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![[COMBE (William)] The Tour of Dr Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10091/2873198/233-201329102345_468x382.jpg)
Lot 233
[COMBE (William)] The Tour of Dr Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, first edition 1821, 8vo, 20 hand coloured aquatint plates as required, typical offsetting and finger soiling, full contemporary red morocco gilt, a.e.g.
Lot 235
WOODCROFT (Bennet) A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation from Authentic Documents, London 1848, small 4to, added lithographic title and plates after J.C.Bourne and H.B.Barlow, first free end paper with 5cm edge tear, occasional finger staining, publisher’s blind stamped cloth gilt, author’s own bookplate to first paste down
Lot 246
~ H ~ SEARLE (Ronald) Good collection of his own or illustrated works, including first editions in dust jackets of: Back to the Slaughterhouse, 1951; Down with Skool, 1953; The Terror of St Trinians, 1952; Back in the Jug Again, 1959; Whizz for Atoms, 1956; The Rake’s Progress, 1955, 4to; The Piddingtons, 1950; The St Trinian’s Story, 1959, 4to; Russia for Beginners, 1960; A Christmas Carol, 1961, 4to; An Evening at the Larches, 1951; A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind, 1950; and many others including paperbacks, condition varies, many in dust jackets (50)
Lot 248
~ H ~ GRAHAME (Kenneth) Collection of works, including: The Golden Age, 1915, 4to, plates by R.Moony, damaged wrapper, dusty; various non-first editions of Dream Days, The Golden Age, and The Wind in the Willows (with a 1913 first illustrated edition, though rather age worn); together 33 vols (condition varies, some rather stained and worn)
Lot 249
~ H ~ Childrens and illustrated, various including: POTTER (B) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition 1908, recased in original boards, replaced end papers, contents rather soiled; HEATH ROBINSON (W) Heath Robinson at War, 1942, paper wrapper; BEARDSLEY (A, illustrator) Under the Hill, Paris: Olympia Press 1959, no.1122 of 3000 copies; The Savoy No.1, 1896, original paper cover laid down, later bound; etc. (11)
Lot 262
~ H ~ LAWSON WOOD. Collection of illustrated works including: Fun Fair, circa 1933; Splinters, in paper wrapper; Grandpop’s Book of Fun; 3 Grandpop’s Annuals; postcards; also - LENNOYS (Annis) In a Chinese Garden, 1898, with Lawson Wood’s signature to first leaf; condition varies, some repairs, together 11 vols.
Lot 293
THACKERAY (William. M.) The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, 3 vols, London: Smith, Elder and Company 1852, original green-brown cloth, spines faded, inner hinges cracking, armorial bookplate of Abercairny; GISSING (George) The Emancipated: A Novel, first edition, 3 vols, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890, original brown cloth, patterned boards, slight rubbing and traces of library label removal; MEREDITH (G) One of Our Conquerors, in 3 vols, 1891, cloth
Lot 296
~ H ~ SWAN (Gerald G., Ltd., Publishers) Collection of 14 Thriller and Mystery stories circa 1944-50, first London editions in dust jackets (condition varies); 5 others lacking jackets; one with facsimile title page; with - 16 creepy tales published by Philip Allan, all somewhat soiled cloth covers; and a few others in paper wraps (a box)
Lot 301
~ H ~ WELLS (H G) Collection of works, including: The Invisible Man, first edition, London 1897, half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end, some marginal browning throughout, original pictorial red cloth gilt; another later copy published Collins in damaged dust jacket; The War of the Worlds, as first published in Pearson’s Magazine vols. 3 and 4; with 11 other later works
Lot 302
~ H ~ LEROUX (Gaston) Collection of 19 vols detective and mystery tales, with some first editions including: Balaoo; The New Terror (USA 1926) in dust jacket; The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 1911; The Man with the Black Feather, 1912; and - various Leroux ephemera, etc (condition varies, all volumes in publisher’s cloth) (19)
Lot 304
~ H ~ Detective and mystery stories. A collection largely of works by Sax ROHMER, including a signed inscribed first edition of Tales of Chinatown, 1922; with - President Fu Manchu, 2nd edition in dust jacket; several others without jackets; also works of Marcel ALLAIN, Edgar WALLACE, SAPPER, etc (c.65)
Lot 308
~ H ~ 19th century popular fiction - Romance- Gothic tales. The Terrific Register, 2 volumes 1825, 8vo, illustrations, rather stained, in worn damaged binding; Tales of all Nations, 1836, rebound; HAZLITT (W) The Romancist and Novelist’s Library, vols. I and III, 1841, rebound; Edith Heron, circa 1862, bound up from weekly numbers, folding plates, rebound; Edith the Captive, circa 1840; Reynolds (George) The Necro-Mancer, 1857, lacks title; Faust, 1847, very stained, both rebound; Huish (R) Fatherless Rosa, 1822, (incomplete), rebound; LEWIS (F G) The Monk, 2 vols, unabridged reprint of the first edition, half bound; etc (28)
Lot 310
~ H ~ STOKER (Bram) The Jewel of Seven Stars, first edition London: Heinemann 1903, browning to margins throughout, red cloth (faded spine); The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider & Son (no date), colour plates as required, occasional spotting; covers worn; The Watter’s Mou’, 1st American edition 1895, cloth slightly stained (3)
Lot 313
Literature, various. BRONTE (Emily and Anne) Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey, 1858 new edition, 8vo, adverts to pastedowns, faded worn cloth; BRONTE (Charlotte) Jane Eyre, 1860 reprint, similar worn binding; TROLLOPE (A) The Macdermots of Ballycloran, 1861 new edition, (the first one volume edition of this work), stained cloth; The Kellys and the O’Kellys, 4th edition 1861, stained cloth; SCRIBE (E) Piquillo Alliaga, London: G.Peirce 1846, 8vo, bound with Pascal Bruno by Dumas, faded cloth, sewing weak; etc. together 14 vols. (condition varies)
Lot 329
FLEMING (Ian) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 2nd impression 1963, ownership name, some wear to hinges and edges, similar worn dust jacket; with - The Spy Who Loved Me, 4th impression 1962, ownership name, otherwise good in lightly worn dust jacket; and - Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition 1966, clean; and - MARKHAM (R) Colonel Sun, first edition 1968, tear to lower part of dust jacket (4)
![~ H ~ TREMAYNE (Peter) [pseud. of Peter Berresford Ellis]. Collection of 19 Sister Fidelma Celtic Mystery novels in dust jack](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10091/2873198/333-201329102823_468x382.jpg)
Lot 333
~ H ~ TREMAYNE (Peter) [pseud. of Peter Berresford Ellis]. Collection of 19 Sister Fidelma Celtic Mystery novels in dust jackets, circa 1994 to 2007, all first editions and inscribed by the author to Peter Haining, many referring with thanks to Haining who got the author to change the main character’s name to ‘Fidelma’ rather than the author’s initial proposal of ‘Sister Buan’; together with 4 paperbacks similarly inscribed, some related correspondence between Haining and the author, and 2 other works by the author also inscribed to Haining (the earlier works tending to brown internally; otherwise good condition) (25)
Lot 334
~ H ~ FLEMING (Ian) First edition James Bond novels: For Your Eyes Only, 1960, slight wear to dust jacket; From Russia with Love, 1957, ownership name to first leaf, contents slightly yellowed in sunned dust jacket (partial loss to spine strip); Goldfinger, 1959, dust jacket slightly shelf stained and frayed at edges (3) PLEASE NOTE: Dust jacket is a later issue on `For Your Eyes Only`
Lot 336
~ H ~ HERBERT (Frank) Dune, first edition 1965, but later issue, signed by the author to the title page, inscribed by Haining to first leaf ‘The best fantasy title I published at New English Library!’, red cloth binding with price clipped slightly creased and chipped dust jacket; with - Children of Dune, first edition London 1976, good in dust jacket (2)
Lot 337
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) Collection of works, mostly first editions, later signed and /or inscribed to Peter Haining from the author: including Timeless Stories (paperback 1952, very yellowed), The Silver Locusts, London 1951 (very spotted); Driving Blind; Long After Midnight; Mars and the Mind of Man, 1973; The Mummies of Guanajuato, 1978; with - framed letterhead with ugly face doodle and typed note ‘Peter Here it is ! Hope it does the Job. If not, yell!...,’ signed and dated Dec.12, 1985; together with 14 further hardbacks (unsigned) and 16 paperbacks
Lot 338
~ H ~ NEVILLE SPEARMAN (Publishers). Collection of 73 works mainly on the Unexplained, Paranormal, UFO’s, etc., circa 1949 and later, the majority in dust wrappers and first editions, including: HUTTON. The Traitor Trade; AMOSOFF. Russian Surgeon; VALLEE. Anatomy of a Phenomenon; THOMAS. Flying Saucers. Note: all are later fully inscribed by the publisher, Neville Armstrong, a longstanding friend of Peter Haining, with notes about the author and/or the book and its success or otherwise.
Lot 341
~ H ~ Science and space fiction, fantastic adventure. Collection of works, mainly first half of the 20th century and including: EVANS (I O) The World of Tomorrow, 1933; ASHTON (Francis) Alas That Great City; The Breaking of the Seals, both first or early editions inscribed by the author, in dust jackets; ORWELL (G) Nineteen Eighty Four, first edition 1949, lacking jacket, covers poor; VOGEL (Sir J) Anno Domini 2000, Colonial edition 1889, cloth; others by George Griffiths (Olga Romanoff, and The Angel of the Revolution, both in good pictorial cloth), Roy Rockwood, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Martian stories), a box
Lot 345
~ H ~ BLOCH (Robert) 1917-1994. Collection of works, mainly first UK editions, and signed letters and greetings cards to Peter Haining, including: Out of My Head, 1986, inscribed to Peter Haining, no.268/800; The Opener of the Way, 1945, lacking jacket, with later sticker ‘Best to Peter Haining from his friend Robert Bloch’; Pleasant Dreams, US edition 1960; The Night of the Ripper, 1986, with author’s letter to Haining; Dragons and Nightmares; The King of Terrors; The Skull of the Marquis de Sade; American Gothic; Psycho II (tear to rear of jacket); Such Stuff as Screams are made of; Night-World; Cold Chills; with 8 greetings cards (6 signed); several letters to Peter Haining, signed, related newspaper cuttings and 21 other vols (19 of which are paperbacks)
Lot 346
~ H ~ PULLMAN (Philip) His Dark Materials, first combined edition and impression, 2001, good in dust-jacket, with postcard note from Pullman signed ‘Danger Man’ to Peter Haining, dated 2002, and a typed letter signed by Pullman dated 2001; PRATCHETT (Terry) Soul Music, first edition 1994, inscribed and signed by the author to title ‘Bald, bearded men tell the best stories!’, good in dust jacket; 5 others by Pratchett in dust jackets (7)
Lot 348
~ H ~ Modern first editions signed by the authors. BALLARD (J G) War Fever; The Day of Creation; Rushing to Paradise; GOLDING (William) Rites of Passage, 1980, full morocco gilt; MASEFIELD (John) Old Raiger and other verse, 1964, dust jacket; SINCLAIR (Iain) Radon Daughters; HARRIS (Robert) Enigma; LEONARD (Elmore) Maximum Bob; ELLROY (James) White Jazz; American Tabloid; HERBERT (James) Haunted, 1988, somewhat yellowed (unsigned, but with inserted author’s typed letter signed to Peter Haining refers); JAMES (P D) Original Sin; Innocent Blood (this vol. unsigned but full morocco bound); 5 various others (all in dust jackets, some with yellowing to leaves) (18)
Lot 350
~ H ~ FLEMING (Ian) and John GARDNER. Collection of James Bond novels, including: Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition 1966, good in dust jacket; Moonraker, reprint 1964; Casino Royale, 1965 reprint; with - The Airline Pilots; The Censor (rather yellowed internally); The Liquidator, all first editions signed or inscribed to Peter Haining by the author, with a signed postcard, also Licence Renewed, first edition, and several other Bond works (reprints, later editions and paperbacks) (27)
Lot 353
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) The Illustrated Man, Doubleday 1951, inscribed with thanks to Peter Haining dated 1987 to first leaf, cover very slightly bumped and stained to rear, chipped dust jacket; with - A Medicine for Melancholy, Doubleday 1959, signed by the author to first leaf, some loss of silver lettering to spine, covers a little marked, in reasonable dust jacket; and - Dandelion Wine, 1957, signed to first leaf, dated 1966, inner hinge cracked and stained, otherwise yellow cloth bright in somewhat worn dust jacket (3)
Lot 354
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) Dark Carnival, first edition of the author’s first book, Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947, 8vo, inscribed to Peter Haining from the author with drawing of a little ‘devil’ to front free endpaper, dated 4/4/88, gilt-lettered black cloth with slight shelf wear, unclipped dust jacket, some chipping and creasing at corners and spine ends, small loss to top of rear section
Lot 355
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) A Medicine for Melancholy, Doubleday 1959, signed twice by the author to first leaf, inscribed to Peter H, dated 10/10/84, generally a good copy in good dust jacket; with - The Golden Apples of the Sun, Doubleday 1953, signed twice and inscribed to Peter Haining, dated 1968 and 1987, grey cloth in edge worn dust jacket; and - The October Country, London 1956, also inscribed and dated Oct.31 07 to first free end paper, slight loss and chipping to dust jacket (3)
Lot 359
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) Collection of first American editions all inscribed by the author to Peter Haining, including: Quicker than the Eye, The Toynbee Convector, One More for the Road, Driving Blind, A Graveyard for Lunatics (with coloured pencil grotesque head drawing to first free end paper dated Nov.1990), etc., all but one in dust jackets (10)
Lot 377
HOWLETT (B) A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln, 1805, 4to, coloured map frontispiece, engraved plates (some damp staining and spotting), binding worn; DAVY (Henry) Views of the Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in Suffolk, part first, Southwold 1827, small 4to, some foxing and staining, half morocco rubbed; ELMES (James) Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century, 1829, 4to, numerous engravings, typical spotting and staining, half calf rubbed (3)
Lot 389
~ H ~ Punishment - fetishism etc. SCOTT (G Ryley) Collection of 11 works, including: Phallic Worship, 1941, signed no.287 of 775 copies, plates, faded cloth; Curious Customs of Sex and Marriage, 1953, no.339 of 975 copies, dust jacket; Into Whose Hands, first edition 1945, worn jacket; Ten Ladies of Joy, 1929; also - Flagellation in France, Paris: Charles Carrington 1898, later half morocco with reduced paper wrapper bound in; VILLENEUVE (Roland) Fetichisme et Amour, Editions Azur 1968, slip case (18)
Lot 403
CHANLER (William Astor) Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in Eastern Africa. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896, first edition, 8vo, plates and illustrations, 2 folding coloured maps in pocket, original cloth gilt, minor shelf wear, internally good, corners slightly bumped Note: Chanler and his Hungarian companion, Ludwig von Hohnel, explored the region of East Africa between the rivers Tana and Juba.
Lot 407
Literature, various. HEMINGWAY (E) The Fifth Column and the first Forty-Nine Stories, first London edition 1939, worn jacket; DAVIES (Hunter) The Beatles, authorised biography, 1st edition 1968, worn; JOHNSON (B S) The Unfortunates, 1969, novel in 27 loose section, with wrapper, boxed; few others – children’s, art etc.
Lot 3
* A rare brass Imperial baton capacity measure. De Grave and Co., London, late 19th century. The rectangular section brass rod incorporating engraved scale of increasing unit sizes annotated 0-41 and labelled DEPTH with upper margin signed DE GRAVE & Co. LONDON, the opposing side similarly inscribed with scale of increasing unit sizes annotated 0-75 and labelled DIAMETER with upper margin engraved COUNTY OF KENT, the upper edge of the bar inscribed with the instructions Measure the Diameter with the scale marked ÒDiameterÓ and take the reading. Measure the depth with the scale marked ÒDepthÓ and take the reading. Add the two readings with the underside providing the conversion The sum will be 10 for 1/2 Gill. 20 for Gill. 30 for 1/2 Pint. 40 for Pint. 50 for Quart. 60 for 1/2 Gallon. 70 for Gallon. 80 for Peck. 90 for 1/2 Bushel. 100 for Bushel, with verification stamp for 1893, 56cm (22ins) long. The De Grave Family were well known as scientific instrument makers specialising in weights and measures throughout the 19th century. The first member to set up business was Charles De Grave who is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working in St. MartinÕs le Grand, London from 1780. The firm was absorbed by W. and T. Avery and Co. Ltd in the early 20th century. The current lot is a relatively simple but useful tool designed to assist in the verification of Imperial unit measures by those employed in the enforcement of legislation with regards to Weights and Measures.
Lot 8
* A set of eight Imperial fluid capacity measures. De Grave and Co. Ltd., London, late 19th century. Each of turned cylindrical form with moulded edge to rim over conforming foot and with glass disc cover centred with concave section drilled with a hole for levelling of the fluid, the largest engraved DE GRAVE & Co. LTD., LONDON to base and 40 FL. OZ. to waist and measures 12cm diameter, 13cm high; the smallest marked 1 Fl. OZ and measures 3.5cm diameter, 4.5cm wide; in original stained pine box (with vacant spaces for four further measures), 48cm (19ins) wide. The De Grave Family were well known as scientific instrument makers specialising in weights and measures throughout the 19th century. The first member to set up business was Charles De Grave who is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working in St. MartinÕs le Grand, London from 1780. The firm was absorbed by W. and T. Avery and Co. Ltd in the early 20th century.
Lot 19
Regional clockmaking- eight publications relating to South Western English clocks and clockmakers: Ponsford, C.N. TIME IN EXETER Headwell Vale Books, Exeter 1978, first edition, dj; Tribe, Tom and Whatmoor, Philip Dorset Clocks and Clockmakers Tanat books, Oswestry 1981, dj; Snell, Michael Clocks & Clockmakers of Salisbury Hobnob Press, Salisbury 1986, dj; Ponsford, C.N. DEVON CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1985, dj; Brown, H. Miles CORNISH CLOCKS and CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1980, dj; Ponsford, C.N., Scott, J.G.M. and Authers, W.P. CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS OF TIVERTON W.P. Authers, Tiverton 1982, signed by the publisher; Bellchambers, J.K. SOMERSET CLOCKMAKERS Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate 1968; Beney, David R. Beaminster Clocks & THEIR MAKERS Good Hope Antiques, Beaminster 1996; with Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 1 N.A.G., London 1976, dj; and companion Volume 2 by Brian Loomes, N.A.G., London 1978, dj, (10).
Lot 21
Regional clockmaking- four publications relating to East Anglian clocks and clockmakers: Mason, Bernard CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING IN COLCHESTER, ENGLAND Country Life, London 1969, first edition, dj and with original slip cover; Bird, Clifford and Yvonne (editors) Norfolk and Norwich Clocks and Clockmakers Phillimore & Co. Ltd, Chichester 1996, dj; Hagger, Arthur L. and Miller, Leonard F. SUFFOLK CLOCKS & CLOCKMAKERS published by the authors, Ramsgate 1974, first edition, dj complete with supplement; Osborne, Clive and Heaps, James (editor) ESSEX CLOCKS & WATCHMAKERS published and signed by the author, Loughton 1979, (4).
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