The Library Auction - Including Rare & Collectable Harry Potter Books

Lot 49

Edwards, Lionel (Illust.). A collection of books, all first editions unless stated otherwise, comprising: The Fox, Collins, 1949, small 4to., unclipped d.j.; British Racecourses, by B. W. R. Curling, 1951, 4to., unclipped d.j.; Huntsmen Past & Present, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929, 4to., in unrelated d.j.; Sporting Verse, by Adam Lindsay Gordon, Constable, 1927, 4to., no d.j.; The Horn, by Patrick R. Chalmers, Collins, 1937, 4to., no d.j.; Beasts of the Chase, Putnam, 1950, 4to., no d.j.; Horses an

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Lot 50

"Snaffles" [Charles Johnson Payne]. A collection of four first editions comprising: Four-Legged Friends and Acquaintances, first edition, Collins, 1951, 4to., unclipped d.j.; I've Heard the Revelly, first edition, Gale & Polden, 1953, 4to., unclipped d.j.; A Half Century of Memories, first edition, Collins, 1949, 4to., price-clipped d.j.; More Bandobast, first edition, Collins, 1936, 4to., no d.j. Together with second editions of My Sketch Book in the Shiny and Osses & Obstacles. Condition appea

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Lot 51

"Sabretache" [Albert Stewart Barrow]. A Gentleman and His Hounds, first edition, limited edition numbered 19/50 and signed by the author, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. Quarto, publisher's quarter vellum lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents very good, clean & bright, some very faint spotting in places, binding tight & square, light bumping to corners and a few small marks to cloth

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Lot 52

Bradley, Cuthbert. Good Sport, first edition, London: Routledge, [1910]. Featuring two tipped-in autograph letters signed by the author to John Fairfax Blakeborough [writer and folklorist] on personal stationery - The Lodge, Folkingham letterhead - dated 1910 & 1911, the ffep signed by Blakeborough, the pastedown bearing later bookplate for Richard Blakeborough, pp. 82/83 with tipped-in contemporary newspaper clippings. Tall octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial red cloth. Together with Fox-Hunting

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Lot 53

Lyne, Michael. The Michael Lyne Sketch Book, signed limited edition numbered 107/550, featuring a loosely-inserted monochrome print of Rockhampton, Berkeley Country [one of 650], signed in pencil l.r. by the artist, Cherington: Standfast Press, 1979. Oblong quarto, unclipped dust-jacket. Together with A Parson's Son, signed limited edition numbered 60/750, J. A. Allen, 1974, oblong quarto, crushed morocco, and Horses, Hounds and Country, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1938, 4to., no d.j. (3)

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Lot 54

British Hunts and Huntsmen, two [of four] volumes covering the South-East, East, and Eastern Midlands of England, London: The Biographical Press, 1909. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally good & bright, occasional light handling marks, numerous illustrations throughout, bindings worn but solid

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Lot 55

Denholm Armour, George (Illust). British Sport Past & Present, by E. D. Cuming, first limited edition numbered 308/500 and signed by the artist, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909, 4to., full morocco lettered in gilt, bearing armorial bookplate for Francis Gray Smart; Hunts with Jorrocks, by Robert Surtees, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, small 4to., gilt red cloth; Mr Jorrocks' Lectors, by Robert Surtees, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910, small 4to., gilt red cloth; Thoughts on Hunting, b

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Lot 56

A collection of sporting books comprising: Three Great Runs, by Col. Anstruther Thomson, Blackwood & Sons, 1889, 4to., gilt red cloth, bearing armorial bookplate for Robert Ingham Tidswell; Leicestershire and Its Hunts, by Charles Simpson, John Lane 1926, 4to., cloth; The Harboro' Country, by Charles Simpson, John Lane, 1927, 4to., cloth; Horses and Soldiers, illustrations after Gilbert Holiday, Gale & Polden, [1938], 4to., no d.j.; Hunter's Moon, illustrated by Gilbert Holliday, Constable, [193

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Lot 57

"B B" [Watkins-Pitchford, Denys James]. Wild Lone, The Story of a Pytchley Fox, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1938, 8vo., quarter-cloth, no d.j.; Manka, The Sky Gipsy, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939, 8vo., quarter-cloth, no d.j.; The Countryman's Bedside Book, second impression, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942, 8vo., no d.j.; The Idle Countryman, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943, 8vo., no d.j.; Letters from Compton Deverell, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950, 8vo., uncli

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Lot 58

The Illustrated London News Record of the Transvaal War, 1899-1900, illustrated with eight photogravure plates, one of which has a facing page numbered 240 and is signed by S. Begg, R. Caton Woodville, Melton Prior, and editor Bruce S. Ingram, pp. 86, chromolithographic supplement cover at front, Eno's Fruit Salt advertisement at rear, contents shaken and loose in parts, binding worn, sold with all faults

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Lot 59

A collection of passenger aircraft memorabilia to include three cased Parker cartridge pens advertising Dan Air, Air Europe and BAA Gatwick; a vintage Dan Air XL t-shirt; a Dan Air staff car park sticker for Newman House; five unused Dan Air stickers & window decals; an unused AirUK leather passport wallet; a Stephens glass paperweight for Aeroporto de Faro; an unused Dan Air cabin staff certificate; eight enamel badges, and other sundry items, the whole in one small container

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Lot 60

[Pitkeathly, James]. Path Like Majesty, presentation copy inscribed by the author, limited edition numbered 73/100, Hampton-in-Arden: Bradnocks Marsh Press, 1985. Octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt, pp. [xii], 521. Internally clean & bright, shelf-lean and marks to cloth

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Lot 61

Lodge, Sir Oliver. A collection of spiritualist books, some first editions, to include Man and the Universe, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1908; The Ether of Space, first edition, London & New York: Harper Brothers, 1909; Modern Problems, first edition, London: Methuen, 1912; Why I Believe in Personal Immortality, fourth impression, London: Cassell, 1928; Phantom Walls, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, and six others, condition varied, one bearing labels for Occult Library, The

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Lot 62

Hannen Swaffer. My Greatest Story, in two volumes, Special Edition for Psychic Book Club, London, 1945. Octavo, publisher's paper covers, Ex Libris stamps for B. Illstone, well-preserved with pale spotting front & rear. Together with Stranger Than Truth, 1947, featuring a corner-mounted original b&w photograph of the author on ffep; When Men Talk Truth, 1934; Northcliffe's Return, n.d., bearing Spiritualist Children's Progressive Lyceum prize label, 1925, sold with all faults (5)

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Lot 63

Spiritualist & Occult Writing. A collection of 19th/20th-century books to include Spirit Teachings, by William Stainton Moses, sixth edition, London: Spiritualist Alliance, 1907; Leaves From a Psychist's Case-Book, by Harry Price, first edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1933; The Psychic Stream, by Arthur Findlay, second impression, London: Psychic Press Ltd., 1939; Man's Survival After Death, by Charles L. Tweedale, London: Richards, 1931; Heaven and Hell, Also, The Intermediate State, or World

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Lot 64

The Artistic Language of Flowers, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d., [c. 1890]. Square octavo, 20 x 15.5cm, decorative cloth, illustrated throughout with vibrant chromolithographs, well-preserved & bright with slight wear at gutters, pencil gift inscription, pink rosebud/apple blossom with slight wear from sticking. Together with The Language of Flowers, 1983 (2)

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Lot 65

Hartley, John. The Original Illuminated Clock Almanack in the Yorkshire Dialect, various issues from 1869 to 1948 (82 in total), publisher's paper covers, plus several bound as one (1870-77), together with 16 other almanacks, including T' Frogland Olmenack (x1, 1863); Saunterer's Satchel and West Riding Almanac (x1, 1881); Bob Stubbs' Original Comic Awmynack (x6, 1907, 1908, 1914, 1916, 1927); The Bairnsla Foaks' Annual, an Pogmoor Olmenack (x8, 1851, 1859, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1875, 1878), and fiv

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Lot 66

An order of service for the Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales, Westminster Abbey, 6 September 1997, pp. 15, card covers, London: Printed by Barnard & Westwood Ltd., [1997]. Very well-preserved, clean & bright Provenance: The vendor states that this was kept safe by a member of the Royal Ballet who attended the funeral

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Lot 67

Stanley, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa, first edition, in two volumes, publisher's pictorial cloth (2)

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Lot 68

Banks, Sir Joseph. The Banks Letters, London: British Museum, 1958

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Lot 69

Chaffers, W. Hall-Marks on Plate, 1883, tog. w/ Marks on Pottery & Porcelain, 1876 (2)

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Lot 70

Travel & History. A collection of books comprising: Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges, by Cornell Plant, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1921; Thirty-Five Years in the Punjab, by G. R. Elsmie, first edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908, octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth; The Antiquities of Hastings and the Battlefield, by Thomas Holwell Cole, first edition, St. Leonards: Karl Burg, 1867; History of Greece, by Edward Baldwin, London: William Tegg, 1862, embossed cloth; The 16th Foot, by Maj-Gen. Sir F

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Lot 71

David Hockney (English, b. 1937). Red Square and the Forbidden City, signed & numbered by the artist l.r., 1982, limited edition numbered 237/1000, a five-colour hand-drawn lithograph printed at Petersburg Studios, New York on Somerset satin-finish mould-made rag paper for China Diary, the lithograph folded three times to form four paper panels, each panel measuring 9 11/16 x 7 1/8 inches, very well-preserved, clean & bright, housed in protective tissue-paper within captioned red wallet, togethe

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Lot 72

Tzara, Tristan. Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait, Maisons [Cinema Calendar of the Abstract Heart, Houses], unnumbered limited edition [of 1,000], illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Arp, Michigan: A Book Arts edition of Thomas Press, [1982]. Quarto, paper-covered boards bound by The Stinehour Press in Vermont, mouldmade Rives paper, a facsimile of the 1920 publication, loosely-inserted pamphlet with English translation by Mary Ann Caws, red title belt, grey slipcase. Internally well-preserved,

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Lot 73

Moore, Henry (Illust.) La Belle Inconnue, by Alphonse Allais, presentation copy signed & inscribed by Henry Moore to Walter Strachan, 23 November 1968, engraved frontispiece by Moore, illustrated with ten etchings by Michel Potier (one double-page), limited to 130 copies, this being one of only 30 personally dedicated hors-commerce, Exemplaire XX for Walter Strachan, additionally signed by Michel Potier, Paris: [Fontenay-aux-Roses], Les Impenitents, 1968. 28.5cm, pp. [lxxvi], captioned & pattern

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Lecuire, Pierre. Autoportrait, presentation copy, signed limited edition, Exemplaire S [one of 21 copies reserved for friends of the author], lengthy inscription to Walter Strachan beneath colophon, Paris: Pierre Lecuire, 1988. Folio, pp. [xvi], paper covers, well-preserved, clean & bright Provenance: By descent of Walter J. Strachan (1903-1994), poet, translator and champion of the arts. Strachan taught at Bishop's Stortford College and was the author of numerous works, including A Relationsh

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Lot 75

Bertini, Gianni (Illust.). Éclatement, by Pierre André Benoit, presentation copy signed & inscribed by the artist to Walter Strachan on opening blank leaf, limited edition signed again at colophon and numbered Exemplaire 18, illustrated with three engraved plates, miniature book, 9.5cm, pp. [xxiv], captioned card covers, delicate glassine wrappers, [1961]. Well-preserved, clean & bright, some wear to edges of glassine wrappers Provenance: By descent of Walter J. Strachan (1903-1994), poet, tra

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Lot 76

Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991). Autograph on Royal Opera House programme for Ballet Imperial Giselle, 6 June 1958, together with three photographic publicity cards

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Lot 77

Music. A collection of music scores, some signed, in two worn volumes lettered in gilt, 'H. Payne' and 'Fairbrother'. Two are signed & inscribed by Nathalie Brandt, 1911 & 1912 ('A Bouquet' and 'In June'); one is inscribed by Albert E. Schomberg ('Well-Beloved'); one is inscribed by Raoul de Dreux Kunz ('Absence'). Several others are bearing stamped signatures, for instance Ciro Pinsuti. There is a 4pp. manuscript score, 'My Rose', by Jeanne Malcolm. The inner cover of the Hetty Payne volume is

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Lot 78

A collection of vintage theatre programmes, mostly very well-preserved with loosely-inserted cast lists, to include National Theatre: The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, [1965]; Othello, by William Shakespeare, starring Laurence Olivier, [1964]; Hay Fever, by Noël Coward, [1964]; Oedipus, adapted by Ted Hughes, [1967]; Royal Court Theatre: Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne, [1956]; Royal Opera House: Rigoletto, 1958; Cinderella, 1961; Carmen, 1959; La Boheme, 1963 (Pavarotti's debut); Glyndebourne

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Lot 79

Michael Crichton (1942-2008), American writer and filmmaker. Mask with Crichton's hand-painted design in primary colours, signed verso, complete with Sotheby's shipping crate Provenance: Purchased as Lot 123 in Masks: The Prince's Trust, Sotheby's, 1996

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Lot 80

Felicity Kendal (b. 1946), English theatre and television actress. Mask with Kendal's manuscript transcription of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, signed verso Provenance: Purchased from Masks: The Prince's Trust, Sotheby's, 1996 [as per the Michael Crichton mask in this sale]

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Lot 81

Japanese lacquered postcard album, c. 1910, filled to end with 72 postcards depicting topographical views in Nara, Hong Kong, Kyoto, Mount Fuji, Itsukushima, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Paris, Sydney, Durban, Cape Town, most if not all postcards appear to be postally unused, album well-preserved but with one split to rear lacquered board, housed in its original postal delivery crate

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Lot 82

Terra Nova / British Antarctic Expedition. An original torch and signalling lights sealed within a glass-fronted oak case bearing typed note, 'Torch and signalling lights used by Captain Scott's Expedition to South Pole. The property of Mr Randolph E. Richards.' The equipment is evidently worn from original use and age. It remains sealed and unopened, encased within the display box. The typed note is mounted beneath the glass Provenance: By descent of Randolph E. Richards, an owner and operato

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Lot 83

Elizabeth I Great Seal. Letters Patent. Licence of property alienation, manuscript in 14 lines on vellum, the Great Seal in brown wax on vellum tag, document & seal individually framed and glazed but conjoined, 36cm by 37cm

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Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Privy Seal, wax, vellum tags bearing indistinct manuscript signature, 92mm diameter

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A manuscript Tudor quitclaim charter from the reign of Henry VIII. Agnes Warde, daughter of John Warde, deceased, giving up land & property in Frisby [near Gaulby, Leicestershire] to William Warde, 1517, on vellum, 12.5cm by 21.5cm, framed & glazed with recent typed summary verso

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Masonic Interest. An engraved vellum certificate from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Lodge No. 26 conferring the degree of Master Mason on John Kerrich, 7 March 1825, counter-signed by four others, bearing the lodge's red wax seal within a tin case, 30.5cm by 25cm

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A collection of 14 deeds & indentures relating to land on the Runham Estate [Norfolk], 1630 to 1660, recording various agreements made between William March the Elder, Christopher March, Charles Keene, John Hemming, and others, mostly on vellum, together with 11 vellum indentures relating to the Manor of Runham Cleres, 1748 to 1898, comprising miscellaneous admissions, regrants, conveyances and mortgages, numerous names including Thomas Jay, Clement Ives, Frederick Haward, Henry Penrice Fredrick

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Deeds & Indentures. Elizabeth I period indenture, Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London, 1569, concerning John Harbottell and Stephen Hasshenden, bearing wax seal, counter-signed by Robert Sparrow; Charles II period indenture, 1662, concerning Richard Boyse, merchant of Great Yarmouth; Queen Anne period indenture, 1711, concerning John Clarke of Suffolk, and other similar documents spanning the 18th & 19th century, mostly relating to the Manor of Beccles, Suffolk, including deeds, abstracts of t

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Lot 88

Stumpwork. [Our Lady of Refuge and Divine Pilgrim]. Spanish copper-engraving, 18th century, embellished with elaborate raised embroidery, housed in a later glazed, folding and embroidered frame, 30cm by 20cm

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Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). Autograph. Iconic publicity still by Eugene Kornman [also known as Gene Korman], promoting Monroe's film "Niagara", 20th Century Fox [1953], gelatin silver print, 25.8cm by 20.3cm, inscribed & signed in blue ink, 'Thanks Freddie x Marilyn Monroe'. This instantly recognisable image was given lasting fame by Andy Warhol in his Marilyn Diptych [1962]. The photograph is mounted with a typed caption, 'Marilyn Monroe (a 20th Century Fox Star) The girl with the biggest publi

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Lot 90

Late-Victorian Circus Poster. "Anderton's & Haslam's Great United Shows - Menagerie - Museum of Wonders and Illusion Gallery", block-printed in colours with wood-engraved vignette illustrations, Leicester: Willson's New Walk Colour Printing Works, n.d., [c. 1890], 113cm by 44cm, backed with paper, slight wear & loss. Very scarce, possibly unrecorded

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American Circus Poster. "Sir Charles Wombwell's Marvelous Performing Leopards", original colour lithographic poster, New York: The Gillin Litho. Co., n.d., [c. 1890-1900], 76cm by 50.5cm, backed with paper, wear & loss at edges, colours vibrant. Very scarce, possibly unrecorded

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Late-Victorian Circus Poster. "Day's Grand London and Crystal Palace Menagerie", featuring "Omgoso" the lion tamer, a "Lion-Headed Monkey", and a "Daring Young Lady Snake Charmer", letterpress with lithographic colours, Glasgow: T. C. Barlow, n.d., 102.5cm by 36.8cm, backed with paper, some wear & slight loss. Very scarce, possibly unrecorded

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Early Cinema. A late-Victorian poster advertising "Barker & Thurston's Castle Exhibition and Edison's Electric Veriscope", featuring a showing of the "Great Corbett Glove Fight for the Championship of the World" [possibly the famous Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight of 1897, which became the world's first feature film], the screenings described as "Animated Photography", Leicester: Willson's New Walk Printing Works, n.d., [c. 1899], 107cm by 70cm, marginal creasing & wear. An incredibly scarce piece of

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Late-Victorian "Freak Show" Circus Poster. "Lalloo", described as "A Very Intelligent, Strange, and most Remarkable Twin ever seen Alive in the World", offering £1,000 prize money to anybody who can "produce the equal of Lalloo, the greatest living wonder in the world!", Leicester: Willson's New Walk Printing Works, n.d., [c. 1887], 100cm by 36.5cm, backed with paper, some wear & very slight loss. Very scarce

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Late-Victorian Circus Posters. "Professor Cottrell, the Great Man-Fish, assisted by his sister, the Great Lady-Fish, in their Marvellous Performances while under water", listing their daring feats, which range from somersaults to drinking milk and smoking cigars beneath the surface, Plymouth: Theophilus Creber, n.d., [c. 1890-1900], 76cm by 25cm, fragile, some tears along fold-lines; "Julian's Grand International Circus", advertising performing animals and clowns, Glasgow: T. C. Barlow, n.d., [c

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[Pitkeathly, James]. Path Like Majesty, presentation copy inscribed by the author, limited edition numbered 73/100, Hampton-in-Arden: Bradnocks Marsh Press, 1985. Octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt, pp. [xii], 521. Internally clean & bright, shelf-lean and marks to cloth

Stanley, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa, first edition, in two volumes, publisher's pictorial cloth (2)

Banks, Sir Joseph. The Banks Letters, London: British Museum, 1958

Chaffers, W. Hall-Marks on Plate, 1883, tog. w/ Marks on Pottery & Porcelain, 1876 (2)

Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991). Autograph on Royal Opera House programme for Ballet Imperial Giselle, 6 June 1958, together with three photographic publicity cards

Michael Crichton (1942-2008), American writer and filmmaker. Mask with Crichton's hand-painted design in primary colours, signed verso, complete with Sotheby's shipping crate Provenance: Purchased as Lot 123 in Masks: The Prince's Trust, Sotheby's, 1996

Felicity Kendal (b. 1946), English theatre and television actress. Mask with Kendal's manuscript transcription of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, signed verso Provenance: Purchased from Masks: The Prince's Trust, Sotheby's, 1996 [as per the Michael Crichton mask in this sale]

Elizabeth I Great Seal. Letters Patent. Licence of property alienation, manuscript in 14 lines on vellum, the Great Seal in brown wax on vellum tag, document & seal individually framed and glazed but conjoined, 36cm by 37cm

Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Privy Seal, wax, vellum tags bearing indistinct manuscript signature, 92mm diameter

A manuscript Tudor quitclaim charter from the reign of Henry VIII. Agnes Warde, daughter of John Warde, deceased, giving up land & property in Frisby [near Gaulby, Leicestershire] to William Warde, 1517, on vellum, 12.5cm by 21.5cm, framed & glazed with recent typed summary verso

Masonic Interest. An engraved vellum certificate from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Lodge No. 26 conferring the degree of Master Mason on John Kerrich, 7 March 1825, counter-signed by four others, bearing the lodge's red wax seal within a tin case, 30.5cm by 25cm

Stumpwork. [Our Lady of Refuge and Divine Pilgrim]. Spanish copper-engraving, 18th century, embellished with elaborate raised embroidery, housed in a later glazed, folding and embroidered frame, 30cm by 20cm

American Circus Poster. "Sir Charles Wombwell's Marvelous Performing Leopards", original colour lithographic poster, New York: The Gillin Litho. Co., n.d., [c. 1890-1900], 76cm by 50.5cm, backed with paper, wear & loss at edges, colours vibrant. Very scarce, possibly unrecorded