Tolkien, J.R.R. and miscellaneous
18 volumes
£2,772
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First American edition, original blue cloth;
Idem. The Two Towers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First American edition, original blue cloth, very worn dustwrapper;
Idem. The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955, First edition, [1st impression], folding map, original red cloth, dustwrapper price clipped and split at fold, slightly frayed and slightly soiled;
Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village. London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1824. 8vo, contemporary half calf;
Moore, Thomas. The Epicurean. 1827. Third edition, 12mo, contemporary half calf;
Smith, J.E. and Mr Sowerby. Supplement to The English Botany. London 1849, volume 4 only, hand-coloured engraved plates numbered 2868-2960, contemporary calf gilt;
Ludlow, F. "Birds of Bhutan, Sikkim and S.E. Tibet, 1927-50" (title from spine). 8vo, extracted articles from the Ibis, plates, folding maps, brown buckram lettered in gilt;
Seton-Thompson, Ernest. Lives of the Hunted. London: D. Nutt, 1901. 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth;
Chrystal, Major R.A. Angling at Lochboisdale South Uist. London, 1939. 8vo, original cloth;
Skues, G.E.M. The Way of a Trout with a Fly. London, 1935. Third edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth;
Schomberg, R.C.F. Kafirs and Glaciers. Travels in Chitral. 1938. 8vo, plates, folding map, NLS deaccession stamp to endpaper;
Kearton, Richard. With Nature and a Camera. 1904. 8vo, illustrations, original cloth, rubbed;
Wade, Rev. W.M. Delineations, historical, topographical and descriptive of the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places of Scotland. Paisley, 1822. 12mo, original boards, uncut, rebacked with cloth;
Smith, Rev. Gerard. The Ferns of Derbyshire, illustrated from Nature. London: Bemrose, 1869. 8vo, 6th edition, additional coloured lithographed title, coloured plates, later wrappers;
Gray, Alasdair. Lanark. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1981. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper;
Gould, B.J. The Jewel in the Lotus. 1957, 8vo, original cloth;
Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy. Jock of the Bushveld. 1941. 8vo, original cloth;
Dandy, J.E. and G. Taylor. Studies of British Potamogetons 1-3. Extracted from The Journal of Botany, August 1938-40, 5 extracts in a ring binder, bookplate of Sir George Taylor, blue cloth, sold not subject to return