Lot: 101
Don Felix de Latassa y Ortin Biblioteca Nueva de los Escritores Aragoneses que Florecieron Desde el ano de 1500 hasta 1599, Oficina de Joaquin de Domingo, Pamplona, 1798; bound in early 19th Cent polished tree calf, rubbed, gilt title, marbled endpapers; some damp-staining to text but generally sound; 628pp including title & index. [While stated as Volume One, the book is complete in itself, as subsequent volumes were devoted to the 17th to mid-18th Centuries]
Lot: 102
Annibal Caro Rime del Commendatore Annibal Caro, Bernardo Giunti e Fratelli, Venice, 1583, small quarto, disbound but endpapers preserved; title with coat of arms; dedication to Alessandro Farnese adorned with woodcuts; title, (6), 103, (8)pp. Front endpaper dust-affected
Lot: 103
[John Selden] Johannis Seldeni Liber de Nummis. Antiqua pecunia Romana & Graeca metitur precio ejus, quae nune est in usu. Hinc Accedit Bibliotheca Nummaria, Mosem Pitt, London, 1675, small quarto; no front board, rear board detached; imprimatur, engraved title, (4), 19, 86pp. Good clean text.
Lot: 104
Louis Golding James Joyce, 1933, First Edn., inscribed and signed by the author, original cloth; together with Frank Singleton’s Independent Means, 1948, signed First Edition in worn d/jkt. VG (2)
Lot: 105
Francesco Algarotti Il Congresso di Citera, Parigi, 1768, 12mo, polished calf, backstrip & hinges worn; VG internally with engraved frontispiece, title and four woodcuts of cupids etc. 201pp
Lot: 106
Stephani Curcellaei Synopsis Ethices. Tractatus Lectu Dignissimus. ……. [together with] Renati Descartes Ethice, Cambridge, 1702, 12mo, contemp. panelled calf, gilt title label, good, endpapers browned, clean text; title, (6), 133, title, 53pp. Also C.D. Broad The Philosophy of Francis Bacon, Cambridge, 1926, original wraps. (2)
Lot: 107
Beatrix Potter selection, all early printings with Peter Rabbit, Mrs.Tiggy-Winkle (2 difft), Miss Moppet, Jemima Puddle-Duck (2 difft), and Benjamin Bunny (2 difft); together with Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairies of The Spring. Poor to fair. (8)
Lot: 108
Marvel Comics and few similar, mostly late-1970s to early-1980s, especially The Micronauts, plus The Thing and others. VG/VF (97)
Lot: 109
Marvel Comics and similar in two large folders, 1972 to 2015, wide range of titles, good spread throughout the period, a few damaged but mostly VG/VF. (116)
Lot: 110
A. F. Griffiths Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry: in the Possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London, 1815, full calf, gilt, slightly scuffed, red title label. viii, 481, (1)pp. VG
Lot: 111
John Byrom The Universal English Short-Hand; or, the Way of Writing English in the most easy, concise, regular, and beautiful manner, applicable to any other language, but particularly adjusted to our own. Joseph Harrop, Manchester, 1767, First Edition. Contemporary quarter-leather in poor condition, needs rebinding. Clean text. 13 plates.
Lot: 112
The works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham. In Two Volumes. John Barber,London, 1729, 2nd Edition, octavo, full calf, backstrips very worn & lacking title labels; Vol.1 with two folding engraved frontispieces. Clean text. (2)
Lot: 113
George Smith Green Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Play, J. Watts, London, 1752, First Edition, bound in late-19th Cent. half-leather over marbled boards, gilt, some wear at hinges, new endpapers; ownership and bookplate of John Burns, 1904; engraved portrait. Clean text. 134pp. Scarce.
Lot: 114
Christian de Thomas Becket Epistolae Et Vita Divi Thomae Martyris Et Archi-Episcopi Cantvariensis. Nec Non Epistolae Alexandri III. Pontificis, Galliae Regis Ludovici Septimi, Angliae Regis Henrici II. Aliarumque plurium Sublimium ex utroque Foro Personarum. Henrici Fricx, Brussels, 1682, quarto, 2 Volumes, 18th Cent polished calf, gilt, a little worn at hinges; bookplates of James Whatman. Occasional minor spotting o/w fine internally. (12), 905, (76)pp
Lot: 115
G.P.R. James The Jacquerie; or, The Lady and the Page: an Historical Romance London, 1841, First Edition in 3 Volumes; half-leather over marbled boards, some wear, gilt titles; good clean text. (3)
Lot: 116
[Marianne Spencer Hudson] Almack’s: a Novel, Saunders & Otley, 1826, 3 Volumes, 1st Edn, half-leather, backstrips worn; John Walker A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names, 1804, 2nd Edn, engraved portrait; J. Thomson The Seasons, 1805, woodcuts by Bewick, tree-calf, spine repaired; and A Gallery of Portraits painted by an old and celebrated Master and re-touched by an Irish Artist, Dublin, 1813, bound with The New Bath Guide, 1807, quarter-leather, gilt. (6)
Lot: 117
The Boy’s Own Annual, Volumes 11, 15, 16, 17, 33, 44, 47, 55 and 62, 1889 to 1940, seven with original publisher’s cloth, the plates largely intact but bindings in very mixed condition. Also a 1969 Boy’s Own annual. (10) Previous owner’s bookplates.
Lot: 118
The Boy’s Own Annual, Vol.5 (plates damaged) and Vol.12, 1882/83 and 1889/90; plus loose issues of Boy’s Own Paper (19) from 1885 to 1938, mostly in original wraps and generally good to fine. Also Boy’s Own Companion No. 5, 1963.
Lot: 119
The Boy’s Own Annual, Volumes 18, 25, 32, 34 and 60, 1895-1938, all in original publisher’s cloth, coloured plates, bindings good to fine. All with previous owner’s bookplate. (5)
Lot: 120
The Boy’s Own Annual Volumes 4, 41, 42, 46, 48, 49, 59 and 61, 1882-1939, seven with publisher’s pictorial cloth, two with spines covered in black tape, five with previous owner’s bookplate. Poor to fine (8)