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601
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ACTON, Harold (1904-94). Peonies and Ponies. A Novel, London, 1951, 8vo, original red cloth, yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Ritchie A11a.
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£70 - £100
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£120
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602
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ALBUM - An album on c.18 card leaves containing numerous mounted embossed crests, many heightened in gold, with very fine painted mount designs, mostly floral but including croquet motifs, Oxford and Cambridge college crests, etc, 4to, 19th-century.
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£300 - £500
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603
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ALBUM, INDIA - An album of c.250 albumen photographs, many of Indian subjects, various sizes, portraits, etc., folio, c. 1860s. Provenance: E. B. Burnaby.
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£300 - £500
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£900
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604
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ALBUMS - An album on c.100 leaves, part commonplace book, but containing, inter alia, many original drawings, including a number of women smoking cigarettes (unusual for the period), contained in an album, 4to, late 19th-century. With another. (2)
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£300 - £500
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605
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ALEXANDER III (1845-94) - Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leur Majeste's Impériales l' Empereur de Toutes les Russies, St. Petersburg, 1883, folio, coloured lithographed plates, preserving wrappers, with the EXCEPTIONALLY RARE limitation leaf.
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£7,000 - £10,000
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606
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ANGLING - Charles BOWLKER. The Art of Angling, Containing Directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom Fishing, Making Artificial Flies, Ludlow, 1839, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, illustrations, original boards. RARE. With a related book. (2)
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£150 - £250
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607
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ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-79). A one-page autograph letter, with a prominent ORIGINAL DRAWING by Ardizzone incorporating what is probably a self-portrait; and a letter from Elisabeth Frink, referring to Peter Shaffer's 'Equus'. (2)
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£300 - £500
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£280
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608
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ASTAIRE, Fred (1899-1987). Steps in Time, New York, 1959, 8vo, monochrome illustrations, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author on the half title.
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£200 - £300
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609
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BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, London, [1970], 8vo, plates and illustrations, FINELY BOUND in green morocco gilt with figures of Alice and the Mad Hatter in compartments of the spine.
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£300 - £500
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£380
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610
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BINDING - Ernest Thompson SETON (1860-1946). Animal Heroes, London, 1906, small 4to, 19 plates by Seton Thompson, illustrations, FINELY BOUND in contemporary full crushed magenta morocco gilt by Bumpus.
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£300 - £500
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£220
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611
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BINDING - Francis BACON (1561-1626). Essays, London, 1903, 8vo, VERY FINELY BOUND in full dark blue crushed morocco elaborately-decorated in gilt by Ramage.
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£400 - £600
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£1,200
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612
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BINDING - Practical Wisdom, London, 1907, square 8vo, FINELY BOUND in full green crushed morocco elaborately decorated in gilt.
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£200 - £300
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£450
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613
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BINDING - Soren SORENSEN (dates unknown). Diderich Buxtehudes vokale kirkemusik, Copenhagen, 1958, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in an abstract modernist design of red, green, black and tan morocco onlays on the upper cover [unsigned], slipcase.
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£300 - £500
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614
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BINDING - William BEATTIE (1793-1875). Scotland Illustrated, London, 1842, 2 volumes, 4to, additional engraved titles with vignettes, 118 engraved plates, attractively bound in contemporary elaborate red morocco gilt. (2)
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£300 - £500
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£300
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615
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BINDINGS - Punch's Snapdragons for Christmas, London, 1845, 8vo, 4 wood-engraved plates by John Leech, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco gilt by Riviere. With 2 other books in attractive morocco bindings; and 2 others. (5)
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£200 - £300
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£280
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616
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"BLAND, Alexander" (d.1982, pseudonym). The Royal Ballet, [London], 1981, 4to, original morocco, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY NINETTE DE VALOIS. With 10 other books, all signed, some relating to the ballet, opera, etc. (11)
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£200 - £300
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£300
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617
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BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty ... Including an Account of the Mutiny, London, 1792, 4to, 7 plates and charts, contemporary or original paper-backed boards. FIRST EDITION.
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£2,000 - £3,000
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618
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BLISS, Arthur (1891-1975, composer). Conversations, London, 1922, 4to, original wrappers. Provenance: Edward Wadsworth. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 2 OF 5 COPIES SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER "RESERVED FROM SALE", and further signed by the publisher. VERY RARE.
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£200 - £300
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£140
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619
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BRADFORD, William (c.1779-1857). Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, London, [1809], 4to, text in English and French, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates, FINE contemporary plum morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.
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£700 - £1,000
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£650
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620
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THE BRONTE SISTERS - Michael FFOLKES (1925-88, illustrator). The original pen, ink and watercolour front cover design for the September 29th, 1962, issue of "Punch" which was dedicated to the Brontë sisters, signed, 274 x 226mm.
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£400 - £600
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BURNS, Robert (1759-96). The Poetical Works, Glasgow, 1821, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, attractively bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Please see provenance note below.
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£200 - £300
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£110
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622
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CHESS - William WINTER (1897-1955) & R. G. WADE (1921-2008). The World Chess Championship: 1951, London, 1951, 8vo, original cloth. With 13 other books on chess, two of which signed by notable chess players. Please see the full description below. (14)
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£400 - £600
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The Children's Friend, London, 1786, vols. I - III, V - X, XII - XX, XXII and XXIV only (of 24, i.e. 4 vols. lacking), 16mo, contemporary calf. VERY RARE. (20)
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£800 - £1,200
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624
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CHORNY, Sasha [i.e. pseudonym of Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG (1880-1932)]. An unpublished autograph couplet in pencil, with an original sketch in pencil beneath of a woman wearing a hat, [c.1925], 225 x 175mm., in modern window mount.
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£200 - £300
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