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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: 9432 (zero)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ''L.E.L.'', 3 titles: 'The Troubadour'; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches', London, 1825, 2nd edition, autograph on piece tipped in at front, inscription on half title from Caroline Drury (nee Taylor), wife of Henry Drury, contemporary and friend of Byron, added engraved title page, 326pp, original paper covered boards, printed paper label to spine (worn), housed in custom made solander box, 'The Vow of the Peacock, and other poems', London, Saunders...

Sale Price: £95.00

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Lot No: 9433 (zero)

William Makepeace Thackeray: 'Vanity Fair', Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1st edition, early issue with both title pages dated 1848, without the suppressed illustration p.336, with ''Mr Pitt'' p.453, 40 engraved plates complete, original blindstamped cloth gilt

Sale Price: £75.00

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Lot No: 9434 (zero)

Charles Dickens: 'The Works', Chapman & Hall, [n.d.], ''The Daily News Memorial Edition'', 19 volumes (includes the 'Life' and the 'Dickens Dictionary'), uniform contemporary half calf gilt, marbled end papers, top edges gilt (19)

Sale Price: £50.00

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Lot No: 9435 (zero)

Charles Dickens: 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick', Chapman & Hall, 1837, 1st edition in book form, engraved frontis, added engraved title page and 41 engraved plates as called for, ''Weller'' sign board, p261 line 6 ''Pickvick'' for ''Pickwick'', plates and leaves generally very clean with minimal foxing/toning, quarter green morocco gilt

Sale Price: £90.00

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Lot No: 9436 (zero)

(Charles Dickens/''Christmas Books'' and related), Thomas Heaphy: 'A wonderful ghost story : being Mr. H.'s own narrative, reprinted from ''All the year round'', with letters hitherto unpublished of Charles Dickens to the author respecting it', London, Griffith & Farran, 1882, 1st edition, 87pp + [2]pp ads at end, original pictorial wraps (worn, neatly rebacked); Charles Dickens: 'The Cricket on the Hearth', London, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, 1st edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title and engraved...

Sale Price: £210.00

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Lot No: 9438 (zero)

Charles Dickens: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', London, Chapman & Hall, April-September 1870, 1st edition, 6 original monthly parts complete, illustrated Luke Fildes, wood-engraved illustrations, advertisements front and rear (including 'Cork Hats' at end of part II), original green printed wraps (marginal chips and small part losses, part VI lower wrap with areas reinforced/restored) (6)

Sale Price: £240.00

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Lot No: 9440 (zero)

'The Temple Shakespeare', 40 volumes of shakespeare's works, published J.M. Dent, circa 1900-1910, uniform original maroon limp leather, gilt titled to spines and with gilt crests to upper covers, plus Lexicon and Concordance volume, very slightly larger format, matching original maroon cloth gilt (41)

Sale Price: £75.00

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Lot No: 9441 (zero)

George Bernard Shaw: 'The Works', London, Constable, 1930-1938, limited edition (1,025), 33 volume set, uniform original green cloth gilt (33)

Sale Price: £50.00

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Lot No: 9442

'Punch Library of Humour', circa 1900, complete 25 volume set housed in an oak table top book rack, 64.5cms wide, content includes many aspects of British life in humour, golf stories, rod & gun etc.

Sale Price: £55.00

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Lot No: 9443 (zero)

(Bindings); 'Good Words', nine bound volumes of the Victorian literary periodical 1880-1884, uniform half crimson Morocco gilt, black Morocco gilt title labels to spines, marbled paper covered boards and E.P's, all edges marbled (9)

Sale Price: £40.00

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Lot No: 9445 (zero)

Edmund Burke: 'A Philisophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, with an introductory discourse concerning taste', London, Vernor & Hood, 1798, new edition, engraved portrait frontis, 342pp, contemporary calf gilt (worn)

Sale Price: £20.00

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Lot No: 9446 (zero)

George Eliot: 'Works', part set of 7 volumes, published by Blackwood circa 1900, including 'Middlemarch', 'Romola', 'Mill on the Floss' etc, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, marbled end papers (7)

Sale Price: £38.00

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Lot No: 9448 (zero)

Stanhope: 'Chesterfield's Letters', 1774, published by Eugenia Stanhope/Dodsley, four volumes rebacked full calf

Sale Price: £70.00

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Lot No: 9449 (zero)

Etienne Gosse, Richard Alsop (translated): 'The Lovers of la Vendee, or, Revolutionary Tyranny', Middletown (Connecticut), I. Riley, 1808, 1st and only English language edition[?], 2 volumes, signed and inscribed presentation copy from Richard Alsop to his sister Mary, early American imprint, contemporary calf gilt, 2 copies only on Copac

Sale Price: £420.00

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Lot No: 9451 (zero)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: 'The History of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha.', London, D. Midwinter et al, 1743, 7th edition, 4 volumes, 20 engraved plates, translated from the Spanish by P. Motteux, revised and edited by J. Ozell, xviii,303; 309[1]; viii,310; 356,[2]pp, 12mo, contemporary Spanish flecked calf gilt (4)

Sale Price: £240.00

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Lot No: 9452 (zero)

David Hume, Essays, three volumes comprising 'Essays, Moral and Political', London & Edinburgh, A Miller and A. Kincaid, the third edition, corrected, with adiitons, printers engraved device to title page, 'Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understand', London, A.Millar, 1750, the second edition with additions and corrections, printers, engraved device to title page, 'Polictal Discourses', Edinburgh, A.Kincaid and A.donaldson, 1752, second edition, advert and contents leaf after title, stated 'second edition' though actually a reimpression of the...

Sale Price: £580.00

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