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Lot 11

DYER, Sir James, Les Reports des Ley, folio 1688, frontis, black letter, boards detached. With the second part, folio 1679 (sic), with Le Livre Dei Assises et Pleas del Corone, folio 1679 (3)

Lot 123

THE DUSSELDORF GALLERY, A Series of 20 Original Etchings by Celebrated German Artists, folio, 1888. With JAGER, Carl, Gallerie Deutscher Tundichter (Gallery of German Conductors), folio, circa 1876 with photographic portraits, ornate red morocco gilt. With other art books, all folio (box)

Lot 133

LEIGH, Charles, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. Folio, Oxford 1700. Ex-library with stamps, modern quarter morocco, lacking map, portrait and some plates

Lot 142

THE HARMSWORTH Universal Atlas and Gazetteer. Folio, circa 1910. With The Times Atlas of the World, folio 1968

Lot 23

POPE, Alexander, Works, 4 vols, folio, 1717-41, Portrait frontis in vol 1, worn contemporary calf (4)

Lot 37

SPOTSWOOD, John, The History of the Church of Scotland, folio 1655. Thomas Carlyle's copy, with his signature on the title page and front free end paper, and bookplate on the front pastedown. Old calf, boards detached, spine crumbling, lacking portrait frontis (a.f)

Lot 39

BARTLEY, G C T, The Rhine From Its Source to the Sea, folio, 1878. Binding a.f. With KNIGHT, Charles, Old England, 2 vols folio, 1845 (at fault) (3)

Lot 41

SLEIDANUS, Johannes, A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time...1560. 1st edition in English. Translated by Jhon Daus. Folio, black letter, old polished calf. Lacking 2 preliminary leaves (title and A6, which is blank) and last 16 leaves (begins on A2, ends on 3N6). Fraying to edges of a few preliminary leaves, else firm and clean with good margins.

Lot 54

FIGURES OF THE SILURIAN FOSSILS to illustrate Murchison's 'Siluria', 5th edition 1872, with folding map. With INGOLDSBY, Thomas, The Jackdaw of Rheims, illustrated by E M Jessop, slim folio, 2 others similar, and other books (box)

Lot 68

RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN: Rivers of the East Coast, folio 1902, 2 copies. With COWAN, Major P J, The Welland Ship Canal between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, 1913-1932. Folio, 1935, reprinted from 'Engineering'. With others, similar (2 boxes)

Lot 69

REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON CANALS, folio 1883. With Returns Made to the Board of Trade....in respect of the canals and navigations in the United Kingdom. Folio 1899 (2)

Lot 72

CALEDONIAN CANAL, Reports of the Commissioners, folio, 2nd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th (1805-14), 29th - 33rd (1834-38), 60th (1865) and 114th (1919) (12)

Lot 78

JOWITT, Patricia and Robert E, Paris is Well Worth a Bus, Folio, Jersey c.1973, 3 copies. With other books (2 boxes)

Lot 83

WESTALL, William, A R A, Views of Netley Abbey, folio, 1828, with 11 lithographic plates. Spotted throughout, original boards rather soiled

Lot 91

FONSECA, Christoval de, Devout Contemplation, folio 1629, 1st edition in English, old calf, worn, front board nearly detached

Lot 92

FRENCH PASSPORT, 1819, issued to one Thomas Ayres of Yorkshire, signed by the Marquis d'Osmond, one sheet, folio

Lot 230

REGENCY MAHOGANY FOLIO CHEST OF DRAWERS EARLY 19TH CENTURY the shaped rectangular top over thirteen long shallow drawers flanked by moulded flattened pilasters, on a plinth base with a further long drawer 104cm wide, 156cm high, 52cm wide

Lot 277

RAY SOCIETY, 21 vol. (some odd), original half-calf cloth, and boards, folio and 8vo, 1846-1937: including Burmeister, Herman, The Organisation of Trilobites, 6 lithographed plates, London, 1846 and Forbes, Edward, A Monograph of the British Naked-Eyed Medusae, 13 chromolithographed plates, London, 1848 (2)1

Lot 84

H.M.S. EAGLE, A PLAN OF THE HOLD OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP EAGLE, CHARLES ROWLEY ESQUIRE CAPTAIN, 1805, 3 full pages pen and wash drawings, oblong folio, [1805]; together with a volume containing 34 bills of lading in English, Italian, French and Spanish, two referring to the sherry trade, 7 November-4 February 1870; and an insurance certificate for the H.C.S. Lowther Castle, 1825Captain Charles Rowley 1770-1845, rose rapidly through the ranks becoming Admiral of the White in 1841 and was knighted by the Austrians in 1840. The Eagle was a 74 built by Thomas Pitcher of Northfleet which, during the tenure of Rowley (1805-13) enjoyed considerable success. Joining Sir Sidney Smith~s squadron off Naples she captured La Corcyre (40); engaged in two boat attacks at Goro (7 taken, others burnt); a landing party from her destroyed the battery at Farasina; then assigned to Freemantle~s squadron at Fiume, she captured (with Bacchante) a convoy. Serving until the mid-century, she ended first as a training ship, then guard ship, and lastly renamed Eaglet as an RNR drill ship when she caught fire in 1926 and was broken the next year.

Lot 85

COPY LETTER BOOK OF H.C.S. NEPTUNE, a West Indiaman bought and adapted for the use of the East India Company, 47 and 33pp., 1811-12, folio, P.1, delivering a box to the President at Canton; P.4, letter respecting opium; P.5, an order of no clocks or pieces of mechanism exceeding Å“100 be exported to China; P.6, water not to be taken on Penang as it causes dysentery; P.6, about the risk of sending a boat on shore at Macau; P.8, ordering to receive on board Mrs Anne Torin on her journey to her husband in Bombay accompanied by her black servant Clara Theresa and also Miss Julia Brown; P.13, concerning a charter-party of passengers on board for China; P.23, prices for hemp lines and twine; P.35 and P.46, instructions for putting convicts on shore at Penang; P.45, receipt for packets at Prince of Wales~s Island [Penang]; P.47, prohibiting the lading of syce silver in China or officers going ashore; reverse ms. P.6, describing a present to the King of Johanna [Anjouan] and the kindness of that kingdom~s inhabitants; P.32, describing the arrival of the fleet at China; and numerous other letters, mostly to the Neptune describing cargo (and its faults), convicts, stores, tin plates and many other subjects

Lot 510

Six Folio Society books including 'The Blue Fairy Book' by Andrew Laing and Charles Van Sandwyk

Lot 578

FOLIO SOCIETY: 'At the Court of the Borgia' and a collection of other books

Lot 652

A COLLECTION OF 18TH CENTURY AND LATER PRINTS including prints after Old Masters, contained in a folio

Lot 660

MARK POLLOCK ('MARKO'): A Folio of unframed cartoons

Lot 79

A 19th Century 1860s Imperial family bible, together with two bound volumes of the Gallery of Arts and a folio of the Hundred best Pictures (4)

Lot 1034

A late 19th century folio of eight large scale linen backed maps of parts Bristol and South Gloucestershire bound by Baker & Sons, Clifton, Bristol

Lot 1076

Six boxed Folio Society titles together with four Heron Books

Lot 1111

An interesting collection of miscellaneous books including 13 Folio Society publications, a small quantity of books about Bristol, an early 20th century guide book of southern Italy, etc

Lot 32

Hutchins, John - The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 1st edition, 2 vols, folio, old calf, front board to Vol I detached, London 1774

Lot 41

Nonesuch Press - Herodotus - The History .... translated by G.Rawlinson, edited by A.W. Lawrence, number 353 of 675, small folio, blue cloth, London 1935

Lot 44

Hutchins, John - The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 1st edition, 2 vols, folio, old calf, ex library, boards detached, spines split and cracked, London 1774

Lot 67

Goodwin, R. Smith - English Domestic Metalwork, folio, cloth, with 139 plates, Leigh-on-Sea 1937

Lot 69

Heal, Ambrose Sir - The Goldsmiths of England, 1200-1800, folio, original cloth, Cambridge 1935, Blunt, Cyril - The Goldsmiths of Italy, quarto, cloth, London 1926 (2)

Lot 78

Exhibition of English Embroidery executed prior to the middle of the 16th century, folio, cloth, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London 1905

Lot 82

Moss, Hugh - Snuff Bottles of China, 1 of 500, inscribed and signed, folio, with original glassine outer wrapper (a.f.), with slip case, London 1971

Lot 101

Parkinson, John - Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris…, 1st edition, folio, later quarter calf, joints cracked, lacking portrait and pages 11-14, torn repair to lower right page 181, repair to plate opposite page 480, bottom right of page 535 missing, London 1629

Lot 122

Wilman, M - The Rock Engraving of Griqualand West & Bechuanaland, folio, cloth with clipped d.j., Cambridge 1933

Lot 125

Paterson, W - A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots & Caffaria, 1st edition, folio, calf, with folding map (browned) and 17 plates (some spotted), London 1789

Lot 128

The Complete Farmer: or a General Dictionary of Husbandry, 4th edition, folio, old calf, front board detached, scuffed and torn, some pages loose [1793]

Lot 130

Dunkerley, William Arthur - The Book of Sark, one of 500, illustrated by William A. Toplis, folio, original vellum gilt, with 21 tipped-in colour plates, lacks ties, dark damp stains to spine head and lower back board, London 1908

Lot 132

Ravilious, Eric - The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious, folio, one of 500, with 113 plates, 3 folding, Lion and Unicorn Press, London 1972

Lot 490

THE ETCHINGS OF REMBRANDT by P. G. Hamerton, encompassing 39 unbound photogravures, published by Seeley&Co., London 1905, each folio being 48.5cm x 37cm, in encased book.

Lot 118

BRONTE (CHARLOTTE) WORKS, (7 VOLS.) PUB. FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON, 1991, BOXED SET AND SEVEN OTHER BOXED SETS (27 vols)

Lot 119

DETMOLD (E.J.), ILL. ARABIAN NIGHTS, PUB. FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON 1999, SLIP CASE, 24 OTHER WORKS IN SLIP CASES AND VOLTAIRE, CANDIDE, 1948 (26 VOLS.)

Lot 299

Nova Italiae Delineatio folio of maps, no.826 of a limited edition of 1000. Dated December 1958

Lot 331

Thoyras (Rapin de), The History of England, 1732, Knapton, second edition, folio, four volumes, numerous folding maps and plates, calf (bindings worn, lacking some portraits, sold w.a.f.)

Lot 342

[Deyerlsperg], Erb-Huldigung, welche dem Allerdurchleuchtigist-Grossmaechtigisten ...Carolo den Sechsten ..., [1740], folio, frontis, six double plates; The Harmsworth Atlas & Gazetteer, folio; Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina Expurgata, 1696, Paris; Issac Barrow's Grundlicher Tractat Von Des Pabsts ... Obersten Kirchen-Gewalt, 1723 (4)

Lot 344

The Sporting Life British Hunts and Huntsmen, 1908-11, four volumes, folio, plates, half crimson Morocco bindings

Lot 347

Lutyens (Edwin) & Abercrombie (Patrick) A Plan for the City & County of Kingston Upon Hull, first edition, 1945, Brown & Sons Ltd, folio, blue cloth boards, dustwrapper a/f Jeffrey (Reginald W.) Thornton-Le-Dale, first edition, 1931, The West Yorkshire Printing Co. 8vo, soft cover (2)

Lot 1480

A folio of interesting ephemera including early theatre, travel etc.,

Lot 1615

DRAWINGS BY W GRANVILLE-SMITH AND OTHERSPublished: E.R. Herrick & Company, New York, copyright 1898, large folio featuring twenty-two coloured prints including: Love's Idelness; Once Upon A Time; The Three Graces, etc., some with accompanying prose or verse, 35.5cm x 52cm

Lot 10

DAVID HODGSON: ANTIQUARIAN REMAINS PRINCIPALLY CONFINED TO NORWICH AND NORFOLK, circa 1842, title page supplied in facsimile, 26 etched plates by Hodgson and Ninham, an additional Hodgson etching signed and dated loosely inserted, large folio, old half morocco gilt worn, spine gilt in compartments, ex-Hudson-Gurney collection with gilt armorial crest to top board

Lot 368

ROBERT FITCH: VIEWS OF THE GATES OF NORWICH, MADE IN THE YEARS 1792-3 BY THE LATE JOHN NINHAM, WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, EXTRACTS FROM THE CORPORATION RECORDS AND PAPERS OF THE LATE JOHN KIRKPATRICK, Norwich; Cundall, Miller & Leavens, 1861, 22 engraved plates as called for, degrees of foxing to plates, large quarto, contemporary blind stamped cloth gilt worn, inner joints near split, Norfolk & Norfolk Archaeological Society gilt emblem to top board + EDWARD PRESTON WILLINS: 2 titles: QUAINT OLD NORWICH, Norwich, by the author, 1884, limited edition (500), un-numbered, out of series, 50 engraved plates as called for, folio, old half calf gilt worn, ex-library; SOME OF THE OLD HALLS AND MANOR HOUSES IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, London, Jarrold & Sons, 1890, limited edition, un-numbered, out of series, 50 plates as called for, folio, original cloth gilt worn, rebacked, majority of original backstrip preserved, ex-library (3)

Lot 401

JOHN WODDERSPOON: JOHN CROME AND HIS WORKS, WITH LISTS OF HIS PICTURES EXHIBITED IN NORWICH FROM THE YEAR 1805 TO 1821 INCLUSIVE; SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORWICH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS; SHORT NOTICES OF PAINTERS, THE LOCAL CONTEMPORARIES OF CROME, ETC, Norwich, printed for private circulation by R N Bacon at the "Norwich Mercury", 1876, 2nd edition, signed and inscribed by the publisher R N Bacon to front free end paper, mounted portrait frontis, 22pp letterpress + 19 mounted autotype copies of etchings on 9 leaves as called for, large folio, original cloth backed printed wraps worn

Lot 134

 ROLLING STONES THE: A good vintage signed square folio printed concert programme from The Rolling Stones tour of America from June - July 1966 individually signed to the inside pages by four members of the band individually comprising Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman. All have signed in bold blue and black inks to clear areas. Some light overall creasing and minor age wear, otherwise about VG 

Lot 14

 FAIRBANKS SNR. DOUGLAS: (1883-1939) American Actor, Academy Award winner. A founding member and first elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Fairbanks also hosted the first Oscars ceremony in 1929. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Fairbanks in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image and dated 1928 in his hand. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG   The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour.    The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.  

Lot 15

  PICKFORD MARY: (1892-1979) Canadian-American Actress, Academy Award winner and a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Pickford in a profile head and shoulders pose. Signed in fountain pen ink to the base of the image, the latter part of her surname running across a darker area. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, VG   The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour.    The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.    

Lot 16

 NAGEL CONRAD: (1897-1970) American Actor, a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who also served as the fourth President of the Academy from 1932-33. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Nagel in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull and bearing his blindstamp to the lower right corner. Signed by Nagel in bold black fountain pen ink to the image, partially across a darker area although reasonably legible. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album and with some light mottling to the image, G   The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour.    The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him 

Lot 18

 BARTHELMESS RICHARD: (1895-1963) American Actor, a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Barthelmess received a Best Actor Oscar nomination at the first Academy Award ceremony for his roles in The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Barthelmess in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink across a dark area at the base of the image although reasonably legible. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, VG   The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour.    The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.  

Lot 19

 GAYNOR JANET: (1906-1984) American Actress, Academy Award winner. Gaynor was the first ever recipient of a Best Actress Oscar in 1929 which was awarded for her performances in 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This represents the only occasion when an actress has won an Oscar for multiple roles. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Gaynor in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Max Mun Autrey. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink by the actress across a clear area at the base of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, VG   The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour.    The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.    

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