91 |
Kelmscott Press. More, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Edited by F.S. Ellis, foreword by William Morris. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1893 [One of 300 copies.] Vellum, silk ties. Inscribed 'To Walter Crane, with the Editor's kind regards' and dated a week after publication. £200-300 | Nil |
|
1900 |
| 92 | Kelmscott Press. Tennyson, Alfred. Maud, a monodrama. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1893 [One of 500 copies.] Vellum, silk ties. £150-250 | Nil |
|
900 |
| 93 | Kelmscott Press. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, [1894]-95 [One of 250 sets.] 3 vol., vellum. (3) £250-350 | Nil |
|
1500 |
| 94 | Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. The Well at the World's End. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896 [One of 350 copies.] Large 4to, four woodcuts by Edward Burne-Jones, vellum, silk ties (one defective). The copy of F.S. Ellis with his signature dated 1897, and inscribed by him to his daughter the following year. £300-600 | Nil |
|
2700 |
| 95 | Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. A Note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a short description of the press by S.C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898 [One of 525 copies.] Holland-backed printed boards, errata slip. The last book from the Press. £150-250 | Nil |
|
550 |
| 96 | Private Presses. Waddell, Helen. New York City. Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1935, One of 100 copies, signed by the author, signed woodcut by Stefan Mrozewski, wrappers spotted; Harrop, Dorothy. A History of the Gregynog Press. Private Libraries Association, Pinner, 1980, 4to, plates, cloth; and a quantity of prospectuses, catalogues and ephemera from private presses including Gregynog, Shakespeare Head, Golden Cockerel, Douglas Cleverdon (with t.l.s.) &c. (ca. 24) #70-100 £1500-3000 | Nil |
|
90 |
| 97 | Officina Bodoni. Walpole, Horace. Hieroglyphic Tales. Elkin Mathews, London, 1926, One of 250 copies printed by Officina Bodoni, patterned boards, label; The Poetical Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1927, One of 250 copies printed by Officina Bodoni, patterned boards, label; Crito, a Socratic Dialogue by Plato. The Pleiad, Paris, 1926, One of 475 copies printed by Officina Bodoni, patterned boards, label; and one other, Peter Pauper Press. (4) £80-100 | Nil |
|
300 |
| 97A | Golden Cockerel Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales ... with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1929-31. One of 485 copies, 4 vol., sm. folio, quarter niger morocco, patterned boards, an excellent set (4). See illustrations £1500-3000 | Nil |
|
3400 |
| 98 | Golden Cockerel Press. The Phaedo of Plato. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1930, One of 500 copies, buckram, leather label; Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several Remote Nations of the World.by Lemuel Gulliver. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1925, 2 vol., 4to, wood engravings by David Jones, many coloured, white half cloth, black paper sides, boards scuffed; The Birth of Christ. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925, One of 370 copies, quarter niger morocco, paper boards slightly discoloured, wood engravings by Noel Rooke. (4) £100-200 | Nil |
|
360 |
| 99 | Golden Cockerel Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde.with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1927, One of 225 copies, sm. folio, quarter niger morocco, patterned paper boards, fine in slipcase. £1500-3000 | Nil |
|
5400 |
| 100 | Euclid. [Elementa] Praeclarissimis Liber Elementorum . . . in Artem Geometriae. Ratdolt, Venice, 25 May, 1482, First edition. 137 leaves, lacking the final blank, ornamental border on second leaf, woodcut initials and diagrams throughout, folio, a washed copy, first leaf repaired and laid down, few minor tears mended, few stains, dark brown morocco in contemporary Venetian style by Zaehnsdorf, 1914 "Mr Maggs bought this copy at Sotheby's auction rooms one day for œ40. After the sale I went round to their place and bought it for œ60 - a considerable but by no means exorbitant profit." - Letter 3 £20000-40000 | Nil |
|
62000 |
| 101 | [Schedel, Hartmann.] Liber Chronicarum. A. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493, First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 328 leaves, including 3 blanks at the end, upwards of 1,800 woodcuts including double page maps of the world and of Europe, and numerous views of cities, large folio, f. CLXIX washed and supplied from a shorter copy, minor soiling, quite extensive contemporary or near contemporary annotation and ink comic embellishments to the view of Nuremberg, perhaps suggesting local ownership, 18th century English panelled calf, rebacked with morocco, cloth slipcase. £20000-40000 | Nil |
|
36000 |
| 102 | Plutarch. The Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes . . . translated out of Greeke into French . . . and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North. Vautroullier & Wight, London, 1579, First English edition, woodcut portraits, folio, a made up copy, washed and with half a dozen leaves towards the end mended with a few letters supplied (see Quaritch collation note at end), black morocco, gilt, g.e., by Riviere. £2000-3000 | Nil |
|
7000 |
| 103 | Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ponsonbie, London, 1590-96, 2 vol., first edition, first state, date widely spaced and ending with errata on Pp8, and without the extra sheet Qq4, Welsh words printed, some browning and a few headlines just shaved, 18th century calf, gilt spines, red edges, from the collections of William Herbert, the bibliographer (initials on title) and Sir John Mildmay (Dogmersfield library bookplate), bought from Quaritch. £8000-12000 | Nil |
|
26000 |
| 104 | Aesop. Fables, with his Life in English French and Latin. H. Hills for Francis Barlow, London, 1687, Second edition, new verses by Aphra Behn added to fable plates, engraved frontispiece, armorial plate, portrait of Aesop and animals, 31 engraved plates, mostly by Barlow, 110 illustrations in the text, some soiling, few minor tears or repairs, just affecting printed surface (e.g. pl. 30), folio, contemporary calf, worn. £1500-2000 | Nil |
|
4000 |
| 105 | Apuleius. The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse . . . translated out of Latine into English by William Adlington. Harper, London, 1639, Fifth edition in English, sm. 4to, slight dampstaining, title soiled and some blank margins a bit defective, few minor holes and worming (e.g. E2, GG3) affecting a few words, old speckled calf, bit wormed, repaired. £500-1000 | Nil |
|
900 |
| 106 | Congreve, William. The First (Second, Third)Volume of the Works. Tonson, London, 1710, 3 vol., rather foxed, half calf, antique. (3) £40-80 | Nil |
|
190 |
| 107 | Fane, Sir Francis. Love in the Dark. Herringman, [London,] 1675; Saint Serfe, Thomas. Tarugo's Wiles. Herringman, London, 1668, First editions, 4to, bit browned, calf gilt by Bayntun. (2) £150-200 | Nil |
|
480 |
| 108 | Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. "Crooke, London, 1651" [but Amsterdam or The Hague, c. 1680]. Third edition, type ornaments on title, engraved frontispiece, folding table, rather browned, last few leaves creased, folio, contemporary calf, worn, early bookplate of Lionel Copley. £300-600 | Nil |
|
900 |
| 109 | Lee, Nathaniel. Constantine the Great. Hills, London, 1684, Calf, gilt, by Riviere, title repaired and headline shaved; [Payne, Henry Nevil]. The Fatal Jealousie. Dring, London, 1673, Cloth, leather label, title creased, upper corner a bit chipped throughout, signature of Godfrey Copley. First editions, 4to. (2) £150-200 | Nil |
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150 |
| 110 | [Locke, John]. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset, London, 1690, First edition, first issue with Holt imprint, early ms. corrections on A2-3, minor browning, small rusthole in L3 affecting a few letters, early or cont. inscription on flyleaf "For Mr. Hamilton att his house in Castle Yard, near Hollburn", later names on title and dedication, folio, contemporary calf, worn, repaired and worn again. Bought from Elkin Mathews for œ21, with their catalogue cutting inserted. £5000-7000 | Nil |
|
26000 |
| 111 | Loggan, D. Oxonia illustrata. Oxford, 1675, Engraved title, 4 engraved leaves of text, 40 double engraved views, folio, minor soiling, one tear along plate mark and a few minor tears in margins, contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed but sound. The Rolle copy with bookplate, presented to Sir Harry Newton on his retirement from the board of Harrods (Buenos Aires) Ltd in 1943 £3000-4000 | Nil |
|
6000 |
| 112 | Malvezzi, V. Romulus and Tarquin . . . English by Henry Earle of Monmouth. The third Edition. Moseley, London, 1648, Engraved frontispiece, 12mo, contemporary calf, bit worn; Goodman, J. The Penitent pardoned. Flesher, London, 1689, Engraved frontispiece, double page engraving of the prodigal son, 4to, calf, rebacked; The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Tonson, London, 1710, Tipped in ms note, "After I had discoursed wth Hen. Sacheverel about W: Pens being a papist . . . ", calf, rebacked, perhaps lacking a portrait. (3) £50-100 | Nil |
|
70 |
| 113 | Newton, Sir Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Streater, London, 1687, First edition, 2 line imprint, errata leaf and folding plate, 4to, few minor flaws affecting some letters (e.g. Ii3, Oo2), printing flaw in X2 affecting signature and last line, foxed and browned in places, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, rear endpapers supplied, cloth box; ex Dawson's cat. 269, 1978, item 1. £30000-40000 | Nil |
|
75000 |
| 114 | Pepys, Samuel. Memoires relating to the state of the Royal Navy of England. Griffin, London, 1690, First edition, portrait, folding table (tear repaired, affecting a letter or two), C6 & D6 cancels, the former with stub visible, few corrections in an early hand, early 19th century half sheep. £500-600 | Nil |
|
850 |
| 115 | Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica. Foulis, Glasgow, 1768, Folding map (offset; with imprint), calf antique. £100-200 | Nil |
|
160 |
| 116 | [Boswell, James.] Ode by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their supposed approaching Nuptials. Faulder, London, 1784, First edition, 4to, 16pp., original uncut sheets, as issued, cloth case. "I bought this copy, described as 'exceedingly rare' from Messrs. Maggs. About a year afterwards the same firm offered another copy in just the same state, and still a year later another bookseller offered a similar copy, which he described as 'unique' at three times the œ15 15s I had paid to Maggs. I have sometimes wondered whether some one has discovered a pile of these old pamphlets and is putting them gradually on the market." - Letter 3 £800-1200 | Nil |
|
3400 |
| 117 | Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Dilly, London, 1785, First edition, minor paper flaw in Ii1 affecting a few letters, the half-title, title and errata leaf washed, browned and probably supplied, tree calf, somewhat worn, bookplate of N.E.S.A. Hamilton. £200-300 | Nil |
|
320 |
| 118 | Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Dilly, London, 1791, First edition, 2 vol., portrait, 2 plates, 2 cancel leaves in first vol. and five in second, S4r in vol. 1 in second state ("give"), marginal worming from p.350 to end in this vol. (repaired in last few leaves, possible touching a letter or two), calf antique by Riviere, bound with an imperfect copy of the 'Principal corrections', 1793, (2) £1000-1500 | Nil |
|
2000 |
|
119 |
Chesterfield, Earl of. Letters . . . to his Son. Dodsley, London , 1774, 2 vol., first edition, portrait, 4to, tree calf, rebacked. (2) £300-500 |
Nil |
|
460 |
