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Auction No 369, Category: Literature

26 Lots (displaying 21 - 26)

"Thomas Carlyle's Works: The Standard Edition in 18 Volumes", Chapman & Hall, 1904-05

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Thomas Carlyle's Works: The Standard Edition in 18 Volumes, Chapman & Hall, 1904-05, half-leather, gilt with raised bands, title labels a little rubbed & faded o/w a fine set without internal inscriptions. (18)

[Louis-Sebastien Mercier] "L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s'il en fut jamais". London, 1772, half-vellum

Lot: 181

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £44
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[Louis-Sebastien Mercier] L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s'il en fut jamais. London, 1772, half-vellum, gilt leather title labels, decorated boards, VG; red sides; monogram handstamp to title page; fine clean text; pp.viii,416. An early edition of a futuristic novel which first appeared in 1770 and was published anonymously. Originally thought to have been written by Voltaire, the author label on the backstrip incorrectly ascribes this work to him. 

Henry Fielding "The Covent-Garden Journal, and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office", Oxford, 1988,

Lot: 184

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Henry Fielding The Covent-Garden Journal, and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office, Oxford, 1988, edited Goldgar, the Wesleyan Edition, fine in complete dustjacket. 

Robert Louis Stevenson "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", with Etchings by Jean Traynier

Lot: 188

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £34
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Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Etchings by Jean Traynier, Armand de Chabassol, Paris, 1947, 4to, number 71 of 150, the text and 18 tissue-guarded etchings uncut and unbound in vellum-covered binding case, printed title to spine, further contained in vellum-covered slipcase; few trifling fox marks o/w fine.

Vernon Scannell "Ring of Truth", 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell

Lot: 189

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)

"The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror: A Weekly Publication", 10th July 1821 to 2nd July 1822,

Lot: 223

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror: A Weekly Publication, 10th July 1821 to 2nd July 1822, a bound volume, modern cloth, gilt; complete with index; some pages affected by light damp-staining.