Antiques Trade Gazette 45 BOOKS, PRINTS & MAPS
Wednesday 30th March at 10.30am The Auction Rooms, Dowell Street, Honiton
On view: Saturday 26th March 9am - 12 noon, Monday 28th March 9am - 5.15pm, Tuesday 29th March 9am - 5.15pm Illustrated catalogue £7 (£8.50 by post)
To include: Silver binding: Mid-18th century pierced silver Armenian binding depicting the Virgin Mother & Christ. Repertory of Art & Manufactures, 35 volume run, 1794-1811, contemporary calf, numerous copper engraved plates. Lace Pattern Book – Mid-19th century probably French, nearly 150 pages showing numerous examples, folio.
Collection of Art books from the Dartington Hall Library including runs of the Country Life, Graphic, Tipping’s English Homes, etc., including many on textiles and 20th century Art – Volbach & Kuehnel, Late Antique Coptic and Islamic Textiles of Egypt, 1926. Pope & Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art, six vols, 1938-9.
Collection of Children’s and Illustrated books including many illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including Limited Editions – Poe, E.A, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, illustrated by Harry Clarke, Limited Edition, 1919. Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Rene Bull, Limited Edition, n.d. The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, (with dust wrapper), 1926.
Collection of early Continental printed books including: Euripidis, Tragoediae Septendecim, two vols, (editio princeps), 1503. Also: Juvenal, Caesar, Lucian, Nostradamus, Appian, Aristophanes, Pindar, etc.
Collection of Thomas Hardy First Editions in original cloth: including The Return of the Native, three vols, 1878. Two on a Tower, three vols, 1882. The Hand of Ethelberta, two vols, 1876. The Major of Casterbridge, two vols, 1886. The Woodlanders, three vols, 1887. Wessex Tales, two vols, 1888. Also original presentation bookcase.
A collection of Ian Fleming First Editions including Dr. No. A collection of books on Africa including: Bruce, James, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, five vols, 1790. Smith, A. Donaldson. Through Unknown African Countries, 1897. Speke, John Hanning, Journal of the Discovery of the Nile, 1863. Hohnel, Lieut. Ludwig von, Discovery of Lake Rudolf and Stefanie, two vols, (finely rebound by Zaehnsdorf), 1894. Burton, Sir Richard, Footsteps in East Africa, 1856. With others including set of Burton’s Memorial Edition (seven vols). Also, Baker, Livingstone, Stanley, Selous, Elton, Park, New, etc.
Natural History including: Manwood, John, A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest, 4to, 1598. With many other books on trees, gardens and woodland management.
A fine small collection of Fencing titles including: Angelo. The School of Fencing, 47 fine copper engravings, (first bilingual edition), 1865. Also works by Andrew Mahon, Joseph Roland, George Smith, Alfred Hutton, Henry de Sainct Didier, etc.
A good collection of Angling books including First Editions of: Ogden, Skues, Halford, etc. , including many volumes in the Flyfisher’s Classic Library.
Fine Bindings: Flaubert’s, Oeuvres, eight vols, fine contemporary half morocco, HENRY JAMES’S SIGNED COPY. Austen, Jane, Novels, Bentley’s Standard Novels, five vols, half morocco, 1833.
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ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKS Stamps, Atlases & Maps, etc.
Tuesday 22nd March at 12 noon ON VIEW: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March 10am-4pm,
Monday 21st March 9am-5pm and morning of sale (limited viewing during) Approx. 700 lots (+40 lots of Stamps)
Private collections of TRAVEL (180 lots), MAPS and ATLASES (40 lots), MILITARY (60 lots, including 25 regimental histories).
Antiquarian, English and French literature 17th-20thC (including collection of Trollope fi rst editions, Pope’s Shakespeare, seven vols quarto 1725).
Ephemera, prints, postcards, photos, bindings, children’s and illustrated books. Estimates £10-£2,000
Job lots from clearances, etc. Web catalogue available :
www.JohnNicholsons.com or
www.the-saleroom/JohnNicholsons
The Auction Rooms, Longfi eld, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA (Haslemere 50 mins from Waterloo by train + 10 mins taxi). Wheelchair access and ample parking.
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Sales@JohnNicholsons.com BOOK AUCTION THURSDAY 24th and FRIDAY 25th MARCH
Day 1 commencing at 10am Day 2 commencing at 11am
Children’s and illustrated, general history, art, architecture and collecting, natural history, fi eld and other sports, travel, topography and local interest, ephemera and miscellaneous collections.
F.K. Upton, The Golliwogg’s Christmas, 1907, 1st edition
Estimate: £400-500
The Printers International Specimen Exchange, 1883, vol. 4
Estimate: £300-350
Established in 1816
STONEPARK SALEROOM, ASHBURTON
TWO-DAY AUCTION OF ANTIQUES AND SELECTED ITEMS Including good furniture, clocks, miscellanea,
ceramics, silver, silver plate, jewellery, pictures and paintings To be held on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th March at 10am daily
On view: Tuesday 22nd March 10am to 7pm, Wednesday 23rd March 10am to 5pm Catalogues £4 by post N.B. Buyer’s premium 12% plus VAT
For further information contact Rendells, Stonepark, Ashburton, Devon TQ13 7RH Tel: (01364) 653017 or Fax (01364) 654251
Catalogue available online at
www.rendellsfi
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Album of 64 silver bromide and other photographs, 3rd Afghan War, etc. interest
Estimate: £2,000-2,500
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, The Collected
Works – Essays, 1973-76, (3,000), 39 vols.
Estimate: £3,000-3,500 Part of a collection of Churchill books and memorabilia
VIEWING: Wednesday 23rd March 9am - 7.30pm, Thursday 24th March 8.30am - 4pm and Friday 25th March from 8.30am
Illustrated catalogues £8.50 by post or view online Buyer’s premium 15% + VAT
Aylsham Salerooms, Palmers Lane, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6JA Tel 01263 733195
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Shaw, Alexander. A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the Three
Voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere etc., illustrated with actual specimens of cloth, 1787. Estimate £40,000-60,000
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