Books & Works on Paper

Books & Works on Paper

Date: 14th May, 2024 12:00
Location: 6 Roslin Square
Lots: 209

Chiswick Auctions’ Books sale, on May the 14th, is wide-ranging and features a number of highlights.

The food and drink section includes The English Vineyard Vindicated, with a probable manuscript correction by author John Evelyn, who wrote under the instruction of John Rose, the King’s Gardener. The rarity of this first edition of 1666, printed ‘at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard’, is often attributed to the Great Fire of London. Also included is a pioneering work on ethical vegetarianism published in 1683, namely Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness. For Tryon, who had visited Barbados and been horrified by slavery, vegetarianism formed part of a broader reaction against humanity’s evils.

Under English Literature, we have a first edition of John Keats’s Lamia, containing ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, and ‘Ode to Melancholy’. His last and most important book, it was published in July 1820, less than a year before his tragic death from tuberculosis in Rome.

The sale also features an original design by artist William Nicholson, depicting a boxing match. The famous image illustrated the month of November in An Almanac of Twelve Sports (1898), with verse provided by Rudyard Kipling.

In the Travel section, highlights include six watercolours by James Wathen from his Voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, which a contemporary reviewer argued “will be followed by the reader and the gazer with much gratification”. This section also includes a first French edition of Cornelis De Bruyn’s account of his circuitous voyage to Persia, with numerous striking illustrations and panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan.

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Lot 97 - London: Maitland (William)

Sold for £328

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Lot 98 - London: Pennant (Thomas)

Sold for £454

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Lot 102 - Andrews. Geraniums 1805

Sold for £630

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Lot 106 - Boerhaave (Herman). Index Alter Plantarum...1727

Sold for £126

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Lot 107 - Botanical plates. Harrison & Paxton

Sold for £756

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Lot 108 - Breyne Exoticorum...1678

Sold for £4,284

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Lot 110 - Burmann: Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum, 1738-39

Sold for £756

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Lot 111 - Darwin

Sold for £189

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Lot 114 - Darwin. Origin of Species, 6th ed. 1872

Sold for £428

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Lot 119 - Gilpin (Willliam) Collection.

Sold for £378

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Lot 123 - Linnaeus.

Sold for £164

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Lot 124 - Mason. Stapeliae Novae: 1796

Sold for £164

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Lot 125 - Natural History

Sold for £239

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Lot 128 - Sweet. The British Flower Garden. 1823-38

Sold for £1,512

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Lot 132 - Volckamer,Flora Noribergensis, 1700

Sold for £101

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Lot 133 - Wright. Book of Poultry. 1890

Sold for £63

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Lot 136 - Mss Recipe note book [c. 1850]

Sold for £88

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Lot 138 - Bindings

Estimated at £150 - £200

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Lot 139 - Bindings

Sold for £479

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Lot 140 - Bindings: Sets

Estimated at £400 - £600

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Lot 141 - Finishing tools

Sold for £38

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Lot 144 - Belloc (Hilaire) & Chesterton (G. K.)

Sold for £113

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Lot 145 - Broadside - Suicide of Miss Moyes [1839]

Sold for £378

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Lot 146 - Burney (Frances)

Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 147 - Dickens (Charles)

Estimated at £400 - £600

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Lot 148 - English Literature

Sold for £227

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Lot 150 - English Literature: Henry Fielding

Sold for £63

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Lot 151 - Horizon. A Review of Literature & Art

Sold for £63

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Lot 152 - Keats. Lamia, ist Ed. 1820

Sold for £8,190

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Lot 153 - Lord Byron, The Works

Estimated at £200 - £300

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Lot 155 - Pindar [John Wolcot] The Works, 1793

Sold for £38

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Lot 156 - Poetry, miscellaneous

Sold for £126

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Lot 157 - Poetry, miscellaneous and bindings

Sold for £302

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Lot 158 - Sassoon (Siegfried) [The Sherston Trilogy]

Sold for £1,008

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Lot 161 - Conrad (Joseph)

Sold for £504

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Lot 162 - Corbett (James)

Estimated at £180 - £220

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Lot 165 - Modern Firsts: Evelyn Waugh, Ninety-Two Days

Sold for £126

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Lot 169 - Wells (H. G.)

Sold for £126

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Lot 172 - Private Press: A collection of 22 prospectuses

Sold for £239

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Lot 173 - The Letterpress Shakespeare: King Lear

Sold for £126

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Lot 177 - The Folio Society

Estimated at £500 - £700

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Lot 181 - Graham (Rigby)

Sold for £328

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Lot 183 - Lalau. Tabubu, 1/110, 1932

Sold for £1,134

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Lot 187 - Wheatley, Cries of London series, 1793-97

Sold for £63

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Lot 191 - Milne (A.A.) Winnie the Pooh

Sold for £353

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