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Lot 251

DICKENS (CHARLES)Two autograph envelopes, both signed ('Charles Dickens') in the lower left-hand corner, one to his wife ('Mrs Charles Dickens./ Devonshire Terrace'), hand-delivered and unstamped, the other to his son Edmund ('Edmund Dickens Esquire/ 9 St James Gardens/ Haverstock Hill/ N.W.'), stamped and postmarked, the first with crease at left-hand edge, some dust-staining, the second with a small opening tear affecting postmark, both oblong 16mo, the latter postmarked, London, 15 January 1870

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Lot 253

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, first issue with page 30 correctly numbered and the inverted 'S' in the last line of the Contents page, half-title (short tear without loss), frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Dalziel after Tenniel, pictorial red cloth gilt in close imitation of the original binding, covers with gilt-stamped medallion vignettes of Alice holding a pig (front) and the Cheshire Cat (rear) within triple gilt ruled borders, gilt lettered spine, g.e., pale blue endpapers with Burn's binder's ticket at rear, preserved in red cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase with gilt lettered spine, FINE COPY, 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1866This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 255

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book Afterwards Developed Into 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Winifred E. Stevens from the Author, May 21./87' in purple ink on the half-title, illustrations by the author, half-title loose and opening gatherings shaken, publisher's red cloth gilt, upper joint partly split, upper joint cracked [Williams, Madan and Green 194], 8vo, Macmillan, 1886; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('sincerely yours C.L. Dodgson') to 'Mrs [Ethel] Stevens', apologising that he was too poorly ('... My head has been a good dealer worse...') to accept visitors, 'not even Enid! Love to her (also to Winnie if not too old to accept it!)', one page, in black ink, 8vo, 'Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch] Mar. 9/[18]91', pasted inside upper cover of a 1927 edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', with a note of provenance in the hand of a descendant of Mrs. Stevens next to the letter--STEVENS (ENID) Manuscript memoir of her childhood, including recollections of her first meeting, subsequent relationship and feelings for Charles Dodgson, approximately 80 pages, written in pencil (mostly, an 'addenda' in ink) on lined paper (recto only), sheets of slightly varying size, loose with old label 'E.G.S. Autobiography', 4to, [undated, but c.1942]; and 3 others by Dodgson, including a copy of Alice's Adventures ('Thirty-fifth Thousand', 1872'), with the ownership inscription of 'Miss Maud Stevens, Xmas/[18]72' and 'Given to Winifred - 1879' on half-title (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 256

ELIOT (GEORGE)Middlemarch: a Study of Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, foxing at ends, vol. 1 lacks front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth gilt, leaned and rubbed, spine edges worn with loss to volume 1, spine of volume 2 with horizontal slit, 8vo, William Blackwood, 1871-1872This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 257

ELIZABETH IInitial letter portrait, showing the Queen enthroned with orb and sceptre, with historiated first line incorporating the Tudor rose, drawn in pen-and-ink, on what appears to be an exemplification of common recovery pertaining to the Manor of Cheppeley, or Clopton, by Chipley Abbey, Poslingford, Suffolk, held by William Clopton of Long Melford and by Francis and his wife Elizabeth Clopton of Long Melford, Suffolk, subscribed in the name of Thomas Meade, Francis Wyndham and William Periam, Justices of the Common Pleas; collection stamp on verso of Erik Borje Israelson (1881-1931), Swedish manuscript collector and bookseller, on one sheet of vellum, Great Seal and associated tab lacking, some slight marking but overall in unusually fine, fresh and attractive condition, c.320 x 615mm., Westminster, 31 May [1583]

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Lot 259

FLORIO (JOHN)Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues... Whereunto are added Certaine Necessarie Rules and Short Observations for the Italian Tongue, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, lacking portrait, without first and last blanks and blank 3F4, G1 torn and repaired with a little obscured text supplied in manuscript, 3L4 torn and repaired with some loss, chip to upper corner of title, a few other marginal paper repairs, modern half morocco [ESTC S121353], folio (280 x 178mm.), Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 261

HOLME (RANDOLPH)The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved decorative title, 3 engraved plates on 2 sheets (as in Huntington copy), numerous full-page engraved illustrations, short tear to final preliminary leaf, 2 small holes touching a couple of letters on final 'To the Reader' leaf, additional title neatly re-inserted, some toning and spotting, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco lettering label, spine faded [ESTC R21065], folio (365 x 230mm.), Chester, for the Author, 1688This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 264

LIVIUS (TITUS)The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portraits of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title and of Livy on [A]4v, without initial or final blanks, title strengthened on verso without obscuring portrait, occasional pink spots, a few side-notes shaved, wormhole at foot of 150 leaves, repairs to first 3 gatherings and 6F3-5 touching a few words, 6E6 with margin repair, paper flaw on 5V4 affecting text, modern calf [ESTC S114001; Pforzheimer 495], folio (300 x 200mm.), Adam Islip, 1600This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 266

[MERITON (GEORGE)]The Praise Of York-Shire Ale, Wherein Is Enumerated Several Sorts Of Drink, with a Discription of the Humors of Most Sorts of Drunkards. To Which is Added, a York-shire Dialogue, third edition ('much additional dialect material' according to ONDB), small piece cut away from title just touching 2 letters of title, shaved just touching letters on a few leaves, blue morocco gilt attributed to Charles Lewis, elaborately tooled on spine with orange morocco lettering label, g.e. [ESTC R19511], York, J. White for Francis Hildyard, 1697--[EVELYN (JOHN)] Publick Employment and an Active Life Prefer'd to Solitude, and All its Appanages, FIRST EDITION, first issue, imprimatur leaf, early eigtheenth century vellum-backed boards [ESTC ], J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667, 8vo (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 270

NEWMAN (JOHN HENRY, Saint)Autograph presentation manuscript of his hymn 'Lead Kindly Light', signed ('John H. Newman') and dated, comprising the first stanza of six lines, beginning: 'Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom/ Lead thou me on...', 1 page, contemporary envelope, oblong 8vo, 'August 15 1876'

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Lot 271

OTTOMAN EMPIRE[PRECHAC (JEAN DE)] The True History of Cara Mustapha, Late Grand Visier... now Translated in English by Francis Philon. Gent., engraved frontispiece, without initial and final blanks, first and last few leaves toned at extremities, contemporary speckled sheep, rubbed [ESTC R25822; Atabey 996], 12mo, L. Curtiss and H. Rodes, 1685This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 277

TROLLOPE (ANTHONY)Barchester Towers, 3 vol., without half-titles and advertisements, Longman, 1857; The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., 32 wood-engraved plates by George H. Thomas, contemporary half green morocco gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, Smith, Elder, 1867; He Knew He Was Right, 2 vol., 64 plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone, Strahan, 1869, first editions in book form; Ralph the Heir, first illustrated edition, wood-engraved plates by F.B. Fraser, Strahan, 1871; The Chronicles of Barsetshire, 8 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1879; A Small House at Allington, 2 vol., second edition, 18 wood-engraved plates by John Millais, Smith, Elder, 1864, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g.; [The Works], 28 vol. bound in 14, contemporary blue half calf gilt with red and brown morocco spine labels, Ward, Lock, [c.1900]; Miss Mackenzie, 1872; Rachel Ray, 1873; Castle Richmond, 1873; The Eustace Diamonds, 1874; The Kellys and the O'Kellys, 1873; The Macdermots of Ballcloran, 1874; Tales of All Countries, 1875, contemporary half calf gilt (the last 7 mentioned uniform) unless otherwise stated, 8vo; and 33 others, including 21 by Trollope, 5 by George Eliot, all half calf or morocco (72)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 278

WHEELER (JOHN)A Treatise of Commerce Wherein Are Shewed the Commodies Arising by a Wel Ordered, and Ruled Trade, such as that of the Societe of Merchantes Adventurers is provided to bee, written principallie for the better information of those who doubt of the necessarienes of the said societe in the State of the Realme of Englande, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with lengthy inscription dated 'Middelbroughe 28 Decembris 160[1]' on initial 'A', title within typographical border with printer's device, without the errata leaf found in some copies, neat manuscript correction to printed spelling of 'Commodies' on title, light arc of dampstaining at upper margin of a few leaves, seventeenth century panelled calf, rebacked with corners repaired, modern cloth box [ESTC S119735; Kress 243 (lacking blank and errata)], small 4to, Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1601This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 279

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, FIRST EDITION, final 2 leaves slightly shorter, the printed wording 'of the First Volume' on p.452 erased leaving only 'End', modern morocco, gilt lettered on spine, slipcase [PMM 242], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1792This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 284

GIACOMETTI (ALBERTO)Paris sans fin, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 157 OF 250 COPIES, with the artist's signature stamp, 'sur velin d'Arches' paper, 150 lithographs by Giacometti, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, glassine wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase, folio (422 x 320mm.), Paris, Tériade, 1969This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 31

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War... Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, sending the volume to Edward Marjoribanks, her banker at Coutts, tipped-in with the original addressed envelope, half-title, additional lithographed portrait by her sister of Florence and her owlet Athena, 6 lithographed plates (all but one folding, 'Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East' coloured, 'Plan of Skutari' with short tear but no loss), contemporary brown morocco by M.M. Holloway (signed on front turn-in), double gilt rule borders on covers and in spine compartments, g.e., rubbed at edges, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), Printed by Harrison & Sons, 1858This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 32

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'The right of Translation is reserved' at foot of title, advertisements including 'Burke's... Peerage... for 1860' on endpapers, typed letter from Christie's inserted at rear confirming that the book was sold in 1997 by a direct descendant of Richard Monckton Milnes, publisher's pebbled cloth [Bishop & Goldie 4], Harrison, [1860]--GALTON (FRANCIS) Hereditary Genius. An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding tables, bookplate of Robert, second baron Houghton, Marquis of Crewe (same provenance as above), 2 folding tables, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Macmillan, 1869--MARTINEAU (HARRIET) England and Her Soldiers, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY, SIGNED on the half-title, and with a loosely inserted autograph letter from Sidney Herbert ('I was only lately aware of your intercourse with Miss Nightingale on the subject of military Sanitary Reform... As regards the book England and her Soldiers I will do all I can to promote its circulation and perusal... Indeed it is a book for authorities rather than the men'), 3 folding mortality diagrams (one coloured, spotted), publisher's decorative cloth gilt, Smith, Elder 1859--HUNTER (WILLIAM WILSON) Rulers of India. The Earl of Mayo, PRESENTATION COPY FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Urith on her wedding day_to leave for India/ With Aunt Florence's love and fervent good wishes/ Florence Nightingale, London Feb. 16/99', folding map, portrait, publisher's cloth, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 338

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, sixth impression (second edition), colour frontispiece, ownership inscription ('Xmas 1954') inside upper cover, dust-jacket unclipped, with small loss at extremities of spine, top margin with a few small tears, [1954]; The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, second impression, 1967; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, FIRST EDITION, 1962; The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle... Music by Donald Swann, first English edition, 1968, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to, George Allen (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 342

SMITH (PHILIP)SMITH (ALI) Hotel World, FIRST EDITION, elaborate painted salmon pink goatskin by Philp Smith (signed and dated 2001 on rear paste-down), covers decorated with maril onlays, upper cover with inlaid turquoise leather square above (stamped 'ore stabit fortis aqui et placet ore stat'), and an inset 2001 penny coin below, lower cover with inlaid shadowy oval female portrait above, open spine painted to match, with triple grey goatskin yoke, central yoke lettered in blind, grey endpapers with salmon pink strips, printed label reading 'The Booker Prize 2001, Finalist, bound by Philip Smith' inserted before title (inscribed 'second copy' on reverse), sheet of 'Maker's Notes' tipped-in on blank endleaf, housed in a felt-lined red cloth solander box, with gilt lettered goatskin title label on front, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), Hamish Hamilton, 2001This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 346

ARDIZZONE (EDWARD)The complete original artwork for 'Tim to the Rescue', on 26 sheets, comprising: 23 original watercolours on 15 sheets (including cover design and title-page, 6 extending across 2 pages, each with Ardizzone's original pen and ink outline drawing on translucent overlay); 24 black and white pen and ink illustrations on 11 sheets (3 of the images pasted on, one near detached revealing variant version underneath), all with text in Ardizzone's hand, several textual corrections and amendments, an original ink sketch of a woman on the verso of the first sheet, most with small printed label ('Tim to the Rescue') on verso, 5 with larger label with return address of the Oxford University Press, sheet size 255 x 380mm., [c.1949]This lot is subject to Artist's Resale Right.

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Lot 351

CAMUS (ALBERT)La mort heureuse, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 104 OF 106 COPIES 'sur vélin de Hollande', from an overall edition of 412 copies, introduction by Jean Sarocchi, contemporary olive morocco by D. Mitterand (gilt-stamped inside upper cover), gilt lettered on spine, matching chemise and slipcase (chemise spine slightly faded), 8vo, Paris, Gallimard, 1971This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 354

CUNARD (NANCY, editor)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, folding map printed in red and blue, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, corner of second front free endpaper cut away, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 355

DOYLE (RICHARD)ALLINGHAM (WILLIAM) In Fairy Land. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, second edition, half-title, 16 wood engraved plates printed in colours by Richard Doyle, occasional spotting, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities of spine, folio (380 x 270mm.), Longman, Green, 1875; and a first edition of Doyle's A Journal... Kept in the Year 1840, 1885 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 358

FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, 1959; Dr. No., second impression, May 1958; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; You Only Live Twice, 2 copies, slight abrasion to upper joint of jacket on one copy, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, FIRST EDITION unless mentioned, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets (unclipped, light toning), 8vo, Jonathan Cape (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 359

GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopned in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 361

HEANEY (SEAMUS)Eleven Poems, [1965]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, [1965]--MAHON (DEREK) Twelve Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, light pencil markings by the first owner to 2 poems ('Scaffolding' and 'Death of a Naturalist') in the Heaney volume, each printed on laid paper, publisher's stapled wrappers, with the sun device with nine 'points' printed on the upper cover in purple, 8vo, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University; and 5 other 'Festival Publications' by Joan Newmann, Philip Hobsbaum, James Simmons, Stewart Parker, and Laurence Lerner (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 366

LEWIS (C.S.)The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, neat early ownership name inside upper cover, publisher's cloth (some fading to spine), pictorial dust-jacket (price clipped, loss to extremities of spine and small areas at edges, several tears), 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1950]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 368

MILNE (A.A.)When We Were Very Young, seventeenth edition, thin short tear to spine, 1928; Winnie-The-Pooh, sixth edition,1928; Now We Are Six, fourth edition, 1928; The House of Pooh Corner, FIRST EDITION, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, coloured pictorial endpapers, PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL DE LUXE BINDING of brown morocco gilt, covers with outer double-ruled border in brown and gilt, central hexagonal motif in brown with AAM stamped in gilt at centre, spines gilt tooled with images of the major figures from the books, g.e., housed in original box (lid split at joints, but holding), 8vo, Macmillan (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 370

MORRIS (WILLIAM)VALLANCE (AYMER) The Art of William Morris... With Reproductions from Designs and Fabrics Printed in the Colours of the Originals... Also a Bibliography by Temple Scott, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 2 OF 220 COPIES, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 40 colour plates, numerous others, tissue guards, occasional light spotting, publisher's linen-backed buckram, t.e.g., folio (390 x 280mm.), Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 371

NABOKOV (VLADIMIR)Lolita, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE priced 'Francs: 900' on lower wrappers, half-titles, without blank end leaf in volume 1 (not called for by Kearney), publisher's green wrappers, old tape marks inside covers and on front free endpapers, volume 1 with small loss to lower fore-corner of upper wrapper, volume 2 with small abrasion on upper cover, slightly rubbed at extremities [Juliar A28.1.1; Kearney 1.13.1], 8vo, Paris, The Olympia Press, [1955]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 372

NESBIT (EDITH) AND OSWALD BARRONThe Butler in Bohemia, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NESBIT 'To E.N. da C. Andrade from E. Nesbit. Dec. 27 1910. B.P.' on the front paste-down, correction in ink to one word of text on p.140, light spotting to title, short tear to dedication leaf (to Rudyard Kipling), publisher's limp cloth, lettered in red on upper cover, 8vo, Henry J. Drane, 1894This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 376

POTTER (BEATRIX)The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, fourth printing with wording 'shed big tears' on p.51, leaf-pattern design printed on grey endpapers, frontispiece loose with tear (not touching image) and creases, grey-blue boards, rubbed, hinges slightly weakened, [April 1903]; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, FIRST EDITION, first or second printing, frontispiece loose, short tear to pp.7/8, ownership inscription ('Xmas 1903') on front free endpaper, grey-blue boards, upper joint split, 1903; The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, second printing, rear endpapers scuffed with some loss of image, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, grey-blue boards, lacks spine, 1903; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, FIRST EDITION, first or second impression, with misspelling 'muffatees' on p.15, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, publisher's pale grey boards, lower joint split with small loss to head of spine, 1904, colour plates, 16mo, Frederick Warne; and 6 others, all but one by Potter (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 381

SYNGE (JOHN MILLINGTON) [AND JACK B. YEATS]The Aran Islands, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this copy '59' (old number crossed through), signed by both the author and illustrator on the colophon leaf, 12 hand-coloured plates by Yeats, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's cloth gilt, spine soiled, 4to, Dublin, Maunsel, 1907This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 382

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)SOMNER (WILLIAM) Dictionarium Saxicono-Latino-Anglicum, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN on the front free endpaper, above a note concerning the work by his pupil David M. Lee (see footnote), title printed in red and black, slip pasted over marginal note on a4r, list of names on 3T2v has additional name of William Retchford pasted in (next to ink name of Thomas Water, or Papworth), piece of upper margin on title and dedication torn away with small loss to 2-line fillet border, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered in calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC S4663; Madan, III, 2458], folio (325 x 215mm.), Oxford, William Hall, for the Author, 1659This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 384

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, folding map printed in red and black in each volume, occasional light spotting (mostly to endpapers), publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped, some fading to spines, 'Fellowship' with single spot on upper cover, corners slightly frayed; 'Return' with black smudge partly obscuring publisher's name on spine; 'Two Towers' spine (extending onto sides) crudely repaired with tape with old tears and some loss of text, front hinge split and repaired), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, 1954-1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 385

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, first issue of 'Two Towers' and 'Return', second impression of 'The Fellowship', SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on slips pasted onto front free endpaper of each volume, folding map printed in red and black in each volume, 9-line ownership inscription on front free endpaper of the third volume, publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (frayed at edges, piece torn away from spine of 'Fellowship'), 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1966This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 388

WAUGH (EVELYN)Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Janet Stone/Souvenir of Stinchcombe/Ascension 1954 from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (frayed, 2 old tears repaired), 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1952This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 389

WAUGH (EVELYN)Officers and Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO L.P. HARTLEY, inscribed 'Leslie with warm regards from Evelyn' on front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, slightly frayed at head of spine, toned) [Davis Checklist A30], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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Lot 390

WAUGH AND HEYGATECollection of letters to Sir John Heygate, largely concerning Evelyn Waugh, his posthumous reputation and Heygate's elopement with the first Mrs Waugh ('She Evelyn'), correspondents including:(i) Acton (Harold) Eleven autograph letters and a postcard, about Waugh and their mutual friends ('...In reality you did Evelyn the best of turns, certainly from a creative point of view... I like all his books except 'Brideshead Revisited'... A lot of the malignancy seems to me sheer posturing – a public attitude to which it amused him to cling. Eventually the basic sensitiveness seems to have been squashed. Sad in retrospect... Strange that Evelyn's first wife should have been so affected by those diaries, which strike me a mostly tired or drunken jottings as aids to memory... I'm trying to sort out Nancy Mitford's letters, which have been lent to me by various friends. She was a voluminous correspondent. Very lively and malicious. I begin to feel I have bitten off more than I can chew. I was very fond of Nancy personally, but never one of her literary fans... I doubt whether Unity Mitford is a suitable subject for a biography but David P-J thinks he has found some sensational material in Germany – probably not authentic... I dread the publication of Evelyn's diaries...'), 1970-76(ii) Betjeman (John) Some twenty largely typed letters, mostly about their shared passion for railways and railway stations ('...St Pancras is listed and therefore saved if we keep our fingers crossed but all the other city stations are doomed...'), one illustrated with a view of a terminal, 1969-73(iii) Heathcoat-Amory (Mark) Typed letter, written when editor of Waugh's letters ('...if you have kept the postcard referred to... or any other correspondence from Waugh...'), 18 February 1976(iv) Mitford (Diana) Two autograph letters, about the Nuremberg Rally of 1935, Frank Buchman [of MRA fame] and the Pryce-Jones biography of Unity ('...My sister & I were at the 1935 Parteitag... I can't remember whether she saw Buchman, but I know she looked upon him as a bit of joke...'), 1975-76(v) Nightingale (Evelyn, formerly Heygate, formerly Waugh, formerly Gardner) Seven autograph letters, largely about her marriage to Waugh and his biographers: 'I think you will agree that we were all three extremely immature & I know I remained that way until Benedict was born. I hated authority but Evelyn relied on it because it was one of the things that gave him social security. For years I thought that he married me in order to get into what he believed to be the aristocracy – and also because I looked rather boyish', undated [but c.1974-5](vi) Quennell (Peter) Five autograph and typed letters, about his contribution to The World of Evelyn Waugh and other topics ('...Christopher Sykes... certainly ought to meet 'the other Evelyn' – I'm afraid I don't know her present surname. I think that it is particularly important just now, after the publication of those dismal (&, as edited by a Fleet Street hack, largely misleading) diaries...'), 1954 and 1967-73(vii) Reitlinger (Gerald) Series of some thirty-five typed letters, about his art-historical work, especially his Economics of Taste, the Rothko scandal, the Goya portrait of Wellington, etc.; as well as his studies of the Third Reich ('...Yes I did a bit of local-colour hunting on the spot. The best discovery was Himmlers statistician whom I interviewed in a Munich hotel-lounge. Everytime he mentioned Himmlers name the whole passenger list jumped out of their armchairs as if they had been shot. Having tried to live away from the beastly Nazis for more than a year, I am at it again...'); with references to fellow members of the Waugh and Powell circles, including Christopher Sykes ('...I am fascinated that Christopher Sykes is writing a life of Evelyn Waugh but I dont think he is quite the man for it. His speciality is loyalty, the last thing one wants in a biographer...'), 1953-76(viii) Sykes (Christopher) Autograph letter and postcard, written while writing his biography of Waugh ('...I do not wish to give this episode more prominence than it deserves. I see it as the imprudent end to a match imprudently and frivolously undertaken. It inflicted pain on Evelyn Waugh but not permanent or distorting pain... In the account, as I have it in my draft, I have not mentioned your name. I have barely mentioned Evelyn Gardner's...'), postmarked 18 July 1974(ix) Waugh (Auberon) Three autograph and typed letters, discussing the failure of his father's first marriage ('...I don't think any male can blame another for misdemeanours in the sexual field unless his own vanity and affections are involved. Mine aren't, and one could reasonably argue that I owe my existence to your intervention. So perk up...') and asking for his help, thinking it would be amusing to have him listed among the acknowledgements, 1973-76

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WILLIAMSON (HENRY)A collection of 20 works inscribed by the author to John Heygate, fellow author and life-long friend, including: The Linhay on the Downs, inscribed on the front free endpaper 'Never let it be thought by John Heygate Esqre. that Mister Henry Williamson did'nt want to give him a copy of his newest book. 8 November 1934' above a large caricature self-portrait wearing a 'Adventurer's High Hat', saluting 'Heil Hitler!' with one hand and with the other indicating 'How do you do Jesus Christ!', whilst stating 'Damn Hugh Walpole anyway' and '...I wish I was back home in Devon...', Cape, 1934; The Golden Virgin, inscribed 'For John and Dora Heygate... gratitude for much help, friendship..., and hospitality... this first copy, at Bellarena, 31 August 1937', dust-jacket, Macdonald, 1957; The Scandaroon, DEDICATION COPY, with lengthy inscription explaining Heygate's role in the gestation of the book, and stating 'This may be my last published book' [It was], dust-jacket, Macdonald, 1972; Tales of a Devon Village, second impression, inscribed to 'John Heygate, author, squire, fisherman and friend', dust-jacket, Faber and Faber, [1946]; One Foot in Devon, inscribed 'To my old colleague and companion in sunshine, seas and sand John Heygate from H.W., June 1933', and beneath the printed dedication to 'Miss A.T. who did all the works' Williamson has added in ink 'and who was given the works', Maclehose, 1933; The Labouring Life, inscribed 'To A.C.G. Heygate Esqre. from Henry Williamson, April 1932', Cape, 1932; The Children of Shallowford, a 20-line inscription dated 1 September 1957, in which the author after re-reading the book notes 'that it shows the author in a bad light. He was in a bad light: but he should have restrained himself, perhaps, from trying to illumine a shadow...', dust-jacket (loss to half of spine), Faber and Faber, 1939; The Dream of Fair Women, inscribed 'To Evelyn [Heygate, previously Waugh], this book about cads, from the author, June 1931. Also to John, who once dreamed. H.W.', Faber and Faber, 1931; The Ackymals, one of 225 copies signed by the author, additionally inscribed 'If I had'nt had 3 pints in the Higher House & returned late for lunch & dashed off my excitations into notes, The Ackymals ... would never have written... 21/12/29', Windsor Press, 1929; How Dear is Life, PROOF COPY WITH CORRECTIONS by both the author and John Heygate, and with two full-page notes by Williamson, wrappers, lacking upper cover, Macdonald, [1954], unless stated FIRST EDITIONS, unless stated publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 7 others (unsigned) by Williamson (27)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)Street Haunting, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 430 OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED and numbered by the author in purple ink, publisher's green quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine (faded), 8vo, San Francisco, [The Grabhorn Press], for The Westgate Press, 1930This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNONJournal with a companion volume of watercolour illustrations, kept by Edward Pritchard, recording his service on board the Shannon in the Arctic and during the War of 1812, including her duel with the Chesapeake in Boston Bay, comprising:(i) 'Memorandum kept by Edward Pritchard on Board HMS Shannon', with his ownership inscription 'Edward Pritchard 1813', the entries recording his service on the Shannon between 1805 and 1815, with a few earlier entries made while serving on other ships, including the Ranger of Liverpool and the frigate Amelia (the volume opening: 'I Edward Pritchard Left Wrexham March the 18th 1804 and arrived in Liverpool the 22 of March and on the 28 of March I shiped on board the Ranger ship for the coast of Africa at 5£ per Month signed articles the 6th of April and on the 22 of April my wife Left me'); his service on the Shannon beginning on 16 August 1806 ('Drafted on board HMS Shannon then at the Nore') and ending with two entries for 15 and 18 November 1813 ('Discharged from the Shannon and Went on Board the gladiator the same day/ Exicuted at Spithead a man on [sic] the Name Warburton [Joseph Warton, deserter] taking on Board the Shannon from the Chesepeake'; recording, inter alia, events depicted in watercolour in the companion volume (see below); the journal culminating with an account of the taking of the US Frigate Chesapeake by the Shannon on 1 June 1813 ('...June 1st Bay of Boston/ Wind west at Daylight... At 1 tacked in for Boston the Chesapeake had made signal for sea tacked and stood out under easy sail – At 12 Discovered the Enemy under sail – hove to And Waited for her/ filled when the Enemy Approached – At 5-30 the Action commenced with a Dreadfull fire of round and Grape on both sides for eight Minutes when our Brave Captain Brook followed by his officers & men Borded Mr Wats First Lieutenant fell and several of our men and in 17 minuts the British Flag was Flying in Triumph But our brave Captain was severly wounded in Bording Mr Samuel Midshipman was wounded... this Action was Fought in Boston Bay 10 Miles from the Land a Great number of Boats Came out to See the Action...'); letters and documents pertaining to the engagement have also been copied into the volume, including at the very end of it Broke's challenge to the Chesapeake (seemingly from a version printed at Boston in September that year); with several ownership inscriptions of Thomas Pritchard of Wrexham, recording it as the gift of Edward Pritchard, 30 May 1841, verses and a few household recipes being copied into spare pages by Thomas; stationer's pricing of five shillings on inside cover; ownership inscription at very end by William Charles Pritchard, Holt, 24 February 1861, c.130 pages of Edward Pritchard's memoranda, plus additional pages of verse, etc., half calf, marbled boards, covers coming loose, dust-stained and with the usual wear through handling, nevertheless overall in attractive and sound condition, 4to, [begun on board HM Frigate Shannon, 1813](ii) Volume of watercolour drawings, bearing the ownership inscription on the first leaf 'Edwd Pritchard/ Jany 15th 1807', comprising some 65 watercolours, mostly of nautical subjects, plus flags, 'Jack & his Girl in the West Indies' and the like, many illustrative of the voyages of the Shannon with whom Pritchard sailed, episodes including the bombardment of Bolougne with Congreve Rockets on 8 October 1806, the great storm of 18 February 1807, the ship's three-month voyage with the Meleager within the Arctic Circle off Greenland in May, June and July 1807 (four views), the engagement between the Thétis and the Amethyst, with the Shannon coming up, and the Shannon with the Thétis in tow after her capture, November 1808, the Shannon in a heavy gale off the Isle de Dieu on 14 December 1809, and the firing of three French prizes by the Shannon off Rochefort on 19 February 1811; later ownership inscription 'Thomas Pritchards Book May 30th 1841/ The gift of Edward Pritchard Hoverton/ Wrexham North Wales', some 65 watercolours, usual dust-staining and wear throughout from handling, oblong folio (c.180 x 310mm.), artist's ownership inscription dated 15 January 1807 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTORCollection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, comprising:series of 8 autograph letters from Queen Victoria signed ('VRI'), 7 to Prince Christian Victor ('Dearest Christle' or 'Dear Christel'), speaking throughout in the most affectionate terms, sending birthday wishes on his sixteenth birthday ('...my present of silver will I hope prove useful...') and his twenty-first ('...may God guide you in the difficult path of life & may you resist the temptation which beset every young man in this world...'), sending pocket money ('...I know school boys expect a little money on going back to school...'), imparting advice to him in India ('...be very careful & if you feel...out of sorts you should go at once to the Dr & not think you can walk it off...' and '...boil the water... I hope you will remember all this...'), with another to Princess Louise, one envelope with seal in black wax, on mourning paper, 28pp, 8vo,Windsor Castle, Balmoral Castle, Florence, Nice, Osborne, 13 April 1883 to 10 August 1899; with other material including an autograph letter from Victoria, Empress Frederick to Princess Marie Louise, wishing her good wishes for her wedding in 1891, postcards and signed photographs including the 'Four Generations' photograph by W & D Downey, signed and inscribed 'The four Generations July 16 1894' and a postcard photograph of the future George V and Queen Mary signed on the reverse 'Georgie' and 'May' dated 1909; together with two autograph letters of thanks from Princess Marie Louise to George Wise sending him photographs of Prince Christian Victor's grave, various Wise family photographs and Wise's certificates of discharge from the 4th Kings Royal Rifles describing his conduct as 'exemplary'; with an album containing over 150 photographs,many with annotations, depicting Ceylon (nine by S. Cowen & Co. including 'The Perahera', 'Sinhalese Devil Dancers', 'A garden party in Kandy', 'Outcasts that live in the NW Part of Ceylon, quite harmless'), Mandalay (four by Johannes & Co, including 'Queen's Golden Monastery'), Burma and Tangiers (street scenes, elephants, temples, markets etc) interspersed with images relating to Prince Christian Victor and other royalty (including a smiling Edward VII on horseback), five depicting Boer War scenes ('Prof. Chiene & assistant doctors giving anaesthetic wounded Boer prisoner' by Bennett, 'Spion Kop' and 'Colenso Railway Bridge' by Van Hoepen of Pretoria), mostly albumen prints, images 214 x 262mm. and smaller, on 31 leaves, 4 loose, green half morocco, worn, binding defective; two loose watercolours titled 'Anjangar Woman' and 'Policeman'; with another album containing 29 cabinet photographs including The Princess of Wales and Prince Albert Victor at Abergeldy, 1886, Queen Victoria as Empress of India by Bassano, 1887, forked lightning at Cambridge 1889, the inundation at King's Lynn, March 1883 and others, inserted into 16 decorative album leaves, brown morocco, embossed floral design on upper and lower board, gilt edges and brass clasp, worn, [19th century]

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WATSON (JOHN)Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., first published edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 53 engraved plates (several folding or double-page, one printed in sepia), engraved head- and tail-pieces, occasional light off-setting, contemporary 'Etruscan' binding of panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., Warrington, W. Eyres, 1782--FOXE (CHARLES JAMES) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second; with an Introductory Chapter, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, 2 plates, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, sides with Greek key, floral and pointillé corner-pieces, g.e., W. Miller, 1808--PENNANT (THOMAS) The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, engraved vignette on title and divisional title, 22 plates (one double-page), B. & J. White, 1796; The Literary Life of the late Thomas Pennant Esq. By Himself, 4 engraved plates (one folding, hand-coloured), B. & J. White, and R. Faulder, 1793, 2 works bound in 1 vol., fine contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., 4to (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 vol.; Oiseaux, 9 vol.), FIRST EDITION, 838 engraved plates (576 and 262 respectively), 2 engraved maps, without some half-titles, occasional browning, contemporary mottled calf, the 'Oiseaux' near uniform and rebacked, slight loss to one spine label of volume 1, minor worming in upper cover of volume 9 [Nissen ZBI 672], 4to (255 x 185mm.), Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1767 & 1770-1783, sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation of this editionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper, engraved frontispiece, large engraved vignette on title, full-page engraved Royal Arms on a separate sheet, engraved dedication with engraved deer skeleton on verso, 29 engraved illustrations (of which 9 full-page), and several decorative initials on 25 leaves of letterpress, 56 full-page engraved plates with descriptive text on verso (excepting plate 56 which as an engraved illustration of an obelisk on the verso) by Jacob Schijnvoet and Gerard van der Gucht, lacking the duplicate set of engraved plates without letters, additional uncoloured aquatint portrait of Cheselden by J. Faber after J. Richardson pasted onto front free endpaper, some spotting, small area of dampstaining in the margin of a few leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered [Garrison & Morton 395; Heirs of Hippocrates 814; cf. Norman 466], folio (500 x 330mm.), London, [?William Bowyer], 1733This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title, folding lithographed diagram, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 at end, a few light spots to first few leaves and diagram, publisher's blindstamped green cloth (Freeman variant b), lettered in gilt on spine, binder's label of Edmonds and Remnants at end, a little bumped at corners and spine ends, extremities lightly rubbed [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNONPrinted document with manuscript insertions, signed by Captain Broke of the Shannon and others, certifying to the Directors of the Chest at Greenwich that on 1 June 1813 during the 'Engagement with the United States frigate Chesapeake' Alexander McClennan, private marine, first class, was wounded on board His Majesty's 'Ship Shannon' by receiving 'a severe blow of the head from a splinter or wad producing concussion of the brain, squinting of the Left eye And slight deformity of face'; signed by Philip Bowes Vere Broke as Captain ('PBV Broke'), Provo William Parry Wallis as Lieutenant ('Provo Wm Py Wallis'), Henry Gladwell Etough as Sailing Master ('HG Etough') and Alexander Jack as Surgeon ('Alex.r Jack'), also giving details of McClennan's birthplace, age and appearance, 1 page, edges neatly trimmed, guard verso, small 4to (c.130 x 140mm.), [Halifax], 30 June 1813

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DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, FIRST EDITION, folding plate, 32pp. publisher's adverts at rear dated December 1861, 2 pages with offsetting, publisher's plum cloth, covers blindstamped and upper cover with gilt orchid, lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped [Freeman 800a], 8vo, John Murray, 1862This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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HOOKER (JOSEPH DALTON)Part of the papers of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, with some of his uncle, Dawson William Turner, some 100 letters, cut signatures and photographs, comprising letters by Joseph Dalton Hooker himself (several letters, to his uncle, announcing a birth and discussing theories of education, to his first cousin Polly, regretting that he cannot spare her friend a plant – 'I am sorry to say that in the matter of shrubs, & plants from Kew it is impossible. – We have no clearings-out such as we used to have when we first began to clothe the place', and other members of the family); most of the other letters addressed to Hooker, correspondents including Charles Lyell (thanking Hooker for his note which he has added to his preface – 'They are as you can see not controversial. Huxley takes charge of it...'), Thomas Huxley, Rudolf Virchow ('...Ihre Nachrichten haben mich vergleich überrascht und herzlich gefreut. Ich bin demnuch bereit mit meine Frau die Gartfreundschaft des Herrn Doctor aufzusuchen und Ihre Mutter zer begrussen...'), Ferdinand von Mueller (from the Melbourne Botanical Gardens), Robert Bentley, John Tyndall, William Huggins, Warren De la Rue, John Herschel (to Longmans), William Crookes, James Joule, Edward Sabine, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, F.W. Hutton, John Lubbock, Albert Günther ('...My dear Hooker/ I consider it one of the highest honours I have been able to obtain, to be one of the Vice Presidents of the Royal Society...'), Henry Cole, William Armstrong, John Hawkshaw, Andrew Ramsay, Benjamin Brodie, John Prestwick, Charles Pritchard, Bernhard von Langenbeck, Richard Owen ('...I would have a 4-Wheeler ready to carry us to S. Kensington...'), G.B. Airy, George Allman, Oliver Lodge (to Dawson Turner Jr., 1922), Colonel Phipps, Secretary to Prince Albert (granting Sir William Hooker permission to walk in the grounds at Osborne), William Rowan Hamilton (to 'My dear Lord Chancellor', promising [the Rev G.H.] Puckle a 'copy of my Quarternions'), Bartholomew Price, George Stokes, J.J. Sylvester, Robert Swinhoe, the Middle Eastern traveller and scholar Gifford Palgrave (three, from Trebizond and elsewhere, to 'Dear Uncle Dawson'), Henry Enfield Roscoe, and others; plus a carte-de-visite of Whitlock's photograph of Hooker and Huxley (head and shoulders), and a Sotheby catalogue of Hooker's library (1912), tipped onto large 4to album sheets, unbound

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SAY (THOMAS)American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional pictorial title in volume one, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, half crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, t.e.g., original printed paper spine labels and one printed original upper cover label bound in [Nissen ZBI 3612; Sabin 77370], 8vo, Philadelphia Museum, Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-1828This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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STUBBS (GEORGE)The Anatomy of the Horse, FIRST EDITION, later issue, 24 engraved plates printed on wove paper (one keyplate with several tears repaired some loss to margins, 7 others with short, mostly marginal, tears repaired, 2 just touching printed area, loss to blank margin of a few), without the errata slip, several leaves of text with short repairs and marginal trace of worming, modern half morocco, reusing original marbled boards, printed label 'Stubbs' Anatomy of the Horse. £4 4s. 0d.' on upper cover [Garrison and Morton 308.1; Nissen ZBI 4027; Podeschi 57], oblong folio (425 x 555mm.), J. Purser, 1766 [but plates watermarked 1815]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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WEINMANN (JOHANN WILHELM)Phytanthoza iconographia sive conspectus aliquot milium... Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, vol. 1 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, title (in Latin) printed in red and black, text in alternate Latin and German, letterpress pp.53-200 only, 150 engraved and mezzotint plates (numbered 126-275, one folding) printed in colour and finished by hand after Ehret and others, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, spine gilt tooled with morocco, lettering labels [Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books, p.151; Nissen BBI 2126], folio (395 x 240mm.), Regensburg, Hieronymus Lenz, [1734]-1737, sold not subject to returnThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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[WRIGHT (THOMAS)An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe... and Particularly the Via Lactea], FIRST EDITION, lacking all before p.9, final leaf of text, subscribers list, and contents leaf, 32 engraved plates (of which 2 folding and 8 with mezzotint), every leaf remargined at gutter, recent half calf reusing earlier boards and spine [Norman 2265], 4to, [for the Author, and sold by H. Chapelle, 1750]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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HARRIS (JOHN)Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispieces, 9 folding or double-page engraved maps (including 2 World, and Continents), 20 engraved plates (of 22), list of subscribers, without final blank in volume 2, frontispiece in volume 1 defective, that in volume 2 laid down, World map toned, other with small area of repair, short marginal repairs to two other maps, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, folio (397 x 237mm.), Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson, and Daniel Midwinter, 1705This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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HEARNE (SAMUEL)A Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved maps (one large, hand-coloured in outline), 4 folding engraved plates, contents shaken (a few gatherings loose), untrimmed with wide margins in contemporary blue boards, old ink lettering label on spine, worn, some loss to spine, hinges weakened [Hill 791; Lande 1220; Sabin 31181], 4to (310 x 255mm.), T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1795This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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INDIAALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with inscription from Mrs. Allen dated August 1858 on frontispiece (see below), title and text printed in red and gilt, publisher's advertisement printed in gilt, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 12 full-page hand-coloured lithographed illustrations (6 views, 6 floral groups), some spotting, gilt-printed floral endpapers, publisher's green decorative cloth gilt, g.e., gutta percha perished (contents loose) [cf. Theakston, p.2, with spelling 'Guzerat' on title], large 8vo (270 x 180mm.), Paul Jerrard, [c.1858]; together with a small group of manuscript items relating to the Allens, including a 4-page manuscript account ('Deesa [near Bombay], March 10th 1844') describing a trip to Mount Abu ('... to make arrangements for Mrs. G.A. spending the hot weather there...'), George Allen's investigation into the conversion and baptism of a man named Murrolman, and an uncomfortable uphill journey carried on a bamboo chair held by 'four mountaineeers, by no means overburethened [sic] with clothing...' (small group)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHYA archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, albumen and gelatin silver prints, mostly mounted, some loose, various sizes, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the 'Almeda Star' in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity)

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MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, a handful of ink spots, contemporary speckled polished calf, gilt arms on covers, joints cracked, rubbed, 4to, Rome, sold in Paris by Le Jay, 1774This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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ARCHITECTUREJONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, titles with engraved portrait vignettes, 109 plates (of 135) on 85 engraved sheets (of 97) by Hulsbergh, Foudrinier and Cole (comprising 21 of 24 double-page; one of 5 folding), engraved head and tail-pieces after William Kent, list of subscribers, lacks frontispiece, contemporary reverse calf, worn with some loss to spine [Fowler 162; Harris 385], folio (460 x 280mm.), William Kent, 1727This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

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