Avenue Auctions

from Salisbury Library & Galleries retrospective, with posters, and a sketchbook

Chapman & Hall, 1890s, 17 vols., and Arthur Bryant; 'Pepys', 3 vols.

limited to 600 copies, signed

fiction, non-fiction, history, biography, nature, gardening, travel etc.

including biographies, literary studies and topographical works

and other Dorset books

Edited by his grandson, the third Earl, 4 vols. Richard Bentley 1844 (worn); Mrs Jameson: Legens of the Madonna, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890, and other works by the same author (7), George Cruikshank;s Omnibus, Ed. Lamam Blanchard, London 1`842, and miscellaneous 19th century books (some part sets) (8)

Darton, F.J.H., The Soul of Dorset, Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. Darton

including Formula One and Sports Cars

Bloomsbury Books London, 1982, ninth edition, and other books on antiques

W.Kent & Co, 1861, with 'Birds of Britain' and 'British Birds' (3)

llustrated by Hugh Thompson, (spine torn)

including biographies, studies and early copies of 'The Mint' and 'Letters'

including history, topography, geology, military and town and place studies

including history, biography, travel, topography, country, military etc.

including Wimborne, Abbotsbury, Corfe Castle, Bridport, Dorchester, Farnham, Poole

With eleven illustrations, decorated buff boards Publ. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1885

Waverley novels and poetry, 60 volumes, 1832 edition, with four other leather bound books

Longmans, Green, and Co 1903 (some spotting and marks throughout, scuffs to cover)

The Fine Art Society, 1917 (spotting to plates throughout, some wear to boards)

The Fine Art Society, 1919 (some spots, soiling to boards)

Ed. de luxe (but unsigned) The Fine Art Society, 1916 (wear to boards, and to spine)

Pantagruel, Gargantua, Tiers Livre unbound, Quo Vadis: Henryk Sienkiewicz (3 vols) and Jounral de Paris, 3 vols. bound

Adam & Charles Black 1904, and other books (poor cond.)

including Henty, Walter Crane, 'Ornaments Discovered', and others

inscription, but not signed by author

First edition, three vols in slipcase. from the sale September 11-19, 1997 which was not held until February 1998 due to the death of Princess Diana.

with Eric Parker: 'Elements of Shooting' publ. The Field Press, and other books on firearms and gunsports (12)

London 1789, modern binding

2 volumes, London 1813, with Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1866

descriptions of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts etc. 1935, richly illustrated, cased

together with books on Mexican and Mesoamerican Art and Artists to include volumes on Pre-Columbian art and architecture, through to biographies of Rivera and Kahlo
Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)
Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art

to include works by W. Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley that were illustrated by Peter Snow, a book on Greeting Cards by Peter and Maria Snow, and volumes on figures such as Joan Littlewood, Philip Sutton and Saul Steinberg and many others, some with handwritten dedications (a lot)

Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)
Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the

including volumes by T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and W. Somerset Maugham, books on art and other subjects (a lot)
Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)
Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art

including Guy Sydenham; 'A Potter's Life' (signed)

limited to 500 copies, with a collection of illustrated books on travel and gardens including Mortimer Menpes, Donald Maxwell, Margaret Waterfield and Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale and others

1943

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1855, four vols

Blackie, Fullarton & Co, 1827, with John Struthers, The History of Scotland, Blackie, Fullarton & Co 1827

Edinburgh Adam and Charles Black 1868, 4 Vols

(6) Sixpenny Edition C.1889

two vols