Lot: 8
Bartholomew Catalogue of the Books and Papers…..relating to the University, Town and County of Cambridge bequeathed to the University by John Willis Clark, Cambridge, 1912, orig. gilt cloth, VG; and Lewine Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books, Sampson Low, 1898, 35 plates, improvised title label o/w VG; and another. (3)
Lot: 21
Thomas Bewick A History of British Birds, Folio Society, 2010, two volumes, quarter morocco, gilt, in slipcase, very fine. (2)
Lot: 24
Francis George Heath The Fern Portfolio, S.P.C.K., 1885, 3rd Edition, folio, original decorated gilt cloth; backstrip worn and hinges frayed; small ownership label to front pastedown; front endpaper foxed, some spotting elsewhere affecting one of the otherwise fine 15 chromo-litho plates, interleaved with descriptive text
Lot: 60
Slater’s Royal National Classified Commercial Directory and Topography of the County of Lancashire and the Manufacturing District, Isaac Slater, Manchester, 1851, quarto, lacking boards & backstrip and requiring rebinding; the fine coloured folding maps of Lancashire and Greater Manchester are present, title page & index repaired, and a new spine & endpapers added.
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: 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: 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)