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Click here to subscribeSCOTT (Peter) Morning Flight, 1936; Wild Chorus, 1939; bound together, signed and inscribed by the author, half morocco gilt; Portrait Drawings, 1949, signed, dust wrapper; SCOTT (Captain R.F.) Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vols. 3rd edition 1913, cloth gilt; CHERRY-GARRARD (Apsley) The Worst Journey in the World, first single vol. edition, 1937; GORDON (Seton) Edward Grey of Fallodon and his Birds, 1937, signed, edition of 750, dust wrapper (6)
Norwich - History. Notices and Illustrations of the Costume, Processions, Pageantry, &c., Norwich: Charles Muskett 1850, large folio, 13 hand coloured plates including frontispiece, 9 other lithograph plates, spine chipped; GOULBURN (Rev. E. M.) The Ancient Scupltures in the Roof of Norwich Cathedral. London 1876, 4to, autotype plates, bright cloth gilt, a.e.g.; TAYLOR (Richard) Index Monasticus, ... the Diocese of Norwich, 1821, folio, lacks backstrip; COLMAN (J J) Biblothecha Norfolciensis, 1896, uncut, bright cloth gilt; FITCH (R) Views of the Gates of Norwich, 1861, small 4to, etched plates, original cloth; KNIGHTS (Mark) The Highways and Byeways of Old Norwich, 1887, one of 350 small quarto copies, foxing mainly to first and last leaves, one plate loose; JAY (G B) The First Parish Register of St George of Tombland, 1891, no. 8 of 98 numbered copies, light foxing to edges, WOODWARD (S) The History and Antiquities of Norwich Castle, 1847, 4to, plates, 12 plans with hand colour, light foxing, cloth (8)
Various. JONES (Barbara) The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition 1951, illustrated, dust wrapper; The Dunlop Book, no date, 4to, fine paper edition, printed in red and black, coloured maps, original morocco gilt; SNOW (C P) Corridors of Power, first edition, 1964, dust wrapper; PRATCHETT (Terry) Reaper Man, first edition 1991, dust wrapper; HYDE (Montgomery) The Trials of Oscar Wilde, 1948 reprint; PROULX (Annie) Brokeback Mountain, first UK edition 1998, slim 8vo, soft cover; ELIOT (T S) The Waste Land and Other Poems, first Faber & Faber edition 1940, 8vo, dust wrapper; few others including French bindings (18)
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Dictionnaire de Musique. Paris 1768, 8vo, 13 folding plates, 19th century calf. Note: Printed in the same year as the first edition, Dufour 251 [Bibliography of Rousseau] describes this as a pirate edition because it does not include the 'Approbation' nor the 'Privilege du Roi' which are called for on the title page
YEATS (W.B.).A collection including The Tower, first edition, Macmillan 1928, 8vo, occasional scattered light foxing, original gilt pictorial green cloth, slightly rubbed; Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth...First Edition Macmillan & Co, 1926; Where there is Nothing, 8vo, first English London 1903 , original green linen-backed grey paper boards, slight spotting; The Wind Among the Reeds. London: Elkin Matthews, 1903. 8vo, contemporary gilt cover (faded), top edges gilt, inscription M.T.M August 1899 on front free endpaper; Samhain: edited for the Irish Literary Theatre by W.B. Yeats. Dublin: Sealy Bryers & Walker 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905 (two copies), illustrations, original printed paper wrappers, illustrations; also others by James Joyce etc. (21)
BAYNES (Thomas) Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present, four volumes, no date, circa 1880, 4to, engraved plates, spotting to some first leaves, original cloth gilt; CARR (F.G.G) Vanishing Craft, 1934, illustrated by Frank Mason; BERTOUCH, Baron de, Passion Flowers, 1901, signed edition de luxe, No 1/50, gilt covers and others (11)
TOLKIEN (J. R. R.) The Lord of the Rings, first editions and first impressions, 3 vols. 1954-55, vol. 3 in third state with sagging text and signature '4' to p.49 and unbroken 'Men' on p.281, folding maps, light offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends only slightly bumped, otherwise very good to near-fine, dust-jackets unclipped with darkened spines, some tears, creases and age wear
WOOLF (Virginia) Street Haunting. San Francisco: The Westgate Press, printed by the Grabhorn Press, 1930. Number 420 of 500 signed copies, original green morocco backed patterned boards, fading to spine, internally clean, with slipcase. Note: Originally published in the Yale Review, this elegant signed volume is the first separate publication of Street Haunting. It was not separately published in the U.K. (Kirkpatrick A13a)
OGILBY (John)The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse, first edition, London: Thomas Roycroft 1665, folio, title in red and black, frontispiece and 77 plates of 80 (missing plate 1, 7 and 57; plates numbered 1-81 but plates 14/15 as a single plate), frontispiece plate trimmed and remounted, title and first few leaves repaired without loss of text, some pencil marking to text, recased old calf.
Two rare 18th century catalogues. SECOUSSE. Catalgoue des Livres de la Bibliotecheque de M. Secousse, 1755, 8vo, rebacked calf, gilt arms to covers, bound without the separately published index (this only appeared during the auction sale. SENEBIER (Jean) Catalogue raisonne des Manuscrits conserves dans la Bibliotheque de la Ville et Republique de Geneve, first edition, Geneva 1779, 8vo (2)
Two Anatolian rugs, mid-20th century, the first 4ft. 5in. X 3ft. 4in. 1.35m. X 1.02m. Two blue octagons with hooked medallions within and inner star centres; the second 4ft. 3in. X 2ft. 6in. 1.30m. X 0.76m. Slight wear and slight losses to ends. Mid-blue central lozenge and khamtoz border.(2)
Two Baluchi double khorjin, Khorasan, north east Persia, circa 1930s-40s, the first, 5ft. 1in. X 2ft. 2in. 1.55m. X 0.66m. Red field vertical floral bands; ivory main border, complete with plainweave backs, brocaded ends and closings with brightly coloured wool details and woollen loops, tassels and fringing; the second, 3ft. 8in. X 1ft. 9in. 1.12m. X 0.54m. Fading and slight moth damage. Leaf and medallion design on a dark blue field. Plainweave brocaded back; plaited woollen loops; finely brocaded closings; tassels and fringing. (2)
Two Turkmen rugs comprising: the first: Tekke Turkmen 7 x 6 compartmented gul chuval face, Turkmenistan, early 20th century, 2ft. 6in. X 4ft. 5in. 0.76m. X 1.35m. Overall wear; small holes; losses to lower elem. Saffron highlights to the kelle motifs in the lower elem. The second a small rug by the Ersari Turkmen of Beshir, Turkmenistan, early 20th century, 3ft. 3in. X 2ft. 9in. 0.99m. X 0.84m. Slight losses to lower end. Colourful triangle medallion design to the field; conjoined medallion main border. An intriguing hand written note attached to this piece reads: 'In my mind I reserved this piece for Mr. J H & one day he will love it!' As this rug remained in the present owner's collection, one assumes either Mr. J. H. saw it and didn't love it, or perhaps he never got to see it in the first place! (2)
Two Anatolian rugs, the first a Kula rug, central Anatolia, early 20th century, 4ft. 10in. X 3ft. 1in. 1.47m. X 0.94m. Red lozenge shape central medallion within a pale blue floral border. The second a Konya rug, central Anatolia, early 20th century, 6ft. X 3ft. 6in. 1.83m. X 1.07m.Slight wear; losses to lower end. Light red field with pale blue floral medallion and main border. (2)
Two Anatolian rugs, the first: Kayserie 'art' silk(?)prayer rug, north central Anatolia, late 19th/early 20th century, 5ft. X 3ft. 8in. 1.52m. x 1.12m. Overall wear, heavy in places; the second, Transylvanian prayer rug, early 20th century, 5ft. 9in. X 4ft. 1.75m. X 1.22m. Overall wear with pieces rejoined in places; repairs and patches; surface marks; losses to ends. (2)
Bergama rug, west Anatolia, circa 1920s-30s, 3ft. 10in. X 2ft. 10in. 1.17m. X 0.86m. Two stepped octagonal medallions on an ivory field. Together with a Moroccan rug, (check exact area) first half 20th century, 7ft. 5in. X 4ft. 2in. 2.26m. X 1.27m. Overall even wear; hanging loops to lower end. (2)
Two Yomut Turkmen flatweave chuvals, Turkmenistan, late 19th century, the first, 2ft. 2in. X 3ft. 6in. 1.07m. X 0.66m. Brocaded with 5 x 5 sekis-kochak gul within very narrow borders; remains of wool closing loops; the attached plainweave back with holes and repairs. The second, brocaded with bands of guls within narrow borders; plaited wool loops to top; plainweave back. Holes and repairs. (2)
Two Karabakh runners, the first: Lampa-Karabakh runner, south west Caucasus, late 19th century, 14ft. X 3ft. 4in. 4.27m. X 1.02m. Overall wear, heavy in places; small repairs; losses to ends. Faded. Bird and medallion design. The second: Karabakh runner fragment, south west Caucasus, late 19th/early 20th century, 8ft. 5in. x 3ft. 9in. 2.56m. x 1.14m. Reduced in length both ends. Overall wear; heavy in places; splits to ends. (2)
Two European flatweaves, the first probably from the Balkan peninsula, mid-20th century, the first a kelim, 6ft. 1in. X 3ft. 1in. 1.86m. X 0.94m. the stone coloured field with diagonal rows of potted specimen flowers within a terracotta border, hanging loops to one long side; the second a knitted rug, 20th century, 6ft. 6in. X 4ft. 5in., 1.98m. X 1.35m. of ivory geometric design on a dark brown field, unlined. (2)
Three brown silk Japanese couched metal thread embroidered rectangular panels with raised metal work details, first half 20th century, each 52in. X 21in. 132cm. X 53cm. one embroidered with hen, cockerel and chick among bamboo; the other two with two birds in flight with flowers below. The birds with bead eyes (some missing) All unlined. (3)
Yomut Turkmen 3 x 3 gul chuval face, Turkmenistan, late 19th century, 2ft. 4in. X 3ft. 8in. 0.71m. X 1.12m. The whole of the left side main border and inner guard has been cut and rejoined; although as far as we can ascertain only a tiny width is missing as can be seen from the linking branches between the first and second kelle motifs in the lower elem. Splits and repaired crease mark to right side.
Two Kurdish khorjin faces, north west Persia, early 20th century, the first 1ft. 5in. X 2ft. 2in. 0.43m. X 0.66m. Overall wear; losses to ends. Pale blue field and wide ivory main border; the second, 1ft. 9in. X 1ft. 11in. 0.54nm. X 0.59m. Dark blue field with single medallion and narrow red border. (2)
Two Kirshehir rugs, central Anatolia, early 20th century, the first a prayer rug, 4ft. 2in. X 3ft. 2in. 1.27m. X 0.97m. Overall wear with losses to ends; some colour run. Pale pink mihrab with pale green narrow frame and pale green spandrels; the second, 5ft. 9in. X 3ft. 5in. 1.75m. X 1.04m. Overall wear with corrosion to dark brown; small holes; some repairs/repiling and losses to ends. Pale yellow field with floral medallion and floral sprays to the corners; dark brown floral main border. (2)
Pair of Tibetan rugs pale yellow/gold fields, inner Asia, second half 20th century, the first 4ft. 8in. X 3ft. 5in. 1.42m. X 1.04m.; the second, 4ft. 7in. X 3ft. 4in. 1.40m. X 1.02m. Both with a single floral roundel at the lower end of the field with a single small floral motif at the top end. Lustrous wool and relatively soft handle. (2)
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