Mrs Dalgairns, The Practice of Cookery & The Instructive Picture Book
lot 54 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Mrs Dalgairns, The Practice of Cookery, Adapted to the Business of Every Day Life, 4th ed , Edinburgh 1831, half calf, 17x11cm; Edmonston & Douglas (Qty: 2) ... read more
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Letters and Memoirs, including Horace Walpole
lot 55 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Horace Walpole, Letters from The Honorable Horace Walpole to The Earl of Hertford, during his Lordship's Embassy in Paris, London 1825, rebound half (Qty: 13) ... read more
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John Throsby, Select Views in Leicestershire
lot 56 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Throsby, Select Views in Leicestershire, in 2 vols, London 1791, bookplate of Sydney Ansell Gimson, half calf. (Qty: 2)
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John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
lot 57 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, in 4 vols bound in 8, London, printed by and for John Nichols, 1795-1811, (Qty: 8) ... read more
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John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of Hinckley
lot 58 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of Hinckley, in the County of Leicester, London, for the author, 1792, with a folding plan to the town of (Qty: 1) ... read more
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John Morton, The Natural History of Northampton-Shire
lot 59 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Morton, The Natural History of Northampton-Shire, with some account of the antiquities, London 1712, with folded map and plates, repaired old ... read more
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John Morton, The Natural History of Northamptonshire
lot 60 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Morton, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, with accounts of the antiquities, London 1712, facsimile frontis, County map bound in, rebound, ... read more
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lot 61 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Edwin Carton Booth, Australia, in two vols, London 1870's, half-calf, 28x23cm.
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Thomas Fisher, Ancient Allegorical, Historical and Legendary Paintings
lot 62 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Thomas Fisher, Ancient Allegorical, Historical and Legendary Paintings, in Fresco, Discovered in the Summer of 1804, on the Walls of the Chapel of ... read more
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William Anderson, The Pictorial Arts of Japan
lot 63 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
William Anderson, The Pictorial Arts of Japan, London 1886, signed by the author, seemingly an unnumbered artist's proof copy, photolitho plates, ... read more
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Randolph Caldecott's Graphic Pictures & four others
lot 64 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Randolph Caldecott, Randolph Caldecott's Graphic Pictures, London, 1883, chromolithographic plates, original printed boards, obverse folio, (Qty: 5) ... read more
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Payne's Orbis Pictus or Book of Beauty for Every Table & other works
lot 65 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
[A H Payne], Payne's Orbis Pictus or Book of Beauty for Every Table, Dresden & Leipzig [1851], half calf, 4to, 28x23cm; The Vanity Fair Album, volume (Qty: 9) ... read more
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book & Le Morte d'Arthur
lot 66 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book, Hodder & Stoughton Limited [n.d.], illustrated by Arthur Rackham, tooled cloth, 25x20cm; and Sir Thomas Malory, (Qty: 3) ... read more
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Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
lot 67 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Everyday Story, in 2 vols, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866, illustrated by George Du Maurier, 8vo, green half (Qty: 4) ... read more
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Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte and Scott's Kenilworth
lot 68 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, in 2 vols, London 1857, half calf, 8vo; [Sir Walter Scott], Kenilworth, in 3 vols, Edinburgh (Qty: 5) ... read more
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John Leech, Pictures of Life and Character
lot 69 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Leech, Pictures of Life and Character, four vols, bound as two, 1857-63, green calf, spines with cloth boards, obverso folio, 31x45cm.
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John M'Leod, Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty’s Late Ship Alceste to The Yellow Sea
lot 70 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John M'Leod, Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty’s Late Ship Alceste to The Yellow Sea, Along the Coast of Corea, London 1817, calf, 22x14cm.
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John Coney, Ecclesiastical Edifices of The Olden Time
lot 71 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Coney, Ecclesiastical Edifices of The Olden Time, a series of etchings with ground-plans and facsimiles of Hollar's views..., in 2 vols, James ... read more
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John Clare, The Village Minstrel and other poems & other works
lot 72 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
John Clare, The Village Minstrel and other poems, London 1821, 2 vols bound as 1, half calf, 17x11.5cm; [Samuel Butler] Hudibras in Three Parts, (Qty: 4) ... read more
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James Logan, The Scottish Gael, or Celtic Manners
lot 73 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
James Logan, The Scottish Gael, or Celtic Manners, As Preserved Among The Highlanders, in two vols, London 1831, hand-coloured plates, restored ... read more
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lot 75 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Austin, Jane, Emma, Illustrated by Chris Hammond, George Allen, London, c.1898, gilt stamped cloth boards,
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Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, Scenery Costumes and Architecture
lot 76 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, Scenery Costumes and Architecture, chiefly on The Western Side of India, originally published by Smith Elder & Co, ... read more
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Christopher A Markham, Church Plate of the County of Northampton and other similar books
lot 77 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Christopher A Markham, Church Plate of the County of Northampton, London & Northampton 1894, number 57 from a small paper edition of two hundred; and (Qty: 4) ... read more
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Edwin J Brett, Pictorial and Descriptive Record ... of Arms and Armour
lot 78 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Edwin J Brett, Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour, London 1894, tooled calf, folio.
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Finden's Tableaux of National Character, Beauty and Costume
lot 79 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
William and Edward Finden, Finden's Tableaux of National Character, Beauty and Costume, in two vols, London 1843, engraved plates, half calf, folio, ... read more
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George Cruikshank, The Drunkard's Children & two other works
lot 81 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
George Cruikshank, The Drunkard's Children. A Sequel to The Bottle, in eight plates, published for the artist, 1848, contemporary binding with (Qty: 3) ... read more
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George Smith, Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong), Ten Weeks in Japan
lot 82 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
George Smith, Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong), Ten Weeks in Japan, London 1861, folding map, half morocco, 8vo., 23x16cm.
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Henry Noel Humphreys & John Obadiah Westwood, British Moths and their Transformations
lot 83 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Henry Noel Humphreys & John Obadiah Westwood, British Moths and their Transformations, in two vols, London 1843-45, with hand-coloured lithographed (Qty: 3) ... read more
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James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
lot 84 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, London 1785, calf, 8vo., 21x14cm.
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Alfred Koehn, Japanese Tray Landscapes
lot 85 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Alfred Koehn, Japanese Tray Landscapes, Peking [n.d.], limited edition on Chinese hand-made paper number 3/500, signed by the author, with colour ... read more
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Four Japanese trade catalogues for The Yokohama Nursery Co., Ltd.
lot 86 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Four Japanese trade catalogues for The Yokohama Nursery Co., Ltd., Japan: Paeonia Moutan, A Collection of 50 Choice Varieties, chromolithographic (Qty: 5) ... read more
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lot 87 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Two Japanese trade catalogues: Magnolia, an album of 17 watercolours, with carbon typed single sheet insertion naming each specimin and captioned The (Qty: 2) ... read more
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lot 88 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Blue-and-White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, Compiled by the Joint-board of Directors of The National Palace Museum and The National Central Museum (Qty: 13) ... read more
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lot 89 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Lang Shih-Ning (Josephus Castiglione), The Selected Paintings, in two vols, Arts & Literature Press, Hong Kong [n.d.], folio, cloth; Chang Wan-Li and ... read more
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Oriental Art and Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society
lot 90 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
S Howard Hansford, Seligman Collection of Oriental Art - Chinese, Central Asian and Luristan Bronzes, and Chinese Jades and Sculptures, Arts Council ... read more
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Peter C Swann (ed.), Oriental Art
lot 91 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Peter C Swann (ed.), Oriental Art, new series, volume I (1955) - 30 (1984), uniform blue cloth.
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lot 92 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx, illustrated by Alastair, John Lane 1920, an edition of 1000 copies.
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Ted Hughes, Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow & other works
lot 94 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Ted Hughes, Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, Faber & Faber, 1973, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, signed by the author and artist, no. 92 ... read more
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Ceri Richards, Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas
lot 95 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Ceri Richards, Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas, Enitharmon Press, 1980, numbered edition 42, slip case.
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Douglas Cleverdon, The Engravings of David Jones
lot 96 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Douglas Cleverdon, The Engravings of David Jones, A Survey, Clover Hill, London 1981, no. 41 from an edition of 260 on Velin d'Arches, original cloth, ... read more
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David Jones, An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
lot 97 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
David Jones, An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Clover Hill Editions, 1972, no. XXXVII signed by the author, from an edition of 215, (Qty: 2) ... read more
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lot 98 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach, Shakespeare & Company, Paris 1927, errata slip tipped-in at end, original printed pale green boards, 12.5x9.5cm.
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lot 98A (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
James Joyce, Anna Livia Plurabelle. Fragment of Work in Progress, Faber & Faber 1930, brown cloth titled Criterion Miscellany No. 15, 19x14cm.
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Henry Moore, Heads, Figures and Ideas
lot 99 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Henry Moore, Heads, Figures and Ideas, with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson, George Rainbird, 1958, printed at the Curwen Press, with numerous colour ... read more
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William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin
lot 100 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, illustrated by Ronald Searle, Chiswick Press, 1952, from an edition of 1600, original wrappers, ... read more
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Leicestershire and Some Neighbouring Records
lot 101 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Leicestershire and Some Neighbouring Records: Historical, Biographical and Pictorial, published only for Subscribers [1909?], from the Midlands ... read more
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The Northamptonshire and Rutland Doomsday
lot 102 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
The Northamptonshire and Rutland Doomsday, County edition, Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1987, No.142 of 1000 copies, three volume set, in a ... read more
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C. Oscar Moreton, The Auricula & other works
lot 103 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
C. Oscar Moreton, The Auricula, Ariel Press, London, 1964, number 139/500 copies, Flora of The British Isles, in four vols, Cambridge University (Qty: 13) ... read more
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George Boulger & Mrs Henry Perrin, British Flowering Plants
lot 104 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
George Boulger & Mrs Henry Perrin, British Flowering Plants, in four vols, London 1914, numerous coloured plates, cream cloth, 32x27cm.
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Margaret Mee, Flowers of the Brazilian Forests
lot 105 (Fine Art & Antiques, 6th Sep, 2022)
Margaret Mee, Flowers of the Brazilian Forests, Tryon Gallery in association with George Rainbird, 1968, no. 154 from an edition of 500, quarter ... read more
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