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 1-45 of 45. View <<|1|>> Lot 11 Ruskin, John; Wise, T.J. (ed.) Letters on Art and Literature by John Ruskin. Privately Printed, 1894. 8vo, org. red cloth. Notorious forger, bibliographer, and occasional stealer of pages from the British Library Thomas Wise was a significant figure in popularising the collecting of the Romantics. By means, fair or foul, he created an impressive library of material under the Ashley Library name. He also had a sideline in privately printed books of varying splendour and ambiguous print run, both Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 156 Barnard, Edward The New, Comprehensive and Complete History of England: From the Earliest Period of Authentic Information, to the Middle of the Year, MDCCLXXXIII. Alex Hogg, 1782. Folio, full calf (upper joint cracked, board still attached), spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece; 3 maps (one folded), 103 plates (Execution of Charles torn, Colonies declaring Independence loose but present). Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£200Status:Closed View details Estimate:£200 - £400Sold For:£200Status:Closed Lot 157 Burke, Edmund A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. J. Dodsley, 1773. 8vo, full calf, sometime rebacked. 7th ed. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£50Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£50Status:Closed Lot 158 Gibbon, Edward The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783-90. 8vo (12 vols). Full calf, boards with central gilt armorial bearing, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. New edition. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 159 Tiraboschi. Girolamo Storia della letteratura Italiana. Firenze: Presso Molini Landi, 1805-13. 8vo (15 vols). Full vellum, spines with contrasting morocco lettering pieces. Tiraboschi was librarian to Francis III, duke of Modena, and he used his employer's library to complete this monumental study of Italian literature from the Etruscans to the end of the 17th century. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 160 Olgiati, Girolamo Quinquaginta illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numismatibus extractae. Venice: Ambrogio Dei, 1607. 4to, leather-backed marbled boards (upper board detached); eng. title, 50 eng. plates, bound alternately with later lined writing paper, some with MSS notes on the philosopher. Second edition. The word 'quinquaginta' was later added to the title-page plate for the printing. Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 161 Mayall, John Jabez Edwin Series of Photographs of Eminent Men. Messrs Marion & Co., 152 Regent St., 1862. Seven albumen prints after photographs by Mayall, all flush mounted to captioned card mounts, five signed and dated 1861 in the negative, 6 in original paper wrappers printed with title details, all signed by subjects on the mount, all contained in likely original folio folder. The seven photographs comprise: Prince Albert, the Prince Consort - this photograph was taken two months before Alb Estimate:£700 - £1,000Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£700 - £1,000Status:Not Sold Lot 162 Herbert, Edward, Lord The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth. M. Clark, for Henry Herringman, 1682. 4to, full calf; title printed in red and black, port. frontis.; pp. 636, [2 (blank)], [8 (Index)], poss. lacking final blank by sig. Originally published in 1649, this work is still considered a solid work of historical biography, despite being hampered by lack of access to sources. It is perhaps now more useful as an element of the development of the narrative and perception of Henry, rather Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 163 Grotius, Hugo De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650. 8vo, archival binding, paper label on spine; pp. [24], 618, [45]; title printed in red and black, floriated initials and decorative tail-pieces. New edition, with annotations by the author. The book which made Grotius famous throughout Europe was first published in 1625. Grotius was living in Paris, having made a daring escape from Dutch prison - where he had fallen foul of intra-Calvinist dispute - in a chest of books Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 164 Keble, Joseph The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Charta Until this Time. The Assignes of John Bill and Christopher Barker and The Assignes of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, 1676. Folio, full calf; provenance: Hugh Chomeley, Bart. to the Burgesses of Whitby (owner's ink MSS note on title and gift inscription on pre-title blank), from thence ex-lib. (bookplate to ffep and stamps to head of and verso of title). Blackletter. Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£70Status:Closed Lot 165 The Stuarts Birch, Thomas and Robert Folkestone Williams. The Court and Times of James I. Henry Colburn, 1849. 8vo (2 vols). Full calf. Harris, William. An historical and critical account of the life and writings of Charles I. R. Griffiths, 1758. 8vo, later pebble-grain cloth. Williams, Robert Folkestone (ed.). The Court and Times of Charles I. Henry Colburn, 1848. 8vo, coarse-grain plum cloth gilt. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 166 Whitelocke, Sir Bulstrode Memorials of the English Affairs, Or, an Historical Account of What Passed From the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second His Happy Restauration. Printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1682. Folio, boards backed with later pebble-grain cloth. Whitelock was a jurist, Parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He managed to maintain a dignified position during the Commonwealth and was seen as supporting Cromwell not for Parliamentary Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£40Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£40Status:Closed Lot 167 Fox, Charles James A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second. William Miller, 1808. 4to, paper-backed boards, paper label to spine; port. frontis. Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£30Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£30Status:Closed Lot 168 Pepys, Samuel The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. George Bell & Sons, 1902. 8vo (10 vols). Half calf over marbled boards, t.e.g., red markers; all maps and illus as called for. Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £100Status:Not Sold Lot 174 Lincoln, William The Crest and Monogram Album. William S. Lincoln, [c.1890s]. 8vo, red bubble-grain cloth; unpaginated, 24 leaves of decorated mounts, four pages of advertisements at rear. Fourth ed. An attractively produced album for collecting badges, crests and similar from one of the pioneers of stamp collecting. The album has been partially filled in, with ten unfilled leaves and the others with varying numbers of crests. Some leaves have been designed to suit particular styles of emblem - Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£60 - £80Status:Not Sold Lot 175 Photography A collection of c. late 19th and early 20th century photographs, including tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and others, principally portraits, CDVs and cabinet photographs, some in leather album with clasp, two in small cases [qty] Estimate:£150 - £200Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £200Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 176 Book Binding Screw book press, black with gold decoration. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 178 Milton, Billy; Garrick Club Visitors and autograph book from Billy Milton's theatrical parties at the storied Garrick Club, 1944-1985. Oblong 8vo, full calf; pp. c.100 8-line pages, majority completed with autographs, inscriptions and similar MSS notes. Billy Milton was a stage and screen actor until only a few years before his death. This book contains the guest lists for Milton's famed parties, and as such forms a huge collection of signatures of a cross-section of the theatrical world (critic Estimate:£300 - £500Sold For:£700Status:Closed View details Estimate:£300 - £500Sold For:£700Status:Closed Lot 179 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Works. Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1930. 8vo (23 of 24 vols). Half blue morocco, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot, t.e.g.; frontis. in first volume. Crowborough Edition - limited, no. 688 of 750, signed by Doyle. Lacking vol. 22 The Parasite. The Captain of the Pole-Star, Other Stories. Estimate:£800 - £1,000Sold For:£1,600Status:Closed View details Estimate:£800 - £1,000Sold For:£1,600Status:Closed Lot 180 Shelley, Percy Bysshe The Complete Poetical Works. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1892. 8vo (8 vols). Finely bound in full red crushed morocco, boards with gilt roll-tooled borders around double gilt-ruled fillet borders, enclosing gilt panel with four floral and pointillé corner-pieces with central on-laid black morocco discs, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot in gilt, others with elaborate floral panels, five raised bands with decorative central rule, gilt-rul Estimate:£800 - £1,000Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£800 - £1,000Status:Not Sold Lot 181 Sabatini, Rafael The Writings of Rafael Sabatini. Boston and New York: Printed at the Riverside Press Cambridge for the Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924-37. 8vo (34 vols). 24 finely bound in full red crushed morocco, boards with gilt roll-tooled borders around single gilt-ruled fillet borders enclosing two entwined double gilt-ruled fillets with alternating arch and mitre corner-pieces, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot in gilt, others with gilt panels, five raised Estimate:£300 - £500Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£300 - £500Status:Not Sold Lot 182 Austen, Jane; Thomson, Hugh (illus) Pride and Prejudice. George Allen, 1894. 8vo, org. decorative green cloth gilt, upper board with elaborate peacock design, spine lettered and decorated similarly in gilt, a.e.g.; numerous illus to text by Thomson. First illustrated edition. Often regarded as the most beautifully produced of Austen's works, the quality of Thomson's drawings, and their expression of the spirit of Austen, has led to them becoming as synonymous with her work as Shepard is with Mil Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£1,200Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£1,200Status:Closed Lot 183 Beaumont and Fletcher Dramatic Works. John Stockdale, 1811. 8vo (3 vols). Full coarse-grain plum morocco, sometime rebacked, boards ruled in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two; 2 eng. ports in I. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 184 Various; Bell, Robert (ed) Golden Leaves from the Works of the Poets and Painters. Charles Griffin, 1865. 8vo, leather-backed, calf-effect wooden boards, upper board with floral border enclosing title, spine richly gilt, lettered directly with title in gilt, gilt star-patterned endpapers, a.e.g.; port. frontis., illus to text. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed Lot 185 Carroll, Lewis Miss Leila Campbell Taylor. Two photographs printed directly from the original wet collodion glass negatives, made Oct. 1879. Sunday Times, 1987. Two mounted photographs accompanied by four explanatory text sheets. Special limited edition, no. 91 of 1000, These two images come from the final six months of Carroll's photographic output. They were, apart from one other, the only known surviving Carroll negatives and after printing this limited run, they were donated to a 'national p Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£50Status:Closed Lot 186 Doyle, Arthur Conan The Sherlock Holmes Long Stories. John Murray, 1929. 8vo, org. cloth in uncommon dj. First edition in one volume. idem The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. John Murray, 1934. 8vo, org. cloth in dj. Reprint. Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£300Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£300Status:Closed Lot 187 Dickens, Charles David Copperfield. Bradbury & Evans, 1850. 8vo, half leather; pp: [5], viii-xiv, [2], 624; frontis., add. eng. tit., 48 plates. First edition, early issue. Noted issue points: No half-title; six-line errata leaf on page xv; chap. xxvii listed in table contents at p.283, instead of 282; ''recal'' line 1 p.16 and line 22 p. 225; ''chapter;ut'' on p.19, 12 lines from bottom; ''coroboration'' p.387, 6 lines from bottom; p.472, 13 lines from the bottom has no closing quotation marks Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 188 House of Elzevir Caesar, Julius C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant ex emendatione Ios. Scaglieri. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. 12mo, full vellum, flat spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers and edges; eng. tit., 5 woodcut plates and 2 (of 3) folding maps; provenance: George John, 5th Earl de la Warr (impressive armorial bookplate on upper pastedown and spilling over to ffep) -- Robert J. Hayhurst (retail pharmacy chain owner and noted book coll Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 189 Gautier, Theophile Works. The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1900-1903. 8vo (12 vols). Blue cloth, paper labels on spines; monochrome plates. Edition de luxe, unnumbered of 1000. Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 190 Lee, Nathaniel The Rival Queens or the Death of Alexander the Great. J. Magnes and R. Bentley, 1677. 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. [8 (title page defective, lacking one page of Epistle Dedicatory)], 64 [66, two leaves numbered 25-26], [2 (Epilogue)]; provenance: small ink stamp of Penzance Library on Epistle Dedicatory page, ink MSS note on ffep states it was purchased from ''John Kinsman, Penzance'' in 1879. First edition. With a dedicatory verse to Lee by Dryden and prologue written by Sir Charles Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£60Status:Closed Lot 191 Lycophronis Lycophronis chalcidensis Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis. Accedunt versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, annotationes & indices necessarii. Cura & opera Johannis Potteri & Collegii Lincolniensis Socii. Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano. Oxford, Sheldonianus, 1697. Folio, full calf, sometime rebacked, spine with contrasting morcco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; eng. frontis., eng. tit. First ed. A deliberately (wilfully) obscure proto-Mannerist poem, full Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£80Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £120Sold For:£80Status:Closed Lot 192 Milton, John; Martin, John (illus.) Paradise Lost. Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1853. 4to, full coarse-grain plum leather gilt; 24 mezzotints by John Martin. Martin's mezzotints were first sold in stages to subscribers. Twenty-four were then selected to accompany the poem, originally in a two-volume edition in 1827. Mezzotints seem especially apt for Milton's work, with their emphasis on the contrast between dark and light. Typical of all artists, in imagining Milton's work, Martin has drawn on Estimate:£300 - £500Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£300 - £500Status:Not Sold Lot 193 Trollope, Anthony The Way We Live Now. Chapman & Hall, 1875. 8vo (2 vols). Half leather over marbled boards, spine of I with restoration to head; 40 illus by Lionel G. Fawkes. First edition. Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£300 - £400Status:Not Sold Lot 194 Wordsworth, William The Prelude. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2007. 8vo, grey cloth in slipcase; frontis. and 13 plates after watercolours by David Esslemont. Limited ed, no. 53 of 200. Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 195 Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark. Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. 8vo, org. boards in dj. First ed. Short neat ink gift inscription on ffep. Le Carre, John Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hodder & Stoughton, 1974. 8vo, org. boards in unclipped dj (£2.95). First ed. Previous evidence of owners in ink on ffep, one inscription heavily crossed. Rushdie, Salman The Satanic Verses. Viking, 1988. 8vo, org. boards in unclipped jacket (£12.95). First ed. du Maurier, Daphne The Rebecca Notebook & Other Memories. V Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£30Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£30Status:Closed Lot 196 Thrillers Forsyth, Frederick The Biafra Story. Penguin, 1969. 8vo, org. wrappers. With Odessa File, Fourth Protocol and Devil's Alternative. 8vo, org. cloth in djs. First eds. Deighton, Len Berlin Game, XPD, and Blitzkreig. 8vo, org. cloth in djs. First eds. Higgins, Jack Storm Warning, Day of Judgement, and Solo. 8vo, org. cloth in djs. First eds. Maclean, Alistair When Eight Bells Toll and Athabasca. 8vo, org. cloth in djs. First eds. Various Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies. 8vo, org. cloth Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lot 197 Signed Modern First Editions Thatcher, Margaret, The Downing Street Years, signed on the endpaper, (1993); Snowdon, Public Appearances (1991); Heller, Joseph, Closing Time (1994, First UK); James, P.D., A Certain Justice (1997); Le Carre, John, Our Kind of Traitor (2010); Van Der Post, Laurens, The Voice of the Thunder (1993); Rose, Alec, My Lively Lady (1968, 2nd Imp.); Archer, Jeffrey, The First Miracle (1994); with 6 others. [14]. Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£100Status:Closed Lot 198 Banks, Lynne Reid The L-Shaped Room. Chatto & Windus, 1960. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (16s). First ed. Naughton, Bill Alfie. MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (25s). First ed. Sillitoe, Alan Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. W.H. Allen, 1958. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (13s 6d). First ed. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 200 Bohdanowiczowa, Zofia Ziemia Milosci. London: University of Stephen Bathory Abroad, 1954. 8vo, org. wrappers. Limited ed., one of 1000, of which 100 were de luxe. Bohdanowiczowa was a Polish poet, displaced during WWII. She has gained a more recent indie prominence through her great-granddaughter Sofia's film MS Slavic 7, which draws on her letters to Nobel-nominated author Josef Wittlin. Estimate:£50 - £60Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£50 - £60Status:Not Sold Lot 201 Christie, Agatha Towards Zero. Collins Crime Club, 1944. 8vo, org. orange cloth in unclipped dj (7s 6d). First ed., with dated copyright page and dedication to Graves, rear panel advertises Five Little Pigs and The Moving Finger. Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£150Status:Closed View details Estimate:£50 - £60Sold For:£150Status:Closed Lot 202 Fleming, Ian For Your Eyes Only. Jonathan Cape, 1960. 8vo, org. black cloth, upper board with white eye design, spine lettered in gilt, in unclipped Richard Chopping jacket. First ed. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£180Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£180Status:Closed Lot 203 Lewis, Wyndham One-Way Song. Faber and Faber, 1933. 8vo, original full vellum, upper board and spine lettered directly in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; decorated title page, four illus by Lewis. Signed limited ed., no. 21 of 40. Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold Lot 204 Lewis, Wyndham Apes of God. Arco Publishers, 1955. 8vo, org. cloth in dj. Signed limited edition, no. 655 of 1000. Orwell, George The Road to Wigan Pier. Victor Gollancz, 1937. 8vo, org. wrappers. Left Book Club Edition. ''Not for sale to the Public.'' With loosely inserted Club membership application. Two of the more brutal eviscerations of their own class and circle of the 1930s. Whilst Lewis used obvious farce to poke the sacred cows of the Bloomsbury set, Orwell turned dramatically from repo Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£90Status:Closed View details Estimate:£80 - £100Sold For:£90Status:Closed Lot 206 Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings; Poems and Songs. George Allen & Unwin, 1979 and 1980. 8vo (3 vols). Org. decorative cloth in boxes, retaining glassine wrappers (with some wear, Rings wrapper torn in two both parts present). De Luxe eds, Hobbit 2nd imp., Rings 7th imp. Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £250Status:Not Sold Lot 214 Duns Scotus, John Opera Omnia, volumes 1-2, 4 & 5 (part 2) - 12. Lyon: laurence Durand, 1639. Folio (12 of 14 vols). Full contemporary vellum, red edges; eng. port. frontis. by Cornelis Bloemaert and with eng. title printed in red and black, separate titles printed in red and black to each book. First ed. Estimate:£400 - £600Sold For:£350Status:Closed View details Estimate:£400 - £600Sold For:£350Status:Closed Lots Per Page 122448 <<|1|>> Previous 1 Next
