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Lot 181

Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, second issue, wood-engraved illustrations, lacking half-titles and publisher's advertisements, list of works to verso of titles of both vol., vol.I ownership inscription to front endpaper, vol.II ownership label to front endpaper, a very little spotting and soiling, contemporary half calf, spines attractively gilt, rubbed, later crudely-fashioned cellophane wrappers affixed with tape, [Freeman 937], 8vo, 1871.

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Lot 148

NO RESERVE Watts (Charlie) Ode to a Highflying Bird, first edition, colour illustrations, price label tipped-in, ownership inscription to front endpaper, original boards, soiled and with superficial splitting to spine, Beat Publications, 8vo, [1964].

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Lot 83

America.- Hancock (John) An Expostulatory and Pacifick Letter..., last p. blank, [Evans, 5202], Boston, 1743 § [Ogden (Uzal)] A Letter to Major General Alexander Hamilton..., woodcut device to title, [Sabin, 40446], New-York, 1800 § [Brown (John)] The Examiner Examin'd..., half-title, woodcut decorations throughout, [Evans, 3997], Boston, 1736 § Hart (Cyrus W.) Colloquy between Two Deists..., a few contemporary ink manuscript marginalia, ownership inscription to title, Poughkeepsie, 1816 § Coale (Edward J.) Trials of the Mail Robbers..., contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper, Baltimore, 1818, first editions, soiling and foxing, first and last original wrappers, others disbound, last wrappers nicked and creased, some loss; and 15 others, similar, all with US imprints, v.s. (20)⁂The first by the father of the celebrated signatory to the US Declaration of Independence. The second a reply to the 'Letter from Alexander Hamilton Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States'.The last rare in wrappers.

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Lot 70

Swift (Jonathan).- When the Cat's Away, The Mice May Play..., [Foxon, W384], for A. Baldwin, 1712 § [Parnell (Thomas)] An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry, half-title, for Benj[amin] Tooke, 1713 § Browne (Isaac Hawkins) De animi immortalitate. Poema, by J.&R. Tonson & S.Draper, 1754 § Smith (Edmund) A Poem on the Death of Mr. John Philips..., [Foxon, S516], for Bernard Lintott, [1710] § Brown (John) Honour. A Poem, half-title, [Foxon, B504], for R.Dodsley, 1743, first editions, each but second woodcut head- and/or tail-pieces and initials, third and fourth also title devices, some soiling and browning, a few creases and nicks, first 2pp. loose as issued, others disbound, first in custom-made cloth chemise with ex libris of Jerome Kern to upper cover, rubbed, upper cover detached, 4to & small 8vo (5) ⁂ESTC states that the first is often erroneously attributed to both Swift and Matthew Prior; the attribution to Arthur Maynwaring seems sounder.

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Lot 24

Trade.- Law.- Insurance.- Straccha (Benvenuto) Tractatus de Mercatura, seu Mercatore Omnia, collation: a-e, A-z, Aa-Yy8, woodcut printer's device to title and final recto, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, title repaired with loss of a few letters, some supplied ink ink (including date, which is erroneously given as 1576), a2 with partially erased ink stamp, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary vellum over boards, lacking ties, 8vo (149 x 91mm.), Venice, Michael Bonelli, 1575 [1576].⁂ Stracca's works on commercial law and Pedro de Santarem's important work on insurance, which is considered by Kress to be 'the first modern treatise on insurance'. Literature: Not in Adams; Kress 156; EDIT 16 CNCE 26382.

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Lot 201

Paulian (Aime Henri) Dictionnaire de Physique, 3 vol., first edition, engraved vignette titles and head-pieces, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, 16 folding engraved plates, occasional light damp-staining to vol.3, heavier to first gathering, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, extremities a little rubbed, Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1761 § Encyclopedie Francoise, Latine et Angloise, 2 vol., titles in red and black, browning and occasional light damp-staining to vol.2, Harry Carter's copy with his ink ownership inscription to vol.2, contemporary half calf, rebacked, London and Lyons, J.-M. Bruyset, 1761, 4to (5)⁂ Harry Carter (1901-82), English typographer and writer.

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Lot 71

Swift (Jonathan).- "by the Author of The Black-Bird's Song". A New Voyage to the Island of Fools..., second edition, 1p. publishers' catalogue, [Goldsmiths 5278], for James Read and R.Burleigh, 1715 § [Haywood (Eliza Fowler)] A Letter from H---- G----g, Esq..., [Spedding Ab.66.1a], 1750 § [Hill (John)] Lucina sine Concubitu..., half-title, by M.Cooper, 1750 § [Arbuthnot (John)] A Postscript to John Bull..., bound with A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn..., and A Farther Continuation..., and The Fourth and Last Part..., fourth edition, divisional titles, for J.Moor, [1714] § Cibber (Colley) A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, contemporary ink inscription to half-title, by W.Lewis, 1742, second, third, and last first edition, woodcut decorations, faint soiling and browning, third as issued, stitched, last later wrappers, others disbound, third edges friable, 8vo (5) ⁂ The first a reissue of the sheets of the first edition but with a cancel title.

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Lot 78

Pope (Alexander) An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, [Foxon, P802], by J.Wright, 1734 § Woodhouse (James) Poems on Sundry Occasions, errata slip pasted to title verso, [not in ESTC], for the author, 1764 § The Summer Miscellany..., [Case, 438b], for T.Cooper, 1742 § Pope (Dr . Walter) The Wish, third edition, half-title, publisher's advertisements, [Foxon, P994], for Tho.[mas] Horne, 1710 § Thomson (James) The Castle of Indolence..., advertisement f. (with glossary verso) bound after title, [Foxon, T181], for A. Millar, 1748, each but third first edition, first, third, and fourth woodcut decorations, some faint browning and staining, last edges friable, second 19th-century boards, lower board detached, last original wrappers, others disbound, last torn with loss; and c.65 others, similar, v.s. (c.70)

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Lot 196

NO RESERVE Marconi (Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and electrical engineer, 1874-1937).- The Royal Engineers Journal [The first appearance of Marconi's paper on "Wireless Telegraphy"], plates and illustrations, contemporary half cloth, folio, 1899.

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Lot 155

Africa.- Big game.- Bell (W.D.M.) The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, illustrations, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, some spotting or staining, original buckram-backed boards, corners bumped, dust-jacket, with pieces missing from spine ends, affecting title at head, corners worn, some chipping and creasing, [Czech p.15], small 4to, 1923.⁂ Bell's first book, which is hard to find in a dust-jacket.

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Lot 72

[Rawlinson (Richard, editor)] Miscellanies on Several Curious Subjects..., first edition, title with engraved portrait of Anthony à Wood, Contents leaf misbound at end, lightly browned, some leaves trimmed, later calf, gilt, rubbed, for E. Curll, 1714 § Addison (Joseph) Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, 4 parts in 1 (each with separate title and pagination), engraved portrait, general title and preliminaries bound after first part, lacking 2 final advertisement leaves, rather soiled and stained, D1 of 'Poems' (first leaf of 'The Bowling Green') torn with slight loss, old ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, a little worn, rebacked, new endpapers, E.Curll, 1725, 8vo (2)

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Lot 195

NO RESERVE [Marcet (Jane Haldimand)] Conversations on Vegetable Physiology..., 2 vol., first edition, 4 engraved plates, 1829; Conversations on Chemistry..., 2 vol., twelfth edition, 18 engraved plates, vol.I 1 plate detached and taking following f., 1832, bookplate with Parke coat-of-arms to front pastedowns, Parke family ownership inscriptions, foxing to peripheral ff. and several ff. fore edges, some faint soiling, a few hinges splitting a little, contemporary green quarter calf, rubbed, spines faded, 8vo (4) ⁂Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858) writer of popular books on both the natural and the social sciences; Michael Faraday acknowledged both a 'deep veneration' for her and the singular influence she had on his childhood development.

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Lot 199

Metrology.- [Paucton (Alexis Jean Pierre)] Métrologie, ou Traité des Mesures, Poids et Monnoies des anciens Peuples & des Modernes, first edition, half-title, woodcut device on title and ornaments, with errata, 6pp. privilege and final blank at end, light damp-staining and slight fraying to half-title, title and first few leaves, old ink stamp to a few leaves, modern half calf, [Goldsmiths' 11963; Kress B.305], 4to, Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1780.⁂ Important work on weights and measures.

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Lot 186

Owen (Richard) A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds, 1846 § Hutchinson (Rev. H.N.) Extinct Monsters..., booklabel of John Foster to front pastedown, publisher's catalogue, 1893 § Kippis (A.) A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook..., 1893 § Whymper (Charles) Egyptian Birds..., 1909, first first edition, woodcut and/or lithographed illustrations and/or plates, first folding table, a little foxing, last full morocco prize binding, others original cloth, last prize plate to front pastedown, first rebacked, each a little rubbed, 8vo (4)

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Lot 146

NO RESERVE Thurber (James) Fables for Our Time..., illustrations, Blackwell booklabel to front pastedown, a little foxing and soiling, 1940 § Whistler (Laurence) Rex Whistler 1905-1944..., frontispiece and illustrations, signed presentation copy from Sir John Maud to David Hardman, 1948 § Whistler (Laurence) Pictures on Glass, unnumbered from a limited edition, frontispiece and illustrations, Suffolk, The Cupid Press, 1972 § Lee (Brian North) The Bookplate Designs of Rex Whistler, one of 350 copies with frontispiece tipped-in, plates, Middlesex, Private Libraries Association, 1973 § Sitwell (Sacheverell) Valse des Fleurs..., unnumbered from an edition of 400, wood-engraved devices by Reynolds Stone, endpapers and slip-case to designs by Henry Moore, York, The Fairfax Press, 1980, first two first editions, first original printed boards, others original cloth or quarter cloth, second and third gilt, first two dust-jackets, nicks, tears, soiling, third, fourth, and fifth slip-case; and 12 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (17)⁂Sir John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud (1906-1982) British civil servant and diplomat, attendee at the Third General Conference of Unesco in 1948; David Hardman (1901-1989) MP for Darlington 1945-51, also an attendee. The inscription: "For David Hardman | in grateful memory of the Unesco Conference in Beirut | Christmas 1948 | from John Maud".

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Lot 197

Mathematics.- Lydiat (Thomas) Tractatus de varijs annorum formis vsurpatis a gentibus quarum illustria fuerunt regna & res gestæ, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, tables, water-stained, contemporary limp vellum, 8vo, [STC 17047], [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] ex officina Nortoniana, 1605.⁂ First printed work of Thomas Lydiat of New College, Oxford, who relinquished the Church for the study of mathematics and chronology.

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Lot 178

Food & Drink.- Tanara (Vincenzo) L'Economia del Cittadino in Villa, half-title, title with woodcut vignette of ploughing, old ink inscription on title, browned, water-staining at beginning and end, mostly marginal, small ink stain to lower margin of Bb1, modern half calf, uncut, Venice, S.Curti, 1674 § Redi (Francesco) Bacco in Toscana, engraved frontispiece, woodcut device on title and head- & tail-pieces, foxed, contemporary limp marbled boards, spine reinforced with paste-paper strip, manuscript label, uncut, rubbed, slight wear to spine, [cf. Simon BG 1268, first edition], Venice, Guglielmo Zerletti, 1763, 4to & 12mo (2)⁂ The second is a famous poem on wine and other drinks including chocolate, tea and coffee, originally published in Florence in 1685.

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Lot 57

Ussher (James, Bishop of Meath) A Briefe Declaration of the Universalitie of the Church of Christ..., second impression, by Robert Young, [STC 24546], 1625 § Adams (Thomas) Heaven and Earth Reconcil'd..., lacking final blank, several ff. a little loss to fore edge, by W.W[hite], [STC 122], 1613 § [F.D.] A Sermon Taken Out of an Oxford Scholar's Pocket..., for Tho[mas] Fabian, [Wing D20], 1688 § Williams (Daniel) The Protestants Deliverance from the Irish Rebellion..., for Tho[mas] Cockerill, [Wing W2654], 1690 § Wilson (Timothy) A Seasonable Question in a Sermon..., by T.S., [Wing W2951], 1690, first two several ff. contemporary ink manuscript marginalia, each but third and fourth woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, and decorations, first also title device bearing motto cor unum via una, each a little browning; and 9 others, related, small 8vo (14)

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Lot 127

NO RESERVE Hope (Alexander) Lammermoor Rhymes: by Sandy Hope: A Tribute to his Memory, first edition, frontispiece portrait, ink inscription on front free endpaper, hinges splitting, original cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded, [not in BL], [Galashiels], [?1911]; and 7 others, 8vo & 4to (8).

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Lot 99

Slavery.- [Clarkson (Thomas)] An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African; translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, second edition, half-title, Printed and sold by J. Phillips, 1788 bound with Smith (Rev. Samuel Stanhope) An Essay on the Causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, D. D. Vice-President and Professor of Moral Philosophy In the College of New-Jersey; And Member of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia, advertisement f. at end, [Edinburgh], Philadelphia printed, and Edinburgh reprinted, for C. Elliot, Edinburgh; and C. Elliot and T. Kay, at Dr Cullen's Head, Opposite Somerset-Place, No 332. Strand, London, 1788, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn, but holding firm, 8vo⁂ The first mentioned work includes a list of 'Tracts on Slavery Printed for J. Phillips'.

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Lot 187

Thompson (William) The New and Complete Bird-Fancyer, engraved frontispiece of song-birds (lightly offset on title), Alex. Hogg, 1783 bound with Smith (Robert) The Complete Rat-Catcher..., 3 folding engraved plates, cropped shaving a few leaves at fore-edge, for the Author, 1768, together 2 works in 1 vol., browned, with ink signature at head of first title and engraved bookplate of the Hon. Edward Monckton of Sumerford Hall, Staffs., contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco label, worn patches to upper cover, 12mo⁂ ESTC lists 3 UK locations for the first item (BL, Cambridge, Wellcome) and one in America (Kansas), and only one copy of the second item (St.John's Cambridge). The plates in the latter are identical with those used in Smith's Universal Directory for taking alive and destroying Rats published in the same year, with printed page numbers that go beyond the length of the present work, so are presumably taken from it; the Cambridge copy has four.

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Dictionaries.- Antiquities.- Danet (Guillaume) A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, first English edition, approbation f. at beginning, 3 folding engraved maps, advertisement f. at end, 1 map trimmed to border and laid down, occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Wing D171], for John Nicholson, 1700 § Chambers (E.) Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 vol., second edition, titles in red and black, engraved plates, contemporary calf, worn, but holding firm, for D. Midwinter [and others], 1734; and 4 others, Dictionaries of arts, sciences or religions, most with engraved plates, v.s. (7)

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Lot 77

[Arbuthnot (John)] Gnothi seauton. Know Your Self. A Poem, [Foxon, A290], for J.Tonson, 1734 § [Martin (Thomas)] "A Gentleman". Captain John Peddie: An Heroic Poem, [Foxon, M118], for the author, 1741 § Arms and the Man. A New Ballad, [Foxon, A292], for L.Raymond, 1746 § The Sequel of Arms and the Man: A New Historical Ballad, [Foxon, S202], for W.Webb, 1746 § Discontent the Universal Misery..., [Foxon, D324], for T.Cooper, 1734 § [Powney (Richard)] Templum Harmoniae. Carmen Epicum, half-title, [Foxon, P1016], Charles Bathurst, 1745, first editions, titles with woodcut devices, most woodcut decorations throughout, some soiling and browning, last original wrappers, others disbound, 4to & folio (6)⁂The first the only separately published poem ascribed with certainty to Arbuthnot.

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Lot 66

[Gildon (Charles)] Love's Victim..., lacking advertisement f., foxing and browning, by M.Bennet, 1701 § Gay (John) The Distress'd Wife, half-title, no press figures on pp. 8 and 39, for Thomas Astley, 1743 § [Smollett (Tobias)] The Regicide..., contemporary ink inscriptions to title (one reading "Bank Coffee House"), for J. Osborn, 1749 § Woodward (Henry) A Letter...to Dr. John Hill..., third edition, for M. Cooper, 1752, each but last first edition, each but first woodcut head- and/or tail-pieces, soiling, foxing and/or browning, first two disbound, others later wrappers; and 40 others, similar, 8vo (44)

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Lot 147

NO RESERVE Uttley (Alison) Little Grey Rabbit Goes to the Sea, first edition, colour illustrations by Margaret Tempest, original boards, dust-jacket, lower cover discoloured, spine slightly chipped, 1954; and c. 16 others, Children's, 8vo (c. 17).

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Lot 105

Soul of Harmony (The); being a Collection of...Glees, Catches, Duets, and Songs..., 2 parts in 1, ?first edition, engraved frontispiece, some browning, later half red calf, spine gilt, Norwich, R.M.Bacon..., [?1804] § Polyhymnia: Or, the Complete Song Book, small portion of loss to G3 and N1 affecting some text, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, 19th century green calf-backed boards, spine gilt, for F. Newbery, 1769, 8vo (2)⁂ The first dated 1816 at foot of spine but all but one copy on COPAC suggests 1804. The second with only 6 copies listed on ESTC (not in BL).

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Lot 104

McCreery (John) The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignettes and head- & tail-pieces, foxing, mostly to Part I, inscribed by the author to John Mallet Esq. and with manuscript poem by him tipped to verso of frontispiece, original boards, uncut, rubbed and stained, rebacked, 4to, Liverpool [Part II London], 1803-27.⁂ The second part is scarce and rarely found with the first.

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Lot 86

NO RESERVE Scrope (Elizabeth) Miss Scrope's Answer to Mr. Cresswell's Narrative, half-title, contemporary ink inscription "Eliz: Scrope. | No: 340." to final f. verso, for R.Baldwin, 1749 § Cresswell (Thomas Estcourt) A Narrative of the Affair between Mr. Cresswell, and Miss Sc--e..., for Charles Green, [1747], first editions, faint foxing and soiling, first disbound, second later wrappers, first uncut, 8vo (2) ⁂Cresswell's and Scrope's respective accounts of their relationship, a cause of prurient media attention at the time. Cresswell was a serial bigamist, and fathered illegitimate children with several women.

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Lot 75

NO RESERVE Shuckford (Samuel) The Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected..., 2 vol., first edition, titles in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, faint browning, contemporary calf, spines gilt, also large gilt coat-of-arms to all boards, both vol. small library labels to spines, joints splitting a little, a little loss at spine ends, for R.Knaplock and J.Tonson, 8vo, 1728-30.

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Lot 154

Turning.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner..., first edition, engraved additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, Privilege leaf misbound after Preface, engraved head-pieces and 71 plates only (of 72, lacking plate 66), one folding, plate 65 shorter and loose (supplied from another copy), also lacking pp.155-158 of text, title lightly soiled, some browning and marginal water-staining, staining to a few plates, one with marginal tear, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, joints split, spine a little worn at head, [Berlin Kat. 1246], folio, Lyons, Jean Certe, 1701; sold not subject to return⁂ The first book on turning.

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Lot 167

Japan.- Morse (Edward S. ) Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, first edition, illustrations, attractive modern half calf, spine gilt, Boston, 1886 § Ayrton (M. Chaplin) Child-Life in Japan, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, splitting to upper joint, light wear to spine ends and corners, 1879 § Fortune (Robert) Yedo and Peking. A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved folding frontispiece, 8 plates, and illustrations, folding map at end, frontispiece a little browned and creased at folds, modern bookplate of Cliff Parfit and with ink ownership stamp on half-title and final leaf, modern black morocco, by Coleman, t.e.g., 1863, 4to & 8vo (3)

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Lot 92

[Lambe (Thomas)] Lycidas..., woodcut tail-pieces, title and first 2ff. detached, for Thomas Pote, 1762 § "A Gentleman of Oxford". Mr Addison Turn'd Tory..., offsetting and foxing, for J. Baker, 1713 § [Woodward (Josiah)] Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady, title soiled, by J. Nutt, 1704 § Fielding (Henry) The Wedding-Day..., title with woodcut device, also woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, foxing and soiling, for A. Millar, 1743, first editions, second original wrappers, lacking lower wrapper, others disbound; and c.45 others, similar, 8vo (c.50)⁂The first Lambe's only work, containing Lycidas, Delia, and Verses on the Death of the Marquis of Carmarthen (the pieces comprising his entire oeuvre); the volume was published to a mixed reception: The Monthly Review was direct: '...we conceive it impossible for [Lambe] to misemploy his time in any way more than attempting the province of poetry': The Critical Review discerned in Lambe 'a bloom of genius'.

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Lot 120

Woodcroft (Bennet, translator) The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the original Greek, first edition in English, additional decorated title, illustrations, occasional light foxing, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped and chipped, some splitting to lower joint, 4to, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

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Lot 188

NO RESERVE Willdenow (Carl-Ludwig) Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis..., first edition, half-title, library label of Madame la Duchesse d'Ursel to front pastedown, a few pencil inscriptions, a very little faint soiling, hinges splitting a little, contemporary half sheep, a little worn, [Pritzel 10285], Berlin, 8vo, 1809.⁂Bound with Willdenow's 1813 supplement.

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Lot 737

An unusual bronze "The First Centenary of The Birth of Robert Burns" Medallion. Dated 1859. Est. £20 - £30.

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Lot 211

Six African spears, including two Masai spears, one of 206cm in length, one of 195cm with broader blade, the first having tribal markings on lower end, a hunting spear with small leaf shaped head and 'spade' terminal of 187cm in length, a fishing spear with barbed head 173cm and two spears from the Congo region with 'chiselled' points, the shafts of wood, iron and copper bands, 152cm each Condition: Minor crease to tip of hunting spear, otherwise all display general light wear - **General condition consistent with age

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Lot 226

Cornish Mining Interest - 19th Century tin ingot, Richard Rooke Michell (1810-1872), of rectangular form with two inset reserves, first R.R. Michell & Co Marazion, the second with Lamb of God (Agnes Dei), possibly for the Carvedras Smelting Works, captioned beneath Treriefe, flanking initials BF, 37.5cm x 13cm x 5cm Condition: General manufacturing imperfections including dints and pock marks but otherwise sound - **General condition consistent with age

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Lot 241

Books - Mark Twain - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, published by Chatto & Windus, London, first UK edition 1886, blue cloth bindings Condition: Please telephone department for further details

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Lot 243

Books - Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, published by Rapp & Whiting, first UK edition 1969, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

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Lot 244

Books - Joseph Heller - Catch 22, published by Jonathan Cape, first UK edition, third impression 1962, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

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Lot 245

Books - John Steinbeck - East Of Eden, published by William Heinmann, first UK edition 1952, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

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Lot 271

A 19th century leather bound book, containing handwritten thoughts, titled Memorabilia and first dated 1868

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Lot 276

Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, first edition

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Lot 3

Mercedes Benz 280 SL Pagoda, first registered 13.11.1970, approximately 90,000, MOT to February 2020, gold, automatic transmission, restoration in 1991, and further restoration 2016, little used sinceSubject to a 12% inclusive buyers premiumThis lot is sold without warranty or guarantee actual or implied and it is the purchasers responsibility to put it in to safe and roadworthy condition in accordance with the relevant statutes and legal requirements before use:Signed ............................................

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Lot 668

An unmarked first period Worcester porcelain slop bowl, decorated in the printed blue and white La Terrè and The Three Figure Mother and Child pattern, diameter 6.5insCondition Report: Inspected and no issues found

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Lot 137

BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Portrait miniatures of two sisters, the first identified verso as Elizabeth Stacy (1822-1912) and the second as Mary Stacy (1824-1868), oil probably on ivory, unsigned, each approximately 7.5cm x 6cm, uniformly framed.

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Lot 345

STAMPS - GREAT BRITAIN Assorted booklets, prestige booklets, presentation packs and first day covers, (total decimal face value over £44).

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Lot 395

[ARCHITECTURE]. BRISTOL Dening, C.F.W. The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol, first edition, Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1923, two-tone cloth, tipped-in black and white plate illustrations, quarto (lacking spine strip).

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Lot 404

[MISCELLANEOUS] Forty-five Pan paperbacks; together with a further seven paperbacks by Corgi (4) and Fontana (1); and chevalier, Gabriel. Clochemerle Babylon, translated by Edward Hyams, first British edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1955, boards, dustjacket, octavo, (53; box).

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Lot 468

The Immortal 2.9 Alfa-Romeo 8C2900 by Simon Moore, first edition 1986, published by Parkside Publications.

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Lot 479

Goodwood Revival The First Ten Years by Doug Nye and The Glory of Goodwood The Spiritual Home of British Racing.

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Lot 105

*Calvert (Edward, 1799-1883). The Ploughman, 1827, wood engraving, printed in black ink on pale cream/grey wove paper, the third (final) state, from the edition of 350 impressions published in Samuel Calvert's A Memoir of Edward Calvert by His Third Son, 1893, image size 82 x 127 mm (3.25 x 5 ins), sheet size S 260 x 367 mm (10.25 x 14.5 ins), hinge-mounted Lister, Edward Calvert (1962), 6b, iii/iii. Highly self-critical as an artist, Calvert printed very few proofs during his lifetime, the blocks remaining in his studio until first published by his son in the edition of 1893. (1)

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Lot 113

*@Drury (Paul, 1903-1987). Canal Scene, Bishop's Stortford, 1936, etching on pale cream wove paper, plate size 16 x 19.7 cm (6.25 x 7.75 ins), sheet size 23.7 x 28 cm (9.3 x 11 ins), framed and glazed, with handwritten inscription to verso 'Bishops Stortford by Paul Drury. Exhibited at Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers first show at their new Bankside Gallery, 17th January to 12th February 1981' Garton 46 (probably 5th state). No published edition. This work was created from a drawing made at Bishop's Stortford in the summer of 1936 when the artist was staying with William Larkins, and first exhibited at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1937. (1)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 124

Leighton (Clare, 1898-1989). The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, written and engraved by Clare Leighton, 1st edition, Collins, 1933, 12 wood engraved plates, printed from the original blocks, sheet size 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 ins), bound in original green cloth gilt, faded to extreme edges and minor fraying to extreme foot of spine, with repaired dustwrapper, oblong folio, together with a copy of the 1992 re-issue of the same work by the Sumach Press, with an afterword by Patricia Jaffe The Farmer's Year was the first book Clare Leighton wrote, engraved and designed, including the 12 full-page designs, the title vignette and tail-pieces to each of the 12 chapters. The artist wrote that the experience of making the work gave her 'a delicious sense of complete oneness'. (2)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 134

*Ravilious (Eric, 1903-1942). Children in a Park, wood-engraving on hand-made Japanese vellum paper, from the edition of 100 printed by Ian Mortimer from the original block at I.M. Imprimit, published by Merivale Editions, numbered in pencil 69/100, sheet size 29.3 x 20.7 cm (11.5 x 8.2 ins), loose in original printed wrapper First printed in an edition of 20 and exhibited at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1926. (1)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 135

*Ravilious (Eric, 1903-1942). Boy Bird's Nesting, wood-engraving on Zerkall wove paper, from the edition of 500 printed by Ian Mortimer from the original block at I.M. Imprimit, published by Merivale Editions, numbered in pencil 90/500, sheet size 29.3 x 20.7 cm (11.5 x 8.2 ins), loose in original printed wrapper First printed in an edition of 15 and exhibited at the Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1927. (1)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 15

*After Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (circa 1455-1508). Portrait of Beatrice d'Este, 1490, 19th century oil on wood panel, a copy of the famous portrait in the Pinacotheca Ambrosiana, Milan (and previously believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci), some minor surface scratches to lower edge, and several old wormholes, 19th century (or early 20th century) Florentine wood frame with egg-and-dart (ovolo moulding) inner border, decorative Florentine-style painted outer border, with dentil carved outer border and stepped outer edge in gilt, with contemporary small printed label of Alfonso Dori, Corso, Borgo SS. Apostoli 14-16 Firenze to verso A good quality copy after the famous portrait of Beatrice d'Este often ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, but now given to Ambrogio de Predis. Recent research by Martin Kemp and others has also suggested that the sitter is not Beatrice d'Este but Anna Maria Sforza (1476-1497), the first wife of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Alfonso Dori is listed in a 1930 edition of the Annuario Toscano as a Florentine leather worker and bookbinder, founded in 1891. (1)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 201

*@Clough (Prunella, 1919-1999). Chimes, 1991, oil on canvas, signed to reverse of canvas, 76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 ins), framed, with Annely Juda Fine Art label to verso of stretcher Provenance: From the estate of the actor Sir Alan Bates (1934-2003). Exhibited: Probably first exhibited at Annely Juda Fine Art, Prunella Clough: Recent Paintings: 24 September-30 October 1993. Along with Gillian Ayres, Prunella Clough is regarded as one of the most important and influential female abstract painters of the post-war era. Other personal effects from the Estate of Sir Alan Bates are offered for sale in our auction on Wednesday 6th March. (1)

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 210

*Hatt (Doris Brabham, 1890-1969). Saint Paul de Vence, circa 1930, watercolour and pencil on paper, 23 x 23 cm (9 x 9 ins), framed and glazed, with Court Gallery label to verso The daughter of a Mayor of Bath and a professional concert pianist, Doris Hatt went first to Berlin in 1909 to train as a pianist and to study art, but returned to England to continue her studies at Goldsmith's College and The Royal College of Art. She moved to Clevedon in 1922 with her widowed mother. Her early work was shown at the Clifton Arts Club in 1921 alongside works by Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. In 1925 she moved to Paris to work in the studio of Fernand L‚ger, returning to Clevedon an ardent communist. She exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1943 and the Modern Art Gallery in 1944 with Sickert, Kokoschka, Pissarro, Modigliani, and Spencer. (1)

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