Lot: 71
Social & Economic History, plus few local history titles, largely h/bks in d/jackets, a few with ownership signatures o/w VG/VF, none ex-library. (53)
Lot: 73
Louis Raemaeker (and Francis Stopford, editor) The ‘Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons, Land & Water, London, 1916-17, two volumes, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, complete with 310 colour plates; some fading to boards, repairs at spine extremities; front endpaper of Vol.1 creased o/w fine internally.
Lot: 74
W.E. Axon Annals of Manchester, 1886, gilt cloth, VG; Raymond Richards Old Cheshire Churches, 1973, signed & inscribed by the author, tape stains to inscription page; and two other items including a notebook of popular songs, written in manuscript, 1920. (4)
Lot: 75
Immigration and other Official Documents 1939-56 concerning L/Cpl. Stanislaw Bukielski and his wife Cpl. Julia Bukielska, both of the Polish Army, M.E.F., both granted permission to work with the Polish Resettlement Corps in the UK, together with two documents pertaining to Stanislaw Bukielski's Naturalization as a United States citizen in 1963, and four further documents supplied by the Polish Government 1949-1970s.Includes 1944 UK Immigration landing permit and 8 photos of the Bukielski family Good to fine. (36 items).
Lot: 77
T. E. Lawrence selection including Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, plus biographical works concerning Lawrence; together with three others including Laffan The Guardians of the Gate: Historical Lectures on the Serbs, Oxford, 1918. Mixed condition, Revolt in the Desert with library marks. (13)
Lot: 78
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on University Tests; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. [London], 1870; foolscap; nicely bound in cloth with gilt leather title; good clean text; vii,361pp
Lot: 80
Obra de Joan Miro: Dibuixos, pitura, escultura, ceramica, textils, Barcelona, 1988, in d/jkt, 556pp, colour plates & b/w illustrations; together with four works on Salvador Dali. VG/VF (5)
Lot: 82
Beat Instrumental and International Recording Studio, Beat Publications, London, 1970-1974, a good run of 53 issues. One damp-affected o/w VG/Fine. (53)
Lot: 83
Dame Edna Everage [aka Barry Humphries] My Gorgeous Life, Macmillan, 1989, First Edn in d/jkt, signed Dame Edna on the half-title. Fine
Lot: 84
Peter Cushing, An Autobiography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986, First Edn in d/jkt, signed by Peter Cushing on the title page. Light tanning to text. VG
Lot: 85
Ansel Adams selection including Yosemite and the Range of Light 1979, The Camera 1980, The Negative 1982, The Print 1983, and similar; plus Leonard Gaunt Practical Exposure in Photography 1981. Some first editions. All (bar one) in VG d/jkts. Each with an ownership label. (10)
Lot: 86
Chaffers Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain William Reeves, 1946; and bound volumes of The Connoisseur for Jan-April 1922 (vol.62) and Jan-April 1924 (vol.68). Gilt cloth. VG/Fine (3) [Offered on behalf of The National Trust.]
Lot: 87
Maurice Broomfield: Photographs, Foto8, London, 2009; quarto, cloth, fine. Illustrated with 58 full-page photographic plates. A scarce publication.
Lot: 88
'Illustrations for Flaxman's Homer, engraved by H.Moses', G. & W. Nicol, London, 1833, 73 engraved plates; octavo, bound by C. Winstanley of Manchester in half-calf with gilt ruling, spine with gilt compartments and raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges; shelf wear to edges and corners. A few minor tone marks, most plates free of foxing. These are the plates employed for the 1833-34 edition of William Sotheby's translation of Homer, jointly published by Nicol and John Murray. The plates were made available to the public separately from the 4-volume edition of the complete text and appear, herewith, as a single volume. The front pastedown bears the bookseller's ticket of W.N. Pitcher of Manchester, and the tiny armorial bookplate of H.E. Cunliffe.
Lot: 89
Malcolm Poynter, published by the artist, 1981, 17 of 250, numbered and signed by the artist, cloth bound, gilt, 101pp, comprising illustrations of his drawings, body art works and installations, mostly b/w (with many hand-tinted) and including a few laid down colour photographs. Fine
Lot: 90
David Thomson The Life and Work of Luke Fildes R.A., Art Journal, 1895, number 388 of 520; Charles Blanc The History of the Painters of All Nations, Cassell, 1853, fine rebind in half-leather; Alfred East Brush and Pencil Notes in Landscape, Cassell, 1914, and Landscape Painting, Cassell, 1919; plus other art reference, most with plates. Good to fine. (10)
Lot: 91
Royal Academy Illustrated, issues for 1924 to 1927, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1946/47 (The King's Pictures), 1948, 1950, 1952 to 1960 (plus four duplicates), 1963, 1965, 1967 to 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 to 1985; Royal Academy Bicentenary Exhibition 1968 (2 vols.), plus thireen other exhibition catalogues, many from commercial galleries. Mostly VG/VF, a few with frayed spines. (58)
Lot: 92
Ronnie Scott Some of my Best Friends are Blues, W.H. Allen, 1979, first edition in fine d/jkt, and six others, jazz related, Father of the Blues with ownership inscription. (7)
Lot: 93
Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting, Abbeville Press, 2011, folio, in issued folding case, 105 plates. Fine.
Lot: 94
Watson Charlton (illustrator & designer): My Home and Modern Home, a volume of the colour supplements for the period 1932-45, privately bound, and titled ‘My Collection'; quarto, gilt cloth, the artwork largely by Watson Charlton. 600pp.