23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Chesterton (G.K.).
The Sword of Wood.
Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928, numbered limited edition of 530 copies, signed by the author, 26 pages, number one of the ‘Woburn Books’ series, bookplate of Laurence Eyres, decorative endpapers, original decorative boards with small monastery library label to front board and taped shelf reference to spine;
idem, Ubi Ecclesia.
Faber & Faber, 1929, numbered limited edition of 400 large-paper copies, signed by the author, illustrated by Diana Murphy, unpaginated, some light foxing, bookplate of Laurence Eyres, original boards with small monastery library label to front board and taped shelf reference to spine;
idem, Greybeards At Play. Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen.
R. Brimley Johnson, 1900, first edition, signed by the author on the half title, xii, 102, [x] pages, bookplate of Laurence Eyres, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (worn edges) with small monastery library label to front board and taped shelf reference to spine;
idem, London, with Ten Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn …, 1914, 19 pages including mounted frontis plus ten mounted plates, bookplate of Laurence Eyres, original cloth-backed boards with small monastery library label to front board and taped shelf reference to spine. (4)
Sold for £170
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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