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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 415

Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1st ed. in bookform, Chapman and Hall, 1839, half-title (sl. edge-frayed and re-attached), eng. port. frontis. (foxed and fore-edge frayed), and thirty-nine etched plts. by Hablot K. Browne, some foxing and staining, mostly marginal, port. frontis. in 1st state with pubs. imprint (first four plts. without imprint), title-page with contemp. ms. signature at head, hinges split, bookseller’s embossed stamp on front free endpaper, untrimmed, orig. green fine diaper-grain cloth gilt (variant binding, conforming to Dombey and Son, Smith I, p.68), faded spine frayed at head, small faint mark on upper cover, 8vo. Smith I, 5. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 423

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vols., 1st ed., William Blackwood, 1858, half titles present (with contemp. ms. inscription), stitching strained, and first vol. with a number of leaves detached, orig. blindstamped maroon cloth gilt, by Edmonds & Remnants, with binder’s ticket on rear pastedown of first vol., extrems. lightly rubbed (and spine ends just beginning to fray), spines faded, 8vo. Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062. This, the author’s first book, comprises three tales which first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857: ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton’, ‘Mr Gilfil’s Love-Story’ and ‘Janet’s Repentance’. The stories were widely praised for their domestic realism, pathos and humour, and Dickens himself was full of admiration for Eliot’s writings, prompting much speculation about the identity of the author, who was widely supposed to be a clergyman or a clergyman’s wife. George Eliot’s rarest book and particularly so in the original cloth. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 430

Fuller (Thomas). The Church History of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M. DC. XLVIII., 1st ed., John Williams, 1655, hand-col. folding eng. plt. of coats of arms (torn, with paper repair on verso), contents generally toned, and with occn. early ms. annotations, first few leaves soiled and with repaired tears, Sss1-4 (pp.321-28) supplied in facsimile, bound with The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest, 1655, eng. folding map of Cambridge dated 1634, with paper repair at foot of fold (on verso and blank margin of recto), and The History of Waltham-Abby in Essex, Founded by King Harold, 1655, two eng. plts., some early underlining, 20th c. cloth, with gilt lettered leather spine label, folio in 4s, together with Leighton (Robert), The Works... a new and enlarged Edition: together with the Life of the Author, by the Rev. G. Jerment, 6 vols., 1805-1808, title-page to vol. 1 with Leighton’s date-span in neat biro beneath his name, title to each vol. with bookseller’s small ink stamp to lower blank margin, first gathering in vol. 1 with short worm trail in blank fore-margin (continuing into front pastedown), armorial bookplate of Revd. Robert Delap on front pastedowns (removed in vol. 6), contemp. marbled calf, with contrasting spine labels, rubbed in places and occn. minor wear, 8vo, plus nine other 19th c. theology and similar. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (16)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 438

Hogg (James). The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; being the songs, airs, and legends of the adherents to the House of Stuart, collected and illustrated by James Hogg, author of ‘The Queen’s Wake’, 2 vols. (1st/2nd series), 1819-21, without half-titles, some early manuscript annotations to blank leaf before title of first vol., marbled top edge, remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. bookplate of the Rev. John Besly to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. half calf gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 442

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, Explained in Different Meanings... Abstracted from the Folio Edition, 2 vols. in one, 1756, occasional spotting, a few leaves close-trimmed, previous owner signature, contemporary half calf, upper joint splitting, a little rubbed, 8vo. First abridged octavo edition. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 449

New Testament [Latin]. [At end] Novi Testamenti totius per Des Eras. Roterod. novissime recogniti, n.p. [c.1550?], lacks title page, text begins on *1 (dedication leaf to Pope Leo X), numerous woodcut illusts., and small woodcut initials, E8 with portion of fore-margin torn away, some early underlining, and old ownership inscriptions, some soiling and minor marginal stains, final leaf with lower blank portion replaced, one or two minor repair to foot of preceeding leaf, later mottled calf, rebacked, rubbed and a little wear, small 8vo. A mid-16th century edition of Erasmus’ Latin version of the New Testament, adapted from his folio edition of the New Testament in Greek and Latin, first published in 1516, entitled the Novum Instrumentum (see Darlow & Moule 6096). A similar copy is listed in COPAC with the reference Cathedral Library Collection B1564. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 451

Norris (John). Two Treatises Concerning the Divine Light, The First, being an Answer to a Letter of a Learned Quaker, which he is pleased to call, A Just reprehension to John Norris for his Unjust Reflections on the Quakers, in his Book Entituled, Reflections upon the Conduct of Human Life..., The Second, Being a Discourse concerning the Grossness of the Quakers Notion of the Light within, with their Confusion and Inconsistency in Explaining it, by John Norris, M.A. Rector of Bemerton near Sarum..., 1st ed., 1692, ink annotation to fore-edge margin of title, some spotting, browning and slight dampstaining to few leaves, recent endpapers retaining 18th c. armorial bookplate of James Smith to front pastedown, modern half calf, small 8vo, together with A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written, 3rd ed., corrected, 1699, inner hinges cracked, contemp. panelled calf, joints cracked at head & foot, spine worn with slight loss at head & foot, 8vo. Wing N1276 and N1250. (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 452

Pamphlets. An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Unitarian Doctrine; in the Societies at Rochdale, Newchurch in Rossendale, and other Places, Formerly in Connexion with the Late Rev. Joseph Cooke: in Ten Letters to a Friend, by John Ashworth, Rochdale: printed for the author, 1817, bound with A defence of the British & Foreign School Society Against the Remarks in the Sixty-Seventh Number of the Edinburgh Review, 2nd ed., 1821, bound with Observations on Mr Brougham’s Bill..., and the Danger that will arise from it to the Cause of Religious Liberty, 2nd ed., 1821, bound with The Causes of Deism and Atheism; a Lecture, Delivered in the Unitarian Meeting-House, Moor-Lane, Bolton, on Sunday Evening, January 19th, 1823, with Notes and Appendix by George Harris, 1823, bound with The Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Christian Association, and the Christian Reflector, Vindicated from the Aspersions of the Rev. B.R. Davis, of Chowhent, by George Harris, Liverpool, 1823, bound with A Compliance with the “Enquirer’s Request;” being a Solution of Unitarian or Socinian Doubts and Difficulties on the Nature of Divine Unitay..., by Thomas Pilkington, Haslingden, 1822, bound withRemarks on “A Compliance with the Inquirer’s Request..., Addressed to T. Pilkington, of Haslingden, by John Ashworth, [1823], bound with Letters to the Rev. J. Kinghorn, on the Doctrine of the Divinity of Christ, by I. Perry, 1813, bound with An Oration Delivered on Monday, October 16, 1809, on Laying the First Stone of the New Gravel-Pit Meeting-House, in Paradise Field, Hackney, by Robert Aspland, pub. Harlow, 1809, bound with six other similar pamphlets, some dust soiling and few marks, contemp. half calf, upper board deached, lower joint cracked and some wear, 8vo, together with Henry (Matthew), An Exposition of all the Books of the Old and New Testaments: with Practical Remarks and Observations, 6 vols., 1812, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, some light dampstaining, contemmp. marbled calf gilt, joints cracked and few boards detached, 4to (7)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 454

Perkins (William). The Workes of that Famous and Worthie Minister of Christ, in the University of Cambridge, Mr. W. Perkins..., 15 parts in one, (comprising part of vol. 2 & 3), [Cambridge]: Printed by John Legate, printer to the University of Cambridge, 1608-1609, lacks general volume titles, titles to each part present where called for, some fraying to first and last leaves, repair to leaf B2 of ‘Godly and Learned Exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount’, two part titles with ink library stamps, contemp. calf, rebacked, corners worn with some of leather, folio. Part titles include ‘A treatise of mans imaginations’; ‘Willyam Perkins his probleme of the forged Catholicisme and universalitie of the Romish religion’; ‘A Christian and plaine treatise of the manner and order of predestination and of the largeness of Gods grace’; ‘The arte of prophecying’; ‘A digest or harmonie of the bookes of the Old and New Testament’; ‘A clowd of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan’; ‘A Godly and learned exposition of Christs sermon in the mount’; ‘A Godly and learned exposition or commentarie upon the three first chapters of the Revelation’; ‘The combate betweene Christ and the Devill displayed’; ‘A faithfull and plaine exposition upon the two first verses of the 2. chapter of Zephaniah’; ‘Of the calling of the ministerie, two treatises’; ‘The second treatise of the duties and dignities of the ministerie’; ‘A fruitfull dialogue concerning the ende of the world’; ‘A Godly and learned exposition upon the whole Epistle of Iude, containing threescore and sixe sermons’; ‘A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft; so far as it is revealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience’; ‘A resolution to the countrey-man, prooving it utterly unlawfull to buie or use our yearely prognostication’; ‘Christian oeconomie: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a familie, according to the Scriptures.’ This volume comprises part of volume 2 (from leaf 2Y3) and all of volume 3 of Perkins’ work. Refer to STC 19649. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 457

Plato. His Apology of Socrates, and Phaedo or dialogue concerning the immortality of mans soul, and manner of Socrates his death, [translated by Walter Charleton], 1675, title printed in red and black now half missing and relaid, lacks frontis. and first and last blanks, browned and damp stained throughout with damp fraying affecting margins of early and final leaves, some loss of text to leaves a3/4 (dedication), small hole affecting last line and catch words of leaves in signature B (pp. 1-16), a few other small marginal holes and last leaf near detached, contemp. calf, rebacked, sl. corner wear, 8vo. Sold with all faults not subject to return.. Wing P2405. The first edition in English of the Apology and Phaedo. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 477

Wood (Nicholas). A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General. Containing Numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines: and Tables of the Comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads, 3rd ed., with Additions, 1838, thirteen folding eng. diags. (complete), four folding tables, 16 pp. publisher’s ads. at rear, errata slip loosely inserted, some minor scattered spotting (lacks front free endpaper), orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed, thick 8vo. Ottley 294. The first edition of this work was published in 1825, this edition contains additional text and illustrations. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 482

Gray (Henry). Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1st ed., 1858, half-title inscribed in contemp. ms. ‘With the Publishers’ Compts’, numerous letterpress engs. by H.V. Carter, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, title-page with early ms. ownership name at head, with portion of blank margin above torn away, occn. minor spotting and off-setting, hinges split, orig. blind-panelled cloth gilt, lightly soiled, extrems. frayed, large 8vo. Garrison Morton 418. The rare first edition of this classic medical text, which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Celebrated physician Henry Gray (1827-1861) was chiefly engaged in anatomical research and teaching at St. George’s Hospital in London. The ambitious and ebullient surgeon performed the dissections required for the book with his shy and retiring colleague, Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided the exquisitely detailed drawings. On publication the book was immediately acclaimed for its simple layout and clarity. Carter’s hand in its success has always been somewhat overlooked, and indeed, Gray himself requested that Carter’s name appear in smaller print than his own on the title-page. However, Gray died suddenly of smallpox at the age of 34, whereas Carter went on to achieve some modest acclaim for his medical research amongst the poorest people in India. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 484

Marryat (Thomas). The Art of Healing, or, A New Practice of Physic, 5th ed., with Alterations and Additions, printed by M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1776, half-title with manuscript ownership & date to top margin, lacking last (Index) leaf at rear and rear free endpaper, first few leaves a little finger-soiled, hinges split, 19th c. half sheep, darkened and rubbed, spine extrems. worn, 8vo, together with The Modern Family Physician, or the Art of Healing made Easy..., pub. F. Newbury, 1775, browning to margins of first & last leaves, modern qtr. calf, 12mo (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 504

Gernshein (Helmut, & Alison). The History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era, revised and enlarged ed., 1969, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., together with a copy of the first edition of 1955, orig. cloth in d.j., a little soiled and torn, both small folio, together with Pfister (Harold Francis), Facing the Light, Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes, Washington, 1978, b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little soiled and faded on spine, 4to, plus Ford (Colin, ed.), An Early Victorian Album, The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847), of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1st US ed., 1976, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus other photography interest including some reference, 19th c. interest and a few duplicates (35)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 534

Betjeman (John). Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, 1st ed., John Murray, 1937, numerous b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth in sl. soiled d.j., spine darkened, extrems. rubbed and a little frayed in places, 8vo, together with Summoned By Bells, 1st ed., John Murray, 1960, letterpress illusts. orig. cloth in d.j., d.j a trifle dusty in places, 8vo, plus Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture, 1st ed., Chapman & Hall, 1933, folding panorama at rear, first few leaves and edges foxed, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, printed label on spine (spare tipped-in on rear pastedown), 8vo, plus five others by Betjeman (8)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 554

Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, now first published, edited with notes by Robert Bridges, 1st ed., Humphrey Milford, 1918, half-title, two port. plts. and two double-page plts. of facsimile manuscript, pages slightly yellowed mostly to margins, edges untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label (rubbed) to spine, spine frayed at head & foot and darkened, 8vo. One of 750 copies, containing the first appearance of many of Hopkins’ poems. Scarce. (1)

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Lot 560

Joyce (James). Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1st U.K. ed. from American sheets, pub. Egoist, [1917], first few leaves with light marginal dampstain, original green cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo. Slocum & Cahoon A12. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 575

* Pinter (Harold, 1930-2008). Typed letter signed ‘Harold Pinter’, 7 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, London, NW1, 4 November 1966, to Master Seaman, a pithy response to the schoolboy’s questions about Pinter’s play ‘The Caretaker’, and Seaman’s studying of it in Form 5A, ‘I will answer your questions quite frankly’, and followed by ten numbered single sentence answers e.g., ‘Davies’ papers are at Sidcup because that’s where they are’, ‘His name is assumed because he assumed it’, ‘The two brothers see little of each other because they rarely meet’, ‘Aston fiddles with his plugs because he likes doing it’, ‘When he goes out to walk, he walks’, ‘The monk swears at Davies because he doesn’t like him’, ‘Davies doesn’t like coloured people’, ‘He refuses to believe that he makes noises during the night’, The buddha is a buddha’, and ‘The shed is a shed’, the seemingly irascible tone of the letter is assuaged by the conclusion, ‘I assure you that these answers to your questions are not intended to be funny. My best wishes to you all’, light brown mark and crease to upper left corner, one page, 4to, together with a first edition of the playscript, pub. Encore [precedes the Methuen edition], 1960, a few leaves creased, orig. stapled wrappers (with cover design by John Harmer), sl. spotting and soiling, slim 8vo. A wonderfully Pinteresque document. ‘The Caretaker’ was first performed on stage at the Arts Theatre, London, on 27th April 1960, starring Alan Bates, Peter Woodthrope and Donald Pleasance. It was Pinter’s sixth play and his first significant commercial success. (1)

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Lot 577

Pound (Ezra). Personae, 1st ed., 1909, pubs. ads. at rear, partly uncut, orig. boards gilt (first issue), split along upper joint, rubbed and marked, a little wear to head and foot, 8vo (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 593

Wain (Louis). Motor Days in Catland, Father Tuck’s “Wonderland” Series [cover-title], c.1910, illusts. to text throughout, incl four col., first and final leaves lightly marked, hinges split, orig. pictorial card covers, with new cloth spine, covers with paper surface lifting at edges in a few places, with sl. loss, slim oblong 4to, together with Merry Motorists Painting Book by Louis Wain, juvenile colouring throughout, soiled and worn, stitching broken, with two leaves and orig. card covers detached. Motor Days in Catland is an extremely rare Louis Wain title; we have been unable to locate another copy. (1)

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Lot 594

Wain (Louis). Pussies at Work, Father Tuck’s “Little Pets’” Series [cover-title], c.1900, ‘untearable’ card pages, four full-page chromos. representing trades (sailor, artist, carpenter and kitchen maid), duotone illusts. to text, contents lightly toned, first page with contemp. pencilled inscription at head, orig. pictorial card covers, sl. dusty, extrems. rubbed, slim 4to, together with Mother Goose in Catland, Raphael Tuck, c.1920, col. frontis. (creased and re-hinged, and with contemp. ms. inscription on reverse), duotone illusts. throughout, some soiling, one or two neatly repaired edge-tears, orig. printed wrappers, with col. illust. mounted on upper cover, lightly soiled and edge-frayed, slim 4to, plus one other by Louis Wain (Jolly Cats Painting Book), and two others, both editions of Puss in Boots, one illustrated by R. André (5)

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Lot 597

Wilde (Oscar). Salomé, Drame en un Acte, 1st ed., Paris & London, 1893, title with device by Félicien Rops, contemp. silver print photograph of Moreau’s watercolour of Salomé dancing, tipped in as frontis., author’s signed presentation inscription to second blank verso and sl. offset to half title, ‘à Gustave Moreau, Hommage respectueux, Oscar Wilde’, with Wilde’s trademark paraph to the last letter of his name, some light browning to first two blanks and half title, orig. purple wrappers printed in silver, somewhat faded and with marginal browning, the whole (including spine) bound by Pagnant in contemp. boards with a stencilled floral decoration design in red, green, blue and yellow, embossed ex libris stamp of Oscar Molinari to additional blank front free endpaper, the endpapers being two identical gilt pictorial designs of Saints, leather title label to spine and gilt dated imprint at foot, worn along joints, 8vo. An outstanding and previously unknown association copy, gifted to the current owner by his mother’s landlady in Paris some forty years ago. Mason 348: ‘Salome was being rehearsed in June 1892 for production at the Palace Theatre, London, by Madame Sarah Bernhardt (with M. Albert Darmont as Herod) when the Lord Chamberlain withheld his licence on the ground that the play introduced biblical characters.’ The play which Wilde began writing in 1891 eventually found its first performance at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre in Paris on 11 February 1896. The English translation of the text first appeared in 1894. The influence of the celebrated French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) on Oscar Wilde’s vision for his play Salome is often cited as self-evident yet there is scant documentary evidence. It is not known that they ever met, and indeed Moreau is not mentioned once in the Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (2000). Oscar Wilde complained to Charles Ricketts after seeing Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings for the English edition: ‘My Herod is like the Herod of Gustave Moreau, wrapped in his jewels and his sorrows. My Salome is a mystic, the sister of Salammbo, a Saint Therese who worships the moon.’ This inscribed copy puts beyond doubt Wilde’s admiration for and his debt to the great French painter.. In May 1884 Wilde visited Paris as a newly wed with his wife Constance just weeks after the publication of Joris-Karl Huysman’s influential decadent novel A Rebours. While there Wilde visited the Louvre to see Moreau’s celebrated The Apparition. This watercolour of Salome dancing before Herod had been exhibited alongside another oil painting of the same subject at the Paris Salon of 1876. The exhibition drew newspaper reports and the crowds with over 500,000 people flocking to see the two pictures. Moreau set in train Symbolist ideas and the artistic craze for the femme fatale Salome which Wilde was so keen to turn into French words and stage design. Moreau himself returned to the theme often, producing some nineteen paintings, six watercolours and more than 150 drawings of the same subject. Interestingly, the frontispiece to this lot (inserted by Wilde?) is a photograph from a watercolour of Salome Dancing from c. 1886 now hanging in the Musee d’Orsay. It shows Salome more richly robed and with a more Pre-Raphaelite look than the two famous pictures of 1876. After 1880 Moreau never exhibited at the Salons (or anywhere) again and refused to allow his pictures to be reproduced. Where this photographic frontispiece then came from is not the only question left begging. Are the endpapers and binding decoration from Moreau’s designs and did Wilde or Moreau or another insert the photograph? Moreau was himself influenced by Gustave Flaubert’s novel Salammbo (1862) but Moreau’s influence on the arts was to be more profound, most notably through Huysman’s novel A Rebours where the aesthete Des Esseintes sees Salome not as the dancing girl of the New Testament, but ‘she had become in some way, the symbolic deity of indestructible lust, the Goddess of immortal Hysteria, the accursed Beauty exalted above all other beauties … the monstrous Beast...’ Des Esseintes hangs Moreau’s two famous Salome paintings side by side at his home so that he could: ‘consider the beginnings of this great artist, this mythical pagan, this seer who could conjure up in the everyday world of Paris such visions and magical apotheoses of other ages.’. Richard Ellmann in his noted biography of Oscar Wilde (1988) wrote: ‘The principal engenderer of the story was an account in the fifth chapter of Huysmans’s A Rebours of two paintings by Gustave Moreau, and in the fourteenth chapter of the same book a quotation from Mallarme’s ‘Herodiade’. In one painting the aged Herod is being stirred by Salome’s lascivious but indifferent dance; in the other Salome is being presented with the Baptist’s head giving forth rays on a charger. Huysmans attributes to Salome the mythopoeic force that Pater attributes to the Mona Lisa, and mentions that writers have never succeeded in rendering her adequately’ (p. 321). ‘Wilde’s knowledge of the iconography of Salome was immense. He complained that Rubens’s Salome appeared to him to be ‘an apoplectic Maritornes’. On the other hand, Leonardo’s Salome was excessively incorporeal. Others, by Durer, Ghirlandaio, van Thulden, were unsatisfactory because incomplete. The celebrated Salome of Regnault he considered to be a mere ‘gypsy’. Only Moreau satisfied him, and he liked to quote Huysmans’s description of the Moreau paintings’ (p. 323). (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 615

Rupert Bear. Daily Express Annual, 1949, 1958 (2 copies), 1960, 1967-69, together 7 vols., col. illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. boards (except first vol. orig. col. pict. wrappers), some rubbing to extrems., 4to, together with approx. 105 later Rupert Annuals, 1970-2002, incl. num. duplicates, col. illusts. throughout, all orig. pict. boards, 4to, plus approx. forty other Rupert related, generally VG (4 cartons)

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Lot 616

Scarfo (Giovanni Grisostomo). Risposta alla critica fatta dal P.D.G.C. Scarfo... al libro dell’illustrissimo signore R. Venuti intitolato collectanea Romanarum Antiquitatium... , Paris, 1740, eng. decorative dedication before title, some spotting and browning, contemp. vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to, together with The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, 6 vols. bound in 3, 1817-18, double column text printed to rectos only with eng. view above text, entirely unpaginated, eng. vign. title to each vol. and binder’s lists, (three plts. missing), contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and spine of first vol. snagged, 8vo, plus Pratt (Anne), The Ferns of Great Britain, and their Allies, n.d., sixty-six litho. plts., contents partly broken and many plts. and leaves detached with some marginal fraying, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and darkened, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian (a carton)

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Lot 634

* British School at Rome. Thomas Ashby, un archeologo fotorgrafa la campagna romana tra’800 e’900, 1st ed., Rome, 1986, together with numbers 2 and 4 from the same series, ‘Archeologia a Roma nelle fotorgrafie di Thomas Ashby 1891-1930, 1st ed., 1989, & Il Lazio di Thomas Ashby 1891-1930, vol. 1, 1st ed., Rome, 1994, all with b&w illusts. from photos, first vol. orig. printed wrappers, second and third vols. orig. cloth in d.j.s, all 4to, plus Newhall (Beaumont, ed.), Photography: Essays & Images, 1st UK ed., 1981, b&w illusts., plus MacDonnell (Kevin), Eadweard Muybridge, The Man Who Invented the Moving Picture, 1st ed., 1972, b&w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus other mostly photography interest including paperbacks (3 shelves)

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Lot 2

Allom (Thomas, illust.). Fisher’s Illustrations of Constantinople and its Environs, n.d., c.1840, one eng. vign. titles and one map only, ninety-nine eng. plts., slight insect damage to first few leaves incl. one plt. and title, light dampstaining to extreme plt. margins, contemp. green blindstamped gilt dec. calf, morocco label to spine, some wear to extrems., 4to (1)

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Lot 10

Blount (Henry). A Voyage into the Levant, A Brief Relation of a Journey... from England by the Way of Venice... , Unto Gran Cairo, with Particular Observations Concerning the Moderne Condition of the Turks, and other People under that Empire, 4th ed., 1650, title (within dec. woodcut border) det. and somewhat spotted and soiled, some spotting throughout and marginal damp staining towards rear, paper flaw to leaf C4 with resultant triangular hole affecting two lines of text on both pages, old manuscript accounts to pastedowns, contemp. reversed calf, broken and worn and lacking spine, 12mo. Wing B3316. See Atabey 119 (first edition) and Blackmer 154 (second edition). A rare edition of one of the earliest and best accounts of the Ottoman Empire. (1)

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Lot 16

Cook (Captain James). An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.; by John Hawkesworth, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1773, fifty-two eng. plts., maps & plans (inc. 24 folding maps and 13 folding plts.), some minor marginal spotting, three leaves to 3rd vol. with small excision to upper outer blank corner, not affecting text (pp. 561-568), contemp. calf, 20th c. reback, some wear to edges, 4to. Holmes 5. Beddie 648. Sabin 30934. The first edition of Cook’s first voyage round the world. (3)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 46

Milford Haven (Marquess of, formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg). Naval Medals: Commemorative Medals, Naval Rewards, War Medals, Naval Tokens, &c. of France, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, vol. 1 only, 1921, title printed in red and black, numerous b & w illustrations of medals, original cream buckram, some light soiling, folio. Limited edition, 24/25 signed by the author. Inscribed to front endpaper: “To the Romsey Corporation from the author’s son, Mountbatten of Burma. 8th March 1947”, with a loose cut signature of the same. A second volume of Naval Medals dealing with the other European maritime states, and America was also published in 1921, each volume being complete in itself with indices. Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg was a German prince related to the Royal Family. After becoming First Sea Lord in 1912, he was encouraged to resign by Winston Churchill in 1914, following public anti-German sentiment. He anglicised his surname from ‘Battenburg’ to ‘Mountbatten’ in 1917, when the king created him Marquess of Milford Haven. His second son was created Earl Mountbatten of Burma in 1947. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 71

Andree (S.A.). The Andree Diaries, 1st U.K. ed., 1931, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, half-tone plates, original red cloth, a little faded, 8vo, together with Andree’s Story. The Complete Record of his Polar Flight, 1897, 3rd printing, pub. Viking, New York, 1931, b & w plates, presentation inscription, endpapers renewed, bookplate, original cloth, a little faded, 8vo, plus Andree’s Balloon Expedition in Search of the North Pole, by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, New York, 1898, half-tone illustrations, a few spots, front hinges cracking, bookplate, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with others related including Roald Amundsen & Lincoln Ellsworth’s The First Flight Across the Polar Sea, c. 1927, De Eerste Vlucht Over de Noordpool, van Roald Amundsen en Lincoln Ellsworth, Amsterdam, c. 1926 and Andree and his Balloon, 1898 (37)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 96

Canal Navigation Acts. An Act for Making and Maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Navigation, in the Parish of King’s Norton, into the Borough of Stratford Upon Avon; and also certain Collateral Cuts from the said intended Canal, 1793, 59pp., folding eng. plan, adhesive tape to inner margin of first leaf of text, bound with An Act for Making a Navigable Cut from the Stratford Upon Avon Canal, in the Parish of Lapworth, into the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the Manor of Kingswood, in the County of Warwick, 1795, 15pp., bound with An Act for Authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford Upon Avon Canal Navigation to vary the Course of Certain Parts of the said Canal..., 1799, 36pp., folding hand-col. eng. plan with closed-tear to lower margin, recent endpapers with tipped-in ALS to front endpaper from Robert Hudson, Manager of Great Western Railway Company, Stratford Upon Avon Canal, Lapworth, nr. Birmingham dated June 9th 1886, contemp. marbled boards with vellum corners, recent calf spine, folio, together with An Act to amend an Act passed in the First and Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tram Road from Stratford Upon Avon in the County of Gloucester, with a Branch to Shipston Upon Stour in the County of Worcester..., 22nd June 1825, 14pp., disbound folio (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 98

Copper Plate Magazine. The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints, Consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views of Great Britain and Ireland, Beautifully Engraved by the Most Eminent Artists from the Paintings and Drawings of the First Masters, 2 vols. in one, pub. Harrison & Co., n.d., c.1790, calligraphic title pages, 100 uncoloured engraved views, some minor spotting mainly confined to margins, front paste down with numerous later pencil annotations, contemp. half morocco, heavily rubbed and frayed, 4to (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 99

[Davis, John]. Origines Divisianae. Or the Antiquities of the Devizes: in some Familiar Letters to a Friend, Wrote in the Years 1750, and 1751, 1st ed., 1754, 90pp., slight loss to inner margin of title and paper repairs to verso, dust soiling to first and last leaves, late 19th/early 20th c. half morocco, spine and extrems. rubbed, slim 8vo, together with [Powell, Charles], The Religious Rebel. A sermon preach’d at South-Marston near Hyworth in Wiltshire, on the Ninth of September..., 1683, pp.[6], 26, few worm holes to upper inner margins, few ink marks, 19th c. half morocco, slightly rubbed, slim 4to, (Wing P3046) (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 107

Harrison (Walter). A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Adjacent Parts, 1776, engraved frontispiece, 101 engraved plates and maps, lacking last index leaf, first few leaves loosening, occasional light offsetting and spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, folio (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 122

Sears (Robert). A New and Popular Description of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the British Islands. Embellished with Several Hundred Handsome Engravings... 8th thousand, New York, Robert Sears, 1848, numerous wood engs. on letterpress, many full-page, incl. frontis., first and final leaves sl. foxed, upper hinge split, a.e.g., orig. publisher’s crimson morocco, elaborately gilt blocked, lightly rubbed in places, spine sl. darkened and with gilt dulled, 8vo (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 131

Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, 24 vols. (of 127), Paris, F. Dufart, AN VII - ANX [1798/9-1801/2], numerous plts. and maps, all in two states, coloured-printed and uncoloured, occn. light foxing/toning, bookplate on front pastedowns, rough-trimmed, orig. pink pastepaper boards, extrems. worn, with some loss, spines browned and labels chipped, ms. shelfmark label at foot of spines, 8vo. Comprising: Minéraux, vols. 5-6, 8-11, 14 & 16; L’Homme, vols. 19 & 20; Singes, vol. 36; Oiseaux, vols. 47, 49-50, 53-54, 58-60, 62-63; Plantes, vol. 1; and Reptiles, vols. 1 & 4. The first sixty-four volumes are by Buffon, and the remainder by other hands. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (24)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 134

Cran (Marion). A collection of 12 books by Marion Cran, mixed eds., 1927-37, b&w illusts. from photos, each with ex-libris bookplate for Jane Port, t.e.g., recent green uniform calf gilt, some fading to spines, 8vo. First editions comprise, Wind-Harps, The Squabbling Garden, I Know a Garden, Gardens in America & The Garden Beyond. (12)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 137

Ellis (William). The Farmer’s Instructor: Or, The Husbandman and Gardener’s Useful and Necessary Companion, being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matter relating to country affairs ... with many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, Gent. And now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry ..., printed for J. Hodges, 1747, half title with list of books printed for J. Hodges to verso, engraved frontis. of the four wheel drill plough, some marks and occ. soiling, frontis. with short closed tear to fore-margin, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, joints partly cracked, somewhat worn to edges, 8vo. Henrey 1442. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 139

Home (Francis). The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation, Edinburgh, 1757, bound with Osmer (William), A Treatise on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses, 1st ed., 1759, leaf E3 (cancel?) detached, bound with Randall (Joseph), The Farmer’s New Guide for Raising Excellent Crops of Pease, Beans, Turnips, or Rape ..., by Mr. Ladnar [psued.], n.d., c. 1760s, two engraved plts., including one folding, both det., bound with Fordyce (George), Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation, 1st ed., 1771, three folding plates at rear, some occ. spotting and soiling, old damp staining to lower margin of first and last leaves, contemp. half calf, worn, 8vo (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 313

* Tosa School. A series of nine watercolours on paper, 18th c., opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting the death and graphic decay of a female corpse in stages, first three worn at corners, some rubbed areas, the largest 17.5 x 24cm (9)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 315

* Tregear & Lewis (pubs.). The British Queen, on her First Voyage from London to New York, British & Foreign Steam Ships, No. 6, 1838 [but slightly later], aquatint with original hand colouring, image size 410 x 550mm, framed and glazed (1)

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Mallams Ltd. - Oxford
Lot 410

A PAIR OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE FIRST BOAT ROWING PHOTOGRAPHS dated 1891 by Stearn of Cambridge in an oak frame, 16 1/2" x 29" overall.

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Sworders
Lot 125

First Day Covers, German bank notes and glass strip lantern slides

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Sworders
Lot 186

Warwick Goble, The Fairy Book, first edition 1913, decorative cloth

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Woolley & Wallis
Lot 392

World War I, Pairs (2), War and Victory Medals (108268 Gnr. W. H. Wilde. R.A.; S-15211 Pte. E. G. Hoare. Rif. Brig.); 1914-15 Star (Pte. G. W. Thurtle, Norf. R.); War Medals (2), DM2-228363 Pte. F. A. Lewis. A.S.C.; 47713 Pte A. F. Perrin. Suff. R.). All to survivors;Star fine, first pair very fine, others better. (7)

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Woolley & Wallis
Lot 406

Royal Mint U.K. Proof Sets (4), 1996, 2000, 2002, 2009; together with a large collection of modern proof and proof-like coins; Year Sets; coins with First Day Covers, some in albums; FAO album set, 1975; together with a large quantity of encapsulated coins, banknotes, albums, etc. Many mint state, as issued. (lot)

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Woolley & Wallis
Lot 913

A matched pair of George II and George III cast silver two-light candelabra, by Charles Kandler II, London 1783, one base by Paul Crespin, London 1748, shaped baluster stems with foliate scroll decoration and with three female busts supporting scroll capitals, on raised hexafoil bases with reeded borders and strapwork, foliate double scroll branches, each with a female bust supporting scroll capitals and hexafoil drip pans, central foliate finial, engraved with a crest and coronet, the earlier base inscribed to underside, ` Part of 2,381,000 oz of Spanish silver taken by the Prince Frederick & Duke Privateers, Amicitiae Causa`, also number `No.4` and with a scratch weight `36=5½`, the other base inscribed `No 3` and `34=2`, height 43.5cm and 42.8cm, approx. weight 168oz. (2) ** Provenance Purchased from Sotheby`s, New Bond Street, London, Fine Silver Sale, 7 November 1996, lot 185. The crest is that of Murray, Earls of Mansfield, probably for William, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793). He was born at Scone in 1705, and he pursued a distinguished legal career following being called to the English Bar in 1730. He became the Solicitor General in 1742, Attorney-General in 1754 and Lord Chief Justice of England in 1756. He died in 1793. the inscription refers to the action of 10 July , 1745, when the Privateers `Prince Frederick` commanded by Captain James Talbot and `Duke` by Captain John Morecock sighted three vessels whilst cruising the North Atlantic. They turned out to be French armed treasure ships returning from Lima- the `Louis Erasme`, `Marquis d`Antin` and `Notre Dame`. Talbot attacked immediately and captured first teh Marquis `Antin and then `Louis Erasme at one time being lodged between the two. The value of treasure captured from the two vessels amounted to £800,000 and was paraded through London in forty-five wagons on its journey to the tower.

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Peter Francis
Lot 484

A WILKINSON POTTERY CLARICE CLIFF BIZARRE SERIES JOHN ARMSTRONG DESIGN FIRST EDITION BOWL AND COVER, the cover decorated with stylized galloping horses on a cream ground, the body with banded colouring. Printed marks to base. 7.5" Wide x 4.5" High.

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Peter Francis
Lot 504

DILYS JENKINS, "Llanelly Pottery" first edition November 1968 published by D E B Books, Swansea. Original dust jacket.

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Christie's South Kensington
Lot 16

THREE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GINGER JARS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Comprising a larger jar decorated with panels of precious objects; and two smaller jars, the first painted with ladies and children in a fenced garden, the second with prunus flowers on a cracked-ice ground The first, 7 5/8in. (19.5cm.) high (3) View on Christie's.com

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Christie's South Kensington
Lot 155

TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GINGER JARS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) THE FIRST PAINTED WITH BLOSSOMING PRUNUS BRANCHES ISSUING FROM THE BASE AND THE SHOULDER ON A CRACKED-ICE GROUND; THE SECOND WITH SCATTERED PRUNUS HEADS ON A SIMILAR GROUND THE FIRST, 8¾IN. (22.3CM.) HIGH (2) View on Christie's.com

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Christie's South Kensington
Lot 163

TWO CHINESE CASTIGLIONE-STYLE EQUESTRIAN WATERCOLOURS 20TH CENTURY THE FIRST DEPICTING A MANDARIN ON A DAPPLED HORSE, THE SECOND AN ARCHER ON A WHITE HORSE, EACH WITH TWO SEALMARKS 46 3/8IN. X 19¼ (117.8CM X 48.8CM.), FRAMED (2) View on Christie's.com

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 196

Stamps - A large collection of albums, first day covers and loose; together with an album of world banknotes, including modern GB.

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 211

Cigarette and trade cards - Player, `Shipping`, UNISSUED, good (50/50); Wills, `Pond & Aquarium`, First Series, UNISSUED, good (25/25); Player, `Birds and Their Young`, First Series, non-adhesive, UNISSUED, good (25/25); Player, `Dogs` Heads` by Biegel, UNISSUED, good (50/50); Wills, `Life in the Hedgerow`, UNISSUED, good (50/50); Kellogg, `International Soccer Stars`, 1963, good (12/12); and Kellogg, `The Story of the Locomotive`, First Series, 1963, good (16/16).

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 271A

[Books]. JAZZ. Kernfield, Barry, editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, reprint, Macmillan, London 1996. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Goldblatt, Burt. Newport Jazz Festival. The Illustrated History, first edition, Dial Press, New York 1977. Boards, dustjacket, oblong quarto; and assorted other works of related interest, (total 69); together with a small quantity of jazz calendars.

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 359

AVIATION INTEREST - `OLD GLORY` & THE FAILED TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT OF 1927. A Waltham open faced pocket watch, the case stamped `14k`, with Arabic numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, and a `Riverside` movement, inscribed `Captain Eric William Densham RAF / In Grateful Remembrance / Of His Aid To / Old Glory / William Randolph Hearst / 1927`, with original case; together with an album of photographs of related interest, including a signed photograph of Lloyd Bertaud, Helen Bertaud, and J.D. Hill, views of `Old Glory`, other portraits of the pilots and ground crew, and views of Japanese interest, including Kamakura, Yokohama and Tokyo after an earthquake. Note: `Old Glory` was a Fokker VIIA single-engine aeroplane sponsored by the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to undertake the first non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Rome. It took off on 7th September 1927 from Old Orchard Beach airfield, Maine, piloted by Lloyd Bertaud and James DeWitt Hill, accompanied by Philip Payne, editor of the New York Daily Mirror. The `plane was sighted passing over the steamship `California`, approximately 350 miles east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, close to midnight, but in the early hours of the following morning sent her first distress signal. Her second call, issued at 4:03 a.m., was picked up by the steamship `Transylvania` which rushed to the site of the `plane`s last known position. Other vessels joined the search although high seas and rain hampered their efforts. After 24 hours the rescue mission was abandoned. Undeterred Hearst hired the S.S. Kyle to sweep the area afresh, and on 12th September a section of wing and part of the plane`s fuselage were spotted. The bodies of those on board, however, were never recovered.

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 361

BRISTOL. Nicholls, J.F. & Taylor, John. Bristol Past and Present, three volumes, Arrowsmith, Bristol 1881. Half calf, illustrations, quarto (scuffed); Cave, Charles. A History of Banking in Bristol from 1750 to 1899, privately printed, Hemmons, Bristol 1899. Grey-green cloth, plate illustrations, quarto; Latimer, John. The Annals of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century, three volumes, Kingsmead Reprints 1970. Boards, dustjacket, octavo; Macdonald, Peter. Hotheads and Heroes. The Bristol Riots of 1831, first edition, Davies, Sketty 1986. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and five other assorted volumes of Bristol interest.

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 364

Freuchen, Peter. Arctic Adventure. My Life in the Frozen North, first edition, Heinemann, London 1936. Blue cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto; Campbell, Vice-Admiral Gordon. Captain James Cook, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1936. Navy cloth, plate illustrations, folding charts, octavo; Wood, Lieut. J.E.R., editor. Detour. The Story of Oflag IVC, first edition, Falcon Press, London 1946. Cloth-spined boards, sixty-four plate illustrations, quarto; and two other works, (5). Best Bid

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 365

Hillary, Edmund. High Adventure, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1955. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo.

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Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)
Lot 376

Hayek, F.A. The Road to Serfdom, first edition, Routledge, London 1944. Black cloth, dustjacket, octavo.

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