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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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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
472	MAPS - John SPEED (1552-1629). Holy Iland ... Garnsey ... Farne ... Jarsey, [London], 1610 [but 1611 or later], engraved map, 380 x 510mm., framed and glazed. With 15 other engraved maps and charts, framed and glazed. (16)	£300 - £500	£100	View
473	MAPS - John STOCKDALE (1750-1814, publisher). Great Britain and Ireland with ye Judges Circuits, London, 1805, engraved map, table, 360 x 475mm., framed and glazed. With 17 other maps by Benjamin Cole (4) and John Tallis (13), all framed and glazed. (18)	£200 - £300	£180	View
474	MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802-76). The Rioters ... Second Edition, London, 1842, 12mo, engraved frontispiece (some staining), original cloth (upper cover detached, spine torn with loss).	£70 - £100	£20	View
475	MAUGHAM, W. Somerset (1874-1965). Cakes and Ale, London, 1930, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's Liza of Lambeth ... Second edition (London, 1897, 8vo, fine original green pictorial cloth). (2)	£200 - £300	£140	View
476	MAUGHAM, W. Somerset (1874-1965). Of Human Bondage, London, 1915, 2 half titles, original blue cloth gilt (lightly stained, without the exceptionally scarce dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. RARE.	£400 - £600	-	View
477	MERLIN, Romain (1793-1876). Origine des Cartes a Jouer. Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes, Paris, 1869, 4to, 73 plates, a few printed in colours, original wrappers (detached, very worn). FIRST EDITION.	£100 - £150	£20	View
478	MORRIS, William (1834-96). An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894, London, Chiswick Press, 1898, 8vo, original holland-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION.	£200 - £300	-	View
479	MORRIS, William (1834-96). The Earthly Paradise, 1905, parts I - XII, 8vo, original holland-backed blue paper boards. With a small quantity of books of related interest. (qty).	£200 - £300	-	View
480	MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). A one-page typed letter, with greeting and signature in autograph, to Vice-Consul W. H. A. Snook, relating to a visit to Corsic; with another letter by Mountbatten; and 3 by other correspondents, addressed to Snook. (5)	£100 - £150	-	View
481	MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). Under the Net, London, 1954, 8vo, original bright green cloth, dust-jacket (small piece torn away from the backstrip). FIRST EDITION of the author's first novel. RARE.	£100 - £150	£190	View
482	MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). The Flight from the Enchanter, London, 1956, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 19 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS. (20) Please see the full listing below.	£500 - £800	-	View
483	NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)	£150 - £250	£400	View
484	NEWHOUSE, Daniel (dates unknown). The Whole Art of Navigation, London, 1718, 4to, half title, 2 engraved folding charts, illustrations, diagrams and tables, contemporary half calf (rather worn). The Fourth Edition. RARE.	£300 - £500	£260	View
485	NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). A single leaf, headed "Morning [?]Slate", [c.1853-56], listing the numbers in various hospitals, with "Deaths in past week, 14," "201 Invalids sailed for England", "244 Convalescents sailed for Krimea" [etc], 122 x 81mm.	£300 - £500	£220	View
485a	ORWELL, George (1903-50). Down and Out in Paris and London, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1933, 8vo, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. Fenwick A1a. RARE.	£700 - £1,000	£750	View
486	[PHILLIPS, Richard (1767-1840)]. The Wonders of the Telescope; or, a Display of the Starry Heavens and of the System of the Universe, London, 1809, 8vo, 14 engraved plates, contemporary boards. "New Edition." With 9 other works in 12 vols. (13)	£200 - £400	£100	View
487	[POUND, Ezra (1885-1972), editor] - Guido CAVALCANTI (1255-1300). Rime ... Edizione Rappezzata fra le Rovine, Genova, "Edizioni Marsano S. A.", 1931, 4to, original red wrappers. ONE OF 500 COPIES, POSSIBLY A PRESENTATION COPY, [?]inscribed by Ezra Pound.	£300 - £500	£800	View
488	RANSOME, Arthur (1884-1967). Swallows & Amazons, London, 1930, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt (some fading, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£200 - £300	£120	View
489	RANSOME, Arthur (1884-1967). We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, London, 1937, 8vo, illustrations by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 6 other books by the same author. (7) Please see the full listing below.	£300 - £500	-	View
490	REMARQUE, Erich Maria (1898-1970). All Quiet on the Western Front, London, 1929, 8vo, original tan hessian lettered in green, dust-jacket (a section torn away from the backstrip). FIRST U.K. EDITION of one of the most important of all anti-war novels.	£400 - £600	-	View
491	RONSS, Baudouin van (1525-96). De magnis Hippocratis lienibus, Pliniique stomacace ac sceletyrbe, Wittenberg, 1585, 8vo, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations, modern boards. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Second edition.	£300 - £500	-	View
492	ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, London, 1997, 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards by Thomas Taylor, dust-jacket. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FOURTH IMPRESSION. Errington A1. RARE.	£400 - £600	£420	View
493	ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London, 1999, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket. With The Chamber of Secrets (London, 1998). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, SECOND AND NINTH IMPRESSIONS RESPECTIVELY. (2)	£100 - £200	£60	View
494	ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720.) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, London, 1721, 4to, 19 folding engraved plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other volumes. (4)	£100 - £150	£20	View

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