122 |
Milton, John (1608-1674), Paradise Lost, Jacob Tonson, London 1707, engraved frontispiece, twelve engraved plates by H. Eland, eighth edition, original boards, re-spined £200-300 | Nil |
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| 123 | A mounted and framed presentation photograph of John Singer Sargent's 'Padre Sebastiano', the mount inscribed and signed in pencil 'To my friend Vernon, John S. Sargent', the photograph 21 x 26 cm (8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in) £70-100 | Nil |
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80 |
| 124 | Legh, Gerard (d. 1563), The Accedens of Armory, Richard Tottel, London 1576, various ownership inscriptions from 1684 onwards (including George Naylor, York Herald at the beginning of the 19th century) and one book plate, minor marginal notes, marbled boards £300-500 | Nil |
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340 |
| 125 | Ruskin, John, The Harbours of England, illustrations after J. M. W. Turner, London 1895, full blue calf binding, with the book plate of C. A. Sebag Montefiore, together with a small quantity of books on natural history (7) £60-80 | Nil |
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65 |
| 126 | Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount of Alamein (1887-1976), British Field Marshal, World War II, a signed three quarter length portrait photograph, wearing leather flying jacket and beret, verso stamped in purple in 'Official War Office photograph', 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in) £80-120 | Nil |
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140 |
| 127 | Sporting Prints, Seven folio manuscript volumes containing extensive research into, and notes on, sporting engravers and their work, one volume quarter leather bound and labelled 'Sporting Prints' on the front cover, each inscribed in a later hand with the name George Ernest Kendall OBE, FRIBA (1875-1943) Note: although nothing appears to have been published, it is tempting to think that the author of these manuscripts (presumably G. E. Kendall) was working on a comprehensive dictionary of Sporting Prints and their engravers £100-150 | Nil |
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260 |
| 128 | Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by E. R. Herman, Longmans, Green and Co, London 1914, number 10 of 105, together with Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil, Stories of the English Artists 1600-1851, Chatto & Windus 1908 and Artists of The Italian Renaissance, Chatto and Windus 1912, all vellum-bound £70-100 | Nil |
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65 |
| 129 | Cescinsky, Herbert and Gribble, Ernest R., Early English Furniture and Woodwork, two volumes, George Routledge, London, 1922, leather bound, together with The Carpenter's and Joiner's Assistant by James Newlands, Georgian Cabinet Makers by Edwards and Jourdain and The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks (5) £100-150 | Nil |
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65 |
| 130 | Nevill, Ralph, Old English Sporting Prints and their History, The Studio, London 1923, number 420 of 1500, and British Military Prints, The Connoisseur, London 1909, together with The Life of George Morland by George Dawe, Dickinsons, London 1904, number 3 of 500, A Book of Sporting Painters, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Bodley Head, London 1931, and Sporting Prints by F. Gordon Roe, The Connoisseur, London 1927 (5) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 131 | Rushworth's Collections - Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments..., seven volumes, London 1682 to 1701, and The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, London 1700, all with the bookplate of William Patrick Adam, the Blair Adam Library (8) £100-150 | Nil |
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140 |
| 132 | Hooper, Jacob, An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, during the Reign of King Charles the First, London 1738, with engraved frontispiece and 25 other plates, leather bound £70-100 | Nil |
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95 |
| 133 | Nash, Joseph, The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, The Studio, 1906, together with The Alps, Switzerland and the North of Italy, by Rev. Charles Williams, 1854, The Book of Banbury by Christine Bloxham (numbered 440), Adderbury Parish Magazine 1881, two books on the Sherborn family, and others (9) £50-70 | Nil |
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70 |
| 134 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948), a letter dated 13.2.46 from Gandhi to Agnes Phillips, handwritten by another but signed 'Love, yours, M. K. Gandhi' by Gandhi and with 'Agnes' inserted by him after 'My dear'. Contained in a typewritten envelope, the last paragraph of the letter reads: 'My doings you should follow from the papers. This is merely a line to tell you that my love does not suffer because I do not hear from you or because you are so far away from me'. Agnes Phillips, born in St Helen's in 1884, was the niece of the Reverend Charles Phillips of Johannesburg. Gandhi met her when she moved to South Africa at the beginning of the last century to look after her uncle's children. They remained in contact for the rest of Gandhi's life and he visited her regularly. Provenance: by family descent £400-600 | Nil |
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800 |
| 135 | Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to come, London 1776, printed at R. Hopwood's, Crown Court, near St Ann's, Soho, half calf, marbled boards £70-90 | Nil |
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| 136 | French, John, Of the Art of Distillation, an early alchemical volume, divided into six sections, with illustrations and diagrams of experiments, the epistle dedicatory to Tobias Garbrand, Doctor of Physick and Principal of Glocester-Hall in Oxford, dated November 25, 1650, London, original leather binding £500-600 | Nil |
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| 137 | Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Frederick Warne and Co, 1909, together with The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, The Story of Miss Moppet and The Pie and the Patty-Pan, various dates (8) £100-150 | Nil |
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100 |
| 138 | De La Motte Fouque (1773-1843), Undine, adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, signed by the illustrator, William Heinemann 1909, number 244 of 1000 copies, tooled vellum binding £250-300 | Nil |
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300 |
| 139 | Surtees R. S., Mr Jorrocks' Lectors, illustrated by G. Denholm Armour, signed by the illustrator, Hodder and Stoughton 1910, number 177 of 350 copies, tooled leather binding £60-80 | Nil |
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150 |
| 140 | Goldsmith, Oliver, The Deserted Village, illustrated by W. Lee Hankey, signed by the illustrator, Constable and Co. Ltd 1909, number 1 of 250 copies, tooled vellum binding £60-80 | Nil |
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50 |
| 141 | Dickens, Charles, The Personal History of David Copperfield, illustrated by Frank Reynolds, signed by the illustrator, Hodder and Stoughton, number 26 of 350 copies, tooled vellum binding £60-80 | Nil |
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40 |
| 142 | Map of Korea, prepared by Angus Hamilton FRGS, 1904, London, Edward Stanford, the map 73 x 56 cm (28 1/2 x 22 in) on 20 linen-backed sheets, folding into blue linen boards 19 x 12 cm (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in) £70-100 | Nil |
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60 |
| 143 | Geological Survey of England and Wales, Cornwall, maps 31 and 32, based on two Ordnance Survey maps of 1813 updated in 1866, London, Edward Stanford, the maps on linen-backed sheets 83 x 151 cm (32 1/2 x 59 1/2 in), 48 sheets, and 66 x 101 cm (26 x 39 1/2 in), 24 sheets, in original slip case 23 x 13 cm (9 x 5 1/4 in) £80-120 | Nil |
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170 |
| 144 | Her Majesty Queen Victoria (1819-1901) An etching after HRH Prince Albert depicting Henry VIII and other figures, and a second etching with other figure studies, both signed in the plate and dated 1840 12 x 16 cm and 16 x 14 cm (5 x 6 in and 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in), unframed together with an engraving, signed 'EF' and dated Oct 18th 1844, of an inkstand 'In the King's State Drawing Room, W. Castle', a pencil drawing of cattle also by EF, a drawing attributed to Joshua Cristall in pen, ink and pencil of rustic firgures, a slip of paper addressed to George Scharf, Curator of the National Portrait Gallery and a letter from the Royal Librarian dated 1946 regarding the etchings £70-100 | Nil |
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80 |
| 145 | Luigi Rossini (1790-1857) 'Avanzi del Teatro di Marcello' etching, published 1821 39 x 51 cm (15 1/2 x 20 in), together with Charles Turner ARA (1773-1857), after Joseph Mallord William Turner Scene on the French coast (also known as 'Flint Castle') etching with aquatint, from the Liber Studiorum (Finberg 4) 18 x 26 cm (7 x 10 in), Armin Landeck (American, 1905-1984) Hotel de Sens, Paris aquatint, signed in pencil 23 x 29 cm (9 x 7 in) Provenance: Knoedler & Co, New York, and T. F. S. (20th century, possibly French) A man walking on a dockside, an elevated bridge beyond etching, signed and dated 1909 in the plate, signed again in pencil and with monogram in red stamp 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in) £80-120 | Nil |
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60 |
| 146 | W. T. Davey, after William Barraud 'The Fathers of the Pack, Hounds of the Pytchley Hunt' mixed method coloured engraving nearly circular, 52 x 54 cm (21 x 20 in) £100-150 | Nil |
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170 |
| 147 | John Ogilby, The Continuation of the Extended Road from Buckingham to Bridgnorth in Com Salop, hand coloured road map showing Banbury twice, title in cartouche with fox hunting scene, 1698, 34 x 45 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in), unframed £100-150 | Nil |
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130 |
| 148 | After Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) Mallard in flight colour reproduction, signed in pencil in the margin and with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, published 1927 by W. J. Embleton 31 x 46 cm (12 x 18 in) £120-180 | Nil |
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100 |
| 149 | After Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) 'Hungry Woodcock' coloured photogravure, published 1904 by A. Baird-Carter 18 x 29 cm (7 x 11 1/2 in) £80-120 | Nil |
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70 |
| 150 | After John Collier (Tim Bobbin, 1708-1786) plates 4, 5, 12, 21, 22 and 23 from 'The Passions, Humorously Delineated' six uncoloured engravings, published 1810 by Edward Orme, London plate size 16 x 21 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in) £120-180 | Nil |
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120 |
| 151 | Paul Braddon (the nom de plume of James Leslie Crees, 19th century) A figure by a punt in a winter landscape pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, signed lower left 19 x 28 cm (7 1/2 x 11 in) £100-150 | Nil |
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