PAST AUCTION

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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LOT 1

Africa and Asia

Collection of travel narratives, 19th century

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 2

Allom, Thomas

China, in a Series of Views

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 3

Australia

Manuscript order book, commandant's office, Port Arthur penal settlement, 1839-44

SOLD FOR £10,080

LOT 4

Craig, Eric (1829-1923)

'New Zealand Ferns' [cover-title], c.1870-80

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 5

[India]

Ajaib-o-gharaib or the Wonders of the World

SOLD FOR £3,024

LOT 6

India and Pakistan

Photograph album of views in the Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, c.1875

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 7

Indian Mutiny

Group of works on the Siege of Lucknow ex libris Thomas Knight, defender of the garrison

SOLD FOR £4,284

LOT 8

Lear, Edward

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, etc.

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 9

Ludolf, Hiob

A New History of Ethiopia

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 10

Meares, John

Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 11

Middle East and Asia

Collection of travel narratives ex libris Lt S. C. R. Duffy

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 12

Miniature atlas

Atlas minima, comprehended in 30 Maps

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 14

Scotland

Collection of early travel narratives

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 15

Tod, James

Travels in Western India

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 16

Wild, Frank

Shackleton's Last Voyage

SOLD FOR £1,764

LOT 17

Wilson, Francesca

Rambles in Northern India

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 18

Travel

19th-century works on various regions

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 19

Agriculture

Group of English county surveys, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 20

Agriculture

Group of Scottish county surveys, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 21

Agriculture

Collection of treatises, 18th and early-19th century

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 22

Agriculture

Collection of treatises, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 23

Agriculture

Collection of illustrated treatises, 19th century

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 24

Agriculture

Collection of Scottish county surveys and other treatises, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 25

Howe, James

The Breeds of our Different Domestic Animals

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 26

Besler, Basilius

Hortus Eystettensis

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 27

Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

SOLD FOR £3,024

LOT 28

Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 29

Darwin, Charles

Collection of early editions

SOLD FOR £2,142

LOT 30

Darwin, Charles

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 31

Encyclopaedia Londinensis

London, 1810-1829

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 33

[Glasse, Hannah]

The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy ... By a Lady

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 34

Carter, Susannah

The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete Woman's Cook

SOLD FOR £227

LOT 35

[Newton, Isaac] - The Royal Society

The Philosophical Transactions

SOLD FOR £2,394

LOT 36

Vesalius, Andreas

De humani corporis fabrica epitome

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 37

Dasent, George Webbe

Popular Tales from the Norse. Author's corrected Proof

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 38

[Hunt, Leigh]

The Rebellion of the Beasts

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 39

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol

SOLD FOR £4,284

LOT 40

[Polidori, John]

The Vampyre; a Tale

SOLD FOR £5,292

LOT 41

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 42

Wilde, Oscar

The Harlot's House. A Poem [ex libris Lady Alfred Douglas]

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 43

Literature and theology

Collection of works, 17th-19th century

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 44

Economics

Collection of works on banking and monetary theory

SOLD FOR £1,134

LOT 45

[Book of Common Prayer, in Latin verse]

Liturgica sacra ... deducta a Rand[olph] Gilpin

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 46

[Jesuit exile press]

Two Treatises of Mentall Prayer, and of the Preference of God

SOLD FOR £580

LOT 47

Baskerville, John (printer)

The Holy Bible

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 48

Calvin, John

Opera omnia; in novem tomos digesta

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 49

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift

SOLD FOR £2,394

LOT 50

James IV, King of Scots (1473-1513)

Letter signed to William Graham, future earl of Montrose, Edinburgh, 8th May [1500]

SOLD FOR £3,024

LOT 51

Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

Autograph letter signed to Richard Norton (1615-1691), 3rd April 1648

SOLD FOR £17,640

LOT 52

Scots law

Set of manuscript notes from David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1790

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 53

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

Autograph letter signed, Broadstairs, 4th August 1849

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 54

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

Collection of autograph letters to Ada Hartnell, c.1873-81

SOLD FOR £5,544

LOT 55

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Autograph sentiment signed, 1865

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 56

India (North-West Frontier Province) - Tirah Expedition - Dargai Heights - Ashanti Campaign

Second Boer War - First World War - British Military History - Gordon Highlanders

SOLD FOR £4,536

LOT 57

Eminent Victorians

The Kinnear family autograph album

SOLD FOR £6,048

LOT 58

Freud, Lucian (1922-2011)

Autograph letter signed, 4 Delamere Terrace, [London], c,1960

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 59

Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy (née Bouvier, 1929-1994)

Autograph letter signed to Stanislaw 'Stas' Radziwill, c.1959-74

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 60

Attributed to Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894)

Album of salt prints from calotype negatives, c.1846-8

SOLD FOR £85,200

LOT 61

The Art Union [William Henry Fox Talbot]

Monthly journal of the Fine Arts

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 62

Annan, Thomas, Photographer

The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 63

Lehnert and Landrock

Desert views

SOLD FOR £328

LOT 64

Kay, John

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

SOLD FOR £429

LOT 65

Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)

The Paintings of L. S. Lowry

SOLD FOR £580

LOT 66

Nicholson, William

An Alphabet

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 67A

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)

Examples of the engraved portraiture of the sixteenth century

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 67

Spender, Stephen, and David Hockney

China Diary

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 68

Wolfe, Edward RA (1897-1982)

Song of Songs. Twelve Illustrations

SOLD FOR £189

LOT 69

Searle, Ronald (1920-2011)

The Man Who Suffers From Neck-Tumour, Anglo-Saxon Era

SOLD FOR £5,040

LOT 70

Watkins, Dudley D. (1907-1969)

Oor Wullie, original pen and ink sketch, 1940

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 71

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 72

Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 73

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. With ... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson

SOLD FOR £1,134

LOT 74

Dulac, Edmund (illustrator)

Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 76

Lewis, C. S.

Prince Caspian

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 77

Lewis, C. S.

Prince Caspian [and:] The Magician's Nephew

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 78

Nielsen, Kay (illustrator)

In Powder and Crinoline

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 79

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

Deluxe set of the Harry Potter books, inscribed in each volume

SOLD FOR £7,560

LOT 80

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, signed by the author

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 81

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, inscribed by the author

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 82

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed by cast members

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 83

Children's and illustrated books

Large collection of works, many signed

SOLD FOR £3,024

LOT 84

[Rowling, J. K.] Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling, uncorrected proof copy

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 85

Douglas, Norman

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 86

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 87

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 88

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Collection of signed copies

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 89

O'Brian, Patrick

23 first editions by Patrick O'Brian, 1 American edition, and 6 others

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 90

Folio Society

Group of deluxe facsimiles

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 91

Tragara Press

25 volumes

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 92

Tragara Press

Large collection of proof copies from the publisher's archive

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 93

Tragara Press

Large collection of limited editions, poetry and Edward Thomas interest

SOLD FOR £1,103

LOT 94

Tragara Press

Collection of limited editions relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 95

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

Collection of proof wood-engravings for Golden Cockerel Press publications, [1924-30]

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 96

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

Collection of proof wood-engravings for Over the Reefs, [1948]

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 97

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

Group of wood-engraved proofs

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 98

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Carved presentation plaque on wood, 1908

SOLD FOR £6,930

LOT 99

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Divine Lovers, carved woodblock, [1936]

SOLD FOR £5,544

LOT 100

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Lovers, carved woodblock, c.1926

SOLD FOR £5,040

LOT 101

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Bookplate of the 5th Earl Cawdor, carved woodblock [1936]

SOLD FOR £3,024

LOT 102

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Girl Sitting on Branch, carved woodblock, c.1926

SOLD FOR £4,032