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Jesuits.- Xavier (Girolamo) & others. Raguagli Missioni fatte dalli Padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and ornamen...

Lot 295

26/06/2025

Jesuits.- Xavier (Girolamo) & others. Raguagli Missioni fatte dalli Padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, Naples, Lazaro Scoriggio, 1615

£750 - £1,000

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Blanchetière (Henri, binder).- Richepin (Jean) Les Débuts de César Borgia, edited by Octave Uzanne, number 162 of 186 copies for members of the society, etched...

Lot 151

17/07/2025

Blanchetière (Henri, binder).- Richepin (Jean) Les Débuts de César Borgia, bound in dark blue morocco with mosaic border in colours, by Henri Blanchetière, Paris, 1890

£1,500 - £2,000

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Bible, English.- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out of the originall tongues..., general title within ornate figurative border, divisional...

Lot 44

17/07/2025

Bible, English..- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out of the originall tongues... , by John Field, 1658

£500 - £700

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Ruskin (John) The Works, 39 vol., 'Library Edition', one of 2,062 copies, edited by Cook and Wedderburn, frontispieces, plates and numerous text illustrations, and facsimiles, a fe...

Lot 87

17/07/2025

Ruskin (John) The Works, 39 vol., 'Library Edition', one of 2,062 copies, London & New York, 1903-12.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Architecture.- Romberg (J. Andreas, publisher.) Zeitschrift für Praktische Baukunst, 8 vol., text in German, numerous engraved plates, some folding, thin paper laid down ...

Lot 189

17/07/2025

Architecture.- Romberg (J. Andreas, publisher.) Zeitschrift für Praktische Baukunst, 8 vol., Leipzig, 1841-48.

£600 - £800

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Mandela (Nelson) Long Walk to Freedom, first edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, pictorial map endpapers, original green morocco, gilt, gilt edges, slip-case, 8vo, 199...

Lot 112

17/07/2025

Mandela (Nelson) Long Walk to Freedom, first edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, 1994.

£2,000 - £3,000

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Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta degli Avanzi del Foro di Nerva, from 'Vedute di Roma', etching, an excellent well inked impression of Hind's first state (of four), on thick lai...

Lot 187

17/07/2025

Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta degli Avanzi del Foro di Nerva, from 'Vedute di Roma', etching, 1770

£600 - £800

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1788) Veduta del Tempio detto della Concordia, from 'Vedute di Roma', etching, an excellent well inked impression of Hind's first state (of three),...

Lot 188

17/07/2025

Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta del Tempio detto della Concordia, from 'Vedute di Roma', etching, 1774

£600 - £800

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Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, many with ink studio stamps or subjects identified in pen or pencil on verso, v.s., vario...

Lot 36

17/07/2025

Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, v.d. [mostly first half of 20th century].

£600 - £800

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Rowling (J.K.) [The Harry Potter Novels], 7 vol., first deluxe editions, first printings, some slight marginal toning, Goblet of Fire & Order of the Phoenix with cracking to ti...

Lot 119

17/07/2025

Rowling (J.K.) [The Harry Potter Novels], 7 vol., first deluxe editions, first printings, 1999-2007

£1,200 - £1,800

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Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone...con tre novelle aggiunte, collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [pi-2pi]8 A-O8 P10 complete with final leaf (blank except for woodcut device on verso), nu...

Lot 8

17/07/2025

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516.

£10,000 - £15,000

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Italy.- Lear (Edward) Views in Rome and its Environs, lithographed vignette title, list of subjects and 25 plates after Lear, some margins slightly frayed or with short tears (a fe...

Lot 210

17/07/2025

Italy.- Lear (Edward) Views in Rome and its Environs, 1841.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, certificate of authenticity from Adam Houston loosely inserted, ...

Lot 118

17/07/2025

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, signed by the author, 1998

£4,000 - £6,000

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China.-[?Mason, (George Henry)] The Punishments of China, text in English and French, frontispiece and 21 hand-coloured aquatints, offsetting, light spotting and finger soiling, bo...

Lot 197

17/07/2025

China.- [?Mason (George Henry)] The Punishments of China, William Bulmer and Co., 1804

£400 - £600

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Shakespeare (William) The Plays and Poems, 21 vol., plates (some browning and spotting), a few small surface marks, the odd spot, light offsetting, light soiling to endpapers,...

Lot 67

17/07/2025

Shakespeare (William) The Plays and Poems, 21 vol., for F. C. and J. Rivington and others, 1821

£1,000 - £1,500

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (Powys) Love Night: A Laotian Gallantry, one of 120 copies on vellum-paper, from an edition limited to 200, the dedication copy with signed presenta...

Lot 166

17/07/2025

Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (Powys) Love Night: A Laotian Gallantry, one of 200 copies, the dedication copy, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936

£600 - £800

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Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, second stat...

Lot 95

17/07/2025

Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, signed by the author, 1979

£1,000 - £1,500

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Utopian science fiction novel.- [Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles Francois)] Giphantia: or a View of What has Passed, What is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will ...

Lot 60

17/07/2025

Utopian science fiction novel.- [Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles Francois)] Giphantia: or a View of What has Passed.. and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, 1761

£600 - £800

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Radioactivity and the atom.- Rutherford (Ernest) and H. Geiger.

Lot 255

17/07/2025

Radioactivity and the atom.- Rutherford (Ernest) and H. Geiger. "An electrical method of counting the number of alpha-particles from radio-active substances", in Proceeding of the Royal Society, Series A., vol. 81, pp. 141-177, 1908; and others, similar (c.20)

£1,000 - £1,500

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Scotland, Edinburgh.- Cartulary belonging to The Merchant Maiden Hospitall Edinburgh, manuscript, title and 456pp., in several hands, some central folds, browned, later reverse cal...

Lot 26

17/07/2025

Scotland, Edinburgh.- Cartulary belonging to The Merchant Maiden Hospitall Edinburgh, manuscript, later reverse calf, 1729-68.

£500 - £700

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Doré (Gustave) La Sainte Bible, 2 vol., one of c.10 copies on chine, half-titles, 230 plates by Doré, illustrations, watered silk endpapers and doublures, brown ...

Lot 143

17/07/2025

Doré (Gustave) La Sainte Bible, 2 vol., Tours, 1866.

£3,000 - £4,000

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Garrick (David).- Catalogue (A) of the Library, Splendid Books of Prints, Poetical and Historical Tracts, of David Garrick...Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Saunders...On Wed...

Lot 68

17/07/2025

Garrick (David).- Catalogue (A) of the Library, Splendid Books of Prints, Poetical and Historical Tracts, of David Garrick...Which will be Sold by Auction, [1823], various Garrick related ephemera laid down, bound or tipped in.

£600 - £800

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American Revolution.- Mackenzie (Roderick) Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History

Lot 193

17/07/2025

American Revolution.- Mackenzie (Roderick) Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History "Of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America"..., first edition, Printed for the Author, 1787.

£600 - £800

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