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Books, Maps & Ephemera

Location: Saleroom 1
Date: 23rd January 2020
Starts: 2:00 pm

Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm
Contact: Robert Henshilwood

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Lot No: 9413 (zero)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10 works including first editions, comprising: 'The Scarlet Letter', London, 1851, 1st UK edition, rebound (not recent) cloth gilt; 'The House of The Seven Gables', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1851, 1st edition, ads at front dated November 1850, original cloth gilt; 'The Blithedale Romance', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1852, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni', London, 1860, 3rd edition, 3 volumes, association copy with circa 80 mounted...

Sale Price: £1,200.00

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Lot No: 9414 (zero)

Alfred Thornton: 'Don Juan', London, Thomas Kelly, 1821-1822, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 31 coloured aquatint plates as called for, fine decorative crimson morocco gilt by Tout & Sons, joints slightly weak/cracked, top two corners volume II bumped, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, silk end papers (2)

Sale Price: £340.00

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Lot No: 9415 (zero)

Captain Frederick Marryat: 'The Phantom Ship', London, Henry Colburn, 1839, 1st edition, 3 volumes, half title present volume I as called for by Sadleir, without the advertisements to volume III, finely rebound half green morocco gilt by Riviere and Son, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt. Classic gothic tale based on the legend of 'The Flying Dutchman', with supernatural elements supplied including ghosts, demons and an early appearance in literature of a werewolf.

Sale Price: £500.00

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Lot No: 9415A (zero)

Emile Zola, 5 tiles including first English editions comprising: 'Nana: a realistic novel. Translated without abridgment from the 127th French edition. Illustrated with 16 page engravings, from designs by Bellenger, Clairin, and Andr? Gill.', Vizetelly, 1884, first English Edition, 2 plates supplied in facsimile, 20pp adverts at end dated December 1884, original pictorial cloth gilt, (worn, restored in places; 'Nana', Vizetelly, 1884, 2nd edition, original pictorial cloth gilt (gilt titling to spine restored in places);...

Sale Price: £200.00

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Lot No: 9416 (zero)

Wilkie Collins: 'The Woman in White. A Novel.', illustrated John McLenan, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860, 1st edition, 2pp adverts at front dated August 1860, correct spelling 'Muloch' and Mill on the Floss adverts at end, engraved illustrations in text throughout, original blindstamped black cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original cloth, joints reinforced. Preceded English edition by a month.

Sale Price: £700.00

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Lot No: 9417 (zero)

Wilkie Collins: 'Mr Wray's Cash-Box; Or, The Mask and The Mystery. A Modern Story', London, Bentley, 1852, 2nd edition, frontis by J.E. Millais, 4pp adverts at end, contemporary blindstamped cloth gilt, plus 'After Dark', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1857, early edition, v,[3],392pp, lacks FFEP, old quarter roan gilt, rebacked, backstrip retained (very worn), top edge gilt, 'The Dead Secret', London, Sampson Low, 1861, new edition, engraved frontispiece, old half calf gilt (worn), rebacked, bacsktrip...

Sale Price: £270.00

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Lot No: 9418 (zero)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: 'The Purcell Papers', London, Richard Bentley, 1880, 1st edition, 3 volumes, xxxii 236; iv 274; iv 290pp, original cloth gilt very worn and soiled, rebind copy, together with 'All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal', various issues October 1869-April1870, several Le Fanu contributions including 'Green Tea' etc, original printed wraps

Sale Price: £700.00

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Lot No: 9420 (zero)

Mary Shelley and various others; Frederic Mansel Reynolds (edited): 'The Keepsake', 10 volumes, 1828, 1829 (2), 1830-1835, 1837, first appearances in literature of several gothic supernatural short stories by Mary Shelley, including 'The Convent of Chaillot', (1828); 'The Sisters of Albano' and 'Ferdinando Eboli' (1829); 'The Dream' (1832); 'The Mortal Immortal' (1834); 'The Parvenue' (1837), etc etc, engraved frontispieces, additional engraved title pages, engraved plates, variant bindings, plus 'The Winter's Wreath for 1832', first appearance...

Sale Price: £100.00

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Lot No: 9421 (zero)

Byron, 'Works', collected editions comprising John Murray, 1815, 4 volumes, original boards, printed paper labels to spines '28s Without Plates' (worn) + John Murray, 1817-1820, 8 volumes, plain paper covered boards, printed paper labels to spines (12)

Sale Price: £55.00

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Lot No: 9423 (zero)

A quantity of assorted volumes of 18th-20th Century literature, poetry etc

Sale Price: £60.00

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Lot No: 9424 (zero)

A quantity of assorted mainly 18th & 19th Century literature & poetry volumes etc

Sale Price: £50.00

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Lot No: 9425 (zero)

Eliphas Levi [i.e. Alphonse Louis Constant], 2 titles: 'Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual', London, Redway, 1896, 1st edition, portrait frontis + illustrations throughout as called for, 1 leaf adverts at end, orginal cloth gilt, 'The History of Magic', London, [1939], 3rd edition, frontis + plates and full page illustrations as called for, original buckram (2)

Sale Price: £170.00

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Lot No: 9426 (zero)

James Joyce: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', New York, B.W. Huebsch, April 1917, 2nd US printing, the same sheets used for the 1st UK edition, 299pp, original cloth (rubbed and worn), rebacked retaining original backstrip, joints reinforced

Sale Price: £140.00

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Lot No: 9427 (zero)

G.P.R. James: 'Adra, or the Peruvians; the Ruined City; &c.', 1829, 1st edition, inscribed by the author to half title, vii, 197pp, contemporary morocco gilt

Sale Price: £210.00

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Lot No: 9429 (zero)

Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Ballads', London, 1899, 4th edition, 2pp of autograph manuscript by Stevenson bound in before half title, rebound (not recent) full morocco gilt (worn), top edge gilt, by Bumpus Ltd

Sale Price: £750.00

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Lot No: 9431 (zero)

Stephen MacKenna: 'Plotinus On The Beautiful', Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908, limited edition (127/300), numbered, MacKenna's own copy with annotations throughout and short inscription to limitation page, 25pp, original japanese vellum backed paper covered boards gilt, backstrip reinforced

Sale Price: £30.00

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