, Jungle, Team Rocket, Gym Heroes and Neo Genesis sets along with a large quantity of Pokemon Topps cards. All TCG cards are contained in a Pokemon TCG folder and booklet. Some cards are Japanese, including all included Neo Genesis, Revelation and Discovery cards. Holo cards include Dark Charizard Team Rocket 4, Sabrina's Gengar Gym Heroes 14, Blastoise Base Set 2, Typhlosion Japanese Neo Genesis 157, Rocket's Molltres Gym Heroes 12 and Dragonite Fossil 4. First edition cards include Dark Charizard Team Rocket 4, Sabrina's Gengar Gym Heroes 14, Misty's Poliwhirl Gym Heroes 53 (x2), Dark Jolteon Team Rocket 38, Erika's Gloom Gym Heroes 46, Misty's Goldeen Gym Heroes 30, Brock's Rhyhorn Gym Heroes 70 & Brock's Mankey Gym Heroes 67. Condition: cards in excellent condition
WILLUGHBY FRANCIS & RAY JOHN. The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick. Rubricated title. 80 eng. plates & 2 tables, & 2 additional engs. pasted to reverse of plate XLIII. Folio. Old calf, neatly rebacked. Bookplate of Henry Lord Colerane, 1702 to reverse of title. 1678. The first edition in English, much enlarged from the Latin first edition of 1676 by the inclusion of Ray's three discourses. Reckoned to be "one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time, being the first systematic classification of the birds of the world".Collated as complete. Illustrated with 80 (2 unnumbered, I-LXXVIII) plates and 2 tables; also 2 additional engravings added verso of plate XLIII.Expanded on the earlier edition to include fowling. Divided into the following sections :• Preface • Of birds in general • Of land-fowl • Of water-fowl • Of the art of fowling • Of the ordering of singing birds • Of falconry
(PENNANT THOMAS). The British Zoology ... Published Under the Inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society. Rubricated title & dedication in two states (one rubricated). 133 large hand col. etched plates (122 of which are of birds, the others of quadrupeds) by P. Mazell after P. Paillou. Folio, 21" x 14.5". Old calf, recased. Bookplates incl. Thomas Page & Alan Francis Brooke. First Edition with the maximum number of plates, J. & J. March, (1761)-1766, Pennant was probably the best known British ornithologist of the 18th century & this was the first attempt to list & portray all of the British species, many of them life size. The plates are magnificent & cost Pennant so much that there was little left in the way of profits.
Books - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and illustrated by Hugh Thomson, the book cover decorated in peacock feathers together with a 2001 Alec Guinness First Edition of Commonplace Book, a 1954 limited edition Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde with wood engraving prints by Dorothea Braby, Rodale Press, a 1967 First Edition The Dream-Time by Henry Treece and a 1965 First Edition Puckoon by Spike Milligan
W.L. And Mrs Wyllie, London to the Nore, published by A & C Black, 1905, first edition, limited edition no. 46/250, signed 'W.L. Wyllie', sixty colour plates in good condition protected with tissue paper, bound in cream cloth with plastic protector, foxing to the pages and discolouration, pages nibbled, together with two booklets on Wyllie
Frith (Francis, 1822-1898). Egypt & Palestine Photographed and Described, volume 1 (of 2), 1st edition, James S. Virtue, [1858], with oval albumen print portrait of Frith in Turkish dress and 36 (complete) other mounted albumen prints, images 15.5 x 22.5 cm or the reverse, each with guards and printed descriptions, some scattered spotting, contents shaken and a few leaves detached, contemporary green half morocco gilt, some edge wear and a little wear to spine, folio (43.5 x 31.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESFirst edition of Frith’s earliest work. Blackmer 1942; Gernsheim Incunabula 88; Goldschmidt & Naef 61.
[South Africa]. The Progress of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred... through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, the Orange Free State, and Port Natal, in the Year 1860, 1st edition, Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co., 1861, half-title, title and dedication printed on glazed paper with decorative border in gold, half-title with mounted albumen print vignette, 16 albumen print photographs by Kirkman, Green and York mounted on leaves with captions and borders in red, includes 10 of paintings or drawings by Bowler and Baines, images 13 x 19.5cm and smaller, general fading to images, illustrations to text, some spotting and soiling throughout (worst at front and rear) with a few scattered closed marginal tears, original gilt-decorated pimpled cloth, worn and loss to spine, covers and some leaves detached, 4toQty: (1)NOTESGernsheim 150. The first book illustrated with photographs to be published in Africa and including some of the earliest photographs of South Africa. Images include the Prince at official ceremonies, scenes of Graham's Town, the Prince meeting the Tambookies, his travelling equipage, and 'Mohesh' or Moshoeshoe, King of Basutoland, in top hat and cane with his counsellors.
[Baker, Thomas]. Memorials of Oldham's Tenement at Crumpsall in the Parish of Manchester, the birthplace of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, and founder of the Manchester Free Grammar School, 1st edition, Manchester: Sidney Smith, 1864, 5 pp. plus 3 leaves with albumen print photographs, the first a mammoth print of the cottage at Crumpsall in which Hugh Oldham was born, 25.5 x 37 cm, the second of a fresco on a wall in the cottage, 20.5 x 32 cm, the third leaf with two vignette photographs of coats-of-arms in the cottage, 7 x 5.5 cm, some spotting, stitched as issued and now loose in original cloth boards with covers detached, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, slim folio (51 x 35 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe photographer of this rare work is unidentified. Copies located at Manchester Public Libraries and Chetham's Library only.
Limited edition David Rowlands entitled 'Mess Meeting at Wadi Tubal, Western Iraq, 16th February 1991 nr 129/150, signed in the upper margin by General Norman Schwarzkopf, General Sir Peter de la Billiere and the lower margin Peter Ratcliffe approx 52 w x 69 h cms. This meeting took place behind enemy lines during Operation Granby. Sergeant Major of 22 SAS, WO1 P Ratcliffe, who was commanding one of the four columns, called an extraordinary meeting of 22 SAS Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess, this being the first opportunity since assuming his appointment as RSM on 3rd December 1990. This is believed to be the first ever Mess Meeting to be held behind enemy lines. The four mobile columns continued to operate behind the lines for a further 3 weeks. The margins are signed by the following:General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Commander in Chief, General Sir Peter de la Billiere Commander British Forces Middle East, Lt Col. J T Homes CO22 SAS; Warrant Officer P. Ratcliffe RSM 22 SAS and David Rowlands the artist, complete with certificate of authenticity. This includes a further limited edition print by Peter Archer entitled 'The Convoy' nr 23/850 with printed quotes by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and General Sir Peter de la Billiere KCB, KBE and DSO, approx 63 x 45 cms, framed and glazed.
ORME'S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS, Illustrated In Twenty Beautifully Coloured Engravings From Designs By S. Howitt, facsimile edition, large folio, 3/4 leather, green cloth boards, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford, with Aldin (C), A SPORTING GARLAND, Picture In Colour By Cecil Aldin, first edition, illustrated card boards, Sands & Co, London 1902 (at fault), BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN - SHOOTING AND DEERSTALKING, limited edition numbered 446/1000, Sports & Sportsmen Ltd, London, and Somerville (E), SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING, first edition, illustrated card boards, colour lithographic plates throughout, Longmans, Green And Co, London 1903 (4)
Lydekker (R), ANIMAL PORTRAITURE, first edition, gilt illustrated cloth boards, fifty colour lithographic plates, Frederick Warne & Co, London 1912, Chalmers (P), BIRDS ASHORE AND A-FORESHORE, first edition, blue cloth boards, illustrations by Winifred Austen, Collins, London 1935, Dupray (H) and Maxwell (W), BRITISH BATTLES, Charles Letts & Co, London 1902, and three illustrated children's books (6)
Lear (E), EDWARD LEAR IN GREECE, first edition, orange cloth boards, unclipped DJ, two maps and twenty engraved lithographic plates, William Kimber & Co Limited, London 1965, with Lear (E), EDWARD LEAR IN CORSICA, first edition, orange cloth boards, unclipped DJ, two maps and twenty engraved lithographic plates, William Kimber & Co Limited, London 1966 (2)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
Sackville-West (V), IN YOUR GARDEN AGAIN, first edition, green cloth boards, unclipped DJ, monochrome photographic frontispiece, seven further monochrome photographic plates, Michael Joseph, London 1953, with Sackville-West (V), MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN, first edition, red cloth boards, unclipped DJ, monochrome photographic frontispiece, seven further monochrome photographic plates, Michael Joseph, London 1955, Sackville-West (V), EVEN MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN, first edition, turquoise cloth boards, unclipped DJ, monochrome photographic frontispiece, seven further monochrome photographic plates, Michael Joseph, London 1958, Dennison (M), BEHIND THE MASK ? THE LIFE OF VITA SACKVILLE WEST, first edition, William Collins, London 2014, and Nicolson (N), HAROLD NICOLSON ? DIARIES AND LETTERS, 2 vols (1939-1945 and 1945-1962), both first editions, Collins, London 1967 and 1968 (6)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST: A miscellany of books on historic architecture and design, comprising: Harvey (J), THE ENGLISH CATHEDRALS, first edition, photographs by Herbert Felton, red cloth boards, unclipped DJ, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1950, Whiffen (M), STUART AND GEORGIAN CHURCHES OUTSIDE LONDON 1603 TO 1837, first edition, red cloth boards, unclipped DJ, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1947, Sitwell (S), BRITISH ARCHITECTS & CRAFTSMEN, red cloth boards, unclipped DJ, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1946, Jones (B), FOLLIES & GROTTOES, second edition, Constable, London 1974, Nicolson (N), GREAT HOUSES OF BRITAIN, Weidenfeld And Nicolson, London 1965, and Downes (K), ENGLISH BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE, A Zwemmer Ltd, London1966 (6)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
Milne (A.A.), WINNIE THE POOH, first edition, green cloth boards with embossed gilt illustration to cover, gilt top edge to block, inscription in pen to free end paper, E.H. Shepard illustrations throughout including title page, frontispiece and Hundred Acre Wood map endpapers, Methuen & Co Ltd, London 1926Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
JAMES BOND INTEREST: Fleming (I), THRILLING CITIES, first edition, grey boards with cream cloth spine, unclipped DJ, photographic plates throughout, Jonathan Cape, London 1963, with Amis (K), THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER, first edition, black cloth boards with embossed circle motif, unclipped DJ, Jonathan Cape, London 1965 (2)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
JAMES BOND INTEREST: Fleming (I), THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, first edition, black cloth boards with embossed silver dagger to cover and silver title to spine, unclipped DJ with 15 shilling price, blank rear flap and Thunderball reviews to rear panel, red endpapers, Jonathan Cape, London 1962 Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT:DJ: Small tear at the lower right corner of the spine. Slight darkening to spine. Darkening and foxing to the back panel. Small chips to the top and bottom edges of spine. Minor shelf wear throughout.Book: Minor shelf wear to bottom edge of boards. Very small bumps to corners. Small dent to top edge of spine. Slight darkening to block edges. Very slight darkening to pages, but no evidence of foxing or other staining.
JAMES BOND INTEREST: Fleming (I), THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, first edition, black cloth boards with gilt title to spine (no gilt embossed gun to cover), unclipped DJ with 18 shilling price, title and ?The new James Bond? to front flap, all Bond titles to ?The Man With The Golden Gun? plus ?Thrilling Cities?, ?The Diamond Smugglers? and ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? to rear flap, green marbled endpapers, Jonathan Cape, London 1965 Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT:DJ: Some minor wear and discolouration to the front edges including corners. 1cm tear to top left edge of spine. Small area of scuffing to lower left of spine. Area of dirt between 'Golden' and 'Gun'. Staining to interior, including extensive stain across spine. Slight foxing to lower edge of flaps. Minor shelf wear.Book: Slight fold over to top of spine. Very minor bumps to corners. Some fading to interior boards where DJ flaps end. Minor shelf wear to bottom edges of boards. Darkening and some foxing to top of block. Further minor foxing to rest of block. Slight darkening to pages.
JAMES BOND INTEREST: Fleming (I), ON HER MAJESTY?S SECRET SERVICE, first edition, black cloth boards with silver title to spine and silver ski track ?swish? to front cover, unclipped DJ with 16 shilling price, monochrome Fleming portrait and Bond titles to ?The Spy Who Loved Me? to rear flap, reviews of ?Dr No?, ?From Russia With Love?, ?Thunderball? and ?The Spy Who Loved Me? to rear panel, white endpapers, Jonathan Cape, London 1963 Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT:DJ: Minor wear and discolouration to front edges including corners. Small stain to lower right corner of front panel. Very small tear and minor chips to top of spine. Minor wear to corners of bottom spine. Some darkening to spine including to interior. Darkening and foxing to back panel. Small stain and foxing to interior. Minor shelf wear.Book: Very minor bumps to front corners. Small bump to lower right corner of spine. Darkening and some minor foxing to top of block. Minor foxing to bottom of block. Slight darkening to pages. Block leans back slightly in binding.
Sitwell (O), the autobiography of Sir Osbert Sitwell, comprising: LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND!, THE SCARLET TREE, GREAT MORNING, LAUGHTER IN THE NEXT ROOM and NOBLE ESSENCES, all first editions, all red cloth boards, black top edge to block, unclipped DJs, illustrated endpapers, monochrome photographic frontispieces, monochrome plates throughout, Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1945 to 1950, with Sitwell (O), WRACK AT TIDESEND, first edition, matching binding, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London 1952, Sitwell (S), SPLENDOURS AND MISERIES, first edition, yellow cloth boards with embossed silver illustration to cover and spine, monochrome illustrations throughout, Faber & Faber Ltd, London 1943, Sitwell (S), SPAIN, first edition, blue cloth boards, unclipped DJ, lithographic frontispiece, photographic plates throughout, Faber & Faber Limited, London 1950, and Sitwell (E), ALEXANDER POPE, red cloth boards, unclipped DJ, Faber & Faber Limited, London 1930 (9)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
Sitwell (S), Buchanan (H) and Fisher (J), FINE BIRD BOOKS 1700-1900, limited edition numbered 290 of 295 signed by the authors, large folio in marbled slip case, 3/4 red leather, marbled boards, illustrated endpapers, colour lithographic frontispiece, fifteen colour plates and twenty two monochrome plates throughout, Collins & Van Nostrand, London 1953, with Dixon (C), GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL OF THE BRITISH ISLES, second edition, illustrated by Charles Whymper, illustrated cloth boards, colour lithographic frontispiece, 40 colour lithographic plates throughout, Pawson & Brailsford, Sheffield 1900, Arnold (E.C.), BRITISH WADERS ILLUSTRATED IN WATER-COLOUR WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, first edition, red cloth boards, DJ, ?Rugby School? stamp to half title page, 51 colour plates, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1924, and Kirkman (F.B.) and Jourdain (F.C.R.), BRITISH BIRDS, gilt illustrated blue cloth boards, DJ, 200 colour plates, Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, London 1948 (4) Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT:Sitwell et al: The book shows minor wear and slight fading to the leather consistent with insertion into and removal from the slip case. The pages show some foxing to the front edges, most noticeable on the early pages. The slip case is somewhat faded and shows heavy wear to the front edges consistent with regular removal and reinsertion of the book.
Cowlard (C.M.), WILD FLOWERS OF THE ITALIAN RIVIERA, first edition, green cloth boards, line printed frontispiece (later hand coloured), 50 line printed plates (later hand coloured), The Holywell Press Ltd., Oxford circa 1956, with Atchley (S.C.), WILD FLOWERS OF ATTICA, first edition, illustrated by W.O. Everett, green cloth boards, unclipped DJ, hand coloured lithographic frontispiece, 21 colour plates, The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1938, and Redoute (P-J), ROSES, large format paperback, The Ariel Press, London 1954 (third impression) (3)Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire
[BREADALBANE, EARLS OF] FIVE VOLUMES, COMPRISING GRANT, CHARLES, BARON DE VAUX. Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century.. including an Account of Labourdonnais' Capture of Madras. Mauritius, Printed for Private Circulation, 1886. First edition, 8vo, red half morocco; Pinkerton, John. The Scotish [sic] Gallery, or Portraits of Eminent Persons of Scotland, many of them after pictures by the celebrated Jameson at Taymouth, and other places. London: E. Harding, 1799. First edition, 50 engraved plates, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., Earl of Breadalbane stamp to title-page, slightly rubbed, upper hinge broken; Gaultier, Bon. The Book of Ballads. 1870. 8vo, 11th edition, illustrations, red morocco gilt. Reynolds, Edward. Treatise of the Passions and Faculties Of the Soul of Man. London: for Robert Bostock, 1650. [18], 553, modern black quarter morocco, inscribed on early blank "George Sinclaire, Earl of Caithness, is the owner of this book, April 5th 1654, Con est Mortalle apto, Caithness, bought from Andrew Wisslone Stationer in Edinborough", [ESTC R11825], bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane; Hunt, T.F. Examples of Tudor Architecture. London: H.G. Bohn, 1841, 4to, 38 plates, contemporary green quarter morocco, morocco gilt lettering piece on upper cover, some spotting, slightly rubbed (5)
Loading...
![[Smollett (Tobias)] The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, 2 vol., first edition in book form, a little browned, a few rust](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/7570003d-bd13-4760-81fc-ad2100aeeecc/468x382.jpg)
![[Sterne (Laurence)] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 variant 2 with "vous" on p.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/dc459cfb-ad24-4473-a06c-ad2100aec74d/468x382.jpg)
![[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, first edition, lacking half-title but with](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/97a69669-9d1f-4a43-82c0-ad2100af04e8/468x382.jpg)
![NO RESERVE Economics.- [Gilbert (Sir Geoffrey)] An Historical View of the Court of Exchequer, and the King's Revenues, there](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/4dd07eaa-8511-4c14-ad60-ad2100af1bc8/468x382.jpg)
![NO RESERVE [Hawkesworth (John)] Almoran and Hamet: an oriental tale, 2vol., first edition, half-titles, errata f. at end of v](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/83511219-a729-451b-9534-ad2100aee5d0/468x382.jpg)
![NO RESERVE [Topham (Edward)] Letters from Edinburgh; written in the years 1774 and 1775: containing some observations on the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/01e65b54-4a2c-460c-b8fa-ad2100ae124e/468x382.jpg)
![NO RESERVE [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". Life on the Mississippi, first English edition, half-title, frontispiec](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/52ffb124-d788-4145-87ee-ad2100adf9bb/468x382.jpg)
![NO RESERVE [Howe (Julia Ward) & others.] A Memorial of Ulysses S.Grant from the City of Boston, engraved portrait (foxed)](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6d116f5-e7d3-438c-bdeb-ad2100a91de6/551fe2d2-ec38-405c-9d7e-ad2100ae6fab/468x382.jpg)
![[South Africa]. The Progress of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred... through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, the Orange Fr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d1caae13-8ef2-4e3e-b0cf-ad1800d548c7/5e193f2e-ce98-45a5-a63e-ad1a00bf57e8/468x382.jpg)
![[Baker, Thomas]. Memorials of Oldham's Tenement at Crumpsall in the Parish of Manchester, the birthplace of Hugh Oldham, Bish](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d1caae13-8ef2-4e3e-b0cf-ad1800d548c7/e5672f82-cab9-4db1-8c47-ad1a00bea477/468x382.jpg)
![[BREADALBANE, EARLS OF] FIVE VOLUMES, COMPRISING GRANT, CHARLES, BARON DE VAUX. Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Cent](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5b84fac7-0385-42ec-8f87-ad18010bc03f/de26dba2-e6ca-4210-b8b4-ad18011a6aa6/468x382.jpg)
