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Click here to subscribeA NEWCRAFT 'HOME OFFICE' TEAK FOLDING COMPACTUM DESK the front opening to an array of shelves, filing compartment, sliding gilt tooled leather writing surface, Mac lamp style reading light, makers plaque, 84cm wide (closed) 53cm deep 113cm high Condition Report : generally OK, some damage to back to the top surface Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A LIGHT ERCOL BEECH FRAMED SOFA, matching pair of chairs and stool Condition Report : very good condition - complete with brochures, spare covers, buttons etc. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A COLLECTION OF STAPLES LADDERAX WALL FURNITURE comprising: ten one-legged uprights (2 x 200cm high 36cm deep, 5 x 163cm high 36cm deep, 3 x 132cm high 20cm deep); drop-down cupboard, single drawer unit, unit with sliding glass doors, three drawer chest, sloping display shelf, nine shelves 89cm wide 20cm deep, five shelves 58cm wide 20cm deep, two shelves 89cm wide 36cm deep. Currently built as five bays with two 'spare' uprights and rods Condition Report : generally very good, with two keys, associated fasteners. no major damage, some light fading, but overall good Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A LIGHT OAK SIDEBOARD fitted with three drawers flanked by cupboards, 152cm wide 45cm deep 78cm high Condition Report : good condition, solid oak Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A CLARICE CLIFF 'BLUE AUTUMN' (BALLOON TREES) JARDINIERE printed 'Fantasque Bizarre' marks, 24cm diameter at rim, 20cm high Condition Report : no major damage, very light crazing Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A CLARICE CLIFF BIZARRE WARE TRIO in 'Crocus' pattern, and another cup and saucer Condition Report : generally good, some light rubbing to brown painted areas on plate/saucers Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A ZIRCON FOUR STONE 9CT GOLD BAR BROOCH white and light brown round mixed cut zircon approx. 7mm diameter average each, stamped 9ct, 6cm long, gross weight approx. 4.7 grams Condition Report : good, minor wear and tear only Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A FROSTED GLASS PLAFONNIER LIGHT SHADE in the manner of Sabino/Lalique/Etling, with moulded floral decoration, 35cm diameter Condition Report : good condition Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A MID CENTURY FIVE LIGHT CEILING LIGHT FITTING with pink glass shades, approx 49cm high 65cm diameter Condition Report : glass all intact, oxidisation to metalwork Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A late 19th century Neoclassical Revival gilt bronze candlestick, converted to a table lamp, the stem formed as three figural herms on an acanthus cast base, height 32cm (drilled hole to base and light fitting attached).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
After John Skeaping - a modern brown patinated cast bronze equestrian figure of a French light cavalry Hussar on horseback, bearing facsimile signature and mounted on a black marble base, height 55cm, length 43cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Dedekind, Friedrich. Grobianus et Grobiana, Hardervici: Nicolaum a Wieringen, 1650. Duodecimo, full polished calf with raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, silk page marker, central woodcut device on title. A satirical poem in which the fictional Saint Grobian - patron saint of vulgar people - teaches people to avoid bad banners, gluttony and drunkenness. Contents very good, clean, bright, some very pale staining to a few pages, a few tiny marks; owner inscription dated 16 February 1869 on verso of ffep; neat date of publication recorded on opening blank; binding good, tight, square, a few light marks, slight bumping to corners, slight wear to joints, some loss at extremities/headcaps
The Naturalist's Library. Jardine (Sir W.) Ichthyology/Fishes. Volume 2 of the series on fish. 31 of 33 hand coloured plates but with a duplicate of plate 13 “Mailed Peristedion” vignette half-title and portrait frontis. Rebound in quarter calf, some light offsetting on tissue guards with one plate foxed, small octavo. 1840
The History of Jack the Giant Killer, to which is added, Riquet with the Tuft, London: J. Fairburn, n.d., gift inscription dated 4 July 1832, frontispiece bearing manufacturer's watermark of 1827. Chapbook, stitched, folding hand-coloured frontispiece, 35pp., 1pp. publisher's advertisements, yellow printed paper covers with publisher's advertisements at rear. Very well-preserved and bright, the frontispiece with vibrant colours; a few incredibly pale spots & marks; very light wear to extreme edges/corners; light rubbing to covers, a few tiny ink spots, short tear at base of spine, which could be closed/secured. Juvenalia & Fairy Tales. Scarce
'B.B.' Bill Badger and the Pirates, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. Octavo, publisher's bright yellow cloth, unclipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright; lacking blank ffep with surface loss to pastedown; binding tight & square, cloth well-preserved; dust-jacket with slight toning and a few light crayon marks, owner initials and light chipping to extremities, very slight fading to spine, housed in protective wrappers
Lewis, Samuel. Mixed collection comprising: View of the Representative History of England, London: S. Lewis, 1840, with 116 plates showing electoral divisions & boundaries with outline colour, quarto, publisher's embossed cloth lettered in gilt, internally good with some spotting at beginning & end; Map of Scotland, being the Supplementary Volume to A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, London: S. Lewis, 1846, comprising title, contents, and engraved map with outline colour on six folding sheets, quarto, publisher's cloth, internally well-preserved & bright, very pale spots in a few places, a couple of short splits at fold-lines and one short tear, the cloth with discolouration and light wear; A Topographical Dictionary of England, Vol. I, fourth edition, London: S. Lewis, 1840, Vol.II, third edition, 1835, Vol.III, fourth edition, 1840, Vol.IV, fourth edition, 1840, in worn cloth, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (6)
Brees, S. C. Second Series of Railway Practice, London: John Williams, 1840, viii, 124pp., 61 hand-coloured plates. Quarto, half-crushed morocco lettered in gilt. Internally good, well-preserved, bright, occasional light handling marks, some pale spotting to frontis., binding with some discolouration and wear to corners/headcaps
Barrie, J. M. The Little White Bird, presentation copy signed & inscribed by the author, March 1924, London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., octavo, blue cloth with paper title labels, frontispiece map of Kensington Gardens, contents good & bright, some light spotting to half-title, spotting to fore-edge coming into margins of a few leaves, corners slightly bumped, paper labels with discolouration
[Adams, John Quincy]. An Answer to Pain's Rights of Man [Thomas Paine], London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. A scarce pamphlet, and not the reprinted version. 48pp., stitched as issued, contemporary owner inscription with inkblot at top of title. Trimmed untidily, close in places, and into words at edges of p.21/22. Generally well-preserved with some light handling marks and toning
Wilde, Oscar. Salome, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), complete with all 16 plates as called for, and 6pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Some light handling marks and pale spotting in places; binding with shelf-lean, slight wear to corners/edges, a few marks
Egan, Beresford. Collection comprising: De Sade, London: The Fortune Press, n.d.; Pollen, London: Dennis Archer, 1933; Epitaph, London: The Fortune Press, n.d.; Aphrodite, limited edition numbered 560/1075, London: The Fortune Press, 1928; Beresford Egan: An Introduction to His Work, by Paul Allen, Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, 1966. Contents good, clean, bright; bindings generally well-preserved but varied, some bumped corners, light marks, shelf-lean (5)
Erotica. Bayros, Franz von. Gotterliebschaften, Vienna: Artur Wolf, 1914, limited edition numbered 105/550. Quarto, quarter-vellum portfolio with pictorial paper boards and patterned endpapers. Complete with all ten plates as called for, plus pictorial title plate. The plates are well-preserved and bright, some light handling marks in places, some very faint spotting to the captioned tissue-guards; portfolio with some general discolouration/marks, slight wear to corners/edges
[Dickens, Charles]. Bentley's Miscellany, contributions by "Boz", [1837]. Zaehnsdorf binding in full crushed morocco with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, the spine lettered in gilt, 'The Dickens Contributions to Bentley's Miscellany'. Comprising: Extraordinary Gazette (4pp. with illustration by Phiz); Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble (15pp., plus plate by Cruikshank); Stray Chapters (11pp.); Editor's Address on the Completion of the First Volume (2pp.); Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything (17pp.); Address, 30 November 1837 (2pp.); Mr. Robert Bolton (4pp.); Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association (19pp., plus plate by Cruikshank); Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child (2pp). Any unrelated works published on the same leaves in Bentley's Miscellany have been papered over prior to binding. Contents generally good and bright with occasional pale spots; slight toning and some handling marks to first few leaves; faint fold-lines to some page corners, a couple of pages with short tears to extreme edges; a couple of page numbers blocked out with ink by original owner; early catalogue entry pasted to verso of ffep; binding attractive, a few light scuffs, slight wear to corners/edges
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1870, bound from the parts with characteristic stab-holes, frontispiece portrait by J. H. Baker, 12 plates and pictorial title by S. L. Fildes, as called for. Octavo, contemporary half-calf with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, binder's ticket on front pastedown (W. J. Scopes, Queen Street, Ipswich). Contents with pale spotting; binding with light wear
[Hamilton, Thomas]. Men and Manners in America, first edition, in two volumes, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, and T. Cadell, London, 1833. Octavo, restored half-calf with marbled boards, internally clean & bright with a couple of light marks and folds in places, slight loss to edge of dedication page. Together with The Knowledge and Practice of Christianity: An Essay, Originally Intended for the Instruction of the American Indians, by Thomas Wilson, London, 1840, internally good & bright, worn contemporary calf (3)
Gray, Hugh. Letters from Canada, Written During a Residence There in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808, first edition, London: Longman, 1809, complete with folding map and three tables. Octavo, restored half-calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate for George Crompton. Contents good & bright, the map with some offsetting and a reinforced tear at edge, binding tight & square with light surface wear
Domenech, Abbé Emmanuel. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America, first edition, in two volumes, London: Longman, 1860. Complete with 58 plates and a folding map, as called for. Octavo, full polished calf with raised bands and morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers & page edges, contemporary gift inscription relating to Eton. Contents good & bright; well-preserved & vibrant plates; spotting to endleaves; occasional pale spots and folded corners; bindings tight & square with some discolouration and light surface wear (2)
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1857. Complete with all plates & maps as called for [not tinted]. Octavo, embossed cloth. Contents very good, clean, bright; very light spotting & folded corners in a few places; pale spotting to the folded map in rear wallet; cloth expertly restored with recent endpapers
Harris, Captain William Cornwallis. The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1839. Complete with all plates & folding map as called for (Hunting at Meritsane is positioned as a frontispiece). Contents good, clean, bright; a few pale spots & light creasing in places; a few pages loose but present & complete; cloth good with slight wear to extremities, slight shelf-lean; bookseller's ticket on pastedown (J. Bain, 1, Haymarket)
Durrell, Gerald. Collection of three books comprising: Birds, Beasts & Relatives, first edition, London: Collins, 1969, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Eileen Walton, contents very good, clean, bright, binding & jacket well-preserved; Rosy is My Relative, first edition, London: Collins, 1968, publisher's cloth with neatly price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Jack Larkin, contents very good and bright, a few pale marks to endpapers, light bumping to upper corner, jacket vibrant with a very short tear and slight wear at lower corner; The Overloaded Ark, second impression, London: Faber & Faber, 1953, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Ley Kenyon, contents good & bright with spotting to edges of text-block & prelims, dust-jacket good with some discolouration and a few marks to rear, a few nicks at top & bottom of spine (3)
[Hall, Joseph]. The Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament, the Second Tome, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1634. Comprising woodcut pictorial title, 2pp. dedication to King Charles I, 4pp. contents, Contemplations title, 2pp. dedication to Henrie Yelverton, blank leaf, 452pp (title pages for each section where required), title for The Olde Religion, 1633, 5pp. introduction, contents page, 214pp (title pages for each section where required), several pages mis-numbered but correct and following signatures. Contents good & bright, occasional contemporary/early marginalia, a few leaves with wear & loss to corners/edges (not affecting text), some light staining running through p.31-206, slight worm to gutter of second work, later endpapers binding worn. Folio bound in sixes, full worn calf
Johnston, Alexander Keith. The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, Edinburgh & London: W. & A. K. Johnston Limited, 1903. Folio, half-crushed morocco lettered in gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bearing gilt morocco presentation label on front pastedown, 'Presented to W. Wormell by the President and Council of the Royal Geographical Society for Proficiency in Geography on board the "Worcester", July 1903'. Illustrated with 56 folding colour lithographic maps, as well as a folding frontispiece of the North Polar Chart. Contents generally good, clean, bright, occasional light handling marks in places, sheet of pressed flowers loosely inserted with offsetting, a short ink line on verso of half-title; binding solid with some scuffs and wear, especially to headcaps
Rockwell, Norman (Illus.); Molly Rockwell. Willie Was Different: The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling, signed first edition, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. Signed & inscribed on half-title. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, complete with dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding well-preserved with bump to corner; dust-jacket bright with two tears and light wear to extremities
Wesley, John. New Testament, in Welsh, Gomer-Wasg: Richard Jones, 1825. Quarto, full contemporary calf with brass studs and oxblood morocco title label lettered in gilt. Contents with toning and light creasing, some pale spotting and slight worm, 19th-century owner inscriptions to endpapers with pale staining, binding solid with general marks and light wear, corners bumped
Tregarthen, Enys. Legends and Tales of North Cornwall, London: Wells Gardner, 1906. Octavo, publisher's gilt illustrated red cloth, top edge gilt, 191pp., frontispiece and illustrations within the text as called for (with the exception of an illustration for p.101, though nothing appears to have been removed). Contents good and bright, very pale spotting in places (including title), some toning & offsetting to endpapers, contemporary owner inscription to half-title and a couple of light pencil inscriptions, binding good and solid with some discolouration and a few small marks. Scarce
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual light toning to page edges, a couple of very pale spots on opening leaves; tight and square; covers very well-preserved and vibrant; faint creasing at corners, light wear at extreme corners; light creasing at spine; a couple of very faint scuffs. An excellent example
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter. Collection of four first edition, first issue paperbacks, all bearing the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1': Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, London: Bloomsbury, 1998; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London: Bloomsbury, 1999 (x 2); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, adult edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Condition generally very good, clean, bright, with some light creasing and pale spots/marks in places (4)
Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1915], quarto, publisher's cloth, complete with all plates as called for, plus several loosely-inserted Dulac prints from other works, contents with very pale spotting/staining in places, binding worn and feeling a little loose; Stories from Hans Andersen, London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots, n.d., large octavo, complete with 12 colour plates, contents generally good and bright with some very pale spotting in places, cloth with some light discolouration and wear to extremities (2)
Ball, John (Ed.). Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, first edition, London: Longmans, 1859. Complete with all chromolithographic plates, maps and woodcuts, as called for. Errata slip present. 516pp. Association copy bearing signature of Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), English writer, mountaineer and father of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell, dated 1888 & pasted verso of frontis. Octavo, publisher's gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Contents good, chromo plates vibrant, maps bright, some general toning & slight wear to untrimmed edges, very pale spots in places, the larger folding map of Snowdon (which is printed on a more delicate paper) has some closed tears & light spotting, an additional C20 illustration pasted to blank section of one map, cloth worn to edges, the gilt rubbed from illustration on upper board
Whymper, Edward. A Guide to Zermatt and the Matterhorn, 12th edition, signed by the author, 'Edward Whymper, Zermatt, Sept. 8, 1908', London: John Murray, 1908. Octavo, publisher's printed paper covers, 224pp., plus 44pp. advertisements, introduction and contents, and three folding maps at rear. Contents good & bright, a few light spots in places, one tear to largest folding map at rear, paper covers worn with loss to spine, binding intact but shaken
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