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Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£110Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£110Status:Closed Lot 2 De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo Vita di Angelica Kauffmann. Frirenze/; Molini, Landi e Comp., 1810 [1811]. 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. viii, 116, [2]; port. frontis. after Kauffmann. First ed. Title page states 1810 publication but colophon has 1811 printing. Kauffmann was a hugely significant artist of the 18th century, being one of only two women invited to be a Founder Member of the Royal Academy. She only lived in Britain for 15 years, but became a great influence in part through her own talent and Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 3 The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings; or Biographical Review. Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807. 4to (7 vols). Green cloth, paper labels on spines; numerous illus. Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 4 Page, Camille La Coutellerie. Laffitte Reprints, 1994. 4to (6 vols). Faux-crushed morocco, spines and upper boards lettered in gilt; numerous plates. Limited edition facsimile reprint, No. 8 of 500. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 5 Trade catalogues, mainly late-19th and early-20th century, for metal work, cutlery and similar trades, mainly English, French and German with some US. Includes: Boulton & Paul, Manufacturers & Galvanizers, Abridged Edition, no. 39, 1887; Reynolds and Wadsworth, Summer Edition, 1895; Coulart & Cie., Album de tous les Articles en Magasin, 1907; Union Hardware & Metal Company, Los Angeles, Catalogue No. 15, [1913]; Klingel, Das Haus der Goldstat das fur seine ware burgt, 1939; and a quantity of ot Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 6 Rackham, Bernard Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain. Cambridge: CUP, 1935. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth and djs; full colour and monochrome plates. Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£40Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£40Status:Closed Lot 7 Westwood, Kenneth Thomas Sidney Cooper, C.V.O., R.A. His Life and Work. David Leathers Publishing, 2011. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth in djs, in slipcase; numerous full colour illus. First edition. Cooper's reputation suffers because of the many copies, fakes and lesser-quality works of his later years. This extensive catalogue and history was produced to aid the collector and academic alike in recognising his genuine output. Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£40Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£40Status:Closed Lot 8 Palladio, Andrea; Richards, Godfrey (trans) The First Book of Architecture...Translated out of Italian: With an Appendix Touching Doors and Windows, By Pr. Le Muet, Architect to the French King. Printed for Tho. Braddyll, and Eben. Tracy on London-Bridge, 1700. 8vo, full calf; eng. frontis., 6 folding plates, 62 full-page illus. (lacking pp. 173-4), figures to text. Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged. BAL/RIBA 2405 Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£120Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£120Status:Closed Lot 9 Howgrave, Francis An Essay of the Ancient and Present State of Stamford. Stamford: Printed for John Clarke at the Bible in Cornhil, London; and William Thompson, Bookseller in Stamford, 1726. bound with Hawksmoor, Nicholas A Short Historical Account of London-Bridge with a Proposition for a New Stone-Bridge at Westminster. Printed for J. Wilcox, at Vergil's Head, against the New Church in the Strand, 1736. 4to, full calf; [6], vii, 108, [1-3], 4-47, [1]; Hawksmoor with four (of five) folding pla Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 10 Bailey, David & Evans, Peter Goodbye Baby & Amen. Coward-McCann, 1969. Folio, org. cloth in unclipped jacket. First American edition. The thick black ink of every page may have made the book a financial failure on a par with Blue Monday, but it immortalised the vivid contrasts, stark shadows and ultimate emptiness of the 60s like nothing else could. Bailey's photographs are a riot of Faces, the ephemeral royalty of a Happening Time which had already accepted its own meaninglessness. Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 11 Onwhyn, Thomas Glass of Grog. Read & Co., 1853. 12mo, 10-leaves, concertina-folded between boards, upper board with paper label duplicating first leaf; ilus. by Onwhyn. 'Containing 50 excuses for the GLASS, and only one objection against it.'' A satirical piece of ephemera in support of drinking spirits with a humorous nod to balance in the one objection offered as from a 'distinguished member of the Tem. Soc.' - 'Taking a glass too much'. Onwhyn was well-known illustrator and cartoonist, especi Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£550Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£550Status:Closed Lot 12 Richards, Frank [Hamilton, Charles] Billy Bunter and related books. A selection of various editions of Bunter books, including 16 first editions and Armada and Merlin paperbacks, with Magnet facsimiles, Greyfriar's Holiday Annuals and others featuring Tom Merry and one Bessie Bunter first edition. Along with the Magnet Companion and The World of Frank Richards. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£200Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£200Status:Closed Lot 13 Cottingley Fairies Interest Wright (Elsie) Two watercolours, one signed Elsie Wright 1918 and one Elsie Hill 1948 (Elsie's married name), both framed and glazed. The 1918 picture is Cottingley Beck, which ran at the bottom of Elsie's garden, and by which Elsie and Frances Griffiths took their famous fairy pictures. These photographs were first taken in 1917. The story goes that Elsie's mother was frustrated with the girls coming back wet from playing in the Beck. They insisted they went to see Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 14 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Singapore: Lotus Library Publications, [c.1911]. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards; 17 black and white illus. and decorative images to margin. Limited edition, no. 277 [of 1000]. A sinuous and exciting Eastern take on Fitzgerald's translation of the poem. There is an intriguing bibliographic point on one of the plates. There is a modification to a peacock feather on an illustration of a woman. Some have this black and some have decoration on the feather. Lo Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold Lot 15 Benson, A.C. & Weaver, Sir Lawrence (ed.) The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Vol. 1. Methuen & Co., 1924. 4to, org. linen-backed boards, spine with paper label; 92 photographic plates; provenance: gift copy from Queen Mary ('Mary R.') to ?Jean Crawford. Limited edition 1249 of 1500. The first volume only (lacking second on library) of the delightful dolls' house designed by Sir Edwyn Lutyens for the Queen, in conjunction with many of the top designers of the day - including a Gertrude Jekyll g Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 16 Hartley, Marie The Yorkshire Dales and The Yorkshire Dales - A Further Selection. Otley: Smith Settle, 1989-91. 4to (2 vols). Buckram-backed pattern-paper covered boards, together in one slip-case; illustrated with wood engravings after Hartley. Signed limited editions (Dales 80 of 250 (and 10 out of series); Further Selection 56 of 250 (and ten out of series)). Hartley wrote in her introduction to the 1988 edition of Wharfedale that re-reading the book was like being 'wafted back in time' to an Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£150Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£150Status:Closed Lot 17 Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart] Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales. The Fairy Tale of the Ugly King, 1863, pp. 225 and Princess Liliola, 1865, pp. 403. 8vo, similarly bound in panelled calf, blind roll-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers. From the nineteenth-century school of such tales, replete with fey knights, glittering Courts and a very clean faux-medieval chivalry. The Ugly King bears a dedication to 'My dear sister'. A brief pencil note at the front of Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£750Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£750Status:Closed Lot 18 BB [Watkin-Pitchford, D.J.] The Little Grey Men; The Idle Countryman; Brendon Chase; The Wayfaring Tree; The Fisherman's Bedside Book. Eyre and Spottiswoode or Hollis & Carter, 1942-1945. All 8vo with unclipped djs (Fisherman 12mo); illus by Watkins-Pitchford. with two early reprints of Wild Lone and Sky Gypsy, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941-2. [7] Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 19 Early 19th-century Children's Literature Lives of Learned and Eminent Men, taken from Authentic Sources, Adapted to the Use of Children of Four Years Old and Upwards. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. 12mo (2 vols). Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards; port. frontis in each; provenance: Stones (armorial bookplate upper pastedowns). with Markham, Mrs [Penrose, Elizabeth] A History of France with Conversations at the end of each chapter. John Murray, 1830. 8vo (2 vols). Half calf Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 20 Roberts, Victoria ''Your Waterloo! Your Waterloo! What about my Waterloo?''. Watercolour on paper, signed Victoria Roberts, framed and glazed. Roberts is possibly best known as a Staff Cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1988, though she has produced work for other publications. This cartoon was published in The Australian in 2003, according to a handwritten note included in with the picture, from Roberts to 'Mrs [Eileen] Atkins'. Roberts had written to Dame Eileen Atkins previously after being Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 21 Lithgow, John The Retreat from Moscow, 2003. Cartoon, framed and glazed. Produced by actor John Lithgow for Dame Eileen Atkins to commemorate their appearance together in Retreat from Moscow on Broadway. Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold Lot 22 Ramsey, Remak Pencil Drawing of Roses, 1990, framed and glazed. Dedicated from Remak to 'darlin' Eileen [Dame Eileen Atkins] - a real English rose'. Given the date, it seems likely this gift was given when the two were starring in Prin at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 23 Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, House at Pooh Corner. Methuen & Co., 1928. 8vo (4 vols). Uniformly bound in publisher's deluxe brown leather, upper boards with decorative AAM monogram, spines decorated in gilt, a.e.g. First of Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young 17th, Winnie-the-Pooh 7th, Now We Are Six 4th. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 24 Andersen (Hans) Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, quarto, 28 mounted colour plates after Dulac as called for, original cloth gilt, remnant glassine wrapper, original presentation box (corners split) Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£250Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£250Status:Closed Lot 25 Potter (Beatrix) Ginger and Pickles, 1909, first edition, original cloth; idem, The Roly Poly Pudding, 1908, first edition, second issue (1908 date on title but not 'All RIghts Reserved'), original cloth (each with lettered wax seal inside); with three others by the author; Jerrold (Walter), The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes, Blackie, n.d., sixteen colour plates, original cloth gilt; Robinson (W. Heath), Bill the Minder, Constable, 1912, sixteen mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, o Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£150Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£150Status:Closed Lot 26 Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. 8vo, org. green cloth, upper board with central gilt image, spine lettered in gilt, map endpapers, restored dj; pp. [12 (half-title, verso blank, title, verso 'From The Little White Bird', dedication, verso blank, contents, verso blank, illustrations (3), verso blank)]; colour frontis. after Rackham retaining captioned guard, 23 colour plates after Rackham retaining captioned guards with loosely inserted H&S postcard. Tr Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 27 Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young. Methuen & Co., 1925. 8vo, org. publisher's limp calf gilt, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, red silk marker (detached and loosely inserted). Tenth ed, second deluxe. Milne's first foray into children's writing, charmingly illustrated by Shephard, was so popular the first printing sold out in a day. Unlike his later books the deluxe edition was produced later in the run, first for the 7th ed and again for the 10th. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 28 Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen & Co., 'First published in 1926'. 8vo, org. publisher's limp blue leather gilt, a.e.g., map endpapers, blue silk marker (detached but loosely inserted); illus by Shephard. First deluxe edition, produced at the same time as the first edition. Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£350Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£350Status:Closed Lot 29 Riley, Harold Street Dogs. Riley, 1985. 8vo, org. wrappers; illus by Riley. Signed by Riley on the title page and ffep with an original drawing of two dogs. Salford artist Riley is particularly known for his sporting paintings and portraits of Royals, Popes and Presidents. This book is a more homely affair, featuring the dogs he saw as he sketched his Street Books around the North of England. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 30 Thompson, Geoff Two cartoons: ''Royal Ascot'' and ''Just a pile of old bricks posing as an art gallery'', original pen and ink with slight corrections in Tippex, framed and glazed Estimate:£60 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£60 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 31 Spectator Four cartoons by Spectator contributors Dish, Rob Murray, RGJ, and McClachlan, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 32 Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 33 Cartoons Four newspaper cartoons, original pen and ink, framed and glazed Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 34 Prince PhilipRoyal Household Mail. One ALS and two TLS ('Philip') with a Christmass card (signed 'Philip' and in Greek at the bottom) to Revd. H.M.S. Taylor, headmaster of Cheam School, which Philip attended as a boy, 1930-33. The earliest carries the letterhead Nrurs Palace, the home of his uncle the Grand Duke of Hesse, where he was for the wedding of one of his sisters. The second is Christmass greetings from Paris. The third is headed Spetzgart and dated 1933. By this time, Philip had ... Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£700Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£700Status:Closed Lot 35 Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. Seven ALS ('Philip') to Revd and Mrs Taylor sent during the Duke's naval career, dated 1933-1950. The first four date from his time at the R.N. Petty Officers' School, Kingswood (although one is undated from London giving his new address for mail) in 1947. They show an affection for the Taylors and for Cheam and are friendly in content. These are accompanied by a memo unsigned, dated 18th March 1947 advising of his naturalisation and new style - Lt. Philip Mou Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£600Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£600Status:Closed Lot 36 Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. Nine Christmass cards signed 'Philip' to Revd and Mrs Taylor, and one signed 'Elizabeth' as well, with photographs of the Royal Family laid down inside, in original envelopes, 1950-66. The card for 1951 dates from just before the death of George VI (and bears a GR stamp in the lower corner of the envelope), making it noteworthy as 1951 is the only one to bear Elizabeth's signature - making it the last run of Christmass cards signed whilst Princess. The cards a Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£800Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£800Status:Closed Lot 37 Prince Philip Royal Household Mail. A collection of letters signed 'Philip' (mainly typed) to Jimmy Taylor relating to Taylor's time with RAF 16 Squadron and Taylor's book on his experiences One Flight Too Many, dated 1991-2014. Taylor was a pilot instructor in America and later flew reconnaissance Spitfires. He was captured after bailing out over Holland in 1944. The letters include the Duke's signed foreword for the book. There are other letters as well, including signed good wishes to the squ Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£1,500Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£1,500Status:Closed Lot 38 Prince Philip A collection of 22 letters, mainly typed, with envelopes and most signed 'Philip' (though some are fully typed) to Jimmy Taylor, WWII Spitfire pilot and son of the headmaster of Cheam School, which Philip attended, dated 1988-2015. Friendly, if brief, letters which mostly offer thanks for good wishes and similar, but which do contain occasional moments of personal detail. There are a few letters which touch on controversial comments which the Duke had made and some which contain hi Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£1,100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£1,100Status:Closed Lot 39 Smith, F.E., Earl of Birkenhead The World in 2030. Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Org. black cloth, lettered in red; 8 plates after E. McKnight Kauffer protected with loose tissue guards. A surprising dalliance with futurism from Churchill's friend, lawyer and political adviser F.E. Smith, illustrated with striking modernist images. Birkenhead's contribution to the utopian genre contains a longer piece on war than might be expected. This essay contains some of the more prescient commentary, warning o Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£50Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£50Status:Closed Lot 40 Thackeray (W M) Vanity Fair. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. 4to, org. decorative cloth in glassine wrapper, in org. box; illus. by Lewis Baumer. Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold Lot 41 Queen Alexandra Autograph letters signed 'Alexandra' to 'Leila' [Evelyn, Countess Blucher], together with envelopes, addressed to 'Countess Blucher' at various London addresses, one with black wax seal showing Alexandra's arms Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 42 Epictetus Manuale di Epitteto Filosofo. Roma: Angelo Bernabo, 1655. 12mo, full vellum, spine lettered in ink; one eng. plate. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 43 Granger, James A Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. T. Davies, 1769. 4to (4 vols). Full calf, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, gilt roll-tooled board edges, red speckled edges. with A Supplement consisting of Corrections and large Additions to a Biographical History of England. T. Davies, 1774. 4to, full calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt roll-tooled board edges, red speckled edges. Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 44 Commonplace and autograph book 1930s-40s commonplace book, some pages with quotations and signatures (likely mostly of classmates at St James' but including Olave Baden-Powell and ?Arnold Goldsworthy) and 26 leaves of drawings, paintings and similar in a number of styles signed variously including striking fashion studies, black shadowed fairy drawings and pencil sketches of life at school. A charming impression of a carefree six-form of music and the arts shadowed only by the drawings of young Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 45 Schickard, Wilhelm Horologium Hebr�um bound with Rota Hebr�a. Typis Thom� Paine: Venit apud Philemonem Stephanum, & Christophorum Meredith sub leone aureo, in D. Pauli Cemiterio, 1639. 8vo, full early calf, speckled edges; pp. [15], 139, [140], [1], [1-2], 3-14, [2 (Typographus Lectori, recto blank)] (Rota Hebraea with separate title but signatures continue); one double-page plate, decorative page-heads, floriated and inhabited intials; in Latin and Hebrew with music and tables to Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£190Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£190Status:Closed Lot 46 Five 18th-Century Italian books from the library of Francesco Berio, marchese di Salza Comprising Porco, Filippo Storia Dell'Illustrisima Archiconfraternita di Nostra Dama. Messina: Nella. Reg.Officina di D. Michele de'Chiaramonnti, ed Amico, 1741. 8vo, contemporary vellum, spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, red and black speckled edges, green silk marker; pp. [8], 131, [1 (Errata); frontis., floriated initial; provenance: Francesco Berio (armorial bookplate upper pastedown) - Willi Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£170Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£170Status:Closed Lot 47 Legal Documents An impressive collection of legal instruments (c.100) dating from the 16th to the 19th century, many from the 17th and 18th, principally dealing with Durham and Yorkshire, most on vellum, some retaining wax seals. Includes 1566 and 1575 indentures, a pair of 1634 indentures, retaining wax seals, a 1691 release and a 1791 mortgage amongst many others. A long record of land and money captured in legal formulae and detailing the vital transactions of everyday life. The dates cross t Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£380Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£380Status:Closed Lot 48 Epicurus Morals. Printed for H. Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange, 1670. Full calf; port. frontis. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£110Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£110Status:Closed Lots Per Page 122448 <<|12345|>> Previous 12345 Next
