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4to., with a coloured facsimile as frontispiece, a full-page portrait in monochrome, and 8 fine coloured facsimiles (6 full-page); original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The earliest surviving autograph manuscript on (arguably) the principal scientific theory of the twentieth century, the longest of the three major manuscripts on relativity theory, and the only one not in an institutional collection. The estimate was US$4m-6m.
4to., with 8 full-page facsimiles (4 tinted); original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The MS (for which this separate catalogue was issued) comprised lot 241 in the sale of Fine Printed and Manuscript Music. The estimate was £600,000-800,000.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 58 lots from the collection of Colonel Alan Gandar Dower, among the finest letters and papers from the English Civil War to have been offered for sale at auction.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured reproductions (one folding and many double- and full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. This outstanding sale comprised a total of 491 lots. The catalogue includes detailed career descriptions of the artists together with full indexes. Scarce.
4to., with very numerous facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprised 248 fine lots including an Apollo and Pegasus binding for Giovanni Battista Grimaldi, the second issue of Newton's 'Principia', and important letters from Einstein including a series relating to the Hebrew University. With bibliography and index
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprises 151 lots.
4to., with a fine portrait frontispiece of Churchill and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. This remarkable sale comprised 534 lots of outstanding manuscripts, letters, other documents, and signed and presentation copies of books. Among the highlights are A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF LETTERS BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO HIS BROTHER JACK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, T.E. Lawrence's corrected typescript of his early abridged version of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', and the autograph manuscript of General Montgomery's message to the Eighth Army before El Alamein.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs (many full-page) throughout; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 167 lots.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs (a number folding or full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. This outstanding sale comprises lots 101-272. Includes chronology.
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured reproductions (a number folding or several full-page) throughout; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprises 230 lots with index of artists.
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured photographs (many full-page) throughout; original pictorial wrappers, label on front wrapper else a a fine copy. The catalogue lists 127 lots.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 351 lots.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; green cloth (first volume), upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, laid endpapers, in unclipped dustwrapper, pictorial wrappers (second volume and price list), a near fine set in publisher's green cloth slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. With the printed list of prices realised contained in matching folder. The catalogues list 56 and 180 lots respectively.
4to., with a folding coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, covers slightly scuffed else a very good, clean copy. The collection comprised 2071 lots, principally English and Continental books from the 16th-19th centuries, and bindings
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) in the text, and decorative endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with numerous facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The catalogue lists 173 notable lots with index of artists.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the auctioneer's complements slip loosely inserted. The catalogue lists 366 lots with index of artists.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions and facsimiles throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. The catalogue of this world-renowned Nelsonian collection lists 92 lots. With computer-generated list of prices realised loosely inserted.
4to. First Edition with numerous reproductions and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a fine copy.
2 vols., 4to., with folding coloured frontispiece, 16 plates (2 folding) and very numerous facsimiles (a number full-page and one folding) in the text; original boards, a near fine copy. A highly important collection of works on travel, exploration, navigation and trade.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 896 lots and includes introduction and index. The collections was particularly strong in early works relating to Latin America
4to., with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page illustrations in the text; decorative boards gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. This renowned library of Russian literature which included, among other works, first editions of Lomonossov, Pouch, Tourgueniev and Dostoievsky, comprised 826 lots.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with several facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The sale comprises 417 lots.