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Lot 1452
1881 (15 June) entire from Chittagong to Mauritius, 'via Bombay & Aden', although placed in the postal system in Calcutta, 3a rate paid by 1865 1a brown and 2a yellow (SG 59, 61) tied by CALCUTTA duplexes for JUN 19, face also bears sender's h/stamp (T DETERMES & CO, CHITTAGONG), reverse bears SEA POST OFFICE cds for 28 JUN and MAURITIUS arrival cds for JY 21 81, fine
Lot 1528
1935 Silver Jubilee 1½d ultramarine and grey-black, lower left corner block of 4, the upper left stamp with "Extra flagstaff" variety (SG 115/115a), a hint of toning, u/m (hinged in margin), also single 6d green and indigo with same variety (SG 116a), this lightly hinged and some small faults, cat £290
Lot 1628
1886-87 two covers from St Johns to Birmingham, one ordinary post, franked 1880-82 5c pale dull blue tied by '235' numeral with St Johns cds alongside for NO 24 86, the other registered, 15c rate paid by three of same stamp tied by similar cancels and one by Liverpool transit cds for 19 MY 87, the St Johns cds for MY 11 87, former fine appearance but back flap missing and torn elsewhere, latter damaged at upper left, back flap missing, tones and creasing, not unattractive despite faults
Lot 1658
1949 2d + 1d Health original artwork, as issued but with design reversed, by James Berry; 127 x 221mm in pencil on paper, mounted on board and framed. A copy of Berry's submission notes attached to the back of the frame suggests the the stamp be issued in dark blue, similar to the GB 1948 Wedding 2½d
Lot 1663
NEW ZEALAND Plate Proofs: 1901 1d "Universal", group of Waterlow imperforate plate proofs on thin card including in green, horizontal strip of 5 with central stamp inverted, strip of 3 with central stamp inverted and one single, l/left corner marginal single in rose, horizontal pair in black and block of 4 in black, all but last with some staining
Lot 1702
1907 (May-June) Brisbane "Papua" overprint, 6d black and myrtle-green, watermark vertical, thin paper, error overprint double (SG 43a),m one shortish perf at upper left, lightly hinged with virtually full o.g., a rare stamp of which only one sheet of 30 existed, cat £7000, with 2000 BPA cert
Lot 1764
1855-63 Perkins Bacon printing, 1d brick-red/cream toned paper (SG 5), filled pinhole just above Hope's knee (visible from face), however with good to very large margins except just touched at right, small part o.g., cat £5000, with 1998 Brandon cert, a good representative spacefiller of this rare stamp
Lot 13
Cheesman (Robert Ernest). In Unknown Arabia, with a Foreword by Major-General Sir Percy Z. Cox, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926, photographic frontispiece and plates, folding map, front inner hinge tender, half-title browned, spotting to text block, short closed tear to folding map, pencilled notes on colloquial Arabic to rear endpapers, library stamp to front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, light fraying to spine-ends, a few pale marks to covers, 8vo, together with: Carruthers (Douglas), Arabian Adventure, to the Great Nafud in Quest of the Oryx, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1935, photographic plates, folding map, spotting to text block and frontispiece, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, original red-brown cloth slightly dust soiled, dust jacket chipped to partial loss of lettering on spine and front panel, 8vo; Golden Cockerel Press, Shaw-Ede, T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935, 1st edition, Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, spotting, numerical ink-stamp to verso of title page, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original quarter morocco, slightly sunned, 4to, number 269 of 500 copies; Lawrence (T. E.), Oriental Assembly, 1st edition, Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1939, photographic plates, spotting, original tan cloth, pale mottling to rear board, dust jacket with a few trivial marks, a bright copy, 8vo; Thesiger (Wilfred), Arabian Sands, 1st edition, Longmans, 1959, photographic plates, folding map in end-pocket, light spotting to title page, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, notes on colloquial Arabic to rear endpapers, original boards, slightly bumped and marked, dust jacket rubbed, spotted, chipped and price-clipped, 8vo, and 3 similar Macro, Arabian Peninsula, 711 for Cheesman. Carruthers's work is scarce in the dust jacket. (8)
Lot 15
Clacy (Mrs. Charles). A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia, in 1852-53, 1st edition, 1853, wood-engraved frontispiece, title backed onto linen with library stamp to verso, some toning and small marginal repairs, modern brown cloth, 8vo, together with Lectures in Gold. For the Instruction of Emigrants about to Proceed to Australia. By J. Beete Jukes, Edward Forbes and others, 1st edition, 1852, illustrations, title and final index leaf linen-backed, library stamp to title verso and page 100, a little light spotting and soiling, modern brown cloth, 8vo (2)
Lot 17
Cook (Frederick A.). My Attainment of the Pole, being the Record of the Expedition that first reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, 1st edition, New York: Polar Publishing Co., 1911, 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, 4to, together with: Nourse (J. E.), Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall, 1st edition, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1879, photogravure and heliotype plates, folding colour maps, numerous wood-engravings in the text, linen-backed folding colour map in end-pocket, light tonign to text-block, frontispiece offset, Olivet College library plate, manuscript shelf-mark to title page, front inner hinge repaired, original red pictorial cloth gilt, manuscript shelf-mark to spine, fraying to spine ends, slightly rubbed, sunned and marked overall, 4to; Peary (Robert E.), The North Pole, with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, 1st UK edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, numerous half-tone plates, endpapers spotted, ink-stamp of C. W. M. Swithinbank to front free endpaper, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped but a bright copy, 4to; Tarr (Ralph Stockman, & Lawrence Martin), Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat Bay, Prince William Sound and Lower Cooper River Regions, 1st edition, Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1914, photographic frontispiece, text illustrations, 9 folding maps in end-pocket, light spotting to prelims, ownership ink-stamp to front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in gilt, corners bumped, pale mottling to rear cover, 4to; Hayes (J. Gordon), Antarctica, a Treatise on the Southern Continent, 1st edition, 16 plates, 14 charts of which 4 folding in end-pocket, browning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue cloth, sunned and rubbed, 4to; Abruzzi (Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the), On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, translated by William Le Queux, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, Hutchinson & Co., 1903, 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 6 colour maps of which 2 folding in end-pocket, light spotting and thumbing to plates, inner hinges cracked, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, small chip to foot of volume 2 spine, 4to; Peters (William J.), The Ziegler Polar Expedition 1903-1905. Scientific Results ... edited by John A. Fleming, 1st edition, Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1906, 2 colour maps, 13 tables and charts, 19 coloured lithographic plates of the aurora borealis, 3 further plates, lacking the 3 folding maps in the end pocket, original green cloth, rubbed and mottled, 4to Arctic Bibliography 3389 (Cook), 6486 (Nourse), 13230 (Peary), 17452 (Tarr), 10423 (Abruzzi), N/A. (7)
Lot 32
Heylyn (Peter). Cosmography in four Books, containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World ... With an Accurate and an Approved Index ... now annexed to this Last Impression, revised and corrected by the Author immediately before his Death, printed by A. C. for P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1677, imprimatur leaf, additional engraved title page, letterpress title page in red and black, 4 folding maps depicting Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, spotting and browning, occasional ink-stamps of Lincoln's Inn library (including cancellation stamp to front free endpaper), short closed tear in gutter of engraved title, leaves A3-4 ('To the Reader') starting, paper disruption at intersections of map folds, modern cloth, folio (34 x 22 cm) Sabin 31655; Wing H1695. (1)
Lot 327
Bindings. Amours du Chevalier de Faublas, by Jean Louvet de Couvray, 4 volumes, Nouvelle Edition, Paris: chez Tous les Libraires, 1884, etched frontispiece to each volume, occasional spots or minor marks, volume 4 (partly unopened) with closed tear to one leaf, and dampstain to one lower margin, each front free endpaper with binder's ink stamp 'Creuzevault' on blank verso, contemporary blue quarter morocco gilt, each volume with original printed wrappers bound-in, extremities rubbed, spines lightly faded and rubbed, volume 1 joints with short splits at head, 12mo, together with Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, accompagnee de nombreuses notes... par Francois Tulou, Nouvelle Edition, Paris: Garnier Freres, circa 1910, fore-edges (rough-trimmed) a little spotted, contemporary red half morocco gilt, extremities somewhat rubbed, spine a little darkened, 8vo, limited edition 99/100 copies 'sur papier verge', plus Romans de Voltaire suivis de Ses Contes en Vers, Nouvelle Edition, Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, circa 1920, presentation inscription from Francine[?] Day to Orme Sargent, dated 1920, on blank leaf inserted before half-title, contemporary red quarter morocco, original printed wrappers retained, 8vo, and De l'Homme et de la Femme Consideres physiquement dans l'Etat du Mariage, by M. de Lignac, 3 volumes in 2, Nouvelle Edition, Lille: chez C.F.J. Lehoucq, 1778, engraved title to each volume, 15 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, extremities and spines somewhat rubbed, volume 1 with some worm damage at front joint, 8vo, with others similar (29)
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Lot 35
Kuznetsov (Yakov Pavlovich). Uchebniy atlas Rossiyskoy imperii ['Educational Atlas of the Russian Empire'], [St Petersburg]: Military Topographic Depot, 1852, lithographic title page, contents leaf, 22 hand-coloured lithographic maps, 1 leaf of city plans not listed in the contents, offsetting, occasional light spotting, white moir‚ silk endpapers, ink-stamp of the Russian imperial library at the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo ('Tsarskoselskaya dvortsovaya biblioteka') to initial blank and related shelf-mark labels to front free endpaper verso (see note), all edges gilt, original green moir‚ silk binding, titles and decoration in embossed gilt, fraying to spine and extremities, mild cockling and wear to sides, oblong folio (38.5 x 49.5 cm) Rare Russian atlas producing during the reign of Nicholas I. One copy of the fourth edition of 1860 traced in the Presidential Library, St Petersburg; no copy of any iteration traced on OCLC. There are also maps of the Caucasus and the Bering Strait, and a map titled 'Western Siberia and the Kyrgyz Steppe' which includes parts of modern-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Provenance: from the library of the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, St Petersburg, the summer residence of the Russian tsars, with ink-stamp and associated shelf-mark labels. (1)
Lot 352
Newton (Isaac). The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To which is Prefix'd, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, 1st edition, 1728, three engraved folding plates (with slight offsetting), early marginal notes in ink and pencil throughout volume, few closed tears to inner margin of title (ink stamp to recto & three to verso), occasional toning and spotting, contemporary blind panelled calf, lacking title label to spine, old joint repairs, worn, 4to Babson 214; Wallis 309 & ESTC T30721 (standard paper issue). (1)
Lot 366
Beckett (J. R., & Romeo Cervi, bookbinders). The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, complete edition, with illustrations, Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved plates, spotting to outer leaves, ownership inscription to title page, contemporary vellum by J. R. Beckett and Romeo Cervi for the Centennial Exhibition, 1876, red, brown and blue morocco strapwork panels onlaid to spine and boards, interstitial floral quatrefoils, lozenges and curlicues gilt-tooled direct, slightly dust-soiled overall, edges dyed red, green moir‚ silk doublures, front free endpaper gilt-stamped 'Centennial Exhibition 1876' recto and with binders' ink-stamp verso, 8vo Fine binding executed for the Centennial International Exhibition, which was held in Philadelphia in 1876 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the United States. Beckett and Cervi were employees of Boston Public Library and practised craft bookbinding in their spare time. Their work received a special citation from the exhibition's judges, and the American Bookseller praised their 'beautifully illuminated vellum, the handsomest specimens in the exhibition' (volume 1, January-June 1876, p. 373). (1)
Lot 373
Borras (Maria Lluisa). La Sainte-Vierge. De luxe edition of the catalogue for the Francis Picabia exhibition at Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, 1993, comprising the catalogue (sealed), folded contents leaf, 34 facsimile reprints of catalogues, pamphlets and periodicals in various sizes, all loosely contained in original cloth drop-back book box, a little frayed at head of upper joint, (limited edition 974/1200 copies), together with Rivulets & Sibilants of Dent, Poems by John Williams, Drawings/Prints by Karl Torok, 3 copies, [Bradford:] Topia Press, 1987, 12 colour lithographs on twelve sheets, each signed in pencil by the artist, loosely contained as issued with 8-page booklet of poems (numbered 4, 5 & 6/50 copies, signed by poet and artist) in card portfolio with colour title onlay to upper covers, plus Creatis, la photographie au present, 10 issues bound as one, Paris, 1976-1979, colour and black and white photograph reproductions, original cloth, all large folio, and Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de), Elles, with a Specially Written Introduction by Michael Melot, Toulouse-Lautrec Circle of London, 1969, 11 tipped-in colour lithographs, each with blind stamp and limitation number (872/1250) in pencil, with a loosely inserted window-mounted lithograph (limited edition 676/5000) and a 4-page membership certificate of the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, original cloth-backed pictorial boards in slipcase (dust-soiled and partly faded), large folio (6)
Lot 406
Hain (Ludwig). Repertorium Bibliographicum/Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum, 4 volumes, Berlin, 1925-26, library stamps to titles and usual marks, original half vellum, Bedford College library stamp at foot of each spine, slight soiling, 8vo, together with Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium Bibliographicum Additiones et Emendationes, edidit Dietericus Reichling, 2 volumes, Milan, 1983, light marginal toning, original cloth, some fading to head of spine, 8vo, plus Incunabula Biblica or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible, by W.A. Copinger, Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, Connecticut, 2007, original cloth, folio, plus other incunabula and early printing bibliography including Frederick Goff's Incunabula in American Libraries, Kraus Reprint Co., 1973, German Incunabula in the British Museum, Hacker Art Books, 1975 and Sir William Osler's Incunabula Medica, Martino reprint, circa 1975, limited edition of 150 Provenance: Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (48)
Lot 410
Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book, 1st edition, 1894, illustrations, some light spotting and stains, contemporary ownership inscription, contemporary buckram, 8vo, together with The Second Jungle Book, 1st edition, 1895, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, some spotting, presentation inscription and ink date stamp to front endpaper, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, plus Just So Stories, for Little Children, 1st edition, 1902, illustrations, some light spotting, original red pictorial cloth, spine faded, a little rubbed, 4to, with others by Kipling including The Light that Failed, 1891, Soldier Tales, 1896, 'Captains Courageous', 1897 and Kim, 1901 (47)
Lot 417
Morris (William). Some Hints on Pattern Designing. A Lecture Delivered by William Morris at the Working Men's College, London, on December 10, 1881, 1st edition, 1899, small previous owner ink stamp to front endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, some light fading and soiling, 8vo, together with The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, by William Morris, 12 volumes, 1905, portrait frontispiece to volume I, a little light spotting, previous owner stamps, original cloth-backed boards, some light stains, 8vo (13)
Lot 430
Vaughan (Keith, illustrator). A Season in Hell / Une Saison en Enfer, by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Norman Cameron, 1949, eight tinted lithographed illustrations, text in English and French, front free endpaper with early ink ownership inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, some spotting and toning, mainly to rear panel, edges lightly rubbed with some fraying to top edge, front flap with ink date stamp, slim 8vo, together with Architectural Press: The Unsophisticated Arts, drawn and described by Barbara Jones, 1951; Buildings and Prospects, by John Piper, 1948; The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings, by J.M. Richards, with photographs by Eric de Mare, 1958, each with numerous illustrations, some endpapers with light spotting or toning, each in original cloth with dust jacket, jacket spines and edges toned, Unsophisticated Arts and Functional Tradition with some closed edge tears and fraying, 4to, plus Nash (John, illustrator), Seven Short Stories, by Walter de la Mare, 1931, eight full-page colour illustrations, endpapers and first & last leaves spotted, original cloth, spine a little spotted and toned, price-clipped dust jacket toned, especially to spine, some closed tears, edges chipped in places, 8vo, and 42 others similar From the library of Alan & Joan Tucker. (47)
Lot 456
Barclay (Robert). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers. The Eighth Edition in English, Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1765, light spotting to title, margins of first & last leaves browned, 18th century bookplate of the Earl of Home (with motto 'True to the End'), 20th century calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, 4to, together with Wesley (Samuel), Poems on Several Occasions, 1736, some dampstaining, ink stains to fore-margins, crude brown paper tape repairs to front endpaper, contemporary sheep, upper board detached and lower joint cracked, worn, 4to, plus Strype (John), Ecclesiastical Memorials; relating chiefly to religion, and the reformation of it, and the emergencies of the Church of England, 3 volumes, 1721, black and white engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, later inscriptions to front endpapers, some light spotting, uniform contemporary full calf, volume 1 boards partially detached, spines and boards rubbed with minor loss, folio, and Cox (Nicholas), The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts, viz. Hunting, Fowling, Hawking, Fishing..., 6th edition, 1721, 3 (of 4) black and white folding plates, owner's stamp and inscription to head of title page, some minor toning, modern calf spine retaining contemporary mottled calf boards, 8vo, plus other 17th and 18th century history and ecclesiastical literature, all leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (45 volumes) (3 shelves)
Lot 463
Grant (John Cameron). The Ethiopian, a narrative of the Society of Human Leopards, Paris, 1900, black and white frontispiece, some minor spotting, period inscriptions to front endpapers, original black cloth, previous owner's stamp to front board, spine lightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, together with David (Charles Thomas), The Manufacture of Leather..., 1885, 302 black and white engravings, plus 12 samples of dyed leathers, some spotting, tear to foot of front endpaper, original embossed green cloth, boards and spine rubbed, 8vo, and Ratisbonae (publisher), Missale Romanum, editio Iuxta Typicum, Germany, circa 1962, colour frontispiece, publisher's original gilt decorated red full morocco, designed by Roland Peter Litzenburger, boards and spine lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus other miscellaneous literature and reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
Lot 493
Bridges (Robert). Miltons Prosody..., Oxford, 1893, toned endpapers, original gilt decorated cloth, boards slightly faded, spine partially detached and fixed with tape, 4to, together with Johnston (Frederick), Terracina Cloud, The Vernon Press, Italy, 1936, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, small tear to head of front cover, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Greenaway (Kate, illustrator), Little Ann and Other Poems, by Jane and Ann Taylor, circa 1883, numerous colour illustrations, some light spotting, blind stamp to front endpaper, original illustrated covers with green cloth spine, boards slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th century poetry and verse, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)
Lot 502
Gregory (Olinthus). A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1807, book stamp to front pastedowns, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, some light toning and water marks, uniform contemporary full calf, volume 1 front board detached, boards and spines rubbed, 8vo, together with Head (Francis B.), The Royal Engineer, 1869, black and white frontispiece, previous owner's inscription to head of title page, some minor toning, original gilt decoration blue cloth, boards slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and other military, engineering and transport reference, including publications by Greenhill Books, Ian Allan, Airlife, Conway, Folio Society, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (4 shelves)
Lot 507
Yapp (M.E.). Strategies of British India, Britain, Iran and Afghanistan, 1798-1850, OUP, 1980, some toning, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, 8vo, together with Hutchinson (Lester), European Freebooters in Moghul India, Inda, 1964, book stamp to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Monahan (F.J.), The Early History of Bengal, 1st edition, OUP, 1925, 6 black and white illustrations, original blue cloth, 8vo, plus other modern India reference and history, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)
Lot 8
Burn Murdoch (William Gordon). From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93, with a Chapter by W. S. Bruce, 1st edition, later issue, Longmans, Green and Co., 1894, 2 maps (1 folding), text illustrations, spotting, bookplate to half-title, publisher's catalogue to rear dated '12/96', endpapers renewed, original blue-green sand-grain cloth, pictorial vignette to front board in red and silver, spine relaid, tips rubbed, 8vo, together with Joyce (Ernest E. Mills), The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1929, photographic frontispiece and plates, library labels removed from pastedowns, ink-stamp to bottom edge of text-block, original blue cloth, rubbed and marked, spine rolled, 8vo, Cook (Frederick A.), Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899, 2nd edition, New York: Doubleday-Page & Company, 1909, photogravure frontispiece, half-tone plates, bookplate, top edge gilt, original green cloth, penguin vignette in blind to front board, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Brown (R. N. Rudmose), A Naturalist at the Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages of Dr. W. S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer, with Five Chapters by W. G. Burn Murdoch, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1923, 24 plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding, both of these with tears from stub into image), text illustrations, 4 pages publisher's advertisements to rear, front free endpaper browned, rear free endpaper excised, bookplate of J. Arthur Hutton (writer on angling), original black cloth, vignette to front board in blue, spine faded, nicked at head, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Cherry-Garrard (Apsley), The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 volumes in 1, New York: Dial Press, 1930, plates, 4 maps (2 folding), 1 folding plate of coastal profiles, modern cloth, 8vo, and 1 other (a 2nd impression of Evans's South with Scott, 1921 (6)
Lot 9
Burton (Richard F.). The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's Western Lake Reservoir... Part II. Captain Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile. A Review, by James M'Queen, 1st edition, 1864, half title, three maps, title and final leaf backed onto linen (library withdrawn stamp at foot of title verso), a little light toning and soiling, modern brown cloth, 8vo (Penzer, pages 74-75), together with Beecham (John), Ashantee and the Gold Coast: Being a Sketch of the History, Social State, and Superstitions of the Inhabitants of those Countries: With a Notice of the State and Prospects of Christianity among them, 1st edition, 1841, folding engraved map, some light offsetting and spotting, modern brown cloth, 8vo (2)
Lot 444
A George V silver curvilinear calling card case, Birmingham 1912, match sleeve, Birmingham 1929, silver stamp case modelled as an envelope, foliate and floral engraved, an Edward VII silver vesta case, foliate engraved Chester 1906, and a George V cigarette case, foliate engraved, shield reserve, Birmingham 1920, 5.49oz, together with a plated cigarette case, and three plated vesta cases.
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