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Lot 431
The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical, Edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, with Many Illustrations, 1885, 1888 & 1889, London: Seeley & Co., illustrated with full-page copperplate etchings, further b/w illustrations accompanying text, harlequin leather and three-quarter leather bindings, mixed folio sizes, (2); Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen, two-volume set, London: Charles Newman and Company, [n.d. 1895], illustrated with b/w photographic portrait prints, mounted on card leaves, contemporary faux 'alligator' cloth, gilt-lettered upper-covers with royal crown, all edges gilt, folios, (2), [5] Please note that two copies of The Portfolio are incomplete: lacking numerous plates throughout.
Lot 128
HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy. Album of 26 mounted black & white photographs with captioned protective tissue-guards, In Memory of the Official Visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent, November 14th to 22nd, 1961, Government of Japan. Oblong folio with embroidered covers, stiff card pages edged with gilt, the front pastedown inscribed 'Marjorie Dawson'Provenance: Marjorie Dawson RVM (1915-2019), dresser and maid to Princess Alexandra
Lot 167
The Progress of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert to Burghley House, Northamptonshire, November, 1844, London: Ackermann, Northampton: Abel and Sons, [1844]. Small folio, publisher's gilt cloth, all edges gilt, armorial bookplate for G. E. Maunsell on front pastedown, complete with two coloured plates. Contents clean and bright with pale spots in places; verso of plates with spotting; the cloth with pale dampstaining and spotting, some splitting/wear to cloth at spine. Scarce
Lot 2
Collection of approximately 250 autographs, including stars of stage and screen, sports personalities, authors, musicians. Some signed on press cards/photographs, some on letters/correspondence, some on slips of paper. To include Laurence Olivier; Margot Fonteyn; Eva Gabor; Bing Crosby; Vera Lynn; Andre Previn; John Betjeman; J. B. Priestley; Yehudi Menuhin; Margaret Lockwood; Barnes Wallis; Sir Christopher Cockerell; Arthur Lowe; Morecambe & Wise; Two Ronnies; Ken Dodd; Brian Clough; George Best; Colin Cowdrey; Imran Khan; Fred Davis; Ray Reardon, and many others. Oblong folio album of coloured paper sheets, the autographs/documents held in place with corner-mounts
Lot 206
Horwood, Richard. Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjoining Shewing every House, London: 1792-99. Folio, 32 double-page (folding) engraved maps on wove paper bearing 'Horwoods' watermark. Title in oval cartouche on H1, dedicated to the Trustees and Directors of the Phoenix Fire-Office on G4. Rich impressions, exceptionally well-preserved, clean, bright; spotting to E3 and pale spots to E4. Contemporary half-calf with marbled endpapers, upper board detached, blank leaf torn, spine with wear/loss - but, internally, the maps are very good indeed
Lot 3A
Modern Political History Interest. Collection of approximately 100 autographs of politicians and world leaders, 1970s, many signed on photographs, and many with accompanying correspondence on headed paper (sometimes from the person's secretary). To include Margaret Thatcher; Indira Gandhi; Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo; Pierre Trudeau; Spyros Kyprianou; Hubert Humphrey; Clementine Churchill; Harold Macmillan; Mountbatten of Burma; Enoch Powell; Harold Wilson; James Callaghan; Ted Heath; Lord Home; Dennis Healey; Michael Foot; Ian Paisley; Roy Hattersley, and others. Oblong folio album of coloured paper sheets, the autographs/documents held in place with corner-mounts
Lot 44
Poley, Arthur F. E. St. Paul's Cathedral, London: Measured, Drawn & Described, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1927, at the Chiswick Press. Folio, bound by Zaehnsdorf in half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, cloth boards with gilt illustration of St. Paul's to upper board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed). Complete with all 32 plates as called for, including the frontispiece with protective tissue-guard. Stated 'first edition', featuring list of subscribers. An impressive publication. Contents good, clean, bright; occasional light handling marks and pale spotting to some tissue-guards; one small stain to the edge of one plate; binding tight and solid, well preserved for such a large book, with light rubbing and wear to extremities, the leather slightly damaged near upper headcap. Architecture / Architectural History Interest
Lot 76
Shakespeare, William. The Works of Shakespere, Imperial Edition, in two volumes, London: J. S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., [c.1876]. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers/page edges, steel-engraved plates, including frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. Contents generally clean and bright, but with dampstaining to edges/corners throughout; bindings tight and solid, wear to extremities, lower boards with some wear and dampstaining (2)
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Lot 834
SHEPARD (Ernest H) The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, first edition, original gilt pink cloth, t.e.g., MILNE (A.A), Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees, a collection of other children's books, BUCHAN (John) The Adventures of Richard Hannay, five volumes, Folio Society, slip-case, The Works of Mr William Congreve, 1753, volume two only, original full calf and a few others (qty).
Lot 376
* Castiglione (Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664). Young man looking down to the right, & a head of an old bearded man with a turban, from Small Heads in Oriental Headdress, circa 1650 [or later], two etchings on laid paper, some light surface marks and soiling, the second work with small loss to blank margin towards upper right corner, adjacent to plate mark, plate size 110 x 80 mm (4.4 x 3.1 ins), sheet size 128 x 98 mm (5 x 3.9 ins), corner mounted to old folio mounting leaf, together with 11 other various Old Master prints, 10 of which are mounted (on the same and one other backing leaf), including A. Gastiers, St. George, 2 etchings by Hollar (Ein Shiffers Weiss zu Ambsterdam & Ein Burgersfrau zu Bern), a later copy in reverse of Rembrandt's Old Bearded Man in a High Fur Cap, with Eyes Closed (Bartsch 290), a later 19th century copy of Rembrandt's Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert, preacher of the Remonstrants (trimmed to plate mark, framed and glazed)Qty: (13)
Lot 579
American Artists. The Poems by John Ashbery, Prints by Joan Mitchell, Salute by James Schuyler, Prints by Grace Hartigan, Permanently by Kenneth Koch, Prints by Alfred Leslie, & Odes by Frank O'Hara, Prints by Michael Goldberg, 4 volumes, New York, Tiber Press, 1960, each volume with three full-page colour screenprints, colour screenprint title page and front cover by Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, and Michael Goldberg respectively, original cloth-backed boards, a few minor marks to rear covers of 3 volumes, original acetate dust wrappers, all contained in original publisher's cloth slipcase, with original cardboard packaging (marked with limitation number), folio (sheet size 445 x 355 mm, 17.6 x 14 ins)Qty: (4)NOTESLimited edition, numbered 127 of 200 copies, each signed by author and artist. Important set of post-war American artist's books, featuring collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and four second-generation New York School painters. The collaborators all " lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging awareness of some real relationship between their work " (from the prospectus).
Lot 630
* Colbert (Anthony, 1934-2007). Young girl in Vietnamese orphanage, 1967, mixed media on paper, signed lower right, 33.5 x 45.5 cm (13.25 x 17.75 in) mount aperture, framed and glazed, together with Child receiving blood transfusion on hospital floor Saigon, 1967, mixed media on paper, signed lower left, some spotting, 34.5 x 38 cm (13.5 x 15 in) mount aperture, framed and glazed, plus Young Vietnamese Girl in Hospital Cot, 1967, mixed media on paper, signed lower right, 53 x 39.5 cm (20.75 x 15.5 in) mount aperture, framed and glazedQty: (3)NOTESAnthony Colbert (1934-2007) studied at Worthing College of Art and Farnham School of Art, before joining The Observer as staff artist in 1959. He illustrated several books including the Folio Society's Jane Eyre before going to Vietnam with Save the Children in 1967, where he recorded the plight of displaced children, his artworks of which were exhibited at the AIA Gallery the following year. He later went on to lecture at various art colleges before taking up landscape painting in the 1980's.
Lot 508
GWILLIM (John): 'A Display of Heraldrie...' London, printed by T R for Jacob Blome, 1660: 4th edition: sm. folio, contemporary calf boards recently rebacked, wear and scuffing, num. woodcut arms in text, corner creased and browned but a good copy, early ms ownership 'Ex Libris Robt. Hilton' to front flyleaf and later bookplates. (1)
Lot 514
CRISP (Frederick, Arthur): 'Visitation of England and Wales...edited by Joseph Jackson Howard...Volume One': privately printed, 1893, no.444/500 copies: together with vols 2-14 (lacking vol 7), 18, plus 'notes' series vols 1-10 inclusive, 15, 16, 17, 19 & 20: all publishers half vellum gilt in mixed condition, a few ex-library, small folio. (29)
Lot 563
STRONG (George): 'The Heraldry of Herefordshire: being a collection of the armorial bearings of families which have been seated in the county at various periods down to the present time...' London, E Churton, 1848: folio, 19thc red half roan gilt lettered: SALMON (Nathaniel) 'History and Antiquities of Essex..': pp1-460 modern title page and index supplied, latter stating 'The First 19 Parts (all that were published)', 1740-1742, recent grey cloth, folio: together with 10 other vols, antiquarian topography, including a dampstained copy of Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. (12)
Lot 570
ART JOURNAL: 'The Art Journal...New Series' London, J S Virtue, 1889-90: 2 vols, contemporary blue half-calf, rubbed, folio: MILNER (Thomas, Rev) 'The Gallery of Nature, a pictorial & descriptive tour through creation' London, Wm Orr & Co, 1855: large 8vo, period calf gilt, rubbed: together with 9 other calf bound volumes, including 'The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1820' and others similar, plus a part set of Victor Hugo's Works in cloth, 19 vols. (31)
Lot 575
SHAKESPEARE (William): 'The Complete Works of Shakspere, Revised from the Original Editions...by J O Halliwell..' London, John Tallis, circa 1860: 3 vols, contemporary half-calf gilt, rubbed, sm. folio: together with Mrs Cowden Clarke's 'The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare' London, W Kent, n.d, 19thc half-calf gilt, worn. (4)
Lot 580
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: MORRISON BELL FAMILY: album of early 20thc photographs, Morrison Bell family, includes home life, electioneering, flood damage at Otterburn, holidays in mainland Europe, large papercut silhouette by Baron Scotford, landscape folio album of period, red half morocco gilt, some wear with spine loose, gilt monogram to front board. (1)
Lot 117
Atlases.- World.- Black (Adam and Charles) Black's General Atlas of The World, New and Revised Edition, frontispiece with flags of nations, title, and complete with 52 maps on 55 sheets (numbered 2-56), 24 on single pages, lithographs printed in colours, occasional surface dirt, minor spotting, contemporary boards, gilt title on spine and upper cover, g.e., rubbed and worn, folio, Edinburgh, 1870.
Lot 119
Arabic atlas.- Brocktorff (Frederico, Maltese map publisher) Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard..., 11 hand-coloured lithographic maps, including the World in two hemispheres, America, Africa and Australia, on thin wove paper without watermarks, each sheet approx. 310 x 480 mm (12 1/4 x 18 7/8 in), scattered spotting and browning, some surface dirt and handling creases, original green cloth boards with lithographed title to upper cover, oblong folio, [Church Missionary Society Press, Malta, 1835].⁂ The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic.
Lot 122
Polar.- Atlas.- Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy. Ice Atlas of the Northern Hemisphere, first edition, 'Index Chart' as front pastedown, full- and half-page maps and charts, divisional titles, tables, general title lightly browned and with stain to lower corner, occasional spotting or light staining, original ring-bound pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth, corners bumped, little marked and rubbed, overall a good copy, large folio, Washington, D.C., 1946.⁂ Rare in commerce.
Lot 173
***Please note, the description of this lot has changedLondon.- Bacon (George W.) New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs with Supplementary Maps..., title, contents, two index maps, one for nine-inch scale and the other four-inch scale maps, with 34 double-page maps at nine-inch scale, 25 double-page maps at four-inch scale, four double-page maps of the environs of London, and 10 further supplementary maps, lithographs with some hand-colouring, each approx. 350 x 525 mm. (13 3/4 x 20 3/4 in), occasional finger-soiling, surface dirt and minor browning, a few maps with splitting to folds, numerous tears and loss to text leaves, rebound in blue cloth, boards now completely detached, worn, folio, 1886.
Lot 175
London.- Bacon (George W., publisher) Bacon's New Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs with Supplementary Maps, Letterpress Descriptions and Alphabetical Index, complete with title, contents, three sets of index, index map, and 46 double-page maps, lithographs with some hand-colouring, each approx. 350 x 525 mm. (13 3/4 x 20 3/4 in), some tabs with tears into text leaves, a few repaired, otherwise occasional minor surface dirt but good clean maps, original cloth, gilt, slight rubbing with label to spine, folio, 1906.
Lot 20
Africa.- Blome (Richard) A Mapp of the Higher and Lower Aethiopia Comprehending ye Several Kingdomes..., with elaborate heraldic cartouche and a dedication to William Glynne, from Blome's 'Geographical Description Of The Four Parts Of The World', engraving with hand-colouring, 310 x 415 mm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in), under glass, minor spotting and browning, a few creases, framed, [1669]⁂ Said to be the earliest folio sized map of the region engraved in England.
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