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Lot 787
Album Russe Ou Fantaisies dessinees Lithographiquement par Alexandre Orlowski, 1825, Album Russe Ou Fantaisies dessinees Lithographiquement par Alexandre Orlowski, Permis d'imprimer Saint-Peterbourg, ce 26 Octobre 1825, St Petersbourg de la lithographie d'Alexandre Pluchart 1825, folio, with 8 hand painted plate of Russian dress
Lot 779
L'Art du Dessin démontré d'une manière claire et précise par Jean Cousin peintre Français L'Art du Dessin démontré d'une manière claire et précise par Jean Cousin peintre Français, Chez Jean, circa 1821, with engraved pictorial title page, 12 pp. text + 24 Engraved plates. (folio) 37x25.5 cm (14½x10"), in blue papers ready for binding, early 19th century edition of Jean Cousin the Younger's famous manual of artistic anatomy, first published as early as 1571, but most likely appearing first in 1595, this present edition, which is in itself scarce, was corrected and expanded by P.T. Le Clere, and is notable for the fine copper-engraved plates
Lot 1728
Pieter Bleeker - Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises, 10 vols bound in 6, pub. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1977-88, numerous colour plates, original cloth, folio. Reprint of the original work from 1862-78Provenance: The Bernard Sayers Collection of Natural History books
Lot 190
Bairnsfather, Bruce. Fragments from France, Nos. 1-8, mixed editions, Vol. I stated tenth edition, others not stated, the first three volumes slightly taller than the rest, London: The Bystander, [c. 1919]. Small folio, publisher's paper wrappers, condition appears good, well-preserved, some splitting to a couple of spines, covers of No. 3 detached, sold with all faults (8)
![Rahmas, Sigrid. A Day in Fairy Land, illustrated by Ana Mae Seagren, Helsingborg: Helsingborgs Lifografiska, [1949]. Folio, p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/570536d1-a45e-4681-9445-afc50111ad2e/cd30baba-67f2-4a7b-8f29-afca008ce534/468x382.jpg)
Lot 184
Rahmas, Sigrid. A Day in Fairy Land, illustrated by Ana Mae Seagren, Helsingborg: Helsingborgs Lifografiska, [1949]. Folio, publisher's colour illustrated boards. Generally well-preserved and bright with vibrant colours, ink blot running through top edge, slight wear to gutter of title, some bumping & wear to corners/edges
Lot 189
Barclay, Robert. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers, eighth edition in English, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. Folio, pp. [xi], xiii, 504, [xvi], together with an inserted pamphlet at the rear, A Brief Account of the People called Quakers, London: Mary Hinde, 1773, pp. 16. Contents very good with some toning, rebound in recent cloth lettered in gilt, the pamphlet with a repair to title. Opening blank signed by Boscawen, 1773, and the pamphlet inscribed by the same (2)
Lot 329
L'HÉRITIER de Brutelle, Charles Louis (1746-1800)Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit. Paris: Philippe-Dionysius Pierres, 1784-1785. The first edition of L'Héritier's first botanical publication with engravings in 3 parts in one volume, folio (61cm x 46.5cm) engraved plates of flowers and botanical interest by Juillet, Milsan and others numbered up to XXXb in black and white. Boards loose with marbled end papers and remains of leather binding and label, some water damage to edge of pages but main body of the paperwork including the engravings are in good order.
Lot 2184
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'Captain Cook's Voyage', 'The Babylonians' by H. W. F. Saggs, 'William Russell: Special Correspondent of The Times' with an introduction by Max Hastings, 'The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' by Jacob Burckhardt, and 'The Aztecs' by Nigel Davies. (1 box)
Lot 2255
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien, 'The Pursuit of Love' by Nancy Mitford, a set of seven novels by Thomas Hardy, in addition to other miscellaneous, non-Folio Society editions. (2 boxes)Condition Report: The Fennimore Cooper and Kingsley volumes are essentially bound as a set, with green part-leather and cloth boards, all 12mo; internal contents of this set fairly clean, with some rubbing and scuffing to the bindings, all published by Macmillan c. 1900-1906.The Hobbit is a 1979 Folio Society edition, in very clean condition.
Lot 2155
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer', printed by the Cambridge University Press on twin-wire laid paper, folio size, cream leather boards with embossed gilt, in original box.Condition Report: Very good condition overall, with no real discernible issues, aside from some general scuffing and wear to the publisher's box; the binding and contents of the book itself bear minimal wear and have been very well preserved.
Lot 2182A
Folio Society volumes, to include: Raymond Chandler, 'The Complete Novels' (complete set, 7 vols.); Graham Greene, 'Entertainments' (complete set, 6 vols.); Ernest Hemingway, novels (complete set, 5 vols.); John Buchan, novels (complete set, 5 vols.); Dorothy L. Sayers, 'Crime Collection' (complete set, 5 vols.), 'Mysteries Collection (complete set, 4 vols.); and G.K. Chesterton, 'The Father Brown Stories'. (1 box)
Lot 2252
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon', illustrated by Kay Nielsen; 'Revolt in the Desert' by T. E. Lawrence; 'A History of England in the Eighteenth Century' by Thomas Babington Macauley; 'Beowulf' translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland; 'The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne; 'Rides Round Britain' by John Byng; 'Out of Africa' by Karen Blixen; 'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot; short stories by Hemingway; 'The Golden Chinggis History of Khan the Mongols' translated by Urgunge Onon, among other Folio Society volumes. (1 box)
Lot 2254
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'The Boer War' by Thomas Pakenham, 'The Thirty Years War' by C. V. Wedgwood, 'The Source of the Nile' by Richard Burton, 'The Raj: An Eyewitness History' by Roger Hudson (ed.), 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War' by Lyn Macdonald (ed.), 'Captain Cook's Voyages, 1768-1779' by Glyndwr Williams, among other volumes. (1 box)
Lot 2178
'The Life of Edmund King and Martyr', facsimile reprint, cream leather binding with embossed gilt, with separate volume of commentary by John Lydgate, London, Folio Society, 2004, in publisher's original box.Condition Report: Generally very good condition overall, with some light scuffing and marking to the the binding of the main facsimile volume, which is in very good internal condition. The commentary volume is also in very good condition.
Lot 2192
Rackham, Arthur, 'The Peter Pan Folio, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" by J. M. Barrie', London, Hodder & Stoughton [1912], ed. 278/600, signed in pencil by the publishers, printers and engravers, a large folio consisting of 12 mounted colour plates, the folio binding consisting of cream vellum and green cloth boards laced at spine, measuring 55 x 50cm, in publisher's original cardboard box, with later presentation case.
Lot 2189
Rackham, Arthur, 'The Peter Pan Folio, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" by J. M. Barrie', London, Hodder & Stoughton [1912], ed. 449/600, signed in pencil by the publishers, printers and engravers, a large folio consisting of 12 mounted colour plates, the folio binding consisting of cream vellum and green cloth boards laced at spine, measuring 55 x 50cm, in publisher's original cardboard box.
Lot 2183
Books, to include fine gilt-tooled editions of 'Poetry and Pictures' by Thomas Moore, Edgar Allan Poe's Poetical Works, 'The New Forest, its History and Scenery' by John R. Wise, 'English Sacred Poetry of the Oldentime', among other gilt-tooled editions and Folio Society editions of 'The Oregon Trial' by Francis Parkman, 'The Story of San Michele' by Axel Munthe and 'Blake' by Peter Ackroyd. (1 box)
Lot 2185
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'The Incas' by Nigel Davies, 'Stones of Venice' by John Ruskin, 'Pathfinders of the American West: The Journals of Lewis and Clark', 'The Victorians' by A. N. Wilson, 'The Normans' by David C. Douglas, 'The Vikings' by Gwyn Johns, 'Brief Lives' by John Aubrey, among others. (1 box)
Lot 106
Passports.- A Collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century Passports, most European, many with decorative borders, coats of arms, ink stamps, most single leaf, most with folds, some toning at fold, two bound, small 8vo and folio, c.1792-1860 (20)⁂ Localities of issue include; Buenos Aires, Italy, France, the Low Countries, Prussia, other German states and Sweden. They include personal passports, health certificates, and documentation for ships entering and leaving port.
Lot 55
Birds.- Harrison (J.C.) The Game Birds of the British Isles, number 43 of 475 copies, 25 colour plates, tissue guards, original half morocco, g.e., slip-case, Shedfield, Ashford Press Publishing, 1989 § Wolf (Joseph) Pheasant Drawings...Reproductions of the Original Sketches and the Colour Plates of Elliot's "A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of Pheasants", edited by David M.Lank, number 142 of 285 copies signed by the editor, plates, mounted colour illustrations and list of subscribers, original half morocco, gilt, very slightly rubbed at edges, folio, Kingston upon Hull, 1988; and 2 others on birds, folio (4)
Lot 41
Hertfordshire.- Chauncy (Henry) The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, first edition, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author and folding map by Moll, 40 engraved views, towns and plans only (of 44), most double-page, lacking Directions to Binder leaf at end, James Lees-Milne's copy with his bookplate, another owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, 3 loosely inserted newspaper clippings relating to the sale of properties in the text, plate at 2H1 with contemporary ink drawing verso, folding map and 5 plates with portions of loss at fore-edge (reinforced with paper), plate at L4 with larger portion torn away and replaced with later paper, some other minor repairs, mostly marginal, affecting text at 2R3 and 4K2, some foxing or browning, bound in olive morocco by R.H. Porter, gilt, spine and extremities sunned, spotting and marking to covers, [Wing C3741], Printed for Ben. Griffin [& others], 1700; with a 3 vol. set of Cussans' History of Hertfordshire, folio (4)
Lot 182
18th century Fire Insurance Broadside.- Proposals From the Sun-Fire-Office in Cornhill, printed broadside, manuscript insertion "301726 Mr Eyre... Mr Bridges" and a mathematical calculation at head, 2pp., circular woodcut at head, a few small holes along fold, folds, slightly browned, [ESTC T171611 lists the Guildhall copy only], R. Nutt, 16th January 1766; and another, a printed policy document from the Sun Fire-Office made out to "John Eyre of Sheffield... Dealer in Wines & Spirituous Liquors", engraved illustration at head, printed with manuscript insertions and signed, 1p., [not in ESTC], 29th September 1772, folio (2).⁂ First mentioned 'In this issue of the edition with a vertical twisted bar division rule separating columns of text on p. [1], the first line following "Proposals" ends: "Royal-Exchange,"; the second line ends: "and".' - ESTC.
Lot 336
Architecture.- Ware (Isaac) A Complete Body of Architecture, 2 vol., 1971 § Paine (James) Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, light toning to margins, spine slightly sunned, 1967, facsimile reprints, engraved plates, some folding, original cloth, very lightly rubbed, Gregg Press; and other facsimile reprints of architecture related works, most Gregg Press, folio (20)
Lot 307
NO RESERVE Beerbohm (Max) Rossetti and His Circle, one of 380 copies signed by the artist, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 22 plates, captioned tissue-guards, endpapers browned, original white cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed and soiled, [1922]; A Stranger in Venice, one of 780 copies, portrait frontispiece, bookplate of James Lees-Milne, ink gift inscription "For Jim and Alvilde", dated Christmas 1993, original patterned paper boards, 1993; and 11 others by Beerbohm, 8vo & small folio (13)
Lot 318
Prince of Orange funeral procession.- Nolpe (Pieter) Begraeffenisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, 30 engraved double-page plates, after Pieter Pos, on thick laid paper with watermarks of Starsbourg lily, plate 9 trimmed to platemark and carefully mounted onto paper support, several sheets with repaired marginal tears, scattered spotting and surface dirt, [Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies, 114; Lipperheide 23], modern folio, Amsterdam, Nikolaes van Ravesteyn, 1651; together a largely disbound volume of variously damaged maps and views from 'An Universal History, from the earliest Account of time...', folio, [mid 18th century] (2)
Lot 253
Folio Society.- Blake (William).- Dante Alighieri. Inferno, 2007 § Milton (John) Paradise Lost, third printing, 2003, illustrations by William Blake § Rand (Ayn) Atlas Shrugged, 3 vol., illustrations by Anna & Elena Balbusso, 2018 § Lewis (C. S.) The Chronicles of Narnia, 7 vol., illustrations, 2002, slipcases, Folio Society; and 17 others, Folio Society, v.s. (29)
Lot 34
NO RESERVE Sri Lanka.- Hamilton (Vereker M.) & Stewart M. Fasson Scenes in Ceylon, title in red and black, 20 plates, damp-staining and marginal tears to first few leaves, not affecting plates, scattered faint spotting, tears to front free endpapers with tape repairs, cracked hinges, original pictorial morocco-backed boards, rubbed and worn, oblong folio, [1881].
Lot 60
Birds.- Peterson (R.T. & Virginia Marie) Audubon's Birds of America: The National Audubon Society's Baby Elephant Folio, revised edition (fourth printing), colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, pictorial slip-case, New York & London, Abbeville Press, [c.1990]; and 2 others on the birds of America and Canada, small folio & 8vo (3)
Lot 126
Hertfordshire, Stevenage.- Hellard's Almshouses.- The founding of the Almeshouse in Stevenage and guifts given to the same... The foundinge of the ffree Schoole of Stevenage..., manuscript with some later 18th century additions added to blank pages at end, together 25pp., slightly browned, loose, disbound, folio, [c. 1700 - 80].
Lot 168
Hall (Joseph) The Works, 3 vol. bound as 2 with vol. 2 & 3 bound as 1, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette titles, vol. 2 engraved title with manuscript note dated 1661 at title foot, engraved initials and head-pieces, manuscript contents ff. dated 1666 bound at beginning vol. 1, occasional manuscript notes to vol. 2 'contents', one or two marginal holes and tears, occasionally touching text, neat repairs, scattered spotting and water-staining, one or two small rust-holes affecting odd letter, bookplate, later calf, rebacked, blind-stamped arms of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, to boards, slight bumping to extremities, [Wing H361B; STC 12640.7; Wing H381], folio, by Miles Flesher, 1647-34-62
Lot 58
Birds.- Millais (John Guille) British Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, first edition, portrait frontispiece of Thomas Bewick after J.E.Millais, 16 chromolithographed plates after John Guille Millais and 18 autotype plates, guards, illustrations, some wood-engraved, occasional light marginal foxing, with prospectus to Bowdler Sharpe's Birds of Paradise loosely inserted, original half red straight-grain morocco, gilt, t.e.g., a little rubbed, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, 1892; The Natural History of British Surface Feeding Ducks, number 567 of 600 large paper copies, additional vignette title, 6 photogravure plates, 41 colour plates (some chromolithographed), 25 illustrations on 18 plates, tissue guards, a little damp-staining towards end affecting a couple of plates, original cloth, gilt, lower cover stained, 1902; The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., limited edition, plates, some photogravure, tissue guards, some spotting, original buckram-backed cloth, rubbed, 1904-06, [Nissen IVB 634 & 635, ZBI 2819], folio & 4to (5)
Lot 311
Erotica.- Meyer (Bruno) Weibliche Schönheit, 2 vol., second edition, faint spotting to peripheral ff., 1905 § Daelen (Eduard) and others. Die Schönheit des menschlichen Körpers, 1905, photographic illustrations, original cloth, gilt, rubbing to spine ends and corners, small folio, Stuttgart (3)
Lot 33
Sri Lanka.- Photograph album of views of Sri Lanka, c.60 albumen prints on 60pp., some a little faded, some spotting to leaves, original morocco, lettered "Ceylon 1886" in gilt on upper cover, and with initials R.J.C. on spine, some scuffing to corners and spine ends, rubbed, oblong folio, 1886⁂ Including views of Columbo, the Dambulla caves, Kaudulla and ancient ruins as well portraits of people in traditional dress and village life.
Lot 7
Africa.- Verner (Capt. Willoughby) Sketches in the Soudan, first edition, additional lithographed pictorial title, list of subscribers, 39 chromolithographed plates on 37 sheets by J.G.Keulemans after Verner, each with facing explanatory leaf of text, chromolithographed map, advertisement leaf at end, some light foxing, original pictorial boards, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked in cloth, oblong folio, 1885.⁂ The artist served in the Rifle Brigade, D.A.A.G. Intelligence Department, Nile Expeditionary Force of 1884-85 which was an attempt to relieve General Gordon besieged in Khartoum by the rebellious Mahdi. The expedition travelled up the Nile in small adapted whalers, aided by Canadian voyageurs to negotiate the rapids, and were attacked by the rebels at Abu Klea and Abu Kru but managed to continue. They finally reached Khartoum in January 1885, two days after Gordon and the garrison had been massacred. As well as scenes of the Nile, the desert, and the battlefields & military engagements, there are more everyday sketches of bivouacs and camps, finding water in the desert, and portraits of those involved.
![NO RESERVE Birds.- Selby (Prideaux John) Purple Heron [Plate III], elephant folio print from 'Illustrations of British Ornith](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2ccb5b15-4468-460a-a3aa-afc100bb15b2/569633d2-b512-4be2-881c-afc100c5beaf/468x382.jpg)
Lot 62
NO RESERVE Birds.- Selby (Prideaux John) Purple Heron [Plate III], elephant folio print from 'Illustrations of British Ornithology', engraving with full hand-colouring, on Whatman wove paper with watermark dated '1826', platemark 555 x 400 mm (21 7/8 x 15 3/4 in), sheet 665 x 530 mm (26 1/4 x 20 7/8 in), marginal tears and small losses, not effecting the plate, large damp-stain to right margin, minor handling creases, unframed, [circa 1819-1834]
Lot 115
NO RESERVE Periodicals.- A group of Russian, Armenian and Ukranian periodicals, 20 vol., including Russia's Voice, The New Day, and The People's Will, plain illustrations, bookplates to pastedown, later cloth, rubbed at spine ends, large folio, c.1939-1944⁂ A pertinent piece of history, spanning the height of second World War. Headlines include the discussion of Churchill's Mediterranean offensive; Stalin's strategy's and Mussolini's surrender.
Lot 143
NO RESERVE Scotland, Selkirkshire.- Tweedaile and Lauderdaile And the Sheriffdomme of ye Forrest... Sibbald's Atlas Scoticus..., manuscript, together 68pp. excluding blanks, only written in left or right hand half of the pages, on white and blue paper, central folds, new endpapers, bookplate of Lord Napier on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, red and gilt morocco label on spine: "M.S. Accounts of Selkirkshire", folio, [early 19th century].
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