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SESSION ONE • ESTATE COLLECTION - ON INSTRUCTION TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE 

10.30am NZT START • LOTS 1 - 368 

Lot 1 - 64 Renowned Publishers 

Lot 65 - 192 Antiquarian 

Lot 193 - 214a Literature 

Lot 215 - 249 Poetry & Verse 

Lot 249a - 265 Biography 

Lot 266 - 270 Religion 

Lot 271 - 283 Travel & Exploration 

Lot 284 - 320a Botany, Horticulture & Natural History 

Lot 321 - 339 Art & Architecture 

Lot 340 - 368 Printing, Publishing & Book Binding 

ABBREVIATIONS 

BP Book plate FA Fair ND Not dated 

BRDS Boards FEP Front ed paper RP Reprint 

CB Corners bumped FX Foxing PL Plate 

COL Colour G Good PORT Portrait 

DEC Decorative INSC Inscription PO Previous owner 

DJ Dust jacket ILLUS Illustrated SA Signed by author 

E Edges L Leaf/leaves SIG Signature 

ED Edition LB Leather bound ST Stamp 

EP End paper LITHO Lithographic TP Title page 

F Fine MRBLD Marbled 

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SESSION ONE • WEDNESDAY 24 MARCH 2010 • 10.30am START • LOTS 1 - 368 

RENOWNED PUBLISHERS 

1 Beckford, William 

The Vision Liber Veritatis 

Edited and with intro and notes 

by Guy Chapman, University Press 

Cambridge 1930, 23.5cm, 166pp, 

maroon cloth, G+ 

Est $20 - 40 

2 Beedome, Thomas. 

Select Poems Divine and Humane 

The Nonesuch Press, 1928, Ltd Ed, 

No 775 of 1250, 20cm, 51pp, plus 

The Notes, full vellum, slipcase, 

grubby, else F 

Est $30 - 60 

3 Beerbohm, Max. 

The Happy Hypocrite – A Fairy Tale For 

Tired Men 

Bruce Rogers, October House, New 

Fairfield, 1955, 20.5cm, 81pp, dec 

lilac paper covered brds, F 

Est $30 – 60 

3a Blake, William 

Blakes Pencil Drawings 

Second Series, edited by Geoffrey 

Keynes, The Nonesuch Press, 1956, 

Ltd Ed No 295 of 1440, 30cm, xi illus, 

rust cloth, DJ with gilded snowflake 

decoration, jacket frayed to corners, 

else G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

4 Blake, William. 

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 

with an intro and commentary by Sir 

Geoffrey Keynes, Oxford University 

Press in association with The Trianon 

Press, 1975, 21cm, blue cloth with 

slipcase, case slightly sunned, else F 

Est $30 – 60 

5 Blencowe, Mrs Ann. 

The Receipt Book of Mrs Ann Blencowe 

A.D. 1694 

Guy Chapman, The Adelphi, 

1925,20.5cm, 60pp, gilt dec brds, 

spine poor, else G 

Est $20 - 40 

6 Breton, Nicholas 

A Mad World My Masters (2 Vols) 

Edited by Ursula Kentish-Wright, The 

Cresset Press Ltd, London, 1929, Ltd 

Ed No 453 of 500, 24cm, dec green 

and gilded cloth, edges untrimmed 

and browned, FX, else G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

7 Butler, Samuel. 

Butleriana 

The Nonesuch Press, 1932, Ltd Ed 

515 of 800, 23.5cm, xvi, 172pp, 

quarter buckram, dec brds, F 

Est $20 – 40 

8 Byrne, M. St Clare. (Ed) 

The Elizabethan Zoo 

A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and 

Authentic, Frederick Etchells & Hugh 

Macdonald, London,Ltd Ed 251 of 

525 1926, 27.5cm, illus, xiv, 171pp, 

dec cloth, DJ, (faded), browning, and 

minor FX to EP, s else G+ 

EST $50 – 100 

9 Byron, George Gordon (6th Lord 

Byron) 

The Ravena Journal 

Mainly compiled at Ravenna in 1821 

and now for the first time issued in 

book form, with an intro by the Right 

Honourable Lord Ernle, The First 

Edition Club, London, 1928, 23cm, 

100pp, dec cloth, small leather title 

to spine, F 

Est $20 - 40 

10 Campion, Thomas 

The Maske 

As produced at Hatfield Palace 

on May 30th & 31st. 1924, for the 

benefit of the Hertfordshire County 

Nursing Association. Privately 

printed at The Cayme Press for The 

Chelsea Publishing Co, 1924, Ltd Ed 

no 31 of 500, 39pp, 26cm, quarter 

cloth , blue paper covered brds, 

pastedown title, spine poor, FX, G 

Est $20 – 40 

11 Carew, Thomas. 

A Rapture 

With engs by J. B. Laboureur, The 

Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, Ltd Ed 

No 343 of 375, 20cm, 14pp, dec brds, 

DJ, holed and grubby else G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

12 Cervantes, Miguel De. 

Don Quixote de la Mancha (2 Vols) 

The Nonesuch Press, Ltd Ed, 528 of 

1475, 1930, 23.5cm, Vol 1, ix, 502pp, 

Vol 2, vi, 549pp, illus by E. McKnight 

Turner, full pigskin, 5 raised bands, 

usual foxing to brds, darkening to 

spines, else F. 

Est $300 – 600 

See Illustration 

12a Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 

The Rime of The Ancient Mariner 

The Caxton Press, Christchurch, 

1952, Ltd Ed of 275, frontis, titling 

and initial letter by Leo Bensemann, 

29.5cm, 39pp, plus subscribers page, 

quarter green cloth, mrbld brds, DJ, 

jacket grubby, usual browning to 

EPs, else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

13 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 

Selected Poems of Coleridge 


No 201 of 500, 29cm, illus by Stefan 

Mrozewski, title vignette by Berthold 

Wolpe, full orange stained vellum, 

with old mildew spots to the brds, 

outer slipcase with mrbld dec, minor 

spotting else, G 

Est $80 - 150 

14 Curle, Richard (Ed ) 

W. H .Hudsons Letters to R. B. 

Cunninghame 

With a few to Cunninghame’s 

Mother Mrs Bontine, drawings of 

Hudson and Cunninghame Graham 

by Sir William Rothenstein, The 


No 74 of 250, 19.5cm, 128pp, frontis 

caricature of W. H. Hudson watching 

birds, 1903-4, quarter red morocco, 

gold cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 

spine sunned, brds finger marked, 

minor FX, else G+ 

EST $80 - 150 

15 Dante Alighieri 

La Divina Commedia 

Or The Division Of Dante Alighieri 

in Italian and English, the Italian 

text edited by Mario Casella of The 

University of Florence with the 

English version of H. F. Cary and 

42 illustrations after the drawings 

of Sandro Botticelli, The Nonesuch 

Press, 1928,Ltd Ed No 714 of 1475, 

31.5cm, 325pp, orange stained 

vellum gilt, spine faded, FX, else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


16 Dekker, Thomas 

Foure Birds of Noahs Arke 

Edited by F. P. Wilson, Basil Blackwell, 

publisher to The Shakespeare Head 

Press of Stratford Upon Avon, 1924, 

17cm, xv, 286pp, dec paper covered 

brds, BP & sig of Roland Fuller, G+ 

Est $20 - 40

17 Dobree, Bonamy & Webb, Geoffrey 

(Eds) 

The Complete Works of Sir John 

Vanburgh. (4 Vols) 

The Nonesuch Press, 1928, 26.5cm, 

quarter blue cloth, paper covered 

brds, FX, else G+ 

Est $50 - 100 

18 Donne , John 

The Courtiers Library 

Or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum 

incomparabilium et non 

vendibilium, edited by Evelyn Mary 

Simpson, with a translation, The 

Nonesuch Press, 1930, Ltd Ed No 

732 of 950, 93pp, turquoise paper 

covered brds, with slipcase,16.5cm, 

spine sunned, minor spotting else F 

Est $30 - 60 

19 Donne, John 

X Semons 

Preached by that late and learned 

Rev Divine, Doctor in Divinity once 

Dean of the Cathedral of Saint 

Pauls, chosen from the whole body 

of Donne’s Sermons by Geoffrey 

Keynes and published in 1923 by 

The Nonesuch Press, 30 Gerrard 

St, Soho, 30cm, with original loose 

advertisement, uncut, 162pp, TP in 

red and black, quarter beige cloth, 

paper covered brds, untrimmed 

edges, minor wear, else F 

Est $60 – 120 

20 Earle, John 

Micro-cosmographie 

Or, A Piece of the World Discovered 

in Essayes and Characters, Ed by 

Gwendolen Murphy, The Golden 

Cockerel Press, 1928, Ltd Ed 325 of 

400, 28.5cm, vi, 73pp, plus textual 

notes, red cloth, DJ, worn and 

frayed to top edge, sunned, usual 

discolouring to EP’s else F 

Est $100 - 200 

15 

12 

21 Ellis, Havelock 

Chapman 

The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury 

1934 Ltd Ed 19 of 700 printed on 

Van Gelder paper 26cm 146pp, full 

tan calf with gilt and ribbed spine, 

gen wear, single borer hole to upper 

spine else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

22 Fawcett, F. Burlington 

Broadside Ballads of The Restoration 

Period 

From The Jersey Collection known 

as The Osterley Park Ballads, John 

Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 

London, 1930, Ltd Ed No 184 of 750, 

35.5cm, xxvi, 248pp, quarter vellum 

gilt, dec cloth, pages untrimmed, 

minor FX, else F 

Est $40 - 80 

23 Flecknoe, Richard 

The Life of Tomaso The Wanderer 

An Attack Upon Thomas Killigrew , 

RP from the original of 1667, P.J. & 

A. E .Dobell, 1925, 30cm, vii, 11pp, 

illus with frontis, mrbld card wraps, 

pastedown title, G 

$30 – 60 

24 Florio, John (Trans) 

Montaignes Essays (2 Vols) 

edited by J. I. M. Stewart, The 

Nonesuch Press, London, 1931, 

21.5cm, pages untrimmed, full tan 

niger morocco, 5 raised bands, 

embossed oval cabochons, sunned, 

else F 

Est 60 - 120 

25 Fontenelle, Bernard De. 

A Plurality of Words. 

John Glanvills Translation, With A 

Prologue By David Garnett, The 

Nonesuch Press, Ltd Ed, 1292 of 

1600, 1929, 21cm, 1x, 138pp, gilt 

dec vellum, dec slipcase, F 

Est $50 – 100 

26 Fox, The Rev Adam (Trans) 

A Book of Devotions 

Composed by Her Majesty (Queen 

Elizabeth I), Foreward by The Rev 

Canon J.P.Hodges, Colin Smythe, 

Gerrards Cross, 1970,Ltd Ed of 750, 

25.5cm, 45pp, illus, dec brds, F 

Est $30 - 60 

27 Gill, Eric (Decorations) 

The Four Gospels of The Lord Jesus 

Christ 

According To The Authorized Version 

Of King James I, With Decorations 

By Eric Gill, Printed And Published 

At The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931 

Ltd Ed No 419/500, 34.5cm, printed 

on Batchelor hand made paper, with 

sixty five illustrations from wood 

engravings, half white pigskin and 

buckram covered brds by Sangorski 

& Sutcliffe, pastedown label to inside 

cover from Francis Edwards Ltd, 

reads – This book was purchased in 

1941 from London whilst the great 

battle for civilisation was in progress. 

Usual foxing to the brds, old staining 

to spine, else F 

This work stands as the crowning 

achievement of the Golden Cockerel 

Press, as well as Gill’s finest work as a 

book artist. 

Est $8,000 – 15,000 


28 Goldschmidt, E. P. H. 

Burchardus De Bellevaux Apologia De 

Barbis 

A Twelfth Century Treatise on 

Beards and their moral and Mystical 

Significance, Now for the first 

time Edited from the only known 

Manuscript (British Museum MS add. 

41997) 

The University Press, Cambridge, 

1935, Ltd Ed of 350, 21.5cm, latin 

text, x, 97pp, green cloth gilt, DJ, old 

stains to DJ, minor FX, and browning 

to edges, else G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

31

27 

29 Gosse, Sir Edmund, (Ed) 

The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell 

Beddoes, (2 Vols) 

Edited With A Memoir By Sir Edmund 

Gosse, And Decorated By The Dance 

Of Death Of Hans Holbein, , issued 

by The Fanfrolico Press, London, 

1928, Ltd Ed, 265/700, quarter black 

cloth, dec paper covered brds F 

Est $100 - 200 

30 Herbert, George. 

The Temple 

Sacred Poems & Private Ejaculations, 

Printed from the Manuscript in the 

Bodleian Library by the Nonesuch 

Press, London, 1927, Ltd Ed No 181 

of 1500, 25cm, x, 213pp, frontis port, 

unusual red and fawn tapestry cloth 

binding, BP of Guy Vaughan-Morgan, 

FEP browned, very minor spotting, 

else F 

Est $30 - 60 

31 Hickes, Francis (trans) 

The True Historie of Lucian The 

Samosatenian 

Translated From The Greeke Into 

English With An Introduction By 

J. S. Phillimore, Together With The 

Greeke And Decorated With Wood 

Engravings By Robert Gibbings, 

The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, 

Ltd Ed 126 of 275, title page signed 

by Gibbings, 44pp, quarter brown 

morocco, oatmeal cloth by Sangorski 

& Sutcliffe, London, minor old 

staining and wear, else , F 

Est $500 – 1,000 


32 Hoole, John 

Journal Narrative Relative to Doctor 

Johnsons Last Illness 

Three Weeks Before His Death, 

edited with a preface by O. M. Brack 

Jr, The Windhover Press, Iowa City, 

1972, Ltd Ed of 250, 25.5cm, black 

cloth, F 

Est $20 - 40 

33 Hudson, W. H. 

153 Letters From W. H. Hudson 

Edited and with an intro and 

explanatory notes by Edward 

Garnett, The Nonesuch Press, 1928, 

Ltd Ed of 1000, 26cm, 191pp, brown 

cloth, DJ, minor spotting else F 

Est $30 – 60 

34 Hume, David 

My Own Life 

Stanford Dingley, The Mill House 

Press, 1927, Ltd Ed No 9 of 80, 16cm, 

27pp, red cloth gilt, BP of John 

Porter, minor sunning, browning to 

EPs, else F 

Est $50 - 100 

35 Johnson, Abraham 

Lucina sine Concubitu 

A Letter Humbly addressed to the 

Royal Society, in which is proved 

by most Incontestable Evidence, 

drawn from Reason and Practice, 

that a Woman may conceive and 

be brought to Bed without any 

Commerce with Man, The Golden 

Cockerel Press, 1930, Ltd Ed No 458 

of 500, with 3 engs on copper by 

Hester Sainsbury, 18.5cm, 41pp, BP 

of William Maxwell, quarter vellum, 

dec cloth, minor wear else F 

Est $30 - 60 

36 Kelland, Clarence Budington. 

The Cosmic Jest 

Music by Frank R. Denke, Bohemian 

Club, 1949, printed at The Grabhorn 

Press, 23.5cm, 54pp, dec paper brds 

Est $30 - 60 

37 Lawrence, T. E. 

Secret Despatches from Arabia 

Published by Permission of the 

Foreign Office, foreword by A. W. 

Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel 

Press, 1939, 26cm, Ltd Ed No 293 of 

1000, 173pp, quarter black niger, 

cream cloth binding by Sangorski 

& Sutcliffe, browning to brd edges, 


Est $200 – 400 


38 Lawson, William. 

A New Orchard & Garden 

The Cresset Press Ltd, London, 

1927, Ltd Ed No 186 of 650, 22cm, 

xxiv, 116pp, illus incl TP, quarter 

vellum, paper covered brds, FX and 

browning to EPs, else F 

Est $40 – 80 

38a Lee, Sidney 

Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories & 

Tragedies Being A Reproduction In 

Facsimile Of The First Folio Edition 

1623, from The Chatsworth Copy 

In The Possesion Of The Duke Of 

Devonshire, with introduction and 

census of copies, The Clarendon 

Press, 1902, signed Ltd Ed 813/1000, 

38cm, xxxv, 907pp, cloth brds, old 

water stains to lower right crnrs, last 

p. nibbled lower right, covers well 

worn, rear lacking, else G. 

Est $250 – 500 

See Illustration

37 

39 Longus, Thornley, Geo (trans) 

Daphne & Chloe 

A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastorall 

ROMANCE for young ladies, 

translated out of the Greek. The 


314 of 450, 26cm, 108pp, quarter 

beige cloth, blue paper covered 

brds, old stains to brds, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

40 Macdonald, Hugh (Ed) 

Observations Upon a Late Libel 

Called, A Letter from a Person of 

Quality to his Friend, concerning the 

Kings Declaration, The University 

Press, Cambridge, 1940, 21.5cm, 

51pp, cloth spine, gray paper 

covered brds with pastedown title, G 

Est $20 - 40 

41 Marston, John. 

The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions 

Image 

With engravings by Rene Ben 

Sussan, Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, 

Ltd Ed, 220 of 325, 20.5cm, 18pp, dec 

brds, DJ, grubby, else G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

42 Marvell, Andrew 

Miscellaneous Poems 

The Nonesuch Press, 1923 Ltd Ed 484 

of 850 on Italian hand made paper 

27.5cm, 148pp, illus with frontis port, 

dec faux vellum gilt, spine darkened, 

else F 

Est $40 - 80 

43 Milton, John 

Miltons Poems (2 Vols) 

Paradise Lost and Miscellaneous 

Poems, Paradise Regain’d, Samson 

Agonistes, The Nonesuch Press, Ltd 

Ed No 1373 of 1450 on Van Gilder 

rag paper 1926, 25.5cm, both with 

illus by William Blake, dec paper 

covered brds, G+ 

Est $150 – 300 

48 

44 Milton, John, & Lawes, Henry 

The Mask of Comus 

The Poem, originally called “A Mask 

Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 

etc, edited by E. H. Visiak, The Airs 

of the five Songs reprinted from the 

Composer’s autograph manuscript 

edited by Hubert J. Foss, with a 

foreword by The Earl of Ellesmere, 

ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar, The 

Nonesuch Press, 1937, Ltd Ed No 331 

of 950, 39.5cm, dec brds, slipcase 

with pastedown illus, case sunned, 

old mildew spots, book with FX and 

browning to EPs, else F 

Est $30 – 60 

45 Percy, Thomas 

Ancient Songs Chiefly On Moorish 

Subjects 

Translated from The Spanish, with 

a preface by David Nichol Smith, 

printed by John Johnson for 

Humphrey Milford at The Oxford 

University Press, London, 1932, Ltd 

Ed No 224 of 250, 30cm, xviii, 51pp, 

plus notes, illus, quarter vellum, 

paper covered brds, slightly grubby, 

old water stain and number in pink 

felt pen to FEP, minor FX, else G+ 

Est $60 - 120 

46 Pope, Alexander (Trans) 

Homer The Iliad 

The Nonesuch Press, 1931, Ltd Ed No 

1202 of 1450, 27.5cm, text in Greek 

and English on opposing pages, 

927pp, untrimmed, fine binding 

in full tan niger morocco with twin 

ruled gilt lines, 5 raised bands, mrbld 

EPs and slipcase, sunned, minor 

wear, else G+ 

Est $400 – 800 


38a 

47 Proctor, Robert, 

Oresteia of Aeschylus 

Emery Walker, Sydney Carlyle 

Cockerell and Alfred William Pollard, 

sold for them by the printers Charles 

Whittingham and Co, London, 1904, 

Ltd Ed of 225, 27cm, 194pp uncut, 

quarter grey cloth, paper covered 

brds, usual wear, and discolour to 

EP’s else F 

Est $50 - 100 

48 Professor Gollancz (Ed) 

The Kings Library, (4 Vols) 

The De La More Press Folios, Ltd Eds, 

Vol 1 258/320 1905, Vol II, 291/320, 

1906, Vol III, 258/320, 1907, Vol IV, 

280/320, 1910, quarter cloth paper 

covered brds, Vol III pp167 lower 

right corner torn, CB, else G 

Est $400 – 800 


49 Remy, Nicolas. 

Demonolatry 

Privy Councillor to the Most Serene 

Duke of Lorraine, and Public 

Advocate to his Duchy, in 3 books. 

Translated by E. A. Ashwin, edited 

with intro and notes by the Rev 

Montague Summers, drawn from the 

capital trials of 900 persons, more or 

less, who within the last fifteen years 

have in Lorraine paid the penalty 

of death for the crime of witchcraft, 

John Rodker, London 1930, Ltd Ed, 

39 of 127526.5cm, xliii,188pp,quarter 

orange cloth beige brds, usual 

discolour to EP’s else F 

Est $50 – 100 

50 Saddlemyer, Ann 

Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady 

Gregory and W. B. Yeats 

The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1971, Ltd Ed 

No 145 of 500, 22cm, 85pp, uncut, 

quarter cream cloth and paper 

covered brds, plain white DJ, F 

Est $40 - 80

46 48 

51 

54 

51 Scot, Reginald 

The Discoverie of Witchcraft 

With an introduction by the Rev 

Montague Summers, John Rodker, 

London, 1930, Ltd Ed, No 476 of 

1275, 30.5cm, xxxvii, 283pp, quarter 

red morocco, green cloth, embossed 

roundel, gilt titled spine, minor 

fraying to spine extremities else F 

Est $200 – 400 


52 Sidney, Sir Philip 

Astrophel & Stella 

The Nonesuch Press, Ed by Mona 

Wilson, 1931, Ltd Ed 413 of 725, 

23cm,193pp, dec paper covered 

brds wrap and slipcase, discolouring 

else G+ 

Est $20 – 50 

53 Simpson, Evelyn Mary (Ed) 

Donnes Sermon of Valediction at His 

Going Into Germany, preached at 

Lincolns Inn April 18, 1619 

Printed from the original version 

in the Lothian and Ashmole 

Manuscripts and from XXVI sermons. 

The Nonesuch Press, 1932, 29.5cm, 

Ltd Ed no 299 of 750, hand made 

paper, edges untrimmed, embossed 

cream brds, heavy spotting, brds 

grubby, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

54 Spenser, Edmund. 

The Shepheardes Calender 

Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues 

Proportionable To The Twelve 

Months, Entitled , To the noble and 

vertuos Gentleman most worthy 

of all titles both of learning and 

chevalrie, Maister Philip Sidney, 

The Cresset Press Limited, London, 

1930, Ltd Ed No 211 of 350, 33.5cm, 

xxiii, 133pp, illus, pages untrimmed, 

quarter vellum, cream cloth, slipcase, 

book G+, case poor 

Est $200 – 400 


55 Stone, Reynolds 

Boxwood 

Twenty One Engravings, illus in verse 

by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Chatto & 

Windus, 1960 , 22cm, 47pp, with an 

accompanying letter and engraving 

from Stone’s wife Janet to a Mrs 

Cabett, brown cloth gilt, DJ, G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

56 Suckling, Sir John 

A Ballad Upon a Wedding 

With engs by Eric Ravilious, The 


No 244 of 375, dec brds,DJ, 2 small 

tears to top edge, jacket grubby, G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

57 Summers, Montague (Ed) 

The Complete Works of William 

Congreve (4 Vols) 


No 300 0f 900, quarter blue cloth 

and paper covered boards, FEPs 

browned, minor FX, else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

58 Summers, Rev Montague (Ed) 

Covent Garden Drollery 

The Fortune Press, London, 1927, 

20cm, vi, 123pp, quarter brown cloth 

and paper covered brds, F 

Est $30 - 60 

59 Summers, Rev Montague 

Malleus Maleficarum 

Translated with an Introduction, 

Bibliography and notes, 

John Rodker, 1928,Ltd Ed 476 

of 1275, 31cm, xlv, 278pp, red 

parchment, beige cloth with 

embossed oval crest, brds grubby, 

pages untrimmed, printed on 

specially made Dutch paper, minor 

FX and browning to edges else G+ 

(First English translation of the 1489 

Cologne Edition of what became 

the standard reference work for 

inquisitors & judges of witch trials) 

Est $200 – 400 

60 Swift, Jonathan. 

Miscellaneous Poems by Jonathan 

Swift 

Dean of Saint Patricks Cathedral, 

Dublin, Ed by R. Ellis Roberts, 

decorated with eng on wood 

by Robert Gibbings, The Golden 

Cockerel Press, 1928,Ltd Ed 68/375, 

27cm, viii, 68pp, quarter vellum, dec 

covered brds, DJ, with witty insc 

signed by Gibbings and 3 other, DJ 

sunned, minor discol to EP’s else F 

Est $100 – 200 

61 Turberville, George (Trans) 

The Heroycall Epistles 

Of the learned poet Publius Ovidius 

Naso, with ten full-page illustrations 

by Hester Sainsbury, edited with an 

intro and glossary by Frederick Boas, 

and Published by The Cresset Press 

Ltd, London, 1928,Ltd Ed, 330 of 375, 

29.5cm, xxiv, 349pp, quarter tan gilt 

and oatmeal covered brds, insc to 

FEP, minor FX, browning to E, G+ 

Est $80 – 150 

62 Young, Andrew 

Winter Harvest 

The Nonesuch Press, 1933, 23cm, 

51pp, quarter buckram, paper 

covered brds, DJ, FX, else G 

Est $20 - 40 

63 (-) 

A Printers Christmas Books 1930-58 

Privately printed at The University 

Press, Cambridge, 1959, 19.5cm, 

16pp, mrbld card wraps, G+ 

Est $20 - 40 

64 (-) 

Henry Vaughan, Silurist 

Poems from Poems, Olor Iscasnus, 

silex, scintillans, Thalia Redivia, An 

Essay from The Mount of Olives, Two 

Letters from MSS. in the Bodleian 

Library, The Nonesuch Press 1924,Ltd 

Ed, 602 of 850, 164pp, 27cm, gilt 

speckled black cloth, browning, 

minor FX to EPs, G+ 

Est $50 – 100

ANTIQUARIAN 

65 Addison, Joseph 

The Works of The Late Right Honorable 

Joseph Addison (4 Vols) 

With a complete index, printed by 

John Baskerville, Birmingham, for 

J and R. Tonson, 1761,31.5cm, Vol 

1, xxv, contents, 536pp, plus index, 

Vol 2, preface, 538pp, plus index, Vol 

3, 579pp, plus index, Vol 4, 555pp, 

plus index, fine full scarlet morocco 

gilt, 6 raised bands, dec gilt cmpts, 

mrbld EPs and fore-edges, sunned, 

Vol 1, with old damp, insc to Vol 1 

from father to son gifting the set as 

a wedding present, dated May 20th, 

1837, G+ 

Est $500 – 1,000 


66 Addison, Joseph & Steele, R. (Ed) 

The Spectator (8 Vols) 

Printed for J. and R Tonson and S 

Draper, London, ND 18th century 

set, 18cm, full calf, frontis engs, TPs 

with eng ports, G+, 

Est $200 - 400 

67 

65 69 

70 

67 Aldus 

Libri De Re Rustica 

Text in italics, with Roman capitals, 

published Venice 1531, with stylised 

dolphin and anchor colophons, the 

book begins with Aldus Lectoris, 

index and preliminaries, and all are 

restored, and re-pasted in, having 

clipped edges, up to pp5 have small 

nibbles to fore-edge, thereafter 

236pp, 21.5cm, poss orig full vellum, 

hole to rear brd, FA 

Est $1,000 -2,000 


68 Amory, Thomas 

The Life of John Buncle, Esq (2 Vol) 

Containing Various Observations 

and Reflections, Made In Several 

Parts of the World and many 

Extraordinary Relations, printed for J. 

Johnston and B. Davenport, London, 

1766, 21.5cm, Vol 1, ix, contents, 

511pp, Vol 2, adverts, contents, 

532pp, quarter tan calf, mrbld brds, 

spines poor, brds worn, minor FX 

else G+ 

Est $200 – 400 

70a 

69 Ariosto, Lodovico. 

Orlando Furioso (4 Vols) 

G. Baskerville, Birmingham, 1773, 

24.5cm,text in Italian, Vol 1, lii, 

362pp, Vol 2, 450pp, 2 small borer 

holes throughout text, Vol 3, 446pp, 

front brd loose , Vol 4, 446pp, full 

mottled calf, gilt lines & gilt dec 

spines, gen wear, CB, else G+ 

Est $300 – 600 


70 Aquinatis, Thomae 

Divi Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris 

Angelici (6 Vols) 

Ordinis Praedicatorum Summa 

Theologica, Editio Secunda, D. 

Josephi Doblado, Matriti, 1797, 

26cm, full vellum with ties, bindings 

grubby and discoloured, spines 

darkened, else G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


70a Bartas Du, Guillaume de Saluste 

(1544-1590) 

His Devine Weeks and Works 

translated...by Joshuah Sylvester 1611 

819pp [Index of the hardest works, 

The historie of…, The Summarie 

of the Books 1- 87] contemporary 

velum 80.5cm, missing TP, loose 

pages, stained & cover detached 

Est $500 – 1,000 


74

75 

79 


Vathek 

Chez Clark, A Londres, 1815, 

19cm,218pp, illus with frontis eng, 

text in French, half tan calf, mrbld 

brds, BP of Somerset, pp9 lower 

right corner missing 1cm, ink insc & 

notation at errata, FX brds with gen 

wear, else G+ 

Est $60 - 120 

72 Berners, Dame Julia 

The Boke of Saint Albans 

Containing Treatises on Hawking, 

Hunting, And Cote Armour, Elliot 

Stock, London, 1881, with an intro 

by William Blades, 30cm, full blind 

stamped vellum, brds grubby, upper 

spine split and re-glued, browning 

and FX, else G (Facsimile of the 

earliest English sporting book) 

Est $100 – 200 

73 Berners, Dame Julia 

A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle 

Being a Facsimilie Reproduction 

of the first book on the subject 

of fishing printed in England by 

Wynkyn De Worde, at Westminster in 

1496, 29.5cm, Elliot Stock, London, 

1880, full blind stamped vellum, BP 

of Samuel Chick, name in ink to front 

pastedown, brds grubby, browning , 

FX, else G 

Est $100 - 200 

74 Bishop Burnet 

History of His Own Time (2 Vols) 

Printed for Thomas Ward in the 

Inner-Temple Lane, London 1724- 

1734 

36.5cm, Vol 1, 836pp, List of 

Subscribers & advertisement to 

readers, Vol 2, 765pp, contemporary 

tooled full calf, 6 raised bands, gilt 

dec cmpts, spine titles poor, spine 

splits, gen wear to leather, usual 

yellowing to preliminaries, else G+ 

Est $400 – 800 


81 

75 Boruwlaski, Count Joseph. 

Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski 

Containing A Sketch of His Travels, 

with An Account Of His Reception At 

The Different Courts Of Europe 

Francis Humble & Co, Durham, 1820, 

22cm, xi, 391pp, illus with frontis 

port of the author, also ink insc to 

loose fly reads, A tribute to you 

Madam from your humble and most 

faithful servant Joseph Boruwlaski, 

fine Rieviere type full scarlet tooled 

morocco gilt binding, watered silk 

EPs, some wear, corners bumped, 

else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


76 Brown, Sir Thomas, Kt. 

The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas 

Brown, Kt 

Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich, 

Containing I Enquiries into 

Vulgar and Common Errors, II 

Religio Medici, With Annotations 

and Observations upon it, III 

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial, Together 

with The Garden of Cyrus, IV Certain 

Miscellany Tracts, with alphabetical 

tables, printed for Thos Basset, Ric 

Chiswell, Thos Sawbridge, Charles 

Mearn, and Charles Brome, London, 

1686, 31cm, rebound green calf gilt, 

borer holes, else G 

Est $100 - 200 

77 Burke, Edmund 

Reflections on The Revolution in 

France 

And On The Proceedings in Certain 

Societies In London, relative to that 

event, 2nd ed, printed for J. Dodsley, 

London, 1790, 21.5cm, 356pp, 

quarter calf, mrbld brds, FX and gen 

wear else G 

Est $60-100 

82 

78 Burney, Charles 

An Account of the Musical 

Performances in Westminster-Abbey 

and The Pantheon 

May, 26, 27, 29, and June 3rd, and 

5th 1784, In Commemoration of 

Handel, printed for the benefit of 

the Musical Fund, and sold by T. 

Payne and Son, and G. Robinson, 

London, 1785, 28cm, xvi, 139pp, 

illus with engs, half calf, mrbld brds, 

both detached and worn, FX, some 

browning, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

79 Cervantes, Miguel De 

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De 

La Mancha (4 Vols) 

NE, Don Joachin Ibarra, Madrid, 

1782, 17cm, full tan calf, all spines 

taped, else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


80 Clarendon,(Edward Earl Of) 

The History of The Rebellion and Civil 

Wars In England (3 Vols) 

Begun in the Year 1641, With the 

precedent Passages, and Actions, 

that contributed thereunto, and 

the happy End, and Conclusion 

thereof by the Kings blessed 

Restoration, and Return upon 

the 29th of May in the Year 1660, 

Written by the Right Honourable 

Edward Earl of Clarendon, Late Lord 

High Chancellor of England, Privy 

Counsellor, in the Reigns of King 

Charles the First and Second, printed 

at the Theater, Oxford, 1707, 40cm, 

Vol 1, xxiii, 557, Vol 2, 581pp, Vol 3, 

603pp, plus index to the 3 vols, eng 

frontis ports, full tooled speckled 

calf, 5 raised bands, brds and spines 

well worn, spines of vols 1 & 3 

cracked, old water staining to all 3 

throughout, borer holes at lower 

edge to rear few pages in vol 3,BP of 

D Lloyd Jones, FA 

Est $500 – 1,000 

See Illustration

80 

81 Coles, William. 

Adam in Eden 

Or Natures Paradise, The History of 

Plants, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers, 

with their several names, whether 

Greek, Latin or English, etc, etc, 

printed by J Streater for Nathaniel 

Brooke, London, 1657, 29.5cm, 

629pp, brds, very poor, lacking 

leather, backstrip only remains, TP 

in red and black, preliminaries worn 

and brittle, heavy discolouring and 

staining, edges nibbled, first page 

of table with small tear, 2nd page 

lacking lower right 2 inches, old 

water stains throughout, ink insc 

here and there, last 2 pages of A 

Table lacking lower right corner and 

edges poor, FA 

Est $400 – 800 


82 Copland, William 

A Boke of the Properties of Herbes 

called an Herball c1555-1561, with 

12 large foliate decorated initials, 

14.5cm, plain brown cloth, no TP, 

numerous ink annotations to the 

margins, else FA. 

Est $1,000 – 2,000 


83 Cottle, Joseph 

Early Recollections Chiefly Relating To 

The Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2 

Vols) 

During His Long Residence In Bristol, 

Longman, Rees & Co and Hamilton 

Adams & Co, London, 1837, 20cm, 

Vol 1, xxvii, 325pp, Vol 2, 346pp, 

illus with 2 frontis and 4 other eng 

port plates, rebound fine half green 

morocco, mrbld brds, F 

Est $80 - 150 

88 

84 Cotton, Charles 

The Genuine Poetical Works 

Containing, 1- Scarronides, or Virgil, 

II- Lucian Burlesqu’d, or the Scoffer 

Scofft, III-The Wonders of the Peake 

Illustrated with curios cutts, all New 

design,d and Engrav’d, by the best 

Artists, printed for R and F Bonwicke 

and R.Wilkin, 2nd Ed corrected, 

London, 1725, 17cm, 348pp,full 

tooled calf, rebacked, BP of Sir 

Edmund Antrobus, else G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

85 Democritus Junior (Burton) 

The Anatomy of Melancholy 

What it is, with all the kinds causes, 

symptoms, prognostics & severall 

cures of it, In three partitions, with 

their severall Sections, members 

&subsections, Philosophically, 

Medicinally, Historically, opened and 

cut by Democratus Junior, With a 

Satirical Preface, Conducing to the 

following Discourses, The Seventh 

Edition, corrected and augmented 

by the Author, printed for H Cripps 

and are to be sold at his shop in 

Popes-head Allie and by E Wallis 

at the Hors shoo in the Old Bailey, 

1660, 30cm, preliminaries, illus TP, 

723pp, full contemporary calf, 5 

raised bands, front board almost 

detached, brds well worn, BP of 

Thornham Hall Library, browning, 

spotting and FX, otherwise text 

sound, G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


86 Dorrington, E. (psued Peter 

Longueville) 

The Hermit 

Or The Unparalleled Sufferings And 

Surprising Adventures of Philip 

Quarll, An Englishman, The Fifth 

Ed, London 1790, 17.5cm, 272pp, 

facsimile of curious frontis, full calf, 

poor, gen browning else G 

Est $50 – 100 

85 

87 Dowager Duchess of Marlborough 

An Account of The Conduct Of The 

Dowager Duchess Of Marlborough. 

From her first coming to Court, 

To the Year 1710, In a Letter from 

Herself to My Lord, printed by James 

Bittenham for George Hawkins, 

London, 1742, 20.5cm, 316pp, full 

calf, gilt lines, 5 raised bands, brds 

and spine well worn, gen browning 

and FX, BP of The Rev Arthur Young, 

else G 

Est $100 - 200 

88 Dryden, Mr (and Several Other 

Eminent Hands) 

The Satires of Decimus Junius 

Juvenalis 

Translated into English Verse, 

Together with the Satires of Aulus 

Persius Flaccus, printed for Jacob 

Tonson at The Judges Head in 

Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 

London,1693, 34.5cm, 315 & 87pp, 

full mottled calf, 5 raised bands, gilt 

dec cmpts, spine splits, FX and gen 

wear, else G 

Est $200 – 400 


89 Dugdale, Sir William 

The Antient Usage In Bearing of such 

Ensigns of Honour As are commonly 

call’d ARMS 

With A Catalogue of the present 

NOBILITY and BARONETS of 

ENGLAND, To which is added, A 

Catalogue of the present NOBILITY 

of SCOTLAND and IRELAND, The 

Second Edition Corrected, printed 

at the Theater Oxford for Moses Pitt, 

1682, 15.5cm, 210pp, with folding 

list of all knights of the garter, full 

re-backed calf gilt, 5 raised bands, 

mrbld EPs, TP poor, lacking 1cm 

lower left corner, nibbles to lower 

left preliminaries, gen browning and 

FX, else G 

Est $150 – 250

90 

90 Dugdale, Sir William. 

Monasticon Anglicanum 

Or the History of the Ancient Abbies, 

Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral 

and Collegiate Churches, with their 

Dependencies in England and Wales, 

also of all such Scotch, Irish and 

French Monasteries, as did in any 

manner relate to those in England, 

etc, etc, Printed by R.Harbin, for D 

Browne and J. Smith, G. Strahan, 

W. Taylor, R. Gosling, W. Mears, J. 

Browne, and F. Clay, London, 1718, 

36cm, xvi, 375pp, plus index, illus 

with engs, incl full frontis, TP in red 

and black, full tooled tan calf, spine 

splitting, well worn, TP trimmed to 

inner margin, BP of John Bridge, also 

his sig to TP dated 1819, else G 

Est $600 – 1,000 


91 Egan, Pierce 

Life in London 

Or The Day And Night Scenes 

Of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq, and his 

elegant friend Corinthian Tom, 

accompanied by Bob Logic, The 

Oxonian, in their Rambles and 

Sprees through the Metropolis, 

printed for Sherwood, Neely, and 

Jones, London, 1821, 22cm, xvi, 

376pp, illus and embellished with 

thirty six scenes from real life, 

designed and etched by I. R. & G. 

Cruikshanks, and enriched also with 

numerous original designs on wood, 

by the same artists, finely rebound in 

turquoise morocco with gilt border 

and embossed lozenges, 5 raised 

bands, dec gilt cmpts, professional 

restoration to FEP, TP, ded and 

contents pages, browning, FX, G+ 

Est $500 – 1,000 


91 

92 Egan, Pierce 

Sporting Anecdotes 

Original And Selected Including 

Numerous Characteristic Portraits 

of Persons In Every Walk Of Life, 

who have acquired Notoriety from 

their Achievements on The Turf, At 

The Table, and in the Diversions 

Of The Field, with Sketches of the 

various Animals of the Chase, 

To which is added, an Account 

of noted Pedestrians, Trotting 

Matches, Cricketeers, etc, The whole 

forming a complete Delineation 

of the Sporting World, printed for 

Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 

1820, 19cm, viii, 497pp, half red calf, 

brds, 5 raised bands, gilt dec cmpts, 

mrbld EPs, FX else G+ 

Est $150 - 300 

93 Erasme 

Moriae Etkomion 

Stultitiae Laus , Cum commentariis 

Ger.Listril & figuris Johannis Holbein, 

E codice Academiae Basiliensis, 

Typis Genathianis, 1676, 20cm, 

336pp, plus index, frontis, eng plates 

including some folding, rebacked 

full tooled calf, ink insc to FEP, some 

spotting, else G 

Est $1,000 – 2,000 


94 Evelyn, J. 

Numismata, A Discourse of Medals 

Ancient and Modern 

Together with some Account of 

Heads And Effigies of Illustrious, 

and Famous Persons in Sculps, and 

Taille-Douche of whom we have 

no medals extant and of the use 

to be derived from them to which 

is added A Digression concerning 

Physiognomy, printed for Benjamin 

Tooke, London, 1697, 31.5cm, 342pp, 

plus index, full calf, spine re-backed, 

old water staining to preliminaries, 

Vict insc to inside cover else G 

$500 – 1,000 


93 

95 Evelyn, John 

Sculptura 

Or, The History and Art of 

Chacography and Engraving in 

Copper, with an ample Enumeration 

of the most renowned Masters 

and their Works, etc, etc, 2nd ed, 

printed for J. Payne, London, 1755, 

19cm,xxxvi, 140pp,frontis port of 

the author,and folding mezzotint, 

full calf, gilt lines and embossed 

coat of arms, mrbld EPs, BP of Chas 

Shoppee, small tear to upper right 

corner of TP, corners bumped, gen 

wear else G+ 

Est $200 – 400 


Sylva 

Or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, 

and the Propagation of Timber 

in His Majesties Dominions ,etc, 

etc, Second Edition, printed for 

Joseph Martyn, and James Allestry, 

London, 1670, 31cm, illus TP, tables, 

247pp, plus Pomona, or an 67 page 

Appendix concerning fruit trees, 

and cider, and 33 page Kalendarium 

Hortense, 1669, full original calf, 5 

raised bands, BP and sig of Watkin 

William Esq of Penbedn in the 

County of Denbigh, 2 ink sigs to 

TP, borer hole from FEP to 1st four 

pp of prelims, brds very well worn, 

joint splits, spine extremities lacking, 

text sound. Other than a well worn 

binding, nice early copy, G 

Est $500 – 1,000 

See Illustration

96 


Silva 

Or, A Discourse Of Forest Trees, 

And The Propogation of Timber 

in his Majestys Dominions, As it 

was delivered in the Royal Society 

on the 15th Day of October, 1662, 

Upon Occasion of certain Quaries 

propounded to that illustrious 

Assembly, by the Honourable the 

Principal Officers and Commissioners 

of the Navy, Together with An 

Historical Account of the Sacredness 

and Use of Standing Groves, printed 

by A.Ward, for J Dodsley and other, 

York, 1776, 29.5cm, ded, preface, 

subs, The Life Of John Evelyn, epistle, 

to the reader, 649pp, frontis port, 

eng plates, folding explanatory table 

and index,full tan calf, BP of William 

Wrightson of Cusworth in Yorkshire, 

front brd detached, rear joint 

splitting, corners bumped, usual 

FX and browning from plates, text 

sound, G 

Est $300 – 600 


99 

97 

98 Fabri, Basilii(Sorani) 

Thesaurus Eruditionis Scolasticae, 

Post Alorium Operas Per Augustum 

Buchnerum, Huic Novae Editioni, 

Christophiri Cellarii, Lipsiae, 

Sumtibus Johannis Friderici, 

Gleditsch, 1692. typis Christophori 

Fleischeri, 37cm, illus frontis eng, 

half title, with pencil annotations, 

full vellum, 6 raised bands, spine 

title in red leather, BP of Sir Edward 

Synge, Bart , FX, discolouring and 

gen staining , last 9pp with small 

borer holes lower right corners, 

wear, else G 

$500 – 1,000 


99 Fasch, Johann Rudolph 

A Folio of 135 Plates of Architectural 

Drawings & Plans 

Dresden, 1724, bound in plain tied 

boards, edges frayed and browned, 

else G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


94 

98 

100 

100 Fenn, John 

Original Letters (Composed 5 Vol Set) 

Vols 1 & II written during the 

Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and 

Richard III, printed for G. G. J. and J. 

Robinson, London, Second Ed, 1787 

illus with hand col frontis & plates, 

folding Pedigree of The Family of 

Paston of Norfolk,, Vol III & IV 1789, 

Vol V 1823. Vols I & II full calf, Vols III, 

IV & V half tan calf, cloth brds, usual 

browning, FX, else G+ 

Est $500 – 1,000 


101 Fielding, Henry 

The History of The Adventure of Joseph 

Andrews And His Friend Mr Abraham 

Adams (2 Vols) 

Written in Imitation of The Manner 

of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, 

The Second Edition, revised and 

Corrected, with Alterations and 

Additions by the Author, printed for 

A Millar, London, 1742, 16.5cm, Vol 1, 

xxii, 308pp, Vol 2, vii, 304pp, full calf, 

5 raised bands, bindings well worn, 

else G 

Est $300 – 600

103 

104 

102 Fosbrooke, Thomas Dudley 

British Monachism 

Or Manners And Customs of The 

Monks and Nuns of England, New 

Ed, very much enlarged, printed 

by and for John Nichols, London, 

1817, 29.5cm, viii, 560pp, illus with 

eng plates, paper covered brds, 

detached, well worn, browning, FX , 

text sound, FA. 

Est $50 – 100 

103 Fuller, Thomas. 

The Church History of Britain 

From the Birth of Jesus Christ, until 

the year 1648, printed for John 

Williams at the signe (sic) of the 

Crown, in St Pauls Church-yard, 

London, 1655, 33.5cm, illus with 

folding plate, full calf, spine rebacked, 

BP of Craven Ord Esq, F.R.S, 

F.S.A. edges of preliminaries nibbled, 

usual browning, else G 

Est $400 – 800 


104 Gedoyn. 

Pausanias, Ou Voyage Historique De 

La Grece, (2 Vols) 

Traduit En Francois, Didot, Quay des 

Augustins, pres le Pont Saint Michel 

a la Bible d,Or, 1731, 26.5cm, Vol 1, 

xxiv, 478pp, plus Observations, Vol 

II, vi, 523pp, illus with frontis eng 

3 folding maps, Plate 337, Bataille 

Des Messeniens, Plate 346, Bataille 

Du Mont , full calf, 5 raised bands, 

dec gilt cmpts, spine splits, crnrs 

bumped Vol II frontis, first 6pp, and 

last 7pp with borer holes, FX, else G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


105 Gibbon, Edward 

Miscellaneous Works (composed 3 vol) 

Comprising a complete set of Vols 

1 & 2 printed for A Strahan and T 

Cadell, Jun and W Davies, London, 

1796, with later Vol 3, printed for 

John Murray, London 1815, 28.5cm, 

full tan calf, vol 3 spine poor, all brds 

worn, texts sound, G 

Est $150 - 300 

106 Gilpin, William 

Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty 

On Picturesque Travel, and on 

Sketching Landscape, to which 

is added a poem, on Landscape 

Painting, Second Edition, R Blamire, 

London 1794, 22.5cm, viii, illus with 

col lithos, full calf, gilt lines, mrbld 

EPs wear to brds, else G+ 

Est $150 – 300 


An Essay on Prints 

The Fifth Edition, printed by A 

Strahan, for T Cadell, Jun, and W 

Davies, London, 1802, 23.5cm, 

187pp, light blue paper covered 

brds, well worn, minor FX, text 

sound, G 

Est $40 - 80 

108 Granvil, Joseph 

Saducismus Triumphatus 

Or Full and plain Evidence 

Concerning WITCHES and 

APPARITIONS, The First Part 

thereof containing Philosophical 

Considerations, which defend their 

POSSIBILITY, Whereunto is added, 

The true NOTION, and consistent 

Explication of the Nature of a SPIRIT, 

For the more full Confirmation of the 

POSSIBILITY of their EXISTENENCE, 

printed for S. Lownds, London, 

1688,19cm, 597pp, illus frontis 

re-pasted and poor, full probably 

orig calf, also poor, frontis, TP and 

2 pages of Epistle Dedicatory 

detached, 2 names in ink to inside 

cover, old water marks, FA 

Est $1,000 – 2,000 


112 

109 Grey, Zachary 

Hudibras (2 Vols) 

In Three Parts, The Late Wars, 

corrected and amended, with Large 

Annotations and a preface, adorned 

with a new set of cuts, Third Ed, 

Printed for C Bathurst & 17 others, 

London, 1772, 21cm ,Vol 1, frontis 

port (trimmed), xxxvi,424pp, plus 

index, Vol 2, 446pp, plus index, illus 

with eng plates incl some folding, 

full tan calf, 5 raised bands, dec gilt 

cmpts, spines poor, corners worn, 

minor FX and browning, else G 

Est $150 – 300 

110 Grose, Francis 

A Provincial Glossary 

With A Collection of Local Proverbs 

and Popular Superstitions, A New 

Edition, Corrected, printed for 

Edward Jeffery, London, 1811, 

30cm, 124pp, red calf spine, stiff 

brds, retaped, BP of Denham Court 

Library, FX, G 

Est $50 - 100 

111 Gulliver, Lemuel 

Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of 

The World (in four parts - two vols) 

By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, 

and then a Captain of several Ships, 

printed for Benjamin Motte, at the 

Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 

1726, 19.5cm, Vol 1 Part 1, xii, 148pp, 

Part II 164pp Vol 2, Part III, 154pp, 

Part IV, 199pp , illus with eng frontis 

port (detached) and 6 plates, full 

calf, gilt lines, 5 raised bands, spine 

title in gilt on red vol numbers in 

gilt, spines cracking, upper inch of 

vol 2 split and lacking, 1 inch upper 

left spine vol 1 split, gen wear, FX, 

and yellowing, borer hole in vol 2 

lower edge running throughout, BP 

of Margaret Maskelyne to both, occ 

pencil notations, else G. 

Est $5,000 – 10,000 

See Illustration

108 

112 Hall, Joseph 

The Works of Joseph Hall B of Exceter 

(2 Vols) 

With a Table now added to the same, 

printed by M Flesher dwelling in 

Little Britaine, 1634, 34cm, Vol 1, 

678pp, Vol 2, 679-1353pp, plus An 

Alphabetical Table Of The Worke, 

later Vict half calf, mrbld brds, lower 

third of vol 2 spine lacking, upper 1 

inch of vol 1 spine lacking, old water 

staining to both, FA 

Est $300 - 600 


113 Hammond, Henry 

Of Scandal 

Printed by Henry Hall, printer to the 

Universitie, 1644, 17.5cm, 32pp, lacks 

binding, TP and page 1 poor and 

torn, detached at pp 8/9, FA. (this is 

the first book to bear Hall’s name as 

printer to the university) 

Est $100 – 200 

114 Hawkesworth ,John & Deane Swift 

Letters, Written by The Late Jonathan 

Swift (12 Vols) 

Composed set in uniformed full 

tan calf binding with embossed gilt 

crest, , but odd numbered spines, 

1755-1768, one front brd detached, 

gen wear, G 

Est $400 - 800 


116 

119 

114 

115 Hayley, William 

The Life and Posthumous Writings of 

William Cowper (3 Vols) 

With an Introductory Letter To The 

Right Hon Earl Cowper, printed by 

Seagrave, Chichester, Vol 1 & 2, 1803, 

Vol 3, 1804, half tan calf, mrbld brds, 

BP of R. P. Harris, worn, old staining, 

FX, G 

Est $100 – 200 

116 Hearne, Thomas 

Benedictus (2 Vols) 

Abbas Petroburgensis, De Vita & 

Gestis, Henrici II et Ricardi I, Sheldon, 

Oxford, 1735,24cm, fine full morocco 

gilt binding by J. Larkins, Vol 1, lxxi, 

380pp, Vol 2, 381-873pp, FX, some 

pencil annotations, else F 

Est $250 – 500 


117 Hearne, Thomas 

Liber Niger Scaccarii (2 Vols) 

Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum 

Anglicarum, Benj White, London, 

1774, 20.5cm, Vol 1, xliii, 486pp, Vol 

2, 399-822pp, plus index, half calf 

mrbld brds, well worn, BP of John 

Towneley, Corney House, Chiswick, G 

Est $200 - 400 

118 Hearne, Thomas. 

A Vindication of those who take the 

Oath of Allegiance 

To His Present Majestie from Perjurie, 

Injustice, and Disloyaltie, Charged 

upon them by such as are against 

it, wherein is evidently shewed, 

That the Common Good of a Nation 

is what Primarily and Principally 

Respected in an Oath, and therefore 

when the Oath is inconsistent with 

that, the Persons who have taken it, 

are absolved from it. In Proving of 

which the case of MAUD and King, 

STEPHEN is particularly considered, 

In a letter to a Non-Juror, printed in 

the year 1731, 21cm, lix, 80pp,frontis 

port of the author, rebound half 

calf, mrbld brds, 5 raised bands, gilt 

dec cmpts, BPs of Scrope Berdmore 

and Henry C Compton, ink insc to 

bottom of TP, else G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

119 Hollar, Wenceslaus (after) 

Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci 

From drawings by Hollar out of the 

Portland Museum, published as the 

Act directs, Nov 1, 1786 by John 

Clarke, London, 29cm, frontis port of 

da Vinci, card wraps, T in ink, grubby 

copy, edges uncut and nibbled 

corners, FX, FA 

Est $100 – 200 


124

179 

111 129a 

163

120 Hooper, Jacob 

An Impartial History of The Rebellion 

and Civil Wars in England 

During the Reign of King Charles the 

First, with the precedent passages 

and actions that contributed thereto, 

and the happy End and conclusion 

thereof by the Restoration of King 

Charles II, Faithfully collected from 

Clarendon, Bishop Kennet, Echard, 

Rushworth, and other Writers, 

printed London, 1738, 19.5cm, 

628pp, illus with engs of various 

battles etc, full tooled calf, 5 raised 

bands, both brds detached, last 

page almost detached,TP grubby, 

frayed edges, else G 

Est $100 – 200 

121 Jaubert, P & Dinouart, J 

Anecdotes Ecclesiastiques 

Vol 1, Vincent, Amsterdam, 1772, 

text in French,17.5cm, xvi, 640pp, full 

calf, 5 raised bands, gilt dec cmpts, 

joints cracked, brds worn, old water 

stains to prelims, G 

Est $50 - 100 

122 Jeremy, Lord Bishop of Down & 

Connor 

A Sermon Preached At the opening of 

the Parliament of Ireland May 8, 1661. 

Before the right Honourable the 

Lords Justices, and the Lords 

Spiritual and Temporal and the 

Commons, printed by T.F. for R. 

Royston, Bookseller to his most 

Sacred Majesty, 1661, 19cm, 45pp, 

plus a catalogue of some books 

written by Jeremy, Lord Bishop, 

lacks binding, gen FX, and edges 

browned, else G 

Est $100 – 200 

123 Johnson, Samuel. 

The Drury-Lane Prologue and Epilogue 

1747 

Prologue by Johnson, Epilogue by 

David Garrick, reproduced in type 

facsimile from the Ed printed by W. 

Webb, Oxford University Press, 1924, 

Ltd Ed of 400, 26.5cm, uncut, mrbld 

stiff wraps, pastedown title, G+ 

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124 Johnson, Samuel 

A Journey to the Western Islands of 

Scotland 

Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 

London, 1775, 22cm, 384pp,illus 

with folding Map Of Scotland or the 

North Part Of North Britain quarter 

tan calf, mrbld brds, heavy FX, FEP 

clipped, spine and joints splitting, pp 

5/6 torn across, pp 57/58 small tear 

left margin, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


125 Johnson, Samuel. 

The Lives of The Most Eminent English 

Poets (4 Vols) 

With Critical Observations On Their 

Works, A New Edition, Corrected, 

London 1790, 22cm, Vol 1, 464pp, 

Vol 2, 452PP, Vol 3, 436pp, Vol 4, 

491pp, Vol 1 with frontis port eng, 

all full calf, gilt dec spines, gen wear 

and FX, else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


126 Johnson, Thomas.(pub) 

Twelve Gerandoles 

Published and sold by by Thomas 

Johnson at The Golden Boy, 

Westminster, 1785, 36cm, illus, half 

calf, brds, well worn, lacking rear brd, 

heavy FX, FA 

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127 Justinus (Marcus Junianus) 

Justinus cum notis selectissimis 

variorium 

Berneggeri, Bongarsy, Vossy, Thysy, 

etc, L. & D. Elzevir, Amsterdam, 1659, 

19cm, 547pp plus index, full vellum, 

eng TP, small splits at upper and 

lower spine joints, else G 

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128 Kennett, Basil 

Romae Antiquae Notitia 

Or, The Antiquities Of Rome, in Two 

Parts, 1 – A Short History of the Rise, 

Progress and Decay of the Common 

Wealth, 2 – A Description of the City, 

etc, etc, Eighth Ed, printed for D 

Brown, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, etc, 

etc, London, 1726, 20.5cm, illus incl 

fold out and other copper engs of 

the principal buildings, frontis port, 

xxx, 375pp, plus index & scriptores, 

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contents, brds well worn, else G 

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129 Leland, John 

The Itinerary of John Leland The 

Antiquary (9 Vols in 5) 

The Second Edition, Collated and 

Improved from the original MS. With 

the Addition also of a General Index, 

printed at the Theatre Oxford, for 

James Fletcher, and Joseph Pote, 

1744/5, 20cm, Vol I-II, sub, 139pp, Vol 

III-IV, x, 172pp, Vol V-VI, xxviii, 146pp, 

Vol VII-VIII, xxvi, 143pp & xlviii, 104pp 

plus 45pp, Vol IX, xliv, 134pp, plus 

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spotting, and browning, else G 

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129a King, Edward 

Munimenta Antiqua or Observations 

On Antient Castles (4 Vols) 

Including Remarks On The 

Whole Progress Of Architecture, 

Ecclesiastical, as Well as Military, 

In Great Britain And On The 

Corresponding Changes In Manners, 

Laws, And Customs. Tending Both 

To Illustrate Modern History And To 

Elucidate Many Interesting Passages 

In Various Antient Classic Authors, 

printed for W.Bulmer for G.Nicol, 

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checked calf, dec gilt borders, 5 

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130 Lucretius 

Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura, 

Libri Sex 

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$100 – 200 

131 Lucretius 

Titi Lucretii De Rerum Natura Libri Sex 

John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1773, 

17cm, 214pp, full vellum, gilt lines, 

mrbld EPs, ink ins & annotations to 

FEPs, brds and spine worn, else G 

Est $100 - 200 

132 Macpherson, James (Trans) 

Fingal, An Ancient Epic Poem 

In Six Books, Together with several 

other POEMS, compos’d by Ossian 

the Son of Fingal, printed for T. 

Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the 

Strand, London, 1762, 26cm, xvi, ad, 

270pp, full mottled calf, well worn 

and lacking in parts, TP in red and 

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Est $200 – 400 

133 Machiavel, Nicholas 

The Works of The Famous Nicholas 

Machiavel 

Citizen and Secretary of Florence, 

written Originally in Italian, and 

from thence newly and faithfully 

in to English, The Third Edition, 

carefully Corrected, Printed by T. 

W., for A. Churchill, R. Bonwick, T. 

Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. 

Manship, B. Tooke, R. Wilkin, R. Smith, 

R. Robinson, and T. Ward, London, 

1720, 32cm, intro, tables, 543pp, full 

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125 

127 

134 Malherbe, Francois De 

Les Oeuvres De Francois Malherbe 

(3 Vols) 

avec Les Observationes De Mr 

Menage et les Remarques De Mr 

Chevreau sur les poesies, Paris, 1723, 

Vol 1 442pp, Vol 2, 388pp, plus tables 

des observations, Vol 3, 405pp, full 

calf, 5 raised bands, BP of John 

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135 Malone, Edmond 

The Plays and Poems of William 

Shakespeare, In Ten Volumes.(11) 

Collated Verbatim with The Most 

Authentic Copies And Revised, with 

the Corrections And Illustrations 

of Various Commentators, etc, etc. 

Printed by H. Baldwin, London for J. 

Rivington and Sons, L. Davis, etc, etc, 

1790, 20cm, some illus with frontis 

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brd detached, others loose spines 

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136 Maty, M. 

Misc Works of the Late Philip Dormer 

Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (4 Vols) 

Consisting of Letters To His Friends, 

Never Before Printed, And Various 

Other articles, to which are prefixed 

Memoirs Of His Life, tending to 

illustrate The Civil, Literary, And 

Political History Of His Time, 2nd Ed, 

printed for Edward And Charles Dilly, 

London, 1779, 21cm, illus, half red 

calf, mrbld brds, gen wear, else G 

Est $150 - 300 

129 

137 Maundrell, Henry. 

A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at 

Easter, A.D.1697 

The Fifth Edition, To which is now 

added an Account of the Authors 

Journey to the Banks of Euphrates 

at Beer, and to the Country of 

Mesopotamia, printed at the Theatre 

Oxford, 1732, 19.5cm, 145pp, plus 

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Est $300 – 600 


138 McKenzie, F. & Pugin, A. 

Specimens of Gothic Architecture 

consisting of Doors, Windows, 

Buttresses, Pinnacles, with the 

measurements selected from 

Ancient Buildings at Oxford, drawn 

and etched on sixty one plates, 

published by J. Taylor, London, 

ND, 27cm, maroon dec brds laid 

on paper, heavy FX and browning 

chiefly around margins, FA 

Est $80 - 160 

139 Midgley, Robert. 

Mr Andrew Marvells Character of 

Popery 

Printed for Richard Baldwin, next the 

Black Bull, in the Old Bailey, London, 

1689, 21cm, 8pp, illus with later 

frontis eng, rebound half calf, mrbld 

brds, gen wear, FX, TP and pp 7/8 

lower right corner nibbled, FA 

Est $200 – 400 


140 Mills, Arthur 

Pictures of Roman History in Miniature 

With explanatory anecdotes, London 

1809, 6.5cm, 96pp, illus with engs, 

full red morocco, G 

Est $40 - 80 

137 

141 Milton, John 

Paradise Lost A Poem In Twelve Books 

The Fourth Edition, adornd with 

sculptures, Printed by Miles Flesher, 

for Richard Bently, London 1688, 

with Paradise Regain,d A Poem In 

IV Books, to which is added Samson 

Agonistes, 38cm,eng frontis port, all 

other plates removed, full calf, spine 

re-backed, splitting and well worn, 

usual browning and FX, occ small 

tears, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


142 Montague, Sir Henry 

Manchester Al Mondo 

Contemplatio Mortis & 

Immortalatatis, 5th imp, much 

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Constable, full contemporary tooled 

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brd, 15cm, mrbld EPs some spotting 

and discolouring, pp 1 clipped top 

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Est $400 – 800 


143 Motherby, G. 

A New Medical Dictionary 

Or, General Repository of Physic 

containing An Explanation of 

the Terms and A Description of 

the Various Particulars, relating 

to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, 

Surgery, Materia Medica, Chemistry, 

etc, etc, 4th ed, revised and 

corrected with considerable 

additions by George Wallis, printed 

for J. Johnson, etc London 1795, 

37cm, xi, 739pp, illus with 20 

anatomy plates, 5 midwifery plates, 

3 botany plates and 5 chemistry 

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Est $300 – 600 

See Illustration

144 M.S. (Ed) 

Anthologia sive Epigrammatum 

Graecorum 

Alliisque Autoribus Delectus, in 

usum Scholae Westmonasteriensis, 

Clarendon, Oxford, 1724, 18cm, 

99pp plus index, full red calf, dec gilt 

border, 5 raised bands, dec cmpts, 

front joint split, , brds grubby and 

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Est $50 – 100 

145 Naunton, Sir Robert 

The Court of Queen Elizabeth 

Originally written under the 

title of “Fragmenta Regalia”, with 

considerable biographical additions 

by James Caulfield, G. Smeeton, & J. 

Caulfield, London 1814, 27cm,127pp, 

illus, full tan calf, gilt lines, brds poor 

and detached, TP, ded and 1st pl 

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FX throughout, FA 

Est $40 - 80 

146 Ogilby, John 

The Life of Homer 

ND, late C17th, 42.5cm, 518pp, 

dedication to Charles II, illus with 2 

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page eng plates, lacking spine, brds 

detached, frontis ports and ded 

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old staining, FA 

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142 

139 

143 

141 

147 Orrery, John Earl of 

Remarks on The Life and Writings of Dr 

Jonathan Swift 

In a Series of Letters from John Earl 

of Orrery to his Son the Honourable 

Hamilton Boyle, printed for A Millar, 

London, 1752, 20cm, 339pp plus 

index, illus with frontis port of Swift, 

full calf, gilt lines, spine splitting, gen 

wear, FEP and TP clipped top right, 

else G 

Est $40 - 80 

148 Pauli V Pont Max,( Ed) 

Rituale Romanum. 

Antwerp, 1625, Ex Officina 

Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem 

Moretum, & Viduam, Ioannis 

Moreti, & Io Meursium, 353pp, eng 

cartouche to rear EP, tooled full calf, 

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some silverfish holes and damage 

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Est $300 – 600 


149 Percy, Thomas 

The Hermit of Warkworth 

A Northumberland Ballad, in three 

fits or cantos, The Fourth Edition, 

printed for S. Leacroft, at The Globe 

Charing Cross, London, 1775, 25cm, 

51pp, eng to TP, lacks binding, else G 

Est $50 – 100 

148 

150 Petrarch (Andrea Gesualdo) 

Il Petrarcha 

Con L,Espositione Di M Gio Andrea 

Gesualdo, Nuovamente Ristampato 

E Con Somma Diligenza Corretto Et 

Ornato Di Figure, etc, Allessandro 

Griffio, Venice, 1581/2, 21cm, approx 

50 pp of intro, 414pp, illus TP, 

woodcuts, dec & pic initials, rebound 

full calf, gilt lines, 4 raised bands, BP 

of James Marquis of Carnarvon, pp7 

nibbled lower right corner, pp314- 

320 nibbled upper right corners, G+ 

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150a Petrarca 

Rime Di Francesco Petrarca (2 Vols) 

Co Tipi Bodoniani, Parma, 1790 

16.5cm, Vol 1, xxxiv, 373pp, Vol 2, 

xvii, 352pp, full green morocco, gilt 

lines, 5 raised bands, mrbld EPs, BP 

of Robert Doyne, spines sunned, gen 

wear, else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

151 Pindar, Peter. 

The Louisiad 

An Heroic Poem, printed for George 

Goulding, and John Walker, London, 

1793, 27.5cm, half tan calf, mrbld 

brds, poor binding, else G 

Est $100 - 200 

150

152 

152 Piozzi, Hester Lynch. 

Letters To and From The Late Samuel 

Johnson (2 Vols) 

To which are added some poems 

never before printed, published from 

the original MSS of Piozzi, printed 

for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, 

1788, 22.5cm, Vol 1, xv, 397pp, Vol 

2, xi, 424pp, full checked brown calf, 

gilt lines, 5 raised bands, mrbld EP, 

yellowing to EPs gen FX, else G+ 

Est $300 – 600 


153 Plot, Robert 

The Natural History of Oxfordshire 

Being an Essay toward the Natural 

History of England, printed at 

the Theater and in London at Mr 

S.Millers, at the Star near the West- 

End of St Pauls Church-yard, 1677, 

32cm, 358pp, illus incl TP with eng of 

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Est $500 – 1000 


157 

153 

155 

154 Pope, A. 

Of The Knowledge and Characters of 

Men 

An Epistle to The Right Hon Richard 

Lord, Visc Cobham, printed for 

Lawton Gilliver, at Homers Head, 

London, 1733, 35cm, 13pp, later blue 

paper covered brds, G 

Est $100 - 200 

155 Repton, Humphry 

Odd Whims And Miscellanies (2Vols in 

1) 

Printed for William Miller, London 

1804, 18.5cm, illus & complete 

with 10 col plates, quarter red calf 

(sunned), mrbld brds, minor FX, 

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156 Russell, Lord John 

The Life of William Lord Russell 

With Some Account Of The Times 

In Which He Lived, Strahan and 

Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, 

Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 

1819, 27.5cm, xvi, 329pp, illus with 

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160 

159 

157 Rutter, John 

An Illustrated History and Description 

of Fonthill Abbey 

Published March 1st, 1823, 29cm, 

xxvi, 127pp, illus with col aquatints, 

black and white plates and large 

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roundels in green and brown, to 

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G+ 

Est $600 – 1,200 


158 Sancroft, Archbishop 

(From the Manuscripts of) 

Collectanea Curiosa (2 Vols) 

Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating 

to the History and Antiquities of 

England and Ireland, etc, etc, printed 

for the editor, Oxford, 1781, Vol 

1, lxiii, xix, 448pp, Vol 2, x, 468pp, 

21.5cm, full tan calf,mrbld EPs & foreedges 

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161 

164 

159 Sandys, Sir George 

A Relation of a Journey Begun An. 

Dom.1610 

Foure Bookes, containing a 

description of the Turkish Empire, 

of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the 

remote parts of Italy, and islands 

adjoining, The Third Edition, printed 

for Robert Allot ,1627, 28cm,309pp, 

illus incl TP after Francis Delaram, 

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160 Scamozzi, Ottavio Bertotti. 

Le Fabbriche E I Disegni Di Andrea 

Palladio 

4 Vols bound as 2, Seconda Edizione, 

Per Giovanni Rossi, Vicenza, 1786, 

51cm x 36cm, Vol 1, 52 plates, Vol 2, 

51, Vol 3, illus with 52 plates, Vol 4, 

54 , some mis-numbered, full vellum, 

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161 Selden, John. 

Titles of Honor 

By William Stansby for Johne Helme, 

and are to be sold at his shop in 

S. Dunstans Church-yard, London, 

1614, 19.5cm, 391pp, plus authors 

and tables, full calf, 5 raised bands, 

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Simpson, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


162 Somerville, William 

The Chase A Poem (Four Books in One) 

Printed by W. Bulmer And Co, 

London, 1802, 23.5cm, illus, xxiii, 

105pp, half calf (sunned), mrbld 

brds, FX, else G 

Est $200 – 400 

163 Spenser, Edmund 

The Faerie Queen, The Shepheards 

Calendar 

Together With The Other Works of 

Englands Arch-Poet, collected into 

one volume, and carefully corrected, 

printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 

Anno Dom 1611, 28.5cm, 364pp, 

plus 56pp, plus 16pp, Colin Clouts 

Come Home againe, The Mourning 

Muse of Thestylis, A Pastorall 

Aeglogue, An Elegie, Prothalamion, 

Amoretti nd Epithalamion, Foure 

Hymns, Daphnaida, Complaints 

Containing Sundry Small Poemes Of 

The Worlds Vanitie, authors letter of 

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164 Spencer, Nathaniel (pseud) 

Sander, Rbt. 

The Complete English Traveller 

A New Survey and Description of 

England and Wales, containing a 

full Account of whatever is curious 

and entertaining in the Several 

Counties of England and Wales, 

The Isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, 

and other Islands adjoining to, and 

dependant on the Crown of Great 

Britain, printed for J. Cooke, London, 

1771, 37cm, 36cm, 596pp, plus 

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165 

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165 Spilsbury, John 

A Collection of Fifty Prints From 

Antique Gems 

In The Collections of The Right Hon 

Earl Percy, The Hon C.F.Granville, 

and T.M.Slade Esq, John Boydell, 

London, 1785, 27cm ,fine tooled full 

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Evelyn John Shirley, FX and spotting 

throughout, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


166 St John, Henry (Lord Viscount 

Bolingbroke) 

A Letter to Sir William Windham 

II – Some Reflections On The Present 

State of the Nation, III – Letters to 

Mr Pope, printed for the editor and 

sold by A. Millar, London, 1753, 

19.5cm, 531pp, frontis port, fol calf, 

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browning, else G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

167 St John, Henry 

Letters on The Study and Use of History 

(2 Vols) 

Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 

London, 1752, 23cm, Vol 1, 315pp, 

Vol 2, 286pp, plus Contents, full 

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of Herbert, Lord Viscount Windsor 

and Baron Montjoy,, and insc below 

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the Rev Mr Metler at Buxton by me , 

Windsor. spines cracking and lacking 

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Est $50 – 100

172 

168 Stackhouse, Rev Thomas. 

A New History of The Holy Bible (2 

Vols). 

From The Beginning Of The World, 

To The Establishment Of Christianity, 

etc, etc, printed for John Hinton, at 

the Kings Arms in Newgate Street, 

London, 1752, 40cm, Vol 1, lx, 

768pp, Vol 2, 769 to 1650pp plus 

chronological table of history and 

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Est $500 – 1,000 


169 Stanhope, Philip Dormer 

Letters (2 Vols) 

Written by The Late Right Hon 

Stanhope, Earl Of Chesterfield, to 

his son Philip Stanhope, together 

with Several Other Pieces On Various 

Subjects, published by Mrs Eugenia 

Stanhope, printed by G. Faulkner, 

Dublin, 1774, 22cm, Vol 1, viii, 

553pp, Vol 2, 612pp, illus with frontis 

port, full mottled calf, brds of Vol 1 

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worn, corners chipped, gen FX, G 

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170 Steele , Richard 

Tatler – The Lucubrations of Isaac 

Bickerstaff (4 Vols) 

Printed by Charles Lillie, Perfumer 

& John Morphew, London 1710/11, 

20.5cm, full calf, gilt lines, 5 raised 

bands, gilt dec cmpts, gen wear else 

G+ 

Est $200 - 400 

168 

171 Strutt, Joseph. 

The Regal and Ecclesiastical 

Antiquities of England 

Plus Supplement (2 vols in 1), 

containing The Representations 

of all English Monarchs from 

Edward the Confessor to Henry the 

Eighth, etc, etc, printed for Walter 

Shropshire, London, 1776 & 1792, 

26.5cm, illus, 1st part has plates 44 

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bands, spine cracking, old staining, 

minor FX, BP of Sir Foster Cunliffe 

Bart, G. 

Est $200 – 400 

172 Strype, John 

Memorials of The Most Reverend 

Father In God, Thomas Cranmer 

Sometime Lord Archbishop of 

Canterbury, wherein The History of 

the Church, and the Reformation of 

it, during the Primacy of the said, 

Archbishop, are greatly Illustrated, 

and many singular Matters relating 

there-unto, now First Published, 

In Three Books, Collected chiefly 

from Records, Registers, Authentick 

Letters, and other Original 

Manuscripts, printed for Richard 

Chiswell, London, 1694, 33cm, 

TP in red and black, xii, table and 

contents, 467pp, plus 271 pages of 

The Appendix to the Memorials of 

Thomas Cranmer,eng frontis port, 

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poor, lacking and holed, corners 

bumped, text sound, G 

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174 

173 Swift, Jonathan 

The History Of The Four Last Years Of 

The Queen 

Printed for A. Millar, London, 1758, 

21cm, xvi, 392pp, full calf, gilt 

lines, 5 raised bands, browning to 

preliminaries edges, minor FX, name 

Pembroke in ink to upper right of TP, 

else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

174 Taylor, Jeremy 

XXXVIII Sermons Preached At Golden 

Grove 

Being for the Summer half-year, 

Beginning On Whit-Sunday, And 

ending on the XXV. Sunday after 

Trinity, together with A Discourse 

of the Divine Institution, Necessity, 

Sacredness and separation of the 

Office Ministeriall, printed by R.N. 

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175 Taylor, Jeremy. 

A Course of Sermons 

For All The Sundays Of The Year, 

third edition enlarged, printed by E 

Tyler for R.Royston, book-seller to 

the Kings most excellent majesty, 

London 1668, 33cm, TP in red and 

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177 

178 

176 Terence 

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177 Vossii, Gerardi, Joannis 

Etymologicon Linguae Latinae 

Praefigitur Ejusdem de Literarum 

Permutatione Tractatus, Apud 

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Amsteodami, 1662, 36cm, TP in black 

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178 Walpole, Horatio. 

The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of 

Orford (5 Vols) 

Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson and 

J. Edwards, London, 1798, 30cm,illus 

with 166 plates, all uniformly bound 

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181 

179 Weever, John 

Ancient Funerall Monuments With 

In The United Monarchie Of Great 

Britaine, Ireland 

and the islands adjacent , with 

the dissolved Monasteries therein 

contained, their Founders, and what 

eminent persons have beene in the 

same interred, As also the Death 

and burial of certaine of the Bloud 

Roiall, the Nobilitie and Gentrie 

of these Kingdoms entombed in 

forraine Nations with other matters 

mentioned in the insuing Title. 

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of John Weever, printed by Thomas 

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180 Wharton, Henry 

The Enthusiasm of the Church of Rome 

Demonstrated in some Observations 

Upon The Life of Ignatius Loyola, 

printed for Richard Chiswell, London, 

1688, 19.5cm, 139pp, lacks binding, 

FX, FA 

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181 Wharton, Henry 

Fourteen Sermons & One and Twenty 

Sermons (2 Vols) 

Preachd in Lambeth Chapel Before 

The most Reverend Father in God, Dr 

William Sancroft, late Archbishop of 

Canterbury in the years 1688-1689 

&1689-1690, printed for Chiswell, 

at the Rose & Crown, London, 1697 

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183 

182 Whitlocke, Sir Bulstrode 

Memorials of The English Affairs 

From the supposed Expedition of 

Brute to this Island to The End of 

the Reign of King James the First, 

printed for J Pemberton etc, London 

1709, 33cm, vii, 310pp plus index, BP 

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183 Wilkins, Rev John 

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(Two Books) 

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Preached at his funerals, by William 

Lloyd, D.D. Dean of Bangor, and 

Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, 

printed by A Maxwell, London, 

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184 Wise, Franciscus.(Trinity College) 

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184 

185 

185 Wotton, Sir Henry 

A Parallel Betweene Robert late Earle 

of Essex, and George late Duke of 

Buckingham 

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of the two protagonists, Devereux & 

Villiers, rebound modern vellum, G+ 

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186 Wotton, Sir Henry, Kt 

Reliquiae Wottonianae 

or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, 

Poems, with Characters of Sundry 

Personages, and other Incomparable 

Pieces of Language and Art, second 

edition with large editions, printed 

by Thomas Maxey, for R.Marriot, 

G.Bedel, and T.Garibwait, London 

165414.5cm, 515pp, illus with frontis 

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187 (-) 

Book of Common Prayer 

And Administration of the 

Sacraments, and other Rites and 

Ceremonies of the Church, according 

to the use of The Church Of England, 

together with the Psalter or Psalms 

of David, printed by John Baskerville, 

Cambridge and by B. Dod, London, 

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morocco with former owners name 

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188 (-) 

An Impartial Historical Narrative of 

Those Momentous Events which have 

taken place in this Country During the 

Period From The Year 1816 to 1823 

Illus with engs by the first artists, 

printed by Thomas Bensley, for 

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half green morocco, dec brds, FA 

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186 

189 (-) 

La Fete Champetre 

The Second Edition, printed for J. 

Almon, London, 1774, 24.5cm, 15pp, 

plain soft card wraps, minor FX, else 

G 

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190 (-) 

Letters From Portugal And Spain 

Written During The March Of Troops 

The British Troops Under Sir John 

Moore 

With A Map Of The Route, and 

Appropriate Engravings, Longman, 

Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1809, 

21.5cm, xiv, 320p, illus with frontis, 

folding map of Plan of the Battle 

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and 5 other plates, half tan calf, 

mrbld brds, poor, spine split, FX and 

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191 (-) 

Oeuvres Diverses De Mr Rousseau (2 

Vols) 

Nouvelle Edition reveue & 

augmentee, Jacob Tonson & Jean 

Watts, London, 1723, Vol 1 xxx, 

501pp, eng frontis, Vol 2, 544pp, 

29.5cm, full calf, 5 raised bands, 

bindings well worn, else G 

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192 (-) 

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John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1772, 

18cm, 307pp, full blue morocco, gilt 

line, 5 raised bands, gilt dec cmpts, 

slight sunning, minor FX, else F 

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190 

LITERATURE 

193 Bridges, Robert (Poet Laureate) 

The Influence of the Audience 

Considerations Preliminary to 

the Psychological Analysis of 

Shakespeare’s Characters 

Stanley Morison at the Press of 

Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 

1926, Ltd Ed of 100, 22cm, 23pp, BP 

of John Roland Abbey, blue paper 

DJ over plain brds, slipcase, case 

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194 Chambers, E. K. 

The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Vols 

The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1923, 

23cm, 388pp., 557pp., 518pp., 

467pp., dark red cloth with gilt dec, 

spines all faded, illus with frontis, FX, 

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195 Doughty, Charles, M. 

Travels in Arabia Deserta (2 Vols) 

With an intro by T. E. Lawrence, New 

and definitive edition, Jonathan 

Cape, London, 1936, 26cm, illus, 

brown cloth, DJs, minor FX and wear 

else F 

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196 La Fontaine 

Fables De La Fontaine, 

Illustrations De Grandville, Alfred 

Mame Et Fils, Editeurs, 1877, 18.5cm, 

512pp, full green morocco gilt, 

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197 Gaselee, Sir Stephen (Intro) 

Early English Recipes 

Selected from The Harleian Ms279 of 

about 1430 AD, with wood engs by 

Margaret Webb, The University Press, 

Cambridge, 1937, 20.5cm, dec brds, 

G+ 

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198 Green, Henry 

Whitneys Choice of Emblemes 

A Fac-simile Reprint, with an 

introductory dissertation essays 

literary and bibliographical and 

explanatory notes, Lovell Reeve & 

Co, London, Minshull & Hughes, 

Chester, E. H. Griffiths, Nantwich, 

1866, 26.5cm, lxxxviii, 440pp, illus, 

blind stamped maroon morocco gilt, 

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smoke affected, spine poor, G 

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199 Green, Thomas (of Ipswich) 

Extracts From the Diary of a Lover of 

Literature 

John Raw, Ipswich, 1810, 29cm, 

241pp, plus index, quarter grey cloth 

brds, worn, CB, some FX, else G 

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200 Harrison, G. B. & Jones, R. A. 

De Maisse 

A Journal of All That Was 

Accomplished by Monsieur De 

Maisse, Ambassador in England from 

King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth, 

The Nonesuch Press, 1931, 24cm, 

xvii, 146pp, brown buckram, DJ, 

grubby, else G 

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The Letters of T. E. Lawrence 

Edited by David Garnett, Jonathan 

Cape, London, 1938, 24cm, 896pp, 

illus incl maps, brown cloth, DJ, G+ 

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and Norgate, London, 1939, 22cm, 

xii, 291pp, brown cloth, DJ, F 

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203 Lawrence ,T. E. & Woolley, C. 

Leonard 

The Wilderness of Zin 

With a chapter on the Greek 

Inscription by M. N. Tod, instruction 

by Sir Frederic Kenyon, Jonathan 

Cape, London, New Ed, 1936, 26cm, 

166pp, illus, red cloth, DJ, FX, DJ 

edges frayed, else G 

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204 Another as Above 

205 Locke, Miriam Austin (Ed.) 

Henry Fielding The True Patriot and 

The History of Our Own Times 

MacDonald, London 1965, 28cm, 

263pp., blue cloth, DJ, G WITH 

Songs & Lyrics from the Plays of 

Beaumont & Fletcher, Ed. E. H. 

Fellows, Frederick Etchells & Hugh 

MacDonald, London 1928, 30.5cm, 

72cm, orange dec gilt cloth with DJ 

(stained), FX 

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206 Orgel, Stephen & Roy Strong 

InigoJones, The Theatre of The Stuart 

Court Vols I & II 

Sotheby Parke Bernet, University of 

California Press 1973, 34cm, 415pp – 

843pp., brown cloth, gilt dec spine, 

illus DJ in brown cloth slip case, illus 

col pl’s, G+ 

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207 Powicke, F.M. 

Three Lectures 

Given in the hall of Balliol College, 

Oxford in May 1947, Oxford 

University Press, 1947, 20cm, 88pp, 

plain cream brds, G+ 

Est $20 - 40 

208 Radcliffe, Ann 

The Italian, (3 Vols) 

Or The Confessional of the Black 

Penitents, A Romance, printed for 

T. Cadell, and W .Davies, London, 

second edition 1811, 16cm, rebound 

brown cloth, F. 

Est $100 – 200 

209 Shakespeare, William 

Lucrece 

Being A Reproduction in Facsimile 

of The First Edition 1594, from the 

copy in the Malone Collection in 

the Bodleian Library, with an intro 

and bibliography by Sidney Lee, The 

Clarendon Press, 1905, 25.5cm,56pp, 

followed by 47 facsimile leaves, 

uncut, full vellum gilt, covers grubby 

and bowing, lacks ties, browning to 

EP,s else G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

210 Swift, Jonathan 

Gulliver’s Travels 

The Text of the First Edition Edited, 

with an Introduction, Bibliography 

and Notes, by Harold Williams 

First Edition Club, London 1926, 

22cm, cii, 490pp., faded dark brown 

gilt border dec cloth, frontis port, FX, 

G. 

Est $20 - 40 

211 (-) 

A Dictionary of Polite Literature (2 

Vols) 

or Fabulous History Of The Heathen 

Gods And Illustrious Heroes, 

Scratchered and Letterman, etc, etc, 

1804, 15.5cm, illus with engs, full dec 

mottled calf gilt, mrbld EPs and foreedges, 

BPs of William Bateman, gen 

wear else G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

212 Collection of Seven Works pertaining 

to William Blake 

- William Blake Poet, Printer and 

Prophet 1965 

- Poems by Mr Gray, Drawings by 

William Blake two copies 1971, 1972 

- William Blake, An Illustrated 

Catalogue of Works in the Fitzwilliam 

Museum 1970 

- Blakes Visionary Forms Dramatic 

1970 

- Blake Complete Poetry and Prose 

1961 

- The Letters of William Blake 1968 

- William Blakes Writings 1978 

Est $50 - 100 

212a Four Literary Related Titles 

-The Shakespeare Classics – Being 

The Sources And Originals Of 

Shakespeares Plays, The Sources Of 

Hamlet, With Essay On The Legend, 

edited by Sir Israel Gollanncz, 1926. 

quarter cloth, plain brds 

-Shakespeares Fight With The Pirates 

And The Problems Of The Transmission 

of His Text by Alfred W Pollard, 2nd 

Ed revised, 1920, quarter red cloth, 

plain brds 

-Prolegomena for the Oxford 

Shakespeare – A Study in Editorial 

Method, by Ronald B McKerrow, 

Clarendon Press, 1939, blue cloth DJ. 

-John Milton Poems, reproduced 

in Facsimile from the Manuscript 

in Trinity College , Cambridge, Ltd 

Ed 84 of 500, Scholar Press, 1970, 

quarter green morocco, dec brds, all 

G+ 

Est $50 - 100 

213 Collection of Six Literary works 

- The Kings Missive, Mabel Martin, 

and later Poems, by John Greenleaf 

Whittier 1881 

- Maxims of Books and Reading, 

Holbrook Jackson 1934 (paper brds 

loose) 

- Mors Et Victoria 1903 

- The Generous Days, Stephen 

Spender 1969 

- The Henry E. Huntington Facsimile 

Reprints I Fulgens and Lucres, Henry 

Medwall 1920 ltd ed 185/200 

- Lapidary Verse, R. W. Ketton-Cremer 

1959 

Est $50 - 100

214 Eight works pertaining to Literature 

- English Literature at the Close of the 

Middles Ages 1957 

- The Seventeenth Century 

Background 1950 

- Literary Language and its Public 

1965 

- Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies 

1924 

- English Books & Readers 1603 to 

1640 1970 

- English Literature of the Late 

Seventeenth Century 1969 

- The Concise Cambridge Bibliography 

of English Literature 1958 

- Middle English Literature 1986 

Est $50 – 100 

214a (-) 

Memorials Of George Bannatyne 

Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh, 1829, 

26.5cm, 120pp, half tan calf, mrbld 

brds, joints worn, gen wear, else G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

POETRY & VERSE 

215 Barclay, Alexander (Trans) 

The Ship of Fools (2 Vols) 

William Paterson, Edinburgh, Henry 

Sotheran & Co, London, 1874, 

24.5cm, illus, yellow cloth brds 

grubby, FX, edges browned else G 

Est $50 – 100 

215a Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 

The Poems Posthumous And Collected 

(2 Vols) 

William Pickering, London, 1851, 

faded purple cloth, applied paper 

labels to spine, gen wear, else G 

Est $100 - 200 

216 Bradstreet, Robert 

The Sabine Farm, A Poem 

Into which is interwoven A Series 

Of Translations Chiefly Descriptive 

Of The Villa and Life of Horace, 

occasioned by an Excursion From 

Rome to Licenza, printed for J. 

Mawman, London, 1810, 22cm, viii, 

240pp, illus with map & 6 eng plates, 

full tan calf, gilt dec border, mrbld 

EPs, fly insc to Edmund Antrobus 

from Charles Payne Crawford 1811, 

G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

217 Clark, Andrew (Ed) 

Brief Lives (2 Vols) 

Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down 

by John Aubrey, between the Years 

1669 & 1696, 22.5cm, The Clarendon 

Press, Oxford, 1898, brown cloth, G 

Est $30 - 60 

218 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 

Letters, Conversations and 

Recollections (2 Vols in 1) 

Edward Moxon, London, 1836, 

19.5cm, xii, 240pp, half bottle green 

morocco, mrbld brds, EPs and foreedges, 

insc in ink respectfully offered 

by the editor, to half title, FX to 

prelims, browning to edges, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

219 Coleridge,Samuel Taylor 

The Poetical Works of (3 Vols) 

William Pickering, London, 1835, all 

three fore-edge painted with views 

of the Lake District in England, full 

dark green morocco, embossed gilt 

lyre to front brds, spines well worn, 

Vol III rear brd detached, else G 

Est $100 – 200 

220 Coleridge, Derwent & Sara (Eds) 

The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

A New Edition, Edward Moxon, 

London, 1852, FEP inscribed by 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Wm 

Boxall from S.T.Coleridge in token 

of sincere regard & great friendship, 

Heaths Couch Sept 12th 1853, 17cm, 

xxvii, 388pp, eng frontis port of 

Coleridge age 26, fine binding in 

bottle green morocco gilt by Hayday, 

minor FX and wear , else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

221 Croft, P. J. (Ed.) 

Autograph Poetry in the English 

Language Vol I & II 

Cassell, London 1973, 35cm, mottled 

fawn with DJs in cream cloth slip 

case, G+ 

Est $20 - 40 

222 Darbishire, Helen 

The Poetical Works of John Milton Vol I 

& II 

The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1952, 

23cm, 326pp., 371pp., blue cloth, gilt 

dec spine, DJs stained & faded, FX 

throughout, G. 

Est $30 – 60 


Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 

Edited by John Sparrow, Scholar 

of Winchester College, with a 

Bibliographical Note by Geoffrey 

Keynes, Fellow of the Royal College 

of Surgeons, The University Press, 

Cambridge, 1923, 22cm, 160pp, 

frontis port, brown cloth, DJ, FX, G 

Est $30 – 60 


Paradoxes & Problemes 

With two Characters and an Essay 

of Valour, Now for the first time 

reprinted from the editions of 

1633 and 1652 with one additional 

probleme, The Nonesuch Press, 

1923, Ltd Ed No 520 of 645, 23cm, 

viii, 80pp, dec covered brds, DJ, 

jacket grubby, top of spine torn, G+ 

Est $20 – 40 


Two Various Works 

-The Epithalamions Anniversaires 

and Epicedes, Ed. W. Milgate, The 

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1978 

-Deaths Duell, Ed. Geoffrey Keynes, 

The Bodley Head, London 1973 

Est $35 - 70 

226 Glover, Richard 

Leonidas A Poem 

Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tullys Head 

in Pall Mall, London, 1737, 27cm, xvi, 

335pp, full scarlet calf, gilt borders, 

5 raised bands, mrbld EPs, BP of Hon 

George Agar Ellis, gen wear to brds, 

spine sunned, usual FX, else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

227 Gray, Thomas 

Poems by Mr Gray 

Printed by Robert And Andrew 

Foulis, Glasgow, 1768, 32.5cm, 63pp, 

plus contents, half green morocco, 

mrbld brds, sunned, FX throughout, 

ex copy of Percy S Allen to R. W. 

Chapman, G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


228 Harington, Sir John. 

Nugae Antiquae (2 Vols) 

Being A Miscellaneous Collection 

of Original Papers In Prose and 

Verse, written During The Reigns of 

Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary, 

Elizabeth and King James, printed 

by J. Wright for Vernor and Hood, 

Poultry, and Cuthell and Martin, 

London, 1804,22.5cm, Vol 1, xxxii, 

397pp, Vol 2, viii, 416pp,full tan calf 

gilt, 5 raised bands, mrbld EPs & foreedges, 

F 

Est $100 – 200 

229 Hawkins, Sir John 

Probationary Odes for the Laureatship 

With A Disclosure, printed for James 

Ridgway, No 196, Piccadilly, London, 

1785, 23cm, xlvi, 130pp, page 5/6, 

2 inch torn out lower right corner, 

half title with 2 names in ink, brds, 

half title and TP, and pp107-130 all 

detached. FA, With later cloth box. 

Est $50 - 100

227 

230 Johnson, Samuel 

The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson 

A New Edition Considerably 

Enlarged, printed for George 

Kearsley, London, 1789, 17cm, xv, 

212pp plus books adverts, plain stiff 

card poor, ink insc to FEP, else G 

Est $50 – 100 

231 Judges, A. V. 

The Elizabethan Underworld 

A collection of Tudor and early 

Stuart tracts and ballads telling 

of the lives and misdoings of 

vagabonds, thieves, rogues and 

cozeners, and giving some account 

of the operation of the criminal law, 

George Routledge, London, 1930, 

25.5cm, xlix, 543pp, blue cloth, G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

231a Langhorne, J. 

The Poetical Works of Mr William 

Collins with Memoirs of the Author 

and Observations on His Genius and 

Writings 

Printed for T.Becket and P.A.Dehondt, 

London, 1765, 16cm, xv, 184pp, plus 

books advert, full re-backed calf, gilt 

lines, 5 raised bands, gen wear,ex 

libris of R.W.Chapman, else G 

Est $40 - 80 

232 Margoliouth, H. M. 

The Poems and Letters of Andrew 

Marvell (2 Vols) 

Third Ed, revised, The Clarendon 

Press, 1971, 22.5cm, gray cloth, DJs, F 

Est $30 - 60 

233 

233 Mason, William 

The Works of Thomas Gray (2 Vols in 1) 

With Memoirs Of His Life And 

Writings, to which are subjoined 

Extracts Philological, Poetical And 

Critical, from the authors original 

manuscripts selected and arranged 

by Thomas James Mathias, printed 

by William Bulmer And Co, for John 

Porter, London, 1814, 39cm, Vol 1, 

581pp, Vol 2, vii, 634pp, illus with 

frontis port, full tan calf, gilt lines, 

spine title in red leather, embossed 

college crest to front brd, FX else G+ 

$400 – 600 


234 Murray, John 

Moments of Vision 

with wood engs by Reynolds, John 

Murray, 1973, 22.5cm, 36PP, quarter 

brown buckram, mrbld brds, G+ 

Est $20 - 40 

235 Naylor, S. (trans) 

Reynard the Fox 

A renowned Apologue of the 

Middle Age reproduced in Rhyme, 

Longmans, London c1845-47, 

21.5cm, ccli pp, plus 40 page 

reproducer to the reader, full 

rebound vellum, browning to edges, 

FX throughout, else G 

Est $50 – 100 

236 Palmer, Samuel (Illus) 

The Shorter Poems of John Milton with 

Twelve Illustrations by Samuel Palmer 

Seeley & Co, London 1889, 30cm, 

xx 124pp., blue gilt dec cloth, cover 

faded, staining, CB, FX throughout & 

to some pl., G. 

Est $100 - 200 

237 Peacock, T. L. 

Rhododaphne or The Thessalian Spell, 

A Poem 

T. Davidson, London 1818, 17.5cm, 

181pp., blue brds, stained and both 

detached from spine, FX throughout, 

FA. 

Est $40 - 80 

248 

238 Rossetti, Christina 

Maude, A Story for Girls 

James Bowden, London 1897,18cm, 

81pp., green cloth severely marked/ 

stained, FX WITH 

William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 

or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; An 

Autobiographical Poem, Edward 

Moxon, London 1850, 23cm, 374pp., 

green cloth worn & faded, FX, pp. 

detaching from spine. 

Est $30 - 60 

239 Rowley, Thomas. 

Poems 

Supposed to have been written 

at Bristol in the 15th century, 

printed by B. Flower for the editor, 

Cambridge, c1794, 21.5cm, xxix, 

329pp, illus TP, rebound, half calf 

brown cloth, G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

240 Shelley, Percy B. 

The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Vol. 

I–III 

Decorated by Charles Ricketts, 

Ballantyne Press, London 1901, ccx, 

clxxviii, clxxxviii, cream cloth (dirty), 

some rear pp. uncut, FX to EPs, else 

G+ 

Est $150 – 300 

241 Shelley-Rolls, Sir John C. E. and 

Ingpen, Rodger 

Verse and Prose from the Manuscripts 

of Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Privately Printed, London 1934, 

23cm 159pp. illus, black bds G+ 

WITH 

Hogg, Trelawny and Peacock 

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley 

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1933 2vols, 

20.5cm, illus 469pp, 415pp light blue 

cloth brds, light edge foxing and 

sunning 

Est $30 - 50

242 Spenser, Edmund 

The Poetical Works (5 Vols) 

William Pickering, London, 1852, 

16.5cm, TPs with dolphin and anchor 

colophon, full red morocco gilt, poor, 

text sound FA 

Est $50 – 100 

243 Summers, Montague (Ed) 

The Complete Works of William 

Wycherley (4Vols) 

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1924 

Ltd Ed 221of 900 on hand made 

paper, quarter brown cloth and 

paper covered bds, edges browned, 

else F 

Est $40 - 80 

244 Teerink, Dr Herman 

A Bibliography of the Writings of 

Jonathan Swift 

Second Edition, revised and 

corrected, edited by Arthur H. 

Scouten, University Of Pennsylvania 

Press, 1963, 26.5cm, xvii, 453pp, blue 

cloth, DJ, F 

Est $30 – 60 

245 Thomson, James 

The Seasons 

With five pictures by Jaquier, 

and an intro by John Beresford, 

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246 Tighe, William. 

The Plants, A Poem 

Cantos The First And Second, with 

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for James Carpenter, London, 1808, 

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247 Trelawny, Edward John 

Records of Shelley, Byron and the 

Author (2 Vols) 

Basil Montagu Pickering, London, 

1878, black cloth gilt, G 

Est $30 - 60 

248 Wordsworth, William. 

Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems (2 

Vols) 

Printed For T. N. Longman and 

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xlvi, 210pp plus notes, Vol 2, 227pp, 

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249 Yeats, W. B. 

On The Boiler 

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BIOGRAPHY 

249a Barrington, Sir Jonah 

Personal Sketches Of His Own Times 

(3 Vols) 

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250 Cameron, Kenneth Neill (ed) 

Shelley and his Circle 1773 – 1882. 

The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library (4 Vols) 

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251 Harrison, John 

The Library of Isaac Newton 

Cambridge University Press, 1978, 

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252 Josten, C.H. (Ed) 

Elias Ashmole 1617-1692(4 Vols of 5) 

His Autobiographical and Historical 

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Relating to his Life and Work, The 

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253 Lady Llanover.(Ed) 

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Charlotte, Richard Bentley, London, 

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254 As Above 

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255 Moore, Thomas. 

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 

(2 Vols) 

With Notices of His Life, John Murray, 

London, 1830, 28cm, illus with 

frontis eng’s, Vol 1, 670pp, Vol II, 

823pp, half green calf, mrbld brds, 

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256 Norton, J. E., (Ed) 

The Letters of Edward Gibbon (3 Vols) 

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257 McClure, Norman Egbert (Ed.) 

The Letters of John Chamberlain 

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The American Philosophical Society 

1939, Memoirs XII Part I & II 24cm, 

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258 Oxenford, John (Trans.) 

Conversations of Goethe with 

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259 Ray, Gordon N., (ed) 

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William Makepeace Thackeray (4 Vols) 

Oxford Univ. Press 1945 24cm, illus, 

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260 Scott, Sir Walter. 

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 

Bart, (7 Vols) 

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London, 1837, 21cm, illus with 

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261 Spencer, Earl & Dobson, 

Christopher (Eds) 

Letters of David Garrick and Georgina 

Countess Spencer 

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262 Verney, Lady Margaret, Maria 

Verney Letters of the Eighteenth 

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House, (2 Vols) 

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ports, green cloth gilt, spines sunned 

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260 

263 Wellington, The 7th Duke of (Ed) 

The Conversations of The First Duke of 

Wellington With George William Chad 

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quart tan cloth, dec maroon brds, G 

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264 Winstanley, R. L., (Ed) 

The Ansford Diary of James 

Woodforde, The Parson Woodforde 

Society (5 Vols) 

Vol 1 1759-1763, 1980 126pp, Vol 

2 1764-1765, 1979 193pp, Vols 1-3 

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265 Four Biographical/Historical Works 

- The Letters of Richard Brinsley 

Sheridan (3 vols) 1966 

- Purefoy Letters 1735–1753 (2 vols) 

- Nollekens and his Times 2vols 1829 

- A Journal by Thos: Hughes 1947 

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RELIGION 

268 

266 (-) 

The Church Book of Bunyan Meeting 

1650 – 1821 

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1928, no. 

295 of ltd ed of 675, 41cm, 260pp., 

vellum gilt dec brds, POBP, silverfish 

damage to front pp., light FX, spine 

detached, slipcase (poor) 

Est $40 - 75 

267 Fellows, Edmund H. 

The Office of The Holy Communion as 

Set by John Merbecke 

Oxford University Press, London 

1949, No. 749 of 750, 28cm, 42pp., 

deep red cloth gilt, DJ, worn, some 

fading WITH 

Lord Francis Hervey (Ed.) The History 

of King Eadmund The Martyr and of 

the Early Years of his Abbey, Oxford 

University Press, London 1929, 

22.5cm, 61pp., red cloth, DJ poor 

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272 

268 Hassall, W. O. 

The Holkham Bible Book 

The Dropmore Press, London, 1954, 

signed Ltd Ed No 82 of 100, 36cm, 

vii, 191pp,uncut, fine binding in full 

red niger morocco, embossed arch 

to front brd and dove to rear, edges 

browned as usual else F 

Est $200 – 400 


269 Scott, George Ryley 

Phallic Worship 

A History of Sex and Sex Rites in 

Relation to the Religions of All Races 

from Antiquity to the Present Day, 

Luxor Press Ltd, London 1966, xxii, 

234pp, 29cm, bronze pattern cloth 

(dent to front brd), G+ 

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270 Summers, The Rev. Montague (Ed.) 

Compendium Maleficarum. 

Collected in 3 Books from many 

Sources by Brother Francesco Maria 

Guazzo. John Rodker, London 1929, 

Ltd Ed No. 1070 of 1275, 26cm, 

206pp., red gilt dec cloth, POS to FEP, 

FX, staining, G. 

Est $30 - 50 

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION 

271 Andrews, C. Bruyn (Ed.) 

The Torrington Diaries (4 Vols) 

Containing the Tours Through 

England & Wales of Hon. John Byng 

between the Years 1781 and 1794 

RP, Barnes & Noble, New York 1970, 

blue cloth, 23cm, illus with frontis 

ports, G+ 

Est $80 - 160 

273 


Italy with Sketches of Spain and 

Portugal, (2 Vols) 

Richard Bentley, 

London,1834,21.5cm, Vol 1 xvi, 

371pp, Vol 2, xv, 381pp, half tan calf, 

mrbld brds, BPof Nigel Ronald, and 

sig of William Wyndham , usual wear 

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Est $100 – 200 


273 Boswell, James. 

The Journal of a Tour to The Hebrides 

With Samuel Johnson, with an 

authentick (sic) account of The 

Distresses and Escape of the 

Grandson of King James II in the year 

1746, printed by Henry Baldwin for 

Charles Dilly in The Poultry, London, 

1785, 22.5cm, vii, 524pp, plus errata, 

full calf, gen wear, minor FX, else G 

Est $100 – 200 


274 Brydone, Patrick. 

A Tour Through Sicily and Malta (2 

Vols) 

In A Series Of Letters To William 

Beckford Esq, A New Ed, printed for 

W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 

1776, 21.5cm, Vol 1, xvi, 373pp,illus 

with folding map (sm tear) by T 

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minor FX and browning , else G+ 

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275 Douglas, Norman 

Old Calabria 

RP, Martin Secker, London 1920, 

21.5cm, 352pp., brown cloth stained 

& worn, FX, POBP, letter from author 

dated 16 Jan 1923 affixed to FEP, FA. 

Est $75 - 150

276 Gilpin, William. 

Observations On Several Parts Of 

The Counties Of Cambridge, Norfolk, 

Suffolk, And Essex. Also On Several 

Parts Of North Wales, relative chiefly 

to Picturesque Beauty in Two Tours, 

The Former Made In The Year 1769. 

The Latter In The Year 1773 

Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 

strand, 1809. WITH Also Observations 

On The River Wye, 5th Ed, 1800. 

24cm, both illus, plain brds, spine 

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Hampshire, Sussex, And Kent. 

Relative chiefly to Picturesque 

Beauty, Made in the summer of the 

year 1774, printed by A. Strahan, 

for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 

1804, 24cm, 135pp, illus, light blue 

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278 Gilpin, William. 

Observations On The Western Parts Of 

England 

Relative chiefly to Picturesque 

Beauty, to which are added, A few 

remarks on the picturesque beauties 

of The Isle Of Wight, printed for T. 

Cadell, Jun, and W Davies, London, 

1798, 24cm, xvi, 359pp, light blue 

paper covered brds, well worn, 

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279 Harlow, Vincent T. 

A History of Barbados 1625-1685 

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1926, 23cm, 

xviii, 347pp., red cloth stained & 

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280 Maitland, Frederic William & Mary 

Bateson 

The Charters of The Borough of 

Cambridge 

The University Press, Cambridge 

1901, 23cm, xxxvii, 209pp.,dark blue 

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281 Niebuhr, Carsten (1733 – 1815) 

German mathematician, 

cartographer and explorer 

Travellers Autograph Album 

‘Nominibvs Favtorvm, Patronorvm, 

Et Amicorvm Aetatem Devenerandis, 

Colendis, Albvm Hocce Sacrvm 

Esto. Sic Dicat, Consecrat C. Niebvhr 

Hadelenf. Math. Stud. 1757 (To 

the names of my supporters, 

my patrons, and friends, which 

should be worshipped throughout 

the ages and cherished, let this 

book be sacred. Thus dedicates 

and consecrates. C. Niebuhr 

Mathematical student of Hadeln 

1757) 

Four frontis pages engraved with 

views of Gottingen, 252pp drawn 

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notes throughout, last dated noted 

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tooled calf bindings, spine leather 

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282 Pennant, Thomas 

A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor, 

including A Tour From Alston-Moor To 

Harrowgate And Brimham Crags 

Printed at the Oriental Press by 

Wilson & Co for Edward Harding, 

London 1801-1804, 31cm,illus with 

engs, full calf gilt, spine splitting, CB, 

browning from plates, FX, else G 

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283 Selection of Four Texts pertaining to 

Travel & Law 

- An Essex Dozen, recorded in 

pictures by John O’Connor, Benham 

1953 

- The Oldest Diarie of English Travell, 

no. vi The Vellum-Parchment Shilling 

Series of Misc Literature, London 

-Scintillae Juris, Charles Darling, 4th 

Ed Steven & Haynes 1889 

-As Above, 5th Ed 1903 

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BOTANY, HORTICULTURE 

& NATURAL HISTORY 

284 Arber, Agnes 

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution 

A Chapter in The History of Botany 

1470-1670, University Press, 1912, 

23cm, xvii, 253pp, illus, dec green 

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Est $60 - 120 

285 Babington, Charles Cardale 

Memorial Journals and Botanical 

Correspondence 

Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge, 

1897, 23, 5cm, xciii, 473pp, some 

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Est $60 - 120 

286 Bartram, William 

Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 

1756-1788 

Reproduced from the Fothergill 

Album in The British Museum 

(Natural History), edited with an 

introduction and commentary 

by Joseph Ewan, the American 

Philosophical Society, 1968, 41cm, 

180pp, illus, green cloth, DJ, G+ 

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287 Baynes, C. E. 

Album of Indian Ferns 

Reproduced in Chromo-lithography 

from original watercolour drawings, 

William Day, London, 1887, 33cm, 

green cloth title and fern dec in 

silver, all bar one plate detached, FA 

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288 Bewick, Thomas 

Figures of British Land Birds (2 Vols) 

engraved on wood by T Bewick, to 

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with Their Vulgar and Scientific 

Names, printed by S Hodgson, 

Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1800, 21.5cm, 

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Garnons Library, mrbld EPs, very 

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289 (-) 

Botanical Sketches of the Twenty-Four 

Classes in the Linnaean System with 

Fifty Specimens of English Plants, 

Taken From Nature 

also an account of their place 

of growth, time of flowering, 

and medicinal properties, with 

a glossary, J Hatchard And Son, 

London, 1825, 20cm ,xii, 126pp, 

some uncut, blind stamped green 

cloth, top of spine frayed, else G 

Est $40 - 80 

290 Chittenden, Fred J., (Ed) 

The Royal Horticultural Society 

Dictionary of Gardening Second Ed. 

Oxford, Clarendon Press 1969 Vols 

I-IV and Supplement (2 copies), 

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291 Dykes,W. R. 

Notes on Tulip Species 

Edited and Illustrated by E Katherine 

Dykes, with an introduction by Sir 

Daniel Hall, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 

London, 1930, 39cm, 108pp, green 

cloth, grubby, top of spine torn, 

minor FX, else G 

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See Illustration

292 Elgood, George S. & Jekyll 

Gertrude 

Some English Gardens 

Longmans, Green And Co, 1933, 

40cm, xii, 131pp, illus, light blue 

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Est $40 – 80 

293 Forsyth, William 

Treatise on The Management of Fruit 

Trees 

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 

and T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 

1806, 23.5cm ,xxviii, 523pp, illus 

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Est $100 - 200 

294 Gothein, Marie Louise 

A History of Garden Art (2 Vols) 

Edited by Walter P Wright and 

Translated from the German by 

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Limited, 1928, 28cm, illus, dec blue 

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295 Hey, Rebecca 

The Moral of Flowers 

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green 

& Longman, London, 1835, 24cm, 

xiv, 227pp, illus with 23 plates, lacks 

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296 Hooker, W. J. 

Companion to The Botanical 

Magazine (2 Vols) 

Being a Journal, containing such 

interesting Botanical information, 

as does not come within the 

prescribed limits of the magazine, 

with occasional figures, printed 

by Edward Couchman, London, 

1835/36, 26.5cm, illus with frontis 

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297 Jekyll, G, 

3 Titles 

-Wall and Water Gardens, ND 

-Roses for English Gardens, 1902, with 

BPs for Robert T Turnbull and Erica 

Baillie 

-Wood and Garden, 2nd Ed, 1899. 

All cloth gilt, G 

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298 McEwen, George 

The Culture of the Peach and 

Nectarine 

Edited and Enlarged by John Cox, 

Groombridge & Sons, London, 1859, 

22cm ,52pp, some uncut, illus incl 

col frontis, blind stamped cloth gilt, 

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Burne To Sacred Heart College 

Auckland, minor wear, else G+ 

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299 Maddock, James 

The Florists Directory 

A Treatise on the Culture of Flowers. 

to which is added, a supplementary 

dissertation, on Soils, Manures, etc, 

A New Edition, Improved by Samuel 

Curtis, printed for John Harding, 

London, 1810, 23cm, vi, 271pp, illus 

with 8 hand col plates, half tan calf, 

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299a Maeterlinck, Maurice 

The Life Of The Bee 

Translated by Alfred Sutro, illus by 

Edward J Detmold, George Allen & 

Co Ltd, London, illus ed 1911, dec 

cream cloth gilt, gen wear, else G+ 

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300 Martyn, Thomas 

Thirty Eight Plates with Explanations, 

Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus’s 

System of Vegetables, and particularly 

adapted to the Letters on the Elements 

of Botany 

B. White And Sons, London, 1788, 

22.5cm, complete with 38 hand 

col plates, 71pp, plus book adverts, 

full calf, gilt lines, mrbld EPs, spine 

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301 Maund, B. 

Orchard and Garden Fruits 

Their Description, History, And 

Management, Bell And Daldy, 

London, ND, 23cm, illus with 24 col 

plates, green cloth gilt, G 

Est $40 - 80 

302 Maxwell, Right Hon. Sir Herbert 

Flowers, A Garden Note Book 

Maclehose, Jackson & Co, 1923 Ltd 

Ed 147 of 200 printed on handmade 

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xv, 250pp illus with12 coloured 

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Est $40 – 80 

303 Maxwell, Sir Herbert 

Scottish Gardens 

Being A Representative Selection of 

different Types, Old and New, illus 

by Mary G Wilson, Edward Arnold, 

London, 1908, 26cm, 252pp, full 

cream buckram, gilt embellishments, 

old water stains to covers, browning 

and FX, else G 

Est $40 – 80 

304 Maxwell, Sir Herbert 

Trees, A Woodland Notebook 

Containing Observations On Certain 

British And Exotic Trees, illustrated 

with photographs by Mr Henry 

Irving And Others, James Maclehose 

And Sons, Glasgow, 1915, 26cm, 

235pp, quarter blue morocco , grey 

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305 (-) 

A New Medicinal, Economical, and 

Domestic Herbal containing a familiar 

and accurate description of upwards 

of six hundred British Herbs, Shrubs, 

Trees, etc 

R. Parker, Blackburn1808, 20cm, 

257pp, paper covered brds, spine 

poor, FA 

Est $40 – 80 

306 Millais, J.G. 

The Mammals of Great Britain and 

Ireland (3 Vols) 

Longmans, Green, And Co, 

1904,1905,1906, Ltd Ed No 675/1025, 

35.5cm, Vol 1, with 18 photogravures 

by the author, 31 colour pl by the 

author, Archibald Thorburn, and G. E. 

Lodge, and 63 uncoloured plates by 

the author and from photographs, 

Vol 2, with 21 photogravures, 19 

col pl by Thorburn & Lodge, and 

33 uncoloured plates, Vol 3, 23 

photogravures, 12 col pl by the 

author, Thorburn, H. W. B. Davis, 53 

uncoloured plates, two tone blue 

cloth gilt, bindings grubby, gen 

wear, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


307 Miller, Phillip 

The Gardeners Kalendar 

Directing what Works are necessary 

to be performed Every Month in the 

Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens, 

As also in the Conservatory, and 

Nursery, etc, etc, The Thirteenth 

Edition, printed for the author, 

London, 1762, 21cm,xv, 369pp, illus 

with frontis, plate II missing, plate 1 

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well worn, text sound and complete, 

G 

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See Illustration

288 

317 

306 

337

291 

308 Payne, Raef (translator) 

Hortulus 1510, Walahfrid Strabo 

The Hunt Botanical Library 1966, 

27cm, illus, white gilt brds, 91pp, 

sunned spine else G 

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309 Phelps, Rev William 

Calendarium Botanicum 

or A Botanical Calendar, exhibiting, 

at one view The Generic And Specific 

Name, The Class, Order, And Habitat 

of all the British Plants, etc, etc, 

printed by Harding and Wright, for 

Lackington, Allen, And Co, London, 

1810, 22cm, illus with 5 plates, fine 

leather binding, with wide dec gilt 

border,(grubby) 5 raised bands, 

dec gilt cmpts, mrbld EPs and foreedges, 

ex owners name in ink to TP, 

minor FX, else G+ 

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309 

294 

307 

299 

310 Phillips, Henry 

Pomarium Britannicum, An Historical 

and Botanical Account of Fruits known 

in Great Britain 

Printed for the author and sold by 

T and J. Allman, London, 1820, sub, 

preface, viii, errata & intro, 378pp, 3 

hand col plates, half tan calf, green 

cloth, BP of The Earl of Jersey, FX, 

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311 Robinson, William 

Gravetye Manor 

Or Twenty Years Work round an Old 

Manor House, being an Abstract 

from the Tree and Garden Book of 

Gravetye Manor Sussex, kept by the 

owner William Robinson, Author of 

The English Flower Garden, etc, etc, 

John Murray, London, 1911, 40cm, 

xii, 155pp, full vellum ,grubby, old 

water stains to FEPs, else G 

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300 

312 Rousseau, J. J. 

Letters on the Elements of Botany 

Addressed To A Lady, translated into 

English with notes, and twenty four 

additional letters fully explaining 

the system of Linnaeus by Thomas 

Martyn, The Second Edition, with 

corrections and improvements, 

printed for E. White & Son, London, 

1787, 22.5cm, xxv, 500pp, plus 

indexes, full calf gilt, mrbld EPs, FX, 

tear to loose fly, small tear to TP, G+ 

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313 Sitwell, S. & Russell, J. 

Old Garden Roses (2 Vols) 

with 8 reproductions from paintings 

by Charles Raymond, and a foreword 

by Graham Thomas, George Rainbird 

Ltd in association with Collins, 

London, 1955, 43.5cm, DJs, FX, G 

Est $60 - 120 

314 Smith, Sir James Edward 

The English Flora (4 Vols) 

Printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees, 

Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 

Vols 1, and 2, 1824, Vol 3, 1825, Vol 

4, 1828, blue paper covered brds, 

spines poor, usual FX, text sound, G 

Est $100 – 200 

310

315 

311 

315 Strutt, Jacob George 

Sylva Britannica 

or Portraits of Forest Trees, 

distinguished for their Antiquity, 

Magnitude, or Beauty, Longman, 

Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 

London 1830, 29cm, xvi, 151pp, illus, 

half red calf, mrbld brds, worn and 

CB, FX and browning else G 

Est $200 – 400 


316 Thorburn, A. 

British Mammals, (2 Vols in 1) 

Longmans, Green & Co., 1920 

with 50 colour plates (accounted 

complete), sketches 32.5cm107pp, 

blue cloth brds, DJ, FX to prelims 

and tissue leaves and subsequent 

markings to pl, general wear to DJ, 

else G 

Est $150 – 300 


317 Thornton, Robert John. 

Botanical Extracts (3 Vols) 

or Philosophy of Botany, printed by 

T. Bensley, London, 1810, 47.5cm, 

fine full dark green morocco gilt, 

blind stamped decoration incl Greek 

key, shell, and central lozenge, old 

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sound although worn, else G 

Est $500 – 1,000 


318 Tipping, H. Avray 

English Gardens 

Country Life, London, 1925, 40cm, 

lxiv, 375pp, green cloth, DJ, frayed 

edges, else G+ 

Est $100 - 200 

319 Withering, William. 

An Arrangement of British Plants 

According to The Latest Improvements 

of the Linnaean System with an easy 

introduction to the study of botany 

Sixth Edition, printed for Cadell 

and Davies, Cuthell and Co, etc, etc, 

London 1818, 23cm, illus by copper 

plates, half maroon morocco, mrbld 

brds, , Vol 1 spine very poor, front 

brd detached, other spines well 

worn, usual FX, else G 

Est $40 – 80 

320 Seven Works pertaining to Gardening 

- W. Robinson The Vegetable Garden 

1905 and English Flower Garden 1907 

- Plants of the Bible 1956 

- The Gardens of Japan1928 

- My Shrubs, Eden Phillpotts 1915 

- English Garden Flowers 1948 

- Orchid Growers Manual 1877 

Est $50 – 100 

320a (-) 

A Treatise On British Song-Birds 

Including Observations on their 

natural habits, manner of incubation 

etc, with remarks on the treatment 

of the young and management of 

the old birds in a domestic state, 

with 15 hand col engs, 19.5cm, John 

Anderson, Jun, Edinburgh, 1823, rebacked 

quarter cloth, paper covered 

brds, FX, gen wear, FA 

Est $50 - 100 

ART & ARCHITECTURE 

321 Ackerman, James S. 

The Architecture of Michelangelo, Text 

& Plates and Catalogue (2 Vols) 

A. Zwemmer Ltd, London 1961, 

25.5cm, xxxv, 156pp.& vii, 155pp., 

blue cloth, gilt spines, G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

316 

322 Balston, Thomas 

English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 

Art & Technics, London, 1951, over 

100 engs by Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, 

Gordon Craig, Robert Gibbings, 

Blair Hughes-Stanton, Joan Hassall 

and other contemporary woodengravers, 

25.5cm, 84pp, quarter 

blue cloth, dec covered brds, DJ, G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

323 Barnard, George 

The Theory and Practice of Landscape 

Painting in Watercolours 

Illustrated by a Series of Thirty 

Drawings and Diagrams in Colours, 

and Numerous Woodcuts, NE 

Hamilton, Adams & Co. London 

1858, 26cm, 286pp, blue cloth gilt, 

applied heavy gilt BP to inside cover, 

FX, G. 

Est $35 - 70 

324 Beerbohm, Max 

Cartoons “The Second Childhood of 

John Bull” 

Stephen Swift & Co. London, 51cm, 

blue brds (staining, cnrs bumped, 

worn), FX to FEPs & EPs, G. 

Est $40 - 80 

325 Brackett, Oliver 

Catalogue of The Jones Collection Part 

I, II & III 

Victoria & Albert Museum, London 

1922 WITH 

John Constable’s Sketch-books of 

1813 and 1814, reproduced in 

facsimile, Victoria & Albert Museum, 

London 1973 

Est $40 - 80 

326 Butlin, Martin (Ed.) 

The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 

in the Collection of M. D. E. Clayton- 

Stamm 

Heinemann, London1969, Ltd Ed of 

800, 2 vols in teal cloth slipcase, G+ 

Est $40 - 80

327 Empson, Patience 

The Wood Engravings of Robert 

Gibbings 

With some recollections by the artist. 

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London1959, 

29cm, xliv, 355pp., black cloth dec 

gilt with plastic DJ, G+ 

Est $30 – 50 

328 Leech, John 

Follies of the Year 

A Series of Coloured Etchings from 

Punchs Pocket Books 1844-1864. 

With some Notes by Shirley Brooks. 

Bradbury, Evans & Co, Whitefriars 

1864, half red calf, blue gilt dec cloth 

staining, cnrs bumped, FX, FA. 

Est $40 - 80 

329 Leslie, C. R. 

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable 

ESQ. R.A. Composed Chiefly of His 

Letters 

Second Ed, Longman, Brown, Green 

and Longmans, London 1845, 23cm, 

363pp., green cloth brds (wear, 

splitting), illus with frontis port, inscr 

to FEP, FX, FA. 

Est $50 – 100 

330 (-) 

The Manchester Guardian Advertising 

Review Wednesday July 16, 1924 

A Brief Notice of Some of 

the Theories & Principles 

of Advertisment and of the 

Contributory Arts, 39cm, 32pp., blue 

cloth brds with paste down dec, G+ 

Est $30 - 60 

331 Paviere, Sydney H. 

Floral Art. Great Masters of Flower 

Painting 

F. Lewis Publishers Ltd, Leigh-on-Sea 

1965, 38cm, 69pp., 31 col pl., blue 

gilt dec cloth, DJ (torn), FX, G. 

Est $30 - 60 

335 

332 Reynolds, Graham 

Constable with His Friends in 1806 

(5 Vols) 

The Trianon Press & Genesis 

Publications 1981, 20.5cm (case), 5 

vols wth half calf mrbld brds, each in 

indiv slip covers, contained in brown 

cloth slip case, F 

Est $250 – 500 

333 (-) 

Schools of Illumination Part VI French 

Mid 14th to 16th Centuries, Sold at 

the British Museum 1930 loose folio 

of 15 plates and plate list, half green 

cloth and paper tied brds WITH 

Photographs of Casts of Persian 

Sculptures, as above 1932, 12 plates 

and Hine, Reginald L., The Cream 

of Curiosity … historical and literary 

manuscripts 1920, 416pp red brds 

gilt, DJ, FX, tear to jacket 

Est $30 - 50 

334 Scott, The Hon Mary M. Maxwell 

Abbotsford, The Personal Relics and 

Antiquarian Treasures of Sir Walter 

Scott 

Adam & Charles Black, London 1893 

WITH 

Nathaniel Lloyd, A History of the 

English House from Primitive Times to 

the Victorian Period, The Architecture 

Press, London RP 1949 

Est $30 - 60 

335 Stark, Freya 

Space, Time & Movement in 

Landscape 

Her Godson, London 1969, Ltd Ed 

signed copy 393/500, 25cm, half calf 

mrbld brds in olive slip case, G+ 

Est $100 – 200 


336 Warner, George F. & Henry J. Ellis 

(Ed.) 

Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters 

in The British Museum, Vol I. William 

I – Richard I 

Oxford University Press 1903, 40cm, 

maroon gilt cloth, FX, G. 

Est $30 – 60 

337 Willemin, N.X. & Pottier, A. 

Monument Francais 

Inedits Pour Servir A L,Historie 

Des Arts, etc, etc, Chez Mlle 

Willemin, Paris, 1839, 48cm, vii, 

73pp, numerous eng plates, pages 

untrimmed FX, and browning, 

disbound, lacking binding, FA 

Est $500 – 1,000 


338 Woods, S. John (Ed.) 

John Piper. Paintings, Drawings & 

Theatre Designs 1932-1954 

Faber & Faber Ltd, London 1955, 

33cm, 160pp., dec gilt orange cloth, 

DJ, illus litho pl., POS to FEP, G+ 

Est $150 – 300 


339 Four Volumes on Thomas Bewick 

- Thomas Bewick Vignettes, The 

Scholar Press, London 1978 

- Montague Weekley, Thomas Bewick, 

Oxford University Press 1953 

- Thomas Bewick, My Life, The Folio 

Society, London 1981 

-Iain Bain, Thomas Bewick, An 

Illustrated Record of His Life and Work, 

The Laing Gallery1979 

Est $40 – 80 

P R I N T I N G , P U B L I S H I N G 

& BOOKBINDING 

340 (-) 

Bibliotheca Corviniana 

The Library of King Matthias 

Corvinus Of Hungary, Irish University 

Press, Shannon, 1969, 32.5cm, illus, 

398pp, DJ, G 

Est $20 – 50 

341 Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. 

A Paper Read at a Meeting of the 

Art Workers Guild, March 6, 1891, 

presented to the subscribers to 

The Doves Press Publications by 

T. J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery 

Walker, being composed and printed 

by Richard Cobden-Sanderson 

Apprentice to the Press. Finished 

March 31, 1906, 8pp, full vellum, G+ 

Est $100 – 200

338 349 

342 Dreyfus, John (Ed.) 

Typographical Partnership 

Ten Letters between Bruce Rogers 

and Emery Walker 1907-31, together 

with an unpublished fragment of 

Bruce Rogers Bye-ways of Bookmaking, 

printed for The Carl H 

Pforzheimer Library at The University 

Printing House, Cambridge, 1971, 

29.5cm, Ltd Ed of 350, 45pp, mrbld 

brds, F 

Est $20 - 40 

343 Hughes, Sukey 

Washi, The World of Japanese Paper 

Kodansha International 1978 Ltd Ed 

78/1000, 30.5cm, illus, 452pp, blue 

cloth and hand made paper brds in 

brown silk covered clam shell box 

G+ 

Est $125 - 250 

344 Jackson, Holbrook 

The Anatomy of Bibliomania (2 Vols) 

The Soncino Press, London, 1930, 

Ltd Ed of 1000, of which 48 were 

signed, Vol 1 SA, red cloth, spines 

sunned, else G+ 

Est $50 - 100 

345 Keynes, Geoffrey 

Bibliotheca Bibliographici 

A Catalogue of The Library formed 

by Geoffrey Keynes, The Trianon 

Press, London 1964, SA Ltd Ed, 29cm, 

444pp., half calf brown cloth, illus, 

some FX to Es, G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

346 (-) 

Lines of the Alphabet in the Sixteenth 

Century 

The Stellar Press & The Bodley 

Head, London, 1965, Ltd Ed of 600 

with original 1964 Proof booklet 

and 2 handwritten letters on 

Bodley Head Ltd paper from John 

(presumably John Ryder one of the 

directors)26cm, 79pp, illus quarter 

red buckram, dec paper covered 

brds, DJ, FX else G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

347 Morley, Edith J. (Ed) 

Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and 

Their Writers (3 Vols) 

J. M. Dent And Sons Limited, 

London, 1938, 22.5cm, illus with 

frontis ports, rust cloth, FX, edges 

browned else G. 

Est $20 – 50 

348 Nurnberg, Walter 

Words in Their Hands 

A Series of Photographs, with a 

commentary by Beatrice Warde, 

Privately Printed at the University 

Printing House, Cambridge, 1964, 

22.5cm, black cloth, spine and edges 

sunned, else G 

Est $20 - 40 

349 Orcutt, William Dana. 

The Book in Italy 

During The Fifteenth And Sixteenth 

Centuries Shown In Facsimile 

Reproductions From The Most 

Famous Printed Volumes, George 

Harrap & Co Ltd,1928, Ltd Ed 167 of 

750, 32.5cm, illus, 220pp, quarter 

vellum, blue paper coverd brds, 

minor wear, else F 

Est $100 – 200 


350 Pardoe, F. E 

John Baskerville of Birmingham Letter- 

Founder & Printer, Frederick Muller 

1975, 25cm, 181pp, blue cloth bds 

DJ, WITH 

Gaskell, Philip, John Baskerville, A 

Bibliography, Cambridge Univ. 1959, 

28cm, 71pp, red cloth brds, DJ, light 

FX to frontis and EPs, DJ FX else G 

Est $30 - 50 

351 Prince, Edward Philip 

Type Punchcutter 

F.C. Avis, London 1967, Ltd Ed of 

1000, 23cm, 104pp, frontis photo, 

red cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $20 – 40 

352 Sotheby & Co. 

Catalogue of The Renowned Library 

removed from Ham House, Surrey 

The First Portion May 30 & 31 1938 

& The Second and Final Portion 20 & 

21 June 1938 WITH 

Catalogue of the Bewick Collection, 

Basil Anderton & W. H. Gibson, 1904 

Est $40 - 80 

353 Sparrow, John (Ed.) 

Lapidaria Altera, Tertia, Quarta, 

Quinta & Sexta (Collection of 5) 

Cambridge 1951, 1954, 1958, 1965, 

1969, 26cm, cream paper wraps, 

some silverfish damage, spines poor 

Est $40 - 80 

354 Stone, Reynolds 

Reynolds Stone Engravings 

With an intro by the artist, and an 

appreciation by Kenneth Clark, John 

Murray, London, 1977, 29.5cm, xli, 

151pp, blue buckram, DJ, minor 

wear to DJ, else F 

Est $30 – 60 

355 Stone, Reynolds. 

Wood Engravings of Thomas Bewick 

Reproduced in Collotype, selected 

with a biographical intro, Rupert 

Hart-Davis, London, 1953, 25cm, 

signed Ltd Ed, No 155 of 1000, 

maroon cloth, G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

356 Taubert, Sigfred 

Bibliopola I& II 

Pictures and Texts about the Book 

Trade, Dr Ernst Hauswedell & Co, 

Hamburg 1966, 31cm126pp. & 

526pp., illus, fawn cloth in card slip 

case, G+ 

Est $30 - 60

357 Tymms, W. R. 

The Art of Illuminating 

as practised in Europe From The 

Earliest Times, illustrated by Borders, 

Initial Letters and Alphabets 

Selected & Chromolithographed 

by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and 

Introductions by M. D. Wyatt, Dan 

& Son, London, 1860, 30cm, TP and 

100 plates dec in gold & colours, half 

maroon morocco, cloth, rebacked, 

corners worn, else G+ 

Est $150 – 300 

358 Five works pertaining to Printing and 

Books 

-Pastonchi A Specimen of a New Letter 

for Use on The , The 

Lanston Monotype Corp, London 

-Stanley Morison, L’Inventaire De La 

Fonderie Le Be, Paris 1957 

-Holbrook Jackson, A Sanctuary of 

Printing, The Record Room at The 

University Press, Oxford 

-Allan Stevenson, The Problem of the 

Missale Speciale, London 1967 

-John Sparrow (Ed.), Line Upon Line, 

Cambridge 1967 

Est $50 - 100 

359 Five works pertaining to Printing 

- First Principles of Typography, 

Stanley Morrison1936 

- The Fear of Books, Holbrook Jackson 

1932 ltd ed 1867/2000 

- Fournier, the compleat typographer, 

Allen Hunt 1972 

- Facsimile copy Augustino Da Siena 

1975 

- Talbot Baines Reed, Stanley Morison 

1960 

Est $50 – 100 

360 Five works pertaining to Printing 

- Fine Books and Book Collecting, Alan 

G. Thomas 1981 

- The English Newspaper, Stanley 

Morison 1932 

- The Album Amicorum 1910 

- Talbot Baines Reed A History of The 

Old English Letter Foundries 1952 

- English Handwriting 1540 – 1853, 

Joyce Irene Whalley 1969 

Est $50 - 100 

361 Six works pertaining to Printing 

- Philobiblon 1960 

- J. H. Mason 1875-1951, Scholar- 

Printer 1976 

- Bibliotheca Lindesiana 1978 

- William Pickering Publisher by 

Geoffrey Keynes, signed copy 18/100 

1969 

- Francis Barlow, First Master of English 

Book Illustration 1978 

- Scribes and Soucers1980 

Est $50 - 100 

362 Seven works pertaining to Printing 

- To be a Printer 1980 

- Five Hundred Years of Printing 1959 

- William Caxton 19767 

- James Scott and William Scott, 

Bookbinders 1980 

- A History of English Craft 

Bookbinding Technique 1988 

- Stanley Morison A Tally of Types 

1973 

- Robert Wangermee, La Musique 

Flamande 1960 

Est $50 - 100 

363 Thirteen works pertaining to Printing 

- English Book Illustration 966- 1846 

1965 

- Printed Books, A Short Introduction 

to Fine Typography 1957 

- Officina Bodoni 1978 

- Print and Privilege at Oxford to the 

1700 1946 

- Early Printed Book Labels 1976 

- Bookplates in Britain 1979 

- English Restoration Bookbindings 

1974 

- The Oxford University Press and the 

Spread of Learning 1978 

- A History of the Oxford University 

Press 1975 

- Typorvm Conspectvs MCMLVII 1957 

- Hornschuch’s Orthotypographia 

1608 1972 

- C B E L The Making of the Cambridge 

Bibliography 1965 

- Peter Schoeffer of Germsheim and 

Mainz 1950 

Est $50 - 100 

364 Collection of Books and Catalogues 

pertaining to Private Press Books, Book 

Collections and others (approx 30) 

Est $50 – 100 

365 Collection of The Book Collector 

Magazines 

1957, 1963 – 1969 (missing winter) 

1970 - 1974 

366 C19th Table Book Press, cast iron 

with brass mounts 

Est $200 - 400 

367 C19th Table Book Press, cast iron 

with dolphin moulded supports 

(showing some rust) 

Est $100 - 200 

368 Collection of various marbled book 

binding paper sheets 

Est $75 - 150

401 

423 

409 

400 

405 

400 

404 

404 

421

TO BE HELD 

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SESSION TWO • NZ & ANTIQUARIAN PRIVATE VENDORS 

3pm NZT START • LOTS 400 - 657 

Lot 400 - 431 Signatures 

Lot 447 - 457 Antiquarian 

Lot 458 - 470 Art History & Reference 

Lot 471 - 496 General Literature & Poetry 

Lot 497 - 522 Maori 

Lot 523 - 590 New Zealand Historical & Regional 

Lot 591 - 601 Military 

Lot 602 - 620 Exploration & Travel 

Lot 621 - 642 Natural History 

Lot 643 - 657 Recreation & Leisure 

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CONDITION / CATALOGUING 

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SIGNATURES 

The following lots 401 - 419 are from the 

personal collection of The Late 

SURGEON GENERAL SIR 

WILLIAM TAYLOR 

L A T E D I R E C T O R G E N E R A L , 

ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE 

Received a commission as assistant surgeon 

in the AMD in which he had a long and brilliant 

career serving in Canada then India. He 

was appointed Medico-Attache to the Japanese 

Army during the Japanese-Chinese 

War and received the Japanese War Medal. 

He retired in 1904 after 40 years 

service during which he served in six 

campaigns, and received the Khedives 

Bronze Star & Medjidie. In 1901 he was 

gazetted honorary physician to The King 

and in 1902 received the K.C.B. He died 

March 1917. 

400 Sir Joseph Banks (1743 to 1820) 

signed letter written from Soho 

Square May 17 1806 to an unnamed 

correspondent thanking his 

correspondent for a book of poems, 

‘the perusal of them has much 

amused me’… 

Est $250 - 500 


401 Queen Victoria Signed Document 

to Surgeon General William Taylor 

Licence to accept and wear the 

Insignia of the Imperial Order of the 

Medjidiah of the Second Class as 

authorized by the Khedive of Egypt 

and Sultan of Turkey 29 th April 1899 

counter signed by Sir M White Ridley 

Est $500 – 1,000 


402 King Edward VII Signed Document 

to Surgeon General William Taylor 

granting a Knight Commander 

(Military division) of the Order of 

Bath 26 th June 1902 together with 

letter of notification signed by Albert 

Woods, Garter Secretary 

Est $500 – 1,000 

403 Two Documents to Dr Taylor 

appointments of Assistant Surgeon 

to the Forces dated 30 th September 

1864 and Surgeon Major Land 

Forces dated 13 th September 1876 

both signed George with counter 

signatures 

Est $50 - 100 

404 Queen Victoria Letter with envelope, 

Osborne June 20 1899 signed with 

initials 

Est $200 – 400 


405 HRH The Princess Helena (1846 – 

1923) signed photograph ‘Helena 

Cape Town Oct 7 th 1904’ together 

with another unsigned 

Est $50 - 100 


406 HRH The Princess Helena collection 

of letters, some with envelopes, 

invitations and calling cards mainly 

to Dr Taylor, eleven full signatures of 

Helena and two with initials 

Est $150 – 300 

407 Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig- 

Holstein (1867 – 1900), six signed 

letters; four to Dr Taylor and one 

each to Papa and Mother together 

with note written for Prince Christian 

by Andy Buller 

Est $50 - 100 

408 Queen Elizabeth II 

Black and white photograph by 

Dorothy Wilding signed Elizabeth R, 

1953, (faded) 50cm x 36.5cm 

Est $300 – 500 

409 Marie de Medici signed parchment 

document (1573 – 1642) reverse 

dated April 1625 

Est $150 - 300 


410 Maharaja of Patiala, Sir Rajinder 

Singh (1872 – 1900) signed letter to 

General Taylor dated 6 th August 1900 

together with Madho Rao Scindia 

(1876 – 1925) 5 th Maharaja Scindia 

of Gwalior signed letter dated 6 th 

Aug 1900. Also Japanese calligraphic 

military certificate and Arabic leaf 

with envelope 

Est $50 - 100 

411 Mary Victoria Curzon (1870 – 1906) 

Vicereine of India three signed 

letters and two invitation cards 

With notes signed by Ronaldshay, 

Prince Frances of Teck, Hatherton, 

Knollys written on note paper from 

H.M. Yacht Victoria and Albert and 

unidentified on Windsor Castle 

paper 

Est $50 - 100 

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412 Baden-Powell, Robert, 1st Baron 

(1857 – 1941) signed letter to 

General Taylor (cut piece from note 

paper). Together with signed notes 

from Andrew Bonar Law (1858 – 

1923) British Prime Minister 1922- 

23; Villalohar on Spanish Embassy, 

London letterhead and Lansdowne 

(1845 – 1927) British Politician and 

Viceroy of Indian 

Est $100 - 150 

413 Frederick Sleigh Roberts Field 

Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 

VC (1832 – 1914) collection of 

eighteen letters to Dr Taylor together 

with three letters from Lady Roberts 

Est $300 - 500 

414 Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1 st 

Baronet, KCVO (1848 – 1931) three 

typed letters to General Taylor dated 

28 th and 31 st January, 28 th March 

1899 

Est $100 - 200 

415 Sir Frederick Treves (1853 – 1923), 

1901 appointed Surgeon to King 

Edward VII and mostly remembered 

as the physician to Joseph Merrick 

(Elephant Man). 

Six letters signed to Dr Taylor 

Est $100 - 200 

416 General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 

(1861 – 1953) British General and 

Administrator in Egypt two signed 

letters together with Wolseley on 

Lieutenant-General Commanding 

the Forces Madras note paper dated 

‘99, other unidentified note signed 

Raglan dated 17.5.02 Felixstowe, 

Navy Five per Cent, Annuities note 

dated 1817, card and telegram 

Est $50 - 100 

417 Autograph Album dated mainly 

1920 with signatures, photos, letters 

and cut notes including Covent 

Garden artists, Puccini, Rosina 

Buckman (NZ Soprano), Aubrey 

Beardsley, John Buchan, Dorothy 

Holmes-Gore, Bernard F. Gribble, 

Albert Chevalier, Anthony Eden, etc, 

etc… 

Est $500 – 1,000

432 433 

434 

418 Collection of Letters to Dr and Mrs 

Taylor from 

-Annie Besant (1847 – 1933), activist 

(2) 

-George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) 

written note on card with initials 

-Miss Sybil Thorndike (1882 – 1976) 

British Actress, three typed and 

single written letter to Pooch (Miss 

Taylor) 

-W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1900) of Gilbert 

and Sullivan clipped signature 

Est $50 - 100 

419 Collection of Letters and Teleletters 

to Mr Herbert Thorndike a baritone 

of the Victorian Era. 

In brief over 60 relating to concert 

arrangements and meetings etc 

dating from 1880 to 1901 

Est $100 – 200 

420 Winston Churchill signed print, “We 

are all of us defending a cause” after 

A. Pan, dated December 12th, 1942, 

Published in 1943 by Frost & Reed 

Ltd London, 51cm x 60cm 

Est $300 – 500 

421 Winston Churchill signed letter of 

thanks, dated 1945 on stamped 

House of Commons paper, with 

envelope together with another 

signature cut 

Est $150 – 250 


422 Anthony Eden & Others (5) signed 

letter of thanks from Eden to John E. 

Hunt of Wellington. Letter of thanks 

from Lord Carrington from Admiralty 

House, Singapore. Two letters on 

behalf of Churchill signed by his Hon 

Secretary, Mark Birley, and a letter of 

thanks signed by George Mallaby 

Est $50 – 100 

423 Henry W. Longfellow signed letter 

accepting an invitation on behalf of 

himself and a Mr Summer to dine 

with The Directors of the Mercantile 

Library Association, dated Jan 30, 

1841. A blue ballpoint inscription 

has been added in 1955 

Est $1,000 – 2,000 


424 Enid Blyton double signed letter 

of thanks from Old Thatch, Bourne, 

Bucks, to the current vendor when 

she was a young girl, dated May 14, 

1938, thanking her for a recent nice 

letter sent together with a copy of 

Mr Gallianos Circus. 

Est $200 – 400 

425 Nine Various NZ Signatures 

including signed Ed Hillary letter 

relating to the Trans-Antarctic 

Expedition, letter from Governor- 

General Fryberg, 1951, and an 

autographed programme from 

The Royal Society of St George 

Wellington (New Zealand) Branch 

Inc, 21st Anniversary, 1958, signed 

by Keith Holyoaks, Nash, Kitts, 

Mallaby, etc. 

Est $50 – 100 

426 Framed Vanity Fair Lithograph “His 

Majesty the King” Edward VII with 

signature 

Est $200 - 400 

427 As Above “Bobs” with signature of 

Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts 

Field Marshal Lord Roberts 

Est $100 - 200 

428 As Above “HMS Powerful” with 

signature of Hedworth Lambton, 

1856 -1929) 

Est $100 - 200 

429 As Above “Mixed Forces” with 

signature of Ian Hamilton, General 

Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton 

together with unsigned caricature 

“Natal” Colonel Robert George 

Broadwood 

Est $100 - 200 

430 As Above “A Prince of Denmark” with 

signature of Charles 

Est $50 - 100 

431 As Above two “The Sinner” Lord 

Southampton, faded sig and 

“Johnny” image of a jockey 

(unsigned) 

Est $50 - 100 

ANTIQUARIAN 

432 (-) 

Antiquarian German Double Sided Manuscript Leaf 

the front with four hand coloured 

portrait panels, 39cm x 26.5cm, old 

borer holes in lower edge, else G 

Est $100 – 200 


433 Baruffaldi, Girolamo 

La Via Della Croce 

Rime Sacre Di Girolamo Baruffaldi 

Arciprete Di Cento Con Le 

Considerazioni Di Giovannandrea 

Barotti Ferrarese, Al Reverendisimo 

Padre F.Bonaventura Barberino Da 

Ferrara Cappuccino Predicatore del 

Palazzo Appostolico Dedicate, In 

Bologna, nella stamperia di Lelio 

dalla Volpe, 1732, 39.5cm, illus with 

engs, plain soft card wraps, FX, 

browning and old water staining, 

edges frayed, FA 

Est $400 – 800 

See Illustration

440 

434 Chaucer, Geoffrey 

The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed… 

London, Thomas Godfray, 1532. 

Single leaf, 239 x 183mm, black 

letter, double column. Lightly 

browned, one small wormhole; 

taped by margin into sunken card 

mount. 

Est $500 – 1,000 


435 [Du Boccage, Marie Anne Fiquet] 

Le Paradis Terrestre, Poeme imite de Milton par 

Madame D.B***. Ouvrage enrichi de Figures en 

Taille-douce. 

A Londres [i.e. Lieges?] MDCCXLVIII 

[1748]. [ii], vi 121pp 8vol full mottled 

calf with gilt, later erotic BP of R. 

H., mrbld EPs, red edges. Frontis by 

Pierre, 6 vignettes by Gravelot. Wear 

to joints mild rubbing & creased brds 

Est $100 – 200 

436 [Gauden, John?] 

Eikon Basilike. The Pourtracture of His Sacred 

Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings. 

RP in R. M. An Dom 1648. [6], 268, 

10pp sm 8 vol half calf, mrbld 

brds, spine worn, browning in text, 

headlines shaved close, POBP. 

Est $200 – 400 

443 

442 

437 Gibbon, Edward 

The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman 

Empire Vol I – III 

(of IX). NE with numerous 

embellishments by S. A. & H. Oddy 

London 1809, 22cm, full mottled calf 

gilt, FX, gen wear 

Est $40 – 70 

438 Horace. 

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera 

Londini, Aeneis tabulis incidit 

Iohannes Pine, 1733-7, 2 vols. 

[xxxii], 264, [1] & [xxiv], 191, [13] 

pp 8vo contemp crimson morroco, 

tooled in gilt, mrbld EPS, a.e.g. eng 

throughout. Numerous illus. 1st 

issue with uncorrected “Post, Est” 

on the medallion vol 2 p.108. FX, 

rubbing to binding, POBP 

Est $750 – 1,250 

439 453 

441 

439 Horace. 

Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata, Scholiis sive 

Annotationibus instar Commentarii illustrate a 

Ioanne Bond. 

Editio Nova. Amstelodami apud 

Danielem Elzevirium, 1676, 234, [3] 

pp, 12mo C18th, red morroco gilt, 

blue silk EPS, binding unsigned but 

believed to be by J. N. Derome le 

Jeune. Front brd detaching, ends of 

SP worn. Text browning, manuscript 

annotations to FEP, POBP. 

Est $500 – 1,000 


440 Piccolomini, Allesandro 

La Sfera Del Mondo 

Di M Francesco Giuntini, Dottore 

Theologo, col testo di M.Giouanni 

Sacrobosco, Appresso Simforiano 

Beraud, In Lione, 1582, 17cm, 374pp, 

plus Tavolla, illus throughout, full 

rebound vellum, TP with frontis port, 

and stamp, old wear and browning, 

else G 

Est $1,000 – 2,000 

See Illustration

441 La Rochefoucauld, Francois Duc de 

Memoires De M.D.L.R. 

Chez Pierre Van Dyck, Cologne, 1662, 

13cm ,400pp, full vellum, FA 

Est $200 – 400 


442 Rupert. (Abbot of St Heribert at 

Deutz) 

R. Domini, D. Ruperti, Abbatia Monasterii 

Tuitensis…Opera Omnia… 

Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne] In 

Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus 

Arnoldi Mylij, 1602. 2 Vols. [10 (of 

16)], 1116 [i.e. 1016] & [2 (of 4)], 773 

[i.e. 873], [163]pp folio overlapping 

limp vellum (later EP), fore-edges 

scribed in brown ink: on vol. I at top 

of monkey, title & vol no. centrally 

with dec cartouche & at foot of 

rose(?). On vol II a rat topmost then 

at foot cluster of apples, believed to 

be Spanish in orig. Browning to text, 

covers worn with some cracking, loss 

at foot of spine to vol II. 

Est $500 – 1,000 


443 Sa, Emanuel [Manuel de Sa] 

Scholia in Qvatvor Evangelia, ex selectis doctorum 

sacrorum sententiis collecta 

Antverpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, 

Apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, 

1596. TP printed in red & black with 

eng device of Society of Jesus. [8], 

483, [4]pp 4to Adams S6 [bound 

with]: 

Stapelton, Thomas 

Vere Admiranda, seu, De 

Magnitvdine Romanae Ecclesiae 

Libri Dvo. Antverpiae, Ex Officina 

Plantiniana, Apud Iaonnem 

Moretum, 1599 [8], 110, [2]pp 4to, 

together in limp vellum;arms ST 

in black on both brds with 1631 

Garsten Monastry ownership insc 

on TP of 1st book. E. Simpson BP to 

inside cover, light browning in text. 

Est $500 – 1,000 


447 

444 Four Antiquarian Manuscript Leaf & Clippings 

All pertaining to the construction of 

the Leaning Tower of Pisa 

Est $30 – 60 

445 Six Various Antiquarian Titles 

The History of England Vol I 1715 & 

Vol II 1701 & Improved ED 1821, The 

General Practice of Physic Vol I 1777, 

other lacking binding & other. All FA. 

Est $50 – 100 

446 Selection of 20 Various small C18th &C19th leather 

bound literary and poetical volumes 

As found 

Est $100 – 200 

I L L U S T R A T E D & 

CHILDRENS 

447 Carroll, Lewis 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the 

Looking Glass 

(Peoples Edition), with ninetytwo 

illustrations by John Tenniel, 

Macmillan And Co, 1887, dec cloth, 


Est $80 – 150 


448 Cocker, Edward 

England’s Pen-Man or Cockers New Copy-Book 

Containing All the Curious Hands 

practised in England, And Our 

Neighbouring Nations, etc, etc, John 

Overton at The White Hare, Newgate, 

1703, TP and early pages restored 

and pasted in, mrbld brds, brds 

detached, FA 

Est $50 – 100 

449 Dyson, Will. 

Kultur Cartoons 

Foreword by H. G. Wells, Stanley Paul 

& Co, London, 1915, 36cm, dec paper 

wraps with pastedown to cover, 

corners and E’s curled and frayed, G 

Est $100 – 200 


449 

450 Eliot, T. S. 

Old Possums Book of Practical Cats 

Harcourt, Brace & Company, New 

York, 1939, 22.5cm, 46pp, illus, beige 

cloth, dec paper wraps, sunned, else 

G+ 

Est $150 – 250 


451 Lear, Edward 

The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense 

With all the Original Pictures and 

Verses, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 

Copyright Edition, pictorial green 

cloth, gen wear, else G 

Est $60 – 120 

452 Lear, Edward 

The Book of Nonsense 

35th Ed, Frederick Warne And Co, 

1901, pictorial blue cloth gilt, with 

110 illustrations, G+ 

Est $60 – 120 

453 Malory, Sir Thomas 

The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur, of his Noble 

Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous 

Enquests and Adventures…in two volumes 

London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1893-4. 

Numerous Illus & border dec by 

Aubrey Beardsley. [xc], 455 & [viii], 

457-990, [1]pp small 4to orig gilt 

cream cloth. Intro by Professor Rhys, 

from the text as printed by William 

Caxton 1485. POBP & sigs to EPS, 

some foxing 

Est $700 – 1,200 


454 Percy, Dr Thomas 

The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland 

Ballad in Three Fits. With Designs by Mr Craig, and 

engraved on wood by Mr Bewick 

Alnwick, J. Catnach 1806. 2nd Ed. 

xiv, 98 [of 102]pp (pp 43-44 omitted 

from no.) 12mo rebound in red cloth. 

1876 insc from George Skelly to 

Charles Hindley. Lacking last to L, FX, 

fading to E. 

Est $50 – 100 

450

455 

455 Potter, Beatrix 

15 Various Titles 

-The Tale Of Mr Jeremy Fisher, 1906 

-The Tale Of The Flopsy Bunnies, 

1909 

-The Tale Of Tom Kitten, 1907 

-The Tale Of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, 1905 

-The Tale Of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1910 

-The Tale Of Pigling Bland, 1913, all 

above published by Frederick Warne 

& Co. 

-The Tale Of Mr Tod 

-The Tailor Of Gloucester 

-The Tale Of Johnny Town Mouse 

-The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin 

-The Tale Of Tommy Tiptoes 

-The Tale Of Two Bad Mice 

-The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck 

-The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny 

-The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, all above 

published by Frederick Warne & 

Co Ltd. The older published titles 

are as found, mostly poor, the later 

editions, G 

Est $400 – 800 


456 (-) 

Sermons by Artists 

1934. 80pp 8vo quarter tan leather, 

patterned brds by Sangorski & 

Sutcliffe. Dec by Elizabeth Corsellis. 

Copy no. 12 of 300. Sunning to 

edges of covers, mild FX to EPS 

Est $30 – 60 

457 Five Various Children’s Titles 

-Now We Are Six, 17th Ed, 1942 

-The House At Pooh Corner, 2nd Aussie Ed, 

1944. 

-When We Were Very Young, 31st Ed, 1940. 

-The Roly Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter, 

ND 

-Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking 

Glass, Library Of Classics, ND, all FA 

Est $20 – 40 

464 

A R T H I S T O R Y & 

REFERENCE 

458 Brees, S. C. 

Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand 

John Williams and Co, London, 1848, 

Ltd Ed RP by Avon Fine Prints, 1968, 

No 211 of 1000, 38cm, dec red cloth 

gilt, minor wear, else F 

Est $60 – 100 

459 (-) 

The Gallery of Modern British Artists 

Consisting Of A Choice Collection Of 

Splendid Steel Engravings From The 

Works Of The Most Eminent Masters 

With Full Description Of Each Plate, 

D. Omer Smith, London, 1836, 27cm, 

half red morocco gilt, minor wear, 

FX, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

460 Hannay, James, (Intro) 

The Complete Works of William Hogarth 

In a series of 150 superb engs on 

steel, from the original pictures, New 

and Revised Edition, The London 

Printing And Publishing Co, ND, 

maroon cloth, worn, G 

Est $40 – 80 

461 Leach Bernard 

A Potters Book 

with introduction by Soyetsu Yanagi 

and Michael Cardew, Faber and 

Faber, London, r/p 1962, illus, beige 

cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $20 – 40 

462 Millar, Eric George 

The Lindisfarne Gospels 

Three plates in colour & Thirty-six 

in Monochrome from Cotton MS, 

Nero D. IV in The British Museum 

with Pages from Two Related 

Manuscripts. 1st Ed, printed by 

Order of the Trustees of the British 

Museum, 43cm, blue cloth gilt, gen 

wear, else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 

464 

463 Morrison, Robin 

The South Island of New Zealand 

With an intro by Hamish Keith, 

Alister Taylor, Martinborough, 1st Ed, 

1981, F 

Est $100 – 200 

464 Nichols, John 

The Works of William Hogarth 

From The Original Plates Restored 

By James Heath Esq, R.A., With The 

Addition Of Many Subjects Not 

Before Collected, To Which Are 

Prefixed A Biographical Essay On The 

Genius And Productions Of Hogarth 

and Explanation Of The Subjects 

Of The Plates, printed for Baldwin, 

Cradock, & Joy, London, 1822, 70cm, 

xi, 52pp, lacking pp5, 6,13-18, 21- 

26, 41-46, on pp 49 the paragraph 

titled The Politician has been cut out, 

75 pl, some loose, a few cut down 

from the larger plate, calf brds, very 

rough, old water stains to lower third 

throughout, TP poor, FA. 

Est $800 – 1,500 

See Illustrations 

465 Prout, Samuel 

A Series of Views of Rural Cottages in the West of 

England 

Drawn And Etched In Imitation Of 

Chalk, eleven plates, c1810, WITH 

Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis 

Stevenson, with etchings from drawings 

by S. Bough, and W. E. Lockhart, and 

engravings on wood, 1879 

Est $50 – 100 

466 Rooses, Max 

Rubens (2 Vols) 

Translated by Harold Child, illus by 

over 350 reproductions of Rubens 

works, including 70 full page 

illustrations in heliogravure and 

facsimile, Duckworth & Co, London, 

1904, half morocco, green cloth, 


Est $40 – 80 

See Illustration

467 Springer, Jaro 

Albrecht Durer, Kupferstiche 

1st Ed. Holbein – Verlag, Munchen 

1920, folio 102 loose tipped in B&W 

pl, plus 28 pp folder, G. 

Est $50 – 100 

468 Teriade, Directeur 

Verve, Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 

Vol III, no. 10, images De La Vie De 

Jesus, illus by Pol De Limbourg & 

Jean Colombo, text by Henri Malo. 

1st Ed Paris 1943, 36cm, brds DJ, CB, 

FX, G. 

Est $50 – 100 

469 Teriade, Directeur 

Verve, Les Heures D’Anne De Bretagne 

Vol IV, no. 14 & 15 Paris 1946, illus by 

Jean Bourdichon, 36cm, brds, DJ, G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

470 Four Various Art Titles 

-The Complete Works of William Hogarth in a 

Series of 150 steel engravings, ND, 

dec cloth gilt 

-Early Prints of New Zealand 1642-1875, by E. 

M. & D. G. Ellis, Ltd Ed 798/1000, 1st 

Ed, 1978, orange cloth 

-The Peoples Gallery of Engravings, Second 

Series, Vols 2 & 4, ND, half red 

morocco, mrbld brds, all G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

G E N E R A L L I T E R A T U R E & 

POETRY 

471 Austen, Jane 

Seven Volumes from the Ten Volume Set Fourth Ed 

Comprising of Pride And Prejudice 

Vols I & II, Mansfield Park, Vols I & 

II, Northanger Abbey, Sense And 

Sensibility, Vol I, Emma, Vol II, WITH 

Signed, 1st Ed copy of The Little Girls by 

Elizabeth Bowen, 1st Ed of Three 

Men In A Boat, Black As He’s Painted 

by Ngaio Marsh, and a 1st Ed of The 

Seven Seas by Kipling, 1896. 

Est $30 – 60 

472 (-) 

Cassel’s History of England (8 Vols) 

The Text Revised Throughout, And 

Profusely Illustrated With New 

And Original Drawings By The 

Best Artists, Cassell And Company, 

Limited, ND, half black morocco 

brds, browning, else G 

Est $300 – 500 

473 Crump, Barry 

Three Various Titles 

- A Good Keen Man, 4th Ed A.H. & A.W. 

Reed, 1964, illus, 192pp, DJ 

- Hang on a Minute Mate, RP 1962, 4 imps, 

illus, 192pp, DJ 

- One of Us, 3rd Ed 1963, illus, 181pp, DJ 

All with faded spines to DJs 

Est $30 – 50 

474 Frame, Janet 

Three Various Titles 

-Faces in the Water , 1st Ed, 1961, red 

cloth, DJ 

-A State Of Siege, 1st Ed, 1967, black 

cloth, DJ 

-The Edge of the Alphabet, 1st Ed, 1962, red 

cloth, DJ 

Est $50 – 100 

475 Frame Janet 

Six Various Titles 

-The Envoy from Mirror City 

-An Angel at my Table 

-The Carpathians 

-Daughter Buffalo (paperback) 

-Owls Do Cry (paperback) 

-Michael King, Wrestling with the Angel 

Est $50 - 100 

476 Glover, Dennis 

Five Various Titles 

-To Friends In Russia, 1st Ed, 1979 

-Sharp Edge Up, 1st Ed, 1968 

-Since Then, 1st Ed, 1957 

-Dancing To My Tune, 1st Ed, 1974 

-Enter without knocking, 1st Ed, 1964 

All ex Public Library 

Est $40 – 80 

466 480 

485 

486 

477 Hardy, Thomas 

23 Macmillan Pocket Hardy Volumes 

Jude the Obscure signed by Hardy 

on the half title, all maroon gilt, G 

Est $50 – 100 

478 Hawthorne, Heloise 

Contemplations from the Writings of Elbert 

Hubbard 

Being Several Short Essays, Helpful 

Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic 

Sayings, etc, 1st Ed, 1902, 28.5cm, 

half leather paper covered brds, 

spine & back brd damaged, G. 

Est $20 – 40 

479 Huxley, Aldous 

Brave New World 

1st Ed, Chatto & Windus, London, 

1932, blue cloth, some wear to spine, 

else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

480 King, L. W. (Ed) 

Babylonian Boundary-Stones and Memorial-Tablets 

in The British Museum (2 Vols) 

With an atlas of plates, 1st Ed, 1912, 

light green cloth, spines sunned, else 

G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


481 (-) 

Memoires De L’Institut National Genevois (2 Vols) 

Chez Kessmann, 1858 & 1859, text in 

French, printed paper wraps, FX, FA, 

Est $30 – 60 

482 Milman, Henry Hart 

The History of The Jews (3 Vols) 

Fourth Edition Revised And 

Extended, John Murray, London, 

1866, half tan calf, brds, G, WITH 

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 18th 

Ed, Vol 1 only, 1788 and 2 Vols of De 

Sevignes Letters, 1768 

Est $50 – 100

483 Orwell, George 

Nineteen Eighty Four 

1st Ed, Secker & Warburg, London, 

1949, green cloth, sunned, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

484 Scott, Sir Walter 

The Waverley Novels (2 Vols) 

New Popular Edition, Adam & 

Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1891, 

23.5cm, dec tan cloth with 

embossed gilt pictorial port, G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

485 (-) 

Sun Newspapers Ltd 1910-1929, 28.5cm, illus, 

dec brds, G+, WITH 

To The Tower, Tribune Tower, The Chicago Tribune, 

1924, black cloth gilt, FA 

Est $100 – 150 


486 Taylor, Derek 

Fifty Years Adrift 

Edited By George Harrison, Genesis 

Publications Ltd Ed 268 of 2000, 

signed 1984, 25cm, 541pp, illus, half 

brown calf, dec cloth brds,5 raised 

bands, dec gilt compartments, stiff 

card slipcase with pastedown, title, F 

Est $4,000 – 6,000 


487 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 

Abelard and Heloise 

Gay and Hancock Ltd, London, ND, 

signed by the author to the half title 

page, dec brown leather gilt, spine 

poor, FEP & half title detached, else 

G 

Est $60 – 120 

488 Wilde, Oscar. 

Sebastian Melmoth 

Arthur L Humphries, London, 1904, 

half blue morocco, cloth gilt, F 

Est $100 – 200 

489 Various Literary & Historical Titles 

-The Decameron (2 Vols), translated by 

J. M. Rigg, illus by Louis Chalon, 

London, 1920, cloth bound 

-History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth 

Century by J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, ND, 

half black morocco, FA 

-Poems of the Heart by Dugald Ferguson, 

1897 

-Heard This One – A Book of Funny Stories by 

Charles Vivian, 1922 

-The Works of Rabelais, ND 

Est $40 – 80 

490 Four Various Titles 

-Across India at the Dawn of the 20th Century by 

Lucy E. Guinness, 1898 

-Midland Railway – List Of Principal Towns And 

Places to or which the Midland Railway Company 

Convet Goods from or to Birmingham, with 

maps and information, Derby, 1895, 

dec red cloth gilt 

-The Maori Magazine, ND 

-What Is Democracy, by G. F. Powell, with 

cartoons by Low, 1st Ed, 1940 

Est $30 – 60 

491 Four Victorian Titles 

-Cooks Voyages, 1860, (lacks TP), LB 

-The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet 

Laureate, 1890, LB 

-Letters of Junius, 1878, (front brd 

detached), LB 

-Haydns Oratorio “The Creation” musical score 

Est $30 – 60 

492 Eleven New Zealand Literary Titles 

-Puha Road by Barry Crump, ND, green 

cloth, DJ, F 

-Hang On A Minute Mate by Barry Crump, 

RP 1961, F 

-There And Back by Barry Crump, RP 

1963, gray cloth, no DJ 

-The Adaptable Man by Janet Frame, 1st 

Ed, 1965, black cloth, no DJ, G 

-7 booklets on NZ writers/poetry including 

Baxter, Mason, Sargeson, etc, all G 

Est $50 – 100 

493 Eight New Zealand & Other Titles 

-Bird Life on Island and Shore by Guthrie- 

Smith 

-Rambles in New Zealand by John Carne 

Bidwill 

-Little America – Aerial Exploration In The Antarctic 

The Flight To The South Pole by Richard 

Evelyn Byrd, 1st Ed, 1931, etc 

Est $50 – 100 

494 Eight Various Titles 

-The Atkinson Richmond Papers, 2 Vols by 

Guy H Scholefield, 1960, blue cloth, 

DJs 

-Light – Its Properties and Effects, 1840, dec 

cloth gilt (poor) 

-The Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Year Book, 

1906, maroon cloth 

-Catechism of the Use of the Globes, Part 1, On The 

Terrestrial Globe by S. Wilkin, 1822, half 

calf brds, FA 

-The Dominion Song Book 

-Macgillivray’s Manuals of Natural History – 

Geology, 1840, dec blue cloth gilt 

-The Industry of The United States, 1854. 

Est $50 – 100 

495 Selection of Nine New Zealand Poetical Titles 

Including, Brasch, Hyde, Mason, etc, 

all ex public library collection 

Est $30 – 60 

496 Selection of Ten New Zealand Poetical Titles 

Including Mason, Curnow, Brasch 

etc, all ex public library collection 

Est $30 – 60 

MAORI 

497 Bauske, William 

Where The White Man Treads 

Selected from a Series of Articles 

contributed to “The New Zealand 

Herald” and” The Auckland Weekly 

News”, including others now 

published for the first time, 2nd 

Ed, revised, Wilson & Horton, Ltd, 

Auckland, 1928, dec green cloth gilt, 


Est $20 – 40 

498 Bracken, Thomas 

Lays Of The Land Of The Maori And Moa 

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & 

Rivington, London, 1884, dec cloth 

gilt, WITH 

Mahoe Leaves – Sketches of New Zealand and Its 

Inhabitants by Thomas Moser, 2nd Ed, 

1888stiff card wraps, FA and Waitahuna 

Memories by Eric Skinner, pictorial card, 

G 

Est $30 – 60 

499 Buick, T. Lindsay 

New Zealand’s First War, or The Rebellion of Hone 

Heke, 1st Ed W.A.G. Skinner 1926, illus, 

304pp, blue cloth brds, SA, DJ, DJ 

ripped, staining to brds, some light 

foxing WITH 

The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand, 1st Ed 

Thomas Avery & Sons 1937, illus, 

260pp, red cloth brds, DJ, general 

wear, old lot number to DJ, foxing to 

fore-edges 

Est $30 – 50 


Musings In Maoriland, 

With an Historical Sketch by Sir 

Robert Stout and Preface by Sir 

George Grey, Arthur T Keirle, 1890, 

25.5cm, illus, dec brown cloth gilt, 


Est $30 – 60 


Musings In Maoriland – A Jubilee Volume 

With an Historical Sketch by Sir 

Robert Stout and Preface by Sir 

George Grey, Arthur Keirle, 1890, half 

red morocco, pictorial gilt brds ,G, 

WITH 

Maori Tales – A Collection Of Over One Hundred 

Stories, written and collected by Pat 

Lawlor, 1927, printed paper wraps, G 

Est $50 – 80 

502 Clark, Kate McCosh. 

Maori Tales & Legends 

With illustrations by Robert 

Atkinson, David Nutt, London, 1896, 

21.5cm, 186pp, plus adverts, dec red 

cloth, faded, one plate detached, G 

Est $20 – 40

503 Cowan, James 

The New Zealand Wars, A History of the Maori 

Campaigns And The Pioneering Period, Volume II: 

The Hauhau Wars, 1864-72 

R. Owen, Wellington, RP 1956, 

22.5cm, 560pp, illus, red cloth, DJ 

(poor), else G 

Est $30 – 60 

504 Dittmer, W. 

Te Tohunga 

The Ancient Legends And Traditions 

Of The Maoris, George Routledge 

& Sons Ltd, London, 1907, RP 1970, 

33cm, grey cloth with slipcase both 

sunned, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

505 Duff, Roger 

The Moa-Hunter Period of Maori Culture 

with Foreword by H. D. Skinner, R. E. 

Owen, Govt Printer, Wellington, 2nd 

Ed, 1956, red cloth, no DJ, G 

Est $40 – 80 

506 Featon, John 

The Waikato War Together With Some Account of Te 

Kooti Rikirangi 

New Ed, Revised by Capt Gilbert 

Mair, Brett Publishing Co Ltd, 

Auckland, 1923, red cloth, DJ, WITH 

The Maori by Elsdon Best, Vol 1, 1924, 

grey cloth, both G 

Est $30 – 60 

507 Grace, John Te H. 

Tuwharetoa –The History of The Maori People of 

The Taupo District 

A.H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1st Ed, 

1959, yellow cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

508 Gudgeon, Thomas W. 

The Defenders of New Zealand Being a Short 

Biography 

1st Ed H. Brett 1887, 25.5cm, illus, 

620pp, Add. [i-xxxvi], illus gilt red 

cloth brds, insc, light FX, wear to 

spine and brds, replaced F & BEPs, G 

Est $50 – 100 


509 Hamilton, A. 

Maori Art 

The Holland Press, London, 1972, 

32cm, 438pp, maroon cloth DJ, some 

wear to jacket, else G+ 

Est $200 – 400 


510 Phillipps, W.J. 

Carved Maori Houses of Western and Northern 

Areas of New Zealand 

Dominion Museum Monograph No 

9, 1955, red cloth, DJ, WITH 

Colonial Architecture in New Zealand by John 

Stacpoole, 1st Ed, 1976, green cloth, 

DJ, both G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

511 (-) 

Polynesian Anthropological Studies 

A collection of special articles by various authors, 

issued in the Polynesian Journal during 1940, the 

centennial year of European and Hexacentennial 

year of the Fleet Maori Occupation of New Zealand 

Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd, New 

Plymouth, 1941, 25cm, red cloth, old 

stains to brds, else G 

Est $50 – 100 

512 Pybus, T.A. 

The Maoris of The South Island 

A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1954, 22.5cm, 

70pp, illus, DJ, F, WITH 

Old New Zealand – A Tale of the Good Old Days by 

A Pakeha Maori, 1930, red cloth, G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

513 (-) 

Te Karere Maori or Maori Messenger February 5, 

1862 

Printed by W. C. Wilson, Auckland, 

32pp, printed paper wraps, cover 

holed and stained, FA 

Est $100 – 200 


508 509 

513 

514 Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck) 

The Coming of The Maori 

Maori Purposes Fund Board, 

Whitcombe And Tombs Ltd, 

Wellington, 1949, 25.5cm, 548pp, 

illus, yellow cloth, DJ, G 

Est $60 – 120 

515 Six Various Maori Related Titles 

-Musings in Maori Land A Jubilee Volume, 

Thomas Bracken1890, blue cloth gilt 

-Walks in Maoriland Byways by A. H. Reed, 

1958 

-A Year Among The Maoris, A Study Of Their Arts 

And Culture by Frances Del Mar, 1924 

-Plant Life In Maori-Land, A Botanists Note-Book, 

by Marguerite Crookes, ND 

-Myths and Legends of Maoriland by A. W. 

Reed, RP 1947 

-The Antecedents and Early Life of Valentine 

Savage, known as Tania, recounted by G. M. 

Henderson, 1948, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $50 – 100 

516 Six Maori Titles 

-The New Zealand Wars, A History of the Maori 

Campaigns And The Pioneering Period, Vol II : The 

Hauhau Wars, 1864-72 by James Cowan, 

RP 1956, red cloth DJ 

-First Lessons in Maori, 7th Ed, 1923, red 

cloth 

-Spiritual and Mental Concepts Of The Maori by 

Elsdon Best, Dominion Museum 

Monograph, 1922, printed paper 

wraps 

-A Dictionary of The Maori Language by 

Herbert Williams, 6th Ed, 1957, red 

cloth, DJ 

-Nga Moteatea (Part One), plain card wraps 

-Te Motutapu A Tinirau – The Sacred Isle, 

Whakatane and District Historical Society Inc, 3rd 

imp, 1975, printed paper wraps, all G 

Est $50 – 100

517 Four Maori & Other Related Titles 

-Lays of the Land of the Maori and Moa, by 

Thomas Bracken, 1st Ed, 1884, dec 

cloth gilt 

-The Maori Hei-Tiki, Otago Museum 

Booklet No 1, 1940, card wraps 

-Pioneering in Otago – The Recollections of William 

Ayson Set Down in his 97th Year, ND, blue 

cloth 

-The Advance of the Missionaries by H. C. 

Fancourt, 1st Ed, 1939, blue cloth, DJ, 

all G 

Est $30 – 60 

518 Six Maori Titles 

-Lore and History of The South Island Maori by W. 

A. Taylor, ND, brown cloth, DJ. (back 

torn) 

-The Maori King by John Gorst, RP 1959, 

maroon cloth, DJ 

-Treasury Of Maori Folklore by A. W. Reed, 

1st Ed, 1963, orange cloth, DJ 

-The Maori As He Was by Elsdon Best, 3rd 

imp, 1952, green cloth 

-Ti Rangi Hiroa – The Life of Sir Peter Buck by J. B. 

Condliffe, 1st Ed, 1971, green cloth, 

DJ 

-Yesterday (Inanahi) by D. A. Bathgate, 1st 

Ed, 1970, blue cloth, DJ, all G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

519 Four Maori Titles 

-Glimpses Of Maori Land by Annie R Butler, 

London, 1886, dec green cloth gilt 

-Memories Of Maoriland by E. I. Massey, , 

ND, blue cloth gilt 

-The Long White Cloud – AO TEA ROA, William 

Pember Reeves, London, 1898, dec 

cloth 

-Polynesian Mythology & Ancient Traditional 

History Of The New Zealanders, As Furnished By 

Their Priests And Chiefs by Sir George Grey, 

RP1929, binding poor, others G 

Est $40 – 80 

520 Five Maori Titles 

-The Maori as He Was by Elsdon Best, 3rd 

imp, 1952, green cloth, DJ (poor) 

-Treasury of Maori Folklore by A. W. Reed, 

1st Ed, 1963, orange cloth DJ, G 

-A Dictionary of The Maori Language, 6th Ed, 

1957, DJ (poor) 

-The World of The Maori by Eric Schwimmer, 

1st Ed, 1966, no DJ 

-First Lessons In Maori, by W. L. Williams, 

1923, no DJ. 

Est $30- -60 

521 Five Maori & Other Titles 

-Horatio Gordon Robley, Soldier Artist in the Bay of 

Plenty 1864-1866 

-Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori and 

The Maori School of Learning (2) by Elsdon 

Best, 1986 

-Forest Lore of The Maori by Elsdon Best, 

1977 

-Historic Auckland by John H. Alexander , 

ND, all G 

Est $20 – 40 

522 Four Modern Maori Volumes 

-Prehistoric Maori Fortifications in the North Island 

of New Zealand by Aileen Fox, 1976 

-Maori In Focus – A Selection of photographs of 

the Maori from 1850-1914, by William Main, 

1976 

-Early Paintings of The Maori, illus and 

described by George French Angas, 

Ed by A. W. Reed, 1979 

-Maori Wood Sculpture by T. Barrow, RP 

1974, all cloth with DJs, all G 

Est $80 – 150 

N E W Z E A L A N D 

HISTORICAL & REGIONAL 

523 (-) 

The Auckland City By Laws, No’s 1 & 2 

1925, printed card wraps 

Est $20 – 40 

524 Beattie, Herries 

The Pioneers Explore Otago and Otago Place Names 

1st Ed, Otago Daily Times and 

Witness Newspapers Co., Ltd 1947 

& 1948 each 21.5cm, 160pp, 120pp 

printed paper wraps G+ WITH 

Early Runholding in Otago 

1st Ed, 1947 21.5cm, illus, 158 pp, 

green cloth G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

525 Beatties, Herries 

Far Famed Fiordland Historic and Descriptive 

European Explorers, White Whalers, 

Seamen and Surveyors, Travellers 

and Tourists, and Pakeha Place- 

Names, Otago Daily Times and 

Witness Newspapers Co Ltd, 1950, 

blue cloth gilt, slight sunning to top 

corner, else G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

526 Brogan, F. J. A. (Ed) 

Report of The Twenty Third Meeting of The 

Australian and New Zealand Association for the 

Advancement of Science 

Auckland Meeting, January, 1937, 

E. V. Paul, Govt Printer, Wellington, 

1937, 22cm, blue cloth, sunned, else 

G 

Est $30 – 60 

527 Campbell, John Logan 

Poenamo 

Sketches Of The Early Days Of New 

Zealand, Romance And Reality Of 

Antipodean Life In The Infancy Of 

A New Colony, Williams & Norgate, 

1881, 19.5cm, 359pp, green cloth 

gilt, sunned, gen wear, else G 

Est $40 – 80 

528 Cullen, Hon Dr Michael 

Michael Cullen’s Personal Budget Catalogues for 

2007 and 2008 

both signed 

Est $100 – 200 

529 (-) 

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand 

Industrial, Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, 

Facts, Figures, Illustrations, Vol 1, Wellington 

Provincial District 

28.5cm, cloth gilt, sunned, borer 

holes to lower edge of prelims, G 

Est $100 – 200 

530 As Above (poor copy) 

Est $30 – 60 

531 As Above 

Vol 2 – Auckland Provincial District, 1902, half 

morocco brds, poor, ex libris, FA 

Est $50 -80 

532 As Above 

Vol 3 – Canterbury Provincial District, title page 

detached, binding poor, ex libris 

Est $50 – 80 

533 As Above 

Volume 4 – Otago and Southland Provincial 

Districts, ex libris, well worn 

Est $50 – 80 

534 As Above 

Vol 6 – Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Wellington 

binding poor, ex libris 

Est $50 – 80 

535 Fitzgerald, Maurice 

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (2 Vols) 

George Didsbury, Wellington, 1885 

& 1886, half tan calf, brds, gen wear, 

else G 

Est $30 – 50 

536 Flanagan, Frederick 

New Zealand Tours & Excursions (12 Vols) 

Govt Printer, Wellington, 1897, 

Hawkes Bay (2), Wanganui (2), Mt 

Cook/Aorangi, Auckland District,(2) 

North And South Otago, Wellington, 

Taranaki, The Pelorus And Queen 

Charlotte Sounds, And Marlborough, 

Rotorua, dec paper wraps, some 

covers poor and with names in ink, G 

Est $400 – 800 


537 Freeman J. D. and W. R. Geddes 

(Eds) 

Anthropology in the South Seas, Essay presented to 

H. D. Skinner 

1st Ed Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd 

1959 26cm, illus, 267pp, white brds, 

blue spine, DJ, general wear to DJ, 

CB else G+ 

Est $50 – 80 

538 Fulton, Robert Valpy 

Medical Practice in Otago and Southland in the 

Early Days 

1st Ed printed by the Otago Daily 

Times 1922, illus, 304pp index [i-iv] 

green cloth brds, spine sunned, 

small tear to lower E else G 

Est $30 – 50

541 

536 543 

539 Gilkison, Robert 

Early Days in Central Otago 

Being Tales of Times Gone By, Otago 

Daily Times and Witness Newspapers 

Co Ltd, 1930, 19cm, illus, cloth gilt, G, 

WITH 

Wanaka – A History of the Wanaka, Hawae, 

Tarras and surrounding districts, by Irvine 

Roxburgh, 1957, blue cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

540 Guthrie-Smith H. 

Tutira, The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station 

3rd Ed William Blackwood & Sons 

Ltd 1953, illus with map, 444pp, blue 

cloth brds, lacking DJ, G 

Est $30 – 50 

541 Hursthouse, Charles 

An Account of The Settlement of New Plymouth In 

New Zealand 

From Personal Observations, During 

A Residence There of Five Years, with 

a plan and views, Smith, Elder And 

Co, London, 1849, 20.5cm, 160pp, 

plus book adverts, blind stamped 

green cloth, (poor), frontis detached, 

FA, WITH 

From Plymouth to New Plymouth by R. G. 

Wood, 1st Ed, 1959, blue cloth DJ, G 

Est $30 – 60 


542 Hursthouse, Charles 

New Zealand, The Britain” Of The South 

With A Chapter On The Native War, 

And Our Future Native Policy, 2nd 

Ed, Edward Stanford, London, 1861, 

(poor copy), WITH 

Old Marlborough by T Lindsay Buick, 

1900, FA 

Est $40 – 80 

543 (-) 

Interesting Chapters From The Early History of 

Wanganui and Wanganui in 1856 

Second Edition, A. D. Willis, 

Wanganui, 1902, 75pp, dec card 

wraps with pictorial Maori motif, G 

Est $40 – 80 


544 Lambert, Thomas 

The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, 

North Island New Zealand 

1st Ed Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 

1925, 22.5cm, illus, 802pp, blue cloth 

brds, insc, some staining to brds, CB 

else G 

Est $40 – 80 


544 544a 

545 

550 

544a Leys, Thomson W. 

A Weird Region, New Zealand Lakes, Terraces, 

Geysers and Volcanoes with an Account of the 

Eruption of Tarawera 

NE completely revised NZ 

Newspapers Ltd, Auckland 1946, 

57pp., illus, printed soft paper wraps, 

spine retaped, FA 

Est $100 – 200 


545 Little, J. S., F.P.A. (N.Z.) 

A Century of Fires and Fire Brigades in Dunedin 

1848 – 1948 

1st Ed Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 

for Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board 

Special Presentation Ed 228/250 

signed by the Fire Board Chairman. 

19cm, illus, 234pp with index, red 

brds with DJ, wear to DJ and light 

foxing to edges else G+ 

Est $25- 50 


546 Loughnan, R. A. 

The First Gold Discoveries in New Zealand 

1st Ed John Mackay, Govt. Printer, 

Wellington 1906, 21.5cm, 110pp., 

printed card wraps (poor & taped), 

FA. 

Est $30 – 60

547 McIntosh, A.D. (Ed) 

Marlborough A Provincial History 

Marlborough Provincial Historical 

Committee, Blenheim, 1940, green 

cloth, DJ, FX, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

548 McLintock, A.H. 

The History of Otago 

Ltd Edition, No 160 of 350, signed 

and inscribed by the author, Otago 

Centennial Historical Publications, 

1949, 25cm, xxiii, 829pp, illus, 

full maroon niger morocco with 

embossed crest, slight sunning, G+ 

Est $80 – 150 

549 McLintock, A. H. 

The Port of Otago 

1st Ed W & T Ltd 1951, illus, 428pp, 

orange cloth brds, DJ G+ WITH 

The History of Otago, 1st Ed W & T Ltd 1949 

signed copy, illus, 829pp, red leather 

and cream cloth brds, tear to back 

brd else G 

Est $25 – 50 

550 McNab, Robert 

Murihiku and The Southern Islands From 1770- 

1829 

A History Of The West Coast Sounds, 

Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, The 

Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, 

Campbell And Macquarie Islands, 

William Smith, Invercargill, 1907, 

light blue cloth, gen wear, else G 

Est $80 – 120 


551 Otago Centennial Historical 

Publications 

Thompson, Helen M., East of the Rock and 

Pillar 1st Ed, 1949, illus 204pp, DJ 

Moore, C. W. S., The Dunstan, 1st Ed 

1953, illus 124pp, DJ 

- Northern Approaches 1st Ed, 1958, illus, 

250pp, DJ 

Miller, F. W. G., Golden Days of Lake County, 

1st Ed 1949, illus, 299pp, DJ 

- Beyond The Blue Mountains, 1st Ed 1954, 


- West to the Fiords, 1st Ed 1954, illus, 

211pp, DJ 

Roxburgh, Irvine, Wanaka Story, 1st Ed 

1957, illus, 274pp, DJ 

Mayhew, W. R., Tuapeka, 1st Ed 1949, 


Parcell, J. C., Heart of the Desert, 1st Ed 

1951, illus, 370pp, DJ 

Shaw, Margaret S. and Farrant, Edgar 

D., The Taieri Plain, 1st Ed 1949, illus, 

238pp, DJ 

Soper, Eileen L., The Otago of Our Mothers, 


Sumpter, D. J. and Lewis, J. J., Faith and 

Toil, 1st 1949, illus, 194pp DJ 

Scotter, W. H., Run Estate and Farm, 1st Ed 

1948, illus, 142pp, DJ 

Cowan, Janet C., Down The Years in the 

Maniototo, 1st Ed 1948, illus, 163pp, DJ 

Webster, A. H. H., Teviot Tapestry, 1st Ed 

1948, illus, 179pp, DJ 

Waite, Hon, Fred, Pioneering in South Otago, 

1st Ed 1948, illus, 199pp, missing DJ 

Bowman, H. O., Port Chalmers, 1st Ed, 

1948, illus, 122pp, missing DJ 

Garnier, B. J., The Face of Otago, 1st Ed 

1948, illus, 82pp, missing DJ and cut 

to front fly leaf 

All generally good condition 

Est $200 – 400 

552 Otago Centennial Historical 

Publications 

Shaw, Margaret S. and Farrant, Edgar 

D., The Taieri Plain, 1st Ed 1949, illus, 

238pp, DJ 

Sumpter, D. J. and Lewis, J. J., Faith and 

Toil, 1st Ed1949, illus, 194pp DJ 

Miller, F. W. G., Golden Days of Lake County, 


Moore, C. W. S., The Dunstan, 1st Ed 

1953, illus 124pp, DJ 

Some staining to DJs, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

553 Moreland, A. Maud 

Through South Westland, A Journey to Haast And 

Mount Aspiring New Zealand 

with 48 plates from photographs, 

Witherby & Co, London, 1911,green 

cloth WITH 

West to the Fiords – The History of Western 

Southland by F. W. G. Miller, 1954, green 

cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

554 Reeves, W. Pember 

State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand 

(Vol1) 

New Imp, 1923, with large folding 

frontis map, blue cloth, DJ, FX, jacket 


Est $20 – 40 

555 Roberts, C. J. 

Centennial History of Hawera and the Waimate 

Plains 

The Hawera Star Publishing Co, Ltd, 

Hawera, c1939, green cloth gilt, gen 

wear, some old staining, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

556 Another Copy As Above 

Est $30 – 60 

557 Sharp, Andrew, (Ed) 

Duperrey’s Visit to New Zealand In 1824 

Alexander Turnbull Library, 

Wellington, 1971, red cloth, DJ, 

WITH, 

Old New Zealand by A Pakeha Maori, 

1922, green cloth, both G 

Est $20 – 40 

558 Sherrin, R. A. A. & Wallace, J. H. 

Early History of New Zealand 

Bretts Historical Series, edited by 

Thomson W Leys, H. Brett, Auckland, 

1890, 28.5cm, 728pp, plus, illus, half 

maroon morocco, red brds with 

pictorial gilt embellishments, FX, G 

Est $80 – 150 


559 Sorrell, Paul (Ed) 

The Cyclopedia of Otago & Southland 

Vols 1 & 2 1st Ed Dunedin City 

Council 1999, 30.5cm, illus, Vol 1 

576pp, Vol 2 1216pp with index, blue 

cloth brds and slip cover, spines and 

cover front edges sunned else G+ 

Est $50 - 100 

560 Stevens, G. & Bartholomew, D. H. 

New Zealand Directory for 1866-67 

cloth gilt, sunned, FA, WITH 

3 Vols of The Journal Of The Early Settlers & 

Historical Association Of Wellington, 1912/13. 

WITH Herbs and Herbal Remedies, issued by 

E. W. Hall, Manufacturing Herbalist 

and Importer, Christchurch, ND 

Est $40 – 80 

561 (-) 

They Made Their Own Money 

The Story of Early Canterbury Traders & their Tokens 

Issued in Canterbury’s Centennial 

Year 1950, by The Canterbury Branch 

Of The Royal Numismatic Society Of 

New Zealand, blue cloth, DJ, G 

Est $20 – 40 

562 Two Otago Regional Historical Titles 

-History of North Otago for Centennial 1840-1940 

-History of Waikouaiti by Rev John Christie, 

2nd Ed, 1929, printed wrappers, G 

Est $30 – 60 

563 Four Otago Regional Historical Titles 

-The Story of Early Dunedin by A. H. Reed, 

1st Ed, 1956, blue cloth, DJ (worn) 

-City Of Dunedin – A Century of Civic Enterprise by 

K. C. McDonald, 1st Ed, 1965 

-A History Of The University Of Otago, Edition 

De Luxe, 38 of 100 signed by the 

author G. E. Thompson, full dark blue 

morocco gilt with embossed crest 

-Early Northern Otago Runs by Robert 

Pinney, Ltd Ed of 1000, 1981, with 

slipcase, all G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

564 Five Otago Regional Historical Titles 

-Old Coaching Days – Otago And Southland by 

E.M. Lovell-Smith, 1931, dec brds 

-White Stone Country – the Story of North Otago 

by K.C. McDonald, 1962, maroon 

cloth, DJ 

-The University of Otago – A Centennial History by 

W. P. Morrell, 1969, black cloth, DJ 

-Early Days In Central Otago – Being Tales of Times 

Gone By, Robert Gilkison, 1930, green 

cloth gilt, a third edition as above 

1958, gold cloth DJ, all G+ 

Est $40 – 80

565 Five Otago Regional Historical Titles 

- Pyke, Vincent, History of Early Gold 

Discoveries in Otago, 1962, red cloth brds, 

DJ 

- Glasson, H. A. The Golden Web, A Sago of 

the Otago Goldfields 1861-64, 1959 3rd Ed, 

red cloth brds, DJ 

- Marks, Robin Hammer & Tap, Shaping 

Tuapeka County 1876 – 1976, 1977 1st Ed, 

red cloth brds, DJ 

- Miller, F. W. G. History of Waikaia, 1966 

1st Ed, black cloth brds, DJ 

- Grayland, E. C. New Zealand Disasters, 

1957 1st Ed, green cloth brds, DJ 

All generally good condition 

Est $40 – 80 

566 Five Otago & South Island Regional Historical Titles 

- Dempsey, Gertrude, The Spell of Stewart 

Island, 1967 1st Ed turquoise brds, DJ 

- Stewart, Peter J. Days of Fortune, A 

History of Port Chalmers 1848 – 1973, 1973 

1st Ed signed copy with Mayoral 

presentation seal loose leaf, black 

brds, DJ 

- Lucas, F. J. Popeye Lucas Queenstown, 

1968 1st Ed, grey brds, DJ 

-Sansom, Olga, The Stewart Islanders, 1970 

1st Ed signed copy, light blue brds, 

DJ 

- Scotter, W. H. A History of Port Lyttelton, 

1968 1st Ed, orange brds, DJ 

Est $40 – 80 

567 Five New Zealand Regional Historical Titles 

- Butler, Samuel, A First Year in Canterbury 

Settlement, 1964, red cloth brds with DJ 

- Reischek, Andreas, Yesterdays in 

Maoriland 1952, blue cloth brds with DJ 

- McNab, Robert, From Tasman to Marsden, 

1914 1st Ed, green cloth brds 

- Manson, Cecil and Celia, 1962 1st Ed, 

mustard cloth brds, DJ 

- Taylor, Nancy, M. The Journal of Ensign Best 

1837-43, 1966 1st red cloth brds DJ 

General wear to DJs some light 

foxing 

Est $40 – 80 


-South Canterbury – A Record of Settlement by 

Oliver A Gillespie, 1958, blue cloth, 

sunned spine 

-The History of Port Nelson by Ruth Allan, 

1954, red cloth, DJ 

-The Southern Districts Of New Zealand A 

Journal, with Passing Notices of the Customs of 

The Aborigines by Edward Shortland, 

Caxton Press reprint 1974, maroon 

cloth, DJ 

-The Story of Menzies Bay Banks Peninsula by 

Ian H Menzies, 1970, black cloth, DJ 

-Bathgate Expeditions – Dunedin And New Zealand 

In The Sixties, by John Bathgate, Ed and 

signed Ltd Ed 90 of 500 by A. H. 

Reed, blue cloth, DJ, all G or G+ 

Est $40 - 80 

569 Six New Zealand Regional Historical Titles 

-History of Northern Southland by G. A. 

Hamilton, 1952, red cloth 

-From The Black Rocks On Friday – A Northland 

Story, A Gold Diggers Notes – Otago In The Gold 

Rush, edited (or Written) by Charles 

Dickens, 1950, signed by A. H. Reed, 

green brds, DJ 

-West Coast Yesterdays by Mona Tracy, illus 

by Dennis Turner, 1960, yellow cloth, 

DJ 

-Farthest South by A.H. Reed, 1st Ed, 

1953, brown cloth, DJ 

-Moanalua by Thomas Woodroffe, 1950, 

orange cloth, DJ 

-Port Preservation – The Story of Preservation Inlet 

and the Solander Grounds by A. C. Begg and 

N. C. Begg, 1973, cloth, DJ, all G+ 

Est $40 – 80 


-The History of Hawkes Bay by J. G. Wilson, 

and others, Caxton Press reprint, 

1976, maroon cloth, DJ 

-The Story of Hawkes Bay by A. H. Reed, 1st 

Ed, 1958, red cloth, DJ 

-The Kapiti Coast – Maori Tribal History and Place 

Names of the Paekakariki-Otaki District by W. C. 

Carkeek, 1966, light blue cloth, DJ 

-More Wellington Days by Pat Lawlor, 

signed Special Edition 17 of 100, 

1962, beige cloth, DJ 

-Coromandel Coast by Eugene and Valerie 

Grayland, 1st Ed 1965, blue cloth, DJ 

Est $40 – 80 

571 Four New Zealand Historical Titles 

-Past and Present and Men Of The Times by Capt 

William Jackson Barry, 1st Ed, 1897, 

insc by the author to the frontis, red 

cloth 

-Sir Donald Maclean – The Story of a New Zealand 

Statesman, by James Cowan, 1st Ed, 

1940, (no DJ) 

-Old New Zealand – A Tale Of The Good Old Times 

by A Pakeha Maori, (Frederick Edward 

Manning), ND, blue cloth DJ 

-A History of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair, 

1961, blue cloth, DJ, all G+ 

Est $30 – 60 

572 Six New Zealand Biographical Historical Titles 

-Memorials of John A Torrance – Agent For Thirty 

Years of the Patients And Prisoners Aid Society, 1st 

Ed, 1908, green cloth gilt 

-Thomas Cawthorn and the Cawthorn Institute by 

David Miller, 1st Ed, 1963, red cloth, 

DJ 

-Memories of The Life of J. F. H. Wohlers – 

Missionary at Ruapuke, NZ, an autobiography, 1st 

Ed, 1895, green cloth gilt 

-I Have Planted – A biography of Alfred Nesbit 

Brown, by Noeline V Hall, 1st Ed, 1981, 

blue cloth, DJ. 

-John Jones of Otago – Whaler, Coloniser, 

Shipowner, Merchant by Alfred Eccles and 

A. H. Reed, 1st Ed, 1949, red cloth, DJ 

-The Life and Times of Bishop Pompallier, signed 

copy by Lillian Keys, 1st Ed, 1957, 

beige cloth, DJ, all G 

Est $40 – 80 

573 Three Wanganui Titles 

-Wanganui Old Settlers (Illustrated) by 

James Garland Woon, 1902, paper 

wraps 

-History of & Guide to the Wanganui River, by T. 

W. Downes, preface by J. H. Burnet, 

1921, pictorial card wraps 

-Wanganui From 1856 to 1929, by J. P. 

Belcher, printed paper wraps, sticker 

to front cover. 

Est $50 – 100 

574 Four Wanganui Titles 

-Early Days in Wanganui (1840-1850), by L. J. 

B. Chapple and Cranleigh Barton, 1st 

Ed, 1930, printed brds, DJ 

-Wanganui New Zealand, Pretty, Prosperous, 

Progressive, It’s Interests And Facilities, ND, 

printed soft card wraps 

“Wanganui” by L. J. B. Chapple and H. C. 

Veitch, 1939, blue cloth, DJ 

-Whanganui River Stories or River Ripplets, 1993. 

Est $40 – 80 

575 Five New Zealand Regional Titles 

-A Colonists Voyage to New Zealand by Alfred 

Fell, Capper Press r/p 1973 

-The Boy Colonists or Eight Years of Colonial Life in 

Otago, New Zealand, Rev E. Simeon Elwell, 

Capper Press, r/p 1975 

-Wanaka Story – A History of the Wanaka, Hawea, 

Tarras and surrounding districts, 1957 

-Westland, Journal of John Hillary, emigrant to New 

Zealand, 1879, by J.H.Hillary1979 

-Bulls – A History of the Township, by Major R. 

A. Wilson D.S.O., all ex public library 

collection 

Est $30 – 60 

576 Six New Zealand Regional Historical Titles 

-Canterbury Old and New 1850-1900 

-A Souvenir of The Jubilee. When Gisborne Was 

Young, by Lily Hatten, 1969 

-Coaching Days and Accomodating Ways 

(Canterburys Old West Coast Road), compiled 

by Vera McLennon 

-Te Raka, Land of Happy Sunshine by 

L.R.C.Macfarlane1954 

-Harry Ell and His Summit Road, A Biography by 

Lenore Oakley, 1960 

-Place Names Of Banks Peninsula by J. C. 

Anderson, 1927, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $40 – 80 


-Some Account of New Zealand by John 

Savage, Capper Press RP 1973 

-The New Zealand Wars and the pioneering period 

Vol II, by James Cowan, RP 1956 

-Guide to MSS, Early Printed Books, Autograph 

Letters etc, Auckland Public Library, 

1908 

-Dendroglyphs of The Chatham Islands by 

Christina Jefferson, 1956 

-Our First Hundred Years, A Historical Record 

of Papatoetoe, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $40 – 80

558 

578 Six New Zealand Regional Titles 

-Letters From New Plymouth 1843, RP1968 

-Gateway of The Province – Historical Review of 

Port Taranaki 

-Te Waimate – Early Station Life in New Zealand 

by E. C. Studholme, 1940, SA1941 

-Rambles in New Zealand by J. C. Bidwell, 

Capper Press, RP 1974 

-The Early Canterbury Runs (complete 

edition) by L. G. D. Acland, 1951 

-New Stories of Old Whanganui by Flora 

Spurdle, 2nd Ed, 1959, all ex public 

library collection 

Est $40 – 80 

579 Five New Zealand Historical Titles 

-The New Zealanders, C.1830/40 

-The New Zealander Abroad by William M. 

Hutcheson, 1888 

-Reminiscences of a Wanderer, R. Bruce, 1914 

-Pictorial New Zealand 1895, RP 1985 

-A Ride Through The Disturbed Districts Of New 

Zealand, Together With Some Account Of The South 

Sea Islands, being selections from the journals and 

letters of Lieut The Hon Herbert Meade, Ed by 

His Brother, 1870, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $40 – 80 

580 Three New Zealand Historical Titles 

-Men of Mark in the World of Sport in New Zealand, 

illus, no TP, full leather calf (poor) 

-Visit Of His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales To 

The Dominion Of New Zealand, April-May, 1920 

by Guy H SCHOLEFIELD, 1926, blue 

cloth gilt 

-Royalty in New Zealand, Visit Of Their Royal 

Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and 

York 1901, by R. A. Loughnan, 1902, 

red cloth gilt, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $30 – 60 


-John Rutherford – The White Chief a Story of 

Adventure In New Zealand, Ed by James 

Drummond, ND, green cloth gilt 

-From Tasman To Marsden – A History Of Northern 

New Zealand From 1642 to 1818 by Robert 

McNab, 1st Ed, 1914, green cloth, DJ 

-Old Coaching Days – Otago and Southland New 

Zealand by E. M. Lovell-Smith, 1st Ed, 

1931, dec brds, all 3 G 

Est $30 – 60 

583 

582 Four Various Regional Historical Titles 

-The Story Of Canterbury – Last Wakefield 

Settlement, by A. H. Reed,1st Ed1949, 

red cloth, DJ 

-The Story of New Zealand by Prof Frank 

Parsons, Equity Series, Philadelphia, 

1904, maroon cloth gilt, G 

-Fiji, 1874-1931, J. J. McHugh, Govt 

Printer, Suva, 1931, G 

-Pearls of The Pacific by V. A. Barradale, 

1907, pictorial cloth, G. 

Est $50 – 100 

583 Eight New Zealand Regional Historical Titles 

-New Zealand, An Illustrated Description Of The 

Natural Wealth Conditions Of Life, Industries, 

Trade, And Opportunities For Advancement In “The 

Brighter Britain Of The South”, 1924, dec card 

wraps 

-Land Legislation and Settlement by W. R. 

Jourdain, 1925, sunned cloth 

-Abel Janszoon Tasman & Discovery Of New 

Zealand, D.I.A., Wellington, 1942 stiff 

card with jacket 

-The Voyage of The Astrolabe by Olive 

Wright, 1955, blue cloth, DJ, (poor) 

-Through Ninety Years 1826-1916, Life And Work 

Among The Maoris In New Zealand, notes on The 

Lives of William and William Leonard Williams, 

First and Third Bishops of Waipu by Frederic 

Wanklyn Williams, ND, green cloth, 

DJ 

-The Old Frontier – Te Awamatu The Story of The 

Waipa Valley, by James Cowan, 1922, 

green cloth (poor copy) 

-Tauranga 1882-1982 

-Marion Dufresne at The Bay Of Islands by Leslie 

G Kelly, 1951, green cloth, DJ 

Est $50 - 100 


584 Four New Zealand Regional Historical Titles 

-Farthest West Afoot and Afloat by A. H. Reed 

& A. W. Reed, 1st Ed, 1950, brown 

cloth, DJ, (poor) 

-Farthest South by A. H. Reed 1st Ed, 

1953, brown cloth, DJ, G 

-The Story of Northland by A. H. Reed, 1st 

Ed, 1956, blue cloth, DJ, G 

-A Link with the Past by The Hon Eliot R 

Davis, 1st Ed, 1949, grey cloth, DJ, G 

Est $30 – 60 

594 

585 Six New Zealand Historical Titles 

-As High As The Hills – the Centennial History of 

Picton 

-Thomas Brunner, The Great Journey 

-Belling Shausen, a visit to New Zealand 1820 

-The White Ensign in New Zealand 

-Dusky Bay, In The Steps Of Capt Cook 

-Port Preservation, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $40 – 80 


-A Great Coloniser, Rev Dr Thomas Burns by E. N. 

Merrington, 1929 

-Tales Of Pioneer Women and Brave Days 

-Pioneer Women Of New Zealand, FA, all ex 

public library collection 

Est $30 – 60 

587 Six New Zealand Historical Titles 

-Centennial History of Hawera and the Waimate 

Plains 

-The French at Akaroa by T. L. Buick, 1928 

-Pioneering the Pumice, 1939 

-The Dillon Letters 1843-1853, 1954 

-Makers of Fortune, 1973 

-Indirections A Memoir 1909-1947 by Charles 

Brasch, 1980, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $50 – 100 


-An Account of New Zealand by The Rev William 

Yate, 2nd Ed, 1835. green cloth 

-Introduced Mammals of NZ 

-Geomorphology of NZ, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $40 – 80 

589 Three New Zealand Biographical Titles 

-The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden 1765- 

1838, edited by John Rawson Elder, 

1932 

-The Right Hon Francis H. D. Bell, His Life And Times, 

by William Downie Stewart, 1937 

-The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast, 

Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder, by H. F. 

von Haast, 1948, all ex public library 

collection 

Est $80 – 150 

590 Carton of Various New Zealand historical, Maori 

related and other books, booklets and pamphlets 

Est $30 – 60

598 

MILITARY 

591 Byrne, Lieut., A. E. 

Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the 

Great War 1914 – 1918, 1st Ed J. Wilkie & 

Co, illus with folding maps, 407pp, 

blue cloth brds, spine sunned and 

loose FX to TP else G 

Est $40 – 80 

592 Cowan, James 

The Maoris in the Great War, A History of the NZ 

Native Contingent and Pioneer Battalion, Gallipoli 

1915, France and Flanders 1916-18, 1st Ed W & 

T Ltd, 1926, illus with folding maps, 

180pp and index, rust cloth brds, 

light foxing else G+ 

Est $75 – 150 

593 Drew, Lt., H. T. B. 

The War Effort of New Zealand 

1st Ed W & T Ltd, 1919, illus, 276pp, 

mustard cloth brds, DJ with wear 

else G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

594 (-) 

Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry as Revised 

By Her Majesty’s Command 1877 

12cm, 419pp, full red morocco gilt, 

FA 

Est $30 – 60 


595 Lawson, Will 

Historic Trentham 1914-1917 

The Story of a New Zealand Military 

Training Camp, and some account of 

the daily round of the troops within 

its bounds, 1st edition, Wellington 

Publishing Co Ltd, 1918, 26cm, illus, 

dec printed card wraps, G 

Est $40 – 80 

596 McCudden, James Thomas Byford 

Five Years in The Royal Flying Corps 

The “Aeroplane” & General 

Publishing Co, Ltd, ND, C1918, 

19.5cm, illus, rebound blue cloth, G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

597 (-) 

The New Zealand Roll of Honour 

New Zealanders Who Have Served 

Their Country In Peace And War, 

150 Years, 1845-1995, Alister Taylor, 

1st Ed, 1988, maroon cloth gilt with 

slipcase, case grubby, else F 

Est $40 – 80 

598 (-) 

“Princess Christian” Hospital Train 

Built for The Central British Red 

Cross Committee, 1899, frontis with 

view of the train and plan of the 

carriages, dec TP, Hon President and 

Committee, four pages of text, five 

pastedown sepia images on board 

the train, fine binding in full red 

morocco with, central sterling silver 

gilt and enamel cartouche, and scroll 

and foliate sterling silver corner 

mounts, royal blue watered silk 

endpapers, G+ 

Est $1,500 – 2,500 


599 Stewart, Col. H. 

The New Zealand Division 1916-1919. A Popular 

History Based on Official Records, Vol II, France. 

1st Ed. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 

1921, 22.5cm, illus incl maps, khaki 

cloth, p. 615 small tears to left 

margin, else G. 

Est $30 – 60 

600 Another as Above 

601 Waite, Major Fred 

The New Zealanders at Gallipoli 

1st Ed Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1919, 

illus with map, 330pp, brown cloth 

brds, G WITH 

Steward, Col., H., The New Zealand Division 

1916-1919. A Popular History Based on Official 

Records, Vol II, France. 1st Ed W & T Ltd 

1921, illus with folding plates, 634pp, 

khaki cloth brds, G 

Est $100 – 200 

EXPLORATION & TRAVEL 

602 Bovill, E. W. (Ed) 

Missions to the Niger, II (3 Vols) 

The Hakluyt, Second Series No 

CXXVII, issued for 1965, blue cloth 

DJ, g+ 

Est $30 – 60 

603 Cook, J. & J. C. Beaglehole (Ed) 

The Journal of Captain James Cook on His Voyages 

of Discovery in Four Volumes with Port folio of 

Charts and Volume IV; The Life of Captain James 

Cook 

Hakluyt Society, Cambridge 

1955 - 1974 Hard covers in blue 

cloth gilt all with DJ’s. Five octavo 

volumes. Volume 1 (Voyage of the 

Endeavour, 1768-1771) (1955), pp 

[iv] cclxxiv, 684 w/index(Pp, v-xx) 

with Addenda and Corrigenda 

printed 1968: Volume II The Voyage 

of the Resolution and Adventure 

1772-1775, 1961 (Add & Corr 1969): 

Volume III, Part One The Voyage 

of the Resolution and Discovery, 

1776-1780, 1967;(Add & Corr 1973): 

Volume III, Part Two The Voyage of 

the Resolution and Discovery, 1776- 

1780. 1967; Volume IV The Life of 

Captain James Cook 1974. With Folio 

of Charts and Views edited by R.A. 

Skelton 1955. Spines sunned to DJs 

some light foxing, else G+ 

Est $500 – 1,000 


604 Cook, Capt James 

Cooks Three Voyages 

A compilation bound volume of all 

three voyages circa 1794, illus with 

engs, rebound green cloth, lacks 

frontis and first iv pages, else G+ 

Est $250 – 500 


Portfolio of Charts & Views 

The Hakluyt Society, 39.5cm, blue 

cloth gilt, with paper slipcase, case 

worn, else G+ 

Est $50 – 100

603 


The Life, Voyages, and Discoveries of Capt James 

Cook 

John W. Parker, London, 1837, 

14.5cm, half green morocco, 

marbled brds, FA 

Est $20 – 40 

607 Pardoe, Miss 

The Beauties of The Bosphorus 

Illustrated in a series of Views of 

Constantinople And Its Environs 

from Original Drawings by W. H. 

Bartlett, George Virtue, London, 

1838, 27.5cm, illus with eng plates 

and frontis of Miss Pardoe, fine 

binding in full dec green morocco 

gilt, centre of brds with seated 

sultan, old wear & rubbed, else G 

Est $300 – 600 


608 (-) 

Picturesque Europe 

With illustrations on steel and wood 

by the most eminent artists (The 

British Isles), Cassell Petter & Gilpin, 

ND, 33cm, dec green cloth gilt, FA 

Est $30 – 60 

609 Pinkerton, John 

A General Collection of The Best and Most 

Interesting Voyages And Travels In All Parts Of The 

World 

Many of which are now first 

translated into English, digested on 

a new plan, Volume The Eleventh, 

illus with plates, 26.5cm, 952pp, 

rebound maroon cloth, FEP ins sigs 

in ink, TP top edge clipped, else G 

Est $100 – 200 

611 

610 Vancouver, Captain George 

A Voyage of Discovery to The North Pacific Ocean 

and Round The World in Which the Coast of North- 

West America Has Been Carefully Examined and 

Accurately Surveyed, Undertaken by HIS MAJESTYS 

Command, Principally With A View To Ascertain 

The Existence Of Any Navigable Communication 

Between The North Pacific and North Atlantic 

Oceans, And Performed In The Years, 1790, 1791, 

1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, In The Discovery 

Sloop of War and Armed Tender Chatham, Under 

The Command Of Captain George Vancouver IN 

THREE VOLUMES 

Printed For G. G. and J. Robinson, 

and J. Edwards, London, 1798, Vol 

I, xxix, adverts, contents, 432pp, 

Vol II, 504pp, Vol III, 505pp, illus 

and complete with 17 engs by W. 

Alexander, BP of Thomas Fuller 

to all three, Vol I ink insc to front 

pastedown “The Gift of Mary Fuller 

to Matthew Bredon”, full mottled 

calf, remnants of spine titles and 

Vol no’s in red, boards well worn, 

spines poor and joints split, lacking 

in places, FX, and browning 

throughout, Vol I, pp141 with 3 small 

holes upper right corner, pp425, 1 

inch torn off lower right corner, else 

G, 

(A well used set, although the 

boards are worn, text and plates 

sound) 

Est $10,000 – 20,000 

See Illustration (inside rear cover) 

611 Wallace, Alfred, R. 

Australasia 

Stanfords Compendium of 

Geography And Travel, with 

Ethnological Appendix by A. H. 

Keane, maps and illustrations, 

Edward Stanford, London, 1879, dec 

and pictorial green cloth gilt, spine 

joint split, TP clipped to upper edge, 

gen wear, G 

Est $200 – 400 


607 

612 Whitehead, P.J.P. 

Forty Drawings of Fishes 

Made by the Artists who 

accompanied Captain James Cook 

on his Three Voyages To The Pacific 

1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80, Some 

being used by authors in the 

description of new species, The 

Trustees Of The British Museum 

(Natural History), London, 1968, 

44.5cm, blue cloth gilt, DJ, G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

613 Young, John Russell 

Around The World with General Grant (2 Vols) 

A Narrative Of The Visit Of General 

U.S. Grant, Ex President Of The 

United States, To Various Countries 

In Europe, Asia, And Africa, etc, 

in 1877, 1878, 1879, to which are 

added, Certain Conversations 

With General Grant On Questions 

Connected With American Politics 

And History, with eight hundred 

illustrations, Subscription Book Dept, 

The American News Co, New York, 

ND, 27.5cm, dec brown cloth gilt, 

gen wear, browning and FX, else G+ 

Est $100 – 200 


614 Three Travel & Exploration Titles 

-Narrative of Captain James Cook’s Voyages 

Round The World, with an account of his life, 

etc, William Milner, London, 1840, 

13.5cm, dec cloth gilt 

-Captain Cook’s Three Voyages Round The World, 

with a sketch of his Life, Ed by Lieut Charles 

R Low, Geo Routledge And Sons, 

London, Excelsior Series, ND, dec 

cloth gilt 

-Polynesian Mythology & Ancient Traditional 

History of The New Zealanders, as furnished by their 

priests and chiefs by Sir George Grey, Geo 

Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London, ND, 

green cloth gilt, all G 

Est $20 – 40

613 624 

624 

615 Four Hakluyt Society Titles 

-Carteret’s Voyage Round The World 1766-1769, 

edited by Helen Wallis, Vol II, 1965 

-The Cabot Voyages And Bristol Discovery Under 

Henry VII, edited by J. A. Williamson, 

1961 

-The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo 

Navarette, 1618-86, edited by J. S. 

Cummins, 1960 

-A Regiment For The Sea And Other Writings on 

Navigation, edited by E. G. R. Taylor, 

1961 (DJ torn), all blue cloth, DJ, G 

Est $40 – 80 

616 Six Hakluyt Society Series II Titles 

-The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-90, Vols I & II 

-Some Records Of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 

-Further English Voyages To Spanish America 

-The Red Sea At The End Of The XVIIth Century 

-Gonzalez Voyage To Easter Island 1770-1, all 

light blue cloth gilt, all G+ 

Est $50 – 100 

617 Four Hakluyt Society Series II Titles 

-The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 

1600-1609, Vols I & II, edited by Philip L 

Barbour 

-The Tragic History Of The Sea 1589-1622 

-Further Selections From The Tragic History Of The 

Sea 1559-1565, blue cloth, DJs, FX, else 

G 

Est $30 – 60 

618 Four Hakluyt society Series II Titles 

-The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt, Vols I, II, III, 

edited by M. Aurousseau 

-The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward 

Fenton, 1582-83, edited by E. G. R. Taylor, 

blue cloth, DJs, FX, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

619 Four Hakluyt Society Series II Titles 

-La Australia Del Espiritu Santo, Vols I & II, edited 

by Celsus Kelly 

-The Journal And Letters Of Captain Charles Bishop 

On The North-West Coast Of America, In The Pacific 

And In New South Wales 1794-1799, Vols I & 

II, edited by Michael Roe, blue cloth, 

DJs, minor FX, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

620 Eight Hakluyt Society Titles 

-The Hakluyt Handbook, Vols I & II 

-The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins 

-Francois Valentijns Description of Ceylon 

-To The Pacific and Arctic with Beechey – 

The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of 

H.M.S.”Blossom” 1825-1828 

-An Elizabethan in 1582 – The Diary of Richard 

Madox Fellow of All Souls 

-The Travels of Ibn Battuta Vol III 

-Yermans Campaign in Siberia – A selection 

of documents translated from the Russian 

by Tatiana Minorsky and David 

Wileman. All blue cloth with DJs, all 

G+ 

Est $80 – 150 

NATURAL HISTORY & 

BOTANY 

621 Buller, Sir Walter Lawry K.C.M.G. 

A History of the Birds of New Zealand (2 Vols) 

Second Edition, 1888, Published 

(For The Subscribers) By The Author, 

London, 37cm, Vol 1, lxxxiv, 250pp, 

plus extracts of reviews from the 

first edition, NZ Kingfisher & NZ 

Quail plates both with 2 small tears 

to fore-edge and creased edge, 

else G+, Vol 2, xv, 359pp, complete 

with all coloured litho plates after 

J. G. Keulemans, quarter green 

cloth, pictorial gilt brds, old wear 

and scuffing to brds, minor FX and 

browning, else G+ 

Provenance - Originally in the 

collection of Henry Thomas Hill 

(1849-1933) Hill was first secretary 

and first inspector of The Hawkes 

Bay Education Board, a Napier 

Councillor and Mayor of Napier 

during WWI. 

Est $4,000 – 6,000 

See Illustration (inside rear cover) 

622 Buller, Sir Walter, K.C.M.G 

Bullers Birds of New Zealand 

A New Edition Of Sir Walter Lawry 

Bullers A History Of The Birds Of 

New Zealand, Reproducing In Six 

Colour Offset The 48 Stone-Plate 

Lithographs By J. G. Keulemans, 

From The Second Edition 1888, now 

edited & brought up to date by E. 

G. Turbott, Whitcoulls, 4th printing, 

1976, with slipcase, G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

623 Cheeseman, T. F. 

Manual of the New Zealand Flora 

John Mackay, Govt Printer, 

Wellington, 1906, 21.5cm, xxxvi, 

1199pp, green cloth, FX, else G 

Est $30 – 60 

624 Featon, Mr & Mrs E. H. 

The Art Album of New Zealand Flora, Vol 1 

Being A Systematic And Popular 

Description Of The Native Flowering 

Plants Of New Zealand And The 

Adjacent Islands, Bock And Cousins, 

Wellington, 1889, 30cm, xvi, 178pp, 

plus subscribers, illus with col litho 

plates, green cloth gilt, FX, gen wear, 

else G+ 

Est $200 – 400 


625 Galvin, P. 

New Zealand Mining Handbook 

(With maps and illustrations), John 

Mackay, Wellington, 1906, TP clipped 

upper right, brown cloth, WITH 

Two copies of The Geology of New Zealand by 

James Park, 1910, maroon cloth & 

Augustus Earle in New Zealand by Anthony 

Murray Oliver, with slipcase, all 4 G 

Est $50 – 100

630 

626 Harris, Emily Cumming 

New Zealand Flowers, Ferns & Berries 

1st Ed. H. D. Jackson, Nelson ND, 

three vols. 26 monochrome litho pl 

per vol. 30cm, printed card binding, 

POS to covers, BPFE, FX, G. 

Est $100 – 200 

627 Hudson, G.V. 

New Zealand Moths and Butterflies 

(Macro-Lepidoptera), with 13 plates, 

West, Newman & Co, London, 1898, 

32cm, green cloth gilt, TP detached, 

poor copy, FA 

Est $40 – 80 

628 Hutton , Capt F.W. & Drummond , 

James 

The Animals of New Zealand – An Account of The 

Dominions Air Breathing Vertebrates 

4th Ed, revised and enlarged, 1923, 

green cloth gilt, WITH 

New Zealand Plants and Their Story, L. 

Cockayne, 1919, blue cloth, G 

Est $20 – 40 

629 Kensington, William C. 

Report of Scenery Preservation (5 Vols) 

Dating from 1907/8 to 1911/12, 

WITH 

Report On A Botanical Survey Of The Waipoua Kauri 

Forest, L. Cockayne, 1908, all paper 

wraps, all FA 

Est $20 – 40 

630 Kerr, Robert 

Essay on the Theory of the Earth 

Translated from the French of 

M.Cuvier, with Mineralogical Notes 

and an account of Cuviers Geological 

Discoveries by Professor Jamieson, 

2nd Ed, William Blackwood, Edin, 

John Murray & Robert Baldwin, 

London, 1815, 23.5cm, illus with four 

pl, plain brds, FA 

Est $40 – 80 

634 

631 Kirby, W.F. 

The Butterflies and Moths of Europe 

with fifty four coloured plates and 

many illustrations in the text, Cassell 

And Co Ltd, 1903, 28.5cm, quarter 

calf, brds, FX, spine poor, FA 

Est $50 – 100 

632 Kirk, T 

The Forest Flora of New Zealand 

George Didsbury, Wellington, 1889, 

34cm, 345pp, illus, dec green cloth 

gilt, spine worn, else G 

Est $150 – 250 

633 Morris, The Rev Francis Orpen 

A Natural History of the Nests & Eggs of British Birds 

Vols I, II, III 

1st Ed, Groombridge & Sons, London 

1865. 25.5cm, illus with 78 col pl, 

tooled green cloth with gilt dec 

covers & spines, wear, fading, FX, 

mould marks, silverfish damage to 

E, vol. II TP & frontis detached, pp. 

141-2 detached, POS to FPD, FA. 

Est $100 – 200 

634 Morris, The Rev Francis Orpen 

A Natural History of the Nests & Eggs of British 

Birds, 6 Vols. 

1st Ed, Groombridge & Sons, London 

1765. 25.5cm, illus with 60 col eng, 

tooled green cloth with gilt dec 

covers & spines, wear, fading, FX, 

mould marks, silverfish damage to 

FE, Griffon Vulture, Andalusian Quail 

pl detached, Vol. V some loose p., 

POS to FPD, FA. 

Est $200 – 400 


650 

635 Pratt, Anne 

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of 

Great Britain, 4 Vols 

New ED, revised by Edward Step, 

Frederick Warne & Co 1899. 24.5cm, 

illus with 315 col pl figuring upward 

of 1500 species. Half dark green 

morocco, gilt titled & dec spines, gen 

scuffing, minor FX, else G. 

Est $200 – 400 

636 Shaw, George 

General Zoology 

or Systematic Natural History, with 

plates from the first authorities and 

most select specimens, engraved by 

Mr Heath & Mrs Griffith, Vol VI, Part 

1, Insecta, G. Kearsley, London, 1806, 

26cm, xii, 239pp, quarter blue cloth, 

mrbld brds, worn, FX and edges 

browned, else G 

Est $50 – 100 

637 Three NZ Natural History Titles 

-Introductory Class-Book Of Botany For Use In New 

Zealand Schools by George M Thomson, 

1st Ed, 1906, green cloth gilt 

-1.Romance of the Flora of New Zealand, 2.Farthest 

North in New Zealand – A Memorable Tour, by 

Sir George Fenwick, insc on the front 

cover by the author, tied card wraps 

-Manual of New Zealand Geography with maps and 

examination questions, by Thomas Bowden 

and James Hector, New Ed, 1882, 

black cloth gilt, all 3 G 

Est $30 – 60

638 Eight NZ Natural History Titles 

-The Southern Ark – Zoological Discovery in New 

Zealand 1769-1900 by J. R. H. Andrews 

-Te Tarata The Tattooed Rock, Contemporary 

Accounts Of The Thermal Terraces At Rotomahana, 

Ed by G. A. Beale, 1971 

-Sorrows And Joy Of A New Zealand Naturalist 

by H. Guthrie Smith, signed Ltd Ed 

368/1000, 1936 

-Birds of the Water Wood & Waste by H. 

Guthrie-Smith, 1927 

-The Mystery of The Moa by T Lindsay Buick, 

1931 

-Moas and Moa Hunters 

-The Lizards of New Zealand, 1955. 

-The Naturalisation of Animal & Plants In New 

Zealand, 1922 

All ex libris, some as found. 

Est $60 – 120 

639 Nine Volumes on Poultry 

Including The Poultry Club 

standards, 1923, How To Manage 

Poultry, Fowls, Turkeys, Ducks 

and Geese, 2 copies of The Game 

Fowl, Poultry And Profit, 1911, The 

Feathered World Year Book, 1925, 

etc, some as found 

Est $50 – 100 

640 Four NZ Natural History Titles 

-The Students Flora of New Zealand And The 

Outlying Islands by Thomas Kirk, ND 

-Manual of the New Zealand Flora by T. F. 

Cheeseman, 1925 

-Introductory Class-Book Of Botany For Use In NZ 

Schools by George Thomson, 1891 

-A Manual Of The Grasses & Forage-Plants Useful To 

New Zealand, Part 1, by T. Mackay, 1887 

All green cloth, all G 

Est $40 – 80 

641 Seven NZ Natural History Titles 

-Plants of New Zealand by Laing and 

Blackwell, 3rd Ed, revised and 

enlarged, 1927, dec cloth 

-New Zealand Ferns by H. B. Dobbie, 3rd 

Ed, revised and enlarged, c1930, 

green cloth gilt 

-2 copies of The New Zealand Nature Book by 

W. Martin 

-The Trees of New Zealand by L. Cockayne 

and E Phillips Turner, 1958, green 

cloth, DJ 

-New Zealand Trees and Shrubs and How to Identify 

Them, by H. S. Allan, c1928 

-The New Zealand Company’s Native Reserves by 

Roland L Jellicoe, all G 

Est $50 – 100 

642 Three French Natural History Volumes 

-Etudes Sur Les Microzoaires by E De 

Fromentel, 1874 

-Les Heliozoaires D,Eau Douce, by Eugene 

Penard, 1904 

-Faune Rhizopodique Du Bassin Du Leman, 

Eugene Penard, 1902, text in French, 

all green cloth, G 

Est $50 – 100 

RECREATION & LEISURE 

643 Anderson, Johannes 

The Lure of New Zealand Book Collecting 

Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 

1936, 23cm, 118pp, quarter brown 

cloth, orange brds, G+ 

Est $100 – 200 

644 Balchen, Bernt 

Come North with Me An Autobiography 

Hodder & Stoughton, 1959, blue 

cloth, DJ, WITH, 

The Ultimate Mountains by Thomas Weir, 

1st Ed, 1953, black cloth, DJ, both G 

Est $30 – 60 

645 Birch Reynardson, C.T.S. 

Sports & Anecdotes of Bygone Days 

in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and the Sunny 

South 

Chapman And Hall Ltd, London, 

1887, illus, maroon cloth gilt, WITH, 

The Great White South by Herbert G 

Ponting, 7th imp, 1926, FA & A Treasury 

Of New Zealand Fishes by David H Graham, 

1st Ed, 1953. 

Est $30 – 50 

646 Brown, T Graham &de Beer Sir 

Gavin 

The First Ascent of Mont Blanc 

with a foreword by Sir John Hunt, 

Oxford University Press, 1957, red 

cloth, DJ, G+ 

Est $40 – 80 

647 Chadwick, J. 

Men of Mark in the World of Sport in New Zealand 

1st Ed Bretts, Auckland 1906 23.5cm, 

250 illus, [viii] 512pp, blue brds with 

gilt advertising to back brd, spine 

damaged, else G 

Est $40 – 80 

648 Donne, T. E. 

Rod Fishing in New Zealand Waters. A Description 

of a Fisherman’s Paradise with its Teeming Lakes, 

Rivers & Seas 

Seeley Service & Co Ltd, London 

1927, 22cm, 246pp. dec fawn cloth, 

lacking DJ, frontis, FX, staining, G. 

Est $50 – 100 

649 (-) 

New Zealand Rugby Annual 1932 

George W Slade, Ltd188pp, illus 

paper wraps, pen scribbles to inside 

cover and opening pages, else G 

Est $20 – 40 

650 Ross, Malcolm 

A Climber in New Zealand 

Illustrated from photographs by 

the author, Edward Arnold, London, 

1914, 23cm, xx, 311pp, green cloth 

gilt, no DJ, FX, else G+ 

Est $400 – 800 


651 Ruttledge, Hugh 

Everest The Unfinished Adventure 

1st Ed, Hodder &Stoughton, 1937, 

blue cloth, DJ, FX, else G+, WITH 

Everest 1933, no DJ, G 

Est $40 – 80 

652 Spackman, W. H. 

Trout in New Zealand. Where to Go and How to 

Catch Them 

1st ED, George Didsbury Govt 

Printer, Wellington 1892, 21cm, 

99pp., blue cloth gilt brds, some 

wear, illus with folding map, lacking 

rear map, discol to TP & FEP, G. WITH 

Saywer, Frank, Keeper of the Stream. The Life 

of a River and its Trout Fishery 

1st ED Adam & Charles Black, 

London 1952, 23.5cm, illus with 

frontis port, 214pp., blue cloth DJ, 

FX, G. 

Est $40 – 80 

653 Six Various Mountaineering Titles 

Est $40 – 80 

654 Six Various Mountaineering Titles 

Est $40 – 80 

655 Three Fishing Titles 

-Halcyon, An Angler’s Memories, George 

Brennand 1st Ed 1951 

-Torridge Fishery, Lemon Grey 1st Ed 

1957 

-The Fly Tyers’s Handbook, H. G. Tapply 1949. 

Est $30 – 60 

656 Ten Assorted Fishing Related Titles 

Est $30 – 60 

657 Ten Assorted Fishing Related Titles 

Est $30 – 60

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U P C O M I N G A U C T I O N S • M A R C H - J U N E 2 0 1 0 

FINE WINE AUCTION 

11 MARCH 2010 

ENTRIES CLOSED 

A fine assortment of French, Australian, 

New Zealand and other vintages. 

Catalogue now available online at 

www.dunbarsloane.co.nz 

Contact: PH (04) 472 1367 

wine@dunbarsloane.co.nz 

TOYS & DOLLS 

MAY/JUNE 2010 

ENTRIES CURRENTLY INVITED 

We are currently accepting entries for 

this highly specialist auction, the only 

stand alone Toy Auction of its type in New 

Zealand. Antique bisque & other dolls, 

tinplate, Matchbox, Dinky, Railway etc etc 

invited. Collections are a specialty. 

Enquiries to Bettina Frith 

Ph (04) 472 1367 

info@dunbarsloane.co.nz 

ANTIQUE & DECORATIVE ARTS 

17 & 18 MARCH 2010 


Featuring fine selection of porcelain, glass, 

sterling silver, estate jewellery, period 

furniture, persian rugs, woods & metals, 

artefacts etc. 

Contact Bettina Frith or Anthony Gallagher 

PH: (04) 472 1367 

Illus: Paul Storr Sterling Silver Epergne 1812 

Est $50,000 - 70,000 

COLONIAL COLLECTABLE 

MAY 2010 

ENTRIES INVITED 

Accepting wide range of collectables 

including china and porcelain, tea sets, 

costume jewellery, watches, linen and total 

collections, large quantities considered. 

Contact Bettina Frith 

PH: (04) 472 1367 

collectables@dunbarsloane.co.nz 

MILITARIA 

18 MARCH 2010 


Accepting specialist entries of fine medals, 

badges, buttons, antique pistols, firearms, 

bladed weapons, historial ephemera, 

uniforms etc. 

Contact Bettina Frith 

PH: (04) 472 1367 


ANTIQUARIAN BOOK 

JUNE/JULY 2010 


Inviting specialist entries of Antiquarian, 

Historical, Natural History, Exploration, 

Maori & Pacific, Illustrated, Ltd Eds etc 

Contact Anthony Gallagher 

PH: (04) 472 1367 

antiques@dunbarsloane.co.nz

FINE NZ & INTERNATIONAL 

ART 

21 APRIL 2010 


Seeking important works of art from both 

New Zealand and International artists, from 

the historical to the contemporary. 

Contact Helena Walker 

PH: (04) 472 1367 / 0274 713 123 

art@dunbarsloane.co.nz 

Illus: Jeff Thomson Floral Bouquet 

Est $2,500 - 5,000 

GENERAL HOUSEHOLD 

AUCTIONS 

EVERY TUESDAY 

ACCEPTING ENTRIES EVERY 

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY 

Weekly Household Auctions specialising in 

complete household and estate clearances. 

Liquidation and bulk clearances can also be 

arranged. 

Contact Max Pace or Lars Packham 

PH: (04) 472 1367 


AFFORDABLE ART 

22 APRIL 2010 


Featuring a wide variety of art including 

originals, limited edition prints, posters, 

photography etc in an affordable price 

bracket ranging from $100 - 2,000. 

Contact Helena Walker 

PH: (04) 472 1367 / 0274 713 123 

art@dunbarsloane.co.nz 

Illus: Guy Ngan, Series Nineteen, Ltd Ed 4/16 

Est $200 - 500 

ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 

19 APRIL 2010 

AUCKLAND 

ENTRIES INVITED 

DUNBAR 

SLOANE 


APPLIED ART / POTTERY 

22 APRIL 2010 


Desired entries include works by renown 

local and International potters as well as 

glass, textiles and sculpture. 

Contact Simon Manchester 

PH: (04) 472 1367 or 021 662 223 


Illus: Roy Cowan Floor Pot 

Est $1,500 - 2,000 

Inviting entries now for an important Antique & Collectables auction to include: china, 

ivory, gold coins, sterling silver, Maori & Pacific artefacts, militaria, old Indian objects, estate 

jewellery, period furniture, rare books... 

Please phone (09) 630 9178 to discuss your entries 

Illus: A Lancaster 1936 4.5 litre Drophead Coupe Sports 

Body styled and built by Vanden Plas Coach Builders. Ordered by Maharajah Digrijaysinhji. 

Extrememly rare and in mint condition. POA

HIGHLIGHTS 

LEFT TO RIGHT: 

• The Kotahitanga Settlements Maori Parliamentary Cabinet 

Box 

achieved $25,000 + premium 

• Colin McCahon, A Landscape 1965, acrylic on hardboard 

achieved $85,000 

• Ann Robinson Cast Glass Scallop Bowl 

achieved $19,000 

• Euan Macleod, Weatherman 2005, oil on canvas 


• Persian Saadi Gulistan illuminated manuscript 


• C. F. Goldie, A Noble Relic of a Noble Race, Wharekauri 

Tahuna Aged 102, 1941 oil on canvas 


• Set of 4 Irish Geo. II Sterling Cast Candlesticks, Hodder C.1740 


• Teriade, Directeur. Verve, Revue Artistique Et Litteraire 


• John Middleditch Copper Crab Sculpture 1982 


• C. F. Goldie, Harata Rewiri Tarapata 1908, oil on board 

achieved $160,000 + premium

• Seddon, Richard J. Group of Signed Ephemera, Photos etc, 


• Deux Conte with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, 

Ltd Ed. 108/250, 1947 


• Cased Set of Herbert Ponting Lantern Slides 


• Platinum Solitare Diamond Ring 


• Martin Luther Bible, 1668 


• WMF Art Nouveau Comport 


• Royal Doulton Figure, Reynard the Fox 


• Egypt Medal 1882 

achieved $800 + premium 

• Victoria New Zealand Medal 


• GeoVI Military Medal, For Bravery in the Field 


• 18ct Cased Open Face Key Wind Pocket Watch, London 1818, 

achieved $2700 + premium

BUYERS GUIDE 

If you have not bought from Dunbar Sloane before please read 

the following notes. They are set out in the order you are likely to 

come across them in the process of buying at auction. Staff will be 

pleased to answer any questions you may have. 

BEFORE THE AUCTION 

• CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS 

The terms and conditions under which the buyer acts at a sale are 

detailed at the rear of this catalogue. We recommend that you 

read and understand these conditions before registering to bid at 

auction. This sale is subject to the conditions of business printed in 

this catalogue and to the reserves. 

• VIEWING 

All lots are available for inspection prior to the sale. Although staff 

will endeavour to answer your enquiries and give advice, the final 

decision to bid and the amount is at your discretion and liability. 

Pre-sale estimates are the estimated prices printed. They are in New 

Zealand dollars and are the approximate prices expected to be 

realised, excluding buyers premium. They are not definitive, they are 

prepared well in advance of the sale and are subject to revision. 

• CONDITION REPORTS 

Dunbar Sloane Ltd will provide a verbal condition report if you 

would like an opinion on the condition of any particular lot prior to 

purchasing. 

THE AUCTION 

• REGISTRATION 

To bid at the auction you will need to register for a bidding number 

at the front desk either during the viewing or prior to the auction. 

• BUYING AT AUCTION 

Please bid clearly and promptly using your bidding number. When 

you successfully purchase a lot the auctioneer will ask you for your 

number and this will show on your invoice. Approximate selling rate 

auctions are generally conducted at the rate of around 100-120 lots 

per hour. However, this can vary. 

• ABSENTEE BIDDING 

If you are unable to attend the auction, Dunbar Sloane Ltd can bid 

on your behalf according to your written instructions. This is a free 

service for intending buyers. Please complete clearly the written 

biding form at the back of this catalogue and submit it to Dunbar 

Sloane Ltd at least 24 hours before the sale to ensure it is safely 

received. Lots will be purchased for you as reasonably as possible, 

subject to other bids in the room and to reserves. 

• TELEPHONE BIDDING 

If you are unable to attend the auction in person, you can elect to 

bid by telephone. This must be arranged with Dunbar Sloane Ltd at 

least 24 hours prior to the sale and is subject to a minimum lot value 

of $1,000. We accept no responsibility if for whatever reason we are 

unable to contact you during the auction. 

• BUYERS PREMIUM 

The buyer shall pay to Dunbar Sloane Ltd a premium of 14% of the 

hammer price plus G.S.T, effectively adding 15.75% to the hammer 

price. 

AFTER THE AUCTION 

• PAYMENT 

Payment for purchase is due in New Zealand dollars within 48 

hours from the date of sale by cash, cheque or eftpos. Alternatively 

payment can be made by telegraphic transfer direct to our bank. 

Please add $20 NZ to cover New Zealand bank charges. 

National Bank of New Zealand, Wellington Branch 

Credit 06 0501 0524945 00 

170-186 Featherston Street 

Payee Dunbar Sloane Ltd 

Swift Code ANZBNZ 22 

DUNBAR 

SLOANE 


Please include details of sale date, sale type and lot numbers with all 

payments. 

• COLLECTION OF PURCHASES 

Property purchased can be collected as soon as full payment has 

been received. Any items not collected within seven days of the 

auction may be subject to a storage and insurance fee. 

• NATIONAL PACKAGING AND TRANSPORT 

We prefer you (the purchaser) to pack and arrange transport. 

Removal trucking firms can make crates, wrap your goods and have 

them delivered to you. Note: Couriers do not pack and require 

payment before they pick up the goods. If you wish Dunbar Sloane 

Ltd to pack and provide packing materials and arrange and pay 

for couriers we charge for this service. This is to be paid before the 

goods leave our premises. We pack with care, however we take no 

responsibility for damage once your goods leave our premises. We 

insist you take out your own insurance to cover any damage or loss 

in transit. 

• INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AND STORAGE 

Dunbar Sloane Ltd can advise on the best method of packing and 

freight to send purchased property internationally. A wide variety 

of methods of despatch are used depending on the weight and 

volume and cost estimates can be obtained from us at any time. 

Upon receiving your written instructions, we will with discretion, 

engage professional commercial shippers or deal with the shippers 

of your choice. Long term storage can also be arranged. Insurance 

is the buyers responsibility for freight and storage. 

• OPENING TIMES 

Dunbar Sloane Ltd general office hours are Monday to Friday 

8.30am-5pm. Please note many of our advertised or published 

auction and viewing times fall outside these hours. 

• SUBSCRIPTIONS 

Dunbar Sloane Ltd catalogues are reference works collected in 

their own right, as well as being the essential guide to any auction. 

Annual subscriptions ensure regular receipt of catalogues. Refer to 

subscription details at back of this catalogue. 

• EMAIL 


• WEBSITE 

www.dunbarsloane.com

ABSENTEE BIDDING FORM 

Dunbar Sloane Ltd 

PO Box 224 

Wellington 6140 

New Zealand 

Phone +64 4 472 1367 

Fax +64 4 475 7389 


www.dunbarsloane.com 

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION • 24 MARCH 2010 

Please bid on my behalf at the above sale for the following lots. These bids are to be executed as 

reasonably as permitted by other bids or reserves. I agree to comply with the conditions of sale 

as printed in this catalogue. 

Full Name 

Address 

Telephone Fax 

Mobile 

Email 

Signed & Dated 

DUNBAR 

SLOANE 


Check lot numbers and description. Place your bid/s as early as possible, as in the event of 

identical bids, the earliest will take precedence. ‘Buy’ bids are not accepted. The limit you leave 

should be the amount to which you would bid if you were to attend the auction. 

Buyers premium: Buyers are reminded that a buyer’s premium of 14% on the hammer price plus 

G.S.T. on the premium shall be paid to Dunbar Sloane Ltd, all up 15.75%. 

Successful Bidders will be notified at which time arrangements may be made for payments, 

collection and despatch. 

LOT NO. TITLE / DESCRIPTION $BID PRICE 

(excluding premium)

CONDITIONS OF SALE 

1 

The highest bidder to be the buyer, and if during the auction the 

auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen, the lot so in dispute 

shall be immediately put up again for sale. 

2 

The auctioneer has the right to refuse any bid and to advance the 

bidding at his absolute discretion. 

3 

a. The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the 

auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any 

lot on which a reserve has been placed. 

b. Dunbar Sloane’s have the right to withdraw or divide any lot or to 

combine any two or more lots at their sole discretion. 

4 

a. The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and 

permanent address. 

b. The buyer may be required to pay down forthwith the whole or 

any part of the purchase money, and if he fails to do so, the lot may 

at the auctioneers absolute discretion be put up again and resold. 

c. The premium the buyer shall pay to Dunbar Sloane is 14.0% on 

the hammer price together with G.S.T. at the standard rate on the 

premium and agrees that Dunbar Sloane, when acting as agent for 

the seller, may also receive commission from the seller. 

5 

a. Each lot sold by the seller thereof with all faults and defects 

therein and with all errors of description and is to be taken and paid 

for whether genuine and authentic or not and no compensation 

shall be paid for the same. 

b. Dunbar Sloane’s act as agents only and neither they nor the seller 

are responsible for any faults or defects in any lot or the correctness 

of any statement as the authorship, origin, date, age, attribution, 

genuineness, 

provenance or condition of any lot 

c. All statements in the catalogues, advertisements or 

brochures of forthcoming sales as to any of the matters specified in 

(b) above are statements of opinion, and are not to be relied upon 

as statements of representations of fact, and intending purchasers 

must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to all of the 

matters specified in (b) above, as to the physical description of any 

lot, and as to whether or not any lot has been repaired. 

d. The seller and Dunbar Sloane’s do not make or give, nor has any 

person in the employ of Dunbar Sloane’s any authority to make or 

give, and representation or warranty. 

DUNBAR 

SLOANE 


e. In any event neither the seller nor Dunbar Sloane’s are 

responsible for any representation or warranty, or for any statement 

in the catalogues, advertisements, or brochures of forthcoming 

sales. 

6 

Not withstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within 7 

days after the sale Dunbar Sloane’s have received from the buyer of 

any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is deliberate forgery 

and within 9 days after such notification, the buyer returns the same 

to Dunbar Sloane’s in the same condition as at the time of sale and 

satisfies Dunbar Sloane’s had considered in the light of the entry in 

the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot 

will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. 

7 

a. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in 

settlement of purchase, no lot can be taken away during the times 

of sale, nor can any lot be taken away unless it has been paid for in 

full. 

b. All lots are to paid for and taken away at the buyer’s expense 

within TWO days from sale. 

8 

On failure of a buyer to take away and pay for any lot in 

accordance with Condition 7, Dunbar Sloane reserves any other 

right or remedies. 

i. To resell the lot or cause it to be resold by public sale, any money 

paid in part payment being forfeited, any deficiency attending such 

resale after deducting all costs incurred in connection with the lot 

to be made good by the defaulting buyer, and any surplus to be the 

seller’s or: 

ii. To store the lot or cause it to be stored whether at their own 

premises or elsewhere at the sole expense of the buyer, and to 

release the lot only after payment in full of the purchase price 

together with interest thereon of 5% above bank minimum 

lending rate, the accrued cost of removal, storage and insurance 

(if any) and all other cost incurred in connection with the lot. 

iii. If the lot has been in store pursuant to (ii) for more than 6 months, 

to remove the lot from store and to exercise the right set out in (i).

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