Sale date: |
Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on Tuesday 1st July 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
1-31 of 375 |
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Hammer Price £ |
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ANASTATIC DRAWING SOCIETY.Edited by the Rev. John M. Gresley of Ashby-de-la-Zouche. Vols for 1855, 1858, 1859, 1860 & 1861. 4to., orig. cloth or cloth backed boards (some wear to spines). Numerous lithographic plates, some coloured. With printed prospectus and subscription notice loosely inserted, with note in ms. by the editor, "two of my children are not quite flourishing, one of them having swallowed the clapper of a small hand-bell with part of its chain..." Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (5) Note [Containing topographical views, antiquities, heraldry etc.] £60-80 | Nil |
50 |
| 2 | ARCHITECTURE, COLLECTING etc., 20 various volumes (20) £50-70 | Nil |
70 |
| 3 | ART. 26 various volumes including: Royal Academy Pictures, 1893, 1896, 1898, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913 & 1914 -- Graves, Algernon. Art Sales..., 1973; The British Institution 1806 - 1867, 1969, d.ws. -- Buckman, David. Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, 1998. d.w. Mostly 4to., orig. bindings. (26) £50-70 | Nil |
20 |
| 4 | ART etc., 21 various volumes (21) £60-80 | Nil |
80 |
| 5 | ART OF THE WORLD series, 28 various volumes, mostly published by Methuen, c. 1964 - 71, 8vo., orig, cloth, 20 vols in boxes, 7 in d.ws. Tipped in colour plates. (28) £100-150 | Nil |
10 |
| 6 | BRITISH ART, AMERICAN COLLECTIONS etc. 46 various volumes including Ivon Hitchens, Edited by Alan Bowness, 1973 -- Baron, Wendy. Sickert, 1973 -- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The History and the Collection, New York 1985 -- Lewis, David,. Terry Frost a personal narrative, 1994. Signed by the artist. All above in d.ws. Various sizes, orig. bindings. (46) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 7 | BRYANT, G.E. The Chelsea Porcelain Toys. Limited Edition, No. 217 of 650 copies, signed. 1925. 4to., orig. cloth. Colour plates. £60-100 | Nil |
45 |
| 8 | CESCINSKY, HERBERT. English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. 3 vols., n.d. - 1911. 4tp., cont. half black morocco, t.e.g. Illustrations. With another volume. (4) £40-60 | Nil |
50 |
| 9 | COLLECTING. 29 various volumes, including: Cripps, W.J. Old English Plate, Sixth Edition, 1899 -- Lewis, Dr. G. Griffin. The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs. Philadelphia & London, 1920 -- Wilkinson, W.R.T. Indian Colonial Silver..., 1973. d.w. Various sizes, orig. bindings. Illustrated. (29) £60-100 | Nil |
120 |
| 10 | EUROPEAN ART. 43 various volumes, including: Rubin, William. Picasso and Praque Pioneering Cubism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989. (43) £60-80 | Nil |
20 |
| 11 | FENOLLOSA, ERNEST, F. Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art. New and Revised Edition, New York and London (1921). 2 vols., 8vo., orig. cloth. Coloured and plain plates. With another volume. (3) £30-50 | Nil |
55 |
| 12 | FRENCH PAINTING. 26 various volumes including: Tuchman, Maurice & others. Chaim Soutine Catalogue Raisonne, 2 vols., Taschen, Cologne, 1993. d.ws., slipcase -- CACHIN, FRANCOISE & others. Cezanne. Tate Gallery, 1996. d.w. Various sizes, orig. bindings. (26) £60-100 | Nil |
110 |
| 13 | HARDING, J.D. Elementary Art: Or, the Use of the Chalk and Lead Pencil Advocated and Explained. Third Edition, 1846. Folio, orig. cloth gilt (spine defective). 22 lithographic plates only (lacks plates 2 & 3, final plate stained in margin). With 3 other illustrated books. Sold not subject to return. (4) £20-40 | Nil |
20 |
| 14 | HOGARTH, WILLIAM. The Works...With Descriptions...by the Rev. John Trusler. 2 vols., Published by Jones and Co., 1833. 4to., cont. half green stained calf (rubbed). Engraved portrait frontispiece and plates (one loose, some spotting). With 3 other volumes (5) (P) £30-50 | Nil |
25 |
| 15 | HUEFFER, FORD M. Ford Madox Brown, 1896 (frontis. loosening) -- HUNT, W. HOLMAN. Pre-Raphaelitism..., 2 vols., 1905 -- STORY, ALFRED T. The Life of John Linnell. 2 vols., 1892 (upper covers slightly discoloured). With 6 others. Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. Illustrated (11) (P) £80-120 | Nil |
90 |
| 16 | NOBLE, JOSEPH VEACH. The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. 1966. d.w. -- HUTTON, C.A. Greek Terracotta Statuettes, 1899. With 3 others similar. 8vo., orig. cloth or wraps. Illustrated. (5) £30-50 | Nil |
30 |
| 17 | THE PORTFOLIO. Artistic Monographs. Vols 1 - 48 (lacking 13 & 42), 46 vols., edited by P.G. Hamerton & others, 1894 - 1907. With 4 others similar, The Arundel Society, 1881 - 91. All 8vo., orig. cloth. Illustrated. (50) (P) £150-250 | Nil |
160 |
| 18 | RANDHAWA, M.S. Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda. Introduction by W.G. Archer, National Museum, New Delhi, 1963. Folio, orig. cloth gilt. Tipped in colour plates and other illustrations. With 4 others on India. (5) £20-30 | Nil |
30 |
| 19 | SHAKERS. Two reproduction illustrations of Shaker watercolours "A gift from Mother Ann to the Elders at the North Family. Hancock 1854" and "An Emblem of the Heavenly Sphere. Hancock 1854". Framed and glazed. With: Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews. Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life. The Berkshire Traveller Press, Stockbridge, Mass. 1975. 8vo., orig. wraps. Illustrated. (2) £15-25 | Nil |
5 |
| 20 | THOMPSON, FRANCIS BENJAMIN. ed. The Universal Decorator. 2 vols. in one, 1858. 4to., cont. half black leather (upper cover detached). Tinted plates and text illustrations -- PATTERNS OF QUARRIES & BORDERS 1853. (labelled thus on upper cover). Small 4to orig. cloth backed boards. No title, with 21 lithographic plates of quarry tiles and 6 hand coloured plates of borders. (2) £100-200 | Nil |
240 |
| 21 | WILLIAM, IOLO. Early English Watercolours. Reprint, Bath 1970. With 2 others on German engravings or drawings and 8 others on glass. Various sizes, orig. cloth, boards, wraps. or paperbacks. llustrated. (11) £30-40 | Nil |
20 |
| 22 | FURNITURE, PORCELAIN, CLOCKS etc., 24 various modern volumes. (24) £40-60 | Nil |
70 |
| 23 | ENGRAVINGS OF PORTRAIT MEDALS. 8vo., 19th c. half red roan. Approx. 190 images (including reverses) of 16th c. Kings, Emperors, Popes, protestant theologians etc., cut round and mounted. £50-70 | Nil |
80 |
| 25 | ANCESTOR, THE. A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities. Nos 1 - 12, (all published) 1902 - 05. 8vo., vols 1 - 11 in orig, boards (some defects to spines), vol 12 in half brown leather. Plates. Without the index. (12) £40-60 | Nil |
55 |
| 26 | [ASHBEE, HENRY SPENCER.] Bibliography of Prohibited Books. By Pisanus Fraxi. Reprint, 3 vols., New York 1962. -- HIGGS, HENRY. Bibliography of Economics 1671 - 1775. Emo Press, 1990. -- GASKELL, PHILIP. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Signed by the author on title, Oxford, 1972. d.w. -- DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, Compact Edition, 2 vols., 1975. 8vo., & 4to., orig. cloth. (7) £80-100 | Nil |
70 |
| 27 | BRITISH MUSEUM. Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum. Parts 3, 5, 6, 8 - 10, and unnumbered vol. facsimiles relating to vol 3. Folio, orig. boards or cloth, 1913 - 71; STC French books, 1924; STC Italian books, 1958; STC Dutch and Flemish books, 1965. 8vo., orig. cloth. (10) £80-120 | Nil |
80 |
| 28 | BURKE, Sir BERNARD and ASHWORTH P. BURKE. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peereage and Baronetage..., 69th edition, 1907 -- ARCHIBALD, E.H.H. Dictionary of Sea Painters. 1989 -- CARMAN, E.Y. British Military Uniforms. 1968. With 3 other reference books. Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth. (6) £50-80 | Nil |
60 |
| 29 | CRISP, FREDERICK ARTHUR, ed. List of Parish Registers and other Genealogical Works, P.P., 1899. Cont. qtr. vellum -- SOME LEES OF BERKSHIRE. Printed folding pedigree, linen backed, 4to., cloth case, n.p., 1968 -- BRITISH MUSEUM. Five vols of Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts..., 1882 - 1910 (published 1889 - 1912); reprint, 1965 of the volume for the years 1854 - 60; Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts, vol 1 text, 1895. With 11 other volumes. Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth. (20) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 30 | DARLOW, T.H. and H.F. MOULE, compilers. Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of The British and Foreign Bible Society. 2 vols. in 4, reprint, Limited Cambridge, Mass. n.d. -- HERBERT, A.S. Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of The English Bible 1525 - 1961. London and New York 1968 -- WEALE, W.H.J. Bibliographica Liturgia...ed. H. Bohatta, reprint, n.d. (1990). 8vo., orig. cloth. With 3 others, also bibliography. (6) £100-150 | Nil |
140 |
| 31 | GESAMTKATALOG DER WIEGENDRUCKE. Vols 1 - 11 part 2, Leipzig 1925 - Stuttgart 2003. 4to., mostly orig. cloth, vol 11, parts 1 & 2 in orig. wraps. (12) £350-400 | Nil |
340 |
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