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Sale date:

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

Lot numbers:

181-210 of 589

Lot

Description & Estimate

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Hammer Price £

181

LOWE, Percy. A Naturalist on Desert Islands. Witherby, 1911. Cloth. COLEMAN, W.S. Our Woodlands, Heaths, and Hedges with illustrations printed in colours. Routledge, 1866. Cloth gilt; and 9 others, Victorian/Edwardian natural history. (11) £50-80

Nil

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182 TURNER, E.L. Broadland Birds. Country Life, 1924. 4to, boards; and 18 others, all but two on birds. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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183 ASHBERY, John. Reported Sightings; art chronicles 1957-1987. Carcanet, 1989. Cloth, dust-wrapper; CONSTABLE, John. John Constable's Discourses. Suffolk Records Society, 1970. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and ca. 20 others, art history and criticism. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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184 MAN, Felix. Man with Camera; photographs from seven decades. Secker & Warburg, 1983. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; GOWANS. Nature Pictures; a portfolio of photographs from life. Gowans & Gray, 1908. 4to, cloth, cover design by Jessie M. King; and 11 others, photography. (13) £50-100

Nil

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185 PARKINSON, Ronald. Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860. HMSO, 1990. 4to, imitation leather, dust-wrapper; WOOD, Christopher. Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914. Constable, 1983. Boards, dust-wrapper; and ca. 20 others, nineteenth century art. (Box) £80-120

Nil

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186 BURRA, Edward. Well dearie! The Letters of Edward Burra. Gordon Fraser, 1985. Cloth, dust-wrappers; BARRINGTON, Mrs Russell. G.F. Watts: Reminiscences. Allen, 1905. Cloth gilt; and 18 others, art biographies. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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187 MARSH, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Women. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 4to, boards, dus-wrapper; MORRIS, William. William Morris by Himself; designs and writings. Little, Brown, 2000. 4to, laminated boards, dust-wrapper; and 11 others, Preraphaelite and fin de siecle art. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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188 REMINGTON, Frederick. Done in the Open; drawings. Russell, New York, 1902. Folio, half morocco, rubbed; and another. (2) £40-60

Nil

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189 BLAKE, William. William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980. 2 vols folio, buckram, dust-wrappers, slipcase; WRIGHT, T. The Life of William Blake. Olney, 1929. 2 vols 4to, cloth; and 11 others on Blake, Flaxman and Fuseli. (15) £100-150

Nil

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190 KAPLAN, Gilbert. Surrealist Prints. Abrams, New York, 1997. 4to, cloth; HOCKNEY, David. Off the Wall: Hockney Posters. Pavilion, 1994. Folio, boards, dust-wrapper; and 21 others, art. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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191 LEWISON, John. Ben Nicholson. Phaidon, 1991. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; PIPER, John. The Complete Graphic Works, a catalogue raisonnee 1923-1983. Faber, 1987. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 27 others, twentieth century British artists and illustrators. (Box) £80-120

Nil

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192 DRAKE, Maurice. The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass. Pollard, Exeter, 1920. Folio, boards, worn; DE HAMEL, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Phaidon, 1994. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 14 others on mediaeval manuscripts, stained glass, church brasses. (12) £50-100

Nil

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193 GALERIE STEENGRACHT. Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens…après le deces du Jonkheer H.A. Steengracht van Duivenvoorde. Georges Petit, 1913. 2 vols 4to, later half morocco, priced throughout; and other art sale catalogues, books on prints and collectors and miscellaneous art. (Box) £80-120

Nil

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194 FRY, Roger. Cezanne. Hogarth Press, 1927. Pictorial boards, rubbed; WYNN JONES, Michael. The Cartoon History of Britain. Stacey, 1971. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 18 others, art. (Box) £50-180

Nil

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195 NEVILL, Ralph. Old French Line Engravings. Hatto and Truscott Smith, 1924. 4to, cloth. ARMSTRONG, Walter. Lawrence. Methuen, 1913. Cloth; WAX, Carol. The Mezzotint. Thames and Hudson, 1990. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 5 others, art. (8) £50-80

Nil

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196 LEIGHTON, John. The Life of Man symbolised by the months of the year in a series of illustrations. Longmans, 1866. 4to, cloth gilt, a.e.g.; and 6 others, art. (7) See illustration £80-120

Nil

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197 HULTON, P. The Work of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues. British Museum, 1977. 2 vols 4to, cloth, slipcase; and 11 others, pre-1700 art. (12) £50-100

Nil

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198 COX-REARICK, Janet. Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio. University of California Press, 1993. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; JOHNSON, Edward. Francis Cotes. Phaidon, 1976. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 14 others, art monographs &c. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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199 PASSERON, Roger. Impressionist Prints. Phaidon, 1974. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; ROTHSCHILD, Deborah. Picasso's 'Parade' from street to stage; ballet by Jean Cocteau, score by Erik Satie. Sotheby's, New York, 1991. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 17 others, nineteenth/twentieth century art. (Box) £50-100

Nil

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200 MAUROIS, Andre. J.-L. David. Plates. Editions du Dimanche, 1948. 4to, half vellum, marbled boards, Ruari McLean's copy; and 14 others, art and technology. (13) £50-80

Nil

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201 HAMILTON, James. Wood Engraving & the Woodcut in Britain c. 1890-1990. Barrie & Jenkins, 1994. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; ARMAN, Mark. A Diary of Engravings and Linocuts. Workshop Press, Thaxted, 1986. One of 160 numbered copies, signed by the author. Quarter cloth, marbled boards; and 16 others, mostly twentieth century British wood engravers. (Box) £80-120

Nil

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202 ANON. Railroadiana. A New History of England…descriptive of the Vicinity of the Railroads. London and Birmingham Railway. Simpkin, Marshall, 1838. 12mo, cloth gilt, coloured folding frontispiece, other plates, one folding, map in end-paper pocket. See illustration £100-200

Nil

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203 GIBBS-SMITH, C.H. A History of Flying. Batsford, 1953. Cloth, dust-wrapper; ANDERSON, R.C. AND J.M. Quicksilver: A Hundred Years of Coaching 1750-1850. David & Charles, 1973. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 17 others, transport. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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204 HAYWARD, John Davey. Camping Out with the British Canoe Association, with chapters non Camping, Canoeing, and Amateur Photography. George Philip & Son, [ca. 1891]. Cloth; and ca. 20 others on sports, games and pastimes. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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205 WOOD, Stephen. The Auld Alliance: Scotland and France, the Military Connection. Mainstream, 1989. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 16 others, military. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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206 JENKINS, E.H. A History of the French Navy. Macdonald and Jane's, 1973. Boards, dust-wrapper, inscribed by the author; and 29 others, naval and maritime. (2 boxes) £50-100

Nil

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207 CUNNINGTON, Phillis, and Anne BUCK. Children's Costume in England. Black, 1965. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 18 others, fashion and costume. (Box) £50-80

Nil

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208 LACROIX, PAUL. Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen Age. [Colour plates.] Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1878. XVIIme Siecle Institutions, Usages et Costumes. Ibid, 1880. 2 vols 4to, later half morocco, patterned cloth boards; ENGLISHWOMAN's Domestic Magazine. New Series, Vols I-II. Beeton, [1860-61]. 2 vols, cloth gilt, coloured fashion plates; and 3 others. (7) £50-80

Nil

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209 BRILLAT-SAVARIN. The Physiology of Taste, introduction by Arthur Machen. Peter Davies, 1925. One of 750 numbered copies. Quarter vellum, marbled boards; OLIVER, Raymond. The French at Table. Michael Joseph, 1967. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and ca. 35 others, food and wine. (2 boxes) £50-100

Nil

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 210

FITZGERALD, Percy. The Garrick Club. Elliot Stock, 1904. 4to, cloth; and 13 others on London clubs. (14) £50-80

Nil

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