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Lot 228
AUSTEN (Jane), Pride and Prejudice, two volumes, London: for T. Egerton, 1817, third edition, 12mo, armorial bookplates, contemporary inscription to first leaves 'Elizabeth Maria Philipps/Williamston', lacking half-titles, titles slightly foxed, front endpaper of vol. II torn, light foxing throughout, contemporary half calf (rubbed), corners a little bumped, gilt spines. Note: Elizabeth Maria, only daughter of Colonel Owen Philipps, of Williamston, Pembroke, married David Arthur Saunders Davies, of Pentre, Boncath, in 1829.
Lot 236
DICKENS (Charles), Pickwick Papers, 1837; Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; Dombey & Son, 1848; Bleak House, 1853; Little Dorrit, 1857; Our Mutual Friend, 1865, 2 vols. in one; all first editions in book form, some typical foxing to illustrations, each volume with an original paper upper wrapper bound in at the front, full calf gilt (6)
Lot 239
THACKERAY (W M), Vanity Fair, 1849; The History of Pendennis, in 2 vols 1850; The Newcomes, in 2 vols. 1854-55; The Virginians, in 2 vols 1858-59; added vignette titles, some typical spotting or staining, uniform half calf; DICKENS (C) Our Mutual Friend, in 2 vols., 1865, 8vo, illustrated by Marcus Stone, foxing to plates, half calf; KINGSLEY (Charles) Westward Ho!, in 3 vols Cambridge 1855, 8vo, slightly toned, half calf; one other later by Thackeray; WHYTE-MELVILLE (G J) Works, 20 vols. c.1860, early or first editions, contents toned, half calf (lacking one spine label); most vols. with Arundell Neave armorial bookplates (33)
![WILDE (Oscar), The Picture of Dorian Gray, London etc.: Ward Lock and Co, no date [1891], first edition with misprint on p. 2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7f740fe8-0ef9-4bec-ba43-a687009f4f06/20e713a4-0d1a-4263-e05f-2b71770a4cba/468x382.jpg)
Lot 254
WILDE (Oscar), The Picture of Dorian Gray, London etc.: Ward Lock and Co, no date [1891], first edition with misprint on p. 208, line 23, 8vo, edges uncut, original rough beveled grey boards (worn), vellum spine, rebacked, butterfly design in gilt on upper cover by Charles Ricketts, lacking the advertisements at end.
Lot 258
Literature and Poetry, Victorian and later, including TITMARSH (M A), Mrs Perkins's Ball, Chapman and Hall, n.d., coloured plates, some foxing, half calf (rubbed); LANG (Andrew), The Animal Story Book, 1896, first edition, illustrations, cloth gilt; RACKHAM (A, illus.), A Christmas Carol, 1933 reprint, 8vo, spine faded; others including 20th century poetry, maritime, some children's illustrated; some leather bound, novels in dust wrappers, etc. (quantity)
Lot 262
CHRISTIE (Agatha). First editions. Many Crime Club Choice, including 4-50 from Paddington, 1957, d.j.; A Caribbean Mystery, 1964, d.j. (a little toned); The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 1962, d.j. (tears to head and foot of spine); Nemesis, 1971, d.j.; By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 1968, d.j.; Destination Unknown, 1954, d.j.; Dead Man's Folly, 1956, d.j. (worn); Ordeal by Innocence, 1958, d.j. (torn along spine); Postern of Fate, 1973, d.j.; Endless Night, 1967, d.j.; with further 20 volumes without dustjackets, mostly 50s and 60s, some earlier including Hercule Poirot's Christmas, 1939; The Hollow, 1946; Taken at the Flood, 1948; The Hound of Death and Other Stories, Odhams Press 1933; also three later reprints in blue cloth (30)
Lot 263
First Editions. WODEHOUSE (P.G.). Hot Water, 1932, covers stained; Lord Emsworth and others, 1937; Uncle Dynamite, 1948; Full Moon, 1947; Spring Fever, 1948; Cocktail Time, 1958; Ice in the Bedroom, 1961; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, 1963; all without dustjackets, few later editions, some covers stained; GREENE (Graham), The End of the Affair, 1951, cloth; The Quiet American, 1955, cloth (front cover a little stained); The Comedians, 1966, cloth; The Honorary Consul, 1973, d.j.; WAUGH (Evelyn), Unconditional Surrender, 1961, d.j.; Officers and Gentlemen, 1955, cloth; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957, cloth, two copies; Love Among the Ruins, 1953, d.j.; also FORSTER (E. M.), The Hill of Devi, 1953, d.j.; and some others, condition varies (27)
![[WATKINS-PITCHFORD (Denys J)] ''BB'' , A Child Alone: The Memoirs of BB, illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford, Michael Joseph 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7f740fe8-0ef9-4bec-ba43-a687009f4f06/085ca53a-9a1f-44fa-b281-415eb9aa6695/468x382.jpg)
Lot 271
[WATKINS-PITCHFORD (Denys J)] ''BB'' , A Child Alone: The Memoirs of BB, illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford, Michael Joseph 1978, signed to title page, original cloth gilt, dustjacket; Tide's Ending, Michael Joseph 1980, signed to half title, dustjacket; A Summer on the Nene, Kaye & Ward 1967, first edition, dustjacket; Dark Estuary, Michael Joseph 1980, signed to half title, dustjacket. (4)
Lot 272
THOMAS (Dylan), Quite Early One Morning, London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1957, dustjacket; A Child's Christmas In Wales, illustrations by E. Ardizzone, Dent 1986, paperback; The Beach of Falesa, London: Jonathan Cape 1964, first edition, dustjacket; FERRIS (P., ed.), Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters, Dent & Sons 1985, first edition, dustjacket; MAUD (R., ed.), The Notebook Poems 1930-1934, 1989; BRINNIN (J. M.), Dylan Thomas in America, 1988; DAHL (Roald), My Uncle Oswald, 1979, first edition, dustjacket; Book of Ghost Stories, 1983, first edition, dustjacket; Guide to Railway Safety, illustrations by Quentin Blake, 1991, five copies; The Minpins, 1991, dustjacket; The Mildenhall Treasure, 1999, dustjacket; Rhyme Stew, 1989, dustjacket; Dirty Beasts, 1985; GALLICO, Snowflake, first edition, 1952, dustjacket; with some other Christmas stories (23)
Lot 273
WYNDHAM (John), The Seeds of Time, 1956, first edition, dust wrapper; Omnibus: The Day of the Triffids , The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, 1964, dustjacket; Web, 1979, first edition, wrapper; and three other paperbacks; MILLER (H), Tropic of Cancer, first UK edition, 1963, wrapper; Tropic of Capricorn, 1952, paperback; ALLINGHAM (Margery), Mr Campion's Lady, 1965, wrapper; GASH (J), The Very Last Gambado, 1989, dustjacket; MASTERS (P), Night Visit, 1998, signed by author to title, wrapper; and few other science fiction titles (14)
Lot 276
Poetry and literature, 20th century. HUXLEY (Aldous), Heaven and Hell, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London 1956, cloth, with dust wrapper; THOMAS (Dylan), Under Milk Wood, first reprint edition 1954, dust wrapper; AUDEN (W H) City Without Walls, first edition 1969, dust wrapper; AUDEN (W H) & C. ISHERWOOD, On the Frontier, second impression 1939, dust wrapper; FORSTER (E M) Two Cheers for Democracy, first edition 1951, chipped wrapper, author's signed postcard of thanks loosely inserted; others by Christopher Fry, Ronald Firbank, Herbert Read; etc.
Lot 278
WODEHOUSE (P.G.), The Head of Kay's, first edition, A & C Black 1905, 8 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell (two or three loose), one with marginal stain and short tear, presentation inscription to first leaf, slight foxing to half title and first and last few leaves, original pictorial cloth, slightly stained.
Lot 281
WELLS (Herbert George) The Shape of Things to Come, first edition, 1933, inscribed by the author to David Low 'from the other man who is always right about them', original cloth; Things to Come, first edition 1935, chipped wrapper; The Brothers, 1938, first edition, inscribed by Wells to David Low 'To my Spiritual Brother David'; The Croquet Player, 1936, inscribed to David Low by the author, dust wrapper; Apropos of Dolores. 1938, inscribed by Wells to half title to David Low, dust wrapper chipped; The Autocracy Of Mr Parham, first America edition 1930, chipped dust wrapper; The King who was a King, 1929, author's compliment slip pasted in; two others (9)
Lot 284
PRIESTLEY (J B), Delight, first edition 1949, signed numbered edition inscribed to David Low, quarter vellum; MAISKY (I M) Before the Storm, signed slip from the author to Low to first endpaper dated 1944; SHOLOKHOV (M) Quiet Flows the Don, reprint 1934, signed; others, various including poetry and literature.
Lot 291
KAY (John), A Series of Original Portraits and Character Etchings, modern facsimile edition, 2 vols; BIRTLES (E. W.) Annals of the Lodge of Joppa, No. 188, London 1933, privately printed, half calf; BANVILLE (John), First Light, The Bridgewater Press, 2006, 8vo, original green calf backed cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, first edition, limited edition of 138 copies signed by the author, one of 12 specially bound copies (4)
Lot 292
BENCHLEY (Peter), Jaws, Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1974, 8vo, first edition, inscribed by the author "Keep yours shut if you know what's good for you, Peter Benchley", recently finely bound in full dark blue morocco, boards with single gilt line panel, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rules and centre tools, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; The Island, first edition New York 1979, signed, dust wrapper (2)
Lot 294
MAUROIS (Andre), A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, translated from the French by David Garnett, Jonathan Cape 1938, first English edition, 8vo, four wood engravings by Edward Carrick, spine slightly faded; LANCASTER (Osbert) With an Eye to the Future, 1967, one of 100 special signed copies, slip case; few others early and mid 20th century.
Lot 300
A collection of uncorrected proof copies and first editions. Some with dustjackets. GREENE (Graham), A Burnt-Out Case, Heinemann 1961, uncorrected proof; SPARK (Muriel), Memento Mori, Macmillan 1958, uncorrected proof; BATES (H. E.), A Breath of French Air, Michael Joseph 1959, uncorrected proof; MACLEAN (A. D.), Winter's Tales, No. 8, Macmillan 1962, uncorrected proof; CHURCH (R), The Crab-Apple Tree, Heinemann 1959, uncorrected proof, dustjacket (worn); DE MARE (Eric), London's Riverside, Max Reinhardt 1958, illustrations, a proof copy, dustjacket; KING (Alexander), Mine Grows Older, Heinemann 1959, a proof copy, worn dustjacket; ASHFORD (Daisy), The Young Visitors, or Mr Salteenas Plan, Chatto & Windus 1919, first edition, publisher's marbled boards, dust jacket torn; BROOKE (J., ed.), The Denton Welch Journals, Hamish Hamilton 1952, first edition, dustjacket; with others, few later editions (14)
Lot 302
CHURCHILL (Randolph S.) and Martin GILBERT, Winston S. Churchill, 24 volume biography, a complete set, including companion volumes and Churchill War Papers (three volumes), all first editions, 1966-2000, occasional sun fading, all in dustjackets, final volume signed by the author to title page (24)
Lot 314
ACKERMANN (R) Publisher. The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, 15 volumes, 8vo, First Series: vols V-VII (1811-1812) and IX-XIV (1813-1815), Second Series: vols I-V (1816-1817) and vol. X (1820), armorial bookplates, circa 376 coloured plates of fashion, furniture and design etc., worn half calf, few spines damaged, few title pages missing; sold not subject to return (15) Condition: The majority of fabric samples are missing in volumes V and VI. There are only two present in vol. V.
Lot 350
HOROLOGY. ALLIX (C) and P. BONNERT, Carriage Clocks, 1989; BASSERMANN-JORDAN (E. Von), The Book of Old Clocks and Watches, 1964; CESCINSKY (H), The Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks, 1670-1820, first edition, 1938 (dustjacket sealed); SYMONDS (R W), Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, 1940, limited edition, plates, cloth; LYMAN (Ian P), Railway Clocks, 2004, good in dustjacket, DARKEN (Jeff) and J. HOOPER, English 30-Hour Clocks, 1997, signed no' 46/50, in cloth-slip case; RIDGWAY and PRIESTLEY, Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 2004, signed title, dustwrapper (7)
Lot 368
BAKER (Samuel W), The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, in 2 vols., London: Macmillan 1866, 8vo, folding map and illustrations as called for, some age staining to first and least leaves, half calf lightly rubbed;PALGRAVE (William Gifford), Narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, London: Macmillan, 1865, in two vols., 8vo, portrait, folding map hand-coloured in outline and 4 folding plans (one of which damaged and incomplete), foxing to first and last leaves otherwise good, half calf; DU CHAILLU (P) Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, London: John Murray 1861, 8vo, folding map (loss to one corner), frontispiece, illustrations, half calf; MacMUNN ( Major G F) The Armies of India, painted by Major A C Lovett, A & C Black 1911, 4to, signed edition de luxe (500), tipped in colour plates, covers stained; BUSSEY G M) History of Napoleon, in 2 vols., London 1840, illustrated by Vernet, frontispiece stained, rubbed calf; 3 others (11)
Lot 379
WALLACE (Harold Frank), The Big Game of Central and Western China, first edition, John Murray: 1913, 8vo, first edition, photogravure frontispiece, maps and plates, original pictorial cloth (slightly soiled), spine faded; Big Game, Wanderings in Many Lands, 1934, plates, cloth; CHAPMAN (Abel), The Borders and Beyond, 1924, 8vo, coloured plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt. (3)
Lot 386
COOK (Captain James), A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, two volumes, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779, third edition, 4to, bookplates of Benjamin Clay, plates as required, a tear to the first plate of volume I; COOK (James) and KING (James), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, three volumes, London: H. Hughs, 1785, second edition, 4to, plates as required, lacking atlas volume, all contemporary full calf (rubbed and cracked) (5)
Lot 83
PANVINIUS (Onuphrius), Veronensis fratris eremitae augustiniani. Imperium romanum, small 8vo, Paris: Egidius and Nicolaus Gillius, 1588, bound with FRONTINUS (Sextus Julius et al.) De coloniis lib. Legis, woodcut device to both titles, title page stained, full calf (worn, few indentations mostly to the edges), spine gilt (ends cracked), first free endpaper slightly loose.
![[THEOFAN, Bishop of Pskov and Novgorod], The Russian Catechism, London: Downing, Stokoe and Meadows, n.d. [1723], 8vo, first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7f740fe8-0ef9-4bec-ba43-a687009f4f06/8a1da09d-60e5-44c4-a015-82e38d2a6de6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 85
[THEOFAN, Bishop of Pskov and Novgorod], The Russian Catechism, London: Downing, Stokoe and Meadows, n.d. [1723], 8vo, first edition in English, bookplate of the Earl of Caledon, engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates (two folding), including an engraved folding table of the Cyrillic alphabet - one of the earliest in an English book, full calf, some spotting throughout. Condition: This appears to lack a plate, as frontispiece, 4 plates and table are required. This copy has frontispiece, folding table and 3 plates.
Lot 92
HOLLAR (Wenceslaus), Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus or The Severall Habits of English Women, from the Nobilitie to the contry Woman, as they are in these times, 1640, small 8vo, (18.5 x 11cm), title and 26 plates; bound with Theatru Mulierum sive Varietas atq Differentia Habituum Foeminei Sexus., London 1643, title and 48 plates; some age staining and spotting, in an early 19th century binding (rubbed) with presentation inscription to first blank from Sir J. Newport to Lady Grenville. Condition: Possibly a later printing. State unknown. Four latter plates in part 2 are dated '1663' or '1664' in the plate.
Lot 196
Minton First Period Part Tea and Coffee Set, circa 1805 pattern nr 180 'Nelson's Flame', comprising one tea pot and cover, one tea pot stand, sugar basin and cover, milk jug, two bread and butter plates, seven coffee cups, seven tea cups, one tea cup of a different design, eleven saucers. Provenance: In the mid-19th Century Mr Herbert Minton wrote to Mrs Boultbee of Salford Vicarage of the 'Nelson Flame' Pattern Tea Service, in the letter he confirmed that the shape was modelled in 1805 and the pattern was designed at the death of Nelson which took place on the 21st October of the same year. The set is understood to have been made for Mr Boultbee of Liverpool (father of Rev. Thomas Boultbee of Salford & Bidford) in recognition and gratitude for a money loan to help Mr Minton establish his factory. The service has remained in the Boultbee family since that time.
Lot 243
W.J. Koster, Contemporary Landscape, entitled 'Krommenie' dd 1972, with gallery label to verso 'Dienst Voor's Rijks Verspreide Kunstoorwerpen' initilled lower left W.K. dd 1972, approx 60 x 51 cms, together with a pine framed and glazed print of a young woman, approx 40 x 55 cms and a collection of miscellaneous pictures, including two prints of Trout, the first being "Brook Trout" and the second "Rainbow Trout", appox 56 x 25 cms, a small screen print of contemporary design, approx 16 x16 cms, a sepia sketch of a pig, approx 13 x 17 cms, a cartoon print taken from The Daily Mail of October 15, 1998 signed by MAC, approx 28 x 20 cms, a water colour painting of a hunter with dogs, approx 20 x 28 cms and a pastoral water colour signed bottom left, approx 34 x 24 cms. (7)
Lot 78
Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, published Cassel & Co dated 1893 and Chatto & Windus 1890. Beautifully bound by Royal bookbinders James Henderson & William Bissett Edinburgh, bound in maroon leather with red, gold and black and white marbling. First editions including Island Nights Entertainment, Ballads, Vailima Letters, Weir of Hermiston and a Footnote to History. Note: Ex Libris James David Lumsden of Huntingtowerfield, Perth, Scotland.
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