FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Andrew GEORGE (translator). The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonian Epic Poem. London: Folio Society, 2010. 8vo (234 x 148mm.) 8 colour plates by Francis Mosley. (Mild toning.) Original russet pictorial cloth, slipcase (minor marks). - And a further forty-one volumes published by the Folio Society (including 'The Qur'an', 2009, 8vo) (42).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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FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Salvador DALI (illustrator). Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights. London: The Folio Society, 2016. Limited edition, this being number 441 of 750 copies, folio (454 x 348mm.) 50 colour plates by Salvador Dali, text volume with translation by Malcolm C. Lyons. Original quarter black calf over Tsarina Crush cloth-covered boards, blue cloth-covered salamander box.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.
CHAMBERS, E. Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences containing… Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses of Things Natural and Artificial. London: W. Innys et al., 1751-1753. 2 vols., seventh edition, folio (397 x 245mm.) Titles in red and black, 14 engraved plates, 10 folding. (Lacking blanks, preliminaries loose, frontispiece large tear with major loss, creasing, spotting, damp-staining.) Contemporary calf (worn). - And a further four miscellaneous volumes (6).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.
FREEDMAN, D.N. (editor). The Leningrad Codex… a Facsimile edition. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdman, 1988. 4to (324 x 275mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth, mounted illustration to upper cover (some warping of upper cover). - And a further eight volumes of related books, mostly 18th century (including 'The Book of Common Prayer', published by John Baskett, 1715, folio) (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.
WALKER, George. The Costume of Yorkshire. Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1885. Limited edition, this being the large paper edition, number 11 of 100 copies only, folio (443 x 221mm.) Chromolithographed frontispiece, 40 chromolithographed plates, text in French and English, 4pp. of 'Notes' to rear. (Spotting to the limitation page and to margins of first leaves, some offsetting, spotting to 'Notes' leaves.) Original black half morocco over green cloth-covered boards, gilt vignette and lettering to upper cover, t.e.g. (a few marks to lower cover, spine panel bumped). Note: this large paper edition on 'Japan' paper was published in a run of 100 copies, a further 500 copies were published on plate paper. The work is based on the aquatint version that was published in 1814. Provenance: C. Stacey (armorial bookplate to the front-free endpaper).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.
[WALMSLEY, Edward.] Physiognomical Portraits. One Hundred Distinguished Characters from Undoubted Originals. London: for the Proprietor, sold by John Major et al., 1821-1824. 10 parts., first issue Subscribers' edition, this being number 99 of 100 copies of Proofs on Indian Paper, folio (300 x 227mm.) 104 engraved portraits with tissue-guards, 4pp. biographical text to each, engraved title-pages, 4 extra plates including a duplicate of Michelangelo and of Van Dyke, plus a cancel variant of portrait of Joshua Reynolds. (Marginal damp-stain to rear leaves of part 8, toning, occasional mild spotting, title loose in part 7, some mis-matching in the last two parts, e.g. Shakespeare should be in part 8 but is in part 9.) Near contemporary limp red morocco, black morocco lettering piece to upper covers (all spines worn, soiling). Note: it was published again in two volumes in 1824 (10).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.
JONSTONE, John. Historia Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis, Libri V. Frankfurt: Matthaus Merian, [n.d. but 1649.] Two parts in 1 volume, first editions, folio (325 x 194mm.) Engraved decorative title-page, engraved initials and headpieces, Libri IV with separate title-page 'Historia Naturalis de Exanguibus Aquaticis' dated 1650, 47 engraved plates in Libri V, and 21 engraved plates in Libri IV, 1p. index to rear, plate 2 in Libri IV in two variants. (Spotting and browning to margins, ink annotation to margin of the beached whale plate, 1 plate re-inserted, pagination mistake at f1 but text complete.) Contemporary vellum (soiled). Note: contains a plate of a Merman and Mermaid and also the well-known plate of the beached whale. Comprising two of the six parts of Jonstone's Natural History.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.
L'ESTRANGE, Roger (translator). The Works of Flavius Josephus: translated into English… I. The Antiquities of the Jews, in Twenty Books. II. Their Wars with the Romans, in Seven Books. III. The Life of Josephus written by Himself. IV. The Book Against Apion. V. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. As also; VI. Philo's Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula. London: Richard Sare, 1702. Folio signed in 4s (384 x 238mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, 2 folding engraved maps, irregular pagination. (Frontispiece loose, heavily chipped and creased, damp-staining throughout, last leaf torn, initial blank loose.) Contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: Charles Hamerton (name inscribed to title-page); Dorking Museum (small stamp to front pastedown). - And a further three related volumes (Anthony Farindon's Sermons, 3 vols., 1647-1672, 4to) (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.
CONJURING. - Noel DANIEL (editor). Mike CAVENEY and Jim STEINMETER. Magic 1400s-1950s. Cologne: Taschen, 2009. First edition, folio (439 x 288mm.) Numerous coloured illustrations, introduction by Ricky Jay. Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray.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.
[BURGESS, Henry William.] Studies of Trees, by the author of Eidodendron. London: by the author and J. Dickinson, 1834. Oblong folio (386 x 285mm.) 6 lithographed plates (browned to all margins, occasional minor chipping). Original card wrappers (unstitched, covers detached, marginal creasing, soiling to upper cover).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.
FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - L.M. MONTGOMERY. Anne of Green Gables. London: Folio Society, 2004. 8vo (223 x 148mm.) Introduction by Margaret Atwood. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth, slipcase (faint mark to side panel). - And a quantity of approximately sixty further volumes published by the Folio Society (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.
JARDINE, William. British Salmonidae. London: Decimus, 1979. Limited facsimile edition, this being number 90 of 500 copies, large folio (620 x 465mm.) 12 coloured plates, 4pp. introductory booklet loosely inserted. (Mild toning.) Original brown morocco-backed green cloth, morocco lettering piece mounted to upper cover (slight rubbing to spine, some discolouring to cloth), original green cloth-covered slipcase (a few marks, marginal staining, rubbing).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.
FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - John le CARRÉ. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. London: Folio Society, 2009. 8vo (234 x 153mm.) Illustrations by Tim Laing. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth, slipcase. - And a quantity of approximately sixty further volumes published by the Folio Society (including Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22', 2005, 8vo) (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.
BIBLE, In Greek. - Robert HOLMES (editor). Vetus Testamentum Graecum cum Variis Lectionibus. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1798-1827. 5 vols. in 4 vols., folio (343 x 266mm.) Text in Greek, notes in Latin, elaborate presentation plate in gilt to the front pastedown of volume 1, includes Apocrypha in volume 5. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Near contemporary purple morocco, blind-tooled with Bishop's mitre in gilt to all covers, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to all extremities, some discolouring). Provenance: Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (presentation plate to the front pastedown of volume 1) (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.
Report From the Select Committee on Lighthouses; Together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. [London: for H.M.S.O.] 1845, folio (335 x 199mm.) 6 lithographed plates, 1 folding. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original black cloth (worn). Provenance: Newport Reference Library (bookplate to front pastedown, several small stamps). - And a further eleven volumes relating to canals, harbours and waterways (including, with numerous folding maps, 'The First Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Enquire Into and Report On The Canals and Inland Navigations of the United Kingdom', 1906-1911, 9 vols., 4to) (12).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.
BONAPARTE, Lucien. Charlemagne; ou L'Église Délivrée. Poème Épique en Vingt-Quatre Chants. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. 2 vols., folio (383 x 235mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plan of Rome. (Spotting to preliminaries and all margins.) Contemporary calf, g.e. (covers detached, worn). Provenance: Samuel Butler, novelist (bookplate to front pastedown, pencil name to initial blank). - And a further five volumes (including the English translation of the same work, 2 vols., 1815, folio, and 'Choix de Gravures A L'eau Forte, d'Aprés Les Peintures Originales et les Marbres de la Galerie de Lucien Bonaparte', 1812, folio) (7).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.
TRAVEL. - Edward IVES. A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV. And an Historical Narrative of the Operation of the Squadron and Army in India. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (264 x 207mm.) 2 folding engraved maps, 12 engraved plates. (Textblock wholly split in several places, many loose leaves, some spotting and soiling.) Contemporary calf (lacking spine, covers detached). Provenance: 'Mr. Stocker' (gift inscribed to by the author on the front pastedown). - And a further three unrelated volumes (including a Liberty catalogue 'Dress and Decoration', [1905], 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.
KONINCK, Laurent-Guillaume de. Description des Animaux Fossiles Qui Se Trouvent dans le Terrain Carbonifère de Belgique. Liège: H. Dessain, 1851. Supplement vol. (only). 4to (294 x 220mm.) 5 lithographed plates with captioned leaves to each. (Toning, corner creases, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary green half morocco over buckram-covered boards (heavily rubbed). Provenance: O. Leseble (stamp to title-page and verso front-free endpaper). - And a further 5 volumes (including 47 plates within four parts of Joshua Alder and Albany Hancock's 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca: with Figures of all the Species', 1844-1848, folio) (6).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.
FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). Bible with the Apocrypha, King James Version. London: Folio Society, 2011. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 115 of 980 copies, 8vo (273 x 178mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue morocco, gilt to upper covers and spines, g.e., within original blue cloth-covered wooden slipcase (minor marks to rear panel).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.
FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Edward GIBBON. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Folio Society, 1983. 8 vols., 8vo (245 x 153mm.) (Mild toning.) Original cloth (some discolouring to volume 2), slipcases (toning, occasional mark). - And a further thirty-seven volumes published by the Folio Society (including 'The Campaigns of Wellington' edited by Ian Fletcher, 3 vols., 2007, 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.
LONDON. - A. Keith JOHNSTON. Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1879. New edition, folio (364 x 235mm.) 46 engraved double-paged plates with hand-coloured outlining, 102.pp index to rear. (Lacking rear blank, toning, spotting to preliminaries and lightly verso the plates.) Original green half morocco over buckram-covered boards, gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (sunning to spine, rubbing to all extremities).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.
SALKELD, William. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with Some Special Cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer. London: In the Savoy by Henry Lintot, 1742. 2 vols. in 1. Fourth edition, 4to (298 x 193mm.) (Toning, damp-stain to rear blank, a few corner creases, lacking front blank.) 20th century half brown calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced, minor soiling). - And a further six volumes (including, without the maps, Malachy Postlethwayt's 'The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce', 2 vols., 1766, folio) (7).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.
[LUDOLF, Hiob.] Job LUDOLPHUS. A New History of Ethiopia. Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, though Erroneously called the Empire of Prester John. London: Samuel Smith, 1682. First English edition, folio (313 x 197mm.) Title, Ethiopic alphabet plate, genealogical table, 8 engraved plates, 7 folding. (Damp-stain to lower margin throughout, browning, burn holes to margin of Kk2, small hole to rear blank.) 18th century half-calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities, pencil notes to front pastedown). Provenance: Henry Randolph Trafford (bookplate to front pastedown) [Wing L3468.]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.
BALLET-RUSSES. - Emil Otto HOPPE. Studies From the Russian Ballet. London: Fine Art Society, [1911.] Signed by Tamara Karsavina, folio (349 x 236mm.) Title, 15 photogravure plates mounted on card. (Browning to title-page, toning to card mounts.) Contemporary brown cloth with mounted tan cloth lettering plate to upper cover (wear to spine ends). Note: with photogravures of, among others, the Diaghilev stars Nijinsky, Bolm, Karsavina and Fedorova. Provenance: Kenneth Lintott (inscribed to by Tamara Karsavina below photogravure of herself).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.
L'ESTRANGE, Roger. A Brief History of the Times. London: Charles Brome and R. Sare, 1687-1688. 3 vols. in 1 vol. First edition, 8vo (186 x 118mm.) Separate titles and pagination. (From X1-Z1 corner loss with text affected, minor soiling, marginal loss to front blank.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, some spine loss). Note: L'Estrange's name appears on the title-page of the third volume. - And a further six volumes (including, without the maps, Richard Blome's 'Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms', 1673, folio, and Henry Crouch's 'A Complete View of the British Customs', 1745, 8vo) (7).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.
Late 15th-early 16th century AD. A large complete early Ethiopian gospel book produced in a reformist Stephanite community; complete text of the Gospels followed by the Mystagogia (Doctrina Arcanorum) with explanation of the canon tables and an account of the the compilation of the Gospels; 228 leaves with text written in black ink with rubrics, a coloured top margin ornament introducing each of the Gospels, derived from crux ansata motifs; drypoint ruling and pricking visible for page layout; later note on folio 19 verso recording the manuscript's donation to the church of Däbrä Mika'él by Wäyzäro Wälättä Egziabehér; bound between wooden boards with tooled leather covering, brocade fabric inserts. 4.7 kg, 31cm (12"). From a New York bookseller in 2010; previously with Joseph Knopfelmacher, New York, USA; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10896-180997. [No Reserve] Fair condition; some crumbling to lower edge due to exposure to heat.
c.18th century AD. A vellum folio comprising a panel of Kufic script within a thin rectangular border, dense and intricate floral and foliate motifs with gold ink floral roundels and pellets between, second gold ink panel above bearing single line of script with foliate ornamentation coloured red and green; two richly ornamented cartouches to the right hand side, executed predominantly in gold, blue and red inks; framed. 1.3 kg, 48.5 x 38.5cm (19 x 15 1/4"). Property of a West London collector; acquired on the European art market. Fine condition, restored.
Book- Folio Society, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Centenary Edition, illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, limited edition numbered 789 of 1000, with copperplate etching signed by the artist, London: The Folio Society, 2008. Centenary Edition, printed on Cordier Wove paper, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, hand bound in vellum blocked in 22-carat gold, vellum tips and Oxford paper sides, bound by The Fine Book Bindery, Wellingborough, Northants. Housed in green clamshell boxCondition report: As new condition
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