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Books, Maps and Postcards: Wednesday 10 March 2010 12:00PM
Viewing: Tuesday 9 March 10.00am - 4.00pm and morning of sale.
 

Gaultier (Leonard)
'Last Judgement of Michelangelo', nd. engraving 310mm x 232mm, note to rear 'copied from Martin Rota's engraving dated 1569 before the clothes were added ..., mounted; Rota (Martin), 'Sebenico en Dalmatie' engraving, 400mm x 272mm, laid down, ms note gives date as 1530; with thirteen others including a watercolour portrait of a Maori (15)
[note; individual images available at Tennants website]

Guide Price: £60-100

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'Quiz (Roland)'
Giant-Land, The Wonderful Adventures of Tim Pippin, 1936, dust wrapper; Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul) & Rentoul (Annie R.), The Little Green Road to Fairyland, 1947, colour plates, dust wrapper (torn); Dallas-Smith (Peter) & Peter Cross, Trouble for Trumpets, 1982, 4to., first edition, pictorial boards; with five others (8)

Guide Price: £80-120

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L.E.L.
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1834 & 1835, 1833-4, 2 vols., 4to., engraved plates, morocco-backed cloth; Old England's Worthies: A Gallery of Portraits .., 1847, folio, colour and plain plates, half morocco; Leech (John), Pictures of Life and Character, 1886, 3 vols., 4to., a.e.g., half morocco; with fifteen others (21)

Guide Price: £50-80

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Family Pedigree
An ornate family pedigree showing descent from Robert the Bruce via Annabella Drummond to the Fowler family with links to the Drummond, Arrott, Patton, Shaw, Corry, Haughton, Boake and Barcroft families, nd. [post 1901], framed within a large outer glazed frame, the margins containing 15 framed miniature portraits and 3 framed prospects (of the Corry Monument, Newry; 'Cherryfield', Templeogue and Ballybrack Lodge, Co. Dublin)

Guide Price: £200-400

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Potter (Beatrix)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, nd, [1902], first trade edition, Peter 'wept big tears', grey leaf pattern end papers, grey boards (a worn copy with loose pages, pencil scribble to blank p 12/13, weak hinge, detached boards, lacking backstrip, tape residue to boards)

Guide Price: £100-200

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Ambrus (Victor G.)
The Seven Skinny Goats, 1969, original artwork, produced as an alternative page for The Seven Skinny Goats, OUP, 1969, Gouache, signed and dated, 287mm x 207mm visible, mounted, framed and glazed; with an American 1970 first edition of the book, in dust wrapper (2)

Guide Price: £30-50

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Indian Miniature
A prince, enthroned below an ornate pavilion, drinking with a female companion, surrounded by a further five courtesans or attendants, nd. [believed 19th century], gouache with gold on paper, four lines of text in panel above, two lines below, sepia sketches of birds and plants in margins, image 189mm x 113mm, sheet 280mm x 160mm, (worm tracks in margins and upper text panel with some loss to wording, restoration to margins), text to verso, glazed and framed in Chinese style wooden frame, inset with mother of pearl

Guide Price: £800-1200

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Yeats (W.B.)
Poems, 1901, first edition, original cloth gilt (spine faded); Campbell (Thomas), The Pleasures of Hope, with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Campbell, 1821, London, ornate manuscript by Geo. Mackay, [3], 65 pages (single sided) with variety of decorative borders, a.e.g., contemporary morocco gilt (rubbed, silk endpapers stained); (2)

Guide Price: £80-120

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Science Fiction
Macleod (Ken), Engines of Light series; Cosmonaut Keep, 2000, Dark Light, 2001, Engine City, 2002, first editions, vol. 3 signed, dust wrappers; Turtledove (Harry), World War: In the Balance, 1994, first edition, dust wrapper; with twenty-one others (25)

Guide Price: £30-50

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Orwell (George)
Animal Farm, A Fairy Story, 1945, first edition, later leather binding with gilt pig to upper board, contained within cloth solander box; id., The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937, first edition (not LBC), red [?later] cloth; id., England your England, and Other Essays, 1953, first edition, dust wrapper; with eleven others (14)

Guide Price: £100-200

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