Books & Works on Paper
Location: 6 Roslin Square
Lots: 251
Featuring several notable collections, including: costume and theatre set designs by Oliver Messel; a trove of early Folio Society publications and limited editions; an archive of detective publications featuring the famous Sexton Blake. An individual gem is the 1828 edition of "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" by Jane Webb (later Jane Loudon). Considered an early feminist novel, her story takes place in a futuristic world of advanced technology and has the distinction of being the first in the English language to feature a reanimated mummy. The sale also features the classic historical nursing text: Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not’. A first edition published in 1860, the work intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Last but not least, a manuscript map of Bermondsey drawn by James Atkinson in 1696. Atkinson had his shop at Cherry Garden Stairs in Rotherhithe.
Lot 1 - Abulfeda, Ismael Ibn Ali. Abulfedae Descriptio Aegypti
Sold for £225
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Lot 3 - Charles François Roland Le Virloys, Dictionnaire d'architecture, First Edition, 1770-71
Sold for £562
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![Lot 4 - Continental Literature & Classics: [Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras] An exact survey of the grand affairs of France, 1686](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219637-0-small.jpg?v=63843412506703)
![Lot 5 - David kneeling in prayer, leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours [c.1420-30]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/212672-1-small.jpg?v=63837979933487)
Lot 5 - David kneeling in prayer, leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours [c.1420-30]
Sold for £1,625
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Lot 6 - Facsimile: Das Gebetbuch der Claude de France. MS M.1166
Sold for £575
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![Lot 7 - Facsimile: Das Stundenbuch der Sforza [The Sforza Hours], one of 80 copies](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/220787-1-small.jpg?v=63843670606950)
Lot 7 - Facsimile: Das Stundenbuch der Sforza [The Sforza Hours], one of 80 copies
Sold for £812
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![Lot 8 - Illuminated leaf on vellum. St. James the Apostle, [mid c.12th.]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/212728-0-small.jpg?v=63837979933487)
Lot 8 - Illuminated leaf on vellum. St. James the Apostle, [mid c.12th.]
Sold for £1,875
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![Lot 11 - Bible [English]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219708-0-small.jpg?v=63843412844100)
![Lot 13 - Bibles [English]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/218841-0-small.jpg?v=63843414990487)
![Lot 14 - Bibles [English]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/216763-5-small.jpg?v=63843670671267)
![Lot 15 - Jesuits: Petrus Beckx [Peter Jan Beckx], Praepositus Societati Jesu..., manuscript, 1860](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219657-4-small.jpg?v=63843412800713)
Lot 15 - Jesuits: Petrus Beckx [Peter Jan Beckx], Praepositus Societati Jesu..., manuscript, 1860
Sold for £125
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Lot 17 - Sir Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, First Dublin edition, 1733
Sold for £500
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Lot 18 - Judaica. Hagadah of Passover, Illustrated by Shlomo Katz, 1978
Sold for £300
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Lot 20 - Bacon. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, bound with The Use of the Law, 1639
Sold for £375
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![Lot 21 - [Law] Taylor. A Sermon..... Upon the Anniversary of the Gunpowder-Treason, 1638](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/212618-0-small.jpg?v=63837979933487)
Lot 21 - [Law] Taylor. A Sermon..... Upon the Anniversary of the Gunpowder-Treason, 1638
Sold for £25
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Lot 30 - Miscellany: Piankoff. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations
Estimated at £400 - £600
![Lot 32 - [Susannah] Gunning, A letter from Mr. Gunning addressed to His Grace the Duke of Argyll](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/219078-0-small.jpg?v=63842203886010)
Lot 32 - [Susannah] Gunning, A letter from Mr. Gunning addressed to His Grace the Duke of Argyll
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 37 - De Loutherbourg (P. J.) The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales
Sold for £350
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Lot 38 - Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire, ex-libris Robert Peel
Sold for £250
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Lot 40 - van den Wyngaerde: View of London (cir. A.D. 1550), facsimile, 1881-2
Sold for £250
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Lot 41 - Worldwide and British Travel Guides.- Baedeker, Murray & others
Sold for £2,125
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Lot 42 - Edward Hutton, Manuscript draft of ‘Ravenna: A Study’, 1913
Sold for £425
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Lot 45 - Four costume studies, possibly Ottoman Turkey, 19th century
Sold for £300
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Lot 48 - Middle East: Hormuzd Rassam, Asshur and the Land of Nimrod, Presentation copy, 1897
Sold for £200
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