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Lot 658
Black Porsche Boxster S 'Black Edition' 3.4s, two-door, Reg RV11GCY, 2011, petrol automatic, mileage approximately 23,000, MOT expires 23rd February, 2023, untaxed.We ask that all potential new bidders wishing to bid on a vehicle, please be aware that prior to the sale they will need to provide full ID in the form of a driving licence/passport and a copy of a utility bill.Buyer's premium is 10% (12 % incl VAT) on the hammer price.Agents buying on behalf of a third party must have written authority from their principal clearly stating their authorisation to bid.We will also require a 10% deposit of the lower estimate at the time of registering, which can be made during the viewing period. If unsuccessful, then we will issue a refund immediately.There will be no internet bidding on vehicles.
Lot 3158
HOWELL, William. The Elements of History, from the Creation of the World to the Reign of Constantin the Great… translated from the Latin. London: R. Wellington, 1700. 8vo (172 x 102mm.) 2pp. advertisement leaf. (Creasing and marginal loss to front blanks.) Near contemporary panelled calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some surface loss to upper cover). Provenance: Richard Byldens (name inscribed on initial blank). - And a further nine miscellaneous volumes (including Howard Staunton's edition of 'The Plays of Shakespeare', 3 vols., 1858, 4to) (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.
Lot 3076
CONJURING. - Robert HARBIN. Harbincadabra. Birmingham: Goodliffe, 1979. Limited edition, this being number 20 of 100 copies signed by the publisher, 8vo (218 x 147mm.) Numerous illustrations, including photographic. (Mild toning.) Original brown crushed morocco, g.e., original box. 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.
Lot 3095
BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The Novels of the Bronte Sisters…edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. 12 vols., the 'Thornton' edition, 8vo (211 x 135mm.) Titles in red and black, numerous illustrations with tissue-guards. (Toning, browning and spotting to preliminaries and pastedowns.) Original green cloth (three volumes with marks to upper and lower covers). Provenance: A.H. Paine (prize bookplate to the front pastedowns) (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.
Lot 3074
CONJURING. - Robert HARBIN and Peter WARLOCK (editor). Magic of Robert Harbin. London: C.W. Mole, 1970. Limited edition, this being number 496 of 500 copies signed by Robert Harbin, 4to (298 x 205mm.) Numerous illustrations, including photographic. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, dust-jacket, original box. Note: includes the signed purchase order from Robert Harbin. 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.
Lot 3115
MOTOR-RACING. - Gerald ROSE. A Record of Motor-Racing. London: under the authority of The Royal Automobile Club by Reveirs Bros., 1909. First edition, 4to (284 x 220mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations. (Minor spotting verso frontispiece, toning.) Original two-tone cloth, gilt insignia of the RAC to upper cover, t.e.g. (finger-mark soiling to covers). - And a further ten volumes related to motor-racing (including 'The Bentleys at Le Mans' by J. Dudley Benjafield, 1948, spiral-bound) (11).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.
![TROUBRIDGE, Laura. The Book of Etiquette. [London:] Associated Book-Buyers' Company, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo (187 x 118mm.) (Tonin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/06f469d4-9a6e-498f-8ffe-ae5c00cbf97f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3195
TROUBRIDGE, Laura. The Book of Etiquette. [London:] Associated Book-Buyers' Company, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo (187 x 118mm.) (Toning, mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped), dustjacket to volume 2 (extremities chipped, tear to top of spine). - And a further sixteen volumes, mostly cookery related (including Mrs Beeton's 'All About Cookery', 1907, 8vo, and Gertrude Jekyll's 'Old English Household Life', 1925, small 4to) (18).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.
Lot 3197
MARTIAL ARTS. - Kazuzo KUDO. Dynamic Judo, throwing techniques. Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1972. Fourth printing, 4to (294 x 203mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). - And a quantity of further volumes related to martial arts (including Donn F. Draeger's 'Weapons and Fighting Arts of the Indonesian Archipelago', 1972, 8vo) (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.
Lot 3119
CONJURING. - Max ABRAMS (compiler). Annemann, the Life and Times of a Legend. Tahoma: L. & L. Publishing, 1992. First edition, 4to (278 x 214mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (slight fading), dust-jacket. - And a further nine volumes related to conjuring (including a signed copy of Patrick Page's 'Magic Page by Page', 2011, 4to, and Juan Tamariz's 'Bewitched Music Volume 1: Sonata', 1988, 8vo) (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.
Lot 3049
BINDING. - G.F. MACMUNN. The Armies of India. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. Limited edition, this being number 84 of 500 copies signed by the publisher, 4to (262 x 195mm.) 72 tipped-in plates mounted on card after A.C. Lovett with captioned tissue-guards. (Minor spotting to preliminaries, toning to margins.) Late 20th century red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g.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.
Lot 3169
FACCIOLATI, Jacapo. Totius Latinitatis Lexicon Consilio et Cura. Padua: John Manfré, 1771. 4 vols., folio (373 x 250mm.) Title in red and black, engraved initials and headpieces. (Toning, occasional wave and creasing to the text-block, browning.) Mid-19th century green half morocco over green buckram-covered boards, gilt lettering to spines (rubbing to all extremities, tear to cloth of lower cover of volume 4, some fading). Note: a significant work of scholarship in which Facciolati's pupil, Egido Forcellini, played a significant part. It was said that if Latin were to die as a language then it could be reconstituted from these four volumes (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.
![MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written treatise on bastion fortifications. N.p.: circa mid-18th century.] Approximately 52pp., manuscrip](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/9be1f9a1-71f9-4024-b760-ae5c00cbc230/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3166
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written treatise on bastion fortifications. N.p.: circa mid-18th century.] Approximately 52pp., manuscript, 4to (314 x 190mm.) Hand-drawn diagrams and calculation of angles for military fortification in a single, legible hand with numbered leaves, some of the text taken from 'Emerson', 31pp. to the rear on nautical science with sections on parallel and mercator sailing. (Lacking three leaves, occasional soiling, corner creasing, 1 loose leaf.) String-bound (lacking covers).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.
Lot 3149
MILITARY. - H.W. GRAHAM. The Life of a Tunnelling Company, being an Intimate Story of the Life of the 185th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, in France, during the Great War, 1914-1918. Hexham: J. Catherall & Co., 1927. 8vo (207 x 134mm.) Numerous portrait illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, Royal Engineers insignia in gilt to upper cover (light rubbing to extremities). Note: scarce. - And a further three volumes relating to the Royal Engineers (including W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman's 'Tunnellers', 1936, 8vo and volume 5 of 'The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers', 1952, 8vo) (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.
Lot 3150
[PICKETT, William. Twenty-Four Plates divided into ninety-six specimens of cottages, wind-mills, turnpikes… intended to facilitate the improvement of the student, and to aid the practitioner, in landscape composition. London: T. Clay, 1812.] Oblong folio (293 x 465mm.) 24 plates with tissue-guards. (Some browning and light marginal spotting to all plates, browning to tissue-guards, lacking title and dedication leaf.) Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later red morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to 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.
Lot 3148
SUSSEX. - M.A. TIERNEY. The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel; including the Biography of its Earls. London: G. and W. Nicol, 1834. 2 vol., tall 8vo (239 x 146mm.) 8 engraved plates, 2 folding pedigrees. (Frontispieces laid-down, endpapers and blanks replaced.) Late 20th century black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines. - And a further fifteen miscellaneous volumes (including 'Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits; the People In Them and The Scenes Around Them' by 'A Traveller Underground',1854, 8vo, and the collected edition of 'The Writings of Douglas Jerrold', 8 vols.,1851) (17).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.
Lot 3178
ASIAN ART. - Ulrich von SCHROEDER. Buddhist Sculptures of Sri Lanka. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Productions Ltd., 1990. Limited edition, being number 101 of 999 copies, 4to (345 x 235mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, slipcase (slight rubbing to corners).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.
Lot 3132
ENGRAVINGS. The Cabinet of the Arts. A Series of Engravings, by English Artists, from Original Designs by Sothard, Burney, Harding, Corbould, Van Assen, Potter, Cosway, Paul Sandby, Mather Brown, Catton &c. London: [N.p.:] 1799, 8vo (228 x 153mm.) Title with engraved vignette, 92 engraved plates, 1 folding. (Folding plate torn with loss, toning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to all extremities). Note: contains literary and topographical scenes and portraits, including that of Socrates and Isaac Newton.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.
![[BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.] The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston: Elkin Mathews and John Lane and Copeland &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/99301e43-f856-49ef-9ff8-ae5c00cbbb10/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3162
[BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.] The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston: Elkin Mathews and John Lane and Copeland & Day, April 1894-April 1897. 13 vols., small 4to (203 x 156mm.) Numerous monochrome illustrations by Beardsley, Sickert, Rothenstein and many others. (Spotting to endpapers and front-free endpapers, toning, marginal loss to pp.53-55 of vol. 12.) Original yellow cloth with designs by Beardsley blocked in black (spines browned, some wear to spine ends, minor soiling to covers). Note: vol. 1 is the third edition. Provenance: Kenneth Rae (Rex Whistler designed bookplate to the front pastedowns); A.J. Combridge & Co. (small stamp to front pastedowns) (13).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.
Lot 3113
BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Dena ATTAR. A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800-1914. London: Prospect Books, 1987. 8vo (253 x 171mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (sunning to spine). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to cookery books and bibliography (including Elizabeth Driver's 'A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914) (16).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.
Lot 3185
GRUEBER, Herbert. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. London: British Museum, 1911. 4 vols. [of 6, plate vols. only], folio (403 x 279mm.) 183 plates. (Toning, first 10 plates reproduced in facsimile.) Original blue cloth (unevenly browned, light rubbing) (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.
Lot 3058
TRAVEL. - Charles Nicholas Sigisbert SONNINI. Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte, fait par Ordre de Louis XVI. Basle: chez Henricy, 1799. 'Atlas' volume only, 4to (268 x 199mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 2pp. 'Table', 38 engraved plates, 2 folding. (Lacking the map, 30 of the plates with damp-staining, mostly marginal, stamp to title-page.) Contemporary blind-stamped calf (some surface loss, minor rubbing). - And a further nine travel-related volumes (including, in its original boards, Austen Henry Layard's 'Nineveh and Its Remains', 2 vols., 1849, 8vo) (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.
Lot 3165
GERMAN ALMANACKS. Europaischer Geschichts, Haus und Staats Kalender auf das jahr…1782. Frankfurt, 1782. 4to (203 x 167mm.) Title in red and black, woodcut illustrations, 1 folding woodcut. (Damp-stain throughout, corner creasing, chipping, minor soiling, lacking leaves to rear?) Original wrapper (lacking lower wrapper, damp-stained). - And a further four German almanacks (for the years 1792, 1799, 1802 and 1811) (5).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.
Lot 3006
JACOMB, C.E. Torment (A study in Patriotism). London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd., 1920. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author, 8vo (186 x 121mm.) Title, 6pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear, biographical clipping mounted to front pastedown, review tipped-in verso the front-free endpaper. (Browning to margins, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (creasing to spine ends, small tear to base of spine panel). Note: scarce. A critique of the military and British society written after the author's experiences during the First World War. Provenance: the author's parents (gift inscribed to in ink on 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.
Lot 3092
HUMPHREYS, H.N. and J.O. WESTWOOD. British Butterflies and their Transformations. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1856. 4to (286 x 214mm.) Additional hand-coloured title, 42 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Moderate to heavy marginal soiling throughout, plate 29 creased and torn, pencil marks to margin of plate 15, minor spotting.) Original red cloth (rubbing to all extremities, fading). Provenance: Joshua Parsons (name inscribed front-free endpaper). - And a further five 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.
![GODWIN, Francis. [Annales of England: London: A. Islip & W. Stansby, 1630.] First edition, 4to (269 x 175mm.) Title in 19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/18366a9f-5ba1-42a7-875c-ae5c00cb99e7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3145
GODWIN, Francis. [Annales of England: London: A. Islip & W. Stansby, 1630.] First edition, 4to (269 x 175mm.) Title in 19th century manuscript hand, in 3 parts. (Lacking title-page, lacking separate titles to each part, marginal insect-damage from X3-Ee2, browning, some marginal creasing). Near contemporary calf (wear to spine ends, loss to top of spine). Provenance: S. Bowler (ink inscribed to initial blank). [ESTC 11947.] - And a further two volumes (including a typescript of 'Memoranda of a Tour Through Part of France and Flanders in August 1815', 117pp., [circa mid-20th century]) (3).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.
Lot 3088
BELL, Charles. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst et al., 1806. First edition, 4to (284 x 227mm.) Half-title, 6 stipple-engraved plates, numerous engraved vignettes in the text, advertisement leaf to rear. (Spotting to plates, toning, occasional browning.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (significant loss to spine, hinges weakening).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 Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early-19th century.] 160pp., manuscr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/d2785e74-7b13-43e6-986d-ae5c00cb9d41/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3147
Bible, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early-19th century.] 160pp., manuscript, 8vo (212 x 150mm.) 10 quires of 81 vellum leaves with manuscript text in red and black, ink notes to first and last leaves. (Heavily browned, occasional soiling, marginal loss to several leaves, some pencil annotation.) Original wooden boards, string-bound (later string repair to boards), original goatskin case (browned), original goatskin pilgrim's satchel, with cord. - And a further two volumes in the Ge'ez script (another Bible, [mid-19th century], 8vo, and a prayer book [mid-19th century], 8vo) (3).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.
![[THOMAS, Maurice.] Indian Antiquities: or, Dissertations… of Hindostan, compared, throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Govern](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/c3b1ae6e-56ca-4d2b-8dff-ae5c00cabdce/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3029
[THOMAS, Maurice.] Indian Antiquities: or, Dissertations… of Hindostan, compared, throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, or Persia, Egypt, and Greece. London: for the author, 1794-1796. 6 vols. (of 7, lacking vol. 6 part 2)., 8vo (226 x 140mm.) 28 engraved plates, most folding, list of subscribers', half titles in volumes 1, 3 and 6 part 1. (Occasional marginal damp staining to plates, toning, insect damage to A-A4 of volume 1.) Near contemporary boards, manuscript titling to spines (worn) (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.
Lot 3155
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written manuscript by the Earl of Panmoure relating to his estate, lineage and the early medieval history of the area. N.p: circa 1780's]. 108pp., manuscript, 4to (291 x 220mm.) Vellum leaves, red-ruled, titled 'The House of Panmoure', written in a neat hand without paragraphs or sectional titles. (Browning, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary calf, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: an account of the history and lineage of the House of Panmoure and the Moule family.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.
![MANUSCRIPT. - H.G. DOLBEN. [A hand-written book of recipes from Horley Rectory. N.p.: circa 1850.] 116pp., manuscript, 8vo (1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/11f3cb06-8a25-4c95-983c-ae5c00cad4a0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3043
MANUSCRIPT. - H.G. DOLBEN. [A hand-written book of recipes from Horley Rectory. N.p.: circa 1850.] 116pp., manuscript, 8vo (197 x 158mm.) Numerous recipes, often attributed to individuals, in a single legible hand on numbered leaves. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary black morocco-backed paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities, surface wear). Note: includes recipes for mashed calf's head, calf's feet jelly and sheep head soup, plus many puddings.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.
Lot 3094
TRAVEL. - A. Henry Savage LANDOR. In the Forbidden Land, an Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release. London: William Heinemann, 1898. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (224 x 138mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 8 colour plates, numerous black and white plates, folding map. (Toning, lacking initial blanks.) Original pictorial cloth (some spine lean to volume 1, minor rubbing, marginal spotting to covers). - And a further seventeen related volumes (including Sven Hedin's 'Trans-Himalaya', 2 vols., 1910, 8vo) (19).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.
Lot 3096
COOKERY. - Mrs. Isabella BEETON. The Book of Household Management. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. New edition, 8vo (196 x 124mm.) 12 chromolithographic plates, advertisements to rear. (Lacking frontispiece and half of folding plate missing, browning, blanks replaced.) Modern brown cloth. - And a further fourteen volumes by and about the Beetons (including the 'Book of Household Management', 4 vols., 1907, 8vo, and 'Mrs Beeton's Every-day Cookery', 1912, 8vo) (15).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.
Lot 3062
SMITH, John Thomas. Antiquities of London and it's Environs… Containing views of Houses, Monuments, Statues, and other curious remains of Antiquity. London: J. Sewell, 1791. 4to (297 x 230mm.) Engraved title, 96 engraved plates. (Light browning and marginal spotting, library ink stamps to all plate margins.) 19th century calf, spine with foliate gilt repeating, lettered in the second compartment, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities rubbed with loss to lower cover, joints splitting). Provenance: Henry H. Gibbs (ink inscribed to initial blank); Worthing Public Library (ink stamp to title-page, bookplate and labels to front pastedown).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.
Lot 3104
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., 1950. 97th edition, 4to (232 x 144mm.) 12 colour plates by Rackham. Late 20th century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). - And a further nine illustrated volumes of children's literature (including Lewis Carroll's [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1882, 8vo, and Margaret Sackville's 'Fairy Tales for Old and Young', 1909, 4to) (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.
![GAMBADO, Geoffrey. [Henry William BUNBURY.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/808f7bd6-fdcb-44d9-bbae-ae5c00cb26f3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3086
GAMBADO, Geoffrey. [Henry William BUNBURY.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. London: W. Baynes, 1808. Third edition, 4to (309 x 245mm.) In 2 parts, with separate title for 'Annals of Horsemanship', 29 hand-coloured plates. (Toning, stamps to all plate margins, blanks replaced.) Early 20th century red straight-grain morocco, raised bands to spine with elaborate foliate gilt to five compartments, covers with gilt borders of trailing foliate, g.e. (marks to covers, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown, stamps to plate margins). - And a further two volumes related to early 19th century art (Edward Edwards' 'Anecdotes of Painters', 1808, 4to, and six leaves from George Cruikshank's 'Scraps and Sketches' [of 24], 1828, oblong folio) (3).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.
Lot 3137
BINDING. - Samuel W. BAKER. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo (213 x 130mm.) 2 maps, 1 folding, 24 plates, index to rear. (Browning and minor spotting to preliminaries.) 20th century red morocco over grey cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. - And a related volume (Amelia B. Edwards' 'A Thousand Miles up the Nile', 1899, 8vo) (2).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.
Lot 3003
BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Newly Translated out of the original Greek: and with former translations diligently compared and revised. London: Roger Norton, 1651. 12mo (140 x 79mm.) NT only, title with decorative woodcut border, red-lined, double column. (Browning, occasional minor soiling, trimming, marginal loss to first text leaf, Gg9.) Near contemporary calf (rubbing to all extremities). Note: scarce, not in Herbert.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.
Lot 3007
MILITARY. - Dorothy LAWRENCE. Sapper Dorothy Lawrence. London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1919. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) 5 photographic plates. (Lacking front-free endpaper, ink mark on p.65, ink note verso frontispiece.) Original green cloth (small marks to upper cover). Note: an account of the author's experiences on the front line near Loos where, having elaborately dressed up as a male soldier, she undertook mining work with the Royal Engineers. Fearful of the consequences she soon gave herself up and, arrested and interrogated as a spy, she was eventually deported back to England.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.
![ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Liber Amoris. [n.d. circa 1900.] 13pp., manuscript, small folio (209 x 138mm.) Vellum paper, title in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/6676973e-cbc1-4ab7-a3a5-ae5c00caa3b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3014
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Liber Amoris. [n.d. circa 1900.] 13pp., manuscript, small folio (209 x 138mm.) Vellum paper, title in red with a vignette of red and gold, decorative initial with gold lettering, elaborate varicoloured depiction of Jesus with decorative and landscape background and gold lettering, calligraphic manuscript in blue of religious excerpts with gold initials. (Leaves loose, toning.) Contemporary decorative cloth-covered boards (unstitched, slight fading).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.
Lot 3186
ASIAN ART REFERENCE. - Jan CHAPMAN. The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China. London: Christie's Books, 1999. 4to (297 x 213mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Toning to margins.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of Asian art reference (including Charles Genoud and Takao Inoue's 'Buddhist Wall-Painting of Ladakh', 1982, 4to) (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.
Lot 3081
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Oliver GOLDSMITH. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: George G. Harrap, 1929. Limited edition, this being number 328 of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, 4to (262 x 195mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates. (Spotting to title, several plates with marginal spotting, some leaves with marginal damp and erasure marks, toning.) Original vellum, original endpapers, t.e.g. (rebacked with raised bands).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.
Lot 3046
SMITH, Charlotte. Elegiac Sonnets. London: for J. Dodsley, et al., 1786. Third edition, signed by Charlotte Smith, 4to (265 x 205mm.) Newspaper article mounted under the second preface, signed by author verso the last leaf. (Occasional minor soiling and spotting, blanks replaced, lacking errata leaf.) Early 20th century blue cloth (damp-spotting to covers). Note: Smith had to battle hard with publishers and printers to be taken seriously, so it is possible that she herself mounted the favourable newspaper review that is under the second preface. With increasing awareness of her importance in influencing the romantic sensibility, Smith has become better known. In the 1830s Wordsworth wrote that Smith was 'a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered'.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.
Lot 3090
THORNTON, Thomas. A Sporting Tour Through France &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. 2 vols., 4to (290 x 218mm.) 43 aquatint plates, including 10 folding, 10 engraved plates, 2 engraved sheets of music. (1 folding plate 'Entrance of the Convent of Trois Fontaine' is duplicated in volume 2, browning, areas of spotting, occasional marginal loss to leaves.) 20th century brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor marks). Provenance: Augustus Lee (bookplates to the front pastedowns); F.C. Bewsey (name-plate to the front pastedowns). - And a further related volume (John Carr's 'The Stranger in France: or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris', 1803, 4to) (3).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.
![[HILL, John.] 'Juliana-Susannah SEYMOUR'. The Conduct of a Married Life: Laid down in a Series of Letters. London: R. Baldwin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/27ec53c1-2b56-43aa-a617-ae5c00cacd65/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3039
[HILL, John.] 'Juliana-Susannah SEYMOUR'. The Conduct of a Married Life: Laid down in a Series of Letters. London: R. Baldwin, 1754. Vol. 2 (only). 12mo (170 x 95mm.) Title, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional corner creases.) Near contemporary boards, later green morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced).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.
![CHARLES I. - [John GAUDEN.] Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings. [London](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/a40de664-4841-4926-8b31-ae5c00caea61/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3054
CHARLES I. - [John GAUDEN.] Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings. [London: by Henry Hills], 1649. 12mo (138 x 78mm.) Double-paged engraved frontispiece of Charles I, folding plate 'The Explanation of the Emblem', with separate title for 'A Perfect Copy of the Prayers Used by His Majestie', near contemporary manuscript notes on rear blank. (Lacking portrait plate, browning, minor soiling, hinges reinforced.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). Note: the manuscript notes at rear concern authorship: ' [sic] affirmed in print that that this book was wholly compiled by Dr [?] Gauden'. Provenance: Edward Baddeley (stamp to front pastedown). [ESTC R221636.] - And a further seven volumes, six of which relate to Charles II (including Thomas Blount's 'Boscobel: or the Compleat History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester' [lacking 2 folding maps], 1662, 8vo) (8).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.
Lot 3129
COOKERY. - Ambrose HEATH. Good Sweets. London: Faber and Faber, 1937. First edition, 8vo (189 x 128mm.) (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (browned to margins), dust-jacket (browned, creasing to extremities). - And a further fifteen volumes by Ambrose Heath (including 'Good Potato Dishes', 1948, 8vo) (16).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.
Lot 3089
COX, David. A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first Rudiments to the Finished Picture. London: for S. and J. Fuller, 1814. First edition, second issue, oblong folio (290 x 466mm.) Title, dedication, advertisement, 54 plates, comprising 23 soft-ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints and 15 hand-coloured aquatint. (Toning, browning to some margins, occasional minor soiling, lacking 1 soft-ground etching and 1 hand-coloured aquatint plate.) Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, brown morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (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.
![FOOD & DRINK. - Mrs. A.B. MARSHALL. Fancy Ices. London: Marshall's School of Cookery, [1894.] First edition, second state](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/607672b9-f240-435d-b5c9-ae5c00cb01da/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3067
FOOD & DRINK. - Mrs. A.B. MARSHALL. Fancy Ices. London: Marshall's School of Cookery, [1894.] First edition, second state, 8vo (203 x 141mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations to the text, 30pp. advertisements to rear. (Spotting to endpapers.) Original blue pictorial cloth (lightly rubbed). [Driver, 423]. - And a further three volumes by Mrs. A.B. Marshall (including 'The Book of Ices', 17th thousand [circa 1900], 8vo, and 'Mrs. A.B. Marshall's Cookery Book', [1888], 8vo) (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.
Lot 3171
COMBE, Taylor. A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1812-1845. 7 vols. (of 11). 4to (358 x 290mm.) Engraved vignettes to titles, 229 engraved plates of Greek sculpture, some double-paged, 1 in colour. (Occasional spotting, sometimes moderate, stamps to all title-pages and plates.) Original paper-covered boards, paper labels mounted to five spines and all upper covers (rubbing, upper cover of volume 1 detached, spine wear and loss to volumes 1 and 3). Provenance: Grimsby Public Library (bookplates to front pastedowns, stamps to all plates). - And another, smaller variant of volume 1 (8).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.
Lot 3034
ALMANACKS. The Court and City Register; or, a Gentleman's Complete Annual Calendar, for the Year 1784. London: J. Jollifee, [1783.] (Toning, light spotting to title-page.) [Bound with:] Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of Our Lord God 1784. London: the Company of Stationers, 1784. (Toning.) 12mo (138 x 73mm.) Near contemporary red morocco, foliate gilt to spine, bosses, g.e. (some scuffing, minor discolouring to lower cover, lacking clasps). - And a further sixteen almanacks from 1761 to 1876 (including 'The East India Kalendar, or Asiatic Register' for 1797', 12mo, and 'The American Kalendar; or, United States Register', 1797, 12mo, and 'The Royal Kalendar; or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America', 1797, 12mo) (17).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.
Lot 3010
LONDON. A True and Faithful Account of the Several Informations Exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament, to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of London. [London:] 1667, 4to (187 x 123mm.) Title with single line border, 32pp. (Marginal damp-staining, chipped margins.) 20th century brown morocco-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (minor soiling to upper cover). Note: collates A4-D4.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.
![[NELSON, Horatio.] British Public Characters of 1798. London: R. Phillips, [1799.] 8vo (211 x 123mm.) Folding engraved fronti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/84be37f1-6652-4094-b5a2-ae5c00cac706/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3035
[NELSON, Horatio.] British Public Characters of 1798. London: R. Phillips, [1799.] 8vo (211 x 123mm.) Folding engraved frontispiece. (Browning to title, creasing to rear leaves, frontispiece repaired with large loss, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: contains the first biographical sketch of Lord Nelson. Provenance: Captain John Lumley (name inscribed to title-page). - And a further thirty-four miscellaneous volumes (including 'Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady', translated and adapted by Thomas Martyn from J.J. Rousseau, 1785, 8vo, and John Hill's 'The Family Herbal', 1812, 8vo) (35).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.
![MINIATURE BOOK. - Oliver and Boyd (publisher). The Little Warbler. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [circa 1830.] 3 vols. in 1, 18](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/782ed9f4-ea65-4d1e-ba42-ae5c00cab3ff/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3023
MINIATURE BOOK. - Oliver and Boyd (publisher). The Little Warbler. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [circa 1830.] 3 vols. in 1, 18mo (64 x 39mm.) 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 additional titles. (Browning, some spotting.) Contemporary red morocco (light rubbing). - And a further three volumes (including 'The Elegant Miniature Pocket Book', 1806,12mo) (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.
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