Lot: 81
Thomas Hodgkin The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Folio Society, 2000, set of 8 volumes in slipcases, VF. (8)
Lot: 82
Legal Documents from 17th to 19th Century, mostly on vellum, pertaining to lands and families in Surrey, Wales, Yorkshire, Middlesex and elsewhere. (28). Also Bacon’s Excelsior Map of Wales and Monmouthshire, and sundry papers. Mixed condition.
Lot: 83
P. Louis Maimbourg Histoire du Schisme des Grecs, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1677, First Edition, tall octavo, contemp.leather, worn, backstrip damaged, light damp staining to the upper part of the book; fine copper engravings comprise frontispiece, and head & tail pieces to each section; [28],702,[22]pp.
Lot: 84
Grant of the custody of the person and care and management of the Estate of Sarah Cash, a person of unsound mind, to The Reverend Samuel Hasse and Ebenezer Adamson, 1847, Queen Victoria Portrait Document, Great Seal of Great Britain (cracked) attached in tin box; small areas of damage along lower fold with some loss. Sarah Cash was a resident of Hayfield, Derbyshire
Lot: 85
An Act for Dividing, Alloting, and Inclosing the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the parish of Hemsworth, in the West Riding of the County of York, 1803, folio, stitch bound, ownership inscription top margin, 25pp.VG
Lot: 86
Charles Pratt History of Cawthorne, Barnsley, 1882, octavo, original gilt cloth, nine laid down photographs as plates (one loose); few minor fox marks; binding worn at extremities; vi,175pp
Lot: 87
P. Mannex Topography and Directory of Lancaster and Sixteen Miles Round; with an Essay on the Science of Geology. P.Mannex & Co, Preston, 1881; octavo, original cloth discoloured, spine frayed and partly detached, gilt title to front, hinges weak; good clean text including extensive listing of all the householders and their occupations; adverts at front & rear; [8],349,[11]pp
Lot: 88
G.F. Handel The Messiah, Novello, 1902, quarto, orig. cloth, autographed by musicians of the 1930s & 1940s on the first few pages, including Isobel Baillie, Bessie Collins, Malcolm Sargent, Kathleen Ferrier, Margaret Collier, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin and Robert Easton. Internal binding weak o/w VG.
Lot: 89
Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back, creasing to top right corner o/w VG; a graphic novel; no internal inscriptions. One of 1000 printed. 58pp
Lot: 90
From Impressionism to the Avant-garde in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, 2000, large format h/bk in d/jkt, VF; colour plates throughout with commentary. 198pp
Lot: 91
Malcolm Poynter – [Artworks], 1981, No. 17 of 250, signed & numbered by the artist, octavo, blue cloth, gilt, VF; reproductions of his drawings and installations, comprising 102pp, mostly b/w (with many hand-tinted) but including a selection of actual photographs in colour.
Lot: 92
Bruce Bairnsfather (1887-1959), an autographed luncheon menu of 1922 issued to celebrate a bowling competition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with additional signatures of guests and the Australian Bowling Team. 8pp plus illustrated cover; laid down on page from a scrap album.
Lot: 93
Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi L’Abcedario Pittorico dall’ Autore Ristampato Corretto et Accresciuto di Molti Professori, Bologna, 1719, 2nd Edition; quarto, full 19th Century leather, gilt title & compartments, hinges a little weak o/w good; woodcut initials, with a few tail-pieces and with five woodcut text illustrations of artists' monograms. Some foxing to text; 519,[1]pp. [A biographical dictionary of the Italian artists, plus an extensive related bibliography].
Lot: 94
Collingwood and Woollams The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. Scratcherd & Letterman, 1806, octavo, contemp. leather, very worn, front board detached; frontispiece and 12 plates of Bills of Fare. Clean text & plates.
Lot: 95
W. von Seidlitz Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts, Dresden, 1910, quarto, black and red morocco, gilt, VG; fine internally with colour & b/w plates, further b/w illustrations in text; 228pp
Lot: 96
R.W. Billings Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church, Northamptonshire, Atchley & Co, 1869, tall 4to, rebacked in leather, gilt, new endpapers, 20 fine engraved plates, interleaved; and Catherine Beale Memorials of the Old Meeting House and Burial Ground, Birmingham, 1882, tall 4to, orig.gilt cloth, some wear, all plates and diagrams but 2 plates loose. (2)
Lot: 97
Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy: An Artistic Joke, Harry Furniss, 1888, folio, original gilt cloth, a little worn top & tail of spine o/w VG; No.377 of 1000, numbered and signed by the artist; the 87 tissue-guarded etchings complete; spotting to limitation page and occasional minor tone spots elsewhere.
Lot: 98
G.D. Armour and Crascredo Humour in the Hunting Field, Country Life, 1928, 1st Edn, folio, publisher’s gilt cloth, worn at extremities; uncut; fine internally with 20 fine tissue-guarded colour plates; together with G. Bowers Hunting in Hard Times, Chapman & Hall, [1889], oblong quarto, 20 tissue-guarded chromo-litho plates, pictorial onlay marked.
Lot: 99
G. Bowers Leaves from a Hunting Journal, Chatto & Windus, 1880, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, good, foxing to endpapers and title page, a few foxmarks elsewhere, 20 coloured plates; and Finch Mason Country Sketches, A.H. Baily, c.1881, oblong quarto, pictorial boards chipped at corners, 20pp of b/w cartoons. (2)
Lot: 100
Journal Des Dames et Des Modes, Paris, January to March 1808, eighteen issues complete, with 21 attractive hand-coloured fashion-plates; loosely bound together in a contemp. worn card cover.