Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Lots: 143


The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints. 

Name: Paul Hughes
Email: books@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (143)

 

Lot 1
Plaw (John). Sketches for Country Houses,...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2
Reeve (J. Arthur). A Monograph on the Abbey of...

Sold for £130
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Lot 3
Auction Catalogue. The Ducal Estate of Stowe,...

Sold for £150
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Lot 4
de Ricci (Seymour). A Catalogue of Early...

Not Sold
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Lot 5
Price (Francis). The British Carpenter: or, A...

Sold for £100
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Lot 6
Craig (Edward Gordon). A Production: Being...

Sold for £160
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Lot 7
Ruskin (John). A collection of works by John...

Sold for £320
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Lot 8
Abbeville Press Caracciolo (Maria Teresa) &...

Sold for £250
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Lot 9
Jones (Inigo) & Kent (William). The Designs of...

Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000

Lot 10
['W.M.'] The Queens Closet Opened....

Sold for £480
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Lot 11
Boyd (Julia) edit. Bewick Gleanings: Being...

Sold for £80
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Lot 12
Brett (Simon). The Engraver’s Cut, Thirty-One...

Sold for £130
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Lot 13
Wain (Louis). With Louis Wain in Pussyland...

Sold for £70
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Lot 14
Shakespeare (William). Shakespeare's Comedy,...

Sold for £80
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Lot 15
Upton (Bertha & Florence K.). The Golliwogg's...

Sold for £70
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Lot 16
Rackham (Arthur). Wagner (Richard), The Ring...

Sold for £400
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Lot 17
[Beardsley (Aubrey) et al.]. The Yellow Book,...

Sold for £420
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Lot 18
Powers (Alan) & Russell (James). The Story of...

Sold for £190
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Lot 19
Attwell (Mabel Lucie). Peggy, The Lucie...

Not Sold
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Lot 20
Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Works of Geoffrey...

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Lot 22
Grey (Thomas) & Blake (William). The Poems of...

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Lot 25
Young (Edward). The Complaint: or Night...

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Lot 26
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de). Candide....

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Lot 27
Nicholson (William). An Alphabet. William...

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Lot 28
Milne (A. A.). Now We Are Six. Methuen, 1927,...

Sold for £480
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Lot 29
Aldin (Cecil). A Sporting Garland, pictured by...

Sold for £170
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Lot 31
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, or There and...

Sold for £5,000
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Lot 32
Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Lord of the Rings...

Sold for £6,500
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Lot 33
Peake (Mervyn) - The Gormenghast Trilogy....

Sold for £750
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Lot 34
Le Carre (John) - Signed Copies. A Small Town...

Sold for £380
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Lot 35
Lees-Milne (James). [The Complete Diaries]....

Sold for £170
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Lot 36
Marshall (Paule). Brown Girl, Brownstones. W.H....

Sold for £100
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Lot 37
Bloomfield (Robert). The Farmer's Boy; Rural...

Sold for £120
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Lot 38
Alighieri (Dante). La Divina Commedia or The...

Sold for £60
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Lot 39
Cocker (Edward). The Young Clerks Tutor...

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Lot 40
[Verstegan (Richard)]. A Restitution of...

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Lot 41
Housman (A. E.). A Shropshire Lad. The...

Sold for £500
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Lot 42
Fell (Dr John). A Specimen Of The Several...

Sold for £70
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Lot 43
Fitzgerald (F. Scott). The Bodley Head Scott...

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Lot 44
[Petrarca (Francesco) 1304-1374] [Opere...

Sold for £700
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Lot 45
Scott (Walter). The Lady of the Lake, A Poem....

Sold for £170
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Lot 46
Crucifixion. Lipsius (Justus). Justi Lipsi, De...

Sold for £350
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Lot 47
Mantel (Hilary) - Signed Copies. Bring Up The...

Sold for £200
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Lot 48
Dexter (Colin) - Signed Copies. Last Bus to...

Sold for £320
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Lot 49
Chesterton (G.K.). The Sword of Wood. Elkin...

Sold for £170
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Lot 50
Riccardi Press Scriptorium Classicorum...

Sold for £280
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Lot 52
Robertson (Alec). In the Little Things....

Sold for £320
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Lot 53
Eliot (T.S.). Four Quartets. Faber and Faber,...

Sold for £600
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Lot 54
Sassoon (Siegfried). The Path to Peace,...

Sold for £300
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Lot 55
Coke (Edwardo) [Sir Edward]. The First Part of...

Sold for £320
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Lot 56
Nicolson (William). The English, Scotch, and...

Sold for £750
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Lot 57
Bracton (Henrici de). De Legibus et...

Sold for £190
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Lot 58
Dugdale (William). Origines Juridiciales, or...

Sold for £300
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Lot 59
Antiquarian Law. [Coke, (Sir Edward)], A Booke...

Sold for £650
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Lot 60
Powell (Anthony). [‘A Dance to the Music of...

Sold for £220
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Lot 61
Virgil. The Aeneid. The Folio Society, 2010,...

Sold for £250
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Lot 62
Tolstoy (Leo). War and Peace. The Folio...

Sold for £160
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Lot 63
Pullman (Philip). His Dark Materials: Northern...

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Lot 64
Bronte Sisters. The Works of Charlotte, Emily...

Sold for £480
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Lot 65
Waugh (Evelyn). The Life of the Right Reverend...

Sold for £1,200
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Lot 66
Annual Register. The Annual Register, or a...

Sold for £600
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Lot 67
Toole (John Kennedy). A Confederacy of Dunces....

Sold for £200
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Lot 68
Morrison (Toni). The Bluest Eye. Chatto &...

Sold for £220
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Lot 69
Bindings. A collection of 202 volumes in...

Sold for £180
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Lot 70
Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Nonesuch...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 71
Dickens (Charles). 'The Nonesuch Dickens'. The...

Sold for £380
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Lot 73
Horace - Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Paris:...

Sold for £280
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Lot 74
Virgil - Publius Virgilius Maro. Bucolica,...

Sold for £750
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Lot 75
Fontaine [Jean de La]. Fables de La Fontaine....

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Lot 76
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet], La Henriade...

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Lot 77
Fontaine (Jean de La). Les Amours De Psyche et...

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Lot 78
Virgil - Publius Virgilius Maro. Les...

Sold for £140
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Lot 79
Cazotte [Jacques], Ollivier, Poeme par Cazotte....

Sold for £140
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Lot 80
The Folio Society. Trollope (Anthony), The...

Sold for £400
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Lot 81
Ralegh (Sir Walter). The History of the World,...

Sold for £380
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Lot 82
Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve...

Sold for £280
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Lot 83
Solander Boxes. Ten large solander boxes,...

Sold for £380
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Lot 84
Early Indentures, autographs, etc. A small...

Sold for £80
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Lot 85
H.M. Queen Elizabeth [The Queen Mother]....

Sold for £120
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Lot 86
H.M. Queen Victoria - Autograph. A portrait...

Sold for £400
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Lot 87
Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer) -...

Sold for £450
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Lot 88
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Baden-Powell,...

Sold for £1,000
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Lot 89
Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon par I'Image...

Sold for £190
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Lot 90
Hanna (Henry). The Pals at Suvla Bay, Being...

Sold for £160
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Lot 91
Shipping. A very good collection of Shipping...

Sold for £420
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Lot 92
Fell (Alfred). The Early Iron Industry of...

Sold for £300
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Lot 94
Northumberland. Hutchinson (W.). A View of...

Sold for £180
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Lot 95
Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of England...

Sold for £300
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Lot 96
Armstrong (Mostyn John). An Actual Survey of...

Sold for £250
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Lot 97
Seally (John) and Lyons (Israel) A Complete...

Sold for £220
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Lot 98
De Bouge [Jean-Baptiste]. Carte de L’Europe. M....

Sold for £350
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