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An Eclectic Library

AUCTION

Sale: LJ8221
16 November 2017, 2:00pm 333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141

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Lot 104

HARCOURT BINDERY: AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT & USAGE OF BRASS PLATE DIES. Including a catalogue raisonné from the collection of the...

Estimate:
$120 - 180

Sold for $30

Lot 105

[ILLUSTRATORS & BOOK DESIGN]: A nice group of five books on illustrators and book design, including: COVER. powerHouse Books, 2014. ...

Estimate:
$120 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 106

[RUSSIAN TYPOGRAPHY]: THE LETTERING ART. Works by Russian book designers 1959-1974. super roy. 4to. Kniga, 1977. First edition. Walt...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 107

[PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY]: A very good group of 14 books about typography and printing, including: RHYTHM AND PROPORTION IN LETTERING....

Estimate:
$200 - 300

Sold for $50

Lot 112

FAVENC, Ernest: MAROONED ON AUSTRALIA. Blackie & Son, [1896]. First edition. (Muir 2443.) An excellent copy.

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 119

[POISONS, FORENSICS & MEDICINE]: A group of seven works about poisons, forensic science, &c., including HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ...

Estimate:
$80 - 120

Sold for $30

Lot 120

[CONFECTIONERY]: JEANES, William. GUNTER’S MODERN CONFECTIONER AND BISCUIT BAKER. Revised by W. J. Robinson. Dean & Son, [c.1900].

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 129

PRATCHETT, Terry: A very nice group of four signed Pratchett books: SMALL GODs. Victor Gollancz, 1992. First edition. + FEET OF CLAY...

Estimate:
$250 - 300

Sold for $80

Lot 131

[SCIENCE FICTION]: A group of 32 vintage sci-fi paperbacks, including works by Heinlein, Asimov, E. E. Doc Smith and Philip José Far...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $60

Lot 134

THRILLS INCORPORATED. Adventures in Space and the World of Tomorrow. No. 4. Associated General Publications, [1950]. Scarce. + A gro...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 135

[AUSTRALIAN COMICS]: BONZER. Australian comics 1900s-1990s. Elgua Media, 1998. No. 40 of a special limited edition of 200 copies, wi...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $100

Lot 136

[GRAPHIC NOVELS]: A nice group of modern graphic novels and comics, including: THE ODYSSEY. Candlewick Press, 2010. First edition.

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $60

Lot 137

[MOOMIN]: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP. Vols. 1-6. Drawn & Quarterly, 2007-2011.

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 138

[GOLLANCZ]: A group of 32 Victor Gollancz crime and adventure books, mostly first edition.

Estimate:
$200 - 300

Sold for $80

Lot 139

[CLASSIC CRIME FICTION]: Five volumes from Boardman’s American Bloodhound series, including McBAIN, Ed. SEE THEM DIE. T. V. Boardman...

Estimate:
$100 - 120

Sold for $30

Lot 140

[CLASSIC CRIME FICTION]. A group of 13 crime paperbacks from Orion Books’ Crime Masterworks series.

Estimate:
$80 - 100

Sold for $80

Lot 141

[CLASSIC CRIME FICTION]: A collection of 39 vintage crime hardbacks.

Estimate:
$200 - 300

Sold for $50

Lot 143

BARRIE, J. M. THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1915]. + QUALITY STREET. Illustrated by Hu...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 144

[BINDINGS]: A nice group of eight vellum, morocco and calf bindings.

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 145

[BINDINGS]: A collection of ten morocco and calf bindings, including by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf.

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $50

Lot 146

[BINDINGS]: An attractive group of ten Victorian decorative cloth bindings (literature).

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 147

[BINDINGS]: A nice group of 11 Victorian and Edwardian pictorial & decorative cloth bindings.

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $40

Lot 148

DOBSON, Austin: THE STORY OF ROSINA AND OTHER VERSES. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Kegan Paul et al., 1895. First edition. + READE, ...

Estimate:
$100 - 120

Sold for $30

Lot 151

[‘YELLOWBACKS’]: A group of four Victorian ‘yellowbacks’: ARTEMIS WARD. Chatto & Windus, 1890. + CATRIONA. Colonial edition. Cassell...

Estimate:
$200 - 300

Sold for $40

Lot 152

[BINDINGS]: A group of five nicely bound science & history books, including: THE ROMANCE OF MODERN GEOLOGY. Seeley & Co., 1909. Firs...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $120

Lot 156

BEWICK, John & Thomas (illus.): GAY, John. FABLES BY THE LATE MR. GAY. f’cap 8vo, engraved frontispiece & text illustrations (by Joh...

Estimate:
$100 - 120

Sold for $30

Lot 157

[EGYPT]: Seven books about the exploration, archaeological discoveries & history of Egypt, including: EDWARDS, Amelia B. PHARAOHS, F...

Estimate:
$450 - 600

Sold for $450

Lot 158

OLIPHANT, Sir Oscar: CHINA: A popular history. [Bound with] SANDWITH, Humphry. A NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF KARS. A new edition, abri...

Estimate:
$300 - 500

Sold for $160

Lot 159

[CHINA]: CHINA: HER LIFE AND HER PEOPLE. University of London Press, 1946. First edition. + CANTON AIRLIFT. Collins, 1957.

Estimate:
$50 - 90

Sold for $40

Lot 161

[TRAVEL]: A group of five attractive books relating to travel, including: VICTORIAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL CHARADES. Stillwel...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 163

STANLEY, Henry M.: THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. Vols I & II. George Newnes, 1899. + STANLEY’S EMIN PASHA EXPEDITION. John C. Nimmo, 1...

Estimate:
$200 - 300

Sold for $50

Lot 164

A VICTORIAN AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE JOURNAL: Featuring poetry and quotations (in English & German), pressed flowers, and pen & pencil dra...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $100

Lot 165

[DUKE OF WELLINGTON]: MAXWELL, W. H. THE LIFE OF WELLINGTON. New edition. Revised, condensed & completed. Bickers & Son, 1883.

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 166

HARRIS, Phillip L. (ed.) AUSSIE. A reprint of all the numbers of the Diggers’ own paper of the battlefield. Phillip L. Harris for Th...

Estimate:
$200 - 250

Sold for $80

Lot 168

[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS. Cape, 1937. Life & Letters Series No. 71. Scotch College prize binding, calf, gilt .+ Uni...

Estimate:
$120 - 180

Sold for $180

Lot 170

[ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL HISTORY]: A nice group of eleven books on ancient and medieval history, including: CHRONICLES. Hambledon & Londo...

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 182

[AUDREY HEPBURN]: A nice group of four books about Audrey Hepburn, including: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. Official 50th Anniversary Comp...

Estimate:
$80 - 120

Sold for $80

Lot 183

[GARDEN DESIGN]: Four books about garden design, including Paul Bangay’s: THE GARDEN AT STONEFIELDS. Lantern, 2013. Second impression.

Estimate:
$80 - 120

Sold for $30

Lot 184

[PERIOD FURNITURE]: MACQUOID, Percy. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE. Vols I & II. Antique Collectors’ Club, 1987. + EUROPEAN FURNITU...

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $50

Lot 185

[MODERN DESIGN]: Five books on modern design subjects, including: SHOW. Glitterati, 2009. First edition. Signed by Ralph Pucci. + CH...

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 186

[INTERIOR DESIGN]: HICKS, Ashley. DAVID HICKS: A LIFE OF DESIGN. Rizzoli, 2009. First edition.

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $150

Lot 187

[INTERIOR DESIGN]: Five nice books about interior design, including: LIVING IN PORTUGAL. Flammarion, 2006. Revised edition. + GRANDI...

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 188

[EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE]: A group of four books about European architecture, including: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSE IN BRITAIN. Aurum...

Estimate:
$120 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 189

[MODERN ARCHITECTURE]: A large group of 13 architecture books, mostly about modern architecture, including: THE SKETCH BOOK. Frechma...

Estimate:
$120 - 150

Sold for $60

Lot 191

[FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]: Two books on the iconic architect by Iain Thomson: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN POP-UP. Thunder Bay Press, 2001. Firs...

Estimate:
$80 - 120

Sold for $80

Lot 192

[PHOTOGRAPHY]: SNOWDEN. A life in view. Rizzoli, 2014. First edition. + DOROTHEA LANGE. Chronicle Books, 2015. First edition. + THE ...

Estimate:
$150 - 200

Sold for $30

Lot 193

[SURREALISM]: Three works on surrealism: DALI AND FILM. Tate Publishing, 2007. First U.K. edition. + DUCHAMP: PASSIM. Gordon & Breac...

Estimate:
$100 - 150

Sold for $30

Lot 199

WALTON, Izaac & Charles Cotton: THE COMPLETE ANGLER. A new illustrated edition, with notes by G. Christopher Davies. Frederick Warne...

Estimate:
$80 - 120

Sold for $40

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