Sale BK24: POSTPONED Antiquarian Book Sale
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Okehampton Street
St Edmund's Court
EX4 1DU Exeter
United Kingdom
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Date of the auction: 25.01.2021

ALBUM - Ernst Und Scherz Von Albert Hendsche
ALBUM - Ernst und Scherz von Albert Hendsche 24 prints photographed by Th Huth, Frankfurt, in a very worn original cloth, portfolio, no date
Lot #: 1
Estimate: £30 - £45
Date: 25 Jan 2021

ANDROUET du CERCEAU, Jacques - Second Livre D'Architecture
ANDROUET du CERCEAU, Jacques - Second Livre D'Architecture Imperfect copy having 39 plates and one leaf of text, calf worn, folio, title-page is defective lacking one corner, Paris, 1561 * the first issue of the plates. *with all faults, not subject to return
Lot #: 2
Estimate: £120 - £200
Date: 25 Jan 2021

AQUILA PRESS
AQUILA PRESS A Song about Tsar Ivan Dasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov : by Mikhail Purievitch Lermontov. Translated by John Cournos with decorations by Paul Nash - original full morocco with calf inlays and blind tooling in contrasting rectangular shapes by PAUL
Lot #: 3
Estimate: £200 - £300
Date: 25 Jan 2021

ART & TECHNICS
ART & TECHNICS ... (publisher) English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 by Thomas Balston 1900-1950, original cloth backed marbled boards, 4to, neat contemporary inscription to the woodcut artist Mary Skempton, 1951
Lot #: 4
Estimate: £30 - £50
Date: 25 Jan 2021

BAWDEN, Edward
BAWDEN, Edward A Retrospective Survey by Justin Howes - original decorative wrappers, illustrated, Combined Arts, 1988. * useful reference
Lot #: 6
Estimate: £60 - £80
Date: 25 Jan 2021

BEVERIDGE, Thomas J - English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730
BEVERIDGE, Thomas J - English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730 80 plates, cloth backed boards, folio, Batsford, (1921) with - Cescinsky, Herbert and Gribble, Ernest - Early English Furniture and Woodwork - two volumes, 1922. Fifty Years of Art Fabrics by Lisio, 1956. RW Symonds, RW - English Furniture
Lot #: 7
Estimate: £75 - £125
Date: 25 Jan 2021

CALDER, Ritchie - Leonardo
CALDER, Ritchie - Leonardo and the Age of the Eye - sumptuously bound in full tan morocco with central device with coloured inlays by Zaehnsdorf, well illustrated, 4to, Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, the Arcadia Press, 1971. * signed by author on the title-page; with 2 books of Gilbert and
Lot #: 8
Estimate: £100 - £150
Date: 25 Jan 2021

CESCINSKY, Herbert & GRIBBLE, Ernest R - Early English Furniture & Woodwork
CESCINSKY, Herbert & GRIBBLE, Ernest R - Early English Furniture & Woodwork 2 vols, well illustrated, cloth, folio, Waverley Book Company, 1922; with - Cescinsky, Herbert, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vols. illustrated, original half morocco, rubbed but sound, folio, Waverley Book
Lot #: 9
Estimate: £100 - £175
Date: 25 Jan 2021

COX, David
COX, David a bound volume of his etched plates, (no title-page), 9 plates (water stained), original full morocco, oblong elephant folio, c1830s
Lot #: 10
Estimate: £60 - £120
Date: 25 Jan 2021

CRAIG, John - Britten's Aldeburgh with Eighty-one Engravings & Three...
CRAIG, John - Britten's Aldeburgh with eighty-one engravings & three two-colour linocuts by the author original cloth spine and fore-edge, decorative boards, printed paper label on the spine, slipcase, folio, limited edition of 440 copies signed and numbered by the artist, Whittington Press, 1997
Lot #: 11
Estimate: £285 - £385
Date: 25 Jan 2021

EATES, Margot - Paul Nash the Master of the Image 1889-1946
EATES, Margot - Paul Nash the Master of the Image 1889-1946, original cloth in d/w, 4to, John Murray, first ed. 1973; with - Binyon, Helen, Eric Ravilious Memoir of an Artist, illustrated, 4to, Lutterworth Press, 1983; with - Lewis, John, John Nash the painter as illustrator, illustrated, original
Lot #: 12
Estimate: £125 - £185
Date: 25 Jan 2021

ESSLEMONT, David
ESSLEMONT, David Sixteen Contemporary Wood Engravers. A collection of wood engravings printed from the original blocks to accompany an exhibition - superb collection of woodcuts, limited to 250 numbered copies, original wrappers, 4to, Newcastle, 1982
Lot #: 13
Estimate: £80 - £120
Date: 25 Jan 2021

FLINT, Sir William Russell - Drawings
FLINT, Sir William Russell - Drawings 122 plates, original cloth, (no jacket) folio, Collins, 1950
Lot #: 14
Estimate: £50 - £70
Date: 25 Jan 2021

GILL, Eric - An Essay on Topography
GILL, Eric - An Essay on Topography original brick red cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, small 4to, printed by Rene Hague & Eric Gill, at Pigotts, published by Sheed & Ward, 500 copies printed signed by Hague and Eric Gill. * Scarce
Lot #: 15
Estimate: £350 - £500
Date: 25 Jan 2021

HARDIE, Martin - Watercolour Painting in Britain
HARDIE, Martin - Watercolour Painting in Britain 3 vol. set, well illustrated, cloth in complete d/w, large 4to, Batsford, 1966
Lot #: 16
Estimate: £150 - £200
Date: 25 Jan 2021

LACE
LACE Entwurfe Fur Moderne Spitzen von Professor J Hrdlicka [Designs for Modern Lace], title-page, 30 plates loose in original half cloth portfolio, printed boards slightly soiled, contents in very good order, tall folio, Stuttgart, nd c1902. * a rare portfolio of innovative designed bobbin lace in
Lot #: 17
Estimate: £100 - £150
Date: 25 Jan 2021

LEAR, Edward - Journals of A Landscape Painter in Albania, &c
LEAR, Edward - Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c original blue cloth faded and a little soiled, map, 21 tinted lithograph plates, tall 8vo, inner hinges weak some pages loose, Richard Bentley, first ed, 1851
Lot #: 18
Estimate: £125 - £175
Date: 25 Jan 2021

LEIGHTON, Clare - Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts
LEIGHTON, Clare - Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts illustrated throughout, original cloth 'How to do it' series, 1932; with 'Four Hedges,' and ' Country Matters,'illustrated by Clare Leighton, but no dust wrappers
Lot #: 19
Estimate: £50 - £70
Date: 25 Jan 2021

MACGREGOR, Miriam - Whittington Aspects of A Cotswold Village ..; with 34...
MACGREGOR, Miriam - Whittington Aspects of a Cotswold village ..; with 34 wood-engravings original cloth backed boards in pictorial dust wrapper, in additional paper solander box, limited edition of 350 numbered and signed by the artist, Whittington Press, 1991. * excellent condition
Lot #: 20
Estimate: £80 - £150
Date: 25 Jan 2021

MACQUOID, Percy - A History of English Furniture
MACQUOID, Percy - A History of English Furniture 4 vols. well illustrated includes colour plates, original cloth in remains of d/w's, folio, Lawrence & Bullen, 1938
Lot #: 21
Estimate: £80 - £120
Date: 25 Jan 2021

O'CONNOR, John
O'CONNOR, John ... (illustrator) : Together and Alone Two Short Novels by Christopher Whitfield - wood engravings by John O'Connor, original cloth backed marbled boards, 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, limited to 500 copies, 1945; with - O'Connor, John - Canals, Barges and People. Written and engraved
Lot #: 22
Estimate: £80 - £120
Date: 25 Jan 2021

PERRY, Lilla S - Chinese Snuff Bottles
PERRY, Lilla S - Chinese Snuff Bottles well illustrated, cloth in d/w, oblong 4to, Tuttle, 1975; with two other books on the same subject
Lot #: 23
Estimate: £30 - £50
Date: 25 Jan 2021

PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY A New History of Photography, edited by Michel Frizot, cloth in d/w, stout large 4to, Konemann, 1998; with other books on mainly the history of photography, includes Houghtons, Photographic Price List, 1907 (trade catalogue). (a lot
Lot #: 24
Estimate: £40 - £60
Date: 25 Jan 2021

PLATE GLASS BOOK
PLATE GLASS BOOK Consisting of the following tables ... (etc) ... by a Glass House Clerk, Bound with - The Compleat Appraiser.... for the valuing of braziers, copper-smiths, plumbers, and pewterers goods also for iron, wall-paper, damask, and linen furniture; liquors, plate, &c by an Eminent Broker
Lot #: 25
Estimate: £200 - £300
Date: 25 Jan 2021

RAVERAT, Gwen - The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat
RAVERAT, Gwen - The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat selected with an intro by Reynolds Stone - original cloth (no d/w), 4to, Faber, 1959; with - George Mackley Wood Engraver, cloth in d/w, 4to, Gresham Books, 1981; with two others on Wood engravers
Lot #: 26
Estimate: £60 - £80
Date: 25 Jan 2021

REYNOLDS STONE
REYNOLDS STONE Engravings; with an introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark - extensively illustrated throughout, original cloth in complete d/w, folio, Stephen Greene Press, 1977
Lot #: 27
Estimate: £40 - £60
Date: 25 Jan 2021

ROBINSON, BW - The Arts of the Japanese Sword
ROBINSON, BW - The Arts of the Japanese Sword original cloth in d/w, well illustrated, tall 8vo, Faber, 1961; with other antique reference books including :- Deydier, Christian, Les Bronzes Archaiques Chinois, etc
Lot #: 28
Estimate: £30 - £50
Date: 25 Jan 2021

SITWELL, Major-General H D.W - The Crown Jewels and Other Regalia in the...
SITWELL, Major-General H D.W - The Crown Jewels and other regalia in the Tower of London 8 colour plates, 32 monochrome, original cloth, folio, ex lib. The Dropmore Press, 1953
Lot #: 29
Estimate: £25 - £45
Date: 25 Jan 2021

SKEMPTON, Mary - The Wood Engravings of Mary Skempton
SKEMPTON, Mary - The Wood Engravings of Mary Skempton 44 wood engravings, original hessian backed paper covered boards, small folio, limited edition of 150 numbered copies, Privately printed at Libanus Press Marlborough, 1989
Lot #: 30
Estimate: £100 - £125
Date: 25 Jan 2021

TIMMINS, Howard - Tretchikoff
TIMMINS, Howard - Tretchikoff illustrated throughout mainly in colour, original buckram in decorative complete dust wrapper, folio, Harrap, 1969
Lot #: 31
Estimate: £40 - £60
Date: 25 Jan 2021
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