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Wednesday 4th December
501-608 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts | 2pm
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator). Old Inns, London, 1921, 4to, 16 mounted coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards (lightly stained, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 166 OF 380 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. | £70 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 502 | Atlante dell' America Contenente le Migliori Carte Geografiche, e Topografiche delle Principali Città, Laghi, Fiumi, e Fortezze del Nuovo Mondo, Livorno, 1777, folio, frontispiece, 43 etched plates (some staining at centrefolds), contemporary full vellum. | £1,000 - £1,500 | £800 | View |
| 503 | [BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937)] - R. L. STEVENSON (1850-94). Memories, London, [1912], 25 plates, original wrappers by JESSIE M. KING. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed, "J. M. Barrie from his friend W. B. M. Ballantyne, Xmas 1912", and SIGNED BY J. M. BARRIE. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 504 | BERLESE, Abbé Laurent (1784-1863). Iconographie du Genre Caméllia, Paris, 1843, vol. III only (of 3), folio, 74 hand-coloured plates only (of 100, some spotting and browning), calf-backed boards. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
| 505 | BINDING - A. A. MILNE (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1967, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, attractively bound in full green pictorial morocco gilt by Bayntun-Rivière. | £300 - £500 | £700 | View |
| 506 | BINDING - André FRÉNAUD (1907-93). Soleil Irréductible, Neuchatel, 1946. 4to, FINELY BOUND BY DANIEL KNODERER in abstract multi-coloured free-form boards in bold relief (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 463 OF 1,057 COPIES. | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
| 507 | BINDING - Liturgia, London, 1670, 8vo, engraved portrait of Charles II and 47 engraved illustrations, rubricated throughout, attractively bound in contemporary black calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gauffered edges. | £300 - £500 | £550 | View |
| 508 | BINDING - Petites Fleurs de Saint François d' Assise, Paris, 1920, 4to, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments by Jacques Beltrand after Maurice Denis, FINELY BOUND BY RENÉ AUSSOURD after a design by René Gimpel, slipcase. | £200 - £300 | £550 | View |
| 509 | BINDING - Willi KURTH (b.1881, editor). The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, New York, 1963, 4to, illustrations, FINELY BOUND BY DON ETHERINGTON in full cream pigskin, box. | £200 - £300 | £220 | View |
| 510 | BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, 1933-58. | £2,000 - £3,000 | £850 | View |
| 511 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Al PURDY (1918-2000). The Bukowski Purdy Letters. 1964-1974. The Paget Press, 1983, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. COPY "D" OF 26 SIGNED BY BOTH POETS, WITH AN ORIGINAL PASTEL BY BUKOWSKI AND HOLOGRAPH POEM BY PURDY. RARE. | £2,000 - £3,000 | - | View |
| 512 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer). 24 Photographs 1977-1987, Santa Barbara, 1987, 4to, boards. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 496 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 26 SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. RARE. | £500 - £700 | - | View |
| 513 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94), and others - Seamus COONEY (b.1933). A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY 28 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PRESS. RARE. | £300 - £500 | - | View |
| 514 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). "Old". The original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 47 lines on 2 sheets of A4, SIGNED "Charles Bukowski, 12-29-91"; with another similar. Please see the full description below. | £300 - £500 | £250 | View |
| 515 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). 2 poems, Los Angeles, Philip Klein for the Black Sparrow Press, April 1967, 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 26 OF 99 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. RARE. | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 516 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b. | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 517 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Crucifix in a Deathhand, New York, 1965, 4to, 4 etched plates by Noel Rockmore, original wrappers with fold-ins. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 3,100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN PINK INK AND DATED BY HIM "3-19-65." | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 518 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Epos. A Quarterly of Poetry. Poems and Drawings by Charles Bukowski, Crescent City, Florida, 1962, 8vo, illustrations by the author, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. No limitation stated but probably ONE OF ABOUT 500 COPIES. RARE. | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 519 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hot Water Music, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1983, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 97 OF 126 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING INSERTED AT THE FRONT SIGNED "BUK." | £2,000 - £3,000 | - | View |
| 520 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963, 8vo, printed on multi-coloured paper, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 777 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN SILVER INK. Krumhansl 12. | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 521 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author's third chapbook, and fourth published book. ONE OF ABOUT 300 COPIES. VERY RARE. | £800 - £1,200 | - | View |
| 522 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Santa Rosa, 1992, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 251 COPIES (LETTERED 'Y') SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOURED SILKSCREEN PRINT BY THE AUTHOR SIGNED "BUK". | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 523 | BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1986, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 66 OF 126 COPIES SIGNED WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT BY THE AUTHOR AND AN ORIGINAL COLOURED PRINT, SIGNED. | £400 - £600 | £400 | View |
| 524 | CHEVREUL, M. E. (1786-1889). The Laws of Contrast of Colour, London, 1859, 8vo, 17 plates, all but one printed in colours by Edmund Evans (some spotting), original coloured decorated cloth (neatly rebacked). New Edition. | £100 - £150 | £20 | View |
| 525 | CHINA - Athanasius KIRCHER (1602-80). La Chine, Amsterdam, 1670, folio, additional engraved title, 2 maps, 22 plates, 61 illustrations (lacking the portrait, some spotting and staining), contemporary vellum. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. | £700 - £1,000 | £850 | View |
| 526 | CHINA - Picture Story of Preparing Tea, [no place, but printed in China: no publisher, n.d.], small 4to, 10 hand-coloured plates printed on silk on accordion leaf, text in English and Chinese, original wooden boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE. | £150 - £250 | £100 | View |
| 527 | CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT - A sammelband consisting of 207 fine original watercolours of Turkish and Levantine figures, and 3 related 17th- and 18th-century printed works, including fine hand-coloured Chinese costume plates, folio, contemporary calf. | £7,000 - £10,000 | £6,000 | View |
| 528 | CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original dark blue silk boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works in 12 volumes. (14) | £300 - £500 | £350 | View |
| 529 | CHINESE CERAMICS - D. HOWARD & J. AYRES. China for the West. Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts ... illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, London, 1978, 2 volumes, folio, illustrations, buckram, dust-jackets, slipcase. PRESENTATION COPY. (2) | £200 - £300 | £160 | View |
| 530 | CHINESE CERAMICS - Edgar GORER (1872-1915) & J. F. BLACKER ([dates unknown]). Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, 2 volumes, 4to, 254 coloured plates, original cream pictorial buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 318 OF 1,000 COPIES. (2) | £400 - £600 | £420 | View |
| 531 | CHINESE CERAMICS - H. MOSS (b.1943). By Imperial Command. An Introduction to Ch'ing Imperial Painted Enamels, Hong Kong, 1976, 2 volumes, folio, 87 fine coloured plates, original buckram, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 495 OF 1,000 COPIES. (2) | £300 - £500 | £420 | View |
| 532 | CHINESE CERAMICS - Liu LIANG-YU. A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Taiwan, 1991, 5 volumes, folio, coloured illustrations, original brown buckram, dust-jackets. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. (5) | £200 - £300 | £20 | View |
| 533 | CHINESE CERAMICS - Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1976-77, 12 volumes, large 4to, text in English and Japanese, mounted coloured plates, original silk boards gilt, slipcases. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 41 OF 300 COPIES. (12) | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 534 | CHINESE CERAMICS - R. KRAHL (and others). Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, [London], 1986, 3 volumes, folio, coloured and monochrome illustrations, buckram, dust-jackets, slipcases. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 955 OF 1,000 COPIES. (3) | £500 - £800 | £700 | View |
| 535 | CHINESE CERAMICS - R. L. HOBSON (1872-1941). Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, London, 1931, 4to, 85 plates, some coloured, FINELY BOUND in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, box. ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY LEONARD GOW. | £500 - £800 | £300 | View |
| 536 | CHINESE CERAMICS - The George Eumorfopoulos Collection. Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain by R. L. Hobson, London, 1925-28. Volumes I - VI, folio, 450 plates, some coloured, cloth. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 725 COPIES. (6) | £2,000 - £3,000 | - | View |
| 537 | CHINESE IVORIES - S. E. LUCAS. The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories, London, 1950, 3 volumes, 4to, coloured frontispiece, 224 plates, FINELY BOUND in original half vellum gilt. ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY VICTOR SASSOON AND SYDNEY EDWARD LUCAS. (3) | £700 - £1,000 | £500 | View |
| 538 | CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). A Pocket Full of Rye, London, 1853, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books by the same author, both FIRST EDITIONS in dust-jackets. (3) | £200 - £300 | £350 | View |
| 539 | CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan, Ebenezer Press, [1969], folio, coloured linocut text and plates by Graham Clarke printed on 16 folded sheets, each plate initialled by the artist, original yew boards. ONE OF 25 ARTIST'S PROOF COPIES. | £300 - £500 | - | View |
| 540 | COLOUR PRINTING - James E. DOYLE (1824-83). A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485, London, 1864, 4to, 81 coloured illustrations by Edmund Evans after James E. Doyle, attractively bound in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 541 | CONDE José Antonio (1766-1820). Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en España, Madrid, 1820-21, 3 volumes bound in 2, small 4to, 6 engraved plates (some staining), contemporary Spanish mottled calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. (2) | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 542 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Mirror of the Sea, London, 1906, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Miss Hallowes from her friend Joseph Conrad. 1906." | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
| 543 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Secret Agent, New York, 1907, 8vo, some staining, original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Miss Hallowes from her friend the Author. 1907." | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
| 544 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Arrow of Gold, London, 1919, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (stained, dust-jacket in fragments). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "From J. C. with love to Lilian." | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
| 545 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rover, London, 1927, 8vo, (the half title and title torn with severe loss), original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "L. Hallowes from her friend J. Conrad. 1923." | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 546 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) & Ford M. HUEFFER (1873-1939). The Inheritors. London, 1901, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth (some light staining). FIRST EDITION. With the same authors' Romance (London, 1903, 8vo, original blue cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 547 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Almayer's Folly, London, 1895, 8vo, title printed in red and black (some spotting), original green cloth gilt (bumped). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL, FIRST ISSUE. RARE. | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 548 | CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). An Outcast of the Islands, London, 1896, 8vo, title printed in red and black (some light spotting to a few leaves), original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL, FIRST ISSUE. RARE. | £400 - £600 | £300 | View |