Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
The Oxford Library Sale & A 'Cabinet of Cuiosities' (Day 2 of 2)
Auctioneer: Mallams (Oxford) Location: Bocardo House, 24a St. Michael’s Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB
Contact: 01865 241358
Date: 28th September 2017 Time: 11:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 23rd September 9am to 1pm
Monday 25th September 9am to 5pm
Tuesday 26th September 9am to 5pm
and on sale days from 8.30am
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Auction Lots - Page 6
605
Click to view full image... Thornton's TEMPLE of FLORA
Geoffrey Grigson & Handasyde Buchanan. Collins 1951.
colour plates, 1/2 cloth bds.
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
606
Click to view full image... DICHTUNGEN, O
Das Fulende Schweigen, Verlag E Richter, Dresden. limited edition no36/100. line drawings. bds, uncut edges. part of spine missing.
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
607-610
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611
Click to view full image... SATTEN, Vargo
Creatures from The Black Lagoon, Dragon Book. Based on Film of Same Title. nd. 1/2 tp tp lacking ffep. cl. bds. in pict. d.w.
£500-700 (plus 24%BP†)
612
Click to view full image... DE BRUNHOFF, JEAN
Babar and Father Christmas, Methuen 1948 4th English edition, colour plates, bds, some scuffing. Together with Neilson, H,B, The Fox's Frolic, Collins, bds, colour plates, Ames, E, Wonderful England, Grant Richards, bds, colour illus, and 3 others. 6
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
613
Click to view full image... DAHL, Roald
The Magic Finger, George Allen & Unwin 1968, 1st edition. Illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Some staining and foxing to bds.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
614
Click to view full image... WHEATLEY, Dennis
Who Killed Robert Prentice? Hutcinson, c.1936. Paper binding, worn on edges.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
615
Click to view full image... FLEMING,IAN
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventure number 1. Jonathan Cape 1964. 1st edition illustrated by John Burningham. bds, some wear and spine partly split.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
616
  MARKINO, YOSIO
The Japanese Dumpy Book, Grant Richards 1902, 32mo, colour plates, bds together with Brown, John, Rab and his Friends, clf worn and two others.
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
617
Click to view full image... RANSOME, Arthur
Missee Lee, Jonathan Cape 1941 1st edition, cloth dust jacket, together with The Picts and the Martyrs, 1943, Pigeon Post, 1936, Winter Holiday, 1933, Secret Water, 1939, The Big Six, 1940, Great Northern, 1947, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea, 1937.
All 1st editions, cloth, b&w illus by the author. 8
£200-300 (plus 24%BP†)
618
Click to view full image... COMPTON MACKENZIE, E, M
Sylvia and Michael, Martin Secker 1919 1st edition, cloth, uncut edges, together with Fairy Gold, Cassell 1926, Poor Relations, 1919 Martin Secker, Mezzotint, Chatto & Windus 1961. All 1st editions, cloth. 4
£80-120 (plus 24%BP†)
619
Click to view full image... A Small collection of Silver Reference books. 5
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
620
Click to view full image... FAIRBAIRN'S Crests
Revised by Laurence Butters, Dorset, 1986. in d/w.
£20-40 (plus 24%BP†)
621
Click to view full image... RUSSELL, C.
Swallowfield and its Owners. Longman 1901 cloth. gilt edges. illustrations & pull out pedigree chart.
£40-60 (plus 24%BP†)
622
Click to view full image... BLUNT, Wilfred Seawen
My Diaries: A Personal Narrative of Events 1888 - 1914. Martin Secker 1919. 2 vol set. cloth. uncut edges
£70-90 (plus 24%BP†)
623-629
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The following sixty two lots 630-692 are from the Library of John Ehrman

630
Click to view full image... BEWICK, Thomas
The Fables of Aesop and Others. Newcastle, 1818. des. on wood by Thomas Bewick. 4to. 1/2 marbled bds. glt. spine. bkplt. tog.with A General History of Quadrupeds. by same. engrs. on wood. Newcastle, 1820. 7th edn. 8vo. cf. scuffed. 2
£200-300 (plus 24%BP†)
631
Click to view full image... REPTON, H.
Observations on The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. T. Bensley for J. Taylor. 1803. Fo. frontis. port. Illustrations and engravings as listed. Complete with overslips. 2 small tears to margin of folding coloured plate. light offsetting. full cont. cf. glt. border & spines, dentelle inside.
£500-800 (plus 24%BP†)
632
Click to view full image... HODGES, William
Travels in India During The Years 1780, 1781,1782, & 1783. London, 1793. slim 4to. 14 engrd. plts. as listed. folding map to rear. A.e.g. full cont. cf. glt. border and armorial stmp to both bds.
£300-500 (plus 24%BP†)
633
Click to view full image... CRABBE, Rev. George
The Village A Poem in Two Books. Dodsley, 1783. slim 4to. 1bl. 1/2 tp. tp. 38. 2 bl. 1/4 bds. rebound. 1
£40-60 (plus 24%BP†)
634
Click to view full image... ROBERTSON, William,
The History of The Reign of The Emperor Charles V. Strahan, 1769, in 3 vols. 4to. bkplt. speckled cf. 3
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
635
Click to view full image... PRIOR, Matthew,
The Poetical works in Two Volumes. Strahan, 1779. 8vo. Frontis to vol. 1. annotation to ffepp. ascribed to Austin Dobson. 2 bkpts. repair to joint. full tr. cf. 2
£40-60 (plus 24%BP†)
636
Click to view full image... [BURNEY, Frances]
Evelina, or The History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. London, 1779. 4th edn. in 3 vols. 8vo. 3 engrd. frontis. full fl. cf. 3
£60-90 (plus 24%BP†)
637
Click to view full image... DRYDEN, Mr.
The Works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics, & Aeneis, in 3 vols. Tonson, 1730. 6th edn. 8vo. engrd. vigs. & initials. 3
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
638
Click to view full image... MORRIS, William
A tale of The House of The Wolfings and all The Kindreds of The Mark written in Prose & In verse by William Morris, Chiswick Press, 1901. 4to. 1/2 marbled bds. T.e.g. tog.with the Story of Grettir the Strong, Trans. from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson & William Morris, Chiswick press, 1901, Plus Hopes and Fears For Art, 1902, Plus The Odyssey of Homer, done into English by William Morris, 1902. Uniformly bound 1/2 marbled Morocco, glt. spines. 4
£300-500 (plus 24%BP†)
639
Click to view full image... [BEARD, Thomas]
Pedantius Comoedia Olim Cantabrig. Acta in coll. Trin. Nunguam antehac. Typis evulgata, Londoni, Robert Mylbourn, 1631. 12mo. engrd. tp. 2 engrd. plts. 167pp. cont. cf. worn. 1
£150-350 (plus 24%BP†)
640
Click to view full image... POLITICAL SQUIBS
Satirical Pamphlets bound into 1 vol. dated 1820. Various inc. The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, The Political House That Jack Built, Hone, 1820, The Man in The Moon. etc. etc. A Political Apple Pie, and others. 8vo. 1/4 bds.
£200-400 (plus 24%BP†)
641
Click to view full image... BOSWELL, James
An Account of Corsica, The Journal of A Tour to That Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli, Glasgow, 1768, 1st edn. 8vo. 1/2 tp. vig. to tp. full cf. folding map of Corsica.
£200-400 (plus 24%BP†)
642
Click to view full image... CLARIDGE, John
The Shepherd and Banbury's Rules to Judge of The Changes in The Weather, Grounded on Forty Years in Experience. London, 1748, 2nd. edn. slim 8vo. diced cf.
£80-120 (plus 24%BP†)
643
Click to view full image... BARTOLOZZI et al.
A Leather Album, decoratively tooled comprising engraved portraits by Bartolozzi, of 18th century figures including Marie Antoinette, William Pitt, The Prince of Wales & Gainsborough. A.e.g. 8vo.
£60-80 (plus 24%BP†)
644
Click to view full image... [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]
An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite learning in Europe. Dodsley, London, 1759. sm. 8vo. A. Eyre-Grove bkplt. marbled endpp. full cl. Plus The Life of Richard Nash, Late Master of Ceremonies at Bath. London, 1762. 2nd. edn. 8vo. frontis. port. Universal Magazine advt. to rear. new endpp. rebacked. 2
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
645
Click to view full image...
SHENSTONE, William
The Works in Verse & Prose in two volumes. with Decorations. Dodsley, 1764. Frontis. engr. tp. folding plate. 8vo. full cf. scuffed. Tog.with SMOLLET, Tobias, The Adventures of Roderick Random, in two volumes. Osborn, London, 1748. sm. 8vo. full cf. labels to spines. Plus Junius. Stat Nominis Umbra, Henry Sampson, Woodfall, 1772, 1st thus. in 2 vols. sm. 8vo. Shelburne bkplts. full glt. cl. dec. spines. 6
£150-250 (plus 24%BP†)
646
Click to view full image... GILPIN, William
Observations on The Western Part of England relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. London, 1798. 8vo. plates as listed. light foxing not affecting plts. Glt. cf. worn.
£80-120 (plus 24%BP†)
647
Click to view full image... NARDINO, Famiano.
Nardini L'Antico Veio & Tolemo L'Antico Veio Di. Famiano Nardino.Discorso Investigatino de sito di quella citta. mo All' Emin e Reu. Antonio Barberino. Roma, 1647. 8vo. later full cf. E.Gibbon bkplt.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
648
Click to view full image... JOHNSON, Samuel
The Lives of The Most eminent English Poets with Critical Observations on Their works. London, 1806. in 3 vols. 8vo. Tog.with Anecdotes of The Late Samuel Johnson During the last Twenty Years of his Life by Hesther Lynch Piozzi. Cadell, 1786. 3rd edn. 8vo. 1/2 bds. 4
£40-60 (plus 24%BP†)
649
Click to view full image... EIKON BASILIKE
The Works of King Charles the Martyr; with a collection of Declarations, Treatise, and other papers concerning differences betwixt his said Majesty and his Two Houses of Parliament. Chisell, London, 1687. 2nd edn. fo. engrd. 1/2 tp. [3] 720 [2] full cf. bd. det.
£80-130 (plus 24%BP†)
650
Click to view full image... COXE, William
Memoirs of The Life & Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. Cadell, 1798. 4to. in 3 vols. full cf. scuffed, some bds. det.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
651
Click to view full image... DOUGLAS, GAWIN, Bishop of Dunkeld (Trans. )
Virgil's Aeneis, Edinburgh, 1710. fo. Ex. Lib. John Ruskin. Translated into Scottish Verse. Margin notes by Ruskin. full cf. joint weak.
£200-400 (plus 24%BP†)
652
Click to view full image... GIBBON, Edward,
Miscellaneous Works with Memoirs of His Life and Writings. Illustrated from His Letters with occasional Notes & Narrative by John Lord Sheffield. In 2 vols. London, 17096. Silhouette frontis. diced cf. 2
£100-200 (plus 24%BP†)
653
Click to view full image... SCHEFFERI, Joannis
J. Schefferi Argentoratensis De Militia Navali veterum Libri Quatuor. Ad Historiam Graecam Latinamque utiles. Ubsaliae, 1654. 4to Engraved 1/2 Tp. wdcts. in text. Greek and Latin Text. 1bl. 4. 348. Addenda, Index. Robert Harley glt. amorial stmp. to bds. glt. dec spine with label. rebacked. 1
£200-300 (plus 24%BP†)
654
Click to view full image... LUDLOW, Edmund
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Lieutenant-General of Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, one of the Council of State, and a Member of Parliament which began on Nov. 3 1640. fo. full cf. Edmund Burke stmp. to tp.
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
655
Click to view full image... ROCQUE, John (engr.)
A New and Accurate Survey of The Cities of London & Westminster. The Borough of Southwark with The country about it for 19 miles in length & 13 in depth. 1751. Atlas fo. 16 double page maps.
£2000-3500 (plus 24%BP†)
656
Click to view full image... BIRCH, Thomas
The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain. engraved by Mr. Hourbraken, and Mr. Vertue with Their Lives and Characters. Knapton, 1743. Lge. Fo. in 2 vols. a.e.g. Glt. tooled Morocco.
£300-500 (plus 24%BP†)
657
Click to view full image... [PARR, Samuel]
A Free Translation of The Preface to Bellendenius; containing Annotated Structures in the Great Political Characters of The Present Time. London, 1788. 8vo. uncovered bds worn.
£30-50 (plus 24%BP†)
658
Click to view full image... LOVE, James,
The Mariner's Jewel or A Pocket Companion for the Ingenious, London, 1710. 12mo. full cont. fl. worn. 1
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
659
Click to view full image... MILLAR, Philip,
The Gardeners Kalendar, Rivington, 1754. 10th edn. 8vo. Frontis. ffep & upr. bd. det. Tog.with A Folding map of Hampshire. Sections on canvas. Geographer T. Kitchin. Carrington Bowles, nd. in worn case. 2
£50-80 (plus 24%BP†)
660
Click to view full image... (BY A NEAR OBSERVER)
The Battle of Waterloo, containing The Accounts published by authority British & Foreign and Other Relevant documents, London, 1815. 8vo. folding map, Panoramic scene showing positions of battle, folding Plan. 1/2 marbled bds. worn. 1
£150-350 (plus 24%BP†)
661
Click to view full image... CHARNOCK, John
An History of Marine Architecture including an enlarged & Progressive view of the Nautical regulations and Naval History. Faulder, London, 1800. in 3 vols. lge. 4to. Folding engrd. frontis. plates present 1/2 marbled bds. worn & scuffed. joints weak. tog.with A Collection of All Such Statutes and Parts of Statutes as any way relating to The Admiralty and Ships of War & other incidental Matters. London, 1742. 4to. bkplt. Admiral Martin full cf. scuffed. 4
£300-500 (plus 24%BP†)
662
Click to view full image... ADMIRAL THE MARQUESS OF MILFORD HAVEN.
(Prince Louis of Battenberg until 1917). British Naval Medals. Murray, 1919. Fo. Insc. by Mountbatten of Burma & presented to Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake in 1967. full cl. label to spine.
£150-250 (plus 24%BP†)
663
Click to view full image... HANWAY, J
The Seaman's Faithful companion. Being Religious, and moral advice to Officers of The Royal Navy.....soldiers to which is prefixed instructions to Orphan Boys, and others put out to sea or land Service by the Marine Society. Rivington, London, 1763. 6mo. Frontis. engrd. [16] xxviii 73 [8] [1] 136. Marbled ednpp. speckled cf. glt. spine.
£100-300 (plus 24%BP†)
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
The Oxford Library Sale & A 'Cabinet of Cuiosities' (Day 2 of 2)
Auctioneer: Mallams (Oxford) Location: Bocardo House, 24a St. Michael’s Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB
Contact: 01865 241358
Date: 28th September 2017 Time: 11:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 23rd September 9am to 1pm
Monday 25th September 9am to 5pm
Tuesday 26th September 9am to 5pm
and on sale days from 8.30am
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