b'163990BIGGLES BY CAPTAIN W.E.JOHNS - SCARCER UK EDITIONS: selection with dust jackets comprising Biggles Charter Pilot (1951 Reprint, Burnet #27.11), Biggles Delivers the Goods (1949, 3rd impression #31.4), Biggles Second Case (1950, 3rd impression #33.3), Biggles Air Detective (1952, 3rd impression, #37.4), Biggles Works it Out (1952, 2nd impression #41.2), Biggles Cuts it Fine (1959, 3rd impression, #48.3), Biggles of 266 (undated, Dean & Co,#54.2), Biggles Goes Home (1960, Childrens Book Club, #68.2, very scarce); also without d/js Biggles Delivers the Goods (1952, 5th impression, #31.7) & Biggles Goes to School (1952, 2nd impression #40.2); condition variable with some spotting. (10)[Reference numbers are taken from the Biggles Bibliography by Ross Burnett (6th edn, 2000), an example of which is included in Lot 18104.]$200300 991 BIGGLES BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - REISSUES OF TITLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BETWEEN9931932-1935: mostly hardbound comprising Biggles in the Cruise[William Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype (also known as of the Condor (10) incl. 1955 Thames Publishing Co (Burnettalbotype), a negative-positive process using a paper negative, #2.7) & 1956 Dean & Co (#2.8) reissues; Biggles of the Camelin 1840. The Art-Union was founded by publishers Hodgson Squadron (12, plus 1 softbound); Biggles Flies Again (13);& Graves in 1839 and quickly established itself as the most Biggles Learns to Fly (2) both the 1955 Brockampton Pressinfluential and prestigious British art periodical of its day.]reissues (#5.20), one with d/j & very scarce thus; Biggles and the Black Peril (14); duplication of the reissues throughout,$2,4003,200 some without dust jackets; also a copy of Biggles Bibliography by Ross Burnett (6th edn, 2000) & January 1935 edition of994Popular Flying magazine (52)J.M.W. TURNER R.A. - Turners Rivers of France [Reference numbers taken from the Biggles Bibliography by(Liber Fluviorum)Ross Burnett (6th edn, 2000), an example of which is included in[Henry George Bohn, London, 1853]. Depicted in sixty-one line with this lot.] engraving from drawings by Turner, with descriptive letter-$200300press by Leitch Ritchie; octavo, rebacked gilt-decorated cloth preserving original spine, new end papers, edges in gilt, 336pp. 992 First edition in single volume format, and includes an important biographical sketch of the artist by Alaric Alexander Watts.BIGGLES BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - MOSTLY REISSUES$120160 OF TITLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1936-1968: predominantly hardbound including Biggles Works It Out (1951) Biggles Takes The Case (1952) both 1st editions995without d/js, Biggles of the Interpol (1958) 1st edition with d/j The Human Eye And Its Auxiliary Organs,(missing frontispiece illustration), Biggles Flies To Work (1963)Anatomically Represented, With Explanatory Text By1st edition with d/j; 30 titles represented with duplication of theDr. H. Renow [Lon. 1896],reissues throughout. (63) brown boards with red spine$150200$80120 993 996 THE ART-UNION, VOLUMES I - X (1839-1848), VOLUME VIII Five assorted books on silver, pianos etc (5)WITH FOX TALBOT CALOTYPE PHOTOGRAPH. $4060 [Hodgson & Graves, London, 1839-1848]. In ten quarto (290 x 230mm) volumes, the first five volumes with in-text woodcut997illustrations, the sixth to tenth with out-of-text illustrations in the form of lithographs and steel engravings, the key June 1846THE SKETCH MAGAZINE (AUSTRALASIAN EDITION): 1901issue with original talbotype (calotype) photograph of a table setweekly theatrical publication, incomplete run of issues (9), for tea (86 x 168mm) by William Henry Fox Talbot, tipped-in withbetween Oct.2 and Dec.25; also Cassells Illustrated Family the tissue guard intact. All volumes bound in contemporary gilt- Paper 1855 Jun.23 & Jul.28 editions and a 1910 edition of ruled half morocco over marbled papered boards, spines withFancy Needlework (12 items)gilt-lettered titles and years, and raided bands. $100150 '