The Principal Contents of two Guernsey Houses

1100 lot two day sale from two private homes in Guernsey, The Channel Islands, including a large collection of Asian Art

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The Principal Contents of two Guernsey Houses

1100 lot two day sale from two private homes in Guernsey, The Channel Islands, including a large collection of Asian Art

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Macaulay (Thomas Babbington, 1st Baron Macaulay) The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete, edited by his Sister Lady Trevelyan, pub. London, Longmans,...

Pepys (Samuel) 'Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S....', New Edition, pub. London, Bell & Daldy, 1871, 4 vols, full tree calf with gi...

Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works, pub. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1867-69, 22 vols., red half calf with combed marbled boards, spines gilt...

Shakespeare (William) The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, edited Charles Knight, Revised Edition, 8 vols., pub. New York, George Ro...

Millais (John Guille) 'Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage and the Hybrids & Varities w...

Moss (Hugh) Snuff Bottles of China, pub. London, Bibelot Publishers Ltd., 1971, no. 86 from an edition of 500 copies bound in cream leather and si...

Three reference books on Chinese snuff bottles comprising Perry (Lilla S.), Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures & Studies of a Collector, pub. C...

Antique Furniture reference - a collection of annual catalogues from Ronald Phillips Ltd. of Bruton Street, London hard bound with dust jackets, d...

A Victorian silver pocket spirit flask Army & Navy Co-Operative Society Ltd., London 1888, oval form with detachable cup and turn-off lid, 5 3/8in...

Christie (Agatha) Passenger to Frankfurt, pub. The Crime Club, Collins, 1970, 1st ed., scarce variant with full address of Collins to title, with ...

Christie (Agatha) They Came to Baghdad, pub. for The Crime Club, Collins 1951, 1st ed., with d/j.* Condition: Dustwrapper has a small tear and cre...

Jones (James) From Here to Eternity, 1st ed., 1st printing, Presentation Edition, signed and numbered 1036, later gilt lined full black calf, spin...

Conan Doyle (Arthur) The Edge of the Unknown, pub. London, John Murray1930, 1st ed., finely bound in recent blue half morocco, spine gilt, marbled...

Christie (Agatha) Partners in Crime, pub. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1929, 1st ed., good half tan calf binding, marbled boards, spine gilt.* Condi...

Nordhoff (Charles) and Norman Hall (James) Mutiny on the Bounty, pub. Boston, Little Brown & Coompany, 1932, 1st ed., t.e.g., later fine re-bindin...

Verne (Jules) ‘The Tribulations of a Chinaman’, pub. E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US ed. 1881, orig. pictorial red cloth gilt, frontis. and plates thro...

The Fly Fisher's Classic Library - three volumes comprising Swift (Jeremy), Arthur Ransome on Fishing, no.209 from an edition of 250, pub. 1994, b...

Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Children of Hurin, De Luxe Edition, ed. Christopher Tolkien, illus. Alan Lee, pub. HarperCollins, 2007, with slip case, 8vo...

Six modern first editions comprising Harris (Thomas), The Silence of the Lambs, pub. NY, St Martins Press, 1988; Furst (Alan), Kingdon of Shadows,...

Gordon Smith (Richard) Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan, pub. London, A. & C. Black, 1908, 1st ed., t.e.g., later dark tan half morocco binding...

Defoe (Daniel) The Fortunate Mistress, or a History of Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Call'd The Countess...

Cornwell (Bernard) three 1st editions, signed by the author to title, comprising: Sharpe's Company, pub. London, Collins 1982; Sharpe's Eagle, pub...

Russell Flint (Sir William) Breakfast in Perigord, number 444 of 525 copies, signed by the artist, illustrated throughout, original black quarter ...

Dicey (Thomas) An historical account of Guernsey, from its first settlement before the Norman conquest to the present time.....to which is added s...

Rohmer (Sax) Emperor Fu Manchu, 1st ed., pub. London, Herbert Jenkins 1959, with d/j; together with three others by the same author, all with d/js...

Ishiguro (Kazuo) The Remains of the Day, 1st ed., pub. London, Faber & Faber 1989, with d/j.* Condition: A fine copy - very slight edge wear to wr...

MacDonald Fraser (George) Flashman and the Tiger (And Other Extracts from The Flashman Papers), 1st ed., pub. London, Harper Collins, 1999, signed...

Rackham (Arthur), illus. & Swift (Jonathan) Gulliver's Travels, pub. London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1909, pictorial dark blue cloth, gilt, twelve colour...

Conan Doyle (Arthur) & Wyeth (N.C.) illus. The White Company, pub. NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922, recent fine full claret red morocco gilt, gi...

The Fly Fisher's Classic Library - five volumes comprising: Fort (Tom), The Best of Zane Grey, no. 333 from an edition of 750, 1997, signed by aut...

Traherne (John P.) Salmon Fishing with the Fly, The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1995, no. 45 from an limited edition of 55 copies, bound in full ...

Francis (Francis), of 'The Field' A Book on Angling, The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1996, no. 31 from an limited edition of 65 copies, bound in ...

Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing, The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1999, no. 31 from an limited edition of 55 copies, bound in f...

Fine binding - Aflalo (F. G.), ed. A Book of Fishing Stories, pub. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1913, 4 colour plates inc. frontis., 13 photogr...

Grey (Zane) Tales of the Angler's Eldorado New Zealand, 1st ed., NY & London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926, recent half calf binding incorpo...

Fine binding - Robinson (Charles, illust.) The Sensitive Plant, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, pub. London, William Heinemann and Philadelphia, J.B. Lip...

Fine binding - Melville (Herman), Kent (Rockwell, illust.) Moby Dick, or the Whale, pub. NY, Random House, 1930, 1st trade ed., woodcut illust. th...

Fine bindings - a small collection of volumes two in full morocco gilt, comprising Suyin (Han), A Many-Splendoured Thing, 1st ed., pub. London, Jo...

Fine binding - De Maurier (Daphne) Jamaica Inn, 1st ed., pub. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1936, full dark blue morocco with spine gilt, orig. clo...

Fine binding - Forster (E.M.) A Passage to India, 1st ed., pub. London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1924, full gilt-lined red morocco, spine gilt, orig. ...

Fine binding - Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids, 1st ed., pub. London, Michael Joseph 1951, recent dark green crushed morocco, gilt lined de...

Ross-of-Bladensburg (Lt. Col. Sir John) The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918, 3 vols, pub. London, Oxford University Press, 1928; together with Davies...

Sir Winston Churchill, 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples' 1956, first edition, 4 vols, pub Cassell and Company Ltd, London, dark red clot...

Wilde, Oscar (The Works) 13 from a 14 vol set, one of 1000 sets on handmade paper, original buckram, spines discoloured, uncut pages, pub Methuen ...

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence 1st Trade Edition, 1935, Quarto, original cloth, illustration with photogravures and maps, handwritte...

Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote pub. London, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, circa1870, full-page plates and in-text illustrations, original hal...

Bylandt, H. A. van, Dogs of all Nations pub. London, Kegan Paul, Trench Tübner & Co., 1905, 2 vols, bindings a/f. (2)* Condition: Spines poor, bin...

William and Robert Chambers, Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts Edinburgh 1845-1847, 20 vols. bound in 10, half black calf with gilt, ma...

A set of seven hunting books illustrated by John Leach Bradbury Agnew & Co. 1858, comprising of Mr Romford's Hounds, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, As...

Waverley Novels - 48 volumes Fisher, Son & Co., London 1836-38, red half calf, gilt, marbled boards. (48)* Condition: Light spotting to first few ...

American Men of Letters - a set of 22 volumes pub. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Cambridge, The Riverside Press, c.1882-c.1910, all wi...

Fine binding - Walsingham (Lord) and Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph) Shooting (Field and Covert); Shooting (Moor and Marsh), 2 vols, The Badminton Libra...

Fine binding - Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1st ed., pub. London, Chapman and Ha...

Fine binding - Hilton (James) Lost Horizon, scarce first ed., pub. London, MacMillian & Co. Ltd., 1933, recent full dark green morocco binding wit...

Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, De Luxe edition, pub. London, George, Allen & Unwin, 1976, black cloth pictorial gilt, wit...

Rowling (J. K.) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 1st ed. with d/j, pub. London, Bloomsbury 2005, with 'eleven owls' misprint on p.99; toget...

Fine binding - Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft) Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, pub. NY, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934, illustrated b...

Find binding - Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1st ed., pub. London, Chapman and Ha...

Adams (Richard) Watership Down, illustrated by John Lawrence, no. 238 from a limited edition of 250 specially bound copies, signed in red ink by t...

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