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3:00 AM PT - Feb 2nd, 2012

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Bibliophile Sale

318 items

Lot Description Estimates
(GBP)
1
Lot 1
America.- Stuart (Martinus) De Mensch, zoo als hij

voorkomt op den Bekenden Aardbol,6 vol., engraved vignette titles...

200
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300
2
Lot 2
-. Heartt

(John E., editor) The Story of a Celebration: Bridgehampton, Long...

40
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60
3
Lot 3
(Richard D. Editor) The Life and Letters of Captai


-. Webb (Richard D. Editor) The Life and Letters of Captain John...

150
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200
4
Lot 4
China.- Collection (A) of famous paintings of the

Sung Dynasty,text in Chinese, English, French and German...

100
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150
5
Lot 5
(Sir Marc Aurel) Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, 'che


-. Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, 'cheaper...

200
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300
6
Lot 6
Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Government Exhibi


0 Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Government Exhibits for the...

40
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60
7
Lot 7
India.- Sonderlinge Reysen van Joseph, den geboore

n Indiaan,engraved title-vignette, folding plate, modern marbled...

100
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150
8
Lot 8
-. Nolan (E.H.) The History of the British Empire

in India,8 divisional vol., double-page maps, engraved plates...

300
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500
9
Lot 9
-. Archaeological Survey of India. Annual Report 1

902-03 [and] 1912-13,plates and illustrations, sterling price...

100
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150
10
Lot 10
Italy.- [Schott (Franz)] Italy, in its original Gl

ory, Ruine and Revival,... Trans. Edmund Warcupp,first English...

120
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180
11
Lot 11
Japan.- Anto (Ryutato) Kimono Designs Pattern Book

,numerous woodblock designs, bound Japanese-style into stiff...

60
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80
12
Lot 12
-. Mounsey (Augustus H.) The Satsuma Rebellion

,first edition, half-title, frontispiece and folding map, 32pp...

120
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180
13
Lot 13
Levant.- Schliemann (Heinrich) Troy and its Remain

s,first English edition, wood-engraved and lithograph plates, some...

100
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150
14
Lot 14
Low Countries.- Cornette (A.H.) Iconographie van A

ntwerpen,plates and maps, loosely inserted in original plain...

150
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200
15
Lot 15
Mediterranean.- Baedeker (Karl) Dalmatien und die

Adria,first edition, folding colour maps and plans, frontispiece...

100
-
150
16
Lot 16
-. Wilde (W.R.) Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira,

Teneriffe...,second edition, 2 engraved plans hand-coloured in...

120
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180
17
Lot 17
Carne (John) Recollections of Travel in the East

,first edition, half-title, some foxing, contemporary half calf, a...

150
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200
18
Lot 18
Dapper (Olfert) Naukeurige Beschryving van gantsch

Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant,2 parts in 1, 2 engraved maps...

400
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600
19
Lot 19
Farshchian (Mahmoud) [Paintings] Volume II

,colour illustrations, one plate loose (?for framing, slightly...

100
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150
20
Lot 20
Kirsten (Peter) Kirs- Grammatices Arabicae

part 1 only (of 2), engraved title, lacking upper corner, a few...

300
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400
21
Lot 21
Prime (Samuel Irenaeus) Travels in Europe and the

East: A Year in England...Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and...

40
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60
22
Lot 22
Mountaineering.- Norton (E. F.) The Fight for Ever

est: 1924,first edition, folding map, colour and photo plates...

100
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150
23
Lot 23
-. Workman (Fanny Bullock and William Hunter) Ice-

Bound Heights of the Mustagh,first edition, 2 folding maps at end...

180
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220
24
Lot 24
Pacific.-Nordhoff (Charles) and James Norman Hall.

Mutiny!,1933; Men Against the Sea, 1934; Pitcarirn's Island...

120
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180
25
Lot 25
Russia.- Jablonowski (Aleksander) Atlas historyczn

y Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej,including 17 maps, colour lithographs...

100
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150
26
Lot 26
-. Simpson (William) The Seat of the War in the Ea

st,First and Second Series, 2 vol., tinted lithographed vignette...

1,000
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1,500
27
Lot 27
-. Schnitzler (J. -H) La Russie, la Pologne et la

Finlande,half-title, 3 lithographed maps, 2 folding, contemporary...

80
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120
28
Lot 28
Tibet.- Bell

(Sir Charles) Tibet Past & Present, 1924; The People of Tibet...

100
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150
29
Lot 29
-. Landor (A. Henry Savage) In the Forbidden Land

an Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan...

100
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150
30
Lot 30
Turkey.- Walsh

(Rev. Robert) Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to...

300
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400
31
Lot 31
West Indies.- Lefroy

(Maj.-Gen. J.H.) Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement...

400
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600
32
Lot 32
World.- Dufour (Adolphe Hippolyte) Atlas Universel

, Physique, Historique et Politique, de Géographie Ancienne et...

100
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150
33
Lot 33
Cary (J.) Cary's Traveller's Companion

,engraved title, lacking the top portion of the printed title...

100
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150
34
Lot 34
Hampshire.- Brannon (Philip) The Southampton Drawi

ng Book or Graphic Delineations of Southampton & its Neighbourhood...

200
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300
35
Lot 35
(Rev. George Newenham) Scenes in Ireland, with His


Wright (Rev. George Newenham) Scenes in Ireland, with Historical...

100
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150
36
Lot 36
Kent.- Quitclaim of John Depedene of Shoreham, Ke


Kent.- Quitclaim of John Depedene of Shoreham, Kent, Releasing to...

80
-
120
37
Lot 37
Lake District.- West (Thomas) A Guide to the Lakes

in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire,sixth edition, folding...

120
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180
38
Lot 38
London.- Harrison (Walter)

A New and Universal History, Description and Survey...of London...

300
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400
39
Lot 39
-. Pennant (Thomas) Some Account of London

,third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title vignette...

75
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100
40
Lot 40
Norfolk.- Blomefield (Francis)

An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...

300
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400
41
Lot 41
Palmer (Wm. T. & A. Heaton Cooper) The English Lak

es,colour plates, original decorated cloth, rubbed...

100
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150
42
Lot 42
Scotland.- Leighton (John M.) Strath-Clutha or the

Beauties of the Clyde,engraved vignette title and 79 views on...

100
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150
43
Lot 43
Wales.- Roscoe (Thomas) Wandering in South Wales,

including the River Wye,43 engraved plates, additional pictorial...

80
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120
44
Lot 44
Yorkshire.- Yorkshire Archaeological and Topograph

ical Journal (The),vol.1-23 only (vol.5 in modern facsimile...

150
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200
45
Lot 45
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or a New Sur

vey of Husbandry,first edition, title in facsimile (?), staining...

100
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150
46
Lot 46
Bradley (Richard) The Gentleman and Farmer's Guide

for the Increase and Improvement of Cattle,first edition...

250
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350
47
Lot 47
Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault. [Maison Rust

ique, or the Countrie Farme],translated by Richard Surflet, first...

150
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200
48
Lot 48
Maxwell (Robert) The Practical Husbandman

,first edition, author's authentication signature to title verso...

200
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300
49
Lot 49
Richards (John) The Gentleman's Steward and Tenant

s of Manors Instructed,first edition, half-title, folding engraved...

100
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150
50
Lot 50
Varlo (Charles) A Treatise on Agriculture, intitul

ed the Yorkshire Farmer,first edition, one folding engraved plate...

300
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500
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