Thursday 14 July
Lots 201 - 356 Printed Books Maps and Manuscripts
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Monday 11 July 9.30-4pm
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249 | BINDING - ALAIN-FOURNIER (1886-1914). Le Grand Meaulnes. Paris, 1936, large 8vo, illustrations by Pierre Gandon, FINELY BOUND in dark green morocco by C. Grandgeorge. ONE OF 2,000 COPIES. | £70 - £100 | £90 | View |
250 | MISCELLANY - [Jean-François DE LA CROIX (1753-94) and Antoine HORNOT ([dates unknown])]. Anecdotes Arabes et Musulmanes, Paris, 1772, 8vo, contemporary calf. With various other works in 32 vols. (33) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
251 | FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). From Russia, With Love, London, 1957, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket (some fraying with loss of letters at head of backstrip). FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £220 | View |
252 | "JANSON, Hank" [i.e. Stephen Daniel FRANCES (d. 1989)]. Gun Moll for Hire, London, S. D. Frances, [1948 or later], 8vo, original coloured pictorial wrappers. With 19 other "pulp fiction" books by the same author. (20) | £70 - £100 | £45 | View |
253 | LAFFAN, William Mackay (1848-1909). Engravings on Wood by Members of the Society of American Wood-Engravers, New York, 1887, folio, 7 plates only (of 25), unbound, as issued, in original half roan portfolio. NO. 2 OF 112 COPIES, signed by the publisher. | £80 - £120 | - | View |
254 | BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673). Bercheria vernacule Barkshire, [Amsterdam, c. 1645]. Hand-coloured engraved map of Berkshire, 370 x 490mm., framed and glazed. With Emmanuel Bowen's Somerset ([London, c.1750], engraved map). (2) | £70 - £100 | £35 | View |
255 | GEHLER, Johann Samuel Traugott (1751-95). Physikalisches Wörterbuch, Leipzig, 1825-45, 24 vols. including plate vol., 8vo and 4to, plates, contemporary half calf. (24) | £200 - £300 | £260 | View |
256 | La Nature. Review des Sciences et de Leurs Applications aux Arts et l' Industrie, Paris, 1873-1912, 40 vols. bound in 39, 4to, illustrations, contemporary morocco-backed cloth. (39) | £200 - £300 | £130 | View |
257 | STEIN, Sigmund Theodor (1840-91). Das Licht in Dienste Wissenschaftlicher Forschung, Leipzig, 1877, large 8vo, plates and illustrations, modern boards. FIRST EDITION. | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
258 | THE LAST SHAH OF IRAN (1919-80). "Visit of the Minister of the Chairman of Bulgaria Stanko Todorov in Iran 1972", photograph album, oblong 4to, one photograph signed by the Shah, pale blue buckram. | £400 - £600 | £420 | View |
259 | SARKIS, Joseph Elian (1856-1932). Petite Histoire Sainte. A l' Usage des écoles de syrie, Beirut, 1889, small 8vo, parallel text in French and Arabic, modern half buckram. RARE. | £100 - £150 | £20 | View |
260 | SEUTTER, Matthäus (1678-1757). Alsatia Superior et Inferior, [Augsburg, c. 1730], large hand-coloured engraved map, 590 x 1,730mm. With 12 other maps and views on 13 sheets. (14) | £70 - £100 | £35 | View |
261 | FRITH, Francis (1822-98, photographer). 37 albumen silver prints of Egypt (36) and Ethiopia (1) by Francis Frith, some with printed signature and/or dated 1857, mounted on card with printed captions, average image size 165 x 230mm. (37) | £700 - £1,000 | - | View |
262 | ZANGAKI BROTHERS (fl. 1860s-90s, photographers). 15 albumen silver prints of Egypt by the Zangaki Brothers, some with printed signature, undated, but c. 1870, average image size 210 x 280mm. (15) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
263 | KOZABURO, Tamamura (1856-[?]1923, photographer). 16 original collotype photographs by Tamamura Kozaburo, tinted in colours, mounted on card, some captioned in the print, dimensions 196 x 250mm. With 7 related photographs and 7 other items. (30) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
264 | BIBLE, in English - The Bible, Amsterdam, Thomas Stafford, 1644, folio, general title and title to the New Testament, woodcut maps and illustrations including 2 full-page, contemporary calf (worn). THE LAST EDITION OF THE GENEVA BIBLE. | £400 - £600 | - | View |
265 | SCHENK, Peter (1660-1711) and Gerard VALCK (1652-1726). Suthsexia, vernacule Sussex, Amsterdam, [c.1690], hand-coloured engraved map, 380 x 510mm., framed and glazed. With 2 maps of Surrey and Kent. (3) | £100 - £150 | £80 | View |
266 | RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, [1907], square 8vo, coloured frontispiece and 12 plates by Arthur Rackham, original green cloth gilt. First Trade Edition. With 6 other illustrated books. (7) | £200 - £300 | £500 | View |
267 | MISCELLANY - James L. ALLEN (1849-1925). A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, London, 1901, 4to, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original buckram (rebacked). ONE OF 250 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES. With 41 other miscellaneous works in 43 vols. (44) | £300 - £500 | £550 | View |
268 | FIGER, Louis (1658-1717). La Nouvelle Maison Rustique ... Onzieme Edition, Paris, 1790, 2 vols., 4to, 42 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf. (2) | £150 - £250 | £170 | View |
269 | PEZRON, Paul-Yves (1640-1706). L' Antiquité des Tems [sic] Rétablie et Défenduë contre les Juifs et les Nouveaux Chronologistes, Paris, 1687, 4to, contemporary calf (rather worn). FIRST EDITION. | £100 - £150 | £70 | View |
270 | STURLUSON, Snorri (1179-1241). Heims Kringla, Stockholm, 1697, 2 vols. bound in one, folio, parallel text in Old Norse, Swedish and Latin, modern old-style panelled calf. FIRST EDITION. With Peter Murbeck's Christeliga Bredikningar (Kalmar, 1785). (2) | £300 - £500 | £500 | View |
271 | RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OR "QUAKERS" - "Christian and Brotherly Advices Given forth from time to time by the Yearly Meetings in London." [?London: c. 1738-1771]. Folio. c. 400-page manuscript (many leaves lacking), contemporary reverse calf. | £300 - £500 | £320 | View |
272 | JUSTINIAN I (482-565) and Denis GODEFROY (1549-1622, editor). Corpus juris civilis Romani, Frankfurt, 1705, 4 parts in one vol., 4to, engraved portrait, contemporary elaborately blind-stamped vellum. | £100 - £150 | £170 | View |