Auction No 426, Category: Illustrated

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

W.H.D. Rouse "The Latin Struwwelpeter", Blackie, 1934, some foxing to boards; Norman Hunter "The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm",

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £20
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W.H.D. Rouse The Latin Struwwelpeter, Blackie, 1934, some foxing to boards; Norman Hunter The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, 1933, 1st Edn., illustrated by Heath Robinson, faded cloth, coloured plate, two of the smaller line drawings partially coloured in; and a large qty. of children's books, mostly illustrated, a few with ownership inscriptions, mainly fine. (67)

Maurice Maeterlinck "Hours of Gladness", illustrated by E.J. Detmold,1912, first edition; quarto, cream cloth, gilt, 19 fine colour plates,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Maurice Maeterlinck Hours of Gladness, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, 1912, first edition; quarto, cream cloth, gilt, 19 fine colour plates, lacking frontispiece; boards slightly bowed; in the rare issued d/jkt which is chipped in places and has some internal repairs.

"The Library Shakespeare Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley", William Mackenzie,1873, three volume set,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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The Library Shakespeare Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and R. Dudley, William Mackenzie, 1873, three volume set, half-leather worn & rubbed, gilt title labels, marble-edged and marbled endpapers; complete with 32 colour plates (one loose) and numerous b/w illustrations and monochrome plates. Spotting to prelims and occasional tone mark internally o/w VG internally. 

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] "Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton…… " Downey & Co, 1899, no.31 of 50 large paper copies

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton…… with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits, Downey & Co., 1899, No.31 of 50 large paper copies, numbered & signed by the publisher; two-colour cloth, gilt, spine a little darkened; recased with new end papers. Top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere. xxii, 238pp + 20 hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken with printed tissue-guards. A few leaves affected by browning.

Andrew Lang "The Olive Fairy Book", Longmans, 1907, first edition, orig. gilt cloth, complete with the colour & b/w plates;

Lot: 56

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £115
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Andrew Lang The Olive Fairy Book, Longmans, 1907, first edition, orig. gilt cloth, complete with the colour & b/w plates; ownership signature in pencil to front pastedown, minor spotting to prelims; together with Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots the Chemist, c.1930, some foxing.

Louis Raemaeker (and Francis Stopford, editor) "The ‘Land & Water' Edition of Raemaekers' Cartoons", Land & Water, London, 1916-17, two volumes,

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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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.

Mountaineering and Mountain Art & Photography in two cartons including Turner "My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents", 1913;

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £60
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Mountaineering and Mountain Art & Photography in two cartons including Turner My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents, 1913; Urech Bernese Oberland Descriptive and Narrative, 1926, scarce cloth-bound edition; Chris Bonington Mountaineer, 1989, signed first edn; Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil RTS, [c.1879]; Wayfarers' Journal for 1939, 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1950; and many others. Includes a few pamphlets. Some with ownership signatures or labels (not ex-library). (44)

Mrs.Willingham Rawnsley "The New Forest", A. & C. Black, 1904, large paper edition, No.22 of 100, signed by the author, 20 colour plates, gilt cloth,

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley The New Forest, A. & C. Black, 1904, large paper edition, No.22 of 100, signed by the author, 20 colour plates, gilt cloth, near fine. [Offered on behalf of The National Trust]