£300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair | 683
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906. 4to, 50 mounted plates by Arthur Rackham, original red pictorial cloth gilt, one plate lacking captioned tissue guard, first plate and half-title detached, spotting to preliminary leaves, spine worn; Rackham, Arthur Some British Ballads. [c.1919], 4to, 16 coloured mounted plates, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, slight offsetting from tissue guards to text, spine slightly discoloured and slightly rubbed; Irving, Washington Rip van Winkle. London, 1917. 4to, 24 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, original pictorial boards, light dampstain to lower inner margin, binding stained and worn at head of spine; Worsley, Sir Richard The History of the Isle of Wight. London, 1781. First edition, 4to, folding map and 31 plates, some double-page, contemporary calf, worn, lacks upper cover; Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens, displayed in a series of Views, or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth century. London, 1829. 4to, additional etched title on india paper and 88 plates on india paper, original cloth, binding defective and loose; Wooster, David Alpine Plants. London, 1874. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 108 chromolithographed plates, original cloth, worn; and 1 other in red morocco (a collection of plates from American Scenery, Canadian Scenery, Scenery of Ireland, Fisher's View of Syria, the Holy Land &c.) (8)