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Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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

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