Literature, illustrated, and others.
lot 450 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
HOGARTH (W) Works, London: J. Dicks, no date, circa 1870, folio, steel engravings, modern half morocco; SHAW (Henry) Details of Elizabethan ... read more
Sold for £140 More details 3
Literature, history and various.
lot 451 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
GROSE (F) Military Antiquities, 2 vols., 1801, 4to, engraved plates (lacks a plate at p.398, vol. I), uncut, modern boards; RANJITSINHJI (Prince) Th ... read more
Sold for £700 More details 4
Fore-edge painting. TENNYSON (Alfred)
lot 452 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The Works, 1904, 8vo, slight spotting to 1st leaves, two split fore-edge paintings, one depicting the Death of Arthur, the other jousting knights ... read more
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lot 453 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
World Pictures, A & C Black 1902, 4to, no. 168/500 edition de luxe copies signed by the artist, colour plates, replaced endpapers, original cloth; ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 2
lot 454 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Works in Prose and Verse, Wessex Edition, 20 vols. 1912-13, 8vo, plus 'Miscellaneous Verses' 1919, each with photogravure frontis and a map of the ... read more
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Literature various including politics and history.
lot 455 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
SHIRER (W L) Berlin Diary, 1st edition 1941, cloth; HURD (D) Memoirs, 2003, signed; LAWSON (N) View from No.10, 1992, signed; HORNE (A) Macmillan, 2 ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £100 More details 2
lot 456 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Scott's Last Expedition, in 2 vols., arranged by Leonard Huxley, preface by Sir Clements Markham, 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder, 1913, maps and ... read more
Sold for £45 More details 4
lot 457 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Five Run Away Together, 1st printing August 1944, gift inscription, chipped dust jacket, slight shelf lean; The Island of Adventure, 1st edition ... read more
Sold for £300 More details 13
lot 458 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The Second World War, 1st edition, 6 vols., 1948-54, 8vo, vol. I inscribed in ink by the author and dated 1955 to half title, some wear and tear to ... read more
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KELLY'S County/Regional directories
lot 459 (The Library Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
collection of thick volumes, mainly East Anglia region, early 20th century, in cloth bindings; with various others including Handbooks; also BIRKBECK ... read more
Sold for £120 More details 3