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Wed, 17th July 2024
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LOT 3581
LOT 3581
ROWLING, J.K. [The Deluxe Editions.] London: Bloomsbury, 1999-2007. 5 vols., first deluxe editions, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Original cloth, gilt lettering and signatures to upper covers with mounted paper illustrations, g.e., original cellophane. Note: all five volumes have ‘First Edition’ on the barcode stickers to the cellophane, but without opening them it is impossible to ascertain if they are first edition, first impressions. One of them has been opened: ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’, and it is a first edition, eighth impression.  – And a further eight volumes by J.K. Rowling, all first editions (including ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, 2000, 8vo) (14).
Hammer Price: £220
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LOT 3582
LOT 3582
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. Limited edition, this being number 344 of 500 copies for the United Kingdom, 4to (274 x 226mm.) Photogravure portrait of Dickens on india paper as frontispiece, 23 photogravure plates by Gaugengigl and Chominski. (Spotting to frontispiece, offsetting to title, toning.) Original green and white cloth with holly leaf in relief, gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (some browning and minor soiling to covers). Provenance: W. Miller (name-plate to rear pastedown).
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LOT 3583
LOT 3583
MOOMINS. – Tove JANSSON. The Dangerous Journey… translated by Kingsley Hart. London: Ernest Benn, 1978. First English edition, 4to (279 x 202mm.) Numerous colour illustrations by the author. (Faint stain to pastedown and title-page.) Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (minor stain to spine). Note: a book in the highly popular Moomin series following the adventures of Susanna, the Hemulen, Sniff, Sorry-Ooo and Thingummy & Bob through Moomin Valley.
Hammer Price: £75
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LOT 3584
LOT 3584
STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator). – ‘Lewis Carroll’. Through the Looking-Glass. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972. Centenary edition, signed by Ralph Steadman, 4to (310 x 211mm.) Numerous illustrations by Steadman. (Toning to margins.) Original black cloth, silver lettering to spine, dust-jacket (creasing, small tear and soiling to upper panel).
Hammer Price: £190
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LOT 3585
LOT 3585
ILLUSTRATED. – Edward SHENTON (illustrator) and Paul JONES. An Alphabet of Aviation. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1928. First edition, 4to (228 x 174mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Toning, occasional offsetting.) Original blue cloth (lightly rubbed). – And a further forty-four volumes (including ‘The Illustrated Juvenile Miscellany’, published by Joseph Cundall, [1846], 8vo) (45).
Hammer Price: £95
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LOT 3586
LOT 3586
TRADE CATALOGUE. Spons’ Engineers’ and Contractors’ Illustrated Book of Prices of Machines, Tools, Ironwork, and Contractors’ Material, for 1876. London: E. & F.N. Spons, 1876. 4to (243 x 182mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, advertisements, 4pp. of Spons’ advertisements for new engineering books to rear. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, black and gilt lettering to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities).
Hammer Price: £500
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LOT 3587
LOT 3587
MYCOLOGY. – Robert HOGG and George W. JOHNSON. A Selection of the Eatable Funguses of Great Britain. London: Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener Office, [1866.] First edition, 8vo (221 x 136mm.) 25 colour lithographed plates with tissue-guards. (Spotting to frontispiece and preliminaries, occasionally within, browning.) Original red cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover, t.e.g. (staining to upper cover, wear to spine ends). Provenance: Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further two volumes (M.J. Berkeley’s ‘Outlines of British Fungology’, 1860, 8vo, and W. Hamilton Gibson’s ‘Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms’, 1895, 8vo) (3).
Hammer Price: £300
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LOT 3588
LOT 3588
TRIALS. – Joseph and W.B. GURNEY. The Trial of Richard Patch for the wilful murder of Isaac Blight, on the 23rd of Sept. 1805, at Rotherhithe, in the County of Surry. London: for Edward Jeffrey, 1806. First edition, 8vo (184 x 105mm.) Half-title, 3 engraved portrait plates, 1 engraved folding plan of the murder scene, 1p. of contemporary manuscript notes bound-in. (Moderate to heavy browning and dust-soiling throughout, lacking blanks and B1-B2.) 21st century brown calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced, sunning to spine). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further four volumes (including ‘The Queen v. Palmer. Verbatim Report of the Trial of William Palmer… May 14, and Following Days, 1856’, 1856, 8vo) (5).
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LOT 3589
LOT 3589
COOKERY. – James MANNING. The Nature of Bread, Honestly and Dishonestly Made… and an Easy Method of Making It in Private Families. London: R. Davis and M. Cooper, [circa 1758.] 4to (205 x 121mm.) (Dust-soiling to title, light browning, blanks replaced.) 20th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to the front pastedown). – And a further three volumes related to cookery (including John Farley’s ‘The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant’, 1807, 8vo) (4).
Hammer Price: £240
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LOT 3590
LOT 3590
COOKERY. – Theodore Francis GARRETT. The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery. London: L. Upcott Gill, [1890.] 8 vols. in 4, 8vo (278 x 209mm.) Chromolithographed plates, some folding, numerous illustrations in the text. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red half morocco, gilt lettering (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to the front pastedown). – And a further two volumes (including ‘Cassell’s Dictionary of Cookery’, [1904], 8vo) (6).
Hammer Price: £60
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LOT 3591
LOT 3591
BOTANY. – George SINCLAIR. Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or, an Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses and Other Plants Used as the Food of the More Valuable Domestic Animals. London: James Ridgway, 1825. Second edition, 4to (258 x 153mm.) Half-title, 60 engraved hand-coloured plates, 3pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional browning.) Original boards, later green cloth to spine, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). – And a further five volumes (including R. Braithwaite’s ‘The British Moss-Flora’, 1887-1905, 3 vols., 8vo) (6).
Hammer Price: £90
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LOT 3592
LOT 3592
GRIMBLE, Augustus. Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1888. Limited edition, this being one of 250 copies only, 4to (287 x 220mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved illustration to title, errata leaf bound-in, 18 plates. (Toning, browned verso last leaf, offsetting to half-title.) Late 20th century maroon half morocco over maroon cloth (endpapers replaced).
Hammer Price: £110
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LOT 3593
LOT 3593
BOTANY. – Lewis Weston DILLWYN. British Confervae or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the British Plants Referred by Botanists to the Genus Conferva. London: W. Phillips, 1809. First edition, 4to (260 x 201mm.) 116 colour printed engraved plates, including the 7 Supplementary plates to rear. (Mild toning, first blanks replaced.) 20th century black half morocco, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced). Provenance: C.J. Shrapp (ink name inscribed to initial blank); Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to the front pastedown).
Hammer Price: £190
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LOT 3594
LOT 3594
PYNE, William Henry. The Costume of Great Britain. London: William Miller, 1804. Folio (353 x 254mm.) Title with hand-coloured aquatint vignette, 59 hand-coloured aquatints. (Lacking half-title, the initial blank and front-free endpaper detached, text leaf for first plate ‘Pottery’ is lacking and also plate 59 ‘The Lord Mayor’s Coach’, marginal tears and dust-soiling to first leaves, offsetting, browning.) Near contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco, rolling gilt borders, g.e. (extremities heavily rubbed, minor scuffing). Note: title dated 1804, plates dated 1805-1806. This is the preferred edition, with the backgrounds coloured-in. [Tooley 388.] Provenance: Pte. Boudonesquie (large pencil name inscribed verso plate XXVI).
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LOT 3595
LOT 3595
LONDON. – George W. BACON (publisher). Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs… with an Alphabetical Index of over 20,000 names… edited by William Stanford. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., [1914.] New Enlarged and Improved Edition, folio (347 x 280mm.) Title in red and black, 7 double-paged lithographed maps of the home counties, 15 double-paged ‘Special Maps of London’, 33 double-paged four-inch scale. (Lacking Index map, and 1 four-inch scale map, large tears to ‘Central London’ map and ‘Environs’ map, smaller tear to ‘Petty Sessions’, toned to margins.) Original black half morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover (staining to upper cover, lightly rubbed, endpapers torn).
Hammer Price: £650
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LOT 3596
LOT 3596
LONDON. – George W. BACON (publisher). Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs… with an Alphabetical Index of over 20,000 names. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., [circa 1920’s.] Folio (346 x 281mm.) Title in red and black, 7 double-paged lithographed maps of the home counties, 16 double-paged ‘Special Maps’ of London, including 1 folding, 1 double-paged Index map, 34 double-paged lithographed maps of London. (Large tear to folding map, map of ‘Kensington’ torn at crease and ‘Paddington’ torn in half, toning to margins.) Original black half morocco (spine panel detached, worn).
Hammer Price: £380
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LOT 3597
LOT 3597
SHANNON, Robert. A Practical Treatise on Brewing, Distilling, and Rectification, with the Genuine Process of Making Brandy, Rum, and Hollands Gin. London: Robert Scholey, 1805. First edition, 4to (256 x 201mm.) 8 engraved plates, 1 folding, 3 folding tables, ‘Appendix’ and 6pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Title torn with large corner loss, lacking 2 folding tables, tables heavily creased and dust-soiled, plates with spotting and dust-soiled, lacking blanks and half-title.) Contemporary calf (worn).
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LOT 3598
LOT 3598
BAINES, Thomas and Edward. Yorkshire Past and Present: a History and Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, from the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870. London: William Mackenzie, [circa 1870.] 2 vols. in 4, 4to (290 x 238mm.) 27 steel-engraved plates, tissue-guards, folding map in colour, publisher’s apology slip bound-in. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting.) Original maroon cloth, armorial gilt to covers, g.e. (some wear to spine panels, three hinges weakened) (4).
Hammer Price: £34
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LOT 3599
LOT 3599
MUSIC. – George Frideric HANDEL. The Triumph of Time and Truth, an Oratorio In Score, Composed in the year 1751. [London: Longman and Broderip, 1795.] Folio (329 x 245mm.) Engraved title, musical score and engraved ‘Contents’ leaf to rear. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards (lacking front-free endpaper, lacking spine, worn).
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LOT 3600
LOT 3600
YORKSHIRE. – Thomas Dunham WHITAKER. The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York… with many additions and corrections. London: J. Nichols and Son, 1812. Second edition, large 4to (303 x 236mm.) 53 plates, including 24 sepia-aquatints, 1 hand-coloured plate and the additional title and portrait frontispiece, also the folding map and 19 folding genealogies, a 7pp. ‘Prospectus of a General History of the County of York’ bound-in. (Some scattered light spotting, browning, occasional offsetting.) Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (sunning to spine, lightly rubbed). Note: plates correct as per list to rear. Provenance: John Hammond (ink name to initial blank). – And a further volume (the third edition of this work, 1878, large 4to) (2). Provenance: the property of The Much Hon. The Baron of Stobo.
Hammer Price: £70
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