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Lot 1386
LEWIS (James) Original Designs in Architecture: consisting of plans, elevations and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c. and a new design for a theatre . . . First Edition, vol. 1 only (of 2). English / Italian title, 22 engraved plates, subscriber's list; contemp. half calf & marbled boards (distressed), folio. printed for the author, 1780 * this vol. reissued 1797 in conjunction with a newly published second volume; the subscriber's list details several copies going to Italy, whilst Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Carr, Henry Holland, George Dance & James ('Athenian') Stuart were amongst the British purchasers; this copy with shelf labels - 'Luffness/D2', i.e. Luffness Castle (E. Lothian), the Earls of Hopetoun.
Lot 1395
WRIGHT (A.), editor. Twentieth Century Impressions of HongKong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. First Edition. very many illus. throughout (some full-page, including maps & plans); publisher's gilt morocco, with gilt decorated & panelled spine, g.e. & marbled e/ps., thick impl. 8vo. 1908. * an exhaustive treatise of some 848pp. Illustrated
Lot 1396
MARTIN (R.M.) China; Political, Commercial, and Social . . . First Edition, 2 vols. large folded & coloured map, 2 folded sketch maps & 4 folded tables, errata (etc.) leaf, half titles; later 19th cent. gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt-decorated & panelled spines, marbled e/ps. & edges (by Bickers). 1847. * pleasant Eton leaving inscription (with mounted photograph)
Lot 1398
KOTENEV (A.M.) Shanghai: its Mixed Court and Council . . . Chinese modern law and Shanghai municipal land regulations and bye-laws governing the life of the settlement. First Edition. errata leaf & (16 line) note tipped-in at p. 289; gilt-lettered cloth. Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, 1925.
Lot 1403
CATLEEN (E.) Peking Studies. First Edition. decorative pictorial title, num. (rolleiflex) camera studies throughout, with sketches by F.H. Schiff (some coloured, incl. a pictorial plan); decorated cloth (with mounted photo. illus.) & pictorial d/wrapper, folio. Shanghai, 1934. * a decorative (with art-deco suggestions) & desirably idiosyncratic production. Illustrated
Lot 1408
ELIOT (T.S.) (Four Quartets). First Editions, 4 vols. half titles, explanatory leaf in 'The Dry Salvages'; printed wrappers, slim 8vo. 1940-42. * i.e. Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding; they were published together (under this collective title) NY.1943 & London 1944.
Lot 1424
PRIP-MOLLER (J.) Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: their plan and its function as a setting for Buddhist monastic life. First Edition. coloured frontis., 130pp. of full-page collotype photo. illus. (some of 2/3 images, 1 d-page), 32pp. of full-page plans & other drawings (6 coloured, 2 folded), a page of music, a sketch map, 4 large folded pocket plans & num. other text illus.; gilt-lettered parchment-backed paper boards, folio. Copenhagen & London, 1937. * a truly monumental work; unsurpassed & almost certainly unsurpassable. Illustrated
Lot 1430
MURPHY (A.) The Life of David Garrick, Esq. First Edition, 2 vols. portrait frontis.; rebound leather. 1801; BOADEN (J.) Memoirs of Mrs Siddons . . . First Edition, 2 vols. portrait frontis., half titles; rebound half leather & cloth. 1827; sold with Boaden's Life of Mrs. Jordan (2 vols., 1831) & another (related) book.
Lot 1431
WARD (A.W.) The Electress Sophia and the Hanovarian Succession. First Edition. coloured portrait frontis., num. other plates (incl. a large folded facsimile, all with captioned guards) & some text illus.; publisher's red gilt-ruled half morocco & watered silk cloth, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, gilt top & marbled e/ps., folio. Goupil & Co., 1903. * a typical de luxe production from this publisher; armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Danson; sold with some 26 related reproduction portrait prints.
Lot 1457
CHAUCER (G.) The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. First Edition, 7 vols. facsimiles & other plates; gilt cloth. Oxford, 1894-97. * includes the supplementary volume; LANGLAND (Wm.) The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman . . . edited from numerous manuscripts, with preface (etc.) by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. 2 vols., gilt cloth. Oxford, 1886; sold with Boswell's Life of Johnson (edited by G.B. Hill, revised L.F. Powell), 6 vols., 1934 & 1964; & Richardson's Novels (20 vols.), 1902
Lot 1462
VERNER (Capt. W.) Sketches in the Soudan. First Edition. 37 coloured lithographed plates (by Keulemans, from the author's sketches), a coloured plan, 4pp. subscribers list, publisher's advert. leaf & 8pp. list; original cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong 4to. 1885. * with the Gordon Relief Expedition; subscriber's name on the title -'F.A.Anley / Woolwich 1885'. Illustrated
Lot 1470
BURKE (H.F.) The Historical Record of the Coronation of their Most Excellent Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra . . . First Edition. photogravure frontis. & 32 other portrait plates (some coloured, by Byam Shaw) & text illus.; half morocco & gilt-pictorial paper boards, gilt top, impl. folio, contained in the original gilt-lettered cloth slipcase. privately printed by Harrison & Sons, 1904. * not only a splendid record, but a detailed source for relevant ceremonial/heraldic information; the Proceedings of the Court Claims (reported in verbatim, on some 60pp.).
Lot 1479
KENT (N.) Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property. 2nd edition. 10 folded plates, advert. leaf; contemp. calf. 1776; together with [YOUNG, A.] View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire . . . First Edition. coloured & folded map, 27 engraved plates (3 folded); contemp. half calf & marbled boards. 1809; & 2 related volumes.
Lot 1491
STRUTT (J.) The Chronicle of England; or a Compleat History . . . of the Ancient Britons and Saxons . . . First Edition, 2 vols. 42 engraved plates; contemp. diced calf, rebacked with panelled spines, 4to. 1779; together with GASTINAU (H.) Wales Illustrated, in a Series of Views . . . 2 vols. num. steel-engraved plates, pictorial engraved title; publisher's gilt maroon half morocco & marbled boards, sm sm. folio. (1830).
Lot 1495
BYROM (J.) The Universal English Short-Hand; or, the Way of Writing English, in the most easy, concise, regular, and beautiful manner . . . First Edition. engraved title device, table & 12 plates (of examples); old binder's cloth. Manchester: printed by John Harrop, 1767. * with 2 related pamphlets bound-in: Bailey's On the Cipher of Pepy's Diary (1876) & Michell's A Universal System of Shorthand (1885); crested bookplate of A.W. Ward (Master of Peterhouse) & later pictorial bookplate of Cynthia & John Barnes (Hampton Lodge, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex). Illustrated
Lot 1497
BYROM (J.) Miscellaneous Poems . . . First Edition, 2 vols. 2 engraved vignette pictorial half titles; earlier 19th cent. half calf & marbled boards, 12mo. Manchester: printed by J. Harrop, 1773. * crested bookplates of A.W. Ward (Master of Peterhouse) & the (later) pictorial ones of Hampton Lodge, Hurstpierpoint.
Lot 617
A quantity of toy reference books, comprising The Hornby Companion Series Gauge O Compendium, Chris and Julie Graebe, first edition 1989; The Hornby Companion Series Gauge O Compendium, Chris and Julie Graebe, first edition 1985; The Hornby Book of Trains (repro cover), 1926-27(?); Hornby Book of Trains 1930-31, Hornby Book of Trains 1932-33; Hornby Book of Trains 1938-39, leaflets, including Hornby Clockwork Trains Gauge 'O' - Always on Time; Hornby Clockwork Trains - Ideal for Younger Boys; Hornby Clockwork Trains Gauge 'O'; Hornby Clockwork Trains Gauge 'O' - Layouts for Clockwork Track; Hornby Clockwork Trains Gauge 'O' - Layout suggestions for Clockwork Track, also The Bassett Lowke Story, Roland Fuller, New Cavendish Books 1984; The Model Railway Handbook, WJ Bassett-Lowke, 8th edition; Bassett-Lowke Railways, Basett-Lowke Railways Limited 1968; Bassett-Lowke Gauge 'O' Scale Model Railways, catalogue December 1946; Marklin 1895-1914, 1983 Denys Ingram Publishers; Mechanical Toys How Old Toys Work, Athelstan and Kathleen Spilhaus 1989, The All-Colour Directory of Metal Toys, Gordon Gardiner and Alastair Morris 1984; Tinplate Toys from Schuco, Bing and other companies, Jurgen Franzke, Editor, 2nd edition; Toy Boats 1870-1955, A Pictorial History, Jaques Milet and Robert Forbes 1979; Evolution Technique des Trains Jouets 1880-1930 leur fonctionnement, Udo Becher Werner Reiche 1982; The Collector's Guide to Toy Cars, Gordon Gardiner and Richard O'Neill 1989; Inestimables Corgi-CIJ/JJRD-Brooklin-Marklin-Spot on-Tekno-Mercury, Argus 2013/14; Optisches Spielzeug oder wie die Bilder laufen lernten, Georg Fusslin 1993; Model and Miniature Railways, Patrick B. Whitehouse and John Adams 1976, and Toys, Antonia Fraser 1972.
Lot 223
A pair of coloured prints of coaching scenes, mid 19th Century the first of a scene on the London to Portsmouth road, originally painted by J. Pollard, engraved by F. Rosenburgh, published 8th October 1830 by J. Watson, the second of a scene on the Brighton to Portsmouth road, 26x36cm, framed.
Lot 396
*A Rowley Gallery marquetry panel 'Italian Town', designed by Frank Brangwyn RA (1867-1956), executed by A J Rowley, inscribed to the panel and frame, labelled, 80.5cm wide 99.5cm high Even though the label is inscribed 'Italian Town', it actually depicts the fortress town of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in the Lot Valley, which Brangwyn visited often on French painting trips and was a hub for artists such as Henri Martin. *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot. The V&A's panel was first exhibited at the Sunderland Public Art Gallery in October 1920, priced at 20 guineas. Literature: For an identical panel, see Victoria and Albert Museum Collections, No. 360-1975.
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