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Auction No 369, Category: Literature

26 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Mary Hensman "Dante Map", Guild of Handicraft for David Nutt,1892, hand-coloured lithograph,

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £30
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Mary Hensman Dante Map, The Guild of Handicraft for David Nutt, 1892, hand-coloured lithograph, linen backed, with explanatory booklet bound in; contemp. cloth, a little discoloured; map size 550 x 870mm. VG 

Thomas Warton "The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster"

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Thomas Warton The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster, Sampson Low, 1859, octavo, original gilt cloth VG, gutta percha binding weak with few loose plates, a few minor tone spots, plates unaffected. 

Lewis Carroll "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case", Emberlin and Son, 1889

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £88
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Lewis Carroll The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, Emberlin and Son, 1889, complete with folder and Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing, [1907], pocket-size, printed wraps, 40pp (incl cover). Fine.

[Charles Gildon] "The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Letters of Love and Gallantry

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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[Charles Gildon] The Post-Boy Robb'd of His Mail: or The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of Letters of Love and Gallantry, and All Miscellaneous Subjects, John Sprint, London, 1706, 2nd Edn; octavo, contemp. leather, worn, boards detached; title page loose and dust-affected; last 28pp damp-stained. 

Frederick G. Fleay "A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559-1642", Reeves & Turner, 1891, 2 Vols

Lot: 154

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Frederick G. Fleay A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559-1642, Reeves & Turner, 1891, 2 Vols, quarter-leather, gilt, near fine; light foxing to endpapers, fine internally. 387+405pp. (2 vols)

L. Apuleii (Apuleus) "Madaurensis Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. Equibus, Post Ultimam P. Coluii editionem

Lot: 155

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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L. Apuleii (Apuleus) Madaurensis Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. Equibus, Post Ultimam P. Coluii editionem, Philosophici Libri.per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem. Michaelem Sonnium, 1601; 12mo, full leather, gilt, with a later soft leather protective covering; bookplate of Garratts Hall; inked notation on title page; text fine & complete, sound binding. (16),623pp.

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition". Jacob Tonson, 1682, First Edition, second issue

Lot: 156

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. Jacob Tonson, 1682, First Edition, second issue, 4to, unbound, loosely inserted in a cloth-covered binding case; uncut at foot, partially unopened; worming in right-hand margin, clear of text. Light browning to endpapers and title page. VG

William Godwin "Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries", Effingham Wilson, 1831

Lot: 157

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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William Godwin Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries, Effingham Wilson, 1831, First Edition, later quarter-leather, gilt, for Bury Co-Operative Library with library labels to front endpapers; a few fox marks but very largely fine clean text; viii,471pp. VG

Arturi Jonstoni (Arthur Johnston) "Psalmi Davidici: Interpretatione, Argumentis, Notisque. Illustrati: In Usum Serenissimi Principis

Lot: 159

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £22
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Arturi Jonstoni (Arthur Johnston) Psalmi Davidici: Interpretatione, Argumentis, Notisque. Illustrati: In Usum Serenissimi Principis, London, 1741; quarto, full contemp. leather with elaborate gilt decoration, slightly worn and marked, gilt title intact, red sides; bookplate of E.Wyatt Edgell; fine internally with engraved frontispiece and double-page Map; pp. xvi, 392, map, index.

Lady Shelley (Ed.) "Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources", Smith, Elder & Co., 1859, 1st Edn;

Lot: 160

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £11
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Lady Shelley (Ed.) Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources, Smith, Elder & Co., 1859, 1st Edn; original purple cloth, gilt, a little discoloured; previous owner’s bookplate; engraved frontispiece. 290pp + 24pp publisher’s catalogue dated July 1859.

                                                                                    

Virginia Woolf "Monday or Tuesday", Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1921,First Edition

Lot: 161

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Virginia Woolf Monday or Tuesday, Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1921, First Edition, quarter cloth, printed title label, VG; uncut at foot; 116pp. Fine internally.

                                                

Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii [Boethius] "Consolationis Philosophiae Libros Quinque,

Lot: 162

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £46
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Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii [Boethius] Consolationis Philosophiae Libros Quinque, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Petrus Callyus, Frederick Leonard, 1695, 4to, contemporary leather, gilt, worn, rear hinge partly split, front board incorporating ownership panel of Benjamin Bower of Manchester; front pastedown with ownership signature dated 1945; engraved frontispiece; title page with woodcut; introduction with elaborate headpiece (repeated at page 1) and historiated initial, woodcut tailpieces thereafter; fine text; pp.(42),352,(58). 

William Faulkner "The Sound and the Fury", Chatto & Windus, 1931, First Edition, original cloth darkened,

Lot: 163

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £34
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William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, Chatto & Windus, 1931, First Edition, original cloth darkened, spine rolled, rear hinge partly frayed, ownership signature of the celebrated Manchester broadcaster and producer Olive M. Shapley dated July 1936. Good clean text. 

Stephen Coleridge "New Poems", 1911, Torch Press. 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author

Lot: 164

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Stephen Coleridge New Poems, 1911, Torch Press. 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author, original printed boards rather dust-affected, together with a 2-page autograph letter from Coleridge loosely inserted. 

Charles Denis "Select Fables", J. & R.Tonson and S.Draper, 1754, octavo, contemp. calf, worn

Lot: 165

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Charles Denis Select Fables, J. & R.Tonson and S.Draper, 1754, octavo, contemp. calf, worn, front board detached; b/w frontispiece; worming to upper left margin not affecting text. Good clean text. (34),448pp.

Edward Larocque Tinker and Frances Tinker "Old New Orleans: Widows Only, the Sixties", D. Appleton, 1931

Lot: 166

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Edward Larocque Tinker and Frances Tinker Old New Orleans: Widows Only, the Sixties, D. Appleton, 1931, First Edition, signed & inscribed by the authors; original cloth with pictorial onlay; illustrated endpapers. VG 

[John Jackson, actor] "Eldred; or, The British Freeholder. A Tragedy". C. Elliot and J. Bell, 1782, octavo

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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[John Jackson, actor] Eldred; or, The British Freeholder. A Tragedy. C. Elliot and J. Bell, 1782, octavo, contemp. tree calf, worn, hinges weak, backstrip chipped, gilt title; browning/staining to margins of endpapers and last 8pp of text; 122pp + errata page.

                                                            

Thomas Brown (1663-1704) "Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian"

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian, John Sparks,1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2 without text loss. Collated as complete. Pagination errors with pp.113-128 not used and p.349 shows as “493”. Wing 5052. VG

Shakespeare, Marston, Ben Jonson & others "The Phoenix & Turtle", Shakespeare Head Press & Basil Blackwell

Lot: 174

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Shakespeare, Marston, Ben Jonson & others The Phoenix & Turtle, Shakespeare Head Press & Basil Blackwell, 1937, original wraps & pictorial dustjacket, VG; b/w frontisp; unopened. 31pp. (One of 50 issued)

Aldous Huxley "Brave New World", Chatto & Windus, 1932, First Edition, original gilt blue cloth

Lot: 175

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Chatto & Windus, 1932, First Edition, original gilt blue cloth, bumped upper right corner, slight wear at extremities, foot of spine a little frayed; uncut lower edge of text; neat ownership signature of Feb.1932; a few pages show minor fox marks but generally fine clean text. (Shows letter ‘A’ at foot of page 1).