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Lot 21

CALLIAT, Victor. PARALLELE DES MAISONS DE PARIS CONSTRUITES DEPUIS 1830 JUSQU'A NOS JOURS. E. Noblet, Liege, 1851. Folio. With 126 engraved plates, some remounted. Title-page slightly spotty, otherwise internally the copy is very clean in recent half mid-brown calf with cream buckram sides. Spine with contrasting labels and raised bands. A very handsome and important item illustrating buildings by major architects of the period. (1) Estimates £240.00 - £300.00

Lot 22

CARLYLE, Thomas. THE WORKS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. Chapman and Hall, London, 1899. 30 volumes. 8vo. The Centenary Edition. A hint of spotting to some edges and browning to the endpapers, former owner's circular blind stamp to the front free endpaper of each volume, otherwise a very handsome set with title-pages printed in red and black and in the original dark blue publisher's cloth, lettered gilt. (30) Estimates £120.00 - £160.00

Lot 23

[CHESS] - "MAC" (Captain G.D. Machin). HASTINGS 50TH INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS - ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND PASTEL DRAWING. Published by the Hastings Observer on January 4th 1975. Approx. 300mm x 530mm. Includes portraits of Rafael Vaganian, Tony Miles, Michael Stean etc. Framed and glazed. Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 24

CHITTENDEN, Fred J. THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969 [etc]. 4to. Second edition. Four volumes plus Supplement volume. All reprints of the Second Edition with corrections. Donor inscription to the front free endpaper of volume one, otherwise a fine set in dustwrapper. (5) Estimates £80.00 - £120.00

Lot 25

CICERO, M. Tullius. OPERA Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in recensendis authoris huius scriptis cauti & perdilegentis: quem nos industria, quanta potuimus, cõsequuti, quasdam orationes redintegratas ... vobis exhibemus. Eivsdem Victorii explicationes suarum in Ciceronem castigationum. Index rervm et verborvm ... Parisiis, Ex Officina [Roberti Stephani] 1539 [-1538]. 5 volumes bound in two; woodengraved printers device on title of each volume and general title, publishers name inexplicably removed from five of the titles. eighteenth century calf, upper board of volume one detached; armorial bookplate of Charles Legh Hoskins. Brunet, II, 7; Adams, C-1640; Renouard, p. 48. (2) Edited by Petrus Victorius (1499-1585), possibly greatest greek scholar working in Italy in the sixtenth century, the work was originally printed by Junta in Venice edition between 1534 and 1537. Each volume has special title page with vols. 1, 3-5 have dated 1538 and vol. 2 dated 1539. The Opera contains; 1. Rhetorica; 2. Orationes; 3. Epistolae; 4. Philosophica; 5. Victorii Explicationes. Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 26

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Allen and Richard Lane, Silverbeck, Stanwell Moor, Middlesex, 1945. One of an edition of 700 copies; one of the Allen Lane Christmas books. Printed on hand-made Barcham Green paper. The illustrations are by Duncan Grant. The book is bound in full niger morocco with a gilt medallion on the upper cover featuring the title and a sailing ship. The book is accompanied by a charming printed letter incorporating amusing pictograms and signed by Allen Lane referring to technical problems now overcome and hoping the recipient will like the book. Our copy has slight discoloration to the margins of the paste-downs, it is otherwise internally very clean bright and crisp in a binding with just a hint of wear to the spine extremities. (1) Estimates £80.00 - £120.00

Lot 27

COLLINS, W. Wilkie. MR. WRAY'S CASH-BOX; OR, THE MASK AND THE MYSTERY. A CHRISTMAS SKETCH. Richard Bentley, London, 1852. First edition, first printing. Duodecimo. Former owner's name and date to the front paste-down, otherwise internally reasonably clean in the original blind-blocked dark-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover. The corners are a little bumped and the cloth is somewhat marked. This is not the best copy we have ever seen but is a nice straight collectable copy of a scarce early work. (1) Estimates £400.00 - £600.00

Lot 28

[COMBE, WILLIAM] THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. R. Ackermann, London, n.d. 8vo. Ninth edition. Illustrated with thirty-one hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson including the frontispiece and title-page. Later owner's name to the front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean bright copy in blind-blocked brick coloured cloth with elaborately gilt spine. With the armorial bookplate of W.H. Bradley. THE SECOND TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION. R. Ackermann, London, 1820. 8vo. Second Edition. Illustrated with twenty-four hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson. A very clean copy in half biscuit cloth over plain boards with contrasting leather spine label. With the engraved bookplate of Chas. H. Warne. THE THIRD TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. R. Ackermann, London, n.d. 8vo. Third edition. Illustrated with twenty-four hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson. Later owner's name to the front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean bright copy in blind-blocked brick coloured cloth with elaborately gilt spine. With the armorial bookplate of W.H. Bradley. (3) Estimates £350.00 - £450.00

Lot 29

[COOKERY] - HARRIS, H.G. & BORELLA, S.P. ALL ABOUT GENOESE ]GLACÉS, PETIT FOURS & BON BONS. MacLaren & Sons Ltd, London n.d. 4to. Green cloth boards, a little soiled but a sound copy. Monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. SIMON, André L. THE ART OF GOOD LIVING. Constable & Co Ltd, London 1930. Second edition. 8vo. Orange cloth. Plus 26 other titles on food and cookery, including a fourth edition of Soyer's "Gastronomic Regenerator" which has been completed by the insertion of facsimile pages. (30) Estimates £120.00 - £150.00

Lot 30

CUVIER, Georges, Baron. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ARRANGED IN CONFORMITY WITH ITS ORGANIZATION. Carvill, New York, 1831. 8vo. First edition, thus. Four volumes. Translated from the French by H. M'Murtrie. Text very browned in parts, plates somewhat browned. In quarter roan with marbled sides and vellum tips. (4) Estimates £40.00 - £60.00

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