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Lot 127A
Chapbooks.- Fun upon Fun; or the Humours of a Fair...Merry Andrew, woodcut frontispiece and 7 plates (each with 2 images) printed in sanguine, woodcut vignette on title and 2 other woodcut vignettes, original plain paper wrappers, ink title to upper cover, paper lost from spine, [Roscoe & Brimmell 72], Glasgow, J. Lumsden & Son, 1820; and 2 other chapbooks by Lumsden & Son [R. & B. 38 and 59], 16mo (3)
Lot 24
Binding.- Almanach.- Riders (1732.) British Merlin, title and text in red and black, numerous contemporary manuscript accounts of John Savell of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire at beginning and end, slightly browned, some staining in margins, Dutch floral endpapers, original polished red morocco with gilt decoration, slightly rubbed, lower joint splitting, covers with silver metal mounts etched with a tulip and secured with a pin, g.e., 12mo, E. and R. Nutt, 1732.⁂ Manuscript accounts include several references to the Duke of Bedford, giving bread to the poor of Dry Drayton, and "Mr Hill Keeper in the Home-Park Hampton Court".
Lot 28
Bindings.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essays..., edited by R.Montagu, with 2 original drawings, one in black ink of initial R formed by flowers and leafy tendrils facing title, the other in brown ink of Cupid atop an anchor having fired an arrow at a heart opposite fly-title of 'Wisdom of the Ancients', light soiling, damp-staining to endpapers, contemporary green morocco with elaborate gilt border, by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., signed at head of front free endpaper (detached), a little rubbed, William Pickering, 1836 § Quiller-Couch (A.T., editor) The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, contemporary crushed blue morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, Oxford, 1908; and a copy of Taylor's Holy Dying by Pickering bound in black morocco, 8vo (3)
Lot 298
Morris (William, designer, author, and visionary socialist, 1834-96) Sheet of scribble by William Morris, autograph manuscript with his pen and ink decoration, 1p., folds, creased and browned, Britannia watermark, folio, c. 1890].⁂ Provenance: "This is a sheet of scribble done by William Morris while he was in the chair at a socialist meeting in his home at Hammersmith - R Catterson-Smith."
![Women.- Marriage.- [Braithwait (Richard)] Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture; Stored with all Variety of Witty Jeasts,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/53e900b4-28df-49bd-86cc-aa42010dea21/468x382.jpg)
Lot 326
Women.- Marriage.- [Braithwait (Richard)] Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture; Stored with all Variety of Witty Jeasts, Merry Tales, and Other Pleasant Passages; Extracted from the Choicest Flowers of Philosophy, Poesy, Antient and Moderne History, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title within woodcut typographical border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, X8 blank, E7&8 a little shorter, ?from another copy, washed, 20th century red crushed morocco, gilt, little rubbed, g.e., [STC 3555; Pforzheimer 76; Grolier/Wither to Prior 86; Newberry/Courtesy Books 205], 8vo, Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard]. B[est]. or his assignes, 1640.⁂ First edition, first issue (ending with the errata on Y4v) of this satirical look at love and marriage.
Lot 329
Monck (General George, Duke of Albermarle) Collection of 8 pamphlets by or relating to George Monck, including: Monck (George) A Letter..., 7pp., [Wing A861], John Redmayn, 1660 bound with [Morris (Richard) A Letter to General Monck, 8pp., [Wing M2809], R. Lowndes, 1659 bound with [Sir Morice (William)] Animadversions Upon Generall Monck's Letter to the Gentry of Devon, 8pp., [Wing M2761], n.p., 1659 bound with The Lord General Monck His Speech Delivered by Him in the Parliament On Munday, Feb. 6. 1659, 7pp., title edges chipped, last f. torn at head with loss of one word, [Wing A869], John Macock, 1660, bound with 4 other pamphlets relating to George Monck, together with 4 strikes of an engraved portrait of Monck not called for in any text by ESTC, some foxing and browning, head and tail margins shaved, 19th century bookplate of Mark Rolle on front pastedown, 19th century diced calf, rubbed, gilt spine, rubbed, sm. 4to.
Lot 349
Priestley (Joseph) Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education, first edition, half-title with repaired tear, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, uncut in contemporary Dutch wrappers, slight wear to spine, 8vo, Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1778.⁂ A course of education developed by Priestley for students at dissenting academies who were intended for civil and commercial careers and not the learned professions.
![[Meredith (William George)] A Tour to the Rhine, one of only 25 copies, half-title, initial space left blank for hand-coloure](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/03682d3e-9bdc-4864-badd-aa42010df017/468x382.jpg)
Lot 356
[Meredith (William George)] A Tour to the Rhine, one of only 25 copies, half-title, initial space left blank for hand-coloured flourish, endpapers discoloured, handsomely bound in contemporary aubergine straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., slight rubbing to extremities, 8vo, Printed by S. and R. Bentley, 1825.⁂ Scarce account of his tour to the Rhine in 1824 with Benjamin Disraeli and his father Isaac. Meredith would later travel with Disraeli to Spain, Greece and the Levant where he died from smallpox in 1832.
Lot 367
Prevost (Abbé) The Dean of Coleraine. A Moral History, Founded on the Memoirs of An Illustrious Family in Ireland, 3 vol., first Dublin edition, engraved frontispiece, pagination and collation occasionally erratic but as issued, light offsetting, ink name to titles, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, Dublin, by S.Powell, for R.Gwynne, S.Hyde, G.Risk, [& c.], 1742 § Memoirs... on the Turks and the Tartars, 3 vol., first Dublin edition, vol.2 half titles only (likely as issued), ink name to titles, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, a little scuffed, Dublin, for L. White, J. Cash, and R. Marchbank, 1785 § Fauques (Marianne Agnes Pillement, Dame de) The Vizirs: or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An Oriental Tale, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, occasional foxing, vol.3 G3 with small portion of loss with loss to a few letters of text, bookplates, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, for G. Riley, Bookseller, at Sterne's-Head, Curzon-Street, May-Fair, 1774; and 8 others, works in French or French works in translation, large 12mo (17)⁂ A good group of works in translation demonstrating the cross-channel development of the novel, many scarce.
Lot 382
Fielding (Henry) Amelie, Roman, translated by Mme. Riccoboni, 3 parts in 1 vol., first French edition, half-titles, woodcut devices to titles, bookplate of Westport House, contemporary half calf, red morocco label to spine, rubbed, Paris, Brocas & Humblot, 1762 § [Hawkesworth (John)] Almoran and Hamet: An Oriental Tale, first Dublin edition, 2 vol. in 1, half titles, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, light surface wear, Dublin, for W Smith, H. Saunders, R. Watts, [& c.], 1761 § [Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad, half-title with engraved frontispiece to verso, woodcut decorations, occasional damp-staining, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little worn, for Lawton Gilliver, 1729; and 4 others, The Adventurer, Rousseau's Letters from and Italian Nun, and Joseph Andrews, 8vo & large 12mo (7)
Lot 397
Modern Fine Gentleman (The), 2 vol. in 1, first Dublin edition, without half-titles (as issued), woodcut head-piece, ink name to pastedown, contemporary calf, red morocco label to spine, some surface wear, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1774:17 (first edition)], 12mo, Dublin, by R. Marchbank, for R. Moncrieffe, 1775.⁂ Rare, ESTC lists the Yale copy only of this edition.
Lot 400
Griffith (Elizabeth) The Story of Lady Juliana Harley, a Novel. In Letters, 2 vol. in 1, first Dublin edition, occasional foxing, contemporary calf, rubbed, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1776:11; Summers p.515 (first editions)], Dublin, for S. Price, B. Corcoran, W. Sleater, W. Whitestone, R. Cross, W. Watson, J. Hoey, [& c.], 1776.⁂ Rare final gothic novel by the Welsh-born Irish novelist.
Lot 402
Minifie (Margaret) The Count de Poland, 4 vol. in 2, first Dublin edition, half-titles to all but part 4 (as issued), occasional damp-staining, ink names to titles, modern antique-style half calf, spines gilt, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1780:20; Summers p.286 (first editions)], large 12mo, Dublin, by J. and R. Byrn, Sycamore-Alley. For Messieurs Price, Whitestone, [& c.], 1780.⁂ Rare, ESTC lists the Cambridge copy only. Often misattributed to Margaret's more famous sister Susannah.
![[Muller (Richard)] Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cherington, containing a Genuine Description of the Governme](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/a3514572-dee5-47ac-8a73-aa42010dcb27/468x382.jpg)
Lot 405
[Muller (Richard)] Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cherington, containing a Genuine Description of the Government, and Manners of the Present Portuguese, 2 vol. in 1, first Dublin edition, occasional light browning, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, [cf.Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1782:18 (first English edition)], large 12mo, Dublin, by John Parker, for Messrs. R. Cross, Walker, Beatty, Burton, and Webb, 1782.⁂ A scarce work in the first Dublin or first edition, with only an handful of copies known of either. Contrary to the title, much of the novel takes place in Rio de Janiero.
![R[eeve] (C[lara]) The Progress of Romance, Through Times, Countries and Manners, with Remarks on the Good and Bad Effects of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/d65a65af-b931-4758-9d4e-aa42010dbf95/468x382.jpg)
Lot 407
R[eeve] (C[lara]) The Progress of Romance, Through Times, Countries and Manners, with Remarks on the Good and Bad Effects of it... in a Course of Evening Conversations, 2 vol. in 1, first Dublin edition, vol.1 with half-title, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label to spine, green edges, large 12mo, Dublin, for Messrs. Price, Exshaw, White, Cash Colbert, Marchbank and Porter, 1785.⁂ Clara Reeve's innovative history of prose fiction, rare in commerce in any edition, we can trace only one copy (the first edition, printed in the same year) at auction in the last 70 years. The work presents a partial history of the novel in the form of a Socratic-type dialogue, with discussions of Cervantes, Aphra Behn, Voltaire's Candide and others with an emphasis on the role that women have played in shaping the form. The work ends with a short original work The History of Charoba, Queen of Egypt, which allegedly inspired Walter Savage Landor's Gebir.
![[Hughes (Anne)] Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune: a Novel., 2 vol., first Dublin edition, half-titles, Cath. Tipping](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/4e05ea42-bdd5-4d4f-9c02-aa42010e2d78/468x382.jpg)
Lot 411
[Hughes (Anne)] Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune: a Novel., 2 vol., first Dublin edition, half-titles, Cath. Tipping ink name to vol.1 title, occasional light foxing, vol.2 E11 with portion of loss to head affecting text, modern antique-style half calf, Dublin, by M. Graisberry, for Messrs. Gilbert, White, Byrne and H. Whitestone, 1787 § The History of Eliza Warwick, 2 vol., half-titles, woodcut decorations, contemporary calf, spines faded, some light surface wear, Dublin, for S. Price, W. Whitestone, R. Fitzsimmons, D. Chamberlaine, J. Sheppard, [& c.], 1778, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1787:41 & 1778:3; Summers pp.260 & 356 (first editions)], large 12mo (4)⁂ A good pair of two rare novels by women authors.
![[Cumberland (Richard)] Arundel, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, without half-titles, browning and occasional damp-staining, sma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/0b94b942-0cb9-4406-b8b5-aa42010d6c87/468x382.jpg)
Lot 415
[Cumberland (Richard)] Arundel, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, without half-titles, browning and occasional damp-staining, small hole to vol.1 B4 with loss to a few letters of text, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, vol.1 upper joints cracked but holding firm, rubbing and damp-staining, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1789:37], Dublin, for Messrs. G. Burnet, R. Moncrieffe, L. White, P. Byrne, P. Wogan, [& c.], 1789; and 4 others, Zeluco and a defective copy of Woman As She Should Be by Eliza Parsons, large 12mo (6)⁂Though better known for his memoirs and plays, Arundel is the first and probably most successful of Cumberland's novels.
![[Tomlins (Elizabeth Sophia)] Memoirs of a Baroness, first Dublin edition, advertisement f. (torn at inner margin), D6 with sh](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/b41c9606-d275-400a-a1b0-aa42010d710f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 423
[Tomlins (Elizabeth Sophia)] Memoirs of a Baroness, first Dublin edition, advertisement f. (torn at inner margin), D6 with short tear running into text without loss, occasional light foxing or browning, 19th century ink inscription to endpaper, contemporary calf, joints splitting but holding firm, lacking spine label, corners bumped, a little rubbed, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1792:56 (first edition)], large 12mo, Dublin, for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Halpen, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, R. M'Allister, J. Rice, 1792.⁂ Rare, ESTC and COPAC list 5 copies between them (not in BL). Purporting to have been transcribed from a 17th century manuscript, the novel takes place in the court of Henry IV of France.
Lot 538
Tolkien (J. R. R.).- Milne (A. A.) The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, third edition, Priscilla Tolkien's copy with names of family members and friends filled in on respective birthdays, decorations by E.H.Shepard, Priscilla Tolkien's ink ownership inscription 'P. M. R. Tolkien' to endpaper, Blackwells book label to pastedown, original cloth, spine faded, small 4to, 1934.⁂ A charming piece of Tolkieniana. The names filled in by the young Priscilla Tolkien include 'Daddy' on 3rd January, 'Mummy' on 21st January, Christopher, Michael and John Tolkien on their respective birthdays, Phoebe Coles (the Tolkiens' housekeeper) and various other relatives, friends and figures in the Oxford social circle.
Lot 710
Various Diecast & White Metal Models, including Dinky Toys 189 Lamborghini Marzal, Mercury No.1931 Panther Bertone, AHC Ferrari P5, NZG Porsche Speedster, 262, Western Models WP100 Aston Martin Lagonda 1977, K&R AC 3000 ME Kit, in original boxes, with five loose models, G-E, Ferrari 512 lacks steering wheel, boxes P-VG (12)
Lot 1024
Scale Model Technical Services CL38 Jaguar 2.4 Mk1, Lansdowne Models Rover P4 Model 90, Jaguar MkII 3.8 Automatic golden sand 1960, Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse T-Model Edition E, Dinky DY-13B 1955 Bentley R Continental, Exclusive First Editions Lodekka bus, Corgi Dibnah's Choice Fowler B6 crane engine and log trailer, and an Ertl Collectibles 1947 Studebaker, (8),
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