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Lot 10
Bentley (Nicolas Clerihew, 1907-1978). Original pen and ink cartoon with three layers, circa 1932, depicting the verse 'Romance' from the book All Fall Down, the cartoon being composed of the original layer of paper on board, 15 x 13.5 cm (5.75 x 5.25 ins), showing two men seated in a railway carriage, representing the first image accompanying the poem, the second (partial) layer tipped over the first, altering the heads of the two men and representing the final image of the poem, and the third (partial) layer tipped over the first 2 layers, altering the image to represent the middle image of the poem, the three layers numbered in pencil 90, 92, and 91 respectively, together with All Fall Down! or The Nonsense Fancier's Assistant, compiled by Nicolas Bentley, Who Also Drew the Pictures, 1st edition, [1932], numerous black & white images accompanying verses, including the verse and images described above, some finger-soiling and minor marks, original yellow boards printed in red, soiled and stained, lacking spine, small 4to, plus Fantoni (Barry, 1940) , Two original pen and ink on paper cartoons, the first entitled 'Dungovernin', depicting a man and dog outside the gates of a large house with the name over the gates, sheet size 18 x 14.5 cm (7 x 5.75 ins), the second entitled 'Ronan Point Files Lost', depicted on the side of a newspaper stand selling The Times, and showing a man approaching the newspaper seller, with the caption beneath Perhaps They Were Stacked on Top of Each Other, both items signed at centre bottom and mounted on board, sheet size 17 x 12.5 cm (6.75 x 5 ins) (Qty: 4)Provenance: 'Ronan Point Files Lost' was originally in the Charles Knevitt Collection. Knevitt was the architectural correspondent for The Times in 1984 who interviewed Sam Webb - an architect who helped submit evidence to the Ronan Point inquiry held after a block of flats partly collapsed following a gas explosion in 1968 - who stated that some parts of the inquiry report had been altered. Knevitt's story ran on the front page of the paper. Soon after, the report files were released into the public domain, following which Webb alleged that some of the files he had seen in 1970 were missing, or 'lost'. Barry Fantoni was a cartoonist for The Times between 1983-1991.
Lot 100
Bunyan (John). The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come ... printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678 [i.e. c.1890], without initial and final blanks, manuscript correction to p. 172, small scorch-mark to fore edge, 19th-century calf, twin morocco labels, small 8vo (15 x 8.7 cm) (Qty: 1)A skilful facsimile of the unprocurable first edition, printed on old paper.
![Cooper (Astley). Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast, in Two Parts, Part I [all published], 1st edition, 1829, 8 hand-col](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f6a9df8e-e8f1-4dde-b413-aaa200c78ed8/5a6f4e72-88ec-4676-a014-aaa7010d7b57/468x382.jpg)
Lot 102
Cooper (Astley). Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast, in Two Parts, Part I [all published], 1st edition, 1829, 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates and 1 plain plate on india, some spotting, corner tears with loss to upper outer corners of first few leaves (title-page restored), lacks errata leaf, modern half cloth gilt with marbled boards, slim 4to (Qty: 1)Garrison & Morton 5769; Norman 511.
![[Defoe, Daniel]. The History of the Union of Great Britain, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f6a9df8e-e8f1-4dde-b413-aaa200c78ed8/00dc3493-87b0-4c87-8bf5-aaa401206f95/468x382.jpg)
Lot 104
[Defoe, Daniel]. The History of the Union of Great Britain, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1709, title with contemporary signatures Lady Margrate Montgomerie & Lord Cranstoun, with ink mark to title, initial three leaves repaired to outer corners & fore-margins, some toning and light dampstaining, later free endpapers, contemporary panelled calf with blind decoration, rebacked and corners repaired, folio, together with Byron (William) , The Trial of William Lord Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale, for the Murder of William Chaworth, Esq; Before the Right Honourable The House of Peers, in Westminster Hall..., On Tuesday the 16th, and Wednesday the 17th of April, 1765: On the last of which Days the said William Lord Byron was Acquitted of Murder, but found Guilty of Manslaughter, London: Samuel Billingsley, 1765, bound with Grosvenor (Richard) , The Whole Proceedings at Large, in a Cause on an Action Brought by The Rt. Hon. Richard Lord Grosvenor against His Royal Highness Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland; for Criminal Conversation with Lady Grosvenor..., 1770, bound with (Kingston, Elizabeth Chudleigh Duchess Dowager of) , The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy ... in Westminster-Hall ... On Monday the 15th... and Monday the 22nd of April, 1776; on the last of which Days the said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was found Guilty, London: Charles Bathurst, 1776, 20th century antique style calf backed marbled boards, folio, with Byron (William) , The Trial of William Lord Byron..., for the Murder of William Chaworth..., 1765, first & last few leaves repaired to margins, modern calf backed marbled boards, slim folio, and Pope (Alexander) , The Works of Mr Alexander Pope, 1717, half-title, title in red & black, browning and spotting throughout, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated morocco, rebacked and corners repaired, 4to, plus A Daily Exercise, and Devotions, for the Young Ladies, and Gentlewomen Pensioners at the Monastery of the English Canonesses Regulars of the Holy Order of S. Augustin, at Bruges. Collected from many good Authors, Douay: Printed by M. Mairesse, 1712, title lined to verso, some dampstaining and initial leaves frayed at head, contemporary speckled sheep, upper joint cracked, light wear, 12mo in 6s (Qty: 5)
Lot 106
Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with illustrations by Phiz, first edition in book form, Chapman and Hall, 1839, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plates as listed, some spotting throughout, contemporary polished plum calf, slightly faded, skilful antique-style gilt-decorated calf reback to match, together with Bleak House, with illustrations by H.K. Browne, first edition in book form, Bradbury & Evans, 1853, engraved frontispiece (slightly offset to additional engraved title), engraved plates as listed, lacks half-title, some spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary half calf gilt, spine label for 'Dickens's Works' to upper compartment, joints cracked, spine faded, both 8vo, plus Household Words, volumes 1-10, copyright edition, Collection of British Authors, Leipzig Tauchnitz, 1851, half-titles, double columns, some occasional marginal dampstaining, blue quarter roan gilt, slightly rubbed, small 8vo (Qty: 12)
Lot 107
Doré (Gustave, illustrator). The Vision of Hell, by Dante Alighieri, New Edition, 1866, 75 black and white full page illustrations, some spotting, armorial bookplate of John Leslie Garton, all edges gilt, 20th century green half morocco by Maltby, marbled sides, board edges and gilt-decorated spine faded, folio (Qty: 1)Provenance: John Leslie Garton was best known as a keen oarsmen, becoming first captain of boats at Eton in 1935, and then as a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, he rowed in the winning Oxford boat in 1938. For many years he was the president of the Henley Royal Regatta, and received both an MBE, for his military service and a CBE, for services to rowing.
Lot 119
Macintosh (William, or Richard Bradley). A Treatise concerning the Manner of Fallowing of Ground, raising of Grass-Seeds, and Training of Lint and Hemp, for the Increase and Improvement of the Linnen-Manufactories in Scotland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1724, 7 engraved plates of looms and tools, (some folding), marginal paper-flaw to A2, closed marginal tear to final leaf L7, contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked to style, 8vo (18.4 x 11.6 cm), together with: Economist and General Adviser. The Economist and General Adviser, containing Important Papers on the Following Subjects: the Markets, Marketing, Drunkenness, Gardening, Cookery, Travelling, Housekeeping, Management of Income, Distilling, Baking, Brewing, Agriculture, Public Abuses, Shops and Shopping, House Taking, Benefit Societies, Annals of Gulling, Amusements, Useful Recipes, Domestic Medicine, Etc., 2 volumes in 1 [all published], 1st edition, Knight and Lacey, 1824-5, containing 64 weekly numbers, title-page to each volume (both dated 1825), engraved frontispiece to volume 2 only (lacking to volume 1), wood-engraved vignettes in text, outer leaves browned, occasional spotting elsewhere, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, occasional marginalia, manuscript quotation from the Cook's Oracle to rear blank, contemporary half calf, orange morocco labels to spine, rubbed, 8vo (19.4 x 11.7 cm), and Kennett (White), The Case of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of Vicarages and Other Insufficient Cures, stated by History and Law, from the First Usurpation of the Popes and Monks, to Her Majesty's Royal Bounty lately extended to the Poorer Clergy of the Church of England, 1st edition, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704, 2A2 torn affecting pagination, variable light browning, intermittent tide-mark in top margins, effaced ownership inscription to title-page, various contemporary ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine-ends consolidated, 8vo (19.1 x 10.8 cm) (Qty: 3)Kress 3560 (Macintosh), C.1235 (Economist).
Lot 120
Mauriceau (François). Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses, et de celles qui sont accouchées…, 4th edition, corrected by the author, Paris: Chez Laurent d’Houry, 1694, bound with Observations sur la Grossesse et l’Accouchement des Femmes …, Paris: Chez l’Auteur ... 1694, bound with Observations Particuliers sur la Grossesse et l’Accouchement des Femmes. Replique de Mr. Mauriceau à la réponse de Mr. Peu, [n.p, but Paris, 1693], 3 works bound in one, first work with engraved portrait frontispiece and 32 full and half-page engravings, final four pages of final gathering of second work transposed, a little spotting and browning and occasional marginal damp staining throughout, small ink burn in gutter margin of preliminary leaves of the Traité, occasional contemporary annotations in ink, faint ownership inscription to front free endpaper and first title, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine, heavily rubbed, old strengthening at head of spine, 4to, together with Ladies Dispensatory. Neue Woleingerichtete Frauenzimmerapotheke, oder, Gründliche Anweisung, wie ein jedes Frauenzimmer in allen ihren kränklichen und geheimen Zufällen ihr eigener Arzt seyn könne, 1st German edition, Hamburg: Gottfried Richter, 1741, engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, index, glossary and errata at rear, a few headlines shaved with loss of page number where gathering cropped close, small tear at foot of page 73 touching text but with no loss, some browning and slight soiling throughout, contemporary marbled boards, some wear, with paper loss, 8vo (Qty: 2)Scarce first German edition of Ladies Dispensatory, or Every Woman Her Own Physician , published by James Hodges in London in 1739 (with a second edition in 1740).
Lot 121
Murphy (John). A Treatise on the Art of Weaving, Illustrated by Engravings, with Calculations and Tables for the Use of the Manufacturers, first edition, Glasgow: William Lang, 1824, 12 engraved plates (and one unnumbered plate) bound at rear, plate 12 partially hand-coloured, plates a little soiled and frayed and now linen-backed, ex library with ink stamps to title recto and verso and plate corners, plus endpapers, some spotting and soiling, uncut, library buckram, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 1)
Lot 123
Pointon (Priscilla) . Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Birmingham: for the author by T. Warren, 1770, bound with: 'A Young Gentleman', Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Oxford: [no publisher], 1752, 2 works in 1 volume, Pointon with half-title, lacking the single-leaf insert paginated *81-2 (the pagination and register continuous), a few trivial marks, contemporary half vellum, red morocco label, rubbed, 8vo (20.6 x 13 cm), together with: [ Jest book], Amusemens sérieux et comiques; ou nouveau recueil de bons-mots, de railleries fines, de pensées ingénieuses et délicates, de bons contes, et d'avantures plaisantes; à l'usage de ceux qui veulent apprendre le françois, ou l'anglois, 1st edition, The Hague: Isaac Vailland, 1719, English and French title-pages in red and black, contemporary tree calf, joints partially cracked, 8vo (16 x 10 cm), and 1 other (An Impartial History of Michael Servetus, 1st edition, 1724, lacking frontispiece) (Qty: 3)Provenance: 1) Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart, 6th Baronet (1788-1836; jest book only); 2) Martin Woolf Orskey (1925-2018; all items). ESTC T125991 (Pointon: eighteen copies), N21270 ('A Young Gentleman': six copies), T97140 (jest book: eight copies). The first book of verse by Lichfield poet Priscilla Pointon (c.1740-1801), who went blind 'in her thirteenth year' (preface, p. vi). The second-bound work contains the posthumously published writings of an unidentified 'young gentleman of great worth ... [who] died before he was two and twenty' (preface, p. iv), seen through the press by an evidently distraught friend; in addition to poetry it contains two acts of an oriental tragedy set in the 'Palace of Akebar'. The jest book is unrelated to the Amusemens serieux et comiques of Charles Dufresny. An edition solely in English, with a London imprint, was published in the same year, and is of comparable scarcity.
Lot 126
[Sharp, Abraham. Geometry Improv'd: 1. By a large and accurate table of segments of circles, its construction and various uses in the solution of several difficult problems... , 2nd edition, printed for Richard Mount, John Sprint, and William Innis, 1718], folding table tipped in at page 61, errata leaf and four folding engraved plates at rear, some spotting and occasional browning, a little old damp staining to lower margin of first few leaves, lacks initial blank and title-page, disbound, later marbled wrappers, 4to (22.5 x 18.5cm) (Qty: 1)A reprint of the first edition from the previous year, this second edition is identified by the errata leaf here present. It contains the earliest reference to a form closely approximating the rhombic enneacontahedron, a polyhedron composed of 90 rhombic faces, with three, five or six rhombi meeting at each vertex. Sharp gives a new table of logorithms to 61 places and presents a series of new polyhedra, especially ones with tetragonal faces and shows how to cut these new solids from cubes of wood.
Lot 129
Smith (Eliza). The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, 14th edition, 1750, engraved frontispiece, six folding engraved bills of fare, two with small hole at top affecting text, generally toned with occasional minor spotting, a few early ink annotations, preface with small hole to headpiece, final index leaf lacking lower outer corner, modern brown calf, spine with red calf gilt lettered label, 8vo, together with [Glasse, Hannah] , The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy ... the Sixth Edition, with very large Additions, 1758, lightly toned with occasional minor spots or marks, leaf T7 with repair to upper outer corner, modern brown calf, spine with green calf gilt lettered label, 8vo (Qty: 2)First item: Bitting, p. 438; Maclean, p. 134; Vicaire, p. 794. Second item: Maclean p. 59; this edition not in Bitting, Cagle or Vicaire.
Lot 135
Manuscript Journal. Reminiscences of My Summer Vacation 1873, numerous aquatint and line-engraved vignettes, two aquatints with contemporary hand-colouring, numerous leaves with manuscript journal entries describing travels through central Europe, mainly Germany and Switzerland, eight mounted vignette billhead clippings from various hotels, a mounted first class ticket for a cross-Atlantic Cunard Line Mail Steamer journey, first 2 leaves detached and lightly edge-frayed, first leaf with small stain at foot, lacking front free endpaper, original limp red morocco, extremities worn, 8vo, together with French Devotional Manuscript , Manuscript Prayer Book, 1772, 426 pages of manuscript devotions and prayers, manuscript contents leaf at front (lightly spotted), front pastedown with armorial bookplate of George Oakes Miller (Royal Chaplain at Genoa, d.1840), all edges gilt, contemporary marbled calf gilt (worn), front cover detached, 8vo, plus Forster (Theodor) , Stempel-Sammlung, 1883 [manuscript cover-title], numerous mounted small official labels, from banks, railways, consulates, tax offices, municipalities, the military etc., most circular or oval and embossed, generally 30 or less to a page, most German, a few from other European countries, especially Austria-Hungary, six leaves of manuscript contents, leaves generally toned, some edge-fraying, stitching broken, contemporary boards, in uniform portfolio wrapper, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, large 8vo, with The Antient Usage in Bearing of such Ensigns of Honour as are Commonly call'd Arms..., by Sir William Dugdale, Oxford, 1682 , and 15 others, mainly 18th and 19th century, English and French publishers, some defective (Qty: 19)
Lot 137
Vallisnieri, (Antonio, 1661-1730) . Lettre critique par monsr. Valisniery docteur en medecine à l'auteur du livre intitulé "La generation des vers dans le corps de l'homme," circa 1720s, 46 pp., (paginated 61-106), drop title, neatly written on both sides of each leaf, a further 14 pp. manuscript (paginated 107-[120] in another contemporary smaller hand bound at rear, all leaves somewhat spotted and slightly browned, several marginal circular ink stamps of Bibliotheque de Monsieur L. Dufruit, all leaves re-guarded, book library ticket of Pierre Lambert and stamp of Docteur Auvard to front endpapers, early 20th-century marbled boards with chipped title label to spine "Vallesniere contre Andry MSS. 1726", some edge wear, 4to (22.5 x 17.5 cm) (Qty: 1)This manuscript appears to be written before the published edition of the letter by Vergis in 1727 and translated from the original Italian. Antonio Vallisnieri (or Vallisneri) was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist. He was one of the first medical researchers to abandon the Aristotelian theories based on scientific principles and knowledge acquired through experience and reasoning. He therefore found himself at the centre of heated controversy, many of his contemporaries being unable to abandon prevailing medieval theories in spite of experimental evidence. The Andry-Vallisnieri dispute concerned biological generation. Letters critical of Vallisnieri would have been circulating in manuscripts such as this at the time.
![[Conan-Doyle, Arthur]. Original cover design for "The Lost World" by Conan-Doyle. The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f6a9df8e-e8f1-4dde-b413-aaa200c78ed8/fcda7384-acda-4660-a776-aaa401205ec4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 15
[Conan-Doyle, Arthur]. Original cover design for "The Lost World" by Conan-Doyle. The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly, May 1912, pen and black ink on paper, initialled and dated in brown ink to lower left corner '30/5/12. C.H.D.', 24.5 x 16.5 cm (9.75 x 6.5 ins) mount aperture, period frame, glazed (Qty: 1)Conan-Doyle's The Lost World was first serialised in 8 issues of The Strand Magazine between April and November 1912. This is the original design for the front cover of the May issue, which incorporates the magazine's standard cover image with the Conan-Doyle title at the head, and the issue date and price, volume and issue number newly set in place.
Lot 162
Blampied (Edmund, illustrator). The Blampied Edition of Peter Pan, the Original Text of Peter & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, 12 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard, full-page letterpress illustrations, some light spotting to first and last few leaves, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ink presentation inscription to blank verso, original pictorial cloth lettered in dark blue, dust jacket, spotted and some light marks, spine faded, tears and some loss to edges (some repaired on verso) , 4to, together with Dulac (Edmund, illustrator) , Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest , [1908], 40 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, some spotting, mainly to first & last few leaves and occasional margins, original green cloth gilt, spine and board edges somewhat toned, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 4to, plus Robinson (W. Heath , illustrator) , Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night or What You Will, [1908], 40 tipped-in colour plates, spotting to title and edges, front free endpaper with early ink inscription, original green cloth gilt, spine a little spotted and faded, lightly frayed at ends, 4to, with others, various conditions, including The Arabian Nights Entertainments..., by Jonathan Scott, 6 volumes, 1811, and Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, with dust jacket (Qty: a carton)
Lot 164
Boutet de Monvel (Roger & Arnoux , Guy). Le Bon Anglais, Paris: Devambez, no date, circa 1918, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates with text printed to versos, presentation inscription from the illustrator Guy Arnoux for 'Princess Jerry' to front free endpaper with later French ink inscription in an unidentified hand for Daphne [Fielding], uncut, first leaf a little chipped at foremargin, some water staining with ink bleeding affecting upper wrapper and first leaf of text, original sewn paper wrappers with hand-coloured lithographic pictorial upper cover, partly split along spine, some browning and soiling, oblong 12mo (Qty: 1)Hon. Daphne Fielding (née Vivian, 1904-1997) was a popular British author.
Lot 167
Doyle (Arthur Conan, contributor). The Strand Magazine, volumes 1-12, 1st editions in book form, George Newnes, 1890-6, wood-engraved frontispieces, text illustrations, contemporary green half calf, red morocco labels, spines sunned, 8vo (23.6 x 15.8 cm) (Qty: 12)Contains the first appearances in print of the stories subsequently collected as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-2) and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892-3).
Lot 170
Durrell (Lawrence, 1912-1990). Acte, first edition, Faber & Faber, 1965, signed presentation inscription in red fibre pen to front free endpaper from the author, 'Xan + Daphne [Fielding] from Larry D, Xmas 1965', original cloth in rubbed dust jacket, together with The Ikons and Other Poems, first edition, Faber & Faber, 1966, plus Nunquam, Faber & Faber, 1970, plus Tunc, second US printing, New York: P. Dutton, 1968, all with signed presentation inscription from the author 'Larry' to Daphne and Xan to front free endpapers, original cloth in dust jackets, the first somewhat soiled and with marginal split, the last frayed and torn with some loss, Le Grand Suppositoire, Entretiens avec Marc Alyn, Paris: 1972, similarly signed and inscribed, original printed wrappers, all 8vo (Qty: 5)Major Alexander 'Xan' Wallace Fielding DSO (1918-1991) was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II. He was married to Daphne (née Vivian, formerly Thynne) from 1953 until 1978. Xan Fielding was a close friend and sometime-neighbour of Lawrence Durrell.
Lot 179
Gilbey (Sir Walter). Animal Painters of England from the Year 1650, A Brief History of their Lives and Works, 3 volumes, 1900-1911, half title and black & white frontispiece to each volume , numerous black & white plates, volume 3 lightly spotted in places, all hinges cracked (some with old glue stains), top edges gilt, remainder uncut, original pictorial cloth gilt, some wear to extremities, spines toned and somewhat rubbed, volume 3 rear joint split, 4to, together with Sparrow (Walter Shaw) , British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, 1st edition, 1922, colour and black & white plates, generally spotted, rear hinge cracked before endpapers, original gilt decorated cloth, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, 4to (Qty: 4)First item: volume III has a slightly altered title of ' Animal Painters of England from the Year 1600'.
Lot 185
Miniature books. Small Rain Upon the Tender Herb, 4th edition, Religious Tract Society, circa 1830, occasional minor spotting, all edges gilt, original green morocco gilt, in original black morocco two-piece slipcase, lined with pink paper, 32 x 27mm (1.25 x 1ins), together with Victoria the Good Queen and Empress, by Eleanor Bulley, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1901, monochrome portrait frontispiece and 13 plates, half title, final leaf advertising 'The Midget Series', all edges gilt, original cream boards, rubbed and dust-soiled, black morocco gilt lettered labels on front cover and spine, each cover with gilt crown emblem, 76 x 65mm (3 x 2.5ins), with 12 other miniature and small format books, including: the London Almanack for 1833; Daily Verses, Religious Tract Society, circa 1833; and two blank notebooks (Qty: 14)First two items: Bondy pages 127 & 67-8 respectively.
Lot 186
Monsarrat (Nicholas), The Cruel Sea, 1st edition, Cassell & Company, 1951, additional half title, slight scattered spotting, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket with slight wear, 8vo, together with, The Ship that Died of Shame & other stories, 1st edition, 1959, additional half title, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, 4to, with The Nylon Pirates, 1st edition, 1960, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, plus The Tribe That Lost Its Head, 1st edition, 1956, additional half title, frontispiece of a map of Pharamaul, Bombay Book Depot stamp to title, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, and The Story of Esther Costello, 1st edition, 1953, additional half title, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket with some creasing and slight wear, 8vo, with another eighteen volumes by the same author mostly first editions and all but one with dust jackets, including two American first editions (This is the Schoolroom & Castle Garac), all 8vo (Qty: 23)
Lot 187
Nonesuch Press. John Milton, Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake, 2 volumes, 1926, titles within red decorative border, numerous monochrome plates after Blake, untrimmed and unopened, original vellum-backed patterned boards, 2nd volume with original glassine dust jacket, edges somewhat frayed and chipped, large 8vo, together with The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes compared toge the r by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea, five volumes, 1929, numerous black and white illustrations, free endpapers toned, original spare printed paper label tipped to each rear pastedown, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, uniform original brown cloth, printed paper labels to spines (a couple of chips), large 8vo (Qty: 7)First item: limited edition 410/1450 copies.
Lot 200
Somerville (E. Oe). Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting , 1903, twenty full-page chromolithographic plates, occasional finger-soiling or minor marks, front hinge partly cracked after half-title, original pictorial boards, rubbed with some marks, rear cover dampstained at fore-edge, large 4to, together with Brunhoff (Jean de) , Le Roi Babar, 1st edition, Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1933, colour illustrations throughout, a few pale spots to first and last leaves, page 3 with closed tear to lower blank margin, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, soiled and marked, some wear to extremities, slim folio, with two other Babar books: Les Vacances de Zephir, 1st edition, Hachette, 1936 and a later edition of Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1930s, with Elephant on copyright page, and two others (Qty: 6)
Lot 213
Ellis (M.H.) . Francis Greenaway, his life and times, limited edition 7/350, 1949, The Shepard Press, Australia, signed by the author to the limitation page, colour portrait frontispiece, colour and black & white illustrations, publishers original gilt decorated red full morocco, spine lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Charles Knight [publisher] , The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, New Zealanders, 1830, black & white map frontispiece plus illustrations, new endpapers, some light marks & toning, modern calf spine retaining contemporary half calf boards, boards rubbed with some loss, 8vo, and Ransome (Arthur) , "Racundra's" First Cruise, 1st edition, 1923, period inscription to the front endpaper & title page, black & white illustrations, some light toning & spotting, original blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other modern Antipodean reference & miscellaneous literature & history, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)
Lot 224
Stewart (Matthew). The Distance of the Sun from the Earth Determined, by the Theory of Gravity, together with several other things relative to the same subjects, being a supplement to Tracts Physical and Mathematical, lately published by the same author, first edition, Edinburgh: A. Millar, J. Nourse and D. Wilson... , 1763, viii, 96 pp., folding engraved plate, lacks second folding table and final four leaves (pp. 97-103, [1]), inscribed 'From the Author' to title verso, some browning and soiling to early leaves, heaviest on title and dedication leaves, disbound, 8vo, together with Gardiner (William), Sherwin's Mathematical Tables, Contrived after a most Comprehensive Method: Containing Dr Wallis's Account of Logarithms, Dr Halley's and Mr Sharp's Ways of Constructing Them, with Dr Newton's Contraction of Briggs's Logarithm... , 3rd edition, carefully revised and corrected, printed for William Mount & Thomas Page, 1741, folding engraved plate and folding table, old name stamp of G. Dobson at foot of first two leaves, lacks half-title, some spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, plus Harris (John), Elements of Spherical Trigonometry; together with the Principles of Spherick Geometry, and the Several Projections of the Sphere in Plano... , first edition, printed for Dan. Midwinter, 1706, six (of seven) folding engraved plates and tables, both folding tables torn, the first with significant loss, first plate soiled and creased at foremargin, two ink stamps to first text leaf, heavy marginal browning (from turn-ins) to first and last leaves, early ownership signature of G. Owen dated 1749 to title, modern calf, small 8vo, plus other antiquarian mathematical interest and related, mostly tables of logorithms, interest, etc., mostly leather bound in poor condition, various sizes (Qty: 3 shelves)
Lot 50
Anderson (Johann). Histoire naturelle de l'Islande, du Groenland, du détroit de Davis et d'autre pays situés sous le nord, traduite de l'allemand par M**, 2 volumes, 1st edition in French, Paris: Sébastien Jorry, 1750, engraved frontispiece, folding map, 6 folding engraved plates (of 7), toning, a few spots, contemporary French mottled calf, gilt spines, a little worn, small 8vo (16.2 x 9.3 cm), together with: Taylor (Isaac), Scenes in Africa, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers, 1st edition, Harrison and Son, 1820, engraved hand-coloured folding map as frontispiece, 26 engraved folding plates with 84 numbered images, later hand-colour, final 2 plates loose, original boards, rebacked, marked and worn, small 8vo (16.4 x 9.4 cm), and 5 others, early-19th-century juvenile travel accounts in English, and similar, small 8vo (Qty: 8)Anderson's work was first published in German in 1746, and contains much information on whaling.
Lot 51
Baker (Samuel White). The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1866, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, tinted lithographic frontispiece to volume 2, large folding map (with 10 cm closed tear), one further map, 11 wood-engraved plates, contemporary ownership inscriptions to initial blanks, original green pictorial cloth gilt, volume 1 rebacked with original spine laid down, pale mottling to rear board, volume 2 with scattered pale mottling, head of spine refurbished 8vo, together with: Murray (T. Douglas, & A. Silva White), Sir Samuel Baker, a Memoir, 1st edition, Macmillan and Company, 1895, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 5 plates, 4 folding maps, bookplate of Bridlington Friends' Library, endpapers browned, edges untrimmed, original dark green cloth, 8vo (Qty: 3)Czech (Africa) p. 15 for the first item.
Lot 52
Bateman (Charles Somerville Latrobe). The First Ascent of the Kasai: Being some records of service under the Lone Star, 1st edition, 1889, chromolithographed and etched plates, two maps (one folding), illustrations, some spotting and offsetting, prize label, top edge gilt, original blue pictorial cloth, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Cradle Days of Natal (1497-1845), by Graham Mackeurtan, 1st edition, 1930, half-tone illustrations, a little light spotting, original cloth, 8vo, inscribed by the author, with six others including Alex L. Du Toit's The Geology of South Africa, 1926, H. Lincoln Tangye's In New South Africa, Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia, new edition, 1900 and Clement Doke's The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia, 1931 (Qty: 8)
![China. [Five Chinese picture books, circa 1950], comprising: Picture Story of Chinese Farming, Picture Story of Silkworm and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f6a9df8e-e8f1-4dde-b413-aaa200c78ed8/4e3504df-dec7-4f54-8714-aaa40120638a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 53
China. [Five Chinese picture books, circa 1950], comprising: Picture Story of Chinese Farming, Picture Story of Silkworm and Raw Silk, Picture Story of Preparing Tea, A Study of China's Traditional Festivals, Long-Established Customs at Chinese Festivals, each comprising 22 card panels leporello-bound between purple moiré cloth-covered boards with printed paper labels in Chinese, containing text in Chinese and English and 10 hand-coloured woodblock illustrations on silk mounted within moiré silk frames, ownership ink-stamps and labels to front pastedowns, tape-repair to spine of Picture Story of Preparing Tea, and to first two folds of Picture Story of Silkworm and Raw Silk, printed labels mounted to front boards, slightly rubbed, some wear to extremities, cloth faded on a few volumes, 8vo (Qty: 5)
Lot 54
Distant (William Lucas). A Naturalist in the Transvaal, first edition, R.H. Porter, 1892, black & white plates and illustrations to text, four coloured and one plain lithographic plate at rear, small adhesion remains to outer corners of both pastedowns, original pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 1)
Lot 55
Hall (Sidney & Hughes William). Black's General Atlas, published Adam & Charles Black, 1851, printed title and index, sixty (complete as list and including two comparison plates) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, (complete as list and including two comparison plates), some dust staining particularly to the first ten maps, index bound at rear, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, upper board detached, heavily worn, stained and frayed, folio (Qty: 1)Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
Lot 80
Hansen (H. J.). Studies on Arthropoda, 3 volumes in two, 1st edition, Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1921-1930, 28 engraved plates, those in volume 3 lightly spotted (mainly at head and gutter), volume 3 with scarce underlining in coloured pencil, title to volume 3 with ink authorial presentation inscription 'Professor H. Contiere with very kind regards from H. J. H.', uniform speckled tan quarter sheep, spines rubbed and faded, 8vo, together with Bate (C. Spence & Westwood, J. O.) , A History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1863-1868, numerous black & white illustrations and vignettes to text, first and last leaves spotted, original cloth, some fading to spines and board edges, extremities worn, 8vo, with 11 others crustacea related, most bound in half leather (Qty: 16)
![[Bernard, Catherine]. Ines de Cordoue, nouvelle espagnole, suivant la copie à Paris, [Paris?: no publisher], 1697, woodcut ar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f6a9df8e-e8f1-4dde-b413-aaa200c78ed8/0370d579-2f4d-4908-9929-aaa3012fcdc6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 92
[Bernard, Catherine]. Ines de Cordoue, nouvelle espagnole, suivant la copie à Paris, [Paris?: no publisher], 1697, woodcut armillary sphere to title-page, modern wrappers, blind-stamp of John Fowles (1926-2005) to front wrapper (with a laid-in bibliographical note apparently in his hand), 12mo, together with: Primaleon of Greece, Le quatriesme livre de Primaleon de Grèce, Lyon: Benoit Rigaud, 1583, lacking front free endpaper, toning, occasional staining to corners, contemporary calf, wear, 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm), Bartoli (Baldassare), Le glorie mastose del Santuario de Loreto, 1st edition, Macerata: Pannelli heirs, 1738, possibly lacking 1 preliminary leaf, spotting, contemporary carta rustica, small 4to in 8s (15.2 x 10.4 cm), and 4 similar works , continental imprints, various formats (Qty: 7)Ines de Cordoue, by French poet and playwright Catherine Bernard (1663-1712), was first published in Paris the previous year. One copy of Bartoli's work traced in libraries (Seville).
Lot 95
Bindings. Lettres du Roy Louis XII, et du Cardinal George D'Amboise. Avec plusieurs autres lettres, Memoires & Instructions ecrites depuis 1504 jusques & compris 1514, 4 volumes, Brussels, Francois Foppens, 1712, 5 engraved portraits of Louis XII, Maximillian of Austria, Margaret of Austria, Julius II and Henry VIII, contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spines with gilt coat of arms to centre of upper cover of each volume, with motto 'Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense', a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, small 8vo, together with Stebbing (Henry). Lives of the Italian Poets, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, with numerous additions, 1832, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, plus Montaigne (Michel de). Essais, nouvelle edition avec les notes de tous les commentateurs choisies et completees par M.J.-V. Le Clerc precedee d'une nouvelle etude sur Montaigne par M. Prevost-Paradol, 4 volumes, Paris, Garnier Freres, 1865-66, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform elaborately gilt-decorated full vellum, embossed ownership stamp of George Adamson to front endpaper, and gilt entwined initilas G.A. to centre of each cover, a little rubbed and some marks, second volume with some loss to the fore-edge of upper cover, large 8vo, and other 19th century calf and morocco bindings, some printed in French and Italian, mostly 8vo (Qty: 72)
Lot 98
Boethius. Five Bookes of Philosophical Comfort, full of Christian Consolation, written a 1000. yeeres since, newly translated out of Latine, 1st edition thus, printed by John Windet, for Matthew Lownes, 1609, lacking leaf S4, small spill-burns in H7 and R1, repair to final leaf (S8) verso, contemporary vellum, loose, small 8vo (15.5 x 10.6 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC S102854; STC 3202. First edition of Michael Walpole's translation.
Lot 574
CRICKET, selection, signed, inc. caricature sketch, by Andy Bichel, Stuart Lampitt, Steve Rhodes, Phil Newport; Adelaide Oval (faded signatures to white border, 8); small artist drawing signed by Dickie Bird, Graeme Hick 100 First Class Centuries for Worcs CCC (3), posters (2), England, v N.Z. 1996 (14 sigs), v S.A. 1995 (15 sigs), Worcs CCC team photo 2006, signed by 21 players and officials to white border, miniature bats by Monty Panesar, Ashley Giles, Worcs 1980, Lancs n.y. etc., unsigned reproduction photo of N.Z. in England 1927 etc., framed & glazed (13), G to VG, 22*
Lot 912
CRICKET, original sepia photo, showing scoreboard after famous Surrey v Lancashire tied match at Hastings Cricket Festival, September 1894, scoreboard shows Lancashire bowled out for 74 to tie the match, 4.25 x 3.25, probably taken by Hawkins, from Umpire Robert Toms collection (originally sold in 1977 MCC Bicentenary auction), Thoms was the leading umpire of the period and stood in the first two test matches in England (1880 & 1882), corner crease, G
Lot 992
HORSE RACING, selection of signed letterheads, compliment slips etc., inc. Kevin Darley (first name only), Linda Stubbs, Mark Prescott, Bryan Smart, Aiden O'Brien, Susan Piggott, Gaselee, J.T. Gifford, Scobie Breasley, Arthur Moore, Seamus O'Neill, Greville Starkey, Julia Cecil, C.L. Rutter, Richard Pitman, Stan Mellor etc., many unsigned, in plastic folder, G to EX, 100*
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