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3 December | Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction date Wednesday 3 December 2025 14:00 - 17:00 GMT

DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1843,8vo, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, original brown decoratedcloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "the greatest Christmas bookever written in any language" (Eckel).

£5000-8000


Wednesday 3 December

Lots 401-514   2.00pm Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

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Total lots: 116

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
449 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - A fine illuminated manuscript on a single bifolium vellum leaf extracted from a prayer book, with exceptional decorative coloured borders heightened in gold, [?]mid- to late-15th-century, probably northern France, 210 x 285mm. £300 - £500 £350 View
450 JAPAN - An album of 50 colour-tinted mounted photographs of Japan in a lacquer album, the photographs 195 x 250mm., the oblong 4to album 325 x 420mm., with a sepia photograph inset into the upper cover (some minor chipping), [c.1880]. £200 - £300 £350 View
451 JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1755, 2 volumes, folio, lacking the title to vol. II, but supplied in modern facsimile, modern old-style calf. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. (2) £2,000 - £3,000 £2,200 View
452 KELMSCOTT PRESS - William MORRIS (1834-96). A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898, 8vo, illustration by Edward Burne-Jones, ornaments, holland-backed boards. ONE OF 525 COPIES. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY. £1,500 - £2,500 £1,300 View
453 KNOLLES, Richard (1545-1610). The Generall Historie of the Turkes ... The Third Edition, London, 1621, folio, fine engraved title page, 28 portraits, illustration, contemporary calf (old repairs). £800 - £1,200 £1,000 View
453a LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). The Rainbow, London, 1915, 8vo, original cloth. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES PRINTED FOR 'METHUEN'S COLONIAL LIBRARY'. cf. Roberts A7. £200 - £300 £150 View
454 LEVASSEUR, Victor (1800-70). Amérique Septentrionale, Paris, [c.1845], hand-coloured engraved map of north America, pictorial borders, 290 x 430mm., framed and glazed. A record of the short-lived Republic of Texas which existed between 1836 and 1846. £400 - £600 - View
455 LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Screwtape Letters, London, 1942. 8vo, Half title, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. RARE. £1,000 - £1,500 - View
456 LONDON PANORAMAS - [Matthäus MERIAN (1593-1650), the Elder], attributed. London. [Frankfurt, c.1638]. Hand-coloured engraved panorama of London, 230 x 710mm., framed and glazed. With another smaller panorama of London. (2) £400 - £600 £450 View
457 LONG, Frank Belknap (1901-94). The Horror from the Hills, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1963, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue, without the copyright notice. £200 - £300 £100 View
458 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Shunned House, Athol, Mass.: The Recluse Press, 1928 [but please see the important note in the full description below]. Original publisher's black cloth gilt, modern book box. Joshi A5. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. £2,000 - £3,000 £1,000 View
459 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) - August DERLETH (1909-71). H. P. L.: a memoir, New York, 1945, original red cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "For Gordon Dewey - a memory of H. P. L. Cordially, August Derleth." £200 - £300 £150 View
460 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) & August DERLETH (1909-71). The Lurker at the Threshold, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi I-D-i-20. RARE. £300 - £500 £200 View
461 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) & August DERLETH (1909-71). The Survivor and Others, Sark City, Arkham House, 1957, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi p.190. £100 - £150 £50 View
462 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE. £700 - £1,000 £600 View
463 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Dreams and Fancies, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1962, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Joshi A33. £200 - £300 £100 View
464 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Marginalia ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1944, 8vo, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A19. £200 - £300 £150 View
465 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Something about Cats and Other Pieces. Collected by August Derleth, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1949, 8vo, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A25. £200 - £300 £150 View
466 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces by H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1966, 8vo, plates and illustrations, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A43. £100 - £150 £50 View
467 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Outsider and Others, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1939, 8vo, original cloth, facsimile dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of "the first major collection of Lovecraft's tales" (Joshi) and the first book printed by Arkham House. RARE. £1,000 - £1,500 £700 View
468 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Shuttered Room, Sauk City, 1959, 8vo, half tone frontispiece and 4 plates, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Joshi A32. £200 - £300 £100 View
469 LOWELL, Percival (1855-1916). Mars and its Canals, New York, 1906, 8vo, photogravure frontispiece and 15 plates, modern full green morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. £100 - £150 - View
470 MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). The Arte of Warre, translated by Peter Whitehorne, London, 1562, small 4to, (lacking a few leaves), old calf. THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH AND THE FIRST OF ANY WORK BY MACHIAVELLI TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. £700 - £1,000 £1,000 View
471 MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONIAL ON VELLUM - "An Address to the Venerable Stephen Creyke M.A. from the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of York." [York: c.1866]. Folio. A manuscript illuminated testimonial on 8 vellum leaves, original red morocco gilt (rubbed). £70 - £100 £280 View

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