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SCHUMANN (ROBERT) Autograph draft of the Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) for piano, op.12, comprising ʻAufschwung' ('Soaring') in F minor, 'Warum?' ('Why?') in D flat major, 'Grillen' ('Whims') in D flat major, 'In der Nacht' ('In the Night') in F minor, ʻTraumes Wirren' ('Dream's Confusions') in F major and ʻEnde vom Lied' ('End of the Song') in F major; Leipzig, completed 8 July and presented on 7 August 1837. Sold for £224,750 inc. premium

GOULD (JOHN) A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, by the Author, [1849]-1861. Sold for £47,500 inc. premium

SPEED (JOHN) The Theatre of the Empire of Great-Britain, Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and the Isles Adjoynining..., Together with a Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America. 5 parts in 1 vol., Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676. Sold for £35,000 inc. premium

ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT Miracles of Mary, and other texts in Ge'ez, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Ethiopia, 17th century]. Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

FLEMING (IAN) Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Jonathan Cape, [1953]. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

NOZEMAN (CORNELIUS) Nederlandsche Vogelen, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770-1829. Sold for £15,000 inc. premium

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, George Allen & Unwin, [1937]. Sold for £6,000 inc. premium

SALT PRINTS, DAGUERREOTYPES, CARTE-DE-VISITES - COLLECTION A large collection of nineteenth century photographs, comprising approximately 25 daguerreotypes (18 cased, most single figures, one a couple with baby, a couple tinted), upwards of 290 carte-de-vistes or cabinet cards by numerous mostly British photographers, some mounted on card, various sizes, mostly nineteenth century (quantity). Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

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ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

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ALBUMS
Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

£700 - £900

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AMERICA - WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
DONKIN (MAJOR R.) Military Collections and Remarks, FIRST EDITION, New York, H. Gaine, 1777

Sold for £7,500 inc. premium

AMERICA TAYLOR (ZACHARY) Document signed ("Z. Taylor"), counter-signed by Thomas Ewing Sr., Secretary of the Interior, appointing Anthony Walke register of the land office at Chillicothe, Ohio; Washington, 8 October 1849

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AMERICA
TAYLOR (ZACHARY) Document signed ("Z. Taylor"), counter-signed by Thomas Ewing Sr., Secretary of the Interior, appointing Anthony Walke register of the land office at Chillicothe, Ohio; Washington, 8 October 1849

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

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AMERICA - ACTS OF CONGRESS
Acts Passed at the Second Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia... On Monday, the Twenty-fourth of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-one, FIRST EDITION, Philadelphia, Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1793]

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

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BINDINGS
Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty, 20 vol., "Astral edition", LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, Paris, Societé des Bibliophiles, [c.1910]

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

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BINDINGS DUMAS (ALEXANDRE)
The Works, 40 vol., Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1893

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

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BINDINGS FORESTER (C.S.)
[Hornblower Series], 10. vol., FIRST EDITIONS, Michael Joseph, 1937-1962

Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

BINDINGS GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, New York, 1906; and another edition, illustrated by Harry Clarke

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BINDINGS
GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, New York, 1906; and another edition, illustrated by Harry Clarke

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

BINDINGS STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) The Works, Edinburgh Edition, 28 vol., number 376 of 1,035 copies, with the final line of an autograph letter SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR tipped-into volume 1, appendix volume 28 with tipped-in chapbooks as issued, Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable for Longmans etc., 1894-1898; The Letters... by Sidney Colvin, 2 vol., Methuen, 1899; The Life... by Graham Balfour, 2 vol., Methuen 1901, together 32 vol., 8vo (32)

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BINDINGS
STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) The Works, Edinburgh Edition, 28 vol., number 376 of 1,035 copies, with the final line of an autograph letter SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR tipped-into volume 1, appendix volume 28 with tipped-in chapbooks as issued, Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable for Longmans etc., 1894-1898; The Letters... by Sidney Colvin, 2 vol., Methuen, 1899; The Life... by Graham Balfour, 2 vol., Methuen 1901, together 32 vol., 8vo (32)

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

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BINDINGS
The International Library of Famous Literature, 20 vol., New York, Merrill and Baker, 1898

Sold for £875 inc. premium

CHURCHILL, PARNELL AND IRISH INDEPENDENCE Autograph album kept by Mary Lizzie Burgess, signed and inscribed to her by Charles Stewart Parnell (20 December 1889) and on the same page in 1891, soon after his death, by his widow Katie O'Shea; later signed in 1960, at Miss Burgess's request, by Winston Churchill (with accompanying correspondence); 1889-1960

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CHURCHILL, PARNELL AND IRISH INDEPENDENCE
Autograph album kept by Mary Lizzie Burgess, signed and inscribed to her by Charles Stewart Parnell (20 December 1889) and on the same page in 1891, soon after his death, by his widow Katie O'Shea; later signed in 1960, at Miss Burgess's request, by Winston Churchill (with accompanying correspondence); 1889-1960

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

CIVIL WAR - BLOODY GAME AT CARDS The Bloody Game at Cards. As it was Played Betwixt the King of Hearts and the rest of his Suite, Shuffled at London, Cut at Westminster, Dealt at Yorke, and Plaid in the open field..., [1643]

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CIVIL WAR - BLOODY GAME AT CARDS
The Bloody Game at Cards. As it was Played Betwixt the King of Hearts and the rest of his Suite, Shuffled at London, Cut at Westminster, Dealt at Yorke, and Plaid in the open field..., [1643]

Sold for £375 inc. premium

COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books

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COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

COOKERY GOEIMARE (JOOS) Fine large view of the interior of a lavishly stocked kitchen, bustling with activity, a roaring fire, the walls and tables abundant with foodstuffs (meats, fish, vegetables and fruits), plate and utensils, [Venice, c.1650-1687]

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COOKERY
GOEIMARE (JOOS) Fine large view of the interior of a lavishly stocked kitchen, bustling with activity, a roaring fire, the walls and tables abundant with foodstuffs (meats, fish, vegetables and fruits), plate and utensils, [Venice, c.1650-1687]

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

COOKERY Book of culinary and household recipes kept in several hands, predominantly of the early nineteenth century, most giving the source of the recipe ("Mrs Cross" etc.), c.1800-1840

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COOKERY
Book of culinary and household recipes kept in several hands, predominantly of the early nineteenth century, most giving the source of the recipe ("Mrs Cross" etc.), c.1800-1840

Sold for £750 inc. premium

COTMAN (JOHN SELL) Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk; Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in Norfolk; Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in Norfolk, 3 parts (of 5) in 1 vol., 1838; and 7 others including Hannah Turner's 'Sixty Portraits', one of only 20 copies

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COTMAN (JOHN SELL)
Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk; Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in Norfolk; Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in Norfolk, 3 parts (of 5) in 1 vol., 1838; and 7 others including Hannah Turner's 'Sixty Portraits', one of only 20 copies

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

CRICKET WISDEN (JOHN) Cricketer's Almanack, a collection of 86 volumes, comprising nos. 32, 38, 40-42, 47-52 and 58-132, [1895-1995]; and 23 others, facsimile editions of volumes 16, 22, 24-27, 29-35, 39, 45-46 and 53, and duplicate copies of volumes 40, 89, 92, 115-117, sold as a periodical not subject to return (109)

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CRICKET
WISDEN (JOHN) Cricketer's Almanack, a collection of 86 volumes, comprising nos. 32, 38, 40-42, 47-52 and 58-132, [1895-1995]; and 23 others, facsimile editions of volumes 16, 22, 24-27, 29-35, 39, 45-46 and 53, and duplicate copies of volumes 40, 89, 92, 115-117, sold as a periodical not subject to return (109)

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

EDWARD IV Document signed ("RE" at head), in Latin, licensing Alain de la Motte, Vice Admiral of Brittany ("Alani Delamtoe viceadmiralli Britannie"), his factors or deputies to convey for a period of one year on a certain ship called "Langevyne de Saint Malou" from the ports of Brittany eighty barrels or less of Gascon wines, Westminster, 1 December 1474

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EDWARD IV
Document signed ("RE" at head), in Latin, licensing Alain de la Motte, Vice Admiral of Brittany ("Alani Delamtoe viceadmiralli Britannie"), his factors or deputies to convey for a period of one year on a certain ship called "Langevyne de Saint Malou" from the ports of Brittany eighty barrels or less of Gascon wines, Westminster, 1 December 1474

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT
Miracles of Mary, and other texts in Ge'ez, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Ethiopia, 17th century]

Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

GEORGE V AND EDWARD VIII Collection of thirteen royal signed photographs, including a signed cabinet photograph of the future George V ("George") and his elder brother Albert Victor ("Eddy"), dated by George 1897, showing them as cadets on board the training ship HMS Britannia; and others

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GEORGE V AND EDWARD VIII
Collection of thirteen royal signed photographs, including a signed cabinet photograph of the future George V ("George") and his elder brother Albert Victor ("Eddy"), dated by George 1897, showing them as cadets on board the training ship HMS Britannia; and others

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1835]

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HOGARTH (WILLIAM)
The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1835]

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

INDIA – CUBBON OF BANGALORE Series of some 220 autograph letters signed by Lieutenant-General Sir Mark Cubbon, written while Sole Commissioner (effectively sole ruler) of the Indian province of Mysore and its newly-established capital, Bangalore, Bangalore, Nundydroog (Nandi Hills), and elsewhere, 1834-1861

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INDIA – CUBBON OF BANGALORE
Series of some 220 autograph letters signed by Lieutenant-General Sir Mark Cubbon, written while Sole Commissioner (effectively sole ruler) of the Indian province of Mysore and its newly-established capital, Bangalore, Bangalore, Nundydroog (Nandi Hills), and elsewhere, 1834-1861

Sold for £7,500 inc. premium

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INFANT'S CABINET OF FLOWERS
The Infant's Cabinet of Flowers, J. Marshall, 21 April, 1801

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

JENKINS (JOHN) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, J. Jenkins, [1815, text watermarked 1815, plates watermarked 1834]

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JENKINS (JOHN)
The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, J. Jenkins, [1815, text watermarked 1815, plates watermarked 1834]

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

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JENKINS (JOHN)
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1816-17, plates watermarked 1831]

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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JONES (OWEN)
The Grammar of Ornament, FIRST EDITION, folio (470 x 285mm.), early nineteenth century (2)

£800 - £1,200

JONES (OWEN) Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections, FIRST EDITION, S. and T. Gilbert, 1867

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JONES (OWEN)
Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections, FIRST EDITION, S. and T. Gilbert, 1867

Sold for £875 inc. premium

METAL WORK - PATTERN BOOKS Designs for Gates. Ornamental Iron Work, or Designs in the Present Time for Fan-lights, Stair-case-railing... Palisades, & Gates, William Pickering, 1836 (3)

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METAL WORK - PATTERN BOOKS
Designs for Gates. Ornamental Iron Work, or Designs in the Present Time for Fan-lights, Stair-case-railing... Palisades, & Gates, William Pickering, 1836 (3)

Sold for £875 inc. premium

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PÜCHLER (JOHANN MICHAEL)
Ecce Homo; Virgin Mary, A PAIR OF PEN AND INK MICROGRAPHIC, ON VELLUM, [c.1700] (2)

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

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SCHUMANN (ROBERT)
Autograph draft of the Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) for piano, op.12, comprising ʻAufschwung' ('Soaring') in F minor, 'Warum?' ('Why?') in D flat major, 'Grillen' ('Whims') in D flat major, 'In der Nacht' ('In the Night') in F minor, ʻTraumes Wirren' ('Dream's Confusions') in F major and ʻEnde vom Lied' ('End of the Song') in F major; Leipzig, completed 8 July and presented on 7 August 1837

Sold for £224,750 inc. premium

SHOE AND JEWELLERY DESIGNS Album containing approximately 165 designs for ladies' court shoes and high heels with myriad varying decorations, [probably Germany, 1950s] (2)

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SHOE AND JEWELLERY DESIGNS
Album containing approximately 165 designs for ladies' court shoes and high heels with myriad varying decorations, [probably Germany, 1950s] (2)

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892

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STUCK (FRANZ)
Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE) Designs for Ornamental Plate, Many of Which Have Been Executed in Silver from Original Drawings, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Gardiner, 1806

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TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE)
Designs for Ornamental Plate, Many of Which Have Been Executed in Silver from Original Drawings, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Gardiner, 1806

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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THOMAS (WILLIAM)
Original Designs in Architecture, FIRST EDITION, for the Author 1783

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, mostly 1890s

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VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY
Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, mostly 1890s

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

VICTORIA'S PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION Collection of portrait photographs, evidently assembled and arranged by the Queen herself, with captions written on mounts, cut and pasted below (as usual in albums of the period), the majority in the Queen's hand, in the original red morocco gilt photograph box

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VICTORIA'S PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
Collection of portrait photographs, evidently assembled and arranged by the Queen herself, with captions written on mounts, cut and pasted below (as usual in albums of the period), the majority in the Queen's hand, in the original red morocco gilt photograph box

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

WOBURN ABBEY MARBLES [CORBOULD (HENRY) AND JOHN RUSSELL, Sixth Duke of Bedford] Outline Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "From the Duke of Bedford" on the front free endpaper, [London, Printed by William Nicol], 1822

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WOBURN ABBEY MARBLES
[CORBOULD (HENRY) AND JOHN RUSSELL, Sixth Duke of Bedford] Outline Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "From the Duke of Bedford" on the front free endpaper, [London, Printed by William Nicol], 1822

Sold for £3,000 inc. premium

WORLD WAR I - RUHLEBEN PRISON CAMP A good collection of 76 postcards (75 real photographs, one original watercolour of a building facade), all depicting Ruhleben camp buildings, inmates, theatrical groups, and life, formed by prisoner of war camp inmate George Muffin, [c.1914-1918] (collection)

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WORLD WAR I - RUHLEBEN PRISON CAMP
A good collection of 76 postcards (75 real photographs, one original watercolour of a building facade), all depicting Ruhleben camp buildings, inmates, theatrical groups, and life, formed by prisoner of war camp inmate George Muffin, [c.1914-1918] (collection)

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

WORLD WAR II - HESS IN RENFREWSHIRE Fire Record Book of the Firemaster at No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, kept by James Whitelaw, Watchroom Attendant, on behalf of Firemaster Charles Angus, beginning on 10 January 1939 and running until 9 November 1948, No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, 10 January 1940 to 9 November 1948, 'MESSERSCHMIDT 110, TWIN ENGINE MONOPLANE FIGHTER, AIRCRAFT PARTLY DESTROYED BY FIRE... THE PILOT DEPUTY FUERHRER, RUDOLPH HESS'

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WORLD WAR II - HESS IN RENFREWSHIRE
Fire Record Book of the Firemaster at No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, kept by James Whitelaw, Watchroom Attendant, on behalf of Firemaster Charles Angus, beginning on 10 January 1939 and running until 9 November 1948, No 1 Darnley Station, Renfrew, 10 January 1940 to 9 November 1948, 'MESSERSCHMIDT 110, TWIN ENGINE MONOPLANE FIGHTER, AIRCRAFT PARTLY DESTROYED BY FIRE... THE PILOT DEPUTY FUERHRER, RUDOLPH HESS'

£800 - £1,200

WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

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WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST
The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

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BRISTOL
Pair of albums "Presented to the Rev. Robert Vaughan Pryce... by his father George Pryce, F.S.A. on his Birthday, December 15, 1866", 1832-1865 (2)

Amended

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM)
HOWLETT (ROBERT) Isambard Kingdom Brunel at the Launching of the Great Eastern, 1857

Amended

Sold for £4,250 inc. premium

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DANCE
Album of 66 albumen prints of ballet dancers, by "La Photographie Nouvelle, (Procédé H. Mairet)", [c.1890]

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

LONDON - GREENWICH View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, [1860s]

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LONDON - GREENWICH
View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, [1860s]

£600 - £800

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LONDON - KENSINGTON
Album containing 87 photographs, some of Kensington taken by Dr. Arthur Roberts of Kensington, [1860s-70s]

Sold for £687.50 inc. premium

MARZONI (ERMETE) Collection of approximately 100 photographs mostly by Marzoni but a few by Guglielmo Coluzzi and other Italian photographers, 1950s-70s

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MARZONI (ERMETE)
Collection of approximately 100 photographs mostly by Marzoni but a few by Guglielmo Coluzzi and other Italian photographers, 1950s-70s

Sold for £875 inc. premium

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MOON PHOTOGRAPHY
RUTHERFURD (LEWIS MORRIS) Three views of the Moon, all with some toning (4)

Sold for £500 inc. premium

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SALT PRINTS, DAGUERREOTYPES, CARTE-DE-VISITES - COLLECTION
A large collection of nineteenth century photographs, comprising approximately 25 daguerreotypes (18 cased, most single figures, one a couple with baby, a couple tinted), upwards of 290 carte-de-vistes or cabinet cards by numerous mostly British photographers, some mounted on card, various sizes, mostly nineteenth century (quantity)

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

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1 — ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

2• — AMERICA - WAR OF INDEPENDENCE DONKIN (MAJOR R.) Military Collections and Remarks, FIRST EDITION, New York, H. Gaine, 1777

3 — AMERICA TAYLOR (ZACHARY) Document signed ("Z. Taylor"), counter-signed by Thomas Ewing Sr., Secretary of the Interior, appointing Anthony Walke register of the land office at Chillicothe, Ohio; Washington, 8 October 1849

5• — BINDINGS Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty, 20 vol., "Astral edition", LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, Paris, Societé des Bibliophiles, [c.1910]

6• — BINDINGS DUMAS (ALEXANDRE) The Works, 40 vol., Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1893

7• — BINDINGS FORESTER (C.S.) [Hornblower Series], 10. vol., FIRST EDITIONS, Michael Joseph, 1937-1962

8• — BINDINGS GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, New York, 1906; and another edition, illustrated by Harry Clarke

10• — BINDINGS The International Library of Famous Literature, 20 vol., New York, Merrill and Baker, 1898

12• — CIVIL WAR - BLOODY GAME AT CARDS The Bloody Game at Cards. As it was Played Betwixt the King of Hearts and the rest of his Suite, Shuffled at London, Cut at Westminster, Dealt at Yorke, and Plaid in the open field..., [1643]

13• — COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books

14 — COOKERY GOEIMARE (JOOS) Fine large view of the interior of a lavishly stocked kitchen, bustling with activity, a roaring fire, the walls and tables abundant with foodstuffs (meats, fish, vegetables and fruits), plate and utensils, [Venice, c.1650-1687]

15• — COOKERY Book of culinary and household recipes kept in several hands, predominantly of the early nineteenth century, most giving the source of the recipe ("Mrs Cross" etc.), c.1800-1840

16• — COTMAN (JOHN SELL) Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk; Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in Norfolk; Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in Norfolk, 3 parts (of 5) in 1 vol., 1838; and 7 others including Hannah Turner's 'Sixty Portraits', one of only 20 copies

19• — ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT Miracles of Mary, and other texts in Ge'ez, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Ethiopia, 17th century]

20 — GEORGE V AND EDWARD VIII Collection of thirteen royal signed photographs, including a signed cabinet photograph of the future George V ("George") and his elder brother Albert Victor ("Eddy"), dated by George 1897, showing them as cadets on board the training ship HMS Britannia; and others

22• — HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1835]

24 — INFANT'S CABINET OF FLOWERS The Infant's Cabinet of Flowers, J. Marshall, 21 April, 1801

25• — JENKINS (JOHN) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, J. Jenkins, [1815, text watermarked 1815, plates watermarked 1834]

26• — JENKINS (JOHN) The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1816-17, plates watermarked 1831]

27• — JONES (OWEN) The Grammar of Ornament, FIRST EDITION, folio (470 x 285mm.), early nineteenth century (2)

28• — JONES (OWEN) Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections, FIRST EDITION, S. and T. Gilbert, 1867

29• — METAL WORK - PATTERN BOOKS Designs for Gates. Ornamental Iron Work, or Designs in the Present Time for Fan-lights, Stair-case-railing... Palisades, & Gates, William Pickering, 1836 (3)

30 — PÜCHLER (JOHANN MICHAEL) Ecce Homo; Virgin Mary, A PAIR OF PEN AND INK MICROGRAPHIC, ON VELLUM, [c.1700] (2)

32 — SHOE AND JEWELLERY DESIGNS Album containing approximately 165 designs for ladies' court shoes and high heels with myriad varying decorations, [probably Germany, 1950s] (2)

33 — STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892

34• — TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE) Designs for Ornamental Plate, Many of Which Have Been Executed in Silver from Original Drawings, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Gardiner, 1806

35• — THOMAS (WILLIAM) Original Designs in Architecture, FIRST EDITION, for the Author 1783

36 — VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, mostly 1890s

38• — WOBURN ABBEY MARBLES [CORBOULD (HENRY) AND JOHN RUSSELL, Sixth Duke of Bedford] Outline Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "From the Duke of Bedford" on the front free endpaper, [London, Printed by William Nicol], 1822

41• — WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

42 — BRISTOL Pair of albums "Presented to the Rev. Robert Vaughan Pryce... by his father George Pryce, F.S.A. on his Birthday, December 15, 1866", 1832-1865 (2)

43 — BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM) HOWLETT (ROBERT) Isambard Kingdom Brunel at the Launching of the Great Eastern, 1857

44 — DANCE Album of 66 albumen prints of ballet dancers, by "La Photographie Nouvelle, (Procédé H. Mairet)", [c.1890]

45 — LONDON - GREENWICH View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, [1860s]

46 — LONDON - KENSINGTON Album containing 87 photographs, some of Kensington taken by Dr. Arthur Roberts of Kensington, [1860s-70s]

47 — MARZONI (ERMETE) Collection of approximately 100 photographs mostly by Marzoni but a few by Guglielmo Coluzzi and other Italian photographers, 1950s-70s

48 — MOON PHOTOGRAPHY RUTHERFURD (LEWIS MORRIS) Three views of the Moon, all with some toning (4)

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ALBUMS
Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

2^• —
AMERICA - WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
DONKIN (MAJOR R.) Military Collections and Remarks, FIRST EDITION, New York, H. Gaine, 1777

3 —
AMERICA
TAYLOR (ZACHARY) Document signed ("Z. Taylor"), counter-signed by Thomas Ewing Sr., Secretary of the Interior, appointing Anthony Walke register of the land office at Chillicothe, Ohio; Washington, 8 October 1849

5^• —
BINDINGS
Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty, 20 vol., "Astral edition", LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, Paris, Societé des Bibliophiles, [c.1910]

6^• —
BINDINGS DUMAS (ALEXANDRE)
The Works, 40 vol., Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1893

7^• —
BINDINGS FORESTER (C.S.)
[Hornblower Series], 10. vol., FIRST EDITIONS, Michael Joseph, 1937-1962

8^• —
BINDINGS
GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) Faust. A Tragedy... Translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vol., NUMBER 318 OF 650 LARGE PAPER COPIES, New York, 1906; and another edition, illustrated by Harry Clarke

10^• —
BINDINGS
The International Library of Famous Literature, 20 vol., New York, Merrill and Baker, 1898

12^• —
CIVIL WAR - BLOODY GAME AT CARDS
The Bloody Game at Cards. As it was Played Betwixt the King of Hearts and the rest of his Suite, Shuffled at London, Cut at Westminster, Dealt at Yorke, and Plaid in the open field..., [1643]

13^• —
COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
Collection of cookery and household recipes, compiled by members the Landor family of Rugeley, Staffordshire, together with material from the associated Lyttleton family of Studley Castle, Warwickshire, comprising loose recipes and five recipe books

14 —
COOKERY
GOEIMARE (JOOS) Fine large view of the interior of a lavishly stocked kitchen, bustling with activity, a roaring fire, the walls and tables abundant with foodstuffs (meats, fish, vegetables and fruits), plate and utensils, [Venice, c.1650-1687]

15^• —
COOKERY
Book of culinary and household recipes kept in several hands, predominantly of the early nineteenth century, most giving the source of the recipe ("Mrs Cross" etc.), c.1800-1840

16^• —
COTMAN (JOHN SELL)
Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk; Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in Norfolk; Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in Norfolk, 3 parts (of 5) in 1 vol., 1838; and 7 others including Hannah Turner's 'Sixty Portraits', one of only 20 copies

19^• —
ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT
Miracles of Mary, and other texts in Ge'ez, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [Ethiopia, 17th century]

20 —
GEORGE V AND EDWARD VIII
Collection of thirteen royal signed photographs, including a signed cabinet photograph of the future George V ("George") and his elder brother Albert Victor ("Eddy"), dated by George 1897, showing them as cadets on board the training ship HMS Britannia; and others

22^• —
HOGARTH (WILLIAM)
The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1835]

24 —
INFANT'S CABINET OF FLOWERS
The Infant's Cabinet of Flowers, J. Marshall, 21 April, 1801

25^• —
JENKINS (JOHN)
The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, J. Jenkins, [1815, text watermarked 1815, plates watermarked 1834]

26^• —
JENKINS (JOHN)
The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1816-17, plates watermarked 1831]

27^• —
JONES (OWEN)
The Grammar of Ornament, FIRST EDITION, folio (470 x 285mm.), early nineteenth century (2)

28^• —
JONES (OWEN)
Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections, FIRST EDITION, S. and T. Gilbert, 1867

29^• —
METAL WORK - PATTERN BOOKS
Designs for Gates. Ornamental Iron Work, or Designs in the Present Time for Fan-lights, Stair-case-railing... Palisades, & Gates, William Pickering, 1836 (3)

30 —
PÜCHLER (JOHANN MICHAEL)
Ecce Homo; Virgin Mary, A PAIR OF PEN AND INK MICROGRAPHIC, ON VELLUM, [c.1700] (2)

32 —
SHOE AND JEWELLERY DESIGNS
Album containing approximately 165 designs for ladies' court shoes and high heels with myriad varying decorations, [probably Germany, 1950s] (2)

33 —
STUCK (FRANZ)
Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892

34^• —
TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE)
Designs for Ornamental Plate, Many of Which Have Been Executed in Silver from Original Drawings, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Gardiner, 1806

35^• —
THOMAS (WILLIAM)
Original Designs in Architecture, FIRST EDITION, for the Author 1783

36 —
VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY
Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, mostly 1890s

38^• —
WOBURN ABBEY MARBLES
[CORBOULD (HENRY) AND JOHN RUSSELL, Sixth Duke of Bedford] Outline Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "From the Duke of Bedford" on the front free endpaper, [London, Printed by William Nicol], 1822

41^• —
WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST
The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

42 —
BRISTOL
Pair of albums "Presented to the Rev. Robert Vaughan Pryce... by his father George Pryce, F.S.A. on his Birthday, December 15, 1866", 1832-1865 (2)

43 —
BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM)
HOWLETT (ROBERT) Isambard Kingdom Brunel at the Launching of the Great Eastern, 1857

44 —
DANCE
Album of 66 albumen prints of ballet dancers, by "La Photographie Nouvelle, (Procédé H. Mairet)", [c.1890]

45 —
LONDON - GREENWICH
View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, [1860s]

46 —
LONDON - KENSINGTON
Album containing 87 photographs, some of Kensington taken by Dr. Arthur Roberts of Kensington, [1860s-70s]

47 —
MARZONI (ERMETE)
Collection of approximately 100 photographs mostly by Marzoni but a few by Guglielmo Coluzzi and other Italian photographers, 1950s-70s

48 —
MOON PHOTOGRAPHY
RUTHERFURD (LEWIS MORRIS) Three views of the Moon, all with some toning (4)