29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Dulac (Edmund) illus.
Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights, Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Hodder and Stoughton, no date, quarto, twenty-three mounted colour plates, each with printed tissue guards, original decorative cloth gilt;
idem, Princess Badoura, A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Houseman.
Hodder and Stoughton, no date, quarto, ten mounted colour plates with printed guards, original decorative cloth gilt;
Kipling (Rudyard), Sea and Sussex, from Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Illustrated by Donald Maxwell.
Macmillan, limited edition of 500 large paper copies, signed by Rudyard Kipling, quarto, twenty-four mounted colour plates, top edge gilt, original quarter vellum binding;
Golden Gorse, Moorland Mousie.
Country Life, numbered de luxe limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the illustrator Lionel Edwards, sixteen monochrome plates with printed tissue guards, top edge gilt, original quarter morocco binding, with a duplicate set of plates, both preserved in worn original presentation box;
with four others (8)
Sold for £380
Estimated at £300 - £500
Sinbad - All plates free of creasing, no inscriptions found, some light foxing to closed edges and light tanning to first and last page, top edge dust marked, some spotting to backstrip.
Princess Badoura - bookplate to front free endpaper, with evidence of removal of another from pastedown, light foxing to endpapers, occasional foxing to contents, all plates free of creasing, no inscriptions found, top edge dust marked, some foxing to other closed edges, light dust marking to cloth, heavier to backstrip;
Kipling - bookplate to front free endpaper, tanning to endpapers and adjacent leaves, contents clean, no inscriptions found, a little dust marking to backstrip and top edge, some foxing to boards;
Moorland Mousie - Light foxing to uncut edges and in places throughout, no inscriptions found, top edge slightly dust marked, box well worn with split corners and edges, dust marked.
Extra volumes are Barker (K. F.), Just Dogs; Barker (K. F.), Just Pups; Aldin (Cecil), An Artist's Models; Edwards (Lionel), Sketches in Stable and Kennel. (these four sold not collated).
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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