46 17th April 2010
antiquarian books
“No Yorkshire sale, of course, would be complete without a copy of George
Walker’s Costume of
Yorkshire of 1814”
County books and maps
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and the example in the Gloucestershire sale, complete with 41 coloured aquatint plates by Havell after Walker, plus a duplicate set in etched outline, sold at £2000 (Sharpe).
In near contemporary half morocco, it showed some occasional minor spotting and lacked one of the outline plates, but this had been supplied as an ink drawing or tracing. There was also a copy of Walker’s book, one in period straight-grained morocco gilt with Greek key borders, in a March 10 sale at Bloomsbury Auctions. This copy, however, lacked the frontispiece of a horse dealer and did not have the extra set of etched outline plates. It sold at £800.
The Garden of England
It is more usual, of course, to find county collections sold on home ground,
Above left: this wood engraved view of ‘The Old Bridge, City Gaol & St. Williams Church’ is one of Eighty Three Views in York, an oblong octavo collection printed (for promotional purposes?) by John Hill of Marygate in 1836, which made £460 at Dominic Winter’s sale. Described as a scarce, unrecorded work, this copy lacked one plate, a view of the Convent Chapel, but the auctioneers speculated that as this plate cost 3d, and the others only a penny, it may only have been available separately. Above right: perhaps it might have made more in a specialist sale, and in better condition, but at the South Cerney sale, £50 secured this copy of Fred Cobley’s Black Hats v White Hats...of 1895, a humorous record of the annual cricket match and festivities of Ilkley tradesmen.
and a March 16 antiques sale held by
Canterbury Auction Galleries produced
a small selection of Kent material. In a later half morocco gilt binding by Bayntuns of Bath, and with the folding county map repaired and backed on linen, a four-vol., large folio first of Hasted’s
British & Irish Book Auctions
Apr 14*@
Apr 14*@ Apr 14*@ Apr 14*@ Apr 15@ Apr 15*
Apr 15*@
...Kent(1779-99) with its 35 folding maps of the ‘Hundreds’ or county divisions and 60 full-page engravings of houses, churches and antiquities, sold at £2500, while a copy of the 12-vol., smaller format second edition of 1797-1801 reached £1000. Bound by Roberts of Canterbury in half green morocco, the latter lacked one of those ‘Hundred’ maps.
80-lot Military History Book Section, Dominic Winter – South Cerney (01285 860006) Sports Memorabilia, T. Vennett Smith – Gotham (0115 983 0541) Book Section, Jefferys – Lostwithiel (01208 871947)
6-lot Book Section, Pettmans Auction Rooms – Sandwich (01304 621000) Bibliophile Sale, Bloomsbury Auctions – Godalming (01483 423567)
Book Section, Perkins George Mawer – Market Rasen (01673 843011)
Historical Docs., Autographs & Ephemera, Mullocks – Ludlow (01694 771771)
Apr 16*@ 170-lot Antiquarian & General Books Section, ELR Auctions – Sheffield (0114 381 6161) Apr 16*@ Apr 16*@ Apr 16*@ Apr 16*@ Apr 17*@ Apr 17*
Football & Sports Memorabilia, Sportingold – Northampton (01494 565921) Sports Memorabilia Section, Tennants – Leyburn (01969 623780)
Apr 20*@ Apr 20* Apr 21* Apr 21*
Apr 21*@ Apr 21*@ Apr 21*@
Book Section: Automobilia Sale, Richard Edmonds – Castle Combe (01249 444544) Book Section, Mid-Sussex Auctions – Ardingly (01444 819100) 39-lot Book Section, Sworders – Sudbury (01878 880305)
Book & MSS Sections: Independence Sale, Mealys – Dublin (00353 56 4441229)) Book Section, Harpenden Auctions (01582 793603) Book Section, Hansons – Derby (01283 733988)
10-lot Book Section, Penrith Farmers’ & Kidds – Penrith (01768 890781)
11-lot Book Section, Jones & Jacob – Watlington (01491 612810) Sports Memorabilia, Anthemion Auctions – Cardiff (02920 472444)
Apr 22*@ Book Sections: Travel, Science & Natural History, Christie’s South Kensington (020 7389 2157) Apr 22 Antiquarian/General Books, Ephemera, Thomson Roddick Medcalf – Carlisle (01228 528939) Apr 22*@ Apr 23 Apr 24
Book Section, Peter Wilson – Nantwich (01270 623878) Book Section, Charterhouse – Sherborne (01935 812277) Travel Books, Bloomsbury Auctions (020 7495 9494)
Apr 24*@ 8-lot Map Section: The Welsh Sale, Rogers Jones – Colwyn Bay (01492 532176)
Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger sale. Sales marked @ are viewable on the-saleroom.com. Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, and those sales that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: Ian McKay
ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Book Section, Moore Allen & Innocent – Norcote (01285 646050)
22-lot book section, Durrants – Beccles (01502 713490)
A 1656, second edition of Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kentsold at £620 and
Richard Kilburne’s Topographie or Survey
of... Kentof 1659 reached £200. Those works dealing with specific towns or parts of the county included
William Boys’ Collections for an History of
Sandwich, printed in Canterbury in 1792 and illustrated, I think with 50 plates, maps and plans, at £360 and Paul
Aminck’s Tunbridge Wells and its
Neighbourhood, a William Miller of London title of 1810 with etched illustrations by Letitia Byrne, at £240, and T.D.W. Dearn’s ...Weald of Kent, printed in the Wealden town of Cranbrook in 1814, at £190.
The latter is illustrated with a map and plates after drawings by the author, an illegitimate son of George III who somehow managed to lose the £100,000 that he was left by his father. An 1818, sixth edition of of the New
Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Guide
did find a buyer at £330, but this lot also included an 1824 Southampton Guide. Both were in the original paper wrappers. Another lot of particular interest to Kent collectors would have been H.M.
Manwering’s Treatise on the Cultivation and Growth of Hops in the Kent Styleof
1885. Cloth bound, it was lotted with a copy of Salmon’s Pollination and Fertilisation of Hops, an 1814 reprint (?) of a work first published in The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, to sell at £280.
Buying an instant library
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moved to the UK and with fellow Australian Jim Anderson founded a London version of Oz.
The magazine was characterised by its use of striking graphic art, innovative printing techniques – including fold-out posters, metallic foil and fluorescent inks
Right: an example of the typically lurid cover artworks among the 140-piece ‘Hank Janson’ collection sold at £1200 by Chiswick Auctions.
– and biting satire, but it was the 1971 trial on obscenity charges that followed the notorious ‘School Kids’ issue, and in particular the sexually explicit Rupert Bear parody, that ensured its enduring fame in the annals of censorship.
The Bonhams lot included all 48 issues
from the years 1967-73 plus a few duplicates. A film based on Richard Neville’s memoirs is due for release in May.
BUYER’S PREMIUMS
Bloomsbury Auctions, London:
22% to £150,000, 10% thereafter
Bonhams, London:
20% to £250,000, 12% thereafter
Canterbury Auction Galleries: 15% Chiswick Auctions, London: 17.5% Heritage, Dallas: 19.5%
Tennants, Leyburn: 15% to £50,000, 10% thereafter
Dominic Winter, South Cerney: 17.5%
NB: premiums may not apply or have been set at different levels where prices from sales of previous years are quoted. Exchange rates are those in effect on the day of the sale
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