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Fine Regency Binding, c.1803, [Riddell (Mary)], West Indies born Poet (1772-1808) Editor and Contributor 'The Metrical Miscellany: consisting of Poems hitherto unpublished'. Cadell and Davies, London 1803, 2nd Ed. 8vo. (220 x 135mm). Full red morocco, blind tooled and with gilt tooled borders and ten panel spine, blue silk end papers and gilt edges, rubbed and splitting (1)Provenance: John. P. Love Collection

Ancient Egypt Museum of Cairo and The Egypt Exploration Fund Cairo Museum. [Group of works from the Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire]. Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais D'Archéologie Orientale [except first title, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei], 1902-1939. 7 works, folio, contemporary half morocco (Maspero & Gauthier's work in quarter morocco, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, numerous black and white plates from photographs, Manchester Libraries labels and stamps, titles comprise:Lange, H.O. and H. Schäfer. Grab- Und Denksteine des Mittleren Reichs, Part IV [German]. 1902;Daressy, M.G. Textes de Dessins Magiques [French], 1903; Lacau, Pierre. Sarcophages Anterieurs au Nouvel Empire [French], 1904;Quibell, M.J.E. Tomb of Yuaa and Thuiu [English], 1908; Daressy, M. Georges. Cercueils des Cachette Royales [French], 1909;Smith F.R.S., Grafton Elliott. The Royal Mummies [English], 1912;Maspero, Gaston and Henri Gauthier. Sarcophages des Sarcophages des Époques Persane et Ptolémaïque [French], 1939;Egypt Exploration Fund. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894-1907. 5 works, folio, contemporary quarter morocco, black and white plates featuring contemporary photographs, Manchester Libraries labels and stamps, boards blind stamped, titles comprise:Naville, Edouard [introductory memoir]. The Temple of Deir el Bahari: Its Plan, Its Founders, And Its First Explorers. 1894;Randall-MacIver, M.A. and A.C. Mace. El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901, 1902;Flinders Petrie, W.M. Abydos, Part I, 1902, 1902;Flinders Petrie, W.M. Roman Ehnasya (Herakleopolis Magna), 1904, 1905;Naville, Edouard. The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir El-Bahari, Part I, 1907The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.(12)

Melanchthon, Philipp Epigrammatum Wittenberg: haeredes Johannes Cratonis, 1579. [Bound after:] Sabinus, Georg. Poema et numero librorum, et aliis aditis aucta, et emendatius denuo edita. Leipzig: haeredes Joannis Steinmanni, 1589. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (15.9 x 9cm), contemporary German pigskin tooled in blind, large pictorial block of a bible scene to each cover (with Jacob's Ladder to front), front cover dated 1602, Melanchthon apparently retaining final blank S8, browning, ink annotations to front free endpaper, title-page of Melanchthon and a few pages in Sabinus [Adams M1134 & S32]

Poems Poems. New Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late 186, Strand.), 1850. 2 volumes, 8vo (17 x 10.2cm), xii 362 [2], viii [2] 480 pp., original cloth, spines lettered in gilt between friezes in blind, decorative frames and centrepieces to covers in blind, yellow endpapers, half-title to each volume, printer's colophon leaf to rear of volume 1 (lacking in volume 2 if called for). Bindings rubbed overall, spines heavily sunned, fraying to spine-ends, covers faded, tips bumped and worn, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscriptions ('Amy') to half-titles, a few light marks internally, volume 1 front pastedown retaining contemporary bookseller's ticket of W. F. Watson, Edinburgh (largely effaced in volume 2), small closed tear to half-title, quires L-M starting, volume 2 rear joint split, small section of paper disruption at foot of gutter from front free endpaper to pp. v/vi, finger-soiling to upper fore corner of title-page(2) Second edition, greatly expanded, and the first with 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'. All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to go to Oxfam UK.

Carnacki the Ghost-Finder London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 287 pp., original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, decorative panels to boards in blind, half-title, 16 pp. advertisements to rear, spine rolled and slightly faded, and with small mark below author's name, fraying to head of front joint, lower fore corners of boards bumped, ink-stamps and inscriptions of Keswick School to front free endpaper and half-title [Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 819; Ellery Queen, Queen's Quorum, 53]

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 ... Illustrated Edition. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1868. First edition, deluxe issue, inscribed by Victoria 'To Sir James Clark Bart. K.C.B., from Victoria R., April 13th 1869' on verso of the front free endpaper, 4to, original red cloth over bevelled boards, richly decorated in black, gilt and blind, all edges gilt, 8 steel-engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 chromolithographic plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout the text, wear to spine-ends and tips, inner hinges reinforced Sir James Clark (1788-1870), 1st baronet, was physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria from her accession to the throne in 1837 until his retirement in 1860. He received his formative medical education as a naval surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars, subsequently moving to Rome, where he treated John Keats during his final illness. He was the author of works including A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1835), and notably introduced Victoria to Florence Nightingale, thereby helping her nursing reforms achieve wider notice. 'Above all he was to be remembered for his devotion to the welfare of the queen and the royal family, especially the prince consort, whom he advised regularly on matters of medical science and education' (ODNB).

Smyth, William Henry Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography, of Sicily and its Islands London: John Murray, 1824. First edition, 4to, 20th-century cloth, engraved folding map frontispiece, 13 aquatint plates, ex Manchester Central Library with plates to front pastedown and free endpaper and blind stamps to plates and title-page, map and title-page spotted, light spotting to a few plates, contemporary ownership inscription 'Bolton' to title-page, bookplate of the barons Bolton re-imposed to front pastedown [Abbey Travel 263]

6 volumes Braithwaite, R. The British Moss-Flora. London: by the author, [1887-1905], 3 volumes, 8vo, numerous engraved plates, original green cloth gilt;Tripp, F.E. British Mosses, their Homes, Aspects, Structure and Uses. London: George Bell & Sons, 1888. 2 volumes, 8vo, 37 coloured plates, original green cloth, small library blind stamp to plates, City of Westminster Public Libraries bookplate and withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper of volume 2, rubbed; Berkeley, M.J. Handbook of British Mosses. London: L. Reeve, 1895. Second edition, 8vo, 24 plates, 23 hand-coloured, original cloth (6)

The Bible, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke London: the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1594. 4to (20 x 14.8cm), near-contemporary calf ruled in blind, text printed in black letter, double column, [2] 434 [4] 441-554 ff., signatures pi2 A-3H8 3I2 ²pi4 3K-3Z8 4A2, woodcut borders to general title-page and New Testament title-page, armorial bookplate of Edwin Sandys (possibly the 2nd Baron Sandys, 1726-1797), early-18th-century ownership inscriptions of the Cuckow family, lacking 2A8 (part of Nehemiah) and 2I8 (part of Ecclesiastes and the first 6 verses of the Song of Solomon), leather split at head of front joint, closely trimmed throughout, frequently shaving side-notes, foliation and headlines, general title-page chipped, tear to lower fore corner of M5 with loss of side-note, 2Q1 with tear to fore margin affecting side-note verso, bound with a Book of Common Prayer (Robert Barker, and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1632) at front (incomplete), and Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances (Deputies of Robert Barker, no date, A-K8 L2), and The Whole Booke of Pslames (John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Daye, 1594, incomplete), at rear [Darlowe & Moule (rev. Herbert) 221]

Senior, Nassau W. A Journal Kept in Turkey and Greece London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. First edition, 8vo, xi [3] original green pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps hand-coloured in outline (one bound as frontispiece), 2 colour lithographic plates, 4 + 18 pp. advertisements to rear, slightly rubbed, spine rolled, short nick to head of each joint, short section of wear to head of front board, tips bumped [Blackmer 1525] THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)Uncommon, especially in the original cloth.

Collection of travel accounts, 18th-19th century Faujas de Saint Fond, Barthélemy. Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides ... Containing Mineralogical Descriptions of the Country round Newcastle; of the Mountains of Derbyshire; of the Environs of Edinburgh ... and of the Cave of Fingal. London: James Ridgway, 1799. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century calf, half-title to volume 1, 7 engraved plates (including one not listed), errata leaf to each volume, offsetting;[Simond, Louis]. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, during the Years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller. Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Company, 1815. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, covers with gilt and blind panels enclosing central heraldic crest, to 21 sepia aquatint plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, bookplates of Edward Craven Hawtrey;Stoddart, John. Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland during the Years 1799 and 1800. London: William Miller, 1801. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, half-titles, engraved vignette title-pages, map, 32 aquatint plates, offsetting, section excised from head of each title-page;Campbell, Alexander. A Journey from Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain. New Edition. London: John Stockdale, 1811. 2 volumes, 4to, modern red quarter morocco, marbled sides, 43 aquatint plates (of 44: lacking 'Edinburgh from the West') [Abbey Scenery 485 for the first edition, 1802];and 8 others: Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, 1797 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half russia, edges untrimmed, folding map loose); Lord Teignmouth, Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and the Isle of Man, 1836 (2 volumes, contemporary green calf by Griffith, 3 engraved maps, inscribed 'Florence Anderson, the gift of her affection uncle the author, Feb 28 1848' on volume 1 initial blank); William Gilpin, Observations on Several Parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, 1808 (third edition, 2 volumes, joints cracked); John MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, 1824 (4 volumes in 2, 20th-century half calf); Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, 1742 (third edition, 4 volumes, contemporary calf, volumes 1 and 4 front board detached); Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 1838 (2 volumes, 20th-century red half calf, covers detached or detaching); Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland, 1774-6 (3 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked); Edmund Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, 1818 (fifth edition, 2 volumes, contemporary calf, volume 1 front board detached).The lot not fully collated and sold as seen(27) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

The Works including her Correspondence, Poems and Essays. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, smooth spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, engraved frontispiece, 10 plates of manuscript facsimile (several folding), contemporary book-labels of Anne Isabella Kevill to front pastedowns, spotting to front and rear of each volume;[Scottish Highlands]. Letters from the Mountains; being the Real Correspondence of a Lady [Anne MacVicar Grant], between the Years 1773 and 1807. London: for Longman [et al.], 1807. Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, half-titles, slightly rubbed, ownership inscriptions and blind stamps to front free endpapers of volumes 2-3, small marginal tear to B3 volume 3;Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the Appearance of Nature. London: R. Faulder, 1802. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title discarded, part of L3 recto failed to print, occasional pencilled annotations and underlining, bookplate and ownership inscription;and 2 others (these not collated): Bacon, Essays, 1755 (contemporary sprinkled calf); and Erasmus, L'Eloge de la Folio, Neuchatel, 1777 (contemporary quarter sheep)(11)

Collection of limited editions 1) Green Blades from her Mound. Poems, from Poems of 1912-13 by Thomas Hardy. A Selection by Mark Cazalet, who also made all the Images. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original yellow cloth with wraparound printed paper onlay, green cloth chemise;2) Leading the Cranes Home. A Selection of Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley. Woodblock Prints by Ralph Kiggell, 2006. One of 150 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original flexible boards, cloth case;3) The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, 1999. One of 150 copies signed by the artist Natalie d'Arbaloff, folio, bound in leporello format in original cloth covers;4) Bert Isaac. The Landscape Within, 1991. One of 100 copies, oblong 4to, original boards, with cloth portfolio of 15 original colour prints each numbered and signed by the author and contained in separate printed envelope, together housed in single slipcase;5) W. S. Graham. Letters & Heads. Douglas Thomson. One of 125 copies signed by the artist, folio, original cloth, slipcase;6) The Pyed Pyper. A Passage extracted from: A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities by the Studie and Travaile of Richard Verstegan, 2002. One of 175 copies signed by the artist Angela Lemaire, 4to, original buff limp leather tooled in blind, in original cardboard case with cloth ties;7) White Voices, being a Translation by Malcolm Parr of La Croisade des Enfants (1896) by Marcel Schwob with woodcut images by Keith Bayliss, 2001. One of 200 copies signed by translator and artist, oblong folio, original cloth, cutaway cloth slipcase;8) The Seafarer. One of 240 copies signed by artist Inger Lawrance and author/translator from the Anglo-Saxon Kevin Crossley-Holland, oblong 4to, stitched Japanese-style in original card covers, printed on doubled leaves unopened along fore edges, housed in original cloth case with linen ties;9) The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer with Wood Engravings and Afterword by Angela Lemaire, 2000. One of 220 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase;10) Masks and Other Poems by Walter Strachan, 2000. One of 100 copies signed by all 12 artists, 4to, original wrappers, slipcase, plates in various media;11) Lucian Blaga. The Poems of Light. Versions in English by Oltea Simescu and Eric Williams. Images by Sara Philpott, 2002. One of 200 copies signed by translators and artist, 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards;12) Lens of Crystal. Poems by Robin Skelton. Images by Sara Philpott, 1996. One of 250 copies signed by author and artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase(12)

Stevenson, Robert An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 4to, contemporary diced russia decorated in gilt and blind including a palmette roll along edges of covers, engraved frontispiece after J. M. W. Turner, engraved additional title-page (both on india paper, mounted), 21 engraved plates and charts (many folding), inscribed on the initial blank ‘To the Right Honbl Lord Viscount Melville, from the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses’, engraved bookplate of Viscount Melville, joints and extremities rubbed, rear joint cracking at foot, a few plates offset FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Collection of travel accounts Slade, Adolphus. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831. London: Saunders and Otley, 1833. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, edges untrimmed, half-titles, colour aquatint frontispieces, folding map, folding lithographic plate of manuscript facsimile;Fellows, Sir Charles. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, more particular in the Province of Lycia. London: John Murray, 1852. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 7 folding plates and maps including frontispiece, spine sunned and with label removed, wear to head of rear joint, ink-stamps of the Poynton and Worth Colliers' Library to front pastedown (the leaf repaired) and title-page, frontispiece partly torn along stub but remaining attached;Bartlett, W. H. Gleanings on the Overland Route: Pictorial and Antiquarian. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1864. 8vo, original pink cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, gilt edges, 22 engraved maps and plates including folding panorama of Alexandria, spine sunned;Palgrave, William Gifford. Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). New Edition, in One Volume. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, engraved title-page with portrait of the author (the portrait implied to be a separate plate in the list of plates, apparently in error), 5 folding maps and plans;Martin, William Young. The East: being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in black, wood-engraved frontispiece, worming to front joint, damp-staining to foot of frontispiece and title-page;Walker, Theodore. Wanderings Eastward. A Diary of Travels in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece, in 1885. London: S. W. Partridge, 1886. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 8 wood-engraved plates;Hakluyt Society. Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527 by Father Francisco Alvarez. London: Hakluyt Society, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine faded;Beaufort, Emily A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines. Including some Stays in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pink pictorial cloth gilt, 5 chromolithographic plates (of 6: lacking volume 2 frontispiece), spines sunned, covers marked, volume 1 rear joint split;and 15 others, the mentioned items collated with regard to plates only(25) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

A MID 18th C. STYLE MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE WITH A BLIND FRET CARVED DRAWER AND LEGS. W 108 x D 64 x H 76cms.

SNAFFLES (CHARLES JOHNSON PAYNE), (1844-1967), "FOXCATCHERS - FOR THE LOVE OF IT", SIGNED IN PENCIL AND WITH BLIND STAMP, PRINTED VIGNETTE "FOR THE RIDE OUT AND THE RIDE HOME", 25.5 X 22cm (IMAGE SIZE).

A late 19th century Victorian mahogany wall display cabinet. With break triangle pediment top, below blind fretwork decoration. With twin glazed doors, with further carved decoration. Measures approx 105 x 56 x 31 cm.

James Alphege Brewer (1909-1938) - An early 20th century colour etching by James Alphege Brewer. Titled 'Antwerp', signed in pencil and bearing blind stamp. Measure 83cm x 61cm

James Alphege Brewer (1909-1938) - Two early 20th century colour etchings by James Alphege Brewer. One titled 'Venice' and 'Lake Como' (From the Villa Colotto), both signed in pencil, one bearing blind stamp. Both measure 83cm x 61cm

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) Bank Failure, published by Adam Collection Ltd, unsigned limited edition of 550, Ref.No. ACLP12aL74, blind proof stamped, 27cm x 36cm

Collection of Royal Worcester porcelain tea ware decorated in the Blind Earl pattern including a tazza, approximately 23 pieces, tallest 16cm

John Cother Webb (1855-1927) after JMW Turner, The Shipwreck, Mezzotint, signed lower right, blind stamped, 33 x 46.5 cm, frame 63 x 74.5 cmProvenance: Collection of Mr Magdi Obeid (1943-2021), purchased Keys Fine Art 12/12/2014 lot 156

BESWICK; a puma on rocky outcrop, blind stamp number 1702 to the base, height 21cm, and a figure of a standing male lion (2).Condition Report: Appears to be overall good condition slight crazing visible on close inspection.

Richardson (John). The Museum of Natural History; being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom: quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture, 4 volumes, London; Glasgow; Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1869?], numerous hand-coloured engraved plates, all edges gilt, original cloth with blocked gilt and blind decoration, large 8vo, together with:Rawlinson (George). History of Herodotus, a new English version..., 4 volumes, new edition, London: John Murray, 1862, few folding maps and plates, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt armorial of Christ Church College, Oxford, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels (some labels lacking or with loss, rubbed, 8vo, plus others including Morris (William). Early Poems of William Morris, illustrated by Florence Harrison, 1914; Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, new edition, 1925 and Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2 volumes, Illustrated edition, [1850?]QTY: (a carton)

Baker (Richard). Chronicle of the Kings of England From the Time of the Romans Goverment unto the Death of King James, London: Printed for George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill and Thomas Williams at ye Golden Ball in Hosier Lane, 1674, engraved portrait frontispiece (relaid) and additional engraved title (detached), some spotting or browning and old damp staining throughout, contemporary calf, worn and boards, detached, 4to, together with:Townson (Robert). Travels in Hungary..., London: G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1797, engraved frontispiece, 14 engraved plates and tables (three folding), armorial bookplate of John William Bridges to front pastedown, some spotting (mostly affecting frontispiece and title), contemporary half calf, gilt detail to spines, corners bumped, joints cracked, 4to, plusHogarth (William). Hogarth Illustrated by John Ireland, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: J. and J. Boydell, 1798, engraved half-title to each volume, numerous engraved plates, contemporary half-calf, gilt and blind stamp decoration to spine, extremities rubbed, loss to spines mostly effecting volume 1, 8vo, and Wilde (Oscar). The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C. 3. 3., pirated edition, 1904, poor condition, 8vo and other miscellaneous 18th/19th-century antiquarian plus 5 vellum deeds QTY: (a carton)NOTE:Provenance: John William Bridges (armorial bookplate) for Townson (Robert).

Berry (William). Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Dictionary of Heraldry..., 3 volumes, London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, [1828-1840], engraved title to each volume, heraldic and related plates, spotting and toned (mainly to title pages), bookplate of Thomas Hayward Southby of Carsnell to front pastedown to volume 1, later endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked (volume 1 and 3 rebacked in cloth and volume 2 rebacked in calf) preserving original gilt decorated spines with double morocco labels, (title label to volume 1 replaced), 4to together with Robson (Thomas). The History of Heraldry, containing inquiries into its origin..., Sunderland: Turner and Marwood, 1830, engraved frontispiece, heraldic and related plates, minor spotting throughout, bookseller ticket of Frank Murray, Derby, Leicester and Nottingham to front pastedown, Redland Green, Bristol Vicarage blind embossed stamp and previous owner manuscript signature to front free endpaper, contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board, wear to extremities, 4to plus Reynolds (John). A Display of Herauldry of the particular Coat Armours now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales..., Chester: Roger Adams, 1739, 1-13pp., 11 engraved heraldic plates, advertisements to rear, gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1897, crude tape repair to upper hinge, 19th-century quarter straight grain morocco, spine worn and frayed, hinges and joints splitting, boards scratched and stained, 8vo (22 x 17 cm), and 4 other 20th-century books relating to heraldry QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: Thomas Hayward Southby, Carsnell (bookplate) for Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica.

Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony is Eight Fits, 11th thousand, London: Macmillian and Co, 1876, half -title, frontispiece, black and white illustrations by Henry Holiday, p.83 reads Baker (later changed to Butcher), ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some toning to front prelims, advertising leaf to rear, all edges gilt, original buff pictorial cloth, 8vo, together withSewell (Elizabeth). Ursula. A Tale of Country Life, 2 volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858, both with ownership inscriptions to half-title page, red endpapers with advert to pastedowns, original blue blind embossed cloth, some rubbing, volume 1 spine partially detached, 32mo, plus xx other 19th century books including: Under the Willows and Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, 1869; The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed in 2 volumes, 1864; Poems by John Bradford, 1885; and Chartism by Thomas Carlyle, 1842, etc.,QTY: (32)

Barclay (Rev. James). The Universal English Dictionary..., John Tallis and Co. 1844, additional decorative half-title, frontispiece of a view of Buckingham Palace, 59 engraved maps by J. Archer (55 of British counties) all with contemporary outline colouring, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, upper board detached, rear board near detached, worn and scuffed, 4to, together with Laurie (Robert & Whittle James). A Complete Body of Ancient Geography by Mons. D'Anville..., the Whole Materially Improved, by Inserting the Modern Names of Places Under the Ancient, 1801, printed title with small manuscript ownership signature and blind stamp, 13 (complete) double-page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, slight offsetting and staining, one map with a long closed marginal tear, but not affecting the printed image, text block detached, contents shaken and loose, contemporary half calf, boards detached, lacking spine, heavily rubbed and worn, slim upright folioQTY: (2)

Ingoldsby (Thomas, i.e. Richard H. Barham). Ingoldsby Legends, 3 volumes, 10th edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1855, half-titles, engraved titles, plates after John Leech and George Cruikshank, some browning and spotting, endpapers renewed, original dark blue cloth, gilt-blocked spines and blind decoration to boards, light scuffing to board edges, 8voQTY: (3)

Saxton (Christopher). An Atlas of England and Wales, The Maps of Christopher Saxton, Engraved 1574 - 1578, facsimile edition, The Collectors Library of Fine Art, 1979, numerous double-page colour maps, limited. edition 141/500, signed by R. V. Tooley on a label on the front pastedown, publisher's quarter calf gilt, folio, contained in a contemporary cloth slipcase, together with Ptolemy (Claudius), Cosmographia Códice Latino Biblioteca Universitaria de Valencia (Siglo XV)..., 2 volumes, facsimile edition, published by Vicent Garci?a Editores, 1983, volume 1 with additional half-title, publisher's quarter morocco with decorative upper siding, volume 2 with numerous colour plates and maps, limited edition 2063/3000, gauffered edges, publishers brown blind-stamped morocco with brass corners, folio, contained in publisher's cloth slipcase with decorative upper cover, slight soiling to the slipcase boardsQTY: (2)

Maitland (William). The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time..., continued to the Year 1772, by the Rev. John Entick, 2 volumes, London: J. Wilkie, T. Lowndes, G. Kearsly and S. Bladon, 1772, numerous engraved plates and plans (few plans torn with slight loss), library blind stamps to some plates, library bookplates, modern black library buckram, folio, together with Phillips (George). Rudiments of Curvilinear Design, London: Shaw and Sons, [1839], additional hand-coloured aquatint title and 47 engraved plates, wood engraved illustrations to text, some damp mottling and dust-soiling mostly to text, modern dark blue library buckram, large folio, plus Castor (A.). Recueil d'appareils a? vapeur employe?s aux travaux de navigation et de chemins de fer Fondations de ponts a air comprime, Planches, Paris: Librairie Scientifiquem 1867, 24 double-page engraved plates, original cloth-backed printed boards, spine torn, worn, large folio, and Society of Antiquaries of London. Some Account of the Abbey Church of Bath, 1798, 10 engraved plates, title torn to lower blank margin and repaired, some browning and dust-soiling, library bookplates, modern red buckram, slim folio, plus Ellison (Fred). Etchings of Bath, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham & Co., 1888, 24 etched plates, original calf-backed cloth, spine torn with loss, worn, folioQTY: (6)

Two items of 17th century style reproduction oak furniture to include: lead glazed low bookcase with linen fold panel doors below. 98cm wide approx. and a standing cupboard with two arch moulded doors under an arcade frieze, slide , two moulded frieze drawers and two blind panelled doors below. 89cm wide approx. (2) (B.P. 21% + VAT)

19th century Welsh oak standing double corner cupboard with moulded cornice over arched glazed doors, two fitted shelves to the interior above three frieze drawers with two blind cupboard doors below on bracket feet. 95cm wide approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT)  Height: 202cm approx.   Dimensions: 202x93x47cm approx.  

Early 19th century North Wales oak dresser with boarded three shelf rack back over a base of three cock beaded frieze drawers with bone escutcheons above two blind panelled cupboards with dummy drawers to the centre on stile feet. 159cm wide approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Edwardian simulated rosewood bedside pot cupboard with arch cresting, single door with moulded panel on platform base. 40cm wide approx. together with a single drop leaf gate action table with solid rosewood top, a 17th century oak drop leaf gateleg table and a Regency style mahogany music Canterbury and a early 19th century oak bow fronted hanging blind corner cupboard. (5) (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Edwardian Art Nouveau design marble topped wash stand with tiled back and two blind cupboards on turned supports with casters. 108cm wide approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Coach Making. The important and extensive archive of Holmes & Co., later Sanderson & Holmes, of Derby, carriage and later motor car body makers, early 19th c and later. For the full description please visit www.mellorsandkirk.com to view the online catalogue.The archive comprising:Light Chariots, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 carriage designs with folding flaps by J. Gilfoy, signed, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card, some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, two flaps detached, each pasted onto concertina boards, contemporary red straight-grained morocco over boards,  scuffed wear, MS label to upper-cover, folio (40.2 x 25.5cm); Single and Double Headed Sociables, 427, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 designs by J. Gilfoy, some folding flaps, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card,  some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, pasted down, and 3 loosely-inserted pen-and-ink further designs, indistinctly signed, 14.7 x 24cm, similarly binding to the former, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Broughams and Clarences, 429, a conforming portfolio of two designs, conforming media, unsigned, 22.5 x 39cm, album bound en suite to the latter, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Holmes & Co., Coach and Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen of England and Empress of India, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and Royal Family, n.d., an album of lithographed 10 designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, with accompanying manuscript leaves, the whole prefaced by a letterpress leaf, some movement, contemporary morocco over boards, gilt, lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, foliate endpapers, oblong 4to (15.7 x 25.2cm); Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family, n.d., an advertising album of 25 lithographed designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, prefaced by a letterpress leaf, contemporary cloth over boards, gilt, oblong 4to (16 x 26cm);Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family./To be kept. Duplicate of Book/Sent o Messrs. Ross & Co., Bombay, [India], dated 5th January 1874, 61 designs, heightened gouache or gum arabic, accompanying MS letterpress leaves, the whole prefaced 2 lithographed letterpress leaves, disbound, original red cloth over boards, gilt, split contemporary parchment wrapper inscribed in manuscript, oblong 4to (16.5 x 26cm); 35 hand-coloured loose designs, mid-late 19th c, mixed sizes, 6 monochrome designs conforming, and 17 mixed media prints, mixed sizes;Victorian prize medals and medallions. 1) Great Exhibition 1851 AE prize medal by W. Wyon RA, Royal Mint, awarded to H. & A. Holmes, Class V A, 76mm, original fitted morocco Barnby of Clerkenwell presentation case, 2) The Worshipful Company of Coach Makers and Coach Harness Makers, Herbert Mountford Holmes, Master 1872-1873, silver-gilt coloured metal, 56mm, original Wyon morocco presentation case, split, 3) London International Exhibitions 1862 AE prize medal by Wyon, H. Holmes, Juror, Class VI, 76mm, original presentation case, split, 4) two London International Exhibitions 1874 AE medals, named to H.M. Holmes for Service, [&] Herbert & Arthur Holmes, Catalogue No. 6416, 51 and 50mm, original cases, 5) International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce & Manufacturers, Liverpool, 1886 AE medal by Elkington & Co., 50mm, original morocco presentation case, & 6) International Inventions Exhibition 1885 AE medallion, 45mm, cased, (7);Royalty. The firm's finely bound ledger detailing work commissioned by and executed for Queen Victoria, dated 28th September, 1849 to 11th March, 1861, [3]ff of manuscript only, primarily repairs and a few supplies, but for ' a new light and highly finished Clarence complete and delivered at the Royal Mews (Osborne) [...] £190-0-0 ' and a later Stanhope Phaeton at £110-0-0, the rest of the volume ruled but blank, sumptuously bound by Bemrose & Sons of Derby, their tickets, in full contemporary red morocco over boards, the covers ruled with five alternating gilt fillets enclosing a blind double fillet, the spine with five compartments, tooled in gilt with royal crowns and insignia, lettered with the then Queen's V.R. cypher, P.R. for the Prince Consort, titled and signed by the bindery, rolled anthemia turns-ins and dentelles, gilt gauffered edges, sewn silk end bands, marbled endpapers, original limp morocco wrap, worn, folio (33.6 x 22.5cm), loosely-inserted 1pp ALS from a indistinct courtier to Holmes, dated Windsor Castle, December 29 1846; Royal Warrants. Queen Victoria, two, dated 26th April 1849 and 4th December 1884, signed by Henry, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Hugh, 1st Duke of Westminster respectively, as Masters of the Horse, each with red wax seals and later MS cancellation inscriptions, mounted and framed as one, 56 x 64.5cm overall; Royal Warrant. Queen Victoria, dated 12th June 1893, signed and sealed by William, 1st Viscount Oxonbridge as Master of the Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39cm;Royal Warrant. Adelaide, Queen Dowager, dated 27th December 1841, signed and sealed by Basil, 7th Earl of Denbigh, as her Master of Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39.5cm;Royal Warrant. Prince Albert, later Prince Consort, dated 8th November 1841, signed by Lord Robert Grosvenor, later 1st Baron Ebury, as Groom of the Stole, mounted and framed, 52 x 39.5cm; Royal Warrant. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), dated 20th May 1863, signed and sealed by Francis Knollys, later 1st Count Knollys, mounted and framed, 53.5 x 40.5cm; Royal Warrants. George V, two, dated 16th February 1911 and 5th May 1915, each signed by Bernard, 8th Earl of Granard, as Master of the Horse, each with later noted cancellation, mounted, the largest 42 x 27.5cm; Patents. No. 765, ""Improvements in the manufactures of tyres (sic) for wheels"", Mr. H.M. Holmes' duplicate specification, Patent dated April 5th 1855, [4]ff, MS on parchment, No. 176, ""Improvements in Carriage Springs"", 1861, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets ofvellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, and No. 2902, ""Improvements in axle-trees for carriage and other vehicles"", 1869, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets of vellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, (3);Photography. A disbound album of approx. 60 Victorian and later albumen prints and photographs of carriages and motor car coachwork, dated 1873 and onwards, some mounted but most loosely-inserted, including The Prince of Wales, Landau for India [the 1875-6 tour of the later Edward VII], his luggage van for the same visit, The Duke of Norfolk's 1879 barouche, The Maharajah of Cutch's barouche, the Earl Grey's, four images of the Paris Exhibition barouche, phaetons for the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of Loudon, R.W. Chandos-Pole's four-in-hand drag, later images, without inscribed mounts, are dominated by motor cars, mostly civilian saloons, an occasional Red Cross ambulance c. 1914, further printed ephemera, including Daimler adverts, some plans/blue prints, etc., index leaf defective, some movement, folio (38 x 34cm); Petty Cash Book, dated and including payments from 18th January, 1813 - 14th May, 1822, approx. [244]ff of MS accounts in several hands, named workers and trade suppliers & some of their materials, some horse dealers; many of their clients, the aristocracy and gentry, including Bagots and Thynnes, various clergymen, the burgeoning industrial and professional classes, etc., contemporary reverse calf, blind-ruled, slightly chipped and worn, but good, rubbed gilt-lettered morocco piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, folio (33 x 22cm);

Norman Thelwell (1923-2004) - "Give Fred A Shout As You Go By - He's Doing The Traffic Census"; a cartoon, possibly intended as a book illustration, signed thelwell in the lower-right margin, the base of the sheet titled in pencil, contemporary mount also titled by the same hand, pen-and-ink on Winsor & Newton paper, their blind-stamp to upper-right corner, the sheet 34 x 28cm Good condition. The margin somewhat browned from mounting, the mount of which is now loose. Signs of former backing to verso. The Winsor & Newton blind-stamp not affecting image.

Shaftesbury (Anthony, Earl of), Characteristicks (sic), volumes I & II only (of 3), sixth edition, s.l. [London], s.n. [Printed by James Purser in Bartholomew-Close], 1737, volume I with portrait frontispiece, title-page and other vignettes, all engraved by Simon Gribelin, contemporary calf gilt, worn, red-speckled edges, 8vo, Anon., The Sportman's Dictionary, volume II only, first edition, London: Printed for C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1735, folding plates, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, Pluche (Abbé [Noël-Antoine]) & De Freval (J.B., translator), The History of the Heavens, volume II only, first English edition, London: J. Osborn, et al., 1740, frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [Royalty] The Trial of Queen Caroline [...], Dobson and Co.'s Verbatim Edition, London, n.d. [1820] engraved frontispiece, fold and full-page plates, 19th c quarter-calf, title-page with later owner's blind-stamp: IVEAGH/1899 [Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927)], 8vo, [Scotland] Jones (Thomas Snell, DD), The Life of The Right Honourable Willielma [Campbell], Viscountess Glenorchy, Edinburgh, 1822, 19th tan quarter-calf gilt over cloth, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, an incomplete edition of The Copper Plate Magazine and further loose gatherings, 1778, 4to, bindings, including four volumes of Ainsworth's novels, n.d. [19th c], contemporary crimson quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, etc., (14) Sold as an uncollated collection of bindings and prints, and as such not liable for return.

Medical. [Descartes] Renatus Des Cartes/De Homine, figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl, second edition, Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officinâ Hackiana, 1664, a respectable if imperfect copy of this seminal work, textually complete and collating: [38], 121 (i.e. 123), [1]pp, with in-text etchings and wood engravings, 10 etched and engraved anatomical plates as called for, 2 folding and the others full-page, of which only one plate (i.e. Fig: I the heart and lungs) has movable overlays, which have been repaired, when two plates are called for thus, another plate (i.e. Fol. 110. No.2, the nervous system) is present but defective, its counterpart is loose (i.e. Fol. 110. No. 1), the text is fresh and legible, in some places there are minor stains/soiling and/or creasing, infrequent chipped edges but with no loss of text, disbound between contemporary English blind-ruled calf boards, 4to, [Provincial Dorset Printing] Graves (Robert, M.D.), A Pocket Conspectus of the New London and Edinburgh Pharmacopœias, first edition, Sherborne: Printed by W. Cruttwell, et al., 1796, complete, collating: viii, 112pp, interleaved with slightly later manuscript notes, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [Royal College of Physicians], Pharmacopœia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Parisiis: Theophilum Barrois, 1788, engraved folding plate, former damp spots and occasional stains, mostly marginal, contemporary English speckled calf, some wear, 8vo, Ball's Modern Practice of Physic, volume III only, third edition, London: A. Millar, 1768, marginal worm trail, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, [&] Huxley's Lessons in Elementary Physiology, tenth edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, folding frontispiece of a human skeleton, in-text illustrations, lacking ffep, split, some foxing, original cloth, worn, 8vo, (5)  Provenance: 1st: Ex dono Ja. Leigh A.M./Cott. Chr. Soc./1673, dated ink MS ownership inscription to ffep; others later.

Cookery. A manuscript receipt book, E.B., n.d. [late 19th/early 20th c], [xxii] (contents), 81pp, paginated and predominantly inscribed with recipes for desserts puddings, a few sauces and soups, etc., contemporary vellum over boards, blind-ruled, splitting, tacked-on calf strips, presumably contemporary, marbled endpapers, 8vo, another four, similar, mid-19th c and later, of which three are partially-inscribed, mixed bindings and sizes, (5)

Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress [...], twenty-second edition, London: Printed by A.W. for J. Clarke, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, 1727, woodcut frontispiece, black double-ruled title-page, lacking two leaves (i.e. 145-148), otherwise complete, collating: [x], 144, 149-205, [1] (publisher's advertisement), anachronistic in-text woodcuts, cropped somewhat askew in places by the binder, but the text without loss, some gatherings loose/loosening, marginally browned &/or creased, contemporary sheep, blind-ruled covers, rubbed in places, split and chipped spine with slight losses, contemporary and later ink MS ownership inscription, 12mo

Aristaenetus, [Halhed (Nathaniel Brassey, translator)], & [Sheridan (Richard Brinsley, translator)], The Love Epistles of Aristænetus: Translated from the Greek into English Metre, first edition thus, London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1771, xvi, 174pp, some wear and former worming to lower-right margin, yet not affecting text, later bound by Morrell in blue three-quarter morocco gilt over cloth, spine slightly sunned, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [&] The Holy Bible, the Old Testament only, Oxford: Printed at The Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood and Co., Printers to the University, et al., 1823, double-column, finely bound in contemporary purple morocco, tooled and rolled in blind, the spine lettered and dated in gilt, all edges gilt, contemporary book label to recto pastedown: I.F. Cure, 24mo, (2)

Numismatics. Smith (A., Numismatist), Illustrated Encylopædia of Gold and Silver Coins of the World, Philadelphia, 1886, plates, ex-library copy, their morocco over cloth binding, endpapers and prelims with their stamps, labels and markings, the odd mark of theirs within the text but never obtrusive, 4to, Kenyon (Robert Lloyd), The Gold Coins of England, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1884, plates, split, first gathering loose, original morocco over cloth, pictorial gilt spine, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Galster (Georg), Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, nos. 18 & 22, Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, National Museum Copenhagen parts IV & V, British Academy, 1972 & 1975, plates, University of Keele copies, their discreet blind-stamps, original blue cloth, 4to, Herinek (Ludwig), Österreichische Münzprägungen von 1657-1740, Wien, 1972, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial cloth, mylar cover, 8vo, Wigley (Thomas B.), The Art of the Goldsmith and Jeweller, London: Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, 1898, in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, lacking ffep, 8vo, Napier (James, FCS), The Ancient Workers and Artificers in Metal, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1856, title-page later laid on linen, 20th c blue roan, uncut, 8vo, Craig (Sir John), Newton at the Mint, Cambridge University Press, 1946, later cloth, 8vo, (8)

Egan (Pierce, the Younger), The Flower of the Flock, three-decker novel, sole edition, London: Published by W.S. Johnson & Co., n.d. [1858], very occasional and minor toning in places, otherwise fresh and clean, the odd stable split, yet holding, original publisher's blue cloth bindings as issued, upper-covers blocked and picked-out in black with decorative arabesques, lower-covers conforming in blind, spines lettered in gilt, very minor wear, gently sunned spines with varying staining in places, the boards generally clean, uncut, volume I ffep with W.H. Smith & Sons Library blind-stamp, 8vo, [Sadleir 811; Wolff 2045], (3)

Bindings. The Book of Common Prayer, [...] Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1710, [bound and issued with] The Whole Book of Psalms, London: Printed by William Pearson, for the Company of Stationers, 1711, first title with engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, black-ruled title-pages, double-column, early 19th c mauve calf, blind-rolled foliate borders, spine sunned, light rubbing, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, The Book of Church Services Complete, printed on India paper, Cambridge: Printed by J. & C. F. Clay, at the University Press, n.d. [c. 1905], general and divisional titles, double-column, finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full black morocco over boards, in the Arts & Crafts taste, the upper-cover tooled in gilt with a crucifix, six-compartment spine of raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt line dentelle, foliate rolled and signed turn-ins, 8vo, Baxter (Rev. Richard), The Saints' Everlasting Rest, London: J.F. Dove, n.d. [c. 1820], original calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, with rare original travelling or presentation roan case, 12mo, [&] The Holy Bible, Stereotype Edition, London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817, double-column, contemporary black sombre morocco binding, (4) Provenance: 1st: 1) Theodosia Cavers, Edn [Edinburgh?], Jun ith, 1764, dated female manuscript ownership inscription to verso of title-page. 2) mid-19th c ownership inscriptions of the Walkers of Leith to ffep, dated 1841 & 1861.

Fine Bindings. Gell (Sir William, MA, FRS & FSA), Pompeiiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819, two-volume set, London: Lewis A. Lewis, 1835, illustrated with 84 full-page engraved plates, of which 2 are hand-coloured, volume II frontispiece damps-stained, finely bound by Currie & Bowman in contemporary green morocco gilt, their stamp to each ffep, slightly rubbed in places, one joint begining to split but holding, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, split at each recto and verso gutter but holding, contemporaneous bookseller's blind-stamps: Kaye, Booksellers of Newcastle, 8vo, (2)  Provenance: George Fenwick, 19th c crested bookplates to each pastedown.

Royalty, The Coronation of George IV. Admission ticket No. 3557 to Westminster Abbey, dated 1821, wood-engraving printed in tones of black and blue, embossed border by Dobbs, signed by Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, GCB (1767-1845), under the Deputy Earl Marshal Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard's (1766-1824) authority, blind-stamped with the deputy's armorial seal, and inscribed in ink manuscript with directions for the recipient: Earl Marshal's Box/South Door, 23 x 25.5cm Slightly soiled.

Italian Grand Tour. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Veduta della vasta Fontana di Trevi anticamente detta l'Acqua Vergine, later 20th c impression of the 1751 original, blind-stamped lower-right margin, etching, 41 x 55.5cm, Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678) - Fontana su la piazza della Madonna dei Monti, Roma: published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, n.d. [1665-1691], etching, 22 x 29cm, [&] [Mantua] Jean de Beaurain (1696-1771) - Plan de la ville de Mantoue [...], map, Paris: s.n., n.d. [c. 1735-40], copperplate engraving, 47 x 57.5cm, (3) Unexamined out of frames. Piranesi good, the other two mixed, but OK-good.

Giorgio Sommer and other photographers - A Victorian album of photographs of Italy, 68, albumen prints mounted on linen hinged leaves, contemporary green morocco, tooled in blind and lettered in gilt, spine worn, a.e.g., leaves 29 x 38cm Generally clean and good condition, several leaves inscribed in ink in 1973

Music. [Oratorio] Handel (George Frideric), Messiah, n.d. [early 19th c], 411pp manuscript full score, contemporary straight-grained morocco boards only, disbound, folio (37.2 x 28.4cm), & Jackson (William, of Exeter), Elegies, second edition, London: Printed for the Author. Sold by R. Bremner, in the Strand, and most other Music Shops, n.d. [c.1765-70], [bound - and issued? - with] idem, Twelve Songs, Set to Music, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at the Music Shops, n.d. [c. 1765-1770], each with engraved copperplate-printed title-page and scores, preliminary letterpress leaves, pp: v, [1], 41; [ii], iii, [1], 2-42, contemporary reverse calf, panelled in blind, detached, split and chipped, upper-cover lettered in manuscript, folio (32.5 x 25cm), (2)

Cookery. An early 19th c lady's manuscript receipt book, *. Radcliffe, n.d. [c. 1800], [viii] (contents), 69pp, paginated and inscribed with various sweet and savory recipes, including Lord Cholmondelley's (sic, Cholmondeley) Receipt to make a Partridge Pye (sic), split affecting preliminary contents leaves, with some repairs, later split with one inscribed leaf loose, the remaining leaves blank, four loosely-inserted contemporary manuscript receipts and a scrap from a newspaper, contemporary reverse calf, rolled in blind, split and with losses to hide exposing boards and joints, 4to

Bible. [The Holy Bible in Arabic], [Beirut: c. 1920-30], vowelled text, 4 maps, contemporary calf, panelled and blocked in blind, gilt-lettered spine, speckled edges, 4to

Napoleonic Wars. Kelly (Christopher), The Memorable Battle of Waterloo, &c. &c. London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1817, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page, double-column, folding plan of the battlefield and full-page plates, publisher's advert to verso, first leaf of the account with an internal tear but no loss, a few leaves with tatty fore corners, some occasional browned portions, contemporary dark purple faux morocco, foliate blind-rolled covers, gilt-lettered scarlet label, spine slightly sunned, marbled edges, 4to

Bindings, 'Miniature' Books. [Bible, New Testament] Novum Testamentum [...], Polymicrian edition, Londini: Sumptibus Samuelis Bagster, 1829, polyglot half-title engraved by C. Cobley, printed in NT Greek, double-column, 1 full-page map of the Holy Land and 1 two-page map of the Mediterranean, finely bound in original green morocco, outlined in blind, gilt-lettered and dated spine, all edges gilt, green endpapers, ffep with contemporaneous ink MS presentation inscription dated 1830, 48mo in eights (9.2 x 6.9cm), [&] [Breviary] Uffizio della B.V. Maria de' Morti, della S. Croce, e dello Spirito Santo; i Salmi Penintenziali, e Graduali. Le Orazioni per la Confessione, e Comunione, e per ascoltare la Santa Messa. Roma: Nella Stamperia della Ved. Cannetti a Pasquino No. 4, 1824, engravedm frontispiece, contemporary green morocco gilt, Neoclassical spine, all edges gilt, polychrome endpapers, 32mo in eights (10.2 x 6.7cm), (2)  Provenance: 2nd: The Venerable Richard Lane Freer (1804-1863), Archdeacon of Hereford (1852-1863). His books were incorporated in the Dowdeswells' library at Pull Court, Worcestershire. R. Lane Freer/Rome May 1828, presumably bought on a 'Grand Tour'; ffep with ink MS ownership inscription.

Drama & the Theatre. [Vanbrugh (John)], A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, From immorality and Prophaneness (sic), first edition, London: Printed for H. Walwyn, at the Three Legs in the Poultrey (sic), against Stocks-Market, 1698, black-ruled title-page, half-title, [ii], 79pp, clean and crisp copy, later 20th c institutional buckram, their markings and plates to pastedown only, but for a discreet title blind-stamp, 8vo, [Wing V59] Vanbrugh's scarce contribution to the pamphlet war provoked by Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, published the same year. Provenance: Anne Howard, contemporary early female ownership inscription to title.

Art. Specimens of the Old Masters, n.d. [c. 1865], an album of 60 numbered albumen prints, two MS contents leaves to verso, contemporary cloth gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, Harrison (J.E.) & MacColl (D.S.), Greek Vase Paintings, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894, full-page plates, the preliminary text margin stained, ex-Kensington and Chelsea library, their label and blind-stamps in places, disbound, folio (45 x 35cm), Hamerton (Philip Gilbert), Landscape, With Original Etching and many Illustrations from Pictures and Drawings, London: Seeley & Co., 1885, original publisher's calf over cloth boards, chipped and worn, uncut, 4to The Magazine of Art, 1884, 1890, 1891 & 1899, plates and in-text illustrations, three volumes in original publisher's cloth, 4to, The Art Journal, 1889, illustrated, contemporary morocco over cloth, worn, folio, an Edwardian collection of Birket Foster colour prints, loosely-inserted Christmas card dated 1906-7, contemporary red cloth, folio (28 x 21.4cm), etc., (10) Sold as a collection of plates and as such not liable to return.

Bindings. [Kempis (Thomas à)], L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction inédite du XVIIₑ siècle [...], first edition thus, ?large paper copy, Paris: Adrien Le Clere & Co., Editeurs, 1869, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, divisional titles and pictorial colophon leaf, each book with engraved frontispieces, finely bound by Gruel in Renaissance Revival red morocco, signed, the covers blocked in bind with a border of humanists' profiles in laurel wreaths, centred by rectangular reserve of fleur-de-lis and further foliage, outlined with rolled gilt knots and blind-ruled fillets, six-compartment spine with raised bands, lettered in the second, the sixth with a coronet over WM monogram and binder's signature, the upper-cover with 4.6cm l vertical joint split affecting the first-compartment only, otherwise the lightest of shelf wear, gilt fillet turn-in, foliate rolled dentelles, medieval style gold and purple Gruel  endpapers, incorporating Gruel Relieur, all edges gilt, 8vo, Vogüé (Eugène-Melchior de) & Burnard (Eugène, illustrator), Les Paraboles, Nancy-Paris-Stasbourg: Berger-Levrault, Éditeurs, 1908, contemporary red three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo, [&] Flaubert's Salammbô, Paris, 1905, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (3)  Provenance: 2nd: Ex Libris Alfred et Blanche de Curzon. 

Cookery. Raffald (Elizabeth), The Experienced English Housekeeper, eleventh edition,London: Printed for W. Osborne and T. Griffin, 1794, portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates, contemporary sheep, blind-rolled, 12mo