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Lot 2255
Folio Society volumes, to include: 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien, 'The Pursuit of Love' by Nancy Mitford, a set of seven novels by Thomas Hardy, in addition to other miscellaneous, non-Folio Society editions. (2 boxes)Condition Report: The Fennimore Cooper and Kingsley volumes are essentially bound as a set, with green part-leather and cloth boards, all 12mo; internal contents of this set fairly clean, with some rubbing and scuffing to the bindings, all published by Macmillan c. 1900-1906.The Hobbit is a 1979 Folio Society edition, in very clean condition.
Lot 2086
An impressive collection of books on Japanese prints, including: Kuniyoshi From the Arthur R. Miller Collection by Timothy Clark; Hiroshige Prints and Drawings by Martin Forrer [Royal Academy/1997]; The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro by Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark; Shunga/Sex and pleasure in Japanese Art Edited by Timothy Cark and others; Shunga/Erotic Art in Japan by Rosina Buckland; Japanese Prints From the Early Masters to the Modern by James A. Michener with notes on the prints by Richard Lane; Japanese Erotic Art/The Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan; Beauty and Violence/Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi [1839-1892]; Chikanobu by Brian Coats; Sumo and The Woodblock Masters by Lawrence Bickford; The Japanese Print Since 1900 by Lawrence Smith; Poem of The Pillow and other Stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other Artists of the Floating World by Gian Carlo Calza; The Jacob Pins Collection of Japanese Prints, Paintings and Sculptures; Japanese Prints/Barry Davies Oriental Art [1998]; The Dawn of The Floating World by Timothy Clark and others [2001]; The Colour Prints of Hiroshige by Edward F. Strange; Kuniyoshi/Visionary of the Floating World edited by Rossella Menegazzo; The Art of Hiroshige by Tsuneo Tamba [bi-lingual text]; Kuniyoshi/The Faithful Samurai by David Weinberg; Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka stage/1780-1830 by C.Andrew Gerstle; Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1680-1900 by Andreas Marks; Hiroshige's Journey in the 60 odd Provinces by Marijie Jansen; and Samurai Stars of the Stage and Beautiful Women edited by the Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf [about 101 books altogether]
Lot 2154
Antiquarian books, to include: J. M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens', with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, London, Hodder and Stoughton, small 8vo, gilt-tooled leather boards; Theodor Mommsen, 'History of Rome' in five volumes, London, Richard Bentley, 12mo, all gilt-tooled leather boards, with a volume of Shakespeare in matching binding; Frederic Farrar, 'With the Poets', third edition, London, Suttaby and Co., gilt-tooled green leather binding; A. J. Church, 'Pictures from Greek Life and Story', London, Hutchinson, blue leather gilt-tooled boards: C. R. B. Barrett, 'Battles and Battlefields in England', London, A. D. Innes, 1896, red leather gilt-tooled boards. (10)
Lot 2404
WWII medal group to PLT. OFF. K. R. BUTLER. R.A.F, The India General Service Medal, George VI, 1 Bar North West Frontier 1937- 39, 1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal and War Medal, with Miniatures, together with 3 Log Books 1, 4, 5, starting in 1937 and running to 1945, and including service with 28 (AC) Squadron Ambala, India. He flew Lysander army co-operation aircraft, Wellingtons, Halifax and Lancasters during the later war years ending up as a Squadron Leader at 103 Squadron, Elsham Wolds in 1945. In April the same year he took part in Operation Manna making food drops to people in occupied Western Holland. The lot includes his wings, uniform buttons and 103 Squadron badge, Silver Pegasus pin, 9ct gold and enamelled "RAF" cuff links, guilloche enamel RAF comb Pilot Officer Butler was awarded the Oak Leaf Emblem (Mentioned in Dispatches) 17.12.1942 Waziristan, this has been unpicked from the India General Service Ribbon and is missingFor further information please see:- https://www.northlincsweb.net/103Sqn/html/ken_butler_103_sqn-manna.html
Lot 2183
Books, to include fine gilt-tooled editions of 'Poetry and Pictures' by Thomas Moore, Edgar Allan Poe's Poetical Works, 'The New Forest, its History and Scenery' by John R. Wise, 'English Sacred Poetry of the Oldentime', among other gilt-tooled editions and Folio Society editions of 'The Oregon Trial' by Francis Parkman, 'The Story of San Michele' by Axel Munthe and 'Blake' by Peter Ackroyd. (1 box)
Lot 2411
WWII Reflector gunsight MK. II* Stores Ref. N0. 8B/2361 (15598/43) in original box with hand written note :- A.M. Location Iford Farm Iford Sussex, Spitfire X4541, 602 Squadron Pilot Cyril Babbage, from crashed Spitfire. together with a Type P8. No.66012H compass B/R/45 MOD broad arrow 6A/1672
Lot 2389
Beaumont Adams model 1854 five shot 54 bore double action percussion revolver fitted with (un-stamped) Braziers patent loading lever numbered 534, sliding chamber safety catch and retaining cylinder arbour pin screw, 5.75 inch octagonal barrel, top strap marked for Robert Adams, 76 King William Street, London E. C. the right side marked Adams Patent No. 31708 R, L16035, London proof marks on cylinder and barrel, barrel with L.A.C (London Armory Company) mark, cylinder numbered 31708 R, with chequered one piece grip.Retaining most of its original surface with light oxidation, spotting and surface marks, cylinder with some play, action working.
Lot 2404D
Medal Group awarded to Private Martin. Including a Queens South Africa Medal, with four bars, Wittebergen, Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Cape Colony. '3592 PTE W . Martin I: R: Sussex Reg'. A Kings South Africa Medal with two bars, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902. '17279 PTE W. Martin R.A.M.C', Royal Army Medical Corps. And an India General Service Medal, 1895 with two bars, Tirah 1897-98, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 ' 3392 PTE W. Martin. 2nd B Royal Suss Regt' (3)
Lot 26
Richard I silver short cross penny of London class 2 Spink 1346Obv:- hEINRICVSRElx Rev:- +RAVL.ON.LVNDELMoneyer Raul known only in Class 2No chin or side whiskers, with hair as small crescents normal reading R/ElxFull flan but slightly irregular with a little double striking on legend each side VF
![[Chatterton (Thomas)] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley and others, in the Fifteenth Century,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2ccb5b15-4468-460a-a3aa-afc100bb15b2/500ea5b8-0de0-4768-8856-afc100c326ae/468x382.jpg)
Lot 183
[Chatterton (Thomas)] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley and others, in the Fifteenth Century, first edition, second issue (with cancelled c4 advertisement, omitting 'and were probably composed by him'), engraved plate, sig.X consisting of 1 f. (pp.305-306), final errata f., some spotting or mostly light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary polished calf, richly gilt spine with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, [Rothschild 589], a good copy, Printed for T. Payne, and Son, at the Mews-Gate, 1777 § Akenside (Mark) The Pleasures of imagination. A poem. In three books, third edition, half-title, title printed in red and black and with large engraved vignette, lacking final advertisement f., occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ends and corners worn, joints starting, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed (including loss of marbled paper), Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-mall, 1744; and 16 others, 18th century English poetry & literature, a few odd vol., including vol.1 of the Annual Anthology, 1799, with contributions by Robert Southey, v.s. (18) ⁂ The first mentioned is a celebrated literary hoax written by the young Chatterton, who committed suicide aged seventeen. Provenance: First mentioned: Charlotte Mary Peters (engraved armorial bookplate); 'John Hayward sale 14.iii.66' (pencil note by following); Simon Nowell-Smith (book label) 'Mary Jacobus from S.N.S, 1968' (pencil inscription), all to front pastedown.
Lot 205
NO RESERVE Battle of Waterloo.- Bowyer (R.) View from Mont St. Jean of The Battle of Waterloo, at the commencement of the grand Charge made on the French about 7 oClock in the Evening of the 18th June 1815, etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 380 x 600 mm (14 7/8 x 23 3/4 in), sheet 485 x 615 mm (19 x 24 1/4 in), central vertical fold, old spotting, browning, surface dirt, unframed, 1816; together with Bowyer's 'A Plan of the Glorious Battle of Waterloo', 1816, and R. Cooper and T. Sutherland's aquatint portrait of Lieut. General The Marquis of Anglesea at the battle of Waterloo, after Alken, engravings, each sheet approx. 485 x 350 mm (19 1/4 x 13 3/4 in), handling creases, surface dirt, marginal nicks and tears, all unframed, 1816 (3)
Lot 180
Almanacs.- Rider's British Merlin..., in red and black, interleaved, manuscript notes in ink to endpapers and interleaves, later red morocco, gilt, ink date to covers, spine rubbed, iron clasps, g.e., R. Nutt, 1748 § The Court and City Register, third edition, by J. Barnes et al., 1757 bound with Rider's British Merlin..., in red and black, interleaved, 1 f. with lower fore-edge corner excised (loss to text), by R. Nutt, 1757, together 2 in 1, contemporary calf, extremities worn § Royal Kalendar..., contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid-down, extremities a little worn, for J. Almon, 1770; and c.70 other almanacs, eighteenth and nineteenth century, 8vo and 12mo (c.70) [sold not subject to return]⁂ Others include: Bengal and East India (1806) bound with some others; Cardanus Rider's Sheet Almanack; The London Calendar or Court and City Register; The English Registry, Dublin; The Treble Almanack, Dublin; The British Almanack and Universal Scots Register, Edinburgh; The British Imperial Calendar; The Edinburgh Almanack, and others.
Lot 182
18th century Fire Insurance Broadside.- Proposals From the Sun-Fire-Office in Cornhill, printed broadside, manuscript insertion "301726 Mr Eyre... Mr Bridges" and a mathematical calculation at head, 2pp., circular woodcut at head, a few small holes along fold, folds, slightly browned, [ESTC T171611 lists the Guildhall copy only], R. Nutt, 16th January 1766; and another, a printed policy document from the Sun Fire-Office made out to "John Eyre of Sheffield... Dealer in Wines & Spirituous Liquors", engraved illustration at head, printed with manuscript insertions and signed, 1p., [not in ESTC], 29th September 1772, folio (2).⁂ First mentioned 'In this issue of the edition with a vertical twisted bar division rule separating columns of text on p. [1], the first line following "Proposals" ends: "Royal-Exchange,"; the second line ends: "and".' - ESTC.
Lot 67
NO RESERVE Bowdler Sharpe (R. ) Lloyd's Natural History: British Birds, vol. 1-4, bookplates to front pastedown, chromolithographed plates, hinges working loose, some spotting to first few pages and edges, annotation to front free endpaper of vol. 4, original maroon calf, lightly rubbed at extremities, 1896-1897 § Tyas (Robert) The Language of Flowers, ownership inscription and verse to half title, coloured plates, some light spotting, hinges working loose, original maroon cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities and lower panel marked, 1869, first editions, 8vo (5)
Lot 138
NO RESERVE Commonplace Books.- Marsh (William) Select Thoughts, 3 vol., 3 manuscript commonplace books, numerous pp. excluding blanks, a few reverse entries, 1 vol. with 2 ink stamps "R Marsh" on front endpapers, slightly browned, original vellum, 1 vol. title lettered direct on upper cover, soiled, sm. 4to, 1799-1807.
Lot 39
Britain.- Senex (John) Jefferys's Itinerary; or Travellers Companion, through England, Wales, and Part of Scotland, letterpress title, preface and index, engraved general map and 104 strip maps, title and a few maps with small repairs, general map trimmed, some light foxing and browning, modern cloth, oblong 4to, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1775.
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Lot 170
Drunken brawl.- S[peed] (R[obert]) The Counter-Scuffle. Whereunto is added the Counter-Rat, [thirteenth edition], engraved title vignette, woodcut illustration, with final blank, title chipped at upper corner, light browning, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Wing S4896], small 4to, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1680.⁂ Scarce as with all 17th century edition of this amusing mock-heroic poem recounting a brawl that took place in the Wood Street Compter debtor's prison.
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