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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 607

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, 1st ed., 1614, addn. eng. title, eng. portrait to printed title, seven (of 8) double-page eng. maps, wood eng. head and tail-pieces and initial letters, contemp. marginalia and underlining, some old water-stains and soiling, first and final leaves creased and frayed, one plt. and two text leaves detached and trimmed, lower corner of Oo2 torn away with sl. loss to text, lacking endpapers, contemp. calf, worn, with loss to spine and corners, thick folio. STC 20637. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 614

Saussure (Horace-Benedict de). A Description of the two Albinos of Europe, (one Twenty-one, the other Twenty-four Years of Age, Extracted from M. Saussures Journey to the Alps, in the Year 1785, and now Published in the Encyclop¾dia Britannica, printed by J. Mennons, Glasgow, c.1790, pp.15, half-title browned and soiled, fore-edges curled, final leaf detached and sl. frayed, bound with Derbyshire. Rules and Orders, to be Observed, Maintained, and Kept by the Friendly and Charitable Society of Gentlemen, Farmers, &c., held at the House of Samuel Goodlad, the Sign of the Chequer, in the Parish of Barlow, in the County of Derby..., J. Bradley, Chesterfield, 1789, pp.15, some browning and soiling, and Ballard (Edward), E. Ballards Divinity Catalogue for 1769, Containing Many Thousand Volumes of Scarce and Valuable Books... including the Libraries of the Rev. Mr Nicols..., the Rev. Mr Imber, of Abbots-Worthy, Hants; the Rev. Mr Doughty, of St. Jamess, Clerkenwell; the Rev. Mr. Ring, of Mile-End; and Several Others, all Deceased..., 1768, pp.130, first and final pages soiled, the three items bound together with four other pamphlets of similar date, in contemp. half sheep, rubbed and worn, with joints cracked and sl. loss to spine ends, 8vo, plus other misc. antiq. (18)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 641

Cole (Arthur C., ed.). Studies in Microscopical Science, 4 vols., 1883-86, numerous col. and b & w plts., some folding, title-page to first vol. lightly soiled, no title to fourth vol. as issued, modern cloth, 8vo. A superb compedium of microscopic technique and science. The work was originally issued in parts with a break between the publication of the first two volumes, published London, and the final two volumes, published Birmingham. Collation is difficult as the separate parts had their own pagination. The third volume contains sections 1, 2 & 4, but section 3 was never issued, as reflected in the index. (4)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 649

Henkel (Johann Friedrich). Henkelius in Mineralogia Redivivus, das ist Henckelischer... Unterricht von der Mineralogie oder Wissenschaft von Wassern... Steinen und Ertzten... , Dresden, 1746, eng. frontis., large indelible stamp on the title-page, which has some damage at the centre, first leaf of text torn at the top corner, text browned, stained in places, contemp. vellum, soiled, spine worn, 8vo (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 650

Horrocks (Jeremiah). Opera Posthuma; viz. Astronomia Kepleriana, Defensa & Promota. Excerpta ex Epistolis ad Crabtraeum suum. Observationum Coelestium Catalogus. Lunae Theoria Nova. Accedunt Guilielmi Crabtraei... Observationes Coelestes. Quibus Accesserunt, Johannis Flamstedii... De Temporis Aequatione Diatriba. Numeri ad Lunae Theoriam Horroccianam. [Edited by John Wallis], Londini, prostant venales apud Mosem Pitt, 1678, woodcut diags. in the text, errata leaf present at the end, lacks the two folding plts., text browned throughout, some soiling, recent pencil scoring, patterned indelible stencil at the foot of the title-page, contemp. vellum, soiled, small 4to. Horrocks was the first astronomer of note to accept the correctness of Keplers planetary laws and his physical theories. In this book, on which he was working when he died in 1641, Horrocks provides an accurate formulation of Keplers first and third laws, and a qualitative formulation of the second. First published in 1673, this second edition includes the Exercitationes Tres of John Wallis, separately paginated, at the end. Wing H.2869. (1)

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Lot 659

Quincy (John). Medicina Statica: Being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius, Translated into English with Large Explanations, To which is added Dr. Keils Medicina Satica Britannica, with Comparative Remarks, and Explanations. As also Medico-Physical Essays..., 2nd ed., 1720, eng. frontis., folding eng. plt., contemp. panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo. This edition is the first to contain Quincys Medico-Physical Essays. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 660

Reid (Thomas). Essays on the Intellectual and Active Powers of Man, 2 vols., 1st US ed., Philadelphia, 1793, contemp. sheep, joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, upper board of vol. 1 near detached, 8vo. The first edition published in Edinburgh in 1785. (2)

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Lot 669

Arclais de Montamy (Didier Francois d). Abhandlung von den Farben zum Porcellan und Email-Malen. Nebst einer Beschreibung der kunst auf Email zu malen, Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilschern, 1767, large indelible stamp on the title-page, four pages of Hilsherns adverts. at the end, some text browned, early paper boards, soiled, sl. rubbed, 8vo. First published as Traite des couleurs pour la peinture en email et sur la porcelaine in 1765. (1)

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Lot 670

Aringhi (Paolo). Roma Subterranea Novissima, 2 vols., Rome, Blasio Diversini & Zanobio Masotti, 1651, half-title and additional engraved title (by Baronio) to each vol., printed titles in red and black with large engraved vign., 224 engraved plates in all, mostly full-page, including six folding, woodcut illusts. to text, etc., occn. minor stains and some foxing to margins, one or two plates loose, and one or two text leaves creased, contemp. stained vellum, worn with backstrips partly deficient, covers to first vol. detached, folio. First edition of the latin translation of Antonio Bosios Italian text (first published in 1632), edited by the scholar Paolo Aringhi. Antonio Bosio (1576-1629), known as the father of Christian archaeology, spent most of his life exploring the catacombs of Rome, much of which has since deteriorated or been destroyed. (1)

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Lot 690

Mazois (Francois). Les Ruines de Pompei dessinees et mesurees par F. Mazois pendant les annees MDCCCIX, MDCCCX, MDCCCXI, First Part only, Paris, 1812, eng. title and two preliminary eng. plts., thirty-eight eng. plates (numbered I-XXXVIII), several eng. illusts. to text, contemp. half morocco, rubbed and some wear, partly split along upper joint, large folio. The whole work was published in four parts between 1812 and 1815, with a total of 201 plates, of which fifteen are hand-coloured. (1)

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Lot 696

Prisse dAvennes (Achille Constant Theodore Emile). La Decoration Arabe, Paris, 1885, ninety-seven (of 98) plts. (numbered 1-110, lacking plt. 109), mostly chromos. and heightened with gold, some double-page, light spotting to first few (text) leaves, contemp. qtr. morocco, rubbed, extrems. sl. worn, folio (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 701

Society of Dilettanti. Ionian Antiquities, published, with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A., F.S.A., N. Revett Architect; W. Pars, Painter, vols. I & II bound in one, pub. Spilsbury and Haskell, 1769 and W. Bulmer, 1797, ninety-two full-page engraved plates (33 plates to first volume and 59 plates to second volume), including one or two folding, the second volume lacking the final four plates at the end of the volume (separately numbered I-IV, being views of Halicarnassus, and the island and antiquities of Tortosa), numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces, some minor foxing and marginal soiling, small semi-circular stain to inner margin at foot of vol., affecting the first third of the volume, contemp. half dark green morocco, worn with upper portion of backstrip deficient, folio. Harris & Savage 849 & 850. Blackmer 1566. The Society of Dilettantis first Ionian mission of 1764-66, the protracted publication of which is well-documented. The first volume is the re-issue of 1785, with an additonal fourth chapter added, accompanied by five additional engraved plates. (1)

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Lot 720

Lee (Laurie). Cider with Rosie, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1959, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., spine ends chipped, 8vo, together with Ransome (Arthur), Great Northern? 1st ed., Cape, 1947, frontis. and illusts., map endpapers, occasional light spotting to edges, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., chipped with loss at spine ends and corners, plus Barstow (Stan), A Kind of Loving, 1st ed., Joseph, 1960, Orig. cloth in rubbed and browned d.j., 8vo, together with ten others, literature, first editions etc. (13)

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Lot 722

Lewis (C.S.). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1st ed., Bles, 1950, col. frontis. and b&w illusts. by Pauline Baynes, orig. cloth, spine a little faded with shadow of dustwrapper vign. to centre (as often), in d.j., chipped with loss at head of spine, internal tape repairs at spine ends and corners, 8vo. The first volume of the Narnia Chronicles. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 723

Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, Methuen, 1974, illusts. and decs. by E.H. Shepard, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine a little sunned, 8vo. De luxe reissue for the 50th anniversary of the first edition in 1924, limited edition 154/300, signed by Christopher Milne. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 724

Nister (Ernest, pub.). More Pleasant Surprises, for Chicks of all Sizes, [1894], eight slatted transforming chromo. plts., all with tabs reinforced or replaced, two plts. detached, some fraying and edge-tears, contents generally foxed and browned, patterned endpapers, hinges split, orig. cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, rubbed, 4to, together with Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land, Verses by Clifton Bingham, [1907], six chromo. plts., each with three moveable flaps, first plt. with one of the flaps and tab detached, lacking front free endpaper, stitching broken, with contents becoming detached, orig. cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, sl. rubbed, large 8vo (2)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 737

Du Cane (Florence). The Canary Islands, A&C Black, 1911, twenty col. plts. by Ella Du Cane, folding map at rear, gift inscription to half-title, t.e.g., some spotting to fore-edge, orig. white cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Kelly (R. Talbot), Burma, Painted and Described, A&C Black, 1912, seventy-five col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, folding map at rear, owner name, first gathering working loose, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine sunned and chipped with loss at head, 8vo, and Landor (A. Henry Savage), In the Forbidden Land, An Account of A Journey in Tibet, new ed., Heinemann, 1899, illusts., folding map at rear, orig. pict. cloth, rubbed at spine ends, 8vo, plus Hozier (Captain H.M., ed.), The Franco-Prussian War, Its Causes, Incidents and Consequences, vol.2 only, Mackenzie, c.1870, eng. ports., maps and plts., contemp. half calf, rubbed, joints partly cracked, 4to, together with some other A&C Blacks, miscellaneous etc. (a carton)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 759

Snelling (Stephen). VCs of the First World War. Passchendaele, 1917, pub. 1998, b & w illusts. from photos., together with Glover (Michael), That Astonishing Infantry. Three Hundred Years of the History of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Regiment of Foot), 1689-1989, pub. 1989, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., both orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, with others of military interest, mostly 20th c. hardback pubs., many in d.j.s., G/VG (3 shelves)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 760

Literature, poetry, modern first editions, incl. Oxford English Novels series etc. (3 shelves)

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Lot 790

Detective fiction, thrillers, first editions, literature etc., incl. Alistair Maclean, Margery Alllingham, Carl Hiaasen, Leslie Charteris, Rafael Sabatini etc. (3 shelves)

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Lot 791

Horsfield (Thomas Walker). The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex, 2 vols., Lewes, 1835, eng. port. frontis to each vol., two folding engraved maps, fifty-four engraved plates, wood eng. illusts. to text, some fraying and marginal stains to prelims., some marginal spotting, contemp. half morocco, worn with joints cracked and upper cover to first vol. det., together with Stanley (Henry M.), In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2 vols., 1890, folding maps, illusts., etc., orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little fraying to extrems., plus Creswicke (Louis), South Africa and the Transvaal War, 8 vols., including two supplementary vols., pub. Caxton Publishing Co., n.d., c. 1900s, numerous col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. half leather, rubbed and scuffed, and blackened to lower portions of spines, large 8vo, and other history and reference, including military interest, mostly 20th c., including several late 19th c. sets (The National Encyclopaedia, 14 vols., The Great War, by H. W. Wilson, 13 vols. including index, pub. Amalgamated Press, 4 vols. Pen & Pencil series, etc.) (6 shelves)

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Lot 807

Ryan (Frederick A.). The House of the Temple. A Study of Malta and its Knights in the French Revolution, 1930, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Melia (Prus), The Origin, Persecutions and Doctrines of the Waldenses, from Documents, many now the first time Collected and Edited, pub. James Toovey, 1870, mounted photo frontis., some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, slim folio, with other history and genealogy, education, London interest, etc. (3 shelves)

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Hartleys
Lot 867

LUDVIG RENN War, 1st edition in dust jacket and three others, First World War interest (4)

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Hartleys
Lot 903

A SWISS MUSICAL BOX, the 13 1/4" cylinder playing eight airs as listed on the tune sheet, stained and ebonised case, the hinged lid with stringing, kingwood banding and central marquetry music trophy, foliate base and bracket feet, first patented Sept 22 1885, case 28 3/4" wide

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Lot 4

Baedeker (Karl). Egypt. Handbook for Travellers, 4th ed., 1898, folding maps and plans, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, together with Rome and Central Italy, 16th ed., 1930, folding maps and plans, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine (Hinrichsen E158. The last edition of this title in English - gives a last glance of Mussolinis Rome), plus London and its Environs, 16th ed., 1911, folding maps and plans, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and two short closed tears at head of spine, and Tyrol and the Dolomites, including the Bavarian Alps, 13th ed., 1927, folding maps and plans, several panoramas, orig. cloth gilt in slightly soiled and chipped d.j. (Himrichsen E54. First and only edition of this title in English), with a further thirty-three Baedeker european guides and approx. thirty misc. guides (a carton)

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Lot 8

Baedeker (Karl). The Mediterranean. Seaports and Sea Routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers, 2 copies, 1911, folding maps and plans (first and only edition of this title and the only Baedeker in English containing a description of Constantinople), together with Egypt, 3rd, 5th & 7th eds., 1898, 1902 & 1914, folding maps and plans (5th ed. lacks title), plus Lower Egypt, 2nd & 3rd eds., 1885 & 1895, folding maps and plans (folding plan of Cairo in 3rd ed. repaired and tipped-in at rear) and Palestine and Syria, 3rd ed., 1898, folding maps and plans, folding panorama of Jerusalem, marginal dampstains, lacks front free endpaper, and Spain and Portugal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th eds., 1898, 1901, 1908 & 1913, folding maps and plans, upper margin of front free endpaper in 3rd ed. torn away (with a defective dup. copy of 4th ed.), all orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor wear (13)

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Lot 16

Beveridge (Henry). A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social, from the First Landing of the English, to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt; Including an Outline of the Early History of Hindoostan, 3 vols., 1860-62, steel-eng. frontis. and addn. vign. title to each, several col. maps and plans, num. wood-engs. to text, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt in bright cond., thick 4to, together with Atkinson (George Francklin), Curry & Rice, On Forty Plates: Or, The Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India, 5th ed., 1911, forty col. illusts., some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. and blind-stamped cloth designed by M. Digby Wyatt, a trifle rubbed on spine, folio, plus Keene (H.G.), History of India from the Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century, 2 vols., new edition, 1906, several maps, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo (6)

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Lot 47

Mason (George Henry). The Costume of China, Illustrated, printed for W. Miller, 1806, sixty fine hand-col. stipple engraved plts., some scattered spotting, mainly to first few leaves, first third of book with stain to top blank margin at gutter and outer corner, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, joints cracked, corners showing, folio (1)

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Lot 62

Rendu (M. Le Chanoine ). Theory of the Glaciers of Savoy, trans. Alfred Wills, ed. George Forbes, 1st English ed., Macmillan, 1874, neat owner name to half-title, b&w illusts., text in French and English, orig. cloth gilt, spine ends and corners rubbed, 8vo, together with Spender (Harold), Through the High Pyrenees, with Illustrations and Supplementary Sections by H. Llewellyn Smith, Innes & Co., 1898, photogravure frontis., b&w plts. from photos., illusts. to text, lacking map at rear, occasional spotting, hinges partly cracked, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, sunned on spine and along top edge of upper cover, 8v0, plus Mummery (A.F.), My Climbs in the Caucasus, 2nd ed., 1895, litho. and photogravure plts., some spotting, orig. cloth, some wear, 4to, and twenty-one others, related. First item Neate R22. Second item Neate S152. (24)

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Lot 66

Roth (Abraham). The Doldenhorn and Weisse Frau, Ascended for the First Time by Abraham Roth and Edmund Von Fellenberg, 1st ed., Coblenz, Kark Baedeker, 1863, half-title, eleven col. litho. plts. incl. one double-page, two wood-eng. plts., folding map at rear (strengthened at fold), two text leaves with closed tears and one with top with top right corner torn and repaired (no loss to text), later cloth, rubbed, some wear to edges, slim 8vo, and Berlepsch (H.), The Alps or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains, trans. Rev. Leslie Stephen, Longman, 1861, seventeen tinted plts., rough-trimmed, recent qtr. calf, 8vo. First volume Neate R77, a finely illustrated book. (2)

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Lot 72

Sherer (John). Europe Illustrated, its Picturesque Scenes and Places of Note, First series, France, Belgium and Rhine, 2 vols., c.1875, addn. eng. vign. title, XX eng. plts., contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear, 4to (2)

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Lot 73

Smith (Richard Gordon). Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan, A&C Black, 1908, sixty-two col. plts., rear hinge partly split, t.e.g., orig. pict. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, minor wear at foot of upper joint, 8vo, together with Menpes (Mortimer), Japan, A Record in Colour, A&C Black, 1905, col. plts., orig. blue cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, torn on spine, 8vo. First volume is the scarcest of the A&C Black series. (2)

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Lot 100

*Australian Navy. A group of twenty-two albumen photos relating to H.M.S. Wolverine, and the Australia Station, Sydney, etc., c. 1880, mostly views of various ships, with masts taken from a nearby land and showing more built-up land in the background, some identified in pencil to versos, including H.M.S. Wolverine, H.M.S. Danae, Chunborazo in Morts Dock, departure of Sir H. Robertson, Warrior, H.M.S. Wolverine in Farm Cove, Hercules, Eurydice, Mercantile Rowing Club Regatta, Vernon, Ariadne, Illustrious & Excellent, three group portraits of cruise or officers on deck and one mounted photo with detailed ink descriptions to mount verso showing the first cutters racing crew (ten oars) of H.M.S. Wolverine, Australia Station, with names of oarsmen and details of races won 1879/80, approx. 23 x 28cm and smaller, but only three images small format. The Australia Station was first created in 1859 and was the Naval Command responsible for the waters around the Australian Continent and British and Australian Colonial possession in the South Pacific. (22)

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Lot 106

*Cameron (Julia Margaret). The First Born, [April 1865], mounted albumen print of a mother looking down at her babys sleeping head, some uniform fading, 252 x 197mm, mounted on orig. Colnaghi card mount, signed and titled by Julia Margaret Cameron on mount beneath, mount soiled and worn with some loss, three closed marginal tears to image from mount tears beneath, matt mounted (1)

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Lot 108

Cameron (Julia Margaret). Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends, a series of twenty-five portraits and frontispiece in photogravure from the negatives of Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron and H. H. H. Cameron, Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with introduction by H. H. Hay Cameron, 1st ed., 1893, frontis. and twenty-five photogravure plates, sl. spotting and soiling to first and last leaves, orig. gilt dec. buckram, rubbed and soiled, sl. wear to spine and extrems., folio. Limited ed. 258/400 (1)

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Lot 126

*India - Big Game Shooting. An unpublished original typescript of a big game shooting diary, 1904-22, written by Brigadier Frederick George Gillies of the Indian Army, and typed up in the late 1930s, largely concerning a major trip in 1904, 1907 & 1911, in the Kashmir, Ladaka and Tibet Regions, but also concerning the Central Provinces, and the Kanara Jungles, Bombay Presidency, giving a good diary account of his observations, travels and animals shot, etc., contents leaf at front, 2 pp. neat manuscript detailing the marches in 1904 and 1907 (a total of 1,054 miles), 165 pp. neatly close-typed text (estimated 80,000 words), some very neat amendments in the authors holograph, a typed list of seven animal skins and fifty-three heads presented to the British Museum in 1938 and 1939, together with the British Museum (Natural History) receipt for the skins of two tigers, two leopards, two sloth bears and a Himalayan black bear, authors ownership name at front, the whole neatly inserted into a plastic ring binder, together with approx. 200 negatives of photos taken by Gillies on these trips, the majority meticulously identified in the authors holograph with photo details and date, showing views, local people, big game and fish kills, good quality, plus a full set of modern black and white photo reproductions from the negatives, 9 x 12cm, mostly numbered and with printed details beneath, plus two of Gillies original cameras (Kodak folding Brownie Six - 20 & Kodak Six - 20 Junior), both seemingly in good order in orig. pouches, plus a pair of his army issue aluminium folding binoculars by Aitchison & Co.. Brigadier Frederick George Gillies, C. B., O.B.E., (1881-1955) was educated at Tonbridge and after attending Sandhurst he was gazetted in 1900. His first Regiment was the 33rd Queen Victorias Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army, and later he served in the Poona Horse and the Royal Garhwal Rifles. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, in 1913 and during World War One took part in the campaign in Mesopotamia, being mentioned twice in Dispatches. He was also mentioned in Dispatches for his services in Southern Persia in 1918 and in Waziristan in 1919 for which he was appointed O.B.E. Later he commanded the Royal Garhwal Rifles and then held command of the Ambala Brigade from 1932 to 1934. Copyright for the diary and photographs transfers to the buyer of this lot. Please note that further fishing diaries, photographs and related will be offered for sale by auction in our sale on 25th July. (-)

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Lot 127

India. Kheddah Operations as Witnessed by their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales in the Kakankota Forests of Mysore, February, 1906, thirty-one mounted sepia photogravures from photos by Barton, Son & Co., Bangalore, printed captions on mounts beneath, images approx. 23 x 29cm and smaller, some spotting throughout, a few small dampstains to margins only of first and last plates, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. padded cloth, rubbed and soiled, oblong folio (1)

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Lot 136

International Exhibition 1862. The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department. British Division, Vol. 2 only, Printed for Her Majestys Commissioners, [1862], col. printed frontis., four chromo. plts., profusely illust. with wood-engs., some damp-staining in the text, orig. maroon cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, spine and corners rubbed, hinges weak, large 8vo, together with The Art Journal, 1867, eng. plts. and illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. morocco, worn and upper cover det., 4to, (includes Essays on Photography including one by Claudet Antoine), plus other photograph interest including The Glasgow Art Club Book, 1885 and The Art Review, vol. 1, 1890, both orig. cloth, some wear, all 4to. First item Class XIV comprises a 17-page section entitled Photographic Apparatus and Photography. (4)

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Lot 160

USA & Canada. Tour Round the World by Edwin Macaulay, 1902, Books 6 & 7: Canada and United States & Rocky Mountains, first album with thirty-nine gelatin silver print views, mounted back to back, including San Francisco and New York, many captioned in the negative, photographers including A. Loeffler and C. L. Ritzmann, the second album with ten mounted colour photos by Detroit Photographic Company, images approx. 18 x 23cm and similar, a.e.g., orig. morocco gilt, some sl. wear to extrems. and upper cover of first vol. det., oblong 4to (2)

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Lot 186

Kermode (P.M.C.). Manx Crosses, or the Inscribed and Sculptured Monuments of the Isle of Man from about the End of the Fifth to the Beginning of Thirteenth Century, 1st ed., London & Derby, 1907, frontis., two col. maps, fifty-six b & w illusts. from photos., illusts. to text, corrections slip present, some underscoring to prelims., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and a little worn at extrems., large 4to, together with Kermode (P.M.C. & Herdman, W.A.), Mankx Antiquities, 2nd ed., pub. University Press of Liverpool, 1914, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, slim 8vo. For the first volume, see Cubbon, volume 1, p.77. The authors greatest undertaking and the standard work on the subject. (2)

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Lot 209

Greirson (James). Saint Andrews as it was, and as it is; Being the Third Edition of Dr. Griersons Delineations, containing much Curious and Valuable Information Never Before Printed, pub. Joseph Cook, St. Andrews, 1849, twelve eng. plts. (one loose), a.e.g., orig. blind stamped cloth, gilt dec. spine, small 8vo, together with Votiva Tabella. A Memorial Volume of St. Andrews University in Connection with its Quincentenary Festival, 1411-1911, pub. 1911, half-title, col. frontis. of armorials, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. gilt dec. off-white cloth, 4to, plus Loveday (John), Diary of a Tour in 1732 Through Parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, made by John Loveday of Caversham, and now for the first time printed from a manuscript in the possession of his Great Grandson, John Edward Taylor Loveday, privately printed for the Roxburghe Club, Edinburgh, 1890, t.e.g., orig. qtr. morocco gilt, rubbed and somewhat scratched (75 copies printed), 4to, and others The first volume includes a brief history of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, a list of medal holders and details of a gold medal presented to the Society of Golfers by William IV. (10)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 213

Lindsay (Lord). Lives of the Lindsays; Or, a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, 3 vols., 1849, folding genealogical chart, double-page engraving of seals and two folding plts. of facsimile autographs, contemp. green half calf gilt, rubbed and faded on spines, 8vo, together with Reid (Wemyss), Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyon Playfair, First Lord Playfair of St. Andrews, 1899, Lady Playfairs copy with her ownership signature in pencil, two sepia photo. ports., orig. cloth gilt, faded and rubbed, with another copy of the same work, plus Ross (Andrew), The Lyons of Cossins and Wester Ogil, Cadets of Glamis, pub. Edinburgh, 1901, orig. plum cloth gilt, corners bumped, slim 4to (6)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 220

Agassiz (Louis). Histoire Naturelle des Poissons deau Douce de lEurope Centrale, plate volumes only, 3 parts in 2 volumes, Neuchatel, [1839]-42, 55 litho. plates (plus one overlay and three duplicate plates), lacking one plate, some plates hand coloured, many plates with accompanying leaf of descriptive text in French, German & English, orig. printed boards, spines defective and all leaves loose with a little marginal fraying, folio. Nissen 48. The first volume Salmo et Thymallus contains 27 lithographs numbered 1-17b. The second volume contains two parts. The first is entitled Embryologie des Salmones and contains 14 lithographs numbered 1-7a, the second part is entitled Anatomie des Salmones and includes 14 lithographs lettered A-O (lacking I) and with three duplicate copies of plates M, N & O. Of the three parts only Embryologie des Salmones includes a letterpress title. This set does not include the text volume that was issued in 1845 in volume three of Memoires de la Societe des sciences naturelles de Neuchatel under the title Anatomie des Salmones. (2)

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 1

The 1914-18 British War medal and the 1914-19 Victory medal to 27458 Pte. S.C.Herrington. Hamps.R. and the First World War period memorial plaque, detailed Stanley Charles Herrington, died 21st September 1917 and is buried in the Godewaersvelde British cemetery.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A Bahamas nine coin proof specimen set, two Panama silver proof twenty Balboas, three Canadian six coin proof specimen sets, a 1973 Centenary of County Cricket commemorative first day cover, in a presentation folder, a 1977 Silver Jubilee silver proof crown and a Bahamas proof ten dollars coin, mostly cased.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A pair of silver oval napkin rings, with engine turned decoration, Birmingham 1935, a brass rectangular Princess Mary's First World War period gift tin, a Post Office savings bank money box, a pair of mother of pearl opera glasses, cased, a rectangular silver matchbox slide, decorated with winged angels faces amidst clouds, Birmingham 1902 and a plated vesta case cum stamp box, designed as a book.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A Worcester, First Period, blue and white cabbage leaf jug, with mask spout, transfer decorated in the 'Pecking Parrot' pattern.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A group of Worcester, First Period porcelain tea wares, comprising; oval tea pot stand, pair of fluted coffee cups and saucers with cobalt blue and gilt foliate decoration, tea bowl and saucer and a trio.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A pair of Continental porcelain figural spill vases modelled as 'Out First ball' and 'The Hope of his Side', together with two Border Fine Arts sculptures; sow and piglets, and a butterfly on a bramble leaf.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A Beswick, Beatrix Potter figure, first variation, modelled as 'Tabitha Twitchit', brown back stamp.

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Bellmans Auctioneers & Valuers
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A First World War period silver rectangular matchbox slide, decorated with the badge of The Border Regiment, Birmingham 1917.

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Toovey's
Lot 1517

A Bretby green glazed pottery First World War commemorative bulldog, modelled in bandages and inscribed 'AFTER THE', incised factory marks to base with shape no. 1348, height approx 24cm (minor painted over chip to tail).

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Toovey's
Lot 1605

A pair of Meissen porcelain ormolu mounted figural candlesticks, the porcelain circa 1750, the mounts probably late 18th/early 19th Century, the first with a standing putto holding a large black fish issuing a stiff leaf moulded sconce, a fallen putto at his feet, the other with a central stem of bulrushes issuing a stiff leaf moulded sconce, a standing putto beside picking at the heads and a lobster resting on the foliage, a fallen putto at his feet, each raised on a floral encrusted mound base above the ormolu stands comprising a circular laurel wreath on a canted corner square base, crossed swords in underglaze blue visible to back of one, height approx 31cm (faults). (See illustration on front cover)

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Toovey's
Lot 1637

A Royal Doulton porcelain limited edition figure 'First Violin', HN3704, with certificate.

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 34

Assorted Motor Sport Related Literature Includes a good quantity of Autosport magazine from 1950s (approx. 75), Speed World from late 1960s, first series of Autocar 'Endless Quest for Speed' prints in folder, a set of 12 Michael Turner colour racing artwork prints depicting 1960s racing cars, Aston Martin Owners Club magazines from 1950s and BARC yearbooks for 1954 and 1955. (Qty)

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 46

Power & Glory by William Court Comprehensive history of Grand Prix motor racing from 1960-1951, over 350 pages and well illustrated. First edition, very good condition.

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 47

Les Automobiles Delage by Jacques Rousseau Part of Collection Fanauto series, over 340 pages and profusely illustrated. First edition (1978), French text, some slight wear to spine of dust jacket, otherwise very good condition.

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 232

Tinplate Toy Cars & Fire Station MAR Toys Automatic Fire Station being a colourful tinplate first station garage with tinplate fire chief's car inside which on winding a handle comes through the open front doors, good condition. Plus a Schuco Elektro Razzia Car 5509 being a Mercedes 190/300 SL police car and one other unidentified tinplate Mercedes SL model marked 'Japan', both fair condition. (3)

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 409

Two Signed First Edition Aircraft Prints by Robert Taylor 'Spitfire' signed by Douglas Bader & Johnnie Johnson and 'Lancaster' signed by Leonard Cheshire. Both framed/glazed, 61x51cm. (2)

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H. & H. Classic Auctions
Lot 618

Signed 1995 British Grand Prix Programme Signed by a large number of drivers as follows : front cover - Herbert (winner, his first victory), Coulthard, Murray Walker, Jackie Stewart, Hill, John Watson and 1 other; inside - Salo, Coulthard, Blundell, Brundle, Hakkinen, Morbidelli, Irvine, Panis, Menu & Tarquini. Plus one other unidentified signature to rear cover. Complete with framed racecard signed prominently to front and rear covers by Schumacher, Arnoux, Morbidelli, Briatore, Prost, Inoue, Bouillon, Lauda, Jabouille, Barrichello, Irvine & Bernie Ecclestone. 31 signatures in total.

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