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Selected Antique Furniture, Collectors' Items And JULY SALE OF SELECTED ANTIQUE FURNITURE, COLLECTORS’ ITEMS AND BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA VIEWING AUCTION Antique Furniture & Antique Furniture & Collectors' Items Collectors' Items Books, Maps & Ephemera Friday 7th July 2017 Friday 30th June Commencing at 11.00 am 5.00 pm - 8.00 pm Saturday 1st July Books, Maps & Ephemera 9.00 am - 1.00 pm Friday 7th July 2017 Commencing at 3.00 pm Thursday 6th July 9.00 am - 6.00 pm Morning of the sale from 9.00 am Bedford Auction Centre LIVE INTERNET BIDDING CATALOGUES £5 by post, online at www.peacockauction.co.uk Collection Service We offer a collection service from the complete property clearance through to individual items. Our friendly experienced team can take the worry out of clearing a property. So if you are thinking of downsizing or clearing a property or business Contact us for a free no obligation quote on 01234 266 366 or email [email protected] • Pre Collection advice • Experienced team of staff • Our own fleet of vehicles • Collection at agreed date & time • Highly competitive rates • No up front charges • Complete house clearance to individual items cleared • Commercial assets collected • Fully insured • Registered to remove waste peacockauction.co.uk BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA 501 505 Jerome J.: Three Men in a Boat, 1889. 8vo. Hb. Poetry Selection including: T.S. Eliot - East Original illus. binding. An early edition - first year Coker,1940 & Dry Salvages 1941 (both 2nd. of printing. Together with: The Second Thoughts Imp); Lawrence D.: Ship of Death & Other of An Idle Fellow, 1898. 1st. Ed. 8vo Hb. Original Poems, 1933, 1st. Ed. Wood engravings by binding. £50 - £80 Hughes-Stanton; Pudney J.: Living in a One- Sided House, 1976; Grew E.: Franz Schubert, 502 1928. Together with 20+ other volumes. Arnold E.: With Sa'adi in the Garden, 1888. £50 - £80 1st. Ed. 8vo. Hb. Original green cloth, gilt titling, silver and green illus. on upper board, bevelled 506 edges, decorative gilt eps. Scarce. £30 - £40 Hammerton J.: The War Illustrated, C. 1948. Ten Volumes, Qto. Hb. Qtr. Binding, blue leather & 503 cloth, gilt. Profusely illustrated. £20 - £30 Maeterlinck M.: The Blue Bird - A Fairy Play in Six Acts, Illustrated Edition (Crown 4to), 1911. 507 1st. Thus. Original Blue cloth with gilt illust, Lang A.: The Nursery Rhyme Book, 2016. Qto. teg. Tipped in, tissue guarded colour plates Hb. Folio Society. Illustrated by Debra McFarlane by Cayley Robinson. Together with an original & Leslie Brooke. Fine copy with slip case in Theatre Royal, Haymarket Programme for the publisher's wraps. £30 - £40 Blue Bird Play produced by Herbert Trench in 1909 and 'The Souvenir' landscape booklet for 508 Galileo G.: Dialogue Concerning the Two World the play featuring original drawings by Cayley Systems, 2013. Eco U.: Foucault's Pendulum, Robinson, colour plates of stage settings by 2016. Qto. Hb. O'Brian P.: Joseph Banks - A G.Denham A.R.C.A. and cover design by John Life, 2016; Sobel D.: Longitude, 2014. 8vo Hassall. Scarce related ephemera. £40 - £60 Hb.Folio Society. Fine copies with slip case in 504 publisher's wraps. £60 - £80 J.B. Priestley: Postscripts,1940; Out of the People,1941; Delight, 1949; Festival at 509 Asimov I.: I, Robot, 2016; Aldiss B: Science Farbridge, 1951; Saturn Over Water, 1960; Lost Fiction Anthology, 2016. Illus. F. Schommer; Empires, 1965. Outcries and Asides, 1974, All Burgess A.: A Clockwork Orange, 2014. 8vo 1st. Eds. 8vo Hb + Dj. Together with 8 other Hb.Folio Society. Fine copies with slip case in titles, some 1st. Eds. £30 - £40 publisher's wraps. £20 - £30 510 Hill C.: The World Turned Upside Down - Radical Ideas During the English Rveolution, 2016; Delafield E.: Diary of a Provincial Lady, 2015; Salgado G. The Elizabethan Underworld, 2006; Warner O.:The Discovery of Tahiti, 2015. Wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 8vo Hb.Folio Society. Fine copies with slip case in publisher's wraps. £20 - £30 Lot 501 BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA 58 Friday 7th July 2017 511 514 The Collects Epistles & Gospels from the Book Mannering E. (Ed.): The Best of Redoute's of Common Prayer for Sundays throughout Roses, 1959. Ariel Press, 1st. Ed. Large Folio the year and Christmas Day, The Epiphany, Hb + Dj (inc. original glassene wrapper). Colour Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Ascension plates £40 - £60 Day. The book was produced under the direction of Leonard Jay as Head of City of Birmingham School of Printing,College of Arts and Crafts. 1953. Folio Hb. Original Green cloth, gilt. Carefully designed layout with enlarged, coloured initial letters. Scarce. £20 - £30 512 Railwayana: Hoole K. (Ed.): Hull & Barnsley Railway; Knock O.: London & North Western Railway; Railway Archaeology; Baugham P.: Chester & Holyhead Railway; North & Mid Wales Railway; Hawkins M.: Somerset & Dorset -Then and Now; Edwards D.: The Final Link; Casserley H.: Wessex. With four other titles. £25 - £40 513 Drama: Somin W.: Close Quarters; Johnson P.: Lovers Leap; Lipscomb W.: Clive of India; Egan M.: Private Company; Berkeley R.: The Lady With The Lamp; Winsloe C.: Children in Uniform. Together with 30 other small 8vo hb titles clearly published as a series by Victor Gollancz in the 515 late 1920s & 1930s. £30 - £40 Viaggio Pittoresco, Seguendo Gli Impianti Della Sip, 1949. Limited Edition, No.607 of 1000. Folio Hb. coarse linen binding. 50 photographic type prints using a process employing fatty inks specifically developed for this image. Each plate with a printed written title and signature plus tissue guard. Fabriano paper with wide margins. 50 Plates including: The Aiguille Noire and Mont Blanc, the cable car of Mont Blanc, Giant's Tooth, Val Ferret, Le Grandes Jorasses Val Veni, Aosta - S. Orso, Aosta - Roman Amphitheater, the castle of Fenis in Aosta Valley Pali, the Matterhorn, the Goillet tank the last plant, the jump of Maen, the Covalou central, central Interior, and the basin of Chatillon. Scarce title. £100 - £120 516 The Book of Days, A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, 1863. Vols. 1 & 2. Qto. Hb. Qtr. Lot 514 Binding, gilt with marbled boards. Engraved vignette illustrations. £20 - £30 All estimates exclude buyer’s premium of 21% including VAT which is payable in addition @WHPeacock /WHPeacockAuctioneers 59 517 521 A very large consignment of general bookshop General Science Miscellany. Approx. 50 8vo. stock covering a wide range of subjects Hb.+ Dj. titles including: Halle L J.: The Society featuring different formats including Hbs with of Man; Hecht S & Rabinowitch E.: Explaining Djs., Hb., & pbs. £40 - £60 the Atom; Palmer E.: The Plains of Camdeboo; Branley F M.: Exploration of the Moon; Kniga.: 518 Science at the Crossroads; de Terra.: Memories The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Nd. of Teilhard de Chardin; and Harrison G R.: What C.1870. Halliwell Ed. Three vol. set. Qto. man May Be. £30 - £40 Hb. Qtr. binding, gilt, marbled eps & edges. Engraved Frontis, title page and other plates for 522 each volume. £30 - £40 A Foreign Topography collection of approx. 40 titles including: Harrington.: The Face of 519 the Arctic; Cutting S.: The Fire Ox and Other Dickens C.: The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Years; McKinnon M.: Arabia Sand Sea Sky; and Rudge, Christmas Books; Pickwick Papers, Snowden.: Israel A First View. £30 - £40 Tale of two Cities; Dombey and Son, Sketches by Boz; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; 523 Nicholas Nickleby; Great Expectations; The A Warfare and Military Miscellaneous collection Uncommercial Traveller; Oliver Twist, Martin of approx. 40 titles including: Buster G.: Grand Chuzzlewit; David Copperfield and Bleak House. Barrage; Friedman T.: The Hunter; Montagu Larger format, qto. Hb. editions by Chapman E.: The Man Who Never Was; Williams E.: The & Hall in a mixture of qtr bindings, gilt, some Tunnel; Chamberlin W H.: The German Phoenix; with marbled boards. Engraved illustrations by Thompson R W.: Devil at my Heels; and Front Barnard, Mahoney, Phiz, Green etc. £30 - £40 Line: The Official Story of Civil Defence of Britain 520 £30 - £40 Inland Waterways, Narrow Boats, Sailing, 524 Yachting and Cruising. A miscellaneous Boxed selection of IQ and Mind games together collection approx. 30 titles to include: Thompson with titles on 'Lateral Thinking' including: Think G.: The Monkland Canal; Howkins C.: Towpath Links; IQ Challenge; Mind Trap; Chattabox; Book; Loomis A F.: Ocean Racing; David & Brainbenders (12) £20 - £30 Charles.: The new Glenans Sailing Manual; and Edwards L A.: Inland Waterways of Great Britain. 525 A Natural History miscellaneous collection of £20 - £30 approx. 30 titles including: Cousteau J Y and Dumas F.: The Silent World; Condry W.: Birds and Wild Africa; Eldredge N.: Time Frames; Fitter R S R.: The Ark in Our Midst; Brightwell L R.: Sea-Shore Life of Britain; Carson R L.: The Sea Around Us; and Miller J.: Of Fish and Men. All 8vo. Hb. Dj. £20 - £30 526 Traveller's Guides & Handbooks: Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Belgium inc. Ardennes, 1903; Elston R.: Guide to Paris, 1939 (Cook); Keyte J.: In China Now, 1923; The U.S.S.R. in Figures, 1934. All titles 12mo. Last two titles scarce. £20 - £30 Lot 519 BOOKS, MAPS & EPHEMERA 60 Friday 7th July 2017 Lot 532 527 531 Lewis D.: Designing with a Camera, 1962; Shikibu M.: The Tale of Genji, 2016. Two volume Best Design versus Best Seller - in relation to set; Gamain N.: American Gods, 2017; Julian of textiles, 1965. 1st. Editions. Qto. Hb + Dj. Photo Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love, 2017. All f/f illustrations. £15 - £20 in slipcases and in publisher's sealed wrap. Lee 528 L.: Cider With Rosie. All Folio Society. £60 - £80 Cardiology, Medicine & Surgery: Broadbent W.: 532 Heart Disease - prognosis & treatment, 1897. Portlock N.: A Voyage Round the World, but Signed by author; Corvisart J.: Essay on the more particularly to the North West Coast of Diseases & Lesions of the Heart and Great America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 & Vessels, 1812.
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