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Auction date Friday, 17 June 2022 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Friday 17th June at 10.30am

Including property from the library of a remarkable collector of English literature, who sought out important association copies and first editions of the works of Hardy, Lawrence, Austen, Fleming, Tolkien, Milne, Trollope et al (Lots 1-49).

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
73	HOUSMAN, LAURENCE: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, red three quarter leather binding; sold together with Browning, Robert; Pippa Passes; & Men & Women, illus. Eleanor…	£150 - £200	£160	View
74	HUTCHINS, REV.: THE HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET second edition, four volumes, with a copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Ghedi for the County, corrected, augmented and improved by R. Gough, extra illustrated beyond the original 196 plates…	£1,500 - £2,000	-	View
75	HUTCHINS, JOHN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET volumes I and II, printed by Bowyer and Nichols 1774, rebound in gilt tooled full red calf	£600 - £800	-	View
76	HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, 'The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved By William Shipp And James Whitworth Hodson', Volumes I-IV, published 1861-1870, Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons (4)	£200 - £400	£100	View
77	IBSEN, HENRIK AND RACKHAM, ARTHUR 'Peer Gynt' limited edition of 460 copies signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 1, publ. George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., London, 1936, publishers full vellum, front board and spine stamped in gilt,…	£400 - £800	£1,200	View
78	KITCHINER, WILLIAM: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE new edition, printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co, London, 1824, blue card binding	£60 - £80	£40	View
79	LAWRENCE, T.E: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1935, brown cloth binding with dustwrapper and sold together with a Lawrence of Arabia Memorial leaflet	£100 - £150	£240	View
80	LEECH, JOHN: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER series I-IV, published by Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, two volumes with three quarter leather binding; sold together with a cloth bound copy of the First Series published by Bradbury, Agnew &amp…	£150 - £200	-	View
81	LELAND, JOHN., THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND THE ANTIQUARY., 'In Nine Volumes', 'The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition alfo of a General Index.', Volumes I-IX, published 1745, Oxford, Printed at the Theatre; with…	£200 - £400	£420	View
82	THE CICELY LUSHINGTON ARCHIVE - AN EXTRAORDINARY STUDY OF THE BIRDS OF CEYLON BY THE ORNITHOLOGIST CICELY LUSHINGTON (1903-1987) comprising: a working draft of 'Bird Life in Ceylon', three folios containing 74 large format watercolours, approximately 40 sketches and a small quantity of a single sheet article by Lushington…	£2,000 - £3,000	£5,400	View
83	LUBBOCK, J.G. ' The Sphere of Rocks and Water' signed copy, number 9 from the edition of 80, publ. Bertram Rota, London, designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, hand-bound by George Percival at Leicester, colour…	£100 - £200	-	View
84	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE 'The Garden Party' with coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin, Verone Press, London, number 627 of the edition of 1200, Small quarto decorated pale green cloth. Red leather label to the spine, lettered in gilt,…	£100 - £200	-	View
85	MASSON, FREDERIC: NAPOLEON ET SON FILS No. 728/800 of the 'Blanchet Freres & Kleber' edition, complete with 52 plates, water-marks to some page leading edges, published by Goupil & Co, Paris, 1904, in gilt tooled full brown calf…	£400 - £600	-	View
86	MAYO, CHARLES HERBERT: A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MAYO & ELTON FAMILIES second edition, privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1908, olive green cloth binding, inscribed by the author to AW Gould and dated May 15 1909	£400 - £600	-	View
87	MILNE, A.A. 'Winnie the Pooh' 1926 first edition, publ. Methuen & Co Ltd, rebound by Winstanley of Salisbury 1997; together with a copy of 'The House at Pooh Corner' 1928 second edition, Methuen & Co Ltd (2)	£200 - £400	£500	View
88	MOORE, THOMAS: NATURE PRINTED BRITISH FERNS octavo edition, volumes I & II, published by Bradbury Evans & Co, red three quarter leather binding, previously owned by Mr MH Woodford of the 'Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN'…	£150 - £200	£390	View
89	MOSENTHAL & HARTING:OSTRICHES AND OSTRICH FARMING published by Trubner and Co,London 1876, red cloth binding, sold together with Cheesman: In Unknown Arabia and Thomas: Alarms and Excursions in Arabia	£100 - £150	£100	View
90	NICHOLSON, WILLIAM 'The Square Book of Animals' Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, 12 chromolithographed plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£300 - £500	£400	View
91	AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON dating from 1887 to 1881, chiefly concerning updates on Rossetti's works of the time, including a drawing of Mrs Stillman (Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927)), but also highlighting Rossetti's…	£2,000 - £4,000	£3,000	View
92	A HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND SONNET FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS written on the 20th May 1880 for the purpose of Shields' sketch of William Blake's work room and death room, 3 Fountain Court, Strand. Together with a reprint of an article reprinted from the …	£1,000 - £2,000	£7,400	View
93	A HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH SKETCHES FROM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS the final page of the letter with four ink sketches of kneeling women, one washing her long hair Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent	£400 - £800	£1,700	View
94	PICART, Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World 7 volumes, bound as 6 volumes, 1733-39. Dedicated to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, with illustrations by Claude du Bosc.	£800 - £1,200	£1,000	View
95	POWYS: T.F.: MR TASKER'S GODS first edition, published by Chatto & Windus 1925; sold together with Powys, J.C.: Morwyn, first edition, published by Cassell, 1937, both in cloth bindings with dustwrappers	£60 - £80	£60	View
96	A HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS TO TOM TAYLOR congratulating Taylor on the birth of his "bouncing baby boy" Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent Kerrison Preston Esq. (1884-1974) practised as a solicitor in Bournemouth, Hampshire …	£200 - £400	-	View

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