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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
401 ANGLING - [Edward MARSTON (1825-1914)]. Days in Clover by the Amateur Angler, London, 1892, 8vo, 7 plates, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 71 OF 250 COPIES. RARE. With another. (2) As with all the lots in this sale, please see the full description below. £100 - £150 - View
402 ANGLING - Frederic M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling, London, 1886, 8vo, 10 hand-coloured plates, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 - View
403 ANGLING - H. V. DYKE (1852-1933). Fisherman's Luck and Some other Uncertain Things, New York, 1911, 8vo, plates, fine original decorated cloth gilt. Reprint. With 7 other books of related interest. (8) £200 - £300 £100 View
404 ANGLING - The Diary of A. J. Lane ... A Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript by A. J. Lane, Gentleman (1843), Ellesmere, 1995, 2 volumes, 12mo, printed text and facsimile manuscript, in common cloth slipcase. With 9 other books of related interest. (11) £300 - £500 £200 View
405 ANGLING - Thomas Tod STODDART (1810-80). The Art of Angling as Practised in Scotland ... Second Edition, 1836, 8vo, illustrations, original cloth with title label on the upper cover. With 7 other books of related interest. (8) £300 - £500 £200 View
406 ANGLING, DRY-FLY FISHING - F. M. HALFORD (1844-1914). Modern Development of the Dry Fly, London, 1910, large 8vo, 43 plates, many coloured, original buckram. FIRST TRADE EDITION. With 3 other books of related interest. (4) £300 - £500 - View
407 ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962). Images, London, [n.d. but ?1919], 8vo, original paper boards. With 11 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS. (12) Please see the full listing below. £300 - £500 - View
408 ASHBEE, C. R. (1863-1942). The Trinity Hospital in Mile End ... Being the First Monograph of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London, London, 1896, 4to, 13 plates, original tan wrappers. FIRST EDITION. £100 - £150 - View
409 ASTRONOMY, AMERICAN - John VOSE (1766-1840). A System of Astronomy, Concord [New Hampshire], 1827, 8vo, contemporary calf-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 3 other books of related interest. (4) £100 - £150 £35 View
410 BARROW, Katherine (1849-1915). Three Years in Tristan da Cunha, London, 1910, 8vo, 35 plates, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed in pencil, "J. S. Chance, from the author." With 2 autograph letters. £70 - £100 £40 View
411 BETJEMAN, John (1906-84). Continual Dew, London, 1937, 4to, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 £110 View
412 BINDING - A. F. POLLARD (1869-1948). Henry VIII, London, 1902, 4to, fine coloured frontispiece, plates and illustrations, FINELY BOUND in contemporary full crushed scarlet morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 1,023 OF 1,150 "ON FINE PAPER". £70 - £100 £160 View
413 BINDING - John MILTON (1608-74). Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, Arcades, Lycidas, Etc. Etc. Chiswick, 1823. 2 volumes, small 8vo, engraved titles, FINELY BOUND in contemporary crimson morocco gilt. (2) £150 - £250 £170 View
414 BINDING - Julia FRANKAU (1859-1916). An Eighteenth Century Artist and Engraver. John Raphael Smith. His Life and Works, London, 1902, plate volume only, very large folio, 50 fine photogravure plates, VERY FINELY BOUND IN GREEN MOROCCO GILT BY MORRELL. £700 - £1,000 £600 View
415 BINDING - JUVENAL (b.55 A.D.). Satyræ ... Editio nova, Amsterdam, 1684, large 8vo, additional engraved title, contemporary full vellum, the covers each with a large deeply-embossed gilt figure of Minerva with a shield bearing the device of The Hague. £300 - £500 - View
416 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673). Oxonium comitatus, Vulgo Oxford Shire, [Amsterdam, c.1645], hand-coloured engraved map of Oxfordshire, coats of arms including 16 college coats-of-arms in side borders, 380 x 500mm., framed and glazed. £200 - £300 - View
417 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673)]. Æthiopia superior vel interior, [Amsterdam: c. 1645], hand-coloured engraved map, 380 x 495mm., framed and glazed. With Hondius's Guineae nova descriptio ([Amsterdam, 1606 or later]). (2) £200 - £300 - View
418 BLUNDEN, Edmund (1896-1974) & Wilfred OWEN (1893-1918). A one-page autograph letter from Edmund Blunden, and his PROOF COPY of an edition of Wilfred Owen's poems from 1931, and another later edition. (3) £200 - £300 £900 View
419 BONNEFOY, Yves (1923-2016). Pierre Écrite, Paris, Mercure, 1969, 8vo, original wrappers. With 11 other books in French and German, mainly poetry. (12) Please see the full listing below. £70 - £100 £20 View
420 CANTERBURY - Georg BRAUN (1541-1622) & Franz HOGENBERG (1536-88). Cantuarbury. Cantuaria urbs fertilissimae Angliae celebris, [Cologne: c.1588], hand-coloured engraved bird's-eye-view of Canterbury, 290 x 430mm., framed and glazed. £200 - £300 £380 View
421 CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Alle de Wercken, Amsterdam, 1712, 2 volumes, folio, plates and c.400 engraved emblematic illustrations, contemporary calf. (2) Please see the full description below. £300 - £500 £200 View
422 CHELSEA, LONDON - A Map of Chelsea, Surveyed in the Year 1664 by James Hamilton. Continued to 1717, [London], J. Barlow, 1810, hand-coloured engraved plan, 290 x 440mm., framed and glazed. Please see note below. £80 - £120 £180 View
423 [CHURCHILL, Lady Gwendoline 'Goonie' (1885-1941)]. The Seventh of July 1941, [No place, 1941], 4to, original black morocco gilt. With a one-page autograph letter from John Churchill loosely-inserted. £100 - £150 £500 View
424 CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rescue, London, 1920, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (frayed). FIRST ENGLISH PUBLISHED EDITION. With The Mirror and the Sea (London, 1906, cloth, FIRST EDITION) and 2 photographs of Conrad in an album. (3) £80 - £120 £45 View

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