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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1937TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1937. Sold for £70,250 inc. premium
LOGGAN (DAVID) Cantabrigia illustrata sive omnium celeberrimae istius Universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae... nec non totius oppidi Ichnographia, FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, [1690]LOGGAN (DAVID) Cantabrigia illustrata sive omnium celeberrimae istius Universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae academicae... nec non totius oppidi Ichnographia, FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, [1690]. Sold for £28,160 inc. premium
EDWARD III - YORKSHIRE Illuminated Royal Licence, bearing the great seal, Westminster, 15 November 1368EDWARD III - YORKSHIRE Illuminated Royal Licence, bearing the great seal, Westminster, 15 November 1368. Sold for £23,040 inc. premium
GAUTIER D'AGOTY (JACQUES FABIEN) Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme et de la femme, répresentées avec leurs couleurs naturelles, selon le nouvel art, jointe a l'angéologie e tout le corps humain, et a ce qui concerne la grossesse et les accouchemens, Paris, J.B. Brunet and Demonville, 1773GAUTIER D'AGOTY (JACQUES FABIEN) Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme et de la femme, répresentées avec leurs couleurs naturelles, selon le nouvel art, jointe a l'angéologie e tout le corps humain, et a ce qui concerne la grossesse et les accouchemens, Paris, J.B. Brunet and Demonville, 1773. Sold for £6,144 inc. premium
FLEMING (IAN) Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, second impression, Jonathan Cape, [1953]FLEMING (IAN) Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, second impression, Jonathan Cape, [1953]. Sold for £4,608 inc. premium
CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Archive of upwards of 1,700 photographs of Chaplin, his life, work and circle (quantity)CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Archive of upwards of 1,700 photographs of Chaplin, his life, work and circle (quantity). Sold for £3,328 inc. premium
CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Playbill for 'Sherlock Holmes', Wolverhampton, Whitehead Bros, Theatrical Printers, [1903]CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Playbill for 'Sherlock Holmes', Wolverhampton, Whitehead Bros, Theatrical Printers, [1903]. Sold for £2,560 inc. premium
CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) STEICHEN (EDWARD) 3 photographs of Chaplin (3)CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) STEICHEN (EDWARD) 3 photographs of Chaplin (3). Sold for £2,560 inc. premium
CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) 6 signed photographs, another annotated, and 4 others (11)CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) 6 signed photographs, another annotated, and 4 others (11). Sold for £2,048 inc. premium
CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings signed and inscribed Hollywood, February 1933CHAPLIN (CHARLIE) Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings signed and inscribed Hollywood, February 1933. Sold for £563.20 inc. premium

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ASHER AND ADAMS Asher & Adams' New Historical and Topographical Atlas of the United States, [1872]
BLAEU (JAN) Delfi Batavorum vernacule Delft, [Amsterdam, 1649 or later] and 6 other maps (Europe, Africa and World) (7)
BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN) Toonneel des Aerdrycz, oft Nieuwe Atlas... Tweede Deels, 2 parts in 1 vol., Amsterdam, Jan Blaeu, 1642
BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN) Toonneel des Aerdrycks oft Nieuwe Atlas...Vierde Deel, Amsterdam, Jan Blaeu, 1646 [but 1647]
BRADFORD (THOMAS G.) A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial, 1835; and atlases, American, by Johnson, and Rand, McNally & Co. (3)
BRESSANI (FRANCESCO GIUSEPPE) Breve relatione..nella Nuova Francia, FIRST EDITION, Macerata, 1653
BROCKEDON (WILLIAM) Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1828-1829, and one other (3)
CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, A. Swalle, A. & J. Churchill, 1695
CAMDEN (WILIAM) Britannia... with additions and improvements by Edmund Gibson, 2 vol., W. Bowyer etc., 1772
CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR Military Sketch of the Operations against the City of Chin-Keang on the Yang-tse-keang, n.d. [after 1842]
COLTON (GEORGE WOOLWORTH) Colton's General Atlas, 1865; Colton/Johnson. New Illustrated Family Atlas, 1862; Mitchell. New General Atlas, 1864 (3)
COLTON (GEORGE WOOLWORTH) Colton's General Atlas, 1857
EGYPT - ANTIQUITIES [Description de l'Égypte], bound volume of plates only, [Paris, L'Imprimerie Impériale, c.1820]
GRAY (O.W.) Gray's Atlas of the United States, with General Maps of the World, Philadelphia, 1874
HAWTHORNTHWAITE (SAMUEL) Mr. Hawthornthwaite's Adventures among the Mormons, Manchester, 1857
LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR) Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley, FIRST EDITION, Liverpool, 1855
MITCHELL (SAMUEL AUGUSTUS) A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires...With a Special Map of Each of the United States, Philadelphia, 1850
MITCHELL (SAMUEL AUGUSTUS) Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Philadelphia, S. Augustus Mitchell, 1872
MORSE (SIDNEY E.) Morse's North American Atlas, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1842 [but 1845]
NORFOLK and SUFFOLK SPEED (JOHN) Norfolk and Sufolk, 2 double-page engraved maps with outline hand-colouring (2)
PURCHAS (SAMUEL) Purchas his Pilgrimage, FIRST EDITION, 1613
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE The Complete Atlas of Modern, Classical and Celestial Maps, together with Plans of the Principal Cities of the World, Edward Stanford, 1857
SPEED (JOHN) AND WILLEM BLAEU Pictorial title-pages to Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' and Blaeu's 'Le Théâtre du Monde... Quatriesme partie [Britain]'; and 2 others
SPEED (JOHN) Yorkshire; The North and East Ridins of Yorkshire; West Ridyingses...; Buckinham, [c.1730], hand-coloured engraved maps; and others (7)
AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS) [Opera], Venice, Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1517
BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) Autograph letter signed twice ("Beethoven"), including a canon, [n.p. but Vienna], 3 May 1825
BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) [Symphonies 2-6 in 5 vol.], FIRST EDITIONS, [1822-1826] (5)
BIBLE, IN GREEK [The Sistine Septuagint], Rome, Francesco Zanetti, 1586 [changed in ink, as always, to 1587]
FABRIS (SALVATOR) De lo schermo overo scienza d'arme, FIRST EDITION, 1606
FRENCH REVOLUTION - LOUIS XVI Document signed and subscribed by the King ("Bon Louis"), Paris, 24 November 1789
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES A group of 8 illuminated leaves from a Book of Hours, Rouen, c.1475 (8)
LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) Fables, 4 vol., Paris, Bossange, Masson & Besson, 1796
MOLIERE (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE) Les oeuvres de monsieur de Molière, 6 vol. (of 8), Paris, Jacques Le Febvre, 1705, 8vo; together with Jean Guilbert's 4-volume "Bibliographie des œuvres de Molière publiées au XVIIe siècle", 1961 (15)
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE & LOUIS XVIII Documents, two signed by Napoleon, relating to Pierre Sulpice Abert [or Habert] (5)
PARADIN (CLAUDE) Devises heroiques, Lyon, Jan de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1557
PÉREZ BOCANEGRA (JUAN) Ritual formulario, Lima, 1631
THEATRE SCENERY - ITALY Raccolta di varie scene eseguite dai più celebri pittori teatrali in Milano, Milan, Stanislao Stucchi, 1819, sold as collection of plates
IRELAND - FLORA THRELKELD (CALEB) Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum..., FIRST EDITION, 1727
IRELAND - IRISH BIBLE [New Testament] Tiomna nuadh ar dtighearna agus slanaightheora iosa criosd, E. Everingham, 1690
IRELAND - IRISH BIBLE Leabhuir ná seintiomna..., FIRST EDITION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN IRISH, 1685
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Lucerna fidelium...,FIRST EDITION, Rome, 1676
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE [RICHARDSON (JOHN), translator] Seanmora ar na priom phoncibh, in a chreideamh... Sermons upon the Principal Points of Religion, 1711
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE O'HUSSEY (BONAVENTURA) [GIOLLA BRIGHDE Ó HEODHASA] An teagasg críosdaidheis an so, arna cuma do Bonabentura ohodasa bratar bos, 1707; and others (7)
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MACMURTIN (HUGH) [AODH BUI MAC CRUITIN] The Elements of the Irish Language, FIRST EDITION, Louvain, 1728
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MARCEL (JEAN JOSEPH) Alphabet Irlandais, FIRST EDITION, Paris, [1804]
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE The Book of Common Prayer [-Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccombchoitchionn], E. Everingham, [1712]
IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Latino-Hibernica, nunc compendiata, FIRST EDITION, Rome, 1677
IRELAND - MANUSCRIPT PEDIGREESTwo Manuscript pedigrees of the Bolton family of Mount Bolton, Waterford, late nineteenth-century
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