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Auction 23 September 2021 Books and Works on Paper - London

Bid on the lot list Forum Auctions : 23 September 2021 - Forum Auctions - London

Books and Works on Paper

Thursday 23 September 2021 - 12:00 (BST)
220 Queenstown Road, - SW8 4LP London, Royaume-Uni
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Lot n° 1 

Quintus Asconius Pedianus

NO RESERVE Asconius Pedianus (Quintus) Expositio in IIII. Orationes M.Tullii Cic. contra C.Verrem., collation: *4 *8 a-z8 A-M8 N4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank leaf, with blank *4, capital spaces with guide letters, a...

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Lot n° 2 

Antoine Mizauld

Medicine.- Mizauld (Antoine) Memorabilium aliquot naturae arcanorum sylvula, rerum variarum sympathias et antipathias, seu naturales concordias et discordias, 2 parts in 1, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, 2pp. advertisements for books by...

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Lot n° 3 

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Manutius (Paulus, editor).- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistolae ad Marcum Iunium Brutum et ad Quintum Ciceronem fratrem, woodcut printer's device to title, G5 and N2 with ink annotations in Latin, bookplate to front pastedown, 1G and 1I with paper restorations...

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Lot n° 4 

Lucian of Samosata

Andrew Baxter's copy.- Lucian of Samosata. Gnomae luciani samosatensis dialogorum selectorum libri duo Graecolatini, 2 parts in 1, text in parallel Greek and Latin, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, errata f. at end,...

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Lot n° 5 

Pindar.

Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum octo Lyricorum carmina... Editio IIII, 2 parts in 1, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, colophon within woodcut typographic border, final f. blank, later...

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Lot n° 6 

Girolamo Cardano

Cardano (Girolamo) Proxeneta: seu de Prudentia civili, second edition, title within metalcut decorative border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, foxing and staining, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, spotted and soiled, Geneva,...

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Lot n° 7 

Reginald Scot

Scottish neo-Latin poetry.- Johnston (Arthur, editor) Delitiae poetarum Scotorum hujus aevi illustrium, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, vol.1 with addition f. '2A6', occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned...

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Lot n° 8 

PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO

Burne-Jones (Edward).- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera Omnia, Burne-Jones's copy with his bookplate, engraved title, small marginal worming, occasional spotting, early ink inscriptions to endpapers, bookplates, later owner's ink signature, strengthened...

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Lot n° 9 

Gaius Plinius Secundus

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Historiæ Naturalis Libri XXXVII, 2 vol. in 3, edited by Jean Hardouin, 1 folding engraved map, 11 engraved plates of coins, engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, small marginal rust hole (4X1, vol....

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Lot n° 10 

Gaius Plinius Secundus

Bindings.- Latin Classics.- Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Epistolæ et Panegyricus, half-title, title with woodcut printer's device, occasional spotting, contemporary red morocco, gilt, covers with triple filet borders with rosette and floral corner-pieces,...

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Lot n° 11 

Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

Pamphlets.- Wyttenbach (Daniel Albert) Oratio de Philosophia, Auctore Cicerone ..., Amsterdam, 1779, bound before, Oratio de vi et Efficacia Historiae ad Studium Virtutis, Amsterdam, 1785, bound with, Neue (D. Christianus Fridericus) Sapphonis Mytilenaeae...

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Lot n° 12 

EPICTETUS

Bodoni.- Epictetus. Epiktetou Encheiridion graece, 2 parts in 1 vol., first part text in Greek, second part text in Italian, second part offsetting from silk markers to verso of title and next recto, occasional light spotting or staining, attractive contemporary...

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Lot n° 13 

Jean-Jacques Sellon

NO RESERVE Sellon (Jean-Jacques) Un Mot sur la Proposition ... pour la suppression de la Peine de Mort, presentation copy from author, occasional spotting, original paper wrappers, presentation inscription to upper cover, short tear to upper cover, slight...

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Lot n° 14 

NO RESERVE Siege of Paris (1870-1871).-...

NO RESERVE Siege of Paris (1870-1871).- Restaurant Noel-Peters. Menu du Diner du 1 Janvier 1871, 3pp., printed, pasted down to blank leaf, light off-setting, slight creasing, Paris, 1871. ⁂ The meat options on the menu include 'fillet of elephant'...

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Lot n° 15 

Johannes Pomtow

NO RESERVE Pomtow (Johannes) Poetae Lyrici Graeci Minores, 2 vol., ink ownership inscription of Hugh McLeod Innes to head of title, contemporary vellum, Leipzig, 1885 § Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis. Saturae, edited by Otto Ribbeck, spotting, ink ownership...

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Lot n° 16 

Franz LISZT

Music.- Liszt (Franz) Die Trauer-Gondel (la lugubre gondola) für Pianoforte, first edition, lithographed vignette to title (repeated on upper wrapper), inside front wrapper with lengthy ink note quoting Sitwell on the work, original lithographed pictorial...

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Lot n° 17 

Edward Gilpin Johnson

Binding.- Johnson (Edward Gilpin) Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, number 5 of 100 large paper edition copies, plates, frontispiece detached, contemporary crushed blue morocco with gilt pictorial palette to upper cover, spine gilt with raised 5 raised...

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Lot n° 18 

Frédéric MASSON

Binding.- Masson (Frederic) Joséphine, Impératrice et Reine, original printed wrapper bound in at front, frontispiece and plates, captioned tissue-guards, bookplate to pastedown, one gathering detached, contemporary green morocco, gilt with Napoleonic...

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Lot n° 19 

Alphonse daudet

Binding.- Daudet (Alphonse) Oeuvres Complètes, 18 vol., "Edition Definitive", edited by Alexandre Houssiaux, plates, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, faded, one or two scuffs but a very attractive...

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Lot n° 20 

Rene Benjamin

Benjamin (René) Les Soldats de la Guerre: Gaspard, frontispiece and illustrations by Renefer, Paris, Le Livre de Demain, c.1925 § Bordeaux (Henry) Une Honnête Femme, frontispiece and illustrations by Paul Baudier, Paris, Le Livre de Demain, n.d. § Boylesve...

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Lot n° 21 

Gustave flaubert

Bindings.- Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary, 2 vol., contemporary green half morocco, spine with red morocco panel design and title label, gilt, Paris, ?1942; and a large quantity of others, mostly calf bindings, French literature, v.s. (lge qty)

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Lot n° 22 

17th century binding, original...

17th century binding, original calf, blind stamp of coat of arms of Richard Townley on both covers, rubbed, 4to, early 17th century.

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Lot n° 23 

Jacobean Petition.- Middlesex (Lionel...

Jacobean Petition.- Middlesex (Lionel Cranfield, first Earl of, merchant, financier, and government minister, 1575-1645) & Sir Robert Pye, exchequer official and politician, bap. 1585, d. 1662.- Petition of Joan ffox, having lent ten pounds to Captain...

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Lot n° 24 

Worcestershire, Feckenham.- Indenture,...

Worcestershire, Feckenham.- Indenture, bargain and sale of the Lord of the Manor of Feckenham by Edward Leighton to Thomas Coventry, first Baron Coventry, D.s. "Edw: Leighton", manuscript on vellum, some surface wear affecting legibility, folds, slightly...

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Lot n° 25 

Parliamentarian politician.- Gerard...

Parliamentarian politician.- Gerard (Sir Gilbert, first baronet, presbyterian politician, of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 1587-1670) Autograph Letter signed to his Mother-in-Law Lady Joan Barrington, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, folio,...

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Lot n° 26 

Yorkshire.- Knaresborough.- Cash...

Yorkshire.- Knaresborough.- Cash Book, manuscript account book, c. 250pp. & 15pp. index, browned, original vellum, soiled, lettered direct "Cash Book 1727" and label "Day Book No. 3" on upper cover, corners and eges with tears, tail of spine chipped,...

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Lot n° 27 

Suffolk.- ?Watts (Ambrose) Account...

Suffolk.- ?Watts (Ambrose) Account Book, c. 600pp., some ff. at beginning and end loose, some pp. water-stained and damp-stained, browned throughout, original vellum, defective, ledger folio, 1772-80. ⁂ A large account book including the purchase of...

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Lot n° 28 

Nicholas Thomas Heineken

Johnson (Joseph, bookseller & publisher).- Heineken (N.T. ) Autograph Letter signed to Joseph Johnson, 1p., addressed verso and with remains of seal, folds, lightly browned, Ware, 18th October, 1788. ⁂ Both men were dissenters. Here Heineken writes...

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Lot n° 29 

Shahnameh (Book of Kings).- Single...

Shahnameh (Book of Kings).- Single leaf from the Shahnameh, manuscript in Arabic, on paper, 2pp., within gold borders, worming and staining in margin, browned, 18th century; and c. 260ff. other Arabic leaves, some decorated in gold and other colours,...

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Lot n° 30 

Blank vellum.- Bosworth (William)...

Blank vellum.- Bosworth (William) Volume of 17 sheets of blank 18th century vellum, first sheet signed by Bosworth, each sheet c. 292 x 190mm., sheets slightly yellowed, last 2ff. torn away, hinges broken, original reverse calf, slightly marked, spine...

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Lot n° 31 

Murdered by a French Revolutionary...

Murdered by a French Revolutionary in London.- Moore (George, manufacturer of soda water, of Hoxton and Warren Street, London, murdered by Emmanuel Barthélmy, c. 1795-1855) & family. Commonplace Book of poetry and songs, manuscripts, mostly in George...

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Lot n° 32 

Alphabet Letters.- Collection of...

Alphabet Letters.- Collection of bone alphabet characters, 90 characters, in a later wooden box, each character 12mm. high, n.d. c. 1810. ⁂ Jane Austen, in her novel Emma, has Frank Churchill uses a game of anagrams to play a trick on Jane Fairfax,...

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Lot n° 33 

Royal Navy.- Ship's Personnel,...

Royal Navy.- Ship's Personnel, manuscript, 19pp. excluding blank, ruled in red, 2 small watercolour wash drawings of boats at end, central folds, last 3ff. small hole, slightly browned, unbound, 116 x 98mm., c. 1810-20. ⁂ Lists gunners, top sail men,...

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Lot n° 34 

Grand Tour Album.- Album of manuscripts,...

Grand Tour Album.- Album of manuscripts, drawings and engravings, including: drawings: "Mont Blanc"; "Château de Prangins" and other chateaux of the Loire, Holstein, Germany, Russia, "La Pavillon Elizabeth" St Petersburg; Italy (Rome and Naples), visiting...

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Lot n° 35 

Charlotte Elliott

Verse satire of Leamington Spa.- Elliott (Charlotte) Leamington Peripatetics. "Use your limbs and have them.", manuscript, 4pp., bifolium, folds, repairs to small splits at end of folds, lightly browned, small 4to, Leamington Spa, c.1842. ⁂ Charlotte...

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Lot n° 36 

Percy Joseph Newell

Dorset Poet.- Newell (Rev. Percy Joseph, Rector of East Lydford, Somerset, poet, of Pelham House, Kinson, now part of Bournemouth, 1802-78) Poems, ?autograph manuscript, c. 230pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, slightly browned, original morocco, slightly...

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Lot n° 37 

Lace.- Gill (Jemima) Volume of...

Lace.- Gill (Jemima) Volume of lace patterns, manuscript, 26pp. excluding blanks, in several hands (some juvenile), 10 original lace samples laid down on pp., slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, rubbed, manuscript label on upper cover, 1849 &...

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Lot n° 38 

Blank paper.- Volume of 74 sheets...

Blank paper.- Volume of 74 sheets of blank paper, each sheet 375 x 222mm., some ff. excised, contemporary half cloth, small tear in corner of upper cover, edges rubbed, corners bumped, manuscript label on upper cover "Materialien und Elaboraten Buch",...

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Lot n° 39 

VICTOR HUGO

NO RESERVE Hugo (Victor, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, 1802-85) Autograph Note initialled "V.H.", 1p., 102 x 142mm., n.p., n.d. c. 1851, in French, "the woman was immense and dressed up in a skirt... the man was elegant... the woman was rotund......

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Lot n° 40 

Taxidermy.- Notes for "the preservation...

Taxidermy.- Notes for "the preservation of birds and mammals", manuscript, c. 65pp. excluding blanks, in ink and pencil, original limp cloth, rubbed, 8vo, c. 1860s. ⁂ A rare taxidermy manuscript, written, we are told, due to the fact that although...

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Lot n° 41 

NO RESERVE Heraldry.- Ye Shields...

NO RESERVE Heraldry.- Ye Shields of ye principal Knights in arms at ye Battle of Hastings, 48 watercolour coats of arms, n.d.; Arms of ye Barons who signed ye Magna Charta June, 19, 1215, 29 watercolour coats of arms, n.d.; Arms of the Kings and Queens...

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Lot n° 42 

Yorkshire.- Fox Hunting Diary,...

Yorkshire.- Fox Hunting Diary, manuscript, 92pp., original morocco, gilt, rubbed, lacks spine, 123 x 204mm., 1886-87. ⁂ Includes Towton and Harewood.

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Lot n° 43 

Dr. R. A. Torrey

NO RESERVE Sermons.- Torrey (Dr. R. A.) Sermons, 2 vol., typescript sermons, each dated with locations where the sermons were delivered, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, near contemporary cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to spine extremities,...

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Lot n° 44 

Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers...

Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools.- Samuel Hope Morley (Samuel, first Baron Hollenden, Governor of the Bank of England, 1845-1929) Illuminated address to Lord Hollenden on his fifty years as Honorary Treasurer of the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers'...

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Lot n° 45 

JOHN F. KENNEDY

NO RESERVE Kennedy (John Fitzgerald, President of the United States, 1917-63) Album of photographs and ephemera, including: 3 signed indistinct photographs of John F Kennedy taken from a television broadcast probably signed by a secretary on the President's...

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Lot n° 46 

John Gower

Gower (John) De Confessione amantis, second edition, black letter, mostly printed in double column, lacking title and 3 other leaves of text (H6, I1 and I2, all supplied in facsimile), also lacking final blank, aa2 with corners defective and some text...

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Lot n° 47 

Antonio de Guevara

Guevara (Antonio de) The Dial of Princes..., translated by Thomas North, third edition, black letter, lacking woodcut title (A1), A8 and signatures G, H, Z, 2C-2G, 2I, 2L3-6, 2M-3A, 3D and all after 3E8, 2L1 & 2 misbound after 2L7 & 8, contemporary ink...

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Lot n° 48 

Scottish ownership.- Bible, English.-...

Scottish ownership.- Bible, English.- The Bible, that is, the holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and new Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, 3 parts in 1, NT with engraved pictorial title, woodcut maps and illustrations within...

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Lot n° 49 

Psalms, English.- The Psalmes of...

Psalms, English.- The Psalmes of David, collation: A-K⁸, lacking title, D⁵, F¹ & F⁴, title supplied in 19th century manuscript hand, some early or contemporary hand-colouring to initials, other in later hand, endpapers renewed, some browning and light...

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Lot n° 50 

Scottish ownership.- Bible, Greek.-...

Scottish ownership.- Bible, Greek.- Hē Kainē Diathēkē Novum testamentum, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title and following f. outer margin frayed, water-stained, mostly at ends, occasional spotting, lightly...

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