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Tournois (Les) du Roi René. D'après le manuscrit et les dessins originaux de la Bibliothèque Royale, lithographed additional pictorial title and 20 plates, all...
Lot 146
29/05/2025
Tournois (Les) du Roi René. D'après le manuscrit et les dessins originaux de la Bibliothèque Royale, hand-coloured lithographed plates, 1826

£800 - £1,200

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Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, wood-engraved title vignette and 24 colour lithograph plates by Eric Ravilious, light spotting, original pictori...
Lot 247
29/05/2025
Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, Curwen Press for Country Life Ltd., 1938

£750 - £1,000

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Britain.- Daniell (William) A Voyage round Great Britain, 8 vol., first edition, aquatint dedication, 308 hand-coloured aquatints (one with tear into image), tissue-guards, ad...
Lot 363
29/05/2025
Britain.- Daniell (William) A Voyage round Great Britain, 8 vol., first edition, 1814-25.

£5,000 - £7,000

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Food & Drink.- [Montefiore (Lady Judith)] The Jewish Manual; or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, first edition, one or two marginal pencil marks, odd fa...
Lot 75
29/05/2025
Food & Drink.- [Montefiore (Lady Judith)] The Jewish Manual; or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, first edition, 1846

£3,000 - £4,000

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Bonfire of Vanities.- Benivieni (Girolamo) Canzoni e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina, con commento, first edition, first issue, collation: [π]4 a-n8 o...
Lot 1
29/05/2025
Bonfire of Vanities.- Benivieni (Girolamo) Canzoni e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina, con commento, first edition, first issue, Florence, Antonio Tubini and others, 1500

£6,000 - £8,000

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Criminology.- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, first edition, woodcut device on title, errata leaf at end, foxing and browning, floral pastedowns, contemporary vellum, a...
Lot 7
29/05/2025
Criminology.- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, first edition, Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1764.

£10,000 - £15,000

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Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite, 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, woodcut printer's device to titles and a different version to final f. in each vol., wood...
Lot 5
29/05/2025
Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1560

£8,000 - £12,000

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Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, preliminary publisher's advertisement f., half-title, frontispiece ...
Lot 81
29/05/2025
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, Vizetelly & Co., 1886

£1,000 - £1,500

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)La Fée, from Les Amours de Cassandre (Field 68-2J; M&L 257g) Etching with hand-colouring in watercolour, 1968, signed in pencil, numbered...
Lot 324
21/05/2025
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) La Fée, from Les Amours de Cassandre (Field 68-2J; M&L 257g)

£300 - £500

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The Connor Brothers (b.1968) AlcoholismDigital pigment print in colours, 2023, signed, dated and inscribed 'PP' in pencil, aside from the edition of 75, on wove paper, with full ma...
Lot 45
21/05/2025
The Connor Brothers (b.1968) Alcoholism

£600 - £800

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Mr Brainwash (b.1966)Marilyn MonroeMixed media on paper, 2024, signed in ink, with the accompanying certificate of authenticity, overall 610 x 610mm (24 x 24in)
Lot 36
21/05/2025
Mr Brainwash (b.1966) Marilyn Monroe

£3,000 - £5,000

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India.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) A pair of sunglasses, once owned and worn by Gandhi, with gold-plated arms and frameless octagonal lenses, bakelite nose rests and black rubber...
Lot 316
29/05/2025
India.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) A pair of sunglasses, 1910.

£10,000 - £15,000

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China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China..., translated by John Ogilby,...
Lot 306
29/05/2025
China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China..., 3 parts in 1, first English edition, by John Macock for the author, 1669

£2,000 - £3,000

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South East Asia.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793, first edition, 19 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander and Daniell (2 of fru...
Lot 354
29/05/2025
South East Asia.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793, first edition, 1806

£600 - £800

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Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particuli...
Lot 266
29/05/2025
Light.- Huygens (Christiaan) Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particulièrement, dans l’étrange refraction du cristal d’Islande..., first edition, Leiden, Peter van de Aa, 1690

£12,000 - £18,000

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Chemistry.- Scheele (Carl Wilhelm) Chemische Abhandlung von der Lust und dem Feuer, first edition, engraved vignette on title, folding engraved plate, lacking half-title, title low...
Lot 260
29/05/2025
Chemistry.- Scheele (Carl Wilhelm) Chemische Abhandlung von der Lust und dem Feuer, first edition, Upsala and Leipzig, 1777

£4,000 - £6,000

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Martin (John).- Milton (John) The Paradise Lost, 2 vol., half-titles, 24 mezzotints by John Martin, platemarks c.350 x 245 mm., scattered light spotting, contemporary half mor...
Lot 137
29/05/2025
Martin (John).- Milton (John) The Paradise Lost, 2 vol., 1827.

£600 - £800

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Wodehouse (P.G.) Psmith Journalist, first edition under this title, frontispiece and 11 plates by T.M. Whitwell, occasional foxing, heavier at start and end, light browning to endp...
Lot 130
29/05/2025
Wodehouse (P.G.) Psmith Journalist, first edition under this title, A. & C. Black, 1915

£750 - £1,000

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Optics.- Lambert (Johann Heinrich) Photometria sive de mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae, first edition, eight folding engraved plates at rear, faint marginal damp-sta...
Lot 282
29/05/2025
Optics.- Lambert (Johann Heinrich) Photometria sive de mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae, first edition, Augsburg, Christoph Peter Detleffsen for the widow of Eberhard Klett, 1760

£12,000 - £18,000

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Photography.- Herschel (Sir John F. W.) On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on vegetable colours, and on some new photographic processes, offprint from Philosophical Tr...
Lot 284
29/05/2025
Photography.- Herschel (Sir John F. W.) On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on vegetable colours, and on some new photographic processes, offprint, with ink presentation inscription 'with the author's respects' to Michel-Eugene Chevreul, 1842.

£3,000 - £4,000

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Mathematics.- Lefe?vre d’E?taples (Jacques) Charles de Bo[u]velles and Josse Clichtove. Epitome compendiosaq[ue] introductio in libros arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii, adie...
Lot 277
29/05/2025
Mathematics.- Lefèvre d’Étaples (Jacques) Charles de Bo[u]velles and Josse Clichtove. Epitome compendiosaq[ue] introductio in libros arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii..., Paris, H. Estienne and W. Hopyl, 1503

£3,000 - £4,000

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Guericke (Otto von) Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, first edition, additional engraved title, engraved portrait of the author (trimmed to almost touchi...
Lot 264
29/05/2025
Guericke (Otto von) Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, first edition, Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson Waesberge, 1672

£10,000 - £15,000

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Alembert (Jean le Rond d') Traité de dynamique, dans lequel les loix de l'equilibre & du mouvement des corps sont réduites au plus petit nombre possible..., first...
Lot 251
29/05/2025
Alembert (Jean le Rond d') Traité de dynamique... first edition, 1743, bound with another by the same, 1747, together 2 in 1, Paris, David l'ainé.

£3,000 - £4,000

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Newton (Sir Isaac) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 2 vol., first edition in English, engraved allegorical frontispieces (that in vol.2 misbound within text), 47 ...
Lot 280
29/05/2025
Newton (Sir Isaac) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 2 vol., first edition in English, Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1729.

£10,000 - £15,000

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Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, together 2 vol., one of 515 copies, the first a facsimile repr...
Lot 240
29/05/2025
Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, together 2 vol., one of 515 copies, Basilisk Press, 1974-75

£750 - £1,000

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