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Summer Book Sale - Day One
Live
Venue address
Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
London
W1S 1PP
United Kingdom

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Summer Book Sale - Day One

Auction dates
28 Aug 2014 13:00 BST
Auction currency
GBP
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There are 370 lots within this auction
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Willdenow (Carl Ludwig) - Historia Amaranthorum,  first edition, first issue  with title dated 1790,
380 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Wood (Searles V.) - A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, 6 parts in 3 vol. (including 2 part first
300 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Wood (William) - General Conchology, or a Description of Shells,  60 hand-coloured engraved
190 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Cardus (Neville) and John Arolott. - The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints,  number 21
320 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Chevallier Tayler (Albert) - A group of 14 cricketers, including W.G. Grace, Denton, Warner, Rhodes,
320 GBP
500 - 750 GBP
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Cupples (George) - Scotch Deer-Hounds and their Masters,  first edition  ,   frontispiece
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Racing Illustrated, 3 vol., illustrations, some spotting and browning  (Henry,  editor  )   Racing
50 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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[Surtees (Richard Smith)] - [Sporting Novels], 6 vol., comprising   Handley Cross  ,   Hawbuck
180 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Walton (Izaak & Charles Cotton) - The Lea and Dove Edition, Being the 100th Edition of the
500 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Wisden (John) - Cricketers` Almanack 1888, 1895, 1898, 1903, 1905, 1911 and 1914,  the first newly
380 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Wisden (John) - Cricketers` Almanack 1923 - 1938   inclusive, the first in original cloth, lightly
550 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Wisden (John) - Cricketers` Almanack 1939 - 1945,   original linen, lightly worn   9  &  A,
450 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Wisden (John) - Cricketers` Almanack 1946-2000   inclusive,   28   issues in the original printed
200 GBP
350 - 450 GBP
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Barclay (John) - A Series of Engravings, representing the Bones of the Human Skeleton; with the
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Berzelius (Jons Jacob) - Trattato Elemntare di Chimica Teorica e Pratica, 4 vol. in 2,   first
220 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Darwin (Charles) - The Descent of Man, 2vol.,   eighth thousand, illustrations, contemporary calf,
300 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Gavin (C.M.) - Royal Yachts,  one of 1000 copies, plates, some colour and tipped in, original
220 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Gerhardt (Charles) - Traité de Chimie Organique. 4 vol.,   errata at end of vol 2, spotting and
220 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Gooch (Benjamin) - Medical and Chirurgical Observations,  engraved title, 4 folding engraved plates,
140 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Henry (William) -  Manuale di Chimica Teorica,  2 folding engraved plates, some browning,
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Photographic Lunar Atlas, numerous plates, many folding, text booklet  (G.P.,  editor  )
160 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Lindley (John) and William Hutton. - The Fossil Flora of Great Britain, 3 vol.,   first edition  ,
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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MacCulloch (J.) - Memoirs to His Majesty`s Treasury Respecting a Geological Survey of Scotland,
400 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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Macquer (Pierre Joseph) - Elemens de Chymie-Pratique, 2 vol.,    half-titles, engraved title-
200 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Hoffman and Johann Benjamin Boehmer Dissertatio de Matricibus Metallorum  Hoffman (Johann Georg) and
240 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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The Silurian System, founded on Geological Researches, 2 vol  (  Sir   Roderick Impey)    The
900 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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New Bath Guide (The): or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family A New Edition,   wood-engraved plates,
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Russell (Richard) - A Dissertation concerning the use of Sea Water In Diseases of the Glands,  ,
0 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Senebier (Jean) - Expériences pour servir a L`Histoire de la Génération des Animaux et des
120 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Avermaete (Roger) - La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L`Occident,  limited edition, numerous woodcut
70 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Carron Company - Architects` Catalogue,  adhesion mark to colour plate p.375, supplement loosely
380 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Chamberlaine (J.) - Original Designs of the most Celebrated Masters... in His Majesty`s Collection,
600 GBP
800 - 1,000 GBP
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Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.- - Simple directions in needle-work and cutting out,
2,400 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Cy Twombly : Fifty Years Of Works On Paper , original boards, New York  (Julie  curator  )    Cy
650 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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[De Kay (Charles)] - The Art Work of Louis C.Tiffany,  one of 492 copies on Japon from an edition
800 GBP
800 - 1,000 GBP
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La Plume: Revue Littéraire & Artistique Bi-Mensuelle, vol.1-10 in 9, vol  (Léon,  editor  )     La
1,500 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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artist ).- Pène du Bois Edward Hopper , from the Whitney Museum of American...  artist  ).- Pène
550 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Lady James Stuart (née Hannah Tighe, c.1800-1872) - A sketchbook of mostly Irish and Scottish
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Lady James Stuart (née Hannah Tighe, c.1800-1872) - A grand tour sketchbook, a tour through
380 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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The Works, 2 vol., occasional light spotting but generally clean and bright  ( Sir   Joshua)   The
100 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Turner Gallery (The), 6 vol.,   engraved additional titles and 120 plates, gutte percha perished,
170 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Waring (J. B.) - Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862,
280 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Aldin (Cecil).- - Emanuel (Walter) A Dog Day, or The Angel in the House,   first edition  ,   28
150 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Andersen (Hans Christian) - Eventyr,  fortalte for børn  , 3 parts in one,   each part first
9,000 GBP
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Clarke (Emma Chichester) artist.- - Harvey (Andrew) `No Diamonds, No Hat, No Honey`, Lydia, Fernando
190 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)],
280 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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420 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Dulac (Edmund).- Shakespeare (William) - The Tempest [2 copies],  first trade edition,  40 tipped-in
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Grahame (Kenneth) - Wind in the Willows,  first edition  ,   half-title, frontispiece by Graham
0 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Grahame (Kenneth) - The Golden Age, 1928; Dream Days, 1930,   each one of 275 copies, frontispieces,
450 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Hogarth (William) - Hogarth Restored. The Whole Works,  lacking frontispiece, 106 of 111 images on
220 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Milne (A.A.) - When we were very young,  first edition,     issue with numeral `ix` present on
450 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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Milne (A.A.) & Ernest H.Shepard - Four Drawings Illustrating Poems from @When We Were Very
420 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Nesbit (Edith) - Songs of the Cornfield,  printed presentation page (not filled in), lithographed
130 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Nesbit (Edith) - The Railway Children,  frontispiece, pictorial title, plates, 10pp. advertisements,
480 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Nesbit (Edith) - The Story of the Five Rebellious Dolls,  first edition  ,   pictorial title, 8
190 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Oldra (F.) artist - Chanay (A.) La Parodie de Carmen, etc.  collection of 12 pen, ink and
380 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Rackham (Arthur).- Shakespeare (William) - A Midsummer-Night`s Dream,  first Rackham edition  ,
350 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Rackham (Arthur).- - Arthur Rackham`s Book of Pictures, with an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller
240 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Rackham (Arthur).- - Dickens (Charles) The Chimes,  one of 1500 copies  ,   but this unnumbered
150 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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