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Lot 337

Folio Society Thirteen authors including a Jane Austen collection Jane Austen, a collection of seven titles 'Emma', 'Mansfield Park', 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Persuasion', 'Northanger Abbey' Pride and Persuasion' and 'Shorter Works', sixth impression 1989, Mark Twain 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' with wood engravings by Harry Brockway, seventh printing 2006, Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird' with illustrations by Aafke Brouwer, 1996, two copies of Ernest Hemingway 'Short Stories' with illustrations by Ian Beck, both reissues with new bindings 2008, 'Dickens' London' with engravings by George Cruikshank, ninth impression 2009, Stella Gibbons 'Cold Comfort Farm' with water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake, tenth printing 2006, G.K Chesterton 'The Father Brown Stories' with illustrations by Val Biro, 1996, 'The Best of Dorothy Parker', with illustrations by Helen Smithson, fifth printing 1995, 'The Genius of James Thurber', third printing 2000, 'The Wit of Oscar Wilde' illustrated by Ian Archie Beck, third printing 1999, 'The Plums of Wodehouse' illustrated by Paul Cox, second printing 1998, 'The Pick of Punch', second printing 1999, 'The Cream of Noel Coward' illustrated by Helen Smithson , second printing 1997. All good or vg condition.

Lot 53

[Signed] Beryl Cook 'Mr Norris Changed Trains,' signed by the artist to titlepage, original cloth, slip case, colour illustrations, The Folio Society, London, 1990.'During 1990 and 1991 my daughter worked at the London Contemporary Art - main distributors, which was then based in Lots Road, Chelsea, London. She was given this book as a leaving present and subsequently passed it on to her late grandmother (my mother). This is how I came to have it.'

Lot 243

Norway Sea Charts. Thirty-nine (out of 41), updated to 1947, including 'The Naze to Kristiansand', 'Oslo Haven', 'Aproaches to Molde' etc, vignettes of light houses and points of interest, original cloth folio wrap, New Editions, published at the Admirality. (39)

Lot 62

‘Fox’s Book of Martyrs’ ‘Containing Copius & Authentic Accounts of the Lives, Sufferings & Deaths of the Protestant Martyrs...,’ New edition, both boards debound with a poor spine, saying that, the text block is g to vg, with a profusion of illustrations and plates, some off setting, Alex Hogg, London, n.d.Although no date is apparent amongst this work, it is believed as this is a 'new addition' with additions and corrections, including Paul Wright, the vicar of Oakley, The date is estimated to be c.1784. The book is folio sized.

Lot 16

'Black's General Atlas,' 1844. 'Comprehending Sixty-One Maps from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources,' By Sidney Hall, Hughes, &c, folio, contemporary half black leather, rubbed and bumped with loss to the spine, ex libris label for George Studdert, steel engraved maps collated complete, most hand-coloured in outline, some double-page, very occasional light foxing or offsetting, tissue guards, gilt edge to vg textblock, Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1844.Black's General Atlas was a prominent example of the flourishing atlas industry during the 19th century. It influenced and set a standard for subsequent atlases of the Victorian era. The atlas's success and popularity prompted other cartographers and publishers to produce similar works, incorporating its style and content.

Lot 242

Thirty-four various sea charts. Including 'Strait of Gibraltar to River Gambia', 'Terceira and Graciosa', 'Delaware to Floorida Strait', 'West Indies and Carribbean Sea' etc, original folio cloth wrap, many vignettes of coastlines, New editions, updated, published by Admirality. (34)Genrally speaking most are revised to the mid and early 1940's, with some purple ink updates by hand dating 1947.

Lot 349

Carroll Lewis 'The Complete Alice' Twenty-two book boxset with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury, Walker Books and Kenneth Grahame 'The Wind in the Willows' illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, The Folio Society, second printing 2006.

Lot 390

Inigo Jones interest. SOME ARCHITECTURAL WORKS OF INIGO JONES By H. Inigo Triggs and Henry Tanner (1901) London: BT Batsford. Folio. Ex Croydon Public Library with stamps. Spine reinforced. Plates all present and clean (1)There are a considerable amount of stamps, as listed; Front free endpaper, verso of frontis, titlepage and verso of, the heads of preface, list of plates, list of illustrations, chronological list and introduction. There is also a stamp to the verso of each plate, of which there are 40. This work would be considered very good , if not for the stamps.

Lot 339

Folio Society Eight works Hans Christian Anderson 'The Complete Tales I and II' with illustrations by numerous artists, 2005, Lewis Carroll 'The Hunting of the Snark' with illustrations by Jeffrey Fisher, 2010, Noel Streatfield 'Ballet Shoes' with illustrations by Inga Moore, 2009, Lewis Carroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' with illustrations by John Tenniel, fourth printing 1992, Lewis Carroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' with illustrations by John Tenniel, twenty fourth printing 2011, 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' illustrated by Arthur Rackham, fourteenth printing 2008, Roald Dahl 'The Complete Tales of the Unexpected and Other Stories' with illustrations by Helen Smithson, second printing 2002, 'The Folio Chirstmas Book' a collection of seasonal stories and poems, 2000. All vg condition or vg+, except the fourth printing of Alice which has fading to the spine and minor staining to the edge of textblock, otherwise good.

Lot 343

Pepys Diary Folio Society and other works FOLIO SOCIETY : HANS ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES. Folio Society (1995) With illustrations by W Heath Robinson. Together with THE STONES OF VENICE By John Ruskin (1981) and A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE By JR Green (1992) and THE FATHER BROWN STORIES By GK Chesterton (1996) Two volumes and HOURS IN A LIBRARY By Leslie Stephen (1991) Three volumes and PEPYS DIARY (1996) Three volumes. Together with THE DOROTHY L. SAYERS CRIME COLLECTION (1998) Five volumes and THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR By CV Wedgwood (2001) Three volumes. Plus two others. All except two in slipcases (22)

Lot 335

Folio Society Ten titles on art and the 'Wonders of the World' 'The 100 Greatest Portraits' 2004, 'Michelangelo' 2007, 'The Apocrypha' second printing 2007, 'The 100 Greatest Paintings' 2001, 'The 100 Greatest Paintings' second printing 2003, Dante Alighieri 'Inferno' with illustrations by William Blake, Publius Ovidius Naso 'The Art of Love' fifth printing 2009, 'Wonders of the World' 2006, 'What are the Seven Wonders of the World?' 2005, and one other 'Writers Their Lives and Works', all vg.

Lot 325

ALBUM DE REDOUTE By Sacheverell Sitwell and Roger Madol (1954) Collins. Atlas folio. Orig green cloth with 25 fine colour plates (1)

Lot 6

PROUST, Marcel. Folio Society 'In Search of Lost Time', six volumes in two slipcases, 'Swann's Way', 'Within a Budding Grove', 'The Guermantes Way', 'Sodom and Gomorrah', 'The Captive' and 'The Fugitive Time Regained', vg condition, third printing 2005.

Lot 102

HUGHES, Ted 'Meet my Folks!' A 38-page score A theme and relations, music by Gordon Crosse, poems by Ted Hughes, cover illustrated by George Adamson, folio, fine condition, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Lot 241

Fifty-five various sea charts. Including 'Approaches to Port aux Prince', 'Haiti', 'Puerto Rico', 'Virgin Islands', 'Barbuda', 'St Lucia', 'Tobago' etc, original folio cloth wrap, updated, published by the Admirality. (55)

Lot 165

Three early 19th century 'Copy of Verses' broadsheets. James Dowing. 'A Copy of Verses, Composed by James Dowing, a Blind Soldier who Lost his Sight in Egypt, and since became a Preacher of the Gospel,' seven four-line stanzas in the right column of a 4to sheet, with 'A Copy Verses, On the Late Glorious Harvest,' to the left column, a poem of six-line stanzas, no imprint, 4to sheet, 285mm x 178mm, dated in contemporary MS 'October 21. 1817'.'A Copy of Verses, On the Death of a Squire's Son, and a Shepards, Daughter of Salisbury Plain,' large folio sheet, 350mm x 195mm, 28 five-line stanzas, no imprint, but dated by contemporary MS '1817'.'Copy of Verses, To the Tune of "Go No More to Germany", small slip sheet, 260mm x 85mm, 12 four-line stanza with chorus relating to Cornwall, contemporary MS to verso, circa 1800. (3)

Lot 151

COTMAN, John Sell. Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, A series of Etchings, of The Most Remarkable Remains in the County. Vol I, large elephant folio, half red morocco, rubbed and bumped to extremities, ex libris label to pastedown, some toning throughout as expected, profuse with engravings, vg, Henry G. Bohn, London, 1838.John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) was a prominent English artist and etcher known for his exquisite depictions of landscapes and architectural subjects this being one of his notable works, first published in 1818. This collection of engravings showcases Cotman's keen eye for detail and his deep appreciation for the rich history and heritage of Norfolk. The book features illustrations of ancient buildings, churches, castles, and other architectural marvels that Cotman meticulously documented during his travels across the region. Cotman's "Antiquities of Norfolk" is revered for its artistic brilliance and its valuable contribution to the preservation of Norfolk's cultural heritage (RIBA Collections). A very good copy.Repair to top fore edge of engraved frontis, titlepage and dedication.First series collates complete with 60 etchings.Second series also collates complete with 60 etchings.The toning has affected each leaf of text almost completely (having taken on a colour tone different to how it was issued). Some finger soiling to margins of plates, but generally very good. The half red morocco being rubbed and bumped to extremities, joint cracking to rear. No sagging of textblock, a strong sturdy copy.The book measures 49cm in length, with a width of 36cm.

Lot 336

Folio Society Seven works Ronald Blythe 'Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village' illustrated by Peter Bailey, 2002, Kevin Crossley-Holland 'Folk-Tales of the British Isles' with wood engravings by Hannah Firmin, eighth printing 2007, Anton Chekhov 'Short Stories' illustrated by Debra Mcfarlane, second printing 2002, 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' illustrated by Francis Mosley, 2010, Helene Hanff '84 Charing Cross Road', illustrated by Natacha Ledwidge, 2007, Nora Chadwick 'The Celts', second printing 2002, 'Great Short Stories' 2007, all vg except Chekov which has fading/markings to the slipcase.

Lot 932

A polished mahogany folio-style cabinet with hinged lid and front, 36" high x 47" wide

Lot 186

After George Cruikshank (19th/20th century) - "Scraps & Sketches", a series of caricature all contained with a bound album, overall size 11" x 14.75" together with a collection of various prints including a Japanese album of various prints of fish, etchings from nature, by Robert Brandard, all contained within a bound folio another bound folio entitled "Some Japanese Flowers" collotyped by K Ogawa; also various unframed aqua tinted prints, some depicting Margate and Clerkenwell, London etc etc, various sizes (a collection)

Lot 100

Crome, John; 'Etchings of Views in Norfolk by the late John Crome, Founder of the Norwich Society of Artists', together with a Biographical Memoir, by Dawson Turner Esq, Norwich 1838, published by Mr. Freeman, Repository of Arts, London St..., 18 etchings (i.e. incomplete, from the full set of 32), loose binding in folio cover, together with DAVY, Henry; 'A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk', published by the author, Southwold, 1827. Folio (loose binding, covers loose, appears complete).Qty: 2Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 102

Of Norfolk and wider topographical interest: a folio case containing a good collection of unframed works, largely landscapes and watercolours, to include examples by William Howes Hunt (1806-1879), E.V. Cole (19th century), Rev. Joseph Wilkinson (1764-1831), James Reeve (b.1939), James Barclay Grahame (1844-1882), S.H. Sheppard (19th century), Sir H.C. Englefield (1752-1822) [patron of John Sell Cotman], Sir George Harvey PRSA (1806-1876), John Thirtle (1777-1839) and other, unattributed artists, all in card mounts.Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 104

Emily Stannard (1827-1894) [daughter of Joseph Stannard and Emily Coppin Stannard], a folio case containing a large quantity of floral still life studies, mostly watercolour, together with nine further works on paper by the same hand, depicting animals and landscapes, mixed media, the whole collection being unframed, in card mounts.Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 91

Emily Stannard (1803-1885), [known as 'Mrs Joseph Stannard'], a folio case containing seventeen floral studies (largely watercolour, some oil), together with three pencil portraits by the same hand, all unframed in card mounts.Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 66

Joseph Stannard (1797-1830), a folio case containing a good quantity of etchings, many duplicated and some mounted as sets, to include 'Gable End of Shed with Trees - a Composition', 'Yarmouth Jetty', 'Footbridge', 'Whittingham', 'Coast Scene', 'At Trowse - Boy Fishing from Staithe', 'At Trowse Near Norwich', 'Boats at Breydon', 'Exterior of a Cottage with Figures - a Composition' and 'The Beach at Mundesley', each unframed in a card mount, variously sized (viewing recommended).Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 90

A folio of pencil works on paper by the Gurney family, some pupils of John Crome (1768-1821), comprising: Louisa Gurney [nee Hoare] (1784-1836), 'The River near Clifton with sailing boats', 23 cm x 37 cm, 'Northrepps Cottage, Cromer' [attrib. to Louisa), 19.5 cm x 27 cm), 'Aunt Gurney's Lodgings at ?', 13.5 cm x 22.5 cm, 'Ryde', 22.5 cm x 34 cm, and 'Old Cottages, Beeston, Norfolk', Nov. 1835, 27 cm x 37.5 cm, together with Richenda Gurney (1782-1855), 'Earlham Church', 23 cm x 32.5 cm, 'Osmington near Weymouth', 32 cm x 39.5 cm, 'Near Hedingham', 24.5 cm x 33 cm, 'Colne - a cart shed', 22 cm x 29 cm), 'Intwood [Norfolk], Two Ladies Under a Tree', 24 cm x 32 cm, 'Earlham Hall - Norfolk', 1809, 17 cm x 27.5 cm, Priscilla Gurney (1757-1828), 'Baltey? Woods', 1805, 23.5 cm x 33 cm), 'Chalkham', 22.5 cm x 32 cm, 'Hardingham Church', 1803, 24 cm x 37 cm, 'Colne Church', 1804, 20.5 cm x 30 cm, 'View of Norwich', 27 cm x 45 cm, Hannah Gurney (1783-1872), 'Intwood', 22.5 cm x 28.5 cm, 'Ketteringham', 27.5 cm x 40 cm and Catherine? Gurney (1776-1850), study of a tree, 25 cm x 31.5 cm, most in card mounts, some loose.Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.Private collection, retained by descendants of John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), from the family collection.

Lot 624

Set of twelve black and white silver gelatin photograph trading cards. Provides beautiful landscape views of North Wales with deep depth of field and high contrast. Descriptions printed on backs of photographs. Encased in green folio. James Valentine was Scottish photographer active in the mid to late 1860s and became internationally famous for his postcards. Artist: James ValentineIssued: ca. 1895Dimensions: 3.5"L x 2.75"W x 0.25"HManufacturer: Valentine's SnapshotsCondition: Age related wear.

Lot 76

Folio of 15 intaglio prints after frescos by the Italian artist Rafael (1483-1520). Title page "D. Nicolao Simonello picturae omiumq(ue) bonarum artium cultori eximio..." Bound with brown cover. Spine has remnants of original cover binding with evidence of gold leaf details. Handwritten on cover and blank page: "I own the original it comes to/from me/mi/i; I. The Lesser Historys in the III Roomes of Raphael. II. Five Peices of Raphaels Hangings. Xh. 29 printed to cover interior. Artist: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

Lot 376

Catalog of the works and pieces that were in the Exhibition hall. Bound in linen cloth and published by the Spanish Society of Friends of Art in Madrid between 1936 and 1940. It contains 88 plates with original collotypes and facsimiles of the signatures of different painters. In addition to an Ex Libris by José Gallart Folch. Folio size.

Lot 397

Valuable incunabula named Pauli Iovii Novocomensis episcopi nucerini. Elogia Virorum literis Illustrium quotquotvel nostra divorum Memory of Paolo Giovio. Folio size. Contains 11 portraits and 29 xylographies of Tobias Stimmer Some of its pages have been restored in Antiquity. This specimen belonged to D. Franco de Santiago Palomares. Printed by the Petri Pernae typographi publishing house in Basel in 1578.

Lot 1

Illustrated general catalog of the Exhibition of portraits of children in Spain written by various authors. Published by the Spanish Society of Friends of Art. Folio size. Cardboard binding. Contains black and white reproductions by Hauser and Menet. On the back cover is an Ex Libris by Francisco Bastos Ansart. Printed at the Printing Office of the Ministry of the Navy in Madrid in 1925.

Lot 377

Second book of the family epistles of the most illustrious Mr. Don Antonio de Guevara of Don Antonio de Guevara. Printed by Sebastian Martines in Valladolid in the year 1543. Folio size. Condition: fair. Uncovered.

Lot 3049

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Alfred Russel WALLACE. The Malay Archipelago. London: Folio Society, 2017. 2 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original pictorial cloth, slipcase (occasional minor scuffing). - And a further related volume (Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species', 2013, 8vo (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3099

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Evelyn WAUGH. [Comedies:] London: Folio Society, 1999. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Illustrations by John Holder. Original pictorial boards, slipcase. - And a further thirty-nine volumes published by The Folio Society (including Anthony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time', 4 vols., 2006-2008, 8vo, and T.H. White's 'The Once and Future King', 2004, 8vo) (45).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3078

JOHNSON, Samuel. Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: J.F. & C. Rivington et al., 1785. Seventh edition, folio (413 x 256mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds. (Frontispiece with chipped margins and a tear, laid-down, title-page with marginal paper repairs and first and last leaves also, browning, minor spotting.) 19th century calf-backed paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). Note: the first unabridged edition in one volume, published just after Johnson's death.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3047

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Geoffrey CHAUCER. The Canterbury Tales. London: Folio Society, 2010. Limited facsimile edition, this being number 821 of 1980 copies, 4to (309 x 185mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in facsimile by Eric Gill, including a companion volume with an essay by Peter Holliday. Original black morocco, pictorial gilt to upper cover, g.e., contained within the black cloth-covered solander box (slight fading to upper cover of box and with a minor mark).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3162

PORTUGAL. - Armando CORTESAO and Avelino Teixeira da MOTA. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica. Lisbon: 1960. 3 vols. (of 5). Elephant Folio (608 x 466mm.) Numerous colour and black and white facsimile maps, many folding and some double-paged, double-column text in English and Portuguese. (Crease to preliminaries of vol. 1.) Original vellum, gilt lettering (some scuffing, minor marks, reference labels to spines). Note: comprises vols. 1-2, and 5. Published to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Provenance: Birkbeck College (name-plate verso title of vol. 1) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3053

SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black and white lithographed caricatures of local dignitaries and officials, 2pp. 'Index To Cartoons'. (Browning and spotting to first and last leaves.) Near contemporary green buckram, gilt lettering to upper cover (wear to spine ends, rubbed). Note: the 'Brightonian' was a weekly Brighton newspaper that had an unnamed caricature of a local official in every edition. They were mostly drawn by 'Sea Salt'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3146

MANUSCRIPTS. [A hand-written book of minutes for meetings of the 'Advisory Medical Council' of the South London Hospital for Women. N.p.: July 1930-March 1939.] 241pp., manuscript, folio (322 x 202mm.) 241pp. in legible hands relating to correspondence, regulations, appointments and internal issues relating to the South London Hospital for Women, numerous mounted memoranda and typed and hand-written letters loosely inserted. (Occasional minor creasing.) Original cloth boards (lacking spine, worn). Note: the 'South London Hospital for Women' was established in 1912 by Maud Chadburn and Eleanor Davies-Colley. Inspired by the suffragettes they believed that women should have the option of being treated by their all-female staff, but also that it would serve as a training college for female medical staff. - And a further eight related volumes (including manuscript volumes for the minutes of meetings of the 'Wimbledon College Hospital' for the years 1894, 1901, 1907, 1908 and for 'Wimbledon Hospital' in 1915) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3161

LABORDE, Jean Benjamin de. Description Générale et Particuliè de la France. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Ph. D. Pierres, 1781. Vol. 1 (only, of 12). Folio (5640 x 352mm.) Half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces, 40 plates on 24 sheets, including 1 folding. (Some browning, lacking initial blank.) Contemporary boards (worn). Note: Laborde's work was conceived 'as the history of the manners and customs of the French people and the geography and natural history of the different French regions' (Millard).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3069

[PTOLEMY.] - Claudius PTOLEMAEUS. Geographicae enarrationis, Libri Octo. Lyon: Hughes de la Porte, 1541. Folio (379 x 269mm.) Title-page with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and illustrations. (Lacking all maps and leaf [1] l4, marginal insect damage to [2] f6-h2, marginal damp-staining, some leaves with corner loss, blanks replaced.) 18th century cat's paw calf, red morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed, minor scuffing). Note: the second edition of Ptolemy and edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as 'Servatus' (1511-1553). Provenance: Jose de Palacio y Vitery (name-plate to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3103

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - CICERO. On the Good Life… translation by Michael Grant. London: Folio Society, 2003. 8vo (245 x 166mm.) Frontispiece by Simon Brett. Original boards, slipcase. - And a further sixty-five volumes published by The Folio Society (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 vols., 1997, 8vo, and John Gribbin's 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat', 2012, 8vo) (66).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3172

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Susan COOPER. Over Sea, Under Stone. London: Folio Society, 2011. 8vo (221 x 149mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original turquoise cloth-backed boards, slipcase (some fading). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations', 2002, 8vo) (44).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3068

[BARROW, John.] A New Geographical Dictionary. Containing a Full and Accurate Account of the Several Parts of the Known World. London: for J. Coote, 1759-1760. 2 vols., folio (343 x 225mm.) Titles in red and black. (Lacking engraved frontispiece and all plates, creasing to title of vol. 2.) Near contemporary calf, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (rebacked, endpapers replaced). - And a further three volumes, all lacking plates (Charles Burlington's 'The Modern Universal British Traveller', 1779, folio, and Peter Heylyn's 'Cosmography, the Fourth Book' [only], 1677, folio, and [Herman Moll's] 'Thesaurus Geographicus. A New Body of Geography: Or, a Complete Description of the Earth', 1695, folio) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3159

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second issue, 8vo (179 x 108mm.) 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1855. (Toning, two quires loose, light spotting to endpapers.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (some loss to spine ends). - And a quantity of approximately ninety-five further editions of Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha', many illustrated (including 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustrated by George H. Thomas, 1860, 4to, and Walt Disney's 'Hiawatha', 1938, folio, and 'Hiawatha' illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1906, 4to, and 'The Player's Edition' of 'The Song of Hiawatha' with illustrations of Wa-ya-ga-mug and the Indian Players from photographs by Grace Chandler Horn, 1911, 4to) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3095

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Adam SMITH. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. London: Folio Society, 2008. 3 vols., 8vo (272 x 175mm.) Numerous colour plates. Original decorative cloth, slipcase (some fading, occasional scuff mark). - And a further forty-three volumes published by The Folio Society (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 vols., 1997, 8vo, and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', 2004, 4to) (46).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3096

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anton CHEKHOV. The Collected Stories. London: Folio Society, 2010. 4 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Illustrations by Laura Carlin. Original pictorial blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further twenty-four volumes published by The Folio Society (including Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 2006, 8vo) (28).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3185

DORE, Gustave (illustrator). - Edgar Allen POE. The Raven. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. Folio (467 x 358mm.) 26 plates by Gustave Doré. (The second plate 'Nevermore' is loose with loss to margins, lacking front-free endpaper, blanks loose, mild corner creasing, minor chipping to some margins, toning.) Original pictorial cloth, g.e. (worn). Provenance: M.A. Williams (gift inscribed to on the second blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3154

PSYCHOLOGY. - SANDOZ (publisher). Psychopathology and Pictorial Expression. [Switzerland:] Sandoz, 1964-1971. 8 vols. Folio (318 x 234mm) Staple-bound text leaves, numerous loose-leaf colour plates showing representations of mental states. (Toning.) Contained within white card portfolios (browned to margins, occasional mark, extremities rubbed). Note: comprises series 4-10 and no.16. Series 4: Giulio Carlo Argan and Carlo Traversa's 'Children's Drawings and their Bearing on the Doctor-patient Relationship'; Series 5: Th. Spoerri's 'Adolf Wolfli's Picture World'; Series 6: W. Baeyer and H. Hafner's 'Prinzhorn's Basic Work on the Psychopathology of the 'Gestaltung'; Series 7: Gonzalo R. Lafora's 'Oriental Features in the Paintings of an Uneducated Spanish Schizophrenic'; Series 8: E. Cunningham Dax's 'The Pictorial Representation of Depression'; Series 9: Count Wittgenstein's 'The Element Picture Series and Their Use on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy'; Series 10: Honorio Delgado's 'A Schizophrenic Painter- a Doubly Favourable Outcome'; Series 16: 'Paintings by Alcoholics' (8).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3085

NUREMBURG CHRONICLE. - Hartmann SCHEDEL. [Liber Chronicarum. Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. 13 leaves, folio (400 x 305mm.) Loose-leaf, Latin text for the 'Index' with initials in red and blue for the letters: H, I, G, M, N, P, R, S, T, U, X, Y and Z. (All leaves laid-down and with 6 leaves having some or considerable loss to text, all with marginal losses) (13).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3167

BAYEUX TAPESTRY. - Society of ANTIQUARIES (publisher). Vetusta Monumenta aquae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini. [London:] Society of Antiquaries, 1821-1904. Vols. 6-7 part 1-3 (only) of 7 vols. in 4 vols., elephant folio (561 x 390mm.) 62 engraved and lithographed plates, many double-paged and hand-coloured, including engraved plates by James Basire of the 'Bayeux Tapestry', being plates 1-17 of vol. 6. (Plate XXXIX with repair, one Bayeux Tapestry plate with small repaired tear and marginal paper repair, toning.) Early 20th century half morocco for vol. 6 and vol. 7 part 1, original paper wrappers for vol. 7 part 2-3 (rubbing to extremities, corner creasing to wrappers). Provenance: Norwich County Council Reference Library (vol. 6 part 1) (embossed stamps to plate margins, label to front pastedown); Kingston Upon Hull Library (vol. 6 part 2) (embossed stamp to plate margins, label to front pastedown) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3104

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Eric HOBSBAWM. The Making of the Modern World. London: Folio Society, 2005. 4 vols., 8vo (245 x 148mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, slipcase. - And a further forty-seven volumes published by The Folio Society (including Albert Hourani's 'A History of the Arab Peoples', 2009, 8vo, and Sun-Tzu's 'The Art of War', 2007, 8vo) (51).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3166

MANUSCRIPT. [A 'Visitors Book' for The Bruton Galleries, Bond Street, London, n.p.: 1904-1936.] 113pp., manuscript, folio (283 x 245mm.) 113pp. of hand-written names and addresses, recto only, being approximately 2000 names including numerous members of the 'Discovery' expedition, including Ernest Shackleton, Edward A. Wilson, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, Clement Markham, Ernest E Joyce, and three Shackleton family members, two of them from the '12, West Hill' address, as well as Ellen Terry, Walter Jerrold, Baden-Powell, and Maria Ameila, Queen of Portugal, also a section of names under 'Hunting Exhibition- March 1936', numerous blank leaves to rear. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: Bruton Galleries opened in 1904 and closed in 1907, having held exhibitions of the work of Beardsley, Austin Spare, Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Gordon Craig. One of the Bruton Galleries first exhibitions was of the 'Discovery/ Antarctic' expedition. The crew returned home in February 1904 and the exhibition, showing sketches, photographs and objects, opened in November of the same year.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3105

CAULFIELD, Patrick. Quelques Poèmes de Jules Laforgue. London: Petersburg Press and Waddington Galleries, 1973. Limited 'Edition B', being number 60 of 200 copies signed and numbered in pencil by Patrick Caulfield and with the suite of 6 colour screenprints signed and editioned by Caulfield in pencil to the verso, folio (405 x 353mm.) 22 colour screenprints accompanying the text in French. (Occasional, minor mark.) Original periwinkle blue calf covers (some rubbing and wear to spine ends), periwinkle blue calf slipcase (rubbing to extremities), the screenprints mounted and in matching silvered frames (a crease to the signed screenprint 'I'll take my life monotonous' and also a crease to 'I've only the friendship of hotel rooms', some scraping to the frames). Note: the screenprints are: 'Ah! Storm Clouds Rushed From the Channel Coasts', 'I've Only the Friendship of Hotel Rooms', 'I'll Take My Life Monotonous', 'Her Handkerchief Swept Me Along the Rhine', 'My Life Inspires So Many Desires' and 'And I'm Alone in My House'.This lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Purchased online via the-saleroom.com, this lot will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3152

MOTORING. Marmon Cars at the Show. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, [1918.] Folio (327 x 249mm.) 10 plates tipped-in, 4 in colour. (One plate with small corner crease, toning.) Original reversed half calf boards, gilt lettering (damp-staining to lower cover and slightly to upper cover, scuff marks, spine ends rubbed). Note: an invitation brochure to the new series Marmon 34 exhibition, 1918. Provenance: Mrs. Allen Anderson (gilt name to upper cover). - And a further nineteen motoring and commercial motoring brochures (including Tristan Bernard's 'Une Visite Chez Berliet a Lyon', 1908, 4to, and 'Packard Motor Trucks', 1920, folio, and 'The Packard Standard Eight', 1928, loose-leaf) (20).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3073

DRYDEN, John. The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas. London: Jacob Tonson and Richard Wellington, 1701. 2 vols., first collected edition, folio (346 x 199mm.) Titles in red and black. (Lacking portrait frontispiece, intermittent browning but heavily in vol. 1 Eee3-Xxx, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering pieces (rebacked, later front pastedown to vol. 2). Provenance: B. W. Beatson (ink inscribed to initial blanks).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3160

GIBSON, Charles Dana. Americans. New York and London: R.H. Russell and John Lane, 1901. First edition, oblong folio (288 x 430mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. (minor spotting to covers), original publisher's box (worn). - And a further three volumes by Charles Dana Gibson (including 'Our Neighbours', 1905, oblong folio) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3071

MÜNSTER, Sebastian. La Cosmographie universelle recueillie de chasque bon autheur & approuuè, tant des historiens. [Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1552.] Folio (314 x 205mm.) Title with woodcut showing God's creation of the heavens and the earth, 3 double-page woodcut views, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. (Lacking all maps but 'Bohemia', lacking numerous plates and over 80 text leaves, title loose with marginal repairs, several loose leaves, large tears to 1 woodcut, damp-staining.) Contemporary boards (loss to spine, worn).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3153

MOTORING. Cadillac Motor Cars, a Pictorial Presentation of Modern Coachcraft as Interpreted in Cars. Detroit, Michigan: Cadillac Motor Car Company, 1928. Oblong folio (228 x 334mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original card covers, original paper envelope (torn along folds, crayon date on upper panel). - And a small quantity of brochures relating to motor cars (including 'Cadillac V-16', [circa 1931], oblong folio, and 'Cadillac, for 1955', [1954], 4to, and also a book relating to aviation by Louis M. Massuger's 'Livre d'Or de la Société Française Hispano-Suiza', 1924, 4to) (small quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3106

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-drawn Spanish antiphonal. N.p.: circa late 18th Century.] 158pp., manuscript, elephant folio (654 x 471mm.) 79 leaves of Latin hymns and psalms with text and musical notation in black, initials and hand-drawn staves in red. (Lacking title and some leaves, 9 leaves detached, several leaves with parts excised and cut, damp-staining mostly marginal, rust-marks and chipping to margins.) Original wooden boards with metal borders, steel bosses and clasps (rusting, and lacking a boss and clasp, worn).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

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