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28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Featuring the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
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Africa and Asia
Collection of travel narratives, 19th century
£1,071
LOT 2
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Allom, Thomas
China, in a Series of Views
£1,008
LOT 3
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Australia
Manuscript order book, commandant's office, Port Arthur penal settlement, 1839-44
£10,080
LOT 4
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Craig, Eric (1829-1923)
'New Zealand Ferns' [cover-title], c.1870-80
£504
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[India]
Ajaib-o-gharaib or the Wonders of the World
£3,024
LOT 6
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India and Pakistan
Photograph album of views in the Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, c.1875
£882
LOT 7
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Indian Mutiny
Group of works on the Siege of Lucknow ex libris Thomas Knight, defender of the garrison
£4,284
LOT 8
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Lear, Edward
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, etc.
£530
LOT 9
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Ludolf, Hiob
A New History of Ethiopia
£819
LOT 10
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Meares, John
Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America
£1,890
LOT 11
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Middle East and Asia
Collection of travel narratives ex libris Lt S. C. R. Duffy
£1,512
LOT 12
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Miniature atlas
Atlas minima, comprehended in 30 Maps
£353
LOT 14
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Scotland
Collection of early travel narratives
£819
LOT 15
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Tod, James
Travels in Western India
£1,386
LOT 16
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Wild, Frank
Shackleton's Last Voyage
£1,764
LOT 17
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Wilson, Francesca
Rambles in Northern India
£1,008
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Travel
19th-century works on various regions
£756
LOT 19
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Agriculture
Group of English county surveys, 18th-19th century
£756
LOT 20
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Agriculture
Group of Scottish county surveys, 18th-19th century
£945
LOT 21
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Agriculture
Collection of treatises, 18th and early-19th century
£882
LOT 22
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Agriculture
Collection of treatises, 18th-19th century
£1,512
LOT 23
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Agriculture
Collection of illustrated treatises, 19th century
£1,071
LOT 24
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Agriculture
Collection of Scottish county surveys and other treatises, 18th-19th century
£693
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Howe, James
The Breeds of our Different Domestic Animals
£1,512
LOT 26
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Besler, Basilius
Hortus Eystettensis
£1,890
LOT 27
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Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
£3,024
LOT 28
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Darwin, Charles
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
£693
LOT 29
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Darwin, Charles
Collection of early editions
£2,142
LOT 30
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Darwin, Charles
Collection of works
£2,016
LOT 31
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
London, 1810-1829
£1,071
LOT 33
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[Glasse, Hannah]
The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy ... By a Lady
£756
LOT 34
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Carter, Susannah
The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete Woman's Cook
£227
LOT 35
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[Newton, Isaac] - The Royal Society
The Philosophical Transactions
£2,394
LOT 36
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Vesalius, Andreas
De humani corporis fabrica epitome
£1,260
LOT 37
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Dasent, George Webbe
Popular Tales from the Norse. Author's corrected Proof
£2,520
LOT 38
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[Hunt, Leigh]
The Rebellion of the Beasts
£693
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Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
£4,284
LOT 40
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[Polidori, John]
The Vampyre; a Tale
£5,292
LOT 41
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
£630
LOT 42
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Wilde, Oscar
The Harlot's House. A Poem [ex libris Lady Alfred Douglas]
£756
LOT 43
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Literature and theology
Collection of works, 17th-19th century
£530
LOT 44
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Economics
Collection of works on banking and monetary theory
£1,134
LOT 45
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[Book of Common Prayer, in Latin verse]
Liturgica sacra ... deducta a Rand[olph] Gilpin
£693
LOT 46
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[Jesuit exile press]
Two Treatises of Mentall Prayer, and of the Preference of God
£580
LOT 47
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Baskerville, John (printer)
The Holy Bible
£404
LOT 48
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Calvin, John
Opera omnia; in novem tomos digesta
£819
LOT 49
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift
£2,394
LOT 50
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James IV, King of Scots (1473-1513)
Letter signed to William Graham, future earl of Montrose, Edinburgh, 8th May [1500]
£3,024
LOT 51
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Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
Autograph letter signed to Richard Norton (1615-1691), 3rd April 1648
£17,640
LOT 52
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Scots law
Set of manuscript notes from David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1790
£693
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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Autograph letter signed, Broadstairs, 4th August 1849
£2,520
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Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
Collection of autograph letters to Ada Hartnell, c.1873-81
£5,544
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Autograph sentiment signed, 1865
£1,512
LOT 56
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India (North-West Frontier Province) - Tirah Expedition - Dargai Heights - Ashanti Campaign
Second Boer War - First World War - British Military History - Gordon Highlanders
£4,536
LOT 57
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Eminent Victorians
The Kinnear family autograph album
£6,048
LOT 58
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Freud, Lucian (1922-2011)
Autograph letter signed, 4 Delamere Terrace, [London], c,1960
£819
LOT 59
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Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy (née Bouvier, 1929-1994)
Autograph letter signed to Stanislaw 'Stas' Radziwill, c.1959-74
£504
LOT 60
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Attributed to Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894)
Album of salt prints from calotype negatives, c.1846-8
£85,200
LOT 61
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The Art Union [William Henry Fox Talbot]
Monthly journal of the Fine Arts
£1,260
LOT 62
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Annan, Thomas, Photographer
The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry
£630
LOT 63
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Lehnert and Landrock
Desert views
£328
LOT 64
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Kay, John
A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings
£429
LOT 65
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Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)
The Paintings of L. S. Lowry
£580
LOT 66
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Nicholson, William
An Alphabet
£882
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Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)
Examples of the engraved portraiture of the sixteenth century
£404
LOT 67
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Spender, Stephen, and David Hockney
China Diary
£2,772
LOT 68
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Wolfe, Edward RA (1897-1982)
Song of Songs. Twelve Illustrations
£189
LOT 69
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Searle, Ronald (1920-2011)
The Man Who Suffers From Neck-Tumour, Anglo-Saxon Era
£5,040
LOT 70
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Watkins, Dudley D. (1907-1969)
Oor Wullie, original pen and ink sketch, 1940
£630
LOT 71
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Adams, Richard
Watership Down
£2,772
LOT 72
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Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility
£1,008
LOT 73
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Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice. With ... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
£1,134
LOT 74
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Dulac, Edmund (illustrator)
Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
£1,071
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Lewis, C. S.
Prince Caspian
£555
LOT 77
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Lewis, C. S.
Prince Caspian [and:] The Magician's Nephew
£404
LOT 78
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Nielsen, Kay (illustrator)
In Powder and Crinoline
£1,260
LOT 79
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Rowling, J. K. (1965-)
Deluxe set of the Harry Potter books, inscribed in each volume
£7,560
LOT 80
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Rowling, J. K. (1965-)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, signed by the author
£882
LOT 81
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Rowling, J. K. (1965-)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, inscribed by the author
£819
LOT 82
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Rowling, J. K. (1965-)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed by cast members
£404
LOT 83
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Children's and illustrated books
Large collection of works, many signed
£3,024
LOT 84
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[Rowling, J. K.] Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo's Calling, uncorrected proof copy
£530
LOT 85
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Douglas, Norman
Collection of works
£454
LOT 86
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Fleming, Ian
Dr No
£378
LOT 87
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Fleming, Ian
Dr No
£756
LOT 88
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MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
Collection of signed copies
£479
LOT 89
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O'Brian, Patrick
23 first editions by Patrick O'Brian, 1 American edition, and 6 others
£2,520
LOT 90
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Folio Society
Group of deluxe facsimiles
£1,386
LOT 91
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Tragara Press
25 volumes
£378
LOT 92
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Tragara Press
Large collection of proof copies from the publisher's archive
£1,071
LOT 93
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Tragara Press
Large collection of limited editions, poetry and Edward Thomas interest
£1,103
LOT 94
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Tragara Press
Collection of limited editions relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle
£2,016
LOT 95
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Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)
Collection of proof wood-engravings for Golden Cockerel Press publications, [1924-30]
£630
LOT 96
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Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)
Collection of proof wood-engravings for Over the Reefs, [1948]
£504
LOT 97
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Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)
Group of wood-engraved proofs
£530
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Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
Carved presentation plaque on wood, 1908
£6,930
LOT 99
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Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
Divine Lovers, carved woodblock, [1936]
£5,544
LOT 100
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Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
Lovers, carved woodblock, c.1926
£5,040
LOT 101
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Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
Bookplate of the 5th Earl Cawdor, carved woodblock [1936]
£3,024
LOT 102
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Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
Girl Sitting on Branch, carved woodblock, c.1926
£4,032