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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 456

American Civil War.- - Brutish Army and Navy Review (The), vol I only, 6 nos in 1, 3 maps, 1 folding, few text-illustrations, 12 pp. advertisments at beginning & 2 at end, folding map torn at fold, with some loss, marked and stained, contemporary morocco, colour illustration on front cover, worn, 8vo , 1864, with 2 extracts from journals by Charles Piazzi Smyth, one on the measurements of the Great Pyramid, with 5 plates, disbound, (3) Includes C.C. Chesney on the American Civil War, with account of the Battle of Gettysberg and 2 maps.,

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Lot 461

publisher. The Scripture Atlas; or, a Series of Maps, additional engraved title publisher. The Scripture Atlas ; or, a Series of Maps, additional engraved title, 20 engraved maps and plans including double-page, all but one hand-coloured, additional hand-coloured map tipped-in at end, contemporary half straight-grain morocco with printed title label, worn and darkened, upper cover becoming detached, 1812 § [Edwards (Charles)] Payne's Universum, vol.III only (of 3), additional engraved title, 20 engraved plates comprising 3 views each, contemporary half calf, London & Leipzig , 1844 § [Price (Francis)] A Series of particular and useful Observations upon the Cathedral-Church of Salisbury], 14 engraved plates including one folding, with 2 related additional double-page lithographed plates (including one of Stonehenge), lacking title (supplied in later ms.) and last 8 pp., last present f. with repair, some browning, contemporary half calf, worn at corners , [1753]; and 4 others, Britain, v.s. (7)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 463

The Pageant of Peking, third edition, mounted plates, endpapers foxed The Pageant of Peking, third edition, mounted plates, endpapers foxed, bookplate of Charles Edward Dunscomb Bridge of West Wratton Park on front pastedown, original silk, gilt, worn, lacks silk on spine, lge. 4to, Shanghai, 1922.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 469

Gilbert (Josiah) and G.C.Churchill. - The Dolomite Mountains, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece and 5 plates, 2 folding maps, 1 hand-coloured, modern half morocco, gilt, [Neate G18; Perret 1930], 1864; and 4 others, mountaineering and travel, v.s. (5)

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Lot 48

Finberg (Alexander J.) - The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new Catalogue Raisonné, one of 650 copies signed by the author, 1924 § Hind (C.Lewis) Turner's Golden Vision, 1910 § Herrmann (Luke) Turner Prints, Oxford, 1990 § Shirley (Andrew) The Published Mezzotints of David Lucas after John Constable, R.A., Oxford, 1930 § Wedmore (Frederick) Studies in English Art, 2 vol., First Series second edition, Second Series with tipped-in A.L.s. from the author to [?G.C. Williamson , 1876-80; Méryon and Méryon's Paris, one of 129 copies, 1892; Etchings, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 1911, plates and illustrations, some colour and tipped in, all but the last original cloth, the third with dust- jacket; and c.45 others, art and collecting, mostly prints, v.s. (c.55)

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Lot 485

Menpes (Mortimer & Dorothy) - Venice, signed limited edition de luxe 20/500 with an original signed watercolour, and 100 tissue guarded colour plates, contemporary decorated vellum, spine dulled, 4to, Adam & Charles Black, 1904.

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Lot 499

Shackleton (E.H.) - The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vol., colour plates and frontispieces with captioned paper guards, folding panorama and 4 folding maps in pocket at end (including a duplicate copy of The Route and Journey of the Sourthern Journey Party, central crease to spines and several gatherings becoming loose, 1909 § Scott ( Captain Robert Falcon) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol., 2 folding maps in pockets at end, hinges cracked, 1905 , first editions, frontispieces, photographic and colour plates throughout, half-titles, titles printed in red & black, some spotting and endpapers browned, original blue cloth, t.e.g., spine faded and a little rubbed, 8vo (4)

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Galsworthy (John) - Caravan, first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket, with glacine wrapper beneath, a little soiled,

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 50

Galsworthy (John) - Caravan, first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket, with glacine wrapper beneath, a little soiled, 1925; The Plays, original buckram, 1929; The White Monkey [and] The Silver Spoon [and] Swan Song, together 3 vol., original blue buckram, spines faded, 1928; Two Forsyte Interludes, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, 1927; Soames and the Flag, original vellum, covers a little splayed, slip-case, 1930; Maid in Waiting, original vellum, 1931 § Marrot (H.V.) The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, with T.L.s. from Gilbert Murray to Jack Hodges tipped in at beginning, modern half blue morocco, spine gilt,with original cloth covers bound in at end, t.e.g., spine very slightly faded, 1935, all but the first and last limited editions signed by the author, some plates and tables, some folding ; and 10 others by or about Galsworthy, some limited and signed, some bound, 8vo (19)

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Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman, atlas vol Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman , at

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 504

Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman, atlas vol Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman , atlas vol. only (without the four octavo vol.), 2 parts in one, second edition, part-titles with engraved vignettes, engraved portrait, 2 engraved maps only (of 4), 14 unnumbered plates of engraved head-pieces, 288 engraved plates (only, of 290, lacking plates 18 & 70 in second part) on 170 sheets, first part title badly creased, damp-staining, browning and foxing affecting most plates to varying degree, a few old repairs, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with vellum corner-tips, rubbed, spine worn and defective, [ Atabey 242; this edition not in Blackmer], folio, Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1842. French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and an avid traveler and lover of antiquities, Choiseul-Gouffier first published his impressions of Greece and the Ottoman Empire as Voyage Pittoresque en Grece in 1782. In 1842, the work was posthumously republished as Voyage pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman . This second edition quite rare, with only the Atabey copy (selling for £14,000 in 2002) and one other in the auction records.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 507

Astley (Thomas) - A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of the Most Esteemed Relations, Which Have Been Hitherto Published in any Language: Comprehending Every Thing Remarkable in its Kind in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, 3 vol. only (of 4), 154 engraved plates, some browning, light soiling, foxing and offsetting, ex-library copy with stamp to endpapers, bookplate excised from front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked, extremities worn with some loss, 4to, for Thomas Astley, 1745-1746.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 508

Bibliography.- Abbey (J.R.) - Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland..., one of 500 copies, inscribed presentation copy from the author, small stain to foot of one f., some minor spotting, dust-jacket, crudely repaired , 1952; Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 2 vol., one of 400 copies, jackets lightly rubbed and marked, notably at spines , 1956-57, first editions , plates including colour, tissue guards, original cloth, t.e.g., dust-jackets, slip-cases, 4to, Curwen Press (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 513

Roscoe (Thomas * David Roberts, illustrator) - Jennings Landscape Annual, 1835; 1836 (2); 1837; 1838(3), engraved plates, original blind stamped morocco gilt, rubbed, some boards detached, Robert Jennings & Co., plus 3 related vol., 8vo (10) not subject to return

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 514

Wright (G.N.) - The Rhine, Italy, and Greece, vol. 1, only, of 2, extra engraved title and 32 plates, foxed, inked date to bottom of each title, original cloth gilt, dulled, Fisher, Son & Co., [c.1841] § Wallihan (A.G. & Theodore Roosevelt, introduction) Cametra Shots at Big Game, original cloth with photo onlay, Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1901, plus 5 other vol., v.s. (7)

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Berge (Friedrich) - Conchylienbuch oder allgemeine und besondere Naturgeschichte der Muscheln und Schnecken, 46 lithographed

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 515

Berge (Friedrich) - Conchylienbuch oder allgemeine und besondere Naturgeschichte der Muscheln und Schnecken, 46 lithographed plates, all but 2 hand-coloured, foxing throughout but mostly to text ff., plates generally clean and bright, title soiled and inner margin repaired, new endpapers, modern half cloth, [Nissen ZBI 320 (incorrectly calls for 47 plates)], 4to, Stuttgart, 1855.

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Born (Ignaz Edler Von) - Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis..., engraved vignette title and numerous head- and tail-piece

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 516

Born (Ignaz Edler Von) - Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis..., engraved vignette title and numerous head- and tail-pieces, 18 folding engraved plates of shells by Schtz or J. Adam after Fr. Fuxeder, 36 illustrations of shells, all engraved by Schtz, C. Conti and others, light dampstaining, ink ownership inscription and bookplate of Katherine H. van Winkle Palmer to front free endpaper and front pastedown respetively, later half calf, red morocco label to spine, joints cracked and extremities worn, [Nissen ZBI 470], folio, Vienna, J.P. Kraus, 1780. One of the most handsome of all conchological works. The work was commissioned by Empress Marie-Therese in order to record and codify her natural history collection in Vienna. In 1778 Born published a descriptive catalogue of the collection; the present work, published two years later is on a much larger scale than the first work and included the fine coloured plates. The collection has remained in Vienna and is now in the Natural History Museum.

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Brookes (Samuel) - An Introduction to the Study of Conchology, 11 lithographed plates, of which 9 are hand-coloured, occasio

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 517

Brookes (Samuel) - An Introduction to the Study of Conchology, 11 lithographed plates, of which 9 are hand-coloured, occasional foxing and light offsetting, ex-library copy with Sion College stamp to title verso, ink ownership inscripion and repaired tear to front free endpaper, modern cloth, [Nissen ZBI 599], 4to, 1815.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 52

Webb (Beatrice) - My Apprenticeship, signed and inscribed by the author to ?Miss Bradbury on half-title, with tipped-in A.L.s. from Sidney Webb to the editor of 'Great Thoughts' magazine "I return the enclosed letter & cheque for £2.2.0. When I have time to write an article, editors give me £25 for it, or more; and then I never sell the copyright, but only specific serial rights", 1926 § Mannin (Ethel) Confessions and Impressions, with tipped-in T.L.s. from the author to Jack Hodges dated 1974 "I am opposed to Puritanism, but also to licence " and referring to both |Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford", 1930 § Herbert (A.P.) The Point of Parliament, second edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Sir Donald and Mercita Gainer on title and with inscription in French on front free endpaper, 1947 § Newbolt ( Sir Henry) My World as in My Time: Memoirs 1862-1932, with A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, 1932 § Mackay (Ian) The Real Mackay, limited edition with pencil verse in Mackay's handwriting bound in, 1953 § Shaw (G.B.) The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928 § Muggeridge (Malcolm)Winter in Moscow, 1934 § Foot (Michael) Debts of Honour, with T.L.s. from the author to Hodges tipped in, 1980, all but the third first editions , some plates, original cloth, the third and last three with dust-jackets, a little rubbed, some spines faded ; and c.40 others, politics, society etc., mostly by or about Shaw including some volumes of the limited edition Works and some bound, 8vo (c.45)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 520

Curr (Edward) - Pure Saddle-Horses, presentation copy inscribed on title, top corner cut from dedication ff. without loss to text, original roan backed cloth, Melbourne , 1863 § Deraniyagala (P.E.P.) A Coloured Atlas of Some Vertebrates From Ceylon, vol. 2 & 3 only, original wrappers, Ceylon , 1953-1955, plates and illustrations ; and c.25 others, natural history , v.s. (c.25)

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Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Anatomie des Mollusques ( Baron G. L. C.) Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire e

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 521

Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Anatomie des Mollusques ( Baron G. L. C.) Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Anatomie des Mollusques, 35 engraved plates, some browning and offsetting, ink library stamp to title, modern cloth, [Nissen ZBI 1010], 1817 § Deshayes (M.G.P.) Description de Coquilles caracteristiques des terrains, 14 lithographed plates, foxing, several contemporary ink notes tipped in, modern red buckram, Paris, 1831; and Cuvier's The Mollusca and Radiata, 1834, 4to & 8vo (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 523

Dawson (John Frederic) - Geodaphaga Britannica, 3 hand-coloured engraved plates, small ownership stamp and a few pencil annotations to text, modern green half calf, 1854 § Curtis (John) Farm Insects, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary calf, 1883 § Fletcher (T.B.) Some South Indian Insects, 50 colour printed plates, original cloth, Madras, 1914, some spotting and browning ; and 11 others, Insects, v.s. (14)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 524

Farrer (Reginald) - Alpines and Bog-plants, modern morocco backed boards, gilt, t.e.g., 1908 § Sitwell (Sacheverell) Old Fashioned Flowers, original boards, dust-jacket, a little worn, 1939 § Fairchild (David) Garden Islands of The Great East, original cloth, New York , 1944 § Cowan (J. Macqueen) The Journeys and Pplant Introductions of George Forrest, original cloth, dust-jacket , 1952, plates and illustrations ; and c.80 others, botany, v.s. (c.85)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 525

Firminger (Thomas A.C.) - A Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India, contemporary half calf, 1864 § Thompson (Robert) The Gardener's Assistant, modern morocco backed boards, original label re-laid, rubbed, 1878 § Smith ( Sir James Edward) An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany, sixth edition, later half calf, neatly re-cased, 1827 § Grant (Adele Lewis) A Monograph of the Genus Mimulus, original wrappers, Missouri, 1924, numerous plates and illustrations ; and 6 others, botany, v.s. (10)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 527

Goldsmith (Oliver) - A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 4 vol., engraved portrait and 81 plates, contemporary half calf, gilt, rubbed, Glasgow , 1832 § Fitzsimons (F.W.) The Natural History of South Africa - Mammals, 4 vol., some spotting, original cloth , 1919 § Robertson (John) Animal Life on The Shores of the Clyde and Firth, original cloth, rubbed, Glasgow, n.d.; and 4 others, natural history, v.s. (13)

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Humphreys (Henry Noel) - The Genera and Species of British Butterflies, lithographed pictorial title-page and 32 plates, the

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 531

Humphreys (Henry Noel) - The Genera and Species of British Butterflies, lithographed pictorial title-page and 32 plates, the first bound as frontispiece bound with The Genera of British Moths, 61 lithographed plates (of 62), lacking plate 2 , together 2 works in 1 vol. , the plates by the author, coloured by hand, contemporary half morocco, g.e., T.J. Allman , [1859-1860] § Natural History of Insects (The), compiled from Swammerdam, Brookes, Goldsmith, , first edition , second issue, 20 engraved plates by J. Fraser, contemporary tree calf gilt, upper joint split , [Lisney 347], W. Law, A. Millar, and E. Cater , 1792 § Seitz (Adalbert) The Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol.I-IV in 5: The Palearctic Region, comprising The Palearctic Butterflies, 2 vol., 89 coloured plates, preliminaries of vol.2 spotted, 1906-[1909] § Feltwell (John) The Naturalist's Garden, original boards, dust-jacket, 1987; and a quantity of others, gardening and entomology , v.s. (qty.)

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Jeffreys (John Gwyn) - British Conchology, 5 vol., 5 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces and 142 engraved plates, of which

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Lot 532

Jeffreys (John Gwyn) - British Conchology, 5 vol., 5 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces and 142 engraved plates, of which 107 are hand-coloured, slight browning and spotting, several leaves loose, hinges cracked, bookplates to front pastedown, contemporary cloth, spine ends worn with some loss, rubbed, 1862-1869 § Wood (W.) General Conchology, or a description of shells, 59 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some offsetting, modern cloth, new endpapers, [Nissen ZBI 4455], 1835, 8vo (6)

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Knorr (George Wolffgang) - Les Delices des yeux et de l'esprit, ou Collection generale des differentes especes de coquillage

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Lot 535

Knorr (George Wolffgang) - Les Delices des yeux et de l'esprit, ou Collection generale des differentes especes de coquillages que la mer renferme , 6 parts in 3 vol., 6 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces and 190 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light foxing and offsetting but otherwise a clean and bright set, bookplate and booksellers sticker to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with floral motifs, joints cracked and chipped but remain firm, extremities worn, [Nissen ZBI 2235], 4to, Nuremberg, 1760-1773.

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and Johann Hier Chemnitz, Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 11 vol and Johann Hier Chemnitz, Neues systematisches

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Lot 538

and Johann Hier Chemnitz, Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 11 vol and Johann Hier Chemnitz, Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 11 vol. in 13 only (lacking vol. 12, s upplement by G. H. Schubert and J. A. Wagner, published in 1829), additional hand-coloured title to vol.1, engraved portraits, numerous engraved vignettes (many hand-coloured) and illustrations to text, including many printed in red, 406 hand-coloured engraved plates, several heightened in gum arabic, Namen-Register and publisher's advertisement leaf bound in after text to vol. XI, ex-library copies with stamps throughout, occasional spotting but generally clean and bright, new endpapers, modern morocco backed cloth, [ Nissen ZBI 2722], 4to, Nuremberg, 1769-1795. A very important work on conchology, begun by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (1729-1778) and continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz after the publication of the third volume. Included here is the rare eleventh volume, published in 1795.

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Paxton (Joseph) - Magazine of Botany, vol.7 & 10 only, 96 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbe

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Lot 541

Paxton (Joseph) - Magazine of Botany, vol.7 & 10 only, 96 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 1840 & 1843 § Johnson (C. Pierpoint) British Wild Flowers, hand-coloured illustrations and black and white, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, original spine laid-down, 1863 § Rhind (William) A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, engraved title, portrait and 45 engraved plates, many hand-coloured, numerous illustrations, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, 1872. 8vo (4)

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Lot 543

Ramsay (A.C.) - The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales, 14 woodcut illustrations (8 full page) and large folding map, a few small stains, later endpapers, original cloth, gilt, 1860 § Smith (James) Researches in Newer Pliocene and Post-Tertiary Geology, 4 tinted lithographs, tissue guards, some spotting, original cloth, Glasgow, 1862 § Kenngott (Adolf) and Friedrich Rolle. Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs, 41 chromolithographs plates, modern cloth backed boards, Esslingen, 1888; and 4 others, Geology, v.s. (7)

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Reeve (Lovell Augustus) - Conchologia Systematica, or Complete System of Conchology..., 2 vol., first edition , folding ta

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 544

Reeve (Lovell Augustus) - Conchologia Systematica, or Complete System of Conchology..., 2 vol., first edition , folding table and 301 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light offsetting and occasional foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, covers elaborately tooled with foliate borders, rebacked and recased preserving original covers (with several repairs to insect damage), g.e., [Nissen ZBI 3332], 4to, 1841-1842.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 546

Smith (Alfred Charles) - The Bird of Wiltshire, upper hinge cracked but firm, spine faded, London and Devizes, 1887 § Durman (Roger) Bird Observatories in Britain and Ireland , dust-jacket, 1976 § Hicks (J.S.) The Encyclopaedia of Poultry, third edition , n.d., numerous plates and illustrations, all in original cloth ; and c.30 others, ornithology, v.s. (c.35)

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Lot 548

Sowerby (John) & Charles Johnson. - The Ferns of Great Britain, 49 hand-coloured engraved plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 1855 § Lowe (E.J.) A Natural History of British Grasses, third edition, 74 colour printed woodcut plates, tissue guards, some spotting and offsetting, modern cloth , 1864 § Cabot (David) Ireland, New Naturalist Series No.84, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1999; and c.30 others, Natural History, v.s. (c.30)

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Barrie (J.M.) - The Plays of J.M.Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, original blue cloth, paper labels, cre

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Lot 55

Barrie (J.M.) - The Plays of J.M.Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, original blue cloth, paper labels, cream dust-jacket, spine very slightly soiled and frayed at ends, still a very good copy, 1928; another copy, publisher's deluxe binding of original limp blue roan, gilt, 1928; The Little White Bird, frontispiece, original blue buckram, spine faded, 1902; A Window in Thrums, number 48 of 50 copies with an additional set of plates on Japon and signed by the author and artist , from an edition limited to 560, etched plates by William Hole, original buckram, uncut, spine a little faded, 1892; Courage [Rectorial Address], large paper copy , original cream cloth, t..e.g., others uncut, [1922] § Mackail (Denis) The Story of J.M.B., with tipped-in A.L.s. from Barrie to Horne dated 1910, modern half morocco, gilt, spine faded, 1941; Tales from Greenery Street, inscribed by the author to Barrie "For J.M.B. from Denis Mackail with more than meets the eye. May 1928" on front free endpaper, original cloth, 1928, first editions ; and 15 others by or about Barrie, 8vo (22) The first was issued as part of the Uniform Edition of Barrie's plays; the third contains the first appearance of Peter Pan.

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Wood (William) - General Conchology; or, a Description of Shells, vol.1 only [all published], half-title, 60 hand-coloured

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Lot 550

Wood (William) - General Conchology; or, a Description of Shells, vol.1 only [all published], half-title, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, a clean and bright copy, bookplate to front pastedown, ink inscription to front free endpaper, hinges broken and covers loose, contemporary half morocco, upper cover detached, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 4455], 8vo, 1815.

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Lot 551

Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.) - Fishing - Pike and Other Coarse Fish, scattered spotting, 1885 § Lamond (Henry) The Sea-Trout, 9 coloured plates, gilt , 1916 § Hutton (J.Arthur) The Life-History of the Salmon, modern half morocco, Aberdeen , 1924, first two original cloth ; and 19 others, v.s. (22)

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Lot 553

Rural Sports, 3 vol., large paper copy,, plates Rural Sports, 3 vol., large paper copy,, plates, extra-illustrated by the insertion of a few extra plates (including 5 hand-coloured plates of flies in vol. II), , some loose, some foxing and browning, bookplates on front pastedowns, 19th century half morocco, corners and edges rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, sm. 4to, 1801-02-13.

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Dogs.- Arkwright (William) - The Pointer and his Predecessors, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 750, plates, ti

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Lot 554

Dogs.- Arkwright (William) - The Pointer and his Predecessors, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 750, plates, tissue guards, original buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, an excellent copy, 4to, 1902.

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Dogs.- Laverack (Edward) - The Setter, first edition , 2 chromolithographed plates (lightly spotted), hinges weak, original

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Lot 555

Dogs.- Laverack (Edward) - The Setter, first edition , 2 chromolithographed plates (lightly spotted), hinges weak, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, small 4to, 1872. A good copy of a scarce book.

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Grahame (Kenneth) - The Golden Age, number 130 of 275 large paper copies signed by the author and artist, illustrations by E

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Lot 56

Grahame (Kenneth) - The Golden Age, number 130 of 275 large paper copies signed by the author and artist, illustrations by E.H.Shepard, original vellum-backed marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case, 1928; another edition, plates by Maxfield Parrish, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1900; The Golden Age [and] Dream Days, together 2 vol., plates and illustrations by Parrish, modern half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., spines faded, 1900-02 § Green (Peter) Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932, signed and inscribed by the author , illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1959, 8vo (5)

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Lot 560

Blackall (John) - Observations on the Nature and Cure of Dropsies, fourth edition, signature torn from top of title, light oxidising, original boards, worn , 1824 § Solon (Martin) De l'Albuminurie ou Hydropisie , half-title, 5 coloured lithographed plates, ink name on half-title, spotting and damp-staining throughout, contemporary half calf, Paris , 1838; and 5 others, Medicine, 8vo (7)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 561

Bright (Richard) - Cases and observations illustrative of renal disease; Observations on jaundice; Observations on malignant diseases of the liver; and six other papers by the same, in Guy's Hospital Reports, vol.I lithographed plates, ink name on title, original cloth, printed spine label worn, hinges pulling, 1836; and 2 others, Bright, 8vo (3)

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Lot 566

[Lacombe (Jacques)] - Dictionnaire encyclopedique des amusemens des sciences mathematiques et physiques, 2 vol. (including plates vol.), text vol. with half-title and tables, including one folding, and woodcut diagrams, plates vol. with 86 engraved plates, bookplates on front pastedowns, uniformly bound in 19th century half calf, 4to, Paris, Pancoucke , 1792.

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Lot 569

Simpson (George) - The Anatomy of the Muscles, second edition, 16 lithographed plates, tissue guards, some minor spotting and marking, all up to & including title detached with upper cover, publisher's cloth-backed boards, worn, spine with remains to tape, 4to, for the author , 1834.

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Morton (H.V.) - In the Steps of the Master, [and] In the Steps of St.Paul, together 2 vol., one of 101 and 75 large paper c

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Lot 62

Morton (H.V.) - In the Steps of the Master, [and] In the Steps of St.Paul, together 2 vol., one of 101 and 75 large paper copies respectively, signed by the author , original half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, the first a little spotted and with transparent dust-jacket and slip-case, 1934-36; The Call of England, original cloth, dust-jacket (frayed and repaired), 1928; In Search of Ireland, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1930; In Search of England, 1927; In Search of Scotland, 1929; In Search of Ireland, 1930; In Search of Wales, 1932; In Scotland Again, 1933, plates, the last five all bound in modern half morocco of different colours, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines gilt with relevant motifs, the last with loosely-inserted T.L.s. from the binders concerning the work ; and 9 others by Morton, one signed by the author, 8vo (18)

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Masefield (John) - The Box of Delights..., first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket, a little spotted and browned (as

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 63

Masefield (John) - The Box of Delights..., first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket, a little spotted and browned (as usual), slight fraying at upper edges with a couple of small chips but still a good copy, 1935; Ballads and Poems, first edition , original cloth, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 1910; Good Friday, first edition , original cloth, paper labels, glacine wrapper, 1916; Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run, number 57 of 275 copies signed by the author, original vellum-backed boards, 1919; another edition, one of 380 copies signed by the author and artist, tipped-in plates by G.D.Armour, some colour, original vellum-backed pictorial boards, gilt, 1921; Poetry, one of 275 copies signed by the author, original buckram, gilt, spine browned, [1931], most slightly rubbed ; and 13 others by or about Masefield, 8vo & 4to (19)

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Shepard (Ernest H.) - Drawn from Memory, [and] Drawn from Life, together 2 vol., the first with tipped-in A.L.s. from the a

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 72

Shepard (Ernest H.) - Drawn from Memory, [and] Drawn from Life, together 2 vol., the first with tipped-in A.L.s. from the author dated 1926 offering to sign a book, later morocco, gilt, by Morrell, spines gilt with red labels, 1957-61; Fun & Fantasy: A Book of Drawings, colour plates, later half vellum, gilt, by Morrell, covers a little splayed, 1927 § Everybody's Pepys [and] Everybody's Boswell, together 2 vol., each one of 350 copies signed by the artist, original buckram, gilt, the second with dust-jacket, 1926-30, all with illustrations by E.H.Shepard, t.e.g., some uncut, spines slightly faded ; and 4 others illustrated by Shepard, 4to & 8vo (9)

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Metro-land , number 71 of 220 copies signed by the author and artist ( Sir John) Metro-land , number 71 of 220 copi

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 77

Metro-land , number 71 of 220 copies signed by the author and artist ( Sir John) Metro-land , number 71 of 220 copies signed by the author and artist, text printed in red on tissue leaves, 15 colour autolithograph plates by Glynn Boyd Harte, original cloth with another colour lithograph mounted on upper cover, original cloth drop-back box, an excellent copy, oblong 4to, Warren Editions, 1977.

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The Works, 3 vol., contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind, spines faded (George Gordon Noel, Lord ) The Works , 3 v

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)

Lot 8

The Works, 3 vol., contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind, spines faded (George Gordon Noel, Lord ) The Works , 3 vol., contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind, spines faded, 1819 § Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Biographia Literaria, 2 vol. in 1, first edition , lacking half-titles and advertisement leaf, ex-library copy with stamps, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, 1817; Essays on His Own Times, 3 vol., contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, 1850; Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, edited by J.Payne Collier, modern half morocco, 1856 § Thompson (Francis) Percy Bysshe Shelley, large paper copy, original boards, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1909 § Keats (John) The Letters , edited by Maurice Buxton Forman, 2 vol., modern half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, 1931, some plates, the first three rubbed; and 18 others by or about the Romantic poets, mostly bindings, v.s. (29)

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A Royal Crown Derby part tea set in the Imari `383` pattern to include ten cups and saucers, two octagonal serving plates, a

Busby

Lot 111

A Royal Crown Derby part tea set in the Imari `383` pattern to include ten cups and saucers, two octagonal serving plates, a round serving dish and two diamond shaped serving dishes, printed and impressed marks on bases (25)

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BLACKIE W.G.:The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, 67 mainly double page coloured maps, 10 coloured plates, conte

Busby

Lot 129

BLACKIE W.G.:The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, 67 mainly double page coloured maps, 10 coloured plates, contemporary half morocco rubbed, London 1882

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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRASS SKELETON CLOCK, with a silvered dial with Roman numerals, with twin scrolling plates and exposed

Duke's

Lot 437

AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRASS SKELETON CLOCK, with a silvered dial with Roman numerals, with twin scrolling plates and exposed fusee movment, beneath a glass dome, 16.5" high

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A PAIR OF REGENCY STYLE GILT WOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS, with oval back plates with tied rope effect borders, each with twin cand

Duke's

Lot 479

A PAIR OF REGENCY STYLE GILT WOOD GIRANDOLE MIRRORS, with oval back plates with tied rope effect borders, each with twin candle branches, 24" high x 18" wide (2)

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A GEORGE I WALNUT CHEST OF DRAWERS, the rectangular top with a moulded border above four long graduated drawers with brass ha

Duke's

Lot 498

A GEORGE I WALNUT CHEST OF DRAWERS, the rectangular top with a moulded border above four long graduated drawers with brass handles and key escutcheons, with engraved back plates, on bracket feet, 30" high x 30" wide

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AFTER WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Engraved by T. Cook "Harlot's Progress", titled with publishing details for GMG and J. Robi

Duke's

Lot 5

AFTER WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Engraved by T. Cook "Harlot's Progress", titled with publishing details for GMG and J. Robinson, Paternoster Road, June 1st, 1798 to the margin, plates 1-6, engravings, 13.75" x 16.5" (6)

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A PAIR OF WALNUT AND EBONISED FRAMED WALL MIRRORS in the manner of George Bullock, each with rectangular plates within flat f

Duke's

Lot 505

A PAIR OF WALNUT AND EBONISED FRAMED WALL MIRRORS in the manner of George Bullock, each with rectangular plates within flat fronted burr walnut veneered surrounds with applied roundels to each corner, beneath a scrolling cornice with leaf-carved decoration, 33" high (2). Provenance: The collection of James Fairfax A.C., Stanbridge Mill, Gussage All Saints, Dorset.

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Pair of Chinese blue and white elongated ovoid vases decorated with flowers and foliage and calligraphy, canton dish, three b

Ewbank's

Lot 130

Pair of Chinese blue and white elongated ovoid vases decorated with flowers and foliage and calligraphy, canton dish, three blue and white dishes, small polychrome ginger jar and cover and an Imari palette bowl, Larger vases chips to rim. Ginger jars OK. Bowl with three cracks. Larger plate cracked. Pair of plates no damage found.

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Five Chinese porcelain plates decorated in the Imari palette with flowering shrubs and bamboo, 22.5cm diameter, All with glaz

Ewbank's

Lot 195

Five Chinese porcelain plates decorated in the Imari palette with flowering shrubs and bamboo, 22.5cm diameter, All with glaze faults and chips/frits to foot rims and rims. One with small firing crack, the same and another with 3cm crack from rim. Wear to decoration.

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Five Chinese porcelain plates decorated in the Imari palette with flowering shrubs and bamboo, the borders with auspicious ob

Ewbank's

Lot 196

Five Chinese porcelain plates decorated in the Imari palette with flowering shrubs and bamboo, the borders with auspicious objects, 23cm diameter, All with minor glaze faults. One with loss to rim under the glaze. One with numerous chips/frits to foot rim and others with fewer. Three with small chips to rim. Decoration worn.

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Pair of Chinese celadon ground porcelain plates enamelled with a branch of fruiting peaches, No chips, cracks or restoration.

Ewbank's

Lot 197

Pair of Chinese celadon ground porcelain plates enamelled with a branch of fruiting peaches, No chips, cracks or restoration. Some light scratches.

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Chinese famille rose porcelain plate decorated with two ladies seated and two young children, one fishing, seal mark to base,

Ewbank's

Lot 250

Chinese famille rose porcelain plate decorated with two ladies seated and two young children, one fishing, seal mark to base, another decorated with flowers, Imari palette plate and two blue and white plates, (5), Bowl - Several cracks. Chips to rim and repairs. Firing fault to base rim. Red, blue and gilt plate - Several cracks and chips. Blue and white plate - Numerous frits and small chips to rim. Famille rose figural plate - Cracks and chips to rim. Famille rose floral plate - Cracks and small chips to rim. All with wear to decoration and glaze faults.

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