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Auction No 368, Category: Antiquarian

58 Lots (displaying 41 - 58)

A Selection published from 1652 to 1914 including "The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington", 1784;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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A Selection published from 1652 to 1914 including The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, 1784; Lettres Choisies du Si. De Balzac, 1652; and A Hundred Mery Talys, John Russell Smith, 1866. Fair to VG (6) 

Antiquarian selection requiring rebinding, all with text complete, including "The Compleat Parish-Officer", 1734;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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Antiquarian selection requiring rebinding, all with text complete, including The Compleat Parish-Officer, 1734; Refranes o Proverbios Espanoles Traduzidos en lengua Francesa. Paris, 1605; The Works of Mr.Alexander Pope, 1720. Mixed condition. (6)

Charles Perrault "La Barbe Bleue, et La Belle au Bois Dormant", illustrated by Edouard de Beaumont,

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £44
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Charles Perrault La Barbe Bleue, et La Belle au Bois Dormant, illustrated by Edouard de Beaumont, Paris, 1887, folio, worn half-leather, chromo-litho illustrations throughout and very good internally. 

Tobias Smollett "Peregrine Pickle", 1778, 6th Edition, 4 Volumes, full calf, rebacked and new endpapers;

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle, 1778, 6th Edition, 4 Volumes, full calf, rebacked and new endpapers; each volume with engraved frontisp; title pages and frontispieces browned o/w VG. (4)

"Theatre De Pigault-Lebrun", Barba, Paris, 1818, set of 6 volumes, half-calf, gilt, slight wear at extremities,

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Theatre De Pigault-Lebrun, Barba, Paris, 1818, set of 6 volumes, half-calf, gilt, slight wear at extremities, marbled boards; original owner’s bookplates; slight foxing to prelims o/w VG. (6)

Jean Boucher "Sermons De La Simulee Conversion, Et Nullite Pretendue Absolution De Henry de Bourbon",

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £66
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Jean Boucher Sermons De La Simulee Conversion, Et Nullite Pretendue Absolution De Henry de Bourbon, Prince de Bearn, a S.Denys en France, le Dimenche 25, Iuillet, 1593, G. Chaudiere, Paris, 1594; 12mo, later full calf, gilt, raised bands, few peripheral scuffs, front hinge weak; previous owners’ bookplates; collated as complete. Fine internally. 

Isabelle de Montolieu "Les Chateaux Suisses", Paris, 1835, 3 Vols, full mottled calf, gilt, each with frontisp.,

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Isabelle de Montolieu Les Chateaux Suisses, Paris, 1835, 3 Vols, full mottled calf, gilt, each with frontisp., foxing to title pages o/w VG; Samuel Horsley Tracts in Controversy with Dr.Priestley, Gloucester, 1799, full speckled calf, gilt, some wear; and 6 other antiquarian books in varied condition. (10)

[Charles Gildon] "The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open.

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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[Charles Gildon] The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Letters of Love and Gallantry, and All Miscellaneous Subjects, John Sprint, London, 1706, 2nd Edn; octavo, contemp. leather, worn, boards detached; title page loose and dust-affected; last 28pp damp-stained. 

George Grosz "A Post-War Museum", Faber 1931, printed wraps, plus other literary pamphlets,

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber 1931, printed wraps, plus other literary pamphlets, Aerial Poems (2) and other private press, many topographical engravings of North West England, 18th Century tragedies (disbound) by various playwrights, etc. Good to VF (Qty, in carton)

Thomas Brown (1663-1704) "Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c." John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo,

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c. John Sparks, 1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects much of the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2. Collated as complete; page 349 shows pagination error “493”. A remarkable collection both erotic and satirical, and at times, scurrilous! Wing B5051/52. 

"Nimrod's Hunting Tours", Kegan Paul, 1903, tissue-guarded plates, one of 500 issued, VG;

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Kegan Paul, 1903, tissue-guarded plates, one of 500 issued, VG; Cuthbert Bradley Fox-Hunting from Shire to Shire, Routledge, 1912, colour plates, VG; and other fox-hunting titles, mostly early 20th century. Good to VF (9)

"The Sporting Repository", Kegan Paul, 1904, quarto, decorated gilt cloth, spine a little faded, new endpapers;

Lot: 141

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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The Sporting Repository, Kegan Paul, 1904, quarto, decorated gilt cloth, spine a little faded, new endpapers; complete with 22 fine hand-coloured plates; browning to tissue-guards. 478pp. One of 500 produced. VG

Pierce Egan "Boxiana" G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition;

Lot: 146

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £155
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Pierce Egan Boxiana G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition; Vols.2 and 3 in 19th Century half-leather, gilt, repaired, with new endpapers; Vol.1 in a fine modern half-leather binding. Most plates intact but 4 folding plates missing from Vol.1, some plates added to Vol.2 (contains 13 instead of 6) and Vol. 3 lacking one of the seven plates. Some damp staining. Also 5 others on boxing. 

[Frank Dowling] "Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles", Bell's Life, London, 1855,

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
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[Frank Dowling] Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles, Bell’s Life, London, 1855, attractive later three-quarter calf rebind by Bayntum-Riviere with gilt boxing motifs in compartments on spine, author’s title label slightly scuffed; backstrip of the original cloth binding laid down on rear endpaper; previous owner’s bookplates on front endpaper. Clean text. pp.iv,410. 

[Sir Richard Clayton] "A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them"

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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[Sir Richard Clayton] A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them, T. Godsden, 1825, 2nd Edn, small octavo, contemp. half-leather gilt, over marbled boards, VG; first few pages including frontispiece & title page with some light damp-staining at the fore-edge o/w VG internally; uncut two sides; related newscutting on front pastedown; previous owners’ signatures, one dated 1884, the other of C. Ward-Jackson MP, Boer War & WWI veteran; pp.xiii,122. 

"A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch", London, 1868,

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1868, tall octavo, red half-morocco, gilt, raised bands, good; marble-edged & endpapers; 1130pp.

                                                                                                

W. Salt Brassington "Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford", Sampson Low, 1891,

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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W. Salt Brassington Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Sampson Low, 1891, orig. gilt cloth, worn at top & tail of spine o/w VG; scattered foxing to prelims and introduction, occasional spotting elsewhere; 24 fine plates.

Late-19th Cent. Sheet Music for "Put Them in the Lord Mayor's Show" with attractive pictorial chromo-litho cover.

Lot: 195

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Late-19th Cent. Sheet Music for Put Them in the Lord Mayor’s Show with attractive pictorial chromo-litho cover. Large format, 8pp. [This piece celebrated the veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade]  VF