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Click here to subscribeAgatha Christie - an autograph letter, typed and signed by the author, on Winterbook House, Wallingford, Berkshire, headed notepaper, dated 17th September 1973; Appointment With Death, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1938, 252pp, adverts [iv], top of text block gilt-edged, 21st century quarter-black morocco and black buckram boards, 12mo, [2]
Agriculture/Farming - Anonymous [Whitaker (Edward)], The Complete Grazier: Or, Gentleman and Farmer's Directory [...], Written by a County Gentleman, and originally defigned (sic) for private Ufe (sic), presumably first Irish edition, J. Potts, Dublin 1767, xii, 240pp, 20th century half-pebble red morocco and green buckram boards, gilt-embossed title label to spine, marbled endpapers, 16mo
Badham (Charles David, M.D.), A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c., first edition, Reeve Brothers, London 1847, x, 138pp, adverts (16), illustrated throughout with 20 lithographic full-page plates and frontispiece (the first 16 chromolithographs), gilt-embossed and titled drab cloth as issued, the front board with a vignette of mushrooms and fungus, 4to
Beerbohm (Max), A Book of Caricatures, first edition, Methuen & Co., London 1907, coloured photogravure frontispiece, forty-eight monochrome photogravure plates of political and literary figures, publisher's quarter tan buckram with red spine with gilt-embossed title, the front board with printed cream paper label, crown folio
Cookery - Acton (Eliza), Modern Cookery, For Private Families [...] Newly Revised and much Enlarged Edition, Copiously Illustrated, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London 1860, oxblood buckram, the spine embossed in gilt with dead game, further meat and fish, 12mo; Rundell (Mrs [Maria Eliza]), New System of Domestic Cookery, Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families [...], With Many New Receipts [...], T. Nelson and Sons, London 1863, foliate embossed green bucrkam boards, later spine and endpapers, pastedown with library stamp The Guild of Master Craftsmen, 18mo; Watts (Elizabeth), Fish: And How to Cook It, Frederick Warne & Co., London 1866, terracotta buckram printed with adverts, 16mo; Francatelli (Charles Elmé), The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant: A Practical Treatise on English and Foreign Cookery in all its Branches [...], Richard Bentley & Son, London 1874, embossed oxblood buckram as issued, 12mo; Anonymous, Soups, Savouries, Sweets, With a Chapter on Breads, By A Practical Housewife, presumably first edition, Richard Bentley and Son, London 1889, dedication inscription to endpaper: Presented by the Author, H.B.Y. To M***** D. ****way [...], oxblood cloth as issued, 12mo; The Gourmet's Almanac, 1931; others, pastry, gastronomy, etc, [10]
Lawrence (D.H.), Bay: A Book of Poems, first printing, first edition, numbered 196/200 (120 copies on hand-made paper numbered 81/200), Beaumont Press, Westminster 1919, 43pp, [i], cover and decorations by Anne Estelle Rice, the topography and binding by Cyril W. Beaumont, monochrome wooducts throughout, printer's device to verso of back endpaper, publisher's yellow patterned board, green buckram spine titled in gilt, book label to front pastedown: Marion C. Walker, Her Book, 12mo
Medical History - Mackintosh (John, M.D.), A Treatise on the Disease Termed Puerperal Fever; Illustrated by Numerous Cases and Dissections, first edition, William Blakcwood, Edinburgh 1822, 20th century red buckram, 8vo; Jackson (J.W.), Lectures on Phrenology, Delivered in Edinburgh, Published by the Author, Edinburgh 1855, lithographic frontispiece, quarter-morocco and cloth boards, 16mo; Hooper (Robert, M.D.), Quincy's Lexicon-Medicum: A New Medical Dictionary; Containing an Explanation of the Terms [...], Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co., London 1811, 20th century brown buckram spine and drab papered boards, 8vo; Seymour (Edward J.), Illustrations of Some of the Principal Diseases of the Ovaria, Their Symptoms and Treatment: To Which Are Prefixed, Observations on the Structure and Functions of these Parts in the Human Being and in Animals, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London 1830, Library: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland stamp, contemporary green buckram spine, paper boards with printed paper title-label, 8vo; Warren (Samuel, F.R.S.), Passages From the Diary of a Late Physician, two-volume set, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1848, contemporary buckram, 12mo; Alpinus (Prosper), The Presages of Life and Death in Dieseases [...], edited by R. James, M.D., volume II only, G. Strahan and J. Clarke, London 1746, 20th century calf spine and marbled boards, gilt-embossed title label to spine, 12mo; another copy, similar, disbound contemporary calf boards, 12mo; The Anatomy of Melancholy [...], William Tegg and Co., London 1876; Anonymous [Warwick (Eden)], Notes on Noses, Richard Bentley, London 1852, quarter-calf and marbled boards, 16mo; odd volumes of 18th century publications; etc
Rex Whistler - Signed Copy, Andersen (Hans), Fairy Tales and Legends, Illustrated by Rex Whistler, first edition, signed edition limited to 250 copies, Cobden-Sanderson Ltd, London 1935, vii, 470pp, half-title page autographed in MS black ink Rex Whistler above a scrolling flourish, illustrated throughout vignettes, full cream buckram gilt-embossed with rococo scrollwork, the conforming endpapers printed in green, imperial octavo
Rolls-Royce - Automobilia & Engineering - Massac Buist (H), Rolls-Royce Memories: A Coming-of-Age Souvenir, Printed at The Cambridge University Press, For Private Circulation, 1926, oak buckram and drab boards, paper title label to front board, 4to; The Metallurgist: Johann Conrad Fischer 1773 - 1854 and His Relations with Britain, first and only edition, George Fischer Limited, Schaffhausen 1947, red cloth spine, Amalfi-type papered boards, dust wrapper, MS presentation inscription: To H.J. Swift, Esq., With The Compliments and Best Regards of George Fischer Limited, Schaffhausen, 12th January, 1950, tall 4to; Harker (Ronald W.), Rolls-Royce From the Wings: Military Aviation, signed with inscribed dedication from the author to Harry Swift and his wife, Oxford Illustrated Press, Oxford 1976, h/b, d/j, 8vo; other Rolls-Royce books; The Institution of Automobile Engineers: Proceedings of the Session 1930-31, and Index [for volumes] XXI - XXV; others, [17] Provenance: Harry 'Sft' John Swift, OBE, of Thorpe House, Littleover, Derby, former Overall General Manager of Rolls-Royce.
Royal Interest - Signed & Dedicated Copy, The Book of the Queen's Dolls' Houses, edited by A.C. Benson, C.V.O., and Sir Lawrence Weaver, K.B.E., With Ninety-Two Plates of Which Twenty-Four are in Colour, two-volume set, limited to 1500 copies, Methuen & Co. Ltd., By Permission of H.M. the Queen, London 1924, volume I endpaper signed and dedicated in ink autograph MS To Mark Seymour from Mary R, December 1937, the endpaper with an applied card inscribed [...] Mark Seymour, Buckingham Palace, S.W.1., from H.M. Queen Mary, teal boards with gilt-embossed cypher of Queen Mary [George V's consort], oatmeal cloth spines with paper title labels, volume II d/j only [volume I's defective and inserted], large 4to; Souvenir Book of The Queen's Dolls' House, floppy floppy 8vo; Stewart-Wilson (Mary), Queen Mary's Doll's House, Photographs by David Cripps, The Bodley Head, London 1988, h/b, d/j, oblong 8vo, [4] Provenance: The first two-volume set, Henry Spencer, Churchdale Hall, Ashford-in-the-Water, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, Lot 273, 4th May 1972.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, With Illustrations by Willy Pogány, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London 1930, 31pp, tipped-in colour and further gilt plates conforming, the text accompanied by monochrome devices, publisher's embossed terracotta boards, d/j, 4to
The New Adventures of Rupert, first ever annual, Printed by Greycaine Limited, Watford, Hertfordshire, 1936, [for] Daily Express Publications, 124pp, [i], black-embossed red cloth, h/b, d/j, endpaper ownership entablature inscribed in ink MS Pamela M. Davie, 58 Corporation Road, Grangetown, Cardiff, the book accompanied by a photograph of the young Pamela as a girl before her father's shop J. Davie, Plumber, Hot Water Fitter, mounted, the photograph 25cm x 20cm overall, 4to Condition Report: The annual in very good condition: a nice clean copy. Expected spots of foxing to prelims and edge of text block, The pictures have not been coloured in childhood. Stable split of text block between pages 32 & 33. The dustjacket good with some speckled foxing and a stable tear at the lower-right margin of the front; the head and tail with minor creased bumps. The red cloth good.
Winnie-the-Pooh Interest - Signed and Dedicated Presentation Copy, Milne (A.A.), The Christopher Robin Verse: Being 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six', With a Preface for Parents, With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1932, xi, [iii], 211pp, publisher's gilt pictorial blue buckram boards, the front endpaper inscribed in ink MS with two stanzas of eight line verse by A.A Milne, signed and dated October 23rd 1935 by the author, above a later presentation inscription in a different hand: Given to Janet Margaret Whitehead on the first anniversary of her birth, May 27. 1940 by Herbert Masters, short 8vo; When We Were Very Young, second edition, 12mo; Fourteen Songs From "When We Were Very Young", Words by A.A. Milne, Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 16th edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1938, h/b, d/j, front endpaper with ink MS presentation inscription: To my little friend Janet Whitehead on the 2nd anniversary of her birth, May 27th 1941, With much love from Herbert Masters, small folio, [3]
A Royal Crown Derby Royal Pinxton Roses pattern shaped circular dinner, dessert and tea plate, first quality; a Royal Crown Derby Royal Antoinette pattern shaped circular dinner, dessert and tea plate and fan shaped trinket dish, first quality; a Derby Days shaped circular dinner plate, first quality; a Mikado pattern fan shaped trinket dish, first quality (9)
Military Interest, a diamond and ruby set Coldstream Guards sweetheart brooch, dating from the first half of the 20th century, the radiating pave set old cut diamond surround, approximately 1.05 carats total, with a central step cut ruby set cross within a blue enamel belt with the motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, 2.8cm long
Four various gold fob seals, unmarked, early to mid 19th century, the matrices carved with a crest, a monogram WWP and a baronet's badge; a crest, a baronet's badge and initials GN within a belt of the Order of the Bath; a crest above a shield; and a profile bust of a gentleman, perhaps William Shakespeare; and another in gilt metal with a crest, a shield and a motto (5) The first matrix for Sir William Weller Pepys, 2nd Baronet (1778-1845). The second matrix for Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB (1757-1849), a British Army officer who, after many commands, was finally Commander-in-Chief, India.
Mint uncirculated British decimal including: M2002 Commonwealth Games coin set 4x £2, Benjamin Britten 1x 50p, Transatlantic Wireless 2001 1x £2, Abolition of the Slave Trade 1x £2, The Floral 2013 £1 Two-Coin set England & Wales, 500th Anniversary of Trinity House 2014 UK £2, First Official issue one Euro 12 member states-12 coins, Special Commemorative Medal WWII 1945-2005 Brilliant Uncirculated £2 coin
A large quantity of books to include Het Binnerhof, a folio of 17 Dutch lithographs, Vitgare HC Susan CH 212, lithographers Lankhout & Co S Hage; Thomas Barker - 'His life and Work' by Frank Bradlow, pub AA Balkerna, Cape Town/Amsterdam 1967, first limited edition 777/1100 and signed by the author; Claude Lorrain - 'Leber Veritatis' by Michael Kitson, pub British Museum Publications 1978; 'The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh' by Monica Poole, pub Gresham Books 1985; 'The Family History of England, Civil, Military, Social, Commercial and Religious' Ed. Rev James Taylor, pub William Mackenzie, London, illustrated with gilt pictorial boards; 'Milton's Paradise Lost' illus Gustave Dore, pub Henry Altemus, Philadelphia; 'The Old Testament in Art' Ed by W Shaw Sparrow, published by Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1905, and 'Philips Systematic Atlas' circa 1899
"Fairfax of York: The Life and History of a Noble Family" by Gary Webb, first edition, 2001; "The Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire" by Jane Hatcher, 1985; "An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York", Volume V: The Central Area, first edition, 1981, and "The Victorian History of the Counties of England: A History of Yorkshire: The City of York" edited by P M Tillott.
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