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LOT 3130
LOT 3130
DE MORGAN, William. Joseph Vance, An Ill-written Autobiography. London: William Heinemann, 1906. First edition, 8vo (190 x 121mm). Original cloth, boxed. Provenance: Donald D. Day (signature dated September 1906); Michael Ernest Sadler (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3133
LOT 3133
FLOWERS & GARDENING. - C.S. COOPER & W. Percival WESTELL. Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles, Native & Acclimatised. London & New York: 1909. First edition, 2 vols., large 4to (297 x 228mm). Colour frontispieces, plates (14 colour). (1 plate torn without loss, some browning or spotting.) Original green cloth (extremities somewhat bumped, lower joint of vol. II splitting). - And thirty-eight others of similar interest (39). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3134
LOT 3134
GALLATIN, A.E. Whistler's Art Dicta and other essays. Boston & London: Charles E. Goodspeed & Elkin Mathews, 1904. Small 8vo (198 x 118mm). Plates, some folding. (Occasional light spotting.) Original cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper label to spine (light soiling and scuffing). - And eight others similar, late 19th or early 20th Century literature or reference (10). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £110
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LOT 3135
LOT 3135
GELL, William. Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819. London: Lewis A. Lewis, 1837. 2 vols., 8vo (240 x 153mm). Engraved additional title, plates and illustrations (2 plates hand-coloured, some illustrations on India paper mounted). Contemporary calf prize binding, with a gilt armorial at the centre of each cover, gilt spines with a related armorial crest in the top and bottom compartments, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. (lightly soiled, extremities bumped). Provenance: Charles J. Richardes (presentation inscription, signature); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £110
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LOT 3136
LOT 3136
HAYLEY, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper… second edition. Chichester: 1803. Second edition of vols. I and II, first edition of vol. III, 3 vols. (264 x 205mm). (Lacking plates, some light damp-staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, covers with borders decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers (neatly rebacked). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3137
LOT 3137
HERALDRY. - J.H. & R.V. PINCHES. The Royal Heraldry of England. London: 1974. 4to (268 x 198mm). Numerous illustrations, many colour. Original cloth. - And twelve others of similar interest (13). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3139
LOT 3139
HUNTING. - Robert B. FOUNTAIN. A History of the Burton Hunt, the first 300 years. Otley: 1996. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo (242 x 165mm). Illustrations, some colour. Original cloth. Provenance: W. Leslie Weller (presentation inscription signed by the author to title-page). - And approximately seventy-eight others on hunting (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £280
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LOT 3140
LOT 3140
INGPEN, Roger. Shelley in England. London: 1917. First edition, 8vo (218 x 140mm). Portrait frontispiece, 1 folding genealogical table, plates. Contemporary light brown half-morocco by Root, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, t.e.g. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3141
LOT 3141
KAYE, John William. The Administration of the East India Company; a History of Indian Progress. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 8vo (214 x 132mm). Later brown half-morocco, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £65
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LOT 3143
LOT 3143
KNOX, Alfred Edward. Autumns on the Spey. London: John van Voorst, 1872. First edition, small 8vo (194 x 125mm). 4 plates. Original cloth, blocked in gilt (spine slightly faded, extremities lightly bumped). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £24
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LOT 3144
LOT 3144
LAWRENCE, T.E. The Mint… by 352087 A/c Ross. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, 4to (247 x 185mm). Original cloth, dust-jacket (soiled). - And seventeen others by or on Lawrence (18). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3145
LOT 3145
LITERATURE. - 'George ORWELL' [Eric BLAIR]. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. First edition, Left Book Club issue, 8vo (217 x 140mm). Illustrations. (Minor light browning.) Original limp cloth (old faint creases). - And sixty-eight others of similar interest (69). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £130
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LOT 3146
LOT 3146
LONDON LIVERY COMPANIES. - Charles WELCH. Coat-Armour of the London Livery Companies. London: printed for private subscribers, 1914. 4to (291 x 218mm). Numerous plates, 2 folding tables. (Light spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (slightly spotted). Provenance: John G. Hughson (bookplate). - And eleven others of similar interest (12). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £70
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LOT 3147
LOT 3147
MEYNELL, Alice. Essays. London: Burns & Oates, 1914. Limited edition of 250 large paper copies, this number 9, 4to (198 x 145mm). Frontispiece after Piranesi. (Light offsetting from frontispiece onto the title.) Contemporary blue/grey morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine divided into two unequal compartments by a raised band, lettered in gilt in the uppermost, the lower with a design of daisies and foliage built up from small tools, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (light scuffing to extremities, slight discolouration of the spine). Provenance: Cecilia Codrington (inscription dated May 1923, possibly noting the gift of the book, as a wedding present, from Lady Victoria Machell); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3148
LOT 3148
NATURAL HISTORY. - Archibald THORBURN. British Birds. London, New York, etc.: 1916. Mixed edition, 4 vols., large 4to (314 x 257mm). 80 colour plates. (Slightly affected by damp.) Original cloth (faded and somewhat affected by damp). - And thirty-four others of similar interest (38). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £55
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LOT 3150
LOT 3150
PINKNEY, Ninian. Travels through the South of France… second edition. London: printed for Gale, Curtis & Fenner, 1814. 8vo (212 x 130mm). 1 folding hand-coloured engraved map. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary half-calf (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance: John Graham (early signature); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £40
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LOT 3151
LOT 3151
RAMSBOTTOM, John. Edible Fungi. London & New York: The King Penguin Books, 1943. 8vo (180 x 119mm). Full-page colour illustrations. Original pictorial boards (backstrip slightly browned). - And a quantity of others, all from the King Penguin, Batsford, Observer or Britain in Pictures series (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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LOT 3152
LOT 3152
ROBINS, George. Strawberry Hill, the Renowned Seat of Horace Walpole… to sell by Public Competition, the Valuable Contents of Strawberry Hill… April, 1842. 8vo (264 x 211mm). Portrait frontispiece, engraved additional decorative title. (Some browning and soiling.) Original cloth-backed wrappers (creased and soiled, lower cover detached). - And ten others (11). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £560
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LOT 3153
LOT 3153
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Poetical Works... edited with preface by William M. Rossetti … new edition in one volume. London: Ellis and Elvey, 1905. 8vo (185 x 120mm). Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Bumpus Ltd., covers with double-fillet gilt border, the spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (small insignificant gouge to upper cover). Provenance: P.A. Thomas (gift inscription dated 1907); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Hammer price: £60
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LOT 3154
LOT 3154
SMITH, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse… a new edition. Bath: printed by Richard Cruttwell, sold by Cadell & Davies of London & S. Cheyne of Edinburgh, 1810. Vol. I (sold separately or with vol. II see advert at back of second work), 8vo (210 x 135mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. (Spotting to portrait.). - And The Book of Job; translated from the Hebrew, by the late Miss Elizabeth Smith. Bath: printed by Richard Cruttwell, sold by Cadell & Davies of London & S. Cheyne of Edinburgh, 1810. 8vo (210 x 135mm). The two works in uniform contemporary tree-calf, spines gilt (spines somewhat rubbed) (2). Provenance: Lucy Rigmaiden (inscription or signature to each work); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
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