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![Poetry.- Anderson (Robert) and others. Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect...With Notes and a Glossary, [?second edition], engr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4114ac53-cefd-49ab-8026-b28b00b69633/51927d88-fd45-4e08-83b5-b28e01193c87/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
Poetry.- Anderson (Robert) and others. Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect...With Notes and a Glossary, [?second edition], engraved frontispiece, woodcut tail-pieces, binder's ticket to foot of pastedown, scattered soiling and light staining, lightly browned, later pencil notes to rear free endpaper, handsomely bound in full red morocco by Edmund Worrall, Birmingham, gilt, very small stains to spine and lower cover, couple faint surface scratches, some light rubbing to joints and extremities, uncut, Wigton, R. Hetherton, 1808 § [Hamilton (Sarah)] "A Resident of Sherwood Forest". Sonnets, Tour to Matlock, Recollections of Scotland, and Other Poems, first edition, half-title, the odd spot, upper joint tender, later straight-grain brown morocco, gilt, spine lacking labels and with shallow chipping to ends, rubbing to joints and extremities, J. Mawman, 182; and others, 19th century poetry, leather-bound, including an extra-illustrated copy of 'The Invitation; A Rhyming and Locodescriptive Epistle, Containing Sketches of Scenery in Wilts and Dorset' (Shaftesbury, Bastable's Press, 1833), 8vo (6)
Lot 149
Ireland (William Henry) Neglected Genius. A Poem. Illustrating the Untimely and Unfortunate Fate of Many British Poets..., 4pp. list of subscribers, bookseller's ticket of J. Bumpus, some light spotting, light browning, gutter split at points but holding, uncut in original boards, printed pink paper label to upper cover, lacking backstrip, light staining, worn, W. Wilson, 1812; Scribbleomania; or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem. Edited by Anser Pen-Drag-On, Esq., title printed in red and black with vignette, 3pp. advertisements at end, bookplate of Anne & F.G. Renier, first few ff. with light stain to foot of gutter, few gatherings working loose, some light foxing or browning, uncut in original boards, ink manuscript number to spine, spine ends with small loss and faint tape residue, rubbed and worn, lower cover nearly detached, for Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1815, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and a first edition copy of Ireland's 'Chalcographimania; or, The Portrait-Collector and Printseller's Chronicle' in original boards (1814), 8vo (3)
![Egypt.- Sri Lanka.- [Group of 12 photographs of Port Said, Colombo and other locations], including: Harbour Port Said; H](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4114ac53-cefd-49ab-8026-b28b00b69633/1d99cd5b-5eb6-4882-ad12-b28e011a2da2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 291
Egypt.- Sri Lanka.- [Group of 12 photographs of Port Said, Colombo and other locations], including: Harbour Port Said; Harbour and Breakwater from Cathedral, Colombo; The Breakwater, Colombo; Botanical Gardens Sydney; Govetts Leap Falls; Bullock Team on Bulli Pass; and others, some numbered and captioned in the negative, 2 captioned in pencil manuscript to mount, few uncaptioned, one or two nicks or tears, some toning and light spotting or surface soiling, 8 laid down to recto and verso of 4 sheets of card, few loose, all housed in early 20th century cloth portfolio with 'Pictures of Ceylon' to upper cover in gilt, ticket of H.W. Cave & Co. Printers Colombo to inside upper cover, flaps loose or lacking, worn, photographs 220 x 270mm. & smaller, [c.1880s & later].
Lot 29
Congreve (William) The Works, 3 vol., engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, J. & R.Tonson, 1753 § Massinger (Philip) The Plays, edited by W.Gifford, 4 vol., engraved portrait, handsome later mottled calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt with roan labels, g.e., 1805 § Beaumont (Francis) & John Fletcher. The Works, edited by Henry Weber, 14 vol., engraved portraits, marginal damp-staining, contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1812 § Dryden (John) The Works, edited by Walter Scott, 18 vol., engraved portrait, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked in tan morocco, gilt, 1808 § Thomson (James) The Seasons, engraved portrait, additional vignette title and 4 plates, foxed, contemporary calf, gilt, by Barker of Hexham with his ticket, rebacked with gilt spine, 1802 § English Translations, from Ancient and Modern Poems, 3 vol., book-label of Earl Vane, contemporary faintly diced russia, spines gilt, 1810, most a little rubbed; and c.45 others, literature, mostly bindings, 8vo et infra (c.80)
Lot 56
Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, bound in crushed scarlet morocco, by Period Binders of Bath with their ticket, upper cover with vertical zig-zag outlined in gilt, spine lettered in gilt with small ornament, tiny bump to top edge of upper board, with original cloth binding marked with zig-zag in ink as direction to binder serving as chemise (faded and stained), 8vo, 1949.
Lot 148
Maritime.- Falconer (William) The Shipwreck, A Poem, By William Falconer, A Sailor, new edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 3 plates and 6 vignettes by James Fittler after Nicholas Pocock, all finely hand-coloured, 9pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting or light foxing, mainly to plates, some browning to plate margins, attractive later morocco, covers with thick gilt borders, spines gilt with morocco labels and ship motif, faint scattered spotting to lower cover, some rubbing and slight wear to extremities, uncut, for William Miller, 1811 § Sommerville (William) The Chase; and The Field Sports, 2 woodcut plates, bookseller's ticket of George Gregory, Schwerdt & Duke of Gloucester bookplates to front free endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, preserving original backstrip with morocco label, covers little rubbed, Lackington, Allen & Co., 1811, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others of maritime or sporting interest, 8vo & 12mo (9)
Lot 48
Bindings.- Meynell (Alice, editor) The Flower of the Mind: A Choice among the best Poems, first edition, bound in crushed pale turquoise morocco, gilt, by J.Adams of Manchester with his pallet, upper cover divided into quarters by gilt rules and square corner-pieces of small leaves and circles, t.e.g.,others uncut, spine a little faded, 1897 § Milton (John) Paradise Lost, 4 vol., additional engraved vignette titles and plates (lightly foxed), attractive contemporary blue calf, gilt, spines gilt with lyre motifs in compartments and red morocco labels, with Robinsons of Liverpool bookseller's ticket, printed by C. & C.Whittingham, 1825 § Southey (Robert) The Poetical Works, 10 vol., engraved frontispieces and additional vignette titles (foxed), contemporary calf, spines gilt with roan labels, 1847-45 § De Quincey (Thomas) [Works], 15 vol., contemporary polished calf, by M.Ogle & Co., spines gilt with roan labels, 1853-63, all but the first a little rubbed; and a quantity of others, literature in bindings, v.s. (c.250)
Lot 159
Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, first issue with 'Rigaud' for Blandois in part 15 and errata slip in part 16, 40 etched plates by H.K.Browne ("Phiz"), No.1 curiously without month to upper wrapper, numbered by hand and without all advertisements (?possibly a very early issue), No.11 lacking 'Little Dorrit Advertiser' at start, No.14 with one advertisement f. working loose, usual browning and some small water-staining to plate margins, some spotting to plates, some parts with fraying and small loss to upper outer corner (mainly affecting first and last few parts), original printed blue wrappers, few parts with bookseller's ticket of G. Bonner of Brighton to upper wrapper, some loss to spine ends, generally small but more to No.1 & 19/20, some surface soiling, some creasing and light wear to extremities, still overall a good set, preserved in an attractive green morocco drop-back box, spine gilt, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.307-330], 8vo, 1855-57.
Lot 153
Jefferson (Thomas) Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 4 vol., first edition, edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, engraved portrait frontispiece and 4 folding facsimile leaves of Jefferson's draft of Declaration of Independence bound in vol. 1, lacking half-titles, all but vol. 1 with bookseller's ticket of O.D. Bartlett of Towanda, Pa., book-label of A.J. Whitney to front free endpapers, vol. 3 with ink letter to title, vol. 1 final f. of Index and facsimile leaves detached (facsimiles little brittle and frayed at lower edge, one with short tear into text without loss), occasional marginal pencil annotation, couple gatherings working loose, foxed and browned throughout, heavier at points, contemporary mottled calf, morocco spine labels chipped and one lacking, worn, vol. 3 upper cover detached along with front free endpaper, some other covers detached or working loose, [Sabin 35891], 8vo, Charlottesville, F. Carr, 1829. *** Published just three years after Jefferson's death in 1826, and edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Provenance: A gift from Betsey Cushing Whitney, by descent to the present owner.
Lot 14
MANCHESTER UNITED; a collection of memorabilia relating to the club, including football programmes (some international), books, tickets and ticket stubs, a framed Manchester United vs Millwall FC Cup Final 22nd May 2004 featuring the ticket and game information, a tie and a limited edition 92/93 Champions black and white poster numbered 643/1000, depicting Alex Ferguson and the team and bearing seven ballpoint signatures, 51 x 41cm.
Lot 440
LOUIS ARMSTRONG SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHsigned in blue ink, 'Best wishes Louis Armstrong' 26 x 21cm, with a souvenir programme of Louis Armstrong and his All -dated stars with ticket dated Thursday 5th March 1959, Odeon Theatre Birmingham, Kid Ory Jazz bank souvenir programme and George Lewis New Orleans Jazz band and other newspaper articles
![William I (1066-1087), Penny, PAXS type [BMC VIII], Oxford, Swetman, spetmiin on oxfe, 1.40g/6h (Allen 2022, p.179; SCBI Oxfo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4a9a1cf7-561d-4879-abf5-b28400dbcb45/4e4d82c5-7952-4677-b048-b28400dbf8bc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1081
William I (1066-1087), Penny, PAXS type [BMC VIII], Oxford, Swetman, spetmiin on oxfe, 1.40g/6h (Allen 2022, p.179; SCBI Oxford 145, same dies; N 848; S 1257). Very fine and toned £400-£500 --- Provenance: R. Erskine Collection The vendor’s ticket notes ‘Swetman is the only moneyer mentioned in Domesday Book!’
Lot 1531
James III, Touchpiece, in silver, by N. Roettier, ship sailing right, rev. St Michael slaying dragon, 20mm, 3.35g (Woolf 35, O1/R1; MI II, 316/140). Extremely fine and attractively toned; pierced for suspension as issued £900-£1,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- With a ticket in a 19th century hand
Lot 49
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship 1937 multi signed centre court ticket signatures include Dorothy Andrus, Billie Yorke , Simone Mathieu and Sylvie Henrotin. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 10
James Bond 007 - No Time To Die (2021) World Royal Premiere brochure from Royal Albert Hall in London, 28th September 2021, individually numbered, 2123, (1), together with ticket to the Premiere in a card holder, (1), and a menu for the food provided in the evening, map for check in, empty popcorn bag, covid protocols and NTTD notebook, and NTTD Aston Martin Keyring, boxed (6); (8)Condition Report: CR:- In fine condition
Lot 142
James Bond 007 The Living Daylights (1987) - A comprehensive A4 folder with many signatures, over 30 of cast and crew members from the film to include the following items:-Full Cast & Crew List along with a printed Crew List (2)Signed Premiere Party Menu by Maryam DAbo ( Kara Milovy) (1)Ticket to the Press Show of The Living Daylights (1)Signed photograph by Femi Gardiner & Karen Seeberg ( Both Bond Girls in the movie) with Timothy Dalton and other Bond Girls (1)Signed card of Timothy Dalton together of photograph of Timothy Dalton as Bond (2)Signed photograph of Timothy Dalton, as James Bond, together with photograph of Tmothy Dalton (2)Signed photograph of Maryam DAbo (Kara Milovy) in a scene from the film with Bond and a colour photograph of Maryam DAbo (2)Signed photograph of Jeremy Krabbe ( General Georgi Koskov) (1)Signed card by Joe Don Baker ( Brad Whitaker) (1)Signed card by John Rhys Davies and colour photograph (2)Signed photograph and card by Art Mailk (Kamran Shah) (2) Signed The Living Daylights Card by Andreas Wisniewski (Necros) together with a signed photograph and colour photograph (3)Colour photograph of Thomas Wheatley (Saunders) together with a personalised letter to our client along with a signed photograph (3)Signed The Living Daylights Card by Robert Brown ( M) (1)Signed photograph by Caroline Bliss ( Miss Moneypenny) (1) Signed photograph by John Terry ( (Felix Leiter) and colour photograph (2)Signed photograph by Virginia Hey (Rubavitch) together with a colour photograph and signed The Living Daylights card (3) Signed 007 Card by John Bowe (Colonel Feyador) together with signed colour photograph (2) Signed card by Julie T Wallace ( Rosika Miklos) together with a colour photograph (2)Signed The Living Daylights Card by Belle Avery (Linda Girl on the boat who was bored) (1)Signed card by Catherine Rabett (Liz) (1)Signed photographs by Catherine Rabett (Liz) (2)Signed photograph of Nadim Sawalha (Tangier Chief of Security) (1) Signed photograph and card of Carl Rigg ( Imposter) (2) Signed photograph and card by Ken Sharrock ( Jailer) (2)Signed card by Anthony Carrick ( Blayden Male Secretary) along with b/w photograph (2) Signed 007 card and photograph by Frederick Warder (004) (2)Signed The Living Daylights card by Glyn Baker (002) (1)Signed card by Leslie French ( Lavatory Attendant) (1) Signed photograph of Alan Harris (Man firing Ghetto Blaster) (1)Signed photograph by Michael Percival ( Blayden Cook) (1)Signed photograph by Paul Weston (Gibraltar Soldier No 3) (1)Signed letter from Michael Ford (Set Decorator) to our client; (1) (53) Provenance: from the collection of a former supporting actor working in the film industry, amassed over a number of years.Condition Report: CR:- All in very good condition. Recommended to view. Rare signatures
Lot 195
James Bond 007 - Casino Royale (2006) Royal Film Performance brochure from Odeon Leicester Square, 14th November 2006, individually numbered, 3246, (1), together with ticket to the Premiere Party in a card holder, (1), and a Crew Handbook - Czech Republic, marketing & publicity numbers sheet, continuity numbers sheet and a signed colour photograph of Tom So who played Fukutu in the film, (4); (6)Condition Report: CR:- All in fine condition and covered in plastic covers
Lot 202
James Bond 007 - Quantum of Solace (2008) - A comprehensive A4 folder with many signatures, over 40 of cast and crew members from the film to include the following items:-Call Sheets and other film related documents, photograph of scene in Perla De Las Lunas, Perla De Las Dunas menu, and two signed cards of characters from the scene photograph, (8)2 plastic sleeves containing Mobile Phone list for Bond 22 - Pink Copy, Mobile Phone list for QoS - Green Copy, together with a 2nd Unit Call sheet document and tickets for varouos screenings. One ticket, Cast & Crew, is signed by Barbera Broccoli & Michael Wilson. One other signature on card (Qty)Shoot list for Bond 22, together with a colour photograph of Daniel Craig as James Bond in the film (2)Panama Unit Pone List together with a candid colour photograph of Bond Stuntman chasing a villain, (2)Bond 22 Risk assessment together with a B"" Location Crew - Panama Pass (2)5 colour candid photographs of the stunt team in Panama, (5)3 Location Shooting Day documents and copy of Call Sheet, (4)Candid photograph of the Aston Martin in Italy from the chase scene along with a Risk Assessment, (2) Colour photographs of the Italy car chase scene including the Aston Martin, (2) Invitation to the QoS Wrap Party in Siena, (1)Bond 22 Action Vehicles Department sheet and photo, (2)Peter Pedrero - Henchman in Panama card, signed photograph, (2)A Quantum of Solace poster, signed by a host of the cast to include Judi Dench, Rory Kinnear, Barbera Broccoli, Gemma Arteton to name a few (1)Signed colour photograph of Rufus Wright - Treasury Agent, (1)Signed colour photograph of Rachel McDowell - CIA Flight Attendant, (1)Signed colour of Marc Forster - Director, (1)Signed card by Daniel Craig with signed colour photograph from the film, (2)Signed colour photograph of Mathieu Amalric - Dominic Greene, (2)Signed colour photograph of Olga Kurylenko - Camille, (1)Signed colour photograph and card of Gemma Arterton - Strawberry Fields, (2)Signed card and colour photograph of Jeffrey Wright - Felix (2)Signed card of Tim Piggot Smith - Foreign Secretary, (1)007 card of Joaquin Carlos and signed - General Medrano, (1) Signed card and colour photograph of Simon Kassianides - Yusef (2) 007 card for Neil Jackson, signed - Mr Slate, (1) Signed card by Anatole Taubman - Elvis, (1)Signed QoS card by Fernando Cuervo - Colonel of Police, (2) Signed 007 card by Glenn Foster - Mitchell, (1) Signed colour photograph of Rory Kinnear - Tanner, plus signed card (2)Provenance: from the collection of a former supporting actor working in the film industry, amassed over a number of years.Condition Report: CR:- All in very good condition, please see signed poster card with all the cast signatures in images
Lot 110
Rea (John). Flora: seu De Florum Cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist, in III. Books..., London: Thomas Clarke, 1665, lacking additional pictorial title, letterpress title printed in red & black and ‘Mind of the Front’ explanatory leaf relaid, 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on 8 plates (plans 15 & 16 bound before 13 & 14, plans 13 &14 inverted, several plates trimmed at head or foot), upper margin of penultimate leaf repaired and final leaf relaid, neither with loss of text, some spotting, soiling and marginal damp staining, mostly at front and rear, 19th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Bowater Vernon and modern bookplate of N.H.L.T. [Nigel Temple] to front pastedown, early 19th-century blind-panelled calf by B[enjamin] Maund, Stationer, Bromsgrove, with his small paper ticket also to front pastedown, upper joint and head and foot of spine skilfully refurbished, small folioQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R6376; Henrey 325; Hunt 301; Wing R421.Enthusiastically referred to in John Evelyn’s diaries and described as ‘the most important Englishtreatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century’, Henrey, p.195
Lot 270
* Hunt (Charles). This View representing the Triennial Ceremony of the procession AD MONTEM is respectfully dedicated to the Noblemen & Gentlemen educated at Eton..., London: R. Ackermann & Co., December 1st. 1838, aquatint after G. B. Campion, contemporary hand-colouring with some later enhancement, descriptive text below the image, 445 x 585 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Dolby (J.). Six Views of Eton College, printed by Messrs. Day and Hague, Eton: T. Ingalton and Son, circa 1839, six (complete) hand-coloured lithographs, each approximately 350 x 255 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, one lithograph with the contemporary paper title wrapper laid on the verso of the frame QTY: (7)NOTE:The first described item shows a crowded and slightly chaotic scene of a procession at Eton, called the Montem. The ceremony, which was celebrated on Whit Tuesday, was to raise funds - by donation - for the senior scholar leaving Eton for University. The Montem was initially an initiation ceremony for new pupils and evolved into a somewhat exuberant and rowdy event, with dubious behaviour on the part of the pupils and the spectators. Etonians processed in elaborate ceremonial and military dress from the College to Salt Hill in Slough. Huge crowds flocked to see the procession, hoping to glimpse attending royalty and participate by giving money in exchange for a pinch of salt or, later, a paper ticket. The poor behaviour resulted in the procession being permanently cancelled in 1844.
Lot 452
Tegetmeier (Denis, illustrator). A Version by Donald Attwater of the Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman. With woodcuts by Denis Tegetmeier, limited edition, 36/225, London: [printed at the Curwen Press, published by] Cassell and Company Ltd, 1930, 7 full-page hand-coloured woodcuts, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original quarter cloth with blue paper covered boards, gilt text to spine, 4to, together with Peake (Mervyn, illustrator). Quest for Sita of Hanuman and the Divine Vultures Jatayus and Sampati, by Maurice Collins, 1st edition, limited edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1946, full-page black and white illustrations, one of 500 copies on handmade paper, top edge gilt, original pictorial black cloth gilt, a few light marks, 4to, plus 13 other illustrated early 20th century books, including: Sculptured Melodies by Mera Sett, 1922; Between Sun and Moon by Cecil French, 1922; The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy by George Farquhar, 1926; Rest Billets by Philip Gosse, 1927; Seed of Israel by Gerald Bullett, signed, limited edition 22/55, 1927; The Lottery Ticket by V.G. Calderton, 159/400; The Vigil of Venus; A Dog of War by John Taylor the Water Poet, 146/375; etc., 4to and smallerQTY: (15)
Lot 90
Halford (Frederic M.) Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 25 plates, a few colour, advertisement leaf at rear, plate XXI with small marginal abrasion and marks, one or two light spots, top edge gilt, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, spine a little faded, royal 8vo, together with Kelson (George M. ) The Salmon Fly: How to Dress It and How to Use It, 1st edition, London published by the author, 1893, half-title with portrait of the author to verso, advertisement leaf at front laid down, 8 chromolithograph plates, illustrations, advertisements leaves at rear (one or two with frayed fore-edges), some light spotting, top edge gilt, modern tan calf gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus Sparrow (Walter Shhaw). Angling in British Art, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1923, colour and monochrome plates, occasional light spotting, Henry Sotheran ticket, top edge gilt, modern green half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to QTY: (3)
Lot 70
Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed, 6 volumes (plus an index), London: Couchman, 1810-28, numerous engraved plates with contemporary hand-colouring (many folding), occasional light spotting, small modern book ticket of Gladstone Jones to head of front pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain morocco, worn, spine labels lacking or missing, volume 55 lacking spine, 8voQTY: (7)NOTE:Volumes present are 31, 44, 46 48, 51, 55, and the index to 42.
Lot 72
Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection…, Fifth Edition, with Additions and Corrections, (Tenth Thousand), London: John Murray, 1869, half-title, lithographic folding plate, without advertisements, as often, scattered spotting, old ink ownership inscription partially erased on front free endpaper, bookplate remains to front pastedown, original blind-stamped green cloth with Edmonds and Remnants ticket at rear, gilt-stamped spine with three gilt rules at top and bottom, slightly rubbed, spine darkened and with minor fraying at head, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 387a.
Lot 405
Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with notes and appendices by Alexander Napier, 6 volumes, new edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1884, engraved frontispieces to each, folding map to final volume, bookplate of S. E. Beddington to front pastedowns, modern full calf gilt, 8vo, together with:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 4 volumes, 3rd edition, London: H. Baldwin and Son, 1799, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, armorial bookplate of Clive Behrens to front pastedowns, further inked or pencilled inscriptions to preliminaries, lightly toned and spotted, contemporary mottled calf gilt, some wear, upper board of volume 4 detached, 8vo, plusThe Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 6th edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1813, engraved portrait frontispiece, book ticket of A. Beatrice J. Thicknesse to front pastedown, front free endpaper loosening, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, joints cracked but holding, some wear (especially to head of spine), 8vo, with 9 leather bound volumes related to Johnson and BoswellQTY: (20)
Lot 71
Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, Fifth Thousand, London: John Murray, 1860, half-title with three quotations on verso, folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin bound to face p. 117, 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear (dated January 1860, lacking pp. 23-28), a few scattered marginal pencil marks, some finger and dust-soiling and a few light creases to early leaves, including creasing at foot of front flyleaf and half-title, marginal splits to blank foremargin of D1 and lower inner margin of E9, inner margins of K1-6 slightly cracked, coated brown endpapers, pictorial bookplate of Millicent Garrett Fawcett with the motto ‘Truth is the Light’ to front pastedown, original blind-stamped green cloth with Edmonds and Remnants ticket at rear, gilt-stamped spine, rubbed and a little edge wear, spine ends strengthened, 8vo in 12sQTY: (1)NOTE: Provenance: Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), leader of the constitutional women’s suffrage movement and author. In 1867 she married the statesman, academic and economist Henry Fawcett. Millicent wrote on women’s education, women’s suffrage, and economics, as well as two novels. She was co-founder of Newnham College in 1875, and served on its council. She was a committee member of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage from 1867, and spoke and lectured on women’s issues and other political subjects in the 1870s. She emerged as the women’s suffrage movement’s leader after the death of Lydia Ernestine Becker in 1890.Unlike Becker, with whom Darwin occasionally corresponded between 1863 and 1877, Millicent Fawcett never seems to have met or corresponded with Darwin himself, though she and her husband Henry did have contact with Darwin’s second son, George. Millicent was a committed disciple of John Stuart Mill, a keen supporter of women’s suffrage, while the arch-conservative Darwin has traditionally not been recognised as a promoter of women’s rights. This view has softened in recent years and certainly Millicent believed Darwin was an ally and named him as a supporter:‘… This objection, that the notion of women suffrage is monstrous and absurd and deserves only to be treated as a joke, is one which is slowly dying a natural death. You still hear of it in remote country districts, but it has received its death blow from the names of the many very eminent persons who are the warm advocates of women’s suffrage. Perhaps I need only mention such names as Mr Mill, Canon Kingsley, Mr Darwin, Professor Huxley and Professor Maurice to remind you that women’s suffrage is advocated by men occupying the highest ranks in philosophy, science and literature’, (from ‘A Lecture Delivered at the New Hall, Tavistock, 11 March 1871’, published in Melissa Terras & Elizabeth Crawford (editors), Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings, (UCL Press, 2022), p. 53.)Freeman 376a; Norman 594; cf. Garrison-Morton 220 & PMM 344b for the first edition. Second edition, second issue. One of 3,000 copies; only two copies of the first issue with an 1859 imprint are known.'The most important biological book ever written' (Freeman) and 'one of the most important books ever published' (Garrison-Morton).
![[Combe, William]. The English Dance of Death [and] The Dance of Life, together 3 volumes, 1st editions, London: R. Ackermann,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f72d162-49ca-4af5-aa3c-b26600f99130/3a4a3242-b80d-4a07-a4ff-b28b00b27238/468x382.jpg)
Lot 400
[Combe, William]. The English Dance of Death [and] The Dance of Life, together 3 volumes, 1st editions, London: R. Ackermann, 1815-16 & 1817, 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces and 96 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, some heavy offsetting to text leaves in first 2 volumes, a little scattered spotting and minor marginal fraying to a few leaves, contemporary printed bookseller's ticket of Brightwell's Library, High-Street, Barnstaple, to front pastedown of third volume and later ownership signature of Jane Bury to facing endpaper, all pages uncut, original grey boards, first 2 volumes sympathetically and skilfully rebacked to match, original printed paper labels to spines (all somewhat browned and chipped), third volume covers and edges somewhat spotted, covers detached, frayed with a little loss at head and foot of spine, large 8vo (260 x 160 mm), contained in 2 modern quarter morocco gilt book boxes, rubbed, split but holding along upper joint of first book box, each 28 x 19 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:Abbey, Life 263-264; Tooley 410-411.'Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson' (Tooley).
Lot 429
Blythe (Ronald). Aldeburgh Anthology, limited edition, Aldeburgh & London: Snape Maltings Foundation Ltd in association with Faber Music Ltd, 1972, half-tone illustrations, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 87/100, signed by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Imogen Holst and Ronald Blythe.
Lot 378
English Civil War. Propositions and Orders by the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, for bringing in of Money or Plate, to maintaine horse, horse-men, and armes for the preservation of the publicke peace, and for the defence of the King and both houses of Parliament, 10th June 1642, London: Edward Husbands, 1642, letterpress title, 6 pp., woodcut initial and headpiece to first text leaf, a few small holes to title, each leaf (including title) with later paper restoration affecting small portion of text, lacking front free endpaper, upside down bookseller's ticket of Myers & Co to rear pastedown, late 19th-century sheep, some wear, upper joint cracked but holding, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R230733; Wing E2201.
Lot 379
The Jam, A solid bond in your heart 1982 tour brochure with a ticket to the event at the Brighton Conference Centre attached to the inside of front cover. UNSIGNED. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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