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Tue 7th Mar 2023 - 10am
Bookbinding Sale - Tools, Materials & Equipment, Related and Antiquarian Books
151 Lots
Lot 2
Day, Barry, Treasures of Noel Coward, with DVD and documents, Andre Deutsch, (n.d.), 29 x 25.3cm, slip case; Cowady Custard, frontispage with many signatures to Pat, 1st edn., London, 1973, 2 other Coward books; Henri, Peter, Working the Halls, signed with presentation inscription, 1995, 1st edn., 1973; Barkworth, Peter, First Houses, with presentation inscription dated "7 April 88", 1st edn., London, 1983; and 23 other related works. (29).Lot 4
Annesley, George, Viscount Valentia, Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, 1802-06, (3 vols.), complete with 69 plates, maps, and plans, 1st edn., printed by W. Bulmer for William Miller, Abermarle Street, London, 1809, calf, 30.4 x 24.8cm, (some foxing and staining, tissues missings, covers loose). (3).Hammer: £280
Lot 6A
Tertullian, H. B., Apology or Defence of the Christians, 1st English edn., printed by Tho. Harper, sold by Thomas Butler, London, 1655, calf, 18.3 x 14cm, (a/f); Paine, Thomas, Rights of Man, 5th edn., London, 1794, half calf, and Luther, Martin, 1736, calf, 17.6 x 10.5cm, (cover loose, a/f and binding split at page 351). (4).Lot 8
Pasha, Rudolf C. Slatin, Trans. Maj. F. R. Wingate, Fire and Sword in The Sudan, 1879-95, 2nd and 4th edns., London, 1896; Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator, 1st edn., London, 1890; Lander, Richard, Travels into the Interior of Africa, 1st edn., London, 1835/6, and related works. (8).Hammer: £ 50
Lot 9
Livingstone, David, Life and Explorations of, J G Murdoch, London, (n.d.), 31 x 25cm, (no spine, one plate and covers loose); Burdo, A., The Niger and the Benueh, London, 1880, half calf, 19.8 x 14cm, (spine loose and cover nearly detached); Layard, A. H., Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1853, and other related books. (13).Lot 12A
Boccacio, Giovanni, Decamerone, Henry Bonham's bookplate, 1762, calf, 29.8 x 23.3cm, (front cover a/f at bottom and 1st 7 pages wormed); Prateus, Ludovicus, Juvenalis et Persius, Paris, 1684, 26 x 21cm, (front cover nearly detached and a/f); and Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 5th edn., pub. J Dodsley, London, 1767, calf, 21.2 x 13.5cm. (3).Lot 14A
Lewis, John, Heath Robinson Artist and Comic Genius, pub. Constable, London, 1973, signed by Josephine Heath Robinson (wife of William); Heath Robinson, William, Railway Ribaldry, pub. Ian Allan, London, (n.d), signed by Josephine Heath Robinson, (foxing throughout); The Penguin, pub Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1966, signed by Joan Heath Robinson (daughter), (pages detached); and 6 other Heath Robinson books, (2a/f). (9). (Provenance: the Vendor is the Great-Grandson of William Heath Robinson).Lot 18
Greenfield, Jane, and Hille, Jenny, Headbands and How to Work them, pub. Edgewood Publishers, New Haven, 1986; Nixon, Howard M., Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, pub. Scolar Press, London, 1978, Hardcover; Middleton, Bernard C., The Restoration of Leather Bindings, 4th printing, pub. LTP, 1981; and 41 other bookbinding related books, covering the topics of history, materials, conservation, general interest and study of. (44).Hammer: £ 70
Lot 25
Sarre, F., Islamic Bookbinding, trans. F. D. O'Byrne, 1st edn., pub. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London, 1923, edition limited to 550 copies (this one unnumbered), title and text pages with gilt line borders, 36 col. plates all complete with tissue papers, 37 x 29cm, (foxing and discolouration on pages). (1).Hammer: £150
Lot 26
Schweidler, Max, The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books and Other Works on Paper, trans. Roy Perkinson, pub. Getty Publications, (n.d.); Regemorter, Berthe van, Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library, pub. Hodges Figges & Co., Dublin, 1961; Nixon, Howard M. Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, pub. Scolar Press, London, 1978; 27 other bookbinding related books, including the topics of history, materials, conservation, general interest and study of; and 10 related catalogues and literature (40).Hammer: £ 90
Lot 27
Brown, Margaret, Design and Construction of Boxes for the Protection of Rare Books, pub. Library of Congress, Washington, (n.d), (rebound); Pearson, David, English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800, pub. Oak Knoll Press, 2014; Miura, Einen, The Art of Marbled Paper, pub. Zaehnsdorf Ltd., 1989; and 31 other bookbinding related books, including the topics of history, materials, conservation, general interest and study of; and 2 DVDs (36).Hammer: £200