Books, Maps, Postcards & Ephemera Wednesday 9 April 2014 – 12.00noon Viewing: Tuesday 8 April 9am – 5pm and morning of sale

1 van Gogh (Vincent) Vincent van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, 2009, Thames & Hudson, first edition, six volumes, 4to., complete with CD, dust wrappers, slipcase (split) £100 - 200

2 Tattersfield (Nigel) Thomas Bewick, The Complete Illustrative Work, 2011, British Library/Oak Knoll, three volumes, original cloth (lacking slipcase) £60 - 100

3 Wild (Charles) Twelve Perspective Views of the Exterior and Interior Parts of the Metropolitical Church of York..., 1809, folio, two plans and twelve plates, advert, original boards (worn) £100 - 200

4 Daulby (Daniel) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Rembrandt, and of his Scholars, Bol, Livens, and Van Vliet, compiled from the original etchings and from the catalogues..., 1796, portrait frontis (loose), calf gilt by Hodgson of Liverpool (some manuscript initials in margins) £60 - 100

5 Cuitt (George) Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time, 1848, Nattali, folio, 73 plates, a.e.g., half morocco £150 - 200

6 Robinson (P.F.) Vitruvius Britannicus, History of Hardwicke Hall, illustrated by Plans, Elevations, and Internal Views of the Apartments, from Actual Measurement, 1835, large folio, ten plates including dedication, cloth-backed boards (shelf ref to lower spine) £200 - 300

7 Hill (Arthur George) The Organ-Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance..., Series I and II, 1883, 2 volumes, folio, A.L.S. from author tipped in, original cloth (gutta percha perished, pages loose) £100 - 200

8 Cotman (John Sell) Etchings; Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, A Series of Etchings ...., [with] Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in the County of Norfolk [with] Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in the County of Norfolk .., [with] Specimens of Architectural Remains of the Counties of York, Cambridge, Suffolk ...., 1838, Henry Bohn, four volumes bound as two, folio, portrait, general title, dedication and 190 plates, library cloth (internally some pencil shelf references to titles but free of stamps) £300 - 500

9 Rickman (John) Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer ..., 1838, two volumes including atlas, 4to. & folio, text volume with one plate, atlas with 83 plates including portrait and maps, Phil. Soc. stamps to title of text volume, half morocco (worn) £400 - 600

10 Harris (John) Lexicon Technicum: or an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., 1704, 4to., portrait frontis, seven plates, calf (rebacked) [a second volume was published in 1710]; De Cessart (Louis Alexandre), Description des Travaux Hydrauliques, 1806-8, two volumes, 4to., portrait frontis, sixty-seven folding plates, folding table, institution stamp to title pages, original cloth (3) £200 - 400

11 Poole (H.) A Catalogue of Masonic Medals in the Museum of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire, 1939, plates, original cloth; Poulsom (Neville W.), The White Ribbon, A Medallic Record of British Polar Expeditions, 1968, dust wrapper; Eimer (Christopher), British Commemorative Medals and their values, 1987, dust wrapper; with a small quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200

12 Numismatics A large collection of books on coins including General, British, British Commonwealth, Greek and other European, 19th and 20th century publications (qty) £100 - 200

13 Scripophily A collection of Russian bonds, comprising: City of Vilna 5% 1912, £20 sterling City of Moscow 5% 1908, £20 sterling City of St Petersburg 4.5% 1913, £20 sterling City of St Petersburg 4.5% 1913, £100 sterling City of Kieff 5% 1914, £20 sterling City of Moscow 5% 1908, £100 sterling City of Kieff 5% 1914, £100 sterling City of Saratoff 5% 1909, 2500 francs City of Nikolaef 5% 1912, £100 sterling City of Nikolaef 5% 1912, £20 sterling Russian Loan 1822 £111 sterling (11) £200 - 400

14 Scripophily Two Canadian Share Certificates: California-Lakeview Oil Co., 50 shares, 1914 Wetaskiwin-Alberta Oils, 50 shares, 1914 Four Russian Bonds: 100 Rubles, 1866, Russian/German text 100 Rubles, 1889, Russian/French text 100 Rubles, 1889, Russian/French text 1000 Rubles, 1924, Russian text together with: A certified 'Copy of Protest' made by William and George Martin, British owners of John Martin & Co. at Rostoff on Don, South Russia. The Martins had purchased considerable quantities of Russian bank bonds which were deposited in the local bank. In 1918 the town surrendered to the Bolsheviks who confiscated and subsequently destroyed the bonds. The protest was made via the Vice Consul of the Netherlands who has signed the protest. English typescript. A legally notarized document granting power of attorney to Vasiliy Ivanovich Martin allowing him to sell property belonging to Maria Ivanovna Duvakina in the town of Armavir, 1915. Russian typescript. A notarized copy of a deed of sale confirming that Vasiliy Ivanovich Martin had sold the Duvakina property to his wife Maria Martin for 10,800 Roubles. 1915, Russian typescript £80 - 120

15 Scripophily A collection of Russian bonds and other bonds and shares, comprising: Russia City of Moscow 1908, £20 sterling City of Nikolaef 1912, £20 sterling City of Nikolaef 1912, £100 sterling Bank of Siberia 1910, 1 Action/250 roubles Commercial Bank of Siberia 1912, 2 Actions/500 roubles Commercial Bank of Siberia 1916, 10 Actions/2500 roubles Compagnie du Chemin de Fer D'Eisk 1909, 100 roubles Compagnie du Chemin de Fer D'Eisk 1909, 500 roubles Various Kentucky and Great Eastern Railway Company (USA), $1000 dollar Gold Bond, 1872 Norfolk Estuary Company, £50 sterling share certificate, 1847 Bohemian Coal Mining Company, Rakonitz, Bohemia, One Share certificate, 1858 (11) £200 - 300

16 Scripophily An attractive group of four Chinese Government and Railway bonds, comprising: Chinese Imperial Govt Gold Loan, 1898, £25 sterling, German Chinese Government Gold Loan, 1913, £20 sterling, French Chinese Railway; Canton-Kowloon, 1907, £100 sterling, English Chinese Railway, Hukuang 1911, £20 sterling, German (4) £200 - 300

17 Ephemera, Scraps, etc. A collection of fourteen albums, containing scraps, original artwork, manuscript prose, coloured prints, etc., predominantly 19th century, various bindings £200 - 300

18 Andersen (Hans) Fairy Tales, nd., Hodder and Stoughton, 12 mounted colour plates after Kay Nielsen as called for, each with printed tissue guard, original cloth gilt £100 - 200

19 Fitzgerald (Edward) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, nd., Hodder and Stoughton, 4to., 20 tipped-in colour plates after Edmund Dulac as called for, each with printed tissue guard, original cloth gilt; Dulac (Edmund), Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, Fairy Tales of the Alien Nations, nd., Hodder & Stoughton, 4to., 15 tipped-in colour plates as called for, original cloth; Quiller-Couch (Arthur), The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, nd., Hodder & Stoughton, 30 colour plates after Edmund Dulac as called for (several loose), plain tissue guards to each, original pebble-grained cloth gilt; The Brothers Grim, Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales, 1917, Constable, first edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates after Arthur Rackham (some corner creasing), original cloth gilt; Ingoldsby (Thomas), The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, 1920, Heinemann, 24 tipped-in colour plates as called for, printed tissue guards, original cloth; with two others (7) £200 - 300

20 Hull (Katharine) & Whitlock (Pamela) The Far-Distant Oxus, 1937, Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.); idem, Escape to Persia, 1938, Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.); idem, Oxus in Summer, 1939, Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.) (3) £80 - 120

21 Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, 1935, George G. Harrap, first edition, twelve colour plates after Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue guard, decorative endpapers, original dark navy cloth, dust wrapper (price clipped) £150 - 200

22 Steadman (Ralph) Still Life with Bottle, 1994, Ebury Press, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper; idem, Little.com, 2000, Andersen Press, numbered limited edition of 300, signed by the artist, pictorial boards, clear dust wrapper, slipcase; Scarfe (Gerald), Scarfe Face, 1993, Sinclair-Stevenson, first edition, signed by the artist, dust wrapper; idem, Line of Attack, 1988, first edition, dust wrapper, signed colour print loosely inserted (4) £80 - 120

23 Pissarro (Lucien) Pastorale, 2001, Whittington Press, 4to., numbered limited edition of 100 copies, 24 engravings, 'half bound' in 'Oasis' leather, together with portfolio of proofs of 22 of the engravings and one additional engraving, slipcase £80 - 120

24 Brown (Christopher) An Anamorphic Alphabet, 1999, Previous Parrot Press, folio, numbered limited edition of thirty-six hand-coloured copies, signed by the artist, morocco-backed boards, together with folder of four plates, initialled by the artist, slipcase £80 - 120

25 Stefani (Mario) No Other Gods, 1982, Kouros Press, one of twenty-six copies, signed by the author and the artist, J Martin Pitts, specially bound in cloth, together with a lettered supplement, prospectus and portfolio of the illustrations in different colours to those of the book, slipcase; Chubb (Ralph N.), Manhood, A Poem, February 1924, published by the author, limited edition of 200, original wraps; idem, The Shipboy's Tale, 1977, Sub Signo Libelli Press, numbered limited ediiton of 40, original wraps; idem, The Day of St Alban, 1965, Cuckoo Hill Press, numbered limited edition of 41, original wraps; Dolben (Digby Mackworth), Sonnet, 1982, Kouros Press, limited edition of 100 hand-printed copies, original wraps; with seven others and a small quantity of bookplates £200 - 300

26 Gohorry (John) Hobbes's Whale, 1988, Paulinus Press, illustrated by Simon Brett, numbered limited edition of fifty hard-back copies, signed by the author and the artist, accompanied by signed proofs of the engravings, original cloth, slipcase; Shipwith (Peyton) Entertaining A La Carte, Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason, 2007, Mainstone Press, numbered limited edition of 1000, original cloth; Bawden (Edward) Engravings 1927-1929, 1988, Merivale Editions, original wraps, dust wrapper; and a small quantity of others (qty) £200 - 300

27 Gorey (Edward) The Headless Bust, 1999, Harcourt Brace, numbered limited edition of 750, signed by the author, dust wrapper, slipcase; idem, The Second Annual Edition of Contemporary Furs designed by Rosette for Ben Kahn II and the Premiere showing of the Edward Gorey Fur Collection for Men, 1979, signed by Gorey, paper wraps [with] idem, A pen, ink and watercolour illustration of a Coyote vest or waistcoat, front and rear views, signed by Gorey, together with a small inscription on separate slip of paper idem, Amphigorey, Fifteen Books by ..., 1972, Putnam's, sixth impression, signed by the author, dust wrapper (priced $12.95); idem, Sam and Emma, 1974, Abelard-Schuman, first British edition, pictorial boards; idem, Christmas Alphabet 1963, stain to front cover, original printed wraps; Toledano (Henry) Goreyography, 1996, dust wrapper; with four others (11) £300 - 500

28 Spencer (Stanley) A Chatto & Windus Almanack, 1927, original cloth-backed boards; Ardizzone (Edward), Baggage to the Enemy, 1941, Murray, first edition, dust wrapper; Sassoon (Siegfried), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1931, Faber, illustrated by Barnett Freedman, first edition thus, dust wrapper (worn); Kipling (Rudyard), The Jungle Book, 1908, Macmillan, illustrated by Maurice and Edward Detmold, first edition thus, t.e.g., original cloth (rubbed); Coleridge (Samuel Taylor), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1930, O.U.P., limited edition of 750, cloth-backed boards; with seven others and three framed Ardizzone menus (15) £100 - 200

29 Potter (Beatrix) The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, 1906, in wallet (panoramic) form, first edition, first issue, with London preceding New York on back of wallet (Linder p. 426), comma after claws on p.[2] but with green 'marbled' lining papers (Quinby no. 12), preserved in recent book-form case £200 - 300

30 Speaking Picture Book Le Livre d'Images Parlantes, Pour Amuser Les Chers Bebes, nd., 4to., 9 pull-out strings creating animal noises associated with the chromolitho plates, a.e.g., original decorative cloth, preserved in original carved wooden box with pictorial label. A very nice example. £400 - 600

31 Hedderwick (Mairi) Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers, 1985, Bodley Head, first edition, signed by the author, original pictorial boards; Praeger (S. Rosamond), The Tale of the Little Twin Dragons, 1900, Macmillan, first edition, original pictorial boards (re-backed with cloth, some restoration); with five others (7) £80 - 120

32 A'Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) The Comic History of England, 1847-8, two volumes, twenty hand-coloured plates after John Leech, t.e.g., half morocco by Tout; idem, The Comic History of Rome, nd., ten hand-coloured plates after John Leech, a.e.g., original cloth; Caldecott (Randolph), R. Caldecott's Picture Book containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin ..., nd., Warne, a.e.g, full morocco with pictorial inlays by Kelly & Sons; Meiklejohn (J.M.D.) and Crane (Walter), The Golden Primer, Parts I & II, nd., Blackwood, two volumes, t.e.g., original boards (worn); with eight others (14) £200 - 400

33 Chapbooks A small collection, comprising; The Golden Dreamer; or, the Universal Guide ..., nd., Alnwick; Davison, 24 pages; The Story of Jenny Wren, nd., Newcastle; Walker, [8 pages], hand coloured illustrations, original printed wraps; The Story of Simple Simon, nd., Newcastle; Walker, 8 pages, hand-coloured illustrations, original printed wraps; The Trial and Execution of Thomas Clarke, for the Wilful Murder of Mary Ann Westhorpe at Hallgarth Mill, near Durham on Sunday, the 8th of August, 1830, 1831, Durham; Walker, 42 pages including ground plan; The Hermit of Warden ..., 1831, Hexham; Armstrong, frontis, 26 pages; The Holwick Tragedy .., nd., Hexham; Armstrong, 10 pages; A Garland of Christmas Carols, nd., Newcastle; Robinson, 20 pages; the seven items bound as one in quarter cloth £200 - 300

34 Greenaway (Kate) Almanacks for 1883 to 1885 and 1888 to 1891, Routledge, seven volumes, small format, colour illustrations, original covers - 1891 with mailing dust wrapper, 1884 & 1885 in deluxe limp ?morocco gilt, the remainder in cloth-backed boards; idem, Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, nd. [c1885], Routledge, small format, colour illustrations, original boards (8) £200 - 300

35 James (Grace) Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, 1910, 40 tipped-in colour plates (some creasing), light foxing throughout, original cloth gilt £80 - 120

36 Coxe (Peter) The Social Day: A Poem, in Four Cantos, 1823, Carpenter & Ackermann, large paper copy, thirty-two engraved plates (proofs on India paper), t.e.g., quarter morocco [plate 31 at p288 (dated 1822) is often described as the first steel engraved book plate] £50 - 100

37 Skempton (Mary) The Wood Engravings of Mary Skempton, 1989, Libanus Press, numbered limited edition of 150, quarter cloth; with seven Christmas Cards loosely inserted, each with mounted wood engraving and inscription from Mary Nancy Skempton (the earlier prints being illustrated in the book) £80 - 120

38 Rackman (Arthur) The Allies' Fairy Book, n.d., Heinemann and Lippincott, 4to., number 1 of a limited edition of 525, signed by Rackham, twelve tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, original cloth £200 - 300

39 Dulac (Edmund) A Fairy Garland, Being Fairy Tales from The Old French, 1928, Cassell/Scribner's, 4to., numbered limited edition of 1000, signed by Dulac, twelve colour plates, t.e.g., original quarter vellum; Housman (Laurence) Stories from the Arabian Nights, 1907, Hodder & Stoughton, fifty tipped-in colour plates after Edmund Dulac, recent cloth (2) £100 - 200

40 Brothers Grimm Little Brother, Little Sister and other Tales, 1917, Constable, 4to., numbered limited edition of 525, signed by Arthur Rackham, thirteen tipped-in colour plates, original cloth with vellum label to upper board £100 - 200

41 Andersen (Hans) Fairy Tales, nd, [1924], Hodder & Stoughton, 4to., twelve tipped-in colour plates after Kay Nielsen, each with printed tissue guard, original cloth gilt; Rossetti (Christina), Poems, nd, Gresham, 36 tipped-in colour plates after Florence Harrison, each with printed tissue guard, original cloth (cloth faded, later end papers); Fitzgerald (Edward), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, nd., Siegle Hill, 4to., from the Sangorski & Sutcliffe manuscript, colour illustrations, original cloth gilt (3) £100 - 200

42 Moveable or Pop-up Books Anon., The Children's Tableaux, A Novel Colour Book, with Pictures arranged as Tableaux, nd., Nister & Dutton, 4to., five double page 'pop-up' chromolitho illustrations, originally cloth-backed pictorial boards; Anon., The Soldier Panorama Book, A Novel Colour Book for Children, nd., Nister & Dutton, 4to., five double page 'pop-up' chromolitho illustrations (some colouring-in of text illustrations), original cloth-backed boards (2) £100 - 200

43 Moveable Book Breitschwert (W. von), Das Wunderbare Bilderbuch Ein Festgeschenk ..., nd., Stuttgart: Julius Hoffman, 4to., twelve hand-coloured plates, each with lift-up flap to create alternative illustration, original boards (recent cloth backstrip and new endpapers) £100 - 200

44 Upton (Florence K. & Bertha) The Golliwog at the Sea-Side, 1898, Longmans, original cloth boards; Bird (C.), Droll Doings, nd., Blackie, 4to., colour illustrations after Harry B. Nielson; Barker (Cicely M.), The Book of the Flower Fairies, colour plates, dust wrapper (priced 5/-); Greenaway (Kate) A Apple Pie, nd.,, Routledge, original cloth; Crane (Walter) Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers, 1892, Cassell, original cloth-backed boards; with eleven others (16) £200 - 400

45 Awdry (Rev. W.) Thomas the Tank Engine, nd., Edmund Ward, first edition, original cloth (pages pulled, tape repairs/stains to some gutter margins); idem, The Three Railway Engines, nd., Edmund Ward, first edition (fat director), dust wrapper (well worn and torn with loss, priced 4/-) (2) £100 - 200

46 Milne (A.A.) & Shepard (E.H.) The Christopher Robin Calendar 1929 [1928], thirteen illustrated card sheets including title, cord tie, (some foxing to early and later sheets) £80 - 120

47 Doyle (Richard) In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, with a Poem by William Allingham, 1875, Longmans Green, sixteen colour plates (one torn), pages and plates loose, original cloth, binding worn and detached; Quiller-Couch (Arthur), In Powder and Crinoline, Old Fairy Tales, n.d., Hodder and Stoughton, 24 mounted colour plates after Kay Nielsen, each with printed tissue guard, original boards (worn boards, lacking backstrip); Talwin Morris (Alice), Our Holiday on A Barge ..., n.d.,, Blackie, colour illustration, deluxe cloth binding (lacking front free endpaper); Robinson (Charles), Black Sambos, n.d., Blackie, unpaginated concertina book, the pages separated in several places, completeness not warranted, original cloth (4) £100 - 200

48 Andersen (Hans Christian) Fairy Tales, 1872, Sampson Low .., 4to., twelve chromolitho. plates after 'E.V.B', printed guards, original cloth gilt; Byron (May), Our Toy Zoo, nd., colour illustrations after G.F Christie, original cloth (2) £100 - 200

49 Original Artwork - E.H. Shepard Military themed illustrations for double page spread, depicting various infantry groups, archers, an officer on a horse, etc., around space for text, pen and ink, some corrections in white, sheet 368mm x 525mm, signed to lower edge, mounted £50 - 100

50 Edward Minister & Son The Chart of British Liveries, nd., London, hand-coloured aquatint, folding chart in ten sections, linen backed, 665mm x 940mm, gilt-lettered cloth front cover (possibly lacking a rear cover) £60 - 100

51 Rackham (Arthur) The Allies' Fairy Book, nd. [1916], Heinemann/Lippincott, numbered limited edition of 525, signed by the artist, twelve tipped-in coloured plates, original cloth (hinge broken between p120/1); Lang (Andrew), The Princess Nobody, a Tale of Fairy Land., Longmans Green, colour illustrations after Richard Doyle, (loose pages) original pictorial boards (worn) (2) £200 - 300

52 Rackham (Arthur) The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1909, Constable, 4to., numbered limited edition of 750, signed by Arthur Rackham, forty tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, original vellum gilt (some pages loose, some damp staining); Fouque (de la Motte), Undine, 1909, Heinemann, 4to., numbered limited edition of 1000, signed by Arthur Rackham, fifteen tipped-in colour plates after Rackham, each with tipped-in tissue guard, original vellum gilt (pages loose, damp staining) Shakespeare (William), A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1908, Heinemann, forty tipped-in colour pates after Arthur Rackham, (the majority loose), each with printed tissue guard, original cloth (cloth worn and stained, endpapers damp stained)) £300 - 500

53 Rackham (Arthur) Wagner (Richard), The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, 1910, Heinemann/Doubleday, numbered limited edition of 1150, signed by Arthur Rackham, 34 tipped-in colour plates, each with printed tissue guard, full vellum (not the publisher's vellum); Swinburne (Algernon Charles), The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood, 1918, Heinemann, 8 colour plates after Arthur Rackham, original cloth (2) £80 - 120

54 Dasent (George Webbe) transl. Norse Fairy Tales..., 1910, Freemantle and Lippincott, colour plates as called for, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper (dust wrapper worn and chipped) [Sold on behalf of a charity] £100 - 200

55 Gillray (James) The Works of James Gillray from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects not before Collected, 1847, Bohn, large folio, portrait frontis, 582 plates, a.e.g., half morocco gilt £1500 - 2000

56 Gillray (James) Light Expelling Darkness_Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations ..., April 30th, 1795, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 347mm x 446mm, restoration to lower corner with loss, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8644] £300 - 400

57 Gillray (James) Search-Night_or_State-Watchmen .., March 20th, 1798, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 260mm x 362mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount [BM9189] £500 - 700

58 Gillray (James) The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson ..., Dec. 23rd 1805, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, impression 385mm x 278mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10442] £1000 - 1500

59 Gillray (James) Uncorking Old Sherry, March 10th 1805, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, margins cropped inside plate impression, sheet 358mm x 254mm, restoration to upper left edge, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10375] £600 - 800

60 Gillray (James) The Gout, May 14th 1799, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 257mm x 358mm, some spotting, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM9448] £2500 - 3500

61 Gillray (James) The Chancellor of the Inquisition marking the Incorrigibles, March 19th 1793, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 350mm x 250mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8316] £600 - 800

62 Gillray (James) Pacific Overtures_or_ a flight from St Clouds_"over the Water to Charley'', April 5th, 1806, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 295mm x 388mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10549] £600 - 800

63 Gillray (James) The Union Club .., Jan'y 21st 1801, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 302mm x 442mm, narrow margins, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM9699] £500 - 700

64 Gillray (James) Patriotic Regeneration_viz_Parliament Reform'd, a la Francoise ..., nd. [1795 in ink to lower margin], hand-coloured etching, margins cropped inside plate impression, sheet 305mm x 415mm, chip to right side, slight loss of text to lower corner, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8624] £500 - 700

65 Gillray (James) The Lover's Dream. A Thousand Virtues seem to lackey her ...., Jan'y 24th 1795, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, impression 320mm x 425mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM8610] £500 - 700

66 Gillray (James) Orange Jumper, March 6th 1809, H. Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, impression 277mm x 210mm, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM11241] £250 - 350

67 Anon [Gillray (James)] The Royal Lounger, nd [26th June 1804], hand-coloured etching, impression 250mm x 201mm, narrow margins, minor restoration to lower corner, tipped-in to card mount with glassine cover [BM10296] £100 - 200

68 'Several Hands' The Court of Atalantis, containing A Four Years History of that Famous Island ..., 1714, recent half calf (restoration to gutter margin of title and A2; Rack (Edmund), Essays, Letters, and Poems, 1781, advert leaf, half calf (some wear); Miniature, The Book of Common Prayer, nd., OUP and Henry Frowde, 128mo., frontis, a.e.g., morocco with embossed silver upper board depicting cherubs after Reynolds (3) £100 - 200

69 O'Brian (Patrick) Master and Commander, 1970, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £1.50, 30s.) £200 - 300

70 O'Brian (Patrick) The Mauritius Command, 1977, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £3.95); idem, The Fortune of War, 1979, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £5.50); with ex-library copies of H.M.S. Surprise and The Surgeons's Mate (4) £100 - 200

71 Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1839, Moxon, four volumes, frontis, a.e.g., morocco gilt extra by Roger de Coverly & Sons; Shakespeare [William], [The Works of ..,], 1925-7, O.U.P., three volumes, India paper, a.e.g., half morocco by Riviere; with fourteen others (21) £200 - 300

72 Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1997-2000, Clarendon Press, four volumes, dust wrappers; Kipling (Rudyard), The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volumes 1 to 6, 2004, Palgrave, six volumes, edited by Thomas Pinney, dust wrappers; Woodforde (James), The Diary of a Country Parson, 1968, Clarendon Press, five volumes, dust wrappers (spines faded); London (Jack), The Letters of Jack London, 1988, Stanford, 3 volumes, original cloth, slipcase; Owen (Wilfred), Collected Letters, 1967, OUP, dust wrapper; with eight volumes from James Lees-Milne's series of Diaries £300 - 500

73 Williams (Ralph Vaughan) A small archive of manuscript and other material sent by the composer in the late forties and early fifties to Marjorie Jordan, a Dorking Veterinary Surgeon and musician, comprising; Two 1 page A.Ls.S.; Seven 1 page T.Ls.S.; Five 'postcards' with short A.L.S. or T.L.S.; A large portrait photograph with signature to lower margin; Three programmes, one signed by R.V.W.; 1 page A.L.S. from Adeline Vaughan Williams; One A.L.S., one T.L.S. and one inscribed Christmas card from Zebedee Vaughan Williams (the family cat); early letters are fully signed, then initialled and then the later letters are signed 'Uncle Ralph' £200 - 400

74 Composers A collection of autographs by classical composers and musicians, collected by Marjorie Jordan, comprising; Two 1 page A.Ls.S. from Pablo Casals; A.L.S. on portrait postcard from George Henschel; A 'programme' signed by Jean Sebelius; A collection of directly signed autographs in an album, 1925 onwards, including; Carl Fuchs (with two bars of music); Pablo Casals (with inscription); Nicolai Malko; Arthur Bliss (with two bars of music); Leonard Isaacs (with two bars of music); and many more; A framed print with five images of Brahms conducting, ?printed signature below (framed and glazed) £100 - 200

75 Forster (E.M.) One page autograph letter signed, dated 18th October, 1946, in which Forster requests a visit from Miss Jordan (Forster's vet) to put his old cat to sleep. He does not want to upset the cat with a journey to Dorking and asks the vet to bring 'the necessary apparatus', (some wear to horizontal fold) £100 - 200

76 Rendell (Ruth) Vanity Dies Hard, 1966, John Long, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 15s.) £100 - 200

77 Greene (Graham) The Man Within, 1929, Heinemann, first edition, dust wrapper (worn, unpriced) £400 - 600

78 Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, 1962, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s); idem, Horse Under Water, 1963, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s); Deighton (Len) et al, The Assassination of President Kennedy, nd., Jackdaw, contents as called for, original folder; with five others (8) £200 - 400

79 Lessing (Doris) The Golden Notebook, 1962, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, The Doris Lessing Reader, 1989, Cape, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (2) £100 - 200

80 Murdoch (Iris) Sartre, Romantic Rationalist, 1953, Bowes, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, Reynolds Stone .., 1981, Warren, limited edition signed by the author, original wraps; Spark (Muriel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961, Macmillan, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 13s 6d); Francis (Dick), Nerve, 1964, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s) with eleven others (15) £200 - 400

81 Austen (Jane) [The Works of Jane Austen], 1907-9, Dent & Dutton, six volumes, colour plates after C.E. Brock as called for, t.e.g., half calf by Riviere £100 - 200

82 Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1781-8, six volumes (vol. 1, 4th edition; vols. 2 & 3, 2nd editions, the remainder first editions), portrait frontis, 3 maps (2 folding), calf (re-backed, one spine head pulled) £300 - 500

83 Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, comprising; The Fellowship of the Ring, 1963, thirteenth impression; The Two Towers, 1962, ninth impression; The Return of the Ring, 1963, George, Allen & Unwin, tenth impression; George, Allen & Unwin, dust wrappers, original slipcase £80 - 120

84 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, stated 'First Edition', inscribed 'J.K. Rowling' on title page (no provenance available), dust wrapper ('adult' version, priced £16.99) £80 - 120

85 Orwell (George) Inside the Whale, and other Essays, 1940, Victor Gollancz, first edition, dust wrapper (not price clipped - priced 7/6 on spine) £500 - 800

86 Thomas (Dylan) 18 Poems, 1934, Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop, first edition, first issue, black cloth with gilt lettering to flat spine, dust wrapper (priced 3/6 net, foxing) [Rolph, B.1.a] £500 - 800

87 Hughes (Ted) Crow, From the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970, Faber and Faber, signed by the author to front free endpaper, (tear to half title), dust jacket (priced £1.00) £150 - 200

88 Scott (Walter) Scott's Poetical Works, 1867-70, six volumes, a.e.g., Mauchline Tartan-Ware bindings (Lorne, Prince Charlie and Stuart), velvet lined presentation Stuart tartan box with gilt bust on-lay. £100 - 200

89 Murdoch (Iris) The Flight from the Enchanter, 1956, Chatto and Windus, first edition, dust wrapper (worn, priced 15s) [Sold on behalf of a charity] £40 - 60

90 Parrett (Cliff) & Chhina (Rana) Indian Order of Merit, Historical Records 1837-1947, Volume One, 1837 - 1860, 2010, Tom Donovan, dust wrapper, slipcase; Omissi (David), The Sepoy and the Raj, The Indian Army 1860-1940, 1994, dust wrapper; with six volumes from the Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War (8) £100 - 200

91 Sandes (E.W.C.) The Military Engineer in India, 1933-5, two volumes, plates and maps as called for, original cloth; Verner (Rudolph), The Battle Cruisers at the Action of the Falkland Islands, 1920, 4to., portrait frontis, plates as called for, original cloth; with six others relating to the Survey of India (9) £100 - 200

92 Playfair (I.S.O.) et al History of the Second World War, The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume I to Volume VI parts 1 and 3, 1964 - 1988, seven volumes, some ex-library, dust wrappers; Falls (Cyril) et al, History of the Great War, Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine, 1928-30, five volumes including two map cases; Preston R.M.P., The Desert Mounted Corps ..., 1917-1918, 1921, original cloth; with two others (15) £100 - 200

93 Lunardi (Vincent) An Account of the first Aerial Voyage in England, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian..., 1784, portrait frontis, two folding plates, signed by author on half title, printed ticket to Mr Lunardi's Ascension, initialled by the author, held in rear pocket, recent calf £600 - 1000

94 Anon. [Manning (Frederic)] The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916, 1929, Piazza Press, two volumes, numbered limited edition of 520, original cloth £200 - 400

95 Marder (Arthur J.) From The Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, 1961-1970, O.U.P., first editions, folding maps, original cloth £50 - 80

96 Burton (John) Monasticon Eboracense and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire ..., 1758, folio, 405mm x 260mm, 3 folding maps (one torn at fold), a.e.g., morocco (worn, board detached) [Boyne 2] Travis-Cook (J.), Notes relative to the Manor of Myton, 1890, large 4to., ltd. edition of 30 copies on hand-made paper, t.e.g., half morocco (edges worn); Wildridge (T. Tindall), Old and New Hull ..., 1889, 4to., plates, t.e.g., morocco-backed wooden boards from the 'Grammer School Oak, 1583' (joint split); Gent (Thomas), Gent's History of Hull .., 1869, 4to., folding plates, original cloth; Whitaker (Thomas Dunham), History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York, 1823, folio, lacking engraved plates, half morocco (re-backed); with four others (9) £100 - 200

97 Nichols (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester ..., 1795, 1795, 1798, 1800, 1804, 1807, 1811, 1815, four volumes bound as eight, engraved plates, calf (rubbed, boards detached from volume 8), housed in purpose built 'Cotswold School' walnut glazed book cabinet, made at Leicester University c1950, (cf Edward Barnsley) £1600 - 2000

98 Dugdale (William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1730, Second edition, two volumes, folio, portrait frontis, maps and plates as called for, early sprinkled calf (joints cracking), preserved in purpose made carrying case [Upcott p 1259-62] £400 - 600

99 Scot (Walter) A True History of Several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk and others Adjacent ..., 1776, 4to., recent quarter leather; 'A Lady' [Holmes (Augusta MacGregor)], A Ride on Horseback to Florence through France and Switzerland, Described in a Series of Letters .., 1842, John Murray, two volumes, original cloth (restored/worn spine) Grainger (Francis) & Collingwood (W.G.), The Register and Records of Holm Cultram, 1929, original cloth; Forrester (Colin D.I.G.), The Forresters, A Lowland Clan and its Lands, 1997, limited edition of 100, signed by the author, dust wrapper; with a small quantity of others (qty) £200 - 400

100 Yorkshire A large collection of books on Yorkshire history and topography, particularly the Dales, nineteenth and twentieth century (qty) £400 - 600

101 Broadbent (G.H.) Ancient Stone Doorheads in Settle and Neighbourhood, nd., cloth with original wraps bound in; Brayshaw (Thos.), Local Extracts, nd., Settle, original wraps; idem, Local Clippings, nd., Settle, cloth with original wraps bound in; Hewitson (Anthony), Guide and Visitors' Handbook to Ingleton .., 1887, original wraps (worn) with a small quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200

102 Broadsides Fifteen 19th and 20th century broadsides, predominantly Settle (Yorks.) related, including roll of honour poster, reward notice, election posters, etc., some framed and glazed, together with two large photographs of a Liberal political rally in Ingleboro (17) £80 - 120

103 Gilpin (William) Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772.... the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 1792, 2 volumes, 30 aquatint plates and maps, calf; [West (Thomas)], A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, 1784, frontis, folding map, calf (worn) £80 - 120

104 Mackenzie (E.) & Ross (M.) An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham ..., 1834, 4to., two volumes, folding map, plates as called for, calf (re-backed); Billings (Robert William), Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of The County of Durham: Ecclesiastical, Castellated, and Domestic, 1846, 4to., full page plates, gauffered gilt edges, calf; Surtees (Robert), The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 1972, EP, folio, four volumes, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others (qty) £300 - 500

105 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 1838, two volumes, plates as called for, calf (back-strips faded); [Brathwait (Richard)], Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, 1774, Stuart, four plates, calf (re-backed); The Northumberland Poll Book; Containing a List of the Freeholders who voted in the Contested Elections for the County of Northumberland ..., 1826, Alnwick; Davison, original boards (worn); The Poll-Book of the Contested Election for the County of Northumberland from June 20th to July 6th, 1826 .., 1827, Alnwick; Davison, cloth (5) £200 - 300

106 Anon. [Walker (George)] The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated by a series of Forty Engravings, being Facsimiles of Original Drawings with Descriptions in English and French, 1814, folio, hand-coloured frontis and forty hand-coloured plates, each with a duplicate plate in uncoloured outline (duplicate of plate V is an uncoloured aquatint), a.e.g., contemporary morocco gilt £1000 - 2000

107 Cave (H.) Antiquities of York, 1813, Ackermann, 4to., etched title and forty mounted plates, a.e.g., full morocco for George Rutland of Newcastle (tail of spine restored) £100 - 150

108 Anon. [Walker (George)] The Costume of Yorkshire, 1885, Richard Jackson, folio, colour frontis and forty colour plates, English and French text (some foxing to pages), t.e.g., quarter morocco (restoration to spine) £200 - 300

109 The Surtees Society A collection of 107 volumes published by the Society, predominantly original cloth, some ex-library in library cloth £200 - 400

110 Periodicals A large quantity of Periodicals including; Northants Record Soc., Canterbury and York Society, Pipe Roll Society, Thoresby Society, Camden Society, Seldon Society and Royal Historical Society (qty) £100 - 200

111 Periodicals A large quantity of Yorkshire Archaeological Society Records and Journals £100 - 200

112 Tate (Ralph) The Yorkshire Lias, 1876, large folding map, plates as called for, original cloth; Wasey (George Leigh), Our Ancient Parishes, or a Lecture on 'Quatford, Morville & Aston Eyre 800 Years Ago', 1859, Bridgnorth, plates as called for, original cloth; Jones (Charles Percy), History of Lymington, 1930, plates, original cloth, A.L.S. from author loosely inserted; Douglas (Thomas), The History of the Baptist Church, Lymington, Hants, from 1688 to 1909, frontis, cloth; Bostock (Charles) & Hapgood (Edward), Notes on the Parish Church, Lymington and the Daughter Church of All Saints .., Lymington, 1912, cloth; Lawlor (H.C.), The Monastery of Saint Mochaoi of Nendrum, 1925, folding frontis (torn), plates, original cloth; with three others (9) £70 - 100

113 Anon. [Clarkson (Christopher)] The History of Richmond in the County of York, including a Description of the Castle, Friary, Easeby-Abbey, and other Remains of Antiquity in the Neighbourhood, 1814, first edition, frontis, plates as called for, later half sprinkled calf [Boyne p181] £80 - 120

114 Boyle (J.R.) The County of Durham: Its Castles, Churches, and Manor Houses ..., nd, [c1892], large paper edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, two folding maps, t.e.g., half morocco; Fordyce (William), The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham .., nd., Newcastle; Fordyce, two volumes, 4to., engraved plates, half morocco (joints starting); Whellan (Francis & Co), History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham ..., 1894, original half calf (4) £200 - 300

115 Ornsby (George) Sketches of Durham ..., 1846, deluxe edition, with four tinted litho plates, three page A.L.S. from the author bound in, together with manuscript presentation slip, t.e.g., original marbled boards with later cloth spine Anon, Historical and Descriptive View of the City of Durham and its Environs ..., nd [1847], original cloth (worn); Carlton (C.M.), History of the Charities in the City of Durham ..., 1872, portrait frontis, original limp cloth; with eleven others (14) £100 - 200

116 Drake (Francis) Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York ..., 1736, folio, sixty plates as called for, together with two additional folding mezzotint portraits (Drake and Gent), text illustrations, calf with gilt armorial (joint cracking) [Boyne p 36]; Purey-Cust (A.P.), The Heraldry of York Minster: A Key to the History of its Builders and Benefactors. 1890, two volumes, 4to., twenty-three colour plates as called for, calf (worn, board detached) (3) £300 - 400

117 'A Gentleman' A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain .., 1742, four volumes, recent half leather; Whellan (William), The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland .., 1860, 4to., original cloth; Bigland (John), A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of York ..., nd., four folding maps, engraved plates, half calf; with a small quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200

118 Stanley Kent (E.) 'Photographs of Old St Albans', a collection of early 20th century photographs of the city, approx 160 mounted in folio album together with a further 11 loose photographs; Newcome (Peter), The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation called The Abbey of St Alban..., 1795, 4to., large folding map, plates (well worn, remnant binding, boards detached) sold not subject to return £80 - 120

119 Ralegh (Walter) The History of the World, in Five Books ..., 1687, Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, etc., folio, portrait frontis, engraved title, eight double page maps, calf (worn) £200 - 400

120 [Walton (Robert)] A New and Accurat Map of the World, Drawne to ye truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries & best Observations y't have beene made by English or Strangers, nd., [nd c1659], no seller imprint, hand-coloured twin hemisphere map, 388mm x 520mm, mounted, framed and glazed £1000 - 2000

121 Morse (Jedidiah) The American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America ..., 1794, John Stockdale, 4to., 24 of 25 maps (lacks Massachusetts, folding maps of Northern/Middle States, Southern States and Kentucky are torn), half calf (well worn) £200 - 400

122 Teesdale (Henry & Co.) & Stocking (C.) To the Nobility, Gentry & Clergy of Yorkshire, this Map of the County constructed from a Survey commenced in the Year 1817, & corrected in the Years 1827 & 1828, is respectfully dedicated by the Proprietors, April 21, 1828, large engraved map on nine sheets, each sheet 670mm x 855mm (some wear and tears, predominantly to margins) £100 - 200

123 Ireland Anon., The County of Corke, nd., large engraved map, 680mm x 975mm, (creased, worn and torn, some unsympathetic repairs) £70 - 100

124 Royal Tour - Manuscript Journal An Account of the 'Cruise of H.M.S. Renown to India and the Far East with HRH the Prince of Wales', 26th October 1921 - 4th June 1922, daily account by W.S. Atkins, manuscript, several days per page, ephemera and photographs, both loosely inserted and mounted at rear, many with descriptive annotation below, cloth-backed folio journal with protective paper cover (cover worn) £80 - 120

125 Wilson (William) et al, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, Commanded by Captain James Wilson, compiled from Journals of the Officers and the Missionaries ..., 1799, T. Chapman, 4to., folding maps, plates as called for (some staining), half calf (well worn) £100 - 200

126 Scott (Capt R. F.), Shackleton (Ernest) et al South Polar Times, 2012, Folio Society with the Royal Geographical Society, the British Library and the Scott Polar Research Institute, numbered limited edition of 1000, twelve volumes in pictorial card wraps, housed in original cloth box with magnetic flap and on-laid title; Savours (Ann), The South Polar Times, Commentary, 2012, Folio Society, issued as a companion volume, original cloth, slipcase (2) £300 - 500

127 Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2013, Folio Society, numbered limited edition of 780, three volumes including folding map, two volumes bound in half morocco with t.e.g., the map in cloth boards, housed in original cloth slipcase with on-laid title £200 - 400

128 Stark (Freya) Letters, 1914 to 1980, 1974-82, Michael Russell, eight volumes, all first editions, edited by Caroline Moorehead, dust wrappers; idem, The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels, 1934, Dutton, first US edition, dust wrapper (priced $4.00); idem, The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels, 1934, Murray, first British edition, cloth (10) £100 - 200

129 Lawrence (T.E.) Sims (R.G.), The Sayings and Doings of T.E. Lawrence, nd. [c1994], Fleece Press, limited edition of 300, original cloth; O'Brien (Philip M.), T.E. Lawrence, A Bibliography, 2000-8, Oak Knoll, two volumes incl Supplement, 4to., dust wrapper and cloth; Silk (Dennis), T.E. Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon, A Friendship, 2010, Reading Room Press, numbered limited edition of 120 copies, original cloth (2 copies); Hodgson (Herbert), Printer, Work for T.E. Lawrence & at Gregynog, 1989, Fleece Press, one of 340 copies, original quarter cloth; Lawrence (T.E.), Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others, by, or about, T.E. Lawrence (qty) £300 - 500

130 Trendall (Alec) Putting South Georgia on the Map, Duncan Carse's South Georgia Surveys of 1951-56, 2011, numbered limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author, pictorial boards, slipcase; Crossley (Louise) edit., Trial by Ice, The Antarctic Journals of John King Davis, 1997, dust wrapper; Doyle (Arthur Conan), 'Dangerous Work', Diary of an Arctic Adventure, 2012, dust wrapper (3) £60 - 100

131 Morrison (G.E.) The Correspondence of G.E. Morrison, Volumes I & II, 1976, Cambridge University Press, two volumes, edited by Lo Hui-Min, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others, predominantly Asian and Middle Eastern travel (qty) £300 - 500

132 Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1949, Cape, two volumes, dust wrappers; Treneer (Anne), Charles M. Doughty: A Study of His Prose and Verse, Cape, 1935, first edition, dust wrapper; Bell (Gertrude Lothian), Amurath to Amurath, 1911, Heinemann, first edition, original cloth; with a small quantity of others (qty) £100 - 200

133 Nansen (Fridtjof) Adventure, And Other Papers, 1927, Hogarth Press, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author in 1927, original cloth with paper spine label £50 - 80

134 Walsh (Robert) & Allom (Thomas) Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, First and Second Series, nd., Fisher, two volumes, 4to., 98 engraved plates including titles and maps (one additional plate to those called for), a.e.g., half roan (rubbed); Prior (Samuel), The Universal Traveller ..., 1824, engraved plates, calf; Walker (John), The Universal Gazetteer .., 1807, fourteen folding maps, calf (worn); with five others (9) £200 - 300

135 Roberts (David) Sketches in the Holy Land, 1991, Pulchri Press, numbered limited edition, large folio, colour plates, a.e.g. half morocco £100 - 200

136 Brockedon (W.) Finden's Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, 1833, John Murray, three volumes, engraved plates, a.e.g., half morocco £80 - 120

137 Woodhouse (Jonas Eastwood) A Manuscript Log Book or Diary, providing an interesting daily account of the voyage of the SS New Great Britain, from London to Southland, New Zealand, 1st May 1863 to 14th August 1863, includes a description of islands which were passed (Canaries, etc), the 'crossing the line' ceremony, problems with vermin, an outbreak of Smallpox on board, the Captain's success at shooting several Albatross, encounters with other ships, etc. There is also a list of young male passengers, with their county or country of origin (the majority from Scotland). The ship arrived in early August but appears to have been held for several weeks offshore in quarantine. A separate 1981 letter states that the ship arrived at Port Chalmers via Bluff on the September 28th, 1863 with 170 passengers for Otago [In 1863, the Otago Gold Rush was at its peak]. Limp roan (worn). Sold together with a typescript of the diary and several related letters £200 - 400

138 Goodman (Neville and Albert) Handbook of Fen Skating, 1882, Sampson Low ..., frontis, map and illustrations as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt (some staining of cloth) £80 - 120

139 Beaufort (Henry Somerset) The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 1886-95, 27 volumes, first editions except four volumes (second editions), original pictorial cloth (ownership name to paste-downs) £300 - 500

140 Marchington (John) A Portrait of Shooting, 1979, Atha/Game Conservancy, numbered limited edition of 1100, deluxe variant signed by the author, a.e.g., full morocco binding, slipcase with gilt vignette; Another copy, standard numbered limited edition of 1100, t.e.g., quarter morocco binding, slipcase (2) £100 - 200

141 Ransome (Arthur) Rod and Line, Essays, together with Aksakov on Fishing, 1929, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, original green cloth £100 - 150

142 Head (H. Nugent) & Cockburn (J. Scott) The Hoghunters' Annual, Volume 1 to VI, 1928-33, Allahabad and Bombay, six volumes bound as four, illustrated, half leather, (the fourth volume different to the first three), slipcase £200 - 400

143 Yorkshire Road Club and Records Association Rules, List of Members and General Handbook, with Regulations ..., 1912, 1914, 1925, 1926, 1931, five volumes, original cloth wraps; Sanborn (Edwin Webster), The Bicycle Meet at Dingley Dell, 1899, Hartford Press, original printed card wraps; Holborn Cycling Club, Cinderellas 1886-87, circular dance card, the dances within the spokes of a wheel; idem, Souvenir Du Bal, 1888, printed two leaf card with the names and costumes of those attending the dance (paper strip to rear) (8) £100 - 200

144 Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, As also, the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory and Vineyard, according to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age ..., 1731, folio, frontis (detached and worn), four plates, contemporary calf (well worn, joints weak) [Henrey 1101] £200 - 400

145 Anon. [Hey (Rebecca)] The Moral of Flowers, 1833, 24 hand-coloured plates, half morocco £100 - 150

146 Cabot (David) Wildfowl, 2009, Collins New Naturalist series, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £50.00); Friend (Peter) et al, Scotland, Looking at the Natural Landscapes, 2012, Collins New Naturalist series, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £50.00); Benton (Ted), Grasshoppers and Crickets, 2012, Collins New Naturalist series, first edition, DVD in rear pocket, dust wrapper (priced £50.00); Sauer (Gordon C.), John Gould the Bird Man, A Chronology and Bibliography, 1982, Lansdowne, numbered limited edition of 250 signed by the author, half morocco; with four others (8) £100 - 200

147 Fulton (Robert) & Wright (Lewis) The Illustrated Book of Pigeons, with Standards for Judging, nd., Cassell .., 4to., fifty chromolitho. plates (two with unsightly repairs to tears, two with residue from tissue guards), a.e.g., original cloth (re-backed with original back-strip laid down) £100 - 200

148 Hill (John) A General Natural History.., Volume II - A History of Plants, 1751, folio, sixteen hand-coloured plates (some tears), reversed calf binding [part of a three volume work, the other volumes relating to Fossils and Animals] £60 - 100

149 Chapman (Abel), Millais (J.G.) et al, The Gun at Home and Abroad - British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1912, 4to., numbered limited edition of 950, portrait frontis, twenty-six colour plates, four half-tone plates, t.e.g., morocco; Dixon (Charles), The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 1900, 4to., 41 colour plates after Charles Whymper as called for, original pictorial cloth (2) £100 - 200

150 Millais (J.G.) The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1909, folio, numbered limited edition of 550, 18 colour plates, 17 photogravure plates and one double image black & white plate as called for, original cloth £200 - 400

151 Thorburn (A.) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923, large folio, numbered large paper limited edition of 155, thirty mounted colour plates as called for, original cloth (cloth faded) £200 - 400

152 Thorburn (A.) British Mammals, 1920, large 4to, numbered large paper limited edition of 155, fifty mounted colour plates as called for, original cloth (tissue guards stained, cloth faded, corners bumped) £200 - 400

153 Sowerby (John Edward) et al English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants, 1863-86, twelve volumes, 1937, hand-coloured plates, t.e.g., calf by Root & Son (some wear, vol. I with cracked joints) £300 - 500

154 Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick) Colour print of an otter with a trout, 1976, Tryon Gallery, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the artist in pencil to lower margin, image 325mm x 450mm, mounted, framed and glazed £30 - 50

155 Sclater (William Lutley) A History of the Birds of Colorado, 1912, first edition, map and plates as called for, t.e.g., dust wrapper; Gray (Robert), The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1871, fifteen litho plates as called for, original cloth; Hosking (Eric) et al, Eric Hosking's Classic Birds, 60 Years of Bird Photography, 1993, numbered limited edition of 1000, leatherette, slipcase; Dixon (Charles), Bird-Life In A Southern County Being Eight Years' Gleanings Among the Birds of Devonshire, 1899, plates as called for, original cloth; Temperley (George W), A History of the Birds of Durham, 1951, original wraps (5) £100 - 200

156 Carr (J.W.) The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire, 1916-35, two volumes, including the scarce supplement, original cloth £50 - 80

157 Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease The Grouse in Health and In Disease, Being the Final Report of the Committee ..., Volume I, 1911, 4to., fifty-nine plates, mostly coloured, t.e.g., original cloth; Hudson (Peter), The Grouse in Space and Time, the Population Biology of a Managed Gamebird, 1992, 4to., Summary Report loosely insert, original pictorial boards; idem, Red Grouse, The Biology and Management of a Wild Gamebird, 1986, dust wrapper; with one other £80 - 120

158 Pritchard (Andrew) A History of Infusoria, including The Desmidiaceae and Distomaceae, British and Foreign, 1861, forty plates, many hand-coloured, marbled edges, half morocco; Landsborough (D.), A Popular History of British Zoophytes and Corallines, 1852, twenty hand-coloured plates, original cloth gilt (2) £80 - 120

159 Piper (Raymond) Piper's Flowers, 1987, Blackstaff Press, large folio, numbered limited edition of 100, signed by the artist with presentation inscription, ten colour plates, each signed in pencil, quarter cloth, slipcase; idem, Three Irish Orchids, nd. [c1994], Blackstaff Press, limited edition of 125 portfolios of three prints, each print signed and numbered by the artist, with accompanying booklet, housed in large quarter cloth portfolio (2) £100 - 200

160 Conchology Sowerby (G.B.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, Parts V, VI, VII, VIII and IX, 1846-8, with hand-coloured plates 41 to 54 and 68 to 101 + 31A (Part VI lacking plates), worn wraps - sold as a collection of plates; Wood (W.) & Hanley (Sylvanus), Index Testaceologicus, An Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells .., 1856, forty six hand-coloured plates with approx 2800 figures, binding weak with gaping gutter throughout, binding broken after frontis, frontis with tape stain to gutter margin, laminated half morocco; Dixon and Watson, A Descriptive Manual of British Land and Fresh-water Shells .., 1858, Darlington; Harrison Penney, eight hand coloured plates, original cloth (worn); with a quantity of others (qty) £200 - 400

161 Jardine (William) The Naturalist's Library - The Natural History of Hummingbirds , Volumes I and II, 1833, Lizars, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, sixty-six hand-coloured plates including titles, original cloth; idem, Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part 1, [Birds of Prey], nd, Lizars, thirty-four hand-coloured plates, original cloth; Wood (J.G.), Common British Beetles, nd, Routledge, twelve coloured plates, a.e.g., original cloth; with three others (7) £100 - 200

162 New Naturalist Series Boyd (J.M.) and Boyd (I.L), The Hebrides, A Natural History, 1990, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £30) £100 - 200

163 Diaries A quantity of manuscript material, predominantly early 20th century, includes Irene Lawley's commonplace book (1907) with artwork, photographs, autographs, etc; two interesting diaries of I[rene] L[awley]'s experiences in India in 1920, which describes the visit of a Crown Prince, etc. (with photographs), a photograph album with images of the novelist Hugo Francis Guy Charteris as a child, accounts of travel in England and Italy, etc. [Irene Lawley (b1889) was the only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, her daughter married Hugo Charteris] £80 - 120

164 Cookery Petit Propos Culinaires, Essays and Notes to do with Food, Cookery and Cookery Books, Volumes 1 - 89, plus Vol 3 Supplement, February 1979 - January 2010, Prospect Books, 90 volumes, volume 1 is a numbered presentation copy, signed by Alan Davidson, original wraps; Heath (Ambrose), Good Drinks, 1939, pictorial boards; idem, Good Soups, 1935, dust wrapper; with five others by Heath, all first editions in dust wrappers (97) £100 - 200

165 Observer's Pocket Series An almost complete run of the series, comprising volumes 1 to 85, 87 to 90, 92, 93, 96, 98 and 99, with two volumes of no. 10, ten volumes of no. 11, two volumes of number 21 and seven volumes of 99 (the latter including three volumes of the first edition, two signed by the authors), various editions, dust wrappers and pictorial boards (111) £200 - 400

166 May (Everett) Mr Everett May's Sample Sheets of Various Respectable Money-Making Businesses, nd. [?c 1860's], original wraps; [with] Laughton (James W.), The General Receipt-Book, containing An Extensive Collection of Valuable Receipts connected with domestic economy, nd., 24 page pamphlet; [with] Pamphlet, 'Recommended to H.M. Subjects' nd., 8 pages of recipes; the three in spring binder; together with eight early 20th century trade catalogues (9) £100 - 200

167 Queen Victoria Three page letter from Queen Victoria to her 'brother and cousin', The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, June 14th 1900, Balmoral, the manuscript written by another but with valediction and signature of the Queen. The letter appoints Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles as Victoria's representative to the Court of the Grand Duke [presumably Frederick Augustus II whose reign had commenced the previous day] £100 - 200

168 [Strafford (Thomas Wentworth)] Knowler (William) edit., The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches with an Essay towards his life by Sir George Radcliffe...., 1739, two volumes, folio, frontis to each (one loose with creased edges), reversed calf bindings (well worn) £100 - 200

169 Holy Bible The Holy Bible, containing The Old Testament and The New...., 1703, printed by Charles Bill, two volumes, 4to., engraved title dated 1704, diced calf (some wear): Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlasting Rest: or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints..., 1658, engraved frontis, half calf (worn) £80 - 120

170 Underwood (Michael) A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 1805, Callow, three volumes, fifth edition, folding table, tree calf (worn, cracked joints); Salmon (William), Synopsis Medicinae, A Compendium of Physick, Chirurgery, and Anatomy, 1681, two parts only (of four), in one volume, portrait frontis, engraved title, fifteen plates, calf (worn); Pearson (John), The Life of William Hey .., 1822, portrait frontis, plate, calf (re-backed) (5) £100 - 200

171 Anon. The British Compendium: or Rudiments of Honour ..., Volume I, parts 1 & 2 (seventh edition) and Volume II (third edition), [1731] & 1729, 3 volumes, engraved plates (some duplication between volumes), calf; Ellis (G.), Captain Cook's Second and Third Voyages Round the World ..., 1787, C.C.J. & J. Robinson, small 4to. (204mm x 127mm), portrait frontis, second and third voyages have individual half-titles, introduction commences on page 168, second voyage commences on page 170 (recto of Y1), third voyage ends on page 576, calf (re-backed); Weber (Henry), The Battle of Flodden Field, A Poem of the Sixteenth Century, 1808, frontis, two folding plates, calf (5) £80 - 120

172 Perkins (John) A Profitable Booke of Master John Perkins, fellow of the Inner Temple, treating of the lawes of England, apud Richardum Tottell, 14th December, 1576, Richarde Tottel, some worming of gutter margin affecting some text, calf £100 - 200

173 Humphrey (John H.) Roman Circuses, Arenas for Chariot Racing, 1986, dust wrapper; with two others (3) £50 - 100

174 Josephus (Flavius) The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus ..., n.d., C. Cooke, transl. by George Henry Maynard, folio, frontis (repaired with loss), 57 plates, 2 maps (coloured in outline), and a folding plan, calf (worn) £80 - 120

175 Holinshed (Raphael) et al The First and Second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1, The Description and Historie of England, 2, The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3, The Description and Historie of Scotland, First collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison ..., newly augmented and continued ... to the year 1586 by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others .., 1587, two volumes, folio, three further title pages; England undated, Ireland dated 1586, Scotland dated 1585, calf (worn, joints cracked, boards detached, library bookplates to pastedowns) £200 - 400

176 Desaguliers (J.T.) A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 1745-4, two volumes, volume one is a second edition, 4to., seventy-eight folding plates, calf (worn, joints cracked, board detached) £200 - 300

177 Bindings A small quantity of books in calf and morocco bindings £80 - 120

178 Autographs A collection of autographs, including Don Bradman, Jerome K. Jerome, William Booth, Douglas Mawson, Malcolm Campbell, Frank Brangwyn, Sarah Bernhardt, politicians, actors, singers, sportsmen, etc. (list available), many with photographs, illustrations, cuttings, mounted in oblong 4to., album £100 - 200

179 Cook (Theodore Andrea) The Olympic Games, Being a Short History of the Olympic Movement from 1896 up to the Present Day ...., 1908, plates, original wraps (worn, lacking rear wrap) with a typescript poem re the 1908 games and eight small amateur photographs of the games; Shakespeare (Lt.-Col.), A Record of the 17th and 32nd Service Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers (NER) Pioneers: 1914-1919, 1926, 4to., folding maps, original cloth; Handbook of the 60 - PR. B.L. Gun, 1916, with postcards of the gun (and World War I tanks), together with hand-coloured drawings of the gun mechanism in rear pocket; The Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature and Art, Vols I to V, 1868-71, five volumes, colour plates, half calf; The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone nd., Adam & Co., two volumes, half calf (10) £100 - 200

180 Prynne (William) The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes, In Doctrine and Practise ..., 1643, three parts bound as one, each with title page, 4to., 20th century sheep; Marmontel, Annete and Lubin, A True Story ..., nd, [c.1803], York, frontis, original wraps (well worn); Rowe (N), A New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger ..., 1714, blue paper wraps; with a small quantity of others including a broadside of the Rules of the Leeds White Cloth Hall (qty) £100 - 200

181 Slatyer (Will.) The History of Great Britanie, from the first peopling of this Island to the present Raigne of o'r hapy and peacefull Monarke K. James, 1621, Meighen, small folio in sixes, engraved title, calf (well worn); N.B., Stenographie and Crytographie, or the Arts of Short and Secret Writing ..., 1659, portrait frontis, contemporary sheep (well worn); Mason (William), Arts Advancement or The Most Exact Lineal, Swift, Short and Easy Method of Short-Hand-Writing .., 1687, portrait frontis, sheep (rubbed) (3) £200 - 400

182 Mixed Ephemera, including an album of postcards, a bundle of postcards, an album of greetings cards, and an album of cigarette cards £120 - 180

183 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and sixty pre-war cards, including saucy French cards, topography, royalty, novelty, comic, silk, shipping, social history, glamour, etc £200 - 300

184 A Quantity of Mixed Ephemera, including postcards, silk cigarette cards, In Memoriam cards, Concorde menus, greetings cards, first day covers £100 - 200

185 A Collection of Japanese Postcards, one hundred and fifty pre-war cards, mainly coloured topography £70 - 100

186 An Album Containing Seventy Four First World War Silk Postcards, some regimentals, including RFC, RFA, Northumberland Fusiliers. ASC, RWF, etc., woven Flames cards, together with other cards £200 - 300

187 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred cards, including Yorkshire and other topography, greetings, shipping, comic, saucy cards, architecture etc £100 - 200

188 A Collection of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and seventy cards, including twenty four Cat cards (two Louis Wain), First World War military cards, greetings, multi-babies etc., in three albums £100 - 200

189 A Collection of Mixed Postcards, approximately four hundred cards, including comic, greetings, glamour, topography, Father Christmas, Cleckheaton Football Team, novelty, and a quantity of military cards, in two albums £150 - 250

190 A Collection of Postcards, including over one hundred WW1 related cards, also topography, portraits, greetings etc., in three albums; A Small Collection of 18th and 19th Century Newspapers, including Woodfall's Register, The Star etc £70 - 100

191 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred cards, including Mabel Lucie Attwell and other children's cards, Louis Wain and other cat cards, social history, topography, Father Christmas and other greetings cards, advertising etc £150 - 250

192 An Album of Early Postcards, approximately one hundred and ninety cards, including Gruss Aus and other overseas cards, vignettes, cycling, real photographic social history, topography etc £100 - 200

193 A Collection of Theatre and Ballet Ephemera, including an album of postcards of ballet dancers, ballet and theatre programmes, magazines, bound 'Celebrities of the Stage' publications etc £70 - 100

194 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and eighty cards, including Cornish and other topography, comic, portraits, school groups, shipping etc £100 - 200

195 An Album Containing Fifty Nine Erotic French Cabinet Type Cards, published by Ad.Braun Et Cie, entitled 'Le Meme Sujet en Moyen Format', housed in a nice gilt leather album decorated with a glamorous maiden £100 - 200

196 A Large Collection of Mixed Postcards, including a quantity of Esperanto related cards, overseas and UK topography, early real photographic cards, architecture, comic, military, etc., in five albums and two boxes £200 - 300

197 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred and eighty pre war cards, mainly topography, some real photographic £250 - 350

198 A Collection of Mainly Sheffield Related Postcards, approximately one hundred and fifty cards, including social history, topography train disaster, railway stations, novelty, royal visits, industry, etc., together with other cards including royalty, greetings cards and silks., in three albums £100 - 200

199 A Collection of Mixed Postcards, including railway, shipping and aviation cards, greetings, comic, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Mickey Mouse, Yorkshire, Durham, Cumbria and other topography and architecture, military, etc., in six albums £150 - 250

200 An Album of Mixed Postcards, containing two hundred and ninety two pre war cards, including American glamour, beauty contest winners, Queens Dolls House and Indian subjects £100 - 200

201 A Collection of Postcards, approximately one hundred pre war cards, including a quantity of Sunderland topography and social history, in an album and bag £70 - 100

202 Mixed Ephemera, including an album and bundle of postcards, 19th century Valentines cards, and an album of scraps £80 - 120

203 An Album of Victorian Die-cut Scraps, including people, animals, flowers etc £40 - 60

204 An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred cards, including greetings, glamour, military, comic, topography etc £70 - 100

205 A Collection of Mixed Postcards, including topography, greetings, silks, military, fox hunting, animals, children etc., in three albums and a box, together with a Victorian Album £100 - 200

206 An Album of Durham Topography and Social History, sixty six cards, including Collieries, railway stations, street scenes etc £50 - 80

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