The Library Auction - Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints & Photographs

Lot 1

Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), British newspaper proprietor and collector of illuminated manuscripts. Scrapbook, 1860s, compiling naïve field sketches & watercolours produced during travels in Europe & Western Asia (depicting people, customs/culture, landmarks, scenery), as well as several manuscript notes relating to the American Civil War, placing bets and prophecies on the outcome with John Jermyn Cowell. 'HYT bet £2 - even - that the American War will be to all intents & purposes over in

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Lot 2

The Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company Limited. A collection of ledgers in red crushed morocco lettered in gilt, manuscript entries, comprising: Agenda Book, recording meetings of directors, 1890-1904, and another similar, 1919-24; Register of Calls, an alphabetical index of shareholders, 1872-77, the main investors being the Winn family of Nostell Priory, Appleby Hall and Kettlethorpe Hall, including three loosely-inserted deeds; Directors' Attendances, recording dates, venues and names of those

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Lot 3

Manuscript. Studien im Zieglerschen Institut in Wilhelmsdorf, 1878-80, by H. F. Nuppnau. A manuscript workbook from Die Zieglerschen, a diaconal deaf institution and children's rescue centre managed by Johannes Ziegler in Wilhelmsdorf, a municipality in the western district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This immense volume, entirely handwritten and embellished with manuscript maps & diagrams, deals with various subjects including bible studies, languages, essays on miscellaneous t

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A book of manuscript musical notation belonging to Eliza Harriet Dean, Birmingham, 22 June 1840. Containing various scores, including 'Philomelon Waltz' by Strauss, a total of 23 handwritten pages, the remainder of the book unused, J Whatman paper bearing 1836 watermark, oblong octavo (12 x 19cm), bound in attractive gilt red morocco, vibrant blue-green endpapers, all edges gilt, slight damage to spine, otherwise very well-preserved, housed in a marbled slipcase

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Taylor, Alexander [Surveyor]. Manuscript plans of Knockando in Moray, Scotland, surveyed in 1774. Comprising 14 linen-backed, double-page maps, entirely hand-drawn in ink & watercolour on laid/chain-lined paper, each map measuring 54 x 74cm, each signed by Taylor. 1: Plan of the Farm of Clune; 2: Plan of the Farms of Balna Clach & Alt Winny; 3: Plan of the Farms of Knockanagore & The Lyn; 4: Plan of the Glebe Borlum & William Garrow's Improvement; 5: Plan of Milntown, Croften Lone & Knockanreich

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Cooper, Caroline. An album containing 11 original pencil sketches of figures in military uniforms, European & Asian fashions, animals, some signed with initials, most dated 1836. The artist's owner inscription is present on front pastedown, 'Caroline Cooper, Camberwell, Surrey'. Each page of sketches measuring 18 x 25.5cm, housed loosely in a worn oblong folder

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Valentine. A late-Georgian manuscript "puzzle purse", c. 1810, depicting a fashionable young woman holding the hand of a man in shako hat and uniform, decorated with love-hearts and romantic verse, beginning 'You are the first and only maid that has my tender heart betrayed', 32 x 31.5cm, watercolour on wove paper bearing watermark for W. Pickering & Co., restored, conservation framed, glazed recto & verso, i.e. both sides visible

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Lot 8

Quin, Edward. A Historical Atlas, first edition, London: Seeley & Burnside, 1830. Complete with all 21 hand-coloured & aquatint-etched maps, six of which are folding. Folio (42 x 33cm), publisher's contemporary half-morocco boards with paper title label, binding worn with detached boards, marginal wear & marks to contents but the maps generally appear very good and most have protective tissue-guards, sold as found with all faults A first edition of this scarce and unusual atlas that reveals th

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Lot 9

Bailey, E. B. Geological Map of the British Islands, third edition, 1939, 78 x 64.5cm, on hanging rollers

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Lot 10

Kanarek & Lipski. Poloniae, a pictorial nature map of Poland created for the 1939 New York World's Fair, subsequently censored, withdrawn and destroyed due to its anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet Russia imagery, thus very scarce. Warsaw: Control Board of State Forests, Published for Private Circulation, 1938. 34 x 45cm. Framed & glazed, bearing Rowley Gallery label verso. Fold-lines as issued, some discolouration and staining, unexamined out of frame

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Greenwood, C. & J. Map of the County of Westmorland [Lake District], London: Greenwood, Pringle & Co., 1 January 1824. Dissected, linen-backed, hand-coloured engraving on two separate sheets labelled 'East' & 'West', each measuring approximately 103 x 60cm (complete map size 103 x 120cm), large scale, housed in a handsome book-form slipcase bound in green straight-grain morocco lettered in gilt, well-preserved

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Lot 12

[Drayton, Michael]. Allegorical map of Staffordshire, engraved by William Hole for Poly-Olbion, c. 1612 or later, hand-coloured engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, 24.5 x 32.5cm, framed & glazed

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Hennet, George. A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, large-scale map engraved by James Bingley, London: Henry Teesdale & Co., 1 May 1830. Dissected, linen-backed, hand-coloured engraving on one sheet, 164 x 115cm, featuring a steel-engraved inset view of New Custom House, Liverpool, housed in a contemporary mottled calf book-form slipcase with oxblood morocco title label lettered in gilt, the map is well-preserved, the green edging material coming loose in places, the slipcase is worn

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Blaeu, J. [Derbyshire], Darbiensis Comitatus vernacule Darbie Shire, c. 1648, hand-coloured copper engraving on laid/chain-lined paper with decorative cartouche, armorial shields, figures & cattle, German text verso, 46 x 57cm (including wide margins), framed and glazed recto & verso (both sides visible), well-preserved

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A miscellaneous collection of dissected & linen-backed maps to include three maps of the Midlands, covering parts of Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Northamptonshire, Sheet Nos. 25, 31 & 32, London: G. & J. Cary, 1832, hand-coloured, each sheet measuring approx. 56.5 x 68.5cm, housed in two slipcases; A New Map of the County of Salop, London: C. Smith, 1818, hand-coloured, housed in slipcase; City of Dublin, Sheet No. 18, Ordnance Survey, 1849, approx. 65 x 98cm; Yorkshire, Sheet Nos. 193 &

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Lot 16

Steer, Vincent. Printing Design and Layout, second edition [third according to errata slip], London: Virtue & Company Ltd., [c. 1948-49], quarto, publisher's cloth, good & bright. Together with The Birmingham and Midland Institute, by Rachel E. Waterhouse, 3 July 1954 [hundredth anniversary], octavo, publisher's red cloth with price-clipped dust-jacket, this one ex-library (2)

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Lot 17

Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, in 24 volumes, translated by James Strachey in collaboration with Anna Freud, London: The Hogarth Press, 1978. Octavo, pale blue dust-jackets, contents appear good & bright, jackets discoloured with spotting and wear, sold with all faults (24)

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Lot 18

Ralph, Benjamin. The School of Raphael, Or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting, illustrated with engravings by Duchange and others under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, London: John Boydell, 1782. Folio, illustrated with 102 engraved plates, plus an engraved title commencing this section (total 103), pp. 8, [i], 6-21, [i], this peculiar pagination conforming to the example recorded by WorldCat [OCLC, 1119895239]. Contents generally good & bright, pale staining affec

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Lot 19

Travel & Exploration. Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert, first edition of the first Thomas Cook guide to Egypt, original binding, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1876. Octavo, publisher's imitation morocco lettered in gilt, four maps, endpapers with advertising, pp. viii, 309, [iii], 40. Internally very good, clean & bright, paper spine lifting, upper board becoming loose. Scarce

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Lot 20

Wilson, John. The Scriptures, Genuine Interpreter Asserted: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Right Interpretation of Scripture, Savoy [London]: Printed by T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for R. Boulter, 1678, with a separate title page for An Appendix Concerning Internal Illumination, And other Operations of the Spirit upon the Soul of Man, Savoy: Thomas Newcomb for Robert Boulter, 1677. Octavo, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked, pp. [xvi], 263, [v], 88, [iv, adverts]. Internally good with general toning a

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Lot 21

Martin, (George R. R.). A Song of Ice and Fire. Collection comprising: A Game of Thrones, first edition, first issue, number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9', London: Harper Collins/Voyager, 1996, octavo, publisher's red cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced £16.99), in near-fine condition, some very faint spotting & toning to edges of text block encroaching into lower margins of first & final leaves, the jacket within protective mylar covers, housed in an unrelated slipcase; A Clash of Kings, first edit

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Lot 22

Hogarth, David George. Excavations at Ephesus, the Archaic Artemisia, Atlas [atlas only], London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, British Museum, 1908. Folio, 56cm, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, pp. [iv], 18 plates. Internally well-preserved, clean & bright, cloth scuffed & marked

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Lot 23

[George V]. Association Copy belonging to George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925). The Form and Order of Service for The Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary, first and limited edition on vellum numbered 101/150, London: Novello & Company, 1911. Large octavo, 29cm, full crushed morocco with exquisite gilt decoration, all edges gilt, pp. vi, [ii], 143, [i]. Internally very good, clean & bright, faint fold-lines to first few corners, owner inscription on f

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Lot 24

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Uncorrected Proof, London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Octavo, publisher's blue-green paper covers, pale dampstaining to edge of cover, light wear to extremities, otherwise very good

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Lot 25

Horror. The Pan Book of Horror Stories, 30 volumes, paperbacks in read condition, some first editions, 1969-1989 (30)

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Lot 26

Association Copy. [Xenophon]. Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii; Item Socratis Apologia, Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1761. Small quarto, full vellum lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, bearing bookplate for Willaston School, 'From the Library of James Martineau, the Gift of his Daughters', the front blank signed by James Martineau and Gerard Bee, the title signed by the Duke of Grafton, 1779, and again by Gerard Bee (three blank leaves and title with blind-stamps for Bee), pp. [ii], [

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Lot 27

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Confessions, Library Edition [limited to 1,000 copies], in two volumes, illustrated with two frontispiece portraits and 12 plates engraved by Edmond Hédouin (a total of 14 plates, as called for), London: Privately Printed, 1896. Octavo, publisher's orange cloth with paper title labels, deckle edges, pp. xix, [iv], 2-281, xv, [iv], 2-414. Internally very good & bright, plates well-preserved, some spotting to endpapers, neat owner inscriptions on ffep for Anne Mayerson,

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Lot 28

Recorde, Robert. The Castle of Knowledge, scarce and important first edition of "the first comprehensive and original astronomical treatise to be published in English" [History of Science Museum], London: Reginalde Wolfe, 1556. Small folio (250 x 180mm), pp. [xvi], 286, [ii]. NB Eight leaves are supplied in facsimile (pp.209-212 & 217-228). Woodcut allegorical title and numerous illustrations within the text, pagination erratic but all signatures following on correctly and matching the copy in t

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Lot 29

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring, second impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket. Internally very good & bright, small marks on a couple of pages, folding map at rear well-preserved, binding tight & square, a few white spots to cloth, dust-jacket discoloured & worn

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Lot 30

A collection of engineering reference books to include parts catalogues & handbooks, 1930s to 1950s, together with Snow Canvas: Ski, Men & Mountains with the Leica, by Prof. Stefan Kruckenhauser, 1937, the whole in one carton

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A collection of rare book catalogues, predominantly from Maggs Bros in 1912, but also including Edgar Backus, Robson & Kerslake, Charles J. Sawyer, James Tregaskis, Sotheran, Henry R. Hill, approximately 20 examples, various dates, c. 1880-1920, condition varied, sold with all faults

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Lot 32

[Greatrakes, Valentine]. Wonders No Miracles,; Or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates Gift of Healing Examined, [by David Lloyd], London: Samuel Speed, 1666, pamphlet [attacking Greatrakes], engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. [ii], 46, bound with The Miraculous Conformist: Or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures performed by the stroaking of the Hands of Mr Valentine Greatarick, by Henry Stubbe, Oxford: H. Hall, 1666, pamphlet [defending Greatrakes], pp. [vi], 44, the page numbering jumps from 34 to

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Lot 33

Kinneir, John Macdonald. Journey Through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, first and only edition [one of 750], London: John Murray, 1818. Octavo, half crushed morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, later endpapers, pp. x, 603, separate folding map (dissected & linen-backed), published by Arrowsmith, 3 December 1817, measuring 51.5 x 84cm, a loosely inserted fax from publisher John Murray stating that '750 were published and there were no further editions.' Main contents general

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Lot 34

Rowland, Samuel. The Famous History of Guy of Warwick, two editions bound in one volume, title page present for the second only, London: Printed for G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little Britain, n.d. [c. 1680-1701]. The first [lacking title and one preliminary leaf], pp. 5-79, adverts to verso of p. 79, illustrated with eight woodcuts within the text; the second is complete, pp. [ii], 3-30, woodcut vignette title, seven woodcuts within the text, plus 2pp. adverts at rear (advert leaf with am

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Lot 35

Holy Bible. Old & New Testament, a Geneva or "Breeches Bible" [Genesis 3:7], London: Christopher Barker, 1599. Octavo, later half-calf, heavily worn. The main body of text appears good, the first title and opening leaves are worn & repaired, similarly some leaves at rear and possibly elsewhere, ends abruptly with final leaf being G7 of NT Psalms, otherwise appears largely complete, not collated, sold as found with all faults

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Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928. Octavo, publisher's gilt pink cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, gift inscription with a small hole & mark from the pen, internally very good, clean & bright, binding very good, cloth discoloured

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Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Terrified Typist, Uncorrected Proof, London: Heinemann, 1961. Octavo, publisher's yellow paper covers, shelf-lean and light handling marks, creasing to spine, otherwise very good

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Lot 38

Quarles, Francis. Divine Poems, London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1680. Octavo, engraved allegorical frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 471, [i], six unnumbered plates, contents with toning and marks/spots, old tape reinforcement at gutters of title, later pebble cloth

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Lot 39

Camden, William. Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most flourishing Kingdomes, London: Joyce Norton & Richard Whitaker, 1637. Folio, worn contemporary calf, featuring one map only ('Englalond'), eight engraved plates of coins, sold as a textual reference only with all faults

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Lot 40

Military History. Signed first edition hardbacks with dust-jackets: The Hidden Perspective, by David Owen, London: Haus, 2014; Cabinet's Finest Hour, by David Owen, London: Haus, 2016; Lancaster, by Leo McKinstry, London: John Murray, 2009; Air Power, by Jeremy Black, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016; Burma '44, by James Holland, London: Bantam Press, 2016; The First World War in 100 Objects, by Gary Sheffield, London: Andre Deutsch, 2013; Hundred Days, by Nick Lloyd, London: Penguin/Viking, 2

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Lot 41

A collection of four books comprising: The Story of Rushen Castle & Rushen Abbey in the Isle of Man, by Rev. J. G. Cumming, illustrated with several lithographic plates, London: Bell & Daldy, 1857; The Guns of Navarone, by Alistair MacLean, first edition, London: Collins, 1957, publisher's blue cloth with price-clipped dust-jacket; Amorous Fiammetta, by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by Edward Hutton, London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1952, red cloth, no d.j.; Shawl-Straps, A Se

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Lot 42

A collection of reference works on bookplates to include The Bookplate Society Newsletter, 1972-1990; The Bookplate Journal, 1983-1990; The Journal of the Ex-Libris Society, 1891-1899; Engraved Bookplates, by Mark Severin & Anthony Reid, 1972; British Bookplates, by Brian North Lee, 1979; The Golden Era of American Bookplate Design: 1890-1940, by William E. Butler & Darlene J. Butler, 1986, and others, including works on the bookplate designs of Austin Osman Spare, Philip Hagreen, Franz von Bayr

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Lot 43

Kinsey, Reverend W. M. Portugal Illustrated, 1828. Illustrated with nine hand-coloured aquatint costume plates and 18 other maps & plates within the text (as called for). Tall octavo, worn cloth, rebacked with spine laid down, morocco title label lettered in gilt, half-title, folding frontispiece, engraved title, pp. xvii, [ii], 500, [iv]. Contents generally good & bright, most plates with protective tissue-guards, some handling marks & pale spotting in places, mostly confined to the tissue-guar

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King, Stephen. Pet Sematary, first UK edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt with unclipped dust-jacket, a near-fine example. Together with The Shining, third impression of UK edition, New English Library, 1986, unclipped d.j., very good, edges of jacket bumped; Hearts in Atlantis, first UK edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, unclipped d.j., internally bright, edges of jacket creased/bumped; Dreamcatcher, first edition, Scribner, 2001, unclippe

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Lot 45

Fore-Edge Painting. Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon, 1867. Octavo, full crushed morocco, all edges gilt, featuring a disappearing fore-edge painting of an erotic scene

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Pomeroy, Laurence. The Grand Prix Car, illustrated by L. C. Creswell, second impression of the Revised Edition, in two volumes, London: Motor Racing Publications/Temple Press, 1955-56. Quarto, publisher's red & green cloth, unclipped but worn dust-jackets. Internally very good, clean & bright, bindings strong, green cloth well-preserved & bold, red cloth with some surface wear, jackets worn with loss (2)

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Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit, first British Commonwealth edition, London: Peter Owen, 1970. 12mo., hardcover, unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good & bright, covers good, some wear & slight loss to jacket, in recent protective wrappers

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Yonge, Charlotte Mary. The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations, first edition, two parts in one, London: John W. Parker & Son, 1856. Octavo, half-calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt, pp. [viii], 662, internally good with pale spotting sporadically, one neat tear to p.626, owner inscription dated 1859, binding tight & square, worn at corners & headcaps. Together with Hopes & Fears for Art, by William Morris, second edition, London: Ellis & White, 1882, ex-lib; Dombey & Son, and David Copperfi

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Bailey, E. B. Geological Map of the British Islands, third edition, 1939, 78 x 64.5cm, on hanging rollers

[Drayton, Michael]. Allegorical map of Staffordshire, engraved by William Hole for Poly-Olbion, c. 1612 or later, hand-coloured engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, 24.5 x 32.5cm, framed & glazed

Hogarth, David George. Excavations at Ephesus, the Archaic Artemisia, Atlas [atlas only], London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, British Museum, 1908. Folio, 56cm, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, pp. [iv], 18 plates. Internally well-preserved, clean & bright, cloth scuffed & marked

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Uncorrected Proof, London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Octavo, publisher's blue-green paper covers, pale dampstaining to edge of cover, light wear to extremities, otherwise very good

Horror. The Pan Book of Horror Stories, 30 volumes, paperbacks in read condition, some first editions, 1969-1989 (30)

A collection of engineering reference books to include parts catalogues & handbooks, 1930s to 1950s, together with Snow Canvas: Ski, Men & Mountains with the Leica, by Prof. Stefan Kruckenhauser, 1937, the whole in one carton

A collection of rare book catalogues, predominantly from Maggs Bros in 1912, but also including Edgar Backus, Robson & Kerslake, Charles J. Sawyer, James Tregaskis, Sotheran, Henry R. Hill, approximately 20 examples, various dates, c. 1880-1920, condition varied, sold with all faults

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928. Octavo, publisher's gilt pink cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, gift inscription with a small hole & mark from the pen, internally very good, clean & bright, binding very good, cloth discoloured

Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Terrified Typist, Uncorrected Proof, London: Heinemann, 1961. Octavo, publisher's yellow paper covers, shelf-lean and light handling marks, creasing to spine, otherwise very good

Quarles, Francis. Divine Poems, London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1680. Octavo, engraved allegorical frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 471, [i], six unnumbered plates, contents with toning and marks/spots, old tape reinforcement at gutters of title, later pebble cloth

Camden, William. Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most flourishing Kingdomes, London: Joyce Norton & Richard Whitaker, 1637. Folio, worn contemporary calf, featuring one map only ('Englalond'), eight engraved plates of coins, sold as a textual reference only with all faults

Fore-Edge Painting. Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon, 1867. Octavo, full crushed morocco, all edges gilt, featuring a disappearing fore-edge painting of an erotic scene

Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit, first British Commonwealth edition, London: Peter Owen, 1970. 12mo., hardcover, unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good & bright, covers good, some wear & slight loss to jacket, in recent protective wrappers