Sale date: |
Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on Tuesday 1st July 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
32-64 of 375 |
Lot |
Description & Estimate |
Vat on hammer % |
Hammer Price £ |
32 |
GREEN, EMANUEL. Bibliotheca Somersetensis. 3 vols., Taunton 1912. 4to., orig. cloth (vol 1 crudely repaired with tape, joints cracked). (3) £50-100 | Nil |
90 |
| 33 | HOFFMANN, S.F.G. Lexicon Bibliographicum..., 3 vols., Leipsig 1832 - 36. Cont. qtr. reversed calf (rather worn, backstrip of vol 1 defective) -- SCHWEIGER, Dr. F.L.A. Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. 3 vols., reprint, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 1993. -- MUNBY, A.N.L., ed. The Phillipps Manuscripts. Reprint 2001. Orig. cloth, d.w. Mostly 8vo. (7) £80-120 | Nil |
70 |
| 34 | [ICE PRINTING.] The Art and Mystery of Printing was invented by John Guttenberg of Mentz, 1440. Mr. John Lyell. Printed on the Icy Thames February 5 1740. Broadside 305 x 186 mm. Title in woodcut frame, with 36 line poem, "Advice to the Ladies" beneath (slight damage at centre, affecting a few letters). See illustration. £300-500 | Nil |
2500 |
| 35 | McNAUGHTON, ARNOLD. The Book of Kings, A Royal Genealogy. 3 vols., 1973. Folio, orig. cloth, boxed. (3) £60-80 | Nil |
40 |
| 36 | MONTAGU, GEORGE, Ninth Earl of Sandwich. Pedigree, compiled in ms. by his sister Olga Blanche Montagu, 1921 in William H. Whitmore. Ancestral Tablets A Collection of Diagrams for Pedigrees. With another similar, 4to., qtr. leather, and 4 vols. of printed poetry by Lord Sandwich, including Windows, 1924. (6) £30-40 | Nil |
WD |
| 37 | MORISON, STANLEY and KENNETH DAY. The Typographic Book. 1963. 4to., orig. cloth, d.w. (d.w. with piece missing from one corner) slipcase -- STONE, REYNOLDS. Engravings. 1977. Signed by the artist and with various relevant printed ephemera loosely inserted. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth. d.w. With facsimile edition of Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets, 1976. (3) £60-80 | Nil |
WD |
| 38 | OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1566 - 1910. Compiled by Judith St. John. 2 vols., Toronto 1975. Coloured and plain plates -- MENDHAM, Rev. JOSEPH. Catalogue of the Mendham Collection, Being A Selection of Books and Pamphlets..., 1871 -- PUTNAM, GEO. HAVEN. Books and their Makers During the Middle Ages. 2 vols., reprint, New York, 1962. Slipcase. -- HEILBRONNER, WALTER L. Printing and the Book in Fifteenth-Century England. University Press of Virginia, 1967. d.w. With another volume. All 8vo., orig. cloth. (7) £60-80 | Nil |
36 |
| 39 | PAPWORTH, JOHN W. and ALFRED W. MORANT. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms..., 1874. Large 8vo., cont. half brown morocco gilt. With 33 others on archives, R.C.H.M., parish records, place-names etc., including a few on Devon. (34) £50-70 | Nil |
90 |
| 40 | POLAIN, MARIE-LOUIS. Catalogue des Livres Imprimes au Quinzieme Siecle des Bibliotheques de Belgique. Reprint and supplement, 5 vols., Bruxelles 1978. 8vo., orig. cloth. (5) £120-220 | Nil |
110 |
| 41 | SADLEIR, MICHAEL. XIX Century Fiction A Bibliographical Record. Reprint, 2 vols., New York 1969. 4to., orig. cloth. (2) £80-100 | Nil |
60 |
| 42 | SCHRETLEN, M.J. Dutch and Flemish Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. 1925. 4to., d.w. Numerous illustrations -- CONWAY, WILLIAM MARTIN. The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge 1884 -- WILLEMS, ALPHONSE. Les Elzevier..., reprint, 1962 (joints split). Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth. (3) £50-80 | Nil |
70 |
| 43 | VALTON, EMILIO. El Primer Libro de Alfabetizacion en America..., Mexico 1947. No. 26 of 500, orig. blue leather -- GOFF, FREDERICK R. Incunabula in American Libraries. A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. Kraus reprint, New York 1973; Supplement..., Bibliographical Society of America, New York 1972 -- WILSON, ADRIAN. The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Amsterdam, 1978. d.w. Plates, some coloured. Various sizes, orig. cloth unless otherwise stated. (4) £60-80 | Nil |
110 |
| 47 | BEERBOHM, MAX. Fifty Caricatures, 1913. Small 4to., orig. cloth gilt. 50 plates, mostly tipped in. Bookplate of Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. £40-60 | Nil |
WD |
| 48 | BOY'S ANNUALS. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual. 1868. 8vo., (upper joint cracked). Plates, some hand coloured. - The Boy's Own Annual. 1894. Half green morocco. Chromolithographic plates (one damaged) and other ills.; the same, 1901 (one plate torn at folds); 1902 - 04. Mostly 4to., orig. cloth gilt. Sold as periodicals not subject to return. (6) £40-60 | Nil |
40 |
| 49 | CHESTERTON, G.K. The Coloured Lands. 1938. Orig. cloth (2 small stains under d.w.). Colour plates by the author -- WEST, NAN. The Landscape Painter's Calendar. 1928. One of 300 copies. Tipped in coloured plates. Orig. qtr. cloth. Both 8vo., d.ws. With 3 other volumes. (5) £60-80 | Nil |
40 |
| 50 | [COOMBE, WILLIAM.] The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque. May 1st, 1812. First Edition, First issue, 8vo., old calf gilt (rebacked, rubbed). Hand coloured title and 30 plates, by Thomas Rowlandson. (plates offset onto text, one torn at gutter). With another volume (Omar Khayyam, illus.) by Pogany. (2) £40-60 | Nil |
240 |
| 51 | DE LA MARE, WALTER. Down-A-Down-Derry. A Book of Fairy Poems. 1922. Three coloured plates by Dorothy P. Lathrop; Ding Dong Bell, 1924. d.w. Both 8vo., orig. cloth. With another volume. (3) £40-60 | Nil |
55 |
| 52 | FASHION PLATES. Les Modes Parisiennes. Another volume similar, Paris c. 1860-70. 123 hand coloured illustrations. 4to., cont. pictorial red morocco gilt (lacks backstrip). See illustration. £250-350 | Nil |
190 |
| 53 | FASHION PLATES. Les Modes Parisiennes. 50 hand coloured illustrations, Paris, late 19th c. 1876-82, c., by E. Bracquet and others. In folio, cont. red morocco gilt binding (worn, upper cover detached, one folding plate with short tear). See illustration. £150-250 | Nil |
240 |
| 54 | FLAXMAN, JOHN. The Classical Compositions..., 1870. Folio, cont. half red roan (spine and corners rubbed). Engraved plates. With another illustrated by the same. (2) (P) £70-100 | Nil |
20 |
| 55 | GOULD, Sir CARRUTHERS. Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903 - 06. 1908. No. 4 of 50 copies, signed by the author. 8vo., orig. cloth backed boards. Illus. by the author. £20-30 | Nil |
20 |
| 56 | GREEVES, T.A. Ruined Cities of the Imagination and Other Drawings. No. 9 of 500 copies, signed by the artist, 1994. Oblong folio, orig. cloth, slipcase. Coloured and plain plates. £20-40 | Nil |
20 |
| 57 | HIND, CHARLES LEWIS. Turner's Golden Visions. London and Edinburgh 1910. 4to., orig. cloth gilt (soiled). 50 tipped in colour plates. With 6 others, including Edmund Dulac. Fairy Book, n.d. (7) (P) £40-60 | Nil |
85 |
| 58 | ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Topolski, Feliks. Russia in War, 1942. d.w. -- A Conrad Argosy...With woodcuts by Hans Alexander Mueller. Garden City, New York 1942. d.w. -- Irving, Washington. Bracebridge Hall. Illustrated by R. Caldecott. 1877. -- Gilbert, Sir W.S. The Yeomen of the Guard. 1929. Eight colour plates by W. Russell Flint and text ills. by Charles E. Brock. 4to., & 8vo., orig. cloth. (4) £60-80 | Nil |
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| 59 | ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Vol 52, Jan. - June 1868. Folio, orig. cloth (soiled). -- THE TIMES Weekly Edition, 1880 (includes Tay Bridge disaster, 2 Jan. issue). Folio, orig. cloth (worn). With 2 other volumes, including The Lake Country by E. Lynn Linton, 1864 (lacking map). Sold not subject to return. (4) £30-50 | Nil |
60 |
| 60 | KENT, ROCKWELL, illus. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales. Together with A Version in Modern English Verse by William Van Wyck, 2 vols., New York, Covici-Friede, 1930. Limited Edition, No. 178 of 924 thus, signed by Rockwell Kent at end of vol 2. Folio, orig. cloth gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Plates and text illustrations by Kent. (2) £160-220 | Nil |
190 |
| 61 | KIPLING, RUDYARD. Just So Stories, 1902. 8vo., orig. pictorial cloth (one corner bruised). Illustrations. (P) £80-120 | Nil |
110 |
| 62 | LANDELLS, E. The Girl's Own Toy-Maker, 1860. Small 4to., orig. cloth gilt. Frontispiece and numerous text illustrations -- JOHNS, Rev. C.A., ed. Monthly Window Flowers. S.P.C.K., n.d. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. 12 chromolithographic plates. With 2 other volumes. (4) £20-40 | Nil |
20 |
| 63 | LANG, ANDREW. The Pink Fairy Book, 1897; The Crimson Fairy Book, 1903, and 6 others in the same series, 6 of the 8 vols. First Editions; with 3 others. 8vo., orig. pictorial cloth gilt. Illustrations (11) See illustration £500-700 | Nil |
1150 |
| 64 | THE LILLIPUTATION LIBRARY. Four vols., Little Tales by Fenelon, Nos. 1 - 4, Guben, F. Fechner, and London, A. & Joseph Myers, n.d. (c. 1850). 85 x 55 mm., each bound in a different style of coloured decorative paper with a central floral ornament, enclosed in original decorated card box. Eight hand coloured engraved plates. The volumes in remarkably clean and fresh condition. See illustration. £250-350 | Nil |
380 |
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