Sale date: |
Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on Tuesday 1st July 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
226-258 of 375 |
Lot |
Description & Estimate |
Vat on hammer % |
Hammer Price £ |
226 |
HUNTING, RACING. 19 various volumes, including: Chetwynd, Sir GEORGE. Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf. 2 vols., 1891 -- Willoughby de Broke, Lord. The Sport of our Ancestors. 1925. Illus. by G.D. Armour. 8vo., and 4to., orig. cloth. (19) £30-50 | Nil |
55 |
| 227 | KIRBY, W.F. European Butterflies and Moths. 27 hand coloured plates from this part work, with some text. 4to., orig. wraps. Sold w.a.f. £30-50 | Nil |
30 |
| 228 | [LOUDON, Mrs. JANE] The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals [1840] 4to., cloth gilt. 46 hand coloured lithographic plates (Nos. 1 - 47, lacking No. 26, approx. 6 with marginal staining, lacks title). Sold not subject to return. See illustration. £300-500 | Nil |
300 |
| 229 | MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. Limited Edition, No. 481 of 1025 copies, 3 vols, 1904 - 06. Large 4to., orig. cloth gilt, t.e.g.(vols 2 & 3 soiled). Plates (3). £50-100 | Nil |
60 |
| 230 | NATURAL HISTORY & GARDENING. 53 volumes, including: Chapman, Abel. Bird-Life of the Borders. Presentation copy from the author, 1889 Orig. cloth. Swaysland, W. Familiar Wild Birds. First - Fourth Series, 1883 - n.d. Recent qtr blue morocco. Coloured plates by A. Thorburn. Mostly 8vo. (53) £50-80 | Nil |
40 |
| 231 | OGILVIE, FERGUS MENTEITH. Field Observations on British Birds, 1920. No. 33 of 500 copies. 4to., orig. linen backed boards. Maps, plates, some coloured. With another volume. (2) £20-30 | Nil |
20 |
| 232 | PLAT, Sir HUGH. The Garden of Eden. Or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England..., Printed for William Leake... 1653. 8vo., old sheep (lacks backstrip, a few brown spots, final leaf loose). Wing P 2385 See illustration. £500-600 | Nil |
500 |
| 233 | ROBINSON, WILLIM, ed. Flora and Sylva. Vols 2 & 3, 1904 - 05, in orig. cloth gilt, uncut and another copy of vol 3 in half vellum. All 4to. Coloured plates and text illustrations (cloth bound vols. with signature on titles). (3) £200-300 | Nil |
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| 234 | SHARPE, RICHARD BOWDLER, ed. Lloyd's Natural History, 10 various volumes, including: Ogilvie-Grant, W.R.A. Handbook to the Game-Birds, 2 vols., 1896 - 97 -- Sharpe, R.B. A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain. 4 vols., 1896 - 97. With 4 others in the same series. 8vo., uniformly bound in half maroon morocco, spines gilt. Coloured lithographic plates. (10) £100-200 | Nil |
100 |
| 235 | SOWERBY, JAMES, and Sir JAMES EDWARD SMITH. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Third Edition...With descriptions by John T. Boswell and N.E. Brown, 12 vols., 1887 - 78 - 86. 8vo., cont. half green morocco gilt (rubbed). 1922 hand coloured plates (vol 2 lacks half title). (12) £350-450 | Nil |
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| 236 | THORBURN, ARCHIBALD. Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923. Folio, orig. cloth gilt (spine faded). 30 colour plates. See illustration. £200-300 | Nil |
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| 240 | DEIGHTON, LEN. Ou Est Le Garlic. French Cook Book. Penguin, 1965. Signed by the author on title. Small oblong 4to., orig. pictorial wraps. Illustrations. £20-30 | Nil |
10 |
| 241 | MACKENZIE, COLIN. Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts...Fifth Edition, London 1825. Sq. 12mo., cont. calf gilt (rubbed, lower spine slightly defective). Sold with a manuscript recipe book, 19th c. (2) £70-100 | Nil |
70 |
| 242 | SUZANNE, ALFRED. La Cuisine Anglaise et la Patisserie. Paris & London 1894. 8vo., orig. leather backed cloth (some wear). Illus. by Gerard Tantet & Froment (some browning). Adverts. at end, including one for live tortoises from the Gulf of Mexico. £15-25 | Nil |
WD |
| 243 | THE WHOLE DUTY OF A WOMAN: Or, an infallible Guide to the Fair Sex. Containing...Rules and Receipts in every Kind of Cookery. Printed for T. Read, 1737. Small 4to., cont. panelled calf (upper joint cracked, title loose). 39 engravings on 33 plates. Two signatures of James Rudd 1738 on inside front cover. The text clean. See illustration. £500-800 | Nil |
3300 |
| 244 | CLOWES, WILLIAM LAIRD. The Royal Navy A History..., 7 vols., 1897 - 1903. 4to., orig. cloth gilt. Plates, maps and text illustrations. (7) £200-250 | Nil |
440 |
| 245 | CORBETT, Sir JULIAN S. History of the Great War...Naval Operations. 9 vols., including 4 vols of maps, 1920 - 1931. 8vo., orig. cloth (vol 1. cockled). (9) £100-150 | Nil |
120 |
| 246 | JAMES, WILLIAM. The Naval History of Great Britain...New Edition, With Additions and Notes, and An Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino by Captain Chamier. 6 vols., 1837. 8vo., library cloth. Engraved portraits, folding tables at end of vol 6. With 2 other volumes. (8) £40-60 | Nil |
30 |
| 247 | JANE, FRED. T. All The World's Fighting Ships. 1899, Second Year of issue/ Oblong 4to., orig. cloth. Illustrated. £100-150 | Nil |
90 |
| 248 | JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1919 (worn, lacks backstrip, some damage to adverts.); 1937; 1946 - 47. Oblong 4to., orig. cloth. (3) £50-70 | Nil |
60 |
| 249 | NAVY LISTS. Steel's Original and Correct List of the Royal Navy. Feb. 1, 1810; The Navy List, 1821, 1826,1837 - 54; 1859 - 63; 1866, 1867, 1869, 1889 - 1900; 1907 - 11, uniformly bound in orig. cloth; 6 vols. similar, 1821 - 32 in orig. half blue roan, also Army & Navy Lists bound together: 1829, 1842, 1843 & 1851; Navy/New Navy Lists for 1844, 1848, 1849, 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, 1867, 1870, 1881, 1889, & 1891 in different cloth bindings or orig. wraps. Mostly 8vo. With 2 other volumes. sold not subject to return. (70) £300-400 | Nil |
620 |
| 250 | NAVY. 19 various vols., including: Navy List, corrected to 25th Dec. 1828; bound with the Army List for January 1829. 12mo., cont. red morocco gilt (tail of spine defective). -- Dundonald, Thomas, Earl of. The Autobiography of a Seaman. Second Edition, 2 vols., 1861 -- MAHAN, Capt. A.T. The Life of Nelson. 2 vols., 1897. Portraits. Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth -- Officers Tried by Court-Martial...Disciplinary Court (1914 - 18). (19) £100-130 | Nil |
70 |
| 251 | NAVY LIST, The. April 1906; January 1909; January 1911; January 1912; January 1913; October 1914; January 1915;February 1919; June 1920; June 1926; June 1929; July 1930; October 1933; August 1936; May, July & August 1940; July 1942;July 1943, 3 vols.; July 1945, 3 vols.; April 1946, 3 vols.,; July 1947; July 1948; May 1949; Retired Officers 1954 (head of spine damaged); July 1955; June 1957. 33 vols., 8vo., orig. cloth. (33) £100-180 | Nil |
580 |
| 252 | NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY. 16 various volumes, including: Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, 1758 - 1813. 3 vols., 1907 - 11. and The Somerville Papers, 1995. With The Marriner's Mirror, 11 vols., 1991 - 2001. 8vo., orig. cloth. (27) £150-250 | Nil |
80 |
| 253 | STEEL'S ORIGINAL AND CORRECT LIST OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Corrected to April 1795. Printed for D. Steel. Small 4to., orig. cloth gilt (lower cover and text stained at outer edge). With MS. additions in ink. Nelson is listed as Captain of The Agamemnon. £50-80 | Nil |
55 |
| 254 | ROSKILL, Capt. S.W. The War at Sea 1939 - 1945. 3 vols. in 4, 1954 - 61. 8vo., orig. cloth. Portraits and folding maps. (4) £200-300 | Nil |
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| 255 | CARTER, THOMAS, ed. Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry. 1867 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (covers soiled and repaired with tape). Five photographic plates and 4 hand coloured plates (2 of them with stained margin) -- EVERETT, Maj. Gen. Sir HENRY. The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1685 - 1914. 1934; continuation 1914 - 19, 1937 8vo., cont. half black morocco gilt. Maps and illustrations. With 2 other volumes. (5) £40-60 | Nil |
100 |
| 256 | CASSELL'S History of the War Between France and Germany 1870-1871. 2 vols., 4to., cont. half red stained calf, spines gilt. Numerous illustrations (lacks frontispieces) -- MAURICE, Maj. Gen. J.F., ed. and trans. The Franco-German War. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. [1900]. 2 vols. in one, rebound in grey cloth (ex library copy). Portraits, plates and maps. With 8 others on same conflict. Sold not subject to return. (11) £30-50 | Nil |
35 |
| 257 | CHICHESTER, HENRY MANNERS and GEORGE BURGES-SHORT. The Records and Badges of Every Regiment and Corps in the British Army. 1895. 24 coloured plates, text illustrations -- HAMILTON, Sir IAN. A Staff Officer's Scrap-Book During the Russo-Japanese War. vol 1 only, 2nd imp., 1905; Gallipoli Diary, 2 vols., 1920. (defective d.ws). Maps and illustrations. -- LOW, CHARLES RATHBONE. Soldiers of The Victorian Age, 2 vols., 1880 (some underlinings in text). With 3 others. 8vo., orig. cloth. (9) £80-120 | Nil |
80 |
| 258 | FORTESCUE, Sir JOHN WILLIAM. A History of the British Army. 13 vols. in 14, with 6 vols. of maps, 1935 - 30. 8vo., orig. cloth, d.ws. Presentation copy to Capt. H.W. Spurrell, M.C., in recognition "of the time and trouble expended by him in connection with Battlefield Tour Ypres May 1936", with numerous signatures of officers from the Somerset Light Infantry, and the Dorsetshire and Wiltshire regiments. (20) See illustration. £500-650 | Nil |
800 |
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