Thursday 14 July
Lots 201 - 356 Printed Books Maps and Manuscripts
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 297 | CATHERINE OF SIENNA, Saint (1347-80). Lettere Devotissime della Beata Vergine Santa Caterina da Siena, Venice, 1562, 4to, contemporary vellum. With Francesco Patrizi's Della Poetica (Ferrara, 1586, 2 vols. bound in one, 4to, contemporary vellum. (2) | £150 - £250 | £350 | View |
| 298 | [RYVES, Bruno (1596-1677)]. Mercurius Rusticus: or, The Countries Complaint of the barbarous Out-rages Committed by the Sectaries of this late flourishing Kingdome, [Oxford], 1646, 8vo, engraved title, 19th-century morocco. FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £140 | View |
| 299 | [MERIAN, Matthäus (1593-1650, engraver)]. Topographia Galliæ, Amsterdam, 1662, parts I - III only (of 5), 12mo, engraved titles in parts I and III, 224 engraved plates, contemporary vellum. (3) | £500 - £800 | £550 | View |
| 300 | "MAZARINADES" - A collection of 30 pamphlets. Please see the full listing of titles and footnote below. (30) | £70 - £100 | - | View |
| 301 | HALL, Joseph (1574-1656). The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, London, 1660, 4to, folding engraved frontispiece portrait, modern calf, new endpapers. FIRST EDITION. | £300 - £500 | £240 | View |
| 302 | BREE, Charles Robert (1811-86). A History of the Birds of Europe, not Observed in the British Isles, London, 1863-64, 4 vols., large 8vo, 238 chromoxylographed plates, original red pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. (4) | £200 - £300 | £280 | View |
| 303 | BISHOP, Frederick ([dates unknown]). The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, London, [1856], 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece, title, folding plate and illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. | £50 - £80 | £90 | View |
| 304 | MISCELLANY - Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, London, 1725, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf. With various other works in 65 vols. (67) | £500 - £800 | £1,800 | View |
| 305 | JONSON, Ben (1572-1657). Volpone, or The Foxe, London, 1616, 4to, stitched. Bound with other works by the same author. | £200 - £300 | £550 | View |
| 306 | JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Staple of Newes, London, 4to, 1631, stitched. Bound with another work by the same author. | £200 - £300 | £300 | View |
| 307 | STEINBECK, John (1902-68). Cannery Row, New York, 1945, 8vo, original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, second issue. | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 308 | HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea, London, 1952, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With another by the same author. (2) | £100 - £150 | £170 | View |
| 309 | ORWELL, George (1903-50). Animal Farm, New York, 1946, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second or later issue. With 4 other books. (5) | £100 - £150 | £280 | View |
| 310 | POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). Books Do Furnish a Room. London: Heinemann, 1971, 8vo, half title, original red cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 10 other books. (11) | £100 - £150 | £280 | View |
| 311 | BINDING - Anne Isabella Noel BLUNT (1837-1917) and Wilfrid Scawen BLUNT (1840-1922). The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare, [Newtown], The Gregynog Press, 1930, 4to, VERY FINELY BOUND in morocco by Denise Lubett. NUMBER 94 OF 275 COPIES. | £700 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
| 312 | BINDING - Francis GRIBBLE (1862-1946). The Court of Christina of Sweden, London, 1913, large 8vo, extra-illustrated, VERY FINELY BOUND in "Cosway"-style by Bayntun, the upper cover with an inset portrait miniature of Queen Christina. | £500 - £800 | £850 | View |
| 313 | BINDING - L' Office de l 'Eglise, Paris, 1741, large 12mo, VERY FINELY BOUND in highly elaborate mosaic cream calf gilt. | £1,500 - £2,500 | £4,200 | View |
| 314 | BINDING - Embroidered silver wire or bullion thread binding with densely-worked floral and foliate pattern over the whole surface, gilt edges, [?mid-17th-century], tall 12mo, containing notebook with blank leaves. | £150 - £250 | £3,000 | View |
| 315 | BINDING - Prayers and Meditations for every Situation and Occasion of Life, London, 1882, 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary hinged Dutch tortoiseshell. | £200 - £300 | £220 | View |
| 316 | BINDING - Het Nieuwe Testament, 1819, tall 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary Dutch tortoiseshell, gold clasp in the form of a lyre. | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 317 | SHEFFIELD, Emma ([dates unknown], embroider). "Europe." Needlework sampler embroidered in colours on linen, 1842, 620 x 760mm. | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 318 | L' Europa Geografico-Politica Veduta a Vola d' Oca, [Bologna, c. 1871], coloured lithographed political map, 465 x 665mm., framed and glazed. RARE. | £1,000 - £1,500 | £3,200 | View |
| 319 | ALBUM - Edward LEAR (1812-88). One-page autograph letter, signed, contained in an album containing c. 80 autograph letters from various recipients, clipped signatures and envelopes. | £200 - £300 | £650 | View |
| 320 | CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley George Benet (1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World, London, 1922, 2 vols., large 8vo, 61 plates and maps, original hessian-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. | £1,000 - £1,500 | £1,600 | View |
| 321 | RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804-64). A Wonder Book, London, [1922], 4to, 24 coloured plates by Rackham, original buckram. ONE OF 600 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With Derek Hudson's Arthur Rackham (London, 1960). (2) | £400 - £600 | £400 | View |
| 322 | FIGURES FROM "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND" AND "THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS" - A collection of 8 hand-coloured resin character figures, [?]late 19th-century, [without maker's mark], average height 110mm. RARE. (8) | £200 - £300 | £220 | View |
| 323 | JARDINE, William (1800-74). British Salmonidæ, London, Decimus Press, 1979, folio, 12 coloured plates of salmon after William Jardine, original morocco-backed buckram. NUMBER 151 OF 500 COPIES. Facsimile Edition. | £70 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 324 | BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto (1879-1949, illustrator) - Alfred de MUSSET (1810-57). La Nuit Vénitienne [and 2 other tales], Paris, [1913], 4to, 20 coloured plates by Umberto Brunelleschi, contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt (rubbed). | £40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 325 | DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo (1627-91), Nicolas SANSON (1600-67) and Guillaume SANSON (1633-1703). L' America Settentrionale, Rome, 1687, hand-coloured engraved map, 385 x 530mm., framed and glazed. | £400 - £600 | £300 | View |
| 326 | OWEN, W. F. W. (1774-1857). Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar, London, 1833, 2 vols., 8vo, 5 plates, 4 folding charts (lacking pp.401-416 of text in vol. II, but supplied in facsimile), modern half calf. (2) | £50 - £80 | £200 | View |
| 327 | BROWN, Robert Hewitt (1830-83). Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, New York, 1882, large square 8vo, 2 coloured plates (one volvelle lacking from the second plate), original decorated cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. RARE. | £100 - £150 | £160 | View |
| 328 | GILLRAY, James ([?]1756-1815, artist). The Caricatures ... with Historical and Political Illustrations, [London, c. 1818-24], oblong small 4to, 76 hand-coloured engraved plates by Gillray only ([?]of 82), contemporary calf (rather worn). | £1,000 - £1,500 | £5,000 | View |
| 329 | DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London, 1837, 8vo, engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, contemporary purple calf gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EARLY ISSUE. | £400 - £600 | £480 | View |
| 330 | DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Master Humphrey's Clock, London, 1840, 3 vols., large 8vo, 3 frontispieces, illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, THE PUBLISHER'S COPY, annotated. (3) | £500 - £800 | - | View |
| 331 | DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Our Mutual Friend, London, 1865, 2 vols., 8vo, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, contemporary morocco-backed cloth. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. With 4 other books by the same author, FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM. (6) | £500 - £800 | £420 | View |
| 332 | CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965), Clementine CHURCHILL (1885-1977), Clement ATTLEE (1883-1967), Peter Geoffrey OATES (1919-2007), and others. An archive of manuscript and printed material. Please see the full description. (qty) | £4,000 - £6,000 | - | View |
| 333 | CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). A "Romeo y Julieta" cigar butt, 50mm. long, acquired by the vendor, Iris Howell (née White), while tending to Winston Churchill in her capacity as a flight attendant for British European Airways in the 1960s. (3) | £800 - £1,200 | £800 | View |
| 334 | CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1865). 2 autograph letters and a post card, signed; and another autograph letter and an autograph poem, both in an unidentified hand. (5) | £200 - £300 | £50 | View |
| 335 | GRANT OF ARMS - A fine large calligraphic manuscript on vellum granting Arms to Edward Pineles, 1973, 550 x 680mm., framed and glazed. | £200 - £300 | £350 | View |
| 336 | JANSSON, Jan (1588-1664). Hantoniæ comitatus, cum Bercheria, [Amsterdam, c.1676]. Hand-coloured engraved map of Hampshire and Berkshire, 438 x 550mm., framed and glazed. | £70 - £100 | £80 | View |
| 337 | SPEED, John (c.1551-1629). Glamorgan Shyre, [London], 1610 [but 1611 or later], hand-coloured engraved map of Glamorganshire, 385 x 510mm., framed and glazed. | £70 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 338 | SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Merchant of Venice, London, The Folio Society, 2010, 2 vols., folio and 8vo, original half green goatskin and cloth, fitted cloth box. NUMBER 117 OF 1,000 COPIES. "The Letterpress Shakespeare." (2) | £70 - £100 | £130 | View |
| 339 | STEPHENS, Henry (1795-1874). The Book of the Farm, London, 1855, 2 vols., large 8vo, 14 engraved plates, illustrations, original pictorial roan-backed cloth boards (spines worn). Second edition, eighth thousand. (2) | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 340 | BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-98, illustrator) - Thomas MALORY (1415-71). Le Morte Darthur, London, 1927, 4to, 22 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, illustrations, original dark blue pictorial cloth gilt (spine detached). ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. Third Beardsley edition. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 341 | BIBA [Catalogue] - [London: May 1969], tall slim folio, tinted photographs by Helmut Newton, the catalogue design by John McConnell, original dark green wrappers, original mail order form loosely-inserted. With another BIBA catalogue. RARE. (2) | £200 - £300 | £240 | View |
| 342 | BLOME, Richard (1635-1705). A Mapp of the Kingdome of Ireland, [London: 1673], hand-coloured engraved map, 380 x 390mm., framed and glazed. | £70 - £100 | £100 | View |
| 343 | HOMANN HEIRS. Carte des Indes Orientales, [Nuremberg:], 1748, large hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets, joined 520 x 855mm., framed and glazed. | £200 - £300 | £350 | View |
| 344 | SPEED, John (c.1551-1629). Greece, [London:] George Humble, 1626, hand-coloured engraved map of ancient Greece, 400 x 510mm., framed and glazed. | £150 - £250 | £110 | View |