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Maritime.- Matthews (John) Twenty-One Plans, with Explanations, of Different Actions in the West Indies, During the late War, first edition, 21 folding engraved plates with partial...

Lot 330

29/05/2025

Maritime.- Matthews (John) Twenty-One Plans, with Explanations, of Different Actions in the West Indies, During the late War, first edition, Chester, Printed by J. Fletcher, for the Author, 1784.

£800 - £1,200

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Babbage (Charles) The Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning, extract from 'the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', presentation inscription 'To Prof. Davie...

Lot 268

29/05/2025

Babbage (Charles) The Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning, presentation copy from author, Cambridge, 1826.

£4,000 - £6,000

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India.- Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta. Deep Water Docks - Haldia. Master Plan February, 1962, 7 maps (2 folding), one with large tear and loss, detached, original clo...

Lot 312

29/05/2025

India.- Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta. Deep Water Docks - Haldia. Master Plan February, 1962, [1962]

£500 - £700

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Maritime.- Serres (John Thomas, translator) The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, first English edition, list of subscribers, 137 hand-coloured aquatint land pr...

Lot 334

29/05/2025

Maritime.- Serres (John Thomas, translator) The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, first English edition, Published for the Author, 1801.

£1,000 - £1,500

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Peake (Mervyn, English writer, artist, poet & illustrator, 1911-1968) 2 Autograph Letters signed to his friend Helene Bruce ('Lanie'), 5pp., Wallington, Surrey and Sark, 1st No...

Lot 33

29/05/2025

Peake (Mervyn) 1911-1968) English writer, artist, poet & illustrator. 2 Autograph Letters signed to his friend Helene Bruce ('Lanie dear'), 5pp., Wallington, Surrey and Sark, 1st November 1931 - 14th May 1934

£800 - £1,200

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The Connor Brothers (b.1968)I Can Resist Everything Except TemptationDigital pigment print in colours with screenprint varnish, 2021, signed, dated and inscribed 'PP' in pencil, as...

Lot 47

21/05/2025

The Connor Brothers (b.1968) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

£700 - £900

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Kelmscott Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., [one of 250 copies on Flower paper], printed in Golden type, vol.1 in black, vol.2 & 3 red & black...

Lot 236

29/05/2025

Kelmscott Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., one of 250 copies on Flower paper, original vellum, 1894-95

£3,000 - £4,000

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Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, Together with a Short Description of the...

Lot 239

29/05/2025

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, one of 525 copies on paper, original holland-backed boards, 1898

£1,500 - £2,000

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The), translated and edited by W.O.E.Oesterley, number 54 of 65 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of 6 plates, f...

Lot 232

29/05/2025

Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The), one of 65 specially bound copies with an additional suite of plates (this copy with two), 1936

£1,500 - £2,000

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Gill (Eric) Madonna and Child, plaster cast, initialed by the artist in base, numbered 87 and with inscription

Lot 160

29/05/2025

Gill (Eric) Madonna and Child, plaster cast, initialed by the artist in base with inscription "For Evan G.", [1937]

£750 - £1,000

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Doves Press.- Catalogue Raisonné of Books printed and published at the Doves Press 1900-1911, second edition, printed in red and black, a few neat pencil marks to margins, b...

Lot 226

29/05/2025

Doves Press.- Catalogue Raisonné of Books printed and published at the Doves Press 1900-1911, second edition, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, 1911

£500 - £700

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China.- Martini (Martino) Sinicae historiae decas prima, first edition, half-title, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, ornaments and a few illustrations, with the final b...

Lot 305

29/05/2025

China.- Martini (Martino) Sinicae historiae decas prima, first edition, Munich, Lucas Straub for Johannes Wagner, 1658

£800 - £1,200

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)Le Vieil Hippie, from Hippies (Field 69-13A; M&L 384)
Drypoint with etching with hand-colouring, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of ...

Lot 322

21/05/2025

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Le Vieil Hippie, from Hippies (Field 69-13A; M&L 384)

£500 - £700

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Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
La Rue et L'Eglise de la Misericorde, from Saint-Tropez
Lithograph printed in colours, 1979, signed and inscribed ‘E.A.’ in pencil, an artist...

Lot 294

21/05/2025

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) La Rue et L'Eglise de la Misericorde, from Saint-Tropez

£400 - £600

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Flights of Fancy, first edition, hand-coloured engraved pictorial title and 36 plates, occasional foxing, especially at beginning, later blue half calf, gilt, rubbed, spine faded, ...

Lot 135

29/05/2025

Flights of Fancy, first edition, S. & I. Fuller, 1823.

£500 - £700

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Northumberland.- Richardson (T.M.) Picturesque Views of the Architectural Antiquities of Northumberland, 14 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (only, of ?20) by D. Havell and T. Su...

Lot 367

29/05/2025

Northumberland.- Richardson (T.M.) Picturesque Views of the Architectural Antiquities of Northumberland, Newcastle and London, 1819-20.

£1,000 - £1,500

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St. Dominic's Press.- Lectiones ad Matutinum officii Defunctorum, [one of 200 copies of which around 180 copies were destroyed], printed in red and black with musical notation, fif...

Lot 180

29/05/2025

St. Dominic's Press.- Lectiones ad Matutinum officii Defunctorum, [one of 200 copies of which around 180 copies were destroyed], Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1925

£800 - £1,200

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Pepler (H.D.C.) The Hand Press, one of 250 copies signed by the author, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Evan Gill on title, Autograph Card signed from Pepler...

Lot 212

29/05/2025

Pepler (H.D.C.) The Hand Press, one of 250 copies signed by the author, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Evan Gill, A.C.s. from Pepler to Elizabeth Gill with a self-portrait, Ditchling Common, 1934; and 7 others by Pepler (8)

£500 - £700

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Gill (Eric) Wood-Engravings..., number IV of 50 copies from an edition limited to 150, title and one plate printed in red and black, 32 woodcut or wood-engraved plates by Eric Gill...

Lot 176

29/05/2025

Gill (Eric) Wood-Engravings..., number IV of 50 copies, Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1924

£1,000 - £1,500

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Garrick (David, actor and playwright, 1717-79) Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington, 3pp. & address panel, no place, 9th September 1749, relati...

Lot 15

29/05/2025

Garrick (David) Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington, 1749, relating an anecdote about a bookshop named after him in The Strand.

£750 - £1,000

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Green (A. Romney) Woodwork, vol. 1 [all published], wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill, light browning to endpapers, [Gill 269], 1918 § An English Mass Book, 1927 §...

Lot 161

29/05/2025

Green (A. Romney) Woodwork, vol. 1 (all published), Ditchling, Douglas Pepler, 1918; and c.25 others, St. Dominic's Press, including several rare broadsheets, all from Evan Gill's collection (c.25)

£400 - £600

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Gill (Eric) Engravings... a Selection, one of 10 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the artist with 6 illustrations coloured by the artist and with 4 signed proofs of the portrait...

Lot 202

29/05/2025

Gill (Eric) Engravings, one of 10 copies on Japanese vellum, from an edition limited to 480, Bristol, Douglas Cleverdon, 1929

£4,000 - £6,000

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America.- Marrant (John) A Journal...to which are added, Two Sermons..., first edition, lacking A4 (list of subscribers) and all after p.106, foxed and with some staining, disbound...

Lot 297

29/05/2025

America.- Marrant (John) A Journal...to which are added, Two Sermons..., first edition, Printed for the Author, 1790; and another related (2)

£1,000 - £1,500

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Gill (Eric) Ecce tu pulchra es, final state (Physick 614), wood-engraving overprinted in blue, signed by the artist in pencil and numbered 10/10 lower margin, some spotting, blue i...

Lot 198

29/05/2025

Gill (Eric) Ecce tu pulchra es, final state (Physick 614), wood-engraving overprinted in blue, signed by the artist in pencil and numbered 10/10, 1929

£400 - £600

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