£475
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair | 683
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Leyden, John The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, Fasque bookplate; Fawkes, Francis The Idylliums of Theocritus. London: printed for the Author by Dryden Leach, 1767. 8vo, portrait, without the advert leaf, contemporary calf neatly rebacked, bookplate of Elizabeth Burton; Lockhart, John Gibson Ancient Spanish Ballads: Historical and Romantic. Edinburgh: William Blackwood / London: T. Cadell, 1823. First edition, small 4to, without half-title, contemporary green morocco gilt, a little marginal dampstaining and slight foxing, inkstain to rear cover; Dickens, Charles Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, 3 engraved frontispieces, contemporary half calf gilt, some fading to spines, a little foxing; Petronius Arbiter, Gaius Titus Satyricon... Amsterdam: Janson Weisberg, 1743. 2 volumes, small 4to, additional engraved title-page, half-calf, bookplate of Henry David Forbes of Balgownie; Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. [London: James Purser], 1737. 3 volumes, 8vo, portrait, contemporary calf gilt, bookplates and ownership inscriptions of Sir Robert Laurie; Croft, P.J. Autograph Poetry in the English Language. London: Cassell, 1973. 2 volumes, 4to, one of 1500 copies, dust-jackets and slip-case; Thomas, Alan G. Great Books and Book Collectors. London: Chancellor Press, 1975; MacLean, Ruari Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings in Cloth and Leather. London: Gordon Fraser, 1974; Macdonald, Angus and A.D. Morrison-Low A Heavenly Library: treasures from the Royal Observatory’s Crawford Collection. Edinburgh, 1994; Gray, Alasdair The Book of Prefaces. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 (16)