Two Day Auction of Books, Stamps & Ephemera with Furniture & Interiors (Macclesfield)(#205) 12/08/2021 10:00 AM GMT+1 CLOSED Auction Information Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Silver Clocks: Wall Clocks Collectors' Items Furniture: Reproduction Metalware Glass Pictures: Traditional Oils Carpets & Rugs Textiles Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Coins Clocks: Mantel clocks Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Bronze and Other Sculptures Beswick Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Lighting Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Ceramic Figures Stamps Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Oils Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Toys & Games: Trains Doulton Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Barometers Ethnic & Tribal Art Ceramics Ephemera Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Watercolours Furniture: Traditional Toys & Games: Dolls & Accessories Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Plated Items Clocks: Longcase Clocks Scientific Instruments Furniture: Mirrors Decorative Arts Books Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Prints Garden and Architectural Toys & Games: Toys Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 49-96 of 137. View Lot 438 A collection of illustrated children's books, to include, OUR LITTLE ONE'S PICTURE ALBUM, colour lithographic plates; MOORE (T), LALLA ROOKH, new edition, two copies, London, Longmans, 1868; GILBERT (W), THE BAB BALLAD, 1898; BELLOC (H), SONGS FROM THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS, with d.j., Duckworth, 1932; BECKFORD (W), VATHEK, Philip Allan & Co (27). Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 439 CRANE (W), DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA, limited edition 3/100, signed by Edward Parry, colour full page plates, London, Blackie & Son, 1900; BARRIE (J), A WINDOW IN THRUMS, limited 296/550, 10th ed, 1892; AULD LICHT IDYLLS, limited 280/550, 10th ed 1895; MACLAREN (I), BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIAR BUSH, 173/450, later edition, 1896 (4). Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 440 MACFALL (H), A HISTORY OF PAINTING, THE MODERN GENIUS, tipped in plates and pictorial paper mounted blue cloth, London, T.C and E.C Jack, 1911; HOLME (C), ART IN PHOTOGRAPHY, tipped in and other plates, The Studio, 1905; MICHEL (E), REMBRANDT, his life, his work and his time, 2 vols, illustrated, patterned green cloth, William Heinemann, 1894; ROBERTSON (W), ARTEMUS WARD’S LECTURE, green cloth with gilt lettering, London, Hotten, 1869; ARMOUR (G), HUNTING WITH JORROCKS, red cloth with gilt lette Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 441 LANG (A), THE BLUE POETRY BOOK, black and white illustrations, pictorial blue cloth, London, Longmans Green and Co, 1891; LANG (A), THE LIBRARY, engraved frontis and two colour plates, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, London, Macmillan, 1881; LANG (A), ESSAYS ON LITTLE, pictorial burgundy cloth, London, Henry and Co, 1891; LANG (A), MY OWN FAIRY BOOK, reprint 1923; BY THE AUTHOR OF JOHN HALIFAX GENTLEMAN, THE FAIRY BOOK, green cloth, Macmillan, 1886 (5). Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED Lot 442 ROGERS (S), ITALY, A POEM, engraved text illustrations, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, London, Cadell, 1830; BYRON (LORD), CHILDE HAROLD’S PIMGRIMAGE, engraved frontis and text illustrations, gilt blue cloth, London, Murray, 1845; FRIENDSHIP’S OFFERING OF SENTIMENT AND MIRTH, engraved illustrations, gilt beige cloth, Smith Elder and Co, 1844; THE BOOK OF GEMS, Saunders and Ottley, 1836; SWITZERLAND, ITS MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, LAKES AND RIVERS, new edition, gilt pictorial blue cloth, London, Glais Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 443 HULME (F), FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS, five series, 3/4 red leather with red boards, Cassell and Company; CATLOW (M), POPULAR BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, colour plates, gilt red cloth (spine faded), 2nd edition, 1852; DRUMMOND (H), NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1885 (7). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 444 SCHOOLCRAFT (H), INFORMATION RESPECTING THE HISTORY CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES, five vols, ex Athenaeum Library Liverpool, numerous colour and black and white plates, pictorial red cloth (binding defective to Vol I and heavy wear to binding on other volumes), Philadelphia, Lippincott Grambo and Company, 1853 - 1856 (5). Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe set is in poor condition. The title pages and all of the plates have been stamped by the Liverpool Athenaeum. The binding to Vol 1 is defective. Attentino will be needed. Sold with all faults. Not collated. View details Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSED Lot 445 A miscellany of mostly 19th century leather bindings, to include, JAMIESON (MRS), SACRED AND LEGENDARY ART, 5th ed, 2 vols, 1866; THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, 2 vols, 1865; LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA, 2nd ed, 1864; LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS, 4th ed, 1867, uniform gilt blue leather; TENNYSON (A), THE PRINCESS, 5th ed, gilt pictorial green leather; 1853; BROWNING (E), AURORA LEIGH, 5th ed, 1878; CAMPBELL (T), THE POETRICAL WORKS OF, 1887; PETRARCH TRANSLATED IN A SELECTION OF HIS SONNETS AND ODES, en Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED Lot 446 SCOTT (SIR W), THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, 48 vols full tan calf with gilt detailing, engraved frontis plates and half titles, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1860 (48). Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 447 SCOTT (SIR W), THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, 12 vols, engraved frontis and half title to each, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black 1854 (12). Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 448 THACKERAY (W), THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, 12 vols, illustrated, 3.4 red leather with marbled boards, London, Smith Elder and Co, 1873-1873 (12). Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 449 A miscellany of antique reference and printed ephemera, to include, MOORE (N), THE COLLECTOR'S MANUAL, Chapman and Hall, 1907; ENQUIRE INSIDE FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW IN YOUR DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE, printed soft cover; HUNTER (W), FISHERMAN'S KNOTS AND WRINKLES, 1927; MODERN ETCHING AND ENGRAVING EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN, soft cover, The Studio, 1902; MODERN PEN DRAWINGS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN, soft cover, The Studio, 1900-1901; BEAUTY'S AWAKENING, A MASQUE OF WINTER AND SPRING, printed so Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 450 STRATHENDEN HOUSE SCHOOL - REGISTER, c1887-1917, with black and white photographs mounted inside; LIVERPOOL CIVIC SERVICE LEAGUE MINUTE BOOK 7, c 1916-57, with mounted letters inside (2). Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 451 ALFRED TENNYSON, a collection of green cloth bound works by or about the poet, to include, MAUD AND OTHER POEMS, with two pages of adverts at the beginning of each and one at the end of each, London, Edward Moxon, 1855; THE PRINCESS, A MEDLEY, London, Moxon, 1847; GARETH AND LYNETTE, Strahan and Co, 1872; THE HOLY GRAIL, 1870; HAROLD, A DRAMA, 1877; TENNYSONIANA, Pickering and Co, 2nd ed, 1879; HAROLD, A DRAMA, Henry S King, 1877; BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS, Kegan Paul and Co, 1880; POEMS, 2 vols, Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 452 A large miscellany of mostly 19th century cloth bound poetical and other books, to include, MATHER (M), THE SIGN OF THE WOODEN SHOON, green cloth, Frederick Warne, 1896; WATSON (W), EXCURSIONS ON CRITICISM, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1903; TWAIN (M), THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, new edition, Chatto & Windus, 1889; DRUMMOND (H), THE LOWELL LECTURES ON THE ASCENT OF MAN , London, Hodder & Stouhgton, 1894; GALSWORTHY (J), THE ELDEST SON, Duckworth, 1912 (quantity). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 453 A collection of sixteen mostly poetical books, to include, HOLMES (O), THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE 3 vols, gilt 3/4 cloth with patterned boards, London, Walter Scott; BROWNING (R), FIFINE AT THE FAIR, London, Smith Elder, 1872; BROWNING (R), CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER DAY, London, Chapman and Hall, 1850; BROWNING (R), RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY, 1873 (16). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 454 A large collection of 19th century and later mostly cloth bound books, to include BENSON (A), BESIDE STILL WATERS, 2nd edition, 1907; THE ALTAR FIRE, 1907; THE UPTON LETTERS, 12th ed, 1907; FROM A COLLEGE WINDOW 11th, 1907; MACLAREN (I), THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE; BRIERLEY (B), AB-O'TH'-YATE SKETCHES, 3 vols, Clegg, 1896 (95). Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 455 A miscellany of bindings, books and magazines, to include GREEN (J), A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, 4 vols, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, London, Macmillan, 1892 (as found) (quantity). Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Lot 456 LANG (A), edit, THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, 24 vols, blue cloth with gilt decorated spines, embellished with etchings, Macmillan and Co, 1901 (24). Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 457 BROWNING (R), THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING, 15 vols, green cloth, London, Smith Elder, 1889; THE ANTIQUARYS BOOKS, 15 vols, red cloth with gilt lettering, various early 20th century dates; BROWNING (R), THE RING AND THE BOOK, 4 vols, 1868; THE LITERARY REMAINS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 4 vols, Pickering, 1836; GOLLANCZ (I), THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, lacking 1 volume, green cloth, Dent, 1899; and 51 William Pickering published blue cloth mound books, mostly 1830s (quantity). Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 458 THE ENGLISH HEXAPLA, 3/4 green leather with cloth boards, London, Samuel Bagster, 1841; THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ENGLISH TRANSLATED BY JOHN WYCLIFFE, full vellum, Chiswick Press, c1848; HENRY (REV), THE FAMILY DEVOTIONAL BIBLE, 2 vols, no date; WHITEFIELD (G), THE WORKS OF THAT EMINENT SERVANT OF CHRIST MR JOHN BUNYAN, 3rd edition, engraved frontis, plates and a view of a house, perhaps lacking second volume; BANKES (T), THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW AND COMPLETE FAMILY BIBLE, numerous engraved plates, full t Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£580StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£580StatusCLOSED Lot 459 NELLIE MELBA (1861-1931), a hand written and signed letter, headed 30 St Cumberland Place, London and addressed to a Mr Bealy, two losses to the paper (1). Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 460 BENNETT (A), VENUS RISING FROM THE SEA, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, limited edition 157/350 signed, Cassell & Company, 1951, I slip case (1). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Lot 461 ROSS (G); illus. THE PICKWICK PAPERS by Charles Dickens, presentation copy signed 'To Charles Stewart, with best wishes from Gordon Ross', 37 with an additional sketch of a gentleman in a top hat above the signature, and on the half title page, colour frontis and other plates, patterned dark beige cover, the Heritage Press, New York and Nonsuch Press, London, 1936, in a slip case, the slip case in poor condition. Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 462 BEANO; a collection of forty four small size comics, a broken run from number 27 to 191, with, Dandy, a collection of thirty seven small size comics, a broken run from number 9 to 175, with six Dandy comic library special small size comics, with a Dandy and a Beano with unknown number as the panel has been obscured by a coloured sticker and another copy of the Beano and the Dandy but with defective covers. Estimate£30 - £50StatusUnsold View details Estimate£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot 463 FLEMING (I), ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, first edition, un-clipped d.j, Jonathan Cape, 1963; YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, first edition, in-clipped d.j, Jonathan Cape, 1964 (2) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportOHMSS, the jacket with several small tears at edge, general age wear throughout and some browning and water drop marks to the back. The cloth rubbed and bumped to the top and bottom edge. Biro name at top of front end Paper. Internally with slight edge browning. YOLT, the cover with small tears and worn at all edges. Damp undulation to the back of the jacket and brown spot / watermarks. The book with a lean and cover with light rubbing at edges. Ink name to the front end paper. Internally with light browning and odd Fox mark here and there. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 464 A miscellany of orange and purple Penguin Books and Pelican Books (qty). Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 465 CALDWELL (T), A PILLAR OF IRON, 3/4 Morocco with red cloth boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, edges gilt, Collins, 1966 (p65/66 slightly loose); WEST (M), THE SALAMANDER, 3/4 blue leather with blue cloth boards, HEINEMANN, 1976; BELLOC (H), CAUTIONARY TALES, 3/4 green leather, Duckworth, reprint 1965; PINE (L), THE STORY OF SURNAMES, County Life Limited, 1965; WEST (M), PROTEUS, Collins, 1979, all bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with OSBORNE (J), THE ENTERTAINER, first edition, 1957; later impre Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 466 MINIATURE BOOKS; MOUNTAGU (H), MANCHESTER AL MONDO, A CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH AND IMMORTALITY, floral gilt green cloth, Lindon, Pickering 1880, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, silver mounted front board decorated with Reynolds Angels, Chester 1908, and another Book of Common Prayer (3). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe silver cover with some knocks and dents at edge and a small loss tot he top right corner, binding and page edges worn. Other common prayer with rubbing to the edges of the binding. Immortality with some rubbing and bumping, some of the gutters open a little internally. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Lot 467 VERTUE'S HOUSEHOLD PHYSICIAN A TWENTIETH CENTURY MEDICA; 'A Practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children [...]', in five volumes in new and revised edition, illustration with manikin, coloured and half-toned plates, pub. Vertue and Company Ltd, London 1927, in green cloth boards with gilt tooth spines (5). Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Condition ReportGeneral scuffs and discolouration, cannot guarantee presence of all original illustrations. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 468 A collection of books by or about Lewis Carroll, to include, CARROLL (L), THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS, with illustrations by Gertrude Thomson, pictorial board, Macmillan, 1898; FEEDING THE MIND, Chatto & Windus, 1907; THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, illustrated by Henry Holiday, Macmillan, 1993; MOSER (B), illus, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, limited edition, 291/350, Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1983 (20). Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Lot 469 HEDIN, SVEN; 'Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet', three volumes, pub. Macmillan & Co Ltd, London 1910, in gilt tooled red cloth boards (3). Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Condition ReportStained, some distress to the bindings, scuffs, scrapes, mottling to page edges, etc. View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 470 JOHNS (W); a collection of thirty one Biggles books, various editions, some with dust jackets, and a copy of Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming, lacking title page. Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 471 BIBLE (ENGLISH – 17TH CENTURY), THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW, comprising, A CONCORDANCE TO THE BIBLE OF THE LAST TRANSLATION, title with engraved armorial, London, Assignes of Clement Cotton 1632; THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, by J.S., with engraved plates and double page map engraved title page to the New Testament, imprinted at London by Robert Barker 1633 and engraved title to the New Testament; THE BOOK OF PSALMES COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER, Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Condition ReportTitle of Concordance with loss to the outside edge but does not affect text or ruled lines. Page 1 / A2 of Genealogies with a tear close to the spine, P21 with small tear into text and the map with a small vertical tear at the bottom of the fold. Engraved title to Old Testament with small tear at top into top left square. A5 of Translators with small tear into text. A2 of Genesis with loss of paper along the bottom edge – this does not affect text. Third blank after A4 (A7?) with loss to bottom corner but does not affect text. Ff3 of The Book of Job with a tear into the first column of text. Kk4 second blank of Psalmes with small tear at top into text. Ll4 with a tear into the first column of text. Xx at Ezekiel with a small chip which just nudges into the margin notes. Fourth blank after Sss4 of Luke with a chip to the edge which does affect the red line but not the text. Ttt with a chip at the bottom and there is some loss of text here. Xxx3 and Xxx4 in John with a tear at the bottom which goes into the second from bottom line of text. Yyy with two small tears – one is just into the first line of text. The preceding page to this has a small tear which just touches the call word. Aaaa2 with a chip to the top corner which does affect the text in the chapter line. Title to the Book of Psalms with a tear at the top into the which goes into the third line of text and does have a small hole. Second blank after A4 (A6?) of the Book of Psalms with a small tear into the first line of text. D of Psalms with a tear coming in from the side edge into the column of text. Second blank after D4 (D6?) with a tear at the bottom which goes up into ten lines of text. Concordance title followed by *2 and finishes on the reverse of H2. Malachi ends reverse of Ccc4 (End of the Prophets) and is followed by title to the new testament. The call word APO on the reverse of Ccc4 is not on the title page which follows. Corners of pages rounded. Some page creasing. Other small chips, little tears and nicks to the page edges and general age browning throughout. Some old blemishes to the text here and there. the Bible is 23.5cm high x 18cm side and 7.5cm deep. View details Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Lot 472 LAWRENCE (T.E.), THE MINT - signed by Alec Guinness, signed and dated 1960 by the actor and with a hand written note from the actor tipped onto the half title, and with a copy of The Theatre Royal Haymarket where Guinness was playing Lawrence in a production by Terence Rattigan, Jonathan Cape, 1955. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe jacket with crease to the top and split to the top right. Some to the jacket also. Spotting also to the end papers and previous owner details to the front end paper. Odd spotting here and there but generally page edges ok. Sop of cloth binding slightly grubby. The book is not firmly / tightly bound. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 473 WADDINGTON (PETER); Koi Kichi, De Luxe edition, signed and no.194/500, pub. Peter Waddington Ltd, Warrington 1995, with plaque in silver gilt tooled sleeve and branded outer box. Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome light wear including to the plaque, corners and edges. Some light surface scuffs, contents appear complete and good. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Lot 474 SHACKLETON (E), THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC, being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909, first edition, two vols, complete with colour and black & white illustrations as per list and three folding maps and two section panorama, blue cloth with pictorial boards, London, Heinemann 1909 (2). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe spine of volume II torn and one section glued down, the other section detached but present. Fraying down the front gutter of the spine and rubbing to the spine. Cloth to Vol I rubbed to the top and bottom of the spine. Wear along both gutter edges – more so to the back spine gutter. Both with ink dedication to the front free end paper dated 1909. End papers to both browned and with some foxing at the beginning and end of the books. Pages with general light browning. Some slight creases here and there. Despite faults, overall ok. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 475 RADCLIFFE HALL (M), THE WELL OF LONELINESS, two copies, a second impression published by Jonathan Cape in 1928 and a re-issued Pegasus Press edition also 1928; with, THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND, London, Chapmann & Hall, 1915 and three related books (6). Estimate£30 - £40StatusUnsold View details Estimate£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot 476 COOPER (W), THE BIRDS OF PARADISE AND BOWERBIRDS, black and white illustrations and colour plates, beige cloth spine and green boards, with d.j. and titled sleeve, Collins, 1977 (1). Estimate£100 - £150StatusUnsold Condition ReportSlight blemish by at the top of the half title page. Green front end paper with two slight creases. Light shelf wear to top and bottom of sine and edges of jacket. Jacket with some light creases and marks. Overall ok. View details Estimate£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot 477 GOULD (J), THE FAMILY OF TOUCANS, Die Familie der Tuckane - La Famille des Toucans, complete with text volume and 51 colour plates, in folding case with pictorial cover, Taschen, 2011 (1). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPlates good condition. The folding cover with some light marks. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Lot 478 LEAR (E), THE PARROTS, Die Papageien – Les Perroquets, complete with text volume and 42 colour plates, in folding case with pictorial cover, Taschen, 2009 (1). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSlight wear to the corners of the text booklet, otherwise ok. The cover with some light line marks to the pictorial section. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£130StatusCLOSED Lot 479 CHEKE (R), HELM IDENTIFICATION GUIDES, SUNBIRDS, with d.j., Christopher Helm, 2001; JOHNSGARD (P), TROGONS AND QUETZALS OF THE WORLD, D.J., 2000; FOGDEN (M), HUMMING BIRDS OF COSTA RICA, Firefly Books, 2006 (3). Estimate£30 - £40StatusUnsold Condition ReportSome minor shelf wear but generally ok. View details Estimate£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot 480 SINCLAIR (G), HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE PRODUCE AND NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF DIFFERENT GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS, with 35 seed specimens on 14 pages and 123 of 129 plates of grasses, pages 11/15/51/65/73 and 145 are blank, later full green leather with gilt heraldic device initialled ‘HAJ’, later end papers, the front end papers embossed with embossed Ex-Libris device for Henry Arthur Johnstone and dated 1899, London, B. M’Millan, 1816 (1). Hen Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,150StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe front gutter at the end papers is slightly open and a little loose at the top, some water marks to the top of the end papers. There is some foxing here and there throughout. The seed plates are brown around the specimens and this has offset onto the preceding page. The text and grass plates with expected light browning. The grasses have left an indentation onto the back of the page which they are secured to. Uncut pages with general edge browning, wear and a few minor tears. Binding with light marks throughout, two light scuffs to the front board, some rubbing to the spine and corners and slight split to the top of the front gutter. There is no folding engraved plan. View details Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,150StatusCLOSED Lot 481 A group of books including 'The History of Manchester in Two Volumes with Cuts' by The Reverend Mr Whitaker, the second edition corrected, pub. J. Murray, London 1773, both in tan calf boards, also 'Tales of My Landlord First Series' by Jedediah Cleishbotham in four volumes, fifth edition, pub. Archibald Constable & Co, Edinburgh 1819, in part tan calf and mottled boards, 'A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain' by Reverend F. O. Morris, volumes II Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Condition ReportHeavy wear throughout, some bindings loose, scuffs, scrapes, splits to spines of both Whitaker's Manchester. Further losses to 'Tales of My Landlord'. Heavy wear to boards and bindings throughout. Illustrated London News boards loose as well. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 482 DELAMARCHE (F), ATLAS DE LA GEOGRAPHIE, complete with 36 mostly hand coloured engraved maps as per list, 1/2 leather spine with gilt lettering and detailing, and paper covered boards, Paris, 1832 (1). Estimate£120 - £180Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Condition ReportLeather on spine is rubbed and with a small tear at the bottom. The paper covering to the boards is heavily worn throughout, corners of boards rounded and weak. Front blanks with later scrap book style paper mounts in French, some of the maps with a paper mount to the back of the plate. All pages with age browning, some watermarks to the top and bottom edge and corners worn. Pages and plates lightly grubby around the edge. Creasing to some of the maps and some small tears. A tired but complete copy. View details Estimate£120 - £180Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 482A CARY (J), CARY'S NEW AND CORRECTED ENGLISH ATLAS, being a new set of county maps from actual surveys, hand coloured engraved maps, 1/4 leather with marbled boards, London 1793 (1) Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£300StatusCLOSED Condition ReportExterior heavily worn, appears complete but has not been fully collated, some foxing, spotting, browning, etc. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£300StatusCLOSED Lot 483 JONES (S), illus, THE NEW GRAVING DOCK MILLBROOK, SOUTHAMPTON, FOR THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY TO BE OPENED BY H.M. KING GEORGE V JULY 1933, signed and dated by the illustrator Sidney Jones on the front blank, with a typed letter from Buckingham Palace tipped in before the half title, the letter to the contractors Edmund Nuttall, Sons & Company Ltd and John Mowlem & Company Ltd, conveys His Majesty's thanks for receiving three etchings by Sydney Jones and a copy of this book, cloth boards with Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe glassine wrapper is slightly discoloured. The boards with some spot marks. The letter is foxed and transposed onto the back of one of the blank pages. Corners of boards slightly knocked. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 484 BRANDT (G), A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A DUTCH PROTESTANT AND A FRANCISCAN FRIAR OF DORT, 24p, unbound, London, J. Johnson 1784 (1). Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Condition ReportThis is an unbound work. There is an impressed library stamp over the word ‘Protestant’ for Unitarian Home Missionary College. All pages with general age wear browning and wear to the corners. Wear to the outset page along the spine fold, with losses to the paper - some attention may be needed here. View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Items per page 122448 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next
