Thursday 14 July
Lots 201 - 356 Printed Books Maps and Manuscripts
Viewing
Monday 11 July 9.30-4pm
Tuesday 12 July 9.30-4pm
Wednesday 13 July 9.30-4pm
Thursday 14 July 9.30-1pm
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All items are to be paid and collected by the 21st July.
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Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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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 |