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Lot 353
1- Sturlason, Snorre: The Heimskringlas. A History of The Norse King; in 3 vols. L, Norroena Society, 1906, Numbered Limited Imperial edition, # 25/350. Original highly gilt decorated full leather; slightly rubbed; 2- Wallace, H F: Stalks Abroad. Longmans, Green, 1908, 1st. edn. Original gilt pictorial cloth; 3- Elkington, E: The Savage South Seas. A&C Black, 1907, 1st. edn. Original gilt pictorial cloth; 4- Doughty H M: Our Wherry in Wendish Lands : From Friesland Through the Mecklenburg Lakes to Bohemia. nd, c1890. Original pictorial cloth; rubbed; one map torn; 5- Grimshaw, B: In the strange South Seas. 1908. Original cloth (7)
Lot 401
NORFOLK: Gardiner, Richard: The History of Pudica, a lady of N-rf-olk With an Account of Her Five Lovers; Viz Dick Merryfellow, Jack Shadwell of the Lodge, Count Antiquary, Young 'Squire Fog, of Dumplin-hall and Miles Dinglebob of Popgun-ball, Esq. M Cooper, 1754. Recently rebound in half leather. A poor copy of a rare Norfolk book - perhaps one of the best of the county's satirical works, quoted at considerable length by R W Ketton-Cremer in 'Norfolk Portraits'. The missing four pages at the rear are supplied in manuscript to collate with a full copy. That in ink is on paper watermarked 1798.
Lot 348
CHINA SEAS & JAPAN: Hawks, Francis L: Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M C Perry, United States Navy; 3 volumes. Washington, published by order of the Congress, and printed by A O P Nicholson, 1856, complete with numerous colour plates, lithographs, maps and illustration. Including the very rare suppressed lithograph of a 'nude bathing scene in a Japanese bathhouse' which is not even called for in the list of plates. 4to. PP: V1- xviii, 537,+90 plates; V2- (iv), 414, (iv), 14pp facsimile of the treaty in Japanese, xi (index), (i) blank, (i) list of charts, + 43 plates and 17 charts on 16 large folding pages; V3- xliii, 705 (including 351 Zodiac plates). Original embossed cloth, recased; Ex-Libra set with few stamps (but no stamps on the plates); covers rubbed and with faint numbering (3)
Lot 460
Martin, M: A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. For Andrew Bell, 1703, 1st. edn. With a folding Map and folding Plate. PP: (xxxii)including Errata, 392. Rebound in half leather over marbled boards and new endpapers; tear and repair to map; plate torn (without loss); small hole to bottom margin of one contents page.
Lot 427
WOOD ENGRAVINGS: 1- Hardy, T; Claire Leighton(ill): The Return of the Native. Macmillan, 1925, Limited edition Signed by C Leighton. With 12 mounted woodcuts and head and tail pieces. Vellum backed boards; Some wear to corners; 2- Salaman, M: The Woodcut of Today at Home and Abroad. Studio, 1927, 1st. 4to.; 3- Jackson, J: Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical. Charles Knight, 1839, 1st. edn. With upwards of three hundred illustrations, engraved on wood. Half leather; shaken with endpapers parted; 4- Graham, D: Set of Signs for Chopin's Twenty Four Preludes. Two vols in slipcase. Newcastle Upon Tyne, Villa Vic Press, 1990 Signed by Author. With copper engravings by Chris Daunt. Edition limited to 12 specially bound copies with an extra suite of engravings; 5- Salaman, M: The New Woodcut the Studio Special Spring Number 1930; 6- Sleigh, B: Wood Engraving. 1931, 1st. dw; 7- Motif, A Journal of the Visual Arts: Nos. 1, 2, 4, & 8; Plus 10 others with wood engravings by: Bewick; Blair Hughes-Stanton; Gertrude Bone; John Farleigh; etc. (20)
Lot 422
ILLUSTRATED: 1- JESSIE M KING: Spielmann: Littledom Castle and Other Tales. Routledge, 1903, 1st. edn. 2nd. impr. Inscribed & Signed by author; also with ill. by Arthur Rackham, Kate Greenaway, Hugh Thomson, Harry Furniss..; Keats: Isabella or the Pot of Basil. Edinburgh, Foulis, nd, c1908. Envelope Series No 3. Red suede covers with gilt titles, Spine rubbed and faded; Flowers of Friendship. Collins, nd. Cloth backed boards; rubbed; Farjeon: All the Year Round. Collins, 1923. Cloth backed boards; rubbed; 2- Mervyn Peake(ill): Maurice Collins: Quest for Sita… Faber, 1946, 1st. Limited edition of 500; PLUS: 3 by or about Eric Gill; 6 John Piper; & 2 others. (17)
Lot 371
FINE BINDING: JONES, Owen (ill): 1- Thomas Moore: Paradise and the Peri. Day & Son, nd (1860) Gift inscription dated 1861. 52 richly illuminated plates including the title page. Full heavily embossed leather, bevelled edges and Gutta purcha binding. As usual, the rubber glue has perished to some extent with two plates loose. Original tissue guards are missing but modern interleaved acid free paper has been inserted loosely to protect the plates; covers little rubbed; two plates frayed at edges. 2- Bacon, M A: Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts. Longmans, Green, 1848. Small 4to. Gilt and colour illuminated title page, contents page with gilt letter press. 14 flowers featured on thick gilt-edged paper. Ornate full leather releivo with gilt inner dentelles and Gutta purcha binding. As usual, the rubber glue has perished and the leaves are now loose; covers little rubbed (2)
Lot 452
1- Chauncy, Sir Henry: The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. In two volumes. Bishop’s Stortford, J M Mullinger, 1826. With maps and plates. Subscriber’s list; extra illustrated copy with a few earlier views and portraits. Cont. half leather; rubbed; heavy foxing to the plates; 2- Locke, A A: The Hanbury Family; in 2 vols. L, Humphreys, 1916, 1st. edn. Folio; with many plates, some in colour. Original cloth. (3)
Lot 358
1- Michael ab Isselt: Paradisus Precum, ex R P F Ludovici Granatensis Spiritualibus Opusculis, Aliorumque sanctorum Patrum, et illustrium cum veterum, tum recentium scriptorum concinnatus. Coloniae, Apud Geruinum Caalenium, & haredes Joannis Quentelii 1589. PP: (xxiv) including title-page with portrait of Jesus Christ), 602, (ix) index. Ex-Sewell Library, Yaxley, Suffolk; with only a small stamp to title page and one to the pastedown. Near contemporary wooden boards with embossed leather covers and clasps; covers rubbed and chipped with small loss to head and tail of spine; ink writing to verso of title-page and a few pencil notes in the margins; lacking the clasps and front blank endpaper; page 577/578 with a small burn and loss affecting a couple of words; 2- PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius: M Acci Plauti Comoediae. Accedit commentarius ex variorum notis & observationibus, ex recension Ioh. Frederici Gronovii. Editio novissima; in Two volumes. Amsterdam, Blaviana, 1684. PP: (24) including engraved title, 624; 588, (52) index. Cont. full worn and upper covers detached; stain to 8pp of index in vol.2; 3- Cicero, M. T: De Natura Deorum. Libri tres. Cantabrigiae, Crownfield, 1723, 2ND. edn. PP: 376. Cont. full leather, rubbed and chipped, with small loss to head of spine (4)
Lot 357
1- Sallustii, C Crispi: Opera Omnia Quae Exstant, Cum Commentariis Integris Joh. Rivii, Aldi Manutii,.. Amsterdam, H & V Theodori Boom, 1690. PP: 596, + Index. Cont. full vellum with gilt decoration; lacking ties; extra engraved title-page frayed at edges; 2- Martialis, M Valerii: Epigrammata Paraphrasi et Notis Variorum Selectissimis Ad Usum Serenissimi Delphini. Amsterdam, G Gallet, 1701. PP: 600, 56, 142. Cont. full vellum; little warped; bookplate to verso of title page (2)
Lot 360
R. Townsend of Woolwich. A Victorian mahogany cased regulator, the silvered circular dial with subsidiary hours, minutes and outer seconds, inscribed Estabed 1859 Greenwich Time, with anchor escapement and a heavy brass cased lead pendulum inscribed M. Percival & Thos. James Woolwich, slow / fast
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