Rare Books & Works on Paper

Lot 1 - (Glasgow Chapbooks) A collection of eighteen, mid 19th century chapbooks

Sold for £300

Lot 2 - (Miniature) [Daniel Defoe] The History of R. Crusoe, of York, Mariner

Sold for £380

Lot 3 - (Angling) G. W. Soltau Trout Flies of Devon and Cornwall, and When and How to use Them

Sold for £70

Lot 4 - (Angling) [Robert Nobbes] The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling

Sold for £220

Lot 5 - (Angling) Thomas Best A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling....

Sold for £50

Lot 6 - (Angling) T. F. Salter The Troller's Guide, A new and complete practical treatise in the Art of Trolling or Fishing for Jack and Pike...

Sold for £60

Lot 7 - (Signed Presentation Copy) Red Spinner A Mixed Bag. A Medley of Angling Stories and Sketches

Sold for £60

Lot 8 - (Angling) John Williamson The British Angler: or, a Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers..., the whole compiled from approved authors, and above thirty years experience

Sold for £150

Lot 9 - (Angling) Edward Marston Two works

Sold for £50

Lot 10 - (Angling) Six Works

Sold for £160

Lot 11 - (16th Century Rome Printing) Sextus Pompeius Festus De Verborum Significatione Fragmentum ex vetustissimo exemplari Bibliothecae Farnesianae descriptum

Sold for £250

Lot 12 - Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824) Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive de operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi

Sold for £200

Lot 13 - Florence Nightingale Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not

Sold for £140

Lot 14 - (Chess) An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess;

Sold for £50

Lot 15 - J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

Sold for £50

Lot 16 - J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar. 1974

Sold for £30

Lot 17 - (Poetry) George Barker Eighteen works

Sold for £100

Lot 18 - [Folio Society] Walter Crane Illustrations Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene

Sold for £150

Lot 19 - [Folio Society] William Morris Love is Enough

Sold for £80

Lot 20 - (Signed) John Le Carré Call for the Dead

Sold for £1,050

Lot 21 - (Signed) John Le Carré A Murder of Quality

Sold for £500

Lot 22 - (Signed) John Le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Sold for £300

Lot 23 - (Signed) John Le Carré Four works

Sold for £260

Lot 24 - (Signed) John Le Carré [The Karla trilogy] Four works

Sold for £1,150

Lot 25 - (Signed) John Le Carré Eight works

Sold for £520

Lot 26 - (Signed) John Le Carré Ten works

Sold for £480

Lot 27 - (Signed) John Le Carré Sarratt and the Draper of Watford....and other unlikely stories about Sarratt from international authors

Sold for £110

Lot 28 - (Signed) The Penguin John le Carré Twenty-five works, of which nineteen are signed

Sold for £2,300

Lot 29 - John Le Carré T.L.S. Discussing the craft of writing, autobiography, screenwriting, the discipline of completing a novel, retirement, and the Newlyn School of Art.

Sold for £450

Lot 30 - John Le Carré A.L.S. Two ALS

Sold for £220

Lot 31 - John Le Carré A.L.S. Remarks on meeting Thomas Mann, the Isles of Scilly Crossing, Writing, and an invitation to St Buryan

Sold for £680

Lot 32 - John Le Carré A.L.S. Touching on retirement, life in lockdown at Tregiffian, the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit, Boris Johnson, the denial of science, and the Olof Palme Award.

Sold for £800

Lot 33 - (Signed) John Le Carre The Deadly Affair

Sold for £60

Lot 34 - (Signed) John Le Carré Eight Books (seven signed and dedicated)

Sold for £170

Lot 35 - (Prize Binding) William Yarrell A History of British Fishes

Sold for £70

Lot 36 - (Angling) Bradnock Hall [Sir Francis Newbolt] Fish-Tails and Some True Ones

Sold for £70

Lot 37 - (Presentation Copy, with authors A.L.S.) Albert Gunther An Introduction to the Study of Fishes

Sold for £60

Lot 38 - (Angling) Andrew Lang Angling Sketches

Sold for £50

Lot 39 - (Angling) John Davy The Angler and His Friends; Or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions

Sold for £20

Lot 40 - (Angling) John Beever Practical Fly Fishing Founded on Nature... with a memoir of the author by W.G. Collingwood

Sold for £80

Lot 41 - (Angling) G. E. M. Skues Seven works, in a uniform red morocco

Sold for £320

Lot 42 - (Angling) Otter [Alfred H. J.] A Complete Guide to Spinning & Trolling Shewing How & Where to Take Pike & Jack....

Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 43 - (Presentation Copy) P. B. M. Allan Trout Hersey

Sold for £30

Lot 44 - (Angling) Nineteen works

Sold for £30

Lot 45 - (Wild Fowling and Angling) Four works

Sold for £90

Lot 46 - Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species.

Sold for £350

Lot 47 - Charles Darwin. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs.

Sold for £90

Lot 48 - Charles Darwin. The Foundations of the Origin of Species.

Sold for £280