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Lot 54

NO RESERVE Modern Prints.- Cramer (Patrick) Henry Moore: Catalogue of Graphic Work , vol.1 & 2 only (of 4: 1931-1972 &1973-1975], 2 vol. (of 4), Geneva, 1973-76 § Skelton (Christopher, editor) Eric Gill: The Engravings, 1990 § Levinson (Orde) 'Quality and Experiment': the Prints of John Piper. A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-91, 1996 § Tassi (R.) Graham Sutherland: Tout l'Oeuvre Gravé, light spotting, Paris, 1980 § Bouvet (F.) Bonnard: the Complete Graphic Work, 1981, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first a little affected by damp; and c.20 others on modern prints, mostly British, some catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Lot 91

Hatton (Sir Christopher, courtier and politician, c. 1540-91) & Cecil (Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, courtier and soldier, eldest son of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, 1542-1623) Release by Sir Thomas Cecil & Christopher Hatton Privy Councillor and Vice Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth for the rectory, lands and living of Campsall, Yorkshire to Robert Freke, D.s. "Thomas Cecil", manuscript in Latin, on vellum, wax seal with fine impression, a few small holes along folds, 205 x 460mm., 30th April 1579.⁂ Thomas Cecil held certain lands in Yorkshire from 1577 through his marriage with Dorothy, co-heir of John Nevill, fourth Lord Latimer.

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Lot 277

Birds.- Shelley (Capt. G.E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, first edition, 14 hand-coloured plates, tissue-guards, short marginal tear (p.101) neatly repaired, publisher's advertisements bound at end, modern cloth, [Anker 469], 1872 § Delacour (Jean) The Waterfowl of the World, 4 vol., first edition, frontispieces and plates by Peter Scott, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jackets, rubbed, chipping and small loss to corners and extremities, 1954-64 § Bannerman (David A.) The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa, 2 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, faint spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1953; and 5 others, similar, 8vo & folio (12)

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Lot 98

Victorian Historian.- Merivale (Charles, historian and dean of Ely, rowed for Cambridge University in the first boat race with Oxford at Henley in 1829, 1808-93) [Volume of classical poetry written as an undergraduate at Cambridge University], autograph manuscript signed, 86pp., original wrappers, tears to edges, marked, 1826-28; and 10 others by Merivale including 2 other vol. of classical poetry etc., v.s., v.d. (11 pieces).

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Lot 275

Birds.- Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes ..., first edition, second issue with 'Chilean Dotterel' as frontispiece, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J. G. Keulemans, wood engraved illustrations by J. G. Millais and others, front free endpaper, frontispiece and title becoming loose, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 455], 4to, [1887].

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Lot 304

Psychoanalysis.- Jones (Ernest) Papers on Psycho-Analysis, second revised edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Otto Rank, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1918 § Rank (Otto) Der Künstler Ansätze zu einer Sexual-Psychologie, contemporary half cloth, publisher's front wrapper laid down on upper cover, Vienna & Leipzig, Hugo Heller, 1907; Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden, rebacked in linen, Leipzig & Vienna, F. Deuticke, 1909 § Adler (Alfred) Über den Nervösen Charakter, extensive underlining and some pencil marginalia, Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1912 § Freud (Sigmund) Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie, second edition, [Norman F56], Leipzig & Vienna, F. Deuticke, 1910; Das Ich und das Es, later boards with original covers and spine laid down [Norman F105], 1923; Die Zukunst einer Illusion, 1927; Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, [Norman F133], 1930; Moses and Monotheism, first American edition, New York, Knopf, 1939; Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety... translation by Alix Strachey, second impression, dust-jacket, Hogarth Press, 1948, first editions, unless otherwise stated, original cloth and wrappers unless where stated, 8vo (10)

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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, translated by John James, first edition in English, engraved pictorial frontispiece, vignette title, dedication to Earl of Pembroke, 2pp. list of subscribers, 7 plates (numbered I-VI, one unnumbered with 2 engravings) and illustrations in text, numerous charming engraved head- & tail-pieces and initials by John Sturt, 4pp. errata/advertisements at end, no pp.43/44 as correct, occasional soiling, light staining to inner margin of frontispiece and title, contemporary panelled calf, worn, rubbed, lacking most of spine, covers detached, [Fowler 248; Harris 700], folio, Benjamin Motte, sold by John Sturt, 1708.⁂ Subscribers of this important and influential work include the architects Lord Burlington, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and John Vanbrugh, as well as several bricklayers, carpenters, masons etc.

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Lot 298

NO RESERVE Anatomy.- Malpighi (Marcello) and Carlo Fracassati. Epistolae Anatomicae, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding engraved plates, title with small blind-stamp of Mark Pattison of Lincoln College recto and ink notes verso, 1 plate neatly laid down,the odd spot, occasional light browning, lower hinge split, [Heirs of Hippocrates 570],12mo, Amsterdam, Caspar Commelin, 1669.⁂ The five folding plates illustrate Malpighi's microscopic investigations of the brain and tongue. His name is celebrated in several eponymous anatomical structures in the kidney, spleen, skin, and lungs.

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Lot 206

Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse, first edition, spotting, ink inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners bumped, chipped and frayed, creasing and discolouration to covers, facsimile dust-jacket, [Kirkpatrick A10], 8vo, 1927.

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Lot 192

Proust (Marcel) [In Remembrace of Things Past], 7 parts in 11 vol., first English editions, occasional scattered foxing, original cloth, some light sunning to spines, but a bright and sharp set otherwise, Time Regained with dust-jacket with chipping and creasing to extremities, 8vo, 1922-31.⁂ Proust's celebrated masterpiece, now increasingly difficult to find as a set and in good condition.

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Lot 234

NO RESERVE Greece.- Anonymous (first half of the 19th century) Seven original studies of figures from Corfu, point of the brush, pencil, watercolour, on wove paper without watermark dates, each sheet approx. 265 x 175 mm (10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in), spotting, browning and some toning to the sheets, unframed, [circa 1800-1850] (7).

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Lot 175

NO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) The Child in Time, jacket with light fading to spine, 1987 § Chatwin (Bruce) On the Black Hill, 1982, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and 6 others, modern literature, 8vo (8)

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Lot 20

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Baye (Joseph de, Baron) The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, first edition, 17 plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and slightly stained, split to lower joint, 1893 § Fox (Sir Cyril) Offa's Dyke, 1955 § Apted (M.) & others. Ancient Monuments and their Interpretation, London & Chichester, 177 § Carver (M., editor) In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz, Woodbridge, 1993, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets; and 15 others, British archaeology, v.s. (19)

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Lot 65

NO RESERVE Architecture.- Heating.- Engel (Carl Ludwig) Richtige Anweisung zur Heitzung der Gebäude mit erwärmter, first edition, 3 folding engraved plates, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt and with orange leather label, rubbed, 4to, Berlin, [A. Petsch], in der Stuhr'schen Buchhandlung, 1830.⁂ Rare work on the heating of buildings. The German architect Engel was responsible for most of Helsinki's key buildings, including The Senate, Helsinki Cathedral, the library and parts of the university.

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Lot 161

NO RESERVE Coward (Noel) To Step Aside. Seven Stories, first American edition, Noel Coward's own copy with his bookplate to pastedown and French typed letter of provenance from Blanch Blackwell tipped onto front free endpaper, some browning to endpapers, contemporary morocco, joints and extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, New York, 1939.

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Lot 273

Birds.- Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, previous owner's pencil inscription 'Nov. 1859' to front free endpaper verso, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 345], 4to, [1855].

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Lot 296

NO RESERVE Birds & Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, supplement bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, spotting to front and back covers (vol. 1), 1843-45; A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., first edition, supplement to each vol. bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, 1836-39, later uniform morocco, spine and dentelles heavily gilt, aeg, very light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (5)

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Lot 291

Millais (John Guille) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., limited edition, half-titles, titles in red and black, photogravure, chromolithographed or halftone plates, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, original cloth, faded spines, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1904-06; Wanderings and Memoirs, first edition, inscribed, signed and dated by author, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, strengthened hinges, original cloth, faded, bumping to corners and extremities, 1919; Far Away up the Nile, first edition, frontispiece, plates, faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1924; and 2 others by the same, v.s. (7)

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Lot 171

NO RESERVE Isherwood (Christopher) Lion and Shadows, ink gift inscription, jacket with closed tears to head of upper fore-edge and joint, creasing to head, 1938 § Spender (Stephen) Ruins and Visions, jacket spine lightly faded, light creasing to head, 1942 § MacNeice (Louis) Ten Burnt Offerings, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1952 § Day Lewis (Cecil) A Hope for Poetry, light foxing, jacket a little spotting, light creasing and fraying to head, Oxford, 1934, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 18 others by the same and similar, 8vo (22)

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Lot 199

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Before the Bombardment, first edition of the author's first novel, ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light fading to spine and covers, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example, 1926; and another by Maugham, 8vo (2)⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket, especially in such condition

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Lot 45

French Art.- Walther (Ingo F.) & Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings, 2 vol., Cologne, 1990 § Adriani (Gotz) Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings, 1985; Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works. A Catalogue Raisonné, 1988 § Gordon (R.) & Andrew Forge, Monet, New York, 1983 § Madeleine-Perdrillat (A.) Seurat, New York, 1990 § Nanteuil (Luc de) Jacques-Louis David, New York, 1985 § Partsch (S.) Klimt: Life and Work, 1989, illustrations, many colour, a few slightly damp-stained, original cloth or boards, the first a little spotted and with slip-case, the rest with dust-jackets; and c.45 others on nineteenth century art, mostly French, 4to & 8vo (c.50)

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Lot 178

NO RESERVE Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first Israeli edition, ink inscription title and endpaper, contemporary boards, Jerusalem, 1955 § Čapek (Karel) The First Rescue Party, ink inscription and light browning to endpapers, a few short closed tears and some light creasing to head and foot, 1939 § Borch (Hermann) The Death of Virgil, jacket with light browning to spine, chip to head of upper joint, 1946 § Chestov (Leo) In Job's Balances, jacket with very light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1932, all but the first first English editions in original boards and dust-jackets, generally excellent copies; and c.50 by the same and similar, 8vo (c.55)

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Lot 60

Photography.- Madonna. Sex, Photographed by Stephen Meisel, first edition, with CD sealed in envelope loosely inserted, original ring-bound aluminium boards stamped "Sex" on upper cover and with cut-out "(X)" on lower, a few scratches, without pictorial mylar envelope, 1992 § Testino (Mario) Alta Moda, second edition, signed on title, Lima, 2015 § Beltrá (Daniel) Spill, signed on title, 2013 § Bailey (David) The Lady is a Tramp: Portraits of Catherine Bailey, signed by both Baileys on title, 1995 § L'Ecotais (Emmanuelle de) & others. Man Ray 1890-1976, Cologne, 2000 § Perez (N.N.) Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839-1885), New York & Jerusalem, 1988 § Worswick (C.) & Ainslie Embree. The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976, illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the last a little frayed; and c.40 others on photography, v.s. (c.45)

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Lot 163

NO RESERVE Farrell (J.G.) The Siege of Krishnapur, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tear and creasing to foot, 1973 § Sackville-West (Vita) Orchard and Vineyard, some spotting, browning to endpapers, unopened, 1921 § Burke (Thomas) The Lower of Life - a London Tragedy, signed presentation inscription from the author, bookplate, light soiling to covers, 1929 § Amis (Kingsley) That Uncertain Feeling, jacket spine browned, 1955, first editions, original boards, generally excellent; and c.55 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.60)

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Lot 279

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) ) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue guards, occasional foxing, occasional staining (vol. 3 only), original red cloth, light fading to spines and bumping to extremities, 4to, 1915-16.

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Lot 170

NO RESERVE Heinlein (Robert) Starman Jones, jacket with light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1954 § Williamson (Jack) The Cometeers, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing and fraying to head, Reading, PA, 1950 § Leiber (Fritz) The Secret Songs, 1968 § Blish (James) Welcome to Mars!, jacket with light creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 1967 § Anthony (Piers) Onivore, 1969, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and 23 others, science fiction, 8vo (28)

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Lot 282

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue-guards, occasional marginal spotting, original red cloth, a little rubbed, faded spines, slight bumping to extremities, 1915-19; A Naturalist's Sketch Book, first edition, plates, tissue-guards, original red cloth, faded spine, slight bumping to extremities, 1919; 4to (5)

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Lot 176

NO RESERVE McGahern (John) Getting Through, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1978; Amongst Women, uncorrected proof copy with original title of Monaghan Day, original wrappers, sticker to upper cover altering the name, some light rubbing and creasing to extremities, 1990; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)

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Lot 172

NO RESERVE Jerome (Jerome K.) The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, 1898; The Angel & the Author - and others, light foxing, 1908 § Leacock (Stephen) Over the Footlights, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, spine a little darkened, light surface soiling, chip to lower joint, 1923 § Andom (R., pseudonym) The Same Old Troddlers, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, tear to head of lower joint and fore-edge, creasing, n.d., first editions, original cloth, generally excellent or near-fine; and 12 others, humour, 8vo (16)

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Antiquities.- Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, second edition, general title in red & black, engraved portrait frontispiece to second part only (lacking that of Jones to first part), with 12 engraved plates (8 folding or double-page), engraved illustrations in text, first four folding plates and portrait a little browned, bookplate of Sir William Crookes, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, later half morocco, rubbed, [Fowler 159; Harris 384], folio, printed [by James Betterman] for D. Browne Junior...J.Woodman and D.Lyon, 1725.

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Lot 122

Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Library Companion, 2 vol., first edition , titles with wood-engraved vignettes, slightly browned, vol. I H3-8 & vol. II title margins water-stained, Norfolk & Norwich Library bookplates on front pastedowns, later endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Library printed labels on upper covers, 1824.

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Lot 166

NO RESERVE Francis (Dick) The Sport of Queens, the author's first book, plates, jacket with a few short tears and some creasing to head and foot, 1957; In the Frame, 1976, first editions, signed or with signed presentation inscription from the author, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 2 others, thrillers, 8vo (4)

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Lot 210

NO RESERVE Bendemann (Edouard) Der Fries im Thronsaale des Koeniglichen Schlosses in Dresden al fresco gemalt ..., first edition, 16 tinted etchings by Bürkner after Bendemann, tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, original wrappers with ink-stamp dated 1846 bound-in, bookplate, contemporary cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, oblong folio, Leipzig, Georg Wigand, [1846].⁂ Wigand published Bürkner's etchings of the frescoes in two forms. As here, with the plates unfolded, printed on Chinese paper, with no accompanying text, and as an oblong 4to, prefaced by six pages of explanatory text in German and English, with the etchings folded in half and mounted on stubs. Provenance: Bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt (1795-1867) of Lincoln's Inn.

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Lot 147

Achebe (Chinua) Arrow of God, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, but a bright and near-fine example overall, 8vo, New York, 1967.⁂ The last in Achebe's celebrated African trilogy, rare.

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Lot 34

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Jones (Barbara) Follies & Grottoes, second, enlarged, edition, 1979 § Hunt (John Dixon) & Peter Willis. The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, light spotting, ex-library copy with stamps, 1975 § Hyams (E.) Capability Brown and Humphry Repton, 1971 § Cowell (F.) Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure Garden, 2009 § Saudan (M.) & Sylvia Saudan-Skira. From Folly to Follies: Discovering the World of Gardens, Cologne, 1997, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first with nick to spine; and 9 others on gardens, v.s. (14)

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Lot 200

NO RESERVE Stapledon (Olaf) Odd John, light browning to spine, 1935 § Zelazny (Roger) Creatures of Light and Darkness, jacket a little rubbed at extremities, 1970 § Williamson (Jack) Humanoids, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, New York, 1949 § Bradbury (Ray), Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, Agatha Christie and others. Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to spine ends and corners, 1955, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and 24 others, science fiction, 8vo (28)

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Lot 56

NO RESERVE Oriental Art.- Hillier (Jack) Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr & Mrs Richard P.Gale, 2 vol., 1970; The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijo Style, limited edition, signed and inscribed by the author, 1974; Suzuki Harunobu, Philadelphia, 1970 § Heineken (Ty & Kiyoko) Tansu: Traditional Japanese Cabinetry, New York & Tokyo, 1981, illustrations, many colour, original cloth, the first two with slip-cases, the last two with dust-jackets; and c.30 others on Japanese art, 4to & 8vo (c.35)

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Lot 72

Annotated.- Bible, Latin. Biblia...en Tibi Biblioru vulgata editio, edited by Robert Estienne, double column, lacking all before a1, and f1, early 17th century ink marginalia and underlining in red and sepia, often copious, text block split in two, first and final ff. detached, some staining, lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, worn, [Adams B1051; Renouard 86:1; Schreiber 112; D&M 6135], 8vo, [Geneva], [Conrad Badius for Robert Estienne], [8 April, 1555]. sold not subject to return.*** The first Latin Bible to be printed with verse numeration, here with copious scholarly annotations. Estienne had employed his brother-in-law to print this text of the Vulgate for use with his biblical concordances, which had been issued three months earlier. 

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Lot 198

Rhys (Jean) Wide Sargasso Sea, first edition, original board, dust-jacket, head of spine and corner tips rubbed, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1966.

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Lot 18

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Artis (Edmund Tyrell) The Durobrivae of Antoninus...Roman Station in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire, first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map and 59 engraved or lithographed plates and plans, some with aquatint, 4 folding or double-page, 10 hand-coloured, light spotting or water-staining to a couple of plates, bookplates of George E.Foe and Will.Stephenson, contemporary half roan, rubbed and stained, spine worn and torn, upper cover detached, folio, for the Author, 1828.⁂ Handsome work on the various Roman sites around Castor, Northants., including views, plans and plates of the mosaics, building materials, furnaces, pottery, jewellery, and household utensils.

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Lot 180

NO RESERVE Naipaul (V. S.) A Flag on the Island, jacket with light fading to spine, 1967; In a Free State, 1971; The Adventures of Gurudeva, ink ownership inscription, jacket with very light sunning to spine, 1976 § Gordimer (Nadine) A World of Strangers, light browning to endpapers, jacket with very light browning to spine, spine a little chipped at head, 1958 § White (Patrick) Riders in the Chariot, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, spine a little frayed at head, 1961 § Coetzee (J. M.) Foe, jacket with light fading to spine, 1986, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 22 others by the same and similar, 8vo (28)

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Lot 126

NO RESERVE McCulloch (J. R.) The Literature of Political Economy: a Classified Catalogue, first edition, ex-library with bookplate and occasional ink-stamps, original cloth, library shelfmark to spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1845.

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Lot 205

NO RESERVE Waugh (Evelyn) The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, jacket with light browning to spine, a few small chips or very short tears to head, 1957 § Golding (William) Enderby Outside, light spotting, jacket price-clipped and with light spotting, light discolouration to spine, 1968 § Burgess (Anthony) The Right to an Answer, jacket with 2 short tears to head with neat tape repairs to verso, 1960 § Durrell (Lawrence) Constance or Solitary Practices, 1982, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 30 others by the same and similar, 8vo (34)

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Lot 174

NO RESERVE [Mansfield (Katherine)] "Matilda Berry", D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murray, contributors. The Signature, number 3, original wrappers, light creasing, ink inscriptions to upper cover, 1915 § Mansfield (Katherine) The Dove's Nest, light foxing, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, 1923; Something Childish & other stories, light foxing, browning and ink inscription to endpapers, original cloth, 1924, first editions; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (5)

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Lot 181

NO RESERVE Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and minor creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example generally, 8vo, 1968.⁂ The first winner of the booker prize.

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Lot 150

NO RESERVE Barnes (Julian) Talking it Over [2 copies], limited edition, 1991; The Porcupine, 1992; Cross Channel, 1996; England, England, 1998, first editions, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 10 others by the same, 8vo (14)

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Lot 29

NO RESERVE Architecture.- Colvin (H.M., editor) The History of the King's Works, vol.1-3 & box of loose plans (of 6: Middle Ages & 1485-1660 pt I), 1963-75 § Hill ((O.) & John Cornforth. English Country Houses: Caroline 1625-1685, reprint, Woodbridge, 1985 § Heward (J.) & Robert Taylor. The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, 1996 § Montgomery-Massingberd (H.) & Christopher Simon Sykes. Great Houses of England & Wales, 1994 § Stamp (Gavin) An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-1897) and the late Gothic Revival, Donington, 2002 § Allibone (Jill) Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture, Cambridge, 1988 § Beard (G.) Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England 1660-1820, Edinburgh, 1981, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, the last with slip-case, the rest dust-jackets, the first a little rubbed; and c.15 others on architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Lot 24

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Guido (Margaret) The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods in Britain and Ireland, Society of Antiquaries Report No.XXXV, 1978 § Wheeler (Sir Mortimer) & K.M.Richardson. Hill-Forts of Northern France, Society of Antiquaries Report No.XIX, Oxford, 1957 § Fox (Sir Cyril) A Find of the Early Iron Age from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey, original cloth-backed boards, Cardiff, 1946; Pattern and Purpose: A Survey of Early Celtic Art in Britain, Cardiff, 1958 § Crellin (R.) & others. Prehistory without Borders: The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Tyne-Forth Region, Oxford & Philadelphia, 2016 § Clarke (D.V.) & others. Symbols of Power at the Time of Stonehenge, Edinburgh, 1985 § Richmond (Sir Ian) Hod Hill, vol.2, 1968, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the third original cloth or boards, the first and last two with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and 9 others on prehistoric art and archaeology, 4to & 8vo (16)

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Lot 117

NO RESERVE [Mavor (William Fordyce)] Youth's miscellany; or, a father's gift to his children: consisting of original essays, moral and literary; tales, fables, reflections, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, frontispiece water-stained and offsetting on to title, occasional water-staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, [Roscoe J240], 12mo, E. Newbery, 1798.⁂ Diverse topics include electricity, spectres and apparitions, and worms.

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Lot 193

Reck-Malleczewen (Friedrich) Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten, first edition, Autograph Note and Typed Note by signed by the author loosely inserted, frontispiece portrait, later half cloth, Stuttgart, 1947; and an English edition of the same (2)⁂ Reck-Malleczewen's celebrated journal, expressing his passionate opposition to the Nazi regime. Reck-Malleczewen died in the camp at Dachau in 1945, 2 years prior to publication.

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Lot 177

NO RESERVE Murdoch (Iris) The Bell, jacket light browned at spine and margins, lower panel a little chipped at head, with original publishers wraparound band, 1958; A Word Child, signed by the author on bookplate, jacket spine lightly faded, 1975; The Book and the Brotherhood, signed by the author, light fading to jacket spine, 1987, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine, 8vo (3)

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Lot 160

NO RESERVE Cornwell (Patricia) Postmortem, first edition, signed by the author, A. L. s. by the author loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, a little chipped at foot, New York, 1990.⁂ The author's first book with a letter on paper headed the Department of Health in Virginia, where Cornwell worked before her career as a writer took off.

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Lot 189

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Ros (Amanda M.) Fumes of Formation, original cloth, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, surface soiling to panels, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1933 § Farjeon (Eleanor) Young Folk and Old, original wrappers, High House Press, 1925 § Phillips (Stephen) New Poems, light foxing, browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1908 § Thomas (R. S.) Laubbam Sprache, translated by Kevin Perryman, limited edition, signed by the author, original half cloth, Denklingen, Babel, 1998, first editions; and c.80 others, poetry and poets, generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.85)

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NO RESERVE Architecture.- Hawksmoor (Nicholas) Architectural Designs for All Souls College, Oxford, 6 engraved plates, without the accompanying booklet but with a large engraving of South Prospect of St.Paul's by Will.Emmett loosely inserted (on laid paper, c.480 x 700mm., creases from folds, light spotting, T.Bowles, 1702), plates loose as issued in original cloth portfolio with ties, paper label to upper cover, oblong elephant folio, [Oxford], [1960].⁂ Kerry Downes issued his first book on Hawksmoor in 1959, and another in 1969. Until then Hawksmoor was not a highly regarded architect, being overshadowed by his masters Wren and Vanbrugh, but this changed with Downes's appraisal and the resulting recognition prevented the demolition of Christ Church, Spitalfields.

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Lot 267

NO RESERVE Birds.- Hudson (W.H.) Birds of La Plata, 2 vol., first edition, 22 colour plates, original decorative cloth, small stain to upper cover (vol. 1 only), slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 216], 8vo, 1920.

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Lot 197

Rhys (Jean) Good Morning Midnight, first edition, second issue without endpaper, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short tears to head and foot of upper panel with some light creasing, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1939.

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Lot 194

NO RESERVE Rendell (Ruth) The New Girl Friend and other stories, 1985; An Unkindness of Ravens, 1985; Live Flesh, 1986; The Veiled One, 1988, first editions, signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, original boards, dust-jackets, some light fading to spines, else fine; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (7)

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Lot 190

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) New Poems, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket spine very lightly browned, some light surface soiling, 1918; Poems, limited editions, original limp vellum, ties partly defective, 1913 § Gascoyne (David), Martyn Crucefix, Marius Kociejowski, Christopher Middleton, Norm Sibum and C.H. Sisson. Enitharmon Poetry Pamphlets, 6 vol., each number 36 of 50 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, slip-case, 1993 § Prynne (J. H.) News of Warring Clans, first edition, original wrappers, some fading, Trigram Press, 1977; and c.70 others, poetry and poets generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.75)

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Lot 208

Yeats (William Butler) The Wild Swans at Coole, first English edition, "Presentation Copy" blindstamp to title, Robert Lynd's copy with his ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine dulled, spine ends and corners bumped, light wear to extremities, 8vo, 1919.⁂ A good association copy, Robert Lynd (1879-1949), writer, journalist and Irish nationalist.

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Lot 154

NO RESERVE Braine (John) Room at the Top, uncorrected proof copy, spotting and marking to endpapers, original wrappers, ink inscription in author's hand "Names of people and places will be changed before publication" to upper cover, shelf-lean, creasing, 1957 § Todd (Ruthven) Tracks in the Snow, dedication copy inscribed to John Piper, jacket spine browned, chipped at head, 1946 § Chaudhuri (Nirad C.) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1951 § Mottram (R. H.) The Crime at Vanderlynden's, bookplate of Felix Dennis, 1926, all but he first first editions in original boards and dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and c.55 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.60)

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