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Lot 211

Caribbean.- Slave Revolt.- Rainsford (Marcus) An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, folding map and plan, 8 engraved plates and 3pp. engraved facsimile letter, 3pp. advertisements at end, a few small stains, modern morocco-backed cloth, rubbing to upper joint, 4to, Albion Press, 1805.⁂ Account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, led by the ex-slave Toussaint Louverture, which created the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the only one in history established by a successful slave revolt. It also became the first country to abolish slavery.

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Lot 215

NO RESERVE Fiji.- Lucas (Dr. T.P.) Cries from Fiji and Sighings from the South Seas. "Crush Out the British Slave Trade", first edition, errata slip, small ink stamp "Pastor's College, Missionary Library" to head of title and following leaf, other stamps to front free endpaper, original cloth, very slightly rubbed, 8vo, Melbourne, [1885].

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Lot 216

France.- Cook (Theodore Andrea) Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, some full-page, original half-cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, [1916]; and another (2)

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Lot 217

Greece.- Dodwell (Edward) A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece, 2 vol., first edition, folding engraved map, 2 errata leaves, 66 engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured, 6 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, some foxing and offsetting, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, [Atabey 356; Blackmer 492], 4to, 1819. ⁂ Dodwell was one of the most energetic of his generation of travellers. A great collector and archaeologist, he opened numerous tombs and kept much of their content. When he died he had 115 bronzes and over 140 vases.

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Lot 219

NO RESERVE India.- Framjee (Dosabhoy) The Parsees: their History, Manners, Customs, and Religion, first edition, half-title, advertisement leaf at beginning & end and 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, contemporary ink inscription to half-title, traces of erased stamp to corner of title and label removed from front pastedown, original blind-stamped blue cloth, lightly rubbed, spine a little browned, 8vo, 1858.

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Lot 220

NO RESERVE Italy.- Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d') Analyse Géographique de l'Italie..., first edition, 2 folding maps, engraved head- and tail-pieces, some 19th century hand-colouring and heightening with gum arabic, M², M³ and final map are detached, some light spotting and soiling, first map torn and repaired with tape, modern boards, g.e., 4to, Paris, by Estienne and sons, 1744.

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Persian literature.- Sa'di (Abu 'Abd Allah Musharrif al-Din) Rosarium politicum..., translated by Georgius Gentius, text in Persian and Latin on facing pages, woodcut printer's device on title and initials, title lightly soiled and with old inscription in red to margin and tear at foot affecting imprint (repaired), otherwise clean and bright, the Macclesfield copy with small embossed stamp to head of title and label to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, a little soiled, corners bumped, folio, Amsterdam, J.Blaeu, 1651.⁂ First complete edition of Sa'di's Gulistān or 'Rose-garden' of 1258, a popular work throughout the Ottoman and Mughal empires, and in Europe from the 17th century onwards. André Du Ryer had published a partial French translation in 1634, but the present edition, prepared by the German orientalist Georgius Gentius, prints the complete text in the original Persian together with Gentius's Latin translation. This copy is bound without Gentius's Latin notes at the end, which is also the case with four (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Columbia, Göttingen, Newcastle) of the 14 located by WorldCat.

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Lot 231

Middle East.- [Bell (Gertrude)] The Arab of Mesopotamia, first edition, frontispiece map, lightly browned throughout, occasional spotting, original cloth, gilt, rubbed at extremities, a good copy, 8vo, Basrah, Government Press, [1917].

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Lot 232

NO RESERVE Middle East.- Levinsohn (Isaac Baer) Efes Dammim. A Series of Conversations at Jerusalem...concerning the Malicious Charge against the Jews of using Christian Blood, translated by Dr.L.Loewe, first English edition, with offprint from the 'Daily Telegraph' of letter from the translator of 1883 tipped in at beginning, lightly foxed and browned, original cloth, spine and joints worn, 1841 § Viator. A Knapsack Guide to Palestine, with folding map in original wrappers loose in pocket at end (torn at folds, some repairs), original cloth, 1917 § Shaw (S.) Southern Palestine. Geological Map..., folding colour map in pocket, original cloth-backed printed boards, ex-M.O.D. library copy with red ink stamps to title, map and upper cover ("cancelled" on map), Jerusalem, 1947 § Aubin (E.) La Perse d'aujourd'hui: Iran. Mésopotamie, folding colour map, ink manuscript note to title, contemporary half cloth, Paris, 1908, a little rubbed, 8vo et infra (4)

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Lot 234

Mountaineering in Africa.- Ice- Cap Journal (The). Being the Journal of the Mountain Club of East Africa. No. 1. 1932., first edition, illustrations, plates (1 folding), 3 folding maps, original paper wrappers, corners a little creased, covers slightly browned, otherwise a good copy, 8vo, 1932.

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Lot 238

Ottoman.- Juchereau de Saint-Denys (Antoine de) Revolutions de Constantinople en 1807 et 1808, precedees d'observations generales sur l'etat actuel de l'Empire ottoman, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata f. at end of vol.2, some spotting, occasional foxing, lightly browned, bookplates of Guy Evans, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original chipped labels, covers worn, but holding firm, [Atabey 626; Blackmer 892; Navari 626], Paris, Brissot-Thivars, 1819; and another, Greek, 8vo (3)⁂ Scarce. Juchereau left France during the revolution and travelled to Constantinople where he became an advisor on fortifications to Selim III.

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Lot 239

Polar.- Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-1820, first edition, 14 plates, some aquatint, some steel-engraved, and 6 maps (4 folding), bookplate to pastedown, one map with lateral tear, some spotting to plates,contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed, rebacked preserving whole spine, 4to, John Murray, 1821.

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Lot 240

Polar.- Parry (William Edward) Journals of the First, Second and Third Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, 5 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces and plates, some foxing to plates, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, very lightly rubbed but overall an attractive set, 12mo, John Murray, 1828.⁂ An additional sixth volume was published the following year.

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Lot 241

Polar.- Antarctic.- Doorly (Capt. Gerald S. ) The Voyages of the 'Morning', first edition, half-title, 16 plates, 6pp. music, folding map at end, large library stamp label to rear pastedown, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, light traces of labels, some staining and spotting, 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1916.⁂ One of the great primary accounts from the 'heroic period' of Antarctic exploration. The 'Morning', commanded by William Colbeck, made two voyages to the relief of Scott's first expedition, 1901-04, with E.R.G.R. Evans as Second Officer and Doorly as Third.

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Lot 243

NO RESERVE Russia.- Anglo-Irish woman traveller.- Bunbury (Selina) Russia after the War. The Narrative of a visit to that country in 1856, 2 vol., first edition, 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, occasional spotting and light staining, vol.1 upper hinge split, original cloth, spines gilt, corners worn, some staining, rubbed, 8vo, Hurst and Blackett, 1857.

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Lot 244

South America.- Venezuela.- Hackett (James) Narrative of the Expedition which Sailed from England in 1817, to join the South American Patriots, first edition, half-title, without 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, stained, small wormhole or trace to lower margins, contemporary diced calf, gilt, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, corners little worn, rubbed, [Palau 111933; Sabin 29476], 8vo, John Murray, 1818.⁂ Hackett served as a Lieutenant in the Venezuela Artillery Brigade under the command of Colonel Gilmore, fighting as part of Simon Bolivar's forces.

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Lot 246

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882 (The), 2 vol., first edition, haf-titles, frontispieces, illustrations, maps (1 folding), occasional pencil markings, modern morocco-backed boards, gilt, 8vo, 1886.

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Lot 248

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bahamas.- Shattuck (George Burbank) The Bahama Islands, half-title, plates, folding map (short tear), folding table, cracked hinges, ex-Ministry of Defence library with bookplate and ink-stamps to title, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, shelf-mark to spine foot, New York, 1905 § Moseley (Mary) The Bahamas Handbook, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 4 maps (3 folding, 1 with short tear), bookplate, original cloth, small mark to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Nassau, 1926 § Benjamin (S. G. W.) The Atlantic Islands as resorts of Health and Pleasure, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, advertisements at end, occasional pencil underlining, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine covering beginning to split at upper joint (but holding firm), bumping to corners and spine extremities, New York, 1878 § Williamson (J. E.) Twenty Years under the Sea, first English edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1935, 8vo (4)

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Lot 249

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bermuda.- Lefroy (Major-General J. H.) Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515-1685, 2 vol., limited edition of 1000 copies, presentation inscription from publisher, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, folding maps in pockets at end, original green cloth, gilt, Bermuda, 1981 § Beebe (William) and John Tee-Van. Field Book of the Shore Fishes of Bermuda, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, previous owner's pencil signature, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1933 § Zuill (William) Bermuda Samplet 1815 - 1850, first edition, frontispiece, plates, illustrated endpapers, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1937 ; and others Bermuda, 8vo (7)

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Lot 250

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bermuda.- March (Bertha) Bermuda Days: Intimate Glimpses of the Happy Island, first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map, scattered spotting, original cloth, browned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1929 § Stark (James H.) Illustrated Bermuda Guide, frontispiece, illustrations (some full-page), maps, cracked hinges, advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Boston, 1890 § Hayward (Walter Brownell) Bermuda Past and Present, frontispiece, plates, folding map, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1923; and others Bermuda, 8vo (6)

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Lot 251

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bermuda.- McCallan (E. A.) Life in Old St. David's Bermuda, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners, Bermuda, Bermuda Historical Monuments Trust, 1948 § Bushell (John J.) Picturesque Bermuda, plates, illustrations, folding map, previous owner's biro inscription to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1933 § Rider (Fremont) Bermuda. A Guide Book for Travelers, maps (1 folding), illustrations, original cloth, chipping to spine extremities, New York, 1922 § Bell (Euphemia Young) Beautiful Bermuda, illustrations and maps, original pictorial wrappers, tape repair to spine, date to upper cover, a little rubbed, New York and Bermuda, 1911, 8vo (4)

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Lot 253

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Virgin Islands.- Jarvis (J. Antonio) Brief History of the Virgin Islands, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners, Virgin Islands, 1938 § De Booy (Theodor) & John T. Faris, The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands, frontispiece, plates, 4 folding maps, occasional spotting, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, a little sunned, faint spotting, Philadelphia & London, 1918 § Larsen (Jens) Virgin Islands Story, plates, ex-library with cancellation stamps, original cloth, dust-jacket, loss to spine foot, chipping and creasing to corners and extremities, Philadelphia, 1950; and others also Virgin Islands, 8vo (6)

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Lot 254

NO RESERVE West Indies.- Virgin Islands.- Jarvis (J. Antonio) Virgin Islands Picture Book, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, Philadelphia, 1948 § Henle (Fritz) Virgin Islands, first edition, full-page illustrations, soiling to one leaf, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, New York, 1949 § Eadie (Hazel Ballance) Lagooned in the Virgin Islands, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, c.1930; and others, Virgin Islands, 8vo & 4to (6)

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Lot 256

NO RESERVE World.- Vigne (G. T.) Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskado, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain Course of the Indus and the Himalaya, North of the Panjab, 2 vol., first edition, 12 maps and plates, lacking folding map in pocket, contemporary half calf, covers rubbed and working loose, spines worn with loss, 1842 § Burnaby (Capt. Fred) On Horseback Through Asia Minor, third edition, portrait frontispiece and maps, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines work, joints splitting but holding firm, 1877; and 36 others, travel and topography, v.s. (40)

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Lot 262

NO RESERVE London.- Reynolds (George W. M.) The Mysteries of the Court of London, 8 vol., first edition, illustrations, vol.1, 2 & 5 lacking title and frontispiece but supplied in manuscript facsimile, contemporary half morocco with manuscript title spine labels, by John Dicks, 1849; and 3 others, similar, uniformly bound, 8vo (11)⁂ The copious illustrations accompany the melodramatic content in each volume.

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Lot 301

Jewellery.- Kunz (G.F.) & Charles Hugh Stevenson. The Book of the Pearl, first edition, signed and inscribed by Kunz to Ethel Stokes Hoyt on front free endpaper, title with decorative border in turquoise, plates, some colour, tissue guards, front endpapers a little browned but a good copy in the original decorated cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed and soiled, a couple of small stains to upper cover, 4to, New York, 1908.⁂ George Frederick Kunz was a self-taught mineralogist who, helped by his encyclopaedic knowledge of gemmology, rose to be Vice-President of Tiffany's. Ethel Stokes Hoyt was active in a controversial movement linking medicine and religion, and author of Spirit, 1934.

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Lot 302

Jewellery.- Kunz (G.F.) Rings for the Finger, first edition, colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, illustrations, facsimile letter, a superb copy in the original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, glacine wrapper a little mottled and browned, with the publisher's original board slip-case (slightly rubbed), 4to, Philadelphia & London, 1917.⁂ The ship carrying the copies of this book intended for Britain was reputedly sunk by a U-boat.

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NO RESERVE Landseer (Henry).- Flaxman (John) Anatomical Studies of the Bones and Muscles, for the use of artists, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 21 plates, occasional faint pencil annotations, cracked hinges, original cloth, soiled and rubbed, bumping to corners, chipping to spine extremities, folio, 1833.

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NO RESERVE Petrarch.- Bettinelli (Saverio) Del Lodi del Petrarca, first edition, occasional spotting, contemporary decorative wrappers, printed label to spine (little worn), spine little darkened and chipped, lightly stained, 8vo, Bassano, [Giuseppe Remondini], 1786.⁂ Rare and important work on Petrarch by this correspondent of Voltaire and Rousseau.

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Latin poetry.- Estienne (Robert & Henri, editors) Fragmenta poetarum veterum Latinorum, quorum opera non extant, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, spotting and staining, lightly browned, ink ownership inscriptions of H.W. Moule and O.J. Perkins, 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, spine ends chipped, upper outer edge and corners worn, rubbed, [Adams P1750; Renouard, Estienne, 123:6; Schreiber 152], 8vo, [Geneva], Henri Estienne & Huldrich Fugger, 1564.⁂ First edition of this collection of fragments of early Latin poetry. The collection was begun by Robert and completed by his son Henri, who also added his annotations.

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Lot 74

NO RESERVE Ireland & Irish Literature.- Pollard (M.) A Dictionary of the Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800..., 2000 § Munter (Robert) A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775, New York, 1988 § Phillips (James W.) Printing and Bookselling in Dublin, 1670-1800: A Bibliographical Enquiry, Dublin, 1998 § Brown (Stephen J.) Ireland in Fiction, vol.1 (second volume published in 1972), reprint of 1919 edition, Shannon, 1968, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jacket; and 5 others on Irish literature & printing, some catalogues, 8vo (9)

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Lot 80

NO RESERVE Norton (J.E.) A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon, reprint, 1970 § Flower (N.) George Frideric Handel: His Personality and His Times, revised edition, 1959 § Scott (Temple) Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered, one of 750 copies, New York, 1928 § Gulick (S.L.) A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800, second edition, Charlottesville, Va., 1979 § Russell (N.) A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837, original cloth-backed boards, Oxford, 1963 § Gray (Thomas) Correspondence..., edited by Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, 3 vol., Oxford, 1935 § Eddy (D.D.) A Bibliography of Richard Hurd, New Castle, De., 1999, some plates or illustrations, occasional spotting, all but the fifth original cloth or boards, the first two with dust-jackets (slightly rubbed); and c.20 others on 18th century writers and literature, some catalogues, 8vo & 4to (c.30)

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Lot 82

NO RESERVE Palaeography and Parochial Libraries.- Stubbs (William) Registrum Sarum Anglicanum..., Oxford, 1858 § Burke (A.M.) Key to the Ancient Parish Registers of England & Wales, 1908 § Wright (Andrew) Court-Hand Restored, tenth edition, corrected and enlarged by C.T.Martin, 1912 § Dawson (G.E.) & L.Kennedy-Skipton. Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650, 1968 § Ker (N.R.) Records of All Souls College Library 1437-1600, Oxford, 1971; Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: a List of Surviving Books, second edition, ex-library copy with stamps, 1964; A Directory of the Parochial Libraries..., revised by Michael Perkin, 2004, some plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the fourth with dust-jacket, the first three a little rubbed; and c.10 others on palaeography and parochial/cathedral libraries, some pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.15)

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Lot 84

NO RESERVE Poynter (F.N.L.) A Bibliography of Gervase Markham 1568?-1637, original cloth-backed boards, Oxford, 1962 § Gibson (Strickland) A Bibliography of the Works of Thomas Fuller, D.D., with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes, one of 50 copies for presentation inscribed by Keynes to F.R.Brown and with accompanying A.L.s. tipped in, foxed, buckram, original printed wrappers bound in, Oxford, 1936 § Keynes (Geoffrey) A Bibliography of Henry King..., limited edition, 1977 § Gibson (R.W.) St.Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography..., New Haven & London, 1961 § Smith (C.F.) John Dee (1527-1608), spotting, 1909 § Ford (H.L.) Shakespeare 1700-1740: A Collation of the Editions and Separate Plays..., Oxford, 1935 § Coleridge (KA.) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, Oxford, 1980 § Spevack (M.) James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: The Life and Works of the Shakespearean Scholar and Bookman, New Castle, De. & London, 2001, some plates or illustrations, all but the first two original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.35 others on 16th & 17th century writers and literature, some catalogues, 8vo & 4to (c.40)

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NO RESERVE Printers, Publishers & Booksellers.- Lackington (James) Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life..., engraved portrait (a little foxed), contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine & morocco label, for the Author, 1794 § Gaskell (Philip) John Baskerville: a Bibliography, lower outer corner stained, Cambridge, 1959; A Bibliography of the Foulis Press, second edition, 1986 § Isaac (Peter) William Bulmer: The Fine Printer in Context 1757-1830, 1993 § Plomer (H.R.) & others. A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers...in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, reprint, Oxford, 1968 § Roscoe (S.) John Newbery and his Successors 1740-1814: a Bibliography, 1973 § Zachs (W.) The First John Murray and the late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade with a Checklist of his Publications, 1998, some illustrations, all but the first original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets; and 17 others on printers, publishers and booksellers, 8vo & 4to (24)

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Lot 94

NO RESERVE Translations.- Streeter (Harold Wade) The Eighteenth Century English Novel in French Translation: A Bibliographical Study, original wrappers, uncut & unopened, rubbed and frayed at edges, New York, 1936 § Rochedieu (C.A.) Bibliography of French Translations of English Works 1700-1800, Chicago, 1948 § Line (M.B.) & others. Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945, Totowa, NJ. & London, 1972 § Simmons (E.J.) English Literature and Culture in Russia (1553-1840) Cambridge, Ma., 1935 § Morgan (B.Q.) A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation 1481-1927, second edition, Stanford, Ca., 1938 § Price (L.M.) The Reception of English Literature in Germany, New York & London, 1968, all but the first original cloth; and c.25 others on literature in translation, some catalogues, 8vo & 4to (c.30)

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NO RESERVE Women Writers.- Gilson (David) A Bibliography of Jane Austen, Oxford, 1982 § Jackson (J.R. de J.) Romantic Poetry by Women: a Bibliography, 1770-1835, Oxford, 1993 § Symington (J.A.) Bibliography of the Works of all members of the Brontë Family..., limited edition, Slad & New Castle, De., 2000 § Godwin (William) Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by W.Clark Durant, London & New York, 1927 § Clifford (James L.) Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs.Thrale), Oxford, 1941 § Sandars (M.F.) The Life of Christina Rossetti, n.d. § Doody (M.A.) Frances Burney: The Life in the Works, Cambridge, 1988, some illustrations, original cloth or boards, the first two and last with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.40 others on women writers, some catalogues, 8vo & 4to (c.45)

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Bindings. AUSTEN (Jane)Pride and Prejudice, illustrations by John Ward, Nottingham Court Press 1985, Godmersham edition, no. 37 of 100 special copies signed by the artist, green morocco gilt, slip case; TYRWHITT (T) The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, 3 vols., 1860, 8vo, half green calf; FRERE (M) Old Deccan Days or Hindu Fairy Legends, London: John Murray 1868, 8vo, a little toned, Gathorne Hardy inscription, later tan morocco; THACKERAY (W M) The Virginians, 2 vols 1858, 8vo, spotting or foxing to plates, half calf; 3 others bindings; also - CONRAD (Joseph) The Rescue, first edition 1920, original cloth, dust-jacket with some age wear (11)

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Lot 287

ARMSTRONG (Alexander)A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1857, 8vo, first edition, tinted lithograph frontispiece, folding route map (slightly creased), publisher's cloth, spine ends bumped and nicked [Hill 34; Sabin 2017]

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Lot 288

OLIPHANT (Laurence)Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59. London 1859, first edition, 2 vols., coloured plates, lacking map of China, publisher's cloth, a little shaken; The Russian Shores of the Black Sea, 3rd edition 1854, 8vo, folding map, illustrations, publisher's cloth; VIGNE (G T) Travels in Kashmir, 2nd edition, in 2 vols., London: Henry Colburn 1844, 8vo, lithographic portraits and views, sketch map, lacking folding map to pocket, some light foxing, original blind stamped cloth; [WILSON (W)] A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas, 1860, 8vo, title foxed, original cloth; (6)

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DARWIN (Charles)The Descent of Man, London: John Murray, 1871, 2 vols., 8vo, first edition, first issue with errata on verso of Vol. II, and other issue points, named 'Clements R. Markham' to head of both titles, 16pp. advertisements at end of both vols., publisher's green cloth (Vol. I partially torn along spine).Footnote: Provenance: Markham family Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS, was an English geographer, explorer and writer.Some odd sporadic foxing to adverts of Vol. I; this vol with hinges cracked; sewing weak or broken in places. Some odd stains to rear board of Vol. I.

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KRETSCHMER (A) and C. ROHRBACH.The Costumes of all Nations, Sotheran 1882, 4to, colour illustrated throughout, binding rubbed; DICKENS (C) Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book form 1839, 8vo, typical light staining to plates, half calf (rubbed); RIDER HAGGARD (H) She. A History of Adventure, first edition, 1887, 8vo, [with "geneleman" on p.59, and "mysogynist" on p.88], double coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2pp. publisher's adverts at the end, first leaves with damp stain to foot, original blue cloth; STANLEY (H M) In Darkest Africa, 2 vols. New York 1890, 8vo, maps and illustrations, publisher's green cloth, a little rubbed; RACKHAM (A; illustrator) A Christmas Carol, Heinemann no date, 8vo, colour plates, green cloth; and others including children's stories

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BURTON (Richard F)The Nile Basin, first edition, London 1864, 8vo, half-title with modern ownership signature, 3 maps, 4pp. publishers' catalogue at end, a few fore-edge foxing marks, sewing broken in places with some gatherings starting, publisher's cloth lightly rubbed; Etruscan Bologna, 1876, 8vo, cloth slightly marked with faded spine; BURTON (Isabel) Life of ---, 2 vols. 1893, publisher's cloth; HITCHMAN (F) His Early Private and Public Life, 2 vols., 1887, publisher's cloth (6)

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BURTON (Richard F)The Book of the Sword, first edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1884, large 8vo, half title, numerous illustrations, flyleaf and verso of rear index leaf and free end paper foxed, otherwise generally a good copy, decorative publisher's cloth

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SPEKE (John H)Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1863, first edition, 8vo, map and illustrations, half calf by Mansell; CRANTZ (D) The History of Greenland, 2 vols. 1820, 8vo, folding map, frontispieces and illustrations, scattered spotting, rebacked, edges worn; LYELL (Sir C.) The Antiquity of Man, 4th edition 1873, 8vo, half calf gitl by Mudie; SPENCER (E) Sketches of Germany and the Germans, 2 vols., 2nd edition 1836, 8vo, coloured frontispieces, slight spotting to first and last leaves, blue morocco gilt (6)Footnote: Provenance: An Oxfordshire country house

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Bindings.LEECH (John; illustrator) The Comic History of England; The Comic History of Rome, no date circa 1890, 3 vols., coloured plates, half red morocco; KANE (E K) Arctic Explorations, 1892, 8vo, map and plates, prize calf; SHAKESPEARE. Works, Lewis's edition, Liverpool, no date circa 1890, red morocco gilt; LAWRENCE (T E) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, presentation note to first free end paper, half red morocco by Bayntun Riviere; LYNCH (B) The Prize Ring, 1925, 4to, vellum backed boards; DAYOT (A) Napoleon, Paris 1902, small folio, illustrated, green morocco, spine faded; The Windsor Magazine, half bound part-work, coloured illustrations by Spy and others; The Anglo-Saxon Review, 4 vols. 1899-1900, small folio, spines bumped; and 9 others poetry, literature and history (23)

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Lot 359

WODEHOUSE (P G)Uncle Dynamite, first edition, no date, dust jacket; others by Wodehouse lacking jackets including a few first editions; others by Richmal Crompton (Just William), Jennings stories, etc. condition varies, some a little dusty

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WELLS (H G)The Time Machine, an Invention, first edition, London: William Heinemann 1895, 8vo, half title with 'Pioneer Series' adverts overleaf, 32pp catalogue at rear beginning 'The Right of Way', ex-library 'Rules' leaf to first pastedown, now partially removed, fore-edge untrimmed, slight handling marks and small stains, free endpapers foxed and dusty, original cloth, worn and faded; Christina Alberta's Father, 1925, inscribed by the author, in worn dust jacket (2)

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WEST (Rebecca)The Thinking Reed, Hutchinson no date, signed by the author to first leaf, dust jacket with Book Society Choice slip; A Train of Powder; The Fountain Overflows; both 1st editions in jackets; MOTTRAM (R H) The Spanish Farm Trilogy, 1927, dust jacket, with author's inscription and autograph letter signed; BATES (H E) When the Green Woods Laugh, 1st edition 1960, dust jacket; GALSWORTHY (J) The Burning Spear, 1st edition, signed, dust jacket (6)

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BROOKE (Rupert)"1914" Five Sonnets, first edition 1915, square 12mo, original printed wrappers for Sidgwick & Jackson; The Complete Poems, first edition 1932, dust jacket; New Numbers 1914, Volume 1, numbers 1 to 4, with poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie and John Drinkwater. Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester, 1914, original grey wrappers bound in, vellum backed boards; BROWNE (M) Recollections of Rupert Brooke, Chicago, 1927, one of 510 copies, uncut, blue cloth; few others - Brooke (11)

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BROOKE (Rupert)Poems, first edition Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911, bookplate to pastedown, original cloth with bright spine label, in morocco backed lidded case; 1914 and Other Poems, first edition 1915, portrait frontispiece, light browning to endpapers, additional spine label inserted at end, original cloth, label rubbed (2)

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BROOKE (Rupert)Lithuania, first edition, The Chicago Little Theatre 1915, bookplate of Roger Senhouse, [one of 200 copies], original wrapper loose; another copy, London 1935; Selected Poems, first edition 1917, 12mo, dust jacket; Four Poems, Scolar Press 1974, clear plastic to covers; John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, 1st edition 1916, cloth; Letters from America, 3rd impression 1916; 3 others - Brooke (9)

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FITZPATRICK (Sir Percy)Jock of the Bushveld, first edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907, 8vo, colour frontispiece, plates as required, end papers slightly foxed, contents generally good with very slight occasional spotting or finger marking, original green cloth gilt, small nick and tear to head of spine

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SHACKLETON (Ernest)The Heart of the Antarctic, first edition 1909, 2 vols., illustrations, some light foxing/spotting, mainly to fore-edges, publisher’s cloth, slight creases to spines

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POTTER (Beatrix)Collection of tales, including The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, first edition, 1910, 16mo, neat gift inscription dated May 1911 to first free end paper, grey blue boards, spine a little faded with crease line; together with 21 other tales in original boards, F. Warne & Co Limited (post 1917), mostly in good condition (22)Condition report: Mrs Tiggle-Winkle with gift inscription dated 1911, and chipped split spine strip; Samuel Whiskers with nick to cracked spine; The Pie and the Patty Pan with faded cover and taped spine; Mr Tod with split along spine

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Lot 406

CROMPTON (Richmal)William and the Masked Ranger, 1966; William's Treasure Trove, 1962; William and the Pop Singers, 1965; all first editions in dust jackets; William and the Brains Trust, first edition 1945, lacking jacket; TODD (Barbara E) More About Worzel Gummidge, first edition 1938, dust jacket slightly worn; Detective Worzel Gummidge, first edition 1963, dust jacket, owner's name stamp to first leaf (6)also with 'Worzel Gummidge' 1st edition 1936, lacking jacket. Pop Singers top corners of text slightly chewed. See photos.

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MORISON (Stanley)John Fell, The University Press and the 'Fell' Types, first edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967, folio, plates including colour frontispiece, publisher's cloth in dust jacket

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First edition poetry. PLATH (Sylvia)Crossing the Water, 1971, dust jacket; Ariel, paperback 1968; AYRTON (M) Tittivulus, 1953; CUMMINGS (E E) 73 Poems, 1964, jacket faded; BECKETT (S) Fin de Partie, les Editions de Minuit 1957, paper wrapper; SMITH (Stevie) Scorpion and other Poems, 1972; Some are More Human than Others, 1958, some light spotting; one other (ex. Library) (8)

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HEMINGWAY (Ernest)The Old Man and the Sea, first UK edition, 1952, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, extremities lightly chipped; Across the River and into the Trees, 1950; A Moveable Feast, 1964, both first editions in dust jackets (3)

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FLEMING (Ian)The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition 1965, contents generally clean, dust jacket a little worn; GREENE (Graham) Our Man in Havanna, first edition 1958, dust jacket; The Man Within, first edition 1929, ink ownership name, cocked, tear along spine (3)

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