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Auction No 430, Category: Literature

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

"The Golden Ass of Apuleius", Chiswick Press, 1904, two-colour cloth, rubricated text on hand-made paper, No. 12 of 220 issued;

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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The Golden Ass of Apuleius, Chiswick Press, 1904, two-colour cloth, rubricated text on hand-made paper, No. 12 of 220 issued; G.F. Handel Samson, arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte, London, 1810, folio, text printed from copper engraved plates; The Poetical Works of John Dryden, London, 1813, 16mo, 3 vols (in 2), full calf, gilt, rebacked, each vol. with an engraved plate; The Beauties of Sterne, London, 1799, old tree-calf, gilt; and The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. (6)

Easton Press ‘Millennium Edition’ selection comprising Cervantes "Don Quixote", Charles Darwin "Voyage of the Beagle",

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Easton Press ‘Millennium Edition' selection comprising Cervantes Don Quixote, Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle, R.H. Dana Two Years Before the Mast, and Edward Lane (trans.) Stories from the Thousand and One Nights. All in full leather, gilt. VF (4)

John Harland "Ballads and Songs of Lancashire", Whittaker & Co., 1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper;

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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John Harland Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Whittaker & Co.,  1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper; alterations and annotations in Harland's hand to 'The Blessed Conscience' extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to him after the book's initial publication. Small ownership stamp of the collector Robert Holland Ford at top of half-title. Together with Edwin Waugh Th' Owd Blanket and other stories, 1867; and Robert Dottie The Rambles and Recollections of “R' Dick”, Manchester 1898. (3)

C.S. Lewis selection including "The Abolition of Man", Oxford 1944, a pamphlet, unopened; "Broadcast Talks", 1943, in d/jkt; "Miracles", 1957,

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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C.S. Lewis selection including The Abolition of Man, Oxford 1944, a pamphlet, unopened; Broadcast Talks, 1943, in d/jkt; Miracles, 1957, First Edition; Of This And Other Worlds, 1982, First Edn., in d/jkt; and Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century, 1990, in d/jkt. VG/VF (7)

"Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text", Milan, 1873, privately printed,

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text, Milan, 1873, privately printed, sm.folio, full vellum, gilt, darkened, gift inscription of 1874, fine internally, 160 illustrated pages + prelims; together with a Biblia Sacra, Paris 1839, half-leather, recased; and Francis Wormald The Winchester Psalter, Harvey Miller & Metcalf, 1973, in d/jkt. (3)           

"The John Bull Magazine, and Literary Recorder" - Volume I [all published], James Smith, 1824, half-calf, some wear, gilt tile.

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £32
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The John Bull Magazine, and Literary Recorder - Volume I [all published], James Smith, 1824, half-calf, some wear, gilt tile. Contains a sonnet by ‘S.T.C.' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Spotting to prelims o/w fine internally. Front hinge weak.

Oliver Wendell Holmes "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table", "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", and "Professor at the Breakfast-Table", William Paterson

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £32
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, and Professor at the Breakfast-Table, William Paterson [1890s], in fine & attractive half-leather bindings, gilt, engraved bookplates of F. Reddaway. Some foxing to edge of text block of The Poet. (3) 

H.P. Lovecraft (with August Derleth) "The Shadow Out of Time and other Tales of Horror", Gollancz 1968, First Edition in a complete d/jkt.

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 20th Nov 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £22
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H.P. Lovecraft (with August Derleth) The Shadow Out of Time and other Tales of Horror, Gollancz 1968, First Edition in a complete d/jkt. A second free endpaper appears to have been removed.