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Lot 298
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1996-2007, including Cobham Open Day, Sutton Utd, North Weald Bus Rally, London Transport Museum, Acton Special, Aston Manor, Amersham Rally, two De Luxe models and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 299
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1995-2004, including Cobham, St Albans Garage, Allsorts, London Transport Museum, Country Bus Rallies, Ramblers Holidays, one De Luxe model and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 301
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1995-2008, including North Weald, London Transport Museum, Bromley Pageant, Aston Manor, Twickenham Garage, 2002 Subscribers Special, Severn Valley Railway, 60 yrs of London buses, three De Luxe models and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 302
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1992-2002, including Beatties, Golden Jubilee, Bromley Pageant, Aston Manor, Allsorts Christmas editions, Ramblers Holiday, Sutton Utd, 1992 EFE Collectors Club, Coronation Day Subscriber Special, three De Luxe models and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 304
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1992-2007, including Cobham, London Bus Museum, London Transport Museum, Ramblers Holidays, North Weald, EFE Collectors Club 1992, Bow Garage, 20 yr EFE anniversary model, and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 305
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 2000-2008, including Cobham, Acton Open Day, Romford Garage, Downs Classic Models, Amersham Rally, Country Bus Rally, 2002 Subscribers Special, Golden Jubilee, Stagecoach New Year 2008, London Transport New Year 2010 and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 306
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 2000s, including 50th Arriva anniversary (2), Cobham, DMS Special, Omnibus and Traction Society, Golden Jubilee, Acton, 1563B Subscriber Special (2), and others G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 307
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 1999-2005, including Cobham, Aston Manor, Ramblers Association, Sutton Utd, North Weald, Acton, Modelzone Special, 2002 Showbus, Manchester P.T.E. Showbus 2010 and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 308
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 2000s, including Cobham, Acton, North Weald, Ramblers Holiday, DMS Special, Ian Allan Diamond Jubilee, Sinsheim Museum 2007, Bexley and Bromley Pageant of Motoring, New London Bus Museum and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (16)
Lot 310
Special Edition and Code 3 Exclusive First Editions, a boxed group of 1:76 scale vintage and modern double decker buses, 2000s including Bromley Pageant, Golden Jubilee, EFE Showbus 2008, DMS Special, 20 Year Anniversary Special, Warminster & West Wilts Running Day 2004, Aston Manor, Ramblers Association and others, G-E, Boxes F-G, (15)
Lot 966
A collection of 5x 1/18 scale boxed diecast models comprising: Maisto Special Edition Mercedes Benz 300S, Solido Prestige Ford Pick Up, Ertl American Muscle 1970 Chevelle SS454 LS6, BBurago / Burago Diamonds Mercedes Benz SSKL 1931 and Rolls Royce Camargue The First Lady. All models appear good but have been displayed. Boxed good. Good collection.
Lot 498
Music Memorabilia - Beatles members posters to include Paul McCartney photographed by Richard Avedon for the Daily Express limited first edition 1968 vintage vintage poster from photo portraits of The Beatles published in 5 countries in 1968. Poster has tape residue to top corners, some losses and a split to the right side 3.5 inches, along with a Ringo Star poster from the same series which has tape residue to top and bottom, very small split to top and some rubbing to sides
Lot 121A
Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, "The Secret Capture", 1959 first edition An account of the capture by Captain Addison Joe Baker-Cresswell of U-Boat U-110 and the recovery of its Enigma cipher machine which led to the breaking of the Enigma code. The book bears the autograph signature of Baker-Cresswell
![[Autographs] Paul Gallico, "Mrs Harris goes to New York", Michael Joseph, 1960 first edition, author's signature to free fron](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/83679b59-ca5b-4e7e-bac9-aa8e00f80ced/6e8aacf6-4c12-4872-a7fd-aa8f00dee644/468x382.jpg)
![[Autographs] Walter De La Mare, "Collected Stories for Children", Faber 1947 first edition; together with "Broomsticks and Ot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/83679b59-ca5b-4e7e-bac9-aa8e00f80ced/45fdbadc-b5ae-4ef5-b6d3-aa8f00dee8f3/468x382.jpg)
![[Swift (Jonathan)] Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, 3 vol., first French edition, titles in red and black, portrait fron](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/92f82edd-cf4c-43a5-84c5-aa880113df47/468x382.jpg)
Lot 212
[Swift (Jonathan)] Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, 3 vol., first French edition, titles in red and black, portrait frontispiece, trimmed and laid down, 7 engraved plates and 4 maps, small hole to A10 vol. 2 (affecting text), occasional browning and spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, loss to spine extremities, dampstain to upper cover of vol. 2, The Hague, P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1727-28.
Lot 216
NO RESERVE Bank of England.- Litigation.- Mémoire pour le Sieur Walpole, & Consorts. Contre les Sieurs Guillaume & Alexandre-Jean Alexandre, bound with Précis Pour les Sieurs Thomas Walpole, & Consorts..., and Réfutation Sommaire Pour les Sieurs Walpole & Consorts..., woodcut head-pieces, faint browning and a little soiling, 20th-century boards, leather title label to spine, 4to, Paris, L.Cellot, 1780-1. ⁂Scarce: WorldCat lists one copy each of the second and third mentioned, both in the Yale University Library. An earlier edition of the first, from the library of Benjamin Franklin, was sold by Parke-Bernet in 1955 in an auction of items from the library of Henry S. Borneman.Concerning the suit between British MP and banker Thomas Walpole, backed by the Bank of England, and the Alexander family of Edinburgh. In 1772 the Alexanders fell into debt and defaulted on several loans owed to Walpole companies secured on land and property in Grenada. The bank demanded the mortgages of the Alexanders' estates in part payment. After the American War of Independence, and the capture of Grenada by the French, the Alexanders claimed French citizenship; Walpole and his confederates pursued the debts in the French courts.Thomas Walpole (1727-1803) nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, Director of the East India Company (1752-3), in 1768 petitioner with Franklin and several others - acting under the aegis of The Walpole Trading Company - for Crown permission for land grants and trading rights in Ohio.
Lot 174
Suffragettes.- Lytton (Lady Constance) and "Jane Warton". Prisons and Pirsoners. Some Personal Experiences, first edition, 2 A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, original cloth, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, neat tape repairs to verso, 1914; and 2 others, suffragettes, v.s. (3)⁂ A rare work in the dust-jacket.
Lot 88
NO RESERVE Gardens.- Amherst (Hon. Alicia) A History of Gardening in England, second edition, illustrations, the author's copy with her bookplate and with c.25 A.Ls.s. to the author loosely inserted, many concerning a fund-raising rose show with flyer, or to her mother including several from Lord Amherst to his wife, one concerning Lord Salisbury's sudden resignation and another from her son from Khartoum recounting his journey through Egypt, hinges worn, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, spine faded, 1896; On a Fifteenth Century Treatise on Gardening, by "Mayster" Ion Gardener, presentation copy from the author inscribed (as Alicia Rockley) at head of title, original printed wrappers, frayed at edges, 1894, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The first is the first scholarly account of the history of gardening.
Lot 168
Utopian fiction.- Fox (Lady Mary) Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland, first edition, half-title, 12pp. advertisements, members list and rules and regulations for the reading society of Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury to pastedowns, original cloth, faded, spine ends and corners bumped, splitting to head of upper joint, 8vo, 1837.⁂ An imaginary voyage from Bathurst, New South Wales, to the interior of Australia and the discovery of a utopian society descended from sixteenth century settlers and Aboriginal tribes.
![NO RESERVE Somerset.- [Anstey (Christopher)] An Election Ball in Poetical Letters, in the Zomerzetshire Dialect..., first edi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/9a38c5f1-582c-41da-a028-aa8801136870/468x382.jpg)
Lot 32
NO RESERVE Somerset.- [Anstey (Christopher)] An Election Ball in Poetical Letters, in the Zomerzetshire Dialect..., first edition, half-title, half-title and final leaf soiled & stained and with short tear from previous horizontal fold, some other staining, mostly to inner margin, final leaf reinforced at inner margin, Bath, printed for the Author, by S.Hazard..., 1776 bound with Stair (John Dalrymple, Earl of) The State of the National Debt..., fourth edition, final leaf bound wrong way round, title soiled, creases from previous vertical & horizontal folds (some marginal loss, repaired), for J.Almon, 1776, both with contemporary ink signature of Wm.Sandys at head of half-title (first slightly cropped), later half calf, folio § The Dorset Garland, or, The Beggar's Wedding, printed broadside ballad, 4 columns, small tear at head and torn half way down the middle slightly affecting a few letters, tipped at head on to a modern leaf, a few others small marginal tears, browned, 246 x 395mm., Printed and Sold by J Pitts, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, [c. 1810] (2)
![First Asian-American cookbook.- [Eaton (Winnifred)], "Onoto Watanna". and Sara Bosse. Chinese-Japanese Cook-Book, first softb](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/d485e57c-9496-4602-b4e4-aa8801144474/468x382.jpg)
Lot 112
First Asian-American cookbook.- [Eaton (Winnifred)], "Onoto Watanna". and Sara Bosse. Chinese-Japanese Cook-Book, first softbound edition half-title, advertisements at end, some light staining, lightly browned, original limp cloth, gilt, rubbed, large 12mo, Chicago, Rand Mcnally, 1914.⁂ The book aimed to encourage Western diners to 'cease to feel that natural repugnance which assails one when about to taste a strange dish of a new and strange land'.
Lot 91
NO RESERVE Natural History.- Wood (William) Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of the Best Works on Natural History..., first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end, original boards, uncut, rubbed, label worn, 1824 § Audouin (Victor) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue des Livres d'Histoire Naturelle et principalement d'Entomologie, bound with 4 other similar sale catalogues (Barbié du Bocage, St.Hilaire, Lens, Cuvier), one priced in manuscript, later half red morocco, Paris, 1842-46 § Van den Zande (J.B.) Catalogue des Livres..., contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Antwerp, 1834 § Enslin (T.C.F.) Bibliothek der Forst- und Jagd- Wissenschaft, browned, disbound, Berlin, 1823; and a quantity of natural history pamphlets, booksellers' & auction catalogues including Meilhac (Paris, 1853), Bus de Gisignies (Brussels, 1876), Milne-Edwards (Paris, 1901) etc., v.s. (Qty)⁂ Including some interesting catalogues of natural history books; the first is by a zoologist and surgeon who set up as a bookseller and publisher in the Strand concentrating in natural history.
Lot 175
Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich ) Russian Life in the Interior or the Experiences of a Sportsman, first edition in English, 8pp. advertisements at end, advertisements to pastedowns, lacking half-title, new front endpaper, some spotting or marking, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners frayed, rubbed, rare in commerce, 8vo, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1855.
Lot 75
NO RESERVE Botanical Illustration.- Calmann (Gerta) Ehret: Flower Painter Extraordinary, inscribed by Howard Radclyffe to John Collins, bound in half green morocco, spine a little faded, 1977 § Hulton (P.) & others. Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants from the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773, New Haven & Rotterdam, 1991 § Blunt (W.) & William T.Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration, revised & enlarged edition, Woodbridge, 1994 § O'Malley (T.) & Amy R.W.Meyers. The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850, New Haven & London, 2008 § Lewis (Jan) Walter Hood Fitch: A Celebration, 1992 § Chatfield (June) F.W.Frohawk: His Life and Work, Marlborough, 1987, illustrations, many colour, all but the first original cloth or boards with dust-jackets; and c.45 others on natural history illustration, mostly botanical, some pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.50)
Lot 138
Rothschild Library (The): a Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteenth-Century Printed Book and Manuscripts formed by Lord Rothschild, 2 vol., original cloth backed boards, slight bumping to extremities, 1969 § Keynes (Geoffrey) Engravings by William Blake. The Separate Plates, first edition, one of 500 copies, plates. original cloth, short split to spine covering, Dublin, 1956; A Bibliography of Dr John Donne, one of 350 copies, vignette title, plates, occasional spotting, original cloth, rubbed, price-clipped dust-jacket, rubbed and chipped, one or two small tears, Cambridge, 1932; The Library of Edward Gibbon, first edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional spotting, typed note from Rupert Hart-Davis of Jonathan Cape loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed, small tears to top edge, neatly repaired, 1940 § Teerink (Dr. H.) A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift, original cloth, dust-jacket, Philadelphia, 1963 § Yolton (Jean S.) John Locke: a Descriptive Bibliography, original cloth, dust-jacket, Bristol, 1998; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.60)
![[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Le Avventure d'Alice Mel Paese delle Meraviglie, first edition in Italian, fro](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/540c8eb0-709b-4702-b248-aa880113b09d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 16
[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Le Avventure d'Alice Mel Paese delle Meraviglie, first edition in Italian, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very slight fading to spine, an unusually sharp and fine copy otherwise, brown paper wrapper, 8vo, 1872.
Lot 155
NO RESERVE Cooke (Thomas) Immortality Reveal'd. A Poem..., first edition, 2ff. subscribers' list, contemporary ink annotations and corrections to subscribers' list and to errata, woodcut device to title, faint marginal soiling and browning, a few ink stains, later half calf over marbled boards, morocco title label to spine, spine a little faded, folio, by W.Bowyer, for the Author, [Foxon C415; Maslen and Lancaster, Bowyer Ledgers, 3248], 1745.⁂ESTC lists 4 copies: in the BL, the Bodleian, the Beinecke at Yale, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.By Thomas Cooke (?-?) vicar of Bayton in Worcestershire, and Master of the Free School in Kidderminster: often erroneously attributed to Thomas "Hesiod" Cooke (1703-56) satirist and translator.Provenance: J.O. Edwards (booklabel)
Lot 40
NO RESERVE Field Sports.- Day's Shooting in September (A). By a Young Sportsman, ?first edition, half-title, woodcut vignette on title, ink manuscript note in contemporary hand to foot of one leaf, light spotting, original printed boards, rubbed, spine worn, Melton Mowbray, for the Author by J.Day, 1821 § [Surtees (R.S.)] Mr.Sponge's Sporting Tour, first edition, half-title, 13 hand-coloured plates by John Leech, some light soiling, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, 1853 § Thornhill (R.B.) The Shooting Directory, first edition, second issue with pp.215-220 cancelled, lacking half-title, with aquatint portrait and 8 plates, 6 aquatint, one folding, 3 folding tables, foxed and browned, N3 defective at lower margin, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Abbey Life 394; Schwerdt II p.258], 1804 § Sporting Anecdotes... including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who have appeared on the Turf...By an Amateur Sportsman, first edition, wood-engraved title-vignette and tail-piece, 16 engraved plates, advertisement leaf at end, some foxing and soiling, modern brown morocco, by Robertson of Edinburgh, t.e.g., others uncut, [Schwerdt II p.173], Albion Press, printed by James Cundee, 1804 § Higginson (A.Henry) British and American Sporting Authors: Their Writings..., signed presentation copy from the author to J.Stevens Cox, original cloth, damp-stained, 1951, 8vo & 4to (5)
Lot 135
Private Presses.- Bigham (Lt.-Col. The Hon. Clive) The Roxburghe Club: its History and its Members 1812-1927, ?proof copy, half-title, original paper wrappers, rubbed, short tear to lower cover, Roxburghe Club, 1927 § Dobell (Bertram) Catalogue of Books Printed for Private Circulation, ex-library bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, by the author, 1906 § Hindley (Charles) The History of the Catnach Press, frontispiece, illustrations, one or two faint spots, original boards, a little rubbed, remnants of dust-jacket, rubbed, 1886 § Blakey (Dorothy) The Minerva Press 1790-1820, plates, ex-library with usual stamps, original cloth backed boards, Camden Libraries blindstamp to upper cover, shelf mark to spine foot, rubbed, Oxford, 1939 § Franklin (Colin) The Ashendene Press, plates, original cloth backed boards, Dallas, 1986; and 15 others on private press, 4to & 8vo (c.20)⁂ The first is dated 1927, with text printed on one side only, and lacking the plates of the 1928 edition.
Lot 118
NO RESERVE 1890's.- Wilde (Oscar) A Collection of Original Manuscripts, Letters & Books ... including his Letters written to Robert Ross from Reading Gaol ..., first edition limited to 2000 copies, illustrations, original paper wrappers, upper cover detached, defective spine, rubbed and worn, Dulau, 1928 § Lasner (Mark Samuels) The Yellow Book: a Checklist and Index, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1998 § Mason (Stuart) Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, 1967 § Maas (Henry), J. L. Duncan and W. G. Good, The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight chipping and small loss to spine head, a little rubbed, 1970; and others, Wilde or Beardsley, 8vo (c.40)
Lot 245
Central Asia.- Bell (James Stanislaus) Journal of a Residence in Circassia during the years 1837, 1838 and 1839, 2 vol., first edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispieces, 8 plates, 1 hand-coloured, 1 folding map, occasional spotting, Eton school prize copy with ink inscription, bookplate, contemporary decorative morocco, [Abbey 355], 8vo, 1840.
![[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/dddc0beb-d046-413e-a3d5-aa880113dc7c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 147
[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, first edition, woodcut device to title, also head-piece, a little soiling and creasing, final f. browned verso, disbound, [Foxon, E416], by T.W., 1723.⁂Perhaps by John Arbuthnot.John Woodward (1665-1728) naturalist and antiquarian, several times satirised by Pope.The epistle is a response to Arbuthnot's Annus Mirabilis, a satirical poetic prognostication predicting a general merging of the genders brought about by a conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. The epistle recounts both Prudentia's sudden growth of a penis and her entreaties to Dr Woodward to remove it.
Lot 136
NO RESERVE Raven (James) The English Novel 1770-1829: a Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, 2 vol., first edition, original cloth, Oxford, 2000 § Hermann (Frank) Sotheby's Portrait of an Auction House, first edition, rare unsigned copy, small collection of correspondence from the author to the Hodgsons loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1980 § Maclean (Virginia) A Short-title Catalogue of Household and Cookery Books published in the English Tongue 1701-1800, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1981 § Meriton (John) Small Books for the Common Man a Descriptive Bibliography, illustrations, original boards, a little rubbed, 2010 § Muir (Percy) Minding My Own Business, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, small tear to spine foot, neatly repaired, 1956 § Mandelbrote (Giles) Out of Print & Into Profit, first edition, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, 2006; and c.80 others, 8vo & 4to (c.85)
![[Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de)] Lettres Secrettes, first edition, spotted, some browning, mostly light, contemporary dr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2844b6c2-458c-409c-9df4-aa8000a89c38/1bf1792f-b5c0-4099-baf5-aa8801142a0d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 214
[Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de)] Lettres Secrettes, first edition, spotted, some browning, mostly light, contemporary drab limp boards, Geneva, 1765; Les Honnètetés litteraires &c. &c. &c., first edition, half-title, some spotting or staining, disbound, [Geneva], 1768; Lettres ecrites sur les Anglois et Autres Sujets, occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments, lacking leather label, head of spine chipped, corners little worn, rubbed, Basel [i.e. London], [William Bowyer], 1734 § [Harel (Elie)] Voltaire Recueil des particularités curieuses de sa vie & de sa mort, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, Porrentruy, Jean Joseph Goetschy, 1781; and a small quantity of others, Voltaire, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)
Lot 170
Utopian fiction.- Anonymous. Etymonia, first edition, half-title, 16pp. advertisements, light browning to endpapers, front free endpaper detached, upper hinge starting, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, original cloth, gilt, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, upper cover mottled, 8vo, 1875.⁂ A utopian novel set on the island of Europia in the North Sea.
Lot 124
Bookbinding.- Bennett (Stuart) Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800, first edition, illustrations, original cloth backed boards, dust-jacket, 2004 § Tidcombe (Marianne) The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, first edition, limited edition of 1000, colour frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, slipcase, a little rubbed, 1984; Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, first edition, illustrations, original cloth backed boards, 1996 § Craig (Maurice) Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1954 § McDonnell (Joseph) & Patrick Healy, Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Kildare, Irish Georgian Society, 1987; and a small quantity of others, all bookbinding, v.s. (sm. qty)
Lot 105
Cookery.- King (William) The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients, first edition, half-title, some browning and water-staining, occasional spotting, modern boards, red leather label to spine, [Bitting p.260; Cagle 794; Maclean p.84; Oxford p.51; Simon BG 908; Vicaire 475], 8vo, Printed for Bernard Lintott, [1708].
Lot 171
Utopian fiction.- Widnall (Samuel Page) A Mystery of Six Centuries, or A Modern St. George and the Dragon, first edition, photographic frontispiece, plates, browning to endpapers, ink inscription to pastedown dated "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, May 1915", original cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, extremities a little rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Grantchester, 1889.⁂ A scarce fantasy work in which the protagonists discovers a lost land populated by dinosaurs and a lost race of pre-Adamites who may constitute a missing link.
Lot 126
Decorated paper.- Easton (Phoebe Jane) Marbling: a History and a Bibliography, tipped-in colour frontispiece, plates, 1 or 3 tipped-in, original cloth, Los Angeles, 1983 § Kopylov (Marc) Papiers Dominotés Français, illustrations, original decorative boards, Paris, 2012; Papiers Dominotés Italiens, illustrations, original decorative boards, Paris, 2012 § Kopylov (Christiane F.) Papiers Dorés d'Allemagne ai Siècle des Lumières, illustrations, original decorative boards, Paris, 2012 § Marks (P. J. M.) An Anthology of Decorated Papers, first edition, illustrations, original decorative boards, dust-jacket, 2015; and 11 others, 4to & 8vo (16)
Lot 132
Morison (Stanley) & Kenneth Day, The Typographic Book 1450-1935, first edition, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to spine extremities, slipcase, rubbed and worn, 1963 § Jones (Herbert) Stanley Morison Displayed, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1976 § Keynes (Geoffrey) William Pickering Publisher, limited edition of 350 copies, occasional spotting, illustrations, occasional pencil markings, original cloth, remnants of dust-jacket loosely inserted, 1924 § Chapman (R. W.) Cancels, first edition, ALs signed by author loosely inserted, plates, 1 folding, occasional spotting, original vellum backed boards, a little rubbed, 1930 § Nelson (James G.) A Checklist of Early Bodley Head Book: 1889-1894, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oxford, Rivendale Press, 1999; and 10 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (15)
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