Book Sale
12th April 2022 - 12:00 PM GMT
Including a large collection of the Private Press editions, from the Golden Cockerel, Nonesuch, Chiswick, Eragny presses and others, with many limited-edition publications, illustrated by Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Piper, Paul and John Nash, Eric Gill and others, from the libraries of Ronald Louis Guy F.R.I.B.A and John William Waterer R.D.I;F.S.A; F.S.I.A
Auction Highlights
Lot 137
Fleming, Ian - The Man with the Golden Gun
1st edition, cloth, with unclipped d/j, Johnathan Cape, London, 1965
Estimate: £300 - £500
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Lot 9
Bible in English - Nash, Paul [illustrator] - Genesis.
Limited edition, one of 375, Authors presentation copy to his wife with signed inscription. Complete with 12 woodcut illustrations by Paul Nash. Original black paper boards with gilt decorations and letters on upper and spine. Printed on ‘Zanders hand-made’ paper, top edges un-opened, others rough trimmed. 4to. Nonesuch Press, London, 1924.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 263
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, - Le Siecle de Louis XIV
1st edition, 2vols, 12mo, calf, C.F. Henning, Berlin, 1751. Note: Under the pseudonym of M. de Francheville, whilst at the court of King Frederick II of Prussia, Voltaire published this work at his own expense in Berlin.
Estimate: £300 - £500
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Lot 191
Byron, John (1723-1786); Clerke, Charles (attributed to)
A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty’s Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron, 4th edition, 12mo, original calf, with engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, T. Carnan & F. Newberry, London, 1776.
An account of the voyage of the Dolphin, which left Plymouth in July 1764 to travel and explore the South Seas. The Dolphin, which was the first Royal Naval vessel to be clad in copper, returned in May 1766. The present work is normally attributed to midshipman Charles Clerke.
Estimate: £300 - £500
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Lot 48
Piper, John - Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs
1st edition, one of 50 with signed, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4to, green buckram gilt, with unclipped d/j, Faber & Faber, London, 1955, in slipcase.
Estimate: £400 - £600
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