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An early 20th century Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Tin, modelled as a sentry box, each face depicting a soldier from England, Rus

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Lot 165

An early 20th century Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Tin, modelled as a sentry box, each face depicting a soldier from England, Russia, France and Germany 17½cm (7in) This tin was first designed in 1909 and featured a German soldier. In 1913 it was re-designed with a Belgian soldier in his place, as diplomatic relations with Germany were becoming strained. As a consequence of this, many of the earlier tins were defaced. Extremely rare in this condition. In fairly good condition - some corrosion to the joints but the printed panels are 95% intact.

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Frank Wootton (1911-1998), 'The first for The Few', lithograph, signed in pencil by Frank Wootton, Geoffrey Quill, Alan Clift

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Lot 173

Frank Wootton (1911-1998), 'The first for The Few', lithograph, signed in pencil by Frank Wootton, Geoffrey Quill, Alan Clifton, Arthur Rubbra and Stanley Hooker, No. 411/850, together with Gerald Coulson, 'Night of the Hunter', lithograph, signed by the artist, Lady Aitken and Viscount Rothermere, No. 57/850, and 'In the Sunlit Silence', lithograph 45 x 62cm (18 x 24in)

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Leonard Harry Wells (British, b.1903, exh. 1922-1931) Portrait of Wing Commander (later Air Vice-Marshal) James Edgar "Johnni

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Lot 192

Leonard Harry Wells (British, b.1903, exh. 1922-1931) Portrait of Wing Commander (later Air Vice-Marshal) James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO and 2 Bars, DFC and Bar signed upper left hand corner "L H Wells / Lubeck '45" oil on canvas 49 x 59cm (19 x 23in) Provenance: By descent within the family of the sitter Other Notes: James (Johnnie) Johnson was the RAF Fighter Command's most successful pilot and one of the most highly-decorated in the Second World War. He shot down no fewer than 34 enemy planes as well as numerous other shared, probables or damaged. He was awarded a DSO with two subsequent Bars and a DFC with a later Bar. Curiously, the RAF was nearly deprived of his remarkable services for various reasons. Both his applications to join the Auxiliary Air Force were rejected. These were partly on medical grounds, but also on the basis of a modest background - his father was a policeman in Melton Mowbray but had progressed to the rank of Inspector and Johnnie himself had been to Loughborough Grammar School. There was a popular misconception that fighter pilots were devil-may-care upper crust playboys but, in fact, of the 3000 or so pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain, only some 200 had been to Pubic School. A third hurdle was encountered by Johnson when, in training at Hawarden in North Wales following acceptance into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, he crash-landed two Spitfires within four days, on both occasions the result of errors on his own part. He feared rejection but, mercifully for the RAF and the country, these transgressions and the earlier prejudices were overlooked and he qualified. This was in August 1940 when the Battle of Britain was approaching its peak and the RAF realised that with production of Spitfires having been dramatically increased they could afford loss of aircraft much more easily than loss of pilots. Johnson was still being plagued by an improperly-set broken collarbone from his rugby playing days and opted for an operation prior to taking up position in a squadron. He thus did not join 616 Squadron until December 1940, by which time the Battle of Britain was over, although he had very briefly been posted to 19 Squadron where one of his fellow pilots was Douglas Bader. Due to 616 Squadron's role within Fighter Command all of Johnson's successes were German fighters. In a MkIA Spitfire he is credited with downing a Messerschmitt Me109 and a second one in a MkIIA Spitfire. He then moved on to a Spitfire MkVb in which he shot down a further five Me109s together with, perhaps somewhat improbably, two Focke-Wolf Fw190s. This was an extremely formidable German fighter introduced in 1942 and considered by some pilots and RAF High Command to be so superior to the MkV Spitfire that the days of the Spitfire marque may be numbered. It was therefore all the more impressive that Johnson should somewhat disprove that by shooting two of them down. He did, however, nearly come to grief at the hands of a Fw190 in August 1942 when, providing support for the disastrous Dieppe Raid, having shot down one Fw190 and had a third share in another, he was chased by another and had to take drastic and extremely dangerous evasive action to avoid being shot down himself. Mercifully, the MkIX Spitfire arrived with the RAF just in time. It was a match for the Fw190 and for Johnson and for many of his fellow pilots it was the favourite marque of all the Spitfires they flew. Johnson principally flew two of the MkIXs, registrations EN398 and MK392. Surprisingly, in these and other MkIXs, he shot down more Fw190s, eighteen, than the competent but less-lethal Me109, seven. By 1945 Johnson had moved on to MkXIV Spitfires. He, like many of his contemporaries, felt that the Griffon-engined aeroplane was a fine machine but that, without the iconic Merlin engine, the MkXIV was not a "proper" Spitfire. One of the MKXIVs he flew, registered MV268, still exists and flies registered now as MV293, based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. He did not add to his scoring tally in a MkXIV. Sally, Johnson's black labrador, was with Johnnie Johnson on operations in mainland Northern Europe from just after D-Day untll the end of the War. She did not fly, nor fly with him in his Spitfire - it might have been a little cramped in the cockpit and he needed to swivel his head around to keep a sharp lookout for the "Hun in the Sun" ! “I found the engineer officer and together we had a look at her, gleaming and bright in a new spring coat of camouflage paint. Later I took her up for a few aerobatics to get the feel of her, for this was the first time I had flown a Mk IX. She seemed very fast, the engine was sweet and she responded to the controls as only a thoroughbred can. I decided that she should be mine, and I never had occasion to regret that choice.” Wing Commander James Edgar “Johnnie” Johnson talking about his first encounter with EN398 Condition appears fine - under glass.

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A First National coinage of Barbados proof set, $5 to 1 cent, together with a first coinage of British Virgin Islands proof s

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Lot 88

A First National coinage of Barbados proof set, $5 to 1 cent, together with a first coinage of British Virgin Islands proof set $1 to one cent, British Virgin Islands silver jubilee proof set £1 to 1 cent, a 1967 Tonga proof set seven coin set, a Turks & Caicos Islands 1980 20 crown piedfort, a 1969 New Zealand Cook coin set, a Commonwealth of the Bahamas proof set $5 to 1 cent, a Commonwealth of the Bahamas proof set 1974 $5 to 1 cent, a Trinidad and Tobago 1975 proof eight coin set and various similar proof coins

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Nicholas Trudgian (b. 1959), 'Summer of '44', lithograph, signed, No. 48/450, together with 'American Fighter Aces, Series 3'

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Lot 169

Nicholas Trudgian (b. 1959), 'Summer of '44', lithograph, signed, No. 48/450, together with 'American Fighter Aces, Series 3', lithograph, signed by J.D. Collinsworth, Keith Woodcock, 'Time Flies', lithograph, signed by Rick Groombridge, Stan Baldock, 'The First and Last', lithograph and a framed photograph of the Nimrod A.E.W. Trials by British Aerospace and Marconi Avionics 43 x 60cm (17 x 23in)

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The Official Signers Medals first edition proof set, thirty six 1oz medallions, housed in a display book

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Lot 92

The Official Signers Medals first edition proof set, thirty six 1oz medallions, housed in a display book

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A Roman marble bust of a woman, possibly first century AD, looking to dexter on a poorly repaired porphyry base, 38cm (15in)

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Lot 374

A Roman marble bust of a woman, possibly first century AD, looking to dexter on a poorly repaired porphyry base, 38cm (15in) high, together with a 19th century grand tour gypsym canopic jar, 33cm (13in) high (2)

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An Edwardian silver bosun's call, by Hilliard and Thomason, Birmingham 1903, together with a German second World War Luftwaff

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Lot 156

An Edwardian silver bosun's call, by Hilliard and Thomason, Birmingham 1903, together with a German second World War Luftwaffe first model wrist compass, a serial plate from a Junkers 88 'Stuka', a pewter flask and a shrapnel fragment from a German bomb

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A coinage of 1975 Belize silver proof set, $10 to 1 cent, together with coinage of Belize $10 to one cent, first coinage of P

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Lot 73

A coinage of 1975 Belize silver proof set, $10 to 1 cent, together with coinage of Belize $10 to one cent, first coinage of Papua New Guinea K10 to 1t, a Sierra Leone first national currency 1964 one leone to a half cent, two Malawi first coinage 1964 half crown to 6d, a Sierra Leone 1964-74 one 2 leone, Rep D' Haiti proof set 1963 coins 25 gourdes 10G and a Papua New Guinea 10 Kina coin

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A card mounted collection of embroidered military uniform shoulder titles and others, viz. Special Forces-Commandos, First Ai

Amersham Auction Rooms

Lot 71

A card mounted collection of embroidered military uniform shoulder titles and others, viz. Special Forces-Commandos, First Air Landing Brigade and Airborne etc OS9

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Three Royal Doulton china figures, viz. 'First Dance' HN2803 8''h; 'Camellia' HN2222 8''h; and 'Invitation' HN2170 6''h

Amersham Auction Rooms

Lot 224

Three Royal Doulton china figures, viz. 'First Dance' HN2803 8''h; 'Camellia' HN2222 8''h; and 'Invitation' HN2170 6''h OS6

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David Shepherd - Signed limited edition print - First Light At Savuti, no.903/1500, signed and numbered in pencil, unframed

Clevedon Salerooms

Lot 81

David Shepherd - Signed limited edition print - First Light At Savuti, no.903/1500, signed and numbered in pencil, unframed Condition:

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Clevedon Salerooms

Lot 182

Two George III mahogany dressing table mirrors, the first having an oval plate, serpentine box base fitted three drawers and standing on ogee bracket feet, the second with rectangular plate, box base fitted two drawers and also standing on ogee bracket feet Condition:

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Clevedon Salerooms

Lot 422

Vintage tin of 'Lifeboat And Raft Ration Biscuits' together with a pair of vintage steel and boxwood ice skates, boy scouts first aid kit etc Condition:

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JOSEPH HELLER; (author of 'Catch 22', 'Something Happens', 'Good as Gold' and 'God Knows') a signed first edition of 'No Laug

Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 509

JOSEPH HELLER; (author of 'Catch 22', 'Something Happens', 'Good as Gold' and 'God Knows') a signed first edition of 'No Laughing Matter' and two books by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Silmarillion' (3).

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A collection of ceramic thimbles with nine sectional holders and a folder of first day covers, an album of stamps and some lo

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Lot 207

A collection of ceramic thimbles with nine sectional holders and a folder of first day covers, an album of stamps and some loose envelopes with stamps.

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A collectors' lot of mixed antiquarian and collectible books to include a 1936 German propaganda book 'Adolf Hitler Bilder Au

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Lot 510

A collectors' lot of mixed antiquarian and collectible books to include a 1936 German propaganda book 'Adolf Hitler Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers', with gilt tooled cloth boards containing publicity shots of Hitler, German armaments and German high command, 'Histoires Choisies, Ou Livere D'Exemples', full leather bound with interior marbled boards, c1747 first edition, Willis Fletcher Johnson 'History of the Johnstown Flood', published by J W Keeler & Co 1889, cloth bound containing plates showing the devastation of the Johnstown flood, Joseph G Horner 'The Sheet Metal Worker's Instructor', published by Crosby, Lockwood & Son 1896, containing various diagrams and geometrical problems, cloth bound, Anthony Hope 'The Prisoner of Zenda' c1894, first edition and gilt tooled cloth bound and 'The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist' English translation c1771, this being volume two, leather bound (6).

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An album of first day covers, an album of Indian stamps and a 'Martins Mills' album containing world stamps (3).

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Lot 544

An album of first day covers, an album of Indian stamps and a 'Martins Mills' album containing world stamps (3).

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A quantity of boxed diecast vehicles to include Lledo, Days Gone, EFE (Exclusive First Editions) buses etc.

Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers

Lot 500

A quantity of boxed diecast vehicles to include Lledo, Days Gone, EFE (Exclusive First Editions) buses etc.

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[ANTIQUES] Stevenson, John & Guy, John. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tadition, first edition, Art Media Resources, Chicag

Greenslade Taylor Hunt

Lot 159

[ANTIQUES] Stevenson, John & Guy, John. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tadition, first edition, Art Media Resources, Chicago, 1997, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; Beurdeley, Michel & Cecile. Chinese Ceramics, first British edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1974, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, large quarto; and assorted other works, (13 volumes).

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[ART]. WOOD ENGRAVING Empson, Patience, editor. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, Dent, London, 1959, b

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Lot 144

[ART]. WOOD ENGRAVING Empson, Patience, editor. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, Dent, London, 1959, black cloth, illustrations throughout, quarto; Lawrence, D.H. The Man who Died, Heinemann, London, 1935, quarter cloth, illustrations by John Farleigh, quarto; and two other works, (4).

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[ANTIQUES & WINE] Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collecti

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Lot 158

[ANTIQUES & WINE] Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, first edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1960, quarter blue buckram, plate illustrations, quarto; Penning-Rowsell, Edmund. The Wines of Bordeaux, first edition, International Wine and Food Society, London, 1969, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and assorted other works, including auction catalogues, (31 volumes, box).

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[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977, na

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Lot 149

[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977, navy cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Tolkien, J.R.R. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, reprint, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1980, maroon cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Carpenter, Humphrey, editor. Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1981, boards, dustjacket, octavo; together with assorted other works by or on the same; and two calendars, (12).

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[NATURAL HISTORY] Thompson, Harry V., & Worden, Alastair N. The Rabbit, first edition, Collins, London, 1956, green buckram,

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Lot 146

[NATURAL HISTORY] Thompson, Harry V., & Worden, Alastair N. The Rabbit, first edition, Collins, London, 1956, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Stamp, Dudley, & Hoskins, W.G. The Common Lands of England & Wales, first edition, Collins, London, 1963, green buckram, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; together with a further six New Naturalist titles; and a further fourteen assorted works, (22).

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PETER THURSBY (BRITISH, 1930-2011) 'Winged Form', bronze, 1964, set to a concrete base, 53cm high (excluding base; base cra

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Lot 562

PETER THURSBY (BRITISH, 1930-2011) 'Winged Form', bronze, 1964, set to a concrete base, 53cm high (excluding base; base cracked). Note: Pictured in Light, Vivienne, & Olding, Simon. Peter Thursby, first edition, Canterton Books, Uplyme, 2006, p.60, fig.41. A copy of this book, and a small quantity of other ephemera accompanies the lot. This lot may be subject to Droit de Suite (Artists Resale Right).

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[MISCELLANEOUS] Seaver, George. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, first edition, Murray, London, 1933,

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Lot 147

[MISCELLANEOUS] Seaver, George. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, first edition, Murray, London, 1933, blue cloth, plate illustrations, octavo; Mosso, Angelo. Life of Man on the High Alps, Fisher Unwin, London, 1898, decorative blue cloth, illustrations, quarto; Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake, Black, Edinburgh, 1853, pictorial bevelled green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, vignette illustrations, octavo; and seventeen assorted other works, (20).

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[MISCELLANEOUS] Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, first edition, Cape, London, 1924, grey cloth, colour frontisp

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Lot 136

[MISCELLANEOUS] Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, first edition, Cape, London, 1924, grey cloth, colour frontispiece, text illustrations, octavo; Blunden, Edmund. Shells by a Stream, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1944, green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Shute, Nevil. The Rainbow and the Rose, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1958, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and a further thirteen assorted works, (16).

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[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Meynell, Wilfrid. Verses and Re-Verses, privately printed (at The Arden Press) for his family & friends

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Lot 138

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Meynell, Wilfrid. Verses and Re-Verses, privately printed (at The Arden Press) for his family & friends, 1910, grey boards, top edges gilt, small octavo; Meynell, Alice. The Shepherdess & Other Verses, Burns & Oates, London, no date, paper covers, INSCRIBED & SIGNED TO DOROTHY RAWCLIFFE, with a manuscript poem and letter to the same in original postal envelope taped to inside front cover, octavo; another copy of the same, unsigned; Meynell, Violet. Verses, first edition, Secker, London, 1919, blue-grey boards, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. The Child's Visit to Fairyland, no date [1911], fawn cloth, map frontispiece, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to her mother, with a poem, on front free endpaper, octavo; Rawcliffe, Dorothy. Rafferty-Tafferty Primblekins and Other Follies for the Diversion of All Children, Old and Young, Platt, Wigan, 1927, stiff paper cover with onlaid title label, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and two further duplicated works by Rawcliffe, (8).

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LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY RECTANGULAR COFFER the front panel with carved decoration, the lid with strap hinges and the in

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Lot 300

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY RECTANGULAR COFFER the front panel with carved decoration, the lid with strap hinges and the interior fitted with candlebox. The vendors inform us it was brought back from Egypt after the first world war. 133cms wide, 51cms deep and 49cms high

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[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Twain, Mark. Roughing It and The Innocents at Home, first combined British edition, Routledge, London,

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Lot 135

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Twain, Mark. Roughing It and The Innocents at Home, first combined British edition, Routledge, London, 1882, pictorial crimson cloth gilt, illustrations by F.A. Fraser, octavo; together with Twain, Mark. The American Claimant, first British edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1892, pictorial crimson cloth, illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst, octavo; and another work by the same, (3).

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WWI trio medals to PTE J. Albon first Leicstershire Reg cap badges etc

Whitton and Laing

Lot 560

WWI trio medals to PTE J. Albon first Leicstershire Reg cap badges etc

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Ellsworth Kelly, American (1923-2015) Graphite and collage on paper, in 2 parts "Untitled" Executed in 1987. Signed, inscribe

Kodner Galleries

Lot 70

Ellsworth Kelly, American (1923-2015) Graphite and collage on paper, in 2 parts "Untitled" Executed in 1987. Signed, inscribed and dated "for Paul with thanks, Sept. 1987 Ellsworth Kelly" on the reverse. Good condition. Measures 14" x 21-1/2" (sight), frame measures 20-1/2" x 28-1/2". Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the present owner who was founder and publisher of Hudson Hills Press, which specialized in fine art books. Hudson Hills Press published the first catlogue raisonne of Ellsworth Kelly's prints. This work is the jacket design that Kelly created for that book. Exhibited: Ithaca, Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Contemporary Prints from the Anbinder Collection, April 5 - June 15, 1997. Shipping $235.00 (estimate $30000-$50000)

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Wordsworth poetical work, Wordsworth & Colleridge, 2 Tennyson first day covers & postcards etc.

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Lot 172

Wordsworth poetical work, Wordsworth & Colleridge, 2 Tennyson first day covers & postcards etc.

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RICHARD III Buck (George) The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, 1647, London, W. Wilson, 4to, second editi

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Lot 58

RICHARD III Buck (George) The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, 1647, London, W. Wilson, 4to, second edition, lacking frontispiece portrait, pp.152 plus index, blank K4, worm trace to f.f.e.p., becoming pin hole by p.21 (not affecting text), early ownership inscription to title [together with:] Walpole (Horace) Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, 1768, London, J. Dodsley, 4to, second edition, pp.134 plus single leaf Addition, 2 folding etched portraits incl. frontis as called for. First quire loose, soiling and staining, both copies in scuffed and bumped rebacked 18th century calf (2)

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Greene (Graham) Five First Editions: Our Man in Havana, 1958, London, Heinemann; Travels With My Aunt, 1969 [&] May We Borro

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Lot 32

Greene (Graham) Five First Editions: Our Man in Havana, 1958, London, Heinemann; Travels With My Aunt, 1969 [&] May We Borrow Your Husband?, 1967, both London, The Bodley Head; In Search of a Character Two African Journals, 1961, Bodley Head; A World of My Own A Dream Diary, 1992, London, Reinhardt Books. 8vos., publisher's cloth and with dust jackets, with generally minor soiling, nicks and tears. Travels price-clipped, ownership inscription to Havana (5).

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Young (Rev. George) A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils Occurring between the Humbe

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Lot 54

Young (Rev. George) A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils Occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York, 1822, Whitby, G. Clark, 4to First Edition: [i-]iv, pp.328, plus Index, list of Subscribers and 1 p. advert, engraved frontispiece, double page hand-coloured engraved geological map of Yorkshire Coast, double page hand-coloured sectional chart of Strata, plus 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates of fossils (complete as list). Rubbed and bumped contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, contents generally good, offsetting to title and only minor soiling and browning. Old ownership label to front pastedown, two ownership inscriptions to f.f.e.p.

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Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, 1962, London, Faber and Faber, number 359 (of 500 copies) from the first collected

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Lot 33

Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, 1962, London, Faber and Faber, number 359 (of 500 copies) from the first collected edition, 8vo, signed by the author, green calf, a.e.g. Sunfading to banded spine. [Offered with:] Beer (Stafford) Decision and Control, 1966, London, John Wilsons, 8vo. First edition, author's presentation copy with his signature, red calf (2).

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J. Harold Leighton FRPS (British, d.1947) A folio of mostly topographical photographs, bromoil, comprising: Thirty two images

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Lot 128

J. Harold Leighton FRPS (British, d.1947) A folio of mostly topographical photographs, bromoil, comprising: Thirty two images, mostly pencil signed and inscribed/titled on reverse, including views of Fountains Hall; Ely Cathedral; Compton Wyngates; Edinburgh Castle; Fountains Abbey; Stonehenge; Bolton Castle; Rouen; various figural, coastal and scenes of rural life; all bearing labels for various British and North American exhibitions incl. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 1930; 17th Annual International Salon of the Camera Pictoralists of Los Angeles, 1934; First Chicago International Photographic Salon, May 1929; The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, 1944; The GEC Photographic Society Exhib. 1946 etc. various sizes in portrait and landscape Fifty-eight similar images, mostly pencil signed and inscribed/titled on reverse, including views of SS Olympic at Southampton; St. Pauls Cathedral; Hawksworth Hall; Bamburgh Castle; with various figural, coastal and scenes of rural life; not exhibited, various sizes in portrait and landscape; together with four nude studies and three other images, (all mounted on card), in cloth folio Ex Libris J. Harold Leighton (97)

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Mackenzie (George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810], 1811, Edinburgh, A

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Lot 106

Mackenzie (George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810], 1811, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 4to, First Edition, xvii, pp. 491 plus Directions to the Binder, two engraved maps, one folding with colour (closed tear), complete with 15 engraved plates as list (eight of which mounted hand-coloured aquatints), four folding tables, engraved illustrations. Contemporary half calf over rubbed and scuffed marbled boards, spine gilt, two ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, closed tear to title and dedication leaves, pencil notes to blank leaf at rear, some offsetting and (mostly marginal) spotting and staining. Abbey Travel 160

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Darwin (Charles) Insectivorous Plants, 1875, London, John Murray, 8vo First Edition, old ownership inscription to half title,

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Lot 101

Darwin (Charles) Insectivorous Plants, 1875, London, John Murray, 8vo First Edition, old ownership inscription to half title, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, upper edge of text block soiled. [&] The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1876, London, J. Murray, 8vo First Edition, foxing to endpapers (two at front detached) and title, marginal fading to endpapers, hinges rather loose, original rubbed and bumped green cloth, frayed joints, upper edge of text block soiled. [together with:] A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World..., 1889, London, J. Murray, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original rubbed and bumped pictorial green cloth, hinges a little tender; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection..., 1895, London, J. Murray, 8vo, Sixth Edition ('Forty-Seventh Thousand'), endpapers stained and foxed, original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 1890, London, J. Murray, 8vo Second Edition ('Fifth Thousand'), original rubbed and bumped green cloth; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, London, J. Murray, 8vo, 'Fifth Thousand', original rubbed and bumped green cloth. (6)

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[Anon. (Compiler)] [Photograph Album of Regimental Colours] 4to calf stamped in blind and gilt-lettered 'Britain's Pride' t

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Lot 24

[Anon. (Compiler)] [Photograph Album of Regimental Colours] 4to calf stamped in blind and gilt-lettered 'Britain's Pride' to red spine label, containing approx. 110 tipped-in 19th century b&w and sepia photographs of British army colours and standards, some featuring soldiers on parade etc, including in India and at Portsmouth in 1888. 194 leaves numbered in pencil (several blanks), ink mss. verse from Byron's Corsair to first leaf, two photographs in old transparent pocket loosely inserted. Very rubbed and scuffed, with frayed spine hinges, lacking clasps, viewing highly recommended. This album was part of lot 489 at a Sotheby's sale of 12/07/55 (cutting from the sale catalogue pasted to first leaf). A note above the list of contents written by a former owner speculates that it once belonged to Capt. Oakes-James, and that some of the photographs were reproduced in Milne's book, offered with this lot. [With:] Milne (Samuel Milne) The Standards and Colours of the Army, from the Restoration 1661, to the Introduction of the Territorial System 1881, 1893, Leeds, Goodall and Suddick for the Subscribers, 8vo, number 47 of 200 copies, 29 plates, publisher's rubbed blue cloth gilt, upper hinge cracked. [together with:] Ross (Andrew) Old Scottish Regimental Colours, 1885, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, folio, number 157 of an unspecified edition, frontispiece and 28 chromolithographed plates, publisher's rubbed red cloth, gilt lettering, head and tail of spine bumped, corners a little frayed. [&] McNair (Robert) The Colours of the Grenadier Guards, 1870, London, 4to, 21 chromolithographed plates, original scuffed and bumped printed red boards, blue cloth spine, contents a little foxed (4). Provenance: Estate of Professor James D. Geddes.

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Thackeray (William Makepeace) Autograph Letter Signed ('WMThackeray') to 'Dear Ned', probably his cousin Edward Talbot Thacke

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Thackeray (William Makepeace) Autograph Letter Signed ('WMThackeray') to 'Dear Ned', probably his cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray, one page 4to, Kensington, London, 19th November 1849. A genial letter in which the great novelist suggests two named women as potential wives for his correspondent. Folds, foxing, staining and chips to extremities (one just affecting 'will' at end of first sentence). Conserved on fabric backing, clearly legible.

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NEWSPAPERS: LORD NELSON AND THE WARS WITH FRANCE In total 31 issues, various folio sizes (folded) including The Times (6), 17

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NEWSPAPERS: LORD NELSON AND THE WARS WITH FRANCE In total 31 issues, various folio sizes (folded) including The Times (6), 1797-1798 & 1849; The British Neptune (8), 1804-1805: The Morning Chronicle (4), 1798, 1804, 1840; provincial titles (6) incl. The Norfolk Chronicle 1805, The Leeds Intelligencer 1794, The Leicester Journal 1806, The Edinburgh Advertiser 1798 and Edinburgh Evening Courant 1815; imprints from the USA (5) include the Boston Gazette 1803, Columbian Sentinel 1798, and Hampshire Federalist 1806. Famous naval actions reported are Santa Cruz (Tenerife), Admiral Hood on Bastia in 1794 (the two actions in which Nelson's arm and eye respectively were injured), the Battle of the Nile (1798), the attack on Boulogne Harbour, Copenhagen (1801); also first-hand accounts of Nelson's death in action in 1805, the aftermath of Trafalgar and funeral arrangements for the national hero. Other articles of interest include obituary notices for Emma Hamilton and Sir Sidney Smith, and a plea to the Editor of The Times for financial support for an ailing former cook of Nelson's. Some with the usual tatty extremities, splitting folds, soiling staining etc.; all readable and protected in clear plastic sleeves. [Offered with:] a contemporary broadside printed by J.G. Mottley of Portsmouth: 'Victory over the Combined Fleets!!!', reproducing the dispatches of Vice-Admiral Collingwood received by the Admiralty Office at 1 am on November 6th 1805. This news of Nelson's victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar was first reported by the London Gazette Extraordinary, the present notice issued within days as a supplement to the Hampshire Telegraph. Plus six photocopies, facsimiles and souvenir reprints from The Times concerning Nelson's exploits and funeral arrangements. An important archive for the collector of Nelsonia and naval historian. (38)

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Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County of York… by Order of The Honourable Board of Ordnance… Surveyed in the Years 1815

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Greenwood (Christopher) Map of the County of York… by Order of The Honourable Board of Ordnance… Surveyed in the Years 1815, 1816 & 1817… 1817, Leeds, Robinson, Son & Holdsworth, Wakefield, J. Hurst & C. Greenwood. First edition of this engraved large-scale map in early and unfaded wash colour, printed on nine folding linen-backed folio sheets. Engraved by S.J. Neele, total dimensions approx. 1860 x 2160mm. Large calligraphic title and Dedication, altitudes of principal mountains upper left, key below. Some surface soiling, linen at verso browned and spotted. A must-have survey for the map collector and an impressive production, combining accuracy, historical interest and decorative appeal.

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Buchan (John) A collection of 43 books, various 8vo editions including firsts and reprints, Hodder & Stoughton, Thomas Nelson

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Buchan (John) A collection of 43 books, various 8vo editions including firsts and reprints, Hodder & Stoughton, Thomas Nelson & Sons, and other imprints, fiction and non-fiction titles. Includes: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915, William Blackwood & Sons) First Edition, 8vo, pp. 253 plus publisher's advert leaf, soiled, bumped and rubbed light blue cloth, mostly marginal foxing and toning; The Dancing Floor (1926, H&S) with signed gift inscription to Grieve by the author; one of two firsts offered of The Massacre at Glencoe (1933, Peter Davies Ltd) with author's dedication to historian George Trevelyan. Also: Buchan's first novel Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895, T. F. Unwin), First Edition in the original decorated cloth; a First of Prester John (1910) [&] Sick Heart River (1941), original dust jacket; The Three Hostages (1924); biographies of Sir Walter Ralegh (1911) and the [marquess of] Montrose (1950 reprint). All with general shelfware and signs of use, bumped and rubbed but generally sound copies in publisher's cloth bindings, a few with dust jackets. Lot includes four biographies (43).

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Humphreys (H. Noel) The Genera and Species of British Butterflies. Described and Arranged According to the System now Adopted

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Humphreys (H. Noel) The Genera and Species of British Butterflies. Described and Arranged According to the System now Adopted in the British Museum, First Edition, 8vo, [c. 1860], London, T.J. Allman; xii, pp. 66 plus pp. 4 advice on rearing from the author, additional hand-coloured lithographic title and 32 hand-coloured plates. Original purple cloth over wooden boards, attractive gilt decoration, rubbed and extremities rather frayed; gatherings splitting and disbound due to perishing gutta percha, as normal, scattered light foxing, with the bookplate of George Stapylton Barnes to front pastedown.

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IMPORTANT VICTORIAN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM [Bennett Family (Compiled by)] Small folio album (320 x 205mm) of approx. 200 Autograph L

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IMPORTANT VICTORIAN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM [Bennett Family (Compiled by)] Small folio album (320 x 205mm) of approx. 200 Autograph Letters Signed, 1830s to early 20th century, mostly addressed to Sir James Risdon Bennett (1809-1891), President of the Royal College of Physicians; some to his wife and family. Early 20th century diced brown morocco, red letterpiece to spine with 'Autographs' in gilt (some edge ware only). Mostly private correspondence and notes, accepting or declining invitations etc., some evidently originally enclosed with books or other documents, the majority 1860s to 1880s; some of the most prominent personalities of the Victorian age are represented - including statesmen, politicians, doctors and physicians, (mostly non-conformist) clergymen, missionaries, travellers, artists, literary figures, journalists, and men and women of letters. Some one sheet folded so pp.4, all pasted to guards or onto approx. 83 album pages (blank pages to rear), various writing papers (some printed headers, some coloured), cards, some slips and fragments. The papers and manuscript well preserved and clearly legible in almost all examples. Significant Autographs Include: Letter conferring a knighthood on Bennett from Prime Minister William Gladstone, 10 Downing Street January 1881; George I; Queen Anne; Queen Victoria; Lord Derby; Lord Chelmsford; Robert Peel; John Campbell Gordon, Marquess of Aberdeen; Dukes of Northumberland; Lord John Russell; Samuel Wilberforce; Henry Edward Manning (Catholic Archbishop of Westminster); Charles Spurgeon; Thomas Raffles; David Livingstone; Sir William Huggins (astronomer); Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Sophie Bryant (née Willock, educationist and suffragist, the first woman to be awarded a DSc); Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Lord Frederic Leighton; Sir Francis Grant; Wilkie Collins; Robert Browning; Octavia Hill (housing and social reformer); Arthur Conan Doyle; Karl Blind (political refugee and author). [With:] Bennett's leather-bound 12mo passport with fold-over flap bearing ownership label: several official ink stamps, mss. notes, signatures etc., mostly c. 1835 (several pp. blank towards rear); with folded consular letters/travel documents tipped in or loosely inserted, incl. under French royal authority 1830, also for the French Empire, Belgium, German states, Italian states and the Vatican etc. Between 1833 and 1837 Bennett spent some time on the Continent with Lord Aberdeen. Viewing highly recommended (2).

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Byrne (Oliver) The Geometry of Compasses or Problems Resolved by the Mere Description of Circles, and the use of Coloured Di

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Byrne (Oliver) The Geometry of Compasses or Problems Resolved by the Mere Description of Circles, and the use of Coloured Diagrams and Symbols. 1877, London, C. Lockwood & Co., thin 8vo, First Edition, unpaginated but all leaves present; frontispiece vignette of hand and compass to verso of Half Title plus 36 numbered diagrams in colour illustrating 20 'Problems'. Original light blue stamped cloth, some edge ware else a good copy. Oliver Byrne (1810- 1880) was a civil engineer and author of works on mathematics, geometry, and engineering. He is best known for his 'The Elements of Euclid by Colours'. He had Irish nationalist sympathies. The present work is not commonly encountered, with only a small number of institutional copies located.

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Francis (Dick) Nerve, 1964, London, Michael Joseph, first edition signed by the author to title, 8vo in original green cloth

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Francis (Dick) Nerve, 1964, London, Michael Joseph, first edition signed by the author to title, 8vo in original green cloth with dust jacket designed by Trevor Denning. Minor shelf ware, some soiling to verso of d.j. (with price), a good copy.

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OF BRADFORD PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INTEREST: A collection of member's photographic medals, medallions and awards Comprising two

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Lot 126

OF BRADFORD PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INTEREST: A collection of member's photographic medals, medallions and awards Comprising two Bishop Auckland Photographic Society embossed bronzed plaques, awarded to J. Harold Liebreich, 1912; a Bradford Photographic Society silvered plaque for Best Print 1935, awarded to W.H. Hammond, cased; a B.P.S. silver medallion for First Prize, Class 1, 1904, awarded to Mr J.H. Liebreich, cased; a Hebden Bridge Photographic Exhibition 1926 bronzed plaque, awarded to W.H. Hammond, cased; two 'Iris' International Kerstsalon bronzed plaques, 1933-34 & 1936-37; three Royal Society of British Columbia bronzed medallions, awarded to J.H. Leighton, 1923/1925/1929; together with eight other related items (18)

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Llosa (Mario Vargas) The Time of the Hero. 1967, London, Jonathan Cape, 8vo, first UK edition, signed by the author to title,

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Llosa (Mario Vargas) The Time of the Hero. 1967, London, Jonathan Cape, 8vo, first UK edition, signed by the author to title, d.j., light foxing to edge of text block, a good copy; The Storyteller, 1989, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 8vo, d.j., signed to title, good; A Writer's Reality, 1991, London, Faber & Faber, first UK edition, 8vo, signed to title, d.j. extremities a little bumped and frayed, good; A Fish in the Water, 1994, London, Faber, first UK edition, signed by the author, d.j., still with Waterstone's Manchester promotional band and wrapped in cellophane; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 2006, Faber, hard cloth in slipcase, cling wrap preserved (5).

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Nansen (Fridtjof) The First Crossing of Greenland, 1890, London & New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 2 vols., 8vo, first Englis

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Nansen (Fridtjof) The First Crossing of Greenland, 1890, London & New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 2 vols., 8vo, first English edition, portrait frontispieces, complete with 5 folding colour maps, (one with tear, without loss), plates and illustrations, publisher's adverts to rear. Publisher's pictorial cloth silver gilt, rubbed, spines slightly faded and frayed, contents rather foxed. [together with:] ''Farthest North'' Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1896-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey...1897, London, Archibald Constable, 2 vols., first English edition, numerous plates (16 in colour), four folding maps (one detached, one with small tear), illustrations. Publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bumped, hinges a little weak, foxing to uncut pages. (2)

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Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960, Heinemann, first London edition, 8vo, pp. 296, publisher's burgundy cloth lettered

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Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960, Heinemann, first London edition, 8vo, pp. 296, publisher's burgundy cloth lettered to spine in silver, d.j. Dust jacket with price preserved, chips to head and tail of spine, overall a good copy.

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THE 17th CENTURY, CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION, A COLLECTION i) [Verstegan (Richard)] [A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence:

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THE 17th CENTURY, CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION, A COLLECTION i) [Verstegan (Richard)] [A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: in Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation], 1628, London, J. Bill, 8vo, lacking prelims and title, preserving contemporary 'Thomas Barrow' ownership inscription, engraved illustrations in the text, contemp. ink annotations and doodles, smart later purple morocco gilt, a.e.g. CIVIL WAR DECLARATION ii) Browne (John, Clerk to Parliament) Official Declaration dated November 12th 1642 on four disbound 12mo sheets commending the military service of Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex (1591-1646), and ordering his troops to muster in central London. Letterpress with woodcut vignettes and initial. Essex's forces were later to intercept the King at Turnham Green as royalists marched on London. iii) [Bowles (Edward)] Manifest Truths or an inversion of Truths Manifest containing a narration of the proceedings of the Scottish army and a vindication of the Parliament and Kingdom of England… 1646, 'Published by Authoritie', H. Overton and G. Calvert, slim 8vo, Preface (shaved at bottom with some loss) and pp.74 plus postscript with 1787 British Museum Sale Duplicate stamp to verso of title, woodcut decorations and initials, modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards iv) [Markham (Gervase)] Country Contentments or, the Husbandmans Recreation, 1649, London, W. Wilson for J. Harrison, 8vo sixth edition, pp. 118, numerous mss. notes to rear in contemporary hand, browning, soiling and staining, modern three-quarter calf over cloth boards. v) [Blith (Walter)] [The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed…] 1653, London, J. Wright, slim 8vo, lacking prelims including engraved title, one printed title preserved; Dedication and Epistle to the Reader, pp.274 trimmed without loss and edged in red, one engraved folding plate, two full-page woodcut illustrations, later calf. vi) H[eath] (J[ames]) A Brief Chronicle of the Late Intestine Warr in the Three Kingdoms… 1663, London, W. Lee, thick 12mo, second impression, pp.864, engraved plates, leaves shaved close to text in places, lacking some index leaves to rear and original e.p.s, modern calf gilt. vii) Grotius (Hugo) De Rebus Belgicis: or, the Annals, and History of the Low-Countrey-Warrs. Wherein is Manifested, that the United Netherlands, are Indebted for the Glory of their Conquests, to the Valour of the English… 1665, London, H. Twyford, 8vo, prelims, pp.974 plus index and Errata. Lacking original e.p.s, later calf. viii) [Cavendish (Margaret, Countess of Newcastle)] The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavendishe… 1667, London, A. Maxwell, first edition, pp.199, slim 4to, woodcut decorations and initials, two lines p.9 and marginal notation p.26 'redacted', Philip Barker Webb bookplate, rebacked speckled calf. ix) MARTYRDOM OF CHARLES I England's Black Tribunal. Set forth in the Tryal of King Charles I, 1703, London, H. Playford, 8vo sixth edition, engraved frontis portrait, Preface, Adverts plus pp.180, some leaves shaved close to upper edge of typeset, soiling and staining, modern calf over marbled boards. [TOGETHER WITH:] x) [Latimer (Hugh)] [Collected Sermons] [c.1549], 8vo, lacking prelims and title, dedication to Duchess of Suffolk preserved, pp.329 trimmed without loss, edges red. Woodcut headpiece and initials, later blind-tooled calf, lacking spine label [&] xi) Hutchinson (Lucy) Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor Of Nottingham Castle And Town. . .With Original Anecdotes Of Many Of The Most Distinguished Of His Contemporaries And A Summary Review Of Public Affairs… 1808, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 4to Second Edition, frontis. portrait, four plates and folding pedigree, xiv + pp.18 + pp.452 plus publisher's advertisement leaf, rebacked diced calf. Includes some rare tracts and pamphlets. Sold not subject to return, w.a.f. (11).

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Ishiguro (Kazuo) The Remains of the Day, 1989, London, Faber & Faber, first edition, signed by the author, dust jacket, a goo

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Ishiguro (Kazuo) The Remains of the Day, 1989, London, Faber & Faber, first edition, signed by the author, dust jacket, a good copy; An Artist of the Floating World, 1986, Faber, first edition, d.j., with promotional band printed 'Signed copy'; signed and dedicated by the author to the British Council, Tokyo, November 1989, a fine copy; A Pale View of the Hills, 1982, Faber, first edition, d.j., a good copy with Cumbria County Library stamp to verso of title [with:] two copies of Never Let me Go, 2005, Faber, signed limited editions in original boards, d.j.s and slipcases, one copy with cling wrap preserved (5).

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YORKSHIRE/NORTH EAST HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Ord (John Walker) The History and Antiquities of Cleveland, 1846, London, Simpki

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YORKSHIRE/NORTH EAST HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES Ord (John Walker) The History and Antiquities of Cleveland, 1846, London, Simpkin & Marshall, 4to., first edition, rebacked polished calf. With portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title, plates, and folding map and pedigree. List of Subscribers to rear. Plates with some foxing/staining; Graves (Rev. John) The History of Cleveland, 1808, Carlisle, Jollie & Sons, 4to., frontispiece and additional pictorial title, engraved plates, folding pedigree and folding map, hand-coloured in outline. Bound to style in 20th century leather over marbled boards; Speight (Harry) Romantic Richmondshire, 1897, London, Elliot Stock, 4to, plates, folding map. Smart late 20th century binding by Conway of Halifax (with their label inside rear cover); Baker (Joseph Brogden) The History of Scarborough from the Earliest Date, 1882, London, Longmans, Green & Co., 4to, number 4 from an edition limited to 100 copies, multiple plates and a folding map, contemporary morocco over purple cloth, with armorial in gilt to upper cover; Hinderwell (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of Scarborough and the Vicinity, 1811, York, 8vo, mottled calf, rebacked. Facsimile replacement folding map Vicinity of Scarboro (5).

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Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961, London, Cape, 8vo. first edition with dust jacket. Corners a little bumped, d.j. not price-c

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Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961, London, Cape, 8vo. first edition with dust jacket. Corners a little bumped, d.j. not price-clipped, with minor nicks to extremities. Overall a good copy.

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Hodges (Nathaniel) ['Loimologia' in Greek] sive Pestis Nuperae apud Populum Londinensem grassantis Narratio Historica, 1672,

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Lot 102

Hodges (Nathaniel) ['Loimologia' in Greek] sive Pestis Nuperae apud Populum Londinensem grassantis Narratio Historica, 1672, London: Joseph Nevill, 12mo, [xxii, incl. blank leaf], folding table of mortality for London for 1665 (staining and some loss, at centrefold) and pp. 246. Lacking first blank prelim., replacement endpapers, some dampstaining, contemporary scuffed binding, rebacked, corners frayed. [with:] Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: with Precautionary Directions against the like Contagion... To which is added, an Essay on the Different Causes of Pestilential Diseases... with Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here, by John Quincy, 1720, London, E. Bell, 8vo; vi, pp.288, lacking folding table, worm trace to lower corner from T2 onwards, contemporary panelled sheep, joints/hinges cracked. The best medical record of the great plague, in the Latin and English translation (2).

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Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood, 1954, Dent, London, 8vo First edition, dust jacket, a little frayed and chipped at spine [&]

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Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood, 1954, Dent, London, 8vo First edition, dust jacket, a little frayed and chipped at spine [&] Adventures in the Skin Trade, 1955, London, Putnam, 8vo First Edition, d.j. designed by Gross-Andre, tear to upper cover. [With:] Rushdie (Salman) The Satanic Verses, large 8vo first edition, 1988, London, Viking, uncorrected advance proof copy, publisher's rubbed wraps; O'Hagan (Andrew) Be Near Me, 2006, limited edition of 50 in full cloth signed by the author, with slipcase; Barnes (Julian) Arthur & George, 2005, London, Cape, number 13 of 125 copies signed by the author with decorated boards, slipcase and Ellroy (James) two first UK editions by Century, My Dark Places [&] American Tabloid, signed by the author, d.j.s, still with Waterstone's Manchester promotional bands and wrapped in cellophane (7).

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Bertram (Charles) Isn't it Wonderful? A History of Magic and Mystery, 1896, London, Swan Sonnenschein, 8vo First Edition, sig

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Bertram (Charles) Isn't it Wonderful? A History of Magic and Mystery, 1896, London, Swan Sonnenschein, 8vo First Edition, signed by Bertram on the frontispiece with his dedication 'To G.H. Adcock Esq with the ''Author's'' kind regards Sep 5th 1902' to titlepage. pp. 300, [2], plus advert leaf, original rubbed and bumped pictorial red cloth gilt, cracked upper hinge, reinforced lower hinge, some weak guttering. T. Wright Adcock bookplate to front pastedown.

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