23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Robertson (Alec).
In the Little Things.
Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1969, one of 40 copies produced for private circulation out of a total printing of 300, presentation inscription from the author, abbey library stamp to limitation page and bookplate to front pastedown, printed on Japanese paper, original cloth;
Belloc (Hilaire). A Remaining Christmas.
Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976, limited edition of 400 copies, abbey library bookplate, original wraps;
Forrest (G.F.). Misfits, A Book of Parodies.
Oxford: Frank Harvey, 1905, first edition, bookplate of Laurence Eyres, initialled binding;
Barker (Ernest). W. P. Ker, A Scholar.
Cambridge: Nicholas Barker at the St Nicolas Press, 1953, numbered limited edition of 200, presentation inscription from the author, abbey bookplate, original wraps;
Schnitzler (Arthur). Rhapsody, A Dream Novel.
Constable, 1928, limited edition of 100, illustrated, abbey bookplate to front pastedown, original vellum-backed boards (shelf label scar to lower spine);
Bandry (Anne) & Day (Geoffrey) edits. The Clockmakers Outcry Against the Author of the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.
Winchester College Printing Soc., 1991, limited edition of 200 copies, prospectus inserted, abbey bookplate, original quarter cloth;
Bunyard (Edward A.). The Anatomy of Dessert.
Dulau & Co., 1929, signed limited edition of 1000, frontis, top edge gilt, original cloth.
With seventeen others including signed presentation copies [lot not collated]. (24)
Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
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.
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