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2022 AUCTION DATES Wednesday 4 May Coins & Banknotes Wednesday 11 May Scientific & Musical Instruments, Cameras & Tools Friday 13 May Antiques & Interiors Tennants is the UK’s largest family-owned fine art auctioneers, with a well-deserved reputation for delivering unrivalled service and results. Twenty-seven specialist departments offer an outstanding range of depth and expertise that, combined with the company’s strong traditional values and a personal approach, have won Tennants widespread respect in the international marketplace. Each year Tennants holds over 80 auctions and handles in excess of 40,000 lots covering all major disciplines, making it one of the UK’s busiest salerooms.
THE BOOK DEPARTMENT The Book Department encompasses a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom. Notable recent sales include an album of spectacular 18th and 19th century botanical watercolours, including examples by George Dionysus Ehret and Ferdinand Bauer, which sold for £170,000. A very rare 17th Century Copybook sold for £35,000, which was part of the sale of Selected Contents of Forcett Hall, North Yorkshire, as instructed by the Executors of the late J.H. Edwards-Heathcote Esq.. The illustrated copybook, demonstrating calligraphy, handwriting and arithmetic, was completed by Sarah North in 1686, a student under private tutor Elizabeth Beane ‘mistress in the art of writing and arithmetic’. The Department was also chosen to handle the Roger Casson Collection, an important private library of polar exploration, travel and local history books. The single-owner sale achieved a total hammer price of £220,000. Antiquarian books are also sold in the Country House Sales, and quantities of books are regularly sold in the fortnightly Antiques and Interiors Sales.
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ORDER OF SALE 2000-2004 2005-2045 2046-2052 2053-2058 2059-2072 2073-2095 2096-2099 2100-2113 2114-2132 2133-2165 2166-2190
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Art, Architecture & Handicrafts Antiquarian Literature, History, Theology & Science Modern Literature & Private Press Autographs, Manuscripts & Documents British Topography & Local History Children’s & Illustrated Maps & Atlases Military & Naval Miscellaneous Natural History & Field Sports Travel & Exploration
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ART, ARCHITECTURE & HANDICRAFTS 2000 Hamerton (Philip Gilbert) The Graphic Arts ..., Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1882, Large Paper copy, partly unopened, original ‘vellum’ gilt binding; idem, Landscape, Seeley, 1885, numbered limited edition of 525 copies on Large Paper, endpapers stained and split at hinge, original ‘vellum’ gilt binding; Murphy (William S.) edit., Modern Drapery and Allied Trades, Wholesale and Retail ..., Gresham, 1914, four volumes, original cloth (damp-stained) [not collated] (6) £100-200 2001 St Dominic’s Press. Old English Clocks, 1st edition, one of 300 copies, 1931, & 3 others St Dominic’s Press. Old English Clocks. Being a Collector’s Observations on some Seventeenth Century Clocks by F. H. Green, 1st edition, one of 300 copies only, Ditchling Common: St Dominics Press, 1931. 4to, later quarter calf, 49 halftone photographic plates (complete: the first 4 unnumbered, remaining plates numbered 1-51, but numbers 40-51 in fact on either side of 6 plates only; most plates tipped in as issued), errata slip, together with 3 other works on horology including James Ferguson, Select Mechnical Exercises: shewing how to construct different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials, 1st edition, 1773 (8vo, contemporary sheep, incomplete, lacking plate 4 and part of plate 5) (4) £100-150 2002 Wood (Robert). The Ruins of Palmyra, 1st edition, 1753, & Chambers, Civil Architecture, 1791 [Wood, Robert]. The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, 1st edition, London: [no publisher], 1753. Large folio (520 x 360 mm), 20th-century quarter cloth, [6] 50 pp. (pp. 25, 27 and 29 engraved), 57 engraved plates after Giovanni Battista Borra, leaf T damp-stained and with marginal tape-repair, folding panorama (plate 1) with one section large torn away and various tape-repairs, plate 3 crudely tape-repaired along fore edge, 23 with extensive closed tear (tape-repaired verso), 43, 46 and 53 with damp-staining to fore corners not encroaching on plate-marks, 47, 54 and 55 with crude pencil-markings verso, 57 with similar markings recto (within platemark), together with: Chambers (Sir William). A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 3rd edition (‘considerably augmented’), London: printed by Joseph Meeton, sold by T. Cadell [and others], 1791. Large folio (565 x 375 mm), 20th-century cloth, all edges untrimmed, pp. [4] vi 7-137 [1], 52 engraved plates only (of 53), spotting throughout, shallow tidemark to top edges of plates, small tear in penultimate plate, final plate frayed and damp-stained, pp. 39/40 duplicated, 47/8 and 119/20 with marginal repairs, 111/12 with repair through text (2) ESTC T137526 (Wood) & T174022 (Chambers). Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra and its companion work The Ruins of Balbec (1757) ‘stand at the beginning of a tradition to which other writers on archaeology in the second half of the eighteenth century would aspire ... The works brought previously unknown remains to public attention and had a profound effect on classical taste in England’ (ODNB). £500-800
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2003 2003 The National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden Philipp Franz Von Siebold’s Ukiyo-E Collection, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978, three folio volumes, colour illustrations throughout, original cloth, each in original solander box, preserved in original printed cardboard shipping boxes ; Sotheby’s, Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books, Drawings and Paintings from the Henri Vever Collection, Parts IIII, 1974-77, three quarto volumes, dust wrappers; Sotheby’s, Catalogue of Fine Japanese Prints, Drawings and Paintings, The Property of a Gentleman, 1978, boards. (7) £200-400
2004 2004 Hockney (David) A Bigger Book, Taschen, 2016, numbered limited edition of 10,000 [9000], signed by the artist, (L.A., 2016), 71cm x 52cm, dust wrapper, complete with adjustable acrylic and painted metal tripod stand designed by Marc Newson, together with assembly instructions, allen keys and white gloves, book in original paper wrapping, stand parts in original packaging/bubblewrap. Retail price £4,500 (www.taschen.com) [Please note that, at the request of the vendor, in order to maintain the ‘as new’ condition, viewing of this lot will be restricted] £1,000-2,000 3
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ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE, HISTORY, THEOLOGY & SCIENCE 2007 Tennyson (Alfred) The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Strahan and Co. 1870, ten volumes, all edges gilt, original limp leather bindings, original leather box (box worn); Commonplace Book, no date (1829 watermark), manuscript, all edges gilt, worn morocco gilt binding (11) £70-100
2005 Almanacks A collection of ten almanacks for 1689, bound as one, comprising Andrews’ News from the Stars; Coley’s Nuncius Sydereus; Dove’s Speculum Anni; Gadbury’s Ephmeris; Harrison’s Almanack, Pond’s Almanack; Poor Robin’s Almanack; Saunders’ Apollo Anglicanus; Wing’s Almanack and Fly, A Prognostication, 1689, several defective including loss of Harrison title page, well worn early sheep binding. [sold not subject to return] £50-80
2008 La Rochefoucauld (François, duc de) The Memoirs of the Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1st edition in English, James Partridge, 1683, (179 x 105 mm), contemporary mottled calf, errata and advertisement leaves to rear (each with chip in fore margin), extremities rubbed, short cracks to joint-ends. ESTC R12738 (seven copies only in UK libraries). £70-100
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2009 Herbert (Edward, Lord) The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Henry Herringman, 1682, quarto, portrait plate after title, lacking endpapers and any other leaf before title, unsightly staining to pages, holes in 2B, 2C4, 2K3, 2M3-4, 3M2, 3Q2, some worm tracking in margins, worn early calf binding; Fox (Charles James), A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second ..., William Miler, 1808, quarto, portrait frontis, original boards (re-backed) (2) £80-120 2010 Johnson (Samuel) The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Clarendon Press, 1992-94, five volumes, dustwrappers; Pepys (Samuel), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, G Bell, 1977-83, eleven volumes, dustwrappers; Woodforde (James), The Diary of a Country Parson, 1981, five volumes, dustwrappers £80-120
2006 2006 Shakespeare (William) The Works of William Shakespeare, Allied Newspapers, fifty miniature volumes, cloth, displayed on original miniature bookcase. £60-100
2011 Peacock (Thomas Love) [Works] J. M. Dent, 1891, ten volumes, numbered large paper edition, limited to 100 copies, frontis to eight volumes (not in the two second volumes), original cloth (tanned) partly unopened £80-120
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2012 Mynors (R.A.B.) Durham Cathedral Manuscripts, to the End of the Twelfth Century, Durham Cathedral, 1939, folio, numbered limited edition of 250 (225 for sale), colour frontis, 56 monochrome and colour plates, original cloth (faded) £100-200 2013 Tomitano (Bernardino) Bernardini Tomitani Clonicus, sive De Reginaldi Poli, Card. Ampliss. Laudibus., Venice: Aldus, 1556, small octavo, twelve leaves, single wormhole through leaves, later quarter cloth with blank leaves at end, brown paper wraps bound in. £100-200
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2015 Caesar (Julius) C. Ivlii Caesaris quae extant: ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri, Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Elzeviriana [Elzevier], 1635, engraved title page, portrait, five full page illustrations within preliminary text, two [of three] folding maps, lacking folding genealogical folding plate, armorial bookplate, marbled edges, vellum: Savile (Henry), H. Savilius In Taciti Histor Agricolae Vitam, et Commentarius de Militia Romana, Amstelodami: Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevier] 1649, engraved title page, folding plate, all edges gilt, recent half calf. [both books contain the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst] (2) £100-200
2014 Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to Come ..., A. Wilde, 1722, twentieth edition, commences with title A2 so may lack a portrait, woodcuts in text [with] The Pilgrim’s Progress ... Second Part, M. Beddington, 1719, eleventh edition, frontis [A1], woodcuts in text, edges cropped close with slight loss to margin notes, [with] [Anon.], The Pilgrim’s Progress ...Third Part, A. Bettesworth, 1722, tenth edition, frontis [A1], top edge trimmed with loss to parts of header and page numbers. lacks at least one advert leaf at end, duodecimo, A2-I12, A1-H12, A1G12,H6, A1, recent half calf. £100-200 2014
2016 Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets...., Bathurst, 1783, four volumes, portrait frontis, contemp calf; idem, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets...., Longman ...1794, four volumes, portrait frontis, tree calf; Boswell (James), The Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Cadell & Davies, 1807, portrait frontis, calf; with three others (12) £100-200
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2017 Poetry The Aldine Edition of the British Poets, Bell and Daldy, no date [c.1855], fifty-two volumes, half calf (final volume lacking spine labels) £100-200 2018 Smollett (Tobias) The History of England from the Revolution in 1688..., J.Wallis, 1805, six volumes, contemporary diced calf gilt (joints cracked); Macauley (Thomas Babington), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second ..., Longman, Brown ..., 1856-1861, five volumes, contemporary calf gilt; Henry (Robert), The History of Great Britain, Strahan and Cadell, 1788, twelve volumes, folding portrait frontis, calf; with two others (25) £100-200
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2019 2019 Caesar (Julius). The Commentaries, 1677 Caesar (Julius). The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English ... by Clement Edmonds, London: Tho. Newcomb, for Jonathan Edwin, 1677. Folio, contemporary calf, 15 engraved plates including portrait (a few double-page), incomplete, lacking at least the final 8 pp. (list of contents and advertisement leaf), occasional soiling, titlepage laid down, portrait frontispiece of Caesar (pi1) repaired and misbound before ‘The Life of C. Julius Caesar’, plate between pp. 46-7 laid down, marginal worming towards front and rear, a few other marks. Provenance: from the library of John Jackson, Academy Place, Warrington, then presented to the Warrington Museum & Library by John Gordon McMinnies, October 1875 (presentation plate to front pastedown; white ink shelfmark to spine). ESTC R16632. Edmonds’s translation was first published in 1604. £100-150 2020 Twiss (Horace) The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, John Murray, 1844, three volumes, calf gilt; with twenty-two others (25) £150-250
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2021 2021 Gray (Thomas) The Poems of Gray, F. J. du Roveray, 1800, half title, six engraved plates, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt; Southey (Robert), The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Boston: Little Brown, 1866, numbered limited edition of 100, ten volumes, portrait frontis, half morocco gilt; with four others (15) £150-250
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2022 2022 Boaden (James) Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbold: Including her Familier Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time...., Richard Bentley, 1833, two volumes, portrait frontis; Peake (Richard Brinsley), Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Personages of their Time, Richard Bentley, 1841, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, all four volumes uniformly bound in half morocco by Sotheran (only one half-title present); Wilkinson (Tate), Memoirs of His Own Life, York: for the author, 1790, four volumes in two, lacking errata page, only one half title present, half calf gilt. (6) £150-250 2023 Bindings A quantity of books, various subjects including literature, classics, history, biography, etc., all leather bound £150-250
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2024 2024 Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1819, with hand-coloured aquatints Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, London: T. McLean, 1819. 4 volumes, 8vo (206 x 128 mm), 20th-century crushed blue half morocco gilt by Birdsall, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, no halftitles, together with 9 others, fine bindings, including 5 modern editions of works by Trollope in fine blue half morocco gilt by Bayntun for Asprey (13) £150-250 7
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2025 Higgins (Bryan). Experiments ... applying Calcareous Elements, 1780, & others Higgins (Bryan). Experiments and Observations made with the View of Improving the Art of Composing and Applying Calcareous Cements and of Preparing Quick-lime, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell, 1780. 8vo (212 x 125 mm), modern boards, half-title, together with 6 others, mainly science (not collated), including William Ramsay, The Gases of the Atmosphere, 1st edition, 1896 (original cloth), J. J. Thomson, Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analyses, 1st edition, 1913 (original cloth), F. W. Aston, Isotopes, 1923 (original cloth), Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Priestley, 1809, and similar (7) ESTC T53600 (Higgins). £150-250 2026 Occult. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, 1st edition, 1842 Occult. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, from the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 1st edition, London: for the Camden Society, 1842. 4to, original blind-stamped olive-green cloth, pp. 102 [2] 35 [1], half-title, contents partly unopened, bookplate (Travers Barton Wire), binding sunned, half-title spotted. £150-250
2029 2029 Bindings The Spectator, Edinburgh, 1776, eight volumes, contemp calf gilt (several spines cracked); Pope (Alexander), The Works of Alexander Pope, Millar, Tonson ..., 1757, ten volumes, contemporary calf; Granville (George), The Genuine Works in Verse and Praise of..., Tonson, 1736, three volumes, portrait frontis, contemporary calf; with twenty seven others (48) £200-400 2026
2030 Spenser (Edmund) The Poetical Works of ....., Pickering, 1825, five volumes, all edges gilt, full calf by Herring; Wordsworth (William), The Poetical Works of ....., Moxon, 1836, six volumes, top edge gilt, half morocco; Dryden (John), The Miscellaneous Works of ... J. & R. Tomson, 1767, four volumes, contemporary calf gilt: with thirteen others, leather bound (28) £200-400
2027 Smith (Adam). The Wealth of Nations, 10th edition, 1802 Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 10th edition, London: by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. 3 volumes, 8vo (208 x 132 mm), contemporary straight-grain calf gilt, twin morocco labels to spines, half-titles, rubbed, a little wear to headcaps (3) £150-250 2028 Wordsworth (William) The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons, A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, quarto, first edition, xi, 162 pages, engraved frontis, half title present, original boards with linen spine (worn), presentation inscription from Basil Montagu who was ‘on intimate terms with Coleridge and Wordsworth’ (DNB). Loosely inserted is the lower part of an ALS by Wordsworth. £200-400
2031 Holy Bible The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues. And with the former Translations diligently Compared and revised. Cambridge: printed by John Field, printer to the University, 1657, fore-edge of several early pages trimmed with loss to margin notes, contemporary calf gilt with metal ringed leather clasps (Herbert 656) £200-300
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2032 Flechier (Esprit) Histoire du Cardinal Ximenes, Paris: Jean Anisson, 1694, second edition, two volumes, contemporary calf gilt (one joint starting, tear to advertisement leaf); Amelot de la Houssaie [Abraham-Nicolas], Memoires Historiques, Politiques, Critiques, et Litteraires, Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cenf. 1731., two volumes, armorial stamp to title pages, contemporary calf gilt; de la C.** [Crequiniere], Conformite des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux ..., Brusselles: George de Backer, 1704, twelve plates, contemporary sheep gilt (wear to spine); [All books contain the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst] (5) £200-300 2032 2033 Horblit (Harrison D.) One Hundred Books Famous In Science, Based on an Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, N.Y.: The Grolier Club, 1964, limited edition of 1000, quarto, top edge gilt, original cloth, slipcase; Gillispie (Charles Coulston), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, N.Y.: Charles Scribners, 1981, quarto, sixteen volumes in eight, original cloth; Osler (William), Bibliotheca Osleriana, A Catalogue of Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science, McGill-Queen’s University, 1969, quarto, cloth; with a quantity of others on the bibliography of science (qty) £200-400
2034 Holy Bible The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of ye Original Tongues .., printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1703, engraved general title page with red borders, each page with red borders, bound with; Brady (N.) and Tate (N.), A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church, Company of Stationers, 1703, armorial bookplate of Wingate Pulleine of Carleton Hall (N. Yorks.), late eighteenth century manuscript Cradock family records to front endpaper and fly leaf, all edges gilt, 2034 contemporary morocco gilt with white metal corners, clasps (one clasp detached but present) and initialled lozenge to board centres. [Herbert 874] [The vendors believe that the bible was given to an ancestor by the Cradock Family of Hartforth Hall, N. Yorks.] £200-400
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2035 2035 Bindings De Quincey (Thomas), [Works of ...], Adam and Charles Black, 1862, fifteen volumes, half leather; with a quantity of other literary works by Scott, Milton, Tennyson, etc, all leather bound (qty) £200-400
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2038 2036 Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman and Hall, 1838, half green morocco gilt by Riviere (spine tanned); idem, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman and Hall, 1937, lacking half title, marbled edges and endpapers, full calf gilt; idem, Dombey and Son, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, first edition, issue not stated, marbled edges, half calf; idem, Dombey and Son, Bradbury & Evans 1848, first edition, issue not stated, half morocco; idem, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, first edition, issue not stated, original cloth (5) £200-400
2038 Dickens (Charles) The Biographical Edition of the Works, London: Chapman and Hall Ld, c.1900. 19 volumes, 8vo (218 x 135 mm), contemporary red half morocco gilt by J. E. Cornish of Manchester, top edges gilt, plates (19) A handsome set. The editor was Arthur Waugh, father of Evelyn. £200-300 2039 Richardson (Samuel) The Complete Novels of Samuel Richardson, Heinemann, 1902, unnumbered limited edition of 375 copies for Great Britain, nineteen volumes, original cloth gilt; Hazlitt (William), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Dent, 1902, thirteen volumes, top edge gilt, original cloth; with a large quantity of others, predominantly large sets in cloth. (qty) £300-500
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2037 Arts and Crafts Binding Le livre d’or de J.-F. Millet. Par un ancien ami, Paris: A. Ferroud, E. Bénézit-Constant, [1891]. 4to (333 x 248 mm), near-contemporary tan morocco by the Marygold Bindery (dated 1924 on rear turn-in), overall design of massed leaves, interlacing fillets and interstitial dots in blind, corners of central panels with red morocco onlays gilt-tooled with sunburst design, pink morocco doublures with similar sunburst designs gilt to corners, hand-printed endpapers, edges untrimmed, half-title, 9 etched plates including frontispiece, etched vignettes to title-page and in text, extra-illustrated with a lithograph and 2 woodcuts after Millet (each mounted to an initial blank with manuscript caption in French mounted opposite), original wrappers bound in at rear, light staining to pp. 111-12. Together with 2 others (Cresset Press, The Shepheards Calendar, 1930, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper, and John Evelyn, Memoirs, 1827, 5 volumes, red dark half morocco for Sotheran’s, these not collated) (7) First edition, one of 500 copies on hand-made Holland paper, this copy inscribed on the limitation page to ‘Monsieur Vicaire, bien sincère hommage de l’editeur’; there were also 50 copies on japon. The Marygold Bindery was established by Sangorski and Sutcliffe trainee Rosamund Philpott in Cambridge c.1904, operating until 1932. £200-300
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2040 Bibliographies Wolff (Robert Lee), NineteenthCentury Fiction, A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by ..., arland, 1981, five volumes, quarto, original cloth; Sadleir (Michael), XIX Century Fiction, A Bibliographical Record, based on his own collection, N.Y.: Cooper Square, 1969, quarto, two volumes, original cloth; with a large quantity of bibliographies, the majority on 19th and 20th century authors (qty) £300-500 2041 Digs [Diggs] (Dudley) The Unlawfulness of Subjects Taking up Arms against the Soveraigne, in what case soever ..., William Sheares, 1662, portrait frontis, additional engraved title page, partly unopened, sheep boards, rebacked with calf. £300-500
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2045 2042 [Jones William] A Treatise on the Art of Music, Colchester; published by the author, 1784, folio, signed by the author at end of dedication and numbered in manuscript on title page, forty plates on twenty leaves, (first plate torn with crude repair), gift inscription at head of title page commemorating John Henry Robson, department organist of Kings College, Cambridge, quarter roan binding (worn). £300-500 2043 Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). The History of Don Quixote, 1712 Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... Translated from the Original by Several Hands, and publish’d by Peter Motteux ... The Third Edition, London: for Sam. Buckley, 1712. 4 volumes, 12mo (151 x 85 mm), 20th-century marbled calf gilt to style by Bayntun, twin morocco labels, [8] vi [10] 323 [1], [10] 327632 [1], [10] 635-953 [1], [12] 955-1322 pp., 16 engraved folding plates, craquelure to covers, 2043 moderate browning, occasional spotting and old staining, part of text on p. 616 faintly printed (4) ESTC T59510 (12 copies world-wide; no specific number of plates is cited for this edition, but 16 appears to be the correct count based on commercial records). £300-500 www.tennants.co.uk
2044 Luther (Martin) A Commentarie or Exposition upon the twoo Epistles generall of Sainct Peter, and that of Sainct Jude ... familiarlie translated into Englishe by Thomas Newton, London: for Abraham Veale, 1581. 4to (195 x 145 mm), contemporary vellum, text mainly in black leter, allegorical woodcut border to title-page, woodcut initials, later ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, binding soiled, old ink-stain and partial loss to title-page, variable worming to lower margins from quire G, occasional damp-staining to fore corners, H2 with hole in gutter, Q3 and T3 with lower fore corners torn away, R3 with hole in fore margin just touching edge of text, X3 torn in lower margin. ESTC S108928 (five copies in UK libraries). First edition in English of the author’s Enarrationes in Epistolas Divi Petri duas et Judae unam. Rare in commerce. £300-500 2045 [Foxe] Fox (John) [Book of Martyrs] Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church with an Universal History of the Same ... with the Bloody Times, Horrible Troubles, and Great Persecutions against the true Martyrs of Christ. Company of Stationers, 1684, ninth edition, three volumes, large folio in sixes, believed to be a large paper copy (pages 428mm x 275mm), portrait frontis, four plates (including two double page), engraved illustrations in text, extremely worn calf bindings with boards detached or held by cords. [The best edition according to Lowndes p.829] £600-1,000
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MODERN LITERATURE & PRIVATE PRESS 2049 Plomer (William) Death of a Hedge-Sparrow, two page autograph manuscript of his poem, four six-line stanzas, address-headed paper, inscribed at the end ‘For N.W. & N.G. from William, May 1971,; idem, Celebrations, Jonathan Cape, 1972, first edition, hardback, price clipped dust wrapper [Death of a Hedge Sparrow appears on p.59] (2) £100-200 2050 Powell (Dawn) A Cage for Lovers, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to J. B. Priestley, Priestley bookplate to pastedown, dust jacket (priced 3$.); idem, Turn Magic Wheel, Constable, 1936, first edition, price-clipped dust jacket; with four others by the author. (6) £200-400
2046 2046 Heaney (Seamus) The Spirit Level, Faber and Faber, 1996, first edition, signed by the author, ticket for reading event loosely inserted, hardback, dust wrapper; Another copy, 1996, first paperback edition, signed by the author. (2) £60-100 2047 Slightly Foxed A collection of books published by Slightly Foxed including forty-six hardbacks, some being numbered limited editions, all in original cloth, eight paperbacks, thirty-six quarterly issues in annual slipcases, with twenty-seven other periodicals in similar style. (117) £80-120 2048 Hall (J. Vine) Round the Camp Fire in East Africa with Six New Poems, Longman’s Green, 1931, sixth edition, the author’s own copy, signed on free endpaper and with numerous additions and amendments, both in his own hand and in typescript on inserted leaves and slips, presumably a revision for the seventh edition, lacking frontis, dust wrapper priced 4/6.; idem, Poems of A South African, The Collected Verse of Arthur Vine Hall, Longman’s Green, 1931, fourth edition, the author’s own copy, with numerous additions and amendments, both in his own hand and in typescript on inserted leaves and slips, an extensive revision for the fifth edition, lacking frontis, seven plates present (one with cropped margin) dust wrapper priced 10/6.; idem, Poems of a South African, The Collected Verse of Arthur Vine Hall, Cape Town: J.C. Juta, 1943, twelfth edition, inscribed and signed by the author, ten colour plates including six by Detmold, original cloth, bookplate of Percival Bishop. £100-200
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2051 Lessing (Doris) The Grass is Singling, Michael Joseph, 1950, first edition, signed by the author in 1995, dust wrapper (priced 9s.6d.); idem, Martha Quest, Michael Joseph, 1952, first edition, signed by the author in 1995, dust wrapper (priced 12.6d.); idem, Five, Short Novels by Doris Lessing, Michael Joseph, 1953, first edition, signed by the author in 1995, dust wrapper (priced 12.6d.); idem, A Proper Marriage, Michael Joseph, 1954, first edition, signed by the author in 1995, dust wrapper (priced 12.6d.); idem, A postcard with signed autograph note from Doris Lessing - ‘I do not sell my signature, but it would be nice if you would send the postage’. £500-800 2052 Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems, 1st edition, 1918 Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems, now first published. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, 1918. 8vo, original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed paper label to spine, edges untrimmed, [8] 124 pp., half-title, 2 photogravure portraits with tissue-guards, 2 double-page plates of manuscript fascmile, spinelabel rubbed, damp-staining to foot of spine and head of front board, small mark to rear board, contents slightly toned, signature E clumsily opened with minor disruption to head of gutter, a few trivial marks. First edition, one of 750 copies only. Hopkins was soon forgotten after his death in Dublin in 1889, but ‘Robert Bridges ... on whom the poet had relied to keep, treasure, and conceivably publish [his] poems ... believed that they must be printed, and was soon planning an edition with a short memoir ... The sensitive, handsome, and almost complete small edition, edited and largely designed by Bridges, was published at the end of 1918’ (ODNB). £500-800
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AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS & DOCUMENTS 2053 Political autographs including Denis Healey, Harold Wilson, Sir Keith Joseph, H. H. Asquith, etc. Political autographs, comprising: 1) Six typed letters signed from members of parliament Denis Healey (2 letters), Sir Keith Joseph (2 letters), Merlyn Rees, and Charles Pannell, all to J. R. Leeming of the Land Commission, Leeds, 1970-1, concerning the commission’s closure, together with two related typed letters signed from George, Earl Jellicoe as Lord Privy Seal to Denis Healey and Sir Keith Joseph (the latter attached to one of Joseph’s letters to Leeming), a later typed letter signed from member of parliament Derek Fatchett to Elaine Leeming, daughter of J. R. Leeming (dated 1985), and a printed 21 Army Group farewell message on card with apparently autograph signature of Field Marshal Montgomery, 2) Autograph book containing an original penand-ink self-portrait by Denis Healey signed ‘To Elaine Leeming from Denis Healey MP’, and the autographs of Harold Wilson, Edna Healey, Alice Bacon and others, 3) Album with manuscript cover-title ‘Press Notices, Sir Francis Trippel’s Knighthood’, containing a typed letter signed from H. H. Asquith as prime minister, 1909, similar letters and numerous press cuttings, 4) Typed letter signed from Vera Brittain (author of Testament of Youth) to J. R. Leeming, 1962, concerning poetry written by Leeming in response to her first book The Dark Tide (qty) £50-100 2054 Ellis Family A small interesting collection of material relating to the Ellis Family, comprising a manuscript family history compiled by Carles Walton Ellis in 1860, two 19th century manuscript copy books compiled by Janie Ellis and Charles W. Ellis, a John Goldsmith’s Almanack for 1804 in attractive gilt-tooled leather binding and matching leather slipcase; a Pocket Anatomist, interleaved with manuscript entries, Chas. W. Ellis’ Anniversary book with copious manuscript entries, a Johnson’s pocket Dictionary (1827) and a small quantity of newspaper cuttings. (8) £60-100
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2055 Ephemera An interesting collection including; Motives for Making a Navigable Canal from Barnby Bridge, by Barnsley to .... River Calder, near Wakefield [c.1791], broadside incorporating engraved map (worn); Several books including A Handy Book for Floral Decorators, 1867, four pamphlets by John Galsworthy, Severn Wildfowl Trust booklet signed by Peter Scott, Kipling’s Absent Minded Beggar in original printed glassine envelope, etc.; Broadsides including a proposal for the formation of a club in Florence, signed by Norman Douglas and ‘A New Gospel Hymn’; ‘An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice’ from Lewis Carroll (printed); A small quantity of sketches, two signed by Chesterton; A Jacobean manuscript indenture relating to the Byron family; Original artwork and hand-coloured plates; A quantity of Autograph Letters Signed, including a collection of ALS from Thomas Frost (late 19th/early 20th century) and a small quantity from early 20th century politicians; Cropped signatures, cartes-de-visite; A leather-bound ‘book safe’ and a leather-bound notebook and slipcase (qty) £100-200
2056 2056 Autograph Albums Two nineteenth century albums; The first album contains autograph letters, signed envelopes and cropped signatures of nineteenth century aristocrats, politicians, authors, etc., including several envelopes with ‘free’ postmarks from the Bishop of Derry, Benjamin Disraeli and others, a collection of admission slips to the Commons Gallery signed by Lord Elcho, William Ewart, Gladstone and others, the signatures of Charles Dickens, Gladstone and others on envelopes (including numerous Dukes, Earls and Lords), a cropped signature ‘Dickens’, a 2 page ALS from Downing Street (1842), a 2 page ALS from the 3rd Earl Grey on behalf of Prince Albert at Balmoral (1856), a cropped note from William Thackeray and a 1 page ALS from the Duke of Wellington, (1839); worn leather binding, lacking backstrip; The second album also contains ALsS, signed envelopes and cropped signatures, many from aristocrats and leading clergy including Bishops and Deans, a print and manuscript Irish court appointment signed by John and William Walcott, 1708 (bottom corner torn) and a 3 page ALS from Lord Raglan, a number of letters loosely inserted including two four page ALsS from Elinor Glyn, of WWI interest, in which she discusses a visit to the English front and time spent with the English wounded (one envelope present dated 1917). It is evident that some letters have been removed from this album, original cloth gilt binding. (2) £200-300 13
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2057 Brontë Circle Ringrose family scrap-album, c.1835-40. 4to (285 x 228 mm), disbound, 69 ff. (plus 2 blanks and endpaper), with numerous steel-engravings, etchings and lithographs mounted to rectos and versos (mainly portraits and views, many handcoloured, several apparently Dutch), one leaf containing a watercolour sketch of a cockerel signed ‘Amelia Ringrose’ in brown ink, together with a sepia watercolour view captioned in the same hand ‘The Spanish Pass, Selena, Pampeluna’ and a pencil sketch captioned ‘Cowslip-Green’ (sometime home of Hannah More), two pages containing a full transcription of ‘Remembrance’ by Robert Southey signed ‘Rotterdam, April 1837, Jn. Ringrose’, one page with a mounted floral watercolour signed ‘L. Krämer, Jn. Ringrose, Mrs C. L Ringrose, E. Krämer, 1838’, last few leaves near detached. Amelia Taylor (née Ringrose, 1818-1860?) was a friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë whose engagement to George Nussey, brother of Ellen, was called off owing to his mental instability. She appears to have been born in the Netherlands, where her father Christopher Leake Ringrose, a Hull shipowner and merchant, had business interests. £300-500
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2058 2058 Laurel and Hardy. Collection of signed letters and photographs from Stan Laurel (1890-1965) Laurel and Hardy. Collection of signed letters and photographs from Stan Laurel (1890-1965), comprising one autograph letter signed ‘Uncle Stan/Laurel’ and addressed to ‘My dear Frank and Jean’ (1952), 4 typed letters all signed ‘Stan’ and addressed to ‘My dear Jean’ (1957-61), 2 gelatin silver print portrait photographs of Laurel and Hardy signed by both in blue or black ink (‘Stan Laurel’ and ‘Oliver Hardy’) and additionally inscribed ‘Hello Jean, love Uncle Stan!’ and ‘To Frank & Jean with love! Uncle Stan’, 2 photographs of Stan Laurel and his daughter Lois inscribed by Lois, and an inscribed portrait photograph of Rand Brooks (screen actor and husband of Lois Laurel) (10) The vendor’s mother was a childhood friend of Stan Laurel’s cousin Nellie Bushby, who worked at the draper’s shop run by the vendor’s grandmother in Ulverston (Laurel’s hometown), and lived for a time with the family at their farm. The vendor was taken by her family to meet Laurel and Hardy at Southport c.1951/2. The autograph letter dated 1952 reads: ‘It was so nice to meet you both and I enjoyed your visit to Southport very much’. The letter dated 1957 reads: ‘Due to the death of Mr Hardy, my correspondence has been neglected for a while, I was very upset over the sad affair and miss him very much’. £300-500
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BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY & LOCAL HISTORY 2059 South Wales Directories Kelly (E. R.) edit., The Post Office Directory of Monmouthshire and The Principal Towns and Places in South Wales, Kelly & Co., 1871, two folding maps, [12], 500 pages, plus 52 pages of adverts, original cloth; Kelly (A. Lindsay), Kelly’s Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1926, Kelly’s Directories, 1926, xiv, 384, xiv, 1724, [2] pages, two folding colour maps (closed tear to Monmouthshire map) advert endpapers, original cloth (faded). (2) £60-100
2060 Belcher (Henry) & Dodgson (G.) Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the North East Part of Yorkshire, Longman, Rees, Orme ...1836, frontis, twelve plates, yellow endpapers, original green cloth; Dinsdale (John), Sketches of Scarbro’, Drawn from Nature, Darlington, no date, oblong quarto, title and twenty plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (endpapers taped at hinge); with four others (6) £80-120
2061 Industrial History The Iron and Coal Trades Review, with which is Incorporated the Bulletin of the British Iron Trade Association, Volumes 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66 & 79, July 1898 - Dec 1909, a broken run of half-yearly volumes, large folio, up to 1600 pages per volume, giving a detailed account of the Coal and Iron industries at that time, with news, price lists, available contacts, collieries for sale, numerous interesting adverts, cloth bound (ex-reference library) (8) £100-200
2062 Beattie (William) Scotland, Illustrated in a Series of Views ..., George Virtue, 1838, two quarto volumes, engraved plates, all edges gilt, calf gilt (joints split); Scott (Walter), The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland ..., Longman Hurst ..., 1814, two quarto volumes, engraved plates, half calf (rubbed); Foster (Birket), Beauties of English Landscape, 1874, Routledge, quarto, engraved plates, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled morocco binding; with three others. [Although there is no obvious evidence of loss, the books in this lot have not been collated] (8) £100-200
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2063 Kohn (Ferdinand) Iron and Steel Manufacture. A Series of Papers on the Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel ...., William Mackenzie, 1873, folio, xii, 270 pages, frontis, sixty-four plates (some double page), original cloth (spine worn); Truran (W.), The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain, Theoretically and Practically Considered ....., Second edition revised by J. Arthur Phillips and William H. Dorman, E. and F.N. Spon, 1862, large quarto, 83 (of 84) plates (lacking plate 56), new endpapers, original cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip) (2) £100-200
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2066 Percy [Thomas] The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, at his Castles of Wresill and Likinfield in Yorkshire begun Anno Domini M.D.XII., London, 1770, manuscript pedigree to verso of title, contemporary quarter calf (board detached); [Hutchinson (W.)], An Excursion to the Lakes, in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773, Wilkie and Goldsmith,1774, recent quarter calf; with four others (6) £150-250
2064 2064 Hogg (Alexander). The New and Complete English Traveller, 1794, & 2 others Hogg (Alexander, publisher). The New and Complete English Traveller ... written and compiled from the Best Authorities by a Society of Gentlemen ... revised, corrected, and improved by William Hugh Dalton, London: for Alex. Hogg, [1794]. Folio (394 x 228 mm), modern quarter leather, pp. vi 7-520 [8], 74 engraved plates including frontispiece, 17 maps (of which 2 folding), marginal repair to frontispiece, light worming to margins of pp. i-vi and folding general map, small tear to head of pp. 239/40, hole in pp. 473/4, Nicolson (Joseph, & Richard Burn). The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777. 2 volumes, 4to (282 x 215 mm), 20th-century redbrown sheep, 2 engraved folding maps (that in volume 2 with short closed handling tear), volume 1 foot of front joint cracked, West (Thomas). The Antiquities of Furness, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1774. 4to (266 x 200 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked, engraved frontispiece, map and plan (all folding; various repairs), engraved seal plate, binding worn (4) ESTC T110453 (Hogg), T56128 (Nicolson & Burn), T144672 (West). For the English Traveller ESTC calls for a total of 70 plates and maps only, and the list of plates names just 60 plates and the folding general map. This copy lacks several plates listed but contains many which are not; auction records indicate that 18 maps are often present. £100-150 2065 Hinderwell (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of Scarborough and the Vicinity ..., York, E. Bayley, 1798, quarto in twos, a Graingerised first edition, presented by the author to Dr. William Travis, in addition to the plates called for (the frontis appears to be a replacement), the book contains a large number of insertions including maps and plans, original artwork, engraved prints (some colour), broadsides, newspaper cuttings, etc. There is early annotation adding to or correcting the content. Williamson’s Description of the Tumulus ... at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough .. 1836, (18 pages) is bound in after page 22. Several additional plates and notes of provenance are loosely inserted. Half morocco binding with wear to joints. £150-250
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2067 Paterson (Daniel). Paterson’s British Itinerary, 2nd edition, 1800, 2 copies on ESTC Paterson (Daniel). Paterson’s British Itinerary ... Second Edition Improved, London: Bowles & Carver, c.1800. 2 volumes, 8vo (187 x 101 mm), contemporary marbled calf (rebacked and recornered), xxxv 341-403, 450-633 pp., engraved title-pages, dedication leaf and double-page general map, 386 engraved strip road-maps on 97 leaves (rectos and versos; counted in pagination), text-leaves browned (2) ESTC T93578, tracing two copies only for this imprint (undated), British Library and Cambridge. £150-250
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2069 Charlton (Lionel) The History of Whitby and of Whitby Abbey ..., York: A. Ward ..., 1779, first edition, quarto, folding plan frontis, three engraved plates, lacking final index leaf/leaves, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf gilt [with] Graves (John), The History of Cleveland in the North Riding of the County of York, Carlisle: F. Jollie ..., 1808, first edition, quarto large paper copy, frontis, engraved title, folding engraved map (handcoloured in outline), eight engraved plates, folding pedigree, contemporary tree calf with gilt tooled spine, Sir H. Vane-Tempest’s copy with ms. note to the binder at rear, Vane Londonderry bookplate to both books (2) £300-500
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2068 Abbey (J.R.) Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey, A Bibliographical Catalogue, Dawsons, 1972, quarto, dust wrapper; idem, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey, A Bibliographical Catalogue, Dawsons, 1972, two volumes, quarto, dust wrappers; idem, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey, A Bibliographical Catalogue, Curwen Press, 1952, numbered limited edition of 500, quarto, top edge gilt, original cloth (4) £200-400
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2070 Northumberland Coal Mining History An outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries, which were located near Amble in Northumberland. Containing over 100 drawings including shafts, drifts and seams, colliery buildings and houses, equipment and plans including the Warkworth Harbour Railway, etc., almost all 19th century, on sheets of various dimensions, many large and folded, now preserved in large solander box, a restored manuscript list of the majority of the contents identifies the original compiler as John H[erman] Merivale [1851-1916], a lecturer for the Mechanics’ Institute in Newcastle and a partner at the Broomhill Coal Company. £300-500
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2072 2071 Dugdale (Sir William) The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, both in Forein Parts, and in this Kingdom, London: Alice Warren, 1662. Folio (338 x 210 mm), contemporary panelled sheep (rebacked and restored), pp. [8] 424 [2] (ESTC collation incorrect), 11 engraved folding maps, modern bookplate (Margaret Joan Price), purchase note dated 1823 to front pastedown, worming to fore margins towards front (touching shoulder-notes and a few letters in main text; disappearing by quire K), a few marginal damp-stains to maps, a few maps (e.g. facing pp. 16, 218, 374) trimmed to edge of plate-mark along top or bottom edges, map facing p. 418 slightly soiled, closed tear in sig. Z1, final text-leaf (3I1) repaired. Together with a copy of Aylett Sammes, Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: or, the Antiquities of Ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians ... The First Volume [all published], 1st edition, London: Tho. Roycroft, for the author, 1676 (folio, old sheep, rebacked, lacking map, a few tears and losses, stitching loosening towards rear) (2) ESTC R975. First edition, scarce in commerce. ‘An account of the great drainage schemes that had been carried out in the fens, mainly during the Commonwealth years, by the initiative of Lord Gorges and John Thurloe, secretary to the council of state. This book was effectively commissioned by Gorges to advertise the success of the project’ (ODNB). £400-600
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2072 Teesdale Photographs A collection of approx. 240 photographs, almost all by Elijah Yeoman of the Teesdale Studio, Barnard Castle, 19th and early 20th century, sepia and black and white, together with 71 later negatives of his work. The collection was compiled by Doreen and J. Kendall Thomas of Middlesbrough and recorded in Northern Arts’ Directory of Photographic Collections. Subjects are predominantly Teesdale scenes, and include Cauldron Snout, High Force, Baldersdale, Stainmore, Bowes, Middleton-inTeesdale, Barningham, Greta Bridge, Deepdale, Barnard Castle, Rokeby, Staindrop and Raby Castle, Whorlton, Wycliffe, Winston, Gainford, Romaldkirk and Cotherstone. There are also a several images of Swaledale and Wensleydale, a picture of ‘Locomotion’ at Darlington Bank Top Station (c.1898) and an early photograph of Stonehenge. Several images of Durham City are believed to be by James Valentine. A small number of later photographs depict the industrial River Tees at Stockton and Middlesbrough. Various sizes including 150mm x 100mm, 120mm x 164mm, 200mm x 150mm, 290mm x 200mm, 360mm x 290mm, the Yeoman photographs are stamped on the reverse. Some images have a description below, possibly having been exhibited. Elijah Yeoman was recorded as a photographer at 13 Galgate, Barnard Castle in 1890 and 1894 directories, from 1897 to 1910 he also had a studio in Kirkby Stephen. £500-800
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2075 2073 Ardizzone (Edward) Four Songs, South Leigh Press, 1978, year round poster and greeting card with six illustrations on sheet 420mm x 296mm, folding with illustrated cover title and imprint on reverse; idem, Baggage to the Enemy, John Murray, 1941, first edition, Evelyn Waugh’s copy, cloth; Gorham (Maurice), Londoners, Percival Marshall, 1951, first edition, illustrated by Ardizzone, dust wrapper; with fifteen others by, illustrated by, or about, Edward Ardizzone. (18) £50-80 2074 Milne (A.A.) The House at Pooh Corner, Methuen, 1928, first edition, original cloth; idem, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen, 1926, second edition, original cloth; with two others (4) £60-100
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2077 O’Connor (John) The Wood Engravings of John O’Connor, with a commentary by Jeannie O’Connor, The Whittington Press, 1989, folio, numbered limited edition of 350, signed by John and Jeannie O’Connor, buckram-backed boards, slipcase £80-120 2078 Dahl (Roald) Eighteen first editions by the author, comprising Rhyme Stew; Songs and Verse; The Vicar of Nibbleswicke; Boy; The Minpins (all in dust wrappers); Dirty Beasts (pictorial boards, two copies); Guide to Railway Safety (paperback booklets, eleven copies) £50-80
2075 Rossetti (Christina) Poems by Christina Rossetti, Gresham, no date, illustrated by Florence Harrison, 36 mounted colour plates, each with titled tissue guard, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt. £80-120 2076 Pann (Abel) The Creation, Genesis from the Creation Until the Deluge, Palestine Art Publishing, no date, folio, twenty-five colour litho plates, each signed by the artist in pencil, two variants of Garden of Eden plate, English and Hebrew text, original leather binding (worn). [Pann was born in Lithuania and studied art in Odessa and Paris] £80-120
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2079 Dahl (Roald) The BFG, Jonathan Cape, 1982, first edition, first impression, priceclipped dust jacket (light foxing to endpapers and wrapper flaps). £100-200 2080 Dahl (Roald) Matilda, Jonathan Cape, 1988, first edition, first impression, dust jacket (priced £8.50) £100-200 2081 Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, first GB edition, original pictorial boards. £100-200
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2081 2082 Dahl (Roald) The Witches, Jonathan Cape, 1983, first edition, first impression, foxing to top edge, bookplate and small date stamp to front free endpaper, dust wrapper (priced £6.50); idem, Esio Trot, Jonathan Cape, 1990, first edition, first impression, dust wrapper (2) £100-200 2083 Dahl (Roald) George’s Marvellous Medicine, Jonathan Cape, 1981, first edition, first impression, dust wrapper (priced £3.95) £100-200
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2084 2084 Dahl (Roald) The Enormous Crocodile, Jonathan Cape, 1978, first edition, first impression, pictorial boards (small circular label to top corner of front endpaper). £100-200 2085 Chatterbox Clarke (J. Erskine), Chatterbox, William Macintosh et al, 1866 - 1955, a broken run of 59 volumes including the first volume (commencing Dec, 1866) and the final volume published by Dean in 1955, various bindings including many attractive pictorial covers, together with two original 1914 parts in wrappers (61) £100-200
2086 2086 Noddy. Group of original illustrations, together with 5 limited edition John Tenniel prints Noddy. Group of original illustrations, comprising: 1) Edgar Hodges (1928-), Noddy ABC, 2 illustrations, watercolour on board, each 263 x 235 mm, separately mounted, framed and glazed, 2) Mary Cooper (1911-?), Toyland Train and Passengers, 1 illustration, watercolour with pen-and-ink outlining, 145 x 360 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with a set of 5 limited edition prints from wood-engravings by Sir John Tenniel for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, c.1985-90, each one of 250 copies, separately mounted, framed and glazed (8) Provenance: Sotheby’s, Enid Blyton: Noddy, 29 October 1997, lots 271 (Edgar Hodges) and 173 (Mary Cooper), the lot sold with with markedup catalogue and invoice; the Tenniel prints acquired from Duncan Campbell Fine Art in 1992 (invoice present). £100-200
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2087 2087 Original Artwork A watercolour garden scene of a trellis with climbing flowers, painted on cobweb or beehive which when lifted reveals a blue butterfly; Leaf Art, A detailed silhouette of workers around a derelict tower and trees, intricately cut from a large leaf; Valentine, A hand-coloured printed Valentine with envelope (Shepton Mallet postmark dated Fe14 1839) (3) £150-250 2088 Paper Peepshow L.F., The Tunnel, Le Tunnel, Der Tunnel, no date, paper peepshow of the Thames Tunnel comprising four coloured cut out prints suspended on top and bottom bellows between front and rear panels. The front panel with peephole surrounded by colour scene of the River Thames, the rear panel with background scene of the tunnel. Panels 12cm x 15cm, indistinct annotation to bellow within peephole (visible when closed). Original coloured slipcase with engraved label (worn) £200-300
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2089 Milne (A. A.) Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by E. H. Shepard, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, rubbing to extremities, fraying to spine-ends, tips bumped and worn through, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, together with 4 others including When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, 2nd editions, 1924-7 (WWWVY front inner hinge gone), Ella Higginson, The Voice of April Land, 1st edition, 1903 (small 8vo, original vellum, inscribed by the author), and Thomas Gray Poems, London: privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1946 (4to, original vellum) (5) £200-300 2090 Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, 1998, inscribed Rowling (J. K., 1965-). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, London: Bloomsbury, 1998. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, spine rolled, faint creasing and delamination to tips, small closed tear to foot of rear wrapper, text-block toned, occasional very shallow papererosion to foot, spot and effaced ownership inscription to upper outer corner half-title, another spot in the same position on the last few leaves. Errington A2(b). First edition, paperback issue, inscribed by the author ‘to Tom (again!), J. K. Rowling’ on the dedication page. This copy was inscribed at a book-signing in York at the time of publication, and subsequently purchased by the current vendor from the mother of the original recipient. £300-500
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2091 Original Artwork Browning Sr. (Robert) [1782-1866], Two albums of original ‘grotesque style’ artwork, comprising; Album 1 - An illustrated manuscript story commencing ‘Truth will out father - & must be told some time or other. & you may as well hear it at first as at last. - The fact is - my brother Tom and I are determined to see the world ....., on twenty-one pages, 185mm x 113mm, each page with an ink and watercolour caricature portrait of the men encountered, with ink manuscript below, individually mounted on album pages [followed by] eleven pencil caricatures, several with Arundel connections (see provenance below), each with manuscript description or comment, one loose, the other ten mounted on nine pages, album worn, several pages loose, lacking most of backstrip. Album 2 - [Sketches from the Law Courts, 1831], thirty-one pencil portraits or caricatures, predominantly criminals, some are identified, including ‘Black George’, ‘Tom Pipes’ and ‘Henry Gubbins of Dark House Lane, Gentleman’, others give a location or commentary such as ‘first appearance at Bow Street’ or ‘I’d rather see a Bearbait than a Coronation’, pencil on laid paper, various sizes, one torn, thirty mounted on album pages, one loose, well worn album with loose pages, lacking backstrip. [Provenance - descended from a neighbour of Brownings in Peckham, the family later moved to Arundel and maintained contact with Browning, loosely inserted is a three page autograph letter believed to be from Robert Browning Sr. (dated 1829), unfortunately the signature has been excised] [Academic studies can be found online which discuss the influence of Browning Sr.’s ‘Grotesque art’ on the poetry of his son Robert Browning] £400-600
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2092 2092 Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) The Little Prince, William Heinemann, 1944, first UK edition, dust wrapper (priced 9s. 6d. net.), light foxing to endpapers and flaps of wrapper, wrapper tanned with lightly chipped top edge. £400-600
2093 Lang (Andrew) The Rainbow Fairy Books, The Folio Society, 2008-13, twelve volumes, four later printings, illustrated by various artists, original decorative cloth, lacking slipcases. £400-600
2094 Ransome (Arthur) An autograph letter signed by Arthur Ransome teasing the recipient about the true location of Swallowdale and Trout Tarn before revealing that he took some things from Coniston, ‘e.g, the harbour of Wild Cat is taken from the harbour at the South End of Peel Island’. He asks the recipient to pass on his best wishes to the Crossfields (boat builders in Arnside) ‘where I have spent many happy hours’. Ink manuscript on two sides of Ransome’s note card with various printed illustrations in the front margins, some hand colouring, card 142mm x 88mm. [The recipient had, with his brother, built a dinghy called Wildcat in the family garden (c.1936) and sailed it on Windermere, he was related to the Crossfield family via his grandmother.] £500-800
2095 Aschenborn (Dieter) - Original Artwork ‘Kobold’, Eine Kleine, Pferdegeschichte, mit 15 Original-Zeichnungen von Dieter Aschenborn, ‘ Andalusia’, 1942, numbered limited edition of 21 copies printed by Karl Mohri, in the Andalusia internment camp, South Africa, where German nationals from South West Africa (Namibia) were interned during WWII, signed by Mohri and Aschenborn, original pen and ink sketches of horses and a particular horse (presumably ‘Kobold’) jumping and throwing the rider, German text in typescript form, functional leather-backed boards. £500-800
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2096 2096 Morden (Robert) The North Riding of Yorkshire, The East Riding of Yorkshire and The West Riding of Yorkshire, Abel Swale, Awnsham and John Churchill, no date, three hand-coloured maps, approx 36cm x 41cm, each mounted framed and glazed (3) £80-120
2098 Sanson (d’Abbeville) [Scotland] L’Escosse Royaume en ses deux Principales Parties qui sont Deca et Dela le Tay ...., Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1665, hand-coloured map, French text, approx. 40cm x 51cm, mounted, framed and glazed. £200-400
2097 Cooke (George Alexander) Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography ...., printed for C. Cooke, no date (frontis dated 1801 or 1807), two volumes, frontis to each, twenty-four engraved maps as called for, 74 (of 76) engraved plates (lacking plates 41 and 59), tape repairs to rear of folding Pacific map, frontis stained, foxing of plates, contemporary leather bindings (well worn, detached boards, tape to spine (2) £80-120
2099 Yates (William) The County Palatine of Lancaster, surveyed by Will’m Yates, 1786, large folding map engraved by Thomas Billinge, sixty-four sections on eight linen sheets (eight sections per sheet), black edged, overall size approximately 210cm x 136cm, housed in quarter calf book-form slipcase. Some tanning and damp/mould staining to parts of map, slipcase well worn. £500-800
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MILITARY & NAVAL 2100 Annotated Association Copy Baden-Powell (R.S.S), The Matabele Campaign 1896 ..., Methuen, 1897, plates as called for, Col. Evan H. Llewellyn’s copy with extensive annotation, pencil and ink over pencil, many interesting comments, some on Baden-Powell and additional information including a sketch plan of Fort Usher ‘97, lacks several leaves of publisher’s catalogue at rear, original cloth gilt. [Llewellyn was an Officer in Charge under Col. (Viscount) Plumer (later Field Marshal)] £80-120 2101 Napier (W.F.P.) History of the War in the Peninsula..., 1876, six volumes, lacking maps, half calf; Doyle (Arthur Conan), The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914-1918, Hodder & Stoughton, 1916, six volumes, folding plans, original cloth, with forty-one others (53) £100-200 2102 Gascoigne (Henry Barnet) Gascoigne’s Path to Naval Fame, The Second Edition, with an Index of Nautical Terms & Phrases, Respectfully Dedicated to the Officers of His Majesty’s Royal Navy, Marines and Land Forces, Warwick: printed for the author, 1825, frontis, two plates, includes petition from the author to George IV and seven pages of adverts, foxing, later half calf gilt. £100-200
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2103 Southey (Robert) The Life of Nelson, John Murray, 1813, first edition, two volumes, portrait frontis to volume I, handwriting frontis to volume II, adverts at end of each volume, all edges gilt, straight grained morocco with gilt armorial to boards; Parsons (G.S.), Nelsonian Reminiscences, Leaves from Memory’s Log. Saunders and Otley, 1843, first UK edition, frontis, portrait and preface from a later edition tipped-in, half calf gilt; Allen (Joseph), Life of Lord Viscount Nelson ..., Routledge, 1853, portrait frontis, recent half calf; with two others (6) £150-250 2104 Clarke (James Stanier) & McArthur (John) The Life and Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson .., Fisher, Son & Co., no date, three volumes, all plates present as called for, contemporary tree sheep (re-backed); with seventeen others on the life of Nelson, all leather-bound (20) £150-250
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2107 2105 Churchill (T.O.) The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c. .. Illustrated by Engravings of it’s most Striking and Memorable Incidents, Bowyer et al., 1810, large quarto, portrait frontis, facsimile letter, thirteen plates (two folding) as called for, contemporary half calf (restoration to spine) £150-250
2106 Schomberg (Alexander Wilmot) Practical Remarks and Observations on Building, Rigging, Arming and Equipping His Majesty’s Ships of War, &c., Longman, Rees ..., 1832, ex-Royal Naval College library, later half calf with RSNA armorial to upper board and blindstamp to title; ‘A Captain of the British Navy’, A Vocabulary of Sea Phrases and Terms of Art used in Seamanship and Naval Architecture. In Two Parts, I English and French, II French and English, Debrett, 1799, two volumes, 12mo., contemporary calf (spines worn, later spine labels); ‘An Officer of Rank’, Naval Sketch-Book; or, the Service Afloat and Ashore ..., Colburn, Whittaker et al., 1826, two volumes, contemporary half calf (worn); with two others (7) £150-250 2107 Signed by Participants Dixon (Clive, Capt. 16th Lancers), The Leaguers of Ladysmith, Nov 2nd, 1899 to Feb 28th, 1900, Eyre & Spottiswoode, no date [1900], landscape quarto, eighteen colour plates, twelve signatures of participants in the siege on four of the plates, several adjacent to their depictions, including Maj-General Blewitt and Generals Hamilton, Howard and White, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (signature to upper board); Hendry (Hamish), Majuba, Bronkerspruit, Ingogo, Lang’s Nek, Krugersdorp, Grant Richards, 1900, frontis, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth; Greenwall (Ryno), Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War, Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 1992, first edition, quarto, signed by the author, dust wrapper (3) £150-250
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2108 Military History A large quantity of books including army, air force and naval histories, military biographies and autobiographies, battles and campaigns on land, sea and air, various wars including Napoleonic, WWI and WWII, 225 volumes, almost all in dust wrappers (225) £200-400
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2109 James (William) The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV, Richard Bentley, 1837, six volumes, 24 engraved portraits, 28 folding tables, contemporary half calf; idem, Abstracts of the British Navy; Showing how it stood, in Ships, Tons, and Classification, at the Commencement of every Year, from 1793 Inclusive, no date [c.1820], quarto, title and two pages of text, 28 double page tables, ‘Notice’ slip and ‘Additional Errata’ slip, full contemporary calf (re-backed) with armorial of Writers to the Signet [spine title ‘James’ Navel (sic.) History’ ]. Brenton (Edward Pelham), The Naval History of Great Britain ... [1783] to [1836], Henry Colburn, 1837, two volumes, 24 plates including fold-out panorama of Battle of Trafalgar and folding map of Cadiz (the latter not called for in contents), contemporary half morocco; with eleven others, leather bound (20) £200-400 2110 Bethune (Colonel Drinkwater) A Narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent; with Anecdotes of Nelson, Before and After that Battle, Saunders and Otley, 1840, second edition, engraved frontis, eight ‘plates’, all edges gilt, re-backed half calf; Corbett (Julian S.), The Campaign of Trafalgar, Longmans Green, 1919, new edition, two volumes, plates and maps as called for, half calf; Mackenzie (Robert Holden), The Trafalgar Roll ..., George Allen, 1913, plates as called for, half calf (two copies) (5) £200-400 2110
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2111 2111 [Royal Navy] A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty’s Fleet: With the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear Admirals, and Captains, 1st January 1793, includes Captain Horatio Nelson, commissioned 11 June 1779, the first part gives a chronological list of commissions, the second gives the officers in alphabetical order, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt (joints starting); Steel, Steel’s List of the Royal Navy: To June 1807, half calf retaining original printed wraps (pages tanned and worn at edges up to text in places) (2) £200-400
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2113 Brenton (Edward Pelham) Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St. Vincent, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet, Henry Colburn, 1838, two volumes, frontis to each, half calf gilt; Anson (W.V., Capt.), The Life of John Jervis, Admiral Lord St. Vincent, John Murray, 1913, plates as called for, foxing to pages, top edge gilt, half morocco (spine head worn); Ross (Sir John), Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez .., Richard Bentley, 1838, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, seven other plates, half calf (worn); Brenton, Memoir of Vice Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton ... re-edited by his Son, Longman & Co. 1855, portrait frontis, half calf; ‘The author of ‘Rattlin the Reefer’’, Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, Richard Bentley, 1839, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, half calf; Laughton (John Knox), Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron, 1758-1813, Navy Records Society, 1907-11, three volumes, half calf; with thirty-seven other volumes of Naval memoirs and biography, all leather bound (48) £400-600
2112 White (Thomas, Capt. R.N.) Naval Researches; or A Candid Inquiry into the Conduct of Admirals Byron, Graves, Hood and Rodney in the Actions off Grenada, Chesapeak, St Christopher’s and of the Ninth and Twelfth of April, 1782 ..., Whitaker, Treacher and Arnott, 1830, ten folding plates with some hand-colouring, half calf gilt £200-400
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2116 Bibliographies Tooley (R.V.), The Mapping of America, Holland Press, 1980, dust jacket; Whitaker (Harold), A Descriptive List of the Maps of Northumberland, 1576-1900, Newcastle, 1949, top edge gilt, original cloth; with a small quantity of others on cartography and topography (qty) £80-120
2117 Grant (James) Cassell’s Illustrated History of India, Cassell, no date, two volumes, half calf; Baskerville, The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge, printed by John Baskerville, 1762, contemporary gilt-tooled sheep binding; Mill (John Stuart), A System of Logic .., Longmans ..,1868, two volumes, half calf; Leland (John), The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation .., Dodsley and Longman, 1768, two volumes, calf; Piper (Hugh), Poultry, A Practical Guide, Groombridge, 1873, eight colour plates as called for, half calf; Muller (F. Max), Lectures on the Science of Language, Longmans, 1885, two volumes, calf. (10) £80-120 2114 2114 Burne-Jones (Philip, 2nd Baronet, 1861-1926, his copy) The Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for, inscribed ‘Gwen, with my love, Phil. Burne-Jones, May 1899’ on the front free endpaper of volume 1, together with one other (Frank E. Smedley, Harry Coverdale’s Courtship, London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, c.1855 or later, 8vo, early-20th-century green half morocco gilt by Bickers, 30 etched plates by Phiz (each in two states, hand-coloured and uncoloured). Philip Burne-Jones was the son of Edward and a successful artist in his own right. £50-100
2115 South Africa Magubane (Peter), Soweto, Portrait of a City, New Holland, 1990, quarto, signed by Archbishop Desmond Tuto who wrote the foreword, dust wrapper; Meer (Fatima), Higher than Hope, the Authorised Biography of Nelson Mandela, Hamish Hamilton, 1988, presentation copy from the author, dust wrapper; Bernstein (Hilda), The World That Was Ours, Heinemann, 1967, first edition, taped in slip signed by the author with typed request for donations to Amnesty, dust wrapper; idem, The World That Was Ours, SAWriters, 1989, presentation inscription signed by the author, dust wrapper; idem, For Their Triumphs & For Their Tears ..., IDAF, 1985, signed by the author, paperback; idem, The Rift ..., Jonathan Cape, 1994, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper; de Klerk (Willem), F. W. de Klerk, The Man in His Time, Johannesburg, 1991, signed by F.W. de Klerk, dust wrapper; de Klerk (F. W.), F. W. de Klerk, The Last Trek - A New Beginning, Macmillan, 1998, signed by F.W. de Klerk and his wife, dust wrapper (8) £60-100
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2118 Hutton (Paul) The Work of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues..., British Museum, 1977, quarto, two volumes, original cloth, slipcase; with a quantity of others on art, antiques, illustrated books, private press, music, children’s books, etc. (qty) £100-200 2119 Grace (W.G.) Cricket, Bristol: Arrowsmith & London: Simpkin, Marshall ..., 1891, Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe, numbered limited edition of 652 (plus 10) copies, signed by the author, frontis, mounted illustrations as called for, top edge gilt, half morocco (head of spine torn) ; Box (Charles), The English Game of Cricket ..., ‘The Field’, 1877, small quarto, foxing to preliminaries, endpapers adhering to taped covers, all edges gilt, original cloth. £100-200 2120 Paton (Alan) Save the Beloved Country, Melville (RSA): Hans Strydom, 1987, first edition, signed by the author on title page and by the dedicatee Helen Suzman (South African MP) on dedication page, compliments slip from Suzman loosely inserted, dust wrapper; Sachs (Albie), Stephanie on Trial, Harvill Press, 1968, first edition, inscribed ‘For Ruth Heller with many thanks, Albie and Stephanie Sachs, ... 1972, dust wrapper; Lewin (Hugh), Bandiet, Seven Years in a South African Prison, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974, first edition, inscribed by the author, dust wrapper; Gordimer (Nadine), The Lying Days, Victor Gollancz, 1953, first edition, signed by the author, lacking dust jacket (4) £100-200
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2121 Miniature Books The Diamond Guide to the Sights of London, Harris Brothers, no date, 102 [4] pages, 45mm x 30mm, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled leather binding; The Pictorial Miniature Almanack for 1846, T. Goode, illustrated, pages 42mm x 26mm, all edges gilt, limp covers (worn); Addresses of Abraham Lincoln, Kingsport Press, 1929, pages 19mm x 14mm, original crimson morocco. [Bondy p.144]. (3) £100-200
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2125 Cricket Lillywhite (John), John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion .... for 1866 to 1885, twenty volumes bound as seventeen, 1866 to 1869 and 1871 to 1875 in original wraps, 1870 and 1876 to 1880 in half calf, 1881 to 1884 bound as one in half morocco, 1885 in cloth (generally worn, 1867 and 1875 covers loose, 1869 lacks rear cover); Nottingham, Spybey’s Annual Register of Nottinghamshire Cricket Matches, Season 1884, second edition, original boards (worn); Kent, Twenty Years of Kent Cricket: The Full Scores of all the Matches played by Kent from 1879 to 1898, F.E. Marshall, no date, MCC stamp inside front cover, well worn wraps; Surrey, Holmes (R.S.), Surrey Cricket and Cricketers 1773 to 1895, ‘Cricket’, 1896, MCC stamp inside front cover, original wraps; with four others (24) £200-400
2122 Halfin (Ross) Maximum Who, The Who in the Sixties, Genesis Publications, numbered limited edition of 1500, signed by the author, folio, all edges gilt, quarter leather binding, original slipcase £150-250
2123 Halfin (Ross) The Who Live, Genesis Publications, 2000, numbered limited edition of 1500, signed by the author, quarto, CD in front pocket, quarter leather binding, original slipcase. £150-250
2124 Keynes (Geoffrey) Bibliotheca Bibliographica, A Catalogue of the Library formed by Geoffrey Keynes, Trianon Press, 1964, quarto, quarter style cloth; Foxon (D.F.), English Verse 1701-1750, Cambridge University Press, 1975, quarto, two volumes, dust wrappers, slipcase; Carter (John) & Muir (Percy H.), Printing and the Mind of Man, Pressler, 1983, folio, cloth; with a quantity of mixed bibliographies (qty) £200-400
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2126 2126 Miller (Philip) The Abridgement of the Gardener’s Dictionary...., 1763, quarto, frontis, engraved plates, calf (board detached); Stillingfleet (Benj.), Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry and Physick ...., Dodsley, 1762, portrait frontis, plates, contemporary calf; Tyas (Robert), The Language of Flowers or Floral Emblems ...... Routledge, 1869, colour plates, original cloth gilt; Strother (Edward), An Essay on Sickness and Health ..., Charles Rivington, 1725, contemporary calf (joints cracked); with twenty-two miscellaneous others (26) £200-400
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2127 Folio Society A collection of books published by the Folio Society including Churchill’s History of the English Speaking People’s (six volumes) and Second World War (six volumes), Dickens’ Novels (ten volumes) and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks (three volumes), 78 volumes in total, 75 in slipcases (78) £200-400 2128 Bibliographies and Sale Catalogues Lowndes (William Thomas), The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature ...., George Bell, c.1858, four volumes, quarter morocco; Wing (Donald), Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed ...., 1641-1700, N.Y: MLA, 1972, three volumes, quarto, cloth; Sotheby & Co., The Holford Library, 1927-28, the four sale catalogues bound as one, cloth binding with original wraps bound in, leather spine label; Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection, The Property of C.E. Kenney, 1965-68, the eight sale catalogues bound as one, cloth binding with original wraps bound in, subjects include Trade and Economics, Geography, Navigation, Science and Surveying; Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of A Selected Portion of the Famous Library formed by the Late Mortimer Schiff, 1938, two parts bound as one, cloth binding with original wraps bound in; with a large quantity of other bibliographies, reference works and auction and bookseller catalogues. (qty) £300-500 2129 Signed by Nelson Mandela Schadeberg (Jurgen), Nelson Mandela and the Rise of the ANC, Bloomsbury, 1990, quarto, half title signed by Nelson Mandela on his visit to London (12.7.96.), paperback. [with manuscript letter of authentication from Ian Shapiro, on Spink headed paper] £300-500 2130 Folio Society A collection of books published by the Folio Society including Raymond Chandler’s Complete Novels (seven volumes), The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (seven volumes) and Graham Greene’s The Complete Entertainment (six volumes), 122 volumes in total, 119 in slipcases (122) £400-600 2131 Signed by Nelson Mandela Forman (Lionel) and Sacks (E.S. ‘Solly’), The South African Treason Trail, John Calder, 1957, quarto, title page signed by Lionel Bernstein and Nelson Mandela (two of the accused) and by the activist Hilda Bernstein (the Mandela signature dated 14.1.2000), dust wrapper [with manuscript letter of authentication from Ian Shapiro, on Spink headed paper] [At the time of signing, the vendor was informed by Lionel Bernstein that only one other copy of this book was signed by Mandela - Bernstein’s own book at Rhodes House, which was signed by all of the accused] £1,000-1,500 34
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2132 Wisden (John) The Cricketer’s Almanack, for the Year 1864 - 2018, A complete run of Wisden from the 1st edition to the 155th edition. Volumes 1 to 15 (1864 to 1878) are a boxed set of facsimiles published in 1991, the volumes for 1916 and 1940 are also facsimiles published in 1997 and 2003, 1893 and 1894 are bound as one, as are 1895 and 1896, 2007 is duplicated. Mixed bindings including original wrappers, original cloth hardbacks (with or without wrappers), later cloth and later leather. Several of the re-bound early volumes are dated on the spine with the results year rather than the fixture year (154) £2,000-3,000
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NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD SPORTS 2135 Sitwell (Sacheverell), Buchanan (Handasyde), and Fisher (James) Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953, first edition, folio, half cloth; Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Blunt (Wilfrid), Great Flower Books 1700-1900, A Bibliographical Record ..., Collins, 1956, folio, first edition, half leatherette; Thorburn (Archibald), Birds of Prey, Norwich: Greyfriars, 1990, facsimile limited edition, text and twelve colour plates, loose leaf in folder (3) £80-120
2136 Forsyth (Robert) The Principles and Practice of Agriculture, Systematically Explained ..., Edinburgh, 1804, two volumes, frontis to each, twenty-one plates, contemporary tree calf (joints cracked) £80-120
2133 2133 Redwood (C.W.) The Codling Moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, March 1933, original artwork depicting the life cycle of the moth and the damage to an apple, gouache on linen and displayed in the form of a wall hanging, approximately 112cm x 90cm. The apple has been reinserted into the linen. £60-100
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2134 Bunbury (Henry W). An Academy for Grown Horsemen ... Annals of Horsemanship, 1808 [Bunbury, Henry W.]. An Academy for Grown Horsemen ... By Geoffrey Gambado, The Third Edition [bound with:] Annals of Horsemanship: containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents ... communicated ... to Geoffrey Gambado, London: by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to (335 x 255 mm), later maroon half morocco, 11 and 17 stippled-engraved plates printed in sepia, bookplates, browning and damp-staining, repaired tears to plates facing pp. 28 and 29. Podeschi (Mellon collection) 90 refers. £70-100
2137 Bewick (T.) A History of British Birds, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1805, third and second editions, two volumes, Royal Paper copies (23.6cm x 13.5cm), re-backed half-calf, [Roscoe 18b and 19b] £100-200
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2138 Bewick (T.) A History of British Birds, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1805, third and second editions, two volumes, contemporary calf (binding worn, joints cracked) [Roscoe 18c and 19c]; idem, A History of British Birds, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1821, seventh and fifth editions with first editions of the Supplements, two volumes, top edge gilt, half morocco gilt [Roscoe 24-25c and 26-27c] (4) £100-200
2140 Scott (Peter) Observations of Wildlife, Oxford: Phaidon, 1980, limited first edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author, quarto, quarter leatherette binding, slipcase [two copies] £100-200
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2139 Bewick (T.) A History of British Birds, Newcastle, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1821, seventh and fifth editions with first editions of the Supplements, two volumes, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, full calf gilt [Roscoe 24-25c and 26-27c]; Bewick (Thomas and John), Select Fables, with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by ...., Newcastle: Charnley, 1820, portrait frontis, original cloth with leather spine label (wear to joints) (3) £100-200
2141 Bannerman (David Armitage) and Lodge (George E.) The Birds of the British Isles, Oliver and Boyd, 1953-63, twelve volumes, first editions, colour plates throughout, dust wrappers (wrapper on volume 1 torn with tape staining) £100-200 2142 Darwin (Charles) The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin .., John Murray, 1887, first edition, fifth thousand revised, three volumes, portrait frontis to each, plates as called for, original cloth (cloth faded, volume III endpapers torn at hinge) [Freeman 1453] £100-200
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2143 Gladstone (J[ohn] R[obert]) Manuscript Fly-Fishing Notebook, 19th century notebook containing patterns for 62 Trout flies, notes on making an Eel spear, receipts (recipes) for line dressing, varnish, boot dressing, dyes for fly materials, mayfly wings, etc. and an address list for tacklemakers, no date but instructions for one dye is from ‘The Field’ of 1868, half leather binding with marbled boards and edges. [Sir John Robert Gladstone, 1852-1926, Baronet of Fasque, nephew of Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone. The notebook was acquired at the sale of the Fasque Gladstone library in 2008] Brown (E.C.) 1/6 G.R., A collection of game bird feathers, collected May 1915 in Hasan Abdal (Pakistan), possibly while on military service with the Gurkha Rifles, feathers from Quail, See-See, Chika, Black Partridge, Green Crested Plover, Lesser Booming Bittern, Teal, Gadwell, Mallard, Various Pochard, Full and Jack Snipe, multiple feathers from each species, mounted in notebook (covers worn) (2) £100-200
2146 2146 Roberts (Austin). The Birds of South Africa, 1st edition, 1940, one of 125 copies Roberts (Austin). The Birds of South Africa, London: H. F. & G. WItherby Ltd, 1940. 8vo, original red half morocco by LeightonStraker, 56 colour plates (1) First edition, subscribers’ issue, one of 125 copies signed by the author, illustrator and secretary of the South African Bird Book Fund. £100-150
2144 (part) 2144 Keene (John Harrington) Fishing Tackle, Its Material and Manufacture ..., Ward, Lock & Co., no date [1886], 230 pages plus 14 page catalogue, four folding plates, original pictorial red cloth gilt (rear joint splitting). Walker (Charles Edward), Old Flies in New Dresses ..., Lawrence and Bullen, 1898, first edition, [12], 116 pages, three plates with printed tissue guards, top edge gilt, original cloth; Colquhoun (John), Sporting Days, William Blackwood, 1866, first edition, viii, 256 pages, original cloth gilt; Niven (Richard), The British Angler’s Lexicon, Bishop Auckland: W. J. Cummins, 1892, 270 pages plus adverts, frontis, text illustrations, original cloth gilt (repair to head of title page); with three others (7) £100-200 2145 Pritt (T. E.) North-Country Flies, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886, 63, [1] pages, eleven hand-coloured plates of flies and an uncoloured plate of bait tackle, original cloth gilt; Theakston (Michael), British Angling Flies, revised by Francis M. Walbran, Ripon: William Harrison; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, [1888], second edition, [1], xiii, [3], ii, 4-145, [9] pages plus 22 pages of adverts, eight plates of flies, four topographical plates, advert endpapers, original cloth gilt. £100-150
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2147 2147 Thornton (Robert John) The Temple of Flora - The Complete Plates, Taschen, 2008, large folio, comprising Essay and Descriptions of Plates in printed wraps and a folio with title page and thirty loose colour plates of botanical specimens, both housed in decorative solander box. Complete with original printed cardboard outer packaging. Contents as new. £150-250
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2148 2148 Morris, (Rev. F.O.) A History of British Birds, John C. Nimmo, 1903, fifth edition, six volumes, 400 hand-coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt. £150-250
2150 Wolf (Joseph) Feathered Favourites, Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds, Thomas Bosworth, 1854, twelve circular chromolithographs, each mounted on a plate with decorative gilt border, understood to be the second book to use chromolithography for bird illustration, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (neatly re-backed retaining original backstrip, repair to rear top corner). £150-250
2149 Morris (Rev F.O.) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, Bell and Daldy, 1870, second edition, three volumes, 233 colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt. £150-250
2149 2151 2151 Rickman (Philip) A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches, Curpotten for Fine Sporting Interests, 1979, numbered limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the author, folio, mounted colour frontis, mounted photograph of the artist, thirty-one mounted colour plates, all edges gilt, half morocco binding, original cloth slipcase. £150-250 38
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2152 2152 New Naturalists Numbers 6, 17, 28, 48, 52, 54, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 93, 95, 122, 129, 130, 136, 1st editions, London: Collins, 1947-2018. 17 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, volumes 6, 17, 28, 48 with chipped or price-clipped dust jackets, a few ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 63 and 67 with ink-stamps to endpapers, 63 jacket annotated on rear panel, together with 13 reprints all with jackets (2, 3, 11, 16, 19, 24, 29, 33, 44, 58, 60, 65, 100), and 8 others similar (38) £150-250 2153 Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their Horns, Henry Sotheran, 1897, large quarto, colour frontis, ten electro-etched plates, numerous other full page and text illustrations, original cloth; ‘Sabretache’, Shires and Provinces, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1926, folio, sixteen mounted colour plates by Lionel Edwards, top edge gilt, original cloth; ‘Sabretache’, More Shires and Provinces, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928, folio, sixteen mounted colour plates by Lionel Edwards, top edge gilt, original cloth; Edwards (Lionel), A Sportsman’s Bag, Country Life, 1937, quarto, eighteen mounted colour plates, original cloth (4) £200-400 2154 Bibliographies Schwerdt (Carl Franz Georg Richard Schwerdt), Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985, four volumes, illustrated, leatherette bindings; Zimmer (John Todd), Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, Chicago, 1926, first edition, colour frontis, twelve plates, cloth; Lisney (Arthur A.), A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799, Chiswick Press, 1960, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth; with sixteen others (22) £200-400 www.tennants.co.uk
2155 (part) 2155 Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991) Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 5 large gelatin silver prints of game birds, landscape, 295 x 370 mm, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking and with manuscript title on mount, titles comprising: Red-legged partridge; English partridges; Greyhen at nest; Capercaillie; Woodcock approaching chicks - a flashlight photograph (5) £200-300
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2156 Bradley (R.) A General Treatise of Agriculture, both Philosophical and Practical; Displaying the Arts of Husbandry and Gardening ..., W. Johnson, R. Baldwin, J. Fuller, et al, 1757, first edition. viii, 503, [17] pages, frontis and twenty plates (eight folding), calf binding with recent spine label (joints a little worn); Boys (John), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent, with Observations on the Means of its Improvement ..., Richard Phillips, 1805, second edition, xxiv, 293 pages, folding hand-coloured map (laid down on backing paper, small tear at fold), two engraved plates, folding table, contempory calf (re-backed). (2) £200-300 2157 Emerson (P. H.). Wild Life on a Tidal Water, 1st edition, 1890, one of 300 copies Emerson (P. H.). Wild Life on a Tidal Water. The Adventures of a HouseBoat and her Crew, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Limited, 1890. 4to, original quarter morocco, blue pictorial cloth sides, 30 photogravures plates with tissue-guards, folding chart of Breydon, bookplate, spine worn, section detached at foot (now laid in), a few marks to sides, spotting to outer leaves and occasionally to margins of plates. First edition, number 255 of 500 copies, though it is believed that only 300 were ever issued. £200-300
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2159 2158 Humphreys & Westwood, British Butterflies [and] Moths, 1841-3 Humphreys (Henry Noel, & John Obadiah Westwood). British Butterflies and their Transformations [and:] British Moths and their Transformations, London: William Smith, 1841 & 1843-5. 2 works in 3 volumes, 4to (282 x 220 mm), contemporary maroon half morocco, pp. xii 135 [2]; xiv 258, xix [1] 268, Butterflies with hand-coloured lithographic additional title-page and 44 similar plates (numbered 142: plates 1 and 2 each in two states, both mirror-images, each state of plate 1 in slightly different sizes), extra-illustrated with 2 watercolours tipped in to plates 2 and 13, original front wrapper for one part (VI) bound in at rear, water-staining to front board and to lower margins of early leaves (with related loss to front free endpaper), intermittent similar damp-staining elsewhere, Moths with half-titles, 124 hand-coloured lithographic plates, original front wrapper from one bound bound in at rear of each volume, spotting to endpapers, repaired closed tear in volume 1 f. U1 (3) Provenance: Reverend William T. Bree MA, rector of Allesley, with his bookplates, and an autograph letter signed to him from illustrator Henry Noel Humphreys dated 1841 tipped to Butterflies front free endpaper (light damp-staining). Freeman 3951-2. £200-300 2159 Walton (Izaak) The Complete Angler ... with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm), contemporary green crushed morocco gilt by Wright, all edges gilt, half-titles, title-pages in red and black, [16] clxiv [4] clxvi-ccxii [2] 129, [5] 132-436 [32] pp., 61 engraved plates, vignettes and headpieces, spotting to margins of text-leaves. £200-300
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2160 Lloyd (I.) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl at Sweden and Norway ..., Warne, 1867, forty-eight chromo-lithos, lacking map, original cloth gilt; Whitehead (G.Kenneth), The Whitehead Encyclopedia of Deer, Swan Hill, 1993, folio, dust wrapper; McConnochie (Alexander Inkson) The Deer and Deer Forests of Scotland ..., Witherby, 1923, frontis, thirteen plates as called for, original cloth; with a large quantity of others on Natural History, Field Sports, etc. (qty) £300-500
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2161 2161 New Naturalists, numbers 70, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 1st editions, 1985-96 New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney; The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Wild and Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists; The Natural History of Pollination, London: Collins [HarperCollins], 1985-96. 7 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, number 70 top edge spotted, light dust-soiling to top edges of other volumes, numbers 80 and 83 jacket spines slightly faded (7) Bernhard & Loe NN70B, 77A, 78A, 80-83A. First editions of numbers 70, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82 and 83 in the New Naturalist series; number 70 (Orkney) is in second state. £300-500
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2162 Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991) Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 5 large gelatin silver prints of birds of prey, portrait and landscape, 370 x 295 mm or reverse, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking on mount, titles comprising: Sparrow Hawk with young; Marsh Harrier hovering over nest with food in talon; Montagu’s Harriers at nest; Buzzard with chicks; Kestrel and young (first four titles provided in manuscript on mount; Kestrel and young thus titled in printed label on verso) (5) £400-600 2163 Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991) Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 8 large gelatin silver prints of waders or waterfowl, portrait and landscape, 370 x 295 mm or reverse, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking on mount, most also with manuscript titles, titles or subjects comprising: Avocet - aggressive display [2 versions]; Avocet with young; Heron, spreading wings while sunbathing; Red-breaster merganser; Wigeon; Black-tailed godwit; and [Stone curlews]; together with 3 additional framed and glazed montages each of 4 smaller prints (150 x 200 mm), titled ‘Stone curlew - attitudes while brooding’, ‘Stone curlew - last scenes at the nest’, and ‘Male dotterel’ (11) £400-600
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2164 Scrope (William) The Art of Deer Stalking, Illustrated by a narrative of a few days sport in the Forest of Atholl ..., John Murray 1838, frontis, engraved title, ten tinted litho plates, [with] idem, Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed..., John Murray 1843, engraved title and twelve litho plates (four hand coloured, eight tinted), marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uniformly bound in crimson morocco gilt by Andrew Grieve (2) £500-800
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2165 Magee (Lesley). Fly Fishing, 1994, one of 10 hors commerce copies Magee (Lesley). Fly Fishing. The North Country Tradition, Otley: Smith Settle, 1994. 2 volumes (text and fly specimens), 8vo, original green goatskin (specimens volume quarter-bound), text volume with all plates as called for (including tipped-in colour photographs), specimens volume with 30 fly specimens on 5 thick card mounts, housed together in original green cloth slipcase, text volume with pale marks to front board. Together with 2 others similar (Hugh Sheringham & John C. Moore, The Book of the Fly-Rod, 1st edition, one of 195 copies signed by illustrator George Sheringham, 1931, 4to, original quarter vellum, 11 colour plates; and T. E. Pritt, North-Country Flies, facsimile edition, Smith Settle, 1995, 8vo, original cloth, slipcase) (3) Magee: deluxe edition, one of ten hors commerce copies lettered A-J and signed by the author (this copy lettered G); there were also 50 copies numbered 1-50. £500-800
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2166 (part) 2166 Noble (John) History, Productions, and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope, Official Handbook, Cape Town, 1886, folding chromolitho frontis and map (map torn at fold), colour and monochrome plates as called for, all edges gilt, publisher’s deluxe morocco gilt binding by Saul Solomon; idem, Illustrated Official Handbook of The Cape and South Africa ..., Capetown: J. C. Juta, 1893, folding colour map (tears to folds), monochrome plates as called for, original cloth; with five other Cape Town/Colony Guides (7) £60-100 2167 Cole (Alfred W.) The Cape and the Kafirs: or, Notes of Five Years Residence in South Africa, Richard Bentley, 1852, tinted litho frontis, original cloth; Dohne (J. L.), A Zuly-Kafir Dictionary, Etymologically Explained ..., Cape Town, 1857, errata slip, cloth (2) £60-100 2168 Creasy (E.S.) History of the Ottoman Turks ...., Richard Bentley, 1854-6-, two volumes, folding map frontis to each, plates and maps as called for, original cloth (worn). £80-120
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2169 Breton de la Martinière (Jean-Baptiste) China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, etc., 2nd edition in English, London: J. J. Stockdale, 1812. 4 volumes in 1, 12mo (176 x 100 mm), 19th-century cloth, rebacked, [15] 6-128, [9] 6-125, [9] 6135, [9] 160 pp., half-title to each volume, 80 engraved plates, contemporary ownership inscriptions (‘Henry Blanshard Junior, 1826’ to half-titles), text-leaves spotted, volume 2 D3 with closed tear extending into text, marginal repair verso and lower margin excised, together with 1 other (Lamartine, Voyage en Orient, 2nd edition, 1837, not collated) (3) £80-120 2170 Wainwright (Alfred) Lakeland Mountain Drawings, volumes 1 to 5, Westmorland Gazette, 1980-84, oblong quarto, dust wrappers (vol 1 price-clipped); with twenty-four other ‘Wainwrights’, comprising fifteen Sketchbooks (in dust wrappers), seven Pictorial Guides and two others (29) £100-150 2171 [Bird, William Wilberforce] State of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1822, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1823. 8vo (227 x 140 mm), 20th-century red half morocco, 2 engraved folding maps, 4 pp. advertisements, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, pp. 345/6 neatly repaired, together with 3 others, including Denham & Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Nothern and Central Africa, 2nd edition, 1826 (2 volumes) and Le Vaillant, Travels into the Interior parts of Africa, 2nd edition, 1796 (2 volumes), these not collated (6) £100-200
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2172 Churchill (Winston S.) My African Journey, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine rolled and defective, bumping to extremities, occasional light spotting to text-block, rear inner hinge cracked. £100-150 2173 Greely (Adolphus W.). Three Years of Arctic Service, 1st edition, 1886, & 7 others Greely (Adolphus W.). Three Years of Arctic Service, an Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, steel-engraved frontispieces, 42 wood-engraved plates, 9 maps (of which one folding in end-pocket), together with 7 others (all in original cloth; not fully collated), including: Adolphus W. Greely, Three Years of Arctic Service, 2nd UK edition London: Richard Bentley, 1886 (2 volumes, gilt-stamped ‘second edition’ on spines); R. E. Peary, Northward Over the “Great Ice”, 1st UK edition, 1898 (2 volumes, old manuscript library labels to front covers, volume 1 spine nicked); idem, Nearest the Pole, 1st UK edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907 (title-page blind-stamped ‘with the publisher’s compliments’ and with ink-stamp of Manchester Guardian Library, spine-ends worn, old manuscript library label to front cover); idem, The North Pole, 1st UK edition, 1910 (folding map loose, photogravure plate facing p. 153 absent); and similar (11) £150-250 2174 Wild (Frank) Shackleton’s Last Voyage: The Story of the “Quest”. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, colour frontispiece, 50 halftone photographic plates, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, front inner hinge very superficially cracked, occasional spotting to text, marginal staining to gutter of plate facing p. 83. Rosove 349.A1. First edition, first impression, published in May 1923; there was a 2174 third Cassell impression by November that year, and a New York edition bound up from the UK sheets with a cancel title-page with the imprint of Frederick A. Stokes. £150-250 2175 Wilson (Col. Sir Charles) Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, Virtue, no date, four quarto volumes, two maps, four title vignettes, 38 steel engraved plates as called for, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (binding of volume four broken); Lane-Poole (Stanley), Social Life in Egypt .. A Supplement to ‘Picturesque Palestine’, Virtue, no date, quarto, title vignette five steel engraved plates, all edges gilt, uniform cloth gilt (5) £200-400 44
2176 Stanley (Henry M.) In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, Sampson Low ..., 1890, first edition, two volumes, three folding maps (one torn), plates, foxing, original cloth gilt; Nansen (Fridtjof), The First Crossing of Greenland, Longmans, Green, 1890, first English edition, two volumes, original cloth; Dasent (George Webbe), The Story of Burnt Njal ...., 1861, two volumes, half calf; Wilkinson (George Blakiston), South Australia..., Murray, 1848, original cloth: Whymper (Edward), The Ascent of the Matterhorn, John Murray, 1880, original cloth; with a quantity of others on travel, polar exploration, etc. £200-400
2177 2177 Bibliographies Sabin (Joseph), A Dictionary of Books Relating to America .., Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1961-62, twenty-nine volumes, bound in fifteen, cloth; Staton (Frances M.) and Tremaine (Marie), A Bibliography of Canadiana ...., Toronto Public Library, 1965, five volumes including Supplements, cloth; Streeter (Thomas Winthrop), The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by ....., Parke-Bernet, 1966-70, eight volumes including index, original boards; Blanck (Jacob), Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1976-91, nine volumes, original cloth (one spine head torn) Howes (Wright), U.S.IANA (1650-1950), A Selective Bibliography ..., N.Y.: Newberry, 1962, cloth; Mendelssohn (Sidney), Mendelssohn’s South African Bibliography, Holland Press, 1968, two volumes, cloth (40) £300-500
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2178 Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole, 1st edition in English, 1912, & 7 others Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910-1912, 1st edition in English, London: John Murray, 1912. 2 volumes, 4to, original red cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spines faded and flag vignettes rubbed, front boards with superficial water-damage to lower fore corners (removing glaze) and partial rubbing-away of borders, volume 2 front board bumped at upper fore corner, rear boards unevenly sunned, occasional light spotting to text, repair to folding map at rear of volume 2, idem The North West Passage, being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Gjöa” 1903-1907, 1st edition in English, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1908. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, photogravure frontispieces, 3 maps (2 folding), photographic illustrations throughout, volume 1 spine repaired, folding map spotted and with repair to stub and small split at intersection of folds, volume 2 rebacked retaining most of original spine, and 6 others (all in original cloth, not collated), including: Amundsen, The South Pole, 1st edition in English, 2nd impression, 1912 (2 volumes); Nansen, Farthest North, 1st edition in English, 1897 (2 volumes); idem, Farthest North, 2nd edition in English, 1898 (2 volumes, ex library); idem, The First Crossing of Greenland, 1st edition in English, 1890 (2 volumes, recased) (14 ) Rosove 9.A1 (Amundsen, South Pole). £300-500 2179 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley) The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. 2 volumes, 8vo, recent blue paper boards retaining original linen spines, half-titles, binder’s blank to rear of volume 2, all plates and maps as called for (including the 10 folding panoramas), volume 1 with tipped-in slip annotated ‘Inscribed by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, by request, October 14 1938’ possibly in the author’s hand, both volumes with fraying to spine-ends, endpapers renewed (with duplicate spine-labels tipped in), spotting to half-titles, volume 1 spine-label stained and abraded, with damp-staining to top margins of plates towards rear, folding panorama at p. 184 partly split along central fold, folding map at p. 194 spotted along fold, folding map at p. 294 with closed tear to one fold and nicks and dampstaining to fore edge, volume 2 with damp-staining to gutter of a few plates, closed tear to stub of folding map facing p. 542. Rosove 71.A1. First edition. ‘Cherry-Garrard’s book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written ... a monument immortalizing the [Terra Nova] expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general’ (Rosove). £300-500
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2180 2180 Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery [and] Narrative of a Second Voyage, 1st editions, 1819-35 Ross (John). A Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of exploring Baffin’s Bay, and inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1819. 4to (271 x 185 mm), 20th-century cloth, [4] xxxix [1] 252 [7] vi-cxliv pp., 3 engraved folding charts including frontispiece, 21 aquatint plates (of which 12 hand-coloured, 6 folding), 4 etched or engraved plates (one folding, one hand-coloured), 4 engraved tables (3 folding) errata slip, library plate removed from front pastedown, moderate soiling and staining throughout (mainly to text), repairs to lower margins of a few text-leaves, M4, 2D4 and 2E3 with repaired tears through text, all plates and charts with ink-stamps of Birmingham Library, those folding all backed on linen, frontispiece with repairs to folds, folding plates at pp. 122 and 142 partly split along folds, marginal repair to engraved plate at p. 102, aquatint at p. 170 spotted, that at p. 174 trimmed, together with: idem, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1st edition, London: A. W. Webster, 1835. 4to (272 x 210 mm), later quarter morocco, [3-8] i-xxxii [1] 740 pp., 31 plates and charts including 3 hand-coloured aquatints (the rest steelengraved or lithographic), half-title discarded, title-page repaired verso, variable spotting to plates and to text-leaves adjacent to steelengravings, handling tear to folding chart at rear, and one other work (3) Abbey Travel 634 & 636; Sabin 73376 & 73381. Without the appendix volume for the Second Voyage. £300-500
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2181 2181 Scoresby (W.). An Account of the Arctic Regions [and] Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery, 1820-3 Scoresby (William). An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 2 volumes, 8vo (206 x 130 mm), contemporary diced calf decoratively tooled in gilt and bllind, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down (labels possibly renewed), marbled endpapers and edges, 24 engraved plates and maps (of which 8 folding including frontispieces), 4 folding tables, front pastedowns with book-labels of William Leatham (possibly the banker and abolitionist, 1785-1842), half-titles and advertisement leaf discarded, plates variably spotted and damp-stained, frontispieces offset, folding general map with closed handling tear, together with: idem Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 8vo (210 x 130 mm), near-contemporary olive-green half calf, 8 engraved plates and maps (4 folding), bookplates of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886) and of Lord Farnham, half-title discarded, plates and maps spotted, short closed tear in first map (within platemark but not affecting image), similar tear to inner fold of second map (2) Arctic Bibliography 15610 & 15614; Sabin 178167 & 78171. £300-500
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2182 Scott (Robert F.). The Voyage of the Discovery, 1st edition, 1905, & 4 others Scott (Robert F.). The Voyage of the Discovery, 1st edition, 1st impression, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, all plates and maps as called for, publisher’s slip tipped to front pastedown, manuscript call-numbers in white ink to spines, old paper labels to upper inner corners of front covers, ink-stamps of the Manchester Guardian library to title-pages (cancelled verso), together with: Taylor (Griffith). With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, 1st state, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8vo, original green cloth, penguin vignette to front cover, all plates and maps as called for, head of spine nicked, spotting to prelims and to folding map at rear, Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure. Scott’s Northern Party, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for, spine faded and nicked, rear inner hinge cracked, and 2 others (another copy of The Voyage of the Discover, 1st edition, 1st impression, volume 1 shaken, and Scott’s Last Expedition, 1st edition, 1916, these not collated) (8) Rosove 286.A1 a (Scott, Voyage ), 324.A1 (Taylor), 256.A1 a (Priestley). £300-500 2183 Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Heart of the Antarctic, 1st edition, 1909, & 8 others Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 1st edition, trade issue, London: William Heinemann, 1909. 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, titles and vignettes to front boards in silver, volume 2 with the errata slip, all plates and maps as called for (including 3 folding maps and one folding panorama in end-pocket), spines sunned, chipped and nicked at ends, light cockling to covers, corners rubbed through and slightly bumped, [Brown, R. N. Rudmose, & others]. The Voyage of the “Scotia”, being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas. By Three of the Staff, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine rubbed as usual and slightly worn at extremities, pale mark to front cover, abrasion to rear, text spotted, ink-stamps of Cheltenham Public Library to one plate and folding map, deaccession stamp to rear free endpaper, folding map loose and crudely tape-repaired, plate facing p. 258 nicked in margins, Nordenskjöld (Otto). Antarctica, or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 1st edition in English, London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1905. 8vo, original green cloth, frontispiece, 5 colour plates, 4 maps (3 folding), spine nicked, covers slightly marked, closed tear to folding map facing p. 316, Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure. Scott’s Northern Party, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for, binding rubbed, rear inner hinge loose, and 5 others (not collated), including Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1915] (2 volumes, 4to, original cloth), Levick, Antarctic Penguins, 1st edition, 1914 (8vo, original cloth) and similar (11) Rosove 305.B1 a (Shackleton), 50.A1 a (Brown), 240.A1 (Nordensköld), 256.A1 (Priestley). £300-500
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2184 Ferguson (John Alexander)| Bibliography of Australia, 1784- 1900, National Library of Australia, 1965-86, eight volumes, dust wrappers; Wantrup (Jonathan), Australian Rare Books 1788-1900, Hordern House, 1987, dust wrapper; Davidson (Rodney), A Book Collector’s Notes ... relating to the Discovery of Australia ...., Cassell, 1970, dust wrapper; Mackenzie (Julian) edit., The Taurus Collection, 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic, A Bibliography, Travellers’ Books, 2001, folio, dust wrapper; Maggs Bros., Bibliotheca Nautica, 1928-1933, four parts bound as one, all edges gilt, half morroco binding with original wraps bound in; with twenty-six others on travel and exploration, predominantly relating to the southern hemisphere. (38) £400-600
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2185 2185 Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c. Richard Bentley, 1851, first edition, frontis map, twenty tinted litho plates, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half green morocco gilt by Birdsall £400-600
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2186 Partition of India. Collection of books and documents ex libris Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis (1894-1981) Partition of India; Bangladesh; Pakistan. Collection of books and documents ex libris Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis (1894-1981), including: i) ‘Fatik Bannerjee’s Gang Case’ [spine-title], typescript report by Ellis, approx. 150 ff. (rectos only), folio, contemporary half sheep, ii) Folder of typescript notes and correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the Multiple Allotments Act (1957), together with 5 folders of similar documents, iii) Manuscript notebook of N. L. Hindley, district judge, Tippera, 1933, approx. 50 ff., quarter roan binding, spine defective, iv) Ellis’s degree certificate (BA, Queen’s College, Oxford, 1920); certificate of appointment to Indian Civil Service, 1919; certificate of appointment as permanent Chief Justice of the High Court of East Bengal, 1953; certificate of appointment as governor of East Bengal during the absence of Iskander Mirza, 1954, v) A collection of approx. 50 gelatin silver print photographs, including individual portraits of Ellis and others, group portraits including High Court of Judicature at Dacca in East Bengal, 1954, a folder of aerial photographs, vi) Printed books, comprising: a) Ellis (Thomas Hobart). Report of Inquiry Against Mr M. A. Muqtadir, Additional District Magistrate, Dacca, in connection with the Adamjee Jute Mill Riots. Secret, Dacca [Dhaka]: East Bengal Government Press, 1951, folio, original wrappers, 38 pp., b) Speeches delivered by His Excellency Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman ... Iskander Mirza ... Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis ... Mohammad Shahabuddin, Dacca [Dhaka]: East Bengal Government Press, 1954, 8vo, original quarter cloth, 112 pp. c) Report of the Indian Statutory Commission. Volume 1 - Survey [Volume 2 - Recommendations], Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1930, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half sheep, folding maps (collation not established), ownership inscriptions of T. H. Ellis, d) Macdonald (David). Touring in Sikkim and Tibet, Kalimpong: published by the author, 1930, small 8vo, contemporary half sheep, Ellis’s name gilt-stamped to spine and with his annotations to endpapers, lacking map, and one other similar (Percy Brown, Tours in Sikhim, 3rd edition, Calcutta, 1934, not collated), e) ‘A Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Pakistan. Walter Bruce Davis, 1961’, roneoed typescript, 51 ff., wire-stitched in wrappers, vii) Other items, including 3 watercolours, a visitors’ book titled on cover ‘Ellis Arms’, a commonplace book dated 1877, function invitations, banquet menus, and similar (qty: a carton) Thomas Hobart Ellis (1894-1981) was Chief Justice of the East Bengal High Court, and served as acting governor of East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh) in 1954 during the absence of Major-General Iskander Mirza. £500-800
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2187 2187 Ross (James Clark) A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, London: John Murray, 1847. 2 volumes, 8vo, original vertical-ribbed blue-green cloth, titles to spines and pictorial vignettes to front boards gilt, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and folding panorama (tissue-guards), 8 engraved charts and plans (3 folding), 17 chapter-headings with woodengraved vignettes, 16 pp. advertisements dated October 1847 to rear of volume 2, spines consolidated at head and foot, inner hinges neatly strengthened, variable spotting to volume 1 frontispiece, plate facing volume 2 p. 169, and folding map at rear of each volume, folding map at rear of volume 2 with closed handling tear repaired verso, ownership inscriptions and a few marks to endpapers. Rosove 276.A1 c. First edition, ‘a cornerstone of Antarctic literature and a monument to one of mankind’s greatest expeditions of geographical and scientific exploration’ (Rosove), one of 1,500 copies printed. The expedition also visited the Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand, Campbell Island, and the Falkland Islands. £500-800
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2188 2188 Shackleton (Ernest H.) South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917, London: William Heinemann, 1919. 8vo, original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, recased, all plates as called for, folding map, binding rubbed, corners bumped, errata slip discarded, text-block toned as usual, spotting to a few leaves adjacent to plates, plate facing p. 8 nicked along fore edge, pp. 351-61 clumsily opened along fore edges, folding map with neatly repaired closed tear to stub not affecting image, small hole in front free endpaper, a few other minor nicks and marks. Rosove 308.A1. First edition, first impression. ‘Shackleton’s account is a classic and one of the finest in the Antarctic literature. With his inimitable style he chronicled a great tale - an epic of leadership, loyalty, and survival’ (Rosove). £500-800
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2189 Hunter (John) An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean ...., John Stockdale, 1793, quarto, first edition, two folding maps, fifteen engraved plates as called for (one engraved by William Blake), including engraved title page with lower edge of publication date cropped by the binder (as often found), the ‘View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove ...’ being the first printed view of Sydney, original subscriber’s copy, contemporary mottled calf with gilt signet of the Duke of Buccleugh to boards, recent spine label. £600-900
2190 Bradshaw Bradshaw’s Railway Time Tables, and Assistant to Railway Travelling, with illustrative Maps and Plans, 10th Mo. 25th, 1839 (No. 3), [though possibly the 1889 fifty year facsimile], includes folding map of England and Wales, four double page maps, town plans of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds and timetables and fares, original covers with label to upper board. £80-120
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THE JAMES HARRISON COLLECTION OF BIRDS FRIDAY 20 MAY 2022
A Cased Late Victorian Passenger Pigeon £7,000-10,000 For further information please contact: Robbie Bright 01969 623780 robbie.bright@tennants-ltd.co.uk www.tennants.co.uk
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2022 AUCTION DATES Wednesday 4 May Coins & Banknotes Wednesday 11 May Scientific & Musical Instruments, Cameras & Tools Friday 13 May Antiques & Interiors Tennants is the UK’s largest family-owned fine art auctioneers, with a well-deserved reputation for delivering unrivalled service and results. Twenty-seven specialist departments offer an outstanding range of depth and expertise that, combined with the company’s strong traditional values and a personal approach, have won Tennants widespread respect in the international marketplace. Each year Tennants holds over 80 auctions and handles in excess of 40,000 lots covering all major disciplines, making it one of the UK’s busiest salerooms.
THE BOOK DEPARTMENT The Book Department encompasses a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom. Notable recent sales include an album of spectacular 18th and 19th century botanical watercolours, including examples by George Dionysus Ehret and Ferdinand Bauer, which sold for £170,000. A very rare 17th Century Copybook sold for £35,000, which was part of the sale of Selected Contents of Forcett Hall, North Yorkshire, as instructed by the Executors of the late J.H. Edwards-Heathcote Esq.. The illustrated copybook, demonstrating calligraphy, handwriting and arithmetic, was completed by Sarah North in 1686, a student under private tutor Elizabeth Beane ‘mistress in the art of writing and arithmetic’. The Department was also chosen to handle the Roger Casson Collection, an important private library of polar exploration, travel and local history books. The single-owner sale achieved a total hammer price of £220,000. Antiquarian books are also sold in the Country House Sales, and quantities of books are regularly sold in the fortnightly Antiques and Interiors Sales.
Saturday 14 May Motor Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia 18 May Books, Maps & Manuscripts Friday 20 May The James Harrison Collection of Birds Saturday 28 May Antiques & Interiors Saturday 28 May Costume, Accessories & Textiles Saturday 11 June Antiques & Interiors Wednesday 15 June Militaria & Ethnographica Friday 24 June Antiques & Interiors Saturday 25 June 20th Century Design Saturday 25 June Modern & Contemporary Art
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