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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
495 RUSKIN, John (1819-1900) - W. WHITE (1885-1932). The Principles of Art as Illustrated by Examples in the Ruskin Museum at Sheffield: with ... Writings of John Ruskin, London, 1895, 8vo, plates, cloth. FIRST EDITION. With a quantity of related books. (qty) £200 - £300 - View
496 RUSSELL FLINT, William (1880-1969). In Pursuit. An Autobiography, London, The Medici Society, 1970, folio, illustrations, some coloured, original blue morocco gilt, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 1,008 OF 1,050 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST'S SON. £300 - £500 - View
497 RYCAUT, Paul (1629-1700). The Present State of the Ottoman Empire ... The Third Edition, London, 1670, folio, frontispiece, 2 plates and 19 illustrations, original calf. A FINE COPY WITH A DISTINGUISHED TRIPLE MODERN PROVENANCE. £800 - £1,200 £1,000 View
498 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de (1900-44). The Little Prince, London, 1944, large 8vo, half title, coloured illustrations by the author, original pink pictorial cloth, dust-jacket. THE FIRST EDITION TO BE PRINTED IN THE U.K. RARE. With 4 other books. (5) £200 - £300 £350 View
499 [SALTONSTALL, Wye (c.1602-c.1640), translator]. Ovid's Heroical Epistles. Englished by W. S. ... This may be Reprinted, R. L. S. London: "Printed for the Company of Stationers," 1695, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, calf (worn). The sixth edition. Wing O672. £200 - £300 £150 View
500 [SANDYS, G. (1578-1644), translator]. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures, Oxford, 1632, folio, engraved title, portrait, 15 plates, later calf. The second folio edition, and the first to include the engraved plates. £100 - £150 £180 View
501 SASSOON, Siegfried. (1886-1967). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London, 1929, large 8vo, 7 plates by William Nicholson, original buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. With 3 other related books. (4) £200 - £300 £120 View
502 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Works, London, Allied Newspapers Ltd., [c.1930], 39 volumes only (of 40), miniature 16mo, original leatherette, in 3-tier wooden bookcase. (39) £50 - £80 £80 View
503 SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor). Nieuwe Cronyk Van Zeeland, Middelburg, [1700], folio, engraved maps and plates, contemporary speckled calf. FIRST EDITION. £300 - £500 £500 View
504 SPARK, Muriel (1918-2006). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London, 1961, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 £100 View
505 SPEED, John (1552-1629). Hantshire described and devided, [London, 1676], hand-coloured engraved map of Hampshire, inset bird's-eye-view of Winchester, 380 x 510mm., framed and glazed. A FINE COPY. With R. Morden's Hampshire (London, c.1695). (2) £300 - £500 £320 View
506 SPENSER, Edmund (c.1552-99). The Faerie Queene, London, 1894-96. Books I-VI comprising parts I-XVIII in 18 original parts (only, lacking the last part), woodcut plates by Walter Crane, original pink pictorial wrappers. ONE OF 1,000 COPIES. (18) £300 - £500 - View
507 [STAFFORD, Thomas (?1576-1655)]. Pacata Hibernia. Ireland Appeased and Reduced, London, 1633, folio, engraved portrait of Elizabeth I, 16 engraved maps only (of 18, lacking the portrait of Carew), old calf spine (without the covers). FIRST EDITION. £300 - £500 £420 View
508 STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). Treasure Island, London, 1911, 4to, 12 mounted coloured plates by John Cameron, vignettes (final page lightly browned). FINELY BOUND in original full pictorial vellum gilt. NUMBER 61 OF 250 COPIES. A FINE COPY. £200 - £300 £300 View
509 TURNER, Richard ([?]1720-91). A View of the Earth: Being a short, but Comprehensive System of Modern Geography, London, 1762, 4to, engraved map of the world, 6 maps, plate, diagrams, boards (worn). And 2 contemporary manuscript exercise books. (3) £200 - £300 - View
510 WANDREI, Donald (1908-87). The Web of Easter Island, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1948, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. £100 - £150 £75 View
511 [WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)]. The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan, London, Leonard Smithers, 1899, 4to, original lilac cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 283 OF 1,000 COPIES. £700 - £1,000 - View
512 WILLIAMS, Margery (1881-1944). The Velveteen Rabbit, London, 1922, 4to, 7 coloured plates by William Nicholson, original boards. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "1922. For Ada Squires on her birthday, from William Nicholson." £5,000 - £8,000 £5,000 View
513 WILSON, Angus (1913-91). Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, London, 1956, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books by the same author, both FIRST EDITIONS. (3) £70 - £100 £20 View
514 YERKES COLLECTION - Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Boston, 1904, 2 volumes, 4to, plates, FINELY BOUND IN MOROCCO. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 215 OF 250 COPIES. With a small quantity of miscellaneous books. (qty) £400 - £600 - View

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