JULY SALE OF Antique Furniture & Collectors’ items, Books, Maps & Ephemera VIEWING Antique Furniture & Collectors’ items, Books, Maps & Ephemera Friday 28th June – 9am to 8pm, Saturday 29th June – 9am to 4pm, Thursday 4th July – 9am to 6pm, Morning of sale from 9am AUCTION Antique Furniture & Collectors’ items, Books, Maps & Ephemera Friday 5th July 2019 Commencing at 11.00am LIVE INTERNET BIDDING CATALOGUES £5 by post, online at www.peacockauction.co.uk TO BE SOLD BY ONLINE TIMED AUCTION Under Instructions from Adrian Allen of RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP, the joint liquidator of Current Electrical Wholesale Ltd The Stock and Racking of an Electrical Wholesaler Including: A wide range of domestic and commercial electrical stock including cable, sleeving, conduit, trunking, studding, cable tray, conduit fi ttings, consumer units, pattress boxes, domestic electrical switches, sockets, outlets, back boxes, MCB’s, bulkhead lamps, exterior LED and other lighting products, fl oodlamps, downlights, plinth lights, timer switches, nuts, bolts & other fi xings, cable ties, fuses, commercial sockets, hand dryers, insulation tape, ventilation components, a range of electricians tools and many other items. Light duty boltless stores racking in two styles – 45 bays in total Viewing: Friday 28th and Saturday 29th June 9am – 5pm At 26 Newnham Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire MK40 3JR Sale Closes: Tuesday 2nd July 2019 Bids Closing 11.00am (subject to the ten minute rule and phased closure) www.peacockauction.co.uk Books, Maps & Ephemera Books, Maps & Ephemera 202 Stacey Grimaldi: The Toilet, 1823. 12mo Hb. Original paper covered printed boards, engraved frontispiece and 9 (as required) hand-coloured, tissue guarded, engraved 201 plates of objects from a lady's dressing J.B. Dr. of Physick (John Bullokar): An table featuring moveable fl aps revealing their English Expositour Or Compleat Dictionary contents. Scarce. £100 - £150 Teaching The Interpretation of the hardest wrds and most useful terms of Art used in our Language, 1667. 4th. Edition (''now the 203 fourth time revised''). 12mo. Contemporary Crompton R.: William and the Tramp, 1952. 1st. calf binding. Also featured in this volume as Ed; William - The Showman, Nov. 1937 (2nd. part of the dictionary are: 'Index Anglico - Imp.) Both with Djs. Together with 18 further Latinus' and 'A brief Nomenclator.' titles with djs., earlier reprints from the 1940s & 50s (Newnes) and a further 12 earlier printings Scarce. £400 - £500 without djs. including 'William's Television Show, 1958, 1st. Ed. £60 - £80 Lot 203 ANTIQUE FURNITURE & COLLECTORS' ITEMS 30 Friday 5th July 2019 204 Ralegh (Sic) W.: The Historie of the World, 1634. 5th. Edition. Folio, original leather binding with spine professionally re-laid. Title page with engraved portrait vignette £300 - £400 205 Ronalds A.: The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, 1839. 2nd. Ed. Larger 8vo. Original green blind stamped cloth, gilt, professionally re-backed. Hand coloured copper engraved plates with tissue guards. £40 - £60 206 Jerks In From Short - Leg by Quid. Illustrated by W. H. Du Bellew, 1866. 1st. Ed. Small qto. Original blue cloth with gilt titling & illustration 208 on upper board. Line drawing illustrations. Edward Leigh: A Systeme (sic) or Body of Divinity Consisting of Ten Books Wherein the Uncommon. £60 - £80 Fundamentals and Main Grounds of Religion are Opened; The Contrary Errours (sic) Refuted; Most of the Controversies Between Us, the Papists, Arminians and Socinians Discussed and Handled, 1662. 2nd. Ed. Folio. Early, if not contemp. full calf, marbled edges. Portrait frontis, title page in red and black script, text with printed marginal annotations. Scarce. £200 - £300 Lot 207 207 North T.: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains, 1631. First English translation of Plutarch's work. Bound together with: The Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius and Caesar Augustus, 1631. Large folio. Later qtr. binding, marbled boards. Elaborate engraved headpieces framing portraits, endpieces and historiated initial letters £100 - £140 Lot 208 All estimates exclude buyer’s premium of 21% including VAT which is payable in addition @WHPeacock /WHPeacockAuctioneers 31 Lot 209 209 Abel Morgan: CYD-GORDIAD Egwyddorawl SCRYTHURAU : Neu Dafl en Lythrennol o'r Prif Eiriau Yn Bibl Sanctaidd, 1730. Scarce title. Small folio, original 18th.C panel binding, spine professionally re-backed, gilt. Title page in facsimile, remaining text within printed borders complete. Early manuscript inscriptions/ Lot 212 dedications on fep. This volume represents the earliest Welsh Concordance to the Bible, 210 printed in the printing works of Samuel Keimer in Cartography: England Photographic Atlas, 2001; Philadelphia who employed Benjamin Franklin at London Photographic Atlas, 2000; Ordnance the time of publication of this title. This volume Survey Gazetteer of Great Britain, 1989. is also the second book in Welsh printed in Together with 4 other related titles. £40 - £60 America. There may be some grounds for the conjecture that Benjamin Franklin (founding 211 father of the US) himself may have handled this Photography: Shelton C.: Photo Album of Yesterday's Southwest, 1974; Bert Hardy, My book and others in the same edition. £400 - £500 Life, 1985; Ziegler P.: Britain The and Now (Frith), 1999; Buckland G.: Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, 1980. Together with 8 other related titles. £40 - £60 212 Art Reference: Hejzlar: Chinese Watercolours; Weng: China, A History in Art; Murase: Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting; Mudie: Australian Landscapes; Selected Paintings of Wu Zuoren and Xiao Sufang; Rambach: Art of Japanese Tantrism; Descharnes: Dali; Burke: Hogarth Complete Engravings; Ching: Wild Portraits; Lewis: Rowland Hilder; David Shepherd - The Man and His Paintings. Together with 11 other related titles. £80 - £120 Lot 210 ANTIQUE FURNITURE & COLLECTORS' ITEMS 32 Friday 5th July 2019 213 Floral Design & Floristry: Blacker: Flora Domestica; Variations Florales; Harmonies Florales; Aaronson: Design With Plant Material; Quinn: Japanese Free Style; Webb: Flower & Foliage Arrangement. Together with other related titles. £40 - £60 214 Joy Adamson: Forever Free; Queen of Sheba; Pippa's Challenge; Living Free, 1st. Editions; Born Free. Together with 5 related titles. £30 - £40 215 Manning Press C.: Yorkshire Leaders, Social and Political, 1908. 1st. Ed. Qto Hb. Original qtr. binding, gilt, dec. eps. aeg. Text with photo portraits, £40 - £60 216 Lot 214 Green J.: A Short History of the English People, 1907. Vols. I - IV. Qto. Fine qtr binding, gilt, teg. Very good set. £30 - £40 217 Agatha Christie: Crime Club 1st. Editions: Sleeping Murder, 1976; Nemesis, 1971; Third Girl, 1966; Elephants Can Remember, 1972; Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970; By The Pricking of My Thumbs, 1968 & Mrs. McGinty's Dead.. Together with 3 further titles. £30 - £50 218 Folio Society: A collection of volumes, all with slipcases, including - Tolkien: The Hobbit; Huxley: Brave New World; Carroll: Hunting of the Snark; Worsley: Shackleton's Boat Journey. £40 - £60 219 Sven Berlin: Virgo in Exile, 1996. 1st. Ed. 8vo. Hb + Dj. Signed dedication on the title page. Text with colour plates, other drawings and illustrations. Together with small water- colour sketch, signed ''Sven 88'', mounted, framed Lot 220 and glazed. The vendor worked with Berlin in the production of the book which features 220 previously unpublished drawings and notes, The Arabian Nights - Tales of 1001 Nights, a chronology of the artists's life and a hitherto 2008. Vols. I - 3. Translated by M. Lyons. unpublished key to the pseudonyms used in his Royal 8vo. Silver gilt decorated boards, cream controversial novel 'Dark Monarch.' £80 - £100 buckram spine, slip case. Fine set. £80 - £120 All estimates exclude buyer’s premium of 21% including VAT which is payable in addition @WHPeacock /WHPeacockAuctioneers 33 225 Select Works of John Bunyan containing The Pilgrim's Progress & The Holy War, 1862. Qto. Full leather, gilt titles & panelling, aeg. Chromolithograph plates & ornate fl oral margins to the text. An uncommon edition. Together with: Walpole H.: Rogue Herries, 1933. Vols. 1 - 4. Royal 8vo. Qtr. Faux vellum, teg. £40 - £60 226 Stephen Potter: Gamesmanship, 1962; Lifemanship 1964; One-Upmanship, 1964 & Supermanship, 1964. Penquin set in original slip case. £20 - £30 221 Cricket Miscellany: Baxter P. (Ed.): Test Match Special 3, 1985. Signed by Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston & other celebrities; Who's Who of Cricketers, 1984; Wisden Book of Obituaries 1892-1985; Birley: Social History of English Cricket; Kerr: Lord's 1946 - 1970; Booth: Tom Richardson; Allen: Arlott on Cricket. Together with 30+ related titles in a variety of formats, mainly Hbs. in vg. condition. £60 - £80 222 Biography/Autobiography: A collection of 23 titles, Royal 8vo Hb + Dj, featuring a range of personalities, all in vg+ condition. £40 - £60 223 Lot 227 Warfare: Macdonald: To the Last Man, Spring 227 1918; Holmes: Tommy; Figes: Crimea; Beevor: Nichols W.: The Quantocks and Their D - Day; Clayton: Trafalgar; Gardiner: Wartime Associations, 1873. 1st. Ed. Privately printed. Britain 1939 -45. Together with 7 other related Original green cloth, gilt. Manuscript dedication titles. All Royal 8v0 Hb+Dj in vg condition. from author on fep. Mounted monochrome £40 - £60 photo frontis of 'Wordsworth's Glen.' Scarce. 224 £40 - £60 Golfi ng Miscellany: Beldam G.: Great Golfers - 228 Their Methods at a Glance, 1904. 1st.Ed. Royal Knight C.: Old England - A Pictorial Museum 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt, teg. Signature of of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal 'Laura A. Beldam' on title page. Together with and Popular Antiquitie, 1845. Vols. I & II. Folio, 19 other golfi ng titles in a variety of Hb formats. qtr binding. Some colour plates & numerous £40 - £60 engravings. £30 - £40 ANTIQUE FURNITURE & COLLECTORS' ITEMS 34 Friday 5th July 2019 229 234 Graves R.: Clinical Lectures on the Practice of The Book of Job, 1902. Limited Edition, Medicine, 1848. 2nd. Ed. Vols. I & II 8vo. Full 169/750. Small qto. Limp vellum binding, gilt, calf, fi ne binding, gilt £80 - £120 teg others uncut, hand-made paper. Drawings by Robert T.