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Auction No 415, Category: Illustrated

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Mrs. Rodolph Stawell "Fabre’s Book of Insects", Hodder & Stoughton [1921], illustrated by E.J. Detmold, quarto, original cloth

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Mrs. Rodolph Stawell Fabre's Book of Insects, Hodder & Stoughton [1921], illustrated by E.J. Detmold, quarto, original cloth with gilt decoration, front board slightly bowed, front endpaper removed, light foxing to half-title o/w VG with all tissue-guarded coloured plates and very clean internally.

Gustave Dore "Cassell’s Dore Gallery", Cassell & Co, [1885], tall quarto, rebound in half-leather, with 250 full-page wood-engravings,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £56
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Gustave Dore Cassell's Dore Gallery, Cassell & Co, [1885], tall quarto, rebound in half-leather, with 250 full-page wood-engravings, endpapers browned o/w VG; and The Brothers Dalziel, Methuen, 1901, orig. gilt cloth, illustrated throughout. (2)

"The ‘Land & Water’ Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons", Land & Water, London, 1916-17, two volumes, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt,

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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The ‘Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons, Land & Water, London, 1916-17, two volumes, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt,  faded & worn, tape-repairs at spine extremities; front endpaper of Vol.1 creased o/w fine internally with 310 plates and text.

"War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour by Mortimer Menpes". Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. A. & C. Black, [1901], large paper edition,

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. A. & C. Black, [1901], large paper edition, no.252 of 350 produced, signed by the artist on limitation page; orig. gilt cloth, marked and faded; uncut two sides, t.e.g.; browning to endpapers and title page; complete with the 99 colour plates, plus facsimile letters etc. About a third of the text/plates are loose.

William A. Shaw "Manchester Old and New", Cassell, [1894], 3 vols, illustrated by H.E. Tidmarsh, b/w plates and illustrations in text;

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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William A. Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894], 3 vols, illustrated by H.E. Tidmarsh, b/w plates and illustrations in text; tall quarto, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, endpapers browned, few page corners toned o/w fine internally. A good set. (3)

Rosaline Masson "Edinburgh painted by John Fulleylove", A.& C. Black, 1904, large paper edition, no.241 of 250, gilt cloth darkened,

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £62
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Rosaline Masson Edinburgh painted by John Fulleylove, A.& C. Black, 1904, large paper edition, no.241 of 250, gilt cloth darkened, endpapers browned, ownership stamps and signatures at front; and W.M. Mackenzie Pompeii painted by Alberto Pisa, A.& C. Black, 1910, endpapers browned o/w fine.

Arthur G. Butler "Birds’ Eggs of the British Isles", L. Upcott Gill, 1907, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk with 24 chromo-litho tissue-guarded plates;

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Arthur G. Butler Birds' Eggs of the British Isles, L. Upcott Gill, 1907, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk with 24 chromo-litho tissue-guarded plates; quarto, original two-colour cloth, gilt, worn at extremities; browning to endpapers and half-title; front endpaper with gift inscription dated 1907, small ownership stamp of the recipient on reverse of frontispiece. Two tissue-guards with small tears o/w fine internally.

Lloyd’s Natural History series 1896-97, comprising Forbes "Hand-Book to the Primates" in two vols, Lydekker "Hand-Book to the British Mammalia"

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Lloyd's Natural History series 1896-97, comprising Forbes Hand-Book to the Primates in two vols, Lydekker Hand-Book to the British Mammalia, and Lydekker Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata. The bindings poor to fair, the texts & attractive colour plates clean & complete. (4)