23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
65
Waugh (Evelyn).
The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox …..
Chapman & Hall, 1959, first edition, one of twenty-nine copies printed for presentation by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author to Laurence Eyres (dated 1959), recipient’s bookplate, plates as called for, top edge gilt, original buckram cloth (faint evidence of spine label, number to fly leaf, contents Fine);
idem, Vile Bodies.
Chapman & Hall, 1930, ninth impression, signed presentation inscription from the author (dated 1955), red tape reinforcement to head and tail of spine, the ends obvious on pastedown, original cloth;
idem, The Loved One.
Chapman & Hall, no date [1948], first edition, dust jacket (priced 7s.6d.). (3)
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £200 - £400
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.
Viewing
Thursday 22nd August 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
Sell one like this
If you've got a similar item to sell, complete the valuation form below and one of our experts will get in touch.
