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
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 3 - Auction Catalogue. The Ducal Estate of Stowe,...

Sold for £150
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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 13 - Wain (Louis). With Louis Wain in Pussyland...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £60 - £100

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 20 - Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Works of Geoffrey...

Sold for £350
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Lot 22 - Grey (Thomas) & Blake (William). The Poems of...

Sold for £180
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Lot 26 - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de). Candide....

Sold for £200
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Lot 27 - Nicholson (William). An Alphabet. William...

Sold for £380
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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
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000

Lot 32 - Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Lord of the Rings...

Sold for £6,500
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000

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 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...

Sold for £100
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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,...

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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...

Sold for £300
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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
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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...

Sold for £220
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Lot 78 - Virgil - Publius Virgilius Maro. Les...

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

Sold for £400
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 81 - Ralegh (Sir Walter). The History of the World,...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 82 - Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 83 - Solander Boxes. Ten large solander boxes,...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £50 - £80

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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