13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 1161/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates

Mudie (Robert) Gleanings of Nature: Containing Fifty-Seven Groups of Animals and Plants. Sm. folio L. 1838. First Edn. hd. cold. frontis, hd. cold. vignette title, & 13 hd. cold. plts, 40 bl. & white plts. text illus. etc. orig. cloth, v. good. (1)

Lot 1162/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Rackham (Arthur)illus: Evans (C.S.) Cinderella, folio L. [1919] cold. frontis decor. title, cold. & bl. & white silhouettes thro-out, decor. boards, good; also Moore (C.C.) The Night before Christmas, roy 8vo L. [1931], 4 cold. plts. etc; & Ruskin (John) The King of the Golden River, roy 8vo L. [1932], 4 cold. plts. etc., last two items orig. pict. wrappers. All good. (3)

Lot 1163/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

Illustrated Volumes: Kingsley (Chas.) The Waterbabies, 4to L. n.d. cold. plts. & other illus. by A.E. Jackson, cold. decor. cloth; Grahame (K.) The Golden Age, 4to L. 1915. Cold. plts. & other illus. by R.J. Enright-Mooney, decor. cloth; Galsworthy (J.) Awakening, 4to L. n.d., frontis & illus. by R.H. Sauterk, gilt boards; West (M.) Aucassin and Nicolete, 4to L.n.d. cold. plts. & illus. thro-out by M.R. Becher & Evelyn Paul, decor. cloth; & 1 other. (5)

Lot 1164/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

Kirk – Outlines from the … Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton, roy 8vo L. 1814. Second Edn. hf. title & 62 engd. plts. orig. mor. backed cloth, paper label. (1)

Lot 1165/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

With Attractive Coloured Coloured Plates

Adams (H.G. & H.B.) The Smaller British Birds, roy 8vo L. 1884. Cold. frontis & 28 cold. plts. a.e.g. attractive full blue mor. gilt fillet borders, spine profusely gilt, with mor. label. (1)

Lot 1167/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

Rackham (Arthur) Illustrated. Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 4to L. 1907. Mtd. cold. frontis & 49 sim. cold. plts., orig. gilt decor. pict. cloth, some stains. (1)

Lot 1168/0216

SOLD Hammer price €150

Privately Printed, 100 Copies Only

Juvenalia: The Wakefield Second Nativity Play, 4to L. 1917. Produced at Wall School, Weybridge by Miss Gilpin & Miss Gillespy with the Aid of the Children, with fine hd. cold. initials, text illus., & hd. cold. mtd. plts., uncut, decor. end papers, & orig. boards, printed label. Orig. ptd. prospectus loosely inserted. V. good. Ex. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1169/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

Juvenalia: Thompson (Kay) Eloise, roy 8vo N.Y. (Simon & Schuster) 1955 First Edn., illus. by Hilary Knight, orig. cream cloth & pict. d.w. frayed at top edges; also Eloise in Paris, sm folio N.Y. 1957. First Edn., illus. by H. Knight, orig. blue boards, & v. good pict. d.w. (2)

Lot 1170/0216

SOLD Hammer price €150

Juvenalia: Farjeon (Eleanor) The Perfect Zoo, oblong roy 8vo L. 1929. First Edn., decor. cold. title & 12 plts. orig. pict. cloth backed boards; also Miller (O. Beaupre)ed. Little Pictures of Japan, 4to Chicago 1925. First Edn., title end-paper & pictures thro-out by Katharine Sturges, orig. decor blue, cloth, with pict. overlay. V. good copies. (2)

Lot 1172/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Juvenalia: Orr (Monro S.) The Alphabet Set Forth in Six & Twenty Pictures, lg. 4to L. n.d. [1931]. decor. end papers, v. sm. pce. torn from one corner, hf. title, 26 cold. plts. orig. decor. cloth backed pict. boards. (1)

Lot 1173/0216

SOLD Hammer price €320

Hand-coloured, Privately Printed, One of 50 Copies Only

Juvenalia: Leslie (Shane) The Cuckoo Clock, folio Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1987, Special Lim. Edn. 50 Copies Only. With wonderful hand-tinted illus., after Iris Leslie, with orig. letters etc. relating to same tipped in, uncut, orig. quarter leather backed Chinese silk, gilt decor. & with Japanese wood veneer slip case. Ex. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1175/0216

SOLD Hammer price €30

Armstrong (Rob. Bruce) The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale, and the Debateable Land.” Lg. 4to Edin. 1883. FIRST EDN., LIM. EDN. 94 (105) Large Paper, hf. title, cold. frontis, 2 fold maps, 20 plts. (6 cold.) complete, 1 leaf mis-bound, recent calf backed marble boards. Good. (1)

Lot 1176/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

Very Early Edition

Plantin Press: Aquinas (St. Thomas) Summa Totius Theologiae, folio Antwerp (Christ. Plantin) 1585. title & a few leaves repaired & strengthened at edges (1 leaf with some loss), some mis-pagination otherwise v. good later panel calf. (1)

Lot 1177/0216

SOLD Hammer price €350

Dryden (John) Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer; with original Poems. Folio L. 1700 First Edn., complete with hf. title, & leaf 565 of Table at end, some browning or spotting with inscription on title page, cont. panel calf, worn & later recased, new spine, worn. (1)

Lot 1178/0216

SOLD Hammer price €60

Hulme (F. Edward) Principles of Ornamental Art, folio L.n.d. 32 full page plts., orig. heavy hf. crimson mor. V. good. (1)

Lot 1179/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Signed Limited Edition

[Fortescue-Brickdale (Eleanor)] illus. Tennyson (Lord A.) Idylls of the King, lg. 4to L. n.d. L.P. Lim. Edn. 122 (350), Signed by artist, 21 fine mtd. plts. includ. frontis, uncut, orig. gilt decor. vellum. V. good. Fine copy. (1)

Lot 1180/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1120

With fine Large hand-Coloured Plates

Alken (Henry) Illustrations to Popular Songs, lg. oblong folio L. (Thos. Mc Lean) 1826. First Edn., hand cold., frontis & 43 full page hd. cold. plts. (with some extras but lacking Southerly Wind), a.e.g. cont. hf. crimson mor. mor. label on upr. cover, tooled gilt spine, marble sides. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 1185/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Juvenalia: Pop-Up Book. Weatherly (F.E.) Peeps into Fairyland, A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. Lg. oblong folio. L. & N.Y. n.d. 6 attractive cold. pop-up pictures, & other text illus. orig. cloth backed cold. pict. boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1187/0216

SOLD Hammer price €950

From the Library of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence

Bindings: Del Museo Capitolino, Vols. I & II, Contenente Immagini d’Vomini Illustri, & I Busti Imperiala. 2 vols. lg. folio Rome (Nella Stamperia di Antonio de Rossi) 1748. Engd. title Vol. I, and vign. title Vol. II, engd. initial letters, & head & tails, & 187 full page plts., a.e.g., lacks loose marble ends, cont. full Italian mor. heavy tooled gilt borders, & central panel with decorated panels and corner decorations & central floral decorated lozenger, spines rebacked, with originals laid down.
* From Duke of Clarences’ library with his bookplates. As a binding, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 1192/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Modern English Poetry: Lowell (Rob.) Notebook, L. 1970, d.w., For the Union Dead, L. 1965, d.w.; The Dolphin, L. 1973, d.w.; Day by Day, L. 1978, d.w.; Gunn (Thom) Moly, L. 1971, d.w.; Touch Poems, L. 1967, d.w.; Hill (Geoffrey) Tenabrae, L. 1978, d.w.; & Oraclaii Oracles, Thame 2010, d.w.; Scannell (V.) Walking Wounded Poems 1962-65, L. 1965, & Epithaphs of War, Poems 1965-69, L. 1969, All First Edns. (10)