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Books & Prints Sale To include "The Vessey Collection" on Thursday 17th January 2008

Lot numbers:

151-180 of 589

Lot

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151

MacLEAN, Magnus. The Literature of the Celts. Blackie, 1902. Cloth gilt; and ca. 50 others, miscellaneous lit and crit. (Box) £40-60

Nil

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152 MILTON, John. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, with a wood engraving by Alison McKenzie. Gregynog Press, 1937. One of 250 numbered copies. 4to, printed wrappers; MARIAGA, Salvador de. Don Quixote: an Introductory Essay in Psychology. Gregynog Press, 1934. One of 250 numbered copies. Boards. (2) See illustration £100-150

Nil

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153 BURGER, Gottfried Augustus. Leonora. Translated from the German…with Designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc. Bensley, for J. Edwards, 1796. Folio, uncut, old boards; DANTE. The Vision of Hell, illustrated with the designs of Gustave Dore. Cassell, ca. 1880. 4to, cloth, new end-papers; and 8 others. (10) £80-120

Nil

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154 WRIGHT, Thomas. Augustus M. Toplady and contemporary hymn-writers. Farncombe, 1911. Cloth; PLUMPTRE, E.H. The Life of Thomas Ken. Isbister, 1889. 2 vols, cloth; and ca. 30 others, church and theological biography. (30) £50-80

Nil

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155 GILL, Eric, and H.D.C. PEPLER. Saint Dominic; scenes from the life of the saint. St. Dominic's Press, 1929. 12mo, boards, design by Gill. Signed by Pepler on title-page; The Devil's Devices. Hampshire House Workshops, 1915. Printed boards, unopened; and 3 others by or on Gill. (5) £50-80

Nil

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156 GILL, Eric. In Petra, being a sequel to Nisi Dominus. S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1923. 12mo, cloth, label; Welfare Handbook No.8. Education. The Monk's School. S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1922. 12mo, printed wrappers; 2 others by Gill, a proof of Speaight's biography with one of the plates in two states, and another by Robert Gibbings. (6) £80-120

Nil

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157 BIBLE. The Holy Bible with commentary by R. Jamieson. Steel engravings. Virtue, ca. 1860. 4to, black morocco, a.e.g., and 2 others. (3) £50-80

Nil

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158 BUTLER, Alban. Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed Thurston & Attwater. Burns & Oates, 1953. 4 vols, boards, dust-wrappers; and 13 others, hagiography &c. (17) £40-60

Nil

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159 ST AUGUSTINE. Confessions. [Chiswick Press, ca. 1900.] Quarter vellum, printed in red and black, illustrations and initials by Paul Woodruffe, title-page by Laurence Housman, engraved by Clemence Housman; and 6 others, 4to. (7) £50-80

Nil

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160 RUSSELL, Bertrand. Our Knowledge of the External World. Open Court Publishing, 1914. First edn. Cloth; and 26 others, philosophy. (29) £50-100

Nil

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161 JAMES, M.R. The Apocryphal New Testament. Clarendon Press, 1924. Cloth; and a quantity of other religious texts, theology &c. (2 boxes) £50-100

Nil

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162 LEESE, Arnold. Out of Step; Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor. Guildford, n.d. Cloth; and others on Judaism and Middle Eastern religions. (17) £50-80

Nil

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163 ROCK, Daniel. Hierurgia; or, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. John Hodges, 1892. 2 vols, modern cloth; WILLIAMS, L. History of the Abbey of St Alban. Longmans, 1917. Cloth; and 11 others, theology, church history. (14) £50-80

Nil

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164 HAMILTON, Adam, ed. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, 1548 to 1625. Sands & Co., 1904. Cloth; FOX, Samuel. Monks and Monasteries. James Burns, 1845. Cloth, recased; STEPHEN, W. History of the Scottish Church. David Douglas, 1894. 2 vols, cloth; and 19 others, most on monasticism. (23) £50-100

Nil

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165 DENHAM, Sidney. Cats between Covers. A Bibliography of Books about Cats. H. Denham, 1952. Quarter cloth, boards, label; and ca. 40 books about cats. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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166 HENTY, G.A. With Wolfe in Canada. Blackie, ca. 1895. Pictorial cloth; BENSON, E.F. David Blaize and the Blue Door. Hodder, ca. 1925. Pictorial cloth; and 24 others, late Victorian/Edwardian children's fiction. (26) See illustration £50-100

Nil

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167 CHAPMAN, Jean. Do You Remember What Happened. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Angus and Robertson, 1969. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and other children's fiction, all fine in dust-wrappers. (49) £80-120

Nil

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168 DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo. Macmillan, 1999. First edn. 4to, pictorial boards; and ca. 40 others, large format children's picture books, many as new. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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169 FROUDE, Brian, and Alan LEE. Faeries. Peacock Press/Bantam Books, 1978. First edn. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and ca. 40 others, large format illustrated children's books. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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170 SENDAK, Maurice. Outside over There. Bodley Head, 1981. First English edn. Oblong 4to; and ca. 32 others, large format illustrated children's books. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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171 OPIE, Iona and Peter. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford University Press, 1980. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 18 others, mostly children's poetry. (20) £50-80

Nil

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172 WONDER BOOK of Then and Now. Ward, Lock, ca. 1930. Pictorial boards; and ca. 25 others, annuals and children's illustrated, mid-twentieth century. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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173 O'GRADY, Standish. Finn and his Companions. Illustrated by J.B. Yeats. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edn. Cloth gilt; JACOBS, Joseph. The Book of Wonder Voyages, illustrated by J.D. Batten. David Nutt, 1896. Cloth; and 20 others, children's. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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174 SEARLE, Ronald. Souls in Torment. Perpetua, 1953. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 16 others with illustrations by Searle, Steadman, Lancaster &c. (17) £40-60

Nil

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175 SEARLE, Ronald. Slightly Foxed - but still desirable. Souvenir Press. 1989. First edn. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 12 others illus. Searle, Steadman, Lancaster, Thurber et al. (13) £50-80

Nil

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176 PHILLIPS, Roger. Grasses, Ferns, Mosses & Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. Ward Lock, 1980. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; GODWIN, Harry. The History of the British Flora. Cambridge University Press, 1975. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and others, modern natural history. (11) £50-80

Nil

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177 SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Country Notes. Michael Joseph, 1939. First edn. Cloth; HUDSON, W.H. A Shepherd's Life, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone. Compton Press, 1978. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 39 others, English country life, farming &c. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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178 FUSSELL, G.E. Old English Farming Books 1523 to 1730. Crosby Lockwood, 1947. More Old English Farming Books 1731 to 1793. Ibid, 1950. 2 vols, cloth, dust-wrappers; and 11 others, rural life, field sports &c. (13) £50-80

Nil

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179 RENARD, Jules. Natural History. Lithographs [by] Walter Stein. Harvard College Library, 1960. Of 600 numbered and signed copies this is one of 100 with an additional set of signed lithographs. Oblong 4to, quarter leather, boards, folding box. £40-80

Nil

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WESTELL, W. Percival. Country Rambles, being a Field Naturalist's…Note Book. Drane, 1903. Cloth gilt; BUCKLAND, Frank. Notes and Jottings from Animal Life. Smith, Elder, 1886. Cloth; and 4 others, Victorian natural history. (7) £50-80

Nil

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