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ANTIQUARIAN & COLLECTORS' BOOKS

TOOVEY'S conduct specialist sales of antiquarian and collectors' books three times a year which are combined with the sales of postcards, cigarette cards and ephemera due to the inherent link among collectors and traders. The sale encompasses everything from early manuscript documents to modern first editions and regularly includes leather-bound volumes, works of natural history, topographical and reference interest as well as children’s and illustrated books.   Recent sales have included the library collections of Sir Stanley Leonard Barry and Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong, click on the names for further information.

Pictured right: A first U.K. edition of Jules Verne's 'A Journey to the Centre of the Earth', published in London by Griffith and Farran in 1872, containing a wood-engraved title vignette, 51 wood-engraved illustrations and 8 pages of advertisements, bound in the original green decorated cloth blocked in gilt and black. Sold for £7400.
Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

5th October 2010 - commencing pm
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LOT: 3151

SIGNED FORESTER'S 'THE HAPPY RETURN' FIRST EDITION.

Sold Price - £480
Signed copy of C.S. Forester's 'The Happy Return' of 1937. First edition bound in original cloth and with dust-jacket. The first novel in the Hornblower series.
 
LOT: 3201

SAMUEL CALVERT'S 'A MEMOIR OF EDWARD CALVERT'.

Sold Price - £6400
Samuel Calvert's 'A Memoir of Edward Calvert, Artist by his Third Son'. Published in 1893 in a limited edition of 350 copies, this number 7 signed by the author.
 
LOT: 3217

MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN. A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NESTS AND EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS€¦ SECOND EDITION

Sold Price - £450
MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds… second edition. London: George Bell and Sons, 1875. 3 vols., 4to.
 
LOT: 3200

LORD BYRON'S WORKS WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS.

Sold Price - £1900
Lord Byron's [The Works.] Published 1814-1824. 5 vols. Contemporary straight-grain morocco, each volume with a fore-edge painting of a different street scene in central London.