Auction No 376, Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST

158 Lots (displaying 61 - 80)

"Modes et Costumes Historiques Etrangers: Dessines et Graves par Pauquet Freres d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres..."1868

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £125
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Modes et Costumes Historiques Etrangers: Dessines et Graves par Pauquet Freres d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque et les Documents les plus authentiques Paris [1868], tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, raised bands, VG; complete with 96 fine hand-coloured plates 

"Modes et costumes historiques: Dessines et graves par Pauquet Freres d'apres les meilleurs maitres..." 1870

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £125
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Modes et costumes historiques: Dessines et graves par Pauquet Freres d'apres les meilleurs maitres de chaque epoque et les documents les plus authentiques. Paris c.1870, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, raised bands, VG; complete with 96 fine hand-coloured plates.

Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann "Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring"

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring, George Routledge, 1877, 2nd Edition, original decorative cloth, gilt, recased with new endpapers, lower right corner to front board rounded; spotting to frontispiece, title and colophon o/w fine internally; xvi,509pp

Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi "L'Abcedario Pittorico dall' Autore Ristampato Corretto et Accresciuto di Molti Professori"

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi L’Abcedario Pittorico dall’ Autore Ristampato Corretto et Accresciuto di Molti Professori, Bologna, 1719, 2nd Edition; quarto, full 19th Century leather, gilt title & compartments, hinges a little weak o/w good; woodcut initials, with a few tail-pieces and with five woodcut text illustrations of artists' monograms. Some foxing to text; 520pp. [A biographical dictionary of the Italian artists, plus an extensive related bibliography].

"Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography", W.H. Allen, 1975, 1st Edn in VG complete d/jkt, signed by Fonteyn on the title page.

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £20
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Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography, W.H. Allen, 1975, 1st Edn in VG complete d/jkt, signed by Fonteyn  on the title page.

"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1851, with Blackburn associations

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1851, 4to, full leather, gilt, bronze corners & clasp intact, wear to hinges and foot of backstrip; a.e.g.; gilt morocco presentation bookplate to Miss Eccles from members of the Mill Hill Sunday School, Blackburn; 20 tissue-guarded topographical engravings after W.H.Bartlett, the tissue-guards browned with spotting to the margins of some of the plates; clean text. Family Register completed for the period 1856-1899 commencing James Davenport Kelly’s marriage to Margaret Alice Eccles. VG

"Schoolboys' Own Library", Amalgamated Press, 1939-40 selection, pictorial wraps intact,

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £11
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Schoolboys’ Own Library, Amalgamated Press, 1939-40 selection, pictorial wraps intact, all with a rusted staple o/w good/VG. (21 issues)

"The Magnet", Amalgamated Press, c.1938-1940, a collection of 68 issues, plus an 1895 issue of "Boy's Own Paper"

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £22
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The Magnet, Amalgamated Press, c.1938-1940, a collection of 68 issues, plus an 1895 issue of Boy’s Own Paper, and two issues of The Gem. Pictorial wraps, most with rusted staples o/w good/VG. All in plastic folders. (71)

George Eliot "Daniel Deronda", "Romola", "Middlemarch", "Mill on the Floss", "Adam Bede", and "Felix Holt"

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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George Eliot Daniel Deronda, Romola, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, and Felix Holt, William Blackwood, 1870s/1880s, various editions, octavo, uniformly bound in half-calf, gilt; marbled boards, endpapers and sides; Middlemarch with small abrasion to front board o/w VG/Fine. (6)

Mervyn Peake "Titus Groan", "Gormenghast", and "Titus Alone", Folio Society, 1992, pictorial cloth,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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Mervyn Peake Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, Folio Society, 1992, pictorial cloth, very fine 3-volume set in a VG slipcase.

 

The A.J. Valpy edition of Latin texts, 1820s/30s, octavo, full calf, gilt, some light wear, two with a board detached,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £60
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The A.J. Valpy edition of Latin texts, 1820s/30s, octavo, full calf, gilt, some light wear, two with a board detached, all part-sets or odd volumes. All with the bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair. Fine internally. (30)

Arthur Findlay "The Torch of Knowledge", Psychic Press [1936], gilt cloth, VG, gift inscription front pastedown,

Lot: 72

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Arthur Findlay The Torch of Knowledge, Psychic Press [1936], gilt cloth, VG, gift inscription front pastedown, fine internally, 6 plates, 445pp; and Shaw Desmond Psychic Pitfalls, Rider & Co, 1950, in VG d/jkt, 271pp

"The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince", Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, 2 vols, edited Lithgow;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £12
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The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, 2 vols, edited Lithgow; original decorated gilt cloth, good; large paper edition, numbered 45 of 100 issued; repair to front inner hinge of Vol.1; uncut two sides; clean text. (2)

John Farrimond "Dust in My Throat", George Harrap, 1963, First Edition in VG d/jkt

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
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John Farrimond Dust in My Throat, George Harrap, 1963, First Edition in VG d/jkt (slightly chipped at top of spine o/w complete), fine internally.

Mr. Addison "Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments..."

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Mr. Addison Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality, London, 1795-1797, thirteen volumes, octavo, worn half-leather gilt bindings, some foxing; a rare set. (13)

N.P. Willis "Letters from Under a Bridge. And Poems". George Virtue, 1840, quarto, half-calf, gilt, marbled boards, VG;

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £28
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N.P. Willis Letters from Under a Bridge. And Poems. George Virtue, 1840, quarto, half-calf, gilt, marbled boards, VG; boards slightly bowed; engraved frontispiece and title with tissue-guard, some tone marks; 9 further plates, a few with minor spotting in margin; 331pp. The letters were written while the author was living in Wyoming.

G. Henslow "The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism", Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1919,

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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G. Henslow The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1919, revised edition; octavo, original cloth, gilt; few pages with pencil annotations. 255pp plus plates       

John Bunyan "The Pilgrim's Progress", Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865, in an impressive Victorian leather binding;

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865, in an impressive Victorian leather binding; quarto, elaborate tooled full leather Victorian binding, hinges reinforced o/w fine, sides beautifully decorated with dentelles, marbled endpapers; contemporary gift inscription to free endpaper; illustrated with wood engravings; few minor tone spots o/w fine text; 400pp  

                                                            

John Buchan "The Adventures of Richard Hannay", Folio Society, 2004, set of 5 VF volumes in defective slipcase;

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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John Buchan The Adventures of Richard Hannay, Folio Society, 2004, set of 5 VF volumes in defective slipcase; and Folio Society edition of Doctor Zhivago, 1997, VF in fine slipcase. (6)

                                                                                    

Clements R Markham "Travels in Peru and India while Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants..." 1862

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd May 2018 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £76
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Clements R Markham Travels in Peru and India while Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America and their Introduction into India, John Murray, 1862, octavo, original gilt cloth, worn at top & tail of backstrip and some fraying of hinges; some spotting to prelims and few page of text; two fine folding maps, plus plates and folding pedigree, as called for. 12-page catalogue at rear dated November 1861. The First Edition.