ANGAS, George French (1822-86). Portraits of the New Zealand Maori, Wellington, 1972, folio, 49 coloured plates, original old-style half morocco gilt. NUMBER 167 OF 750 COPIES.
ANGAS, George French (1822-86). Portraits of the New Zealand Maori,…
ANGAS, George French (1822-86).  Portraits of the New Zealand Maori Painted in 1844 ... With a Modern Text by G. C. Petersen ... and S. M. Mead. Wellington [New Zealand]: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1972.…
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £100 - £150
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including Ruskin, Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others. (12)
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French…
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including John Ruskin, James McNeill Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others, including John Ruskin, two letters,…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
ARTISTS - A collection of c.24 letters by artists, mainly French and Italian, 1795-1870 and [n.d.], including Canova, David, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Thorvaldsen and others. (c.24)
ARTISTS - A collection of c.24 letters by artists, mainly French and…
ARTISTS - A collection of c.24 letters by artists, mainly French and Italian, 1795-1870 and [n.d.], including Antonio Canova, Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Eugène Millet,…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", boards. A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1722 BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. RARE.
AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on…
AYRES, Ralph ("Radolphus") (fl.early-mid-18th-century).  A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, most written on the rectos only, inscribed on the verso of the…
Hammer price: £5,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London, "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949, 8vo, 16 full-page coloured lithographed illustrations by Bawden, original decorated paper boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London,…
BAWDEN Edward (1903-89, illustrator).  Life in An English Village. Sixteen Lithographs by Edward Bawden with an Introductory Essay by Noel Carrington. London: "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949.…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £70 - £100
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, London, Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614], 4to, genealogies, 2 woodcut titles (laid down), contemporary half calf. With the "she" reading in Ruth 3:15.
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the…
BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues. London: Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614]. Small 4to in 8s …
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible, Bungay, 1812, folio, engraved plates, contemporary calf, the spine elaborately decorated in gilt (rubbed). With another related book. (2)
BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible,…
BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible Containing the Old & New Testaments with a Paraphrase on the most obscure and Important Parts, Explanatory Notes and Evangelical…
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £70 - £100
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam, 1837, 12mo, attractively bound in full 19th-century Dutch tortoiseshell, highly elaborate gilt clasp, gilt edges.
BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam, 1837,…
BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam: Bij de Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagne, 1837. 5 parts in one volume, 12mo (142 x 85mm). Engraved frontispiece, printed in double…
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £150 - £250
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor). Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology, London, 1989, folio, FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU SMITH in contemporary morocco, book box.
BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor). Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of…
BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor).  Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology. London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Folio (363 x 260mm). Coloured maps and illustrations. FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, FINELY BOUND in original elaborate cloth gilt, the upper cover with a peacock's tail design in gilt. FIRST EDITION IN THE "PEACOCK BINDING".
BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo,…
BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817).  Pride and Prejudice ... With a Preface by George Saintsbury. London: George Allen, 1894. 8vo (181 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's ornament on verso of half title…
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742). The Chace, London,1796, 8vo, 6 plates, contemporary scarlet straight-grained morocco, with a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF HUNTING SCENES.
BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742)…
BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742).  The Chace, A Poem ... A New Edition. To Which is Prefixed a Critical Essay, by J. Aikin, M.D. London: Printed for T.…
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £200 - £300
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Inferno from La Divina Commedia, New York, "Presented by Richard W. Ellis for Cheshire House," 1931, folio, 7 plates by William Blake, original calf, slipcase. With 19 other works in 21 vols. by William Blake. (22)
BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Inferno from La Divina Commedia, New York,…
BLAKE, William (1757-1827).  The Inferno from La Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri. As Translated by The Reverend Henry Francis Cary and Illustrated with the Seven Engravings by William Blake. New…
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty ... Including an Account of the Mutiny, London, 1792, 4to, 7 plates and charts (lacks portrait of Bligh), contemporary paper-backed boards. FIRST EDITION.
BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's…
BLIGH, William (1754-1817).  A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty,…
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £500 - £800
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, 1933-58.
BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120…
BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959).  An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, San Francisco, Paris, Châtel,…
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87). Say, is this the U.S.A., New York, 1941, 4to, monochrome photographed illustrations, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR.
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87…
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87).  Say, is this the U.S.A. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 4to (307 x 215mm). Half title, monograph photographed…
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £300
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things ... To which are Subjoyn'd ... some Uncommon Observations about Vitiated Sight, London, 1688, 8vo, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION, second issue.
BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural…
BOYLE, Robert (1627-91).  A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things: Wherein it is Inquir'd, Whether, And (if at all) With what Cautions, a Naturalist should admit Them? ... To which…
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer). 24 Photographs 1977-1987, Santa Barbara, 1987, 4to, boards. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 496 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 26 SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer).…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer).  24 Photographs 1977-1987 by Michael Montfort. With an Introduction and Poem by Charles Bukowski. Santa Barbara: Graham…
Estimate: £600 - £800
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Bensenville, Illinois, Open Skull Press, 1966, 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 400 COPIES. RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). All the Assholes in the World and Mine,…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  All the Assholes in the World and Mine. Bensenville, Illinois: Open Skull Press [and Douglas Blazek], 1966. 8vo (215 x 140mm). Mimeographed text. Original tan pictorial…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bensenville, Illinois, Mimeo Press, 1965, 8vo, mimeographed text, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 500 COPIES. RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, Illinois: Mimeo Press [and Douglas Blazek], 1965. 8vo (216 x 143mm). Mimeographed text on yellow,…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £350 - £450
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hollywood. A Novel, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1989, 8vo, original boards. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 398 OF 500 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A SMALL ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Krumhansl 112c.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hollywood. A Novel, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Hollywood. A Novel. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, April 1989. Large 8vo (228 x 152mm). Monochrome photographed portrait of the author by Michael Font (one leaf [pp…
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £250 - £350
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963, 8vo, printed on multi-coloured paper, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 777 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN SILVER INK. Krumhansl 12.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  It Catches my Heart in its Hands. New & Selected Poems 1955-1963. Introduction by John William Corrington. Gypsy Lou Series No. 1: A Loujon Press Award Book. New Orleans…
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window, Glendale, California, Poetry X/Change, [1968], square 8vo, illustration by the author, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window. Glendale, California: Poetry X/Change, [1968]. Square 8vo (209 x 157mm). Double-page centrefold illustration by…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £200 - £300
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author's third chapbook, and fourth published book. ONE OF ABOUT 300 COPIES. VERY RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Run with the Hunted. Chicago: Midwest Poetry Chapbooks [edited by R. R. Cuscaden], 1962. 8vo (210 x 140mm). Woodcut ornament on title. Original red printed wrappers with…
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1676, folio, half title, engraved pictorial title (some rust holes, spotting and staining to text), modern old-style full calf gilt. The Eighth Edition.
[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1676,…
[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)].  The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, With all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections,…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST

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