Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 50
50. Pauquet (Hippolyte & Polidor) Mo d e s e T co s T u M e s
hi s T o r i Q u e s, half-title, title with hand-coloured woodengraved
vignette, 96 hand-coloured engraved plates,
tissue guards, original red decorated cloth, gilt, g.e.,
rebacked preserving old morocco gilt spine, rubbed,
preserved in modern cloth slip-case, [Colas 2293], 4to,
Paris, [1864]. £150 - £200
51. Potter (Beatrix) si s T e r An n e, firsT e d i T i o n, firsT
issue, (with frontispiece opposite p.7), 13 plates, very
small area of water-staining to lower corners (to varying
degrees), original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine faded,
spine ends and corners frayed, rubbed, Philadelphia,
[1932]; The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, firsT e d i T i o n,
colour plates, full-page black and white illustrations,
endpapers spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine
faded, [1930]; Pierre Lapin, half-title, colour plates,
original pictorial boards, a few small light stains to
upper cover, upper joint rubbed, [n.d.]; and 2 others,
Potter Bibliography, v.s. (5) £200 - £300
Lot 52
Lot 52
52. Potter (Beatrix) Th e TA l e o f pe T e r rA b b i T, one of
250 copies, 34 plates printed from the original blocks,
each loose in a captioned folder,with a separate essay
by Maurice Sendak in appreciation of Peter Rabbit,
all housed in original pictorial cloth drop-back box,
Kingston, N.Y., Battledore Ltd, 1995. £200 - £300
*** A charming production with new impressions from
the surviving original 34 blocks.
Lot 53
53. Scrap Albums.- Tw o n e AT ly p r e s e n T e d A l b u M s
o f 19T h c e n T u ry i n T e r e s T, with numerous portraits,
landscapes, historical and romantic scenes, extensive
manuscript text, dated letters, unsigned pencil drawings,
5 signed child head studies in pencil , initialled ‘F.M.’,
and with over 15 highly competent botanical studies,
one on full sheet, engravings, mezzotints, watercolour,
body colour and pencil drawings, variously trimmed
and pasted on album leaves, occasional light spotting
and surface dirt, uniformly bound in two volumes, red
morocco, gilt, worn, [c.1860-1890] (2). £400 - £600