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![Frederick William Frohawk: 'Natural History of British Butterflies', London, Hutchinson, [1926], 1st edition, two volumes, vo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/21c4f4da-70d1-4f93-a6fa-ad3300bd1f4f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7139
Frederick William Frohawk: 'Natural History of British Butterflies', London, Hutchinson, [1926], 1st edition, two volumes, volume 1 with author's signed manuscript errata slip loosely inserted, re 'Valezina' (form of Silver-washed Fritillary, whom Frohawk named his daughter after) "Natural History of British Butterflies. Errata. should read Pl.12 Fig.22 var. Valezina, F.W.F.coll. Fig.23 Valezina var. nigrizina. n.ab. A.B. Farn.Coll. Kindly give this to the Editor. F.W. Frohawk", 60 coloured plates and four black and white plates, as called for, folio, original cloth gilt, vol.1 cloth VGC and with majority of dust wrapper (worn) loosely inserted, vol.2 lower corner of boards worn/soiled (2)
Lot 7161
Philip Rickman: 'A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches', London, Curpotten Ltd, 1979, limited edition (445/500), numbered and signed by Rickman, 32 mounted coloured plates as called for, large folio, original three quarter green Morocco gilt by Morrell, all edges gilt, original slip case
![William Houghton: 'British Fresh-Water Fishes', London, William Mackenzie, [1879], 1st edition, 2 volumes, 41 hand-finished c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/8b0b9732-fb68-42c5-a5fa-ad3201164f28/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7223
Barnabas Brisson, Jo. Gottlieb Heineccius & J.H. Bohmer: 'De verborum quae ad ius civile pertinent significatione...Prodit opera studioque Io. Gottliebii HEINECCII...Praemissa praefatione nova De interpretationis grammaticae in iure civili fatis et vario usu nec non huius novae editionis praerogativis Iusti Henningi BÖHMERI.', Halae Magdeburgicae [Halle], Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1743, 2 volumes in 1, legal dictionary/encyclopaedia, vol 1 [12],xxxxviii,760pp; vol. 2 763-1436pp, title printed in red and black, lacks engraved frontispiece, printed and manuscript presentation leaf preceding title page "Gymnasii Trajectini Curatores", manuscript dated February 1772, presumably a school/university prize presentation, to a "Frederico Henrico Hahn", with 9 signatures of professors beneath, and printed coats of arms of the city of Utrecht above, folio, contemporary dutch vellum prize binding, gilt decorated and with gilt stamped arms of the city of Utrecht as centre ornament to upper and lower boards
Lot 7231
Richard Hooker: 'Of The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. Eight Bookes', London, Andrew Cook, 1662, engraved portrait frontis and added engraved allegorical title page as called for, containing the eight books complete, folio, contemporary calf worn, later EP's; together with Roger North: 'The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt., Commissioner of the customs, and afterwards of the Tresury to his Majesty King Charles the Second', London, John Whiston, 1744, 1st edition, engraved port. frontis, 4to, contemporary calf (rubbed and worn) (2)
Lot 7235
Abraham Cowley: 'Poems: viz. I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique Odes. And IV. Davideis, or, a Sacred poem of the troubles of David', London, Humphrey Moseley, 1656, 1st edition, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked (not recent), top board detached (but present), armorial bookplate of Duke of Beaufort to front pastedown
Lot 7241
Jane Austen: 'Works - Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Shorter Works', Folio Society, 1989, 7 volumes, each with wood engraved illustrations by Joan Hassall, each original quarter cloth gilt, decorative paper covered boards, original slip case gilt, plus J.E. Austen-Leigh: 'A Memoir of Jane Austen', Folio Society, 1989, 2nd impression, original cloth, slip case (8)
Lot 7245
Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte: 'The Complete Novels - Jane Eyre; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Shirley; Villette; The Professor', Folio Society, 1993, 7 volumes, each with wood engraved illustrations, all printed on Coronet wove paper and bound in original green moire silk gilt (spines faded), matching original green moire silk gilt slip case (7)
Lot 7246
Folio Society, collection of 34 volumes, including J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Hobbit'; A.A. Milne: 'The Complete Winnie the Pooh', 3 volumes, in original shrink wrap; Virginia Woolf: 'To The Lighthouse'; Stella Gibbons: 'Cold Comfort Farm'; Thomas Hardy, 7 volumes; Anthony Trollope, 4 volumes; Hemingway: 'Short Stories'; Rhys: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'; John Keats; Marlowe: 'Doctor Faustus, etc etc (34)
Lot 7315
A collection of 17 works of literature, poetry, plays, surrealism, modernism, etc., including Antonin Artaud: 'Collected Works', London, Calder & Boyars, 1968-74, 1st UK edition, 4 volumes, vols 1, 3 & 4 original cloth gilt, vol 4 ex library in dust wrapper, vol 2 original wraps; Jean Cocteau: 'Opium: The Diary of a Cure', London, Peter Owen, 1957, 1st thus, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, (spine browned); Andre Masson: 'Mythologies', Paris, 1946, limited edition, (729/830), one of 550 copies on Rives paper, vignette title and 40 illustrations as called for, folio, original pictorial wraps (worn); Samuel Beckett, 2 titles: 'No's Knife', Calder & Boyars, 1967, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 5 page typescript of Beckett's 'Not I' loosely inserted, 'Imagination Dead Imagine', 1971, 3rd printing, original pictorial wraps; 'Gambit International Theatre Review', 1970, vol. 4 No. 16, contains Beckett's 'Breath' in its first British publication, original wraps; Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Theatre', Gallimard, 1962, 32 plates as called for, original decorative gilt boards, acetate dust wrapper (worn); 'Lautremont's Maldoror', translated Alexis Lykiard, London, 1970, original boards gilt, dust wrapper (worn and soiled); plus others Claude Mauriac, Marguerite Duras, Francine Saigon, Georges Fourest, etc (17)
![Edward Ardizzone: 'Tim and Lucy Go to Sea', London, Oxford University Press, [1938], 1st edition, colour illustrated title pa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/e32e6649-898f-400c-88d9-ad32011b6499/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7393
Photography, six titles Edwin Smith and Angus McBean, including Adrian Woodhouse: 'Angus McBean', Quartet books, 1982, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by McBean and Woodhouse for Norman Scarfe & Paul Fincham, "For Norman + Paul about Christmas 1982, Love Angus.", in blue ink to title page, and "For Norman and Paul, Best wishes and thank you for a delightful Woodbridge day, Adrian", in ballpoint to title page, ills. from photos throughout, folio, original cloth, dust wrapper; Pepper: 'Angus McBean Portraits', 2006, 1st, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'England', photos by Edwin Smith, Thames & Hudson, 1971, Norman Scarfe's copy, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Architecture in Britain & Ireland 600-1500', photographs by Edwin Smith, 1999, 1st edition, in wrapper, plus 2 others (6)
Lot 7403
Malcolm Yorke: 'Against The Grain, The Life and Art of Rigby Graham', Uppingham, Goldmark, 2015, limited edition, (36/75), numbered, one of 75 special copies with a folder of four original signed lithographs, numerous illustrations throughout as called for, folio, original cloth, pictorial label to top board, orig. bookmark loosely inserted, the four coloured lithographs each signed and numbered to margin in pencil and housed with two DVDs in original hardback cloth folder, pictorial label to top board, housed together in original slipcase
Lot 7405
Jeremy Greenwood: 'Edward Bawden editioned prints', Woodbridge, The Wood Lea Press, 2005, limited edition, one of 450 copies, profusely illustrated throughout as called for, oblong folio, original quarter cloth gilt over decorative paper covered, original slipcase, the cover paper based on a design by Bawden for the cover of 'Life in an English Village', 1949, King Penguin No.57, illustrated by Bawden
Lot 7042
Francis Stone: 'Picturesque Views of all the Bridges Belonging to the County of Norfolk in a Series of Eighty-Four Prints in Lithography', [1830], 1st edition, lithograph title + 84 lithograph plates by Engelman after Francis Stone as called for, oblong folio, contemporary half calf gilt, inner joints professionally reinforced, marbled paper covered boards, calf gilt title label to upper board
Lot 226
Mr Rollin's Ancient History of The Egyptians, Cartheginians, Syrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, with twelve maps of Antient (sic) Geography, drawn by The Sieur d'Anville Geographer to The King of France, folio, half calf, printed for John Knapton, London, 1757.
Lot 169
MANUSCRIPT. Municipal Claimants, Shrewsbury 1835, 1838, 1840. Folio, 36 pages of hand written entries detailing names and addresses of householders in Shrewsbury claiming to be on the Burgess List and therefore entitled to vote. Printed lists for 1838 and 1840 pasted in at end. Rubbed contemporary half calf, marbled boards
Lot 170
MANUSCRIPT. HUNT FAMILY OF BOREATTON HOUSE, Baschurch, Salop. Rent book 1711 - 1750 and household inventory and valuation, 1811. Folio. Rent roll lists tenants in Baschurch, Plaish, Ratchup, Vennington and Trevenant. Rent is payable in half-yearly instalments. 136 pages. Bound with an Inventory and Valuation of all the household goods, furniture, plate, linen, china and other effects at Boreatton, taken August 1811. This copy made in 1835, with additional notes, 46 pages. The contents of the rooms are listed in great detail. Bound up with 6 newspaper offprints or broadsides, a plan of part of Boreatton House by local architect Edward Edgecombe, and two letters in the hand of Rowland Hunt, one an election speech in 1796 (6pp) and the other a speech at a dinner at the Craven Arms Inn in 1793 (4pp). The latter speech ends with no less than 22 toasts, the last of which is 'The Barber's Blessing, may all the enemies of King George be shaved with a bad razor'. Bound in mid 19th century half calf.Provenance: Probably purchased at the sale of Boreatton House in 1884, and thence by descent
Lot 46
MANUSCRIPT. A Tramp from Great Malvern to Crewe in September 1867. Landscape folio. Title and 31 pages of text. Cover illustration and 32 further original illustrations, 4 small sepia photographs and a few newspaper cuttings. The two travellers start at Malvern and go to Hereford, Ledbury, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Wroxeter, Haughmond, Wem and Crewe. The account is written in a jocular style: for example, at Ledbury church, the writer remarks on a notice inside 'Strangers looking round the church are expected to pay 6d: We let 'em expect!' Original covers worn and chipped.
![ATKINSON, James, Sketches in Afghanistan. Folio [1842]. With coloured title and 7 (of 25) hand coloured plates mounted on car](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0dab7ae2-87dc-4024-906e-ac6f0169fd4a/17bb6268-0c1e-494a-ab3d-ad3a00c1e810/468x382.jpg)
Lot 366
LIEBESPAAR.Indien, Pahari, ca. 1830, Miniatur: 19,8 × 13,6 cm, Folio: 26,7 × 20,5 cm.Gouache mit Gold und Silber auf Papier. Das Paar hält sich in einem teppichbelegten Innenraum umschlungen, ein grosses Fenster öffnet den Blick auf eine nächtliche Landschaft. Min. besch.Provenienz: Sammlung Theo Müller (1923-84), Schweiz; beruflich tätig in Bangalore, Indien, von 1963-66.
Lot 369
GÖTTIN KALI.Indien, Pahari, ca. 1850, Miniatur:19,5 × 12,4 cm, Folio: 26 × 18,3 cm.Gouache und Gold auf Papier. Die Göttin steht als Samhara Kali auf dem Körper von Shiva inmitten eines Schlachtfelds. Die Götter, verkörpert durch Vishnu und Brahma am linken und rechten Bildrand, fürchteten, dass Kalis Zerstörungskraft keine Grenzen fände und baten Shiva, am oberen Bildrand daherschwebend, sie zu beruhigen. Min. besch.Provenienz: Sammlung Theo Müller (1923-84), Schweiz; beruflich tätig in Bangalore, Indien, von 1963-66.
Lot 4066
"Atlas de L'Expedition de Chine", 1860 Depot de la Guerre 1861-62. Folio. Titelblatt, vier ganzseitige Karten, drei doppelseitige Karten und eine übergroße Faltkarte. Jeweils mit Ansichten der Schlachtfelder der französisch-englischen Truppen aus dem zweiten Opiumkrieg. Einband verschmutzt und bestoßen, der Rücken offen. Die Blätter im Inneren in gutem Zustand. Maße 53 x 39 cm.Seltene Dokumentation zur französisch-britischen Kampagne in China.Zustand: II - IIIAn "Atlas de L'Expedition de Chine", 1860 Depot de la Guerre 1861-62. Folio. Titelblatt, vier ganzseitige Karten, drei doppelseitige Karten und eine übergroße Faltkarte. Jeweils mit Ansichten der Schlachtfelder der französisch-englischen Truppen aus dem zweiten Opiumkrieg. Einband verschmutzt und bestoßen, der Rücken offen. Die Blätter im Inneren in gutem Zustand. Maße 53 x 39 cm.Seltene Dokumentation zur französisch-britischen Kampagne in China.Condition: II - III
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