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Sombre binding.- Taylor (Jeremy) The Rule and exercises of holy living, fifteenth edition, contemporary blind-stamped panelled black morocco, central panel with charming floral cor...

Lot 224

11/09/2025

Sombre binding.- Taylor (Jeremy) The Rule and exercises of holy living, fifteenth edition, in contemporary blind-stamped panelled morocco, Printed by J[ohn]. H[eptinstall]. for Luke Meredith, 1690.

£100 - £150

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Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), text in red and black and red-ruled border throughout, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title and 52 plates only (of 55), some bro...

Lot 63

25/09/2025

Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Oxford, printed by John Baskett, sold by John Sturt and J. Nutt , 1716; and 2 others in contemporary bindings (3)

£750 - £1,000

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Michaux (Henri) Liberté d'action, first edition, one of 25 hors commerce copies, printed on green paper, occasional spotting, original pictorial wrappers, very short neat sp...

Lot 199

11/09/2025

Michaux (Henri) Liberté d'action, first edition, one of 25 hors commerce copies, Paris, Fontaine, 1945.

£100 - £150

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Mazarinades.- A good group of 21 Mazarinades, some titles with woodcut ornaments, some spotting or staining, the odd worm trace, disbound, small 4to, Paris, various printers, 1649.

Lot 188

11/09/2025

Mazarinades.- A good group of 21 Mazarinades, Paris, various printers, 1649.

£100 - £150

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Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Romans et Contes, 2 vol., engraved plates after Moreau Le Jeune, occasional soiling, contemporary red morocco, gilt, panelled with onlays...

Lot 133

11/09/2025

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Romans et Contes, 2 vol., Paris, Horizons de France, 1934; and others French, illustrated (9)

£150 - £200

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Voyages.- Cook (Captain James) Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map and 49 plates of which 1 folding (folding plate and map r...

Lot 198

25/09/2025

Voyages.- Cook (Captain James) Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World, 2 vol., Newcastle, M.Brown, 1790.

£600 - £800

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Essex.- Chapman (John) and Peter André. A Map of the County of Essex from an actual survey taken in MDCCLXXII: LXXIII & MDCCLXXIV, second edition, index key map and...

Lot 205

25/09/2025

Essex.- Chapman (John) and Peter André. A Map of the County of Essex from an actual survey taken in MDCCLXXII: LXXIII & MDCCLXXIV, second edition, W. Keymer, Colchester, 1785

£600 - £800

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Economics.- Heckscher (Eli F.) Mercantilism, 2 vol., first English edition, neat ink ownership inscription to vol.1 endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corner...

Lot 246

11/09/2025

Economics.- Heckscher (Eli F.) Mercantilism, 2 vol., first English edition, 1934.

£150 - £200

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Economics.- McCulloch (J. R.) A Discourse of the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy, first edition, light surface soiling to title and final p., l...

Lot 243

11/09/2025

Economics.- McCulloch (J. R.) A Discourse of the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy, first edition, Edinburgh, 1824; and 11 others, Ricardo (12)

£200 - £300

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Beard (Peter) Peter Beard, 2 vol., first edition of the compact format, original cloth, slip-case, Cologne, Taschen, 2008; PB2, original limp cloth, 2006; and 2 others, Beard and S...

Lot 161

11/09/2025

Beard (Peter) Peter Beard, 2 vol., first edition of the compact format, Cologne, Taschen, 2008; and 3 others, Beard and Snowdon (5)

£150 - £200

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Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light fading to spine, sunning to upper and lower edges, red dust-jacket, spine faded, spine...

Lot 107

25/09/2025

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, 1949

£4,000 - £6,000

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Ravilious (Eric).- Beautiful Britain. Country Life Calendar 1939, photographic illustrations, colour lithograph upper cover by Eric Ravilious, ring bound at head with metal ha...

Lot 24

11/09/2025

Ravilious (Eric).- Beautiful Britain. Country Life Calendar 1939, colour lithograph upper cover by Ravilious, 1938 & other examples of Ravilious' commercial work (6)

£200 - £300

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Buckland Wright (Christopher) Endeavours & Experiments: John Buckland Wright's Essays in Woodcut and Colour Engraving, one of 150 copies from an edition limited to 300, origina...

Lot 55

11/09/2025

Buckland Wright (Christopher) Endeavours & Experiments: John Buckland Wright's Essays in Woodcut and Colour Engraving, one of 300 copies, Upper Denby, Fleece Press, 2004 & others, mostly Fleece Press (5)

£400 - £600

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Ravilious (Eric).- Hennell (Thomas) Poems, out-of-series copy on Basingwerk Parchment (from an edition limited to 50) signed by the author and artist, wood-engraving...

Lot 22

11/09/2025

Ravilious (Eric).- Hennell (Thomas) Poems, one of 50 copies, signed by author and artist, 1936

£1,000 - £1,500

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Cresset Press.- Hermes (Gertrude) and others. Thirteen plates from 'The Apocrypha, according to the Authorized Version', artists include Eric Ravilious, Leon Underwood, John Nash, ...

Lot 56

11/09/2025

Cresset Press.- Hermes (Gertrude) and others. Thirteen plates from 'The Apocrypha, according to the Authorized Version', wood-engravings, 1929 (7)

£150 - £200

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Blake (William), After. Eleven plates from 'Illustrations to Robert John Thornton, 'The Pastorals of Virgil'', wood-engravings, on cream wove paper, each image approx. 35 x 75 mm (...

Lot 54

11/09/2025

Blake (William), After. Eleven plates from 'Illustrations to Robert John Thornton, 'The Pastorals of Virgil'', wood-engravings, [after 1821]; and four others, 20th century (5)

£150 - £200

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[Victorian photograph album of c.150 photographs and carte de vistes], 1 with hand-colouring, occasional light spotting or surface markings, key taped to front pastedown, original ...

Lot 150

11/09/2025

[Victorian photograph album of c.150 carte de vistes], [late 19th century]; and c.60 late Victorian and early 20th-century photographs, (c.60)

£100 - £150

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Annotated.- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) De legibus libri III, woodcut criblé initial, ruled throughout in red, contemporary extensive ink annotations at start (faded), title wit...

Lot 173

11/09/2025

Annotated.- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) De legibus libri III, with contemporary annotations, Paris, [Jean Loys for] Jean Roigny, 1543; and a Vascosan edition of Cicero with some annotations (2)

£200 - £300

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Architecture.- Rome.- Desgodets (Antoine) The Ancient Buildings of Rome, 2 vol., parallel titles and text in French and English (first French title dated 1771), 44 engraved p...

Lot 160

11/09/2025

Architecture.- Rome.- Desgodets (Antoine) The Ancient Buildings of Rome, 2 vol., 44 engraved plates only, for I. and J. Taylor, 1795.

£200 - £300

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Wordsworth (William) The Sonnets, first collected edition, 2pp. advertisements at end, ownership inscription of Tho. Bostock to head of title dated 1842, occasional ink annotation ...

Lot 249

11/09/2025

Wordsworth (William) The Sonnets, first collected edition, Edward Moxon, 1838; and others by or about Wordsworth (14)

£150 - £200

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Anatomy and medicine.- Bartholin (Thomas) Bartholinus Anatomy; made from the Precepts of his Father, and from the Observations of all Modern Anatomists...., 3 folding engraved plat...

Lot 275

11/09/2025

Anatomy and medicine.- Bartholin (Thomas) Bartholinus Anatomy...., by John Streater, 1668; and another 18th century medical work (2)

£400 - £600

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Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) and Sir William Beveredge, editors.- Bowley (Arthur L.) Prices and Wages in the United Kingdom, 1914-1920, stamp or label excised from title, 1921...

Lot 245

11/09/2025

Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) and Sir William Beveredge, editors.. The Continental System. An Economic Interpretation, 1922; and 4 others all from the same series (5)

£100 - £150

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Tibet.- Tucci (Giuseppe) Tibetan Painted Scrolls, 3 vol., one of 750 copies, comprising 2 text vol. and portfolio with 256 plates, some in colour, text vol. with very slight toning...

Lot 197

25/09/2025

Tibet.- Tucci (Giuseppe) Tibetan Painted Scrolls, 3 vol., one of 750 copies, Rome, Libreria Dello Stato, 1949.

£500 - £700

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Maraffi (Damiano) Le Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi Toscani, collation: A-R8 (but this copy A-Q8 R4 as per copy in BL), woodcut author's portrait to title verso, wood...

Lot 6

25/09/2025

Maraffi (Damiano) Le Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi Toscani, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1554

£400 - £600

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World.- [Costumes of Various Nations], 7 vol., comprising Mason (George Henry, Maj.) The Costume of China; [?Mason (George Henry, Maj.)] The Punishments of China; [D...

Lot 199

25/09/2025

World.- [Costumes of Various Nations], 7 vol., William Miller, Thomas McLean, 1800-1818.

£4,000 - £6,000

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