Lot 276
Miscellaneous collection
including Beatrix Potter and leather bound albums
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt;
Nightingale, Florence - album with possible family connections. Small album including postcard annotated: "Florence Nightingale's beloved home" and one of Lea Hurst with the annotation: "in remembrance of Lea Hurst, Louisa Shaw Nightingale, 9th Oct. 1904";
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, New Edition. London: Ward, Lock & Company Ltd., 1888. 20 x 14cm, original red half-calf over green cloth boards, corners bumped, front joint detaching, small area of loss lower spine;
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. Fifth edition, 8vo, original calf binding, spine worn with some loss to head, corners bumped, title page laid down onto linen, owner's plate to paste-down endpaper, some dust staining;
Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, dust-jacket price-clipped;
Faulkner, William. Knight's Gambit. London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. First UK edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped;
[Johns, W.E.] Ace High. London: The Ace Publishing Company, [n.d.] 8vo, original boards;
Blakston, W.A., Swaysland, W. and August F. Wiener, FZS. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., (n.d.). 4to, 56 colour plates, original green cloth with gilt decoration, g.e., boards bumped and scratched, front board detaching, owner's label to past-down endpaper;
Potter, Beatrix. Ginger & Pickles. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First edition, 8vo, original boards worn and detaching, historic tape repair to front joint;
Idem. The Tale of Ginger & Pickles. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., (n.d.) Early copy of the larger printing size, small 8vo, original boards slightly discoloured, head and tail of spine bumped;
Idem. The Roly-Poly Pudding. London: Frederick Warne & Co., (n.d.). Early edition (first?), 8vo, lacking title page, original boards bumped and faded, pages yellowed and several torn, dust staining and pencil marks throughout;
Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, (n.d.). Eighth edition, 15 x 22.5cm, original half calf illustrated boards, some foxing, joints broken;
Heward, Constance. Amerliaranne and the Green Umbrella. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1954. Original boards worn, spine faded, endpapers foxed, some dust staining;
Reina, Tomaso. Prediche Quaresimali. Rome: Franceso Corbelletti, 1649. 4to, contemporary limp vellum wormed and cockled, free endpapers and title page wormed, intermittent dust-staining;
10 theological pamphlets, 17th century, disbound;
small red calf-bound album of early 20th-century travel and school/university photographs, 16 x 11.5 x 2.5cm;
group of portrait cabinet cards, including one of Queen Victoria;
tooled calf-bound album of cartes de visite and photographs, 19th century, a few small tears, joints detaching, boards bumped; and five further similar albums, including one with photographs of Ian Lorimer in ceremonial attire and several other family photographs;
4 albums of early 20th century scraps, postcards and greetings cards;
and 10 others