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Lot 300

NO RESERVE Electricity.- Nollet (Jean Antoine) Essai sur l'électricité des corps, title with woodcut ornament, 4 folding engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, little light browning, contemporary drab wrappers, spine worn, [Bakken p. 92; Mottlay pp. 181-82: Wheeler 329 (first edition)], 8vo, The Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1747.⁂ Nollet was the first Frenchman to experiment using the Leyden jar, and one of the first to associate lightning with electricity.

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Lot 213

NO RESERVE Goble (Warwick).- Basile (Giambattista) Stories from the Pentamerone, plates by Warwick Goble, original pictorial cloth, gilt, near-fine, 1911 § Gasquet (Abbey) The Greater Abbeys of England, colour plates by Warwick Goble, original pictorial cloth, gilt, near-fine, 1908 § Southwold (Stephen) Once Upon a Time Stories, signed presentation inscription from the author, colour plates by Anne Anderson, original pictorial cloth, near-fine, dust-jacket, spine browned spine ends and corners chipped, [1927] § Moore (George) Peronnik the Fool, limited edition, signed by the author and artist, illustrations by Stephen Gooden, some light foxing, original vellum, slip-case, (a little worn), 1933; and c.65 others, children's, illustrated and art books, v.s. (c.70)

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Lot 149

NO RESERVE Atwood (Margaret) The Robber Bride, limited edition, signed by the author, 1993 § Cather (Willa) Sapphira and the Slave Girl, ink inscription to endpaper, jacket price-clipped, jacket with very light browning to spine, New York, 1940 § Compton-Burnett (I.) Darkness & Day, 1951 § Lessing (Doris) In Pursuit of the English, 1960 § Colegate (Isabel) The Shooting Party, A.L.s. by the author tipped onto endpaper, jacket with light fading to spine, 1980 § Brittain (Vera) Account Bendred, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1945 § White (Antonia) Living with MInka and Curdy, signed presentation inscription from the author, light toning to jacket, 1970, all but the first first editions, original boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and c.60 others, women writers, 8vo (c.65)

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Lot 203

NO RESERVE Walpole (Hugh) Wintersmoon, 1928; John Cornelius, 1937; Harmer John, bookplates, 1926; A Prayer for My Son, 1936; Captain Nicholas, 1934; The Inquisitor, 1935, limited editions, signed by the author, original cloth, dust-jackets, price-clipped, some light browning to spine spines some chipping to head and foot, 8vo (6)

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Lot 157

NO RESERVE Capote (Truman) The Grass Harp, second state cloth, light browning to endpapers, jacket price-clipped, spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners chipped, New York, 1951 § Heyward (Du Bose) Mamba's Daughters, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few small tears and creasing to head, 1929 § Burroughs (William S.) Nova Express, jacket with light fading to spine, New York, 1964 § Algren (Nelson) Somebody in Books, second state binding, light fading to spine, 1935, first or first English editions, original cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets; and c.30 others, American literature, 8vo (c.35)

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Antiquities.- Giacomo (Lauro) Antiquae urbis splendor, 4 parts in 1, 167 engraved leaves comprising titles, dedications, folding portrait of Urban VIII, plates and index, seemingly lacking at least one plate, many with letterpress on verso, one or two slightly shaved, some light soiling or water-staining, first title frayed at edges, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, later half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, oblong 4to, Rome, 1612[-28]; sold not subject to return

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Lot 21

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Cooke (William) An Enquiry into the Patriarchal and Druidical Religion, Temples etc., second edition, 4 engraved plates, all but one folding, and illustration in text, light water-staining, short tear to outer margin of title, contemporary half calf, worn and defective, 4to, Lockyer Davis, 1755.

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Lot 211

NO RESERVE Dyer (John) Grongar Hill, number 67 of 175 copies signed by the artist, lithographs by John Piper, one double-page, light spotting, original cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, Hackney, Stourton Press, 1982 § Apollinaire (Guillaume) Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, facsimile reprint of 1911 edition, woodcut illustrations by Raoul Dufy, original cloth, slip-case, slightly soiled, New York, 1977 § Singer (Isaac Bashevis) The Gentleman from Cracow. The Mirror, limited edition signed by the author and artist, plates by Raphael Soyer, original cloth-backed boards, glacine wrappers, slip-case, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1979; and 3 others, v.s. (6)

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Lot 202

NO RESERVE Updike (John) Midpoint, limited edition signed by the author, jacket with light browning to spine, slip-case, 1969; Of the Farm, jacket spine lightly browned, minor chipping and creasing to spine ends, 1965; The Coup, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, jacket spine lightly sunned, 1978; Witches of Eastwick, jacket spine ends creased, 1984, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine overall, New York; and 15 others by the same, 8vo (19)

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Lot 207

Woolf (Virginia) The Waves, first edition, scattered foxing, original cloth, light fading to spine, dust-jacket, light browning to spine and panels, spine ends and corners chipped affecting title at head of spine, upper panel with portion of loss to head with loss to first word of title, creasing to head, [Kirkpatrick A16], 8vo, 1931.

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Lot 89

NO RESERVE Triolet (Elsa) Roses à Crédit, 1959; Luna-Park, 1959; Le Monument, 1957; L'Àme, 1963; Le Grand Jamais, 1965, first editions, all with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, original wrappers, some light creasing and browning, Paris, Gallimard § Zola (Émile) L'Assomoir, translated by Arthur Symons, limited edition, signed by Symons, bookplate to pastedown, original boards, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, 1928; and 29 others, French literature, 8vo (35)

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Lot 272

Birds.- Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., first edition, 358 hand-coloured-wood-engraved plates, tissue guards, occasional spotting, 1851-57; A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., second edition, 233 coloured plates, tissue guards, occasional light spotting, 1879, later uniform half-morocco, gilt, some very light rubbing to extremities; and another by the same, 8vo, (10)

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Lot 165

NO RESERVE Fowles (John) The Aristos, jacket with light browning to spine, 1965 § Bell (Neil) Crocus, some spotting, browning to endpapers, jacket spine a little dulled, 1936 § Aiken (Conrad) Costumes by Eros, browning to endpapers, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1929 § Strachey (Lytton) Books & Characters, some foxing, frontispiece, jacket spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1922, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and c.50 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.55)

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Lot 191

NO RESERVE Poetry broadside.- Flanagan (Barry) & Seamus Heaney. The Names of the Hare, offset lithograph on thin card, signed in pencil by artist and poet, numbered 110/250, sheet 560 x 430 mm (22 x 17 in), some light rubbing, fine scratches and scuffs to surface, unframed, [1989].

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Lot 73

Aristotle.- Aquinas (Thomas, Saint) Commentaria in octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros, ex vetustissimo ac fidelissimo manu scripto exemplari, diligentissime castigata, edited by Robert Grosseteste & others, double column, woodcut printer's device to title and foot of final verso, woodcut diagrams and decorative initials, a few instances of later ink marginalia, lower corner of title repaired, just touching 1 letter, [cross]2 short tear within text at foot, with loss of a few letters and corner repaired, [cross]3 lower corner repaired, [cross]4 small section of lower blank corner torn away, occasional mostly light foxing / staining, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, board slip-case, [EDIT 16 CNCE 27297], folio, Venice, Hiers of Lucantonio Giunta, 1566.⁂ Rare edition in commerce of these commentaries on Aristotle. Robert Grosseteste was one of the first to work extensively on Aristotle.

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Lot 292

Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 hand-coloured plates, spotting and foxing, light finger-soiling to title, contemporary half calf, rather rubbed, 4to, 1855.

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Lot 137

NO RESERVE British illustration.- Sullivan (Edmund Joseph) Original study for Friedrich de la Motte's 'Sintram and his Companions', pen and black ink over pencil on artist's board, ruled black ink border, signed and dated '1907' in the lower right corner, 270 x 190 mm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in), minor surface dirt and light browning, hinged into mount, unframed, 1907; together with an etching and drypoint by Sullivan, The Old Rock Salter, signed and inscribed in pencil, platemark 155 x 200 mm (6 x 7 7/8 in), unframed, [early 20th century] (2)

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Lot 54

NO RESERVE Modern Prints.- Cramer (Patrick) Henry Moore: Catalogue of Graphic Work , vol.1 & 2 only (of 4: 1931-1972 &1973-1975], 2 vol. (of 4), Geneva, 1973-76 § Skelton (Christopher, editor) Eric Gill: The Engravings, 1990 § Levinson (Orde) 'Quality and Experiment': the Prints of John Piper. A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-91, 1996 § Tassi (R.) Graham Sutherland: Tout l'Oeuvre Gravé, light spotting, Paris, 1980 § Bouvet (F.) Bonnard: the Complete Graphic Work, 1981, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first a little affected by damp; and c.20 others on modern prints, mostly British, some catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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Lot 9

Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, translated by John James, first edition in English, engraved pictorial frontispiece, vignette title, dedication to Earl of Pembroke, 2pp. list of subscribers, 7 plates (numbered I-VI, one unnumbered with 2 engravings) and illustrations in text, numerous charming engraved head- & tail-pieces and initials by John Sturt, 4pp. errata/advertisements at end, no pp.43/44 as correct, occasional soiling, light staining to inner margin of frontispiece and title, contemporary panelled calf, worn, rubbed, lacking most of spine, covers detached, [Fowler 248; Harris 700], folio, Benjamin Motte, sold by John Sturt, 1708.⁂ Subscribers of this important and influential work include the architects Lord Burlington, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and John Vanbrugh, as well as several bricklayers, carpenters, masons etc.

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Lot 298

NO RESERVE Anatomy.- Malpighi (Marcello) and Carlo Fracassati. Epistolae Anatomicae, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding engraved plates, title with small blind-stamp of Mark Pattison of Lincoln College recto and ink notes verso, 1 plate neatly laid down,the odd spot, occasional light browning, lower hinge split, [Heirs of Hippocrates 570],12mo, Amsterdam, Caspar Commelin, 1669.⁂ The five folding plates illustrate Malpighi's microscopic investigations of the brain and tongue. His name is celebrated in several eponymous anatomical structures in the kidney, spleen, skin, and lungs.

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Lot 192

Proust (Marcel) [In Remembrace of Things Past], 7 parts in 11 vol., first English editions, occasional scattered foxing, original cloth, some light sunning to spines, but a bright and sharp set otherwise, Time Regained with dust-jacket with chipping and creasing to extremities, 8vo, 1922-31.⁂ Proust's celebrated masterpiece, now increasingly difficult to find as a set and in good condition.

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Lot 175

NO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) The Child in Time, jacket with light fading to spine, 1987 § Chatwin (Bruce) On the Black Hill, 1982, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and 6 others, modern literature, 8vo (8)

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Lot 296

NO RESERVE Birds & Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, supplement bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, spotting to front and back covers (vol. 1), 1843-45; A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., first edition, supplement to each vol. bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, 1836-39, later uniform morocco, spine and dentelles heavily gilt, aeg, very light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (5)

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Lot 171

NO RESERVE Isherwood (Christopher) Lion and Shadows, ink gift inscription, jacket with closed tears to head of upper fore-edge and joint, creasing to head, 1938 § Spender (Stephen) Ruins and Visions, jacket spine lightly faded, light creasing to head, 1942 § MacNeice (Louis) Ten Burnt Offerings, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1952 § Day Lewis (Cecil) A Hope for Poetry, light foxing, jacket a little spotting, light creasing and fraying to head, Oxford, 1934, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 18 others by the same and similar, 8vo (22)

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Lot 199

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Before the Bombardment, first edition of the author's first novel, ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light fading to spine and covers, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example, 1926; and another by Maugham, 8vo (2)⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket, especially in such condition

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Lot 106

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works of Virgil, containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, translated by Dryden, engraved frontispiece by Vander Gucht, title in red & black, folding engraved plate of Virgil reading to Augustus and 98 engraved plates only (of 101), most by Hollar or Lombart after Cleyn, a few shaved at fore-edge, some light soiling, a few marginal tears or defects, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, a little worn, worming to foot of spine, [Wing V616], folio, Jacob Tonson, 1697.⁂ The Georgics includes plates of ploughing, spinning, gardening, vine-growing and bee-keeping.

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Lot 178

NO RESERVE Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first Israeli edition, ink inscription title and endpaper, contemporary boards, Jerusalem, 1955 § Čapek (Karel) The First Rescue Party, ink inscription and light browning to endpapers, a few short closed tears and some light creasing to head and foot, 1939 § Borch (Hermann) The Death of Virgil, jacket with light browning to spine, chip to head of upper joint, 1946 § Chestov (Leo) In Job's Balances, jacket with very light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1932, all but the first first English editions in original boards and dust-jackets, generally excellent copies; and c.50 by the same and similar, 8vo (c.55)

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Lot 163

NO RESERVE Farrell (J.G.) The Siege of Krishnapur, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tear and creasing to foot, 1973 § Sackville-West (Vita) Orchard and Vineyard, some spotting, browning to endpapers, unopened, 1921 § Burke (Thomas) The Lower of Life - a London Tragedy, signed presentation inscription from the author, bookplate, light soiling to covers, 1929 § Amis (Kingsley) That Uncertain Feeling, jacket spine browned, 1955, first editions, original boards, generally excellent; and c.55 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.60)

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Lot 279

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) ) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue guards, occasional foxing, occasional staining (vol. 3 only), original red cloth, light fading to spines and bumping to extremities, 4to, 1915-16.

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Lot 170

NO RESERVE Heinlein (Robert) Starman Jones, jacket with light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1954 § Williamson (Jack) The Cometeers, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing and fraying to head, Reading, PA, 1950 § Leiber (Fritz) The Secret Songs, 1968 § Blish (James) Welcome to Mars!, jacket with light creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 1967 § Anthony (Piers) Onivore, 1969, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and 23 others, science fiction, 8vo (28)

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Lot 176

NO RESERVE McGahern (John) Getting Through, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1978; Amongst Women, uncorrected proof copy with original title of Monaghan Day, original wrappers, sticker to upper cover altering the name, some light rubbing and creasing to extremities, 1990; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)

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Lot 142

NO RESERVE Food & mostly drink.- Ray (Cyril, editor) The Compleat Imbiber, numbers 1-12, 1951-1971; and The New Compleat Imbiber, 1986, profusely illustrated, occasional spotting or light staining, original boards, dust-jackets to all but number 3, occasional staining, a few nicks and creases, 8vo (13)⁂ Contributors include Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and Iris Murdoch.

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Lot 172

NO RESERVE Jerome (Jerome K.) The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, 1898; The Angel & the Author - and others, light foxing, 1908 § Leacock (Stephen) Over the Footlights, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, spine a little darkened, light surface soiling, chip to lower joint, 1923 § Andom (R., pseudonym) The Same Old Troddlers, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, tear to head of lower joint and fore-edge, creasing, n.d., first editions, original cloth, generally excellent or near-fine; and 12 others, humour, 8vo (16)

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Lot 228

Atlases.- Martin (Robert Montgomery, editor) The Illustrated Atlas..., and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical, engraved pictorial title, 2 engraved comparative plates of rivers and mountains in the eastern and western hemispheres and 80 engraved maps with vignette illustrations and hand-coloured in outline, some light marginal soiling, title with short tear to lower edge just extending into imprint, some maps with stab-holes to outer edge, loose in binding, contemporary half straight-grain morocco, worn, folio, J. & F.Tallis, [c.1856].⁂ Map of Mexico, California and Texas including vignette of gold-panning and with gold regions highlighted in yellow.

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Lot 68

NO RESERVE Foreign art.- Fabre (Josep Palau i) Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999 § Cork (Richard) David Bomberg, Newhaven, C.t., 1987 § Wilson-Bareau (Juliet) and Manuela B. Mena Marqués. Goya: Truth and Fantasy, The Small Paintings, Madrid, 1994 § Elsen (Albert) Seymour Lipton, colour frontispiece and some plates tipped-in, captioned or pictorial tissue-guards, some a little creased, 1970, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, some light bumping to spine ends, last a little soiled, else excellent copies; and 77 others, foreign art and artists, v.s. (81)

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Lot 187

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Duncan (Ronald) The Rape of Lucretia, Opera in Two Acts... Music by Benjamin Britten, signed presentation inscription from Britten, original wrappers, some fading, 1946 § Prince (F. T.) Collected Poems, signed presentation inscription from the author to Patrick Garland, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, some fading, Menard Press, 1979 § Todd (Ruthven) The Planet in My Hand, signed presentation inscription from the author to Stephen Spender, original cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, 1946 § Reading (Peter) Shithead, limited edition, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jackets, Squirrelprick Press, 1989; and c.75 others, poetry, generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.80)

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Lot 147

Achebe (Chinua) Arrow of God, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, but a bright and near-fine example overall, 8vo, New York, 1967.⁂ The last in Achebe's celebrated African trilogy, rare.

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Lot 34

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Jones (Barbara) Follies & Grottoes, second, enlarged, edition, 1979 § Hunt (John Dixon) & Peter Willis. The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, light spotting, ex-library copy with stamps, 1975 § Hyams (E.) Capability Brown and Humphry Repton, 1971 § Cowell (F.) Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure Garden, 2009 § Saudan (M.) & Sylvia Saudan-Skira. From Folly to Follies: Discovering the World of Gardens, Cologne, 1997, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first with nick to spine; and 9 others on gardens, v.s. (14)

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Lot 200

NO RESERVE Stapledon (Olaf) Odd John, light browning to spine, 1935 § Zelazny (Roger) Creatures of Light and Darkness, jacket a little rubbed at extremities, 1970 § Williamson (Jack) Humanoids, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, New York, 1949 § Bradbury (Ray), Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, Agatha Christie and others. Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to spine ends and corners, 1955, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and 24 others, science fiction, 8vo (28)

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Lot 18

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Artis (Edmund Tyrell) The Durobrivae of Antoninus...Roman Station in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire, first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map and 59 engraved or lithographed plates and plans, some with aquatint, 4 folding or double-page, 10 hand-coloured, light spotting or water-staining to a couple of plates, bookplates of George E.Foe and Will.Stephenson, contemporary half roan, rubbed and stained, spine worn and torn, upper cover detached, folio, for the Author, 1828.⁂ Handsome work on the various Roman sites around Castor, Northants., including views, plans and plates of the mosaics, building materials, furnaces, pottery, jewellery, and household utensils.

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Lot 180

NO RESERVE Naipaul (V. S.) A Flag on the Island, jacket with light fading to spine, 1967; In a Free State, 1971; The Adventures of Gurudeva, ink ownership inscription, jacket with very light sunning to spine, 1976 § Gordimer (Nadine) A World of Strangers, light browning to endpapers, jacket with very light browning to spine, spine a little chipped at head, 1958 § White (Patrick) Riders in the Chariot, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, spine a little frayed at head, 1961 § Coetzee (J. M.) Foe, jacket with light fading to spine, 1986, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 22 others by the same and similar, 8vo (28)

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Lot 209

NO RESERVE Yeats (William Butler) On the Boiler, second printing (as usual), the odd spot, original blue pictorial wrappers, small adhesion mark to upper cover, light creasing and toning to edges, Dublin, Cuala Press, [1939]; and c.35 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.35)

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Lot 205

NO RESERVE Waugh (Evelyn) The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, jacket with light browning to spine, a few small chips or very short tears to head, 1957 § Golding (William) Enderby Outside, light spotting, jacket price-clipped and with light spotting, light discolouration to spine, 1968 § Burgess (Anthony) The Right to an Answer, jacket with 2 short tears to head with neat tape repairs to verso, 1960 § Durrell (Lawrence) Constance or Solitary Practices, 1982, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 30 others by the same and similar, 8vo (34)

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Lot 174

NO RESERVE [Mansfield (Katherine)] "Matilda Berry", D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murray, contributors. The Signature, number 3, original wrappers, light creasing, ink inscriptions to upper cover, 1915 § Mansfield (Katherine) The Dove's Nest, light foxing, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, 1923; Something Childish & other stories, light foxing, browning and ink inscription to endpapers, original cloth, 1924, first editions; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (5)

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Lot 181

NO RESERVE Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and minor creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example generally, 8vo, 1968.⁂ The first winner of the booker prize.

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Lot 177

NO RESERVE Murdoch (Iris) The Bell, jacket light browned at spine and margins, lower panel a little chipped at head, with original publishers wraparound band, 1958; A Word Child, signed by the author on bookplate, jacket spine lightly faded, 1975; The Book and the Brotherhood, signed by the author, light fading to jacket spine, 1987, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine, 8vo (3)

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Lot 232

East Indies.- Santini (Paolo) Les Indes Orientales..., map showing India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the island of Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and a portion of Sumatra, and includes Singapore, engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 530 x 625 mm (20 7/8 x 23 1/2 in), central vertical fold with minor splitting to foot, some surface dirt to edges, light handling creases, unframed, Venice, Remondini, 1779; together with four other maps of the region, including Bowen's A New and Accurate Map of the Empire of the Great Mogul, d'Apres de Mannevillette's Carte de la partie comprise entre la sortie du détroit de Malac and A chart of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Bengal, and with Jansson's map of the Spice Islands, Insularum Moluccarum Nova Descriptio, enrgavings, some hand-colouring, various sizes, all unframed, 17th and 18th century (5)

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Lot 189

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Ros (Amanda M.) Fumes of Formation, original cloth, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, surface soiling to panels, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1933 § Farjeon (Eleanor) Young Folk and Old, original wrappers, High House Press, 1925 § Phillips (Stephen) New Poems, light foxing, browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1908 § Thomas (R. S.) Laubbam Sprache, translated by Kevin Perryman, limited edition, signed by the author, original half cloth, Denklingen, Babel, 1998, first editions; and c.80 others, poetry and poets, generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.85)

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NO RESERVE Architecture.- Hawksmoor (Nicholas) Architectural Designs for All Souls College, Oxford, 6 engraved plates, without the accompanying booklet but with a large engraving of South Prospect of St.Paul's by Will.Emmett loosely inserted (on laid paper, c.480 x 700mm., creases from folds, light spotting, T.Bowles, 1702), plates loose as issued in original cloth portfolio with ties, paper label to upper cover, oblong elephant folio, [Oxford], [1960].⁂ Kerry Downes issued his first book on Hawksmoor in 1959, and another in 1969. Until then Hawksmoor was not a highly regarded architect, being overshadowed by his masters Wren and Vanbrugh, but this changed with Downes's appraisal and the resulting recognition prevented the demolition of Christ Church, Spitalfields.

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Lot 197

Rhys (Jean) Good Morning Midnight, first edition, second issue without endpaper, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short tears to head and foot of upper panel with some light creasing, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1939.

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Lot 194

NO RESERVE Rendell (Ruth) The New Girl Friend and other stories, 1985; An Unkindness of Ravens, 1985; Live Flesh, 1986; The Veiled One, 1988, first editions, signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, original boards, dust-jackets, some light fading to spines, else fine; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (7)

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Lot 190

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) New Poems, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket spine very lightly browned, some light surface soiling, 1918; Poems, limited editions, original limp vellum, ties partly defective, 1913 § Gascoyne (David), Martyn Crucefix, Marius Kociejowski, Christopher Middleton, Norm Sibum and C.H. Sisson. Enitharmon Poetry Pamphlets, 6 vol., each number 36 of 50 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, slip-case, 1993 § Prynne (J. H.) News of Warring Clans, first edition, original wrappers, some fading, Trigram Press, 1977; and c.70 others, poetry and poets generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.75)

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Yeats (William Butler) The Wild Swans at Coole, first English edition, "Presentation Copy" blindstamp to title, Robert Lynd's copy with his ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine dulled, spine ends and corners bumped, light wear to extremities, 8vo, 1919.⁂ A good association copy, Robert Lynd (1879-1949), writer, journalist and Irish nationalist.

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NO RESERVE Blunden (Edmund).- William (Collins) The Poems, edited by Edmund Blunden, number 10 of 50 copies on japon signed by the editor, frontispiece, light offsetting, original morocco-backed boards, spine faded, 1929 § Blunden (Edmund) Poems, number 17 of 200 poems signed by the author, bookplate to pastedown, original cloth, spine faded, 1930 § Graves (Robert) and Laura Riding. Letters to Ken, number 134 of 200 copies, original morocco, Brunswick Press, 1997 § Brooke (Rupert) Collected Poems, limited edition, illustrations by G. Raverat, modern half calf, Medici Society, 1919; and 11 others by the same and similar, 8vo (15)

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Music (Bocchi Sextet).- Memorie di Enrico Bocchi, 2 albums, relating to recitals given by the Bocchi Italian Sextet directed by violinist Arrigo Bocchi, some in Italy and most in England, also including: a letter from a friend from the trenches in France, 1916, numerous printed concert programmes (some before the Prince of Wales, the Grosvenor Club etc.) letters of engagement and payment, newspaper cuttings, folds, all laid down, original red cloth, gilt, 1 album upper joint split, others splitting, other vol. lacks spine, creased and soiled, oblong 4to, 1888-1900 (2). ⁂ Includes a letter to Rodolfi Bocchi from Second Lieutenant Donald Hargreaves Tremellen (d. 1917), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry; killed at Arras, "I've been nearly outed three times in the last few days. Once a rifle grenade passed just over my head and exploded the other side of the parados (the back wall of a trench)... ."

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NO RESERVE Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first authorised English edition, browning and neat ink ownership inscription, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, 1932 § Eliot (T. S.) The Confidential Clerk, first edition, light dampstain to front free endpaper, dust-jacket, light cockling, light sunning to spine, minor fraying to head of spine, 1954 § Aldington (Richard, editor) Fifty Romance Lyric Poems, limited edition, signed by the editor and Bruce Rogers, glacine dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, New York, 1928, original cloth, generally excellent or near-fine; and 28 others by the same and similar, 8vo (31)

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Lot 153

NO RESERVE Bowles (Paul) Their Heads are Green, plates, 1963 § Coover (Robert) The Origin of the Brunists, jacket with light rubbing to extremities, 1966 § Pasternak (Joe) easy the Hard Way, signed presentation inscription from the author to Maurice Chevalier, plates, jacket spine a little sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to head of lower panel, New York, 1956 § Matthiessen (Peter) At Play in the Fields of the Lord, jacket price-clipped, jacket spine and panels a little browned, some chipping to head of spine, New York, 1965, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, generally excellent; and 26 others, American literature, 8vo (30)

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Lot 156

NO RESERVE Burroughs (Edgar Rice) The Chessmen of Mars, plates, 1923 § Grey (Zane) Tales of Fishes, plates, [1919] § London (Jack) Burning Daylight, 1911; Jerry of the Islands, plates, New York, 1917 § Coppel (Alec) I Killed the Count, dust-jacket, a few short tears and creasing to head, 1939, first or first English editions, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, some light fading to spines, light bumping to spine ends and corners, generally excellent or near-fine; and 15 others, similar, 8vo (20)

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NO RESERVE Goldman (William) No Way to Treat a Lady, jacket with light fading to spine, New York, 1964 § Wheatley (Dennis) Mayhem in Greece, signed presentation inscription from the author, jacket with light browning to spine, 1962 § Harris (Thomas) The Silence of the Lambs, light toning to text margins, 1988 § Anderson (Kent) Night Dogs, signed by the author, Tucson, AZ, 1996, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine; and 21 others, thrillers and detective fiction, 8vo (25)

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Bible, Hebrew.- Forster (Nathaniel, editor) Biblia Hebraica. Torah Nevi'im u-Ketuvim, title in Latin, text in Hebrew, bookplate to pastedown, title working loose, light stains to margin of title, some small marginal tears and chips to first few leaves, occasional light marginal browning, occasional light staining not affecting text, corner repaired to 3M⁴, contemporary blue polished calf, gilt, red morocco spine label, lightly scuffed with small abrasion to upper cover, joints a little rubbed, [Darlow & Moule 5151], 4to, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1750.⁂ ⁂ "An unpointed edition based on E. van der Hooght's text. The earliest edition of the Hebrew Bible (apart from the London Polyglot) to be printed in England". - Darlow, 5151.

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