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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Africa and Asia

Collection of travel narratives, 19th century

SOLD FOR £1,071

Allom, Thomas

China, in a Series of Views

SOLD FOR £1,008

Australia

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

SOLD FOR £10,080

Craig, Eric (1829-1923)

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

[India]

Ajaib-o-gharaib or the Wonders of the World

SOLD FOR £3,024

India and Pakistan

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

Indian Mutiny

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

SOLD FOR £4,284

Lear, Edward

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, etc.

Ludolf, Hiob

A New History of Ethiopia

Meares, John

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

SOLD FOR £1,890

Middle East and Asia

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

SOLD FOR £1,512

Miniature atlas

Atlas minima, comprehended in 30 Maps

Scotland

Collection of early travel narratives

Tod, James

Travels in Western India

SOLD FOR £1,386

Wild, Frank

Shackleton's Last Voyage

SOLD FOR £1,764

Wilson, Francesca

Rambles in Northern India

SOLD FOR £1,008

Travel

19th-century works on various regions

Agriculture

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

Agriculture

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

Agriculture

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

Agriculture

Collection of treatises, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £1,512

Agriculture

Collection of illustrated treatises, 19th century

SOLD FOR £1,071

Agriculture

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

Howe, James

The Breeds of our Different Domestic Animals

SOLD FOR £1,512

Besler, Basilius

Hortus Eystettensis

SOLD FOR £1,890

Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

SOLD FOR £3,024

Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Darwin, Charles

Collection of early editions

SOLD FOR £2,142

Darwin, Charles

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £2,016

Encyclopaedia Londinensis

London, 1810-1829

SOLD FOR £1,071

[Glasse, Hannah]

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

Carter, Susannah

The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete Woman's Cook

[Newton, Isaac] - The Royal Society

The Philosophical Transactions

SOLD FOR £2,394

Vesalius, Andreas

De humani corporis fabrica epitome

SOLD FOR £1,260

Dasent, George Webbe

Popular Tales from the Norse. Author's corrected Proof

SOLD FOR £2,520

[Hunt, Leigh]

The Rebellion of the Beasts

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol

SOLD FOR £4,284

[Polidori, John]

The Vampyre; a Tale

SOLD FOR £5,292

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Wilde, Oscar

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

Literature and theology

Collection of works, 17th-19th century

Economics

Collection of works on banking and monetary theory

SOLD FOR £1,134

[Book of Common Prayer, in Latin verse]

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

[Jesuit exile press]

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

Baskerville, John (printer)

The Holy Bible

Calvin, John

Opera omnia; in novem tomos digesta

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift

SOLD FOR £2,394

James IV, King of Scots (1473-1513)

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

SOLD FOR £3,024

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

Scots law

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

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

Autograph letter signed, Broadstairs, 4th August 1849

SOLD FOR £2,520

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

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

SOLD FOR £5,544

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Autograph sentiment signed, 1865

SOLD FOR £1,512

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

Eminent Victorians

The Kinnear family autograph album

SOLD FOR £6,048

Freud, Lucian (1922-2011)

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

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

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

Attributed to Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894)

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

SOLD FOR £85,200

The Art Union [William Henry Fox Talbot]

Monthly journal of the Fine Arts

SOLD FOR £1,260

Annan, Thomas, Photographer

The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

Lehnert and Landrock

Desert views

Kay, John

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)

The Paintings of L. S. Lowry

Nicholson, William

An Alphabet

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)

Examples of the engraved portraiture of the sixteenth century

Spender, Stephen, and David Hockney

China Diary

SOLD FOR £2,772

Wolfe, Edward RA (1897-1982)

Song of Songs. Twelve Illustrations

Searle, Ronald (1920-2011)

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

SOLD FOR £5,040

Watkins, Dudley D. (1907-1969)

Oor Wullie, original pen and ink sketch, 1940

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

SOLD FOR £2,772

Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility

SOLD FOR £1,008

Austen, Jane

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

SOLD FOR £1,134

Dulac, Edmund (illustrator)

Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

SOLD FOR £1,071

Lewis, C. S.

Prince Caspian

Lewis, C. S.

Prince Caspian [and:] The Magician's Nephew

Nielsen, Kay (illustrator)

In Powder and Crinoline

SOLD FOR £1,260

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

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

SOLD FOR £7,560

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

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

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

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

Rowling, J. K. (1965-)

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

Children's and illustrated books

Large collection of works, many signed

SOLD FOR £3,024

[Rowling, J. K.] Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling, uncorrected proof copy

Douglas, Norman

Collection of works

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Collection of signed copies

O'Brian, Patrick

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

SOLD FOR £2,520

Folio Society

Group of deluxe facsimiles

SOLD FOR £1,386

Tragara Press

25 volumes

Tragara Press

Large collection of proof copies from the publisher's archive

SOLD FOR £1,071

Tragara Press

Large collection of limited editions, poetry and Edward Thomas interest

SOLD FOR £1,103

Tragara Press

Collection of limited editions relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle

SOLD FOR £2,016

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

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

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

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

Gibbings, Robert (1889-1958)

Group of wood-engraved proofs

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Carved presentation plaque on wood, 1908

SOLD FOR £6,930

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Divine Lovers, carved woodblock, [1936]

SOLD FOR £5,544

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Lovers, carved woodblock, c.1926

SOLD FOR £5,040

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

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

SOLD FOR £3,024

Gill, Eric (1882-1940)

Girl Sitting on Branch, carved woodblock, c.1926

SOLD FOR £4,032