Lot: 12
Carton of printed ephemera & softbacks of all kinds including Henry Cotton Hints on Play with Steel Shafts 1933 (cover marked & creased) and other golf items; illustrated brochure for R.M.S. Oransay, 1930 National Children’s Home calendar, Jarrold’s Household Tracts of 1870s (2), recipe books, rule books, Picturesque Peeps of North-West Coast, Tasmania 1920s with 18 PC size views, etc. Mixed condition. (approx 5 kilos)
Lot: 14
W. Graham Robertson (illustrator) Old English Songs and Dances, Longmans, 1902, folio (40 x29cm), original pictorial boards, worn at periphery, some light spotting to pages, one leaf with 3” tear at one corner, o/w VG; colour lithographic illustrations throughout.
Lot: 15
Boccaccio The Decameron, Gebbie & Barrie, [1872]; original cloth, printed title label, with all plates, VG; Dante Alighieri The New Life, Harrap, full leather, colour plates, front inner hinge cracked; plus The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1816, James Joyce Ulysses, Random House, 1934, and G. Gregory The Economy of Nature, 1798, Vols 2 & 3 (of 3), all in poor condition. (6)
Lot: 18
Mine Warning to Mariners leaflets & pamphlets, 1918-1919, issued by the Admiralty, 9 x 5½”, one with large folding chart; disbound, fair to fine. (78)
Lot: 23
Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Collected in 3 Books from Many Sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo of the Order of S. Ambrose ad Nemus, Showing the Iniquitous and Execrable Operations of Witches Against the Human Race, and the Divine Remedies by Which They May be Frustrated. John Rodker, 1929, edited by Montague Summers; quarto, original red & black cloth, gilt, lower right corner of front board bumped o/w VG; uncut two sides, browning to endpapers o/w fine internally; 45 woodcuts in text; xxi, 206pp. No. 1221 of 1275 printed. Originally published in Milan, 1608.
Lot: 24
[Henry Kramer and James Sprenger] Malleus Maleficarum, Pushkin Press, 1948, edited & translated by Montague Summers; original gilt cloth, VG, in a chipped d/jkt which has a few closed tears; spotting to edge of text block which strays on to the text border of a few pages o/w fine internally; xxi, 278pp. One of 2000 printed. [This is the second re-issue of a work first published in 1489, the first being the John Rodker edition of 1928 also in a very limited printing]
Lot: 25
Margaret Alice Murray The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, Oxford, 1921, tall octavo, original gilt cloth, VG, uncut at foot, light tanning to endpapers o/w fine internally. 303pp
Lot: 26
Christina Hole Witchcraft in England, Batsford, 1945, 2nd printing, in a good d/jkt worn at extremities, illustrated by Mervyn Peake; Montague Summers The Vampire in Europe, Kegan Paul, 1929, 1st Edn, gilt cloth faded, foxing to prelims; and C. L’Estrange Ewen Witch Hunting and Witch Trials, Kegan Paul, 1929 , endpapers browned o/w VG. (3)
Lot: 28
Amy Johnson Sky Roads of the World, Chambers, 1939, in frayed d/jkt; and HMSO WW2 softbacks including The Eighth Army, The Air Battle of Malta, Arctic War (2), Target Germany, etc. Fair to VG (12)
Lot: 29
Late-19th Century illustrated editions of Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels and The Adventures of Don Quixote, all in pictorial cloth bindings, two with prize bookplates. VG (3)
Lot: 30
L.R. Brightwell The Zoo Goes To It!, Raphael Tuck, c.1940, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, VG, no copy recorded by Copac; S.Louis Giraud Bookano Zoo No.1 and Bookano Stories No.12, worn spines, former with crayon colouring to first two pages, pop-ups complete and fine; and a 1930s scrap album. (4)
Lot: 31
John Ashton The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts, T. Fisher Unwin, 1887, octavo, illustrated vellum showing light spotting, gilt title, top of backstrip chipped, copper clasps fine; top side red, uncut elsewhere; endpapers browned o/w fine internally; the 64 woodcuts augmented by further illustrations in the introductory text. VG
Lot: 32
G. S. Trebutien (Ed.) Le Roman de Robert le Diable en Vers du XIII Siecle, Chez Silvestre, Paris, 1837; quarto, full gilt calf by Detmold of Melbourne, title label intact, lightly marked, rubbed at periphery; gilt edged, marbled endpapers, bookplate of John Duerdin; complete with all blank endpapers, 16pp introduction and main text which is embellished with woodcuts. Some occasional minor spotting o/w fine internally. No.115 of 130 printed
Lot: 35
F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers, Cassell, 5 vols., and Familiar Garden Flowers, Cassell, 5 vols; plus W. Swaysland Familiar Wild Birds, Cassell, 4 vols; all in gilt half-leather bindings which show some wear; some foxing to prelims with very occasional slight spotting elsewhere, the coloured plates fine and complete. (14)
Lot: 36
George Bate and William Salmon Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or, Bate's dispensatory. Translated from the last edition of the Latin copy, publish'd by J. Shipton. Containing His Choice and Select Recipe’s….William & John Innys, London 1720, 5th Edition; 12mo, worn contemporary leather with gilt ruling, raised bands, lacking title label and lower right corner of leather from front board; modern bookplate to front endpaper; contemporary ownership signature to title page; sixth leaf of text badly torn with some loss affecting Preface/Postscipt, o/w complete, some pages with contemporary inked glosses. (16),744,(16)pp.
Lot: 37
William Oliver A Practical Dissertation on Bath-Waters, T. Varnum, J. Osborn and others, London, 1716; 12mo, contemporary leather, worn, boards detached; endpapers intact, first four text leaves browned, occasional light toning elsewhere; viii,168pp
Lot: 38
William H. Harvey Phycologia Britannica: or, A History of British Sea-Weeds, L. Reeve, 1871, four volumes, quarto, original gilt cloth, fine; 360 hand-coloured plates (some folding) in excellent condition, some occasional minor spotting to text; together with Thomas Bell A History of British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea, J.Van Voorst, 1853, VG; and William Yarrell A History of British Fishes, J. Van Voorst, 1836, 2 vols in poor condition. (7)
Lot: 39
Max Walters Wild & Garden Plants, Collins New Naturalist series No.80, 1993, First Edition, fine in a VG complete d/jkt; upper part of spine of jacket with slight creasing.
Lot: 40
Guy Mountfort The Hawfinch, Collins New Naturalist Monograph No.15, 1957, fine First Edition in fair d/jkt (piece missing from top of spine of jacket). Fine internally
Lot: 43
Hermann Buhl Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Hodder & Stoughton 1956, 1st Edn in good complete d/jkt; and Mike Banks Rakaposhi, 1959, 1st Edn in d/jkt. Ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns. (2)