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Lot 123

FINE BINDING:1. The Beauties of: Rambler, 1796, in two volumes; Spectator, 1792, in two volumes; Sterne, 1793 (two copies); Johnson, 1797; and Shakespeare, nd (1790s). Eight volumes in all in matching full tree calf. Covers little scuffed; o/w VG;2. The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson in eight volumes. Macmillan, 1888. Leather binding over marbled boards. Foxing to endpapers; o/w VG;3. Scott, Sir Walter: Three Works. Kenilworth, in three volumes. Edinburgh, 1821, 1st edn.; Ivanhoe, in three volumes. Edinburgh, 1821, 3rd edn.; and The Pirate, in three volumes. Edinburgh, 1822, 2nd edn. All nine volumes are bound in half leather. Covers worn and chipped (25)

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Lot 126

FOREIGN TRAVEL/BINDING:1. Urquhart, David: The Spirit of the East; or, Pictures of Eastern Travel. Two volumes bound in one. L, H Colburn, nd, (c.1858) 2nd edn. plates dated 1857, with two colour lithographed plates and a folding map. Title page to volume 1 and only half title to volume 2. Full leather. Covers little scuffed; inscription and to front endpaper; o/w VG;2. West, Mrs (Jane): Poems and Plays. Two volumes only of ? L, T N Longman and O Rees, 1799. Contemporary full leather. Covers little worn; top corners of title pages cut out;3. Plus four other bindings (7)

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Lot 127

RUPERT ANNUAL:1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 & 1948,Original 1st edns. in the original pictorial card covers and not price-clipped, former owner's name in 'belongs to' box. 1942: covers have come away with small loss to bottom of spine; o/w VG+/fine. 1943: covers have come away with no loss; the two colouring pages have been coloured; o/w VG+/fine. 1944: covers have come away with tear, but no loss; o/w fine. 1945-48 are all fine. Very rare to find copies in this fine condition (7)

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Lot 128

1. UPTON, Bertha: The Golliwogg's Airship. NY, Longmans Green & Co, 1902, 1st edn. Oblong 4to. pp64. Original pictorial boards, worn and inner hinges cracked; bookplate; back endpaper torn and detached;2. UPTON, Bertha: The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt. L, Longmans Green & Co, no date, (1905), 1st edn. Oblong 4to. pp66. Original pictorial boards, worn; the odd small stain; o/w G+ (2)

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Lot 130

ROBERTS, David (illustrator):The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia,After Lithographs by Louis Haghe. Six volumes bound in three (complete). L, Day and Son, 1855-56, first 4to. edn., complete with 250 tinted lithographed plates, some in colour. Half leather, gilt. Small damp stain to margin of few plates (well away from the image); o/w VG++ (3)

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Lot 131

DUKE OF WELLINGTON:1. (Panorama) Alken, Samuel Henry Gordon (1810-1894) and Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895): The Funeral Procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, [London: Ackermann, '1852']. A continuous strip hand-coloured aquatint panorama, on 56 sections with mourners and regiments listed at foot (approx. 133 x 20,620mm overall); 67.6 feet, one sheet showing the funeral carriage extended in height; ie with folding flap. Linen-backed, some browning, occasional bubbling and creasing. Folding into original red cloth portfolio, front cover embossed with Wellington's arms and title in gilt. Publisher's printed advertisement on rear paste-down, covers detached with part loss of flap; o/w G+/VG;2. Notices to persons going in the procession or holding tickets of admission to St. Paul’s for the Funeral of the late Duke of Wellington, 18th Nov. 1852. An original leaf, printed on both sides. Folded a few times and with small tears to folds (2)

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Lot 132

NATURAL HISTORY:1. Seebohm, Henry: History Of British Birds, With Coloured Illustrations Of Their Eggs. Four volumes (three of text and one plates). L, RH Porter, 1883-85. Bound in three quarter leather. Little scuffed; o/w VG;2. Seebohm, Henry: Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. L, 1896. Original cloth. Worn; o/w G;3. Plus four others (9)

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Lot 134

Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs in the British Museum:Five volumes,L, British Museum Press, 1901-1912, 1st edn. with colour plates. Original cloth; little worn; o/w G+ (5)

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Lot 137

PICASSO, Sabartés (Jaime):Toreros, With four original lithographs by Pablo Picasso, one printed in colours. London and Monte Carlo, 1961. The lithographs printed by Mourlot Frères, published by André Sauret. Oblong 4to. Publisher's original red decorated cloth and illustrated slipcase. Spine little faded; o/w VG+/Fine

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Lot 138

WALKER, John and Charles:Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas: Containing Separate Maps of Every County in England and the Three Ridings of Yorkshire,With 42 hand-coloured double-page maps; showing roads, railways, canals, parks, etc. L, J & C Walder, nd, c.1860. Folio, half leather. Covers worn and hinges cracked; one map with a tear to fold; light foxing/browning to fold of first few maps; o/w VG

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Lot 139

MARECHAL, Pierre Sylvain; and DAVID, Francois-Anne (engraved by):Les Antiquités d’Herculanum,Nine volumes. Paris, Chez l’auteur, F A David, 1780 (the extra engraved title page of one volume is dated 1781), 1st edn. Three more volumes were published after the French Revolution (1799). With 1222 illustration on 695 sheets, plus the nine extra engraved title pages. 4to. pp168, 215, 204, 119, 100, 96, 104, 50, and 108 plus the plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, all edges gilt. Covers rubbed; the occasional small stain; o/w VG (9)

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Lot 140

OWEN, John and BOWEN, Emanuel:Britannia Depicta or Ogilby improv'd; Being a Correct Copy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of All Ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales...,L, printed for and sold by Tho: Bowles Print & Map Seller Next ye Chapter House in St Pauls Church-Yard & Em Bowen next ye King of Spain in Katherins, 1720, 1st edn. pp: engraved title within ornamental border, (iv)table, 273 engraved county and road maps, 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with new spine; covers worn and chipped; the occasional small stain; o/w G+

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Lot 141

SPORTING:1. Allen, John: Principles of Modern Riding for Ladies. L, Thomas Tegg, 1825, 1st edn.?; with 23 plates; pp(xv), 192, and (iv)advert for the London Enclyclopaedia, bound at the front. Original papered boards and cloth spine. Inner hinges cracked; occasional foxing; o/w G+;2. Nimrod, Charles James Apperley: The Life of John Mytton, Esq, of Halston, Shropshire. L, Routledge, 1870, 4th edn. with 18 colour plates. Rebound in plain cloth, with the original front preserved, occasional foxing; o/w G+;3. Simpson, C: Leicestershire & Its Hunts. 1926, 1st 4to. folding map and colour plates. Original cloth, little worn; occasional foxing (3)

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Lot 143

RIVIERE FINE BINDING:Thackeray, William Makepeace: The Works. In twenty-four volumes. L, Smith, Elder & Co, 1869 (volumes 1-22), and 1886 (volumes 23-24); first collected edn.. With engraved frontispieces, vignette titles, plates, and text illustrations, all by the author. Signed binding by Riviere and Sons in full tree calf, gilt; gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges. A superb set; only volume 23 with spine little darker; o/w VG+/Fine (24)

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Lot 144

BINDING:1. Carlyle, T: French Revolution, Collected Works. In three volumes. C&H, 1870. Full leather prize binding. Little scuffed; o/w VG;2. Disraeli, I: Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England. Five volumes. Colburn, 1828-1931. Half leather; little scuffed; o/w G+;3. Plus twenty-six leather bound volumes. Some incomplete sets, etc.;4. Plus two volumes of Jane Austin. In cloth (36)

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Lot 145

BINDING AND ILLUSTRATION:1. Rackham, A (illustrator): Ingoldsby Legends. 1910, half leather prize binding. Covers little worn;2. Burke J: Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1844. 2nd edn. illustrated. Half leather, aeg. G+/VG;3. Cockton, H: Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, The Ventriloquist. R Tyas, 1840, 1st edn. illustrated. Half leather, covers worn; some heavy foxing;4. Wright, G N: Life and Reign of William the Fourth. In two volumes. Fisher, 1837, 1st edn. illustrated. Half leather, worn and labels chipped; o/w G;5. Edwards, L: My Irish Sketch Book. NY, Scribner's Sons, 1938, 1st 4to. colour plates, etc. Original cloth, worn; o/w G+ (6)

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Lot 146

BINDING AND HISTORY:1. Froude, J: History of England. In twelve volumes. L Longmans, Green, 1862-70, mixed edn. Full leather; covers worn and lacking few labels;2. Scott, W: Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. In nine volumes. Edinburgh, Longman, 1827, 1st edn. Half leather over marbled boards; covers little worn; occasional foxing; o/w G+;3. Pepys, Samuel - Latham, etc: Diary Of Samuel Pepys. Complete in eleven volumes. Reprint, dws. VG+;4. Plus six others (39)

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Lot 152

VARIOUS, INCLUDING:1. Graves, Robert: Over the Brazier. L Poetry Bookshop, 1916, 1st edn. Original wrappers; chipped and detached; foxing;2. Rackham, A: Aesop’s Fables. 1912, 1st edn. Foxing; o/w G;3. Plus a quantity of bindings etc. (qty)

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Lot 155

DICKENS, Charles:1. American Notes for General Circulation. In two volumes. L, Chapman & Hall, 1842, 1st edn. First issue, with second page of contents paged XVI (the introduction was pulled out by the publisher at the last moment). Half titles present, advert leaf preceding half title in volume 1, and 6pp. publishers catalogue at end of volume 2. Half leather bindings with part of the original cloth spine tipped in volume 1; two bookplates: Charles F S Chambers & Charles Alexander Morell Miller. Occasional light foxing; o/w VG;2. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by 'Boz', in two volumes. L, R Bentley, 1838, 1st edn. First issue, plate 'Last Song' without a border, and 36 pages of publisher's ads present. With portrait frontis plus twelve etchings by George Cruikshank. Half leather bindings; two bookplates (as above). Occasional foxing; o/w G (4)

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Lot 156

ANTIQUARIAN/BINDING:1. Fielding, Henry: The History Of The Adventures Of Joseph Andrews. In two volumes. L, A Millar, 1743, 3rd edn. Illustrated with twelve plates; pp226, (ii)cat; 226. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn; bookplate of Lord Wenman to front pastedown; o/w G;2. Dryden, John: Dramatick Works. In six volumes. L, J Tonson, 1735. Illustrated with frontis portrait plus 27 plates; ppxci, 312; 467; 456; 467; 408; 527. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn; bookplate of Lord Wenman to front pastedown; o/w G;3. Virgil: The Works, translated by Joseph Trapp. In three volumes. L, J Brotherton, 1735; ppxciv, 240; 420; 430, (ii)catalogue. Illustrated with a frontis plate to each volume. Contemporary full leather. Covers little worn; volume 2 lacking the last blank endpaper; the bookplate of Lord Wenman to front pastedown; o/w G+ (11)

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Lot 157

ANTIQUARIAN/BINDING:1. Voltaire: Letters concerning the English Nation. L, C Davis, 1741, 2nd edn. pp255 and index, and(vii)catalogue. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn; few pencil notes; bookplate of Lord Wenman to front pastedown; o/w G;2. Voltaire: Histoire de Charles XII. L, C Davis, 1740, 7th edn. Illustrated with frontis plus folding map; ppxiii, 325; and index. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn; few pencil notes; bookplate of Lord Wenman to front pastedown; o/w G;3. Lockman, John: A New Roman History, by Question and Answer. L, T Astley, 1737, 1st edn. ppxciv, 342 and index, and (iv)catalogue. Contemporary full leather. Worn; o/w G;4. The book of family crests. In two volumes. H Washbourne, 1845, 5th edn. With 108 plates. Contemporary full leather. Little worn; o/w VG;5. Mémoires de J Casanova. In eight volumes. Paris, Garnier, nd. Half leather. VG set;6. Plus sixteen leather bound books (29)

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Lot 158

THE DOMESTIC POULTRY INSTRUCTOR:To which is added:Instructions in the Management of Bees,L, Orlando Hodgson, nd (inscription dated 1837). Illustrated with a folding hand-coloured frontis plate; pp24 and wrappers. Light damp stain to frontis; o/w G; scarce (no copy at the British Library)

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Lot 160

AUDUBON, John James:The Quadrupeds of North America,Three volumes. New York, Geo R Lockwood, nd, [1870], Royal 8vo. 155 hand-coloured lithographed plates (with tissue guards), after J J and J W Audubon by W E Hitchcock, R Trembly, printed and hand-finished by J T Bowen, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Contemporary half Leather. Covers rubbed; o/w VG. The binding matches the set above (3)

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Lot 161

STONHAM, Charles:The Birds of the British Islands,Five volumes. L, E Grant Richards, 1906-1911, 1st edn. 318 plates by Medland, folio, original cloth. Little worn; spine extremities chipped; o/w G+ (5)

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Lot 162

GENERAL LITERATURE AND FIRST EDITIONS, INCLUDING:1. Critical Review. Volume 51, 1718. Front cover detached;2. Daunt, W J O: Daniel O'Connell. Two volumes. 1848, 1st edn.; original cloth. Worn; lacking spines and volume 2 split;3. Stapledon, O: Last and First Men. 1930, 1st edn.;4. McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam. 1st edn.; dw; signed copy, etc. (21)

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Lot 167

ATLAS:Keith Johnston's Royal Atlas of Modern Geography,Blackwood, 1869. Large folio with 48 double page colour maps. Half leather. Worn and covers almost detached; tear to margin of two maps; o/w G+

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Lot 168

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Renan, Ernest (editor); Rudaux (illustrator) Le Broyeur de Lin. Paris, Librairie L Conquet, 1901, limited edn., # 283 of 300 copies. Full dark red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine very slightly faded; light offsetting to endpapers; a couple of foxing spots to preliminaries; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 169

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone (extra illustrated copy): Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules; Le Blant, Julien (illustrator) Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886, limited edn. With a frontis plus seven plates by Le Blant. Plus an extra six plates by Felix Buhot (these are slightly smaller than the rest of the book). Bound in full dark red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Top edges gilt. Spine very slightly faded; a very small spot to centre of front cover (hardly visible); offsetting to endpapers; light spotting to a few pages; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 170

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Uchard, Mario; Avril, Paul (illustrator) Mon Oncle Barbassou. Paris, J Lemonnyer, 1884, limited edn., # 369 of 275 copies on papier vergé de Hollande of a total of1000, with 40 illustrations. Full light brown crushed morocco with five raised bands, elaborate gilt floral decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and marbled endpapers, signed CEG. Top edges gilt. Very light offsetting to endpapers; o/w fine

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Lot 171

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Musset, Alfred de; Morin, Louis (illustrator) On Ne Badine Pas Avec L'Amour. Paris, Librairie L Conquet, 1904, (limited edn. of 200 copies?). No limitation stated but facing the title page is printed: EXEMPLAIR OFFERT (hand written in blue crayon) Monsieur Alphonse Delelo, and signed by the publishers? Full green crushed morocco with two circular navy blue and gilt panels to the centre of both covers and repeated throughout in smaller circles; elaborate gilt decorations; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk satin doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine faded and light foxing to paper edges; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 172

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Halevy, Ludovic; Leandre, Charles (illustrator) Le Broyeur de Lin. Paris, Emile Testard, 1893. Full green crushed morocco with elaborate gilt and red floral decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk satin doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine faded; foxing, a little heavy in places; o/w VG

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Lot 173

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Fusillot, Paul Reveilhac; Lalauze, Adolphe and Giacomelli, Henri (illustrator) Un Debut Au Marais. Paris, Librairie des Amateurs, A Ferroud, 1892, limited edn., # 164 of 200 copies. With four plates by Lalauze and text illustrations by Giacomelli. Full purple crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and card doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine faded; offsetting to endpapers; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 174

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Gautier, Théophile; Morin, Louis (illustrator): Le Petit Chien de la Marquise. Paris, Librairie L Conquet, 1893, limited edn., # 386 of 500 copies, this signed by the publishers? Full crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and card doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine faded; foxing to endpapers; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 175

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Nodier, Charles; Leloir, Maurice (illustrator) Le Bibliomane. Paris, Librairie L Conquet, 1893/4 (the original wrapper is dated 1893 and title-page 1894). Illustrated with 24 wood engravings by Leloir plus an extra set of 24 plates. Limited edn., # 4 of 150 copies on Chine & Japon paper out of a total of 500, this signed by the publishers? Full green and red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine faded; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 176

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Field, Michael: Noontide Branches. Oxford, Daniel Press, 1899. Limited edn., # 25 of 150 copies. Full dark red and navy blue crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Original wrappers bound-in and top edges gilt. Spine little faded; light offsetting to endpapers; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 178

FINE SIGNED BINDING:Captain Gladstone: Blunt, Wilfred S: In Vinculis. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd, 1889, large paper edn. limited to 50 copies, this being # 13, signed Charles Whittingham (Chiswick Press). With an engraved portrait frontispiece by Leoplod Lowenslam. Full leather with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and silk doublures, signed CEG. Top edges gilt. Spine and top edges faded; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 179

FINE BINDING:Selected Poems of Robert Burns, with an introduction by Andrew Lang. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd, 1891, large paper edn. limited to 50 copies, this being # 14, signed Charles Whittingham (Chiswick Press). Full dark brown crushed morocco with elaborate gilt decorations to both covers; spine with gilt decoration and lettering; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and card doublures (in the same style and quality binding as the others by Captain Gladstone, but this one not signed). Spine little faded; edges and corners very slightly scuffed; light stain to front blank endpaper; o/w VG+

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Lot 180

FINE BINDING:1. Froude, J A: The Nemesis Of Fate. London, John Chapman, 1894. Full mottled calf with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers and teg. Spine faded; occasional foxing; o/w VG;2. Husenbeth, F C (editor): The Missal for the Use of the Laity; with The Masses for all Days throughout the Year, according to the Roman Missal. Fourth edn. improved; London, Charles Dolman, 1845, and supplement; pp741, xcix-cxlv, (ii) index, i-xcvi. Full leather with gilt decoration and gilt gauffered edges. Light scuffing to covers; front endpaper and title-page almost detached; o/w G+ (2)

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Lot 182

FINE SIGNED BINDING BY CAPTAIN GLADSTONE:Rejected Addresses; Or The New Theatrum Poetarum,L, J Murray, 1833, 8th edn. carefully revised, with an original preface and notes by the authors; pp170, tinted frontis portrait by E Finden and 4 headpieces and 2 engravings in text by George Cruikshank (first thus). Bound in full leather with gilt geometric decorations, gilt lettering to front cover and spine; wide gilt decorated inner dentelles and vellum doublures, marbled endpapers and teg, signed CEG. Occasion foxing; o/w VG+/fine

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Lot 183

FINE SIGNED BINDING BY CAPTAIN GLADSTONE:Ruskin, John: Sesame and Lilies,Two lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864. L, Smith Elder, 1865, 1st edn. (which was issued without the preface); pp196. Bound in full leather with gilt elaborate gilt floral decorations to both covers, spine and inner dentelles and marbled panels and endpapers and aeg, signed CEG. Spine slightly faded; foxing to first few pages; pencil notes to back blank endpaper; o/w VG+

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Lot 184

FINE BINDING BY CAPTAIN GLADSTONE:Rossetti, Christina: Verses,L, spck, 1896, 15th. Thousand, re-set and electrotyped; pp236, (i)publisher’s advert. Bound in full leather with elaborate gilt floral decorations to covers, spine and inner dentelles and marbled endpapers and teg. The binding on this not signed. Covers and spine little rubbed; o/w VG+

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Lot 185

HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Salmon, Nathaniel: History of Hertfordshire: Describing the County, and its Monuments. London: no publisher, 1728, 1st edn. Folio, pp:title page, (ii) subscribers’ list, (iv) dedication, 369; with a folding map. Contemporary full leather with 19th century spine and the bookplate of A Acland. Occasional foxing and browning; o/w VG;2. Hertfordshire: Extracted from Cox's Magna Britannia. c.1720, with a folding map and pp965-1042. Leather backed marbled boards. Occasional foxing; o/w VG;3. Inventory Of The Historical Monuments In Hertfordshire. HMSO, 1910, 1st 4to. Folding map and plates. Occasional foxing; o/w VG;4. Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of: Middlesex; Essex; and Hertford. Three volumes in one. C Cooke, nd, c.1820. With three folding maps. Half leather. Covers little worn and chipped; o/w G+;5. Britton, J and Brayley, E W: Beauties of England, Volume VII, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire. With 19 plates. Full lea

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Lot 186

HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Clutterbuck, R: History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. Three volumes. L, Chatto & Windus, 1815-27, 1st edn. large folio, with folding map and plans, plates (some hand coloured). Half leather; A Acland’s bookplate. Spine of two volumes scuffed (with small loss); o/w VG+;2. Cussans, J E: History of Hertfordshire. Eight volumes in three. Volume 1: 1870-1873 (with 3 title pages); volume 2: 1874-1878 (with 3 title pages); and volume 3: 1879-1889 (with 2 title pages. With a colour folding map, colour lithograph plates and portraits. Contemporary half, scuffed; occasional foxing; o/w G+;3. The Victoria History of the County of Hertford. Five volumes (including index volume). Constable, 1902-1914, 1st edns. (subscribers' edition). Folio, folding maps and plates (some coloured). Half leather. Little scuffed; o/w G+ (11)

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Lot 187

HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Chauncy, Sir Henry: The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. London: for Ben Griffin and others, 1700. 1st edn. (one of only c.500 copies). Title printed in red and black; folio, pp601, (ii) advert, and index. With frontis portrait, folding map, and 43 plates (mostly double page or folding). Contemporary full leather, gilt (states: all plates present). Occasional foxing; o/w G+/VG;2. Gerish, W B: Sir Henry Chauncy. L, Waterloo & sons, 1907. 1st edn. Large paper, limited to 50 copies, this no.26. Original covers. Spine chipped with loss; o/w VG (2)

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Lot 188

SPORTING AND NATURAL HISTORY:1. White, Gilbert: The Works in Natural History, comprising The Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations. In two volumes. L, for J White, 1802, 1st collected edn., pp392, 300; with four plates, two of which are hand coloured including a folding frontispiece to volume II. Zaehnsdorf signed and dated 1896, full morocco binding with aeg. Occasional browning and foxing; o/w VG+;2. Yarrell, W: History of British Birds. Three volume set. L, Van Voorst, 1843, fully illustrated. Contemporary half leather, gilt. Little rubbed; o/w VG;3. Hulme, F E: Familiar Wild Flowers. Five volumes (series 1-5). Cassell, nd. c.1890. Half leather. Little rubbed; occasional foxing; o/w G+;4. Selby, P J: History of British Forest - Trees. Van Voorst, 1842, 1st edn. Half leather. Little rubbed; o/w G+;5. The Badmington Library. Eleven volumes: Shooting (two volumes); Fishing (two volumes); Hunting; Angling; Cricke

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Lot 189

BINDING:1. Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans): The Works. Fourteen volumes of the standard edn. Edinburgh, W Blackwood, nd, c.1880. Bumpus signed full red morocco with gilt ruling to covers, gilt decoration and lettering to spines, gilt inner dentelles, and aeg. Offsetting to edges of endpapers; the armorial bookplate of Arthur Acland to front pastedown. o/w fine;2. Shakespeare, W: The Works. In twelve volumes. L, Orr, 1851 (Knight’s Cabinet edn). Full leather. Little scuffed; o/w VG;3. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Seven volumes only of eight. L, Cassell’s National Library, 1886-88. Full leather. Rubbed; volume six lacking the title page;4. Plus six others (39)

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Lot 190

BINDING:1. Beaconsfield, Earl of (Disraeli, Benjamin): Novels and Tales. Eleven volumes, Hughenden edn. L, Longmans, 1881. Half leather. Scuffed and lacking a couple of labels; o/w G;2. Russell, W: History of Modern Europe. In seven volumes. L, Rivington, 1822. Full leather. Scuffed; o/w G;3. Turner, S: History of England. Five volumes. L, Longmans, 1830. Full leather. Rubbed; o/w G;4. Turner, S: The Sacred History of the World. Three volumes. L, Longmans, 1834-37. Full leather. Rubbed; o/w G;5. Plus a number of other works. Mostly leather bound: History of the Anglo Saxons in three volumes, 1828; Henry the Eighth in four volumes, 1828-35; etc. (qty)

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Lot 191

PUNCH MAGAZINE:Bound volumes for the following years,1891 - 1950. Lacking the following volumes: 1892; 1904; 1906; 1907; 1910; 1930; 1941; 1943; 1947; and 1949. In all 49 volumes. Plus: Almanac: 1906-1937, in one volume; and History of Punch, 1895. One volume lacking the spine; o/w G+ (51)

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Lot 192

SOUTHEY, Robert:1. Essays, Moral and Political. In two volumes. L, J Murray, 1832, 1st edn. Inscribed by the author: ‘To sir Henry Acland, Esq. In remembrance of the author; London, Feb 3, 1837’. Plus a two-page hand-written letter (same date), and signed. Full leather. Worn and spines detached; Henry W Acland’s nameplate to front pastedown;2. History of the Peninsular war. In four volumes. L, J Murray, 1828, new edn. Full leather. Covers scuffed and cut; occasional foxing; o/w G (6)

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Lot 193

VELLUM BINDING:1. Dante: La Commedia di Dante Allighieri col comento di N Tommaseo. In three volumes; Venezia co' tipi del Gondoliere, 1837, pp272, 265, 256. Full vellum with two labels. Spines darkened; occasional foxing; o/w G+;2. Poems of Thomas Gray. Privately printed for Eton College, 1946. Full vellum. VG (4)

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Lot 194

RUSKIN, John (signed copy):Five works in one volume,Notes by Mr Ruskin on Samuel Prout and William Hunt, 1879-1880, pp108; bound with: Notes By Mr Ruskin, Part I. On His Drawings By The Late J M W Turner, R A, Part II. On His Own Handiwork Illustrative Of Turner. 1878, pp146, (v) advert; bound with: Notes On Some Of The Principal Pictures Exhibited In The Rooms Of The Royal Academy: 1875, inscribed by Ruskin: Henry Acland, with the author’s love, 4 June, 1875; pp59,(i); bound with: Notes on the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy No.V 1859, pp56; bound with: Notes by Ruskin on his Drawings by the late J M W Turner, exhibited at the Fine art Society's Galleries. Also an appendix containing a list of the engraved works, 1878; pp101. Half leather with marbled boards and endpapers, aeg. Spine scuffed and faded; o/w VGSir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB (23 August 1815 - 16 October 1900) was an English physician, educator and lifelong friend

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Lot 199

SIMPSON, William:1. The Autobiography Of William Simpson, R I (Crimean Simpson) edited by George Eyre-Todd. L, Fisher Unwin, 1903, 1st edn.; ppxv, 351, and plates. Inscribed ‘presented to H R Boyle by A P Hewitt, daughter of the author, 3 December 1934’. Original boards, spine cut, with loss; o/w G+;2. Glasgow in the ‘Forties’. Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1899, limited edn., # 469/500, signed by publisher. Folio, original cloth, gilt and teg. Covers little soiled and worn; o/w G+;3. Plus two books on Glasgow (4)

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RUSSELL FLINT, Sir William (1880 - 1969): Signed copies, etc.:1. In Pursuit: An Autobiograpy. 1970, limited edn. no.952 of 1050 copies signed by the author’s son Francis. Folio, original leather backed boards and slipcase. Fine;2. Breakfast in Perigord. L, Privately printed for the author by C Skilton, 1968, signed limited edn. #122/525. Folio, original leather backed boards and slipcase. Fine;3. Pictures From The Artist's Studio. Royal Academy of Arts 1962, 1st edn. Signed by author. Original cloth and plastic wrapper. Light foxing to covers; o/w fine;4. Shadows in Arcady. C Skilton, 1965, signed limited edn. #479/500. Original covers and slipcase. Fine;5. Two Signed hand-written letters by Russell Flint (with envelope);6. Plus two other letters from Arthur Rank and Nicholas Garland;7. Plus two other Russell Flint books (7)

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Lot 203

MILITARY/NEW ZEALAND (MOSTLY CAPTAIN H R BOYLE’S COPIES):1. Byrne, Lieut. J R: New Zealand Artillery in the Field 1914 -18. Auckland, 1922, 1st? dw; folding maps and illustrations. Dw torn and covers little soiled;2. King's Regulations for the Army and the Army Reserve. HMSO, 1940, pp806; original wrappers. Torn with small loss;3. Handbook for the Mark I BL 6-In 26-cwt. Howitzer on Marks I & IR Travelling Carriages Land service. HMSO, 1931, pp225 plus folding plates (some coloured). With ink notes and corrections;4. Handbook for the Ordnance, QF 25-PR, Mark II on carriage ... Land Service 1940. Pp277 plus 18 folding plates (some coloured); original boards. G+;5. Text Book of Ammunition 1936. HMSO, UK, 1936; pp322, plus plates (many folding and coloured). Covers little grubby; o/w G;6. Plus a large number of war time publications. UK and New Zealand. Almost all fine copies in original pictorial wrappers (qty)

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Lot 209

SPORTING:1. Millais, J G and others: The Gun At Home And Abroad, British Deer And Ground Game, Dogs, Guns & Rifles. L, Counties Press, 1913, 1st edn. limited edn. no. 609/950. XVI 348pp, teg, large 4to, 15 full pages colour plates. Full leather and teg. Spine faded; o/w VG;2. Dixon, Charles: Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands. Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford, 1900, 2nd edn. revised and enlarged with 41 colour plates by Charles Whymper. Original pictorial cloth. G+;3. Plus six others, mainly shooting (8)

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Lot 210

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni:Decameron,In two volumes. Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1934-35, limited edn. of 325 copies, this being no.68. Small folio, ppxv, 318, (i); xvi, 268. Illustrated with wood-engravings, including beautifully executed borders to the title-pages, taken from the 1492 Venetian edition. Original full leather, gilt. Spines slightly rubbed and faded; o/w VG set (2)

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Lot 211

The Book of Common Prayer:L, printed by Charles Bill, 1709, with a frontis portrait; bound with: The Book of Psalms. L, for J Heptinstall 1704, 6mo. Contemporary full leather with gilt tooling and clasps. Lacking one of the clasps; o/w VG

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Lot 212

TOURTEL, Mary: Three Rupert Bear 1st edns.:1. The Adventures of Rupert the Little Lost Bear. L, Nelson, nd (1921), 1st edn. of this first ever Rupert book; publisher's pictorial boards, 88pp. Small piece of tape to front cover and endpapers; o/w G+;2. Little Bear and the Fairy Child. L, Nelson, nd (1922), 1st edn. of this Rupert book; publisher's pictorial boards, 72pp. Spine split and torn; tape residue mark to front cover; o/w G;3. The Little Bear and the Ogres. L, Nelson, nd (1922), 1st edn.; publisher's pictorial boards, 83pp. Spine split and chipped; tape residue mark to endpapers; o/w G (3)

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Lot 215

ILLUSTRATED AND PLATE BOOKS:1. Morris, Rev. F O: Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Six volumes. L, W Mackenzie, nd, c.1880. Colour lithograph plates; 4to; original covers. Worn; plates clean;2. Nichols, J, and Steevens, G: The Genuine Works of William Hogarth. Two volumes. L, Longman, Hurst, 1808-10, 1st thus 4to. with 157 of 160 plates. Half leather, worn; occasional foxing;3. Milner, T: Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronomy, Physical Geography and Geology. L, S Orr, 1846, 1st. Complete with plates and illustrations. Half leather, gilt; aeg. Covers little rubbed; occasional foxing; o/w VG;4. Italian Pictures in Pen and Pencil. Nd, c.1870. Nice copy;5. Plus five illustrated children’s books. Including volume 1 of 1793 edn. of Aesop’s fables (15)

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Lot 216

BINDING:1. Gibbon, E: Roman Empire. Eight volume set. L, John Murray, 1862, with maps and portraits. Rugby school full leather prize binding, gilt. Little worn; o/w VG;2. Curtius, Ernst; Translated by A W Ward: History of Greece. Five volumes. L, Bentley, 1868-73. Full tree calf prize binding. Worn and hinges cracked; o/w G+;3. Prescott, W: History of The Conquest of Peru. In three volumes. Routledge, 1862, new edn. Rugby school full leather prize binding, gilt. VG;4. Hallam, H: View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. In three volumes. Murray, 1872, new edn. Full leather, gilt. Light scuffing; o/w VG;5. Macaulay, T B: History of England. In two volumes. Longmans, 1871, new edn. Rugby school full tree calf prize binding, gilt. VG (21)

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