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Lot 94
Folio Society; 'Rudyard Kipling', a set of seven titles 'Jungle Book, 'The second Jungle Book', 'Just so Stories', 'Puck of Pooh's Hill', 'Kim', 'Poems', 'Short Stories', in slip case, together with two further Rudyard Kipling's titles, Roald Dahl 'Complete Tales of the Unexpected', Jules Verne 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', etc., all in slip cases (12)
Lot 96
Folio Society; 'The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain', nine volumes in card slip case, together with twenty four other titles on historical and geographical subjects including Richard Barber 'British Myths and Legends', Jerome Carpopino 'Daily life in Ancient Rome', 'A Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle', J.B. Priestley 'English Journey', Philip Ziegler 'The Black Death', etc., (a lot)
Lot 97
Folio Society; A large quantity of titles, mostly in original slip cases, including Shakespeare, in six volumes, three in each slip case, Chekhov 'The island of Sakhalin', Arnold Bennett 'The Old Wive's Tale', various by Anthony Trollope, Edward Gibson's History of Rome etc., (approx. 44 titles/compilations)
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Lot 624
[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. ILLUSTRATED & OTHER Twelve assorted works, including Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, new edition, Bodley Head, London, 1929, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by John Austen, octavo; reprinted works illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Kate Greenaway and Willy Pogany; and five Folio Society titles.
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Lot 227
NO RESERVE Officina Bodoni.- McGrandle (Leith) Europe: The Quest for Unity, number 35 of 475 copies with an original etching by Pietro Annigoni, signed and numbered by the artist, tan morocco, gilt, presentation cloth slipcase, Verona, Offiicina Bodoni for Ranelagh Editions, folio, 1975.⁂ A collection of texts by leading figures advocating a unified Europe, including Queen Elizabeth II, John F Kennedy, De Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Willy Brandt, Adenauer, Leon Blum, Jean Monnet, Pompidou, Salvador de Madariaga, Denis de Rougemont, Carlo Sforza and others. One of the last book designs of Giovanni Mardersteig.
Lot 231
NO RESERVE Architecture.- Garner (Thomas) The Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period, 2 vol., half-titles, one torn in half and neatly repaired, plates and illustrations, list of subscribers, ex-library with usual labels, modern half-calf, slight bumping to corners, 1911 § [Brandon (R. & J.)] An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, 2 vol., 157 engraved plates, spotting, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1847; folio & 4to (4).
Lot 232
NO RESERVE Dodgson (Campbell) The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, one of 200 copies, 96 plates, 'Notices of interest to subscribers to this volume' and publishers advertisement pamphlet loosely inserted, original vellum gilt, light finger soiling to upper cover, remnants of original brown paper wrapping, house in original cloth portfolio, lacking ties, a little rubbed, folio, The Studio, 1922.
Lot 237
Gladky (Serge) Nouvelles Compositions Décoratives,1st series, 33 pochoir plates only (of 48), with an additional 11 pochoir plates from the 2nd series (making 44 in total), margins toned, some light soiling, tape marks to pastedowns, loose as issued in decorative cloth-backed portfolio, lacking ties, rubbed and soiled, small tape marks to head and foot, joints split but covers holding, folio, Paris, [c.1925].⁂ Serge Gladky was a prominent figure in the Art Deco movement, considered a precursor of modern abstract art. Here he employs pochoir, a hand-stencilling technique popular in the first decades of the 20th century, to produce colourful, abstract plates.
Lot 239
John (Augustus) Fifty-Two Drawings, with an introduction by Lord David Cecil, number 53 of 150 copies signed by John and Cecil, lithograph tipped to half-title, portrait frontispiece and 50 plates, original half-vellum by Zaehnsdorf, small lithograph pasted to upper cover, original slipcase, a little rubbed, folio, 1957.
Lot 253
NO RESERVE Jiri (Jenicek).- Photography.- Sutnar (Ladislav) Dvacet let československé armády v osvobozeném státě, photographic plates, original leather-backed cloth, dust-jacket, joints torn at spine foot, small amounts of chipping and bumping to extremities, presentation card slipcase, original publisher's box with paper label, folio, Prague, 1938.⁂ This propaganda photobook, published just before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and World War II, is an interesting example of an avant-garde artist's turn towards national themes, and Jiri also made short films for the military. Dedicated to the Czechoslovak army, it was published in May 1938 - in the last months of the existence of the First Republic, when the threat to national security was clearly felt. Paper label on box reads 'Bookstore and publishing house of the Czechoslovak Union. Officers Prague...'.
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Lot 255
Turner (Joseph Mallord William) Liber Studiorum. Photographs from the thirty [-twenty-one] drawings ..., first and second series bound as 1 vol., 51 mounted photographic prints, scattered spotting, most affecting mounts, contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1861-62.
Lot 262
Hertfordshire.- Salmon (Nathaniel) The History of Hertfordshire, describing the County and its Antient Monuments ..., list of subscribers, large folding map, scattered faint spotting, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, small loss to top corner of title not affecting text, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, neat repairs to corners, a little rubbed, folio, 1728.
Lot 265
London.- Planning.- House of Commons. Reports from Committees..., vol. XIV: Miscellaneous Reports... Port of London 1793-1802, half-title, 50 engraved plates and plans, most folding, several with hand-colouring, illustrations, some plans lightly browned or with some off-setting, p. 602 loose, spotting to text, hinges renewed, nineteenth century half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine foot worn, folio, 1803.
Lot 266
England & Wales.- Municipal Corporations.- Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Report and Advise upon the Boundaries and Wards..., 6 vol., [parts 5-8, 1832 (4 parts in 2 vol.); parts 1-3, 1837; vol. 18, 1939], 301 hand-coloured town plans and maps, many folding, some with soiling at margins or folds, bookplates, some soiling at text page margins, 2 vol. original cloth-backed boards, spine chipped, joints torn but firm, extremities rubbed, 3 vol. original half cloth, some light surface soiling, folio, The Law Society, 1832-39
Lot 33
Bertin (Georges) Libris viginti methodice absoluta, title with woodcut device, printed in double-column, woodcut ornaments and initials, with final colophon/errata leaf, title with contemporary ink inscription "Bibliotheca Admont" and hole touching one letter (repaired), a few wormholes repaired, browned, some light marginal water-staining, bookplate printed in red, modern panelled calf with rules and decorative border in blind, red morocco label, spine very slightly faded, [Adams B819], folio, Basel, Conrad von Waldkirch, 1587.
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Lot 49
Insanity.- House of Commons. First [-Fourth] Report. Minutes of Evidence...for the better Regulation of Madhouses, in England, tear to Ii2 rather crudely repaired, 25 May - 26 June 1815; Report from the Committee on Madhouses in England, bound before Fourth Report, 8 engraved plates/plans, 6 folding or double-page, light foxing and offsetting, 11 July 1815 bound with 8 Acts/Bills for regulating Madhouses, 1814-16, together bound in 1 vol., old red ink library stamp to title of first report, modern boards, folio ⁂ Important series of reports relative to the treatment of the insane and the regulation of madhouses. Together they form a milestone survey of the conditions and treatment of the insane in public and private asylums with information on the design of buildings, the conduct of physicians, apothecaries, owners, and keepers, diet, clothing, medical treatments (especially modes of restraint), administration fees, costs etc. The first report includes the evidence of Edward Wakefield, a land agent, whose account of the inhumane shackling of William Norris in Bethlehem Hospital was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Lot 50
Insanity.- Houses of Parliament. Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, folding table of pauper lunatics, slight staining to lower edge of first few leaves, original cloth, rubbed and spotted, spine worn at head, new label, 1844; Statistical Appendix to the Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy..., modern cloth, 8 August 1844; Further Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy..., modern cloth, 1847; Fourth [& Fifth] Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy..., 2 vol., modern wrappers, 1 May [& 15 August] 1850; First Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, folding table, first and last few leaves nibbled at edges, original cloth, rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, Edinburgh, 1859, 8vo & folio (6)⁂ The first five items comprise the first full appraisal of the state of lunacy in England and Wales. The Commissioners in Lunacy were appointed in 1843, with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) as chairman. Cooper spent much of his life campaigning for the improvement of conditions for the insane although he is mainly remembered today for his efforts regarding child labour, particularly chimney sweeps.
Lot 52
Morgagni (Giovanni Battista) De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved portrait, title in red & black with engraved vignette, printed in double column, some light foxing, a few small stains, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title and a few other leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, new corners, [Wellcome IV,178], folio, Padua, Redmondini, 1765.⁂ The foundation of modern pathological anatomy.
Lot 87
Mathematics.- Euclid. Elementorum libri XIV, translated by Federico Commandino, woodcut coat of arms on title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and diagrams in text, old ink calculations to verso of rear endpaper, slight crinkling to title and first few leaves, title very lightly soiled but a good clean copy, old vellum with early reback exposing sewing bands, titled in manuscript at head of spine and to lower edge, rubbed and marked, folio, Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1619.⁂ Scarce second edition of Commandino's important Latin translation, first published in 1572, and which served as a notable source for subsequent editors for centuries. It was also the basis of the first translation into Italian.
Lot 95
NO RESERVE Tirinus (Jacobus) Commentarius in Sacram Scripturam, 2 vol., title in red and black, engraved printer's device to title, 6 folding tables, small ink stamp to half-title and title, small amount of marginal worming M6-O6 (touching text, no major loss), occasional light foxing, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, vol. 2 repair to spine foot, folio, Augsburg, Ignatius Adam and Franz Anton Veith, 1771.
Lot 102
Illuminated Manuscript Facsimile.- Marco Polo, Das Buch der Wunder, 2 vol. (including commentary), one of 980 copies, manuscript facsimile, original calf, upper cover with royal arms of France in gilt, spine gilt with 8 raised bands and red morocco label, g.e., housed in a navy silk drop-back box, same gilt crest to upper cover, lightly rubbed, commentary in original calf-backed boards, spine and lower cover lightly toned, folio, Luzern, 1996.⁂ Marco Polo's The Book of Wonders is one of several travel texts found in MS Français 2810, made in France in the early fifteenth century. It contains 84 large-format miniatures, along with numerous gilt borders and initials.
Lot 104
Elizabeth I's favourite.- Hatton (Sir Christopher, courtier and politician, c. 1540-91) Complaint addressed to Christopher Hatton relating to the Manor of Harvies, Riseley, Bedfordshire, manuscript draft, in Secretary hand, in Latin and DEnglish, 1½pp., lower edges chipped slightly affecting a few words, tail slightly stained, browned, Pot watermark, folio, [c. 1585].⁂ An unfinished document with spaces for an amount of money. Elizabeth granted the Manor of Harvies in Riseley to Christopher Hatton.
Lot 105
17 century legal.- Legal declaration by Peter Dutton of Hatton and his wife Margaret, manuscript in Latin and English, in two hands, in Secretary hand, 19pp. excluding blanks, a few edges chipped affecting a few words, folds, slightly browned, 10th December 1631; and 12 others, documents from the 1630's, some edges chipped and stained, folds, browned, folio (13 pieces).
Lot 107
Kneller (Sir Godfrey, painter, 1646-1723) Treasury receipt signed "G. Kneller" for Kneller's annuity of eighteen pounds from the Exchequer, issued by Lord Dupplin ('one of the Four Tellers of Her Majesty's Receipt') and witnessed by Philippe Moreau, printed with manuscript insertions, 1p., laid down and strengthened with some loss of the printed text, fold, browned, folio, 1 April 1712.⁂ Lord Dupplin, eighth Earl of Kinnoull (1689-1758). He took the title Viscount Dupplin from 1709 when his father became earl.
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Lot 114
[Bartholomaeus Anglicus]. [Batman uppon Bartholome, his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum... newly corrected, enlarged and amended, translated by John Trevisa, edited and revised by Stephen Batman], lacking title ([A]1), lacking dedicatory letter ([A]2), double column within ruled border, black letter, final leaf with woodcut arms at foot verso, a few pages with ink annotations, a few ink library stamps, eighteenth and nineteenth century ink inscriptions to endpapers, bookplate, X1 with remains of modern paper stuck down over portion of text (affecting a few letters), 4X4-6 with small tear top edge, marginal portions silked or with paper repairs on several pages (initial 6 ff., 2P1-2T1, 4C6), light damp-staining, occasional spotting, later calf[STC 1538], small folio, later hide with hair remaining, rebacked and recornered, worn, Thomas East, [1582].
![[Wharton (Philip, Duke of)] The True Briton, No.I-LXXIV bound in one vol., lacking nos. XLVIII and LXXII, nos.I-IV reprint is](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5df4e191-e94a-4c6d-8d14-ae8200c642eb/1102d199-4a8d-44df-bb84-ae8200f04853/468x382.jpg)
Lot 123
[Wharton (Philip, Duke of)] The True Briton, No.I-LXXIV bound in one vol., lacking nos. XLVIII and LXXII, nos.I-IV reprint issue with pagination and signatures, the rest original single sheet issues without pagination or signatures and with red duty stamp to versos, double column, woodcut factotum initials, browned, marginal staining towards end, no.XXVI trimmed with inner margin bound tight obscuring first lines of column, no.LVII with outer corner torn away at head with some loss, contemporary panelled calf, rather worn, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, folio, for T[homas] Payne, 1723-24.⁂ Scarce periodical issued concurrently in both folio and 8vo formats, and reprinted in folio with each issue containing four of the original issues. Rare to find such an almost complete set of the original folio single issues. The missing numbers are for Friday November 15 1723 and Friday February 7/Monday February 10 1724.
Lot 126
NO RESERVE Segar (Sir William) and Joseph Edmondson, Baronagium Genealogicum: Or the Pedigrees of the English Peers, vol. 1 only (of 6), engraved title (bookplate to verso), engraved dedication, 31 copper-engraved coats of arms, with accompanying leaves of engraved family trees, several double page, some off-setting, occasional spotting, lower hinge cracked but holding firm, contemporary calf with red and green morocco labels to spine, upper cover detached, tear to upper joint and lower cover upper corner, extremities rubbed, folio, [1764].
Lot 130
Douglas (James) Nenia Britannica: or, A Sepulchral History of Great Britain, 36 aquatint plates, engraved title vignette, aquatint vignettes, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some plates trimmed at fore-edge margins, occasionally affecting border or image, light damp-stain along lower margin title and 2 ff. following, later calf-backed boards, spine with a few small abrasions, folio, John Nichols, 1793.
Lot 158
NO RESERVE Creighton (Rev. Mandell) Queen Elizabeth, one of 200 copies, 23 plates, occasional spotting to captioned tissue guards, 1896 § Skelton (Sir John) Charles I, one of 500 copies, 23 plates, 1898 § Gardiner (Samuel Rawson) Oliver Cromwell, one of 350 copies, 33 plates, duplicate set of plates (31 portraits and 4 vignettes), 1899, all on Japanese paper, with hand-coloured frontispieces, the first two heightened with gold, engraved vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and initials, captioned tissue guards, original printed wrappers in red and black, dust-jackets, some browning and spotting, slightly rubbed or with a few small tears at extremities, each with a duplicate set of plates, loose in card folder, each within a cloth presentation box, gilt, some joints split, first with some soiling to covers, Goupil & Co.; and another similar, folio (4)
Lot 181
Folio Society.- Blake (William) Jerusalem, colour illustrations and plates by Blake, original morocco-backed cloth, pictorial slip-case, 2007 § Austen (Jane) [Works], 7 vol., original cloth, slip-case, 1975 § Proust (Marcel) Remembrance of Things Past, 3 vol., original cloth, gilt, 1981 § Collins (Wilkie) [Works] 4 vol., 1992; and c.250 others, Folio Society, v.s.
Lot 19
Cooper (Thomas Sidney) Thirty-Four Subjects of Cattle &.c. Designs for Pictures, tinted lithograph title and 33 plates, 1 trimmed and loosely inserted, 1 with large tear, 1 with severe discolouration, most loose or becoming loose, spotting, water-staining affecting some images, tender edges, lacking free endpapers, bookplate, broken hinges, original morocco-backed boards, rubbed and worn, loss and splitting to spine extremities, folio, [1837].
Lot 327
EPHEMERA - A LATE 19TH CENTURY SCRAPBOOK containing clipped printed illustrations, photographs of the British army in Malta, a little original artwork, and other items, most laid-down back to back on leaves, a few items loosely inserted, oblong folio. Condition Report : Upper cover detached; lacking spine strip. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
![[NATURAL HISTORY]. ORNITHOLOGY Thorpe, Adrian, editor. The Birds of Edward Lear, limited edition no.81, The Ariel Press,, Lo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3f396fea-240d-47a1-8382-ae1b00ebadaf/52724b0d-4216-4c92-8d1f-ae8500d4f0f1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 342
[NATURAL HISTORY]. ORNITHOLOGY Thorpe, Adrian, editor. The Birds of Edward Lear, limited edition no.81, The Ariel Press,, London, 1975, cloth, dustjacket, twelve colour plate illustrations, folio, in plain card slip-case; together with Hyman, Susan. Edward Lear's Birds, Morrow & Co., New York, 1980, cloth, dustjacket, colour and black and white illustrations, quarto, (2). Condition Report : Good condition. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
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