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Auction No 421, Category: Antiquarian

33 Lots (displaying 21 - 33)

Frederick Lloyd "An Accurate and Impartial Life of the Late Lord Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £350
SOLD £180
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Frederick Lloyd An Accurate and Impartial Life of the Late Lord Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath …Comprehending authentic and circumstantial details of his Glorious Achievements: together with Private Anecdotes, and Various Interesting Particulars, never before published. J. Fowler, Ormskirk, 1806, First Edition. Bound in original sheepskin covered boards with gilt title label; professionally repaired at head & foot of the backstrip, the hinges strengthened; front pastedown with bookplate of the Literary Institute, Arkingarthdale; 19th Century ownership signature to first endpaper of George Harker, Bolton. Occasional finger marks and toning but generally clean internally, the text and endpapers intact. Several page corners are creased, one leaf (pp.77/8) with a corner torn away (not affecting text) and two other leaves roughly cut at fore-edge. Of the original 11 plates, 9 are present including frontispiece; most plates show browning and the folding plates have splits to the folds, now strengthened with archival tape. The final plate and last few leaves show damp-staining to upper right corner. The two missing plates are the portraits of Lord Hood and the Earl of St.Vincent.     

[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips "Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence as to the propriety and necessity of a revision and amendments of the existing penal statutes. With a View to the Abolition of corporeal punishments; and more particularly The Awful Penalty of Death. Liverpool, 1839. Octavo. Fine 20th Century rebind in gilt quarter-calf, marbled boards; viii, 83pp, lacking prelimary pages v & vi otherwise fine internally.

[James Caulfield] "Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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[James Caulfield] Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association: illustrated with Forty-Eight Portraits, from the Original Paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1821; tall 4to. Complete with 48 fine steel-engraved plates, clean internally; full red leather, gilt, some wear, probably re-backed, hinging weak, strengthened with leather strips; ex-library, bookplate removed, blind-stamps to the plate margins. Repairs to two preliminary leaves.

David Hume & Tobias Smollett "The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time", James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols,

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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David Hume & Tobias Smollett The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time, James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols, publisher's gilt & blind-tooled cloth, a.e.g., wear to spine extremities, 11 (of 12) coloured maps,3 engraved titles, and 94 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates. Browning to tissue-guards, occasionally with minor offset to plates, the plate of Queen Anne badly foxed, o/w very clean internally. (12)

"The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography", William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates;

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates; publisher's gilt cloth, worn at spine extremities, browning to tissue-guards and few pages with foxing, plates VG/VF. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of one volume. (16)

Andrew Lang "Prince Charles Edward", Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, no.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards,

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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Andrew Lang Prince Charles Edward, Goupil & Co, 1900; tall 4to, no.897 of 1500, bound in gilt half-morocco over tartan-covered boards, worn bookplate of Richard Banastre Crosse; few cuttings tipped on to front endpapers, fine internally with all plates, titled tissue-guards. Small faults to tartan cloth of rear board. 

[Walter Scott] "Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland", 1867

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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[Walter Scott] Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867, folio, original gilt cloth, together with seven companion volumes issued 1868-78, similarly bound, each with six engravings for The Lady of the Lake, Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, and The Fair Maid of Perth. Browning to first plate of Lady of the Lake o/w clean throughout with all text and tissue-guards. Front cover of Fair Maid of Perth slightly stained. (8)    

James Andrews (botanical artist, 1801-76): A selection of six botanical prints, hand-coloured lithographs, each initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate,

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £100
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James Andrews (botanical artist, 1801-76): A selection of six botanical prints, hand-coloured lithographs, each initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate, the lithographs by J.R. Jobbins; in sunken card mounts; image sizes 19.2 x 12.6cm; fine. (6)  

Richard Lydekker (Ed.) "The Royal Natural History", Frederick Warne, 1893-96, six volume set, pictorial gilt cloth, 72 colour plates and many in b/w

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Richard Lydekker (Ed.) The Royal Natural History, Frederick Warne, 1893-96, six volume set, pictorial gilt cloth, 72 colour plates and many in b/w, all with tissue-guards; rear endpaper to Vol.5 near-detached, one b/w plate in Vol.6 coming loose; very clean internally, no ownership inscriptions. An attractive set. VG (6)   

Robert Morden "Leicestershire", 1695 (or later), sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchil. Hand coloured. 45 x 60cm. Set in a card mount.

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Robert Morden Leicestershire, 1695 (or later), sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchil. Hand coloured. 45 x 60cm. Set in a card mount. Central fold (as issued). VG      

H.M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent", Newnes, 1899, 2 vols, half-leather, gilt, worn at extremities; fine internally with large folding-map.

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
SOLD £20
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H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent, Newnes, 1899, 2 vols, half-leather, gilt, worn at extremities; fine internally with large folding-map. 

"Bradshaw’s Railway Time Tables for November 1842". Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted with a pink w/colour frame. Folds, peripheral faults (no loss of text). VG. Scarce  

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 1894 Timetable, 8pp, folding, small ink mark in margin of one page;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £92
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London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 1894 Timetable, 8pp, folding, small ink mark in margin of one page; attractive stand-up model publicity cards for excursions to Portsmouth 1908 and Hastings 1910, latter with small tear; a related holiday brochure (small faults); and an L.B.S.C. Rly. ‘Named Locomotives' card endorsed 1913. Scarce group.