Printed Books and Maps

Auction 19844

Oxford

25 Sep 2012, starting at 10:30 BST.

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Auction highlights

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

BINDINGS - MALORY (THOMAS) [Le Morte D'Arthur], 2 vol. 1904

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

BALLET CHALON (A.E.) La Sylphide. Souvenir d'adieu de Marie Talioni, 1845

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

NEWTON (ISAAC) Opticks...Second Edition, with Additions, 1718

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

KIRCHER (ATHENASIUS) China monumentis, 1667

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1	AGRICULTURE. DALLA BELLA (JOAO ANTÓNIO) Memoria sobre a cultura das oliveiras em Portugal, 1786; and others (6)	£349 US$ 533 €414
2	ALBUM An album of 27 cabinet cards of late Victorian actresses including May Yohe Phyllis Broughton, Pattie Browne, Decima Moore, Ethel Haydon, Cissy Loftus, Edna May, [c.1890 and later]	£99 US$ 152 €118
3	ANGLING BURNAND (FRANCIS C., editor) The Incompleat Angler. After Master Izaak Walton, NUMBER 21 OF 26 COPIES "COLOURED THROUGHOUT BY HAND", 1887	£99 US$ 152 €118
4	ARABIAN NIGHTS A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R.F. Burton's "Arabian Nights"... Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils. Specially Painted by Albert Letchford, ONE OF 280 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 1897	£499 US$ 761 €591
5	AUCTION CATALOGUES -- CROFTS (THOMAS)) Bibliotheca Croftsiana, [1783]; BERNAL (RALPH) Catalogue of the Very Choice, Valuable, and Beautiful Library, 1855 (2)	£312 US$ 476 €369
6	AUCTION CATALOGUES BRIDGES (JOHN) Biliotheca Bridgesianae Catalogus, 1725; --[PARIS D'ILLENS]. Bibliotheca Parisiana. A Catalogue of a Collection of Books, 1791 (2)	£399 US$ 609 €473
7	AUCTION CATALOGUES Biblioteca Parriana. A Catalogue of the Library of the Late... Samuel Parr, 1827; and another (2)	£274 US$ 418 €325
8	AUCTION CATALOGUES Catalogue of the Contents of Stowe House, near Buckingham; Which Will Be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, on the Premises on Tuesday August 15th, 1848...[1848]; and others (14)	£599 US$ 914 €710
9	AUCTION CATALOGUES ROXBURGHE (JOHN, Duke of) Catalogue of the Library, 1812; BLANDFORD (GEORGE SPENCER, Marquess of) White Knights Library, 1819 (2)	£524 US$ 799 €621
10	BALLET CHALON (A.E.) La Sylphide. Souvenir d'adieu de Marie Talioni, 1845	£3,749 US$ 5,712 €4,439
11	BEES WILDMAN (THOMAS) A Treatise on the Management of Bees...The Natural History of Wasps and Hornets, and the Means of Destroying Them	£499 US$ 761 €591
12	BIBLE, New Testament, in Latin. Novum testsamentum, 1567/1609, bound with Sternhold psalmes, 1611	£87 US$ 133 €103
14	BIBLE, in English, Bishops' Version, 1602	£1,499 US$ 2,285 €1,775
15	BIBLE, in English, Bishops version [The Holy Bible], 1588	£524 US$ 799 €621
16	BIBLE, in English, Geneva version The Bible, 1599 [but later]	£437 US$ 666 €517
17	BIBLE, in English, Geneva version The Bible, Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, 1600	£374 US$ 571 €443
18	BIBLES, in English, Authorised version The Holy Bible, 1763; and others (quantity)	£2,499 US$ 3,808 €2,959
19	BIBLIOGRAPHY - BIBLES COPINGER (WALTER A.) Incunabula Biblica or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible, Being a Bibliographical Account of the Various Editions of the Latin Bible between 1450 and 1500, 1892	£499 US$ 761 €591
20	BIBLIOGRAPHY ABBEY (J.R.) Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860; Travel, 2 vol.; Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, 1972 (4)	£312 US$ 476 €369
21	BIBLIOGRAPHY BRITISH MUSEUM GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, 27 vol., 1967; and others (quantity)	£199 US$ 304 €236
22	BIBLIOGRAPHY CORDEAUX (E.H.) and MERRY (D.H.) A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford, 1968; and others (quantity)	£399 US$ 609 €473
23	BIBLIOGRAPHY HEINECKEN (KARL HEINRICH VON)] Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes, 1771	£187 US$ 285 €221
24	BIBLIOGRAPHY DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) Typographical Antiquities: or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, 4 vol.	£687 US$ 1,047 €813
25	BIBLIOGRAPHY DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 2 vol., 1836; and others (12)	£812 US$ 1,237 €961
26	BIBLIOGRAPHY DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, 3 vol., 1821; and others (5)	£374 US$ 571 €443
27	BIBLIOGRAPHY DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) The Bibliographical Decameron; or Ten days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts..., Early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography, 3 vol., 1817	£187 US$ 285 €221
28	BIBLIOGRAPHY MOSS (JOSEPH WILLIAM) A Manual of Classical Bibliography, 2 vol., 1827; and others (11)	£374 US$ 571 €443
29	BIBLIOGRAPHY MUNBY (ALAN NOEL LATIMER) Phillipps Studies, 5 vol., 1951-1960; and others (7)	£224 US$ 342 €266
30	BIBLIOGRAPHY SIMON (ANDRÉ) Bibliotheca Vinaria, 1979; and others (23)	£349 US$ 533 €414
31	BIBLIOGRAPHY and PRINTING. A large collection concerning printing, bibliography, manuscripts, autographs (quantity)	£524 US$ 799 €621
32	BINDINGS Chambers's Encyclopaedia, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, 10 vol., 1892-1895	£174 US$ 266 €207
33	BINDINGS - MALORY (THOMAS) [Le Morte D'Arthur], 2 vol. 1904	£6,874 US$ 10,473 €8,138
34	BINDINGS BURNEY (FANNY) Evelina, Chivers of Bath, 1903	£1,499 US$ 2,285 €1,775
35	BINDINGS GRANGER (JAMES) A Biographical History of England, 6 vol., 1824; and others (57)	£1,187 US$ 1,809 €1,405
36	BINDINGS IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Works, 10 vol., contemporary blue half calf gilt, 1853; and other bindings (36)	£687 US$ 1,047 €813
37	BINDINGS IRVING (WASHINGTON) Bracebridge Hall, chivers binding, 1877	£624 US$ 952 €739
38	BINDINGS MENPES (MORTIMER) Japan. A Record in Colour, chivers bindings, 1902	£812 US$ 1,237 €961
39	BINDINGS PERRIMEZZI (GIUSEPPE MARIA) La vita di S. Francesco da Paola, 2 vol. in one, 1855; and others (11)	£999 US$ 1,523 €1,183
40	BINDINGS SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works, 1874--SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) The Poetical Works, 4 vol., 1839; and other calf bindings (46)	£937 US$ 1,428 €1,109
41	BINDINGS STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Underwoods, 1887; and 13 others, sold as bindings	£1,187 US$ 1,809 €1,405
42	BINDINGS Selected Centuries of Books from the Library of the Diocese of Salisbury, fine binding for Hayday, 1843	£874 US$ 1,332 €1,035
43	BINDINGS TOMSON (GRAHAM R., editor) Selections from the Greek Anthology	£749 US$ 1,142 €887
44	BOOK ARTS MORISON (STANLEY) John Fell, The University Press and the 'Fell' Types, 1967; and others (35)	£349 US$ 533 €414
45	BOOKBINDING DUDIN (RENE MARTIN) L'art du relieur doreur de livres, Paris, 1772	£937 US$ 1,428 €1,109
46	BOOKBINDING FLETCHER (WILLIAM YOUNGER) English Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1895; and 3 others (4)	£562 US$ 856 €665
47	BURTON (RICHARD F.) Vikram and the Vampire, and large quantity of others, sexology, etc. - 3 boxes - (quantity)	£437 US$ 666 €517
48	BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM). CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE Two important views in the Avon Gorge, below Bristol, showing Isambard Kingdom Brunel's towers at the point when construction of his Clifton Suspension Bridge was abandoned,[1840s] (pair)	£1,499 US$ 2,285 €1,775
49	CAMPBELL (R.) The London Tradesman. Being an Historical Account of All the Trades, Professions, Arts, both Liberal and Mechanic, now Practised in the Cities of London and Westminster. Calculated for the Instruction of Youth in their Choice of Business, 1757	£312 US$ 476 €369
50	CARBONARI - ITALY Memoirs of the Secret Societies of the South of Italy, 1821	£274 US$ 418 €325
51	CHAPBOOKS. The Cornish Renegado or Christian Turned Moor; Julia's Journey to London; The Fatal Scarf; The Surprising Adventures of Henry Twisdon; ANGELO (T.) The Art of Making Fire-works	£1,249 US$ 1,904 €1,479
52	COACHING CROSS (THOMAS) The Autobiography of a Stage Coachman, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1904	£237 US$ 361 €281
53	COMBE (WILLIAM) The Tour [-Third Tour] of Doctor Syntax, 3 vol., 1855	£212 US$ 323 €251
54	COMBE (WILLIAM) The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax, 1822	£149 US$ 228 €177
55	COMBE (WILLIAM) The Tour of Doctor Prosody...Through Scotland, The Hebrides, The Orkney and Shetland Isles, 1821; and 2 others (3)	£524 US$ 799 €621
56	COOKERY FARLEY (JOHN) The London Art of Cookery... Seventh Edition, 1792	£137 US$ 209 €162
57	COOKERY NUTT (FREDERICK) The Complete Confectioner; or, the Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy, 1819	£87 US$ 133 €103
58	COSTUME Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, [c.1825]	£112 US$ 171 €133
60	COSTUME La belle assemblée, various numbers from 1806 (vol. 1)-1811 (vol. 4, new series) in 10 vol., 1806-1811	£999 US$ 1,523 €1,183
61	CROMWELL (OLIVER) [RAGUENET (FRANCOIS)] Histoire d'Olivier Cromwel, 1691	£49 US$ 76 €59
62	DORE (GUSTAVE) and BLANCHARD JERROLD London. A Pilgrimage, contemporary half morocco, 1872--TENNYSON (ALFRED) Idylls of the King	£562 US$ 856 €665
63	EGAN (PIERCE) Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, 1823; and 2 others (3)	£749 US$ 1,142 €887
64	EGYPTOLOGY The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Kerasher and Netchemet, 1899; and others (8)	£274 US$ 418 €325
65	EGYPTOLOGY WOOLLEY (C.L.) Ur Excavations. The Royal Cemetery, 2 vol., 1934; and others (5)	£262 US$ 399 €310
66	FACSIMILE EDITIONS COLONNA (FRANCESCO) Poliphili Hypnerotomachia; and othres (14)	£1,249 US$ 1,904 €1,479
67	FIELD SPORTS LISTER (THOMAS, Baron Ribblesdale) The Queen's Hounds and Stag-Hunting Recollections, NUMBER 42 OF 150 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, 1897; and others (6)	£437 US$ 666 €517
68	FIELD SPORTS PAGET (GUY) The History of the Althorp and Pytchley Hunt 1634-1920, 1937; and others (quantity)	£474 US$ 723 €562
69	FIGURE SKATING VANDERVELL (H.E.) and T. MAXWELL WITHAM A System of Figure Skating, 1873	£37 US$ 57 €44
70	FIRST WORLD WAR BONE (MUIRHEAD) War Drawings, in 6 original parts	£224 US$ 342 €266
71	FLAGS [Flags of All Nations], title and captions in Armenian, [Venice, the Armenian monastery of St. Lazarus]1813; and two others, also vexillology (3)	£312 US$ 476 €369
72	FORE-EDGE PAINTING BESANT (WILLIAM) Westminster, 1895	£562 US$ 856 €665
73	FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, 1819	£474 US$ 723 €562
74	FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Bowles's Moral Pictures or Poor Richard Illustrated. Being Lessons for the Young and the Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c. by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Manchester, [1793]	£812 US$ 1,237 €961
75	GENEALOGY The Genealogy of William Augustus Dalton Esquire, Shewing his Descent from Henry the Third, manuscript on vellum and paper, 1829	£374 US$ 571 €443
76	GOLF - WETHERED (H. NEWTON) and T. SIMPSON. The Architectural Side of Golf... Illustrated by the Authors, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 19 OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, 1929	£2,374 US$ 3,618 €2,811
77	GREY OWL BELANEY (ARCHIBALD) The Tree, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR	£62 US$ 95 €73
78	HOLOCAUST The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. [1943]	£874 US$ 1,332 €1,035
79	HUNTING FOTHERERGILL (GEORGE A.) An Old Rabyhung Club Album, NUMBER 25 OF 50 SPECIAL COPIES, 1899	£74 US$ 114 €88
80	JAPAN - PATTERN BOOKS A collection of eight nineteenth century Japanese pattern and story books (8)	£374 US$ 571 €443
81	KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, 1936	£1,374 US$ 2,094 €1,627
82	LEWIS (EDWARD W.) Lectures on the Geology of Leighton Buzzard, ONE OF 25 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, 1879; and others (small quantity)	£474 US$ 723 €562
83	LOGBOOKS HALLWRIGHT (W.W.) Midshipman's logs onboard H.M.S. Niobe and Hogue and H.M.S. Terrible and Niobe, 1899-1902 (2)	£349 US$ 533 €414
84	LONDON ALMANAC London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1792; and another (2)	£474 US$ 723 €562
85	LONDON TRANSPORT 44 reproductions of London Transport posters from 1928-1958 tipped-into printed card covers measuring 227 x 271mm [after 1958]; and two books relating to London Transport posters (46)	£24 US$ 38 €29
86	MAGIC GOLDSTON (WILL) Sensational Tales of Mystery Men, 1929	£112 US$ 171 €133
87	MANCHESTER - ILLEGITIMACY BATTYE (THOMAS) The Red Basil Book, or, Parish Register of Arrears, for the Maintenance of the Unfortunate Offspring of Illicit Amours; with a Farther Development of Most Shameful and Unprecedented Acts of Abuse in the Town of Manchester, 1797	£2,249 US$ 3,427 €2,663
88	MANCHESTER - TRIALS WALKER (THOMAS) and others. The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester, Merchant, William Paul [and others] for Conspiracy to Overthrow the Constitution and Government, 1794	£162 US$ 247 €192
89	MANCHESTER IMPRINTS. SMETHURST (GAMALIEL) Tables of Time; whereby the day of the month, either old or new stile; Day of the week; Rising of the moon... may be found for any time past, [1750]; and 19 others	£999 US$ 1,523 €1,183
90	MANNING (HENRY EDWARD, CARDINAL) A Collection of 19 autograph letters to T.P. Kirkman, 1876-1880	£437 US$ 666 €517
91	MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY	£137 US$ 209 €162
92	METAL BINDING - MACHINES HULTEN (K.G. PONTUS) The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, 1968	£49 US$ 76 €59