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Lot 789
William Shakespeare, Illus Sir Noel Paton - The National Shakespeare. William Mackenzie c.1870. Three vols, folio. Frontis and numerous engraved plates after Paton, some foxing to prelim leaves. Dark green morocco decoratively blocked in black and gilt with elaborate armorial oval cartouche to centre boards. Rubbed at extremities, hinges slightly weak.
Lot 3
Aurigemma.Necropoli di Spina in Valle Trebba 2 vol. illustrations few in vol.1 loose corrected galley proofs of review by Martin Robertson loosely inserted original cloth roan labels a little rubbed and spotted Rome 1960-65; Il R.Museo di Spina in Ferrara second edition illustrations original cloth rubbed Ferrara 1936 folio & 4to (3)
Lot 12
Dempster.De Etruria regali libri VII 1723 edited by Thomas Coke 2 vol. including Supplement half-titles engraved portrait frontispieces titles in red & black with engraved vignettes folding engraved map and 93 plates some folding and/or double page 7 tables 2 folding engraved head- & tail-pieces and initials vol.1 with additional unpaginated leaf to Chapter LXVII and errata leaf at end of text some light soiling and browning O4 of supplement with tear to upper margin (no loss) contemporary calf with bookseller`s ticket J.Smith & Son of Glasgow rather worn joints split labels chipped or lacking folio Florence 1723-24-26.
Lot 41
Elgin Marbles (The) a collection of 39 engravings by Stuart Revett and others mostly of the sculptures a few double-page views title in manuscript some light spotting and soiling title and first plate loose old roan-backed cloth spine worn joints split n.d.; and another similar volume of c.90 plates by Boutrois folio(2)
Lot 76
Kikuchi (Sadao) and others. Ukiyo-e Taikei 17 vol. and English-text booklet Japanese text colour illustrations original cloth dust-jackets slip-cases folio Tokyo Shueisha 1974-76.(18) ***Extensive study of the Ukiyo-e (Floating World) style of Japanese art. Includes works by Harunobu Utamaro Hiroshige & Hokusai (including Hokusai`s views of Mount Fuji)..
Lot 80
London Chair-Makers` and Carvers` Book of Prices as Regulated and Agreed to by a Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen 1807 bound with The Second Supplement.... 1811 bound with The Supplement 1808 29 copper plates some old staining to page edges contemporary half calf spine chipped upper board and pp. i-iv detached lacks all before title folio.
Lot 82
Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture 4 vol. colour and black & white plates original cloth spines sunned 1923 § Weaver (Lawrence) Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens original cloth backed boards which are stained and marked with the stains affecting the edges of the first few pages 1913 folio(5)
Lot 87
Piranesi-Guercino. Raccolta di alcuni... engraved title and 13 plates on 10 leaves only (of 29) title and 3 plates by Piranesi (as called for F.983-986; W.-E. 1015-1018) others by Nevay and Ottaviani with 4 other plates in addition from another work one or two double-page 1 folding occasional spotting old half calf rubbed spine and corners worn boards detached folio [Rome 1764].
Lot 91
Sabartés (Jaime) Picasso: Toreros lacking the 4 original lithographs London and Monte Carlo 1961 § Picasso: Graphic Works 1899-1955 1966 § Brown (Jonathan editor) Picasso and the Spanish Tradition New Haven & London 1996 § Hofmann (W. editor) Georges Braque: His Graphic Work 1962 § Paulhan (Jean) Braque le Patron upper hinge broken original boards dust-jacket (spine torn) Geneva & Paris 1946 plates and illustrations some colour all but the last original cloth the first with faded spine and slip-case (splits to joints) the rest with dust-jackets most a little rubbed; and 6 others on Picasso & Braque oblong folio & 4to(11)
Lot 93
Schild (Marie) Le Journal des Modes 96 hand-coloured fashion plates some double-page or folding a few mounted on stubs many frayed and creased at edges a few torn 1 rather worn many loose original printed wrappers mounted onto old roan-backed boards rather worn folio 1878; sold not subject to return.
Lot 95
Schwarz.Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp with a catalogue raisonné neat ink inscription to front free endpaper original cloth dust-jacket (slight wear to edges) transparent wrapper a little frayed at edges 1969 § Duchamp (Marcel) Die Schriften edited by Serge Stauffer one of 1000 copies original pictorial boards very slightly soiled Zurich 1994 illustrations some colour 4to & folio(2)
Lot 106
Ackermann-History...St. Peter`s Westminster 2 vol. first edition second issue half-titles engraved portrait plan and 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Pugin and others list of subscribers plates with tissue and paper guards and generally clean some foxing and browning to text nick to upper edge of L gathering in vol.1 hinges reinforced contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt spines gilt g.e. rubbed one joint repaired others worn and split [Abbey Scenery 213] 1812; and a water-stained large paper copy of Woolnoth`s Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury of 1816 4to & folio(3) ***According to Abbey the second issue has the first plate in vol.2 signed A.Pugin (F.Mackenzie in first issue)..
Lot 108
[Barry (Charles) Palace of Westminster. 6 lithograph plates one tinted 4 engraved one double-page only of 17 also lacks frontispiece and dedication text-illustrations and decorations [1849] bound with Johnson (John) Reliques of Ancient English Architecture lithograph title and 64 lithograph plates only of 80 spotting Day & Son n.d. contemporary half calf worn front hinge broken spine defective and partly loose folio; sold not subject to return.
Lot 124
Whitaker Deanery of Craven 1812 second edition hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title engraved folding map and portrait 40 aquatint plates 21 hand-coloured some views in 2 states 25 engraved plates offsetting occasional spotting or foxing contemporary russia gilt spine rather worn joints splitting corners worn rubbed g.e. [Abbey Scenery 367] 1812; and a third edition of his Parish of Whalley in simaler condition folio(2)
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Lot 136
Montanus (Arnoldus) [Atlas Chinensis]: 1671 first English edition engraved additional pictorial title and 6 (of 33) double-page plates and 57 illustrations lacking printed title folding map dedication contents ff. and 27 plates pictorial title laid down and torn with loss to lower margin just affecting part of image modern cloth spine to label folio [Tho. Johnson] 1671.
Lot 191
Phillips (Philip) The Forth Bridge... first edition 57 plates most photographic text and plates mounted on stubs contemporary ink inscription from David Laidlaw to William Fowlis at head of title original pictorial red cloth gilt a little rubbed and lightly damp-mottled spine faded oblong folio Edinburgh [c.1889] § Emy (Armand Rose) Traité de l`Art de la Charpenterie Atlas only (lacking 2 text vol.) engraved frontispiece and 157 plates plates generally clean but one or two with marginal browning or staining a few slightly frayed at edges loose as issued in original cloth-backed board folder with ties paper label on upper cover lacking one tie spine torn lower cover detached Paris 1841; and 3 others on Carpentry & Woodwork v.s.(5)
Lot 214
Plutarch.Mikta suegrammata.Varia scripta 1574 edited by G.Xylander Greek text title with woodcut device portrait & verses on verso woodcut initial device on verso of final leaf water-stained old book-label from Braidwood Collection Lanarkshire on front pastedown modern ink inscription on front free endpaper contemporary vellum lacking ties stained spine a little worn and defective [Adams P1636] folio Basel E.Episcopius... 1574.
Lot 245
pa A Paradox Against Liberty. Written by the Lords During their Imprisonment in the Tower. A Poem 4pp. including title margins trimmed not affecting text later morocco backed boards 1679 § Act (An) for the Regulation of His Majesty`s Marine Forces while on Shore modern cloth boards 1777; plus 4 other Acts of Parliament folio(6)
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Lot 257
Fox (John) The Lives of the Primitive Martyrs.... with frontispiece and 9 engraved illustrations H.Trapp [1776] bound with The Book of Martryrs engraved title frontispiece and 28 of 29 engraved illustrations lacking Simon Hinshaw opp. p. 202 recent half browm morocco gilt folio H.Trapp 1776.
Lot 286
Knight (C) & others. Old England [Worthies] 3 vol. colour plates original half leather scuffed [c.1850] § Young Ladies` Journal (The) vol. 47 only chromolithographed fashion plates contemporary half leather worn new endpapers [c.1870] § Illustrated London News (The) July 1856 [-June 1857] 2 vol. numerous illustrations some folding and colour original cloth worn 1856-7; and 2 others 4to & folio; sold not subject to return. (8)
Lot 290
Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom`s Cabin first Cruikshank edition wood-engraved portrait frontispiece title-vignette and plates by George Cruikshank browned and water-stained contemporary half calf lower cover detached 1852 § Haggard (H. Rider) Cleopatra first edition 16pp. catalogue at end plates 1 loose some spotting and soiling original cloth a little worn 1889; and 2 others Cruikshank 8vo & oblong folio(4)
Lot 291
Illustrated London News (The) 3 vol. pictorial titles plates and illustrations a few chromolithgraphed with hand-colouring some splits and tears original cloth covers detached and/or badly worn folio 1855 1861 & 1862; sold not subject to return. ***The 1855 vol. includes plates relating to the Crimean War and a folding map of the Environs of London. The colour plates present mostly are for the International Exhibition..
Lot 399
Flaxman (John) The Iliad of Homer 1805; The Odyssey of Homer 1805; Compositions from the Works Days & Theogony of Hesiod; 1816; Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus 1817 together 4 works in 1 vol. engraved titles and 39 34 36 and 36 engraved plates respectively foxed contemporary morocco gilt g.e. new lettering labels extremeties rubbed folio
Lot 402
Hutton (Clarke).- Shakespeare (William) The Sonnet with an introduction by Robert Graves 2 vol. number 78 of 300 copies WITH AN ORIGINAL dRAWING SIGNED BY GRAVES the designer and the artist plates by Clarke Hutton on coloured papers original tan morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe t.e.g. original drawing signed and dated in pencil hinge-mounted loose in original cloth-backed board folder with ties spine spotted 4to & folio Swallow Press 1975.
Lot 406
Angelou (Maya) Our Grandmothers number 70 of 400 copies signed by author and artist 5 lithographed plates by John Biggers n.p. Wild Carrot Letterpress for Limited Editions Club 1994 § Walker (Margaret) For My People number 70 of 400 copies signed by author and artist 6 chromolithographed plates Elizabeth Catlett tissue guards New York Limited Editions Club 1992 prospectus loosely inserted original cloth in cloth drop-back box; and 2 others Wild Carrot Letterpress for Limited Editions Club large 4to & large folio(4)
Lot 422
Ricci (Franco Maria).-Lewis Carroll... 1975 § Saroyan (William) Morris Hirshfield 1976 § Chiara (P.) and Federico Roncoroni. Tamara de Lempicka 1977 all limited editions signed by the publisher printed on blue-grey paper tipped-in illustrations many colour original cloth gilt illustrations mounted on upper cover uncut spines a little faded slip-cases slightly rubbed small folio Parma Franco Maria Ricci(3)
Lot 21
Railways –Eastern Counties Railway Co copy of the official Government report of audit of the accounts of the Eastern Counties Railway Co 1849 folio 817pp modern binding from the library of the Home Office. A fine primary source of information on the state of railways at the height of railway mania
Lot 79
Maritime – Mauritius fine retained copy of a naval dispatch to Commodore Schomberg from First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham dated February 14th 1831 concerning the state of Mauritius and the threat of war from the French : ‘...we continue to receive the most pacific assurances from France and we confidently hope that the Peace of Europe will be preserved: considerable naval armament however are in progress in the Ports of France and it is probable if unhappily war were to take place between France and England that in the present state of the Mauritius that Island would be the object of an early & sudden attack...in the meantime without exciting any needless alarm or giving rise to ill founded suspicion of approaching hostilities it become you to be on the alert and so to dispose your force and not to be taken by surprise...’ 6pp folio marked ‘Secret & Confidential’
Lot 179
America 1823 fine and extensive ms letter written by a Scottish ex-pat to his family dated Palatine Bridge January 20th 1823 describing the country he has found: ‘...every four or five miles you will find a tavern where you will generally fall in with an excellent spring of water brought from a distance in woodland running into large troughs in purpose to refresh the horses or travellers who may stop there and they have all large shades into which they drive the horses wagons and all where the horses stand till the men take some refreshment...’ 4pp folio cross written in black and red (red ink somewhat faded) paper has split where originally folded in need of slight conservation otherwise the letter is in good order. The address panel bears a Liverpool Ship letter mark (Wilcocks type M8) with other postal history markings.
Lot 224
Ephemera – album a fine example of an early 20th c ‘country house’ album filled with photographs and signatures of guests at various country house ‘at homes’ with signatures including those by Ernest Thesiger Edward Poynter and many others and also including a photograph of a group which included Sir Edward Goschen and Sir Henry Rawlinson. Large folio in good condition
Lot 353
Royalty – Autograph – George III document signed dated December 12th 1792 addressed to Maj Gen John Ginning authorising him ‘by beat of drum or otherwise to raise so many men in any county of part of our Kingdom of Great Britain as shall be wanted...’ partially printed document on a single side of paper folio size good fresh condition
Lot 354
Diplomatic manuscript document on 3pp folio dated 1832 being an inventory of the salaries paid to British consuls throughout the world listing country rank and salary. A document of considerable historic interest. The cost of running the diplomatic service in that year was more than 50000 pounds – a considerable sum for the time.
Lot 330
WWI Biographies. The Bond of Sacrifice, A Biographical Record of All British Officers Who Fell in The Great War, vols. 1 & 2 only, August 1914 to June 1915, [1916], double-column text throughout with vign. portraits from b&w photos, near-matching orig. half morocco/cloth over buckram boards, both rubbed and leather spine to vol. 1, slightly frayed at head, folio, together with Graham (Dom Lucius), Downside & The War 1914-1919 ..., 1st ed., 1925, colour frontis., b&w portrait, illusts. from photos, t.e.g., orig. burgundy half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, plus other public school rolls of honour relating to the first world war, including Cheltenham College, Tonbridge, Wellington College, Merchant Taylor’s School, Rugby School, Marlborough College, Dulwich College, Harrow School, Mill Hill School, Eton and Winchester, mostly orig. cloth, some rubbed and soiled, and 4-vol. Winchester set damp-damaged (37)
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