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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) Cosmographia [translated from Greek into Latin by Jacobus Angelus; edited by Nicolaus Germanus], Ulm, Johann Reger for Justus de Albano, 21 July 1486. Sold for £131,000 inc. premium

ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Bloomsbury, 1997. Sold for £43,750 inc. premium

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PSALTER, in Latin, ILLUMINATED BY AN ARTIST FROM THE SOISSONS ATELIER, Paris, c.1230-1240. Sold for £32,500 inc. premium

PHOTOGRAPHY - DRTIKOL, KARSH AND OTHERS DRTIKOL (FRANTIŠEK) "Study in Contrasts" [or "Composition"], by Bertram Park, J. Dudley Johnston, Quinto Albicocco, Marcus Adams, Walden Hammond, and others (24). Sold for £25,000 inc. premium

ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA (ALONSO DE) Primera y segunda parte de la Araucana, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION TO INCLUDE PART 2, Madrid, Pierre Cosin, 1578. Sold for £23,750 inc. premium

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AESOP IN CHINESE [THOM (ROBERT, translator)] Esop's Fables Written in Chinese by the Learned Mun Mooey Seen-Shang, and Compiled in Their Present Form (With a Free and Literal Translation) by his Pupil Sloth, Printed at the Canton Press Office, 1840

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AESOP IN CHINESE
[THOM (ROBERT, translator)] Esop's Fables Written in Chinese by the Learned Mun Mooey Seen-Shang, and Compiled in Their Present Form (With a Free and Literal Translation) by his Pupil Sloth, Printed at the Canton Press Office, 1840

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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ARIOSTO (LUDOVICO)
Orlando Furioso in English. Heroicall Verse, by John Harringto[n], [colophon: Richard Field, 1591]

Sold for £9,375 inc. premium

ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE Aristotle's Compleat Master-piece. In Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health, or the Family Physician... The Tenth Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1710

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ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE
Aristotle's Compleat Master-piece. In Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health, or the Family Physician... The Tenth Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1710

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

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ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE
Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; Or, the Family Physician... The Twenty-seventh Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1759

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

ART Collection of autograph letters, etc., by artists and others, including Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rackham, John Linnell, William Etty, Augustus John, Thomas Lawrence etc., numerous fragments including cut signatures, photographs and other material

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ART
Collection of autograph letters, etc., by artists and others, including Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rackham, John Linnell, William Etty, Augustus John, Thomas Lawrence etc., numerous fragments including cut signatures, photographs and other material

Sold for £875 inc. premium

ART, LITERATURE, ENGINEERING AND POLITICS Collection of some forty autograph letters, etc., by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Peel, William Wilberforce, George Bernard Shaw and others, with some naval commissions and pages from the visitors' book of the Clarendon Hotel, 1740-1920

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ART, LITERATURE, ENGINEERING AND POLITICS
Collection of some forty autograph letters, etc., by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Peel, William Wilberforce, George Bernard Shaw and others, with some naval commissions and pages from the visitors' book of the Clarendon Hotel, 1740-1920

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

ASCHAM (ROGER) The Scholemaster. Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue, but Specialy Purposed for the Private Brynging Up of Youth in Ientlemen and Noble Mens Houses, FIRST EDITION, John Daye, 1570

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ASCHAM (ROGER)
The Scholemaster. Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue, but Specialy Purposed for the Private Brynging Up of Youth in Ientlemen and Noble Mens Houses, FIRST EDITION, John Daye, 1570

Sold for £11,875 inc. premium

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BACON (FRANCIS)
Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, Printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629

£600 - £800

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[BERKELEY (GEORGE), BISHOP OF CLOYNE]
The Ladies Library. Written by a Lady. Published by Mr. Steele, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Jacob Tonson, 1714

Sold for £750 inc. premium

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
The Bible That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old & New Testament, Robert Barker, [1611]

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE" BIBLE, [Robert Barker, 1613-1611]

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE" BIBLE, [Robert Barker, 1613-1611]

Sold for £12,500 inc. premium

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1617

Sold for £5,625 inc. premium

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BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, IN IRISH
Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus Slanaightheora Iosa Criosd, R. Everingham, 1690

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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BINDINGS CARLYLE (THOMAS)
Collected Works, 34 vol., "Library Edition" , Chapman and Hall, [1869-1875]

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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BINDINGS ELIOT (GEORGE)
The Writings, 25 vol., NUMBER 155 OF 750 COPIES, LARGE PAPER EDITION, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1908

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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BINDINGS HARDY (THOMAS)
The Writings... in Prose and Verse, 21 vol., "Anniversary Edition", LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES, New York and London, Harper, [1920]

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

BINDINGS HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) The Complete Writings, 22 vol., "Autograph Edition", NUMBER 207 OF 500 COPIES signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on colophon of volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1900

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BINDINGS HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)
The Complete Writings, 22 vol., "Autograph Edition", NUMBER 207 OF 500 COPIES signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on colophon of volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1900

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

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BINDINGS
LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, g.e., the first 2 mentioned in slipcases, 4to (3)

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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BINDINGS READE (CHARLES)
The Novels, 25 vol., Greenfield, MA, for Mrs C.C. Furbush, [c.1910]

£2,000 - £3,000

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BINDINGS SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) AND JOHN KEATS.
The Complete Works and Life, 12 vol., "The Laurel Edition", NUMBER 12 OF 1000 COPIES, Virtue, [1904-1906]

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

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BINDINGS TURGENEV (IVAN)
The Novels and Stories, 16 vol., LIMITED TO 204 COPIES, New York, Charles Scribner's, 1903-1904

Amended

£1,000 - £2,000

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BRONTË (EMILY)
DAY (THOMAS) The History of Sandford and Merton, PRESENTATION COPY FROM EMILY BRONTË TO MARTHA BROWN, T. Allman, 1844

Withdrawn

Amended

£600 - £800

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BURTON (ROBERT)
The Anatomy of Melancholy... by Democritus Junior, Oxford, John Lichfield and James Shory, for Henry Cripps, 1624

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

CARICATURE JAIME (ERNEST) Musée de la caricature ou recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quartorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, 2 vol. in 1, Paris, Delloye, 1838, sold as a periodical

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CARICATURE
JAIME (ERNEST) Musée de la caricature ou recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quartorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, 2 vol. in 1, Paris, Delloye, 1838, sold as a periodical

Sold for £250 inc. premium

CASTIGLIONE (BALDASSARRE) The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castillo, devided into foure books. Verie necessarie and profitable for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, done into English by Thomas Hobby, FIRST TRILINGUAL EDITION, John Wolfe, 1588

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CASTIGLIONE (BALDASSARRE)
The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castillo, devided into foure books. Verie necessarie and profitable for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, done into English by Thomas Hobby, FIRST TRILINGUAL EDITION, John Wolfe, 1588

Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

CHARLES II CORONATION Draft of a summons, proclaiming that, since the forthcoming coronation has been "appointed the 23th day of Aprell next" and the King's public procession through the city fixed for the day before, consequently "according to the ancient Custome Used by his Royall Predecessors his Majestie is gratiously pleased to advance certaine of his Nobility and princepall Gentry unto the honourable order of the Bath to attend him at those great Solemnities", prior to April 1661 and prior to October 1673, and two other related documents

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CHARLES II CORONATION
Draft of a summons, proclaiming that, since the forthcoming coronation has been "appointed the 23th day of Aprell next" and the King's public procession through the city fixed for the day before, consequently "according to the ancient Custome Used by his Royall Predecessors his Majestie is gratiously pleased to advance certaine of his Nobility and princepall Gentry unto the honourable order of the Bath to attend him at those great Solemnities", prior to April 1661 and prior to October 1673, and two other related documents

£600 - £800

CHEVREUL AND TEXTILES Le Teinturier Universel, ou l'echo des applications des matieres colorantes aux arts et a l'industrie, 96 parts in 4 vol., edited by M. Jacob, 195 MOUNTED COLOUR TEXTILE AND PAPER SAMPLES, Paris, au Bureau du Journal, 1860-1864

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CHEVREUL AND TEXTILES
Le Teinturier Universel, ou l'echo des applications des matieres colorantes aux arts et a l'industrie, 96 parts in 4 vol., edited by M. Jacob, 195 MOUNTED COLOUR TEXTILE AND PAPER SAMPLES, Paris, au Bureau du Journal, 1860-1864

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

CLAYTON (SIR GILBERT FALKINGHAM) Series of over forty autograph letters signed ("Bert"), mostly to his mother ("My darling Mum"), one or two to his father ("My dear Dad"), the first half of the series written while serving under Kitchener on the Nile Campaign and covering the Battles of Atbara and Omdurman, Egypt and the Sudan, 1898-1919

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CLAYTON (SIR GILBERT FALKINGHAM)
Series of over forty autograph letters signed ("Bert"), mostly to his mother ("My darling Mum"), one or two to his father ("My dear Dad"), the first half of the series written while serving under Kitchener on the Nile Campaign and covering the Battles of Atbara and Omdurman, Egypt and the Sudan, 1898-1919

Sold for £6,000 inc. premium

COOKERY [TRUSLER (JOHN)] The Honours of the Table, or, Rules for Behaviour During Meals; with the Whole Art of Carving, illustrated by a Variety of Cuts. Together with Directions for Going to Market, and the Method of Distinguishing Good Provisions from Bad... For the Use of Young People, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, at the Literary Press... and may be had of H.D. Symonds, 1788

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COOKERY
[TRUSLER (JOHN)] The Honours of the Table, or, Rules for Behaviour During Meals; with the Whole Art of Carving, illustrated by a Variety of Cuts. Together with Directions for Going to Market, and the Method of Distinguishing Good Provisions from Bad... For the Use of Young People, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, at the Literary Press... and may be had of H.D. Symonds, 1788

Sold for £875 inc. premium

COOKERY Recipe book, the inside cover bearing the ownership inscription of Mary Baynes, 29 May 1722, containing culinary recipes, interspersed with some medicinal or household; with two others, 1722 onwards

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COOKERY
Recipe book, the inside cover bearing the ownership inscription of Mary Baynes, 29 May 1722, containing culinary recipes, interspersed with some medicinal or household; with two others, 1722 onwards

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

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CRIES OF LONDON
[LAROON (MARCELLUS)] The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life, [London, no imprint, 1711?]

Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

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[CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)]
The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, 4 vol., J. Robins, 1822-1819-1820

Sold for £312.50 inc. premium

D'AVENANT (WILLIAM) The Platonick Lovers. A Tragaecomedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties Servants, FIRST EDITION, Richard Meighen, 1636

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D'AVENANT (WILLIAM)
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragaecomedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties Servants, FIRST EDITION, Richard Meighen, 1636

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

DARWIN (CHARLES) Autograph postcard signed ("C.D."), to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties, Down House, 11 March, postmarked 1880

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DARWIN (CHARLES)
Autograph postcard signed ("C.D."), to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties, Down House, 11 March, postmarked 1880

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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DICKENS (CHARLES)
Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Miss Ely", Tavistock House, 13 February 1854

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

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DICKENS (CHARLES)
Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Boxall", arranging to meet, Tavistock House, London, 10 May 1858

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

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ELYOT (THOMAS)
The Boke Named the Governour, Thomas Berthelet, 1544

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

ENGLISH NAIVE ART - NINETEENTH CENTURY Collection of some 175 watercolour and pen and ink drawings by William Bull, Clerk to Justice Littledale, judge in the court of the King's Bench, drawn whilst accompanying the judge on his circuit in the early nineteenth-century, various places, [c.1825-40]

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ENGLISH NAIVE ART - NINETEENTH CENTURY
Collection of some 175 watercolour and pen and ink drawings by William Bull, Clerk to Justice Littledale, judge in the court of the King's Bench, drawn whilst accompanying the judge on his circuit in the early nineteenth-century, various places, [c.1825-40]

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

GALLIMAUFRY Collection comprising a bifolium headed "Crooks Moor Workhouse [Nether-Hallam, Sheffield] May 9 1806/ Mr Goodman in the Chair", recording details of a dispute; and a quantity of various papers and correspondence, 16th to 19th century

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GALLIMAUFRY
Collection comprising a bifolium headed "Crooks Moor Workhouse [Nether-Hallam, Sheffield] May 9 1806/ Mr Goodman in the Chair", recording details of a dispute; and a quantity of various papers and correspondence, 16th to 19th century

Sold for £500 inc. premium

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GILPIN (WILLIAM)
Set of 4 works in 7 vol., 1786-1792

Sold for £437.50 inc. premium

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GODWIN (WILLIAM)
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, 2 vol., G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796

Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

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GRIFFITH (ELIZABETH)
The Delicate Distress. A Novel, in Letters... New Edition, 2 vol., T. Vernor, 1788

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

HERESBACH (CONRAD) Foure Bookes of Husbandrie...Containing the Whole Art and Trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the Antiquitie and Commendation Thereof. Newly Englished, and Increased by Barnabe Googe, [Eliot's Court Press] for John Wight, 1586

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HERESBACH (CONRAD)
Foure Bookes of Husbandrie...Containing the Whole Art and Trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the Antiquitie and Commendation Thereof. Newly Englished, and Increased by Barnabe Googe, [Eliot's Court Press] for John Wight, 1586

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

HISTORY Varied collection of documents and letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by Benjamin Disraeli, Viscount Bolingbroke, Allenby, Baden Powell, General Lord Lucan and others with a file of papers from the office of Charles Abbot, future Speaker of the Commons

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HISTORY
Varied collection of documents and letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by Benjamin Disraeli, Viscount Bolingbroke, Allenby, Baden Powell, General Lord Lucan and others with a file of papers from the office of Charles Abbot, future Speaker of the Commons

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

HOBBES (THOMAS) Leviathan, or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Andrew Crooke, 1651

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HOBBES (THOMAS)
Leviathan, or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Andrew Crooke, 1651

£2,000 - £3,000

HODGES (RICHARD) The Grounds of Learning; or, the Readiest Way of Al Others, to the True Spelling, True Reading, and True-writing of English. Invented by Richard Hodges, a School-master, dwelling in Southwark, at the middle-gate within Montague-close, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, London, Printed by W[illiam] D[u-gard] for the Author before mentioned, 1650

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HODGES (RICHARD)
The Grounds of Learning; or, the Readiest Way of Al Others, to the True Spelling, True Reading, and True-writing of English. Invented by Richard Hodges, a School-master, dwelling in Southwark, at the middle-gate within Montague-close, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, London, Printed by W[illiam] D[u-gard] for the Author before mentioned, 1650

Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

JONSON (BEN) The Works... to Which is Added a Comedy, Called The New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published, H. Herringman, E. Brewster [and others], 1692

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JONSON (BEN)
The Works... to Which is Added a Comedy, Called The New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published, H. Herringman, E. Brewster [and others], 1692

Sold for £625 inc. premium

LEAR (EDWARD) Group of four autograph drawings by Lear, drawn for the family of his childhood friend Fanny Drewitt of Peppering House, Dorset, and her husband George Coombe, including "Ye Owly Pussey-catte" and a nonsense drawing of Mr and Mrs Crocodile, with a watercolour of Peppering House by Coombe and other drawings and watercolours (one possibly by Lear) in a disbound album

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LEAR (EDWARD)
Group of four autograph drawings by Lear, drawn for the family of his childhood friend Fanny Drewitt of Peppering House, Dorset, and her husband George Coombe, including "Ye Owly Pussey-catte" and a nonsense drawing of Mr and Mrs Crocodile, with a watercolour of Peppering House by Coombe and other drawings and watercolours (one possibly by Lear) in a disbound album

Amended

Sold for £9,375 inc. premium

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1• — AESOP IN CHINESE [THOM (ROBERT, translator)] Esop's Fables Written in Chinese by the Learned Mun Mooey Seen-Shang, and Compiled in Their Present Form (With a Free and Literal Translation) by his Pupil Sloth, Printed at the Canton Press Office, 1840

2• — ARIOSTO (LUDOVICO) Orlando Furioso in English. Heroicall Verse, by John Harringto[n], [colophon: Richard Field, 1591]

3• — ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE Aristotle's Compleat Master-piece. In Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health, or the Family Physician... The Tenth Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1710

4• — ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; Or, the Family Physician... The Twenty-seventh Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1759

5 — ART Collection of autograph letters, etc., by artists and others, including Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rackham, John Linnell, William Etty, Augustus John, Thomas Lawrence etc., numerous fragments including cut signatures, photographs and other material

6 — ART, LITERATURE, ENGINEERING AND POLITICS Collection of some forty autograph letters, etc., by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Peel, William Wilberforce, George Bernard Shaw and others, with some naval commissions and pages from the visitors' book of the Clarendon Hotel, 1740-1920

7• — ASCHAM (ROGER) The Scholemaster. Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue, but Specialy Purposed for the Private Brynging Up of Youth in Ientlemen and Noble Mens Houses, FIRST EDITION, John Daye, 1570

8• — BACON (FRANCIS) Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, Printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629

9• — [BERKELEY (GEORGE), BISHOP OF CLOYNE] The Ladies Library. Written by a Lady. Published by Mr. Steele, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Jacob Tonson, 1714

10• — BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old & New Testament, Robert Barker, [1611]

11• — BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE" BIBLE, [Robert Barker, 1613-1611]

12• — BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1617

13• — BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, IN IRISH Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus Slanaightheora Iosa Criosd, R. Everingham, 1690

14• — BINDINGS CARLYLE (THOMAS) Collected Works, 34 vol., "Library Edition" , Chapman and Hall, [1869-1875]

15• — BINDINGS ELIOT (GEORGE) The Writings, 25 vol., NUMBER 155 OF 750 COPIES, LARGE PAPER EDITION, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1908

16• — BINDINGS HARDY (THOMAS) The Writings... in Prose and Verse, 21 vol., "Anniversary Edition", LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES, New York and London, Harper, [1920]

17• — BINDINGS HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) The Complete Writings, 22 vol., "Autograph Edition", NUMBER 207 OF 500 COPIES signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on colophon of volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1900

18• — BINDINGS LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, g.e., the first 2 mentioned in slipcases, 4to (3)

19• — BINDINGS READE (CHARLES) The Novels, 25 vol., Greenfield, MA, for Mrs C.C. Furbush, [c.1910]

20• — BINDINGS SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) AND JOHN KEATS. The Complete Works and Life, 12 vol., "The Laurel Edition", NUMBER 12 OF 1000 COPIES, Virtue, [1904-1906]

21• — BINDINGS TURGENEV (IVAN) The Novels and Stories, 16 vol., LIMITED TO 204 COPIES, New York, Charles Scribner's, 1903-1904

22• — BRONTË (EMILY) DAY (THOMAS) The History of Sandford and Merton, PRESENTATION COPY FROM EMILY BRONTË TO MARTHA BROWN, T. Allman, 1844

23• — BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... by Democritus Junior, Oxford, John Lichfield and James Shory, for Henry Cripps, 1624

24• — CARICATURE JAIME (ERNEST) Musée de la caricature ou recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quartorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, 2 vol. in 1, Paris, Delloye, 1838, sold as a periodical

25• — CASTIGLIONE (BALDASSARRE) The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castillo, devided into foure books. Verie necessarie and profitable for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, done into English by Thomas Hobby, FIRST TRILINGUAL EDITION, John Wolfe, 1588

27• — CHEVREUL AND TEXTILES Le Teinturier Universel, ou l'echo des applications des matieres colorantes aux arts et a l'industrie, 96 parts in 4 vol., edited by M. Jacob, 195 MOUNTED COLOUR TEXTILE AND PAPER SAMPLES, Paris, au Bureau du Journal, 1860-1864

30• — COOKERY Recipe book, the inside cover bearing the ownership inscription of Mary Baynes, 29 May 1722, containing culinary recipes, interspersed with some medicinal or household; with two others, 1722 onwards

31• — CRIES OF LONDON [LAROON (MARCELLUS)] The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life, [London, no imprint, 1711?]

32• — [CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)] The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, 4 vol., J. Robins, 1822-1819-1820

33• — D'AVENANT (WILLIAM) The Platonick Lovers. A Tragaecomedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties Servants, FIRST EDITION, Richard Meighen, 1636

34 — DARWIN (CHARLES) Autograph postcard signed ("C.D."), to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties, Down House, 11 March, postmarked 1880

35 — DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Miss Ely", Tavistock House, 13 February 1854

36 — DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Boxall", arranging to meet, Tavistock House, London, 10 May 1858

37• — ELYOT (THOMAS) The Boke Named the Governour, Thomas Berthelet, 1544

39 — GALLIMAUFRY Collection comprising a bifolium headed "Crooks Moor Workhouse [Nether-Hallam, Sheffield] May 9 1806/ Mr Goodman in the Chair", recording details of a dispute; and a quantity of various papers and correspondence, 16th to 19th century

40• — GILPIN (WILLIAM)Set of 4 works in 7 vol., 1786-1792

41• — GODWIN (WILLIAM) Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, 2 vol., G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796

42• — GRIFFITH (ELIZABETH) The Delicate Distress. A Novel, in Letters... New Edition, 2 vol., T. Vernor, 1788

43• — HERESBACH (CONRAD) Foure Bookes of Husbandrie...Containing the Whole Art and Trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the Antiquitie and Commendation Thereof. Newly Englished, and Increased by Barnabe Googe, [Eliot's Court Press] for John Wight, 1586

44 — HISTORY Varied collection of documents and letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by Benjamin Disraeli, Viscount Bolingbroke, Allenby, Baden Powell, General Lord Lucan and others with a file of papers from the office of Charles Abbot, future Speaker of the Commons

45• — HOBBES (THOMAS) Leviathan, or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Andrew Crooke, 1651

47• — JONSON (BEN) The Works... to Which is Added a Comedy, Called The New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published, H. Herringman, E. Brewster [and others], 1692

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1^• —
AESOP IN CHINESE
[THOM (ROBERT, translator)] Esop's Fables Written in Chinese by the Learned Mun Mooey Seen-Shang, and Compiled in Their Present Form (With a Free and Literal Translation) by his Pupil Sloth, Printed at the Canton Press Office, 1840

2^• —
ARIOSTO (LUDOVICO)
Orlando Furioso in English. Heroicall Verse, by John Harringto[n], [colophon: Richard Field, 1591]

3^• —
ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE
Aristotle's Compleat Master-piece. In Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health, or the Family Physician... The Tenth Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1710

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ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE
Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; Or, the Family Physician... The Twenty-seventh Edition, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, 1759

5 —
ART
Collection of autograph letters, etc., by artists and others, including Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rackham, John Linnell, William Etty, Augustus John, Thomas Lawrence etc., numerous fragments including cut signatures, photographs and other material

6 —
ART, LITERATURE, ENGINEERING AND POLITICS
Collection of some forty autograph letters, etc., by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Peel, William Wilberforce, George Bernard Shaw and others, with some naval commissions and pages from the visitors' book of the Clarendon Hotel, 1740-1920

7^• —
ASCHAM (ROGER)
The Scholemaster. Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue, but Specialy Purposed for the Private Brynging Up of Youth in Ientlemen and Noble Mens Houses, FIRST EDITION, John Daye, 1570

8^• —
BACON (FRANCIS)
Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, Printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629

9^• —
[BERKELEY (GEORGE), BISHOP OF CLOYNE]
The Ladies Library. Written by a Lady. Published by Mr. Steele, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Jacob Tonson, 1714

10^• —
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION
The Bible That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old & New Testament, Robert Barker, [1611]

11^• —
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE" BIBLE, [Robert Barker, 1613-1611]

12^• —
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1617

13^• —
BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, IN IRISH
Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus Slanaightheora Iosa Criosd, R. Everingham, 1690

14^• —
BINDINGS CARLYLE (THOMAS)
Collected Works, 34 vol., "Library Edition" , Chapman and Hall, [1869-1875]

15^• —
BINDINGS ELIOT (GEORGE)
The Writings, 25 vol., NUMBER 155 OF 750 COPIES, LARGE PAPER EDITION, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1908

16^• —
BINDINGS HARDY (THOMAS)
The Writings... in Prose and Verse, 21 vol., "Anniversary Edition", LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES, New York and London, Harper, [1920]

17^• —
BINDINGS HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)
The Complete Writings, 22 vol., "Autograph Edition", NUMBER 207 OF 500 COPIES signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on colophon of volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1900

18^• —
BINDINGS
LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, g.e., the first 2 mentioned in slipcases, 4to (3)

19^• —
BINDINGS READE (CHARLES)
The Novels, 25 vol., Greenfield, MA, for Mrs C.C. Furbush, [c.1910]

20^• —
BINDINGS SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) AND JOHN KEATS.
The Complete Works and Life, 12 vol., "The Laurel Edition", NUMBER 12 OF 1000 COPIES, Virtue, [1904-1906]

21^• —
BINDINGS TURGENEV (IVAN)
The Novels and Stories, 16 vol., LIMITED TO 204 COPIES, New York, Charles Scribner's, 1903-1904

22^• —
BRONTË (EMILY)
DAY (THOMAS) The History of Sandford and Merton, PRESENTATION COPY FROM EMILY BRONTË TO MARTHA BROWN, T. Allman, 1844

23^• —
BURTON (ROBERT)
The Anatomy of Melancholy... by Democritus Junior, Oxford, John Lichfield and James Shory, for Henry Cripps, 1624

24^• —
CARICATURE
JAIME (ERNEST) Musée de la caricature ou recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quartorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, 2 vol. in 1, Paris, Delloye, 1838, sold as a periodical

25^• —
CASTIGLIONE (BALDASSARRE)
The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castillo, devided into foure books. Verie necessarie and profitable for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, done into English by Thomas Hobby, FIRST TRILINGUAL EDITION, John Wolfe, 1588

27^• —
CHEVREUL AND TEXTILES
Le Teinturier Universel, ou l'echo des applications des matieres colorantes aux arts et a l'industrie, 96 parts in 4 vol., edited by M. Jacob, 195 MOUNTED COLOUR TEXTILE AND PAPER SAMPLES, Paris, au Bureau du Journal, 1860-1864

30^• —
COOKERY
Recipe book, the inside cover bearing the ownership inscription of Mary Baynes, 29 May 1722, containing culinary recipes, interspersed with some medicinal or household; with two others, 1722 onwards

31^• —
CRIES OF LONDON
[LAROON (MARCELLUS)] The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life, [London, no imprint, 1711?]

32^• —
[CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)]
The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, 4 vol., J. Robins, 1822-1819-1820

33^• —
D'AVENANT (WILLIAM)
The Platonick Lovers. A Tragaecomedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties Servants, FIRST EDITION, Richard Meighen, 1636

34 —
DARWIN (CHARLES)
Autograph postcard signed ("C.D."), to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties, Down House, 11 March, postmarked 1880

35 —
DICKENS (CHARLES)
Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Miss Ely", Tavistock House, 13 February 1854

36 —
DICKENS (CHARLES)
Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to "My Dear Boxall", arranging to meet, Tavistock House, London, 10 May 1858

37^• —
ELYOT (THOMAS)
The Boke Named the Governour, Thomas Berthelet, 1544

39 —
GALLIMAUFRY
Collection comprising a bifolium headed "Crooks Moor Workhouse [Nether-Hallam, Sheffield] May 9 1806/ Mr Goodman in the Chair", recording details of a dispute; and a quantity of various papers and correspondence, 16th to 19th century

40^• —
GILPIN (WILLIAM)
Set of 4 works in 7 vol., 1786-1792

41^• —
GODWIN (WILLIAM)
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, 2 vol., G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796

42^• —
GRIFFITH (ELIZABETH)
The Delicate Distress. A Novel, in Letters... New Edition, 2 vol., T. Vernor, 1788

43^• —
HERESBACH (CONRAD)
Foure Bookes of Husbandrie...Containing the Whole Art and Trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the Antiquitie and Commendation Thereof. Newly Englished, and Increased by Barnabe Googe, [Eliot's Court Press] for John Wight, 1586

44 —
HISTORY
Varied collection of documents and letters, comprising autograph letters etc. by Benjamin Disraeli, Viscount Bolingbroke, Allenby, Baden Powell, General Lord Lucan and others with a file of papers from the office of Charles Abbot, future Speaker of the Commons

45^• —
HOBBES (THOMAS)
Leviathan, or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Andrew Crooke, 1651

47^• —
JONSON (BEN)
The Works... to Which is Added a Comedy, Called The New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published, H. Herringman, E. Brewster [and others], 1692