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Lot 120

Grimble (A.) The Deer Forests of Scotland, 1896, quarto limited edition of 500, 8 mono plates after Archibald Thorburn, boards; together with Crealock, Deer-Stalking, 1981 Scolar Press facsimile, folio, green cloth gilt (2)

Lot 13

[CHILDREN'S] Forwood (Gwen) The Old Fancies of Gwen, n.d. [ca.1900], obl. folio, 10 col. plates, pictorial boards The Animated Picture Book of Alice in Wonderland, 1947, Pilot Press, 4to, ringbound Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees, n.d., 4to, 4 pop-ups (minor faults), ringbound and four other volumes (7)

Lot 133

[Horticultural Catalogue] A Catalogue of the Garden, Grass, Tree and Flower Seeds, Flower Roots, Plants, Nets and C. Sold by Stephen Garraway … at the Rose, No.139 near the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, folio broadside, vignette woodcut rose at head, late 18th century (one or two short tears, folds)

Lot 135

[THEOLOGY etc] Bingham (Joseph) The Works ..., 1726, Robert Knaplock, 2 vols, folio, 10 plates and maps, contemp. calf (rebacked); Clement of Alexandria, Opera Quae Extant, 1715, Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, folio, vignette title, contemp. speckled calf (worn); Novum Testamentum (Greek text), 1707, Oxford, folio, engr. frontis and vignette title, contemp. calf (worn); together with 2 editions of Cyprian's Works, Paris, 1643 and Paris, 1641; and one other volume (7)

Lot 136

Bell (J.) compiler: ''Hodge-Podge'', early 1800s folio leatherbound scrapbook, so-titled on spine, with approx 240 pp. of pasted-in squibs, flyers, handbills, broadsides, etc, a variety of imprints, mainly Newcastle, Gateshead and Carlisle, covering a range of subjects from politics and elections, to murders, mad dogs, menageries, a few panoramas, etc, etc; together with an album of newspaper cuttings (2)

Lot 138

Fau (Doctor J.) The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man .... Atlas, 1849, Hippolyte Bailliere, portfolio, 24 (of 28) hand-col'd lithos with letterpress (lacking letterpress to plate 3, loss to tip of plate 20 margin), original cloth gilt [as a collection of plates]; together with: a collection of 34 misc. folio medical engravings after A. Bell, and small coll'n of late 19th century chromo folding sections, reproductive organs etc (qty)

Lot 139

Maclise (Joseph) Surgical Anatomy, 1851, John Churchill, folio, 35 engr. plates with hand-colouring, contemporary half calf gilt

Lot 14

De Thoyras (Rapin) The History of England, 1732, 1733, 1744, 1745 and 1747, 5 vols in 4, folio, vols 1 & 2 second edition; plates; 68 maps, plans and views (incl. N & S America); 74 portraits and monuments (some double-page); 43 genealogies, medals etc; comtemp. calf (covers off, sold not subject to return) (5)

Lot 140

Ellis (George Viner) & Ford (G.H.) Illustrations of Dissections ... of the Human Body, 1876, large folio, 58 tinted lithographs with additional hand-colouring, 6 pp. Letterpress (i.e. without the accompanying 8vo text vol.), the plates loose in portfolios, within an overall portfolio, Second Edition

Lot 144

Manuscripts and ephemera, including: 1) Ornsby (Geo. Junr.) ''The Taking of Troy, an Historical Tragedy ...'', 4to illustrated manuscript, 1823, Lanchester, marbled boards; 2) an untitled manuscript, possibly by James Wallace, ca.1770's, folio, mostly Durham related, marbled boards; 3) ''J.A.'', ''Lines on the Untimely Fate of Lieut. Chas. Spearman, R.A.'', 1815, single page printed poem; and sundry other material (qty)

Lot 146

[MANUSCRIPT EMBLEM BOOK] ''Anagramma Joannes Maria ... '', folio, 47 ff. of which 39 are emblem leaves, i.e. with watercolour, gouache and ink scene at the head, followed by verses in Latin, and 9 leaves consisting of part titles within painted laurel-leaf surrounds; probably part of a larger work, title and prelims and last ff. now gone, stylistically consistent with mid to late 17th c but possibly later, Italian. At the foot of the first leaf a later commentator (Italian) suggests this is the work of a Cappuccin monk. The emblematic scenes depict a wide variety of symbolism including a unicorn, in a rustic manner; disbound overall dimensions approx 13x9 inches; vignette scenes approx 4x6 inches

Lot 149

Ball (John) The Power of Godlines ...., 1657, Printed by Abraham Miller, folio in 4's, title repaired at gutter, chipped, covers detached/distressed

Lot 151

[Theology] Drelincourt (Rev. C.) The Christian's Defence ... With an Account of the Author ... and A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal [ca.1800], Ormskirk, Printed by J. Fower, contemp. sheep with owner name in gilt on upr. Cvr.; Godwin (Francis) De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius, 1616, Ex Officitia Nortoniana, quarto, ms. notes on e.p.'s, bookplate of H.L. Hobart, contemp. calf; Book of Common Prayer, 1731, folio, engraved frontispiece, contemp.calf (worn); and 12 other vols (of which some defective) (15)

Lot 153

Dallas (George) Systems of Stiles As now Practicable within the Kingdom of Scotland ..., 1697, Edinburgh, folio, contemp. calf gilt and blind, with large tulip ornaments in blind to covers, spine richly ornamented (expert old repair to foot of spine, one or two short tears in the text); De Lolme (J.L.) The Constitution of England, 1788, portrait, calf (worn) (2)

Lot 154

Holy Bible [The Holy Bible ...]. 1607, Robert Barker (date and imprint from N.T. title), folio (in 6s), 300x200mm, lacking all but 2 leaves of prelims before page 1, N.T. title present, but with oil stain at foot; ends at leaf Fffff[IV], followed by Psalms, 1609 (lacking last leaves), binding distressed Provenance: on rear board ''Jane Eliza Austin, June 17th 1846'', on front board ''Bought at sale of the Rev'd Austin, Rector of Redmarshall ...'', Stephen Francis. Feb.y, 1859; Robert Dale, May, 1859; bookplate of James Brougham [sold with all faults, not subject to return]

Lot 155

Montague (B.) compiler: Olla Podrida, Selected by ..., Bath, n.d., folio scrapbook with printed title-page, with a large quantity of pasted-in handbills, flyers, broadsides, songsheets, etc, mostly early 19th century, various imprints including a good group by Fowler of Salisbury; a multitude of subjects covered; significant preces include a broadside relating to the Biddenden Maids (slightly trimmed), the Hottentot Venus, Vauxhall Gardens ''The Quack Doctor's Speech'', panoramas, pictorial key plate to the Battle of the Nile, large advert for C. Fellows Fishing Tackle, Salisbury, etc, etc; contemporary calf binding (worn)

Lot 161

Carleton (Thomas Compton) Philosophia Universa 1649, Antwerp, folio, printed half-title, fine engraved pictorial title-page (engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar after a design by Diepenbecke), 2 ff. ded'n, 1f Pref. (only, i.e. lacking 2 ff), 7 ff. index (i.e. lacking first leaf), pp. 621 (pp. 410/11 misnumbered), pp. 43(1) (n.n.) index; 2 ff. ''Axiomatum/Errata'', contemp. full vellum over wooden boards, covers with wide roll tooled borders in blind, clasps (one clasp gone, pages missing, e.g. 2 ff. between the Preface and contents)

Lot 162

(Felons & Malefactors) A Calendar of all the Prisoners in the House of Correction at Wakefield … January … 1779, large folio broadside (one or two small holes, torn in one crease); together with A Calender of the Felons, and Other Malefactors in His Majesty's Goal the Castle of York …1736, folio broadside (folds) (2)

Lot 163

(Ephemera etc) ''I, A.B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful … to His Majesty King George …'', 1747, Printed by Thomas Baskett, folio broadside, woodcut arms at head (folds); together with 3 broadside political squibs, 18th century; 6 issues of 18th century periodicals uncut in original wrappers; 3 18th century newspapers and a printed Act for road repairs in Yorkshire, 1757

Lot 164

Wing (Vincent) An Almanack For … 1784, large folio broadside printed in red and black (folds); together with Rider's Almanack For … 1776, 12mo, plain wallet binding (some cropping of text at foot) (2)

Lot 24

An Oblong Folio 19th Century Sketch Album with drawings by R. Winn and others, incl. topographical views; together with 6 watercolours of shells, 18th century; and a child's watercolour by S. Winn, 1777 (qty)

Lot 56

LEDIARD (Thomas) The Naval History of England ..., 1735, folio, engr. frontis (trimmed at foot and margin), pp.IV, 9 ff.., 1 f. part-title, pp.933 (1), contemp. calf (v.worn, eroded)

Lot 57

Bowyer (Robert) artist: The Campaign of Waterloo illustrated by Engravings ... including a Correct Military Plan ..., 1816, Printed by T Bensley, folio [55x350mm], 5 hand-col'd aquatint views (on 3 sheets), 1 double-page h-col'd aquatint (with poorly repaired long tear), and a further 3 engr. plates (1 plan), original boards and printed label (amateur linen reback, edges chipped), Abbey, Life, 355

Lot 58

Simpson (William) The Seat of the War in the East, 1855, 1856, Colnaghi & Co, 1st & 2nd Series, large folio (570x370mm), two tinted litho pictorial titles and 39 + 40 tinted litho plates, (most tissue guards present, incl. some with keys), 1 f. engr. dedication, 24 + 24 pp. Letterpress, original half morocco gilt (gutta-percha perished, contents loose, first title and ded'n leaf frayed at outer margin, upper cover detached)

Lot 6

Sandrart (Joachim) Sculpturae Veteris Admiranda …., 1680, Norimbergae, Fobergius, folio, portrait frontis, vignette title, 70 plates (some double-page), contemp.calf (very worn, upper cover detached)

Lot 62

WESTALL (W.), Harding (J.F.) & Hullmandel (C.) Britannia Delineata ..., 1822, Hullmandel's Lithographic Establishment, large folio, French and English letterpress, vignette on title-page and 26 plates on 25 sheets, lithos, half-calf (worn, covers off, pale water stains)

Lot 7

Visconti (Giambattista) et alia Il Museo Pio Clementino …, 1782-1807, Roma, 7 vols large folio, each vol. with half-title, portrait frontis and engraved titled page, and 379 plates in all (incl. folding plan, ''bis'' plates etc); together with vol. 1 of Il Museo Chiarmonti, 1808, engr. frontis and title, 45 plates, uniformly bound with the above in full contemp.calf, gilt and blind (some light marginal spotting, several covers off, spines rubbed) (8)

Lot 70

Battely (Nicolas) The Antiquities of Canterbury in Two Parts, 1703, Second Edition, folio, engr. frontis, 18 plates after Kip, Hollar, et alia, and 1 full page text illus (slight damage to folding plan), 2 ff. ms. at back (list of Mayors etc), contemp. calf (rebacked and recased)

Lot 71

Dart (J.) History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and the Once-Adjoining Monastary ..., 1726, folio, 9 pp. engr. armorials, 41 plates (incl. double-page) wide margins, contemp. mottled calf (hinges cracked, worn), ex-libris A.H. Taylor, with his marginal pencil notes

Lot 74

Drake (Francis) Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, 1736, folio, 53 plates only (including maps, double-page etc, but excluding full page text illus.), contemp. calf (rebacked, recased, covers off)

Lot 77

Hunter (Joseph) South Yorkshire, 1828, 2 vols folio bound in 1, portrait, 2 double-page h-coloured maps, 15 plates (incl. a single-page map), vignettes, half calf (binding distressed, covers off); together with Frost (Charles) Notices relative to the Early History of … Hull, 1827, quarto, 7 plates, bound (rebacked and recased) (2)

Lot 8

Society of Dilettanti Ionian Antiquities, 1769 (vol 1 only), lge. folio, 33 plates, untrimmed in original boards (covers off, loose extra ded'n/subscribers list, chapter 4 slightly smaller and on different stock)

Lot 80

Whitaker (T.D.) History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1823, 2 vols, folio, frontis and 70 plates and genealogies, half calf (worn, some foxing) (2)

Lot 82

Hunter (Joseph) South Yorkshire. The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster, 1828, 2 vols, folio, 2 double-page and 1 single p. maps, 16 plates (incl. portrait), untrimmed in full later calf (2)

Lot 83

Hodges (C.C.) Ecclesia Hagustaldensis. The Abbey of St. Andrew, Hexham, A Monograph, 1888, Privately Printed, folio, additional chromo title, 62 b/w plates, numbered 4 of 42 copies complete in 1930, board, rebacked

Lot 9

Kent (William) The Designs of Inigo Jones, 1727, 2 vols in 1, folio, vol.1: 6 ff. with vignettes (incl. title), 1f. printed subscribers, 73 numbered plates as called for (ie double-page plates counted as 2); vol.2: 4 ff. (incl. title), lacking plates 11, 46, 47/48 (ie d-p), 55/56 (d.p), 60/61 (d.p), 62/63 (d.p), later half morocco (rodent nibbles almost to platemark in patches of outer margin); Daniell (Thomas & William) Oriental Scenery, 1816, 4to, 140 aquatint plates and series titles (only), cloth (distressed binding, last 2 plates holed) and 2 other distressed volumes: Hogarth, Works; and Jones, Grammar of Ornament Sold with all faults as a collection of plates (4)

Lot 90

Satchell (John) Lavoisne's Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Altlas ..., 1829, J. Barfield, folio,4th Edition, pp. 5 (1), 73 double-page charts, maps etc (of which 26 are maps), mostly hand-col'd, contemp. calf (very worn, contents clean)

Lot 91

Johnston (Alexander Keith) Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, New Editiion, 1875, folio, folding chromo ''North Polar Chart'' frontispiece and 48 double-page maps with h-col'd outlines, with some extraneous loose material/maps, contemp. half red morocco gilt (rubbed, inner hinge broken)

Lot 92

Maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1844, folio, 2 vols bound in 1, 218 maps, as per plate list (ie double-page maps counted as two), complete with city and star maps etc, hand-coloured in outlines, clean copy with reasonable margins, half morocco (rubbed)

Lot 1382

Audubon - folio 30 great bird paintings, printed Harry N. Abrams, New York 1964, 2 vols

Lot 255

A bound folio of engravings, each depicting scenes a selected scene from the Shakespeare plays, together with 'The Handy Royal Atlas' by A. Keith Johnston, and an In Memoriam cuttings book (3)

Lot 317

A bound folio of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, together with two Japanese maps, a lacquer box, and a ceramic oblong planter (5)

Lot 330

Feliks Topolski (Polish, 1907-1989), Topolski's Chronicle', 1956, Volume Four, (folio)

Lot 158

John Gay, Fables in two volumes, London 1757, Robinsons History of England in two volumes, folio defective and Matthew Henry An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, volume one only, (5).

Lot 553

A folio of 12 large (12” x 16”) monochrome prints of pencil portraits of individual SS officers and men, by Wolfgang Willrich, all dated 1936, many with runic inscriptions, entitled “Vom Lebensbaum Deutscher Art, Bilder und Gedanken zur Kassenfrage”, “Mappe 2”, with introduction by Heinrich Himmler. The prints VGC, the folder slightly worn and faded.

Lot 304

A Folio of 19th Century & Later Watercolours, Engravings, etc.

Lot 444

'Elaine' by Alfred Tennyson , Illustrated by Gustave Dore, London 1867, with Fully Bound Engravings and a Folio of Old Photographs (2).

Lot 662

A George Best 1968 Signed Manchester United Jersey (European Cup), together with his Testimonial Programme: George Best XI v An International XI, Windsor park, Belfast Monday August 8 1988 & A George Best Signed Coloured Print after Graham Griffiths - 'Simply The Best'. Unframed. Sports Folio Limited Edition. (3).

Lot 1187

THE COSTUME OF THE CLANS by authors John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart, published in Edinburgh by John Menzies, 1845, large folio, engraved title and 36 plates (29 coloured), contemporary half morocco, rubbed, bumped and soiled, internal very slight damp-staining, soiling and foxing, edition of 500, 59cm high

Lot 192

A collection of RMS Queen Mary, Cunard White Star ephemeral to include vintage framed prints, folio, postcards, menu cards, Maiden voyage booklet and a glass ship bottle (a lot)

Lot 360

A quantity of stamps to include two albums of First Day Covers, loose First Day Covers, a stock book including GB and some Worldwide stamps, and a folio of Commonwealth stamps including South Australia Six Pence, One Shilling, Nine Pence and Eight Pence, Victoria Four Pence, Six Pence, Half Penny.

Lot 416

Pitture di Bartolommeo Cesi, esistenti nella cappella di Santa Maria Nunziata detta de' Bulgari in Bologna; twenty one folio engravings in a paper portfolio, published by Dall'Olmo & Tiocchi, Bologna 1832.

Lot 430

British Sports & Sportsmen, Hunting; Royal Edition 241/250, folio, gilt tooled black morocco.

Lot 14

Mind (Gottfried) - Oeuvre de Geofroi Mind de Berne recueilli de différens Cabinets particuliers, engraved title with stippled vignette of the artist drawing with his cat alongside, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Rauch after Mind, all featuring cats, each mounted as issued on grey paper with ink borders and manuscript captions below, one or two with very light spotting (mostly to mounts and tissue guards), a few with marginal creasing at left hand side, staining to some mounts, contemporary red morocco, by the royal binder René Simier, gilt rule border, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., a little rubbed, corners slightly worn, [c.l818]; another copy, text only, with 4 hand-coloured aquatints loosely inserted, including 2 plates not included in the first copy , all featuring cats, tipped to new grey paper mounts with ink borders, and with 4 lithographed plates from 'X Blätter Katzengruppen' also loosely inserted, 2 being reverse images, a little spotted and soiled, together in contemporary green glazed boards, gilt, gilt-stamped blue lozenge-shaped label 'Jeux de'Enfants de Mind' on upper cover, large engraved pictorial label of Lamy mounted on front pastedown, rubbed, rebacked, [c.1818], together in modern cloth drop-front box, oblong folio, Berne, J.P.Lamy (2) Gottfried Mind (1768-1814) was a Swiss artist, crippled at birth and largely self-taught. He drew mostly animals and children at play but it is for his charming drawings of cats that he is primarily known. The French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun called him "the Raphael of Cats". Other plates in this series depict Bernese children playing, some with animals, but the number varies from copy to copy.

Lot 16

Mind (Gottfried) - X Blätter Katzengruppen... nebst kurzer Nachricht von dessen Leben, first edition , 10 superb lithographed plates after Mind, mounted on stubs, some light foxing, modern roan-backed marbled boards with gilt-stamped red roan label on upper cover, spine a little rubbed and faded, oblong folio, Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1827].

Lot 17

Maÿer (Moritz Maximilian) - Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid, Part I Division I only (of 3): Das Schembartbuch, lacking first leaf (?half-title), title mounted on stub, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, one folding, slight browning to text and one or two plates but plates generally clean, contemporary half cloth, rubbed, Nuremberg, Johann Jakob Lechner, 1831 § Drescher (Karl, editor) Das Nürnbergische Schönbartbuch nach der Hamburger Handschrift, number 408 of 500 copies, engraved portrait frontispiece, 97 fine hand-coloured full-page illustrations on 78 plates, 6 double-page, some printed on both sides, original wrappers with vellum thongs, printed label on upper cover, uncut, rubbed, spine and edges worn and chipped, crudely reinforced, Weimar, 1908, 4to & small folio (2) Only 3 parts of the first were issued. This part describes the Schembart Lauf, the famous Renaissance carnival parade which took place in Nuremberg on Shrove Tuesday. The plates show some of the extravagant costumes of the participants, many holding lances and bunches of leaves or "Lebensrute" which concealed fireworks.

Lot 190

Fini (Leonor) - Histoire de Vibrissa, number 77 of 250 copies signed by the author/artist, illustrations of cats throughout by Fini, original burgundy calf, upper cover titled in gilt and with mounted illustration inset in oval panel, spine gilt, g.e., spine a little rubbed and faded, narrow folio, board slip-case, Paris, Tchou, 1973; Miroir des Chats: Photographies de Richard Overstreet, original cloth-backed boards, Lausanne, 1977; Chats d'Atelier: Photographies de Tana Kaleya, original cloth, dust-jacket, Deinze, 1988, colour illustrations ; and 4 others by or about Fini including a 10pp. A.L.s. from her to "Lise" with a sketch of a reading, weeping cat at end , preserved in cloth portofolio, v.s. (7)

Lot 193

Kafka (Franz) - Conversation with the Supplicant, translated by Willa & Edwin Muir, number 92 of 100 copies signed by the artist , 8 lithographs by Claire van Vliet, uncut, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box, West Burke, Vt., Janus Press, 1971 § Flaubert (Gustave) The Temptation of Saint Anthony, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, one of 140 copies, printed in orange and black, loose disbound sheets, uncut, Kentfield, Ca., Allen Press, 1974 § Virgil. The Georgics, translated by Dryden, limited edition signed by the artist and printer, with embossed presentation stamp, wood-engravings plates by Bruno Bramanti, original cloth-backed boards, spine faded, slip-case (rubbed), 1952 § Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi (The), limited edition signed by the artist, wood-engravings by Paolo Molnar, original patterned cloth, uncut, spine slightly faded, slip-case (rubbed), New York, 1930, plates and illustrations, the last two printed by the Officina Bodoni of Verona for the Limited Editions Club ; and 2 others, limited, folio & 4to (6)

Lot 196

Milton (John) - Areopagitica, number 187 of 500 copies , original cloth, leather lettering label, t.e.g., Rampants Lions Press, 1973 § Eliot (T.S.) Four Quartets, number 196 of 226 copies , original cloth backed boards, leather lettering label, original slipcase, prospectus, Rampants Lions Press, 1996 § Shakespeare (William ) Shakespeare's Songs, number 376 of 400 copies , full red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., The Shakespeare Head Press , 1920 § Dickens (Charles) Collection of Works, original cloth backed boards, slipcases, Folio Society , various dates, and 30 others various, v.s.

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