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CECINSKY, Herbert, English Furniture of The Eighteenth Century, The Waverley Book Company, London 1909. 3 vols. lge 4to. (315 x 259). 1/2 morocco, gilt top edges
£100-200
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HOUSEMAN, Lawrence and DULAC E, (illus) Stories from Arabian Nights, Hodder and Stoughton, London, tooled rust red cloth. 8vo. plus Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (trans), Adam and Charles Black 1909, decorative cloth binding. 8vo. plus 2 vols DULACS, Edmund, Picture Book for the French Red Cross, Hodder and Stoughton, London. plus King Alberts Book, plus 2 vols Uncle Tom's Cabin plus one other (8)
£50-100
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FOLIO SOCIETY: GRAHAM GREENE, The Complete Entertainments, 6 vols. blue cloth. in decorated slip case plus The Arabian Nights, illus. Detmold. gold tooled white cloth, slip case, plus RUSKIN, John, The Stones of Venice. dec. binding, slip case (8)
£30-60
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A FACSIMILE COPY OF 'Camden's Britannia' 1695, David and Charles, plus Facsimile 'Ogilibys Road Maps', Osprey. plus 2 Eds Time Atlas plus one other Fo. (5)
£30-60
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest, The Old Man and The Sea, Jonathan Cape, London 1952. d/w. price clipped. 8vo. plus 'For Whom the Bells Tolls', 12th imp. 1947. red cloth (2)
£30-50
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SHAW, George Bernard, (1856-1950) Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, London Grant Richards 1898. 2 vols. 8vo 180 x 121mm, green cloth, top edge gilt. uncut. some stains. bumps etc., later box
£70-150
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DAVENPORT, Cyril, Cameos. London 1900. Seeley & Co. frontispiece cameo of The Emperor Augustus Caesar, tooled red cloth. lge 8vo.. plus CHABOUILLET, M. Catalogue Général et Raisonné des Camées et Pierres Gravées, Paris c.1858, marbled end papers and boards, 1/2 calf, 8vo. plus BABELON, E. La Gravure en Pierres Fines Camées et Intailles, Paris 1894. 8vo. tooled green cloth (3)
£70-150
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GARNER, Alan, The Moon of Gomrath. 1st Ed. Collins, London 1963. d/w cut plus Red Shift 1973. d/w (2)
£40-60
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GOLLANCZ, Victor, 'Nowhere to Lay their Heads The Jewish Tragedy in Europe and Its Solution', a 30p pamplet. A catalogue for an Exhibition of 20th Century German Art at the McLellan Galleries, Glasgow 1939 and two further pamphlets (4)
£20-40
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KINGSLEY, Charles, The Water-Babies. New Ed. Macmillian, London 1885 with illustrations by Linley Sambourne, gold tooled blue cloth. plus BURNETT, Mrs F.H. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Warne 1889, London. 16th Ed. brown tooled cloth plus LANCASTER, Osbert, Classical Landscape, Murray 1947 plus LOFTIE, W.J. A Ride in Egypt. Macmillan, London 1879 (4)
£40-80
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GRAHAME, Kenneth, First Whisper of 'The Wind in the Willows', Methuen, London 1944, 2 copies one with d/w. (190 x 130mm) plus LEAR, Edward, The Collected Nonsense Songs, Crown Classics, Grey Walls Press with d/w (3)
£30-50
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SHAW, George Bernard, (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
'The Works of Bernard Shaw' in 31 volumes, Constable & Co, London (1930-1934) 8vo. 235 x 157mm) corners bumped, some stains and scratches, bound in Scottish Dyes Ltd, 'Celadon Jade Green', cloth by Douglas Cockerell, Ltd Ed. of 1025, 1000 numbered 1-1000 and 25 are lettered A-Y. This is number Y and inscribed by GBS:-
'and it's dress of eternal green is the work of James Morton (Scottish Dyes Ltd) to whom it is gratefully inscribed by Bernard Shaw (sig.) 26th July 1930'
Provenance: Sold by the granddaughter of James Morton, further notes available on request
£300-500
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HENRY NAPARTUK (Canadian, 1932-1985) "Eskimo and Beluga" - Signed print. Signed lower left, titled lower right, 16 x 24cm
£30-50
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ROBINSON, Commander Chas. N. Robinson. R.N. Editor 'China of Today or the Yellow Peril', Navy and Army Illustrated/Geo. Newnes. London. oblong folio. library stamp throughout, end papers, torn and browned, green cloth with gilt library stamp
£200-400
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ABBAS HILMI II. Twenty Three Years Khedive of Egypt 'A Few Words on the Anglo-Egyptian Settlement' with portrait frontispiece, George Allen and Unwin, London 1930. small 8vo. (190 x 130mm), yellow cloth, black title, library stamps and labels, defaced title page and end paper removed, bumped and stained
£70-150
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GERARD, Adelaide M, 'Et Nos in Arctis' An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen and beyond published Ballantyne, London 1913, 149pp with 5 inset photographs and map, 1/2 'vellum' and blue cloth. 8vo. (230 x 152mm) plus a letter from A.M.G. to Rev. R Conyers Morrell requesting permission to use photographs plus 7 images and two letters from the BBC to Rev. R.C.M. (qty)
£100-200
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LONG, John Luther (1861-1927) American Author and Lawyer 'The Fox Woman'. 1st English Edition. John Macqueen, London 1900 with frontispiece by Virginia H. Davisson, blue cloth with decorative ornament, splits and bumps (188 x 130mm)
£70-150
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NACHTIGAL, Dr Gustav Sahara und Sudan, Ergebnisse Sechsj‰hriger Reisen in Afrika, Wiegandt Hempel & Parey, Berlin 1879. 3 books in one with multiple plates and fold out map. 8vo. (230 x 162mm) blue cloth, library stamps and b/p
£70-150
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KEATS, John, 'Endymion' illustrated with 6 engravings on steel by F Joubert after E.J. Poynter. Plate III bound as frontispiece, Moxon, London 1873. Fo. gilt tooled. red cloth, stained/bumped etc
£70-150
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GRAHAM, Harvey (FLACK, Isaac Harvey) 'A Crab was Crushed', London 1937, Rich and Cowan, an early sci-fi novel about a search for cancer cure, red cloth, title rubbed, all over stains and foxing. 8vo. (195 x 136mm)
£40-80
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CLERK, N.W. (pseudonym) C.S. Lewis 'A Grief Observed' Seabury Press, Greenwich Connecticut 1963, 8vo. with d/w. American edition of C.S. Lewis's account of his reactions to the death of his wife Joy Davidman in 1960
£40-60
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WARD, Capt. B.R., Manual of Military Ballooning c.1896. HMSO donation letter and Royal Aircraft Establishment, Library stamps and labels, blue cloth. 8vo.
£30-50
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, DULAC, Edmund, Illus. Treasure Island, Ernest Benn, London 1927. 4to. (245 x 195mm), gilt tooled brown cloth, black title, tears, bumps and stains
£50-100
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Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya with a chapter on Singapore, November 1907, much illustrated with map, Library black binding with stamps. Fo.
£30-50
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DROWER & MACUCH A Mandaic Dictionary Oxford 1963 with d/w. 8vo. library labels
£30-50
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APPERSON, G.L., A Jane Austen Dictionary. Cecil Palmer, London 1932, red cloth. library stamps and labels. 12mo. (180 x 116mm)
£40-80
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WILHELM, Dr R, Ed. MARTENS, Frederick H, trans. The Chinese Fairy Book. Fisher Unwin. London 1922, green cloth. d/w torn. foxing
£30-50
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The Pictorial Shakespeare. Charles Knight revised 2nd Ed. 8 vols. tooled red cloth. 4to. 1865. b/p
£50-80
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TOLKIEN INTEREST:-
GALSWORTHY, John, Escape an Episodic Play, Duckworth 1977. b/p and signed for Michael Hilary Reul Tolkien. Dec 4 1981 (JRR. Tolkiens 2nd son) (1)
£30-50
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HARDY, Thomas, 'Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses', a facsimile taken from the original ms in the Old Library Magdalene College, Cambridge. Photographed and printed by the Scotar Press blue morocco binding with gilt titles by Weatherby Woolnough. Ltd 16/200, signed by Walter Hamilton (Master) 8vo. marbled end papers in slip case
£70-150
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BLYTON, Enid, 6 small format 'Mary Mouse' booklets, 6 similar and a group of 12 20th Century Children's books, various (24)
£50-100
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CHARTERIS, Leslie, A group of 7 'Saint Saga' titles. early editions. Hodder & Stoughton. red cloth. 8vo.
£20-40
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AUSTEN, Jane, Pride and Prejudice. illustrated by Hugh Thomson with inscription to J Comyns Carr. George Allen, London 1894. 8vo. green cloth with gold tooled peacock design. binding loose, bumped. plus DICKENS, Charles, 8 vols. pt. works. Chapman and Hall, London 1879. green cloth, bumps (9)
£40-60
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BATES, Herbert Ernest (1905-1974), 'The Tree' Blue Moon Booklet No. 3. E Lahr, 68 Red Lion St. London WC1, 95/100 signed, untrimmed paper, some foxing and tear to back cover (230 x 150mm) plus BATES, H.E., 'The Tinkers of Elstow' with illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, 1st Ed Ltd to 300 of which this is No. 71, signed by author and illustrator, printed by Bemrose Ltd, blue tooled leather (225 x 145mm) plus The Seekers, John and Edward Bumpus, London 1926, signed by the author, tooled boards (205 x 126mm) (3)
£70-150
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DONLEAVY, James Patrick (1926-2017). Irish American Novelist. 'A Singular Country', Ryan Publishing, 1st Ed. signed by the author, d/w (240 x 162mm)
£20-40
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Philips' Model of The Human Body (Female), edited by W.S. Furneaux, London, George Philip, loose binding (495 x 210mm)
£50-100
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The Financial Times. New Series. No. 1. London. February 13th, 1888. One Penny plus The London Evening Star Newspaper No. 6997 Tuesday August 15th, 1809 price sixpence - halfpenny (2)
£20-40
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AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF LATE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CORRESPONDENCE APPROXIMATELY THIRTY ITEMS TO INCLUDE:
(a) Three reports on the health of King George III from December 1788 to January 1789 from Kew House presumably from his doctors and addressed to 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, Lord of the Bedchamber and a further report from Windsor Castle July 18 1811
(b) A List of Gentlemen to be commissioned as Officers in the Army dated 30th July 1822 and signed by 3rd Viscount Palmerston as Secretary at War plus a secondary Brevet appointment also so signed
(c) A Group of three letters signed Milford (Sir Richard Philipps - Baron Milford 1770-1823) two dated 1797 relating to French naval movements off Fishguard
(d) A miscellany of contemporary correspondence, letters, notes, seals etc signed by notable personages of the period inc. Lord Sidmouth (P.M. 1801-1804), Lord Northwick, Duke of Westminster and others (c.30)
£600-800
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A MANUSCRIPT LETTER on blue paper with envelope dated 22nd April 1857 by Henry Waddington in Chunar, Uttar Pradesh, India to his mother in Whitby three weeks before the Indian Mutiny began on the 10th May 1857, with transcript and map, plus a contemporary hand-drawn map showing how the Relief of the Lucknow Residency was achieved by Lt. Gen. Colin Campbell in November 1857 plus FORBES-MITCHELL, William, The Relief of Lucknow, Folio Society, London 1962, blue cloth (5)
£50-150
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AN ALBUM OF COATS OF ARMS, CRESTS, MONOGRAMS AND DEVICES, pub. Marcus Ward, 32pp, gilt edges, blue cloth, splits and bumps (305 x 255mm)
£40-80
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AN 18TH CENTURY GRAND JUNCTION CANAL HALF SHARE CERTIFICATE NO. 3294 dated 9th February 1796. Shareholder Francis Page, Middle Aston, Oxfordshire (208 x 255mm), tears and stains
£100-200
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A LARGE COLLECTION OF 20TH CENTURY AUTOGRAPHS AND AUTOGRAPHED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS INC:- Laurence Olivier, Vivienne Leigh, Claire Bloom, Lonnie Donegan, Bruce Forsyth, Cilla Black and many other 'stars' of stage, screen and radio
£70-120
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JOHN STOCKDALE (PUBLISHER)
A George III large Atlas entitled 'A General Map of The Empire of Germany, Holland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, The Grisons, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia by Captain Chauchard etc' dedicated to George III, London 1800 with 25 maps/plates Fo. water damage throughout
£100-200
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A GROUP OF FIFTEEN 19TH CENTURY FOLDING MAPS by J & C Walker of English Counties, London 1846. published by Longman, Rees, Orme Brown & Co. approximately 410 x 340mm in labelled cloth boards, 122 x 90cm. some labels replaced otherwise fair overall condition (15)
£150-250
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A VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM containing a collection of cut and pasted coloured images, red cloth, 200 x 280mm
£30-60
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SOUTH AFRICAN INTEREST:-
The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route 1877-1922, incomplete Vol. II, III and index and 12 maps, green cloth, 1/2 black leather plus bound copies of The Cape Argus Weekly Edition July 5th 1899-27th December 1899 plus The South African May-August 1924 bound, plus The Cape Argus Centenary Supplement 1857-1957, all Fo. plus two further associated titles (8)
£50-150
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THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF MIDSHIPMAN I.B. Franks, HMS King Edward VII, 16 September 1910 to July 30th 1911, HMS Hercules July 30th 1911 - Sept 19th 1911, HMS Cochrane Oct 9 1911-1912, discontinued with diagrams and drawings, HMSO, bound in blue cloth. small Fo.
£50-150
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GIBSON & PICKFORD, Association Football and The Men Who Made It, 4 vols. Illustrated Caxton Publishing Co. London, Cape Town and Johannesburg. frontispiece, portrait of Lord Kinnard President of the F.A. 4to. original blue cloth pictorial boards, bumped, splits etc.
£50-150
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'Paterson's Roads being an enturely original and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales'. 16th Ed. Edward Mogg, London 1822, maps not as per binders instructions. 8vo. green cloth and marbled boards plus a collection of 11 old maps, guides, travel books etc, all sold as found (12)
£50-100
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A SMALL COLLECTION OF 16TH CENTURY FRENCH 'INITIAL LETTERS' struck off in 1526 from a battered fragment of the Works of St Hugo of St Victoire (see attached donation letter), mounted in a scrapbook with library stamp and b/p (250 x 195mm)
£40-80
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