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Lot 10
Folio society hardback book Ghost Stories - And other Horrid Tales by Charles W Stewart in good condition with slipcase. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. Shipping at cost from £4.99 in UK, we can ship a 30kg box for £10 so up to 10 books. Overseas shipping at cost from £7.99
Lot 281
Folio society hardback book Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales - With Illustrations by W Heath Robinson 1995 in good condition with slipcase. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. Shipping at cost from £4.99 in UK, we can ship a 30kg box for £10 so up to 10 books. Overseas shipping at cost from £7.99
Lot 7
Folio society hardback book The Cathedrals on England - The North & East Anglia by Pevsner in good condition with slipcase. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. Shipping at cost from £4.99 in UK, we can ship a 30kg box for £10 so up to 10 books. Overseas shipping at cost from £7.99
Lot 33
Folio society hardback book Stasiland - Stories from behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder in good condition with slipcase. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. Shipping at cost from £4.99 in UK, we can ship a 30kg box for £10 so up to 10 books. Overseas shipping at cost from £7.99
![Jores, J. A New Book of Iron Work, containing a Great Variety of Designs, first edition, 15 [of 20] engraved plates, margins](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1151d965-7090-44bf-9572-ad9500f4fd1c/faa5e45a-0d87-4ada-b424-ad9501151bec/468x382.jpg)
Lot 111
Ginn, P.J., editor. The Complete Book of Southern African Birds, coloured illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, folio, Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1989; Ali, Salim. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, Compact Edition, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, folio, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983; Dickinson, Edward, editor. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, third edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 4to, Princeton: University Press, 2003; and 19 others, similar, v.s. (22)
Lot 187
Flaxman, John. Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus…engraved by Thomas Piroli, title and 30 engraved plates (ex 36); Iliade d'Homere, title and 33 plates (ex 34); Odyssee d'Homere, title and 27 plates (ex 28), orig. wraps., worn, inscribed in ink on title "for Reynolds Stone and his family from Sylvia Townsend Warner whose great grandfather George Moir first owned this book", oblong folio, n.p. or d. [c.1831]
Lot 200
Treatise on Wood Engraving Illustrated. Supplement containing Specimens of Wood Engraving (lettered thus on spine), album with manuscript title within decorative watercolour frame, "Specimens of Wood Engraving Mdcccxl", another leaf inscribed Henry S. Richardson within similar frame (presumably the compiler), comprising numerous examples of book illustrations, head and tailpieces, trade advertisements etc, tipped in or mounted, by named engravers in 38 sections including Thomas Bewick, G. Baxter, W. J. Linton, E. Landells and Luke Clennell, and 2 further sections: Various Engravers and French Engravers, contemporary half green morocco gilt, some wear to spine, bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire, folio Henry S. Richardson was the author of a work on Greenwich, 1834, illustrated with wood engravings by G. Baxter.
Lot 1249
Football players autographs, including: Joe Shaw, Peter Osgood, Barry Bridges, Billy Stevenson, Gary Barr, Nobby Stiles, Harry Burrows, Ron Moran, Noel Cantwell, Tommy Smith, George Eastham, Johnny Dunn, David Herd, Andy McEvoy, Chris Lawler, Terry Neill, Gordon West, Bobby Robson, and various others, mostly signed on newspaper cut-outs, tasted into folio book front and back leaves.
Lot 883
Howth Castle Visitors Book: An oblong folio Album of Autographs, of Visitors to the Castle and to their other house, Offington in England, between 1905 and 1962, last entry dated 24th April, Approx. 220pp., together with m/ss notes of gratitude, poems, some newscuttings and photographs loosely inserted or tipped in. Attractive wooden binding the leather back, with tooled decoration, vine and leaves, and with orig. tie. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
Lot 725
Aristophanes:ÿAristophanis Comoediae,... Folio Florence (Per haeredes Philippi Juntae) 1525. Title page cut-down or from a smaller copy, with wd. cutdevice, & with device on end leaf also, the preface by Antonius Francinus Varchiensis in Latin (from another edition?) (30)ff A3 - D8, 373ff (first folio with red coloured head, & initial) cont. full vellum. B.P. with note on paste-down by Thos. Gaisford, stating he acquired this book on 1st June 1806. (1) * This third edition, first published, Venice 1598 by Aldus Manutius, the second in Florence; by Filippo Guinta, 1515.
Lot 1063
Illustrated Volumes: Fish - The New Eve, Drawings by Fish, written and Designed by Fowl. Sq. folio Lond. (J. Lane) 1917. Illus. thro-out, cloth backed decorative cold. boards, good; Bateman (H.H.) A Book of Drawings, sq. folio Lond. [1921] Fourth, also More Drawings, lg. sq. folio Lond. [1922]. First Edn., illus. thro-out, orig. pict. boards, spines dam. As a lot. (3)
![V. Rare Priced Book Catalogueÿ Bibliography: [Thomas Gaisford] Sotheby's, Auctioneers,ÿCatalogue of A Portion of theÿImportan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/580d27b1-d218-4e26-8f6c-ad9600b47e6a/99817e68-b61b-4c83-a947-ada800dbc40b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 926
V. Rare Priced Book Catalogueÿ Bibliography: [Thomas Gaisford] Sotheby's, Auctioneers,ÿCatalogue of A Portion of theÿImportant Library of Thomas Gaisford, Esq., of Offington, Worthing, ... sold by Auction ... on Wednesday, 23 April 1890 and Seven following Days, 8vo L. 1890. Each lot thro-out is priced and totalled in pencil, orig. ptd. wrappers, worn, and torn with loss, also some browning. * This renown sale which took place over 8 days in 1890, consisted of 2218 lots, which realised approx. œ10,000 at the time, which would be the equivalent of almost œ1,000,000ÿ to-day. It contained one of the finest collections of original works by Shakespeare, to come for sale, at that time including the first four folio editions of his comedies, histories and tragedies, plus several excessively rare quarto editions of his works. The 'Most Pleasant and excellent conceited Comedie of Syr John Falstaff and the Merrie Wives of Windson,' First Edn., 4to realised œ385. There was also some magnificent bindings by Roffet dict Le Faucheux, Padeloup, Le Gascon Derome, and other eminent Binders. Important collection of works illustrated by Wm. Blake. In addition to rare English Literature, there was also early works by Spanish, French, Italian & Portuguese Authors. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
Lot 754
Howth Castle Rent Book, 1766ÿ Manuscript:ÿ A large folio Ledger, containing approx. 140pp of full or partial manuscript entries of tenants, re rents etc., with dates, amounts owed etc., the last entries appear to be about 1780's, together with some m/ss documents related, loosely inserted. In orig. full panelled suede binding, brass bound, and with mor. label, lettered in gilt 'Rent Book 1766,' In very good condition, as a m/ss, w.a.f. An important document. (1)
Lot 895
Dean Gaisford's 'Magnum Opus' With Important Correspondence etc., included Gaisford (Dean Thomas)ÿEtymologicon Magnum, seu verius Lexicon saipissime vocabulorum origines indagans ex pluribus lexicis scholiastis et grammaticis anonymi cuisdam opera concinnatum. Lg. thick folio Oxford (e Typographeo Academico) 1848. Frontis fac-simile, engd. vignette on title, strongly bound cont. hf. calf, raised bands. With the Den's bookplate. The Etymologicum Magnum, compiled in Constantinople c 1150, is the largest Byzantine lexicon, collating and expanding the works of many previous scholars.ÿ It was first printed at Venice in 1499.ÿ Gaisford?s work, the fruit of much careful scholarship, remains the most recent complete edition. ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ This copy has tipped in at back: table giving details of print run and costs, also a review and an obituary of Gaisford. Pasted at front: 1. 10 Dec. 1847.ÿ Note from B.P. Symons, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, offering Gaisford on behalf of the delegates of the OUP an honorarium of œ1000. 2. Draft reply from Gaisford declining the offer, suggesting he might be given 20 free copies instead, and commenting on the proposed price of the book. 3. 16 Dec. 1847.ÿ Note from Symons agreeing his proposal. 4. 15 June 1855 Note from Symons expressing the delegates? gratitude for Gaisford?s work (he had died on 2 June). Enclosures: ú Letter to Gaisford dated 22 March 1817 from Edward Everett, the 23-year-old Professor Greek at Harvard who was then studying at G”ttingen, discussing German projects to publish a text of the Etymologicum, and reporting in detail on the experiments of Carl Friedrich Sicker to unroll some of the papyri discovered at Herculaneum (he destroyed several in the process).ÿ Everett (1794-1865) continued his brilliant and multi-faceted career as politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator.ÿ Today he is best remembered as the featured speaker at the dedication of the military cemetery at Gettysburg in 1863; his learned oration, lasting over two hours, has been somewhat overshadowed by Lincoln?s 271-word address that succeeded it. ú M/ss of a long (11 pp, folio) discourse on Gaisford?s Etymologicum, published in the G”ttingen Literary Advertiser, 6 Nov. 1848. ú Draft petition of Gaisford to the Council of State of the Duke of Brunswick, 23 July 1846, requesting the transmission to England of the MS at Wolfenb?ttel of the Etymologicon Gudianum, on the grounds that the edition published at Leipzig is defective and he would like to consult the original as part of his research for a new edition of the Etymologicon Magnum. úÿ ?The advantages of a liberal education.?ÿ MS page of verses ?by Thomas Gaisford A.D. 179-.? ú Draft letter from Gaisford, 24 Oct [1843] wishing to purchase a copy of the Lexicon Etymologicum, listed in the catalogue of the Royal Library at Naples. ú Letter to Thomas Gaisford (junior) from Paul Butler of Down Ampney, Cricklade, 8 Aug 1872, enclosing preceding item (?) ú Draft proposal by Gaisford for a second edition of his Suidae Lexicon (2 vols, 1834).
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