| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 1 | |||
ANTIQUES, ART REFERENCE AND ARCHITECTURE | |||
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| Terry (Garnet) A Complete Round of Cyphers for the use of Engravers, Painters, Sculptors, Jewellers, Hair Workers, Enamellers, Pattern-Drawers, &c., Consisting of Six Hundred Examples for the forming of Cyphers of Every Denomination, nd. [c1795], Bowles & Carver, 4to., 27 engraved plates including title and additional final plate of coronets and helmets, later half vellum £100 - 200 |
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| Vitruvius Pollio Les Dix Livres D'Architecture de Vitruve ...., 1684, 2nd edition of Perrault's translation, folio, engraved title and 65 (of 68) plates, lacking Ll1-2,(plates 31 & 32) and Ggg1-2 (Plate 52), early calf (joints cracked) £100 - 200 |
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| Joseph (Adrian M.) Chinese and Annamese Ceramics found in the Philippines and Indonesia, nd. small folio, unnumbered ltd. edition of 1020, colour plates, hardback, original pictorial slipcase; Moss (Hugh M.), Snuff Bottles of China, 1971, 4to., tipped-in colour plates, original leatherette, slipcase (2) £70 - 100 |
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| Richardson (A.E.) Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland During the XVIIIth & XIXth Centuries, nd., large folio plate volume, containing frontis and 60 plates (4 of the plates sharing 2 sheets), each plate mounted and loose within cloth folio (mounts 544mm x 392mm); Garner (Thomas) & Stratton (Arthur), The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, nd. 3 vols., folio, subscriber's copy, pages and plates loose as issued within original printed card and cloth folios (4) £80 - 120 |
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| Loomis (Roger Sherman & Laura Hibbard) Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art, 1966, quarter morocco; Cockerell (Sydney C.), Old Testament Miniatures, nd., Phaidon, folio, dust wrapper; with a quantity of others (qty) £100 - 150 |
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| R. Wallace & Co., Tunbridge Wells Scheme for Garden at Kempsford Manor, Fairford, Glocestershire for C. Bryant Esq., nd., large garden plan with plantings and landscaping, watercolour and manuscript on single sheet, 665mm x 1015mm (folded, some wear to edges) £30 - 50 |
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| Textiles An interesting collection of books on textiles and the textile industry including; Chemische Fabriken, The Properties and Application of the Coal-tar Colours, nd., coloured cloth samples throughout, original cloth; John Barkers, Washing Fabrics 1926-27, patterned cloth samples throughout; Roche (Julian), The International Cotton Trade, 1994, dust wrapper; Boehn (Max von), Die Mode, Menschen und Moden ..., 1907-14, 5 vols., cloth; Longworth (James H.), The Cotton Mills of Bolton 1780-1985, wraps; with a quantity of others (qty) £200 - 300 |
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| Architecture Reports and Papers read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Archdeaconry of Northampton, the Counties of York and Lincoln, and of the Architectural & Archaeological Societies of Bedfordshire and St Albans, Vol I - XXI, 1850-1892, 21 vols., half calf; Evans (John), The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain, 1872, presentation copy, 3 page a.l.s. from the author tipped in to front endpaper, original cloth (22) £100 - 200 |
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| Kaemmerer (J.H.) & Jennings (Arthur Seymour) Kaemmerer's Practical Letter Book .. containing Several Hundred Alphabets in 140 Plates, together with a descriptive text, For the Use of Sign Painters, Show Card Writers, Decorators, Artists and Craftsmen, 1911, oblong folio, 140 b/w plates, original cloth £50 - 100 |
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| Horology Crom (Theodore R.), Horological Shop Tools 1700 to 1900, 1980, original cloth; Lloyd (H. Alan), Some Outstanding Clocks over Seven Hundred Years 1250-1950, 1981, numbered ltd. edition of 1000, suedette (joint cracking); with two others (4) £80 - 120 |
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| Horology Darken (Jeff) & Hooper (John), English 30 Hour Clocks, Origin & Development, 1600-1800, 1997, signed by Hooper, dust wrapper; Edwardes (Ernest L.), Weight-Driven Dutch Clocks & Their Japanese Connections, 1996, dust wrapper; id., The Story of the Pendulum Cloth, 1977, dust wrapper; id., The Grandfather Clock, 1974, dust wrapper; id., Weight-driven Chamber-Clocks ..., 1965, dust wrapper (torn); with eight others (13) £100 - 200 ORIGINAL ARTWORK, CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED |
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| The Omar Khayyam Club A small collection relating to this London club, comprising; [O.K.C.], The Book of the Omar Khayyam Club, 1892 - 1910, 1910, numbered ltd. edition of 181, tipped-in illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed boards; [O.K.C.], The Second Book of the Omar Khayyam Club, 1910 - 1929, 1931, numbered ltd. edition of 125, tipped-in illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed boards; Bateman (H.M.), 'But fill me with the old familiar juice ....', 1923, signed pen and ink sketch, 205mm x 150mm, (original artwork for the illustration on p 89 of the second book); Low [David], 'Plat du Jour John Henderson', nd., signed pen and ink cartoon, 360mm x 320mm; Low [David], 'Omar Ma'Khayy Club' nd. signed pen and ink cartoon, 370mm x 285mm, (original artwork for the illustration on p. 143 of the second book); East (Sir Alfred), A watercolour and charcoal sketch of '...the Sultans Turret in a Noose of Light', 1912, inscribed 'To the Omar Khayyam Club from Alfred East', 250mm x 323mm, (original artwork for the illustration on p. 37 of the second book), mounted, framed and glazed; Bone (Muirhead), 'The Sardinian Embassy', nd., pencil and charcoal sketch, 272mm x 213mm, signed, mounted, framed and glazed; Indistinct Signature, Pencil and Charcoal Sketch of a large building, 190mm x 196mm, mounted, framed and glazed [from the estate of John Henderson, Secretary of the National Liberal Club and Secretary and Treasurer of the Omar Khayyam Club) £300 - 500 |
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| Donne (John) The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, 1938, Dent, illustrated by Eric Gill, ltd. edition of 550, signed by the artist, original cloth £80 - 120 |
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| Crane (Walter) Beauty and the Beast Picture Book, nd. [c1900], 4to., original cloth (worn, pages loose); Anon., The Ten Little Niggers, nd. Warne, linen backed pages, very badly worn; Ames (Ernest), An ABC for Baby Patriots, nd. (inscription dated 1899), oblong folio, colour plates, original cloth-backed boards; with a small quantity of others including a number of 19th century topographical engravings on notepaper by Rock & Co. etc. (qty) £100 - 200 |
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| The Bookman's Portfolios Nielsen (Kay), The Bookman Portfolio containing plates in colour .. illustrating Hansel and Gretel and other stories by the brothers Grimm,1925, 3 tipped-in colour plates, original card wraps; Maxwell (Donald), Sea and Sussex from Rudyard Kipling's Verse, 1926, 3 mounted colour plates, original wraps; Simmonds (W.G.), Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, 1910, 3 tipped-in colour plates, original card wraps; England (Nora), Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns, 1923, 3 tipped-in colour plates, original card wraps; with two others (6) £80 - 120 |
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| Barrie (J.M.) Quality Street, a Comedy in four Acts, nd. [c1913], numbered ltd. edition of 1000, signed by the illustrator Hugh Thomson, 22 tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., original vellum gilt £50 - 100 |
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| White (Gilbert) The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne, 1938, Nonesuch Press, 2 vols., illustrated by Eric Ravilious, t.e.g., original cloth £300 - 500 |
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| Lang (Andrew) The Brown Fairy Book, 1904, first edition; id., The Orange Fairy Book, 1906, first edition; id., The Olive Fairy Book, 1907, first edition; id., The Lilac Fairy Book, 1910, first edition; id., The Green Fairy Book, 1906, seventh impression; id., The Red Fairy Book, 1907, ninth impression; each with a.e.g. and in original cloth (6) £100 - 200 |
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| Hawthorne (Nathaniel) A Wonder Book, nd. [c1922], Hodder and Stoughton, 24 plates (including 16 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards) by Arthur Rackham, original cloth gilt £100 - 150 |
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| Jerrold (Walter) The Big Book of Fables, 1912, 4to., 28 tipped-in colour plates by Charles Robinson, tissue guards, t.e.g., original white cloth gilt (soiled); Shakespeare (William), A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1914, Constable, 12 tipped-in colour plates, original cloth; Dulac (Edmund), Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, nd., [c1916], 4to., 15 tipped-in colour plates, binding weak, original cloth; with seven others (10) £200 - 400 |
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| Jacobs (Helen) Original artwork depicting King Arthur and Jousting Knights, used for the cover of Thomas Mallory's 'King Arthur and His Knights', nd., watercolour and gouache, visible image 280mm x 372mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with a copy of the book published by Philip & Tacey (2) £50 - 100 |
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| Follower of Florence Harrison Seven hand-coloured, pen and ink sketches, nd., each image approx 170mm x 108mm, each on board, 4 of the images are mounted, framed and glazed £50 - 100 |
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| Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill and other Essays in Prose and Verse, 1904, deluxe 'large paper' ltd. edition printed on Japanese vellum, 17 illustrations (14 plates) as called for, original white cloth gilt £200 - 300 |
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| Plate Volumes Two albums of engraved topographical plates, one containing views of Cheltenham, the other of Kent; together with Mudie (Robert), Hampshire: Its Past and Present Condition and Future Prospects, Vols I & II, nd, folding map, engraved plates, calf; Beattie (William), The Ports, Harbours, Watering Places and Coast Scenery of Great Britain, 1842, Vol I, engraved plates, morocco; H. Kleinmann & Co., Handzeichnungen Alter Meister der Hollaendischen Schule - Sketches and Drawings, by the Old Masters of the Dutch School, nd. 5 vols., folio, half morocco, Signet library; Landseer (Edwin), The Works of .., 4 vols., folio, original cloth (books not collated and are sold as a collection of plates) (14) £100 - 200 |
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| Fuko (Matsumoto) Niphon Gwafu, A Collection of Sketches by Japanese Artists, [1891], folio, 8 colour woodblock plates, wraps; with two other Japanese books, with colour woodblock illustrations throughout, wraps (3) £50 - 100 |
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| Chamberlain (B.H.) & James (T.H.) The Japanese Fairy Tale Series Nos 1 - 16, Tokyo; Kobunsha, London; Griffith, Farran & Co., crepe paper with colour woodblock prints throughout, 16 books bound in four volumes, cloth (spines worn) £200 - 400 |
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| France (Anatole) Histoire de dona Maria d'Avalos et de don Frabricio, duc d'Andria, manuscrite et enluminee par Leon Lebegue, 1902-3, Paris, numbered ltd. edition of 15, illuminated and illustrated, with hand-colouring throughout, printed on Japon paper, with an original signed watercolour, a duplicate set of pages printed in red and black and a further set printed in black and white before letters, on 'papier de Chine', a.e.g., silk endpapers, hand marbled fly leaves, full morocco by H. Blanchetiere with polychrome inner dentelles £1000 - 1500 |
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| Rolleston (T.W.) Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail, 1912, Harrap, numbered ltd. edition of 525, signed by the illustrator Willy Pogany, 16 tipped-in colour plates, t.e.g., half morocco by Hatchards of Piccadilly £400 - 600 |
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| Crane (Walter) Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, 1906, Cassell, colour lithos. throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; id., A Flower Wedding, 1905, Cassell, colour lithos. throughout, original cloth-backed boards; Andersen (Hans Christian), Fairy Tales, 1930, 40 plates by Harry Clarke, original cloth; id. The Snow Queen, [1929 or later], Dutton, illustrated by Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender, dust wrapper (torn); with three others (7) £100 - 200 |
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| Dean's Moveable Book Dogs' Party, nd., Dean and Son, 8 hand-coloured pages, moving parts to each page, some wear and tears, one page with defective part and possibly lacking further part, original cloth-backed pictorial boards £150 - 200 |
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| Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1913, first edition, original grey-green paper boards with pictorial label (lower joints split, hinge gaping after final page of text) £50 - 100 |
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| Shakespeare (William) Titus Andronicus, nd., [c1970], Gehenna Press, folio, first volume of the Gehenna Shakespeare, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, numbered ltd edition of 150/250, signed by the artist, 12 plates, t.e.g., half morocco £100 - 200 |
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| Rogerson (Ian) Barnett Freedman, the graphic art, 2006, Fleece Press, 4to., DVD in rear pocket, original cloth, slipcase; Smith (Clare Sydney), The Golden Reign, the story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia', 2004, Fleece Press, ltd. edition of 500, cloth, slipcase (2) £100 - 150 |
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| Pennar (Meirion) (transl.) Lines from The Black Book of Carmarthen - Thoughts in Maytime, 2007, Tern Press, limited to 15 copies, (this copy not numbered or signed) oblong large folio, lithographs by Nicholas Parry, half morocco £50 - 100 |
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| Pinter (Harold) The Disappeared and other Poems, 2002, Enitharmon Editions, numbered deluxe ltd. edition of 95 copies, signed by Harold Pinter and the illustrator Tony Bevan, tipped-in colour plates, original cloth, with signed and numbered etching by Tony Bevan in separate folder, both contained in original slipcase £200 - 400 |
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| Trant (Carolyn) Art for Life, The Story of Peggy Angus, 2004/5, Incline Press, folio, 2 vols., numbered ltd. edition of 350, tipped-in plates, including reproductions of artwork, photographs, etc., second vol. is a portfolio of the artist's work including colour facsimile sketchbooks, as well as a CD, half cloth bindings, slipcase £150 - 200 |
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| Owen (Wilfred) The Unreturning, 2003, Tern Press, oblong folio, numbered ltd. edition of 25 copies, signed by the illustrator Nicholas Parry and by Mary Parry, original cloth, slipcase £100 - 150 |
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| Brooke (Rupert) 1914, Five Sonnets, 2002, Tern Press, oblong folio, numbered ltd. edition of 20 copies, signed by the illustrator Nicholas Parry and by Mary Parry, original half cloth, slipcase £100 - 150 |
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| Traherne (Thomas) Meditation III.83, 2008, Tern Press, oblong folio, numbered ltd. edition of 17 copies, signed by the illustrator Nicholas Parry and by Mary Parry, original quarter morocco £100 - 150 |
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| Clare (John) Remembrances, 2003, Tern Press, oblong folio, numbered ltd. edition of 25 copies, signed by the illustrator Nicholas Parry and by Mary Parry, original quarter cloth, slipcase £100 - 150 |
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| Elsted (Crispin), Evans (David), Brett (Simon), et al. Hoi Barbaroi, 2004, Barbarian Press, folio, ltd. edition of 120 regular copies, includes detailed bibliography, original quarter cloth, slipcase £100 - 200 |
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| Fine Press Book Association Parenthesis, The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 & 11, 2000 - 2005, deluxe editions, each volume accompanied by a portfolio of printing samples, booklets and ephemera, various original bindings; dust wrappers, printed paper boards, cloth, each pair in a slipcase (6) £200 - 300 |
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| Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999, Bloomsbury, first edition, first printing of the deluxe edition, full number line down to 1, copyright to Joanne Rowling, a.e.g., original cloth with pictorial onlay £200 - 300 |
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| Hillman (David) & Peccinotti (Harri) Nova 1965 - 1975, 1993, folio, first edition thus, dust wrapper £50 - 100 |
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| Johns (W.E.) Biggles Looks Back, 1965, first edition, dust wrapper; Blyton (Enid), The Mystery of Banshee Towers, 1961, first edition, dust wrapper; Brent-Dyer (Elinor M.), Jane and the Chalet School, 1964, first edition, dust wrapper; Buckeridge (Anthony), Jennings and Darbishire, 1952, first edition, dust wrapper; Saville (Malcolm), Rye Royal, 1969, first edition, dust wrapper; with five others (10) £100 - 200 |
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| Rackham (Arthur) Some British Ballads, nd., Constable, 16 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards, original blue cloth gilt; Aesop, Aesop's Fables, 1912, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, original cloth; Hudson (Derek), Arthur Rackham, 1960, 4to., original cloth (3) £50 - 100 |
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| Martin (J.P.) [illus. by Quentin Blake] Uncle, 1965, 2nd impression, dust wrapper (priced 16s.); id., Uncle Cleans Up, 1965, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); id., Uncle and his Detectives, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 18.s); id., Uncle and the Treacle Trouble, 1967, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); id., Uncle and Claudius and Camel, 1969, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 21s. / £1.05) (5) £300 - 500 |
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| Flint (William Russell) The Lisping Goddess, A Figurehead Fantasy, 1968, private printing, folio, numbered ltd. edition of 275, signed by the author, t.e.g., original quarter morocco by Mansell, slipcase £150 - 200 |
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| Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998, first edition, number line down to one, Cliff Wright dust wrapper (name to front free endpaper, spine slanted, crease to dust wrapper spine) [sold on behalf of a Hospice] £100 - 200 |
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| McGill (Donald) - Original Artwork "What an odd looking dog. What breed is it?", "Well ma'am, it was got by one of our porters out of a third class carriage!", nd., signed watercolour, 200mm x 150mm, manuscript title to verso, mounted £200 - 300 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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| Page: | 1 2 3 4 5 | ||