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Napoleon on St. Helena.- Manuscript and printed material relating to English involvement with Napoleon's custody on St. Helena, including Drake (?Henry) Autograph Letter signed to ...

Lot 27

17/07/2025

Napoleon on St. Helena.- Manuscript and printed material relating to English involvement with Napoleon's custody on St. Helena, c.1807-1840 (12 pieces, plus copied documents).

£800 - £1,200

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India.- Kalighat School (probably 19th century) Five paintings of Hindu deities, including two of Kali Dancing on Shiva, two of Durga as Rajarajesvari, with one above a prostrate S...

Lot 202

17/07/2025

India.- Kalighat School (probably 19th century) Five paintings of Hindu deities, opaque-pigments, [probably 19th century] (5)

£1,000 - £1,500

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., number 362 of 485 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustrations and initia...

Lot 165

17/07/2025

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., one of 485 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1929

£3,000 - £4,000

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Binding.- Logan (James) and R. R. McIan. The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, 2 vol., 2 chromolithographed armorial frontispieces and 72 hand-co...

Lot 155

17/07/2025

Binding.- Logan (James) and R. R. McIan. The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, 2 vol. in handsome pictorial morocco binding by Bayntun-Riviere, Ackermann and Co., 1845-47

£4,000 - £6,000

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Smith (Dodie) The Starlight Barking, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Cicely Courtneidge on front free endpaper, Autograph Card signed from the aut...

Lot 123

17/07/2025

Smith (Dodie) The Starlight Barking, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Cicely Courtneidge, 1967

£600 - £800

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Nash (Paul) Genesis: Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash, one of 375 copies, printed in Rudolf Koch's Neuland type, 12 woodcuts by Nash, very light browning to endpapers, original bl...

Lot 177

17/07/2025

Nash (Paul) Genesis: Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash, one of 375 copies, printed by the Curwen Press for the Nonesuch Press, 1924

£1,500 - £2,000

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Miro, Kandinsky etc.- Spender (Stephen) Fraternity, with French translation by Louis Aragon, number 25 of 101 copies, 9 engravings by various artists on Montval hand-made paper, si...

Lot 175

17/07/2025

Miro, Kandinsky etc.- Spender (Stephen) Fraternity, one of 101 copies, translated by Louis Aragon, signed by authors and artists, [Paris], Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht, March 1939.

£6,000 - £8,000

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Middle East.- Archery.- Kani (Mustafa) Telchis resail er-rümait [excerpts from the writings of archers], text in Turkish using Arabic characters, folding engraved plate (tear ...

Lot 212

17/07/2025

Middle East.- Archery.- Kani (Mustafa) Telchis resail er-rümait [excerpts from the writings of archers], text in Turkish using Arabic characters, Constantinople, Turkey, 1847.

£600 - £800

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Lot 141

17/07/2025

Rowlandson (Thomas) "The Carter and the Gipsies", an original drawing for the etched caricature, watercolour, 1815

£400 - £600

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[Edouart (Auguste), attributed to] 63 fine scissor-work silhouettes, laid down on 21 album leaves, each with 3 silhouette designs cut from black paper, each design c.130 x 60m...

Lot 144

17/07/2025

[Edouart (Auguste), attributed to] 63 fine scissor-work silhouettes, in a contemporary half morocco album, [?c.1840].

£750 - £1,000

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Dobson (Austin, English Poet and Essayist, 1840-1921) Autograph Manuscripts of his poems

Lot 34

17/07/2025

Dobson (Austin) English Poet and Essayist, 1840-1921. 4 Autograph Manuscript Poems, signed or initialled, 1877-1916

£2,000 - £3,000

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Southeast Asia.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, text fully vowelled in black ink, with verse markers and 'sura' titles in red, scribal corrections throughout, trimmed affectin...

Lot 222

17/07/2025

Middle East.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript, n.d

£800 - £1,200

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Thailand.- [Manual on Horses], manuscript in Thai, 53 panels, 62 horse illustrations with hand-coloured opaque pigment on paper across 37pp., including 2 double-paged illustrations...

Lot 223

17/07/2025

Thailand.- [Manual on Horses], manuscript in Thai, [19th century].

£1,000 - £1,500

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Radioactivity and the discovery of polonium and radium.- Curie (Marie Sklodowska)

Lot 254

17/07/2025

Radioactivity and the discovery of polonium and radium.- Curie (Marie Sklodowska) "Récherches sur les substances radioactives", in Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vol. 30, pp.99-203 & 289-326, Paris, 1903; with 20 others, similar (21)

£1,500 - £2,000

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Albertini (Francesco) Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition, collation: A-Z4 &4 [cum]4 [rum]4, lacking final blank, title withi...

Lot 5

17/07/2025

Albertini (Francesco) Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1510.

£2,000 - £3,000

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Descartes (René)[Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, engraved portrait of the author (misbound before **1 and with horizontal crease), woodcut illustrations and...

Lot 17

17/07/2025

Descartes (René) [Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier, 1654; and 3 others by the same in 1 vol..

£400 - £600

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Warhol (Andy) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), signed presentation inscription dated

Lot 124

17/07/2025

Warhol (Andy) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) , signed presentation inscription with double soup can drawing, New York & London, 1975.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Firefighting.- Braidwood (James) On the Construction of Fire-Engines and Apparatus, the Training of Firemen, and the Method of Proceeding in Cases of Fire, first edition, double-pa...

Lot 70

17/07/2025

Firefighting.- Braidwood (James) On the Construction of Fire-Engines and Apparatus..., first edition, Edinburgh, 1830.

£400 - £600

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Italy.- Knight (Henry Gally) Saracenic & Norman Remains to illustrate The Normans in Sicily, first edition, tinted lithograph title and 29 lithographs (3 printed in colour), pl...

Lot 209

17/07/2025

Italy.- Knight (Henry Gally) Saracenic & Norman Remains to illustrate The Normans in Sicily, first edition, [1840].

£1,000 - £1,500

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Lot 127

17/07/2025

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) "Lewis Carroll".. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, third edition, the suppressed 'sixtieth thousand' issue, 1893; and Alice in Wonderland (2)

£4,000 - £6,000

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Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, second edition, engraved title (small loss affecting imprint, laid down), wood engraved illustrations, wood engraved initi...

Lot 241

17/07/2025

Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, second edition, Adam Islip, 1633.

£1,500 - £2,000

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Biography of a Victorian courtesan.- Skittles. A Biography of a Fascinating Woman, first edition, the odd spot, pencil inscription on title, modern calf, t.e.g., 8vo, George Vicker...

Lot 79

17/07/2025

Biography of a Victorian courtesan.- Skittles. A Biography of a Fascinating Woman, first edition, George Vickers, 1864

£750 - £1,000

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Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Mean...

Lot 244

17/07/2025

Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in the Zoologist, volume the sixteenth, pp.6293-6308, 1858.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Serlio (Sebastiano) Libro Primo d'Architettura... [& Il Secondo Libro di Perspettiva...], second Italian edition, Book II with colophon leaf at end with woodcut printer's devic...

Lot 190

17/07/2025

Serlio (Sebastiano) Libro Primo d'Architettura, Venice, Gio.Battista & Marchio Sessa, 1560 bound with Books II-V, 1562-59

£1,000 - £1,500

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Čapek (Karel) [The Noetic trilogy], translated by M. and R. Weatherall, 3 vol., first English editions, comprising Hordubal, jacket with 2 short nicks to head of upper panel with ...

Lot 97

17/07/2025

Čapek (Karel) [The Noetic trilogy], translated by M. and R. Weatherall, first English edition, vol. 2 with signed presentation inscription from the author, 1934-36

£1,200 - £1,800

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