Lot: 2
The Times of India Annual 1935 and 1936, one colour plate removed from 1935 issue o/w complete, some fraying to spines, creasing to cover of 1935 issue; Photographs of the Year 1952, Illife & Sons, VG; and some related items. (7)
Lot: 5
Harvard Classics selection, six volumes, including Voyages & Travels, Dante The Divine Comedy, Manzoni I Promessi Sposi, Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, and others; Easton Press, Millennium Editions, bonded leather, gilt, mint condition, four still in shrinkwrap. (6)
Lot: 90
George William Anderson A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages….Alex Hogg, 1784, folio, recased in full leather, the boards overlaid with much of the original mottled calf binding, gilt title worn, new endpapers; portrait frontispiece damaged, rebacked, some pieces missing; folding map rebacked, some small loss; the other 153 plates/maps/charts intact; occasional brown staining and grubby marks but generally good internally, especially the plates.
Lot: 92
The Story of Rice, [Foochow, China, 1920s], octavo, wooden-boards with carved inscription for ‘Happiness', with 10 hand-painted designs on rice-paper, laid down, text in English and Chinese. Fine
Lot: 93
Ikku Jippensha Hizakurige, Kobe, 1929, No.317 of a limited printing, cloth bound, title label chipped, some fading, good internally with nine fine hand-coloured plates tipped in; Isabel Anderson The Spell of Japan, 1914, pictorial cloth, spine faded; and 14 others, largely Japan related, fair to fine, most with ownership signatures. (16)