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SCOTT, Sir Walter, A Collection of 11 Works in 28 Volumes. 1st and early editions. leather bound. varying sizes (28)
£70-150
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Encyclopédie Méthodique Recueil D'Antiquities. Paris 1804. 4 vols. 4to. binding loose and badly damaged plus mixed Archaeology, Atlases, pamphlets. sold as found (qty)
£50-80
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Apologia de la Lengua Bascongada " Ensayo CrÌtÌco FilosÛfico...Madrid 1803. full calf. 8vo. plus seven further Spanish, Portuguese Antiquarian titles. sold as found
£40-80
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WILLIAMS, The Rev. John, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands. John Snow, London 1845. bound with MOFFAT, Robert, Missionary Labours and Scenes in South Africa 1846 and LESLIE, Charles, The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated plus a collection of 9 late 19th and early 20th Century Travel titles (10)
£50-100
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A COLLECTION OF 21 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BINDINGS. full and half calf. tooled. 8vo. mainly Theology titles plus 13 Continental bindings (34)
£40-80
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HUNTER, Henry, Sacred Biography or the History of The Patriarchs. 6 vols. Murray, London 1792. 8vo. full calf plus SKENE, W.F. 'Chronicles of The Scots'. Edinburgh 1867 plus 28 further Antiquarian titles, Scotland, Heraldry, Education etc (35)
£40-80
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KIPLING, Rudyard, A group of 8 titles, uniformly bound. 1/2 calf with tooled crest and banded spines. Macmillan, London c.1930. 8vo. (8)
£30-60
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A COLLECTION OF THIRTY THREE 18TH/19TH CENTURY BINDINGS inc. Ovid, Plutarch, varying condition. sold as found (33)
£30-60
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The Tryal of Dr Henry Sacheverell before The House of Peers for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Jacob Tonson, London 1710. bound with two associated titles. 1 vol. small Fo. (330 x 210mm). full calf. boards loose. worn damage. plus JOHN, Lord Bishop of Chester, 'An Exposition of The Creed'. 9th Ed. London 1710. for C Griffin and Sam Keble, portrait frontispiece. small Fo. (330 x 210mm). full tooled calf. bumped, splits and wear. sold as found (2)
£50-100
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SMITH, William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Murray. London 1880-1901. 5 vols. 1/2 blue leather (238 x 155mm) plus 4 further 19th Century Dictionaries (9)
£30-60
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AN 18TH CENTURY SLAVIC INVOCATION printed throughout in red and black with vignettes on title and first page, the pencil note on replaced end paper implies that the book was the property of Catherine II (of Russia). Fo. (350 x 215mm). finely tooled full calf. losses to spine and badly wormed, remnants of metal hasps. sold as found
£100-200
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Appel a L'Impartiale Postérité par la Citoyenne Roland, Femme du Ministre de L'Intériur 4 pts in 2 vols. Paris 1795. 8vo. original boards. b/p of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, so signed. plus a collection of 28 Antiquarian titles. bound in vellum and original boards. sold as found (30)
£70-150
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LE GONIDEC, Dictionnaire FranÁais-Breton, Saint Brieuc 1847. 1 vol. plus Dictionnaire de L'Académie FranÁoise. Nouvelle Ed. 2 vols. Nismes 1786. 2 vols. full 'burr' calf. with red and black titles. boards loose. splits, bumps
£30-50
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BINDINGS:-
A COLLECTION OF 35 OLD CALF BOUND 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE TITLES most with tooled ornament. sold as found (35)
£40-80
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BINDINGS:-
A COLLECTION OF 39 ANTIQUARIAN TITLES mainly 18th Century English, all leather bound but in generally poor condition. sold as found (39)
£40-80
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PEPYS, Samuel, Diary...Edited with additions by H.B. Wheatley. 10 vols. 8vo. red morocco. Zaehnsdorf binding, George Bell, London 1893-1899. with gilt tooled title and banded spine, bumps and splits. plus a collection of 14 Antiquarian theological bindings (24)
£70-150
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DE FOE, Daniel, Novels and Works. Tegg. 20 vols. London 1840. small format. broken condition throughout. plus a collection of 27 Childrens and Juvenile titles, late 19th/20th Century, generally in 'used' condition and sold as found
£30-50
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DICKENS, Charles, A group of seventeen early editions of Dickens' Works, London, Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, marbled boards, half calf, gold tooled black titles, 4to (17)
£150-250
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HOPE, Sir William, The Compleat Horseman, 2nd Ed. London 1717 with plates, contemporary calf, 4to. scuffed splits etc plus The History of Don Quixote by Cervantes, Illus. by Gustav Doré, Cassell, Petter and Galphin, London, brown paper wrappers. 4to. both sold as found (2)
£30-50
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RANDOM, Roderick, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. 4 vols. 5th Ed. London 1782. small 8vo. full calf. red titles, stained and scuffed (4)
£40-80
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AN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET 'Three Proclamations by the King'. 8pp inc. title. 'Imprinted first at Yorke and now reprinted at London by F.L. for Mary Thomas 1642 July the Nineth' (200 x 150mm)
£70-150
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ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, a bookplate with coat of arms and motto 'Faith and Works'. printed after the battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 but before the augmentation of his coat of arms granted for the battle of the Nile (130 x 100mm)
£40-70
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HEATH, James, A Chronicle of the Late Intestine War in the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. printed for J.C. by Thomas Basset, London 1676. 2nd Ed. large 4to. (297 x 195mm), engraved frontispiece of Charles 1st and many Royalists. Full calf, gilt edges, restored spine, marbled end papers and b/p for Joseph Neeld (1)
£150-300
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NALSON, John, A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of King Charles I.. H.C. for Thomas Dring, London 1684, engraved allegorical frontispiece with explanation, plate with explanation of court and portrait of King Charles. Bridgewater Library b/p. pencil notes, stains and foxing, full calf, rebacked. small Fo. (320 x 210mm)
£150-300
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ALISON, Archibald, The Military Life of John 1st, Duke of Marlborough, Blackwood, Edinburgh 1848. 8vo. 1/2 calf and red cloth boards with maps plus HUTCHINSON, Lucy, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, London 1806, portrait frontispiece. 1/2 calf and marbled boards. 4to. (2)
£70-150
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BUTLER, Samuel, Hudibras. 3 vols in one, engraved portrait frontispiece, all plates present some folding, full calf rebacked. Powell (printer) Dublin 1732. 12mo. stains and bumps plus The Royal Kalendar for the Year 1797, Debrett, London, rebacked full calf, loose boards and binding. 12mo. (2)
£40-80
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MILTON, John, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Harrap, London 1909. 2 vols. 12mo. top edges gilt remainder untrimmed, full calf, Art Nouveau binding decorated with stylised honesty plants (2)
£50-100
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CROMWELL, Thomas, Excursions in the County of Sussex, Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme and Brown, London 1822. small format (165 x 104mm), folding maps of Sussex and Chichester plus other plates, gilt edges, full red calf with gilt ornament, scuffed, bumped
£70-150
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CHAMBERS, William and Robert, Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Edinburgh 1845-1847. 20 vols. bound in 10. 1/2 red calf and marbled boards. 12mo. plus a group of 12 decorative tooled calf and cloth bindings (22)
£100-200
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AIKIN, Lucy, 'Memoirs of the Court of King James the First', Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, London 1822, 2 vols. 8vo. 2nd Ed. 1/2 calf, marbled boards (2)
£40-80
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DICKENS, Charles, 'Our Mutual Friends', hardcover, Chapman & Hall London 1865. 1st Ed. 2 vols bound as one. full gilt tooled calf. 40 plate illustrations by Marcus Stone. note mispelling of 'principal'. Vol 2. P115. fair overall condition plus DOMBEY & SON, hardcover, Chapman & Hall 1848. 1st Ed. 1/2 red calf and marbled boards. vignette half title and 38 illus. by Hablot K. Browne. 8vo. foxing and binding loosening. b/p (2)
£300-400
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DICKENS, Charles, Master Humphrey's Clock. hardcover. Chapman & Hall 1840. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Cattermole and Browne (Illus.) lge 8vo. 1/2 red calf and marbled boards (3)
£150-250
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, F Warne London, 9 odd vols. 1881-1893, marbled end papers, 1/2 gilt red morocco. 8vo. plus 4 vols Waverley Novels, 1/2 calf (13)
£30-50
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DICKENS, Charles, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Illustrated by Cecil Aldin, 2 vols. Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, London 1910. 8vo. green cloth stained and bumped, plus DICKENS, Charles, Christmas Carol, illus by Gaugengigl & Chominski. Cassini Boston 1887. 8vo. Ltd 376/500, dec. binding, split and stained (3)
£40-80
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TIELKE, Johann Gottieb, Craufurd (Capt. Charles) trans. 'An Account of Some of the Most Remarkable Events of the War between the Prussians, Austrians and Russians 1756-1763' London 1787. 2vols. with folding plates, pale blue cloth. 8vo. 245 x 132mm. uncut spines split, stains and bumps, sold as found
£50-150
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ILLINGWORTH, J, collected by 'A Genuine Account of The Man Whose Hands and Legs Rotted Off' in the Parish of King's-Swinford in Staffordshire, where he died June 21 1677 to which is added a discourse concerning God's Judgement...by Simon Ford, Rector of said Parish, reprinted from 1st Ed. in 1678, London, rebound with marbled end papers, 1/2 red morocco and cloth boards, gilt title 8vo. (225 x 140mm) library labels, stained and folded edges, sold as found
£70-150
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AN 18TH CENTURY BOOK entitled 'A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal, The Next Day after Her Death to one Mrs Bargrave at Canterbury The Eighth of September 1705', 16th Ed. with Preface to the Christian Reader by M Drelincourt, London 1747, full calf but front board, end papers and frontispiece deficient. 8vo. (200 x 125mm), sold as found
£70-150
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CALLIMACHUS, Ancient Greek Scholar and Poet Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni Epigrammata et Fragmenta, Sebastianus Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris 1675 in greek and latin, engraved vignette on title page (225 x 160mm) in later oversize embossed vellum binding with banded spine and red title, loose end papers, stains, bumps, etc, sold as found
£70-150
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The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by a Lady London 1755. 8vo. full calf. much used, cover written etc. sold as found (1)
£30-50
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BURNS, Robert, The Works with Notes and Illustrations, Blackie & Son, Glasgow 1858, 1/2 calf with red title. 8vo (255 x 180mm) plus The Spectator, 8 vols. New Ed. London 1816, 1/2 calf marbled boards, 12mo. plus 5 further titles (15)
£50-100
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A VICTORIAN Mss POETRY ALMANACK of 251 pages written in a fine hand in black ink with lacework inserts with index and bound in gold tooled red leather by J Edmund Aberdeen, circa 1857, 186 x 115mm
£200-300
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FITZGERALD, Edward, KARLIN, Eugene, Illustrator. 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'. Thomas Crowell, New York 1964. Ltd Ed. 224/500. signed by E.K. tooled red leather in slip case (235 x 170mm) plus 10 further editions, various dates etc (11)
£70-150
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A GROUP OF 11 19TH CENTURY POETRY TITLES small format. 12 mo. variously bound (11)
£40-60
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OXFORD INTEREST:-
THOMAS, Edward and FULLEYLOVE, John, 'Oxford'. A & C Black, London 1903. full tooled leather with armorial. (225 x 170mm). plus TAUNT, Henry, 'Oxford Illustrated by Pen & Camera'. tooled blue cloth. 4to. plus one associated title (3)
£30-50
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A COLLECTION OF 20 MODERN LITERATURE TITLES inc. Pasternak, E.M. Forster, Richard Adams, some early editions (20)
£30-50
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BIRMINGHAM INTEREST:-
A COLLECTION OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TITLES relating to the City and Warwickshire inc. PYE, Charles, 'A Description of Modern Birmingham c.1800, guides, bound magazines etc (18)
£50-100
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ASTRONOMY SCIENCE INTEREST:-
A GROUP OF 27 TITLES, varying subjects. 1st half of 20th Century (27)
£30-50
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GREENAWAY, Kate, Almanack for 1891 and 1884; together with a late 18th Century Naturalist's pocket book and almanack, 1796; a Victorian walnut and gilt metal mounted small photograph album, containing family portraits; and a late Victorian Jubilee souvenir card, the Royal Circle at Windsor (four generations) (5)
£30-50
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LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover, 'The Authors unabridged popular Edition', privately printed 1930, untrimmed and paper frontispiece covers with eagle device spine deficient, cover loose, brown paper wrappers labelled from Maurice Rousseau Paris to Craddock & Barnard, together with a small bundle of poetry volumes, pamphlets. 8vo, 200 x 150mm (8)
£70-150
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CARTOGRAPHY AND MAP COLLECTING, A Collection of fifteen reference books inc. CHUBB, Thomas, The Printed Maps in Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland 1579-1870, Dawson London, Third Imp. 1977 green cloth (15)
£70-150
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