Hall (S.C., editor). Gems of Euorpean Art: The Best Pictures of the Best Schools, 2 vols., 1st Series, 1846, 2nd Series, c.1840s, numerous steel eng. plts., scattered foxing, contemp. green half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, spines gilt dec., folio, together with Wilkie (David), The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the Best Pictures of the late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Including the Spanish and Oriental Sketches, c.1850, port. frontis., addn. eng. title-page, and numerous eng. plts., scattered light foxing and occn. soiling, a.e.g., orig. maroon blindstamped morocco gilt, bevel-edged, extrems. rubbed, gilt to upper cover dulled, folio, plus Cunningham (Allan), The Gallery of Pictures by the First Masters of the English and Foreign Schools..., 2 vols., c.1830s, numerous steel eng. plts., scattered foxing, contemp. gilt dec. calf, rubbed and worn, first vol. with loss to foot of spine, 4to (5)
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Catalogues. Collection Jacques Doucet, Catalogue des Dessins & Pastels du XVIIIe Sicle Dont la Vente Aura Lieu a Paris Galerie Georges Petit..., 3 vols., Paris, 1912, title-pages printed in black and red, numerous b & w and sepia plts., sprinkled edges, together with Catalogue des Tableaux Modernes... Objets d'Art & d'Ameublement, Appartenant ˆ Madame la Marquise Landolfo Carcano, Paris, 1912, printed in black and red throughout, numerous b & w and sepia plts., one detached, scattered light foxing, sprinkled edges, stitching partially broken, uniformly bound in contemp. qtr. speckled calf, gilt dec. spines with leather labels, extrems. sl. rubbed, first vol. damaged at foot of spine with loss, folio (4)
Golden Cockerel Press. The Log of the Bounty, 1937, vign. titles, untrimmed, orig. three colour cloth, sl. rubbed and dusty, spines lightly faded, large 8vo Limited edition, 234/300 copies. Admiral J.A. Edgell's copy (writer of 'Comments on Bligh's Navigation' at the front of the first vol.), with his original (complimentary) receipt loosely inserted, as well as an accompanying letter from Owen Rutter to Edgell thanking him for the interest he has taken in the volume. Also inserted is a single-leaf Prospectus for 'Bligh's Voyage in the Resource'. (2)
Le Mair (H. Willebeek, illust.). A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Philadelphia, David McKay, 1926, twelve full-page colour plates, orig. green cloth gilt with mounted colour illusts. to upper cover, very sl. rubbed to extrems. (generally in clean condition), oblong 4to, together with Barker (Cicely Mary), The Book of the Flower Fairies, n.d., c. 1930s, 72 colour plates, some juvenile colouring-in to first few leaves (not affecting plates), orig. green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo, plus other children's books, various, including Little Tonino, and The Golden Goat, by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, both 1st ed., 1934/35 respec., Children by the Sea, by Ruth Manning-Sanders, 1st ed., 1938, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, illust. Jessie Willcox Smith, pub. Boots, n.d., c. 1920, etc (9)
Lewis (C.S.). The Last Battle, 1st ed., Bodley Head, 1956, b & w illusts by Pauline Baynes, a little spotting to first few leaves, endpapers, and edges, orig. cloth, a little faded to extreme head and foot of spine, in sl. spotted d.j., spine a little sunned and sl. rubbed to extrems., a couple of short edge-tears, 8vo (1)
Moliere (Jean Baptiste de). Oeuvres, Paris, 1866, portrait frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, a few light spots, prize-giving inscription on ffep, contemporary calf, upper cover with gilt-stamped armorial, spine gilt with lettering-piece, lightly faded, large 8vo, together with Lansdale (Maria Hornor), The Chateaux of Touraine, New York, 1907, illustrations after Jules Guerin, half-tone plates, contemporary half morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. t.e.g., 4to, (provenance: William A. Law, Chairman of First National Bank, Philadelphia. Bound-in at rear, various dinner invitations in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, various correspondence, banquet speeches etc from the early 1920's), together with a small quantity of other books including Katherine Thomson's The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 3 vols., 1860, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, 3 vols., 1840, George Harris's The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, 3 vols., 1847, Helen Taylor's Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, 3 vols., 1872 and Oeuvres Complettes, 8 vols., Paris, 1803 (33)
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, 1st ed., Warne, 1906, col. illusts., a few leaves with vertical crease, one plt. with closed tear, lacking front free endpaper, orig. grey-green boards, with circular illust. mounted to upper cover, lightly rubbed and corners showing, lacking spine, 16mo, together with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, col. illusts., first few leaves detached, some finger-soiling and surface abrasion, one leaf with closed tear in fore-margin, lacking front free endpaper, orig. green boards, with pictorial panel mounted to upper cover, faded and sl. marked, lacking spine, 16mo., plusThe Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st ed., 1918, col. illusts., stitching strained, endpapers a little soiled, orig. grey boards, with pictorial panel mounted to upper cover, lacking spine, 16mo., plus ten other works by Beatrix Potter, incl. 1st eds. of Tom Kitten and Squirrel Nutkin (both lacking frontis.) (13)
![Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, new ed., Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], fifty tippe](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2717855/704-69-10729_468x382.jpg)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, new ed., Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], fifty tipped-in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, b & w illusts. to text, occn. light foxing, B2 with short tear in lower blank margin, plain endpapers and edges foxed, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, marked, spine sl. faded, 4to, (Riall p.114: a reprint of the 1906 ed. but with a new coloured frontis. and an addn. seven full-page drawings), together with The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, 1st ed., 1910, thirty-four col. plts. tipped-in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, some scattered spotting, mostly to first and final leaves and to edges, pictorial endpapers, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, plus Some British Ballads, Constable, 1st ed., [1919], sixteen tipped-in plts., a few corners creased, scattered spotting, rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, some fading and marks, spine a little frayed to extrems., shaken and binding becoming detached at upper hinge, 4to (3)
Ralston (W.). The Story of the Jovial Elephant [cover-title], [1905], printed on rectos only, with col. illusts. throughout and text below, first leaf lightly browned, hinges split, orig. pictorial glazed boards, browned, extrems. rubbed, in printed d.j., rubbed, torn, and frayed, 4to, together with Studdy (G.E.), Uncle's Animal Book, [1923], eight col. plts., and numerous b & w letterpress illusts., orig. cloth-backed col. pictorial boards, extrems. sl. rubbed, and edges a little dusty, 4to, plus Sime (S.H.), Bogey Beasts, c.1923, full-page b & w illusts. and musical notation, upper hinge split, lacking front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, some fraying to spine, corners showing, 4to (3)
Tolstoy (Leo Nikolayevich). The Novels and Other Works, 24 vols., New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907, frontispiece plate in each vol., original publisher's cloth gilt, slight uniform fading to spines, t.e.g., 8vo. This edition, first issued in 1904, was edited and largely translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole, who made the first translations into English of many of Tolstoy's novels. (24)
Elzevir Press. Histoire du roy Henry le Grand. Composee par Messire Hardouin de Perefixe..., Amsterdam, 1661, addn. eng. title (dust soiled, detached & frayed to margins), some damp staining and light dust soiling, disbound 12mo, (Willems 1272), together with Pearson (John), An Exposition of the Creed, 2nd ed., 1662, title ruled in red, first and last few pages slightly frayed, slight dust soiling, contemp. calf, lacks spine and corners worn, plus other misc. 18th/19th c. theology etc. (a carton)
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Literature, on a plan entirely new: by which the difference sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ..., 19 (of 21) vols., Dublin, 1801, lacking vol. 7, and the first of the two supplementary vols., numerous engraved plates, rubbed and some marks, contemp. uniform full calf, morocco label to spines, marked and some wear, mainly to head and foot of spines and edges, 4to, together with Corneille. Oeuvres de T. Corneille, 4 vols., Paris, 1758, contemp. uniform full calf, fourth vol. lacking gilt label to spine, small 8vo, plus three other odd vols. (Burney's Memoirs of Metastasio, vols. I & III only, 1796, & Middleton's Life of Cicero, vol. II (of 3 vols.) only, 1801, 4to, plus four others various (Labaume, Relation Circonstanciee de la Campagne de Russie, 3rd ed., Paris, 1814, with one (of 2) folding maps) (2 cartons)
Layton (G.). Castle-Barnard, A Poem, pub. Barnard-Castle, printed by and for J. Atkinson and for G. Atkinson, Darlington, 1823, half-title, wood-engraved frontis., wood-engraved vign. title, several wood-engraved illusts., orig. printed boards, rubbed and marked, a little wear to spine and edges, small 8vo, together with Cannon (Richard), Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, 1852, three hand-coloured and tinted plates, orig. blind-stamped red cloth, a little rubbed and frayed to extrems., spine somewhat faded, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian, mostly 19th c. (2 cartons)
Ashenden (Stephen). The Mountains of My Life. Journeys in Turkey and the Alps, 1st ed., 1954, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 4to, together with First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933, by Air Commodore P.F.M. Fellowes, L.V. Stewart Blacker, Col. P.T. Etherton... , 2nd imp. December, 1933, b & w illusts. from photos, maps and charts, anaglyph plt. (stereoview glasses in rear pocket), orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, plus The Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, edited Ludwig W. Adamec, 5 vols. (Badakhshan, Farah, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kandahar), pub. Austria, 1972-80, num. maps and tables, orig. cloth in d.j.s, large 8vo, with other various mountaineering interest (3 shelves)
Scotland. The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Queen Mary, King James the Sixth, King Charles the First, King Charles the Second, who now Presently Reigns... , Edinburgh, 1681, eng. armorial frontis., addn. eng. title, both somewhat soiled, contemp. calf, rubbed and scuffed, covers detached, folio, with other misc. antiquarian law, including Reports, Statutes at Large, etc., inc. odd vols. (3 shelves)
Eckel (John C.). The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values. A Bibliography, 1st ed., 1913, b & w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo (limited edition 745/750), together with Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds, vol. 2 only (Water birds), Newcastle, 1826, num. wood-engs. to text, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine with contrasting labels, sl. frayed at head, tall 8vo, with other misc. books incl. bibliography and catalogues, antiquarian, etc. (3 shelves)
Greene (Graham). The Quiet American, 1st ed., 1955, owner's signature on endpaper, original cloth, d.j., a few nicks, 8vo, together with Nesbit (E.), Long Ago When I Was Young, 1966, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original cloth, d.j., edges slightly rubbed, 8vo., plus Charteris (Leslie), The Saint Sees it Through, 1st ed., 1947, original cloth, edges a little faded, offsetting to spine, d.j., nicks and short closed tears, 8vo, together with a quantity of modern first editions, including J. G. Ballard's The Empire of the Sun, Len Deighton's SS-GB, John Braine's The Vodi, Ian McEwan's Or Shall We Die, Rumer Godden's China Court, five books by Robert Holdstock, three signed by the author and Iris Murdoch's The Book and the Brotherhood (75)
Murphy (Richard). The Woman of the House, Dolman Press, 1959, orig. printed wrappers, slim 8vo, (250 copies), together with Nonesuch Press. The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, trans. G. Rawlinson, revised and annotated by A.W. Lawrence, 1935, nine wood engs. by Le Campion, and a series of maps at the rear, by T. Poulton, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. blue qtr. morocco, thick folio, (limited edition 405/675), plus Rabelais (Francois), All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais. An American Translation with a Critical Text ... by Samuel Putman, 3 vols., privately printed for subscribers only, New York, 1929, col. and b & w illusts. by Jean de Bosschere, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. canvas-backed boards, rubbed and a little soiled, large 4to, (limited edition 623/1300), with other misc. books, mostly illustrated works and literature, incl. modern first eds. (3 shelves)
Sansom (George S.). Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War, 1st ed., 1982, b & w illusts. and a map by A. Wainwright and twelve b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., slim folio, together with Rhodes (Daniel P.), A Pleasure-Book of Grindelwald, 1st ed., New York, 1903, b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Turner (Samuel), My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents, 2nd imp., 1913, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, faded on spine, 8vo, and others of mountaineering interest (3 shelves)
Bibliography and art reference, including Donough O'Brien, Miniatures in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centurys, pub. Batsford, 1951, Small Country Houses of To-Day, by Sir Lawrence Weaver and R. Randal Phillips, 1922-1925, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Loan Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts held by the First Edition Club, 1922, privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1922, limited edition 333/500, etc. (3 shelves)
Burton (Captain Sir Richard F.). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, 2 vols., 1893, portrait frontispiece of Isabel Burton, fourteen lithographed plates, of which thirteen coloured or tinted, three folding maps and plans, occasional light spotting, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed and slightly cocked, 8vo, together with A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 2 vols., 1893, frontis. to each, occasional light spotting, original cloth gilt, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo. First four volumes of the Memorial Edition. (4)
Carne (John). Syria, The Holy Land and Asia Minor Illustrated, 3 vols. bound in one, Fisher, c.1840, eng. port. frontis., addn. eng. vign. title to each part, two single-page maps, 113 (of 117) steel-eng. plts., occn. light marginal foxing, endpapers renewed, contemp. half calf, rubbed, 4to, together with Beattie (William), The Castles and Abbeys of England, Virtue, c.1870s, eng. port. frontis., numerous eng. plts. and illusts., embossed circular lib. stamp to rear blanks, first vol. with front free endpaper glued to pastedown, a.e.g., contemp. morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, spines sl. faded, 4to, plus Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vols., Blackie, c.1860s, numerous eng. plts., some hand-col., some folding, contents generally browned and stained, a few short tears in fore-margin, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, with some sl. wear to extrems., 4to, plus Wright's Gallery of Engravings, 2 vols. (7)
Lenglet du Fresnoy (Pierre Nicolas). [Geographia Antiqua et Nova: or a System of Antient and Modern Geography: with a sett of maps engraven from Cellarius's: designed for the use of schools, and of gentlemen ..., to which is added a large index, printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1742], vi + [6] + 157 + 38 pp., thirty-three double-page eng. maps, maps by R. W. Seale, many hand-coloured in outline, lacks title page, first leaf of preface creased, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, and some wear, mostly to joints and corners, 4to (1)
Baddeley (John). The London Angler's Book, or Waltonian Chronicle, containing much Original Information to Anglers Generally combined with Numerous Amusing Songs and Anecdotes of Fish and Fishing, never before Published. Together with an Entirely New Description of the Thames..., printed G. Parsonage, 1834, engraved frontis., two b & w plates of tackle, orig. boards, spine worn with upper cover and first few leaves detached, 8vo (1)
Fishing Laws. Bairische Landtsordnung, 2 vols. in 1, Ingoldstadt, 1553, printed in red and black, folding woodcut title of the Elector of Bavaria Albrecht V, on his throne, trimmed, with repaired sections to verso, 3 folding plates with woodcuts of ten fish, first plate with tape repair along fold affecting image, repair and short tear along fold of third plate, one further full-page woodcut of crustaceans, some worming and repairs, mostly marginal, sometimes affecting text, leaves E3 & E4 loose, second folding title with woodcut coat-of-arms, some mostly marginal dampstaining and soiling, later mottled calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, small folio One of the earliest books on fish and laws relating to fishing. As fish were such an important staple diet, illustrations representing the legal sizes of fish that could be caught are included in the present work. Nissen ZBI 4570. (1)
'General of Carabiniers 1815', 11" x 15", 'General de Division et Son Aide-de-Camp', 10" x 16", 'Carabaniers 1805', 15" x 11",'First Hussars 1815 First French Empire', 12" x 8", on horseback and another on horseback and 'Legions Polonaise 1810 Regiment de la Vistule', 15" x 10", standing with rifles in a landscape (6)
Matchbox, Moy collection of 58 mixed playworn Moys many early first issues to include good Y-11/1 steam roller 2x Y-7/1 'Jacobs' van, Y-9/1 Fowler Showman, Y6/1 'Osram' lorry, 2x Y-4/1 steam wagon, 2x Y-4/2 Shand Mason fire engine etc a few models overpainted, a few a/f plus 5 boxed Moys (P-F-M)
A 1914-15 Star to '5094 Pte. J.H. Oliver. Manch. R.', a First World War period memorial plaque, detailed 'James Henry Oliver', with original card case, died 28th April 1917 and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, a 1914-18 British War Medal and 1914-19 Victory Medal to '4932 Pte. J.C. Oliver. K.S.L.I.', a Christmas 1914 Princess Mary's brass gift tin, four Second World War medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, 1939-45 Defence Medal and 1939-45 War Medal, mounted as worn, and a quantity of related paperwork and photographs.
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