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Crabtree (Chris N.) The Doge and the Dolphin. Impressions of Venice, number 19 of 50 copies, signed by the author, 34 hand-printed etchings, slightly offset to right edge, manuscript titles with limitation and date in pencil, dolphin emblem blind-stamped on each, original calf, gilt, slip-case, Goolwa, Dolphin Studios and Victor Arbor, Ambrose Press, 1990; and another, Private Press, oblong folio & small 4to (2).

Bible, English. [The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New], 2 parts in 1, lacks general title and all before b3 and all after 4T5, New Testament title torn and frayed, some other ff. torn with loss, some ff. frayed, browned, 18th & 19th century manuscript records, contemporary calf over wooden boards, rubbed, 1 clasp only of 2, covers detached, later spine worn, [Herbert 349], folio, Robert Barker, 1616; sold not subject to return. *** ''The first small folio edition of King James' version; printed in roman type.''-Herbert.

Daubuz (Charles) A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, first edition, foxed and browned, 19th century manuscript note pasted down on fly-leaf, contemporary russia, gilt, slightly rubbed, covers detached, lacks head of spine, g.e., folio, Benj. Tooke, 1720.

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], ''Mark Twain''. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A Facsimile of the Manuscript, 2 vol., modern blue gilt pictorial morocco, gilt, cloth slip-case, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/ Zaehnsdorf, 4to, Detroit, 1983.

Bembo (Pietro) Della Historia Vinitiana, Libri XII, woodcut device on title (repeated on verso of colophon), woodcut initials, small stamp to title, light soiling, a little light spotting and marginal light water-staining, edge of first c.7ff. with a little loss, later vellum, [Adams B599], Venice, [Gualterus Scottus], 1552 § Isocrates. Scripta, edited and translated by Hieronymous Wolfius, woodcut title vignette, title and text in Greek and Latin, contemporary ink inscription and small tear to title, s bound in twice, small marginal tear to C2, Ee8 with small marginal hole, some browning, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, remains of a medieval manuscript used as binding, lacking ties, a little darkening, lower corners a little chipped, Basle, ex officinia Conradi Waldkirchiana, 1613; and 11 others, Continental Literature, v.s. (13).

London and Essex. Collection of c.130 photographs of views, most in London or Essex, but some elsewhere in England, mounted in an album with similar topographical engravings, some coloured, original calf, manuscript label, ''Our Ancestors. Their Homes and Native Places. London-old prints &c.'', 4to, 1890s.

A page from an illuminated manuscript, single leaf, (Horae, Paris, c.1475), 210 x 160 mm., with figures in colour, page-laden in colour and gold, floral border within burnished gold plant stems, on vellum, contemporary colouring

Boswell, James (1740-95), The Life of Samuel Johnson, London, Henry G Bohn, 1835-1851, 8vo, (mixed edition?), ten volumes, one engraved portrait frontispiece, nine other frontispieces, ten additional engraved titles, eleven folding facsimile manuscript leaf, three of which small illustrations on the bottom, fifteen plates of which two are folding, occasional spotting, contemporary half green morocco, spine in gilt compartments, five raised bands, cover very lightly rubbed in places, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper

Attributed to Stephen Slaughter (1697-1765) Portrait of the Most Reverend Dr John Connolly holding a manuscript "Flego and Marsh, Grafton Square". Oil on canvas, 48 x 99cm.

Lane (A.J.) The Diary of A.J. Lane: With a Description of Those Fishes to be Found in British Fresh Waters, 2 vol., c.364pp. altogether, number 211 of 1489 copies reprinted from an original manuscript of 1843, with companion volume of transcript and commentary by Len Cacutt, 41 plates, many colour, transcript vol. in original wrappers, gilt, reprint vol. in original morocco, gilt, slip-case, 18mo, Shropshire, Medlar Press, 1995. *** This is printed from the hitherto unpublished diary of Lane, a gentleman who describes the fish, the fishing and the flies of southern England in great detail.

North Country Angler (The); or the Art of Angling: as Practised in the Northern Counties of England, iv, 89pp., [1p.], fourth edition, 1p. advertisements at end, manuscript leaf with verse and drawing of fish bound in at beginning, light dust-soiling, uncut, modern calf-backed boards, [Westwood & Satchell p.13], 8vo, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817.

Ronalds (Alfred) The Fly-Fisher's Entomology ... Accompanied by a Few Observations and Instructions Relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing, xii, 115pp., 32pp., fourth edition, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, 32pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, 2ff. manuscript notes loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, extremities very slightly rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.178], 8vo, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849.

S. (J.) The Innocent Epicure: Or, the Art of Angling. A Poem, first edition, xvi, 64pp., edited by Nahum Tate, half-title, faint ink ownership inscription to title, worming to lower margin throughout, affecting one catchword, minor occasional foxing, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, slightly rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.86], small 8vo, for S. Crouch, H. Playford and W. Brown, 1697. *** Rare. The dedicatory poem is headed "J.S. to O.S." and the preface is signed by Nahum Tate, who states that, before endorsing its publication, he showed the manuscript to "several experiencd anglers" who took the view that it excelled " any thing that has been publish'd in prose upon this subject", while from the poetic point of view "the cast and design of the work are after the model of ancient and best receiv'd poets." The second edition was published in 1713.

Walton (Izaak) & Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, second Major edition, lviii, 416pp., engraved plates and illustrations, occasional light spotting, related manuscript letter tipped in at front, lacks 4pp. advertisements, contemporary calf, gilt, g.e., rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed, [Coigney 25; Horne 24], 12mo, John Major, 1824.

Wotton (Sir Henry) Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, a Collection of Lives, Letter, Poems; with Characters of Sundry Personages, first edition, [lx], 540pp., ?lacking final 2ff., small manuscript note tipped in on front free endpaper, A.L.s. tipped in at end, modern calf-backed boards, gilt spine, [Coigney p.386; Wing W3648], 12mo, by Thomas Maxey for Thomas Marriot, 1651. *** A fine copy. Includes Izaak Walton's 'Life of Wotton'.

BOURRIT (MARC THEODORE) DESCRIPTION DES ALPES PENNINES ET RHETIENNES, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map and 8 plates, some water-staining, mostly to plates, uncut in original wrappers, soiled, backstrips worn, loosely inserted fine engraved advertisement card for the Hotel du Mont Blanc with view from the hotel terrace of the mountain, early 19th-century manuscript notes (in English) on several pieces of paper pinned to relevant pages in vol.1, preserved in cloth chemise and slip-case, [Meckly 26], 8vo, Geneva, 1781.

BIBLE, English. THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW, 2 parts in 1, woodcut general title, woodcut Royal coat of arms on verso, text within single line borders, bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes, by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1634, slightly browned, bookplate on Martin Sharpe on front pastedown, 4pp. of manuscript notes by members of the Sharpe family at front, handsomely bound in seventeenth century calf with elaborate gilt tooled borders enclosing a central lozenge composed of floral tools, gilt stamped initials "ET" in the centre, one brass clasp only of 2, a few very small patches of wear, corners bumped, joints rubbed but still sound, spine slightly rubbed, gauffered edges, [Herbert 519], Robert Barker, 1638.

This lot is being sold to benefit the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. A good Second World War Navigator's D.F.C. service during & bar group of 5 to Squadron Leader R.A.W. Scott, R.A.F., comprising: Distinguished Flying Cross, Geo. VI, with Second Award Bar (rev. of cross officially dated 1943); Campaign Stars for 1939-45 and Air Crew Europe, with bar France & Germany; Defence & War Medals (all unnamed as issued), mounted loose style for wearing, very fine or better -lot. D.F.C. Also included in the lot are various related items, including a press cutting of the brilliant operation for which the recipient received the bar to his D.F.C., the recipient's two Air Crew Log Books, a manuscript wartime diary, an inscribed tankard from Wing Commander Winn, three photographs (one of the recipient in uniform) and sundry other pieces.

Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro) Viage del Mundo, first edition, title with large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Don Antonio Davila of Toledo, bishop of Jaen, full-page woodcut portrait of author, woodcut initials, lacking engraved portrait and L2, L3 & Y8, title defective at edges with loss of three letters (supplied in manuscript and laid down), final leaf also defective with loss of a few letters (supplied in manuscript and repaired) and notes in manuscript on verso, foxed, some light soiling, from the library of John Carter Brown with his bookplate and release stamp in red on front paste-down and stamp on first leaf, early twentieth century blue morocco, gilt, by J.Leighton, g.e., spine gilt, [Palau 203651; Sabin 57524], small 4to, Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614. *** Rare account of the author's travels in Latin America, China, the Philippines and Africa, and including two chapters on Bermuda where a European colony had been established in 1612.

Ptolemaeus (Claudius) La Geografia, translated by Pietro Mattioli from Sebastian Münster's earlier edition, title within woodcut pillars and device on verso of last f., 60 double-page engraved maps by Giacomo Gastaldi, stubs strengthened with strips from a medieval manuscript, woodcut illustrations in the text, text in Roman and italic types, title supplied with two words in manuscript, very slight staining in margins not affecting maps or text, some slight browning, bookticket on front pastedown, 19th century vellum-backed boards, [Adams 2234; Sabin 66502; Phillips, Atlases 369], 8vo, Venice, Giovanni Baptista Pedrezano, 1548.

Steller (Georg Wilhelm) Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka ... , first edition, engraved title-vignette, 2 folding maps and 13 folding plates, woodcut diagrams and decorations, one plate torn in two along fold (no loss), contemporary boards, paper label with title in manuscript, a little rubbed, 8vo, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1774.

Travel Journal.- Collins (Anthony) Journal of a tour to Switzerland and Germany, manuscript, 119pp. excluding blanks, a few prints tipped-in or mounted, coat of arms on front pastedown, slightly foxed and browned, original half morocco, 4to, Tuesday 21st July 1835-25th December 1835. *** The travellers itinerary included Rouen, Paris, Lyons, Geneva, Lausanne, Chamouni, Mont Blanc, Chillon, Berne, Grindelwald, Rhine etc.

A PAGE FROM AN INDIAN MANUSCRIPT illustrated with hunting scenes, framed, 9"x4 1/2".

Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes (Jacques) De l'Homme Antediluvien et de ses oeuvres, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on upper cover, ink stamp on title, illustrations, spotted, original printed wrappers, uncut, Paris, 1860; De la Machoire Humaine de Moulin-Quignon, 1864 bound with Des Outils de Pierre, lithographed plates, 1865, contemporary half morocco, original wrappers bound in, Paris ~ Ledieu (Alcius) Boucher de Perthes: Sa Vie, Ses Oeuvres, Sa Correspondance, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, Abbeville, 1885, a little rubbed; and 70 others and 3 box files of pamphlets by or about Boucher de Perthes including a manuscript volume with many pen and ink and wash illustrations of flints and bones, a few signed or inscribed by him, 8vo & 4to (c.100).

Commonplace book. Liste alphabetiques des auteurs et des livres cites dans le dictionnaire Francois de Pierre Richelet pour mons utilite ...Calotte pour le Cardinal de Fleury ...Epigrams ..., manuscript in French, 609pp. excluding blanks, 2 engraved plates and a small printed work bound in, original calf, gilt stamp on upper cover, slightly rubbed, gilt panelled spine, tail of spine with wormholes, 8vo, [early eighteenth century].

Croizet (l'Abbe) and Jobert aine. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du departement du Puy-de-Dome, apparently the dedication copy with stamp ogf G.Cuvier on title, printed on wove paper, double-page lithographed map hand-coloured in outline, 8 lithographed cross-sections and 48 plates, additional blank leaves bound in at end with extensive notes in manuscript, foxed, later calf-backed boards, rubbed, 4to, Paris, 1828. *** According to long manuscript note at beginning this is the only copy printed on this paper and with the map hand-coloured. The notes at the end were copied from the captions on the original part wrappers, from the copy in the Bibliotheque municipale in Puy, many written by Bravard.

Croizet (l'Abbe) and Jobert aine. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du departement du Puy-de-Dome, printed on fine laid paper, folding lithographed map, 8 lithographed cross-sections and 47 plates only (of 48, lacking plate I of Cerfs), plates interleaved with manuscript captions from the copy in the Bibliotheque municipale in Puy, some spotting, later half morocco, uncut, rubbed, 4to, Paris, 1828.

Frisi (Paolo) Traite des Rivieres et des Torrens ...augmente du Traite des Canaux navigables, woodcut device on title, folding table, 2 folding engraved plates, some light foxing, 2 ff. with extensive manuscript notes (modern) tipped in at beginning, oild library label oin front paste-down, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, joints cracked, 4to, Paris, 1774.

Gesner (Conrad) De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis ..., parts 1 and 8 only (of 8) in 2 vol., vol.1 with woodcut illustration on title and blank M8, vol.2 with woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and illustrations, title of vol. 1 with note in contemporary manuscript at foot and number in inner margin, lightly browned and water-stained, vol. 2 with worming to outer margin, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, rubbed, [cf. Adams G-522], 8vo, Zurich, [Iacobus Gesnerus], 1565.

Malebranche (Nicholas) Le Militaire Filosophe ou Dificultes sur la Religion ..., manuscript fair copy, in French, title, half-title and 209pp., ruled in red, written in a Persian or Arabic volume with 2pp. of gold decoration, 18th century Arabic morocco, gilt, sm. 4to, Londres, 1770.

Meslier (Jean, French cleric, 1678-1733) Memoire ..., manuscript fair copy, in French, 724pp., slightly browned, oval ink library stamp of Bibliotheque de la Daviere on first page, 19th century calf, head and tail of spine repaired, 4to, [c. 1750].

Reflexions Critiques sur les argumens employer pour prouver la Religion chretienne, manuscript in French, title and 361pp., browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled, rubbed, [eighteenth century] ~ Imitation libre en vers Francois de la Jerusalem delivree du Tasse par M Watelet, manuscript in French, title and 39pp., contemporary morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spine, g.e., [eighteenth century], 8vo & sm. 4to (2).

Tobacco.- Duburgua (M.) Memoire Theorique et Pratique sur la Culture du Tabac dans les Departemens du Midi de la France ..., Agen, 1805 bound with 16 other pieces on tobacco, mostly Circulaires from le Conseiller d'etat Directeur general de l'Administration des Droits reunis, and 5 folding tables, some printed on blue paper, one circulaire in manuscript, index in manuscript at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo

19th Century Indian School. 6in. x 3in. (15 x 7.7cm). Two women smoking a hookah - gouache with manuscript text.

Persian School. 9in. x 4.75in. (22.5 x 12cm). Horsemen hunting wild animals - manuscript pages illustrated in gouache. (a pair)

An album of manuscript letters and their wrappers, with some printed matter, circa 1840-1880.

Crawhall (Joseph) Border Notes and Mixty-Maxty, the author's copy marked up for the printers, inscribed "Proof copy - for trials", with 1 original watercolour illustration inscribed "first rough sketch", 143pp., one of 50 copies of which 40 were for sale, lithographed throughout with several full-page illustrations by Joseph Crawhall II and III in facsimile of the original manuscript, some hand-coloured for the publisher, numerous hand-coloured woodcut illustrations in the text, occasional manuscript notes by the author including 4 verses on front and rear endpapers, 2 bookplates of Joseph Crawhall, original watercolour and several pp. of unique material tipped in, contemporary blue calf, rubbed, covers detached, t.e.g., 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1880. *** Unique copy of an extremely scarce work with some unpublished material. This marks the first appearance of Joseph Crawhall III drawings in a book. Dedicated to his friend, Charles Keene, the famous Punch illustrator.

Crawhall (Joseph) Original manuscript of four poems published in "A Jubilee Thought", 1887, comprising "Rus", A Pastoral; God us ayde; Jubilee &c and A la mode, 12 pp and conjugate blanks, ink on paper, several corrections, one initialled "C", each dated "86", small piece excised on one sheet, some spotting, the 10 leaves pinned together; A.L.s. to the Rev. J Green, 2pp, folio, Morpeth, 30 March 1858, including a 6-stanza poem entitled "A Retort Courteous" on the pleasures of angling, signed "Your bitter antagonist for the Laureateship", on india paper, probably a retained copy passed through a copying press (quoted by Felver, p.25); A.L.s. to his sister Mary Crawhall, 4pp, 8vo, Ealing, 15 Feb.1892, on his travels to Venice, life in London, news of mutual friends etc.; and an order form for "The Compleatest Angling Booke" made out to Thomas Grainger (sm.qty).

Crawhall (Joseph) "Sketches &c by Joseph Crawhall. Warkworth 1889", a commonplace book of drawings, manuscript notes, photographs and ephemera, the first leaf titled by Crawhall as above, comprising over 85 drawings and watercolours of which c.20 figure studies including 3 self-portrait caricatures, the remainder small heraldic subjects, two of the Crawhall arms, many of the Percy arms, and antiquarian sketches, many taken in Warkworth Church, 19 family photographs including several of Crawhall, 30 woodcuts, all but 9 hand-coloured including the "four crows" headpiece, a four-line verse headed "To Oscar Wilde on his Marriage" dated 29 Feb.1884 (quoted by Felver p.57 from another album), a list of some prices at the Bewick sale, 1889, a watercolour design for an illustrated Christmas card headed "May good digestion wayte on Appetite", the reverse with comments, initialled, by Andrew Tuer: "This is by far & away the best: it is quaint, humorous & every bit of it tells", a woodcut Christmas card dated 1883 designed for his wife Margaret (a variant of that illustrated by Felver, p.60), a woodcut portrait identified as Jane Emerson (Crawhall's maternal grandmother) inscribed "JC to MC" to his wife, four drawings of dogs by Joseph Crawhall Jr., one in watercolour over pencil, one in pen and charcoal with a little watercolour, two in pen and ink, 50 x 110mm. to 80 x 165mm., all signed JC Jnr., dated 1877 and 1878, a further, unsigned, watercolour of "Towler", a hunting dog, attributed to Joseph Jr. in a later note, newspaper cuttings related to the family and other items, a few loosely inserted, contemporary linen-backed boards, backstrip titled in ink by Crawhall, bookplates of Joseph Crawhall and Oswin Charlton, 4to (190 x 150mm.), 1889. *** The drawings by Joseph Junior are of particular interest since his first exhibited paintings, also of dogs, were shown at the Arts Association of Newcastle in 1878. The unsigned watercolour of a foxhound is remarkably similar to the work of his grandfather; cf. Vivien Hamilton, Joseph Crawhall 1861-1913, plate 2.

[Crawhall (Joseph)] [Sale] Catalogue of a Selected Portion of the Collection of Prints, Drawings, China, Arms, Armour, etc. of Joseph Crawhall, Esq., 15pp., faint vertical crease, 8vo, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Friday 22nd June,1894; with Sotheby's manuscript account for the two-day sale listing receipts and charges ~ Robinson (Robert, bookseller) Catalogue of Rare and Choice Books, being a portion of the Valuable Library of Jos. Crawhall, Esq., 16pp., wrappers frayed and detached, 8vo, Newcastle, 1880 ~ A.L.s., from Crawhall to Thos. Topham, 1p. with conjugate blanks, Arts Association, Newcastle, 1880, requesting "one or 2 pieces of Anglo Saxon" (pottery), old fold ~ Prospectus for "Impresses Quaint", single sheet with woodcuts, old folds, 4to, Newcastle, Mawson, Swan & Morgan, [1888] ~ Crawhall (Joseph) Printed notice of the Northumberland Small Pipes Competition, 1882, single sheet, 8vo; and two printed items relating to Crawhall's father when Mayor of Newcastle, a dinner menu and ball programme, 1850 (8).

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistolae ad familiares ("Epistolarum familiarum liber"), 197 leaves only (of 204), lacking first leaf (blank), 5 leaves at end & one in body of work, 33 lines, one leaf, from another copy?, misbound at end, first 2 words on leaf 4 supplied in manuscript, three quarter white vine border incorporating arms & 6-line capital on leaf one, slightly abraded, 14 other 6-line capitals, similarly illuminated, other capitals in red or blue, some, mainly neat, early marginal annotations & corrections, stain in wide outer margin, more extensive at beginning & end, Hopetoun bookplate, later calf, spine gilt, rubbed, hinges weak, spine cracking, [BMC V, 169; Goff C508, 6 copies only], small folio, [Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471].

Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, ("De divinis institutionibus adversus gentes"), 227 leaves (of 228), lacking a1 (blank), 37 lines, 10 5-line capitals in red & blue extending into the margin, other capitals in red or blue, manuscript running headlines in red ink, wide outer margin of a2 & 3, and p8 restored, sporadic water-stains throughout, 2 very small wormholes at extreme foot of some leaves, modern dark brown morocco gilt, 3 single fillet borders on covers, spine similarly decorated in compartments, [BMC V, 233; Goff L9], folio, Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 27 August 1478. *** Includes the Epitomon of Lactantius.

[Vergilius Maro (Publius) Opera Virgiliana], 2 parts in 1, lacking signature a of part 1 (all before p.XVII), F4 & 5 of part 2 (pp.LXXXIII-LXXXVI of Aeneid) and signature at end (after Aeneid), woodcut initials, 198 woodcut illustrations in text, Edward Burne-Jones's copy with his signature in ink on front free endpaper and his bookplate on front paste-down, woodcuts numbered in pencil in Burne-Jones's hand (incorrectly, 26 & 29 are numbered twice and 158 and 159 omitted), browned and water-stained, many leaves defective at edge and repaired, a few other minor defects, old sheep, gilt, rebacked and re-edged, rather wormed and worn, [Adams V474], folio, [Lyon, Jean Crespin, 1529]; sold not subject to return *** A manuscript note loosely inserted reads, "Darling - This is to commemorate your scholarship - December 1928 - It was Sir Edward Burne-Jones's Virgil - (my godfather) and he loved the wood-cuts and numbered them all in pencil. I think you will like to possess it in memory of this great joy. Mother."

[English Plays], a large collection of 17th and 18th century English plays uniformly bound in 18 (of at least 20) vol. (missing vol.1 and 3), including works by Shakespeare, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Durfey, Beaumont & Fletcher and others, some first editions, some with defects or missing leaves (usually supplied in manuscript), many trimmed with loss (usually only to headlines but sometimes to text), 18th century mottled sheep, spines gilt with double morocco labels, 4to and 8vo, v.d.; sold not subject to return (18).

Test of Friendship (The): or, the History of Lord George B—-, and Sir Harry Acton, Bart., 2 vol., only edition, titles within typographic border, manuscript correction to one word on K8 vol.2, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt, [ESTC n067198 locates only one copy (not in British Isles)], 12mo, by W.Adlard ... for Francis Noble ... and John Noble, 1769. (See Lot 94 for Illustration).

Peck (Francis) Academia tertia Anglicana; or, The Antiquarian Annals of Stanford ... , first edition, large paper copy, folding double-page engraved view, engraved title-vignette and coat-of-arms on dedication, list of subscribers, 32 engraved plates, engraved illustrations in text, this copy with extra mezzotint portrait of the author cut and mounted and 3 manuscript pp. of biography and list of plates bound in at beginning, acquisition note in contemporary hand at head of front free endpaper "Large Paper, remarkably tall copy - Bought of Mr.Tighe", one plate with outer margin defective (skilfully repaired), ex-Oxford and and Cambridge University Club Library with bookplate on front paste-down and one or two small embossed stamps, eighteenth century russia, gilt, g.e., old reback in red morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners worn, folio, for the Author, 1727.

Shakespeare (William) The Plays, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, 12 vol. including 2 vol. supplement, half-titles, engraved portrait, frontispiece and plates, some folding, contemporary signature at head of titles, autograph note from David Garrick presenting his compliments to Dr.Leake pasted inside cover of vol.4, manuscript note in another hand concerning Shakespeare's father tipped into vol.1, a few pencil markings, some spotting, vol.3 with marginal worming at beginning, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving most original morocco labels, 2 renewed, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1778. *** Possibly Dr.John Leake (1729-1792), doctor and writer on midwifery.

Leeuwenhoek (Antony van) [Werken], 18 works bound in 6 vol., 3 engraved additional titles (1 with repaired tear), portrait, 99 plates (only, of 100?), 38 folding, text-illustrations, 1 full-page, 3 titles and a few text-ff. & plates loose, occasional spotting and staining, a few early notes, 2 manuscript additions loosely inserted, contemporary vellum, little marked & rubbed, [Dobell, Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "Little Animals", pp. 392-394; cf PMM 166], 4to, Leiden or Delft, 1684-1718. (6). *** Complete set of the original Dutch editions of van Leeuwenhoek's 165 'published' letters, all but one first editions. Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) 'became one of the most remarkable microscopists of all time ... made remarkable discoveries in the anatomy of man and the higher and lower forms of animal and plant life ... first fully described spermatozoa ... discovered infusoria and rotifera ... ' (PMM). He communicated his observations in letters mostly to the Royal Society in London, which he published in 2 series, numbered 28-146 and I-XLVI, issued in 18 works. In the present set, only letter 65 is not present as the first edition, published on its own in 1688 (Dobell 11), but as part of the first publication of letters 61-67 in 1689 (Dobell 12). This set also contains early manuscript copies of two supplementary items: Brief van G. Bidloo aan Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Delft, 1698, (Dobell p. 400, 'The Dutch edition is extremely rare') and Register Verstrekkende te gelijk voor een Korte Inhouid van alle de Werken vande Heer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Leiden, 1695, 2 parts, (Dobell p.399). Clifford Dobell's own set, later in the Honeyman Collection (sold at Sotheby's, 12th May 1980, lot 1958) apparently had 100 plates, but this perhaps includes the full-page text engraving.

Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry, sixth edition, title in red and black, engraved portraits and plates, woodcut coats-of-arms throughout, lacking all after b2 of Table (G onwards) but supplied with 6 ms. leaves, additional 2ff. manuscript index tipped in after Baronets, nineteenth century proposal for new 4to edition with printed letter soliciting patronage tipped in at beginning, some browning and spotting, title laid down, one or two other repairs, ex-library copy with stamps, library half morocco, rubbed, folio, 1724. *** The proposed new addition was never published.

C[okayne] (G[eorge] E[dward], Clarenceux King of Arms, genealogist, 1825-1911) [Genealogy of Fletcher and other families], autograph manuscript, a few insertions in other hands, 15pp. excluding blanks, presentation inscription to Herbert Fletcher, edges ruled, hinges a little weak, original cloth, joints splitting, head and tail of spine chipped, oblong 4to, 1887. *** "This book was compiled by - George Edward Cockayne, Clarenceaux King of Arms 1894 - 1911. Hebert Fletcher."

De Walden Library.- De Walden (Lord Howard) A Tudor Book of Arms...; Banners, Standards and Badges from a Tudor Manuscript in the College of Arms; Some Feudal Lords and their Seals, together 3 vol., plates and illustrations, some colour, ex-library copies with stamps, original cloth, rubbed, the first with split joint, 4to, 1904.

MANUSCRIPT DIARY of WORLD TOUR, 1931. Tog with 2 others. (3)

HATSELL'S 'Precendents of Proceedings in The House of Commons'', London 1818 4to. 4vols. Full bd. glt. spines. Tog. with a manuscript letter ND. relating to P120 in Vol IV.

HURD. M.S. 'The Bishoprick of Worcester', Manuscript Account of the Revenue, Disbursements, Patronage in the year 1802. Tog with 'Inventory of Furniture and effects of Elmley Castle, Pershore, Worcester, plus 2 vols of Worcestershire County Council record 1890 & 1891. (x 4)

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK. dated 1756. Ann M Plowden. bds soiled & worn.

'Frontier Thoughts and Frontier Requirements' by Sir H.B. Lumsden in manuscript dated 1801. Tog. with 'Permanent Orders for the 40th Pathan Regiment of Bengal Infantry' by Lieutenant-Colonel S.H.P. Graves. Paper covers det. plus A Manuscript - 'Royal Warrant, 1792 Pay of Infantry Soldier.' Date May 1797. plus 3 other related correspondence. Plus Photostated copies of letters relating to Waterloo dated July 13 1815 with letter from The National Army Museum 1963.

'COLOUR' Magazine bound in 3 vols 1918-19, 1919-20, 1922. tog.with 'The Book of Kells' Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. Study by Francoise HENRY, Thames & Hudson, 1924. Fo. in Slip-case, plus 1 other art related. (x5)

MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT of Aviation memoirs relating to The formation of the British Flying Boats Ltd. Company in Scotland, References to the planes used; 'Cloud', 'Moth' & 'Bluebird' & those involved in the Company.

Account of Grant Tour July 4th 1816. Tog. with manuscript War diary, Oct 1934 - 1943. Plus another dairy and some 18?? hand written receipts. (7)

BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB, A COLLECTION OF 10 SCRAP ALBUMS, containing press cuttings and numerous manuscript match scores, covering the period 1930's to 1990's. (10)