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Lot 1417

CUP FINAL 1950 Ticket for the 1950 Final, Arsenal v Liverpool, very slight ageing. Generally good

Lot 1418

CUP FINAL 1952 Ticket for the 1952 Final, Arsenal v Newcastle. Good

Lot 368

ENGLAND / IRELAND Match ticket and Linen itinerary for Inter-League Match , England v Ireland, played at Bradford City 10/10/1903 as a welcome to Bradford City who were newly formed and in their first season in the Football League. These items were likely to be the property of one of the Linesman as noted in pencil in the itinerary which provides details of the teams, match official , timetable for the day etc. Steve Bloomer was in the English side whilst the Irish side included players from Distillery (3), Bohemians (2), Glentoran (2), Linfield (2), Belfast Celtic, and Cliftonville. Only Villa had two players in the England team. Both itinerary and ticket are in generally good condition. A rare souvenir from the earliest days of Bradford City and Valley Parade. Ticket has official Football League stamp on the reverse. As described

Lot 468

FA CUP SEMI-FINALS 1950/1 Newcastle Utd v Wolves (Hillsborough) plus ticket, 1951/2 Arsenal v Chelsea (White Hart Lane), 1954/5 York City Semi-Final Souvenir brochure, 1955/6 Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur four page pirate (Victor). Generally good

Lot 475

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 1954 FA Cup Final winners memorabilia consisting of final programme v Preston NE, Cup Final Community song sheet, cup final ticket, semi-final programme v Port Vale, 1954 players book of the season plus World Sports 1955 (WBA with the FA Cup on cover). Good

Lot 478

MALTA Manchester Utd v Hibernians `67/8 plus ticket, Valetta v Norwich City 1964, Hibernians v Arsenal 20/5/69, Hibernians v Manchester Utd `67/8 (2 issues), Floriana v Ipswich Town (EC) `62/3, Naxxar Lions v Manchester Utd 1987, Malta v Northern Ireland 1989, plus others. Generally good

Lot 8

Harris (John, Publisher). Tom Trip’s Museum: or, A Peep at the Quadruped Race..., 3 parts in one, c.1827, no general title, but each part with separate title-page (with hand-col. vign. to first two), forty-eight hand-col. engs., with text beneath, printed on one side of the page only (facing pages), bound with Tommy Trip’s Museum; or, A Peep at the Feathered Creation, 2 parts in one, c.1827, each part with separate title-page (both with hand-col. vign.), twenty-eight hand-col. engs., with text beneath, printed on one side of the page only (facing pages), pubs. ad. leaf at rear, lacking free endpapers, early ms. name and inscription on front pastedown, with remains of a printed book ticket, contemp. qtr. roan gilt, rubbed and faded spine becoming detached at lower joint, and with loss at head, covers faded and corners showing, lower cover detached, sm. 8vo. Moon, Harris, Appendix A. Rare. Our copy watermarked variously 1823, 1824, and 1827. (1)

Lot 23

Darton (William, pub.). The Majestic Game of the Asiatic Ostrich, uniting the Double object of imparting Knowledge with Diversion to the mind of Youth [so-titled on slipcase], c.1820s, hand-coloured engraving mounted in nine sections on linen, showing an ostrich, with twenty egg-shaped portraits of dignitaries, incl. George IV in the centre, foxed, printed pubs. ad. label on verso, 497 x 399 mm (19.5 x 15.75 ins), contained in orig. marbled slipcase, browned, extrems. rubbed and sl. worn, with hand-coloured pictorial label on upper side, and eng. pubs. ticket on lower side, 172 x 140 mm (7 x 5.5.ins) Extremely rare. (1)

Lot 323

Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, bookplate of Lady Fanshawe of Richmond, bookseller ticket, original cloth, d.j., one or two minor creases, 8vo. (1)

Lot 567

Programme The Form and Order of the Service and the Music sung in the Abbey Church of St Peter Westminster 2nd June 1953, The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the end paper signed by George Dyson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William McKie, William Walton, William Harris, Ernest Bullock, Adrian Boult, Gordon Jacob. Dr and Mrs Herbert Howells` tickets for the Coronation, the complete car park ticket and a letter from the Earl Marshal`s Office instructing Dr Howells, Dr Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton, Sir Arthur Bliss and other composers to wear their Festal Academic Gowns to the Coronation and The Form and Order of Service for the Coronation/see illustration

Lot 48A

Sport, Football, FA Cup Final ticket stubs for 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1946, good [5]

Lot 384

Hawthorne (Nathaniel). Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni, 2 vols., copyright ed., Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1860, ninety-eight mounted photo. plts., marbled endpapers, a.e.g, orig. vellum gilt, 8vo, together with another copy similar, plus Eliot (George), Romola, 2 vols., copyright ed., Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1963, thirty mounted photo. plts., both vols. with early ms. ownership name on prelim. blank, gilt patterned endpapers, book ticket of A.L.F. Smith on front pastedowns, orig. gilt dec. vellum, 8vo, plus two other vellum-bound vols. with mounted photo. plts. similar. Photographic plates of views of Rome, sculptures, paintings, artist’s studios, peasants, etc. (8)

Lot 441

Period Binders, Bath. Paul and Thomas Sandby, Royal Academicians, An Anglo-Danish Saga of Art, Love and War in Georgian England, by Johnson Ball, 1985, numerous col. and b & w illusts., marbled endpapers, t.e.g., contemp. maroon crushed morocco, signed on front turn-in, roundel dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remainder with gilt quatrefoil tool in centre and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt double fillet and scrolling roll border, inner gilt single fillet and dotted line roll border, with volute cornerpieces, dotted line roll on edges, gilt rolls on turn-ins, 4to, together with Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers... 8th ed., revised and enlarged by Cecil Clutton..., 1972, numerous b & w illusts., marbled endpapers, contemp. green morocco gilt, with binder’s ticket on rear free endpaper, 4to (2)

Lot 570

Le Clerc (Sebastien). A Treatise of Architecture with Remarks and Observations... For Young People who would apply to that Noble Art, Engraven in CLXXXI Copper Plates by John Sturt, Translated by Mr. Chambers, printed and sold by Richd. Ware, vol. 2 of two (plates only), [1732], eng. port. frontis., engraved vign. title-page (with architectural eng. on verso), 4pp. of eng. dedications, and 181 engs. on rectos and versos of ninety leaves, dusty and finger-soiled, several ms. ownership names at front and rear, eng. book ticket on front pastedown, hinges split, contemporary Cambridge pane calf, rubbed and extrems worn, 8vo (1)

Lot 606

Greenaway (Kate, illust.). A Apple Pie, pub. Routledge, c. 1886, twenty colour illustrations, endpapers browned, previous owner signature, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slight edge wear, oblong 4to, together with The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, 1st ed., 1st issue, [1888], colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway, scattered spotting, previous owner signature, bookseller ticket, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed and stained, 4to, plus The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, 1926, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, original cloth gilt, slight lean, lightly rubbed, 4to, with others illustrated including The New Inferno, by Stephen Phillips, 1911 (one of 320), The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, by Charles Kingsley, 1909 and The Secret Garden, 1911 (26)

Lot 1108

Bus Ticket Machine (2) and Tickets

Lot 1109

Bus Ticket Machine (2) and Tickets

Lot 1300

Charles Shultz Signature, with dedication to `David and Cristie, Every best wish, Charles Schultz`, with printed letter and New Years Eve ticket 1995, framed and glazed

Lot 495

Hornby accessories: No 9 Station name boards including Tunnel, Caution, Whistle in original box, No. 7 Watchman`s Hut with brazier and shovel (lacks poker) in original box, two hoardings, loading gauge, fourteen milk churns, nametape machine, platform ticket machine, seat, barrow, four luggage trunks (one overpainted), three cable drums and twenty-two Hornby and Dinky railway figures, P-VG, boxes F

Lot 542

Accessories: Bing green automatic ticket machine 170mm, platform indicator-clock (lacks signs), (crossing) cottage; lead electric street lamp 185mm and Kibri Newspaper trolley, F-G (5)

Lot 717

Serie Hornby accessories: set No. 3, two ticket dispensing machines, two seats and cream weighing machine, (5) G-VG, box G, slight wear to lid edges

Lot 750

Bing: two painted tinplate automatic ticket machines, 1906 and 1914, F-G (2)

Lot 24

London (2), both mm. Y, large lettering, small lis, reading me and mev, 2.96g/10h, 2.82g/7h (N 1938; S 2483) [2]. First good fine, second crimped and cracked, fine Provenance: First with 1933 Baldwin ticket; second bt Seaby 1978

Lot 783

Unusual 1930 Zeppelin ticket framed and glazed

Lot 1287

A Highly interesting lot containing various historical memorabilia ranging in date from William IV to George V including an indenture of apprenticeship (1831) written on parchment between Joel Cox and Thomas Millie master cabinet maker, Middlesex, A certificate of marriage (1886), A 1922 American Visa, Victorian in memoriam cards, a Christmas day menu 1917 from the colubus barracks Ohio, an 1837 quarterly ticket for the Christian society, plus Victorian business cards and photographs etc

Lot 805

1940 England v Wales played at Wembley football programme and ticket: 13/4/1940 this is the last time in wartime that a large format programme was issued, all other wartime programmes were 4 page emergency issues forces were admitted hence the raffle style ticket was issued in the queue England lost 1-0 and was the highest attendance of 40,000 for a wartime match, overall creasing, spine cracking no staple. Illus.

Lot 823

1962 Italy v Switzerland World Cup ticket: played at Chile National Stadium group match 7/6/1962 Italy winning 3-0, mint condition.

Lot 887

England home football Programmes all with Match Tickets: Argentina 1951, Czechoslovakia 1966, Spain 1967, Bulgaria 1979 (ticket is autographed on front by Kevin Keegan), Northern Ireland 1982, Saudi Arabia 1978 & Euro 2000 Play-Off v Scotland 1999.

Lot 1036

Book Cup kings Liverpool 1965: By Mark Platt limited 414/1000 signed by the full team together with FA cup final ticket 1965

Lot 1137

Rare 1950 World Cup football match ticket: England v Spain played in Rio de Janeiro on 2/08/50 -Spain won the match 1-0 and sent England home – appears complete with both stubs

Lot 1138

Rare 1921 England v The North international football trial match ticket: played at Burnley Football Club on Monday 28th of February 1921-complimentary ticket to the directors box (some pocket wear otherwise (F/G)

Lot 1142

1966 World cup Eighth final football tickets: To inc Blue ticket Wednesday 13th July, Purple ticket Saturday 16th July, Pink ticket Wednesday 20th July (3)

Lot 1143

Quantity of 1950s-60s football ticket: To inc England v Scotland 14/4/34, Football League v Irish League 20/9/48, Aston Villa v Newcastle 31/12/49, England v Germany 1/12/54, FA cup WBA 28/1/56, WBA 29/10/57, together with 13 1960s league match tickets various

Lot 1185

Framed set celebrating Nottingham Forest`s 1979 European cup win: To inc Football programme, ticket, signed photo captain John McGovern lifting cup, signed photo Trevor Francis scoring winning goal, team photo and pennant signed by Manager Brian Clough 58 x 64cm together with Brian Clough`s book of football signed, signed framed photo captain John McGovern lifting cup and Brian Clough signed paper cutting

Lot 1300

Varsity Rugby signed book - titled "The Bowring Story of the Varsity Match" 1st ed 1988 with the original d/j and signed by the 1994 Cambridge Univ team to the inside front end plate and comes with the match ticket (3)

Lot 1320

Scarce 1987 Rugby World Cup finals " play-off" match ticket: between Australia v Wales for the 3rd/4th place played on Thursday 18th of June at the Rotorua Stadium - full ticket c/w the original ticket stub both stamped across "Complimentary" (G)

Lot 1391

1924 Wales v Ireland rugby match ticket: full ticket complete with stub for the match played at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, March 8, 1924 - for admission to the stand reserved for His Royal Highness the Duke of York and party – neatly mounted overall 7.75 x 9.75" Illus.

Lot 564

1957 Ryder Cup official golf programme, draw sheet and match ticket – played at Lindrick Golf Club 4th – 5th October c/w draw sheet and ticket for the 1st days Foursomes matches and draw sheet token for the 2nd days play (G) plus 1956 Canada Cup golf programme played at Wentworth GC players included Ben Hogan and Sam Snead – some wear to spine otherwise (G) (2)

Lot 574

Collection of Open golf and other programmes and tickets – from 1947 onwards but mostly 1990`s and some signed to incl Open Tickets from 1959 signed by winner Gary Player, with others from 1960, 1962, 1964 with others from 1995 (16), other tickets from 1959 to incl Professional Tournament Dalmahoy ticket and programmes signed by the winners Eric Brown and Christie O`Connor and others players, Swallow & Penfold Tournament ticket signed by the winner Peter Butler, other ticket incl 1959 Walker Cup, Dunlop Tournament tickets signed by the joint winners (11) plus various golf programmes incl a selection of 1960`s professional tournaments, US PGA and later Open programmes from the 1990`s onwards – a lot

Lot 117

Three: Private C. B. Cohen, 1/9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) 1914 Star (2338 Pte., 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2338 Pte., 9-Lond. R.); together with two Soldier’s Active Service Pay Books, original Certificate of Demobilization and an H.M. Forces Combined Leave Railway Ticket, dated 30 October 1915, good very fine (3) £80-100 Cyril Beresford Cohen was born in 1891, enlisted into the 9th London Regiment on 31 August 1914 and served in France and Flanders with the B.E.F. from 4 November 1914. Sold with copy m.i.c.

Lot 1

CAMPBELL, Colin (fl. 1715-1729). Vitruvius Britannicus or The British Architect. London: 1717-1731. Volumes I-III only, 2° (vols I-II 497 x 348mm; vol. III 462 x 295mm). Vols I-II with engraved titles in state C (vol. I with first numerals of 'II' erased, indicating 1717 issue), engraved dedication to vol. I, 159 etched and engraved architectural plates (plate 32 in vol. II appearing twice), 31 of which double-page (some folding), numbered 1-100 in each volume, all in 1717 states; vol. III with title printed in red and black, text in English and French, 73 etched and engraved plates numbered 3-100, 21 of which double-page. (Vol. I: occasional very light browning; Vol. II: occasional very minor marginal worming, a couple of double-page folding plates with edges lightly creased, very light crease to last double-page plate, light variable browning; vol. III: minor marginal worming, plates 31 and 32 with light spotting, double-page plate 91-92 torn along vertical fold without loss, dampstaining to endpapers extending through title, text leaves and into first couple of plates, also affecting last 7 plates.) Contemporary calf (worn, front covers detached). Provenance: Georg Steinmetz (20th-century ink stamp to pastedowns) -- Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket to vol. I). FIRST EDITIONS of vols I-II, 'arguably the most influential and original British architectural book ever published' (RIBA). This was partly owing to the conscious decision to exclude the pretty views to be found in prospect books such as Kip's Britannia Illustrata, and rely on the effectiveness of purely scientific representations. Although the text and plate list in vol. III calls for plate 101 and Harris also listing 101 plates, this was not issued in this 1731 edition (cf. RIBA 3547). Fowler 76 (vols. I-II); Harris 97 (vols I-II), 102 (vol. III); RIBA 3544 (vols I-II), 3546 (vol. III, 1725 edition). (3) View on Christie's.com

Lot 2

[CICOGNARA, Leopoldo (1767-1834)]. Le fabbriche piú cospicue di Venezia. Venice: Alvisopoli, 1815-20. 2 volumes, 2° (578 x 384mm). Engraved vignettes on titles and 250 plates. (Titles very faintly soiled.) Contemporary Italian half sheep (extremities lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, head- and tailcaps lightly worn, corners bumped). Provenance: stamp to title of vol. I and bookplate to vol. II removed -- Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket). A FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF CICOGNARA'S 'GRAND OPERA'. The plates are preceded by individually signed articles on specific buildings by Cicognara, Selva and Diedo. Cicognara 3987; RIBA 639. (2) View on Christie's.com

Lot 7

NASH, Joseph (1809-1878). Mansions of England in the Olden Time ... re-edited by J Corbett Anderson . London: Henry Sotheran, 1869-1872. Series 1-4 in 4 volumes, large 2° (572 x 460mm), each with its own descriptive letterpress, 2° in 4s (564 x 375mm), titles printed in red and black. Original plain wrappers, stapled (light soiling, spotting and marginal staining, spines beginning to split). 106 lithographic plates (most approx. 207 x 281mm) on 104 sheets, hand-coloured and most heightened with gum arabic, printed on card and mounted within gilt rule surround. (Two large tears to plate 53, one half way through the plate, no. 54 mount heavily stained and plate spotted, most plates clean and fine with occasional light spotting affecting mounts only, plates to vol. III more heavily spotted and soiled.) Contained in the original publisher's morocco-backed portfolios, lettered in gilt to upper covers (worn, dampstained, flaps sometimes defective and missing, lacking silk ties). Provenance: Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). Second edition of 'NASH'S MOST FAMOUS WORK' (RIBA) WITH FINE COLOURED PLATES. For this edition, the plates were 'carefully reduced and executed in lithography by Samuel Stanesbury ... [and] M. & N. Hanhart'. Abbey Scenery 402; RIBA 2237; Tooley 337 (all 1st editions). (4) View on Christie's.com

Lot 9

PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). The second French edition. Bertotti Scamozzi (1719-1790), who produced and illustrated this edition, was a distinguished architect and the main representative of neoclassical art in Vicenza, Palladio's home town. 'Fece cosa nobile e grandiosa nel produrre queste grandi opera Palladiane, e nell'illustrarle' (Cicognara). The Architectural Library, AL2, P171; for the first edition of 1776-83, cf. Berlin Kat. 2722, Cicognara 598 and Fowler 231. (4) View on Christie's.com

Lot 12

QUARENGHI, Giacomo (1744-1817). Fabriche e disegni. Mantua: fratelli Negretti, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes in one, 2° (462 x 325mm). Engraved and etched portrait and 125 plates. (Light spotting, heavier to last few plates of vol. II, portrait with tape repairs to verso, title lightly creased with tiny hole and old paper repairs to verso, lacking 2 preliminary leaves to vol. II including the title.) Contemporary quarter green roan over mottled paper-covered boards, vellum tips (extremities rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). 'GIACOMO QUARENGHI WAS PROBABLY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL OF THE ARCHITECTS AND INTERIOR DESIGNERS BROUGHT TO RUSSIA FROM ITALY BY CATHERINE THE GREAT' (RIBA III, p. 1589). The present lot is the second edition of vol. I, which was published by Quarenghi's son, Guilio, and contains 59 plates, of which 31 are from Édifices construits à Saint Petersbourg (St. Petersburg, 1810), most of them reworked with French and English scales in addition to the original Russian. The second vol. is the FIRST EDITION WITH 66 PLATES after Quarenghi senior's drawings. RIBA 2677. View on Christie's.com

Lot 13

ROBERTS, David (1796-1864). Picturesque Sketches in Spain Taken During the Years 1832 & 1833. London: Hodgson & Graves, 1837. 2° (553 x 360mm). 1p. advertisement at end. Tinted lithographic title, dedication and list of plates, and 25 plates on thick paper after David Roberts. (Light spotting and soiling, two plates with very small marginal ink spots.) Original green morocco-backed cloth boards, lettered to upper board (extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps worn). Provenance: ?Gerstz 'Königliche Theater Maler ... zu Berlin' (early ink inscription to title and dedication) -- ?Friedrich Blundt (ink signature dated 1921) -- Hähn (ticket with inventory number in ms 2924) -- Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 152: 'Roberts's first published set of views'; Hardie p.247. View on Christie's.com

Lot 15

[SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich (1781-1841) and Peter Christian Wilhelm BEUTH (1781-1853), editors.] Vorbilder für Fabrikanten und Handwerker. Berlin: Königliche Technischen Deputation für Gewerbe, 1821-1836. 2 plate volumes, 2° (521 x 365mm), without the accompanying text volumes. 2 titles with Prussian royal eagle device, 6 part titles. Vol. I: 94 plates, comprising 84 engravings, 5 lithographs (no. 23 tinted), 4 aquatints (plates 17 and 18 two-colour printed, 31 and 32 printed in sepia), and one stipple-engraved plate printed in green. Vol. II: 54 plates, comprising 31 engravings (plates 14, 16, 17 and 23 with some aquatint shading, and plate 10 printed in sepia), and 23 chromolithographs. 4 plates and a pencil drawing loosely inserted at end of vol. II. (Some light spotting, plate I.3.3 heavily, plate I.1.2A trimmed into image.) Contemporary green morocco by Ackermann of Berlin, with his ticket, covers with gilt frames, upper covers with gilt-lettered presentation from the Ministry to Royal Goldsmith, George Hossauer, 1823-30, gilt spines, gilt edges (extremities rubbed and scuffed, lower joint to vol. I and upper joint to vol. II starting to split, front inner hinge of vol. I detached, spines slightly faded). Provenance: George Hossauer (1794-1874; Royal Goldsmith; binding). 'SCHINKEL IS THE MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED GERMAN ARCHITECT OF HIS GENERATION' (RIBA III, p.1771). He was advisor to the Königliche Technischen Deputation für Gewerbe under Beuth's directorship. The present work was circulated gratis to architects and builders within Prussia to promote knowledge and designs, in order to build a monument to Prussia's newly found wealth and sense of achievement. The present copy was given to Hossauer, the most important Berlin goldsmith of his generation, whose work was closely allied to the aims of Schinkel and Beuth. RIBA 4070, 4071; cf M. Snodin, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1991), p.187. (2) View on Christie's.com

Lot 189

GREGYNOG PRESS -- HABERLY, Loyd. Anne Boleyn and Other Poems. Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1934. 4° (211 x 166mm). Title in red with press device in green, opening initials after Graily Hewitt in green and red, other printing in black and red. (Some spotting.) Original oasis morocco blocked in gilt with crowned falcon badge, top edge gilt. NUMBER 295 OF 300 COPIES on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Harrop 31; Jones p. 35. With H. Broughton's A Concent of Scripture [London: 1590?], imperfect copy but retaining the folding map of the northern hemisphere (laid down); The Form and Order ... in the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (London: 1838), with tipped-in ticket to the coronation; and 4 others. (7) View on Christie's.com

Lot 360

DOBELL, Peter (d.1852). Puteshestviia i noveishiia nabliudeniia v Kitae, Manill i Indo-Kitaiskom Arkhipelag. [Journey and Latest Observations in China, Manilla and the Indo-China Archipelago.] Translated from the English by A. Dzhunkovskii. St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1833. 2 vols, 8° (206 x 125mm and 211 x 129mm). Lithographed frontispieces. (Light spotting and light soiling.) In contrasting half calf and full calf bindings, vol. 1 spine gilt (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed). Provenance: 20th-century Russian booksellers (various stamps; vol. 2 with Mogiz book-ticket). FIRST EDITION. Born in Ireland and educated in America, Dobell ultimately settled on Russian citizenship. Dobell identified the Philippines as a key base from which to organize the regular supply of provisions to the Russian Far East and suggested the idea to the Russian government, sending at his own cost three ships from Manila to Kamchatka. Alexander I approved the plan and appointed Dobell Consul General of Russia's first mission in Manila. Dobell made three trips to China, where he lived for seven years. This work is based in part on his Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, published in London in 1830, but adds seven chapters and appendices. A French translation was published in 1838. Cordier 2109. (2) View on Christie's.com

Lot 6

MERIGHI (20th century), `Circus ticket seller`, oil on canvas, 59cm x 79cm, signed, framed.

Lot 500

LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, RA (1887-1976) A HILL SIDE two tone lithograph in black on fawn, published by Ganymed Original Editions Ltd, London, 1969, signed by the artist in pencil and numbered 62/75, 56 x 72.5cm ++In entirely original condition, undisturbed in the original frame, on the reverse the price ticket of £100 and clipping from a title label. The sheet with virtually full margins and some surface marks/slight foxing in the lower margin with one or two light stains

Lot 1368

An Autograph Album containing assorted sigs including Buddy Holly (1936-1959), Joe B Mauldin + Jerry Allison + Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Gaumont Theatre Ticket Sub, orig cl, gt

Lot 1399

A Packet: Assorted Royal Ephemera including a Ticket to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2nd June 1953; a Coronation Tube Map; + other associated publications; + a few loose leaf cuttings and pages from THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS and THE GRAPHIC, circa 1884-87, mainly commemorating the Jubilee of Queen Victoria, etc

Lot 1418

A selection of seven Norwich City Football Club (NCFC) FA Cup 1958-59, including Norwich City v Manchester United 10th January 1959, Norwich City v Sheffield United 4th March 1959, Norwich City v Luton Town 8th March 1959 and Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur 14th February 1959 + 5th Round Replay Ticket Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur 18th February 1959, later f/g, approximately 30” x 27”

Lot 102

(Rev. Charles Lutwidge)] “Lewis Carroll”. Alice`s (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)] “Lewis Carroll”. Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland second (first published) edition half-title frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel occasional light foxing binder`s ticket at end lower hinge just starting [Crutch 33] 1866; Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there first edition first issue with “wade” on p.21 half-title frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel small stains to margins of first few leaves hinges weak [Crutch 84] 1872 [1871] both in original gilt pictorial red cloth g.e. very slightly rubbed spine of first slightly cockled slight staining to upper cover of second preserved in cloth dust-jackets and housed together in red half morocco slip-case by Bumpus 8vo *** Very good unsophisticated copies of the two Alice titles. Provenance: Boies Penrose II with bookplates.

Lot 149

Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in A first edition map and 20 tinted lithograph plates some foxing hinges a little weak book sticker of John Tobin original blue cloth spine gilt binder`s ticket at rear a little rubbed 8vo 1851.

Lot 255

Parrot Champ Fleury (Gray binder).- Tory (Geofroy) Champ Fleury translated and edited by George B.Ives one of 390 copies designed by Bruce Rogers printed in Centaur type illustrations bound in natural goatskin by Gray Parrot onlaid borders of grey goatskin upper board onlaid with letters of the alphabet lower with “Non Plus” within frame and spine with title all in black goatskin t.e.g. others uncut with binder`s vellum ticket at foot of rear pastedown very slight spotting to lower cover together with bookseller`s catalogue featuring the binding in original goatskin-backed and edged black cloth drop-back box spine titled in gilt small folio New York printed by William Henry Rudge of Mount Vernon for The Grolier Club 1927. *** Magnificent binding complimenting the elegant design of Bruce Rogers.

Lot 5

Petrus Lombardus. Liber Sententiarum cum conclusionibus Henrici Gorichem ac titulis quaestionum S. Thomae 280 ff. only (of 281 lacking blank f. 132) double column 55 lines and headline Gothic letter capitals paragraph marks and initial strokes in red small woodcut printer`s device to verso of Q6 title with some worming and a few small holes elsewhere occasional worming mostly small holes affecting the odd letter or few letters on several ff. except g5-i1 here small single trace within text loss (or part loss) of several letters on most of these ff. some narrow areas of marginal staining to preliminaries and a few other ff. contemporary Augsburg binding of blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (Kyriss 80) central blind-tooled lattice work with compartments filled with pomegranate and foliage motifs all within a border depicting a deer within a wooden fence metal centre- and corner-pieces and clasps missing wormed worn in a few areas but holding firm [BMC III 766; Goff P-491; Hain 10195] folio Basel Nicolaus Kesler 1488. *** An attractive copy of this classic with a distinguished provenance. Lombard`s Sententiarum formed the basis for theological study throughout Europe well into the Renaissance. Provenance: `Monasterii B.V. in Diesen` (early ink inscription to title); Royal Library at Munich (`Duplum` ink inscription to inner front board); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (sold Bloomsbury Book Auctions 31st October 1985 lot 182 to Lathrop Harper); Helmut N. Friedlaender (small book ticket to inner front board).

Lot 17

(Robert Trevor Viscount) Britannia Lathmon Vill (Robert Trevor Viscount) Britannia Lathmon Villa Bromhamensis title with engraved portrait medallion errata leaf bound in at end (smaller) some light foxing at beginning and end handsome contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt by Kalthoeber (with his ticket at head of front free endpaper) gilt-ruled border with small starburst stamp in middle of each border spine gilt g.e. Greek key pattern inner gilt dentelles rubbed a few marks and scratches but generally a good copy folio Parma Bodoni 1792.

Lot 54

Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations 3 vol. first edition in bookform first issue [one of 1000 copies] vol. I with two very small ink marks on title without the 32pp. publisher`s catalogue at end of vol. III some slight foxing to preliminary and concluding ff. and endpapers bookplate of M. Saunders-Knox-Gore of Belleek Manor with ink presentation inscription to another member of the family on front pastedown vol. I modern bookseller`s ticket on front pastedown contemporary half calf [Eckel 91-93; Smith I 14] 8vo 1861. *** A good copy of an extremely scarce work.This copy agrees with the first issue points listed in Eckel and Smith.

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