Pollard, Hugh B C "Game Birds", illustrated by Philip Rickman, Eyre & Spottiswoode and Howard Mifflin, New York 1929, no.18A of an edition limited to 99 copies, each signed by the author and artist, nos. 1A to 35A are reserved for sale in the United States of America, colour frontis with tissue guard, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, it appears that one plate may be missing or something extra was put in, please see images of ffep with tissue guard, quarter vellum over brown buckram, gilt titles, deckle edges, t.e.g., "Game Birds ...", illustrated by Philip Rickman, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1929, colour plates with tissue guards, green cloth, the backstrip is faded, "The Gunroom Guide", illustrated by Philip Rickman and H Frank Wallace, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Houghton Mithlin 1930, no.22 of a limited edition of 225 copies signed by the author, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, quarter vellum, gilt title to backstrip, the vellum has a little soiling, brown boards, corners a little bruised, "The Gunroom Guide", illustrated by Philip Rickman and H Frank Wallace, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Howard Mithlin 1930, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, half green morocco over brown buckram boards, gilt titles and decorations with raised bands to the backstrip (4)
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Fleming, C A "George Edward Lodge Unpublished Bird Paintings", Michael Joseph 1983, colour plates, quarter buckram over leather (faux?), dust wrapper price clipped Jackson, C E "Bird Illustrators", HF & G Witherby Limited 1975, dust wrapper Arlott, Norman "Bird Paintings", dust wrapper Bain, Iain (ed), "The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick ...", Gordon Frazer 1981, 2 vols Lansdown/Livingstone "Birds of the Northern Forest" Bond, Terence James "Birds" "Classic Natural History Prints Birds" Peterson, Roger Tory (intro) "The Bird Illustrated 1550-1900 from the Collections of the New York Public Library", 1988, dust wrapper Lodge, George E "Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist", Gurney & Jackson 1946, colour plates with tissue guards, some foxing, dark green cloth, dust wrapper price clipped Hill, David (ed) "Turner's Birds", Phaidon 1988, dust wrapper Tate, Peter "A Century of Bird Books", HF & G Witherby Ltd 1979, dust wrapper Talbot, Kelly R B "Bird Life and the Painter", Studio Publications 1955, dust wrapper "The Great Bird Illustrators and their Art 1730-1930", Hamlyn Jackson, C E "Bird Painting, The Eighteenth Century", Antique Collectors' Club (15)
Rickman, Philip "A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches", foreword by HRH Duke of Edinburgh KGKT, 1979 for Fine Sporting Interests Ltd, no.480 of 500 copies signed by the artist, colour plates with tissue guards, pencil drawings throughout, half green crushed morocco, gilt decorations, raised bands, gilt rules, gilt ducks to the front board, marbled ep, a.e.g., within its original green slip case
Attwell, Mabel Lucie (ills) "Grimm's Fairytales", Raphael Tuck & Sons, numerous colour plates and nine drawings, some of which have been drawn over, pictorial boards "Alice in Wonderland", Raphael Tuck, numerous colour plates and illustrations through the text, front board detaching and there is loss to the pictorial boards Tarrant, Margaret W (ills) "Nursery Rhymes", Ward Locke & Co, 10th edition, numerous colour plates throughout, slight foxing to text, pictorial pastedown to front board with black titles "Alice in Wonderland", Ward Locke & Co, numerous colour plates, pictorial ep, slight foxing, pictorial pastedown to front board and black titles (4)
Grey, Nicolete "The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones", Gordon Fraser Gallery Ltd 1981, colour and other plates, dark green ep, quarter mustard coloured buckram over marbled boards, dust wrapper and a small catalogue for David Jones 1895-1974, Wolseley Fine Arts Ltd, November and December 1999
Assorted volumes to include "Jones' Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland....", published by Jones & Co. 1829, 3 vols, engraved plates, marbled endpapers, half leather with gilt titles and decorations to the back strip, marbled boards, Milne A.A. "Now We are Six" Methuen & Co. 1927, binding loose, red cloth stained, corners bruised and bent, foxed, "John Bellows - A Centenary Tribute 1831-1931", privately printed, blue boards, Lambert Miss, "The Hand-book of Needlework" [Charles MacKenzie], "Natural History" ills throughout, poor condition, Vernon, George, Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire "The Life of ...Dr Peter Heylyn, Chaplain to Charles I and Charles II.....", printed for C. Harper 1682, front hinge cracked, contemporary full speckled leather, small 8 vol. and "The Works of Aristotle....His Complete Masterpiece....", printed for Miller, Law and Carter, contemporary full leather, O'Connor, Violet and Armel "Peace-Makers.." Mary's Meadow Series no IX, limp covers, loose, Gambier-Parry Mark "Highnam Memoranda" typed manuscript bound for the author (12)
Pollard, H B C and Barclay-Smith, Phyllis, Rickman, Philip (ills) "British and American Game-Birds", with a chapter on shooting in America by Eugene V Connett, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945, no.87 of 125 numbered copies, with a pencil 'remarqe' by the artist on the limitation page, deckle edges, quarter brown leather over brown boards, with gilt titles, the corners are bruised Rickman, Philip "A Bird-Painter's Sketchbook", Eyre & Spottiswoode 1931, no.16 of an edition limited to 125 copies, foxing to ep, pencil drawing initialled by the artist "Pintail" on the margin of the frontis, plates, coloured plates with lettered tissue guards, foxing to ep, quarter vellum over blue boards, gilt titles to backstrip, slight shelf wear and bruised corners (2)
Ornithology relating to South Africa to include:- "The Bird Paintings of C G Finch-Davies", Winchester Press, Johannesburg 1984, vol 1946 of 4700 subscribers' volumes, the whole limited to 5026, colour plates, pictorial pastedown to front board, elephant folio within its original slip case Fennessy (ills) "Birds of the African Bush", Tryon Gallery, Collins 1975, no.247 of 295 copies signed by the artist and author Leslie Brown, colour plates, marbled ep, full leather within green slip case Bannerman, David A "The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa", Oliver and Boyd 1953, 2 vols, dust wrappers Clancey "The Birds of Natal and Zulu Land", Oliver & Boyd 1964, dust wrapper Fennessy, Rena "Birds of the African Bush", dust wrapper Clancey, P A "The Rare Birds of Southern Africa", Winchester Press 1985, dust wrapper and other related volumes (2 boxes)
![[Thorburn, Archibald ] "Thorburn's Birds of Prey" facsimile of 1919 edition, Major Iain Grahame , Sporting and Natural H](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/32bd5996-11d6-42f5-8649-b1c500ad02e4/cac8ec9c-83df-4f72-b2e8-b1ed00b29664/468x382.jpg)
[Thorburn, Archibald ] "Thorburn's Birds of Prey" facsimile of 1919 edition, Major Iain Grahame , Sporting and Natural History Books, Lamarsh, Suffolk, 1985, no 7 of 15 numbered copies, col. plates, deckle edges, marbled paper endpapers, full dark green crushed morocco, gilt borders to the back and front boards, t.e.g., gilt signature on front board, with original slip case
Harrison, J C (ills) "The Game Birds of the British Isles", text by Colin Laurie McKelvie, memoir by the Hon Aylmer Tryon, Ashford Press Publishing in association with J C Harrison Ltd, 1989, limited edition the letter I of 25 copies individually lettered A-Z which are bound in full leather and include an original painting by J C Harrison, colour plates with tissue guards, marbled ep, full maroon crushed morocco with gilt dentelles, gilt titles and raised bands to backstrip, gilt titles on front board, silk ribbon marker within original fitted box with velvet interior, 44.5cm x 32.5cm
Baker, E C Stuart "Indian Ducks and their Allies", published the Bombay Natural History Society 1908, colour plates, some slight foxing, half title, marbled ep, half morocco over green boards, gilt titles and raised bands to backstrip which is slightly faded, t.e.g. Stuart Baker E C "Indian Pigeons and Doves", Witherby & Co 1913, colour frontis with tissue guard, colour plates, marbled ep, inked name on ffep dated March 1914, bound similarly to previous book Stuart Baker E C "Indian Ducks and their Allies", published in the Bombay Natural History Society's Journal 1898 to 1900, colour plates, some slight water damage to some of the plates but not affecting the picture, front hinge cracked with the mute swan plate separating and the ep separating, signed on ffep with the author's compliments E C Stuart Baker, quarter red leather over black boards, gilt titles, all rather bumped and worn (3)
Clarendon, The Hon Hugh "A New and Authentic History of England ...", printed for J Cook, folding map, frontis engraved plates, rebacked with contemporary marble boards and quarter leather laid down Burke, Edmond "Reflections on the Revolution in France ...", 2nd edition printed for J Dodsley 1790, contemporary marble boards, half leather but loss and worn Goldsmith, Oliver "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature", 2 vols, Blackie & Son 1876, colour frontis, numerous engraved plates, contemporary half leather, rather bumped and worn (5)
Cookery Raffald, Elizabeth "The Experienced Housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, etc ... dedicated to the Honourable Lady Elizabeth Warburton ..." London, published and sold by the booksellers and by T Wilson and R Spence, York 1805, new edition, frontis engraved portrait, three folding plates, offsetting to tp from the frontis, the first folding plate has extended the edges and is slightly creased, rebacked contemporary tree calf laid down, leather pastedown titles to backstrip [Rundell, Maria Elizabeth] "The Art of Cookery, made plain and easy ... by a lady", new edition London published for W Strahan, etc 1777, the boards are detached, ep and half title missing, some worm damage Glasse, Mrs "The Complete Art of Cookery ...", published and sold by Jones & Company circa 1840's, contemporary hand ink inscription on ffep, small 8vo, part of the backstrip is missing, the boards with titles Rhys, Marjorie "High Class Cookery", Longmans Green & Co 1928, blue cloth, dust wrapper price clipped [Rundell, Maria Elizabeth] "A New System of Domestic Cookery ... use of private families by a lady", John Murray 1837, engraved frontis, engraved plates, some damp damage throughout, contemporary full leather Denman, James L "The Vine and its Fruit ...", 2nd edition, Longmans Green & Co 1875, folding colour map frontis and another folding colour map, half morocco over boards, gilt rules, gilt titles, backstrip a little rubbed and bumped, t.e.g. (6)
Rackham, Arthur (ills) "Irish Fairytales", by James Stephens, Macmillan & Co 1920, colour plates with tissue guards, illustrations throughout text, inked inscription and dedication dated 1921, green cloth, gilt titles, backstrip is faded and corners bumped "A Dish of Apples", by Eden Phillpotts, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., colour frontis tipped in with tissue guard, illustrations throughout and two other colour plates with tissue guards, pale purple pictorial cloth, wear and red stain to the front board (2)
Carroll, Lewis (Dodgson , Charles Lutwidge) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Centenary Edition illustrated by Gwynedd M Hudson, colour plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, illustrations throughout, pictorial ep, some offsetting, original publishers red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, shelfwear, "Through the Looking Glass", a Puffin story book 1948, "The Hunting of the Snark", illustrated by Henry Holliday, Macmillan & Co 1899, red gilt pictorial cloth, some damage to the backstrip, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Macmillan 1917, pictorial cloth Morris, Frankie "Artist of Wonderland the Life, Political Cartoons and Illustrations of Tenniel", Lutterworth Press 2005, dust wrapper, "Songs from Alice in Wonderland", music by H Frazer Simpson with an introduction by A A Milne, Methuen & Co, six framed plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and related volumes (1 box)
![[Spenser, Edmund] "The Faerie Queene", Cambridge University Press 1909, facsimile of the publication of 1596, this edition is](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/32bd5996-11d6-42f5-8649-b1c500ad02e4/a7aa1213-5c54-48a5-9c3d-b1ed00b05144/468x382.jpg)
[Spenser, Edmund] "The Faerie Queene", Cambridge University Press 1909, facsimile of the publication of 1596, this edition is 1 of 350 copies on handmade paper, not numbered, 2 vols uncut, quarter buckram over mottled boards Malory, Sir Thomas "Le Morte d'Arthur", this edition printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, London for the Limited Editions Club, New York 1936, 3 vols, illustrated by Robert Gibbings, quarter buckram over paper boards within original slip case Walpole, Horace "The Castle of O'Tranto - a Gothic Story", Westerham printed for members of the Limited Editions Club 1975, this is no.1964 of 2000 copies, signed by WS Lewis, various illustrated plates, quarter leather over paper boards with gilt initials HW and LBC, gilt titles, decorations and original slip case (6)
Fairytales - Hodgson Burnett, Frances "A Little Princess being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time", Frederick Warne & Co 1905, illustrations in colour by Harold Piffard, colour frontis with tissue guard, colour plates, one is loose, the binding is loose, pictorial ep with an inked name dated September 1906, green cloth, pictorial pastedown to front board, glit titles and decorations, the whole book is cocked with corners bumped and rubbed and slight foxing throughout Laing, Andrew "The Yellow Fairy Book", Longmans Green & Co 1894, plates and illustrations, foxed throughout, the gilt illustrated boards are faded, corners bumped, a.e.g. Barker, Cicely M "The Book of Flower Fairies", Blackie & Son, colour plates throughout, prize plate on ffep dated 1953, green cloth with gilt titles Robinson, Charles (ills) "Father Time Stories" Thurston, E Temple "The City of Beautiful Nonsense", Chapman & Hall 1910, illustrations by Emile Verpilleux and related volumes (17)
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham "The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York - Third Edition with many additions and corrections..." Leeds - Joseph Dodgson, London Cassell Petter & Galpin 1878, frontis portrait with tissue guard, col half title, maps, sepia tinted plates, folding plates, book plate inside front board for George Bertram Holdsworth, Catteral Hall, Giggleswick, marbled end-papers, original publishers full leather, panelled, gilt tiles and black rules, t.e.g., folio
Medland, Lillian (ills), Iredale, Tom "Birds of New Guinea", Georgian House, Melbourne 1956, numerous colour plates, half leather over buckram boards, gilt titles to backstrip, t.e.g., 2 vols within a fitted slip case Cooper, William T (ills) and Forshaw, Joseph M "The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds", David R Godine, Boston 1979, numerous colour plates and other illustrations, buckram boards with gilt titles to backstrip, top and tail of backstrip a little bruised, dust wrapper within its original titled slip case (2)
A Tailors Reference Book of Regimental Colours, Public Schools, University, Club and Regimental Colours, University Colleges and Clubs, etc to include Oxford, Cambridge, London Hospitals, etc Thornton, J P "The International System of Garment Cutting, including coats, trousers, breeches and vests ...", The Thornton Institute, 6th edition, n.d., frontis photographic portrait, plates and illustrations throughout, the front board and backstrip are detaching Couts, Joseph "A Practical Guide for the Tailor's Cutting-Room ...", Blackie & Son, diagrams for cutting patterns of various outfits to include Highland Costumes, Sporting Dresses, Capes and Cloaks, Children's Dresses and various coloured fashion plates mainly of gentleman and black and white plates, contemporary full leather, front and back boards detached, backstrip missing (3)
Thomson, Hugh "She Stoops to Conquer ...", by Oliver Goldsmith, Hodder & Stoughton, no.293 of 350 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, colour plates tipped in, full vellum with elaborate gilt decorations of roses, floral decoration and titles, with gilt and blue rules, ribbon ties not present Baumer, Lewis (ills) "Vanity Fair", Hodder & Stoughton, colour frontis tipped in, colour plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, buckram with gilt titles and pictorial pastedown to front board Reynolds, Frank (ills) "The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens", Hodder & Stoughton, colour frontis tipped in, colour plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, red cloth with gilt titles Spencer Pryse, G ( ills.) "The History of Tom Jones ..., by Henry Fielding Esq" by John Lane, the Bodley Head 1930, plates, pictorial ep, purple cloth with pictorial gilt front board and gilt titles, glassine cover Robinson, Charles (ills) "The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes edited by Walter Gerrold", Blackie & Son, colour plates, red blindstamped front cloth with blindstamped front board and gilt titles to backstrip Austen, John (ills) "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy ...", John Lane, the Bodley Head 1928, illustrations throughout, bkpl inside front board, decorated ep, gilt decorated black cloth "Souvenir of the First Anniversary Performance in London of the Universally Popular Play with Music, the Merry Widow ...", William Heinemann 1908, colour plates tipped in, pictorial boards (7)
Pogany, Willy (ills) "The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita ...", translated from the Sanskrit text by Sir Edwin Arnold, David McKay Company 1934, black and white plates throughout, pictorial boards with silver frame, glassine cover, "The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation" by Sir Edwin Arnold, David McKay 1932, numerous black and white plates throughout, pencil comments on ffep, pictorial cloth with silver frame, "The Mimes of the Courtesans, Lucian", privately printed the Press of Classic Lore 1928, illustrated by Charles Cullen, no.630/1050 autographed copies by the artist, marbled ep, deckled edges, quarter vellum with blue boards and "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" [1972], numerous colour plates, decorations, the text in English and Arabic, library plate, mottled boards with gilt titles (4)
GB Stamps: Large 60-page ‘PRINZ’ A4 stock book over 2/3rds full of QV used line engraved from 1/2d red to 2d blue including first 1840s issues, with 1d blacks, red and black Maltese Cross, seen. 1d red plate numbered issues from 71-224, all halfpenny plates less 9, most 2d plates with perforation variations, large range of postmark interest with cuts and covers from all regions including Ireland, with specifics such as Channel Isles, various Edinburgh Brunswick Stars, ‘shoe’ and late fee cancels plus covers and Mulready 1d front, numeric ‘8’, Ivory head, perforation and watermark varieties, good lot, needs to be seen to be fully appreciated, 100s with SG cat in £1000s.
Robjent, Richard (ills) and McKelvie, Colin Laurie "The Partridge Studies in Words and Pictures", Fine Sporting Interest Ltd, Holt, Norfolk 1993, no.109 signed by the artist and the author, with an original sepia drawing by Richard Robjent on the limitation page, colour plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, marbled ep, half blue crushed morocco with gilt decorations, gilt titles and raised bands to the backstrip, gilt partridges to front board, t.e.g., in original slip case also in original white numbered box, "The Snipe in Studies in Words and Pictures", Fine Sporting Interest Ltd 1989, no.151 of 300 copies with original sepia drawing on the limitation page, marbled ep, half black crushed morocco over green boards, gilt decorations, titles and raised bands and gilt snipe to front board with a signed letter by the artist Richard Robjent dated 1998, "The Pheasant in Studies in Words and Pictures", forward by the Duke of Wellington KG LVO OBE MC, Fine Sporting Interests Ltd 1995, no.109 of 300 copies signed by the artist and author, with a sepia drawing on the limitation page, marbled ep, half red crushed morocco over red boards, gilt decorations, gilt titles and raised bands, gilt pheasants on the front board, in original red slip case with original white fitted cardboard box, "The Woodcock study in Words and Pictures", Fine Sporting Interests 1988, no.151 signed by the author and artist, one of 300 copies with an original sepia drawing by Richard Robjent on the limitation page, marbled ep, half brown morocco over brown buckram boards, gilt decorations, titles and raised bands to backstrip, t.e.g., gilt partridge on front board, with original brown slip case and original white cardboard box, "The Grouse Studies in Words and Pictures", Fine Sporting Interests 1991, colour plates tipped in with lettered tissue guard, coloured frontis with lettered tissue guard, no.154 of 300 copies signed by the author and the artist with an original sepia drawing on the limitation page, marbled ep, half maroon crushed morocco, gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to backstrip, gilt grouse on front board with original grey slip case and original white cardboard protective box
Simpson, John "A Complete System of Cookery on a Plan Entirely New ... including several entertainments given to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...", printed for W Stewart, etc 1816, deckle edges, rebound, quarter brown leather with gilt titles and rules and tooled decoration over marbled boards Henderson, W A "The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook ... to which is added the complete art of carving ...", corrected and revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie, printed and sold by J Stratford 1805, engraved frontis portrait of Schnebbelie, various engraved plates with two folding plates, 1805 catalogue of new books at the back, rebound brown leather with gilt titles and decorations to backstrip, marbled ep (2)
Brown, Leslie and Amadon, Dean "Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World", Country Life Books 1968, 2 vols, colour plates and other illustrations, brown cloth with gilt pictorial front board, gilt titles, both volumes within a fitted pictorial slip case Tunnicliffe, C F "The Peregrine Sketchbook", Excellent Press 1996, colour plates and other illustrations, maroon cloth, dust wrapper not price clipped Boyer, Trevor (ills) "Birds of Prey", Gallery Books 1989, colour plates and other illustrations, green cloth, dust wrapper not price clipped Parry, Gareth and Putman, Rory "Birds of Prey", Simon & Schuster 1979, colour plates and maps, etc, blue cloth, Henry Southeran Bookseller label, dust wrapper (4)
Mannering, Eva "Mr Gould's Tropical Birds", the Ariel Press, this is no.229 of 1,000 copies, 1955, colour plates, marbled paper boards with titles and a matching slip case, 47cm x 33cm and another copy, not limited edition, with paper boards The Natural History Museum Library "Ducks", illustrated by John Gould, Alexander Wilson and J J Audubon, Wordsworth editions 1991 Hammond, Nicholas "20th Century Wildlife Artists", 2 copies, "John Gould's Birds", Chartwell Books Inc. 1981, colour plates, dust wrapper not price clipped Wordsworth editions "Complete Illustrated Thorburn's Birds ..." 1989, numerous colour plates, green cloth, dust wrapper not price clipped Fisher, James (ed) "Thorburn's Birds", Ebury Press 1967, dust wrapper and "Works by Archibald Thorburn from the Thorburn Museum, Sothebys, 31st March 1993 hardback catalogue" with dust wrapper (9)
Sitwell, Sacheverell, Buchanan Handasyde and Fisher, James "Fine Bird Books 1700-1900", Collins and Van Nostrand 1953, limited edition no.236 of 295 numbered copies which have been printed on pannekoek mould made paper, the binding executed by Mansell of London, text pages have been printed by the Chiswick Press, London, the plates printed in 8-colour photo-litho offset and collotype monochrome by Van Leer of Amsterdam, signed by the three authors, pictorial ep showing bird feathers, half red crushed morocco over marbled boards within a marbled board original slip case, this has a little wear and another copy of the book, published by H F & G Witherby Ltd 1953, black cloth, dust wrapper price clipped, 50cm x 35cm (2)
Pledger, Maurice (ills), Coles, Charles (written by) "Game Birds", Collins 1981, no.3 of 250 copies signed by artist and author, colour plates, quarter green crushed morocco over blue/black boards, gilt title and raised bands to backstrip, t.e.g., 23cm x 30.5cm and another copy dated 1981, red boards with gilt title and decoration to front board, dust wrapper not price clipped, within a card slip case (2)
![[Combe, William] "The Tour of Dr. Syntax.... In Search of the Picturesque, In Search of Consolation, and In Search of a Wife](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/32bd5996-11d6-42f5-8649-b1c500ad02e4/ce79a3a2-6c1e-4359-a042-b1ed00ab9a54/468x382.jpg)
[Combe, William] "The Tour of Dr. Syntax.... In Search of the Picturesque, In Search of Consolation, and In Search of a Wife ..." 3 vols, Natali and Bond, Ninth Edition, ills by T. Rowlandson, coloured plates in each vol. original blind stamped green cloth, loss and worn, Pennant, Thomas "Tours of Wales.." Printed for Wilkie and Robinson etc. 1810, three vols, engraved plates, two folding, library label and pocket at the back of vol.II, no lib stamps in text, full calf with gilt rules, worn and rubbed, marbled endpapers and edges, with Richards, Thomas "Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus - being a British or Welsh-English Dictionary...." Bristol Felix Farley....1759, contemporary leather which has been repaired with white tape (7)
![[Thorburn, Archibald ] "Thorburn's Birds of Prey" facsimile of 1919 edition, Major Iain Grahame , Sporting and Natural Histor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/32bd5996-11d6-42f5-8649-b1c500ad02e4/f27ff380-6169-493b-80c6-b1ed00b28ab3/468x382.jpg)
[Thorburn, Archibald ] "Thorburn's Birds of Prey" facsimile of 1919 edition, Major Iain Grahame , Sporting and Natural History Books, Lamarsh, Suffolk, 1985, no 118 of 135, col. plates, deckle edges, marbled paper endpapers,, half dark green crushed morocco over dark green boards, gilt rules, t.e.g., gilt signature on front board, with original slip case
Lear, Edward "Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots" 1978, Pion Ltd, London, Johnson Reprint Corporation, this is no.76 of 530 copies, colour plates, half crushed maroon morocco over buckram boards, raised bands, gilt titles to the backstrip, the front board and ep are separating, the leaflets for the Johnson Reprint Corporation/Pion Ltd present, 54.5cm x 36cm and Taschen Reprint The Birds of Edward Lear , loose plates within a folio "The Birds of Edward Lear", Aerial Press, with card slip case Reid, Brian "Edward Lear's Parrots", Duckworth 1949, colour plates, pictorial boards, dust wrapper rather soiled "The Collectors Portfolio of Lear's Parrots", 12 reproduction antique prints by Edward Lear, within half leather over marbled boards, small folio with ribbon ties Hyman, Susan "Edward Lear's Birds", the Well Fleet Press 1980, colour plates and other illustrations, blue boards, dust wrapper (6)
Arnold, E C "British Waders", Cambridge University Press 1924, no.17 of 50 signed copies, 45 of which for sale signed by the author and illustrator, colour plates with lettered tissue guards to vellum over blue boards, gilt bird decoration to front board, pastedown title to vellum backstrip, t.e.g., deckle edges and another copy dated 1924, red cloth with gilt titles and rules (2)
Rackham, Arthur (ills.) "The Ingoldsby Legends - Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby" Dent & Co. 1907, large paper edition no 459 of 560, signed by the artist, col. plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, there is worm damage to the limitation page, front hinge cracked, full vellum with gilt titles, ribbon ties missing, teg, toning to edges, with Goble, Warwick (ills.) James, Grace "Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales" , MacMillan and Co. 1910. Edition de Luxe, col plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, hinges cracked, foxing to endpapers, full mottled vellum with gilt titles and gilt figure of a Japanese girl, teg. (2)
Chalmers, Patrick R and Austen, Winifred (ills) "Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore", 48 Pall Mall, Collins 1935, no.82 of 150 copies each signed by the author and artist, colour plates and other illustrations, green calf over green boards, backstrip brown calf with gilt titles, another copy, unnumbered but signed by author and artist, blue cloth with gilt titles Forshaw, Joseph M and Cooper, William T (ills) "Parrots of the World", David and Charles Fisher & Peterson "The World of Birds", Thoreau, Power, Elaine "New Zealand Water Birds and Artist's Journal" Johnsgard, Paul A "The Grouse of the World", dust wrapper, "The Quails, Partridges and Francolins of the World" Frith "Pigeons and Doves of Australia", and many related volumes (2 boxes)
Amuchastegui, Axel "Some Birds and Mammals of Africa", descriptive text by Hillary Hook, the Tryon Gallery, this is no.35 of 505 copies signed by the artist, colour plates with tissue guards, two leaflets for advertising the book, quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt signature to front board and gilt titles, t.e.g., elephant folio with original slip case, 54cm x 36cm
Robjent, Richard (ills), Martin, Brian P (text) "Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles, studies in words and pictures", Fine Sporting Interests Ltd, Holt, Norfolk 1999, no.109 of a limited edition of 350 copies signed by the artist and the author, with an original sepia drawing by Richard Robjent on the limitation page, tipped in coloured plates with lettered tissue guards, marbled ep, half blue crushed morocco with gilt decorations, gilt ducks to front board, gilt decorations, titles and raised bands to the backstrip, t.e.g., with original blue decorated slip case
Rickman, Philip (written and illustrated by) "A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches", published by Cur Potten Ltd for Fine Sporting Interests Ltd, forward by HRH Duke of Edinburgh KGKT 1979, numerous tipped in colour plates with tissue guards, printed pencil illustrations throughout the text, no.468 of 500 copies signed by the artist, Philip Rickman, hand marbled ep, half green crushed morocco with gilt decorated rules, gilt decorations to backstrip and titles, raised bands, gilt pictorial ducks to front board within a.e.g., with original green slip case
Ornithology Schmitt, Stephane with Cremiere, Cedric (ed) "All the World's Birds - Buffon Illustrated National History General and Particular of Birds", Rizzoli 2008, colour plates, green cloth, dust wrapper, in pictorial slip case [Descourtilz, T H] "Beija - Flores do Brasil", Rio De Janiro 1960, colour plates, text in Spanish, quarter blue leather over blue textured boards Sick, Helmut "Ornitologia Brasileira", 2 vols, Editorial Universidad de Brasilia 1984 Hiroshige "Birds and Flowers", 1988, dust wrapper Cook, Katrina "Birds", Quercus, colour plates with text, red ep, white cloth, dust wrapper Eckhout, Albert "Birds of Brazil", Agir 1970, loose plates within a limp folder "Chinese Bird Paintings", 2 copies of "Exotic Birds", Andre Deutsch 1963, limp covers Fisher, James and Peterson, Roger Tory "The World of Birds ...", MacDonald 1964, numerous illustrations, pictorial ep, red crushed morocco with gilt titles to backstrip, 2 vols of "Pageantry of Tropical Birds" in original slip cases and "The Birds of D G Elliot", The Ariel Press, within a card slip case (all of these books are oversized and extremely heavy) (14)
Harrison, J C (ills) "The Birds of Prey of the British Islands", descriptive text by David Evans, Fine Bird Books 1980, no.203 of a limited edition of 275 copies signed by the artist and the author, with a pencil sketch signed by the artist on the limitation page, colour plates, pictorial ep showing various birds in flight, two pamphlets from Fine Bird Books and an exhibition pamphlet for the Tryon Gallery and the Moreland Gallery, half calf over linen boards within a linen backed slip case, t.e.g., 52cm x 41.5cm
Millais J.G. - "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GAME BIRDS "- Longmans, Green and Co. 1909, folio, limited edition of 550, number 64, numerous colour plates by author & Thorburn. Longman Green & Co, London. Quarter dark maroon buckram with maroon buckram boards, top edge gilt, with brown paper dustwrapper, which is chipped, slight fading to the backstrip - see image, off setting on endpapers
"The John James Audubon Portfolio", 588 of 2,500 of this edition of the John James Audubon Portfolio, all held within a clamshell box Davidson, Marshall B (intro) "The Original Water-Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America", published by Michael Joseph and the Connoisseur 1966, 2 vols, marbled ep, brown cloth with pastedown initials on front boards, marbled paper slip case with silk ribbon marker for retrieving the books from the case "The Birds of America by John James Audubon", Macmillan & Co 1937, colour plates, green cloth with gilt title and decorations to front board Peterson, Roger Tory and Peterson, Virginia Marie "Audubon's Birds of America", Abbeyville Press Publishers - The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio, published in 1990, colour plates, cream cloth with blue titles to backstrip, dust wrapper, within a pictorial slip case and various other related Audubon publications (13)
Various volumes to include:- Laing, A "The Library ...with a chapter on modern English illustrated books by Austin Dobson", London, Macmillan 1881, blue cloth and two other copies dated 1892 and 1881 Millais, John Guille "The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais", Methuen 1902, 3rd edition, 2 vols, numerous illustrations and plates throughout, blue cloth with Art Nouveau-style gilt decorations and titles to the front boards Wright, Andrew and Trice-Martin, Charles "Court-Hand Restored ...", plates with tissue guards, library plates inside front board, cream cloth, The Book Man Christmas 1918, Hodder & Stoughton, colour frontis tipped in by Arthur Rackham, creased, other illustrations to include Jessie Wilcox-Smith and others, photographic portrait studies of serving officers, red cloth Brangwyn, Frank "Belgium", London Keegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1916, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout and other volumes
Mee, Margaret " Flowers of the Brazilian Forests" The Tryon Gallery in Association with George Rainbird 1968, no 347 of 500 limited edition, col plates with tissue guards, quarter green leather over hand marbled paper boards, 54 x 40 cm. with green slip case, Walford James F. "A Book of Orchid Paintings" number 192 of 490 singed by the author. col.plates, quarter vellum over green boards with green slip case, Johnson Reprint Corporation "John Lindley Sertum Orchidaceum" , no 451 of 1000 copies, col plates, green boards with gilt titles, 50cm x 35 cm, and three other related volumes on orchids (6)
Perrott, C L E "A Selection of British Birds Part 1", facsimile reprint, The Scolar Press 1979, elephant folio, colour plates with tissue guards, this is no.24 of a facsimile edition limited to 250 copies, brown goatskin over hand marbled paper, with similarly bound prospectus, all within a quarter goatskin clamshell box Walpole-Bond, John "A History of Sussex Birds in Three Volumes", colour plates by Philip Rickman, HF & G Witherby Ltd 1938, brown boards, gilt titles to backstrip, all three with dust wrappers which have a pictorial pastedown to the front cover Borrer, William "The Birds of Sussex", RH Porter 1891, colour frontis with tissue guard, folding map, colour plates with tissue guards, frontis and ffep loose, red cloth with gilt titles Balston, R J, Shepherd, Rev C W and Bartlett, E "Notes on the Birds of Kent", RH Porter 1907, photographic plates, folding map at the end of the vol, 2 copies, green cloth, one bearing two bkpl and three other volumes (10)
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[Ching, Raymond] "Raymond Ching the Bird Paintings, watercolours and pencil drawings/1969 to 1975", text by David Snow, A H Chisholm and M F Soper, Collins, the Tryon Gallery, no.337 of a limited edition of 360 copies numbered and signed by the artist, each copy contains a special frontis piece entitled 'Kingfisher Taken from a Watercolour Painted by the Artist in 1975" and each copy includes a signed print of 'Fledgling Owl' from the collection of the artist and available only in editions no.1-360, black and white and colour plates throughout, pictorial ep showing bird feathers, full brown crushed morocco with gilt titles to the backstrip, a.e.g. within its original card slip case and a silk ribbon to retrieve the book from the slip case which has a leather pastedown with gilt initials to the front board, 48cm x 34cm, binding by Zaehnsdorf with another copy published by Collins 1978, colour plates, buckram boards with gilt titles to backstrip, dust wrapper within a pictorial slip case, 48cm x 33.5cm (2)
Large group of ceramics, including a Victorian imari pattern teaset, pair of cups and saucers with plates and one other cup and saucer, a late Victorian dessert service with floral panels, together with another decorated with ivy swags, a 19th century Derby porcelain tureen and cover (cracked), another blue and white tureen and a Victorian teaset
Part service of early 19th century Spode ironstone, with printed and coloured Chinoiserie decoration, including three graduated platters, two serving dishes, and plates of various sizesTwo plates and one side plate are repaired, and the large platter has a staple repair in the corner. There are signs of quite heavy use, in terms of glaze scratching to the plates.
Edward Backhouse Jnr. (1808-1879), bound collection of etchings of birds, circa 1840, with index listing the 32 plates. Bound in full calf by Dresser & Sons of Darlington, in fine condition. NB: Edward Backhouse Jnr. was the son of Edward Backhouse (1781-1860) philanthropist and founder of the Sunderland branch of the Backhouse Bank, his uncle, Jonathan Backhouse (1779-1842) is famed for his backing of the Stockton to Darlington railway. This privately published book is very rare; only about half a dozen copies are known and every copy varies, it is not in the British Library, this copy is by family descent from the Backhouse familyNo title page. Contents complete as specified in the index. Some cracking to leather binding, particularly the spine, contents generally in good condition with very minor time staining
Very extensive service of late 18th century blue and white Tournai porcelain, decorated with floral sprays in the Chinese style, with moulded decoration to edges, approximately 160 pieces, comprising plates of various sizes, gravy boat, pair of tureens, and serving dishes of round and oval form
Collection of Wedgwood and other green glazed leaf plates, 20cm diameter (16)Please note only 5 of the plates are stamped Wedgwood (the back 5 in the main image). Of these 5, one has a hairline crack, one has glaze wear to the front, and another has glaze wear to the front and two rim chips.
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