416 Lots, including: Darwin (Charles). Autograph Letter Signed (£4000–6000); Faraday (Michael). Autograph letter signed (£600–700); Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, first edition, paperback issue (£2500-3500); Dali (Salvador). Off-white postcard signed , featuring a printed ‘Memorandum’ (£1300-1500); A small group of old master drawings (£1200–1800); James (Frank) – Autograph letter signed to his wife, written from Gallatin jail.(£2000–3000); Fleming (Ian). Diamonds Are Forever (£700–900).

636 Lots. Including:

Archive of antebellum letters by James Garfield friend horrified by Mississippi slavery. $7,000-10,000; 

Handwritten manuscript by Harold Agnew, American physicist who flew as an observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission, relating the mission and events leading up to it. $1,000-1,500; 

Panoramic silver photograph comprised of five individual images of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin when docked at Lakehurst, New Jersey. $1,500-2000;

Base-Ball. How to Become a Player, with the Origin, History, and Explanation of the Game. $2,500-3,500; 

Manuscript abstract of title workbook for San Francisco Bay Area locales. $2,000-3,000; 

Album with 34 original silver photographs of the area in and around Monterey, California, including Chinese fishermen $600-900; 

Archive of thirty-six letters and notes written by brothers John and Thomas Emery from California during the Gold Rush, to their family in New Brunswick, Canada. $20,000-30,000;

A Briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England: and of Sundry Accidents Therein Occurring, From the Yeere of our Lord M.D.CVII. $3,000-5,000; 

The Nevada Directory for 1868-9: Containing a Full List of the Residents, Mining and Business Men of Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Carson, Washoe, Dayton, Empire City, Reno and Genoa; With a Historical Sketch of the Principal Places;… $4,000-6,000; 

Commonplace book of Amelia Bigelow. $300-500; Description Geographique de la Guiane. $2,000-3,000;  Lawrence, T.E. Crusader Castles. $800-1200; Manuscript cookbook in Spanish, from Mexico. $500-800; 

Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions…with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. $2,000-3,000; 

Original photograph of ten members of the Metlakahtla, Alaska, baseball team at Dr. William Duncan’s mission $500-800

157 Lots. Including:

[England, Parliament]. An Act For Suppressing the Detestable Sins of Incest, Adultry and Fornication. £ 100-150

Dansdorf (Chrysilla von). Heart’s Desire, number 38 of 70 copies, title printed in lilac, engraved title-vignette and 7 plates by John Buckland Wright.  £2500–3500

[Boyer(Jean-Baptiste de)]. [Marquis d’Argens], [Thérése Philosophe], illustrations after Antoine Borel, a total of 84 engravings. £4000–6000

Japanese School. A Shunbon or Spring Book, comprising 6 silk shunga paintings of couples making love, watercolour and gouache over pen and ink on silk. £2500–3500

Japanese School. Erotic Scroll, collection of 7 erotic images drawn and hand coloured on silk, laid onto paper, original tie, n.p., n.d. £600–800

Burton (Sir Richard Francis). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 17 vol., Samara edition, number 97 of 1000 sets , plates, tissue guards, half red calf by Bayntun Binder… £1800–2200

[Collot (André)]. Les Voyeurs, number 65 of 210 copies, 12 erotic illustrations, loose in original printed wrappers, some foxing, oblong 8vo, Paris…£1000–1500

Ray (Robin). Two erotic gouache drawings…signed and dated, 1978. £750–950

Gerard Malanga. The Portable Secret Museum. A boxed group of 16 gelatin silver prints… £2000–3000

94 Lots. Including:

Anstruther (G.Elliot) The Bindings of To-morrow: A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery, number 300 of 500 copies, original cloth, 1902. (3) £100-150

Bonet (Paul) Carnets 1924-1971, number 79 of 150 copies, original boards, small 4to, Paris, 1981. £300-400

Field (George). Chromatography: or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments …, first edition, 1835. £300-400

Middle East.- Philby (Harry St John Bridger)Arabia of the Wahhabis, first edition, 1928; and another by the same (2). £300-400

Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholis et antiquis et utilibus, Basel, ex officina Hervagiana, 1540. £600 – 800

Jeram (Anita) Chick Hatching; Grey Rabbit; Bunnies, a group of three original illustrations for All Together Now, [1999]. £600 – 800

Jones (Owen) The Grammar of Ornament, 1910 § Tymms. The Art of Illuminating, in the original 12 parts, [1860], all with chromolithographed plates, 4to (2) £300-400

920 lots. (Catalogue notes in italics.)

A Fantasia “Night on Bald Mountain” Concept Painting by Kay Nielsen (…featuring the Chernabog, with bats, skeletons, and flames, all surrounding Bald Mountain); Mickey Mouse Magazine Giveaway V1#1 (…something so incredibly rare that even our most senior Disney experts have never seen a copy); Lady and the Tramp Production Cel Setup and Master Pan Background (Jock, Tramp, and Lady are spotlighted in these wonderful hand-inked, hand-painted production cels); Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny Production Cel; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Concept Drawing;  Pinocchio Production/Color Model Cel Setup (“Pinocchio, why didn’t you go to school?” asks the Blue Fairy); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (Original hand-inked, hand-painted Courvoisier cel of all seven dwarfs); The Little Mermaid Ariel and Flounder (“You want thingamabobs? I got 20!” sings Ariel to Flounder ), and 900+ more.

317 Lots, including books, manuscripts, letters, paintings, pistols, sofas, a rare handerchief, and more.

BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON). Autographed letter “Bonapart” to the Director Paul BARRAS … 40 000 – 60 000 €

NAPOLEON I. Letter signed “Napoleon” to the Minister of the Interior Jean-Baptiste … 4 000 – 4 500 €

NAPOLEON I. Letter signed “Np” with 12 WORDS AUTOGRAPHES, addressed to prince EUGENE … 6 000 – 8 000 €

TALLEYRAND (Charles-Maurice de). Letter signed “Ch. Mau. Talleyrand “in quality … 400 – 600 €

LARREY (Dominique-Jean). Memories of military surgery, and campaigns. Paris: J. … 2 000 – 3 000 €

[MANUSCRIT]. Military art. Sl, eighteenth century. – Manuscript in folio oblong, 377 … 1 000 – 1 500 €

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON I TO SAINTE-HELENE Guillaume-Hyacinthe … 30 000 – 35 000 €

364 Lots.

ALBRECHT DÜRER. (German, 1471-1528). Daniel and the Lion. £1,000 – 1,500

BEN NICHOLSON O.M. (British, 1894-1982). Bird Form. £2,500 – 3,000

JULIAN TREVELYAN R.A. (British, 1910-1988). Bolton – A Set of Scenes. £4,000 – 6,000

HENRY MOORE O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986). Reclining and Standing Figure. £1,000 – 1,500

PABLO PICASSO. (Spanish, 1881-1973). A Los Toros. £1,500 – 2,000

MAX ERNST. (German, 1891-1976). La Cloche. £2,000 – 3,000

VICTOR VASARELY. (Hungarian/French, 1906-1997). Harlequin, from ‘Figurative’; Clown with Ball. £800 – 1,200

ANDY WARHOL. (American, 1928-1987). Beuys by Warhol: Paintings + Prints, Schellmann & Klüser, Munich. £2,000 – 3,000

JEFF KOONS. (American, born 1955). Split Rocker. £3,000 – 5,000

DAVID HOCKNEY. (British, born 1937). Félicité sleeping with Parrot, from ‘Illustration for A Simple Heart of Gustave Flaubert’. £2,000 – 3,000

HARLAND MILLER. (British, born 1964). Health and Safety is Killing Bondage. £4,000 – 6,000

HARLAND MILLER. (British, born 1964). I’ll never forget what I can’t remember. £6,000 – 8,000

BANKSY. (British, born 1975). Balloon Girl. £15,000 – 20,000

83 Lots. Including:

Wisden (John) Cricketers’ Almanack for 1896, original cloth, 1896. £15,000 – 20,000

Grace (W.G.) Cricket, one of 652 copies signed by the author, Bristol & London, 1891 £300-400.

Love (James) Cricket. An Heroic Poem, Edinburgh, R. Fleming, 1754. £300-400

[Wanostrocht (Nicholas)] Felix on the Bat, first edition, 1845. £300-400

Colman (Sir Jeremiah) The Noble Game of Cricket, one of 150 copies, 1941 £300-400

Pinter (Harold) and Alan Wilkinson., The Catch: A Correspondence, one of 50 specially bound copies signed by both authors, Charingworth, The Evergreen Press, 2003. £200-300

Crombie (Charles) Laws of Cricket, 1907; and 29 others (30). £150 – 200

294 Lots. Including:

Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Vava au Turban rouge (Cramer Monotypes 107). £35,000 – 45,000

Salvador Dali (1904-1989). Flordali (Flora Dalinae)(Michler & Löpsinger 227-236). £25,000 – 35,000

Joan Miro (1893-1983). Sablier Couche (Cramer books 5; D.20). £10,000 – 15,000

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Maison close: Le Chocolat. II (Baer 922i/iii). £20,000 – 30,000

David Hockney (b.1937). Lithographic Water Made of Lines (M.C.A Tokyo 210). £30,000 – 50,000

Keith Haring (1958-1990). The Blue print Drawings; one plate (Littmann p.177). £14,000 – 16,000

Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Flowers (Feldman & Schellmann II.6). £18,000 – 22,000

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Main Platform. £70,000 – 90,000

Carolee Schneemann (b.1939). Ice Naked Skating. £8,000 – 12,000

Harland Miller (b.1964). I am the one I have been waiting for. £35,000 – 50,000

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004). Still Life with Matisse and Johns. £60,000 – 80,000

Banksy (b.1974). NOLA. £40,000 – 60,000

Banksy (b.1974). No Ball Games (Grey). £20,000 – 30,000

175 Lots. Including:

Christ holding a book, supported by two angels, full page line-drawing… second half of the eleventh century (probably 1050-80)] £12,000-18,000.

Compendium of Canon Law, Homilies and religious treatises, partly copied by the scribe Nicolaos, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in a Greek-style binding…c. 1430-1440 and c. 1470-1500] .£30000–50000

The Antonine Itinerary, with its additions for maritime travel and ports,decorated humanist manuscript, in Latin on paper [Italy, or perhaps Spain, c. 1500]. £20000–30000

Vocabulario militaris, extracted from Roberto Valturio, De re militari, book VIII with illustrations from book X of the same, illustrated manuscript in Latin, on paper [Italy (probably north or central), last decades of fifteenth century]. £8000–12000

The Hardouin Hours, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on parchment [France (Paris), end of fourteenth century or opening decades of fifteenth century] .£25000–30000

The Madruzzo Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin and Italian, on parchment [southern Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1480]. £30,000-50,000

Calendar from an illuminated Book of Hours, with miniatures of the occupations and zodiac symbols, in French, manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1480-90]. £3000–5000

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on parchment [southern Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1520].£40000–60000.

Muhsin al-Din Sa­i Shirazi, Kolliyat-e Sa­i , in Persian, illuminated manuscript on paper [Qajar Persia, dated 1229 AH. (1813 AD.)] £1,500-2,000

Birthday of a Princess , scene from a Ragmala series, illuminated Indian miniature on paper, Amber school [India (Rajasthan), c. 1710]. £1800–2200

Pichhwai painting of Lord Krishna dancing in the Vrindavan Gardens with adoring gopis , Indian painting on linen, Nathdwara school [India (Nathdwara, Rajasthan), probably mid-nineteenth century]. £1,500-2000

Printed and manuscript Americana, modern first editions, travel and exploration, natural history, fine bindings and continental books from the 16th century… Pulp comics, science fiction and fantasy… including a rare complete run of The Shadow, being the author, Walter B. Gibson’s, own set, his names lettered in gilt on the spines of each volume.

Hancock, John – Document Signed as Governor of Massachusetts. $7,000-9,000

George Washington Autograph Letter Signed as President. $12,000-15,000

Adams, John – Ship’s Passport Signed as President. $7,000-9,000

[George Washington] Autograph Annotation. $1,500-2,000

Lincoln, Abraham – Civil War Date Military Commission Signed as President. $6,000-8,000

Guevaro, Ernesto “Che” – Autograph Note Signed. $1,500-2,500

Frank Lloyd Wright Autograph Letter Signed. $4,000-6,000

John Jay Autograph Letter Signed During the American Revolution. $4,000-6,000

Sendak, Maurice; Original Illustration Signed. Where The Wild Things Are. $1750

Original Print of “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, 1776, Sixth Edition. $7,000-9,000

Lee, Robert E. – Autograph Letter Signed as President of Washington College. $3,000-5,000

USS ARIZONA, Collection of Ship-Related Ephemera, Including a Superb Gunnery’s Notebook. $5,000.

Einstein, Albert Typed Letter Signed. $4,000-6,000

Einstein, Albert – Typed Letter Signed. $5,000-7,000

475 Lots. Literature and History, Manuscripts and Letters, Maps, Modern First Editions, Travel and Atlases, Science, Private Press, and more. Including:

Slavery.- Clarkson (Thomas) The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy to William Wilberforce with long inscription, modern half calf, 8vo, 1808. £1,500-2,000

Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pforzheim, 1501.. £15,000-20,000

Americana.- Vespucci (Amerigo) S’ensuyt le Nouveau Monde et navigations faictes par Emeric de Vespuce , Paris, Jean Trepperel, 1516; bound with 2 other early unrelated French works. £6,000-8,000

Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, 1525. £25,000-35,000

Burne-Jones (Edward) Original sketches, collection of 14 drawings, [1890’s]. £1,000-1,500

Archive of letters to Robert Catterson-Smith from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones and others. £1,500-2,000

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], “Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell”. Poems, first edition, first issue, with A.L.s from Charlotte Brontë tipped in, first issue binding, Aylott and Jones, 1846. £30,000-40,000

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], “Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell”. Poems, first edition, first issue, Aylott and Jones, 1846. £15,000-20,000

[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], “Ellis and Acton Bell”.Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, together 3 vol., first editions, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. £60,000 – 80,000

[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. £20,000 – 30,000

Bell (Vanessa, 1879-1961) ‘Charlotte Brontë’, plate design for Kenneth Clark, 1932. £5,000-6,000

Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native, 3 vol., first edition in book form, first issue, original cloth, 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. £2,000-3,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies, original limp vellum, small 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1891. £1,000-1,500

Dickens (Charles) The Works, 80 vol., extra-illustrated with A.L.s. by Dickens, 1906-08. £6,000-8,000

CHURCHILL, THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1948-1954, C.C. WOOD’S ANNOTATED COPIES (6 VOL.) £7,000-10,000

GANDHI, THREE LETTERS TO SARAT CHANDRA BOSE, ON PARTITION, 1947 £12,000-18,000

MAO ZEDONG, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTES, 9 PAGES, 1975, WITH RELATED NOTES BY PROF. DI LU  £60,000-80,000

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS, 1904-1907, ONE OF 12 COPIES ON VELLUM (10 VOL.) £25,000-35,000

AUSTEN, AUTOGRAPH LETTER, WRITTEN IN THE THIRD PERSON TO HER NIECE ANNA AUSTEN, 1812 £80,000-100,000

BRONTE, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL, 1848 (3 VOL.) £14,000-18,000

DICKENS, AUTOGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF “MRS GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS”, 1847 £40,000-60,000

BECKETT, SERIES OF 29 LETTERS TO DANIEL LABEILLE, 1978-89, AND RELATED MATERIAL £10,000-15,000

GOLDING, LORD OF THE FLIES, 1954, E.M. FORSTER’S COPY (1 VOL.) £7,000-9,000

CARROLL, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, 1876, THE AUTHOR’S OWN COPY WITH HIS MONOGRAM (1 VOL.) £20,000-30,000

ROWLING, HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, 1997 (1 VOL.) £15,000-20,000

SHEPARD, TWO PEN AND INK DRAWINGS FROM WINNIE-THE-POOH, 1926, FRAMED AND GLAZED. £40,000-60,000

DARWIN, ZOOLOGY OF THE BEAGLE. £50,000-70,000

DARWIN, THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS, 1842, PRESENTATION COPY (1 VOL.) £20,000-30,000

DARWIN AND WALLACE, ‘ON THE TENDENCY OF SPECIES FOR FORM VARIETIES…’, 1858 (1 VOL.) £8,000-10,000

DARWIN, ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, 1859. £50,000-70,000

DARWIN, THE DESCENT OF MAN, 1871 (2 VOL.) £1,500-2,500

LYELL, PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY, 1830-1833 (3 VOL.) £5,000-8,000

MILL, ON LIBERTY, 1859, FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY (1 VOL.) £1,000-1,500

SMITH, AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, 1776, FIRST EDITION £50,000-70,000

NEWTON, Isaac. Autograph manuscript. £30,000-50,000

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Autograph letter signed Moritz Schlick. £15,000-20,000

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Two typescript speeches, including significant autograph revisions and corrections, a speech to the House of Commons and a radio broadcast on the death of Queen Mary, given at the House of Commons and at the BBC, 25 March 1953. £1,200-1,800

EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed. “The birth of the cosmological constant: a detailed explanation of the development of one of Einstein’s most famous concepts.” £60,000-90,000

EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed… On ‘time’s arrow’. £80,000-120,000

EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed. “A comprehensive account of the formal logic behind his entire life’s work, tracing the path from special relativity to general relativity and the unified field theory.” £100,000-150,000

COLUMNA, Guido de (c 1210 – after 1280) Historia destruction…£120,000-180,000

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius (195/185-159 BC) Eunuchus, in German… £200,000-300,000

BESLER, BASILIUS. Hortus Eystettensis, Spring and Autumn parts. [Nuremberg]: 1613. “Deluxe copy of the first edition of the most celebrated botanical work ever published…” £600,000-900,000

First edition of DARWIN’s Origin of Species. £60,000-90,000

RICCI, Mateo. Kunyu Wanquo Quantu ‘A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World’ or ‘Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World’. “Two exceptionally rare manuscript maps, perhaps made for the Chinese imperial court, showing the fusion of western and eastern cartography, iconography and mythology.” £80,000-120,000

ARISTOTELES. Opera, in Greek. “Editio princeps of the works of Aristotle, the most important Greek-printing project of the 15th century, and the greatest achievement in Aldus’s Greek publishing programme…” £300,000-500,000

First edition of the KING JAMES BIBLE, with the reading ‘he’ in Ruth 3:15 £140,000-180,000

First edition of DESCARTES’ Discours de la methode. £40,000-60,000

First edition of MARX’S Das Kapital. “A fine copy of one of the most iconic books of the modern era.” £30,000-50,000

First edition of MILTON’s Areopagitica. “…History’s greatest defence of the freedom of expression.” £25,000-35,000

First edition of SMITH’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.  £70,000-100,000

Revolutionary War-dated manuscript DS, signed “Go: Washingto[n],” $20,000+

Vintage of Theodore Roosevelt on a horse signed on the mount in black ink. $4,000+

Three typed letters signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. $3500+

Photograph of Thomas Edison with an interesting inscription: “To Day Baker: I want to commend the conscientious, intelligent efforts you are making which are materially assisting in bringing about the day when the electric vehicle in our cities will become more common than the horse. Thomas A. Edison.” $15,000+

Dr. John Warren’s Revolutionary War Amputation Kits $50,000+

Paul Revere’s signature $10,000+

A morgue photo of Jesse James $4,500+

Document signed by Queen Elizabeth I. $32,000

Pongo and Two Puppies production cel from 101 Dalmatians. $3,200

Autograph letter signed by Arthur Conan Doyle: “How about your new book? I am looking forward to it. I want you to do something for me. A chap in Glasgow has dramatized ‘Holmes’ and I am very sick about it. Would it bore you too much to attend one performance & let me know what it is like. If you go you might send me your programme. Another point is that I want to know whether my name appears on the posters. It is possible that that I may take action in the matter. Let me know when you come south.” $8,500