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Lot 35

Finden (William & Edward). Tableaux of National Character, Beauty and Costume, 2 vols. in one, 1843, addn. eng. vign. title and sixty eng. plts., a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. morocco, sl. rubbed, bumped at spine ends and corners, folio (1)

Lot 39

Garran (Andrew). Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 2 vols., 1886, double-page maps, b&w wood eng. plts. and illusts., a.e.g., contemp. half brown morocco, rubbed and marked, some soiling to covers, together with the additional seven folding coloured maps loosely inserted, folio (2)

Lot 41

Hazart (Cornelius). Kerckelycke Historie van de Gheheele Werelt Namelyck vande voorgaende ende Teghenwoordige Eeuwe..., 4 vols., Antwerp, 1682, 1668-9 & 1671, half-titles and addn. eng. titles to each, numerous eng. plts., ink library stamps to titles and few other pages, numerous pages of text in vol. 3 provided in facsimile, some paper repairs and few plts. lined to verso, 20th c. qtr. calf, small round paper labels to upper boards, folio. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (4)

Lot 46

Martin (R. Montgomery, editor). Talliss Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical, pub. John Tallis, 1851, contains 81 engraved maps and two uncol. geographical plates, all maps hand coloured in outline, lacking frontis. and engraved title, letterpress title cropped with loss of text and relaid, some spotting and marginal tears but the maps generally in good condition, modern half calf binding, folio (1)

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)

Lot 48

Maxwell (Sir William Stirling). Solyman the Magnificent Going to Mosque from a Series of Engravings on Wood published by Domenico deFranceschi at Venice in 1663, privately printed at Florence & Edinburgh, 1877, title-page with port. and text within red-ruled border, nine double-page plts. and one single-page eng., initial letters and head and tail-pieces printed in red, orig. roan-backed pictorial boards, bevel-edged, upper return scuffed at foot, folio. Limited edition of 100 copies. (1)

Lot 50

Mercator (Gerard). Untitled facsimile atlas, 3rd edition thus, Florence, 1941, b & w facsimile maps with wide margins, vellum, folio. Numbered limited edition 9/10. The two previous edition were of twenty copies each. (1)

Lot 51

Moore (John Hamilton). A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels..., 2 vols., Printed for the proprietors: and sold by Alexander Hogg, [1785?], 100 eng. plts. and maps (inc. some folding), occ. minor spotting, contemp. half reversed calf, spines and extrems. worn, folio (2)

Lot 79

Wild (John James). At Anchor, a Narrative of Experiences Afloat and Ashore during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, from 1872 to 1876, pub. 1878, twelve mounted chromolithos., one double-page col. map, b & w illusts., occ. minor spotting, a.e.g., later endpapers with recent inscription to front free endpaper, orig. gilt pict. cloth with recent morocco spine and corners, folio (1)

Lot 87

Mann (J.H.). A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges, 1870, sixteen mounted albumen prints, a little faded, single-page map, recent navy-blue half morocco, gilt dec. spine with raised bands, 4to, together with A Popular History of Gibraltar, Its Institutions and its Neighbourhood on both sides of the Straits, and a Guidebook to their Principal Places and Objects of Interest... Compiled by Major Gilbard, Garrison Librarian, 2 copies, pub. Gibraltar, January 1881 & January 1884, folding map, double-page col. plt. of flags, commercial ads. at rear, orig. morocco, worn and broken on spine/contemp. cloth, small 4to, plus Report of a Special Committee on the Gibraltar Shields, together with the Minutes of Evidence, etc., printed at the War Office, 1868, num. folding col. litho. plans of the proposed shields for coast defences, modern half calf gilt folio, and others related (23)

Lot 88

Navy & Army Illustrated. A Magazine Descriptive and Illustrative of Everyday Life in the Defensive Services of the British Empire, edited Commander Charles N. Robinson, vols. 1-15, 1895-1903, together with Navy & Army Illustrated, new series, vols. 1-4, 1914-15, num. b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. dec. cloth (except vol. 14 which is bound in modern green cloth and new series vol. 4 which is bound in contemp. plain cloth), folio (19)

Lot 95

*America. An album of albumen print photos, c. 1892-94, showing views of Hambro House and family in Florida, plus snaps of the family enjoying a trip to St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico, plus further amateur photos of North Carolina, the famous bear-hunter Big Tom Wilson, etc., ten album leaves with approx. seventy images in total, captioned in ink on mounts, plus a group of five unrelated album leaves with approx. sixty mounted gelatin silver snapshots of South American settlers life near Tucson, etc., plus a related book on Phoenix, Arizona, all oblong folio (3)

Lot 98

*Australia, China, Japan, West Indies, etc. An album of approx. 350 mounted gelatin silver prints, early 20th c., good amateur photo street views, peoples, etc., including San Domingo, Jamaica, Argentina, Peru, Hawaii, Australia, New Guinea, Japan, including approx. 30 hand-tinted postcard-size studio photos, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Burma, India, largely approx. 11 x 15cm and smaller, the majority mounted on card with neat ink caption in French, the whole collection mounted into an album using rectos and versos, evidence of some images previously removed, occn. spotting and soiling, leaves somewhat shaken, contemp. Japanese style lacquered boards with three female figures in ivory and mother-of-pearl, figures damaged, backstrip and extrems. sl. worn, oblong folio (1)

Lot 101

Barraud (Herbert). Men and Women of the Day, A Picture Gallery of Contemporary Portraiture, 1888, thirty-six mounted carbon prints, incl. Robert Browning, W.G. Grace, Henry Irving, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, and Ellen Terry, covers and text detached and frayed, tissue guards (where present) torn, folio (a folder)

Lot 102

Bedford (Francis). Photographic Views of Warwickshire/Torquay and Its Neighbourhood, both pub. Chester, n.d., each with sixteen mounted gelatin silver print views, printed borders and captions beneath, some spotting, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, oblong small folio, together with Thompson (Stephen), Old English Homes, A Summers Sketch-Book, 1st ed., 1876, sixteen mounted albumen prints, some spotting throughout, orig. dec. cloth gilt, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, 4to, plus other Victorian photographically illustrated books including calf-bound copies of Men of Mark 3rd & 5th series, including mounted Woodburytypes of Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Hooker, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, etc. (12)

Lot 103

Borneo. [Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak], photographs by Charles Hose & Robert Shelford, [Harpendon: Valentine and Co., 1900], an album of 170 mounted platinum prints with printed captions beneath, mostly approx. 145 x 105mm and similar, showing scenes in and around Kuching, plus studies of Dyak life and culture, ethnagraphical portraits, architectural views and cultural pursuits, sixteen images with slight edge wear or surface damage, a.e.g., orig. half morocco, upper cover lettered Sarawak in gilt, somewhat rubbed and soiled, oblong folio. Complete as issued without title page and printing details; see copies listed at the Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Commonwealth Society Library (noting 171 images). (1)

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)

Lot 115

Ceylon. Tour Round the World by Edwin Macaulay, 1902, Book 3: Ceylon, an album of ten mounted and uncaptioned gelatin silver prints, including views and people, approx. 11.5 x 28cm and smaller, a.e.g., orig. morocco gilt, minor wear to extrems., oblong narrow folio (1)

Lot 116

China & Japan. Tour Around the World by Edwin Macaulay, 1902, Book 4: China & Japan, an album of seventy gelatin silver prints, all but fifteen colour tinted, mounted back to back, some photos previously removed, many captioned in the negative, including temples and views, mostly approx. 20 x 27cm and similar, orig. morocco gilt, some wear to extrems., oblong folio (1)

Lot 119

East Anglia. The Fen and Marshland Churches, a series of photographs, with short historical and architectural descriptive notes, the photographic illustrations by Edward Johnson, 1st-3rd series (complete), Wisbech & London, [1868-69], forty-six mounted albumen prints, correct as listed, scattered spotting, some leaves to vol. 1 sprung, orig. dec. cloth, soiled, some wear, small folio (3)

Lot 120

Egypt. Tour Round the World by Edwin Macaualay, 1902, Book One: Egypt, an album of twelve late albumen prints, mounted to rectos only, one image previously removed, most images captioned in the negative with photographers name of G. Lekegian & Cie, approx. 20 x 27cm and similar, orig. morocco gilt, rubbed, oblong folio (1)

Lot 124

Hanfstaengl (Frans). Skizzen aus den Kriege 1870-71 Munich, n.d., c. 1872, seventy-one mounted albumen prints (including title) of drawings relating to the Franco-Prussian War, each with accompanying text leaf, some spotting throughout, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, oblong small folio, together with Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Works... with Photographic Illustrations by Payne Jennings, R. & A. Suttaby, [1878], mounted albumen portrait frontis., circular albumen print on the title-page, eight full-page mounted albumen prints, and three mounted oval portraits, all within printed gold borders with captions in red, full red morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly rubbed at joints and corners, a.e.g., 8vo (2)

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)

Lot 128

*India. A broken album containing twenty-four mounted albumen prints, c. 1868/76, all mounted back-to-back, many captioned including views taken during the Abyssinian expedition in 1868 showing military camp at Senafe, and a group of Sappers in Sooroo Pass, plus images of Pachmarhi, Road to Nagpur, Seetabuldee Fort, Nagpur, etc., approx. 24 x 32cm and smaller, some with three images to a page, leaves loose in contemp. cloth, worn, oblong folio (1)

Lot 138

*Italy - Piedmont. An album of approx. fifty mounted albumen photos, late 19th c., showing family in local groups, views in villages and the countryside, largely uncaptioned, mostly mounted three or four images to one album leaf recto, approx. 22 x 16cm and sl. smaller, contemp. gilt dec. red cloth, sl. rubbed and soiled, oblong folio (1)

Lot 139

*Italy. Souvenirs of a Tour in Italy, 1872 [so titled on upper cover], forty-three mounted albumen prints on thirty-two leaves, pasted to rectos only, mostly buildings and views, including Naples and Vesuvius, many images titled in the negative, approx. 20 x 25cm. and slightly smaller, wide margins, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to extrems., large oblong folio (1)

Lot 142

*Lincoln. An album of twenty-one large gelatin silver prints of the town of Lincoln, 1904, showing street scenes, buildings, etc., 21.5 x 28cm and similar, mounted back to back with manuscript captions beneath, inscription at front To A. Pitt Cary, as a slight memento of his visit to Lincoln, June 1904, orig. straight-grained red morocco gilt, worn, oblong folio (1)

Lot 151

Southern India & Burma. Permanent photographs of Madras and Burmese Art-ware, 1886, preface by H. P. Hawkes, fifty autotype plates with printed captions beneath, some old damp staining to upper margins throughout with some discol. towards rear, and minor paper loss to upper margin of final plate, but no damage affecting plate areas, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed and spine sl. frayed, upper outer corners sl. damp damaged, hinges broken and contents loose, oblong folio (1)

Lot 168

Bell (James). A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 4 vols., Glasgow, 1834, 37 uncoloured folding engraved county maps only (of 42), contemp, half calf, rubbed with some cover detached, 8vo, together with Cary (John), Carys Travellers Companion, or, a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, 1791, general map and 42 engraved county maps, hand coloured in outline, remains to two folding maps of Engkand & Wales, many leaves stained with marginal fraying, recent full calf, 8vo, and Bacon (G.W., pub.), Bacons Polular Atlas of the World with Index of Principal Towns, c.1900, colour printed maps, orig. cloth, rubbed and fraying, folio, and two others similar. Sold with all faults. Not subject to return. (8)

Lot 171

Boundary Commission Reports (Scotland), 1832, numerous mostly folding maps and plans, all with orig. hand colouring, contemp. half calf, together with another disbound copy, folio (2)

Lot 172

Boundary Commission Reports, 6 parts in 3 vols., 1837, numerous folding maps and plans, orig. boards, some wear with boards detached, folio (3)

Lot 174

Boundary Commission Reports (England), 6 parts in 3 vols., 1832, approx. 120 folding maps with orig. outline colour, together with similar report for Wales (2 parts in one volume), all in orig. boards, worn to spines with some boards detached, folio (4)

Lot 176

Burrow (E. J.). The Eton Portfolio. Twelve Etchings by E. J. Burrow, Cheltenham, W. H. Beynon & Co., n.d., c. 1890s, twelve etched plates on india paper, tissue guard to each, some minor marginal foxing, loosely contained in orig. cloth portfolio, with ties, some marks and minor soiling, oblong folio (1)

Lot 177

Camden (William). Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., 1772, LACKING ALL MAPS, includes port. frontis. and coin plates, contemp. sprinkled calf, rubbed and fraying to extrems., folio. Sold with all faults. Not subject to return. (2)

Lot 182

Grove (M.). Spithead & Portsmouth, [1845], etched title and four uncoloured aquatint etchings, all titled (and some dated) within the plate, some foxing and marginal fraying, orig. printed wrappers incorporating repeat of title etching to upper cover, stitched as issued, fraying to extrems., oblong folio (27 x 40cm). Produced to commemorate the fleet review in June 1845 attended by Victoria & Albert whose paddle steamer can be seen in three of the views. A contemporary ink inscription to the upper cover reads by Miss Grove 1845. Very scarce. (1)

Lot 183

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The Ancient History of South Wiltshire, 1812, addn. eng. title, port and seventy-five plts., one plt. slightly stained, modern half calf, boards with bevelled edges, folio. Upcott pp.1286-1288. Edward Hoares copy, signed on title page and several other leaves. (1)

Lot 184

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The History of Modern Wiltshire. Hundreds of Everley, Ambresbury, and Underditch, 1826, double-page eng. map frontis., fourteen eng. plts. and plans, (inc. views & plans of Stonehenge), contemp. half morocco gilt, upper joint repaired, lower joint cracked, extrems. rubbed, folio, together with Dodsworth (William), An Historical Account of the Episcopal See, and Cathedral Church, of Sarum, or Salisbury..., pub. Salisbury & London, 1814, addn. eng. title and nineteen eng. plts. (inc. many proof plts.), library stamp to title verso, occ. spotting to plts., modern buckram, 4to, with [Ledwich, Edward], Antiquitates Sarisburienses: Containing, I. A dissertation on the antient coins, found at Old Sarum. II. The Salisbury ballad. III. The history of Old Sarum..., IV. Historical memoirs, relative to the city of New Sarum. V. The lives of the Bishops of Old, and New Sarum..., VI. The lives of eminent men, natives of Salisbury, pub. Salisbury, 1771, two folding eng. plts., half-title torn & lined to verso, title and few other pages with ink library stamp of the GWR Mechanics Institution Swindon, modern library buckram, 8vo, plus two other 19th c. Wiltshire topography related (5)

Lot 190

Letts, Son & Co. Lettss Popular County Atlas being a Complete Series of Maps Delineating the Whole Surface of England and Wales, 1884, 47 colour printed double-page maps prominently showing the railway routes, each leaf laid onto linen, contemp, half sheep, rubbed and splitting to joints, folio (1)

Lot 191

Martin (Charles Wykeham). The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent, pub. Nichols & Sons, Westminster, 1869, title printed in red & black, eight mounted photos (inc. frontis.), hand-col. plan, double-page pedigree, illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, fraying to head & foot of spine and to corners, folio (1)

Lot 195

Repton (Humphry). Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton, 1st ed., 1808, eight hand-coloured aquatint plates (a coloured plan, five colour plates, including one with over-slip, two double-page colour plates, both with two over-slips), eleven text illusts. (three half-page colour aquatints including two with over-slips, one sepia and seven uncoloured aquatints), lacks uncol. frontis., plate four cut down and remounted, without over-page, plate 14 with closed tear near centre margin, plate 19 lacks over-slip, browning at edges, trimmed and remounted, plate 20 with closed tear along centrefold (lightly browned), and closed tear to lower margin with paper repairs to verso, some finger and dust soiling, orig. cloth with red morocco label gilt to upper cover, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, soiled and some wear, folio (520 x 355mm). Abbey, Scenery 55. This magnificent publication contains a record of Reptons Indian Phase and was prepared in close collaboration with Reptons two sons, John Adey and George Stanl y. Plate 11 (West Front of the Pavillon) is hand-coloured and not sepia as per the Abbey copy. (1)

Lot 199

Victoria County History. A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 6 vols. (including Index), 1900-1914, num. b & w illusts. from photos., folding maps, etc., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spines, folio (6)

Lot 206

[Glasgow]. Kelvinside. Illustrated by a Series of Drawings and Photographs, pub. Maclure, MacDonald & Co., Glasgow, 1894, port. frontis. of J.B. Fleming, fifty-six sepia photo illusts., each with tissue guard, a.e.g., orig. cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, folio (1)

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)

Lot 225

Blackwell (Elizabeth). Herbarium Selectum Emendatum et Auctum. Centuria I, [Nuremberg, 1750], hand-col. eng. title and 100 hand-col. eng. botanical plts., lacks marbled free endpapers, contemp. speckled sheep, gilt dec. spine, folio. Nissen 169. (1)

Lot 235

Harris (Captain William Cornwallis). A set of thirty plates from Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts, during a Hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, pub. 1840, thirty fine hand-col. litho. plts., many cut down and mounted, bound in 20th c. half sheep, mottled, lightly rubbed, oblong folio. Abbey, Travel, 335; Mendelssohn I, p.688, One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna. (1)

Lot 242

Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden. As also, the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard, According to the Practice of the most Experiencd Gardeners of the Present Age..., 2 vols., (vol. 2, 2nd ed.)1731-40, eng. frontis. to vol. 1 (inner joint repaired), six eng. plts. (2 folding), ownership stamp to upper margins of title pages, contemp. half calf, contrasting morocco spine labels, joints cracked and vol. 1 with detached spine, slight wear to extrems., folio (2)

Lot 246

New Naturalist series, vols. 1-101, a complete set (including 6a & 6b), all 1st eds., 1945-2007, num. b & w illusts. from photos., all orig. cloth in d.j., a few of the earlier vols. slightly chipped at head otherwise, VG/Mint, (British Warblers rebound in green cloth gilt to match original, with photocopy d.j.; Ladybirds with laserprint d.j.), together with New Naturalist Monograph series, 22 vols., all but one are 1st eds., 1948-67, (The Mole is a Country Book Club edition published in 1973), num. b & w illusts. from photos., all orig. cloth in d.j., some a little chipped at head, plus The New Naturalist: A Journal of British Natural History, 1948, col. and b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 8vo & folio (125)

Lot 248

Ray Society. Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea, by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg, edited by William Henry Flower, 1866, half-title, six eng. plts., letterpress illusts., endpapers browned, orig. cloth-backed boards, extrems. worn, with spine fraying, printed paper label to upper cover, folio, together with Gudger (Eugene Willis), The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume, Archaic Fishes, 8 parts in 2, 1930-42, numerous col. and b & w plts. and illusts., some folding, contemp. cloth, leather spine labels rubbed, 4to, plus Lamond (Henry), The Sea-Trout, A Study in Natural History, 1916, numerous col. and b & w plts. and illusts., endpapers foxed, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt lettered cloth, spine extrems. rubbed and sl. frayed, upper cover with corners bumped, 4to (4)

Lot 255

Trechslin (Anne Marie). Old Garden Roses, pub. Editions Le Moulin SA, Zurich, 1975, forty mounted col. plts. of roses, accompanying text vol., contained in orig. gilt lettered linen solander box, folio. Limited edition 1522/4800 copies, signed by Trechslin, Stelvio Coggiatti (author of the text), and also by the publisher. (1)

Lot 258

Williams (Benjamin Samuel). The Orchid-Growers Manual, containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants, 1st ed., 1852, 108pp., hand-col. litho. frontis., contemp. half calf, a little worn on spine, together with a second edition of the same work, 1862, 160pp., orig. cloth, a little worn on spine; the third edition, 1868, 251pp., recent half morocco gilt; the fourth edition, 1871, 300pp., recent half morocco gilt; the fifth edition, 1877, 336pp., marginal repairs to title and contents leaves (with some loss of text), modern half calf gilt; the sixth edition, 1885, 659pp., orig. gilt dec. cloth; the seventh edition, 1894, 796pp., recent half morocco gilt, all 8vo, plus Brooke (Jocelyn and Bone, Gavin), The Wild Orchids of Britain, 1st ed., 1950, forty col. plts., ex-lib copy with single indelible ink stamp to recto. of verso. of title, orig. cloth, rubbed and faded, (limited edition 835/1140), folio (8)

Lot 272

Burden (Philip D.). The Mapping of North America, a List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670, pub. Raleigh Publications, 1996, several colour plates, numerous b&w illusts., orig. maroon cloth gilt in d.j., folio, together with Bricker (Charles), A History of Cartography, 2500 Years of Maps and Map Makers, pub. Thames and Hudson, 1969, colour and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. blue cloth gilt in d.j., folio (2)

Lot 280

Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe, Vienna: Gerlach & Schenk, [1887], approx. 90 fine chromo. plates, loosely contained in folder, folio, together with some original wallpaper designs Sold as a collection of plates. Not subject to return. (a folder & loose)

Lot 291

*Fashion. A collection of approx. 50 hand coloured lithos. of full length fashion designs after V.Courmont and Falconer, 1898/99, from Le Moniteur de la Mode, La Gazette Rose, Le Bon Ton, etc., each sheet 400 x 285mm, plus LHomme Elegant, April 1921, five pochoir plates, orig. printed wrappers, folio, and Les Elegances Parisiennes, January 1917, litho. plates, some hand coloured, orig. printed wrappers, folio (50 plates and 2 issues)

Lot 367

*Portraits. A collection of approx. 500 engraved portraits, 18th and 19th century, mostly British historical figures, including many trimmed and laid down onto folio sheets (approx. 500)

Lot 3093

AUTOGRAPHS. – An autograph album [20th Century] Oblong folio (65 x 103mm.) Numerous autographs on coloured leaves. (Some repairs with adhesive tape.) Contemporary morocco (rubbed). Note: signatures include Giacomo Agosstini, Stirling Moss, Derek Bell, Patrick Head, Fred Dibnah, Freddie Spencer and others.

Lot 3095

AUTOGRAPHS. – Two autograph albums. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1938.] Oblong folio (82 x 140mm.) Numerous autographs. Original morocco. Note: signatures include Reginald Tate, Tyrone Guthrie, Ruby Miller and John Cormack (2).

Lot 3104

PHOTOGRAPHS, JAPAN. – Kazumasa OGAWA and others (photographers). An album of 50 mounted hand-coloured photographs of landscapes and architectural landmarks. [?Nagasaki: circa 1895]. Oblong folio (260 x 337mm.) 50 mounted hand-coloured albumen prints by Kazumasa Ogawa (and others?). (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary morocco-backed black lacquer boards, the upper cover with inlaid design of two birds and a blossom-laden tree. – And a pair of framed photographs of similar interest (3).

Lot 3111

THE BEATLES. – World Distributors Ltd (publishers). Exclusive! The Beatles starring in A Hard Day’s Night… the Official United Artists’ Pictorial Souvenir Book. Manchester: [1964.] Folio (297 x 211mm.) Illustrations. Original coloured wrappers. – And four early scrap albums containing images of The Beatles (a lot).

Lot 3120

SCRAP ALBUM. – Frederick Chapman JONES (compiler). An album of mounted scraps. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1877] Folio (534 x 400mm.) The album containing numerous chromolithographed, lithographed and wood-engraved scraps, mounted many to a page on linen leaves. (Some soiling and scuffing to scraps.) Linen wrappers (soiled).

Lot 3129

SCRAP ALBUM, SUSSEX. – An album containing engravings, lithographs, photographs, cuttings and other ephemera relating to Sussex. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1870.] Folio (337 x 255mm.) The album containing 47 prints, 16 photographs and other ephemera, including a lithographed map loosely inserted, the majority relating to Sussex. (Some spotting and soiling.) Contemporary cloth, the spine titled in gilt ‘Western Sussex’ (worn).

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