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Auction No 369, Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST

334 Lots (displaying 201 - 220)

James Greenwood "Curiosities of Savage Life", Beeton, 1863-64, two volumes, contemp. half-leather, gilt

Lot: 201

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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James Greenwood Curiosities of Savage Life, Beeton, 1863-64, two volumes, contemp. half-leather, gilt, recased & repaired with new endpapers; colour plates complete; William Baikie Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora and Binue….in 1854, Frank Cass 1966 reprint; and another. VG/Fine (4)

James Breeks "Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris", Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt

Lot: 202

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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James Breeks Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris, Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt; Samuel Baker The Albert N’Yanza, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962, 2 vols, in slipcase; The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr.John Kirk, edited Foskett, 1965, 2 vols; and three other travel titles.  All in dustjackets. (8)

V.C. Scott O'Connor "The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma", Hutchinson, 1928, original gilt cloth

Lot: 203

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £24
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V.C. Scott O’Connor The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma, Hutchinson, 1928, original gilt cloth, small repairs to top & tail of the spine, browning to endpapers, o/w fine; colour plates and fine folding-map. 384pp

Candler "The Unveiling of Lhasa", Edward Arnold, 1905, 1st Edn; Perceval Landon "Nepal", 1993 reprint, 2 vols

Lot: 204

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Candler The Unveiling of Lhasa, Edward Arnold, 1905, 1st Edn; Perceval Landon Nepal, 1993 reprint, 2 vols; Karl Eskelund The Forgotten Valley, 1959; A.M. Hassanein Bey The Lost Oases, 1925, 1st Edn; James Low The British Settlement in Penang, O.U.P., 1972 reprint; Hutchinson Narrative of the Niger, Tshadda, and Binue Exploration, 1966 reprint; and other foreign travel; eight in d/jkts. Good to VF (11)

Mrs. Ernest Hart "Picturesque Burma, Past and Present" J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased

Lot: 205

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Mrs. Ernest Hart Picturesque Burma, Past and Present J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased incorporating the original decorated cloth, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; occasional light spotting; fine photo-plates, maps and gravures.

                        

Jack Hare "Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels", Willsons, Nottingham, [1925],

Lot: 206

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Jack Hare Gladiators of the Prize Ring, and My World Travels, Willsons, Nottingham, [1925], octavo, pictorial boards, spine darkened, good; browning to b/w frontispiece and rear endpaper o/w fine internally; 304pp including photo-plates. 

Michael Herbert "Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester's Black Boxing Hero and Communist"

Lot: 207

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Michael Herbert Never Counted Out! The Story of Len Johnson, Manchester’s Black Boxing Hero and Communist, Dropped Aitches Press, 1992, A5 s/bk, 123pp; and Fred Deakin Peerless Jim Driscoll, Crescendo Publications, 1987, A5 s/b in d/jkt, 100pp. Fine. (2)

Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising "Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring", 1942, 44pp

Lot: 208

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Nat Fleischer boxing softbacks comprising Max Baer, the Glamour Boy of the Ring, 1942, 44pp; Jack McAuliffe, the Napoleon of the Prize Ring, 1944, rust marks to title page,77pp; and Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror, 1943, ex-library, some damp-staining, 64pp. Fair to fine. (3)

Carl A. Thimm "A Complete Bibliography of The Art of Fence, Comprising that of the Sword & of the Bayonet, Duelling, &c."

Lot: 209

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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Carl A. Thimm A Complete Bibliography of The Art of Fence, Comprising that of the Sword & of the Bayonet, Duelling, &c., Franz Thimm, 1891; octavo, half-vellum, gilt, darkened; fine internally; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; xvi,261,(3)pp.

Stanislaus Lynch "Hoof-Prints on Parchment: Hunting Poems", Irish Tatler [1952], orig.cloth,

Lot: 210

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Stanislaus Lynch Hoof-Prints on Parchment: Hunting Poems, Irish Tatler [1952], orig.cloth, signed & inscribed by the author March 1954; and four other pre-1940 works on fox-hunting, all illustrated. VG (5)

John Jackson "Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia", Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn,

Lot: 211

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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John Jackson Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia, Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; b/w tissue-guarded Frontispiece and 4 other photo-plates. 59pp. [John Jackson was a huntsman with the Holcombe Harriers, 1867-1899]

[Sir Richard Clayton] "A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them"

Lot: 212

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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[Sir Richard Clayton] A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them, T. Godsden, 1825, 2nd Edn, small octavo, contemp. half-leather gilt, over marbled boards, VG; first few pages including frontispiece & title page with some light damp-staining at the fore-edge o/w VG internally; uncut two sides; related newscutting on front pastedown; previous owners’ signatures, one dated 1884, the other of C. Ward-Jackson MP, Boer War & WWI veteran; pp.xiii,122. 

Paul Niedieck "With Rifle in Five Continents", Rowland Ward, 1909, First Edn, modern half-leather, gilt, fine;

Lot: 213

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £54
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Paul Niedieck With Rifle in Five Continents, Rowland Ward, 1909, First Edn, modern half-leather, gilt, fine; complete with all photo-plates and additional illustrations in the text; occasional tone marks in the margins; a corner tear to pp.207/8 requires repair. 

Nevill Armstrong "After Big Game in the Upper Yukon", John Long, 1937, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth

Lot: 214

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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Nevill Armstrong After Big Game in the Upper Yukon, John Long, 1937, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, gilt title faded o/w VG; V. Prescott-Westcar Big Game, Boers and Boches, 1937, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, VG, occasional foxing; and a rebound copy of Mackie The Keeper’s Book, 1910. (3)

Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray "Three Tears for Glasgow", 1990, signed by the author;

Lot: 215

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Boxing biography, chiefly softbacks, including James Murray Three Tears for Glasgow, 1990, signed by the author; Stan Shipley Bombardier Billy Wells, 1993; Alan Roderick Johnny! The Story of the Happy Warrior, 1990; Fred Deakin Tommy Farr, 1989; and others, all first editions, mainly VG/VF. (8)

Tom Newman "Advanced Billiards", John Long, 1924, First Edn, original cloth, gilt, spine faded,

Lot: 216

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Tom Newman Advanced Billiards, John Long, 1924, First Edn, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, uncut at foot, fine internally with all plates; Billiards Simplified; or, How to Make Breaks, Frederick Warne, 1884, gilt cloth, a.e.g., recased with new endpapers, ownership inscription of 1885, plates complete, 64pp catalogue of snooker tables & equipment at rear by Burroughes & Watts; plus a later edition of Billiards Simplified with original printed cloth, lacking the catalogue. Good to VG (3)

"A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch", London, 1868,

Lot: 217

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1868, tall octavo, red half-morocco, gilt, raised bands, good; marble-edged & endpapers; 1130pp.      

Nathan Bailey "The New Universal English Dictionary", Rivington and Fletcher, 1759, 4th Edn, octavo, contemp.calf, gilt

Lot: 218

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Nathan Bailey The New Universal English Dictionary, Rivington and Fletcher, 1759, 4th Edn, octavo, contemp.calf, gilt, scuffed, raised bands, hinges weak, lacks title label; scattered foxing. Advert leaf for T. Waller, publisher.

            

Ludovici Hain "Repertorium Bibliographicum in Quo Libri Omnes Ab Arte Typographica Inventa Usque Ad Annum MD"

Lot: 219

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Ludovici Hain Repertorium Bibliographicum in Quo Libri Omnes Ab Arte Typographica Inventa Usque Ad Annum MD, Stuttgart and Paris, 1826-1838, 4 volumes, octavo, half-leather, red & black title labels, gilt; front board detached from Vols. 1 and 3. Clean texts. (4)

"Library of the late Major Wm. H. Lambert", Metropolitan Art Assn, New York, 1914, Parts 1 to 4

Lot: 220

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Library of the late Major Wm. H. Lambert, Metropolitan Art Assn, New York, 1914, Parts 1 to 4, tall octavo catalogues, original wraps (frayed at periphery) each with a few photo-plates. Contents of each catalogue briefly entered in ink along the spines. The chief areas of interest are Abraham Lincoln, The American Civil War, and W.M. Thackerary, including important manuscript material. [Part 5, Collection of Portraits, not included]