LIVE: Quinn's April Rare Book and Autograph Auction

[Folio]11 Volumes on Science and the Natural World. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. ++ Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene. 2 copies. Shrink wrapped. ++ Richard Fortey. The Earth an Intimate History. Shrink wrapped, torn. ++ Stephen Hawking. A Brief History Of Time. Shrink wrapped. ++ 2 Vols. Roy Porter. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. 2016. ++ 5 Vols. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. 2012. No slip case. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 1

[Folio]12 Volumes British and European History. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. ++ Christopher Hill. God's Englishman - Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Shrink wrapped. ++ Liza Picard. Restoration London. Shrink Wrapped. ++ Peter Ackroyd. The Life of Thomas More. Shrink wrapped. ++ 2 Vols. Diarmaid McCulloch. Reformation - Europe's House Divided. ++ 3 Vols. Jan Morris. Pax Britannica Trilogy: Heaven's Command/Pax Britannica/Farewell and Trumpets. ++ William Gaunt. The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy. Shrink wrapped. ++ 3 Vols. Asa Briggs. Victorian Trilogy: Victorian Cities/Victorian Things/VictorianPeople. No slip case. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 2

[Folio]17 Volumes on Antiquity and classical civilizations. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. ++ Tom Holland. The Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. Shrink wrapped, torn. ++ Polybius. The Rise of Rome. Shrink wrap. ++ Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Shrink wrapped. ++ Virgil. Aeneid. In clamshell case. Leather bound. ++ 2 Vols. George Hart. The Pharaohs. ++ Stacy Schiff. Cleopatra. Shrink wrapped. ++ Aubrey de Selincourt. The World of Herodotus. Shrink wrapped. ++ Mary Beard. Pompeii. Shrink wrapped, torn. ++ 2 Vols. Howard Carter. The Tomb of Tutankhamun. Shrink wrapped. ++ The Persian Wars. Shrink wrapped. ++ 4 Vols. Rulers of the Ancient World Set. Alexander the Great/Hannibal/Julius Caesar/Cleopatra/Nero. Damage to slip case corner. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 3

[Folio][Set][Antiquity]16 volumes in 7 sets. The Folio Society. All editions bound in leatherette with gilt decorations. ++ Geln E. Markoe. The Phoenecians. 2011. Fifth Printing. With slip case++ Gwyn Jones. The Vikings. 2009. Sixth printing. With Slip case. ++ Empires of Early Latin America Set. 2010. Ninth Printing: Nigel Davies. The Incas/Nigel Davies. The Aztecs/Norman Hammond. The Maya. With slip case. ++ Empires of the Ancient Near East Set. 2010. Thirteenth Printing. : Alan Gardiner. The Eqyptians/H.W.F. Saggs. The Babylonians/ O.R. Gurney. The Hittites/ J.M. Cook The Persians. ++ 2 Vols, The Myceneans and the Minoans Set: Taylour & CHadwick. The Myceneans/J. Lesley Fitton. The Minoans. With Slipcase. ++ Nora Chadwick. The Celts. In shrink wrap, with slip case, ++ 2 Vols. Richard Townsend. The Aztecs. in shrink wrap, with slip case. ++ 2 Vols. Campbell, John, Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. 2018. With slip case. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 4

[Folio][Antiquity]4 Sets, 15 Volumes. The Folio Society. All bound in fine cloth, some embellished, with individual slipcases, unless otherwise noted. ++ A.R. Burn. 4 Vols. The Greek World. The Lyric Age/The Persian Wars/The Hellenistic Age/The Classical Age. 2002. Condition. Overall Very good, Slipcase scuffed and damaged at lower edge. ++ John Julius Norwich. 3 Vols. Byzantium. The Early Centuries/The Apogee/The Decline and Fall. Sixth edition, 2009. Bound in leatherette. Condition: Very good. Some scuffs to slipcase. ++ 4 Vols. The Lives of Plutarch. Dryden translation. Volumes I, II, III, IV. 2010. Bound in Leatherette. Condition: Very good. Slipcase scuffed and damaged at upper corner. ++ Gibbon. 4 Vols. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volumes V, VI, VII, VIII. Nineteenth printing 2011. Bound in full elephant hide. Condition: Very good. Some scuffing to slipcase. - Lot 5

[Folio][set][Antiquity]8 Volumes by Thomas Hodgkin. The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire Volumes I-VIII. 2000. The Folio Society. All volumes leatherette backed with decorative paper boards. Each with individal slipcases. ++ The Visigothic Invasion. ++ The Huns and the Vandals. ++ The Ostrogoths. ++ The Imperial Restoration. ++ The Lombard Invasion. ++ The Lombard Kingdom. ++ The Frankish Invasion. ++ The Frankish Empire. ++ Condition: Overall very good. Minor foxing. Damage and wear to some of the slipcases. - Lot 6

[Folio]12 Volumes on Military History. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. All in shrink wrap unless otherwise noted. ++ 4 Vols. Eye Witness to History Set. Discovering New Worlds/Empire and After/The First Reporters/In Our Time. Damage to slip case in u.r. edge. No shrink wrap. ++ Sebastian Haffner. The Meaning of Hitler. ++ Paul Fussell. The Great War and Modern Memory. ++ John Keegan. The Mask of Command. ++ John Reed. Ten Days That Shook the World. ++ 2 Vols Martin Gilbert. The First World War. ++ 2 Vols. Martin Gilbert. The Second World War. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 7

[Folio]21 volumes on History. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. All shrinkwrapped unless otherwise noted. ++ 4 Vols. Notable Historical Trials. No shrink wrap.++ 2 Vols. A History of Chinese Civilization. No shrink wrap. ++ Helen Castor. Joan of Arc. ++ Cecil Woodham Smith. The Reason Why. ++ Wilfred Thesiger. Arabian Sands. ++ Captain CHarles Johnson. A General History of Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. ++ Malcom Barber. The Templars. Not shrink wrapped. ++ Robin Lane Fox. The Classical World. ++ 2 Vols. John Julius Norwich. The Middle Sea. No shrink wrap. ++ Angie Debo. A History of the Indians of the United States, ++ Dee Brown. Bury my Heart At Wounded Knee. ++ 2 Vols. Christopher Clark. Iron Kingdom. No Shrink wrap. ++ 2 Vols. Richard Holmes. Tommy. ++ Andrew Roberts. Napoleon & Wellington. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 8

[Folio]24 Volumes Science Fiction, Poetry, and Short Stories. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. All in shrink wrap unless otherwise noted. ++ Philip K. Dick. Ubik. ++ Frank Herbet. Dune. ++ 3 Vols. Isaac Asimov. Foundation Trilogy. ++ Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake. ++ Ursula K. Le Guin. The Wizard of Earthsea. ++ 3 Vols. Patricia Highsmith. The Talented Mr. Ripley Trilogy. No shrink wrap. ++ Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. No slip case. ++ The Folio Science Fiction Anthology. ++ H.G. Wells. The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moruea. ++ 3 Vols. The Locked Room Mysteries. Edgar Wallace. The Four Just Men/Gaston Leroux. The Mystery of the Yellow Room/John Dickson Carr. The Hollow Man. No shrink wrap. ++ A Folio Anthology of Poetry. ++ Edgar Allen Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. ++ The Folio Book of Horror Stories. ++ M.R. James. Ghost Stories. ++ Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet. ++ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Three Other Poems. ++ The Folio Book of Great Short Stories. ++ The Folio Book of Ghost Stories. ++ Condition: Overall Very Good. - Lot 9

[Folio]10 Volumes on the Renissance. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. ++ 5 Vols. Vincent Cronin. The Story of the Reinassance Set. ++ Peter Burke. The Italian Renaissance. Shrink wrapped. ++ Howard Hibbard. Michaelangelo. ++ 3 Vols. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. ++ Condition: Overall very good, Some scuffs to slip cases. - Lot 10

[Folio]10 Volumes on Philosophy and Mythology. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. All in shrink wrap unless otherwise noted. ++ Ceram. Gods, Graves and Scholars. ++ The Norse Myths. ++ 2 Vols. James George Frazer. The Golden Bough. No shrink wrap. ++ Roger Lancelyn Green. Tales of the Greek Heroes. ++ 2 Vols. Peter Watson. Ideas a History: Fire to Freud. No shrink wrap. ++ Descartes. Meditations and Other Writings. ++ Galileo Galilei. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. ++ Bertrand Russell. History of Western Philosophy. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 11

[Folio]24 Volumes Fiction. The Folio Society. All bound in cloth or leatherette with decorative boards. All in slip cases unless otherwise noted. All in shrink wrap. ++ Members of the Detective Club. The Floating Admiral. ++ Agatha Christie. The Murder or Roger Ackroyd. 2 copies. ++ 3 vols. Georges Simenon. Maigret and the Calame Report/Maigret and the Saturday Caller/Maigret and the Wine Merchant. ++ Graham & Hugh Greene. The Spy's Bedside Book. ++ Margery Allingham. The Tiger in the Smoke. ++ Margery Allingham. Hide my Eyes. ++ Margery Allingham. Traitor's Purse. ++ Joseph Conrad. The Secret Agent. ++ Rosemary Sutcliff. The Mark of the Horse Lord. ++ Penelope Fitzgerald. The Blue Flower. ++ Soren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling. ++ 2 Vols. Shi Nai'an. Outlaws of the Marsh. ++ Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. ++ Peulo Coelho. The Alchemist. ++ William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist. ++ Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. ++ Patricia Highsmith. Strangers on a Train. ++ William Golding. Lord of the Flies. ++ Herman Melville. Moby Dick. ++ Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. ++ Condition: Overall near fine. - Lot 12

[Folio]7 Volumes from the Ian Fleming. James Bond Set. The Folio Society. Includes: Dr No/Moonraker/Thunderball/Diamonds are Forever/Casino Royale/From Russia With Love/Goldfinger. ++ All bound in cloth and in shrink wrap except for Goldfinger. Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 13

[Fine Binding] Herodotus. The Histories. Folio Society, London, 2020. Exquisitely hand-bound in full-grain leather, this edition of the first great work of history features an exclusive new introduction by Peter Frankopan and fabulous illustrations by Nick Hayes. No 376 of 750 copies, each numbered by hand and signed by the introducer, the illustrator and the translator, this is the ideal Herodotus for the discerning collector. Condition: Litter wear to slipcase. Book in fine condition. - Lot 14

[Easton][Signed] 5 volumes The Easton Press. All signed first editions bound in Leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. ++ Le Carre. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Signed by the author. ++ Le Carre. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Signed by the author. ++ Forsyth. The Day of The Jackal. Signed by the Author. ++ David Brin. The Postman. Signed. Shrinkwrapped. ++ Scott Turow. Presumed Innocent. Shrinkwrapped. - Lot 15

[Easton][Math/Econ]12 Volumes. The Easton Press. All editions bound in Leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. ++ The Math Book. 2019. Penguin Random House. ++ Edited by Stephen Hawking. And God Created the Integers. 2019. ++ Mileham. The Elements Bible. 2018. Firefly books. ++ E.T. Bell. Men of Mathematics. 2021. ++ Colin Beveridge. The Mathematics Bible. 2016. Firefly books. ++ James R. Newman. 4 vols. The World of Mathematics. 2014. ++ Machiavelli. The Prince. 1980. ++ R.F. Harrod. The Life of John Maynard Keynes. 1990. ++ Edited by Stephen Hawking. On the Shoulders of Giants. 2020. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 16

[Easton][Occult]11 Volumes. The Easton Press. All editions bound in Leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. ++ 2 Vols. Suzannah Lipscomb. A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and The Occult. First American Edition 2020. Penguin Random House. ++ Michael Kerrigan. The Knights Templar. 2019. Amber Books. ++ Noel Daniel. The Magic Book. 2009. Taschen. ++ John Ferguson. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religion. 2021. ++ Mitchell G. Reddish. Apocalyptic Literature. 2021. ++ The Tibetan Book of the Dead. 2021. ++ Signs and Symbols. 2019. Penguin Random House. ++ Andrea Richards. Astrology. 2020. Taschen. ++ Alexander Roob. Alchemy & Mysticism. Taschen. ++ Sir R.F. Burton. Vikram and the Vampire, Tales of Hindu Devilry. 2015. WIth Slipcase. ++ Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 17

[Easton][Fiction][Set]7 Volumes. The Easton Press. Arthur Conan Doyle. All editions bound in Leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. ++ The Hound of the Baskervilles. Illustrated by Matthew Stewart. Signed by the Illustrator. 2013. With illustrated slipcase. ++ 3 Vols. Collectors Edition. 2005. The Poison Belt. The Lost World. The Land of Mist and Other Stories. ++ 3 Vols. 100 Greatest Books Ever Written editions. 1981. The Adventures of Sherlock Homes. The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ++ Condition: Overall Very good. - Lot 18

[Easton][SciFi][Set]3 Volumes. The Easton Press. Astounding Stories The 60th Anniversary Collection. 1990. All editions bound in leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 19

[Finish][Easton][Set]19 Volumes. Glorious Art. The Easton Press. ++ Impressionists. ++ Rodin. ++ The Ancient Near East. Shrink wrapped. ++ Pompeii. Shrink wrapped. ++ Masters of English Landscape. Shrink wrapped. ++ Picasso. Shrink wrapped. ++ Early Flemish Painting. ++ Michelangelo. ++ Leonardo. ++ David and Neoclassicism. ++ Florence and the Renaissance. ++ Architecture of the Future. ++ Rome: Palaces and Gardens. ++ Modigliani. ++Byzantine Art. ++ The Fauves. ++ The Pharaohs. Shrink wrapped. ++ The Glory of Venice. ++ Eighteenth Century French painting. shrink wrapped.++All editions bound in leather with silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Overall very good. - Lot 20