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Click here to subscribeA small collection of Dinky Toys cars and commercial vehicles, including a No. 982 Pullmore Car Transporter (lacking rear door), with a No. 994 Loading Ramp, a No. 283 BOAC bus, an Armoured Personnel Carrier, a Dublo Austin lorry, a No. 173 Nash Rambler, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, a No. 168 Singer Gazelle, a No. 169 Triumph Herald, a traffic light and a zebra crossing light (playwear).
James (P.D.) DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS, dustjacket (price clipped), 8vo, London: Faber, 1977, FIRST EDITION; Waugh (Evelyn) WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD, lacks dustjacket, light pencil mark on upper cover, 8vo, London: Duckworth, 1946, FIRST EDITION; with 14 other modern works of fiction/travel, the majority FIRST EDITIONS.
Kant (Immanuel) DER STREIT DER FACULTATEN IN DREY ABSCHNITTEN, G3 replaced with corrected sheet, some underlining and marginal annotations in brown ink, light marginal water-staining to some leaves, paperclip creasing affecting final leaf, sprinkled edges, contemporary speckled blue boards (edge wear, staining to spine and lower cover), 8vo, Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. FIRST EDITION.
Macquoid (Percy) A HISTORY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE: THE AGE OF OAK, THE AGE OF WALNUT, THE AGE OF MAHOGANY, THE AGE OF SATINWOOD, 4 volumes, colour plates after Shirley Slocombe, black-and-white photographs, titles printed in red and black, teg, light spotting to edges publisher`s plum buckram gilt (all with some marks/light waterstaining), folio (372 x 270mm), London: Medici Society/Lawrence & Bullen, 1938.
Milne (A.A.) WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, teg, some marks to pages, very occasional pencil annotations, some separation at hinges, slight adhesive damage to front endpapers, ink owner`s inscription on ffe, publisher`s blue cloth gilt (light marks, edge wear notably to head and tail of spine), lacks dustjacket, 8vo, London: Methuen, 1924. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OF THE `CHRISTOPHER ROBIN` BOOKS; with first published editions of Beatrix Potter`s THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER (1903; 27 plates) and THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN (1903, 27 plates, frontispiece detached and trimmed), both worn and with pencil scribbles/doodles throughout.
Milner (Thomas); & Petermann (Augustus) A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY AND OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 74 maps, including `A Celestial Planisphere, or Map of the Heavens` not called for in the list of contents, the majority hand-coloured in outline, several maps with edge repairs and/or light marginal dampstaining, longer repaired tears to the map of Great Britain, the map of France with paint staining affecting the edge of the image, half calf, pebbled cloth boards (worn, boards detached), 4to (295 x 238mm), London: Wm. S. Orr & Co, 1850. FIRST EDITION.
Twain (Mark) [Samuel L. Clemens] A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR 220 black-and-white illustrations by Dan Beard, 32 pages of publisher`s ads at rear, edges spotted, top edges dusty, owner`s signature in pencil on front blank, publisher`s pictorial cloth (spine sunned, light corner wear), 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1889, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, ads dated `October 1889`; with 4 other works by Twain, 3 FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS.
Weatherly (F.E.) LITTLE PICKLE/TENS AND ELEVENS, illustrated by Jane M. Dealy, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co; LITTLE PUSSY-CAT, illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards & John C. Staples, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co; HOLLY BOUGHS, illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards & John C. Staples, London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner: 4 volumes, all with 8 chromolithograph plates, decorative endpapers, staples rusted, front endpapers separated at gutter, all but the first with dedicatory inscriptions on the recto of the frontispiece leaf, cloth-backed pictorial boards (light soiling/edge wear), 4to (152 x 124mm), [all c1880s/90s]; with a disbound and incomplete copy of Weatherly/Dealy`s `Goosey Gander.`
A pair of 19th century Sheffield plate three light twin scroll candelabra with the marks of Roberts, Smith & Co 5 Eyres Street Sheffield. Circa 1830, one with provision for two further arms to form five lights. The detachable nozzles cast with leaves and scrolls, the arms similarly decorated with flowerheads, with similar banding to the columns, on petal form bases. 19Iins high.
Clark, John. The town of Paisley. London, 1825. Hand coloured, approx 44 by 60cm, framed and glazed, some light spotting along upper edge; The town of Greenock. London, 1824. Hand coloured, approx 46 by 61cm, framed and glazed, fading; The town of Jedburgh. London, 1825. Hand coloured, approx 45 by 61cm, framed and glazed, faded; The town of Dunkeld. London, 1824. Hand coloured, approx 46 by 61cm, framed and glazed, faded (4)
Haddington - Thomson, John. Large engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, inset plan of Haddington, 53 x 70cm., framed and glazed, some light foxing; Murphy, W. East Lothian. Edinburgh, [no date]. Approx 9.5 by 12.5cm, hand coloured in outline, small patch of repair, framed and glazed; Fullarton & Co. Haddingtonshire. London, [no date]. Approx 15 by 19.5cm, hand coloured in outline, framed and glazed; and 2 others (5)
Churchill, Winston Spencer. The river war, an historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co. 1899. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half titles, 7 photogravure portraits, folding maps and plans, original blue cloth gilt, some rubbing to edges, corners bumped, some light foxing, further foxing to page edges, contemporary ink inscription on front endpapers (2)
Edinburgh - Brewster, David. The Edinburgh encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: printed for William Blackwood, 1830. 4to, 18 volumes, 525 engraved plates and 13 maps, contemporary diced calf gilt, backstrips rubbed and cracking, hinges splitting, volume IV rebacked using original backstrip, some staining and light foxing throughout, bookplates (18)
Froude, James Anthony. History of England. London, 1879. 8vo, 12 volumes, contemporary full tree calf gilt, brown and green labels, bookplates, some light rubbing to edges; Prescott, William Hickling Works. London, 1896. 8vo, 12 volumes, contemporary half red calf gilt, brown and black labels, some rubbing to edges, slight fading to backstrips (24)
Packe, Edmund. An historical record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards or Oxford Blues. London, 1834. 8vo, portrait frontispiece, lithograph title, 7 plates [6 coloured], later half morocco gilt, "Dillington Park" stamp on upper board, typed list of Colonels pasted to last two leaves, bookplate; Hort, Sir John Josiah The Horse Guards by the two mounted sentries. London, 1850. Second edition, 8vo, colour frontispiece [should be opposite page 16 according to instructions], additional title, 10 colour plates, original cloth gilt, faded, "Dillington Park" label on upper board, contemporary ink inscription on title, some light spotting (2). Provenance: From the library of the botanical artist Elizabeth Cameron, nee Vaughan-Lee.
Beaumont, Joseph. Psyche, or love`s mystery, in XXIV Cantos: displaying the intercourse betwixt Christ, and the soul. Cambridge, University Press for Thomas Bennet, 1702. Second edition, folio, one of 750 copies, with corrections, double column, frontispiece portrait, occasional light staining, slightly browned towards the end, red edges, nineteenth-century half morocco gilt, red cloth boards. Note: Foxon B130
[Burney, Frances]. Camilla: or, a picture of youth. London: T. Payne, T. Cadell Jun., & W. Davies, 1796. First edition, 5 volumes, 12mo, with advertisement leaf A4 and list of subscribers in volume 1, contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering-pieces, spines gilt, head of one spine slightly rubbed; Idem Evelina. London: T. & W. Lowndes, 1783. 4 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf, morocco lettering pieces, head of spines chipped; Idem The wanderer. London: Longman, 1814. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, contemporary half calf, some light spotting, one joint splitting; Idem Cecilia. London: T. Cadell, 1809. Fifth edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, titles slightly discoloured, head of spines rubbed (17). Note: With, amongst the names of the subscribers, Miss J. Austen of Steventon.
Burton, Robert. The anatomy of melancholy. What it is... the fifth edition. Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1638. 4to, engraved title by C. le Blon, woodcut ornaments and initials, contemporary calf, rebacked, half-title/Argument of the Frontispiece leaf, lacking cancelled leaf Ll 1, half title with contemporary ink notes, some light foxing to page edges, replacement endpapers. Note: STC 4163. Provenance: Booksplate of William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland.
Christie, Agatha. The hound of death and other stories. London: Odhams Press, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, lacking dust jacket, backstrip faded, bookplate removed from front free endpaper; [Idem] The hollow. London, 1946. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, not price clipped, bookplate, previous ink inscription on front endpaper; [Idem] Sparkling cyanide. London, 1945. First edition, 8vo, lacking dust jacket, original red cloth, bookplate; [Idem] One, two, buckle my shoe. London, 1942. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper, chipped at edges, bookplate removed; [Idem] Five little pigs. London, 1943. Second edition, 8vo, original red cloth, dustwrapper, price clipped, bookplate removed, some light foxing; and 6 others (11)
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