UK: Long Melford Book Fair, Saturday 26 January The next book fair at Long Lelford takes place at the Village Memorial Hall (opposite Bull Hotel) CO10 9LQ. Long Melford is the place in East Anglia to go to for childrens annuals, topography, natural history, crime fiction, illustrated books, antiquarian and much more.   Among the volumes that will be on offer are 'Select Fables– Thomas and John Bewick – together with a Memoir and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs Bewick', 1820 - £185. The Old Standing Crosses of Herefordshire by Alfred Watkins, 1930 - £45 and The Magic Fishbone' by Charles Dickens with illustrations by F.D. Bedford, published by Warne 1921 - £18. All available from Richard Edwins. Whilst from Missing Books there will be Archie and the Listers: the heroic story of Archie Scott Brown and the racing marque he made famous - £30, River management - the making, care and development of Salmon and Trout rivers, 1938 - £30 and book of English Gardens" by M.R. Gloag, 1906 - £10.   Home made refreshments available, free parking. Open 10 to 4. Admission £1.00 More details, including map and list of exhibitors, on www.missingbookfairs.co.uk or phone Chris Missing on 01245 361609. UK: The Bloomsbury Ephemera, Book & Postcard Fair, Sunday 27 January The Bloomsbury Ephemera, Book & Postcard Fair takes place this coming Sunday, 27 January at the Royal National Hotel, London WC1H 0DG, open from 9.30 until 3pm. The fair is our first ephemera fair of 2019 and is now fully booked!   With over 60 dealers spread across the whole of the Galleon Suit dealers are spread across more than 120 tables. Expect a wealth of material on offer, with items to suit all budgets and all genres. Whether you are a seasoned collector, a new collector, an academic, or just love anything vintage, there are aisles full of treasure to peruse the wide range - see for yourself! Admission is just £1.50 For further details, including the latest Exhibitor list, check the website, or phone Kim 01707 872140 for further information. www.bloomsburyephemerafair.com  Canada: Canada’s Smallest Book Fair, 9 March The Twenty-seventh annual Westmount Antiquarian Book Fair, Canada’s Smallest Book Fair, will take place on Saturday, 9 March 2019 at the Greene Centre, 1090 Greene Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, Canada H3Z 1Z9, from 10am to 5.00pm. (Please note that Westmount is adjacent to downtown Montreal). Exhibitors from Quebec and Ontario will offer for sale a wide selection of books, maps, prints and ephemera in both English and French. Info at (514) 935-9581 or www.defreitasbooks.com/wbf.html

 
 

 
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AntiquarianAuctions No. 72 Runs from 24 January to 31 January. AntiquarianAuctions.com is an online auction site dedicated to the sale of rare and out-of print books, maps & prints, documents, letters, ephemera and vintage photography. All pricing is done in US$. No buyer’s premium is charged. Highlighted lots shown below. Click in Lot number to see catalogue entry.  Lot 1   Basan (Pierre-François) Dictionnaire des Graveurs anciens et modernes Published: Paris, 1789 Estimate: $8,000/12,000 An exceptional extra-illustrated example of the second (considerably enlarged) edition: this copy started life as what is (in effect) the deluxe issue, including a suite of etchings/ engravings which, according to the author were included (or not) at the wish of the original buyer ("au gré de l'Amateur"). The plates called for by the plate lists are all printed from the original printing plates. In the present set (as is quite often the case) there are a few additional unlisted plates that are clearly ‘supposed’ to be present (they include the relevant page and volume number engraved in the margin).  Lot 3    Socino (Mariano) Mariani Socini Iunioris Aliter Socini Nepotis Patricii Senensis Commentaria Published: Venetiis, 1585 Estimate: $700/850 Scarce edition of 1585 of this work of right by the jurist from Siena (1482-1556), nephew of Mariano il Vecchio. Socino taught in the University of Pisa, Siena, and Bologna and was known to be a great lawyer.   This work, his famous commentary to Decretales and Digestum Vetus, is made up of two volumes and it is complete.  Lot 4    Palgrave (F.T.) [Riviere & Son - Binder] The Golden Treasury. Selected from best songs and lyrical poems in the English language Published: London, 1926 Estimate: $700/1,000 Contemporary light reddish-brown morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, covers elaborately decorated with a design of stylised grape vines, created using small tools including rules, points, leaves and bunches of grapes, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with simple repeat decoration centering on a single vine leaf, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (joints a little weak with some small splits [see images], one corner rubbed [see images]).  Lot 9   Roberts (Dr. Austin) The Birds of South Africa (Subscribers' Edition - presentation copy) Published: London, 1940 Estimate: $600/700 The limitation page reads, The Birds of South Africa, Subscribers’ Edition. Limited to 125 copies. Copy no. 125 Presented to: Lt.Col & Mrs John Reid. Signed by the author, artist and Hon. Sec. and Trustee, S. African Bird Book Fund (John Voelcker) The inscription on one of the front free endpapers reads: With Kind regards, J M Voelker   Lot 14  Burchell (W.J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa Published: London, 1822-1824 Estimate: $5,000/6,000 With 'Hints on Emigration to the Cape of Good Hope' By the Same Author, 4 pages, bound in at the end of volume I. 2 volumes, I. viii + [iv contents] + 582, II. [vi] + 648 pages, errata leaf, half title page in volume I but not in volume II, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece in each volume, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates - 5 of which are fine folding panoramas, 96 wood engravings, early twentieth century half green morocco with marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates on the front paste-down endpapers.    Lot 15   Sassoon (Siegfried) Selected Poems (Inscribed by the author) Published: London, 1925 Estimate: $100/150 First edition, first impression published by Heinemann in 1925. Signed and inscribed by famous World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon on the half-title page, "To Dr. Grace, with most friendly greetings from Siegfried Sassoon March 1926".    Lot 319  The Author of Keeper's Travels [Kendall (Edward Augustus)] The English Boy at the Cape (An Early Triple Decker Novel) Published: London, 1835 Estimate: $300/400 The English Boy at the Cape: An Anglo-African Story is a children's novel by Edward Augustus Kendall, first published in 1835. After writing a number of stories for children, Kendall toured America, worked in Canada, visited the West Indies, British India and the Cape Colony. On his return to England, he became a campaigner for the rights of the poor, and especially of children. The English Boy at the Cape: An Anglo-African Story was one of the first novels to be set in South Africa. Lot 340     Children's books The Pop-Up Mother Goose, With pop-up illustrations in full colour by Harold B. Lenz Published: New York, 1933 Estimate: $150/200 First edition: 96 pages, frontispiece, inscription on half title page,3 full colour pop up illustrations, numerous black and white illustrations, starting to wear at the hinge on page 14, pictorial paper covered boards, endpapers also in full colour, a very good copy in a worn dust jacket that has faded on the spine, now housed in a Brodart protector.  AntiquarianAuctions.com is an online auction site dedicated to the sale of rare and out-of print books, maps & prints, documents, letters, ephemera and vintage photography.   Dealers and collectors worldwide have been selling and bidding on the site since 2010. Only established booksellers who are members of major national trade associations such as ABA, ABAA, PBFA or SABDA or are of good standing in the trade are permitted to sell on the site.   Auctions are held every five weeks and run on the model of a timed auction for one week. All pricing is done in US$. No buyer’s premium is charged. Next auction: Auction #73: 7 – 14 March 2019   Contact: AntiquarianAuctions.com: Paul Mills P.O. Box 186 7848 Constantia, Cape Town South Africa E-mail: support@antiquarianauctions.com  Tel: +27 21 794 0600

  
 

 

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