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If on collation, any named item in this catalogue proves defective in text or illustration, the lot may be returned within 14 days of the sale with the defects stated in writing. This proviso shall not apply to defects stated in the catalogue or announced at the time of sale; nor to the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards or advertisements, damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears or other defects not affecting completeness of text or illustration; nor to drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps or periodicals; nor to books sold not subject to return.
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Africa - Champion (Frederick Walter), The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow, ownership signature pasted on to endpaper, original cloth, 4to, [1935] - Fitzpatrick (J.P.), The Transvaal from Within, ownership signatures on endpaper, original cloth, 1899 - and c.25 others, mostly on Africa, including an imperfect copy of Parke’s Experiences in Equatorial Africa and Covarrubias’ Island of Bali (c.27) £150-200
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Africa - Hindlip (Charles Alsopp, Lord), Sport and Travel. Abyssinia and British East Africa, ownership signature to endpaper, one map repaired at fold, original cloth, 1906 - Roosevelt (Theodore), African Game Trials, ownership signature pasted onto endpaper, half calf gilt, 1910 - and 2 vols., of Meinertzhagen’s Diaries, including Kenya Diary (4) £120-180
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Barlow (Percival), The General History of Europe and Entertaining Traveller, engraved frontispiece, 70 plates and maps, contemporary calf, worn, upper joint cracked, folio [c.1790] £400-500
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Bartlett (William), The Danube, additional engraved title, map & 78 plates, contemporary blue calf, gilt and blind borders on sides, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, 4to, 1844 - and 4 others: Historic Illustrations of the Bible in similar bindings (5) £200-300
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Beaux and Belles of England, one of 1000 copies, 10 vols., (only, of 14?), quarter morocco, gilt, Grolier Society, [c.1910] - International Library of Famous Literature, edited by R. Garnett, 24 vols., original cloth, decorative gilt spines, 1899 - and vols. 1-4 of the Strand Magazine in half calf (38) £150-250
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Binding - Shakespeare (William), Hamlet, ownership inscription to fly-leaf, specially bound in full calf, the upper cover with outer wave borders, raised gilt panel enclosing a central onlay of a skull, within lattice-work, the lower cover and spine with lattice- work, t.e.g., black silk endpapers with coloured roses, signed in gilt ‘Saint André’ on the upper cover and on the front doublure ‘Reliure d’Art par Saint André. Hors Concours et Membre du Jury au Salon des Artistes Francais, Paris’, 4to, East Aurora, N.Y. 1902 £100-150
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Blackstone (William), Commentaries on the Laws of England, 5th Edition, 4 vols., contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco labels, extremities of spines rubbed, Oxford 1773 £300-400
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Blyton (Enid), Typescript for The Second Holiday Book, typed in red, 94 leaves, with various original pen and ink head- and tail- pieces, some amateur, and one doodle on the title-leaf, original brown wrappers with typed title, frayed, overall 260 x 205 mm.
The Second Holiday book was first published in 1947. £100-200
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Brassey (Anne, Baroness), In the Trades and Tropics, no. 194 of 250 copies, presentation copy to Captain R.A. Seaton, original half vellum, gilt, 1885 £150-200
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Britton (John) & Pugin (Augustus Charles), Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London, 2nd Edition, 2 vols., contemporary half morocco, 1838 £100-150
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Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Second World War: vol. 2, with a tipped in presentation sheet signed “with all good wishes from Winston S. Churchill”, original cloth, frayed dust-wrapper, [1952]
£200-400 12.
Churchill (Winston Spencer). A History of the English-Speaking People: vol. 1, with a tipped-in presentation sheet signed “with all good wishes, Winston S. Churchill, April 23, 1956”; vol. IV with a similarly signed, but undated presentation sheet tipped- in, together 2 vols., First Editions, original cloth, dust-wrappers, the latter slightly frayed (2) £300-500
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Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Second World War, First American Edition, vol. III, with a tipped-in presentation sheet signed “with all good wishes from Winston S. Churchill”, held at the top by a piece of sellotape, original cloth, frayed dust- wrapper, 1950 £200-400
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