PDF Catalogue Advanced Search ▼ Lots Per Page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Miscellaneous Items Books Original Artwork, Children's and Illustrated Foreign Travel and Mountaineering Maps and Atlases Natural History Military, Naval, Aviation and Transport Literature Religion Antiques, Art Reference and Architecture Sport Music British Topography and Local History Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing lots 1-22 of 22. View <<|1|>> Lot 6 The Burlington Magazine The Burlington Magazine Ltd, 1903-1920. 4to (35 vols). Org. decorative cloth; numerous plates. Being an almost unbroken run from 1-37 (3+4 bound as one), lacking only 32 and 33. The Magazine is the longest running art journal in the world. It was originally founded for collectors by a group of art critics and historians, and enhanced market-based information with original, object-based historical research - with a sprinkling of lively contemporary gossip, sales results an Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 17 Parker, Agnes Miller Wood Engravings I and II: from ''The Fables of Esope'' & ''XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales''. Newtown Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1996-7. Folio (2 vols). Cloth-backed, patterned-paper covered boards, in slipcases; 45 wood engravings on and-made Japanese Gampi vellum paper. Limited ed, both no. 87 of 185. The paper used in the binding was also designed by Agnes Miller Parker, and the wood engravings were printed by hand from her original blocks. The Gregynog edition of Aesop's F Estimate:£250 - £350Sold For:£750Status:Closed View details Estimate:£250 - £350Sold For:£750Status:Closed Lot 18 Barrie, J.M.; Rackham, Arthur (illus.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. 4to, org. decorative green cloth gilt; colour frontis., black and white map, 7 full-page black and white illus, 50 tipped-in colored illus, black and white illus to text. New edition (first trade). Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£300Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£300Status:Closed Lot 19 Gray, Thomas; Bentley, Richard (illus.) Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. R. Dodsley, 1753. 4to, half green leather; eng. tit., full-page frontis. and head- and tail-pieces to each poem. First ed., but not first printing (''Designs'' not ''Drawings'' on title). Bentley was a protege of Horace Walpole and helped with the gothic decor of Strawberry Hill. Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£140Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£140Status:Closed Lot 20 Burns, Robert (illus.) Scots Ballads. Seeley Service, [1939]. 4to, cloth-backed boards, t.e.g.; tit. printed in red and black, 39 full-page black and white illus by Burns in the Art Nouveau style, decorative text pages. Limited ed., no. 245 of 320 (300 for sale). Burns was Head of Drawing and Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. The contents comprise: ''The Wyfe of Usher's Well,'' ''Helen of Kirkconnel,'' ''Sir Patrick Spens,'' ''The Twa Corbies,'' and ''The Cruelle Sister.'' Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed Lot 21 CAM [Barbara Campbell] ''The Girls'' or ''Three of Us'' or ''Tuppence and Co.'' eighteen original watercolours, unsigned, mounted with a light crease down the centre, forming title-page and thirty-four illustrated pages for this seemingly unpublished work. Together with three framed trial watercolours of individual pages and three MSS variants of the script for the book, tied with red string. It is thought (though not definite) that the MSS are in Campbell's hand - one script has what looks to b Estimate:£1,500 - £2,000Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£1,500 - £2,000Status:Not Sold Lot 22 Caldecott, Randolph Picture Books: The House that Jack Built; The Mad Dog; Babes in the Wood; Sing a Song; Farmer's Boy; Queen of Hearts; The Milkmaid; Hey Diddle Diddle; A Frog he would; Come Lasses and Lads; Mrs Mary Blaize; and Great Panjandrum. George Routledge & Sons, 1878-85. All card wraps (12). Together with the first Picture Book, Frederick Warne, [1879], a re-issue of the first four picture books in one volume, org. cloth; and Irving, Washington, Old Christmas, Macmillan & Co., 1878, o Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£120Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£120Status:Closed Lot 23 Detmold, Edward (illus) The Fables of Aesop. Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 4to, org. cloth; 25 tipped-in colour illus by Detmold. Signed, limited edition no. 534 of 750. Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£250 - £350Status:Not Sold Lot 24 Cervantes; Dore, Gustave (illus.) The History of Don Quixote. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [c.1880s]. 4to, org. decorative red cloth gilt; numerous plates after Dore, illus to text. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£30Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£30Status:Closed Lot 25 Rackham, Arthur (illus.) Mother Goose. William Heinemann, 1913. 4to, cream buckram gilt; 14 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Limited ed., no. 431 of 1130 (1100 for sale), signed by Rackham. Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£400Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£400Status:Closed Lot 26 De La Motte Fouque, Friedrich Undine. William Heinemann, 1909. 4to, org. blue cloth in dust wrapper; 15 tipped-in illus by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition. with a second copy, 1911, no dj [2] Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£120Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£120Status:Closed Lot 27 Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, finely bound in calf by Bayntun-Riviere, upper board with central inlaid vignette after 'Peter Pan is the Fairies' Orchestra' enclosed in gilt fillet borders, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., in custom-made clamshell box; 50 colour tipped-in illus by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition. Estimate:£300 - £400Sold For:£400Status:Closed View details Estimate:£300 - £400Sold For:£400Status:Closed Lot 28 Wagner, Richard; Rackham, Arthur (illus) The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. William Heinemann, 1910-11. 8vo (2 vols). Org. cloth in djs; Rhinegold: 34 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham; Siegfried: 30 similar plates. First trade editions. With one other. [3] Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£480Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£480Status:Closed Lot 29 Rackham, Arthur (illus); Shakespeare, William The Tempest. William Heinemann, 1926. 8vo, org. cloth; 20 tipped-in colour plates. First trade edition. Estimate:£40 - £60Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£40 - £60Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 30 Rackham, Arthur (illus.) The Tempest. William Heinemann, 1926. 4to, org. cloth in dj; 20 tipped-in illus. First trade edition. idem Some British Ballads. Constable & Co., [nd]. 4to, org. cloth; 16 illus. First trade ed. idem A Midsummer Night's Dream. William Heinemann, 1912. 4to, org. cloth; 40 tipped-in coloured illus, monochrome illus to text. Third imp. idem The Vicar of Wakefield. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1929. 4to, org. cloth in dj; 12 coloured plates. First trade edition. Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£400Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£400Status:Closed Lot 31 Timlin, William M. The Ship That Sailed to Mars. George G. Harrap & Co., 1923. 4to, org. parchment-backed boards; 48 tipped-in coloured plates. First edition. As with many children's' classics this was started by architect and illustrator Timlin as a diversion for his son. It grew into book form and Harrap, impressed by the beauty of design, decided to use the original manuscript for the text, rather than typesetting. Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£450Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£450Status:Closed Lot 32 Whitman, Walt; Cook, Margaret (illus.) Leaves of Grass. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1913. 4to, org. green cloth gilt; 24 coloured illus. First edition thus. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£280Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£280Status:Closed Lot 33 Worsley, John Two original story board illustrations for the 1972 Anglia Television adaptation of Treasure Island, watercolour, mounted, signed and dated. Worsley was one of the youngest war artists of WWII and took part in landings in Sicily and Italy, where he was captured accompanying a group of saboteurs. He recorded prison life and created a dummy prisoner to aid in an escape attempt. ''Albert'' even had blinking eyes, created with a pendulum fashioned from a sardine can. After the war he b Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£280Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£280Status:Closed Lot 34 Thomson, Hugh (illus.) Barrie, J.M. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, 1901. 4to, org. blue cloth gilt; 21 colour illus, monochrome illus to text. First trade edition. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. 4to, org. lilac decorative cloth; 25 colour illus. (p.115 detached but present), monochrome illus to text. First trade edition. Dulac, Edmund Fairy Book. Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. 4to, org. decorative cloth; 15 colour plates. First trade ed. Rubaiya Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£130Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £100Sold For:£130Status:Closed Lot 199 Blyton, Enid Island of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1944. 8vo, org. cloth in later jacket (8s 6d). First ed. Castle of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1946. 8vo, org. cloth in jacket (7s 6d). First ed. Ship of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1950. 8vo, org. cloth in jacket (8s 6d). First ed. River of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1955. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped jacket. First ed. With Mountain of Adventure, 1949, cloth no jacket; and The Sea of Adventure, 1950 reprint in jacket (8s 6d). Along with 6 Famous Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£140Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£140Status:Closed Lot 205 Ransome, Arthur Missee Lee. Jonathan Cape, 1941. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped jacket (7s 6d). First ed. idem The Big Six and Great Northern? 8vo, org. cloth in jackets. Jonathan Cape, 1956-58. Later impressions. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£40Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£40Status:Closed Lot 219 Gill, Eric The Song of Songs called by many the Canticle of Canticles. Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 8vo, org. cream buckram; pp. 42, [4]; woodcuts by Gill. Limited ed, no. 187 of 750. The first of Gill's strange and sensual reactions to Biblical sources, the spiritual sexuality would continue to produce strange fruit throughout his career. The text is deliberately presented as an opera, with acts and scenes, and ''this present edition is advanced as a set of suggestions hel Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£380Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £300Sold For:£380Status:Closed Lots Per Page 122448 <<|1|>> Previous 1 Next
