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LOT 3223
LOT 3223
LABAUME, Eugene. A Circumstantial Narrative of The Campaign in Russia… second edition, considerably improved. London: 1815. 8vo (212 x 127mm.) Hand-coloured folding map, two black and white folding plans. (Some spotting and browning throughout, one map torn at fold.) Near contemporary green half-calf, spine gilt. Provenance: two unidentified ownership names to title. - And three other volumes (W.B. Heweston, 'History of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1823. 3 vols., 8vo) (4).
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LOT 3224
LOT 3224
AFRICA. - William Garden BLAIKIE. The Personal Life of David Livingstone. London: John Murray, 1881. Second edition, 8vo (223 x 145mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, folding colour map to rear, 32pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original cloth (bumped to extremities). - And twelve other volumes about David Livingstone (including 'The Last Journals of David Livingstone', 1874, first edition, 2 vols., 8vo) (13).
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LOT 3225
LOT 3225
BRANGWYN, Frank (illustrator). - Jérôme & Jean THARAUD. L'Ombre de La Croix. Paris: Éditions Lapina, 1931. Limited edition of 222 copies, this number 123 on Hollande paper, 2 vols., 4to (301 x 210mm.) 24 etched plates and 49 etched illustrations, all by Brangwyn, all with tissue-guards. (Some browning and spotting to first and last few leaves.) Original wrappers, glassine dust-jackets, contained within a single cloth portfolio and cloth slipcase. Provenance: Adelin Remy (bookplate to preliminary blank).
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LOT 3226
LOT 3226
BRANGWYN, Frank (illustrator). - Walter Shaw SPARROW. A Book of Bridges. London & New York: John Lane, 1916. Limited edition of 75 copies, this number 26, large 4to (380 x 277mm.) Tipped-in lithographed frontispiece signed in pencil to backing by Brangwyn, 36 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, all by Brangwyn. (Some light spotting and occasional browning, one plate with small crease.) Original half-vellum, t.e.g. (extremities scuffed, light soiling). Provenance: W.J. Locke (presentation inscription signed by John Lane and dated Xmas 1915 to limitation page).
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LOT 3227
LOT 3227
NICHOLSON, Ben. Drawings, Paintings and Reliefs 1911-1968. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. Limited edition of 60 copies, this number 52, large 4to (329 x 287mm.) Illustrations throughout, many colour. (Lacking the etching issued with this edition.) Original cloth, dust-jacket, slip-case (slightly bumped).
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LOT 3228
LOT 3228
POGANY, Willy (illustrator). - Richard WAGNER. Tannhauser… Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston. London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911. Limited edition of 525 copies, this number 523 signed by the illustrator, 4to (284 x 223mm.) 10 colour plates only (of 16). (Occasional browning to margins.) Original vellum with elaborate art nouveau gilt decoration, t.e.g. - And one other illustrated volume (2).
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LOT 3229
LOT 3229
SAINT-GEORGES, André. Éloge de la Table. Préface de Curnonsky, Prince élu des Gastronomes, Illustrations originales d'Hervé Baille. [Bourg-la-Reine: Viglino, 30 May 1947.] Limited edition of 500 copies, this number 446, 4to (332 x 253mm.) Etched frontispiece, 18 black and white plates, head and tail pieces. (Light browning, occasional minor light spotting.) Unstitched as issued in original paper-covered boards (extremities lightly bumped), slipcase (slightly bumped and scuffed, some minor tears to joints, lightly browned).
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LOT 3230
LOT 3230
[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History Of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha, And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha, Now made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language And Adorned with several Copper Plates…translated by J. Philips. London: printed by Thomas Hodgkin, 1687.] First English illustrated edition, 4to (331 x 223mm.) Title replaced in manuscript facsimile, 16 copper-engraved illustrations on eight leaves, 3pp. verses and errata (Some browning, occasional damp-staining.) Cloth-backed paper covered boards, original gilt lettering piece laid down (some loss to the lettering piece and wear to spine ends, bumped to all extremities, rear endpaper replaced).
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LOT 3231
LOT 3231
RETZSCH, Fredrich August Moritz. Outlines to Shakespeare… First series: Hamlet. Leipzig: Ernest Fleischer, London: sold by Treuttel & Wuertz, 1828. First edition, large 4to (349 x 252mm.) Frontispiece, 16 plates, parallel texts in German, English and French. (Some spotting to preliminaries and to plate margins.) Original cloth with mounted illustration to upper cover (rubbing and fraying to spine extremities.) Provenance: Hale of Alderley (bookplate to the verso of the frontispiece).
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LOT 3232
LOT 3232
NEWTON, Richard. The Grounds of the Complaint of the Principal of Hart-Hall… concerning the obstruction given to the incorporation of his society by Exeter College. London: G. Strahan, 1735. Folio (379 x 245mm.) Title with engraved vignette. (Some soiling.) 20th century brown cloth, gilt titling to spine. Note: concerns the change in status of Hart Hall to Hertford College, Oxford, in 1740. Halls were not deemed to have the same importance as colleges.
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LOT 3233
LOT 3233
BENNETT, Arnold. Elsie and the Child. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., printed at the Curwen press, 1929. Limited edition of 750 copies, this number 612, small 4to (260 x 204mm.) Frontispiece, colour plates by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original cloth (slight browning to extremities), original glassine dust-jacket (small creases), contained within original slipcase (a few spots of white).
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LOT 3234
LOT 3234
WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. 8vo (266 x 177mm.) Numerous woodcuts by Frans Masereel, some full-page. (Some spotting and browning.) Original cloth-backed boards (browned, spine frayed at head and foot, newspaper article adhered with tape to front pastedown with associated staining.) Provenance: signature over Horwood Cottage label to front pastedown and also signed to title.
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LOT 3235
LOT 3235
CUBBIN, Thomas. The Wreck of the Senrica. London: The Dropmore Press, 1950. Limited edition of 300 copies, this number 111 of 270 copies, 4to (255 x 194mm.) 3 colour wood-engraved plates and occasional colour wood-engraved illustrations all by John Worsley. Original blue buckram (soiled and lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped, and torn at folds). Provenance: Serica Isabella Grimshaw (inscription dated Xmas 1950). - And one other earlier edition of the same work and a t.l.s. by G.D. Blackwood dated 12th May 1949 concerning the publishing of a book (2).
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LOT 3236
LOT 3236
NAVARI, Leonora. The Ottoman World… The Sefik E. Atabey Collection of Books, Manuscripts and Maps. London: Bernard J. Shapero, 1998. Limited edition of 750 copies, 2 vols., folio (334 x 231mm.) Full-page colour illustrations. Original red cloth.
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LOT 3237
LOT 3237
AUDUBON, John James. The Original Water-Colour Paintings… For the Birds of America. America: Michael Joseph Ltd. & The Connoisseur, 1966. 2 vols., large 4to (336 x 264mm.) Frontispiece, numerous colour plates. (Mild spotting to endpapers.) Original brown cloth, contained within a single slipcase (rubbing to sides). - And two other illustrated bird volumes (including Edouard Travies 'Les Oiseaux les plus Remarquables par Leurs Formes et Leurs Couleurs', 1990, 4to) (3).
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LOT 3238
LOT 3238
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Romaunt of the Rose. [N.p. but Ashford, Kent:] World's End Press, 1974. Limited edition of 25 copies, this number 15 signed by the illustrator, folio (411 x 360mm.) Text in English by G. Chaucer and French by Guillaume de Lorris, 7 original double-page tinted etchings signed by Ann Brunskill. Original vellum (minor mark to lower cover), original blue cloth slipcase.
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LOT 3239
LOT 3239
AESOP. Four Fables… illustrated by Ann Brunskill, from the version by Samuel Croxall. [N.p. but Ashford, Kent:] World's End Press, 1972. Limited edition of 55 copies, this number 47 of 50, folio (425 x 315mm.) 8 original signed etchings by Ann Brunskill. (Light spotting to title and finger-mark to half-title.) Unbound as issued, contained within green wrappers and original green cloth portfolio (slight fading). Note: the four fables are 'The Young Man & His Cat', 'The Lion & the Mouse', 'The Fatal Marriage' and 'The Mountains in Labour'; scarce.
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LOT 3240
LOT 3240
GREEN, Benjamin Richard. A Numismatic Atlas of Ancient History: Comprised in a Series of Twenty-One Plates. Containing a selection of 360 Grecian coins of Kings. London: Priestley & Weale, 1829. Folio (457 x 323mm.) 21 hand-coloured plates, 41pp. descriptive guide (old tape repairs within, binding fragile). Original cloth-backed boards, paper title tipped-in (heavily stained to upper and lower cover).
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LOT 3241
LOT 3241
STACKHOUSE, Thomas. A New History of the Holy Bible… from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity. London: printed for John Hinton, 1752. Vol.1 only (of 2), 4to (389 x 240mm.) Frontispiece, title in red and black, 69 full-page engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved headpieces, only. (Plate 42 lacking, occasional damp-stain to margins.) Contemporary calf, morocco lettering piece to the spine (heavily worn with some loss to upper and lower covers, loss to the lettering piece, bumped to extremities).
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LOT 3242
LOT 3242
BIBLE, in English. The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, with Reference, Numerous Critical and Explanatory Notes, and a Condensed Concordance. London & New York: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [n.d. but circa 1870s.] 4to (314 x 238mm.) Family Register, frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Occasional spotting.) Contemporary black morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (light rubbing to extremities, tape reinforcements to upper and lower hinges). Provenance: Helen Dupere (a gift inscription in ink from her mother on the front-free endpaper).
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