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Scrap Album of ephemera relating to John Waldie, text in English, French, Italian, and German, including various manuscript documents and letters, playbills and broadsides, an invi...

Lot 140

11/09/2025

Scrap Album relating to John Waldie, mostly of social activities and , [1830s-40s]

£150 - £200

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Bookplate designs.- Montagu family.- M[ontagu] (F[rederick Conway], 1805-91) 3 bookplate designs of a woman weaing a crown, holding a shield with the Montagu arms in one hand ...

Lot 213

11/09/2025

Bookplate designs.- Montagu family.- M[ontagu] (F[rederick Conway]) 3 bookplate designs of a woman wearing a crown, holding a shield with the Montagu arms in one hand and a standard in the other, 2 designs in pen and ink and one in monochrome wash watercolour, 1857, 1860 & n.d.; and another (4 pieces).

£200 - £300

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Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first edition, first or second printing, colour frontispiece, title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, some light surfa...

Lot 156

11/09/2025

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first edition, first or second printing, 1911

£300 - £400

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Mathematics.- Euclid. The English Euclide, Being the First Six Elements of Geometry, translated by Edmund Scarburgh, half-title, title with engraved vignette, repairs to a2, a few ...

Lot 156

25/09/2025

Mathematics.- Euclid. The English Euclide, Being the First Six Elements of Geometry, translated by Edmund Scarburgh, Oxford, at the Theatre, 1705.

£800 - £1,200

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Joule (James Prescott).- Priestley (Joseph) The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments, fourth edition, James Prescott Joule copy with his ink ownershi...

Lot 155

25/09/2025

Joule (James Prescott).- Priestley (Joseph) The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments, fourth edition, James Prescott Joule copy with his ink ownership inscription and ink-stamp, 1775.

£400 - £600

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Nash (Paul).- Graves (Robert) Welchman's Hose, one of 525 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, glacine wrapper, uncut, an excellent copy, The Fleuron, 1925 &s...

Lot 69

11/09/2025

Nash (Paul).- Graves (Robert) Welchman's Hose, one of 525, wood-engravings by Paul Nash, The Fleuron, 1925 & others with wood-engravings by Nash (3)

£200 - £300

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Pascal (Blaise) Le Mystere de Jesus, letter J of 10 copies with an additional suite of illustrations and signed by the publisher, this copy also with 3 original pencil drawings, fr...

Lot 96

11/09/2025

Pascal (Blaise) Le Mystere de Jesus, one of 10 copies with an additional suite of plates and 3 original drawings, lithographs by Guy Marandet, Paris, Gérard le Grix, 1948 & others, French (4)

£150 - £200

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China.- Desk Hong List (The); a General and Business Directory for Shanghai and the Northern and River Ports, &c, advertisements at beginning and end, some staining, mainly to ...

Lot 170

25/09/2025

China.- Desk Hong List (The); a General and Business Directory for Shanghai..., &c, Shanghai, Office of the 'North-China Herald', 1900.

£600 - £800

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Cocteau (Jean) Poèmes, signed copy from the author with an original drawing by him to half-title, browning, contemporary half calf, portions of loss to backstrip, joints spl...

Lot 120

11/09/2025

Cocteau (Jean) Poèmes, signed copy from the author with an original drawing by him, [Paris], Gallimard, 1948.

£200 - £300

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Piper (John, illustrator).- Tambimuttu. India Love Poems, out-of-series copy signed by John Piper and Tambimuttu from an edition limited to 200, 18 colour lithographs and text on A...

Lot 97

11/09/2025

Piper (John, illustrator).- Tambimuttu. India Love Poems, out-of-series copy signed by John Piper and Tambimuttu from an edition limited to 200, Paradine, 1977.

£300 - £400

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Heraldry.- Dunthorne (James, transcriber) An Essay to Heraldry, manuscript, 110pp., numerous pen and ink coats of arms and helms, ownership inscription of James Dunthorne on front ...

Lot 26

25/09/2025

Heraldry.- Dunthorne (James transcriber) An Essay to Heraldry, manuscript, numerous pen and ink coats of arms and helms, contemporary calf, gilt, 1746.

£400 - £600

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Theatre.- Beaton (Cecil) Three theatrical costume designs for the 1949 West End revival of 'Charley's Aunt', pen and inks, coloured pencils, including 'Ella Act 2', 'Donna Lucia Ac...

Lot 144

11/09/2025

Theatre.- Beaton (Cecil) Three theatrical costume designs for the 1949 West End revival of 'Charley's Aunt', pen and inks, coloured pencils, [c. 1949] (3)

£800 - £1,200

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Ravilious (Eric).- Breton (Nicholas) The Twelve Moneths, edited by Brian Rhys, number 79 of 500 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Ravi...

Lot 5

11/09/2025

Ravilious (Eric).- Breton (Nicholas) The Twelve Moneths, one of 500 copies, wood-engravings by Ravilious, with dust-jacket, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927

£300 - £400

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Ravilious (Eric) Doctor Faustus Conjuring Mephostophilis, wood-engraving, image 180 x 130 mm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in), under glass, some toning and minor surface dirt, framed, 1929;...

Lot 11

11/09/2025

Ravilious (Eric) Doctor Faustus Conjuring Mephostophilis, wood-engraving, 1929; and 2 others, [circa 1930-1987] (3)

£300 - £500

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Mathematics.- Gauss (Carl Friedrich).- Schwerd (Friedr M.) Die kleine Speyerer Basis..., first edition, Carl Friedrich Gauss's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front past...

Lot 158

25/09/2025

Mathematics.- Gauss (Carl Friedrich).- Schwerd (Friedr M.) Die kleine Speyerer Basis..., first edition, Carl Friedrich Gauss's copy with his ink ownership inscription, Speier, 1822.

£400 - £600

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Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, first edition, signed by author on half-title, ink gift inscription, original boards, very faint mark to upper cover, spine ends and corners ...

Lot 92

25/09/2025

Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, first edition, signed by author, 1985.

£600 - £800

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Freedman (Barnett) 15 inch gun turret, HMS

Lot 57

11/09/2025

Freedman (Barnett) 15 inch gun turret, HMS "Repulse", August 1941, lithographic poster, 1941

£200 - £300

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Searle (Ronald) Hommage a Toulouse-Lautrec, one of 15 out-of-series copies, with an additional suite of four signed artist’s proofs, light offsetting and surface soiling, som...

Lot 104

11/09/2025

Searle (Ronald) Hommage a Toulouse-Lautrec, one of 15 out-of-series copies, with an additional suite of four signed artist’s proof plates, Paris, Edition Empreinte, 1969.

£300 - £400

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Searle (Ronald) Les Tres Riches Heures de Mrs Mole, one of 196 special copies signed by the artist and his wife, illustrations by the author, original morocco-backed suede boards, ...

Lot 105

11/09/2025

Searle (Ronald) Les Tres Riches Heures de Mrs Mole, one of 196 special copies signed by the artist and his wife, 2011.

£100 - £150

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Bookbinding.- Holmes (Richard R.) Specimens of Royal Fine and Historical Bookbinding, Selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, chromolithographed dedication to Queen Victor...

Lot 110

11/09/2025

Bookbinding.- Holmes (Richard R.) Specimens of Royal Fine and Historical Bookbinding, Selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, chromolithographed plates, 1893.

£150 - £200

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de Chirico (Giorgio).- Read (Herbert) Forty Years of Modern Art, 1907-1947, signed by Giorgio de Chirico, illustrations, original wrappers, slight splitting to spine, a f...

Lot 125

11/09/2025

de Chirico (Giorgio).- Read (Herbert) Forty Years of Modern Art, 1907-1947, signed by Giorgio de Chirico, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, [1948]; and 4 other exhibition cataloguing relating to Giorgio de Chirico and Henry Moore, and a signed postcard by Henry Moore (6)

£100 - £150

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Miscellany.- Collection of letters, including: Rev Sydney Smith (2); Lord Rosebery; Lord Albermarle; Duke of Marlborough; Elizabeth Eastlake (journalist and writer on art) (2); Mar...

Lot 209

11/09/2025

Miscellany.- Collection of letters, including: Rev Sydney Smith, Lord Rosebery, Elizabeth Eastlake, Marquess of Anglesey; Jean Ingelow, Sir Henry Ponsonby etc.; and c. 200 other letters, 1836-1917 (c. 200).

£150 - £200

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Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole tenne bookes, translated by Thomas May, second...

Lot 219

11/09/2025

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole tenne bookes, second edition, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for Thomas Iones, 1631; and another, defective 17th century English (2)

£150 - £200

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Ireland.- Church of Ireland. Articles of religion, agreed vpon by the archbishops, and bishops, and the rest of the clergie of Ireland, in the conuocation holden at Dublin in the y...

Lot 218

11/09/2025

Ireland.- Church of Ireland. Articles of religion, agreed vpon by the archbishops, and bishops, and the rest of the clergie of Ireland, in the conuocation holden at Dublin in the yeare of our Lord God 1615, Printed by R. Y[oung] for T. Downes, 1628; and 6 other defective 17th century pamphlets in 1 vol..

£300 - £400

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