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4 December | Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction date Wednesday 4 December 2024 14:00 - 17:00 GMT

Wednesday 4^th December

501-608 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts | 2pm

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
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

Total lots: 109

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