Sale date: |
Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on Tuesday 1st July 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
259-288 of 375 |
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Description & Estimate |
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Hammer Price £ |
259 |
HAMILTON, Lt. Gen. Sir IAN. A Staff Officer's Scrap-Book During the Russo-Japanese War. 2 vols., 1905 - 07. 2 vols., 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (ex library copy). Frontispieces, folding maps and plans (one loose). With another volume on the same conflict -- FORMBY, JOHN. The First Two Battles of Plevna. W. Clowes, 1910. 8vo., orig. cloth (ex library copy). 14 folding maps. (4) £20-40 | Nil |
30 |
| 260 | [KIPLING, RUDYARD] JAMES, DAVID H. The Siege of Port Arthur, First Edition, 1905. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (short tear to upper joint). Four folding maps, portraits and plates. Signed presentation copy from Kipling to J.F. Burne-Murdoch. With autograph verse from his poem "Two Kopjes", signed with initials. The verse contains several differences in wording and order of the lines from the printed version (Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition, 1885 - 1918). See illustration. £250-350 | Nil |
320 |
| 261 | KIPLING, RUDYARD. The Irish Guards in the Great War. 2 vols., May 1923 -- CRITICAL STUDY OF THE CMAPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA up to April 1917. Part 1-Report. Calcutta 1925. (soiled) Photographic plates -- OFFICERS DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919. H.M.S.O., 1919. (pp. 1 - 32 loose). With 4 other volumes. 8vo., mostly orig. cloth. (8) £60-80 | Nil |
140 |
| 262 | OMAN, CHARLES. A History of the Peninsular War. 7 vols., Oxford 1902 - 30. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. Maps, plans and portraits. (7) £80-120 | Nil |
380 |
| 263 | WEBSTER, Sir CHARLES and NOBLE FRANKLAND. The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 - 1945. 4 vols., H.M.S.O., 1961. 8vo., orig. cloth, d.ws. Illustrations. (4) £100-200 | Nil |
130 |
| 264 | NAVAL and MILITARY books, 56 various modern volumes (56) £80-120 | Nil |
110 |
| 265 | APULEIUS, LUCIUS. Metamorphoseos libri XI. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1536. 8vo., calf gilt (slight wear, title spotted). (P) £100-200 | Nil |
240 |
| 266 | ARETINO, PIETRO. Tre Primi Canti di battiglia del Divino. Nuovamente stampati & historiati. [Venice, Nocolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino] 1537. Woodcut title and 12 small woodcuts in text. Woodcut portrait on verso of final leaf; De Le Lagrime d'Angelica [Venice, F. Marcoline] 1538 Woodcut portrait on title; and part of La Sirena by the same bound at end. 8vo., old calf gilt (spine worn). (P) See illustraton. £200-400 | Nil |
360 |
| 267 | [ARNAULD, ANTOINE & PIERRE NICOLE]. La Logique ou L'Art de Penser..., Septieme edition, Paris, Guillaume Desprez 1738. 12mo., cont. calf (upper joint splitting, wear to head and tail of spine). (P) £150-250 | Nil |
50 |
| 268 | BACON, Sir FRANCIS. Novum Organum Scientiarum. Leiden, Adrian Wyngaerden, 1650. 12mo., cont. vellum. Engraved title (old ownership inscription on title). Armorial bookplate. Gibson 105. £60-80 | Nil |
70 |
| 269 | BACON, FRANCIS, Baron Verulam. Opera Omnia. Frankfurt, 1665. Folio, cont. vellum (dust soiled). Engraved portrait and vignette on title (occasional light browning to text). (P) £100-150 | Nil |
100 |
| 270 | BARBEAU, A. Life & Letters at Bath in the XVIIIth Century. 1904. 8vo., cont. half blue morocco gilt by Hatchards. Illustrations (2pp. loose) -- MALORY, Sir THOMAS. Le Morte Darthur. 2 vols., 1923. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. Colour plates by W. Russell Flint -- WAUGH, EVELYN. Scott-King's Modern Europe. 1947. 8vo., orig. cloth, d.w. With 8 others. (12) £60-80 | Nil |
70 |
| 271 | BASKERVILLE, JOHN, printer. The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge, 1761. 8vo., cont. straight grained red morocco gilt, a.e.g. £150-200 | Nil |
140 |
| 272 | BINDINGS. Alison, Archibald. History of Europe..., Mixed Editions, 10 vols., 1844. Bookplates of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Cont. calf gilt (sides of vols 9 & 10 stained). -- Disraeli, Benjamin. The Novels and Tales. 8 vols., (11 titles) cont. half calf, spines gilt, 1870 & n.d. -- Burke, Edmund. The Works, New Edition, 14 vols. bound in 10, 1803 - 22. Cont. calf gilt (one vol lacks backstrip, another with split upper joint). All 8vo. (28) £100-200 | Nil |
160 |
| 273 | BINDINGS. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical works. Edited by Harry Buxton Forman. 1882. 4 vols., cont. red morocco gilt by Maclehose, Glasgow. Engraved portraits and plates. -- Arnold, Matthew. Poems. 3 vols., 1888. Cont. red morocco by Maclehose -- Wordsworth, William. The Poetical Works. 6 vols., 1881. 16mo., cont. olive green morocco (spines darkened). Engraved portrait frontispiece -- Lamb, Charles. Works and Letters. 7 vols., 1885 - 91. Cont. half blue morocco gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Mostly 8vo., t.e.g. (20) £180-220 | Nil |
520 |
| 274 | BINDINGS. Milton, John. The Works in Verse and Prose.... With a Life of the Author by The Rev. John Mitford. 8 vols., 1863. (lacks 3 labels, another defective). Engraved portrait and folding facsimile. -- Dryden, John. The Poetical Works. With A Memoir by the Rev. R. Hooper, Aldine Edition, 5 vols., 1875. Binding by Bickers. Engraved portrait frontispiece -- Pope, Alexander. The Works. With A Memoir...by the Rev. G. Croly. 4 vols., binding by Bickers. Engraved titles, frontispieces and portrait -- Thackeray, W.M. Works. 13 vols., cont. half calf (lacks one label, some wear to others). Frontispieces. All 8vo., cont. full calf gilt unless otherwise stated. With 5 other volumes. (35) £200-300 | Nil |
280 |
| 275 | BINDINGS. A collection of 25 leather bindings, including: Goldsmith, O. The Vicar of Wakefield. 1927. Full blue morocco gilt, a.e.g., with coloured illustration of the Vicar on upper cover, by Bayntun of Bath -- Leslie, Charles Robert and Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 2 vols., 1865. Cont. half calf. Portrait and illustrations -- Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. With a Memoir. 10 vols. in 5, Boston, The Riverside Press, n.d. cont. half calf. Engraved portrait. 8vo. (25) £200-300 | Nil |
360 |
| 276 | BOLTON, ROBERT. Instructions For a Right comforting Afflicted Consciences: With special Antidotes against some grievous Temptations. Third Edition, Printed by Tho. Badger, for Tho. Weaver 1640. 8vo., cont. reversed calf with metal cornerpieces, central bosses and clasps (crudely rebacked, lacks one corner-piece). STC 3240; bound with A Cordial for Christians in the Time of Affliction. Printed by George Miller, 1640. STC 3227 £50-80 | Nil |
130 |
| 277 | BOOLE, GEORGE. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. London, Walton and Maberly and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1854. 8vo., orig. dark grey cloth (sound binding, though sides slightly discoloured). Two cancelled leaves, errata leaf at end. Signature of Charles James Hargreave on flylef (judge and mathematician, 1820-66). See illustration. £800-1200 | Nil |
880 |
| 278 | BOOTH, CHARLES. Life and Labour of the People in London. First Series, 4 vols., 1904; Second Series, 5 vols., 1903 - 04; Third Series, 7 vols., 1902 - 03; Conclusion, 1903. Together 17 vols., (lacks slipcase of maps). 8vo., orig. cream boards or vellum gilt. (head of spine of vol 1 of 3rd series nicked). Conclusion vol. with folding map in pocket at end. (17) (P) £400-600 | Nil |
880 |
| 279 | BOOTH, General WILLIAM. In Darkest England and the Way Out. [1890]. Coloured folding frontispiece -- SMITH, EDWARD. A Guide to the Construction and Management of Workhouses..., 1870 (covers soiled) -- HORSLEY, Rev. J.W. Jottings From Jail. Notes and Papers on Prison Matters. 1887. Orig. pictorial cloth (spine darkened) TENNANT, DOROTHY. London Street Arabs. 4to., 1890. Illustrated. Mostly 8vo., orig. cloth. (4) (P) £80-100 | Nil |
120 |
| 280 | BURLAMAQUI, JEAN JACQUES. Principes du Droit Naturel. Geneva, Barrillot & Fils, 1747. 2 parts in one; with vol 2 only of Principes du Droit Politique, 1751. 2 vols., 4to., uniformly bound in cont. vellum (soiled). (2) (P) £100-150 | Nil |
60 |
| 281 | BURTON, ISABEL, Lady. The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. 2 vols., 1893. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (joints worn, soiled). Portraits, maps and plates. Bookstamps of H.H. Fawcett (lacks front flyleaf in vol 1). (2) (P) £50-70 | Nil |
10 |
| 282 | CASANOVA DI SEINGALT, GIACOMO. The Memoirs...Translated into English by Arthur Machen. 12 vols., Limited Edition, No. 347 of 1000 sets. P.P. for the Casanova Society, 1922. 4to., cont. vellum backed boards, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Frontispieces. (12) £50-70 | Nil |
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| 283 | CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM. Cyclopaedia..., vols. 1, 3 & 5 only. 1786. Folio, cont. russia gilt (worn). Engraved frontispiece in vol 1 and 146 plates, in vol 5, some folding (one folding plate torn). Sold not subject to return. (3) (P) £50-80 | Nil |
260 |
| 284 | CUALA PRESS. Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, With an Introduction by William Butler Yeats. Churchtown and Dublin 1916. No. 6 of 350 copies, presentation copy from Ezra Pound, inscribed and dated Sept. 1916. 8vo., orig. linen backed boards (outer edges stained). See illustration. £200-400 | Nil |
WD |
| 285 | DE WITT, Mme. ed. Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France. Paris 1885. 4to., cont. half brown morocco. 8 chromolithographic plates, further black and white plates and text illustrations. With 2 other volumes. (3) (P) £40-60 | Nil |
15 |
| 286 | DUNCAN, WILLIAM. The Elements of Logick. Seventh Edition, 1776. (some wear to spine) -- WATTS, ISAAC. The Improvement of the Mind. 2 parts in one, 1791 - 1790; Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason..., New Edition, 1801 -- HOME, HENRY, Lord Kames. Elements of Criticism. 2 vols., Ninth Edition, Edinburgh 1817. (lower cover of vol 1 detached) 8vo., cont. calf. (5) (P) £100-200 | Nil |
80 |
| 287 | DURRELL, LAWRENCE. Le Descente du Styx. Montpellier 1964. No. 243 of 250 copies, signed by the author. 4to., orig. wraps. £120-160 | Nil |
70 |
| 288 | ECTON, JOHN. A State of the Proceedings of the Corporation of The Governours of the Bounty of Queen Anne, For the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy..., 1719. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (piece missing from spine). £20-40 | Nil |
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